Embracing Holy Spirit Together
So, how do we practically welcome Holy Spirit into our home. These are just a few ways that may help you and your family embrace His presence together:
- Ask Him to remind you of His presence.
- I get distracted easily, so sometimes I forget He is NEAR. Almost every day, I go on a long walk (our children are all grown). When I am walking around the lake at our nearby park, I get lost in my thoughts and realize that I have left God about 1/2 mile back! So, I just start talking to Him again, and I ask Him to remind me that He is there. James 4:8 New American Standard Bible, “Draw near to God and He will draw near to you.”
- Ask Him to interrupt your day.
- Especially when I had littles around me, I was so susceptible to distractions. So I would ask Holy Spirit to interrupt my day and give Him permission to bring me back into His presence in the midst of my busyness. As a young boy, King David was out in the field doing his shepherding, caring for sheep (mom’s we care for God’s little sheep!), worshipping God, and God interrupted his life. Speaking of David, we read in 1 Samuel 16:13, “Then Samuel took a horn of oil and anointed him in the midst of his brothers; and the Spirit of the Lord came mightily upon David from that day forward…”
- Ask Him to share His fruit with you.
- The Bible talks about the fruit of the Spirit. Before a tree produces fruit, it has to form the bud and then the blossom. Fruit takes time to grow, and so the fruit of the Spirit takes time to form in us. If I ran out of the fruit that God was forming in me, I prayed and asked Holy Spirit to share some of His fruit with me. Galatians 5: 22-23 “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control.”
- Ask Him to show you His New Mercies in your day.
- At the end of the day, we can take a moment to be quiet (maybe while nursing a baby) and ask God, “Where was Your mercy for me today?” Since His Mercies are new every morning, then we should be able to look back over our day and see His mercies on us. If we can’t think of anything, then we can thank Him for His merciful sacrifice to bring us into fellowship with Him. Lamentations 3:22-24, “The Lord’s lovingkindnesses indeed never cease. For His compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness.
These are just a few ways to foster His presence in your life and in your home.
Moms, let’s remember that
THERE ARE MANY PRACTICAL WAYS TO WELCOME HOLY SPIRIT INTO OUR LIVES AND OUR HOME.
In His Love,
Suzanne
Mom Morsels 