The Forgotten God

Its been almost 3 months since i have posted anything on the blog... busy, busy, busy! But, recently i have been going through Francis Chan's book The Forgotten God... and its blowing me away! We as a ministry will end our trek through the book of Acts tonight, and as we have gone through the book it has been amazing to see the way that the Holy Spirit of God is entwined into the story of The Church.
I have felt for years that the Holy Spirit kind of gets the shaft in Christian Churches... we talk about The Father all the time... we talk about Jesus all the time... but the Spirit is largely ignored, and many times we fear talking about The Spirit because we don't want people to think that we're "too pentecostal" or maybe not enough.
Chan talks in this book about his feeling that if a person's only experience with Christianity at all came from reading the bible, then they stepped foot in the average American church, they would be shockingly surprised by the lack of The Spirit. We don't talk about the Holy Spirit much, We don't pray to the Holy Spirit much, We don't rely on the power of the Holy spirit in our lives much... and yet throughout scriptures we see that The Holy Spirit is critical to every facet of our walk with God! Jesus even tells his disciples that it is better for Him to not be there with them in the flesh so that another comforter might come. Jesus tells us that the power of the Spirit within us is better than His physical presence in our world... crazy! And i believe Him! The Spirit of God can indwell in all believers all over the world... the power of God is within all of us! Rather than trekking across the country trying to touch the garments of Jesus, we simply rely on His power within our own lives!
A couple years ago it suddenly struck me that the very same Spirit that descended down upon Jesus, resides in my own heart. Not a different part of the spirit, not my own little chunk of the spirit, but the exact same Spirit of God! How would what I do and how I live my life change if i truly grabbed a hold of the anointing of the Holy Spirit on my life???