Acts 17:27 “That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us:” 28 “For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.“
It feels good to live, and move, and have my being in You, Lord. The blessings we could only realize if we slowed down to count them. All of mankind have been born into a world living, moving, and having their being under the invisible privilege granted by an All Present God.
As I was praying to God it just came to me, If feels good to live, and move, and have my being in You Lord, but it even feels better when You, Lord, live, and move, and have your being inside of me. The last part sounded loud and clear of having a good is okay, but with God is absolutely better.
As a child, I have such fond memories. I discovered, if I said something to my nine older than me brother he would chase me and tickle me. It felt great to live, move, and have my being. I found out if I ran behind my twelve year older than me sister that she would tell my brother to leave me alone as I clung to one of her legs not taller than her knee cap laughing up a storm at my brother.
My scheming to get the attention from my older brother and running behind my sister did not always pan out to be my solid refuge. I persuaded my brother into chasing me and running behind my sister turned out to be a mistake. My sister proceeded to tell my brother to “get him, saying his name“, “get him…” and the tickling began while my refuge was gone. It felt great to be alive, moving freely, and having my being. My world was perfect as far as I knew.
God had granted me a family to live, and move, and have my being with such loving care. My dad would scoop me up in his arms and scratch my cheek with his unshaven cheek while I giggled and fought him off. My family never let me know we were financially poor. The love and attention filled my life, my actions, and my presence with happiness and joy that made me feel rich. It felt great to live, move, and have my being.
As time went on and my twelve year older than me sister moved out. The activity in the house became a little less than what I was use to. I just knew she was no longer there, but not sure why. My nine year older brother than me also became less and less at the house. He was in his teenager years as I was growing for four years old up to nine years old. Daily life became a challenge to occupy myself.
While my brother was gone, I went out back to his leopard skinned bicycle and attempted to ride it while crashing several times. He never caught riding his bike. Life was still good living, moving, and having my being only just a little bit more lonely. It was a good life with a good family.
One day my brother told me, I was mistake. I went to my mom asking her was I a mistake. I could imagine looking up into her eyes as she was searching for an answer to appease me. She told me that they took years to prepare for me, which was a fantastic answer to the truth of actually being a mistake. It felt great to live, move, and have my being with my family God had granted me to born into.
The day came for my brother to leave home and join the military. I wanted one more little chase and one more little tickle from him. Standing before him along with my mom and my dad as a nine year old little boy, I said the key words from times past to get him to chase me. I said, “I hate you” and the usual response was “Oh, yeah…” then a chase was to start, but this time the words were spoken and no response was given with only the silence of goodbye.
He boarded the plane and as a little nine year old boy was left in the airport with the last words to the brother he loved was “I hate you“. I was still good in living, moving, and having my being, but it was now at nine years old as an only child. Dad worked three jobs and mom worked full time as I was put in other people’s care. My invisible playmate became God because I heard about Him in Sunday School that He was everywhere. We played in the woods together and I would walk home just talking up a storm with Him. Living, moving, and having my being was still good.
As I grew older, meeting not so good kids in the neighborhood life became filled with not so good things. “Try this…“, “Try that…“, “do this…“, and “do that…” became the peer pressure of evil deeds. In all those years doing things that were bad. I was still living, moving, and having my being under the grace of God fully in tact even though the status of my mind, heart, and soul was changing for the worse.
Then came the morning while sitting in the balcony of the farthest seat in church that I was made to go to. A still small voice whispered into my thoughts, “Try Me, you have tried everything else“. So, somehow, I got the courage to go down front of the church and start this trial basis relationship with God.
I made strict rules with the God about the friendship and fellowship that we would would have, even though He gave me the ability to live, move, and have my being in Him. I wanted a straight up relationship with no lies only pure truth. The reason for the rules was because of the lies, deceptions, and being used by people, even church people were not what they claimed to be (disclaimer, not all of them).
The journey began by establishing another rule. I would not believe a person about the Bible unless it perfectly matched scripturally and God approved it. Don’t piece scriptures together to try to fool me. My life journey was still filled with people who lied, try to take advantage, and manipulate things in my life, which drove me deeper into the Bible with more questions for God to show me the way, the truth, and the life I should choose to live. Truth became all I want.
I worked at an amusement park called, Magic World. A person saw me reading the Bible and said to me did I know no one in the entire Bible was ever baptized in the Father, in the Son, and the Holy Ghost (Mtt. 28:19), which I had been baptized that way. Well, he was talking about my best Friend God and His Bible. I kindly listened, but did not accept what he said until I could research and prove otherwise.
The next few days, I studied the Bible intently while relying upon God to show me the truth in His word and not the word of a man because that was the rule between God and me. I only found that the people in the Bible were baptized in Jesus name and no record of a baptism in the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. So, Biblically he was right and God showed me that is the right way to be baptized and the reason for it.
Water baptism was symbolic of being buried in death with Jesus Rom. 6:3, 4 and the blood of forgiveness was inside the name of Jesus washing away all my sins Acts 2:38. This was a fantastic revelation and understanding from God. I told the man I found my proof for Jesus name baptism more than I did Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. He then proceeded to tell me the outpouring of God’s Spirit is just like God did on His apostles in Acts Chapter two. It still happens today.
Okay, here I go again not believing him, but doing my own research privately with God and His word. The two things I was searching for was ‘did it stop‘ and ‘was it for today‘. The speaking in another language as God gives you the utterance was a little bit more than I could swallow, pardon the pun. Again, I found the scriptures about God pouring out His Spirit to all generations to come and as many as He shall call Acts 2:39.
As a child and a young man I was living, moving, and having my being in God, but I was not at that time seeking for God to live, move, and have His being in me. I started my personal prayers with God “if You want me to have this outpouring of Your Spirit experience, then I want it“. My relationship was directly with God and His Word, not allowing anyone between me and God. You let me live in You why not let You live in me?
A year or so went by and no infilling of the Holy Ghost like Acts chapter two. I was living a good live with God, moving around, and having my everyday being with Him was all that mattered. I did not feel worthy of the outpouring of His Spirit like the apostles, but His scriptures said He was the same yesterday, today, and forever Heb. 13:8.
One Sunday evening service the altar was made and I always quietly went to the right side, kneeling down, and having a person prayer with God. As I was softly speaking a prayer, I felt spiritually, a Holy Powerful Spirit presence come over me as though I was on Holy ground.
My whole body was covered with this Holy Spirit presence. I felt something wonderful coming into my soul filling my insides with such a joy unspeakable and a Holy divine changing power. It became so powerful all over me and inside me that my English prayer speaking words slowly became words of another language I did not know. This was Him! I knew it! He was going to give me the gift of the Holy Ghost as promised to all.
I had complete clarity of mind that this was Holy, Holy, Holy, the Lord God Almighty living, and moving, and having His being make residence inside with my spirit, fulfilling the born again of the Spirit portion Jesus told Nicodemus Jn. 3. By this time, I had already been rebaptized in Jesus name fulfilling the born of the water part, which applied his blood of forgiveness washing away all my sins Acts 2:38.
Life totally changed for me. Now, God was living, moving, and having His being inside me guiding me into all truth daily, even the truth about myself. Life was good before, but now it is far better. The revelation of freely living, moving, and having our being in Him while in this world is a gift and a privilege. It feels far better when God lives, moves, and has His being inside of you guiding you into His glorious Light.
Life is not true life until the Giver of Life lives inside, behind your eyes, your thoughts, and actions. I prayed to God that it does feel good to live, move and have my being in Him in this world, but it is far more greater to me for Him to live, and move, and have His being freely inside of me with no restrictions. God be Yourself inside me as You allow me to be myself inside you. What more powerful request could you give God than to have a oneness of fellowship from both sides completely free in being themselves?
You and I are blessed to live, move, and have our being in this life, but a better life is for God to live, move, and have His being inside of us before we leave this life.
THIS IS THE WAY
Acts 2:27 “That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us:“
THIS IS THE TRUTH
Acts 1:8 “But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.“
THIS IS THE LIFE
Acts 2:38 “Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.“
THIS IS THE PROMISE
39 “For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.“
God let us live together in complete Oneness.