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The Power of the Holy Spirit | Better Together Episode 1155

April 3, 2026 | S8 E1155 | 50:59

Jesus conquered death and sent the Holy Spirit to empower, equip, and guide our lives today. Being filled with the Holy Spirit allows us to walk in God's power, experience abundant life in Him, and participate in His Kingdom work. | TBN Prayer Line: 714-731-1000

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Better Together | The Power of the Holy Spirit | Better Together Episode 1155 | April 3, 2026

- the holy spirit of god is our constant reminder that god is
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With us and that god is for us.
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Jesus promised his disciples that the holy spirit would
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Remind them of all things, and he still is guiding and he's
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Empowering us today.
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Come on, let's talk about it.
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♪ (music playing) ♪
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- i'm coming away from this week's conversation just with
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Renewed energy and hope for what jesus has done for us.
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And, you know, we're going to talk about
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One of my favorite topics, which is the holy spirit.
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You know, the holy spirit.
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It's interesting because when i got saved, it was in mexico and
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I experienced, oh, just the wildest encounter with
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Holy spirit.
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I remember looking at the stars.
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It was so romantic.
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Like i was just like, jesus, like i didn't know i had to
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Choose you up until that point i knew about jesus i didn't know i
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Had to choose jesus and like actually give him my life you
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Know and so i was like if that's what it takes i'll do it because
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I want all of you.
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And as i said that as i confessed that i felt
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The fire of the holy spirit come upon me and once i got saved
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Experienced the baptism of the holy spirit.
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And it was like, it wasn't just a physical experience.
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It wasn't just a cerebral experience.
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It was just, just everything, just mind, body, spirit,
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All of it.
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I remember getting baptized in rosarito beach, and it was just
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Such a radical week with jesus that i'll never forget.
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And i remember telling the camp counselor, i'm never going back
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To my old ways.
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It's never going to be the same.
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And i am forever changed.
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Which, yes, that's true.
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But when i went back home, i was just so disappointed by how
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Devastatingly ordinary life is.
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You know what i mean?
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I mean, where's the miracle in putting gas in your car?
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You know, like where's the-- where's the fire when you're,
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You know, having to do your homework, you know?
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And i kind of felt like maybe holy spirit just lives
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In mexico.
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And i just, he just didn't care.
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Maybe i left him there.
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Obviously, i did not have a set theology of what holy spirit is,
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Who he is and how he functions.
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And, you know, in my earlier years of walking into my faith
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Journey, i was always trying to regain that moment.
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I was chasing that experience, an event, really.
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When actually what i was looking for, i already had.
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And i wasn't supposed to be chasing encounters and
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Experiences.
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I was supposed to be building a friendship with the holy spirit
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That came from this free access.
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We were talking about that access given to me, gifted to me
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By the blood of jesus christ.
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And i did not realize that the holy
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Spirit is just as with me in the mundane as he is with
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Me on these mountaintop experiences.
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And so it's funny because later on.
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Maybe like 20 something years later, i wrote that book,
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Experiencing friendship with god.
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And i think people would just assume it's because you are just
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A naturally spiritual person when actually it's because i
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Really struggled with this.
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Like i felt far from god all the time.
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And i realized it's not as much about achieving a certain level
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Of intimacy with holy spirit, but it's about
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Cultivating an awareness of the one that's always with me.
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And a lot of our experience is determined by what we are
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Choosing to be aware of.
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- so when the holy spirit dwells in our human spirit, what
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Happens is we become conscious of god.
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Before we receive the gift of the holy spirit, before we
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Surrender our lives to jesus as lord, we truly have no god
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Consciousness because we are not filled with the holy spirit.
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But once we are filled with the holy spirit, we become aware of
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The attributes of god.
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There is something within us that looks at our life and does
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A survey of our life to figure out what about what i'm doing or
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Saying or thinking or intending, what about that does not align
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With who god has revealed himself to be in his word?
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That is the power of the holy spirit is that he makes us
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Conscious about god.
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He makes us aware of god so that we can survey ourselves and
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Figure out how are we maybe off from god's character.
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- so i want to talk about our good friend, the holy spirit,
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Who never leaves us, who is full of power.
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He is power.
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And he anoints us with power.
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Let's talk about him.
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How have you been empowered by the holy spirit?
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What's your relationship and walk like with him?
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And how did you nurture that?
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- one of the things that i love that before we get into all of
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That is i love that when christ is having that last incredible,
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Important conversation with his closest friends and he knows
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What's ahead and they don't understand at all.
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And they know that jesus knows what
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Friday is going to bring for him.
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And they have no idea.
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And he knows that they're going to think on saturday,
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Everything's falling apart, that they were wrong
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About everything.
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And so he says to them, this is john 16, verse five says, but
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Now i'm going away to the one who sent me.
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And not one of you is asking where i'm going.
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Instead, you grieve because of what i've told you.
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But in fact, it's best for you that i go away.
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Because if i don't, they advocate the holy spirit
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Won't come.
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If i do go away, then i'll send him to you.
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And when he comes, he will convict the world of its sin and
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Of god's righteousness and of the coming judgment.
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It's just jesus trying to say, listen, i know this is going to
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Look like a disaster.
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But while i'm here, i can be in one place at one time.
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Once i've gone back to the father and i send the holy
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Spirit, you will never be alone again.
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And that for me was life-changing because growing up
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In a little baptist church, you know, we were obviously very in
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Love with jesus and very aware that god was his father.
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And we knew that the holy spirit...
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Was part of the family.
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I just wasn't quite sure what his job was.
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I was grateful he was there, but i wasn't sure what his job
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Description was.
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And then when i went to seminary in london and i went to a very
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Charismatic church, it was like the holy spirit was given the
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Platform and the mic, and jesus and god were waiting
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For their turn.
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And now it just, but at this stage and
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Age of my life, i cannot tell you
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How grateful, how grateful i am for the holy spirit, who is
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Such a friend.
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I mean, i, from when the minute i get up in the morning, i'm
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Just like, you know, i'll say, good morning, lord.
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And then when i'm taking my little dog, maggie, for a walk
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Around the lake, i just talk to the lord and i thank the
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Holy spirit.
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Be like, okay, today i'm going in to do this and i don't really
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Know what to do.
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Like last week, okay.
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I'm flying to speak at a prayer breakfast.
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I don't know who those people are, but you know them all.
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Holy spirit, will you show up and will you just do what only
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You can do?
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The companionship of the holy spirit is just one of the
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Greatest delights of my life.
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So maybe you're sitting there thinking, okay, i really want to
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Understand more about the holy spirit, but i don't really know
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Where to start.
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Well, i can think of just like one practical way to start.
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Every single morning when i wake up, my first thought, whenever
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I'm aware of being awake, before i make coffee, before i take my
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Dog out for a walk, i'll greet the lord.
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I'll say good morning and ask the lord for his plans today.
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I love, i think it's psalm 146, psalm 143, verse six, which
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Says, let the morning bring me words of your unfailing love.
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For i have placed my trust in you.
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Show me the way i should go.
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For to you, i've entrusted my life.
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Start each day with just one simple prayer.
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Lord, today guide my steps.
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Show me where i should go and i will follow you.
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- it's like the resurrection wasn't the end.
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It was the launch, you know, of holy spirit coming.
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And it's just god's extended power, his extended life through
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The holy spirit that we get to have on the inside of us.
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I mean, can you imagine what life would be without it, you
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Know, without the holy spirit?
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I mean, i know that the holy spirit is always with me.
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And so leaning in any time, day or night, i know the holy spirit
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Is there for help, for guidance, for comfort, for everything
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That i need, because that's what he was there for, the one to
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Come alongside.
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To encourage and to be with us, you know, it's just such a
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Beautiful, a beautiful thing.
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- it's really important to find the community that's going to
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Push you toward the holy spirit, to ask the holy spirit.
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My community, my closest group of friends, they will listen to
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Me when i'm struggling with things and i'm processing
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Things, they will listen, but they always say, have you talked
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To god about that?
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Have you asked the holy spirit?
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Like, have you, have you sat and...
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In stillness, have you journaled this?
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And i hate that answer, but i also love them for pushing me
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And keeping me accountable to what i've asked them to, which
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Is to always seek the holy spirit first.
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- and the other side of all of that is he's, you know, we
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Emphasize friendship because that's the gift, but it's holy
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Spirit, not friendly spirit.
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Right. not just easygoing spirit.
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- it's a reverence.
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- right. - it's holy spirit.
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And in the old testament, the holier it was, the more it was
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Embedded into a secret place.
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You know, and the fact that now we are the temple of the
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Holy spirit.
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We talked about how he tore the veil.
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Right. and now the holy of holies is in us.
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You know, i think that's what jesus meant when he was saying,
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When you pray to me, you got to pray in secret.
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At the father in secret, you know, because it's the
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Holy spirit.
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I have that-- realm.
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There you go.
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Okay, go, go, go.
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- the holy spirit is working through you.
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As we were speaking earlier, psalm 91 came to mind.
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He who dwells in the secret place of the most high shall
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Abide under the shadow of the almighty.
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And it's interesting when we think of ourselves, we think of
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Ourselves as a body, but we're actually tri-part.
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We are body, we are soul, we are spirit.
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See, sometimes we confuse the holy spirit with man's spirit.
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They're two different things because it is our spirit that
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Actually makes us alive.
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Our spirit intersects with our soul that gives us our being,
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Our consciousness, and our body is basically the container for
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All of it, however...
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It is the holy spirit that actually dwells in and enables
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Our spirit to have communion with god.
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That structure is the exact same structure as the tabernacle was.
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The tabernacle had the outer court.
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Then you had the holy place, which is the soul.
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And you had the holies of holies where the spirit of god dwell.
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That is the holy spirit.
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That's our spirit.
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So when this says whoever dwells in the secret place of the most
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High, what it's really saying is...
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If we are able to dwell, i use the word in another episode,
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Yesha, if we're able to live, to settle and to stay in the secret
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Place, the spirit, that's where the holy spirit lives.
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We will abide under the shadow, under the protection, under the
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Presence of god.
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And that's why at any point we have access to eternity,
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At any point.
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Sitting right here in this seat right now, if i simply allow
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Myself to reflect on that which is already in me.
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I immediately am in the presence of the most high.
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That's the secret place.
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And sometimes we think that it's really complicated.
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Like we have to go to these silent retreats and we have to
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Do all these things.
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It's like, no, you can literally, you could be on a bus
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Riding to target, riding to the grocery store, and you can dwell
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In the secret place of the most high because the holy spirit
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Enables that.
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That's why the holy spirit is so important
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It's like that that part actually allows us to
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Dwell in the presence of god thank you jesus without the holy
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Spirit we can't get into the holy of holies, the holy
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Spirit enables us to get into that place.
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- i gotta add to that.
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Because this is so good so good like i'm just gonna piggyback
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Off of you because it says in matthew 6, verse 6, but when you
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Pray, go into your private room, shut your door and pray to your
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Father who is in secret and your father who sees in secret will
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Reward you.
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And i think sometimes we just roll over that, like the one who
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Is in secret, you know, and.
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I think we just kind of attribute this to like, oh,
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We'll just turn off your phones, which, yeah, you should keep
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Your phone away when you try to pray.
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But he's talking about another realm that we're supposed to
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Walk into as we engage with the holy spirit.
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And this is mystical for us.
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And sometimes because the mystical can be mysterious, we
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Get discouraged by that.
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But actually, this realm is realer to us than the
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Physical realm.
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And this is so important that before jesus taught us what to
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Pray, he taught us where to pray, which is from that secret
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Place where we are accessing the holy of holies that is
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Within us.
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And i wonder how it would shift the way we treat ourselves and
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The way we treat others when we consider, wait, that is the holy
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Of holies, and the holy of holies is in me.
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- the major part of dwelling in the secret place is we have to
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Remember if a place is secret, it's hidden.
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If a place is secret, it means that it's being intentionally
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Protected from discovery.
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And so in order to dwell in the secret place, you have to first
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Commit yourself to the work of finding it.
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And for me, that has required having a very intentional time
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Of devotion and prayer and pursuit of the presence of god.
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I spend time every morning studying the word of god,
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Praying, repenting, forgiving, adoring the lord.
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And what that does is that draws me nearer to the heart of god
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Because that truly is the secret place.
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The secret place is the heart of god.
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And as long as we never get to a place where we're comfortable
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With where we are and we continue to pursue his presence,
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Go deeper in our understanding of who he is, that's how we will
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Find and dwell in this secret place.
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- but the gift in all this is that we're not alone.
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We are not left to our own devices.
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Like, you know, the joke of like when you're...
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Toddlers get real quiet.
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There's like a lot...
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Don't leave me alone.
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But john 14, starting in 26, it says, but the helper, the holy
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Spirit, whom the father will send in my name, he will teach
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You all things and bring to your remembrance all things that i
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Said to you.
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Peace i leave with you.
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My peace i give to you.
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Not as the world gives do i give to you.
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Let not your heart be troubled.
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Neither let it be afraid.
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I think we live in a world right now.
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Everything around us is about fear.
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Like we lash out because we're afraid.
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And here it is.
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You're not alone.
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I'm leaving a helper.
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I'm leaving the holy spirit.
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- yeah. - you don't need to be.
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- yeah. - right.
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What a good reminder for us.
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- well, and what i love about it is he says he'll lead you into
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All truth. - yeah.
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- he'll bring back.
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And he was talking to the disciples, right?
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So all the things that jesus has taught, he's going to bring all
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That back to you again.
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He's going to bring all the, we're going to read this bible
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And the holy spirit is going to remind us and he's going to
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Teach us and he's going to lead us into all truth.
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And he's going to give us revelation.
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The more we dig in, the more he gives, right?
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- and the weaker, and those days when you think, lord, i've got
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Nothing, let's go over to our brother, paul.
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We all know romans 8, 28, but i love romans
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8, 26 and 27, where it says, and the holy spirit helps us
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In our weakness.
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For example, we don't know what god wants us to pray for, but
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The holy spirit prays for us with groanings that cannot be
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Expressed in words.
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And the father who knows all hearts knows what the spirit
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Is saying.
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For the spirit pleads for us, pleads for us believers in
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Harmony with god's own will.
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And we know that god causes everything to work together for
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The good of those who love god and are called according to his
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Purpose for them. wow.
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- so here's the thing about the holy spirit.
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When you are filled with the holy spirit and when you are
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Actually led by the spirit, romans, i believe it's chapter
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8, talks about living a spirit-led life.
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When you are led by the spirit, you walk with a level of
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Confidence and courage because you know that the power and the
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Authority of jehovah, the most high god, elohim, creator god,
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Adonai, the lord, you know that he dwells within you.
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And so when you walk into situations, you don't walk in
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There timid or afraid.
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God does not give us a spirit of fear in the first place, but you
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Walk into it with a full assurance and authority that the
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God who created everything...
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There is a part of him on the inside of you that is empowering
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You to take authority over every situation.
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That is what it means to be filled with the holy spirit.
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- there was this one youth retreat and, you know, one of
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The girls was having a demonic...
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Just demonic attack.
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And i could tell she was tormented.
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And i looked at her and, you know, the compassion of
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The lord.
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I felt it, you know, and i sat next to her.
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And thing is, she could not really speak and she couldn't
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Open her eyes.
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And i just sat there.
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And i whipped out the bible and turned to psalm 139, you know,
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And just saying, whether you make your bed in the depths, he
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Is there.
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Whether you are in the heights, he is there.
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And what was interesting is all of a sudden her hissing stopped
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And she started speaking in tongues.
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And i realized holy spirit was interceding for her.
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As i was speaking the word of god over her, holy spirit was
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Like, talking to the father on her behalf because she started
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To weep and like tongues was coming out like the holy tongues
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Was coming out you know and the and the hissing stopped and
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Eventually she was set free by the lord jesus christ.
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But i think that moment was something that really marked us
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Like wait holy spirit when you can't hear, when you cannot
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Talk, when you cannot move, when you cannot see, he is
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Defending you.
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- can i expound on that?
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- yeah, yeah.
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- because, so here's what's interesting, and i'm going to
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Try not to be too deep, but this was a revelation that god
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Gave me.
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- take us there.
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- so we already read psalm 91:1.
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If you dwell in the secret place, you will abide under the
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Shadow of the almighty.
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When we think of shadows, we don't often think
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Of the fact that shadows move in
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Correspondence to the position of the sun in the
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Sky, right?
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So the shadow, the position of the shadow of a stationary
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Object at sunrise will be different than the position of
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The shadow at sunset.
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It'll be different than the position of the shadow at
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Noonday because the environmental conditions change.
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The stationary object doesn't move, but the environmental
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Conditions change, causing the shadow to change position.
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What the lord revealed to me about the holy spirit is that
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The reason why the holy spirit is so necessary is because as
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Life causes challenges, as life shifts beneath our feet, the
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Shadow will move in accordance to the fruit of the spirit that
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We need in that moment.
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So for example, if you're in a scenario where life is full of
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Strife, life is just full of of struggle then the fruit of
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The spirit of peace becomes the fruit of the shadow because the
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Holy spirit is casting the shadow depending on what happens
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In life the shadow is going to move in accordance to what the
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Fruit is that's needed in that moment so if you're in a
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Situation where life is creating anxiety well that shadow is
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Going to cast peace because it always casts the shadow in the
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Opposite direction of the circumstance that's creating it.
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So you have to think about it.
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The reason why the holy spirit matters is because if you are
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Dwelling in the secret place, the shadow that that will cast
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Will actually be contrary to the conditions of your life.
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So in that case with her, here she is oppressed by a
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Demonic force.
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But the shadow of the almighty.
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Is declaring freedom.
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The shadow of the almighty is declaring god's promises.
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That's the power of the holy spirit.
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And that's why he's so important.
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It's because no matter, this is why...
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When we are in faith and we are full of the holy spirit, life
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Can literally be crumbling all around us and we can still have
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Peace because the shadow is always cast in the opposite
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Direction of the circumstances that create it.
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- yes we talk about shadow and oftentimes we think shadow, we
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Think, oh, it's the darkness.
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- no, it's the protection.
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- but even it is protection.
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The word in hebrew is kanaf.
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Kanaf is, it's a cloaking or, you know, like cover, you know,
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In ruth was like cover the cloak or another word for it is
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A wing.
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Causes the protection of the shadow.
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And the purpose of that, especially in ruth's case, was
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The redeemer that was boaz, right?
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And so the redeemer, the kinsman redeemer or the redeemer for us,
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Which is jesus christ, right?
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And so it's a covering, it's a protection.
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And so just because it doesn't feel like, oh, sunshine all the
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Time, doesn't mean it's not a protection or a covering or a
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Redeeming that's to come.
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- and that's also why we have to pay attention because if you
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Notice, and i don't know, y'all probably been to the beach, but
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If you're under an umbrella, right, as the day goes by, the
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Shadow will change position.
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So we have to pay attention.
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Okay, where is god?
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What is he doing?
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How is he moving so that i can make sure i stay in alignment?
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Otherwise, we get exposed.
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We get exposed to the elements.
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Now we're frustrated.
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Now we're upset.
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Now we're like, lord, where are you?
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And god is like, i'm still here.
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My shadow is just there.
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So i need you to move in alignment to where i am.
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- or you're going to get sunburned. - absolutely.
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- everyone experiences the holy spirit in different ways.
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It's kind of like when i look at my four children, my
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Relationship with each one is slightly different because each
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One is unique.
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And so you wouldn't want to compare the
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Way that you relate with god in the way that other people can
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Relate with god.
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But however, the holy spirit, he's a comforter.
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He convicts us of our sin.
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He teaches.
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He guides.
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He provides.
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He empowers us.
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The holy spirit is our friend.
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And that access is given to you by the blood of jesus.
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- i think sometimes it's also a good reminder as we're talking
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About all this that holy spirit isn't just there just so that we
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Could be comfortable here in this world, but it's
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About authority.
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The holy spirit is in us so that we can have authority
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Against darkness.
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The book of acts isn't about all the disciples now trying to live
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Their white picket fence dreams and the holy spirit is just
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There when they're sad.
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But jesus said, i want you to wait
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For this gift.
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I want you to tarry for this gift because now that your
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Purpose is no longer about your career, now your purpose is no
00:26:13.429 --> 00:26:19.735
Longer about your family dreams.
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Your purpose is to magnify jesus, to make disciples of all
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Nations, and you cannot do that with just that mission
00:26:27.309 --> 00:26:29.712
Statement alone.
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But you need the empowerment of the holy spirit, you know, and i
00:26:32.982 --> 00:26:36.352
Think sometimes-- - to overcome.
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- to overcome. exactly.
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You know, and it's interesting because, you know, we might have
00:26:39.889 --> 00:26:43.159
These memories of, oh, like i experienced holy spirit in 2011
00:26:43.159 --> 00:26:46.195
At like a conference or something like that.
00:26:46.195 --> 00:26:50.966
But the filling of the holy spirit happened again and again
00:26:50.966 --> 00:26:54.937
And again in the book of acts.
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And even the apostle paul, in ephesians, he says, be filled
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With the holy spirit.
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Do not be drunk on wine, but be filled with the holy spirit.
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And i just think that correlation is so interesting,
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You know, because why compare the two?
00:27:09.752 --> 00:27:12.822
But i think that analogy is so appropriate, right?
00:27:12.822 --> 00:27:15.091
And i think it was very intentional.
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Because when you're drunk on wine, you know, you are being
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Your facilities are being influenced by something
00:27:19.829 --> 00:27:22.231
Else. right.
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So in order to truly walk in the most redeemed version of who you
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Are, you must remain filled.
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And this was a command.
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Stay filled.
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You must be filled right now.
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Not filled a long time ago, but be filled right now, meaning you
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May have had an encounter once, but in order to have true
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Spiritual authority and utilize the spiritual authority that is
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Within you, you must live a life that is so fully dependent on
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The holy spirit, so dependent on his power, not yours, that when
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You talk, it will be like when the disciples talked.
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And then the pharisees and sadducees were like, wait, these
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Are just ordinary, uneducated men, but they've clearly been
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With somebody.
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Well, that's because an encounter and an indwelling are
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Two different things. - yes.
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- which i love what you said.
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It's like we're not meant to just survive on an encounter.
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- totally. - that's why the holy spirit is designed
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To dwell within us.
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It's not just an encounter.
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Those times when it's like, god, you have to say
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Something for me.
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You have to put the words in my mouth.
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I have to lean into you.
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Those difficult times, those times when we can't humanly
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Possibly explain something, the holy spirit knows.
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The holy spirit, the bible says, prays through us, which we don't
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Even understand, but god does.
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Those times when, man, i don't know what else to say except
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Pray in the spirit.
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And that's when you lean in.
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And that's when you know it's real.
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And that's when you know that god is with us.
00:29:06.535 --> 00:29:10.005
And thank god for the holy spirit.
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And so if you haven't received the holy spirit into your life,
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I want to encourage you to do so.
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This is such a beautiful week to do that.
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Remembering all that christ has done for us this holy week.
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We talked about the veil being rent.
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And now we get to inhabit.
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We are now the temples of the holy spirit.
00:29:30.926 --> 00:29:33.028
That indwells us and gives us the power.
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We talked about the power of the cross that gave us grace, that
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Grace that transforms our lives.
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And now we don't have to walk in shame and disobedience and sin
00:29:42.204 --> 00:29:45.908
Conscious, but god gave us grace so that it can be
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Transformational, that it can change our life, that we don't
00:29:49.712 --> 00:29:53.649
Have to do the dumb things we used to do before.
00:29:53.649 --> 00:29:56.585
Because we're under grace, god gives us that ability to change.
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And to do what's right.
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And then all the good things about the holy spirit coming in
00:30:05.661 --> 00:30:09.365
And dwelling us, the power of the holy spirit to overcome, to
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Change your life, to do greater works, to do beautiful things
00:30:14.670 --> 00:30:17.840
For god, to build his kingdom right here on earth.
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That's what our job is.
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And so i just want to love on you today.
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Thank you.
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I'm so thankful for this beautiful family, this family
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Of god.
00:30:33.122 --> 00:30:34.456
The better together community is part of a huge community of
00:30:34.456 --> 00:30:36.892
Believers, of the family, the bride of christ around the world
00:30:36.892 --> 00:30:40.996
Celebrating the resurrection of jesus.
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Our hope, everything we need, god has conquered everything
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For us.
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And we can live in victory, and we can live in hope, in a
00:30:52.641 --> 00:30:55.978
Beautiful future, everlasting life.
00:30:55.978 --> 00:30:58.747
Welcome to the family of god.
00:30:58.747 --> 00:31:01.250
This is a beautiful family, and i love each and every
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One of you.
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- do you know who r.t. kendall is?
00:31:07.122 --> 00:31:08.524
- yes. - he's a darling friend of mine.
00:31:08.524 --> 00:31:10.326
He used to be a pastor of westminster chapel in london,
00:31:10.326 --> 00:31:12.695
And i would do some events with him and with arthur blessed.
00:31:12.695 --> 00:31:16.298
And i was watching something, and he's an older gentleman now,
00:31:16.298 --> 00:31:19.635
And on instagram he was being interviewed
00:31:19.635 --> 00:31:22.938
By a friend of mine, and he was asking him, you
00:31:22.938 --> 00:31:25.174
Know, now that you're close to 90, you look back over all those
00:31:25.174 --> 00:31:28.377
Years, what advice would you give to your younger self?
00:31:28.377 --> 00:31:32.314
And he said something i thought was so interesting.
00:31:32.314 --> 00:31:34.583
He said, you know, we place a lot of emphasis in our culture
00:31:34.583 --> 00:31:37.386
On seminary and degrees and all of that.
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And he said, i would say no.
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I would say soak yourself in the word of god and in prayer,
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Because you look at these 12 men
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That knew nothing, uneducated men, who suddenly, because
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They're filled with the power of the holy spirit, they can say,
00:31:53.602 --> 00:31:57.873
In the name of jesus christ, rise up and walk.
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And i think, gosh, wouldn't it be so great to have this fresh
00:32:00.576 --> 00:32:03.545
Understanding of what it means to be jesus' boots on the
00:32:03.545 --> 00:32:08.584
Ground, that anything is possible because of who
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Lives in us.
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- yeah, and i mean, jesus said, and you will do even
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Greater works.
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- yeah, and what does that mean?
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- right, and it's...
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It's interesting because when we think of works and when we hear
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That, a lot of times christians today would be like, amen, i can
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Get through this week.
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Or i will get that job.
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And i will just have peace when i don't like my coworkers.
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Now, none of that is wrong.
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None of that is bad.
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But the actual works that jesus was talking about was the same
00:32:37.946 --> 00:32:40.449
Works that he was talking about in matthew when john the baptist
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Was like, are you really the one?
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And he's telling john the baptist's
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People go back and send him the report,
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The blind eye see.
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You know, the people are being healed and delivered.
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And these are the works that jesus was talking about.
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And i wonder as believers, are we living
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Lives that require the holy spirit?
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Are we producing things that require the holy spirit?
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The very works that jesus has told us we're going to
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Be doing. - yeah.
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And i don't think it just entertains spectacle.
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I think it's reach.
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It's multiplication.
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It's all of that.
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You know, it's continuation.
00:33:25.094 --> 00:33:26.762
All of that, those greater works.
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Look at what god's doing on the earth today.
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It's just more than we could ever fathom.
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- think about the ministry of tbn.
00:33:36.138 --> 00:33:37.973
However many years, 52, 53 years ago, when paul and jan got this
00:33:37.973 --> 00:33:42.144
Vision from god, and they're just two ordinary people who
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Love jesus and had no idea this vision was going to take the
00:33:46.014 --> 00:33:50.085
Gospel all over the world.
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We always think, how many people did god speak to that night?
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- paul and jan heard the voice of the lord that said, we
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Released you from your worker.
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How many people did he speak to that night?
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Were there other couples in the l.a. area?
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You know, who put in their resignation first in their jobs?
00:34:06.101 --> 00:34:08.504
You know, who followed then the next voice that came, the next
00:34:08.504 --> 00:34:12.441
Direction that came?
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And matt and i say that the way to do the impossible is to
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Follow the voice of the lord.
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That's how we do the impossible.
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- when the holy spirit's trying to tell you something, he speaks
00:34:24.786 --> 00:34:26.622
To us in many different ways.
00:34:26.622 --> 00:34:28.056
And to be honest, it's unique to a lot of us because it's kind of
00:34:28.056 --> 00:34:31.727
Like our relationship with our children.
00:34:31.727 --> 00:34:33.762
You may have multiple children, but your relationship with each
00:34:33.762 --> 00:34:36.698
One is unique to them.
00:34:36.698 --> 00:34:38.467
And i would say for some, it could be an unction within them.
00:34:38.467 --> 00:34:42.471
You may feel this rising conviction that doesn't go away.
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For some, you may hear the holy spirit through
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Somebody else.
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God may use someone to speak life into you.
00:34:51.847 --> 00:34:54.650
There's so many different ways, dreams, visions, through
00:34:54.650 --> 00:34:58.720
The scripture.
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But i would say as long as you are walking in intimacy with him
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And just being open to god being able to interrupt you and to
00:35:04.960 --> 00:35:09.665
Even change your mind, then you are at a posture that is able to
00:35:09.665 --> 00:35:15.370
Hear from the lord.
00:35:15.370 --> 00:35:17.639
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- and that's when real kingdom fruit happens.
00:35:32.221 --> 00:35:35.357
You know, i think sometimes we tend to forget that it's god
00:35:35.357 --> 00:35:38.594
That determines the fruit of our lives.
00:35:38.594 --> 00:35:41.430
He will determine the eternal impact of our lives, whether it
00:35:41.430 --> 00:35:44.499
Be small or great.
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I mean, we talk about this all the time.
00:35:46.602 --> 00:35:49.104
Mary, she didn't have a podcast.
00:35:49.104 --> 00:35:50.706
She didn't write a book.
00:35:50.706 --> 00:35:52.908
She didn't speak to stadiums.
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She was a mother.
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She probably spent the majority of her days doing
00:35:56.278 --> 00:35:58.714
Household things, you know, and keeping a family together,
00:35:58.714 --> 00:36:03.552
Making food, putting food on the table.
00:36:03.552 --> 00:36:05.854
And yet her life radically changed the world.
00:36:05.854 --> 00:36:10.459
And it's just simply because it was just in submission to
00:36:10.459 --> 00:36:14.329
Holy spirit.
00:36:14.329 --> 00:36:16.431
You know, and redemptive history has always been propelled, not
00:36:16.431 --> 00:36:19.501
By the greatest, the finest, the smartest, the richest, but
00:36:19.501 --> 00:36:22.070
Simply those who gave.
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- the one who said yes.
00:36:23.739 --> 00:36:26.341
The ones that made space for the holy spirit and followed
00:36:25.140 --> 00:36:28.443
His lead.
00:36:28.443 --> 00:36:29.378
- be it to me, according to your will.
00:36:29.378 --> 00:36:31.046
- the bible says that the fruit of the spirit, that's the holy
00:36:31.046 --> 00:36:35.884
Spirit living on the inside of us, is love, is joy, is peace.
00:36:35.884 --> 00:36:41.123
All those good things from god.
00:36:41.123 --> 00:36:44.559
And it says that he will help us witness.
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That is to be a witness for jesus of christ, that people can
00:36:48.697 --> 00:36:54.736
Look at our lives and go, okay, they've got something that i
00:36:54.736 --> 00:36:59.975
Don't have.
00:36:59.975 --> 00:37:00.742
I don't have peace like that.
00:37:00.742 --> 00:37:01.977
I don't have joy like that.
00:37:01.977 --> 00:37:04.146
I don't have patience like that and kindness like that.
00:37:04.146 --> 00:37:07.516
And so we are to live a life to be a witness to other people,
00:37:07.516 --> 00:37:12.521
And that is letting the holy spirit,
00:37:12.521 --> 00:37:14.489
Come and indwell and transform the inside of us.
00:37:14.489 --> 00:37:18.560
It doesn't all happen overnight.
00:37:18.560 --> 00:37:20.362
It's kind of a daily thing.
00:37:20.362 --> 00:37:22.431
And he's there with whatever we need, the fruit of the spirit.
00:37:22.431 --> 00:37:26.068
- and i think what causes us to not obey
00:37:26.068 --> 00:37:30.872
Is the lies of the enemy that makes us think either we're not
00:37:30.872 --> 00:37:34.176
Qualified or, oh, i could never do that.
00:37:34.176 --> 00:37:37.279
And the words that people speak over us, like people saying what
00:37:37.279 --> 00:37:40.982
We can't do.
00:37:40.982 --> 00:37:42.517
I have had to deprogram so many things that were spoken over me
00:37:42.517 --> 00:37:46.555
Out of myself in order to walk in the calling that god has.
00:37:46.555 --> 00:37:49.257
You would be surprised, but when i was in elementary school...
00:37:49.257 --> 00:37:53.028
I was very shy.
00:37:53.028 --> 00:37:54.763
Like i didn't want to talk in front of people.
00:37:54.763 --> 00:37:56.598
I even stuttered.
00:37:56.598 --> 00:37:58.166
I have, even to this day, i have a tongue tie.
00:37:58.166 --> 00:38:00.268
And so i would trip over my words.
00:38:00.268 --> 00:38:01.937
And i got to a place where i was like, i don't want to be in
00:38:01.937 --> 00:38:04.206
Front of people.
00:38:04.206 --> 00:38:05.540
Who knew that god had actually called me to the very thing that
00:38:05.540 --> 00:38:08.910
I felt i could not do?
00:38:08.910 --> 00:38:10.679
That i was even told i could not do.
00:38:10.679 --> 00:38:13.315
It's through the work of the holy spirit.
00:38:13.315 --> 00:38:15.484
And i know that to this day, there is no other reason why i
00:38:15.484 --> 00:38:18.754
Do what i do.
00:38:18.754 --> 00:38:20.188
There's no reason why i speak clearly.
00:38:20.188 --> 00:38:21.323
There's no reason why i don't trip over my words.
00:38:21.323 --> 00:38:22.824
I should.
00:38:22.824 --> 00:38:24.226
It's through the work of the holy spirit.
00:38:24.226 --> 00:38:25.994
And so i think instead of listening to
00:38:25.994 --> 00:38:28.296
Somebody saying what we can't do and shouldn't
00:38:28.296 --> 00:38:29.898
Do, we need to learn to ask god, what have you called
00:38:29.898 --> 00:38:32.768
Me to do?
00:38:32.768 --> 00:38:33.702
What are you enabling me to do?
00:38:33.702 --> 00:38:34.970
What is your grace actually requiring that i do to honor
00:38:34.970 --> 00:38:36.938
You? - yeah.
00:38:36.938 --> 00:38:38.940
- who do you say that i am?
00:38:38.940 --> 00:38:40.409
- absolutely. - right.
00:38:40.409 --> 00:38:41.843
And i think you can ask those bold requests too, right?
00:38:41.843 --> 00:38:45.914
I think if i could reduce things, i mean, similarly, we
00:38:45.914 --> 00:38:49.718
Have similar backgrounds of people told us things.
00:38:49.718 --> 00:38:54.489
And maybe it was out of protection.
00:38:54.489 --> 00:38:55.424
Maybe it was just out of spite.
00:38:55.424 --> 00:38:56.458
Who knows?
00:38:56.458 --> 00:38:57.492
Doesn't matter.
00:38:57.492 --> 00:38:58.860
Because at this point, what i'm doing is a lot different than
00:38:58.860 --> 00:39:00.495
What they told me i could or couldn't do, right?
00:39:00.495 --> 00:39:02.330
But i think if i could redo it, i would not dwell on the lies or
00:39:02.330 --> 00:39:09.638
Dwell on the words of man.
00:39:09.638 --> 00:39:12.140
But i would flip it.
00:39:12.140 --> 00:39:15.343
And every time i felt that, i would say, okay, lord,
00:39:15.343 --> 00:39:18.046
Holy spirit.
00:39:18.046 --> 00:39:20.215
What of that is true?
00:39:20.215 --> 00:39:22.117
Because sometimes you do have to work on some things, right?
00:39:22.117 --> 00:39:24.953
And what of that is a complete lie?
00:39:24.953 --> 00:39:28.256
Reveal that.
00:39:28.256 --> 00:39:29.458
I don't think i spent enough time in my youth asking
00:39:29.458 --> 00:39:31.193
Those questions.
00:39:31.193 --> 00:39:33.361
And i think i wasted some time.
00:39:33.361 --> 00:39:34.796
And granted, like god can restore anything and he can,
00:39:34.796 --> 00:39:36.965
Time is his, right?
00:39:36.965 --> 00:39:39.134
And so there's healing in that.
00:39:39.134 --> 00:39:40.669
But if i could do anything, like even right now, any
00:39:40.669 --> 00:39:43.038
Viewer right now.
00:39:43.038 --> 00:39:44.372
It's not too late like just just ask that question and ask for
00:39:44.372 --> 00:39:46.908
The things because if it's in line with what the holy spirit
00:39:46.908 --> 00:39:49.411
Has created you to do, then it's going to be right in front
00:39:49.411 --> 00:39:51.146
Of you. - yeah.
00:39:51.146 --> 00:39:53.281
- and it's not going to be what we do yeah because
00:39:53.281 --> 00:39:56.284
We're all very different right and so that's just exciting to
00:39:56.284 --> 00:39:58.220
See what to know that there's such possibility out there.
00:39:58.220 --> 00:40:03.024
- i think we're invited to ask the holy spirit every day i
00:40:03.024 --> 00:40:07.629
Always ask give me eyes to see what i'll miss without you and
00:40:07.629 --> 00:40:11.066
Give me ears to hear behind what somebody's saying to what's
00:40:11.066 --> 00:40:14.002
Actually going on.
00:40:14.002 --> 00:40:15.504
And he is so faithful to do that.
00:40:15.504 --> 00:40:18.573
I mean, i've made it like a really intentional
00:40:18.573 --> 00:40:21.776
Daily practice.
00:40:21.776 --> 00:40:22.944
And almost every day, the lord will point someone out.
00:40:22.944 --> 00:40:25.580
The holy spirit will say, you know, invite me to pray for that
00:40:25.580 --> 00:40:28.483
Person or just be part of like living, seeming to live in this
00:40:28.483 --> 00:40:33.655
Kingdom and living in a different kingdom.
00:40:33.655 --> 00:40:35.090
The thing that's great is like in high school, in our yearbook
00:40:35.090 --> 00:40:37.993
I was down as the one least likely to ever leave home
00:40:37.993 --> 00:40:41.530
Because i walked in my sleep while i was 18 years old.
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Terrible nightmares after my father's death by suicide.
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I mean, i used to hide in the bottom of my toy closet
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Every night.
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And my mom would come in and lay her hands on me at night and
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Say, lord, for this least likely, i give it to you.
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I love the fact that god loves to choose the one that everybody
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Says no over.
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And that's why i have this tattoo that says, yes, lord,
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Because that's my every morning.
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Yes, lord.
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Every evening.
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Yes, lord.
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- isn't it fun that we can pray and we can ask god for something
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Like that, that we can ask the holy spirit, give me eyes to
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See, give me ears to hear what i would miss without you today,
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And that god would actually answer that prayer and actually
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Start showing you and start directing you and start opening
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Your eyes to see.
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What what i would have might have missed that i can minister
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To someone today, it's so beautiful.
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So the word of god says that the same spirit the same holy spirit
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That raised christ from the dead dwells on the inside of you.
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Can you imagine the things we could do if we actually grabbed
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A hold of that and believe that is truth talk about walk by
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Faith, that he'll lead you into all truth.
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He'll lead and guide you.
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And so walking by faith and overcoming, overcoming
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Negativity, overcoming defeat, overcoming all the excuses, and
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Walking in power and love and righteousness and grace, all of
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That is on the inside of you to do greater
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Works, multiplication.
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All the things that god has called us to, it would change
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Our world if we just grabbed a hold of that truth.
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The same power that dwells in me raised jesus christ from
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The dead.
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And he leads me and he guides me into all truth.
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And he's my comforter when i need it.
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He's my guide when i need it.
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And he brings back to memory all the things that god has done.
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That's a powerful thing.
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So walk in the spirit.
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Just invite him into your life, the indwelling of the holy
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Spirit, and start being conscious that he is with you
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And he is for you.
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You know, this week is, this is holy week, and this has been one
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Of the best weeks we've ever had, i think, just talking about
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The cross and what jesus has done for us and him sending the
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Holy spirit, god sending the holy spirit to us to help us to
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Build the kingdom of god right here on earth.
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And i think that's so amazing.
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I love each one of you for your voice.
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I love this community of better together.
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I love you, sheila.
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I love you.
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She has been my right hand in this mission.
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I'm thankful for our community because we all glean so much
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From each other, our sisters in the lord, people that are
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Following hard after god that we have to live this thing.
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To be able to sit here and talk about it, i have to live what i
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Say every day.
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I have to get up.
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I have to talk to myself.
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I have to believe god.
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I have to trust god.
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But i think the cross of christ, you know, when i think about it,
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I think about the cross took away all of our excuses. - wow.
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- jesus' blood, what he did for you on the cross took away
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Every excuse.
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We can never pinpoint any person.
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Anything, any demonic spirit, anything that has ever had power
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Or control over our lives, jesus said, it is finished.
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He said, i have come to seek and to save the lost and i have come
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To destroy the works of the enemy.
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And then he says, all power and authority has been given to me.
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Now you go.
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So if jesus has all power, how much does the devil have?
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- that would be none. - none.
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We have all that we need to go and to make disciples.
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You have all you need to get through your day, to make little
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Disciples out of your children, teach them about jesus, the
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Grandmothers teaching your children about jesus, sharing
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The love of the lord wherever you go.
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Whatever you do, whatever ministry you have, whatever
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Vocation god has allowed you to have, i pray that god's blessing
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Is on your life and that you flourish in the lord and that
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You look to the cross for everything that you need.
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Because he said, i have done it.
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I have defeated anything that would come against
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You is defeated.
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And so now we just say, satan, get behind me.
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I'll no longer look at you.
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I look towards the cross, my salvation, my healing, my joy,
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My peace, my satisfaction.
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Everything that we need is at the cross of christ.
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And we have a great celebration this weekend.
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For resurrection sunday.
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And i pray that you get into church.
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You watch church wherever you can.
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You get in and you celebrate the resurrection of our lord jesus
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Christ and the coming of the holy spirit.
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That's what we've been talking about today.
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[cheering]
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- and i think what's really special about this moment is
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That the holy spirit that we are talking about here is the same
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Holy spirit that is with everybody tuning in right now.
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Whether they're tuning in right as this is airing or whether
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They're tuning in years later.
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The holy spirit helps us to be bold as we step out in god's
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Purposes by anointing us.
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The anointing of the holy spirit is the presence and power of the
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Holy spirit.
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And he endows that unto us so that we could carry out his will
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And way onto this earth.
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And so to do anything for the
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Lord you need god's anointing and you need to depend
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On his anointing because when you ask for it he will give it.
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That's what it says in the gospels right that the father is
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Good and if we ask for the holy spirit he will give it.
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- i'm reminded of the time and this is just for those that
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Still may feel discouraged about their relationship with
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The holy spirit.
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When my son went into the nicu when he was born, i remember,
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One, being shocked, you know, but two, wondering why the holy
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Spirit wasn't answering my prayer, you know, when i was
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Praying that he would get out of the nicu because his numbers
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Just kept getting worse and worse and worse.
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And i really felt like god was not with me.
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You know, and at that time, my theology on the holy spirit was
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Still forming, but it really felt as though god deserted me.
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And i remember one evening, i felt jesus unctioned me
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To give thanks.
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And i was like, for what?
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You know, i am not thankful, you know.
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But, you know, that unction just kept staying.
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And bugging me.
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And so i realized, okay, i'm going to do it.
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I whip out my journal and i just start to give thanks.
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And for the first 20 minutes, i felt nothing, to be honest.
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And around the 20 minute mark, i just started to feel
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My heart thaw.
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And by the 40 minute mark of just fixing my eyes on jesus,
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The author and perfecter of my faith and acknowledging the
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Fingerprints of god all over my life.
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So good.
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I knew that i knew that i knew that i knew that the holy spirit
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Was filling that room, the hospital room.
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Like, i remember just feeling as though i was on holy ground.
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Now, was he already there?
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Yes. but when i chose to, by faith, obey his words,
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And acknowledge his presence.
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- position yourself.
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- and position yourself.
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- your perspective.
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- yes and change my perspective.
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That's when i was able to experience what i already knew.
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Which is that jesus christ has paid the ultimate price so that
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We can never be alone.
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- thank you, jesus.
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- so i would love to pray, if that's all right.
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I would love to pray for everyone that is listening in,
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Some that may feel alone, some that may feel distant from the
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Gospel message.
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Jesus, we just lift up everyone that is tuning in.
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Holy spirit, may you...
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Open up their eyes and their ears to be able to recognize
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Where you are in the room, which is you are with them by the
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Blood of jesus christ.
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God, i pray for those that haven't been to church for a
00:49:58.586 --> 00:50:02.857
Long time.
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God, may this be the call.
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The heralds, for them to come back home, to come
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Back to jesus.
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Lord, i pray for the discouraged, the weary,
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And the broken.
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Lord, we know that rest is in your presence.
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Thank you, god, for being our reason, for being our compass,
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For being the reward of our lives.
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In jesus' name we pray. amen.
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The Power of the Holy Spirit | Better Together Episode 1155

April 3, 2026 | S8 E1155 | 50:59

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