Exercising Spiritual Authority (5 of 6) - Strengthening Your Spiritual Life

okay welcome back everyone but let's get started again in the afternoon sessions I'm sure it's going to be good time having been challenged and you're thinking during the morning just starting to think it's great wonderful and it takes a little time for these concepts to get in because they shift how you view your life and your responsibilities and how you interact with them and I had some very good feedback in the in-between time very good okay so before we go any further I want to just for the sake of several who are not baptized and split or not released in the in tongues I just want to just speak about being filled with the Holy Ghost speaking in tongues so I want to speak about a little bit just a faith lifts up I want to show you how you can receive and then what we'll do is give those who don't speak in tongues we'll get you to come towards the front we could every wants to gather around one big crowd and then we'll just pray all together and that takes it away from being sort of self-conscious that maybe you just have not the breakthrough yet so let me just give just several scriptures related to being filled with the Holy Ghost firstly very clear Jesus ministry he began his ministry with an encounter with the Holy Spirit the Bible says the Spirit of God came on him and the heavens opened up and he heard the voice of God and from that point on in his life he encountered an open heaven an open spirit world he encountered his father's voice and the leading of the Spirit of God and so before he left in Luke 24 he says this in verse 49 he says behold I send the promise of the father on you wait in the city of Jerusalem till you be clothed with power from on high now he's not talking here about being born again he's talking about an empowerment or a clothing in John chapter 20 he talks about being set about sending them and so in John 20 he says this in verse 21 as the father sent me so I send you so he's commissioning them again and he said to this when he had done this he breathed on them and said receive the Holy Spirit so what happened was he imparted to them the Holy Spirit he they were born again at that point in time the parallel of course when God created man he breathed into him the breath of life and man became a living soul now Jesus the last Adam breathes into this followers and they are born again and he imparted through breathing the flow of the Spirit of God but he did say again the acts 1 and verse 4 he said being assembled together with him he commanded them not to depart from Jerusalem but wait for the promise of the father for he said John baptized in water but you will be baptized in the Holy Spirit so now he's saying even though they're born again before they begin their ministry assignment he wants them one to be clothed with power he uses different language to describe the same thing he calls it the promise of the Father he calls it being clothed or being in dude from on high with power he also calls it being baptized or immersed into the spirit realm and so what he's referring to and he uses the word baptized in the spirit he's referring to us being immersed into the realm of the Spirit and so the baptism and the spirit being baptized in the spirit is an entry experience into the engaging the spiritual world but it's only an entry experience it's a great entry experience so powerful in tariq spence but the expectation is there'd be other things happen once we've had that experience and then we real of course in Acts chapter 2 how the Holy Ghost came upon them and suddenly the sound came from heaven like a rushing mighty wind it filled the whole house where they were sitting appear to them and divided tongues like fire said on every one of them and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost and they began to speak in tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance so we see here in acts 2 the first experience being baptized and the Holy Ghost Holy Ghost came on them the power of God literally broke out of heaven upon them and the first consequence of being filled was to overflow vocally and it says they spoke as the Holy Spirit gave them so you have to speak it's the Holy Spirit gives the language so the language of tongues is not a language that we learn it's an imparted flow of the Holy Spirit into our spirit so the Spirit of God clothes our spirit and we choose to speak so you can't expect God to open your mouth and talk you've actually got to speak you've got to actually do the speaking they spoke as the Holy Ghost gave them utterance and it says people could understand some of them speaking they speak in our tongues the wonderful works of God so clearly it was a dramatic experience because people said hey looks like they've been drinking wine you know they're full of joy and laughing and filled with the Holy Ghost there are other examples in the Bible of the same thing Acts chapter 10 the Holy Ghost falls upon the Gentiles first sign they began to speak in tongues X chapter 19 Paul goes to a group of believers if he be baptized in the Holy Spirit haven't even heard so he taught them laid hands on them they were filled with the spirit began to speak in tongues and to move in the gifts of the Spirit so clearly in Scripture we see this encounter with the Holy Spirit the filling up the overflow with tongues so what about the gift of tongues let me give you a couple of things on it and then we talk about receiving quickly and get you a chance to receive so in reading your 1 Corinthians chapter 14 verse 14 if I pray in an unknown tongue my spirit is praying understanding is unfruitful but my spirit is praying so there is a part of you your spirit man that can feel sense smell experience see here also speak your spirit is speaking and you're speaking the language what God gives you so it's not coming from your mind where you're thinking what you're saying it's a flow from inside and since when we speak in tongues it says that we are speaking and it builds up our spirit man so I don't want to go into a long teaching on tongues it's a whole teaching around itself but the gift of tongues primarily is a communication flow with the Holy Spirit to enable you to pray to prays to pray when you don't know what to pray and it builds your spirit man have a think about this when I went to Asia whenever I go to Asia I'm in a totally new culture and one of the things about the culture it has its own language and if I don't know the language of the call it's difficult to operate in that culture everything is unfamiliar so one of the first things they give me when I get there is an interpreter someone to help me with the language the language is important to living and experiencing the culture properly in fact if I've got no one who helps with the language I can't even do anything there so just taking from a natural level flowing in another culture is is highly difficult and ineffective if you have no one to help you with language so the same thing the realm of the Spirit is not the same as the natural realm realm of the Spirit is much more intense and so we need a language to express in that realm when God speaks to you those of you know so much even though computers I suppose when God speaks to you it's like if you've ever in your computer received a zip file zip file you just download it there it is you've got to zip file and when you unzip it there's just all this information and the zip file so when you receive from God you can receive a download really quickly but as it takes time and when it opens up there's so much in it and praying in tongues is a vital part of helping us engage in the realm of the Spirit so how do we receive we receive very very simply the Bible says in mark 11 when you stand praying whatever you desire you must really want to be filled with the Holy Ghost number two when you desire when you pray we have got to ask God we've got to come specifically saying of this what I want three we must believe that we receive it whatsoever things you desire when you pray believe you receive it and then following that you will have it so when you pray there has to be the believing I will receive it if I come Salah to give it a go and see my God although that's not believing that's waiting till you see then you believe so I give to know from the Bible and from hunger in my heart this is for me and I come to him saying God I just want to be filled with the Holy Ghost I'm yielding and surrendering to you now what would stop you flowing in the spirit and flowing in that expression of tongues there's probably several things one would be if you're locked up the occult or if there is a cult bondages and never been freed that is a problem in a block for flung and the things of the Spirit we assume that that is not true for most of you here today if not all so then there are other there are two other things that come to mind immediately one of them is if you've ever had teaching that was an T the Holy Spirit that creates a blockage around your life from receiving because the words that have come sit in your life and the moment you come to receive they come back to life and they actually stop you so it's important if we've ever been exposed to teacher where people taught against the baptism of the Holy Spirit speaking in tongues that you actually renounce that because it creates a barrier to receiving in the idea so I know that people that have been in those situations they use often have a block because the moment they come to pray their old teaching comes up and argues against receiving and so there's no flow from their spirit to a respond to faith another or a third common factor that people have in not letting go in the in to flow into the end of the language of tongues is a strong cognitive control over their life so when a person has shut down the emotional dimension of their life and shut down that letter that that that right brain aspect the creative aspect and just lives out of logic and lives out a reasoning and lives in their mind and thoughts and is disconnected from the heart then this often is a major block to flowing with the spirit because the moment you come to pray you're back in your brain trying to work out what to say and analyzing everything that's happening instead of actually letting go control which is effectively what's happening and you're saying god I just surrender I let my heart my inner man just express its love to you through this new language and it's literally the control of your mind has to has to let go and allow the the the flow from your heart and spirit to just emerge and I found for me it was a little bit of a difficulty I got filled with spirit dramatically and quickly but then my mind would actually consciously argue it would reason I could act I'd be praying in tongues and I could feel by the joy rising up and then the mind arguing argument argument it's like a lawyer you know argues you know reasons everything away and and it's so strong cognitive control in your life or blocks to the emotional area can stop the flow from within your heart because the language of the tongues is a flow of the Holy Spirit in your spirit flowing up outwards through your life so if you can just surrender control and let go that air and relax sometimes people find it when they're in the shower they relax more and they're able to get going and to flow in the gift of tongues and everyone's got his head why I guess but we want to just pray for people to be filled with the spirit and just get a breakthrough today and we'll just see what the law will do and if you could just approach it really something humbly god I'd only be held back any long I don't any blocks I'm just coming to you right now and I'm letting go or any wrong teaching and any control over my thought I'm just letting it go to you I'm just going to worship you in all your beauty and I'm going to let my mouth speak this new language which you give me hey man so we'll do that there so what we'll do is we'll just make it a little easy for everyone rather than everyone being conscious of themselves and so get those who would like to be specially released in this area once you come in to stand around me just in the front the rest of us all come around stand around you so just firstly those who haven't got a breakthrough in their life you'd like to just quickly come and just come up to the front here so if you just make room for people to come through just come and stand facing me you're not facing the camera that's the one here we go okay there we go good stuff okay come on now come on now that's where I've got everyone here I know they know what I want is for everyone else to come around surround them we're going to just love them and be together and believing God for this release today okay now okay just bring everyone else up that's right as the way close your eyes to make everyone vanish that's the simplest thing make everyone vanish if you're thinking about other people or about yourself you let go all right there now well I'm just asking right now that you would just help we need your help some Lord have been prayed for before but and they haven't had a breakthrough we don't know why so we asked Lord if there's any reason for there being a blockage that almost immediately you will bring it to their mind right now if there's any form of blockage that would stop the flow of your spirit I'm asking that just right now you would bring the thoughts to their mind they would begin to see just in a moment what the blockage really is Lord of its pride and willingness to let go or just make it just be clear so they can see that lord of it's a block of the emotions Lord just to help identify what that is Lord of it's wrong teaching or teachings been contrary to the Holy Spirit Lord just ask you to bring that up to the service whatever it is that may have caused a block let it go with its disappointments and then fear and I'm not good enough to receive anything from God you know that's another thing that would stop people I'm not good enough and my life is such a mess you know that would stop you that would stop you receiving but there's no reason see God has already made you good enough you are totally acceptable to him he loves you very deeply very dearly you're very precious and Jesus said these words of someone ask the Holy Spirit will God give him a stone you know the father if a child asks for bread you know will he give them a stone or will he give them a servant but how much more will the Father give you the Holy Ghost so this is what we're going to do we're going to just lead you through a prayer we're going to come and gather round you be comfortable with that and just lay hands on you to pray for you and every one of us is just going to worship God together what I'd like us to do is in a moment after we've prayed through the prayer together I'd like all of us to begin to speak and in language and speak and honor God together amen do that together and the thing that's just relaxed don't try and make something happen just say god I know you're there another so Holy Spirit now you there and saw me rise up inside me I just yield my tongue to speak right now we're ready okay lead you in a simple prayer Jesus I opened my heart to you now I so much want to be filled with your spirit I want to have the language of tons to worship you to pray effectively so by faith now I receive the Holy Ghost I receive the gift of tongues I thank you for giving this to me and I opened my heart to honor you now and to speak in this new language in Jesus name let's take a deep breath in let's all pray together kula but under my curse you gotta burn up that of a celibate out that I've got about um night Holy Spirit come and fall upon him right now let the power of God just come around his life today other Ang's let me just break the controls around his mind in emotions I release your anointing to flow right now better go this right leg oh sure Bubba Bubba Bubba she got a bit out they ll ibaka nobody up that avocado buddy um night I break every spirit of fear not being good enough I break it off your life now I release the flow of the Holy Ghost Lord touch Steve right now Shelley Baba Baba butter the power of God just come around his life right now yella Bubba Bubba she Caliban out that so I proactively speak and pray that's right Killa bah bah bah bah bah but she got a bit on the Holy Spirit come upon and that's right let your now speakers which Killa buhbuh buhbuh buhbuh she calaman not by Allah buh buh buh buh buh but she got a MIDI up then everybody out that that's right you got it that's right you got it flow that's right I think it'll kill a buh buh buh buh buh buh buh she got a buddy at night thank you Lord for your power coming on him right now yell up a bumper bicycle about the element right now Jesus name thank you Lord Holy Ghost come thank you lord that's right they just relax just relax don't try too hard this relaxed inside you just now begin to just see Jesus and you love them so much you love them so much you've been so good to you so faithful to you and everything in you wants just love on him with this new language now yell Ibaka horrible chica alle baba baba see calibre abogado para ella bah bah bah bah bah bah bah she corroborated Calabar bah bah CT ella become idiot a llama cuz she gonna buy ella Baba Baba Baba she got a buddy on Ibaka cigar over yonder thank you Lord with your anointing flow right now over her life thank you lord buh-buh-buh-buh-buh buhbuh she got Hamlet's father in Jesus name I come against control I break the power of controlling words controlling spirits that have crushed and broken a heart in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ I release you from those things right now father pour your spirit into a life today in Jesus mighty name Allah ba-ba-ba-ba-ba she got a buddy out Donna because she got a birthday Allah bah bah bah bah bah she Corrado thank you lord thank you for filling her right now thank you Lord for the overflow of your love thank you Lord for the overflow of your love thank you Lord for your anointing just flowing right now come on Holy Spirit we thank you we thank you for your presence yeah Bubba Bubba she got a bit on tho 'kill Ibaka nobody up the lumber cut above the other so I let that language rise up now Thank You Spirit of God shall uh buh buh buh buh bye the m9 I break every lie that I'm not good enough I break words spoken over you then wounded and broke your spirit I break those words right now thank you Lord for your anointing just fly that's right now just begin to allow you spirit to rise up and just express love killa Bubba Bubba Bubba she katha Ella back on about that avocado video die Ella back up idiot Ella because she got a buddy out died Ella ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba she got a buddy anti kiella become a little prey to get a little stronger now yella Papa Papa she collaborated I you love Acharya type yellamma Rhonda thank you lord Thank You Holy Ghost fill them right now thank you well we break control I come against all control in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ I break its hold of your life right now Thank You Lord you some right now father release your anointing and it was live right now Thank You Lord Killa buh-buh-buh-buh-buh buhbuh Holy Spirit come over in right now thank you look yella but I'm that I'm a cutter buddy out de le bonhomme that I might kind of idiot though Ella because she got a buddy how we doing I'll link fill them long overdue holy ghost illa-allah buh-buh-buh-buh-buh she's helluva theater oh we got felon right now God thank you lord fill em syllabi kind of idiot I love I got already I thought I got a better that's right that's right thank you lord holy guys come on right now lord thank you lord thank you for your love running around this life right now yeah ba ba ba ba ba ba she cut already attack yell of a cutout of a that kind of a cushy labuda magetta buddy I thought I got a buddy out that yella buh-buh-buh-buh Papapa Papapa Holy Ghost come thank you Lord for your anointing into his life right now feeling ill ababa she got a video died thank you lord other right now you speak to take authority of a grief and disappointment in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ I come against the spirit of grief and disappointment I break its power in your life right now I command you to release it in Jesus name thank you lord thank you Jesus thank you lord thank you lord son I love you God and loves you very deeply thank you little Killa buh-buh-buh-buh-buh buhbuh Chihiro video - Ella by calibre di tella Bacardi and Alabama thank you lord thank you lord Holy Ghost comes praise the Lord hallelujah thank you lord praise the Lord okay hallelujah hahahahaha give me more Lord holy Gus praise the Lord amen amen hey man praise the Lord no I'll just give a lot of great clam shall we holy guys fill the Lord filler oh joy the Lord had to come around alive well we've had some really good results now you got to freedom got a release that's fantastic you get released today that's awesome that's don't even go there okay how are we doing are you doing good are you doing well interesting when you come to that kind of point suddenly all the stuff you've got in your hearts touched choked up Oh a see you'll have had a lot of pain and grievance of your push right now when you push it that it's just the another surface Holy Ghost well it's great fun with can we just get the aircon on of it's really hot in here man I got hot subtly it's off maybe could cool the place a little just kidding so warm Wow got hot all of a sudden here haha well that's great good you love the Holy Ghost I just love the Holy Ghost he is so wonderful he is so wonderful man better keep going so he can get things for the great presence I got it thank you lord where we go okay why don't we just we're just going to look at I'm just strengthening your spirit man or building your inner man I want to share with you a few keys on that and then we'll look at ministering to people so we're looking at page 19 the notes and we're just going to jump on section we'll come back in a moment just strengthening or building your spirit man so let's first of all I want you to just have a look at divine design and and see how God has designed us to function because many times we kind of spiritual things are have an appearance as though they're very difficult was in fact they're not difficult it's just when you don't understand it it seems this like it's just another world or something but in genesis 2:7 god formed man out of the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and man became a living soul so man is made in the image of God God is a spirit we have a spirit dimension to us so we are a spirit being you're a human being you live in the body but your body but you are more than just your body your body's called the house you live in so we have a body we live in we have a soul where our personality will mind emotions and memories exist we also have a spirit the spirit part of us enables us to communicate and connect with the whole realm of the Spirit so living and operating as a believer is about living and operating from the flow within our spirit when man sinned and fell he lost the spiritual connection had to live out of his mind and soul so your spirit has a number of functions so let me just identify for you some of the functions of your spirit so we can understand them I'm a one your spirit sustains your life that's something people don't really understand we kind of think of life as being fairly natural sort of thing but that's what says for the body without the Spirit is dead even so faith without works is dead also so very clearly the body without the Spirit is dead so you spirit is what provides the energy that sustains your body now I'm sure there's also biochemical processes and time that are biological processes which are in place as well but the Bible's very clear without your spirit your body dies your spirit is therefore essential to the functioning of your body if I chopped off a finger I could continue to live chopped off a couple of legs still continue to live so there's a lot you could lose and still live but you can't live without your spirit so your spirit is vital to the life that you live on the earth so your spirit if the person spirit is withdrawn they die and the Bible tells us your spirit can be broken it can be crushed it can be wounded so your spirit is quite vulnerable your spirit can sense and respond and be affected by what goes on around it so a person's spirit can be crushed and when your spirit is broken it affects your health so for example the Bible says that a broken spirit dries the bones in other words when your spirit is damaged through trauma through words through control through abuse then what happens is it doesn't generate the energy that would allow you to live a very vibrant life similarly if your life is dominated by demonic spirits your spirit is restricted from flowing and so again you don't live the free life and the abundant life that God has intended for us to have so a second thing we notice is that your spirit energizes and inspires your thoughts now here's something remember we got everyone praying in tongues and we asked you what was the effect of strong praying in tongues what did you feel happen to you and we come up with actually your body come alive you felt like energized how many felt that some of you said there's an interesting thing you said that your mind cleared how many had that experience your mind cleared very good now notice the scripture here it says in in proverbs 20 verse 27 the spirit of man is the lamp of the Lord that's an interesting the lamp is something that illuminate so the spirit of man is the lamp of the Lord it eliminates or it searches all the deep places of his heart is another scripture 1 Corinthians 2:11 what no man knows the things of man save the spirit of Man which is in them even so no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God now your spirit we t we try to describe it in different ways but your spirit is like an energy source inside you your spirit fits into your body like a hand fits inside a glove so if I was to look at a person I see through their eyes into the soul and spirit you sing the living person if the spirit leaves you look into those same eyes they're dead and lifeless now your spirit provides life on the inside it also illuminates your mind so if God wants to drop things into your mind he will do it through your spirit the spirit of man is the lamp of the Lord so when your spirit is flowing you think clearly you notice when we got our spirits moving ahead start to clear you sit down for a long time become passive and your body's inactive your spirit will start to shut down as well stand up shake your body move beacon tongues and you hit clear just like that it's quite it's just a very simple thing to understand so how many have known this experience that you had a problem you faced and you didn't know what to do about it so you we went to bed on it and in the morning woke up and you knew what to do what part of you was figuring out that problem it was your spirit so even though your body is at rest your spirit through the evening or night is not at rest it's just alive it doesn't sleep so your spirit can commune with God while you're asleep your spirit can illuminate your mind with ideas so imagine your spirit being like a lamp that can just flash an idea into your mind where does creativity come comes up out of the spirit of a man so when a person is under control they can't release creative thoughts because their spirit is crushed down so the spirit of man is the lamp of the Lord see spirits like a flashlight it will light things up and it will give you insights to itself so if you're going to gain insight to your own life you have to be able to reach into your spirit into the deep parts of you and draw from within and tune in to the flow from your spirit well identify that in the moment you notice when someone is spirit is alive and energized the whole countenance seems full of life if it's seen singers on a stage we say they have what's called charisma actually charisma is just the life of this spirit flowing unhindered through them and you notice the freedom is incredibly attractive when someone's really free you can see it on there it's like their face is lit up you ever notice when you've seen people and say the Indian culture who got saved and you see them standing alongside people are unsaved they look like they're lit up on the inside it shows on the countenance if someone is under oppression of an evil spirit they look black or dark so clearly the activity of the human spirit and the Spirit of God illuminates and brings life and it brings ideas to us so the Holy Spirit can give you many ideas but always does it by eliminating your spirit third thing about your spirit is this is your spirit flows out your spirit can flow to touch people in proverbs 4:23 keep your heart with all diligence for out of it shall flow the issues of your life so your spirits movement is a flowing movement like water like a river like a some form of energy jesus said in john 7:38 he who believes in me as the scripture said out of his heart will flow rivers of living water now notice again the flowing nature of your spirit so your spirit flows from you and your spirit actually can in fill a whole room so for example they'll give you a few examples how many of you have closed your eyes but as you've walked near a wall you could suddenly be aware there was a wall there ask yourself I wonder what part of me knew there was a wall there now of course if you're moving too quick and don't take notice you just bumped straight into it but if you were in a perfect perfectly black war room and you started to walk and you just walk quietly towards name there's a wall there it's almost certain you'll feel the presence of the wall before you actually hit it especially if your spirit is energizing there life never had the experience of someone sneaking up behind you and you suddenly become aware someone is there how do you become aware your spirit is aware have you ever been in a room and suddenly some and someone extremely important come into the room with a lot of authority come in the room you feel the whole room change see so Authority is actually tangibly felt when you get in the person someone to the Mint's Authority you feel it engage the whole room the atmosphere changes it's a spirit dimension around people's life okay and so the so for example a person who is showing up emotions in a very strong way the influence actually affects the atmosphere for example if a person is very anger angry you can feel the anger even if they're not saying anything you meet someone who's seething with anger you can feel it how do you feel it something is emanating out from them a person who's peacefully met someone who's incredibly peaceful they carry a spirit of peace when you come near them you become very calm it's this you're quite nice being in their presence because you feel the peace have you ever met someone who had self pity governing their life you can literally feel the emanating self-pity and you feel like it's drawing you in and you have to do something or say something and help them or some kind of way have you ever been there an arrogant person arrogant person they put out into the atmosphere that they are superior to you so you feel put down even if nothing much is said so whatever is inside us flows out of us and the spiritual part of you can pick it up it's helpful for you to be aware of that of that dynamic flow so we just can do it'll just give an example here we don't mind using you as an example again can I use you as an example there we go just come and stand there I need someone to stand behind her now so we know that the Holy Spirit lives within us and so he fills us up so we pray in tongues go by but I'm not I'm not so cut about they then a whole spirit can become filled until the whole atmosphere around me starts to be filled with the presence of God now if I wish to lay hands on here then there can be a release of what's in me just through the contact of lang on the hands I could just go part of God and the power of God starts to touch her but the power of God can touch her also without me connecting vows just to allow my heart to be filled with the presence of God just release power of God that you now now she'll start to feel the power of God just come around to life touching her now see I didn't touch at that time but something flowed your spirit spirit substance flows the things of the Spirit flow beyond you it's helpful to realize that so therefore just your presence in a place can affect what's going on around you if you're conscious that God is inside you you're filled with the presence you were going to release the peace of God we saw it coming to the meeting just before so your spirit is vital to your life your spirit can affect the quality of your life your spirit can gain thoughts and ideas your spirit can flow out of you that's the most wonderful thing to think that something can flow out of you through your words or just being there that touches people can healing can flow life can flow so we want to minister to one another short you want to get that flow going on they give you an exercise to try so so those are some of the things our spirit can do here's another vital thing and that as your spirit can be strengthened in other words you can become really strong in your spirit or you can be very weak so if he's and 3 verse 16 I pray that he would grant you according to the Richie was glory to be strengthened with might through his spirit in the inner man so the inner man is your spirit being joined to the Holy Ghost strengthen means increased and Dominion at with might supernatural ability Dunamis see so here's the thing that the Holy Ghost can strengthen you now how is it going to happen well we want to I'm glad you asked that because we want to see exactly how they have I always ask the questions how does that happen if I don't know how it happens how well it's wonderful it sounds very very good but how does that happen I still feel weak like I was yesterday let's see we need to know what we can do that will engage the Holy Spirit working with us how can I become strong on the inside now if I wanted to gain physical strength like my son-in-law then I'd have to do a number of things but the most important I could eat the right food drink the right drink but here's the most important thing of all you'd have to exercise and all exercise involves the same kind of thing various forms of it but essentially you have to exert your muscles against something that is resisting you have to actually overcome the resistance and in overcoming the resistance you begin to build strength inside yourself so we can pray that we'll be physically strong and you know it doesn't work you can pray you'll be physically fit you know it doesn't work you actually have to do something to get physically fit you can pray that God will strengthen you and there's nothing wrong with doing that we should pray that God would strengthen us but there are ways you can cooperate with the Holy Ghost for that to happen so let's have a look at some here's some keys to being to growing your spirit or strengthening your spirit one of them already seen number one probably the first one everyone who is praying in tongues he that prank speaks in an unknown tongue 1 Corinthians 14 verse 4 strengthens himself builds himself so when you beak in the Holy Ghost your own spirit can start to arise and become very strong that's one of the ways you strengthen your spirit so that's why praying fluently praying forcefully praying strongly strengthens and build your spirits not the only way but you can do that anytime you want pray and us all of us Chicago but with that and as you pray in tongues let your spirit rise up inside you allow yourself to be aware I am growing and increasing in my spirit and you come alive very good quickly so that's one important way you can pray that way all the time so get you to do a few of these things in the moment a second thing you can do is to one of the things the most important thing that your spirit responds to is the Word of God I can't emphasize enough how the Word of God will strengthen your spirit but it doesn't strengthen your spirit just by reading it you've got to get it in you so one way that the Word of God can strengthen our spirit is when we learn to speak God's Word pray God's Word declare God's Word this is a way Jesus said the words I speak they are spirit and they are life and so that is in the fear he brews three verse one consider Apostle and high priest of our confession or profession so spoken words have power they can release something they now so if the word of God spoken with the heart that believes it releases power I can release power and strength into my own spirit by speaking to myself now one of the things that secular people understand is the importance of self-talk of what you say to yourself most people are talking to themselves all the time I couldn't do that either be harder and what's going to happen next that's not going to work out you've got a lot of endless relentless negative chatter going on but if you were to start speaking the Word of God over your life speaking the Word of God into your heart wholeheartedly it would have an effect on you I am strong in the Lord and the power of his might your sauce is now your night you just a boy I am strong in the heart and the barrel is might begin to confess the Word of God let the Word of God grow in your I speak it upon your life say what God says about you I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me everything God called me to do I can do it through Christ who strengthens me now you see these are strong affirmations of God's word over your life so praying the Word of God speaking the Word of God over your life will strengthen your spirit try it a few time we've already done a few exercise on it fax you it affects you here's another thing worship is another way of strengthening your your spirit man your spirit responds to the presence of God and worship now in 2 Corinthians reading says we all with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord are transformed or totally changed so what it's saying then is worship when I engage God properly changes me see well I don't feel changed I just sang some songs I lift my hands up and feel change one little bit well it's because worship is not just about singing songs and lifting your hands it's about your heart engaging with God and experiencing God so I have to actually do more than the externals it's about my heart and the focus of my heart and as we allow our heart our your spirit will easily engage God it's your body and soul that are the resistant parts so that's why I encourage you to do this I encourage you to clap your hands make your body wake up wake up body I know it's after lunch wake up come alive just like that in praying tongues help us uh Kahala Volusia go I can get my spirit alive very quickly I've learned to do that very easily but then the next part is actually the worshiping partner worshiping is much more tender and I found it most helpful the problem you find is you worship as your mind wanders so to think all that be nice sit down to watch television call baa baa baa Chicago buy the year so to be lovely wonder what matches on right now cooler because she couldn't see and we're not going to engage and worship much that way see so worship is consciously and intentionally letting your heart reach out and ferm the love and value you have for him so if I just get my mind distracted I'm not really worshiping I'm going through the motions they draw near with the lips but the heart is not there because the mind has gone somewhere else but if I was to just ponder that Jesus is with me and I just begin to say I love you thank you Lord for your goodness to me I just worship you I just give you everything I just love you Lord and thank you for your presence and I can start to begin to feel and become conscious that he's there you feel the atmosphere starting to change I don't took a moment or two but he said well it doesn't happen for me well it didn't happen for me either until I practiced I practice worshiping I practice giving myself their lift my hands up and dance and praise Allah and just give them I learned to just give myself to him and I found sometimes if in me initially I was so hung up I found it helpful just to just give myself physically and dance before the Lord celebrate his presence and just give us and then yield to him it's I love you Lord just come and fill me and overflow and just crash on the bed let him just come all over me and I learned to explore what it is to just stand in the presence of God and enjoy him and sometimes it can be just so delightful you just want to just stay there admiring him and worship engages him and you just begin to feel his presence and other things just seem to change you come out of a time of worship we've engaged the presence of God other things seem to not have so much importance anymore it's the difficult part is getting rid of the baggage so you can engage them personally so it's helpful to picture to use your mind that brings us to the next set the next one of growing in our spirit man is to develop our spiritual imagination and people sometimes get trouble with this but notice what Paul says in 1 Timothy 4:15 meditate on these things give yourself totally to them so that your progress or profiting might appear to all so to meditate means to revolve around in your mind to picture to use your imagination to see spiritual truth that's true that whatever you set your heart on your heart will open up to so set your heart on problems you'll open up to problems set your heart on the Lord and meditate so you may not feel anything much about the presence of God you may not feel that he's there at all you may think he's a long way off I lived with God a long way off for a long part of my life but then I learned that if I would meditate and picture truth just imagine the truth in other words use your imagination - love your Lord with all your heart and soul and mind and strength that would include my imagination so if I was to just imagine what it is to stand in the presence of God who loves me and hold the picture that the Bible says of what he's like his countenance his eyes his face is beauty all of the earth and just meditate now what does that feel like to be welcomed by him like that is there just imagine seeing the scripture I have found an interesting thing happens that as you do that you begin to write into your heart the truth first to say what is this some of these this multiplication problem three times four three fours are you know you didn't have to stop and think about it because you'd learned it by heart how did you learn it by heart by repetition so repetition of seeing the same thing welcoming the same thing affirming the same thing it begins to grow in a heart as a spiritual reality and so it doesn't really take long once you've started to meditate and hold your mind fixed so I've meditated in Psalm 23 on Jesus being my shepherd I meditated in revelations about him being the great and glorious coming king and each time you meditate you begin to see him differently so initially you have to allow your mind you know I just read the scripture try to get the picture and then I imagine what that would be like and just stay there imagining it trying to feel it and then holy spirit takes over and a flow comes I'll just show you again you can be my helper again maybe that'll be great idea come be my helper again I want to get you to I want you to will pray for lots of people shortly I want you to just just to help me in this one now I want you to close your eyes and I want you just to be open for how God might touch you I'm not going to try to minister to you or pray for you in any way what I want to do instead of just holding your hand just to stay join to you what I want to do is to just meditate that Jesus is my friend my wonderful friend my Shepherd thank you lord you're my shepherd and friend so begin to meditate and see him there standing just in front of me begin to see everything see his eyes so full of love and life countenance so joyful his reach out to receive his love he see the moment I locked in she started to feel the overflow meditation and that was you to open your spirit and heart to the truth of the Bible that's why we're to not only read the Bible write the Bible memorize the Bible but meditate allow our mind to reflect on it this at least three different ways of meditating I'm aware of now but one way of meditating is to meditate in to encounter with God you don't hear much about that you can meditate over a truth of Scripture and begin to look at it and begin to gain insights and see how it might apply to your life that's one way of looking at scripture you can meditate on scripture also to enter in and experience God that's another way of meditating you can meditate on scripture just to build it into your heart by repeating it over and over so there's at least three things that I'm aware that we could do with Scripture one for insight one for impartation and the other to open up the realm we got us so mary did you come up and describe for us what you experienced well yeah it's pretty quick so just take this off okay just talking to that I just felt just overwhelmed by his love by his presence at dust I couldn't stand can still feel it just they see where some see how it got opened meditation open the way for that to happen as a strong presence of God there it is full holy gods come now praise the Lord she feeling the presence now pretty really good for us to just do a couple of things in show we want it we just do that we just put into practice at least a couple of the exercises we've learnt now so now you're going to need to you're going to need a help for this so what you're going to need is you're going to need a chair to fall back on so there's no we can't catch everyone and so we're not going to catch anyone I have to catch yourself ha ha ha so so what I'll give you three things that we're going to do we're going to do the three things that we just learned would strengthen your spirit man one of them was that we would speak strongly in tongues to will confess the Word of God and each time we do something again notice what it does for you then the third thing we'll do is we'll meditate and I'll just help you with the meditating and just focusing your mind now some people their mind doesn't focus easily it's like a butterfly goes everywhere that's just a matter of reining in your mind training your mind to stay in one place and not go everywhere else and once you've trained your mind you can stay there and you can lock in and stay there a long long time and we realize then our mind can be trained to serve our spirit now initially you may find a little bit difficult everyone's experience we've bit different but let's see what God does anyway why not try ok come on then stand up then where you are and then position yourself so you've got a seat so should you fall over unexpectedly you don't fall on anyone else and if you're very very big person you may want your chair back up to the wall so you don't just go clean head over heels straight over into someone else there we go Tim straight up against the wall okay we're ready so one just shake your body just loosen your body up we've just had lunch and so we're a little bit all getting tired and no energy ah holy ghost er all right there now let's begin to pray in tongues strongly as we can and let's stir our spirit up a little under my car immediately she can Oh buddy updates you know I got a video that I may get a video vichy caliber your thigh he'll about under a mikoshi caliber yacht the loop will get a pretty hot thigh yep everybody get a video tie yeah Bubba she got a video die yeah she got a video die yeah ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba she got a video tie olympic-caliber autonomous Chilam Balam idiot I praise the Lord okay next one we're going to make this declaration I am strong in the Lord and the power of his might I am strong in the Lord in the power of his might I am strong in the Lord in the power of his might I am strong in the Lord and the power of his might I am strong in the Lord and the power of his might well that's good how many felt some falling over already ha ha ha ha ok then now you should find that the energy level is shifted considerably in you and as you meditate on the scriptures and decree them more and more they start to become alive lift your spirit the moment you speak them now I want you just to meditate just reach your hands out it's in front of you like that just like your hands are upturned and open and you have your eyes closed and your legs resting just against the seat seat because if you fall over you'll just want to sit down otherwise you'll tumble and take 3 or 4 people with you and we try to avoid that if we can okay then we're going to meditate so let's pick a prank pray quietly in tongues for a little just let your spear it flow killer baka nobody I'd better because she cut about their Ella ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba she could ever die caliber on that I must shall about time Anna meditate means I'll fix my mind and begin to focus my attention on scripture on the Lord so just stop trying now I want you to your eyes closed I want you to take the scripture the Lord is my shepherd the Lord is my shepherd see now that means he is my friend so use your imagination to extend out and see Jesus standing just before you about one foot away and here's your friend try to imagine what a friend would be like eyes blazing full of glory and purity and full of joy to see you that's what a friend is they're always happy to see you see him like that his countenance very happy to see you friends are always happy to see one another they smile and their a face lights up see him like that the Lord is my friend look at him a little harder there it is here's the Lord God Almighty just full of life full of light and amazing love meditate on that just think about that his hands are reaching out to you that's what friends do they open the hands wide are so good to see you now as you reach out to him his reach out he does love you imagine what that love would feel like he just reached out and hugged you and his love just flowed into your life and you just received it now let's receive it receive it right now receive love of God right now let's come Thank You long Oh Oh hard to stand up if you stay meditating on that you stay relaxed so you can receive some people are not used to receive they used to doing you've got to give up doing in this Lord I just receive only spirit calm like Jesus real right now ooh so you keep your mind just fixed on him now begin to worship Him oh Jesus I surrender to you I give myself to you let's receive your love now receive your goodness into my life he is overwhelming imagine the God of heaven and he's your friend how amazing so love on him lay your heart and spirit just reach around Jesus I just love you I receive your love into my heart come Lord touch people touch people who are watching let them experience your love and your presence flowing now as you're reaching out to him what do you think he would want to say to you listen for him if his thoughts just rise in your mind they'll be quite personal I love you let him talk with you enjoy spirit is made for encounters with God the spirit is made to experience him we can have many levels of encounter but we can always pray in tongues and meditate and always become conscious of his presence and sometimes it can really overwhelm and you can have visions or hear things or see things you can begin to open up and just like you enter into heaven itself come Lord so it does our spirit good to be in the presence of God like this it builds your spirit when you pray in tongues it builds your spirit when you confess the Word of God and meditate in the Word of God these things build your spirit if you worship Him it builds your spirit wonderful Jesus we just thank you for your presence here right now touching lives come Lord upon people right now thank you lord now some of you will be very very engaging in the presence of God and others your mind will be going all over thinking ah my what am I supposed to feel what am I what's supposed to happen this will take you away from where you need to be don't try and analyze things just Jesus is my friend I believe the scripture he's my shepherd and friend so what does that look like and what does that feel like it's dwell on that and just embrace that truth into your heart there are many truths in the Bible we can meditate in that will bring us near him this one's my favorite we can meditate on the cross become deeply aware of what he's done for us so meditation will help you in your spirit man it'll help you grow and become sensitive help you become conscious of God it's just so few people really do it but once you've learned how to do this and engage God then your life begins to change alright and so let's just well every wants to stay meditating here all right then someone just open their eyes again and just come back out you can go there anytime of course how many people just really felt God connect with them were they connected with God you really felt the presence go wow look at that so many people and they're wonderful in that wonderful so these are keys you can build your spirit man and of course the last one I've put down there is obedience we're going to learn to obey what God speaks to us about and so using your spiritual senses are developed as you exercise every time you say yes to God your spirit strengthens every time you say no to the devil your spirit strengthens when you a slow and resist responding to God your spirit is weakened so we want to be strong in our spirit man how many found that helped you you've kind of got touched by God some of you quite weepy because you've experienced God doctor tell us about your experience can you some people may not be able to let's try I felt it in here in here enough was bending over I started looking up but then you know felt up in here and I just wanted to bend over very good very good so you started by lifting up because your consciousness as God is up there and that's okay lift up your hands and so on but then as the weight of his presence started to come around you that's what course you bend over called the weight of glory yeah what happened to you Mary what did you experience similar kind of similar um just experiencing a wave of his love and peace and just overwhelming anyone else I tell what they experienced yes ah nice one hahahaha we meaning you and him awesome that's great Brian what about you you needed to get delivered where yes that was supposed to be the last session so you felt like you want to coughing something in you distracting you right right into cut to gain breath tangible presence you really strongly felt okay someone else felt something like that yes gel like a warmth well fellas arms around is no wonderful you well wonderful that's good with all of that yeah anyone else had a different experience yes just you that good isn't that great that's accessible all the time yes what did you experience yeah so you gain perspective on your life when you become into the presence of God refocuses yes you're like oh that's wonderful he or one other one a share well it's a great time together wasn't they just enjoying the presence of God and so moving in authority is not just about all strengths and shouts and right it's actually about the substance of your connection with God and expressing that through words and actions in the earth and it's it's this is the thing if we can grow in these areas in our whole life and ministry everything changes amen

Channel: Mike Connell

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Keywords: Baptism in the Holy Spirit, Receiving gift of tongues, blockages to receiving, divine design, blockage to spirit flow, dealing with wrong teaching, surrender control, feeling not good enough, how to experience god., Holy Spirit (Deity), Spirituality (Literary Genre), Training, pentecostal

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Length: 66min 18sec (3978 seconds)

Published: Sat Jul 06 2013