Once Born, You Can Never Be Unborn

Something occurred to me today…I’ve been going to a Bible Study at our Church. We are doing the study with Priscilla Shirer on ‘Discerning the Voice of God.’ We are on our second week and it is talking about the Holy Spirit. It is a wonderful study I’m enjoying it tremendously.

Today as I was reading my lesson I had this thought…

We don’t have to pop in and pop out of God’s presence.

Jesus said He was going away so he could send another comforter to us and that he would live inside us. Now I’ve been a Christian for a very long time…in the last five years I’ve lived a life I believe is pleasing to the Lord.

At about six years of age, I accepted Jesus as my personal Lord and Savior and the journey began. At that point the Holy Spirit came to live inside of me. It was Him that revealed Jesus to me. It was Him that taught me to honor my mother and my father. It was Him that drew me away from sin, things that would keep me from becoming closer to the Lord. He’s been my teacher, my comforter and my friend. At twelve years of age I asked the Holy Spirit for my prayer language and without going into the entire experience let me just say he filled me with an amazing gift. He told me to seek the giver of the gift and not the gift…Jesus is the giver of the gift. Made sense to me and boy was He right!! Three and a half hours later and He was still speaking through me and all through the night. But that’s another story…for another time…

At times I didn’t walk as close to the Lord as I should have, we all fall down, but that is part of the growing process. I’m just thankful for God’s mercy and grace. He never gives up on us. Amen? And He never left me!

I don’t know about you but for me I go to the Lord and think that I have to do certain things that will get me into the Lord’s presence…By all means we should be clean, and humble and worship with a pure heart…that’s how we should live but sometimes we get dirty and have to take a bath in the living waters of his word…of course…

So here’s my thought…The Holy Spirit lives, dwells, stays in our heart at all times…we are never disconnected from Him…it’s like our brain, heart, lungs or kidney’s etc., they are a part of us and if we remove them we will die…we can’t live without them. They are pretty important to our survival…right? Right.

The Holy Spirit is part of our spirit’s survival…without Him we would not be born of God’s kingdom. We would be spiritually dead.

So because He is living inside of us…we don’t have to go someplace to talk to God…I’m not talking about staying out of Church that’s not where I’m going with this…I’m talking about how God’s Spirit lives inside of us. No matter where we go…or what we do…if we are awake or sleeping He is always in us…we have access to Him at any time 24/7. All we have to do is talk to Him…and He will help us grow and know Jesus more and more and more…Isn’t that wonderful…amazing…it blows my mind…

I just took it for granted that He was living in my heart; that’s what we all say when we lead someone to the Lord. “Ask Jesus to come into your heart and be the Lord of your life.” But today it hit me like never before, that, He is, living inside of me…the Spirit of the Living God took up residence in my heart the minute I accepted Jesus by faith as my Lord and Savior…Oh I hope you are seeing what I’m seeing…because this brings me such Joy and confidence and a realization that the same Spirit that raised Christ from the dead is living right inside of me…

Oh I knew it…I’ve heard it…I believe it…but I didn’t understand it until He showed me when I listened to Priscilla talk about the Holy Spirit yesterday…

This gives us freedom from religious teaching…and religious, mindset, of how we are to get into the presence of God…

We do what everyone else does…fold our hands and bow our head…we get in our Holy stance…and say all the right Holy words…we even cry, real tears, and hope God hears us…

We are free from all that…I’m not saying there’s anything wrong with all of that…but we don’t have to work God up…God is ever present…He always hears and watches…He wants us to talk to Him…to come to Him and love Him…

We are the ones that put all the trimmings on how we think we are supposed to be with Him…He made it so simple…

We are never out His presence…because He is always in us…

Even though our minds don’t recognize that he’s with us all the time…He is…

We can’t unplug from Him and I would never want to…

Think about this…He is not waiting on the outside world for us to find Him…

God sent Jesus to the world and Jesus died and rose again and He sent the Holy Spirit of promise to come and live right inside of us…always….He is always here, inside…all we have to do is acknowledge Him…

He knows where He is…and He is tugging on our heart-strings saying, Hey, I’m right here…just ask me anything and I will tell you the truth and show you who Jesus is…I will help you anytime…anywhere…breathe in, exhale, that’s how close I am…

~M.S. O’Neill October 4, 2017

Romans 8:11 New Living Translation (NLT)

The Spirit of God, who raised Jesus from the dead, lives in you. And just as God raised Christ Jesus from the dead, he will give life to your mortal bodies by this same Spirit living within you.

John 14:16-17 The Message (MSG) “If you love me, show it by doing what I’ve told you. I will talk to the Father, and he’ll provide you another Friend so that you will always have someone with you. This Friend is the Spirit of Truth. The godless world can’t take him in because it doesn’t have eyes to see him, doesn’t know what to look for. But you know him already because he has been staying with you, and will even be in you!

 John 14:16-17 New King James Version (NKJV) And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever— ¹⁷ the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you.

John 3:1-17 Good News Translation (GNT) There was a Jewish leader named Nicodemus, who belonged to the party of the Pharisees.  One night he went to Jesus and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher sent by God. No one could perform the miracles you are doing unless God were with him.”

Jesus answered, “I am telling you the truth: no one can see the Kingdom of God without being born again.”

“How can a grown man be born again?” Nicodemus asked. “He certainly cannot enter his mother’s womb and be born a second time!”

“I am telling you the truth,” replied Jesus, “that no one can enter the Kingdom of God without being born of water and the Spirit.  A person is born physically of human parents, but is born spiritually of the Spirit. Do not be surprised because I tell you that you must all be born again. The wind blows wherever it wishes; you hear the sound it makes, but you do not know where it comes from or where it is going. It is like that with everyone who is born of the Spirit.”