Hey, if we haven't met, my name is Cole.
I'm going pastor here. What what originally I was going
to do is I was going to preach a sermon that kind of cooperated
with Luke Stone's excellent sermon last week about how the
Holy Spirit testifies and brings our identity to mind.
It was an excellent sermon. If you haven't listened to it,
make sure you go back and listen to that on Spotify.
But instead of going that route, which I originally planned to
do, this morning is going to be a little bit more of a
standalone sermon. Because as I was prepping and
thinking and praying, I was constantly haunted this week by
my own shortcomings and failures of life with the Holy Spirit.
And I don't think I'm alone in this struggle with the Holy
Spirit. And I wonder if you have this
same struggle too. So I'm going to preach on that.
So if you're able, let's stand for the reading of God's Word.
What we do at Frontier is we preach expository sermons.
What that means is that 90% of the time we spend our time in a
singular text where we explain that text over the course of 40
or 45 minutes. We look at the the literary
context, we look at the historical context, and then we
bring it to its Christological context.
And that's 90% of what we do. This morning I'm going to preach
a little bit different. It's called topical preaching.
Instead of focusing on one singular text, we're going to
look at 4 texts. I'm going to draw one unified
observation of those four texts, and then I'm going to preach on
that observation. What's the observation?
You'll be able to tell. Listen to what I listen to what
I emphasize, and you'll know where I'm going with this.
John chapter 14. But the Helper, the Holy Spirit,
whom the Father will send in my name, He, everybody say He.
He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance
all that I have said to you. John 15 But when the Helper
comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of
truth, who proceeds from the Father, He, everybody say He, He
will bear witness about me. John 16 When the Spirit of truth
comes, He, everybody say He. When the Spirit of truth comes,
He will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on
his own authority, but whatever he hears, he will speak, and he
will declare to you the things that are to come.
Romans chapter 8. Paul says likewise.
The Spirit helps us in our own weakness, for we do not even
know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself.
Everybody say himself, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us
with groanings too deep for words.
He, he, he himself pray with me. Heavenly Father, I pray that you
would move us this morning, that we wouldn't just talk about your
Holy Spirit or pontificate or hypothesize about your Holy
Spirit, but that we would be people who experience your Holy
Spirit. Lord, would that be true of us?
We're not here to just learn some new things, Lord.
We're not here to just hang out with some people who are
affable. We're here because we want to
meet with you and your Holy Spirit is your personal presence
with your people. And so, Lord, would you fill us
freshly with your Holy Spirit. We would not walk away thinking,
oh, that was a nice message or I would have said some things
differently than him. But instead, I pray that we
would walk away thinking. I heard from God this morning.
I met with God this morning. Oh, that that would be true
about us this morning. All God's people prayed.
Amen. You can have a seat.
All right, I'm going to zoom in on one observation that I think
you notice across those four different biblical texts.
The Holy Spirit was referred to in those four texts with
personal pronouns. He, he, he, and himself.
Those are all personal pronouns. And that observation, that
simple observation, is going to form the direction for the rest
of the sermon. Francis Chan famously wrote a
book called The Forgotten God a couple years ago.
Anybody read that? It was a good book.
I recommend it. What Chan does is he he exhorts
people in that book that the Holy Spirit tends to be the
person of the Trinity that we forget is God.
It's a it's a good book. I recommend it.
But what I'm going to do this morning is I'm going to preach
like the opposite end of that. So Chan focused on the Holy
Spirit as the forgotten God. What I want to do this morning
is because often times we understand the Holy Spirit as
God or as divine or as Yahweh, but sometimes we have the
tendency to reduce the Holy Spirit to a concept or an
impersonal force like gravity. And so rather than preaching on
the fraught and God, my theme this morning is going to be the
forgotten person, particularly our temptation to depersonalize
the Holy Spirit into nothing more than gravity or an
objective truth. So here's here's the big
question. I'm going to hammer you with
this all morning long. The big question is you may know
the Holy Spirit as a concept. You may know the Holy Spirit as
a doctrine. You may know the Holy Spirit as
an idea, but do you know the Holy Spirit as a person?
It's my big question for you this morning.
Do you know the Spirit as a person?
This is not a coal observation, right?
This is a, this is every denomination that's biblical.
Is my mic off? It turned off.
Did I say something that bothered you back there, Carl?
Yeah, I'm off. I don't know.
It's on. So I'm just going to preach
loud. You like that?
No needed that encouragement, bro.
I was going to feed off of that. All right, so here's where I'm
here's where I'm going. We're just we're going to do
some theology up front. Every Christian denomination
that is biblical refers to the Holy Spirit as both God and
person. We we've got a word what we put.
Oh, it just fell down. Been reading too much GQ bro.
So every every every denomination that's biblical
refers to the Holy Spirit as both God and person.
We we have a word for Christian denominations that refer to the
Holy Spirit not as God or not as person.
That word is heretical. OK, Like, for instance, I was in
the car about a month ago with my, with my daughter and she
just out of the blue, I was like, I was blasting the music.
So I was like, what was that, honey?
What? And I, I turned the music down
and she said, you know, Dad, I've been thinking about it.
I was like, this should be interesting.
She says, I, I've been thinking about it, the Father, the Son,
the Holy Spirit. And I was like, Oh yeah, what
have you been thinking about? The Father, Son, the Holy
Spirit? And she said, I've been thinking
that actually we just, we just worshipped 3 different gods.
I was like, the whole Christian history has been thinking about
it. And they would say you're a
heretic Della. So I pulled over and I made her
walk home. I didn't, I didn't do that.
I didn't do that. I didn't do that.
But I just just what watch this. Here's here's the Catechism of
the Catholic Church. Even our Roman Catholic brothers
and sisters say the Trinity or God the Trinity is 1.
We do not confess 3 gods della we do not confess 3 gods, but
one God and three everybody say Persons, one God and three
persons. And the Holy Spirit is the
proper name of the third person of the Holy Trinity.
Now it's not just our Roman Catholic brothers and sisters on
the other side of the aisle all the way over with the Assemblies
of God friends. Joseph, your people, our
assembly of God's friends say in in their catechism quote, the
Holy Spirit is a divine everybody say person Co equal
with God the Father, Co equal with God the Son, and of the
same nature. He is a person, not a thing or
mere influence. If you don't like catechisms or
you don't like theology, here's CS Lewis.
Lewis is talking about the Trinitarian nature with the
Father, Son and Holy Spirit, and particularly the Father's social
life with the Son. How the Father loves the Son and
the Son loves the Father. How the Father delights in the
Son and the Son delights in the Father.
And Lewis goes on to write what grows out of the joint life of
the Father and Son. So their love and delight in one
another. He said it was so profound and
thick that that delight stands forth not just as an emotion,
but as a person. What goes out of the joint life
of the Father and the Son is a real person.
It's in fact the third of the three persons who are called
God. And this third person is called
in technical language, the Holy Ghost or the Spirit of God.
Here's here's what I'm saying. The Holy Spirit is personal.
So my big question for you this morning is I know you can
articulate who the Spirit is. I know you can say some stuff
about the Holy Spirit. My question for you is, do you
know the Holy Spirit personally? You're going to love us.
About a year ago, I, I overheard my 4 year old and six year old
son and daughter arguing in the room next to me.
So I did what every good parent does.
I eavesdropped, right? I heard them.
I heard them arguing. And so I went to the corner and
I was about to walk into the room and I thought, you know,
I'm just actually going to lean up against this corner and I'm
going to listen to what they're arguing about.
And Della was saying, no, Russell, he, he doesn't, he
can't. To which Russell diplomatically
and gently, but still forcefully said, you're wrong, Della.
He can, you've just never seen him do it.
So I'm, I could have, I could have walked into the room and
answered whatever argument it was they were having about me.
I didn't want to do that though, so I just kept on eavesdropping.
So I was leaning against the corner listening to my kids
argue. And then they revealed the
subject about me that they were arguing about.
Della said no Russell, dad doesn't cry, he can't cry.
To which Russell said, yes Della, everybody can cry.
You've just never seen dad cry. And so my 4 year old, she was 4
at the time, she's 5 now. But apparently my my daughter
literally thought of me as an impersonal force that doesn't
even have an emotional life and doesn't have the capacity to
cry, which would hurt my feelings if it weren't super
common. This is the primary way that
most people view their authority figures.
Piaget, a famous childhood psychologist, he said that the
fact that children view their parents impersonally, so they
they tend to view their parents primarily as rule makers,
primarily as need meters and primarily as optical removers,
he said. He said it's actually necessary
for the psychological safety of children to imagine their
parents as impersonal forces. And if they knew that their
parents weren't Superman or Superwoman, they would probably
never develop emotional safety. That's that's natural to them.
And so the fact that your kids view you as an impersonal force
that's just there to meet needs and remove obstacles and and
make rules is actually it's, it's totally normal.
But PJ also argued that if children never mature, if they
just never mature to the point of realizing that their parents
are persons with real wills and real personalities and real
stories and real motivations, if they never mature to the point
of realizing their parents were persons, then their relationship
with their parents would be defined by three things.
Number one, delayed empathy. They would never even think to
imagine that there are emotions going on inside of your head and
heart. That's bad.
That's bad, right? Secondly, shallow communication.
I'll talk to my mom or dad if I need a thing, but that's it.
Shallow communication or third, relational immaturity.
And so as I was leaning against that corner listening, listening
to my daughter adamantly argue that I don't even have the
capacity to cry it, it dawned on me.
That's the same way that I tended to view my dad growing
up. Like I only saw my dad cry 2
times when I lived underneath the roof of his house, and both
of them were huge moments of revelation for me.
The 1st is when my grandfather died.
I remember seeing my dad standing over my grandpa's
casket, weeping. The second one was after my last
high school wrestling match. I remember him bear hugging me,
weeping and telling me that he was so proud of me.
And do you know what I thought during both of those moments?
Both of those moments, it was like being gripped by a new
revelation. I remember thinking, Huh, I
don't even know he could do that.
You know, I don't even know that.
And again, this is the most natural thing in the world.
This is the way that people tend to view all of their authority
figures. Kids tend to see their parents
impersonally. Churches tend to see their
pastors and personally, employees tend to see their
employers impersonally. Students tend to see their
teachers impersonally. Like, I remember when I was a
high school English teacher, I remember one Friday night
bumping into one of my students at Target.
And I swear that student looked like they had just seen a ghost.
And I came around the the corner at Target, like with deodorant
in my hand. And the student like stopped in
their tracks and they were like, dyke, what are you doing here?
I was like, I was like, what? Getting deal?
Like I was like, do you think that I just live at the high
school? And she said, I guess kind of it
just had never even seemed to occur to them that I had a
personal life that existed beyond the scope of their needs
for a teacher. I just lived in the high school,
Some most natural thing in the world.
And so there I was, leaning against the corner of that wall,
listening to my daughter argue adamantly that I didn't even
have the capacity to cry. And it dawned on me, yes, this
is how I view my dad. Yes, this is how I tend to view
my authority figures. But the most important
realization I had was this. I went, oh, that's actually how
I tend to view the Holy Spirit. Like I tend to view the Holy
Spirit as not even having the capacity for personhood.
It's not even having the capacity for crying or being
grieved. Did you know the Bible says that
you can grieve the Holy Spirit or quenched?
Paul says don't quench the Holy Spirit.
Do you know why he says that? Because you can, you can quench
the Spirit, you can grieve the Holy Spirit.
I recognize in that moment that I saw the Holy Spirit the exact
same way that my kids tend to view me as rule maker, as need
meter, as obstacle remover, perhaps as crazy uncle, right?
I go to the Father of the Son if I need something normal like
sanctification or encouragement or growth.
But I go to my crazy uncle Holy Spirit if I need something weird
like speaking in tongues. I tend to view them
impersonally. I tend to view them as gravity
right, you know? You know the way that you view
the way that you view gravity, right?
It's, it's all around us. No matter what we do, it's out
there doing its thing. So I may as well take it for
granted. Do you see the Spirit this way?
He's omniscient, he's omnipresent.
He's everywhere all the time. So why even personally engage
with them? And the reason I'm pressing into
this is because when we see the Holy Spirit impersonally, our
relationship with them tends to be characterized by the three
categories that Piaget already articulated 7 or 8 decades ago.
It tends to be characterized by the late empathy.
It just never even occurs to us that the Holy Spirit has a will
and desires and motives and personhood and in existence
apart from meeting our needs right.
If we view the Holy Spirit and personally, then our
relationship with them tends to be defined by delayed empathy,
by shallow communication. I'll go to the Spirit if I need
something, but absolutely nothing beyond that delayed
empathy, shallow communication, and relational immaturity.
So let me ask you again, do you know the Spirit personally?
I know you can articulate who the Holy Spirit is.
I know that you know the Holy Spirit the same way that you
know a baseball card. You kind of know the stats.
I had like, I had like 300 Ken Griffey junior baseball cards
when I was I was obsessed with Griffey.
I can tell you the stats, right? I had a baseball card
relationship with Ken Griffey Junior.
If you went to Ken Griffey Junior and you're like, hey,
what do you think about cold Eikey?
You know what he would say, who is this your relationship with
the Holy Spirit? You know his stats.
But if you really engage with his spirit and you're like, Hey,
do you know cold Eikey what the Holy Spirit say who in Germany,
this was only a couple years ago.
This was the year 2020. Some theologians did a did a
study, a pretty extensive one, where they wanted to see if they
can make any observations about whether or not the image that we
hold in our mind of God has any sort of quantitative impact on
the quality of our relationship with God.
And this is not going to surprise you.
I think this is just a nice study to hear that kind of maybe
supports traditional historic Christian theology.
So this isn't going to surprise you.
But what they did is they asked the participants to describe how
they viewed God. And based on the image that they
used to describe God, they divided people into two
different categories. There were people over here who
had an image of God as personal, and there were people over here
who have an image of God as impersonal.
And so this is really helpful because right now in new Age
spirituality, it's really trendy and it's really cool to describe
God impersonally, right? To describe God as, you know,
he's just kind of the force behind existence or he's just
kind of the vibe that makes me feel spiritual.
And what this study found is that that sounds nice, right?
Participants said God is that the energy in everything, which
is not wrong, but if that's your only image of the spirit or the
spirit is just the fire that helps me feel spiritual or the
spirit is more of a vibe or force than a person.
All of these things, they sound very spiritual.
You know what the problem is? The problem is that people who
articulated God in their image of God as impersonal, they were
three times as likely to describe their spirituality as
quote, feeling spiritual disconnection, feeling
spiritually detached or struggling with prayer and
emotional connection. And then on the other end, the
people who saw God with personal images like father, son, spirit
helper, friend, they were three times more likely to describe
their spiritual life as quote, having higher spiritual
vitality, showing greater resilience and suffering and
showing more ethical consistency in their lives.
And so like, these aren't surprising findings, right?
Really what the only thing that finding shows us is that if you
see God impersonally, you won't have a relationship with him.
Or that's not surprising. If you see God impersonally, you
won't have a relationship with him.
So let me ask you one more time. Do you know the Holy Spirit
personally? And so like, look, there's,
there's a million different ways that we can press into this and
get some practical application. OK, no, cool.
I kind of struggle with that. OK, what do I do?
So let me just kind of pluck one that I think is interesting and
I want to compel you to try this.
OK, so this week what I want you to do is I want you to practice
making small talk with the Holy Spirit.
Small talk and don't hear what I'm not saying.
I'm a big fan of carving out bigger chunks of time to prayer.
I like carving out 30 minutes or 60 minutes in order to listen
deeply to the Spirit. I just don't want you to start
there. I want you to start by learning
the skill of making small talk with the Holy Spirit.
The problem here is that if you only come to the Holy Spirit for
super intense spiritual sessions once a week on Sunday mornings
where you're like, I'm going to cram, I want a really special
moment with the Holy Spirit. So I'm going to take an hour and
set that aside and just see if I can really connect with the Holy
Spirit, I think that's good. But if that's all you do, you
just try to impatiently cram a whole relationship into an hour
a week. And relationships can't flourish
under those circumstances. And so I think something that's
not really talked a lot about in Christian circles is the fact
that we need to learn the skill of small talk with the Holy
Spirit. So let me let me frame this in a
simple way around a car drive. So this week, when you're in
your car, whether you're driving to work or you're driving to a
friend's house or you're driving back home, I don't care.
I want you to do three things. Every time you hit a stop sign,
I want you to to stop for a second and just pray.
Holy Spirit, enlighten me. Just be open to small talk with
the Spirit. Be open to whether or not the
Holy Spirit wants to say anything or reveal anything to
you during that car ride. Just Holy Spirit, enlighten me
and see what He does. Hypothetically, when you hit a
stoplight, you should have a few more seconds.
So when you hit a stoplight, I want you to pray this Holy
Spirit, search me, write that Psalm 51.
Search me and know me Spirit. Just be open to Spirit.
Is there anything off kilter in my soul?
Are there any sour corners of my heart that need to be sweetened?
Is there any sin I need to repent of?
Is there any gunk in my heart that you want to clean out?
Holy Spirit, search me. And then when you eventually
come to a full stop in the parking lot or in your driveway
or wherever it is you're going, I want you to pray.
Holy Spirit, send me. Begin to view.
Wherever you're walking into your house, you're being sent by
the Holy Spirit. You're walking into work, you're
being sent by the Holy Spirit. You're walking into to Walmart,
you're being sent by the Holy Spirit.
All three of those prayers will form a constellation of things
that we could call small talk. Enlighten me.
Search me. Send me.
Social commentators tell us that personal relationships, they're
not magic. We tend to view personal
relationships as well that just magically clicked or that
magically happened. Social commentators have a
different view. They argue that relationships
aren't magic. They're formed by performing a
series of small concrete social actions.
Well, can I say that again? Small, concrete social actions.
Well, our struggle to form deep relationships isn't because we
were born without the personal relationship gene.
It's not a thing. We are all deeply social
creatures, whether we're aware of that or not.
If we struggle with personal relationships, it's because we
lack practical knowledge about how to give others the kind of
rich attention that we desire to receive.
And so the point of cultivating small talk with the Holy Spirit
is to lay the kindling necessary so that the bigger fire can be
lit at a later time. Does that make sense?
OK, so I want to ask you again, do you know the Holy Spirit
personally or is he just an idea to you?
I'm just going to say what I mean.
And it's the steps on your toes. So be it.
I think the reason why so many people, so many Christians, see
the Holy Spirit as a concept and not a person is because they
don't want the Holy Spirit to be a person.
But that's the problem at the bottom.
It's that we don't want the Spirit to be a person because
persons are time consuming. They make demands on our lives.
They have a will that's separate from us.
If the Holy Spirit is a person, he may disagree with me, He may
nudge me, He may challenge me, He may disagree with me, and he
may have conflicting desires of me.
You know what doesn't do that? Concepts don't do that.
A concept of something you read on a sheet of paper and then you
memorize it to impress your friends.
Concepts make they make us feel superior about ourselves.
They make us feel good about ourselves.
They don't really challenge us. They stay on the page.
Like here's the concept. Do you know what the word
pneumatology means, Jay? Do you know the study of what so
close the study of the spirit? That's a concept.
Say that later today in everyday conversation, I guarantee you
you'll feel better than the other person.
Seriously, say to you say to one of your friends today, hey,
what's your pneumatology, bro? And the way that you'll feel is,
well, I feel better about myself, makes me feel superior.
It makes me feel good about myself.
That's what concepts do. You memorize them and then you
impress people with them. That's not what persons do.
A person demands to be communed with, and if you commune with
the Spirit, that's dangerous. He might ask you to repent.
He might ask you to give up a comfort.
He might ask you to go pray for somebody in a socially awkward
situation. That's why so many of us want
the Holy Spirit to be a concept and not a person.
Pastors are the same way. I want you want to know why so
many pastors struggle with seeing the Holy Spirit as a
person rather than a concept. It's because they don't want the
Holy Spirit to be a person. Oh my gosh.
If the Holy Spirit is personal, he might ask me to set my notes
aside. If the Holy Spirit's a person,
he might He might demand me to lead the congregation in a
direction that's not financially beneficial.
He might tell me to preach a sermon that's not popular.
It's way easier to see the Holy Spirit as a concept on a paper.
And all I do is I explain it to people and we go, Hooray, now we
know what the Spirit is. And that's why so many of us
view the the Spirit as a concept and and not a person.
If the Spirit's real, he might, he might compel me to give my
time and energy to somebody who has nothing to offer the church
and will never even volunteer. That's not time efficient.
But the Spirit is a person and he has a will.
And sometimes he leads us in the direction that we wouldn't go in
our own flesh. Do you know him this way?
Do you know the Spirit personally?
And if your answer to this is no, you're like, man, I have
depersonalized the Holy Spirit. If you have depersonalized the
Holy Spirit, I have really good news for you this morning,
right? If you're like, dude, I've spent
most of my life ignoring the Spirit, grieving the Spirit,
stiff arming the Spirit. If that's you, I have really
good news for you this morning. Here it is.
Jesus died for you. Christ was crucified for
sinners. Amen.
Christ was crucified for sinners while we were yet enemies.
And by grace through faith, when we believe in the gospel, we
receive a million gifts from God, free, free, free of merit,
free of achievement. When you believe in the gospel,
you receive the forgiveness of sins.
That's a great gift, Amen. When you believe in the gospel,
you receive the gift of righteousness.
That's a great gift, Amen. You receive the gift of heavenly
eternity with God. And all of those things are
awesome. They're all great gifts, but
none of them are the greatest gift of the gospel.
The greatest gift of the gospel is not something that God gives
you. The greatest gift of the gospel
is someone that God gives you. God gives you himself.
God's the greatest gift of the gospel.
He gives you the Holy Spirit apart from your good works,
apart from your merit, apart from your achievements.
You get the Holy Spirit and he seals you forever.
That's what makes Christianity so unique.
The unique question of Christianity is not are you a
better person? Every religion asks that
question, right? The unique question of
Christianity is not are you a moral person?
It's good to aim at that. The essential question of
Christianity is not are you a religious person, though?
That's fine. None of those things separate
Christianity from other faiths. The essential question that
Christianity asks is, do you know the Spirit personally?
You know him, Do you walk with him?
Do you make space for him? He could have been corrected by
him. You're all right with being
convicted by him. Do you listen?
Do you allow yourself to be nudged?
Or is it just baseball card stats?
Right? Because like, if your
relationship with the Holy Spirit is just studying, just
thinking, just reading, all of which are indispensable to
relationships, all those things are important.
But what I'm saying is if your relationship with the Holy
Spirit is just reading, just thinking, just studying, what
you have with the Holy Spirit is online dating.
That's what you're doing. You might think you're above
online dating, but if you never commune with the Spirit, that's
all you got. It's long distance relationship
all right. If if it's all reading and
studying and no relationship, then you and the Holy Spirit,
you have never made it past Christian mingles.com you're
still on it. Sorry, Joseph, what was yours?
Christian farmers only that's the one.
If your relationship with the Spirit resembles online dating
more than a lifelong marriage, I just want to tell you there's so
much more for you. If it's all reading, no warmth,
all theory, no embrace, all hypothesis, no spark, all
speculation, no life, I'm telling you there's more for you
in the Christian life. Look at the cross.
Jesus didn't die on the cross for online dating.
He wants a lifelong, personal, warm, covenantal, lived
relationship with you. The Holy Spirit is an on dating
apps. He's not interested in only
being known through his bio. He wants to be known by you.
So let's get to know Heavenly
Father. Yeah.
I just pray that this moment would be a moment where perhaps
we reconnect with your spirit. We tend, I tend to make a ton of
assumptions about the Holy Spirit and just be like, you
know, the Holy Spirit. He's just there for all the
weird stuff, you know, Maybe if I want a prophetic word, I'll go
to him. Or maybe if I want to speak in
tongues, I'll go to him. I want something weird, I'll go
to the Holy Spirit. But otherwise, Nah.
And so, Lord, I just confess that I have treated the Spirit
as a force and not as a person. And so, Lord, I know you forgive
me and I receive that forgiveness, but also would you
just give me the power to live a lived relationship with the Holy
Spirit where I listen and open and nudged by and even even that
word that Reformed people are allergic to feel.
I pray that we would also feel that your Holy Spirit, you are
so relational and social, God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit,
before time even began, before you, Lord, before you ever the
star, the Father was in love with the sun, the sun was in
love with the Spirit, and the Spirit was in love with the
Father. And the Father delighted in the
Spirit, and the Spirit delighted in the sun, and the sun
delighted in the Father. And there was this triune dance.
And that tells me that you did not create us as your image
bearers to just be people who put you under a microscope
inside of you. You created us to bring us into
what the New Testament calls participants of the divine
nature. We're swept up in relationship
with you so that the Father loves the Son, the Son loves the
Spirit, the Spirit loves coal, and coal loves the Father.
We're swept up into that tribe pants.
And so, Lord, would you do that for us this morning?
Soften our hearts, open our ears, nudge us, push us, pull
us, embrace us, hug us, shake us, speak to us, and may we walk
out as people who say yes, I know the Holy Spirit person.
So it's in the precious name of Jesus that all gods being
prayed.