You are God’s Holy temple! – Samuel Dhinakaran
“Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in your midst?.” (1 Corinthians 3:16)
God’s temple in the olden days was a massive building and people who came experienced the glory of God. When they came in they experienced something marvellous. They might have come with worries and fears but God’s presence removes all of that from their hearts. They get transformed. That is the experience we need to have in us as we are God’s temple. The great glory of God is within us all the time through His Holy Spirit. God’s Spirit brings His mighty presence within us. When you accepted the Lord, He came into your heart as the Holy Spirit. He dwells within you but when you receive His anointing you will receive power to be mighty witness for Him.
In the Old Testament we read about Samson. God’s spirit came upon him and he did mighty things and delivered his people from their enemies. It came upon David and he too had great victories. It came upon Solomon and he was filled with extraordinary wisdom and he ruled the nation with the best economic status. It came upon Peter and the disciples and they went out with power and did ministry and operated on the miracle working power of God. That is what God gives to us who are His temple. He makes us His powerful instruments. That is how God wants us to live my friends! From today, God will do that for you. He will fill you with His spirit and have His being in you.
In the olden days very few people were filled with the anointing of the Holy Spirit. Very few people who were anointed received power but in our days God promises that He will fill everyone with His Spirit. ‘In the last days, God says, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams’ (Acts 2:17). So you too can receive His anointing. All you need to do is ask. For the Lord says, “If you then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!” (Luke 11:13). When the Holy Spirit comes into you, you will be full of God’s presence and power. But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth (Acts 1:8). So wait on the Lord for the anointing and the gifts.
Prayer:
Loving Father!
Thank You for Your Holy Spirit who is inside of me. Thank You for choosing to dwell in me. Thank You for making me Your Holy Temple. Fill me also with Your anointing. Let me be filled with power so that I too can be a mighty testimony for You. Anoint me. Bless me with the gifts of the Holy Spirit. Let Your Holy presence dwell in me in a mighty way.
In Jesus name I pray, Amen.