Reflecting on John 14:15-21“But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you.” (John 14:17)
The Spirit of God is the personal presence and power of God, with us and in us.
God breathed this Spirit in Adam and Eve when they were first created (Genesis 2:7).
This was more than just physical breath, it was God’s own life in them.
Here we see the threefold Oneness of God (trinity):
God over us, God with us, and God in us… immersed in the fullness of God!
Through the fall of humanity, we have lost this intimate fellowship.
Though God is still over us, and all around us, God is not at home in us.
We have lost our loving relationship with God, and it is what our heart longs for.
Jesus assures all that desire to live in God’s love that they will be helped.
God does not abandon those who choose the way of love.
The Spirit of God speaks truly – encouraging, warning and guiding us in Jesus’s Way.
The Voice of God and Jesus speaks in our heart, our mind, our conscience.
Do you sense this Voice of God and Jesus speaking to you, strengthening you?
God, Jesus, Spirit of God, all speaking with One Voice…
‘I am over you, I am with you, I am in you, NOTHING can separate you from My love!’
PRAYER
Lord Jesus, because of You I am totally immersed in the fullness of God - God over me, God with me, God in me. May Your Spirit help me to overflow with Your love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.
God iwith us as He has promised. The indwelling ofHis Spirit to lead me and guide me in the Way. Stop. Look. Listen to Him speaking as I live for Jesus. He continues to lead me and guide me if I but listen to His Voice saying, this is the way, walk in it.
Spirit of God, dwell thou within my heart;
wean it from earth, through all its pulses move;
stoop to my weakness, mighty as thou art,
and make me love thee as I ought to love.
I ask no dream, no prophet ecstasies,
no sudden rending of the veil of clay,
no angel visitant, no op’ning skies;
but take the dimness of my soul away.
Hast thou not bid us love thee, God and King?
All, all thine own, soul, heart, and strength and mind.
I see thy cross—there teach my heart to cling:
O let me seek thee, and O let me find.
Teach me to feel that thou art always nigh;
teach me the struggles of the soul to bear,
to check the rising doubt, the rebel sigh;
teach me the patience of unanswered prayer.
Teach me to love thee as thine angels love,
one holy passion filling all my frame;
the baptism of the heav’n-descended Dove,
my heart an altar, and thy love the flame.