Danny Bell: Special Guest Blog
Thoughts on How the Holy Spirit Teaches Us
Fall is breaking, and there’s nothing like back-porch sitting on an early, sunny, fifty-something-degree morning! It’s the perfect time to put ourselves in that Psalm 46:10 position with open Bibles and the Holy Spirit as our guide. Oh… and coffee, of course. Because without Jesus and coffee, the world would be full of chaos and darkness!
Ms. Moneca and I feel like soldiers coming home from the battlefield after over thirty-three years of pastoring churches. It’s easy for us to understand how the exhausted prophet Elijah felt under the juniper tree. But then God fed that faithful preacher of righteousness so well that he was able to travel for forty days to Mount Horeb, where the still, small voice of God met him. And still today, the Holy Spirit is speaking to us through the Bible, prayer, and our circumstances.
So, are you disgusted, busted, and can’t be trusted? Here’s your friendly reminder to get with God before you get with people. Get still and chill. We all need a daily “Bible Revival” with the Comforter guiding us and bringing all things to our remembrance, as promised in John 14:26.
Like the young, up-and-coming prophet Samuel learned as a child, we must master the spiritual discipline of saying, “Speak Lord, for your servant is listening.” The busyness of life can wait until we do business with God. First John 2:20 and verse 27 even go so far as to say that we have an “unction” and an anointing from the Holy One abiding in us so that we have no need to be taught by man. This means that we are only receiving second-hand news when we depend on others to teach us without being like the Berean believers in Acts 17:11, searching the Scriptures for ourselves “to see if those things are so.”
And it’s so very “gospeliscious” when people who have spent time with God separately then come together corporately to share what they’ve learned in their own quiet times. There’s as much energy in the house as there would be if a ballistic missile plowed through a pile of marshmallows. It’s a Proverbs 27:17, iron-sharpening-iron extravaganza in exponential fashion!
Yes, God misses His time with us. He loves us that much! Get in your Bible early and often, because it’s impossible to be Spirit-filled without being Scripture-filled. Without taking a deep, daily dig in The Rock, you won’t be able to push back against the drain of the day and the distractions Satan uses. Just as God breathed life into the first Adam, so the Spirit of God will do for those who desire to meet with Him. His Spirit is speaking. Are we listening?
Scripture References:
Psalm 46:10
1 Kings 19:11-13
1 Samuel 3:10
1 John 2:20 & 27
Proverbs 27:17
John 14:26
Acts 17:11