But you are A chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession , so that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvellous light; for you once were not a people , but now you are the people of God; you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy . 1 Peter 2:9-10 NASB
Look at these verses there is no negatives. We are Chosen, we are royal, we are holy, we are owned by God;- that means that God has out His stamp of approval upon us. God took u from nothingness, emptiness to being Something, the people of God. We are the people of God. We are the children of God; for His Spirit bears witness with our Spirit that we are. We have received mercy for ever.
The devil is defeated. We are victorious in and through Jesus Christ. The Holy Spirit is not our convicter, but our comforter. He will come and whisper in our ear something as simple as, “just trust me.” God’s word says that we should be no longer conscious of our sin but have a righteousness conscience.
Other people maybe conscious of our short comings, The enemy will make good use of the to try and bring us into conviction. We are set free from all of that Paul gives to us God’s view of us.
What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who is against us? He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him over for us all, how will He not also with Him freely give us all things? Who will bring a charge against God’s elect? God is the one who justifies; who is the one who condemns? Christ Jesus is He who died, yes, rather who was raised, who is at the right hand of God, who also intercedes for us. Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? Just as it is written, “For Y our sake we are being put to death all day long ; We were considered as sheep to be slaughtered.” But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 8:31-39
The Holy Spirit is not the one who convicts Christians. The Holy spirt is our helper, or comforter, our teacher, our power. We have to stop blaming the Holy Spirit for making us feel bad. this is done by our own hearts, and consciences. And some other outside influences. Not the Holy Spirit, through whom we are supposed to have confidence in our faith in the FINISHED work of Jesus Christ.
I encourage you to do as Paul says. Even when things are not going how we think they should. When our hearts bring us down to the point of breaking. We can look up, take a hold of the Word of God, and stand in it. We can take hold of the hand of the Spirit and allow Him to lead us.
Rejoice in the Lord always, and again I say rejoice. Philippians 4:4
The Lord Bless you
Charlie
FREEDOM IN CHRIST 