As believers and followers of our Lord Jesus, if so be, our purpose is rooted in the mission of God for humanity and all of His creation which He worked through Christ Jesus. Jesus says “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, even so I am sending you.” John 20:21. Brother Paul tells us that “God has given us the ministry of reconciliation and has entrusted to us the message of reconciliation.” 2 Cor. 5:18-19.

So if God has made you a bread seller, bring others to the knowledge of God in Christ Jesus through selling of bread; if God has made you a graphic designer, bring others to the knowledge of God in Christ Jesus through your designs. At the end of it all, God is to be glorified.

The Holy Spirit will make you know that you have Him. You performed no work in order to receive the Holy Spirit. Your perfection could never attract Him to come and live in the inside of you. He comes to you by the will of God, and hence, by Grace. So if your deeds could not bring you to Him, your deeds cannot send you away from God.

Thus, you didn’t receive the Holy Spirit because you did good things, rather, you received Him in order that you can do the good things that are well pleasing unto God. When you fall short, it means you’re an imperfect human who needs help, and He’s working on you. You won’t remain in sin. We are saints, yeah, but not yet perfect. We are learning and growing every day as weaknesses are being revealed in us.

Jesus tells Nicodemus about those who are born of the spirit in John 3 that just like the wind, we don’t know where it is coming from and we don’t know where it is going, that’s how those born of the Spirit are.

The day we mostly think we received the Holy Spirit is actually the day we became conscious of His presence in our lives.

If we don’t even know when He began to change our stony hearts into a heart of flesh so that we’d begin to have the desire to know, to love and to fear Him and to seek for Him, then, how do we know when and how He will stop and turn from us and refuse to ever accept us again?

In the old covenant the Holy Spirit came upon people in His ministration, however, in this new covenant of God which He calls us to partake in, we have the Holy Spirit dwelling with us and in us with a promise from God that says ‘He will never leave us nor forsake us.’ God would not take His Spirit of promise from us. We received the Holy Spirit freely, without sweat and even without asking. Praise God!

The devil thought He had stopped Jesus by bruising Him, little did he know that Christ was going to make a public disgrace of him by rising from the dead to bring salvation and life, eternity and forgiveness of sin as well as sending the Holy Spirit of promise to God’s elect.

It is this joy for us that we will declare the praises of God who has delivered us from darkness and has given freely to us His Spirit who lives in us; O that as we live and are active we may declare the works of God to all, according to the Scriptures.

We know our end is sure and safe, in Christ. One day we would meet our Saviour face to face and we shall be transformed. We know and we eagerly wait for that day.

The attacks and sufferings we face in this age shouldn’t scare us or make us think that we don’t belong to God. As far as God’s Grace is sufficient for us (2 Cor 12:9-10) we have cause to rejoice and move. I read that the Apostles rejoiced that they were counted worthy to suffer dishonour for the name of Jesus Christ (Acts 5:41-42) and they did not cease to preach and teach that Jesus was the Christ.

Whether we suffer or not, it is to the glory of God. Rejoice!

The devil’s attacks on the believer is to disturb the body and spew deceptions against our faith. The power we have is Christ in us, which is our hope of glory. We know our end is sure and safe, in Christ. One day we would meet our Saviour face to face and we shall be transformed. We know and we eagerly wait for that day.

Christians over the years have suffered persecutions which the devil orchestrated by inflicting pain on their bodies so they might lose faith in God, yet one thing remains, God kept His people in the faith and the Gospel prevailed. If even our fading bodies be destroyed, we shall have a glorious one at the resurrection.

See, we are rejoicing in victory because He who lives in us is Christ who has purchased us once and for all and has given us eternal life, which God promised before the world began.