Embracing the Holy Spirit: Our Constant Companion
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### Quotes for Outreach
1. "Living in fear. Afraid to live. Afraid to take risks. Faith is risky. When I was younger, you might not know this, because I seem confident, and I have a lot more confidence than I once had in my life. But when I was younger, I was steeped full of fear. I was afraid to fly. My hands would break out in sweat. I'd tell my wife, I think the plane's going to go down. There's times I almost said, let me off the plane. Anyone hear what I'm talking about? Some of you are like, I was afraid of my kids. They'll let them do stuff. I was afraid of this. Just fear, fear, fear, fear. Can I just say this to you? Every negative emotion you have, jealousy, anxiety, anger, doesn't matter. It's driven by fear. Fear is always the negative emotion that drives all negative emotions. Well, I just have an anger problem. No, you have a fear problem. Well, I just have a jealousy problem. No, you have a fear problem. It's all driven by fear." [01:06:18]
2. "Forget everything and run or face everything, and rise. That's what I want to do. I want to believe that God has put me on this earth for a specific need that he had at this moment, that he caused me to be born for such a time as this. And whatever comes, I overcome because he's called me to it. He will bring me through it. I have this confidence that he who began a good work in me will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ. Can you say amen? Amen. Fear and faith cannot exist together. One will devalue. The other, you cannot have them both. In fact, you don't even need more faith. You just need less doubt. If you have faith as a grain, as a mustard seed and doubt not, you can say that mountain be removed. What's the mountain? The first mountain is your mountain of doubt. Get rid of it. Live bold, live strong, live big lives. Can you say amen?" [01:07:44]
3. "Adults between the ages of 18 and 22 are the loneliest age group today. But people who live alone have increased by 30% in the past 25 to 30 years. Social isolation, that they discovered, is as harmful to our health as smoking 15 cigarettes a day. We were not meant to be alone. We were not meant to be alone. No person is an island unto themselves. We were made for community. We were made to, but I just don't feel like it. Then you've got to start living by a faith. Allow the holy spirit to expand your heart. Allow the holy spirit spirit to expand your thoughts build some relationships not just with him but thank god through the holy spirit we are never alone come on y'all with me and you might know that you might not know this but that right there i've never been alone it was fulfilled that promise of jesus that promise by jesus was fulfilled when the holy spirit came that was the fulfillment of that promise to you and i that we were never alone jesus said you will not be alone he went back to heaven and he sent the third part of god when he said to shoot your advantage i go away because i will send the holy spirit that's the third part of god that's how we relate to god today" [54:29]
4. "A friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out and that's really what true friendship was all about in fact that one there to me sounds very biblical it sounds a fact of the bible in proverbs chapter 17 verse 17 it says a friend loves at all times a brother is born for adversity a friend loves at all times and a brother is born for adversity now when we lean into one another in church we understand our friendships are great we have small groups we lean in together we support one another we have fun we laugh we tell jokes together we play cards and games i love playing games with pastor terry and anita we've played four games so far i've won three of them pastor anita don't like it that's okay um now i won two of them i think but pastor terry did win i think we've all won so far except for pastor anita but but anyway um we have fun like this is what friends are all about but it goes on to say and a brother is born for adversity meaning there's another level we get to that says yeah sure having fun laughing telling jokes that's all good but when you have difficulties when we have problems when we have grief when we have a tribulation that is when brotherhood or sisterhood is really born when we're there for one another we're supporting one another when the whole world walks out come on people of the church walk in amen" [42:10]
5. "This is what God spoke to me. This is my knowledge of who God is. I found out a long time ago when you put God in a box, he will blow the box up every time. He will blow your mind because we should keep on learning. We should keep on growing. We should keep on digging. We should keep on reading. We should keep on knowing God in a real way through the Holy Spirit, amen? And I don't think it was meant to be weird. It's not the Holy Spirit that's weird. It's the Holy Spirit. It's the Christians who are weird. I've been around weird Christians, but I've never encountered a weird Holy Spirit. I've been in churches where they don't do things in decency and order, and it gets weird. And I've even had to correct things in my own church where people got weird, but the Holy Spirit's never weird. Come on, Holy Spirit is our comforter. Holy Spirit is our advocate. Holy Spirit is our counselor. Holy Spirit is our best friend. Come on, y'all with me?" [46:49]
### Quotes for Members
1. "The Holy Spirit reminds me that that's wrong. That should not be in you. That should not be an attitude. That should not be your action. He convicts us of our sin. Are y'all with me? He comforts us. He takes the time to comfort us. He leads us and guides us. We know that. He gives us spiritual gifts. Yes, I believe the spiritual gifts are still available today. Don't get freaked out by that. Just get freaked out once again by weird people. It's not the gift. It's the gifted. We have to make sure we know that. He gives us the desire to obey God without the Holy Spirit. I don't even have the desire to obey God, but he gives me the desire to obey God. He enables us to pray and understand God's word. I never pray without the Bible being open. I never have the Bible open without praying because they support one another. Holy Spirit leads us by the word of God. Amen?" [01:01:15]
2. "We lost our son. Let me give you a good example. We lost our son, Brandon, nine-year-old twin. Most of you know that. Some of you that don't know us, you didn't know that, but we lost a twin boy in an accident. For those of you that are here that lost children, you've lost children through a miscarriage or maybe an older child, it doesn't matter. Parents are supposed to go before the children. When it's reversed like that, there's a pain that's so deep, it's unbearable at times. It's a pain that's so deep that you cannot describe it. There's moments still. It'll be 27 years in July, but there's still moments where I feel like I'm frozen. The world is slipping away because of the pain that's deep in my heart. I've had people come to me and comfort me and be there for us, pray for us. I've had people who lost children who comfort us, and it did bring some comfort, but it's temporary. That's when the Holy Spirit shows up. When you can't do it for yourself and there's no words from anyone else that can comfort your heart, the Holy Spirit shows up. Holy Spirit comes with such comfort. There's a peace that passes understanding. We don't understand why I feel like I do, and I should feel so much worse, but it's the power of the Holy Spirit in leading and guiding us." [01:02:25]
3. "The Holy Spirit reminds me all the time, God is working for me. It's a constant reminder that he's doing things behind the scenes that I know nothing about. He reveals himself in ways when I least expect it. And every time he does, I'm reminded that's the Holy Spirit working on my behalf. He's done it for me in so many ways and so many different varieties that I stop sometimes and go, oh wait, that was the Holy Spirit. That was God working out the details. That means I'm not only not alone, but Holy Spirit is working on my behalf. Come on, y'all. With me? Here's a short list. We could go to a long list, but here's a short list of some of the things of how the Holy Spirit works on our behalf. The Holy Spirit convicts us of our sin. We have a consciousness that's automatic within us, but when you're a Christian, you know the Holy Spirit speaks to you and convicts you of your sin." [58:38]
4. "When they saw the boldness of Peter and John and perceived they were illiterate and uneducated men, they marveled, and they recognized they had been with Jesus. But seeing the man who was healed standing with them, they had nothing to say against it. In other words, they were trapped by their own words. They were trapped in their own world, and these uneducated, illiterate men stood there with all these great, brilliant men, and the men of brilliance was marveled because they could tell they'd been with Jesus. That sounds important, and it is. But remember, Jesus is no longer here. So our boldness, our brilliance comes through our relationship with Jesus, but our relationship with Jesus is through the Holy Spirit. Y'all with me?" [01:10:05]
5. "Now the Lord look, now Lord look on their threats. Listen to the prayer. Now Lord look on the threats and grant that your servants may speak your word with great boldness by stretching out your hand to heal and that signs and wonders may be formed in the name of the, your Holy son, Jesus. When they had prayed the place where they assembled, they were shaken and they were all filled with the Holy spirit and spoke the word with boldness. They prayed for boldness. The place was shaken. They got boldness. They were threatened and they didn't say, I'm going to call my attorney. I'm afraid of cancel culture. Why don't they try to cancel me? No, they said, here's what I'm going to do. I'm going to pray for greater boldness. I'm going to pray for greater strength. I'm going to pray the Holy spirit come and bring more upon me. And they did. And he answered, come on y'all with me. Great boldness. It doesn't just happen. You have to be intentional. You have to be aware of your relationship with Holy spirit. You have to be aware. Of the boldness he will give you." [01:12:42]
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1. "Living in fear. Afraid to live. Afraid to take risks. Faith is risky. When I was younger, you might not know this, because I seem confident, and I have a lot more confidence than I once had in my life. But when I was younger, I was steeped full of fear. I was afraid to fly. My hands would break out in sweat. I'd tell my wife, I think the plane's going to go down. There's times I almost said, let me off the plane. Anyone hear what I'm talking about? Some of you are like, I was afraid of my kids. They'll let them do stuff. I was afraid of this. Just fear, fear, fear, fear. Can I just say this to you? Every negative emotion you have, jealousy, anxiety, anger, doesn't matter. It's driven by fear. Fear is always the negative emotion that drives all negative emotions. Well, I just have an anger problem. No, you have a fear problem. Well, I just have a jealousy problem. No, you have a fear problem. It's all driven by fear." [01:06:18]
2. "Forget everything and run or face everything, and rise. That's what I want to do. I want to believe that God has put me on this earth for a specific need that he had at this moment, that he caused me to be born for such a time as this. And whatever comes, I overcome because he's called me to it. He will bring me through it. I have this confidence that he who began a good work in me will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ. Can you say amen? Amen. Fear and faith cannot exist together. One will devalue. The other, you cannot have them both. In fact, you don't even need more faith. You just need less doubt. If you have faith as a grain, as a mustard seed and doubt not, you can say that mountain be removed. What's the mountain? The first mountain is your mountain of doubt. Get rid of it. Live bold, live strong, live big lives. Can you say amen?" [01:07:44]
3. "Adults between the ages of 18 and 22 are the loneliest age group today. But people who live alone have increased by 30% in the past 25 to 30 years. Social isolation, that they discovered, is as harmful to our health as smoking 15 cigarettes a day. We were not meant to be alone. We were not meant to be alone. No person is an island unto themselves. We were made for community. We were made to, but I just don't feel like it. Then you've got to start living by a faith. Allow the holy spirit to expand your heart. Allow the holy spirit spirit to expand your thoughts build some relationships not just with him but thank god through the holy spirit we are never alone come on y'all with me and you might know that you might not know this but that right there i've never been alone it was fulfilled that promise of jesus that promise by jesus was fulfilled when the holy spirit came that was the fulfillment of that promise to you and i that we were never alone jesus said you will not be alone he went back to heaven and he sent the third part of god when he said to shoot your advantage i go away because i will send the holy spirit that's the third part of god that's how we relate to god today" [54:29]
4. "A friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out and that's really what true friendship was all about in fact that one there to me sounds very biblical it sounds a fact of the bible in proverbs chapter 17 verse 17 it says a friend loves at all times a brother is born for adversity a friend loves at all times and a brother is born for adversity now when we lean into one another in church we understand our friendships are great we have small groups we lean in together we support one another we have fun we laugh we tell jokes together we play cards and games i love playing games with pastor terry and anita we've played four games so far i've won three of them pastor anita don't like it that's okay um now i won two of them i think but pastor terry did win i think we've all won so far except for pastor anita but but anyway um we have fun like this is what friends are all about but it goes on to say and a brother is born for adversity meaning there's another level we get to that says yeah sure having fun laughing telling jokes that's all good but when you have difficulties when we have problems when we have grief when we have a tribulation that is when brotherhood or sisterhood is really born when we're there for one another we're supporting one another when the whole world walks out come on people of the church walk in amen" [42:10]
5. "This is what God spoke to me. This is my knowledge of who God is. I found out a long time ago when you put God in a box, he will blow the box up every time. He will blow your mind because we should keep on learning. We should keep on growing. We should keep on digging. We should keep on reading. We should keep on knowing God in a real way through the Holy Spirit, amen? And I don't think it was meant to be weird. It's not the Holy Spirit that's weird. It's the Holy Spirit. It's the Christians who are weird. I've been around weird Christians, but I've never encountered a weird Holy Spirit. I've been in churches where they don't do things in decency and order, and it gets weird. And I've even had to correct things in my own church where people got weird, but the Holy Spirit's never weird. Come on, Holy Spirit is our comforter. Holy Spirit is our advocate. Holy Spirit is our counselor. Holy Spirit is our best friend. Come on, y'all with me?" [46:49]
### Quotes for Members
1. "The Holy Spirit reminds me that that's wrong. That should not be in you. That should not be an attitude. That should not be your action. He convicts us of our sin. Are y'all with me? He comforts us. He takes the time to comfort us. He leads us and guides us. We know that. He gives us spiritual gifts. Yes, I believe the spiritual gifts are still available today. Don't get freaked out by that. Just get freaked out once again by weird people. It's not the gift. It's the gifted. We have to make sure we know that. He gives us the desire to obey God without the Holy Spirit. I don't even have the desire to obey God, but he gives me the desire to obey God. He enables us to pray and understand God's word. I never pray without the Bible being open. I never have the Bible open without praying because they support one another. Holy Spirit leads us by the word of God. Amen?" [01:01:15]
2. "We lost our son. Let me give you a good example. We lost our son, Brandon, nine-year-old twin. Most of you know that. Some of you that don't know us, you didn't know that, but we lost a twin boy in an accident. For those of you that are here that lost children, you've lost children through a miscarriage or maybe an older child, it doesn't matter. Parents are supposed to go before the children. When it's reversed like that, there's a pain that's so deep, it's unbearable at times. It's a pain that's so deep that you cannot describe it. There's moments still. It'll be 27 years in July, but there's still moments where I feel like I'm frozen. The world is slipping away because of the pain that's deep in my heart. I've had people come to me and comfort me and be there for us, pray for us. I've had people who lost children who comfort us, and it did bring some comfort, but it's temporary. That's when the Holy Spirit shows up. When you can't do it for yourself and there's no words from anyone else that can comfort your heart, the Holy Spirit shows up. Holy Spirit comes with such comfort. There's a peace that passes understanding. We don't understand why I feel like I do, and I should feel so much worse, but it's the power of the Holy Spirit in leading and guiding us." [01:02:25]
3. "The Holy Spirit reminds me all the time, God is working for me. It's a constant reminder that he's doing things behind the scenes that I know nothing about. He reveals himself in ways when I least expect it. And every time he does, I'm reminded that's the Holy Spirit working on my behalf. He's done it for me in so many ways and so many different varieties that I stop sometimes and go, oh wait, that was the Holy Spirit. That was God working out the details. That means I'm not only not alone, but Holy Spirit is working on my behalf. Come on, y'all. With me? Here's a short list. We could go to a long list, but here's a short list of some of the things of how the Holy Spirit works on our behalf. The Holy Spirit convicts us of our sin. We have a consciousness that's automatic within us, but when you're a Christian, you know the Holy Spirit speaks to you and convicts you of your sin." [58:38]
4. "When they saw the boldness of Peter and John and perceived they were illiterate and uneducated men, they marveled, and they recognized they had been with Jesus. But seeing the man who was healed standing with them, they had nothing to say against it. In other words, they were trapped by their own words. They were trapped in their own world, and these uneducated, illiterate men stood there with all these great, brilliant men, and the men of brilliance was marveled because they could tell they'd been with Jesus. That sounds important, and it is. But remember, Jesus is no longer here. So our boldness, our brilliance comes through our relationship with Jesus, but our relationship with Jesus is through the Holy Spirit. Y'all with me?" [01:10:05]
5. "Now the Lord look, now Lord look on their threats. Listen to the prayer. Now Lord look on the threats and grant that your servants may speak your word with great boldness by stretching out your hand to heal and that signs and wonders may be formed in the name of the, your Holy son, Jesus. When they had prayed the place where they assembled, they were shaken and they were all filled with the Holy spirit and spoke the word with boldness. They prayed for boldness. The place was shaken. They got boldness. They were threatened and they didn't say, I'm going to call my attorney. I'm afraid of cancel culture. Why don't they try to cancel me? No, they said, here's what I'm going to do. I'm going to pray for greater boldness. I'm going to pray for greater strength. I'm going to pray the Holy spirit come and bring more upon me. And they did. And he answered, come on y'all with me. Great boldness. It doesn't just happen. You have to be intentional. You have to be aware of your relationship with Holy spirit. You have to be aware. Of the boldness he will give you." [01:12:42]
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