Fellowship with the Holy Spirit

Growing spiritually is a matter of fellowshipping with the Holy Spirit and yielding to Him constantly. 



The Holy Spirit is your Trainer and your Coach.



 He knows your weaknesses and strengths. He has a personal development plan for you. He has goals for you to achieve. He knows the Father’s will for you. He will draw up your personal prayer life. He will tell you when to go into worship or when to put your petition before the Lord of Heaven. He will lead you to specific passages in the Word in line with your personal spiritual development. You grow strong in spirit by constantly sowing to the spirit realm. What is born of the Spirit is spirit.


This is where many Bible students and seminarians preparing for the ministry make this common mistake. 



They buy up many books to read, hear many tapes, go for one seminar after another, run after famous men and women of God, subscribe to their magazines, read their Bibles and even memorize whole passages but failed the one most important thing – seeking the Holy Spirit as Teacher. 


In the end, they wonder why they have no power in their preaching and in their ministry. Actually, most of them would be very smug and satisfied with their own preaching but they know not what they lack. They have all the theological degrees and doctorates but they have no wisdom from the Holy Spirit. Then they come across a poor uneducated Christian who is always on his knees, seeking for God’s wisdom and truths. They are astounded to find this poorly educated Christian speaking one truth after another – truths they never heard of, truths they themselves took so long to find out, truths they finally found after so many hard knocks and mistakes and failures – and this guy is just pouring these truths out like living water. This guy depended on the Holy Spirit whereas the others depended on men’s teachings. 


I once read in church history about a very famous professor of theology in Europe during the middle Ages. I forgot his name. He used to hold his audience spellbound simply because he could quote long passages from the Bible and from church fathers by memory. One day, he happened to meet an ordinary layman and asked him how his preaching was. That layman took him aside and patiently taught him the truth from the Word of God. He taught this mighty professor where he had gone wrong, where he was missing the mark, where he was inaccurate, and this astounded him. 

He resigned from his post and submitted himself to this layman who taught him how to allow the Holy Spirit to teach him. His resignation caused a great consternation in the hall of academicians and theologians. They despised him too for associating with and learning from an unlearned layman. In the end, he was vindicated when he moved powerfully in the realm of truth and revelation that stirred a great revival in his country. 


Paul also had a similar experience. He sat at the feet of Gamaliel, the most outstanding teacher at that time. He was above his peers in terms of intelligence, brilliance of mind, learning, zeal for the law and was carved out for a very illustrious career as a rabbi. He may have been seen as the most likely successor to Gamaliel. All this ended when he met the Lord Jesus Christ on the road to Damascus in Acts 9 and said that he considered all his learning as dung compared to the supreme knowledge of knowing Jesus Christ as his Lord. 

He then went to Arabia to sit at the feet of the Holy Spirit for three years and the result was most outstanding. He wrote one third of the New Testament and released much revelation for us. Bible graduates should take an example from Paul. They should go away and sit at the feet of the Holy Spirit for a few years.



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