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A New Day with Janie T. (#07b)

Second part of
Harnessing The Wind Of The Holy Spirit

In the first part of “Harnessing The Wind Of The Holy Spirit” I shared a personal account that I had harnessing a team of horses each day to feed a thousand head of cattle. And not leaving out the windy springs we so often have in Idaho. Horses are known for their great strength and wind is known for its great power as well. Without the harnessing of that mighty power, a lot of damage can be done. The same power in both horses and wind can be the answers to a lot of problems. It’s in the harnessing or un-harnessing that troubles are solved.

Wind, an eye opener!

I typed the word “wind” into my electronic Bible and ran a lot of references to see what the Bible had to say about wind.

Wind was used to dry out the soil from the flood in Noah’s day. Exodus 10
Wind was used to bring in the plagues to free the Israelites from the Pharaoh and the heavy taskmasters.
Wind was used to drive out the plagues that God had sent into Egypt.
Wind was used to dry the floor of the sea so that the Israelites could escape from those in hot pursuit of their hides.

We need the wind after a sloppy wet winter to dry out the soil so that we can get back into the fields to plant again so that we can become productive again.

As the Israelites suffered pain from the wind that carried in their deliverance, they also suffered pain from change.

We too, will suffer from the wind that will carry our deliverance, because we have to press into that pressure that is coming against us in order to get through the situation at hand. When we press through it, then there is victory. We can look back on it and see that we grew closer to the Lord because of it. This is a time that we do not want to harness the Holy Spirit. We harness Him when we do not put our trust in Jesus.

New Testament Wind!

Acts 2:2 speaks of Holy Spirit Wind. “…Suddenly there came a sound from heaven like the rushing of a violent tempest blast, and it filled the whole house in which they were sitting."
Manifestations of that “wind” fell on the people and lives were changed. They were never the same again!
Paul, in the Corinthians had “shipwrecks” because of wind.

So wind brings the good and the bad.

We have seasons in our life too. Some are like spring, warm, but we can’t see much life growing yet. Some seasons are like summer, temperatures are just right, all the conditions are just right. We can see great things happening.

Then there are more seasons, the fall time when you get to reap from the good and the bad. Sometimes things turn out differently than what we had planned.

Perhaps the crop didn’t produce as we had hoped.
Maybe it was an unplanned health problem.

We could name many things here.

Then there are seasons like the winter, cold, wet, and sloppy. When our life gets sloppy, we need the WIND OF THE HOLY SPIRIT to blow over us and dry out our situation so that we can again walk with confidence to victory.

Our situation may call for healing, (physical, emotional, spiritual or maybe a change of attitude.) My attitude needs a blowing out quite regularly. How about yours?

There Is A Wind Blowing Across The Land

As I travel, to other nations, I am seeing the wind of the Holy Spirit blowing across this land and around the world as never before.

We can allow that Wind to take us places we have never been before. We can take the restraints (harness) off the wind so that it can become a greater power within us or, we can harness that wind and rein it in so tight that we disable that awesome, Holy Spirit power.

A Dream, Riding an Elk?

“Hang on tight”, You’re going for a ride, spoke a voice out of the Wind that was accompanying me as I was straight out in mid air, hanging onto the elk’s antlers for dear life. It has been a real ride every since that dream.

There have been TV programs, more books and songs being written and invitations that I would have thought were impossible. I chose not to harness the Holy Spirit power in my life. But along with that choice came some unexpected changes.

There is a price to pay for this choice and I’m paying it. Not everyone will think highly of you. Not everyone will support you with encouragement. There will be lies told on you. Some friends will turn and walk away. You will find out what true loneliness is all about. You will find out who is a true friend and it won’t take long.

There is a friend that sticks closer than a brother (Proverbs 18:24.) That friend is Jesus! Jesus said, that if they would hate him, they would hate you too. He suffered for us. How can we expect not to suffer for him?

In the harnessing process there will be some pain and suffering. As we learn to take off the yoke, the restraints (the things that keep us tethered) and allow the Holy Spirit to harness or manage our life we will see our situation change for the good. Give Jesus The Reign of your whole life and see how your state of affairs changes all for your good.

And on this spring day let the gentle wind of the Holy Spirit engulf you,

Have a blessed day,

Janie T.

(1Pe 4:16) But if [one is ill-treated and suffers] as a Christian [which he is contemptuously called], let him not be ashamed, but give glory to God that he is [deemed worthy to suffer] in this name.

(1Pe 4:19) Therefore, those who are ill-treated and suffer in accordance with God's will must do right and commit their souls [in charge as a deposit] to the One Who created [them] and will never fail [them].