The Holy Spirit has plans for each of us as individual Christians in our day-to-day lives. In participation with Him, he partners us with people we see and people we can't see. But the reality is that it is we who are partnering with Him in His mission to glorify Jesus.

God loves all people, and therefore he gives his Holy Spirit to anyone who claims the name of Jesus. It doesn't matter your background, your history, your race, your sins, your strengths, your family, or ANYTHING. What matters is that you know your need for Jesus, God's Indiscriminate gift of love for you.

In order to respond to the needs of the church today, we need to be full of the Holy Spirit and Scripture, and it turns out that the Spirit is the one who wrote Scripture.

The Holy Spirit is not a force, he is a person. He is a person of God, he has a personality, and he wants to be personal to you. He wants to empower you for his purpose to glorify Jesus.

The Holy Spirit is present amongst all who call upon Jesus. And he has a purpose: the spreading of the gospel of Jesus. This happens through prayer, persecution, and bold proclamation of the good news.

A few weeks after Jesus ascended to Heaven, the promised Holy Spirit arrived at the church in Jerusalem. In one fell swoop, he undid the curse of the Tower of Babel, and enabled the people of God to reach the world at large with the clear articulation of the gospel. He is doing the same thing today, and he is available to all who call on Jesus for salvation. He wants to empower us for his purpose, to glorify Jesus Christ.

Jesus, after resurrecting in power, and before ascending in power, promised to send the Holy Spirit to empower us in his name and for his mission. The Holy Spirit is now available to all who call on Jesus for salvation!

The author of Ecclesiastes maintains that everything done "under the sun" is meaningless. So where does that leave us? To find our meaning elsewhere. Perhaps in God's kingdom, which is not of this world. In Christ's kingdom we get to participate in what God himself is doing, and in that there is deep meaning, and much better than the kingdoms we build for ourselves.

We all want success, and we all define it differently. We also all want a full life. The problems arise when we equate the two. Jesus offers us a full life, and a success story that might look different than we expect. But it's a true life that is lived with him at the center.

God's great plan on earth is to build a Temple through his Spirit and bring everything under Jesus as head. Paul calls us here to participate in that work, knowing that what we do matters.