Signs Of Being Spirit Filled

LET US BEGIN BY SAYING WHAT THE SIGNS ARE NOT.

(1) If a man is filled with the Holy Spirit he will not necessarily be noisy, highly excited or full of physical strength. The Spirit-filled life is a life of calm poise and quiet confidence (Isaiah 30:15).

(2) To be filled with the Holy Spirit is not to reach a state of sinless perfection or to attain a state where the old nature is eradicated (1 John 1:8,10).

(3) The Spirit-filled life is not a life free from temptation (1 Corinthians 10:13).

(4) The Spirit-filled life is not a life where further and fuller growth is impossible or unnecessary (2 Peter 3:18).

Ephesians 5:18–21 ESV

18 And do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit, 19 addressing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody to the Lord with your heart, 20 giving thanks always and for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, 21 submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ.

Be being filled is what the greek says. Its in continuing tense. We need to continue to be filled with the Spirit on a daily bases.

Our singing. When we’re intimate with God, there’s a song in our heart. There’s something about singing that takes God’s truth into our heart, mind and emotions.

We leak as Christians.

Acts 4:8 ESV

8 Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, “Rulers of the people and elders,

He began to give testimony of what he seen and heard Jesus do.

Give Testimony of what Jesus has done in your life.

Acts 4:31 ESV

31 And when they had prayed, the place in which they were gathered together was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and continued to speak the word of God with boldness.

You see they needed to be filled again.

Sign of Spirit filled living is that you will speak the Word of God with Boldness. Boldness is a sign that your filled with the Spirit.

Acts 13:52 NASB95

52 And the disciples were continually filled with joy and with the Holy Spirit.

Acts 2:4 ESV

4 And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance.

Being filled with the Spirit can lead into speaking in tongues. Tongues are a sign of being filled. Not the only sign but one of the signs.

If you are filled with the Spirit your going to pray more and or want to pray more.

In the name Holy Spirit we have the word Holy. What it means:

New International Encyclopedia of Bible Words Holy/Holiness

means “to be consecrated,” “to be dedicated,” “to be holy.” Anything that is “holy” is set apart. It is removed from the realm of the common and moved to the sphere of the sacred.

New International Encyclopedia of Bible Words Holy/Holiness

In the OT, holiness involves keeping both cultic (ritual) and moral commandments. Places and things and even persons were set aside as sacred, to have no contact with the common or ordinary

New International Encyclopedia of Bible Words (Holy/Holiness)

In the NT the sacred is no longer seen in places or things. The focus of the holy shifts dramatically to persons. “Don’t you know,” Paul writes emotionally, “that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit lives in you?” (1 Co 3:16).

In the NT, holiness is linked with the Spirit’s working and with the product of his work within human beings. → Sanctify/Sanctification The Spirit is the Holy Spirit because he himself is the source of the holy. Thus NT holiness is always rooted in a relationship with Jesus and with the Spirit, whom Jesus sends to be within every believer.

New International Encyclopedia of Bible Words Holy/Holiness

In the OT, God’s people consecrated persons, places, and things solely for God’s use. In the NT, God’s Spirit himself acts in salvation to set us apart to God. In addition, the Holy Spirit continues to act in our lives to infuse us with Christ’s own likeness and to enable us by his power to express Christlikeness in our daily lives. It is here that we find the true holiness of the NT: joyous commitment to God and to the truly good, expressed in everything we say and do.

So the Holy Spirit has sanctified us or set us apart.

THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SPIRIT-FILLED LIFE ARE SEEN IN GALATIANS 5:22-23.

Galatians 5:22–23 ESV

22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.

2. THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SPIRIT-FILLED LIFE ARE SEEN IN OUR LORD’S TEACHING ON THE MINISTRY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT.

This teaching is particularly emphasised in the Gospel of John, chapters 14-16. Look up and study the following references:-

He is the Spirit of Truth (John 14:17), therefore He makes us truthful.

He is our Teacher (John 14:26), therefore He gives us knowledge and wisdom.

He is our Guide (John 16:13), therefore He leads us in the right path.

He glorifies the Lord Jesus (John 16:14), therefore He hides us.

He reveals things to come (John 16:13), making us wise concerning God’s future programme.