Junior High- John Baker
Introduction
Many times, people will take a jar with them on a vacation or a trip. They will collect dirt/air/etc from that place and bring it back home with them. Baseball teams often scoop up some dirt from their home baseball field and take it with them to give them good luck and to remind them who they are playing for.
If you had a jar, what points in your life would you have liked to bottle up?
If this worked in our spiritual lives, what point would you bottle up?
Probably the most overused phrase in the Christian life is “mountain top experience.” These are instances in our lives where we believe that things really couldn’t get any better. They are the moments when God was so evident, it felt like you could reach out and touch Him. These are the times that we feel like we want to bottle up. Then, when bad times come, or that spiritual high wears off, we can sneak a sniff of the moment from our jar and let that feeling come over us again. For those of you who went to CIY, this happens every year. We always say “I wish I felt like I did at CIY”. How can we maintain this momentum, how can we always live our life with the same enthusiasm and excitement as those mountain top experiences?
Simply put, the Spirit of God never changes. We are always holding the Spirit within our heart. Today, let us find out more about the Spirit and examine how we can keep the momentum from CIY or find that mountain top experience at any time and in any situation.
Bible Study
Hand out the papers that have every mention of the Spirit of God in the Bible. See what we can learn from the Bible verses.
What does our research today concerning the Spirit of God tell us about His workings in our life?
If the Spirit of God never changes, why do we feel like we have come down the mountain?
If it is our fault for getting down from the mountain, what can we do to sustain the Spirit’s workings in our life?
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