A Special Experience
October 8, 2009 by Mike Wells
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On a particular night a pastor gave me complete freedom. I spoke on one attribute of God I appreciate so much: faithfulness. I have failed, but He is faithful. He is faithful not to keep lists of wrongs, not to be provoked, to be faithful when we are faithless. I believe that God revealed a new aspect of who He is to many. The pastor took the stage and began to pray and then weep.
All were praying for God to reveal that He is a loving Father. All month I have been practicing allowing my soul to feed on His wisdom, His will, and His peace that are in me. I must admit that my soul was very full. When we began to sing “Hold me now and let your love surround me,” I was expecting just that. But love did not surround me! My soul was full of His love, and it began to flow out of me to others. I wanted to run and hug everyone, to pray for the sick, and to pray for those in distress. But it wasn’t me, it was Him in me; the overflow of my soul was Him, and I could see that His love in me wanted to take the form of flesh and blood to minister in a concrete way. I was not just preaching about love but demonstrating it! I could see how the Word became flesh; the soul of Jesus was so completely full of God, a human body could not hold it all, so it spilled out to others. “And the word became flesh and dwelt among us.”
Jesus can manifest Himself through us, and we receive the awareness that there is nothing that faith cannot do, nothing that Jesus cannot do. I see that I cannot schedule God. But as my soul is fed, I also see how I could pray for healing and another would receive it, for the Spirit is scheduling me. Christ is in us! Christ knows who needs what, and He can move through us to heal or help.
On this day, in the city Tawua, I watched God move from head to heart. We are vehicles for the living Word to take form. We are not Jesus, or God, or special, but we have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer we who live but Christ that lives in us. I will always remember the night the pastor gave me complete freedom. Amen.
