Spontaneous Faith Experiences

Yesterday I had a thought. Which is an amazing experience if its from the Lord!! The thought started off from Acts 8 with "Simon the Sorcerer", who wanted to buy the Power of the Holy Spirit. He wanted what the apostles had in the sense of their POWER!!! He wanted to experience what they were experiencing. But he thought that all he needed to do was buy it. Oh Baby how wrong he was. Peter said "Repent" for your "heart is not wright before God". You want it for your own benefit. Your in it for yourself. So here is my thought on this.....

I dont try to experience things that I want by trying to create them. This is frustration. Have you ever had a fantastic time with a group of people, or a person (hopefully you have) that happened with no effort at all. Then at a later time you try to recreate the same experience you had to find its not the same. You find that it is rather hollow, empty and frustrating. Yoy try to do all the same things but it has not the same feeling or result in experience.
I think the reason is because I am to wrapped up in producing a experience that I forget about relationship. There of course is nothing wrong with wanting experience but neglicting relationship is the problem. I rather should simply walk in a relationship that is living and through the DYNAMICS, experience is created. That in my words is "spontaneous living experience". But as I experience things, I may want to reproduce them but I find that it is not the same. I have to instead be consumed and concerned with the person and the relationship where there is Love. Because if my concern is experience I may become a junkie who ends being disobedient and frustrated in my effort. But When you have Spirit Filled Believers who are all focused on Christ in Realtionship, spontaneous experience happens.
People who see a person that is living a Spirit Filled life may want the same experience. If you are a disciple you follow a man that has something you want. There is a quality in his life that produces spiritual experience in his interaction with people. In his demener, the way he carries himself or herself, the way he ministers. The power in his life. We want it (this of course is a great desire). But people may Substitute the spiritual life that they have in for the other persons experience. They may want the experience but not the relationship which brings the person to the cross. So they try to Re-create the experience through their own ability , effort, personality , even know how. But Produciton of spiritual experience through effort and concentration of only experience results only in frustration and no life is given or recieved. But rather if I see spiritual experience that I want I must see the one who they are relating too and engage with the Him. When I engage with him He produces a living relationship that produces spontaneous experiences. Because mabey experience doesnt happen the same way as another or it doesnt come out the way I think it should. If so, this is ok because I am satisfied in Relationship that produces Uniquie experience. You have diversity in that, as we see in the Body. You have liberty in who you are in Christ. You have freedom, Joy, Peace...You have the real life were I actually lose my mentality of what I think it should be and live in Christ's life. When I do that, All my pre-disposed Ideas of my life, experience in my view, my want's and desires are thrown out the window and I experience something completly different. I experience a completly different life with experiences that I never expected. THAT IS REAL LIVING, THAT IS REAL LIFE!!! That is a life that is engaged with the most dynamic being in the universe who produces Dynamic Ministry and which produces experience in Human Life that is seen and enjoyed here. The most unique, interesting, joy filled, life giving people on the planet are people who have this relationship daily and are spirit filled....

THAT IS A LIFE OF FAITH...

Last night we had outreach in downtown Lima with the church and I had a fantastic experience in the Lord with a young 18 yr. old girl. I approached her and her friend sitting on a park bench. They were wondering what I was trying to say and get at, the first few minuets because I refused to speak anything other then my 2yr. old level spanish. We joked around for a bit then I found that the one girl spoke english well. So we began speaking about life. She was a seemingly happy fun filled girl that enjoyed conversing. But the Lord lead me to start talking about hating your self and drug abuse to off set the hatred. She was locked onto ever thing that I was saying. She began to teer up. I spoke about the love of Christ for her personally, and How he knows her by name. How he wants to engage with her and give her Personal love that fulfills her. She then explained to me about how she had recently been through a period where she was cutting herself and doing drugs to quite the hatred she had for herself. She sayed that she wanted to receive christ and experience this life I was talking about. We prayed together, and I have to say that this salvation was the most beautiful and precious one I have ever experienced . The love of God flooded both of our hearts. After, I stood there speech less, not really trying to say anything. You could see that what she recieved was this new life. We exchanged phone numbers, emails, and departed planning on getting in touch today. I am going to give her a call tonight. It was an awesome Experience from God... I am praying this girl will be placed in our church by the Lord....


God Bless,

Jay