How the Holy Spirit Helps Believers Today || Pastor Adam Mesa

I'm so good to see everybody in this morning.

As many of you guys know who've been coming during

this month of the series. We have a shorter praise

kind of at the beginning because we end our service

and conclude it with a little bit more worship, so

we'll continue to lean into the presence of God.

At the end of the message.

Shout out to all those who joined us last week,

even last Sunday as part of our conference. How many

guys were here last week and even Pastor Mark Clark

sharing last weekend. I mean Pastor Mark's message was amazing

and the Lord moved and we're already preparing for next

year's conference as well. We already have fifteen hundred tickets

pre so for next year's conference. Believe it or not,

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In a second.

Well, we're gonna continue our series talking about the Holy Spirit,

but not just talking about the Holy Spirit, but really

leaning into encounter the Holy Spirit. So if you have

your Bibles today, would you turn to John chapter fourteen.

And as we're doing so, shout out to those that

are online joining us today live as well. Thank you

so much for everyone in your continued patience in the courtyard.

The reason why you might may not have seen any

momentum yet is because we're waiting for the city to

approve some last amendments that we made. And if you

know anything about Rancho City Council, we love them, We

love the Planning Commission. We pray for them, we pray

nothing God's best for them.

But who do they love dragging their feet?

So once they give us the green light, our teams

will finish the courtyard and we'll be able to experience

all the beauty that will be out there as well,

with the fire pits and the lucky climber and the

pickleball court that we're building and all these other things

like that.

So just get ready.

It's gonna be a lot of fun that we're gonna

be fellowship with each other.

We're building, We're building.

A cool coffee cart, coffee, a build out container.

It's gonna be amazing. But thank you for your patience.

As construction has things have been closed, open, closed, open. Well,

here we are in John chapter fourteen. If you're ready,

would you stand for the honor of reading God's word today.

We're gonna be in a few verses today, but we're

gonna be talking about the Holy Spirit.

I want you to really lean in and pay attention

to the word the Helper. We're gonna see it twice.

But really, what Jesus is encouraging with is who the

Holy Spirit is and how He's gonna leave us with

the Holy Spirit.

So here's what God's Word says today.

If you love me, keep my commandments, and I will

ask the Father, and he will give you another helper

to be with you forever, even the Spirit of Truth,

who the world cannot receive because it neither sees him

nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with

you and will be in you.

I will not leave you as orphans.

I will come to you yet a little while, and

the world will see me no more, but you will

see me because I live, and you also will live.

In that day, you will know that I am in

the Father, and you in me, and I in you.

Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is

who loves me, and he who loves me, will be

loved by my father, and I will love him and

will manifest myself to him. Judas not a scariot. I

love that like, not the weird one, not the trader.

There's another Judas. It's a very common name back then.

I like how they gotta let us know like not

that one said to him, Lord, how is it that

you will manifest yourself to us and not to the world.

Jesus answered him.

If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and

my father will love him, and we will come to

him and make our home with him.

Whoever does not love me does not keep my words.

And the word that you hear is not mine, but

the Father who sent me these things I have spoke

to you while I'm still with you. But the Helper,

the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name.

He will teach you all things and bring to your

remembrance all that I have said. Peace.

I leave with you.

My peace I give to you, not as the world

do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled,

neither let them be afraid. You heard me say to you,

I'm going away, and I will come to you if

you love me, you would have rejoiced because I'm going

to the Father, for the Father is greater than I.

And now I have told you before it takes place,

so that when it does takes place, you may be leave,

you may be seated in this moment, God bless you.

Let's talk about a little bit about what we read.

There's a moment.

Jesus is talking about the time he's gonna ascend to heaven.

Now for a moment that worries the disciples, because how

many of you guys know it's better that someone be physically.

In your presence than absence from your presence.

You know, oftentimes I travel and I preach other places,

and believe it or not, when you do it enough.

My wife doesn't look forward to when I leave. When

I'm absent, there's more of a load on her. I

normally help get the boys ready in the morning. I

normally help with breakfast and dinner, And so when I leave,

there's more of a load on my wife. So when

I tell her, hey, babe, don't forget I'm leaving to

Texas this week for three days, she doesn't go, oh,

you be oh, this is gonna be amazing.

It's gonna be quiet. I'm gonna be able to let

she goes.

Uhh, I gotta do double the workload, double the things.

So first the disciples, what they're saying is Jesus.

Saying, hey, I'm as sending to heaven.

And the disciples are like, what it's been so easy

with you being here. Jesus, like, all we gotta do

is gather people, tell them to come, and then we

point to Jesus and go to da and then.

You do your thing, and then.

People get healed, people get delivered, you touch them, you

all these miracles happen, and they're like, Jesus, we like

that when you leave, it's gonna be more of a

workload on.

Us, because we got to talk about a guy who's

not even here. And Jesus says, but what happens is

when he goes to heaven, he will give you a

helper who's gonna come alongside of you. And in fact,

Jesus gives us hope to say, it is that helper

that is gonna move in you and beside you and

give you the power and the authority of God's spirit.

So that leads to.

The question, would we rather prefer Jesus standing in front

of us, or the Holy Spirit working inside of us.

If I took a handcount, I bet you, probably including

myself at times, ninety percent of us would just say,

just put Jesus in front of me. That would make

my faith easier, that would make my trust easier, that

would make my life easier. But guess what, Jesus, when

he's in front of you, he holds the power and authority.

But when you choose to follow Jesus, believe his word,

believe in his death, burial, resurrection, what happens is the

very same power that Jesus operated in, the Holy Spirit

operates with you. And so in fact, we should you say, Jesus,

we're good, stay in heaven.

We await your return, we look forward to that day.

But we're gonna be okay because we have the Spirit

of God alongside of us and moving inside of us.

And so what happens is Judas goes, wait, wait, wait, wait, okay.

So how can God move and no one see it

unless they believe in Jesus. That doesn't make any sense

in his head, he says, because Jesus, when you move,

when you heal, when you do a miracle, when you manifest,

we can all see.

It, even people who don't believe you, they see it.

And so then that's where Jesus starts to explain who this,

the helper is, the Holy Spirit. And so what Jesus

says he uses we saw it twice. He calls the

Holy Spirit the helper twice. And it's so important for

us to understand who the helper is because it's not

like a helper like you and I. Maybe you were

in elementary school and every day the teacher would choose a.

Helper for that day. You remember that, and.

That helper got to pull out the markers and the

krans and the scissors. Or maybe you're getting out groceries

and you know, your spouse comes, hey, hey, you need

help with that, and you're like, oh yeah, i'd love help,

that'd be nice.

That's not who the Holy Spirit is.

The Holy Spirit's not just looking at you carrying your

groceries going you know, I can help you with that.

No.

You see, there's a word that's used when Jesus talks

about the helper. It's a Greek word called the paraclets. Okay,

the peraclet, And see what the paraclet is and we

have it up on the screen for you so you

can see. You see the paraclet, the actual literal definition

because in Greek they kind of use a posing word

the opposite word, so mean beside to call.

In other words, if you flip it to call beside.

More than that, It's got kind of four depending on

how you use it and where you use it. It

has four applications. The first one is an advocate, so

like a lawyer. Right, I don't know if you've ever

had a lawyer before. I've had lawyers help me before.

And what lawyers will tend to do when they advocate

for you, The best thing they want you to do

is stop talking so that they could talk.

All right, it's a great lawyer.

A great lawyer goes, hey, stop talking. You're getting yourself

at your Let me speak to the judge on your behalf.

Let me hey.

Before you, before you respond to your boss or respond

to this, let me help you. And so a lawyer

will step in and advocate on your behalf. Was it

eighty miles an hour or could it been seventy eight

miles an hour?

That's a great advocate. See, so the term the helper,

the parent it's not just someone who helps you. It's

someone who.

Literally advocates for you on your behalf, speaks on your behalf,

fights on your behalf, defends you on your behalf, and

so what happens also the Holy Spirit will also step

in as a counselor. I don't know if you've ever

been to therapy before, or I don't know if you

ever were in high school before and you had to

sit with a school counselor and.

They said, what are you good at? Let's help you.

Find a major. Let's help you talk about a college

you could go to. Let's dialogue about who you are

and how we can get the best version of you.

You see, the Holy Spirit is a helper, He's a

counselor for you.

If you spend time with the Lord, and you spend

time with the Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit is there

to say, hey, how can we get the best version

of you out of you? How can we get you

to decrease so that the Lord can increase in your life,

so that I can help counsel you to say, hey, Adam,

the direction you're going in right now, it's not going to.

Lead to peace. It's only gonna lead to destruction.

So the more am I sit in the presence of

the Holy Spirit, sit in the presence of God, the

Holy Spirit will begin to counsel me and help me

avoid these train wrecks. I tend to find myself in.

Holy Spirit wants to help you. Holy Spirit wants to

come alongside of you. The next thing the Holy Spirit

wants to do. The Holy Spirit does want to help you.

I don't know about you, but there are times that

I just say, God, help me, help me.

I don't know. I'm at a loss.

I need your help. The Holy Spirit is there to

help you. The next thing is that's the Holy Spirit's

there to comfort you. There's times me and my wife

we've gotten a new mattress before or whatever for our room,

and we're laying in bed at night. We like to

run our house pretty cold, so we got like three

fans on us at all times ac low and there

is nothing like or maybe you go to a hotel

and you drop that hotel to sixty one degrees because

it's not your bill that you're paying for, and so you.

Go to the hotel and you just lower that.

I'll tell you this, there is nothing like a good

comforter on top of a bed, just a warm, fluffy

comforter and what it's called you just get under it.

You're like, man, I could stay here all day. See

the Holy Spirit as the helper is there to comfort

you and I to bring comfort. And there are times

that in the comfort it may cause discomfort. But the

reality is the Holy Spirit is trying to comfort you

and I. When we say Jesus, where are you where

if you've been what's going on? The Holy Spirit comes

in and goes, hey, I'm here with you. I'm here

to walk alongside of you. I'm here to be beside you.

So Jesus makes this statement to say, not only does

the Holy Spirit walk alongside of you, the Holy Spirit

works inside of you.

So the truth is you and I we.

All need help. I don't care how gifted you are.

I don't care how talented you are. I don't care

how many degrees you have on the back of your name.

I don't care how long you've been in your trade.

I don't care how many people come and want to

listen to you or learn about you. But we all

need God's help. We all need the Holy Spirit's help.

We all need the Holy Spirits comfort we all need

the Holy Spirit's advocacy. I want to see by a

show of hands, does anyone recognize this name? Does anyone

know the name doctor Prithea Hall? By show hands? Anyone

know that name? Oh my gosh, nobody knows the name.

That's okay. I didn't know the name up until a

year ago.

Let me see this.

Does anyone know the name of this individual name, doctor

Martin Luther King Junior.

Anyone know that name? Anybody? Okay? We got one hundred.

Percent participation at this point, does anyone Does anyone know

a little speech it's only known as the greatest speech

in the past one hundred years, a speech called the

I have a Dream speech?

Anyone know that name? Okay?

Back, we're back to We're from one hundred percent to

ninety nine percent.

Okay, So there it is. Everybody knows that speech? Uh?

Did you know that that.

Speech was born out of a prayer meeting? You see,

there was a woman named doctor Prithea Hall. She was

a gifted, gifted preacher. She was a gifted leader. She

was in the Baptist Church, in the Baptist movement. Not

only that, she was also a woman who fought alongside

doctor Martin Luther King. They were friends and she was

a leader in the civil rights activist movement. Doctor Martin

Luther King said there's only one person he would never

want to follow up after a sermon, and.

It was her. He said, there was only one.

Person that was more gifted to him in oratory skills.

Than he was, and it was doctor Hall.

What happened was one time in nineteen sixty two, there

was four African American churches that were burnt down in Georgia.

Doctor Hall showed up in nineteen sixty two and they

were having a prayer meeting that night because half of

the church had burnt down. What happened was four white

supremacists had went through multiple cities and they set these.

Churches on fire. And so she came into town.

Martin Luther King Junior happened to come into downtown two

and it was a few weeks prior to the famous

walk that he was gonna make on Capitol Hill where

he was going to give a speech. His speech at

the time had not been written or not been planned.

At the moment, doctor Hall, it was her time to

stand up in the prayer meeting, and she began to

pace back and forth on the burntdown rubble, the burnt

down ashes, and she began to yell four.

Times, I have a dream. I have a dream.

And as she would begin to pray and intercede, the

spirit of God would fall in that place, and she

would begin to pray, I have a dream that we

won't be defined by our color. I have a dream

that our children be treated as equals. And she starts

to pray and intercede, and.

The spirit of God falls as she cries, I have

a dream. I have a dream. I have a dream.

Doctor Martin Luther King Junior, he's in the back of

the room. It's his friend. The prayer service ends, he

goes backstage and he says, hey, Prithea, mind if I

use that I have a dream prayer that you were

using right now, And she said, yeah, go ahead, we're friends.

Use it.

So a few weeks later he would march on Capitol

Hill and he would give one of the greatest speeches

known to mankind. And guess what, Not only did Martin

Luther King Junior use a little help. Not only did

he take a little help from doctor Hall, but he

also took some help from the Holy Spirit. Because it

was the spirit of God that failed during that prayer meeting.

It was the spirit of God that moved in that

prayer meeting. It was a spirit of God that spoke

to doctor Hall, And it was the spirit of God

who spoke to doctor Martin Luther King Junior and said,

what I'm birthing in a moment of prayer. I'm gonna

affect culture, and I'm gonna affect society, and see doctor

Martin Luther King Junior. He didn't say, I'm Martin. I

don't need someone else's content. I don't need someone else's prayers.

I don't know. I'm a man myself. I don't need it.

There's a million things he could.

Have done to rationalize I'm gonna go write my own speech,

but instead he got the Holy Spirit's help and he said,

I'm gonna go ask my friend if I can have

her speech. The rest of her life, until the day

she died, people would ask about that rumor.

On that day.

They would ask her, doctor Hall, did Martin Luther King

Junior steal his speech from you? That I have a

dream speech? She would say, no, I love Martin. That's

my buddy, He's my friend. And then Finally, when she died,

a family member came out and said she was just

being humble her whole life.

Yes, she gave him permission.

And then his family member came out and said, no, yeah,

he got permission from her. You see, not only when

the Holy Spirit moves the way that you fight pride.

When the Holy Spirit starts working in your life is

you operate in humility. You work in humility. You don't say, oh,

that's my credit, Oh yeah I did that. Now you say,

I'm just happy God did his thing. I'm just glad

that we're one step fuck closer to equality. I'm just

glad we're one step closer to freedom. I'm just glad

we're one step closer. You just thank and praise God

for what the Lord did, and a lot of us.

It doesn't matter how skilled you are, we all need help.

I'll tell you.

If the I have a dream speech needed help, you

and I need help. If the greatest speech in the

past hundred years needed the Holy Spirit, then you and

I need the Holy Spirit just to say hello, that's

how bad we need the Holy Spirits help.

With a few moments that I have.

I want to just share with you three aspects that

we need the Holy Spirit help for. You know, in

Mark chapter two there's a famous passage of the paralytic man.

What happens was in Mark chapter two, verses three to eleven.

I'll just paraphrase him for us. What we know about

the Gospels, A lot of the healings in the Gospel,

God does heal today, and he does do miracles today.

But also a lot of in the Matthew, Mark, Luke,

and John.

When you see Jesus doing a miracle, a lot of times,

what it represents the physical reality of what happens represents

the spiritual breakthrough.

Okay.

So like if a man gets healed of blindness, it

represents that you and I are blind. Before Jesus touches

our lives.

We can't see life. Okay.

If he raises Lazarus from the death, it represents that

when we believe in Jesus, God will raise us to life.

And so a lot of the miracles represent miracles where

he will heal a man who can't walk, and that

represents without God's touch, we can't go anywhere in life. Right,

So a lot of the physical healings represent spiritual realities.

So there's a famous passage in Mark two where there's

a man who's paralyzed. He can't walk, and he has

four friends that come and gather him on a piece

of cloth or a rug, and they carry him to Jesus.

Jesus was in a home teaching and preaching, and the

Bible says that they couldn't fit in the room. So

what the four friends decided to do because they wanted

their friend to get healed and he couldn't do it

on his own.

Was they go to the roof.

They tear the roof open, and then they lower their

friend in front of Jesus. And when Jesus sees the faith,

Jesus looks at them and he says, this, your faith

has made you well, and your sins are forgiven. Yeah,

And what happens is is that man who his sins

were forgiven, could not do it without his friend's help.

You see, that story represents the.

Fact that you and I cannot encounter the presence of

God without the Holy Spirit's help.

You and I.

I don't know if you've ever felt paralyzed in life before,

but I have felt paralyzed in life before. Well, I

didn't know what to do. I didn't know what to say.

I didn't know where to go. I didn't know what

to choose. I didn't know what door to walk in.

I didn't know whether to say yes. I didn't know

whether to say no. I didn't know what to pray for.

I didn't know what to believe for. But yet the

Holy Spirit came, and the Holy Spirit can lower you

to the presence of God. And the Holy Spirit can

get you some face time with Jesus. And when you

get face time with the presence of God, what will

happen is you were encounter God the way you couldn't

on your own. Without the Holy Spirit, we could never

encounter God. The Holy Spirit is there to lower you.

The Holy Spirit is there to bring you before the

presence of God. The Holy Spirit is there to help you.

And you feel like you can't help yourself, and I'll

tell you this, we can rarely help ourselfs. We know

how much that gets us in trouble. Here's some ways

that the Holy Spirit can help us, just three simple ways.

If you're taking notes. Number one, the Holy Spirit can

help you with your words. Luke Chapter twelve, Verse twelve,

Jesus says the Holy Spirit will teach you what to

say at the time and what time you should say it.

And he was telling his disciples, who he was charging

them to go and preach the gospel, and he said,

there will be times that people will ask you questions,

people will make statements, people will do.

Things that you will not know what to say.

You will not know what to do, but the Holy

Spirit will give you the words. So there are just

simple times that you and I need to just sit

for a moment, pray to God and say God, Holy Spirit,

would you help me with my words.

It's as simple as that.

People are often thinking that we need to go into

a room and we need to put on all this

worship music, which that helps. That helps get into a

rhythm and a routine. But you could just as simply

as when you're about to say something you know you

shouldn't or you don't know what to say, you to

just separate yourself for a moment and say.

Holy Spirit, help me with my words.

There are times that I go home and Ashley has

a frustrating day and she may say something and I

just gotta under my breast say Holy Spirit, help me

with the next five words, because if I match her energy.

These next five words are gonna turn into five days

of help.

So there's times you got to ask the Holy Spirit.

You go into work and they're like, hey, we.

Need to sit with you, Please sit down, let's talk,

or you get that HR email are you available today

at one blah blah blah blah, and you just say,

Holy Spirit, I need you to help me win my words,

because when I go.

In there defending myself, I know what's gonna happen.

The Holy Spirit can help you with your words. Not

can the Holy Spirit help you word your words. The

Holy Spirit can help you with your mind. Sometimes the mind,

and our mind is the worst place that we can

allow thoughts to sit. Romans Chapter eight, verse six says,

the mind governed by the flesh is death, but the

mind governed by the.

Spirit is life and peace.

And so if you want to operate in more peace

and more life, I'm pretty sure all of us would

love to operate with more peace in our life.

Jesus told us that peace is what he leaves us

through the Holy Spirit.

And so there are times that you just need to

step aside and you need to pray for your mind,

and you need to say Jesus by the power of

the Holy Spirit.

I pray for peace in my mind. I pray for

life in my mind.

When you find yourself negative, when you find yourself broken down,

when you find yourself living in your mind, when you

find yourself overly sensitive, where you're seeing everything that everyone

is doing is offending you. You're looking, Oh, I know

they're after me. I know they're talking about you. Need

to just separate and say, God, my mind is full

of death. Right now, I need you to give me life.

Right now.

I need peace in my life. Right now, I need

peace in my mind. The third thing the Holy Spirit

can do is the Holy Spirit can give you a

bounce of faith. We all need faith in our life.

Faith is what builds up your spirit. Faith is what

allows you to trust God in the midst of storms.

Faith is the thing that you can't see in front

of you, but yet you trust God is in the

middle of it. And Romans chapter eight twenty six says this. Likewise,

the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We're normally we

weakest in we're normally weakest in our faith. That's when

we pull back from God. That's when we stop going

to church. That's when we stop worshiping. That's when we

stop reading our Bible. That's when we start obeying God.

That's when we stop trusting God. It's when we are weakest.

That's also when the enemy comes to prow the hardest.

And so he says, the Holy Spirit will help you

in your weakness, for we don't know what to pray

for as we ought, but the Spirit self will intercede

for you with groanings too deep for words. Not only

is that praying in the spirit, and we call speaking

in tons, but it's also a reality that we say,

Holy Spirit, I can't put to words what I need

right now, but I trust God that you know what

I mean. And so therefore I'm gonna build my faith

in you. And what will happen is you'll start to

see the Holy Spirit work on your behalf and move

on your behalf and speak on your behalf. Because you're

building your faith up, you build your trust up. It's

like Peter when he was in a storm. Jesus walks

on water and he says, Peter, join me.

That's faith. There's gonna be times the Holy Spirit.

You will find yourself across the Holy Spirit, and the

Holy Spirit will say hey.

Come join me over here, and you have a decision

to make.

You're either gonna join the Holy Spirit, the spirit of

God where the Spirit of God is at, or you're

gonna try to fight to say no, the Holy Spirit,

you meet me where I'm at. But the reality is,

if you're meaning, if the Holy spirits mean you, we're at,

and where you're at is deathly, the Holy Spirit doesn't

go there. So that's why he says, if we have

the spirit of God and yet our mind, though, is

dealing in the flesh, then it leads to death. There's

a lot of times for me, I don't see God

moving or active in my life. But if I'm honest

with myself, it's because the things I've been thinking about

are fleshly and they're leading to death.

God doesn't operate in death.

God only operates in life, and so if we want

God to operate in death, the only thing we're asking

is for him to speak life over it. But a

lot of times we're like, but God, we don't want

you to speak life over this. I want this to die,

but I also want you to do a miracle. Not

with that, I just want that to die.

But over here, in.

The spirit of God say it's not a both, and

it's a one or the other. You gotta look for

the Holy spirits moving in your life. The Holy Spirit

is always doing things, trying to be in comfort, trying

to bring advocate to see to you, trying to be

your counselor There was a time of my life where

I just saw the Holy Spirit move in such an

active way in March twenty, On March twenty first of

twenty twenty, my father in law went home to be

with the Lord. And it was a tough time because

COVID had just started, and so you know, everyone with

social distancing and separating and all these things like that.

And so March twenty first, twenty twenty, my father in

law goes home to be with the Lord. My wife

and our whole family and her whole family were grieving

and it was so difficult and it was so hard,

and we still grieve to this day. That's the thing

about grief, so there's no time stamp on it. You

grieve when you need to grieve, and so we still

grieve to this day. And so what happened was on

March twenty first, twenty twenty. Over the next ninety days

and plus it's difficult. We're grieving. Sometimes it feels like

there's no hope. Sometimes it feels like there's no works,

And a lot of times you're thinking, God, where are

you in this circumstance where what is going on? Are

you around? Are what are we not doing? What are

we missing? You're just battling. You're fighting. You're wrestling with God,

and that's okay. You can wrestle with the Lord when

you can't put answer today's but you also got a

look where the Lord is trying to answer you.

Because he will, the Holy Spirit will bring you comfort.

So about ninety days after Tom had gone home to

be with the Lord, Ashley and I found out that

we were pregnant. So we find out we're pregnant, and

a couple months after that is when you go to

your first appointment. And when you go to your first appointment,

that's where you find out, okay, potentially you know what's

gonna what's the heart rate, like, is the baby healthy?

Blah blah blah blah blah. And then after they print

out a document that says expected do date, the do

date that they expect because you got pregnant. This is

when we expect the baby's gonna be born or our son.

We look at the paper.

It says due date March twenty first, twenty twenty one,

twelve months to.

The date that Tom went home to be with the Lord.

Everybody called Tom Papa TC because his nickname growing up

was TomKat because he was smooth. If you Tom was

an elder here and so you know, you know, Papa

Tom was smooth, and so his name was TomKat and

so all of us we just called.

Him Papa TC.

And so when we saw that on the document, we

looked and we said, Lord, you are providing peace to

us in this storm. Holy Spirit, you're giving to us comforted.

What are the chances twelve months to the day. And

so in honor of that moment, but really in honor

of God, because we know that God saw us, saw

us in our broken hearted, the Holy Spirit saw us

in a time of need, we named our son Thomas Cohen,

Little Baby TC. And so Thomas was born on March tenth,

twenty one. So he came ten days about ten days earlier,

because we know that for Papa TC, he was like,

you can name him after me, but don't share that

day with me. So Thomas came ten days earlier. So

now we have TC, little baby TC. We named him

after Papa, not just because we want to remember him,

but because we want to remember that God is faithful.

That if you would grieve with God, if you would

trust with.

God, if you would think with God, if you would

prye with God, if you would love with God, if

you would have faith with God, then I'll tell you this.

You will see the Holy Spirit in your life.

You will see the Holy Spirit bring you comfort in

your broken times. You will see the Holy Spirit fill

you with words. The question is are we going to

the Holy Spirit for help? Are we trusting the pericle,

or are we saying God, now I'm mad at you.

I don't need you, or God, I don't understand you.

I don't need you, or God, I don't want you

because last time you got in my business you wanted

to change too much.

I don't want that.

Or are we saying, Holy Spirit, I need your help.

And so today all we're gonna do is we continue

to worship. We're gonna go to the Holy.

Spirit for help.

And so you may be here today and you need

the Holy Spirit help. You may need the Holy Spirit

help with your words. You may need the Holy Spirit

help with your mind, You may need the Holy Spirits

help with your faith, or you may need the Holy

Spirit help for all three of those things.

I know I do.

But as we continue to worship today, I just encourage

you to not hold back, to not hold back, to

allow the Holy Spirit to come and comfort you and

advocate for you and counsel you and help you, because

the Lord knows.

I need it on a regular basis.

So we're gonna create space right now for a few

moments that as we go into worship together, I just

encourage us.

We're all gonna leave here together with plenty of time.

It's still early in service, but I'd ask that you

join me by sight now and we're just gonna seek

the presence of God, and we're gonna continue to allow

the Holy Spirit to manifest himself. And as Jesus said,

as the Holy Spirit comes alongside of us and inside

of us.

You may be looking for an encounter.

Face to face with Jesus, but I'll tell you this,

something richer than a face to face experience with Jesus

is an encounter with the Holy Spirit inside. Because what

happens is if you allow the Holy Spirit to change

you from the inside, it'll affect.

You from the outside.

And so let us worship today. I'm gonna pray feel free.

If you'd like to come to the alter and worship,

you're more than welcome to. But all we're gonna do

today is surrender to God and say, Holy Spirit help us.

So God, right now, as we go to worship you

more Lord, we just pray that the Holy Spirit move

in this place. Father, God, we pray Lord, Holy Spirit,

come right now, Holy Spirit, help us right now, Holy Spirit,

transform our mind, transform our words, build up our faith today,

Holy Spirit, allow us to trust you more, Holy Spirit,

allow us to hear your voice More Lord.

In a chaotic and a loud.

World that's full of noise, may we drown out out

today and may we fully lean into your voice today, God,

and I pray Lord that as we encounter you, Lord,

may you get all the honor and glory in our life. Lord,

we all need help today. May we walk in humility

to fall on our knees and fully trust you today

in this place, Lord, we trust you Holy Spirit.

In Jesus' name, Amen and Amen, Let's worship feel free

to come down if you like.

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oceans rise, the soft westmans, you are my.

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now we see, so I will call.

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take me a day for them, my faith could have

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me Spirit, be well mansout.

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eyes above the lace.

When oceans rise, My soul rest in your embrace, for.

Eye youpy rys.

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in knowing and gutting us.

His word says that the Lord is my shepherd, and

I shall not want, for he makes me lie down

besides green pastures. His word says that he leads us

besides still waters. His word says that he restores our

soul and leads us in paths of righteousness for his

name's sake. And though we may walk through the valley

of the shadow of death. We shall fear no evil,

for God is with us, and that's why he is

so good. So this is why we say that you

have been.

So good to me?

Heank God, I can't believe how you love me?

What a friend you have been.

So good to me?

And God, I can't believe how you love me? What

a friend you have been.

So good to me?

Gota can't believe how you love me? What a friend

you have been.

So good to be God, I can't believe how you

love me? What a friend you have been so good?

So good to me?

God a cap how you love me?

What a friend you have been so good?

To be.

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You have so good? So good's doing? Degularbot?

How you love.

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How you love me.

Brought up Fad you have him?

He's been so good, He's been so faithful.

It super so good for your fugivens. For how you

never turned away. I call you faithful, and I just

wanna thank you Lord for your salvation, because you pay

the price I could in pay. I call you faithful,

and I just wanna thank you Lord, for your forgiveness,

for every time you brought me through.

I call your faithful, and I just wanna thank you Lord.

For your salvation.

You pay the price I could in pay. I call

your faithful, and I just wanna thank you Lord beus.

I just wanna thank you Lord yours. I just wanna

thank you Lord. You're I just want Oh, no, thank

you Lord.

It's that just fall thank you.

Look, it's not just fall, thank you.

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Just fawn thank you.

You don't even took your place.

Hold do tonight? How your mother shut my eyes?

You know he's gonna have to some place for us. Yeah,

it's not just gone, thank you? Where it?

So come and say God, just.

Falla thank you know.

Because you have it.

So good to me.

God, I can't believe how you love me.

What a friend you have been?

Come on, turn it up, say song God, I can't

believe how you love.

What a friend you.

Happen so good to me?

God, I can believe how you love me, what a

friend you happy?

Come?

I say all my time, so good to me?

And God came and believe.

How you love me? What a friend you have been.

Oh in what afraid have be?

Who?

I'm never not a mother like you. I've never known a.

Mother like you.

In this moment, as I have spoke about the grieving process,

I feel a weight in my heart knowing that I've

gone through grieving. But there's a lot of grieving right

now in this room. You may have lost a loved one,

you may have lost a marriage, you may even feel

like you've lost a child.

To the world.

And I just want to lift you up right now

to know that there is hope, That there is a rainbow,

the one that He gave Noah. There is a promise

that God has for you. Although that it may feel

like a rollercoaster of ups and downs and hurts and

pains and sadness and tears. God loves you today. He

wants to be your comforter today. He wants to encourage

you today to lean on him. There are moments in

time for me myself. God, where are you? Why'd you

take him so soon? I have questions, I have hurts,

I have pains. I'm there with you, family, We're all

in this together. But the one thing I will encourage you,

he is a comforter.

As long as you give.

Your hurts and your pains to him, it is okay

to be sad, it is okay to be angry. But

give that to God and say, God, I give you

my life because it's better in your hands than it

is in mine.

I need to release that to you today.

So if there's anyone in here today that is in

pain of sadness, of grief, I just wanted you to

lift your hands in the air and surrender it to God.

Whatever it may be.

God, you see your children right now before you. They're hurting,

trying to go through the day, Father, without thinking about

their scenario. Father, They're trying to have the strength to

not cry, to make it seem.

Like they're perfect.

But God, we are not perfect. Because you are the

perfect Father. You are the one that can comfort us.

They're the one that can keep us. You're the one

that could heal us, restore us, and renew us.

Father.

So we ask right now that you begin to shed

your love among your people today. Give them the comfort

that they need, Father, that they can see through the day,

that they can endure through the night. Father, Because what

joy comes in the morning. Father, So we speak joy

in life to these individuals before us. Father, we speak

joy in life to your children today, that they do

silence their mind, that they will not have.

Fear, that they will have the power of You that.

You have instilled in them through the Holy Spirit.

Father.

So we thank you Father.

We know that grief is not short lived. Father, it

is a process, but it's a process that we must

do with you.

Father.

So we thank you for who you are today. We

thank you for being the comforter, the helper, the advocator

in our lives. Father, we give you it all today.

We surrender it all to you today. Amen, family, let's

continue back into worship.

Helss Us, Oh heloss Us, Oh Hellossus, Oh Hellos.

Come on, just open up your heart to him and

just say Hellossus.

Ah ha he lovess us, ah ha he lovess us

all ha heers, and.

He is jealous for me.

He loves I.

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of Hisen and Mercy, who in all love a son.

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I realize just how beautiful you are and.

How great your affections are for me, singing.

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the right things.

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Let's pray in this place.

God.

We thank you Lord for the power your spirit.

God. We thank you for your comfort, Holy Spirit. We

thank you for your advocacy Holy Spirit. We thank you

for your help when we need it. We thank you

God that your presence is always here with us and

in us. We thank you that you never leave us

nor forsake us. We praise you Lord today. We give

you gratitude today, Father God, we give you thanksgiving. Today,

Father God, we thank you Lord that Jesus has died

and overcome death and resurrection and victory and sits at

the right hand of the Father today interceding for us.

And we thank you that as the Holy Spirit it

advocates for us, Jesus intercedes for us.

We thank you, Lord that you work on our behalf today.

God, there's anyone here that's far from Jesus today, and

they're ready to surrender to the lordship of Jesus, to

give their life to Christ, to confess him as Lord

and savior and repent.

Of their sins.

I encourage you in this moment that we confess with

our mouths to follow Jesus. Some people, you're done running,

you're done hiding. You're ready to choose to follow Jesus.

So would you join me right now? In this prayer confession?

The Holy Spirit knows exactly what the Holy Spirit is doing.

All this prayer does is affirm the work of God.

Would you join me right now? If you're online, in

the courtyard or in this room, can we say, Dear

Lord Jesus, in this moment, I repent to my sins.

I believe in my heart that Christ died for me

and he rose from the dead for me.

From this day forward, I choose to follow Jesus for

the rest of my days in Jesus' name.

Amen.

Can we celebrate God today in this place? Can we

thank the Lord that God's presence is real? If you

set that prayer today? Up on the screen is our

website ww dot grow dot Faith. We never want you

to leave church today and say I set a prayer,

but what do I do next? We want to help

you with your next. Additionally, Pastor Diego, our founding pastor Halways,

says that if you've committed to Jesus Christ today, we

challenge you to come to church as often as possible

for the next twelve months and look what God will

do in your life. In the same way, if the

next twelve months I went to the gym every day,

my body would probably look a lot different. In the

same way if you read your Bible every day, if

you pray every day, and you come to church as

often as possible, your spirit man will look a lot

different than it does right now as well. Additionally, next

week is we're going to conclude our series on the

Holy Spirit.

Pastor Diego is going.

To be preaching and sharing and we're going to lean

into the physical healing of God and the physical healing

of the Holy Spirit. So if you have any illnesses,

if you know anyone that has any illnesses, We're going

to join our faith together, both on all our campuses,

all our service to believe.

God that He does physically still heal today. So I

want to invite you back next week.

Want to encourage you to invite someone to believe God

for healing and invite them next week. Otherwise, we have

service on Wednesday. I'll pray for us and we'll leave

here together. If anyone here needs any additional prayer at all.

You need someone to come into agreement with you. You

need someone to pray over your life. You just need

someone to give you hope in your life by praying

over you. Our elders, deacons and prayer team will be

up here in the front and they love to pray

for you. I'll pray for us and we'll leave here together. God,

we thank you for you to move of your spirit.

Lord.

I pray Lord for blessings on every person that they

may experience and encounter the Holy Spirit every single day. Lord,

give them the words, give them the mind, and give

them the faith of Jesus. God.

We thank you, Lord that your power is alive today. God.

May we rest our trust and our faith in you, Lord,

and we thank you for a Dodger victory today.

In Jesus' name. Hey man, God bless you all. We'll

see you next week.

There we go.