As we walk in Holiness, we must not impede The Holy Spirit from moving in any aspect of our walk!
I find it interesting how many churches do not emphasize the ministry of The Holy Spirit. Both Peter and Paul promoted the ministry of The Holy Spirit in their lives and ministries without exception.
Jesus spoke in John chapter 14:
15 “Loving Me empowers you to obey My commands.
16-17 And I will ask the Father and He will give you another Savior, the Holy Spirit of Truth, Who will be to you a friend just like me—and He will never leave you. The world won’t receive Him because they can’t see Him or know Him. But you know Him intimately because He remains with you and will live inside you.
Jesus ministered on earth for 3 ½ years and then commissioned you and me to carry the Gospel throughout the earth for the next 2,000 years, but He did not stop there. He knew that in order for us to walk in power and authority, we would need Spiritual guidance.
25 “These things I have spoken to you while being present with you.
26 But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, Whom the Father will send in My Name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you.
Jesus knew that the mind would lose Spiritual details over time, and He accounted for that as He promised The Holy Spirit Who would teach us all things and cause us to remember The Words Jesus spoke. The ministry of The Holy Spirit here on earth is equally important to that of FATHER to the children of Israel, as well as the earthly ministry of Jesus Christ. Why would we undervalue and limit His ministry when Jesus Himself emphasized His importance?
The ministry of The Holy Spirit should be without limitation or restriction! It is our choice of what level His Ministry is in our walk.
And Jesus reiterated in John chapter 15:
26 “And I will send you the Divine Encourager from the very Presence of My Father. He will come to you, the Spirit of Truth, emanating from the Father, and He will speak to you about Me.
27 And you will tell everyone the Truth about Me, for you have walked with Me from the start.”
And for the third time, Jesus speaks of the necessity for sending The Holy Spirit in John chapter 16:
5 But now that I’m about to leave you and go back to join the One Who sent Me, you need to be told. Yet, not one of you are asking Me where I’m going.
6 Instead your hearts are filled with sadness because I’ve told you these things.
7 But here’s the Truth: It’s to your advantage that I go away, for if I don’t go away The Holy Spirit (The Divine Encourager) will not be released to you. But after I depart, I will send Him to you.
8 And when He comes, He will expose sin and prove that the world is wrong about God’s righteousness and His judgments.
9 “ ‘Sin,’ because they refuse to believe in Who I am.
10 “God’s ‘righteousness,’ because I’m going back to join the Father and you’ll see Me no longer.
11 “And ‘judgment’ because the ruler of this dark world has already received his sentence.
Jesus mentioned specific areas included in the ministry of The Holy Spirit:
He will speak only Truth
He will glorify Jesus
He will convict the world of sin
He will convict the world to what GOD’S righteousness is
He will speak forth the Truth of GOD’S judgment
He will empower us to minister the above areas. There is no reason for us to restrain the ministry of The Holy Spirit in our walk. We ought to embrace every facet of The Holy Spirit in our own lives so that we can walk in the fullness of His power and authority toward others.
Our walk in Holiness will be impaired unless we fully embrace the ministry of The Holy Spirit!