.When we say yes to the Holy Spirit, we will also find that our eyes are opened in a clearer way. We see the needs of others and He puts His desire in our hearts to help where help is needed. We come to experience what it is like to love others as ourselves and consider their needs and respond in love to help. We seem to become more aware of His voice within and know He is speaking to us and directing us. We also desire to freely acknowledge our sin and not try to cover it but lay our heart open and repent. Like David prayed in Psalm 32:5, “Then I let it all out; I said, ‘I’ll make a clean breast of my failures to God.’ Suddenly the pressure was gone-my guilt dissolved; my sin disappeared.” We no longer have condemnation but praise that we are truly forgiven.
It is good every day to ask the Holy Spirit to speak through the Word to our hearts and to respond to any invitations He presents to us. When we come with openness, He will show us how to flush out the application of the Word in our lives each day which will be evident in our attitude and actions and words. It’s so wonderful when we respond to someone’s anger, not with negativity but with a kind word and gesture of love. We know it is not us, but it is the Holy Spirit within us.
We were made to live with God at the center of our lives, and may we open ourselves to the Holy spirit to transform our thoughts, our actions, our words and to love the Lord with all of our being.
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