#9-Discipleship-Spirit

Like wind in your sails … that’s the Spirit-filled life. As wind fills the sails, so the Spirit fills us, and enables us to live a joyous and dynamic life in moment-by-moment relationship with God. It really is possible! Because the moment a person believes in Jesus Christ is the moment a person is filled with the Holy Spirit. By faith, you become a child of God. With new life and new identity, with new purpose and new power. Being filled with the Holy Spirit means God with us and God in us. Once and for all, forever. And it’s all His doing. Yet, there is also a daily responsibility on our part to “be filled with the Spirit” and “walk by the Spirit” (Ephesians 5:18, Galatians 5:16).

So, what real, tangible difference does the Holy Spirit make in our everyday lives? Here’s the difference. The Spirit-filled life is Christ living in us. It’s the Spirit enabling us to live like Jesus and to live for Jesus.