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Now enjoy this message. Well, we've been ministering on
the Holy Spirit for several weeks now.
Had a break and then pastor wanted to minister last
Wednesday to everybody. But I want to continue on with
the ministry of the Holy Spirit and I don't have time to go back
and recap because we have really covered a lot concerning the
Holy Spirit. And for those that still want to
know more about the Holy Spirit, I encourage you to go back and
listen to all the podcast. You know, on these Wednesday
nights, so that you can become more acquainted with the
ministry of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
You know, one thing that I was thinking about today is, you
know, when we get born again, our life begins as, you know, a
journey with the Lord. You know, when we get born
again, it's not a, you know, end of all things, but a lot of
people live like that. But when you get born again, you
just then what? Enter into the Kingdom of God.
And when you enter into the Kingdom of God, he calls you a
babe in Christ. We are not supernatural spirit,
you know, beings that know everything there is to know
about God, about who he is and how he operates automatically,
just because we get born again. When we get born again and we
come into the Kingdom of God. Really, the journey just begins
in discovering. Who we are and who he has made
us to be as His children, right and citizens in the Kingdom of
God, or part of the family of God.
Amen. And so once we get born again
and we come into the Kingdom. There are so many things that we
have to learn and grow in knowing who God is.
But not only knowing who God is, knowing who we are.
Now in Christ the journey just begins.
And I was looking back on my life and you know, we have so
many new people, you know and and through the years I've
shared. A little bits and pieces of of
my testimony and different things, but the Lord has really
been bringing up to me, you know, just certain things that
specifically happened in my life and my wall with Christ that has
brought me to the place that I'm with and in today.
And it's very important that you recognize, as I said, you just
don't get born again and become this spiritual person, right?
It is a process. It is a process, and it's a
transformation. And so many people abort.
The full purpose and plans that God has for their life.
One, because they don't understand the working of the
ministry now of the Holy Spirit in our life, OK.
And so, you know, he was reminding me just about some
things and when I first got started on this journey.
You know, I got born again at 8 years old at a vacation Bible
school. I'm gonna share a little bit.
OK? Is that alright with everybody
tonight? Because I believe that it's
important, because this is gonna help you in those times that you
feel like giving up, you know, falling away.
Rejecting and denying some things that we've talked about
with the concerning the Holy Spirit and then help you learn
how to simply yield to some things that you may not
completely understand. You may not completely
understand everything that God is doing in your life.
But if you will just begin to yield to a certain nudges and
certain things, you'll see that that is the working of the Holy
Spirit's ministry in your life, OK?
And so he reminded me of the fact that at 8 years old, I got
born again at a vacation Bible school.
My family did not go to church on A.
You know, every day, Sunday, Wednesday, we may occasionally
have went. Maybe when I was younger I
really don't recall ever being a part of a church or going to a
church on a consistent basis. But I did get born again at 8
years old in Laldy, Florida at Northside Baptist Church.
I remember. I remember.
That's how powerful the seed of God is in your life.
Got water baptized at 8 years old.
And remember the encounter of God as a 8 year old little girl.
That was I knew God was real. I knew he was real.
I knew I had encountered him. But because of my life and
different events and you know, things that I went through as a
child and and growing up and of course we it's not like I went
back to church after that vacation Bible school.
We didn't go back to church on a consistent basis or anything
like that. So I wasn't in a in the church.
I did not know how to grow or even understand what I had just
experienced. In my life, right?
I'm sure there's many people in here that can relate to that.
That's why I'm so thankful that we have a children's ministry,
that you should be also encouraging your children with.
What you are receiving is the word of God that can change your
absolute life and start teaching them how to apply it to their
everyday lives. As children, As youth, right.
So because I didn't have that growing up, OK?
And so the Lord reminded me of when I really didn't know
anything about God, OK, But I knew I had encountered him at 8
years old, and I knew he was real.
And no one could really ever take that away from me because I
knew he was real. Even though I didn't know what
to do with it after the fact, right.
And so then, you know I get pregnant at 15.
Well, anyway, get pregnant at 15 because of my life.
And you know have my oldest son at 16 but between 16 and 18.
I started having nudges from the Holy Spirit in my life and I did
not know. I can tell you what it is today,
but at the time, I did not know that that was the Holy Spirit.
I did not know that that was the Holy Spirit.
I did not know anything that I know today about the Holy
Spirit. I didn't know any of this stuff,
right. I was just barely born again.
But between 16 and 18, because I'm now with a child, married
and ready to, like, grow up, because I have to, now that I
have a child and responsibility, you know, the Lord started just
nudging me. I couldn't tell you that it was
the Lord. I just felt like something on
the inside was nudging me, that I needed to go to a church.
I didn't even know what church to go to.
And so I started, I went to a church.
And the reason I went to this Church of God is because, you
know, my exhusband. His sister and brother-in-law
were going to a Church of God at the time.
And so I just thought, and they invited us there.
And so I just thought, OK, well, I'm just going to go to this
Church of God. Well, I knew nothing about the
Holy Spirit. Well, evidently this Church of
God was a Church of God that spoke in tongues, right?
I didn't know nothing about this or anything.
And so, you know, here all along the Holy Spirit is nudging me to
go to church, to, you know, make some changes in my life because
now I'm a young, you know, mother and out of school and all
these things. And so I start going, and I get
filled with the Holy Ghost and these, you know, Pentecostal
women. Took me under my under their
wing and started ministering to me in a way and I did not
realize today what God was doing then until today.
But took me under their wing and started kind of mothering me
when I was. I was still in and out at that
time because the other half didn't want anything to do with
it. Still wanted to be a teenager?
Live like a teenager, You know, Act like a teenager, do all the.
You know, things that we were doing and you know, but so I was
navigating that situation. But I'll never forget one time I
was at home after I have received the in feeling of the
holy or spoken tongues. Didn't know that this was
something you could do on a continual basis.
I didn't know anything about it. Just thought it was an
experience at church, right? That you need.
And wasn't taught that I could pray in tongues and all these
things at any moment. You know, I didn't know
anything, right. And so I got myself a Bible and
started reading my Bible. And, you know, on and off going
through all this. Well, by the time I'm 18, I'm in
the midst of a separation and a divorce.
And you know. I'm like, really defeated and
thinking what's gonna happen with my life, You know, what
have I done? You know, what have I done?
What have I done? What's gonna happen with my life
now? You know I'm not gonna have
anybody to help me take care of my child.
You know, I'm here, all these things.
And I just remember. The Holy Spirit, I didn't know
it was him then. I'm just telling you, that's who
it is, right? Because I just remember him
nudging me to pick up the word and begin to start reading the
Bible. And so I picked up the Bible and
started reading it. And then all of a sudden I
started singing a song, right? Because he lives.
I can face tomorrow because he lives.
You know, all fear is gone. And because he lives, I have
hope for the future. You know all these things.
I knew I was singing it all in my prayer walk today and can't
even sing it now. But so you know, all along,
knowing I didn't know this was God, this was the Holy Spirit
working and nudging and doing these things in my life.
But I just yielded to these things because I felt his
presence and I didn't understand what was happening and and those
few moments, you know? There.
And I just began to yield to these things.
And some of you've heard, you know, it was even still during
that process that you know, I was reading in Matthew and and
the Holy Spirit began to speak to me out of the word of God and
said, you have hatred in your heart towards your Father and
you need to ask him to forgive you.
That was all through this whole span.
Of time, of all of these things that I was going through, and
all along the Holy Spirit is nudging me and speaking to me in
these ways and in these things. And I didn't know, but all I
knew is I had to do what I was feeling, you know, on the
inside, because I knew that it had to have been God, obviously,
if it was coming from His word. And so just began to take those
little steps and yielding when I didn't know what was happening,
I didn't know that that was the Holy Spirit.
I didn't know that that's how God would begin to speak to you
through His word. And so, you know, doing that is
where my journey with my relationship with the Lord
started. It started there and simply
yielding to some of those nudges and some of those things.
And I couldn't explain it then, but I know what it is now.
And when I look back along that journey and along my life
through those years of, you know, everything that I went
through, it was all the Holy Spirit working in my life.
And me yielding. And every time I, because I had
encountered that, I mean he literally came, his presence
came into my home at that time. And so I can encountered a piece
like I had never encountered before.
I had encountered, you know, his presence, like I had never
experienced anything before in my life.
And so all along I would just begin to yield to those things
on this journey and on this walk with him.
And it was during 18 to 21 going through all of that, you know,
and beginning to cry out to the Lord and say, Lord, I don't want
this kind of life. I cried out to him and he came
into the room. And he began to minister to me,
and I couldn't explain it. I just knew I was encountering
his love like I had never encountered before.
And so from those points on, I just began to start yielding as
I went along my life and walk with him.
And the more you do that and submit to the things that you're
hearing or the nudges that you're receiving, even if you
don't understand it and you can't explain it.
But if you do it, you'll begin to walk in and walk by the
Spirit of God in your life, and will be in a place when you look
back and say but God. But God, and it starts like
that. And let me tell you, it does not
end until the day we get taken up and glorified and return and
all those things. Listen, you will always have to
yield. Yield to those things of the
Holy Spirit. If we want to see our lives
completely restored, come on. If we want to see our lives
completely in the plan and the purposes that God has for us.
If we want to completely see restoration of what the enemy
try and how the enemy try to destroy our lives.
Right. If we want to see complete and
healthy wholeness that God wants for every single person,
complete restoration, we must learn how to yield to those
things in the on the inside and submit to it.
That's what that means. When you yield to it, you're
submitting to it. And the bottom line is, if we
don't submit to it, God can't do anything about it, can't do
anything about it, nothing. But we have to learn how to
yield to those things on the inside.
And that's what I want to talk about tonight.
The inner working of the Holy Spirit.
The inner working. Of the Holy Spirit, I can tell
you right now that God has completely restored my life,
100% spirit, soul and body. And that's what He wants for
every one of His children, every one of His children.
But it's up to us to yield to it.
To simply yield to the Holy Spirit that's working within our
lives. So we're going to start with the
inner working of the Holy Spirit.
There's two functions, main functions of the ministry of the
Holy Spirit, and that is what we've heard about is the Spirit
within and the Spirit upon. And so tonight we're going to
start on our journey with the Spirit Within.
Now we know that once we get born again, we have the Spirit
of God living on the inside of us, right When we get born
again, we're going to see through all of these Scriptures
that we see that the Holy Spirit comes to dwell on the inside of
us. And we're gonna see the workings
of the indwelling of the Holy Spirit and what the
responsibility, you know, the that the Holy Spirit has
responsibilities, what the Holy Spirit's responsibility is in
the inner working of a believer once we get born again.
You know, we've said this, Most people, when you hear people
talk about the Holy Spirit, the first thing they talk about is,
you know, the gifts of tongues. And all they think about is
speaking in tongues. Or when people hear about the
Holy Spirit, all they think about is the power and the
feelings and all the things like that.
But there's not much talk about the inner working of the Holy
Spirit. And the inner working of the
Holy Spirit is the most important side.
We need it all. But we can't have the power and
neglect the working of what he needs to do on the inside.
Because I'm gonna tell you what the power can't sustain.
If you don't have the character of the working and the
sanctification of the inner working of the Holy Spirit, you
will get kooky. You will get crazy.
You will get extreme. You will get fanatical without
the inner working of yielding to the character of God, the nature
of God, and all of the things that the responsibility of the
Holy Spirit's job to bring the sanctification and holiness of
God. You will get cookie.
You'll get off if you don't begin to allow the inner working
of the Holy Spirit in your life because it can't sustain it.
And so it's very important because listen, this is part of
a believer's growth in Christ. We've talked about that we are
to what, mature as believers we are to grow up spiritually, and
we cannot grow up spiritually if we refuse the inner working of
the Holy Spirit in our lives. K So you can be born again and
never allow God to do, never allow the Holy Spirit to work
within you, you can be born again and never allow the Holy
Spirit inner working within your life.
K And so we have to take the responsibility to allowing the
Holy Spirit to do that in our working by us yielding to it,
OK, by yielding to it. So the responsibility of the
Holy Spirit is to teach us we've we've read many of these
scriptures, but to mature us and to grow us up spiritually to
produce the 9 characteristics of the fruit of the Spirit and the
nature of God. And the Holy Spirit's
responsibility is all about producing moral character,
lifestyle, behaviors and characteristics of the Kingdom
of God within your life. That's what the inner working of
the Holy Spirit within us is to do, OK?
It's to develop us, to mature us, and to produce the
characteristic and the character of God as Kingdom citizens in
the earth. What true Kingdom citizens look
like. OK, Doctor, Miles Monroe said
this about concerning the Holy Spirit, that the Holy Spirit is
about developing the relationship that you have with
God. It's about developing the
communication that you have with God.
It's about developing the representation of who you are in
Christ. How we represent Christ, which
has to do with character and nature, if we right, are created
in His image and in His likeness.
This has to do with who he is, how He functions.
And this all is a process of growing and developing and
yielding along the way to the things of the Holy Spirit in our
life, OK. He also said it's about
partnership, which we talked about last week.
The Holy Spirit's job is we are Corinthians, says Second
Corinthians said Co laborers with Christ.
We are in partnership also with the Holy Spirit and so we have
to be in partnership, meaning we have a responsibility to do
something with what the Holy Spirit is speaking to us about.
It will not happen without our consent, Without our consent And
everything you need as a born again believer is already within
you, is already within you. And what you're doing with the
help of the Holy Spirit is discovering all of those things
about everything in your life, everything in your life.
The Holy Spirit knows you better than you know yourself.
The Bible says he knows what every hair that is on your head.
He knows you and you know what else.
You cannot fake him out. You make him fake everybody in
this church, You make him manipulate everybody in this
church. But you cannot manipulate him.
You cannot fake out with him. He knows.
He knows everything about you, Alright?
And so also he said it's about the Holy Spirit's job is to
bring interpretation or revelation.
Meaning there's some interpretation that you need of
some things concerning the Holy Spirit or the Word of God and
the Holy Spirit's there to bring interpretation and revelation.
And we talked about this in the past, that nothing that is
revealed can be revealed outside of the Spirit.
And that's why when we got born again, we got a what, a new
spirit put within us, Ezekiel said.
He took out, he's gonna take out the old code Stony heart and
he's gonna put in a new heart and that new heart now and that
new spirit now is pliable, ready and able and willing to do
whatever the Lord says to do. And that new man on the inside
is even got the word written on it.
He said he's gonna write his law on it, so it's already in there,
but it will do nothing and produce nothing unless we yield
to what it is the Spirit is saying to us concerning His word
concerning our situation, whatever it is that's going on
in our life, and we're going to see this, that He is there with
us every day to guide us and direct us every day in
everything that we would ever need in this life of Christ.
Period. Period.
If you have the Holy Spirit and learn how to be led by Him every
day of your life, you cannot fail, and you will produce what
it is that He needs you to produce.
Amen. But it's up to us to yield.
Amen. Hallelujah.
It's up to us to yield. I want to read all of our
scriptures just where we're getting a lot of this teaching
about the Holy Spirit. And I would encourage you
because I'm just going to continue to teach on the
ministry of the Holy Spirit until we've just exhausted the
word, Pastor said. I don't care how long it goes
because we need it. We need it.
And so John 1416 through 17 says this.
I'll ask the father and he will give you another helper that he
may be with you forever. Say he's with me forever.
The helper, the helper that means whatever you need, you
need help. He's there in your time of need.
Whatever it is, he is your helper, no matter what it is.
He can help you. He can help you figure out you
know what's going on with your leaking plumbing.
He can help you figure out what's going on with your engine
in your car and why it's not starting.
He can help you figure out what's going on with your
rebellious teenagers if you'll just listen and then not deny
that your little baby Angel could be doing that.
Don't get me on parenting anyway.
There's lots of denial. I deny nothing because I know.
Amen. So it says the Spirit of truth,
whom the world cannot receive because he does not receive him
or know him. But you know him, say I know
him. Hallelujah.
You need to remind yourself. Now.
I know the Holy Spirit. He's living on the inside of me.
And whatever I need, he's right there to give me the direction,
the help, the guidance, whatever it is, so that I won't fail, so
that I won't falter, but I can continue to progress in whatever
it is that I need, it says, But you know Him because he abides
with you and will be in you. This is only for born again
believers, John 1426. But the Helper, the Holy Spirit,
when the Whom the Father will send in my name, he will what?
He will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all
things that I have said. So he's gonna remind you of the
word. He's gonna remind you of the
things that he has already told you.
Again, the last time I ministered, I reminded you that
the Holy Ghost corrected me about He reminded me about
something I had promised him. So not only is it just about,
he's going to remind you of what his word has said, he'll remind
you of what you have said because he knows what you've
said in the recesses of your heart.
He knows what you've said, what you haven't said, what you
vowed, what you said would never happen again to you and your
life, and never let anyone hurt you again like that.
He knows all those things and he reminded me because I told you a
couple of weeks ago I had two calls about going and doing some
women ministry and at one was over in Albania.
And I'm like, Lord, I don't want to go and I'm minding my own
business and that how he always works, you just minding your own
business. And he said, well, I thought you
told me you'd go. Wherever I told you to go.
You do whatever I would tell you to do.
You'd say whatever I told you to say.
He reminded me, you know what I had to do at that point?
Yield. Yield.
Or I could be disobedient. And then what's that gonna bring
me? Right?
And I And I said, you're right, Lord, you're right.
I did say that. Please forgive me.
You see that? That's acknowledging the working
of the Holy Spirit within your life.
And so I wanted to read that out of the amplified.
We've said this, and I will ask the Father, and he'll give you
another what? Comforter.
That's what this word helper means when you break it out.
In the Greek, it says helper, right.
It means comforter, counselor, intercessor, advocate,
strengthener and stand by. This is the working of the Holy
Spirit as your helper. Amen.
Hallelujah. If you need comfort, guess what?
Asking right. If you need counsel, quit
running. To everybody else, quit running
to all your, you know, Instagram quotes and your Facebook people
and your you know all your friends on your 911.
I need a help out with a friend. Why don't you go to the helper
first who can give you proper counsel and guess where that
council's gonna come from? The word of God.
He can give you proper help in your time of need.
Amen, intercessor, advocate, strengther and stand by and
he'll remain with you forever. John 1526, I would encourage you
through this whole time that we're gonna be talking about the
ministry of the Holy Spirit that y'all read chapters.
John Chapter 14. John Chapter 15, John Chapter
16. Read 'em and see all the
workings of how he's talking about the Holy Spirit.
So John 1526 says this. When the Helper comes, whom I'll
send to you from the Father, that is the Spirit of Truth, who
proceeds from the Father. He will testify about me.
We talked about the fact that he is the Spirit of Truth.
That's why you don't ever have to buy another lie, because you
have the Spirit of Truth on the inside of you.
Don't buy another lie. This world is full of lies.
People will lie straight to your face.
You don't have to buy it because the spirit of truth on the
inside could let you know they're lying straight to your
face. I know you don't want to hear
that, but that's the truth. I have the spirit of Truth on
the inside. I can do nothing but speak the
truth. I don't lie.
We should not be liars. And I know believers that a lie
straight to your face. That is not the working of the
Holy Spirit. You're still listening to the
Father of Who is the devil, and he is no longer my Father and
has no longer authority in my life.
Amen. So I don't speak lies.
I only speak truth because the Spirit of truth lives on the
inside of me. Amen.
And truth hurts a lot of times, but it's good for you.
It's good for you. Do you think it didn't hurt me
when I heard the Holy Spirit? The first thing he ever talked
to me about is that I had hatred in my heart towards my dad.
Do you think that truth didn't slam me up against the wall?
And think why in the world should I have to ask him to
forgive me? He's the one that abandoned his
post. He's the one that abandoned his
child. He's the one that, and I went
down the road. Why should me as a child have to
be the responsible one? But you know what I did?
I yielded, and I thank God that it was the very first thing that
he ever spoke to me to do. Because if I never would have
dealt with the very route that the Holy Spirit knew would be my
problem for the rest of my life if I didn't deal with that.
Because he knows me better than I know myself.
That's the working of the Holy Spirit.
It's the working of the Holy Spirit, even though I didn't
know it at the time. But thank God I yielded, because
I wouldn't be where I am today if I had not.
He wouldn't be born again today if I had not.
That was a whole other story. Some have heard, some have not.
But anyway, we've got to move on because I haven't even got to my
point tonight. So where were we at 1526?
I read it OK16 John 16 seven through 11.
I tell you the truth. It is to your advantage that I
go, for if I do not go, the helper will not come.
This is Jesus. Remember?
We talked about the fact that Jesus himself said it is to your
advantage that I go so that the Holy Spirit may come.
So who are all these people that believe in Jesus for salvation,
but they don't believe in the ministry of the Holy Spirit?
When he said it's to your advantage, I go so that he can
come, right? Because if I do not go away, the
helper will not come to you. But if I go, I will send him to
you. And he when he comes, what will
convict the world concerning sin, righteousness, judgment
concerning sin? Because you do not believe in
me. And concerning righteousness,
because I go to the Father and you no longer see me.
And the concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world
has been judged. And we've said this, that a lot
of people like to talk about how wonderful Jesus is.
But the Spirit of God will still convict you of sin today, still
convict you of sin today. Thank God He convicts us,
because if he don't, that means you've hardened your heart.
If you don't say any conviction ever, You know the Holy Spirit
convicted me just in simple things.
You know, I may be having a conversation with someone that I
know that I can have a conversation with that can
handle some things, but I may say something that would be not
really out of a right heart. And you know what the Holy Ghost
has done to me that was not out of a right spirit the way that
you said that because it could actually lend to gossip and you
need to go ask them to forgive you that you should not have
said it that way. That's conviction.
It's conviction. I mean, I cannot believe some of
the things that I hear that people talk like corrupt
communication that comes out of people's mouth, the gossip and
the slander and tearing of down of people.
And you have no conviction of that.
As a believer, I would be concerned because we know he
says we should not be gossiping, slandering or having corrupt
communication. But yet there's so many
believers that are having conversations in that manner
with no conviction. I would be concerned about where
your heart really is, right? Just saying so John 16 we did,
we read that 711 OK 13 through 15, John sixteen 13315, it says.
But when he the spirit of truth comes, he's gonna what guide you
into all truth. For he will not speak on his own
initiative, but whatever he hears, he will speak, and he
will disclose to you what is to come.
He will glorify me, and he will take of mine, and will disclose
it to you. All things that the Father has
our mind. Therefore I said that he takes
of mine and will disclose it to you.
Amen. So we can see through all of
these scriptures that he wants to to be our helper.
He wants to comfort us. The Holy Spirit teaches us.
The Holy Spirit reminds us of things.
The Holy Spirit testifies of some things.
The Holy Spirit convicts us of some things.
The Holy Spirit reveals things to us to come.
And you know what? The Holy Spirit will worship
with us. That's what he said.
He'll glorify me. He'll worship with you in those
times that the. Yeah, I I mean, I I just heard
because he lives that that's him saying, come on, let me help you
in this moment. If you'll just begin to sing
this song that came up from the Spirit in that moment because he
lives, I can face tomorrow because I didn't want to face
tomorrow at that time. But the Holy Ghost knew what I
needed and I just began to yield to it and worship him with it.
You see that? So let's move to the next thing
that I want us to see concerning the inner working of the Holy
Spirit is that first and foremost we have to realize that
we are a spirit being. We've talked about this that
John for for says this, that God is spirit and those who worship
him worship him. In what?
Spirit and truth? We have to recognize that we are
a threefold nature, man or woman, right?
We are spirit beings. We have a spirit, right?
And this is how we connect with God from spirit to spirit, and
the Holy Spirit is the one that's doing all of that
communication. Then we have a soul realm, which
is our mind, our will, our emotions, our reasonings, our
questionings, all of this stuff going on.
This is what we call the soul realm, the mind, right?
And then we live in this body. We live in this body, and the
body is where we see, which we're going to talk about in a
little bit, That fleshly desires come from right Where we could
be led by our feelings, we could be led by our senses.
We could be led by our flesh in this body.
So the greatest thing we can do is to build our spirit man up.
Allow our spirit man to mature and develop and grow, to produce
the characteristics of the fruits of the spirit, to produce
the nature of God within our life so that our spirit is
strong and will always detonate the flesh.
And then our spirit will be so strong that it can also help get
our mind, our soul, our mental health, in alignment.
This is what all this mental health stuff is.
Their minds are out of control. The Holy Spirit, we said, was to
be our governor. The Holy Spirit is to be our
guide. We were never supposed to be
self governed. We talked about this in Genesis.
When Adam fell, he became governed by his flesh.
He became governed by what he could see.
All of these things he started governing himself by covering up
and trying to hide from God, because it was the Holy Spirit
that was always supposed to be the one that would be governing
our lives. OK, so we want our spirit strong
so that it can always get into agreement and then we want our
minds. The next thing is we know.
And I don't have this in my scriptures, but in Galatians or
James. I believe it is where he talks
about that we are to receive the ingrafted word of God which is
able to save our soul. Our spirit is born again once we
it is alive unto Christ once we get born again, right?
Our spirits alive. Our spirit is in contact with
God the minute we get born again.
But our mind, our soul, still has to be saved.
And how is it saved? It's saved by Romans 12/1.
And two, the renewing of our mind to the word of God.
So whose responsibility is that? Ours.
We have the responsibility to pick up the Word of God and
renew our mind. Transform our mind to the Word,
and what the Word saying so that our Spirit and our mind can be
in alignment so that it will always outnumber the flesh.
Your thinking has to get into alignment with what the
Scripture says. Your soul round your will has to
get submitted to the word of God in everything in every area of
your life. As Pastor was saying, you can't
have your own thinking in the Kingdom of God.
You can't have your own opinions in the Kingdom of God of how you
think God should be doing something.
And if you do, then that is proving that you're not
submitted to his thinking. Your soul, your mind, your will,
your emotions, all of these things have to get into
alignment with the word of God and it can happen.
You can do it, we can do it, period.
You can do it. So we have to get realize that
we are threefold nature man, and that they we are the temple of
the Spirit of God. Look at this scripture in First
Corinthians 316. Do you not know that you are the
temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?
You are the temple and if you keep reading on Corinthians,
just concerning about being the temple and having the spirit of
God living on, he actually talks about do you think you could
sleep with a prostitute and he'll not know it because he's
right there with you? If he's dwelling on the inside
of you, do you think he's not in that bedroom when you're
committing adultery? He's right there with you at the
board. Again, Believer doing that
stuff. The Holy Ghost is right there
and we're not yielding. He's right there in the room
with you watching pornography. Come on.
He's right there in the room with you here in every
slanderous thing you're talking about your brother or your
sister or the pastors or the whatever.
He's right there hearing it. And guess what?
We know he's grieved. We talked about that in our
earlier lessons. He's grieved.
Right. So he's dwelling on the inside
of us. We have the Spirit of God
dwelling on the inside of us. And I have to go through all of
these basic things that may be basic to you.
And you've heard before, because we have a whole slew of new
people that have never heard these things.
And you can sit there and and reject.
Come on. And I don't care how long you've
been here. And you're in the more dangerous
spot, actually, if you haven't kept your life in keeping with
yielding to the Spirit of God. So Ephesians 113 through 14 says
this in him you also, after listening to the message of
truth, the gospel of your salvation, having also believed
you were sealed with him. The Holy Spirit of promise, who
is given as a pledge of an inheritance, this is part of
your inheritance. The seal of the Spirit say I'm
sealed. You're sealed with the Spirit of
God living on the inside of you. And we must not take for granted
and we must not harden ourselves.
And we must not not yield to what the Holy Ghost is saying to
you on the inside. Because we said we read all the
Scriptures where you can reject and deny the Holy Spirit's
working in your life. That's what we're saying.
He can do nothing for you unless you yield and submit and
actually do what it is you're hearing him say to do.
And there's so many people that sit and reject the working of
the inner man of and the working of the Holy Spirit within us.
1st Thessalonians 523 says this. Now may the God of peace Himself
sanctify you entirely. He wants you sanctified,
entirely holy. That's what that word means.
Sanctified, set apart, holy, consecrated before God right
entirely, and your that your spirit, your soul, and your body
be preserved, complete without blame, at the coming of the
Lord. He wants you entirely complete,
whole, sanctified, every part of your being, spirit, soul, and
body until His return. And we are the ones responsible
to keep ourselves up underneath the word of God and yielding to
the Spirit of God on the inside of us to do it.
I'm going to continue to harp on that because we can sit in these
churches, in every church in the United States and hear the word
of God and let it be a religious exercise and never once yield to
what we're hearing him tell us to do.
And this is not growing you, this is not maturing you, this
is not equipping you, and you will not stand in the day of the
hour. I'm telling you, you won't
stand. You won't stand in these last
days when you're confronted with some last day things.
Because if you can't yield to it now, when it's easy, you won't
yield to it then when it gets hard.
And not only that, if you're not yielding to it, now every little
time is hardening and hardening and hardening and hardening and
hardening and hardening, until before long you know what the
Holy Spirit will be so grieved that he will not even speak to
you anymore, right? He won't speak to you anymore
about it. And that wouldn't be a very good
place to be, Hebrews 412. For the word of God is living in
active and sharper than any two edged sword, piercing far as the
division of your soul, your spirit, and both joints and
marrow. Which is what?
The body and able to judge what the thoughts and the intentions
of the heart. So the word of God, through the
revelation of the Spirit of God is able to go into all three
areas of your life, spirit, soul and body, even down to your
thoughts where you know, as I said, the Holy Ghost, you know,
convicted me and corrected me. When he's when when you know I
was in a conversation with someone and he knew my spirit or
my tone in the way that I said that wasn't at the right heart
and that I needed to go and ask for forgiveness and say, you
know what, I shouldn't have said that that way please forgive me.
And they would have said, Oh no, no problem.
I didn't take it that way. You may not have taken it that
way but I know the Holy Ghost was get you know, I was giving
it that way because of the Holy Ghost.
You see what I'm saying down to the very intentions of one's
heart, your intention. What is your intention in the
situations that you're in? What's your intent?
Oh, I didn't mean to text them like that.
Oh, really? Oh, I didn't mean to say it like
that. Oh, really?
What was your intention? The Holy Ghost knows, and he's
very interested. He's very interested in the very
intentions of one's heart, the very thoughts that's going on in
your mind. I remember years ago because
we've had Kingdom Institute going for years and years and
years Now I don't even know how many years and over 10 years,
maybe 15. And I was writing the curriculum
and teaching one year on Agape Love because that was the class
that I've been given and taught for years on Agape Love.
And as I was teaching one year and going through all the same
scriptures and meditating, getting ready for class, you
know, the Holy Ghost spoke to me.
And he said, you know what? You've really walked in love
with a lot of people through the years.
You know, I could get on a little bandwagon right here,
because if anybody should be church hurt, I should be
everybody. It's always these other all the
sheep that talk about church hurt.
What about the church hurt that comes to pastors and their
families? All right, I'll get off that
because I could really go down this road, but I got to make
sure my intentions of my heart is really right anyway, you
know? So I'm going through this class
preparing to get ready to teach on Agape love.
And the Holy Ghost said to me, you've done really well at
walking in love. You told me that you've done
really well at walking in love. You've forgiven people that
have, you know, And he reminded me of all the things I've
forgiven and let go and could have taken offense to.
And everybody thinks y'all are the only ones that can get
offended. So anyway, he says.
But, and you're doing it, and you've been doing it.
But you know what? I want to deal with you now
about with walking in love or walking in agape love.
I want to deal with your thoughts because you've kept
your spirit pure and you've forgiven from the heart.
But I want to start dealing with your thoughts now concerning
love. What is the intention of your
thought when it comes to that person?
Is it a thought of believing the best?
Is it a thought of agape love? Is it a thought of how I would
think about those people? What's he's doing, taking me to
another area of my life, now into the soul realm.
So this is continual, A continual process of the Holy
Spirit working within your life, maturing you, growing you,
developing character, developing his nature within you in every
area of your life. And don't think he don't deal
with the body. What are you eating?
You're being a glutton. He talks about these things, but
no churches do. What are you doing to your body?
This is the temple of the Holy Ghost.
How are you taking care of it? Right?
All of these things. Is the Holy Spirit developing us
and to who God has created us to be as His citizens in the
Kingdom of God? As I said, the more morals,
behaviors, lifestyles, all of these things have to do with Him
wanting to produce within us everything that He sees within
you and the best that you can be and who He made you to be from.
Everything. Amen.
Everything within your life. Let me read a couple of
scriptures I totally didn't even get to anywhere I wanted to go.
So First Corinthians 617 will it says this.
But he who is joined to the Lord is 1 Spirit.
With Him we are joined. With Him, we are one Spirit.
With Him we are connected and one we know.
We're a part of the body. We are one.
All of us are one. We are all connected as the body
of Christ, but not only as the body of Christ.
We are all connected with Him. We are one spirit with Him, and
we have to learn that the working of the Spirit of God is
always moving in our hearts within us, doing it inner work
within us to develop us, to be all in one with Him.
It actually means oneness. Oneness with Him to where we
are. So one with him.
It is naturally just we've we've developed in this oneness with
Him and the Holy Spirit working in our life that it's just so
naturally to move and yield because we've done it now
through this process and this journey with our walk with
Christ. Oh, he said this.
Yeah, I know. I need to be led right over
there. Oh, he said to do this.
Yeah, I know. OK, Lord, this is what you're
needing me to do. And you're yielding.
And and we're growing and walking with him through every
season of our life, through everything that he's asking us
to do, through everything that we are.
A mother, employer, a serve as one that would want to serve in
the Kingdom, whatever it is, Every aspect of our life, he
wants to be one with us yielded to him so that he can navigate
us through our everyday life. Raising our children, being a a
mother, being a wife. All of these things.
The Holy Spirit can work in you to develop you into the godly
woman that fears the Lord, right?
The one that is the servant of the Lord.
Whatever that call may be, whatever the plans may be for
your life, everywhere you go you should be rising to the top.
If you have been yielding to and submitting to God through your
life, it should just be a continual process and progress
with the Lord bringing you into places, new things, developing
you to do things that you never thought you would be doing.
Amen. Hallelujah.
It's an exciting journey, but you have to learn how to yield.
Every day, every single day, I'll read the last scripture and
we'll get to this. It says this, and I want to read
Galatians. I have several scriptures, but I
want to go. We'll come back to those next
week. Every day, Galatians, we're
going to close with just reading several scriptures, Galatians
516 through 25. But I say, and I'm going to read
out of the Amplified Walk and live habitually in the Holy
Spirit, responsive to, controlled and guided by the
Spirit. Oh, I'm not controlled by
anything. You better want to be controlled
by the Holy Spirit, because if you're not controlled by the
Holy Spirit, you're controlled by another Spirit or your flesh,
it says. Then you will certainly not
gratify the cravings and the desires of the flesh of the
human nature without God. For the desire of the flesh are
opposed to the Holy Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are
opposed to the flesh, godless human nature.
For these are antagonists to each other, continually
withstanding and in conflict with each other, so that you are
not free, but are prevented from doing what you desire to do.
But if you are guided, say, guided, led by the Holy Spirit,
you are not subject to the law. Now the doings and practices of
the flesh are clear and obvious. Very clear and obvious.
They are immorality and purity and indecency, idolatry,
sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, anger, ill temper,
selfishness, divisions, dissensions, party spirit,
factions, sex with peculiar not sex, but sex.
But you know, it did cover sex earlier, with peculiar opinions
and heresies. Look at that, he said.
Peculiar opinions. Didn't we just talk about that?
You can't hold your own opinion in the Kingdom of God.
Your peculiar opinion. It says they are in morality,
impurity and did I already read all those sorry opinions,
Heresies, envy, drunkenness, carousing and light.
So there is much more that are like these things that you
shouldn't be doing and if you're doing them you're in the flesh.
And he says we ought not to be living by the flesh, right?
I warn you beforehand, this is Paul warning or the Galatians
Church. I warned you beforehand, just as
I did previously, that those who do such things shall not inherit
the Kingdom of God. But the fruit of the Spirit is
what the work which his presence is within accomplishes.
There it is, the inner working of the Spirit of God.
The presence of God within accomplishes it.
Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, Right.
Finish it out as I flip the page.
Faithfulness, gentleness, self-control.
Against such things there is no law that can bring a change.
And those who belong to Christ the Messiah, what have we done?
We are to crucify the flesh, the human nature with its passions
and appetites and desires, and we are to live by the Holy
Spirit. Let us walk by the Spirit, by If
by the Holy Spirit we have our life in God, let us go forward,
walking in line, Our conduct being controlled by the Spirit,
walking, being led by the Spirit every single day, habitually
that is what we are responsible to do, and yielding to the Holy
Spirit every day as we walk with Him.
And we may not know why He's leading us to go down this road.
We may not know why all the time He's asking us to do this one
thing or that one thing, but if we'll just listen and obey and
yield, you can guarantee you will never fail.
You know what, though? You will make mistakes.
We will make mistakes as we're learning to navigate.
And we'll miss it. We'll we'll look back and think,
you know what? That was the Holy Ghost saying
that to me. And I should have listened.
And if I would have listened, I wouldn't have been dude, this,
you know, hardship. Or I wouldn't have had this
problem happen. If I would have just yielded and
obeyed and listen, because the Holy Spirit will always, always
keep you out of a mess if we'll just listen and obey.
But we have lots to talk about. Amen.
Hallelujah. So what are we gonna do?
We're gonna yield. Yeah, say it.
Say yield. Yield.
Say we're gonna yield. We're gonna yield.
We're gonna yield To the Holy Spirit's leading and guiding us
every day as we walk with him. Amen.
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