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How
goes the journey?
As
we continue our Lenten journey, we have been reading “The
Helper,” by Catherine Marshall.
Many of you have told me that this study has been a huge
help to you as you reconsider the Helper.
In fact, I received a nice email today from one of our
members who says:
“I
am loving the Lenten book, “The Helper.”
If she wrote the whole book like the first week, it will be
the best Christian book I've read in awhile.
It has gotten me to look at the Holy Spirit in a whole
different manner, thank you.”
You’re
welcome, Jason! I am
praying that many of us are having a similar experience as we look
at the Holy Spirit in a new way.
These beautiful and prayerful devotions are perhaps telling
us nothing new, but they are awakening us to the ancient promises
of God about His Spirit which is with us always and forever.
What a blessing it is to draw near to God through these
meditations on His promises.
If
you haven’t started with us, or if you were unable to get a
book, it’s still not too late.
Apparently I have purchased all the books that Amazon AND
Barnes and Noble have available, but we have found a new source
and now have them available to you if you still need a book.
I hope you will join us.
If you are walking with us in this time of growth, stay
with it and catch up if you get a day or two behind.
I
am so excited to see what God is going to do in our Church when so
many of His children cry out to Him to fill them with His Holy
Spirit. There’s a
story from “The Helper” that really excited me in the first
few days of our reading about the great Dwight Moody, the
evangelist. It seems
that during his meetings two women were praying for him right in
the front row. They
came to many of his services.
When he asked them about it, they said they were praying
for him to receive the Holy Spirit in power.
Then they prayed with him and left.
“From
that hour ‘there came a great hunger in my soul,’ Moody was to
say later. I felt
that I did not want to live if I could not have this power for
service.” One late
autumn day in 1871, Dwight L. Moody was in New York (on his way to
England) walking up Wall Street.
Suddenly, in the midst of the bustling crowds, his prayer
was answered: the
power of God fell on him so overwhelmingly that he knew he must
get off the street. Spotting
a house he recognized, Moody knocked on the door and asked if he
might have a room by himself for a few hours.
Alone there, such joy came upon him that ‘at last he had
to ask God to withhold His hand, lest he die on the spot from very
joy.’ From that
hour Moody’s ministry was never the same.
He went on to England for what was to be the first
of many evangelistic campaigns there.
People thronged to North London to hear him.
‘The sermons were not different,’ Moody summarized.
‘I did not present any new truths, and yet hundreds were
converted…’”
-- The Helper, pages 27-28
Can
you imagine how many people there are around us that God wants to
touch with His Spirit? Your
life may not look any different, but it will never be the same as
God uses you to touch those around you with His power.
Pray
for the Spirit to come into your life.
Pray for God to use you to reach others.
Come
to Bible Study and worship and join us as we study about the
Helper and seek the Power that alone can change the world.
I'll
see you in Church.
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Michael J. March, Pastor
From The Church Mouse
March 2010
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