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Hosting the Holy Spirit

Just listened to a great message on Hosting the Holy Spirit. A host invites you over, makes an effort, prepares before the person gets there. He questioned the listeners with several questions such as "Do you make room throughout your day to tune into the Holy Spirit? Does the Holy Spirit feel welcomed in your life?" David understood the value of the Holy Spirit in Psalms 50 he stated "don't take your Holy Spirit form me". The key scripture was John 1:29  29  The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Look, the Lamb of God,  who takes away the sin of the world!   30  This is the one I meant when I said, ‘A man who comes after me has surpassed me because he was before me.’   31  I myself did not know him, but the reason I came baptizing with water was that he might be revealed to Israel.” 32  Then John gave this testimony: “I saw the Spirit come down from heaven as a dove and remain on him (emphasis added) .   33  And I myself did not know hi

Thy Will

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I don't question God. I don't question His Faithfulness I don't question His love for me I don't question God. There are times when life is going smoothly and out of no where you are hit with a curve ball that hits you so hard that you feel like you can't breath even if it is just for a second. There are times when we are struck with situations that are out of our control.  And for an analytical, reasoning person such as myself when you are hit with these both at the same time and you feel so confused, and every way you turn and try to reason it there is not a reason or justification. It's simply out of ones control. For some they can keep moving forward and not miss a beat, for some it leaves them lifeless and unable to get out of bed. For the analytical, overthinkers again you try to make sense of it all but you just can't. So you begin to move towards accepting it for what it is even without understanding and some days you do great with it and then t