John 4:23 Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. 24 God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth.
I never realized the power of what I was asking from the Lord until it started to happen. It seemed like such a big prayer that it only became real and evident to me when it happened. Lord, God–LESS OF ME AND MORE OF YOU.
John 3:30 He must become greater; I must become less.
I want to be you with skin on. I want to walk in confidence that your word is living truth. I want to walk in the authority that you have given me to speak life into dead things and bring kingdom on earth as it is in heaven.
Savior I come
Quiet my soul
remember
Redemption’s hill,
Where Your blood was spilled
For my ransom
Everything I once held dear
I count it all as lost
Lead me to the cross
Where Your love poured out
Bring me to my knees
Lord I lay me down
Rid me of myself
I belong to You
Lead me, lead me to the cross
I am here at the cross and giving it all. It feels so indescribable to be overcome with the Holy Spirit. It has come upon me and I have no other choice than to desire a deeper passion for my King.
1 John 3 19 This then is how we know that we belong to the truth, and how we set our hearts at rest in his presence 20 whenever our hearts condemn us. For God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything.
SLAIN IN THE SPIRIT
At first, I am uncertain of this manifestation inside my heart. What is happening? Why are we scared of such a visible manifestation of the Spirit? If I trust God the Father and Jesus the son, then I will also trust the Holy Spirit. How, for so long, did I live on my own? What fills the gap between the acknowledgment of knowing that I am saved and what then follows, heaven?
From the depth of me I can feel the river of life (John 7:38) springing up. I am out of explanations. How did we miss this and at what point did I miss all that God is offering? God is who He says He is and He wants to give us one hundred percent goodness. He wants to give us everything under the sun. He wants to give us the inheritance, the kingdom, the nations, the people.
I am found in swirling desires — churning, life coming forth, love and redemption. I am inside myself in a world where clarity can be reached with His truth. As I lay on the beach in Ko Samet, I can hear nothing around me except for the words of life being prayed into me in God’s tongue. I feel the sensation of God’s words. My mind is cold and my heart is on fire.
1John 3:24 Those who obey his commands live in him, and he in them. And this is how we know that he lives in us: We know it by the Spirit he gave us.
I know that I am not here just to survive Lord; to walk through my stuff for 40 years and still not get across the river. No, I will fight giants for you as Caleb did. And I will have faith that the river is going to dry up and we will walk across in VICTORY. What needed to be done is done. With Jesus taking his last breath we won. We take victory over the flesh. Jesus didn’t come to earth and sacrifice his life for a ‘good try’ and a pat on the back. He came to plant theKINGDOM on earth!!!
