Thanks tons.
Been around a long time in a wide diversity of congregations from traditional AoG to about every other kind. Few seem to get it right or if they do--to get it right more than a few weeks or months running.
I've observed that God is NOT STATIC though He's the same yesterday, today and forever.
HE'S VERY DYNAMIC and persistently stretches, challenges, heals, matures, enlarges, provokes unto love and good works . . . individuals and groups who dare to cooperate with Him.
Through my life I've found that God does speak to those willing to listen. I can't number the times when I've been feeling lost or down, only to be picked back up by a messenger of God who "just happens" to cross my path (I don't believe in chance). God has placed His Word in front of me many many times, and I rarely miss His Word. That is why I try to provide for others what God has placed before me. I try to be a testament to His Word so that others may come to Him.
You have captured precisely the definition of living a spirit filled life. It is such a difference from studying His Word via head knowledge. It is good and we can grasp some good points and directives, and it does impact your life. However, it doesn't compare to living a life where His Word comes alive through a true revelation of the Spirit. It is not about speaking in tongues, it is about a minute by minute life infusing relationship with the God who created the universe but lives in our hearts. It is about laying down our lives to the point where it is no longer "about me", but it is all about allowing Christ to live through me.