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August 23, 2019 – I long to experience more in my relationship with God. In one breath I utter these words and in the next I simply move on with life. I live with a type of practical agnosticism that limits my ability to walk with God. I am more consistent today than I ever have been with spending time with God in His word and in prayer, but I come to the end of the day and realize that the rest of the day was basically spent living in my own strength.
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Looking back over that journal entry I can see the pull of the Holy Spirit on my heart. To be authentic and to grow in Christ, we have to learn to surrender every moment to him. By that I mean we have to overcome what we have learned about being efficient and being productive in our work. Ten tasks completed in a day for God are far less valuable that one task completed with God. MORE is a two-way invitation. An invitation from God for us to walk with him, and an invitation from us that opens our heart for him to walk with us. His invitation is a calling, and our invitation is a surrendered heart. This is how we experience God more. This is how we experience more of God. We must be united with him and walk in a oneness with the Holy Spirit.
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My counsel is this: Live freely, animated and motivated by God’s Spirit. Then you won’t feed the compulsions of selfishness. For there is a root of sinful self-interest in us that is at odds with a free spirit, just as the free spirit is incompatible with selfishness. These two ways of life are antithetical, so that you cannot live at times one way and at times another way according to how you feel on any given day. Why don’t you choose to be led by the Spirit and so escape the erratic compulsions of a law-dominated existence?
-Galatians 5:16-18 (MSG)
-Galatians 5:16-18 (MSG)
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