Holy Spirit lives inside of you. Do you realize how significant that sentence is? That is literally a life changing sentence. I’ll be the first to admit that I have lived far too much of my life not realizing the significance and power of that sentence.
When Jesus went back up to heaven He sent Holy Spirit as an advocate for us. Holy Spirit has always been present, in the old testament, in the new testament, and now. When Jesus was on earth he lived as completely God and completely human which means that He also depended on the power of Holy Spirit to do ministry and to do life. Literally how cool is that concept! Jesus is our example of human dependence on Holy Spirit, which in turn means dependence on Holy Spirit should be the pattern of our lives as well.
What could it look like to actually take the bible, the Truth of God, at face value and be in constant communication with the Holy Spirit. Constant communion with Holy Spirit is how we were designed and gosh does it change things.
I’ve always been prone to doubt the voice in my head speaking Truth to me. Since I began my relationship with the Lord, I’ve always been aware of the presence of Truth inside of me. What I’ve always been reluctant to admit is the fact that that is the voice of God being whispered to me by the Holy Spirit. Well it is.
Did did you know you can actually ask Holy Spirit how God feels about you? Whether or not you should sit in the couch or go to work today? Who you should interact with and what you should say to them? I’ve always asked these types of questions and far to often I’ve been given an answer and doubted where it came from. We have a Father that loves us deeply. We are fully and deeply loved. If you want to know His voice more clearly, all you have to do is ask.
One of my most frequent prayers to the Lord since I’ve been in Costa Rica has been this; “Lord, please let me know your voice more clearly. Show me that I can be confident in knowing that the voice of Truth I’m hearing is You.” I’ve gotten a lot of confirmations in this aspect of my life since I’ve been praying that prayer and that is so so sweet.
During ministry days, we get to spend an hour in the morning with a man from Horizon church, Richard, who graciously gives up his time to pour into us and teach us. Earlier this week, Richard opened up a space of prayer for us. Essentially a few people were in prayer teams and the other people who weren’t were supposed to pray for the prayer teams and also to at some point go up to a prayer team and ask for prayer themselves. Lots of praying.
It was a sweet space, but unfortunately at the time it overwhelmed me. There seemed to me like a lot going on. I was having trouble not getting distracted and so I quietly left the space and went inside to pray in the quiet. When I was alone, I started letting untrue voiced take over in my head and I began to again question whether or not I was really hearing the voice of God in my head ever. Oh man does the enemy love to use our headspace as a battle ground.
A friend came into the room and told me that the Lord had told her to find me. I’d be lying if I didn’t doubt that when she first said it, because I did! She started praying for me and then started talking about a a vision she saw of me and that God was there. The vision really resonated with me because it was a memory from my life that there is no possible way this friend could have known about it.
Without any context, she told me about how God was with me and what He thought about me. My heart was instantly humbled. I’d prayed for God to show me His voice and He sends me a friend who knows His voice so well to tell me that He was without a doubt speaking to me and in fact always has been.
There has been a few other sweet times when the Lord has confirmed His voice to me in the last month and it has grown me in confidence, freedom, and faith to do good things that the Lord asks of me.
I’m learning, I’m learning, I’m learning and its good. I still question a lot but God is speaking to me in His quiet whisper and it is up to me to quiet down enough to listen to it. I share this little/big way God is answering my prayers to encourage you that God is not afraid of your doubt or your questions. Ever! Come to Him with your doubt and your questions, His heart is to make Himself known to you. God wants nothing more than to tell you how He sees you and how He sees the people around you, don’t forget to ask.
