Punch into the Spirit

There are times to rest in the Holy Spirit. Times of listening and Jesus's divine intervention. Where we stop to the world and stop to soak in God's love. We use up our energy and our own love like water from a plastic water bottle. And others use us up like a vending machine, just keep taking out, and it takes us a while to be replenished. So we pause to feel the radical presence of the God who sees our suffering and fills us up to the very top until we overflow. There are times of floating across his presence and basking in His love. The time where we are empty and need to be refilled. Where we adore our amazing savior.

Then there are times of complete desperation. Times where we cannot wait. God does not always call us to wait on him. He actually demands we seek Him to be able to seek others. It would be so comfortable to wait on God all of our days. But we have not been called to a life of comfort but a life of demanded discomfort, rebellion, and answering the call. There is the term of "pressing in" to the Spirit, but pressing in gets me only so far. It's like pressing down on a nail that you are trying to compact into a board. It's like pressing that button that is stuck and doesn't want to budge. I declare a life of punching into the Spirit. Because it demands that God would meet me and I would seek His will for my life. It shows there is no time for waiting. It shows I am desperate to be sent out into the world and to be a vessel. When I am waiting, there are others dying. There are children hungry, girls being robbed of their innocence, and a grandmother wishing to feed all of her starving grandchildren. There are familiar faces that are being ignored as if they were not familiar. There is a people wanting to be met by a divine intervention but do not know how to be met.

I cannot be hasty and yet I am waiting for the perfect moment handed down for God to reveal His glory. For God to move in the nation I so desire to reach. For God to grab hold of the hearts so dear to me. For God to open the eyes of the people I am practically begging open. I am already knee deep in their lives and I am waiting on the God who gave me full potential and authority. There are times for me to stop the rushing movement of my life and give all control to God. And once that task is accomplished, it is time to punch in.