Get A Grip

You are listening to the Anchor Faith Church message podcast,

enjoy the message. Well, I'm Pastor Vanessa for

those that don't know me. I am usually behind those behind

that wall back there with our kiddos and Nautilus kindergarten

through fifth grade, which is an honor.

I get to minister to them Sundays and Wednesdays and it's

a pure delight. So you're going to get a little

object lessons tonight because I do that quite frequently over

there. So the title of my message

tonight. It is called get a grip.

Everybody say Get a Grip. Say Get a Grip.

We're going to talk about what it means to get a grip and how

to do that tonight and how to maintain that grip.

Amen. As I was coming, I got lots of

scripture, so I'm going to try to get through all the them

tonight. It is an honor to stand behind

this. Pulpit pastors are Lamar see or

of course, it can't meeting right now.

And if you have not heard Pastor the last few days, he has been

on fire. About faith in, it's been

awesome. So we want to continue to lift

them up and prayer. Is there an Oklahoma?

Getting soaking up the word? You know if he's ministered the

word and so we want to continue to lift them up for the next few

services that they'll be there and he'll be returning back, I

believe for Sunday service so that all the way into the

parking lot. I got this scripture wasn't even

on my notes, so I just added it to and this is a really good

scripture in 2nd. Timothy 3:16, you know, we all

came tonight for service, we all have a part to play when we come

to serve. It's not just about the past or

the teacher, the preacher whoever's behind the pulpit, we

all come and have something to give and we all just

participated in worship. That's one of the elements of

that. But we you hit, there's giftings

that God has placed and put in the body where he sees fit and

you need to come expecting every service because God has you to

be here for the part of this service.

Amen. And I like 2nd, Timothy 3:16

that says all scripture is god-breathed, you know?

Spinning about him, the breath in our lungs.

But he it all the scripture that he's given us in his word is

god-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking correcting

and training in righteousness. That was the NIV version NLT

Version. New Living Translation, says

this, it says all scripture is inspired by God and it is useful

to teach us what is true and make us realize what is wrong in

our lives. It corrects us when we are wrong

and it teaches us to do what is right.

You know, many times in a message we you know we don't

come just to hear all the positive, the feel good, you

know, robbery you're doing awesome.

This is good. We you know there's sometimes a

little bit of both so tonight's gonna be a little bit of both

you know we're going to talk about there's going to be some

that you're going to take this as a correction.

Others is going to say. Yes.

That's what I needed to hear. I just I needed to get out of

what I'm doing and I need to change some things.

So sometimes there's a little bit of both, you know, there's

some teaching. There's some training.

Ultimately God is speaking through his word so that we will

live a Victorious. Aureus life.

You know, he didn't put his places worth places human, a

Humanity on Earth to fail. That wasn't the original intent.

We know in their original intent of his kingdom was for us to

flourish on the earth and take dominion and have rule over the

Earth. It wasn't for man to sin.

And disobey but praise God, he had a plan and all of that, you

know, was was changed by because of his son, Jesus living out in

fulfilling his purpose. Amen.

Well tonight, I want to Define for you.

You the phrase, get a grip ever, say Get a Grip.

All right? So if you, you know, raise your

hand, if you've heard that phrase ever before used, okay,

you might have used it. Somebody might have told you,

but here's some here is the deck dictionary, definition of grip.

It's the act of grasping seizing holding fast or a firm grasp of

something to hold faster gripping of something or to

take. Hold of.

Even one of the definitions is to take hold on the And

specifically to have a firm grip in your mind.

Okay, here's some Street definitions.

Okay when a person has their, let's throw emotions take

control of their actions and their thoughts in and that's

when people will, sometimes tell someone somebody else.

Hey, get a grip. You know, another way is how

someone understands. How to deal with something.

Another definition is something. That's obviously not right.

In an Ocean or in a situation and needs to be repaired.

It needs to be, you know, it needs to get things, right?

So get a grip. It's to make an effort to

control your emotions and tuba cave more calmly.

And one, you know, sentence, that they gave which I thought

was good. As I just think he ought to get

a grip on himself. He's behaving like a child,

right? I think the only time we should

be behaving like a child is when we have childlike Faith, right?

And his kingdom, other than that, we should be able to

handle some mature word. Right.

We've been if you've been in church for any length of time,

you know? The word is fresh.

Every time it's spoken, right? If you haven't, if you sir first

time with you with us tonight, welcome, we welcome you to

Anchor Faith Church. We have a saying around here.

It's you can't experience. Anchor, Faith Church.

You got to come back. Five times case in point, you

will always hear me. You want to come back.

When you can hear Pastor Earle some of our other administrative

staff that Minister, you know, God's got some great gifts

within our staff and within in this body.

So you want to make sure you come back and experience it so,

and if you are new to here in the scripture, just open your

open, your ears to hear tonight because God's going to speak

something to you. So, you can get a firm grip,

say, Get a Grip. See, God doesn't want us to be

led by our emotions. He doesn't want us to be on the

hamster. Wheel of just doing the same

thing. The way we've always done it.

He wants us to have a firm grip in him.

And he is the only one that we need to have our hold of in our

grip to our passage at we're going to start out tonight, is

in John 14. So what should I hang on with

me? We're going to read a little bit

and then we're going to kind of dissect it throughout the

evening, but we're going to go to John chapter 14 in the living

John 14 · chapter mention

Bible. So I'm going to highlight a few

things as a re on and this is Jesus you know I love how he

gives us the model of training his disciples, he spent that

time with him, we know 43. Years.

They were out doing Ministry and it was a training session for

them so we can take a lot from the Bible when it comes to what

God was doing with his disciples.

You know we are still being made disciples so we need to always

go back and have that training but I love how he's telling his

disciples about some things that are going to happen.

So here in John 14, he says in verse and the first verse he

says, let not your heart be troubled, you are trusting God.

Now trusted me there are many Homes up there where my father

lives and I'm going to prepare them for your coming when

everything is ready, then I will come and get you so that you can

always be with me where I am. If this weren't.

So I would have told you plainly and you know where I'm going and

how to get there. Thomas says, no we don't.

He says we haven't any idea where you're going so how can we

know the way? So he's going to give a little

correction little bit more instruction.

He said this is Jesus. He says I And the way.

Yes, and the truth and the life, no one can get to the father,

except by me. If you have known who I am, then

you would have known who my father is from now on you know,

him and have seen him, Philip said, sir, show us the father

and we will be satisfied and she's rude.

Jesus replied. Don't you even know that?

I am who I am Phillip. Even after all this time, I have

been with you. Anyone who has seen me, has seen

the father. So why are you asking to see

him? Don't you believe that I am the

father and the father is in me. The words, I say are not my own,

but are from my father who lives in me and does his work through

me verse 11, just believe it that I am the father and the

father is in me, or else believe it, because the mighty Miracles

you have seen in me. Got to remember.

They've been with him. So they've spent some time with

him. They've seen his character.

They've seen what he said come to pass.

And again they needed a little bit of reminding so we go and

verse 15. If you love me obey me and I

will ask the father and he will give you another comforter and

he will never leave you verse 17.

He is the Holy Spirit. The spirit who leads into all

Truth, The World At Large cannot receive him for it.

Isn't looking for him and doesn't recognize him but you do

for he lives with you now and someday shall be in you You so

Jesus is preparing him. I've got to go away.

Another one's going to come. I need you to be ready because

he's going to not only just be around you and come upon.

He's going to be in you, he's going to live in you, so he's

preparing them and he says again I'd I won't bow abandoned you or

leave you as orphans in the storm.

I will come to you in just a little while.

I'll be gone from the world but I will still be present.

With you for again, you will have it too.

When I come back to life you will know that I am my father

and you and me and I in you verse 21, the one who obeys me

is the one who loves me and because he loves me, my father

will love him and I will too and I will reveal myself to him.

I'm going to go down to verse 24.

It says anyone who doesn't obey me doesn't love me and remember,

I'm not making up this answer to your question.

It is the answer given by the father whose Sent me and again,

he's reiterating. But the father sends the

comforter. So, the father, I'm going up to

the father, but another one's coming, and it's called the

comforter. I mean, the Holy Spirit.

He will teach you much as well as remind you of everything.

I have told you myself, I am leaving you with a gift, peace

of mind and heart and the peace I give isn't fragile like the

peace, the world gives so don't be Troubled.

Or afraid. Remember what I told you.

I am going away but I'm coming back to you again.

So he again, he's stirring up his disciples.

I've got to leave. I'm going to send the comforter.

I've got to go, but I'm coming back, but I'm sending something

in my place, don't trust in the Peace of the world.

Don't let your heart be troubled but Be ready because I have

something for you. So we're going to read on, in

verse 28. Remember what I've told you, I'm

going away verse 29. I have told you these things

before they happen, so that when they do, you will believe in me

again, he said I'm more time to talk.

I've, we got to go now, so he's given him some instructions,

given some training, preparing them, right.

And in The Message Bible, I'm going to point out a few things

and verse six and seven. He says, this is the same

scripture reference in chapter 14, but he's saying, I am the

road also, Oh the truth, also the life.

Like how he they break that down, he's the road, he's the

way he's the path, he's the life in the truth.

And then in verse, when he's talking about the spirit of

Truth coming in verse 15 says if you love me show it by doing

what I have told you, right? That's how we show our love for

the father is by doing his word. That is what shows it?

Amen. So he get, he says, I will talk

to the father and he will provide you another friend so

that you will always have someone with you.

This friend is the spirit of Truth, the Godless world can't

take it. I can't take it because it

doesn't have eyes to see. Him doesn't know what to look

for. But, you know, him already

because he has been staying with you and now he will be in in

you. So, of course, Jesus is with

them. They walked and talked with him,

fellowshipped with him. They had an intimate

relationship with Jesus and now he's warning them.

I'm not going to be here anymore, but there's going to be

something intimate. There's going to be something

that's going to be close with you all the time.

And this is happening, this is going to come.

So just a little bit of scripture reference, there's

some key things that that's happening in this whole passage

of 14, you know, he speaks to his disciples during their

training, he's bringing them Comfort.

Even if they don't realize they need comfort.

In that moment, he's bringing them Comfort.

He's telling them of what what is to come.

Um he's reminding them of who he is, and who God is one in the

same, you know, you know me you know, the father if you know

father God you know me were the same.

Instead he said if you live as you live, if you love then you

will obey another key thing in the scripture if you live and

you love Then you're obeying. It says as you live.

I mean if you're praying, you can use my name and it will

work. She's also given a little

precursor that if I don't go and the Holy Spirit doesn't come

guess what. We can't do Greater Works on the

earth until that happens. So there's a promise of the of

using his name in prayer and then there's a promise that

something will be sent a comforter a Helper and And that

is the holy spirit. Everybody say Get a Grip.

Say Get a Grip if you want to get a grip then you've got to

hold fast to the holy spirit that dwells on the inside of you

because the holy spirit will talk about tonight.

A lot of different things that the Holy Spirit does.

We're going to be able to just touch on a few things.

But I want to encourage you that the word of God is truth and

life, and you have the Holy Spirit on the inside that bears

witness with you that truth, So that when all chaos, which we

know chaos is happening in the world right now, you can rely

upon the one that lives on the inside the greater one that is

telling of the truth that God's word is the one that's bringing

you the peace, that passes all understanding.

It's the one who's going to equip and anoint and comfort and

we're going to talk about it as we get into it.

But I like, you know, I didn't know the pastor of Marcus is

going to sing that tonight, but there's a few definitions of the

The word, Holy Spirit in the scripture.

So I've got three different ones in the group that I wanted to

point out. And one of them is breath or

wind and river, and he's really good about the Greeks.

I might butcher this little bit but it's, it's new apne 0 which

is Nu 0, which is the word that get the word pneumo, which is

low means lungs, basically, but it means to blow or breath or

wind or to breathe. Okay, that's one definition.

Other one is parakletos, I'm always think of pair Like a

parrot. I guess when I learned that I

always think about the parrot being there, you know, a parrot

always on the shoulder but it's an advocate.

Several different definitions for paraclete ptosis which means

call to one's a tour alongside and the definitions are the

descriptors for. That one is Advocate intercessor

counselor comforter and helper so there's five different things

right there that the Holy Spirit does it's called alongside to

help with us. Right?

It's next to us to Aid in our life and everything that we do,

it's our Helper. And then another one is meh meh

no, which is to stay abide and remain which is what he does.

Whenever we're born again. He comes to live and reside as

our spirit man, he that's two, that's who we are.

Then in Christ we've been says the old is gone and the new has

come and now the whole Lee Spirit than a child Wells on the

inside of us. And it, he abides there.

And he desires to remain there to be that comforter to be that

helper to be the one that we breathe, right to breathe on us

to give us that strength. Amen.

Ephesians 2:6 tells us that says and we were raised up with with

Ephesians 2:6

him and seated him in Heavenly places in Christ Jesus, you

know, when he When were born again, we've been made new.

We've got the Holy Spirit and, you know, I could have titled

this. In fact, when I originally got

this drop down on my spirit. I thought about an assistant,

you know, an assistant, but the holy spirit is way better than

an assistant. You know, an assistant, the

thing about that is I always joke and say I need an assistant

would love to have one and be great, right?

Because I have a lots of different things and I was like,

I love to give that to somebody. D to do but you know an

assistant you go and tell them what to do you know really in

job descriptions they have different tasks that need to do.

But a personal assistant will say, you know, I could say, go

go pick up, go pick up the groceries for me, go do the

laundry. I need to go take care of this,

you know, normally they take care of tasks.

But then if you know, or if they filed for me or did something

for me and say, I didn't want him to do anymore, I could

choose to say. Yeah, I don't need you, I don't

need you to work on that for me or, you know, I'll call you when

I need you, right? And that's not what we want to

do with the Holy Spirit at all. We want to utilize the service

within all the time, right? In fact an assistant you know

sometimes an assistant can know so much about what their bosses

doing that they could you know, they could do the job in

essence, an assistant knows of everything right.

But The one of the world's definitions is this that it's a

person who ranks below a senior person and that's not what the

holy spirit is. We actually are seated with him.

We're working alongside each other so I don't want to say the

assistant now an assistant does help in a particular work but

the Holy Spirit helps in all the works of our life and every

facet. And every every day there's not

a day that the Holy spirit says I don't feel like coming in.

I'm calling in sick today. I don't feel like getting up,

I'm hitting the snooze know, the holy spirit is all they always

there when we're sleeping in the holy spirit's there.

How many of you were getting woken up in the middle of the

night because something on the insides prompted you to pray to

get up and pray, that's the Holy Spirit who doesn't sleep.

He's oh he's awake and his abiding.

You all the time and know what's what's happening and what's

going on and can give You insight to what is to come,

amen. So, in the world system, you can

pick and choose been God's system.

The one that's full of perfect. Peace.

If you just have, let him abide in you and let him remain in

you. You will have what you need.

Amen. So we don't want it.

We don't want the assistant. We want the good gripper will

call him. The good.

Gripper we get good grip. Say Get a Grip.

See, we want to have a firm grip.

In order to do that, we have to trust in the Holy Spirit and

know that, like I said, in Ephesians 2:6 that we have been

Ephesians 2:6

seated in Heavenly places far above.

Amen, far above. So the Holy Spirit when you're

born again, has been added to your life.

It's an asset to your life. It is better than an assistant

but it's not the fur. It's the firm grip of the word

of God in your life using the Holy Spirit.

That's going to give you the victory and keep you in the

Victory and keep you have. Being a firm grip on life so

that your emotions aren't going here or there and everywhere,

but they're firm in what the word says, amen.

And so, the greater one on the inside.

I know you're probably wondering why I've got gifts up here doing

open them, let's open. All right, because earlier, when

we read in chapter 14, I love how he said that, he was going

to send in verse. Let's see where it's at.

He says, in verse 27, of chapter 14, I am leaving with you, a

gift, a peace of mind and hearts, he got promised a gift

that he would send. He was given that instruction to

his disciples and he doesn't desire that we just run to him

when we have a problem. It's God didn't design this

whole his kingdom for us, just to have like an escape plan or a

catastrophe plan, or emergency plan.

It was to have ever lasting everyday Victorious life.

And, you know, it makes me think about things that you get gifts

that, you get that you often forget about, you know, who I

can't even remember what did you get for Christmas?

That was like, Like seems like three years ago because this

year has been so long but can anybody remember what you got

for Christmas? Maybe not right.

And I can I can. The one gifts that are most

memorable to me are the ones that usually I get the most or

my family gets the most use out of right?

And there's a couple things I can think of right now to were

one big thing that we use all the time.

Any time we're doing construction in our home years

ago. Someone gave us this little

light that you plug in and you can hang it anywhere.

And every time we do something in the That requires lighting,

my husband goes and grabs that. It's just, that's one of those

gifts that we got that has been so useful over and over and over

again and we use it, right? But there's other things that

I've gotten that, you know, I might have been excited at the

moment that I got it, just like your children at Christmas.

They're excited that they got the toy, but then, come next

week, they've already forgotten about it and if they're a

toddler, they just wanted the Box.

Anyways, that's that was the most fun that they had, right?

But it makes me think about, you know, My domain, which is the

kitchen. You know, some of you are, I'm

sure love to cook and I know everyone who loves to eat.

So at some point in your life, you have something to do with

the kitchen, right? So, it makes me think of gifts

that you get that somehow wind up in the back of the drawer.

The bottom of a cabinet somewhere things like this.

The pro Professionals for professionals pineapple slicer,

you know, any one of those you, this is like one of those things

you use every day, right? This is one of those little

gadgets kitchen gadgets. You get it.

And yes it's on the front of the, it's right on your your

kitchen counter and you use it every day, right?

No know who's going to use the professionals pineapple slicer.

Nope that's one of those forgotten items or this one.

Like Christmas in July, right? Captain, many cast iron

rectangular Skillet, right because you're just going to

make yourself a macaroni and cheese Skillet, right?

No one in here is going to share, right?

So yeah, this one's really going to get used as an it right.

Okay, how about let's see, what's in the bags here?

Not this one, it might be promising. a 1 ounce citrus

juicer, a 1 ounce because Somebody's making some yummy

lemonade out of these lemons, right?

okay, so I've got a couple more Let's see what's this one.

A scoop and slice tropical fruit tool, right?

Again. Another useful tool that you're

going to use all the time, right?

Yes, of course. Okay, couple more couple more

How can this one might be promising?

But go pods for your Eggies. Okay, listen, there's thousands

and thousands of products just like this one.

I mean I just picked a few. I mean I went on the website for

Bed Bath and Beyond and I mean the options were endless.

I mean you never Wherever You Go.

I mean there's was 50 new 2020s top 50, kitchen utensils and

gadgets and gizmos. So yes you're definitely going

to boil your eggs and you're going to put them in the

container and then you're going to take it to work with you.

Sure you're going to remember that.

That's going to happen. All right let's do this is a big

boxes. Must be something fun.

Rip it open like we do on Christmas morning right now.

This one, you know, it's alright.

It's a three in one avocado tool.

Right. So right now we have 14,

avocados, 14, X, 14 juice, for lemons or limes. 14, pineapples,

14 papayas are kiwis or cantaloupes, and then we have

another baking tool, right? But I want to introduce you

tonight, the one that I think you're going to really love,

right? So Usher's, cuz tonight actually

have a gift for all of you. So the ushers are going to come

by now and they're going to give you what's in this box.

Okay, if I say Get a Grip so tonight I'm giving you a

gripper. Hey I'm giving you a green

anchor face. Get a grip gripper because you

want something that is useful in your life.

You want something that is not going to be tucked in a cabinet

somewhere. That's forgotten.

I want you to have a, reminder, to take home tonight and there's

something you practically can use.

So, about 10 years ago, we were looking to move and we happen to

go to An open house at a home somewhere and one of the local

Realtors had have a red one like this at home and it has the

realty companies name on and phone number.

And from time to time when I have needed, it, guess what go

to product has been in my drawer that I have gotten out and used

as my handy. Dandy red gripper, right?

All right. And I've had to get a grip to

open up a jar. That was a little bit.

I needed some assistance. I needed something to help me

out, right? So my gripper, Came in handy, on

those days when I need it, right?

But I want you to know that God's Gift of the Holy Spirit.

Does it need to get tucked into a drawer?

It doesn't need to be one of these gifts that's forgotten

like after Christmas morning or your birthday.

You know, it was a really fun kitschy kind of little thing,

but it doesn't have lasting value.

It just starts taking up, you know, space takes up dust in

your house and is really not even useful for you.

Anymore. But when you've got something,

you know, that's full of power and full of Grip.

Then you're going to keep that with you all the time.

All right, so this is your grip over.

Say, Get a Grip, get a grip. Listen, in order to get a grip,

you've got to learn how to yield to the grip, right?

So we'll talk about that. Just a couple minutes.

We got to yield to the grip yield to the father.

God, it's Holy Spirit. That's living on the inside of

you. This going to teach you how to

get a grip, right? As you read the word.

He's going to help you with that.

He's in agreement with the word, the father, and he wants to keep

you on the right path. First Corinthians, 2:12 says

this, it says, what we have received is not the spirit of

the world, but it is the spirit who is from God.

So that we may understand what God has freely given us.

Again, the spirit that's placed on the inside of us when we're

born again, is not the same as the world.

The world's, like, you know, I would be trying to open a jar of

spaghetti or tight jar. It's it just can't do it.

But we as Believers, when I we're trying to open up

something we're trying to figure out something that's going on in

our life, we're trying to get some direction and some

navigation. We've got the gripper.

We've got the one that can get in there and open it up and

reveal to us the truth, right? And we need to have a firm grip,

all the time. There's not a time that we need

to back down. If ever before we need to be

fully engaged with the Holy Spirit and every single thing

that we do. Amen.

There is some, it's the greatest tool, it's the greatest Gadget,

it's just it's in us and it's amazing.

Second Corinthians, you know, I sound like a little infomercial

person but, you know, like Willie Mays or it, can you

remember some of the, you know, how they have the As Seen On TV,

like deals or whatever. It's better than that.

It's better than there's no easy payments of $29.95.

It's free. He's freely giving it to us.

Amen. And it says in 2nd Corinthians

10:3 through five in the message.

It says the world is unprincipled.

It is dog-eat-dog out there. The world doesn't fight fair but

we don't live or fight our battles this way.

Never have, and never will the tools of our trade aren't Or

marketing or manipulation, but they are for demolishing.

The entire massively corrupt culture, we use our powerful

God, tools for smashing warp philosophies, for tearing down

barriers, erected against the truth of God, fitting every

loose thought and emotion and impulse into the structure of

Life shaped. By Christ, Our tools are ready

at hand for the clearing of the ground of a Every obstruction

and building lives of obedience in the maturity.

We've got the tool we have it, you have it say I've got the

tool, get a grip right. We want to be able to be so firm

in our faith that we're like pastors been ministered about

being the light. We can't be the light if we

don't got a firm grip, right? You know when I like when you if

you've ever Screwed in a lightbulb.

You know, I've got a lamp at my bedroom and sometimes it gets

loose, and I'll go to turn it on and it had that first thought.

Oh, the bulbs out. No, it's not the bulbs out.

I gotta just kind of twist it a little bit, right?

It's not firm, it's not secure. So I'm not going to get any

light out of it, if it's not secure.

So it needs to be firmly fitted into that area.

And again, the were the world's tools are different than our

tools but our tools work, our tools are long lasting, they

never wear out, they never run. Just because he is forever and

he helps us again to have the grip.

So we're going to talk about a few of the characteristics of

the Holy Spirit. There's so many.

We're just going to quickly touch on them.

Of course, in John, 16 7 and 8 says, but truly very, very

truly. I tell you it is good for it is

good. That I'm going away unless I go

away The Advocate will not come to you.

But if I go I will send him to you when he comes.

He will prove the world to be in the wrong.

About Sin and righteousness and judgment.

So, one of the things that the Holy Spirit does is that he

convicts us of sin, right? We were drawn before.

We knew him, we were being drawn by the Holy Spirit.

The Holy Spirit wasn't in us, but it was drawing us and it was

revealing to us that we needed the Creator to come in, and fix

this, to fix the heart to, to transform our life.

He was drawing us because he's wanting us to come, right?

So, if Convicting the world of sin.

The next one, John 14, 16 and 17.

We've read through this one already.

But it says that he will ask the father and he will give you

another Advocate to help you. And to be with you forever, the

spirit of Truth. Again the world cannot accept

him because it neither sees him nor knows, but he permanently in

dwells within us. Again, he abides in us.

The next one is that he seals us Ephesians 113 in the English

Standard Version says, in him. You also, when you heard the

word of Truth, The Gospel of your salvation and believed in

him were sealed with the promise of the Holy Spirit.

Again, there's that lingo of the promised.

The gift that was going to come. We've been sealed.

And I, what I love about this, this is a Greek word, called

spag asparagus, which means etched or engraved.

It's a seal that attest to the truth.

The Holy Spirit holds. The impression of Truth, you

know, back in the day and in Royal terms, you know, they had

a the the king had a Signet ring that had to be what dipped in

the way it wasn't. So it wasn't truth unless it had

the Kings seal on it. The holy spirit is the seal,

he's in us. He testifies to the truth and

everything that. As long as we're listening we

can hear What the word of the what of the Lord is saying and

it will bear witness to the truth to what God's word.

The Holy Bible says it will not sway from that but it seals us

it's proof you know like an official document and we're

walking around with us, somebody needs to know something.

I got my official document, you may not be able to see it but I

eat testifies. It's he it's sealed.

It's settled amen. He teaches us in.

John 14:26 says, but the advocate, the Holy Spirit whom

John 14:26

the father will send in my name. Name will teach you all things

and remind you of everything that I have said to you, right?

So you're learning your tea, you're learning right now,

you're being taught the word of God and when something comes up

situation comes that jar of life.

It's getting you know you need something to get it open.

He's going to remind you of the truth.

What do you do to apply to this situation?

But to open it to get a firm grip and open and it.

And how are you going to know that by the Holy Spirit bearing

witness with you? What does God's word say about

it? Got symptoms in your body.

What's the scripture say about that?

Starting to have some thoughts. Come he says to take what?

Every thought captive and you make sure what it lines up with

what the word of God says. If it doesn't, what do you do?

You cast it out and you replace it.

With what we're God's word says. So he gives us the ability

through teaching us and reminding us.

I think that's one of the great tools.

I can use especially during the school year with our kids.

It's like, you know, when you go to take a test, you've had to

have some time to study, you know, he's not going to bring

back something that you don't know or haven't studied but you

can pray out and say, God show me, show me how many of you I

know that you can some of you can testify this because I know

a few of you in this room that done this, I've done this before

where I have, I've lost something and I just stop for a

moment. So, Holy Spirit, you know, where

it's at. And I need to know right now.

Many of you the Holy Spirit cares so much about every facet

of your life that even down to you misplacing your keys.

Or needing to remember something.

You go to the store and you forgot your list or you're just

something and you just stop for a moment, you know, wait on him,

the holy spirit will remind you will give you something.

I would say this happens to me a lot and I have to make sure I

slowed down because the Holy Spirit when you see when you mm,

jumping a little bit head, but see when you walk with the holy

spirit all the time, and you've got a firm grip with him, it's

like you're holding your holding on firm.

You begin to like all the time, you'll hear.

Holy Spirit. Just in that still Small Voice.

Say something to you prompt. You remind you hey don't forget

you know I'll be leaving out hit the garage, go to the car and

then the Holy Spirit saying you forgot something you need to go

back in the house. You know that's the holy spirit.

This is just practical everyday living that you can live your

life where. I mean again it's better than a

personal assistant but yet he's their abiding in you and is

reminding. You just you just there that

that voice to help you to help you.

Because if he wants you to have good success in your day, you

know, and a lot of times if we would stop and just acknowledge

the holy spirit's there and he's ready at any moment to give us

some guidance it'll save us from a lot of heartache and a lot of

turmoil. You know I will testify this.

We were planning a trip for March.

We were thinking about doing a cruise and must have been

somewhere around December. I said I just got a sensing and

that's what it is. Sometimes it's just a sensing of

In a leading in a guiding in it. Nope.

You don't need to do, you don't need to book that you do.

You need to hold off on that. And you know, I was like, okay

well maybe God's got a different plan, you know?

Because he he desires that he's with us in everything, right?

We're reading a minute, but man plans, right?

But we want to make sure that our plans don't supersede The

Guiding and the leading that God has for us, we want to be on his

timing and he knows everything about.

He knows the ins and Shouts and if we follow him then he can

protect us and we can know. I know I've heard testimony, you

know when 9/11 hit of people who said the holy spirit said, don't

go to work that day and they're living because of that, because

of that voice, that the power, the grip that they had walk in

with him every single day, right?

So, he guides us into all truth and John 16:13.

John 16:13

It says, but when he, the spirit of Truth Comes, he will guide

you into all truth. He will not speak on his own, he

will only speak what he hears and he will tell you what is Yet

to Come. And that again, is that?

No, he knows what's happening from the beginning and the end

and if we'll listen will be sensitive.

That he will give us some great guidance, he will help us keep a

grip. Another one is that he advocates

for a John 14:26. You've heard us read that quite

John 14:26

a quite a bit but that's the very first part of that verse

says, but he's The Advocate, you know he goes before.

Before us before our behalf. Someone who Advocates goes

before someone write on their behalf again.

He's a seal on the inside, he's the proof but he goes before us

and knows what's happening here again.

He reminds us, he bears fruit through US, praise God of for

Galatians, 5:22 and 23 that. There's nine, fruits of the

spirit. Again, of the spirit comes from

his spirit that helped us to conduct our Everyday life and

they are. But the fruit of the spirit is

love, joy, peace, patience, long-suffering.

Kindness goodness faithfulness, gentleness and self-control

against these are no law. These are nine gifts that we get

to participate in every single day and the more we yield our

self to the spirit and don't live according to the flesh.

It's easier. It's easier to walk things out.

Enjoy it's easier to just be at perfect peace and not let

yourself Get all agitated because the day isn't going,

right? No, you can stop.

And you can pray and you can set things, right?

And you say no, you know what? Let's do a reset.

I need to get my gripper, right, because we all have an off day.

We're not perfect. We're human beings.

We're all being perfected and all being made disciples and

growing. We know the disciples did with

Jesus right next to him. They together, they stayed they

went to the ends together. They mean, Like they had a big

slumber party everywhere they went, they traveled.

I mean, I'm sure they had great times, but here, they spent

intimate time with Jesus and yet, they forgot they forgot who

they've been with when he's trying to give them some

instruction. So, sometimes that happens with

us and we need to be reminded to get a grip.

We need to be reminded that the word of God is truth, right?

That it's greater than any circumstance that we're facing.

It's greater than any symptom that we're facing is greater

than any bill, that's unexpected.

Acted, you know, when you get a bill that you did weren't

expecting, praise God, you know, the air conditioned brakes, the

brakes go out. But it's in that, you know, it's

life. Get a grip and hold on tight.

Don't let go of it. Don't let that steal your joy.

Don't let it overtake you because you're of a different

kind, you know, I love them. Pastor said this, I think he got

it for pastor Rowdy, but you're the king kind, you know?

And if the Kings kids do, It a certain way, there's a certain

mandate for you to do that, you know, if he should look at us

and say oh yeah that's one of the King's kids, right?

Our rent, our reputation should be that.

Oh yeah, that's a person of faith that they got a strong

grip. They got a grip.

All right, they got a strong grip, right?

That's us. That's who we should be right.

I'll tell him myself a little bit.

A couple. We're in Nautilus right now

we're doing a series called Ready Set few of you know you're

just a win. So I'll say The Ready Set right?

Which is totally cool is about sports summer camp for not only

40 HP for Treasure Harbor. Preschool that That operates

Monday through Friday, it does the same theme usually in the

summer and a few weeks back, we were talking about Legacy and

what you leave behind and the current actually borrowed my

little prop last week. So I apologize for you if

there's any engine smell in the hallway but the youth ministry

borrowed my prop. My prop for model is so Fu, has

been about a month ago. We had a had some beautiful

smelly spray in a can and we did a little skit with the kids and

it was the garbage man came through Was Paul in his garbage.

So, things were smelling a little stinky, you know, and

then he broke a little bit of wind.

And so it was pretty pretty stinky and everything.

We had the other character who, who was smelled a floral and

just smell Beautiful, right? We talked about leaving a

legacy. What do you leave behind when

you've been in a situation? When you've been in a

circumstance? What are you leaving behind?

Do you want to leave a nasty stench where?

No one's going to be around you or do you want to be the

fragrance? It's of the Lord.

You want to be the fragrance of the king.

I mean, I know that smell was just a horrific, it was horrific

and it's, you know, it's pooping a bottle.

I can't say the other word, but it's the poop in the bottle.

It's just, it was really, it is snow.

So accurate. I don't know how scientists are

able to replicate that but it's really bad but we want to be so

good at walking in the light and being who God has made us to be

that when we leave somewhere, we leave behind His beautiful

fragrance. We are so firm and our grip of

faith that we're walking day in and day out with the holy spirit

that we have just what we need. We have the tool to our disposal

at any time that we can use it. Amen.

So a couple more things that the Holy Spirit, does he fills us in

Ephesians? 5:18 it says, in do not be drunk

with wine and which it says, but be filled in the spirit With the

spirit, right? So of course we've got, we're

have the Spirit dwelling in this, but he desires to come in

and fill even more, right? We have the ability as Believers

to have that gift to be baptized with a, with a spirit with

evidence of speaking in tongues. So tonight, as I close, I'm

definitely gonna ask that question if you because this is,

we got so much to talk about the spirit.

We can't get to everything tonight, but there is the

infilling of the Holy Spirit where he comes upon him.

Heals you and you have a kingdom language, a Heavenly language

that you can speak out and that continues to build up your faith

and your relationship with God. That builds up your grip, it

only helps you to become stronger as a Believer to have

that at that and it's for every believer.

You've been. If you've been born again, that

gift is for you. So again, and that's a gift of

his Spirit. He empowers us who needs some

empowerment, right? When I am trying to get, The the

jar open in essence, this grip is what's helping me to get the

strength to turn it and open it and pop, you know, opens, then I

can get to it, right? It says in Acts 1:8 says, but

Acts 1:8

you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you and

you will be my Witnesses in Jerusalem and Judea and Samaria

and to the ends of the Earth. Right?

And we know a tax that's when the spirit fell in Acts 2 and

they did begin to speak in new tongues.

So we are his children. Children.

And those who are his children, or his son's.

Right. Those who are led by the spirit

are the sons of God in Romans 8, bear with me.

We're going to read this whole thing is just so good, not to

read the whole thing, but it talks about the life in the

spirit in Romans. So it says in chapter one and

chapter 8, verse 1, it says therefore, there is now no

condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus because through

Christ Jesus, the law of the spirit who gives life has set

you free. Free from the law of sin and

death for what the law was powerless to do, because it was

weakened by the flesh. God did by sending his own son

in the likeness of sinful flesh, to be a sin offering, and so he

condemned sin in the flesh. In order that righteousness,

requirement of the law would be made fully met in us, who do not

live, according to the flesh. But, according to the spirit,

because we've got a grip says in verse 5.

Those who According to the flesh, have their minds set on

what the flesh desires, but those who live accordance with

the spirit, have their minds set on what the spirit desires.

So it's that constant connection with the holy spirit that you're

putting your flesh down. You're allowing the Galatians

Galatians 5:22

5:22 fruits of the spirit to come up and to represent, right?

You're not being governed by your flesh.

It says verse 6, the Mind governed by the flesh is death,

but the Mind governed by the The spirit is life and peace.

The Mind governed by the flesh is hostile to God, and it does

not submit to God's law nor can it do so those who are in the

realm of the flesh, cannot please God.

If you're living your life, according to the flesh that all

you're going to do, Is do what the flesh wants to do?

You're not going to be sober-minded, you're going to go

after things, right? You're going to put away.

This, you know, this can happen to a Believer because just

because you get the Holy Spirit living on the inside of you.

If you decide, I'm not going to listen anymore, whole Spirits

prompting, you think, I'll just put him away.

I'm not going to listen anymore and start to you start to

instead of yielding and hearing. You start to kind of close your

ears to what God's telling you. And then it's easy to go down a

road and a path of sin. And destruction is easy to go.

Back to Old Habits that you had before.

You knew Jesus to pick up a bottle or to pick up, pick up a

magazine anywhere. I guess, you'd go onto websites

that you shouldn't be on those types of things.

You start hanging around people that you knew you're supposed to

cut off. But all of a sudden they show up

and the holy spirit's like nope, you don't need an answer that

phone. So you don't need to take that

invitation to lunch, right? Nope.

You just tuck that you tuck that grip.

Nope, I don't know. Still don't hear them.

Don't hear him. Take those you take those

invitations and you go down paths that you should have never

went down because you chose not to hear the Holy Spirit.

But know if you'll let the Holy Spirit on the inside lead you

and guide you in everything that you do, he'll keep you in.

He'll protect you. I've got a couple of amazing.

Stories of from my childhood where I seen the Holy Spirit.

Now, I've got one again when I was young, like six years old

but I really made him Lord of my life at 14 and really put him

first in everything I did. And I grew up in a from the

time. I was about 5 years old up, I

grew up in a home run a and a Godly home.

We went to church, you know, Spirit-filled my parents, you

know, got born again when I was five and got filled with the

Holy Spirit the same time and you know, so I remember Early

days of my dad may be listening to different music and I did

then all of a sudden, the music changed.

It was only worship music. And then I remember hearing

brother, Hagin and Rhema being on the TV, and my dad reading

those books. And so, the growing up and in

the faith, and I always felt like I had a really strict

upbringing, like I couldn't do anything.

I wasn't allowed to do anything and it's just, you know, at

times. It seemed unfair, and I remember

this one particular time where I went, You had a sleepover at a

friend's house, that was the pastor's family.

We all went there and it was like, avarice believe.

It was like over Labor Day. So I like after church, I went

to their house and a big old Sunday dinner, you know, we're

hanging out, she had horses and so, we rode horses and just

having a great time. And I spent the night and then

Monday, we were supposed to hang out all day, like, all day.

And she was, my parents were supposed to get me that night.

Because, of course, you're at school.

The next morning. Well, my mom calls about 10:30

in the morning. Morning and she says, tell

Vanessa, I'm coming to get her. I'm coming to get her, of

course. I'm like, what?

What have you come to get me? I would, when I didn't do

anything wrong. Like what?

You know, tell Vanessa, I'm coming to get her.

And so, of course, I might mad at the world.

Like, I can't believe it, like, why we were having a good time.

Why do you, why do you need to get me early?

You know, I know you promised me.

I could go have the sleepover, I've been wanting to have so we

get home. And again, this is my mom.

My mom being and dad being led by the Lee Spirit me getting the

early lessons of it. I get home.

I'm mad probably was in tears and upset when the merge stormed

off to my room. I'm sure.

And, and I was probably at that time, about 11 years old and it

recently around that time is when I actually got filled with

the Holy Spirit began to speak in tongues.

So spry all around the same time.

We got home and my mom gets a phone call about an hour later.

We only lived a block over, so it was a very far and the one of

the neighbor kids whom before my mom called we were about to all

go over there and hang out the neighbor's house.

And my mom got a phone call. And the one of the boys that

went over that would have. We would have all went.

There was me and my friend Lindsay and this other girl joy

and then her brother, we're all going to go to this kids house.

Well since I wasn't there, the girls didn't go but my friend

did and he Went over to the home, and they were playing with

a gun, and the gun went off. And that child, tragically lost

his life, but it was very like, whoa.

It's probably my first experience of understanding.

My mom knew something my mom and dad knew something.

Because I was protected that day.

I may have very well lost my life that day, but my mom knew

she got a prompting. To call and go get your

daughter. So parents You know, sometimes

we're going to be the bad guys and I told my parent my kids,

this I said, you know, I we list we live by the spirit so you

know, one one size doesn't fit all 11 trip, doesn't fit all.

We're not always going to say, yes.

In fact if I say no, don't argue.

Just take it because sometimes the Lord is going to lead you to

not go somewhere to not do something to not go down a path

and it's for your protection. So that's one huge story that I

can just vividly. Remember from being only 11

years old where the Holy Spirit was active happened to me again,

when I was a senior, I might have shared this before, but

when I was a senior in high school, I was traveling to do

some college classes and doing nursing and I remember very

vividly I was 17 years old. You know when 1807 17 and I had

to travel across the highway. And I vividly remember the Holy

Spirit telling me I was at the red light and it was in it

turned green and he said don't go.

So don't go. So I just stopped again.

This wasn't an audible voice. It was just a still small voice

of the Holy Spirit saying, don't go and I stayed and because I

did the semi truck that ran the red light before me.

I missed it. So praise God, it's it's not

just little, it's huge. It's life-changing, you know, I

can remember other opportunities that, you know, different

things. The holy spirit will give you

the guidance and give you a check.

So, sometimes use that lingo of a red flag, sometimes he'll put

down a red flag and say, or he'll like in football terms of

put a flag on the play, Then you needed to need to stop that

right. All right, because he knows

what's to come. And if we're sensitive, we can

be warned ahead of time, right? So I praise God for having that

life in the spirit, living that life in the spirit.

That recently, this just in the last six months, there was a not

to get into too much detail but there was a specific thing that

I wanted to do growing up. And when I've always told the

story, I've said it a certain way that my parents wouldn't.

Let me do this and the Holy Spirit arrested Me in the car.

One day about six months ago and said, this is why your mom

wouldn't let you and your dad would not let you do this.

And he revealed to me, why? And I was like, Wow, can't go

into detail what but it was a situation where I really wanted

to do something because sporting event and the Lord revealed to

me 25 years later. Why?

So I changed my lingo. Now when I say why couldn't do

it, I mean my parents had the Holy Spirit.

We have the Holy Spirit, right? We want to we want to hide it,

you know, we don't want to hide a word of my little gripper go

so I hit him. Look at there.

He's right there. Found them right.

The Holy Spirit wants us to be allow him, right?

He's not going to control us. He's not going to control this

at all, but he's a gentleman and will be it will ease there and

say, listen, listen, don't do that.

Don't go down there. Remember what God's word says?

Right? Don't say that.

You're about to say something. Don't go down that road.

Right? Restrained.

You a little bit, white. Remind, you got some

self-control. Hey, I got self-control here

just access it right now. Access it right, right.

The world is gone and Chaos. You know, the news report.

Now he may just tell you to shut the news off completely.

And there goes that. Then that's that that increases

your peace 100% right there, right?

And he made during the season. I mean, he has me a couple

times. I've had to just Holy Spirit.

Said, just shut it off. If you feel yourself getting all

anxious and you feel yourself getting angry, and you feel

yourself getting in the flesh, then you need to turn it off.

It's starting to rule you You're starting to lose your grip, you

going to fall, and you don't want to do that.

You want to keep your grip, you want to keep the firm grip.

Amen. So, let's go on to enrollments.

We're not finished reading. There's so much in this in the

Scripture. It says in verse 9, you however,

are not in the realm of the flesh, but are in the realm of

the spirit, indeed, the spirit of God lives in you.

And if anyone does not have the spirit of Christ, they do not

belong to Christ, but if Christ is in you, then even though your

body is, Subject to death because the send the spirit

gives life because of righteousness.

And if the spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is

living in you, who raised Christ from the dead?

He will also give you life to your mortal bodies because the

spirit lives in you and says, therefore, brothers and sisters.

We have an obligation but it is not to the flesh to live

according to, but it and it goes on and says it.

But if by the spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body,

you will live again. We are to live by the sea.

Spirit if we do that, then we have a firm grip.

Verse 14 says, for those who are led by the spirit of God are the

children of God, the spirit received does not make you

slaves. So that you live in fear again,

rather the spirit we receive brought you about your adoption

and sonship and by him, we cry, Abba, Father, the spirit

himself. Testifies, with our spirit that

we are God's children. So we that's when you're born

again. That's the Holy Spirit.

If you've ever had a question about your salvation, the holy

spirit will bear witness and testify that you have.

You've been made a child of God, it's easy, it's easy.

There's no more condemnation. You've been now made great make

good and in right standing with God, we go on to verse 17 says.

Now if we were children, then we are heirs Heirs of God and

co-heirs with Christ. If indeed, we share in his

sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory, we're

going to go on down to verse 31. It says that we are more than

conquerors. This Is What then shall we say

in response to these things? If God is for us, then who can

be against us? Who did not spare his own son

but gave him up for all of us. How will we not also along with

him? Graciously live, in all things

who will bring any charge against those who have God's

chosen. Remember, we've got to seal.

Not matter what's coming against us.

Everything it within the spirit, those things that we've talked

about that, he's given us, the fruit of the spirit.

We have everything to equip us to have a firm grip on it.

Amen. And it says that in verse 34,

who then is the one who condemns no one Christ Jesus, who died,

more than that, who was raised to life is at the right hand of

God, and is interceding for us who shall separate us from the

love of Christ shall trouble. Or hardship or persecution or

famine or nakedness or danger or sword as it is written for your

sake. We Face death all day long and

goes on and says, verse 37 know. And all these things, we are

what more than conquerors through him that who him through

him. Who loved us for?

I am convinced that neither death, nor life, neither angels,

nor demons, neither the present, nor the future nor any powers,

no height nor depth nor anything else in Creation will be able to

separate us from the love of God.

We really are the only ones who can choose to separate our

separate ourselves. We can choose to stop listening,

stopped following the Holy Spirit and not allow ourselves

to be gripped in him in order to do it to live a life in the

spirit is we've got to continue to stay abiding in the vine.

You know, your participation in coming to church, not to check a

box but to come to be open and ready.

He got, what do you got to speak?

To me today. This is this is my training.

Every time I go to service, God made use me to fellowship with

somebody and give something out. There's a part of it.

But when it's time to start these the services, I'm going to

be in there, ready to worship. Ready to just take everything

you got for me and when the word comes I'm taking notes, I'm

taking notes so I can be ready, I can be fully equipped so that

I can go out there and be that light and it every time you do

that, it gives you more More and more fuel a bit like Pastor

said, if you've been listening to his message, it's just fuels

your faith. It continues to give you more

more and more faith. The more you hear, the more you

do, you build your faith, the more you hear, the more you do,

it just continues to build a build a building.

It's easier, it's easier. So get a grip.

All right? So when you get the grip and you

get the Holy Spirit, you want to keep that firm grip, right?

So you abide in the vine, you you come to service, you read

the word you Make the word your everything.

If you're putting him first in everything that you say, and

then you do, then, how are you going to put him first?

If you don't read the word, if you don't pray, if you don't

consult with the holy spirit before you do anything, right?

Anything. You know, down to the details.

Yeah, I'm not saying Lord, should I go to the bathroom

right now? Or should I, you know, should we

make spaghetti for dinner? I mean it's you know, no.

But he could in some of the little things like that, some of

the everyday things you must say, Okay.

God, I need some direction, you know?

And if it's if you're truly coming to him with a question,

what should I do? He's going to give you an

answer, you know, but it's not kooky and every little Thing but

it's just it becomes so natural. If you have the more you follow

God and the more that you do it just becomes natural but the

heart that it becomes harder to keep this out in front of you

the more that you're away from the word and this goes for any

of us you know your flesh starts wanting to like get all crazy

and Spazzy when you haven't been in the word, It's a lot harder

to let the fruit of love and the fruit of patience.

Come out. When you haven't been in the

word when you have it been fueled, right?

When you just kind of sit, well, I'm not listening to the word if

you're not, if you're not reading the word and you're not

going to be listening to the holy spirit either.

And they're going to be bear witness.

This is the thing about the Holy Spirit.

The Holy Spirit. Never going to tell you to do

something that's not in the word of God.

They bear witness. When one another, they are of

the same, we have the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit, the

word, they're all one, it's wrapped up in one and they were

they were here at the beginning. It says in the beginning was the

word and the Word was God With God.

It's they're all one and the same so they're not going to do

anything. Contrary to one another And the

key into holding in truly, keeping a grip.

As the participation, you have to be a doer of the word, right?

Not just a hearer of the word and his word tells us that we

should have a good grip and I'm going to be three scriptures

about grip. Can you believe it says in the

word and Hebrews 10:23 in the message translation?

Hebrews 10:23

It says, let's keep a firm grip on the promises that keep us

going. He always keeps his word.

So you take away tonight, he 1023, let's keep a firm grip on

the promises that keep us going. He always keeps his word.

It's also in Hebrews 2 verses 1 through 4 in the message.

Hebrews 2:1–4

It says it's crucial that we keep a firm grip on what we've

heard so that we don't drift off, we don't want to be

Drifters. We want to be firm in the faith.

That we don't let you read on there.

But so later on it it does say in the scripture, first of all

it was delivered by a person. The master a curly passed on To

Us by those who heard it. It from him.

All the while God was validated it with the gifts, through the

holy spirit, all sorts of signs and miracles, as he saw again,

we know that's what he was showing the disciples.

But for us, we see his word, we see the effects of his word, we

see the truth and the more you you flow with the Holy Spirit,

you hear the word and you do the word.

It just becomes so natural and it's so easy just to obey.

The more you obey the easier it is to obey, right?

The more you let your life, do what?

Flash is saying the easier. It will be whatever you so to

whatever you give to its, that's what you're going to get and

it's going to be easier, right? If you just sit and eat ice

cream every night, then guess what?

Your routine of going home. And eating ice cream every night

is what it's going to be so much easier to pick up that carton of

ice cream. That is going to be an apple.

I mean, right? But if you make, if this is a

habitual thing, if you make a habit of that, that's not your

go to your go to is not the ice cream.

Right now. We're not talk about diet, but,

you know, we know ice cream, eating ice cream ever nuts.

Not healthy, right? We learned that in elementary

school, you know? What's healthier apple or the

ice cream. All right, let's give to the

Apple. Let's give to the spirit.

Let's do what the word and the spirit are saying to us.

Let's keep a firm grip. Let's keep to the promises like

Hebrews and then, 1st Timothy 1:9 says this.

Paul is talking. He says, keep a firm grip on

your faith in on yourself. After all.

This is a fight. We're in.

Now, we know we win but a soldier doesn't back down.

Never you never cower down a back down.

Right. We got confidence because we

know the outcome but we still have to man our post and stick

with our station, right? And so again the holy spirit's

there wants us to listen everything that he has to rest,

right? It's not about a feeling or our

feelings are changeable. They can come and overwhelming

dominate, but we must keep a firm grip.

Flowing in the spirit, the fruits of his Spirit, the gifts

of his spirit, all those things so that we can keep a firm grip.

Amen. I'll leave you with this.

Have a few more things, but I want to be able to pray tonight.

You as a child of God, it says in John 10:27, my sheep, listen

John 10:27

to my voice, I know them and they follow me.

And when you are born again, Another comes to live and reside

in you. And that's the Holy Spirit your

made new and it becomes so easy because you know, hear a

different voice. It's not that the other voice

you're not going to hear any more.

The temptation of the world and it's in is always going to be

there. But as long as you get your grip

by, allowing the Holy Spirit to come on the inside.

And then you keep that grip, you keep a firm grip.

In the word then you are going to it's going to be easier and

easier for you to hear the shepherd's voice.

To hear the voice of Truth for your life and no matter what

you're going through. There's an answer if you keep

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