I hope to speak to mature christians. Or at least people who understand that there must be something more than what the present life holds. I am sick , not physically but spiritual sick of this "american christianity". Why don't we see God moving in our lives? Why is it that third world countries are seeing much more of God than we are? How can they be willing to die for this Jesus Christ who seems so distant from America?? I believe it's because of a lack of belief in the being that drew us close to the Lord in the beginning of our christian walk: the Holy Spirit. "oh yea that guy" many of us say and sometimes are even afraid of him getting too close to us! How this frustrates me so! When the Lord gave the israelites the ten commandments he came in a form of a cloud, the bible said he descended on top of Mount Sinai to talk with Moses. When the people saw the thunder and the lightning coming from mount Sinai, they told moses in verse exodus 20:19 :"They stayed at a distance and said to moses ,"Speak to us yourself and we will listen. But do not have God speak to us or we will die." And when i read this i could not help but think at all of those who fear getting closer to God because of his Holy Spirit. Moses continued to say that it was a test so that they might fear the Lord and not sin anymore, but what i see here is that God could have spoken to them Himself, but they felt they would die! wow! I mean this could be taken two different ways, 1) they had godly fear and knew their limits, they knew they had to be right with God, or 2) they were too scared to get to the point where Moses was. They didn't want to get where Moses was...they wanted to seat in their pew chairs and listen to a sermon and go home and forget that they have a God who wants to get to know them better but they ignore Him. Yea that's right. Sometimes we allow our pastors, or spiritual leaders to be our "moses". We say..."oh no, let God speak to the pastor, but don't get close to me because i will surely die." That's right you will! You will have no choice but to acknowledge his Spirit and DIE daily! (1 corinthians 15:31). Can you tell I'm angry? However, i don't believe this is a sinful anger. I am not saying to the church to just focus on spiritual gifts, because what good does it do if it's not out of love? I am not encouraging to just focus on the spiritual gifts what i am saying is that american christianity has put God in a box where we don't believe anything more than that of Jesus Christ coming to die for us. Yes, that is salvation, but His Spirit is the one who draws conviction and gives us boldness to preach to others!!! So when i hear a fellow christian laugh or just say " ehh i dunno about that" when it comes to spiritual gifts i get angry because i am thinking.." How little is my God? Is His arm too short?"(numbers 11:23). So there is people getting raised from the dead and people getting killed because of Jesus name and who does that? If we know it is not by our own power then why must we deny the power of the Spirt with our own uncaring hearts? I think many do not realize that their own unbelief is what prevents the glory of God to move in their lives...because if only we had a generation that stepped up and believed, how different will american Christianity be? And you might begin to argue with me and say, "oh but michel the most important thing is Gods love" and bla blah blah..and i'm responding to you saying, "Get on your knees and pray to the Lord to forgive our callous hearts. And PRAY that we may be sensible to his Spirit. And pray that His Spirit pours out upon you SO THAT YOU MAY NEVER BE THE SAME AGAIN. So that you may never think you are in control. And SO that YOU may do wonderous and glorious things through his Holy spirit to benefit his kingdom!!! Because even Jesus said,

"John 14:12
I tell you the truth, anyone who has faith in me will do what I have been doing. He will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father"

I don't know about you but i hold on to this promise...i have faith in Jesus, and if he says we are going to do greater things than i want some of that! I want the power of God to come down to america and shake us all because i know that i won't be satisfied knowing that God wants to give me more. Can any christian say amen?