 Hi everyone welcome back to our today's session and today we are going to cover on the fourth chapter we're going to cover on the fourth chapter we last class we studied on the word what are the four ways that the Holy Spirit talks to us that we studied the word through the instruction of God's word the quickened word of God the word that has been reached and the inner voice so now we're going to study we're going to study on the inner witness of the Holy Spirit the voice of the Holy Spirit and we get to know like it's so important for us to have a communion with the Holy Spirit this class reveals many things about our relationship with the Holy Spirit let's see and one of us please uh take up John chapter 16 verse 13 to 14 John chapter 16 verse 13 to 14 John 16 13 to 14 however when he the spirit of truth has come he will guide you into all truth for he will not speak of his own authority but whatever he hears he will speak and he will tell you things to come he will glorify me for he will take off what is mine and declare it to you amen amen in the New Testament Jesus Lord Jesus promised us that he will send a helper that is the Holy Spirit who will be with us who will be with us and Jesus being our shepherd and Holy Spirit is always with us to comfort us to guide us the scripture says that you know he will send us a comfort who will comfort us and you know the verse 14 says he will glorify me for he will take off what is in me and declare it to you and declare it to you and also there's an assurance in John chapter 14 verse 16 can we turn to John chapter 14 verse verse 16 John chapter 14 verse 16 can one of us please read another advocate some of the version the NKGV says the helper and the other version says comfort her well he will abide with us the Holy Spirit which is given to us by the Father abides with us forever you know this is the assurance that we have that he abides with us in the Old Testament we see how the Holy Spirit used to visit people and go but in the New Testament after the death of Jesus death and resurrection of Jesus we see Jesus saying that I will go and send the Holy Spirit who will abide with us forever so the Spirit of the Lord was abiding with us how he abides in us Holy Spirit is a gentle man he does not forcefully come into us we receive when we receive Jesus as a Lord and Savior the Holy Spirit comes into each one of us and he abides with us forever because we have welcomed him so for us to receive the Holy Spirit it is not that we need to be perfect you know some of us have this understanding saying that we need to be perfect we should be sinless we should be righteous or we should not have any kind of addiction only then the Holy Spirit will come with us come inside us and dwell in us only then we can go take the baptism no that's not the way it is the way we are the way we are we may be the lost sheep wandering in the wilderness in the desert when we look up to the Lord just like how the lost sheep in the parable of lost sheep we see is just like how the sheep cried out and the shepherd heard his voice he left all the 99 and he went in search of that one I'm sure in a class each of us would have a testimony to share on that how Lord encountered each one of us and called us as we hear that's the as we each of us will understand the word will understand the same scripture and be applying to our own situation and circumstances that we have come across the Lord came in search of each one of us and he encountered us he searched us he picked us just the way we are the Holy Spirit came into us when we welcome when we received Jesus as a Lord and Savior and it's the Holy Spirit who's within us is leading us and he's guiding us in the right way it's only through his strength that we we would have overcome our difficult situation we would have had a breakthrough we would have had a healing our addiction left us how because the Holy Spirit came into us the addiction of many years maybe it is not very easy for us to you know with our human strength to overcome anything but with God what is impossible nothing is impossible that God we can glorify God in all the area of our life one Corinthians chapter 2 verse 9 to 16 can one of us please read this Corinthians chapter 2 verse 9 to 16 yes but as it is written I has not seen nor ear heard nor have entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared for those who love him but God has revealed them to us through his spirit for the Spirit searches all things yes the deep things of God for what man knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him even so no one knows the things of God except the spirit of God now we have received now the spirit of the world but the spirit who is from God and that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God these things we also speak not in words which man's wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches comparing spiritual things with spiritual but the natural man does not receive the things of the spirit of God for they are foolishness to him nor can he know them because they are spiritually discerned but he who is spiritual judges all things yet he himself is rightly judged by no one for who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct him but we have the mind of Christ amen amen can can all of us say that we have the mind of Christ can we declare this over our self one Corinthians chapter 2 verse 16 saying that we have the mind of Christ can we say that over our self y'all can unmute it so that I know that we all are declaring it together I have the mind of Christ I have the mind of Christ Satan has no power over me Satan has no power over me Satan has no power over me I have the power over me I have the mind Satan has no power over me amen amen very important to declare these scriptures into our life it is very important see the very very verse starting in verse 9 it says the I has not seen nor hear heard nor have entered into the heart of the heart of man the things which God has prepared for those who love him God has a better plan for us as he said in Jeremiah 29 11 many of us would have thought like what will be my next but God says I have a plan for you plan to prosper you and give a future and in Corinthians chapter 2 verse 9 says the I has not seen nor hear heard nor have entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared for those who love him we are his children who love him God has revealed them to us through his spirit for the spirit searches all things yes the deep things of God and he reveals it to us how God can reveal it to us through his Holy Spirit through his Holy Spirit who's dwelling in us who's abiding in us and he is abiding in us forever one of the sessions in our Bible college when I read this scripture when I read the scripture that Holy Spirit abides in us forever what a confirmation what a joy that was I can still remember the day that I read this scripture that the Holy Spirit is abiding in me it spoke to me this word quickened in me saying that the Holy Spirit is with me because as a person I know what type of person I am you know the assurance the minute I knew that the Holy Spirit is in me and he's abiding in me and he will never leave me that brought a great joy in me that brought a great joy in me till date whenever I read this scripture I go back to the day that I first read this word and it also takes me it also take me to the to the day when I went for my first retreat meaningfully before that yes with our parents force I've gone to many retreats but it didn't change me I was the same person as I went and okay at this time there was something changed in 2008 and things were not very well in me you know I started yearning there's something different there's something that I don't get in this world is what I need to seek for and that I can only get through God a school friend of mine she just accidentally met me after 10 years and you know the Lord has inspired her to pray for me in her prayer time she had prayed for me for two months she has fasted and prayed for me for two months she does not know what is happening in my life for her to fast and pray but then here something being quickened in her spirit she was burdened to pray for me for two months she has prayed and after two months she texts me and asks I'm going for a retreat would you like to come with me and according to my understanding retreats only for the people who are addicted or sinners I'm perfect I'm not addicted why should I go and that is when as I was going through depression and many addictions I was part of which was very difficult and I know what I'm doing is not right and I I felt the need for retreat I felt the need let me try if God can change me this was the attitude that I went for the retreat in the very first day as I entered I realized that I need God who can save me and all the way that I was leading my life is so sinful I got the realization of my life the path that I was taking and I was heading my life to was not the right path and during the course of time I realized how important the Holy Spirit was and I started desiring and yearning for the Holy Spirit and as it was a five days retreat and as we near the fifth day I made a decision within my spirit I said no matter what I think it was on the fourth day night I made this decision I said no matter what Lord I need this Holy Spirit I need this Holy Spirit to come within me so that I can step out of this retreat center and go back home if not without and I'm not going to leave this place I need the Holy Spirit because I know as a person what I am I can get back to my addictions and you know what type of friends I'm surrounded with I cannot speak to them about Jesus and the retreat was themed saying that you shall be my witness till the ends of the earth acts chapter 1 verse 8 and when I encountered the Lord in that in that retreat I said Lord I will change my life I will but the Lord clearly said I want you to be my witness and God convicted me that night and the next day I was prepared I was prepared to do what he wanted me to do so that I will be the witness to the end of the earth in all Judea and Jerusalem and Samaria and to the end of this earth I took that I said yes I don't know how it's going to be unfolded in my life I don't know but I I accepted I accepted that call that day I made a decision I asked God God give me a Holy Spirit and from then on I could sense the Holy Spirit speak to us in that inner sense the Lord guides us and he becomes so real to us he guides every step of us he leads us the inner voice the inner witness of the Holy Spirit becomes so real he bears witness with our spirit and he calls us that we are the children of God can we read Romans chapter 8 verse 14 to 16 for as many as are led by the spirit of God these are the sons of God for you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear but you receive the spirit of adoption by whom we cry out above father the spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God amen amen amen see there's an inner witness within us the Holy Spirit so that we have been led by the spirit of God and we know that we are the sons of God we are the sons of God the minute the Holy Spirit comes when us every spirit of bondage every fear that grips us will break in the name of Jesus yes we are the child of God we have been encountered we are walking in the path of God but different situation different circumstances in different areas maybe this spirit of fear can grip us it can hold us from not walking in the way that we are meant to walk with authority with the fullness of God but the minute we start looking up to God in that area and then we cry out to God saying that I do not have the spirit of fear but I have the spirit of power love and the sound mind three areas power love and sound mind the spirit of fear can take away the love can take away the power the authority that we have in Christ and the sound mind it can lead us into all confusion the minute we claim on this verse saying that I do not have the spirit of fear you refuse it you rebuke that spirit that is in you and we see the breakthrough we see the breakthrough we see the spirit of the Lord overtake us and gives us that spirit of power love and a sound mind a clear mind you know the people say I mean what God says the battle the mind is a battlefield so when we have the mind of Christ we can conquer every battle that we face in our daily life the scripture says that we we do not have the spirit of bondage of fear but we have received the spirit of adoption through which we cry out above Father as a spirit himself bears witness with our spirit and we have this relationship with God been restored back as a child of God we are the sons of God we are the child of God so that you know God is no more God like ease our above Father the relationship is much dear much closer yes throughout the Bible we see you know we see like every man of God giving name to God like Elohim and you know God is our provider Jehovah Jireh Jireh and Jehovah Rafa many many instances they started giving God a name but then this name is about all names which is much powerful and this name is moved dear to God where we can call above Father the relationship been restored back through Jesus our Lord where we were once slaves we once in bondage have been restored back in the sonship of God we are his son we are his daughter and God is our Father this relationship is much dear God don't want to lose this relationship don't want to lose this fellowship with us that's why in John 3 16 it says that he gave his only begotten son to die on the cross so that we can be restored back in God the Holy Spirit uses the inner witness as one of his primary ways to lead both to to confirm and to lead us the inner witness comes to us through the conviction through knowing through assurance many ways the impressions feelings and sensations with the Holy Spirit that he gives to us in our spirit different ways that he quickens us we need to have this relationship with the Holy Spirit the desire within us should grow to know him or to lead to be led by him we need to desire you know the scripture says that all the other gifts will be given by God all the gifts of the Spirit will be given but there's one gift that we need to seek which is that one gift that we need to seek and ask God sorry gift of prophecy okay yeah gift of prophecy is given by the Lord any anything else faith again the word of God says faith has been credited to you so again that has been given by God there's one gift okay good speaking in tongues this one gift gift of tongues can activate all the other gifts in the spirit gift of tongues is very very important gift of tongues this gift when we have it can activate all the other gifts so we need to desire for this gift the gift of tongues because the gift of tongues can can reveal the hidden things of God into us when we pray in tongues many things happen within us many benefits it can it can break our bondages it can clean us it can repair us Holy Spirit can build us it can reveal the secret things of God it can teach us it can guide us gift of tongues is very very important we need to desire for this gift of tongue only when we desire and when we seek this gift will be activated in us it's not that we do not have all of us have this gift within us but the activation happens when we desire for that gift do all of us have in this class do all of us pray in tongues is there anyone who's seeking for this gift today at the end of this session we can seek we can ask let this desire grow in us the more we desire very soon this gift will be activated we all of us need to seek for this gift you know why because this is our birthright the after my retreat I was back to Bangalore and the Lord supernaturally led me to a prayer group where I used to attend this every month you know every month two days I guess yes it was those these two days the months every time it's the first time the very first time I went to this prayer meeting you know I heard the preacher say but before that itself I was desiring for this gift gift of tongues as you know many of us will have an understanding that you know this gift you know only some of us can have this gift because we are not perfect you know I was given an understanding saying that only certain people God will choose to give this gift of tongue not for everyone not all can pray in gift of tongues one second they said you need to be very perfect to receive the gift of tongue so we all know our weaknesses we all know you know how perfect we are so I was compromised with my understanding but still I desired I said Lord what is that I can do I need this because I see all my cousins friends pray in tongues first I am not able to understand and you know I need this you know there was a desire even though I was given this understanding but my spirit was not satisfied with that what they shared with me but still within me I desired I desired the desire in me just grew just grew and the minute I went to this prayer meeting the first as I was listening to the man of God every word went into my heart because my heart was prepared as a good ground and I was yearning for God's word and the more I was learning in that prayer meeting as the word was spoken I was receiving that word and the man of God shared this saying that every child of God he said every he said it this way you know the gift of tongues is the birthright for every child of God the minute he said that I got hold of that word and I started speaking to God saying that Lord gift of tongues is the birthright to every child and I am your child I am your daughter so I need this gift I need this gift it is my birthright I've been born again I've been born in you and I have you in me you are leading me and I'm one with you in spirit and now I need this gift and I also said I thank you that I received this gift and by the end of the day you know maybe I prayed this morning around 11 30 12 maybe by the end of the day around 5 5 30 before we could leave you know I went up to this man of God and I you know after the prayer meeting they asked for special prayers so in that meeting it was like that so I went with all my cousin with my family and we all had a prayer request that the man of God could pray for them and my turn was last the man of God asked me what you want all I said is I need the gift of tongues he screamed he said what that made me get scared I thought okay I had something wrong but he said you already have within you all you have to do is close your eyes and say hallelujah I closed my eyes and I said hallelujah the minute I said hallelujah I saw that I started speaking in tongues I started flowing in gift of tongues when we are one in spirit the spirit activates that gift in us it activated that gift and the whole evening even after coming home I was uttering uttering may not be the same words that I speak today but it was just few words or it can just be the sound or it can just be the groaning in the spirit and that's how I started that's how I started every time I want to pray in tongues I used to just say hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah it's a groaning and then few syllables few words one by one started adding in and it went on the journey goes still now it goes and don't give up even with that few syllables keep keep pressing on and you will speak in the word of God the second is the assurance within you assurance can one of us read Philippians chapter 4 verse 6 to 7 please Philippians chapter 4 6 to 7 be anxious for nothing but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God and the peace of God which surpasses all understanding will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus amen amen the peace of God is very important as we walk in the peace of God in our heart and in our mind God releases new things he can guide us with a clear heart and clear mind when we have to make decision over certain things when we see God if we have the peace of God in that area we can proceed with it but otherwise if your heart is disturbed if your heart is disturbed then we may have to pause and ponder what needs to be done which is very important to have the peace of God sometimes you know we are disturbed and God is asking us to pause and wait upon him so that we get clarity the minute we see when we wait on Lord we see the changes that we need to take the steps that we should avoid the plan that we need to change and when we obey the word of God when we obey the direction of God we see the peace of God rule in our heart to which also you were calling one body and be thankful so we have that green signal we have that joy we have that peace in our heart the desire within can we read Psalm 37 verse 4 Psalm 37 verse 4 delight yourself also in the Lord and he shall give you the desires of your heart amen man as we live in the spirit we will also walk in the spirit and we will be led by the spirit when we walk in the spirit and we healed we are influenced and we are directed by the spirit we can see the desires in our heart also according to the word of God the desire will delight in our self delight yourself in the Lord and he shall give you the desires of your heart our desires may not be the desires that we had before but this time because we are walking in the spirit and we have been led by the God our desires are different our desires will be that which pleases God Proverbs chapter 10 verse 24 and one of his read and the other person read John 15 7 Proverbs chapter 10 verses 24 the fear of the wicked will come upon him and the desires of the righteous will be granted John 15 7 if you abide in me and my words abide in you you will ask what you desire and it shall be done for you yes amen if you abide in me and my words abide in you you will ask what you desire and it shall be given to you when we desire godly things and that is birthed in our spirit and then when we follow God in these things we see whatever we desire it shall be done it will be given to us it will be granted to us the knowing within can we turn to Acts chapter 7 verse 23 and 24 acts chapter 7 verse 23 and 24 now when he was 40 years old it came into his heart to visit his brethren the child of Israel and seeing one of them suffered wrong he defended an event him who was oppressed and struck down the Egyptians 24 for he support that his brethren would have understood that God would deliver them by his hands but they did not understand so in this we see that when Moses was 40 years of age something rose up in his heart that gave him an understanding that God would deliver the Hebrews through him and knowing within him we all know that you know Moses encountered God at the burning bush and that's when you know he took up the call and he went back to the Egypt to deliver the Israelites but that much before that when Moses was in the palace and he was 40 years old the Bible record the scripture has been recorded saying that when he was 40 years old that he had this knowing within him that he need to deliver the children of Israel and that what and that's why he was led to go meet his brothers his family and then when he went there he saw two you know Egyptian fighting he struck one of the Egyptians and then he fled to the median but what was the knowing within him he knew that he's been called all of his year they're one way or the other to make the decision in our life there's a knowing within just a knowing it may not be a man of God came and prophesied over you or you had a vision you had a dream no sometimes it's just the inner man the spirit of the Lord who's in us is acknowledging is is giving us that knowing a clarity within us that you are called to serve you have been set apart I need you there's just a knowing within you may not be something dramatic but then just a inner man just that inner conscious telling you that this is the way go admit as the scripture says that my sheep hears my voice he speaks to us through that small still voice within us we need to get ourselves tuned to that inner voice and when we start tuning we will see Holy Spirit prompting within us we feel prompted within us sometimes it's a strong urge or nudging in your spirit to do something to do something he'll push us to glorify God in our life the prompting is so strong that we know it is from the Lord and it usually calls us to take action immediately immediately so when we walk in the spirit we can come across many instances in our life many instances the prompting will be so clear he can lead us there was one such instant that I came across in my life was I knew an elderly uncle who was staying alone in Bangalore he was very aged he may be in his late 70s I knew him for last you know for past three or four years so I used to visit him every Christmas every Christmas I used to just visit him to give a piece of cake and wish him and come and you know maybe once a month he used to call and talk to me or I used to call him and talk to him so I would use to just be in touch with this elderly uncle and be there for any help so there was a certain time that way he could not no longer stay alone in a rented house so he needs to be shifted he was part of a very good Methodist church in Bangalore so with their help he shifted he moved to the move to the home for the aged and he was staying there then one day I received a call that he was not well so I went and visited him so I was in touch with him one day all of a sudden it was more than a month you know I didn't call him but I knew that he was not well suddenly there was a prompting within me to call this uncle and it was very strong from the afternoon I just pushed I said okay I'll call him later I'll call him later and the evening it became very strong it was not something very normal so immediately I picked my phone and I called his name was Andrew so I used to call him uncle Andrew I'm dying I want to see you before I could die I asked him uncle where are you he said I'm admitted in St. John's Hospital that is all he can speak to me he could not speak anything I said uncle I'm coming I just said I'm coming immediately I took my bike and I went not knowing which flow not knowing which ward easing I just went kept praying in dance kept praying throughout the journey I kept praying I prayed for the traffic to be cleared because we know in Bangalore how the traffic is and the hospital St. John's Hospital is a very big hospital in Bangalore it's huge those who are in Bangalore may know how big it is so throughout the way journey I kept praying for the traffic to be cleared and then God lead me to the right flow and also without the hospital pass they will not allow anyone entering I said Lord you make a way that every door will open for me when I go and you lead me exactly to the flow exactly to the bed where uncle is I just prayed as I prayed I reached this hospital which generally takes 40 minutes but I could reach in 20 to 25 minutes and you know I was led by the spirit I was just praying in tongues I kept moving I kept going exactly the security did not stop me I don't know why I just went I crossed the securities there are two three securities to enter in I crossed everyone and no one stopped me and I exactly went to the flow I just I just sense the Lord saying press seven in the lift press second floor I press second floor and lots and go straight take left I went straight take left and there was a name board and I saw his name and wrote it in there and I went exactly to the room he was lying on the bed and the treatment was not started I went I looked at him I said uncle and he looked at me and he said you have come I said yes and all he said is doctor has given me this medicines to get and he gave me a small prescription with a few rupees and then he asked me to get I said uncle I'll get but his condition was very bad and I met him and as he was talking as he was talking to me you know I said wait I went I informed the nurse that his condition is not good please come and see him and I came back they said we will come when I came back his condition was getting bad I saw his eyes was going up and I started praying in spirit I started praying in spirit though I've never prayed for a sick to say Lord let him rest in peace I've always prayed for healing and I with that intention is what I started praying I started praying in tongues I laid my hand on him started praying but the words that I uttered out of my knowledge was Lord I command a spirit into your hands this is the word that I uttered I said what am I saying and when I opened my eyes when I opened my eyes I saw his eyes moving and he was he was just gasping out of his breath gasping for his breath and he gave his last breath I said Lord I command his spirit into your hands I've never prayed like that any time before it was completely the Lord the minute I prayed I said let his soul rest in peace with you that's it that's the prayer that I prayed he rested and doctors came back they tested him they said he's resting in peace with the Lord I was alone with him not knowing what to do but in the meanwhile before when I conversed I asked for his phone I asked for his son's name because they were not in Bangalore they were in Mumbai he just gave me the name and that's it after that I started praying and after everything over I took his phone after some time I called up his son I told I informed him about his dad and then I saw some of the church members number on on his phone who admitted him I inquired with the sister who brought him and got him admitted here and they gave me the name I called them I informed them so for them to come to the hospital took two hours I waited till that till everything goes I was there Lord gave me the courage Lord gave me the boldness the Lord directed me what I need to do because I've never done that before it was all very new to me that's how when we when we pray in tongues when we are led by the spirit the Holy Spirit prompts within us he clearly directs us take left take right go straight do this say this when we allow the Lord to work in us the spirit of the Lord can do great and mighty things in and through us it's never too late it's never too late to have the stirring within us so whenever we are hearing the testimonies of the Holy Spirit remember there's a reason of me sharing this there's a stirring that is happening in each one of us who are in our class who are listening to this it is much stronger a stronger sense to call into action to get into that fellowship with the Holy Spirit to get into that relationship with the Holy Spirit because the stirring of the spirit cannot be quenched it is not an emotional stirring it is the stirring that is stirred by the Holy Spirit we see in the life of Ezra we see in in the book of Haggai how the spirit of the Lord stirred Zerubabel the son of Shethiel how the stirring led them to take action in their life how how the Holy Spirit stirred Paul in his journey with this we will move on to the seventh point the four knowledge within can one of us read Isaiah forty two nine yes please behold the former kings have come to pass and new things I declare before the spring thoughts I will tell you of them thank you thank you we also see in 4610 declaring the end from the beginning from the ancient things that are not yet seen saying my counsel shall stand and I will do all my pleasure that is how God declares things even before and we see in the Old Testament how God declared things to Abraham even before he could make him the father of nation the blessing of Abraham how God can bless us today he declared it then as he declares the four things he also gives us the warning within the warning we see in Acts chapter 20 verse 22 to 23 now 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 that the chains and tribulations await for me he gives us the warning Holy Spirit always leads us guides us reaches us and he also gives us the warning the things which we are going to face in our future and how we can handle them that's how the Holy Spirit leads us okay with this we will end this class with the word of prayer dear God we thank you we praise you we love you we honor you thank you for your Holy Spirit Lord which dwells in us which quickens our spirit to listen to abide to that inner voice of the Holy Spirit thank you Lord that you have stirred each one of our heart to have this relationship with the Holy Spirit to yearn and thirst for more of your spirit because your word says blessed as a man who's poor in spirit thank you Father thank you Lord Jesus that you have stirred our heart and our mind to yearn for more of you for more of your Holy Spirit Lord I pray that you will meet each one of them at the point of the need Lord I pray that you will increase the Holy Spirit in each one of us a father you'll activate the gift of the spirit to each one of them as they seek and desire for more of you and those who are yearning Lord for the gift of tongues I pray that you will activate it a father as they seek you and pray as they ask Lord I pray that the Holy Spirit will activate this gift in them thank you Lord thank you Father that you are faithful God you are a God our Lord in you we trust thank you for the faithfulness in Jesus mighty name we pray amen amen thank you so much for today's session I hope it has blessed each one of us thank you so much thank you God bless thank you thank you God bless thank you