WHAT DO YOU DO WHEN YOU DON’T FEEL THE WARM & FUZZIES FROM THE HOLY SPIRIT?

John 14:16-17 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate, who will never leave you. 17 He is the Holy Spirit, who leads into all truth. The world cannot receive him, because it isn’t looking for him and doesn’t recognize him. But you know him, because he lives with you now and later will be in you.

GLORY BE TO GOD – How wonderful that HE sent the Holy Spirit to be with us always!

So, you are going along your Christian walk, loving God, serving others, praying, and hearing within your spirit, and then suddenly it happens – the ‘warm and fuzzies’ of the Holy Spirit disappear and you think you’ve been abandoned. You no longer feel, hear, or are emotionally aware of the Holy Spirit. I don’t know why this happens, but it does happen, and it’s at these times that we get discouraged.

However, if we believe by faith that we are saved through Jesus and that we are going to spend eternity with Him, even though we have never seen him, we must also believe by faith the Holy Spirit dwells inside of us whether or not we feel Him.

2 Corinthians 5:7 For we live by believing and not by seeing.

Romans 1:17 This Good News tells us how God makes us right in his sight. This is accomplished from start to finish by faith. As the Scriptures say, “It is through faith that a righteous person has life.

Hebrews 10:38 And my righteous ones will live by faith. But I will take no pleasure in anyone who turns away.

Perhaps when we don’t feel the Holy Spirit, is a time of growth!

Sometimes we believe that our faith grows only by enduring trying times of sorts, but have we ever considered that when the Holy Spirit is quiet is also a time to grow in faith?

James 1:3 For you know that when your faith is tested, your endurance has a chance to grow