Most people would consider setting aside their desires and feelings in order to serve someone else to be a sacrifice. I disagree. I would call that true love. Sacrifices are often made reluctantly or with regret, but true love is given freely from the heart. True love is supernatural. It is given by the Spirit of God.

People today need to see and interact with Spirit-led people. Will you be someone who shows them the presence and reality God’s Spirit? Let the Holy Spirit free so He can do whatever He wants to in and through your life. (1 Thessalonians 5:19)

To allow “a Holy Spirit–inspired disposition of the heart” to motivate and direct you into obedient action is to be led by the Spirit. Christ-followers are called to learn to truly trust in, rely on, surrender to, and obey the workings and leadings of the Holy Spirit within us. (Romans 8:14) That’s how we begin to seek first the kingdom (the interior government) of God. (Matthew 6:33)

Refuse to deny or ignore the inner promptings of the Holy Spirit. Discern them, (1 Corinthians 12:7-10) recognize them, and dare to continually put them into action. (James 1:22) The way to grow in Christ is to go about sowing and doing what God the Holy Spirit teaches and directs you to do. (John 14:26) If your life isn’t frequently producing, manifesting, and demonstrating the fruit of the Spirit, then you aren’t being very well led by the Spirit of God. (Galatians 5:22-23)

To call “the deep wellsprings of Christ in us” “subjective” is to deny that He is God. If the Holy Spirit is God, then nothing that He says or does within you is “subjective.”

Your subjective desires that the Bible calls “the flesh” (Galatians 5:16-18) work against the Holy Spirit. To be led by the Spirit we have to continually deny ourselves, take up our cross daily, and follow the living Jesus. (Luke 9:23)

Love proclaimed with words or speech is not the same as love demonstrated with heart-felt actions that are truly (and objectively) inspired and empowered by God the Holy Spirit. Instead of trying to force yourself to love, plug your heart into God’s supernatural love and let His Spirit flow unceasingly through you like a powerful electric current. (Acts 1:8) Then God’s love that you are personally experiencing within you will overflow like rivers of living water, (John 7:37-39) filling you and the people around you with shock and awe at the goodness and reality of God. (1 Corinthians 2:9-10)

Wherever you go and whatever you do, be sent out by the Holy Spirit. (Acts 13:4) “Then the Spirit said to Philip, ‘Go up and join this chariot.:” What is God the Holy Spirit saying to you?