God’s objective for you is to expertise His presence! Right this moment, my expensive pal Jeannie Cunnion exhibits us how we are able to encounter God intimately in our every day lives via the energy of the Phrase and particular person of the Holy Spirit! I’m so delighted to welcome Jeannie to the farm’s desk at this time…
Visitor publish by Jeannie Cunnion
I’m not a sleepwalker, however I’ve slept in houses with people who find themselves. It’s wild to look at how that particular person appears to be functioning as in the event that they’re awake. Their eyes could also be open. They could carry out routine actions comparable to getting dressed or consuming. However all in a deep sleep!
May it’s that many people are doing one thing related in our relationship with Jesus, going via the motions, not absolutely awake to the life we’ve been invited into in Christ?
Right here is the gorgeous information! The Holy Spirit is able to awaken us from our slumber into a extra vibrant relationship with God! From our sleepwalking into deeper Spirit-walking!
“The Holy Spirit is able to awaken us from our slumber into a extra vibrant relationship with God! From our sleepwalking into deeper Spirit-walking!“
However for this to occur, for us to take pleasure in a extra intimate relationship with Him, we have to have tender hearts and open arms to each the facility of the Phrase and the particular person of the Holy Spirit!
For instance, when you love learning and unpacking Scripture, you would possibly are inclined to overlook the essentiality of the Holy Spirit in your relationship with God.
However, if you already know the facility of the Holy Spirit in your life and stroll consistent with Him, you would possibly are inclined to overlook the essentiality of the Phrase in your relationship with God.
As somebody who spent the vast majority of her life as the previous, loving the Phrase however having little appreciation for the work of the Spirit, I’m passionate in regards to the union of Phrase and Spirit.
I’m so grateful that doesn’t imply I didn’t know intimacy with God earlier than I started appreciating the work of the Spirit. That’s the great thing about the Holy Spirit. Even once we’re neglecting His presence, or not sure of His objective, He’s nonetheless faithfully at work in us and for us!
However once we do welcome His presence, reply to His promptings, comply with His guiding, and depend on His energy, we are going to know a type of intimacy solely those that are led by the Phrase and Spirit can know. Each information about God and intimacy with God are important.
Only one instance of the immeasurable energy within the divine merging of Phrase and Spirit is within the lovely story of Jesus, within the hours after His resurrection, in Luke 24. Two males have been strolling alongside a street exterior Jerusalem on the way in which to Emmaus, lamenting the crucifixion of Christ and feeling all hope is misplaced, when Jesus all of the sudden joined them. However they didn’t acknowledge Him as He spoke to them. What did Jesus inform them?
“Even once we’re neglecting His presence, or not sure of His objective, He’s nonetheless faithfully at work in us and for us!“
He began firstly, with the Books of Moses, and went on via all of the Prophets, mentioning all the pieces within the Scriptures that referred to him.
They got here to the sting of the village the place they have been headed. He acted as if he have been occurring however they pressed him: “Keep and have supper with us. It’s almost night; the day is completed.” So he went in with them. And here’s what occurred: He sat down on the desk with them. Taking the bread, he blessed and broke and gave it to them. At that second, open-eyed, wide-eyed, they acknowledged him. After which he disappeared.
Backwards and forwards they talked. “Didn’t we really feel on fireplace as he conversed with us on the street, as he opened up the Scriptures for us?” (Luke 24:28–32 Message )
Their hearts burned inside them as Jesus, stuffed with the Spirit, unpacked the Scriptures which have at all times pointed to Him. The wonder and essentiality of Phrase and Spirit are on full show.
“What the Spirit of God did for these males He delights to do at this time—making His presence intimately recognized so we burn with affection as we open the Scriptures.“
What the Spirit of God did for these males He delights to do at this time—making His presence intimately recognized so we burn with affection as we open the Scriptures. The Spirit of Fact brings encounter. He makes the presence of God palpable.
The boys on the street weren’t sleepwalking, however they wanted the Spirit to open their eyes to see it was Jesus—the Phrase made flesh—of their presence.
How a lot sweeter would our lives with Jesus be if we have been dedicated to each the ideas of the Phrase and the facility of the Spirit, to each head information and coronary heart affection? We want each sound doctrine and intimate expertise for a deeper life with God. What would occur then?
I believe we’d look quite a bit just like the early church. There could be revival, an outbreak of hearts burning for Jesus, and lives reworked into His likeness.
Theology with out intimacy results in dry faith. Dry faith is commonly in regards to the outward look. It’s extra about wanting good than loving God. Checking the packing containers and staying in line. However there isn’t any intimacy if you’re strolling on eggshells.
“Relying on our good works and changing into pleased with how we seem attracts us deeper into self-sufficiency and farther from Christ-intimacy. “
If we learn the Bible as a handbook for “coaching in righteousness” and apply it with out the love and remodeling energy of the Spirit, there could also be conduct modification, however the coronary heart will keep cussed, and progress can be stunted.
With out Phrase + Spirit, we can be left with swelled heads and shrunken hearts. We are going to develop in self-righteousness—the dying blow to rising in Christ-righteousness. Relying on our good works and changing into pleased with how we seem attracts us deeper into self-sufficiency and farther from Christ-intimacy.
However! Theology with intimacy cultivates genuine relationship with our residing God. Phrase + Spirit prompts obedience and transformation in our lives.
We get to ask the empowering Holy Spirit to invade our hearts as we research and search to stay by the Phrase. God’s Spirit awakens and energizes our spirit and ensures we don’t sleepwalk via the great issues God has deliberate for us.
He makes our hearts burn inside us with gratitude for what Jesus has executed for us, compelling us to stay in response to God’s grace. He invitations us into life-altering intimacy with our Savior as we stroll in obedience to the life-giving Phrase!
