It isn’t often one finds another person with a spirit/passion that seems to match/challenge your own. There is a gentleman who began coming for counseling a couple months ago. I’ve known him since he was a young married man but never gotten to know him until now. As we began to address his reason for coming, he kept talking about his need to grow in his relationship with Jesus. More recently we have begun to work through a book study called: What’s so Spiritual About Your Gifts? It is a marvelous little book that brings you deeply into your awareness of yourself and The Holy Spirit. In doing this one can’t help but also address how close you are to Jesus Himself since He is the very One who gave us the Gift of The Holy Spirit.

Well, in the few weeks we have begun this work, I look forward to this meeting. Not only do I enjoy greatly my own growth with God’s Holy Spirit, but experiencing the joy of working with someone else who is so grateful to begin to find his own connection with God’s Spirit.

There is so much richness in not only knowing more about God’s Spirit, but to begin to hear Him, trust HIm, and obey Him is a very different story. I’ve been working on this relationship, The Holy Spirit and me, for a while. Now it is so nice to have another joining this adventure of genuine submission. It sure brings out my own selfishness so I must face it and give it over to God’s Spirit within me. It isn’t a one time thing, but a daily (and often many times a day) surrender. Right now, I’m surrendered!