Lord's Power

Ray Ortlund post:  Let us not dictate to God

“Let us not dictate to God.  Many a blessing has been lost by Christians not believing it to be a blessing, because it did not come in the particular shape which they had conceived to be proper and right.  To some the divine work is nothing, unless it assumes the form which their prejudice has selected.”

Jeremiah Lanphier, Alone With Jesus (London, 1872), page 88.

In the 1970s the Holy Spirit was poured out on a desperate generation, and we came home to God.  We were unlikely converts, many of us.  We were messy.  But the blessing was real.  Those who received it flourished.

Today the Holy Spirit is stirring again.  We are unlikely converts, many of us, again.  We are messy again.  But the blessing is real.  Those who receive it will flourish.

Let us be grateful to be witnessing another day of the Lord’s power.