On Saturday we helped start a house church. It was with a woman who we met while evangelizing and she told us how she had been called to start one. We met Saturday at 2 and thought that only a few people would show up. When we arrived with some more of our local friends there was around 100 people including many kids. I did not expect so many people to be there or that I would have to preach. I asked the Spirit to lead and speak through me because I knew not what to say. I preached the Gospel and spoke whatever the Spirit put on my mind. I shared about Christ's love, being saved, moving from death to life, how they are sons and daughters of God, being filled with His Presence, Spirit, and love. It was simple but I could not hold back my tears. I felt so completely led by the Holy Spirit and my words were not my own. I had no words, but Jesus had all of the words to give them. When I asked Him He was faithful to speak and to put truth in my mouth.
I have realized I know the truth about Jesus but there is so much more truth that I do not yet know. It is right there in His word and He wants to show me. I just have to look more deeply, go where I have not gone before and not be afraid, but go in trust. I must trust that just because I haven't experienced something before it does not mean it is not truth or of the Lord. We have to go experience in ways we haven't before to know more truth we have not seen or heard yet. In order to experience it the way Jesus intended we must go with a willing Spirit asking the Holy Spirit to reveal the truth. There is so much more that He has for us than we can even imagine, but we have to know that we do not have all of the answers. Our God is a God of beautiful mystery, but not of confusion. His Holy Spirit is alive, moving, and working.
I have spent too much of my life not experiencing this truth, the full truth. I may know God and Jesus, but do I really know the Spirit? Have I allowed the Spirit to move the way He wants to move? Or only move the way that is comfortable to me? Jesus is calling us to go deeper into the depths of His love and heart. For me right now that is knowing the Holy Spirit the way He intended, knowing and trusting that I cannot explain everything, but knowing when I ask the Spirit for truth, truth I shall receive. God does not want us to be so comfortable in our faith that we do not deeply desire to know Him more intimately.
Follow Him to where your flesh says it is uncomfortable, where you must rely only on Him, because in that we find rest at His feet, and above all truth that we have not yet seen. So much of the world knows the truth of the Spirit, that He is alive. I do not want anyone to miss out on what the Spirit has for them.
In knowing Jesus you can know the Spirit, which Jesus said, “Nevertheless, I tell you the truth: it is to your advantage that I go away, for if I do not go away the Helper will not come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you.” He goes on to say “When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you in all truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come. He will glorify me, for he will take what is mine and declare it to you. All that the Father has is mine; therefore I said that he will take what is mine and declare it to you.” John 16:7-8 and John 16:13-15
