INDEED! Very well put. For some reason, perhaps Christ's analogy between marriage and His Love for The Church Universal . . . it might be somewhat like trying to describe the joyous intimacy of marital relations to a computer chip. Doesn't compute. Not enough information. No experience.
Interestingly enough, my husband was from a church that didn't believe in the gifts of the spirit and he didn't even know what the annointing was. Well, ya know, when he began to pray, repent, obey and ask God for HIS best and HIS will, not only did my husband become a changed man, he began to see and understand that God's Best (and certainly His Annointing)is NOT kept in that tight little box that his former church was putting God in.
INDEED! PRAISE GOD! INDEED! INDEED!
Through this process, I, too grew and learned that there ARE people in all remotely Christian orgainizations, that when walking as you stated above, can live a life that is spirit-led and recognize the annointing when it comes and when it departs.
PRAISE GOD FOR YOUR KIND CONFIRMATION! YEA GOD!
The Holy Spirit is so very much alive and when Jesus left us with the promice of a Comforter, He wasn't talking about some far off mist that was somehow watching over us. He is alive and active and can be a part of your everyday, or should I say THE BIGGEST PART of your everyday life, if you are willing to lay it all down for the Lord.
INDEED! PRAISE GOD FOR HIS FAITHFULNESS!
LUB,
BWA HA HA .. you owe me a new keyboard, mister! Good one.