Revival In Your Spirit: Awaken In Your Spirit | Pr Gloria Paul

You're listening to a message to go from Acts Church.

We hope this message will light up your day.

For today, I was just, you know, I just received

this from the Lord and I felt that it's a

good time for us to talk about how can we

awaken our spirit. Yeah, awaken our spirit. All of us

here are wide awake, right? I can see all your

eyes are open and, you know, you look happy, you're smiling, right?

So that's our physical being, you know? And then we have,

of course, the soul, you know, where we make decisions,

the wisdom that we have, right? We have this diagram here.

If Tyra can help us see. So body, right? It's

what the world sees, the way we dress, the way

we speak. The way we show up, you know, or

we eat well is to take care of our body,

our physical, right? And then we have our soul, which

is our mind. The thoughts that we have or our will,

you know, to do something. We have the confidence to

do something. Or even our emotions. How do we respond

to different things in our lives?

Yeah?

So... Most times, oftentimes, we spend a lot of effort

when it comes to body and soul because we kind

of need it every day, you know, to get things going,

be it with work or the way we show up

for our families, you know, or just to be alive, right?

When someone is alive, it's when the body and the

soul is going on, yeah? Another aspect is the spirit, right? Right?

Now this part of us, if you're not cautious enough,

it may not be awake. Yeah, it may not be awake.

So we can be still sitting here. Our minds may

be here. Our body is here. Our emotions are here.

But then is our spirit awake? Right? Because you know what?

Spirit is the one that connects us closely with the Lord.

Spirit is the one that enables us to hear from Him, right?

Spirit is the one that, you know, if you think

about why is it that some people can sit at

hours and keep praying and keep reading the Word? Well,

that's because the Spirit is awake. It's not so much

only the physical. Just because we are awake in the morning,

we can do that. You can be awake, but you

can be seated there. Your thoughts could be somewhere else.

But your spirit has to be aligned as well. Yeah?

So we're going to talk about a little bit today

on how can we train our human spirits. Alright? Turn

to the person next to you and ask them, is

your spirit awake? If it's not, then please wake them up. Okay?

And to awaken our spirit is not as simple as

just an off and on button. Okay? It's not as

simple as that. But it comes... with some form of discipline,

some form of devotion. If you can recall, I brought

you through a series a week ago about the book

of Nehemiah. When a revival took place, there had to

be repairing and rebuilding happened. And when God caused that

to happen among the people, what they did was that

they started devoting themselves to the Word of God. And

because of that, they could actually confess their sins. They

came to a place of repentance because the Word of

God got them to realize, you know what, there's so

much in me that I have to let go of

or there's so much in me that God wants to

work in. So it requires an amount of devotion and

that was through the Word of God. So, you know,

we need to become more conscious that we are spiritual beings.

We have a spirit within us. not just mental or physical.

And we need to train our spirits so that they

become safer guides. Yeah, safer guides. I mean, people out

there may use words like, you know, you have your instinct,

you follow your instinct and all that, right? But as believers,

children of God, we have the spirit within us, which

can also speak to us and show us, okay, how

do I feel about this? How do I respond to it?

And the more you train yourself, the more sharper it gets. Yeah,

that is how God grows that within us. So, you know,

sometimes the questions that we may have, you know, how

can I walk in the Spirit? How do I feel

His presence? Many people talk about, you know, I can

sit in His presence, but what does that actually mean?

Or you may even look at people, maybe even our pastors,

and they always share, okay, we spend hours praying. How

do you think people can actually just sit down and

pray for so long or worship for so long like

King David, right? He spent hours just worshipping the Lord. Well,

that's because the spirit was awake, yeah? So if you're

here desiring to hear more from God, to feel His presence,

to be able to, you know, walk closer with Him,

our spirit has to be awakened, yeah? So just like

our minds that can be educated, our spirits can be educated.

You know that? Yeah, it can be educated. Our spirit

can be built up in strength and trained just as

our bodies can be built up and trained. Yeah? If

you have friends who are into training, into gym, you know, some,

I know friends who can actually spend hours in the gym.

They can really just do their weights. They can exercise.

They can go on and on. Because you know what?

Their body is awakened. They're physical. You know, they just

have that capacity. They have that strength. And of course,

the mind willpower as well. It's not just the physical, right?

You need to have that, you know, the confidence, the courage.

Not to say confidence, courage, but the willpower, the discipline. Yes,

I can do this. Some people after 15 minutes or so, like, okay, thanks, bye,

I'm going to go back, right? So it takes that

amount of willpower. So the same thing, if we want

to be able to spend more time in the presence

of God, our spirit has to be awakened that we

can feel more of the Lord, yeah? So let's look

at a couple of scriptures here. I'm going to start

with Proverbs 20, 27. Okay, it says here, Proverbs 20,

27 says, The spirit of a man is the lamb

of the Lord, searching all the inner depths of his heart.

So can you see how important the spirit of the

man is? Because it enables the Lord to actually search

the depths of our hearts. You may be seated here

thinking that, oh, I know what's in my heart. I

know what's in their mind. But you know what? There

are many things that we still don't know. You know,

some people after years of journeying through, then they realize, actually,

I still have this unforgiveness to work on. or I

have this thing that I have to surrender. Because you

know what? The Spirit of God shows you that, you know,

you had this encounter many years ago and therefore the

searching takes place and then causes a stirring like, okay, God,

it's time for me to surrender. It's time for me

to let go, yeah? So that is what the Word

of God reminds us of what the Spirit of man is.

Let's look at more scriptures here in Romans 13 verses 11.

Romans 13:11

And do this knowing the time, that now it is

high time to awake of your sleep. For now our

salvation is nearer than when we first believed. So it

reminds us here that it's high time to be awake. Okay,

there's no more time for us to stay asleep, to slumber,

because God's time is coming really soon. It's not just

a matter of when we confess Him as our Saviour,

but His second coming is soon. So we've got to

stay awake, right? Isaiah 57, 15. For thus says the

high and lofty one who inhabits eternity, whose name is holy,

I dwell in the high and holy places with whom

has a contrite and humble spirit to revive the spirit

of the humble and to revive the heart of the

contrite ones. So God can only cause a working within

us when our spirit is awake. When there's such an

amount of humbleness and contrite heart, right? That whatever God

tells you, you can receive it. You can respond to it, yeah?

And I pray that all of us will be able

to get to that place of having a contrite and

humble heart before the Lord, yeah? Psalms 51.10, it says,

Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew

a steadfast spirit within me. Yeah, create in me a

clean heart. Revelations 3.2, it says, Be watchful and strengthen

the things which remain that are ready to die. For

I have not found your works perfect before God. Be

watchful and strengthen. Because if we don't strengthen the inner man,

if we don't strengthen the spirit of God within us,

one day it can die off. Yeah, it can die

off if you're not cautious enough. James 4.8, draw near

to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse

your hands, you sinners, and purify your heart, you double-minded.

So drawing near to God. And Proverbs 20.27, as we

read just now, the spirit of a man is the

lamb of the Lord, searching all the inner depths of

his heart. So time after time, there are so many

portions of the scriptures that we can see that God

reminds us of the spirit and how much we need

to guard and build it. just like we build our muscles,

just like we take care of our body, we need

to take care of our spirit as well. Having the

heart check time after time, yeah? So I'm just going

to share with you a couple of pointers, okay? How

can we build and train our human spirit? Number one

is to meditate in the Word of God. Yeah, meditating

in the Word of God. You know, there are many

spiritual men or women that we know of that they

spend a lot of time with the Word of God.

And that is why they can hear from the Lord, right?

That is why they can be able to impart, to prophesy,

to even interpret dreams because there's such a connection with

who God is as well, yeah? In fact, you cannot

develop spiritual wisdom without meditation, right? And God made that

fact very known to Joshua after the death of Moses, right?

When you read Joshua 1, verse 8, it says, This

Joshua 1:8

book of the law shall not depart out of your mouth,

but you shall meditate on it day and night and

observe according to all that is written, for that will

make you prosperous and you'll have good success. So that

was God's word very clearly to him when he took

over from Moses. It was not so much about where

you need to go or who do you need to

speak to, right? Or what you have to change. The

first thing that God told him was to meditate on

the word of God. Then you know how important it is, right?

For you and I to do the same as well

as you lead your own people, be it as a parent,

be it as a leader in your own capacity. The

word of God is what you need to start.

Off with, yeah?

And when we speak about meditating, what comes to your mind?

How do you meditate? Sit quietly. Yeah, right. Let me

just give you a little bit of meaning to what

meditation means. When we look at the Hebrew word of meditate,

it's called Haga. Haga means here it's active meditation. It's

a vocal practice. It's not just like what we know

now in the modern life, right? Where you need to

be silent, clear your thoughts from your mind. That is

what the world would teach us. But we look at

the biblical context and how the different prophets and leaders

in the Bible that we read from, this is how

they meditated, yeah? There are a few meanings to it.

The first one is to mutter the word, okay? Meaning

to speak under your breath, to whisper, yeah? So meaning

you just Keep saying the word of God, right? So

if you know, okay, draw near to me and I'll

draw near to him, you keep saying it out. So

you're in your car, you're by yourself, but you're just saying, yes,

the Lord will never leave me. The Lord will never

forsake me. So the more you're saying it, you're speaking

to your inner man. You're speaking to your spirit. You're

reminding yourself. And then along the way, it just becomes

part of you. So that's muttering the word. Or another

meaning to it is like the roar. There's another meaning

to haga, the roar, meaning how a lion roars. So

there's a time and place for us to declare the

word of God. You know, when we sing songs of praise,

when we declare the book of Psalms, for example, you

say it out loud. Yeah, because you want others to

also hear. You're proclaiming God's word. So there's a meaning

to that. And then there's this word rumination. It is

likened to the meaning of like how the animal chews.

If you look at a cow chewing the grass, it

doesn't just take one bite and then swallow. If you've

seen a cow, right? It keeps munching and munching and munching.

It enjoys the whole... flavor of the grass, right? And

I think that helps with digestion. They say the more

you chew, it helps with your digestion, right? I think

there's a number of times you need to chew your food,

you know, and then it helps with your old gut

and digestion. So the same thing is with the Word

of God. We're actually called to chew on the Word

of God, not just to read and then move on

to the next thing, but it's to keep munching on it.

Because some words that we read from the Bible can

be quite deep It can mean very different in different

seasons of our lives. So if you just rush through

or glance through, we are going to be missing out

the truth. We're going to miss out on what the

Lord is actually telling us. But if you just keep

munching on it, going back to it, you will see

and find pleasure in what the Word of God actually means.

So just knowing this, I think it changes the way

we look at what meditating the Word of God is.

Sometimes you may have the picture of, okay, I just

opened the Bible. I look at the Bible. And then

I just keep quiet. Well, there's time for silence as well.

But when we talk about meditation is meant to be active.

You're doing something actively. Yeah. So maybe that's a change

of how we can read the Word of God as

we go on. Yeah. It's not just read and move on,

but to sit on it. Yeah. To sit on it. So...

If we can just think about our exposure to the

Bible and how much we have read, how much of

the Word of God do we know? Know meaning it's

not just the head knowledge, but I know it in

my heart and I believe in it. That is just

a good heart check for all of us. Because if

you have been a believer for so long, then how

much is our exposure to the Word of God? I'm

not asking you whether you've read through the Bible. If

you've read through it, good, well done. Yeah, but it's

not just about finishing it from Genesis to Revelation, but

it's also being able to know the Word, apply it

in our own lives. When you go through different things

in life, could the first thing be, okay, what is

the Word of God telling me now? How is it

applicable to me? How can I find comfort in the

Word of God before I can even find comfort in others?

And all that can happen when we first meditate on

the Word of God. And the more you do it,

you're building your spirit. Right? The more you chew on

the Word of God, the more you ruminate on it.

And there are times maybe you just need to roar

out the Word of God when you're going through distress

and say, you know what? God is with me, has

overcome the world for me. When you speak it all out,

can you imagine how our spirit will feel? Right? It

influences how we feel and respond to who God is

to us as well. Yep. So that's the first thing that,

you know, we can start developing, meditating on the Word

of God. Now, are we good? Yeah. Now, the next

thing is to practice the Word of God. Yeah. Practicing.

In James 1, 22, it says, be doers of the Word. Um,

and when we look at, you know, the word, um,

you know, doing, um, doer, right? From the book of James,

let's see, let's look at James 1, 22. It says here,

but be doers of the word and not hearers only,

deceiving yourselves. There's three key points here. Firstly, be doers.

Don't be just hearers. And if you are only a hearer,

you'll actually deceive yourself. So it's not just a matter of, okay,

I hear and then I listen to it and I

do something. But if you don't do something about it,

if you're just a listener, you're actually deceiving your own self.

You can cause, you know, you can cause your own

self to stumble if you don't do something about the word.

That's exactly what it means. And when we look at

the word doer in Greek, right? I mean, Greek, it's

pronounced as poietes, P-O-I-E-T-E-S. What it means here, it's like

a poet. It comes from that translation, meaning you're a maker,

you're a producer or you're a creator. So when James

reminds us to be a doer, he's actually asking us

to be able to produce something from the word of God.

He's calling us to be able to actually create something

from the word of God. So now that you have

heard the truth, what can you do about it? Can

you multiply it through your life? You know, can you

put it into action that it's so real that people

can actually see, oh, this is what the word of

God actually means, right? So meaning it's calling us to

be like a producer. You know what a producer does, right?

You create, you write stories, you write lyrics, you have

actors and actresses. There's so much live in a performance, right?

And that's the same thing what a doer is called

to be. Can we produce from the word of God? Yeah. Yeah.

because it says here that if we remain as hearers,

we are actually deceiving ourselves. And in fact, that is

why sometimes some people can stumble when they interpret the

Word of God falsely. Because you know what? We're only

seeing the words here. And then we have our own

translation to it. And then we wonder, okay, why is

it like this? Or why isn't, you know, why is

God allowing all of this to happen? So we try

to reason things out and we ask questions. But what

James reminds us here is that when we leave the

Word of God, then you will understand why God is

telling us some things. Or how we see a promise

keeper because I am leaving it out and therefore I

experience Him. And it comes with an amount of faith

because we don't just do it because... I know what's

the outcome, right? But being a doer means I will

still take that step of faith to do it nevertheless, right?

If you look at an example here in Philippians 4, 6. Yeah,

most of us will know this scripture Okay, so it

says Be anxious for nothing But in everything by prayer

and supplication With thanksgiving Let your requests be made known

to God So take for an example, when we are

reading a scripture like this and we say, okay, God,

you asked me to pray. I come before you and

I pray. But if you're still having anxiousness and you're

still having worry, then you're not exactly being the doer

of the word, right? Because the word of God is

calling us first to be anxious for nothing. So meaning

when we come to God in that posture of prayer,

we need to say, God, I have all these concerns

in my mind, but I'm going to surrender to you

my anxiousness. I'm going to surrender to you my worry.

And this is my prayer. That is a true doer

of the word. And that is when you won't stumble.

Because when we keep worrying and we keep praying, and

when things don't happen, that is when we begin to

question the Lord and ask, you know, God, why is

it still not happening? And we get so disappointed, our

spirit goes down, you know? But if we truly take

the word of God, because it says in verse 7, right,

in the same scripture, And the peace of God, which

surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through

Christ Jesus. This is what we mean by chewing on

the Word of God, meditating on the Word of God.

Because if you look at this verse 6 and 7 itself,

there is so much truth in it. There's a reason

why God says first, be anxious for nothing, pray, and

then you will feel the peace of God. Because sometimes

if you just pray and still worry and wonder why

there's no peace, well, that's because we are just speaking

and choosing what we want, right? But when we want

to be the doers of the word, we've got to

be able to experience the fullness of what God gives

us as well. Yeah? So not to be anxious, but

to keep bringing all to the Lord. Amen? Yeah, so

an over-anxious prayer will just, you know, that itself will

bring down the spirit and the inner man that's within us. Yeah,

so let's be children of God that practices the Word.

If you could just ask yourself, when was the last

time I actually applied the word of God when I

was out there? Not just in church, because it's easy

to apply. If you're all believers, everyone's going to say

well done. But when you're out there, you're the only

believer in your workplace, and you're the only believer in

your family, and you still need to speak out God's word.

Would you still choose to do that? Would you still

be bold and courageous when God asks you to do that?

Would you still declare when your old team is saying,

you know, this is not going to work out. We're

not going to meet the deadline. You're going to say,

you know what? My God will come true because that

is what the word tells me. Yeah. So let's learn

to speak those truths because the moment you declare it,

there is power in declaration. Things will happen. You know,

things will happen. And in fact, you know, God likes

to also work in the midst of our pre-believers. I

remember when I went for this World Changes Conference, I

attended the workshop by Rachel and Alicia when they were

sharing about witnessing in the marketplace. And the two of

them are really powerful ladies. They have done so much

of sharing the gospel among their colleagues and their bosses.

And so one of them actually testified that when you declare,

when you pray to a pre-believing family, a friend or colleague,

you will see God moving even mightily because this is

way of actually drawing them to know Him, you know,

even in the midst of our cousins. And so they said,

and so they shared a couple of testimonies of how,

you know, they reached out, they prayed, and then you

know what? A testimony comes out of it. And that

itself opens up their heart to say, yes, I believe,

you know, your God is just someone different from what,

who I believe in, you know? So, but imagine if

you just hesitated and will this person actually believe? then

you're already stopping from God to do what He wants

to do through you, right? But if only you declare and,

you know, you will be healed because my God says

He can. God was going to use. And that itself

will lift up, not just their faith, but your faith

as well, right? To believe and know that my God

can do it. Yeah? So let's exercise that. Let's apply

that in our every day. I know life takes us on,

you know, when you start in the morning and before

you know it, it's night. But take time to just

pause and ask God, I am here at this moment

with my family, with my colleagues, with my friends. Can

you show me what to do to live out your word?

And if you can say those prayers, God opens up

doors and uses you in a mighty way. And sometimes

not even in big ways, but in the smallest way

of encouraging someone. And I think that goes a long way. Amen?

So let's practice the Word of God. Turn to the

person next to you and tell them, practice the Word

of God. Apply it. Children are very good in this.

You know, the moment you tell them something, they do it,

they catch it in ex-kids, right? So let's learn, you know,

to have that faith, childlike faith as well, yeah? All right,

now the next thing when it comes to building our spirit,

building our inner man is to give the Word of

God the first place, right? To give the Word of

God the first place. The training, the developing and the

educating of our spirit comes by giving the word first.

Number one, priority. Because if we don't see priority in something,

we can't activate it. Yeah. Yeah. the same thing is

with our spirit. If we cannot stir up our spirit

and say, okay, the word of God is important. It's

like how, I'm sure most of you are familiar with

using AI, right? When you use your chat GPT, when

you ask questions, you know, right? The more you feed

it is what it's going to answer you. And that

is why all our chat GPT can sound very different

because it's what you ask. So if you're asking more

about your work, it's going to give you more of

those kind of answers. If you're asking more of cooking

and recipes, then it's going to give you those answers.

In fact, the tone can sound like you. Did you

know that, right? It can sound warm like you or

more straightforward. I know of friends who sometimes call their

chat GPT and it becomes, okay, I'm sorry, I'll give

you exactly what you want because sometimes this AI can

also be giving too much of affirmation at the start, right?

You know, so some people don't want to waste time

and they say, okay, just give me the answer. So

it's the same thing with our spirit. What you feed

in your spirit is what's going to come out. If

you don't feed it anything, you can't expect your spirit

to actually say something or feel something out of it. Yeah?

And that is why the Word of God has to

come first place. It has to be a priority. So

that you're actually signaling to your body, to your soul,

what is important for me. When I go through trials,

when I go through challenges, I know that, okay, this person,

what's important for her is the word of God. And

so the response is going to be the word of

God instead of your logic.

Right?

Because logic can sometimes kick in very quickly. I have

to talk to this person. I've got to do this.

But if you have already kind of, you know, programmed

your spirit in a way that my word of God

is priority, that is what is going to come out

of it as well.

Yeah?

So it's about the word of God. In Proverbs 4.20,

it says, My son, give attention to my words. Incline

your ear to my sayings. Do not let them depart

from your eyes. Keep them in the midst of your

heart for they are life to those who find them

and health to all their flesh. It's powerful, right? It

says to keep in your heart because it's life. Truly,

it's the life warrior that keeps us going. Without the

word of God, we are just walking zombies. Right? We

just keep going and going. We can still function. But

is that true life? Because life is only through God.

He is the way, the truth and the life. And

it can only happen through His Word.

Yeah?

So let's find strength in that. God's Word is a

medicine to all their flesh. It's healing to the world.

If you're wanting healing, declare the Word of God. Never,

never take it for granted. Never take it, never belittle.

It's just... You know, how is it going to work

for me? The moment you start thinking that way, then

if God wants to move, it's still not going to

happen because you're already unbelieving, right? You're already saying, if

I pray also, I don't think it will work. A

pastor should pray, I think, better. If you start thinking

that way, then how is God going to use you, right?

The same power, all of us have it because we

all serve the same God, yeah? So a very good

check-in is our belief, our faith. When you want to

pray for someone, just pray with all your heart. God,

use me because you live in me. You are able

to heal and I'm just going to do that in faith, yeah?

So training yourselves, you know, and maybe the question that

you want to ask yourself, the first thing is, what

does God's word say about this? Instead of what, you know,

my friend is saying about this or what the world

or the boss is saying about it. Because it's easy

to go to their opinions. Because they'll always have something

nice to say, right? To affirm you, which is good.

but don't you think your creator should have the first

say right in your lives because he knows best sometimes

there's a place for correction that he gives you sometimes

there's a place of love but you just got to

keep going back to him yeah And this takes as

a habit. It comes with discipline. It's not something that

you can just develop overnight. You know, you need to

have just like everything else that you want to achieve

in life. If you want to train your spirit, it

has to come with practice. It has to come with

the devotion that you want to give as well. Yeah.

Now the next thing, the last point here in training

our spirit is obeying the voice of the spirit. This comes,

of course, at the next level. The moment you can prioritize,

the moment you can meditate on the Word, the next

thing is you can actually hear Him. That's a very

beautiful encounter. Do you know that? When you can just

hear and feel the prompting of the Holy Spirit. And

that's a gift that only you and I have because

we have full access with the Lord.

Yep.

You know, I have friends out there who can also be,

they're not pre-believers, but they can be very sensitive in

the sense where they just have that really nice, good,

I mean, they say the gut feeling or the right instinct,

you know, and they just do it. But I would

think that, yes, those things are what we have as

a person, as a physical. But don't you think we

have even more full access because we have a relationship

with the Lord? Yes. Right? And if you're not using

it to... It's like you having a VIP ticket, but

you're not using it. You still choose to sit at

the back and then trying to wonder where is the Lord. Right?

It's like we're missing that opportunity that God has already said,

you know what? Come, take the front seat. You have

full access. You can hear my voice. Why aren't you

listening to me?

Right?

We go and research and Google. There's so many things

out there, but just one... Nudge God, what is it

I need to do? And if he just tells you

and you do it, it'll make a whole big difference, right?

It saves you the whole figuring out and wondering and

the frustration. But it's like, okay, I'll just do this, Lord.

If you ask me to wait, if you ask me

to speak to this person, I'm just going to do it.

It's simple as that sometimes, you know, but we tend

to overcomplicate it. We overcomplicate it because of priorities at

the end of the day. Like I said, we spend

so much time on our body, our soul, but we

are not putting in enough effort when it comes to

our spirit. If only we can spend more time. I

can just imagine the amount of revival that we can

feel in our hearts because God is so close to us.

And we can see this in 2 Corinthians 5, 17. Therefore,

if anyone is in Christ.

He is a new creation. All things have passed away. Behold,

all things have become new. The moment you said, yes, Lord,

you're a new person. So if in your life, you're

still holding on to the baggages of the past, then

it's maybe time to bring it to the Lord because

it's not meant to bring forward. Yeah, if you're still

struggling to hear God, if you're still feeling the same

old person, then there's something not right. Right? You've got

to come to the Lord. Speak to someone about it.

Let someone journey with you because there's so much more ahead.

There's so much more God wants to do in you.

A new creation. Yeah, a new creation. It says in

1 John 4, 4, You are of God little children

and have overcame them because he who is in you

is greater than he who is in the world. What

more do we need when we know that the Lord

who is in us is greater than anything else, any situation,

any people, the most difficult person or boss you've encountered.

He is greater than that particular person. Yeah. So let's

try to invest on our spirit. Yeah. Let's try to

spend a little bit more time to communicate, to talk,

to be ministered. And when you do that, you'll be

able to also hear and obey. And of course, the

obeying takes a lot as well because you can either

choose to say yes or no, especially when He's trying

to challenge you, right? But that comes with faith, yeah?

That comes with a special devotion of wanting to experience

more of God, yeah? So as you give this newborn

spirit within you, the privilege of meditating on the Word

of God, to put it, the priority, your spirit will

actually become stronger. And your inward voice will be the guide.

It will be the guide and it will actually show

you what to do, what to say and where to go.

So church, let's desire that. Like Elaine reminded us, we're

only 10 weeks away from the year to end. Is

there something that you.

So fast, right?

Yeah.

Is there something that you want to say to the Lord?

You know, and when you started the year, maybe you

felt that, yes, there are many things that you wanted

to commit to. God, I wanted to read the Bible.

I wanted to hear you. Well, it's never too late.

Maybe life has taken a toll, but this could be

that day where you can still come back and say, God,

I want my spirit before I end this year. I

want my spirit to be more tuned in. The word

is tuning in, right? When you try to tune in

to a radio station, sometimes you have to change the

channels to get to that station you want, right? And

it takes a few pressing of the button sometimes. And

the same thing is with the tuning of the Word

of God as well. When you just tune in and

put down every other voice silent, then you'll be able

to hear and feel God even more. Amen?

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