Experience The Holy Spirit (361)

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Once again, I want to welcome you to the quality

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Christian living podcast. I am your host David

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friend today We're going to continue our series

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on the Holy Spirit and today's title is Experience

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the Holy Spirit now before I get into that we

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better pray because I think we need the The Lord

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to direct us and we do invite the Holy Spirit

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in to guide and direct everything we do heavenly

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father I thank you for your goodness. I pray

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you would bless this podcast and Holy Spirit

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I pray you would come in and take control for

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those who are listening in father I pray they

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would Experience what you want them to experience

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father and they will hear what you want them

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to hear I pray you would bless it now and anointed

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I ask for these things I ask in Jesus name. Amen

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Well, today we're going to talk about the experience

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in the Holy Spirit. So what do I mean by that?

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What am I trying to tell you when I'm telling

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you how to experience the Holy Spirit? Well,

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the Holy Spirit dwells in us. In 1 Corinthians

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6 19, it says, our bodies are the temple of the

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Holy Spirit. So therefore, He's there. Now, most

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of you who've heard me speak on this, you already

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know that, but there are always new listeners.

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So from time to time, we need to get down to

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some of the real basics to be sure everyone understands

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that we're all on the same page. the Holy Spirit,

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we need to be careful in our thought life by

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speaking the truth, by living in peace. by being

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joyful. You know, the Holy Spirit is here to

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bring us love, joy, peace, patience, goodness,

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kindness, gentleness, faithfulness and self -control.

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That's the fruit of the Spirit. He's here to

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help us and be our comforter and our advocate

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and the one that's on our side and the one who's

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got our back. So if we are followers of the Lord

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Jesus Christ, therefore we then automatically

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have the Holy Spirit living and dwelling inside

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of us. So in order to experience the Holy Spirit,

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though, we need to have the right attitude. We

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need to have the right mindset. We need to think

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about those things that are good and true. Philippians

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chapter 4 and verse 8 talks about thinking on

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truth and honesty and pure thoughts and just

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thoughts. These are the things I believe that

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trigger the Holy Spirit to move in our lives

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and to have a greater experience with Him each

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and every day. Now what is the spiritual condition

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of our thoughts? We might want to examine that

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for a second. Just just take a second here and

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think maybe you might put this on pause or something

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and just think about what is your thought life

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like? What do you think about it? Is it wrapped

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up with only things that are dealing with you

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and maybe not with other people? Is it something

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that you think about all the time? Is it how

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to be entertained? Or do you think a lot about

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how to help other people? Whatever your thought

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life is, it's going to have a great impact on

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the relationship that we have with the Holy Spirit

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and how we can learn to experience the Holy Spirit

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in a greater way than we can even imagine, even

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think. You see, we experience the Holy Spirit

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by making Him comfortable with our thoughts.

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One thing we certainly don't want to do is to

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grieve the Holy Spirit. In Ephesians chapter

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4 and verse 30, it says, don't grieve the Holy

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Spirit. So that means He must have feelings.

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He must have emotions. He must have those things

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that mean a lot to us as human beings. It means

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a lot to Him. Whatever concerns us, we need to

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understand it concerns God. Whatever we're happy

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about, it impacts our relationship with the Lord.

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Whatever we're sad about, it impacts our relationship.

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So therefore, if we have the Holy Spirit living

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and dwelling in us, which we do, then we need

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to understand that our thoughts, our actions,

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our reactions to things, whether we're at peace

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with other people, whether we can make up, you

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know, with people and apologize and ask for forgiveness

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and move on with our life, these are all things

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that help us experience the Holy Spirit the way

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God intended us to experience Him. So... I guess

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maybe I should just take a second and say, how

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do we grieve him? You know, that's a pretty heavy

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statement in Ephesians chapter 4 and verse 30.

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How do we grieve him? And we grieve him by being

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unpleasant, to be unkind, to be sarcastic with

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people, to have pride in our life, to have those

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things that are opposite of what the Holy Spirit

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brings. So we want to get that stuff out and

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move it out, and we can, but we can only do it

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through the strength and the power of the Holy

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Spirit. Bible says, greater is he that is in

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us than he who is in the world. He who is in

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us is the Holy Spirit. He who is in the world

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is the devil himself. And so we want to... please

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the Holy Spirit. We want to make him happy and

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comfortable being in our side of us and dwelling

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in us and therefore we will have a greater experience

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than what we might thought was possible. Now

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there are many ways to experience the Holy Spirit.

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He is interested in every area of our life. He's

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interested in our health, our physical health,

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our emotional health. He's interested in our

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finances, in our family relationships, in our

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marriage. Every part of our life the Holy Spirit

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is interested in and wants to have some action

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with us in every single part of everything that

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we do. He is the Comforter. That means He's there

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to bring that comfort when we need it. If you

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have someone pass in your life, the Holy Spirit

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then can bring comfort to you. When you're going

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through a challenge or a difficult time, a difficult

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circumstance, He can bring comfort to you. He's

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our advocate. That means He's on our side. He

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defends us. He's the one... Now obviously, if

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we do something wrong or we say something wrong,

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then He's going to chastise us, which is what

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He's supposed to do, because He's God. And God

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doesn't just constantly dwell in... happiness

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and joy and peace for people who then are frustrated

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and angry and upset and bitter and unforgiving

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people God can't deal with those people and his

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spirit can't deal with those people so the Advocate

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the Holy Spirit the Comforter the Holy Spirit

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is there to comfort us but also then to be on

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our side if we are lining up according to the

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will of God if we're following the Word of God

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the instructions, if you will, the manual that

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God made for us to live our life. If we follow

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that, that's the Word of God, then we can have

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the right relationship with the Holy Spirit.

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We need to let the Holy Spirit comfort us. That

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means we got to yield to Him. We need to surrender

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to Him. We can't just say, well, I'll do it my

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way. My way is the best way and I'll just do

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it this way and whatever. If we do that, we are

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then robbing the Holy Spirit of the opportunity

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to give comfort and direction for our lives.

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And we need to let Him protect us. That means

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don't put ourselves in situations like for example

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a Christian you know shouldn't not necessarily

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run around constantly with people who are angry

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and upset and bitter and swearing and angry people

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that that hate God and all that if you're around

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those people it's gonna wear on you and the Holy

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Spirit then can he can help us in the middle

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of that Jesus obviously he interacted with good

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people and bad people but then that's Jesus now

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we as individuals need to guard ourselves around

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the company that we keep, the people that we

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spend time with can have a great impact on us.

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Let me give you an example of that. For many

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years, my wife and I went to church together,

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and we still do, of course, but for many years

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we went together and we'd meet people and friends,

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and there was one particular fellow that I got

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to know, and he was kind of a negative guy, and

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kind of a guy that was always finding the negative

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side of things. He was a nice fellow in a lot

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of ways, but he just seemed to always drift towards

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what's wrong, what's wrong, what's wrong, rather

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than what's right with things. My wife could

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always tell when I had been around him. I'd come

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home from work, and maybe I'd had lunch with

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him, and I might make some comment or say something.

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She'd say, oh, you've been around this gentleman.

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I won't say his name. I could tell you've been

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with, what's his name? And let's say his name

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is Mike. It's not, but let's say his name is

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Mike. She'd say, I see you've been around with

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Mike. Evidently, you know, I can tell that you're

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just a little short with things, maybe, and you

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seem to be bothered about some things, and you

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seem to be a little cantankerous. And I would

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tell her, really? Is that obvious? And she'd

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say, no question about it. Well, that's what

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I'm referring to. We've got to avoid being around

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people like that, who draw from us and draw us

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into their way of thinking. And the Holy Spirit

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will help us with that. We grieve the Holy Spirit

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when we put ourselves in the presence of negative,

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hateful people, and angry people. but we certainly

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don't grieve him. We make him pleased and happy

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with us when we're around people who are filled

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with joy and filled with the love of God in their

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life. So anyways, enough said about that, but

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I just think it's important we need to understand

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that we need to experience the Holy Spirit, but

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the people we spend time with will have a great

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impact on that. To experience the Holy Spirit,

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we must expect and anticipate with expectations

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good things are going to happen. to experience

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the Holy Spirit, we need to believe in the scripture

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where Paul, the apostle Paul says that he calls

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forth those things that are not as though that

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they are. Instead of looking at the negative

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things, the things that are not, Paul looks upon

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those things that are. Paul likes to look at

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the answer to prayer rather than the challenge

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we're going through. Now Paul prayed for people,

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he anointed people, he had the gift of healing,

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and people were healed, and all these wonderful

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things, but he knew that he knew that he knew

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that we needed to expect, to anticipate that

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God's Word was true, it was real, and that Jesus

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the Healer would show up, and that the Holy Spirit

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would be there to help each and every one of

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us. So we must expect and anticipate. good things

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are going to happen to us. And I think that was

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an evangelist one time, that was his slogan on

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TV. As soon as he'd come on the TV, he'd say,

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something good is going to happen to you today.

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And what a wonderful, positive way that is, and

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to influence and help the Holy Spirit, and to

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help us have a better experience with the Holy

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Spirit. Now, to experience the Holy Spirit, we

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must encourage Him. Now you say, how in the world

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do I encourage? The Holy Spirit. Well, we need

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to think good thoughts. We need to think about

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what he provides. Love, joy, peace, patience,

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goodness, kindness, gentleness. When we... Demonstrate

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love and joy and peace and goodness and kindness

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and gentleness and faithfulness and self -control.

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When those things are operating in our life,

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then we are encouraging the Holy Spirit. And

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some people might say, well, you can't encourage

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the Holy Spirit. Oh, yes, you can. If you can

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grieve Him, you can also encourage Him. And I

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believe in that. I think we can do that. To experience

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the Holy Spirit, we must delight ourselves in

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Him. The Word of God tells us if we delight ourselves

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in the Lord, then He'll give us the desires of

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our heart. On the other hand, the Word of God

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is basically saying there that if you delight

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yourself in your desires, things aren't going

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to work out well. But Scripture says, delight

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yourself in the Lord, and then God, the Lord,

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will then give you those things. All these things

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will come to you. The Bible says to seek ye first

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the kingdom of God in his righteousness, and

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then all these things shall be added unto you.

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This is the way we experience the Holy Spirit,

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seeking God, delighting ourselves in God, and

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the Holy Spirit will operate with that, work

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with that, and it will increase our relationship

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with the Holy Spirit and we'll experience Him

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in a greater way than we thought was even possible.

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Matter of fact, let me read that scripture to

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you that I just quoted. It's in Psalms. chapter

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37 verse 4. Delight yourself in the Lord and

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he will give you the desires of your heart. So

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maybe somebody needs to know where that particular

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scripture is, so I figured I'd better just go

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ahead and read that to you. Let's continue on

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now. To experience the Holy Spirit, we need to

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ask Him for the baptism of the Holy Spirit. Yes,

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you can. You can ask Him for the gifts of the

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Spirit. You can ask the Holy Spirit for the fruit

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of the Spirit. You can ask the Holy Spirit to

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baptize you with the Holy Spirit to receive your

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heavenly language that you can pray in the Spirit.

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And when you're praying in the Spirit, you're

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praying the divine will of God. Now the baptism

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of the Holy Spirit with the evidence of your

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prayer language is opposite of the gift of tongues

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with interpretation. The gift of tongues and

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interpretation is a gift from the Holy Spirit

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to help us with a group. But the baptism of the

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Holy Spirit where we have our prayer language

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where we have this time where we don't know how

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to pray and don't know what to pray about and

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we can get along with the Lord and be meditating

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on the things of God and reading the Word of

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God and the Spirit of God can come out upon us

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and then we start praying this heavenly language.

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You don't need to know what the words are because

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those words are the divine will of God. So I

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believe we experience the Holy Spirit if we ask

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Him for and receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit.

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Now, let me give you the story. I probably have

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given it to you in the past on a prior podcast,

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but it's always a good story about my experience

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being baptized in the Holy Spirit. My wife and

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I got saved. We both were found in Jesus Christ,

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our Lord and Savior. I was a few months after

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her. I was a little slower than she was in turning

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her life over to the Lord. But after she got

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saved, then she desired to have the baptism of

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the Holy Spirit. So she received her prayer language.

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And I would hear from time to time, she'd be

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praying and I'd hear her praying in this language,

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just foreign language. And I would talk to her

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and say, well, what's that? And are you going

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to do that a lot? And she would show me in the

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Bible where it was. And I thought, well, that's

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real then. I said well that's good for you, but

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I think maybe I'll hold off so she started praying

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and she said I prayed and I prayed that God would

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fill you with the Holy Spirit in a big way and

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that you then would understand and then we would

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be in agreement on this so she would pray about

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it and pray about it and had other people praying

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about it and then one night in the middle of

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night I woke up and I felt the power of the Holy

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Spirit all over the house and so I walked down

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to the living room and I got on my knees and

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say God I want whatever you want for me. Whatever

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you have for me, whatever you desire for me to

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have in my life, I want it. I want to get closer

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to you. I need the Holy Spirit. As soon as I

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said I need the Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit

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just fell all over me. And I was what they call

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slain in the Spirit. I literally fell down by

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myself in a very gentle way on the carpeting

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in our family room. And I laid there and I started

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praying in my heavenly language. And I prayed

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and I prayed and I prayed. It was not screaming

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or loud or whatever. It was just simply a wonderful

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time where the Holy Spirit was filling me with

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the baptism and I prayed and I prayed and I prayed

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and it went on and on and on and I think it went

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on for quite a while maybe an hour or so because

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all of a sudden I it was like I woke up from

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this dream it wasn't a dream it was reality and

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I walked back into bed and went back to sleep

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and thought that was wonderful and the next morning

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I didn't say anything to my wife and I didn't

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say anything for a week or so went by and but

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I would be by myself and I would be praying and

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then one time in church we're in church and we're

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worshipping the Lord and all of a sudden I started

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praying quiet to myself but to where my wife

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could hear it and I was praying in the spirit

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and after church she said you didn't tell me

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and I said tell you what well that you got filled

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with the Holy Spirit that you received your prayer

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language the baptism of the Holy Spirit and I

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said no I just didn't think that I should." And

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she said, well, she said, tell me the story.

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So I told it to her and she said, you know, thank

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you, Lord, that you answered her prayer. But

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that was my experience in it. And some people

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have various other ways. My wife was filled with

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the Holy Spirit with her heavenly prayer language

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while she was driving down the freeway, just

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listening to Christian music. And as she's driving

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down the freeway, our little four -year -old

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son was sitting beside her and she started praying

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in the Spirit. And she said, when she started

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praying the Spirit, all of a sudden she thought

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her son, our son is sitting beside her and he's

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looking at her and his His eyes are wide open,

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his mouth's kind of open, and she said, Ed, are

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you okay? And he says, oh yes, Mommy. He says,

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I know it's the Holy Spirit. He's all over you.

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It's Jesus. It was so wonderful to see he, the

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Holy Spirit, gave him comfort. Now he's four

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years old. and he knew this was a good thing

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and he knew that mama was being blessed. So those

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are two of our experiences. And matter of fact,

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some of you who've been baptized in the Holy

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Spirit and you have this beautiful prayer language,

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you should let someone else know how it happened

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and why you desired it and why and what it has

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done for your relationship with the Holy Spirit

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and experiencing the Holy Spirit in a greater

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way. Now experience the Holy Spirit, experiencing

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Him is God's will for us. Amen? It is. It's God's

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will for us. Jesus said in Acts chapter 1 verse

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5, be baptized in the Holy Spirit. The Apostle

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Paul wrote in Galatians 5 16 in the New Living

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Translation. So I say, let the Holy Spirit guide

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your lives. Then you won't be doing what your

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sinful nature craves. So the Apostle Paul talked

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about it. Jesus talked about living in the Spirit,

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walking in the Spirit, and experiencing a greater

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depth of our relationship with the Holy Spirit.

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To experience the Holy Spirit daily, we need

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to seek Him daily. If we want to sense that His

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power is operating in us, then we need to be

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aware of Him, and we need to invite Him into

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our discussions. Now, I've said this before several

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times, I don't even like to have a podcast that

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I do unless I invite the Holy Spirit to come

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in and take control. I like to surrender what

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I've done, my preparation, to Him, and I want

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Him to guide my life. I don't want to drive out

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of the driveway without saying, Holy Spirit,

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direct me and take me in the direction that I

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should go. Obviously, I know I'm going to drive

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somewhere, but sometimes I want the Holy to tell

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me if I'm supposed to drive a certain place or

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drive by a certain place or by driving down a

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certain street I might think of a person who's

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living there that needs a call that I should

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call them I believe the Holy Spirit is directing

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that so we need to ask him so experience the

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Holy Spirit is God's will for us but we have

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to experience him daily and seek him daily We

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experience the Holy Spirit through the gifts

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of the Spirit. I've talked a little bit about

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that today about the fruit of the Spirit, but

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all the gifts of the Spirit, the power gifts,

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the tongues and interpretation of tongues and

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prophecy and healings and miracles, all those

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powerful, wonderful gifts are available to us.

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And we can experience the Holy Spirit through

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these gifts. If you have questions about them

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and you need to know where to read, I would encourage

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you to go to 1 Corinthians chapter 12. And if

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you read that and study it and read and study

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it and pray about it, then the Holy Spirit, then

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you'll be opening yourself up to receive what

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the Holy Spirit has for those. And the Holy Spirit

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is the one that gives the gifts out. He's the

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one that gives the power gifts according to whom

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He chooses and when He chooses. And so you'll

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find that in 1 Corinthians chapter 12. So with

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that, we need to experience the Holy Spirit by

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seeking Him. You know, in the world today, there's

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a lot of stuff going on, a lot of confusion,

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a lot of dissension, a lot of political parties

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fighting with each other. There's a lot of sickness

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and disease, just so much turmoil going on in

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the country today. And as Christians, as followers

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of the Lord Jesus Christ, we need to rely upon

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the comforting strength of the Holy Spirit. And

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we've got to find it somewhere. And the best

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way I know of finding it is through prayer and

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seeking the Lord and reading the Word of God.

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Paul wrote about this in 2 Corinthians chapter...

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1 verses 3 and 4 and when he wrote about this

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he's given us a definition an explanation of

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how to receive comfort in times of difficulties

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and trials listen to these words blessed be the

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God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ the Father

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of mercies and the God of all comfort who comforts

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us in all listen that all our tribulation that

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we may be able to comfort those who are in any

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trouble with the comfort which we ourselves are

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comforted by God. Listen to that. With the comfort

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with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

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So God's Word offers comfort. The Holy Spirit

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is comfort. Yesterday, I went to visit someone

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in a hospital, a good friend, and he's really

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going through a lot of physical problems, an

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extremely challenging life he's having right

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now with physical issues. Prior to that, he wasn't

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unhealthy, he was doing really well, but he started

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having physical issues, and started having strokes,

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and started having seizures, and all types of

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things, and it just kind of continued on. And

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as I was with him, talking with him, he said,

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you know, this is difficult, I've never experienced

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anything like this. And I said, well, that's

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when we need to call upon the Lord, call upon

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the Holy Spirit to bring comfort. And I said,

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because Jesus said that he would send the Comforter.

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And he's here. He's in this room right now. He's

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living inside of you, I was telling the fella.

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And when we prayed, I asked the Holy Spirit to

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come and give comfort and give peace and give

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him the peace of God that passes all understanding.

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And that peace would guard his heart and his

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mind in Christ Jesus. Anytime we're going through

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troubles and trials, there's a battle over our

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mind. There's a constant battle going on. The

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devil's trying to confuse us and put doubt in

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our mind and make us feel uncomfortable. We're

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gonna die, or we're gonna lose this situation,

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or we're gonna lose this battle, or whatever,

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we're gonna lose our finances, our marriage is

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gonna go under, or whatever it might be. The

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devil's always on that side, but the Holy Spirit's

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on the other side. He's saying, no, I'm a very

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present help in times of trouble. I'll never

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leave you, and I'll never forsake you. In the

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words of Paul that said, blessed be the God and

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Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of

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mercies, and the God of all. Comfort. Those scriptures

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bring forth, I believe, an anointing from the

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Holy Spirit in us to deal with all the challenges

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we face. My friend and I was talking with him

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and we were praying together. I could just see

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a change in his face. You could just see that

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he was, that a lot of the trouble was being removed.

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Oh, he still had his physical problems and he's

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still going through the challenges and he's probably

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going to be in the hospital for quite a while

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yet. But bottom line, he started to feel that

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comfort. It wasn't from me, it was from the Holy

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Spirit. It was from speaking the word of God

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in praying and calling upon the Holy Spirit to

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help and give that comfort. We need to know in

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our walk with God and trying to experience the

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Holy Spirit that we need to allow the Holy Spirit

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to cover us, to overtake us, to surround us,

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to encapsulate us if you will, to be every part

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of what we have in our life. He needs to be there

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and we've got to surrender to him and yield to

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him and ask for him to come in because we need

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to experience the Holy Spirit in a greater way

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than ever before. Allow me to start to close

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this podcast now by basically looking at just

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a few more suggestions to experience the Holy

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Spirit. Read about Him in the book of Acts and

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in chapters 1 and 2 and in 1st Corinthians chapter

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12. We need to understand that He lives in us

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right now, right where He is. Think about that.

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We need to be still and wait upon the Holy Spirit.

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We need to expect the gifts of the Spirit. the

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fruit of the Spirit to operate in our life. We

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need to acknowledge Him as our source for wisdom

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and for knowledge. When we speak on the Holy

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Spirit, you know, when I make a comment or I

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teach a class or I speak to a group, they want

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to hear about all the nine power gifts and they're

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wonderful. No wisdom, knowledge, faith, healing,

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miracles, prophecy, discerning of spirits, tongues,

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interpretation of tongues, all those gifts they

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want to hear about. And that's wonderful and

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that's good. The power gifts are amazing and

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I've been blessed with several of them in my

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life, how the Holy Spirit Spirit has given me

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those at moments at certain times. But experience

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the Holy Spirit daily should be our priority,

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daily through his peace, daily through his comfort,

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daily with our interactions with him. We need

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to seek the giver of the gifts, not the gifts,

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as much as the giver of the gifts. That's God

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the Father, the Lord Jesus Christ, and the Holy

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Spirit. With that, I know that we can experience

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a greater walk with God. We can experience a

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closer relationship to the Holy Spirit, and He

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will manifest in our lives and make a radical

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change in everything that we do. So with that,

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let me just close by praying. Heavenly Father,

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I pray, Lord, that you would bless those who

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listen to this podcast. A little unusual, a little

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different type of podcast than I normally do.

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Lord, it's been kind of like just a fireside

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chat. But Lord, I hope that you will use this

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and that it has gone into the hearts of those

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people who have And I pray, Lord, that we will

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all grow in our walk with you. We'll grow in

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as we experience the Holy Spirit, as we build

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a relationship with the Holy Spirit, because

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only good things can happen from that. And I'll

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thank you for it, and I'll be careful, give you

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all the praise and glory for it now. In Jesus'

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name I pray. Amen. Well, I hope this has been

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a blessing to you. I've thoroughly enjoyed doing

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this today. And if you'd like to know a little

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bit more about the Quality Christian Living podcast,

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you can do that by going to my webpage at davidcfriend

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.org. when you get there you'll see the front

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page shows a link to all my podcasts so if you'd

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like to know more about what we do and what the

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podcasts are about there's a list of some 360

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podcasts in there and lots of topics various

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topics that I hope be a blessing to you in addition

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to that if you'd like to know more about me as

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an individual you could just Scroll down on my

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web page to the next page and show a list of

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books that I have on Amazon that I've written

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on faith and on help for veterans and on Finances

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and just basically a plethora of topics that

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I think would be a blessing to you So I hope

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that you'll do that if you'd like to subscribe

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to my podcast you can do that by going to CPN

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shows comm or wherever you listen to your podcast

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so once again I hope that this has been a blessing

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for you, and I would appreciate it if you would

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take a moment and If you've enjoyed this, if

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you've been blessed by this, just take a moment

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and rate and give us a review of the podcast.

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It really does help us to make connection with

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people. We can ask you to leave a review on Apple

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Podcasts or Amazon Music or Charisma Podcast

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Network, or just give us a star rating on Spotify.

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So if you do that, whatever you choose to do,

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it'd certainly be appreciated and thank you once

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again for your support. You know, kind of look

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to the future. I've got a number of podcast topics

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that I've been thinking about. and so just to

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kind of plant a few seeds in your mind. We're

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going to talk about in future podcasts how the

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Holy Spirit brings strength and the Holy Spirit

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brings joy. He helps us leave a great legacy.

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He helps us in making the right decisions. He

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helps us in our finances and the Holy Spirit

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helps us to set goals in our life and then helps

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us to accomplish those goals that he's given

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us. And he also defeats fear and he brings the

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promises of God to us and all and on and on I

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could go on and on I'm just gonna stop right

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there so I hope that that will spark some interest

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in your in your thoughts and about the Holy Spirit

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and if you have some friends or family members

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that would like to maybe join us I'd like to

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have you invite them to be a part of the Quality

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Christian Living podcast and I pray that the

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Holy Spirit will direct you and bless you and

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help you in all that you do so with that I'm

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just gonna wrap this thing up and pray a blessing

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over you is what I do at the end of each podcast

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because I believe that's the Holy Spirit wanting

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us to lead people with a blessing and lead people

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with hope. So I pray that the Lord will bless

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you and keep you and that he'll make his face

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to shine upon you and that he'll be Generous

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to you and prosper you and that you'd be in good

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health and that your soul would prosper and that

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he would give you peace That God's grace would

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be sufficient for everything that you need. I

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just pray that'll take place in your life So

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once again, I want to thank you for tuning in

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to the quality Christian living podcast I am

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your host David friend. I look forward to upcoming

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podcasts dealing with the Holy Spirit May God

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richly bless you in all that you do. Thank you

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again for listening in