EPISODE 350 – BE IMMERSED IN THE SPIRIT 4

BE IMMERSED IN THE SPIRIT 4

“Stop getting drunk with wine, which leads to wild living, but keep on being filled with the Spirit.” 

Ephesians 5:18 (International Standard Version)

This year is a glorious year with great visions. There are mighty things the Lord is inspiring you to do.

If you have not yet received the inspiration of what to do, definitely you are going to have to set a moment to capture fresh inspirations of the Lord.

There is nothing God tells you to do (no matter how little), that is not great. Anything God tells you to do is great.

This is why whatever God tells you to do, He works in partnership with you to achieve it. He doesn’t instruct you to do something and then He leaves you on your own. He is the only King who sends His messengers and still goes with them to accomplish their duty.

This is the work of the Holy Spirit in your life. The Holy Spirit in you, is God indwelling you to walk and work with you.

It is up to you to be intentional about your partnership with the Holy Spirit.

Don’t just wake up to embark on your divine assignment without Him; you must work with the Holy Spirit.

Jesus said, “without me you can do nothing” (John 15:5) and this is why He decided to send another Helper (John 14:16). The Holy Spirit is here to help you.

In the previous discussion, I established that to be baptized with the Holy Spirit is also to be filled with the Holy Spirit.

However, from the opening verse, we see that the infilling of the Holy Spirit is not a one-time event or experience, but a continuous experience.

“Stop getting drunk with wine, which leads to wild living, but keep on being filled with the Spirit.” Ephesians 5:18 (ISV)

Also being filled with the Spirit as a continuous experience is hinted by the phrase “KEEP ON”.

Did you notice the two parallel experiences of influence?

If you want to know how you should be continuously immersed in the Spirit, see what one looks like when he is immersed in drunkenness.

When you KEEP ON being filled with the Spirit your being is influenced and soaked with the Spirit, like how one is influenced and gets drunk by wine.

When one gets drunk by wine, his movements, thoughts and speech are influenced by the drunkenness. The same is true with a man immersed in the Spirit.

When you keep on being filled with or immersed in the Spirit, you come under the influence of the Spirit. The Spirit influences your movements, thoughts and speech.

There is a way a man who is immersed in the Spirit daily, thinks and lives.

You live according to the power of God. You demonstrate love according to the influence of the Spirit.

The love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit (Romans 5:5).

You are not controlled by the lust of the flesh. The power of the love of Christ gains preeminence over the man who is saturated by the Spirit.

Are you immersed in the Spirit or you are immersed in this world?

Selah