Have you ever thought to yourself, This Christian life is not all it’s cracked up to be. If you feel disappointed with your spiritual life, it may be because you’re not relying on the Holy Spirit. In this message, Dr. Stanley explores the essential role that the third person of the Trinity plays in each believer’s life. Don’t miss out on the greatest Helper God gave us–Himself as the Holy Spirit.
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Dr. Charles Stanley: When you
trusted the Lord Jesus Christ as
your Savior, you probably
thought things were going to be
rather easy for you.
It just may be that
things got tougher for you,
and as a result, you
began to question God,
where He was, and why didn’t
He answer your prayers and why
didn’t He keep His Word.
Well, He has kept His Word.
God always keeps His Word.
He knows that all of us
will face situations and
circumstances in life
that it’s difficult for us.
We don’t know which way to turn.
This is why He said to His
disciples before He left, He was
going to send them Someone
that He called the Helper.
And this Helper would be with
them throughout their life.
This Helper is
called the Holy Spirit.
Because you see, God has made an
awesome deposit for everyone who
is willing to believe
Him, willing to trust Him.
The Bible talks about
God being God the Father,
God the Son, and
God the Holy Spirit,
the three Persons
of the Trinity,
and sometimes people
are confused with that.
So, I want to show you a brief
diagram just to give you an idea
that really they’re all one.
And if you’ll
notice, there is God.
There’s God the Father who is
the Creator and the sovereign
ruler of the universe.
God the Son,
Savior and our Lord.
God the Holy Spirit, our
Helper and our Empowerer.
All three Persons of the
Trinity make up the Godhead.
Imagine living with such assets
to your name and you never
drawing upon them.
That’s where a lot
of Christians are.
They know nothing
about the Holy Spirit.
At some point in their
life, they got saved,
no question in
their mind about that.
And then somebody
said to them, “Well,
now that you’re saved,
you do the best you can.
One of these days, you’ll
die and go to heaven.”
And so the awesome
deposit of the Holy Spirit,
nobody ever tells them about it.
Nobody ever explains it to them,
and so they live their Christian
life dissatisfied, having
needs that they don’t
know how to answer,
thinking that they’re
praying to a God they’re
not sure He listens.
And so, they die
very dissatisfied
with their Christian life.
Their spiritual gifts,
they know nothing about.
Their abilities and talents,
they know nothing about.
And so, they just live their
life as best they can with
some sense of disappointment.
And I’ve met lots of people who
have been saved early in life,
they’re saying, “Well, you
know, this Christian
life’s not all its’s
cracked up to be.”
Oh, yes, it is.
You just don’t know about it.
There are no
disappointments in Jesus,
in God the Father, God the
Son, God the Holy Spirit.
So, in this message, I want us
to see what God has done for
you, what is at your fingertips,
what is deposited in your
heavenly account, if you are
willing to yield yourself to Him
and draw from these
awesome reserves that God
has placed at your account.
What do you do when you go
through difficult times?
When you find yourself,
maybe your back’s to the wall,
you don’t know what to
do, who do you go to?
Do you cry out to God?
Probably do at some point.
But what I want you to see
is this: that God has very
specifically said, “I
have sent you a Helper.”
A Helper is someone who’s
going to be there for you
when you need Him.
In fact, this Helper’s
going to always be there.
So, I want you to turn to
the fourteenth chapter of John
because Jesus, right
before He was crucified,
the night before, He told them
some of the most awesome things.
And He was preparing them
because He was going to be
crucified, listen, the next day.
He was going to the
cross the next day.
He was going to the tomb.
He was going to be resurrected,
and then at another point out
there, He would meet them.
But at this point, it
looked very dismal.
He’d made all these
promises, and now He’s
getting ready to die.
And in spite of all
the things He said,
He’s going to die, that
shadowed everything else.
So if you’ll look in the
fifteenth verse of the
fourteenth chapter of
John, “If you love Me,
you will keep My commandments.”
And then He said, knowing He’s
getting ready to leave them,
“I will ask the
Father,” now watch this.
Here’s the whole
Trinity in one verse,
“I will ask the Father,”
that’s Jesus speaking,
“and He will give you
another,” and capital H the,
“Helper,” who is
the Holy Spirit,
“that He may be with
you,” for how long?
“Forever.”
Not a short period
of time, but forever.
He says, “I’m leaving you, but
I’m going to give you a Helper,”
capital, that is a Person of
the Trinity, the Holy Spirit.
He’s going to be with you
forever, “That is the Spirit
of truth, whom the world
cannot receive, because it does
not see Him or know
Him, but you know Him because
He abides with you
and will be in you.
I will not leave you as
orphans; I will come to you.”
At no point, since the moment
you trusted Christ as your
personal Savior, have
you ever been alone.
At no point have you
ever been helpless.
You may have felt helpless, but
when you trusted Jesus as your
Savior, God’s seal upon you, His
absolute assurance to you is the
indwelling presence
of the Holy Spirit,
God the Father, God the
Son, God the Holy Spirit,
three Persons of the Trinity,
your guarantee that you’re going
to heaven when you die.
So, I wonder, in
your personal life,
what part does the Holy Spirit
and what part has the Holy
Spirit had in your life?
You probably got saved like
I did, and they told me at
twelve years of age, “Charles,
you be a good boy and
one of these days,
you’ll die and go to heaven.”
Being a good boy was a little
tough at twelve years of age.
But anyway, that’s all they
told me, that’s it, be good.
Well, oftentimes I
wasn’t always good.
That’s all they–they never told
me that I had this awesome Holy
Spirit within me to
help me to grow up,
help me to be what
God wanted me to be,
help me to do what
God wanted me to,
didn’t tell me any
a thing like that.
The same God who
saved you, saved me,
the same Holy Spirit who
indwells me, indwells you.
And when I think about
people who go to church twenty,
thirty, forty, fifty years, and
that person lived their whole
life and never knew the
treasure of their life,
living within them, and they
never were told about Him.
And I think about whoever
you are and wherever you go to
church, if you never
hear about the Holy Spirit,
you need to change churches
because somebody isn’t telling
you the whole story.
The whole story
is God the Father,
God the Son, and God our
Helper, the Holy Spirit.
[congregation applauding]
So He said to them,
“I’m going away
and I’m going to
send you another.”
That is, the Holy Spirit
will be your Comforter.
Now, watch this carefully.
What is the work
of the Holy Spirit?
What does He do in
a person’s life?
What I want you to
realize is this.
I’m simply going to
tell you what’s true.
I’m going to tell you
what’s true about you.
I’m going to tell you about
this awesome asset that God has
deposited within you to help
you every single moment of your
life, as much as you’re
willing to call upon Him,
trust in Him, rely
upon Him, believe Him,
what He’ll do for your life.
I’m simply saying you
have God, the Holy
Spirit, living within you.
And notice what He
called–Jesus called
the Holy Spirit: Helper.
How many of you
have ever needed help?
Every one of us needed help.
And we have the
great, infinite, awesome,
all-powerful Helper,
living with–inside of us,
willing to give us direction
and guidance and other help
when that help is needed.
So, let’s look at
it for a moment.
So, what is one of the
first works of the Holy Spirit?
When you were saved,
how were you saved?
The work of the Holy Spirit.
“And when the Holy Spirit
comes, He will convict the world
concerning sin,
righteousness and judgment.”
That is, one of His first works
in our life is to convict us of
sin, to make us realize that
we’re sinning against God,
and that we need a Savior.
And He lives within us.
Therefore, when you
and I daily in our life,
when we have a bad thought or
say something we shouldn’t,
treat somebody the way
we shouldn’t treat them,
fail to do what we need to do.
That feeling we get
is not just a feeling.
That is the work
of the Holy Spirit,
reminding us of who we
are: followers of Jesus,
and that shouldn’t be in our
life, this shouldn’t be in our
life, that’s what
should be in our life.
That’s who you should love.
In other words, He’s
at work in our life.
Whoever you are, whether
you recognize it or not,
He’s at work in your life.
You may think it’s
just your feeling.
The Spirit of God is
at work in your life.
A second thing He does, very
important, is found in Ephesians
one thirteen, which says
this, “In Him,” that is,
in Jesus, “you also, after
listening to the message of
truth, the gospel of your
salvation, also believed.”
He says, “You,
having also believed,
you were sealed in Him with
the Holy Spirit of promise.”
Now, what does that tell you?
Watch this carefully.
A seal in those days meant
something was authentic,
something was authentic.
It also spoke of ownership.
It also spoke of protection.
We have within us an
awesome protector.
And so, he says the Holy
Spirit of God has sealed us.
Now, what does that mean?
To you, for example, who had
been taught that you can be
saved and lose your
salvation, that’s not true.
Listen, God doesn’t
break His own seals.
He sealed you, which
means just what we said.
You’re owned by God.
God is living within you.
You’re under His
divine protection.
And everything we
need He has provided.
And so, when we think in
terms of the Holy Spirit,
we’re not talking
about some spirit.
We’re talking about the Person
of the Godhead living
within you has sealed you.
Now, what does that say about
people who think you can be
saved and be lost?
Watch this.
Who can break a divine seal?
The devil can’t.
You can’t.
You wouldn’t want to.
And so, here’s
what God’s saying.
When you trusted Him as
your personal Savior…
He sealed you as
one of His children.
You are forever a child of God.
Now, I know what some
people are thinking.
Well, that means,
well, I can just sin
like the devil
and I’ll be saved.
Try it.
The Holy Spirit
within you, first of all,
will convict you and
make you miserable.
He’s going to make you miserable
for years if it’s necessary,
keeping reminding you that
you’re living an ungodly life,
you’re living an unholy life.
God isn’t pleased with that.
You’re going to miss blessing
after blessing after blessing.
And then people wonder, “Well,
what’s wrong with my life?”
What’s wrong with your
life is sin in your life,
you’re ignoring the Holy
Spirit who’s trying to say,
“Look, look, look,
look what you’re doing.
That’s not necessary.”
That is God’s awesome love.
The Holy Spirit has sealed you
with a divine heavenly seal.
You are His.
He’s your Helper.
Then a third thing He does, and
this simple way of saying what
we are saying in
Romans eight eleven,
He indwells us.
That isn’t something that the
Holy Spirit’s up in heaven and
we’re down here and
it’s a long ways.
I’m not sure, and on we go.
Listen to this, “But if the
Spirit of Him who raised Jesus
from the dead dwells in you, He
who raised Jesus from the dead
will also give life to your
mortal bodies through His Holy
Spirit who indwells you.”
That is, we have a gift
that is an eternal gift,
and that’s the Holy
Spirit, marked by His ownership.
So when, listen to this,
when you and I sin against God,
we are violating His principles,
violating the very person He
sent to seal us to
make us one of His own,
to be our Helper.
We are His children.
We are under His
divine leadership.
He says He indwells us.
I wonder how people would
live if they thought every day,
“I’m indwelt by Holy God.”
If you thought in your
life every single day,
when you wake up in the
morning, that you’re indwelt by
Holy God, because you are.
The Holy Spirit, He’s there to
indwell us, to enable us
to do anything and everything
that He’s required of us.
A fourth thing He
does is He teaches us.
Listen to the fourteenth chapter
of John the twenty-sixth verse,
“But the Helper, the Holy
Spirit, whom the Father will
send in My name, He will
teach you all things,
and bring all things
to your remembrance.”
Now, think about this.
The moment you and I were
saved, we have the Teacher,
the Teacher above all
teachers within us.
He’s the One who helps
us understand the truth.
He’s the One who helps us
convey truth to other people.
He’s the Teacher.
For example, when you
find yourself in a difficult
situation and you’re looking
for a passage of scripture,
“Lord, what should I read?”
He’s the One who will
show you where to go.
He’s the One who will
interpret the Word of God.
He’s the One who
will encourage you.
He says He’s our Helper.
He encourages us, bringing
us to the right passage,
helping us to see what God
thinks about our situation,
what the circumstances are.
We have this awesome
asset that many
people ignore in their life.
And they’ll say, “Well, I don’t
read the Bible much because
I don’t understand it.”
How do you learn to
understand the Word of God?
By reading it and by
trusting the Holy Spirit.
Think how many times you’ve
faced a difficult situation in
your life and what did you do?
You turned to a passage of
scripture or you were just
flipping through the Bible and
this particular verse hit you.
And you think, “God,
You know I needed that.”
Yes, He does.
That’s why He led you there.
Watch what He says.
He says, “I’m sending you
another capital H, Helper.”
We have a divine, supernatural,
godly Helper within us to help
us in every
circumstance of our life.
He is our Teacher.
But following being our
teacher, what does He do?
He reveals truth to us.
And so look, if you will, in
First Corinthians chapter two
and verse twelve,
“We have received,
not the spirit of the world, but
the Spirit which is from God,
that we may know the things
freely given to us of God.”
There are many things we don’t
understand, and yet we have
the Holy Spirit living within
us to give us understanding.
And how many times have I
listened to people tell me how
discouraged they were because
they had read the Bible and
didn’t say anything to them.
Listen, the Holy
Spirit who is our Teacher,
that’s one of His works.
He will teach us the truth if
we will come to the Word
and ask Him to show us.
That’s one of His
responsibilities as the Holy
Spirit: teaching us to
help us to show us the truth.
If you don’t like the way
things are in your life,
ask yourself the question: Why?
Why is this
happening in my life?
Why don’t I feel God’s presence?
Why don’t I know about heaven?
Why don’t I have
people loving me?
Why do I have such a
hard time on my job?
Maybe the fact that you
have ignored the Helper.
You’ve ignored the Helper
who wants to help you through
someone else, give you
something through someone else,
help you in your
occupation through someone else.
He says He sends the
Helper in order to help us.
And usually, what does He do?
He speaks through some other
believer oftentimes to show us
exactly what we need and
how to find what we need.
So He reveals the truth to
us, and oftentimes people say,
“Well, I read that verse
and I don’t understand it.”
Well, listen, nobody
understands all of it.
If somebody says, “I got
it,” then you don’t have it.
In fact, you’re ignorant if
you think you understand every
single verse in the Word of God.
Because this is divine
knowledge, this is holy
knowledge, godly knowledge that
reaches far beyond our universe.
He’s our Helper,
revealing the truth to us.
And when I think about that, I
think oftentimes of verses that
I’ve read that I
thought, “Now, Lord,
I don’t–how do I
apply that to my life?”
Here’s what I’ve discovered.
If I read a passage of
scripture, I don’t quite get
it at that moment for
whatever it might be.
And I want to know
what is the truth?
Who were You saying it to?
How did You say it?
What did You mean then and
then what do You mean today?
He’s our Teacher.
He’s the One, watch this, He’s
the One who translates for us
what a verse of scripture means.
And I think about people who
never read the Bible and wonder
why life is the way it is.
If you don’t read the
Bible, what you do is
you ignore this treasure.
People who reject Jesus
reject life at its very best,
reject the Helper, and
then wonder why things
are not going right for them.
For the simple reason,
they turned their back
upon this awesome asset.
Sealed by the Holy Spirit,
He sealed His believers.
He seals us today, teaches us,
gives us understanding if we’re
willing to listen to Him.
And I think sometimes people
have their Bible by their bed at
night or something, and
every once in a while,
they’ll turn a light on and say,
“Well, I’m going to start
reading a passage here
or there and whatever.”
But oftentimes not till
something’s bad do they
open the Word of God.
It’s there for you, all of this
awesome truth is there for you
if you will open the Word
of God, if you will ask the
Holy Spirit to give you
understanding, He will.
You say, “Well, does that
mean all of it’s
understandable first
time you read it?”
No.
Tenth time you read it?
No.
Sometimes–listen,
we’re talking about God.
We’re talking about knowledge
and wisdom far beyond human
capacity, but nothing
that we don’t need.
That is, whatever we need,
the Spirit of God’s
going to give us understanding.
So, when I think about that He
will reveal the truth to us,
and then of course, He will
guide us, “When He, the Spirit
of truth, comes, He will guide
you into all truth.”
So, somebody says, “Well, you
know, I’m trying to make a
decision in my life, and I’ve
evaluated this and that
and the other and
I’ve talked to thus and so.
Have you talked to God?
The Holy Spirit who lives within
you is willing to give you
guidance in every
single decision you face.
When you’re making a
decision in your business,
making a decision in
your personal life,
relationship to
others, financial,
whatever it might be, do you
ask Him to give you direction?
He will give us–He
will show us the truth.
When He comes, He will
guide us into all truth.
That is, you can’t think of a
question about your life in
which you need something that
He won’t show you what to do.
He’s there to show
you, to give you
divine guidance and direction.
What about your
children, for example?
You want your children, when
they get into a situation they
don’t know what to do, they want
you to come to them as parents
and ask and trust
you to help them.
And so we get into situations
and circumstances we don’t
know what to do, what do we do?
We run to ask somebody else.
It’s okay to ask somebody else,
but you should ask God first.
If you will ask the
Lord first, “Lord,
give me wisdom and direction.”
He says He will
guide us into all truth.
Whatever I need in direction,
He’s more than willing to show
us if we’re willing to
take the time to ask Him
and believe what He says.
Now, sometimes if you
ask Him about something,
what He tells you is not
going to be as easy as
what your friends tell you.
First of all, they don’t
know anything about it anyway.
They just know partly.
But the Holy Spirit of God is
willing to teach you and to show
you exactly what to do in
every single situation.
Then I think about what He says
that He does in and through us
in Galatians
chapter five twenty-two,
here’s what he says.
He says, “The fruit of
the Spirit,” that is,
this is what He produces in us.
See if it’s in you, “the
fruit of the Spirit is love,
joy, peace, patience,
kindness, goodness,
faithfulness,
gentleness, self-control.”
You see any of those you need?
I need them all.
And the truth is, we
all need them all.
Well, look at this.
Somebody’s giving you a
hard time and you feel very
impatient, but you can’t
really afford to do that,
you can’t be impatient.
You have the Holy Spirit
to give you His patience.
Sometimes, for example, somebody
that you just don’t love,
in fact, they’re just obnoxious,
and you think–you sit in church
and listen to sermons and you
stand up and sing and you pray,
but deep down in your
heart, you can’t stand them.
So, what happens?
You ask the Holy Spirit–let
me tell you something.
It will be amazing at how God
can change your attitude towards
somebody that you don’t
want anything to do with.
Now, you don’t tell
Him how to do it.
You just say, “Lord, You
know I don’t love them,
I–this is a reason I don’t.
I need–
Here’s what You said.
God, You’ve just got to
love them through me.”
You will be amazed what
God’ll do in your life.
That’ll change your
attitude and you’ll think,
“Well, Lord, I didn’t know I
was that obnoxious myself.
And so, everything
begins to change, why?
And listen,
patience, joy, peace,
goodness,
faithfulness, gentleness,
self-control, all of
us need self-control.
Where do we get it?
We trust the Holy Spirit
to exercise
self-control through us.
That’s what you tell Him.
Holy Spirit, I want You
to exercise self-control.
What I see, what I
do, what I hear,
I want Your control
in my life, not mine.
He will exercise
that through us.
And so, as you and I
yield to the Holy Spirit,
here’s what happens.
All nine gifts of the Spirit,
the Spirit of God begins to
work them into our life.
And so what happens?
Our life changes.
And then, He also
has, as one of His
responsibilities, to remind us.
Look in John fourteen, the
twenty-sixth verse for a moment.
And He says to them, “But
the Helper,” capital H,
the Holy Spirit, “the
Helper, the Holy Spirit,
whom the Father
will send in My name,
He will teach you all things,
and bring to your remembrance
all that I said to you.”
Now, think about this.
These twelve
disciples had walked
with Jesus for three years.
They had seen a lot,
they’d heard a lot,
from walking on water to
feeding five thousand to healing
Bartimaeus to raising Lazarus.
They’d seen a lot.
Now, watch this.
So, their life was consumed
with this miraculous life,
but all of a sudden, He’s gone.
And they’re over here,
watch this, they had no notes.
They didn’t have a note pad.
They didn’t have a computer.
They didn’t have a Bible.
They–think about
where that left them.
All they had is
what they remembered.
How much did they remember?
Imagine walking with Him three
years and seeing this and that
and never knowing what
was going to happen.
And doubting Him here
and there and so forth,
and all of a sudden He’s gone.
This is the reason
He said to them,
“Sit down in the city of
Jerusalem until you be filled,
endued with the Holy
Spirit, who will bring all
things to your remembrance.”
God Almighty has given us
His Word and then given us
the Holy Spirit to do what?
To interpret the Word of God for
us and help us to understand.
“I will teach you all things
and bring all things to your
remembrance that
I’ve said to you.”
Think about how much you
remember when you have
read the Word of God.
We are gifted with a
treasure called the Bible.
And the Holy
Spirit, our Teacher,
our Guide, the One who
helps us to interpret it.
You can read it,
you can hear it,
but most of all, you apply it.
God didn’t leave us empty.
So, when you trust
Jesus as your Savior,
you receive this awesome
treasure of the Holy Spirit.
You say, “Well, I’ve
never been to school,” this,
that, and the other, “and I
don’t know what it means.”
Here’s what He says.
The Holy Spirit’s your Helper.
Forget what somebody else says.
The Holy Spirit’s your Helper.
You start reading the Word of
God and here’s what will happen.
You’ll begin to understand it.
My grandfather preached the
gospel for about fifty-some
years, had never
been in a schoolroom.
He learned to read
by reading the Bible.
I don’t know how that
worked, but I know this.
I watched him and listened to
him preach for one solid hour
and never read anything,
except a passage of scripture.
He learned to read
reading the Bible.
And so that’s why
He knew it so well.
So, if you don’t know anything
else and you start read–and I
think about what–how’d the Holy
Spirit worked in His heart to
teach him the truth, the same
Holy Spirit who was in the days
of Jesus working, and in that
New Testament day working is the
same Holy Spirit
who works in you.
If you read it, He’ll
show you the truth.
He says, “I will guide
you into all truth.”
All truth that you and I need,
no matter what kind of
decision you have to make.
You can ask Him, and
here’s what He says.
“I’m sending you a Helper, the
Holy Spirit who will teach you
all the things that I’ve said.”
So when you think
about that, think
about how sufficient He is.
And then, of course, He says
He will equip us with spiritual
gifts in the twelfth
chapter of First Corinthians.
What are spiritual gifts?
Well, for example,
there are probably
seven major spiritual gifts.
There’s the gift of
prophecy, of teaching,
of mercy,
encouragement, of service,
of giving, of administration.
All gifts probably
fall into those seven.
And so, the truth
is, watch this,
you have a spiritual gift.
And so, He gives us the gifts
and exercises those gifts in our
life according to
what He wants us to do,
what He’s called us to do.
Somebody says, “Well, I
don’t have any gifts.”
Yes, you do.
You do have gifts.
It’s a question of
asking God to show you.
And thinking about what
you do, what you need to do,
what you need help in, and He
will show you what that is.
Then of course, He empowers us.
In that first chapter
of Acts verse eight,
He said, “You will
receive power,” after that,
“the Holy Spirit comes upon you;
and you shall be my witness.”
That is, He will release within
us the energy and the strength
and the authority to do
whatever He wants us to do.
That’s the promise
of Almighty God.
When you think you just
can’t go another step,
what do you do?
You ask the Holy
Spirit to help you,
to give you guidance, to
give you strength and energy.
Watch this, the Holy
Spirit is practical.
The Holy Spirit does for us
what we cannot do for ourselves.
He has equipped us in
every single area of our life.
Then I’d just mention one other,
and that is He says in Ephesians
chapter five eighteen, “Be
filled with the Spirit,”
which simply means this.
Continually allow the Holy
Spirit to live in your life,
give you guidance,
give you direction,
fill those needs,
whatever those needs may be.
To be filled with the Holy
Spirit means we’re to live in
the conscious presence of the
Holy Spirit living within us in
order to help us and enable
us, so that no believer has a
legitimate excuse
for not obeying God.
He has equipped you to do
whatever He wants you to do.
He has equipped you to have
enough of what He wants you to
have, to understand what
He wants you to understand,
to be the person
He wants you to be.
You have not only the promise,
but when He sealed you as a
child of God, you are equipped
to do and to become whatever God
had in mind when He
brought you to this world.
Now, think about the
people who’ve never heard that.
They’re just living out
their life the best they can.
Haven’t you heard people say,
“Well now, how’re you doing?”
“Just doing the best I can.”
That’s no way to live.
The best I can’s not very good.
The best He can is
awesome, absolutely awesome,
the best He can do.
So, the Holy
Spirit is our Helper,
our friend, our
sustainer, our provider.
He’s everything.
Jesus said, “I’m going away,
but I’ll send you the Helper.
And when He comes,
here’s what He will do.”
So, let’s go back for
a second to this
chapter, fourteenth chapter.
“I will ask the Father, and He
will give you another Helper,”
capital H, “that He may be with
you forever;” not partially,
“that is the Spirit of truth,
whom the world can’t receive,”
they don’t understand it,”
because it doesn’t,” because the
world, “doesn’t see Him or
know Him, but you know Him
because He abides with you
and will be in you.
I will not leave you as
orphans; I will come to you.”
Now, where do
you get any more
encouraging than that, amen?
You should praising the Lord,
thanking God for who He is in
you, that He hasn’t left
you to do it yourself.
Whatever you do in life, it’s
not you to just do it yourself.
You have–four times He called
the Holy Spirit the Helper to
enable us and to
help us do His will.
Amen?
Father, how grateful we are, we
could never thank You enough.
We praise You for it, for giving
us the Holy Spirit in our life
every single day, to
enable us to do and to be
what You’ve called of us.
I pray the Holy Spirit has
spoken to every person here
today, that every person will
walk away encouraged in their
heart, reminded in their heart,
challenged in their heart,
or convicted in their heart,
that You have something for them
to do that fits Your
will for their life,
and I pray that
they’ll surrender to that.
We love You and we praise You
and we bless Your holy name.
And we pray this in Your
wonderful, blessed name, Jesus.
Amen.
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