Keeping A Positive Mindset Before Jesus Returns! (Part 5): Develop a close relationship with the Holy Spirit!
September 21, 2025Keeping A Positive Mindset Before Jesus Returns! (Part 5)
Develop a close relationship with the Holy Spirit!
9.21.2025
Review
In this challenging day, it is important to stay focused on Jesus and to seek FIRST the Kingdom of God!
We must put spiritual things first place in life if we are going to follow God and His will!
In this series, I am going over several points that help us stay positive!
1. Living by faith
I have talked about living by faith and how this helps you keep a positive mindset before Jesus returns.
2. Live from fullness!
This will keep you from deception and from being deceived!
And of His fullness we have all received, and grace for grace.
3. Jesus – The Fountain of Living Water!
In America, we have polluted our fountain of living water!
Today:
4. Develop a close relationship with the Holy Spirit!
We are never alone in life! Jesus has sent to us His personal representative to help us every single day.
Keep your relationship with the Holy Spirit strong!
2 Corinthians 13:13 (HCSB)
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with all of you.
We are born again by the Holy Spirit and indwelt by Him in the new birth.
He changes us from sinner to believer, from darkness to light, from spiritual death to spiritual life!
Jesus answered and said to her, “Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again, 14 but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life.”
Then, after we are born again, the Holy Spirit helps us in daily life!
Notice what Jesus said the Holy Spirit would do for you:
If you love Me, keep My commandments. 16 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. 18 I will not leave you orphans; I will come to you.
John 14:16 (AMPC)
And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Comforter (Counselor, Helper, Intercessor, Advocate, Strengthener, and Standby), that He may remain with you forever—
The Holy Spirit is Jesus’ personal representative to us! He takes what Jesus has said and makes it real to us!
However, when He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth; for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak; and He will tell you things to come. 14 He will glorify Me, for He will take of what is Mine and declare it to you. 15 All things that the Father has are Mine. Therefore I said that He will take of Mine and declare it to you.
But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you.
27 Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
We are also baptized with the Holy Spirit by the Lord Jesus!
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.
And being assembled together with them, He commanded them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the Promise of the Father, “which,” He said, “you have heard from Me; 5 for John truly baptized with water, but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now.”
But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.
The Baptism with the Holy Spirit opens you up to be more aware of spiritual things. There is a heightened awareness of all things spiritual.
When the Day of Pentecost had fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. 2 And suddenly there came a sound from heaven, as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting. 3 Then there appeared to them divided tongues, as of fire, and one sat upon each of them. 4 And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
Now when the apostles who were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent Peter and John to them, 15 who, when they had come down, prayed for them that they might receive the Holy Spirit. 16 For as yet He had fallen upon none of them. They had only been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. 17 Then they laid hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit.
While Peter was still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit fell upon all those who heard the word. 45 And those of the circumcision who believed were astonished, as many as came with Peter, because the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out on the Gentiles also. 46 For they heard them speak with tongues and magnify God.
And it happened, while Apollos was at Corinth, that Paul, having passed through the upper regions, came to Ephesus. And finding some disciples 2 he said to them, “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?” So they said to him, “We have not so much as heard whether there is a Holy Spirit.”
3 And he said to them, “Into what then were you baptized?”
So they said, “Into John’s baptism.” 4 Then Paul said, “John indeed baptized with a baptism of repentance, saying to the people that they should believe on Him who would come after him, that is, on Christ Jesus.” 5 When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. 6 And when Paul had laid hands on them, the Holy Spirit came upon them, and they spoke with tongues and prophesied.
With this experience of the Baptism with the Holy Spirit, there come three things:
1. A boldness
But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.
2. A hunger and a personal understanding of the Word
But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
3. An enhanced way to pray
1 Corinthians 14:2 (AMPC)
For one who speaks in an [unknown] tongue speaks not to men but to God, for no one understands or catches his meaning, because in the [Holy] Spirit he utters secret truths and hidden things [not obvious to the understanding].
1 Corinthians 14:14 (AMPC)
For if I pray in an [unknown] tongue, my spirit [by the Holy Spirit within me] prays, but my mind is unproductive [it bears no fruit and helps nobody].
But you, beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit,
For with stammering lips and another tongue He will speak to this people, 12 To whom He said, “This is the rest with which You may cause the weary to rest,” And, “This is the refreshing”; Yet they would not hear.
Likewise the Spirit also helps in our weaknesses. For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. 27 Now He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He makes intercession for the saints according to the will of God.
This is just the beginning of a lifelong relationship with the Holy Spirit that transforms and guides us.
Once we are indwelt and have received the Baptism with the Holy Spirit, we must then choose to stay full of the Holy Spirit!
Don’t be drunk with wine, because that will ruin your life. Instead, be filled with the Holy Spirit,
Ephesians 5:18 (Wuest – The New Testament: An Expanded Translation)
And stop being intoxicated with wine, in which state of intoxication there is profligacy. But be constantly controlled by the Spirit,
To be filled with the Spirit is to be controlled by the Spirit!
Not lagging in diligence, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord;
Romans 12:11 (AMPC)
Never lag in zeal and in earnest endeavor; be aglow and burning with the Spirit, serving the Lord.
Romans 12:11 (PHILLIPS)
Let us not allow slackness to spoil our work and let us keep the fires of the spirit burning, as we do our work for God.
Romans 12:11 (MSG)
Don’t burn out; keep yourselves fueled and aflame. Be alert servants of the Master,
Romans 12:11 (TPT)
Be enthusiastic to serve the Lord, keeping your passion toward him boiling hot! Radiate with the glow of the Holy Spirit and let him fill you with excitement as you serve him.
Romans 12:11 (CEV)
Never give up. Eagerly follow the Holy Spirit and serve the Lord.
2 Timothy 1:6 (AMPC)
That is why I would remind you to stir up (rekindle the embers of, fan the flame of, and keep burning) the [gracious] gift of God, [the inner fire] that is in you by means of the laying on of my hands [with those of the elders at your ordination].
Be careful not to grieve the Holy Spirit.
And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.
We grieve Him by disobedience, by yielding to the flesh, by not listening to Him, and by not staying close to the Word.
Ways to keep the closeness and awareness of the Holy Spirit in your life:
1. Take time every day to read the Word and then meditate it.
2. Keep scripture in your mind when you have idle mental time.
3. Sing and worship before you pray.
4. Pray both with your mind and with your spirit by praying in the spirit.
5. Forgive every offense.
6. Walk in love.
Action Points:
- Are you born again, and is the Holy Spirit living in you?
- Have you received the Baptism with the Holy Spirit?
- Are you seeking to be filled or controlled by the Holy Spirit every day?
- Do you seek to listen to Holy Spirit throughout your day as He reminds you of scripture and as He seeks to give you wisdom for today’s choices?
- Do you pray in the spirit so that you can be built up spiritually and so that God has an avenue in your life to impart spiritual wisdom?
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