Wow or Whisper

This week we start reading Acts and the Holy Spirit shows up with a bang! Violent wind, tongues of fire, supernatural abilities! Can’t imagine how scary and exciting that must have been. But I also wonder what it would have been like to be Elijah who had a different experience with God. In I Kings 19:10-13 there was a great wind, and then an earthquake, and then a fire, but God’s voice came in a “sound of sheer silence.” Sometimes God intervenes in our lives in dramatic ways, but usually it’s a soft nudge to do something or a prompting from Him that we need to be alert to. I love this story that Mark Batterson shares about a Holy Spirit nudge and a woman who works at a ministry called the Dream Center who was paying attention:

“One morning she felt like the Holy Spirit was prompting her to take her woolly socks to work. She thought she was losing her mind. She got to the Dream Center and one of the prostitutes that they minister to literally collapsed inside the door. She held her, fed her, and then asked her: if you could have anything what would it be? She said her feet were freezing and all she wanted was a pair of woolly socks. Not only did she give her the woolly socks. They matched her outfit.”

What experiences have you had with obeying a nudge from the Holy Spirit? Pay attention this week and share your experiences with our online community!

Laura Crosby serves as the Director of Spiritual Formation at The Table

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