How To Let The Holy Spirit Take You Deeper

One of the primary factors that distinguishes you from the world is love—love for Jesus, your fellow believers, your neighbor, and even your enemies. It's an undeniable marker. In the scriptures, these qualities are referred to as fruits. The exclusive route to foster a closer bond with the Father is by permitting the Holy Spirit to cultivate within you a spirit of prayer and love. The Son's love accomplished salvation, the Father's love paved the way for redemption, and the love instilled by the Holy Spirit is what yields the fruits essential for a deeper journey.

This theme resonates throughout the scriptures, finding a powerful expression in Paul's letter to the Colossians. In this epistle, he underscores the importance of continual prayer for one another and serves as a reminder of the profound love embodied by Jesus. Here is a snippet from Colossians 1:9-14 (NKJV):

9 For this reason we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; 10 that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing Him, being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God; 11 strengthened with all might, according to His glorious power, for all patience and longsuffering with joy; 12 giving thanks to the Father who has qualified us to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in the light. 13 He has delivered us from the power of darkness and [c]conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love, 14 in whom we have redemption [d]through His blood, the forgiveness of sins.