Holy Spirit Led

 We say we believe in a triune God. The Father. The Son. The Holy Spirit. The Father gets a lot of attention. So does Jesus the Son. The Holy Spirit is often ignored and disobeyed. Many people are unfamiliar with the Holy Spirit. They have not been taught about Him. 

Jesus speaks about the Holy Spirit in great detail in John 14 and John 16. The Holy Spirit is characterized as the Helper, the Spirit of truth, convicts the world of sin, righteousness, and judgment. He guides in truth. 

The question before us today is if we are led by the Holy Spirit in our day to day lives? In the book of Acts, we read multiple narratives about the Holy Spirit leading, speaking, forbidding, and leading people to salvation. He was active in the affairs of the early church. People were empowered by the Holy Spirit to witness, pray, praise in difficulties, and even to suffer. The early church was alive with the activity of God through the Spirit. The religious people hated the miraculous results those early believers experienced. 

Is it any different today? The deceased evangelist Vance Havner used to say, "People showed up for worship at 11:00 sharp and leave at 12:00 dull. Religious activities fill up many worship gatherings. There are the usual songs, prayers, offerings, and talks. Does the Holy Spirit breathe life into these activities? Are leaders of worship gatherings open to the Holy Spirit's leadership. What about the people in the pews? Do we live with a sensitivity to the Holy Spirit's promptings?

I firmly believe the Holy Spirit is often grieved and quenched in worship from week to week. People prefer to go through the motions of dull religions rituals than to open themselves to the free moving of the Holy Spirit. They refuse to relinquish control over their programs. The power of God is seldom on display in such services. People are fine with such gatherings. 

It is not much different in our personal lives. People trudge through their days without the adventure of the Holy Spirit working in and through them. Boring days stack on top of one another. Few people notice the absence of the Holy Spirt working. It seems to so seldom happen for us that we get used to it. We quit expecting Holy Ghost moves such as awakenings. We settle for second best. We are satisfied with less than God's best. 

We are missing out on so much when we are not led by the Holy Spirit. We miss out on the miraculous moves of God in our personal lives as well as in our churches. If we all surrendered ourselves to the Holy Spirit moving, we would come alive, life would see God move. Walk in the Spirit and surre