Jan 26 - Constant Conformity to the Image of Christ

I think the prayer meetings are starting to get out of control. I mean that the Holy Spirit is doing things there that we aren’t expecting. It’s as exciting as it is unpredictable.
This morning was one of those face-down, on your knees, crying out like you don’t think anyone else is in the room even though you can hear them mornings. (If you don’t know what I’m talking about you are really missing out.)
The Holy Spirit was convicting us of sin and places where we have not been imitators of him. Personally, I’ve been convicted by that passage in the gospels where it says that Jesus looked at the people and had compassion on them because they were like sheep without a shepherd. That’s not how I feel when I look at people. I feel critical, judgmental, cynical, some times sad. I wouldn’t personally describe myself as compassionate. But I want to be like Jesus. When he looks at the people and feels compassion, I want to do the same. I need the cancer of a critical-cynical nature ripped out of me. I need constant conformity to Christ.
Constant conformity to Christ. My worst fear right now is that what the Holy Spirit is doing in our prayer meetings will end up being just an unsustainable spike in our spiritual development. One of those spiritual highs that we’ve all felt at a conference but that doesn’t have the discipline we need for real change, so we go back to what we were doing before. I want what was prayed this morning: “That we would look back at January 09 and repent because we were so lax; so tied up in sin; so calloused to the voice of the spirit; so lacking the faith for real prophetic prayer.”
I know I want true repentance. True change. I’m not interested in a fad. I’m not interested in a spiritual high. I have one goal: pressing into the eternal mystery of God’s Love. Anything less is unacceptable.
Holy Spirit, only you can change our hearts. Do it by your beautiful presence.