Great Trip and Creekside Sunday!!

We had a great visit with my brother and family. We spent from Thursday-Saturday without a tight schedule. We just took our time and enjoyed being together, even when that meant doing nothing but just sitting and talking. I would ask all of you to keep my brother and his family in your prayers. That's really all I want to say about that, but just pray for them.

Sunday was a good day at Creekside. I am continuing our study of the Holy Spirit and His work among us. I finished the sermon I started a week ago on being filled with the Spirit. It is awesome what the filling of the Spirit in our lives supplies us. He empowers us to speak into situations like we never have before. He gives us direction in life--His direction. He enables us to be comforted in situations that would cause us deep hurt before. There is so much more.

One of the men in our church family came up to me after the sermon and made an interesting point. He said he read through the book of Acts again to listen to what they where all about in order to see why the church experienced such spiritual and numerical growth. His observance led him to the following understanding.

He said that the Christians then had three things that were always present. They prayed, they had the Holy Spirit, and they fellowshiped or spent time together. That was it. He said that if we continue to fellowship, and pray that God's Spirit be poured out on us, we too would experience great things for God.

He also observed that the first Christians were not all about "church numerical growth." They really didn't know what to expect. They were simply open to the "power from on high" and acted the way they felt convicted. Simple as that! When that happens to us, there is no telling what God will do through the Spirit in us.

God bless you all my fellow-bloggers.