There is a difference between knowing someone lives in your house and actually spending time with them. You could share an address with someone for 20 years and never once sit down and have a real conversation.
Never once stop long enough to hear what they are thinking.
Never once give them the space to show you what they know, what they see, what they carry.
They would be present technically but for all practical purposes absent from your daily experience and you would wonder quietly why the house feels so empty.
That is the condition of most believers in relation to the Holy Spirit.
They know He is there. They have the theology.
They can quote 1 Corinthians 3:16.
Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the spirit of God dwells in you?
They know it. They believe it.
They could defend it in a doctrinal discussion, but in the actual daily lived experience of their lives, the Holy Spirit is a theological fact they have accepted and a practical reality they have never entered.
He is present.
They are not communing.
And the gap between those two things is the gap between a Christianity that looks right on paper and one that actually works in life.
We identified this gap with surgical precision.
That the church as a whole is unfamiliar with the recreated spirit.
And what that unfamiliarity costs. It costs the believer the one thing that changes everything.
Not more information about God, not more activity for God, but actual real daily communion with the One who lives inside them, the indwelling One, the Holy Spirit, who is not waiting in heaven for you to pray hard enough to get HIS attention, who is not absent from your daily life, waiting to be invited in, who is already there, already active, already speaking, already carrying everything you need for every situation you will ever face.
He is waiting not to be invited but to be acknowledged, to be communed with, to be given the space to do in your daily experience what He has already done in your recreated spirit.
Friend, today we are going to show you exactly how to do that.
Not theory, not a list of spiritual disciplines to perform.
The actual practical daily practice of communing with the indwelling One that we discovered across both the hidden man of the heart and in His PRESENCE.
And by the time this teaching is finished, you will understand not just that the Holy Spirit lives in you, but how to actually be with HIM every single day.
Because the house is not empty. It has never been empty.
The One who took up residence in your recreated spirit at the new birth has never moved, has never grown distant, has never gone quiet.
The question has never been whether He is there.
The question is whether you have been present with HIM.
And starting today, that changes.
But before we get into the practice, I want to sit with the image of the house for one more moment because it captures something that most believers recognize immediately when they hear it.
Imagine moving into a new home and the owner of the home, someone of extraordinary wisdom, extraordinary knowledge, extraordinary love for you, moves in with you, not as a guest, but as a permanent resident.
They are there when you wake up.
They are there when you go to sleep.
They see every situation you face.
They know exactly what to do in every circumstance.
They carry the answer to every question you have ever asked.
And you spend your entire time in that house watching television, scrolling through your phone, talking to everyone except them, not because you do not believe they are there.
You know they are there.
You signed the agreement.
You accepted the arrangement.
You are grateful for it.
But you have never learned how to actually be with them.
That is the condition of most of the body of Christ in relation to the Holy Spirit and it is the condition you spent your life trying to address because the indwelling One is not a background presence.
He is not a theological footnote.
He is the most extraordinary companion any human being has ever been given.
And He is waiting right now inside you for the communion that was always the point.
Before we get to the practice, we need to settle something that most believers have never settled.
And until it is settled, no practice of communion will ever go deep enough to produce real change.
The question is this, who exactly is the indwelling One?
And what is He doing inside you right now?
Because if you think of HIM primarily as a power source, something you tap into when you need spiritual energy for a difficult situation, your communion with HIM will always feel transactional.
You will come to HIM when you need something.
You will leave when you have what you came for.
And the relationship will never develop beyond a spiritual vending machine you visit in moments of crisis.
But today ,here is a completely different picture in the hidden man of the heart.
Know that he Holv Spirit was given to guide us into all truth or reality.
He finds it a very difficult thing to lead our reasoning faculties. But it is the normal and natural thing for HIM to lead our spirits.
Love is a product of the SPIRIT.
Faith is a product of the SPIRIT.
The Holy Spirit's primary ministry is not to your mind. It is not to your emotions. It is to your recreated spirit.
He leads your spirit.
He feeds your spirit.
He develops your spirit.
He communicates truth to your spirit in a language that bypasses the reasoning faculties entirely and drops directly into the inner man as a knowing, a certainty, a settled conviction that does not require the mind to understand it before it is real.
This is why most believers miss HIS leading.
They are looking for HIM to speak to their mind to give them a thought they can analyze and evaluate and compare with their existing framework of understanding.
But that is not primarily how He operates.
He speaks to your spirit and your spirit communicates what it has received to your mind.
Not the other way around.
The spirit is the receiver.
The mind is the processor.
And if you have never learned to access your spirit, if you have never been taught to listen from the inside out rather than the outside in, you will spend your entire Christian life with the Holy Spirit speaking constantly to your inner man and your mind never picking up the signal.
Now, in His PRESENCE that reframes the entire relationship.
And I want you to hear this carefully.
"The call to prayer is the FATHER'S invitation to visit with HIM.
This is more than the consciousness of a great need that often drives us to intercession.
It is the call of love to come and fellowship.
It is really visiting with the FATHER.
Few of us have realized the fact that the FATHER'S heart is hungry for the companionship of His children.
The FATHER'S heart is hungry, not waiting patiently, not neutally available, hungry, longing, desiring the fellowship that was designed from the beginning.
The Face to face, Spirit-to-spirit daily intimate communion between God and the man and woman He created to be HIS companions.
And the indwelling One, the Holy Spirit, Who has taken up residence inside your recreated spirit, is the expression of that hunger.
He is not there because you earned it.
He is not there because of your spiritual performance.
He is there because the FATHER wants to be with you every moment, in every situation, in every season.
Which means every time you sit down to commune with the indwelling One, you are not interrupting your day to perform a spiritual obligation.
You are giving God what He has been longing for.
You are answering the hunger of the FATHER'S heart.
And the indwelling One who has been patient and present through every season of your neglect meets you there with a fullness and a warmth and a communication that will make you wonder how you ever went a day without this.
That is the foundation.
That is who He is.
That is what He wants.
Now let us talk about how to actually give it to HIM.
But I want to add one more thing before we go there because I think it is the most practically liberating truth in this entire teaching.
You do not have to earn access to the indwelling One.
You do not have to perform well enough to deserve HIS communication.
You do not have to wait until you are more consistent, more disciplined, more spiritually mature before you can begin communing with HIM.
He is already inside you.
He has already been given to you.
The access is already open.
The only thing standing between you and daily communion with the Holy Spirit is the same thing that has always stood between you and everything God has already provided.
The knowledge of it and the decision to act on that knowedge.
You now have the knowledge.
The decision is yours.
And everything from this point forward is about the practice.
Four practices, four specific daily practical habits that together create the conditions in which real communion with the Holy Spirit becomes a daily lived reality rather than an occasional spiritual experience.
Practice number one, deliberate stillness.
The hidden man of the heart.
Shut yourself in alone with your own spirit where the clamor of the world is shut out.
That is not poetic language.
That is a practical instruction.
Communion with the indwelling One requires conditions.
The primary condition is silence.
Not the absence of noise necessarily, though that helps.
But the deliberate quieting of the inner noise, the racing thoughts, the emotional reactions, the constant mental commentary on your circumstances, the planning and worrying and replaying that your mind does by default every waking moment.
Because the Holy Spirit speaks to your spirit in what scripture calls a still small voice, not because he is weak, but because that is the frequency of spirit communication.
And you cannot tune into that frequency while the outer world is broadcasting at full volume into your mind.
You have to create the conditions daily intentionally.
You close the door.
You silence the phone.
You sit.
You turn your attention deliberately inward away from your circumstances.
Away from your to-do list.
Away from everything the outer world is demanding and toward the inner man where the indwelling One lives and speaks and waits for you to be still enough to receive.
The term "closet" in the Bible, particularly in Matthew 6:6, refers to a private space where one can pray in secret to God. Jesus instructs His followers to enter their closet, shut the door, and pray to their Father who is unseen, emphasizing the importance of private communion with God.
God lives and speaks and waits for you to be still enough to receive.
In His PRESENCE that one cannot spend an hour in conscious communion with the FATHER, the son, the spirit and the word without carrying away a fragrance that fills the atmosphere.
That peace, that settledness, that quiet authority, that joy that does not depend on circumstances.
It does not come from activity.
It comes from PRESENCE.
Practice number two, acknowledgement.
This is simpler than most believers expect and more powerful than most believers realize.
Every morning before anything else, you acknowledge the reality of the indwelling One out loud.
Not as a ritual, but as a genuine deliberate recognition of Who is inside you.
You say it plainly. Holy Spirit, you are inside me right now. You are not distant. You are not waiting to be invited. You are already here, already active, already speaking to my spirit and I acknowledge you. I welcome Your leadership today. I am listening.
That is it. 30 seconds, maybe a minute.
But what those 30 seconds do is remarkable.
They set the orientation of your entire day.
They position your inner man correctly before the outer world gets a chance to pull your attention outward.
This acknowledgement remind your spirit and your mind that you are not facing this day alone.
That the most extraordinary Companion any human being has ever been given is already present, already active, already ready to lead.
In His PRESENCE.
That the ability of the indwelling One in us is available to us at all times.
Not sometimes, not in moments of special spiritual intensity at all times.
But that availability has to be accessed and acknowledgment is the access point.
The moment you turn your attention deliberately toward the One who is already inside you and say, I know You are here and I am paying attention, something shifts in your inner man.
The signal gets clearer.
The voice gets more distinct.
The connection that was always there becomes the connection you are actually using.
In John 14:17. Jesus said, "He dwelleth with you and shall be in you."
After since the Pentecost, this Word is being fulfilled in the believers' lives daily, till today.
Dwelleth, not visiting, dwelling permanently, available at all times, waiting to be acknowledged.
And the believer who begins every day with that acknowledgement begins to notice something remarkable.
A nudge in an unexpected direction.
A peace settling over anxiety.
A knowing that arrives in the spirit as settled certainty.
That is the indwelling One.
Responding to the believer who has made themselves available to be led by the Spirit.
Deliberate stillness, acknowledgment.
Two practices simple daily.
And together they begin to do something in your inner man that years of religious activity without them never could.
They open the channel and once the channel is open, what flows through it will change everything.
Neither practice requires a long block of time or a special atmosphere.
They require one thing, the decision to show up.
Stillness.
Turn inward before the day begins.
Give the inner man first access before the outer world takes it all.
Acknowledgement.
Speak out loud to the One already there.
I know you are here. I am paying attention.
Two decisions made daily and the cumulative effect morning after morning is a relationship with the indwelling One that most believers have never experienced, not because it was unavailable, because no one told them it was this simple.
Practice number three, listening prayer.
Very specific about this in His PRESENCE.
Know that prayer is a visit with our FATHER.
We should think of it as a rare opportunity, a visit.
And when you visit someone, the conversation goes both ways.
You talk and you listen.
You share and you receive.
You bring your heart and you hear their hearts.
Most believers have mastered the talking part of prayer.
They come to God with their long list, their needs, their requests, their problems, and they present everything faithfully and then they leave.
But without ever stopping to listen, without ever giving the indwelling One space to respond, without ever creating the silence in which HIS voice to their spirit can be recognized.
Listening prayer is the practice of coming to the secret place and after you have spoken, stopping, waiting, paying attention to your inner man, not manufacturing a response, not projecting what you think God would say, simply waiting and noticing.
Is there a peace settling over your spirit about something you have been anxious about?
Is there an unease in your inner man about a decision you have been considering?
Is there a knowing, a quiet certainty dropping into your spirit about a situation you have been seeking direction on?
That is the indwelling One communicating with your recreated spirit.
And listening prayer is the practice of being quiet enough and attentive enough to receive it.
Most believers have never tried this, not because they do not believe the Holy Spirit speaks, but because they have never been given permission to simply wait and listen in prayer.
They feel the pressure to keep talking, to keep presenting, to keep filling the silence with words.
But the most powerful moments in prayer are often the silent ones. The moments after the words stop.
The moments when the inner man, quieted by the stillness, positioned by the acknowledgment, becomes receptive to what the indwelling One has been trying to communicate.
Psalm 4 6:10. Be still and know that l am God.
Be still and know, the knowing comes through the stillness.
Not through more talking, not through more activity, but through the deliberate, patient practice of becoming quiet enough to receive what has already been spoken into your spirit.
Practice number four, word-based communion.
This is where in the hidden man of the heart that the Word is the food of the spirit.
And in His PRESENCE that the Word is one of the four realities present in the secret place of communion.
The FATHER, the son, the holy spirit and the Word all four together in conscious communion
And the Word is not sebarate from the indwelling One in this context.
It is HIS voice.
The primary way He communicates objective truth to the spirit.
And when you come to the secret place with the Word, when you read it slowly, meditate on it, let it drop into your inner man, you are not just studying scripture.
You are communing with the One who inspired it, who lives inside you, who is speaking it to your spirit in real time as you receive it.
Here is what this looks like practically.
You take one verse, just one verse, not a chapter, not a reading plan, one verse that speaks to something you are believing God for, something you are standing on, something you need to become more real in your spirit than it currently is.
And you read it slowly out loud.
You close your eyes and you let it drop into your inner man.
You say it again.
You sit with it.
You ask the indwelling One, "Show me what this means. Show me what this looks like in my situation. Let this word become alive in my spirit."
And then you wait in the stillness listening.
Because the indwelling One, the One who inspired every Word of scripture is inside you.
1And when you bring the Word into the secret place and ask HIM to illuminate it, He does.
Not always immediately, not always in ways the mind can fully articulate.
But in the spirit, in the deep inner man, something lights up.
Something becomes clear.
Something that was information in the mind becomes conviction in the spirit.
And that conviction is what carries you through the day, through the circumstance, through the opposition, through the moments when everything the outer world is reporting contradicts what the Word declares.
Because you were not just in the Word this morning.
You were with the One the Word is about and something of HIM stayed with you when you left the secret place.
That is Word-based communion .
That is the fourth practice.
And together deliberate stillness, acknowledgement, listening prayer, and Word-based communion.
These four practices create something no single spiritual discipline can produce alone.
A relationship daily lived growing with the indwelling One who has always been there waiting for exactly this.
Now I want to show you what changes when these four practices become your daily reality because the change is not dramatic in the moment.
It is cumulative over time.
Every day of genuine communion adds to what was built the day before and at some point the accumulation reaches a threshold that produces something qualitatively different from anything you have experienced before.
We describes it in the hidden man of the heart as spirit consciousness.
An awareness of your spirit and what the indwelling One is saying to it that operates not just in the quiet of the secret place but throughout the entire day.
In the middle of a conversation, while you are making a decision at work, while you are navigating a difficult relationship, while you are facing a situation that would normally produce anxiety or confusion or fear, the inner man developed through daily communion, is now loud enough, sensitive enough, and strong enough to be heard over all of that.
And the indwelling One who has been given consistent access through daily acknowledgement and listening is now communicating with a clarity that the believer who has never developed this practice cannot imagine.
This is what we called walking in the spirit.
Not a mystical experience, not a heightened emotional state.
A practical daily reality in which the recreated spirit in fellowship with the indwelling One is leading the soul and the body.
Where decisions are made from the inside out.
Where peace is not dependent on circumstances.
Where wisdom flows from the inner man into every situation before the reasoning faculties have had time to panic.
Galatians 5:16. Walk in the spirit and ye shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.
Walk, not occasionally visit, not periodically access.
Walk a continuous daily moment-by-moment movement through life from the position of the spirit rather than the position of the five senses.
And that walk is built through the four practices, not through one dramatic encounter that changes everything.
Through the daily consistent, unglamorous choice to show up in the secret place and commune with the One who is always already there.
In His PRESENCE. About a mother who told her children that she had forgotten to visit the Master that morning, and so she lacked His quietness and His strength.
She knew the difference. When she had communed, she carried something nothing else could produce. When she had not, the absence was felt as a practical deficit. Anxious where she would have been peaceful. Weak where she would have been strong. Reactive where she would have been settled. That is the daily difference communion makes.
Not dramatic, not spectacular, practical, quiet, consistent.
The difference between a believer who is governed by their circumstances and one who carries something that their circumstances cannot touch.
The difference between a Christianity that is real in doctrine and one that is real in daily experience.
And here is what I want you to understand about that difference.
It is not reserved for the spiritually elite.
It is the natural result of a simple daily decision made consistently over time to commune with the One who has been waiting for exactly that.
Romans chapter 8 verse 14. For as many as are led by the spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
As many, not a select few, as many as are led by the spirit of God.
And being led by the spirit of God begins with learning to commune with the spirit of God, begins with the stillness.
The acknowledgment, the listening, the Word begins with showing up in the secret place and giving the indwelling One what He has always desired.
Your presence, your attention, your time, and what He gives you in return is everything you have been looking for in every other place.
Now I want to speak to the believer who has tried this before and fallen off.
Who made the commitment and could not keep it.
Who carries quiet shame about the gap between who they want to be spiritually and the consistency they have actually managed.
Hear this clearly.
The indwelling One has not been marking your inconsistency.
He has not been withdrawing further with each missed day.
He has been there the entire time.
Patience, present, unchanging.
And the moment you return, the moment you sit down again and acknowledge HIM again and open the Word again, the communion resumes exactly where it left off without penalty, without a waiting period.
The secret place is not somewhere you earn access to.
It is where you were placed at the new birth.
And the indwelling One who lives there with you is never the One who moves away.
You simply return and He is there.
So let me close with the most important thing in this entire teaching.
Everything we have covered. The stillness, the acknowledgement, the listening prayer, the Word-based communion, all of it is built on a foundation that most believers have never truly understood.
And without that foundation, the practices become religious exercises rather than genuine communion.
The foundation is this.
The indwelling One wants this communion more than you do.
In His PRESENCE that the FATHER'S heart is hungry for the companionship of His children.
His heart hunger is the reason for man and the reason for redemption.
The entire plan of salvation, the cross, the resurrection, the new birth, the indwelling of the Holy Spirit.
All of it was designed not just to rescue you from hell, but to restore the fellowship that was lost in the garden.
The Face-to-face, Spirit-to-spirit daily intimate communion between God and the man He created to be His companion and associate.
That is what the FATHER has always wanted.
That is what He still wants.
That is why the indwelling One took up residence inside your recreated spirit at the new birth.
Not as a power source, not as a theological fact, as a companion, seeking the fellowship that God has always desired with the being He created in His own image and likeness.
Which means every time you sit down to commune with the indwelling One, you are not performing a spiritual duty.
You are not checking a box.
You are not doing something for God.
You are giving God what He has been longing for, and He meets you there with a fullness, a warmth, and a communication that will make you wonder how you ever went a day without this.
Here is your starting point.
Not a full overhaul, not a 20-step program, one decision.
Tomorrow morning, before anything else gets your attention, you give the indwelling One 15 minutes.
You sit, you acknowledge HIM, you listen, you bring one verse, and let HIM speak to your spirit through it.
You do not perform.
You do not produce.
You simply show up and you do it again the next day and the day after that.
And you watch what begins to happen in your inner man as the communion that was always available becomes the communion you are actually walking in.
Because the house is not empty.
It has never been empty.
And the One who has been living there, patiently, present, waiting, is not waiting for you to become more worthy or more consistent or more spiritual before He shows up.
He is already there.
He has always been there.
And the moment you sit down and turn inward and say, "I know you are here and I am paying attention, everything changes."
Write these words on a piece of paper, I commune with the Holy Spirit daily right now.
Not as a description of where you are.
But as a declaration of where you are going, as the commitment of a believer who has understood finally that the most extraordinary relationship available to any human being is not found in a church service or a conference or a dramatic spiritual encounter.
It is found in the secret place every morning with the One who has been waiting there all along.
The house is not empty. Go home.
And when you get there, when you sit down in the stillness and turn your attention toward the One who is already present, you will discover something that no sermon, no teaching, no theological position can fully prepare you for.
You will discover that the relationship you have been longing for with God, with your FATHER, with the One who created you and redeemed you and placed HIS SPIRIT inside you has been available every single morning of your Christian life.
You simply had to come home to find it.
Now you know the way.
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