He Has You

Before we were saved by Jesus Christ and all He did on that Cross, we were helplessly lost in darkness and headed for hell. But once we are saved, we have the option to flounder in our flesh or to be filled, transformed, and empowered by the Holy Spirit.

Don’t be the limit of you; let the Holy Spirit help you. Jesus promised, “Then I will ask the Father to send you the Holy Spirit who will help you and always be with you” (John 14:16 CEV).

The difference between a Christian who lives a half-baked, meager Christian life and a Christian who thrives in a supernatural and effective life, living out God’s purposes, wholly depends on whether that Christian is in the Spirit, or not.

Nobody falls when they are walking in the Spirit. “…Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh” (Galatians 5:16 NKJV).

This wonderful and powerful act of being “in the Spirit” is understated, if stated at all, in most churches. We may read the verses, but we don’t really embrace what they mean. We can better understand the Spirit in us than we can us in the Spirit.

Only the Lord can help you to live a life pleasing to Himself. “However, you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you…” (Romans 8:9 NASB).

It is one thing to consume and another to be consumed. To be consumed requires complete submission to the one who is consuming us. The one who consumes is the one who is in control. The Holy Spirit will only control the willing.

You’ll overcome sin when you let the Holy Spirit overcome you. “Those who are dominated by the sinful nature think about sinful things, but those who are controlled by the Holy Spirit think about things that please the Spirit. So letting your sinful nature control your mind leads to death. But letting the Spirit control your mind leads to life and peace” (Romans 8:5-6 NLT).

There is a vast, immeasurable difference between drinking from a pond and from diving into a pond. To be filled is something, but to be completely immersed is something much more. Being in the Spirit is the next level after the Spirit is in you.

Being baptized in fire is not the finish line of the life of faith but the starting line. John the Baptist said of Jesus, “…He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire” (Matthew 3:11 NKJV).

In some relationships, only one person is “into” the other but that is one-sided. When they are “into” each other, then there is a bond that cannot be broken. They are so intertwined that it is as if they are one with each other.

Marriage is the earthly natural pattern for your heavenly spiritual relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ. It is the most intimate union with no natural bloodlines that establishes a spiritual bond never meant to be broken. “And hasn’t He made [them] one [flesh] in order to have spiritual blood-relatives?…take heed to your spirit, and don’t break faith with the wife of your youth” (Malachi 2:15 CJB).

If the Spirit is in us, He can tell us the right way in which we should go. But if we are in the Spirit, He is going the right way, and we are being carried away with Him. You can’t be carried away by something you are carrying but only by something that can pick you up and carry you. The Holy Spirit will only carry you when you give up the right to yourself with all abandon and let Him take you away.

When you’re operating in the divine, you’re not limited by the natural. “And he carried me away in the Spirit…” (Revelation 21:10 NASB).

Being in the Spirit is the greater submission of a saint that can only come after the Spirit is first in you. It is a progression in your spiritual journey that can take you places you could have never gone in any other way.

We were not meant for the same but for more. “And we all, with unveiled face, continually seeing as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are progressively being transformed into His image from [one degree of] glory to [even more] glory, which comes from the Lord, [who is] the Spirit” (2 Corinthians 3:18 AMP).

If you are in the Spirit, then the Spirit is in you. In such a state as this, the Holy Spirit is able to do more in your life because your life is in Him. He does not need to nudge you in the right direction, but he needs to only go in the right direction, and you will go there too.

Stop trying to swim upstream and let go so the Holy Spirit can take you where you’re supposed to go. “For all who are allowing themselves to be led by the Spirit of God are sons of God” (Romans 8:14 AMP).

There is an order you must go in in your faith journey. First, you must accept the free gift of salvation only found in the atoning work that Christ did on the Cross. Second, you must have the Holy Spirit in you. Last, you must get into the Spirit of God.

When we are born again in the Spirit, the Holy Spirit comes in and brings life to our spirit. Jesus taught, “Humans can reproduce only human life, but the Holy Spirit gives birth to spiritual life” (John 3:6 NLT).

When we are baptized in the Spirit, we are immersed in the Spirit of God. You cannot do this by your effort but only by your submission. It is not attained because you are good enough, but only if you are willing.

We have many wet Christians, but few that walk in fire. “John answered, saying to all, ‘I indeed baptize you with water; but One mightier than I is coming, whose sandal strap I am not worthy to loose. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire’” (Luke 3:16 NKJV).

The reason most Christians do not live in the Spirit is because they want to be in control. They want to do what their flesh tells them to do and not be subject to the Spirit of God. Don’t let that fate be yours.

The most brilliant minds on earth debate what walking in the Spirit means, but it is in the faith like a child that the saint simply does it. The Lord said, “I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will keep My judgments and do them” (Ezekiel 36:27 NKJV). It is not what you know or what you do but what God does in you. Let Him have His way in your life.

Blessings to you always,

Paul Balius