A Holy Spirit Workshop

Tuesday evenings usually see us “Living Waters” folks alternating between our Harvestime School of Ministry teaching class one week, and a prayer meeting / worship session / Holy Spirit workshop the other week.

This Tuesday we had our “Holy Spirit workshop” - a “more Lord” type of gathering where we press-in for a greater measure of anointing and freedom in the Spirit. In these sessions we purposely invite the Holy Spirit to come and the feel free to move in His gifts. Some worship, others soak - great stuff really. As we get more proficient in this “stuff” we want to get to a place where we minister to each others in the prophetic, etc.

I view these fortnightly meetings as an equipping class - getting acquainted with the Holy Spirit and His ways and methods - in order to take it all outside subsequently.

Main points covered on Tuesday:

• Psalms 100:4 - The key to entering the Manifest Presence of God is thankfulness. The word thanksgiving literally means “to raise” and it implies the offering of a sacrifice of praise. Sacrifice involves a cost - we offer thanksgiving by focusing on what God is doing , or what He has given us in the New Covenant, at the expense of everything that our circumstances may be telling us.
• Our worship should be modeled on biblical patterns of worship rather than our ecclesiastical tradition or comfort. Biblical patterns of worship involve extravagant jumping, dancing, clapping, shouting with joy and lying prostrate to name a few.

How about next time you don’t close your eyes and bow your heads - how about lifting your heads, O gates, and lifting them up, O ancient doors, That the King of glory may come in?

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