Comments on: When the Spirit takes you to unique places

By: Noelle

Noelle — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:21:37 +0000

Hey, this is the first time that I read your blog. Do you mind if I repost this on Facebook?

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Best links from the past week « With the kids — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:14:17 +0000

[...] post by J.R. Briggs, When the Spirit takes you to unique places. I appreciate his candor about his feelings and believe the actions he took to reach out to [...]

By: J.R. Briggs

J.R. Briggs — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 20:49:53 +0000

Jenn –

It’s salient because the Spirit moves us into places to love those who are ‘different’ than us in order for all of us to experience the unity of the gospel (Gal 3:26).

By: Roy Moran

Roy Moran — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 16:46:32 +0000

I echo your thoughts and experience. Sitting watching the Haiti earthquake and begging for God to allow me to do something I got the idea (hopefully from the Spirit) of using Skype searching Haiti and leaving chat msgs saying available to help if needed. Next morning got a call from a 23 year girl serving in an orphanage in Haiti asking me, “What is going on?” They knew something violent had happened but were unaware of the magnitude of devastation. Over the next hour as we chatted I hooked her up with her mother in Jacksonville, FL and sat back an enjoyed a moment of stundness! In the middle of it I turned on my camera on the computer so I could capture the memory of what was happening. To view http://ow.ly/1f1rj.

With all the talk about being missional, maybe it starts by calming our lives to hear from the Spirit! Thanks for a moment of genuine thanksgiving! keep listening

Roy Moran

By: Jenn

Jenn — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 16:41:05 +0000

Great example of listening to God’s Spirit. Thank you.

Just one question, tho: How was the grieving woman’s race salient to the story?

By: Lance Ford

Lance Ford — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 15:10:03 +0000

J.R.,
Absolutely great witness to the Spirit. Thanks for sharing your heart. Yes, how many divine appointments do we miss out on for our dullness of hearing or unwillingness to follow?

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knowing where to turn « Jesus community — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 15:09:21 +0000

[...] there we can then decide what we should do. The Spirit may direct us in an unusual way. But by and large as I understand it, we should pursue something good which we have an inclination [...]

By: Tom Smith

Tom Smith — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 06:44:26 +0000

What a fantastic testimony for early Saturday reading … praise be to God!

By: Nathan

Nathan — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:08:00 +0000

Some things that hold me back from listening and responding to the Holy Spirit:

Off the top of my head I would say:

1. Poor efforts in intimacy with God

- this is pretty much the biggest one for me. When I am letting the busyness of life take over my time with God, my ability to hear the promptings of the spirit diminish. I give priority to fear and/or selfishness and eventually find that I have somehow wandered off and ended up far from where I meant to be. When I am prioritizing time with God then: 1. I can hear better and 2. I am more willing to respond to promptings.

By: J.R. Briggs

J.R. Briggs — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 18:32:11 +0000

Thanks.

Let me ask this: What are some things that hold you back from listening and responding to the Spirit?

For me its two things:

[1] I might be ‘wrong’
[2] Others will think I’ve lost my mind.

What other fears/obstacles/road blocks do you have that keep you from responding?

Eager to hear your thoughts.