I believe all of you had a wonderful time at this breakaway camp!! I think it was Splendid! Above and beyond the fun and bonding, I believe we have experienced God in a more intimate way. For myself, I know I did. As I was doing my quiet time thursday morning, I began to pray for the camp, for my group, for God's presence to fall. I was hungry for an encounter - just a word from heaven!
Suddenly God spoke to me! He told me flip to Romans and read the whole of chapter 8. I began to recall what I had learnt previously from the verses. They all seemed normal, but still i read. Reaching verse 14, I received a new revelation. Again, verse 14 seemed like a normal verse we would have come across many times. But my spirit began to stir.
Romans 8:14 - because those who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.
(you may want to read previous verses as well)
Throughout our walk with God, be it 3 month, 6 months, or a few years, majority of us have come across the phrase "being led by the Holy Spirit". Am I right? In fact, most of us have made that decision "Yes, ok, I want to let the Holy Spirit take control.." and our passion is stirred up. But I realised that slowly by slowly, our human nature tries to snatch the control back from the Holy Spirit!! There is no daily effort to die to ourselves! I am like that as well. Many of the times, I am so on fire, and after a while i'll be lukewarm. After a while we think that its ok to give in to our wishes. Sometimes our sub-conscious can even desire for more control without us knowing!!
Is this how you want the power of God to work in your life? To turn on and off, on and off, on and off, etc? Try doing that while charging your precious handphone and see what happens. Its the same for us! Our stamina,our capacity will start decreasing! Slowly but surely! Why not make a daily decision to stay plugged in? Why not remain connected to God? Why not let the Holy Spirit keep taking control? Afterwhich will we be able to experience a greater annointing, a larger capacity...
John 15:5-8 - 5"I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing. 6If anyone does not remain in me, he is like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned. 7If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be given you. 8This is to my Father's glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples.
Verse 8 begins to reveal the promise of fruitfulness, only after you choose to be broken, to let the Holy Spirit take control. Make it an everyday affair to ask for the Holy Spirit to be in control. We have to be aware. Otherwise we'll lose it somehow. Don't lose it. We're nothing without God...