We Are Not Alone

One book that I consider one of the best reads, and a must for anyone that is a Christian, is The Unquenchable Worshiper by Matt Redman. Now I'm not telling you to stop your quiet times in God's Awesome Holy Word for this book, and I don't think Matt would tell you that either. But I was introduced to this book my Junior year of College, where I borrowed it read it and loved it. I didn't by my own copy until 2 years later. Since that time I have read and re-read this book about once a year.

In chapter 3 of this book Matt is talking about a worship service that He was truly seeking the Holy Spirit's working in that place. He wrote that he felt that nothing was working, but then the Holy Spirit put a song in his head. It was a popular song at the time You Are Not Alone by Micheal Jackson.



Now you may be thinking ok, that's enough I'm not adding that book to my "Must Read" list. But it was a reminder to him that the Holy Spirit is always with us and always enables us to carry out whatever portion of God's will He has revealed to us at that time.

Personally I'm impatient, I don't know about the rest of you but I pray and seek God but I want an answer, and I want to be able to control the situations that will help me accomplish whatever I need to, to have that answer. And we want all of God's will revealed to us all at once. The incredible thing about that is, that it is 100% wrong. If God revealed His whole will to any of us, why would we need Him? He reveals what we need, let me say that again, what we NEED at that time to further the kingdom work.

Just like this song for Matt Redman, who has written some of the most awesome worship songs of this generation, God revealed to Him what was going to bring HIM glory. We are not alone! We should be excited about that, we should revel in the fact that the Holy Spirit is in us, and that we don't have to live our everyday lives, like we've been living them. We don't have to go to work tomorrow and get in our same routine. WE ARE NOT ALONE!

Why do we refuse to let the Holy Spirit to have complete control of our lives?

Why do we live like we have any control over our lives? This keeps us in our routines, this keeps us from living Holy Spirit inspired lives.

Whether you agree with what the Holy Spirit is telling you, to quote probably the best 1980's catch phrase, "Just Do It." Just do it, Psalms 55:22 tells us to cast our cares upon the Lord, and He will sustain us, He will never let the righteous fall." It isn't about what we like, it is about what God wants us to do. HE WILL SUSTAIN US!!

If we aren't going to live like we have the Holy Spirit in us, why do we boast in His name?