After talking the andre of my experience of growing a fellowship, it dawn on me that I am using a receiving model than growing model. 1. Context The fellowship grew from few people to 15 people without much effort. The fellowship enjoy love, joy, faith and healing. what is the secret? The relying on holy spirit in growing the fellowship. Let me unfold the changes more in the following stories 2. Background I decided to reverse the usual fellowship method and look into the first century Christian. What did they do? I found in the book of acts that the believers shared things. This is heaven like. Not so. Uch of the materials and food, but the trust and care they extend to each other. Receiving model Curre growing model The role ofnholy spirit Experience Challenges to fellowship leaders

Understand Holy Spirit

Personality
1. HS is a person with full personality of God.
2. HS is our comforter, protector, strategist and also mentor
3. HS is on earth. Jesus and God is in heaven. We rely on HS for victorious life.He will bring us to the Father

Characteristics
1. Ommipresent - exist in our dream, thinking,subconscious and conscious, and God can talk to you
2. Omnipotent - to heal, cast out demon, move mountain and nature, to love
3. Omnitime - can dwell in our future, past and present. Therefore we shall ask his guidance

Practice the Present
1. Believe that HS is real and can interact like us. Give HS an image you can relate but remember it is not HS but a door to reach HS.
2. Visualize in your mind - walk in the Garden with HS, river side
3. Have Conversation with HS
4. Receive images, interpretation, signs, feelings of love and hope, Bible verses
5. Act on the experience and miracle by faith

Law of Attraction

(Prayer of Jebez)

1 Chronicles 4:9-10

Jabez was more honorable than his brothers. His mother had named him Jabez, saying, "I gave birth to him in pain." Jabez cried out to the God of Israel, saying, "Oh that you would bless me and enlarge my territory! Let your hand be with me, and keep me from harm so that I will be free from pain." And God granted his request. (NIV)

1. Ask - Ask you shall be given - Ask clearly and visually
2. Believe - You shall be given according to your faith - Believe God is moving the Universe to make it possible for you. (If God is with yoiu, who can against you - Psalm 122). Believe that God always wants to bless us to have good life (John 10 10)
3. Act - Rely on Holy Spirit to act on it. (You shall have power if the Holy Spirit come upon you Acts 1:8). Have constant conversation with God
4. Gratitude - Appreciate what you have now. Roman 8:13. All things work for those who love God
5. Acceptance - Accept you new being. New wine with new bag

Holy Spirit is a person. A living God. The third person in the Trinity of Chrsitian World.

The misconception of most people on Holy Spirit, as far as my encountered in the church as I was growing up in Asia is taking Holy Spirit as "IT" and as "POWER SOURCE".

Vivid Vision of Hope

One vision Holy Spirit had for me in 2004 was the promise of hope of my future.

The vision goes like this - I see in my spiritual eyes, I am surrounded by a group of enemy. They beat me up and I am badly injure. I see it as a 3rd person. No pain. Only the feelings of hopelessness.

Out of sudden, Holy Spirit in the appearance of Galadriel comes to rescue me. She comes like a lighting and fans off my enemies. It is like fairy tale but real.  She carry me in her arms. and Look at the 3rd person me She smiles wit comfort. She tell me telepathecally, I will lift you up and the trouble you have had right now will be over.

In real life, I have a tough time. Finance and career are not exactly well. May be at the bottom of my life. But spiritual, it was the time that I got really close to Holy Spirit.

Later on, a week laer, someone confirm of my vision. The rest is history.

Holy Spirit is real.  I wanted to reconnect to her more. The one that God and Jesus love most.

The science of getting rich

It is a  book about how to prosperous according to God's way by Wallance D Wattles

Tamara Lowe: Motivational DNA

By Heather Salon
The 700 Club

CBN.com – LIFE-CHANGING MOTIVATION
Tamara Lowe grew up on the streets of New Orleans. At age 10, she was taking drugs.  She became a drug dealer at 12 and dropped out of school in the eighth grade. For the next decade, she went from one drug-induced high to the next. Then, Tamara had a life-changing transition - she got motivated. 
She got off of drugs, earned her high school equivalency diploma, and went to college.  She decided to spend her life helping the people she felt she knew the best – drug addicts, alcoholics, the poor, the homeless, and the abused. To her surprise, she ended up working with five U.S. presidents (Ronald Reagan, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, George HW Bush, and Bill Clinton), numerous world leaders (British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, Canadian Prime Minister Joe Clark, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev), politicians, heads of state, business leaders, professional athletes, Hollywood celebrities and other influential people (including Billy Graham, Colin Powell, Joe Montana, George Foreman, Goldie Hawn, Charlton Heston, Bill Cosby, Christopher Reeve, Rudy Giuliani, Mary Lou Retton, and Mother Teresa). 
Through the Get Motivated Seminars, more than two million people have been taught to advance in their careers, have more fulfilling relationships, achieve their goals and make more money. Holding these seminars isn’t just a business to Tamara, it’s her calling.
During each seminar there is a straightforward, unapologetic, non-religious presentation for the gospel to the more than 200,000 annual attendees. Every year, Tamara hosts about 30 of these seminars in America’s biggest arenas, with tens of thousands of people at each meeting. 
The Washington Post has called her seminars “the Superbowl of Success.” Time Magazine has called Tamara and her group “the motivational Dream Team.” The New York Times says they “rouse sales reps, entrepreneurs and executives to higher levels of performance.” The Wall Street Journal calls the meetings “a barnstorming feel-good tour de force.”
TAMARA’S TESTIMONY
When Tamara looks back at the spiritual dimension of her success, she remembers that she was put off by religion. Her mother was Jewish and her father was Catholic, and neither one of them regularly attended weekly worship services. Tamara was not interested in God, the Bible, or organized religion as a child or a teenager.
At 17, someone gave her a Bible as a Christmas present. She thought it was not a very good gift, considering she was a drug addict. Knowing that the gift giver would ask if she had read the Bible, and not wanting to lie, Tamara figured she would read a few sentences from the New Testament so she would be telling the truth. She assumed the Bible was an old-fashioned book that was hard to understand and irrelevant. However, she found when she started reading it, she couldn’t put it down.
Tamara read the parts about Jesus and found herself addicted to the Bible. She finished reading the New Testament in about three weeks. Through reading the Bible, she found her life radically changed and she had a new motivation in life. It was not religion that changed her life, but a personal encounter with Jesus. Her faith is a great motivator for everything she does. In her 28 years of being a Christian, she has read the Bible from cover to cover many times over and still gets excited. Applying its words and wisdom is the secret to her success.

Source: http://www.cbn.com/700club/guests/bios/tamara_lowe042309.aspx

Hearing God

Reading te begining guide to Hearing God by James W.Goll. H have similar experience. The keyword is availability to Him and two ways communication.

The Beginner's Guide to Hearing God sends the message that everyone, no matter how long they've been a believer and no matter what their position in the Church, can listen and speak to God! Jim Goll leads readers to overcome personal obstacles that can block God's voice and avoid being misled by words that aren't from God. This manual is presented in a straightforward manner so that anyone who desires to communicate with the Father will have learned how to converse intimately with Him. God speaks to us in many ways and Jim Goll explains them all! --This text refers to the Paperback edition.