The Holy Spirit is the most wonderful of all the gifts the Lord gives us. And in turn, the Holy Spirit gives us gifts which are more valuable than any other we can ever receive. To treat this gift and His gifts lightly would be travesty. To reject the Holy Spirit, to blaspheme Him, or to speak against Him would be unthinkable for anyone who knew Him. Once you have sensed the power of the Holy Spirit dwelling within you and guiding your life, you could never tolerate life without Him.
The Holy Spirit - symbolized as many things in Scritpture, including a dove -" As soon as Jesus was baptized, he went up out of the water. At that moment heaven was opened, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting on him" (Matt. 3:16) and water - "He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.” (John 7:38)...is given to anyone who asks of God, "If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him!” (Luke 11:13). There are countless reasons to ask and to praise God for His Holy Spirit. The following are just a few!
1..The Holy Spirit comforts us." Walking in the fear fo the Lord and the comfort of the Holy Spirit, they were multiplied" ( Acts 9:31)
2. The Holy Spirit convicts us of wrongdoing. " When has come, He will convict the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment" ( John 16:8)
3. The Holy Spirit enables us to obey God. " We have been delivered from the law, having died to what we were held by, so that we should serve in newness of the Spirit and not in the oldness of the letter"(Romans 7:6)
4. The Holy Spirit guides us." When he, the spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth; for he will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak; and He will tell you things to come" ( John 16:13)
5. The Holy Spirit teaches us. " 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" ( John 14:26)
6. The Holy Spirit gives us power. "May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit" ( Romans 15:13)
7. The Holy Spirit gives us spiritual gifts. " God also bearing witness both with signs and wonders, with vaious miracles, and gifts of the Holy Spirit, according to His own will" ( Hebrews 2:4)
8. The Holy Spirit sanctifies us. " That I might be a minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God, that the offering of the Gentiles might be acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit" (Romans 16:15)
9. The Holy Spirit helps us pray. " For we don not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered"
( Romans 8:26)
10. The Holy Spirit brings us to Jesus. " Therefore I make known to you that no one speaking by the Spirit of God call Jesus accursed, and no one can say that Jesus is Lord except by the Holy Spirit" ( 1 Corin. 12:3)
11. The Holy Spirit makes us strong. " That He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man" ( Eph. 3:16)
12. The Holy Spirit raises us from the dead. " For Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive by the Spirit" ( 1 Peter 3:18)
13. The Holy Spirit works miracles. "In mighty signs and wonders, by the power of the spirit of God..I have fully preached the gospel of Jesus Christ" ( Romans 15:19)
14. The Holy Spirit gives us words to say. " The Holy Spirit will teach you in that very hour what you ought to say" ( Luke 12:12)
15. The Holy Spirit renews us. " Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit" ( Titus 3:5)
16. The Holy Spirit helps us when we are weak. "Likewise the Spirit also helps in our weakness"( Romans 8:26)
17. The Holy Spirit gives us knowledge and understanding. "The Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon Him, the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and might, the Spirit fo knowledge and of the fear of the Lord" ( Isaiah 11:2)
18. The Holy Spirit gives us revelation and wisdom. " That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him" ( Eph. 1:17)
19. The Holy Spirit reveals the things of God. " God has revealed them to us through His Spirit, For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God" ( 1 Corth. 2 :10)
20. The Holy Spirit assures us that we are God's children. " The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God" ( Romans 8:16)