Join in What the Holy Spirit is Doing

The Holy Spirit is ceaselessly active. The Bible word for Spirit is “wind” or “breath” in both, New Testament and Old Testament, Greek and Hebrew (pneuma and ruach). Jesus spoke of the Spirit in terms of wind. “The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going” (John 3:8, NIV). There is no such thing as a wind that does not blow; that would not be a wind. A wind is power in motion. The Holy Spirit is the breath of God, the wind of heaven in ceaseless activity. Asking for a move of the Spirit is like asking Him to be what He is. We don’t need to ask fire to be hot or water to be wet. The Holy Spirit is always moving and asks us to move with Him. God bless you. REINHARD BONNKE

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I need prayer warriors to bombard heaven about something! Please ! The LOrD knows all about it! Who will pray in agreement on behalf of a 5 year old who desperately needs God to move on his behalf? I confess I need your prayers- Father, raise up your true Intercessors— unite them by Your Holy Spirit!

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Daily Meditation for Saturday 08th of March 2014
I am the Lord, who exercises kindness, justice and righteousness on earth, for in these I delight.
Jeremiah 9:24
God delights in kindness, justice and righteousness. None of this is easy for us to believe.
Kindness is difficult for some of us to imagine because we do not have extensive personal experience with kindness. We can imagine God as a weak, codependent, ineffective being whose specialty is being relentlessly nice to people. But what of the God who exercises kindness? What would that look like?
Justice is difficult for some of us to imagine because we have not had extensive personal experience with justice. In dysfunctional families justice is either chaotic or completely absent. But what of the God who exercises justice? What would that look like?
Righteousness is difficult for some of us to imagine because we have not had extensive personal experience with righteousness. We do not have instincts for doing what is right, we do not delight in doing righteousness, we expect it to be boring, dreary and out-of-date. We may delight in caretaking and codependent niceness, but is that the same as delighting in righteousness? Probably not. So, what of the God who exercises righteousness. What would that look like?
God is capable of delight. God is not the Unmoved One. God is the Most Moved of us all. God's compassion and kindness are free and full. God's commitment to justice is beyond all our imaginations. God pursues righteousness.
Learning to share in God's struggle for kindness, justice and righteousness will require significant changes for us. It cannot be done in a one time event. It will be a life-time quest. We will forget and remember again. We will run away and come back again. But each day in the struggle we will grow in our capacity for delight. Until, in the end, when God's purposes are complete, we will be filled with delight at the triumph of God's kindness, justice and righteousness
God of kindness, I want to understand you better.
God of justice, I want to live in solidarity with you.
God of righteousness, help me to delight in what pleases you.
Increase my capacity for delight, Lord.
Let me discover you afresh today.
Amen.
Copyright Dale and Juanita Ryan

God will not abandon me....

March 1

Anxiety attack!

“[The] Power that brought us to this program is still with us and will continue to guide us if we allow it.” Basic Text, p. 27 ––––=–––– Ever had a panic attack?  Everywhere we turn, life’s demands overwhelm us.  We’re paralyzed, and we don’t know what to do about it.  How do we break an anxiety attack? First, we stop.  We can’t deal with everything at once, so we stop for a moment to let things settle.  Then we take a “spot inventory” of the things that are bothering us.  We examine each item, asking ourselves this question:  “How important is it, really?”  In most cases, we’ll find that most of our fears and concerns don’t need our immediate attention.  We can put those aside, and focus on the issues that really need to be resolved right away. Then we stop again and ask ourselves, “Who’s in control here, anyway?”  This helps remind us that our Higher Power is in control.  We seek our Higher Power’s will for the situation, whatever it is.  We can do this in any number of ways: through prayer, talks with our sponsor or NA friends, or by attending a meeting and asking others to share their experience.  When our Higher Power’s will becomes clear to us, we pray for the ability to carry it out.  Finally, we take action. Anxiety attacks need not paralyze us.  We can utilize the resources of the NA program to deal with anything that comes our way. ––––=–––– Just for today:  My Higher Power has not brought me all this way in recovery only to abandon me!  When anxiety strikes, I will take specific steps to seek God’s continuing care and guidance.

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