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The Devil`s deception on the indwelling of the Holy Spirit has been made naked by faith in the Gospel of Water and the Spirit:

  • Onyege Emmanuel
  • Uganda
  • 01/09/2024 1786

All people around the world who are in Christianity and are not born again of Water, blood and the Spirit are not clear in this topic on the indwelling owing to their ignorance of Salvation given by God.
Reverend Paul C Jong`s book on the Holy Spirit gave me a crystal clear way for one to have both the indwelling and the work of the Holy Spirit in His/her life.
Before becoming born again of Water and the Spirit, I trusted my mother so much for both my faith and spiritual growth, because she was among my leaders in the church. She taught us on how to judge whether one is elect or not. Her qualifier was mainly on dreams. She told us that if one doesn`t dream, it means he/she is dead in the spirit. But also we used not to be sure somehow because in our area there is a woman known of dreaming what in most cases comes to pass. But this woman was a Catholic and always found of stealing people`s chicken, goats and other things in the village. So that could give us some doubt at home but nevertheless, since this was strongly emphasized by all leaders, we had to agree to it but in confusion!
I lived a life of devotion more than my other siblings. Moving with my mother everywhere she could go for prayers, fastings, crusades, conferences whenever there was ability. Many people were wondering what kind of child I was, because they could see that God was with me. But i used to suffer a lot with demons tormenting me mostly in dreams and causing illnesses.
After growing up, I really desired the fullness of the holy Spirit but I couldn`t manage to speak in tongues. I desired a lot to speak in tongues and tried many times to learn how to do it, but it didn`t work out. But still I thought that I was an elect as I was told by my mother.
My second earnest desire was to be used mightily by God to perform miracles and wonders because this was considered to be concrete evidence that one possesses the Holy Spirit. So as taught by my leaders, I could everyday pray that God uses me in the future mightily. I Even vowed not to sleep with any woman as a sign of devotion such that I maintain the presence of God in me.
My life was really full of confusion concerning the Holy Spirit.
I tried keeping the law, occasion prayers and fasting, daily prayers of repentance, offering money to the power, doing the work of evangelism, thinking that these were the works of the Holy Spirit and I was seeking to excel in them. But this Holy Spirit, which could be extinguished with sin, could give me much suffering to maintain him.
But the truth is, I couldn`t get the indwelling of the Holy Spirit because I still had sins in my heart and I had not even heard teachings concerning sins in my heart. I wasn`t born again from my sins that`s why the Spirit of God couldn`t come and leave in me. 
 
 Acts 2:37-40 
 [37] Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, “Men and brethren, what shall we do?” 
 [38] Then Peter said to them, “Repent, and let every one of you be baptized in the name of *Jesus Christ for the remission of sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. 
 [39] For the promise is to you and to your children, and to all who are afar off, as many as the Lord our God will call.” A Vital Church Grows 
 [40] And with many other words he testified and exhorted them, saying, “Be saved from this perverse generation.” 

 *Ephesians 1:13-14 
 [13] In Him you also trusted, after you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation; in whom also, having believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, 
 [14] who is the guarantee of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, to the praise of His glory . Prayer for Spiritual Wisdom 

By reading Paul C Jong`s book on the Holy Spirit, I came to understand the above scriptures clearly. No one who is still a sinner can receive God`s Holy Spirit, Even if he/she climbs from earth to the sky or donates large sums of money or repents or performs wonders. The Holy Spirit is Holy, He only comes to hearts which have been freed from sin by believing in the baptism (which took away all our life long sins John1:29) and the death of Jesus Christ for our sins.

Onyege Emmanuel Uganda