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Christian Living

foreveryoung 02/04/10

I’ve Got Spirit! How About You?


Tonight’s the big game. Painted banners stream across the gym displaying the school colors. The drumlline starts to play. Cheerleaders dance and pom-poms fly into the air. Throughout the crowded bleachers students stamp their feet in rumbling rhythm to the band. The school mascot, dressed as a fuzzy golden lion, walks up to a microphone and calls out:

 

“I’ve got spirit! Yes, I do! I’ve got spirit, how about you?”

 

It’s a pep rally and it’s intended to get you pumped. But all of this excitement makes me wonder, do you have Spirit? I’m talking about the Spirit of God, who is able to take you beyond being seventeen and your high school gym auditorium successfully into your adult life in the future.

 

The Holy Spirit is the third Person of the Trinity: Father, Son and Holy Spirit. He is the power of the Godhead, who fills you with passion for life as a believer in Jesus. 

 

The Holy Spirit makes Jesus real to us. He enables us to understand the things of God. His role in our lives is so very important. Without the Holy Spirit, we can't even love God.

Romans 5:5 says, “God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom he has given us.”

The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of the Lord, and you can talk to Him just like you talk to your best friend. You can tell Him about the things that get to you. He will listen, and He cares.

Psalm 91:15-16 says, “He will call upon me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble, I will deliver him and honor him. With long life will I satisfy him and show him my salvation." 

Even schools realize the importance of building team spirit. By hosting pep rallies, they hope to cheer players with courage and stamina to make it through the game. Think about how much more you need the Holy Spirit to help you make it through the rest of your days.  

 

You can become sensitive to the things that matter to God. Why not begin a spirit-led life today?

 

It's never too early to be grounded and established in your faith as a Christian. Think of all the ways you might be inspired to help accomplish God's will for your generation. 

“We have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God” (1 Cor. 2:12).  

 

~ Jackie O. 


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