We don’t want to be vacillating on the edge. We really want the depths of His Presence. We need to desire to be vessels consumed with the reality of His Presence, the reality of His works in our midst. It is not enough to know things in the mind. We need to constantly experience His living presence with us, in us and flowing through us. Psalm 77:11-12 I will remember the works of the LORD; Surely I will remember Your wonders of old. I will also meditate on all Your work, And talk of Your deeds. There is such satisfaction and contentment in this place where nothing can compare. There is great peace and joy in being His house of prayer. When we press in with earnest desire, hunger and expectation there He is waiting for us. (Matt. 7:7) He loves to pour out His love upon us. It is about us being filled to overflowing with His love. His love settles all the issues. Love overcomes evil. Love never fails. (I Cor. 13:8) It is His love that we are in need of. Love is not a concept. Love is an experience. The Lord loves His saints. Deuteronomy 33:2-3 The LORD came from Sinai, And dawned on them from Seir; He shone forth from Mount Paran, And He came with ten thousands of saints; From His right hand came a fiery law for them. Yes, He loves the people; All His saints are in Your hand; They sit down at Your feet; Everyone receives Your words.
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness. We need to hunger for holiness. The Lord is holy. When we are in His Presence the first thing we find coming out of our mouths is that He is HOLY. That is the most distinguishing characteristic of the Lord. That is what He longs for us to be, “Holy to the Lord”. He is wholly different than us. He wants us to experience that kind of divine life. The life of holiness is a heavenly life. It is a peculiar life. The Holy Spirit comes to impart that life to us, to help us walk in that way. The life of holiness is the way of the Lord. Exodus
28:36-37 We
are told not to learn the “way of the Gentiles”.
(Jer. 10:2) That would be equivalent to the way of the ungodly
or the “unlike” God. But there is a “way”
that the Lord wants us to learn. It is the way of the Holy
Spirit. A life lived in sensitivity to the Spirit is a life
worth living! It is a life of righteousness, peace and joy.
(Rom. 14:7) It is the Lord’s holiness imparted to
us as we live in communion with the Holy Spirit. You become
what you hang around. Hang around the Holy Spirit! He has
loads of benefits! Everything that He is about is good.
Jesus went around healing all those oppressed of the devil.
He did it all by the power of the Spirit.
The
Spirit of God is like a flowing river, a powerful river. Tap
into that River and the He will rush through your life and
rush on through to others as well. He has the ability to completely
wash out the debris and clean our house . . . washing, renewing
and refreshing. We should engage in the “Nestea Plunge”
of the Holy Spirit on a regular basis! You will find yourself
saying, “Ahhhhh! Feels good!” The words clean or pure are at the core of the Spirit's being. It is another way of saying “holy”. He is clean. When we welcome His washings He will clean our house. When this happens we actually feel this freshness. Have you ever seen the commercial where the lady is taking a deep sniff of the towel because is smells so good after it has been washed? – that is what the Spirit does to us. Don’t you want to smell good? I believe all who sincerely desire to please the Lord want to have His fragrance upon their lives. Many times it is just a matter of “how does this happen?” Let me tell you the key. The key is the Holy Spirit. Seek to know, seek to experience, seek to drink of His life. Set apart time to just call on His cleansing love. Lay your heart bare before Him. Declare your childlike dependency upon Him. Settle for nothing less than His touching you in that place of prayer. The good news is that He wants this even more than we do. Our responsibility is to just find the place of yeildedness to the Holy Spirit asking for His help. He is more than kind enough to help us. Just a little warning - when He does clothe you with His fragrance not everybody is going to think you smell good! But you will smell different to them . . . Your Father will be the One taking a big nostril intake and will take deep pleasure in it. John
14:16
Drink Deeply, John
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