How To Experience The Holy Spirit (343)

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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. We're continuing our series of studies

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on the Holy Spirit. Today's topic is how to experience

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the Holy Spirit. We've got a lot to cover today,

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so let's just move in right with it. We will

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show the steps that we must take in order to

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experience the Holy Spirit and to learn how to

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receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit and learn

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how to receive everything that the Holy Spirit

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has for us. We're going to expect to receive

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a greater portion of a Holy Spirit -led life,

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so there's so much to cover, but let's pray first.

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Heavenly Father, thank you for this day. Thank

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you for the gift of the Holy Spirit. Thank you

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for who you are. I pray you would bless now this

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podcast, and I invite the Holy Spirit now to

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take control, to move in, and guide and direct

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everything that's said today. And for those who

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are listening in, for those who have a desire

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to have a greater experience with the Holy Spirit

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or to understand how the Holy Spirit wants to

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operate in their lives, I pray that you would

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open their hearts and open their minds, that

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they would receive the fullness of your love

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the fullness of your blessings, the fullness

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of your promises. And I just pray, Lord, that

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you would send the Holy Spirit now to fall down

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upon all of us and guide us and direct us, because

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it's such an important part of a Christian's

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life. I pray that you would bless us now. And

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I'll be careful now, always, to give you praise

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and glory for what's about to take place. For

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ask these things now, in Jesus' name I pray.

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Amen. Well, to understand the purpose of this

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podcast, let me start with reading from John

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chapter 16 and verses 12 through 15 in the New

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Living Translation. Jesus is speaking here. He

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says these words in verse 12. There is so much

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more I want to tell you, but you can't bear it

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now. He was telling them, you can't handle everything

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that I've got to tell you. In verse 13, it says,

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when the spirit of truth comes, he will guide

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you into all truth. He will not speak on his

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own, but will tell you what he has heard. He

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will tell you about the future. Verse 14. He

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will bring me glory by telling you whatever he

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receives from me. Verse 15. Now the reason I

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read that scripture is because we're talking

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about how to experience the Holy Spirit, how

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to be able to walk and live and experience every

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day the power and the presence of the Holy Spirit

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in our life and that's such an important part

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of it because Jesus was making this promise and

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he's telling us that when the Spirit comes he's

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going to guide us into all truth. You see the

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Bible tells us that when we receive Jesus as

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our Lord and Savior, the Holy Spirit comes to

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dwell in us. Now there is something about the

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Holy Spirit we call the baptism of the Holy Spirit.

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There are things we talk about about the Holy

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Spirit called the fruit of the Spirit and the

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gifts of the Spirit and the nine power gifts

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of the Spirit. I've covered all of these in prior

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podcasts. Matter of fact, I did a whole series

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of teaching on the gifts of the Spirit and the

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power gifts of the Holy Spirit, so you can go

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back and refer to those if you'd like to in prior

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podcasts. But I would like to focus kind of a

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general statement today about how to experience

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the Holy Spirit and we need to continue to have

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that experience in our life. Some people say

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that well that ended when the Apostles were around

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and when the disciples were there and it kind

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of came and then it went and it just hasn't happened

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since. Well that's just not true because the

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Word of God is the same yesterday, today and

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forever and the operation of the Holy Spirit

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is the same today as it was back then. It's whether

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we yield to Him and we allow Him to take over

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and take charge of our lives. You know we read

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about more of the experience experiences of the

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Holy Spirit in the book of Acts. I'm going to

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read a couple of sections that I think will be

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helpful to you in Acts chapter 1 and verse number

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4. And I think we'll also read verse 5. I think

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they are so important together. Once again, this

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is the book of Acts chapter 1 verse 4 and 5 in

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the New Living Translation. Once he was eating

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with them, he commanded them. This is either

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saying Jesus sent them to do this. Do not leave

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Jerusalem until the Father sends you the gift

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he promised as I told you. before John baptized

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with water but in just a few days you will be

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baptized with the Holy Spirit now what's so interesting

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about that is that these people were already

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followers of the Lord Jesus Christ the Holy Spirit

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had come to dwell and live inside of them their

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bodies became the temple of the Holy Spirit just

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like ours do and so it's important we understand

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that because then he says in a few days he says

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you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit so

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that means there's another step there's another

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experience that we can have and I'll cover that

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in just a little bit but first let's look at

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another scripture here in Acts chapter 2 and

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verses 1 through 4 in the New Living Translation

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listen very carefully to this we're laying the

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foundation the groundwork for what we're talking

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about today on the day of Pentecost all the believers

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were meeting together in one place suddenly there

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was a sound from heaven like the roaring of a

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mighty windstorm and it filled the house where

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they were sitting then what looked like flames

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our tongues of fire appeared and settled on each

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one of them and everyone Present was filled.

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Here it said everyone present was filled with

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the Holy Spirit and began speaking in other languages

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as the Holy Spirit gave them this ability. So

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here we're seeing another experience with the

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Holy Spirit that the Holy Spirit now is moving

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into them and causing them to experience a greater

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relationship with the Holy Spirit. And then as

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we read along in Acts chapter 2, let's go down

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to verse 17. Peter is preaching to the crowd

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and here's what Peter said. It's found in Acts

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chapter 2. Now there's a lot more scriptures

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to read about and I would encourage you to read

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the book of Acts chapter 1 and chapter 2. They're

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so important to understand the very beginning

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of the of the Holy Spirit or the baptism of the

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Holy Spirit. We see this in operation in the

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scriptures that I just read you and also the

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gifts of the Spirit are in operation. This is

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experiencing the Holy Spirit. This is the type

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of things I want to talk about that we can have

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in our life operating in our lives today. Now

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there are many ways we can experience the Holy

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Spirit. That means know that he's alive and well

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in us and helping us and guiding us and directing

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us. He is interested in every area of our life.

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Now it doesn't matter what you Take to the Lord,

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if it's important to you, it's important to God.

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It doesn't matter how simple you might think

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it is. Once again, if it's something that's in

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your mind you were thinking about, something

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you need to talk about, we need to take it to

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the Lord and ask the Holy Spirit to help us and

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guide us and direct us. Because I believe, like

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I said before, he is, the Holy Spirit is interested

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in every area of our life, whether it be finances,

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whether it be health, whether it be marriage,

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whether it be careers, whether it be going to

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school, whether it be dating, whether it be raising

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children, whatever it may be. might be the Holy

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Spirit is interested in every single area of

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our life and He wants us to experience Him to

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handle all these issues and all these various

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levels of experiences that we'll have in our

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life. The Holy Spirit is the Comforter, our Advocate.

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That means He's got our back, He's got us covered.

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He does not want us to try to handle things on

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our own or our way. It's so important we understand

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that, that God has a way that's greater and bigger

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than ours. Isaiah 55 says that, that His thoughts

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are higher than And God has released the power

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of the Holy Spirit here on earth in order to

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help us with all of his ways and his thoughts

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and his ideas and the way he wants us to go.

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The Holy Spirit wants us to seek him. He wants

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us to pursue him. Some people say, well, how

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do you pursue the Holy Spirit? Well, I'll give

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you a list of things to do shortly. But bottom

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line, we just need to submit ourselves to the

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Lord, go to church and start worshiping. Once

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you go through the doors, we enter into his core.

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with Thanksgiving and praise. We need to give

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praise to the Lord. Today I'm finding that a

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lot of people come to church late because they're

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missing out on the worship time. That's a very

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important time to prepare us to get ready for

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what the Word of God is going to be preached

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in our church. So if worship is songs or being

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sung and we're worshiping together as a church

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in unity, we need to be a part of that because

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that is so crucial to experience the power of

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the Holy Spirit in our lives. He wants us to

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pursue Him. We pursue Him through attendance

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at church, through reading the Word of God, through

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prayer, through giving worship and praise, and

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in worship services. Our attitude must be filled

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with an anticipation and expectation of greater

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things. You know, when we go to church, we should

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go with anticipation. We should go expecting

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God to do something special. You know, every

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single time my wife and I get in the car to drive

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to church, as we back out of the driveway, we're

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praying. Now I have my eyes open, because I'm

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not going to run into someone, but we're praying,

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and we're saying, Heavenly Father, I pray that

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you would... bless and protect us as we go to

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church today. I pray that you would anoint the

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service, that you would anoint the worship time,

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that you would anoint the message to come forth,

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and I pray the Holy Spirit would even now start

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working in the place, in the church, and that

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you would move in a very special way and anoint

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everything that's said, and that the Holy Spirit

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would draw people into a relationship with Jesus,

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and that people would come to know Jesus Christ

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as their Lord and Savior. You know, after we

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prayed that, in various times it's shorter, sometimes

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it's longer, but we basically pray that general

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prayer before we go to church because we're anticipating

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and expecting something special to happen because

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we know when we get there, the Holy Spirit is

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already there when two or more are gathered there.

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God says He's there when we lift Him up. And

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when we get there and join that, then we're part

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of the move of God that's taking place in our

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church. We need to delight in Him in the Holy

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Spirit and He will give us the desires of our

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heart. We delight not in our desires, we delight

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in Him and then He'll give us the desires of

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heart and the desires of our heart will be God's

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will according to what he desires for us. If

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you have not received the baptism of the Holy

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Spirit with the evidence of your heavenly prayer

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language, I want you to receive it today and

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at the end I'm gonna pray and I'm gonna have

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a prayer for those people who've never received

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the infilling of the Holy Spirit, the baptism

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of the Holy Spirit with the evidence of speaking

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in another language in your heavenly language

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and it's your prayer language. You're you're

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praying the divine will of God when you pray

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like that and that's what was taking place in

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the upper room when people started praying in

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the Spirit and praising in the Spirit. And it's

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a beautiful thing. It's a wonderful thing. It's

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alive and well today. Now, this is one of the

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many experiences that we can have in the Holy

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Spirit. Experiencing the Holy Spirit is the way

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of life that God wants us to have. We can experience

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the works of the Spirit, the voice of the Spirit,

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the love of the Spirit, the hope of the Spirit,

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the comfort of the Spirit. And those are all

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things that we need and desire in our walk with

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God. We need to experience the power of the Holy

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Spirit in our life. Experiencing the Holy Spirit

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is the spiritual gifts of the fruit of the Spirit.

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And once again, I will digress a little bit on

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prior podcasts. I've talked extensively about

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the gifts of the Spirit, the fruit of the Spirit,

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the nine power gifts, and all that is listened.

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If you want to listen to my podcast, I'll talk

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about that at the end on how to go back and listen

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to my podcast because this is the 400 I'm sorry,

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the 343rd podcast. So obviously we've done a

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lot of podcasts over several years and there's

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a very long series dealing with the Holy Spirit

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and the gifts of the Spirit. Now I have prayed

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with many individuals to receive the baptism

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of the Holy Spirit. Now before I pray for you,

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I would like to kind of discuss how we prepare

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ourselves to receive. It's the same way when

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someone comes up front in church and I had someone

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the other day come up to me and say I want to

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be baptized with the Holy Spirit. I want that

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in my prayer language. And I first talked to

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them and I said some of these things to them

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to prepare them to be sure that they were ready,

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prepared to receive. They're not coming up saying,

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well, I hope this happens or maybe it'll happen

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or possibly it might happen. No, they're coming

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forward to have someone agree with them in prayer

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so that the baptism of the Holy Spirit will come

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into their life and they'll have this beautiful,

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powerful prayer language that is just between

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them and God. And that when you pray in that

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wonderful language, you'll be praying the divine

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will of God. I know I said that before, but it's

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so important to understand that. You're not praying

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your will, and we're praying the divine will

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of God. Now following, here's a list of things

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that we can do or should do in order to prepare

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ourselves to be able to receive this wonderful

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gift. We want to read in the book of Acts chapters

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one and two, how it happened in the early church

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on the day of Pentecost, and what Jesus has promised

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before he left. that in a few days the Holy Spirit

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will come and he will baptize you. Well, then

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all the, and it happened and we need to understand

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that. So we need to read chapters one and chapter

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two in the book of Acts to build our faith and

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get ourselves prepared to receive. Number two,

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we need to understand the Holy Spirit lives in

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us. The word of God tells us that the Holy Spirit

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lives and abides in us and we've got to believe

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that and accept that. I know there's some days

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I don't feel too much like the Holy Spirit's

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living in me because I get a little wrapped up

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in the flesh or get a little upset. or a little

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bit anxious about something, but then the Holy

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Spirit tells me I'm not to be anxious about anything.

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I'm not supposed to get upset about anything.

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I'm supposed to be at peace, and I can only be

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that way through Him. And so we need to understand

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that the Holy Spirit lives in us, and when I

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focus on the Holy Spirit, all the other stuff

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goes away. Anxiety leaves, any concerns about

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things may happen or may not happen, health issues,

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whatever they might be, they're removed because

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the Holy Spirit comes to comfort. You see, our

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bodies are the temple of the Holy Spirit. are

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scriptural, and I don't have time in a 30 -minute

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podcast to tell you all of these things, but

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I'm going to give you an outline of what we all

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need to do. The third thing that we need to do

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is to pray to our Heavenly Father to fill us

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with the baptism of the Holy Spirit. And because

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that shows that we have a desire for that, we

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want it, we need it, we desire it. Number four,

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it says we need to spend time with our pastor

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or our spiritual mentor about how to receive.

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this beautiful gift. Now obviously this depends

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if our individual friends or our pastor believes

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that the Holy Spirit is still baptizing today.

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But it didn't say in the Word of God that he'll

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only baptize until after Jesus, until shortly

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after Jesus leaves and then it'll all stop. No,

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he said that this will be a gift that we will

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have, that Christians will have, and it's the

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gift that he still has for all of us. So you've

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got to find counsel and time with a pastor or

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a spiritual mentor who understands the baptism

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of the Holy Spirit they've received it themselves.

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and they certainly understand it's alive and

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well today. Here's a fifth thing I believe that

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we should do to prepare ourselves to receive

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anything from God to not only the baptism of

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the Holy Spirit, but to experience the Holy Spirit

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in just about any way. Begin all prayers with

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praise and worship. I mentioned earlier that

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when we go to church, the first thing we should

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do is have praise and worship and submit our

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prayers to God. And we need to do that before

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we ask the Holy Spirit to help us in any area

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of our life. Number five, begin our quest. for

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experiencing more of the Holy Spirit with praise

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and with worship. Number six, be still and wait

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on the Holy Spirit. Now, the Bible says to be

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still and know that I am God. Well, it applies

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to the Holy Spirit because God the Holy Spirit

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here lives on earth in us, in our bodies. God

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the Father not only lives here in us, but he's

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also in the heavenlies and Jesus is with him

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and we don't have three gods. We have one God

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in three parts, God the Father, God the Son and

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God the Holy Spirit make up one. God but we need

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to be still and wait on the Holy Spirit. Don't

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get anxiety and get anxious. I've had people

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I've prayed with in the past. I've had them up

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front maybe or maybe in a in a classroom somewhere

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and praying with them and they just want it right

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now this very very second and some do receive

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immediately and others it takes them a while.

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Some people it takes sometimes days or weeks

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or even months for people to receive but we've

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got to have patience and wait upon the Lord and

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be still and wait upon the Holy Spirit to baptize

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us. If we do that, it renders us available to

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God. We're surrendered. It's important that when

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we're seeking the Holy Spirit that we reduce

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our words that we speak in our primary language

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like English or Spanish or whatever French or

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whatever it is that you speak. I have to speak

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of talk about the various languages around the

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world because we've been blessed to have over

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140 countries countries around the world have

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downloaded these podcasts and so whatever your

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language is you got to be able to stop speaking

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in that direction and surrender to the language

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that the whole Spirit will bring. Into you and

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look what they did in the upper room They were

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all together gathered in one one accord in one

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purpose in unity and they were seeking the Holy

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Spirit they were seeking the gifts that Jesus

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said that he was going to send because they knew

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they'd heard about the Holy Spirit coming and

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they had the Holy Spirit dwelling inside of them

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because they were born -again believers But now

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they had another gift that was coming and they

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were ready They were prepared and it didn't say

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that they were all talking to each other in their

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own dialects or languages It said they all all

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of a sudden the power of God came and they were

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baptized with various languages and it's just

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beautiful. It's just beautiful. Verse, not verse,

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but number seven I've written down here for ways

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to be prepared to receive the baptism of the

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Holy Spirit or any way to prepare ourselves to

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experience more of the Holy Spirit in our life.

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When the Holy Spirit works in our life, the following

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things enter into our life. Think of this, peace,

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love. Now if you're struggling with peace or

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love, you need to stop. get that into your life.

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We need to bring peace into our life before we

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can receive and experience more of the Holy Spirit.

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We've got to have love in our life. We can have

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hatred and anger towards other people and expect

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the Holy Spirit to come in and work in us and

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operate on us and help us to experience more

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of Him. But when He is surrendered to, then He

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brings with Him peace. He brings love. He brings

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hope. He brings joy. And He brings an expectation,

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an expectation that something great is about

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to happen. He brings the comfort of knowing that

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we can be set free. He brings safety. He brings

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protection. The Holy Spirit is a refuge. He's

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our strength. He's our energy. He has wisdom

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for us. He has knowledge for us on how to act

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and how to react. He helps us to live closer

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to God. I know a long list of things that he

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can do, but quite frankly it's only a part. It's

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not a complete list of all the things that the

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Holy Spirit can do. I know when I've been diagnosed

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with illnesses and incurable cancers and things

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and I'm by myself in the hospital or here at

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home or something and my wife is busy and I may

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be taking a rest or a nap or something or just

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lying down. If I just rest in the Lord, he brings

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these things to me. He brings love. He brings

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joy. He brings hope. He brings expectation. He

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sets me free from the diagnosis from the doctor

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and he brings safety and comfort and strength

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and all those things he brings to me. That is

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experiencing the Holy Spirit. and I want all

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of us to experience the Holy Spirit in a greater

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way than we have been and than we are experiencing

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because there's always more that we can experience

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and be blessed with. There's so many promises

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of God that we haven't received yet in our life

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and yet the Bible has thousands of promises that

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God wants to give to his people and the Holy

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Spirit brings those to us. Now to experience

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all the Holy Spirit has available to us we must

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allow him to have access to our heart and to

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our mind. We've got to clear our thought life

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out. We've got to stop thinking about past problems

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or challenges or things that we struggle with

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in sin or whatever it might be and dismiss those

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things and don't think on those things and move

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into the realm of cleansing our hearts and mind.

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So the Holy Spirit will have access to our heart

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and to our minds. We need to submit our conscience

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to Him. Everything that we think about we need

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to surrender to Him. We must get ready to receive

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from him. You must never question whether he

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will show up or not. We can't be in the middle

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of surrendering and praising and worshiping and

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wondering, well, God, are you hearing this? If

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we do that, we've lost the whole purpose of trying

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to enter into his presence. God says, if you

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draw near to me, then I'll draw near to you.

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His word tells us that. And so therefore, we

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know what the word of God says. So therefore,

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we don't have to question whether the Holy Spirit

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will show up or not or whether he's listening.

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I've had people tell me, you know, I pray. and

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I pray and I don't know if God's listening. Well,

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God is always listening. He's able to do that

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because he's everywhere. He has all knowledge.

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He's everywhere at all times of the day. He can

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handle the seven and a half or eight billion

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people on this planet if they all wanted to seek

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him at once. All of them, all of us here on earth,

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he can sort it all out. There's not a computer

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that man has even begun to think about preparing

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that could ever do anything like that, but God

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is able to sort them all out and through the

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spirit of God, who dwells in us, we're able to

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communicate with God. Now, if you're not a Christian,

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if you've not given your life to Christ, then

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you have not received the Holy Spirit in you.

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That's the first step in understanding what it

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is to experience the Holy Spirit. So let me just

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take a moment for those of you who maybe are

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not sure if you're right with God or not, just

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to pray this prayer. Heavenly Father, I need

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a Savior. I need you in my life. I need the Holy

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Spirit. I surrender to you. I'm sorry for the

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sins that I've committed. I ask you to forgive

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me and cleanse me of these sins. And I promise

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to serve you. I give my life to you. I give my

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heart to you. And I want everything that you

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have for me. So I receive you now in Jesus' name.

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I know that was kind of quick, but that can be

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how simple it can be is to clear your mind of

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sin and things that are bothering you. And then

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take that first step to receive Jesus Christ.

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Because when you do, the Holy Spirit comes to

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live and dwell in you. And then we, you, can

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receive. the experience of the Holy Spirit I'm

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talking about. Let me ask for those who are Christians

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and though the new Christians, maybe he just

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prayed that, are we ready to receive him? Are

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we saying to ourselves, okay I'm ready, I'm willing?

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Are we willing to surrender our thoughts, our

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mind to him and allow him to come in and fill

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us? Are we ready to totally surrender to His

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will? It's one thing to say that, it's another

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thing to actually do it. You know, we can talk

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about it, but we've got to learn how to do that

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in order to receive the fullness of God's blessings.

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Are we ready to receive the infilling of the

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Holy Spirit? So now is the time to receive everything

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that He desires for us. Not only the baptism

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of the Holy Spirit, but to also receive all the

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blessings of God. Are we ready to possess the

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baptism of the Holy Spirit? If we are, we must

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allow the Holy Spirit to take possession of our

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life to come into us right now. So I want to

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lead you in prayer for those who have never received

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this wonderful, wonderful gift from God, and

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that is the infilling of the Holy Spirit, the

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baptism of the Holy Spirit with the evidence

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of praying in your heavenly prayer language.

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I pray, Father, that you would open up their

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hearts, and Lord, that we would stop speaking

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our own languages and surrender to you, and let

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the words that come forth be Holy Spirit -led

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words. We desire you, and we can say praise you,

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and we thank you, and we glorify you, but we

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need surrender our will our thoughts what's what

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we're thinking and we're are being concerned

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about what it's going to sound like and just

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simply start praying in the Holy Spirit you can

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just start saying the words Jesus and Jesus and

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Jesus I need you I desire the gift that you promised

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that we could have so I receive now that gift

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so receive it now and begin to speak it can't

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hear you I can't tell what's happening but I

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do know that the power of the Holy Spirit is

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going through this podcast right now and reaching

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people's lives and touching them and helping

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them so they'd be able to receive that gift that

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God restored and has planned for them. And I

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ask for this now in Jesus' name. Amen. My goodness,

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time went fast on this podcast. Just so much

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to cover. And we'll continue talking about the

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Holy Spirit in upcoming podcasts. We're going

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to be talking, continuing to talk in this area

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of relationship with the Holy Spirit and experience

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the Holy Spirit and what it means to have that

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kind of a relationship and to how to have greater

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prayers and prayer life, I should say, led by

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the Holy Spirit. I'm really kind of tossed in

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the next podcast to whether I'm going to talk

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about the Holy Spirit in prayer, or the Holy

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Spirit in the gifts, or the Holy Spirit in relationship,

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but I'll just sort that out before I get to the

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next podcast. But we'll continue in this vein,

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and I believe God has something really powerful

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lined up as we continue this study, this series

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on the Holy Spirit. Well, I do thank you for

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tuning in. I've got more to say. I hope you don't

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check out right now. but I want you to listen

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to these last few words that I have to say. If

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you'd like to know more about Quality Christian

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Living, that's the name of our podcast, and Quality

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Christian Living was designed so that we could

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help Christians understand what it was to live

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a quality Christian life, not just get by, but

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to live a wonderful life, an abundant life. Jesus

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said he wants us to have life and have it more

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abundantly. You can read that in John chapter

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10 and verse 10. So I have a podcast, that's

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what we call this podcast, this particular series

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in the podcast of quality Christian living is

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on the Holy Spirit. And if you'd like to know

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more about our podcast, you can go to my webpage

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at davidcfriendauthor .com. And when you get

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there, the very front page has a link to the

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podcast. Now earlier, I mentioned that I did

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a series on the Holy Spirit, a series on the

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gifts of the Spirit, the fruit of the Spirit,

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and all you have to do is go back and scroll

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through those podcasts and you will see about

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20 or more messages dealing with the gifts of

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the Spirit. And I would love you to go back and

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listen to those and tell your friends about that.

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In addition to that, we have a series of messages

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on having faith for miracles, what it is to have

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greater faith, what it means to be able to receive

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God's plan and purpose for our life. Just a plethora

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of topics. I even talk about finances and how

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to be out of debt because of my background as

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a banker for many years. So I hope that you would

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do that and scroll down the list of podcasts

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and let other people know that they're available

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if they're needing help in certain areas of their

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life. If you'd like to subscribe to my podcast,

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you can do that. that by going to cpnshows .com

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or wherever you listen to your podcasts. Before

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I close this podcast, I felt the Holy Spirit

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leading me to go look at the titles of the topics

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that he's given me for future podcasts. We're

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going to have a podcast on the Holy Spirit -led

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prayers, the Holy Spirit defeats anxiety, fear

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and oppression, the anointing of the Holy Spirit,

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the Holy Spirit blesses us and on and on and

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on are topics that the Lord has given me to bring

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in this series of podcasts. So I thank the Lord

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for that. Well, I want to thank you for listening

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and I hope you've been blessed by it. As a matter

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of fact, if you enjoyed this podcast, please

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take a moment and rate and review the podcast.

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It really helps us to reach out to more people.

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You can leave a review on Apple podcasts, on

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Amazon Music and Charisma Podcast Network, any

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one of them, or give us a star rating on Spotify.

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However you choose to support us, we certainly

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appreciate that. So once again, I want to thank

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you for listening in and I'm looking forward

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to the next podcast. coming up, whatever the

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Holy Spirit leads us to focus on. So I'd like

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to close with a blessing for you. May the Lord

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bless you and keep you. May his face shine upon

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you. May he be gracious to you. and give you

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peace. May you prosper and be in good health,

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even as your soul prospers. So until next time,

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I pray that God will richly bless you, that you

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will experience, that all of us will experience

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in a greater way the Holy Spirit in our life.

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That we'll learn how to experience the Holy Spirit

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each and every day, regardless of what we're

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going through, the good, the bad, whatever it

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might be, and to God be the glory, and to God

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be all the honor and praise. I want to thank

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you all for listening into Quality Christian

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Living. I have been your host David Friend. I

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thank you so much for being a part of this. I

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look forward to seeing you next time we discover

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another topic on the Holy Spirit. Thank you again.

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God bless you.