Fill ‘er up
Ephesians 5: 18
[B]e filled with the Spirit.
God does not only want you to have a little bit of His Spirit, He wants you to be full to overflowing. Well, that is His nature after all, isn’t it? In everything He does He likes to fill us and more so that our every need is met with plenty left over for others. He never leaves the smallest portion of us unfilled or unfulfilled.
After promising the Holy Spirit for many years, it is not a surprise to me that He wants to completely fill us with this promise. There is no part of us that God, our Father, does not want to inhabit with us. He wants to be a part of everything that is important to you, but He also wants to participate in all of the small things of life with you. To Him, they are all important because they are all a part of you and your life. That is why He wants to fill you to the utmost with Himself. And that is what His Spirit is, His inner being, and He wants to share that most intimate part of Himself with you. God is not a small God and He does not do things in a small way. He gives you His best and He gives you all you can hold and a bit more so that you will have some to share with others. It is God’s intention that you be filled with the Holy Spirit. Make it your ambition to be filled with His Holy Spirit until He, the Holy Spirit, bubbles out of you in your abundance.
For he will be great in the sight of the Lord and … he will be filled with the Holy Spirit, while yet in his mother’s womb. Luke 1: 15
Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit. Luke 1: 41
And his father Zacharias was filled with the Holy Spirit. Luke 1: 67
And Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan. Luke 4: 1
And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit. Acts 2: 4
Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit …. Acts 4: 8
And when they had prayed the place where they had gathered together was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit. Acts 4: 31
But select from among you, brethren, seven men of good reputation, full of the Spirit and of wisdom, whom we may put in charge of this task. Acts 7: 3
And the statement found approval with the whole congregation; and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit. Acts 6: 5
But being full of the Holy Spirit …. Acts 7: 55
[F]or he was a good man, and full of the Holy Spirit and of faith. Acts 11: 24
But Saul who was also known as Paul, filled with the Holy Spirit, fixed his gaze upon him. Acts 13: 9
And the disciples were continually filled with joy and with the Holy Spirit. Acts 13: 32
