Good morning,
Yesterday’s meeting was so good to me!! I went to bed last night with so many good thoughts about what I heard and felt yesterday morning.
I was thinking about how we have everything we need to live and be happy in the holy Ghost. Everything! The joy, the peace, the strength, the righteous judgment, the discernment, etc. It’s all in there! If we have the holy Ghost dwelling inside of us, we have all of those things! It’s just like you told us yesterday, “We have the power to live like Jesus!”
Then, I thought about something I’ve heard you say so many times when you laid hands on me to pray for me, “Let Him Live!” I would always wonder what that really meant, but last night it was like a lightbulb turning on! I understood exactly what you mean when you say “Let Him Live!” You could just as easily say, “Let the holy Ghost Live!”
While it’s absolutely true that righteousness, peace, and joy is in the holy Ghost, it’s not a given that we feel those things just because we have the holy Ghost. If we neglect our holy Ghost and don’t keep it stirred up and alive, it does us no good and the “light that is in you becomes darkness”. If we let those little wrong things here and there build up without repenting, our holy Ghost and those wonderful feelings will get buried deeper and deeper. Our well will eventually dry up.
We have to let him live in order to have the wonderful life that is intended for us! I can feel it stirring in me as I write this!! This is all what you were preaching yesterday!
Last night, as I kept feeling fuller and fuller thinking on these things, I began to pray for our young people. I thought about what Uncle Joe said about people being too comforted by the things of this world to see their need for God. This world offers a lot of distractions to our young people (and us old people), but if we do what you said yesterday and remember God, if we will get still and spend time with Jesus, that’s when we begin to feel the holy Ghost and every wonderful benefit that comes with it! I laid there last night thinking, “This is what Pastor John was talking about this morning. This is remembering God”. I want our young people to have those sweet experiences on their bed or riding in their car. It will then spill over to their conversations with each other. They can build each other up in the holy Ghost! Those experiences are strength builders!
We have what we need to overcome this world; we just have to “let Him live” so we can serve God with our whole heart, just like Jesus did! Just like you told us yesterday, “Our life will be easier, happier, sweeter, and with a better end if we will walk in the Spirit.” You said, “Jesus wants us to be happy! But remember God. Remember our brothers and sisters.”
So, so good!
Lee Ann