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There was a point in my life when I believed that it was a bad thing to be addicted to the Holy Spirit and that we shouldn’t always want to feel the Holy Spirit because then if we do when we don’t feel it, we will get discouraged.

This is what I have been discovering…

I would rather hunger after God with all that I am and everything inside of me, full of hope and assurance that He WILL indeed fill me, than to become complacent and stagnant in my walk with Christ feeling as though I were safe from disappointment.

God has been showing me so much and teaching me almost faster than I can process it all.  The other night I had this revelation and wanted so badly to write a blog on this subject.  I have come to the conclusion that I LOVE the Holy Spirit and I LOVE being filled with Him and feeling Him, and that is okay.  It’s more than okay.  It is necessary.  Jesus told us that we cannot survive on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.  (That word being the rhema word…or the spoken word of God)  We do not get a rhema word without being full of the Holy Spirit.  So I live and breathe and thrive on the words from the Holy Spirit.  Not only that, but if I am to die to myself each second of every day and let Christ live in me, don’t I need the Holy Spirit to fill me and give me life….even more than life, but the abundant life Jesus promises?  I don’t want to only survive, but I want to prosper!

Now, I think that what I would have argued this and said that I agree with all of those things but think that we can’t expect to feel God everytime we call on him because there are times we won’t feel him.  We need to be able to live without feeling him.
 
I do NOT want to live without feeling him.  I was made to feel him.  HE alone sustains all that I am.
 
I’ve also realized that I don’t want to be ABLE to live without feeling the Holy Spirit.  I don’t want to live my life relying on explanations of why I didn’t feel him.  God is always speaking and moving, and what it comes down to is how bad I want it.  How hungry I am for His presence?  I want to live each day craving his presence like I crave every physical need.  I’m finding myself caring more about my spiritual needs than my physical needs.  God has been showing me that there is so much out there for me and I have to be willing to dream it and believe Him to do it.  Nothing is out of reach for him, and therefore nothing is out of reach for me because he said, “All that I have belongs to you.”

Something HUGE that he has been teaching me that is completely changing all that I think is that He is truly a good Dad.  I knew this so well in my head and could quote the verses on it a million times but he is making that head-heart connection and I am blown away at how good he is.  He really is THAT good.  There are so many times that I have thought, “Well God put this stumbling block in my way to teach me a lesson, or make me stronger.”  I firmly believe that absolutely everything that we go through and everything we do ends up giving God glory and he uses all things for His glory.  BUT, no longer do I believe that God puts things in my path that will harm me just so I can learn a lesson.  He teaches me through it but he does not desire to hurt me or for me to be in pain.  He is such a loving and caring Dad.  Things that come into my life that may harm me are never from God, but from the enemy.  God is so much greater than our enemy though and uses his works to mature us and bring Himself glory.  This has shifted SO much of my thinking.  EVERYTHING that is good and perfect is from God and is in the Kingdom of heaven.  And not only am I a citizen of that Kingdom, as a daughter of the King, but I have the keys of that Kingdom to bring it to earth as Jesus prayed.  I have access to every good and perfect thing and have authority to bring it to the darkest places of the earth.  And I not only have authority to do so but I am called to do so.  It is my purpose and my job to bring the good things of the Kingdom of heaven down to the earth.  I LOVE THAT.  That revelation will absolutely change your thinking and the way you live.  You may begin to live the “normal” Christian life rather than the deception of inactive Christianity.