Does the message of the death of Jesus Christ on the cross for you make you hope for his salvation? Does it give you hope that God might save you through Jesus, now that Jesus is raised by God to live forever? If so, you have the seeds of eternal life within you. You need to nurture this. The way God uses to reach out to those who reach out to Him is by giving the Holy Spirit. You need to confess your need of this way, and seek it. In the Lord’s Prayer, Jesus teaches us to ask the Father in heaven for our daily bread. This request points beyond physical nourishment to spiritual sustenance. The Holy Spirit can be our daily bread from God, given again and again to sustain and strengthen spiritual life: Inspired dreams or visions, or words of living spirit welling up within us, or sudden moments of faith in God, or other “gifts of the spirit” as they are called, “grace gifts”. If you want the salvation of Jesus Christ and are prepared to walk in his way, holding to what comes from him, you can do so by living in this way of spirit. Then there are ways to share this way with others who live by the way of spirit too. Meetings in the name of Jesus Christ allow the sharing of grace gifts given by the Holy Spirit to various believers. This way we become the united body of Christ, the Temple of God built up as each does their allotted tasks.
