Knowing the Difference

Photo credit: Jordan Smith

It's been an interesting holiday season and it was all capped off with a journey to KC and the IHOP OneThing Conference. I spent the days with my son Timothy and had the privilege of stepping into the presence of King Jesus with some 13,000 plus people, all bent on the pursuit of God.

WOW! Over the years, I've been to my share of Christian gatherings...Urbana, Moody Founder's Week, Cell Church Training at Bethany World Prayer Center, Meetings at the Toronto Vineyard, and a ton of worship conferences with the Vineyard Movement. But there was something unique about the spirit of this time together. Maybe it was less about people and more about the manifest presence of Jesus. Maybe it was just that my heart was really ready for this message and call. Maybe I'm beginning to really know the difference between what is truly Spirit and merely flesh.

I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead. Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining towards what is ahead, I press on towards the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenwards in Christ Jesus.

Philippians 3:10-14

Come quickly, Lord Jesus!