Shiloh Baptist Church

Oh, how refreshing is the word of God! As we dive into His word, we find The Holy Spirit beckoning us to delve deeper with Him. As I thought about the topic “Refreshing,” I asked the Lord to help me. I wasn’t sure where to turn. He lead me to a book written by Susan Rohrer called Splash! In it she shares refreshing Christian quotes and scriptures that take you right into Spiritual Refreshment. Here are just a few inspirational quotes that caught my heart as a believer and encourages me to stay in the Word.

Are you a busy believer? Barely have time to splash some water on your face before you start your day? You may find yourself thirsty for time with God. You long for a refreshing from the Holy Spirit, an inspired thought for the day ahead. You desire to drink of the living waters Jesus said would flow from the innermost parts of every believer. You want to refresh others with what refreshes you. Draw from the well of inspiration through these quotes, fruit of time spent in God’s sparkling river!

• The Holy Spirit is powerfully loving, commandingly joyful, actively peaceful, compellingly patient, emphatically kind, intensely good, infallibly faithful, potently gentle, and vigorously self-controlled. Who wouldn’t want to know a person like this?
• The Holy Spirit is a great gentleman. He doesn’t push us deeper when we’re not ready. He patiently waits to be desired.
• Is God calling you deeper into the river of His Holy Spirit?
• The world says to follow your heart. The Word bids us to follow the prompting of the Spirit. What path will you choose?
• How far we venture into God’s River is up to us. God continues to call, to envelop those who choose to go deeper.
• The wonder-working power of Jesus was poured out to supercharge the testimony of every believer- through every generation.
• We have trouble trusting people to truly manifest the Spirit. But that’s exactly what God does. Even with the least of us.
• The Spirit and the Bride really do say, “Come!” Drink freely of the kingdom’s crystal clear, life-giving River and be refreshed!
• The Bible is our compass. If we don’t keep confirming our course, we’ll drift off track, far from the current of the Spirit.
• The desert is an arid place where we must learn to rely fully on the refreshment of the Holy Spirit.
• The more we’re above water, the more control we keep. The deeper we go into His River, the more control we give Him.
• Our comfort zone is really our control zone. The more we yield control to Him, the more comfortable we get with our Comforter.
• Ever the Gentleman, our divine Teacher eases us out of our comfort zones, giving us opportunity to learn about His ways.
• Reach out when He prompts you. Yield when He subdues you. Acknowledge Him as your very present helper and guide.
• We all have control issues. We like to be in charge of the way things go. But that is the way of the flesh, not the Spirit.
• Once we truly get to know the Holy Spirit, we’ll eagerly accept what He gives us and we’ll go where we He leads.
• Sensitivity to the Holy Spirit is one of the forms discernment takes, as God reveals the truth about our circumstances.
• Pray before you act. Listen before you speak. Your heavenly Counselor will guide you, if given the opportunity. All heaven can break loose.
• Spend time in quietness, with your ears open to the Holy Spirit. In those silent moments, you just may hear His whispers.
• No matter the place you find yourself, know that God sees you there. Like the loving Father that He is, He cares about your mountaintops and your valleys.
• Wherever you are, you are never, ever, out of His sight. He waits to water your dry bones and to restore you to a place of spiritual vitality in every single circumstance.
• When it comes to finding godly contentment’s, it’s not so much a question of where we are as it is who has led us to that place. If God led you into that valley, thank Him for it. He will strengthen you to not only survive it, but to thrive. Where ever you are, there is a Fountain. Truly.
• God really does have all the answers. The greatest enigmas are elegantly solved at the feet of such a Teacher.
• Unsure what to do? Ask your heavenly Father’s advice. Sit at His feet and listen. He loves that. He delights to answer and help His kids.
• No matter what happens, God can use it in His children’s lives, along His continuum of redemption and grace. It really is all good!

One of the things I love so much about the invitation God extends is that it’s to everyone. There’s no exclusivity of gender, race or age. All who live and breathe are invited into His sparkling river. If you’ve accepted His invitation, too, you know what I mean. But if you haven’t yet or if you’ve wandered away from His life-giving flow, know that your forgiving God stands waiting, loving you all the while.

Submitted by Sis. Raquel Colon