 You know, you're never alone with the Holy Spirit by your side. You don't have to be afraid of what's coming your way. You don't have to fear for your future. You don't have to stress about the past. In every moment, the presence of the Holy Spirit can bring love, joy, peace, comfort, and clarity. I believe that many believers are under the attack of fear, of stress, of worry, of anxiety, of hurry, because they don't recognize that the presence of the Holy Spirit dwells with them. The Holy Spirit is your companion. The Holy Spirit is with you 24-7. The Holy Spirit is constantly reminding you that you belong to Jesus. And He brings to your remembrance those truths that you sometimes forget. When the enemy points to your circumstance, the Holy Spirit points to God's presence. When the enemy points to your past, the Holy Spirit points to God's forgiveness. When the enemy points to things that cause you to fear, the Holy Spirit reminds you of God's power. The Holy Spirit dwells with you. I want you to type this in the comment section. He's with me. And the Holy Spirit does indeed abide. And it's my prayer that as you listen to this truth, that the Holy Spirit is your companion. My prayer is that you're released from stress. You're released from fear. You're released from confusion. And you're brought to that place of perfect peace that you become more aware of His presence. That you become encouraged by the fact that He dwells with you. John chapter 14 verses 16 and onwards say this, And I will ask the Father and He will give you another advocate who will never leave you. He is the Holy Spirit who leads into all truth. Now let's just take a look at this promise that Jesus is giving to us. Verse 16 makes it clear who will never leave you. He is your constant companion. Now many Christians are sadly of the opinion that when they make a mistake, the Holy Spirit leaves them. And when they do well, the Holy Spirit comes back to abide with them. Some believers don't even realize that they have the Holy Spirit and have had the Holy Spirit since the very moment they were saved. You don't have to perform to receive His presence. His presence is what helps you to perform. When you were born again, when you placed your faith in Christ, the Holy Spirit came to dwell in you in the fullness of His power, not in smaller measures, not in sections of His personality, but in the fullness of who He is. And Jesus says, Who will never leave you? Now some might ask the question, but David, what if a believer, a true believer, lives in persistent, willful sin to the point where the Holy Spirit leaves? To that I would ask, what true believer could persistently sin in order for the Holy Spirit to leave? In fact, it is the Holy Spirit in us who gives us the desires to do right. It is the Holy Spirit within us who gives us the grace and the power to live holy. The Holy Spirit is not a reward for the super spiritual. The Holy Spirit is not a reward for good Christian performance. The Holy Spirit is the power unto holiness. The Holy Spirit is the power unto good Christian living. So he says, Who will never leave you? The Holy Spirit doesn't come and go when we make mistakes and then do better. The Holy Spirit abides convicting us when we do wrong in order to help us get it right. Verse 17, he is the Holy Spirit who leads into all truth. The world cannot receive him because it isn't looking for him and doesn't recognize him. But you know him because he lives with you now and later will be in you. No, I will not abandon you as orphans. I will come to you. Soon the world will no longer see me, but you will see me. Since I live, you will also live. Verse 20, when I am raised to life again, you will know that I am in my father and you are in me and I am in you. Those who accept my commandments and obey them are the ones who love me. And because they love me, my father will love them and I will love them and reveal myself to each of them. Well, how does the Lord Jesus reveal himself to us? It's by the Holy Spirit, revelation by the Holy Spirit. We as believers need to make a conscious effort to become more aware of the fact that the Holy Spirit abides with us, far too many of us go on throughout our day without acknowledging the presence of the Holy Spirit. We're so rushed through our day-to-day activities that rarely do we leave a moment to pause and to acknowledge the abiding presence of the Holy Spirit. We're so wrapped up in our anxiety about tomorrow that we never acknowledge the Holy Spirit in the moment. Perhaps we feel guilty for some past mistake and we think that God has abandoned us or God does not want to hear from us or that God has rejected us, my friend. It's not by our own works. Ephesians 2-8-9 makes it clear that our salvation is by grace through faith and that God gives us that grace not so that we can have a license to sin but so that he can empower us unto holiness. And when we recognize this, we are free to enjoy righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. Now, you have the Holy Spirit if you're a born-again believer. That's a fact. You don't have to do anything more to receive him. When I talk about receiving the Holy Spirit, I'm talking about surrendering to that power and presence that already abides within you. That's what it means to flow with the Holy Spirit, to obey him, to surrender, to listen to the Word, to listen to his voice, to yield when he speaks. And as we begin to live according to that power that worketh in us, as we begin to live according to the power of the Holy Spirit within our lives, then we begin to see the manifestation of that power in our minds, in our emotions, in our everyday living. We become more like Jesus. We become less like ourselves. You know, the closer you get to the Holy Spirit, the less you look and act like you and the more you look and act like Jesus. And so the Holy Spirit abides with us. We're never alone. You are never alone. In those moments where you feel like rejoicing because of some breakthrough, because of some victory, because of some accomplishment, the Holy Spirit is there with you in that moment of joy and triumph and accomplishment. In those moments where you feel like you did right, he's right there by your side. In those moments when tragedy strikes and things that are beyond your control begin to affect your life like a storm. When you can't quite see beyond the moment and you're looking for any ray of light to shine through those dark clouds. When your heart is heavy, when your mind is confused, when your future is uncertain, he's there right there by your side. In fact, he's in the room with you right now. In those moments when you fail him, he's there. In those moments when you obey him, he's there. In those moments when you're confident in your calling, he's there. In those moments when you begin to wonder if God called the right person, he's there. When you do your Christian checklist, prayer, the word, church attendance, he's there. And when you make a mistake in that area, he abides. He will never leave you. He's the constant companion. Now again, I have to stress this because true believers must understand that we will not abuse that grace. True believers don't look at the Holy Spirit's grace and say, oh, so I can go on sinning as I did before. No, true believers, look at the grace given to them, that power given to them. And they say that right there is liberty from sin. That right there is freedom from self. That right there is the power to subject the flesh. In Romans chapter 8 verses 5 and onward, the scripture says this, those who are dominated by the sinful nature think about sinful things. But those who are controlled by the Holy Spirit think about things that please the Spirit. Here's one of the telltale signs that you are dominated by the Holy Spirit. Your thoughts begin to reflect upon what please God, the things that please God. Your mind begins to become transformed. That companionship with the Holy Spirit grounds you in Christ's likeness. Now, another amazing thing that begins to happen as you're controlled by the Holy Spirit, you're controlled by the nature of the Spirit. As you now in this moment begin to come to the place where fear cannot grip your heart. Think about all of the things that are going on in the world. And here's the reality. Many believers in an attempt to prepare people actually just scare people. How many times do we panic when we hear about headlines that reflect the apocalyptic scriptures that we read of? How many times do we panic when we hear the systems of the world declaring doom and gloom and collapse and chaos and all of those things that we don't want to see happen? If you're not careful, you will have fear to strike your heart. But when you walk in awareness of the Holy Spirit's presence nothing that happens around you can disturb that peace within you. Nothing that the enemy attempts to scare you with can shake the confidence and the faith that you have in Christ. Verse 6, So letting your sinful nature control your mind leads to death but letting the spirit control your mind leads to life and peace. There is this tension of the will between spirit and self and self pools selfishly. Self pools fearfully. Self pools aggressively. The spirit leads and guides and corrects and points to lovingly, peacefully and selflessly. And as we are caught in the tension between self and spirit we have a choice to make. Either we can live in the awareness of the nearness of the Holy Spirit or we can live in the lack of the awareness of who He is in us. And believers who live in that lack of awareness they're all tangled up in self. I'll tell you some of the things that begin to happen to believers who live that way. They can't flow with the Holy Spirit. They can't get their mind on the things of God. They get caught up in the things of the world quite easily because they are being pooled by the things of this earth. And their minds are focused on that and they become afraid. They become filled with doubt. They become confused about the future. They become cynical toward the things of God, toward the power of God. I can't tell you how many times I've seen and it's so sad to watch. Christians who should know better so filled with bitterness and they don't even recognize that bitterness. So filled with cynicism and they don't even recognize that cynicism. They're brought to this place of lowliness. They're brought to this place where it's almost as if they're just moral atheists who believe in the power of the Holy Spirit in theory but any practice of it is condemned because though they believe it in their minds with their intellect, they do not actually walk in that power in their everyday life and therefore they condemn true power. They condemn the work of the Spirit and they are like unto the Pharisees of old who had a form of godliness but denied the power thereof. And that's what begins to happen to the heart of the individual who treats God as though he cannot be experienced. Who treats the word as though it is just written word and not life and not fellowship and not spirit. Those words are spirit and life. For the sinful nature, verse 7, is always hostile toward God. It never did obey God's laws and it never will. That's why those who are still under the control of their sinful nature can never please God. You are not controlled by your sinful nature. You are controlled by the Spirit if you have the Spirit of God living in you. And remember that those who do not have the Spirit of Christ living in them do not belong to him at all and Christ lives within you. So even though your body will die because of sin, the Spirit gives you life because you have been made right with God. The Spirit of God, and by the way this verse, verse 11, so often we just read over it. So often we just gloss over this without ever realizing the implications of what is being said here. This verse is a powerful verse. Of course, all verses are. But this one to me stands out, the Spirit of God. And then I said, Who raised Jesus from the dead lives in you? Now, we may be dismissive of this because we've heard this verse so many times but really consider the weight of these words. The same Holy Spirit who raised Jesus from the dead, that resurrection power, that life-giving power, that unlimited power dwells in you by the Holy Spirit. And not a different version of the Holy Spirit, mind you. Not a lesser potent version of the Spirit of God. But the same Holy Spirit who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you and he's with you 24 seven. Why should any of us be afraid of what goes on in this world? Why should any of us fear that the enemy tries to terrify us with? The Spirit of God who raised Jesus from the dead lives in you. And just as God raised Jesus Christ from the dead, he will give life to your mortal bodies by the same Spirit living within you. Now, there's a lot here but the truth I simply want to glean from this is the fact that the Holy Spirit dwells in you. He does not dwell in the unbeliever in the same way that he dwells in the believer. Second Corinthians 13-14. Now, here's a portion of scripture that literally transformed my life when I began to see the truth behind this. Second Corinthians 13-14. May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Now, I love this because if we simply look at this verse, we can deduce that the Holy Spirit is more than just a force or a feeling. It can be known as a friend. The Holy Spirit is not just an experience that you have in a church service or at a revival meeting. The Holy Spirit is not just an emotion that you feel when you're thinking about the Lord. The Holy Spirit is a personal being. He is the third member of the triune God. He is God within us. The Holy Spirit's presence dwelling within us. The Holy Spirit is God, yes. The Holy Spirit dwells in us, yes. The Holy Spirit is God within us. We are not God, but the Holy Spirit is God within us. And when we recognize that that power, that presence rests upon our lives 24-7 on a constant basis, it begins to change the way we live our lives. Now, when I was driving as a single man, maybe I didn't completely stop at all stop signs. Selfish, dangerous. I admit it, immature. I admit it. I'm not proud of it. But perhaps I didn't drive as I should have driven when I was a single man. And then when I began to date my Jessica, whenever she was in my car, it changed the way I drove because I was aware of her presence in the car. And I wanted to make sure that the ride was comfortable for her. But when we had our precious Aria, the day we took her home from the hospital, you bet my driving habits changed. I did everything by the book. Everything to a T. Why? Because I was aware of who was with me. And when you are aware of the Holy Spirit within you, when you're aware that he's with you in the room, in the car, on the job, at school, wherever you are, wherever you're going, he's present. It changes the way you live. It changes the posture of your life because now you recognize that he dwells with you. And everything you do, he sees. And everything you say, he hears. And everything you think, he knows. Please don't grieve the Holy Spirit. 1 Corinthians 6-19 accentuates the point. Don't you realize that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who lives in you and was given to you by God? You do not belong to yourself. You are his dwelling place. The Holy Spirit dwells with you, in you, abiding 24-7. May the Lord help us to recognize this and to live in a way that reflects that reality. Father, help them do it today. May we become more aware of the presence of the Holy Spirit. Now pause for a moment because even as I began to pray, some of you were being pulled away to some other clip or video or maybe some other thing on your phone or on your laptop, whatever you're watching on. Some of us were being pulled. Why? Because the flesh seeks out distraction and entertainment. Allow the Holy Spirit to do a work as we pray together now. Say no to the flesh and yes to the Spirit. Father, I thank you. You're doing a work in all of us. And I pray, precious Lord, that you would cause us to be more like Jesus. Thank you, Father, that you are giving us an awareness of your presence. Now, Lord, I ask you in the name of Jesus, deliver your people. Bring healing and restoration and break through as only you can. Break every addiction. Break every bondage. Heal minds and hearts. Heal bodies in Jesus' name. If you receive that, I want you to type in the comment section. Amen. If this message blessed you, leave a like so that others can see it. And also, I want to stay connected with you. So, subscribe to my channel right now and make sure that when you do that, you click the notification bell. Otherwise, YouTube may try to hide some of the content from you. So, click the notification bell. Have a better chance of actually receiving the content. Now, I want to ask you to do something. I need your help. Our ministry is expanding. It's growing. 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