Thursday, August 27, 2009

Holy Spirit session in Alpha

Today was an awesome Holy Spirit session during Alpha. After the dvd talk on Who is the Holy Spirit, I talked a bit about how Jesus has promised us an abundant life. When we accept Christ, we receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. But many of us just leave Him there in the living room of our hearts. He becomes just a guest, when He really should be the Master of our lives. Have we given him the key to every room in our heart? Or do we keep some areas tightly locked under our control, thinking we've got everything taken care of.

If we want the abundant life that Christ has promised us, we need to give the Holy Spirit the key to all the rooms in our heart, and surrender to Him sot hat He will be the master. I issued an altar call, and a lot of the non-CF members raised their hands. Some people prayed for one of my colleagues, who started to cry. At my end, I prayed along with a girl to rededicate her life to Christ. There was also another colleague who recognized that she couldn't let go of everything to God yet. But I can see the passion inside her; she just doesn't know what to do with it. When I prayed for the baptism of the Holy Spirit though, the former said that she didn't feel anything. Haha. I was crushed (a little), but then, it is the Holy Spirit who convicts. And a true experience of the Holy Spirit is more than just an emotional physical experience.

There's only one day left of the Alpha Course. It's really exciting and it looks like our CF has grown much bigger.

Written at 10:58 PM