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#180 The Spirit of Revival (6 - Getting to Know the Helper) · The OneCry Podcast

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  Music.
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  That the Holy Spirit says, you know what, I can help you with that.
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  Welcome to the One Cry Podcast, a nationwide call for spiritual awakening.
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  The goal, accelerating the movement of God through sharing revival truth, stories, and reports.
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  Well, welcome to the One Cry Podcast. I am so excited today to have my old compadre, Kyle Reno,
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  back in the saddle and with us as we're talking about the Holy Spirit.
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  In these last few weeks, Jordan Bowen has hosted with me, and that's been an awesome time.
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  And Kyle, we've been studying about the Holy Spirit, just his life,
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  his work, how we cooperate with him. And it's been, you know,
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  you can't you can't mess that up.
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  It's it's so, so good.
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  And, you know, something that I've been thinking about a lot as I've studied
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  the spirit afresh is he's God.
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  He's not any less. I mean, it's not like there's God and then there's, you know, Jesus.
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  And then a little below that, there's the Holy Spirit. that the Holy Spirit
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  is fully God, and we should treat Him that way.
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  And I know you've got some stuff for us today from the Scripture that just reminds
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  us of that and the posture we need to have really before the Holy Spirit. Yeah.
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  Yeah, man, absolutely. Bill, I think probably hundreds of conversations that
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  you and I have had over the years about the work of the Holy Spirit in our lives,
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  in the life of the church, and what it means, and I think getting back to the
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  one cry heartbeat, and even for this podcast,
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  that there will never be a great revival or awakening without an outpouring,
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  empowering work of the Holy Spirit.
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  And that you've, man, numerous times talked about how it seemed like even preceding
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  revival that people started rightly teaching about the work of the Spirit and
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  being reminded that He is fully God and how He works in our lives.
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  And so I do, I think there's a lot of deception around the work of the Spirit.
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  I think the enemy's done a masterful job across history trying to destroy faith
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  around the empowering work of the Spirit of God.
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  And so, man, just to take a moment and just be rightly reminded,
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  and so to echo what's already been said in the previous podcast.
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  Bill, you probably remember this.
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  Man, a real close friend to Adrian Rogers when he was getting ready for heaven.
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  Was sitting with him, was just talking. You know, Adrian Rogers,
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  man, what a great man of God. Yeah.
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  And the guy was a preacher, and he said, hey, just as they were talking,
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  it was a moment of great clarity.
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  Adrian was sick, but he was all there mentally in this moment and engaged.
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  And I asked him, he said, well, Brother Adrian, if you could go back,
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  what would be one topic or one book or one thing that you would preach about more?
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  And he said he barely took a breath, and he said, I would preach more about the Holy Spirit.
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  Wow. And he said, I heard you preach numerous messages about the work of the Holy Spirit.
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  And his next words just got me hearing the story of it. He goes,
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  yeah, but there's just so much more.
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  There's just so much more. And I would just say to our listeners again,
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  there's just so much more to God.
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  Like there's just so much more to God specifically in the person of the Holy Spirit.
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  So just a couple passages, and Bill, I'd love for us just to banner back and
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  forth about who He is to us, even.
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  John 14, 21-23, so sort of preceding thoughts around the power and the role
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  of the Holy Spirit in our life,
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  Jesus says, So it goes back to God's law, whoever's got the Word of God, and keeps them.
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  Like whoever understands what I've said and is taking cooperative steps in light
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  of what I've said, he it is who loves me, which is a whole nother teaching moment.
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  He said, listen, you're not just your declaration of love, but a display of
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  love, like that you are consciously trying to obey what you have found to be true in my word.
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  And then it says, And he who loves me will be loved by my Father.
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  So here's Jesus saying, whoever has my commandments obeys them.
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  Listen, he'll experience my love.
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  He's declaring his own love for me in his obedience, and he will be loved by
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  my Father, and I will love him.
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  And then here's the awesome word that we love, Bill, and manifest myself to him.
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  So Jesus is promising, I will make my presence known in your life,
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  in your life, as you obey,
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  that you will make decisions to in light of what I've said in word to take right steps.
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  Then Judas, not Iscariot, said to him, Lord, how is it that you will manifest
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  yourself to us and not to the world?
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  Jesus answered him, If anyone loves me, he'll keep my word, and my Father will
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  love him, and we, you ready?
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  We will come to him and make our home with him.
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  So here's this beautiful passage where Jesus is saying, Hey, I promise my presence,
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  omnipresent everywhere, but I promise my manifest presence as we, His followers,
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  take right steps in following Him.
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  And not just me, He says, but my Father as well.
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  So you've got two parts of the Godhead right here in this moment promising to
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  make their presence known as we obey what is true in His Word.
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  So it's always tethered to what God has said through His Word. But that's not the end.
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  And, hey, confession, Bill, I know you've done this before.
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  I've preached just that and pulled up short.
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  If you just stop there, it's honestly pretty damning.
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  If you just stop there, you're like, well, I've got to work myself up,
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  and this is about my best effort, and if I'll just give it all I've got in my
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  own human ability, God will bless that with his presence.
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  Well, that's not where Jesus stops.
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  Jesus then says, in light of that, which we should feel the weight of that,
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  that call to obey, but here's verse 16. Jesus says, and I will ask the Father.
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  I will ask the Father. And he will give you another helper to be with you forever.
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  Even the Spirit of truth, whom, go back to Judas' question, how is that going
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  to be for us and not for them?
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  Whom the world cannot receive, but neither sees him or knows him.
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  You will know him, for he dwells with you, and he will be. Here it is.
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  New covenant be in you.
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  So you've got to tether all this truth together in this moment,
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  which is non-negotiable for personal revival,
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  that yes, the Lord calls us to, but he also empowers us for through the,
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  through the indwelling work, the filling work, the empowering work of the Holy spirit here.
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  What we were just talking about here's father, son, and Holy spirit. Yeah.
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  Right. You know, Jesus says, I'm going to abide with you.
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  The father's going to abide with you. The helper is going to abide with you and be in you.
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  In you. And, and I can't help, but think that, you know, this is the next iteration
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  of the work of God across human history. Right.
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  Is that the father, the spirit walked with men in the old Testament and,
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  And came upon men at times to do works of service.
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  And then Jesus walked with us. And that was a manifestation.
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  And now he said, now I'm going to be in you 24-7.
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  I'm going to come live inside of you. And I'm going to make this happen.
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  It's not like you say, if you love me hard enough, then you can have this.
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  If you know me, I'm going to ask the Father, and he's going to do this.
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  He's going to send the Holy Spirit, which means, Kyle, that every,
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  I think, and other passages validate this, that every true believer has the Holy Spirit.
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  No doubt. The Holy Spirit may not have them.
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  It's not how much of the Holy Spirit you have. Well, you'll have all you'll
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  ever get if you're a believer.
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  But how much of you does he have? Right. And are you letting him just are you
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  turning to him, trusting him to fill you and take control of you?
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  What an incredible truth.
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  Yeah. Well, I think here and here's the thing, the beautiful.
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  It feels like a tension, which honestly should be this great liberation is that
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  call to obey, like that call to love.
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  And that there is, in the responsibility of man, there is this part on our side
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  that we have to willingly lean into it.
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  But what Jesus goes through, and I think he's saying, listen,
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  as you learn to do that, as you learn to love us back, as you learn to obey
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  what we say, he's saying, and I'm going to give you the helper.
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  I'm the Holy Spirit's going to be sent to come and live in you and actually
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  empower you to do that very thing I called you to do.
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  I'm he's going to the Spirit of God is going to awaken in us love for God.
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  The Spirit of God is going to empower us to obey fully. And it's just interesting
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  to me. And I'll just slow down and we can talk some.
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  It's interesting to me when jesus john 14 through 16
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  specifically faint my favorite passages
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  of scripture and i think jesus slows
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  down and says man i'm about to be out physically of here
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  i want to make sure you understand the christian life i want to you understand
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  how you're going to follow when i'm not physically in front of you and that
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  when he starts to make the holy spirit known as a person that he picks as a
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  title for us to come, helper.
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  And I would just stop to ask, do we really believe that?
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  Do we really believe that today the Holy Spirit wants to help you?
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  The Holy Spirit wants to help you know what to do. The Holy Spirit wants to
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  help you learn how to live.
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  The Holy Spirit wants to awaken in you love.
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  Whatever deficiency you find for life today, that the Holy Spirit says,
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  you know what, I can help you with that.
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  I can help give you clarity around that. I can help give you courage in that.
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  I can help give you endurance in that.
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  The Holy Spirit's not sitting there watching merely as a spectator,
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  but the spirit of god living in us wants to be the empowering river.
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  The wind to move us forward into life.
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  And I just, I think I don't, I don't, for me, Bill, I don't think that I believe
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  that to the fullest measure, like to what's available.
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  Right. And activate it through a dependency.
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  You know, I'm just sitting here thinking about you and I with our multitudinous
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  number of children and now all these grandkids.
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  So many times they're doing something and they can't do it.
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  And you think, you know, I can help them with that.
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  Yeah, I could. I could come alongside them.
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  And, you know, the word paraclete, not parakeet, but paraclete in the Greek
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  language, which is translated here.
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  Helper is it's the one uh
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  uh idea of it is to
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  come alongside and lift the load it's like
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  you're on one end of the log and then but then in a a strong man comes and lifts
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  the log really you're just kind of barely holding it but he's lifting the load
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  and and and the lord says look i will do that with everything in your life.
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  I'm just thinking as you're talking how this, if we believe that.
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  And if we responded to that belief, we would be living in unceasing prayer.
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  Because today, for instance, let's say we have a spat with our mate and we have
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  a hard time loving them at that moment.
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  You know what? The Lord is love. and he lives in you and he will help you love your mate.
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  He will help you forgive your mate.
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  He will help you encourage your mate. If you just turn to him in dependency, you're,
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  Here it is, trust in the Lord with
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  all your heart. Don't lean on your own understanding. Acknowledge him.
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  Say, Lord, I want you in this boat.
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  Acknowledge him and he'll direct your paths. He'll help you.
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  He'll give you direction. He'll give you power.
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  The love of God can be shed abroad in your heart.
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  Like you just said, everything you need about everything in your life,
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  he's there to help us. He's there to help us.
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  And he wants this life not to be us doing just good for him.
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  He wants this partnership where we're in the yoke with him and we're pulling
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  that yoke together. We're joining him in his work.
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  Yeah. I'm going to tell you something that's helped me, Bill,
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  and then we can obviously pray and pray for what God's doing in the life of
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  people listening today and in local churches.
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  Because there's this great balance that the Lord is constantly bringing me and
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  helping remind me of my need to humble myself and to rightly know my need for Him.
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  But when I have that humility, positioned in humility, I can also engage in
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  life with great confidence in the Spirit.
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  My great confidence that the Holy Spirit in me does know what needs to be done.
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  Does have the power to help a person like the Holy Spirit.
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  So if you get arrogant and think, well, God is going to use me,
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  that's going to end badly.
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  But if you're in humility going like, hey, I'm at the very least a vessel.
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  I'm poured out before the Lord.
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  But the people that I admire, and I've seen this in you so many times in the
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  men of God specifically, I've been around.
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  There's this right confidence in the Spirit's ability to use them in this moment,
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  in this season, in their church.
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  And it's not arrogance, but it's in humility, this confidence that the Holy
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  Spirit is going to help me.
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  The Holy Spirit is going to use me. And what a freeing place to learn to live and lead.
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  You know, we talked about this in one of the podcasts earlier when we were talking
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  about being filled with the Holy Spirit.
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  And it took me a long time as a young believer when I was just learning this
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  truth to come to the Lord and do what's necessary to be filled by him.
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  You know, admit your need, cry out to him, acknowledge his presence in you and
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  just ask him to fill you, ask him to take control.
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  And then you don't have to wait for some big feeling or dramatic, you know, whoosh of.
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  Air in the room or something, get up and walk believing that he's filling you
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  and that he's going to speak through you.
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  And that's that confidence you see in men who understand this truth and women
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  who understand this truth.
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  They rely upon the Holy Spirit and then they expect him to do through them what only he can do.
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  Well, I'll give you my, here's my daily practice that the Lord taught me,
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  and it's alliterated so that you can remember it.
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  It's alliterated because that's the way you think. Yeah, and the Lord knew that.
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  But we went every day to acknowledge the presence of the Holy Spirit and to
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  acknowledge the Holy Spirit.
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  You said it early, that He's fully God.
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  So I think most of us, a lot of times you can just carry on throughout your
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  day without ever acknowledging God, the Holy Spirit.
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  And then I ask for him to fill me, to fill me fresh, to give me all the things that I need for that day.
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  And then the last part of it, you just said, and then I act like those first two things are true.
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  I acknowledge that the Holy Spirit's real, that I've asked him to fill me,
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  and I'm going to walk in today.
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  I'm going to act as if those two things that God said in his word are true.
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  That's beautiful. When I get that right in my spirit, then my day's different.
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  And I would love that for our listeners as well. So, Bill, maybe you want to
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  lead us to pray toward that.
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  Yeah, let's do that. And, you know, as always on this podcast,
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  we want to take a significant moment to really pray and we'll help lead you
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  in prayer. But we want you to pray.
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  It's not us just praying. It's we're joining together with you as a listener.
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  You may be in your car or in your house or at the office somewhere.
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  And so right where you are, would you pause right now and just walk with us
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  into the throne room of heaven because we have every right to be there.
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  And I want to ask you this question based on what we've talked about today.
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  Where today do you really need help?
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  And just think about it. Let the Holy Spirit, Holy Spirit, would you right now
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  in this moment, and it may be an area where you don't think you need help.
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  You're so arrogant, you think, well, I got that. Or you haven't even thought
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  about invoking the help of the Holy Spirit in that particular area.
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  So for just a moment in quietness, Holy Spirit, would you show me where I really need your help?
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  And just for a moment in prayer, would you, here's the first A,
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  just acknowledge him and particularly acknowledge him that he is the great helper
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  who could do what only God can do in that area where you desperately need help.
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  Would you just, for just a moment, just thank him for who he is?
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  Father we're so grateful that you
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  said this to us or this isn't
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  something somebody else wrote about or this is from the lips of jesus christ
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  you said i'm gonna i'm gonna ask the father and he's gonna send the helper amen
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  who will be with you and will be in you hallelujah lord for that, for doing that.
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  And now, as we just continue in prayer, would you ask him, he said, I'm going to be in you.
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  And he wants to fill us and take control, but you got to yield control to him.
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  You got to give him control.
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  And so we've acknowledged his presence.
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  Secondly, would you just ask him to fill you, to take control,
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  particularly in this area where you need help?
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  Just ask him.
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  And Kyle, would you close us in prayer that we would act on that? Yeah.
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  So what I do, I thank you that we're not making this stuff up,
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  Lord, but that you have declared in your word that this is the way that the Christian life works.
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  And so I pray for every listener. I pray for every local church.
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  Specifically, I pray in the United States of America and in this world that
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  you would rightly reintroduce us to the Holy Spirit.
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  And Holy Spirit, we just say thank you. Thank you that you do live in every born-again believer.
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  And what we want to do is cultivate our relationship with you in such a way
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  that we would act like what has been said is true,
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  that we would be different, we would live different, that our confidence would
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  be in your empowering work in us, Lord.
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  So I pray that today listeners would lift their heads.
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  When this podcast closes, they would live in the power of the Spirit because you promised it.
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  You promised it. So thank you. Thank you, Holy Spirit, for your work in us today.
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  I pray you would empower us to make Jesus known.
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  We love you. Pray it all in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen.
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  God, I was with some pastors yesterday, and we were talking about an initiative
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  we believe the Lord is kind of putting together.
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  And we said, wouldn't it be something if they represent a large group of churches?
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  And we said, wouldn't it be something if everybody in every church was filled
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  with the Holy Spirit and began to pray?
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  Just like we talked about just now. Can you imagine the explosion of the power
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  of God and the life of God? It would be revival.
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  And we pray that for everybody who's listening today on this podcast.
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  And we know we have listeners here and literally in many nations around the world.
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  I don't know how that happens, but that's a miracle of the internet.
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  That and so we we pray that
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  we would walk in this and you learned a very practical uh
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  expression of how to do this by acknowledge
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  ask and act right acknowledge
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  the presence of the holy spirit ask for
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  his filling yielding control to him and then
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  act like he's gonna do what he said he'd do and let's see what happens amen
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  we've got one more podcast coming next week on the holy spirit his role his
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  work and so i hope you'll tune in and as always invite friends tell them about the podcast and.
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  Music.