The Purpose of the Holy Spirit in your Life (Part 1)

By Pastor Daniel Kaira

I had been seeing this picture by well meaning people and I thought I say a few things about it.

It’s not so much posting deep and cute statuses about greeting the Lord that make you close to him. That’s not wrong. But we are looking for something more than a greeting. It’s okay to greet but beyond that.

Someone said “precious Holy Spirit walk with me today please“….hehehe….just because it’s cute doesn’t mean it’s scriptural.

I may need correction here but last time I checked my bible, the Lord Jesus said:

And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper (Comforter, Advocate, Intercessor—Counselor, Strengthener, Standby), *to be with you forever—* the Spirit of Truth, whom the world cannot receive [and take to its heart] because it does not see Him or know Him, but you know Him because *He (the Holy Spirit) remains with you continually and will be in you.* JOHN 14:16‮-‬17 AMP‬‬‬.

How do we ask someone who will be with and in us continually and forever to be with us or to walk with us for this day today? We are even begging.

When you greet him as per your tradition, it’s more acurate to thank him for his presence and the fact that he will walk with you. Thank him that you don’t lack his fellowship. Don’t beg for his presence. Stop that ignorance. Acknowledge it.

The scripture says: “… that the sharing of your faith may become effective by the ~begging for~ *acknowledgment* of every good thing which is in you in Christ Jesus.

Philemon 1:6 NKJV

There is a reason why we insist that everyone grows in the word of God and the revelation of it.

We must grow in the knowledge of God and not just in how we feel about Him .

If our feelings are born of the word of God, they become more correctly expressed. However, if they are sourced from our perceptions, they are our own snare.

I thought today I shake someone’s theology. You see, I have been emphasizing on growing in the word and not how you feel about God.

I have been seeing this for the past one year and I’ve never had an opportunity to correct it.

One of the most important things we must know is the work of the Holy Spirit in our lives. And we can’t know that by seeing memes.

And doing as we feel. Or as seems right. No

We have to know the purpose of the Holy Spirit by the word of God. Now, I am about to show you something very important

When the bible says

“… But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

Galatians 5:22 NKJV

Notice the word: “Spirit” is capitalised to mean the Holy Spirit but they got the translation wrong because they lacked a more clearer understanding of the Gospel in more detailed revelation.

You see, there is only one word for the word for “spirit” in the Greek. That word is for the Holy Spirit and Human spirit and wind and air. So, if the sentence does not put “holy” before “Spirit”, then you have to look at context to tell what kind of spirit is being talked about. But when the context is confusing and we don’t understand the Gospel because we are merely translating from our academic perspective, then whatever. Skew sense to us is what we will place.

It’s not the Holy Spirit that produces the fruits. It’s our recreated human spirit. He comes to make it possible for us to grow the fruit of the recreated human spirit but it is not him who produces those fruits.

His presence in our lives makes it possible for the fruit to grow as he encourages it. But you can’t grow them if you don’t want despise his presence.

Or how do we explain that some believers who have the Holy Spirit are mean and always angry, lack gentleness and yet have the Holy Spirit living in them? Does it mean he is not doing his job in their lives? No.

The translation that says:

But the Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against these things!

Galatians 5:22‮-‬23 NLT‬‬‬

This is one of my favorite translations. But this translation here was wrong.

When you begin to understand the word of God, you can just tell when a translation is wrong without making a big deal of it and calling the publishers satanists. Because it is not even everything that the authorized king James version gets wrong. That’s why we must all just be skilled in the word of truth and not just the scriptures.

2 Timothy 2:15 says:

Study and do your best to present yourself to God approved, a workman [tested by trial] who has no reason to be ashamed, accurately handling and skillfully teaching the *word of truth.*

2 TIMOTHY 2:15 AMP

I love the version that says:

“… But the spiritual nature produces love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

Galatians 5:22 GW

or God’s Word Translation

It means that it’s a result of the recreated human spirit. It’s the way of the recreated human spirit. The born again spirit. They could have said even more accurately “but the recreated born again nature produces: love joy…”

You see, the Lord Jesus said:

“I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser. *Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He takes away;* and every *branch that bears fruit* He prunes, that it may bear more fruit. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me. “I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing.

John 15:1‮-‬5 NKJV‬‬‬

It is not his responsibility to bear fruit. If it was, then why is he cutting the branch that does not bear fruit. It is his responsibility to give the branch its nature and supply means by which the branch can bear fruit. But the branch decides to bear fruit or not to bear fruit. And if it decides not to, it gets cut off.

One of the fruits is self control. If that lady does not grow the fruit of self control, she must not expect the Holy Spirit to impose it on her dear mouth. He will just be there watching.

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