Tap into the Spirit.

So last night at our college group we had an awesome time of prayer and response. The main focus of last nights prayer and response time was recieving the fullness of the Holy Spirit. I know when the topic of the Holy Spirit is brought up people tend to shy away from this topic. Usually because so many people associate the Holy Spirit with the gift of tounges and what they might call weird spiritual stuff. Tounges is a gift from the Spirit that I believe in and I believe that we should all tap into that but I don't want us to think that's all the Holy Spirit does. I feel that when we do that we limit the role of the Spirit and miss out on so much. After talking with a lot of people I've just been sensing that this is a season of many trials and hardships. So many people are dealing with so many difficult things in their lives right now and I feel that we are losing this fight. I've personally have been beaten down and seen a lot of people around me being beaten down as well. Why is this? I know this might seem pretty harsh to say but I feel that we are giving the enemy too much credit in this. I know our first response is usually that the enemy is attacking us and that his attacks are just too powerful. This is a load of crap! Excuse me language but it's the truth. I'm not saying that the enemy doesn't attack us or know what our weakness are, but I want to say something that we need to hold onto; THE ENEMY HAS NO POWER OVER YOU!!! We need to realize that the enemy can't touch us, remember Job? We like to say that satan attacked him, which he did but remember who gave him permission to. Satan could only do what God allowed him to.
So what now? Now that we have been reminded that satan has no power over us, what do we do now? We tap into the Spirit. The Holy Spirit is a gift that God gave to us.(Acts 2:38) The Spirit has also been described as the counselor (John 14:26) and as a sourse of power (Acts 1:8). Do you understand that we have everything we need to get us through not only this rough season in our lives, but also our entire life. We have a God who loves us so much that he would take care of everything we need and we have been given the Spirit of the Living God to give us strength, guidance, and help to have victory over our trials and hardships.
So my prayer for us today is that we tap into all the gifts of the Spirit. I pray that we would have more strength and faith to allow God to work out all the fine details of our current situations. I pray for a filling of the Holy spirit on us all.