The Holy Spirit (316)

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Welcome to the Quality Christian Living Podcast.

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I am your host, David Friend. Today we're going

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into a brand new series entitled, The Holy Spirit.

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And during this series, we will learn how the

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Holy Spirit works in the lives of Christians.

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We will understand how vital it is and how truly

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important it is to be led by the Holy Spirit.

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And also that our study will help us better understand

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the power and the gifts of the Holy Spirit. And

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we're gonna see how the Holy Spirit is available

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to help us. always be there to help us and guide

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us and direct us. So with that, let's get into

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it, but first we need to pray. Heavenly Father,

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I thank you once again for who you are. I thank

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you for the opportunity we have to bring this

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podcast at this time. And I pray now that the

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Holy Spirit would come in and guide and direct

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and anoint this podcast. Because without the

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anointing, it will have no value, no impact.

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But with the anointing and with the power of

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God, we can see lives changed. And I pray for

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those who are listening in who maybe don't understand

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the clarity or have clarity on the gifts of the

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Spirit, on the Holy Spirit, that these podcasts

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will help them and bring new revelation into

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their hearts and minds. And for those who are

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aware of the gifts operate in the gifts, I pray

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that they would be able to listen and receive,

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maybe get something that the Spirit would help

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them as they endeavor to operate in the gifts

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of the Spirit. So I thank you once again for

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what's about to take place. I'll be careful to

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give you all praise and glory for it. In Jesus'

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name I pray, amen. In the middle of my last series

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dealing with living with purpose, which was well

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received by people. I found something very powerful

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and that was that one of the podcasts was entitled

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The Holy Spirit Brings Our Purpose or Reveals

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Our Purpose. And that particular podcast all

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of a sudden had just an explosion of people listening

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in and questions and thoughts came up. So I really

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felt touched by the Holy Spirit that I should

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consider doing a new series, a brand new series

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on the Holy Spirit. So that's what really impacted

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me to move into this particular topic for a while.

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I'm not sure how long we'll be into this. We'll

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be along, I believe, as long as the Holy Spirit

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wants us, we'll go on and on and on, because

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there's so much to learn and so much we can receive

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as we study the powerful moving of the Holy Spirit

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in the lives of Christians. This series will

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be based totally on what God's Word has to tell

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us about the Holy Spirit. Jesus spoke about it

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frequently. Paul spoke about it. It's just a...

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powerful part of living a Christian life, a quality

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Christian life. Now, I've not set up a list of

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topics, I really haven't, or an outline even

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to follow so that we'll know where we go in the

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next 10, 15, 20, 30, 40 podcasts, however long

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the Holy Spirit takes us. My desire is to submit

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to the leading of the Holy Spirit of God to direct

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our podcasts. There's an old song entitled, Come

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Holy Spirit, I Need You. Matter of fact, it's

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one of my favorites. I was saved many years ago.

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and that song came out and it was just so powerful

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and even to this day when I hear it when I'm

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with people who we get together and maybe some

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people we pray and maybe someone wants to lead

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a little bit of singing and worshipping the Lord

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that old song comes up and it's just so inspiring

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and really that tells us so much come Holy Spirit

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I need you now that will be the theme of this

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series of podcasts without the leading of the

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Holy Spirit this series will lack value and it'll

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lack purpose and it will not hit the mark. But

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with the Holy Spirit, we can experience the power

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of God. Now I realize that some of those who

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are listening may have a great understanding

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of the workings of Holy Spirit. You may have

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been filled with the Holy Spirit with the evidence

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of speaking in tongues and your heavenly language.

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You may have the gifts of the Spirit, of healings

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and faith and hospitality and all the things

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that you're aware of. Yet I'm aware, definitely

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there are people listening, I believe many. have

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decided today they want to listen to this. podcasts

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because they have questions on the topic and

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sometimes in the church you don't hear it taught

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much and other times you hear it in the church

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taught and sometimes it gets a little radical

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and quite frankly I think sometimes it gets away

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from what the Lord told us about how to operate

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in the gifts of the Spirit and not only that

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how the Apostle Paul taught but all of that we'll

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be covering in the many weeks that will come

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as we move through this series on the Holy Spirit.

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In the book of Joel in chapter 2 and verse 28

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it says this I will pour out my Spirit upon all

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people." So, now God's Word is the same yesterday,

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today, and forever. So therefore, we've got to

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understand when that was... came forth in that

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scripture, God still is operating that way today.

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Some people believe that the Holy Spirit has

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now lifted and the gifts of the Spirit are not

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operating any longer. Well, that just don't agree

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with that at all, because I know that the Word

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of God says that the Spirit of God will dwell

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among men, that the Holy Spirit is here to operate.

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And Jesus said when he left, he says, I'm leaving.

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I've got to be with the Father. But he says,

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I'm leaving you, the Holy Spirit, the Comforter.

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He said, our Paraclete. He says, our counselor,

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the one who will guide us and direct us and give

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us us help. So the Holy Spirit is who we have

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to help us. Don't refer to the Holy Spirit as

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it. The Holy Spirit is a he. It's who he is that's

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so important. The Holy Spirit is part of the

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Godhead, the triune Godhead. God the Father,

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God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. Three individual,

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individual spirits. but all one God. We worship

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one God, the Trinity, the Triune God. If you

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have a problem with that and are struggling with

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that, you might want to get some counseling and

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help on that because it might be difficult for

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you at times to relate to when I talk about the

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Spirit of God and the Holy Spirit. Now, with

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these words I've just given you, what you just

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heard in the book of Joel, I will pour out my

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Spirit upon all people. With those words being

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spoken, how many want God to pour out his Spirit?

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on you. I hope that all of you listening in are

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feeling that way today, that you want the power

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of God to pour out on you. You want the Spirit

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of God to move on you and help you to operate

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in the Spirit and operate in the gifts of the

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Spirit and operate with wisdom from on high,

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not just your wisdom and your intelligence. And

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that's fine. Our wisdom or our intelligence is

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fine, but it's minor inside of God's power and

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his strength and his might and his wisdom, his

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knowledge. In the book of Isaiah, The Lord tells

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us that his ways are greater than our ways. His

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thoughts are greater than our ways. Everything

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that he is is greater than we are. So therefore

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we've got to understand that we need help to

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learn how to operate and walk in the power of

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God and in the power of the Holy Spirit. So I'm

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just asking that the Heavenly Father will help

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us to get more of you. receive more of the Holy

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Spirit. We submit to the Holy Spirit. We ask

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the Holy Spirit to help us and to teach us and

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to lead us into a deeper relationship with Him

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and with God the Father and His Son Jesus Christ.

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My prayer in this podcast is that we will all

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receive a deeper understanding of the Holy Spirit.

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If you're here for that, then may the Lord bless

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you and may you receive that as we go through

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these podcasts. Let me ask you a question. It

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may seem silly to some people, but I really think

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it's important. I'm going to ask you this. How

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many are truly excited about what the Holy Spirit

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has for you. I mean you can't wait to hear more

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from Him and be led by Him. And ask another question,

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how many of there are questioning as to whether

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you understand the Holy Spirit when He's speaking

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or not? Or you have questions about whether the

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Holy Spirit is telling you to do this or to do

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that or not to do this or not to do that and

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you're just not sure where you should go? All

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those things, if you'll stay with me on this,

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all those issues we will discuss in the upcoming

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weeks and maybe months and months of our teaching

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on the Holy Spirit. You know, this podcast is

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called Quality Christian Living and Quality Christian

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Living is designed to do one thing. It's to help

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Christians live a greater life. Now I said it's

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designed to do one thing, but it's designed to

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do two things, really. The second thing is to

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ask people to receive Jesus Christ as their Lord

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and Savior. I wouldn't be doing these podcasts

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if I didn't have the opportunity to pray with

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people and to ask them to pray this prayer, prayer

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of submission to God and receiving Jesus Christ

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as Lord and Savior. That's the reason that I

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do this podcast, is to lead people to Jesus.

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And Quality Christian Living is to help Christians,

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current Christians, not only new Christians,

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but Christians that have been Christians for

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many, many years like myself. Live a quality

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Christian life, a life filled with the power

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of God, filled with abundant living. I'm not

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talking about money, money, money. I'm talking

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about abundant living. Abundant living is seeking

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God daily, getting into His Word and loving it,

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leading people to Jesus Christ. Yeah, it also

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has a little bit to do with finances and being

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blessed in that area, but abundant living is

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so much greater than just receiving financial

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abundance. I just... Hope that you understand

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that. It's so important, so powerful to live

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abundantly and Quality Christian Living, this

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podcast, is designed to help us live that kind

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of life. I receive from this every single time

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that I do a podcast. There's something the Lord

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teaches me or shows me or strengthens me or encourages

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me or lifts me up into some situation that I'm

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maybe having a little bit of a challenge with.

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The Holy Spirit helps. So these podcasts, the

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Quality Christian Living podcasts, are designed

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to help Christians live a quality life. Jesus

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said, I've come to give you life and give it

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to you more. abundantly, and being led by the

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Holy Spirit is abundant living. It just doesn't

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get any better than that. So that's why we're

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getting into this series, Dealing with the Holy

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Spirit, and I hope that you're ready for that,

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and I pray that you'll maybe contact me. I suggest

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that you would contact your friends or your family

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members or those around you, those you work with,

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to join us as we seek a Spirit -led life. Now,

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let's stop right there. A Spirit -led life. You

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know, that is truly the goal of every Christian,

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every Father of Jesus Christ. It's a life filled

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with great expectations, with an anticipation

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of the Holy Spirit filling us with His power,

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His love, His comfort, His wisdom, and His guidance.

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You see, the Bible speaks of being filled with

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the Holy Spirit. That is our goal, to be filled

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daily with the Holy Spirit. There's a great story

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in the Bible, and I'm not going to get into it

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right now. There's about a man, a man who is

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a servant. I'm not even going to give you his

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name. I'll be doing that in an upcoming podcast.

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And they looked at him and they saw him. They

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said he was filled with the Spirit, that this

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man was so anointed of God that he was filled

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with the Spirit of God and because of that they

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put him in a leadership position and being filled

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with the Holy Spirit led him in to face so many

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great challenges in life and I'll be dedicating

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probably at least one podcast to that as an example

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of what it means to be living a life filled with

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the Holy Spirit and being led by the Spirit of

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God. So let me give you some other things before

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we go much longer into this particular podcast.

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I have several goals for this series, quite a

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few goals. So let me just give you a few of them.

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Here's three or four as the Spirit leads. Let's

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see how many we get into. But let me give you

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the first one here. How can we experience the

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power of the Holy Spirit? Now, some people you

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instantly know what I'm talking about and you

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know the scriptures and all that and yet others.

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are wondering about that, they might have heard

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something about that, and still others may have

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never heard anything about the power of the Holy

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Spirit. Well, in Galatians chapter 3 and verse

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14, it tells us who we are. as believers and

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it tells us that we receive the promise of the

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Holy Spirit through faith. So through faith and

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our desire to seek God, we can receive the power

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of the Holy Spirit. We'll have at least one or

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two podcasts dealing with the power of the Holy

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Spirit and we'll talk about the specific gifts

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of the Holy Spirit, the miracle gifts, the gifts

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of healings and all the power gifts and the fruit

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of the Spirit, those things that we need to have

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in our life, love, joy, peace, patience, goodness,

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kindness, gentleness, faithfulness and self -control.

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All of these topics we'll be getting into and

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I'm not just trying to make this whole podcast

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filled with teasers because it's really not.

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I'm giving you some ideas of how important it

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is to stay with me in this podcast and go through

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it with me to receive that spirit -led life that

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Christians need and if they don't feel that they

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need it then they're missing out on really an

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incredible relationship with God and an incredible

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relationship with Jesus and an incredible relationship

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with the Holy Spirit. Okay here's another topic

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or question that I want to bring up that will

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come up in this series. How can we live a Spirit

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-led life? Well, you know, there's a lot of pressure

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out there to keep us from being led by the Spirit.

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Some of the pressure is our own knowledge, our

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own wisdom, our own understanding. Well, that's

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okay, and that's good, and God helps with those

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things, but our understanding is nowhere near

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as great as the Holy Spirit's understanding.

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And we get distracted with life. We get busy

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with life when we decide to do things on our

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own rather than stopping and asking the Holy

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Spirit to help us and guide us and direct us.

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How can we live a Spirit -led life? There's one

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scripture I'm going to give you right now I think

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that's really powerful and it shows the battle

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that we go through in our life to be led by the

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Spirit of God. It's found in Galatians chapter

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5 verses 16 and 17. But I say walk by the Spirit

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and you will not gratify. the desires of the

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flesh. For the desires of the flesh are against

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the spirit and the desires of the spirit are

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against the flesh. See, there's a battle going

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on. There is a massive battle going on, a spiritual

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battle taking place over our mind. It's amazing

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to think how many people struggle with issues

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that are stuck in their mind. They just can't

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seem to get them out because they try to do it

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on their own and we just can't do these things

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on our own. It's not by might or by power, the

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Bible where God says, but it's by my spirit,

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says the Lord. So we've got to understand in

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that it's the powerful life we want to live,

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the overcoming life that we want to live, the

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abundant life that we want to live, that life

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filled with joy and peace and happiness and not

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that we're not going to have trials, not that

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we're going to have difficult times. I mean,

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you're listening to a guy who's been told three

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times that he's had incurable diseases. Two of

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them were cancers, one was kidney failure in

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my life, and those things have rocked my world.

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They really hit me hard, but as soon as I heard

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the diagnosis on a couple of those, I looked

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at the doctor and I said, so you're telling me

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this is incurable, right? And he says, yeah,

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there's no way that I can get cured from it.

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He says, no, no, we can try to help you. I said,

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so you're trying to tell me and trying to scare

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me with heaven? And then the doctor looked at

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me when he said that. Now see, I didn't say that

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in my own strength. That was Spirit -led. There's

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no doubt in my mind because my flesh was saying,

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oh, they said cancer. Oh, they said incurable.

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Oh, they said there's no treatment. Oh, they

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said there's no hope. Oh, they said this is going

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to be difficult for you and on and on and on

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they went. But the Holy Spirit quickened me to

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respond to the doctor in the midst of that terrible

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challenge that I had. And so it wasn't me, it

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was the Holy Spirit who said, tell him you're

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trying to scare me with heaven. And the doctor

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looked at me and he said, wow, you must really

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believe that. He said, I've never heard that

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before. And I said, well, you should have. Christians

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who are diagnosed with that should realize that

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heaven is the greatest thing that will happen

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ever to us. Spend eternity with Christ and our

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loved ones. And so therefore, we either operate

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in the flesh or we operate in the spirit. And

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that's what Galatians chapter 5 verse 16, 17

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is basically saying. It says, but I walk, I tell

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you, I tell you, he says, I say walk by the spirit

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and you'll not gratify the desires of the flesh.

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The desires of the flesh say they're just carnal.

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They're all about us. They're selfish, they're

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self -centered, and we don't want those things.

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It says, for the desires of the flesh are against

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the spirit, and the desires of the spirit are

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against the flesh. That sums it up right there,

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is how we can live a spirit -led life. We need

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to learn how to walk by the spirit and be led

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of the spirit. Here's item number three, maybe

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one of the goals that we have. How can we receive

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the gifts of the spirit? Now I'm sure some of

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you, as soon as you saw the topic on the Holy

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Spirit, or you were searching for the topic on

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the Holy Spirit through my podcast or other podcasts

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or just trying to fishing for it. And that's

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what led you to this particular podcast on the

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Holy Spirit, because you're wondering about how

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can I receive, how can we receive the gifts of

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the Spirit? Well, first of all, we need to read

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God's promises about the Holy Spirit. Throughout

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the Word of God, there's wonderful examples in

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the Old and New Testament about the power of

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the Holy Spirit. I already gave you one in the

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book of Joel. And let me give you another one

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now in the book of Acts, chapter 1 and verse

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5, where Jesus said these words. baptized with

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water but in a few days you will be baptized

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with the Holy Spirit so those are the types of

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scriptures you need to find now if you don't

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have a concordance that's something that many

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Bibles have at the end of the Bible and you can

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look up words look up the Holy Spirit it'll give

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you numerous scriptures throughout the Word of

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God that talk about the Holy Spirit and if you

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don't have that just simply get on your phone

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and and Google it they say and you can find scriptures

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on the Holy Spirit find a particular translation

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that you like I particularly enjoy the new Living

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Translation. I also like the Message Bible somewhat.

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I was raised on the... new version of the King

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James, the new King James version I should say,

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I was raised as a Christian on that and then

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other translations came out. Now there's hundreds

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and hundreds of translations but find a translation

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that speaks to you and ask for what that translation

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has to say about the Holy Spirit and get those

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scriptures in your mind. I would strongly recommend

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though you check with your pastor or a Christian

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friend as to which translations you should listen

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to and read. I strongly recommend New Living

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Translation today. It's my absolute favorite

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and it's one I believe that really ministers

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to a lot of people. So how can we receive the

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gifts of the Spirit? We get it through the Word

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of God and look for the promises that Jesus gave

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us in the Word of God. So in addition to that,

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we can receive the gifts of the Spirit if you'll

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stay with me in this series. We will help you

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through God's Word and we'll be praying about

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it and we'll be believing that God is going to

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fill people with the Holy Spirit and that thousands,

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tens of thousands of people will receive the

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power of the Holy Spirit in their life. Here's

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the last question I want to bring one of the

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goals for this particular podcast. How can I

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share with others the importance of listening

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to the still, quiet voice of the Holy Spirit?

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Well, some people say, I don't understand that

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still, quiet voice of the Holy Spirit. I've heard

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it, but where does it come from? Well, various

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translations refer to that in 1 Kings 19 and

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verse 11. It refers to, in other translations,

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they call the Holy Spirit voice a gentle whisper

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or a soft whisper or a low whisper, but it's

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a still quiet voice. Let me give you an example

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of what I like to explain what a still quiet

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voice is. Have you ever been, you know, sitting

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down somewhere where it's quiet or driving somewhere

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or just going for a walk and all of a sudden

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a thought comes into your mind like, call my

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mom or dad or call my friend or I've got this

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thing I need to do, whatever. I believe the Holy

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Spirit still quiet voice speaks to us like that.

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It's that thought that comes into your mind,

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something that's there. And if it's a bad thought,

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obviously it's not the Holy Spirit. But if it's

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a good thought or a positive thought, let me

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give an example. When I started a church in North

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Scottsdale many years ago, I was sitting there

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on a Saturday. It was kind of a tradition for

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me to go in on Saturdays and then I would pray

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and I'd ask the Holy Spirit to help me to call

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people, maybe people that I don't know, that

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I should talk to, maybe just call them and invite

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them to church or remind them that we're going

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to be speaking on a certain topic and those types

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of things. I know it's probably old -fashioned

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these days to do that but it was really something

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that the Lord had me do and I would pray and

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sometimes I'd make 10, 15, 20 phone calls on

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a Saturday morning just to communicate with people

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in our church. And as the church grew and got

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bigger and bigger and bigger, you know, it became

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more and more difficult to try and to do that.

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And so I remember one particular Sunday was coming

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up and I was there on Saturday morning and I

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was praying. We had a little prayer meeting there,

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people talking about the service and all that.

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Then everybody left and I was by myself in the

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church. And I'm in my office and I'm starting

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to get onto my message and thinking about what

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I should, you know, what I'm speaking on and

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looking up scriptures and just doing my preparation.

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And all of a sudden this still quiet voice said,

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call this particular family. And I thought, well,

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you know, they're new to the church and I don't

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really know them that well. And I wonder if I

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have their phone number. And I thought, no, I

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can't do that. I'm like, well, I'm busy. I'm

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putting this message together and I need to focus

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there. So yeah, I'll get to that later. And so

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all of a sudden I tried to get back into what

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I was doing in the Holy Spirit. It was speaking

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to me that still quiet voice saying call these

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people right now And I thought well, you know

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that that's okay and I thought well So I tried

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to find their phone number and I found it and

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I looked at and then my flesh was battling like

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the scripture I told you earlier Remember when

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I when I gave that one scripture to you that

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was so powerful in Galatians chapter 5 verse

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16 But I say walk by the spirit and you will

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not gratify the desires of the flesh for the

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desires of the flesh Are against the spirit and

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the desires of the spirit are against the flesh

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that was happening that scripture. I wasn't reading

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it I didn't even think about that scripture,

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but that's what was taking place. And that happens

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to all of us. We've all had this happen to us.

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Well, I'm sitting there and I'm really busy.

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I want to get things moving for the sermon the

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next day. That's the number one thing on my heart

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and on my mind. And yet the still quiet voice

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was saying, call this couple. So finally, all

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of a sudden, I just stopped. And I said, OK.

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And I didn't say, OK, Lord. I didn't say, OK,

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Holy Spirit. I just said, OK, I'll call. And

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so I got the phone, picked it up, called the

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guy, and he answered. And he said, hi, this is

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Gary. And then he started, I said, well, this

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is Pastor Friend of the church. And he started

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to laugh instantly. And I thought, well, this

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is nice. The Holy Spirit or something is telling

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me to call. And I call this guy and he hears

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my voice and he starts laughing. And all of a

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sudden I'm thinking, this is, this is. Difficult

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I wish I hadn't called and then all of a sudden

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this guy's laughing I said, I'm sorry, but did

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I get it interrupt something there's something

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funny and he said he said pastor Nope, forgive

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me. Forgive me. He says you won't believe what

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just happened He said, you know We've only been

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coming to the church for a couple weeks and we

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the church that we were in was only about 40

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or 50 people and this church is now running about

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a thousand people and he says and my daughter

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and I were talking about what church we should

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go to and our my wife and I we're all discussing

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where we should go because we were used to a

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small church didn't want to be a part of it anything

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really big. And all of a sudden, my daughter

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looked at me and says, well, Dad, you can't go

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to that church because you used to talk to the

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pastor all the time and the pastor of this church

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it's so big he's so busy he'll never have time

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to talk to you he said soon as she said that

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he'll never have time to talk to you the phone

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rang he says I picked up the phone and it said

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hello Gary this is pastor Dave over at the church

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he says and that's why I started laughing because

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I had to stop I need to explain this to my family

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what's taking place you see that's the still

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quiet voice of the Holy Spirit I can remember

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there was a Another time I was sitting in my

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office studying and working on some things, but

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I wasn't preparing a sermon, but I was doing

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something and working on a project in the church

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and I was extremely busy. It seems like when

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I get the busiest, busiest, busiest, it's when

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the Holy Spirit says, stop and give me your attention.

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And quite frankly, I really like that. I like

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when the Holy Spirit now calls upon me and says,

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whatever you're doing, stop. It's not important.

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And you need to do this. And I was sitting there

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in the office and all of a sudden another member

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of the congregation came to my mind. And it was

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in the middle of the week. And I thought, well,

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I should probably call them. And I thought, well,

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I'll get to it later. And the Holy Spirit, that

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still quiet voice said, call them right now.

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So I thought, well, I'd had that other experience

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a few weeks before that, so I called them right

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then. And when I called, the man answered the

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phone. He said, hello. And I said, hi, this is

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Pastor David over at the church. I just wanted

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to see how you guys are doing. And he said, did

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my wife tell you to call me? And I said, no.

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I said, I just really felt like I should just

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call you and just see how you're doing. He said,

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well, I'm just now. getting ready to walk out

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the door and leave my wife. We just had a horrible

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fight. We've been arguing. I think we're going

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to have a divorce. And he said, so I'm heading

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out. I'm going to get a motel somewhere. I don't

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want to be part of her anymore. She doesn't want

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me to be around. She wants me to leave, get out

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of the house. And we're having this horrible

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fight. Our kids are watching. It's just absolutely

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terrible. He says, and just before I leave, he

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said, my phone rings. And I answered, it's you.

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And I said, yeah, I believe the Holy Spirit asked

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me to call you. I said, I really believe that.

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And I said, instead of you leaving, could the

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two of you come down to the church right now

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and we could meet? And he said, no, no, that'll

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never happen. I said, well, why don't you ask

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your wife? Why don't we just see if we'll have

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favor and if I can get you down here? And so

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I heard him say, honey, Pastor Dave just called.

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He says, and you're sure you didn't call him?

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She said, no, I did not call him. And anyway,

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and she didn't. And he said, he wants us to come

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down to the church said well maybe that's what

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God wants and the two of them got in their car

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and their kids were older were teenagers and

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so they left their kids at home and they came

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down to the church and we had a couple of hours

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where we talked and visited and they started

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to get healed and their marriage got restored

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and healed and you know those are the kind of

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things that I'm talking about when I'm talking

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about a spirit -led life and please forgive the

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personal experience, but I can only give you

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the experiences that I've had that I know that

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the Holy Spirit intervened. And I'll be doing

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that a lot through this series because that's

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what's happened in my life. It's not to boast

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and say I've got it all together or that I always

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walk in the Spirit and I never have any fleshly

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thoughts or anything. No, I'm human just like

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you are. But bottom line, it's important that

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we need to understand that the Holy Spirit wants

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to lead us. He wants to guide us. And if we listen

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to that still, quiet voice, then we will be led

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of the Holy Spirit. So the last question was,

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can I share with others the importance of listening

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to the still quiet voice of the Holy Spirit.

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I would encourage you to read that scripture

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first. Kings chapter 9 and look what it says

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about the Holy Spirit's voice is a gentle whisper

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and a soft whisper and a low whisper and when

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you get that thought in your mind you can share

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that with other people that I had this thought

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and something happened in my life and something

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I needed to talk about to my husband or talk

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to my wife or talk to my boss or to my kids or

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whatever it might be or talk to a neighbor or

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invite someone to church listen for that still

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quiet voice the still quiet voice will be that

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voice that's bringing some hope and comfort and

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something positive into our lives. So listen

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to the still quiet voice of the Holy Spirit.

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Now, these are just a few of the topics we're

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gonna cover in this podcast series. And all of

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these and many, many, many more will be covered

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in greater detail in the upcoming podcasts on

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the Holy Spirit. Well, I can see we've kind of

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run out of time. I hope this has been a blessing

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to you. We're gonna continue to be going through

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this series on the Holy Spirit for a number of

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weeks. The next podcast is entitled something

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like the Holy Spirit. working in us, and it may

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change a little bit between now and then, but

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if it does, I pray it'll be the Holy Spirit that

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helps me. So if you'd like to know more about

00:25:49.900 --> 00:25:52.200
our podcast that we do, it's called Quality Christian

00:25:52.200 --> 00:25:54.500
Living, I'd encourage you to go to my website,

00:25:54.740 --> 00:25:57.720
and you can go to davidcfriendauthor .com, and

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when you get on there, the front page will show

00:25:59.640 --> 00:26:01.220
right up there, and there'll be a link right

00:26:01.220 --> 00:26:03.460
on the front of it that says, link to podcast.

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And if you'd like to know more about Quality

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Christian Living, you can simply hit that link,

00:26:08.299 --> 00:26:11.460
and you'll go through, this is my 316th podcast.

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So there's a lot of podcasts on a lot of topics,

00:26:14.289 --> 00:26:15.950
and that's what Quality Christian Living is all

00:26:15.950 --> 00:26:19.190
about. Topics on miracles, topics on faith, topics

00:26:19.190 --> 00:26:22.069
on finances, and how to get out of debt and stay

00:26:22.069 --> 00:26:24.650
out of debt. Many, many topics, because my background

00:26:24.650 --> 00:26:27.869
is kind of varied. I was a real estate developer

00:26:27.869 --> 00:26:30.069
for many years. My wife and I had a real estate

00:26:30.069 --> 00:26:32.490
development company. I was a banker for 15 years

00:26:32.490 --> 00:26:34.529
before that. I was in the military, so I've had

00:26:34.529 --> 00:26:36.569
a lot of wonderful experiences and some difficult

00:26:36.569 --> 00:26:39.289
ones, but I believe God uses those so I can bring

00:26:39.289 --> 00:26:42.309
a lot of different topics in. If you'd like to

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subscribe to Quality Christian Living, you can

00:26:44.170 --> 00:26:48.509
do that by going to cpnshows .com or wherever

00:26:48.509 --> 00:26:50.990
you listen to your podcasts. Once again, I hope

00:26:50.990 --> 00:26:53.109
this has been a blessing to you and let me just

00:26:53.109 --> 00:26:54.829
pray for you. Heavenly Father, bless those who

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are listening in. Those who have a wonderful

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knowledge and understanding of the Holy Spirit

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and operate in the Holy Spirit and those that

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are new. It's new to them. They have a desire.

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They want to be led by the Spirit of God. So

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I pray blessing will be upon them. Help us in

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this podcast and help those who are tuning in

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to receive complete I thank you so much for listening

00:27:16.759 --> 00:27:19.119
to the Quality Christian Living podcast and this

00:27:19.119 --> 00:27:21.779
series on the Holy Spirit. This has been podcast

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number 316 so obviously we've been doing this

00:27:25.380 --> 00:27:27.359
for quite a while. This is a little over three

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years that the Lord has blessed us with this

00:27:29.559 --> 00:27:31.880
podcast and I just pray that you would invite

00:27:31.880 --> 00:27:34.079
your friends and family and let them know about

00:27:34.079 --> 00:27:35.900
this series. The last time I did a series on

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the Holy Spirit was probably about a year and

00:27:37.740 --> 00:27:39.980
a half ago. It was specifically on the Holy Spirit.

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We had a huge increase in the number of people

00:27:42.359 --> 00:27:45.200
who started listening in who were basically new

00:27:45.200 --> 00:27:48.319
to the teachings on the Holy Spirit. So I'm sure

00:27:48.319 --> 00:27:50.420
that same thing's gonna happen now. So I would

00:27:50.420 --> 00:27:52.839
encourage you to invite those that may have questions

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as we go through this. In addition to that, I'd

00:27:55.160 --> 00:27:57.380
like to just close with a little blessing for

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everyone who's listening in. May the Lord bless

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you and keep you. May his face shine upon you

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and may he be gracious to you and give you peace.

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May you prosper and be in good health, even as

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your soul prospers. So until next time, may God

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richly bless you. Thank you once again for listening

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in to Quality Christian Living. I'm your host,

00:28:16.130 --> 00:28:16.569
David Friend.