When God starts to move his Spirit in a congregation, people are either going to get very uncomfortable or they going to embrace what God has to give them.
Religious rituals or methods don’t limit God but you …the things you accept limit you from seeing how God wants to interact in your life. How you view God may also limit how you accept or not accept God’s blessings.
I have learned it is better to accept what God has to give you and I then pretend that you don’t need any growth, any correction, any giftings, any word, any healing from God. Someone who wants to believe they are perfect and don’t need anything from God is fooling himself or herself.
Also the things God may have to give us may not even be for us but for someone else. Yep. As soon as I said that some of you starting thinking why would God want to use me to give a message to someone else? You aren’t alone. I am pretty sure Moses and my other prophets thought the same thing. In fact I am almost certain. The other thing that may pop up in your mind is, if I tell this person or even congregation what God wants me to tell them… they are going to think I am crazy! And what if I am wrong?"
Check the Spirit. Did you bring it up or did God bring it up? Is it your issue or is it God’s issue? Does it come from the mind or does it come from the heart and love of Christ in you? Are you being a legalist or are you the hands and feet of Christ?
People are afraid of God intervening sometimes because they are afraid of what God might tell them. God intervenes in our lives everyday… but we tend to not recognize it.
It’s hard to imagine that if God didn’t use a stranger intervene in my life ... by giving a message they recieved for me from God, I’d probably not be the person I am today. I would be struggling with hate issues, maybe divorced, and not caring about a lot. When God's words spoke to me, they broke the emotional and psychological chains that imprisoned me. They not only freed me but gave me a rivived spirit. It sounds funny but he made me new again.
We all need a refreshing of the Spirit in our soul. I think every week would be good… Hum? Joking aside, isn’t that what is suppose to happen every week?
We go to church to worship but we also go to leave our burdens and to let God work in our lives.
That is why we are called the body of Christ. If we don’t allow God to work in our lives then how can we possibly be the body of Christ? If we submit to God then he can work, move and minister in our lives. If we don’t allow God to work, move and minister to us then we are just a group of people that meet together in some building to hear some preacher or minister or pastor speak to us. We might as well stay home and watch TV...… Do you want that?
God is endless and beyond any expectation that we may even hold up to him. God is beyond our understanding and he sometimes works through our limited understanding to give us more understanding about Him and his love for us.
God wants to work, move and minister to our lives. When you sing in church don’t just sing the words but sing them to the Lord. If you feel Him lifting up your hands, then lift up your hands. If you feel like dancing then dance but do this for God not for the benefit of those who surround you. Spend time at the altar - that is why it is there. The altar is not there just to look nice and hold flowers and provide a nice looking space between the choir, musicians, pastor and the congregation. What could you be ashamed of by taking a step and going to that altar? The altar it is there for you and me.
We all have to move by faith in order for God to work in the body of Christ. We can only please God by faith.
Faith is not about fearing God to intervene in our lives.
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