“I watched the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and He rested on Him. I didn’t know Him, but He who sent me to baptize with water told me, ‘The One you see the Spirit descending and resting on—He is the One who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.’ I have seen and testified that He is the Son of God!” (John 1:32-34).

Christ lives in anyone born of God (1 John 3:9).  Jesus shares the Father’s heart and is Shepherd of our souls (1 Peter 2:25).  We often fail to recognize Him as such.  We have much more esteem for our life experience, our own judgment, and conventional wisdom.  We look to our strengths to lead us.  Jesus isn’t always considered.  The impulses of His Spirit are uninvited, ignored, dismissed.

We need the Spirit of God to descend and rest on Christ within.  Before…