Yesterday I experienced living stones “being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood.” (1 Peter 2:4-5) There were 8 of us — 7 men and one woman. We met at Chile Burrito in Brentwood, Tennessee. We were mostly strangers to one another.

We gathered to be “led by the Spirit” (Romans 8:14) and to spur “one another on toward love and good deeds, not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another.” (Hebrews 10:34-35) We prayed and asked God to speak to us. Then we shared as we felt prompted by the Holy Spirit. What followed was amazing.

Incredible wisdom and insight began to flow from different people. One brother-in-Christ shared that God had been telling Him to open up more to peace. Then another one shared that for the past 5 days he has begun his journaling by writing, “I have the peace of God.” I told them about waking up that morning with a short poem about God’s peace forming in my mind and read it to them. (I posted that poem here yesterday morning).

We were all in awe that 3 of the 8 of us had been hearing the same thing. It was incredible to see the Holy Spirit bring that to light through our meeting together.

Later the young woman began to speak a powerful word of encouragement to one of the men. It was coming from a place of deep compassion within her. Tears flowed down her face as she spoke. The man was moved and very encouraged by what God led her to say. Then she prayed a powerful prayer for him, and we all felt deeply connected heart-to-heart to one another.

It was a beautiful demonstration of the power, presence and reality of the risen Jesus Christ. (1 Corinthians 2:4) We came together as strangers and were quickly transformed into spiritual stones functioning together as a holy priesthood of believers obeying the 50+ New Testament “one another commandments.”

We feel led to meet this way every Saturday morning at 8:30 at Chile Burrito in Brentwood, Tennessee. Everyone is welcome to come freely, without any pressure or obligation to come regularly.

Spirit-led intuition,
The inner voice of God,
Confirmed by the Bible
Is more powerful than a
Religious institution.
Let Jesus speak to you
And tell you what to do.