You Are Not Alone: The Spirit Dwells Within

Where are you carrying something right now that you were never meant to carry alone? Maybe it's the visa application. Maybe it's the studies. Perhaps it's the loneliness you don't tell anyone about. Maybe it's a parent in decline, a marriage that's quietly struggling, a responsibility that is bigger than you feel equipped for. And whatever it is, perhaps you've been carrying it alone and you're tired. And so what would it look like this week to bring it to the holy spirit, to bring it to God and say, I need help. I can't do this by myself. And that is probably the most honest prayer that you can pray. [00:51:32] (52 seconds)  #StopCarryingAlone

And the question is, have you ever had that moment? You know, you're going through something hard and a verse, perhaps one that you've read before, maybe you've read it a thousand times, suddenly lands completely differently. It just it it sort of makes sense now or or it it sounds different to to the way you've read it before. It it it's it just comes for this particular moment for exactly what you're carrying right now. And for a big part, it might feel like, oh, it's a coincidence that this happened, but I don't think so. I think this is the holy spirit at work. Taking what Jesus has said and making it real right when you need it. [00:35:01] (49 seconds)  #ScriptureThatSpeaks

There was no one to speak for you, no one to stand between you and what was coming. And this is the condition that Jesus is addressing right now. And he says, this is not your your condition because in verse 20 he says, on that day you will realize that I am in my father and you are in me and I am in you. Jesus is saying, I am in my father, you are in me, and I am in you. You're not on the outside looking in at God. [00:33:26] (39 seconds)  #InGodNotOutside

Is there an area of your life where you are you're just running around on experience, on the experience of God instead of on dependence of God? You're spiritually capable, but not spiritually present. And so what would it look like to come back to the holy spirit today, not as someone who knows a lot about him, but as someone who genuinely genuinely needs the holy spirit. [00:52:33] (31 seconds)  #ReturnToDependence

And something is happening. Right? Something is happening. As we as we see this water that was clear is now starting to change color. It's starting to be infused with the tea. It's creating a character, a flavor. And so the water is being changed from the inside slowly, but it is being changed. And in a moment or two or after this, you won't be able to separate the water from what it's becoming. Right? And so the idea is that this is not a transaction. This is about an infusion. This is what Jesus is describing. He's not just describing someone beside you. He's actually saying that there is gonna be a person who's gonna come in you. [00:28:30] (60 seconds)  #InfusedFromWithin

What Jesus is saying is here is that you've been brought side into the relationship that has already existed between the father and son from before the beginning of time. That the orphan, the one that we without without an advocate, without protection, without a future has been brought into God's family permanently. Right? Understand this, that you have an advocate, that you have a future, that you are not an orphan, and understand that you will never be again. [00:34:05] (43 seconds)  #NoLongerAnOrphan

Jesus says, if you love me, keep my commands. And then the very first thing he does after that is promise the holy spirit. Right? And the sequence is not is not accidental. Right? The holy spirit is not a reward for the self sufficient. Right? He's a gift for people who love Jesus and know that they need help. The holy spirit is really a gift for the desperate. [00:47:04] (35 seconds)  #SpiritForTheDesperate

And yet unshaken, unshaken means this, that I know who I am, I know whose I am, and nothing that is coming changes any of that. Right? This is the peace this isn't when Jesus talks about this, this peace is not something that is he's living in a vacuum that it will just come. He's saying that this peace has been tested, that on the night, on the probably the worst night of Jesus' life, he speaks these words. And Jesus says, I'm offering this peace to you. [00:37:03] (40 seconds)  #UnshakenPeace