Big Christian Words : Indwelling and Anointing

We love big Christian words, especially those of us from Bible college or seminary, and usually pastors, leaders, teachers, Bible study, and then some of them go into the Greek and all of that, and we've got all these huge, four-syllable words, and some of us don't know what to do with them. Big words scare us, they elude us, they bore us, they fascinate us.Big words, especially big Christian jargon, can be interesting, weirdly interesting. And this series is about taking down some of those big words and deconstructing them. And I have a long list of them, but I'm more than happy to hear from you—Pastor Jeremy, what does this mean? Why do you use this word? Why do some denominations use this word a lot and other denominations almost never mention it? So I have a list, but I'd love to add your contribution to that list. Big words will also include phrases, phrases. Phrases like ‘depravity of man’, or ‘quenching the Spirit’, or ‘breaking of bread’. So we're going to take some of those phrases, break them down and say, okay, this is what it means. This is the passage of Scripture it comes from. This is what we need to know about it. Should we do something about it? Should we not do something about it? I hope everything ends with a little bit of a devotional to you, helping you, strengthening you, encouraging you. So the first two words we're going to look at today are Anointing and Indwelling.

The reason I'm taking these two words together is because they are often confused with each other. They're often, you know, used and abused, they'reused and abused. Anointing and indwelling.

Anointing. Anointing signifies being chosen, empowered, set apart by God, typically through the Holy Spirit. Let's do that again. Anointing simply signifies being chosen. He is anointed, the Lord anointed him, he is chosen, empowered or set apart by God, typically through the Holy Spirit. Always in conjunction with the Holy Spirit. Indwelling. Indwelling refers to the Holy Spirit coming onto the believer. Like the Shekinah Glory came down on the temple back in the day when they prayed and the Shekinah Glory came down on the temple and the Lord lived with them, his people. The Holy Spirit now descends on the believer and lives in the believer. And we'll look at that a little bit more. So indwelling refers to the Holy Spirit living inside the believer, bringing transformation, bringing guidance, giving empowerment.

Let's look at some scriptures on anointing. Let's look at some scriptures on indwelling, and then we'll take it forward. Let's look at anointing.

What a word, man. It's used all over the place. Used and abused. Indwelling, not so much. But anointing has been used and abused. And, I submit to you, more abused than used. So take this very seriously and try to understand what the word of God says about anointing. Anointing is the empowering of the Holy Spirit by his very presence. Before I get into why, I want you to get what it is.

It is the Holy Spirit coming down on a person. It's the Holy Spirit coming down on the person to help and enable that person to fulfil a task, a purpose, a responsibility. So far, so good? It’s when the Holy Spirit comes on a person to help that person fulfil a task or a mission or a responsibility that God has chosen that person to do. Everyone is not anointed. Some people are anointed, and it's usually connected with kings, prophets, priests, pastors, etc. So we'll get into that a little later.

1 Samuel chapter 16, verse 13: Then Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the midst of his brothers and the Spirit of the Lord came down. So it wasn't the oil, it was the Holy Spirit. Oftentimes the oil is symbolic of the Holy Spirit, but when the horn of oil anointed him and that prayer was prayed, the Holy Spirit came down upon David and was on David from that day forward. The Holy Spirit is the anointing. The anointing comes on a person for a task, for a mission, for a purpose, for a responsibility to enable, empower and strengthen that person to fulfil the will of God, or whatever he has been called to do. So anointing and the Holy Spirit go together. 

Number two, let's look at what anointing does. Anointing accompanies a ministry and a mission. Anointing always accompanies a ministry. It doesn't just come on somebody for the fun of it. Anointing always comes on a person for a ministry or a mission. Isaiah chapter 61 verse 1 is in the Old Testament. He says, The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me. Who's speaking? Because the Lord has anointed me to preach good tidings to the poor. Isaiah is saying upon me,but then Jesus quotes Isaiah in Luke chapter 4 verse 18 and says, The Spirit of the Lord is upon me because he has anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor, get it? Same verse, exact same words. Jesus is quoting Isaiah and Jesus applies it to himself. Anointing often accompanies a ministry or a mission.

Anointing, number three, gives you discernment. Anointing gives you discernment and it gives you insight. It gives you a deep ability to know what's of the devil, what's of God, what's of the devil, what's of God, what's not of God, what's of God. Anointing gives you discernment. Anointing gives you insight. You move into a realm that is way beyond the physical, the moods, the pains, the aches. You move into a realm where that leader, that king, that pastor, that evangelist is able to see what people cannot see, what the congregation cannot see, what the fold, the flock, cannot see. He's able to see beyond the fence. He's able to see what Satan is up to, what God is up to, and he's able to move in the Spirit. Another big phrase we need to talk about later. Anointing gives you that discernment and insight. 1 John chapter 2 verse 20: But you have the anointing from the Holy One, and you know all things.

Number four, anointing guides you into a deeper understanding of God's will and God's provision. Anointing takes you to a place where you realize how God works. With Moses, he made his ways known to Moses, and his acts to the children of Israel. He made his ways, how he works, known to Moses, but he made what he does known to the people of Israel. So there's a difference in how and what God reveals to the leader and how and what he reveals to the congregation. The congregation is not a democracy, it's a theocracy, and God is not going to deal with the crowd. He's going to deal with the leader. He's going to say, come, come with me. We'll wrap a cloud around us. We'll talk like a friend talks to a friend, and let me share what I'm doing, why I'm doing it, how I'm going to do it. He made his ways known to Moses, made his acts known to the children of Israel. And God gives the leader that deeper sense of what he's going to do and how he's going to bring it about. The fact that he can bring it about is why some leaders show tremendous faith. They're able to trust God for massive big things and they're able to accomplish that. And you think, wow, he's so ‘anointed’.

You with me so far? Okay. If you're a little confused, that's good. That's a good place to be. Because if you are absolutely clear about everything I'm saying right now, I think you are geniuses. Number three, discernment and insight. 

Number four, deeper understanding of God's will and God's provision. 1 John 2, verse 27, not too far from 1 John 20: The anointing which you received from him abides in you, underline that, it abides in you, and you do not need anyone to teach you. Okay, so let's begin to dive in here. Let's begin to understand. While anointing is the Holy Spirit's presence on a king or a prophet or an apostle or a pastor or an evangelist, anointing is the Holy Spirit's presence on a person, indwelling is the Holy Spirit's presence in a person. Anointing is on for a task, mission, ministry. Indwelling is in for a fellowship, for an intimacy, for a life partnership. It is different. It is often overlapping. It is often enjoyed. It often helps you to enjoy the presence of God and intimacy with God. But there's a difference because of the purpose for which it is given. Anointing comes and goes. Indwelling comes and doesn't go. It will last until the Lord Jesus comes because the purpose is to set you apart as his own, and we'll talk about that in just a minute. Anointing what? Comes and goes. Give me an example of where the anointing came and stayed. David. Give me an example of where the anointing came and left. Saul—and the Spirit left him. And the Spirit left him.And David would sing in Psalms. He says, I've sinned, I've badly sinned, but don't take your spirit away from me because he didn't have indwelling like you, brother and sister. He didn't have the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. He had an anointing, and the Spirit of God was on him, and he got addicted. He got addicted. He said, I can't do this on my own. It's too easy. It's better with God.Everything is better with God. After God helping me, leading me, guiding me, empowering me, I don't want to do this on my own. Who wants to lead this bunch of people on their own? I want, I need you, Lord, do not leave me. Take not your Holy Spirit from me. Once again, anointing is the Holy Spirit's presence on, indwelling is the Holy Spirit's presence in. 

Caution. Let's throw out a caution here.

The anointing is himself the Holy Spirit. With me? The anointing is himself the Holy Spirit. The anointing is not a what, it's a who. And the anointing is the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is the anointing. So when you say a person is anointed, you're not saying that God has imparted something to the person.You're saying God is with that person. Oh, look at that, that servant of God. He is so anointed. What you mean is that God is with that person. And the caution is to not separate anointing from the Holy Spirit himself. It is the presence, the power, the wisdom, and the partnership of the Holy Spirit. It is not a power or an unction apart from him that he gives and disappears. He accompanies the written word. He illuminates the believer to the truths of Christ. He enables the believer to bring glory to Christ through the active use of his gifts and service and witness. And I'm just passing through this because we are going to look at what the Holy Spirit does and how to live in the power of the Holy Spirit and how to pray in the Holy Spirit and pray by the power of the Holy Spirit. We're going to look at that as separate themes and we'll look at and learn that separately. So I'm not touching too deeply on that. Today, I just want the two words and get clarity there. He enables the believers to bring glory to Christ through the active use of their gifts in service and witness. One last thing. Even the indwelling of the Holy Spirit is sometimes referred to as the anointing. Sometimes you will say, oh, all believers are anointed. What they mean is indwelling. So that's where it gets a little confusing. So the differentiation is in the use and the purpose rather than in the very meaning of the English words, anointing and indwelling. The difference is not in the meaning of the word, it's in the usage of the word and how it is applied. And therefore you could also misuse it. If you can use it, you can also misuse it and abuse it. So it has been. 

Let's look at some scriptures about indwelling. So far, everybody clear on anointing? All right, indwelling.

The Holy Spirit indwells a believer for Adamic fellowship with Christ for life. What do I mean by that? It means that when God started out with Adam, he was perfect, he was sinless, he was made for company with God. He was made for fellowship with God. And every day in the cool of the day, God would come. I think it was around four o'clock, chai time. He would come down and he would walk with him in the cool of the day. He would walk and they would talk. And if he walked, he was also walking. So there was a form to Christ. So this is the pre-incarnate Christ. And he would walk with Adam and there was a fellowship.There was an interaction, there was communication. There was such a depth of friendship that when Adam sinned and went and hid in the bush, God came looking for him and said, Adam, it’s 4, where are you? Because it was a thing we did. It is a thing that God and Adam did. So when I use the frame Adamic fellowship, I mean for that oneness with God and that fellowship and friendship with God that Adam had before the fall. The Holy Spirit indwells a believer so that you can have the same fellowship and walk and talk with God every single day. Every day. When did Adam get it? Every day at 4. When do you have it? Every day? All the time.

John chapter 14, verses 16 and 17: He will give you another helper, the spirit of truth. He will give you another helper. And you know him for he dwells with you and he will be, circle, in you. He will be with you and in you. That's a height, that's a depth, that's a joy of intimate walk with God for the remainder of your life. When your spouse is upset with you, when your children leave and go away from home, when life gets difficult, when you're walking through dark valleys, when you don't know where you're going, when you don't know what the next steps are, when you're struggling with hurt, pain and difficulty, when you're battling sickness, when you're challenging cancer, when you're going through the hardest of times, the Holy Spirit is in you, he is with you to carry you through and maintain the walk in relationship with God so that you may learn about him, learn about God through even the darkest times so that he may be with you. God didn't give you the spirit of him so that you can be with him. I want you, Covenant Life members, to understand the heart of God. God has been constantly wanting to be with you. God is the one looking for relationship with you. God is the one who loves you and can't wait a minute to be with you.With Adam, he was there every day. When one day didn't work, he said, Adam, where are you? Then God went and made a sacrifice and made it possible to cover his shame so that he may be with him. Then God sent the Lord Jesus so that they may bring many sons to glory, bring people back to the father so that the Holy Spirit can come and dwell with them. He says, I'm going away, but I'm going to send the Holy Spirit to be with you until I come. I'm not leaving you,I'm sending the Holy Spirit to be with you. Then I come, I will take you to be with me, all so that the Father can have you with him. Everything God does, he does because he wants you. This is not about your faith and your journey and your hunger for God and we are dead in our trespasses, we do not want God, no one hungers after God, no one seeks God, especially in these last days. It is God who wants you, it is God who yearns for you, it is God who desires for you, it is God who does what he does, sacrifices so that he can be with you. Even the Spirit of God has been given you so that he can be with you. So you stop and ask, Lord, why do you want to be with me so much? Actually, I'm quite boring. Actually, I'm quite messed up. Actually, I'm quite busy. Actually, I'm not so interested. Actually, I'm quite dead to you. Lord, why do you want to be? And if you want to be with me so much, Lord, what are you willing to do to bring me to life so that I might really enjoy this? Because I want to enjoy this. For the effort you've made, for the times you've tried, for all that you're doing to be with me, Lord, I want to want it as bad. Lord, I want to want it as bad. The tragedy of today's believers, the church's faith today, it's not what God is doing or not doing, it's the fact that there is no hunger in the heart of the believer for the presence and the purposes of God and for the people of God. That is the tragedy of today's church. We are okay with empty seats. We are okay with days of no reading of the word, days of no fellowship with God. We are okay because we are consumed with the everyday tasks of life. We are okay with anger. We are okay with resentment. We're okay with racism. We're okay with hatred. We're okay with mild because we can justify just about anything. We're okay with sin. But the Holy Spirit has been given to us so that he may be with you. I don't know if that means something to you. It should. He will give you another helper, the spirit of truth. You know him for he dwells with you and he will be in you. 

Two, the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. The indwelling of the Holy Spirit is proof that you are in Christ and that you belong to him. He's the stamp. He's the mark that you belong to him. How do you know a person is a believer? He has the Holy Spirit. How do you know a person has the Holy Spirit? Because he has believed. The indwelling of the Holy Spirit is proof that you are in Christ. Romans chapter 8 verse 9: If indeed the spirit of God dwells in you, if indeed the spirit of God dwells in you, now if anyone does not have the spirit of Christ, he is not his. That's how you know a genuine believer. That's how you know a genuine Christian. You could be going to church all your life. Your whole family could be, quote unquote, Christian. You can put Christian on your certificate, on your birth certificate. You can do what you like. But until the Holy Spirit comes in and dwells in you and gives you a hunger for the presence, the glory of God and a desire to be part of his body and gifts to be able to serve, you are not a believer. Or a believer, rather, is someone who has the Holy Spirit. The indwelling of the Holy Spirit is a sign that you are his.

Number three, the indwelling of the Holy Spirit regenerates a life in a believer. Remember, I'm not teaching on these matters. I'm just going through the verses of scripture that refer to what he does so that we contrast anointing from indwelling. Number three, the indwelling of the Holy Spirit regenerates life in a believer. So if you are dead in your trespasses and sins, God has made you alive in Ephesians chapter 2 , and the life that he gives you, the life you now live, is the life of Jesus. So the Holy Spirit comes into you and regenerates the life of Jesus in you. Now, if the life of Jesus is going to be regenerated in you, what do you think is going to come out? You're going to see the character of God. You're going to see the power of God. You're going to see the wisdom of God. And you're definitely going to see the fruit of the spirit. So you don't do it. You don't pick it out, bring it out. I have to be more loving. I have to be more loving. I have to be more patient. No, you're not to be anything. It's the spirit of God that does that in you. And that's the point I've been trying to make last few weeks.The indwelling of the Holy Spirit regenerates life in a believer. If the spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, if he does, he's going to bring about the resurrection of Christ in you too. 

Number four, the indwelling of the Holy Spirit transforms the believer's body and mind into a temple of praise. 1 Corinthians chapter 3, verse 16. Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the spirit of God does what? Dwells in you. So what does the Holy Spirit do to you? He comes in, he cleans up the mess. And instead of making it a house for rent, instead of making an extension or starting a restaurant, he makes it a temple of praise. So that all day, all day, worship and praise go up from this temple to the holiest of holies. All day, there is worship going up. So you're thinking, oh, Sunday morning worship. You're thinking singing. You're thinking dancing. You're thinking, no, no, no. The worship is that sacrifice, constant sacrificing of the will of the self so that God may be glorified, so that God may be glorified and we become a temple. And how much worship should be happening in a temple? How long should worship be happening in a temple? 24/7. All the time, worship should be happening in the temple. 

Number five, the indwelling of the Holy Spirit releases, releases, the character and strength of Christ's life in every believer. So when the Holy Spirit lives in you, you don't have to try. You have to stay close to him, and he releases every day new morning mercies, every day the life of Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. Galatians chapter 2, verse 20. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives. Ephesians chapter 3, verse 16 and 17. That he would what? Grant you. That he would what? Grant you to be strengthened with might. Underline strengthened, underline might. How? Through his spirit anointing, through his spirit indwelling in the inner man deep inside you so that what? Say it with me. Christ will dwell in your hearts through faith. So the ultimate goal is that Jesus shines through you. The ultimate goal is that Jesus' love, Jesus' power, Jesus' person comes emanating through you, shining through the cracks of this jar of clay, so to speak, that he would grant you to be strengthened with might.

The Christian life is a powerful life. It's not a weak life. It's a powerful life. It's empowered by the person of God, by the presence of God. The purpose of anointing, the purpose of indwelling, the purpose of anointing is to empower and enable kings and prophets and apostles and pastors and evangelists to lead, to preach, to cast vision, to trust God for big things, to shepherd God's people. That's the purpose of anointing. Anointing comes on, but this word is used and has been abused a lot. It has been abused a lot. Which word? Anointed, anointing. It gets thrown around a lot. It is often confused with giftedness, with giftedness, with personality, with elocution. What a speaker, what a speaker.He's so… ‘anointed’, oh, look at that pastor, look at that servant of God, what giftedness. He's got so many gifts, he's such giftedness. He is so ‘anointed’—wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong.

You can have a guy who has five gifts and is anointed, and you can have a guy who has five gifts and is not anointed, and he might do better than that guy, especially on social media. Gifting is not anointing. Personality is not anointing.Elocution is not anointing. You can get that from Mount Carmel School, no?Elocution doesn't change a life. So there's abuse of the word by misplacing it or misunderstanding other things with it. Or it's not a person, it could be a place. Oh, this place is so anointed. As I walked in, I felt the presence of God. As I walked in, I felt, I just felt the presence of God. The chairs were blue, I felt… A meeting or a worship experience, did you feel it? Did you feel it? Like some earthquake is only 4.6. Did you feel it? Did you feel the anointing? Did you feel it? Lies, lies. A meeting is not anointed, a worship experience is not anointed, church service is not anointed. Something that is said, oh, you heard what he said? You heard that sentence? He said, oh, that was so… rubbish. Rubbish. You can quote me on it also, no problem. I'm ready to face whatever flack is going to come my way after this sermon. I'm ready. Even if I'm the only one standing all alone, I'm ready because it's the truth. 

Let me tell you one more way it's abused. Have you ever heard anybody say, I feel the anointing? Brother, the anointing is the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is God. If you felt God… the scripture says, no one has seen God and lived. The scripture says, when the Spirit of God appeared to Isaiah, to David, to Joshua, they fell on their faces forward as if dead. Words couldn't come out of their mouth. God had to raise them up and trembling, they got up in the presence of God and they could barely speak. Which way did they fall? Which way did they fall? Forward. Every single person who encountered the Holy Spirit in the presence of God in the Bible, Genesis to maps… fell forward. Do you remember times when people felt backwards? Peter cut off his ear, the soldiers came forward, the soldiers challenged Jesus, Jesus said something and everyone fell backwards. When you fall backwards it’s judgement. When you fall forwards, it is worship. Search the scriptures, challenge me. 

The purpose of anointing is to empower, the abuse of that word is giftedness, personality, elocution, ‘I feel the anointing’, you’re not supposed to feel the anointing, nobody ever felt the anointing. Much later, you may feel the results in terms of fruit, power, joy, function, you may feel the anointing that God did bring about in your life and that lives would change, fantastic—but you will not feel it in the moment. If you feel it, it is physiological, emotional, mental, and you’re not supposed to feel it because he is the Spirit, and those who worship him must worship him in Spirit and in truth. 

What is the purpose of indwelling? The purpose of indwelling is to mark and seal, mark and seal believers as forgiven and heaven-bound. Put that down. Put that down in your head. The purpose of indwelling is to put the Holy Spirit in you as a mark and seal that you are what? Two things. Number one, say I am forgiven and say I am heaven-bound. The Holy Spirit is living in you to mark you among eight billion people to mark you as one who is, number 1, forgiven,and number 2, heaven-bound. You're not getting this. You're not repeating after me. The Holy Spirit has been given to you to live in you till Jesus comes to mark you as two things. Number 1, forgiven, and number 2, heaven-bound. He's living in you because you are forgiven. He's living in you because you are heaven-bound. And what should that do for you if God Almighty comes to live in you and be with you and be in you? The first thing it should radically alter is your prayer life. If he lives with me, I might as well talk to him.

Abuse. Let's talk abuse. The believer often takes it for granted that the Holy Spirit lives in him. Often the believer lets sin flourish while expecting the Holy Spirit to keep teaching, keep empowering, keep correcting, keep encouraging. You want to live in sin but come to service and enjoy a powerful time of worship. Enjoy a lovely sermon while nothing back in your life changes. Often a believer leans on the promise that his gifts and callings of God are not without recall or without being taken back, that God doesn't ever give and take it back. So he says, God's never going to take it back. He's promised. So you take it for granted. Often a believer ignores the ongoing conviction, the ongoing conviction, the prompting of the Holy Spirit, get out of that relationship. Get out of that relationship. Stop that. Stop that habit. This is getting to you. This is taking you far from the Lord. This is ruining your life. This is ruining your prayer life. This is ruining your fellowship. This is ruining your witness. The Holy Spirit, then he stops, stops, slowly backs off, slowly backs off, and that's called being quenched in the Spirit. There's a whole sermon coming on that. But often a believer ignores over a period of time what the Holy Spirit is doing, and soon the Holy Spirit ceases to do it. And you are now living in broken fellowship with somebody in the house. It's like a bad marriage. 

Let's conclude. So what should you focus on? 21st century, 2025, what should you focus on? Anointing or indwelling? I tell you, don't worry about anointing because God gives anointing. God takes anointing. He gives it to kings, to prophets, to apostles, to pastors, leaders for the sake of the ministry, for the sake of global commission. Forget that. That's the calling and power of God on leaders and shepherds to nurture the flock. You and I, let's be concerned with and take advantage of, you and I, let's be concerned with and take advantage of indwelling because God the Father has sent the Holy Spirit to live in you. He is with you, and He is in you. He is with you, and He is in you. He is with you, and He is in you. That should radically alter your spiritual life. That means you don't need youth group. You don't need any great authors. You don't need a pastor. You don't need church. You don't need anything to be right with God, to walk with God, to enjoy a 100 percent amazing relationship with God. And after you're enjoying that, you come to church, and you bring all of that blessing to be with other people who are also enjoying that in private fellowship. Okay? When you ignore the Holy Spirit, you ignore walking with the Spirit of God in your private world, in your private life, prayer is khatam. Bible reading is khatam. Fellowship is khatam. You are not seeing things, feeling things, nothing from the Holy Spirit anymore. You have ceased to be in fellowship with the Spirit of God. You will then turn your appetite and your demands on pastor, on church, on church members, on service, on worship. You know what? The worship is not good. Worship doesn't touch me. It doesn't touch me. It's not getting through to me. The worship is… I don't get it. I don't know what message is given. I don't get anything. I don't understand what… You're not fooling anybody. When people talk like that, I just stand there with my hands in my pocket, and I just smile because I know you're not walking with God. So nothing I do is going to make it okay. I'm struggling with my walk with God on my own. I have my own challenges. Nothing I can do will fix you until you yourself get right with God, who has given you himself to be with you and in you. If that doesn't work, I could put on the best show here and nothing is going to matter. Indwelling, the great advantage of indwelling is that he is with you and he is in you. Wow. He's come to dwell with you, come to dwell with you. The Holy Spirit individually with the believer forever. He's closer to you than anyone else. He knows your thoughts, hurts, hangups and habits. He has wisdom and counsel for your circumstances. He knows what you're going through. He goes to work with you. He goes to the valleys with you. He knows the mind of God, and he reveals that. He knows your weaknesses, and he can enable you, strengthen you, empower you. He knows your heart's desires, and he can pray your heart's desires to God on your behalf. He can lead you when no one else is there to tell you where to go. He bears the fruit of love, joy, peace, patience, long-suffering goodness, faith, gentleness, self-control in you, through you. He bears that fruit. It's the fruit of the Spirit. He gives you the life of Jesus Christ, so that you may no longer live for yourself, but live for him who loved you and gave himself for you. He gives you hunger for the Word. The Holy Spirit gives you hunger for the Word. If you don't have a hunger for the Word, the Holy Spirit is not giving it to you. Why? That's another sermon.

He gives you desire for people. The hardest people to love are other believers. They are weird. Believers are weird. I don't want to be with believers. I am much more comfortable with unbelievers. They are so nonjudgmental. Of course they are. They don't know the standards. Where do I get a desire to want to be with believers, to pray with other believers, to hang with other believers? The Holy Spirit gives it to me. Why is he not giving it to me? Another sermon.Last but not least, the Holy Spirit gives you a deep devotion for the glory of God, that devotion that God must have the glory. God must have the glory. In all things, he must have the glory. He must increase. I must decrease.

May Jesus be found in me. May his righteousness be found in me. May he get all the glory from my life. May every breath of mine be a worship. Let every breath within me praise him. That comes from the Holy Spirit in you. So let's take advantage of indwelling, that he has come to live in you and be with you. And let that radically alter the way you live, the way you pray, the way you love, the way you serve.