The Spirit in me!

“Grieve not the Holy Spirit.”

- Ephesians 4:30 Don't make God's Spirit sad. The Spirit makes you sure that someday you will be free from your sins.

This morning devotional reminds us of the work of the Spirit that lives in us once the prayer of salvation is said in earnest and truth. The Holy Spirit can only do what we yield for Him to do. How empty our prayers are with out his interpretation to the Father. After reading Charles Spurgeon's devotional below I have put a poem the Lord blessed me with several years ago that speaks of the Trinity. I love these verses in the book of Romans 8:26 Likewise the Spirit also helps our infirmities. For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. 8:27 And He searching the hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because He makes intercession for the saints according to the will of God.

[All that the believer has must come from Christ, but it comes solely through the channel of the Spirit of grace. Moreover, as all blessings thus flow to you through the Holy Spirit, so also no good thing can come out of you in holy thought, devout worship, or gracious act, apart from the sanctifying operation of the same Spirit. Even if the good seed be sown in you, yet it lies dormant except he worketh in you to will and to do of his own good pleasure. Do you desire to speak for Jesus-how can you unless the Holy Ghost touch your tongue? Do you desire to pray? Alas! what dull work it is unless the Spirit maketh intercession for you! Do you desire to subdue sin? Would you be holy? Would you imitate your Master? Do you desire to rise to superlative heights of spirituality? Are you wanting to be made like the angels of God, full of zeal and ardour for the Master’s cause? You cannot without the Spirit-”Without me ye can do nothing.” O branch of the vine, thou canst have no fruit without the sap! O child of God, thou hast no life within thee apart from the life which God gives thee through his Spirit! Then let us not grieve him or provoke him to anger by our sin. Let us not quench him in one of his faintest motions in our soul; let us foster every suggestion, and be ready to obey every prompting. If the Holy Spirit be indeed so mighty, let us attempt nothing without him; let us begin no project, and carry on no enterprise, and conclude no transaction, without imploring his blessing. Let us do him the due homage of feeling our entire weakness apart from him, and then depending alone upon him, having this for our prayer, “Open thou my heart and my whole being to thine incoming, and uphold me with thy free Spirit when I shall have received that Spirit in my inward parts.”]

Jesus Came to My House

Jesus came to my house
He knocked and said, "Hi, there's three!
My Father, Me the Son and the Holy Spirit"
Yes, it was, the Trinity you see.

They came because they knew they were welcomed
and here peace and love was found.
But they were unsure of the other homes,
close by in our hometown.

Jesus said, "You see your neighbors everyday.
Did you ever mention Me?
Did you ever tell them about anyone of Us?
Did you ever mention the Trinity?"

Jesus said, "Which house should we go to next?
Can you tell Us where We should go?
There are so many homes We want to visit,
and tell them We love them so!"

I said, "Lord I am so ashamed,
for it is with only other Christians do I speak.
For I am always unsure what to say,
to all the non-believers, the sick and the weak.

They All smiled and touched my hand
and said, "Well, It is time that We should go."
But the Holy Spirit said, "I will stay here with you,
because you love Us so!"

He said to God the Father and Jesus His beloved Son,
"I will stay here in this house to help guide others along.
Yes, I will stay in this house,
for it is here that I belong!

I will choose the words to say,
for non-believers we will seek
We will minister to the sick,
and give strength to the weak.

And one day We will all be together again,
when our work here on earth is done,
singing praises to God the Father
and Jesus, His beloved Son!"

E. P. Shagott
7/20/2007

From God's heart, to mine, to yours,
Ed Shagott