WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.000 Hello, treasured women. 2 00:00:03.000 --> 00:00:06.000 Paul writes in Romans 5, verse 5, 3 00:00:06.000 --> 00:00:09.000 Such hope in God's promises never disappoints us 4 00:00:09.000 --> 00:00:13.000 because God's love has been abundantly poured out 5 00:00:13.000 --> 00:00:16.000 within our hearts through the Holy Spirit 6 00:00:16.000 --> 00:00:18.000 who was given to us. 7 00:00:18.000 --> 00:00:21.000 So today, we are going to talk about 8 00:00:21.000 --> 00:00:24.000 the Holy Spirit's role in hope. 9 00:00:24.000 --> 00:00:34.000 The Holy Spirit is the most misunderstood part of the Trinity. 10 00:00:34.000 --> 00:00:37.000 It's easier for people to understand God as a Father 11 00:00:37.000 --> 00:00:41.000 and God as a Son because those parts of God we can relate to. 12 00:00:41.000 --> 00:00:45.000 We all know Fathers and we all know Sons in this world, 13 00:00:45.000 --> 00:00:48.000 so that makes it easier for us to relate to 14 00:00:48.000 --> 00:00:51.000 and we can understand that aspect of God. 15 00:00:51.000 --> 00:00:55.000 But as things that pertain to God's Holy Spirit, 16 00:00:55.000 --> 00:00:59.000 we can often struggle with understanding this part of God 17 00:00:59.000 --> 00:01:02.000 because we don't think we have an example 18 00:01:02.000 --> 00:01:05.000 of something we can have as a reference. 19 00:01:05.000 --> 00:01:07.000 But we do. 20 00:01:07.000 --> 00:01:10.000 We have our own spirit within us. 21 00:01:10.000 --> 00:01:15.000 Our being is made up of spirit and mind and body 22 00:01:15.000 --> 00:01:18.000 and we were made in the image of God. 23 00:01:18.000 --> 00:01:23.000 God is also made up of spirit, mind, and body. 24 00:01:23.000 --> 00:01:26.000 God's mind is God the Father. 25 00:01:26.000 --> 00:01:29.000 God's body is Jesus the Son. 26 00:01:29.000 --> 00:01:33.000 And God's spirit is what we call the Holy Spirit. 27 00:01:33.000 --> 00:01:38.000 God is three in one and that's how He made us also. 28 00:01:38.000 --> 00:01:43.000 But because God is God and He's not a human like us, 29 00:01:43.000 --> 00:01:45.000 there are three parts of His being 30 00:01:45.000 --> 00:01:49.000 and those three parts are on a much grander scale 31 00:01:49.000 --> 00:01:51.000 than our three parts. 32 00:01:51.000 --> 00:01:56.000 And God's Holy Spirit is God's power in action upon this earth. 33 00:01:56.000 --> 00:01:59.000 Father God doesn't walk this earth. 34 00:01:59.000 --> 00:02:02.000 Jesus only walked this earth for 33 years. 35 00:02:02.000 --> 00:02:04.000 But as Jesus ascended into heaven, 36 00:02:04.000 --> 00:02:08.000 He poured out His Holy Spirit so that each one of us 37 00:02:08.000 --> 00:02:12.000 could be guided by Him on a daily basis. 38 00:02:12.000 --> 00:02:17.000 God's Holy Spirit lives inside us to help us, 39 00:02:17.000 --> 00:02:20.000 to guide us, to teach us, to comfort us, 40 00:02:20.000 --> 00:02:23.000 and even to pray for us. 41 00:02:23.000 --> 00:02:27.000 But before you receive this help from the Holy Spirit, 42 00:02:27.000 --> 00:02:31.000 you need to ask Jesus to be your Lord and Savior. 43 00:02:31.000 --> 00:02:36.000 Each person needs to say yes to Jesus out of their own free will 44 00:02:36.000 --> 00:02:39.000 and be willing to be guided by the teachings of Jesus 45 00:02:39.000 --> 00:02:42.000 in order to receive God's Holy Spirit 46 00:02:42.000 --> 00:02:45.000 and have His help and His guidance. 47 00:02:45.000 --> 00:02:48.000 Many in this world don't have hope 48 00:02:48.000 --> 00:02:51.000 because they haven't asked Jesus into their heart 49 00:02:51.000 --> 00:02:55.000 and so they aren't being comforted by His Holy Spirit. 50 00:02:55.000 --> 00:02:59.000 As we've already looked at attaining hope 51 00:02:59.000 --> 00:03:03.000 and dwelling in hope this month and the last three weeks, 52 00:03:03.000 --> 00:03:08.000 we know that true hope only exists because of Jesus 53 00:03:08.000 --> 00:03:13.000 It's actually attached to Jesus Himself. 54 00:03:13.000 --> 00:03:16.000 Outside of Jesus, it's a false hope 55 00:03:16.000 --> 00:03:19.000 and that doesn't have God's Holy Spirit in it. 56 00:03:19.000 --> 00:03:25.000 It is so amazing that our all-powerful Almighty God 57 00:03:25.000 --> 00:03:30.000 offers us His all-powerful Holy Spirit. 58 00:03:30.000 --> 00:03:35.000 Such an incredible reality that you and I are given. 59 00:03:36.000 --> 00:03:39.000 In the Old Testament, before Jesus came to earth, 60 00:03:39.000 --> 00:03:43.000 we see that Father God would fill a certain person with His Holy Spirit 61 00:03:43.000 --> 00:03:48.000 and that those people would do things and say things 62 00:03:48.000 --> 00:03:51.000 in such an incredible manner. 63 00:03:51.000 --> 00:03:55.000 But in the new covenant that Jesus gives us, 64 00:03:55.000 --> 00:04:00.000 we each now are offered His Holy Spirit to navigate our days with. 65 00:04:00.000 --> 00:04:07.000 Each day we have an opportunity to do and say absolutely incredible things. 66 00:04:07.000 --> 00:04:10.000 God's Holy Spirit doesn't ever change, 67 00:04:10.000 --> 00:04:15.000 so each one of us has this awesome part of God living inside us 68 00:04:15.000 --> 00:04:18.000 and He's waiting for us to read our Bible 69 00:04:18.000 --> 00:04:21.000 and realize what He's given to us 70 00:04:21.000 --> 00:04:23.000 so that we can partner with Him 71 00:04:23.000 --> 00:04:28.000 and in the work that He wants to do through our life. 72 00:04:28.000 --> 00:04:33.000 We have been so conditioned by the ways of the world 73 00:04:33.000 --> 00:04:36.000 that we've accepted the world's ways 74 00:04:36.000 --> 00:04:41.000 instead of trusting and believing that our God is God. 75 00:04:41.000 --> 00:04:43.000 Our God is unchanging. 76 00:04:43.000 --> 00:04:46.000 The God of the Old Testament is still the God of today. 77 00:04:46.000 --> 00:04:48.000 Nothing can overcome Him 78 00:04:48.000 --> 00:04:52.000 and nothing can even come close to challenging Him. 79 00:04:52.000 --> 00:04:56.000 But unfortunately, we have this tendency to believe 80 00:04:56.000 --> 00:05:00.000 in what we can see with our eyes instead of exercising our faith. 81 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:06.000 faith in the Lord and the power that he has, because that power can't be seen 82 00:05:06.000 --> 00:05:12.960 until we partner with it. When Moses parted the Red Sea, it was a partnership 83 00:05:12.960 --> 00:05:19.160 with God. God loves to use his own creation, so although Father God could 84 00:05:19.160 --> 00:05:26.000 have parted the sea without using Moses, it's his delight to use his children. God 85 00:05:26.000 --> 00:05:30.720 wants his children to believe in him, to trust in him over anything else in the 86 00:05:30.720 --> 00:05:37.040 world, over anything else that we can see with our own eyes, and he wants us to 87 00:05:37.040 --> 00:05:44.280 partner with him and his power. So God told Moses to stand at the edge of the 88 00:05:44.280 --> 00:05:50.720 water on dry land, lift up his staff, stretch out his hand, and divide the sea. 89 00:05:50.720 --> 00:06:00.120 God trusted Moses. Moses trusted the Lord. Moses trusted the Lord over what he knew 90 00:06:00.120 --> 00:06:05.800 about the sea, over what he understood about the physical properties of water, 91 00:06:05.800 --> 00:06:12.560 and he partnered with God's Holy Spirit, who then parted the sea. But it took the 92 00:06:12.560 --> 00:06:20.200 faith and the participation of Moses. Now with that same understanding, Jesus 93 00:06:20.200 --> 00:06:25.640 told his disciples to wait to start their outreach and their ministry until 94 00:06:25.640 --> 00:06:30.840 he had ascended into heaven and they received the power of the Holy Spirit 95 00:06:30.840 --> 00:06:38.680 upon them. As Christ followers, partnering with the Holy Spirit is part of our 96 00:06:38.680 --> 00:06:44.320 daily Christian walk. We should do nothing without partnering with God's 97 00:06:44.440 --> 00:06:50.480 Holy Spirit the same way that the disciples did it. This is foundational 98 00:06:50.480 --> 00:06:56.720 Christianity, and when we partner with God's Holy Spirit, we are strengthened, we 99 00:06:56.720 --> 00:07:03.280 are encouraged, and we have complete hope because with God all things are truly 100 00:07:03.280 --> 00:07:09.960 possible. When we partner with God's Holy Spirit, we are fulfilling the will of God 101 00:07:10.000 --> 00:07:16.680 in our life. He gives us purpose and he gives us direction, but in order to get 102 00:07:16.680 --> 00:07:21.760 to that place of hope, we have to first take a step of accepting Jesus as Lord 103 00:07:21.760 --> 00:07:28.520 and Savior, and then realizing the incredible free gift that we get of his 104 00:07:28.520 --> 00:07:35.960 Holy Spirit. And we need to learn how to live partnering with this Holy Spirit as 105 00:07:36.000 --> 00:07:42.920 a Christ follower. Many Christian churches are great about leading people 106 00:07:42.920 --> 00:07:48.840 to accepting Jesus into their lives, but then they sometimes fall short of 107 00:07:48.840 --> 00:07:54.760 discipling them how to live as a Christ follower. And this is why we see even 108 00:07:54.760 --> 00:07:59.520 today Christians who are hopeless because they haven't been taught about 109 00:07:59.520 --> 00:08:05.680 God's Holy Spirit and how to partner with him in this life. It's kind of like 110 00:08:05.800 --> 00:08:12.760 being given a key to the front door of a mansion, yet you haven't been given an 111 00:08:12.760 --> 00:08:18.480 address to where that mansion is, and it could be anywhere in the world. And if 112 00:08:18.480 --> 00:08:23.560 you don't have the address to where that door is that this key that you are 113 00:08:23.560 --> 00:08:30.640 holding opens, it actually makes the key useless. So Jesus is the key to our 114 00:08:30.640 --> 00:08:34.960 salvation, but until we get to heaven we need to maneuver around in this world. 115 00:08:35.320 --> 00:08:41.880 Doing God's will for our life, and he wants to use us by the power of his Holy 116 00:08:41.880 --> 00:08:49.320 Spirit. God's Holy Spirit is a complete game-changer. That's why Jesus told the 117 00:08:49.320 --> 00:08:55.040 disciples, wait for it. So I want to declare the scripture over you, that same 118 00:08:55.040 --> 00:09:01.440 scripture that we started with today in Romans 5.5. Such hope in God's promises 119 00:09:01.440 --> 00:09:07.280 never disappoints us because God's love has been abundantly poured out within 120 00:09:07.280 --> 00:09:16.240 our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us. I pray that now this 121 00:09:16.240 --> 00:09:22.360 scripture comes more alive to you. I pray that you have this lightbulb moment of 122 00:09:22.360 --> 00:09:27.840 not just knowing the scripture from a memorization standpoint, but receiving it 123 00:09:27.880 --> 00:09:35.480 and understanding it. As I have become a student of my Bible over the years, I've 124 00:09:35.480 --> 00:09:41.520 had so many of these lightbulb moments. Growing up in the church there were many 125 00:09:41.520 --> 00:09:45.320 scriptures that I knew off the top of my head because the church teaches them 126 00:09:45.320 --> 00:09:51.840 over and over and quotes them over and over. But knowing what they are and 127 00:09:51.840 --> 00:09:59.320 understanding what they say and how to apply it to our daily lives are two very 128 00:09:59.320 --> 00:10:01.920 different things. 129 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:08.240 things. The devil himself can recite scripture, and unfortunately there are many religions and 130 00:10:08.240 --> 00:10:17.200 cults that also recite scripture because they masquerade as truth. But as Christ followers, 131 00:10:17.760 --> 00:10:23.920 we need to understand scripture and apply that scripture and all of God's ways to our daily 132 00:10:23.920 --> 00:10:31.520 living. And that means partnering with God's Holy Spirit because it's his power that allows us to 133 00:10:31.520 --> 00:10:39.920 live out the purpose that God created us for. And once we do that, then we get to graduate to our 134 00:10:39.920 --> 00:10:47.840 permanent home in heaven. Since the beginning of time, man has made free will choices which 135 00:10:47.840 --> 00:10:54.960 affects us all. And as we move forward, our world is going to continue to get darker until Jesus 136 00:10:54.960 --> 00:11:02.080 comes back again. That's just God's truth. That is what is in scripture. So we need to embrace 137 00:11:02.720 --> 00:11:09.680 what God is allowing to take place in this world because it's his will and it's unto his ultimate 138 00:11:09.680 --> 00:11:17.280 plan and allow him to use us while we are here on the earth because we belong to him. 139 00:11:19.040 --> 00:11:23.280 Paul said again in Romans 15 verse 13, 140 00:11:24.320 --> 00:11:30.800 May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing through the experience of 141 00:11:30.800 --> 00:11:40.080 your faith that by the power of the Holy Spirit you will abound in hope and overflow with confidence 142 00:11:40.080 --> 00:11:52.640 in his promises. All scripture will always be true. God's word will always remain the same. 143 00:11:52.640 --> 00:11:59.440 It will never change. So even when it's the last day on this earth as we know it before Jesus comes 144 00:11:59.440 --> 00:12:07.760 back and it's a darker and more evil place as Christ followers, we still have to uphold our 145 00:12:07.760 --> 00:12:16.000 holy scripture. Even in the darkness, you and I need to be the light of Jesus because our God is the God 146 00:12:16.000 --> 00:12:24.400 of hope and his Holy Spirit will always be in us until those last days. And because of that, we are 147 00:12:24.400 --> 00:12:33.680 called to live with joy and peace despite what we see with our eyes because our unseen God is 148 00:12:33.680 --> 00:12:43.120 magnificent and wondrous and we need to live like we know that to be true. I want to invite 149 00:12:43.120 --> 00:12:50.080 every woman listening today to join me at Trumpets of Tirzah. We are launching a new initiative. 150 00:12:51.040 --> 00:13:00.480 Join us, awaken your purpose, be transformed. This world needs more women to be the true 151 00:13:00.480 --> 00:13:07.760 light of Jesus despite the darkness and I am raising up an army of light-carrying women. 152 00:13:08.400 --> 00:13:14.160 So go to my website trumpetsoftirzah.com, put in an application for my seven-month course. 153 00:13:14.880 --> 00:13:20.960 The application is free and it will start the discussion of how you can live your life 154 00:13:20.960 --> 00:13:29.520 as a true Christ follower and lead others into God's truths. You will learn how to partner with 155 00:13:29.520 --> 00:13:35.280 God's Holy Spirit in everyday situations. So when you're faced with a big decision, 156 00:13:35.840 --> 00:13:42.000 you will naturally be guided by God's Holy Spirit and his answer will be clear to you. 157 00:13:42.960 --> 00:13:51.600 You'll also awaken the purpose that God created you for and your life will be completely transformed 158 00:13:51.600 --> 00:14:00.320 as you know it and you'll start to affect and transform the world around you. Don't let another 159 00:14:00.400 --> 00:14:10.800 day pass you by. This is your time to rise up and we can be the light of Christ together 160 00:14:11.760 --> 00:14:20.320 even as the world gets darker and darker. Thanks so much for listening today. 161 00:14:20.320 --> 00:14:30.080 I hope to see your application and God bless you on your leadership journey.