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I Think The Spirit Is Calling Me

Posted by admin on September 21, 2008

I’ve been wanting to blog a bit about my spiritual journey, after all, that’s a big component of why I felt compelled to start this site.  But for one reason or another, I always chose to write on other topics.  However, I recently started a Beth Moore study on the Fruit of the Spirit, and I absolutely love it!  But, still I struggle a bit, as i never really grew up in a “Holy Spirit” family.  We were believers, but more of a Sunday-only type of family, and of course we’d say grace before meals, but that was about it.

Well, life has been happening, and it hasn’t been pretty, and I almost missed a week of the study, which was all about the Holy Spirit.  I knew that what I heard that evening was what I wanted in my life.  Then, just today, our new Sunday School teacher started his lesson on the Fruit of the Spirit and was talking about what is NOT the fruit of the Spirit, and it hit me square in the face.  I was definately not living in the Spirit these last two weeks.

So I apologized to my kids for yelling at them (not for correcting or disciplining them, but for raising my voice so much when I was doing it) and resolved to try more deliberately to live in the Spirit.

The next few weeks I will comment on some of the tough lessons that I learn during my double whammy instruction on the Fruit of the Spirit.   In the meantime, you may want to pick up a copy of Beth Moore’s book “Living Beyond Yourself” or any other book on the Fruit of the Spirit and see what we can learn together for the Glory of God!  Amen!