The Gift and the gifts — pt 4: Wait for the Gift
NOTE: We apologise for the audio quality of this recording, we had a technical difficulty.
In this fourth part of the series, and on Ascension Sunday, Alisha Wiseman explores the strange and beautiful tension of life with the Holy Spirit: Jesus is reigning, the Spirit has been given, the Kingdom has come — and yet so much of our lives can still feel unfinished.
From Acts 1, we are invited to see that waiting is not passive, empty, or meaningless. It is one of the places where God forms us. We wait with honesty about our need, attentiveness to the Spirit’s presence, and surrendered trust that God is still at work — even when our experience does not yet match the fullness of the promise.
The good news is that we are not abandoned in the waiting. The Spirit is already here, already within us, already moving among us — sometimes suddenly and miraculously, and sometimes slowly, quietly, forming us into people who reflect the likeness of Jesus to the world.
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