In our dear Christian faith, we learn that going to church and sharing the experience of worshipping God together is wonderful; that opening the Bible at any time and mining the riches of God’s very words is divine; that, most astonishing of all, from the inception of our Christian faith, God himself has come to live inside of us!

We’re at church on Sundays and the other days we get ourselves there. We read the Bible and learn its truths those times we open its pages—early morning for me. Moreover, ceaselessly, we are connected with God through His indwelling Holy Spirit every living, breathing, waking, sleeping, moving, resting moment. Truly this—our Christian condition—is the utmost blessing, both pleasing and life-changing to continuously behold.

I hope this encourages you today.

Kevin Murray
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For more astonishment, enjoy these verses:

Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own (1 Cor 6:19).

You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him (Rom 8:9).

And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit” (Acts 2:38).

If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you (Rom 8:11).

Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in you? (1 Cor 3:16).

You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him. But if Christ is in you, although the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit is life because of righteousness. If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you (Rom 8:9-12).

And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us (Rom 5:5).

Even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you (Jn 14:17).

That according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being (Eph 3:16).

I baptize you with water for repentance, but he who is coming after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire (Mt 3:11).

And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba! Father!” (Gal 4:6).

Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom (2 Cor 3:17).

For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit (1 Cor 12:13).

And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever (Jn 14:16).