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Help Yourself - with Pastor Marci Glisson

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  1. Thanks for checking out the anchor Faith.

  2. Message podcast from st. Augustine Florida.

  3. Now enjoy this message, a couple of Wednesday nights ago.

  4. Pastor actually ministered on Kingdom seasons.

  5. Do y'all remember that message? It was a Wednesday?

  6. I believe. And, you know, and he shared

  7. about just seasons and people's lives and that this is just kind

  8. of a season. I don't know about you, but just

  9. in the world, there is just we're in a season in seeing in

  10. the world. Some things just shifting,

  11. right? And being shaken.

  12. And, you know, it's not like 1950s when everything was

  13. beautiful. And all these happy little

  14. families and all these things. It's not like in the 70s, you

  15. know. It's not anything like the 80s

  16. and 90s. No but we are literally in 2022.

  17. Which when we were in high school we thought you know we

  18. wouldn't that we would be driving you know floating around

  19. and cars and stuff, you know, by now, you know.

  20. But In this, the, the natural, you know, the Bible tells us and

  21. I did not write this down in scripture but there is a

  22. scripture that says that we would know the time and the

  23. season. In everything, there's a season

  24. and everything there's a time and we see in the world just so

  25. much shifting and so much changing.

  26. And, you know, if you are in tune with scripture.

  27. And you know, that this is just part of the combination of all

  28. things coming together, that's been spoken and prophesied

  29. about. We know that.

  30. You know, in the natural people do not even like change.

  31. Right in the natural people are just people of habit and you

  32. know they don't like change so when change happens people get

  33. freaked out. You know they look they act like

  34. they're losing control or you know they don't have a grasp on

  35. things and so if you don't recognize the natural concept of

  36. seasons and change, Then you'll miss what God actually wants to

  37. do in the midst of change and seasons.

  38. You'll miss what God wants to do.

  39. Because in every changing season, or when change begins to

  40. happen in people's lives, it's there for a purpose.

  41. He is a god of change, you know, he is a god of Seasons, he

  42. created it in the natural in the world, right.

  43. But when we look at the world in the fall and state, we know a

  44. lot of what We've seen changes through the years was never

  45. what, obviously God intended, right?

  46. Even with the, the structure of family, you know, just all kinds

  47. of dysfunction and things that we're seeing in the world today.

  48. This was God's obviously not God's original intent and his

  49. plan for his man. But at the same time, we are in

  50. this world that we're not of And in the natural we can see that

  51. change is happening all around us.

  52. I mean Society, all kinds of things have changed right there,

  53. trying to change, you know, even Humanity, right?

  54. Trying to change Humanity to what was a male and a female.

  55. Now it's no longer considered that, right?

  56. So all the way down to the nucleus.

  57. Of what God created man to be anyway.

  58. So we see all this change that's happening.

  59. And and and and we can also say transitions, you know, we're

  60. going to even in our government, we could transition from

  61. democracy to Republic to or the Democrats to the Republic's, you

  62. know, to Independence, whatever's, you know,

  63. dictatorships socialism all kinds of things.

  64. So like once you once, you may have known Society in a way but

  65. then it could change. Depending on who gets voted in

  66. and who decides, they're going to take power, those types of

  67. things is when I'm talking about.

  68. So there's always and it changes the whole system's change, his

  69. whole system's, right of what's, what?

  70. We once knew, you know, back in the day, all there was was home

  71. schooling until they decided they want to Public Schools.

  72. Right? So things change ways of life

  73. change and all of this, you know, can be scary.

  74. Fearful people get in fear whenever there's certain changes

  75. that happen in the natural, right?

  76. Well, when you're a Believer and you have a sure Foundation, that

  77. is not that is unchangeable which is the kingdom of God then

  78. In the midst of all of this, we can have stability in the midst

  79. of change in the midst of seasons in the midst of

  80. transitions, right? And in the midst of all of that

  81. stuff, if we are on the foundation of the rock, then we

  82. won't be moved now off of that rock.

  83. But what happens is if you don't recognize where the Just coming

  84. from, you could get moved off The Rock.

  85. If you don't discern properly. Where the change is coming from

  86. or what season you're actually in, right or that this is just a

  87. transition. So, we know that in the seasons

  88. and in transition and in change that if our foundation has been

  89. built upon the rock, then we don't have to get moved off of

  90. The Rock and actually the rock can Propel Us in the midst of

  91. change. JH transition and season at, but

  92. what I found is that, when people start to become

  93. uncomfortable, because maybe as Pastor said, he used, you know,

  94. the pruning, you know, I am the van Vine, you are, the branches

  95. of band remains in me, he'll bear much fruit apart for me, he

  96. could do nothing, and then he talks about the pruning side of

  97. it, right out of John, 15. And he talked about how what God

  98. there are sea. Zed's just even in the natural

  99. with plant life. That pruning is necessary.

  100. Pruning hurts in that season. But what happens, what's the

  101. result if we recognize the season and what God is doing?

  102. More fruit which Pastor talked about more fruit but a lot of

  103. times what I'm seeing now in my years of 30 years being in the

  104. church and seeing Christians, come and go, is that a lot of

  105. people don't recognize their season?

  106. And they don't recognize the timing.

  107. They don't recognize the change that actually even in the

  108. natural of change and different things.

  109. Happening that God can even use those things for your benefit as

  110. a child of God, As a child of God, if you learn how to discern

  111. and what I found is most of the time when people feel uneasy or

  112. if there's, you know, a stirring or change or something shifting,

  113. people start wigging out and they start reaching out here

  114. instead of reaching in here. They start reaching out here to

  115. figure out what's going on with in here, when really it's within

  116. here, that you should be searching and looking to, right?

  117. And so when that happens, if we are sensitive to the spirit of

  118. God, and we're sensitive to what's going on in our lives.

  119. When maybe God's trying to get us to another place of change.

  120. Get Us into another season of growth, pruning off some things

  121. because during that season things don't feel good at all

  122. and you feel like you're just, what have I been doing all my

  123. life, you know, or whatever the case may be, but yet God's

  124. trying to get you to another place.

  125. But what happens is we've got to be sensitive to know that I've

  126. got to look into here and hear what the spirit of God is

  127. saying. So that in these Seasons, I

  128. Don't miss my opportunity. I don't miss my opportunity to

  129. go to another place that God really intends to take me

  130. because no matter what the season one thing that I have

  131. learned and the 30 years of my life, being a mess.

  132. When I first got into this thing is that through every season,

  133. through every transition, through every shifting and and

  134. thing that God, Wanted to do. And me it was always

  135. uncomfortable. Always uncomfortable which made

  136. me have to dig in deeper. See most of the time when things

  137. happen, they people get distracted with the way they

  138. feel instead of dig deeper into. Okay, God, I'm recognizing there

  139. is something that needs to be dealt with so that, you know,

  140. whatever it is that maybe he's trying to get you to another

  141. place where you never have to deal with this kind of situation

  142. again in your life because he's ready to get you to a place to

  143. Come. Well, I don't feel good.

  144. So what do you have to do? You have to dig in deep and say,

  145. Lord, you show me you speak to me, you give me what I need in

  146. the season because I see all these other things and they

  147. could look crazy, and it could be a distraction and it can seem

  148. like I don't even know what the world I'm doing, but I know

  149. you're doing something in me. You're doing something in me and

  150. I'm going to look to what's on the inside and not all these

  151. circumstances are all these things that are going on, right?

  152. And so if we properly discern and if we prophesy, so with, you

  153. know, this is where pastor had ministered years ago, don't get

  154. lost in transition. You can get lost in transition

  155. when really God is wanting to put you to another elevation or

  156. another place in him. Right, but so many times we let

  157. transition we let different seasons.

  158. We let change get us off of where God actually wants to

  159. propel Us in the midst of us feeling uncomfortable.

  160. Amen. So I said all that to say I

  161. guess, Is that in every season, God is faithful.

  162. I mean, time and time again. Time.

  163. And when everything else is shaken, you can have stability.

  164. And the number one way that you show stability in times of

  165. change or Different Seasons or transition, is that you stay

  166. with the word, you stay with the Lord and you don't let any any

  167. of these things get you out of the number one place, you must

  168. stay to remain. If you remain in me, right?

  169. So we can't let things situations, heartaches

  170. disappointments, you know discouragement you know all

  171. these kind of things get us off of remaining in what we do know,

  172. because he's supposed to be. The one thing that is unshakable

  173. in your life, which will mean that then you, as a Believer

  174. would be stable in every season. You're stable, you're reliable,

  175. you're solid, you don't let anything get you off.

  176. You are constantly in a place of growth and propelling forward

  177. because in everything you just choose to keep one foot before

  178. the other and dig in and dig deep and say Lord you what are

  179. you trying to do? What are you trying to change?

  180. What are you trying to speak? To me about in the midst of all

  181. of these things that are talking to try to get me off?

  182. Off or distracted, or right? Because I've seen too many

  183. people fall off when God's really actually changing

  184. something to propel them to another place.

  185. So, in every season, he's faithful in every change.

  186. He's faithful, if you keep your focus on him, Right?

  187. If you keep your focus on him. So the title of my message

  188. tonight is help yourself. Just help yourself, have you

  189. ever been to, you know, someone's home and, and they've

  190. come to visit you and they come in your door and you just say,

  191. help yourself, you know, make yourself at, you know, you're

  192. welcome, you know, help yourself to anything.

  193. Anything. You need just help yourself,

  194. help yourself. Right.

  195. So this scripture, the Lord has been speaking to me on since

  196. July. And I've shared it in prayer but

  197. I want to share it tonight to the body.

  198. It's out of Philippians chapter 1 and verse 19. he says this

    Philippians 1 chapter mention

  199. for, I know that this shall turn to my salvation, Through your

  200. prayer and a supply of the spirit of Jesus Christ.

  201. This shall turn for your salvation through your prayer

  202. and a supply of the spirit of Jesus Christ.

  203. So, how are we going to help ourselves?

  204. We're going to have to pray. and tap into the supply of the

  205. spirit in every season, we're going to have to pray and we're

  206. going to have to tap into his spirit in every season in

  207. anytime you're feeling something change shifting or you feel

  208. uncomfortable. Listen.

  209. That's nothing like most people that have anxiety or panic

  210. attacks. A lot of times that's not true.

  211. They're just anxious because God is actually wanting to try to do

  212. something in them. I'm not saying that some panic

  213. attacks may not be real and blah, blah blah.

  214. You know I'm not a psychologist but he is and he said that

  215. through me. so, a lot of times when there's anxiousness or

  216. restlessness, Or things happening.

  217. We usually think that it's something bad or something's

  218. wrong. When all along it could be the

  219. Holy Ghost trying to tap on the inside of us to actually discern

  220. and tap in and go deeper and say, okay what is this?

  221. Why is there this restlessness? Why am I feeling anxious about

  222. some things? Right?

  223. Because it may not be what you think it is and what they label

  224. it may be. It may be God actually trying to

  225. stir up something in you to actually come to him.

  226. Come to him. Okay.

  227. So he says listen I know that this is going to turn out to my

  228. salvation. Pastor mentioned this, I believe

  229. it was on Sunday that when you get saved saving of Jesus Christ

  230. goes on and on and on and on you're going to be in situations

  231. throughout your journey in your life on Earth that you're going

  232. to need him to save you out of your problem and deliver you.

  233. Right. So here's Paul, he's talking,

  234. you know, to the Philippian Church writing a letter because

  235. he's actually in prison, right? He's in prison right here in

  236. chapter 1 and so he's letting them know, listen, even though,

  237. I'm in prison, I know that when I come out, I'm going to be

  238. bolder, he actually said that. I'm going to be bolder.

  239. So what am I saying? So here he is.

  240. Something that you would think. Oh my gosh, he's in prison.

  241. How many of us want to be in prison?

  242. But yet Paul, recognized that it made, you I'm going to learn how

  243. to what be content in every situation.

  244. He says know what, no matter what's going on.

  245. If he's got me in prison for proclaiming and preaching Jesus

  246. Christ, and guess what? He said, then the the prisoners

  247. are going to get saved. The jail workers are going to

  248. get saved read it. Philippians chapter 1.

    Philippians 1 chapter mention

  249. He said, all I know is that Jesus Christ is going to be

  250. known. His name is going to be

  251. propelled and the suffering that I may be encountering right now,

  252. the place that I'm in, that feels a little uncomfortable

  253. right now. I mean, really, I thought I was

  254. going to be arrested for preaching the name of Jesus.

  255. You know, there was some suffering, there was some things

  256. happening in his life. It could have been a little

  257. uncomfortable. We know that Paul was in the

  258. bottom of the jail cell. where the poop and the rats and

  259. everything else were but he said in the midst of this season that

  260. I'm in here, guess what? Jesus Christ name is gonna be

  261. proclaimed. He's gonna be glorified.

  262. I'm not gonna come off and actually when I come out I know

  263. I'm going to come out even Bolder to Proclaim his name.

  264. So if Paul in the midst of what he was going through and feeling

  265. uncomfortable, what we deal with in the little uncomfortable that

  266. we have to see from day to day and, and go through is nothing

  267. compared to that. But he said, let me tell you

  268. this, I know that it's going to turn out for my salvation, it's

  269. going to turn out for me, whatever it is that's happening.

  270. And whatever I'm in right now, it's going to turn out what

  271. because what the Opens for bad. God, can what turn it to good?

  272. For those who love him and are called according to his purpose?

  273. So he can turn it around but Paul recognized that it's only

  274. going to happen through prayer. This is what I'm saying.

  275. When things start getting shaky, you ought to be right getting on

  276. your knees. Not literally, do you have to

  277. get on your knees? But that's that terminology,

  278. right? It's time to start praying.

  279. It's time to start tapping into a supply of the spirit in the

  280. seasons. And recognizing that.

  281. If I can press through this, there is a full supply of

  282. everything. I have need for whatever it is

  283. that I'm going through in this season, in this transition, in

  284. this change and the change, no matter what it is, can be

  285. changed for good. If you choose to stay on the

  286. rock, Right. It can be good.

  287. So he said, listen, it's through prayer and the supply of the

  288. spirit, that's why I say help yourself, you've you you, as a

  289. Believer should already know how to pray you, as a Believer

  290. should already know the third person of the godhead lives on

  291. the inside of you and that he wants to come upon you and feel

  292. you and do you with power from on high and fill you with the

  293. Holy Ghost. So that not only do you You know

  294. how to pray in the natural, you can pray in the spirit.

  295. Because you have your prayer language.

  296. So, these are times that I'm telling you, there is a

  297. necessity that we must be people that know how to pray and tap

  298. into the supply of the spirit in these situations right of in the

  299. transition and in the things that we're going through.

  300. Now, let me read that out of the Amplified.

  301. It says there's four I know with confident that this will turn

  302. out for my Deliverance. And spiritual well-being.

  303. Now, he's in prison. You know, he's already been

  304. beaten, he's in prison but he said this is going to turn

  305. around. This is going to turn out for my

  306. deliverance and my well-being, my what spiritual well-being,

  307. this is what our spiritual well-being.

  308. That's why he could say I'm going to be bolder when I get

  309. out. This is just going to make me

  310. stronger. What doesn't kill me?

  311. What makes me stronger? Write it in.

  312. Haven't you ever heard that term?

  313. So he says it's through your prayers and the super abundant

  314. supply of the spirit, which upholds me.

  315. Hallelujah! There is a supply of the spirit

  316. for us to tap into and these last days and in the situation,

  317. with the church as a whole and all the things that are taking

  318. place across the body of Christ, there is a super abundant supply

  319. of the spirit if we'll just happened to it for this day and

  320. for this hour that we can be bolder and we can be stronger

  321. when the world's trying to shut every form of God, out of our

  322. nation, we can be stronger and we can be bolder if we'll just

  323. go through the changes that God's trying to do in our life

  324. if will just allow him to prunus if will allow him to have some

  325. things that maybe feel uncomfortable in my life so that

  326. I can get to another place of boldness because we're going to

  327. need it in this last day. We're going to have to know what

  328. we believe. We're going to have to know what

  329. we believe, but not only know what we're going to have to

  330. speak. What we believe.

  331. And we're going to have to be bold in the midst of people

  332. wanting to let you know what you think.

  333. You don't know. Right?

  334. We're going to have to be bold so let's read it out of the

  335. passion translation, it says. Because I know that the lavish

  336. supply of the spirit of Jesus, the anointed one and your

  337. intercession for me will bring about my Deliverance.

  338. So this is not just Now, I lay me down to sleep.

  339. I pray, the Lord, my soul to keep Our Father, which art in

  340. heaven, Hallowed Be Your Name, Your Kingdom Come your will be

  341. done. No, this is talking about real

  342. prayer. Knowing how to have Throne Room

  343. activity, knowing how to talk to the father come on, knowing how

  344. to intercede and bring intercession in the midst of

  345. circumstances and situations that you're going to encounter

  346. or that you may be in intercession.

  347. He's not talking about some little, thank you, Lord, for

  348. this day and bless me and my four and no more and no, we're

  349. talking about real prayer. We're talking about

  350. intercession. Amen, to be able to tap into the

  351. spirit and that supply that he has for us to be able to

  352. overcome anything. We are Overcomers, we are

  353. Overcomers, no matter what. It may look like.

  354. If we learn how to tap into prayer and the spirit of God, we

  355. will overcome every every Everything anything and

  356. everything. Will overcome attacks.

  357. Will overcome right? Depression.

  358. Will overcome mental instability?

  359. Will overcome? Come on in me thing.

  360. Any insecurity. Anything that we may be dealing

  361. with, Anything we can overcome, there is nothing that we cannot

  362. overcome. And it's sad.

  363. I have we have to remind people of that.

  364. There is nothing that you and God cannot overcome.

  365. Nothing is too big for him. Nothing at all right.

  366. Listen to what Psalms 34 and 17 says, why do I want to say this?

  367. Because listen, he said, I know that this will come out for my

  368. deliverance, and we must recognize it says that in Psalms

  369. 34 17, when the righteous Cry for Help.

  370. The Lord, what? They cry for help.

  371. Help yourself. They cry for help but the Lord

  372. hears them and what delivers them out of all of their

  373. distress and their trouble. He delivers them out of all.

  374. All their distress. That means stressed.

  375. All the stress that we hear everybody talk about.

  376. Well, I'm just stressed. I'm stressed.

  377. I'm stressed, I'm stressed. I'm stressed and he lets us know

  378. here that he can actually Deliver us out of that stress.

  379. He can deliver us out of stress and what troubles, any kind of

  380. trouble. You're having he can deliver you

  381. out of it if you just ask him for help.

  382. How many of us are not taking the time to really ask for help?

  383. That's just the bottom line. We're being lazy.

  384. We want to go through a McDonald's drive-thru.

  385. And get some french fries and a Happy Meal.

  386. Let's just say that Happy Meal. To be happy in 2 minutes.

  387. That is not how our God works. It's a false sense.

  388. It's a delusion to think that that's how he works.

  389. No. It's a process of trusting of

  390. growing of knowing him of pressing in to him to find out

  391. what it is. We need from him to help us with

  392. Right. And so he goes on to say this in

  393. Psalms 54 and versus 7 for 37. It says behold, God is my

  394. helper. The Lord is the sustainer of my

  395. soul. And then when you drop down to

  396. verse 7, it says this for, he has delivered me out of all of

  397. my trouble. And my eye has seen its desire

  398. upon my enemies. So here, he lets us know in

  399. Psalms listen, The Lord hears your cries and he can deliver

  400. them out of all of your troubles, right?

  401. But then he goes on in verse 7 and shows you, he has delivered

  402. me out of them. And that what it says he has So

  403. the he had some troubles, he went to the Lord, he cried to

  404. the Lord. The Lord helped him and

  405. delivered him out of them. Amen.

  406. You didn't, he didn't have to stay in it.

  407. He was delivered out of it because he went to his source to

  408. his help to the helper on the inside.

  409. Amen. Now, let me read that.

  410. Let's look at the Holy Spirit a minute.

  411. Okay, talking about the Holy Spirit on the inside of you.

  412. Cause he said, listen the only way we're going to get through

  413. this and come out bold on the other side and be delivered from

  414. these things is if through prayer and intercession and

  415. tapping into the spirit, right? So in John 14, chapter 14,

  416. chapter 15 and chapter 16. This is where you begin to learn

  417. about the third person, of the godhead who is the Holy Spirit.

  418. He's called our helper. He's called our helper.

  419. This is why I say help yourself. Help yourself.

  420. He's right there on the inside, go ahead and help yourself to

  421. the Holy Ghost on the inside tap into him, so that he can bring

  422. the deliverance and the supply that you need in this time.

  423. Amen. So, John 14, 16 17.

  424. I want to read this and I will ask the father and he will give

  425. you a what another helper. He'll give you a helper.

  426. We know that word is paraclete. I'm going to read it out of the

  427. Amplified because it breaks it down.

  428. Perfect about what the helper actually is the comforter.

  429. Does anybody ever getting a place where they just need God

  430. to comfort them? Guess what?

  431. Just help yourself. Just help yourself.

  432. He's the comforter how about Advocate come on and then here's

  433. that word intercessor again. So he's letting us know that

  434. through our prayers of intercession we can tap into a

  435. supply of the spirit that we need but he also lets us know

  436. that the spirit is the intercessor on the inside of us.

  437. So help yourself. Just help yourself.

  438. Come on, anything you have need of, there's a full Supply from

  439. the spirit, the counselor. Oh, you don't know what you need

  440. to be doing or you need some mental health care or come on?

  441. You have you have a counselor on the inside?

  442. Help yourself. You don't need.

  443. Help yourself. He's saying just help yourself.

  444. I'm there as a counselor. I'm there.

  445. How about this? As a strengthener?

  446. How about this as a standby? Hallelujah, to be with you

  447. forever. The spirit of Truth whom the

  448. world cannot receive, they cannot help themselves.

  449. But you can help yourself. You can help yourself.

  450. We ought to be so radically different than the world and the

  451. way they act and the way they behave and the way they dang

  452. think Hallelujah, completely different.

  453. We have the third person of the godhead on the inside of us, and

  454. we are not helping ourselves. We're not helping our self.

  455. So the world can't receive it and take it to his heart because

  456. it does not see him or know him but you know him because he the

  457. Holy Spirit remains with you continually and will be in you

  458. John 15:26. But when the helper The

    John 15:26

  459. comforter, the advocate, the intercessor counselor

  460. strengthener standby. Paraclete is the Greek word,

  461. Right comes not parakeet. Paraclete comes whom I will send

  462. to you from the father. That is the spirit of Truth who

  463. comes from the father. He will testify and bear witness

  464. about me. Hallelujah.

  465. Now, John 16:7 and 8. However, I am telling you

    John 16:7

  466. nothing, but the truth. When I say it is profitable good

  467. expedient or advantageous for you that I go away.

  468. Jesus said listen, it is to your advantage.

  469. Advantage. Now that I'm putting the third

  470. person of the godhead in you, I've going away so that he can

  471. come so that he can help you so that you can help yourself.

  472. Just help yourself because as I've said before, God is not

  473. going to help you. God has already done everything,

  474. he's going to do, he established the Earth?

  475. He put man in it, he gave me an authority over this Earth.

  476. He already you know redeemed Man by what sending Jesus to the

  477. Earth to get man back into a position of authority and

  478. rulership. Over the Earth.

  479. Jesus is not going to help you. Jesus already helped you by

  480. pouring out his blood on The Mercy Seat to give you access to

  481. the throne so that you can make Throne Room activity.

  482. Jesus has already done everything.

  483. He walked in the Earth as a man. He died Heroes come on and then

  484. he said it is finished. His assignment, his purpose was

  485. finished, but guess who's still in the Earth?

  486. Because Jesus said, I must go so that he can and where does he

  487. come? He comes to make his Abode in

  488. man when you call on his name. So now it's actually up to you

  489. and the Holy Ghost. To participate with one another.

  490. Come on to participate with one another, to get things done.

  491. To get things done to get things done and you.

  492. To get things done in the earth through you.

  493. Amen. So help yourself.

  494. Help yourself. so, he said, I must go so that he can come

  495. Because I do not go away. The comforter counselor helped

  496. her advocate intercessor streets.

  497. And her standby will not come to you and to close fellowship with

  498. you, but if I go away I will send him to you to be in close

  499. fellowship with you and when he comes, he will convict convinced

  500. the world and bring demonstration to it about Sin

  501. righteousness, uprightness of heart, and right standing with

  502. God and about judgment, that's another whole nother subject,

  503. but we're not going to talk about that.

  504. That. So I want to look at what he

  505. said here as a comforter. And counselor because there's so

  506. many times with the Holy goes, that's living on the inside of

  507. us. He's always prompting the Holy

  508. Ghost. If you're a child of God and

  509. you're in church and you're hearing the word, the Holy Ghost

  510. job is always to be prompting you on the inside.

  511. The Holy Ghost is always prompting.

  512. Always speaking always trying to get your attention.

  513. Always always. There's never a Time unless

  514. you've hardened yourself, right? And blaspheme that that he's not

  515. trying to get you to a place of understanding who he is more,

  516. right? And who you are more in him.

  517. So as the comforter he's one that brings you comfort, right?

  518. So what am I saying that? No matter what's going on in

  519. your situation. When you feel like You need that

  520. Comfort. We've said this before.

  521. You can't go find that comfort. In the things of this world, you

  522. can't find that comfort in a relationship.

  523. You can't find that comfort in, you know, food.

  524. Have you seen the 600-lb, you know?

  525. Show And most of the time they're comforting themselves

  526. with food because of an issue, right?

  527. Most of the time. So people are trying to find

  528. comfort and security right there, trying to be feel secure

  529. because things are changing or shifting or whatever the case

  530. may be, and he's letting us know.

  531. Listen, if you'll just tap into the supply of the spirit for

  532. that Comfort, I'll give you the right thing.

  533. And you won't move over into the wrong thing.

  534. That's actually going to destroy you even more, right?

  535. But the holy spirit's there to comfort.

  536. You write. The Advocate is one.

  537. That's there to argue your case for you.

  538. The Bible says in Revelations, that the devil is the accuser of

  539. the Brethren. What does he's always trying to

  540. accuse you right in your mind that, well, you can't do this?

  541. Well, you're not going to be good enough for you, fail, too

  542. much or We'll never be able to do this or you'll never be able

  543. to do that. He's always accusing.

  544. He's going up and trying to get you to get off of what God is

  545. telling you, that you are. So he's always tried to accuse,

  546. always trying to accuse but the advocate the Holy Ghost on the

  547. inside, is there to help you to argue the case?

  548. What's he going to do? He's going to remind you.

  549. Another working of the holy spirit is going to remind you of

  550. what the word has said. So, the Holy Spirit, then when

  551. that's happening, could actually argue Your Case by bringing up a

  552. scripture and saying now, say that devil it is, Written, it is

  553. written, right? What's the word say about that

  554. situation? When he says, no, you're going

  555. to be broke? No, but the word says, because

  556. he just argued the case, because on the inside, he said, no, I

  557. have more than enough, right? No Lack for any good thing.

  558. Or my God, shall supply, all my needs.

  559. According to his riches in his. So he's always there as your

  560. Advocate, working on your case to remind you of what God has

  561. already said, actually, an advocate can be as one, you

  562. know, when you go into a lawyer's office, there's there's

  563. those that are called advocates. To help you in your case.

  564. Amen. Then we see him as what, not,

  565. just the advocate, but the counselor someone that gives you

  566. advice according to the law. A counselor in the natural right

  567. now, you know, and the definition they brought up

  568. mental psychologists counselors, right?

  569. Well, you know what, the greatest mental counselor is the

  570. word of God. The greatest mental counselor is

  571. the word of God. Is the word of God.

  572. Now I'm not saying you don't need to seek counsel, you know,

  573. from others may be that you know are a good source that actually

  574. is going to lead you back to the word of God, not the ways of the

  575. world and the way they think. And their psychology that you

  576. shouldn't spank, your children are.

  577. You shouldn't do this or you should.

  578. No, my counsel comes from the word of God, right?

  579. My counsel comes from the word of God, right?

  580. So the counselor he's giving you advice, according to what is

  581. written, So you know that if you're getting advice from the

  582. Holy Ghost, it can never fail because his word will never

  583. fail. His word is the only thing

  584. that's going to stand and remain until the end.

  585. So, whatever this word says it. Sure, wonderful Council.

  586. And it's wisdom, right? It's not of this world and so we

  587. have to make sure that we recognize that the Holy Ghost is

  588. there to give you counsel but it's going to come in line with

  589. the word. Amen.

  590. The intercessor is a mediator. Intercessor is a mediator, the

  591. Holy Ghost on the inside of you is, is a mediator.

  592. What, how do we know this? Because Jesus Christ is what

  593. sitting at the. Right hand of the father, we are

  594. seated with him. And as that mediator, as the

  595. intercessor as a Holy Ghost is they're taking orders from

  596. Jesus. So, he is then interceding and

  597. bringing those orders, from Jesus, about your case to you.

  598. So that then you can have what you need from the Lord from God.

  599. Right? You need, you have the answer

  600. because he's that mediator. He's the one actually hearing

  601. from Jesus to get Jesus hearing from God.

  602. Then he's relaying that as a me. Mediator through the Holy Ghost

  603. to you of what the Lord is saying about your situation,

  604. right? The strengthener one, who

  605. provides additional strength. I like that.

  606. Additional strength, one who provides additional strength,

  607. you know, because there's times you don't feel what you feel

  608. weak, you don't feel like you're going to be able to make it

  609. through whatever situation you may be going through.

  610. I don't even know how we're going to make it.

  611. I just need you know, but the Holy Ghost is there to give you

  612. the strength to make it through. If you just tap in help yourself

  613. to the street, there's more than enough strength.

  614. He's got plenty of strength, and we know that other scripture in

  615. Jude 1:20 says that when you pray in the spirit, you what

    Jude 1:20

  616. build yourself up on your Most? Holy Faith.

  617. So praying in the spirit is twofold, you're praying in the

  618. spirit to get direction, to get the words.

  619. You need from the Lord in those times of Prayer.

  620. When you don't know how you ought to pray.

  621. You're getting direction, you're getting the word.

  622. You're getting the information that you need, but then he also

  623. has building you up, strengthening you at the same

  624. time. It's a two-fold thing.

  625. It's twofold. Because you're getting build up

  626. as you begin praying in the spirit looking for your answers.

  627. So when you pray in the spirit, listen it is not just, you know,

  628. babbling off the top of your head.

  629. When you pray in the spirit, your spirit, he's Spirit.

  630. God is Spirit. I'm a spirit weak.

  631. Immune, Spirit to Spirit. So when I'm spending time in

  632. prayer, it's building me up. It's reminding me who I am.

  633. It's making me realize, hey, I can do this thing, right?

  634. I can do this, I can get through this, I can be strengthened with

  635. additional strength and then he's our standby.

  636. Listen, I'm on standby. Right?

  637. You have are pilots what are they on their on standby.

  638. So that if something happens to one of the pilots, or maybe they

  639. get tired, or whatever the case may be, they have somebody else

  640. on standby. Ready to what step right in.

  641. He lets us know, the holy spirit is as our stand by He's right

  642. there, Hallelujah, which goes back to God saying I'll never

  643. leave you nor I will? What never forsake you.

  644. I'm stand by. I'm always there help yourself

  645. because I'm always here. I'm standing by waiting for you.

  646. Come on waiting for you to just tap in and ask for help.

  647. I'm on Standby, come on, I'm there when you dive go into the

  648. three and four jobs trying to make ends meet When you're done

  649. trying to, you know, do all these things in the natural that

  650. you can figure out. I'm all stea by, I've been

  651. waiting all along for you to just help yourself so that I can

  652. give you the answer. You need.

  653. You don't need to work for jobs. All you need to do is learn how

  654. to tap into the full supply of the spirit for my God, shall

  655. supply, all your needs. According to his riches and

  656. Glory, come on, oh, your needs, of course, he was talking about

  657. financial, needs there in Philippians 4 when you read on

  658. down but he's He's letting us know.

  659. They're all your needs. All your needs.

  660. I'm old standby. I'm right there.

  661. I have a full supply for whatever it is that you have

  662. need of. All you have to do is help

  663. yourself but we're not helping our self.

  664. It's just like you know, he says I've prepared a table before you

  665. before the presence of your enemy.

  666. All these things are laid out on the table, help yourself, help

  667. yourself to Healing help. Yourself to Joy, right?

  668. Help yourself to, you know, provision, help yourself to

  669. whatever it is, help yourself. It's all laid out.

  670. We are not tapping into the helper to the help that we need

  671. every day. Come on, he's right there.

  672. He's off standby. He's ready to go, he's ready to

  673. go, whenever you're ready. And all we have to do is press

  674. in and say, yeah, everyday, I need help, Lord everyday, I need

  675. help. I need help.

  676. Every day. Thank you.

  677. Lord, that the helpers on the inside of me.

  678. Thank you, Lord. That you're giving me wisdom for

  679. the day. Thank you.

  680. Lord. Come on, whatever it is that I

  681. need help. When I don't know how I ought to

  682. pray. He says listen and Romans 8 that

  683. I could begin to pray in the spirit with groanings that words

  684. can articulate. But what am I doing?

  685. I'm interceding. I'm pressing in to get the

  686. answers that I need by the Holy Ghost.

  687. Let me just Read that Romans 8:26.

    Romans 8:26

  688. It says, likewise the spirit also helps in our weaknesses.

  689. There he goes. He lets, you know, when your

  690. stroke when you're struggling with strength, to be able to

  691. make it through another day. Come on.

  692. I'm right there to help in your weakness for we don't know what

  693. we should pray. I mean have you ever been in

  694. that situation Lord? I've just done.

  695. I just don't even know what I'm supposed to say what I'm

  696. supposed to do. Help yourself.

  697. Come on, just help yourself to the Holy Ghost on the inside of

  698. you that standing right there by waiting for you to just happen

  699. to a full supply of everything you need for an answer.

  700. Everything you need everything for we don't know how we ought

  701. to pray but he's there the spirit himself, what makes

  702. intercession? For us with groanings, which

  703. cannot be uttered. Hallelujah glory to God.

  704. So I'm telling you, all we have to do is learn how to help

  705. ourselves. Just tap into the Holy Ghost on

  706. the inside of you start pressing in in this season of change and

  707. things shifting in the atmosphere of all the stuff

  708. that's going on in our world. I'm telling you we've got a

  709. press in even more even more and say Lord I mean, come on I need

  710. help here. I don't want to get off The

  711. Rock. I want to be stable in the midst

  712. of every season of Every transition of anything that

  713. you're doing or anything that's going on in the world.

  714. Right, because we know y'all know I've said this so many

  715. times. that in the last of the last days of many Will fall away

  716. from the faith and a lot of times they fall away during

  717. these types of seasons. Of instability.

  718. Of change of pruning of him, trying to prune of him, trying

  719. to bring you to another transition in your life, many

  720. fall away because they don't understand that.

  721. If they would just look inward during that time and just help

  722. themselves to the Holy Ghost on the inside, the greater one, the

  723. greater one, the greater one that's on the inside of each and

  724. every child of God. Laver.

  725. Amen. Thank you so much for listening

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