Two statements and a question – but what interesting thoughts.  How often do we start something in the Spirit of God and then just take over in the natural doing something the way we think it should be done, trying to finish it so to speak in our flesh, by our own means and common sense?  All three of these statements/questions seem to flow together.  Traditions are the ways we “have always done them.”  It’s not always that these are wrong, they aren’t sin, they just aren’t the way God wants it done, anymore.  It may have been the exact way God wanted in done before, but if we lock ourselves into God only does something one way, we will miss how God wants it done. As we read our Bibles we see that God does things differently all the time in scripture, yet as humans our tendency is to lock into one way of doing something.  We may even think others are doing it wrong if they don’t do it our way.  It once again proves to us that we need to keep our spirits open to Holy Spirit and how He is leading us in the moment, in this day as compared to how He may have been leading us yesterday.

“We are one visitation away from our destiny,” which means that when God’s Spirit moves, comes to visit us personally or in a gathering, it may be the one touch of God that suddenly moves us into our destiny, becoming the people God sees us as.  With that kind of mindset, every day, every moment, especially every time I gather with others brings an air of excitement because “this could be the moment, the visitation from God we’ve been waiting for.”  We are in need of a supernatural breakthrough to get us beyond doing things in the natural.  The Lord often lets us carry on in the natural, in our own strength, until we come to the point where we realize we don’t have what it takes to make things happen the way He wants them to happen in and of ourselves.  Oh how I long for that one visitation that pushes us over the top, that supernatural breakthrough that changes everything in an instance.  I’m not talking about the return of Jesus Christ, that’s exciting beyond compare. I’m referring to Holy Spirit showing up and wrecking us (a collision with Jesus Christ).  Transforming us into something we are not in the natural.  That supernatural touch of God, the visitation that makes us never the same.  It will cause us to look at things differently, to hunger and thirst for more of who God is, and give us the ability to be everything God sees us as.