# Experiencing the Spirit ![rw-book-cover](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/4152-VtW1wL._SY160.jpg) ## Metadata - Author: [[Robert Heidler]] - Full Title: Experiencing the Spirit - Category: #books ## Highlights - Lewis Sperry Chafer, founder of Dallas Theological Seminary, described the grace of God in his salvation, saying, "I kicked, fought against God, and resisted ... and God did all the rest." ([Location 101](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B001VH7QK8&location=101)) - 1 don't believe there is a more crucial truth for Christians today than the truth about the Holy Spirit. ([Location 258](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B001VH7QK8&location=258)) - It is the Spirit who keeps the Word alive, and progressively being "incarnated" in me...It is the Spirit who infuses prayer and praise with passion and begets vital faith for the supernatural.It is the Spirit who teaches and instructs me so that the "mirror" of the Word shines Jesus in and crowds sin out;It is the Spirit who brings gifts and giftedness for power-ministry to my life.. .andIt is the Spirit who will bring love, graciousness, and a spirit of unity to my heart; so that I not only love the lost and want to see people brought to Christ, but I love all other Christians, and refuse to become an instrument of injury to Christ's body-the Church.' ([Location 261](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B001VH7QK8&location=261)) - He guides us (John 16:13), empowers us (Mic. 3:8) and makes us holy (Rom. 15:16). He bears witness in our lives (Rom. 8:16), comforts us (John 14:16-26), gives us joy (Rom. 14:17)...As our teacher of spiritual truths, the Holy Spirit illuminates our minds with insights into the mind of Christ (1 Cor. 2:12,13) and reveals to us the hidden things of God (Isa. 40:13,14)...As you are filled with the Holy Spirit, the Bible becomes alive, prayer becomes vital, your witness becomes effective and obedience becomes a joy. Then, as a result of your obedience in these areas, your faith grows and you become more mature in your spiritual life.2 ([Location 266](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B001VH7QK8&location=266)) - the Christian life is not a ritual or a set of teachings but a relationship-a relationship with God through His Holy Spirit. ([Location 272](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B001VH7QK8&location=272)) - The Holy Spirit was given to make the Christian life experiential-to make Jesus real, not only in your understanding but also in your life. ([Location 273](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B001VH7QK8&location=273)) - The purpose of this book is to help you to enter into that vital relationship with the Holy Spirit so you can experience, in a greater way, the resources of God. ([Location 274](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B001VH7QK8&location=274)) - The indwelling Spirit is the Spirit of Jesus living in the hearts of His people, sent to give them new hope, new love, new peace, new joy and new direction. ([Location 421](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B001VH7QK8&location=421)) - This ministry is foundational to everything else in the Christian life. Through the indwelling Spirit we are sealed in Christ and given an inner assurance that we belong to Him (see 2 Cor. 1:22). Through the indwelling Spirit we experience a fundamental change in our innermost beings. Old habits drop away and old bondages are broken. We find we have become "new creations," being conformed more and more to the character of the Lord Jesus Christ (2 Cor. 5:17). ([Location 422](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B001VH7QK8&location=422)) - I define the Spirit's indwelling ministry this way:The indwelling ministry of the Holy Spirit is the ministry in which He lives in a believers heart to produce the character of Jesus in the believers life. ([Location 426](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B001VH7QK8&location=426)) - "I will put my Spirit in you and move you to follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws" (Ezek. 36:27). ([Location 431](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B001VH7QK8&location=431)) - through Ezekiel, God promised that this Shehinah would one day come to dwell in the hearts of mortal human beings! ([Location 434](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B001VH7QK8&location=434)) - He breathed on them and said, "Receive the Holy Spirit" (John 20:22). This is a highly significant verse. As God breathed the "breath" of physical life into Adam in Genesis 2, Jesus now imparts the very "breath" of God, the Holy Spirit, into His loyal followers. ([Location 445](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B001VH7QK8&location=445)) - This was not the release of the Holy Spirit's power. That did not take place until the day of Pentecost. This was an altogether different work of the Spirit. 1 believe the glorified Christappeared to them here to fulfill His promise of John 7:39 and 14:17. He came to implant within them the river of living water, to impart the indwelling Spirit of God. ([Location 449](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B001VH7QK8&location=449))