16 May 2021 - 8.30am Service
Holy Spirit Series: Water - Dwelling in the spirit
This Sunday we continue our preaching series Holy Spirit with a message from Angela Moseley on ‘Water - Dwelling in the Spirit’.
In our journey towards Pentecost this May, we will look at key symbols used in the Bible to help us understand how to encounter and live life with the Spirit of God.
Remember, later today at the 11am and 7pm service we’ll hear Dave Mitchel and Rob Scott-Cook share about the same topic. Go check it out!
DISCUSSION NOTES
INTRODUCTION | John 7: 37-39, Romans 8, 1 Corinthians 2:10-15, Ephesians 5:18 and Psalm 41
The Holy Spirit is often compared to water, most famously by Jesus in John 7:37-39.
The Holy Spirit touches our deep places (Water)- worship, healing, intercession, revelation and is in our deep places (out of your belly will flow living water) but wells up in praise, prayer, prophecy, and in searching the deep things of God (1 Cor:2:10)
Can you remember and describe the experience of being spiritually thirsty? What did that lead to?
How does that experience of the Spirit in ‘deep places’ link to praise and worship? (Eph 5:18- 19)
The opposite of living water in our innermost being is hardness of heart. What kind of things can lead to hardness of heart?
How has the pandemic and lack of opportunity to worship with others affected your sense of Spiritual refreshment or need of it?
Read Psalm 41 as an act of worship and ask God to restore your soul where you need refreshment.