Today is Your Best Day Because of The Holy Spirit, Part 3

And straightway coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens opened, and the Spirit like a dove descending upon him. Mark 1:10 KJV

To help you understand the impact and importance of the ministry of the Holy Spirit in your life, the Bible uses various symbols to describe Him. 

The Holy Spirit is likened to the wind. He can come to you as a mighty wind, bringing God's awesome power as He did at the day of Pentecost. His power will give you great boldness and fully equip you for what God has prepared for you today. The Holy Spirit can also come to you as a gentle breeze, cooling you and delighting you with His sweet presence. Like the wind, the Holy Spirit is also the breath of God that quickens you and brings you spiritual life. The Holy Spirit is the atmosphere of heaven that your spirit breathes.

The Holy Spirit is likened to a dove. As a dove, The Holy Spirit can come upon you in a tender, gentle way as He did when He came upon Jesus after His baptism in the River Jordan. The Holy Spirit will also hover over your life as He hovered over the waters at the time of creation. This hovering is likened to a bird as she flutters over her young with her wings. Like the protective bird, the Holy Spirit guards your life and watches over the good work that God has begun in you. 

The Holy Spirit is likened to a river. He moves in your life in a flowing motion, directing you one way, and then another, according to God's will and purpose for your life. His life in you never becomes stagnant or stale. He is an abundant river within you. The headwaters begin at the throne of God and flow out with mercy and grace. He flows deeply within you, and His sparkling clear waters brilliantly reflect the sunlight of Jesus' perfect love.

The Holy Spirit is likened to fire. He is the flame that lights the candle of your spirit and causes you to look upon Jesus' beautiful face. He illuminates your way and opens your understanding, causing you to see things you've never seen before. His flame is also a purifying fire that burns away the empty things in your life, leaving only those things that have an eternal value—gold, silver, and precious stones (1 Corinthians 3:12).

The Holy Spirit is likened to oil. The Holy Spirit is the One who is poured out upon you like a healing balm—to soothe, to calm, and to comfort. He is the One who renews your strength, revives your spirit, refills your cup, restores your strength, and refreshes your spirit. The Holy Spirit is being poured out upon you today. 

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Today is Your Best Day Because of the Holy Spirit, Part 2

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And now you also have heard the truth, the Good News that God saves you. And when you believed in Christ, He identified you as His own by giving you the Holy Spirit, whom He promised long ago. Ephesians 1:13 NLT

The Holy Spirit is wonderful! He has feelings that reach out to you in compassion and love; He has a mind that thinks about you and plans good for you; He has a will that chooses the highest and the best for you. His purpose is to bring to pass all that God has planned for you, to make real all that Jesus has done for you, and to reveal all that the scriptures declare to you.

The Holy Spirit has been involved in your life, long before you put your trust in Jesus Christ. The Holy Spirit pursued you when you walked according to your way; He wooed you to the heart of God when your heart was fixed upon other things; He called you to follow God's divine purpose when you were seeking plans of your own; He brought you into the light of God's truth when you stumbled about in darkness; He drew you into the arms of Jesus when you were in need of love's lasting embrace.

The Holy Spirit points you to Jesus' life, Jesus' character, and to Jesus' works. The Holy Spirit opens Jesus' worthiness to your spirit; He opens Jesus' wisdom to your understanding; He opens Jesus' love to your heart. The Holy Spirit has come to keep you from defeat, discouragement, and despair. The Holy Spirit's voice brings hope, assurance, peace, and revelation. His encouragement is the greatest when your valleys are the deepest; His comfort is the sweetest when your burdens are the heaviest; His support is the strongest when your strength is the weakest; His love is the surest when your fears are the vastest.

Today is your best day because of the calling, the gifting, the enabling, and the empowering of the Holy Spirit upon your life.

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Today is Your Best Day Because of the Holy Spirit (Part 1)

"Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you." John 16:7 KJV

Today is your best day because Jesus sent the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is our divine companion, our comforter, and the one who has come alongside us. How greatly blessed we are to have the Holy Spirit within our lives, abiding with us, speaking to us, and walking with us as we go through our day.

The Holy Spirit is truer than the truest friend. Every pleasing quality of a close and tender friend is found in the Holy Spirit. He knows everything about you, loves you without reservation or condition, cares about every need you face, and will never betray your trust. The Holy Spirit is completely dependable, fully available, and totally reliable.

Jesus sent the Holy Spirit, not to be with you partially so you could have a little taste of His presence, but to be in your life in fullness. Jesus wants you to be submerged in, clothed with, and empowered by the Holy Spirit. The Bible tells us that the Holy Spirit has come to be with you, to be in you, to fill you, and to come upon you.

The Holy Spirit has been sent to take you deeper into the love of God. The ocean is a great expanse and its depths are beginning to be explored in new ways. Unaided, man can only descend a short distance into the ocean's depths. Modern technology and engineering have created machines that can carry man to depths never before thought possible. The Holy Spirit can take you into the depths of God's love that you've never seen, known, or understood before.

The Holy Spirit has also been sent to take you higher and allow your eyes to see more of the greatness and glory of God's majesty. Through the space program, man has been able to explore new heights, seeing things and doing things that were thought impossible a century ago. The Holy Spirit can cause your spirit to ascend into the heights of God's glory, to behold the beauty of the Lord, and to celebrate His majesty with a heart that is in awe of His splendor.

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