 Hello, David Digger Hernandez here and welcome to Spirit Church. You know, when you're filled with the Holy Spirit and walking in union with God's Holy Spirit, there are certain marks and traits that come to be a part of your everyday life. The attributes of the divine begin to flow out of the essence of your being and Christ is glorified. You know, Jesus said that you're the light of the world, and the city on a hill cannot be hidden. God has put His light in you and many of you are called to shine in very unique ways. And I believe that there are certain marks on a believer that come when he is tuned into what God has in the Spirit. So today, I'm teaching on marks of the Holy Spirit, basically, character traits and attributes that mark those who live a Spirit-filled life. Stephen Maktuzuma is here with us as usual. He's going to lead you in some worship. We're going to come right back and continue this lesson. And I truly believe that as you begin to walk in the will of God, as you sang in that song where you were committing your heart to follow His ways and walk in His will, I believe that as you walk that path in God's will that there are very distinct formations that begin to take place in your spiritual life. And I believe that God wants you to stand out and God wants you to shine in the dark places. So let's get right into this. I want to talk to you about seven marks of the Holy Spirit or attributes or traits that will come on your life as you begin to be devoted to the Word, as you begin to be devoted to prayer, as you're devoted to worship, as you're devoted to obedience toward God. You know, often I'll do a teaching on the presence, I'll do a teaching on prayer. I'll do a teaching on getting into the Word and we know that that's important. We understand why we need to pray. We understand why we need to get into the Word, but now I want to talk to you about what you can expect to begin to develop in your life as you stay rooted in the Word, stay rooted in prayer and as you stay connected to the Holy Spirit. You know, Jesus said, I am the vine. You are the branches without me. You can do nothing. And as you're connected to the source of all life, that nourishment, that resource, that fruit begins to flow through you and begins to affect other people. So, I want to talk to you about the believer that has this mark of the Holy Spirit. There's a purity. There's a grace. There's a divine essence on them that you can see and sense when you're around them. But number one, the first thing that you'll begin to notice about yourself as you begin to walk in the Holy Spirit, one of the first marks of the Holy Spirit on your life. Number one is wisdom and revelation. I never forget when I first got saved and began to read the Word. I used to be a bit paranoid because I thought, well, if I only read so much Scripture, God's not going to speak to me. And I was more concerned about the amount of verses that I read as opposed to the information and the connection that I had with God. And when it comes to the Word, yes, we are to dive into it. Yes, we are to read a lot of it. Yes, we are to be studious and disciplined and try to read as much of it as possible. But when it comes down to the Word, really, I really recommend that you read until you receive a revelation. And one of the things I read was in James chapter one, verse five. And the James was one of the first books I read when I first got saved. But James chapter one, verse five tells us something very interesting. It asks, does any of you lack wisdom? He said, if you lack wisdom, that you should ask God and God who gives generously will give you that wisdom. But when you ask, the Scripture says, don't waver to and fro. Don't be tossed like with the waves. It says, when you ask, ask in faith, be bold, be certain that when you ask of your father, something that he's definitely going to give it. So I remember, I asked the Lord, I said, Lord, I see this Scripture, I see that you promise wisdom to those who lack it. I said, Lord, I'm 11 years old. I said, God, I don't really have much wisdom. I said, Lord, but you do. And I said, God, if you will teach me wisdom, I believe that even at my age, I can begin to walk in the revelation of the Holy Spirit. And that day with childlike faith, I lifted my hands and asked God, I said, Lord, give me wisdom. Help me understand the word. Because up until that point, every time I read the Scripture, I mean, it was as if I don't know, I was at this point in my life and maybe you can relate to this where I would sit and I would listen to these preachers expound on the word with such grace, with such revelation, with such power that I would listen to them. And I'd almost become discouraged because I thought, I just read that same chapter last week and here I am now sitting and hearing them. And it seems like their eyes were open and I was asleep the whole time when I was reading the verse. But the truth is that that revelation comes by the Holy Spirit. The Scripture says this in 1 Corinthians chapter two, verse nine and 10. This is some of my favorite Scripture right here. And often people will read this with a very dramatic tone. They'll start it off like this. The Scripture says in 1 Corinthians chapter two, verse nine, that is what the scriptures mean when they say, no eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no mind has imagined what God has prepared for those who love Him. And often we read that verse and there's that dramatic tone and the implication of what the preachers will say or the implication of what we tell ourselves when we read this is that, oh, this thing that I have not imagined or have not seen or have not heard is to be received when I die or when I go to heaven and then in the great beyond when I finally met the Lord, I'll receive it. We think that it's something that's to be received upon death or to be received when we go to heaven. But the issue is that if we're waiting to see and to hear and to receive into our mind and to our spirit everything that God has given us or everything that God wants us to know, then we've made death the revealer of truth instead of the Holy Spirit. But death is not the one who reveals truth. The Holy Spirit is the one who gives truth. So we don't have to wait until we die to understand the deep things of the Spirit. In fact, the Scripture says in the very next verse, it says, but it was to us that God revealed these things by His Spirit. For His Spirit searches out everything and shows us God's deep secrets. Let's read a little further. Verse 11, no one can know a person's thoughts except that person's own spirit and no one can know God's thoughts except God's own spirit. And we have received God's spirit, not the world's spirit, so we can know the wonderful things God has freely given us. So that fellowship that takes place in the inner place, my spirit, fellowshiping with God's spirit, that is constant. That's 24-7, that fellowship is continuing. And when you are a person who taps into the things of the Spirit, when you're a person who becomes conscientious about your decisions to become silent, to become still, to pay attention to what God is saying to you, then you receive from that deep well of revelation and it begins to flow over into your everyday life. In fact, John chapter 16, this is what the Scripture says, John chapter 16 verse 13, and this is Jesus talking about the Holy Spirit. John chapter 16 verse 13 says this, the Scripture says, when the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into all truth. He will not speak on His own, but will tell you what He has heard. He will tell you about the future. So the Holy Spirit to whom Jesus is referencing, when the Holy Spirit comes and He begins to speak to you, He's going to tell you things that you do not know on your own or could not know on your own. He's going to tell you things about the Word, He's going to reveal things about the Word that you would not have otherwise been able to understand. When you read the Scripture, when you sit down, when you devote yourself to the Word, if you're a person who was filled with the Holy Spirit, then the very one who inspired the writings of the Scripture, the author, the Scripture is actually a ghost written book. Ghost writing is when another writer will write at the dictation of another person who can't quite put it into words. But in this case, the Holy Spirit dictated the revelation of God's truth to men. So He's a Holy Ghost writer. He inspired this. He's the author of the Word. And the very one who inspired this Word as you read it is by your side in you and around you, capable and willing of teaching you of that revelation. When you walk in the Spirit, you have wisdom and revelation. John chapter 14 verse 26. Now this is Jesus also talking about the Holy Spirit again. He says, but when the Father sends the advocate as my representative, that is the Holy Spirit, He will teach you everything and will remind you of everything I have told you. After I prayed that prayer, after I had lifted my hands and again, as I said before with childlike faith said, Lord, give me that wisdom. It was after that point that things began to change for me. That when I read the Scripture, I began to catch things that I had never before noticed. I began to study and I would find these gold nuggets of truth that would stand out to me and it would change my life because information will make you smarter, but revelation will transform you and put power on your life. Information is good, revelation is better. Information is taking the words and acknowledging the words. Revelation is when the Word manifests itself inside of you and transforms the very nature of your being. Revelation has transformative power and wisdom will lead to revelation. Number one, when you're walking with the Holy Spirit, one of the marks of the Holy Spirit is wisdom and revelation. Number two is boldness. Now being bold is not to be confused with being mean. I mean often, I remember one time I was talking to a waiter after a Sunday evening service or something like that. I think it was a Sunday morning or Sunday evening service and I got into the restaurant and I noticed when we told this waiter that we were from church, instantly he was like, oh no, his whole demeanor changed and I had asked him about that and he said, well actually the meanest people, the rudest people, the most demanding people are Christians when they come in after church and I do understand that sometimes in the church world there are those who live with this sense of entitlement that's not really spiritual, but that's not what I'm talking about here. I'm not talking about pushing your will over others. I'm not talking about putting yourself before others. I'm not talking about demanding your own way. In fact, 1 Corinthians chapter 13 tells us that love doesn't demand its own way. I'm talking to you about boldness. I'm talking to you about divinely rooted confidence that we have because of what Christ has done for us. So let's go to Acts chapter 4 verse 13 and this is what the scripture says concerning boldness. Acts chapter 4 verse number 13. It says, the members of the council were amazed when they saw the boldness of Peter and John for they could see that they were ordinary men with no special training in the scriptures. They also recognized them as men who had been with Jesus. So they saw that on these these disciples that on these two men that despite the fact that they had no formal training in scripture that they nonetheless had a boldness when they preached the word and in fact their demeanor, their appearance, their way of speaking caused them to recognize and remember and recall that these men had been with Jesus. They were marked by the Holy Spirit with a holy boldness. Matthew chapter 10 verse 20 gives us another clue as to why we can carry such boldness in our spiritual lives. Why we can carry such boldness when we're confronted by critics or skeptics or people who want to hate us or persecutors. Matthew chapter 10 verse 20 says this for it is not you who will be speaking. It will be the spirit of your father speaking through you. This is Jesus telling us not to be afraid when we're called upon to speak but that when you speak when you open your mouth when you in faith say Lord I'm going to boldly step out in faith and declare the goodness of your truth that the Holy Spirit himself takes hold of you and it is the Holy Spirit of your father speaking through you and not yourself so that when you go to declare the truth you carry this boldness this divine boldness knowing that God will speak through you by his Holy Spirit. In fact Proverbs chapter 28 verse 1 says that the righteous people are as bold as lions. Righteousness which comes from true spirituality produces boldness therefore the spiritual life the spirit that life brings about a great boldness upon you. Ephesians chapter 3 verse 11 through 12 tells us about this divine connection that we have with God and that when we enter into the throne room of heaven that we can walk in boldly and confidently. It is because of what Christ has done for us. It is because of our position in Christ. It is because of what God has offered us in his mercy that we can walk with confidence and boldness. I remember one time I was preaching up in Northern California and this was during a miracle service and I'll tell you something if I'm just being honest with you I've observed that in my services whenever someone shows up in a wheelchair all eyes are on that person because they're waiting to see what I'm going to do with that person in the wheelchair. I remember one time this lady they had wheeled her all the way up to the front row and usually I like there to be no distractions whatsoever but I saw so I let her stay because I saw that this woman had faith to be healed and I saw that the people who had brought her up brought her up in faith and I was preaching my sermon I was actually preaching on how Jesus healed the sick which is another message that we have here on Spirit Church and I'm preaching my message and the whole time I'm preaching I just can't get her out of my mind she's just right there on my mind and I'm saying Lord do you want me to do this now Lord do you want me to speak now because remember when the man was lowered in the mat the scripture says that the power was present to heal often in the services I will wait for the atmosphere to change it for the power to be present to heal and the faith that the people to come to its peak and I saw this lady sitting in the front row and I'm preaching my message and I just couldn't get her out of my mind I couldn't shake her for my thoughts I couldn't even pay attention to my own notes and I said Lord I'm going to pray for this woman because I believe you're moving me to pray and the Lord instead had me just speak to her and so I stopped in the middle of my message and I said you know when you're in the healing ministry there are those who look to you as a great hope as the ministry of healing can bring hope and there are those who look to you as someone who brings about almost torturous cruelty by dangling a false hope in people's faces so there is no you know there is no middle ground when it comes to the healing ministry in fact Earl Roberts himself said that the healing ministry will bring about three things crowds controversy and criticism and I sure know that to be true and so I was I turned to this woman and I said you know what many look at the healing ministry and they say how cruel of you to dangle a false hope in front of people's faces but if this hope is true and then it's not false and if the word of God is true then this woman can be healed I didn't know what was wrong with her and I said lady I don't know who you are I don't know what's wrong with you I said but but but it's looking at you in this front row I hear I'm going to tell you that I believe you can walk out of here without that wheelchair today and that was bold and the whole time thinking okay Lord you got to back that up and so I'm I'm praying for her and sure enough that lady walked out of her wheelchair that day in fact we got a video just a couple weeks later of her still walking in her home and celebrating her miracle another time I was in Kansas City and there was a woman who had brought her husband he was he had been paralyzed because of a stroke I think it was anywhere from six to ten years on his left side he had no movement whatsoever it was just all nerve damage you name it you know what a stroke does it damages the body heavily and so this woman she wheels him up to the front row and again same thing happened I'm preaching my message and I don't know what got a hold of me I'm pretty sure it was the Holy Spirit because out of nowhere this boldness just rose up within me and as I told the people to disperse because the worship and prayer portion was over they all start dispersing I said wait a minute hold on right right there and as I said the words I was already saying Lord what am I saying I said sir today you are going home to be well and as soon as I said that the whole place just went crazy they were all cheering and I said okay Lord that I hope that was you and because of the boldness of the Holy Spirit I persisted in this and that man for the first time his wife said I haven't seen him walk like this in years he was taking baby steps but he was still walking because of the boldness that came on me and the boldness that God wants to place on you is such that you stand confidently in the Word now some people will call you arrogant some people will call you prideful but so long as your confidence and your boldness is rooted in God rooted in Christ then it's proper boldness and the Holy Spirit when he empowers that righteousness on you there's this holy boldness that comes over you're like a fire that burns and and rages throughout the land causing other fires to be started God wants to empower you with boldness you may look at your unsafe loved ones and say well I don't know if I want to preach to them you may look at someone at the store and say I don't know if I can go up to them and preach to them when you're filled with the Holy Spirit there's no questioning there's no doubt the boldness comes on you and you step right in with faith believing that God is going to do something into your miracle or somebody else's miracle you know there are many things that we've missed out on simply because we didn't allow the boldness of the Holy Spirit to overtake our fears but I want to tell you today that as you continue to walk in the Holy Spirit as you continue to get in the word and prayer that this holy boldness is going to come on you and God is going to empower you and you're not going to be afraid to speak you're not going to be afraid to act you're going to move out in confidence in the word of God because of the boldness of the Holy Spirit you know Peter was the one who denied Jesus I mean he denies Jesus and runs and then in the book of Acts we see him preaching and 3,000 people get saved because the Holy Spirit came upon him we see Moses standing before God in the midst of the burning bush he's saying Lord I can't Lord I can't Lord I can't then God speaks a word into him fills him with the Holy Spirit and he boldly goes and stands before Pharaoh and says let God's people go I think of all the transforming the transformation of lives when the Holy Spirit comes on him and God wants to empower you with this same boldness so number one is wisdom and revelation number two is boldness number three is favor now I remember I was having a conversation with a gentleman who told me he comes up to me he grabs me says I want to stay near you because it's like you're standing under a glory spout and I just want to say this and I say this to the glory of God but can I just tell you I say this again to the glory of God and I say it because I'm thankful I'm grateful and I say this because I want to bring glory to God and honor to the name of Jesus I walk in favor and I'm not ashamed to admit it but you see that favor is not because I'm someone great not because I'm someone talented not because I'm someone gifted anything that's gifted or charismatic or magnetic about me has nothing to do with me anyway it's the Holy Spirit inside me it's all Jesus but when it comes to the favor I recognize because I step back and I look at everything that's happening I look at all the doors that are opening I look at all the people that come around to help I look at all of the partners that support financial I mean there are so many things I look at and I just stand back and on go Lord I know for a fact I'm not talented enough I'm not smart enough I'm not gifted enough to have brought that about on my own I'm no fool I know all of this is a result of God and what he has done to bring glory to his son Jesus but I can tell you that this favor is real that there are people will tell me all the time they'll say I don't do this for anybody else but I'm gonna do it for you or they'll say let me tell you something I had a gentleman come up to me he says I don't even like you but here's $14,000 because I see the favor of God on you these are just the things that God does that man can't bring this about you can't try to bring this about I can't try to bring this about this comes about when you walk according to the spirit the favor of God comes when the favor of God is on your life you're made an exception when the favor of God comes on your life you're given honor when the favor of God comes on your life doors are open resources come in connections are made people are brought to Jesus to the favor on your life when the favor of God comes on you nothing can touch you people will talk about you the enemy will try to bring you down but when the favor of God's on you nothing can be done to bring you down unless you unplug from that favor which would I'm going to talk a little bit without in a little bit but you know I even had people who when they were connected with the organization or the ministry that's anointed there was favor flowing through them they had doors opening the moment they walked away in a wrong way things went downhill for them there's no favor on their life and I'm not saying that to down anybody I'm saying that to tell you that this favor thing is real I'm not a prosperity preacher I don't believe in name it claim it blabbit grab it I don't preach that sort of message but I do believe in favor in fact Luke Luke chapter two verse 52 I believe says that Jesus grew in favor with both God and man Luke chapter two verse 52 this is what the scripture said Jesus grew in wisdom and in stature and in favor with God and all people in fact the same is set of Samuel in first Samuel chapter two verse 26 it says that he grew in favor with God and with people you look at Jesus you look at Noah you look at Job you look at Joseph you look at Dave you look at Daniel look at Abraham all of them carried this favor why well look at Proverbs chapter 8 Proverbs chapter 8 verse number 35 says this for whoever finds me finds life and receives favor from the Lord that's wisdom talking remember number one wisdom and revelation well that indirectly brings about favor when you have wisdom you gain favor with God Proverbs chapter 12 verse 2 says that good people obtain favor from the Lord this is real you know God does have favorites this doesn't mean he's a respect of persons anyone can become favorite of God if they simply do what his word says that's the truth but not everyone's a favorite not everyone is favored that's why God said Jacob have I love but Esa have I rejected because Jacob had the favor and Esa did not you look all throughout scripture you'll see this parallel some are rejected and some are given favors some are given blessings some are giving given curses by God some are given blessing by God and this all has to do with walking in the spirit walking in obedience walking in wisdom walking in righteousness walking in that narrow road and as you do so favor comes on your life doors will open that for anyone else those doors would never have opened things will be given to you things will be put in your hand that nobody else could have received because the favor wasn't on their life and I'm telling you this because I want to encourage you so that you can know no matter who you are no matter how far you've gone away from God that if you continue to walk according to the spirit favor is going to come on your life I don't care what anybody tells you the scripture is clear God wants to give you favor because he loves you and because he sent his son to die for you God wants to give you these things but it takes walking by the Holy Spirit favor is a mark of the Holy Spirit number four and we're going to be actually let's go to Galatians because you're going to see a lot of the fruit of the spirit which I'm going to do a lesson on the fruit of the spirit maybe later on but as of right now I just want to focus on just a couple of the fruits in this particular message but Galatians chapter 5 verse 22 the scripture says this but the Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives love joy peace patience kindness goodness faithfulness gentleness and self-control there is no law against these things that's a beautiful scripture but I want to narrow in on this one idea that those who are filled with the Holy Spirit another mark on them is peace I'm telling you I use you you ask any of my friends any of my family and as the Lord's worked on me I've received help with this but I can be very high strong I mean I can get stressed out like that but the longer I've walked with the Holy Spirit the more I've learned to just keep my cool to stay calm you know peace doesn't just have to do with the absence of fear peace has also to do with the clarity of mind peace has also to do with how relaxed you can be in the middle of chaos I mean peace is when Jesus stands up in the middle of the storm after having woken up from a nap I mean here everybody's panicking and Jesus wakes up he's I mean you can imagine waking up from a nap you're kind of still trying to get your bearings he goes oh yeah yeah the storm uh peace be still and the storm stops he's just so calm I knew I know of a man of God who he was in a play he was in a plane that was going down everyone starts freaking out and I had friends who were on the plane at the time and they said this guy's sitting there real calm and they asked him like the plane's going down the plane's going down and he was waking up from a nap he goes he goes where's your faith and he went back to sleep taking his nap while the plane was going down and ended up it was like a false alarm or something like that but the the idea of having peace like that in the middle of those situations is remarkable I mean you see Jesus he did all sorts of things Jesus healed the sick Jesus fled Jesus got on the boat Jesus walked Jesus fed the 5000 Jesus did miracles Jesus preached Jesus taught Jesus did this and that but one thing you'll see that Jesus never did is Jesus never ran and Jesus never ran because Jesus was never late and he was never late because he walked in the perfect timing of God he walked in the peace there are times when situations and circumstances may be caused for inner chaos or for you to be rocked out of that peace but when you're filled with the Holy Spirit when you have a clear direction and you know where God wants to take you when you have a clarity of mind and you have a purposeful pace about your life there's a peace about you there's a calmness about you let me ask you this when you walk into a room are you someone who brings chaos or someone who brings peace now I understand there are different personality types I have a few friends and when they walk in they're very loud but that doesn't mean that they're not peaceful I'm talking about a demeanor I'm talking about a state of mind a state of the spirit when you come into a situation do you panic and blow it out of proportion or are you someone who when you come into a hard time you can keep your bearings about you people who are filled with the Holy Spirit people who walk with the Holy Spirit they develop this trait over time that anything could be falling apart I've seen very spiritual men and women of God I've seen them come up against death and still have peace I've seen them standing in the funeral the funeral hall of their loved one who just died and they have this perfect peace about them they'll say things like well that's not really them that's just their body they're in heaven and they keep that peace and it's real it's genuine it's not fake it's not manufactured God wants to give you that kind of peace that that that type of collectivity when you can bring yourself to be relaxed in the middle of a circumstance like that that's a true mark of someone who is spiritual we need to stop being so high strong so stressed out so worried so fearful we need to have the type of peace that Jesus had in the middle of the storm and that is a mark of the spirit number five from the same verse Galatians 522 number five is joy people who are filled with the Holy Spirit have joy now you'll notice that there is this misconception that has led us to believe that the more stoic the more serious the more boring someone is the more spiritual they are that people who are spiritual have to carry this demeanor that's just very serious very very you know almost condescending in some ways can I tell you something that's not spiritual that's boring that's not spiritual that's that's depressing God has called the spiritual to bring about joy you need you need to bring about peace and you need to bring about joy when I look at those movies you know they often portray Jesus he walks into a city and he's just very serious and it's always English Jesus I never understood that anyone but you know he's got an English accent for some reason he's walking in and he's just very serious there's no I mean that's I mean that's just how he is I don't believe Jesus was like that at all I believe he could have been intense at moments I believe that there were times when he was serious but when I think of Jesus and he's the type of guy who said no let the let the kids come over here while I teach I mean kids were drawn to him sinners rather than go out drinking and go out partying they wanted to come in and hear Jesus teach hear him talk I doubt very much so that Jesus was depressed stoic and super serious people who are stoic don't mistake seriousness with spirituality because true true spirituality has this joy about it has this freedom about it it's very refreshing very magnetic very attractive that's spirituality it's life giving not boring it's it's it's electrifying to the spirit it doesn't bring people down and so that is a mark of someone who is spiritual so let's just recap the five that we're at number one is wisdom and revelation number two is boldness number three is favor number four is peace number five is joy and we got two more marks of the Holy Spirit number six is authority and influence Luke chapter 10 verse 19 tells us that Jesus has given you authority over the demonic or as the scripture words it scorpions and serpents which are metaphors for demonic beings so Jesus gives us authority over the demonic Jesus gives us authority over the world first John chapter four verse four tells us greater is he that is in me than he that is in the world he gives us authority over sickness mark chapter 16 verse 18 through 20 tells us that if we lay hands on the sick they shall recover so already the spirit full believer we see has authority over the demonic authority over the world authority over sickness when you're filled with the Holy Spirit the true authority of heaven rest on you i'm not saying you're bossy i'm not saying you're pushy i'm not saying you're demanding but there's an authority that rests on you where others will honor the spirit that is on your life when you walk in the Holy Spirit you carry a heavenly demeanor of authority about your persona when you're filled with the Holy Spirit people knew that when something went wrong they called on Jesus people knew that when when they're sick loved ones we're near death they called on the disciples they called on those who had been with Jesus why because they carried the spiritual authority and influence when you're filled with the Holy Spirit other believers come around you because they want to learn because they want to grow because they want to receive more they can see that you're close to God they want what you have and they'll come near you and as you teach them you are having influence in their life drawing them closer to christ so number six authority and influence is one of the marks of the Holy Spirit and number seven this is the most important one because you can have all of these things and i know love is a big part that that's probably what some of you were thinking right now but this one is is is just as important i think number seven is humility now think about everything i just read to you i mean let's just go through we talk about wisdom and revelation that's awesome right you know someone who's wise and fill the revelation someone who's bold someone who has favor doors open for them when they don't open for anyone else they have this peace this confidence they have this joy this magnetic persona about them they have authority they have influence but if you have all of that and you don't have humility then i doubt any of those other things are truly of the spirit now humility let me just clarify a couple humility is not saying oh i'm a worm or oh i don't belong here or i'm terrible humility is not self-degregation humility is not self-criticism humility is not the dismissal of yourself or the denial of your abilities or the denial of your gifts talents and and good qualities about you humility is not saying there's nothing good about me though in some spiritual sense it's true to say that we're nothing without christ without him we're just filthy sinners i understand that but humility is not denying that you have a gift it's acknowledging the source humility is not denying that you have ability or power or authority or influence humility is when you acknowledge that it comes from god and so humility i've seen people think that humility they mistake you know pride with confidence you should be confident if you know something you know it it's of the bible it's of scripture god has spoken to you have confidence in that humility is not a lack of confidence in fact if anything humility comes from a great amount of confidence in god and you know that despite everything that you've done god still has blessed you that's a mark of the spirit you know the scripture says and i want to read this to you because i want you to really get a feel for what god thinks of pride remember i talked to you about some of the things that would disappoint god i said that earlier in the message but proverbs chapter six verse 16 through 19 says this there are six things the lord hates so so so look at this i mean look at how much of an emphasis is being placed on this there are six things the lord hates no seven things he detests now these are things that god cannot stand now with the way the modern christian world preaches you would think that's some of the sexual sins that we list or a drug addiction or you know all those things are bad okay i'm not saying they're good but we would probably most would list those in our mind listen to what this says it says haughty eyes or a prideful outlook a lying tongue hands that kill the innocent a heart that plots evil feet that race to do wrong a false witness who pours out lies and a person who sows discord in a family the first thing he lists is basically pride you talk about the anointing of the holy spirit and when i say the anointing i'm not talking about the gifts and the call that's separate so the gifts and the call is your vehicle the anointing is like the gas that your vehicle runs on god will never take your vehicle away but you have to make sure your vehicle is filled with gas to keep it going but nothing will remove the anointing nothing will kill the anointing on your life like pride pride will destroy the power of god on your life god detests abhor's he hates pride in fact the scripture says in james chapter four verse six that god resists the proud think about that god in all his strength with his mighty arm resists the proud but he gives grace for the ability to accomplish his will to the humble power and humility can flow through the same vessel so don't be mistaken humility is not the lack of confidence humility is not um you know denying that god has gifted you humility is when you think it all comes from you we need to be people who are so broken so dependent on the holy spirit we need to recognize our desperation in the times that we are blessed and in the times that we are struggling we must acknowledge and we must celebrate our dependence on the holy spirit i will be the first to tell you that everything you see coming from this ministry the books the television ministry the internet program such as this the events that you see us doing where miracles happen people are saying none of that would have happened had it not been for jesus all the glory all the honor all of the praise belongs to jesus and when you keep in perspective who the source truly is then you're walking in humility when you acknowledge your dependence your desperation for the spirit of god then you're walking in humility and humility is one of the ultimate marks of true spirituality and the presence of the holy spirit on your life so let's recap here number one wisdom and revelation number two boldness number three favor number four peace number five joy number six authority and influence and number seven humility these are some of the marks of the holy spirit upon a life now i want to pray for you today that god would continue to give you a hunger for his word and that you would continue to be one who finds the deeper truths of the holy spirit in prayer and i want to pray also it's been on my heart i want to pray for those of you who are sick and body we're going to believe god for your miracle right now i want you to join your faith with mine don't waver don't doubt let's believe that this will be the moment you're healed so father in jesus name lord i lift this viewer to you right now i thank you for this one watching and i pray lord jesus that your holy spirit would saturate the very room in which this viewer is sitting or standing lord i pray that you make your presence known and obvious in their lives right now it's a father i thank you that you're calling us to be more and more spiritual to be those who carry your spirit in jesus name we pray and you said amen that's right so i do want to acknowledge here a couple things number one before i take the offering we have new members of spirit church so these are people who have joined the spirit family we have margaret grant from yorkshire england who has joined spirit church margaret welcome we love you we're praying for you i hope you write into me soon you're going to be getting emails from me so respond to those now i hope i'm pronouncing this correctly this is lowey l o w i e and then the last name s i u m so i think it's lowey seam and he's from manheim germany lowey welcome to spirit church thank you for joining the spirit family and then we have another member here zealda and i'm not even going to attempt to pronounce your last name do forgive me i'll just i'll make an embarrassing myself but you're from south africa and thank you for joining the spirit family and you guys uh make sure you respond to those emails i say from spirit church nobody on my staff checks those the spirit church email that comes to you is directly from me and i will i will respond to it personally it comes straight to my mobile device nobody else on the team gets those emails there between you and i so if you want prayer request you want advice you want um you know help in a certain situation email me i'm making myself available to those who are spirit family and now as usual those of you who are a part of this church remember to sew your ties and offering and maybe you're just a viewer who came here by encounter 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sign it myself and our staff will send it over just make sure to add that in the memo when you do make your donation so again one-time gifts and monthly are all appreciated well that's it for this edition of spirit church until next time remember nothing absolutely nothing is impossible with god