..The Holy Spirit indwelling us and empowering us to respond rightly, the Holy Spirit.

The Holy Spirit is able to take what you have and give God his greatest glory from that thing.

The Holy Spirit is the breath of God at the beginning, the wind that carried the creative word of God, the spirit of God that hovered above the face of the deep.

To Joseph, He was the dream giver, to Moses, He was the fire from the bush calling for the deliverance of an oppressed nation, He was the precious oil that anointed kings and prophets.

He is the one who inspired the builders of the Tabernacle in Exodus.

In Leviticus, He is the sovereign fire. In Numbers, He is the different spirit that separated men of faith from men of fear.

In Deuteronomy, He is the cloud by day and the fire by night.

In Joshua, He is the ruach of God's people, the breath that came forth upon the shout and trumpet, the sound that caused the walls to crumble.

He was Samson's strength, the Ruth's oil of favor, the anointing of David.

And to Elijah, He was the still small voice, the multiplying effect for the widow, the one who caused dry bones to live again.

And in Chronicles, He is the kindred spirit, the fortifying spirit.

In Ezra, He is the convincing spirit drawing the hearts of men to repentance.

In Nehemiah, He was the comforter, the leadership ability of Nehemiah.

To Esther, He was the voice of her destiny. And to Job, He was the life-giving spirit. He was Solomon's wisdom. In Psalms, He is the spirit of worship. In Proverbs, He is the spirit of wisdom.

In Ecclesiastes, He is the spirit of purpose. He is eternity in our heart.

In the song of Solomon, He is the hidden dove among the rocks, the alluring wind, the unquenchable fire. And Isaiah reveals Him as the spirit that rested upon Jesus. And Jeremiah referred to Him as fire in his bones, the one who ignites the word of God in any man and in any heart.

Lamentation reveals Him as the one who grieves deeply over sin.

Ezekiel shows us that He is the spirit of oneness with God, the revealer of secret things.

In Daniel, He is the excellent spirit. In Hosea, He is the patient spirit.

In Joel, He is the promise of the Father. In Amos, He is the consuming fire, the flame that devours our idols and our false perception of God.

In Obadiah, He is the guarantee of deliverance. For upon Mount Zion there shall be deliverance and holiness, and the children of Jacob shall possess their possession.

In Jonah, He is the wind that redirects, the one who guides you into the perfect will of God.

In Micah, He is the unchanging spirit. He won't change his mind about you and about what He is telling you to do.

Nahum says that He is the one who warns the sinful ones of the wrath of God.

In Habakkuk, He is the spirit of righteous indignation. In Zephaniah, He is the spirit of hope. In Haggai, He is the spirit of boldness.

In Zechariah, He is the spirit of grace. He empowers us to do and become all that God has desired of us. And in Malachi, He is the refiner's fire, the one who purifies us and sanctifies us in nature and in character.

And in the New Testament we see him as the power behind the incarnation of Christ, the threshing wind, the secret to greater works, the power of the church, the one who sheds the love of Christ in our heart, our intercessor, our helper, our sanctifier, the transforming spirit, the giver of gifts.

And today, He ignites the heart of every believer with a passionate love for Jesus, the kind that causes even martyrs to lay down their lives, the generous giver of spiritual gifts.

He helps us to pray continually, live righteously, evangelize boldly, believe radically, worship sincerely and walk powerfully on this earth and that Holy Spirit is in you.

Don't make your relationship with the Holy Spirit an emergency relationship. It must be an abiding relationship. And if you are not willing to identify with Christ then you are stifling the work of the Holy Spirit. Have a blessed day friends.

The only reason some people cannot see what God is doing is because they are focused on what he hasn't done for them.

They are focused on their disappointments.

Well here's the truth. It is not what God does for you that validates who He is. God is still Jehovah Rapha.

The death of your loved one did not change that.

God hasn't stopped being provider because you couldn't pay rent.

God hasn't stopped being Jehovah Nissi because you slipped into depression.

It is not what God does for you that validates who he is. God is God.

So don't build your faith on acts. Don't build your faith on acts. Build your faith in the knowledge of God.

Your faith must be based on the revelation of Jesus Christ, on what he has done on the cross of Calvary and the power in his name.

Friends, don't let your disappointment infiltrate your doctrine.

So in our text today, we see the life and the faith, the attitude of the believers in Acts chapter 12.

Although James died, they still fought for Peter.

When your disappointment does not affect your concept of God, your labour of love, your walk of faith, and your patience in hope, then you have gained a level of maturity that is not common today.

Your faith must be in the character of God, the power of his name, and the finished walk of Christ on the cross of Calvary.

Your life will change if you don't think on the level of your feelings.

Any believer who is ruled by the Word of God cannot be trapped by the enemy.

So don't think on the level of your feelings. Think on the level of the truth. Think on the level of your faith, not on the level of your feelings.

This is why it is possible for the child of God to feel down, but think up. This is why it's possible for the child of God to feel death, but you think life. This is why you can be surrounded by uncertainties, but you can see possibilities.

Discouragement is the first step to your next failure. Satan will get you discouraged so he can set you up for your next failure and your disappointment.

The discouragement that comes from your mistakes is designed to put a wall on your way. It's designed to put a wall on your journey.

A wall makes you turn back. A wall prevents you from seeing the way forward. It's like losing James and not seeing the possibility of having Peter back.

You must determine, you must make up your mind that by the grace of God, you will never get discouraged. No matter how much you failed, no matter how deeply you failed, even if everything goes wrong around you, you're going to have hope that God is still almighty and he has a plan for you.

Remember the Lord. Remember who God is. Don't lose sight of him. Don't lose sight of who He is. Remember the Lord.

Remember that he's kind. Remember that he's merciful. When you make a mistake, remember that he's merciful.

Also, remember who you are in him. Also, remember what he has done. Remember what he has done.

The same God you are agitated about is the same one who stepped in in time and went to Calvary for your sake.

How quick we forget. How quick. How quick we forget that he gave himself. And if he gave himself, what can he not give to you?

Listen, if God does not release things to you when you want him to release them to you, then you must learn to believe that he has a better plan. You must learn to see what he's doing. You must learn to see what he's doing. You must learn to realize that God is withholding that thing from you because he has seen that that is the thing that brings him or brings you to him. And he wants to get that thing out of the way. He doesn't want your needs to be the mediator. He wants Jesus to be the mediator.

Sometimes for a lot of us, our needs are the middle point between us and God. Every time there's a need, that's when we come. And so we come to God through our needs. And God says, no, I want you to come to me.

God says I honor my word more than my name. Remember what he has said to you. Don't be quick to forget what God said to you.

The moment we lose our hunger for God

We start filling up with other things

And then the casualness of our pursuit Begins to define our decline

And the reason we fall is because we're trying to stand And we're trying to do it in our own strength

God is not in love with the future version of you

It is not the you in tomorrow that God loves and delights in

It's not you when you get your act together

Now if you believe that Christ's love for you is a future love for you

Then you dismiss the cross of Christ

Because the more you make this world about you The more miserable you will be

God does not regret saving you

Now Satan is trying to give you a mental discount For what Jesus paid in full for

But you see, without a heart transformed by the grace of God You just continue to manage external and internal darkness

Christ must have your attention Be your ambition and your treasure

And without this, everything that you try to do for him Including suffering for him is a fool's errand

And then you realize that grace is not a sin management venture

Your encounter of God's grace is first an encounter of God's saving grace

Which is an invitation to experience the life of Christ

And then there is the enabling grace which empowers you to be all that God has called you to be In his will and in his standard

Remember friends, God is not in love with the future version of you

Have a blessed day friends!

Repentance is important because God has standards (Christlikeness) and your spiritual walk will be measured by God’s standards

The needed revival is hinged upon our total alignment with God’s standards

This must be our earnest pursuit!

John 9 verse 4 - We must quickly carry out the tasks assigned to us by the one who sent us

The night is coming and then no one can work

Friends, we are constantly up against time

And everything in life has a time factor

Eternal life is not eternal time

Eternal life is quality of life and not the quantity of time

It is the strength of life and not the length of life

And your purpose may be divine but it is time bound

Jesus said to Judas, do what you have to do quickly

Because everything has its time

Time is the one thing without any other element that works against us Depending on how we cooperate

It was in Psalm 90 that Moses said, teach us to number our days that we may gain a heart of wisdom

The consciousness of time is a door to gaining wisdom It pushes us to receive and apply wisdom

And this is why we celebrate the new year and mid-year It is to give us the consciousness of time

And I want you to know today that we are all in a rat race

Not a rat race like you know it to be But a rat race as in R.A.T. Race against time

And there are people who like to believe that they don't have time at all

And there are others who like to believe that they have all the time in the world

But you see to redeem the time you have to cooperate with the Holy Spirit In bringing you into the fulfilment of the plan of God for your life

You cannot advance in the plan of God for your life beyond your obedience

Have a blessed day friends!

A lot of people want more. They want to experience more in their relationship with God and in their Christian walk.

But the question is, where's the fruit of the measure that you have taken in already?

God doesn't accept past glory. When you're fruitful, He prunes you so you can bear more fruit.

So when you wake up to say that I studied the Word of God for five hours or I prayed for eight hours, it's not a laurel, it is a life.

And in the diligence of seeking God, the Holy Spirit begins to take off the weed in the seeds of your desires.

And sometimes what your spirit is longing for is clouded by what your soul is lusting for. And you can start out wanting something and now you're asking for something different.

The Bible didn't say that God walked with Noah. It says that Noah walked with the Lord. And what you realize here is that God is the willing one in the relationship. And so Jesus came to teach His disciples how to pray in Luke chapter 11 and He taught them how to pray.

And amazingly, the first thing that Jesus taught them in prayer is our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.

Friends, you need to realize that what Jesus was teaching is that our awareness of God's presence and attentiveness to His presence, all in adoration of His name is the most important part of prayer.

Friends, we must reduce ourselves to the full awareness of God and attention to God.

And with this reduction, seduction loses its power and loses its power.

I mean, the clouds and dust of our self-effort and self-consciousness can only be settled when we get still with Him and with Him ever before our face.

And the purpose of prayer is to produce a consciousness of the presence of God. And there is no other accomplishment that is greater than this.

And there's actually no other way to accomplish anything outside this when you give Jesus His proper place in your life. Everything else begins to fall into their rightful place.

Have a blessed day, friends.

Like an Olympic swimmer in shallow waters,

cool with average, way below my covenant capacity,

comfortable in mediocrity, coping with redundancy,

but you've called my name.

You saw through my folded arms, you touched my tired heart, El Roy.

You saw my face while it was covered,

Ebenezer, you saw my helplessness, and you were deeply attracted.

You are the potter and I am the clay.

My brokenness was material for your building project,

you've unlocked possibilities in me I didn't realize could ever happen.

You've made me believe nothing is impossible.

Healing for my heart,

you've helped me see, you've helped me become.

I'm becoming the masterpiece you spoke of,

piece by piece, you've put me together like perfect shalom,

nothing missing, nothing broken, nothing lacking.

When you said, my peace I give to you, I receive.

You could have counted me out, impressed me from a distance.

I could even play background,

run away from spotlight, but you called me out,

light of the world, shine your light, be your street light, shine to the nations.

So this little light of mine, I'm gonna let it shine.

You've called out my name and my fears ran for fear that your eternal light will expose them.

This relationship will never end,

this son, this God, this love, this life, this light that breaks my night.

And the emptiness in me has been filled with your life and you called it grace.

Now I say these many lines to express how lines have fallen for me in pleasant places.

I'm a trophy of your grace.

I'm a trophy of your grace.

Hope for the child of God is a confident assurance of future glory. God will give us all we need so that we can obey Him.

God's people don't live on explanations, they live on God's promises - because God's promises reveal God's character. The just shall live by faith!

Living by faith is living on His promises, not on explanation.

God is not in a hurry because all His works are done in love. And love is patient and kind, so be grateful that God takes His time. Just live on God's path, live in God's presence, and live for His pleasure.