I want a new drug
One with no doubt
One that won't make me talk too much
Or make my face break out
One with no doubt
One that won't make me talk too much
Or make my face break out
(I Want a New Drug’ from the 1984 album ‘Sports’ by Huey Lewis and The News)
Luke 1
3Therefore, since I myself have carefully investigated everything from the beginning, it seemed good also to me to write an orderly account for you, most excellent Theophilus, 4so that you may know the certainty of the things you have been taught.
‘Time is a gypsy caravan
steals away in the night ,
to leave you stranded in dreamland....’
(Rush 1991- 'Dreamland')
I want to first take you back... Way back...to 1986.
steals away in the night ,
to leave you stranded in dreamland....’
(Rush 1991- 'Dreamland')
I want to first take you back... Way back...to 1986.
- Apartment life came to a close..
I had put my fucia colored spandex on for the last time,and left the ‘road band’...('selah')
and began playing gigs with area bands.
I had put my fucia colored spandex on for the last time,and left the ‘road band’...('selah')
and began playing gigs with area bands.
As we started a new chapter of life ...Rosemary and I, with our 2 terriers, headed out to the country .
We bought a Log cabin on 11 acres.
As we pulled into the driveway to the cabin… my eyes locked onto these beautiful small trees...
a little group of them...between the birches ..that contributed to the canopy over us, as we drove beneath them toward the house.
I said 'Rosemary...I just love those trees. Just look at the flowers on em. Those leaves are really cool !
My wife replied..
’They’re weeds, Paul. They never cut them back, and they just grew out of control.’
’They’re weeds, Paul. They never cut them back, and they just grew out of control.’
'Weeds???'
'Weeds.'
They were right in there with the silver and white birch..weeds, left unattended,grew huge.
It was sumac. You've probably seen em.
I hadn't...till Today.
Till they were pointed out to me for what they were.
'Weeds.'
They were right in there with the silver and white birch..weeds, left unattended,grew huge.
It was sumac. You've probably seen em.
I hadn't...till Today.
Till they were pointed out to me for what they were.
By the end of the summer, I had removed them from amongst the birches.
man, the ‘weeds’ had roots that went everywhere. I didn't realize how many, till I started digging.
Funny..
knowing they were really weeds, changed their appeal to me,and I wanted them out .
knowing they were really weeds, changed their appeal to me,and I wanted them out .
My wife didn't want to spoil the moment of joy when I thought they were 'trees'...
she just called a spade a spade. (little digging pun there)
think about weed for a minute..and how they can really grow...
-2011-
The Holy Spirits purpose in our life, can go beyond and beneath the place that our prayerful words end.
Receiving Him..is stepping Out with the Indescribable...
to accomplish the unknown..what is beneath.
your True Life with the Spirit, is so personal...
and so foreign to 'control'...
(by the Way..'control' is the 'weed' satan wants you to believe is a 'tree' .)
that we are deceived to see 'the Kingdom' within us..
Luke 17
21nor will people say, 'Here it is,' or 'There it is,' because the kingdom of God is within[a] you."
for the weeds we've let grow.
The Kingdom within..
-you choose-
55But Stephen, full of the Holy Spirit, looked up to heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God.
18When Simon saw that the Spirit was given at the laying on of the apostles' hands, he offered them money 19and said, "Give me also this ability so that everyone on whom I lay my hands may receive the Holy Spirit."
16Then I remembered what the Lord had said: 'John baptized with[a]water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.'
6When Paul placed his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came on them, and they spoke in tongues[c] and prophesied
and if it is to step into the 'unknown' with something you can't see...
in faith...where you run out of words.
you will be amazed to find Who is waiting for you there.
Personal baby..
personal Savior...
and still..to this day...He Gives His 'gifts'
To Have faith in God through Jesus...and stop reasoning away all His evidence.
.. that every moment has Purpose... like it or not.
As followers of Yeshua..we will live life in a 'tension'...
where we are not 'done' or 'undo-able'...
but striving forward...drawn to Him.
Our hearts are so complex...we need the Holy Spirit beyond words..’to weed’.
We can identify the flower, the stalk, the leaf, and even the dirt where the weed resides in us.
We can use words and illustrations to capture what we see, and say it is a weed..but the roots..
we can’t see the roots.
And that...
that is where receiving the Holy Spirit..is an adventure that words can't capture.
It is His job...His work as Spiritual coordinator...
for the One that has a claim on you, even Jesus.
26In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express.
Intercessory Spirit...
Prayer language..His
Sometimes I believe the very thing that is holding back revival in the hearts of believers everywhere.. are our ‘words’.
Not necessarily spoken,
but even thought..typed.
even though they are well intended to convey..subdue or capture our thoughts.
That I believe more than ever, the words of our Savior..
29Then he touched their eyes and said, "According to your faith will it be done to you"; 30and their sight was restored. Jesus warned them sternly, "See that no one knows about this."
That it is the changed Life within,that will speak for you.
that He.. is beyond words,
and that words are only the springboard to the Water that awaits you...when you choose to dive in
to Spiritual Reality
To ‘think’ it is ‘this’ or ‘that’..or that you have a 'plan', when it comes to the intercession that is afforded us through the Holy Spirit..
compromises your potential in Jesus the Christ...
and postpones the greatest Mystery to be revealed to you.
25At that time Jesus said, "I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children.
That you know of Him..
and that there is but a little farther you need to go ...alone..
to be embraced by Him. .. He, that is more than anything you know..
You must let Him have you ...
like... your hands off the wheel ...kind of have you.-
like... your hands off the wheel ...kind of have you.-
Hey man, I am no pioneer in this experience...
we all are.
we all are.
Forget about your words..
and don't try to understand His.. as He speaks on your behalf, from the place within you,
we try to describe as 'our heart'.
I am here to testify..that even if a Spiritual gift is revealed in you..
. 39Therefore, my brothers, be eager to prophesy, and do not forbid speaking in tongues.
He is a wild thing..and He is.
Hey, letting go,?
It is not easy...can I get a witness?
It is not easy...can I get a witness?
and it will not happen till you run out of words, and that place within you says to Him-
Have me.
Now...
Now...
and 'be filled.'
The revelation of the Gift is a step into the unknown...
it goes beyond the point 'as far as we know'
that the voice of an interceeding Holy Spirit calls out to God from within us...and yes..audibly
on our behalf to our filter, Jesus Christ.
-The worlds Filter-
'
'
Our release of 'control'- satans 'weed.'. in His Name...
to be His,
that the Counselor may speak for us
that the Counselor may speak for us
guide us ...teach us..
the root of our problem.
He is.. ‘The Building Inspector’-
and will bring you the greatest peace and understanding of God that you have ever known.
Is our time here still trying? Can it suck? Feeling persecuted??
Well, what does the Savior say about it?
12Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in heaven, for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you.
33"I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world."
- Believe Him-
Choose Him to be all...or none.
34"Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. 35 For I have come to turn
" 'a man against his father,
a daughter against her mother,
a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law -
36a man's enemies will be the members of his own household.'[e]
37"Anyone who loves his father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; anyone who loves his son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me; 38and anyone who does not take his cross and follow me is not worthy of me. 39Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.
..and the Comforter?
Hey…maybe it is time you just stop trying to drive..
let go of the wheel and...and Let God.
He is an amazing Driver
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