The nature of the Holy Spirit

John 14:16-20 English Standard Version (ESV)16And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever, 17even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you. 18"I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. 19 Yet a little while and the world will see me no more, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live. 20 In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you.

In all five versions that I read, none of them included the Greek definite article "the" before the word "truth" in vs. 17. I mention this because it is important. Jesus said, "I am the Way, The Truth and the Life." This is the ministry of God in Jesus to this realm. The ministry of God in the Holy Spirit is energy of God. We see this most clearly in the first chapter of Genesis. The Spirit hovers over the face of the deep waiting for the Word of creation. Jesus speaks the Word defining the activity. The Spirit energizes it into being. God, The Father, pronounces it "good" and seals it into His covenant with this realm.

This same process continues in our lives. The Word comes to our spirit, the Holy Spirit energizes it into our spirit and the Father seals it to us. We are His workmanship for it is God Who is at work in you to will and to do of His good pleasure. Jesus did the works He did because He was full of the Holy Spirit. In this way, you, too, will do the works He did. Never belittle the Holy Spirit by denying Him the right to move through you to do the works God has ordained before the foundation of the earth.

The Holy Spirit is God leading you into His desire. The Nature of God, found in Jesus on this earth, is called the "fruit of the Spirit" and is the manifestation of the Spirit having control in you. The Power of God, enegizing cells of our body into health and renewal, performing miracles, motivating and leading us in His ways, is the Holy Spirit in action, doing the will of God in you. The Holy Spirit uses your tongue to speak God's Word in prophecy or in a language you did not learn, or in the interpreting of that language. The Holy Spirit in you can do anything the Father wants to accomplish on earth. The Holy Spirit links us to the Father and reveals God to us. He teaches us to worship, to live under His anointing, to walk in the ways of God and to reveal His glory.

Don't let the riches God has provided for us sit idly on the shelf. Surrender yourself to Him and let God use you to do His will.