When I was a girl, I remember a few times when my dad would drive closely behind a semi-truck on the highway. He said that it saved on gas because the truck would break the wind in front of us, thus reducing the resistance on the car. I don't remember being scared about it until I got older. I suppose I should have been scared, but I trusted my dad. He knew pretty much everything back then. I did wonder why more people didn't do this, too.
Anyway, I was talking to a writer the other day--okay, I was exchanging messages with him on Facebook. He was sowing a lot of time into building a website for a ministry. In the message, I began to pray for him--that his time would be multiplied back to him. The prayer turned prophetic and I said something like that his pen would flow swift and smooth, following in the wind of the Holy Spirit. I knew that wind wasn't quite the right word. Then the picture came to me. A picture of the Holy Spirit as if He were an airplane-bird-white wind being soaring through the sky. The writer was behind him writing. He was sitting, writing, soaring so closely behind the Holy Spirit that he encountered no resistance. He just wrote freely--swiftly--smoothly.
I love this picture. I was so excited. I called my Dad to find out what the right word is. It's called Drafting (also called Slipstreaming--as per Wikipedia). Bike racers, race cars and geese all use this technique to save on energy. Drafting the Holy Spirit. Slipstreaming. I quickly decided that I wanted this for myself, too. I want to draft the Holy Spirit. I want to follow Him so closely, that the resistance is lessoned as He leads the way. Imagine writing this way, or painting, or singing, or working--at whatever you do. Imagine ministering this way!
