Read Romans 8: 8-11
It was the Spirit of God that breathed life into the church on that 1st Pentecost; it was a coming together of bones, in a way; it was the birthing of the Church - without Him there would be no church, no community of the Holy Spirit:
An A to Z of the Holy Spirit:
Without Him there would be:
“No anointing, Advocate, No Administration
No being BORN AGAIN; no BAPTISM in or of or by, No good BOOK, No Balm
NO COMFORTER, No COUNSELLOR, NO CONVICTER, No Confidence
NO DIRECTOR…
No DEPOSIT of things to come, No Dove, no dew
NO EARNEST, NO ENABLER, No Educator
NO Faithfulness, No Forgiveness, No Freedom, no fruit
No Fire, no Fountain, No Fish or Fowl, No Father
No Gifts, No Gift-giver
NO Guide, No Goodness, No Holy GHOST, NO GOD
No Helper, No Healer, no heaven, no hope
No Indweller, No Inspirer, No Intercessor, No Interpreter
No Joy, No Jesus…
No kindness of God, or Knowledge of God
No Love from above, no long-suffering, No LIFE
No medicine, No miracles, No moisture
No nothing, NO Name
No Olive Oil of Gladness, No overcoming,
No Peace, No Power to preach or PRAY, No Protection, No Patience, No Paraclete
No Quickener, no Quiet
No Revealer, No Rivers, No Reminder
No Strength, No soul SEARCHING, No self-control, No SON, No Salvation
No Truth, No Tongue(s), No Teacher, No Temple
No Unction, No Unity
No Victory, no voice
No witness, No Water, No Wind, No Wisdom, No Word
No(thing) Xtra
No Youth, no gentle YOKE, No Yield
No Zeal,
NO ZION!”
This is a reflection by Gail in response to the above poem Mark had written
My words to go along side your amazing poem:
Just let that sink in for a few seconds?
What if?
What a crazier world we would live in?
How would we deal with life and death? Illness, murder, war? And that’s to say a few!
This has really made me stand up and realise how grateful, blessed, humble and SAVED I am.
I’m absolutely overcome at the knowledge that I get to have eternal life in our Father’s house. He never promised it would be easy, but it’s when we go through it, we really get to see who our God really is . He wants to reveal himself to you! And allows you to go through it to have the privilege of bringing you out on the other side!
Moses said to the children of Israel
Be fearless
Be still
Be watchful
And he says shhhh...
Be Quiet !
Fear not the Lord is with you!
He doesn’t want you paralysed, paralysed with guilt, shame fear, it says in the bible over and over and over again “do not fear”.
He wants to give you strength, joy, love, stability, power and a sound mind , but that doesn’t mean you will never feel fear , but what it does mean is we can call on him 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, always leaning into him for strength, you WILL come through as the victory is already won!
Our God is a giving God, a loving God, a healing God, a restoring God, a joyous God and an all faithful God. Thank you father that I never have to do this in my strength and I can surrender to you and you will pick me up in your loving mighty arms and bring me comfort , peace and everlasting love ..