When we pray we often pray to God the Father and Jesus, but we talk less to the Holy Spirit, except “Holy Spirit guide us”. Then sometime we feel like we have relationship with The Father and Jesus, but the Holy Spirit is a little bit “mysterious”…
Just to deepen our understanding about “personal relationship with God” : who is the Holy Spirit ?
Our relation with God the Father from whom we receive our “sonship” because of Jesus IS THE HOLY SPIRIT.
So if we understand and believe that-- in Jesus Name-- God is our Father , then we have the Holy Spirit in us.
We have personal relationship with God, if :
- we address God as Father
- in the NAME OF JESUS
The 2 points above IS THE HOLY SPIRIT.
This is to deepen our understanding about “personal relationship with God” as to how it is so-related to the Holy Sprit.
So when we pray, we address God as FAther in the Name of Jesus : because we receive sonship only in the name of Jesus. And because of this, we can address God as Father. This Father-son relationship we have because of Jesus : This INTIMATE RELATIONSHIP is the Holy Spirit .
So if we pray to the Father in Jesus Name, we pray in the Holy Spirit. The Lord’s prayer “Our Father in Heaven…” is the prayer of The Holy Spirit. We are praying the Holy Spirit prayer everytime we address God as Father.
This is the INTIMATE relationship with God : to know that God loves me, so that I call Him “Daddy” and I ask Him everything I need as if I were a little girl “adoring” her daddy as her “only hero”. I try to do whatever He asks me because He loves me so much : so I love Him too. It’s not like an adult’s love : bitter with disappointments, yet try to love, and end up loving bitterly. No! Instead, we love because He has loved me first! So only those who know His Love can truly love.
1 John 4:19
We love, because He first loved us.
The relationship is so intimate because of what Jesus has done for me in my life ----> Just like all relationship, our relationship with God grows according to our daily walk with Him. It requires a journey of faith to come to an intense intimate relationship.
God bless.