Keith Moore The Witness Pt 1 Recognizing The Witness

go with me if you would in the scriptures to Romans the eighth chapter and second Corinthians the thirteenth chapter Romans 8 2nd Corinthians 13 if you didn't bring a Bible with you this evening the ushers have extra Bibles we'd be glad to let you use one of ours hold up your hand real high and they'll get one to you and turn with us let your eyes rest on these words let them get in you the Lord has not made it hard on us he's not hidden answers from us it's a the enemy that tries to confuse obscure and a whole lot of it has been our own fault not seeing things clearly but the Lord's not trying to keep answers from us and like we've already prayed it can just come very clear to you and you can see and you can note we've been talking about for some weeks the gifts of the Spirit the manifestations of the Spirit we've been talking about the the helper the wonderful Holy Spirit I want to continue talking about him and a specific area of his help in Romans the eighth chapter and the 14th verse Romans 8 and 14 it says for as many as are led by the Spirit of God they are the sons of God as many as are led by the Spirit of God they are the sons of God for you have not received verse 15 you've not received the spirit of bondage again to fear the Holy Spirit is not a spirit of bondage in fact the Bible says where the Spirit of the Lord is there's what Liberty freedom he's the spirit of truth and the truth will do what for you it will make you free so the Holy Spirit is not putting people in bondage verse 15 says you've not received the spirit of bondage again to fear fear and bondage go together but you've received the spirit of adoption whereby we cry Abba Father faith is the victory but faith works by love and our love are trusting God is directly connected to our revelation of his love for us no matter how powerful and big you think God is or you believe him to be if you're not convinced he cares enough to do anything for you then your faith and his ability is not enough but when you know how much he cares then you be convinced he will use his great ability on your behalf keep reading we've received the spirit of adoption whereby we cry Abba Father verse 16 the spirit itself now that's King James all your modern translations will say himself the Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are the children of God say that out loud with me please that verse the Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit let's say it let's say it out loud together the Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit say my spirit this time the Spirit Himself bears witness with my spirit so much light and revelation here this is one of the greatest truths that Phyllis and I have ever learned in our few years walking with the Lord I it's absolutely one of the very greatest most important things we've ever learned about the things of God I I grew up around church my grandmother was the Sunday school teacher and also the secretary treasurer of a little church for decades and even though my parents in the beginning part of our life were not they knew about they grew up in Christian homes but they weren't serving the Lord like they should but but grandma saw that we were in church and thank God for it but in all my years as a child and then as a teenager I had I had never heard if I if I did if somebody said it it didn't register on them that I was a spirit and that the Holy Spirit would lead me through the witness and that I was supposed to pay attention to that witness close attention and heed and act on that in all my years and all of going to church I don't remember ever hearing about that ever being aware of that and as a result we didn't I didn't I mean we prayed we believed in God we believed he's powerful we believed in the Holy Spirit more so than some groups we're a Pentecostal but being led by the spirit as a foreign concept foreign thought I would and as so black so many people you you pray and hope some of it happens but then whatever happens you just kind of assume well that must have been what God wanted and so led by external things if it didn't happen must have been God if it did happen must have been God right we don't know could have been might have been must have been there's a whole lot of darkness and ignorance there isn't it and yet thank God right after Phyllis and I married and we married young thank the Lord the the doctor she was working for at the time had a library of teaching tapes we had never heard of anybody listening to a tape on preachers you'd listen to a music tape but a tape on preaching that was just sounded strange to us and he kept trying to get her to take some of those home and listen to and we wouldn't do it months and months went by right and finally well he is her employer and finally she felt like you know honey take these home because he just I'm going to insult him and so we did and listened and on a little bitty player listen to some of these an old man changed our life one reason we're so big on sending materials out today because it changed a lie and and if we had to buy those we didn't see the value of it besides that our money was so tight I mean $20 was a huge thing to us and we'd have spent that on gas money or groceries or something not not a preaching thing which is one of the reasons why we send them out for no cost because sometimes folks just don't know how much they need it that was us but eventually I got to listening some of brother Hagins kenneth hagin seniors materials and got his little book on how to be led by the Holy Spirit changed our life and to this day it's one of the the biggest things that we're practicing day-in day-out is is looking to and heeding this witness this direction this leading the reason why I'm talking to you tonight the reason we came to this city the reason we came to Branson the reason we went to Rhema and went to school there every one of those things is because we learned to heed the witness the leading of the Spirit and followed I mean the Lord the Lord calls you into the ministry okay what are we supposed to do well go into the world and preach the gospel well you're one person you can't go everywhere you can't do everything what are you supposed to do there's general general direction but then there's specific direction I want you to read these verses again verse 14 says what as many as are led by what led by what led by the Spirit of God they are the sons of God now there are different words used for child and son there are words that are used that describe little children like infants well in the 16th verse what does it say children 14 doesn't say children it says sons why because those who are learning to be led by the Spirit of God won't stay little ones there they are the maturing ones growing up and developing in him is directly connected with learning to be led by him little ones don't don't know much about it and you won't learn all there is to about by being led by the Spirit in a week or two or a month or two but we should learn more and be more aware and pay more attention notice what he said in the sixteenth verse the Spirit Himself does what bears witness with what part of our being our spirit first of all you got to realize you are a spirit you are a spirit you're not just a body and a mind you could lose your body right now and quit breathing and they could go bury your body you'd still exist and you'd still have your mind and you'd still be you you're looking at me right now through those two windows we call eyes I see the house you live in your body but you're only inside you're a spirit hmm and death is just like taking a hand out of a glove just like taking your foot out of a boot your spirit comes out of your body and the Bible says it depart your believer it departs and goes to be with the Lord which is far better than being here nothing to fear but while we're here we're not the Lord's that I'm not going to leave you helpless I'm gonna give you help I'm gonna send you another comforter he has sent us the Holy Spirit to lead us teach us guide us remind us show us 24/7 and he is he's God he's the Holy Spirit he knows everything about everything and yet millions of Christians are not looking to him they're making decisions with their head they're being led by all kind of things just like unbelievers are do you have to make any decisions in life did you have to make any decisions this week hmm huh we have to make some decisions tomorrow and the next day like what what to eat where to go huh work and business decisions do I do I do this deal do or not do I get involved in this do I not hmm little decisions medium-size to sit huge decisions do I marry them huh do where do I go to church where do I live you know dude do I become a part of the military do I you know don't go to the school decisions determine direction when you make a dishonest and if you stay on that course you wind up at a destination if you'd have made a different choice you to go in a different direction and wound up in a different destination I mean understand decisions are like Forks in the road right I go to this school I'll be and I learn these things I'll be around these people I'll make these contacts I go to this school I work here these thing I'll get to know these people I'll be involved in this I go to this church if you go to another one you're going to hear different things your faiths going to be fed or not fed in different areas you're going to people are going to influence you this way or that and you wind up being a different person than if you have made this choice and going this way can you see this friends are our decisions important so important I mean how did you get here tonight how'd you get here how are you in Sarasota Florida or Branson or wherever you're watching by internet how are you there hmm you made a choice didn't you and your life is different than if you'd have made another choice with things being this significant the outcome being this waiting we need help making these decisions so we can make the right ones and go the right direction and wind up in the right place doing the right things with the right people said out loud decisions determine direction direction determines destiny see destiny is a form of the word destination are the other way around it's where you wind up and where you wind up I mean a lot of you drove to the building tonight here in Branson you you got on the road and if you took another road if you're coming from Tampa if you're too got on a 75 and went north you might have found a church you might have found the service wouldn't have been this way right you had to go you had to make a choice to go south and get off at exit 213 right decisions determine direction direction determines destiny our destination and our life tonight is the result of the decisions we've made last year in 10 years ago and 20 years ago and and where our life is that where our relationships are at where our finances are at where our spirituality where our faith is at it's a lot a lot of folks including myself we could have been feeding our faith on things years before we were which is one reason I'm excited about our little ones our children they're getting fed some of the very same things you get in in the big service and I'll tell you what they soak it up like a sponge a lot of them don't have a bunch of unbelief that they've developed over 40 years they just soak it up and you better watch out don't tell them well if you can believe for it because they will and they'll get it then you'll have to find a place for because they don't play around now they they believe and don't doubt uh what is Romans 8:16 say look at it in the amplified the Spirit Himself testifies together with our spirit assuring us that we are the children of God this book is full of God talking to people isn't it is it Genesis God's talking to Adam and Eve right talking to different ones talking to Noah letting them know let him know build the boat letting them know do the where'd he get that God right and yet a lot of folks today if you start talking about you know hearing from God it bothers them doesn't in their like they think they're actually hearing from God troublesome they're like that's a that's not ridiculous and it just reveals the sad state of much of the church because we believed in the Bible they believe in the Bible and the Bible is full God talking to David God talking to Elijah God talking to Elijah God talking to Isaiah God talking to Jeremiah and Ezekiel God talking God taught telling people things showing them things showing them where to go what to do how to do it right he gave Moses you know the the whole layout and plan for the tabernacle and the articles how they were be to be made the and then David the same thing gave him actual blueprint from heaven how to build stuff and that details details materials dimensions he said he got it from God and it's recorded that way in the Bible and millions a good church-going people today if David would say that in 2012 that scoff and go what God gave you a blueprint I am so sure God's not given people blueprints he did he did and the Apostles after Jesus was raised from the dead the book of Acts describes people continuing to hear from the Lord now we're reading the book of Acts now aren't we hmm I want us to that wasn't everybody some folks are looking at me funny everybody at faith Life Church Branson and Circo dude all our e members and partners everybody reads their chapter every day Monday through Friday and we're reading the book of Acts right now and it's timely because we're also starting this this Friday night this series talking about the witness of the Spirit so let me encourage you if you haven't been reading your chapter start start he said well I'm behind I I didn't keep up well just don't don't try to say thing about that just say Lord you know forgive me and and just start what is it acts 2 on Monday is that right acts 2 on Monday get your go back to the information area and get your reading card and read with us that chapter every day and here's what we're going to do now everybody wait as you read your chapter look for the Holy Spirit's involvement in their life look for it and study it the book is called on the title Acts of the Apostles but that is a title men gave this book actually it's not just acts of apostles you see evangelist doing things and prophets doing things and and what we call lay people doing things but what you will see is the Holy Spirit doing things in people through people apostles and a lot of other people - I'd call it the acts of the Holy Spirit through the church but listen listen to a few of these and you'll see what I'm talking about acts 1 - says Jesus through the Holy Spirit gave Commandments to the Apostles acts 829 the Spirit said to Philip go near and join yourself to the chariot acts 1019 while Peter was up on that housetop the spirit said to him three men are looking for you downstairs who said that to him the Bible said the Holy Spirit acts 1112 says the spirit bade me go with them nothing doubting acts 13 and two as they ministered to the Lord and fasted the Holy Spirit said said out loud the Holy Spirit said the Holy Spirit said do you believe the Bible did the Holy Spirit say something can he still say something did he quit saying things no the Holy Spirit said separate to me Barnabas and Saul for the work were into I've called them now this this wasn't a consensus they didn't vote on it and and our the guy in charge didn't say I'm going to select they actually they knew some things needed to happen so they they took some time and fasted now I know you got to skip at least one meal to say you fasted right so they skipped at least a meal maybe a couple or more I don't know that that was some time involved and they spent some time praying and while they were doing that the Holy Spirit said something he said something and it wasn't men directing things in the church the Holy Spirit said it the Bible said acts 15 28 it seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us acts 16 6 they were forbidden of the Holy Spirit to preach the word in Asia act 16 7 they tried to go to bethey Nia but the spirit suffered them not it says they were compelled by the spirit they said things because of in being influenced by the spirit page after page chapter after chapter in this book of Acts you'll see the Holy Spirit was real to them wasn't he he was speaking to them he was directing them he was guiding him he was saying go he was saying don't go do this don't do this go here don't go there go with them don't go with them our a part of the same church as this book of Acts we are we got the same gospel we got the same Holy Spirit where should our lives be different from theirs why should we have to rely on counseling with each other are putting out fleeces are studying statistics to make our decisions the Bible said in proverbs 3:5 just put it up on the screen for us please what does it say trust in the Lord with what party you be in our heart does not talk much your blood pump you can't believe God with you your physical blood pump heart any more than you can believe God with you lungs I believe God with you liver are you kidding me heart right you know what heart means if we if we if I could open a watermelon are you cut open the watermelon and you come back and the center of it's gone and I'm and I'm sitting there happy Phyllis has seen this many times she said he ate the heart he ate the heart out of the melon I didn't need a blood pump for they the core the core of it we talked about the heart of an oak tree the heart of a pine will the core of your being and mind the inside of us the core of us is what we believe God with that's different from the next part lean not to what to your own understanding that's your head that's your mind God gave us a mind we're supposed to use it but we're not supposed to rely on it to make our decisions we're supposed to use it we're supposed to find out what we can and think there's some things you're supposed to search out and look for but when it comes time to pull the trigger to make the choice do or don't go here go there you don't just lay out your spreadsheet and go with the best numbers you don't just have everybody vote on it come on are you listening and yet this is how millions of Christians are operating they're just going by you know whatever is the cheapest we're saving 800 bucks it's got to be God well it's no savings if you're not even supposed to get it and even though you paid $300 more for this one if that's the one you were supposed to get and it lasted twice as long as the one you save money on there are people Christians good Christian people who were driving 30 miles either way to save a nickel on gas and were at an intersection at the wrong time that no isn't no reason to be there except to save that nickel and got hit by a truck did you hear me and had all kind of medical bills and all kind of problems for months and months and months because they were led by a nickel instead of led by the spirit see there you've got Christians all over the place they're not they're not even praying about stuff they're not even checking their heart you know they just whose the cheapest if you're led by price you're not led by the spirit if you're led by cost you're not led by the spirit if you're led by need you're not led by the Spirit we need it got to do it gotta have it that's not a leading desire is not a leading I won't it well maybe you need to cool your jets get to where you don't want it so much see these are where Christians even good people are missing it they're making bad decisions and they're having all kind of problems in the aftermath and asking why God why'd you let this happen well why didn't you ask him which way to go and why didn't you go the way he was leading you to and see millions of Christians are not even taught that they are a spear it that the Spirit of God is endeavoring to lead them by this inner witness and you're supposed to look to it and you're supposed to pay attention to it and do it millions I was never taught this as a child growing up in church and as a teenager I never heard this Oh but since I did and Phil is to tell you the same thing it is without a doubt one of the greatest truths we've ever heard and learned like I like I said it's one of the reasons I'm looking at you in Sarasota tonight the reason there are a lot of places to go to start a church a lot of good people a lot of good groups a lot of good places and we found out since some of the things that we've done both in Branson and here that man it was it was the right place it was the right County it was the right location it was the right but we didn't find all that out before we did it we found it out after we did it how that people asked me when we were doing things well did you did you search your records and see how many partners you had there and did you were you looking at the the finances no no no I specifically didn't want to know because it could sway my thinking sometimes we're believing for something and Phyllis not talking about it she'll tell me don't tell me the price you say don't tell me don't tell me the price that I want to know why cuz she's gonna believe for it and if you get too if you get those numbers in your head hmm get to thinking about that too much put up verse 16 again Romans 8:16 what does it say as many as are led that was the best verse 14 that's a good one too by the Spirit of God they're the sons of god in verse 16 says what the Spirit Himself bears witness with our mind huh no our spirit what part of your being is he going to bear witness with let's talk about what he's not bearing witness with not our flesh we don't go by goose bumps we don't make decisions based on goose bumps most of that again real slow we don't make decisions based on hot flashes cold flashes no flashes shivers we don't put out fleeces let's see what get in did ya get anyone even born again he didn't know really who was dealing with him his spirit wasn't him a lot you couldn't tell him Gideon brother just be led was that was not available to him but Christians New Testament Christians are what verse 14 go back to verse 14 are to be led by what by what now don't let this be too simple for you this is radical change to the way most folks live but it is so exciting and it is so glorious and it is the way to stop making so many mistakes and to stop winding up at the wrong place at the wrong time now how many times have you heard somebody say or maybe yourself say so you did something and it was wrong and it messed things up and it cost you money whatever and you said I knew I should have done that and you I knew I should have gone over there I knew I said in the called him I knew what you well here's the question if you do that you should have done it why did you go on and do it it's exactly what we're talking about because people have not been taught Christians have not been taught by and large to pay attention to that witness on the inside to heat it to monitor it and once you get it old bay it even if it doesn't make sense to your head trust in the Lord with all your trust what you get in here and lean not to your calculator to all your neighbors opinions to the statistics come on in your list use your head yeah use your head but all the while you're finding out stuff and you're listening to people you're gathering information you're thinking but all the while you're checking in here do I have a witness about this a witness the Spirit of God bears witness with our spirit said out loud I'm a spirit I have a mind I live in a body your spirit you're not just a mind and a body your spirit God is spirit the Holy Spirit is spirit and he lives in you there's somebody else beside you in here there's another person and he bears witness with your spirit you get confirmation from somebody other than yourself and it's an internal thing everybody awake listen to the definition of some of these words the word witness basically means one that testifies that testifies what they know and this this word here that's translated witness with it means to testify jointly joint witness confirming evidence hmm come here brother stand up just a minute can you can you help me just turn here and face the folks right here if you're looking at something and I'm with you and then you say I like that that looks good to me I think I'm gonna do that and I just stand here and not do anything then you got no joint witness you got a solo but if you're looking at it and you go man I like that I think I'm gonna do that and I go I like it too yes that's the thing to do there's a joint he's not by yourself he somebody else has kicked in and goes yeah I agree with that yeah that's the thing to do that's the way to go thank you sir a joint another witness and he bears witness with what your spirit your spirit and you and I should look to that and wait on that shouldn't that's what I was doing every decision that we've made Phyllis and I and our folks who are with us man we prayed about these things there are so many decisions that have to be made on starting to work I mean what and the Phyllis and myself and others what color chairs what color arms how many how big some of them cost ten times as much as the other one hmm we could save money hmm we could put half we could put a thousand in here that's they have a lot of money the paint the the steel and it was a whole operation getting this we took the poles out all except the ones you see and there were how many more poles were there Phyllis they were like four or something more on each side another 15 maybe total cost a lot of money to get those poles out of here when I just leave them in save some money see decision after decision after what do you do are you led by convenience are you led by a cost are you led by money air conditioning we completely replaced the air conditioner call 647 thousand dollars unexpected we thought we were going to get to use a lot of it that was already here at least to get up and get started we hadn't had a service yet there's no congregation to so towards our conditioning not here there every guts decisions continuously and Phyllis and myself and others of us what do you do well you can pace and you can wring your hands and go I don't want to make the wrong decision I don't want to make the wrong decision I don't want to make the wrong decision and that will get you nowhere are you can be led by the cheapest thing or the quickest thing or the easiest thing and you can wind up with something completely different the answer to 10,000 questions week in and week out is be led by the Holy Spirit be led by the Holy Spirit millions of Christians that sound strange to them I think what do you mean be led be led and then you got folks that get in the ditch on the other side and just whatever they decide to do they say the Lord's leading them and their numerous scriptures in the Bible that warn about this the Lord says about several different people you know they said I said and I didn't send them they prophesied in my name but I never spoke to him he says you see this in Ezekiel you see it in different places and so there are people who are saying the Lord led me to do this and the Lord led me to do that and the Lord led me not to do this and Lord let me you're supposed to do this with me I I don't know if the times people have come to us and told us we that you should do this that we should do this or that with the church or with the ministry or our and more than once I've had to tell people I said you know I don't do what I want to do why would I do what you want me to do and some folks that irritates them because they don't think being led by the Spirit is real that's why they make up stuff and they think nobody will be the wiser they can you say anything they want to say as the no the Lord told me and the Lord led me mm-hmm we must learn the difference between what's just flesh and what's just me and what really is leading of the Lord and I became convinced and I first heard about this and in our late teens I became convinced if I can learn how to hear from God I got it made I got it made because if I'll just do what he leads me to do I know he's not going to lead me down the wrong road I know he's going to lead me and it's going to work out and it's going to be right if I can just learn how to hear from him I got it made and now several years later I'm more convinced of it than ever I know it's true said out loud as many as are led by the Spirit of God they are the sons of God sons of God ought to be led how by the Spirit of God by the Spirit of God everybody okay can you take a little more go to first Corinthians please the second chapter first Corinthians two I want us to pray a prayer and release our faith about what we just got through saying and praying did God speak to people in this book all through it did it has he changed did he stop speaking along the way ah no what happened is people quit listening and sometimes you got whole generations that didn't listen and didn't teach the next generation to listen and got things that are lost but God didn't change he's always spoken to his people very clearly very plainly precisely and it's a matter of learning how he communicates don't try to hear audible voices don't try to see open visions these things happen but they don't happen all the time and they don't happen for everybody you could go your whole life and not hear God talking to you in an audible voice and it wouldn't mean anything was wrong with you or that you weren't spiritual and yet every child of God can be should be led by this witness by the Spirit bearing witness with your spirit day in and day out and you can pay attention and learn about it and become more aware until your your lead Spirit lead and even the small things of life you just you just practice I know Phyllis on how to do it after 30 years it's just like second nature and I don't claim that we have learned all about it we have it by any stretch but everything we do we start looking inside we just start checking inside and even though we might know think we know a lot about the situation I'll ask Christ say you got any kind of witness about that what does that mean I'm not asking for numbers I'm not asking for figures I'm not asking about her personal opinion I'm not asking about how she feels emotionally I'm asking about something else and she'll ask me do you have any kind of witness about that I know she's not asking my opinion she's asking do I have a somebody else is in me set out like someone else is inside me the Holy Spirit is inside me and friend you there is a definite difference you can get excited about something and that's one thing and inside yourself but when he kicks in it's something else it's more it's greater it's more powerful because he's bigger than you a lot and and there can some things that are very significant in the kingdom and things that are very important men when you get on the right track of it I know uh I remember distinctly when we were making the decision to start the church in Branson Missouri we'd been in Tulsa Broken Arrow Oklahoma for 20-some years and we traveled and were busy and had no intentions of pastoring didn't think that was our call and I won't go through all of it but over course the time we prayed about it and men we're getting this witness that we're supposed to start to stay and I remember one time we were driving from Tulsa to Branson and we were already pretty much had had gotten clear that about the witness and the direction and Phyllis just started saying I'm so excited I'm so excited I just don't know what I'm so excited about the and I said yeah I don't know what you're talking about we see we've never opened the doors we didn't even have a place and there's never been a service but see the Lord knew he saw Branson put up Branson Church on the screen so we can see he put he saw all the folks in Branson he saw all the meetings he saw the word supply and all the millions of messages going out he saw you and we didn't see all that but the one inside us already knew all that and so we're picking up that this is right this is Kingdom this is the way to go can you say you man and when we when we came here it took us a while to get blocked in about this area at first we did not plan to come here you know a lot of folks think they're led to Florida especially in the wintertime you know and that's not enough shouldn't be enough to go somewhere and do something King go for vacations go back home you know that's not enough and so we weren't considering this place we had actually looked at other places but we couldn't get settled on the others and eventually we got started got stronger and stronger a witness about this place and I found this if it's God today it'll be God tomorrow and the more you look at it and the more you pray about it it just gets stronger and stronger in and that's what happened with us over a period of weeks and weeks and months and we flew in to the airport got out and got in the rental car we'd never we've never been to lakewood ranch I guess we had vacationed down in Manasota Key but you know anything about Lakewood Ranch we drove straight down the road and instead of getting on the interstate and then something that we just kept going and I don't know 20 minutes after we got out of the plane we're sitting in the parking lot of this place right here and we had a witness and at first it didn't look like it was available as we checked on it look like some other things would have prevented it from happening and we looked at some other places and you know until my weeks and even months went by but we kept having that witness about here it wasn't the biggest you could find it wasn't the most square foot for the money there actually some better deals if you're looking for that but that's not all it matters I said that's not all that matters the Lord knows the future he knows what we don't know you can never get enough information to make the perfect decision every time I'm talking with your head cuz you don't know the future as much as you you could you can research it until it's just no use but you can never get all the particulars just for the one simple thing you don't know what's gonna happen tomorrow so that alone makes you ill-equipped to make the perfect decision every time but the one inside you does the one inside you knows the past present and future he knows the plan of God and you don't have to know all the particulars all you need to know is is he giving me that witness do I have that witness brother Hagin Kenneth Hagin senior said the Lord taught him personally about this if you read his materials it's it's interesting reading it's it's it's very good to read and this is how he described it he described it as a check if you shouldn't go with it or do it he said it's like a dead feeling in my spirit like a weight when you shouldn't do it when it's wrong you get a check a deadness a heaviness not not something in your head this is in your spirit and when you get that what does that mean don't do it I don't care how much money you think you go make I don't care how how many other people on the bandwagon and say you're supposed to do it don't override that the check and also on the other hand though he said sometimes it's like you get a green light I'll go ahead he said it's like a good velvety feeling yeah trying to describe spiritual things sometimes words come short but it's not a check it's not a deadness it's it's an excitement it's light a green light it's a good velvety feeling we're not done my physical feeling when I talk about emotional feeling feeling is really an inadequate word it's a witness let's just use the word the Bible uses right it's a witness hmm the witness of the spirit go to first Corinthians - you got that place as many as are led by the Spirit of God they are the sons of God 1st Corinthians 2 and 11 1st corinthians 2:11 says what man knows the things of a man save what the spirit of man which is in him the things you need to know about your life you need to look in your spirit not just in your head even so the things of God knoweth no man but the Spirit of God the spirit of God knows all things the deep things of God and he's the one the Lord has sent to help us to be our constant companion our continual helper what a a waste it is for him to be there in Christians lives 24/7 and they're making decisions based on what this on the news and with the calculator and and majority opinion and everything else when the one who knows the future and knows the plan is right inside 24/7 and all we'd have to do is look inside pay attention to that witness if you don't have a witness what does that mean you're not ready to move keep looking keep checking your heart right keep praying about it he believed in God that he will show you I know our current property that we have that Branson it's a wonderful place is we started at another place across town and it came to a time in our development that we were landlocked we didn't have room to develop and we didn't feel good about trying to continue there and in so many ways it was time to move and yet we didn't have the witness about what ago and we'd look at this place and we didn't choir about it and we check it out and look at it and sounded good look good good price pretty good location but the further you go it's just nothing there anybody with me or your weight they're just yeah it's reasonable yeah its improvement yeah it's got this yeah it's got that but no witness no witness so there are several times that we get to place then just said now let's just just just can it let's just chill I'm not we're not getting anything this went on for years everybody say years and your head gets tired of it right and folks are needing things and then we need room we need room for the kids the kids are busting out we got to have room you got to have room gotta have room for the kids kids are wall to wall they were cramped in there again this Sunday it was cramped again they were cramped again is that a leading should we be led by cramped again would you be tempted to be led by cramped again oh you will you will feel you will feel the pressure especially if you go months or years folks go of what what's he doing what's he waiting on will give money we'll do this it's not just about that it can be tough on your flesh to wait on the witness so much they wait on the witness said again wait on the witness and eventually eventually it started falling into place and we could tell the further we went the stronger witness we had about it and it just you know there were some things to believe learn and overcome but you can tell somebody else besides us is saying yeah this is it yep this is right yep you got that witness and it worked out wonderfully we had to go in and cut the bottom part of it and do all kind of stuff it was a ton of work you know and we had to believe God for a million dollars at first month just to pay for the reconstruction stuff and cash in a month with everything else going on but it came and it happened and wasn't a problem but see if you say what I'm just going to do this and I'm gonna believe for it cuz God can do anything yeah but if you don't have the witness you're not going to be able to have the faith it's not going to work it's not just a matter of having faith the faith is going to work with the witness they go together can you say Amen go over to 1st Thessalonians I'm thinking about closing what should I follow on that should it be led by the clock should I be led by people get Nancy what should I be led by what should you be led by what if everybody was led by the spirit what a different world we would live in man everybody'd show up the right place the right time everybody do the right thing mm-hmm we can't control the whole world but we can sure have a church full of people doing okay we're doing it on our teens doing it on our every facet of ministry and our personal lives how many believe you could be led on your job every day of the week you can drive to work praying in the spirit check in your heart and every time something comes up you're listening you're using your mind you're doing what you know to do but when it comes time to say this or that you're not making decisions based on numbers our statistics are people pressuring you are people pulling you gonna make a decision based on what you get in here on that witness and our a friend of mine was talking about this recently a couple of years ago when some of the bottom fell out of so many things financially after Oh eight no nine some people were saying you know they were trying to tell him what to do with with his money and his investments and stuff and and he prayed about it and the Lord directed him do something completely different and they looked at him and these were some very influential people and they said you will lose everything you got you that's crazy and he said well that's what I want to do and they said well why why no why would you do that he said the Lord directed me to oh man got quiet in the board room really it's a religious nut you know so but anyway he it was his money so in the end they did what he said and now what just a year or so later after all this happened they told him they actually came to him and told him said out of all our clients you were the only one who made money through all this and it's the next time the Lord tells you something would you tell us let's see initially it's not so easy when people who's supposed to be experts are looking at you and telling you you're a nut that's not easy that's not comfortable it's easy to bend the pressure isn't it you don't have to know everything about the markets you don't have to know everything about finances you don't have to know everything about any field because somebody lives inside you who does already know he knows far more than any so-called expert will ever know he knows the end from the beginning he's not going to tell you everything about it you don't need to know it just cloud your little mind but he will tell you which way you need to go and what you don't need to try to hear a voice or see an open vision just pray about it and don't make a move until you get that witness and when you do get it don't let anybody move you off of it or talk you out of it just go that way and watch the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living can you say you man first muscle onehans five here's the thing I want to I want to leave you with this evening 1st Thessalonians 5 and we'll pray that prayer I was talking about a few minutes ago concerning this 1st Thessalonians 5 he gives some kind of one-liner statements here the Holy Spirit does that are very powerful what is the 18th verse what does that say 1st Thessalonians 5:18 in everything give thanks for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you you can do that by faith concerning what we're talking about even when you are clueless in your head about what to do and which way to go you can start thanking God that he will show me hmm thank you Lord for leading me the right way showing me which way to go you start thanking him even before you know anything in your mind verse 19 quench not the spirit why would he tell you to quench not the spirit what does quench mean quench another definition of this is smother the Living Bible actually says it like that do not smother the Holy Spirit well we're not done doesn't mean you're going to smother him where he can't breathe but you're going to suppress or stifle him in you why would he single this out and say don't do this how would you do that there's a there's a check you got about something but your flesh wants to do it everybody else is doing it hmm looks like it's going to be great but you keep having this check keep having this check what can you do you can smother that you can just cover it over you can suppress it you can ignore it you can push it and especially people that have never been practicing listening to him to start with he thought they're already not very aware you can just ignore him completely you can stifle it smother it ignore it but to our own expense or what could you do you don't want to smother you don't want to suppress you want to stir it up fan the fire right we want to we want to be more clear on it not not not ignore it not smother it we want to be more clear want it to be stronger want it to be clearer well it must not be God speaking inaudible voice all the time or shaky us by the power or you wouldn't have to use terminology like this don't smother it don't stifle it the Bible said the prophet of God learned this on one occasion he was out there you know in the wilderness and there was this huge earthquake and the Bible said but God wasn't in the earthquake and there was a strong mighty wind that tore and ripped the mountain but God wouldn't end the strong mighty wind how many understand every great big loud thing that happens isn't not necessarily God there can be some huge things happening and God not even been at being and then he said and then there was a still small voice and that was him that was God didn't the scripture also say be still and know that He is God the psalmist talked about this more than once how that in the night time his his inwards would guide him when you get quiet we live in a loud world our technology ah it can be it can be a tool and a good thing at some times but for most folks it is a continual interruption and we got four TVs and we got radios and instant messages and emails and texts and yet and it's just flowing in bombarding us and then when we're supposed to be quiet we're not we're still loud and we go to bed with all this and we wake up with all this and it is hinder spirituality because it can contribute to quenching and smothering stifling the main thing we should be listening to we need to have times where we are absolutely still still we're not praying at the top of our voice we're not quoting scriptures we're not running and dancing we're not playing a CD real loud we're not watching anything on TV hmm it's just absolutely still and quiet now if you haven't done in a while you give me on the bed are you being the chair not moving a toe and yet your mind be doing this and if you hadn't practiced it or not not just your mind your emotions your emotions your feelings can just be all over the place and off the chart even though you're not making noise with your body your mind and your solar loud oh but friend if we'll take the time to get still and get quiet get you mind quiet steal your soul start checking down in here you begin to be aware somebody else is in me besides me and I think about going this way and doing this that's got nothing or maybe I got a check I got a check pay attention to that or the more I pray about it the more I look about this more I think about this man I just get more excited I get that good velvety feeling brother Hagin was talking about I get - it just gets stronger and stronger in me until it gets time where it's just time to do it just do it we're not led by cost we're not led by need we're not led by majority we're not by led by our peoples and friends opinions we're not led by opportunities we're not led by our head we're not led by our feelings we're not led by our desire we are the sons of God and the sons of God ought to be and can be led by the Spirit of God hallelujah stand on your feet everybody let's pray over this when can we start living more this way immediately

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Published: Tue Oct 23 2012