Yielding to the Holy Spirit

Whenever  I used  to  hear  the term  ‘yielding  to  the  Holy Spirit’ I used to wonder what it meant! I used to think, “How  do  you  yield  to  the  Holy  Spirit?!”,  until  I  learnt: when we ‘obey’ the voice of the Spirit, we are ‘yielding’ to the Holy Spirit. When Philip heard the Spirit saying,  “Go over to the chariot and join it”, Philip obeyed and ran up to it. And here was Philip ‘yielding to the Holy Spirit’. Once while talking to some of my friends, I sensed the Spirit of prayer and I told them, “I think the Holy Spirit wants us to pray.” And  we  started  to  pray.  We  had  a  good  time  of  prayer.  That  was ‘yielding  to  the  Holy  Spirit’.  What  if we had  not obeyed the  Holy Spirit? He would not have forced us; we would have just missed that special prayer time! Acts 14:7-10 records that when Paul saw that the crippled man had faith, he said to him,  “Stand upright on your feet.” T he ability to see miracle-faith in a person, is also a working of the Holy Spirit. So, as the Holy Spirit showed Paul ‘the faith’ the man had, Paul said, “Stand upright and walk.” And the man was healed. Actually Paul was ‘yielding to the Holy Spirit’ inside himself and a miracle happened to that crippled man! When Eve heard the voice of the snake and obeyed, she was ‘yielding’ to Satan.  When Satan told Jesus to make bread out of the stones, Jesus  refused  to  do  it.  If  He  would  have  done  it  He  would  have ‘yielded’ to Satan. T he word ‘yield’ means ‘to surrender’ or ‘give place’.  When we allow the influence of the Spirit in our lives we are ‘yielding’ to the Spirit. When we yield, we are yielding to the purposes of God. Each hour of the day we have an opportunity either to yield to the Spirit of the living God or to Satan. In these situations the Holy Spirit will not force you to obey Him; He will only prompt. When we yield ourselves to the Holy Spirit, His power will work for us.  When He calls us to pray, He will not force us to pray.  We can choose to obey or disobey. If you choose to obey, you will not miss the blessing and will grow in the Spirit. It is important to be sensitive to His voice and yield. The best place you can learn to yield to the Holy Spirit is in your personal prayer time. By following the guidance of the Spirit, while praying alone you will learn to yield to the Holy Spirit. T he second best place to learn to yield to the Holy Spirit is in your day-to-day activities.  When we keep ourselves open to the Spirit, He will guide us and when we obey, we yield to Him. Also, in small groups, you can learn to yield to the Spirit by following the flow of the anointing. We must yield to the Spirit of God in our prayer time. We must yield to the Spirit of God in our worship. We must yield our body to the Spirit of God, for His glory. We must yield our ministry to the Spirit of God. We must yield our finances to the Spirit of God. As we yield to the Spirit, His anointing will lead us, empower us, and lead us to different manifestation of His power. For, in the Spirit is the depth of wisdom. I  enjoy  preachers  who  flow  with  the  anointing  while  preaching  the Word.  They  move from one level  to  another  level as  the  Holy  Spirit leads.
(From the book Holy Spirit:The Reality of His Presence)