Walking with God 1
Characteristics of a Life filled with the Holy Spirit
A. Characteristics of Inner Life
1. Praising God from the heart : Eph 5:19, Acts 16:25
2. Giving thanks to God in all things: Eph 5:20
3. Submit to one another in church life: Eph 5:21
4. Loving and sacrificing mutually between husbands and wives: Eph 5:22-23
5. Respecting parents in family life: Eph 6:1-2
6. Coping with children harmoniously in family life and instructing them with the words of God: Eph 6:4
7. Be obedient to superiors or leaders in working place: Eph 6:5-8
8. Not threatening the subordinates in working place: Eph 6:9
9. Walking by the Holy Spirit and being led in daily life, not gratifying the flesh: Gal 5:16-18
10. Bearing fruit of the Holy Spirit in personal characters, thoughts, emotions and personal relationships.
11. Not quenching the Holy Spirit, but always be touched by the Spirit and be joyful always, pray unceasingly, and giving thanks in all things: 1 Thess 5:16-19
12. Not despising the sayings of prophets (spiritual elders), but testing everything, holding fast to what is good, and abstaining from evil: 1 Thess 5:19-22
13. Having abundant life and spiritual satisfaction, with rivers of living water flowing out from the heart.
B. Characteristics of outward ministry and spiritual gifts
1. Having power and gifts in ministry: Act 4:18, Isa 61:1-3, Acts 1:8, Acts 2:4, Acts 19: 5-6, 1 Cor 12:7-11
2. Serving based on the words of God: Acts 4:8-12
3. Having boldness to share the words of God to all kinds of people: Acts 4:13, Acts 4:31
4. Having faith and wisdom in serving the Lord: Acts 6:5, Acts 6:10, Deut 34:9
5. Having spiritual acuity and capable to see vision, having dreams, and prophesying: Acts 2:17-18, Acts 7:55, Ezek 1:3-28
6. Hearing and submitting to the guidance of the Holy Spirit: Acts 10:9
7. Having courage to challenge sin and to resist Satan: Acts 13:9-12
8. Manifesting love and power spontaneously: Persons filled with the Holy Spirit will naturally and spontaneously manifesting the love and power of Christ, but will also be always alert and keeping themselves in the love of the Lord and the filling of the Holy Spirit.