{"id":17420,"date":"2014-01-30T00:15:35","date_gmt":"2014-01-30T05:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/?p=17420"},"modified":"2014-01-29T23:38:57","modified_gmt":"2014-01-30T04:38:57","slug":"sweet-sweet-spirit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/2014\/01\/30\/sweet-sweet-spirit\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweet, Sweet Spirit"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"psalmshymnsspiritualsongskjv\"<\/a>It\u2019s December 22, 1990. It\u2019s cold outside—and inside, really. \u00a0I\u2019m wearing a green velvet dress and I\u2019m waiting to walk down the aisle. \u00a0It\u2019s my sister\u2019s wedding. Not expected really, two daughters marrying in one year. We needed the Holy Spirit now, more than ever. See, my sweet daddy was giving away his baby, his last daughter and it wasn\u2019t supposed to be this soon. She had a sweet blessing on the way and made the decision to get married. She and I both always wanted our dad to sing in our weddings and here we were. He had just sang at mine and that was hard but now he could barely choke out the words. We were “praying and we were praying through.”<\/p>\n

A lady by the name of Doris Akers wrote this beautiful song in 1945. One night, as she prayed with her own choir, she felt they weren’t ready for the service and they really needed to pray. Again and again they prayed and they didn\u2019t feel Him. Then she said, \u201cWe need to pray and pray through<\/em>!\u201d \u00a0They did and the Holy Spirit came down in a powerful way, just like it did that day in December during my sister’s wedding. The next morning, Doris had this song in her mind, playing over and over. She titled it, \u201cSweet, Sweet Spirit.\u201d \u00a0Here are the lyrics:<\/p>\n

There’s a sweet, sweet Spirit in this place,<\/span>
\n And I know that it’s the Spirit of the Lord;<\/span>
\n There are sweet expressions on each face,<\/span>
\n And I know they feel the presence of the Lord.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sweet Holy Spirit, Sweet heavenly Dove,<\/em><\/span>
\n Stay right here with us, filling us with Your love.<\/em><\/span>
\n And for these blessings we lift our hearts in praise;<\/em><\/span>
\n Without a doubt we’ll know that we have been revived,<\/em><\/span>
\n When we shall leave this place.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

There are blessings you cannot receive<\/span>
\n Till you know Him in His fullness and believe;<\/span>
\n You’re the one to profit when you say,<\/span>
\n “I am going to walk with Jesus all the way.”<\/span><\/p>\n

If you say He saved you from your sin,<\/span>
\n Now you’re weak, you’re bound and cannot enter in,<\/span>
\n You can make it right if you will yield,<\/span>
\n You’ll enjoy the Holy Spirit that we feel\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n