O God, my God, I cry to Thee at dawn; my soul has thirsted for Thee.
- Psalm 63:1 LXX
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on us.
— John 8
23And He was saying to them, "You are from below, I am from above; you are of this world, I am not of this world.24Therefore I said to you that you would die in your sins; for unless you believe that I am He, you will die in your sins."
25So they were saying to Him, "Who are You?" Jesus said to them, "What have I been saying to you from the beginning?26I have many things to speak and to judge concerning you, but He who sent Me is true; and the things which I heard from Him, these I speak to the world."
31So Jesus was saying to those Jews who had believed Him, "If you continue in My word, then you are truly disciples of Mine;32and you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free."
42Jesus said to them, "If God were your Father, you would love Me, for I proceeded forth and have come from God, for I have not even come on My own initiative, but He sent Me.43Why do you not understand what I am saying? It is because you cannot hear My word."
56"Your father Abraham rejoiced to see My day, and he saw it and was glad."57So the Jews said to Him, "You are not yet fifty years old, and have You seen Abraham?" 58Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was born, I am."
— John 10
23It was winter, and Jesus was walking in the temple in the portico of Solomon. 24The Jews then gathered around Him, and were saying to Him, "How long will You keep us in suspense? If You are the Christ, tell us plainly." 25Jesus answered them, "I told you, and you do not believe; the works that I do in My Father's name, these testify of Me.26But you do not believe because you are not of My sheep.27My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me;28and I give eternal life to them, and they will never perish; and no one will snatch them out of My hand."
30"I and the Father are one."
— John 16
23"In that day you will not question Me about anything. Truly, truly, I say to you, if you ask the Father for anything in My name, He will give it to you.24Until now you have asked for nothing in My name; ask and you will receive, so that your joy may be made full."
25"These things I have spoken to you in figurative language; an hour is coming when I will no longer speak to you in figurative language, but will tell you plainly of the Father.26In that day you will ask in My name, and I do not say to you that I will request of the Father on your behalf;27for the Father Himself loves you, because you have loved Me and have believed that I came forth from the Father.28I came forth from the Father and have come into the world; I am leaving the world again and going to the Father."
— John 17
1Jesus spoke these things; and lifting up His eyes to heaven, He said, "Father, the hour has come; glorify Your Son, that the Son may glorify You, 2even as You gave Him authority over all flesh, that to all whom You have given Him, He may give eternal life.3This is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ who You have sent.4I glorified You on the earth, having accomplished the work which You have given Me to do.5Now, Father, glorify Me together with Yourself, with the glory which I had with You before the world was."
17"Sanctify them in the truth; Your word is truth."
— John 18
4So, Jesus, knowing all the things that were coming upon Him, went forth and said to them, "Whom do you seek?"5They answered Him, "Jesus the Nazarene." He said to them, "I am He." And Judas also, who was betraying Him, was standing with them. 6So when He said to them, "I am He," they drew back and fell to the ground.
— John 20
30Therefore many other signs Jesus also performed in the presence of the disciples, which are not written in this book; 31but these have been written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing you may have life in His name.
— John 21
25And there are also many other things which Jesus did, which if they were written in detail, I suppose that even the world itself would not contain the books that would be written.
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Now on the last day, the great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink. He who believes in Me, as the Scripture said, 'From his innermost being will flow rivers of living water.'" But this He spoke of the Spirit, whom those who believed in Him were to receive; for the Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus was not yet glorified. — John 7:37-39
"I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may be with you forever; that is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it does not see Him or know Him, but you know Him because He abides with you and will be in you." — John 14:16-17
"But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I said to you." — John 14:26
So when it was evening on that day, the first day of the week, and when the doors were shut where the disciples were, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in their midst and said to them, "Peace be with you." And when He had said this, He showed them both His hands and His side. The disciples then rejoiced when they saw the Lord. So Jesus said to them again, "Peace be with you; as the Father has sent Me, I also send you." And when He had said this, He breathed on them and said to them, "Receive the Holy Spirit." — John 20:19-22
"But now I am going to Him who sent Me; and none of you asks Me, 'Where are You going?' But because I have said these things to you, sorrow has filled your heart. But I tell you the truth, it is to your advantage that I go away; for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you; but if I go, I will send Him to you. And He, when He comes, will convict the world concerning sin and righteousness and judgment; concerning sin, because they do not believe in Me; and concerning righteousness, because I go to the Father and you no longer see Me; and concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world has been judged. I have many more things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. But when He, the Spirit of truth, comes He will guide you into all the truth; for He will not speak on His own initiative, but whatever He hears, He will speak; and He will disclose to you what is to come. He will glorify Me, for He will take of Mine and will disclose it to you. All things that the Father has are Mine; therefore I said that He takes of Mine and will disclose it to you." — John 16:5-15
A monk should be in a state of constant watchfulness. He should be focused; he should not let up. In order to hit the target, the soldier firmly grasps his rifle; he does not hold it loosely. He does not even take a breath during that moment when he is aiming.
St. Ignatius Brianchaninov
How does a monk express his love? Ignatius answers: through prayer. "Prayer should be a monk's chief task. It should be the center and heart of all his activities... Prayer is the practical expression of a monk's love for God."
Bishop Emilianos of Meloa
When you, with pain and love, stick your intellect outside of the door of your heart, then you will understand how to fight this war. You will become like a scientist of the spiritual struggle. It's like buying a new piece of equipment; in the beginning, its a small struggle to learn, but once you do, you're not afraid of it and it becomes easier.
St. Theodoros the Great Ascetic
Judge thoughts, before the judgement seat of the heart, to discern whether they are ours or those of our enemy. Place those which are good and properly our own in the inmost shrine of the soul, keeping them in this inviolable treasury, but chastise hostile thoughts with the whip of the intelligence and banish them, giving them no place, no abode within the bounds of your soul.
St. Hesychius of Jerusalem
Attention is the constant silence of the heart, unbroken by any thoughts - a stillness which the heart uninterruptly and unceasingly ever breathes only Jesus Christ.
St. Seraphim Rose
True spiritual life, even on the most elementary level, is always accompanied by suffering and difficulties. Therefore you should rejoice in all your difficulties and sorrows.
Elder Amilianos of Simonopetra
Monastic life is nothing other than the disdain for everything that impedes and compromises the love of God.
St. Hesychius of Jerusalem
You must look inward with a sharp-sighted and concentrated mind to identify the invading demons.
St. Ignatius Brianchaninov
A monk should remember every day, and several times a day, that he is faced with inevitable death, and eventually he should even attain to the unceasing remembrance of death. Our mind is so darkened by the fall that unless we force ourselves to remember death we can completely forget about it.
St. Maximos the Confessor
Perfect love is not loving one person and hating another, but loving all men equally. Love your friends and your enemies, helping them, exercising forebearance, patiently accepting whatever they do, not taking the evil into account at all but even suffering on their behalf if the opportunity offers, so that if possible, they too become friends.
Elder Amilianos of Simonopetra
Contemplation is not a matter of fantasies and dreams, but an inward illumination, a downpour of grace that falls upon the mind and overwhelms it.
A Monk of Mount Athos
The Christian (who has courage and hope in Christ) should be brave and hope in Christ when he undergoes hardships and suffers for Christ.
St. Theodoros the Great Ascetic
The monk must be detached from material things, must be dispassionate, free from all evil desires, not given to soft living, not a tippler, not slothful, not indolent, not a lover of wealth, pleasure or praise. For he who achieves, the yoke is easy and the burden is light, divine hope sustaining him in all things. This life and it's activities are full of delight, and the soul that has attained it is blessed and 'cannot be taken away'.
Elder Amilianos of Simonopetra
When the mind is free of the passions, when it is pure (which means when it is empty), then it attracts God to itself.
St. Hesychius of Jerusalem
When we notice a hostile thought approaching, we strike at it with angry curses from the heart. The next step is to direct our prayer against it, by concentrating the heart on invoking Jesus Christ.
A Monk of Mount Athos
A certain brother was caught up in ecstasy and saw a great church. At the end of the vision he heard a great voice say, "As much as someone remembers and loves God, so much does God remember and love him".
St. Paisios the Athonite
How did Saint Arsenios the Great become sanctified? He did not forget the reason for which he had gone to the desert. Every day, he reminded himself, "Why have you left the world?".
St. Ignatius Brianchaninov
From his very entry into the monastery, a monk should occupy himself with all possible care and attention with the holy Gospel. He should make such a study of the Gospel that it may always be present in his memory, and at every moral step he takes, for every act, for every thought, he may always have ready in his memory the teaching of the Gospel.
Elder Amilianos of Simonopetra
Proceed to spiritual reading and contemplation. These alone will guide you to undistracted prayer, which will come to you itself; it will be given to you by the grace of God.
St. Maximos the Confessor
When a man's intellect is constantly with God, his desire grows beyond all measure into an intense longing for God and his incensiveness is completely transformed into divine love.
Barry Long
The trickster (thinker) inside you produces the illusion that you're thinking when you're not. His performing inside you relies on his emotion being quicker than your perception. Yes, it is his emotion not your emotion, just as it's his thinking, not yours. The whole box of tricks is his, and he uses your body and brain for his stage.
Elder Amilianos of Simonopetra
The contemplative person has completely surrendered himself to God, and therefore God is able to do with him as He likes.
St. Maximos the Confessor
If you have faith in the Lord you will fear punishment, and this fear will lead you to control the passions.
Bishop Emilianos of Meloa
It's like Jesus said to the Apostle Peter: 'Do you want to walk on the waves? Focus on Me and you will do it. That's it, nothing else, just focus on Me. This one thing is enough to get you from this life to the next, you don't need anything else'. This is nepsis, this is the one thing.
St. Paisios the Athonite
What should a monastic think about? How should a monastic act? The monastic is not shaken by anything; nor is he enthused by anything; he puts the brakes on everything. He is patient; he puts obedience first and is ready to do whatever is asked of him.
Blessed Theophylact
For a man cannot be a disciple of Christ unless he forsakes all the passions and refuses to make peace with anything in the world which harms the soul.
St. Paisios the Athonite
A monk with a wordly rationality hinders his spiritual improvement. He has to slowly shed it and aquire a monastic, patristic sensitivity and outlook that draws divine Grace.
St. Maximos the Confessor
Afflict your flesh with hunger and vigils and apply yourself tirelessly to psalmody and prayer; then the sanctifying gift of self-restraint will descend upon you and bring you love.
Elder Amilianos of Simonopetra
The heart can easily be deceived and confuse its feelings of divine love with false forms of love. Love is not the feeling or emotion I have when I sin, or when I hurt, or when I have a feeling of sweetness in my heart. This is why St. Maximos says: The mind - not the heart - begins to make progress in the love of God.
Blessed Theophylact
Even while up against an army of demons, still we ought to say, 'O Lord my God, Thou art my strength' (Ps 139:7), and never make peace with sin, that is, never be enslaved to the passions. Instead, we should resist them and show a hatred towards them that gives no quarter, and we should not desire to have any attachment to the things of the world, but should forsake them all.
St. Theodoros the Great Ascetic
A monk, as a son, must love God with all his heart and all his mind and, as a servant, he must reverence and obey Him, and fulfil His commandments with 'fear and trembling'.
St. Maximos the Confessor
Whatever a man loves he inevitably clings to, and in order to not lose it he rejects everything that keeps him from it. So he who loves God cultivates pure prayer, driving out every passion that keeps him from it.
St. Andrew of Crete
Mary's passage through death into life is but a disctinctively glorious instance of the mystery of salvation that all of us are called to share: for every Christian who lives in faith, death is a 'dormition', a sleep that transforms, rather than a destruction.
Bishop Emilianos of Meloa
A young monk asked Elder Amilianos, "What can I do when the grace comes, to maintain it, to keep it, to not lose God ever?". Geronda responded, "Just close the doors behind you".
St. Paisios the Athonite
Just as the soldier who is a reconnaissance scout always holds his weapon ready and is continually careful when he walks in order to defend himself against any danger he might encounter, so should the monastic also be careful and constantly observe how his own self proceeds. You see how much the Holy Fathers were careful, how much they observed their own self - which is why they were always in a spiritually watchful state.
St. Gregory of Sinai
So when thoughts invade you, in place of weapons call on the Lord Jesus frequently and persistently and then they will retreat; for they cannot bear the warmth produced in the heart by prayer and they flee as if scorched by fire.
A Monk of Mount Athos
Try as much as you can to write and engrave on your heart the blessed and comforting name of our Lord Jesus Christ. By doing this the holy angels will revere and love you. They will do this because the angels revere and honor the name of Christ.
St. Paisios the Athonite
You should observe your own self every moment, and think: "What am I doing? How am I staying the course? What is needed in order to put my own self aright?". The continual observation of your own self, along with the revealing of your thoughts and deeds to your spiritual father, will help you in a very positve way.
Bishop Emilianos of Meloa
This is not just for monastics; this is for everyone who takes their life seriously. God did not create us to be monks or nuns or married, these are paths that we choose. God created us to be Saints.
Troy Prayers
Jesus we exalt you and I know Lord that you would show up nonetheless I know God you're
faithful even when we are faithless Lord even when we make mistakes you are so true you're so good
you're so pure you're so righteous Jesus and I know that our righteousness is
completely reliant upon your sacrifice our ability to come in and to speak to
you Holy Spirit and to know you Jesus to come into the presence of the throne room of the Father
it's based on what Jesus did for us and I want to say thank you Jesus for dying thank you for suffering
for us thank you for taking the thorns in your head thank you for taking the whips the lashes Lord
thank you for taking the beatings and the mocking and the threats and the violence
against you thank you for taking the blasphemy or the
people spitting on you and shaming you Lord and denying you and accusing you falsely
thank you for dying for us for taking the nails in your hands and your feet we're just in awe of you Jesus and we're
just so in need of you and we rely on you for everything for our very life Lord
the very breath that we're breathing so I ask that you speak
through this time today that it would not be me speaking but you that people hear what you want
them to hear Father and Father I ask that you send your Holy Spirit to baptize people
but also to confirm what's being said Lord confirm what's from you Lord and if there's anything I say that's not from you God
help it not to land help it to be ignored thank you Holy Spirit
we love you Jesus I love you Jesus
oh Jesus you're more than enough [Music] and i'm letting go
of all of my fears of the need to control
[Music] Lord you're more than enough and i'm letting go
of all of my fears of the need to control
Jesus your love is enough your grace is enough
[Music] your spirit is here
so we open up our hearts to you Lord
we lay down our wills Father we lay down our ambitions
when the things that get in the way when we invite you in
Holy Spirit we invite you in
come and have your way we invite you in
[Music] Holy Spirit
we invite you in to come and have your way
this is for you God oh this is for you
thank you Holy Spirit for your presence thank you Jesus for your word for your truth thank you that you're breaking
down lies today you're breaking down walls between you and your people Lord between you and those who need to come
into relationship with you as well Lord I thank you Jesus for again for your love that never fails your love
that surpasses knowledge and I ask that you begin to reveal the love of the Father
Holy Spirit to begin to pour it out into people's hearts and especially during this time in Jesus mighty name
thank you Holy Spirit for being here
Jesus actually promised that his yoke is easy his burden is light so there's so much freedom and joy
and confirmation from the Holy Spirit that comes when we are willing to lay those things down and we're willing to
surrender and we're willing to take that great that step of faith like sometimes great faith to do what God
is calling us to do
Holy Spirit we come before you as your people who want to do your will who want to know you
more every day who want to be in close proximity with you Jesus and we ask
that you pour out the fire of your Holy Spirit the fire of God so that we
experience the confirmations we need when it's your voice the confirmations we need when it's a
step you want us to take Lord and I ask specifically for the fire
of the Holy Spirit on the career paths and the big life decisions that people are
trying to decide that they know when they start going one direction you would be on it
when they start going the other direction you would not be Lord that you confirm and say no this is the way I've called
you to go this is what I've designed for you this is my purpose for you I hear the Holy Spirit saying I'm showing you more and more in this season what that looks like you open your heart up to me and
be willing to listen with faith be willing to listen
and see what i'm doing even when it feels impossible even when
it seems like something too much for you to handle or too big for you to do
and I feel the power of the Holy Spirit in the presence of God
even the little things I hear the Lord saying for some it's going to be little things and I just want you to be faithful
to remain true to what i'm giving you to do in
this season if I can trust you with the little things I can
trust you with much and let's start right there the daily activities sometimes
i'm going to ask you to go a certain place to ask you to talk to somebody not to speak to somebody i'm going to ask
you to give something away i'm going to ask you to start something a group
i'm going to ask you to share a word of knowledge i'm going to give you a word of knowledge for someone
and then i'm going to confirm it to you that it was me
thank you Holy Spirit
the Lord gave me two verses from
luke 19 starting in verse 9 it
says and zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord behold Lord the half of my goods I give to the poor and if I have defrauded
anyone of anything I restore it fourfold and Jesus said to him today salvation has come to this house since he also is
a son of abraham okay so this is what the Lord is saying
it's about the story of zacchaeus he was a tax collector and he
took money from people he wasn't supposed to take he was greedy and then he wanted to see Jesus he climbs up
in a tree Jesus walks by and Jesus calls up to him personally out of nowhere and then invites himself
over basically says I'm going to come over to your house today zacchaeus gets radically
changed by Jesus his heart changes and suddenly he decides to give back what
he's stolen and more on top of that the second passage is luke 19:18 Jesus is telling a parable about a king who
leaves on a journey he gives money to three different servants one is ten minas one is five minas and one is one mina
the the guy who had ten he invests it or does business deals or
whatever and he gets ten more he doubles it the guy with five doubles it the guy with one hides it and then
the king comes back and he hasn't made anything with what he had and the second
came saying Lord your mina has made five minas and he said to him you
are to be over five cities so he rewards the servants for their faithfulness with the resources he
gave them and another came saying Lord here is your mina which I kept laid away in a
handkerchief for I was afraid of you because you are a severe man you take what you did not deposit and reap what
you did not sow and he said to him I will condemn you with your own words
so the implication is this guy was not correct in his assumptions about the master he's like you're a harsh
man so I was so afraid of even using what you'd given me I didn't want to lose it so I just hit it away and I didn't do anything with it and
i believe Jesus is not talking about money in this parable he's talking about the kingdom of heaven he's
talking about the kingdom of God on earth and he's talking about the gifts he's given us and the callings and the
the dreams and yes even money and resources things like that he's talking about everything he's given us what are
we doing for the sake of his kingdom and how are we responding to what he has said to us
and this is what I believe the Holy Spirit's saying through this is the same thing that I was saying earlier is that zacchaeus on one hand
he gets radically changed and suddenly he realizes I have all of this that really doesn't belong to me
and he makes a very generous
gift to the poor and and he decides to sacrifice a whole lot for the kingdom
of God but it was a sacrifice that was a response to the heart change it wasn't a
sacrifice to earn something it was a sacrifice because Jesus had
already come into his house and yet it was a sacrifice nonetheless
it was a giving of something it was a laying down it was a saying what I'm not going to be this
way anymore I'm going to lay down the way I've been and the things that I've got in this life because I can see Jesus in
front of me and he's offering me so much more and then Jesus says today salvation has come to this house since he also is a son of Abraham what
is Jesus talking about there he says he's the son of Abraham Abraham was the Father of faith
so he's saying this is a faith-filled response what Jesus is saying there he's saying his sacrifice
was a faith response to what I've said to him today and then
this is the opposite view in luke 19 it's showing us the other side
and this is the third servant who comes and he says here's the mina which I laid away in a handkerchief and for I
was afraid of you because you're a severe man what did the master ask the servants to
do he entrusted this to them
this resource because he wanted to see a multiplication he wanted to see a result
he asked them to invest it or to start a business or to do something like that he asked them to
multiply it he did not ask them to hide it away and then this passage goes on
to say you should have at least put it in the bank you should have at least supported somebody else who was investing and they
get a little bit of return back in that way you should have at least done that but this is the picture I'm seeing with these two passages right
next to each other in luke 19 is this idea of our willingness to sacrifice for the Lord and respond in faith to what
God has said is always going to be fighting against the fear aspect the fear of well what if I fail what if I don't succeed what if I
look like an idiot
what if I step out and I give a word of knowledge to somebody and I just end up being wrong and I totally missed God on
it what I believe the Holy Spirit's saying right now and I hear him saying this right now
i would rather you miss me in obedience than never do anything at all with what
I've given you
and that's where that willingness to lay our pride down comes in that willingness to look
like a fool that willingness to say hey I think God is telling me this for you that random person we ran
into and for them to say no that's not right then we look like an idiot we look like we're not hearing from God at all we look like we don't
know what we're talking about but it's like sometimes that's part of the process of learning to respond to the
Lord in faith is it's like hey I'm
laying your pride and I say you know what I missed it I missed the Lord you know I thought that was what he was
asking me to do but here's what I've learned y'all there are very very few times where I
have honestly believed God had told me to do something and then I stepped out to do it and I did not see God
do something miraculous very few times most of the time 99% of the time God
blows my mind and I say you know what why did it take me so long to get around to responding
to faith why did it take me so long to do this
and here's the picture I want to leave you with before I share this last word is you never know
the impact you're gonna have on somebody when you're obedient to the Holy Spirit but sometimes you get to see
the way that they're receiving the love of God you get to see it in their eyes you get to hear it in their
voice when you say that thing or when you do that thing you give that thing think about the way
zacchaeus felt when he gave all of those things away
think about the people that he was ripping off that he went back to it says he said I restore it
fourfold he went back to the person he ripped off they knew they were getting ripped off they knew he was ripping
them off they couldn't do anything about it because he had the roman army backing him but he went back to them and he
gave them four times back what he stole think about their reaction in that moment
probably they needed it like think about what he got to see the
love of Jesus he got to share with people and think about this think about the opportunity
that he had in that moment when people said why are you doing this and when they said I've never seen a tax
collector do this before think about the the opportunities for him to say it's because I climbed up in a tree
and Jesus walked by and he called out to me
thinking oh my gosh
that moment [Laughter] absolutely worth anything that we have to lay down anything that we have to
sacrifice to be obedient and to step out in faith
I listened to a randy clark sermon recently this is probably six months back or so and it was all about martyrs literally current day martyrs people
that have given their lives or have been beat literally to the edge of death for the sake of christ
people that have sacrificed or suffered a lot for Jesus today in especially different countries around the world preaching the gospel and trying
to reach the lost and start new churches in places that don't have christianity and
at the end of this sermon he was speaking to a live audience but what he said was I want everybody to come up who feels called to be a missionary or
called to be an
evangelist especially in other nations any he said come up to the front and he said I want you to pretend like the same way a church would call for an
offering where you would come up place your money in the offering bucket he said I want you to come up to the front and then I want you to visualize an
offering bucket I want you to step into it I want you to see yourself placing yourself in the offering bucket you're the offering and
then he prayed for people to receive the fire of the Holy Spirit as a
confirmation and so I'm like standing in my front yard and I'm praying for this y'all because I'm doing what
he's saying you know I'm like I want that to be me I want to lay everything down for the sake of Jesus
and I put my hands out and I started to feel the fire of God so
strong and I'm literally just listening to a recorded session from who knows how long ago this video on youtube
and I set my phone down in the grass and I just stood there in the dark in my front yard and I put
my hands out in front of me and I just said God I'm placing myself in the offering and I said I need the baptism of your Holy Spirit I need the
baptism of fire and this heat like an electricity shot through my
hands and through my arms and literally through my body but it was mostly in my hands and I knew it was a
manifestation of the presence of the Holy Spirit specifically the fire of the Holy Spirit so I want to pray for that before I end this and then I'm going to
end this if you are in that place or you're saying I'm called to
preach the gospel it could be online it could be in your neighborhood it could be in your church it could be around the world it could be down the
street it could be on the other side of the country that you live in whatever if you're called to preach the gospel and I'm
getting this impression from the Lord that there's people here that are called and it's in none of those ways you're called to preach the gospel but
it's in a new creative way that the Lord is gonna be showing you and revealing to you in the days ahead he's gonna be giving you these ideas where you're
gonna say wait no one's ever done that I can't do that can I and the Lord is saying yes I'm giving you these ideas so
that you can get the gospel in front of people in ways that no one's ever thought of before he's giving you creativity Jesus said be innocent as
doves but as clever as serpents you know there's that cleverness of the Holy Spirit that comes in where he says here's the opportunity take it you know
there's a void here where the gospel is not being preached and you are the one to take it you're the one to preach it and I'm hearing the holy
spirit saying that so if you know that's you and you're saying I want to feel the fire of the
Holy Spirit not just to feel it but to receive that confirmation to have his presence to know to get the confirmation
just like gideon saying Lord I know you're telling me to do this but I want to be sure this is your voice
before I do it I want to be absolutely sure that is one of the the reasons for the fire of the Holy Spirit it's one of
the reasons for the manifestation of his presence for his glory falling on people for his glory falling in videos online
it absolutely happens to me all the time for his glory falling when you're in the secret place
with the Holy Spirit with Jesus in your prayer closet you don't have to be in a huge service for the glory of
the Lord to show up it can show up right where you're at but here's when the glory shows up most of the time I believe is when we're in a place of
obedience obedience attracts his presence and obedience requires faith
requires us to be in a place of faith and faith often requires that faith step often requires sacrifice a willingness
to lay down our own lives for the sake of christ so if you're in that place and you say I want to spread the gospel and
I need the Lord I need his confirmation I need his presence I'm going to pray for you one one last time Holy Spirit I
ask and I want you to if you can to lift your hands or set your hands in front of you and if you can close your
eyes say Father I ask that you
baptize me again with your Holy Spirit in a fresh new way I ask for the gift of the Holy Spirit I ask you to light that
spark in my heart that flame and I'm seeing an image of a candle that's been lit
it's been burning for a while and it's still going strong it's a huge flame on a small candle and I believe
the Holy Spirit is wanting to light this fire in our hearts it's never going to go out it may look like something that people could blow out but it's going to
withstand the winds and the waves of this life it's going to be a passion for
Jesus that nothing is ever going to distort and nothing is ever going to destroy and it's just going to get
stronger and stronger and brighter and brighter as the days go ahead and as even as the darkness in this world grows
the light in your heart for the Lord is going to grow and grow and the light that you're shining to others is going to grow and grow and I believe the holy
spirit and his presence and the gifts of the spirit and the miracles he wants to work through you those things
are going to be evidences of the life of Jesus in your heart and the life of
God that's on your lips the things that you're sharing the gospel that you're proclaiming so Father I just ask that
you would baptize people right now and specifically in the fire that the fire of the Holy Spirit would fall on
people as they're listening in Jesus' name because of your grace because of your plan because of your plan for people or that you confirm your plan
to people right now that you bring those dreams to people's mind those desires those ideas and then you
confirm it Lord with the manifestation of your presence and with your glory in Jesus' mighty name and I'm
feeling the glory of God right now on me there's the glory of God in the room right now
and I hear the Lord saying that the Holy Spirit is represented by fire and wind in scripture fire and
wind and some people are going to actually experience the wind of the Holy Spirit it could be a physical manifestation it can also
describe what Jesus said when he described the Holy Spirit and he said
those who are led by the spirit it's like the wind you see the effects of it you know things are
getting blown around but you don't see it like there's going to be this passion and
this motivation in your heart that is from God and it grows every time you spend time in his presence that's how you know it's God is anytime
you start reading the word he's going to grow this passion this dream and this desire inside of you and it's going to be like the word says there's
going to be a voice behind you telling you to go left or right it's going to be like this voice that keeps telling you this is it this
is what I have for you says the Lord this is what I'm asking you to do and the more that you
allow the Holy Spirit to confirm that and you ask you can ask for confirmation just like gideon you say God I need you to confirm this if this
is from you don't run with something if you're not sure if it's the Lord or not don't run with it unless you know it's the Lord but God is going to start
bringing those things and that's going to be the wind of the Holy Spirit in your life and you're going to be like those sails like a ship
that's catching the wind you can only move if the wind's blowing
right you can only move with the winds blowing and there's going to be times of stillness where the Holy Spirit's presence is there it's a beautiful
presence but he's just saying rest and there's going to be other times where he's saying okay it's time to go
all right it's time to go catch this fire catch this one catch what I'm asking you to do
The grace of God cultivates nepsis inside us to become more frequent
We observe the war (thoughts) that happens within our intellect peacefully
Continuous prayer comes to us
A sweet peaceful state of mind develops
Christlike condition, which means we become united with Christ
Shalom
(Peace)
The word "peace" reflects the Heb. "Shalom", which became a greeting to His disciples after the resurrection. At the individual level this peace, unknown to the unsaved, secures composure in difficult trouble, dissolves fear, and rules in the hearts of God's people to maintain harmony.
"Peace I leave with you; My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you."— John 14:27
