Pour It On, God!
August 20, 2010For me to say that I’m very very excited about how God has been pouring out the Holy Spirit on us lately is an understatement. I am beside myself! God is doing some incredible things in the Wednesday night youth services and Sunday morning services. He is allowing us to experience a hint of His presence. With that hint of His presence we as a church are witnessing broken lives being restored, the hopeless receiving hope, and people being baptized in the Holy Spirit. In other words “nothing is impossible” with God!
“In the Last Days,” God says, I will pour out my Spirit on every kind of people: Your sons will prophesy, also your daughters; Your young men will see visions, your old men dream dreams. Acts 2:17 -MSG
When we desire to be in the presence of God more than we desire what is in His hand we have a relationship with God. Think about how the Messgae Bible puts it.
“If God gives such attention to the appearance of wildflowers—most of which are never even seen—don’t you think he’ll attend to you, take pride in you, do his best for you? What I’m trying to do here is to get you to relax, to not be so preoccupied with getting, so you can respond to God’s giving. People who don’t know God and the way he works fuss over these things, but you know both God and how he works. Steep your life in God-reality, God-initiative, God-provisions. Don’t worry about missing out. You’ll find all your everyday human concerns will be met. Matt 6:30-33 – Msg
I l ike what the Amplified Bible states in Luke 13:26-27 about doing works in the name of Jesus but not knowing Him.
“But He will say, I tell you, I do not know where [what household--certainly not Mine] you come from; depart from Me, all you wrongdoers”! We need to be in the household of faith. I want to be what the book a Psalm describes as those that are planted in the household of faith will flourish. My sole desire is for God to know me because I am from His Household, where he sees me all the time and knows me, and I know Him.
