Living in the Abundance of God (18 page)

Think about meeting God face to face and never having had the privilege of your spirit man talking to Him before. Whenever we talk by the Holy Spirit, we are talking beyond the ability of our mind to comprehend. “For he who speaks in a tongue does not speak to men but to God, for no one understands him; however, in the spirit he speaks mysteries…. For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays, but my understanding is unfruitful” (1 Corinthians 14:2, 14).

That is the release of your spirit!

You should let yourself talk to God every day by your spirit energized by the Holy Spirit. “But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him. God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth” (John 4:23–24).

God the Father is seeking His children to worship Him in spirit and in truth. By worshiping Him in the Spirit, He is referring to speaking to Him in a spiritual language.

You may wonder if you have to speak in tongues when you receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit. Look at this way: you get to speak in another language! It is a sign that you have received the fullness of the Holy Spirit.

When you begin to speak in other tongues, your spirit man is released. The joy of praying to the Father, of bypassing your mind and going directly to the throne of God, speaking in a spiritual language, is wonderful. No one should be denied their right to be released in their spirit.

When you are released in your spirit, God puts you into a spiritual dimension beyond anything you have ever known. Through the Holy Spirit, you touch a realm you never before touched, even in your deepest dedication. It is a dimension where the gifts of the Holy Spirit operate. It is the realm of the supernatural! You begin to live in the same Holy Spirit-charged atmosphere as those in the book of Acts.

The release of the spirit enables you to walk in the realm of the gifts of the Holy Spirit.
The Amplified Bible
states that the supernatural gifts are “the special endowments of supernatural energy” (1 Corinthians 12:1). According to 1 Corinthians 12:4–10, there is…

Thank God, these are the weapons of our spiritual warfare, given to us by the Holy Spirit.

Oh, I wish I could fully tell you the joy and blessings of the mighty baptism of the Holy Spirit! Let me urge you to seek the Lord Jesus for this outpouring of power!

That longing inside of you is for this power of God. Your spirit is yearning to be released—to communicate with your heavenly Father in the deepest fashion. God loves you so much! He sees your desire for freedom and power. He knows you belong to Him. You need to do more than swing in your religious swing and eat your religious birdseed.

The door is wide open!

Come forth and join multitudes of your other brothers and sisters in the family of God who are enjoying the abundant blessings of our heavenly Father.

Your spirit needs this release to talk and to live in the realm of the supernatural. So much can happen when your spirit is set free. When your spirit is liberated, you receive the ability to act like a spirit person and live as a spirit person, and not just as a soulish, physical person.

Jesus said, “It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life” (John 6:63). A physical man must have physical food. A spirit man must have spiritual food.

Jesus said His words are life: “Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God” (Matthew 4:4). As you are released in the
spirit to talk in a heavenly language and walk in the gifts of the Holy Spirit, you must realize that you are released to go to the table of God and feed on spiritual food. You need to read and feed upon the Word of God!

Many believers feed their bodies three good meals a day and their spirit one cold snack a week! Then they wonder why they are not growing spiritually! If you will feed your spirit as much as you feed your body, you will be a healthy Christian.

You have victory in the realm where you feed! Do not continue to feed your carnal nature on the things of this world. Some people know every football player, every fishing lure and reel, every hunting gun and shells, and everything they need to know to indulge and feed their soul (mind, will, and emotions), yet they hardly know an apostle from an epistle!

Start feeding that spirit man on spiritual food. Talk as a spirit man in the spirit language. Walk in the realm of the gifts of the Holy Spirit. Feed your spirit on the Word of God, while starving your carnal nature.

You will be a strong spiritual person. You will be victorious in every battle and over every stronghold!

Release your spirit to flow in the fullness of God! You will be used of God as you flow in the freedom of the Spirit!

T
he book of Acts sets the pattern for the New Testament church. Everyone who is born of the Spirit is in the family of God. I see a tremendous spiritual hunger today in the hearts of all of God’s people in all denominations. There is not a wall strong enough or high enough to keep them away from the power of the Holy Spirit. They are going to be filled with God’s holy power!

If you want to know what God started, read the book of Acts. If it does not agree with your religious doctrine, put aside your doctrine and believe the Bible.

Acts 1 gives the promise of God to baptize His people with the Holy Spirit and power. Acts 2 tells of the release of your spirit when you receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit and speak in tongues. Acts 3 tells us that as soon as they were clothed with power, as soon as they had a release in their spirits, immediately this New Testament church saw the flow of the supernatural power of God.

“Now Peter and John went up together to the temple at the hour of prayer, the ninth hour. And a certain man lame from his mother’s womb was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask alms from those who entered the temple; who, seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple, asked for alms. And fixing his eyes on him, with John, Peter said, ‘Look at us.’ So he gave them his attention, expecting to receive something from them” (Acts 3:1–5).

Thank God that when you look on someone who is full of the Holy Spirit, expecting to receive something from them, you
can
receive it! The lame man was full of expectation! He may not have expected what he received, but he expected.

“Then Peter said, ‘Silver and gold I do not have, but what I do have I give you: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk.’ And he took him by the right hand and lifted him up, and immediately his feet and ankle bones received strength. So he, leaping up, stood and walked and entered the temple with them—walking, leaping, and praising God” (Acts 3:6–8).

You must realize that you are not prepared to touch the world effectively until you are empowered by God through the baptism of the Holy Spirit.

This is not the goal. It is a doorway into a way of life! It is an entrance into the supernatural gifts of the Holy Spirit.

Some people have the idea that when they receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit they can just sit down and that is all there is to it. No! It is the beginning of a glorious supernatural life where there is no end to helping needy humanity find salvation, healing, and help through the Lord Jesus Christ.