I am just so torn this morning… Yesterday, was Pentecost and I really felt such an awesome move of God’s Spirit as He ministered to me through the service. And I know that God’s Spirit touched others in the same way; however, I also sense that most missed the anointing… One of the sermon points the Holy Spirit spoke was directed at the mindset of consumerism that many of us possess today. Consumerism is so prevalent in our society that it has become a part the church culture… where many of us come to a Sunday morning service as if we are running some errand, where we look at the “utility” of the service, as expressed in terms of approval (or disapproval). Approval of the worship service, approval of the preaching, approval of the amount of time spent --- and invariably we loose sight of the Lord.
I was just so full of His Spirit that I wanted to remain in His presence… as my friend Charlie said; “I wanted to fall over and worship him.” I was not in the same place as the rest of folks, in their own way, they came over as the service ended, and wanted to congratulate us as for the “great job we did” (they approve), or wanted to talk about other nonsense and other business (onto the next errand)… I was useless, I couldn’t shift gears.. it was fellowship time, a time for the luncheon, a time for coffee, a time for cake… a time for chatting. But I had my meat, doing the Fathers work, I had my fellowship, in the presence of the Savior and I had my worship in the power of the Holy Spirit. The one direction that I was being led in, was to talk to this young couple who had been visiting the church, I sensed that I had to speak to them, and that they were longing… and I wanted to speak with them; however, the business of the moment was so disruptive, that it never manifested itself. It actually took me several hours to wind down yesterday.
And since my prayers have been prayers of mourning – I am thinking, yeah the Lord wants us to be in unity and of one accord… and sensed that people are, and they were, but not about the Father’s business. I am grieving because we are just busy with things, and I see that we are not about the Father’s business… if we’d just spend half as much time and energy on the Father’s business. I pray that we would be about the Father’s business. What is it going to take for us to press in? What is it going to take for us to forsake all else and to pray it through and seek Him and not stop until he blesses us? And then we wonder why we don’t see a mighty move of God’s Spirit… Lord Help Us!