Lena's Discipleship Journalin' to Acts 2 Today

How can man be Christian, One’s who are like Christ is, without the empowerment of God very own Spirit life? How can man ever be perfected without the purifying Spirit of Christ alive within? How could man ever speak as God (Father-Son and Holy Spirit) without His Spirit indwelling?
I have a hard time understanding man trying to be at least as good as God is on his own, without God’s Almighty help. The Father sent Jesus to enable us to be right, which is way better than just being good. I don’t want to settle for the mediocre when God Himself gave man the very Helper to complete Him in every way.
It is /was not good for man to be alone. I will send a Helper to complete Him.
If we say, “Oh that’s ok Lord, I don’t really need the overflow of Your spirit alive and operating in me”, we’re on our own, and that’s a very dangerous place to be in. Man without God (Father-Son & Spirit) is dead.
Do you remember the betrayal? Do you remember that betrayal is refusal, denial, and rejection? God makes an offer, and man takes options. It’s like we know better what we need than God does. Do we? Or do we just somehow think we do? Wow!
I’m amazed at how I myself have thought. “Oh, that’s ok, I’ll just try this out myself first Lord, I’m good on my own.” There’s an influence there, and it is not a godly one. When I look at it now, I think, Lena, WHAT were you thinking – I’m good, on my own, by myself, with my own efforts. NO, I need help! Jesus said, I’m leaving this place and I’m gonna give you what prophets spoke about for years, the very promise you’ve been waiting for and did not know it! Here He is! Your Helper, Help Meet, Completer.
The real problem is the same one the disciples had, they thought the promise was something afar off, something else. It was Christ able to be alive inside of any human that would allow Him to be. It was not only believing on Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord, but the very reception of the indwelling power of His spirit. The opportunity to truly be One with God.
Remember the disciples were waiting for Christ to form a physical army and bring this thing down. They, as we also do, looked for an outward change, while God was saying don’t look too far off, the change will be inward and start inside of you!
You’ll speak differently if you allow Him to fill you. You’ll astound yourself and not understand right away, but by revelation, imperative revelation, you’ll see more and more to understand!
Speak in unknown tongues? Yes and amen. It is as the Lord would have it.
Here’s the coolest scenarios:
We have a Children’s Church pastor whose wife speaks 4 languages. Her native tongue is Brazilian, and then she learned Espanol when she met her husband. She had to learn that language and it was hard, but she did and acclimated to his language. He was from Cuba, but lived in the USA, so they moved and lived in USA and they both had to speak American-English. She is amazing; she speaks clearly, all 3 languages! She was sharing one day, how she lives here and so speaks as we do to have communication with us, in respect for us. Then she said at times she and her husband speak Spanish at home, and that is a comfort to him, being it is his native language, but when her brother comes to visit and he walks in a room, her heart becomes light, “Ahhhh, he speaks in a way that is like me, he speaks my language, I don’t even have to think about it, when we speak. I have so much joy!”
Her fourth language is that of the Spirit, that of the Spirit of God and Christ, that of the Holy Spirit. She did not learn this language, she received it, and it was a gift to her from her Father. He can speak like her, with her, through prayer in whichever of the 3 languages she desires to speak that day, but when through the spirit she speaks as her Father speaks, in His own “native” language, the language of the spirit, of His home, of His heart, He has a welling of joy inside. He says, “Ahhhh she speaks just like Me!”
We never have to ever speak like God and He’ll still hear our prayers etc, but what Joy when we choose to speak as He’s gifted us to speak. When we receive His gift.
Jesus told the disciples to wait for the gift from the Father, they waited 7 weeks, 49 days for God’s day of Jubilee, when man would turn around and speak as God speaks in the earth!
God will use it and us as He desires to when we yield to His Spirit. If He desires to manifest a wonder and have man understand man, we can open our mouths and allow Him to use us that way, as He desires and wills. Or we can pray and speak mysteries to God Himself, stirring up revelation within us, building a most holy faith, we can pray in ways we have no idea about, by yielding to His Spirit in us. We are His vessels of honor or dishonor. It is up to us if or how we can be used. God needs men to surrender to His Divine plan. It won’t happen without us; in fact it will be prevented from happening if we resist; and yet for those who yield, the eternal blessings are far beyond the joy and immense love we experience here.
Being filled with God’s Spirit transforms us from one man to another. “They are drunk!” No, they are filled and changed!
When God desires to pour out, you could move out of His way, if you want to and your container (your person) could miss out, stay emptied, or you could wait for Him, as a waiter serves a patron, ready for what He wants to give you, and ready for what he wants us to give Him. Ask, believe, and receive.
What should we do after hearing these things?
"Each of you must turn from your sins and turn to God, and be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. Then you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.