What is Intimacy With The Holy Spirit?
To be intimate with the Holy Spirit means to be in involved in a warm friendship or a personal closeness to the Holy Spirit.Intimacy (a true agape-love relationship) with the Holy Spirit,comes with a price tag particularly, discipline, diligence, dedication and commitment in reading studying and meditating on the Word Of God, loving God and people genuinely.You must also create an atmosphere of prayer, worship praise and thanksgiving for Him to manifest Himself boundlessly. He will infinitely occupy every space with His glorious priceless presence.Oh what a sweet spiritual experience that is!
How To Develop Intimacy With The Holy Spirit
1. Read, study, meditate and act on God's Word day and night
Meditation on God’s word is of great significance to a believer’s life. It is accomplished by the guidance and power of the Holy Spirit. Meditation connects a believer to revelation, which is a bridge or an access to the mind and secrets of God. Without meditation on God’s word a believer may never fulfill his divine destiny, he will remain spiritually empty and unfulfilled. A believer must meditate on God’s word to wield power and victory in life.(Joshua 1:8).When one hungers for God's vibrant Word more than natural foods, one enters into a place of unstoppable victory in life. Job considered God's Word more paramount than natural food.This is one of the reasons he got God's backing in life. ( Job 23:12)
2. Be Spiritually minded in Agape Love
A spiritually minded believer is one having the "Agape Love"mind set on spiritual things : filled with holy desires and purposes. He attracts the presence of the Precious Holy Spirit. Life in the spirit is only made possible by the Holy Spirit's help. A spiritual mind always attracts the peace and life of God-always. (Romans 8:6) When a believer is not spiritually minded he becomes a carnal, not spiritual; merely human; temporal; worldly: a man of secular, rather carnal, leanings and a sure breeding ground for the devil and his tricks. Learn to be spiritual minded by feeding consistently and continuously on God's Holy Word and consistent prayer.
3. Create and spend time with Him in prayer
Prayer is a covenant relationship with God. It is not just speaking, it is communing and fellowshipping with God in love. Without prayer, Christians are unable to have a two-way communication with God. It is like talking on the telephone with God on the other end of the line, but this time there is no hold key because God never puts you on hold.For prayer to be effective, it must involve both speaking and listening. You talk to God, you listen to Him talk to you and you obey whatever He tells you to do. Prayer maintains a supernatural bridge between heaven and earth.It is enforcing the will of God upon the earth. It is a powerful weapon of spiritual warfare, a great privilege for the believer. It is pouring out your soul before the Lord like Hannah who poured out her soul before the Lord at Shiloh and received answers to her prayer. (1 Sam. 1:15)Prayer is spiritual work with great rewards and bountiful blessings. It requires time, commitment, sacrifice and discipline.You will never find time for prayer; you must make time to pray.Prayer transports the believer into the divine supernatural for exploits. It is one sure way of staying divinely connected to God.We must pray because Jesus commands us to pray and it is the only way we can enforce the kingdom of God on the earth. Christ’s life was filled with prayer. (Mark 1:35)Just like oxygen is necessary in your breath to keep you alive, prayer is necessary to keep your spirit man alive and connected to God's Spirit and power.If you don't pray you will lack spiritual energy power and strength.A believer who does not pray will become spiritually powerless and a cheap prey for the devil.If you truly desire to grow into His likeness, you must spend time with Him daily in prayer.
4. Create a lifestyle of true worship in spiritual songs to Him
One of the key ways of quickly attracting God's sovereign presence is through singing songs of "worth-ship" to Him from your heart(spirit.) Only heart felt worship produce results. (Ephesians 5:19)All worship must come from the spirit(the heart) to be powerfully effective. It must come from a pure motive of true love to the Father God. A believer must learn to open his heart and mouth to worship God in private, and in public throughout the week and not only at Sunday service.You should not become all religious on Sundays alone then do your own thing all week long. God deserves a lifetime of our worship.Worshipping God is another dimension of prayer that moves the believer into God’s presence.It maintains intimacy and deep connection to God. It is giving back to God all His 'worth-ship'. Everyone can praise God, but not everyone can worship God. While true worship is doing the will of God from a heart free of ulterior motives, worshipping God in songs is a catalyst for God's will to be done.Worship is a place of strength, victory, power, and refreshing. It transmits joy and peace into the life of a believer. It helps a believer to fulfill his divine destiny. When you worship God, he opens the deep treasures of his divine secrets to you. Strength for each day and circumstance comes with a lifestyle of worship to God. In the spirit realm a worshipper is as bold as a lion. The more you worship God in songs, the more you receive spiritual strength and clarity of purpose in life.Learn to worship God.
5. Create a lifestyle of praise and thankfulness at all times
Praise and thanksgiving from a genuine heart of holiness and righteousness brings God on the scene. Praise becomes paralyzed if you have bitterness, unforgiveness, or any works of the flesh in your heart. If God must fight for you through praises you must offer praises from a genuine heart devoid of evil motives and agenda. (Psalm 22:3) Praise and thanksgiving is a major spiritual weapon against Satan and his demons. Praise silences the raging of the enemy when it comes. (Psalm 8:2)You must depend on God Almighty to help you fight battles of life through praise and thanksgiving as you rest confidently on the finished work of Christ on the cross.(Psalm 46:10) As you remain intimate with the Holy Spirit He will take you to the topmost top of your life.
Be blessed my friend.
