For the Sake of Love

I love the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. I sometimes feel like the Holy Spirit is the most forgotten. The Body of Christ forgets that He is still as much alive today as He was when the disciples experienced His power in the book of Acts. I recently started to do a study looking at scriptures in the Bible about the Holy Spirit. Here is some of what I found.

But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things and bring to your rememberance all things that I said to you. (John 14:26)

Jesus told his disciples..."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 depart, I will send Him to you...He will guide you into all truth; for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak; and He will tell you things to come." (John 16:7, 13)

The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but cannot tell where it comes from and where it goes. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit. (John 3:8)

It's an adventure living for the King. You never know where His Spirit might lead you. It could be to pray for a woman at the grocery store. He could lead you to buy lunch for a co-worker. Or He could lead you to move to a state that you have never been to before. We don't need to be afraid to step out and follow Him. He is a good leader. His leadership is perfect. And as we step out in faith when we feel those little nudges He will speak to us more.

"Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do he will do also; and greater works than these he will do, because I go to My Father. And whatever you ask in My name, that I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you ask anything in My name, I will do it." (John 14:12-14)

In the above passage Jesus says that anyone who believes in Him will do greater works than He did through the power of the Holy Spirit! And He says whatever we ask in His name He will do. He wants us, His Bride, to know that we have authority in Him. And ANYTHING that we ask in the name of Jesus that is according to His will, He will do it. This is our inheritance. He is giving us an invitation to partner with Him. He doesn't want us sitting on the sidelines bored with the pleasures that the world has to offer. He wants us in a real relationship with Him. Moving where He moves. And stepping where He steps. He desires to see His Bride stepping into the fullness of the calling He has for her.

The Lord wants us to move and walk in the Spirit today. He desires to see believers loving the people around them. Healing the sick, setting the captives free, and loving the unloved ones. Do we desire this kind of relationship with the Lord? How far are we willing to go for the sake of love? How abandoned are we willing to become?

If we give ourselves whole heartedly to the Lord, give up the idols in our lives and allow His Spirit to consume us like a fire than He will move through us in ways we never could have imagined. There are people in the Body of Christ that have a calling on their lives to do great things for God but because they are not willing to become fully surrendered in every area of their lives the Spirit is not able to do these "greater works" through them. The same Spirit that raised Christ from the dead is dwelling inside of us. Are we willing to surrender everything to partner with Christ and watch Him change the world one person at a time?

Oh Lord, I give up the idols that I hold onto in my life so I can have the fullness of what you have for me. I want your Spirit to move without limits in and through me. That I wouldn't care what I might look like or what others might think of me. I want my heart to be humble, lowly. I want to be a vessel used for your glory. That many might be saved, delivered, and brought into the fullness of your Kingdom.

Love,

Jess