HOLY SPIRIT COME!!!!

Last night at the second service of the year, Bob talked about the Holy Spirit and how dependent we are for EVERYTHING. Jesus says apart from Him we can do NOTHING. If you wanna get specific, we actually rely on His grace for EVERY breath, EVERY move, EVERY use of our gifts, etc. but I think what God is really trying to say is that we cannot live the abundant life that He has called us to without the Spirit being active in our lives. As Christians His spirit lives within us. I like thinking about things in pictures so when I think about the Holy Spirit living in me I picture my body. Everything that you see when you look at me is FLESH as well as the blood that runs through my veins and the nerves that move my arms. BUT at the very core of me... in the deepest place is where MY spirit is. THAT is who I am. But connecting to that spirit is difficult as we live in the world. When Christ lives in us THAT is where He dwells, in our deepest spirit part. Because we are human and fleshly it is difficult to connect with that part of who we are but when we can throw off the things that hinder us and focus on Christ, we can LIVE IN THE SPIRIT. It's a totally different realm. Another world. When we are living in the Spirit we are seeing the world through Christ's eyes and thinking through Christ's mind. That is what He desires for us EVERY DAY, EVERY MOMENT. THAT is the ABUNDANT life!!!! Romans 8:3-11 says

"³For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, ⁴in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. ⁵For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit. ⁶For to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace. ⁷For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God’s law; indeed, it cannot. ⁸Those who are in the flesh cannot please God. ⁹You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him. ¹⁰But if Christ is in you, although the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit is life because of righteousness. ¹¹If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you."

I know it's hard. This world brings so many distractions. But that is what He calls us too because He knows that is where we find joy! This week I have been experiencing living in the spirit more than ever! I'm seeing life in a completely new way and it is amazing. I am praying that God does this work in all of you. That you can live in the Spirit daily and experience His abundant life! Have a blessed weekend!