AMEN and i have known this for many a years and share with many -
unbelief causes the Dove to fly right over their head because there is no resting place for Him in unbelief
Notice what the Scripture says: Then John testified, “I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove and resting on Him
The Holy Spirit comes as Dove - not a force - non threatening - and will only descend upon the person who is willing to receive Him.
When it happens - REST
note: if you see HS7 in my posts = this is my abbreviation for Holy Spirit
amen I think it has to do a lot with brotherly Love active in each other’s lives. Churches are Meant to be gathering places for Gods children in peace to Hear his word, care about each other’s lives , interceded where we can to bear one another’s burdens , be the “ Good Samaritan “ kind of folks who care for each other and the other potential lost in the world.
sort of
“And
because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.
But he that shall
endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.
And
this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and
then shall the end come.”
Matthew 24:12-14 KJV
with faith , goes true kingdom love In and among the church and we fall away ( as a church and body ) seeing Gifts poured out of the spiritual things for the
sake of the body when even few come together in brotherly love you have unity and a body forms , a habitation for the Holy Ghost to administer gifts among the group for the growth of the body being edifies and unified
we have lost sight of the church I fear , losing sight of the gospel of the kingdom that is preached until the end.
“Neither
pray I for these alone, but
for them also which shall believe on me through their word; That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.
And
the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one: I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.
Father,
I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.”
John 17:20-24 KJV
I think the church is lacking love for one another we’ve isolated our selves made our own world , and forgotten the fist command to love one another and be as a body and group bearing each other’s burdens and sharing with the needy out of our more than enough.
“For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that
we should love one another…. Hereby
perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him,
how dwelleth the love of God in him?
My little
children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth. And hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him.”
1 John 3:11, 16-19
I think that each church group is different and I only have my own experiences in around 50 years but it seems like we have drifted far apart and let many divisions and doctrines create a kingdom very divided. And
many individual Christians still remember to love others but
as a group a body across all the world we are failing miserably in brotherly love while succeeding in corporate finance worlds in the name of Jesus ? I don’t think we’re gonna see outpourings and miracles until we’re walking as a church
