Second Week of Lent: The Gift of the Holy Spirit

Welcome His Spirit

If you have received Jesus as your Savior…God is living in you. By the Holy Spirit he has joined himself to your spirit. Your spirit, the very inmost part of you, is alive, and not only alive, but filled with all the wonderful joy, and love, and peace, and glory of God himself. ~Dennis Bennett, The Holy Spirit and You, (Plainfield, NJ: Logos International, 1971), 16.

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and do not gratify the desires of the flesh. ~Galatians 5:16

Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, which you have from God? You are not your own; you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body. ~1 Corinthians 6:19-20

The Holy Spirit is the very life of Jesus himself within us. From now on, we are never alone; following Jesus need never be something we do in our own strength. No, we find we have a new engine inside: his powerful Spirit. Peter Walker, The Jesus Way, (Grand Rapids: Monarch Books, 2009), 48.

Daily Readings For the Week:

Monday – John 16:1-15

Tuesday – Romans 8:1-17

Wednesday – Ephesians 4:1-13

Thursday – Galatians 5:16-26

Friday – 1 Corinthians 12

Saturday – 1 Corinthians 13

Meditation For the Week:

Friend, it is a wonderful thing to witness the power of God as it reaches to the heart and demonstrates to the soul the pure way of life. Surely the person who partakes of this power will be favored by the Lord. Therefore, we ought to wait diligently for the leadings of the Holy Spirit in everything we do. Thus we will be able to travel through all that is contrary to God and into the things that are of God…you must press your spirit to bow daily before God and wait for the breathings to you from his Spirit…by his secret working in your spirit, giving you assistance from time to time, you will advance nearer and nearer towards the kingdom. ~Isaac Penington, Devotional Classics: Selected Readings for Individuals and Groups, (New York: Harper One, 2005), 207.

Prayer For the Week:

Come, Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of Your faithful, and kindle in them the fire of Your love. Send forth Your Spirit and they shall be created, and You shall renew the face of the earth. O God, who by the light of the Holy Spirit, did instruct the hearts of the faithful, grant that by the same Holy Spirit we may be truly wise and ever enjoy Your consolation. Through Christ our Lord, Amen.