tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19497483.post8313497455097065126..comments2023-11-02T06:46:56.351-05:00Comments on O Love That Will Not Let Me Go: Week 4 - Holy Spirit, ComfortableJuliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02414203910286252884noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19497483.post-46739480954440871612010-06-24T12:11:35.528-05:002010-06-24T12:11:35.528-05:00This article is true. I love it. Sometimes we thin...This article is true. I love it. Sometimes we think that if we read books or turn in a circle and scream "I'm free" that we are free. It takes a relationship with God, and obidience to His Holy Spirit. Just like Naaman was told to dip in the Jordan 7times and he would be healed from the leprosy, God can easily tell us to do wierd things that we don't want to do, but that's where are healing comes. God bless you and keep writing as the Lord leads you.Chrishttp://Www.thefathersheart7@yahoo.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19497483.post-67557469173692246272010-06-23T18:24:51.859-05:002010-06-23T18:24:51.859-05:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.The Good Talehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11574105752086912139noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19497483.post-78375372836497045832010-06-23T08:23:01.331-05:002010-06-23T08:23:01.331-05:00Ok, I finished reading the fourth week last night...Ok, I finished reading the fourth week last night. There is so much every week it's hard to figure out what my favorite parts are and what is most encouraging. But this go 'round, I think the lesson on "Spirit-filled, Spirit-controlled" got me. With my church background I know exactly what people are referring to when they say "Spirit-filled" and I loved how Nancy pointed out that really the question isn't whether we can get any more of God but whether we'll give Him any more of ourselves. She did an incredible job of showing how God's sovereignty and our human will work together. And I was so thankful that she pointed out that when you are saved you receive the fullness of the Holy Spirit. In my teenaged church days, if someone did not pray in tongues, they weren't "filled with the Spirit" then if things happened to them it was THEIR fault. I still have to remind myself that this is not the case in my life. <br /><br />The other SUPER encouraging thing to me was the reality that "Rather than lingering far away, God comes near, even inside us, reminding us that we are his."KTElltthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01407878783882226996noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19497483.post-79879476768622528002010-06-22T07:34:28.987-05:002010-06-22T07:34:28.987-05:00Hey. I'm catching up and almost finished with...Hey. I'm catching up and almost finished with part 4 so I'm forming thoughts and will comment again either later today or tomorrow, but a couple of things for the moment: I loved the comparison of antique furniture and don't find it wrong at all. To take it a bit further, why do we love antique furniture? Because it makes our lives better, because it's a thing of beauty. And so it is with God -- to so many He is something to make their lives better or to marvel at His beauty but as you said, nothing to truly embrace and enjoy -- it's more something to sit in the corner and hope no one too heavy breaks it! And it's not that He is not beautiful or that He doesn't make our lives better on the whole (not always in ways we can see), but He is so much more. I guess this is where the comparison ends, because if the antique furniture chose for us some of the things God chooses, so many wouldn't love it anymore. But still, you are on to something there! <br /><br />Also, I love how one week of this book builds on the next. Where you quote Nancy in saying "many of us want God to save us, but we don't always want him to change us or control us", I thought of last week's entry on page 21 and her comment of "I suppose the truth is, I want the inheritance without the hardship." Amen to that! <br /><br />We have had many talks and you know that I have not lost a child. There are other hardships, other things to grieve in my life which I do grieve (oftentimes, I sit in Sunday school with tears in my eyes as I just listen to the depths of God's word and the realities of life around me) and I would never begin to compare levels of pain because being a mother, I cannot imagine having to let one of my little ones go. And yet I wonder "what if I had to?" You can't help but wonder it when so many around you have had to and you acknowledge that God is in control of these things. <br /><br />I marvel at how many of us take for granted days of health in ourselves and our loved ones when King David himself asked God to teach him to "number his days". The days are short. If we are God's, they must be lived for Him and in that, I have to remember that my children are His -- the hardest thing for a mother to do. But more personal to me, I have to remember that God is bigger than physical and emotional depression, than lost relationships, and that there are those I have lost that I will see again in Heaven.KTElltthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01407878783882226996noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19497483.post-15267026454228091292010-06-21T20:15:25.899-05:002010-06-21T20:15:25.899-05:00Lori, Thank you for sharing your heart with us. W...Lori, Thank you for sharing your heart with us. We so easily forget that God will comfort us when we hold onto our pain.Juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02414203910286252884noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19497483.post-9229424314444997032010-06-21T20:05:14.214-05:002010-06-21T20:05:14.214-05:00I really got a lot out of this week when we were i...I really got a lot out of this week when we were in it...it was hard at times to read, but only because there was so much truth in it.<br /><br />It reminds me of Natalie Grant's "Held"....that the promise that was made was that when all had failed, we'd be held.<br /><br />Not that we'd get what we wanted or His faithfulness and glory would be shown in the miracle healing or saving....but that no matter what, we'd be held.<br /><br />I was so grateful for the Holy Spirit to intervene for me then...and still am many days now.<br />xoxoLorihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01828552745708177768noreply@blogger.com