Moving in The Spirit
Now He came near the path down the Mount of Olives, and the whole crowd of disciples began to praise God joyfully with a loud voice for all the miracles they had seen:
The King who comes in the name of The Lord is the blessed One. Luke 19:37,38
Not many chapters ago Jesus took the disciples aside and told them He was going to His death but they had a different vision.
When the spirit of God is moving we sense it and depending on our focus we will interpret it, according to our focus.
I know I have done it, seen it in others and known the truth.
When the spirit moves our spirits are lifted up, excited and often we sense that God is moving but have no real clue what He is doing. We make mistakes when we interpret it according to what we feel instead of waiting for the complete picture, or direction from The Lord.
We may prophesy over the wrong person, sense what is happening in another person but fail to discern the character of that person and that the Lords's moving is conditional on the person's yielding or obedience. I have heard things said over people and know the true character, for example greed or arrogant abuse of others, and known that what was said was without discernment. I also knew, short of a huge change of heart, what was prophesied would not come to pass.
Now I am suspicious when I hear a leader say, " I am so excited about blah!" I hear warning bells and know that they are working according to their emotion. I want the complete unemotional picture. I know that is hard, I get excited as well but I distrust my own excitement as well.
I can tell you I am quietly excited about surprising my grandson for his birthday this weekend but I will not expect you to fall down in abandonment thinking I am doing something great in the spirit, I am not. I am sheer lay enjoying being Nan. I cannot also expect Myer to be over the moon at my surprise, he may not. My excitement comes from my own expectation about bringing a surprise.
Get the idea? Lets be real!
The King who comes in the name of The Lord is the blessed One. Luke 19:37,38
Not many chapters ago Jesus took the disciples aside and told them He was going to His death but they had a different vision.
When the spirit of God is moving we sense it and depending on our focus we will interpret it, according to our focus.
I know I have done it, seen it in others and known the truth.
When the spirit moves our spirits are lifted up, excited and often we sense that God is moving but have no real clue what He is doing. We make mistakes when we interpret it according to what we feel instead of waiting for the complete picture, or direction from The Lord.
We may prophesy over the wrong person, sense what is happening in another person but fail to discern the character of that person and that the Lords's moving is conditional on the person's yielding or obedience. I have heard things said over people and know the true character, for example greed or arrogant abuse of others, and known that what was said was without discernment. I also knew, short of a huge change of heart, what was prophesied would not come to pass.
Now I am suspicious when I hear a leader say, " I am so excited about blah!" I hear warning bells and know that they are working according to their emotion. I want the complete unemotional picture. I know that is hard, I get excited as well but I distrust my own excitement as well.
I can tell you I am quietly excited about surprising my grandson for his birthday this weekend but I will not expect you to fall down in abandonment thinking I am doing something great in the spirit, I am not. I am sheer lay enjoying being Nan. I cannot also expect Myer to be over the moon at my surprise, he may not. My excitement comes from my own expectation about bringing a surprise.
Get the idea? Lets be real!
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