If we’re willing to pursue it
The teaching of your word gives light, so even the simple can understand. (Psalms 119:130 NLT)
We need to do our part
Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God’s will for you, which is good, pleasing, and perfect. (Romans 12:2 NLT)
He desires to give us personal instruction
I am the LORD your God, who teaches you what is good for you and leads you along the paths you should follow. (Isaiah 48:17 NLT)
The same holds true for Christians
Seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator. (Colossians 3:9-10 ESV)
Conviction and commitment to live by what we believe
Put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, and … be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and … put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness. (Ephesians 4:22–24 ESV)
Holy Spirit Part 5: God’s presence in our lives
Do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. (Ephesians 4:30 ESV)
Holy Spirit Part 4: Guidance in our daily lives
When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth. (John 16:13a ESV)
Holy Spirit Part 3: The Gifts of the Spirit
As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God’s varied grace: whoever speaks, as one who speaks oracles of God; whoever serves, as one who serves by the strength that God supplies—in order that in everything God may be glorified through Jesus Christ. (1 Peter 4:10–11)
Holy Spirit Part 2: “Missionary Spirit”
But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth. (Acts 1:8 ESV)
Holy Spirit Part 1: His Presence
In Him, you also, after listening to the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation—having also believed, you were sealed in Him with the Holy Spirit of the promise. (Ephesians 1:13 NASB)
You have to quote the terms of the contract
Judge not, that you be not judged. (Matthew 7:1ESV)
God’s Spirit speaks to us through His words
God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth. (John 4:24)
The mercy of Jesus
But go your way, tell his disciples and Peter that he goeth before you into Galilee: there shall ye see him, as he said unto you. (Mark 16:7 KJV)
Written on their heart
God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.” … So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. (Genesis 1:26–27)
None of these things
Put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and … be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and … put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness. (Ephesians 4:22–24)
Open and adaptable
May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. (Romans 15:13 NIV)
We need to pursue it
Teach me how to live, O LORD. Lead me along the right path. (Psalm 27:11 NLT)
Victory over death
I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. (John 10:28)
Seek the Lord
Ye shall seek Me, and find Me, when ye shall search for Me with all your heart. (Jeremiah 29:13)