Have you felt the push of the Holy Spirit?

It can be a physical experience.

It might be only an emotional thing.

I feel it in my chest and in my throat.

It’s a push that is not like any other
Inclination or feeling.

It occurs in me in response to certain music, the words to a song, the words of a talk or sermon, the words I read.

There is a stimuli.

And there is a response.

The stimuli comes to us.
The response is from us.

Stimuli occurs more often than we respond.

If I am pursuing the Presence of The Lord, if I am reading His Word…. if I am reading something written by
someone guided and directed by Him…stimuli will occur.

He says if we seek Him …..
we will find Him.

When that stimuli occurs…

humility arises

conviction can come

It’s not condemnation…
but conviction will come if there is separation or distance because of our decisions of disobedience or our lack of confession.

Truth is revealed.

The falseness of what we might be involved in fades and truth gets its clarity……

when we seek His Presence.
Listen to Francesca Battistelli sing her song, HOLY SPIRIT.

It rings with a call to His Presence,
of His Majesty, of the opportunity and then the need to welcome Him to wherever you are.

Some think it is a call for The Presence to be welcomed to a corporate worship service.

It is.

It is also much more.

I spoke those words to myself during a Sunday service a while back and an awareness arose in me.

That song and the desire for God’s Presence is not limited to a church service.

For me,
it is a call for God’s Spirit to

settle upon me

to dwell in the chambers of my heart and the corridors of my mind.

It can be for everyone in a gathering…and for me individually.

As when you dive into a body of water…

you are engulfed in the water as is anyone else in it….

but, that water is on you.

It remains on you after you exit the
water…and you look and feel drenched.

Until it drys or you towel it off.

The Spirit of God can engulf you.

It will be in and on you. 

More penetratable than water, it will enter into you.

If The Presence enters into your
own individual heart….
the true place of worship…

your worship is more long lasting and effective

because it is within you.

You made a choice to receive Its Presence into the Church you control more than the Church you attend.

The worship center of your mind and heart,

 that you have dominion over 

is the place where God’s Spirit needs to be …

more than the place you drive to and attend on Sundays.

Seek daily that Presence.

Pursue that Presence.

Request that Presence to abide in you.

It was granted to you the day of your spiritual birth.

But just as your child is granted to you the day of their physical birth and will always be your child …

your awareness of them and your
familiarity with them is enhanced and will deepen the more you are around them.

So it is with the Spirit of God.
And more so because you are not merely around It…..
It will be present within you.

Pursue It.

He will push you toward it because He longs for communion with you.

Be aware of the Push.

Respond to the stimuli.

To quote The One Who gave It to us…
“Receive ye  the Holy Spirit”.