Today I am sharing the first part of my communion time with the Holy Spirit on us being filled with all the fullness of God.

This morning, during our communion time, the Holy Spirit reminded me of the goal we, as followers and lovers of Jesus, must aspire to walk in daily which is the fullness of God! The Holy Spirit is with us to work in us and with us so that we can reach and experience this glorious goal. He wants us to examine our lives carefully, by taking stock of where we are, and consider what is required for us to position ourselves in the place to be filled with all the fullness of God.

For us to be filled with all the fullness of something, we must first be emptied of what previously occupied us. We must then take in so much of what we desire to be filled with that it completely saturates our entire being. In the same way, to be filled with all the fullness of God, we must become so full of the Holy Spirit that He has complete control and dominion over our lives.

The goal in our lives is for self to become invisible while the nature, character, and manifestation of the Holy Spirit become increasingly evident in everything we say and do. This is the place Jesus desires us to occupy, and certainly not just a life in which we merely experience occasional manifestations of His Presence, but one in which the Holy Spirit so completely fills and governs us that the life of Jesus is revealed through us.

The foundation of this revelation is found in Ephesians.3:16–19: “That He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man, 17 that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love, 18 may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height— 19 to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.”

We must take time to feast on the progression of this truth the Apostle Paul reveals in these verses. This is not presented as a privilege reserved for a select few, but as a glorious possibility available to every follower and lover of Jesus. The Holy Spirit grants to us, according to the riches of Christ’s glory, what we need to fulfil the purposes of Jesus in our lives. He has access to those riches and is empowered by Jesus to bestow the equipment, strength, and grace necessary for us to accomplish His will.

Notice that the Lord wants us to experience the riches of His glory, and not just merely small portions or occasional snippets of His manifestation. We must never become satisfied with a limited experience of the Holy Spirit when the ultimate goal is for us to be filled with all the fullness of God. We must therefore stretch our hearts to believe for more than we have already experienced and pursue the fullness the Lord desires to manifest through us. The first part of this progression is that we are strengthened with might through the Holy Spirit in our inner man.

This strengthening is not something we can produce through our human effort alone. The Holy Spirit is the One who supplies the divine strength and ability necessary for us to fulfil the will of Jesus. As He strengthens us inwardly, we become equipped to live beyond the limitations of our natural abilities. Our capacity to follow His instructions, fulfil His purposes, and demonstrate His glory is no longer measured merely by what we can accomplish through ourselves, because the Holy Spirit is able to impart the grace and strength we need to become vessels through which the Lord’s purposes are expressed.

The result is a life so filled with God that people encounter the evidence of Jesus at work through us. Our confidence must therefore rest in the Holy Spirit’s ability to strengthen and equip us according to the riches of God’s glory. The Lord never wants us to settle for only limited experiences of His glory. He wants us to pursue the fullness of what He possesses and desires to make available to us through the Holy Spirit for us to experience daily.

Just take a moment to consider the magnitude of what this means, because it points to us walking in the riches of the Lord’s wisdom, knowledge, understanding, might, counsel, and ability. It also includes the ability for us to judge impartially and without fault by the Holy Spirit, and the ability to decide with equity for the meek of the earth. It includes walking in the authority to speak with the rod of the mouth of the Holy Spirit and, through the lips, slay the wicked, by executing righteousness and faithfulness.

It also encompasses the miraculous power of God to work signs, wonders, and extraordinary miracles, including things that no eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no human heart has considered possible for the Lord to accomplish through a follower and lover of Jesus in a given moment. These are staggering realities for us to contemplate. Yet the Holy Spirit wants us to understand that He is able to fill a surrendered vessel with Himself so that His own nature, wisdom, power, and glory become evident through that life.

This is not about human greatness or self-exaltation, but it is about the Holy Spirit having complete control and dominion, so that the Lord alone receives the glory for what is accomplished. The person who empties himself of self and makes his vessel available to the Lord becomes a vessel through which the Holy Spirit can manifest His power. So the more completely we surrender to His rule, the more fully available we become for His purposes.

The goal is that the name of Jesus will be magnified on the earth through lives that demonstrate His glory. Paul’s progression continues with the prayer that Christ may dwell in our hearts through faith. This speaks of the anointing of the Anointed One living and working in us through faith. We must allow the reality of Christ’s life and His anointing within us to become more than just a doctrine we acknowledge, but it must become the reality by which we live.

The Holy Spirit works in us the faith of Jesus, enabling us to believe and act in accordance with His purposes. This faith is not rooted in our natural ability, but in the life and power of Jesus working through the Holy Spirit. So as we yield to Him, we learn to live in the confidence that His ability is greater than our every limitation. The faith He works in us is directed towards the fulfilment of His will, and we are called to walk in the reality that nothing is impossible to Him.

This is why we must stop allowing our own thoughts about what is possible to determine the boundaries of our expectations. We must allow the Holy Spirit to enlarge our hearts and teach us to believe what the Lord has declared. Another essential part of this progression is being rooted and grounded in love. The Lord wants us to be so established in His love that we are able to comprehend, together with all the saints, the width, length, depth, and height of the love of Christ, that is the love that surpasses knowledge.

I declare that being filled with all the fullness of God is my daily pursuit, and I will no longer settle for snippets or limited manifestations of His glory when the Holy Spirit is working in me to bring me into the riches of the Lord’s fullness.

According to Ephesians.3:16–19, I receive the strengthening of my inner man through the Holy Spirit, and I declare that Christ dwells in my heart through faith. I am being rooted and grounded in the love of God, and my heart is being enlarged to comprehend the width, length, depth, and height of the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge.

I declare that the Holy Spirit is filling me with all the fullness of God, so that His nature, character, wisdom, knowledge, understanding, might, counsel, and power are being manifested through my surrendered life. I will no longer depend on my own strength or human ability, but I will yield myself completely to His rule and direction. I declare that the faith of Jesus is at work in me through the Holy Spirit.

So I will believe what the Lord has declared concerning my life and obey His instructions, knowing that His power is greater than every human limitation I have. I decree that my life will no longer be governed by fear, self-reliance, or the pursuit of personal greatness, but by the purposes of Jesus and the leading of His Spirit in Jesus name. Amen.