God emailed me today.

God emailed me today. 

 

I was sitting talking with my good friend Josh Bruce about the Holy Spirit and how it can sometimes be so complex and that my little mind makes it more confusing that it really is.  (like that sentence   We were talking about the baptism of the Holy Spirit.  I brought a verse in 1 John where it talks about how we know He is in us by His Spirit.  I have an understanding that the Spirit of God came to dwell in me when I made that decision to follow Jesus. I sometimes find it hard to understand the baptism of it all. 

 

Then Satan tries to shoot lies out about comparing my walk with other people that are having these crazy out of body experiences.  As Josh and I were talking, I came to understand that as I am walking this out in love following Jesus, that alone is a pure miracle from the LORD.  To love my enemies.  To turn the other check.  To choose to love when knowing it won’t be received.  To forgive and expect nothing in return.  To give only because of joy.  TO LOVE.  It has started to become natural that I am not having these “crazy out of body experiences.”   Is that part the baptism?  Did I have to fall and speak in a tongue for it to happen?  Did I have to shake and see all these blind men see to really believe that the Spirit of the LIVING God lives in me?  Our do I need to walk out the purpose that God has laid before me in confidence and not compare. 

 

The Spirit of the LIVING GOD comes out in power.  When Jesus comes, He comes in power.  So if through a tongue or  prophecy, or ministering to someone through encouragement, or in LOVE.  There He is: The SPIRIT OF THE LIVING GOD DWELLING IN US.  God’s timing is perfect in all things.  There is always more that God wants to do through us.  But before any more comes I must proclaim once again that the Spirit is in me, alive and well, and decide that the lies and comparison dies.

 

And then I got an email from one of my girls that I lead at church from home.  Actually I got an email from God 2 minutes after talking about all this with Josh.  At the end of the email they wrote “1 John 4:13-17 you’re livin it girlie!”

 

 

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We know that we live in him and he in us, because
he has given us of his Spirit.¹⁴And
we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of
the world. ¹⁵If anyone acknowledges that
Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in him and he in God. ¹⁶And so we know and rely on the love God has for us.  God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in
God, and God in him. ¹⁷In this way, love is
made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment,
because in this world we are like him.

 

I think God just spoke.  Amen