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Being full of the Holy Spirit is tied to many things in the Bible. Prophesy, speaking in tongues, boldness, courage, filling others, confidence, power, joy, sense of fullness like being drunk, wisdom, signs and miracles are all attached to the power of the Holy Spirit.

I'm thinking that least a couple of these qualities might appeal to you. If they are appealing, here's the deal. The best anyone can ever be is not good enough. We will always fall short of being perfect. God is perfect and requires us to be blameless. In the old testiment every time a person messed up they were suppose to sacrifice an animal to get back to a right relationship with God. So God decided to send his only Son Jesus Christ to be the ultimate sacrifice for all of our sins. No more sacrificing animals!!

So we have to accept that Jesus died for our screw ups. The times we missed the mark. Otherwise his "sacrifice" isn't for us. Ask Christ to come into your life and clean you up to restore that right relationship with God. When we do that God gives us a deposit of his Holy Spirit to live in us and help us as we walk out the rest of our life. We have a free personal counsellor for life! He gives us all those qualities I talked about above.

Your life will feel complete. You will have a renewed purpose. Have you ever wondered why so many people who have all it all commit sucide? Without Christ in our lives there is no sense of purpose, no lasting hope, no anything good that lasts.

Is this a religion? I personally don't see it as a religion. I see it as a personal relationship with God who is wants to restore a relationship with His kids.

Many relgions you have to do something to get something. It's "man" reaching to a higher seemingly unreachable and unpersonal power. What I described is God sending His son for us. We accept and recieve it.

Too simple? Children get it and us adults who have to reason it all think it's got to be more complicated. :)

Got questions? God can handle your questions and even your doubt. Ask Him to show you if He's real.

Where are you at?

For those who have asked Christ into their life, I encourage you to ask God to continously fill you. We are sponges and sometimes dry out. Get back to that uninhibitied realtionship with God. See what happens. Nothing like it.

Encouraging you.

Alanne.

In the Bible it talks about being filled with the Holy Spirit and speaking in tongues. Now there are many arguments whether those two go hand in hand or not. I'm not here to debate that. I will say they are both great and I encourage you to check them both out more. Especially being full of the Holy Spirit and having sex with your spouse! (more on that topic to come, stay tuned) Ok so this is proving to be an interesting, straight up post.

So initially I was going to talk about being Full of the Holy Spirit and I will touch on that however, when I went to do research on www.biblegateway.com I discovered a whole bunch of things people could be filled with. Search "Filled Spirit"

filled with the Spirit of God

filled with power

filled with the spirit of wisdom

filled with rage

filled with Holy Spirit

Whatever you are filling your life with, evenutally you will be full of that. Deep I know. When you are full of something it causes you to act. Here we go.

Full of words -you want to speak

Full of Holy Spirit - you want to do God's will

Full of wisdom - you know what to do and want to do it

Full of Faith - you want to do

Full of doubt - you tend to question or avoid

Full of fear - you tend to hide or lash out

Full of shit - well garbage in garbage out

Like the example I gave my kids about us all being 341 mL coke cans. (If we are open we are crushable and if we're full and sealed we can't be crushed but realisitically we don't ever stay sealed very long.)

So 2 questions for you....

What are you filling your can / life with ? What does that make you full of ?

When the pressures of life come and squish you what are you going to spew onto those around you?

Pressures will come. Don't be ignorant as I was to that.

Fill yourself with Christ.You will do things that will blow your mind. Luke 9:1When Jesus had called the Twelve together, he gave them power and authority to drive out all demons and to cure diseases, 2and he sent them out to preach the kingdom of God and to heal the sick.

We are to be his disciples so guess what you have the ablitiy to do those things too.

You won't be bored. Freaked maybe but not bored. And life will be way more than you could ever imagine.

Want some?

Alanne

Scriptures for "filled"

Exodus31:3

Exodus 35:31

Deut 34:9

Esther 5:9

Micah 3:8

Luke 1:15

Luke 1:41

Luke 1:67

Acts 2:4

Scriptures for "full"

Job 32:18

Luke 4:1,2

Luke 10:21

Acts 6:3

Acts 6:5

Acts 7:55

Acts 11:24

Romans 8:4

Romans 15:19

Scriptures for "power" and "authority"

Rev 12:10

Luke 9:1

Luke 10:19

Thanks to www.biblegateway.com

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Alanne Schellenberg.