Intro
Have you ever felt left out, ignored, unnoticed, underappreciated or even forgotten? I’m sure we have all felt that way on occasion. Hi this is Dorette Schaal with an Encouraging Word for your day. Maybe even today you had some of those thoughts! God doesn’t want that for you! He loves you and enfolds you into his family. You are important to your family and to your church family. You are important to God! He has not forgotten you! There is someone I think that many of us have left out, ignored, under appreciate and perhaps have even forgotten, and He is the Holy Spirit. As we talk about the Holy Spirit this week, let’s give him the place of honor he deserves! Hope you enjoy your daily eword.
Monday:
As a teenager, who loved God, I had a sincere desire for more of God. I got saved at VBS between kindergarten and first grade and from that time, I have loved God with all my heart. I had a desire to serve him, and felt a call to serve God full time, and I truly desired all that God had for me. I loved my Bible, loved being in church, and I loved worshipping God – and I still do! I wanted to know God as deeply as possible. So I started looking for more! In the church I was raised in, the Holy Spirit wasn’t totally left out or ignored, but He definitely was in a box, and anything outside of the box was certainly unacceptable. In fact, I heard that being filled with the Holy Spirit and speaking in tongues was evil. I knew in my spirit that couldn’t be right. I knew the MORE that I wanted was to be filled with the Holy Spirit. I knew in my spirit, that what I had read in the Bible about the Holy Spirit, and Him begin present at the beginning of the New Testament church was going to be an important part of my Christian walk. My longing for more led me on a search that ended with becoming filled with the Holy Spirit. I looked for more and I found Him!
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