Fruitful Spirit-Filled Lives Behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you: but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high. —Luke 24:49 It is my contention that the individual believers who comprise the membership of our evangelical Christian churches ought to be leading fruitful and happy Spirit-filled lives. If you will set aside the necessary time to search the Scriptures with an honest and open being, you will be convinced that fruitfulness and joy and peace and blessing and contentment are all part and parcel of what the Holy Spirit expects to provide in and through the yielded life of the Christian believer.... As a Christian believer, shouldnt my life and outlook, and the very life of my church, be affected by the promise of the Father God that He would give the Spirit as a gift to His children? In Luke 11:13, I am sure God had in mind the love we have for our children when He said, If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?... The members of the redeemed Church should be bound into a bundle of love with the Holy Spirit. The truth is that God never fathered His Church apart from the Holy Spirit. We should be anointed with the Spirit. We are led of the Spirit. We are taught by the Spirit. The Spirit, then, is the medium, the divine solution, in which God holds His Church. COU085-087 Thank You, Father, for the gift of the Spirit. May I be bound into a bundle of love with Him today. Amen. Tozer on the Almighty God: A 366-Day Devotional.
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