The Holy Spirit's Presence: Accessing God's Power by Acknowledging Our Weakness

This is from my freewrite about this book that I wrote yesterday on my private journaling site:

I just finished the AW Tozer Book called The Holy Spirit's Presence: Accessing God's Power by Acknowledging our Weakness by Caleb Sinclair, and A.W. Tozer.

I have no idea where I got this book from, but it has been sitting in my Kindle queue for a bit (since December 15), and I wanted something to listen to on a part of my walk. So, yesterday, I walked from the fairgrounds parking lot down Midge Cramer Path (RIP. He is my old landlord.) around the meadow and back to the path and down the SW Campus Way Path through the covered bridge and into campus. I turned off at 23rd to have a look at the Alpha Delta Pi house (my sorority house from 1978-1981 and now a Christian women's coop). Then I got to the Boys and Girl's Club where George picked me up and took me home from there. I did about 8 miles. It was lovely, and I got to within 30 pages of finishing this book. So, I finished it this morning.

The Holy Spirit was a perfect subject for me. I just read through the whole Bible, and the Spirit is mentioned quite a bit. Jesus was "led by the Spirit" to the temptation. The book of Acts is all about the Holy Spirit. 

I loved Tozer's take. I think we are afraid of the Holy Spirit and have relegated it to an inferior member of the Trinity, but it is equally important in the whole scheme of things. God is ONE. And part of that ONE is the Holy Spirit. 

I loved his strong scriptural stand, and I only underlined one thing:

Then I would say, 
cultivate the art of recognizing
the presence of the Spirit, 
every place, all the time.
The Holy Spirit of the Lord fills the world. p.120

Amen. So, as I walked outside for 2+ hours, I cultivated that art of recognizing that the Holy Spirit was present the whole time. 

It is a simple thing, but I think we are enticed by other ways of being. 

The One Year Chronological Bible NIV

I wanted to see how long it would take to read through the Bible if I took every free minute I could to read! So, it took me 21 days, 6 hours, and 19 minutes. 

I never get tired of reading through the Bible.

This is maybe my 15th time through, but I'm not sure.

The Women by Kristen Hannah

I can totally see why this was the 2024 best novel of the year on Goodreads. I think I am about the same age as this author (yes, just looked it up - I am a year older), and the main character is from the beaches of Southern California (I was Manhattan, and she was Coranado Island in Sand Diego). 

I sobbed at the end. It is so well-written and so sad! Vietnam was such a horrible war, and why did we get involved?  

I have also been to the Vietnam War Memorial and sobbed the whole early morning I spent there by myself before the summer crowds came. 

I highly recommend this book. It begs to be made into a movie.