One thing I have asked from the LORD, that I shall seek: that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the delightfulness of the LORD and to inquire in His temple. Psalm 27:4.
How beloved is Your dwelling place, O LORD of hosts! Psalm 84:1.
Do you not know that you are a temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? 1 Corinthians 3:16.
Today your LORD (יהוה) God says:
You may feel like your life is dry and barren, full of empty cisterns. Do you know why? You have left your first love and let worldly life beat you down and drain you out. You have transferred your idea of glory from Me to you, to man. You are looking at works of man and not at the works of God. But often what the world holds in importance I hold in contempt.
I am enough for you.
But you have to understand what I am saying. That does not mean you are poor and deprived and I am enough for you. Not at all.
To thrive and have overflowing cisterns and well-watered gardens, to have strong bones and abundant life, to have no lack but more than enough for yourself and every good work, you need strength, wisdom, joy, direction, guidance to all truth, knowledge of things to come, and good health. You need counsel, you need provision, you need prosperity, you need shalom.
Are you beginning to see something and Someone? There is a Wonderful Counselor, there is a Spirit of Wisdom, Counsel, Understanding, Knowledge, Strength, Fear of the LORD, and Loving Devotion, there is fullness of joy in My presence, I am the God who looks ahead and provides, I am the LORD your healer and there is so much more. To every need you have, My Word has an answer. But there is one answer that has them ALL and if you ask Me for that answer I give Him to you.
Your answer to everything in your life is simple. It is the HOLY SPIRIT. Be filled with the Holy Spirit and it is MORE than enough of everything you need and an abundance that will leap up as a living fountain to overflow and run out of you in rivers to all who lack.
All who are thirsty, all whose cisterns are dry, all who are weak and unable to keep going forward, COME and drink the water of life. Without cost.
The Holy Spirit is the answer to everything. You need skills? He teaches you all things. You need abundant life? The Spirit gives life, quickens your mortal body, and raises you to new life. You need regeneration and renewal? Have you read the words of the apostle Paul? “But when the kindness of God our Savior and His love for mankind appeared, He saved us, not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness, but according to His mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit, whom He poured out upon us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior, so that being justified by His grace we would be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.” Titus 3:4-7. You need wisdom? Ask for it and I will give it to you generously for He is the Spirit of Wisdom! You need life for your mortal body? My Holy Spirit in you quickens your mortal body. You need POWER? My Spirit in you releases RESURRECTION power. The power that raised Christ from the dead and gave Him an immortal glorified body. For He is the Spirit of the ONE who raised Christ from the dead, that is, Me, your Father, Creator and LORD. I send forth My Spirit and you are created and I renew the face of the Adamah (the clay of the earth from which you are formed). Not by human might and power, but by My Spirit!
And how do you get the Holy Spirit? Easy. Have you never read, “If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him?” Luke 11:13. You ask Me and I will give you the greatest gift of all. And He is My Promise to you. Jesus told you that, He called the Holy Spirit in you and on you the “Promise of the Father.” Luke 24:49; Acts 1:4. And remember the words of My apostle Peter on the day Pentecost was fulfilled and Jesus poured out My Promise into the hearts of those who believed in My Son? “Repent, and each of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins; and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. For the promise is for you and your children and for all who are far off, as many as the Lord our God will call to Himself.” Acts 2:38-39.
Jesus told the woman by the well of Samaria, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give Me a drink,’ you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.” John 4:10. And “whoever drinks of the water that I will give him shall never thirst; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.” John 4:14. And what was this living water? Jesus tells you, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink. He who believes in Me, as the Scripture said, ‘From his innermost being will flow rivers of living water.’” But this He spoke of the Spirit, whom those who believed in Him were to receive; for the Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.” John 7:38-39. And I kept that promise when Jesus was glorified at My right hand, as Peter spoke out to the crowd on the fulfillment of Pentecost, “This Jesus God raised up again, to which we are all witnesses. Therefore having been exalted to the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, He has poured forth this which you both see and hear.” Acts 2:32-33.
Jesus told you the night before He died, “I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Paraclete (the one by your side to be your helper, counselor, advocate, comforter, teacher, leader and guide), that He may be with you forever; that is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it does not see Him or know Him, but you know Him because He abides with you and will be in you. I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you.” John 14:15-18.
I have not left you alone. I have given you the greatest gift I can give you. It is nothing less than Myself. The fullness of My divine nature in you. My Holy Spirit that is My power, My strength, My very self who shares My deepest thoughts with you. The One who gives you revelation knowledge. My anointing of power.
And you access Me by the One Spirit and become one with Me in the Spirit. I make My dwelling in you by My Spirit in you and on you forever.
I keep the promise I made by My prophet Ezekiel to take out your heart of stone—your dry, dead, hardened, worldly heart—and replace it with a living heart, a living born again risen spirit, and I put My Spirit in your heart and write My instruction in your heart so that you may live a godly life like Me walking in the righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.
My Son told his grieving disciples that it was better that He left them and returned to Me or they would not receive the Holy Spirit. They, at that moment did not think anything could be better than having Jesus with them. But soon, after Jesus died and I raised Him from the dead and He returned to Me and poured out the Holy Spirit into their hearts, they understood exactly what He meant. And they could not but be filled with joy and the Holy Spirit with a JOY no one could take from them. And you can have that same joy.
And here are some of the things Jesus told you about the gift of the Holy Spirit. “But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I said to you. Peace I leave with you; My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Do not let your heart be troubled, nor let it be fearful.” John 14:26-27. “When the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, that is the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, He will testify about Me, and you will testify also, because you have been with Me from the beginning.” John 15:26-27. “I have many more things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. But when He, the Spirit of truth, comes, He will guide you into all the truth; for He will not speak on His own initiative, but whatever He hears, He will speak; and He will disclose to you what is to come. He will glorify Me, for He will take of Mine and will disclose it to you. All things that the Father has are Mine; therefore I said that He takes of Mine and will disclose it to you.” John 16:12-15.
And let Me tell you more. He shares My thoughts with you and lets you know the things I have freely given you. He shows you the marvels and wonders I have prepared for you who love Me and how to walk in them. He quickens your mortal bodies. He raises you up to new life, He is resurrection power in you. I pour My love into your heart by the gift of My Holy Spirit. He witnesses with your spirit that you are My child, heir, and a joint heir with Christ. He leads you. He testifies to you that your sins and offenses I remember no more. He tells you things to come. He gives you words and a wisdom that no one can take exception to or contradict. He gives you the power to witness to Jesus and save souls. He seats you in Heaven and gives you every spiritual blessing. He gives you gifts to benefit all—a Word of Wisdom, a Word of Knowledge, Faith, Gifts of Healings, effecting of works of power (miracles), Prophecy, distinguishing of spirits, Tongues and Interpretation of Tongues. 1 Corinthians 12:4-11. And the fruit of the Holy Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Galatians 5:22-23. He prays in and for you, “the Spirit also helps our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we should, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words; and He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He intercedes for the believers according to the will of God.” Romans 8:26-27.
John the Baptist told you Jesus would baptize you in the Holy Spirit and fire! Jesus is the baptizer in the Holy Spirit. You must believe in Him to receive My gift and Jesus pours Him out on you.
With My Spirit I light your spirit (i.e. your lamp) and pour resurrection power through all your inward parts—spirit, soul and body. My Word is Spirit breathed and it is health for all your flesh. It is Spirit and Life.
My beloved David sang, “One thing I have asked from the LORD, that I shall seek: that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the delightfulness of the LORD and to inquire in His temple.” Psalm 27:4. David asked for and sought just one thing, to dwell in the My temple all the days of his life. Guess what? You do and it is YOU. “Do you not know that you are a temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?” 1 Corinthians 3:16. So rejoice and be so happy you are you and in yourself, you don’t need to look elsewhere with jealousy, you have in yourself the one thing David sought. Be comfortable being in you, you are the My dwelling place and can inquire of Me and utilize My resurrection power 24/7. What a beautiful place to dwell, better than anywhere else. You are right where you should be. In you is where you long to dwell, do not torment yourself with regret, guilt and shame. Look in the mirror and exclaim, “How lovely (beloved) is Your dwelling place, O LORD of hosts!” Psalm 84:1. And the conclusion? “Happy are they who dwell in your house, O LORD, continually they praise you!” Psalm 84:4.
Desire earnestly the spiritual gifts. Although all believers have this gift, you will find in My Word that some are FILLED with the Holy Spirit and some are not. Think about that. Please, ask Me for the Holy Spirit. He is really all you need for He is God Himself with Me in the ONE everlasting trinity of love. And do not grieve Him by offensive speech, speaking contrary to the Word I breathed with Him, and do not quench His fire in you by despising His gifts. Do not turn aside from your first love. He is not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit of the Living, eternal, Almighty, all-powerful, omniscient and omnipotent God. Holy, Holy, Holy. Father, Son and HOLY Spirit. And in you, He makes you HOLY. He gives you life eternal. And He gives you resurrection power. He is the anointing of joy and His fruit is what you want to eat every day and offer it to others.
I love you and gave you a gift beyond and above everything you can ask or imagine. If you have received My Son as Lord you have become a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is God. Where else would you rather be than inside you? And that goes with you everywhere you are in the day and night. David put singers by the Ark of the Covenant to sing thanksgiving and praise 24/7. Do you see what I am telling you to do? “Be filled with the Spirit, speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody with your heart to the Lord; always giving thanks for all things in the name of your Lord Jesus Christ to God, even the Father.” Ephesians 5:18-20. Don’t keep worship to just one physical place, such as a church building, you can worship wherever you are. In Spirit and in Truth.
Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe Me, an hour is coming when neither in this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father. You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews. But an hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for such people the Father seeks to be His worshipers. God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.” John 4:21-24.