Experiencing God Everyday!

 

Jeremy Camp has a song called Getting Started. Some of the lines are:

To anyone who has ever lost their way

To everyone who ever felt ashamed

Here’s a song for the broken hearted

 

All of us have experienced those circumstances and those emotions. John chapter 14 helps us to overcome these circumstances.

 

John 14:16 says, “And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper, to be with you forever.” The word helper means one who comes along side of another and pleads his case to another. The word is capitalized showing Jesus is referring to the Holy Spirit.

 

The Holy Spirit is God, and He comes to us and empowers us and intercedes for us with the Father. He is another Helper meaning another like Jesus. God is with us to empower us and to intercede for us when we need something.

 

Raise the Roof and Remove the Walls is experiencing the help of the Holy Spirit as He empowers us and intercedes for us.

 

John 14:18 says, “I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you.” When Jesus leaves the earth with His earthly body, He will not leave us as His disciples alone. He will not abandon; He will send the Holy Spirit.

 

 Jesus will not physically be with us but even better, the Holy Spirit will be with us everywhere and all the time. We will literally never go anywhere that the Holy Spirit is not with us. We as disciples will never face anything alone. When Hebrews 13:5 says that God will never leave us nor forsake us, we see the reality of why in this verse because we are not orphans but always have God with us.

 

Raise the Roof and Remove the Walls is knowing that we always have the Holy Spirit with us and living every day based on that knowledge.

 

John 14:21 says, “Whoever has My commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves Me. And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and manifest Myself to him.”

 

Jesus will manifest Himself to us. We as disciples of Jesus will be able to know Him and experience His presence in our lives. Just as Jesus showed who He was to the Twelve, so He shows us who He is through the Holy Spirit revealing Him to us.

 

 

Raise the Roof and Remove the Walls is, through the Holy Spirit, knowing who Jesus is and experiencing the full reality of Jesus in our lives every day.

 

John 14:23 says “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word, and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make our home with him.”

 

We will have God living in us. He will not be working in our lives from the outside in, but from the inside out. God working in us from the inside out is more powerful. The Holy Spirit will empower us to become more and more like Jesus.

 

Raise the Roof and Remove the Walls is having God make His home with us and form in us the image of Christ.

 

The key to experiencing the Holy Spirit working in our lives is found in verse fifteen. It says, “If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.”

 

The key to experiencing the work of the Holy Spirit is obeying what Jesus says. The Bible is God’s word and, as we yield our lives to Jesus and obey what God says in the Bible, we will experience the filling and working of the Holy Spirit.

 

Obeying and Being Filled with the Holy Spirit

by Raising the Roof and Removing the Walls,

Joe