Welcome back to the Bible Cafe™ study. In Week 2 of Living Beyond Yourself: Exploring the Fruit of the Spirit by Beth Moore, we continue learning to live by the Spirit. But first, we must get to know the Spirit. This was a key point of our study and small group conversations.

I find it amazing that the Spirit who helped with creation is the Spirit Jesus sent to us to be our comforter and friend! This week we studied some of the Spirit’s different attributes. We learned how we as believers are to be truly and utterly dependent on the Spirit.

Scripture assures us that the Holy Spirit is very important in our walk with Christ. Not only does the Scripture prove this but it also proves that the Holy Spirit is a key element of the trinity of the Father himself.

The seal of the Holy Spirit makes us joint heirs with Christ. We are bought with the blood of the lamb and sealed with it by the Holy Spirit!

This week in Living Beyond Yourself: Exploring the Fruit of the Spirit by Beth Moore, we learned to live a life FULL of the Fruit of the Spirit.  Yet, we must make a daily choice to yield ourselves to Him. In other words, pour ourselves out so that God can pour Himself into us.

In our small groups at the Bible Cafe™ we learned we have the capability of hurting the Holy Spirit and He has feelings. Doing this can prevent the Holy Spirit from His fullness in our lives. Yet God has a heart of forgiveness and cleanses us from these things. No matter what we’re going through and no matter what life throws at us, if we live a life yielded to the Holy Spirit, He is right there to pick us up in weakness and enable us to do the impossible.

The Spirit intervenes in our weakness, but not in our avoidance. –Living Beyond Yourself: Exploring the Fruit of the Spirit by Beth Moore