WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:15.040 Welcome everyone to this next episode of the Holy Spirit channel and in the first episode 2 00:00:15.040 --> 00:00:19.000 Liz and I talked about, I should say really Liz did more of the talking than me, just 3 00:00:19.000 --> 00:00:23.360 about Rhema and Logos and if you don't know what that is you need to go back and listen 4 00:00:23.360 --> 00:00:24.360 to it. 5 00:00:24.360 --> 00:00:31.320 The second one we talked a lot about the Holy Spirit filling, the filling of the Holy Spirit 6 00:00:31.320 --> 00:00:38.440 and how to kind of let the Holy Spirit take over our flesh and kind of kill the flesh 7 00:00:38.440 --> 00:00:43.520 and feed the Holy Spirit and you use some jars, you should watch that, that was a really 8 00:00:43.520 --> 00:00:45.680 good one. 9 00:00:45.680 --> 00:00:52.560 Well today we're going to look at stories from the Holy Spirit channel, so real stories 10 00:00:52.960 --> 00:01:02.520 and you know we cut really our teeth in relationship together on the mission field our first, let's 11 00:01:02.520 --> 00:01:11.560 see how many years, the first four years of our marriage we were over in Japan and that 12 00:01:11.560 --> 00:01:19.440 meant that we were outside of our culture, outside of our, really our world view and 13 00:01:19.600 --> 00:01:25.640 we had to be so dependent on God, didn't we, I mean even down to the food that we ate, 14 00:01:25.640 --> 00:01:31.360 so it was really a blessing, it was a blessing to start off that way, but we've continued 15 00:01:31.360 --> 00:01:34.920 to try to stay on that Holy Spirit channel and we weren't calling it that. 16 00:01:34.920 --> 00:01:39.640 I think some people might call it the Spirit filled life, which is a great term, but we're 17 00:01:39.640 --> 00:01:44.560 calling it the Holy Spirit channel because we want to help you understand that there 18 00:01:44.560 --> 00:01:52.120 is a frequency and the Spirit is speaking all the time, but if we don't have the antenna 19 00:01:52.120 --> 00:01:57.520 to hear it, we're missing it, so why don't we just even recent, like we don't, I don't 20 00:01:57.520 --> 00:02:02.080 want to just talk, I don't want to talk about old stories, okay, you know, we've healed 21 00:02:02.080 --> 00:02:06.280 a lot of people or the Holy Spirit's healed a lot of people through us, we've seen a lot 22 00:02:06.280 --> 00:02:11.920 of people come into the kingdom over the years, cast out a lot of demons, but let's even talk 23 00:02:11.920 --> 00:02:19.000 most recently what the Holy Spirit's been doing and some real stories from the adventure 24 00:02:19.000 --> 00:02:20.800 of the Holy Spirit channel. 25 00:02:20.800 --> 00:02:21.800 Okay. 26 00:02:21.800 --> 00:02:22.800 Yeah. 27 00:02:22.800 --> 00:02:25.200 Well, do you want me to start? 28 00:02:25.200 --> 00:02:26.200 Go for it. 29 00:02:26.200 --> 00:02:27.200 Okay. 30 00:02:27.200 --> 00:02:28.200 Yeah. 31 00:02:28.200 --> 00:02:33.840 I'll start with maybe a couple stories from our time visiting our daughter, Anna, in Florida. 32 00:02:33.840 --> 00:02:36.480 So that's just in the last three, that's like in the last three weeks. 33 00:02:36.480 --> 00:02:37.480 Yeah. 34 00:02:37.480 --> 00:02:44.880 And before I left, I felt that the Holy Spirit said, sit down on the couch when everyone 35 00:02:44.880 --> 00:02:51.060 had gone to bed and pray about your mission trip to Florida. 36 00:02:51.060 --> 00:02:58.080 And I was thinking, I thought I was going to like help with the baby and my daughter 37 00:02:58.080 --> 00:03:04.480 and do a lot of laundry and maybe make dinners and stuff like that, but he was saying, no, 38 00:03:04.480 --> 00:03:05.480 you need to pray about that. 39 00:03:05.480 --> 00:03:08.560 And I think you came out and you said, what are you doing? 40 00:03:08.560 --> 00:03:11.160 And I said, I'm praying about my mission trip. 41 00:03:11.160 --> 00:03:13.560 And he goes, to Florida? 42 00:03:13.560 --> 00:03:17.160 And I said, yeah, the Lord's calling it a mission trip. 43 00:03:17.160 --> 00:03:18.640 So I'm praying about it. 44 00:03:18.640 --> 00:03:22.920 And I just prayed that I would be ready for whatever it was. 45 00:03:22.920 --> 00:03:27.000 But he gave me a warning, kind of a warning, kind of like of fun. 46 00:03:27.000 --> 00:03:28.000 I love missions. 47 00:03:28.000 --> 00:03:32.180 So I was like, oh, well, what's going to happen there? 48 00:03:32.180 --> 00:03:37.860 So I was just praying for myself to be ready to hear and to do the things that he was calling 49 00:03:37.860 --> 00:03:40.620 me to do. 50 00:03:40.620 --> 00:03:48.580 So the first night I got there, I was outside of the airport and my son-in-law had something 51 00:03:48.580 --> 00:03:50.660 happen and he was late. 52 00:03:50.660 --> 00:04:01.920 And this lady was sitting by me who was elderly, an elderly person in a camo in a wheelchair. 53 00:04:01.920 --> 00:04:08.560 And this other lady came with a huge luggage cart full of her stuff. 54 00:04:08.560 --> 00:04:14.760 And she started saying to us, I can't wait to get out of this hellhole. 55 00:04:14.760 --> 00:04:24.280 And then she started telling us this horrible story about her cousin attacking her with 56 00:04:24.280 --> 00:04:26.200 knives that day. 57 00:04:26.200 --> 00:04:30.120 And she had just been helping his mom. 58 00:04:30.120 --> 00:04:31.120 That's why she came. 59 00:04:31.320 --> 00:04:32.680 And she just told us on and on and on. 60 00:04:32.680 --> 00:04:38.120 And all of a sudden, I was like, okay, this is the type of person that usually I ignore. 61 00:04:38.120 --> 00:04:42.880 And the Holy Spirit said to me, don't you dare. 62 00:04:42.880 --> 00:04:45.840 And I was like, okay, this is the mission. 63 00:04:45.840 --> 00:04:50.440 And so I said, okay, hold on to this lady because she wanted to go on and on and on 64 00:04:50.440 --> 00:04:51.440 and on. 65 00:04:51.440 --> 00:04:56.840 I said, okay, we need to pray for all of these people in this story. 66 00:04:56.840 --> 00:04:59.440 So tell us all the names. 67 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:04.400 He near me said, well, I'm a missionary of the Lord Most High, 68 00:05:04.560 --> 00:05:05.920 the one that was in the wheelchair. 69 00:05:06.560 --> 00:05:09.280 And she said, I think we definitely need to pray. 70 00:05:09.520 --> 00:05:14.360 And we were the only three ladies outside and it was at night. 71 00:05:14.400 --> 00:05:22.680 And so we, in Florida, Panama city, and this lady, um, was very difficult at 72 00:05:22.680 --> 00:05:28.880 first, very, very angry, and we just started speaking God's love over her. 73 00:05:29.320 --> 00:05:33.960 We started sharing with her that God doesn't feel this way about you. 74 00:05:33.960 --> 00:05:39.920 And she started saying that she heard terrible things as a child about who she 75 00:05:39.920 --> 00:05:45.600 was, and she was saying, you know, I'm, I feel like I'm this and that, and it 76 00:05:45.600 --> 00:05:47.120 was very negative things. 77 00:05:47.520 --> 00:05:51.520 And, um, so we started talking to her about, you've got to hear what God says 78 00:05:51.520 --> 00:05:52.080 about you. 79 00:05:52.320 --> 00:05:53.600 And we started speaking that. 80 00:05:53.600 --> 00:05:58.120 And then she said, well, I believe that my mother put a curse on me. 81 00:05:59.240 --> 00:06:05.880 And so this lady and I broke the curse and we did it through prayer. 82 00:06:05.960 --> 00:06:11.440 And I can't say that I've been a curse breaker before, but the Lord had that 83 00:06:11.440 --> 00:06:11.920 happen. 84 00:06:11.960 --> 00:06:19.480 And this lady who was so angry, almost kind of crazy in a way, just calmed down. 85 00:06:19.720 --> 00:06:21.320 She was, she felt loved. 86 00:06:21.480 --> 00:06:22.440 She felt peace. 87 00:06:22.440 --> 00:06:24.000 She had a smile on her face. 88 00:06:24.280 --> 00:06:28.480 She had joy about the future and that's casting out demons. 89 00:06:28.760 --> 00:06:34.560 Sometimes it's not, it's not this big, dramatic thing, but she had demonic 90 00:06:34.760 --> 00:06:35.600 affliction. 91 00:06:36.080 --> 00:06:42.200 And then we just, this lady and I just prayed over her and she left in the peace 92 00:06:42.200 --> 00:06:42.720 of the Lord. 93 00:06:43.080 --> 00:06:46.840 And we said, go on and get in a church that you can hear God. 94 00:06:46.840 --> 00:06:48.440 So her head didn't spin around? 95 00:06:49.240 --> 00:06:49.520 No. 96 00:06:50.280 --> 00:06:51.800 Because that's the impression, right? 97 00:06:51.920 --> 00:06:53.200 Was casting out demons. 98 00:06:53.240 --> 00:06:53.520 Yeah. 99 00:06:53.600 --> 00:07:02.520 But you quietly, civilly, powerfully, boldly, lovingly dealt with, was a felt 100 00:07:02.560 --> 00:07:03.520 need in her life. 101 00:07:03.760 --> 00:07:11.480 And, and we hugged her and she was, she wanted to be hugged and she, it was so 102 00:07:11.480 --> 00:07:12.000 sweet. 103 00:07:12.000 --> 00:07:13.280 She was Catholic. 104 00:07:13.280 --> 00:07:15.240 So she was doing the crucifix. 105 00:07:15.280 --> 00:07:18.520 That was as close as she could get to God. 106 00:07:18.560 --> 00:07:21.320 She did the sign of the cross right there when you guys were praying for her. 107 00:07:21.320 --> 00:07:21.520 Yeah. 108 00:07:21.520 --> 00:07:25.720 And so she was, you know, saying, I agree, I agree in her own way. 109 00:07:26.320 --> 00:07:27.680 And it was powerful. 110 00:07:28.000 --> 00:07:35.440 And, um, and actually throughout the trip, I saw a lot of demons cast out and I've 111 00:07:35.440 --> 00:07:37.800 never really had that happen before. 112 00:07:37.880 --> 00:07:38.120 Yeah. 113 00:07:38.960 --> 00:07:40.440 So tell us another story. 114 00:07:40.440 --> 00:07:40.800 All right. 115 00:07:40.840 --> 00:07:45.640 So this one day, um, well, first of all, I found this coffee shop. 116 00:07:45.920 --> 00:07:49.920 So anyway, just so you guys know that are listening, these are all kind of up to 117 00:07:49.920 --> 00:07:51.000 date stories. 118 00:07:51.000 --> 00:07:52.920 These have all happened in the last three weeks. 119 00:07:53.320 --> 00:07:59.480 So we're not taking you back to like a hundred years ago, stories, like back when 120 00:07:59.480 --> 00:08:02.480 we were, had long hair and looked like hippies and stuff. 121 00:08:02.840 --> 00:08:03.200 We did. 122 00:08:03.200 --> 00:08:04.400 So, okay. 123 00:08:05.800 --> 00:08:07.960 My brother said that I did. 124 00:08:08.000 --> 00:08:09.040 I don't think I did. 125 00:08:09.040 --> 00:08:11.880 If you compare me with others, I didn't look like one of the guys in the Doobie 126 00:08:11.880 --> 00:08:16.120 brothers, but, um, I also didn't look like the letterman. 127 00:08:16.320 --> 00:08:18.000 So anyway, go ahead. 128 00:08:18.200 --> 00:08:25.600 Well, anyway, so what another, one of my favorite stories was, um, I was feeling 129 00:08:25.600 --> 00:08:31.440 kind of low one morning and I had this coffee shop in the city. 130 00:08:31.480 --> 00:08:32.440 It was called Port St. 131 00:08:32.440 --> 00:08:36.400 Joe that I called the coffee, um, what, what'd I call it? 132 00:08:36.480 --> 00:08:40.400 The coffee church, because they had worship music playing all the time. 133 00:08:40.720 --> 00:08:42.799 This lady was a Christian that owned it. 134 00:08:43.080 --> 00:08:48.240 So I would just call it my coffee church, um, because you could just hear praises 135 00:08:48.240 --> 00:08:48.880 of the Lord. 136 00:08:48.880 --> 00:08:50.640 And actually there was a lot of joy there. 137 00:08:50.680 --> 00:08:56.480 You went there and a lot of people I think had burdens lifted because the 138 00:08:56.480 --> 00:08:58.560 atmosphere was praise. 139 00:08:59.320 --> 00:09:10.040 And so we, uh, we, we, I went in there and I was feeling kind of down and I was 140 00:09:10.040 --> 00:09:14.680 thinking about being self-piteous even more than I was. 141 00:09:15.280 --> 00:09:17.440 And I heard the Holy Spirit say, don't go there. 142 00:09:18.720 --> 00:09:25.360 And you know, anytime we have self, like if it's self exaltation, self, um, 143 00:09:25.440 --> 00:09:33.560 promotion or self condemnation, self, um, hatred, or even self pity, all that is 144 00:09:33.560 --> 00:09:34.080 the same. 145 00:09:34.440 --> 00:09:35.520 It's the wrong focus. 146 00:09:35.800 --> 00:09:39.560 So I was about to be self-piteous and the Lord said, don't do it. 147 00:09:39.600 --> 00:09:43.480 Ask somebody around here how they're doing, like to get it off your mind. 148 00:09:43.480 --> 00:09:46.560 So I asked the lady in back of me, I said, how are you doing today? 149 00:09:46.800 --> 00:09:47.680 How's your day going? 150 00:09:47.680 --> 00:09:49.000 She goes, it's terrible. 151 00:09:50.040 --> 00:09:51.960 And I said, so is mine. 152 00:09:54.080 --> 00:09:58.200 And she was like, oh, um, honesty is a good way to start. 153 00:09:58.800 --> 00:10:00.000 And, um, I didn't. 154 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:02.120 go into mine, I just said, well, what's going on? 155 00:10:02.120 --> 00:10:04.280 I said, you don't have to tell me, but if you'd like to, 156 00:10:04.280 --> 00:10:05.600 I'd love to hear. 157 00:10:05.600 --> 00:10:07.880 She goes, well, I work for the garbage company, 158 00:10:07.880 --> 00:10:10.840 and I've been up all night collecting garbage, 159 00:10:10.840 --> 00:10:12.080 and it was really hard. 160 00:10:12.080 --> 00:10:15.720 And I got home, and my daughter had had this big party 161 00:10:15.720 --> 00:10:20.320 at our house, and she went up to some terrible, 162 00:10:20.320 --> 00:10:24.920 I guess, local place that was for bad behavioral things, 163 00:10:24.920 --> 00:10:26.280 I guess. 164 00:10:26.280 --> 00:10:27.240 I didn't recognize it. 165 00:10:27.240 --> 00:10:29.800 She said they went up to the something. 166 00:10:29.800 --> 00:10:34.320 And her and her friends, and I said, oh, wow, that's so hard. 167 00:10:34.320 --> 00:10:39.040 And you could just see she felt so discouraged. 168 00:10:39.040 --> 00:10:41.880 And I sensed that she was a single mom, 169 00:10:41.880 --> 00:10:45.880 and maybe had a teenage daughter that was doing this. 170 00:10:45.880 --> 00:10:49.560 And I said, I bet it's a lot more than just what happened. 171 00:10:49.560 --> 00:10:50.760 She goes, oh, yeah. 172 00:10:50.760 --> 00:10:53.960 She said, I am very discouraged. 173 00:10:53.960 --> 00:10:58.320 I said, well, first of all, I'm going to buy you a coffee. 174 00:10:58.320 --> 00:11:00.640 So I bought her a drink. 175 00:11:00.640 --> 00:11:01.760 Simple. 176 00:11:01.760 --> 00:11:06.680 And after that, the owner and I, we 177 00:11:06.680 --> 00:11:08.240 were the only ones there with her. 178 00:11:08.240 --> 00:11:10.840 And I said, let's pray for Rachel. 179 00:11:10.840 --> 00:11:14.120 And Rachel, I said, Rachel means lamb, doesn't it? 180 00:11:14.120 --> 00:11:15.680 And she said, yes. 181 00:11:15.680 --> 00:11:19.040 And as we were praying, there was 182 00:11:19.040 --> 00:11:20.640 a song about the lamb of God. 183 00:11:20.640 --> 00:11:22.200 I said, listen, Rachel. 184 00:11:22.200 --> 00:11:23.120 Your name means lamb. 185 00:11:23.120 --> 00:11:25.440 Listen to what's being played right now. 186 00:11:25.440 --> 00:11:27.280 It's about the lamb of God. 187 00:11:27.280 --> 00:11:28.920 And he cares for you. 188 00:11:28.920 --> 00:11:31.760 She was like, oh, wow. 189 00:11:31.760 --> 00:11:34.800 And then we just kind of shared some things. 190 00:11:34.800 --> 00:11:36.600 We joined hands. 191 00:11:36.600 --> 00:11:38.880 And then I felt like the Lord wanted 192 00:11:38.880 --> 00:11:41.480 me to get a little crazy. 193 00:11:41.480 --> 00:11:46.800 So the lady that owns this coffee shop, her name was Lisa. 194 00:11:46.800 --> 00:11:50.200 And I said, Lisa, can I get a little crazy in this coffee 195 00:11:50.200 --> 00:11:51.360 shop right now? 196 00:11:51.360 --> 00:11:54.480 She was like, OK. 197 00:11:54.480 --> 00:11:56.760 So I took Rachel's hand. 198 00:11:57.760 --> 00:12:00.480 Yeah, I took her face in my hands. 199 00:12:00.480 --> 00:12:05.120 And I just said, I said, I'm not praying against you. 200 00:12:05.120 --> 00:12:08.960 But I want to pray against the devil's afflictions on you. 201 00:12:08.960 --> 00:12:12.480 And I just said, God thinks you're so precious. 202 00:12:12.480 --> 00:12:16.040 And he has known you from so long ago. 203 00:12:16.040 --> 00:12:19.640 And he's so precious that he has a song that 204 00:12:19.640 --> 00:12:22.920 has your name in it right now as we're praying. 205 00:12:22.920 --> 00:12:26.480 And so I just prayed against the devil. 206 00:12:26.560 --> 00:12:30.680 And I just said, Satan, I have authority over you. 207 00:12:30.680 --> 00:12:33.120 And you listen to me right now. 208 00:12:33.120 --> 00:12:35.360 You can't be over Rachel anymore. 209 00:12:35.360 --> 00:12:37.280 She belongs to God. 210 00:12:37.280 --> 00:12:39.800 And she needs to be encouraged, not discouraged. 211 00:12:39.800 --> 00:12:41.880 So you need to leave right now. 212 00:12:41.880 --> 00:12:48.800 And so she ended up smiling and not being discouraged. 213 00:12:48.800 --> 00:12:50.120 She felt loved. 214 00:12:50.120 --> 00:12:54.560 And she said to me and my friend Lisa, who owned the coffee 215 00:12:54.560 --> 00:12:58.920 shop, she said, you know, I don't like hugs. 216 00:12:58.920 --> 00:13:01.760 But will you guys hug me? 217 00:13:01.760 --> 00:13:03.760 And so we did. 218 00:13:03.760 --> 00:13:06.520 And it was such a precious time. 219 00:13:06.520 --> 00:13:08.560 And I'll never forget her. 220 00:13:08.560 --> 00:13:10.720 And I'll never forget her name because it 221 00:13:10.720 --> 00:13:12.880 was Rachel, the lamb. 222 00:13:12.880 --> 00:13:16.760 So the Lord really brought through by you having time. 223 00:13:16.760 --> 00:13:20.360 Here's what I'm hearing you say in just a couple of stories. 224 00:13:20.360 --> 00:13:24.480 You're trying to make time in anything that you're doing. 225 00:13:24.480 --> 00:13:27.480 So matter whatever we're doing, the Holy Spirit 226 00:13:27.480 --> 00:13:28.880 wants to use you. 227 00:13:28.880 --> 00:13:31.520 If you're going out to eat, if you're shopping, 228 00:13:31.520 --> 00:13:34.120 if you're at a ball game, whatever, 229 00:13:34.120 --> 00:13:40.480 look around and try to see or hear what God might be doing 230 00:13:40.480 --> 00:13:46.960 and expect that God will give you a word of knowledge 231 00:13:46.960 --> 00:13:48.920 or wisdom about a situation. 232 00:13:48.920 --> 00:13:51.320 If you're not hearing anything, don't make it up. 233 00:13:51.320 --> 00:13:53.840 But if you kind of get an impression, 234 00:13:53.840 --> 00:13:56.280 it just might be the Spirit. 235 00:13:56.280 --> 00:13:58.160 And the more you act on it, the more 236 00:13:58.160 --> 00:14:00.080 God's going to speak to you, right? 237 00:14:00.080 --> 00:14:01.080 Yes. 238 00:14:01.080 --> 00:14:06.640 So I just want to share another cool person in history. 239 00:14:06.640 --> 00:14:08.560 His name is Frank Labuck. 240 00:14:08.560 --> 00:14:12.000 And he was a missionary in the Philippines 241 00:14:12.000 --> 00:14:15.920 in the 30s through probably the 60s. 242 00:14:15.920 --> 00:14:18.120 And he was this guy. 243 00:14:18.120 --> 00:14:20.560 He called himself a modern mystic. 244 00:14:20.560 --> 00:14:25.560 And he said that when we pray, we should pray. 245 00:14:25.560 --> 00:14:29.320 And it's our error when we run away and not listen 246 00:14:29.320 --> 00:14:31.440 to what God said back to us. 247 00:14:31.440 --> 00:14:37.560 So he says, like, hearing what God says back 248 00:14:37.560 --> 00:14:41.840 is so much more important than hearing what we say only. 249 00:14:41.840 --> 00:14:44.000 But a lot of times, we look at prayer like that. 250 00:14:44.000 --> 00:14:46.200 Like, I'm going to talk to God. 251 00:14:46.200 --> 00:14:49.080 But we don't think about, what is he saying back to me? 252 00:14:49.120 --> 00:14:51.120 Because this is a relationship. 253 00:14:51.120 --> 00:14:55.280 So what I love about all that is he 254 00:14:55.280 --> 00:15:00.120 says that we have certain things we do every day. 255 00:15:00.000 --> 00:15:03.980 and we're required to do it. You're required to work. I have 256 00:15:03.980 --> 00:15:08.400 responsibilities too, but it's those times when we're doing 257 00:15:08.400 --> 00:15:12.660 those things when we say, what do you want done right now? What 258 00:15:12.660 --> 00:15:15.780 do you want said right now, Holy Spirit? Because we're on the 259 00:15:15.780 --> 00:15:20.220 channel, and we're doing our thing, and it's not like, okay, 260 00:15:20.220 --> 00:15:22.940 I'm done with my work, so I'm going to go on the channel. It's 261 00:15:22.940 --> 00:15:26.140 like you're doing your work on the Holy Spirit channel, and 262 00:15:26.140 --> 00:15:30.920 you're saying, what do you want now? What do you want me to say 263 00:15:30.920 --> 00:15:35.560 or do? How do you want me to do it? Because we're still about 264 00:15:35.800 --> 00:15:37.520 fulfilling our responsibilities. 265 00:15:38.240 --> 00:15:44.920 So you're translating your regular schedule into an 266 00:15:44.920 --> 00:15:49.720 opportunity to hear from God and respond to others. Maybe that's 267 00:15:49.720 --> 00:15:56.120 the way Jesus was. Because all his stories are him just going 268 00:15:56.140 --> 00:15:59.240 from village to village, preaching the kingdom, healing 269 00:15:59.240 --> 00:16:02.360 the sick, casting out demons, bringing that kingdom that 270 00:16:02.360 --> 00:16:07.720 already but not yet into his world because he's connected to 271 00:16:07.720 --> 00:16:12.480 the Holy Spirit. And that seems to be what the early church did 272 00:16:12.480 --> 00:16:17.260 so well, is that that was the point of Acts chapter one. For 273 00:16:17.260 --> 00:16:20.800 40 days, he taught them on the kingdom, and then he told them 274 00:16:20.800 --> 00:16:24.700 to wait until they were filled with the Spirit. So in Acts 2, 275 00:16:24.700 --> 00:16:28.400 the Holy Spirit comes. Suddenly they're speaking in tongues. 276 00:16:28.720 --> 00:16:32.640 Peter preaches a gospel, 3,000 get saved. And that kind of 277 00:16:32.640 --> 00:16:36.760 launches the greatest movement the world's ever seen. And that 278 00:16:36.760 --> 00:16:40.080 thing, that's a group of men and women who may not even be that 279 00:16:40.080 --> 00:16:46.760 educated. Certainly that first group wasn't. But they know how 280 00:16:46.760 --> 00:16:50.920 to hear from God. They know how to minister in the power of the 281 00:16:50.920 --> 00:16:55.100 Holy Spirit. So you feel like that continues today? 282 00:16:55.380 --> 00:16:59.860 Yeah. I mean, I think there's no ceiling on it. I mean, I think 283 00:16:59.900 --> 00:17:03.640 that we'll just know more and more and more. If you feel like 284 00:17:03.640 --> 00:17:08.980 you've kind of hit a new place of strength in understanding the 285 00:17:08.980 --> 00:17:13.060 Spirit for life, there's so much more. And you can't, there's no 286 00:17:13.060 --> 00:17:18.260 ceiling. And we're getting ready for heaven. And really, this is 287 00:17:18.260 --> 00:17:22.640 about surrender. It's about surrendering your day. And it's 288 00:17:22.640 --> 00:17:26.960 about being available to God wherever you are. It's about 289 00:17:26.960 --> 00:17:31.200 stepping out. And I don't think you can really do this if you 290 00:17:31.200 --> 00:17:38.360 look at your life as something more than being a pilgrim and a 291 00:17:38.360 --> 00:17:43.360 sojourner. If you think you're here to make your life great, 292 00:17:43.820 --> 00:17:48.380 you can't do it. Because we're here as pilgrims. This isn't our 293 00:17:48.380 --> 00:17:51.820 home. We were created for perfection. So we can actually 294 00:17:51.820 --> 00:17:55.120 be a little deceived and thinking, well, we have to make 295 00:17:55.120 --> 00:18:00.700 it the best it can be, don't we? Well, God's gonna make it the 296 00:18:00.700 --> 00:18:06.100 best it can be with us, because he partners with us. And I think 297 00:18:06.100 --> 00:18:10.120 that we can quench the Spirit when we're trying to be great, 298 00:18:10.620 --> 00:18:14.180 or when we're trying to make our life great. And we're gonna miss 299 00:18:14.180 --> 00:18:16.900 it. We're gonna miss it. And we're gonna miss the 300 00:18:16.900 --> 00:18:20.500 opportunities. And we're, you know, our lives are like a 301 00:18:20.500 --> 00:18:24.020 vapor. We were made for eternity, but they're like a 302 00:18:24.020 --> 00:18:29.860 vapor. And we need to be those people that are allowing the 303 00:18:29.860 --> 00:18:33.060 Spirit to lead us as much as possible, because we're only 304 00:18:33.060 --> 00:18:37.100 here for a short time. And then we're gone. And like a vapor, 305 00:18:37.120 --> 00:18:41.240 right. And, you know, I think you and I have heard a song 306 00:18:41.240 --> 00:18:45.320 recently about Jesus. Like we're going to the home plate. Yeah. 307 00:18:45.760 --> 00:18:49.280 And Jesus is there. So like Jesus is waiting for us at home 308 00:18:49.280 --> 00:18:53.680 plate. How did we do? You know, did we did we have a life that 309 00:18:53.680 --> 00:18:56.720 was a lot about us? Or was it about him? 310 00:18:58.120 --> 00:19:03.320 So you that are listening, we challenge you to get on the Holy 311 00:19:03.320 --> 00:19:07.940 Spirit channel. Start each day, asking the Holy Spirit to speak 312 00:19:07.940 --> 00:19:10.520 to you and guide you lead you and everything that you're 313 00:19:10.520 --> 00:19:15.420 doing. Listen for the voice of God, not just for yourself, but 314 00:19:15.420 --> 00:19:22.100 also for others around you. And look, see what the Spirit's 315 00:19:22.100 --> 00:19:25.860 doing. Listen to what the Spirit's saying. Jesus said, I 316 00:19:25.860 --> 00:19:30.700 can only do what I see see the Father doing. That's the Holy 317 00:19:30.700 --> 00:19:35.800 Spirit voice. So there's the voice of the Spirit working. And 318 00:19:35.800 --> 00:19:39.280 so it is with all of you. So I hope this has been helpful to 319 00:19:39.280 --> 00:19:47.740 you to grow in tuning in to the power, the frequency, the voice 320 00:19:47.800 --> 00:19:48.720 of the Holy Spirit.