Hey everybody, I'm Steve Holt and this is my wife Liz and we are talking about the Holy
Spirit channel.
This is episode 4 and Liz is going to be sharing from Acts 1-8 here and you know, it's interesting
that you're going to be living your life based on some kind of a channel.
I mean, either it's yourself or it's something spiritual or someone else.
We all live for something and so kind of the basis of the thesis of what we're talking
about here is this unique and supernatural opportunity we have to be filled with the
Holy Spirit.
We're calling it the Holy Spirit channel and we're using that term loosely kind of
like a frequency, like FM frequency or AM frequency that you have an antenna for and
we're all created, right Liz, with an antenna for the Holy Spirit through the power of
the Holy Spirit when we get saved.
So if you don't know the Lord, then you don't have a Holy Spirit channel yet.
You've got your channel or whatever channel you're keyed in on.
So this is for those who are believers and if you're listening and you're not a believer
yet, you should probably just bow your head and invite Jesus into your life and begin
to have the Holy Spirit to tune into.
So Liz, why don't you take it from here.
You're going to read from Acts 1-8 and tell us some stories.
Well, yes, so I'm going to read Acts 1-8 just like you said, but you shall receive
power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you and you shall be witnesses to me in Jerusalem
and in all Judea and Samaria and to the end of the earth.
So basically, the Holy Spirit is going to give us power and we are going to receive
that power when we have committed ourselves to being witnesses.
And in the Greek, the word witness is martos, which is the word we use for martyr.
So it's when you've died to yourself and you're just there to minister for the Lord
and to testify for Him of what you've seen, what you've heard, and what He's done in
your life.
So if you're not a martyr for Christ, a living martyr, you don't really need this power.
And we're going to quench that power if our lives aren't for the reason that He came
to this earth.
So it's kind of a call to die to ourselves on a daily basis, take up our cross and follow
Him and do the things, do the works that He's calling us to do.
So I had a cool experience in Florida.
I was walking down the street of a Florida street, because I was in Florida, and I saw
a glory cloud over a group of teenagers.
What's a glory cloud?
There was just like a kind of a glow over these teenagers.
So you sort of saw it in the spirit, right?
Yes.
It wasn't like mosquitoes.
Right.
Nope.
No, it wasn't not mosquitoes.
It was like really something you felt in your spirit, saw in your spirit.
And I'd already committed myself to doing whatever God had for me that day.
And I was praying before that.
And I was going home to help my daughter at her Airbnb with her baby.
So I just was available.
And I saw this cloud over, it was a group of black teenagers.
And I had become aware that in this town, there was some segregation going on where
the black people didn't shop with the white people, and the white people didn't go to
church with the black people, and just some things like that happening.
Don't know how, why it was happening, but I just knew that I was available to do whatever.
So I saw these teenagers, and I knew I was supposed to go talk to them.
So I was...
Because if God's showing us something, like why?
And it was to be a witness right then.
So I walked over to them, and I said, hey, how's it going?
And they looked at me like, wow, here's a person we don't know in front of us.
And I said, I just saw you all, and y'all look so beautiful, and I thought I'd just
say hi.
And they were still looking at me like, I don't understand this.
And I thought, I'm going to get right down to it.
I said, I'm a Jesus follower.
I just felt like I'm supposed to come up here and talk to you and two of the
girls said, oh my goodness my dad's a pastor and then the another girl said
and my aunt and uncle are pastors. I'm like oh my goodness we're all in the
Jesus family that's so awesome and we started talking about that and how fun
it was that we were all in the same family and then one of the girls said
that her dad was coming to pick them up and I thought well he's probably
wondering what is the strange lady doing talking to my friend my daughter
and her friends so I said well now I got to go meet the dad because I want to
assure him I'm just I'm not dangerous so so I went up to his car window and I
shook his hand I said hi I'm Liz and I'm a Jesus follower and I hear you're
a pastor and I just saw these beautiful girls and I noticed there was a glory
cloud over them he said oh yep and I said yep and I said wow I I really want
to pray about this glory cloud with you all and and so I found out all of their
names and and I wrote them down because they were a couple of them were
different and I hadn't really heard them before and one of them was the
first one was Jamesia and the next one was Jasmine and the next one was
Princess and the next one was Kimber and then the the dad was Larry so I wrote
down all those names in my prayer book and I said okay let's pray and we were
in the middle of the street and this man trusted me I couldn't believe it
because we were in traffic but there was no traffic God had slowed it down I put
my hands on his car and we all bowed in prayer and we just prayed about the
glory that was upon these girls and something God was doing and it was so
cool because there was a lot of joy there was a lot of anticipation it was a
God setup and I was so thrilled like thank you Lord that we I got to do this
and so they took off and left and then I went to see my daughter and her baby
and that was it for the day and then a couple days later you and I went to a
hotel because their house was small so we thought we got to give them some
relief and we moved to this nearby hotel that was on another street and when I
was there I saw this lady working there and she kind of had this look of
heaviness upon her I could just see it and I talked to her I said hi and got to
know her and found out she's a believer and so just thought I'm gonna pray for
her I don't know what's going on and then you and I were eating breakfast at
a table and I just felt the Holy Spirit say oh I have a message for her and it's
about that that God had a wonderful plan but she needs to start believing so
I just said to you I said I have a message for this lady over here and you
said okay and I left and I talked to her and right away I said you know I have a
message from the Lord this is the only thing I said and she said let me hear it
like she wanted to hear it I said okay so I shared it she goes wow my aunt told
me that a month ago the same thing the same thing I said well I guess God wants
you to hear it twice because he's trying to emphasize it to you she said wow
yep I said well tell me about your life like what is going on in your life like
who are you what and and so she shared that she had three daughters and her
oldest was 15 and for some reason we got into names and I said what's her
name and she said Jamesia and I looked at her and I said like that's not
exactly no no I was and I was Susan it's Jamesia I was actually stunned I said
are you kidding me I said does she have friends named Jasmine princess and
Kimber and she said yes those are her friends and I opened my prayer book
because I had it with me I said look at all those names are written in my prayer
book and I've been praying for them for a couple days I met your daughter on the
street and she looked at me like what and what is happening here and I I was
that too. Yeah. Like what on earth? And only, I would never have even stopped to talk to those
girls if I hadn't seen the glory cloud. And you know, you just never know what God has in store.
You take the first step, and a lot of times our first step with the Holy Spirit is a lot of risk.
Like it doesn't actually make sense. Like why, now why would I go talk to these girls when they're
busy eating ice cream on the bench? But the Holy Spirit said, yes, do it. And I think it was because
that mama who had some challenges, she needed to see the glory of God. And so we just never know
what our first step of obedience is going to bring. And we have to be willing to take it
because we're not living for ourselves. And I do love that phrase from our old pastor,
John Wimber, who said, I'm a fool for Christ, whose fool are you? Because we're all living for
someone and for something. And I want to live for the power of the Holy Spirit and the harvest
that is plentiful. I want to do what God tells me to do. That means I have to have my antenna ready
to see and hear what he's saying. And we can't make it up because it could be I was just supposed
to go home, but I had a little commercial break I was supposed to do on the way home.
So I was at Wholehearted Men and I felt like I had this word for this disheveled looking guy.
He looks homeless. I think he is homeless actually. But I didn't give it. So I didn't say
anything because I just got busy with what I was going to do. And then I saw him at church
on Sunday. This is probably three weeks ago. And same guy, he's dressed the same way, probably only
has one or two changes of clothes, kind of dirty, disheveled, bearded looking guy, hair kind of
coming out of his knit hat. But this time I went up to him and I said, I think I've got a word for
you. And I'll come back and I'll give you that word. Well, then tons of people got in the way.
I never got back to him, but he called the church. And so I met with him today and he said,
what was that word? And I, before the meeting, they told me I had a meeting with this guy,
but I did not recognize the name. So, but when I saw him in the lobby coming into my office,
I went, oh, then it all came back to, I knew what I had. So I gave him that word. And it was,
it was a pretty powerful word for him. So it was that God was going to heal his brain.
And the way he was going to heal his brain was through memorizing scripture.
Well, then he comes in, I haven't given the word yet. So I haven't given the word at all.
He sits down, he says, I don't know what you had for me, but you said you had a word for me.
And then he just began to tell me about all the brain issues he's had.
So I was like, oh my goodness, this is like perfect for him. So then I gave him that word
and I prayed over him and we'll see what happened. We'll see what God does.
Same with you. You know, we don't know what's going to happen, but I know.
So the Holy Spirit channel is really about tuning in. Right. And you never know what he's going to
say. It's kind of exciting. It's a big adventure. If you make yourself men and women open to
hearing the voice of God through the Holy Spirit, you have the Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit will
speak to you. He will. And he'll give you inside information from the King that you should not
naturally be able to know. And then he'll orchestrate circumstances because you're available.
So the more you're available to the Lord, then the more God's going to give you people
who need you, who are available to the Lord to give them a word for them.
That's what happened with that young lady and with this guy. Pretty exciting.
It is exciting.
So Acts 1.8, you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you. You shall
be witnesses in Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, remotest parts of the earth.
That's available to all of you. You can all tune into the Holy Spirit channel. Start asking God,
say, Lord, use me today. I think it's a day by day thing. It's a day by day prayer. Use me and
make me willing to step out by faith with what you tell me to do. And then when you're going
through your day, don't be just focused on your activities that you're doing, but kind of look
around and start looking around and maybe be a little less.
busy, and you might be surprised what that feeling or that sense is about someone that
you're in a room with, in a line with, or even a thought that comes to you of someone
you need to contact.
But that's another aspect of the Holy Spirit channel.
So hopefully that's helpful to you.
In our next episode, we're going to be talking about dreams and visions and how God speaks
even when we're asleep at night.
So God bless you guys.
Thanks for tuning in.
Amen.