Hello, treasured women.
Paul writes in Romans 5, verse 5,
Such hope in God's promises never disappoints us
because God's love has been abundantly poured out
within our hearts through the Holy Spirit
who was given to us.
So today, we are going to talk about
the Holy Spirit's role in hope.
The Holy Spirit is the most misunderstood part of the Trinity.
It's easier for people to understand God as a Father
and God as a Son because those parts of God we can relate to.
We all know Fathers and we all know Sons in this world,
so that makes it easier for us to relate to
and we can understand that aspect of God.
But as things that pertain to God's Holy Spirit,
we can often struggle with understanding this part of God
because we don't think we have an example
of something we can have as a reference.
But we do.
We have our own spirit within us.
Our being is made up of spirit and mind and body
and we were made in the image of God.
God is also made up of spirit, mind, and body.
God's mind is God the Father.
God's body is Jesus the Son.
And God's spirit is what we call the Holy Spirit.
God is three in one and that's how He made us also.
But because God is God and He's not a human like us,
there are three parts of His being
and those three parts are on a much grander scale
than our three parts.
And God's Holy Spirit is God's power in action upon this earth.
Father God doesn't walk this earth.
Jesus only walked this earth for 33 years.
But as Jesus ascended into heaven,
He poured out His Holy Spirit so that each one of us
could be guided by Him on a daily basis.
God's Holy Spirit lives inside us to help us,
to guide us, to teach us, to comfort us,
and even to pray for us.
But before you receive this help from the Holy Spirit,
you need to ask Jesus to be your Lord and Savior.
Each person needs to say yes to Jesus out of their own free will
and be willing to be guided by the teachings of Jesus
in order to receive God's Holy Spirit
and have His help and His guidance.
Many in this world don't have hope
because they haven't asked Jesus into their heart
and so they aren't being comforted by His Holy Spirit.
As we've already looked at attaining hope
and dwelling in hope this month and the last three weeks,
we know that true hope only exists because of Jesus
It's actually attached to Jesus Himself.
Outside of Jesus, it's a false hope
and that doesn't have God's Holy Spirit in it.
It is so amazing that our all-powerful Almighty God
offers us His all-powerful Holy Spirit.
Such an incredible reality that you and I are given.
In the Old Testament, before Jesus came to earth,
we see that Father God would fill a certain person with His Holy Spirit
and that those people would do things and say things
in such an incredible manner.
But in the new covenant that Jesus gives us,
we each now are offered His Holy Spirit to navigate our days with.
Each day we have an opportunity to do and say absolutely incredible things.
God's Holy Spirit doesn't ever change,
so each one of us has this awesome part of God living inside us
and He's waiting for us to read our Bible
and realize what He's given to us
so that we can partner with Him
and in the work that He wants to do through our life.
We have been so conditioned by the ways of the world
that we've accepted the world's ways
instead of trusting and believing that our God is God.
Our God is unchanging.
The God of the Old Testament is still the God of today.
Nothing can overcome Him
and nothing can even come close to challenging Him.
But unfortunately, we have this tendency to believe
in what we can see with our eyes instead of exercising our faith.
faith in the Lord and the power that he has, because that power can't be seen
until we partner with it. When Moses parted the Red Sea, it was a partnership
with God. God loves to use his own creation, so although Father God could
have parted the sea without using Moses, it's his delight to use his children. God
wants his children to believe in him, to trust in him over anything else in the
world, over anything else that we can see with our own eyes, and he wants us to
partner with him and his power. So God told Moses to stand at the edge of the
water on dry land, lift up his staff, stretch out his hand, and divide the sea.
God trusted Moses. Moses trusted the Lord. Moses trusted the Lord over what he knew
about the sea, over what he understood about the physical properties of water,
and he partnered with God's Holy Spirit, who then parted the sea. But it took the
faith and the participation of Moses. Now with that same understanding, Jesus
told his disciples to wait to start their outreach and their ministry until
he had ascended into heaven and they received the power of the Holy Spirit
upon them. As Christ followers, partnering with the Holy Spirit is part of our
daily Christian walk. We should do nothing without partnering with God's
Holy Spirit the same way that the disciples did it. This is foundational
Christianity, and when we partner with God's Holy Spirit, we are strengthened, we
are encouraged, and we have complete hope because with God all things are truly
possible. When we partner with God's Holy Spirit, we are fulfilling the will of God
in our life. He gives us purpose and he gives us direction, but in order to get
to that place of hope, we have to first take a step of accepting Jesus as Lord
and Savior, and then realizing the incredible free gift that we get of his
Holy Spirit. And we need to learn how to live partnering with this Holy Spirit as
a Christ follower. Many Christian churches are great about leading people
to accepting Jesus into their lives, but then they sometimes fall short of
discipling them how to live as a Christ follower. And this is why we see even
today Christians who are hopeless because they haven't been taught about
God's Holy Spirit and how to partner with him in this life. It's kind of like
being given a key to the front door of a mansion, yet you haven't been given an
address to where that mansion is, and it could be anywhere in the world. And if
you don't have the address to where that door is that this key that you are
holding opens, it actually makes the key useless. So Jesus is the key to our
salvation, but until we get to heaven we need to maneuver around in this world.
Doing God's will for our life, and he wants to use us by the power of his Holy
Spirit. God's Holy Spirit is a complete game-changer. That's why Jesus told the
disciples, wait for it. So I want to declare the scripture over you, that same
scripture that we started with today in Romans 5.5. Such hope in God's promises
never disappoints us because God's love has been abundantly poured out within
our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us. I pray that now this
scripture comes more alive to you. I pray that you have this lightbulb moment of
not just knowing the scripture from a memorization standpoint, but receiving it
and understanding it. As I have become a student of my Bible over the years, I've
had so many of these lightbulb moments. Growing up in the church there were many
scriptures that I knew off the top of my head because the church teaches them
over and over and quotes them over and over. But knowing what they are and
understanding what they say and how to apply it to our daily lives are two very
different things.
things. The devil himself can recite scripture, and unfortunately there are many religions and
cults that also recite scripture because they masquerade as truth. But as Christ followers,
we need to understand scripture and apply that scripture and all of God's ways to our daily
living. And that means partnering with God's Holy Spirit because it's his power that allows us to
live out the purpose that God created us for. And once we do that, then we get to graduate to our
permanent home in heaven. Since the beginning of time, man has made free will choices which
affects us all. And as we move forward, our world is going to continue to get darker until Jesus
comes back again. That's just God's truth. That is what is in scripture. So we need to embrace
what God is allowing to take place in this world because it's his will and it's unto his ultimate
plan and allow him to use us while we are here on the earth because we belong to him.
Paul said again in Romans 15 verse 13,
May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing through the experience of
your faith that by the power of the Holy Spirit you will abound in hope and overflow with confidence
in his promises. All scripture will always be true. God's word will always remain the same.
It will never change. So even when it's the last day on this earth as we know it before Jesus comes
back and it's a darker and more evil place as Christ followers, we still have to uphold our
holy scripture. Even in the darkness, you and I need to be the light of Jesus because our God is the God
of hope and his Holy Spirit will always be in us until those last days. And because of that, we are
called to live with joy and peace despite what we see with our eyes because our unseen God is
magnificent and wondrous and we need to live like we know that to be true. I want to invite
every woman listening today to join me at Trumpets of Tirzah. We are launching a new initiative.
Join us, awaken your purpose, be transformed. This world needs more women to be the true
light of Jesus despite the darkness and I am raising up an army of light-carrying women.
So go to my website trumpetsoftirzah.com, put in an application for my seven-month course.
The application is free and it will start the discussion of how you can live your life
as a true Christ follower and lead others into God's truths. You will learn how to partner with
God's Holy Spirit in everyday situations. So when you're faced with a big decision,
you will naturally be guided by God's Holy Spirit and his answer will be clear to you.
You'll also awaken the purpose that God created you for and your life will be completely transformed
as you know it and you'll start to affect and transform the world around you. Don't let another
day pass you by. This is your time to rise up and we can be the light of Christ together
even as the world gets darker and darker. Thanks so much for listening today.
I hope to see your application and God bless you on your leadership journey.