I wrote this about a month ago right after training camp and never posted it.
I will be posting a blog with some updates about what we are doing now very shortly.
Who is the Holy Spirit??
If you have read anyone else’s blog, I am sure you have heard them go on and on about how great training camp was. How it flipped their world upside down.
You might hear a story or two about a sleepless night in a bus. Or how we all starved eating small portions of fish head soup all week. Maybe about having to get up at 7am and go running when it was the last thing in the world anyone wanted to do.
Then there are stories about prophesying over teammates. People rambling on in a tongue no one could understand, and even stories of the deaf being able to hear.
These are the stories that make everyone a little bit uncomfortable. We all want to believe it. We believe that our God can do those things, but may not really do them anymore. If he does, it is far off on the other side of the world, far enough away where we can say we believe God has the power, but still brush it off because we don’t really know what we believe. We don’t see any of that in our daily life in America, and certainly not in our churches. Who can blame us. Sure, we believe if we get together as a church and pray real real hard, maybe God will give Granny Smith the strength to make it through her sickness. But that is about the extent we expect to happen.
From time to time you will hear people talking about how they put God in a box and never realize it. That they have to constantly remind themselves God is so much bigger. I don’t think many of us really even understand the extent we do this though. In fact, I think we do it so badly, that I think many of us make up our own God, because “our” Jesus is so different then the Jesus in the bible. The Jesus in the bible did those things all the time, and gave his followers the power to do the same thing. Why did He change so much since then? Or are we the ones who changed? I believe we have blinded ourselves from what God has given us. Then when we hear stories about other people, we close ourselves off to it, because if its not happening in our church, in our lives, then it cant be from God.
This is a very different way of looking at things then I have been used to.
But I firmly believe there is a lot more to the Holy Spirit. We have a lot more power then most Christians realize. It is not hard to hear Gods voice, you just have to exercise your ability to listen. God intends prayer to be a two-way communication. God has given us the power to heal people, to speak life over people. We just have to reach out and claim it. Our words are so much stronger then most people think. Speaking positively over a person vs. negatively over a person can make a huge difference in some ones life. I am talking about the little things you say that don’t seem like they matter. So Encourage one another as Paul encouraged the church. Learn to listen to Gods voice. It is there, and it is clear. Ask Him to open your eyes and your heart about to the Holy Spirit. It is a gift He has given to you all you have to do is take it.
