Wednesday, April 28, 2010

The Power of YOU...

We have been spending some time at Merge learning about how we interact with the Holy Spirit.  When some hear this they immediately think that Merge is spending time telling ghost stories about weird things that have happened in an attempt to get goose bumps and freak each other out.  That is not the case.  

I believe that knowledge is power and the more you know, the more motivated to getting active in life.  Ignorance in this case isn't bliss, it's isolation.  So we are asking some important questions in hopes that through God's Word we can better understand how to follow the leadings of the Holy Spirit.  

Most of this is birthed out of my own frustration surrounding my ability to ignore or explain away incredible opportunities the Holy Spirit is calling me on.  Without the Holy Spirit, we are limited to human sized efforts which can only produce human sized results.  BUT!!!!! If we are serious about believing that God has given us His Spirit, we take a very exciting leap in seeing Him do supernatural things producing God-sized results.  

This is the plane we the church must live at.  The power of you isn't much to get excited about.  Sure you may do something helpful where people pat you on the back.  They may even speak well of you behind your back but that kind of influence is very limited.  The power of God however, changes everything; you get to see things happen around you and through you that is only concocted in your imagination.  You go from dreaming in living color to living in it.  

Heart and Soul,
BAG
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