 Okay, this is what it reads. Commit your works to the Lord and your thoughts will be established. Commit your works to the Lord and your thoughts will be established. Then just can skip down to verse 9. Verse 9 it says, A man's heart plans his way but the Lord directs his steps. Then both these verses, verse 3 talks about committing our works, whatever our plans are, everything committing to the Lord or bringing it to the Lord, surrendering it to him. And it says that our thoughts will be established, obviously our thoughts will be established by him, which means that for every work that you do, there is a thought behind it. You think and then you do it. You think that you want to pick this up and then you do it. So the beautiful promise of scripture is that the thought will be established. It just goes down to the thought level and when we commit the works to the Lord, however big, however small, any studies, future, everything, our thoughts will be established by the Lord. What does established mean? Make firm strong, clear, he'll establish our thoughts. Then verse 9 says, A man's heart plans his way. We make our own plans. We think about things, some good, maybe some not so good with our limited understanding, finite knowledge. But the Lord directs his steps. So there's great assurance in both these scriptures. One is our thoughts being established. Second one, the Lord directing our steps. He's doing both, he's doing the work of establishing our thoughts. He's doing the work of directing our steps, meaning even as we walk, he's directing. He is showing, okay, this is where you go. This is where you don't go. And we know that's the work of the Holy Spirit dwelling in us. So let's pray and maybe as an act of surrender, we can commit our works to the Lord. Say, Lord, all these things, all these plans, Lord, I commit into your mighty hands so that you will establish my thoughts right down at the thought level, Lord. You establish, make them firm, make them clear. Let's pray that first. Father, we thank you. We thank you for this day. We thank you for this time, this opportunity that you've given us to come to your presence. And we thank you for this promise in your word, God, that when we commit our works to you, Lord, that you will establish our thoughts. And so, God, we calm this morning and in all humility, God, knowing that you are the greater one, knowing that you are the one who has infinite knowledge, wisdom, understanding, you know it all. Lord, we calm and we commit our works to you, Father God. Whatever we need to do, whatever our responsibilities are, Lord, we commit to you so that our thoughts can be made firm, established by you, Lord. And our actions be firm and clear. As our thoughts are clear, Lord, our actions will be sure. Thank you, God. And Father God, your word says that even as we plan many things, but you're the one who directs our steps. So, you know, let's pray that, let's pray, Lord, we yield ourselves so that you might direct our path, steps, every step, a step is a small measure, right? So the Lord is even mindful of those small distances. A step is a very small distance. So the Lord is mindful of that. Maybe it's a day-to-day decision, day-to-day choice and day-to-day action that needs to be made. The Lord is mindful of that and the Lord will direct. Father, we thank you, God. Thank you for this promise that you're the Lord who directs us. And because you love us, you care for us, God. And you care for our lives, you care for our future. Lord, you care for the way we live our present times, God. And so we just want to thank you this morning for that. And again, we yield, we surrender, Lord, our lives, Lord, that you might direct our steps. Thank you. In Jesus' name, pray, amen, amen. Okay, awesome. So we need to recognize the work of the Lord in directing our steps. We need to recognize the work of the Lord in establishing our thoughts even. Or we need to surrender our words to the Lord. And there's great joy in surrendering everything. And surrendering is a scary thing sometimes because you have your own desire, strong desire, and some of these are put in by God. But some things the Lord says, okay, I have something better. So when we yield, when we surrender, it's a scary thing. Lord, what if this doesn't happen? Lord, what if this doesn't happen? Many times, looking back, you see that the Lord actually, true to His word, He has the best in store for us. And also the fact is that many of these desires that He's put in our hearts, godly desires which do not contradict the Word of God, the ways of God, are in fact from Him. So there's no need to fear. We can actually surrender and say, God, you take care. Okay, so we've been learning about the Holy Spirit. Yes, the work of the Holy Spirit in our lives, in a believer's life. And we've been looking at different facets, different aspects of that. And last class we wound up by looking at how the Holy Spirit leads us and how we can know for sure it is God who's leading us on the Holy Spirit because the Word and the Spirit, it does not contradict. The Holy Spirit always glorifies Jesus and so on. Before we go into hearing from the Holy Spirit and from then on into baptism with the Holy Spirit, I just want to look at this aspect of how the Holy Spirit helps us in ministry. We'll look at that and then we can just flow talking about the way the Holy Spirit leads us hearing the voice of God and then on to baptism in the Holy Spirit and then gifts of the Holy Spirit and so on. So we're going to spend a lot of time on that. Okay, so let's look at Acts chapter 1. In your notes, I think there's a typo. It's not Acts chapter 118, it's Acts 1-8. If you look at Acts 1 and verse 8, Acts 1-8 talks about power, talks about the Lord's desire to clothe us with power for a specific task. So we're looking at ministry, how the Holy Spirit helps us in ministry. So I want to ask us this question. Do you think everybody is called for ministry? Do you think all of us are called for ministry? What do you think? Yes or no? Okay, how many of you are saying yes? Online community, how many of you are saying yes? You can put your thumbs up. Okay, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. Okay, so we have two people who are Chira and Sean. Okay, you're saying no. Others, online everybody is saying no. Okay, I can see Krisha, I can see Loha. Okay, putting your hands up. The rest are saying not everybody. You guys have said yes, Meena and Chira. Okay, so here's the thing. Whenever that question is asked, we have in our minds our own definition, our own picture of what ministry is. Sometimes it is like when we say ministry, we say immediately in our minds we say, okay, full-time ministry and that is the picture that we have. Full-time, I'm a pastor or maybe evangelist, that's the picture that we have. But the thing is ministry is so much more, so much diverse, so very different. And one verse that all of us can look at and be assured that every believer is called for ministry is, which verse? Okay, that great commission is for everyone. Go and make disciples. So that is very true. The Lord Jesus commissioned us. But we don't normally always link that to ministry. There's a very specific verse which talks about that. Anyone? A very specific verse which talks about, which mentions the fact that all of us are indeed called for ministry. Revelation 1.6. Revelation 1.6, He made us kings and priests to His God and Father, to Him be glory. Okay. We are the royal priesthood ministering unto God. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Anything Francis? Okay. So let's look at Ephesians 4. So we'll just quickly look at this so that we can be, without any doubt, you know that you are called to ministry. Well, the specifics of it, how it's going to be, you know, that can vary. So that's not what we're going to look at right now. So Ephesians 4, and if you look at verse 11 and 12, verses 11 and 12, He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, some pastors and teachers for the equipping of the saints, for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ. Talking about, first of all, He's talking about the five-fold ministry, apostle, prophet, evangelist, pastor, teacher. That's verse 11. Verse 12. Okay. The Lord has placed these in the body, in the church. For what? For the equipping of the saints. So who are the saints? We are the sanctified ones. We are the ones who are set apart for His purposes, right? Saints. For what? Equipping of the saints for the work of ministry. So every believer is a sanctified one, set apart one. Whether you like it or not, you are a saint. And every saint needs to be equipped. And that's the reason why we have the five-fold ministry. And every saint is equipped, supposed to be equipped for what? For the work of ministry. So everyone is called to minister in some way and the body of Christ is supposed to minister. The specifics of it, the way it is going to be, the way that will differ. Some might be called for five-fold ministry. Some might be called to be, let's say what we can quote-unquote, full-time. Okay. This is what we do. But some could be called to the business world. Some could be called to the professional, in a corporate setting. Called to whether entertainment or sports or whatever. But all of us are called for ministry. Okay. So that's the thing. So in ministry, the Holy Spirit helps us. In our ministering, the Holy Spirit helps us. Okay. So now let's look at Acts chapter one and verse eight again. Okay. But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you and you shall be witnesses to me in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria and to the end of the earth. Okay. So the Lord is just giving a blanket statement. You shall receive power. Okay. When the Holy Spirit comes upon you and you shall be witnesses. Okay. And you shall be witnesses to me. Okay. Now the Holy Spirit comes upon us so that we can be witnesses. Okay. Let's look at Acts chapter four and verse 33. Okay. Acts chapter four, verse 33. So Acts chapter one, verse eight, you shall receive what power to be what? Witnesses. Okay. And this power, how do we receive that power to be witnesses when the Holy Spirit comes upon us? So it's by the Holy Spirit. It's through the Spirit of God, right? Acts chapter four, verse 33. It says, And with great power, the apostles gave witness to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus and great grace was upon them all. Okay. So we see as an outworking of that Holy Spirit work in order for them to be witnesses, we see this. With great power, they gave, what does it say? They gave witness to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus and great grace was upon them all. Okay. So the Holy Spirit, He enables us to be witnesses. And to be witnesses doesn't mean just to see something. Not just, it doesn't mean, okay, I'm a witness. I'm a spectator. I witness this. You're giving witness to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. You're giving witness in a powerful way, in demonstration, through character, through transformed lives. You're giving witness. There's an active work that is happening that you give witness to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. And the apostles did that. That is what we see in Acts chapter four, verse 33. Okay. Let's look at a couple of more verses. Hebrews two versus three and four. Okay. Hebrews two verse three. Okay. Hebrews two and three. How shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation, which at first began to be spoken by the Lord and was confirmed to us by those who heard him. God also bearing witness. Now here, it's like God is bearing witness. Okay. The Lord Jesus said that you shall be witnesses of for me in all these places, geographically, but here we see something that God is bearing witness. He's bearing witness for what, for the witness, for the message that was being spoken. God also bearing witness, both with signs and wonders, with various miracles and gifts of the Holy Spirit, according to his own. Okay. So God is bearing witness. He's saying, okay, it's as if he is putting his approval, he is testifying, and he is putting his stamp of his presence. And he's saying, okay, this is true. Okay. With his presence, with his power, with the gifts, everything, signs, wonders, miracles, he's bearing witness to this. So this is the work of the Holy Spirit. This is the work of the Holy Spirit in ministry. Okay. So in our own lives, as all of us are called to minister, the Holy Spirit wants to bear witness to the speaking or the declaration of the message and wherever we are going to minister and the Holy Spirit wants to minister through us and he wants to do that in power. Okay. Then let's look at another verse, the gifts of the Spirit. 1 Corinthians 12 verses 1 to 11 talks about the gifts of the Holy Spirit. Okay. So when we look at this list, we're going to study that list in detail one by one. So now I'm just going to just mention here yeah, just maybe verse 1, right? 1 Corinthians 12 and verse 1. Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I do not want you to be ignorant. So Paul is saying, we should not be ignorant without knowledge about these spiritual gifts. Okay. So that is one thing. So we need to study them. We need to know about them, etc. And then he goes on to say, these are different kinds of gifts, ministries, activities. Verse 7. Chapter 12 verse 7. But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to each one for the profit of all. Manifestation, display of the Holy Spirit. So the gifts of the Spirit are actually a display of the Holy Spirit. Okay. So that is manifestation, right? Put on display. Display of what? His character, his nature, son, right? The fact that his love, everything, so manifestation of the Spirit. So we can even say, okay, how do we know that? How can I know that these gifts of the Spirit are manifestation of the Spirit? How can the gifts of the Spirit be manifestation of the love of God? How can it be? Very simple, right? Maybe there's a word of knowledge that comes. Maybe there's a word of prophecy that comes, right? It's a gift of the Spirit. And the Spirit of God, who knows the hearts of people, who knows the lives of people, brings an encouraging word. What is prophecy? Prophecy is edification, exhortation and comfort. 1 Corinthians 14 talks about that. It says that the prophetic word is edification, exhortation and comfort. So we know that the Holy Spirit when He brings in exhortation, edification and comfort, it shows His love for us. It's the manifestation, it's the display of His love for us. Maybe we are down very discouraged, not wanting to continue, go on very distraught. Here comes the word. Through someone whom God inspires and it's a prophetic word. And this is something that was not planned, not as pre-planned. And the person does not know X or Y about you, but says that this is what I just feel, I just sense that God is saying. So it's a display of God's love for us. It's a display of God's power over our lives, gifts of healing and miracles and all. It's not man's display, but it's a display or a manifestation of the Holy Spirit. So in ministry again, the Holy Spirit helps us and through us, in us, He ministers, He expresses Himself. So the gifts of the Spirit are a manifestation of the Spirit. So like it says, these are spiritual gifts, these are from the Holy Spirit. He's the source of it. So He indwells us and so He displays these. Any doubts? Any questions here? Nothing? Okay. Then Paul also talks about mighty signs and wonders. Okay, then I just want to go to 1 Corinthians 2, chapter 2 and verse verse 13. Okay, verse 13 it says, these things we also speak not in words which man's wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual. So he's saying, it's not man's wisdom, but it's godly wisdom and spiritual wisdom. He says that, this is how he does, comparing spiritual things with spiritual. So we know that God, the Holy Spirit, He's called the Spirit of Revelation. He's the Spirit of Wisdom and in ministry, there is a need for spiritual wisdom, there is a need for revelation and that revelatory work, that work is by the Holy Spirit. So it's not just man's wisdom, but it's wisdom that is inspired by the Holy Spirit, comparing spiritual things with spiritual. So when the Lord Jesus ministered, so the people were amazed, where did this man get such wisdom? First of all, they were amazed by his power, display of power and they were also amazed by the wisdom with which he spoke and they said, where did this man get all this wisdom and the source of that was of course the Holy Spirit because he walked in the anointing of the Holy Spirit. Right? Okay, so he helps us in ministry, words to communicate the wisdom of God, he gives us, Godly counsel he gives us. This one is very interesting. Second Corinthians 3 and verse 3. Second Corinthians chapter 3 verse 3, clearly you are an epistle of Christ ministered by us written not with ink, but by the Spirit of the Living God not on tablets of stone but on tablets of flesh that is of the heart. Okay, so Paul is saying he's referring to the people, the Corinthian church and he's saying, you are an epistle, since you are a letter, written of course, God used us ministered by us, but he's saying written not with ink, but by the Holy Spirit, by the Spirit of the Living God on your heart. So saying God enabled us to minister to you but he did something, not through human methods, but he wrote upon your heart, which means he taught something, he taught some lessons, he wrote in your heart. In the deepest part of you, the Holy Spirit wrote something. Right? We all know when God speaks or teaches us something and we receive that revelation and conviction in our spirit and it's unmistakable. You might say, okay, this person taught it or this person maybe we were in some church and pastor preached and we hear that, but we know that God spoke at God made those words real to us and God put it upon our hearts. Now that is what Paul is referring to, he says of course we ministered, he used us but he wrote the Holy Spirit wrote, the Spirit was written by the Spirit of the Living God not on tablets of stone, but those of the heart. So in ministry, we need this writing of the heart, writing on tablets of, I mean on the heart and in all of our skills, abilities fluency personality all that cannot write upon people's hearts. It is only the Spirit of God. So if God has called us to minister, we need to be yielded to the work of the Holy Spirit. We cannot say, okay, I'm not going to teach you on the Spirit, I'm not going to we can't be close to that, we are missing out on a big part, big aspect of ministry. This writing upon people's heart is by the Holy Spirit and we need that because that is what brings about change, that is what brings about lasting change, that is what brings about transformation in people's lives. Okay, so the Holy Spirit does that, he empowers us to write on people's hearts. Okay, he empowers us to be able ministers of the New Testament, if you go down to verse 6 same chapter, who made us who also made us sufficient as ministers of the New Covenant not of the letter but of the Spirit for the letter kills but the Spirit gives life. Let me read that again. Who also made us? Who made us? Who is it referring to God? So he made us sufficient, the verse before that if you read, verse 5 ends like this are sufficiencies from God are sufficiencies from God verse 6, who also made us sufficient as ministers of the New Covenant not of the letter but of the Spirit for the letter kills but the Spirit gives life. So what God is saying is that what the Scriptures is saying is that this is it that he makes us sufficient. What does sufficient mean? That is enough. There's no lack there's enough, you don't lack anything. So he makes us sufficient. He in us and his work in us is more than sufficient for us to be ministers of God. Sometimes we think, okay, I don't have this, I don't have that God has called us minister and we're thinking of reasons. I don't have this, this is 10 things I don't have. If only I had this like we compare with someone else and say, oh they have these 10 things, I don't have these 10 things. If I have that then I'll be XYZ whatever I can do those things. Scripture says something else Paul says that he made us sufficient. Our sufficiency is from God and he made us sufficient, this says as ministers of the new covenant okay, so that's another exciting adventure. Ministers of the new covenant, those who serve in this new covenant, this message in this dispensation he has made us sufficient. The Holy Spirit has made us sufficient. Okay, right. Then verse 8 talks about how it is a more glorious ministry and yeah, let's look at 2nd Corinthians chapter 6 and verse 6 so it says 2nd Corinthians 6 verse 4 maybe, but in all things we commend ourselves as ministers of God. He goes on to list down a few things that he has gone through in patience, tribulation, needs, distresses and so on and goes on to verse 6 and it says by purity, by knowledge, by long suffering, by kindness, by the Holy Spirit, by sincere love. So the Spirit of God enables us to function and when he says we commend ourselves as ministers of God it is by the Holy Spirit. It is by the work of the Spirit. So we see that in ministry first of all, all of us are called for ministry all of us, every believer every believer is called to minister to serve in the body of Christ, the form of ministry, the way, the specifics of it, God will show us and that ministry, that service is by the empowerment of the Holy Spirit. It's not just, okay I want to do something, let me do it. It could be simple things, like it could be things like, okay, maybe starting a school, maybe God has called you to even start a business maybe God has called you to do something He'll give you the wisdom, the Holy Spirit He'll give you the wisdom to do it right? So you lean in to the Holy Spirit the verse that we saw, Proverbs 16 3, we commit our works to Him and He will establish our thoughts and we plan many things but He will direct our steps. Okay? So this is exciting. We know that, okay in ministry, Holy Spirit helps us. So we are not, sometimes when you look at ministry, you're like, oh wow what do I do? What do I do and how do I do it? This need seems to be so great and how do I do it and the Lord always says, fear not I am with you you know that's the greatest message every time people had an encounter there's always fear not fear not, fear not I am with you, right? So that's the assurance we have okay, in resurrection also the resurrection is brought about by the Holy Spirit. So the Romans 8 and verse 11 talks about how our mortal bodies are quickened by the Holy Spirit He gives life to our mortal bodies. Let me just read that verse okay, verse 11 Oh, I'm an axe, sorry Romans 8 verse 11 but if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, okay, the Holy Spirit who is the resurrection and the life He raised the Lord Jesus and He dwells in us saying if He dwells in you He who raised Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies He brings about the resurrection from the dead He gives life to our mortal bodies okay okay, now let's let's move on to what we skipped okay which is one second, sorry in your notes, that diagram if you can just go there what page is that on? can you just tell me, is it 19? 18 is it? okay, hearing from the Holy Spirit okay, here's a question this is from Joel yes, our sufficiency is from God and He has given us special gifts, should I wait on the Lord and develop the character of the fruit of the Spirit before involving in the ministry the Lord has called me too because I know personally I lack so much in perseverance self-control, long-suffering I know He's working in me I'm having this question that I keep pondering when is the right time to step in that's Joel's question when is the right time to step in and that quest that right time to step in the degree to which God asks Joel, so that's the thing when God calls us to ministry or any form of ministry it looks like He's given you a specific of it and for you the whole thing is timing okay, do I have the character do I have those things the fruit of the Spirit I mean develop to that degree so that I can step in with confidence and do justice so that's the thing when God calls us there is always a season of preparation before commissioning there's always a season of training equipping preparation before there is commissioning but we also know that even in that season of training and preparation we can serve in some form or the other so there's no training in isolation so we begin to serve maybe we can share our testimonies there are testimonies we begin to share and serve the Lord in whatever capacity we can during that time also and that serving itself can be a time of equipping also right and maybe not to the degree to which that He wants you to step in what we call as the fullness of the call what we say as the fullness of the call maybe it's the degree even as you step into what we quote unquote called as the ministry there will also be stages in that there will also be continue to be growth continue to be growing to the next level of serving to the next level of ministry so there's never a time which is static where we are insulated completely in isolation, prepared and then we are launched in it's always a dynamic we are moving we are journeying with the Lord and serving in whatever way possible and at the same time it's an equipping that's happening let's say God has called you to plant a church God has called you to go to this place now the specifics of it will happen at the appointed time and as you walk with the Lord the Lord will open the doors the Lord will orchestrate the everything and so that you can step into the fullness of that but as you walk with the Lord these things are being developed we are never so fully developed at one stage that we know that we are it is always a progressive thing so I just wanted to share that I hope that helps awesome okay so let's look at the questions before we move on to hearing the voice the Holy Spirit okay let's look at this this diagram on page 18 you see that we are looking at this whole topic of hearing from God hearing the voice of God here's another thing as believers we are designed to hear from God we are designed to hear the voice of the Shepherd I think we are my friend we used to make fun we were in school and so I was going to a very traditional church he was going to a very charismatic kind of a church and then we used to make fun of these speakers he'll come and then he'll tell me how these speakers they say as I was preparing the Lord told me and we used to laugh how can these guys always talk like this but the fact is yes we serve a living God we serve God who speaks who communicates and we better find out better learn to listen learn to walk with him and one of the biggest blocks that we might have is he speaks to him not to me sometimes we are hearing so clearly but what about me I seem to be fumbling around in darkness but the fact is because he is our shepherd and we are his sheep as his sheep we are designed created here so that's the main thing we can hear the voice of the Shepherd is God speaking of course he is there's God desire to speak of course and we have been designed to hear the voice of God hear the voice of the Holy Spirit otherwise why should he be the counselor if we cannot receive the counselor why should he be the one who leads us if we cannot follow the leading so that is what he is to us the Lord Jesus said the Holy Spirit and he is like this he is going to be the paraclete he is going to bring that comfort he is going to bring that leading he is going to be teaching so how can he teach and we not be able to receive the teaching not be able to receive so the thing is this that as believers as saints of God we are we are designed to hear the voice of the shepherd of the voice of the Holy Spirit no doubt about it so you can say this I have no doubt I have no doubt that I can hear the voice of God I am confident everybody I am confident how will you say that I am confident that I can hear the voice of the Shepherd so all of us we have been designed by God to hear his voice there are things that block there could be mental blocks there could be fears there could be wrong understanding wrong teaching experience of the past whatever that come in the way so we are just going to clarify all that just for us to understand that we can hear the voice of God so for that we are going to go back to the makeup of man this you may have studied in the identity subject online folks if you are taking the course identity we will be looking at that the fact that 1 Thessalonians 5 and verse 23 maybe we can read that verse 1 Thessalonians 5 verse 23 what does it say now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely and may your whole spirit soul and body we preserve blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ he is talking about you being preserved and you being preserved in 3 realms he is talking about you saying your spirit, your soul and your body we preserve blameless he is talking about spirit, soul and body he is talking about suke he is talking about that is a soul he is talking about Numa that is a spirit he is talking about soma which is the body we see these things while referring to a person spirit, soul and body body all of us know all of us understand it is how we relate to the physical world we are here in this physical world because of the body if the body stops functioning that's it, it's time to time to go home we cannot be in the physical world so God has given us a body physical body so what are the physical senses we can touch I know this is a little smooth here it's a little rough we can feel I can see I can see things and I remember it's going for an eye checkup and the doctor keeps putting these glasses removes one and wow this is so clear I just wanted that I just wanted to take those glasses and come this is clear, this is fantastic so we can see right one eye one eye so we can see, we can hear we can smell and what else five senses feel, see, taste, absolutely taste, what a wonderful perception sense okay so now the body does that so we receive information now I'm seeing here, okay this class so many people my eye is sending me information and I'm seeing the screen here online class, so many people I can see about 10 13 people logged in I see the chat section and when I see my eye I'm actually sending this information to my brain and my mind is processing it it is saying there are 13 people logged in here, it's saying that N number of people are seated here and this is what they are, some are bored some are interested and all that information I'm getting okay everybody's interested okay so I'm getting that information so that's what the soul does or the psychological the psychological part of me is reasoning is analyzing is receiving that information it is what I use for imagination and all that soul then there is the unseen part of us which is the spirit which the Bible talks about which is born again which has been brought from death to life because of the work of the cross just because we accepted Jesus and the Holy Spirit indwells us this is the human spirit which is capable of receiving revelation from the Holy Spirit this is the human spirit and so we see that our spirit person just like physical senses our spirit man is also capable of receiving information whatever is being communicated by the Holy Spirit our spirit receives it okay so we're going to look at some verses which talk about some scriptures that talk about that okay just like how we see these five physical senses like seeing and hearing and you know feeling and so on we see that our spirit being our innermost being is also capable of receiving information okay so let's look at Probs 8.16 first sorry Romans 8.16 Romans 8.16 again the spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God the spirit referring to the Holy Spirit he himself bears witness to our so there is a there's something that the Holy Spirit is doing here he's bearing witness he's communicating he's saying something showing something where to our spirit to whom to our spirit the Holy Spirit bears witness to our spirit what is he bearing witness what is the end result that we are children of God okay so you see he's communicating something he's bringing something and that's in the realm of our spirit okay so he's bringing some understanding he's bringing some information he's bringing some assurance something he's bringing it and and that's then we sense we know that I'm a child of God so he's bringing that proof and evidence and the Holy Spirit does that and he does that to our spirit so very clear Romans 8.16 the spirit bears witness to our spirit okay so let's look at some of these verses if you since we are in the book of Acts we can go down to turn to Acts 17 or we were in Romans okay Acts 17 and verse 16 okay says now while Paul waited for them at Athens his spirit was provoked within him when he saw that the city was given over to idols okay so here's Paul he's in Athens he's looking at the city and he's looking at various structures that are built to worship various things and then he's seeing all that so he's seeing you know physically he's seeing with his eyes and he's seeing something and there's something that's happening deep within him so scripture is saying that his spirit was provoked within him right his spirit was stirred up provoked within him looking at all these things okay there's something that happened deep within so spirit was provoked okay so a sense of stirring a sense of feeling we could say a spiritual emotion he felt okay lack of better words just saying that okay let's look at Acts chapter 18 and verse 5 okay Acts chapter 18 and verse 5 says when Paul sorry when Silas and Timothy had come from Macedonia Paul was compelled by the spirit and testified to the Jews that Jesus is the Christ so he was compelled he was constrained there was I mean he was weighed down and the Holy Spirit brought that about to him and we can conclude that that happened in his spirit because we know that the spirit of God witnesses to our spirit the spirit of God communicate right so we see this he was compelled to constrain almost pressed 18 and verse 5 okay in Acts chapter 20 we see we see this Paul saying to the efficient church the efficient elders who were there he's saying and see now I go bound in the spirit to Jerusalem not knowing the things that will happen to me there except okay this is verse 22 Acts chapter 20 right I go bound in the spirit to Jerusalem not knowing the things that will happen to me there except that the Holy Spirit testifies in every city saying the chains and tribulations await me so he's felt something in a spirit and he's describing it this way saying I go bound in my spirit you know my spirit it's as if it's been tight and it was a message actually and see that it was a message the chains and everything's you know these are things that await me in Jerusalem okay right we'll take a break now and then we'll continue after 10 minutes