I wanted to share my baptism experience, since I just went through my mother's baptism experience especially regarding my experience when I received the Holy Spirit. There are two parts to being baptized, one is the part where you go in the water, like a spiritual death and rebirth. Then there is the Confirmation, when you are confirmed a member of the church and then given the gift of the Holy Spirit. Now what happened for me was later in the day, I became a aware that there was another Spirit with me, not just my spirit. This is a very important point. We are all born with a spirit, or I should say we are all spirits born into a human experience where we get bodies and are then a mixture of spirit and human. Most spiritual paths that I studied, researched or was very much a part of were all dedicated to helping us live more fully from our spirit, rather than just our humanness. This is a good thing. I don't think we should be denying our humanness, just making sure our spirits are in charge and guiding our humanness.
This was the common goal of most of the spiritual paths I embarked on. I was quite surprised on the day I was confirmed and given "the gift of the Holy Spirit" that there was now another Spirit with me. Not just my own spirit, but another one just as I had been told there would be. I didn't understand all of this before. I had been told that there are 3 persons in the God head. That there is Heavenly Father, Jesus Christ and then the Holy Spirit. Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ both have bodies but the Holy Spirit does not. This enables the Holy Spirit to come and dwell with in us to help us. I truly didn't understand how literal this would be until I first hand had this experience. I became aware ( and am still aware) that there is a big difference between my spirit and the Holy Spirit.
It is called the gift of the Holy Spirit because it is truly a gift we are given to help us stay on course once we are baptized and we get to enter into God's Kingdom. The Holy Spirit communicates to us whether or not we are on course or not, whether we are moving away from, or towards things that are of God's Kingdom. We are given certain commandments to live by that are for our ultimate happiness. If we live by these we are deeply happy, if we don't, we hurt our spirits and create misery for ourselves. The adversary loves to trick us and give us a momentary pleasure and make us think this is happiness, then to only find out later we were duped and now are sitting in a mess. God knew this would happen, and that in our humanness we would find it hard to stay on course, so He gave us the Holy Spirit to help us. We are not doing it alone.
This is what I discovered that day, I was not alone. It was startling at first, but then I realized how amazing it was to have this second Spirit to tell me the truth, to fill me up with the happiness, power, beauty of Heaven, to help me pray, to reveal all Truth to me, to comfort me, to guide me, give me strong warnings when I might be facing danger, and to constantly communicate with me so that I would become aware of whether I was going towards the light or away from it. The Holy Spirit helps protect me from the lies and tricks of the adversary and to keep me close to Heavenly Father and the Heavenly realm. It truly is a gift!
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