Embracing the Holy Spirit's Groanings for Transformation
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We know that the whole creation groans and labors with birth pangs together until now. Not only that, but we also who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, eagerly waiting for the adoption, the redemption of our body. [00:04:21]
Likewise, the Spirit also helps in our weaknesses. For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. Now He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He makes intercession for the saints according to the will of God. [00:07:39]
God has something specific for your life, specific things that He wants to do that you don't even know about. You don't even know what your future is going to be. You don't know clearly what it is that He wants to do and how He wants to do it. But I can tell you one thing: the Spirit of God inside of you is making intercession for you according to the will of God. [00:08:40]
I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope. I know the thoughts, God says, that I'm thinking about you. They're not necessarily in line with the thoughts that you're thinking about you. [00:13:42]
You will call upon Me and go and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. And you will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart. What does it mean to search for God with all of your heart? It just means, God, I want what You want for me. [00:14:47]
Throughout scriptural history, God has always come to people to do the work He can do. But He waits till we're too old to do it, in Moses' case. He calls us when we're too young, in David's case. He calls Esther when she feels unlovely and unwanted by the king. [00:15:40]
Too often, perhaps most often, we think that prayer is you and I trying to move the reluctant hand of God or asking Him to do something He hasn't thought of already. But that's not who God is. That's not the way God operates with people. As a matter of fact, the very opposite is true. [00:16:27]
The Holy Spirit knows the will of God for you. The Holy Spirit is the third person of the triune God who lives in your earthen vessel and knows that He can perform the will of God through you. There's this inner groaning of the Holy Spirit. I feel it again today in the Church of Jesus Christ. [00:20:08]
If you think you're so far down the alley that there's no light at the end of your tunnel, I was farther down than you are. I'll tell you right now, I was hopeless when it came to preaching the gospel. I didn't care about people. I didn't even like myself. I didn't want to be in ministry. [00:25:08]
The anointing, the plan, the power of God would be for you and you and you and you and you and you. Yes, you, the anointing of God. In the upper room, 120 failures went in and began to pray. They'd all run when Christ needed them. They're all completely aware of their glaring failings in their lives. [00:27:15]
When God's Holy Spirit came, then this inner groaning of the Spirit, they began to speak it. They left that room, and they began to speak it in the marketplace. The Bible says they began to talk about the megaliths of God, which really means the anticipated outworkings of the inner life of Christ. [00:28:05]
It's time for you and I. It's time for the church in America to rise up again. It's time for us to respond to these inner groanings of the Holy Spirit and say, Lord, I will not be sold short. You know, listen to me, I'm not talking about heaven now, okay? You understand? [00:29:00]
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Likewise, the Spirit also helps in our weaknesses. For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. Now He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He makes intercession for the saints according to the will of God. [00:07:39]
God has something specific for your life, specific things that He wants to do that you don't even know about. You don't even know what your future is going to be. You don't know clearly what it is that He wants to do and how He wants to do it. But I can tell you one thing: the Spirit of God inside of you is making intercession for you according to the will of God. [00:08:40]
I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope. I know the thoughts, God says, that I'm thinking about you. They're not necessarily in line with the thoughts that you're thinking about you. [00:13:42]
You will call upon Me and go and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. And you will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart. What does it mean to search for God with all of your heart? It just means, God, I want what You want for me. [00:14:47]
Throughout scriptural history, God has always come to people to do the work He can do. But He waits till we're too old to do it, in Moses' case. He calls us when we're too young, in David's case. He calls Esther when she feels unlovely and unwanted by the king. [00:15:40]
Too often, perhaps most often, we think that prayer is you and I trying to move the reluctant hand of God or asking Him to do something He hasn't thought of already. But that's not who God is. That's not the way God operates with people. As a matter of fact, the very opposite is true. [00:16:27]
The Holy Spirit knows the will of God for you. The Holy Spirit is the third person of the triune God who lives in your earthen vessel and knows that He can perform the will of God through you. There's this inner groaning of the Holy Spirit. I feel it again today in the Church of Jesus Christ. [00:20:08]
If you think you're so far down the alley that there's no light at the end of your tunnel, I was farther down than you are. I'll tell you right now, I was hopeless when it came to preaching the gospel. I didn't care about people. I didn't even like myself. I didn't want to be in ministry. [00:25:08]
The anointing, the plan, the power of God would be for you and you and you and you and you and you. Yes, you, the anointing of God. In the upper room, 120 failures went in and began to pray. They'd all run when Christ needed them. They're all completely aware of their glaring failings in their lives. [00:27:15]
When God's Holy Spirit came, then this inner groaning of the Spirit, they began to speak it. They left that room, and they began to speak it in the marketplace. The Bible says they began to talk about the megaliths of God, which really means the anticipated outworkings of the inner life of Christ. [00:28:05]
It's time for you and I. It's time for the church in America to rise up again. It's time for us to respond to these inner groanings of the Holy Spirit and say, Lord, I will not be sold short. You know, listen to me, I'm not talking about heaven now, okay? You understand? [00:29:00]
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