Getting more of God?

Hello Soldiers, Fellow followers of Jesus, and friends,

Just so you know that not everything I say from the pulpit is perfect???... (as if you thought that). Someone came up to me after service Sunday (the sermon I just posted) and said they didn't think that you could "Get more of God", I think the point being that He is 100% there for you all the time, or maybe they meant you can't just take the pieces of Him you want - FOR THE RECORD, I completely agree. I do however believe that we can open ourselves up to receive more of Him (or more from Him - whichever you find most doctrinally "semantically" correct). I believe that not only can God completely fill us today, and re-fill us tomorrow, but that he can also increase my ability to receive more tomorrow. (Not just fill my cup Lord, but fill me to overflowing today, and then give me a bigger cup tomorrow, that I might know more of You, be more in tune with You, better resemble Your likeness, to better glorify Your Name and move others to do the same).

No matter if you would call it "more" of a relationship with God, or more knowledge to better grasp Him, or if it's that you call it reaching a place where you want "less" of you, my prayer is you just seek a deeper relationship with Jesus Christ.

I think General Bramwell Tillsley said it this way... "You cannot get more and more of the Holy Spirit. You have all of the Holy Spirit from the very beginning. It's not a case of getting more and more of the Holy Spirit, It's a matter of the Holy Spirit getting more and more of you." AMEN.

So anyway, for the record, as I've prayed before - Dear Heavenly Father, if anything from the pulpit or my lips is perfect, empowering, life changing, working salvation, and God glorifying, then please let everyone know it is from You alone, by Your Holy Spirit, and or from Your Holy Word... and Lord if anything from the pulpit or my lips is ever (heaven forbid) wrong, incomplete, or powerless, may everyone know they were spoken through my inadequate humanness.

I leave you with a scripture and something to pray about...

Here is the Word of God, and how Paul described his desire to know His Savior more...
Philippians 3:10-16 (Amplified Bible) 10 [For my determined purpose is] that I may know Him [that I may progressively become more deeply and intimately acquainted with Him, perceiving and recognizing and understanding the wonders of His Person more strongly and more clearly], and that I may in that same way come to know the power outflowing from His resurrection [which it exerts over believers], and that I may so share His sufferings as to be continually transformed [in spirit into His likeness even] to His death, [in the hope] 11 That if possible I may attain to the [spiritual and moral] resurrection [that lifts me] out from among the dead [even while in the body]. 12 Not that I have now attained [this ideal], or have already been made perfect, but I press on to lay hold of (grasp) and make my own, that for which Christ Jesus (the Messiah) has laid hold of me and made me His own. 13 I do not consider, brethren, that I have captured and made it my own [yet]; but one thing I do [it is my one aspiration]: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, 14 I press on toward the goal to win the [supreme and heavenly] prize to which God in Christ Jesus is calling us upward. 15 So let those [of us] who are spiritually mature and full-grown have this mind and hold these convictions; and if in any respect you have a different attitude of mind, God will make that clear to you also. 16 Only let us hold true to what we have already attained and walk and order our lives by that.

Now something to pray about... I'm not saying this to take a jab in anyway, I couldn't mean this in a more genuine honest way... If you want a better pastor - please pray for the one you have. I guarantee you, whether I'm your pastor or not, they covet your prayers just like I do.

God's richest blessings to all you fellow officers, soldiers, local officers, pastors, church members, and lay leaders in every church and movement for the cause of Christ, may we all strive to KNOW HIM AND MAKE HIM KNOWN.

Live holy, preach Jesus!