Next Step #14 (Sorry for the Delay!)

One of the most important realities of our lives as those living in the Holy Spirit is that we must START everyday with the Holy Spirit!  What that means is as soon as we get awake--maybe even before we get out of bed--we need to call on the Holy Spirit to lead and empower us.  We also need to submit ourselves to His authority.  In His book, Just Walk Across the Room, Bill Hybels notes that he starts his days by making himself available to the Holy Spirit and whatever He wants to do in Hybels life.  What an importanty reminder for each of us!  Sometimes a day may be so full of activity (and we may want to start be slowing down long enough to ask -- WHY all the activity), that we just jump out of bed, go through our monring routine and move into our days without giving God a second thought.  The longer we live life in the Spirit, the less likely that is to happen.   I've been missing some blogging time over the past couple of weeks, but I have NOT missed my daily start time with God!  The most important reality in life is developing our relationship with God.  As we often remind ourselves at New LIfe, "Unless we seek first the kingdom of God, we won't seek the kingdom of God!"  So, as you go about this day--did you start by asking the Holy Spirit to guide and empower you?  If not, then STOP and ask Him right now.  If you did--praise the Lord!  Make a commitment to start each day with the Holy Spirit, and as you do that, you can be sure the day will bring more fulfillment than any day started and lived without Him!