For the longest time my favorite verse has been Ephesians 3:20-21 because I knew God could do so much more in me and through me than I thought possible. I knew this to be true but I didn’t practice it to be true. It’s that head to heart drop that separates so many Christians from knowing the freedom that Christ came for us to live in and actually living in it.
My favorite part of that verse is the fact that God does his works “according to the power at work within us.” This is the part that both excited me the most and scared me the most because I wasn’t sure what that looked like. At training camp it finally hit me that this wok inside me was suppose to be the Holy Spirit. This, however, is the one part of God that is suppose to be the comforter but has made me the most uncomfortable! Why? It’s simple. The Holy Spirit is the one part of God that requires experience (always Biblical of course) as much if not more than knowledge. This is scarey because it requires a complete leap of faith that can’t be controlled by legalism or law.
My favorite part of that verse is the fact that God does his works “according to the power at work within us.” This is the part that both excited me the most and scared me the most because I wasn’t sure what that looked like. At training camp it finally hit me that this wok inside me was suppose to be the Holy Spirit. This, however, is the one part of God that is suppose to be the comforter but has made me the most uncomfortable! Why? It’s simple. The Holy Spirit is the one part of God that requires experience (always Biblical of course) as much if not more than knowledge. This is scarey because it requires a complete leap of faith that can’t be controlled by legalism or law.
Training week I took it. I actually let the Holy Spirit show me a fraction of what he is about. Not just conviction, or healing, or prophesy, or speaking in tongues, or any miracles that he decides will glorify him, but all of it and so much more! Because of this, openess to the Holy Spirit is my theme throughout this year. There is a reason blasphemy against the Holy Spirit is unforgivable in Matt. 12, because that is God on Earht today! I have put it in a box for too long and that box is slowly breaking apart. That is why this next year WILL be more than I can think or imagine!
