I love reading about past men and women who God used in miraculous ways. When I read what others said about them I think, “What will they say about me?”. I too want to be known as:
a soul boiling with passionate divine love
someone who is not lacking and abounding in every spiritual gift
someone who is armed and strengthened by the spirit
I don’t want my fire to burn for an hour and then go out. I want the fire of God to continue burning inside (Just like we learned in Life Ablaze). To keep the fire ablaze it is all up to us. Just like Ignatius encourages Polycarp we must, “linger constantly in prayer. Seek a greater understanding than you have.”
We must understand the role of the Holy Spirit and cultivate our relationship with Him. If we allow, the Holy Spirit will be active in our lives.
“This is He who restrains insatiable desires, controls immoderate lusts, quenches unlawful fires, conquers reckless impulses, repels drunkenness, checks avarice, drives away luxurious revelings, links love, binds together affections, keeps down sects, orders the rule of truth, overcomes heretics, turns out the wicked, guards the Gospel…” -p.74
We must recognize the power and the purpose of the Holy Spirit. Get in the Word, pray in the Holy Spirit, serve Him with everything you have —
“do wonderful things, perform many miracles, cleanse lepers, cast out demons, dispel bodily sicknesses by touch, (and) predict things to come by the spirit of prophecy” - p.75
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