God's Navigation System with Pastor Vanessa Cintron

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Now enjoy this message SO. We're going to just do a little

snippet tonight. Of that.

And so I'm going to play a little game though first, OK.

My children's meant for those who don't know me.

I'm Pastor Vanessa. I am over children's ministry

here at Anchor Faith Church and it's an honor to get to do that.

Also direct the preschool as well Monday through Friday.

So I'm going to put my plug in now because Pastor told me I

could. We need people.

Not just any old people. We need people that, as Pastor

Marcy said, we if if the Lord has called us to have a private

school and have a preschool, then he has hands that he's

prepared in the body. And the scripture says that he

places the members of the body where he sees fit, He sees fit,

not where we want to go. You know, I could do a million

other things. You know, I have a another whole

career path that I started out in.

But you know, nothing is is more fulfilling than knowing you're

walking right in the path that God has you in.

So if there's somebody out in here that the Lord is laying on

your heart to and nudging at you to go and get an application,

then go do that and follow up with that and and put that in.

And both both entities have positions that they're hiring

and even through the year there's sometimes changes and

things that'll take place where we need more.

Our school is only going to increase and and grow more and

the same thing with the with the private school and the

preschool. We need those positions.

So you can certainly come and talk to me after service or any

of the services but you can get application at guest relations

but but come but come come be a part of of what God's doing and

you know I get fired up about kids so I'll, I'm going to say

one more thing. I love Washington.

And Washington's great. Elementary and high school's

middle school's great. But if we don't invest in the

smallest beings, we don't invest in the infants and toddlers that

are in the in the highest absorption rate of their brains

and and really nurturing and caring for them and valuing them

when they're that little. A lot of times in society you're

not valued until you are middle school or you know, or upper

elementary or middle. Or even high school or college

age. But the littlest beings are the

ones who need the most care and the most teaching.

And from from the moment they walk in the preschool to the

moment they leave, every single one of those moments are

teachable moments. And so it is.

It is a privilege. It's work, It's hard work.

But anything to do in God's ministries work.

Because it's it's a labor, it's a service.

So that's my plug. Come see me if you'd like.

We have an awesome team and we'd love for you to join it.

If it's if it's God's fit for you to do so.

But I'm going to play a little game, OK?

Recently we did this. Pastor Tim and I were we've been

teaching them the Nautilus kids and the our summer campers.

This year, it's been Nautilus Doors, the summer of choices.

And so we know that the Lord said in the scripture I set

before you, life in death. But what are we supposed to

choose life? He gives us the answer, right?

But there's different topics with that we've been going

through with them. And this past week, we talked

about how. We ultimately gets, we get the

choice to choose Jesus. You know Zach, he is on the road

that day recognized that there was a man that's different,

that's come into the city and he was of small stature.

We know he climbed up in the tree so he could see and hear

Jesus, the one who had words of life and truth.

And so he gets up here into this tree, and it changes his very

life. And Jesus commands him to come

down and says I'm coming to your house today.

Well, his house changed that day.

He made the choice to choose life that day.

And so we've been talking about identity.

And The thing is identity. Our identity should be in

Christ. And the moment that Zaki has

chose to be in Christ, he became a new creation.

So we were playing this game the other day where we were trying

to to guess either celebrities or or.

Bible figures and the kids had a great time with that.

And so I thought, I'm going to let you guys do it.

OK. So here's, here's your clues.

All right. All right.

This is called who or what am I? This person's I, they are

global. They became a or who or or what

came operational in 1978. It is highly accurate.

Its initial cost to build was $12 billion.

It cost $750 million per year for it to operate.

No, it requires a power source to operate.

It's precise at determining location.

You got it. It's G PS:.

You need a few more clues. Now let's do the next one.

Who or what am I? I extend beyond the universe.

I've been in existence since the beginning.

God's son Jesus left Earth so I could be here.

I'm gonna keep going though. I know the beginning.

From the end. I am one whole but part of

three. I comfort, I lead.

I'm always present. I'm always operational.

I'm always ready. I'm always working.

I am the power. I guide, and we could go on and

on and on. So as Pastor Marcy's been in.

The series of the Holy Spirit. Tonight we're going to talk

about the Holy Spirit and His God's navigational system.

The GNS, I'm going to call it. Because we have the the G PS:

that was founded in 1978 and we all are recipients of that even

at this very moment. The lighting, the Internet, the

phones that we use, we use GPS services on a daily basis as

everyday humans, right? Unless we're, unless you're on

the grid. If you're on the grid, off the

OR off the grid, I should say, then you might not.

But we all have been partaking of this particular device which

has its great qualities. I mean, when you travel, isn't

it a good thing to know where you are going, right?

So tonight we're going to talk a little bit about what God's

navigation or system in God's navigating system, say G&S with

me. All right, So we're going to get

into scripture. So GPS, we know stands for

Global Positioning Services, right?

And it's global. But as guys I mentioned with

reading out those characteristics, God is beyond

global. He transcends the universe.

In our key text tonight, it's going to be in John 1613.

And this is in the English Standard version.

And it says when the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you

into all truth. For he will not speak on his own

authority, but whatever he hears, he will speak and he will

declare to you the things that are to come.

The Holy Spirit is the greatest navigator in our life.

He will guide us into everything that we need to know in our

life. This is a Greek word and pop up

River Mirandy might get on to me if I pronounce this wrong, but

ha diego's the Greek word that means a leader or a guide.

That's what this word guide means in John 1613.

If you break down the Greek, it means leader or guide.

So. When the Lord, when we get born

again and we are tapped into His Kingdom, He automatically gives

us the ability to have this navigation system on the inside.

That will not steer us wrong. That will only its only purpose

is to guide us into what, in what all truth it in it will.

We're going to go on there so many things, but it will give us

exactly what we need so that we don't.

Go in the wrong direction. In life we can know exactly how

we need to go about things where we need to go, when we need to

go, how we need to go. And it life doesn't have to

become a grand mystery for us. In fact the moment that we get

born again the the scripture tells us that we're things are

illuminated for us. So now that when we're born

again and we have this the Holy Ghost that comes on the inside.

Holy Spirit, Holy Ghost, as Pastor Marcy was telling us.

The other day we have it in us all the time.

And as she said, we don't. This is not a kooky thing.

It's not a a crazy thing. It's it's the Holy Spirit in us

that we're so aware where wherever we go, the Holy

Spirit's guiding us and we're and we're waiting and listening

to hear what the Holy Ghost has to say in every situation.

We're going to go now to 2nd Corinthians 1313.

And this is Paul. He is, I'm talking to the

Corinthian church, and there's a I'm going to read quite a bit

here. We're going to start in verse

one. And then there's some key things

I'm going to point out that he points out to the Corinthian

church, and this is for us to it says that verse.

Actually, I'm going to start verse 13.

This is the third time I'm coming to visit to you.

And as the Scriptures say, the facts of every case must be

established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.

I have already warned those who have been sinning when I was

there on my second visit. Now again I'm warning all and

all others, just as I did before.

The next time I will not spare them.

I will give you all the proof that you want that Christ speaks

through me. Christ is not weak when He deals

with you. He is powerful among you.

Although He was crucified of weakness, he now lives by the

power of God. We too are weak, just as Christ

was. But when we deal with you, we

will be alive with him, and we will have God's power.

What power do we have on the inside?

The Holy Spirit, examine yourself to see if your faith is

genuine. Test yourself.

Surely you will know that Jesus Christ is among you if you have

not. If you not, have not failed the

test of genuine faith as you test yourselves.

I hope you will recognize that we have not failed the test.

Let's go on. We pray to God that you will not

do what is wrong by refusing the correction.

So here this is. You know the Holy Ghost was with

Jesus to give and guide him. The Paul is reminding them that

you that I'm bringing you correction because this is what

Jesus taught us to do. This is the way of life and the

way of truth and you have power on the inside to do this.

So he goes on, and he says, for we cannot oppose the truth, but

all must always stand for the truth.

We are glad to see us seem weak. To help show you actually

strong. We pray that you become mature.

OK, hold on to that. Become mature says I'm writing

this to you before I come, hoping that I won't need to deal

severely with you when I come. For I want to use the authority

the Lord has given me to strengthen you, not to tear you

down. So he's just being kind of kind

here and saying, listen, get your get your act together.

Get yourselves in the right position.

You kind of wandered off from the way that God had things

established. From you.

And then he gives him a final greeting and he says, listen,

I'm going to close my letter with these last words.

Be joyful, grow to maturity, encourage each other, live in

harmony and peace. Then the God of love and peace

will be with you. And then he goes on.

The last thing he says is may the grace of the Lord Jesus

Christ, the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be

with you all. So he's reminding them change

your ways. Do what God said.

Ultimately we're we're looking for some maturity here and he

leaves them that that the Holy Spirit may be with you all that

it may be so. Is it possible that the people

were not operating in the Holy Spirit that they had received

already? Not only the Holy Spirit they

received because they called upon him, but the Holy Spirit

also that they got on the day of Pentecost.

When the Holy Spirit came, it wasn't just on in them, but came

upon them and that power that they were dude with, they were

able to operate into. Okay, we're going to go now.

Go ahead and turn to Romans 8. We're going to get in there.

This is another one of our key texts that we're going to be in

tonight. But see that God's navigating

system was always put in place in in our lives to help us grow

to maturity. It was designed to be not only

in us, but with us all the time. So that we would have that power

of God on the inside, and no matter where we go and what we

do, we walk with power. GPS again has to have its own

power source. It's taking, we have it to be

able to give out. That's the difference.

OK, Romans 8. The whole chapter goes into what

our life is when it's in the spirit of God.

So this is living in the spirit of God, he says in verse Chapter

8, verse one, he says, For there is now no condemnation for those

who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of

life has set you free in Christ from the law of sin of death.

For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not

do, by sending his own Son and the likeness of sin of flesh.

He goes on in verse five. Or he says, or verse four.

It says, in order that the righteous requirement of the law

might be fulfilled in us who walk according to the flesh, not

according to the flesh, but according to what the Spirit.

For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the

things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit

set their minds on the thing of things of the Spirit.

He always gets us back in this mindset that we can't rely upon

what our flesh wants to do, where our flesh wants to go.

Because when somebody turns on navigation, if I turn navigation

on my phone, I'm going to put in an address and I'm going to, I'm

going to follow what it says, right?

How many of you ever used it? In a location that you may be

familiar with, but you just didn't want to miss that one Rd.

Technically, I'm probably talking to everybody's talking

about Jacksonville, probably because like, when I go there, I

know where everything's at. But then sometimes they've moved

something and I'm like, I don't want to go on that wrong Rd.

Especially when you go to St. John's Town Center.

Like, you know what I'm saying? I know where everything's at,

but you want to make sure you you don't miss that one turn.

So how many of you, though, have ever done that?

And then you've had the GPS on and then you've completely just

tuned it out or it's telling you to go somewhere And, you know,

sometimes it'll give you like the one route.

And I'll tell you, it's this many minutes, this this an hour

and this many minutes. But they're like, no, no,

there's definitely a quicker route.

So you go down the, you go down the little settings and you find

out, OK, yes, I'm going to pick that one And this one has tolls

or this one doesn't have tolls and it'll tell you.

You know your options. So you pick that one and then

you pick that one and then you start driving and that's in Siri

or whatever device you have and whatever name it is, it's

telling you to go a direction, but you're like, no, no, no, I'm

not going to go that street. And so you then you keep

turning. It tells you turn to to the

right, you're turning to the left.

You're not no longer following its directions.

It the a device that was meant for you to listen to its

directions to follow. Follow to get you to the right

destination. You're choosing to not follow

what it's telling you to do, and we can so easily do that with

the Holy Spirit that's living in us every day.

It never sleeps. He never sleeps.

The Holy Spirit we know is a He He never sleeps.

When we're sleeping. The Holy Spirit will be doing

work in you sometimes. May wake you up with a dream.

May may wake you right up with. With with something that that's

on your heart. But we've got the Holy Spirit no

matter where we go and we can, we can tune it out because we

maybe have some other things that we're too busy with, You

know, maybe we're, you know, listening to other things or.

Getting too involved with our work.

But see, if we get ourselves so in tune with the Holy Ghost, we

can still do those things. And we can be aware that he's

with us while we're doing those things, because he again is part

of the Kingdom of God. It's the center of all that we

do. It's the it's the first thing

that we look to do. And so if if we learn to keep

our our GNS, our God's navigating system ready,

empowered on all the time, it will help us in the long run.

It will help us with our walk with God.

So let's continue on in Romans it says again verse six.

It says for to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set

the mind on the spirit of life and peace.

For the mind that is set on the flesh as hostile towards God and

does not submit to God's laws, indeed it cannot.

Those who are in the flesh cannot please God first.

Nine. You, however, are not in the

flesh, but in the Spirit. And in fact the Spirit of God

dwells, where in you anyone who does not have the Spirit of

Christ does not belong to him. But if if Christ is in you,

although the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit of

life is because of righteousness.

If the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in

you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead also will live in

you and your mortal, mortal bodies through His Spirit, which

what dwells in us, it lives in us.

Another version of that is, it abides, right?

When we leave tonight, we're going to go to wherever we

reside or abide in, and we're going to go get in our homes,

and more than likely it'll be time to go to bed, right?

Well, He lives in us. He abides us.

He is in us with us. Can't emphasize how much we have

to get. Understand that he's he's in us,

right? We're in Christ and he is in us

to risk. Go on, he says in verse 12.

So then, brothers, we are debtors not to the flesh to live

according to the flesh. For if you live according to the

flesh, what will happen? You will.

Die, but if by the Spirit you will put death, the deeds of the

body, you will live. For this is a key scripture of

this for verse 14. For all who were led by the

Spirit of God, or who sons of God who are sons of God, we are

in the shrew. Where's the sons of God?

And so guess what we are then led by?

There's that guiding again. There's that.

There's the the navigation system that the Lord gave us, so

that we'll know where to go, we'll know how to get there.

And then He goes on. And of course he talks about us

not receiving the spirit of slavery, but the spirit of

adoption. And we cry ABBA, Father, right?

And then the Spirit bears witness that we are, that we are

children of God. Like I said, the spirit of God.

We could talk about it and talk about it for a year and still

not exhaust all that is with the Spirit, right.

And so we're just stirring it up.

We're stirring some things up. You may already know, but it's

just bringing it back to your remembrance.

All the meat of the word, some some Nuggets that we've been

getting from Pastor Marcy this last five weeks.

We want to stir those things up and make sure that they're at

the forefront of our life so that we're applying them.

So what, like we talked about earlier in First Corinthians,

that we put these into practice so that we'll be in what,

maturity. Maturity.

And he's coming. If you did listen to Pastor

Marcy, she talked about the glorious church he's looking

for. And a glorious church is mature.

It's it's putting into practice what God said in his word, and

that's us. We get to do that.

So let's go on or skip down into verse 26 and says likewise, the

Spirit helps us in our weakness, for we do not want know what to

pray as we ought to, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us

with groanings too deep for words.

And he who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the

Spirit is, because the Spirit intercedes for the Saints.

According to the Wilson, not not only do we have the helper

that's guiding us, but if we get into any situation ever, he's

given us the ability to be able to pray out in his language, and

we'll be praying out the perfect will for that situation.

I mean that that's amazing to pin the to, to have a creator

that knows exactly how he designed all of us, how he

designed things in the original intent for them to be.

But then to give us what we need to be able to get to where we're

supposed to be on our journey. I mean, that's a good God.

It's a good God that we have, that we serve, that doesn't want

us to have any deficit. You know, a GPS system has to

continually have upgrades, right?

You know, it's probably been about 12 to 15 years somehow.

This is before smartphones, You know, smartphones of course were

in in the works and and all the GPS started in 78, which was 45

years ago. We know that it was behind the

scenes being built even long before that.

It takes many, many years for the, for all of those things,

NASA and all the different scientists to come up with these

things. So those have been in works for

years. But before smartphones I had, I

believe the brand was like a Garmin and it was like a

navigation. I don't even know how we got it,

but we had it in the car. We took a couple of Rd. trips

and the kids were younger and we used it a few times.

But then all of a sudden it stopped working and it stopped

working because we had to pay for an upgrade.

It no longer you you couldn't. It wasn't like our phones where

we plug them in and we get the the next iOS or whatever the

update is. Back then you had to pay even

more for your upgrades and we're like weigh in.

Is this even worth it for us? You know, at that point I was

fine with just using a paper map, Kind of fun to do that

right? Just going on an adventure.

So it wasn't worth it. In fact, it just stayed in the

glove compartment box for a few years and I think we finally

just threw it away because it wasn't worth anything to us

anymore. It would not pull up that it was

so outdated because it didn't stay with the current Rd.

systems and all the upgrades and everything.

And so we just wind up not using it anymore, right?

We can't do that with the Holy Ghost.

We put ourselves in danger. If we do that with God's

navigation system, we put ourselves in danger of the

Corinthian church and then it here to the in Romans where he's

saying we're not no longer living by the Spirit.

If we don't live by the Spirit, there's only two choices, life

or death. So if we choose to walk down the

path of death and we we, we stop listening to the signal that's

saying, hey, don't go there, hey, watch.

Watch your mouth, watch your attitude.

Put some fruit on that. Why are you worrying?

Cast down that thought. This is how good the Holy Ghost

is that he will talk to us all day long.

He will remind us of the scripture we're going to get to

that He will remind us again. He's the one who's going to

guide us into all truth. And what is the truth?

The truth is the word of God. Truth is the word of God, and

the truth is available to us all the time.

And in fact, the truth is going to bear witness or the Holy

Ghost is going to bear witness, that when we're reading the

Scripture, it is truth. When someone is behind the

pulpit and they're ministering, when you hear something, the

Holy Spirit is going to bear witness.

And you're going to be able to hear that.

And you're going to be able to decipher because the Holy Ghost

is on the inside. And you're going to be able to

say no, that something's not right there.

And you'll be able to go to the scripture and say no, they took

that out of context. Or no, that something's not jive

in here. That's not scripture.

That's not true because you have the ability to understand that

with with God's navigation system, the way we upgrade,

because what the difference between a GPS and a GNS is, the

GPS has to constantly have be powered and it has to be

upgraded with whatever the new system and the Holy Ghost has

been here from the very beginning and he's the same

yesterday, today and forever. What is changing is us.

What's changing on is us on the inside and it's understanding

what the word of God is in our life and it's challenging us to

say Nope, you need to do this differently in order for you to

grow and mature. Maturity is going to mean that

next year we should look differently than we look this

year because we go from faith to faith and glory to glory.

And we can't be somewhere next year if we don't apply the truth

and the faith that God's given us right here today and have

that and work on that maturity that he wants us to, to a

display, to the world. So it's us that really has to

stay plugged in and connected to the word of God in order to get

the upgrades. We get upgrades every week.

We get good word here. We cannot, we cannot disdain it

or devalue it. We can't when our pastors are up

here, don't devalue when the word of God comes from them.

And I we're talking right now, you guys are the, you guys are

the ones who hear regular tenders Vision partners, right

On a Sunday morning. The core of us should be drawing

upon the anointing and showing the example that we're we're

living by the spirit. We're drawing on the anointing

in the spirit so that we can see change happen in our city and we

understand that we've got such a great value.

And the word and the meat of the word, it is not happening.

We're here all the time. So sometimes it it takes us

either leaving or hearing somebody else, maybe that's

going to church and they start talking about their life and

God. And then you're like, well,

that's not how things are for me.

And that's not the kind of thing my pastor is talking about or

that's not the kind of the way my pastor lives.

They're the real deal. And sometimes the word that's

going to come is going to be harsh and it's going to be, you

know, in our face. And it's not going to be

something that we want to hear. It's always going to be the

flowery story. But there's always a hope and a

faith and a victory no matter what messages is preached.

Because that's our God. Our God always wants to see us

on the other side, the best side.

He wants us on the choice of life versus death, right.

And so we've got to be tapped into his positioning, His

positioning, his navigation system is the best.

Amen. All right, let's go over to

Ezekiel 3627. Because, you know, God had a

plan from the very beginning. We know, Adam, you know, kind of

skewed that plan and things had to be reworked a little bit for

us to now live the life we live in the Kingdom.

But in the Ezekiel he promised that he was.

He said I and I will put my spirit in you so that you will

follow my decrees and be careful to obey my regulations.

This key of the spirit would be put in this so that we could

follow, so that we would follow. Hey, I need you to do this.

I need you to move in this position.

I need you to. I need you to do this with your

kids. I need you to do this with your

finances. I'm thinking it's time right now

that you minister to your coworker.

You say this to them, or maybe the Lord says, you know what?

I need you to cut something off. I need you not to talk to that

person anymore because they're only bringing death in your life

and they refuse to have anything to do with God.

And now you're in an unequal friendship with somebody.

Maybe it's that maybe the Holy Ghost is protecting you.

It could be as serious as that to as simple as you are.

You're about to leave the house and you've got something.

You're about to leave it behind. The Holy Ghost says, go back in

the house. You got, you got to go, you got

to go Grab that. That's how good God is that He

wants to. He wants to eliminate some of

the hardships that we might have that are just like stupid stuff,

like like leaving our lunch behind or forgetting our keys.

But all of those things involve our everyday life and our time,

right? Our time is treasured.

It's ticking quickly, right? And so God cares about the

littlest details of our life, even to let us know that right,

Telling us we need to go in a different direction physically.

I've, I've said this testimony before my life.

The Lord has spared me more than one occasion of my life where

he's, He's, I could have not been here.

But the Holy Ghost arrested my thought at that moment and said

don't do this or do this. And that's huge.

We don't ever want to dismiss what he says because again, he's

all about bringing what truth and life to us.

Amen. He has promised that Spirit

would be and it would be placed inside us.

John 1416 and 17 says this. And I will ask the Father, and

he will give you another helper, to be with you forever, even the

Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot see or cannot receive,

because it neither sees him nor knows him.

You know him for what he dwells with you and will be in you.

The Holy Spirit was promised for us to come alongside us.

And the Greek word is paraclete, you know, and I think of a

parakeet when I hear that Greek word, paraclete, parakeet.

What does a a parrot do? They typically, when you think

about the tropics and going to the Caribbean, you think about a

parrot being on a what on your shoulder and being right there

and what a parrots do. They talk and they mimic

constantly. They mimic what they've heard.

Well, we have the Holy Spirit that's mimicking what the Holy

Spirit's heard by God. It's mimicking the Word because

they're all one, right? The Word.

We've got God, the Father, got the Son, got the Holy Ghost, and

all of it is incorporated, and it's all in the Word.

It's all been there from the beginning.

And so we've got the the Holy Spirit right there like a parrot

with us. So not only in us, but right

there with us constantly telling us what the Scripture says,

reminding us of the truth, letting us know, right.

Letting us know what God's word says.

So think about that. When you think about a parrot,

Proverbs 11/14 says where there is no guidance, the people fall.

But in an abundance of counselors, there's victory.

This was in our Bible reading this weekend.

When I read, I was like, that's that goes right along with what

I'm talking about Wednesday. So I wrote that down where there

is no guidance. What's our guide?

What's giving us the ultimate guidance?

Is the Holy Spirit there God's navigation system for us so that

we won't fall. Is there opportunity for us to

fall? Certainly.

But do we have to? No, we have.

We don't have to miss it. We we can live.

The world wants you to think that you know you're you're a

Sinner and you're always going to be that way and you're never

going to be able to do right. And we're, you know, nobody's

perfect. But if we're in the Kingdom,

there's a perfection of us that we are now.

We're not, we've not attained that the way we're going to be

when we are finally with him. But if we're maturing them,

maturing is perfecting. So there's some things that are

going to start to take place in our life.

If we're listening to the spirit and we're living by the spirit,

we're going to look different. We're going to talk different.

And if we continue to listen to that parrot, you know, you

always think about the the old cartoon where there's the devil

and the Angel. Yeah, the devil does talk.

He doesn't sit right here, you know, where he talks.

He talks right to your mind. But then you got the Holy Ghost

on the inside that wants to rise up and remind you don't take

that from him. Don't listen to what he's

saying. He's a liar and he's a thief,

and he wants to, he wants first and foremost to steal your time,

that you're meditating and thinking about whatever that is.

And it could be a past failure. It could be a hard circumstance

that you're right in the midst. Maybe it's something medical.

Maybe it's something that that's happened to you.

Maybe it's something you're not looking forward to.

So the devil wants to always rehearse that.

But the Holy Ghost is saying no, don't listen to that tap into

what the word says about it. Only stick to that.

We know at the very beginning of the year it was the year to what

decree to rain but to But in order to rain was to what

declare to speak. Well, we've got the best person

coaching us all the time, guiding us on the inside, saying

you got this, you got this. You can, you can, you can get up

this morning. I've got you.

I'll be with you all day. I'm going to remind you of the

truth. You got this.

Don't listen to him. And that's when the Holy Ghost

will remind you of the truth. And then you got to speak it out

and you have to tell the devil. You have to speak it out vocally

and say no, you are a liar. I don't think so.

And you got to speak out what the word says.

You know, we tell the kids all the time where where it's like

bubbles and you blow bubbles are so much fun, right?

Blow bubbles. And you kept you catch it.

You capture it, right? You capture it and you make sure

it lines up with the word of God.

You know how many of you ever tried to blow really, really big

bubble, either either a chewing gum or bubble gum bubble or a

bubble that you try to grab it and try to hold it where it

won't pop? Right.

Imagine that We've got bubbles and we're blowing them.

They're all over the building. We're trying to grab one of them

and we're going to hold it. That's what we do with our

thoughts. We're supposed to do with our

thoughts. That's what scripture says we

we're supposed to grab them and hold it.

Is this what God's word says about me?

Is this what God's word says about the situation?

And the Holy Ghost all along is reminding you, is is telling

you, is saying, Yep, Yep, that's it.

Or no, that's not it. And if it's not it, then squash

goes that bubble burst. You know, pop that bubble.

It's done. It's done.

Let's only focus on what God's word says.

Amen. That navigation system will not

steer us wrong. It will not put us in the wrong

position. It will not When you're trying

to go to Tampa. It will not land you in Atlanta.

It will get you exactly where you're supposed to be.

You know you won't. You won't be like home alone.

And you got on the wrong plane because you were trying to mess

with your Bachmann. The holy still remind you, hey,

wake up, you're about to go in the wrong direction to be all by

yourself. And you don't need to go over

there by yourself. You need to stay where truth and

where life is. You don't need to get off

course. You need to stay here.

Because if you get off alone, guess what?

It's scary when you're by yourself.

Who would want to be? But we were by ourselves before

God. We thought we had.

We thought we had a group of people.

We thought you had friends. You.

You. Yeah, you thought that somebody

had your back. You maybe leaned upon a

substance or two, or leaned upon a relationship or two to fill

you, but then realize all of that was empty.

At the end of the night, you're by yourself and you're empty.

You have nothing. But then, but then.

But God, rich in his mercy, right?

Because he loved us so much, He sent Jesus so that we wouldn't

have to be empty. We wouldn't have to lay there at

bed at night and be completely empty.

We could have him and we have that.

That's what we have in this room, right?

We're the church. We have that.

We don't go home empty when we leave tonight.

We not. We've been stirred up.

We're full. We get up to the tomorrow, we're

full. We've got a city where there's

thousands of people that need to know those Nuggets that are on

the bottom of that soup bowl. So we're stirring it up so that

we can go out there and not only do we were able to show them

that example and spread that light, we got hope we can give

them. But that's because we're tapped

in to God's navigation and we're doing His work and we're we're

navigating things not on our own, but with Him and through

Him. Amen.

So the similarities to the GPS and the God's navigation or GNS,

is that we or you, we get to decide where we're going.

Ultimately, he is such a past, Pastor Marcy said.

We, the Holy Spirit, he is a gentleman.

He will not force us. And, you know, a GPS, I've

recently put in a address and I know kind of knew about where it

was. But sometimes when I tell it to

go somewhere and I know I don't need to go all the way out of my

house and turn right and go all the way around to 3:12 to get to

homes. I don't know why it always tells

me to do that, but it does. And so for about 5 or 6 minutes,

I have to listen to it tell me turn around, go turn right, turn

around. You know, the next you turn, you

know, it's it keeps telling me. So then I tune it out.

I tune it out because I I know. I know where I'm going and I

know what I'm doing. We can't do that with God's

navigation, though we can. We can choose to do that, but we

shouldn't choose to do that. We should be attune and

listening. And if he says you need to go

right, then guess where we need to go?

We need to go right. And now what happens if we do

choose to turn to the left? And we then realized, oops, I

probably should have listened at that time.

You know what? God is so good and so gracious

that he's going to give us the best reroute, that at any moment

we got a new rerouting. He's he's going to reroute us.

And he's always going to reroute us back to truth.

He's always going to reroute us back to where we need to be so

that we won't miss out. We won't miss another step.

We don't have to miss any more steps.

He's that good to us. Amen.

So are you listening, Church? Are you listening to God's

navigation system? Right?

Or are you one of those people you ever see the signs like in

Hobby Lobby and all it says? Not all who wander or lost.

Yes, they are. They are law now.

I'm all for a spontaneous adventure.

Think it's great for all those who are single and can do that?

Please travel. It's great if obviously be led.

Don't just go somewhere just because.

But the Lord all you know you're in a great position because when

mission trips come, guess what the Heart Lord leads you to go.

You can get on that plane easy, right?

But for those who are married and those who are maybe in

different things, though, it's just as easy for us.

The Lord says we can do it. Then he'll bring the resource,

He'll bring the supply we need. He'll he'll help us to arrange

things so the single people don't have it.

All right, we can. We can all tap in.

That's, again, if we're being led.

So let's not be Wanderers, because you know there's that

old thought process is that men don't like to ask for

directions. I don't believe that.

I think there's price of men in here that do ask for directions.

Raise your hand if you do. OK, so see you guys like to know

directions, but if you've ever been somewhere and you have

gotten lost because I'm going to tell you GPS is not always

right. God's navigation is, though tell

you a funny story. Last year I got, I got

privileged to go to the one of Pastors Rayma conferences and it

was actually in Saint Thomas. And so we were there with Pastor

Estrada at their church, their beautiful place.

And one night we decided that we were done with the services and

we kind of had some extra time. And so believe it was Josh and

Chase and I and Pastor Craig Hagen and Pastor Roddy and his

wife and their son. So we had like a lot of energy

in that Jeep and so it was a lot of fun though and so I've got my

GPS on in the back seat and Pastor Craig sitting in the

front and he's got his GPS on and it's saying two different

things and I'm looking at it and so we're we're on the way to go

find this beach at night did not that we really could go swimming

or anything we just wanted to kind of the islands very, very

small. So it was very quick to get

around or whatever. And this is saying to keep going

straight and not mind saying go right.

And so I'm in the back trying to be a backseat driver and said

hey, it's saying go right. They're not listening to me at

all. None of them are.

And of course me and Danielle and Pastor Roddy, we're all

cutting up in the back anyway, so we're back and forth.

I kept looking at the G PS:, said it took us all the way to

the end. This is listening to Pastor

Craig's Took us all the way to the end of a Cliff and we

couldn't go any further. So here we are like this in the

car and we're having to like backup.

It was hilarious but yet terrifying at the same time.

We're like we were laughing or like, you know, we followed his

GPS which steered us completely wrong.

So there's case of point GPS. Natural GPS does not always work

so but God's but God's always, always works.

He will never leave us or forsake us, and he won't ever

leave us face down in a Cliff. The devil will though.

The devil wants us to be face down in a Cliff because he wants

to go us to go off that Cliff. Because he his main schemes 3

things to still kill and destroy and anything he can do and those

three things he will do it. So we don't have to abide by his

3 rules and what he would do in his systems.

But we can follow God's navigating system and we can

follow Galatians 516 which says, so I say walk by the spirit and

you will not gratify the desires of flesh.

Walk by the spirit and so for walking.

So that's a descriptor of something that's moving, it's

doing, right. If we're following God's

navigation system, then we're doing we're we're on a path and

we're moving forward. So there is always more than one

type of navigation system out there, right?

How many of you use Siri on a regular basis?

Anybody. Couple of people do.

OK, how many of you actually have navigation in your cars?

OK, back then when I had 1215 years ago and I had that little

garment thing, it was a little teeny tiny box, little TV screen

like thing. And now most cars come with its

own backup camera, it's own navigation.

That's pretty standard. And some regular cars, right.

So can you can use that. But there's all kinds of other

navigating apps. I won't name names, but there's

one that tells you exactly where the police are.

Cute little, the cute little carrot.

You know cartoons see all stuff wants to say it the little

cartoons And so sometimes on a trip my husband puts that one on

he's that's his favorite but but but if you're it it'll go for a

long time and then it'll say danger reported ahead like it's

like it's like blasted in your face like danger reported ahead.

So then it's like, I've been, it's been so quiet in the car

sometimes and all of a sudden that goes off and you're just

like, oh, OK, you know, alert alerts you.

Well, God's navigation system does that.

It alerts us, but not in a way that scares us or puts us where

we're going to be afraid because that's the opposite of his

nature. It's going to be, it's going to

empower us to do what's right and to be aware, hey, there's

something coming. Maybe you need to to be in

prayer about it, something recently.

I'm not going to get in details, but the Lord woke me up on a

dream. This is probably about three

months ago and I didn't understand what it meant.

But then it was about a month or two later a situation happened

and the Lord showed me. I woke you up with that picture

that you seen so that you could pray, and I prayed.

I got up and prayed and I didn't have any idea what it was about.

It didn't make sense to me, but I knew the Holy Ghost woke me up

to pray about it. That doesn't happen all the

time. But I'm like, if the Lord woke

me up and showed me this, then that must be something I really

need to pay attention to. And so I did.

And so I believe because I obeyed, that that kind of helped

prepare my heart for this situation that occurred.

And so God cares that we're prepared for what is ahead if

there is danger or blessing. You know, I remember years ago

the Lord using me to administer to someone and and speak

something in their life. And I remember thinking, I don't

want to go tell that person that, like, you know, they don't

know who I am. And I hadn't, you know, hadn't

quite grown and matured and in my confidence at that time.

And so when I went to them, I was like, OK, God, I wrestled

with telling them I was like the Lord laid on my heart to say

something to them, to encourage them and was a specific

situation. And I didn't know.

Years later, the Lord showed me why I was to tell them that, and

showed me and revealed it later. So sometimes we might know know

all the pieces of something, but all the Lord asked us to do is

to obey. And if we obey His word first

and foremost, we're going to be walking in His truth.

And we've got the Holy Ghost to help us do that.

Amen. So one of the things in us

maturing is that He helps us to change our mindset.

You know, we've read that we have the mind of Christ, right?

And this next script we're going to go to is First Corinthians

216 through 16. We're going to read all that.

And this is how we get wisdom from the Spirit, from God's

navigation system since the first six.

We do not, however, speak a message of wisdom among mature

among the mature, but not the wisdom of this age or the rulers

of this age who are coming to nothing.

No, we declare God's wisdom a mystery that has been hidden and

that God destined for our glory before time.

None of the rulers of this age understand it, for if it had, if

they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of Glory.

However it is written what no eye has seen, what no ear has

heard, and what no human mind has conceived.

The things God has prepared for those who love him.

And these are the things that God has revealed by his spirit.

He's got some amazing things he wants to show us.

You know he can't. It's not like with a regular GPS

where you get a download and it has all the all the bells and

whistles and you know everything about it.

You can read the you can go digitally and find out all the

ins and outs of something, though it would scare us if we

knew everything. Now this is a process in our

walk with the Lord, but he has some amazing things that from

beginning of time before that he predestined for us to know and

for us to tap into. But we that's only shown and

revealed by the Spirit. Let's go on.

It says the Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of

God. For who knows a person's

thoughts except their own spirit within them.

In the same way, no one knows the thoughts of God except the

Spirit of God. What we have received is not the

Spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God so that

we may understand what God has freely given us.

This is what is what we speak, not in words taught by human

wisdom, but words taught by what?

The Spirit explaining spiritual realities with Spirit taught

words. The person without the Spirit

does not accept the things that come from God, from the Spirit

of God, but considers them foolishness.

Pastor Marcy's been saying this it's foolishness to the world

because they don't have the insight yet.

They don't have the illumination right, but go on we said because

it's just spiritual discernment. But verse 50 says the person

with the Spirit makes judgments about all things.

But such a person is not subject to merely human judgments.

But then this our final verse, our key verse, not final verse,

but our key verse. Here in this passage, who has

known the mind of the Lord as to instruct him?

But we have the mind of Christ, and we're able to understand

what God's placed in His word because we have the ability by

God's navigation system to understand what's in His mind.

Not only does he know what it's in our hearts or what we know as

our spirit man, but we can have the ability to have His mind and

His wisdom, and we get that revelation by the Holy Spirit in

our everyday life. Amen.

So we want to know what the Spirit speaking, right?

Some people say, you know, let me let almost speak my mind.

I must speak my mind. I must speak my truth.

Let's make sure it's not us. Let's make sure it's really the

Holy Spirit living on the inside of us.

And if we speak the mind of Christ, then we're only going to

speak what the Word says. Amen.

John 1616 and amplify says this. But when he the Spirit of truth,

the truth giving Spirit comes, he will what guide you into all

truth, the whole full truth. For he will not speak his own

message on his own authority, but he will tell whatever he

hears from the Father, and he will give the message that he's

been given to him. And he will announce and declare

to you the things that are to come that will happen in the

future so we can know some things along the journey as He

guides us. Amen.

He wants us to change our mindset because this is the

thing about us being a mature church is that the Word comes to

bring revelation. And we can understand it because

it we have illumination by the Holy Ghost that bears witness

with God's Word. But how we know we've matured is

that next time we're faced with whatever it is.

God said, hey, I need you to work on that.

Hey, I need you to tweak that next time when we're faced with

that, if we do, or our reaction is different the next time, it

is what God's told us to do. That's maturity.

When we shrink back to the way we used to do it, we we kind of

reroute ourselves and God said go right and we're like, Nah,

I'm going to go left. I'm going to turn this way.

I'm going to do whatever I want to do, kind of round the corner.

All the problems start because we should have went that way.

When we do things the way we've always done them, it's like a

person who's wandering like a person who is not paying

attention to the directions anymore and they've went this

way and then they're like, man, it feels like I just, we just

went down that street, we've already passed out.

We've already passed that house a couple times.

That's what it's like as the in the life of a believer, if we

keep doing the same things we've always done, and we don't break

the habit in the cycle by saying I refuse to keep doing the same

mundane every day, I'm going to choose to do what God's word

says for me to do. I'm going to choose the life and

the Holy Ghost direction on the inside.

That I'm going to follow the navigation system so that I'm

not steered wrong. That I'm not circling around the

same house, not ever getting to the destination that God wants

me to get to and see the power is in us, and then not only does

the power in us, but God gives us the opportunity.

Every time that we come sitting here, every time that we've got

a we've we've got someone ministering the Word is another

opportunity for us to stir, for us to get the download we need,

for us to get the upgrade we need, so that God's navigation

system continues to work in our life, it continues to fuel us to

be able to make those decisions, to follow it.

So we not only do we have that, but we've got our Bible reading

that we do. We stay tapped into the source

of God by reading, staying stirred up in the Scripture,

allowing God's Word to illuminate us, right.

Our prayer life, our prayer time.

You know, praying, praying out things we know in English,

things that we that we know. But then going beyond that,

being filled with the Holy Ghost to say, I need to stir myself

up, I need to pray. And sometimes it's just as

simple as that. It will.

That'll stir us up. That will be what we need to get

us over. And the Holy Ghost will remind

you when you start feeling fleshy and you're, like,

irritated at people and irritated at yourself and, like,

you don't want to do that. And you're like this just, you

know, you'd become like a little child again, but not in a good

way. You're like, oh, this is just

dumb. I don't want to do this.

We're grown-ups. But I know I'm not the only

person that sometimes does it that feels like that.

You know, we deal with preschoolers all the time, and

they don't want to do stuff. And they tell us, no.

Well, I'm sorry you have to line up.

But sometimes we tell ourselves, no, We're like, you know, I'm

not doing it. I'm not doing it.

And then you got to coax yourself.

I'm telling you, if you tap into the Holy Spirit and you start

praying out the Holy Ghost all you need, that's just, that'll

stir the pot. That'll stir the pot for you.

That'll get the beans up. That'll get the chicken up.

That'll get all the Peppers up. It'll get all the good stuff up.

And you like, OK, I can do this. Thank you, Holy Ghost.

I can do this. Not by myself.

I can do this. And then you.

Then you're able to like, stir the word up in you that then you

can speak. And then you feel like super

empowered because there's power in you and we're supposed to tap

into that power. So we want to do that.

And I'm going to close here just a minute.

We don't want to just be what's called a person who is on

autopilot is, if you look up the definition of a NAV, something

that navigates or guides, one of the definition is a pilot.

You know, years ago, remember I was a kid, They used to be the

bumper sticker. God's my copilot kind of thing,

really. He's he's supposed to be our

pilot. He's supposed to be the one

running the whole thing. And he does that with the Holy

Ghost living on the inside of his, telling us where to go,

what to do, what to say, how to live.

When we tap into that, we don't get into autopilot.

Autopilot is like, I work here, so I'm here all the time.

And on Saturday I'm really trying to go to Target and I

pull in here and I'm like, why I'm in the parking lot.

I was trying to go to Target. You know, like you go somewhere.

You were like, truly meaning to go somewhere, but you'd like you

do something so much. And so it's habit forming.

Right. That you just you're on

autopilot or you're driving and you get somewhere and you're

like I don't even remember passing by that or that or that

like you you're like well it's a psychological phenomenon.

It's it's there's psychological term for it and see if I can

pronounce it correctly. Automatic automaticity is what

it's called and it's a phenomenon where a person is

zoned out or they were it's quote UN quote autopilot and

it's the ability to do something without really thinking about it

so automatic. We do it on our everyday natural

lives when we're driving, when we get up, how many of you

ladies know you can do laundry and dishes and all those things

on you just do. I mean, you don't even think

about me, do all kinds of other things.

You just do it. It's just autopilot.

It's phenomenon. We can do it right.

How much more should we be able to tap in to God's navigation

system and that be so automatic in our life?

So we're so disciplined that we go to the Holy Ghost first.

We go to the Holy Ghost first because the Holy Ghost is going

to remind us of God's truth. It's going to bear witness.

What God's truth. So it will not steer us wrong,

that we're so in tune that the Holy Spirit's the automatic in

us that it leads us it automatically.

First response is going to be to the Word.

First response is going to be, well, what?

What would God do, right? What would Jesus do?

What would Jesus do? Just Jesus would listen, would

have listened to the Holy Ghost, because what did he do?

What was the first thing he did when John the Baptist baptized

him? What he was filled, and the very

first assignment he had of his ministry was to go into the

wilderness. He was tempted in the

wilderness. And who sent him there?

Holy Spirit. And not only did the Holy Spirit

send him there. The Holy Spirit equipped him

with every single answer he needed, and every single answer

was the word. What were the three three things

he said? It is do.

What were they? OK, come on.

Not all his kids are louder than that one.

I make them do that. Ready.

What does he say now? The Holy Ghost sent him to the

wilderness and gave him all the right answers.

The wilderness wasn't a wrong answer.

The wilderness was a right answer.

A lot of times we can think just because we are going through

something hard that there was some wrong answer.

Before that we know that we're going to have tests and trials.

But what did he say about that? Be of good cheer.

So not only did the things might happen in our life that aren't

the most positive and it and it could mean that we have been

tapped in and we have been on the pilot and the pilot do its

navigation on the inside, but we live in a fallen world.

So we know that there's things that may happen that are out of

our control and we can be doing everything right, going to the

right direction, left direction, everything that God is wanting

us to do. And still, things might not go

right, but God gives us the ability to know how to handle

it. We talked earlier about the

wisdom he gives us. So even in a hard or tough

situation, we can have the ability to navigate right

through it smoothly. And it seemed like, wow, how did

I do that? Well, it's because of the power

on the inside that gave you the ability to know what to do, know

what to say, how to react, where to go with it, right?

So let the Holy Spirit be our navigation system, right?

Let him stir, stir you up every day.

Let him guide you, navigate you, so that you can be following

exactly the direction that would God would have you do in your

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