I find it interesting how God interacts with His people and the world. Last week I was working with some young people - a small group of over 18's. God prompted me to ask to two questions.........

(1) How do we respond to the great commission in our everyday life in the 21st century?

(2) What is the role of the Holy Spirit in this process?

We had an interesting dicussion with each young person, which reached a prayer and action point as to what this means for each of them. This happened just after one of these young people gave a recent sermon.  This sermon was about God's overflow in our life. This is surely an important part of the process of interacting with the Holy Spirit, as this interaction results in an  overflow of God that effects those around us. Which would seem to be a positive process and that would facilitate the Great Commission. This is indeed an outworking of faith and as James says: "Faith without works is dead."

At the conclusion of the young people's discussion, one stated that we need to be "supernaturally natural". There was some discussion about that might look like for each of us. However the strand was being developed by God, because I was given a book by a friend of mine called "Naturally Supernatural"  by Gary Best.  I immediately grabbed it because God seems to be strongly suggesting a theme. I started to read the initial chapter which is about passion for the Great Commission. Which seems to result in a natural overflow of the Spirit of God, as read in Acts 1:8.

 Is this (passion and resulting overflow) a reality today, in the 21st Century?

We are going to explore this further with our under 18 group. I will keep you posted, as we outwork the leading of  God.