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I love meetings where the Holy Spirit is poured out on nearly everyone in the room. People speaking in tongues, unable to stand, laughing for joy! It sure changes lives.

But very often those manifestations are not the end of what God wants to do in a meeting - sometimes it's only the beginning of the next level the Holy Spirit wants to take a meeting to. Sometimes there are additional expressions which the Spirit yearns to bring.

Very often while someone is on the floor, God may be giving him something which may be meant for the whole congregation - a vision, a prophecy, a tongue or interpretation, or a song. So if we give them an opportunity afterwards to share their experience with the rest of the congregation, it can result in wider blessing.

Sometimes while on the floor, God has instructed someone to go on a mission, or to perform some act of ministry. If we take the time to find out whether that's the case, then we can help facilitate that activity or expression of the Spirit.

Often after everyone else has picked themselves up off the floor, I've seen two people remain on the floor - and then I've seen them stand up and prophesy, or speak with tongues and interpret, or begin to move throughout the congregation and lay hands on everyone.

Or I've seen meetings where laughter suddenly turned to crying, or repentance, and I've seen deliverance spontaneously break-out across the whole congregation without anyone even leading it.

When a meeting gets to such a level, the whole room is His. It's almost like it's not even the minister's meeting anymore because even he is undone by the Spirit's moving.

God doesn't fill a congregation with the Holy Spirit for it's own sake - He fills us for a reason. Once He's filled us, very often He wants to use some members in the meeting to express the Spirit in some way for the rest of the congregation to benefit. All we have to do to see a meeting go to this deeper level is to make room for it - deliberately. 

Those extra expressions of the Spirit are not likely to be expressed in a meeting if the music keeps playing loudly, nor is it likely to be experienced if we stop the meeting after it has peaked with everyone being filled with the Spirit.

Everyone being filled with the Spirit sure is wonderful and life-changing - but when a wave peaks, that's not the end - it's really only the start of the ride! So instead of being satisfied with a meeting when the wave peaks - make it possible for the whole congregation to begin to ride the wave - ride the break!

Instead of stopping the meeting soon after most people are on the floor laughing and speaking in tongues, see what else the Holy Spirit might want to do - then make it easy for it to be expressed. Don't get in the way of it. Stop the band from playing, if necessary. Don't give an altar call, or do a fire-tunnel, necessarily. Don't prematurely dismiss the congregation. Just let other expressions of the Spirit come, through whomever He wants to use at that moment. And let the congregation respond as a whole to whatever the Holy Spirit does or says.

Let the congregation experience a next-level move of the Spirit!