Patrick Tan

We are Pentecostals - Spirit-filled believers who believes in the active part of the Holy Spirit in empowering His people. But yet how come we supress the workings of the Holy Spirit? How dare we put Him in a man-made box as if He could be tamed?! In our worship we have moved away from His sovereign leading to less than five minutes of Spirit-time or much worse - none at all. We pray without a clear purpose that is allowing God to work in His omnipotence His plans for world redemption. We treat God as a "celestial vending machine" whom we kick if He doesn't give out. Why do we pray? We are worse than robots in a sense that robots never grow tired of their task. Look at us. Less than an hour of keeping watch at our Master and our legs grow restless like a hot dog. Let us pray that we will not fall into temptation. True, how can one pray with much fervor and passion if one is not empowered to believe, to be certain of what is invisible? God's Spirit is not tame, my brothers, He is wild but good. We speak of conquests, revivals, and transformations which will never happen if we do not yield ourselves - broken vessels, willing vessels to be used in His kingdom. There's a growing trend of spiritual apathy in the Church today. We are failing to step up as a Body, a Nation whom God has chosen to become the light into darkness. I pray that when He returns we will not be caught naked - lazy and shameful servants engrossed with self-serving and short-sighted motives. Nevertheless, come Lord Jesus.