"Each one should use whatever gift he has received to serve others, faithfully administering God's grace in it's various forms. If anyone speaks, he should do it as one speaking the very words of God." I Peter 4: 10-11


Dear Reader- This Blog started in February of 2011 and the pages are numbered. Please begin reading on Page One and continue from there. As you move down the path of the pages it is my hope that scripture astounds you and God, Himself, is revealed.

Scripture confirms that if you acknowledge God as God and draw close to His truths He will draw close to you! As you get to know God through scripture you will begin to see Him work in your life AND hear Him speak to your heart. It is not an audible voice but an inner one-that will change your life on earth...and beyond!

To walk a little deeper each page has a song recommendation that deepens the spiritual lesson. Each song has been specifically chosen and holds a message that should not be missed. If there is not a link to the song on the page, it is recommended that you use iTunes, YouTube or another source to download these songs so that you can move deeper into spiritual truths that the song writers and musicians have creatively written about- for your blessing and God's glory!

Friday, March 12, 2021

Conduit of the Spiritual: Page 111


I have always sought the Lord through reading different articles, books, devotionals and of course the Bible.  I’ve used my mind to reason things out using scripture and the small amount of spiritual knowledge I’ve attained through the years.  I’ve also noticed that there are times a particular line from a very familiar verse will stand out because of the season I’m in. This is what happened this morning as I read my devotional.  A line from it said:


“You have lived in your mind; now live in the Spirit.” 1



I immediately recalled the scripture that states that God is a Spirit and we are to worship Him in Spirit and in Truth.  As a typical human, I figured this meant I was to worship God using my mind to draw close to Lord and using my intellect, allowing it to reflect my heart’s goal of knowing God and furthermore, recognizing truth.  But this particular quote, above, changed my usual process; It differentiated between my mind and my spirit.  I quickly recognized that my mind is earthly and my spirit is something else.  My mind is stuck here, earth-bound and simply can’t soar where my spirit can go.  

 

This has given me a new goal of living in the Spirit and approaching God in a vastly different way.  In the material, many things seem unreachable but in the Spirit all things are possible. As a human, my physical abilities are limited.  I know this while working out with my trainer.  Ouch.  But, with my spirit, standing alongside the God of the universe, I can ask for things that are beyond even my imagination and wait in the spiritual as I was watch them come to fruition this side of heaven.  Here is one of my favorite scripture that gives hope to this truth:  

 

“Surely, I will see the goodness of the Lord

in the land of the living.”

Psalm 27:13

 

Things we don’t dare even dream.  Things we cannot even imagine; This is the amazing gift the Holy Spirit provides for us.  He is a gateway to the unimageable…and the conduit of the spiritual.  As we draw close to God, in spirit and in truth, he will draw close to us and then there is no telling where we can go!  

 

Lord, make it so! 

 

1-I Hear His Whisper; February 11th; Copyright 2019 Brian Simmons and Gretchen Rodriguez

 

Song Recommendation:

The Blessing
By: Gateway Church


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZ55mDL7dA0

 

Relevant Scripture:

“Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more

than all we ask or imagine, 

according to his power that is at work within us, 

To him be glory in the church 

and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations

Forever and ever!

Amen.”

Ephesians 3: 20


"God is spirit,

and his worshipers are to worship 

in the Spirit and in truth"

John 4:24

 

 

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