My awakening to the significance of spirit is completely consuming. I can’t get away from it and I don’t want to get away from it. This reality of our own spirit given to us now surrendered to God’s Holy Spirit which is also within is no longer a concept to have with little understanding; it is a genuine reality I can see within me and I can truly rejoice because of it.

There is a gentleman who has been coming for a few months now. When he first started he wanted to overcome a “somewhat addiction” to alcohol and to grow in his walk with God. At the time of his arrival I simply asked if he would be ok working on his walk with God and to see if this walk would possibly take care of his “somewhat addiction”? This has been working. So, yesterday when he came he was attempting to tell me about an experience he’d had during a devotional time just a few days back. As he was describing it and unable to put words to its significance, I asked if this experience was with his spirit? He said an emphatic YES!

It is very easy to put words to our flesh since we live very awake in it 24/7. Even though we have our own spirit 24/7 we rarely are in tune to it, so putting words to it seems tough. I use the idea that things of the spirit are better explained as an experience rather than something to know. Once you’ve experienced something it stays with you. Knowing something might stay in our mind someplace, but recalling it becomes dim quickly.

Oh how I want to grow in God’s Spirit within me letting Him better consume me 24/7 replacing this dying flesh of mine. There is always something new about God’s Great GIFT to us that we can benefit from experiencing once we are awake to His Presence in us. I want to stay very much awake!