Directions for Communion with the Spirit

In the third section of On Communion with God, John Owen gives three general directions for communion with the Holy Spirit.  The headings are these:

(1)  Do not grieve the Spirit, the third person of the Triune God, who indwells you.
(2)  Do not quench the Spirit in his actings and motions in grace.
(3)  Do not resist the Spirit in the ordinances of Christ and his gifts for their administration.

A good start for American Christians who are seeking communion with God the Spirit is simply to start thinking and speaking of the Spirit more personally, not as some impersonal force or energy.  His personality is often affirmed on paper (or in the creed), but functionally it is often denied.  But he is a person, an infinitely glorious person, worthy of all honor, adoration, and praise.