Just Be With Me

"If you love Me, you will obey what I command.  And I will ask the Father and He will give you another Counselor to be with you forever - the Spirit of truth.  The world cannot accept Him, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him.  But you know Him, for He lives with you and will be in you."
John 14:15-17 (NIV)

"But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you." John 14:26 (NIV)


We believe there is a physical world because we can see it. Our focus is in and on the physical world. We look to the physical world for answers to our questions. As we live and focus in the physical world we look to the world to make decisions, to solve our problems, and to receive comfort.  We have trained ourselves to look "out there" for what we need.
Our focus on the physical world has developed our physical senses.

God tells us to come to Him to make decisions, to solve problems and to receive comfort.
God gave each of His children the Holy Spirit.  The Holy Spirit is within each of us.  When we go to God for what we need our focus is in and on the spiritual world.  It is in the spiritual world that our spiritual senses are developed. Our spiritual senses help us see and hear beyond the what we see and hear in the physical. Our spiritual senses develop only if we have our faith in and on what Jesus did at Calvary.
We are to train ourselves to go "within" to the Holy Spirit to have our needs met.

Before I was a Christian I would prepare, prepare and prepare for speeches I had to deliver.  Early on as a Christian when I was asked to speak at a conference I tried to come up with the outline of the message. Try as I might I couldn't come up with a outline. What God would give me were scriptures.

I learned to sit with scriptures He gave me and meditate on those scriptures. After several hours of meditation God would slowly fill in the message.  For the most part He wouldn't fill in the message until the night before I was to speak.  At first this was scary because i didn't have control.  What if I arrived at the conference, got up to speak and had nothing to say?

On one such time when I received only one scripture from Him it left me confused and somewhat anxious.  I asked God for more scripture and clarity.   He said: "listen to worship music." After doing that for 3 or 4 hours I asked Him for the message.  He said, "listen to my music." After several more hours of listening to music he gave me more scripture.

On the way to the conference  I felt a lot of anxiety over only having a partial message to deliver at the conference. A conference where I was to speak twice.  In the middle of major anxiety with my stomach upset and feeling like I wanted to throw up God used a friend to deliver His message to me: "God wants less of you and more of Him." His message calmed my being.  Why did it calm me?  The answer is spiritual.  In my spirit I knew that God would give the message He wanted delivered even though I had little physical evidence of a message. I realized that when I listened for several hours to the worship music He prepared a message in me that He would deliver through me.  How did He do that?  God has the answer. Although I live in the physical world my focus was on God in the spiritual world.  I didn't go "out there" for what I needed I went "within" to the Holy Spirit.

God's message for that conference and for whatever we are facing is Just Be With Me.

Lord Jesus help us as we live in the physical world to focus on You and trust You. Train us Lord Jesus  to go "within" to the Holy Spirit.