My Tagline is God the Holy Spirit

Daily writing prompt

If humans had taglines, what would yours be?

Here are some taglines about “participating in the work of the Holy Spirit” so that you can consistently live an encouraged life and daily encourage others:

I’ve never been content to hear a religious talk about Jesus. When I worship, I want to experience Christ’s presence and reality. (John 8:32)
Instead of trying to explain and understand God the Holy Spirit, begin to listen to and obey Him throughout each day. (John 15:26)
The most effective way to pray is to “pray in the Spirit.” (Ephesians 6:18)
Learning information about God should never replace listening to and obeying the Holy Spirit. (Romans 15:13)
God the Holy Spirit wants to pray from deep within you (Romans 8:31) and to flow out of your inner most being like rivers of living water. (John 7:38-39) Will you let Him?
If you have never allowed God the Holy Spirit to directly teach you, you don’t know what amazing insight and revelation you are missing out on. (John 14:26)
The more you focus on yourself and on what you want, the more you will be distracted from the presence and reality of the Holy Spirit. (Luke 9:23)
Wherever a strong awareness of the ongoing presence and power of the risen Jesus is rare, the Holy Spirit is being resisted and quenched. (John 16:14)
If you stay where the Holy Spirit is being quenched, you’ll soon begin to quench the Spirit in your own heart. (1 John 2:27)
Christians have two choices. We can either be led by the Spirit (Romans 8:14) or we can quench the Spirit. (1 Thessalonians 5:19)
It’s vital that Christians learn to “walk by the Spirit” and not by our own desires, feelings, and plans. (Galatians 5:16-17)
To be guided by the Holy Spirit you must cultivate an intense ongoing awareness of His presence and His voice and put His desires ahead of staying in your comfort zone. (John 16:13)
If you refuse to resist your human resistance to God the Holy Spirit, His miracles will seem like mere myths to you. (James 4:8)
Compromise, apathy, religious tradition, and spiritual paralysis are enemies of the Holy Spirit. (Mark 7:13)
God the Holy Spirit is a person. He is saddened whenever we grieve Him by ignoring the direct leadership of His presence and reality. (Ephesians 4:30)
When the Holy Spirit has been quenched in the church building, instead of seeking to surrender to His presence and direct leadership, we’ve taught ourselves to rely on our own religious programming. (Matthew 6:33)
To quench or ignore the Holy Spirit is to depart from New Testament Christianity. (Acts 1:8)
To refuse to allow the Holy Spirit to take direct leadership of a worship gathering is to trust in human control instead of God.
It’s time to free the Holy Spirit from the religious cages of human agendas and programs.
If you are in a Christian meeting and you sense that the Spirit is being quenched, be careful that you don’t let the fear of what other people think cause you to also quench the Spirit.
It’s very difficult to find a church service where the Holy Spirit is allowed to take direct control, but that doesn’t have to stop you from letting the Spirit take direct control of your life.
For too long the Holy Spirit has been the “persona non grata” in church services.
Churches, let the Holy Spirit take the stage. He has been hidden too long.

Religious routine
That overlooks
The reality
And presence of God
Who is unseen
Quenches His Spirit.

To insist
On having
Your own way
Is to resist
God’s Spirit.
(Acts 7:51)

“Since the days of Pentecost, has the whole church ever put aside every other work and waited upon Him for ten days, that the Spirit’s power might be manifested? We give too much attention to method and machinery and resources, and too little to the source of power.” –Hudson Taylor

“When one tries to increase his knowledge by doing mental gymnastics over books without waiting upon God and looking to the guidance of the Holy Spirit . . . this will deplete his spiritual life. Because the fall of man was occasioned by seeking knowledge, God uses the foolishness of the cross to destroy the wisdom of the wise.” –Watchman Nee

“If Christians are forbidden to enjoy the wine of the Spirit they will turn to the wine of the flesh . . . Christ died for our hearts and the Holy Spirit wants to come and satisfy them.” –A.W. Tozer

About Steve Simms

I like to look and think outside the box. In college I encountered Jesus Christ and I have been passionate about trying to get to know Him better ever since. My wife and I long to see the power and passion of the first Christ-followers come to life in our time. I have written a book about our experiences in non-traditional church, called, "Beyond Church: An Invitation To Experience The Lost Word Of The Bible--Ekklesia." If you need encouragement, search for: Elephants Encouraging The Room and/or check out my Amazon author page. Thank you!

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