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| Lead Pastor Cory Smithee |
Let’s see, it’s been since August 31st since I have blogged. If my memory serves me right, I was going to do something like a 4 part series on "Growth Requires." Well that never happened, did it! You know life comes at you real fast sometimes, so fast that you lose contact with where you were going and even why you were going there. Does anyone out there relate?
The speed of life is unique to our time because growing up as a teen in the 70's & a young adult in the 80's it was much different. Now it wasn't just different because I was younger, it was a slower pace of life. Life had its times where it came at you fast, maybe at 100 mph but not like today where life can ramp up to 225 mph and just keep coming at you.
During this past month and half where my life ramped up to 225 and just kept coming at me, God reminded me again through a series I am doing at NEC, that I have some very special help. God reminded me to stop and look beside me at a good friend that we all can almost forget about (if you even knew Him to start with). A friend that will give us insight to what is happening and how to get out of the gulf stream of the 225 mph engagement of life. A friend who can slow everything down and cause us to take a breath and rest a little and not be engulfed in this 225 mph here we come at you all day every day.
Let me share with you some really cool stuff about my friend the Holy Spirit. Some of you reading this blog are already, at the mention of these words "Holy Spirit," asking this one question, "Who Is He?" Well over the next month or so I plan to answer that question from a personal point of view based on my relationship and friendship with the Holy Spirit.
I am going to answer some simple stuff like, Is He a Person? Is He here Now? Where did He come from? How did You meet Him? How do you have a Friendship with something you can't See? Lots of good questions that I will tackle along the way on our new journey called "The Holy Spirit," "Who Is He?"
Keep checking back as we encounter this Person and how He so wants to be your friend in this 225 mph life in which we live.
Pastor Cory is the Founder and Lead Pastor of North Elevation Church in Mansfield, TX. Please go to www.nechurchtx.com to learn more about this Life Giving Community!
