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If you've got your Bible, why don't you open it up at Matthew 11 again
How many people get stressed out easily? Yeah, that's right
Bill's the honest one [Laughter] He's stressed out all the time
you know People come with all these things they want,
and stress and pressure are part of our life Jesus has given some clear things about how
we can deal with it When you're stressed out, anxious and uptight
you don't live your best and not only that, you find that you struggle in your relationships
There's overflow in your health Things are not good when you're living like
that God doesn't intend us to live that way
Let's have a look what Jesus said We're using this as our core verse, and I
want to pick up again on The Rest Of Faith I want to touch something else today about
the Holy Spirit So here we are, Matthew 11: Come to Me, all
you who labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you? [Rest
] Rest It doesn't mean you lie down and do nothing
The kingdom of God's always about work, but He's talking about an internal rest, internal
peace in other words
In other words, although there's challenges and difficulties we face, there's peace inside
What a fantastic thing to be able to have; so come to Me
So here's the thing you notice here, that so many people don't have any peace
You meet people around, you find they're struggling, they're tormented, they're troubled, no peace
The challenge that people have is: how to find that peace
Jesus is the prince of peace, He said: come to Me, I'll bring a peace into your heart
But there's a way that that happens, and we're exploring the way that that happens
Notice here that rest is a gift to you In other words, this is something God has
to give you; and when it's operating in your life you remain at peace
You're actually in the middle of the storm, but you're calm inside; and not only that,
He says: it's something that you will find So therefore, there's a path of discovery
to find, and then receive, the rest that God gives
It's a lifelong journey, learning how to come to rest, when you and I face pressures and
struggles and difficulties daily and regularly I see some people nodding to someone else
Look what it says in Exodus, Chapter 33 verse 14: I want to give you an important key to
this rest that God gives Here it is here
God is speaking to Moses, and He said: My presence will go with you, and I will give
you rest Same words: I'll give you rest; but what is
the rest connected with? The rest is connected with the tangible presence of God
Now when He said that My presence will go with you, He was referring to a visible cloud
of glory, that was there on the tabernacle at day, and it was like a flame of fire at
night But you and I have something better than that
We have the Holy Spirit come to live within us, the same spirit that manifested in a cloud
of glory, comes to live inside you Before He lived in a tangible way, over the
congregation; now He comes to live inside us
My presence will give you rest My presence will be with you, I will give
you rest; and Moses said: listen, if we don't have that, we're not going anywhere
Don't take us anywhere Don't take us into conflicts and battles
Don't take us into any challenges We need to have your tangible presence
You should never take for granted God's presence It's something to be pursued, treasured, valued
He's to be honoured He's to be honoured
He's to be honoured; and you'll find - we're going to talk a little about the keys around
this - but the first thing you'll need to see, since the presence of God is what gives
us rest, we need to understand: it's easy for us to grieve the spirit that gives us
rest Have you ever thought that you might grieve
the Holy Spirit, and limit His work in your life? One of the tragic things is that, when
we grieve the Holy Spirit, and His presence begins to withdraw - He never leaves us, but
the expression of His presence can diminish, until you feel: God, where are you? Here's
the tragic thing in the Bible, is almost every time when the spirit of God draws back, or
is grieved - most people don't know it That's a bit of a scary thought, isn't it?
Have you ever though that you could be grieving the spirit of God, who has come to give you
rest and empower you - and you didn't even know it?
If you go on like that, that you didn't even know it, you end up religious
You end up just doing lots of activities, and there's no life flow, no joy, no peace
The presence of the Holy Spirit brings peace and rest in our heart, and brings joy in our
life; so anything that disturbs your peace, anything disturbs your joy, is a cause for
alarm bells going off: hello, hello, hello, something's happening! I need to look at what
is going on The Bible says: the flesh wars against the
spirit; so when you are flowing with the Holy Spirit, the fruit is peace and joy within
When there's something has grieved the Holy Spirit, and you're in turmoil, you'll lose
the peace, lose the joy, and it's always your flesh fighting against that in various ways,
which you may not recognise Let me just give you four examples in the
Bible of people who grieved the Holy Spirit, or who lost the presence of God, and didn't
know it I know there are more but let me just give
you a few of them just so you can see it
In Judges 16:20, it talks about Samson, and it says: Samson did not know the spirit of
God had left him He'd got very familiar with God's presence
around his life, and God would come on him and help him at major times, and he didn't
realise the spirit of God had left him Why, what had happened? There had been a dulling
of his spiritual sensitivity through *** sin, through things: *** that he allowed
to rage in his mind and his thoughts, and because of *** sin he was involved in,
he gradually became desensitised to the Holy Spirit
Then there came a point where the Holy Spirit drew back, grieved; and at that point, if
you follow what happened, he goes into terrible bondage and loses vision, loses his whole
perspective in life We're going to see this again repeated in
the New Testament
The second one is found in Psalm 95:10 Notice what He said: Israel grieved the Holy
Spirit Israel is an example for us
This is a whole congregation of people that grieved the spirit of God: For 40 years, I
was grieved with that generation Look at that, a whole generation, God is grieved;
and this is what He said: it's a people who go astray in their hearts, and don't know
My ways Notice what God is saying is what caused Him
to be aggrieved What caused Him to be aggrieved, is because
they did not learn about Faith You see, they'd had years in slavery, and
they were embittered by the bondage and the problems they had; and God drew them through
a path, to change them and prepare them He wanted them to learn faith, to learn to
trust Him to meet their needs; and what happened was instead, this is what they did: they complained
They constantly complained Complaining grieves the Holy Spirit; yet people
do it like it's nothing, complaining about all sorts of things; and not realising, that
when we complain, we are manifesting: we do not trust God
We are manifesting our unbelief; and without faith, you can't please God
What it cost them was, that they lost inheritance The things that God wanted to give to them,
they couldn't enter, because they grieved Him through their unbelief
Here's the third one, in Luke, Chapter 2 This is an interesting one
There's a lot in this particular passage, so I'll just take out one thought of it - Mary
and Joseph, Verse 41 His parents went to Jerusalem every year at
the Feast of Passover, and when He was 12 years old, they went up to Jerusalem, according
to the custom of the feast When they had finished the days, as they returned,
the Boy Jesus lingered behind in Jerusalem And Joseph and His mother did not know it;
and supposing Him to have been in the company, they went a day's journey, and then when they
sought Him among their relatives and acquaintances, they could not find Him
They returned to Jerusalem - seeking Him And it says: after three days, they found
Him
Now notice they walked away for one whole day
Now this is their child, you know? This is the saviour of the world; and they got so
used to Him being there, for 12 years; and then they've gone up, every year they've gone
up to the temple at the same time at the feast Every year they've gone up, every year they
come back, and they're into a pattern of familiarity and whatever, so now they've come back: oh
it's okay, He's in the crowd, He's there somewhere Then imagine the horror after one day, their
Son that they've been entrusted with, is gone Now any parent who's lost a child, knows the
freak out feelings you get around that, you know? Any child, I mean it's easy to leave
kids behind I know that
We've had enough of that in our own life, and just it's easy to leave them behind
Then when the moment of realisation comes to you, oh my! [Inhales sharply 00
09 24] WHERE! Then now you've got this panic
Now notice it took them three days to find Him again
There's the lesson It's easy to become so familiar with God,
and the things of God, that He draws back from you, and you didn't know it; and it can
take some time to re-establish yourself in that place of connection again
Think: it took them three days, but the worst part is they didn't know it
Imagine, you're selected above everyone to bring the saviour of the world in, then you
lost Him [Laughter] Imagine the prayers on that day
Father: we lost Him! We don't know where He's gone! That's horrendous isn't it? That's a
real lesson to us; and Jesus of course, and the Holy Spirit, are one; so it's easy to
lose the presence of God So they lost Him because of familiarity
They just supposed He was there
Here's another one, Luke 19:41 Jesus drew near to Jerusalem, and as He came
near the city, He wept over it, saying: if you had known even this day the things that
make for your peace! But now they're hidden from your eyes
Then it says: these days will come, when your enemies will build an embankment around you,
surround you and close you in on every side, level you to the ground, your children within
you on the ground; and they'll not leave in you one stone upon another, because you did
not know the time of your visitation So Israel grieved the Holy Spirit, because
when God was moving, they were so stuck in tradition, that they held on to the old, and
did not welcome the new
Now that's been historical, that that's happened, and if you have a look at movements of churches,
when God's started to do something different; tradition, and holding on to what they valued
from their past - they didn't move with God into the new things
That can happen to any church, any group of churches this can happen to
History's full of movements, that started with a move of God, and ended up where God
isn't there, but no one really knows it No one's even speaking about it
It's like there's just routine and tradition left, and so these are all warnings for us,
that we can, for a variety of reasons, lose the active moving flowing of the Holy Spirit,
if we don't guard our relationship with Him
So the key thing then is about our relationship with Him, so let's have a look in Ephesians,
Chapter 5 So the thing that is a challenge for us, and
this is where I want to really focus on, Rest comes from the presence of God
The Holy Spirit is given to us to bring that presence, or He is the one who's present with
us; then I need to learn how to be sensitive to the Holy Spirit, and how to welcome His
presence, how to draw in, engage with Him Notice what it says there, Ephesians 5:10
(and I want to read it from Amplified): Try to learn, in your experience, what is pleasing
to the Lord Try to learn, in your experience, what is
pleasing to God; so what He's saying to us is this
He's saying: make an effort to discover what pleases God
If you are in love with someone, you normally want to find out what they like, and what
they don't like; and you know, you start going out with someone, seems like everything's
all okay, and then you find after a little while, they like some things, they don't like
other things They go quiet, when they don't like other
things, have you noticed? They go quiet
Have you ever thought that God might go quiet on you, because He doesn't like some things?
Have you ever thought: if God has given you His spirit, to help you in life to be an overcomer,
no matter what happens; how important it must be to find out what He likes, and what He
doesn't like, and do the things He likes, and don't do the things He doesn't like - or
put it right pretty quickly if you do Have you ever thought: being a spiritual person
is about discovering this exciting journey with the Holy Spirit: what He likes, what
He doesn't like, and learning to relate to Him, and work with Him, and walk with Him?
How are we going to find out what the Holy Spirit likes, and doesn't like? Well a lot
of it's by trial and error, but a lot of it's through experience, and so you have to begin
to work with Him Now the Bible also helps us, because it tells
us things He likes and things He doesn't like; so you could even start in the Bible, and
say: I'm going to do a search I'm going to find what God likes, and what
He doesn't like The things He likes, I'm going to start to
put them into practice in my life, more and more and more
Things He doesn't like, I'm going to try and be aware of it, and I'll ask the Holy Spirit:
help me be aware every time I grieve you or hurt you, by my thoughts or attitudes or actions
or words I'll put it right real quick
What a great thing, if we were to start doing that, and become sensitive to the Holy Spirit;
because if we're not led and filled by the Holy Spirit, then you're just struggling in
your own effort, and that's where the struggles of life come
That's where we lose the rest So inevitably, it doesn't matter what church
you're in; personally we've got to learn what pleases God, what He likes and what He doesn't
like How many know one thing that pleases Him?
Yeah, one thing, what's that? [Faith!], yeah, faith! Without faith, you cannot please Him
That's a good one, isn't it? You can't please him without faith
We have to consciously continue to exercise faith
Notice what it says, go down a bit further, Ephesians 5:17
It says: don't be vague, thoughtless or foolish, but understand and grasp what the will of
the Lord is Don't be vague - a vague Christian; oh I don't
know, I don't know what God's up to I don't know
It says: don't be vague, and don't be thoughtless; I don't know
and don't be foolish In other words, what does it matter, He said,
but rather understand what the will of the Lord is
So it's a process, and we've got to walk through that process, so here's a few things that
you could start Now as I sat down to think about them, I thought:
what are some of the things I know He likes? What are the things I know He doesn't like?
I began to think oh my, there's a whole heap of them, so I'll just give a few things that
can help you, but these will be great, easy things
The first thing to do, is to Make Him Welcome Make Him welcome
He loves to be welcomed Talk to the Holy Spirit; Holy Spirit: I welcome
You Thank You for Your presence, I just love You
Please come into my life today, afresh Empower me today, afresh
Make Him welcome, talk to Him He's within you, and as you talk to Him, make
Him welcome - I just invite You to help me It's a simple thing to do, make Him welcome
Isn't it interesting with people, that you know when you're made welcome, and you know
when you're not? When you're welcome ,you're very pleased; and when you're not welcome,
or ignored, it's quite painful - so why not every day - I mean there's that book that
Benny Hinn wrote: Good Morning Holy Spirit Rise up: good morning Holy Spirit! Another
great day of victory, see? Rather than: oh no, it's time to get up again
[Laughter] That's what a lot of people do Holy Ghost, You're here! It's a great day!
It's a great day We're going to have a great day together,
as you talk with me, and we fellowship together Today is another great day in God, see? So
take Him, take Him Talk to Him every day
Go oh Holy Ghost, come, come around my life, come around my life
I just walk down the road, I go down the path praying for about hour every morning, just
walking there, and I met someone coming back I usually go early enough I don't meet anyone,
and I went back and they went whoa! Presence of God's all over you
I said: yeah, I'm praying, I'm carrying on [Laughter] I did carry on
I knew this person They got quite touched
So here's the second thing that really helps and that is this: a childlike trust
Childlike trust You don't have to be smart to be a Christian
You can be wise, but God wants us to trust Him
You know in Matthew 18 it says: if you want to enter the things of the kingdom, you have
to be converted, and become as a child; or develop child-like trust
As we said in Hebrews 11:6, without trust, without faith, how do you please God? So I've
got to come to Him: Holy Ghost, I just need Your help on this
I don't know what to do; and just come like a little child would come: dad, help me, I
don't know what to do Show me what to do
Come to Him in a very simple childlike trust, confident He's there, confident He'll help,
and asking Him for His help Learn to talk to Him, invite Him in to those
parts of your life Express gratitude
Express gratitude You know how hard it is to keep being kind
to people, when they're just ungrateful? Ingratitude offends
A lot of people just take everything for granted It speaks of a heart attitude of demand or
entitlement or something: it's my right, why should I say thank you? You know the mothers
that are doing all these meals for teenagers every day, I wonder if the teenagers say:
thank you mum, that was a great meal; instead of: eww, what's this? Okay, well you'll wear
it There you go
[Laughter] That's what it is - it's a hat! [Laughter] Make your own from today
Think about it See, you wondered what it was - it's a hat
So gratitude's a big thing We enter His presence with gratitude
Psalm 100:4, it says: come into His presence with thanksgiving; so it actually tells very
clearly: God loves it when we're grateful, and we begin to praise Him and thank Him
That's the way to talk to Him: thank You Holy Ghost for helping me
Thank You Your presence with me Talk to Him and show gratitude
Place value on Him Acknowledge His work in your life
That's not such a hard thing to do, is it? Notice these are all really simple
Here's another thing to do, practice listening to Him
Practice listening to Him Listening is an art to be learned
It doesn't come naturally, because we'd rather talk
Isn't that right - we'd rather talk? The big problem is, we talk and don't listen; so listening
It takes effort to listen You have to train your heart to listen to
the Holy Ghost When the Holy Spirit speaks, it's usually
very gentle, still, small voice, flowing pictures, thoughts, impressions
It's very gentle, so you don't hear much from Him when you're in great turmoil
You've got to quiet down, focus your attention, listening for His voice
So here's an interesting question: what was the last thing He told you? Did He tell you
to do something? Did you do it? He spoke to you, and so listen, practice listening to
Him Listening's fantastic
Listening, you have to focus, and give focussed attention
So have a time of worship, and then just be: Holy Ghost, Lord just speak to me, talk with
me What do I do about that? Begin to listen
Holy Ghost, You've got something to tell me - or you read the word of God; Holy Spirit,
You wrote this I don't understand it
Speak to me, help me, draw my attention to something that can help me today
You notice, it's nothing sophisticated It's actually almost childlike, isn't it?
It's being childlike, in this faith with Him, that seems to be able to draw His presence
around Ask Him questions
Ask questions
Look what it says of Jesus Here's an interesting thing of Jesus, Luke
2 Come back here into Luke, Chapter
There's a lot in this passage, but let me just show you something else in here, Luke
2:46 They found Him after three days in the temple,
or the place where the presence of God is Notice what He's doing, sitting in the midst
of teachers, both listening and asking questions So Jesus listened a lot, and asked a lot of
questions In fact, if you look at His ministry, He asked
questions all the time; so ask questions See, they found Him in the temple asking questions
That takes a bit of skill to ask questions, ask Him the right thing
You ask Him why, why did it happen? He won't tell you that
Say Holy Spirit, what are You wanting to teach me? Holy Spirit, what's happened that I need
to know? Holy Spirit, draw my attention to the things I need to be focussing on right
now Holy Spirit, in this conflict, what's my part?
See if you talk in just a simple, childlike way and a submitted way, you'll be amazed
how He will talk with you Sometimes we need to accept His silence
How many notice, God sometimes doesn't talk to you at all? That I hate
I hate that so much It's hard when God doesn't speak to you, and
you just wonder, you go through all sorts of things
There's reasons why He does that, but sometimes He is just silent
Notice here with Jesus, here's an interesting question
Now this one here, I don't know what to make of it altogether, but how come Mary and Joseph
didn't know Jesus was staying? There's only one reason
He didn't tell them That raises a few troublesome questions, doesn't
it?
Jesus, the near teenager, didn't tell His parents He was going to stay overnight, and
have a sleepover [Laughter] That doesn't go down well with
any parent, does it? So it's hard to understand, but we just recognise, that sometimes God
does not tell us everything It can be quite offensive when you don't get
answer, when you really desperately need one I've observed over my walk with the Lord,
that I'll have some things where God is talking quite strongly, and directly, and specifically
about The things I really need the help, there's
this deathly silence I can't understand it
It's horrendous, because on one hand God's moving, and I'll get words for people, all
kinds of things for others, but what about one for me? [Laughter] Then He's not saying
anything, and then you think stuff Then you go through all kinds of turmoil inside;
but what it does is, it forces you to search for His presence
You make a decision, in the midst of that silence, to search for His presence, and notice
and observe what is coming up in your life in that silent time
It says of Hezekiah, that God left for a season, to find out what was in his heart; so silences
of God cause what's in our heart to come up to the surface, and then we're able to engage
with God Then suddenly the silence is all over
I've got many things I need answers to, and some of them are actually quite critical,
and I cannot get an answer I just feel so wasted over that, I hate it
However, you've just got to continue to trust, childlike trust
It's in God's hands Amen
Yeah, but I don't want to take it back, I need an answer
So this thing of needing an answer, can become quite a driver, and then we get offended with
God, and we grieve the Holy Spirit So learn sometimes He just won't give you
an answer He just wants you to walk in the last thing
He gave you to do, or just in the general principles
So those are some great things How many could do those things? Could you
do those things? They're quite so simple and there's more things too but that's enough
What about some things that you should stop doing; and we go back into Ephesians 4, and
you find them all there, so we'll touch on them again
Now don't grieve the Holy Ghost Don't grieve Him
This is written to Christians! Ephesians 4:30, don't grieve the Holy Spirit
If you grieve Him - the word grieve means to cause Him great sorrow; and He's a spirit
of joy, so can you imagine the spirit of joy, very sorrowful? Hurt inside, grieved inside,
and drawing back, because you've wounded Him You've done things that hurt Me
No, no, no, I'm not going to come near Right now, I'm just staying over here; and
you'll just blunder on your merry way, trying to solve all your problems, until one day
you wake up: my God, when's the last time I felt the presence of God? Then there's tears,
and brokenness, and then: Holy Spirit, where did I leave You? Where did I move, and do
things or say things, or have an attitude that caused You to be grieved, and lift off
me? You can ask that sort of thing
So don't grieve the Holy Ghost; and it's got a whole list of things
Don't let any corrupt communication come out of your mouth, but that which is good for
building, that it imparts grace to the hearers Verse 31: let all bitterness, wrath, anger,
clamor, evil speaking be put away from you, with all malice
Be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving one another, even as God in Christ forgave
you The imitators of God walk in love, as Christ
loved us, and gave Himself as an offering and sacrifice to God
Verse 3: but fornication, uncleanness, covetousness not even should be named or talked about,
as is fitting among the saints Neither filthiness, foolish talking, coarse
jesting which are not right, but rather giving of thanks; for know this
No fornicator, unclean person, or covetous man who's an idolater, has any inheritance
in the kingdom of God Whoa, that's straight stuff, isn't it aye?
We could do a lot on all that, but let me just give you a few highlights in the thing
So now as soon as you've grieved the Holy Spirit, you begin to lose the peace and lose
the joy You've got to go back and ask: what happened
Holy Spirit? Where did I miss You? What's gone on, what's going on? We need to ask:
how have I hurt You? How have I grieved You? He may tell you things you don't like to hear
That's the challenging part of working with the Holy Spirit
I like it when He's just doing nice stuff, but then other times, He's telling me the
other stuff, and that's not so easy - need to repent of this
So here's a few things, just simple things that are listed here
Number one, deal with bitterness You need to deal with bitterness
Bitterness is a root that defiles Bitterness is an important
The answer to bitterness is repentance, and renouncing judgements, and forgiving
Notice here with bitterness, it's a long-standing resentment
It's got a deep grudge, an anger against someone, which in the end becomes everyone
Bitterness defiles, so we can't allow bitterness Bitterness comes when you're disappointed,
hurt, and you let it go down, and the resentment stays there
It just sits there You don't feel bitterness; it comes out in
your words and language, and every time it does, it grieves the Holy Spirit - sharp,
terse words
Deal with anger Anger is a root that destroys
Anger is a root that destroys In Proverbs 29:22 it says: it's the source
of immense conflict and strife in relationships, anger; and so under anger you notice there
several things are mentioned; wrath, which means literally blowing up, and [ra ra ra]
I know someone who did that to me quite recently [Grr]
Explosive anger is incredibly destructive, hurts everyone around, releases spirits of
*** and violence against them Then He talks about an anger which is a slow,
smouldering resentment, just this thing inside and you know, you just test the person after
a while Those sorts of things grieve the Holy Spirit
Clamor, it's just loud angry talk, talking loud about your grievances, and the things
that you've done wrong Man listen, start to listen around
You've got people doing that everywhere It grieves the Holy Spirit
If someone's doing it, don't get involved in it
Quieten it down, and calm it down, and get what the real issues are
Stop people blaming people, get them to face what they need to deal with, what's in their
own heart
The third thing you notice here, it says to guard your tongue
It says it in different ways Don't let corrupt words come out of your mouth,
then it goes down a little bit further; evil speaking, then it goes down even further and
talks about bad jokes and unclean jokes So essentially it's communication, that just
is negative and destructive It's communications that defile
It's running people down To evil speak means to slander someone, speak
against them You may not even have the truth, or the true
facts, but you're running them down, and their reputation you're stealing from them
It also refers to filthiness or unclean conversation, *** jokes
Everyone may laugh, except the Holy Ghost, He won't laugh
He'll just withdraw If we value the Holy Ghost, we need to start
to listen what's coming out of our mouth, what we're engaging in, and then take a Holy
Ghost sigh If there's any benefit of the doubt, give
Him the benefit of the doubt, and don't get engaged in those things, shut them down
Quite surprising, interestingly if people are telling coarse jokes, and they suddenly
realise you're a Christian, they'll suddenly shut up and say sorry
Isn't that interesting, that already they know that they've done something wrong? How
much better if we pick that up in our own heart, and don't get part of it
Malice just means ill will; you're just kind of holding something against someone, and
you want to see them pay Then the last couple there to mention, we
need to deal with greed Greed, it means: I want more and more and
more Greed is idolatry
Greed means: I just need more of something That thing of greed is only gotten over by
being thankful, and by expressing appreciation, and celebrating with others, instead of being
resentful Then the last one there is *** uncleanness
*** uncleanness grieves the Holy Spirit He is the spirit of holiness
He is the spirit of grace Let's not grieve Him by allowing unclean stuff
to rest in our mind and heart, or become part of our conversation and our talk
It's so easy for it to happen, but imagine if you were to live your life saying: I want
to live my life so I'm sensitive to the Holy Spirit at all times, so I'm aware of His presence,
and people are aware His presence is with me, what a great way to live
The plus is peace and joy in the Holy Ghost, wonderful peace, wonderful joy in the Holy
Ghost How great to have the Holy Ghost surround
our life How great - but He is a person
You can learn how to work in the gifts of the spirit, and never build a love relationship,
where you are empowered to win in your life God wants us to win our life, and it only
comes by the power of the Holy Ghost working in us
So I wonder what it is, that God is speaking about to you today? Let's just close our eyes,
I want to ask you this question: what did God touch your heart on today? What is it,
that needs to shift in your life? Are there some things that God wants you to do, in terms
of: this is the thing you should start to cultivate your relationship with the Holy
Spirit? Start to do these things; or are there some things that God's speaking that you need
to put out of your life? What are those things? Here's the last question on that
What are you going to do about it? What steps will you take, that the glorious spirit of
God, who's come in to live in you and abide in you, but have room to rise and fill you,
empower you - what will you do tomorrow, to allow that to happen? I've been working for
quite some time on my life, to become sensitised to the Holy Spirit, become aware of the things
that desensitise me
Perhaps there's someone here today doesn't even know Jesus Christ
You're separate from God, but today could be your greatest change, when God gives you
His spirit His own spirit comes and lives joined to your
spirit, you become born again and alive That would be wonderful, great change
One of the greatest delights I would have, would be you would experience His spirit in
a greater measure, experience Him in a greater measure, experience Him
Why don't we just stand together shall we, just standing with raised hands, say: Holy
Spirit I need You Holy Spirit, come
Come on, let's ask Him, just ask Him, talk to Him, pray in the spirit
Pray in the spirit Pray in the spirit
Pray Open your heart to Him right now
I sense there's some of you that God has just started to come on right now
I'd love you to come up the front, I'm going to lay hands on you
If you've got that hunger rising in you, for the spirit of God; a hunger to come to rest,
a hunger to know Him more intimately, you say: God, that's me You're speaking about
that today Won't you come up, I want to lay hands on
you, just give you a power boost to get started Would you come? Just come
Come on, just lift our hands up This is time for a fresh movement of the spirit
of God, fresh movement of the Spirit of God One of the great things in moving in childlike
faith, is just letting go control, allowing life to flow with the spirit of God, rather
than trying to make people and circumstance yield to us