Summer 1975
Compel Them to Come In

Bobbi Adkins
Pinecrest Staff

The Easter convention just ended was without doubt one of the best in the sense of God speaking and us hearing and responding to Him. The Lord spoke and said, “It is His love and His desires for us which is compelling Him to knock and knock and knock on the door until we open unto Him so that He can come in and sup with us and we with Him.” He said the hour is later than we think.

How tremendous and what a blessing to experience God’s people actually hearing Him and responding to that which was being heard.

One great blessing to us here at Pinecrest was the people who came for the convention and how we seemed to just blend together as one with one single desire: HIM. A group of 31 from Adrian, Michigan came for the four days and were a blessing as well as receiving a blessing.

We are still being blessed by this experience of something new that God seemed to do with them and us. They came and all of us entered into the same beautiful flow of the Spirit that we have been experiencing since November when God began moving here at Pinecrest in a greater way than ever before. For the convention with lots of new people and the majority of the students away, one would expect there to be a difference in the liberty and flow of the Spirit, but instead, God continued right on as though we had always been together, and we believe there was even an increasing in the spirit of purity and clarity of understanding.

God is knocking in this hour and desires so much that we hear His voice and open our lives to Him that He might enter in and do that greater work of truth in a greater depth within us than we have known heretofore. His voice is going forth compelling us to come to Him in Spirit and in Truth.