Holy Spirit...

Recently I've been reading Joy Unspeakable by D. Martyn Lloyd Jones-a very challenging and interesting read! It is very much focused on the Holy Spirit and different aspects of it. Jones talks of being continually expectant of the Holy Spirit in our day to day lives and that although sometimes the Holy Spirit can seem more prevalent in centuries gone by it just simply isn't the case.

I have to confess that of late I've become way too content with my expectations of the Holy Spirit, it is once I read Jones' words that I realised what I'm missing out on and it revealed a truth I'd long forgotten, apparently! I so often get into the frame of mind just waiting for a Sunday morning, praying before hand to experience the Holy Spirit, as though the previous 6 days didn't need the Holy Spirit!

I know that I can experience the Holy Spirit daily, for he is my "helper" and yet I so often glide over that fact. Whilst cleaning I had a real encounter with the Holy Spirit and since then, I've been so aware of my foolish thinking. I was mopping a floor and I encountered God! Crazy! He encounters us in the mundane and during the exciting times.

As believers and children of God the Holy Spirit is within us, he is in every inch of us.

I guess this blog is more a realisation than anything else!

The Holy Spirit is within me, so I want to make the most of it! I want to be effected more and more, day through day by it. The Holy Spirit isn't just for a Sunday morning, nor just the times of great spiritual excitement, it is for the mundane times, the quiet times and all the other times in between.

Gosh, imagine what would happen if my expectations of the Holy Spirit each day were completely wild! Imagine the possibilities!