"Spirit In - Spirit Out - A Flow Through" [Reflections On Book Powerlines by Leona Frances Choy - Chapter 1 , E.M. Bounds #15/25] (Matt.4_1-3; Luke 5:12-20; Rom.Ch. 8; Heb.4:12;)
It’s Spirit in, it’s Spirit out –
The flow is there without a doubt –
Or not – for one or other way
Will generate our daily pay.Enthusiastically we work,
Though man of prayer is viewed as jerk,
Until the roof comes crashing in
From evil, chance, or self-ish sin.Then man of prayer is what we seek,
For in such ministry we meet
The Spirit of the living God
(To men of intellect quite odd).So, Edward Bounds faced Civil War
On the losing side – prayed as before
As chaplain in and out of jail –
Allowed God’s Spirit to prevail.Wife died; left two; her sister wed;
Five kids from her who all were fed;
We have our lives to live as well
As ministry – sometimes in hell.Without the flow of Spirit-life,
We labor on by day or night;
It counts as nothing in the end
Unless the Spirit there attends.Lord, this man wrote and edited
With power, and yet he credited
The impact of the Spirit’s flow
Through life of prayer he’d come to know.Grant that I stay within this flow
Of Spirit-life, that I might know
That healing touch of life within,
As week of photos I begin.Thanks Lord for this.
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