It is a spiritual overstatement to say that I am a Pentecostal, and another will say I am an evangelical and the other protestant, Episcopal, Methodist, Baptist, Anglican and the list is endless of whatever man made religious grammatical errors of denominational identity emanate from the enemy other than to have fellowship with God the Father through his Son Yeshuoa in the uninterrupted fellowship with the Holy Spirit (the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all. 2Corinthians 13:14): this is a lie and great deceit from the pit of hell: that which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ. 1 John 1:3.
The church of God purchased by the blood of his Son Jesus Christ compose and comprise of those that are called out of the world and are sanctified by faith in Christ Jesus, with all that in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours (1Corinthians 1:2) who are called to be saints and are living as it is becoming, seemingly proper, fitted and worthy of the saints (Ephesians 5:3) is the general assembly and the church of the firstborn written in heaven (Hebrews 12:23) meaning, they are the new creatures who are living in the newness of life as the result of a new heart they were made beneficiaries from Christ to put off the body of sin (Colossians 2:11) male or female, Jews of Gentiles: for in Christ Jesus, neither circumcision avails anything, nor un-circumcision, but a new creature (Galatians 6:15) therefore, whatever is our man made denomination identity and affiliation, let every man that names the name of Christ depart from sin, to awake to righteousness and sin not. 2 Timothy 2:19. 1 Corinthians 15:34. What is the eternal good of a church affiliation or denomination identity if you are not personally espoused to Christ Jesus as a new creature waiting to be presented as a chaste virgin to him at his coming and arrival? 2 Corinthians 5:17. 2 Corinthians 11:2.
 
Irrespective of church affiliation, the heavenly travelers in this pilgrim journey, who, at the same time are running the race that is set before them with patience to fight the good fight of faith in Christ Jesus, laying hold on eternal life are saved by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost, which God shed on them abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior. Titus 3:5. Notice that the scripture explicitly says by the renewing of the Holy Ghost shed upon them. This suggest the necessity for daily refilling through constant fellowship with the Holy Ghost for daily spiritual invigoration, energizing, revitalizing or vivification to effectuate a consistent walk and fruitfulness through the Spirit of God for continual and effectual growth in the nine fruit of the Spirit in the believers unto maturity. It is the spirit that gives life (John 6:63) the flesh profits nothing. Why should any shrink from having and enjoying meaningful deeper fellowship with him sent from heaven to teach and to show us the deep things of God on daily basis? Is it not written that his love is better than wine, that nothing else will satisfy man except he drinks abundantly and continually from the living water? (John 4:13-14) and what he freely give daily in love is far better than anything else you’ll find elsewhere? For what man knows the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? Even so the no man knows the things of God, but the Spirit of God. Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. 1 Corinthians 2:10-12.
This is mystery of Christ in us who once suffered outside the city gate and was crucified for our sin (Luke23:26) to sanctify us, enjoin us to come out of the worldly lifestyles and from her corrupt systems, bearing his identity and reproach (Hebrews 13:12): but the Holy Spirit, though gentle, is grieved and not at ease in us if we are in friendship conformity with the world; though he will not strive, but his presence is weakened and his Christ transforming image works are not visible because of our love with the world. James 4:1-5. Is not our spiritual quality (good or bad, sweet or acidulous) and authenticity as a genuine or counterfeit child of God not defined by the fruit and not the gifts of the Spirit? You shall be known by your fruit (Matthew 7:15-20) and not by the designer shoes and clothes we put on, or by the degrees obtained, the assorted cars and the private jets that we acquired or whatever social or political influences we have out there! Why should we not then devotedly seek for the fellowship with the Spirit to abide with us for his progressive sanctification and transformation work through devotional prayer to receive grace and power to obey the truth, preparing us to be made ready for heaven? 2 Thessalonians 2:13; 1Peter 1:2. Note: the gifts of the Spirit (but the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal. For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit; to another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit; to another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues: but all these works that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will. 1 Corinthians 12:7-11) are good if they are administered cautiously through the fruit of the Spirit and not with or in the works of the flesh (now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envying, murders, drunkenness, reveling, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. Galatians 5:19-24) and I will humbly and sincerely submit to any that it is better to walk and live daily to grow the fruit of the Spirit through your lifestyles to get to heaven than to work miracles (which are very good because the kingdom of God is not in talk, but in power. 1 Corinthians 4:20) and to cast our demons, to prophecy and do many other great works more than Christ did as he promised we shall do on earth without the fruit of the spirit for Christ to say to us at the end of it all that he never know us but are just bunch workers of iniquity to end up in hell. Matthew 7:21-23. (2). God promised to be as a morning dew unto his Israel (Hosea 14:5) but without daily personal fellowship with the Father and the Son in the secret place, closet or chamber, there shall be no daily supply of the Spirit for any effective spiritual functioning and performance as expected of a Spirit filled believer than to manifest comportments on the same level like others who wakes up from the wrong side of the bed –wrong mood. The fruit of the Spirit is the moral beauty and glory of the risen Christ if we walk daily in the new creature that we might grow unto the fullness of the measure of Christ before him, even God that fills all things through our daily watering of the inner man by taking water from the well of salvation (the scriptures) is inevitable if we expect the fruit to blossom throughout the day and lifelong. (3). Jesus is the sole mediator between God and man, but the Spirit of God is the intermediary between us and Christ to connect us with him (Romans 8:9) and he persuade to convict of sin, righteousness and judgment to come, to influence our decision to accept Christ Jesus (the comforter, the Spirit of truth sent from Christ to teach us into all truth, and to live with us and to abide with us forever: no one can say Jesus is Lord except by the Holy Spirit) as Lord for salvation.
Jesus repeatedly emphasized the necessity of the new birth to Nicodemus that except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God: that which is born of flesh is flesh and that which is born of Spirit is Spirit. Marvel not that I say unto you, you must be born again. In the same chapter and discourse with Nicodemus, Christ further stress that the Spirit of God does what he likes with the believer’s life since he’s now his dwelling place (the temple of God) when he likes and how he wanted it to be done, since he’s the Spirit of the Father supplying his children with unceasing life, serving as the power of an endless life in those who have chosen and devoted themselves to be led by him always: for as many as are led by the Spirit of God, are the sons of God. John 3:1-8. Romans 8:14. (4). That the true worth and admission of any believer in Christ Jesus into eternal life shall go on scale, weigh and balance, not on the possessions or not having any of those futile and perishable material goods, worldly gains, honorary degree, riches of the world and whatever is reserved to be dissolved by fire on earth (2 Peter 3:10) or by any of those things subjected to decay, meant to be eaten and corrupted by rust and moth: but on his life in the Spirit: namely, how he live his spiritual life? What he does with his spiritual life? How he treated and related with the inner man? And, how he grew in his spiritual life to live for God in all the fruit of the Spirit? Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin; that he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God. For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries. Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you: who shall give account to him that is ready to judge the quick and the dead. For this cause was the gospel preached also to them that are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit. 1 Peter 4:1-6.
Our new spiritual life in Christ Jesus is initiated by the Holy Spirit, maintained by him, and accomplished by him (Zachariah 4:6) as one who is born, not of the flesh, neither by the will of man, but by the Holy-Spirit (John1: 11-13): but to look on yourself with the view of the world or like men of the world as a carnal and not a spiritual man is to enable the flesh to seek momentum for the pleasure of sin, and thereby the works of the flesh becomes the vanity tossed to and fro of those that seek for eternal death. It is to make God a liar which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead (1Peter 1:3) and who according to his divine power (the Holy Spirit) has given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue: whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these we might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. 2 Peter 1: 3-4. To walk like men of this world in the blindness of their minds despite the great power made available for us to walk worthy of our calling, is to bring oneself under the condemnation of those who are despising the spirit of grace (Holy Spirit) and are crucifying the Son of God afresh the second time to bring him to an open shame: for it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, and have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come, if they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame. Hebrews 6:4-6. (5). That the present victory we all craved for over sin that dwells in us could only be found in the love with, and devotion to the in-dwelling Spirit of God if we seek for his power for daily renewal in the spirit of our minds (Romans 8:13) that we might be in the state of spiritually minded, dead to sin for the life and peace he gives to enables us sowing daily and momentarily to the Spirit by our lifestyles for an abundant harvest of eternal life through the power of the world to come which the world knows nothing about, and have not seen him, but we have seen him, and know him, because he dwells in us until the final transformation and transportation our vile bodies to be fashioned like unto the glorious body of our risen Lord and Christ according to the working (the spirit power) whereby God is able to subdue all things unto himself. Philippians3: 20-21. (6) Is the Spirit of God not the initiator, foundation and anchor of our relationship with God in Christ Jesus? Is God’s love not shed abroad into our hearts by the Holy Spirit given unto us? (Romans 5:5) so that our fellowship and love for him (if there is therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit. Philippians 2:1) who is given unto us as the down payment for our inheritance-incorruptible reserved in heaven to re-assure us of the full payment of the hope set before us of the promised inheritance which God that cannot lie has promised before the foundation of the world (Titus 1:2) shall not fail to be fully given if we are living, walking and growing daily in the love and life in the Spirit till the end that we might reap eternal life: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise, which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory. Ephesians1:13-14.
 
You love that familiar scripture passage from John chapter 4 verse 24. Don’t you? Do you realize what it culpably involved to serve God in Spirit but not in truth? To hold the truth in unrighteousness and to walk in craftiness without renouncing those hidden things of dishonesty, that is hypocrisy and double lifestyles, having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof. It’s damnable, except you repent and turn away from such horrific and debasing lifestyles to begin with your sanctification process and not with your continual repentance from dead works in self deceived game. Jeremiah 13:17. Hebrews 6:1.                                
But to serve God in truth and not in the Spirit is to serve God like the certain disciples met by Paul at Ephesus and asked them if they have received the Holy Ghost since they believed? And they said unto him, we have not so much as heard whether there is any Holy Ghost. And he said unto them, unto what then were ye baptized? And they said unto John’s baptism. Then said Paul, John verily baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying unto the people, that they should believe on him which should come after him, that is, on Christ Jesus. When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. And when Paul had laid his hands upon them, the Holy Ghost came on them; and they spoke with tongues, and prophesied. And all the men were about twelve. Acts19: 2-7.
 
Okay, I know that sometimes we argue and brush aside the idea and reality of the tongues we can’t speak as if it is limited to the period of the early church (Mark 16:17-18) or because we don’t understand its utterances, there is no need to seek for it (1 Corinthians 14:2 and 4): nevertheless, we have his presence abiding in us, but not his fullness and his overflowing as it should be. Acts 2:4: Ezekiel47:5. Certainly, something is missing out because we must love and seek to submit to his daily help to pray through us (but ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost. Jude20) and not to forbids him to speak through us (1 Corinthians14:39) by praying in the spirit (1 Corinthians 14:15) and to make him allowance in his expertise to give us such immediate help against our infirmities and inability to ask properly before the throne of grace in prayer. Romans 8:26-27. To be fervent in the spirit serving the Lord is not an option so that the spirit fire should not be quenched, but to keep it ablaze; not slothful and neglectful in service of the Lord, but to stir up the deposited gifts of the Spirit in us to keep ministering to others as we have received the gifts as a good steward of the manifold grace of God. Romans 12:11.
 
Believers in Christ Jesus are exposed to so many dangers and evil in the world, but the supernatural presence of the Spirit of God provides us with adequate covering (Isaiah 30:1) and the inner defense (Isaiah 59:19) against the blast of the terrible one: to shield us against any of his evil rushing mighty wind and to set up a standard against the enemy. Is he not the pillar of God’s lovely cloud around them that led them by day and the pillar of fire which led them and protects them in the night for forty years in the wilderness to the land of Canaan? (Isaiah 63:10. Nehemiah 9:12) but to court his presence, you must give yourself to prayer and for the meditation of the word of God in readiness to live by every word that comes out from the mouth of God because he works uniquely with the word of God abiding in us with nothing to do with the abominable practices of the nations for any involvement into demonic practices of conjuring angels’ or in will worship of them (Colossians 2:18) and not with other evil spirits familiar in works to the Spirit of God. To seek after things outside the scopes and bonds of the scriptures is to be drawn away from Christ who is the head over all principalities and powers. The love in the Spirit has nothing to do with association or seeking after them with familiar spirits or with the star gazers and the palm readers or seeking for horoscopy prediction for your future to be defiled by them (regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards, to be defiled by them: I am the Lord your God. Leviticus 19:31: 20:6) but a snare to the peril of your soul just as the foolish step which was taken by King Saul to enquire of a witch at Endor: Saul died in disobedience, disobedient to God. He didn’t obey God’s words. Instead of praying, he went to a witch to seek guidance. Because he didn’t go to God for help, God took his life and turned the kingdom over to David’s son of Jesse.1 Chronicles 10:13-14.