Elijah Ministries

Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends.

– 1 Corinthians 13:4-8

This love is “agape” or God’s love and it is unconditional. Try replacing the word “love” with “Jesus” in the above verse, it will still make perfect sense. The goal is one day you too should be able to put your name instead of the word love and it will ring true. That is the power of the Fruits of the Holy Spirit developing in your life.

God’s love is divine, it is the ability to love your enemies, it is the ability to love those who hate you and want to destroy you. God even loves thankless and unrepentant people. As this fruit manifests in your life, you too will be able to love sinners, oppressors and the most difficult people in spite of everything they say and do.

Galatians 5:16
Let the Holy Spirit guide your lives. Then you won’t be doing what your sinful nature craves.
If you don’t sense a specific call on your life right now, you still have the call to simply follow Jesus, obeying him wherever you are right now. You have been called to do everything you do every day—even the mundane tasks—to the glory of God, letting the Holy Spirit guide, trying to steer clear of sin, and loving your neighbors as yourself.

Ecclesiastes 11:9
Do everything you want to do; take it all in. But remember that you must give an account to God for everything you do.
God gives you the freedom to follow many different roads over the course of life and pursue many different activities, but remember that you will have to answer to him for everything you do. Not everything you do is a call from God, but everything you do is accountable to God.

The Holy Spirit is a seal put over you by Jesus himself. This can have many meanings, it means that you now belong to God and he has given you His own Spirit as a guarantee till he comes back and claims you as his own. It also means you are eligible to receive your inheritance in Christ and all the promises of God in the Bible can be claimed by you.

In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it, to the praise of his glory.
-Ephesians 1:13-14

The Apostle Paul was saying to the Christians, “God has great things in store for you. He has taken you out of this sinful world. He has claimed you for Himself. You are His forever. Life’s journey is not yet over. But, even in this life, God wants you to know that he will never give you up. Even if you appear at times to be submerged under the mud and the filth of this wicked world, remember that God has identified you as His own. He has sealed you with His Holy Spirit. He has marked you out as one of His. That also is His pledge that He has committed Himself to preserve you and care for you until He takes you to your final destiny, glory with Christ in heaven. The presence of the Holy Spirit within you now is the present proof of what God is going to do in the future. He has left nothing in doubt”.

God has promised eternal life to all who believe in Christ, and as a guarantee that He will keep His promise, He has sent the Holy Spirit to indwell the believer until the day of redemption. Similar to making a down payment on a car or a house, God has made a down payment on you, and your future relationship with Him by sending the Holy Spirit to indwell you

You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him.
-Romans 8:9

Many people do not realise this but unless you are sealed with the Holy Spirit the Bible says you are not a Christian or a Child of God yet.