Life in The Spirit

(Psalm 51:11) „Do not cast me from your presence or take your Holy Spirit from me.“

(Acts 2:17) „In the last days, God says, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams.“

(Numbers 14:24) „But because my servant Caleb has a different spirit and follows me wholeheartedly, I will bring him into the land he went to, and his descendants will inherit it.“

On your way to Canaan, are you led by the Holy Spirit, or everything you see are the giants in the land? Do you let the Holy Spirit to give you enthusiasm, or you guide yourself after what your natural eyes see?
How does one depend on the Spirit of God? First of all, you must trust Him, even when you are in the wilderness. When you don't see anything, when you can't feel anything, depend on Him. Learn how to draw life from Him.

- Life in The Spirit, means balance, steadfastness and continuity.

“Are you so foolish? After beginning with the Spirit, are you now trying to attain your goal by human effort?" (Galatians 3:3)

- Life in The Spirit means, that you do not base your decisions on your emotions, nor on what you feel, but you base your decisions on God's power. ”…'Not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit,' says the Lord Almighty. –“ (Zachariah 4:6)

- To be driven by the Spirit, means to life a spiritual life, spiritual maturity, it means that you live filled with Life.
“You, however, are controlled not by the sinful nature but by the Spirit, if the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ.” (Romans 8:9)
“ Therefore, brothers, we have an obligation-but it is not to the sinful nature, to live according to it. For if you live according to the sinful nature, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live' (Romans 8:12,13)

- Life in the Spirit means freshness from God, having something fresh and good in your life every day (the manna that God gives is fresh every day an you will not have to live with old dead things in your life).
„The Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and they are life.“ (John 6:63)

- To live in the Spirit means that circumstances don't dictate the way I live my life, what I see in the natural, doesn't dictate my life, but what is from the Spirit of God, dictates my life. „“Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit.(Galatians 5:25)

- When you are led by the Spirit you have a goal for your life, you know where you have to go and what you must do, you understand God's will for your life and you don't listen to the lies of the devil. „But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come.“ (John 16:13)

- When you are led by the Spirit you find water even in the desert. ”But if Christ is in you, your body is dead because of sin, yet your spirit is alive because of righteousness." (Romans 8:10)

- When you are led by the Spirit, you overcome temptations. „…In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express. (Romans 8:26)

- Life in the Spirit means a life that allows you to find rest even in the midst of battle or troubles.
„like cattle that go down to the plain, they were given rest by the Spirit of the Lord. This is how you guided your people to make for yourself a glorious name. “ (Isaiah 63:14)
„Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.“
(2 Corinthians 3:17)

- Life in the Spirit focuses all your attention on Christ, not on the devil and on what he might do to you, because living in the Spirit offers you spiritual protection.
„ …When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him. “ (Isaiah 59:19)

- When you are led by the Spirit, you get to truly experiment 'the joy of salvation' and you are refreshed. „The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded spirit who can bear? (Proverbs 18:14)
„For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.“ (Romans 14:17)

- When you allow the Spirit to lead you, you are like clay and in the potter's hands and God, through the Holy Spirit, molds you in a shape that He can use. „But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, [even] as by the Spirit of the Lord.“ (2 Corinthians 3:18)

- Life in the Spirit means a life without fear of future, it means hope and trust. „But when they shall lead [you], and deliver you up, take no thought beforehand what ye shall speak, neither do ye premeditate: but whatsoever shall be given you in that hour, that speak ye: for it is not ye that speak, but the Holy Ghost.“ (Mark 13:11)


(Job 32:8) „But [there is] a spirit in man: and the inspiration of the Almighty gives them understanding.”

(Isaiah 30:1) „Woe to the rebellious children, saith the LORD, that take counsel, but not of me; and that cover with a covering, but not of my spirit, that they may add sin to sin“

(Matthew 26:41)”Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed [is] willing, but the flesh [is] weak.”

(Acts 20:23) „Save that the Holy Ghost witnesses in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions abide me.“

(John 14:17) „[Even] the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it sees him not, neither knows him: but ye know him; for he dwells with you, and shall be in you.”


Pastor Rareș Călugăr