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Holy Spirit Prayer

Using the word FELLOWSHIP as an acronym, this is a prayer of the heart to know Holy Spirit more intimately. The format is based on a prayer by Mike Bickle. The bible quotes are taken from The Passion Translation.

F– FEAR OF GOD

Holy Spirit of Truth, teach me more about You; how You work and how You move, so that I can walk around and walk onward in Your truth, until everything within me brings honor to Your name, and I become true and love the truth. (Ps. 86:11 TPT) Let me continue to gaze upon Your face until I see You for who You really are. As I discover what pleases You, “Then I will awaken with Your form and be fully satisfied.” (Ps. 17:15 TPT)

Grant me the angelic activity that accompanies all who fear You – that those ministering spirits would encircle me, empower me, and show me how to escape. (Ps. 34:7 TPT) Let me explore the grandeur of Your great love for all those who fear You. (103:11 TPT) your endless love that stretches from one eternity to the other, Unbroken and unrelenting toward those who fear You And those who bow face down in awe before You, O Lord! (Ps.103:17)

E – ENDURANCE

Holy Spirit, grant me endurance, especially in prayer. That I would be energized with all Your explosive power from the realm of Your magnificent glory. (Col. 1:11 TPT)  Fill me with Your great hope and joy, that I may run the race, that I may not grow weary, and that I may finish well. Let me endure hardships and persecution by the power of divine love.

Let my weakness lean fully on Your strength so I will not lose heart. When I am tempted to give up, carry me through with Your encouragement. Grant me Your vision of my life, so I will not fall short of the prize of the high calling. Be my stamina, be my endurance, be my resolve to never give up and never give in to the enemies of the cross. 

L- LIGHT OF GLORY

Holy Spirit, let me see the light of Your glory and encounter the glory realm. Let me encounter You in dreams, visions, angelic visitations, manifestations of light, fire, wind as You gave to Moses, Isaiah, Ezekiel and John. 

Let the light of Your glory illuminate my life and cause me to dream with You. Let me be a carrier of Your glory, and send me into the dark places of this world, so blind eyes can see and prisoners can be set free.

Flood me with the expectation of glory (Col. 1:27 TPT) in the earthly realms as Your kingdom advances in and through my life.

So illuminate my soul, that the outshining of Your glory from me, will heal the sick as it did through Peter. (Acts. 5:15)

Teach me how to function in the glory realm with You, to overcome darkness with light, to overcome evil with good, and to overcome fear with love.

L – LOVE

Holy Spirit, release Your influence over me to give me a profound revelation of Your love. Let me come to know You fully, as you impart to me the deepest spiritual understanding of Your ways. ( Phil. 1:9 TPT) Let Your love in me overcome all fear. Let Your love in me activate faith and bring it to perfection. (Gal. 5:6. TPT) Let Your love in me empower discernment, so that I see others through Your eyes of perfect love. 

Fill me with Your love more and more until it overflows, in love back to Jesus and to others. 

Let the same love that You have for Your Son be in me. (John 17: 26) Show me how to love the one You put in front of me every day.

O- ONE THING LIFE FOCUS

Holy Spirit, I choose to spend quality time with You and to cultivate and inward gaze toward You. Alert me when I lose this focus. 

Call my heart to attend to You, listen to You and learn from You. Show me how to make all  other demands for my attention wait their turn, as I put You ahead of everything.  Teach me how to order my life this way. 

Show me how to steward the hours You give me each day with You as my highest priority.  Help me schedule prolonged times alone with You, as well as carve out minutes of every hour just to briefly gaze at You.

Help me, O Helper, align my life circumstances so I can walk this out.  Anoint my times with You, that I may feel Your love and feel desire for You and for Your Word. 

W- COUNT ME WORTHY

(Faithfulness unto fullness)  Strengthen me, Divine Strengthener, to walk in such faithfulness that You consider me worthy to walk in my highest calling in this age and in the age to come. 

I need Your help to see and gain victory over the blind spots in my life. Help me in every area to acknowledge that I only see in part. And grant me the grace of humility to admit when I am wrong.

S- SPEECH

Holy Spirit, be the Guard over my mouth. (Ps. 141:3) Free me from defensive, angry and foolish speech. Heal the wounds in my heart, so that from it flows life and blessing. Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable to You. (Ps. 19:14) Let my words become beautiful gifts that encourage others by speaking words of grace to them. (Eph. 4:29 TPT)

Let Your word gifts of wisdom, knowledge, prophecy, tongues and interpretation of tongues (1 Cor. 12:6-10) be full in my life for Your glory, for the advancing of Your kingdom and for the common good. 

H – HUMILITY

Holy Spirit, I want to learn from You how to walk in lowliness.  I take Your easy yoke of humility and lowliness of heart (Matt. 11:29) on my life in my attitudes, speech and actions. Draw me always into Your attitudes, Your words and Your actions. 

May I qualify for the grace You give the humble, by humbling myself. And may I enjoy the companionship of being yoked with You.

Help me to have tender humility and quiet patience , always demonstrating gentleness and generous love toward others, especially toward those who may try my patience.  (Eph. 4:2)

I – INSIGHT INTO INTIMACY 

Holy Spirit, You are the intimacy of the Godhead. Lead me into deep intimacy with You and with the Word of God. Let me enjoy companionship with Your ways and Your will. 

Give me wisdom that I may intimately follow Your creative leadership. Let me partner together with You in every issue in my life, including finances, schedules, emotions, work, circumstances, health, and relationships.  Give me new ideas flowing from Your unlimited creativity so that my life reflects Your presence within me.

Lead me daily to the private place reserved for the lovers of God, where they sit near You and receive The revelation-secrets of Your promises.  (Ps. 25:14 TPT)

P- PEACE AND JOY

Holy Spirit, strengthen my heart with supernatural peace and joy that overpowers fears, anxiety, phobias and addictions.  Let Your wonderful peace that transcends human understanding be the answer to all my questions. Guide my heart with Your peace.

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Stillness

Stillness is not simply the quieting of sound or action, or even thought.  It is a yielding to love.  Words become inadequate and movement becomes unnecessary.

Stillness is not a mere momentary setting aside what occupies and distracts us.  Although that is a good beginning. It is a humble bow to the beauty of the Trinity, an inner gaze of love that human language cannot express.  Perhaps the deepest stillness begins with a gasp of awe. 

Silence is external. It is ceasing of sound. Stillness is not a ceasing, but a welcoming of mystery, like the earth welcomes the night. 

Be still and know that I am God. 

True stillness, is an unearned gift of God; a tender grace where our souls submerge into the ocean of His love. Like a mother soothing her infant with her heartbeat, we rest our souls into the One who created us, and are quieted by His faithfulness.  Striving, restlessness, the sense of urgency and duty – these all become muted and muffled.  The external noises are the clamor of human need all around us and the urgency of worldly crisis and chaos.

But even a moment of stillness can reorient our soul like a compass.  Shoulders lower, hands open. Eyes close. Breath deepens. And we shift from what we can do to who we are. This is the eternal calm that nourishes our innermost being. This is the place of union with the Holy Spirit. Fear does not speak here, shame cannot enter. Guilt has no influence. Anger has no fuel. Only love saturates this atmosphere of stillness. 

Stillness is the inner chamber of encounter, of intimate friendship with God. He waits for us to enter in. 

Be still and know that I am.

Be still and know

Be still. 

Be.

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Turn aside from all else. 

This is the secret of encountering Jesus. He is already fully with us. He could not be more with us. But this turning aside is our intentional, intense, singular gaze at Christ within. 

When precious Holy Spirit breathes on our weak hearts He carries us into the chamber awareness of God’s presence, and helps us recognize Christ in us. This is why He is called The Helper. We cannot do this without His great and loving help. Even if we are not hungry for Him, even if we are not filled with longing, even if our hearts feel cold, if we will simply ask, He will provide the fire from heaven. He always says yes to the feeblest cry for more.  

Like Moses in the desert, we turn aside to behold the mystery of the One who burns with fiery love. It was when Moses made this choice to turn aside, that God called out to him. This is our greatest experience, to hear His voice, to enjoy sweet communion with Him, to be completely preoccupied with His beauty. As we slip away from all other distractions and demands, He becomes our life’s  magnificent obsession.  When we say, “Come Lord,” it is not because He is not here. It is just a realization that He is here. And saying, ‘Come,” is giving a voice to our innermost longing and utmost welcome of His beautiful Person.

“For we come to God in faith knowing that he is real and that he rewards the faith of those who give all their passion and strength into seeking him.” Hebrews 11: 6

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The Awakened Spirit

As spirit beings, we exist in the eternal realm. We are housed inside a body on earth. This is the physical realm. We also have invisible human parts, such as our mind, our emotions, and our will. This is sometimes called “the soul”.

But who we truly are is made from love, and for love. We were breathed into existence by Yahweh, God who is love. And from our innermost being rivers of living water flow. (John 4:14)

But some spirit beings are asleep, unaware of eternal life. The body, the mind and emotions dominate their being. And spirit is inactive, or sometimes worse, interacting with the realm of darkness. The awakening of spirit comes through believing into Jesus, by the power of Holy Spirit. The human spirit being then becomes joined to Holy Spirit (1 Cor. 6:17) This is what it means to be alive! To truly live, and never die. Spirit beings are eternal entities. And although physical death may come, spirit does not die.

Spirit beings, who have been made alive by faith in Jesus, have capacities to open and to release, to see and to hear, to receive and to rest. These are basic spiritual functions. There is always a sense of purpose and freedom in spirit activities. We exist in the heavenly, eternal realm while also experiencing the physical, natural realm on earth.

But how do we function, how do we move in spirit capacities? Much of what believers are taught today is designed to improve or strengthen the human soul. This is not unholy. But it is my belief that as we strengthen and mature in spirit, soul is healed and made whole. Our beings come into proper order and alignment: awakened spirit beings, with thriving souls, housed in a physical body. When we are awakened spirit beings, rivers of living water flow from our innermost being. We hear the voice of Yahweh, and deepen in our perceptions of His beauty. We are filled with the glory of the Lord.

Some ancient rabbis taught that before the fall, spirit was external and visible, housing body and soul within. Since spirit is made in the image and likeness of Yahweh, this is a beautiful idea. Can you just see Adam, Eve and their loving Creator enjoying one another in spiritual joy and play?

This interpretation of life in the garden would explain why Adam and Eve experienced nakedness when they sinned. As spirit beings, they had only known life clothed in glory. But when spirit death came, physical dominance began.