{"id":9208,"date":"2020-06-19T13:58:32","date_gmt":"2020-06-19T13:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cassowary.unitingchurch.org.au\/?p=9208"},"modified":"2020-06-19T13:58:32","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T13:58:32","slug":"walking-in-the-spirit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cassowary.unitingchurch.org.au\/?p=9208","title":{"rendered":"Walking in the Spirit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While we continue to walk out this season with an eye on our present with an eye on the unfolding future, we can be so absorbed by that process and events that we fail to walk the walk we are meant to walk. I didn\u2019t think I could fit so many \u2018walks\u2019 in! The point is there is a walk we are meant to walk and its in the Holy Spirit. It is important that we be intentional in reminding ourselves as to what God says. Check out these familiar scriptures <b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bibleserver.com\/ESV\/Romans8%3A26-28\" class=\"bibleserver extern\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Romans 8:26-28<\/a>,<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bibleserver.com\/ESV\/Romans8%3A31-32\" class=\"bibleserver extern\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Romans 8:31-32<\/a>, \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bibleserver.com\/ESV\/Romans8%3A37-39\" class=\"bibleserver extern\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Romans 8:37-39<\/a>. <\/b>They along with the rest of the scriptures remind us that \u2026 <strong>w<\/strong><b>e didn\u2019t find God. God found us.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/b><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Holy Spirit is <i>God on earth. <\/i>He is the central Person in our lives. Every triumph we experience in our lives when we follow Jesus occurs because of the Holy Spirit.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li>The Christian life is a relational journey. It is a relationship with the Holy Spirit, who completely and perfectly manifests the will of the Father.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li>We need to have a heightened awareness of the presence of God.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li>God gave us Himself as our inheritance and the initial payment is the Holy Spirit Himself. He is the \u201cdown payment.\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b><i>It is your nature to be led by the Spirit.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The believer must be familiar with the voice of God. Living immersed in Christ puts us in a place where we constantly hear that familiar voice. The more we learn to yield ourselves to this voice, the more normal it becomes for us to walk in the Spirit.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Everything Jesus does in us, He works in us to the end that we would adequately represent Him.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Biblical meditation means you <i>fill <\/i>the mind. It is joining your mind with the mind of Christ. Intercession means standing in the shoes of another, instead of praying at a situation. We pray as though this person\u2019s struggles are our own. Jesus and the Holy Spirit both intercede for us.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b><i>We live in continuous connection to the expression of God\u2019s love.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">\u00a0The problem is that we can live aware of inferior things and lose our<\/span>\u00a0 <span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">God-given sensitivity to God\u2019s heart for us. It doesn\u2019t mean His love has changed. It just means we don\u2019t live conscious of it.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>We can only hear the richness of God\u2019s words and promises through the Spirit, like a radio receiver. We just need to turn our dial up.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li>The present moment is yours, the future is yours, but the past is not. If we revisit the moments of our past separate from our awareness of the blood of Jesus, then we actually visit something that no longer exists. We have no legal access to the past apart from the redemptive touch of Jesus. He only brings up issues of our past for a redemptive purpose, never to lead us to shame. It is only for triumph, victory, and celebration.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Extract from e Course Study Guide \u2018Keys for walking in the supernatural\u2019 by Bill Johnson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While we continue to walk out this season with an eye on our present with an eye on the unfolding future, we can be so absorbed by that process and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,3,27,26,51,71,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-destiny","category-faith","category-good-news","category-holy-spirit","category-identity","category-kingdom","category-witness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cassowary.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cassowary.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cassowary.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cassowary.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cassowary.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cassowary.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9209,"href":"https:\/\/cassowary.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9208\/revisions\/9209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cassowary.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cassowary.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cassowary.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}