"More" of the Holy Spirit

Does anyone recognize the name Beth Moore?

I know, silly question. She is a woman after God's heart and I am constantly encouraged when I hear her speak or read something she's written. I took a look at a devotional on her website from "The Beloved Disciple" and was, again, very encouraged.

She was talking about how often we feel the need for something like more patience or His perspective on things but really what we need is more of the Holy Spirit. Now she made it very clear that when we ask Jesus to rule over our lives the Holy Spirit moves in completely but how much we allow Him to have access to our lives to work is another story. What we need to pray next time we need more patience or His perspective is for more of the Holy Spirit because this is where it all begins.

Galatians 5:22-23 talk about all the characteristics we, as believers, should emulate and practice but what does it all revolve around? The Holy Spirit!

She makes the following statement about this "revelation"...
Child of God, don’t just absorb this truth! Get up and celebrate it! God gives His Spirit without measure! He has all that you need. Or more properly stated, He is that all you need. Our fulfillment and greatest joy are in the flooding of the Holy Spirit of God in our lives. He is how we understand God’s Word and will for our lives!

Thorns and Revelations

A few years ago my dad gave us the devotional Thoughts From The Diary Of A Desperate Man by Walter A. Henrichsen.  I finally got it out and started reading it this last week.  I'd recommend it so far.  

Yesterday I read about Paul's thorns and revelations.  Seems that of late many of the people we love are hurting from physical pain, loss of a loved one, or something else.  These are people that love the Lord with all their hearts.  I often wonder why does this stuff happen to them and not me?  Or why does bad stuff happen, in general, to good people?  So, this devotional was specifically moving to me in that I know they all see the Lord more clearly and intimately having gone through what they are going through.  Henrichsen states, "Suffering often accompanies intimacy with God."  

He also talks about how with that intimacy sometimes comes extraordinary revelations but that first began with extraordinary suffering.  I don't believe, by any means, that he's saying this is a direct science or that it you will always have extreme intimacy with God during suffering.  God is not a god that can be put in a box.  He moves in unique and different ways.  But we do know that He is the same yesterday, today and forever! Hebrews13:8

So, I leave you with this thought...

"If you covet those encounters with God 

where He reveals Himself in special ways, 

are you willing to bear the cross 

that often accompanies them?"

FINALLY...our first house pics

For those of you that have been waiting, oh about 5 months now, for pictures of our house...well, here they are! There's a lot to still do but it gets a little extra touch here and there to make it feel more and more like home. Although, I have to say that it's felt like home since the very first day.

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