God Will Give Me His Spirit Analysis

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She responded by saying, “this verse is showing that God will give me His Spirit in order that I can live to follow His statutes, and carefully obey His ordinances. How is this going to happen?
I explained this verse to her in this manner, “God is telling the truth there. When you receive Him as your Lord and Savior, His Spirit will start to work in you. Can’t you feel that you are more guilty of your wrong behavior than before? However, since you still welcome the desires of your flesh, the Holy Spirit cannot work powerfully in you to strengthen you to do God’s will because you are still satisfying your flesh and not your Spirit, that longs for God. This is the reason why there is battle that is going on within you. You have to choose to …show more content…

Awhile ago I told you that I had experienced that same feeling as you feel now in the past. Let me share it to you. In the past I met Mr. X and I fell in love with Him. We dated but since I had a boyfriend we parted ways. However, in 2003 I accidentally met Mr. X again. This time he was married. However, he said that he and his wife were already processing their divorce. Mr. X is actually not a Christian. I felt then that I still had feeling for this person. As a foolish Christian, then, I prayed and asked God if it is possible for me to have a relationship with this person, justifying that He would not let me crossed paths with Mr.X again without a good purpose. So after my silly talk with God, I started to date with this person and everything seemed so good that I had forgotten to open and read my Bible, but not to pray. I admit that as we continued to see together before, I had no real peace of mind, but since I felt satisfaction within me every time I see this person, so I kept rejecting the call of my conscience. After a year, while I was praying, God told me in a gentle voice, “I love you and you know it very well. You choose between us.” Hearing this, I burst into tears that I repented and I chose God with all my

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