Daily Huddle - Mon Jan 4, 2020 Swing And A Miss

Love you all, praying for you.
 
I just love God’s Word.  But I didn’t always love it.  It once was just an obligation, for two reasons.  One, I didn’t really have a way to keep coming back to it…  until God revealed PRISM… but Two, a bigger reason, is I couldn’t understand it.  And it’s hard to love something you can’t understand.  A funny thing about God’s Word… there are two ways to read it.  With your brain, and with your spirit.  With your brain – it won’t make sense… Well, the natural things will, but the things of the Spirit won’t… because you read what you think, rather than what God thinks.  And by your spirit – you can’t do that with your brain, that can only come to your spirit, by His Spirit, the Holy Spirit, which only God can send.  (Good thing He promised you He would do it.)  First, you need to receive and believe the truth of Jesus Christ – who He is and what He did for you, and give up the ownership of your life to Him.  That transforms you into a new being (a reborn-in-your-spirit being) as well as enters you into new family and a new Kingdom.  It’s what enables you to be capable of hearing the Holy Spirit, so you can understand God’s Word, and His Word for you.  Salvation gets you on heaven’s frequency.   Then you need to be filled with the Holy Spirit.  Just like the one hundred and twenty in the upper room (that believed on Jesus Christ as their Savior and committed to Him as their LORD), needed to be filled with the Holy Spirit – in order to be the witnesses (martyrs) that He called them to be…  So we too, just like them must first be filled with the Holy Spirit – to be His witnesses.  That doesn’t mean you have to give your life, but it does mean you have to give up your life.  And why wouldn’t you, His plans for you are way better than yours!  Jesus said, it’s the filling of the Holy Spirit that gives you the power to do this, and to see and understand what He is saying.   Have you ever seen a big powerful baseball player completely swing and miss?  That would have been a home run… but he missed it altogether.  That’s what happened to me with the Word of God – I read it, but couldn’t understand it, didn’t have a way in ingest it – no track to run on.  And no Divine ability to understand it – I never received the baptism of Holy Spirit.  Why not?  Because the only churches I knew debated it, they didn’t walk in it.  They believed Him for Salvation, but they didn’t believe him to be filled with the Holy Spirit – the very first thing He told them to do… “Wait in Jerusalem, until you receive power,  then go…”  This filling of the Holy Spirit – comes just like Salvation – whoever believes and asks receives. (Luke 13:11).  It happened to the disciples at Pentecost.  They already had the Spirit at Salvation – Jesus breathed on them and said “Receive the Holy Spirit” – they believed that He was who He said He was.  And they received the Holy Spirit as we did at Salvation… (If Jesus breathed on them and said, “Receive the Holy Spirit," they got Him).  Yet they were still instructed to wait to be filled with the Holy Spirit at Pentecost.  It was the first thing Jesus commanded them to do after He left… so they would have power to see, and understand, and power to do what God, by the Holy Spirit – led them to do.  Paul received the same thing.  So did all the early church Christians, even the Gentiles.  The Holy Spirit is how you receive the power to see who Jesus is, get filled with true understanding of His Word, and it’s also how you are enabled to do what God has planned for you to do.  In fact.  PiVAT before dinner is done the same two ways…  With your brain, or with your spirit – by His Holy Spirit.  PiVAT questions to get His plans for you for tomorrow, aren’t questions for you to answer –they are questions to ask – ask Him, to get His plans for you.  The Holy Spirit is the One who reveals when you ask…God’s PiVAT for you – His plans for you today.  The Holy Spirit is one third God.  The other third is Jesus The Word of God, (and the part of Him that took human form and came to earth), and the third third is God the Father… Three parts, One being, a mystery only understood by His Spirit, not your brain, just like the Bible – The Word of God.  That’s why the Pharisees knew the Bible inside and out, but missed Jesus  - the whole point of the whole thing!  Praying that you would know him as your Savior and LORD – you can’t really know Him as one without the other.  You can’t love Him without obeying Him, without walking in His plans, instead of yours.  Praying that you will review the Relationship Topic Salvation First – to remind you and share with others.  And praying that you will review The Relationship Topic – The Filling of the Holy Spirit to remind you when you were filled the first time, like He instructed his disciples.  And also be filled daily by the Holy Spirit – to understand His Word every time you come back to PRISM today, and every time you do PiVAT before dinner – to Get His plans for you for tomorrow.  The Holy Spirit is the only way you can do PRISM (to read and understand His Word) without that brain-limited swing and a miss.  Praying that you will pray in the Spirit, because its how you pray His complete will, and its how you walk in the Spirit – so you don’t fulfill your plans, the plans of the flesh, but walk in the plans He has for you today, and the plans He has for your life.  And it’s how you fulfill the purpose for which He created you – in your generation.  Praying that you will walk this year by your spirit, not your brain, so His plans become your plans, and His thoughts become your thoughts.
 
Love you all,
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