Can the Holy Spirit move you?

Can the Holy Spirit move you? Oh wow oh yes! Without the Holy Spirit my life would be drab. It is the main animator of my life in Christ.

I wonder did anyone see the discussion of this on The Big Questions on BBC1 Sunday 6th January? It was good to see a friend Michelle Moran there on the telly with two other Christians with experience. They were all from different Christian backgrounds but the one and same Spirit of God had moved them.

It was an interesting, thought provoking discussion but annoying because participants are never allowed to finish their points. This comment applies to both sides! If there are sides on a question about truth like this.

To me it is a spiritual reality or spiritual dynamic that God will allow his Holy Spirit to "move" you.. In fact much of the motive power of the Christian church comes from the working of the Spirit. It is the author of all healing and the secret ingredient of all evangelisation. The inspirer of the ordinary person just as much as the prophets, evangelists, teachers, servants "of the Lord" - also the same Spirit must I think have inspired the various Jewish Old Testament authors. Breathing God's truth into scripture.

- It inspired King David's dance of praise when his Mrs told him off.

- Moses got the ten commandments through listening to God's grace working.

- Paul wrote the chapter on love (1 Corinthians 13) under the influence.

-Pentecost day itself!

Oh my! Thank you God for sending your Holy Spirit daily into our lives. Thank you for your loving kindness, so great, so lovely, so tender, so heart warming. Thank you for changing my heart from stone to flesh through the Holy Spirit.

This same Holy Spirit can be renewed in your life for the asking. When we call on the Lord times of spiritual strength are possible. Equipping us for our daily lives.

For reflection:

John 14:15-17, 19-21 GNT

"If you love me, you will obey my commandments.  I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, who will stay with you forever.  He is the Spirit, who reveals the truth about God. The world cannot receive him, because it cannot see him or know him. But you know him, because he remains with you and is in you.
In a little while the world will see me no more, but you will see me; and because I live, you also will live.  When that day comes, you will know that I am in my Father and that you are in me, just as I am in you.
"Those who accept my commandments and obey them are the ones who love me. My Father will love those who love me; I too will love them and reveal myself to them."