After listening to many strong truths, and some very solid messages over the past couple of weeks, I had to take sometime and write about this specific area that God is drilling me with, being lead by the Holy Spirit, actually just experiencing Him as a Christian. Some of this is quotes from a book by Francis Chan called "Forgotten God", and then some is gonna be thoughts.
"that by keeping in step with the Spirit Himself, we might regularly fellowhsip over what He is doing rather than what He did months or years ago"....How often do you genuinely experience the power of the Holy Spirit? What kind of supernatural work is He DOING in your life, not just what He has DONE.
Who are you?
1-The person who is always talking about the Holy Spirit, but yet your life is bearing NO fruit of His presence in your life?
2-The person speaks of the Holy Spirit in theorectiacal or scholarly terms, but who doesn't experience Him?
3-The person who really doesn't talk much, but yet who's life is a powerful display of His presence and power?
Chan ask this question,"and this is the question i just cant get around: If its true that the Spirit of God dwells in us and that our bodies are the Holy Spirits temple, then shouldn't there be a huge differecne between the person who has the Spirit of God living in them than the person who does not?"
If I told you I had an encounter with God where He entered my body and gave me a supernatural ability to play basketball, wouldn't you expect to see an amazing improvement in my jump shot, my defense, and my speed on the court? After all, THIS IS GOD WE ARE TALKING ABOUT! and if you saw no changes in my athleticism, wouldn't you question the validity of my "encounter"? "Churchgoers" all across the nation "say" the Holy Spirit has entered them. They "claim" that God has given them a supernatural ability to follow Christ, put their sin to death, and serve the Church. Christians "talk" about being born again and say that they were dead but now have come to life. When will we stop talking about the Scriptures, and let our lives speak? When will we allow God to speak? When will we stop talking about our knowledge of Him, and talk about our RELATIONSHIP with Him? Yet when those outside the church see no difference in our lives, they begin to question our INTEGRITY, our sanity, or even worse, OUR GOD!
Most of you who will read this blog probably have a basic knowledge about the Holy Spirit, but when it comes down to experiencing the Spirit in your life personally, its a whole different ball game. Take some time, and honestly answer this question, When was the last time I undeniably saw the Holy Spirit Himself work in me or around me? undeniably work?
I challenge you for one week, just one week, to genuinely ask for the reality of the presence and power of the Holy Spirit Himself. I challenge you to cry out to Him for a supernatural work in your life. I challenge you to be obedient to His leading, in whatever it maybe. I challenge you to do this for this week.
I really pray, for Gods Name sake, that His church will grasp the truth about the Holy Spirit, grasp it with their lives! I pray that we would consistently live with an awareness of His strength, power, presence. It is when believers live in the power of the Holy Spirit, that the evidence in their lives is supernatural. This is when the church cannot help but be different and the world cannot help but notice!
Willy
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