Holy Spirit...Filled

1. Confess

Confess your sins and receive forgiveness and cleansing

1 John 1:9 ESV

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

2. Yield

Yield every known area of your life to the control of the Holy Spirit and the Lordship of Jesus Christ

Romans 12:1–2 ESV

I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

C.S. Lewis

“Give me all. I don’t want so much of your time and so much of your money and so much of your work. I want you. I have not come to torment your natural self, but to kill it. No half-measures are any good. I don’t want to cut off a branch here and a branch there. I want to have the the whole tree down. Hand over the whole natural self, all the desires which you think innocent as well as the ones you think wicked—the whole outfit. I will give you a new self instead. In fact, I will give you Myself, my own will shall become yours.”

3. Ask!

Ephesians 5:18 ESV

And do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit,

This is the command. This is the promise of God.

Luke 10:

Luke 11:10–13 ESV

For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened. What father among you, if his son asks for a fish, will instead of a fish give him a serpent; or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion? If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!”

4. Give Thanks

1 John 5:14–15 ESV

And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us. And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests that we have asked of him.

Acts 2:38 ESV

And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

5. Anticipate

Expect things to happen!

Example:

Application:

Take time with this. Ask, seek, knock. The work of the Holy Spirit in our lives is often quick, but mostly slow.

Confess any sin you are aware of.

Ask Him every day to fill you with His Holy Spirit.

Be patient.

Job

Job 33:4 ESV

The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.