I want to take my previous post (Are you running on empty?) a little further.

Now, I don’t know about you.  But I know when I have a sip of water, I only want more.  I want a bottle of water.  Thus, my spirit man wants more of the Holy Spirit.  And as my friend Lisa R. said, “Sometimes you have to dig a little deeper to get to the core.”  You ask how deep do you have to dig?  Well, this is just up to you and God.  It all depends on where you are with God in your walk/relationship with Him.  Let me see if I can explain it a little.

When I first started going back to church (after not going to church for 15 years), I knew I was supposed to be there.  But I was not going to participate.  Participate! (Yes, you cannot just go and sit on a pew.) I tried to just sit on the pew.  I would come in to church just as it was started.  This way I didn’t have to talk to anyone.  Then I would leave as they were giving the altar call.  Again, I didn’t have to talk to anyone or really get to know anyone.  And they sure didn’t get the opportunity to get to know me.

Then the Holy Spirit began working on me.  You must be thinking how this would happen.  Well, during the worship when the music was playing and the choir and congregation begin to sing praises to the most High King, my hands could not be held in my pockets or down to my side.  They seemed to be raised in the air in honor of God Almighty.  Then my foot would begin to move.  And I began to sway.  I was being filled up.  I was being healed. Slowly, very slow.  We are at a snail’s pace here.  But God was doing it.  You know that saliva I talked about from John 9.  The Holy Spirit was connecting me.  He was softening me.  Then I began to go to church on Wednesday night.  Oh wait.  You mean go more than once a week to church?  Yes, I mean go as much as I could get.

On Wednesday, I took a class to learn about church and to get involved in a small group.  This interaction and the pastors encouragement to get involved in a ministry of some kind helped propel me even deeper into God.  All a part of God’s plan Jeremiah 29:11-14, “11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the LORD, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope. 12 Then you will call upon Me and go and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. 13 And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart. 14 I will be found by you, says the LORD, and I will bring you back from your captivity;…”.  You see God know what He was doing in my life.  I was digging deeper in Him.  He was using the Holy Spirit (water) to fill me up.

All the time God is waiting on you to move.  He is waiting on you to put your foot on the shovel.  As you dig, let him pour the water in with the Word of God and Holy Spirit.  For Proverbs 2:1-9 tells us we will understand the fear of the Lord if we seek His wisdom, treasure His commands, apply our heart to understanding His ways, cry out for discernment, seek and search for God’s wisdom as silver or hidden treasures.  We must dig in the Word of God.

For as we dig deeper in the Word of God, the Word will fill us up nothing short of capacity overflowing with rivers of Living Water.  Philippians 4:8-9 says if we meditate on the things of God, the God of peace will be with us.

Scripture reference:

1. John 7:37-39  “37 On the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink. 38 He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.” 39 But this He spoke concerning the Spirit, whom those believing in Him would receive; for the Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.”

2. Philippians 4:8-9  “8 Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy—meditate on these things. 9 The things which you learned and received and heard and saw in me, these do, and the God of peace will be with you.”

The New King James Version. (1982). Nashville: Thomas Nelson.