The Classic Battle Between the Spirit and Mind // Pastor Jay Eberly // March 14, 2021

we're going to look at something here this morning about the mind we're going to start in romans 8 but we're going to eventually as we go through this we're going to look a little bit where uh you know the mind there's a classic battle let's put it that way that every one of us experience because we were born again and the holy spirit came to live on the inside of us and he's in there to guide us one of his functions one of the functions of the holy spirit is to lead us direct our lives we're not like the world we're just guess and go yeah i hope this is right i hope you know i hope this is what god wants me to do or i hope i'm making the right decision in my family my marriage my you know marrying the right person whatever and taking the right job you know whatever uh the world just sort of you know goes up into their mind reaches up for what seems like a good idea or however they decide you know and they just guess and go but we see you know we have the teacher on the inside the guide on the inside to lead us and guide us into all truth bear witness wrote we're going to read romans here romans 8 bear witness with our spirit and uh we have somebody that's a father that's taking care of us has has our best interests at heart when we were under satan's domain he was not on our side we were under his dominion but he was not for us he's going about stealing killing and destroying you know and he's not for us but our father today our father god we've been born again god's now our father he's on our side if god before us who can be against us he's not against us he's for us amen you know people think that god's mad at america no he's still for america and so we gotta we gotta look at this anyway but as as he guides and he has an interest in our well-being and he wants to guide us in all the affairs of life and we see here in romans 8 it says something about this in verse 14 as many as are led by the spirit of god they are the sons of god you could look at that verse and know that god wants to guide his children all of his sons all of his children god actually promises to lead all his children by his spirit amen these things belong to all of god's children for you to have direction by by the lord by from the lord by the spirit of god and it says here he leads us doesn't really tell us in this verse how but if you jump down to verse number 16 it tells you how the main way now i'm talking about after the word of god and there's no leading ever going to be from the spirit of god living in your spirit that's going to be against the word people say i'm led to do this well i notice that's against the word you know no that's their mind that's their flesh but anyway the main way god leads us is through his written word if the bible says it you don't need to pray about it just walk in the light of what the word says the bible said don't be unequally yoked together well if the bible says don't do that then you don't need to pray about marrying a sinner you know and there's just things people praying about that they open themselves to deception because the bible already gave them the answer and they might hear a direction or a voice all right but it won't be god anyway so verse 16 tells us how he guides us the spirit king james says itself how many jesus said he the spirit of truth is coming he's a person we could say the spirit bears himself bears witness with our spirit that we are the children of god hallelujah so as many as are led by the spirit of god that doesn't tell us how but verse 16 says how he leads us by bearing witness with our spirit that's not a voice god does have a voice the spirit does have a voice he can talk amen i've told you stories about how the lord spoke to me in different ways beyond the witness but but that's not the main way the main sometimes those things are because danger is ahead or uh there's gonna be that you need something more uh authoritative to hold you steady because of what's coming but but mainly you just you got the word of god number one you got the inner witness number two and that's not even a voice it's just an inner inner knowing the bible describes as an inner knowing uh an inner peace you know uh uh the bible calls it an unction you have an unction from the holy one and you know all things there's different ways and we go through that there's a series i say in the bookstore but it's online in the gem vault called how you can be led by the spirit of god there's another one called how to develop the human spirit if you don't know we're going to just look at this briefly this morning but we're going to get into some things about a classic battle that each of us fight but i just want you to have some of the new ones i want you to have a foundation maybe we're not going to spend the time to give you here in this service about how to be led by the spirit of god you and i have the potential to never miss it again i didn't say we have never missed it i said we have the potential to never miss it again i'm moving for that potential don't you don't you want to move closer i'm not missing it as much as i used to i know that making wrong decisions you know what i'm talking about so uh but here's he said the sons of god can expect to be led by the spirit of god leadings belong to you as a birthright that's part of what you uh what you have in christ you can expect to be led hallelujah now um it's possible for his children to have a leading but not follow it you know reject it notice this verse here it doesn't say as many as he leads so i said no that's what it said no no no he didn't say as many as he leads he said as many as are lead what's the difference as many as he leads god god could lead you by the inner witness about something you understand but you not follow amen we're talking about renewing the mind we're going to get to the mind here in a little bit the main reason that we don't follow is because of the rational mind well it doesn't make any sense why would i do that why would i go to that church my mama didn't go there my daddy doesn't go there none of my relatives in fact nobody ever in my family speaks in tongues i mean god you ah that doesn't make that can't be god i mean grandma's tears are at the on the altar down there at the methodist church i mean you know that's got to be where god's leading me to go maybe maybe not maybe maybe not amen people have people are led they claim to be following god but they're led by circumstances they're led by things in the natural world why because their mind is more dominant than their spirit man what do you mean my spirit man we'll go to the first thessalonians 5. we're going to just give a little bit of foundation here we've gone through these many times but for the new ones for the sake of those who maybe haven't heard we want to go to a couple of verses here first thessalonians chapter number five first thessalonians chapter number five one of the greatest things i can do for you as a pastor is help you to identify where god leads you i mean if you can get that you've you've won all of a sudden you've won a big battle and you're going to you're going to be further ahead in a lot of issues in life but most christians aren't taught how to be led by the spirit of god most christians most churches are just real fuzzy on how to do this how does god talk to us all right first thessalonians 5 look at verse number 23 the very god of peace sanctify you wholly that means entirely all right he's getting ready to list our three parts of our being and he says this is our entire being holy means entirely and i pray god your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of the lord jesus christ so you're a three-part being psychologists identify man's try to identify or separate man's different parts and they'll say he's a mind and he's a body or he's a soul or a body or they they don't recognize the third part of man's being they recognize this body everybody understands the body but they don't and they and they recognize that man has a mind and and and a psyche they they call it the soul the emotions and so forth and that's correct he does actually this verse says so the soul's made up of three parts it's made up of mind will and emotions your mind your soul consists of your mind that's your rational mind you can when you go out of here you can pull down here and and uh whenever you pull out of this street and you look both ways oh there's a car coming so your mind thinks well i better stay here till that car gets passed that's your mind right now we all know that but but then there's a deeper part of the soul called the the emotions amen when you just rationally decided to wait until that cargo went by you didn't cry get emotional about it you just but there is an emotional part of our being so the soul's made of mind will and emotions all right so then the spirit man he said i pray god your holy spirit soul and body be preserved blameless so the spirit man is the part that the psychologists don't want to recognize because if they do they've got to recognize they've got to acknowledge god they don't want to do that i mean no we're just god you know blah blah blah we don't know blah blah blah blah blah we don't want to know anything about that but they recognize there's a deeper part of man and some of them we even say there's a deeper part of man we don't know for sure what it is those that have a little bit of honesty and that's the part that christians need to develop that's the part that god talks to that's the part that god leads man through his spirit romans 8 16 his spirit bears witness with our what our soul no no he's bear witness with our spirit he doesn't give us a feeling in our body i just feel like god heard me that doesn't have a thing in the world whether god heard you or not people are following feelings people are following emotions and they've not divided these things from the spirit of man and so following god has been a hit-and-miss proposition for them well i'm i'm about 50 50. well that's as good as anybody who's i mean nobody can improve on 50 50. you know what i'm talking about so we're going to dig around in this a little bit most christians have never really you know uh hebrews 4 in fact go over there hebrews chapter number 4 tells us something that we need to do it talks about the word of god in hebrews 4 it's quick and powerful let's go to verse number 12. the word of god is alive quick means alive and powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword piercing even to the dividing get this get this wording the dividing asunder of soul and spirit so they're not the same thing then people use that in the church world as a whole they use that term soul interchangeably with the spirit but they're not the same thing notice he said we're to have the word of god here he said is able to divide between soul and spirit why do people not divide between soul and spirit because they don't have the word of god in them because the word of god would divide that soul and spirit now notice piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit and of the joints and marrow well we know what that is that's the body so he's saying the word of god will help you divide and discern the difference between the spirit the soul and the body in other words he'll help you identify the word of god excuse me will help you identify the different voices of your three parts your spirit has a voice it's called conscience your soul has a voice a couple of voices one's emotion is is emotion and then uh your soul has the rational the voice of the rational mind and then the body has a voice called feeling you can take your fist and hit your neighbor and they feel that and that that voice communicates to them he just hit me she just hit me i know we're starting out slow but we're taking a little time to bring some of the new ones along you know so god doesn't guide man through his body through his feelings emotions or his rational minds that's right now i remember i started out saying that this we're going to talk about a classic battle that every one of us have to fight and the big battle that really that people talk about spiritual warfare we need to fight the devil well he's already defeated amen the battle is not necessary between god and the devil the battle between truth and lies people believe in lies rather than believing the truth but anyway that's a whole other subject but but there's another battle the main spiritual warfare that the new testament the epistles of the new testament talk about is not against the devil although we under understand we wrestle not against flesh and blood prince but principles first of all but see you you read the word wrestle and you get off if you're not careful because you read the word wrestle and you think that's right we got to wrestle with the devil well keep on reading and then it keeps on saying and having done all to stand stand stand stand therefore stand as mentioned i think four times or five whatever it's been a few few years since i've counted four times i believe stand as mentioned or withstand and russell's mentioned once so emphasize standing more than wrestling [Music] the devil's defeated let me tell you the battle you're dealing with it's between the rational mind and the conscience or the spirit the voice of your spirit or the inner witness which is the witness with your spirit a lot of times if you read romans 9 1 paul brings a little more understanding to it a lot of times the spirit bears witness with our spirit and then our conscience passes it on to our mind our spirit knows things that our mind doesn't know because he's in contact with god our mind's not in contact with god now he can be enlightened through what the spirit of god in our spirit passes on to our spirit and then it can float up to our mind but here's the classic battle when it floats up to our mind our mind picks it up our rational mind picks it up turns it over a few times said well that couldn't be god because and we start listing things now let me give you an example pastor debbie whenever she was we we hadn't met yet she was we got married after bible school uh but we both went to the room about bible training center and before she uh before i met her of course she was living in kansas city she was she gotten back right with god back in fellowship and uh she was helping in her local church growing spiritually just just starting to move forward again and and spiritually and so but then uh she's she's a youth leader she's a helper assistant with a junior higher senior high both uh help her in both youth departments and then she had uh she had just taken her dad had just started a new business that was afterwards okay so the business part was afterwards she okay but she was filling me in this morning so it wasn't me that made the mistake it was her that made a mistake so but anyway she had she had just started a new uh uh position and then she had somebody that as uh i guess they were out of the youth department or somebody that she was mentoring and sort of uh discipling you know bringing them along spiritually that she felt responsible for and in the middle of all that and she's just thriving growing and and moving forward in the plan of god for her life but in the middle of all that god spoke to her about going to rhema going to rhema bible training center she had been to uh been listening to dad hagin on uh the faith seminar of the air the radio broadcast every day at lunchtime and then when that was done she'd get out in him or some little book you know and she's just so hungry she was growing spiritually but the lord began to witness with her spirit and even somebody that she knew uh talked to her about the bible school began to witness with her spirit about going to bible school going to rhema bible training center well she turned it over a few times and then she enter in her you know it floated up out of her spirit you understand the way these things work god will start dealing with you deeper than your mind down deeper and it'll it'll float up to your mind to enlighten your mind not to be analyzed not to rationally decide whether that's god or not but but it's there to enlighten your mind so that you can act on it it didn't the source of the information was not your mind the source of it was down here deeper now why do i keep pointing down here because your head's up here on your shoulders right i mean that's that's easy we that's that's we're revelating today right your head's up here but the bible says jesus said out of your belly will flow rivers of living water proverbs 20 27 write that verse down especially if you're new proverbs 20 27 the spirit of man is the candle of the lord which part of his man which part of the man the spirit of man is the candle of the lord that just simply means that's where he's going to enlighten you we don't have candles today we have light bulbs back then they use candles to enlighten or lighten the room you know so that means he's going to enlighten you in your spirit he's going to guide you he's going to make known his will to you in your spirit so the spirit of man now notice there's a candle of the lord now keep on reading searching all the inward parts of what the belly do you have a little candle in your stomach no he's talking about the spirit man that's why jesus said out of your belly will flow rivers of the living water this spoke he of the spirit are you with me still laying the foundation so we can get so we can get to where we need to get today here so with what the holy ghost is going to do he's going to bear witness with your spirit pass on the information to your spirit it'll float up to your mind to enlighten your mind not to analyze it god never intended that you and i take what he's bearing witness with our spirit to analyze whether it's god or not or decide whether we're going to do it or not it's to enlighten us because you got your mind has to know what to do to make steps and obey god so it's there just to enlighten you not to dominate your your spirit and and and put out the light so that's what happened to her it floated up out of her spirit that she was to go to bible school and so you know what she thought well i got all these i mean i i got this job i got this uh responsibility in my youth department i've got this person i'm disciplined you know there's a lot of people depending on me i can't do that right now so she put out she put it out she put it out and that kept coming to her so finally she got an application and uh she's fighting this battle tell your neighbor i know all about this battle right here i don't mean fight like this but i mean there's there's two parts of her being that are trying to take the lead here that's what i mean the battle who's going to be dominant who's going to be listened to which one am i going to choose [Music] it's a classic battle everybody's got to fight so it would float up so finally she said well i'll get the application she filled out the application fill it all out and said but there's too many people i'm responsible for wanted it up and throw it in the trash can now you've never been through this battle between her heart i mean your heart in your mind what do we mean heart the heart is the spirit of man that's another word in the bible for the spirit of man so uh but she'd get quiet again and there it would come up again so after a day and a half she went into the trash can got it out of the trash can all wrinkled up you know just tried to flatten it out and level it out and make it and turned it in she put it in the envelope and sent it into rhema bible training center all wrinkled up you know i just wonder how many spirit schools get wrinkled up applications you know [Applause] head schools probably don't get any but spirit schools probably get a lot of wrinkled up applications [Laughter] the people the people reading the applications but oh here's another one with the battle going on so she finally got it in and they accepted her and then people would say you know but you can't but she said no i got to go amen amen there's always something that says you can't do it there's always circumstances evidence that said no you can't do that that's not that's not you how and your mind's going to go i mean you ever fought that battle you wake up in the middle of the night your mind's just thinking thinking thinking think and thinking you got to shut that mind down and listen on the inside rather than try to figure it all out so that's what i want to spend some time talking to you about as many as are led he didn't say as many as he leads see we've all gone through what pastor debbie did there in that application process but but some passed that test in some flunk he led them but they were not led in other words they didn't respond to that they tried to in their mind they tried to decide whether it was god or not put out the light that came up out of their spirit amen so it's one thing to receive a leading within your spirit but it's another thing entirely to follow that leading in other words to to respond and let the spirit of god move you along on the course and the plan that he has for your life some leadings don't seem significant but they're huge some of the greatestly sometimes people say well if it's a bigger leading you know i need a little i mean if it's a if it's a bigger decision i need a little bit more than the inner witness well not according to the bible you don't need a bigger somebody said well i just need a maybe an angel choir come down or you know something to happen i need god to speak audibly to me but but see what that is is why do people want that because they don't trust what they already know god's trying to wean us off of or let me put it this way he's trying to wean us let me finish the way i was going to say he's trying to wean us off of trying to figure it all out and he's trying to get us to trust what we already know [Applause] [Music] if you and i get quiet there's a lot of things we already know there's a lot of things we already know now i didn't say our head has said yes yet no i didn't say our head has jumped up and down and said i completely understand this and i'm in full agreement there's there's times that our heart knows something that our head doesn't agree with yet it's the classic battle between the heart and the head i have watched multitudes because they're not taught correctly now you can be taught but you're not skilled in it yet it's a whole different thing to live this than to preach it yeah so but i've watched multitudes god spoke to them god witnessed with them they knew where they were to go they knew what they were to do they knew what his plan was they knew i've had people come and say god god actually spoke to me audibly now that's not the inner witness but i've had people god actually spoke to me audibly and told me what to do and within three years there they are going and doing the opposite and they wonder why their life is still floundering amen because well you know this happened and that happened it doesn't have anything to do with anything well that door was closed that doesn't have anything to do with anything we don't follow open and closed doors now obviously if god has something for us he's going to open the door but there are things he speaks to our heart or bears witness with our heart about that the door is closed and you have to stand there and say in the name of jesus i command you to open and it will god will get it done but but you just don't go by opening closed doors circumstantial evidence is what i'm saying well that can't be god the door is closed or that has to be god the doors open like i say all the time the door to your local tavern is open all the time doesn't mean it's god's will that you go in there [Music] start drinking pastor jay you're preaching all right okay good i'll keep it up all right so there's things we've got to study here how many of you know when it when you have a knowing on the inside of what to do it takes faith to step out on that leading to respond to that and to say i'm going with that amen you're going to have to exercise faith but a lot of people would rather god just put like a little remote control you know device down in their spirits and just you know they're sort of a robot you know they rather than use their faith amen they just rather sort of god make them do things or kind of kind of make them a robot there's a little device in them that they just do it like when whenever god says this as well they just automatically just do it wouldn't have to use any faith but see whenever you have a witness and you you step out in faith i mean you when you have a witness and you start going that direction it's going to take faith because a lot of times the head is going to come up with all sorts of reasons why this isn't going to work or this isn't the right decision just like pastor debbie's situation about going to rhema now in that situation it was even good things discipling people is right isn't it working in the youth department for her in that case was his plan for her and that was right for her amen help and you know so forth but but see even good things that god has had for us in seasons past don't determine where we're going in the future [Music] how many of you know if we're faithful he'll progress us into the best he has for us and she would never have fulfilled god's plan staying where she was that nothing against that church or anything but his plan for her how many of you know that plan was for her to get more rooted into the word i'll be honest with you i just a lot of people maybe don't know it but i don't think she'd be alive today if she wasn't she didn't go to rhema because it's the word that's kept her out gotten her out of a couple of situations that to be honest with you were not well let's put this way they were serious business amen so thank god she obeyed see a lot of times people get into situations how i get here well the way you got there was way back here you couldn't figure out why god was leading you that direction so you didn't go that direction that's why people sometimes they don't understand the seriousness when god leads them where to go to church well you know it's not that big of a deal you know this one's closer and so forth and so on it can be life and death where you go to church now i'm not just preaching coming to this church if if god told you to be somewhere else we insist you go where god told you to be or where you're supposed to be where you have that witness in your spirit isn't that right we're not the only ones in the body of christ so we want to know what the spirit of god's saying to us so this here in verse number 16 here tells us that he leads us by the spirit bearing witness with our spirit how many of you know we're the temple of the holy spirit the bible says we are and the holy spirit is in there he's on the job do you realize that you don't need to pray god show me what to do you don't need to pray that the holy spirit would guide you according to romans 8 verse 14 and 16 he already is amen he's in there bearing witness with your spirit or else the bible lied about it the spirit of god had paul right his spirit bears witness with your spirit in your spirit right now he's bearing witness with your spirit well but i don't know what to do see you got to dip deeper than your mind your mind might not know what to do but your spirit knows things your mind doesn't know the issue is not uh getting god or getting the holy spirit to bear witness with you the issue is tuning in to where he's leading [Music] people are tuned into the circumstantial world they're tuned into the mind of the mental irrational or emotional realm well i can't do that because of this or that and and and so you know they say i just don't know what to do i i can't do that i don't know what to do well you do know what to do you do know what to do you know there's for example you could say you could be out in the middle of a desert and say i just don't have any water you know most of the time within 100 or 200 feet down there's water and there's flows of water deeper than the surface of the earth sometimes and the same thing's true with the inner witness the flow of his leadings are deeper than your intellectual mind you just got to get this thing quiet [Music] and and dip deeper and in fact most christians have not prayed long enough in tongues to know where that's coming from to quiet their mind and dip down in here and where that's coming from if you'll locate where that's coming from you'll locate your spirit and if you locate your spirit and train yourself to look within before you make decisions you'll be further along i'm further along than everybody i graduated from high school with although they're all christians in fact that very bible went through my high school the baptism of the holy ghost many of them got filled with the holy ghost and spiritually naturally in life health strength physically mentally uh uh so forth in victory in many areas financially many areas way beyond where they are but not because i went on and educated my head real big nothing wrong with educating your head god god can lead you to get a degree get a get a education of some sort i'm not preaching against that i'm just simply saying don't educate your head at the expense of your heart [Music] don't develop a big intellect but your spirit's not developed see that's what the bible preaches is spiritual growth what do you mean spiritual growth the growth of the spirit of man where he becomes more dominant all right let's keep on going because we're going a little slower than i planned to go here so you really don't have to pray that the holy spirit leads you he's already in there make that confession he's bearing witness with my spirit now amen the bible said so his spirit bears witness with our spirit and somebody said well yeah that's just about that we're the children of god well notice the next verse and and verse 17 and in other words he's bearing witness with more with your spirit about more than just that you're a child of god i've had him bear witness with me where something that was lost was that i had lost you might think this is strange some of the little some of the minor details of life he'll bear witness with you about that's right i was uh i decided yesterday it was kind of a nice day now this is some of you will be strange but see the lord will help you enjoy life he really will amen looking at some of you you must not be following the lord or something like that i'm kidding i'm kidding amen just keeping some of you awake but uh but some of the littlest things i i was yesterday i decided i said pastor debbie you want to go on a walk i didn't call her pastor debbie to me she's debbie i got around the relatives a couple months ago and i she was pastor debbie was over there doing something i said pastor debbie and they laughed laughed laughed i said i'm sorry it's a habit you know i call her that she's sweetie but i asked her do you want to go on a walk she said decide not to so i said i'm going on a walk we got that land and so i'm going on a walk and i had a prompting to take a particular trail so i'm i'm i'm going to go that trail but while i'm walking past another trail that went down to one of the food plots oh i got to go down to see the food plot but i had that prompting don't go down there go over here you might think that's strange but i've just developed my spirit to follow the slightest little things so i followed the high trail and i got around rather than go down to the food plot i stayed up where i kind of had the unction to go and i found the first shed antler i've ever found on our land laying up there on the trail i thought i'd miss that the lord knew i would have enjoyed that today now to you that's just you know but see you just don't know how good he is that's what hallelujah that's not no it's not life and death decision it's not a you know but it's just something he'll help you enjoy life he'll he'll show you where the good life is you know praise the lord the only one i've ever found looked all over yesterday and didn't find any other ones anyway hallelujah praise the lord there's a lot of things while you're praying for god to direct you the spirit of god is in you already trying to pass the information on to your spirit it's not a matter of him not being on the job i mean is he bearing witness or is he not the bible said he is so it's not a matter of him getting over on the unemployment line looking for a job no he's actually on the job he's on the job he's in there and what's he doing one of the things he's doing us everything one of the things he's bearing witness with your spirit and letting you know things that your mind doesn't know so when you pray lord show me what to do really you ought to you ought to put your faith more on lord help me to to recognize where you're leading me down here help me to dip down quiet my mind and and sense what you're saying to me down here all right so um hallelujah now i uh as a result of not being trained to follow the spirit a lot of men tend to formulate a plan in their own natural mind without consulting their heart or the inner witness now some people don't want to consult the inner witness because they don't want what god wants we won't even talk about them today because we want what god wants right amen so but a lot of people aren't trained to follow the inner witness they have gone to church maybe all their life but they've never been really taught how god really guides and so it's real fuzzy it's real fuzzy you listen to some teaching it's real fuzzy how does god guide us people are real fuzzy about it but um so people that you know aren't taught and trained to look to the inner witness they tend to look more to the natural mind and the circumstantial world and uh make when they make decisions rather than to their heart because when that tries to come up from their heart they're so used to their mind dominating them that they don't know how to unhook from that i'm telling you it can be a battle sometimes i spend more faith on this than i do to get direction i don't know if you understand that statement i spend more of my faith getting unhooked from my mom when i'm when i'm needing to know what to do in situations i spend more of my faith getting unhooked from my intellect and getting hooked up down here finding that finding that down here and it takes quieting the mind and it takes i'll tell you something that will help you is not only will it help you to quiet the mind a lot of christians have never learned to do that in fact that's why a lot of christians can't sleep they're not sleeping very well it's because they're not quieting the mind you quiet your mind you're going to start cutting disease like a chainsaw buzzing through a oak tree forgive my country boy expressions you know hallelujah that's the big battle there's three reasons christians can't sleep their physical body's in pain or something that can keep you from sleep or something's not right in their physical body something's not right in their their mind i mean their mind's just buzzing and they're thinking a lot thinking trying to they can't shut that thing down or their conscience is bothering them decide which one it is and fix it and cut z's your conscious bothering you means god's trying to talk to you about something but you don't want to listen and i have been there but tell your neighbor he's getting there this morning a lot of christians haven't learned to do that and uh as a result they miss god because they're looking for god to guide him in ways that he's really not going to guide them and they keep thinking god's going to lead one way you know maybe through circumstances or something or maybe through you know okay i'm going to church somebody's going to prophesy to me if you get a lot of prophecies to guide you don't think it's because you're spiritual the lord will confirm things through that well i just want somebody to prophesy and tell me what to do uh that's for spiritual babies that's for people that haven't developed what i'm talking about and probably the reason you get a lot of prophecy is because you're just hard-headed and god out of his mercy is trying to rescue you the main way christians are led thank you for looking at me with those looks is through the inner witness what do you already have in your heart to do a lot of people that come to us and want to talk about some decision they're making they they they'll sit there and tell us they'll speak out of their heart and tell us see whenever people are around the anointing they tend to talk more out of their heart than their head and they'll sit there and tell us what the spirit of god's telling them to do and i'll say listen to your self-talk you already know what to do but you tell me what i need to do i don't need to tell you what to do you already know what to do don't depend on somebody else's ability to hear from god learn to depend on your own ability to hear from god i remember years ago when i told this story i gotta tell it again i'm not getting near as far on my notes as i plan but that's all right years ago i we were ministering in healing school kind of thing in ministries you know regularly there we got real real real regular there it's good to be regular um just got to keep some awake they're looking at me real funny this morning uh but anyway so i i uh there was a man in charge of the healing school that called us one day and he said there's a church that's about what was it an hour at no not pawnee uh cushing oklahoma about an hour and 20 minutes or so away from tulsa that are between pastors and they want they called and they wanted to know if there's anybody around that maybe wanted to go out and preach on weekends for a while and uh between why we get a pastor so this leader of the healing school there he called us and asked us i said oh yeah oh yeah we'll do it we'll do it every sunday morning i believe so we started doing that and uh there was this you've heard of uh people that are demon-possessed this church wasn't demon-possessed it was deacon-possessed the deacons were running everything i mean there was three main deacons i mean they was the big cojones and so they were so divided that we had to stay at one deacon's house one service and the next sunday another deacon's house or us this deacon get jealous they were the most unqualified unscriptural deacons you've ever met so we were there we started preaching on sundays they started liking us and in the process of uh in the process of time they thought maybe we were their pastor i said no no i'm not your pastor they they liked us i guess or maybe it was pastor david's good looks i don't know might have been my preacher want me to be your pastor yeah and then they said well would you consider being our pastor i said oh no oh no no sir no sir and they kept bugging me about it bugging me i said that finally they said why i said well first thing i'd have to do is fire all you deacons and that would create a church split so no i'm not your pastor well that proved out by the way the next guy that they finally got in as pastor he was they had a water uh not a watering uh what do you call it a fountain out front that you know sprays water and kind of nice you know the beautiful kind of thing and the children were trying to play in it and there was a chance of them getting electrocuted and so forth because of the way it was rigged up wasn't wired right and so the pastor said i'm shutting that down i'm turning that off that's too dangerous oh the deacons had a cow man oh man no we paid a lot of money for that ah and they ran that pastor off i said see i you know i knew i was deacon possessed they held it they possessed it they would control it it's possessed [Laughter] anyway so but i'm there and in the process of us preaching there a man came to me one of the deacons he said uh i have a question i said all right he said there's another man coming here on wednesday nights because you are not able to come here but there's another man coming here from a more local area he's preaching on wednesday nights and he's preaching on prayer i said okay he said uh but this last two wednesday nights i believe it was he said he started preaching on roaring in the spirit because the devil needs to hear us roar jesus is the lion of the tribe of judah and we we need to roar in the spirit at the devil and i said okay see i'm i'm not the pastor i'm a guest minister basically and uh i said you haven't asked a question you're just telling me something well he said here's my question he said is that roaring in the spirit at the devil is that god i said why do you ask he said well you know you've been to bible school been around rhema even in the healing school there for a while you know i'm sure maybe brother hagin addressed this and you know said whether that's god or not and so forth and so on so i thought i'd ask you i said again the second time why do you ask he looked at me funny and he repeated the same thing you know you've been to bible school been around rhema maybe brother hagin address and so forth i said after that third time why do you ask he looked at me strange and repeated it the third time i said why do you ask he said why do you keep saying that he said my question is i said my question is why do you have a question about it why do you have a question about it he said well something doesn't seem right to me i said that's what i'm trying to get you to i said the teacher's in you the whole time trying to pass it on to your spirit you're just intellectually trying to figure it out and you need to learn to listen down here and i didn't tell him if you listen down here you'd give somebody the church and let go of it i just but i didn't tell him that because they weren't ready to hear that can you hear what i'm saying some people have a question what about this what about why do you ask come on now well you know i thought maybe you studied the bible you wouldn't know well why doesn't it sit right with you [Music] come on tell your neighbor you're getting some answers this morning our head might not understand why something is not right but our head doesn't maybe until we get the word of god more in us maybe we won't know why it's right uh why it's not right but as the word of god gets in us maybe our head will eventually catch up to what our spirit knows all along just learn to follow that which you have in your spirit tell your neighbor amen hallelujah get some help here this morning hallelujah there's a lot of things your spirit already knows that your head hasn't caught up with yet praise the lord i've listened to ministers sometimes and i don't i'm not just critical of every other minister that's that's carnality and wrong thinking many good ministers but i'm just simply saying there's been times i've listened to ministers maybe on tv or something and it's like well it sounds good but something down here is not right something down here is not right i remember years ago uh 10 15 years ago i lost track now there was a minister came up out of nowhere just i mean came on the scene was supposed to be having revival and all these miracles and things were happening and words of knowledge and gifts of the spirit and uh i mean he became the rage all of a sudden and i'm i'm all for god raising up people that work miracles so far don't misunderstand me don't you know but but but and one day i was watching christian tv and i was watching him i mean he came on tv and i'm watching him say something right something is not right can't people recognize something right something is not right and somebody said what was it i don't know i just know in here see see the all-knowing one is he's the all-knowing one we just know what he shares with us and sure enough within what was it i don't know was less than a year you know it wasn't long that they they found out this man was uh had people stationed at the doors to find out what sickness do you have and then they'd write that down they'd pass that on to him and he'd call it out as if it were a word of knowledge came to find out he's in sin living in sin and he's the biggest fraud that hit the planet amen you know what i'm talking about something ain't right see your spirit will tell you those things amen i've been pas uh traveling travel all over the united states where we came here doing more now but and and you get to some places it's like something right in this church something right you go to praying about it and you just have a witness this pastor's not even called to be a pastor you know well you can't just stand up thus saith the lord you can't do that you shouldn't do that that's that's wrong i mean baby sheep will suffer for that you know what i'm talking about god wants to rescue that situation without doing all that well um so every now and then you i'll get a i'll get that in my spirit and i'll bring it around to the pastor i said maybe we're eating lunch or something i say uh tell me about when the lord called you you know how he called you what happened what tell me how the lord spoke to you and so forth and so on and then specifically about coming here and pastoring or pastoring in general and you know those men they can't tell you see they just assumed something because they wanted to do something because their real calling was to help somebody else but they wanted to be the number one man because i got this in my heart to teach and preach the word well you can fulfill that in different ways you can be the main number one man or you can be the number two man or or teach a class in a church or something like that worship leaders have that problem i don't know why i'm on all this this morning i got a whole lot i want to try to get to think well i've got a worship ministry i i the ministry of mine is the ministry of worship where's that in the bible i'm not saying worship worship is in the bible but where's the ministry of worship it's not in there it's called help's ministry it's called helps ministry find somebody that god's assigned you to help and help them [Music] yeah but i've got a ministry where i have i go around i lead worship well that helps ministry people get confused in those things they got their own way of thinking and they think that they have to do certain things that has to happen certain ways and listen because other people are doing that you can't do something because somebody else is doing it when i was preparing this service this came up in my heart but i didn't put it down in my notes because i didn't want to i didn't want to talk about this but the lord brought me back i've watched people suffer for years i've watched people suffer for decades because they don't agree with god god said you're supposed to help somebody else no i'm the main man and i've watched them i've watched them struggle financially at times barely have enough to eat the church dwindled down to 20 people i've watched i've watched their wives die i've watched them suffer bondages and and all sorts of accidents and stuff and stuff and stuff and stuff and you want to go wake up that's not god's plan for you amen i remember one time there was a pastor i preached for and i knew he wasn't a pastor i'm like oh lord another one just i mean you'd be surprised and so i didn't say anything it's like i'm a guest i'm just tired of saying something they don't listen anyway i've never had one of them listen to me so i said uh well i'm just leaving i mean after the service after the you know after the series of meeting i'm not saying anything i'm just going home and so but anyway a couple years later dr fraim was preaching for him and uh he came to us next he got in the car and first thing he said is that man over there a pastor i said doctor the way i was trained when the general's in town when the general's in town the sergeant ain't got nothing to say no he said i'm asking you i'm asking you is he a pastor i said because i remembered over in the old testament the lord asked ezekiel something and ezekiel said oh lord thou know us [Laughter] so i said dr defrane you tell me you know he said he got a little bit perturbed at me he said i'm asking you you tell me what you what you have in your spirit i said doctor i don't believe he's a pastor he goes i didn't think so [Applause] now we can know that why can't they know that because they got their mind made up see they got their mind made up this is the way it is this is where it's going to be i got a gift for teaching and preaching the word well you can have that but it doesn't mean you're a pastor pastors need a lot of people to prove themselves they're faithful and they can help in a local church well anyway that's all free i don't know how many people listen to it but and people struggle brother hagin said a lot of ministers struggle because they have not yet agreed with god i got to be the main man why well you're the main man you know how many times i've asked god just let me quit and just help somebody else if you're really called to it's not like you lust for it in the flesh who do i need to be talking to right now amen most people that are called to be the main man they'd prefer to just help somebody else i would i mean i wouldn't have to make all the decision i just you make the decisions tell me what we're going to do i'm going golfing you know i'm just or hunting or something just tell me what god's saying hallelujah praise the lord all right now that we've gone so much into that praise god you can have peace about something in your spirit and your head give you fits about it are you there i said you can have peace about something in your spirit and your head gives you fits about it all right now go over to mark's gospel actually go to first timothy 1. now go to mark we're about out of time go to mark chapter number four mark chapter number four this describes this battle classically mark chapter 4 verse number 21 he said is a candle brought to be put under a bushel or under a bed not to be set on a candlestick there's nothing hidden that shall not be manifest not anything kept secret but it could be made become be made known should be or should come abroad so first that term is the candle brought to be put under a bushel or under a bed now back then they didn't have light bulbs you understand they didn't have electricity so a candle was what was set in the middle of the room or set in a place prominent place where it could light the room yes and he's saying did he do you put the candle up there to light the room and then put a bushel basket over it or something like that or do you put that candle under the bed no you set it up where it can shine you understand and so i believe because of the law of first references whenever the book of mark here says the candle is a candle be brought to be put under bed so forth i believe he's hearkening back to proverbs 20 27 the spirit of man is the candle of the lord are you still with me in other words it's not to be put under anything amen amen the spirit of man guided by the inner witness is to be in supreme authority in you and my's life someone said well no jesus is in supreme authority that's what i said he will guide you and lead you by his spirit he said so whenever it's the spirit leading you that's jesus leading you and if you make the spirit lord he is lord uh jesus is lord but people don't pay attention to what the spirit of god is saying that he's not lord in that situation now maybe it's just because they haven't been taught but see we're we're learning here now and so the spirit of man guided by the inner witness is to be in the supreme authority in your life because that's the part of man that he god and the holy ghost jesus so forth will lead and guide the believer isn't that right that spirit i mean that candle on a candlestick is your spirit dominating you like it like it's sitting up on a room you know the lighter room that's up in the place of dominion that uh your spirit under a bushel is your spirit tucked away maybe under the bushel basket of reasoning or rationality amen somebody said well something came to me and i don't know where it came from until you know where it came from don't even entertain it in your mind because you can pick something up with your mind and you can formulate a whole plan around it and you can create something that god never even dealt with you about so be careful about what you spend a lot of time thinking about until you have a leading in that direction am i helping no i'm not helping anybody the word's helping us amen but the spirit under a bushel means to walk or not walk in the light that comes into your spirit due to the rational intellectual thinking like that battle pastor debbie went through we can all identify with that amen what you and i've got to learn to do is quiet our mind because our mind can be busy it can be noisy it can have a lot of thoughts and we can have a lot of feelings about certain things and that's another thing whenever god is trying to bear witness with your spirit don't let the emotions get involved because your emotions will color and taint the witness of the spirit and it'll add things to it and take things away from it and the rational mind will say i can't because of this you know and that hallelujah hallelujah you know getting quiet mentally is a lot harder for a lot of people than getting quiet physically yeah one of the great failures of this intellectual age that we live in is a failed failure to call cultivate the human spirit and uh intellect has really taken the throne intellect is the most dominant part of even many christians beings and the spirit man is really left undeveloped he doesn't really rule them he doesn't really speak to them he can't get across to them i mean he tries but they're back over they they just hold himself over in the rational mind i'm not doing anything in life that i plan to do nothing nothing so if you're doing everything you plan to do i wonder if that was his plan or your plan well yeah but it's so warm down south and in hawaii and so forth i mean my plan is to have a church down there you know or or move down there what's that got to do with the leading of the spirit is that god no that's the weather a lot of the leadings of the spirit can be assessed this way how much self or self gratification or fleshly gratification do i get out of this oh pastor you just cut my legs out from under me well i can tell there's not enough function to keep going on that one hallelujah now all right so go back now too i was going to have you go back there before we turn there to uh first timothy chapter number 119 i'm almost done of course you've heard that before too this is not just a little problem do you realize that the bible says in romans 8 6 and 7 that the carnal mind is enmity with god that's not just a little problem enmity with god means the enemy and directly opposed to god and if you don't like the king james listen to the amplified it says the mind of the flesh which is sense and reasoning without the holy spirit with its carnal thoughts and purposes is hostile to god this is not just a little problem this is being hostile to god's plan okay thank you for that enthusiasm all right first timothy 1 19. i'm going to read the amplified uh by rejecting and thrusting i only wrote part of the verse down i apologize by rejecting and thrusting from them their conscience some individuals have made shipwreck of their faith so what he's saying you injure your faith if you push from you what comes up out of your spirit see your conscience is the voice of your spirit so when you and i push from us what comes up out of our spirit to enlighten our mind we push it away and say oh yeah i can't do that i mean and then we start giving reasons why when we do that he said here that we will injure our faith did you see that you keep doing that and you eventually are not going to have any faith at all because your conscience is bothered you cannot exercise faith with a guilty conscience or or something you you can't exercise faith against what you know in your conscience [Music] if you know the lord led you and you go blah blah blah blah blah and i'm going to use my faith over here you can go through the motions of using your faith over here you can impress everybody that you're making confessions of faith over here but it's not going to work i think we haven't made that clear in some people's well i'm just not going to get an operation blah blah blah the lord says have an opera you have a witness that's where the peace is that's where the light is that's where you that's where you can see that you can get through this and so forth and so on blah blah blah i don't want to have an operation i want to have i'm believing god i'm believing god amen you know what i'm talking about well you can go through the motions and you can impress everybody that you're believing god but see we're not the ones that answer your prayer we're not the ones that bring it to pass he is and he knows i already spoke to them what to do not trying to preach operations and everybody should have an operation sure beats dying hallelujah don't injure your faith a lot of christians faith is is injured because of their own doing because their own mind ruling them amen when you when it comes to your mind and what comes up out of your spirit to your mind is simply to enlighten your mind so you can act on it it's not passed to your mind so you can analyze it it's passed through your mind but it's to be untainted you know in that process of passing through your mind so you can know what to do it's supposed to pass through it but it's to be untainted by your mental analysis you all there don't need your mental analysis to work it just needs your faith and your faith is of your heart to live by faith you've got to you know live out of what you have in the inner witness and then what you have peace about in your spirit hallelujah now this is what i've been trying to get to the whole service aren't you glad i finally got here you remember romans 12 2 it says be not confirmed this will be transformed by the renewing of your mind one of the things that starts happening when your mind begins to be renewed one of the transformations that starts coming into your life is that your mind no longer tries to dominate your spirit man amen that is so important for you to understand in other words when your spirit man rises up to enlighten your mind to show because the inner inner witness god the holy spirit is in there witnessing with your spirit trying to enlighten your mind to show you what to do when your spirit when that comes up to your mind and your mind no longer argues with that it no longer fusses it never no longer picks it up and goes well well if i did that then how would that work or or what would that what would happen with that and what would that person think or you and if your mind no longer does that it's time to have a party get some whistles some party hats you are growing up amen let's have a party praise the lord praise the lord that's an indication your mind is being renewed i don't know if you get did you get that let's start going to each excuse me let's stop going to each other saying i got this in my heart but man let's stop doing that that's just reinforcing that and that mental analysis now there's times i say to my mind now because something will come up out of my heart and i'll say to my mind i'm getting ready to do something you're not going to understand but you come along for the ride and you're not going to fight me we're not going to have a pity party you're not going to cry you're not going to get emotional do you hear me yes because my spirit is more robust now than it used to be and my mind's not controlling me like it used to and then i'll usually say i'll say it now you might not understand now but the day will come you'll understand and you might not like it right now because your mind your mind's trying to figure things out when your mind's trying to figure things out and it doesn't understand it gets pouty especially if you're continuing to do it and your mind doesn't understand and your mind will get pouty and it'll get it'll it'll try to fuss with you and it'll start to and this is where arguments come into the marriage and all kinds of stuff you know because you're your mind's pouty so but i always tell my mind you come along you might not like it for a while you might not understand it but you come along for the ride and whenever we get to the other side of this you're going to be glad we did this god talk to yourself david talked to himself in the old testament why art thou cast down oh my soul you ever read that he's talking to his soul you need to talk to your soul hallelujah how many of you know that verse be not conformed this will be transformed by the renewing not notice that you may prove what is that good acceptable and perfect will of god in other words to get into that best that perfect oh it requires that we live out of what comes up out of our spirits and we don't listen just to our unrenewed mind telling us we can't do that or we ain't doing that i've been sitting in church before and the lord said give this amount of money and i've learned not to just fuss with that in my mind anymore because i the the mind will always tell you well you know what's coming due and you know this and you know that and you know this and if you get in your mind you'll never be obedia you'll never be obedient i'm not trying to i mean the offering is already received so i'm not trying to get an offering this morning you know how it is and don't hesitate you know the slower you are i could oh my god the slower you are to respond to these things the more opportunity you give the devil to talk you out of what god said that's why joshua said to israel whenever they were you remember 10 spies came back and gave a bad report we can't they got giants wall cities there's they're rational god already said go possess it and there there they started down that rabbit trail of thinking why they and explaining why they couldn't do it and their minds trying to tell everybody why they couldn't do it and joshua said something very key we need to hear this let us go up here's the next two words at once at once and possess it in other words let's not sit here and think about this because the longer we sit here and think about this the more we're going to talk ourselves out of doing what god said there's a lot of people disobedient for one reason is because they let the devil talk him out of it because they didn't just respond to the spirit they let time pass and their mind tried to rationalize well you know god knows that we have this due and come on amen tell your neighbor just obey don't give the devil time to talk you out of it just obey hallelujah paul said i buffet my body that's the same thing you got to do with your mind you got to grab your mind say listen you're coming along with me you're not dominating me anymore you've dominated me from the day i was you know 18 years old or whatever 15 years old and you ever notice the children they're more pliable to the spirit of god and then they get to the teenage years and their mind starts becoming dominant we've all gone through that phase we got to get to the place where we wean ourselves back off of that figuring everything out now that doesn't mean we're dumb and make stupid decisions we're talking about when the inner witness is telling you something else other than what your mind knows we could spend a lot more time on that than we are stand with me to your feet hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah the loudest voice is not always the right voice what do i mean by that you remember when peter was walking on the water he saw the wind what was the next word boisterous that's the way the devil talks loud you remember god in the old testament whenever elijah has had a pity party and he said you know i'm the only one god said no there's seven thousand remember that and you remember god said uh elijah go over here into this cave he went over there and then there came an earthquake and a wind and a fire said god wasn't in those you know those things create a lot of moving a lot of shaking a lot of visible display a lot of a lot of stuff out here rocks shaking and falling earthquake wind and god wasn't in them but then there came a still small voice he said god was in that still small voice ah the loudest voice isn't always the one that you need to follow amen whether it's a person whether it's you know your head just screaming at you when i went to bible school there was a loud voice in my mind number one kept telling me you don't have time to go to bible school and people going to hell you need to get them saved i know that sounds strange you don't have time to prepare just get out there i mean god's called you get see my mind it was just screaming and then people were saying to me bible school why do you go to bible school i mean and people were trying to talk so i had to learn not to talk to as many people you understand what i'm talking about because they'll try to talk you out of what god's saying people don't have what god's saying for you a lot of times unless they're spiritual but amen so it's not always the loudest voice it's not always it's it's always a still small voice it's always you just know when you get quiet there it is again you ever been there during the day when your mind's busy you're not that conscious of it you get quiet you lay down in bed or when you first wake up in the morning there it is again there it is again pops up oh god show me what to do bob lord show me what to do push it down pop there it just keeps popping up eventually we need to say god is that you and he's going to say duh yeah no i'm kidding just keeps coming to you just keeps coming to you and it doesn't come until you get quiet you ever notice that that's a that's a clue because when you're busy your mind's going and there's no there's no channel open no no channel in your mind one channel's on the kids one channel's on the finances one channel's on that stupid person down there to work another channel another channel another channel but when you get quiet and there comes a channel open in your mind there it comes up to your mind again ringy dingy glory glory glory anybody renewing your mind this morning hallelujah hallelujah father we thank you listen lift your hands thank you father thank you for answers this morning thank you for direction this morning thank you for the counsel of your word hallelujah we bless you we bless you we bless you we bless you we bless you we bless you we bless you um i was driving to a church this morning and the lord spoke to me i would say it was an inner combination of an inner witness and then and then something he said but he said to me there's two ones a couple ones and one's a single person that are going to hear what you're saying in fact close your eyes just for a minute i'm going to hear what you're saying and they're going to misunderstand yes lord how much can i say okay yes thank you lord and the lord saying to me ah yes lord yes lord yes lord yes lord yes lord both of them have to do but i can say this much thank you lord both of them have to do with moving from this area to another area and and and uh you could hear what i'm saying this morning and take it wrong the lord said he said tell them not to get in a hurry not to get in a hurry because more will come to light more will come to light as you just pray and seek god and then you'll understand completely and won't put your own interpretation on it hallelujah and yes lord thank you i'll tell them and the lord's saying to me tell them it's not that they're not hearing from me it's that right at the season where they are now where they are now walking with me they would put the wrong interpretation they would put their own interpretation on it so it's not that they're not hearing from me the lord says to me it's that they at this season are putting their own interpretation on it and as they just keep walking the path that he has in front of them eventually more light will come more light will come and you'll say ah i would have put my own interpretation on that but now i see now i see hallelujah thank you lord for helping me i didn't know how to say it thank you lord thank you for helping me thank you for helping me thank you for helping me praise you father praise you father do you remember i said december of 17 i believe it was 2017. i said i was praying because i always pray about the new year and uh i was praying about the new year lord what do we do anything he wants to change so forth and i had this this sense come up out of my spirit of i have a sense of completion something's been finished and i my mind when i just came up with my mind went you know like huh am i moving what you know and i learned no don't do that shut that down just look down wherever that came from keep looking then something else will come up you understand what i'm talking about we we hear something then we get in our mind don't do that just just keep listening to where that came up or else we're going to get off you know and i said lord what is that that sense i have a sense of completion and i just kept my mind shut or shut down and looked down and he spoke to me he said you have preached faith the message of faith in this congregation and you'll continue to preach the message of faith he said i'm giving you and and you've to a degree to completed that you said now i'm giving you a new assignment to train this congregation and the things of the spirit remember that boy i'm glad i waited for the rest of that i had to put my own interpretation on that because i'm going to obey god but you know people get a little bit of light just enough to be dangerous with something and put their own interpretation on for you know they're they're going off from left field amen this is good practical preaching this morning good good practical help and so you know if i had to put my own interpretation on that i'd said something to pastor i'd say pastor debbie the lord's but said we're done we're done here pastoring you know the lord would have checked us and kept us he would try to get us from thinking wrong about it eventually but praise the lord anyway did you get any help this morning i myself am getting some help in some things glory to god [Music] hallelujah we have the potential to never miss it again we have that potential i'm moving for that potential i'm not perfect yet anybody in here perfect yet i'm not perfect yet but i'm moving in that direction gloria i'm not making the mistakes i used to make praise god hallelujah give god a shout this morning [Applause] hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah praise god praise god praise god and you got to know timing on things we were talking about you know let us go up at once and possess it there are things you'll have a sense i know i'm getting a sense of what it is but i don't have the timing on it you know not not some of the littler things but some of the bigger moves and so forth and so on you got to get the timing of things a lot of times if we move too quickly we'll try to do it in the flesh and mess it all up i'm trying to close i'm just trying to get unhooked from down here hallelujah and we we think well i got a sense about this well you can sense things sometimes years in advance i do in fact that's a pattern with me usually i start sensing some of these bigger moves within two years in advance amen how many of you know god's not in necessarily a hurry sometimes he might deal with some people differently than that some people that have a more impromptu nature you know what i'm they just hear one little thing they're going to jump just i mean god's halfway done saying it and they're already jumping you know those kind of people he might not give them two years in advance but that's not my nature i'm more of a plotter you know what i mean i don't know about you but you got to recognize the patterns of god with you i'm learning the patterns with me you learn the patterns of god with you hallelujah amen lift your hands again give god some thanks this morning thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you say it out loud i have an unction it's already on the inside i have an unction it is my god i have an unction the ability to see what is ahead that the lord has prepared for me i'm going to walk in the lo walk in the in the victory because i'm going to follow him and my life will go from glory to glory [Music] and not grow more dim the light of sight on my path and the glory on my way and i'll see more than i've ever seen in my father [Music] each and every day oh father i'm so thankful that you are my heavenly father indeed [Music] and with all that is your will i've decided to agree [Music] i'm moving on with my with my father and he's leading me true i'll not find i'll not go in ways of error but go on through i'll hear that voice from heaven well done now good and faithful one you've run the race you've finished the course you've done you're done well done now good and faithful one [Music] enter into the glory of the lord comes up with me and all my blessings are forward [Music] that's what i'm doing i'm going to follow [Music] praise god praise god [Music] glory be to god glory be to god [Music] glory be to god [Music] praise be to god amen [Music] i'm not saying you do i'm asking you do the singers have anything if you do good if not we'll do some training on the spot if i say do you have anything you might or you might not but if i say you have something that means you do hallelujah stay in that same flow glory to god hallelujah i have an option and i know i have an action and i know [Music] i have an auction and i know by your spirit i will follow because i am led by the lord i have an action and i know by your spirit i will follow because i am led by the lord i have an unction and i know by your spirit i will follow because i am led by the lord [Music] i have an auction and i know by your spirit i'll follow because i am led by the lord one more time i have an auction and i know by your spirit i'll follow because i am led by the lord i have an auction and i know by your spirit i'll follow because i am led by the lord i won't let my mind stop me i won't let the thoughts turn me from what the lord has said i won't let my mind stop me or the bots to turn me i will stay with the leading of the lord i have an auction i have an auction and i know by my spirit i'll follow because i am led by the lord i have an option and i know by my spirit i'll follow because i am led by the lord i have an auction [Music] and i know [Music] as i take the time to learn and read the word i'll learn your voice more and more as i take the time and the word and i learn your voice i'll know more and more what to do cause i have an auction and i know by your spirit follow [Music] [Music] [Applause] because [Music] i'm led by my helper who [Music] because he lives inside of me i have an action and i know by your spirit i'll follow because i am led by the lord [Music] i am [Music] [Music] [Music] hallelujah those are good confessions amen rather than saying i don't know what to do i have an unction and i know your head will say no you don't you say shut up [Music] i know amen jesus said my sheep know my voice so i know i know hallelujah amen the holy spirit wants to live bigger on the inside of us he's the greater one but he wants to live bigger this is one of the ways he gets to live bigger and this is another key another this what we're teaching this morning is the key to the move of the spirit it's a key to holy ghost meetings it's a key to god getting his way hallelujah

Channel: Jay Eberly Ministries

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Length: 90min 42sec (5442 seconds)

Published: Sun Mar 14 2021