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The Holy Spirit is an important figure throughout the Bible. In Genesis 1:2, we find Him moving about the surface of the waters, and in Revelation 22:17, He and the bride cry with one voice. From beginning to end, the Holy Spirit has always been active: In the beginning, creating, and at the end of the story, tending to us. He comforts us, helps us, guides us, reminds us, teaches us, comes along side us, counsels us, and intercedes and advocates for us. 
There is no area of life in which the believer does not need the help of the Holy Spirit. A gospel with no emphasis on the Holy Spirit is flat. In certain moments, when there was a special manifestation of God, the New Testament emphatically states that the partakers were filled with the Holy Spirit. This was the experience of many: John the Baptist was full of the Spirit in his mother’s womb (Luke 1:15); Elizabeth, when Mary greeted her (Luke 1:41); and Zechariah, father of John the Baptist, when he prophesied (Luke 1:67). Jesus, filled with the Holy Spirit, was led by the same Spirit into the desert (Luke 4:1). The disciples were filled with the Spirit in the upper room, and Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, stood up to preach on the day of Pentecost (Acts 2:14). The young Stephen, full of the Spirit, saw the glory of God when he was stoned (Acts 7:55-56); and Paul, inspired by the Spirit, rebuked a sorcerer (Acts 13:9-11).
There is no doubt that in the church a life filled with the Holy Spirit should be the norm. The filling of the Holy Spirit was even a requirement for serving in the church. Without a life full of the Holy Spirit, it is impossible to build the body of Christ, and we end up limiting God’s work in our lives.