Abound In The Holy Spirit (357)

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Welcome once again to the Quality Christian Living

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Podcast. I am your host, David Friend. Today's

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podcast is basically entitled How to a Bound

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in the Holy Spirit. And we're going to get into

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some things I think that will really help us

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understand the fullness of what the Holy Spirit

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wants in our life. You see, the Holy Spirit wants

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us to abound in life throughout. our entire life

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and to do it by building a relationship with

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Him. Jesus said in John 10 .10 that He came to

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give us life and give it more abundantly, while

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the Holy Spirit came to give us that abundant

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life also. So we need to understand that and

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believe that. You know, we need to define before

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we get too far the word abound. It means to overflow,

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to increase in strength. And so before we get

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into this, let's pray. Have any father? I thank

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you and praise you for who you are. I invite

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the Holy Spirit now to come in and take control.

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Take me in this podcast where you would have

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me to go and keep me from going in areas that

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I should not. So I believe in that and I thank

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you for it. And I pray blessing upon all those

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who are listening in today. I thank you God for

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this opportunity we have and I pray that you

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would bless it, that you would anoint it, and

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that people's lives would be deeply touched by

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it. I pray. In Jesus' name I pray, amen. Well

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the Holy Spirit is, I like to call it, at the

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door of our heart. That means we need to open

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that door. be at the door and he's knocking and

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he's trying to get in but we don't open that

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door to him. A lot of people have a difficult

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time opening the door to invite the Holy Spirit

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into their heart, into their mind, into their

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life and to receive his abundance, to see what

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he has in store for each and every one of us.

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The Holy Spirit is the only way that we can live

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abundantly. Now I've heard the word abundance

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used many times misused and even manipulated.

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Some use it to talk only about money and possession.

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There's an old saying back in the 1980s that

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whoever dies with the most toys wins. Well, that

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certainly is not the abundance I'm talking about.

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You might have a lot of stuff, but it's not going

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with us. And we've got to understand that abundance

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is the only kind of abundance of any value is

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spiritual abundance that we all need. And the

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Holy Spirit is the only one who can bring spiritual

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abundance help us to abound in our walk with

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the Lord. In this podcast, our focus must be

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on the Holy Spirit -led spiritual abundance.

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First, we must believe that we can abound in

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the Holy Spirit. So I want to break any thoughts

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that the Holy Spirit like you or that the Holy

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Spirit is hard to get to and hard to communicate

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with and hard to understand. No, he's not. He's

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living in the hearts and lives of all believers

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and he is there to help and he's aware of what

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we need and who we are and ready to help us.

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We just simply need to submit to him, yield to

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him and receive the blessings that he has in

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store for us to help us to live that abundant

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life or to abound in him. Now it is the desire

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of the Holy Spirit to help us live more abundantly.

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Now that word abundantly many times people want

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to turn you off because you think you're just

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going to be hearing about money and talking about

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wealth and being richer than the next guy and

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that's not at all what this podcast is about

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nor is that what it shouldn't be about that because

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the abundance that the Holy Spirit brings is

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truly spiritual and is eternal and the other

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kind of abundance is temporal and No matter how

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much money a person has, how much wealth they

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have, how many houses they own, when they pass

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from this life to the next, it's all going to

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be left behind. And what's kind of ironic about

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that is that there'll be people living in the

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possessions that we had when we go on, that maybe

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we didn't even care for those people. They'll

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be driving our cars. But none of that really

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matters unless we focus on our spiritual abundance

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and what we can do to be blessed and receive

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the fullness of the Holy Spirit. You know, I've

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talked and done podcasts on just on specifically

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on abundant living and how to live abundantly.

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And the one point that I've used many, many times

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is people focus on financial abundance when in

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reality spiritual abundance is certainly key

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and of far more importance than financial abundance.

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Although there's nothing wrong with making money,

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there's nothing wrong with having good finances,

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but that's not the focus on this particular podcast.

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Now here's some proof, I believe, of how we are

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able to abound in the Holy Spirit. In Romans

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chapter 15 and verse 13 in the New International

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Version says this, all joy. It doesn't say some

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joy or a little bit of joy or a little tiny piece

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of joy or one day of joy. It says, may the God

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of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you

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trust in him so that you may overflow with hope

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by the power of the Holy Spirit. All right that

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certainly brings this whole podcast together

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and that is that that Paul was writing to the

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Romans and he's telling them about the significance

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of our walk with God and that it's all basically

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directed by yielding to the power of the Holy

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Spirit. See God wants to bring his hope to us.

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He wants to fill us with all his joy. That's

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the Holy Spirit's joy and he wants us to have

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Holy Spirit peace and Holy Spirit trust and he

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wants us to overflow. That means to have more

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than we can even handle. Now the word overflow

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is kind of a fun word. It's another synonym for

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the word abound is to overflow. To overflow means

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it's more than you need, more than enough. So

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God can bless us so much. He has so much love

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and so much kindness and so much that we have

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to give to other people that it overflows to

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others and those around us and that's why he

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gives talents and abilities to people and he

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wants that talent and ability to overflow from

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them into others and minister to the people of

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God. It says that you may overflow with hope,

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isn't it? Some overflowing with hope by the power

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of the Holy Spirit. So here we're seeing basically

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a foundation that's being built to understand

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how we can abound in the Holy Spirit. Now the

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Holy Spirit reveals the God of I mean, he's the

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one that reveals everything to us. The reason

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we know that we're saved is because the Holy

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Spirit has the one that he drew us to God. And

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the reason we know that we can live in peace

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is that he brings the peace to us. We can know

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that we trust God because of our relationship

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with the Holy Spirit who helps us to have trust,

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the kind of trust that we can only get from him.

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So the Holy Spirit reveals the God of hope. The

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Holy Spirit brings all joy to us, not just some

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joy, not just joy in sports, just joy in having

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money or shopping or whatever it might be. All

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those things are fine. There's nothing wrong

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with those things. But in reality, the Holy Spirit

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brings all joy to us. That means regardless of

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what we're going through, regardless of our circumstances,

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we can still have joy. People don't realize when

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Jesus was, well a lot of people do, but some

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people don't understand that when Jesus was on

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the cross the Bible tells us that he had joy

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in his heart for what he knew was going to take

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place because of his crucifixion. The number

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of people who would follow him and the number

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of people who would follow in the years to come

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and the centuries to come before he returns to

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pick up his church. He had joy and it's hard

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to imagine that going through that but I know

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people who I have a sister, for example. She

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is struggling with multiple sclerosis for many

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years, for like 35, 40 years. Before that, before

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she got to know the Lord, she wasn't very happy

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person. She was moody and all that. But now,

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her life is filled with joy. And if you go see

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her right now and walk to her and say, how are

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you doing? And she's bent over, can't hardly

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walk. But bottom line, when you look at her and

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say, how are you doing? She still loves Jesus.

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And she just smiles at you and says, oh. Jesus

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is everything. See all hope and all joy in him

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because of the Holy Spirit who's living and dwelling

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on her in the midst of her circumstance. She

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can be filled with joy. And that's the kind of

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joy that the Holy Spirit brings. That's what

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abounding in the Holy Spirit is all about. The

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Holy Spirit brings peace. And I talked about

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that in prior podcasts. I'm not going to spend

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a lot of time right now, but the Holy Spirit

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brings peace. And as I've mentioned in prior

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podcasts, if there's one thing that I've prayed

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for people in the church when they've come up

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and say, pastor just could you help me and could

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you pray for me if it's not a physical thing

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it's usually something like they need peace or

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they need hope they need what the Holy Spirit

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brings and the Holy Spirit is living and dwelling

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inside of them and so the Holy Spirit brings

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that peace and that's what people are looking

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for they're looking for that peace that doesn't

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break down when they're challenged that peace

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that is maintained in the midst of a bad diagnosis

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or a divorce or a financial failure or a bankruptcy

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or children you know going astray those types

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of things we can still maintain a hope, all joy,

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and peace. The Holy Spirit helps us to trust

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in God. You know, we need to put our trust in

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God. Trust in the Lord it says in the Bible says,

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with all your heart lean not on your own understanding

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and all your ways acknowledge him and he will

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direct your path. Now when we think about that

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trust that trust can only come into our heart

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because of our you know through our relationship

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I should say with the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit

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helps us to trust in God. He reminds us of the

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goodness of God. He reminds us of scriptures

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that strengthen us and helps us. He reminds us

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of what life we lived before we received Jesus

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Christ as our Lord and Savior in the new life

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that we have. So the Holy Spirit brings that

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to us. and that's how we can abound in the Holy

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Spirit. The Holy Spirit brings the ability to

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have an overflowing life and I talked a little

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bit about that earlier. So let me just kind of

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review real quick the points that I just made

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on this. I wrote them down. The Holy Spirit reveals

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the God of Hope. He brings all joy. He brings

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peace and He helps us to trust in God and He

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brings a life that's overflowing. It's more than

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abundance. It's more than enough and that's how

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He wants to live and how He wants us to abound

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in the Holy Spirit as we walk through life. Abounding

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in the Holy Spirit is expanding our relationship

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with the Holy Spirit. Now I've had podcasts where

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I've talked a little bit about the relationship

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with the Holy Spirit, but let me just ask you,

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you're listening in right now and wherever you

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are on a bicycle or on a walk or just sitting

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at home or wherever it might be where you're

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listening in, you ever thought about what your

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relationship is with the Holy Spirit? Is he welcome

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in your home? Is he welcome in your conversations?

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Is he welcome in your decisions? Is he welcome

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when you face a trial? That's what we need to

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have in order to have that abounding relationship

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with the Holy Spirit and to live life with abundance.

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The Holy Spirit wants to have a relationship

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with us. He's there, ready, willing, and able

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to connect with us, but we can't shut the door

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on him. We've got to open the door to him. We've

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got to reveal to him what we think our most secrets.

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He knows what they are anyways because he's fully

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God and because he's fully God he's able to understand

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who we are, what we're thinking, how we're thinking

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and we can't hide anything from him so we might

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as well be open to him and when we're open to

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him he steps in and helps us and takes us through

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life. It will change our heart and what comes

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out of our heart and out of our thought life.

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That relationship with the Holy Spirit will do

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everything to change. How we act, how we react,

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how we spend our how we have our marriage, the

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relationship we have in our marriage with our

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children, with our church, with our work. Those

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things are all impacted by the Holy Spirit who

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wants us to abound. What Jesus was talking about

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in a wonderful scripture here, Matthew 12, 34.

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I'm not going to read the exact scripture, but

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I'm just going to tell you what he was saying.

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Jesus was talking about this abundant living.

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What Jesus basically said was this. I'm paraphrasing

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just to make it easy and comfortable to receive

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it. What is in our heart is who we are. Not necessarily

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what's in our mind, but what's in our heart.

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Those are the deep things, those things that

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go down deep. We can have something in our mind

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and think about something and have an idea or

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something, but until it comes into our heart,

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it becomes part of us and goes deep and it's

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headed. That's why people have a difficult time

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when they have bitterness and they have unforgiveness

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and maybe they went through a divorce or a bad

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business transaction or a business that's split

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or whatever it might be, relationships between

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relatives and it gets deep and it gets into their

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heart. and it's harder to get rid of it there.

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But if it's in our mind, we can beat it up easier

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in our mind than we can in our heart. And so

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what Jesus is saying in Matthew 12, verse 34,

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he's talking about what is in our heart is actually

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who we really are. The words we speak reflect

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our thoughts. our intentions. All of this comes

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about in having the right relationship with the

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Holy Spirit and having that comfort in our heart

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and having our trust in God and lean not on our

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own understanding and trust Him in everything

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that we do. The thoughts that are in our heart

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will come out to be who we really are. Here's

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an example. A moral person produces moral living.

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An evil person produces evil living. So if a

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person is immoral in their heart they're going

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to produce that. If a person has love and joy

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and peace and the fruit of the Spirit in their

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heart then they're going to produce that. So

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Jesus really wants us to understand that our

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heart is who we are and the Holy Spirit will

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help us to work on the situation our heart whether

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it's difficult or whether it's Wonderful and

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peaceful, but the Holy Spirit is there to help

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us. Remember what the Apostle Paul said in prior

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scriptures that I read him. He says it's I think

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it was Philippians chapter 4 verse 6 and 7. He's

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basically saying that the Holy Spirit can guard

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our thoughts. and that we must seek the Holy

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Spirit for help with what is in our heart and

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in our mind. That's where he says, to be anxious

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for nothing, but everything through prayer, petitions

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with thanksgiving, make your requests, be made

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known to God and the peace of God that pass us

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all understanding will guard your hearts and

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guard your mind. In Christ Jesus, the apostle

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Paul is telling us that the Holy Spirit can guard

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our thoughts and he can guard our mind and that

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the Holy Spirit wants to help us with what is

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in our heart and what's in our thought life.

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The Holy Spirit has made an investment in us.

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So I guess you might even say that God made an

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investment in us. Jesus said when he was leaving

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his disciples he said okay I'm leaving and I

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gotta leave because if I don't leave then the

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Holy Spirit won't be here. When I leave, I must

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leave," he says, because then the Holy Spirit

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will come. And he'll be the comforter. He'll

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be the paraclete. He'll be the advocate. He'll

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be on your side. He'll have your back. He's got

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you covered. He's got a good life for you if

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you yield and submit to him. So when Jesus left,

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what he's basically saying is, I'm leaving an

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investment. I'm making an investment in you.

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And so the investment that God made by sending

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the Holy Spirit down to earth, that investment

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now has gone into the hearts of every single

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follower of the Lord Jesus. Jesus Christ. And

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there's something that I want to talk about when

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it's when it's investment. I'm not going to get

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into money, but think about this. The Holy Spirit

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has made an investment in us. He's there. He's

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ready. He was deposited in us. He personally

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was deposited in us. What kind of investment

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return do we produce? Now in business there's

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something we call ROI. It stands for return on

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investment. Abounding in the Holy Spirit will

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have a great ROI, a return on our investment

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because it'll be a return to the Holy Spirit's

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investment and will be pleasing unto the Lord

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and will be a blessing unto the Lord and will

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be a blessing to the church, will be a blessing

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to the kingdom of God. So when the Holy Spirit

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has been invested in us, how are we treating

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that investment? Are we protecting him or are

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we grieving him? The Bible says, don't grieve

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the Holy Spirit. And we grieve Him by making

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Him sad, by when we sin, when we make mistakes,

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when we have errors, when we get into arguments

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that we lose control of. Those all grieve the

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Holy Spirit. We can correct those. We can make

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them right. So let's work on that investment

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that God has made in us, which is the Holy Spirit.

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Now don't take me wrong. I'm not trying to turn

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this into a finance discussion. Not one tiny

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bit. But it's important that we understand that

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God did make an investment in each and every

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one of us. He's looking for a good return on

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his investment, and that return is that we're

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living a godly life, that we're telling people

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about our faith, we're witnessing to others.

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Jesus, when he left us hers, he said, spread

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the good news. That means let everybody know

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that I came to earth, that I was crucified, resurrected,

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and I'm sitting at the right hand of the Father.

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He says, let people be aware of that, and that

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is the responsibility of every believer. The

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Holy Spirit is the investment that God made in

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us, and he wants to have a return that we share

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our faith with others. You know, I would be remiss

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if I didn't read this one scripture to you when

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we're talking about how to abound in the Holy

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Spirit. The Apostle Paul wrote about that, about

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the power of the Holy Spirit in our life. He

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wrote about it in the book of Ephesians in chapter

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one in verses 13 and 14. I'm just gonna read

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both of those verses to you because they truly

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are powerful, extremely powerful. He says, and

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this is Paul writing, and now you Gentiles have

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also heard the truth, the good news, that God

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saved you. And when you believed in Christ, he

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identified you as his own by giving you the Holy

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Spirit. There we are, whom he promised long ago.

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Verse 14, the Spirit is God's guarantee that

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He will give us the inheritance He promised and

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that He has purchased us to be His own people.

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He did this so we would praise and glorify Him.

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That is so beautiful, I think, when Paul wrote

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that. Now, when he said that he purchased us,

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obviously the price that he paid was the sacrificing

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of his son, Jesus. And what Jesus had to go through,

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Jesus suffered just unbelievably. for us and

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he didn't have to. He could have called for help.

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Thousands of angels could have come to his rescue

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but that's not why he came. He came that he would

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make a sacrifice and God made that sacrifice

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of his son and then turn around after his son

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was resurrected then God sent an investment of

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the Holy Spirit down so that we could have bound

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in that investment. We could have bound in the

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Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit has several reasons

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that he's here. The manor, if you will, the manner

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of the Holy Spirit is a divine person with unlimited

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power. He speaks to us. He acts in us and communicates

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to us. Now, some people say, well, how does he

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communicate? Have you heard his voice? Well,

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I've not heard an audible voice, but there have

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been many, many times. I mean, numerous times

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I couldn't count the number of times that the

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Holy Spirit has impressed me one way or another

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by doing something or changing something or calling

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someone. I've had situations where I wouldn't

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work by myself and just doing things, getting

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ready Saturday getting ready for the church service

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on Sunday and in the middle of it the Holy Spirit

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reminds me to call someone and I'll think okay

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I'll write the name down and I'll think okay

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well I'll just get around to calling them and

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the Holy Spirit's going now. I get this pressure

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right now, and I'm thinking, I got a lot of things

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to do. I got to get ready. You know how the thought

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goes through our mind? But that still quiet voice

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is basically saying, call now. So I called this

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person up. And when I called the gentleman I

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was calling, picked up the phone. And as soon

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as I said, hi, this is Pastor David, he started

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laughing. And I thought, well, thank you, Lord.

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I'm calling someone so they can laugh at me.

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And so, no, the guy says, oh, I'm sorry. He says,

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I'm not laughing for anything other than just,

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you won't believe what just took place. He said,

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not more than 10 seconds ago my daughter and

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I were chatting he says you know we're new in

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your church I said yeah I noticed that you had

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just been coming here recently and he says in

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your much bigger church than we're used to so

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my daughter said well dad you know that pastor

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is gonna be so busy he'll never have time for

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you he won't be able to meet with you and I'm

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sure he'll probably never call you and he says

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as soon as you as she said that the phone rang.

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He says, and I picked up the phone. That was

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just powerful in itself. And of all people, it's

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you. And he looked at his daughter and she said,

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it's Pastor Friend. He's calling us just to see

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how we're doing. You see, the Holy Spirit knows.

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He knew right then that I couldn't wait five

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minutes. I couldn't wait two minutes. It was

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right then at that time that I had to make that

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move. And I thank the Lord for that. And I thank

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the Lord that I did stop what I was doing and

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listen to that still quiet voice that told me

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to call now, not later, but do it right now.

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I've got dozens of other stories like that. I

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just can't take time for them in this particular

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podcast. And he communicates with us in many

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ways. He teaches us. He guides us. He comforts

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us. He intercedes for us to the Father. He prays

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for us. And he's praying through us when he prays

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for us. And the Holy Spirit speaks to us in so

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many different ways. He speaks to us through

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a friend, through a sermon, through a scripture

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that you read. through somebody else's prayer.

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He might speak to us, we might be reading a newspaper,

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or reading a magazine, or whatever we're doing,

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and we're going through that. And of course,

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I read my newspaper now online. People say, you

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read the old newspaper? Well, I do read a newspaper,

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but it's online, and it's available for me every

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single day, and I can go back and pick it back

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up later if there's something I missed. But when

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I'm reading that, sometimes in reading an article

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on something, I'll think, you know, I need to

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talk to this person, or talk to that person,

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or I'm supposed to do something about that situation.

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And the Holy Spirit communicates to us in so

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many different ways. Like I said, he prays for

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us and he empowers us and he transforms us by

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the renewing of our mind is what the word of

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God says. That's so powerful. He is God. He is

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divine. He is omniscient, which means all knowledge.

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He's omnipresent, which means he's everywhere

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and he is omnipotent with all power. You know

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the Holy Spirit even sanctifies us during our

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life. He's the agent of change. He's the agent

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that directs us. Now what's sanctification? Some

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people may not even know what that is, but sanctification

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is an ongoing journey that Christians go through

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a process of drawing closer to God. It's defined

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as being set apart from the world, which simply

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means that you just don't accept those things

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of the world. It doesn't mean you won't make

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a mistake, you won't sin, you won't do something

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wrong, but you'll have the Spirit of God in you

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so that you can go correct that situation. So

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it's a process. It's a process of learning how

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to help others. It's a process of understanding

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the Word of God and learning to yield to the

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voice, that still quiet voice of the Holy Spirit.

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And the interesting thing about sanctification

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is that I don't believe sanctification ever ends.

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It's a process we go through our entire life.

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There's been some great men of God that put in

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40, 50, 60 years of ministering and leading people

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to Jesus all over the world and just great ministries

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and helping means of people to be fed and all

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those great things. And when you listen to them,

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they say they're still growing. They're still

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growing in the Lord. So let me ask you a question.

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Are you still growing in the Lord? Because we

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don't ever complete the work that God's doing

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in us. It's like saying that I've read the Bible

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and I understand every bit of it. No, there's

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no one on the face of the earth that understands

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every single part of the Bible. It's a continual

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process of growth. And that's what the Holy Spirit

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is the agent of. He's the one that helps us to

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grow spiritually. So let's seek Him. Let's ask

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Him for help. asking for guidance. Well, I have

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to kind of wrap this up now, so let me just pray

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for you before we do that. Heavenly Father, thank

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you Lord once again for another podcast. Thank

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you Lord for this teaching because it came out

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very differently than what I had drafted, what

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I thought that I would say, and how I would even

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quote certain scriptures and things. I thank

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you for that because I know when it changes.

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If I've asked you and asked for your guidance

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and direction, I've yielded to you that when

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there's a change made that comes from you. And

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I pray now for those who've listened in today

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that whatever they listened in to receive that

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they have received that that they'll take it

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and they'll grow in it that father that each

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and every one of us will understand that we can

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have a right relationship with the Holy Spirit

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so strong so powerful that we will abound in

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him and we will live that abundant life that

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Jesus promised that we could have so father I

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claim that for those who are listening in I claim

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that for those who may be struggling with their

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faith struggling with sickness I I pray for healing.

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I call forth a miracle healing in their bodies.

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For financial needs, I pray a financial blessing

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would come upon them. I pray for those maybe

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in marriages that are struggling. Father, I pray

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the Holy Spirit would move and help them, Father,

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to mend that marriage and mend that relationship.

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That families that have been torn apart, that

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you would restore them and bring them back together

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because that's what you are. You are the restorer.

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You are the healer. And so I believe for that,

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God. And I pray blessing upon everyone who's

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taken the time to listen in today. Bless them

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and keep them. my pray in Jesus' name. Well,

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again, I hope that you enjoyed that. It's been

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really quite interesting as I moved on this.

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We're going to continue our series on the Holy

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Spirit. And Lord willing, this is what he wants

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me to do. The next podcast I've written down

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is Holy Spirit Lead Destiny. And so that's interesting.

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That's an interesting set of words. So we all

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have a destiny that God has ordained for us and

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planned for us. He has a plan for our life, a

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life and a purpose for our life. And we're going

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to talk about how the Holy Spirit can help review

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that and take us to the destiny that he has for

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us. So I pray that you'll tune into that. I don't

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have any other statements to make about that

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because all I know is the title. I'm not really

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sure where we go from here, but before the next

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week's is ready and we bring this next podcast

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to you, I believe the Holy Spirit will give us

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something very strong that will help each and

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every one of us. Well, if you'd like to know

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more about quality Christian living, that's the

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name of our podcast and that's the covering as

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quality Christian living as to how to live a

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quality Christian life, not just get a get by

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life are just I'm kind of making it but a thriving

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life that a life filled with spiritual abundance

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and I believe that's what the theme of this this

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whole series has been on the Holy Spirit and

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if you'd like to know more about a quality Christian

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living you can go to my web page at davidcfriendauthor

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.com and when you pull it up on the front page

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there you'll see a link to all the podcasts we've

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done and so there's a whole bunch of them there's

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four years or more worth of podcasts and we've

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covered so many different topics there's there's

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teaching series of 20 or 30 lessons on finance,

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on the gifts of the Spirit, on how to have faith

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for miracles, how to increase our faith, how

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to pray for people, for their healing, all kinds

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of different things and talking about the fruit

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of the Spirit. And quite frankly, as much as

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I can imagine, we've been talking about, there's

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still far more that we can talk about as we continue

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our series on the Holy Spirit. So with that,

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I want you to lecture friends and relatives and

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neighbors know that we're doing a series. I've

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had more people text me and on Facebook and on

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Instagram. and text me by a phone call or email

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me through my through my email and when they

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do that and telling me that they're listening

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in and I'm just so blessed I tell you the other

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day I noticed all the countries that these podcasts

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have gone into in these four years and it's now

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over 140 countries now have been downloading

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now not all at the same time but that's how many

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countries have been hearing this these teachings

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over the last four years I just thank the Lord

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for that that's not about me that's nothing to

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do with me it's all about the Holy Spirit leading

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guiding and directing and as you've noticed as

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you listen to my podcast or something that I

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do frequently as the Holy Spirit leads give people

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an opportunity to turn their life over to Christ

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and I pray with them and just just tell them

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how to pray to ask for forgiveness and ask and

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admit that they sinned and they need a Savior

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and surrender their life to Jesus and to get

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into a good church find a good Bible -believing

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church and get the Word of God out and go to

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Bible studies and really grow in your walk with

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God so God's made a great investment in all of

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us. He gave his son and then he sent the Holy

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Spirit to come and comfort us. So what an investment

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he's made in us. We want God to have a great

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return on that investment. So thank you once

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again for listening to this particular podcast.

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So I just want to sign off with a blessing for

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you. Heavenly Father I pray that you would bless

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everyone listening in today and that you would

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keep them and that you would shine your face

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upon them Father and that you would be gracious

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to each and every one of us and give us your

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peace. May we prosper and be in good health even

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as our souls prosper. I thank you for that, Father.

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I pray blessing, Father God, on all those who

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have listened in. I pray, Lord, as we move forward

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to our next podcast, that you would bless it.

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And I want to thank people for listening in.

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And if you enjoyed this podcast, just take a

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moment, please, and give us a rating, if you

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to your podcasts. Well, may God richly bless

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you. Thank you again for listening in and we'll

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see you next time. This is Dave Friend of Quality

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Christian Living. May God richly bless you.