It's been crazy, fiery fun this past week as one of our school leaders, Kat Hobin faithfully taught on the Holy Spirit for six days and lead our school in application and ministry. For me, it has been a conquered peak of what it looks and feels like to pursue God with my friends (as staff) and witnessing with joy as our wild disciples followed-baptizing each other in the Spirit, praying for spiritual gifts, and prophesying over one another. I have never seen a group of people like the one I am a part of. I have never seen a family like these 86. I have never felt a ravenous hunger like what we hold together. I have never seen so much desire for the all-consuming fire of heaven in the form of friendship with the Holy Spirit. Everyday I am even more spurred on by these ones that hear so clearly from the Lord and are fighting for their relationship with Him. Even more profoundly impacted by their want for the fullness of what this life was meant to be. I see them standing firmer on the Word that was made flesh and increasingly relying the Spirit alive within them. I think back to a post I wrote at the beginning of all this :
The God of the Bible is still the God of today.
'Week 1' of this school has proved that. The hunger and fervor that these students have run into this school honestly has rivaled our own.
"My message and preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit's power, so that your faith migh not rest on human wisdom, but on God's power...For the kingdom of God is not a matter of talk but of power."- 1 Corinthians 2:1-2, 20
That is what the next leg of the journey looks like, walking in the belief of the authority we have been given. So much so that is normal for us to do things "even greater than He."
Not for the sake of our reputation, but to the glory of His.
Everything in The Book is true. End of story. We can wrestle with it, sure. But any conflict between the two falls on us.
Fact. The God of the Bible is still the God of today.
"For John baptized with water, but in a few days you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit... you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth....When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place.Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting. They saw what seemd to be tongues of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them. All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them.- Acts 1:5,8;2:1-4
I choose to rememeber the six days we spent honoring Holy Spirit; the anticipation, excitement and the fulfilling displays of God's faithfulness and power in the pouring out of His love in such sweet and magnificant ways. Ways that were higher than anything I could have expected or imagined a month ago. And it makes me wonder ...what will God do in us next?!
