tongue and it really came by faith. I say, "Lord, I had nothing to do with it. I finally gave you that sacrifice. I laid it all on the altar. You filled me with the power of the Holy Spirit. And it was like you put me in this car

here so that's our goal and today you know we've been I think it's not by accident that God has been laying on our hearts recently especially over the last few months The Importance of Being filled with the Holy Spirit and the true experience of being

preeminent Facebook is still there it doesn't changed you still have all the friends that you used to have they're still there but something is happening the Holy Spirit has turned your eyes towards Jesus and something is coming up

again. We through the spirit if you're not filled with the Holy Spirit you live a hopeless life. We through [snorts] the spirit by faith means I don't have to have seen it. We'll dig through this a little bit in this session hopefully.

of Pentecost and the Holy Spirit came upon you and this was great and all that but then you had to stand in front of 3,000 people and tell them the same Peter who ran away like a coward would you be ready if on the uh at the age of

do the right thing but my eyes were off of Jesus and I believe very clearly my dear brothers and sisters that God has shown us in his word and through the Holy Spirit living within us exactly what Jesus would do in every single

born again i'm a child of god the holy spirit of god witnesses within me that i have the spirit of god dwelling in me but to be in god's physical presence and we've been reading in 2nd timothy 4 that this is what it means to love his

you, don't waste your time with your own love for God. Open your heart to the Holy Spirit that his love might be poured out within your heart and that love will be eternal. That's the first Corinthians 13 love which never fails, which lasts forever.

you asking you to speak to us this morning Lord and speak to me even as I share the the thoughts I believe you've laid on my heart but speak to all of us help us Lord to discern the voice of the holy spirit in these days when there's

asking I missed the memo to turn my cell phone off okay sorry so persevere know Luke 18 by the way I want to add one more point about that is specifically talking about about asking for the baptism of the Holy Spirit the Holy

sentence again he says I tried to make up with noise what I lacked in Effectiveness and power that means he didn't have the power of God with him he didn't have the effectiveness of the holy spirit with him and so he just did more spoke more

you are alive you've conquered death and you're Seated on high and you've sent your Holy Spirit to dwell in US that same holy spirit that searches the mind of God and reveals it to us in our own minds so that we have the mind of Christ

and that's also why we speak in this church much about being filled with the holy spirit because when we say we are being filled with the holy spirit we're being filled with the spirit of jesus you read that i think it's in acts 16 it uses

now we continue reading in Matthew 12 verse 18 he goes on to say I will anoint him with my holy spirit I will put my spirit in him put my spirit upon him God's anointing I will anoint him with my spirit he goes on to say Matthew 12

this is what the bible calls faith see before we came to jesus we all had hard stony hearts you can say a heart that's made of stone which only wants to sin spiritually you can think of us like pigs

haven't repented of my sins I haven't received Jesus Christ as my Lord and my savior and if if you sense the Holy Spirit laying that his finger on your heart that way respond right away even however you know at whatever young age

today here on earth the kingdom of heaven is within you jesus said the kingdom of heaven is righteousness peace and joy in the holy spirit are you interested in that then you're a spiritual person but if you just want to

this is what the Bible calls faith see before we came to Jesus we all had hard Stony Hearts you can say a heart that's made of stone which only wants to sin spiritually you can think of us like

us his law, his yearning, his calling us back to him through the prophets, his sending Jesus as the word made flesh, as our savior, to save us from all sin, and his sending the Holy Spirit to be our witness, to be our comforter, to be

chapter 1 verse 1 let's just read romans 11:33 oh oh I love these words oh in the mind oh when the Holy Spirit says oh it's that he's trying to stretch his arms to show you how big it is oh the depth of the riches both of the wisdom

Holy Spirit's been telling me, you have a counterfeit. Whatever love you think you have for your wife or your husband or your children or your brother or sister in the church, if it didn't come from humility, if it didn't come from God

true preacher which is Jesus Christ listen to the true Holy Spirit who has a longing for you Whose desire is for you and he doesn't he doesn't it doesn't matter to him where you are if you don't get it yet and you feel like I don't

right past it and that's always God's way is that that which is unimpressive that which is so earn that you would miss miss it but if you are led by the Holy Spirit you will see this Earth and vessel there and the Holy Spirit Will prompt you to say