Holy Spirit, My Prodder

     This morning I went for a walk for exercise...did I want to...No, but then again Yes! ....so, why No and Yes? It's because the Holy Spirit wanted me to. I understand that sounds pretty crazy to people that don't receive the Holy Spirit's input into their personal lives.

     Let me explain, for some time now the Holy Spirit has had a presence in my daily life. I know that He came into my life when I became a Christian, but to have His presence in your personal life is more! Yes, the Holy Spirit is my Teacher, Comforter, Instructor, but He is also my Companion and my Prodder(you know, someone that prods you to go walking in the morning!?) and many more things. When we ask, He will come and reside with us more than only in the salvation process. He will come in to reshape who we are, He reveals things about ourselves that we wouldn't see on our own. He also brings the deeper reality of our Heavenly Father to our understanding. (1 Corinthians 2:10-13) He helps us to know who we are in God! 

     I have heard teaching that there are 3 instances of the Holy Spirit in our lives the first is when the Holy Spirit is with us, then the in-living of the Holy Spirit and finally when the Holy Spirit overshadows us. I want all 3, I am no longer satisfied with the first two!  

     In my personal walk I have asked Him to come and rest on me, and I've told Him that if there are things that I do that offend Him or make it unpleasant for Him to walk with me constantly to please show me and I'll get rid of them or change or whatever I need to do! As a result, He has shown me and I have changed a lot of things because they are offensive to Him. My television watching has dropped to almost zero, there is not much on TV that the Holy Spirit wants me to see or to have on, my clothing have changed because He doesn't like sloppiness or immodesty on me (I can't speak for what He would have you wear, but I know what He wants me to wear). He has changed my routines, He doesn't like idleness, He has changed my words, because He doesn't like critical or negative words, He has changed my appearance, entertainment and many things! As a result I am becoming the new creature that it is said I am to be!(2 Corinthians 5:17) 

     So now you know why I said "No" and then "Yes" to walking this morning! I want the Holy Spirit with me always, to always hear His "proddings", so when He prompts me to do something I do it. If we ignore Him one time it's easier the next time and pretty soon we don't even hear Him. That's not the relationship with the Holy Spirit that I want, I want to be finely tuned to hear His voice and promptings, even if it's something I don't want to do!  =)  I challenge you to try it, life walking with the Holy Spirit is so much better than trying to do it in on your own. 

     

"For to us God revealed them through the Spirit; for the Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God. For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so the thoughts of God no one knows except the Spirit of God. Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may know the things freely given to us by God, which things we also speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit, combining spiritual thoughts with spiritual words." 1 Corinthians 2:10-13

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come. 2 Corinthians 5:17