What’s in a “move of the Spirit”?

Adam, I couldn't agree with you more. Much too often we seek the emotional side of our faith in a selfish way. We want to "connect" with God and get "drunk" with the Spirit. I believe that all of us are guilty of relying too much on the corporate worship experience to lift us up and to "feel" better about ourselves. I'm not saying there is anything wrong with "being high and lifted up", and having been blessed with being filled with the Spirit a few times in my life, there is nothing more amazing or miraculous. But when the experience is over and we're left with the day to day living, that's when our feet hit the ground and when we need to really begin our "worship". Warren Wiersbe defines worship as "the believer’s response of all that they are - mind, emotions, will, body - to what God is and says and does." How we live day to day, what we say and do, and how our lives witness to the unfathomable love of God for everyone (with the help and guidance of the Holy Spirit) is what truly has a lasting impact and is integral to obeying God's call in each of our lives.

move (moov) v, be or set in motion.; advance, arouse(the emotions of),touch the feelings of. in a game the right or turn to play...................What's in a move of the Spirit? When we are learning to drive we are taught, hands at 10 and 2, eyes forward, check rear view every few seconds and always look much further down the road for possible actions to have to react to. Then back to the rear view mirror just to check. Six months after getting our license, there we go, arm hanging out the window one hand on the wheel unless eating burger, then you drive with your knee so you don't drip on your shirt, and just try to keep it between the ditches............I wont talk about how long I've have been around the Pentecostal world, but the image drawn about learning to drive is where we all are at some point in the indwelling. Some are still checking the rear view quite often, maybe too much because they want to remember how it used to be,(you know some of us walked to church in 3 feet of snow so we could sit around a potbelly stove and take coals out and hold them in our hands because the( move of the spirit )was so strong.)................please try to understand what I am saying and don't be offended. There are others that have long ago left looking back (matter of fact I think that is what they say,"I aint going back). And with that they ride on down the road with their arm hanging out the window so (Free) that sometimes they don't realize that just because it feels good, THEY CAN"T DRIVE FIFTY-FIVE!!!! Man that feels good when a move of the Spirit is on!!!!!!! Until that little thing that they never wanted to do(check the rear view mirror, not going to look back wouldn't be prudent at this juncture.......) And what they hear is not a mighty rushing wind and what they see is not blue flames of fire on their heads it's more like what they hear is a siren and see blue flashing lights............a move of the spirit is not always THE WAY IT USED TO BE but it also is not OUT OF CONTROL, so in my totally unprofessional opinion, ( I have not had one call this week from God asking my opinion on ANYTHING!!!!) A move of the Spirit is sometimes that warm rush of what feels like very comforting warm water running down your back that leaves you feeling like every care or problem has been washed away, to that deer in the headlights feeling when you are confronted with a life or death question, ( I'm talking about when some one ask you a question that they need answered that means spiritual life or death to them and you are the one they want to answer it.) and you panic and say to your self," I've got to get this right, LORD I NEED YOUR HOLY GHOST POWER RIGHT NOW!!!!HELP ME!!!) One of those moves happens in a very public way, it's worship time and everyone in the room sees your reaction to the Spirit moving and washing you from head to toe in the flames of the spirit and you fall out or flip-flop like a fish out of water or you weep tears of laughter for 30 minutes, and that's OK, but the other is in a quite place where just you and the Lord are on task to save a soul from the fallen-ones clutches, both of these situations wont happen to exalt (you) and if it does the LORD did it not you, when there is a move of the Spirit, it always exalts HIM , so let's not be so hung up on the way it used to be and be careful to not get too free and allow the SPIRIT to use us in what ever way He sees fit and get over our silly little selves............