What The Holy Spirit Teaches us (339)

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Welcome to the Quality Christian Living Podcast.

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

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is entitled, We Can Learn from the Holy Spirit.

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Today we're going to cover what does the Holy

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Spirit teach us and why does he want to help

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us? What do we need to be taught? You ever thought

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about that? I wonder what I need to be taught.

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Where do we read about the Holy Spirit's purpose

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for us? And how can we grow spiritually? So we've

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got a lot to cover, but we've got a wonderful

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laid out plan the Lord's given me. And I pray

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the Holy Spirit would direct it. So let's pray.

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Heavenly Father, thank you once again. for your

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goodness, your blessings, your promises, your

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faithfulness. And Holy Spirit, I ask that you

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would come in now and take control, take charge

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of this podcast. I put it together under your

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direction and I want you to guide me through

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it. I yield to you. I surrender to you. I pray,

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Father, for those who are listening in today

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that they would learn from the Holy Spirit. That's

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something that we all need to do. Father, I pray

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that you'd help me to be able to submit more

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and surrender more to the Holy Spirit so I can

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learn from him and know what he wants to teach

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me. So, Father, bless everyone who's listening

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in. And I know great things are going to take

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place when we learn from the Holy Spirit of the

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living God. So we're asking these things now

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in the name of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

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Amen. Well, following is a list of what we can

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learn from the Holy Spirit. And I've got, I don't

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know how long the list is going to go. We'll

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see how the Holy Spirit leads us. The Holy Spirit

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teaches us how we can increase our faith. He

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wants us to truly believe for miracles, for healings,

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for greater faith, and live an overcoming life,

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an abundant life, more than a conqueror life.

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Now, let's think about that for a second. The

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Holy Spirit teaches us... How we can receive

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faith is what I said. But listen to this, the

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Holy Spirit, now he wants us to truly believe

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in our heart, in our mind, in our soul for miracles,

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for the miracle of healings, for having greater

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faith and to live a life that's an overcoming

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life, not a just get by life, but an overcoming

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life, a life that's filled with abundant living

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more than... even a conqueror's life. I tell

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you, that's the kind of Holy Spirit that we enjoy

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and who lives and dwells inside of each and every

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believer in the Lord Jesus Christ. Now, John

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writes about the Holy Spirit. He writes these

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words of Jesus found in John chapter 16, verse

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13 in the New Living Translation. And we'll go

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through this kind of slowly because I really

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want to take my time on this particular scripture.

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I think it kind of builds a foundation for this

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particular podcast. These are the words of Jesus.

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When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide

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you into all truth. Now he's talking to his disciples

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and he's telling them that the Holy Spirit is

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coming. Remember, shortly he's going to tell

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them that when he leaves, it's best that he leaves

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because when he leaves, the Holy Spirit is coming

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to help them and to be the comforter and their

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advocate and one that will carry them through

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life. But Jesus is saying here, when the Spirit

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of truth comes, that's the Holy Spirit, he will

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guide you into all truth. Now that's one of the

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most beautiful things about the Holy Spirit is

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that he always delivers the truth. Sometimes

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it may be something we're not comfortable with

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or something that maybe we think we'd rather

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not go that direction. But when it's the leading

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of the Holy Spirit, it is always pure truth from

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our God. Jesus goes on to say, he will not speak

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on his own, but will tell you what he has heard.

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Isn't that interesting? Jesus said he's not going

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to be talking on his own. He's going to be sharing

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you what he's heard from God the Father. He says

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he will tell you about your future. No wonder

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we need to communicate with the Holy Spirit,

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huh? I think a lot of people would like to know

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their future. They like to know what's going

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to happen. Maybe they're dating someone, wondering

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if it's going to turn into a marriage. Some are

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maybe just starting a church and wondering how

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this church is going to go. Some have just got

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a new job. Some have just recently gotten married.

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Some have just started dating. And all the things

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that we're taking into our life, they all have

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a future. The Holy Spirit, though, will tell

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us about our future. Now, that doesn't mean he's

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a fortune teller. Not at all. That is satanic.

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Spirit has is he has the same wisdom that God

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the Father has because he receives all of his

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wisdom from God the Father. And remember what

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it says is he will tell you what he has heard

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and he will tell you about your future. So therefore,

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God has a plan for all of us in our future and

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the Holy Spirit will reveal that truth as we

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live our life. He will bring me, Jesus is talking,

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so he's saying he's talking about himself, he

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will bring me glory by telling you whatever he

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receives from me. So therefore, the Holy Spirit

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it's getting instructions from Jesus from God

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the Father and it's just amazing to think that

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when the Holy Spirit who lives and dwells inside

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of us is receiving all of his words that he's

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going to give us and all the thoughts that he

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gives us and all the that still quiet voice that

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he gives us when he's telling the direction that

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we should go or the direction that we should

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not go all that is coming from God the Father

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and the Lord Jesus Christ in verse 15 it says

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all that belongs to the Father is mine this is

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why I said, listen to this now. The Spirit will

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tell you whatever He receives from me. Once again,

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Jesus is trying to remind them the Spirit of

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God is being left to them to come and live and

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dwell inside of each and every believer. And

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therefore, we have a direct connection with Almighty

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God. We have a direct connection through the

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Holy Spirit to the Lord Jesus Christ Himself.

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And if we yield to Him and surrender to Him and

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ask for His guidance and direction in our life,

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He will be more than happy to reveal that to

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us. Now, sometimes He reveals that to us by telling

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us no. or telling us not now, or telling us maybe

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there's something else you should do. You know,

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I've made a lot of decisions in my life that

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I wished I'd have spent more time waiting on

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the Holy Spirit. And I've made a lot of decisions

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in my life where I waited upon the Holy Spirit

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and those decisions always turned out to be right.

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In business, when we had our home building business,

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we would go out to build properties and buy a

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lot of property to build a house on. And we would

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spend a lot of time in research and all that

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good stuff to know exactly what to do. And when

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I followed the directions that I felt, in my

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heart and my mind, which those feelings and those

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thoughts come from the Holy Spirit. I knew that

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we were on track to do the right thing. But when

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I did things on my own and said things like,

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oh, this is just, we don't need to worry about

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this one or we don't need to be concerned about

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that. This is what we call a no brainer. We just

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do this when it'll all work out okay. When I

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thought that way, it usually turned out to be

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a problem. But when I waited on the Holy Spirit

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and waited to hear his peace. People say, how

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do you know that you're hearing from the Holy

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Spirit? Well, I believe you're hearing from the

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Holy Spirit when you have peace about something.

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Because, you know, Paul talked about that, that

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we can receive the peace of God that passes all

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understanding, that'll guard our heart and mind

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in Christ Jesus. That's how we know that we're

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on the right track with the Holy Spirit, is that

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we have peace. Now, if we don't have peace about

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something, we should run from it. We should get

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away from it. We should not try and force it,

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not manipulate it, try and make it happen. We

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should hold off, back off, and wait upon the

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Lord. tell us the right time. It's like when

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we pastor the church for... Seven years, we held

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a piece of land that the Lord allowed us to buy.

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We were able to pay for it. It was completely

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paid off. Our new church was only a couple years

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old. We had this beautiful piece of land and

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I wanted so bad to build a church on it. And

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I kept thinking, Lord, tell me when, let me know

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when. The church was growing and prospering.

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The income was really increasing. The attendance

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was going up hundreds of people every month.

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It was amazing. We went from 30 or 40 people

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in a year to about 1 ,000. And then in two years,

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we had 2 ,000. And it's just amazing. to think

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how God was moving. But I was holding off on

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building that building until I felt peace in

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my heart that the Holy Spirit said, now's the

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time. It's interesting. It took seven years after

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we bought the land where finally the Holy Spirit

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gave me that peace one morning at church. And

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I told the board and I told the congregation,

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I believe the Holy Spirit spoke to me this morning.

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Now is the time for us to move forward and build.

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And you know, when we started building, everything

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went together just perfectly. It was the right

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timing. It was God's timing. It was God's plan.

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The finances came in. The bank that we needed

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to borrow some money from gave us everything

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that we needed. The construction went extremely

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well. The budget came in. We came in under budget

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and even a shorter period of time than what we

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thought it would do to take the building. You

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see, that's how God works. And that's how the

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Holy Spirit wants to talk to us. And we learn

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all those things from the Holy Spirit. it now

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there's another scripture i'm going to share

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that deals with this in first corinthians chapter

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12 verse 9 the apostle paul wrote these words

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the same spirit gives great faith. Now, I jumped

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from one topic to another very quickly, but I

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did that intentionally because I want you to

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realize that that's how we know we have faith

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to move forward in something. We can have great

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faith because that's where it comes from. That's

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a gift from the Holy Spirit. It's one of the

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nine power gifts of the Holy Spirit. And when

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we think about that kind of great faith, that

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great faith gives us peace. That great faith

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is something we learn from the Holy Spirit. And

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in order to know what to do and when to do and

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where to do something, we need to listen to that

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quite still quiet voice of the holy spirit let

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him lead us and guide us and direct us and wait

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upon him because he's hearing from god he's hearing

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from jesus christ as to what we should do and

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then he wants to share it with us in the ways

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that he does sometimes he shares it to us through

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someone else through maybe scriptures that we

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read through a time in prayer or just simply

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a time of meditation and thinking about god and

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wondering no where do we go and what should we

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do from this point on god knows the future he

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knows the plan he has for us and we need to surrender

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to that yield to that and not try and run out

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and do things on our own because that usually

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causes some problems all right so move on now

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to the second thing that I think we can learn

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from the Holy Spirit is number two, the Holy

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Spirit wants us to seek his guidance. Now in

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Hebrews chapter 11 and verse six, it says, God

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rewards those who seek him. Now, you know, that

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applies to everything that we do in our life.

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I'm asking this question about how can we learn

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from the Holy Spirit? That's what we're trying

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to address today. Will we learn from the Holy

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Spirit by seeking his guidance? And we use the

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word of God, Hebrews 11, six, where it tells

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us God rewards those who seek him. We need to

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spend more time seeking God. We need to spend

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more time seeking his will, desiring his will,

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wanting to know what he wants for us. We can

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learn that as the Holy Spirit who dwells inside

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of us will share secret thoughts and private

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thoughts to us. and give us that feeling, that

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sense of power that we know that this is the

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right thing to do. In Jeremiah 29, verse 13,

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it says this, the New Living Translation, it

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tells us that if you look for me wholeheartedly,

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you will find me. So, number two in how we learn

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from the Holy Spirit is the Holy Spirit wants

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us to seek His guidance. We saw Hebrews 11, 6,

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so draw near to God, seek Him. And then in Jeremiah

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in the Old Testament, 29 .13, it tells us, if

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you look for me wholeheartedly, that means totally

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and completely with every single part of us,

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you will find me. Wholeheartedly is an interesting

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word. Wholeheartedly means absolute 100 % commitment

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to listening. and waiting on that still, quiet

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voice from God. Having Him speak to us through

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a sermon or speak to us through a song or speak

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to us through reading His Word or speak to us

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during a time of prayer or just a conversation

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with someone else. He will speak to us, but we've

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got to seek Him. We've got to look for Him wholeheartedly

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with everything, our body, soul, and spirit.

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And don't allow our mind to wander and to lose

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focus when we're seeking God's will and guidance

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and direction from the Holy Spirit. You see,

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the Holy Spirit has all the wisdom and knowledge

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of God, every bit of it. I think a lot of times

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people don't understand that the Holy Spirit

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is God. The Holy Spirit is part of the triune

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God, God the Father, God the Son, and God the

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Holy Spirit. One God, three distinct characteristics

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or personalities, if you will. a specific person.

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God created the heavens and the earth, but Jesus

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was there for that, and the Holy Spirit was there

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for that. And all the way through the Old Testament

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and through the New Testament, we hear about

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God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy

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Spirit. And the Holy Spirit has that wisdom that

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God has given to men of God and women of God,

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pastors and preachers and married people, and

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just anybody who's seeking a Sunday school teacher,

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anyone who's doing something for God, He will

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give us that wisdom and give us His knowledge.

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The Holy Spirit wants us, to receive all the

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wisdom and all the knowledge that he has. But

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we must continue wholeheartedly to seek him.

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We must seek his course, not our course. Dr.

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Cho, who was a great pastor, he's since gone

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to be with the Lord. He pastored a church in

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South Korea, an Assembly of God church there.

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And Dr. Cho, I was blessed to be able to meet

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him. My wife and I went there with a dear pastor

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friend of ours to see Pastor Cho to be at the

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conference. And our pastor, Pastor Tommy Barnett,

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was with us. And he was the keynote speaker at

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that big pastor's conference that they had. had.

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So we were blessed to be with these men. You

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imagine spending a week with Dr. Cho and Pastor

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Tommy Barnett and spending a whole week just

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in prayer and hearing what the Word of God has

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to say and what the Holy Spirit has to say. Well,

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Dr. Cho was an amazing man who was led by the

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Holy Spirit. He had a church that ran 750. I

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understand it may be 8 or 100 ,000 or more even

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now, but 750 ,000 people. We went there on a

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Sunday and they had like six or seven services

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and each service had 33 ,000 people in attendance.

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And each service had a completely new worship

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team that was there. It was the biggest mass

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of people I've ever seen in my life. And they

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told people, you can't always come every week

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because we can't get you all in. So, you know,

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you might want to skip a week and let other people

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come. Be sure they come so that everybody in

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the church would have an opportunity to sit under

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the teachings of Dr. Cho and the other teachers

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who were there. Dr. Cho wrote a book entitled,

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The Holy Spirit, My Senior. partner. I'd like

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to encourage you right now to invite the Holy

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Spirit to be your senior partner. My wife and

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I had a wonderful real estate development business

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for nearly 20 years. We built custom homes. Prior

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to that, I did some office buildings. We did

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land syndications. That's putting land together.

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And it's just kind of complicated investment

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stuff. But all of that, we asked the Holy Spirit

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to help us. And after I saw Dr. Cho's book, The

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Holy Spirit, My Senior Partner, and I read it,

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I told my wife, I said, we've got to ask the

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Holy Spirit to be our senior partner. in our

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marriage, in our parenting, in being husband

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and wife, and being a home developer. We wanted

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the Holy Spirit to be in our senior partner.

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All right, here's the third area I want to cover.

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The Holy Spirit teaches us God's plan and purpose

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for us. Now, He teaches us how to witness. He

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teaches us how to pray. He teaches us how to

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read the Word of God and meditate upon the Word

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of God. You say, well, how does He teach us?

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Well, He teaches it Through His Word. For example,

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if we need to make a decision, we need to go

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to the Holy Spirit -inspired words that were

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written in Proverbs 3, verse 5. Trust in the

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Lord with all your heart. Lean not on your own

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ways or your own understanding. And turn your

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focus on God is what it's saying. And then He

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will guide your path. He'll help you with your

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purpose for life and help you plan everything

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that you do. You see, that's how we know the

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Holy Spirit is leading us. It's through God's

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Word. Here's another area, number four. The Holy

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Spirit teaches us how to deal with anxiety and

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fear and worry. You see, the Bible has dozens

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of scriptures on anxiety, fear, worry, dozens

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and dozens of scriptures. And all these scriptures

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were instructed by the Holy Spirit. My favorite

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scripture on not worrying is written by the Apostle

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Paul. In Philippians chapter four, verses six

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and seven, he says, don't be anxious, he says

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about anything, but everything through prayer,

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petitions with thanksgiving. make your request

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be made known to God. And the peace of God that

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passes all understanding will guard your heart

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and guard your mind in Christ Jesus. That's my

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absolute favorite scripture on that. If you listen

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to my podcast at all, probably at least once

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every 10th podcast, you'll hear a reference to

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anxiety and how Philippians chapter four is the

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answer to it. Here's another area about how we

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can learn from the Holy Spirit. Number five,

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the Holy Spirit teaches us to trust God. The

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apostle Paul wrote guidance and direction for

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the Holy Spirit so many times. places. Here's

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another one of my favorites. I have a lot of

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favorites when it comes to scriptures, and I'm

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sure that if you've listened to me enough, you'll

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understand that I do say, here's another favorite,

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here's another favorite. But this particular

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one, helping us to trust God, is being taught

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to us by the Holy Spirit through the words that

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the Holy Spirit gave the Apostle Paul, written

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in Romans chapter 4 and verse 17 in the New Living

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Translation. Abraham believed in the God who

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brings the dead back to life and who creates

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new things out of nothing. Another way of saying

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is that we can learn to trust in God if we believe

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that God will bring forth something from nothing.

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And he is the one who can help us to understand

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and trust that if we have something that's died

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in our life, like maybe an idea or a business

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that we had or plans to go to college or a marriage

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fell apart, God can bring it back to life. This

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whole scripture in Romans chapter four has to

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do with Abraham. When Abraham and Sarah wanted

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to have children, when God told Abraham, you're

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going to be the father of many nations. And Abraham

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basically was thinking, hmm, I don't have any

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children. And so God said, I told you that you're

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going to be the father of many nations. And so

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then Abraham and Sarah had a child when Abraham

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was nearly 100 years old and she was 90 years

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old. Different translations vary the years by

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a couple, but bottom line, they're in their 90s

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and God allows them to get pregnant and they

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have this child. And Isaac came forward and Isaac

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was such a great, blessing and he is the one

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was the promise of god and abraham became through

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his offspring the father of many nations. And

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that's because the Holy Spirit back then helped

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Abraham to have patience and to have peace and

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wait on God and not have fear or anxiety or worrying

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and not be frustrated about things. He waited

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upon God to hear from God. And the Holy Spirit

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was really, I know he wasn't living on the earth

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at that time, but the Holy Spirit was alive and

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well. And Abraham was hearing from the Spirit

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of God and hearing about what he should do and

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how he should wait and how he should depend upon

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God. And when he did that, they had a child.

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And that child was the beginning of Abraham being

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the father of many nations. And that's where

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Paul wrote that God creates things, new things,

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out of nothing. All right, here's area number

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six on our discussion on how the Holy Spirit

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teaches us and how we learn from him. The Holy

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Spirit gives us gifts. to all believers, gifts

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that bless us, and those we will have an opportunity

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to share those gifts with. The gifts that God

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gives to us are for us and for us to also share

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and give to someone else. In 1 Corinthians 12,

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verse 7, New Living Translation, a spiritual

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gift is given to each of us so we can help each

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other. So the way we learn from the Holy Spirit

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is that we seek Him, we seek His guidance and

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direction, we pray and ask Him to give us wisdom

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and guidance and direction. We ask Jesus to help

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us. We pray to the Father in the name of Jesus.

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And while we're doing that, we can say, Holy

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Spirit, I need you. I want you. I need you to

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guide me. I need you to direct me. And some people

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say, well, you can't pray to the Holy Spirit.

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I'm not saying you pray to the Holy Spirit. I'm

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saying you're speaking to the Holy Spirit and

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you're communicating with him. After all, he

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lives and dwells inside of us. It should be such

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an easy thing, such a comfortable thing to do

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is to speak to the Holy Spirit and open up our

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hearts to receive what he has. And remember,

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He's the one that distributes the gifts. It's

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Him solely that decides who gets the various

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gifts that are found in the Word of God. I did

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a wonderful, very long teaching in 1 Corinthians

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12 about the gifts of the Spirit, the nine power

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gifts. You may want to look that up, and I'll

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talk about that at the end of the podcast as

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to how you can find those. But there's a series

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of messages about the Holy Spirit and the gifts

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of the Spirit of God. Now, moving on to number

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seven. Our time is really blowing by here fast.

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Number seven in this... in this topic on how

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we learn from the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit,

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He brings the Scriptures to life for us. In 2

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Peter 1, verse 20 and 21, New Living Translation,

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it says this, Above all, you must realize that

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no prophecy in Scripture ever came from the prophet's

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own understanding. Verse 21, or from human initiative.

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No, those prophets were moved by the Spirit and

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they spoke from God. So remember now, we've got

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to understand that when we hear about people

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prophesying and you hear the gifts of the Spirit,

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they're always led by the Holy Spirit and the

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Holy Spirit brings scriptures to us like this

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one to help us. understand the relationship that

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he wants us to have with him. Let me give you

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another one that might even be a little bit more

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direct. 2 Timothy 3, verse 16, New Living Translation.

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All scripture is inspired by God and is useful

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to teach us what is true, listen to this, and

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to make us realize, listen to that, make us realize

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what is wrong in our lives. It corrects us when

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we're wrong and teaches us what to do right.

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Verse 17, it says, God uses it to prepare and

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equip his people to do every good work. I would

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encourage you when this podcast is over to go

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back and listen, either listen again to 2 Timothy

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3, 16 and 17, or read it, get it out. I would

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read that every day if you're trying to get a

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closer walk with God and a better understanding

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of why the Holy Spirit can speak to us and help

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us and what we can learn from him. Here's number

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eight in this. I guess I didn't realize we're

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going to have so many of them. The Holy Spirit

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teaches us the deep things of God. In 1 Corinthians

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2 and verse 10, it talks about the Holy Spirit

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searches everything. Even the deep things of

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God is what it's talking about. The deep things,

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the things that God wants to share with those

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who are seeking Him and pushing in towards Him

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and desiring more of Him and drawing closer to

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Him. When we do that, God then just says, all

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right, I want to tell you more. It's like having

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a good friend. You get to have a good buddy or

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a... a lady if you have a girlfriend that's a

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good friend and you get to know each other and

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the more you get to know each other and the closer

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you get to each other the more things that you

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tell each other you tell even even secret things

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and maybe special things and private things and

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we speak about things to that person because

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we have that relationship with them we should

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have we need to have the same relationship with

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the holy spirit and with god our father we need

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to have a relationship where god has a desire

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then he's like okay that person is looking for

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me he's seeking for me. She's wanting to hear

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from me. So I'm going to share the deep things

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with them. All right, let's move on. And I'm

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going to have to close with this last item, number

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nine, and it has to do with how we learn from

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the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit teaches us that

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faith has substance and is evidence. Boy, I did

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a whole podcast on that one, so I'm not going

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to spend much time on that. The Holy Spirit teaches

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us to have desires to live according to God's

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will. He helps us to know what to do and when

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to do it or not. to do it. He takes prayers to

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God and how to get great results out of our prayer

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life. The Holy Spirit tells us in Romans chapter

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8 verse 1 and 2. Once again, another one of my

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absolute favorite scriptures. Listen to this.

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Romans chapter 8 verse 1 in the New Living Translation.

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These are the words that the Holy Spirit gave

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to the Apostle Paul. So now there is no condemnation

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for those who belong to Christ Jesus. That's

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all of us. If you know Jesus Christ as your Lord

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and Savior, there is no condemnation anymore

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of your sin or your past. And also there's no

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condemnation on your health. I believe we can

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seek to live in health and to prosper in every

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area of our life. There's no condemnation for

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our marriage. There's no condemnation in our

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businesses or in our life, our parenting. There's

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just no condemnation. So I believe that. And

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that's because the Holy Spirit gave those words

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to the Apostle Paul to give to us. And then verse

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2. it says and because you belong to him that's

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jesus christ the power of the life -giving spirit

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has freed you from the power of sin that leads

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to death that's what the holy spirit brings us

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you know no one comes to know jesus christ unless

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the holy spirit draws them so in closing if you

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don't know jesus as your lord and savior maybe

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you're listening in and you just thought this

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might be kind of interesting to hear about about

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the holy spirit but you've never given your life

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to christ let me just take a moment for those

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of you who know jesus just be with me and be

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in agreement on this prayer. If you don't know

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Jesus, you're not sure if you're going to go

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to heaven, anybody out there, just pray this

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prayer. Say, Father, I need a Savior. I need

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you, but I've sinned. I've fallen short of your

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glory. So I ask you to forgive me from my sins

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and cast them away as far as the east is from

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the west, never to be remembered again. And I

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promise to serve you. And I believe that Jesus

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was born of the Virgin Mary and he suffered,

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he was crucified, buried, but he was resurrected

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from the dead so that I could have life eternal

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with him. So on this day, I receive Jesus Christ

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as my Lord and Savior. In Jesus' name I pray,

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amen. If you prayed that prayer and you weren't

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sure before whether you were going to go to heaven

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or not, let me just tell you right now, if you've

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confessed your sins to Jesus, then Jesus sent

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the Holy Spirit to come and live and dwell inside

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of you. For those of you who are Christians,

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born -again believers, you know that's true.

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And you know that's one of the reasons you're

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listening to this podcast is because you're interested

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in what the Holy Spirit has to say. And I thank

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you for having the patience to let this podcaster

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who loves to lead people to Jesus take just a

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few moments and have people pray that prayer,

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the repentance prayer. I thank you for it. I

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hope that you received something from this. We're

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going to continue our series on the Holy Spirit.

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Matter of fact, the next podcast is entitled...

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The Holy Spirit and greater works. And we're

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going to look at what did Jesus mean when he

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said that greater works you will do. That's a

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pretty powerful statement, but we're going to

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get into that. So I hope you'll let your friends,

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family members know about this next upcoming

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podcast. Well, if you'd like to know more about

00:25:50.650 --> 00:25:52.549
the Quality Christian Living podcast, because

00:25:52.549 --> 00:25:54.809
all of these topics we do are underneath that

00:25:54.809 --> 00:25:56.910
title, Quality Christian Living has to do with

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living a quality life, living a life filled...

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according to what Jesus said, living life and

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living it more abundantly and understanding what

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it is to be able to experience the joy of the

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Lord, really, quite frankly, every single day.

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So if you'd like to know more about quality Christian

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living, I'd encourage you to go to my webpage

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at davidcfriendauthor .com. And when you get

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there and pull it up right on the front page,

00:26:17.079 --> 00:26:19.039
there'll be a link to all the podcasts. This

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is podcast number 339. So obviously there's been

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a bunch of them done. There are many topics on

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the Holy Spirit, on faith, on miracles, the gifts

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of the Spirit. even topics talking about how

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to get out of debt and stay out of debt because

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of my years that I was involved in banking, and

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just a plethora of topics I hope that will be

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of interest to you. And if you'd like to know

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about many of the books that I've written, you

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can scroll down on that webpage to the next page

00:26:44.000 --> 00:26:45.680
there. You'll see, I think currently there are

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six books that are on Amazon right now that talk

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about faith, talk about generosity, talk about,

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quite frankly, help for veterans and things that

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I believe are generally good things that we need

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to know to live a quality Christian life. Well,

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I'd like to thank you so much for listening.

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And if you enjoyed this episode, please take

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a moment and rate and review the podcast. You

00:27:05.960 --> 00:27:08.400
know, it really does help us reach more people.

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You can leave a... Review on Apple Podcasts or

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give us a star rating on Spotify. You know, however

00:27:18.150 --> 00:27:20.470
you choose to support us, we certainly appreciate

00:27:20.470 --> 00:27:22.609
it. If you'd like to subscribe to my podcast,

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you can do that by going to cpnshows .com or

00:27:26.930 --> 00:27:29.589
wherever you listen to your podcasts. I'd like

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to close with a blessing for you. I pray that

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the Lord will bless you and keep you and may

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his face shine upon you and may he be gracious

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to you and give you peace. May you prosper and

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be in good health even as your soul prospers.

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So until next time, I pray God will richly bless

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you. Thank you once again for listening to Quality

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Christian Living. I'm your host, David Friend.

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We'll continue our series on the Holy Spirit

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as the Holy Spirit tells us to continue. Thank

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you once again. God bless you all.