I would like to share with you today about
what the Holy Spirit wants to help you with. The Holy Spirit wants to help you with this. There are 10 things that the Holy Spirit wants to
help you with today. Holy Spirit was sent as our Helper. He helps us. He wasn't sent only to be a
guarantee of our redemption as Christians, only as a guarantee that we are going to heaven. But He
was sent with a specific assignment to help you, and these are 10 things He wants to help you
with today. And so as we dive into them, I want you to open up your heart and prepare yourself
because in these 10 areas you can receive help. You know we all need help, come on somebody, amen.
Drop this in the comments below. We need help. We need help with our families. We need help with
our health. We need help with so many things, and do you ever feel like sometimes, man if I could
only get some help. If I could only get some help with my homework. If I can only go get some help
with my finances. If somebody could come alongside and just help me to pay these bills. If somebody
could just come alongside and help me with my relationship with my spouse. Man, if I could only
get some help with my kids. If I can only get some help with my ministry. Sometimes we don't have the
finances, we don't have the resources to buy help. But today I want to present to you 10
areas of your life where the Holy Spirit is there to help. All you got to do is ask, all
you gotta do is lean on Him, all you got to do is pause and say, "Holy Spirit, help me in this
area." Jesus called the Holy Spirit a Helper. Jesus called the Holy Spirit our Helper.
That word "helper" means Encourager, Teacher, Comfortor, Strengthener, the one who stands
by, our Counselor, our Redeemer, our Defender, our Friend, Intercessor, Advocate. So many, pretty
much all of that encompasses, and right now let's dive in into the 10 things the Holy Spirit
wants to help you with right now. Number one, the Holy Spirit wants to make you holy. He
wants to help you to become holy. The Bible says in Thessalonians 2:13, that we experience
sanctification by the Holy Spirit. Meaning He sets us apart, He makes us holy. Secondly,
the Holy Spirit wants to produce a Christ-like attitude in you. One of the things that I
struggle with, you probably struggle with, all of us struggle with is with our attitude.
Attitude is how you respond to things. You can't control what happens to you, you
can control how you respond to it, and really majority of our problems don't necessarily come
from the things we can't control but from the things we can control. Something happens, somebody
treats you in a certain way, and the Holy Spirit doesn't just want to create your life in such a
way where you are never faced with challenges, where He is standing by and says, "I want to help
you with how you respond to the things." Most of us would of course rather have the Holy Spirit
prevent and keep away all the bad things, all the bad people, all the negative circumstances, so
that we don't have to rely on the Holy Spirit for Christ-like attitude. He wants to give you, help
you, develop a different attitude toward things. "The fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace,
long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Against such there is
no law," Galatians 5:22-23. As I develop a closer relationship with the Holy Spirit, I started to
recognize He is far more interested in my attitude than He is in my actions. I didn't say He's not
interested in our actions. I'm just saying far more in our attitude. attitude is how I react.
Attitude is this, is this thing that I have and how I respond. Your life is really going to be
the sum of your actions and your reactions. How you react to things makes a very big difference,
and the Holy Spirit stands there and He says, "I want to help you to react, respond. I want to
help you that you will be a person that is not reacting negatively but responding godly." That's
what the Holy Spirit is going to help you with that. Sometimes He's going to help you to keep
your mouth shut. Sometimes He will help you to just be kind when you feel like not being kind.
He is there to help you. it's okay if you don't feel naturally to be nice when things are
hard. That's why you have the Holy Spirit, you rely on Him. That's why these attitudes
are called the fruit of the Spirit. They're not called the works of your discipline,
you're trying and your hard efforts. They are the fruit of the Spirit. Are you involved in
them, meaning do you have to make still conscious decisions? 100 percent, but the Holy Spirit is the
initiator and He is the Helper with this attitude. I was yesterday going, my sister-in-law asked us
to come to her house to lift some mats and to put them on some truck, of some person that came
from another city and to take her to another city. And we were just supposed to be there
to help with the mats. And it was inconvenient because I was meeting after the stream with our
youth pastor, and so as I'm meeting with him and I was like, "Hey, let's go with me. You'll
help me pick those mats," and then you know we're fasting, so physically I'm not like, let's go
and super buff. And part of me doesn't want to go and help with those mats because I'm like,
hey I have more spiritual things to do. But I know that I gotta help my sister-in-law. So we
arrived there and I get a text message, hey, the guy that's going to come to pick up those mats
where we have to load them, he's running late. So he's going to be about 20 to maybe 25 minutes
late. And you know part of me is like, "Man, I don't have time for this. I'm just meeting with
our youth pastor. He doesn't have time for this. I gotta run," and there's this like frustration that
begins to build up. And I remember, I walk into the house and at that moment I said, "Holy Spirit,
help me to be nice." That's all, and so to just wait because one of the fruits, attitudes of the
Holy Spirit is self-control and gentleness. Not like frustration. You see the fruit of the Spirit
is not frustration, and so the situation was frustrating. I do not like when people come late.
That's one of my pet peeves and kind of, ahh. But the Holy Spirit helps us with that. I
remember we just sat there, waited for 20 minutes. Truck came, loaded the mats, and they were heavy,
like 19 of them. Tiring. My brother was there also and our youth pastor, and you know and I left and
got a text message from my sister-in-law's like, "Hey, I'm so grateful that you came. I know that
you didn't have to. you have so many other things going on." And you know I showed up, that was my
action. But what made a big difference wasn't the action, it was the attitude, because I could have
been frustrated. I could have been angry, you know snappy. You know very just kind of on the edge
and trust me that's exactly what I wanted to do, but the Holy Spirit is there to help me with my
attitude. There are people watching right now, you are destroying your life because of your
attitude. In fact your attitude is keeping you from your altitude. You can go higher but your
attitude is keeping you lower, and guess who wants to help you with your attitude? The Holy
Spirit. So that the way you respond, that you don't bark but you speak to people. You don't
attack but there is a sense of long suffering, gentleness and self-control in your attitude.
Naturally, it will probably not happen. That's why it's gonna happen supernaturally,
through the help of the Holy Spirit. Come on, we all need that help right? We all need
help with our attitude. If you need help with your attitude, drop that hand emoji, hand up emoji
because we all need, I need that help. That's one of the areas I lean on the Holy Spirit so much
throughout my day, because there's you know my way, and there is my preferences, there's things
that I like. And when things go outside of those preferences and the things that I like, you know
we tend to get frustrated, angry. And some of us, when we are angry and frustrated, we sin, and so
and we have to allow the Holy Spirit to help us. And so the tendency is to "Oh no, I'm gonna try
harder," and trying harder is not going to help you. I think that we have to surrender more. So
my approach to fixing my attitude has not been, I'm just gonna work on my attitude. I've tried
that before. It's hard. It's discouraging. I fail so many times. My approach has changed since I met
the Holy Spirit. I realized since the attitude is one of the things He's working on, I'm like, why
do I need to work on it if He can work on it? And it's not that I am taking the back seat and
not doing anything, no. It's just in those moments when the frustration builds and there's a build up
of, I'm gonna explode. I just take a few seconds, sometimes it could be a little bit longer.
In my own heart, I don't say this out loud, and I just reach for that hand of the
Holy Spirit and say, "Holy Spirit, help." In fact, let's drop this in the chat. Holy Spirit,
help. That prayer, and something happens with your emotions, they seem to kind of subside. You
still feel that but you subside, and then He helps you to control your tongue because that's
when the attitude shows up many times. Your facial expression because you know you could have mad,
frustrated, dropping things. You know screaming, throwing things, slamming the door. Or your
physical reaction becomes just controlled, and you know you're obvious that the
atmosphere is tense, everything is tense. But a few more seconds, few more seconds and the peace
begins to fill your heart and you're like Jesus, sleeping in the storm. You're like Jesus, you're
walking through this situation completely not being controlled and being manipulated
and bullied by that situation to act out of character. And then you're looking back
at yourself, you're like, man, I'm not like that. That's not my natural disposition, that's
not my natural response. Oh, that was the Holy Spirit. The fruit of the Spirit, meaning He
helped me with my attitude. I asked for help, He offered it to me. So throughout your day just
ask for help. When you see you're losing it, when you see you're about to lose it, you see you're
about to explode, when you see that the tension is building up, when you see you're about to go
over whats allowed, just say, "Holy Spirit, help." The third thing the Holy Spirit wants to help
is He wants to strengthen your inner person. He wants to strengthen that inner person. See we
have a body, we have a soul and we are a spirit. Many Christians, their problem, our problem
is that we live not out of our inner men but we become soulish Christians. Soulish Christians
are Christians that live mainly on their emotions. They rely on their mind. They don't live out
of their spirit. They don't live out of their inner man. And one of the reasons why we don't
live out of our inner men or inner man doesn't dictate our decisions and our direction is
because the inner man is not strengthened. And so we have our soul do most of the living
and instead of living through our spirit because our spirit man is not strengthened, our soul is
the one that takes the lead in majority of our decisions, and we become what the Bible calls
as soulish people. Not spiritual but soulish, and we fall into carnality very fast. Ephesians
3:16 tells us that God wants to, according to the riches of His glory, to make you be strengthened
with might through His Spirit in the inner man. See you shouldn't be living in your soul, you
should be speaking to your soul. David spoke to his soul. Many times he would say, "Soul why are
you disquieted in me? Why are you discouraged? Come on, praise the Lord." So the spirit of a
man is the lamp of the Lord. The spirit of the man can be strengthened. Now guess who is the
one that does the strengthening with might? He doesn't necessarily want to strengthen
your soul, He wants to renew our mind, He wants to guide our emotions but the Holy
Spirit's part on building this muscle is in your inner man. Why? Because if your inner man
is strong, you can persevere, you can overcome, you can last. You can do a lot of things
for God. This is kind of what I've been realizing in my young walk with the Lord and
that is this. The further I go with Jesus, the more He begins to trust me and the
more responsibilities I begin to acquire. Responsibilities, ministry responsibilities
create pressures. They create a weight and they can really take a toll on your life. So when
I was younger my prayer was always, "Lord, lighten my load. Lord take away these burdens. Lord, take
away the stress, take away the responsibilities. God, I don't want to be responsible for my
bills. I don't want to be responsible for my insurance. God, I don't want to grow up. I want
to stay a kid, I want to." You know like when I was a teenager, I wanted to grow up and then
as I started to grow up. Like I remember first time that I had to pay for my phone, first time
I had to pay for my insurance. And then I bought a property when I was younger at the age of 20,
and I had to pay for property. And then something happened there and you know the bathroom flooded
or something, and they called me, and I'm like, "Why are you calling me? Call my dad." You know
because I was so used to being taken care of and now I have to take responsibility, and I was like,
I don't want to grow up. I'm like, they lied to me. Being an adult is deceptive. It's hard. It's
annoying. It's exhausting. You know our youth group. I was a youth pastor, it wasn't growing,
and I thought that was hard until the youth group started to grow. And I realized, oh this is so
much harder. Than the drama comes in, and this kid likes this kid, then this person, they slept
with this person. What do we do with this now? And then this person doesn't like me, and this person
said something, and then there's gossip and then there's. I was like, "Oh man, I don't want to be a
part of this. I just want to disappear and hide in the desert, and have no responsibilities, have
no pressures and have no weight that I carry." Or, "God, please take this away. I don't
want to have this. I'm tired of this." But then as I started to study the Scriptures, I
recognized God doesn't always take away the weight because if He takes away the weight, He takes away
our calling, our responsibilities, our families. He takes away maturity, and I started to see
in the Scriptures this reference "renewing the strength, strengthening with might." And then
a light went on, my prayer changed. Instead of praying, "God, take away the pressure, take away
the weight. God, take away all my critics. God, take away my responsibilities. God, take away all
these people that are just kind of causing me to be overwhelmed." My prayer changed, and I started
to pray, "Lord, strengthen, Holy Spirit strengthen me for the assignment that I have." So I'm not
running away from pressure, I'm not running away from stress. I'm talking about good stress
that comes with part of being called, having responsibility, leading your family, leading the
ministry, leading a business. I'm not running away from that. I'm running to my secret place,
and I ask the Holy Spirit, who is my Helper, to add me strength because the calling
and the pressure that I encounter is equal to His strength. So when I don't
have His strength I feel overwhelmed but when He adds strength to me, and guess what
happens? I can run, I can walk and I can soar. Not because I'm brilliant, smart, educated and
connected, but because I am strengthened in the inner man. So how does the Holy Spirit want to
help you? Most likely the tasks you are facing are bigger than you, responsibilities you are facing
are bigger than you. There's some of you watching, your a single mom. Odds are against you. You
can't do it on your own, you feel overwhelmed. In fact you feel like God has given you more than
you can handle. Did you know why? It's because He is relying on you to rely on the Holy Spirit. He
will always give you more than you can handle, because He will never give you more than He can
handle. Oh, that's a fire right there. Drop this in the chat. God will always give you more than
you can handle because He will never give you more than what He can handle. That means the
Holy Spirit is there to help you handle things, help you, to strengthen you in the inner man.
Strengthen you to lead your family when you are on one income. Strengthen you to lead your ministry
when you feel overwhelmed. Strengthen you to lead your wife and your children, when as a man, you
feel ill-equipped and you never had a good role model. Your dad was never there. Strengthen you
to lead your business when you are branching out, your business is exploding and you're like, "I've
never been in this area, I don't know what to do. I'm overwhelmed. I am just tired." Strengthen
you when your business is going through a very difficult time. Economy, people you know are
not buying your product anymore. You're like, "Man, what do I do? I feel overwhelmed. I
feel exhausted. Guess what you need?" You don't always need a lighter load. Sometimes you
need greater strength. Let me say that again. Are you ready for this. Sometimes we don't need
a lighter load, we need greater strength. God doesn't just take away the load, He renews our
strength. The Holy Spirit is there to strengthen your inner man, that will match to the weight, the
pressure and the stress that comes with living and leading in your life. Come on somebody. God will
always give you more than you can handle because He will never give you more than what Holy Spirit
can handle. So if you're handling everything on your own, this is what's going to happen.
You of course are going to be dropping your responsibilities, you're going to be quitting
certain things. You're going to be saying, "I can't do this, I can do this, I can't do this."
Yeah, I can't do this but I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me, the Spirit
who strengthens me. So one of the things the Holy Spirit helps me personally a lot is helps me
with my attitude, He helps me to live a holy life, and He helps me to increase my strength when I
feel like my load is greater than my strength. And honestly, I feel that every week. I feel that
my load is greater than my strength every single week. Without the Holy Spirit, I can't do that.
I can't be healthy and function because the load is heavy. The load of just being an adult is
heavy. We're not even talking about ministry right now. We're not even talking about demonic
attacks. No, just the load, it's heavy okay and many people quit. Mid-age crisis, and people
just walk out on their marriages. They numb themselves with alcohol because a lot of people
are overwhelmed. They don't live out of overflow, they live out of overwhelmness. And in order to
not live out of the overwhelmness, we can feel overwhelmed but not to live out of that place,
we have to constantly go to the Holy Spirit. Say, "Holy Spirit, what needs to change? Have I put
more on my plate than I should or do I need more strength?" And usually you will see Holy Spirit
will guide you and give you usually more strength, more peace, more courage. And then you'll walk
into the same battle renewed in your strength. Number four thing that the Holy Spirit wants to
help you right now, that is He wants to lead you. Holy Spirit wants to lead you. Romans 8:14, "For
as many as are led by the spirit of God are the sons of God." He wants to lead you. Drop this
in the chat. The Holy Spirit wants to lead me. He wants to lead you. That means sometimes
it's not about reducing your weight or even increasing your strength. Sometimes
it's about changing your approach. What you were doing maybe was great but
what if there is a better way of doing it? For example, your fishing all night, cannot catch
fish. The goal isn't to go keep on fishing. The goal is to know where to fish, go into the deep.
The goal is to put your nets on the other side. So Holy Spirit can guide you and that's what
I love about the Holy Spirit is because He not only gives me strength when I am weak to match my
assignment. The Holy Spirit also helps me with my reactions, with my attitudes. He makes me holy but
then He guides me. Sometimes it's the impressions. You wake up during the sleep, you get this vision
and you get this dream. I need to change this, I need to tweak this and then you tweak it, you
see a fresh flow of God's grace. You know we need to change the approach, the way we do our customer
service, for example if you're a businessman. You know I need to do something different in
my marriage. I'm going to try to do this to my spouse and see where this goes, and we need
to tweak something in our ministry. And so yes we don't want to over spiritualize every single
thing, but as Christians, we just gotta allow the Holy Spirit to lead us. Sometimes it's not about
grinding it and pushing it through. Sometimes it's about changing our approach. How do we change
that approach? The leading of the Holy Spirit. He gives us impressions. He gives us pictures.
He gives us promptings and He gives us these leadings that we experience. Sometimes it could
come in the form of a thought that lingers and gives you a sense of peace, sense of
assurance, sense of "wow, this is brilliant" and it's almost like you know you didn't come up
with that. It came outside of you. Sometimes it's not even something you're thinking about, it just
comes to you from the Holy Spirit. And so I pay attention to those things because that is how the
Holy Spirit can lead you. Sometimes He can lead you through a prophetic word from somebody, or
somebody can come and speak and they're speaking about something and you're listening, listening
and then boom. There's that one thing they said that made a change for you. So I pay attention
to that because if the Holy Spirit is my friend, if the Holy Spirit is my guide, He will guide me.
Now what I love about the Holy Spirit is this, He does not drive people. He leads people. Drop
this in the chat. The Holy Spirit does not drive. He leads. He doesn't drive people, He leads. We
drive out demons. The ships are being driven, we drive cars. Driving means you force an object
to do what it wants. That's driving. Leading means you are guiding slowly and giving that being to
follow you. You lead children, you lead people. Holy Spirit leads us. That means we are involved
and we can choose not to participate. It's kind of like if you are on the road and you have somebody
that is following you. You're not driving their car, right. You're driving your car but they're
following you. They can keep a distance closer or further, but they're following you, and that's how
Holy Spirit, He leads us. He doesn't drive us. He doesn't drive us into depression. He doesn't drive
us into this non-stop work all the time and you feel like in my generation people are driven.
Driven by success, driven by their passion, driven by ambition, driven by dreams. Holy
Spirit leads. That's why we are Spirit-filled. We are Spirit led. Don't live a driven life,
don't be like the culture. Live Spirit led life. Pastors listen to me, leaders listen to me,
Vlad listen to me. Live being led by the Spirit. Therefore when you are led by the Spirit He
has a pace of grace, where you don't burn out, where you don't experience "I can't do this
anymore." But even if the moments come like that, He helps you to get through. You want to find a
pace that has peace in it, allow the Spirit to lead you instead of your ambitions to drive you.
Hallelujah. Drop number one in the chat right now if this is helping somebody that the Holy Spirit
wants to lead us not drive us, amen. Now let's go to number five. The Holy Spirit wants to teach
you. The Holy Spirit wants to help you with this. Number five, the Holy Spirit wants to teach you.
John 16:13, it says that the Spirit of truth, when He guides you, He will guide you into all
truth. He will speak not on His own authority but whatever He hears, He will speak, and He
will tell you all things to come. This is huge. All of us have a Bible. I believe all of us are
reading the Bible, and we have to allow, every day to invite the Holy Spirit into our devotionals
and allow the Holy Spirit to teach us. Now it's important to read commentaries. It's important
to read other notes that you have in your Bible, but what's more important is to
allow the Spirit to quicken the Word. When He will teach you, it doesn't mean He
will teach you something contrary to the Bible. It just means He quickens, He makes the Word come
alive. The Bible is not just an ordinary book. When you read it, the author is present
with you. The author is the Holy Spirit. You have to, almost sometimes it's best before
you start reading, to say, "Holy Spirit, teach me. Holy Spirit quicken that word.
Holy Spirit make it come alive." If you read the Bible without the help of the
Holy Spirit, it's like eating uncooked rice. With the help of the Holy Spirit that rice gets
cooked and it feeds you. When it just becomes a letter of the law, the letter without the Holy
Spirit's help, life is there. But when the Holy Spirit comes to help, it becomes the rhema word.
It becomes quickened and it feeds you. It's not that you get some weird insights that contradict
the Bible. I'm not talking about that. That is not the teaching of the Holy Spirit, that's just
the pure heresy. But quickening of the Holy Spirit is He gives you life. That word gets quickened.
It gives you life of revelation that comes from that information, which eventually ends up being
a manifestation in a transformation in your life. So as you read the information of God's Word, the
Holy Spirit quickens it. It becomes a revelation of God's Word to you, and that revelation leads to
manifestation in your life, which results in the transformation in your circumstances. That's the
difference the Holy Spirit makes. Now the sixth thing the Holy Spirit wants to help you today
is He wants to reveal your future. Luke 2:26, "It was revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he
will not see death before he would the see Lord's Christ." We see in Acts 20:23 that Holy Spirit
testified in every city, saying the chains and tribulations await Paul. So we see this happening,
that the Holy Spirit loves to help reveal our future. Sometimes it can come in the form of
a vision. It can come in a form of a dream. It can come in the form of an image, and sometimes
it can come in the form of a prophetic word. And sometimes it can come in the form of a desire,
that it's almost like the Lord gives you this, through sanctified imagination He gives you this
desire and this picture of what is going to come in your life. And sometimes it's just a clear
audible voice that this is what's going to happen. And so when the Holy Spirit became more real
to me as a person, and I started to develop a relationship with him, and I talk about this in
my "Host The Holy Ghost" book on how that happened and how you can happen. And I believe that by
reading this book the same thing will happen to you. You will go even further. But one of the
things that started to happen with me as a youth pastor, it was, I couldn't explain it at first,
is in a prayer I would see an image of a sanctuary filled with young people. Now mind you, it's
been 10 years that we couldn't see more than like three rows field, and it's only on one side.
And I preached my best, I gave my best and now I'm seeing the future, and I would close my eyes. I
wouldn't think of this but the Holy Spirit would paint this image of what's about to happen. It
would fill me with so much joy. It got to the point, even as I'm speaking I feel the goosebumps.
It got to the point where I almost felt like it's what's going to happen, and it's almost
like I already see this happening. I would open my eyes, of course I see the sanctuary empty.
I close my eyes, I see it filled, and maybe two years after that, exactly the vision, this image,
the future that the Holy Spirit painted. Now some people, they planned their future. They're
like, "Oh, this is what we want to be." That's different. I'm talking about collaborating
and partnering with the Holy Spirit and say, Holy Spirit where are you taking us? Where are
you taking me Holy Spirit? What are you doing in my future? And He begins to paint that image. I
remember when the first time I saw a large stadium filled like an oval, like that kind of stadium
that was filled that I was preaching in. I was seeing flashes of it during worship. I'm
worshiping. I'm not thinking about nothing like stadiums or preaching, and I'm seeing this flashes
in my eye, in my almost like in my spirit. And I get this like insight right away, like this sense
of knowing. That's what's going to happen you know in the church. So when I went to the Philippines,
this was the first time I actually spoke in front of that audience that I was seeing the flashes of
it for years already. But the flashes of the Holy Spirit's vision, glimpses. They were not about
where I'm gonna be speaking occasionally but where our church is going to be one day. And there is
still one more thing in those flashes that I saw that I can't say right now on this livestream, but
I know it will happen when it will come to pass. But Holy Spirit tells us the future. I
remember when it even came to my income. When we started to sow nine years
ago, a particular amount, one time, and I remember in prayer, I felt the Holy
Spirit prompted, and He says, "One day this large sacrifice is going to be your monthly's
income. I'm going to provide the finances and that's going to come in as that." At the time
I remember even thinking about it gave me like, I'm like that's not, that's not possible. How's
that even gonna happen? Like Mary who looked at the angel and said, "How can I have a baby when
I don't even know a man?" And the angel said, "The Holy Spirit will come upon you." And
I felt like the Holy Spirit said, He says, "Because you're obedient, because you're walking
in this, I'm gonna supply your needs and that's what I'm going to do." Again, I'm sharing my
personal example of how I feel the leading of the Spirit in regards to revealing of my future.
I believe the Holy Spirit has the future. He knows the future and He loves to give us glimpses of
that future, through visions, dreams, impressions, sanctified imagination, prophetic words and as
well as sometimes even through an audible voice. I love to keep a journal and I write those things
down, so that when they do come to pass I have a point of reference. Kind of like building your
own little history with God, and so now notice that most of the things that I'm sharing with
you guys deal with your personal walk with God. Less with how you can minister to other people but
more with how you're being ministered to by the Holy Spirit. The seventh thing the Holy Spirit
wants to help you with is to help you worship. He wants to help you worship. Yes, in Philippians
3:3 it says that we who worship God in the Spirit. Jesus also said that God expects people to worship
Him in the Spirit. Now that could relate a human Spirit but in Philippians 3:3 it says we worship
God in the Spirit. He wants to help you worship. Holy Spirit, we don't worship the Holy Spirit,
though we can, Holy spirit is God. But the Holy Spirit helps us with worship, to worship God,
to worship Christ. The Holy Spirit doesn't draw attention to Himself. He puts all the attention on
Jesus. He comes to worship Jesus. So we are Spirit filled and Christ centered, because some people
take the Holy Spirit and they begin to treat the Holy Spirit in the way that the Bible doesn't give
us authority to do so. Do you remember when Jesus came on this earth and they wanted to make Him
a king. Now was Jesus a king? Yes, but He left them. He didn't let them make Him into a king.
Now one day He will be a king but when he came on this earth His assignment was to die. Not to rule
and reign, but to rule and reign in our hearts, but not in the physical. One day He will rule and
reign, and so was it wrong for them to make Him a physical king? Yes, and He left them. I think
some Christians do a similar thing with the Holy Spirit. They don't recognize Holy Spirit's help
and assignment. His help is to worship God and to draw people to Christ. He is not on this earth to
be worshiped. He is God, and do we worship Father, Son and the Holy Spirit? Yes, but His assignment
is that you worship the Father, you worship the Son. You are drawn to Jesus. His goal is to
glorify Jesus, to speak of what Jesus is saying. So as you're developing intimacy with the Holy
Spirit, as you're being led by the Holy Spirit, always remain Christ centered. This is what
Holy Spirit loves. The moment we begin to be Spirit centered, we are Spirit-filled and we
are Spirit led, but we are Christ-centered. We are the bride of Christ as Christians, and so
we've got to keep our eyes on Christ, we've got to worship Christ, we got to worship God and the
Holy Spirit helps us with that. So I hope this kind of brought some clarity so that we don't go
into this stuff where we begin to over emphasize and draw all the attention on the Spirit, when
the Spirit is actually focused on getting all of your attention on the Son, on Jesus, amen.
Yes, Jesus baptizes us in the Holy Spirit but the Holy Spirit baptizes us into Christ, the Bible
says. We are baptized into Christ. The Holy Spirit glorifies Jesus. The Holy Spirit draws all the
attention on Jesus and He helps us to worship God in the spirit. Rejoice in Christ Jesus and have
no confidence in the flesh. So don't miss that, because we can fall into some other things that
these people fell into when they tried to make Jesus into a physical King, and He just quietly
left them. The Holy Spirit is not going to like when we don't worship Christ, when we don't
glorify God because He is sent to help us worship Jesus. Number eight. What the Holy Spirit wants
to help you with is He wants to comfort you. He wants to comfort you. It's actually one of His
names. He's a Comforter. In the Book of Acts 9:31, it says that, "And the church walked in the fear
of God and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit." Who does He comfort? He comfort those
who are afflicted and sometimes He can afflict those who are too comfortable. Drop
this in the chat. The Holy Spirit comforts those who are afflicted, and sometimes He can
afflict those who are way too comfortable. He comforts us, when we are grieving, when we
are hurting, when we are suffering. Sometimes when you're going through the valley of the
shadow of death and you come to God's presence, the Bible says, "For You are with me and therefore
I fear no evil." You will feel the blanket of the comfort of the Holy Spirit. Comfort that doesn't
make sense. Comfort that doesn't necessarily register with your mind but it's in your
spirit, and it oozes into the rest of your life, the comfort of the Holy Spirit. Now this is what
I recognized. If you don't go to the Comforter when things are hard and difficult, you and
I will seek to find comfort in other areas. When we are hurting and suffering, some people
find comfort in food, some people find comfort in alcohol, some people seek to find comfort in
sex. Others seek to find comfort in other things, like gambling, like video games. They're pretty
much numbing themselves because they're hurting. You as a Christian have a Comforter. You can
go to Him. He is available. He can comfort you, without side effects, without addictions
but with joy, without bad consequences. The Holy Spirit is my Comforter. Drop this
in the chat. Go to the Comforter when all comforts fail. Let me say that again. Drop
this in the comments. Go to the Comforter when all comforts fail. When I say comforter,
I don't mean sleep, fridge, alcohol, gambling or sex. I mean the Holy Spirit is our Comforter.
We all go through seasons in life where comforts fail. Where we barely make it through financially.
Where our relationship hangs on a threat. Where we feel like we're walking on a thin ice
in our ministry. It's hard. It's difficult, and we have a Comforter who comforts us
when our comforts fail. Come on somebody, drop this in the chat. We have a Comforter, the
Holy Spirit who comforts us when our comforts fail. Now I'm ready for number nine.
The Holy Spirit wants to give you power. He not only wants to give you comfort, He also
wants to supply you with dunamis power. This power of course is for ministry. This power
is for service. This power is not for show. This power is not to make you powerful.
This power is to make you useful. Drop this in the chat. The power of the Holy
Spirit is not to make us powerful but it's to make us useful in our purpose.
Meaning to make us effective, to make us people that can do what only God can do, in our
calling and our purpose. And now the last thing that I want to share with you is the Holy
Spirit wants to have fellowship with you. 2 Corinthians 13:14. "The grace of the
Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you
all." The Holy Spirit wants to have fellowship. He wants to have communion. I will go even as far
as to say He wants to have friendship with you. Imagine having a relationship with Jesus,
in the body, physically like disciples had. Do you know that in the spirit you can
have similar relationship with the Holy Spirit? You can talk to Him. He wants to talk to you. He
wants to be your close companion, your friend, that you're never alone again in your life. Jesus has grace to offer to us according
to Corinthians. The Father offers us love, and the Spirit gives us the fellowship, and
this fellowship is incredible. It's beautiful. It fills our life with meaning, purpose, love and
fulfillment and that's what He wants to offer to you. He wants to be your friend. He wants to be
your companion. He wants to be walking alongside with you. Tongues are good, gifts are
good. But He is the greatest gift, the Holy Spirit, and He wants to share Himself
with you, to be in fellowship with you. Now you may say, "Well I'm not special." None
of us are. "I'm not deserving." None of us are. "Nothing is unique about me." So
is nothing unique about me either. It's not something you deserve any more
than grace is something you deserve. Love is something you deserve. We don't deserve
love of God, we don't deserve the grace of Jesus, nor do we deserve the fellowship of
the Holy Spirit. It's His gift to us. That's why that verse ends with,
"and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you," and then it adds this thing. Thank
you Paul. He says, "be with you all," meaning you included, you included. The Holy Spirit
wants to have fellowship with all of us. The fellowship of the Holy Spirit is not
only for the elite. It's for everyone. Drop this in the chat. The fellowship of the Holy
spirit is not for the elite. It's for everyone. My desire through this stream and my desire
through the "Host The Holy Ghost" book is honestly help everyone, bring the cookies on the lower
shelf. Because I struggled with this myself, as a younger person always feeling that I did
not you know get into "not special. Why will the Holy Spirit you know waste His time on me?
He could just be spending time with other people and you know I'm Vlad. I know myself. I know
my weaknesses. I know my shortcomings. I know things I need to improve. I know myself." And
while I definitely never disqualify myself from the grace of Jesus because without His grace I'm
going to go to hell. I definitely don't disqualify myself from the love of God you know because
I need God's love. But the fellowship of the Holy Spirit or the communion of the Holy Spirit,
I always felt like I just I'm not worthy of that. I'm not holy enough, I'm not dedicated enough,
I'm not committed enough. I don't fast enough, I don't pray enough, I don't read the Bible, and
it's always not enough, always not enough. And it's that works mentality that could come in and
disqualify us. And then you know when I couldn't disqualify myself because of my good works,
I disqualified myself because of who I was. You know I'm not enough and this, later part of
this verse broke that stronghold, where he says, "the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you
all". I remember in prayer the Lord challenging me and He's saying, "What if you will embrace
the gift from the Holy Spirit, the fellowship, the same way you embrace grace? The same way
you embrace love? It's His gift to you. It doesn't say fellowship with the Spirit. It's says
fellowship of the Spirit. Meaning it's He wants to offer that to you." I said, "Lord but," you know
and I had these buts, and I remember the Lord in prayer prompted me and He said, do you think the
Holy Spirit is not aware of your shortcomings? Do you think He's not aware of your potential to
mess up, of your inconsistencies, of how you feel about yourself? He is and He still chooses to
abide with you. He knows that you are a human and He is gonna help you. So embrace the Holy
Spirit's gift, embrace His fellowship. Welcome Him in. Don't shut yourself off, and say, "No, no,
no, no, no. That's just not for me. You know grace is good, I want to go to heaven. Love is good,
I want a little bit of heaven to live in me, and then the fellowship, yeah that's for those
preachers, that's for those people. That's just not for me. I'm a single mom. I'm a stay-home mom.
I'm a college student. I, you know I have a lot of problems, and that's just not for me. Like Holy
Spirit stuff, like that stuff is holy, and I'm not holy. I'm not good enough. And plus you know
I'm not like doing anything super significant that changes the world, so He's not going to waste
Himself on me." You're wrong. You are important to God. Jesus died for you and no matter what
the scope and the size of your calling, your contribution to the kingdom and to this world,
the Holy Spirit wants to fellowship with you. He wants to be with you, chooses to dwell with
you and He wants to have a relationship with you. How do you have a relationship with the Holy
Spirit? You first believe the truth that He wants to have a relationship with you, more than
how you want to have a relationship with Him. Open yourself up to that because it's in the Bible.
The communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all, amen. Somebody drop amen in the chat
if you believe that. Hallelujah. Amen. That's how Paul finished at Corinthians and
that is how I'm gonna finish this teaching, amen. Amen. Now let's pray for people today. In
fact what I would like to pray for today, I know last month's live stream we prayed for
deliverance, yesterday we prayed for healing. But today what I would like to pray for
as we are launching this book in 12 days, some of you will be watching this
when the book is already out. I want to pray that the Holy Spirit will become
real to you. I want to pray that God the Father, Jesus, will reveal to you and that you will
have a relationship with the Holy Spirit. That you will live Christ-centered, Spirit-filled
and Spirit-led life. I want to ask the Holy Spirit to come upon you right now and become more real to
you than ever before. So that you will walk in the Holy Spirit. That's my desire and that's going to
be my prayer. So if you are ready for that prayer and if you are able to, you're not driving. I
want you to place your hand upon your heart. Father, I thank You right now for giving us Your
Son who died on the cross for us. I thank You that You also gave us Your Holy Spirit. Father, I thank
You that the Spirit came as a promise from You. That the Holy Spirit came because Jesus
asked for the Holy Spirit. Jesus said, "I will ask the Father and He will send you the
Holy Spirit." Jesus said that Holy Spirit is the promise of the Father. I ask You right now for
every brother and sister of Christ. I ask You for those people who maybe feel unworthy, for
those who need a lot of help, all of us Lord. The Holy Spirit You sent to help us so we're not
doing our life alone. We're not relying on our own strength, not relying on the arm of the flesh but
relying on the Holy Spirit. I ask You right now precious Jesus, would You reveal Your Spirit to
everyone that's watching, that will be re-watching and listening on the podcast. Lord, would You
just break the strongholds of unworthiness, would You break the strongholds of
disqualification where we disqualified ourselves. Would you break away maybe traditional
teaching that viewed the Spirit as a wind, fire, force or some kind of an impersonal force
or break away guilt, shame. Lord, in the name of Jesus let the traditional teaching that is
not in line with Your Word, let them be broken, that we will rely on You. Lord, I break the words
that were spoken maybe by people in authority that nobody's gonna help us, we're alone. That
if we don't do it for ourselves nobody will do it for ourselves, and we have developed this life
where we always do it independently of others. And it spills into our walk with You, where we got
it, we don't need help. We don't ask for help. Holy Spirit, I invite You right now. Holy
Spirit, I ask You, could you make us holy. I ask You, would You help us with our attitude.
Holy Spirit, I ask You, would You help us to know the future. Would You teach us when we read Your
word. Holy Spirit, I ask You, would You lead us into the right path. Holy Spirit, I
ask You, would you give us Your power for witness to fulfill our assignment. Holy
Spirit, I ask You, would You strengthen us in our inner man so that our strength will match
our assignment, and Holy Spirit we welcome you. Holy Spirit, we say good morning to You.
We say good evening to You. Be our Guide, be our Comforter. We apologize, we repent for
going to alternative devil's comforts. These cheap comforts that come with a very high price
later on, instead of going to you. We want to lean on You, rely on You. Especially during this
fast, would You strengthen us in our inner man. Would you reveal Your word to us. Would You help
us to worship Jesus, would you help us to worship the Father. Would you help us to live our life
heaven focused, eternity focused in Jesus name, amen amen. Come on, drop that amen in the
chat. Hallelujah. Thank you Jesus. I wanted to appreciate each and every one of you for joining
me on the live stream today. I wanted to also ask you if you've enjoyed this stream today,
if this was a blessing to you spiritually, I want to invite you to consider partnering with
our ministry. This book when it comes out it will be also available free of charge in Spanish, in
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you're seeing a lot of content because I really sense that this next season the Lord wants me
to improve the content. You know my goal isn't to grow the the platform. My goal is to grow
you guys and then for you to grow spiritually, then God will take care of the platform but it
does take resources to do what we do. I am a pastor of a local church, as well as a husband and
I do travel occasionally. In fact this weekend I will be in Tennessee and so it takes a lot of
time. Without a solid team this will never be possible, and so the reason why I'm able to do
it consistently, I'm able to do it effectively, mainly because of the team. And that is possible
because of you, my team who are giving, praying and sowing. If the Lord puts on your heart to do
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brings me so much joy because that's the reason that I'm doing it. I'm not doing this for myself.
I really when I started this, the Lord challenged me from the beginning. He said, "Don't do this to
build a platform. he said, use the platform I give you to build my people." So that's, if I could
summarize my YouTube strategy and that is this, or my ministry strategy, is not to use people to
build my platform but to use my platform to build people. That's why we're doing fasting. That's
why we're doing Bible memory verses. That's why I have courses. That's why I have books. All of that
is to build believers to become disciple makers, ministers for God. So thank you for sowing
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