The Holy Spirit is so real guys. And He is the least talked about in church.
When Jesus ascended into Heaven, He was so ecstatic about us receiving the Holy Spirit that would be here to empower us and comfort us.
Yet we treat Him like he doesn’t exist.
What I’m going to talk about is unpopular and makes people uncomfortable, but hey the truth shall set you free.
I haven’t been paying attention to the Holy Spirit, really paying attention to the Holy Spirit, for about seven years.
Seven years.
That is pure LUNACY. INSANITY. CRAZINESS. I prayed in (yes I’m going to say the T word, so hold on to your pants!) tongues here and there…but my heart wasn’t in it usually. I prayed to God and Jesus….but very rarely asked for help from the Holy Spirit. And you wanna know WHY?!
My flesh and the FLIPPING DEVIL.
I remember when I was 15-16 being as bold as a lion roaring the truths of God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit. I remember knowing so strongly that The Holy Spirit was with me, and I had such a trust in Him, my faith was on solid foundation. I remember witnessing about the evils of witch craft and magic to someone, and the dude literally started trembling because The Holy Spirit fell and began convicting His heart. It wasn’t me doing that. I can’t convict anybody. Only the Holy Spirit can.
Here is where Jesus starts talking to the disciples about the Holy Spirit in John 16:4!
4-7 “I didn’t tell you this earlier because I was with you every day. But now I am on my way to the One who sent me. Not one of you has asked, ‘Where are you going?’ Instead, the longer I’ve talked, the sadder you’ve become. So let me say it again, this truth: It’s better for you that I leave. If I don’t leave, the Friend won’t come. But if I go, I’ll send him to you.
8-11 “When he comes, he’ll expose the error of the godless world’s view of sin, righteousness, and judgment: He’ll show them that their refusal to believe in me is their basic sin; that righteousness comes from above, where I am with the Father, out of their sight and control; that judgment takes place as the ruler of this godless world is brought to trial and convicted.
12-15 “I still have many things to tell you, but you can’t handle them now. But when the Friend comes, the Spirit of the Truth, he will take you by the hand and guide you into all the truth there is. He won’t draw attention to himself, but will make sense out of what is about to happen and, indeed, out of all that I have done and said. He will honor me; he will take from me and deliver it to you. Everything the Father has is also mine. That is why I’ve said, ‘He takes from me and delivers to you.’
So the Holy Spirit is our FRIEND! Yet hardly anyone EVER mentions Him or acknowledges Him! I have been just as guilty, and I go to an awesome church that talks about and operates in the Holy Spirit every service.
I am so angry at the devil and so frustrated at the old me for slipping into hardness of heart and dullness of the mind. I started watching tons of shows that I should have never allowed my eyes to see…I mean just evil! If you watch anime, and I do hope you take offense to this because offense brings change, STOP IT. JUST. STOP. It’s addictive because most, and I would venture to say almost ALL of it is inspired by the devil. A lot of it has witch craft, magic, SOME TYPE of perversion in it and it calls bad things GOOD. And the creators make it almost impossible to not see it anything but good. But let’s be real here. Most of them have people who are demonic possessed….like Naruto. I loved Naruto. It was one of my favorite shows! But the main character has a demon placed in Him as a child. He’s called the “nine tails”…or..”kyuubi…”…..and well…everyone picks on him because this tailed beast killed so many people, including Naruto’s parents. But, wayyyy later in the series, Naruto ends up becoming friends with the beast and all the other beasts…because they have feelings too….if that isn’t a way to make “making peace with your inner demons” a “good” thing…I don’t know what is. This is not me being religious…this is not me trying to destroy your fun….this is me saying “WAKE UP!!!!” That is just ONE WAY to try to make you call an EVIL THING GOOD! I get so ticked off thinking about how many evil “good” shows that I watched….I allowed so much in my mind and spirit that is just BAD. It grieved the Holy Spirit and made me numb to God. Guys, I was addicted to anime. I watched hours and hours of it every night a couple years ago. Just about a month and a half-two months ago I finally stopped watching it altogether. Most of it has an anti-Christ agenda and if you watch it you are grieving God. These shows can have good morals, these shows can have great plots….but they are so deceptive. Deception has a big fat lie with some truth mixed in with it to make it more appealing and acceptable.
The Bible says SO MANY TIMES, “DO NOT BE DECIEVED!!!” And guys, I have been deceived on SO MANY THINGS. I also want to say I’m sorry for watching Once Upon a Time…it had a good message in with it…but the show is about magic…and I even wrote a blog about it…ugh.
Guys, please pay attention to what you watch and listen to. It DOES affect you. I used to be one of those people that didn’t think that it did…but…guess what…it did in a horrible way.
Don’t cheapen the gospel. Jesus’ good news is that we can be saved because of what He did on the cross…He died for our sins….and then He was brought back to life for our justification.
But once we accept that gift…it does NOT give us license to stay in our sins. It doesn’t allow us to be comfortable in them. I understand if you are struggling….and if Jesus is helping you out of it step by step. He is merciful and He understands if we admit we need help. But don’t get prideful and bold in your sin…because then Jesus can’t help you.
Please, pray for the Holy Spirit to fill you up. He helps keep your heart soft to sin.
I know this is a heavy blog to post, but…I just can’t keep this in. There’s so many lies being screamed at us daily…DECEPTIVE lies!!! I will cry out with Jesus and say, “BE NOT DECIEVED!”
Love you guys!
