What a great it was in the Lord. God is so good. We started a Life in the Spirit seminar at our church last night. We have been actively praying for this seminar to come to fruition for about 4 months. Last night came and the Upper Room at our church was packed.
We started with songs of praise to our Lord and Savior. Then we read the passage about how the apostles were told to stay int he Upper Room and wait. They were told to wait with prayer and learning. And so it happened again some 2,000 years later. We were instructed by a wonderful Spirit filled man.
He said we must choose life or death. A great and glorious life with Christ and death with the things of this world. We talked about the necessity of creating a place in ourselves for the Spirit to indwell. Our challenge was to remove the things from our lives that clutter up our hearts and make them unable to receive God's grace.
I thought the first night was going to be pretty basic, nice to know you and Jesus loves you kind of night. But it was so much more. A challenge was laid down in love to submit our lives to Christ and to allow the Holy Spirit to become a part of us, to enable us to live the lives that God taught us and Jesus showed us.
After the talk we had small group sessions and you could see the hunger in the participants to have more. As they came to realize how much more God has to offer them through the Holy Spirit they lit up with expectation. I pray for the next 6 weeks of training as we await with joy the coming of the Holy Spirit.
I realize that, while I am there to help, I am also there to receive more fully the gifts of the Spirit which Jesus promised us.
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