Importance of the Spirit

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I have been convicted that the only way we can really know God, is to be ourselves filled with His fullness. The greatest way I’ve come to know what He’s like is through the way He transforms my own heart to be His after prayer and communion with the Spirit. Recently, God had been speaking to me through my daily devotions about the necessity of communion with the Holy Spirit. I had begun to lose sense of the importance of this, and was not praying in tongues very much or spending time waiting on God. But after being convicted of the power of the Spirit through the Bible, I started spending time everyday again speaking in tongues and worshipping for a length of time. And I can’t believe I had forgotten what power there was in this practice. Without the Spirit, I have no power to overcome my flesh and its weaknesses and fears. With the Spirit, I experience everyday an inflowing of the Father’s love to cast out all fear, to give me words to speak that come from His heart, to love people selflessly yet effortlessly, the list goes on. The Spirit is essential; the Spirit cannot be left out when attempting to grasp a Triune God. It has been prideful for me to think I could read the Bible and pray without the help of the Spirit. Without His leading my words and without Spirit-given revelation into the Word, these things have little impact. I would be praying my own will instead of God’s and interpreting the Bible with my own limited understanding, and I can so easily be deceived in my own interpretation. To depend on the Spirit takes humbling, yet it also takes humbling to see the importance of depending on Him, since He is meek in nature—He has so much power, the power of resurrection, yet He is gentle and will not come unless you ask Him to. I’m sorry, Holy Spirit, for my pride in thinking You were small! Humble me, that I may see You as powerful as You really are, and fill me with You if You would. I can do absolutely nothing without You.

On seeking out God:

I sing along with Kim Walker, “God, can I have more of You?” And then I realize, how can I experience more of God, what does that even mean? I’m desperate for more than this life, but don’t even know where to look for the answered prayer of "acquiring more of God." God, He’s such a mystery. When you love/like someone but can’t see them and don’t know where they are or what they’re doing and thinking, all you can do is look for traces, marks they’ve made in the recent to give you a clue to how they are. God..I don’t know enough about Him to be able to draw a complete picture of Him, but I know enough to recognize some of His traces. Because I’m desperate, I look for Him in other people…the qualities He gave them that are of His own nature. A kind heart, deep strength, meekness.. All of us have at least one quality that just speaks God. As many people as there in a community, and each of them unique, God has so many qualities, and each of them are inexhaustible. My most recent practice has been to look for God in people, in order to find Him, but also as a way to be able to love others. Because I fear being found a liar..

If anyone says, "I love God," yet hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen.

Comments

+E said…
:) Good reminder, thx. Hope all is well in BJ!
May 3, 2010 at 9:18 AM
Monica said…
loves it.

keep letting His Spirit move you:)
May 5, 2010 at 3:18 PM
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