Holy Spirit Our Advocate (327)

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Welcome once again to the Quality Christian Living

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Podcast. I am your host, David Friend. Today's

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topic is the Holy Spirit, our Advocate. Now what

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does it mean that the Holy Spirit is the Advocate

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and what is the difference between the words

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Advocate and Comforter, which is the topic of

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our last podcast. We'll look at several powerful

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scriptures about the Advocate and learn how our

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Advocate, the Holy Spirit, recommends and supports

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our needs. I'm excited. I hope that you are.

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Let's get into this after we pray. Heavenly Father.

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Once again, I thank you for who you are. I pray

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that you would bless this podcast, that you would

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anoint it, that the Holy Spirit would do what

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only he can do. I pray that you would bless this

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now, Father, and that the Holy Spirit would lead

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and guide and direct everything that we cover

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today. Now, I pray that you would touch those

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who are listening in, that they would receive

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from you, Lord, because they're obviously interested

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in hearing about the works of the Holy Spirit.

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So, I pray you would bless it. Now, take control,

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take complete charge of this, and I'll be careful

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to give you praise now for what's about to take

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place. In Jesus' name I pray, Amen. We all know

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that the Bible talks significantly about the

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Holy Spirit, and Jesus spoke about the Holy Spirit

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and the Apostles spoke. So, if you look in the

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Old Testament, you'll see the moving of the Holy

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Spirit throughout the Old Testament days. So,

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we really have a great topic here that is so

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important to our walk with God, and we want to

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learn a lot about the Holy Spirit, and we can

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only learn that when we get into the Word of

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God. When we get into God's Word, when we seek

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His Word, when we ask the Holy Spirit to reveal

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what it's telling us, us, then we will receive

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something very special. I pray right now that

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the Holy Spirit would come in and take charge

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of the scriptures that I'm reading. You inspired

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these Holy Spirits to be written by John and

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I pray that you would bless them now, that they

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would touch us, that these were written 2 ,000

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years ago but they're still so powerful and so

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alive. So I submit to you and I ask that you

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would help us as we read the scriptures to focus

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on those things that will help us understand

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the relationship between the Holy Spirit, our

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Advocate, and all of us who are followers of

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the Lord Jesus Christ. And so I pray that you

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would anoint it now. I'll thank you for it and

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I'll give you the praise. In Jesus' name I pray,

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amen. Well, I'm gonna start off just a little

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differently today because I don't want to assume

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that everyone here is a born -again believer.

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You all know Jesus Christ is your Lord and Savior.

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I'm sure the majority of you do. But if there's

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even just one person who's not certain of where

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they're gonna spend eternity, I wanna take a

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moment right now and have you pray with me this

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prayer so that you'll commit your life to the

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Lord Jesus Christ if you don't know know for

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sure whether you're going to heaven. You don't

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have to finish this podcast wondering about that.

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You can receive Jesus Christ as your Lord and

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Savior and you'll be changed from now through

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eternity. So I just pray that you'd listen to

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these words and then you'd repeat them in your

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own heart. Say, Heavenly Father, I need you.

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The word of God tells me that if I... give my

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life to Jesus, that he'll forgive me of my sins.

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And so I come to you now and ask that you would

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forgive me for the sins that I've committed.

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I'm sorry of these sins. I repent of my sins.

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And he asked you to come in and change my heart,

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make me a new creation. I believe that Jesus

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is the Son of God. He was born of the Virgin

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Mary. He suffered under Pontius Pilate. He was

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crucified, dead and buried, but he arose from

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the grave, and he arose so that he'd go to heaven

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and prepare the way for each and every one of

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us to be with him. This day, at the opening of

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this podcast, I received Jesus Christ as my Lord

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and Savior and I promised to serve Him all the

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days of my life. Now if you prayed that prayer

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and you meant it with a sincere heart, Jesus

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came into your life. The next step you need to

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do is find a good church, a good Bible preaching

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church, a church that believes in the Word of

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God and you need to get a Bible and get that

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Bible into your hand. I recommend getting a translation,

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the New Living Translation or maybe the Message

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Bible. These are languages that are more common

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to today and they're easier for new Christians

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especially to understand. So get the Word of

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God out. I would encourage you to read in the

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book of John the four gospels Matthew, Mark,

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Luke, and John. Read those and see what Jesus

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did as he walked this earth. So I just want to

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congratulate you and welcome you into the family

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of God. Get into a new church and I know God's

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gonna bless you. All right for those of you who

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already knew Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior

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I hope that you understand that from time to

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time we need to do as the Holy Spirit leads and

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if there's a time when I feel that there could

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be people listening in who are not sure if they're

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going to spend eternity in heaven or not. They're

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not sure of their relationship with Christ that

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we need to give them that opportunity. Quite

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frankly, I wouldn't be doing this podcast if

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there wasn't an opportunity to help people receive

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Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior. All right,

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in getting into today's topic about the Holy

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Spirit, our advocate, I'm going to read several

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scriptures and talk about them as the Spirit

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leads, and I hope this will help each one of

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us get a better understanding of what it means

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for the Holy Spirit to be our advocate and what

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does it really what an advocate does and what

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it means in our daily walk with the Lord. In

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John chapter 14 and verse 16 in the New Living

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Testament, Jesus said these words, and I will

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ask the Father and he will give you another advocate.

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Now that means there must have been an advocate

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before that and of course that was the Lord and

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Savior Jesus Christ. It says, who will never

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leave you. He is the Holy Spirit who leads into

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all truths. Now here we're seeing John write

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as he's being led by the Holy Spirit to write

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these words. We're seeing John bring forth the

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power of the Word of God to help people and to

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touch them and to get them to understand that

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there's another advocate. That is the one who

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stands behind us and stands beside us and stands

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with us and supports us and encourages us and

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also Jesus is telling the disciples that the

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Holy Spirit will never leave them, that he'll

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always be with them and that he is truth, he

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is nothing but truth and he will lead them always

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into truth. All right, now let's take a look

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at another scripture here and see what it has

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to say in John chapter 14 again, this time in

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verse 26 in the New Living Translation. Jesus

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is speaking again, so we want to listen up to

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this very carefully. Jesus said, but when the

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father sends the advocate as my representative,

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that is the Holy Spirit. He will teach you everything

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and will remind you of everything I have told

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you. Once again we hear the word advocate which

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is obviously our support and also the advocate

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is one who wants to teach us and help us and

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even remind us from day to day what the Word

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of God says but first we need to get the Word

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of God into our heart and into our mind so it's

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there then the Holy Spirit will bring forth that

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word to remind us of where we can receive strength

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where we can receive help and that he is our

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helper he is our advocate he's on our side and

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he wants to be with us and support us John knew

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that and so he knew he had to write about it

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Let's move on now to John chapter 15 and verse

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26 in the New Living Translation. Once again,

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these are the words of Jesus, but I will send

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you the Advocate, the Spirit of Truth. He will

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come to you from the Father and will testify

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all that is about me. Verse 27, and you must

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also testify about me because you have been with

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me from the beginning of time, or since the beginning

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of His ministry. Now, this is really important

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because what we're hearing here is that John

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is telling us that the Holy Spirit, our advocate,

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is here and Jesus is basically speaking these

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words. John's recording them and he's speaking

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the words to say that we must then testify about

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Jesus. We must talk to other people about the

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Holy Spirit. We must talk to other people about

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the advocate and explain to other people what

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we're learning in our daily walk and that's something

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that's kind of hard for Christians to do from

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time to time because we get busy, we get distracted,

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we get a little nervous and sometimes people

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are afraid to speak about what's happening in

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our life but it's important that we do that because

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when we do that then the Holy Spirit will bring

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to mind what we've already learned and then he

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will also teach us new things and he'll help

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us interpret the scriptures as long as we then

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testify about Jesus and talk of our relationship

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with Christ. Now that means we must testify about

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what Jesus has done in our life. Probably the

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best way to give a testimony is to tell people

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of who you were before you became a Christian

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and then tell them who you are today and how

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you think today and how things have changed and

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how different things are. are taking place in

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your life and how you rely upon the Holy Spirit

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to help you and how the Holy Spirit is always

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there and he has our back. He's blessing us,

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he's protecting us, he's recommending prayers

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to the Father who the Father receives and those

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prayers are the divine will of God and so all

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this needs to come forth so that we'll understand

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the power and the working of the Holy Spirit.

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In the first podcast in this series, I should

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say that one previous to this, we talked about

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the Comforter, how the Holy Spirit's always there

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to help us and comfort us and be with us. And

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that particular podcast, I think, was received

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in a very special way because I've had people

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already respond to me and tell me about how that

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touched them and helped them to receive the power

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of comfort and the peace that they lacked in

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their life and they needed to have. So the way

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that happened in the last podcast can happen

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in this one, and that is that we must understand

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that the Holy Spirit is our advocate. He is the

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one that supports us. He's the one that is always

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there, never leaving us, never forsaking us for

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the rest of our life. And here's one final scripture

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in this particular area of this podcast and it's

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written in 1 John chapter 2 and verse 1 in the

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New Living Translation and listen to these words,

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if anyone does sin, well that's all of us, we're

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all sinners and we're saved by grace, we have

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an advocate who pleads our case before the Father.

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Now there's a great example of how the advocate

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is there and when you know sometimes we just

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don't know how to pray, we don't what we should

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pray for, how we should pray, what scriptures

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we might use, or which words that we should say

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in each particular situation when we're praying.

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That's happened to all of us. But if we then

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submit and yield to the Holy Spirit who lives

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and dwells in us, and by the way, he comes to

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live in us when we receive Jesus Christ as our

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Lord and Savior, and I mentioned that for those

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who receive Jesus in the early part of this podcast,

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as soon as you accepted him, the Holy Spirit

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was sent into you to dwell inside of you, and

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he now lives with with you and will walk with

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you the rest of your life. Therefore, we must

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listen to Him. And if we listen to Him, then

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He pleads our case before the Father. He's like

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our attorney. He's the one who brings the case

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before the court, which would be God. And He

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pleads our case and helps us and prays for us

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and encourages us and helps us to walk in the

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Spirit and to walk in the love of God and walk

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in the precepts that we've learned from the Word

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of God so that our way will be pleasing unto

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the Lord. and the Holy Spirit is one to help

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us do that and then pleads our case to the Lord

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and he always desires for the Lord to give us

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God's divine will for whatever we're praying

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about and praying for. Okay, we need to move

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on now. The difference between the Comforter

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and the Advocate. Now, there is a little bit

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of a difference here, but it's one that's kind

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of important for us to understand. The Comforter

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provides encouragement and peace. The Advocate

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pleads for us when we need it. which is most

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likely every day. Both are the operations of

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the Holy Spirit. That's the beauty of it. In

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that case, that power is operating inside of

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each and every one of us who are followers of

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the Lord Jesus Christ. This tells us that the

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Holy Spirit has an unlimited arsenal of ways

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to help and bless and guide us. So when we have

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an advocate behind us, remember, there's an unlimited

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amount of things that the Holy Spirit can do

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to help us. He can put people in front of us

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that we need to speak to. He can help us to have

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conversations with people we thought we wouldn't

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ever have a chance to. to talk to them. He can

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bring families back together. We can pray for

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our children who don't know Jesus Christ as their

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Lord and Savior or they've gotten away from the

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Lord and they're now wandering around on their

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own and we can pray and ask the Holy Spirit to

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go to them and convict them of their need to

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come back to Jesus or to receive Jesus Christ

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as their Lord and Savior. That's the working

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of the Holy Spirit. He's an advocate not just

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for us but for those that we love, those that

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we pray for. We can pray for people and ask the

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Holy Spirit to give them comfort in the midst

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of their pain and their difficulties and their

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sickness and their illnesses, he can help people

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who are going through all kinds of trials. No

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matter what it is, the Holy Spirit can show up

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and do something amazing in their life. But that

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can only happen if someone is praying and believing

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and trusting God to do something for that individual.

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A lot of people might question what I'm talking

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about now. They might say, well, how can it be

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that you as an individual can pray that the Holy

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Spirit will go somewhere and will try and convict

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people? of their sin or help them and comfort

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them in their time of need. Well, the reason

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we can do that is because we're supposed to pray.

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We're supposed to believe and trust that the

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Holy Spirit can move upon people and convict

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people. Had the Holy Spirit not convicted me

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that I was a sinner, I would have never come

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to know Christ. And I know that there were people

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who knew me who were praying for me and believing

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for me. My grandmother was a Christian. She was

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praying for me. My mom and dad took us to church

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all the time when I was a kid. I know they were

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praying for me and I believe the Holy Spirit

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hears those prayers and then he then will go

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out and Convict people of their need to turn

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their life to the Lord Jesus Christ I believe

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that with all my heart and I think I can prove

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that as we continue to go through this series

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on the Holy Spirit The Holy Spirit has placed

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so much power in the Word of God and many scriptures

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that I've read are examples of the power that's

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in the scriptures, in these words, that when

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we repeat them and believe them, it can change

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our lives. In the prior podcast that I talked

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about, the Holy Spirit, the Comforter, I gave

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a couple scriptures about where we can receive

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strength. One was found in the book of Psalms

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46, verse 1, that God is a very present help

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in times of trouble. The other one was in Proverbs

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3, 5. These are all Holy Spirit -inspired scriptures

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where it says, trust in the Lord with all your

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heart, lean not on your own understanding and

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all your ways acknowledge him and he'll direct

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your path. Those are examples of the power placed

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in the Word of God for the Holy Spirit to be

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able to prove that he is there for us. He's an

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advocate for us. He is our supporter. There's

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another scripture that I think I need to read

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because it's so important that we receive this

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and understand that these words need to go deep

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into our heart, into our mind, and that we must

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believe them as much as we believe anything else

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that we can think of. We've got to read these

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scriptures, believe them, and operate them, and

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There's a lot of folks that come to me for help,

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and I'll ask them, well, have you been praying

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about it? And they'll say, well, yeah, kinda.

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And then I'll say, well, what does God's Word

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say about that situation? And they'll say, I

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don't know. I've not gone to the scripture to

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find out. Well, for every single thing that we

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face in our life, the Word of God has the answer

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to it. If you're being challenged financially,

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the Word's filled with it. If you've got marital

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problems, there's advice in the Word of God that

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Paul gave out in 1 and 2 Corinthians. There's

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advice that... the Holy Spirit gave those in

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the Old Testament in the book of Psalms and the

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book of Proverbs about wisdom and direction that

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a person who needs help can find that help and

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find that direction, that strength from the Holy

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Spirit if they'll just get that word in them.

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So here's another scripture I want to share with

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you, Romans 8, 31. If God is for us, who can

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ever be against us? Now that, I believe, says

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so much about the Holy Spirit being the advocate.

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That means if he's on our side, quite frankly,

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what difference does it make? Who's against us?

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If God is for us, and he is, and he's on our

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side, and he is, and the Holy Spirit is our advocate,

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and he is, then what difference is it if someone

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tries to attack us, or tries to verbally say

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something against us, or someone comes up against

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us? We can just take authority over them in the

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name of Jesus, rebuke that thought, not accept

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it, not receive it into our heart or our mind,

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and move on with our life. Some of you might

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say, that might sound easy to do, but it's tougher,

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but it's only tougher if we try to do it on our

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own. If we try to do it underneath the power

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and the anointing of the Holy Spirit and be led

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by Him and ask Him to help us and to lead us

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and to guide us and to pray for us and take it

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to the Father, then we have release that we have

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when we're under attack. Read the scripture again.

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If God is for us, who can ever be against us?

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Which means they have no hope of achieving anything.

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And so it's important we receive that, we understand

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it, we believe it, and we live by it. That scripture

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is telling us that no one can bring condemnation

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against us. Nothing can separate us from the

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love of God. So remember, that's part of the

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working of the Holy Spirit. That's why he is

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our advocate. Allow me to give you an example

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of what an advocate does. Twice a year, I serve

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as an advocate for an organization that is helping

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those individuals who have experienced kidney

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cancer. Now, I have experienced that in my life,

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and that's one of the reasons they contacted

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me. I'm a veteran, that's another reason they

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contacted me, and so I thank the Lord for that

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opportunity. I serve as an advocate for someone

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who supports and agrees with their mission, the

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mission that these people have. I think it's

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a great mission for research to find a cure for

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cancer. of the kidneys that is. I speak to my...

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political representatives in the United States

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Congress in Washington DC. I have an opportunity

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to speak to their office, either their assistants

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or them, and have that chance to say, I want

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you to stand up and support research for kidney

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cancer. It's a wonderful organization and one

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that I've been a part of for several years now

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and I'm honored to be one of the representatives

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from Arizona to be able to speak to those in

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Congress. Now I'm an advocate for those who need

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help to find a cure. That's just what the Holy

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Spirit does. an advocate for those who need help

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to find help. They need to find a cure for what

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they're going through, whether it be emotional

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issues, whether it be physical issues, whether

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it might be financial or marital or whatever

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it might be. The Holy Spirit can help us to find

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a cure. These people ask me to speak because

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I lost one of my kidneys, so therefore I'm in

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a position to understand what it's like to go

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through that and I have compassion for that.

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The Holy Spirit has compassion because he understands

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what Jesus went through when he was on the cross.

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Remember now that God the Father, God the Son,

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and God the Holy Spirit, the triune Godhead,

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are all one God in three persons. And the Holy

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Spirit knows what it was like, what Jesus went

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through, what he experienced when he went on

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the cross, and so he knew how to comfort Jesus.

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And I think that's just amazing that we can think

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that way. And if we can be an advocate for someone

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else, then I would... encourage you to do that.

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I want to be an advocate for this group because

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this group is doing something wonderful. The

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Holy Spirit wants to be an advocate for us because

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he wants our life to be wonderful. I hope that

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is a good example and I think it's one that really

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is close to my heart. Now in a similar way, the

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Holy Spirit deals with us in every area of our

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life as being an advocate. He is always available

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to us. Always. Jesus said that. He'll always

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be with you. As a pastor, I've heard Christians

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say that they can't find the Holy Spirit. It

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seems like they can't pray, and they can't seem

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to figure out exactly what the Holy Spirit has

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to say to them. And is He listening to them?

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And do they have His voice? Well, a lot of times

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when we pray and we ask for the Holy Spirit to

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help us, if we don't have any patience, then

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we'll just think that, well, He's not listening

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to us and we've got to get the answer that we

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want. Many times we want the answer that we want

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rather than what the answer that's best for us.

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That's why I believe many times God says no to

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one of our requests because he has something

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planned that's even better and we've got to understand

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that sometimes and many times people think that's

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just because the Holy Spirit's not listening

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to us because we're not getting what we want.

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What we want is one thing, what we need can be

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something. totally different. Now I read this

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scripture before and I'm going to read it once

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again very quickly. Psalm 46 1 that says here

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that he is a very present help in our trials

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in times of trouble another translation says.

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That means the Holy Spirit is there with us and

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he is a very present help because he is present

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in us each and every day. Now there are times

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when we may feel that God does not even hear

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prayers that just should automatically be answered.

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Well I know that God hears all of our prayers.

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Don't ever think that God doesn't hear your prayer

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because he does hear it. He always answers our

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prayers. He may say, yes. He may say no, he may

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say not now, or he may say that he has a better

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way. Whatever it might be, God hears our prayers.

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He is sovereign and we love him, regardless of

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what we're going through. We can't get upset

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with God. We can't get mad at God. We can't turn

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against God. I don't understand that when people

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say, I'm mad at God. Well, what good is that

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gonna do to be mad at God? I've never understood

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that. With all the trials I've had, the Holy

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Spirit has always helped me not to utter those

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words because there's no no absolute reason,

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there's no justification that we can be mad at

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God because he loves us greater than any love

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that anyone else has for us. And he isn't upset

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with us unless we're turning against him, unless

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we're not serving him. It says that he turns

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his presence away from people who are not following

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him or seeking him or need him if they're not

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following him. And so we've got to seek God.

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And if we seek him, we'll find him. If we draw

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near to God, the Bible says that he will draw

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near to us, and he does that through the working

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and the inner working of the Holy Spirit in our

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life. In my own life, I've experienced times

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when I had to just simply trust God, trust his

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word, trust his promises. trust in miracles,

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believe for them even when I didn't see them

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at first, and believe that God is in charge.

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When I faced medical issues, numerous cancers,

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kidney failure, all of it required me running

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to God for help. I've had many surgeries and

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all these things, and every time these things

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have happened, God shows up and He deals with

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me and He helps me. Sometimes I wish it was faster

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than others, but there's never been a time in

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my life that God has ever deserted me. And it's

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the same thing with all of us. He'll never leave

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us, and He'll never forsake us. That means never.

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That doesn't mean whether we're going through

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trials or not, doesn't mean whether we're going

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through a sickness or not. The Apostle Paul understood

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that. He learned that in prison. And I've used

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this example so many times, but it's such a great

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example, and that is, in the midst of Paul's

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trials, his greatest trials in prison, He wrote

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some of the greatest scriptures that we'll ever

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read. Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John were powerful

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scriptures, wonderful. They weren't written by

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Paul. Paul wrote the wonderful epistles, Galatians,

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Ephesians, Philippians. Those are all great.

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powerful scriptures that have such intense content.

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Well, all of those were written, the ones that

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Paul wrote, the epistles were written while he

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was suffering in the midst of his greatest trials

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and his greatest circumstances. And he at times

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said, you know, I've tried several times to get

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healed of a physical condition I've got, but

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regardless of whether God heals me or not, I'm

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going to serve him. Job said, though God slay

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me, I'll trust him. So when we're in the midst

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of trials, if I could stand in front of you,

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I'd say, please, please, please never Don't get

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upset with God. Don't get mad with God. Don't

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say that He doesn't love you or He doesn't care

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for you or that He's not hearing your prayers.

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He is there. He wants to help you. Allow the

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Holy Spirit to comfort you. The Holy Spirit is

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your advocate. He wants to give you comfort and

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love, and He'll do that if we just rely upon

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Him. Even after saying all that I've said, and

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I'm not upset in any way, shape or form, I just

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want people to know that... God is always a very

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present help in times of trouble and he's that

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way through the Holy Spirit and he's that way

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as your advocate and as the one to give you comfort.

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Now after my comments, I know that there'll be

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those, I'm sure a few, that may say, why doesn't

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God heal everyone all the time? Well, only thing

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I can say is God is sovereign. God is looking

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at his eternal promises for us. We will live

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here for only a few decades on earth, but thousands

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of centuries in heaven for eternity. With that,

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let's pray. Heavenly Father, I thank you once

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again for this podcast, for this opportunity.

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And I thank you for the Holy Spirit living and

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dwelling in us. And I thank you for the so many

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times that he's helped us, carried us through.

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The Holy Spirit is our comforter. He's our advocate.

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He's the one that stands in there for us. He

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helps us pray when we don't know what to pray,

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how to pray, and when to pray. But Father, I

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pray now, Lord, for those who are listening in,

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that they would receive this teaching today in

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a very encouraging way, a way that gets them

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to realize that the Holy Spirit is there to be

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our help and to be our guide and to help us to

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deal with whatever we face here on earth. And

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I pray that you would bless them. And for anyone

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suffering with an illness or sickness or whatever

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or has a loved one that's going through it, I

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speak healing. And I ask for the divine healing

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touch of the Lord Jesus Christ would reach out

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and heal their body physically. Those with emotional

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problems, I pray that the Holy Spirit would bring

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the comfort to heal those emotional situations,

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God, and bless them and keep them, Father. I

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believe, Father, that this has been a message

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that will change people's lives and touch their

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hearts, and I'll be careful to give you praise

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for it now. In Jesus' name I pray. Well, I hope

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that you've enjoyed this podcast. I have thoroughly

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enjoyed being a part of it because the Holy Spirit

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is our comforter and he is our advocate. So I

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pray that this is a blessing to you. If you'd

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like to know more about quality Christian living,

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you can go to my webpage at davidcfriendauthor

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.com and when you get there, there'll be a list

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of all the podcasts I've done over the last four

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years. This was the 327th and I know that you'll

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find many different topics and subject matters

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as you go through that. In addition to that,

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there's a list of the books that I've written.

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It might be of help to you. So I'm going to close

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this up now. But one last thing is, if you'd

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like to subscribe to my podcast, you can do that

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by going to cpnshows .com or wherever you listen

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to your podcast. Well, I'm looking forward to

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our next podcast, which has to do, obviously,

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with the Holy Spirit. And we're going to be talking

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about the gifts of the Holy Spirit. And we're

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going to talk about the fruit of the Holy Spirit.

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And we'll see how the Holy Spirit leads us and

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guides us there. So you might want to let your

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friend and family members know. If you know a

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lot about it, that would be great. can listen

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in. If you're not familiar with what the gifts

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and the fruit of the Spirit are, then I hope

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this will be a blessing to you as we'll do that

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over the next couple of podcasts. So thank you

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once again for listening to the Quality Christian

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Living Podcast, and I want to just give a blessing

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to you before we wrap it up today. I just pray

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that the Lord will bless you and keep you, that

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his face will shine upon you and be gracious

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to you and give you peace. And I pray that you'll

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prosper and be in good health even as your soul

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prospers. So I just want to say, may God richly

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bless you. May you realize the power. May all

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of us understand the love that God has for us

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and that he placed the Holy Spirit inside of

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us to give us hope, to give us comfort, to give

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us a source of strength when we need it. And

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Father, I just thank you once again for this

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opportunity and Lord I need you to help me through

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all these podcasts on the Holy Spirit. I know

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of all the series I've done this far exceeds

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all of them in my interest and my desire and

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how the Holy Spirit has helped me put these together.

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So in upcoming weeks I pray Lord that you would

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guide and direct the very steps that we take

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the thoughts we have and bless those who are

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listening in. May they gain knowledge in the

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Word of God. May they draw closer to you. May

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all of us learn how to walk and to live. in the

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power and the presence of the Holy Spirit. We'll

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be careful to give you praise and glory for it.

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Well, thank you again for listening in. I am

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your host, David Friend. This is Quality Christian

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Living. This has been podcast entitled, The Holy

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Spirit, Our Advocate. Thank you once again for

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listening in. See you next time.