Revival Fire: The Holy Spirit | Pr Alvin Keng

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So X Chapter four, verse twenty nine to thirty one.

And then I'll bring us through the word.

Don't worry.

I won't take too long, okay, because it's just expounding

from what Nissa Chad, And like why I say, just now,

God is so interesting because I mean we didn't plan, No,

we didn't compare notes. Actually our camber student there's doing

ten mini picture Lloys is actually in eight am. Yeah, Subang,

and she's there and I had the privilege to help

her prepare her word. She also prepared the dissertation. Now,

so I said, wow, a lot, a lot of stuff.

I think it's just the xbja vibela. I love you here,

very smart people. Yeah, you know, to be rare honest someone.

I asked myself, you know, like, Lord, why you give

me this opportunity to be the shepherd the most unqualified,

not even science, you know, not even science stream a

creative person right to be leading this church of doctors

and PhD holders and masters students. But I guess you know,

God will use the foolish to lead the wise star.

So I'm rare in awe of the privilege I have.

Why why do you ever say that?

Anyway? I guess I'm saying I must be saying something

right for you to listen. Now.

Uh, he's got so many smart people here, Evon just

telling me he was at a Presbyterian church in a Chorea.

Yeah, and a solid word. Okay.

So anyway, let's let's go into the word X chapter

four of US twenty nineteen thirty one, and then we

will see where the spirit leads us. Okay, God, we

want to go for lunch. Okay, So okay X chapter four.

What did you say? He says here?

Uh hmmm, ah, Okay, Now, Lord, look at their Now, Lord,

look on their treads, and grant to your servants that

with all bonus, they speak your word by stretching out

your hand to heal, and that science and wonders may

be done through the name of your Holy seven Jesus.

And when they had prayed, the place where they were

assembled together was shaken, and they were all filled with

the Holy Spirit, and they spoke the Word of God

with boldness. So I mentioned just now for revival that happened,

we need the Holy Spirit. Okay, let's read another scripture

that can bring us to this journey, and hopefully I

will bring our land, displane or take off this plane.

Well John Chapter sixteen, verse seven to eleven. Okay, it

says here, nevertheless, I tell you the truth. It is

to your advantage that I will go away. These are

the words of Jesus. Okay, it is to our advantage

that Christ will need to go away. The helper will

not come to you if he didn't go away. But

if I depart, I will send him to you. And

when he has come, he will convict the world of

sin and of righteousness, and of judgment, of sin because

they do not believe in me. Of righteousness, because I

go to my Father, and you will see me no more.

Of judgment, because the ruler of this world is judged.

So Jesus already foretold what is going to happen. Right,

So we all know that he raised from the dead. Okay,

he was crucified, he died. Three days later, he was

raised from the dead, and then forty days later he

was transfigured and set up to heaven.

Okay.

So Jesus is alive and he's with the Father. Okay,

it's not some mystical thing. I mean, I guess it's mystical,

but it's not some myth, you know. It is the

core of our belief right. We believe that Jesus rises

from the dead, right, and we believe that Jesus with

the Father, and he really said that if I don't

go to the Father, the Helper's not going to come.

God is a big deal for us. Okay, follow me,

follow me in this, okay. So it's says here that

the Holy Spirit will convict hearts, and through him people

are safe.

And through him we have baldness to be witnesses.

Through him we also display the fruit of the Spirit,

which you can read in Galatians chapter five, verse twenty

two to twenty three. And through him we are given

spiritual gifts for the work of the ministry.

So the Holy Spirit is a big deal, right, you

know that?

And of course I know there are different thought processes

and some you know, scholars say the work of the

Spirit no more, and some say not yet.

Come.

I mean, I don't know. I read my Bible. I

believe he's here, Like, why share you just now right?

I don't believe that the Holy Spirit is exclusive only

for for for the anointed. Because but I believe that

the Holy Spirit is exclusive to those who believe in Him.

As you can see, those who do not believe does

not receive the Spirit of God, so.

They don't have him. You'll catch that.

Not. People who don't believe in Christ do not have

the spray of God. No, that's why when we share

things or the spirit, only believers will get you. Non

believers will never get you. It is a clear demarcation.

But the moment they receive Christ, they will automatically understand that.

That's the clear cut.

And we got to catch that, okay, right, we got

to catch that, and through the spirit we are convicted.

That's why we say it is not your job to

save someone friends, your catch that not, it is not

your job because the.

Holy Spirit will convict.

But you see, if no one shares the spirit, if

no one shares the love of God, if no one

reaches out, no one you know for next then then

then how That's why we still need to push the gospel.

That's why we still need to do missions, go and

reach people, because when there's no spirit in people's life,

they're not going to experience him. But when I have

things about it this way, I have the Holy spray

in my life. Okay, I have. I'm a Christian. And

let's say this front roll. None of them are believers. Okay,

they don't have God spray in their life.

Okay.

If I don't come and I don't commune with them,

and I don't, you know, marry one of them.

I'm going next level. Okay, don't don't do that.

Okay, but you get you know, if there's no relationship,

if you don't see my life, if she don't see Christ,

she will she will never be able to experience God. No,

of course we all hope and pray and all God

will appear in a dream.

And that's not good. Yeah, God does that. God does I've.

Seen how God does that in the lives of people

that we don't want to reach.

That's said, right, you know, But but think about it.

The power is.

Then with the spirits of God is in me, the

Holy spirits in me, and I am experiencing him and

I am influencing. And when the spray of God is here,

deside the scripture. I give you the life of the Scripture.

When one is saved, the whole house social be saved.

What's the significance of that it is not because, oh,

God will know it is you. Because if you are

the believer in your household, true you the household we save.

Don't catch that not you'll catch the truth in that

word or not. It's not a mystical thing, you know.

I feel God is very practical one. Okay, he's very practical.

The more I read the word or the more practical,

I think God is right and we got to understand that.

And he's a big deal. Okay, what else, So we

talk about conviction, Okay, Nissa shad awesome, testiony just now.

But you know what is happening in the life. The

Holy Spirit is working in a life. God's spirits working

on That's why she can experience it. Do you think

half the things she thought about she thought about herself. No,

it is God speaking to her.

Not. Hey remember the thing you wrote? He remember this?

The renewer mind happens how No, of couse, she is ready, good,

she's ready. No, it's the spirit of God that is

in us that is renewing our mind. Friends, you have

experienced this before. Look at yourself ten years ago. Okay,

some you'll maybe new believer, haven't experienced got ten years ago,

less time, one year ago. Have you changed in the

way you thought? Have you grown a little bit a

little bit? Have you been a little bit nicer, have

you been a little bit more generous? It is the

spirit working in you. Oh but then why why I'm

not like doctor Jason? Now doctor Jason one man ready

become Christian area or sell. He has gave everything to

the poor, you know, and then he became a leader. Well,

because maybe doctor Jason is good ground. Maybe you are

harder ground, but heart ground doesn't even got it's not working,

you know, heart ground is his hot ground. Then the

question is can you be softer being not? Can you

listen to God more? Or can you allow the Holy

Spirit to move your life more?

Not?

Or are we going to be ignorant? See, it's still

a choice, you know. I like how Nissa said it

has to be intentional because if you go at the floor,

which flow are you going? You're going to flow the

Holy Spirit? Are you going to the floor with the world,

Because let's be really honest, the floor of the world

that'side the Bible still say, you know, a big is

the highway to the puff of destruction, but the narrow road.

Who can find it's harder to go into the floor

the Holy Spirit outright harder. It's actually harder to do

things that you're supposed to do. It's harder to exercise,

harder to eat right, harder to be nice to people

when they're not nice to you. It's always harder, right,

That's how the Holy Spirit is a big deal. That's

why he helps us through the fruit of the Spirit.

You know true throughout the spirit.

And and I can tell you if you reflect on

your own life as a believer, through the life or

true the years of you believing in God, don't you

think you have changed? Yeah, maybe it's not all like

a crazy, awesome transformation, but they're still transformation, right, Okay,

let's slow. So he is a big deal, the Holy Spirit,

as he's sent by God after Jesus left and friends,

can I tell tell this. I don't know what the

other scholars I hear. Because I hear that the top process.

I want to declare that this is the age of

the Holy Spirit. He's still moving. We have to believe that.

Because we don't believe that, then all we do is pointless.

But you know why I believe that, because I see

transform lives because I see changed lives, you got, I

see people who are suffering in the office or some

tasilone Joanne. But then God is working. I wonder why.

I wonder why God wants you to still be in

the office. I wonder why could it be that? Maybe

because she is one of the believers there and she

needs to be around so that God's presence can be

then in the office, I wonder, I wonder why some

of you are in those situations are where it's so

difficult and it's easier to just quit. But why does

God want you know, he wants you to develop your

your you know, your maturity and yeah, all these things start.

But I wonder why, Maybe because the moment you leave.

And godspel is not there, we almost like judge the

people there for eternal damnation really because there's no believer,

because there's no light in the darkness, there's no sult

you'll catch there. Not right, So he is a raether

bic deal right, But do we recognize him.

Do we acknowledge him?

Do we have a relationship or communion of fellowship with

the Holy Spirit. Let me give you a scripture that

we say every Sunday. But I don't think we think

much about it. One of the benediction scriptures, Second Corinthians,

Chapter thirteen, verse fourteen, it says, the grace of the

Lord Jesus Christ. Funny that we use the word grace

of the Lord Jesus Christ. Okay, the grace of the

Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God and the communion

of the Holy Spirit.

Friends the Bible don't seem use words for fun one.

Why is it grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, Because

it is by his grace that we are saved.

Why is it the love of God?

Because God loved the world so much he gave his

only begotten son.

And then how come holy spirits communion? Now?

How come Holy Spirit is not power? How come Holy

spirits not gifting? How come Holy Spirit is communion? Ever

thought about it? Let's go deeper. First point, who is

Holy Spirit?

Who is he? Actually?

Oh, he's about the god Head, Trinity, his three in one.

He's a force. I remember one preacher told me, like, Oh,

the Holy Spirit is like a God is like the

one pressing the switch. The switch is like Jesus, and

the Holy Spirit is like the electricity in the switch.

I used to believe that.

To be really honest, I don't anymore, okay, because He's

more than just electricity. He's more than just goose bumbs.

Go fine, if God speaks to you in that way,

I'm not judging you. I'm just saying that He's more

to it than that. It's not only every time you

goost bumps. You have Holy Spirit. You know, when I

have ghostbans, sometimes when I watch horror movie, I also

stay goose bumbs. So so don't base it on just

a feeling. Friends, feelings are good. Does God give you feelings?

He does, But your whole entire faith cannot just be

based on feelings. Your whole entire life cannot just be feelings. Right,

It has to be based on conviction. So who is

the Holy Spirit? First thing we have to know? Holy

Spirit is God?

Right.

With the exception of the second or the third episode

of John, every book in the New Testament contains references

to the person and the work of the Holy Spirit.

Every book. He is a big deal.

The Holy Spirit is essential to God's plan for redemption.

Why do we say that.

John Chapter sixteen, verse eight, And when he has come,

he will convict the world of sin and of righteousness

and of judgment.

Right, that's what it says, John chapter three. What does

he say?

John chapter three, Verse five, tray says Jesus answered most assuredly,

I say to you, unless one is born of water

and the holiest and the spirit, he cannot enter the

Kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh

is flesh, and do that which is born of the spirit.

Spirit can. Let me go back to NISA's message again.

Just now.

It's very good, Okay. She talks about What did she

talk about? She talks about living sacrifice? Right, Why we

put the sacrifice and then we come back, and then

we put the sacrifice and then we go back. And anyway,

why can't just surrender? Well, because we are still living here.

There is still flesh and spirit that we are fighting against.

So don't be surprised if tomorrow attempted. Don't be surprised

because we're still flash friends. We still get hungry, we

sill get tired, we still get frustrated, we still feel

that's how we need God to renew our minds. That's

why we are constantly moving. So don't be surprised, friends,

when you feel I'm not saying that you will. I'm

just saying that it will happen because you are still flesh.

That's why nowadays and I pray for people, I don't

pray for people for completeness. I pray for people to

overcome because the challenge will come, but you got to overcome.

The challenge will come, but you got to overcome, right,

That is the important thing, because we are overcome, and

so we have to overcome the emotion and the feeling

and the temptation. You got to overcome. And of course

my bir say, free temptation. Don't hang around because we're weak.

But the moment you overcome is what you heard from

Nissa sharing, Then that's bread true. Then the mind change.

Mind change means you won't think the same way again.

Now that's the powerful thing about life.

Right.

Once mind change means that's it. Once the mind change,

the behavior will change. Right, that's powerful.

Right. So the holy spirits of God be going to

know that. Right. Jesus has gone to be with the

Father and he will come back soon.

But he has left us a helper, which is the

Holy Spirit and the Spirit of God. Okay, second thing

we need to know. The Holy Spirit is a person.

So the Bible uses a personal pronoun for him. John

chapter sixteen, verse thirteen, two fourteen says, However, when he

the Spirit of truth, has come, he will guide you

into all truth. For he will not speak on his

own authority. But whatever he hears, he will speak, and

he will tell you things to come. He will glorify me,

for he will take of what his mind and declare

it to you. So when now, so, friends, I really said,

Jesus went back to the Father. So, Father and Jesus

where heaven? Who is around Holy Spirit? So when God

speaks to you, his Holy Spirit speaks to you. That's

how it works. When God speaks to you, It's true

the Holy Spirit, because the Holy Spirit don't speak on

his own authority. He speaks on authority of the Father

and of the Son. Right, and he is guiding us

and helping us.

Right.

He possesses the basic characteristic sorry characteristics of a personal.

He has intellect, he has sensitive tivity, and he has

will you talk about person? I like Nissa's example where

you know you might not feel God by sitting next

to you, you might not feel the Holy Spirit. But

he's sitting next to you right right. He has the

ability to think and to reason. Right, he has the

ability to feel things. Do not grieve the Holy Spirit.

That's what the Bible says, Right, he has the ability,

the capacity of choice and decision. Oh why last time

I can do more and then nowadays less. Well, it

could simply mean we are stopped, We have stopped listening

to him. We have rejected or I hope not fully rejected.

We have ignored the spray of God because life is busy,

we got more important things to do. There's so much restraction.

Think about this way. Do you have a good friend

that you want to hang out with most of the time.

What if the good friend after a while ignore you

again and again and again, agnoy your calls.

You know your phone? Do you think you still want

to call them?

No? Right, But we're doing that to Holy Spirit. That's

that's that's the reality of life. Right, We're doing that

to the Holy Spirit because they are the more important relationships.

Friends.

I think this is one of the most important relationship

we need to keep building because the moment we catch it.

And that's why I'm sharing about the Holy Spirit today

because I believe that when we can recognize and understand

who the Spirit of God is and we can invite

into our life, and we can converse with him and

commune with him. We will grow, We will experienced revival

in our lives. All the prayers you can bring, all

this wild, you'll be sorted. All the challenges you'll be having,

all this wild, you'll be sorted. Right, That's why I'm

sharing this Ephesians foraught. The Tea asked us not to

grieve the Holy Spirit x Chapter five, verse three or four.

The not so nice story about Anoneys and Sapphire who

sold their land and then don't know why they could

still be honest but don't know why they decided to

keep some for themselves didn't And the thing isn't your

choice is very funny? Is?

Human beings are so funny? Right?

Even if they said we are keeping half and we're

giving half. I think God website accepted it. But why

did they have to lie and say they have given

everything although they secretly keep half.

Funny? Right?

They like to the Holy Spirit, right, and the Holy

Spirit has different expressions. So we got to know he's God,

He's a person. That's what the Bible says. And the

last thing we need to catch is that we need

to catch the deity of the Holy Spirit, so the

Bible calls him God. Right, let's listen to ex Chapter five.

Let's let's go deeper in it.

Are you guys? Okay?

I hope you are catching something. Okay, reve lot time

and you'll finish it soon. X Chapter five, verse A

threat of four. Oh go lod of a book marks

here Okay unless XTV can help me esther Mer help

Kenna except the five spirit four? Ah? Okay, but Peter, say,

and then nice, Why had Satan field your heart to

lie to the Holy Spirit and keep back part of

the price of yours four while it remained?

Was it not your own? And after it was sold

it was not in your own control? Blah blah blah.

You have not lied to men, but to God.

The excerpt of fus wife. Yeah, okay, so you like

to godlam the right one now? Oh no, no, no, no, sorry,

expert frite. Okay, I didn't got the wrong scripture.

Okay.

So anyway, the Bible says that the Holy Spirit possesses

God characteristics. Okay, I think I have I have another table. Okay,

this one is expressions of the Holy spit. Oh I

skip ThisDay.

So sorry.

Okay, Yeah, like I said, he's a person, so he

got a different expression. Okay, if you wanna, you want

to go read, can go read? Take a photo to yourself,

you know. Okay the next one, yes, So characteristics of God,

the deity of God.

This is important to us, our friends.

Why is it important because we gotta recognize who the

Holy Spirit is. When you can recognize school the Holy spirits,

we recognize his power. He's omnipresent.

Okay, let me, let me, let me give you a quiz.

Is Jesus omnipresent? Treat question right? When he was on

the earth?

He was not.

He's only one place, one time, oney, But the Holy

Spirit is everywhere.

Okay. He's omniscient. He knows all things. That says.

Sometimes Christian we take it for granted. I know you

pray God. No city got knows us on my heart. Yeah,

he knows us in your heart. But you're seeing to

declamor that's why I like it Whenissa just now said

she started declaring. See, yeah, he's not just positive thinking.

There is power in declaration. There is life in the tongue.

That's what we believe in. That's what written in the Bible.

Do you know what else that's powerful. She's not just

declaring positive thinking. She's declaring the truth of God. And

he who knows the truth, the truth will set you free.

Right. We believe in the power of the world of God.

So when you declare the power the world of God

over your life, you'll read the power. It's not just

a mind over metter thing, right, it is declaration on truth.

And of course he is only pertn he has the

power to do anything. That's why we believe in prayer.

We declare the healing right through the blood of Christ

that is written in the Word of God, in the

name of Jesus Christ, not in the name of any

other thing.

In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.

We pray because we pray by the authority of the

power of Christ.

Amen.

So I mentioned just now. In his human form, Jesus

was limited by time and space. He could only be

at one place and any particular time. But the promised

companion and comforter, the Holy Spirit, would.

Be able to be with all believers.

No no, no, no, no, we'll be able to be with

only the passes on a Sunday. No no, no, no, no.

Would be able to only be with us when we

pray in tongues no no, no, no no, we only be

able to friends. He would be able to be with

all believers all the time, in every place, even to

the end of the age when you are okay, not

you la Mina. When I was lying on the cold

slab of Hospital Bate in the Ico in twenty twenty two,

and I was praying earnestly to God to preserve my life.

Even though the procedure is siver procedure, a lot of

wrong things could have.

And you don't know. Maybe they forgot the caesars in

my stomach. I don't know. I'm not saying that I

don't know. Right. God was with me.

There was no worship team, there was no I didn't

feel any ghost bumps. I didn't see a death coming

from heaven. But I knew God was with me. I

knew he could hear me. I knew when I was

declaring some tenty three he was listening. Friends, This is

the promise and the confidence you can have that no

matter where you're at, God is with you.

Amen.

No matter how bad things get, God is with you.

No matter how you feel, God is with you. Because

the Holy spray is there for those who believe. Because

for those who believe, he is with you.

Amen.

That is such a powerful thing. Friends, there is such

a powerful thing. Let's go a little bit deeper. John

chapter fourteen, verse sixteen says, and I'll pray to the

Father he will give you another helper, and he may

abide with you forever forever, No, friends, forever. He'll be

with you forever. When you're alone, he'll be with you

when you're many people. You'll be with you, not just

only in church forever. The loneliness you feel in your

life will his re you when everybody has left you.

He is with you forever. The word comforter. Of course,

the Greek word is paraclectos. You've heard this before. What

does it mean? Paracletos is someone summoned to call into

your side, someone called to your aid. One who pleads

another cause before judge right, a pleader, a council for defense,

a legal assistant and advocate, one who pleads another's cause,

an intercessor. The Holy Spirit, Praise for you, Praise for

you right in his exaltation at God's right hand. Christ,

this comforter. Please, we've got the Father for the pardon

of our sins. In the wider sense, a helper, succorer,

either assistant the Holy Spirit is sent to us to

help us in our faith. That is the most important

thing we need to remember today. Right, That is why

he's called to one side to help.

Right.

It also says that he is there to greatly strengthen

our faith, encourage us in spirit, and en living in us. See,

it doesn't matter what we go through. Friends, And I

know sometimes in life we might not get what we

want in life. Can I be honest? You might not

get what you want. You might get what you want,

but you almostlam might not get what you want, Okay,

And the danger one is you might get what you want,

but actually that's not what you should have.

That's worse.

So that's the truth the different ones here as I

look around, You know, we all believe. We all believe

that the Lord is good. He will give us abandant life,

He will give us all that we desire. Right, That's

why we always say, you know, happy birthday. May God

grant you the desires of your heart. But I'm not God,

but I can declare it, and I hope that he does.

But why if he doesn't, or why it doesn't happen,

or what if something in our lives happens contrary to

what we think we will live in It is our

faith just dependent on the outcome? Or is our faith

dependent on our God? Good to think about? This is

why when we read the story of shared erk Measure,

when a go in the Bible, it is so inspiring

because their faith didn't depend on the outcome. But can

I be honest, and I'm talking to myself as well,

we got to be careful that as believers that our

faith really depends on the outcome, Meaning the more we

believe really depends on whether God answers the prayer or not.

It doesn't depend on his character, It doesn't depend on

whether he's paidful.

Right.

Why is there a scripture that says, do I walk

through the value of the shadow of death, I will

fear no evil because God is there with us forever

and however we are at. And I think that is

a very good encouragement to us. Then, no matter where

your at, God is there, no matter how bad things

and even if you don't get what you.

Want, God's still there.

Even you don't get a big house, even you don't

get you know, and I know some needs are really

you know, some people are like, oh man, I want

to get married, I want to have kids. Un be

rich under a lot of things. Friends, you've received the

greatest gift. Really, that's a gift of Holy spray. And

I'm not saying this as a consolation. It is not

a consolation. It is a great gif and we got

to have that to comfort us.

Amen.

Okay, my last point walking in the spirit, I hope

you guys catch this, okay. John chapter fourteen, verse twenty

six says, 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 things that

I said to you. So all the stuff that God said,

that Christ said inside here. The Holy Spirit is the

one that teaches us. That's why we say that's the

log of the Word of God and the rama word.

The Rama is the revealed word of God, who is

revealing the Word, the Holy Spirit. When that's the real

world the Word when you are ready to hear it.

That's why we sometimes got to well, most times, I

will say, we got to listen to the message again

and again and again because maybe the first time you

listen to the message, you were not ready to receive

the word. But listen to it again and again and again,

and maybe now you're ready. Maybe now you are in

the life situation. That's why I'm so amazed at God,

you know, because he knows the needs that we have

in our own lif life and that He will help

us in that area to grow if we are open

to him. So it's still a choice to be good

ground once we know him. Friends, and I hope today's

message will give you that clarity. Right, We'll give you

that clarity that, yeah, God, Holy Spirit, right when I

walk with God, I'm walking in the Holy Spirit.

Right, we should work with.

Him in the present physical absence from earth of Christ himself,

who is right now, We've got the Father, the Holy

Spirit is available for every believer to make Christ's presence

accessible to them. Your catch that or it's too deep

for your.

We believe in Christ. He's there with the Father.

But when we have the Holy Spirit us, Christ's presence

is accessible to us. You're know what accessibility means. Accessibility

means we have to engage one Now. Something is accessible

means something that is attainable. But it still requires an

action to get it. You can have access to things,

but you can don't use it. Correct not, that's the reality.

So we have access. Don't think you got no access.

You have access. It's not about how much you pray.

It's not about how good a person you are. It's

not about how holy you are. It's not about how

you plan your life, or how many amens you say,

or how many prayers and worships you you go for.

No, it's not but how much you know the Bible?

Who saw.

The only thing that you needed to do to have

accessibility through the Holy Spirit and to God's presence. It's

just receiving Jesus as your personal life savior. How wonderful

that is.

Friends.

I don't know whether I drive this message home enough

or not for you whenever we change your perspective about

your faith and about coming to church. But we got

to work with him and let me give you some steps. Okay,

because as a believer and I love he starts sharing

with this how close or so? Because as she's sharing, right,

it kind of confirms out of my points here. So

constantly walk in the intimate, personal presence and companionship of

the Holy Spirit. That is why it is fellowship of

the Holy Spirit. Are you fellowshipping with him?

Friends? Can I be honest with you? I fellow human

with him.

I still remember when I was younger and they were

sharing about the Holy Spirit, you know, in those days.

I don't I ever remember this or not? Last time

there's this like.

Loughter movement right laughter, hiking la you know, uncontrollable that

got remember once. It's like what God does in the

th flower. Yeah, I went through all that that time.

No Internet yet, you know, cannot go and refer things

like this happening in the church. I mean you can

look at it and say it like, h sounds very fania,

but some of us really experienced God in that in

those moments right.

Then.

I remember there was a preacher that said there was

a book written, but of course now a bit now, see,

the sad thing about human beings is a friends, Can

I encourage you to do something?

Can you end well? Can you don't start well? And

then later on? You know.

The sad thing for me now is a lot of

heroes in in in faith heroes Now well, I tell you,

when I see the video, I'm like, oh my goodness,

what has happened.

There has been corruption happening, you know. Let let me

tell you why.

Because there was a book written but this guy called

Benny Hint, Good Morning.

Holy Spirit. It was a really good book.

Of course, we go and google Benyhin right now, I

won't command so much lack a bit, you know, but

that book really impected me as a young person when

I read it, when I understood more the Holy Spirit.

I think it helped me to.

How to say cement A lot of practices I have

right now in my life that helped me to know

who God is and how I taped into him. My

encouragement for us this morning is can we do that?

Now?

Can we walk in the intimate personal presence and companionship

of the Holy Spirit. That's first point. I only got

four points. Can we continuously learn to appropriate the many

benefits friends of that presence? You know, when we pray

and say, Lord should I do this? Do I've got peace?

There's the benefit? God give you peace to make a decision,

difficult decision, right, cultivating a deep inner awareness of His

intimate presence. Missa's story and testimony just describes that she's

cultivating a deeper inner awareness of God in her life

as she steps on and conquers this journey, overcoming every challenge.

And it's not a perfect journey, you know, it's like

a a I say this and then you know then fail.

Then God reminds why because it is a walking together.

Maybe this is something you also mean, you learn how

to convert, convert, sorry, converse with him as our closest,

most cherished friend.

It's got close to your That's my question.

Can he be because he wants to, He wants to

be close to you. Maybe maybe before this when you pray, O,

God is very far. We all got the Father, you know,

all out down in heaven. I remember one of the

best prayers that I learned he is that, Hey, you

just need to pray and talk to God like a friend.

Maybe some of us need to do that.

No, say, praying those power prayer is not good good,

But do you converse with him on a daily basis?

I think we converse with him on a daily basis.

Quiet time won't be so difficult because it's just talking

to a friend. My last point is can we value

his voice in our inner spiritual man? What does his

voice do well? Leading, guiding, teaching, informing us of all

that we need to hear from the Father. All we

need to hear from the Father, not all we need

to hear from the world. Let me go, but not

all we need to hear from successful beer. Not we

need to hear from I don't know, feel the blanks?

God? Should I still work in this company? Lord? Should

I still be in this relationship? God? My family is

in this situation? What should I do? God?

I have this desire to want to have a child?

What should I do? What is the Father saying? Do

we have a close enough relationship with the Holy Spirit

that we can discern and hear from Him and have

the confidence that if God says this, it will happen? Friends,

when we say what in the spirit? This is what

the Bible means? I hope that's clear enough for us. Amen,

I know extreme up here ready ten minutes ago. We've

got to recognize who the Holy Spirit is in our lives, right,

I hope we do. But more than recognize, I hope

that today onwards we will slowly build that close relationship

with Him, that close relationship with God, that God will

encourage us, that God will give us baldness. Do you

know what happens when the Holy Speak comes. He gives

you balness to do the things that you will normally do.

He gives you baldness to make the decisions that is

good for you that you won't then make when you

listen to him. When you think you're going to lose everything, friends,

you are not going to lose everything, because I can

tell you, whatever the Lord leads you to do.

You will gain more.

I haven't well, I don't know a lot of testimonies,

but suffice to say that I've experienced got so much

that I'm so thankful that he has led me, led

me to be able to have a life that is

of peace, not of stress. I grew up in a

stressful environment. Sorry, I look at the things I do

right now, I'm like, why am I doing these things?

Are not realize?

Yeah, I have to have constant control. I was telling

my wife to day. I've to have constant control because

when I was growing up, I had no control every day,

no control. No that now so much sure. The manifestation

of that is I must spending everything on.

Right.

I get anxious because last time, when I was young,

no control. Sonny, one day it'll be like this another

day'll be like that, you know, parents come home one day.

You don't know what's gonna happen, you know. But God

has given me so much peace. God has given me

so much joy. Oh, God has given me a life

that I can never imagine that I would ever have.

He has that for you as well.

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