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“Fill ‘er up, please!” That’s what my dad used to say when we drove into a gas station in the “old days”... attendants always ran out to your car as you drove in — and in a “full-service” filling station, they washed your windshield and checked your oil and the air in your tires too. When I was very small, I remember asking what would happen if the gas tank were dry? No gas? NO GO!!!
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It strikes me that it is somewhat the same with humans and the Holy Spirit. Without the Spirit, we are simply a collection of “dry bones” as Ezekiel put it... WITH the Spirit — everything changes... we think and feel and act differently because we have said “yes” to being filled up with the LOVE Jesus described — NOT the things with which our culture wants to fill us up: power, success, prestige, thirst for “things” and more...
No Spirit ? NO SOUL ... NO GO.
“GOD is like an UNDERGROUND RIVER that no one can dam up or stop.“
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Thus spoke the Medieval mystic, Meister Eckhart (1260 - 1329). Don’t you just LOVE that image??? God is the ultimate “full-service” filling station, deep within — an underground river that runs right through each of us. If we sink our roots deeply , we will constantly be connected to our SOURCE, with NEVER an empty “tank” ... no chance of drought or “dry bones...” RESULT??? —we are always filled up — totally “juicy!!” and positively SATURATED with the Holy Spirit.
On this PENTECOST Sunday, don’t miss coming to our outdoor service, complete with a real Pentecost fire! You will hear our choir sing the energetic I FEEL THE SPIRIT!
Click here for a sneak preview by another choir …
and affirm the words for yourself as they sing —
There’s a little wheel a-turnin’ in my heart…
I found the Spirit — I’ll never let it go!! 🔥