David Wilkerson was the Founding Pastor of Times Square Church in New York City. He was called to New York in 1958 to minister to gang members and drug addicts, as told in the best-selling book, The Cross and the Switchblade.
walking in the spirit very simple word
from the Lord walking in the spirit if
you will turn to Galatians please the
fifth chapter fifth chapter of Galatians
will read three verses that have to do
with my message Galatians five verse 16
beginning to read this I say then walk
in the spirit you shall not fulfill the
lust of the flesh go to verse 18 please
but if you be led of the Spirit I want
to emphasize there’s word led of the
Spirit you are not under the law
verse 25 if we live in the spirit let us
what also walk in the spirit and a Holy
Spirit we honor you this morning we
thank you for bringing Christ to us in
such knowledge and wisdom and truth Holy
Spirit that is what you have been called
to do and we acknowledge and we honor
you we pray now that you give us ears to
hear and I ask your Lord to give me a
voice to speak we know Lord that you’re
in this house and we know that you want
to speak to our hearts we have hungry
hearts we hunger and thirst after truth
and Lord we give you we give you all
that we are and all that we have we ask
your Lord to make this truth a reality
in our lives in Christ’s name I pray
amen if we live in the spirit let us
also walk in the spirit in plain words
simply this if the Holy Spirit is in you
let him have control obey Him it’s that
simple if he lives in you then take
orders from him walk in his ways Jesus
sent the Holy Spirit to be a constant
ever-present guide and teacher in our
lives now you’ve heard that and you know
that in theory
but many have believed this concept of
walking in the spirit is such a
theological quagmire they can’t
understand it and you have to be in
theology to define it and I can take you
to my library and I can show you books
written by theologians three and four
hundred pages thick and I’ve waded
through some of them and I still
couldn’t understand what it means to
walk in the spirit you don’t have to be
a theologian you don’t have to have a
theological background to understand
what it means to walk in the spirit if I
ask you personally if I can come to just
say what what do you believe it is what
does it mean to walk in the spirit could
you explain it to me could you explain
it to anyone who came to you and ask you
to explain Galatians if it’s out there
do you have a theory even do you have
something that you practice something
that you know works in your life when
I’m preaching you this morning is not
theology I didn’t get it from a book I
got it through experience and walking in
tests and trials and that’s how it comes
most of us have no trouble believing the
Holy Spirit has been brought to us by
Christ given to us by Christ we have no
problem talking about his gifts we have
no problem talking about praying in the
spirit
we have no talk to have no problem
talking about the gifts and the fruits
of the spirit
we have no problem praying to the Holy
Spirit we have no problem with
experiencing manifestations and
believing manifestations of the Spirit
but so few of us know the walk of the
Spirit you see you can be filled with
the spirit it’s another thing to walk in
the spirit and that’s what I want to
deal with this morning the Lord helping
us we are missing I think in the Church
of Jesus Christ the one truth the one
great truth that can bring rest to our
soul it’s a truth that I believe can
take away the distress and bring peace
to the heart and yet we have
missed this we we have talked so much
especially in charismatic circles about
the power the anointing of the Holy
Spirit the manifestations of the Holy
Spirit but there’s almost little or no
understanding of what it means to be
under the government of the Holy Spirit
that he has come to guide us in all
truth he’s come to direct our lives he’s
come to take full control of everything
we say and everything we do want your
walk for example my walk has everything
to do with me Who I am and what I do and
what I say and how I act it’s my
lifestyle and it’s not enough for me to
be able to speak with tongues and say
that is the Holy Ghost it’s not enough
for me to even pray in the spirit not
enough for me to talk to you about the
gifts or or show forth the gifts of the
Holy Spirit I have to have an
understanding I have to know how every
day in my life there’s such confusion
there are so many decisions to be made
and I can’t do it myself I can’t figure
things out Jesus sent the Holy Spirit to
take his place he is in glory a
glorified man he said I can’t walk with
you now I walk my season in this earth
and I have fellowship with my servants
and my apostles and the the multitudes
but now I’m going to Gloria said I’m
going to give you my spirit because you
see the Holy Spirit the Bible said the
Spirit is the Lord it’s the Spirit of
Christ Himself I treats the triune
Godhead I believe in a Trinity but the
very spirit that is in us now is the
very mind of Christ it is the very
essence that is in Christ the very
essence of God himself
we have abiding in us there only two
ways to walk you up either in the flesh
that means deciding your own way making
your own decisions or walking in the
spirit
and walking the spirit means that you
make no move you go nowhere you you
don’t do anything until you consult with
the Holy Spirit you get his mind that he
is in full control that I have no will
of my own I’ve surrendered my will to
the Holy Spirit because he knows the
mind of God and he is the mind of Christ
and I surrender my will I have no more
will I give it to him Jesus walked in
complete submission to his Heavenly
Father
here it is in his own words the Son of
man can do nothing of himself but what
he sees the father do for what things
soever he doeth so does the son likewise
jesus said I cannot myself do nothing as
I hear then I judged because I seek not
my own will but the will the Father
which has sent me jesus said for I came
down from heaven not to do my own will
but the will of him that sent me and I
live by the Father and in John 4:17 we
hear these words as he is in the world
so are we who do we think we are that we
can do what Jesus could not do who are
we to think that we can make our own
decisions go our own way and we can do
what we think is right
we can do what we think is good and we
can salt with people we can get on the
phone and we can ask is this good we can
check with our pastors we check with
their family we checked with everyone
and last and calmly least sometimes not
at all consulting with the Holy Spirit
Jesus said I do nothing I don’t say
anything I wait on the Father I have no
will of my own I’m here to do only the
will of my father and as he is in the
world so are we
as a believe in a love of Jesus Christ I
can’t conceive that I have that kind of
power I can do what Christ Himself chose
not to do surely he was wisdom surely he
was knowledge he was all of these things
but he waited on the Father to see what
was the mind of God then and then only
did he act and move in the chap in the
ninth chapter of numbers we see a very
vivid picture of what it means to be
under the government of the Holy Spirit
there was a cloud that appeared when
Israel left to Egypt the cloud by day
and a warm glow at night a fire by night
and it hung and hovered over the people
and began to lead them into the
wilderness and then when the tabernacle
was built that cloud descended from
heaven and stood and hovered over the
holy of holies the tabernacle that was
built in the wilderness for this réalité
and that cloud hovered there and they
did not move until that cloud moved by
day it was a cloud of visible cloud
representing I believe the Holy Spirit
and the very essence in presence of
Christ reviewed through the Holy Spirit
the scripture says so it was always the
cloud covered it by day and appearance
of fire by night when the cloud lifted
up from the tabernacle the children of
Israel moved on when the cloud stopped
they stopped they pitched tents then at
the commandment the Lord they journeyed
and at the commandment or the word of
the Lord they pitched their tents as
long as the cloud abode on the
tabernacle they rested in their tents
and when the cloud rested many days the
children of Israel kept the charge of
the Lord and did not move if the
cloud rested for just a few days the
scripture said they stayed in their
tents according to the Lord’s
commandment then moved as the cloud
moved if the cloud moved even in the
morning they move if it moved at night
they moved whether it was two days or a
month or a year they moved not until the
cloud moved not one move not one step
out of the camp they waited for the
cloud to move the cloud would live when
it was time to go if the cloud stayed
two days it would descend over the
tabernacle when it was time to go the
cloud would lift and begin to drift away
and they were told they were taught go
follow the cloud now Israel sinned in
the wilderness they committed adultery
and fornication idolatry but one thing
that they were obedient and they never
ever moved without the cloud except on
one occasion and I’ll tell you that in
just a moment and it led to disaster at
the commandment the word of the Lord
they rested and at his word they moved
on now ladies and gentleman that cloud
was lifted from Israel because of
idolatry and sin in his final days that
cloud was lifted to glory but on the day
of Pentecost in the city of Jerusalem
that cloud descended over a hundred and
twenty people and that cloud came down
and stood over that upper room hovered
over the upper room and then it slowly
descended more and came into the
building and when the cloud came into
the building it shook and that cloud
that spirit of the Living God descended
further and that
cloud a fire began to break up it began
to split cloven tongues as a fire you
see it was a fire by night and this is
the darkest time in Israel in that dark
hour just before the light is coming the
Spirit of God descends not only above
the building but in the building and
finally on their heads and shoulders
they were all filled with the Holy Ghost
the Bible said cloven tongues of the
fire sat upon each of them and that word
cloven in Greek means thoroughly
distributed thoroughly distributed that
fire began to spread and not only did
that cloud sit upon them it entered
their very bodies and those bodies
became the temple of the Holy Ghost the
Bible said they were all filled with the
Holy Ghost and began to speak languages
as the Spirit gave them utterance and
now they are filled with the Holy Ghost
I ask you are you filled with the Holy
Ghost do you would you answer me do you
believe the Holy Ghost abides in you he
came we keep praying Oh Holy Ghost come
down well he’s here he has come down but
he wants to take full control of these
vessels
this is his tabernacle this is his
temple you see you can be filled the
Holy Spirit but the Bible said if we
live in the spirit in other words if if
the Spirit is in you and the spirit
lives in you and you live in the spirit
now walk in him now as the Lord opened
up this scripture to me this this matter
of walking in the spirit and I’ve been
praying and seeking God Lord I want to
understand this simply I want you to
make it simple so the child can
understand because
it’s the only way I can come with this
because I I want to I want to live it I
want to walk in the spirit I’ve been
preaching about the Holy Ghost for years
and years
penny cost the background my father and
grandfather Lord make it simple and the
Holy Spirit in prayer said the truth is
they were that and it’s this is that
still small voice of the Spirit I don’t
hear audible voices but that’s still
small inner voice and this is what I
heard that it’s so simple most of us
miss it and most great truths in the
Bible are missed because of their
simplicity we so complicated we look for
so many hidden meanings and and come out
of so many different theological ways
that we miss the simple truth and I just
waited on Holy Spirit and finally three
little words came to me and the Lord
said I’m giving you the golden key to
understand this and if you’ll take this
to heart you can live and walk in the
spirit and you can share it with others
and when I heard three little words I
said Lord that is too simple so simple I
don’t understand it
three little words to understand walking
in the spirit just say yes and I said
lord I don’t understand that just say
yes show me Scripture I was led to 2nd
Corinthians 1:20 for all the promises of
God on him yes and a man to the glory of
God by us it’s not yes or no it’s not
maybe all the promises of God are yes in
a man and it came down to this and when
I began to see it i clenched my fist and
yet yes
he I began to go over over the promises
the great promises that he gave me and
let me go over some of these promises
the Holy Spirit that Jesus gave us and
see if you can say yes see if you can
read clench your fists enjoy and against
the devil and say yes because it’s yes
and amen amen is so be it in other words
I believe it in fact a man means
trustworthy and so be it
I can trust what Jesus said first thing
he said and I want you to listen closely
he said I have established you i’ve
anointed you I’ve sealed you with the
Holy Spirit I have filled you with the
Holy Spirit do you say yes you can’t
walk in the spirit until you believe
that you’re filled with the Holy Spirit
he doesn’t flirt or flit in and out of
our lives every time we’re in trouble
every time we do something wrong he’s
still there but I need him more when I
do wrong then when I’m going right
secondly jesus promised the Holy Spirit
the comforter that he will abide with
you forever and he will lead you into
all truth he will take that which can be
known of Christ and he will show it to
you he will guide you he will lead you
and he’ll bring you into the truth of
Christ can you say yes you know I never
try to work a crowd I usually say don’t
say anything don’t clap but I’m so
excited and these simple words are
walking in the spirit there has there
has to come a divine yes intractable
positive-definite no possibility of
maybe or no yes I ran around my room my
fists clenched
yes every promise in the book is mine
when I was a boy in my dad’s church they
had a song they sang almost every week
every promise in the book is mine every
chapter every verse every line and the
promise of his love divine every promise
in the book is mine in the early church
in my boyhood time believe that and
lived it and we do it again today jesus
promised that there would be an inner
voice a guide a teacher he would glorify
Christ in you he will show you things to
come he will show you something about
where you to go and how you’re to go can
you say yes to being guided by the Holy
Spirit and here’s a promise in all your
ways acknowledge him he who the Holy
Ghost he will direct your path he will
direct your steps when I was praying
about it but more what about the
safeguards because I I’m about to order
a book it is a theological discourse or
lecture about all the dangers of
listening to inner voices you see the
flesh has a voice the devil has a voice
and the world has a voice how do I know
it’s the Holy Ghost how do I know it’s
the Holy Spirit now there are many of
you listening to me now and many in the
ministry who can’t accept this walk of
having a constant uninterrupted voice of
the Holy Spirit directing your life
because you have tried to trust that
voice or tie to hear the voice of the
Lord and somewhere sometime you made a
mistake or you see it didn’t happen I
thought I heard the Holy Ghost but it
was not the Holy Spirit now there are
safeguards God would never allow his
people who seek to be led by the Holy
Spirit and walk in the Holy Spirit as
directed by the word and then let
be deceived impossible not when you’re
on your face not when you’re seeking him
not when you’re asking for the cleansing
and not when you believe that the Holy
Ghost mortifies the deeds of the flesh
only the Holy Spirit you cannot mortify
your sin there’s no other way but faith
in the power and the anointing of the
Holy Ghost
if you mortify the deeds of the flesh
through the spirit you shall live the
scripture says now let me talk about the
safeguards Ephesians 6 16 what about it
you see you see if you if you’re going
to have the safeguards it requires
another divine yes it has to be an
intractable divine yes uh I will believe
if I’m going to walk this kind of way
I’m going to believe that the Holy
Spirit will keep his word
I’ll take these other promises he has
promised to protect us
these are protective promises so that we
know the vajjis a– said you the world
doesn’t know the holy spirit but you
know him you know him you know him by
familiarity by spending time with him by
trusting in him but let me give you the
safeguards please take the shield of
faith wherewith you shall be able to
quench all the fiery darts of the wicked
take the shield of faith that you may be
able to quench the devil’s voice every
word that comes from his mouth
everything he tries to win it to to
inject into them to the mind these are
fiery darts of Satan and there is only
one protection and that is to believe
what God said if you will believe me if
you’ll take this step of faith and you
will consult me if you will walk in the
spirit
in other words trust him that when you
seek Him and when you believe that he
abides in you and that he has a voice
that he was speaking he will lead and
guide and keep you from evil he will
keep you from
master he will keep you from these
terrible mistakes that we make in life
he said will you believe that I have a
shield
I am your shield and I will protect you
I will keep it and trust that he knows
how to do it there’s no preacher
anywhere can explain how he puts up the
shield my part is to believe that he has
promised to be a shield to me and I go
to prayer waiting on the Holy Spirit and
prank Holy Spirit you shield me from any
voice of the NA you shield me from the
voice of the flesh there’s another
scripture for the flesh lust or fights
against the spirit and we’re talking
about now discerning the Holy Spirit
from the spirit the voice of the flesh
here’s the promise the flesh must her
fights against the spirit and the spirit
fights against the flesh and these are
contrary one to another and now you have
the voice of the flesh and you have the
Holy Spirit here in my heart that in
this body of mind are two voices that
are clamped the voice of flesh always
clamoring for attention and always
trying to tell me what to do
always tell me it’s right always tell me
go to get some counselors agree with my
way and then go to God and praying God
has to bless it do it my way and then go
to prayer and ask God to just bless what
I have I hear people say what God’s
given us a sound mind we have an
intelligent mind and in god helps those
who help themselves
and I’m just going to use my intelligent
spiritual mind well then you’re acting
on your own will I believe yes he does
now I’m not I’m not saying you go to
your closet say Holy Spirit what dress
do I wear or what color suit do I put on
today I’m not asking you to go to the
Holy Ghost and ask and what cereal you
pick for breakfast I’m asking for all of
these all of these things that have to
do with walking walking those decisions
in life that are so important that we
never
at you don’t have to go into a closet
you can do you can do it sometimes in
just a few moments you stop you see the
Holy Ghost is never in a hurry she’s
never in a rush he said be still and
know that I’m God and you just wait for
a moment if you stop
I don’t care where it’s at and what the
issue may be holy spit it you abide in
me what is your mind what is your word
he’ll never fail now here’s the voice of
the flesh and here’s the Holy Spirit in
this vessel of mine who do you think’s
going win this war the flesh or the Holy
Ghost greater is He that is in us than
he that is in the world this is not your
war it’s not mine I go to the Holy
Spirit and I claim this promise I
claimed this that you’re at war it’s not
my war you’re you’re the one who’s
contrary to my flesh I don’t know how to
distinguish the flesh at all times but
you know what is flesh Holy Spirit I
believe you to quench the flesh I
believe you to break through every
barrier the flesh and give me your mind
never once will God fail
Ephesians 14 a 430 verse 30 grieve not
the Holy Spirit of God whereby you’re
sealed unto the day of redemption and
that word grieve saddened don’t sad in
the heart of God by neglecting the
Ministry of the Holy Spirit for which
he’s been sent but with whom was he
grieved 40 years was it not with them
that had sinned his carcass has fell in
the wilderness because of their unbelief
Israel’s most previous active unbelief
is found in the first half to
Deuteronomy it was a time that the cloud
was about to move across into Canaan and
then
the cloud would be lifted and they were
told they’d stand there on the side the
river and the Lord says now it’s time to
act it’s time to go on go in I’ve made
you the promises you go now go into the
into Canaan this is where the cloud was
moving and they said no one they
rebelled against him Bible makes it very
very clear Moses said you did not
believe God’s Word not one of you shall
see the good land you will die in your
despair God was greed now God never left
them even though they were not going to
obey God at this time God was faithful
he saw them through the wilderness God
doesn’t drop his people for even an
unbelief God still they we don’t believe
by WA said he remains faithful he still
loved his people though their unbelief
but you see they missed the blessing
they missed the life that God had
planned for them with rest divine rest
the Bible and in Hebrews said they
missed the rest that was promised
because they did not move with God they
didn’t go with God they didn’t obey his
word they didn’t go with his direction
and then they gird themselves the Bible
said they said well because now they
were told God’s not going to go with you
you choosing your own way and so they
said the Bible says they girded
themselves they put on their weapons
they had no direction the cloud didn’t
go with them and yet they went up the
hill to battle against the enemy they
said we’re going to go in and he got the
hill right with the Bible Moses told me
said that you’re going to be chased as
bees or chase as bees chase you in other
words you’re going to hit a bee’s nest
because you’re going your own way making
your own decisions God’s not with that
and the Bible says they were chased as
with bees
now folks I look back over my life and
the times that I acted without consult
the Holy Spirit not just to get
permission but say Lord is this your
will is this what you want
and when I’ve acted on my own volition
and when I’ve taken my own will at hand
and did what I thought was just right
and thought I was smart enough and
intelligent enough to know what was
right and wrong and I’ve acted that way
I’ve every time looked back over my life
as many of these issues that I can
remember of all these times I’ve acted
in my past 50 years of ministry I’ve
always run into that bees nest
I’ve always been chased by distress I’ve
always found it just like sand Civic
through my fingers but when I’ve obeyed
the Holy Spirit he’s always blessed and
he’s always been there years ago some
over 40 years ago the little town in
Pennsylvania the Holy Spirit spoke to me
clearly go to New York City and work
with gangs and drug addicts and it was a
clear voice now you just don’t pick up
when you’re in a little town of 1,500
people up in the hills of Pennsylvania
you just don’t get up and go unless you
know God sent you then you don’t go tell
your wife you’re going to move to New
York when you have nice little cottage
with a picket fence and nobody around to
bother you no neighbors you see you have
to hear from God and I heard from the
Lord he said go to New York and work
with drug addicts and I moved with the
cloud the cloud was moving I moved with
that cloud I said yes Lord and I look
back over those years and now over 500
teen challenge centers around the world
500 thousands and thousands of drug
addicts being sick
I’m not boasting but in the faithfulness
of God but you see I had been on my face
for weeks and weeks praying that God
would speak because often when God’s
trying to lead us you stir the nest and
we have that divine restlessness and we
know God is trying to get our attention
and I look back over my past life and I
came to New York City in four or five
years later after coming obeying a Holy
Spirit the Lord spoke clearly to my
heart write a book and we called it the
cross of switchblade and that book went
all over the world and it’s opened or
sold it now in my latter years I could
go anywhere in the world and that book
God used to open up the doors because
you see the cloud moved and the cloud
said do this and I did it obeyed him now
folks there were a lot of times I didn’t
and in between all of these blessings
I’m talking about there there were times
of loving chastening from the Lord
because I ran off and did my own thing
and it blew up in my face I could write
a whole book on just that it’d be bigger
than the cross and swift blade
eleven years ago I was driving down
Interstate in Pennsylvania running
interstates and I had some tapes that
had been in car for months and I picked
up this tape and I put it in the tape
player on the radio in the car it was a
pastor Conlan and Holy Spirit said put
another one in in the second tape I
heard a voice and Holy Spirit said pull
off the road I said why he said there’s
a telephone number there call him and
invite him to preach so I got on the
phone I got sister Teresa and I I don’t
remember all the details but here he is
still small voice of the Holy Spirit I
believe this I believe with all my heart
and I have made and a retractable
absolute positive yes to every promise
in the book and to believe that what
jesus promised me is true that this Holy
Spirit and they will guide me he will
lead me into all truth and show me
things to come he’ll show me the road
this life is possible the last one I
want to talk about five years ago the
Lord said in your last days and I don’t
have any premonition of an early death I
can’t die an early death I’m already
past
I’m four years to the good on the
promise of seventy I know I don’t look
it but I am 74 that was flesh but the
Lord said I want you to share your time
with pastors and I want you to go to the
nation’s and we’ve been doing it for the
last four years and Lord’s been faithful
I want you to stand
and this is not flesh I want you to do
something finally and I’m not I promise
I’ll not try to whip you up
are you tired of making such terrible
decisions it just mess up and are you
ready now to say I hear something from
the Holy Spirit if he abides if he lives
in me and I live in the spirit then I
want to walk in the spirit I want to
surrender my will and I’m saying Holy
Spirit govern my life govern my life you
and I are under the government of the
Holy Spirit
that’s how Jesus intended to bring us in
to the relationship of Christ that the
father so desires for us are you willing
to give one ear retractable in other
words you can’t take it back you say
Lord the best I know in my heart I mean
it I want to say a great powerful yes
let me hear it yes yes Lord father thank
you for the Holy Ghost Jesus thank you
for the Holy Spirit Lord we want to be a
church that walks in the spirit that we
hear from God that we hear that still
small voice saying yes follow me my
promises are for you let it be so let it
be yes and a man not nay and yeh not yes
and no not maybe but yes every promise
is mine so–but glory to God if the Holy
Spirit speaking to you and you have to
confess unbelief and fear if you don’t
know Christ if you’ve never given your
heart to Jesus I invite you to step out
of your seat and come and receive them
as Lord and Savior and to you you can’t
be saved without the Holy Spirit drawing
you it’s the Holy Spirit that comes to
draw you to Christ now we’ve been
lifting up the Holy Spirit as we’ve been
a directed by the word we’re to honor
the Holy Spirit and we’re honoring the
Holy Spirit and as we honor him he
his work that means he’s come to you and
pricked your conscience or he is
quickened your spirit and he wants you
to yield to him if you’re backslidden if
you’ve grown cold to the Lord
join these that are coming and if you’re
here we have never ever none of the
pastor’s ever try to pack these altars
or just have people standing you know
filling it all the aisles and everything
just for show god forbid but if you are
drawn by the spirit this morning and you
have been living in doubt and fear and
unbelief and you’ve been going your own
way and you say Lord I want to make a
stand and if you feel that the Holy
Spirit come you follow these that are
coming and in the annex you just go
stand between the screens and I’ll be
praying for you just a moment and let’s
believe the Lord then when you walk out
of here you you walk out of here with
the confidence you walk out here with a
confidence bring your sins to Christ
bring your unbelief bring your doubt
bring your fear we will pray within just
a moment we invite you to step out and
and take your stand Holy Spirit we have
shared with this congregation what we
believe is your heart for this hour and
we pray now Holy Spirit will come down
and make this real to us make it a
reality and for these that have stepped
out Lord only you know what the battle
is or what the struggle is or what the
need is and I’m asking you Holy Spirit
to meet that need I’m ask your Holy
Spirit now to open their eyes and their
hearts and Holy Spirit draw them now
into the love of Christ draw them by
your power now Jesus to bring rest to
the weary heart and mind only you can do
that I can’t become the Holy Spirit we
honor your abiding presence
thank you for your drawing spirit how
you draw us you’re drawing us to a
deeper walk a closer walk do that now I
pray and I want you to pray this prayer
with me now Lord Jesus
thank you for sending the Holy Spirit
and now Holy Spirit I believe that you
live in me and my body is your temple
and that you’re in the temple and that
you do speak and I can trust you to make
your voice known and to clear the path
so that we know that I know that I’ve
taken time to be with you and to listen
to you and hear that still small voice
that says this is the way walk in it now
let me pray for you again Heavenly
Father I’m asking for those that have
backslidden that you bring them back to
a knowledge of your love that you still
love them or that you want to make this
the first day of a new beginning and
those are Lord who are struggling with a
sin that has controlled their life and
they’ve cried they’ve weapon they don’t
know how to get free let them understand
that that’s the work of the Holy Spirit
if they were trust the Lord will come
and he will mortify that means he will
he will put underfoot he will conquer
every evil deed of the flesh we trust in
that covenant promise now Lord Jesus
were those now that want to take a step
of faith and go out now and say gee the
Holy Spirit I hear it but a walk with
you just going to walk with you and talk
with you and that should be my personal
guide and my strength in Jesus name Amen
this is the conclusion of the methods