What the Spirit Looks Like in Your Home
“Be filled with the Spirit… submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ.” – Ephesians 5:18, 21 (ESV)
What does the Holy Spirit really look like in someone’s life? Is it speaking in tongues? Laughing uncontrollably? Rolling on the floor?
Paul paints a different picture: the Holy Spirit looks like worship. Like thankfulness. Like mutual submission. And then – most powerfully – it looks like transformation in your home.
A Spirit-filled life shows up in marriages where wives respectfully submit to their husbands as unto the Lord, and where husbands love sacrificially like Christ loves the church. It’s not about control or passivity; it’s about order and selfless love. That takes supernatural strength.
The Spirit is also at work in the family – when children obey, when parents nurture, when tension is diffused by grace. The Spirit empowers honour, humility, and holy love.
We often think of spiritual power as something that shows up on stage or in church. But Spirit-filled living shows up in how you talk to your spouse when you’re tired. It shows up in how you respond to your children when they frustrate you. It shows up when you choose patience, peace, and prayer in the chaos of daily life.
This kind of Spirit-filled life isn’t loud – but it’s luminous. It shines with the quiet, steady glow of Christ at the centre.
Prayer:
Holy Spirit, help me to walk in Your power at home. Fill me with love that sacrifices, patience that listens, and humility that serves. Let my life show what You look like.