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So I see we have some people online still getting on. And I'm just gonna go ahead and assume that all the registrants are on. And I hope so because I gotta get into teaching now because it is 6.02, so I'm starting just about two minutes late, not the broadcast, but the teaching. So here's what we're gonna do today. I'm gonna teach you one-on-one. And again, you can go ahead and participate with me in this chat. I actually get to see the chat, which is really cool. It all comes up right here on my screen. I didn't wanna get a filter between us as we normally do with the program because like I said, this I want to be more down to earth, more one-on-one, more relaxed. So I'm gonna teach today on the Holy Spirit as I promised, but I'm more specifically going to be delving into a teaching on friendship with the Holy Spirit, which I have covered from time to time, but it's something that's really been on my heart because first of all, the way this message came about, I was standing in a church service. This was maybe probably about two years ago. And if you buy carriers of the glory, you're gonna see this story in the intro, in the introduction of the book. I'm standing in a church service. There's a man by the name of Joe Weidinger. He's ministering a sermon. He's teaching on the Holy Spirit and on speaking in tongues. And he stops in the middle of the service and he tells us all. He says, I want everybody in this room right now. He says, I want you to begin praying in tongues. He says, you're gonna pray in tongues for five minutes. They believe it was five minutes. Might have been 10 minutes. I remember the exact increment of time he gave, but he said, you're gonna be praying for an allotted amount of time. And he says, when you do, God is gonna speak to you. And so it was very done with a very orderly fashion. Everybody kind of began to speak in tongues and you could really sense. It was like, you know, you've been in those services where just you sense almost like this cloud descending upon the building. And I'm not saying I saw a visible cloud, but you could sense just this weight. And a hush came over the room during the time we were speaking. It comes to just this reverent hush came over the room and the atmosphere grew to be very, it was like electrified with this divine essence that just affected everybody very profoundly and affected me very deeply because I remember just standing here in the service. I had my arms folded, my hand was on my face, my head was bowed, and I'm just focusing on what the Lord wants to say to me. And I'm praying in tongues, praying in tongues, praying in tongues. And all of a sudden, in the middle of all of that, I feel just this rush come through my body while I'm praying in tongues. And instantly just images boom, boom, boom, start flashing through my mind. They start moving through my head, all these different things and revelation and everything that I had learned about the Holy Spirit, the person of the Holy Spirit up until that moment. I don't know how to, I was to explain it other than have you ever had an experience where you remember various things and you can remember years of experience or years of memories just in a moment. Many people talk about this in like a near-death experience where they're feeling like they're about to die and just their life flashes before their eyes. And so this was similar to that in that there was a condensed amount of time that was a span of several years from the time when I was 11, when I gave my heart to Christ, those next two years of 12 and 13 where I really just spent hours and hours and hours with the Holy Spirit. And up until about two years ago when I was 24, I had been in the ministry for a little bit and all of that, all of the revelation, all of the experiences I have with the Lord, all of the thoughts, all of the questions, all of the struggles, all of the pressures, all of the positives and the negatives came rushing through my mind in that moment. But it didn't just come rushing through my mind. It came rushing through my mind in outline form while I'm praying in tongues. And remember this is the preacher had just got done saying, everybody pray in tongues here for a couple minutes. And he gave us that a lot of time. So I start praying and this revelation just hits. It felt like something had been downloaded into my spirit. That's the best way I can word it is just this instant information. Boom, came all of that revelation that had come to my mind and my recollection in that moment came to me in an outline form. And I saw everything of my book that I wrote Carriers of the Glory from introduction to end, all of the core concepts, all of the points that would be in that book. Now of course the whole book wasn't done right then and there but the outline was given. Now the reason this is significant is because typically when I'm working on an outline for any project it takes me at least for any book that I do other than How Jesus Healed the Sick. How Jesus Healed the Sick, that's another story in front of the time how that book came about. But all my other books, I would do several months of research that after about a year of praying several months of research and I would only research topics that I was very familiar with so I could just get a deeper understanding. And then I would work on an outline and I'd work on core concepts and I'd work on stories and points and notes and then the book would start to form and then I would just start writing. Now there's a little writing tip on the side here. If you're gonna write a book just write it. Don't stop to correct the grammar, don't stop to correct the sentences, don't stop to say well should I add this sentence that just write it all, just get all the revelation that's in you on a page. And once it's on a page then you go in and correct it later. But anyway, so usually that takes a book in conceptualization will take on average for me anyway at least six months to a year to conceptualize a book. Now writing it's a different story. But with Carries of the Glory it was reversed. The conceptualization of the book came in seconds. I mean in seconds, I had written down the outline and someone was standing next to me and I turned to the person, I showed them my phone, I showed them my notes, I said look I got the outline for book on the Holy Spirit while we were praying in tongues. And that I'll never forget that experience because it was born of the Holy Spirit. It was born, I'm not saying it's inerrant and it's the revelation equivalent to scriptural revelation but it is revelation nonetheless because God reveals things to us. John chapter 14 verse 26 talks about how the Holy Spirit not just reminds us of what's in the word but he reveals. So he reminds that he reveals his two full job as it goes to teaching us and that's his job as teacher. So all of that came to my being, I was excited about it but though the conceptualization took seconds the writing of it took about a year and a half almost to where every sentence, every word, I was very particular about it and that's just the way the Lord wanted me to do it. Now here's what I'm getting at. I said Lord, why was it that all of the other books that I had done, the conceptualization seemed to have taken, oh my goodness like months and even a year in some cases and when it came to this message on friendship with the Holy Spirit, that's the subtitle of the book, Becoming a Friend of the Holy Spirit. I said Lord, why is it that when it came to that you wanted something that was done instantly, that was done quickly and I'll never forget when the Lord responded to me and he pressed the revelation on my heart in response to that prayer and I had to deal with you. You know, I don't believe that if you're watching this that you're watching this by accident. In fact, my prayer was for this message, Lord, get this into the hands of those who you want to hear this message and the Lord told me that he deeply longs for your fellowship, that he so desires to come into connection with you in ways that you never thought possible that he just couldn't wait to get this message out there and I thought that was beautiful. I was very moved by that because I said the Lord was so moved. It had nothing to do with me and my rioting or anything like that. The Lord was so moved by his desire to connect with you that he spurred about this revelation in a more efficient manner than I had been used to. And you are God's object of affection. He wants a friendship with you. He wants to connect with you. He told me to write about how much he desires to be in your presence because he's heard your prayers about how much you desire to be in his. But he wanted me to remind you that he also in the same way desires to be in your presence. Now this one's gonna, this may just send you for a loop on revelation but in fact, God desires to be in your presence more than you desire to be in his. He proved it because he's the one who came all the way from heaven to earth. This is why I love the Holy Spirit. He is by definition down to earth because he was a heavenly being and he came in Acts chapter two to dwell among the earth. Jesus was literally down to earth. That's all right. I mean, I think that's where the phrase of God is roots, who knows? But I believe the Holy Spirit is down to earth truly in that he, in himself, a heavenly being, someone who communicates the secrets of God, the destinies of men and coordinates the worldwide global effort of evangelism in the church and the expansion of the kingdom. He oversees all of that yet he came to dwell in you. And he wants you to know again the depths of prayer. There are some of you watching this that your prayer life, you were taken from one place in where you felt a deep connection. And then over time, you seem to have sensed this disconnect between you and the Holy Spirit, between you and God. And I wanna remind you and I wanna tell you and encourage you that that disconnect that you sense is not actual disconnect. You see, when God withdraws and I put that typically that word withdraws in air quotes because it doesn't literally withdraw. The scripture says he's a near, he's an ever present help. Meaning he's always near. The nearness of God is always readily available to you. And I access, the book of Acts says that he's not far from any of us. Even those who are not seeking him, he's not distance himself from them. Even those who rebel against him, he's not distance himself from them. He's drawing them in, he's trying to communicate them. So when it comes with you, how much more so is he gonna draw himself closer to someone who is seeking him and who is genuinely pursuing his heart like King David did? And so when it comes to that feeling of distance that you sense between you and God and the Holy Spirit, often people say, oh, I feel disconnected. I feel like God's not near. I feel like I've done wrong. I feel like God is not near me anymore. I feel like I've done something to upset him or anger him or is the call of God still in my life or I don't feel the anointing as strong as I used to. That's the wonderful thing about feelings is you don't have to believe them. You can believe the word of God over them. But God will use that sense of distance that you feel. And again, this is just a sense of distance. He will use that distance and he withdraws only in relation to your emotions and feelings. And he will use that sense of distance that you felt disconnected from him. He actually uses that to draw you closer. I think of Isaiah chapter six, where Isaiah's in the temple and the scripture says that he's just going about the daily doings of the temple. He's serving in God's temple. And all of a sudden he catches the vision of God. It says that the glory of God so filled that building that the train of God's robe filled the temple with glory. And the prophet looks at God and he says, then said, I woe is me for I am undone, for I am a man of unclean lips. And I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips. And I found it interesting that though the glory of God had manifested before Isaiah, though God was drawing closer to him, that's when he became more aware of himself and felt exposed and felt bad for what was going on inside of him. So you may have noticed things about yourself recently in this season and you're starting to dislike certain things in yourself. That's a very healthy place to be. Now God doesn't want you living in self-hatred. Self-awareness is a better word for it. But God will use that sense where you feel, well, I feel like I'm getting worse. You're actually not getting worse. You're just becoming more aware of your sinful heart because you're getting better. Because God is drawing you closer. And so that distance you feel for him, God uses that sense of distance to draw you closer. In other words, when God seemingly walks away, he fully expects you to follow. When you feel God pooling away, again, he only does so in relation to your emotions. And that is actually a reward because you've sought him. That is a reward because you've sought his face. That's a reward because you've lived holy because you've pursued the presence of God. The reward for pursuing the presence of God is being drawn deeper into the presence of God. The scripture says the secret of the Lord is with him that fear him. That tells me that there are depths of God that are conditional for me to know, dependent upon how I've responded to what he's given me and how I've stewarded my spiritual life that he's given me already. So the reward for God is drawing you closer and that reward may feel like a punishment because you sense the distance growing, but again, it's only in relation to your feelings. And so that growing distance that you feel, he's expecting you to cover the ground through prayer, through seeking. And so I wanna just real quickly talk to you about the outline of what I'm talking about. And this is from teaching from the book Carries of the Glory. Now the book Carries of the Glory, I start off with an introduction that's a lot like that, talking about how God wants friendship with you. Then in chapter one, it's called The Spirit and I, and this is where I give you my testimony about how I came to know that the Holy Spirit could be known as a friend. Chapter two is called The Spirit and Immersion. That's a new term I'm using to describe an old and ancient thought, the baptism of the Holy Spirit. But because of the negative connotations that have come about, not from what the scripture teaches, but because of how men have taught it and abused it and there's been some bizarre displays that have gone in conjunction and seemingly are synonymous with the baptism of the Holy Spirit. But I like the word immersion because it's actually similar to the Greek word that has to do with baptism or being filled or overcome. So the spirit and immersion just means the spirit and baptism, but I use a new term to describe an old truth and it's not changed one bit. Chapter three is The Spirit and Holiness is where I talk about your identity. I talk about how the Holy Spirit helps us to live holy. He is the Holy Spirit. Of all the spirits he could have been, he is the Holy Spirit. Someone said he's not the grace spirit, but he actually is. I think it's in Zachariah or Zephaniah he's described as the spirit of grace. But more prominently he is known as the Holy Spirit, meaning he wants to draw you and help you to walk in holiness. And then number chapter four is The Spirit and Prayer. This is where I talk about the four realms of prayer, how the Holy Spirit helps you navigate those, how he works in your life, how he draws you to pray, because we get really deep into that. Then chapter five is The Spirit Gifts and the Call. This is where I talk about ministry, the anointing, the power of God in your life, being used by him. Then we talk chapter six, The Spirit and You. And this is where I'm picking up tonight the spirit and you. I talk about the keys to actually cultivate. So we understand the concepts, but now we need to understand the cultivation. So there's the revelation and then there's the application. The revelation makes you go, oh wow, the application takes that oh wow and brings it into steps that are something that you could do every day, every moment to make you being drawn closer to that revelation. Chapter seven is The Spirit and the Fifth Grade Awakening. I talk about the coming revival and the Holy Spirit at work on a global scale. And then chapter eight is questions about the spirit where we address questions like, last May the Holy Spirit is being slain in the spirit biblical and so on. But I want to get now into this lesson, becoming a friend of the Holy Spirit. And this is again from that chapter of the book talking about the spirit in you. And that's chapter six. But I want to start here, go to first Corinthians if you have your Bibles, I hope you do. And for those of you who ask, I'm in the new living translation. I love all the versions of the Bible. Love the King James, love the NIV, love the ESB, love the message version. But I like the NLT because I think it's close to the original language and it helps when teaching people. So NLT is where we are today. First Corinthians chapter two verse number 10, if you have questions about that, we can get into that later. Again, this Q and A that we have coming up, you can start sending in your questions now so that by the time we get to the Q and A, I already have some, we don't have to have that long delay or questions are coming in because there's a bit of a delay on the video here. So start sending it in now and by the time you get to the end, I'll probably have got your question. So first Corinthians chapter two verse number 10 and I'm beginning here, the scripture 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. 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 spirit. So we can know the wonderful things God has freely given us. When we tell you these things, verse 13, we do not use words that come from human wisdom. Instead, we speak words given to us by the spirit using the spirit's words to explain spiritual truths. Verse 14, but people who aren't spiritual can't receive these truths from God's spirits. It all sounds foolish to them and they can't understand it for only those who are spiritual can understand what the spirit means. Those who are spiritual can evaluate all things but they themselves cannot be evaluated. For who can know the Lord's thoughts? Who knows enough to teach him? But we understand these things for we have the mind of Christ. Now just a quick correction there. I did, I misspoke and I put in the truths from God's spirit in verse 14. It sounded like I used the plural of spirit but that was just because I had a slight list at the end of the word. Don't worry, I'm not teaching on several spirits. God only has one Holy Spirit. I wanted to make sure to correct that for those of you who are keen on observations such as that, so that we didn't run into any controversy that is not needed. So this is talking here about an inner fellowship with God. Now, the scripture's making it very plain. It says, who can know God and his depths better than his Holy Spirit? In the same regard, who can know you better than your spirit, your inner man? Nobody knows you like you know you, say you're for God. And nobody understands you like you understand you except for yourself. So only God and you understand you with that type of depth and clarity. And we're not always very good at expressing ourselves, explaining ourselves, communicating our thoughts but God completely understands us. He understands every detail. In fact, the scripture says that he delights in the Godly and he delights in every detail of their lives. He has the hairs on your head numbered. That's not just a cliche. God actually knows the amount of hairs you have on your head. And I think that's a wonderful truth. But in the same sense, you know yourself in ways that nobody else could know you. So this is talking about here a very deep understanding of God. Now, nobody understands God like the Holy Spirit understands him. So I wanna break this down for you quickly. If you're taking notes, I wanna note to you first that man is trifled and first Thessalonians chapter five verse 23 this scripture makes it very clear that the body, the soul and the spirit are all components of man. Just as God is Father, Son and Holy Spirit. So man is body, soul and spirit. So the scripture talks about this and I could talk about correlations. That's a whole different lesson for a whole different time. There are correlations that we can draw. You know, Jesus was manifested in a body, the Son, the word, the flesh, the manifestation. You talk about God and the soul, God's presence which is omnipresence. Every soul is aware of God. Romans chapter one talks about this. Then there's the spirit and that's the deepest type of communication that we have. And that's what I wanna talk to you about today. The depths of you, your core and inner man, the scripture calls it the inner man. The spirit of man has a deep and true and wonderful fellowship that's in its purest form with the Father through the Holy Spirit. So the Holy Spirit comes and resides in you at the moment of salvation, the moment you are saved, you receive the Holy Spirit. Now again, that's a different lesson for a different time. I covered that in the book on the baptism of Holy Spirit and that secondary experience. Not secondary in importance, but secondary usually in chronology and even in some cases in scripture, not secondary in chronology. But then there's the body in 1 Corinthians chapter six, verse 19. Know you're not that your body's a temple of the Holy Spirit. There's the soul, Psalm chapter 16 verse two. There's the spirit, 1 Corinthians chapter two, verse 11 that we just read. And so this conversation that's taking place inside of you is ongoing. It's 24 seven, it's eternal, it's nonstop. It is your spirit communing with God's Holy Spirit in a fellowship that's always ongoing. In other words, that's not stopping. No matter what you're doing, what you're thinking deep inside, there's a fellowship and there's a connection that you have with God. So in the physical world, though your mind may be distracted, though you're focusing your efforts, your attention, your consciousness on just a couple of things, in the heavenly realm, there's a celestial conversation taking place that is outside of even your awareness and understanding. And it's something that you cannot comprehend with the mind, but that you can only comprehend and appreciate in the spirit. Now the scripture says that those who are spiritual can be evaluated. Jesus said those who are led by the spirit are like the wind. You don't know where they're coming from or where they're going. And I understand that. And we do have this shared personality attribute with the Holy Spirit. We become more like it. We also become more like him in that we love Jesus more. There's no person more passionate and in love with Jesus than the Holy Spirit. So now, I'm gonna talk to you about, there's five different things that you can do to cultivate your friendship with the Holy Spirit or that you can have in your life. So if you have these five things and you work intentionally to better your understanding of these five things and better operate in these five things and act these out and you're intentional about expressing these five things, I think you're going to, from experience I can tell you, from the word I can tell you, it's gonna really draw you into deeper fellowship with the Holy Spirit. Now number one is dependency. And number two is understanding. Number three is reverence. Number four is trust. Number five is communication. We're gonna get through all that. In just a moment, we're gonna get through those five details. Now, I remember when I first understood that the Holy Spirit could be known as a person, as a friend. And the book carries the glory. I talk about a book that I read. I don't mention the book. I'm not gonna mention the book what the name is, but I read it and it changed my life. It wasn't the Bible, the Bible changed my life too and hopefully doesn't sound sacrilegious or anything. But I was, before that had happened, there was other events that led up to it. But for the sake of the book, I can't necessarily mention every detail and plus not every reader who's necessarily interested in every detail. So I'm flipping the Christian channels and I'm just watching TV. And during that time, I would often watch Christian television, TPN, CTC, the Juice TV back then was JCTV. All of the wonderful Christian networks that were on, there was, I mean, you know them, they're all in one block and I would go channel surfing through them. And so I remember I was just flipping to the channels and I loved hearing the teaching of the word, preaching other word. All of that was wonderful to me. I appreciated it all and it was great. But I remember one time I was flipping through and I saw this image and there were these people worshiping. Thousands of people I'd gathered inside of the stadium it looked like, and they were worshiping and the music was very heavenly, very elegant, very classy, very peaceful. And I felt like I was being pulled into what was going on on the screen. I felt this drawing. It was very alluring, magnetic, is the best way I can describe it. It's very magnetic and very controversial word, but it was somewhat hypnotic. And I'm watching the images on the screen and I'm seeing these people worship and people had their hands lifted. They're very peacefully singing the rich lyrics of older songs. And I was watching these people and I just glued to the TV and these people are crying. They're swaying. Some of them are shaking, trembling. You could see their lip shaking while they're singing. It looked like curbs of electricity were surging up and down their bodies. And I'm watching all this and I was just amazed. While watching it, I felt something come on me. I can't explain it. Something came on me and a very deeply and profoundly connected to something that was happening. Now a little bit I know that that was a glimpse into what I'd be doing in ministry one day, but at the time I didn't know. All I knew was God was drawing me to this moment that I saw. And it was divine destiny that I just so happened to catch it. And all of a sudden, usually at this point on other programs, they show the worship, but at this point now, typically other programs would show now the teaching or the preaching and the sermon would kick in at that point, but not at this point. At this point now, what had begun to happen was miracles began to be talked about. People were coming up onto the platform and saying they were healed of arthritis and cancer and tumors and I was amazed. It was the first time I'd ever seen it. And then I saw, as people started falling out, like the power, the weight that I saw, it seemed to intensify as they got on the platform and they began falling out without people touching them. And I was just watching God moving. And I thought, this is amazing. And that is what started my connection. And I saw that. I went and got the book of that minister. He talked about the Holy Spirit. I started reading writings of Katharine Coleman, Madame Guglianne, Basilia Schlink, the Amy Simple McPherson, Smith Wigglesworth. I mean, some of you have gone through the same journey, you know exactly what I'm talking about. In your spirit, you're going, yes, yes, yes, all great writers, John G. Lake. I don't necessarily agree with everything all of those people have written them. I don't even necessarily agree with those people in general, how they conduct ministry, all of them. But what the point is that I saw something good that God was doing. That's God's anointing, it's not man's. And so I said, Lord, I want a double portion of what I see in the lives of these people. I mean, I saw Oral Roberts, so those were great clips that I saw of him. And, but anyway, so I started, I began to understand from these people that the Holy Spirit was a person. And in my mind up to that point, and I know it's cliche because we all kind of say, oh, he's a person, not a thing. And I get it, we say it. But for the most part, because of the way we talk about him, he does seem to be, at least subconsciously we understand him to be, this force or object or idea or essence or cloud-like fog that fills the air whenever we're beginning to sing Christian songs, but that's not the case at all. He is a person. And I know you know this, which is why you're probably logging on to this broadcast. You know this, but the issue I'm seeing in churches now, and this is my first point, dependency, we have to involve him in what we do. I mean, so many churches, and I'm not criticizing the church. You know, I hear a lot of preachers, they build their whole ministries on church bashing. And I don't believe in church bashing because if anybody talked about my wife, I'd want to hit them. I wouldn't hit them because, you know, I'm Christian, but I'd want to hit them if someone started talking bad about my wife. So if you say, Jesus, I love you, but I hate your wife, you're just, you're crazy, okay? It doesn't work that way. Now you can't love God and hate the church. If you love God, you're gonna love the church because it's his wife. And I'm not gonna talk bad about the church, and I'm not trying to talk bad about the church. In fact, I hate presenting problems without solutions. I'm not gonna do that here. But I will say that what concerns me, and I don't think this has been done on purpose, I don't think there's some man is trying to stifle, but because of the great efforts, and I will say great efforts, wonderful things are being done in world evangelism right now, where we're starting to connect with the world, the church has not been able to do that in a long time. And I believe we do need to be relevant. We do need to be connected. We do need to be engaging, but not at the cost, not at the expense of the message of the supernatural nature of the gospel. And I don't believe most churches are doing that, but there seems to be this sentiment that the Holy Spirit is to be introduced later on in a believer's life. In other words, they say, well, you're a new believer, so let's not talk about the gifts, let's not talk about the presence, let's not talk about these things. I mean, I had one pastor call me, he said, hey, I wanna bring you in, brother David. He said, but all I have is new converts. I don't think they're ready for the Holy Spirit yet. So maybe you can come later on in the year. And I'm just thinking, oh my goodness, that the Holy Spirit, he's not a reward for being spiritual. He's the only chance we have at being spiritual at all. I mean, to say that you don't need the Holy Spirit because you're a new convert, you know, you're just learning or we don't wanna introduce those things, that's crazy. That's just nonsensical. That's like saying, oh, you wanna get your license. Well, why don't you go ahead, get your license first and then come back and we'll teach you how to drive. It's just, it's way out of order. And so that's kind of the sentiment, right? Cause we don't wanna offend people. We say, you know, oh, well don't speak in tongues in front of the visitors cause the Bible says not to do that. That's not true. In fact, the Bible says in 1 Corinthians chapter 14, that the speaking of tongues, the speaking in tongues will be assigned to unbelievers. Now, how is an unbeliever supposed to be receiving a sign from God through speaking in tongues if we're not supposed to speak in tongues in front of unbelievers? Doesn't make any sense. So what we do is we try to hide the Holy Spirit at his work and not all of his work. I mean, we know the fruit of the Spirit, love, joy, peace, patience, goodness, gentleness, meekness, understanding, self-control, all of those things. But I'm talking about some of his other works that seem to be more on the lines of the supernatural, healing, speaking in tongues, the manifestation of the presence and glory of God, the interpretation of tongues, the teacher, the Holy Spirit right by your side, helping you navigate the word and navigate prayer, the depths of prayer, fasting and worship and revelation and all of these things that he's supposed to do. And we act like those things are supposed to come later, but here's the truth. You look at everything that's happening in the world. I mean, I was just having a wonderful conversation with two of my aunts, one aunt who had taught me about prayer and spiritual warfare, my other aunt who I love taught me about worship and prayer and just my family's got a rich heritage with the Lord. So I'm sitting there on Sunday night, me and my wife are there to almost midnight talking to my aunts and my grandmother, and we're just talking about the Lord and we start getting into conversations about politics. No, I'm not getting into politics right now, but we talked about all of these issues and I started to get stirred in my heart. I told my wife, I said, I want to do a program on some of these issues. And she said, very lovingly, she corrected me as the Lord does to my wife often. She said, no, why don't you just stick to preaching the gospel and that will solve the issues you want to address. And I thought that is so true and it's true. And I was thinking about all these issues with ISIS and the economy and world leaders and all these issues that we face and people get so worried, they get so concerned, but the truth is that all we did is move with the Holy Spirit and all of those issues will be fixed like that. People talk about these Muslim refugees as if they're, I understand a lot of the Syrian refugees are probably like the Trojan horse and I'm not gonna take a position on that here again. I'm not getting into politics, but the believer, whether you believe that we should let the Syrian refugees in or not, you could be a Christian and believe in both. Either one is fine, but well, not in my opinion. One of them is not, but I'm not gonna tell you which one. But either way, I believe that God can touch those Syrian refugees. God can touch even terrorists, ISIS terrorists, save them and we can have another Paul the apostle. Why can't we just believe for revival and depend upon the Holy Spirit to fix these issues instead of fighting and debating and bickering. If he was just allowed to do what he's allowed to do, we'd have far less trouble. And I'm not saying every service needs to go six hours because I've been in some services. I'll tell you this, I'm just gonna be honest with you, okay? I'm a bit of a church product, group of church. I've been in some services every one time. There's this worship leader. She's getting, she's up there, she's singing and she was off key and the worship, I'm sorry, musically, maybe God enjoyed it, but musically it was just awful music, okay? And so it was torture to just stand there for 45 minutes and just, you know, they're trying to push people to get into this emotionalism. And I'm thinking, you can't force people to worship. Either the spirit's gonna move them or not. And she says this, she says, come on, lift your hands because this is exactly what it's gonna be like in heaven for all of eternity. And my first thought was my goodness, I sure hope not, it doesn't be torture. But I understand the sentiment that she was trying to say which was that we're gonna be worshiping God for all of eternity. And I appreciate that. But my point is that when it comes to the move of the Holy Spirit, you can't force it. You can't try to say, well, if you don't go six hours, God didn't move. And you can't say, like I've heard some people say, well, they have time services. And some churches have time services. Worship is 20 minutes, sermon is 20 minutes, altar calling and announcements offering is 20 minutes at the end. And people get critical of that. There's nothing wrong with having structure. They say, ah, they go an hour, God didn't move. And we judge it based on man's standards. But here's the truth. The Holy Spirit can move in an hour-long service. He can move in a three-hour service. The question is not how long the service goes. The question is whether or not the Holy Spirit moves and if He wants to go longer than an hour, you need to let Him go longer than an hour. If He wants to go shorter than three hours, you need to let Him go shorter than three hours. My point is whether we believe in one extreme or the other, whether we believe in one style of ministry, the other, whether we believe in one denomination of Christianity or another, we need to be dependent upon the voice and guidance of the Holy Spirit. And if we cultivate that guidance, if we cultivate Him and involve Him in our decisions about our meetings and our churches and our outreach style, I mean, I'm afraid that much of what we do requires so little of the Holy Spirit that when He withdraws Himself from a project, as He did with King David in the temple and King David in the census, when Satan told him to take a census, when He withdraws from our projects, and because we involve Him in so little of the decision-making that when He withdraws, we're not even aware that He left. And that's my concern. So today I'm encouraging you, as one who wants to become a friend of the Holy Spirit, we need to involve Him, involve Him in your ministry, in your business, in your family, in your everyday life, and He will show Himself more to you and you'll be gonna cultivate that friendship. Remember, too, His understanding. Now, we talked about in 1 Corinthians chapter two, verse 14. It says, but people who aren't spiritual, I'm reading 1 Corinthians chapter two, verse 14 again, NLT, for those of you just logging on. And again, those of you who have questions, start sending them in now. Those of you who've registered, you have priority on the questions. Don't be offended, guys. We need to pay for these things somehow and the registrants help us take care of that. You were given a direct, if you registered, you were given a direct link to my phone. If you don't have that message in the ministry right now, contact at davidhernandezministries.com or call 888-740-1110. And put your questions in now, we're gonna do some prayer at the end and then we're gonna do some Q and A. So get ready for that. But 1 Corinthians chapter two, verse 14 says, but people who aren't spiritual can't receive these truths from God's Spirit. It all sounds foolish to them and they can't understand it. For only those who are spiritual can understand what the spirit means. Those who are spiritual can evaluate all those things but they themselves cannot be evaluated by others. When you are drawn closer to the Holy Spirit, you begin to understand them or why because you become misunderstood. People who are filled with the Holy Spirit are often very, very misunderstood while you're too spiritual if there ever can be such a thing or all you're too weird or all you're too legalistic. And I understand that we want to avoid those extremes but the truth is that when you become anointed by the Holy Spirit, when you start to get involved with Him, you're gonna come out very odd. I'm a very odd person already if you ask any of my friends the way I carry things out and think it's just different. But I said, Lord, I was already odd enough and now with all that I'm learning from the Holy Spirit it's gonna be even kind of a little more off but I'm okay with that. And, but the truth is you're gonna become odd to those who don't understand the things of the Spirit and this is not said in a condescending way and the Holy Spirit's not condescending and spiritual people who are truly spiritual are not condescending. They say things like, oh, you'll learn or I've seen some people in YouTube comments arguing they call each other little boy or little girl or all you'll understand when you get to my level my age, my degree or whatever but that's not true spirituality. True spirituality is not condescending. But the truth is that you're not going to be understood by people and the Holy Spirit is the most misunderstood person of all time. I mean, think about how many times He's been misrepresented with bizarre actions and weird phrases and strange theology that people purport and they propagate all throughout the church world and then people begin to develop an understanding of the Holy Spirit that's totally based on misrepresentation of who he is and character and truth. So we as people need to be understanding of the Holy Spirit and the problem is that because so many misunderstand him they exclude him and we can't do that. We can't hurt him that way. In fact, the scripture talks about that we too are misunderstood and we join in with him. So number one, we need to be dependent upon him. That means involving him. Number two, we need to be understanding of him. This means embracing him. People ask me if I prant tongues. I say very happily, yes I do. I'm not ashamed of that gift he gave me. People ask me, do I believe in the work of the Holy Spirit and the earth today? Absolutely, yes. I'm not ashamed of the work of the Holy Spirit. So understanding him has to do with embracing him. Not as you want him to be, but as he actually is. So when we embrace him as he actually is, then we truly are cultivating a friendship with the Holy Spirit. So number one, dependency. Number two is understanding. Number three, and I got a few more minutes here because I want to get to the Q and A. I want to leave time for prayer, Q and A. I know this is interactive. This first portion obviously isn't what we'll get there. Number three is reverence. Ephesians chapter four verse 30 tells us not to breathe the Holy Spirit. You often hear it said don't grieve him but if you can grieve him then you can also please him. This tells me that my actions, my everyday actions affect the Holy Spirit in his feelings. As a person he has feelings. You know, my greatest fear used to be demons and spiritual warfare. I was freaked out about demons. I would always get freaked out. And though demonic manifestations do sometimes come in Hollywood monster under the bed type expressions, they're not necessarily always that dramatic. Sometimes demonic expression comes just through gossip or through bitterness or through unforgiveness. That's just the truth. Bied families more than they do weird occultic things or influence that type of thinking. But I used to be very afraid of demons. I also used to be very afraid of how people thought about me, how people perceived me and I wanted to make sure I was liked. Now I really don't care. I mean, I respect people. I love people. I want to reach as many as possible but he's my standard now. So whereas I used to be afraid of demons, I used to be afraid of men and women and their opinions of me. Now I've learned that that doesn't matter and the greatest fear that I have today, it's not that I would confront a demonic being in any real intensely manifested manner. My greatest fear was not that I would be disliked by people for the things that a teacher believed. My greatest fear is that I would grieve the Holy Spirit. My greatest concern when I wake up in the morning and I'm being genuine about it, I'm being authentic. I really do. When I wake up, this is what I'm thinking about is I'm gonna please the Holy Spirit today. And this is not, I'm not saying I'm living under like a divine totalitarianism. I'm saying that I'm living in a way that's aware of his feelings and I'm living in a way that's respectful of how he is, which is what reverence is. And we can't be so afraid of legalism that we instead embrace things that offend him. I mean, he really does care about the content that you listen to music wise. He does care about the things that you watch movie wise. I mean, why am I gonna watch something or put my eyes on something when I have the Holy Spirit right next to me? Now let me ask you, what you're watching, does it remind the Holy Spirit of things that break his heart? What you're listening to, does it remind the Holy Spirit of things that break his heart? And I'm not saying again that we live in this type of burdensome religious state. I'm simply saying that we live life that is considerate of the person of the Holy Spirit. So number one, dependency. Number two, understanding, embracing his nature as odd as it may seem to us and counterintuitive the things he may ask us to do may seem. And number three is reverence. This is respect. This is honoring him. This is not wanting to grieve him. I find it amazing that when it comes to other people, we were very considerate. We don't wanna offend people, our friends, our family, our loved ones. Yet when it comes to the Holy Spirit, if people say don't offend him, other people cry legalism. That's wrong, you shouldn't be oppressive. No, I'm talking about a very real person who loves you and wants you to live a joy filled life. But at the same time, we have to be considerate of the Holy Spirit. So number one, dependency. Number two, understanding. Number three, reverence. Number four is trust. His friends trust him. There are gonna be times he asks you to do things that are just completely counterintuitive. I remember one time I was ministering at a church. Now this is when I was probably, I think it was 14 or 15 years old. And so at that age, the preachers that I would preach for, they would think of me as, oh, he's just a kid. He doesn't need much on the offering. So they would give me like a 10th of what they would give another minister. So if a minister, they normally gave him $500 to come and preach. And not that we do it for money, but it needs to be sustainable, the ministry. If they gave a preacher 500, me always 14 healing needs $50. I remember I went and I did one three day revival and they gave me a $5 gift card to in and out. I did another three day revival. I drove up to the mountains, stood there for a weekend, preached like six messages and they gave me a $50 gift card. There's some clothing store. They said, oh, you're a teen. So we figured this was okay. Other than they know I had to pay a camera crew. I had to pay for travel. I had to pay for the website. I had to pay for, all the expenses that come with the ministry. And so I was, I never got better with it. The Lord ultimately is my source, but I was preaching at a church and the pastor did the usual thing. And I don't fault them for it. Just the mentality in some and they had given me an offering. It was like maybe 50 to 60 bucks or something like that. And I was so, I was discouraged because I knew I had like three cities that I had to go and visit after this. And I said, okay, those are the three cities. I don't know if I could make that. There are, you know, 50 bucks. Now at the time I had written a book called living a life on fire. It was a book that was just for teens. By the way, there's no, I don't have any more copies of it. I just saw my first book. It was being, there was a bid price of $3,200 on it. I thought I wish I'd kept the fewer copies of that. There's only a hundred copies of those ever printed. And I think it was a signed copy. And I was like, I probably should have saved some could have gone to the ministry. But anyway, that's a side note. That book at the time wasn't, no one paid that for that, but the time it was like $10. And so my book table, they gave me like 40, 50 bucks. So I scrounged up the money, the offering that we had, money from the book table. I think it came out to like $98, $9798. And I said, Lord, how is this gonna ever be enough to get us to the next three cities? How are we possibly gonna make it? I was trying to work things out in my head. And I, you know, you ever just get up in the situation and you're just saying, okay, God, you really gotta come through on this one now. And so that's the situation I was in. And so I'm there. I'm praying, I'm stressing, I'm worrying if I'm being honest with you and transparent. And I look over, the Lord says, take a look at that girl over there. There was a girl who had another booth. She had another table over in her section. So I look over and I said, okay, maybe the Lord's showing me her, maybe she's gonna bless the ministry and we're gonna have enough to go on at the next few cities. And that's, that wasn't the case at all. The Lord told me, and he said, I wanted you to go and give her $100. I said, Lord, I don't have $100. I only have $98. He said, borrow it from your cousin, the $2. It was a $2 loan I took, most embarrassing loan I ever had to take. So I borrowed the $2 from my cousin, scrounged up the $100. I roll it up and I walk up to her table. I said, the Lord told me, and I, you know, the Bible says be a cheerful giver, if I'm being honest. I wasn't that cheerful. I was a little nervous. I said, the Lord told me to give you this $100. And I put it in her hand. I didn't say $100. I said, the Lord told me to give you this. And I put it in her hand. And she thanks me and then she starts counting in front of me. I go, counting in front of me. That's so rude. But so she starts counting in front of me. And as she starts counting it, she begins to cry. And she looks at me. She says, you know, I was here setting up because I wanted to do a missionary project. I forgot what country she was gonna go to. I think it was one of the Latin countries. And she says, so go to this country. I'm gonna go work with orphans in the orphanage. And I was here fundraising at this church event. And not enough came in for me to go on this missionary project. And the deadline is tomorrow morning. She said, I closed my booth with not enough to go, but I was $100 short. And $100 you gave us today, because of that, I'm gonna get to go on this mission strip. And I was excited for her. Yes, but the Lord had told me to do that. And the Lord provided somebody else later on that week, came and gave $1,000 to the ministry. That was 10 times what we had sewn. But, you know, aside from that, had I not done that, not only would not, I not have been blessed the week later, I truly believe that. But she would not have been able to go and reach those kids. Now, I never met those kids. I haven't even talked to that girl since. And I don't know whatever happened out there, but I know that one of these days, I'm gonna be standing in eternity. I'm one of those kids, I'm gonna talk to them. The Lord's gonna show me. I asked the Lord to show me one of those kids. And I know I'm gonna stand there and one of them will have been impacted by the work of the gospel because of obedience. I trusted the Holy Spirit. I trusted the Holy Spirit, not my bank account. There's been times, church, there's been times where before we launched a new television studio that took the program national, I was on local television, just charter cable. I think we're only in like 60,000 homes, if that. And I remember I was so excited about the next stage, but the Lord told me at that stage, he said, give away all your TV equipment that you have now. Now that was like $30,000, $14,000 to $30,000 worth of TV equipment. And I sewed cameras into churches and God blesses with the new TVs too. But the Holy Spirit told me to do it. You know, there's really no secret. People say, well, how do you get this in ministry? How do you get to the next level? It's simple, trust the Holy Spirit. Obey what he tells you to do. Sometimes the Holy Spirit will speak to us, we'll hear him, we won't like what he says, so we'll delay on it, but delay is disobedience. And we will delay and we'll hope that he speaks something else later on in the week. And he said, nope, my command was still the same. Every word he says is the same. It's certain, it's yes and amen. So if he tells you something personal, we can be encouraged to know that the dreams will come true. But also when he commands you to do something and you don't do it, he's not gonna give you more instruction until you take the step. Why is he gonna tell you what the third step is if you haven't taken the first step? So we have to trust the Holy Spirit. We have to obey his guidance. Number one, dependency, number two, understanding, number three, reverence, number four, trust. And number five, finally, is communication. And I don't have time to get fully into this point. You could read more about in Carriers of the Glory, which by the way, is coming out April 1st. I know that's April Fools, but no, we really are releasing the book on April 1st, I call it National Atheist Day, because the fool has said in his heart, there is no God, so April Fools is National Atheist Day. But when I get to the Q and A and to the prayer in just a moment, but this communication, this idea of communication, really, we live such a fast paced world, in a fast paced world, that we rarely ever set aside the time to just come before the presence of the Holy Spirit and allow them to touch our lives. The Holy Spirit all throughout the day will invite you to the depths of prayer. He'll invite you to come and partake of the fellowship with God. And you know this voice, because all throughout the day, there are moments where you think I should go read my Bible, I should go pray, I should go do this. And that's the Holy Spirit drawing you. He's drawing you into the depths of God. And the problem is we ignore the drawing of the Holy Spirit all day. Then on our own terms, in our own time, we go and we pray, and we wonder why it seems that God didn't show up. It's not that God is not readily available to us. It's that those moments that are special, those moments that we share in that manifested presence of God, the deeper fellowship, there are times, there are some times you can go to God anytime you want. I'll just make that clear, okay? But then there are also appointments that the Holy Spirit sets for you that you've got to keep. And they're on his time. And if you miss it, you miss it. Don't let that freak you out, because God is very merciful, but that's the truth. So I'm saying that to you now because we have to allow him to communicate. We have to quiet ourselves long enough to understand that he wants to draw us to different places. He wants to speak to us. In fact, having ever gone to pray, and the moment you go to pray, all of the thoughts of the day start suddenly coming in and distracting you. Here's the truth. It's not that those thoughts are just suddenly coming in now and distracting you. It's that that is always what's going on inside you. That internal chaos is always there. You're just never quiet enough to hear it. So when you finally go to pray and you find that secret quiet place, it's a good indication and it reveals to you how you're doing internally. And so for those that communication, we need silence and stillness. I've taught on this before. Silence is the putting away of outer distraction. Stillness is the quieting of the soul. Silence is turning off the television, turning off the music, turning off the internet, telling people you can't be bothered for a while. But stillness is quieting those thoughts, that bombard your mind when you pray. So we need all of those. Those are the five keys to, or not the five keys. Those are five keys. I'm sure there are more that God's shown to other servants, but those are five keys that we go through and will help us cultivate our friendship with the Holy Spirit. I'm gonna pull up now a chat and I'm gonna see anything you type in here, guys. I will see it. Forgive me just a moment while I navigate through. Usually my staff does all of this, but I wanted to make this more personal. So I'm doing all of this myself. So forgive me if it's not as smooth as we normally go. Let me see here. I will click on this thing here and then I am now good. I'm here. Okay. Oh wow, we got a lot of comments. Let's see if we can get through. Okay, Aliyah Wan. Aliyah Wan, one of our faithful viewers from New Zealand and Aliyah actually, I appreciate Aliyah Wan because she's always writing in to help us. And by the way, guys, I don't get bothered if you post stuff that you notice that's off in the program or Aliyah Wan has helped us out because she'll post their, oh, this was misspelled or that was this. And Aliyah, I want you to know we always appreciate those type of things. It helps us. We want to be as professional as possible. And Aliyah is always engaging in very a healthy, friendly Christian dialogue. So she's a great sister in the Lord. We love you, Aliyah, from New Zealand. Hey, David, love your videos. That's Justin 288. Man, I can't tell you how much we appreciate you saying that. Everything we do really is for you guys. And I promise you this, I do pray for my YouTube viewers because I want God to bless your life. I want God to use you. Look, I say it all the time and I really do mean this. I'm not a special case. I'm only a favorite of God, but God is no respective person. But I'm only a favorite of God because I did what he said. He wants to favor everybody. And God wants to bless you. God wants to use you. I put this out there because I just want to release all of that. And hopefully it's helped some of you. Hopefully it's blessed me. And Justin, thank you for watching. We love that you're viewing. We love that we get the privilege. The privilege is mine. Then I get to preach to you, the gospel. And I get to even have a small part in your walk with God. I really sincerely mean that. That I could even be a part of what God's doing in you, Justin, the call of God that's on your life. That means everything to us here at Encounter TV. Bianca Rios says, well, the lost sage says, well, okay. Forgive me if I'm not pronouncing this correctly, but Matusia Sira, David. You know, I get inspired and motivated by your videos. My faith is becoming more stronger than before. And that's David from Uganda. David, we love you, man. And that is a great name. That's the name of a king and a worshiper. And I'll just want to repeat that same sentiment to you as it goes with our viewers. We so appreciate you watching. And I'm just, I'm really, really, I'm just glad that I get to be a part of your guys' life, your spiritual walk. And I hope I'm doing a small part in that. I love you, Lord, says Bianca Rios. Good, good. Oh God, I need my note pad. Hey, we're gonna be posting this up later. So don't worry. This is Holy Spirit speaking to me through. This is literally exactly what I've been thinking of all week. That's Jonathan. Jonathan, I'm glad to God speaking to you. Mabel, yay, loving Counter TV so much. Have a Bible study journal just for this. Well, thank you. We appreciate you watching. And Counter TV loves you so much, Mabel. And I surely do too. I pray for you guys. I really do. Justin Tituay, David, thank you, man. I appreciate the compliment. Jonathan, OMG. Mabel, for real, true man of God, I'll few and far between. I actually believe there are a lot of, and I don't mean to sound confrontational, but there are a lot of men of God. Let me just put it this way. On that note, since we're just kind of talking here and throw casual, you know, I used to be very critical of those with whom I disagreed. And we have to realize that more people are sincere than we give credit for. We may not agree with everyone's methodology, but for the most part, I find a lot of preachers of the gospel are very sincere. They've just been taught very differently than we have in as far as culture and methodology. So we just gonna be careful with those type of things. I so appreciate the sentiments, guys. The compliments, I want you to know, I receive them in a godly manner. I don't believe in rejecting compliments because here's one thing my friend, Pastor Phil Muncie told me. It's a great story. He's about Joel Osteen. Phil Muncie, for those of you who don't know, is chairman of the Champions Network. So he's Joel Osteen's right-hand guy, great friend of mine. And he said that one time Joel Osteen got done preaching and he said this in a very humble, very, just a matter of fact, like Joel Osteen, we all know Pastor Joel is just a very humble man of God. He gets off the platform and he tells us, he goes, you know, I did pretty good. I mean, in other words, he was happy with the way he had presented what he did. And Phil Muncie realized in that moment that often we can give compliments to other people, but when we compliment, we don't compliment ourselves. I'm not saying be arrogant, boastful, or think of ourselves more than we ought to, but Pastor Phil Muncie had an excellent point in that if it's not coming from a genuine place of complimentary, then when we compliment other people, but we don't believe it about ourselves, we're not being genuine. So in order for there to be genuineness when we compliment others, we have to be able to acknowledge good things about ourselves, not that way, but in good ways, guys. You know what I mean. Okay, can you explain to me why people fall down when others lay hands on them? I cannot find the same thing happening in the Bible. Thank you, great question, Annie. And this is a topic with which people disagree with me on. I wanna be very clear about this. You don't need to be slain in the spirit to be a Christian. You don't need to be slain in the spirit to receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit. You don't need to be slain in the spirit to be anointed. Being slain in the spirit is not a sensual doctrine for me. It happens in my meetings. I believe, I sincerely believe it's a moving of the Holy Spirit. I know some people compare that to Condolini, the spiritual. I address that all in carriers of the glory. In fact, there's a whole section on it. It's question number two. It's in the chapter on questions about the spirit. It's on page 229 in the older version. Destiny images reprinting it. They're making it smaller so it's cheaper per book to send you, so it's less cost on you, I think. But anyway, so he's being slain in the spirit biblical. Now I put out an argument in the book. It's philosophically structured, but biblically backed. So here's the argument in a nutshell. I won't have time to go into all the details. And that's the one is people say, I don't see it in scripture. Now one of the things Dr. William Lane Craig said, which he's a great philosopher. He teaches at Biola University or Talbot School of Theology. He says absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. Now this means that, say for example, I put a gift in a box on Christmas and I give it to someone. Now the person who I give the gift to has no evidence at the moment that there's a gift in that box. But after they open it, it's proved to be true. Now the absence of the evidence of that gift is not evidence for the absence of the gift for the gift is therefore present. But I put out this argument and this is premise A, God manifests his presence. We all agree with that. Old and New Testament. Premise B, God's manifested presence can cause physical reaction and in some cases difficulty standing. We see that all throughout the Bible. Now whether they fell backwards or forward is not important. The principle in play is that God's manifested presence causes a physical reaction. Premise C, the spirit dwells in us. We all agree with that. Premise D, the spirit and his power can be transferred through touch. That's where most people disagree. But I put out an argument in the book giving many scriptures, Mark chapter five verse 30, Acts chapter 19 verse 12, Second Timothy chapter two verse 16, Acts chapter eight verse 17, talks about the Holy Spirit and his power being transferred through touch. So if God manifests his presence and his manifested presence causes physical reaction and sometimes difficulty standing. And I have the Holy Spirit in me and I can transfer that power touching people and they sometimes have difficulty standing. That's perfectly biblical in principle support for the slain and the spirit phenomenon. You want more information on that? Get a copy of Carriage of the Glory. Our goal is to sell 1200 copies by the end of the month. You'd really be helping us out doing that. You can go ahead and click in this video. There's cards on the side you can click on. And in fact, you can bulk order so that you can make a profit off of it in your church. That's why you do it. I know you have a heart for the ministry but this will help our ministry will help your ministry and it'll help you get the message out and help us with getting the books out. So I hope that helps your question, Annie. Annie, if not feel free to message our ministry contact at davidharnestministries.com or send it in the moment of truth. It'd be good to address and if there's something you feel I haven't addressed I don't go ahead and put that in there. I don't know where you stand. Some people disagree. And hey, some people who are my best friends in the world disagree with me on this and they still come to my services. So don't worry, it's not a central issue that we put Justin, put David, I believe in the Trinity. Good job. So do I. That's absolutely biblical. Jonathan, how do I know it's the Holy Spirit's voice instead of my flesh, a demon? Does God speak his thoughts or is it as clear as I speak to you? Great question. And in fact, there's a teaching that I put here up on YouTube. You can watch it now, it's actually free. Hopefully I'll be able to link it later but it's called three keys to clearly hearing God. That's a bit of a tongue twister there. Three keys to clearly hearing God and we're gonna go through all of that, Jonathan. But real quickly, I'll tell you, three keys to clearly hearing God. Number one, silence and stillness. That's the quieting of the soul and the quieting of our distraction. David said in quietness, does he lead me? Jesus said, when you pray go away privately and God sees you praying in private will reward you publicly. Number two is the word of God. The scripture tells us that the word of God helps us to understand his will. The more of the word of God in you, the better you can understand his voice. Jesus said, my sheep hear my voice. I know them and they come to me. The question is not, can I hear the voice of God? The question is, am I a sheep? Now, if you're hearing the word, you're gonna recognize his voice. When my wife calls me on my phone, I say hello, dear, because I recognize her voice on the other end. Now, if some stranger calls me, I hear their voice, I'm not gonna recognize it. Now, if you ask me to describe my wife's voice to you, I can't describe it. This is very difficult to put pronunciation and descriptive words on the sound of a voice that can be so unique. So in the same sense, we know the voice of God, but we can't necessarily describe it. Now, that second key on the word of God is so important because it's how the Holy Spirit speaks with John 14, 26. The Holy Spirit uses that word to speak to our hearts and that brings about the clarity of his voice. Number three is the obedience. The scripture says the steps of the godly are ordered by the Lord. The steps of the godly, those who obey him, those who keep his statutes, their steps are ordered by the Lord. The scripture says acknowledge him in all your ways and he will direct your paths. If you acknowledge him through your obedience, he directs your path. The scripture tells us that God doesn't give direction to the ungodly, save for those moments where his grace reaches into their lives and causes them to repent like he did with Paul the possible. For the most part, we understand in general as a principle, the lives of the ungodly are not guided by God. Those are three keys to hearing the voice of God. Number one is silence and stillness. Number two is the word and number three is obedience. The more you obey him, the clearer his word becomes. And if you don't know what God is speaking, obey what you know and he'll make everything else clear. Now really, when it comes to the voices, Jonathan, when it comes to voices, there are really only three voices that speak to you. That's the satanic, that's the secular and that's the spiritual. The satanic contradicts the word of God. It's very obvious if you're in the word. The secular contradicts the nature of God. So it's a little more subtle and difficult to spot, but the spirit lines up with both the word and the nature of God. So for example, let's say you hear within you that you fill a call to preach the gospel, right? Some people would say, oh, that's my flesh. Well, it can't be the secular because the flesh doesn't desire what the spirit desired. You say, well, it could be Satan. Why would Satan want you to preach the gospel? That leaves only one choice, it's the spirit. Of course, I would throw on the fourth category, which I don't often touch on because it gets a little complicated, is self. But self could be synonymous with secular. Now, hopefully that's some artful alliteration that will help you remember those few points. If you need more help on those, I'll be happy to get through those to you. Remember the name of the lesson is three keys to clearly hearing God. Okay, it's true. Yeah, I find it, Mabel says, it's true, David. I found it exhausting sometimes to try to explain who I am to you. Well, I totally get you there. Bianca, you're ordering the book. Thank you, Bianca. I'll be sure to sign that for you. I need it as well. Thank you, Mabel. Yeah, all those simple guys, we can use all this for what we can. I really, if I can sell the 1200 by the end of the month, it gives our book a great launch. I'm not trying to make money off it just so you know and just so I'm being accountable to you. I don't make much. I think I make like a dollar per book personally. It comes to me personally. But not from the copies that the ministry sells. I'll tell you why we do that. The copies that the ministry sells are sold from the ministry platform. The ministry platform is TV, media, YouTube, what you're seeing now. And the ministry platform is created for partnership support. So I don't feel right taking money from books that are sold from the ministry because it was done so based off of donor support. Where I do get my money off the books is from the publisher and that's more of a business. So they're not ministry or donor supported, they're supported by sales and commerce and bookstores. And I get a percentage from each book that they sell in bookstores and through their promotional efforts and that's what money done through business. Anything we sell on davidhernandezministries.com 100% of the proceeds goes back into the ministry or to another ministry that partnered with us and selling it. I just want you to know that so that when I'm on here pushing it, you as a partner, you know your money, your $30, $10 a month that you're putting into our ministry, we're not using that platform to make, I'm not getting a cut off. I don't get off of a cut off. Anything that the ministry promotes except for when I go in and speak at a church, they'll give me a love offer but that's from the church, again, not from donor support. But just so you know where that's at, I just thought I'd put that out there. But I do encourage you to get that book. What I'm more concerned with is the sales, not for the money, which the money helps. We do want the money to come in the ministry. But I wanted to see rank higher so the message could go further. I believe this book can be a best seller and we need your help to do it, okay? So I believe in the Trinity. I notice oneness Pentecostal condemn people who believe in the Trinity. How do I respond to oneness Pentecostal? Just show them the verse. I don't have the verse on hand. I try to remember as much as scriptural possible but it says there are three that bear record in heaven or three that bear witness in heaven. It talks about the word and it talks about the spirit. It talks about the father and that's very clearly says that. In fact, the scripture says may the love of the father, the grace of Christ, the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Now, I think that's the way it's worded in one of Paul's salutations or endings. But it's very easy, especially when you have the scriptural principles in place. So do you believe in the Holy Spirit? Does he exist? Yes. Is he God? Yes. Do you believe in the Son? Yes. Does he exist? Yes. Is he God? Yes. So how can all three of these different distinct people exist and be God without believing in the Trinity? Just can't, it's just incoherent to believe otherwise. Question. I've heard a lot of testimonies from ex Satanists that they say that psychics do not conjure up dead people, rather speak to evil spirits that follow people around and know things about them. So my question is, did Saul really speak to Samuel's ghost? That's a, I actually addressed that in my book that's coming out in October. That's another big announcement we got coming. Charisma House is releasing our book 25 truths and on demons and spirit to the warfare. And I studied that in depth. What I've come to find is that some of the Old Testament terminology, let me just, let me back up a little bit. All scripture is inspired by the Holy Spirit. But some of the terminology like in Job, like they'll say something or even in Psalm like Asaph will say something. Some of the other contributing writers will say something. And it doesn't necessarily mean that it's God saying it. Now God wants it in the scripture to help bring about the collective narrative, but it's not necessarily from God. So like the scripture says, there is no God, but it's quoting the fool. It says the fool has said in his heart, there is no God. So we know that that statement is not necessarily true. So the context of first Samuel 28 is that Saul goes to Samuel, he conjures it up. God does not like it. Now, first of all, Samuel the prophet would not participate in the conjuring of that spirit. So we know that that's not really the prophet. So though the leotasim records it for the sake of communication as necromancy, what the people understood it to be, it doesn't necessarily mean that the scripture is saying, though it's communicating it as the people understood it to be, doesn't necessarily mean that the scripture is saying that Saul did speak to Samuel, even though words are just like that. Now, another example would be where Jesus said, take the gospel to all the corners of the world. Now, Jesus saying that, he's saying that in reference to a flat world, understanding to the ends of the earth, he says. He says that as a reference to flat world understanding. Now, Jesus knows the earth is not flat. He's not saying the earth is flat. He's communicating it to people in a way that they know. Even though the Bible records that way, it's not saying the earth is flat. It's a way of speaking in relation to the people who are reading it. So no, it was not really Samuel. Yes, it was a demonic spirit and no, the Bible, even though it says it, it is not saying that that was Samuel's ghost. It's speaking in a way that people understand, according to their understanding of necromancy. Okay, so the Holy Spirit is real. We need to get out of the spirit of religion and acknowledge God's glory, empower the body and reach those. Amen, Mabel. I totally agree. I love that you guys are participating in the dialogue. Yes, amen. Those are just wrong beliefs. Okay, hey, David, some oneness Pentecost is condemned. Okay, I answered that. Can you do a video of how to pray for the sick to cultivate? Yes. In fact, I did do a video on how to pray for the sick. It's called, how Jesus healed the sick, but I will do one more specific in the future. Why don't you tear if you can, do me a favor and write to us at encountertv.gmail.com with that suggestion. I love that topic. We're gonna do it because you suggested it. Please send it in to me. Hey, David. Okay, when is Pentecost again? We need Jesus, period. Amen. He sure can. If I'm missing your questions, forgive me what you think about feathers and good gift, good glitter as signs of the Holy Spirit. Phil's false to me, but I don't know. Let me tell you so that Mitchell. Okay, I promised I'm gonna be completely honest with you. I do, I'm not comfortable with the gold and clouds and feathers. I just, the only reason is because it could be, well, no, I wouldn't even say it's that. I personally, I'm not comfortable with it. I'm not saying it's not the Holy Spirit because I'm very careful to not criticize what I don't understand. I'm just saying, I personally, I'm not comfortable with it. And that's as far as I'll go and saying it. I hope that's a good answer. I just, it's just how I feel about it. Now, I will say this. I do know personally people who had regular feelings and there was gold filling. Now, maybe that was a sign that God did. Here's where I'm concerned. Just as I am with any miracle, healing, you have to be careful because there are people who fake the miracles and people really do fake miracles. My concern is that people would fake it and it would cause confusion. The reason I believe in healing is because healing I'm a little more adamant about because the Bible's very clear on healing. These other things, like on slaying the spirit, I'm not adamant about being slayed in the spirit. I allow it to happen because I personally am not uncomfortable with it and I believe it's God, but I'm not gonna go pushing that on everybody in order to push people over. In fact, I have people come to the top and say, I don't wanna fall. So don't even worry, you don't have to fall. I'm gonna pray a few, God's gonna heal you anyway. In the same sense, and here's the problem, I can't give you an objective reason and that is consistent across the board as to why I reject some and others. I'm just going with my gut on it. I believe some of it could be real. I believe God can do it, but as far as that goes, I just draw the line at slaying the spirit for me personally because I just don't like to get into that other stuff. It's just the slippery slope. I know it's a logical fallacy to say I reject something because of the slippery slope. It's not coherent as it goes with philosophical thinking, but I just, for me personally, I don't like the gold, I don't like the glitter, but I don't criticize it and I don't speak against it. I just don't, I'm not an advocate for it and I just caution everybody. Everything, test what I say, test what happens. I'm gonna test everything all across the board. Ultimately, what's most important is the preaching of the gospel and people getting saved. So I hope that answers it. So I didn't know the Holy Spirit's talking me not my flesh, can we go in over that? Hey David, I noticed one is, okay, why are some ways God, what are some ways God has spoken to you? For God speaking with me, he's spoken through dreams, he's spoken through other people, he's spoken through my pastor, he's spoken through my wife. I find it interesting in 1 Samuel, I believe it's 1 Samuel chapter three or 1 Samuel chapter four, where Samuel gets up and he thinks Eli is calling him. It was interesting to me that Eli, the voice of God, sound like Samuel's mentor. So the voice of God probably sounds to you, it can be in your life, the mentor that God has placed you, or people that God has given you watch over your souls. God's spoken to me. Just that inner voice, there's just this inner knowing, I can't explain it any other way, just like, okay, you know how in your mind, when you think a thought, you don't really, there's not really a voice, but you hear your thoughts, but you don't really hear it physically with your ears. It's kind of weird when you really think about it. Like if you go read a book, I did it in one of my books where I said, you're reading this sentence right now, you're reading it maybe in my voice, maybe in yours, and I kind of challenged them to read it in different voices, and the mind can do so many amazing things, in the same way that's the spirit. So you can't explain sight to a man who was born blind, you can't explain hearing to a man who was born deaf, you can't explain the Holy Spirit's voice, it's a different sense, but God speaks to that nonetheless. What do you do when God feels distant? I presume, I presume, I seek him, and I ignore what I feel, that's the toughest part, I ignore what I feel. Sometimes I feel like God is distant, God, you're not here, God, you're not with me, God, I feel your distance, okay? Going back now here, we have a question. Okay, David, thank you very much for this live teaching. I would like to ask for prayer for healing. I have herniated discs in my back, which may have stunted growth. I'm sorry to hear you're in pain. Left shoulder pain, Achilles tendonitis, as well as heart murmur, a total outpouring of the Holy Spirit is something I really want, thank you, all glory to God. We're gonna get to that, and just know what I promise you, we're gonna pray for you. Is this David Diga Hernandez? Yes, this is Brandon Wallace from Facebook. Hey, Brandon, how do we chat on the online video? Well, you don't, it's a one-way chat. I'm gonna talk to you, but we're not gonna take any chat here. This text right here is where you sent that to me. That's, oh, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to show your number to everybody. Hopefully it's too blurry for them to see. I'm sorry, Brandon. Don't bug Brandon, guys. Maybe send him a couple of amen, just to mess with him, but other than that, leave him alone. You can send this to text. I'm getting it through the text, Brandon. Okay, and we're gonna pray right now. And then, Brandon, also, we have your comment that was sent to me here from our ministry. How can we position ourselves so people can experience God in a new way in His presence? Healed, set free, set on fire, filled with the Holy Spirit, delivered a sense of deep. Okay, so you wanna know how to minister or experience it for yourself. It's gonna be those three things that gave you the same on hearing the voice of God. Silence and stillness, getting into the word, and obeying the voice of the Holy Spirit. And just make the time for him, Brandon. And Brandon, I know you're a minister. I've actually, just so you know, I actually watched one of your clips that you posted on Facebook. I thought you did an excellent job at delivering it, your speaking style is improving. I've actually watched a couple of your videos. Great stuff, man. I can see the spirit of God on you. I wanna encourage you to keep doing what you're doing. God's gonna use you. He is using you, and I see the call of God on your life, and I'm excited that you're connected with this ministry. I'm excited that I get to play a part, even if it's just a small one, and helping you on your journey with God. But what I was gonna say in response to your question, one of the things I've noticed, the most effective way that I've been able to minister God's presence to people is I do it with the word. Scripture says faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God. But the scripture also says in John chapter one, verse one, in the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was God. John chapter one, verse 14 says, And the word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we beheld its glory full of grace and truth. This means Jesus is the word. So you'll notice sometimes in my services, sorry about my hair, guys. Crazy, I need a little haircut here. But the word, Jesus is the word. And when you speak the word, you start to form him before the eyes of the heart and the individual. So the Holy Spirit takes the word and intensifies the reality. Romans chapter five, verse five says, The love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost. The Holy Spirit takes the word and he intensifies the reality of it. Just as he took God and made him into a man, God the Father made him God the Son. I mean, Jesus was always the word, always the Son, but he made him a physical being. Conception immaculately through the Virgin Mary, the Holy Spirit made the word flesh. I blows my mind when I think about it. That's a whole different lesson for a whole different time. But the, basically, hold on, I gotta get back to you. My TV director's asking me a question about the broadcast. Hold on. Okay. So, helping me do some stuff on the back end. Anyway, so when it comes to ministering God's presence, what I do is I just start to describe Jesus. What I'll do is I'll get everybody quiet. I'll say stop thinking about your trouble, stop thinking about your sickness, stop thinking about your pain. And I'll very reverently, very calmly, I don't try to hype everybody. I just start talking about Jesus. I describe his eyes, his shoulders, his hands, his face, his hair, his robe, his qualities, what he's thinking. It's all based on the word. And when you start to describe him in that way, people, he becomes real. And their eyes are closed. See, worldly meditation is emptying the mind. It's empty your mind, empty your mind, empty your mind. I tell people to empty their mind of everything else, but feel it then with the word. And so I say, forget about everything. They lift their hands, they close their eyes, there's some soft music going on. I believe there's anointing on music like it was with the prophets in Saul. God uses music and there's anointing on the music. The people begin to sense the presence of God. They close their eyes, they steal their heart, they steal their mind, and I start describing Jesus. And that's it. Things start happening. And then usually that's where the YouTube videos pick up afterwards, where I'm praying for the sick, preaching, but in my services, that's what we do before anything. We establish the presence of the Holy Spirit. So Brandon, I hope that answers your question. Okay, I need and want to grow in faith. I need to have zeal for praying for reading the word. I can't explain it. I have a zeal for reaching people, but I struggle. You know what? In Christ we trust, sounds like you're in the right place. We all have zeal and struggle. Let me tell you something. I'm not, okay, when you see me on YouTube, when you see me on TV, when you see me on whatever you see me on, realize you're only seeing me for about a half an hour to an hour every week. And I've prepared all week for that half hour. I've dressed up, I've done my hair, I've washed my face, the whole thing. So you see me, and it's not that I'm being deceptive, it's that I'm being purposeful. You don't see me every day. You don't see me the hours and the days that lead up to that. I am, ask my wife, I am not perfect. And if you got to know me, you'd likely be disappointed at some of my flaws. I'm just being honest with you. And you're gonna be, as years go by, you'll see me do things, maybe say something you don't like or like it handled. If you get to know me more, that's just the truth. Okay guys, I'm not Jesus, I'm not perfect. I'm gonna disappoint you, so just get used to it now. So I say that so that you don't feel bad. I don't want you to know me too in Christ we trust. I need to grow in faith. I need zeal for prayer. I need more zeal for reading the Word. I need to reach more people. And I struggle too. So we're in the same boat, we're both in a good place. It sounds to me like you're a Christian. So that's a good place to be. And someone said, ha, ha, same here. Someone said, yes. Okay, Brandon Wallace, I'm about to start a group for people to experience God's set of blasphemy. I'm experiencing it more than ever. Brandon, do it man, do it. We're behind you 100%. Everybody pray for Brandon Wallace and God will use him greatly. Seriously setting a fire in my soul tonight. Great, Brandon, it's been on my heart since I gave my life to Christ to see crowds and groups to come together and experience the Father in a life to man, Brandon, I'm loving you man. The fire of God is on you. Okay, how's everybody doing? Good, oh my goodness. There are so many things coming in here guys. I hope I can get to all of it. Oh my goodness, you guys are awesome. Can you prophesy over me? Yes, if God tells me something for you Israel, I will. God has done to put things in the heart like revelation. Okay, that's Brandon again. Thank you for your opinion on the feathers and glare. It just doesn't seem to have a legit life changing purpose like killing and falling down the spirit impacts lives. Good point, I would say it might not be life changing to you or me, but maybe to the one experience it again. I just don't criticize, whatever I don't understand I don't criticize, I want to be careful. Who does Matthew 7, 21 to 23 apply to? Well, let's go there. Matthew chapter seven, it's a great verse. That's where they say, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied your name? Have we not done great works in your name? And he's going to say to them, depart from me. I never knew you. So let's go there now. Matthew chapter seven, verse 21 to 23. Okay, Matthew 7, 21 to 23. All right, not everyone who calls to me Lord, Lord will inherit the kingdom of heaven. That tells you already the people who call him Lord. So number one, they're people who think they're Christians, only those who actually do the will of my father. So number two, they're people who think they're Christians and disobey God. Number three, number 22, on judgment day, many will say to me, Lord, Lord, we prophesied our name and cast out demons in your name and perform many miracles in your name. But I will reply to them. I never knew you'd get away from you who break God's law. So they were able to perform miracles in the name of Jesus. Now, let me stop here to clarify that God will back the word with miracles, but he backs his people with his presence. So he backs his faithful with favor. So if you're a faithful servant of God, you're endorsed by God's favor. If you're speaking the word of God, the message of God is backed by miracles. So you could preach the message, not be a person of God, and the miracles still happen because he's endorsing his word, not you. Number three, that's how powerful the word is. Number three, he endorses his people with the presence. Only his people carry his presence, all right? So now not everyone who calls me Lord, so they're people who think they're Christians. On judgment day, they'll say to me, Lord, Lord, and they're people who disobey. So they think they're Christians, but they disobey, and they're people who he does not know. So it's very clear that they're not actual Christians. Now, a lot of people take this to mean that anyone who prophesies or cast out devils is there for the people talked about in the verse. Now, some who cast out devils, okay, this verse is talking about people who cast out devils, but not everyone who cast out devils is being talked about in this verse. This is a very specific group. So people misapplied this scripture and they give it a general universal application when it has a very specific one. So they'll say, you cast out devils, oh, you're from Matthew seven, oh, you do miracles, oh, you're from Matthew seven, but that contradicts everything else that the scripture says, Matthew, or Mark chapter 16 verse 18 to 20. I mean, these are people who are followers of Christ, they're gonna cast out devils, they're gonna see miracles. So we can't misapply the scripture. Yes, some who cast out devils, this is talking about the, but not all who cast out devils are referenced in this verse. So it's talking about people who think their believers live a lifestyle of disobedience while operating in ministry. Very sad. Can you prophesy over me if you feel led? I will if I feel led, I just don't wanna say anything unless it's really God, okay? This is just a great YouTube channel. Thank you, I appreciate it. That's a Japanese, you know, I actually went to Japan for a month, learned how to read and write and hiragana and katakana, never learned kanji though. Okay, kanji is very, very, very complicated. Brandon Wallace, you're getting a lot of comments. Do what you have to do and be led. Thank you Brandon, love you bro. Taylor, sometimes I feel like I'm praying in tongues, sometimes I feel like I'm making it up. How can I tell? You know by the spirit, don't go based on your feelings. Just, I have a teaching here called the truth about praying in tongues. Look it up on YouTube, it's gonna bless you Taylor. I really believe that. Okay, Justin two, 88, weren't they cast out because they were workers of iniquity? Yes, that's what it means to live a life of disobedience, being a worker of iniquity. So, number one, there are people who thought they were Christians. Number two, there were people who operated in ministry. Number three, there are people who God did not know. So if you're living a lifestyle of disobedience, you think you're a Christian but you're living a lifestyle of disobedience, you're not a Christian. So someone who thinks they're Christian lives a lifestyle of disobedience and functions in ministry. So yes, that is exactly why they're workers of iniquity for that synonymous with saying that they were disobedient. Okay, can you do a video on communion service? I miss you, you know what? Communion is so beautiful. I should do one. And Mitchell, go ahead and write into us and countertv at gmail.com. We will do one on communion. Okay, now we all need to pray here for our texts that we got in, okay? This is, I don't know who sent this, but this is someone who wrote in, they need a healing, a herniated disc in their back, left shoulder pain, Achilles tendonized. Go ahead and write your prayer requests. Let's all agree about this, okay? Total outpouring of the Holy Spirit, okay? So Father in Jesus' name, Lord, I lift up that one watching who's believing for your miraculous touch. I Father, we the church of God, come on, everyone agreeing with me right now, we the church of God, we agree that healing will take place in that body, remove that sickness and make them whole in the matchless name of Jesus we pray. And everybody said, amen. Someone writes, can you do a video communion? Tongues are very important in these last days. Very good point, very good point. Absolutely they are. Israel Cross is masturbation and fantasizing about being married a lifestyle of disobedience. It actually is. Remember Jesus was talking about the sin of lust. He says, if you're right, I caused you to sin, cast it out. And he's talking about lust. He's talking about adultery at heart. Now Paul the apostle, just to continue, then he says, if your right hand causes you to sin, okay? That you see that right hand scripture talking about something that's sexual in a sexual context. Also in 1 Corinthians 6 verse 9 to 12, it talks about sexual sins and it lists idolatry as a sexual sin. It's referencing the way they used to have pornographic statue in Corinth. And many of the scholars believe that's what Paul was alluding to when he wrote about idolatry. They would perform the act of masturbation and it was idolatry. Also, 1 Corinthians chapter 7, Paul the apostle is basically giving the believer he says, you can either be like me in that salibate or you can be married. So there's only two options. You'd be married or salivate. So yes, that is a sin. Could you pray for little siblings, Delilah, German and Gustavo Cortez and that I'd be baptized in the Holy Spirit tangible encounter with him. Love you in your mission. We love you. Magdalena, that was you from the Japanese writing was the prayer one. So we're glad. Text me, the one who asked for the prayer, go ahead and text me, keep me updated on you. We wanna make sure we're updated on you. Okay, could you please pray for my little siblings? Yes, Lord, we lift up Delilah, German and Gustavo. How old are they by the way? And so Father, we lift them up and we pray God that you would guide them, that you would just bless their life and we pray for you. We'll be done in their lives and give them favor, give them blessing and draw them to you in closer and closer ways. And we pray for Magdalena, Father, that they would experience the baptism of the Holy Spirit and with fire. And I also recommend to you my teaching on the truth about speaking in tongues. Crystal, hi David, you were such a blessing. Thank you, Crystal. You are a blessing too. And when I say it guys, I receive the compliments and God the way, thank you. You guys are a blessing. I'm glad I can be a part of your spiritual walk with God. Hi David, you're such a blessing. Can you please pray for me? I have anxiety and fear and it has caused a lot of issues in the areas and I thank you. Crystal, I have anxiety too. In fact, I wrote about it in my book and yes, half, current, present tense. I wrote about it in my book, Victory over Anxiety and Depression. I may have anxiety, but anxiety doesn't have me. I struggle with anxiety still to this day. Anything with the flesh that you struggle with, you're gonna be struggling with it till you go home to be with the Lord. Now I got breakthrough, I got freedom, but I still have anxiety to this day and I have to cast all my cares. The scripture says, cast all your anxieties. Cast all your cares, why? And that's present tense because we're gonna have anxiety. The Bible does say perfect love drives out fear. That's true, but there's gonna be that battle to constantly believe and to walk in that that newness of God's love. So the battle for the Christian is not receiving God's love. It's believing what the Bible says about us concerning his love. So I do battle with that still sometimes and I gotta hold on it. It doesn't affect my life in major ways. In fact, I just sent out a text to seven of my best friends just maybe three weeks ago. I texted them because I'm accountable to them. I said, hey guys, I'm struggling with my anxiety. Please pray for me and help me out here. And so I put more details that were more personal. I don't put everything I struggled with out for the world to see, because I have a personal life too, but I sent that anxiety, my issues with anxiety to them and they prayed for me, they talked with me and they helped me out. So yes, let's pray for Christel right now. Father in Jesus name. Lord, I thank you for Christel's life. I thank you Lord that you're gonna set her free from this Lord, that she could have anxiety, but anxiety doesn't have to have her. Father that nothing would have control of her life. I loose you now from the spirit of fear and I pray that from this day forward, that when those thoughts would come to her mind, Lord that she would do as the scripture says, that she would cast down imagination and everything, high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God. That she would do as Philippians chapter four of verse eight tells us to think on these things. In Jesus name we pray. Now Christel, the way anxiety works is it all, it's all here. It all starts in the mind. You have to capture the thought before it becomes an obsession. Thoughts becomes obsessions and obsessions become fears. Capture the thought, confront it with the truth. So if the enemy tells you, oh God doesn't love you, confront it with the truth that nothing shall separate you from the love of God. If the enemy tells you you're alone, you say no, no, no. He says he'll never leave me nor forsake me. You confront every lie with the truth and you hold firm, be stubborn, be angry at the devil, have righteous indignation and stubbornly fight to believe and to think according to what God tells you to think. Message us if you're having trouble still. Christel, I wanna send you a free coffee, PDF coffee of defeating darkness. So go ahead and message us and we will send that to you. Make sure to email contact at davidhernandezministries.com. In fact, if you're struggling with anxiety and depression, send an email today, do it today. Contact at davidhernandezministries.com. Put in the subject free book and type in there, hey I saw David's live broadcast, send me the copy of your new life, or not your new life in Christ, the copy of defeating darkness and my office will send it to you absolutely free. We love you guys. Okay, let me go through the comments here. More comments, you guys are, I love that you guys are interacting with it. Maybe we should do this more often. I love talking with you guys. When it comes to eternal life, Jesus said, fear there be that find it. How can I know if I'm a true Christian and I've been sent so many people are going to be damned? Well, that's a misunderstanding of what Jesus said. Jesus didn't say that because that's the way he wants it to be. Jesus said that because he wants to change it. Now keep in mind, this is before, he said this before he died on the cross. So that idea of narrow and wide, he was speaking present tense, fear there be that find it currently. And there are many that are on the road to destruction, but because of what he did, now we, his, his, think about it, otherwise they would contradict it. God wants us to evangelize the world. And he says, the harvest is plentiful, that there are masses out there. The scripture teaches that there are masses that are waiting to come to Christ if we just present the gospel to him. That would seem to be a direct contradiction of what Jesus is saying about the narrow road and the broad road that leads to destruction. But he didn't say that because that's the way he wants it to be. He said that so we can change it through the presentation of the gospel. So, and you know, it's very simple. I know I can get a lot of flak for this because people say, well, don't preach sloppy grace. I don't preach sloppy grace, but true salvation produces good works, so good works can never produce salvation. Remember that distinction, okay? But believing in Christ is really as simple as having faith. Saying, look, I'm a sinner, I can't do this on my own. I trust what you did on the cross. I trust that what you did on the cross is good enough to cover all of my filth. I'm gonna take you up on that offer. That's all it is. It's saying, God, I'm humbling myself before you and I'm taking you up on your offer. That's it. That's justification. Justification is instant, it's complete, it's whole and it happens right at the day you trust in Christ. Now, sanctification is the process. I'll word it for you this way, Justin, just so we can help you understand it. Justification is instant. It's a standing in, it's a judgment call. I am instantly justified, daily sanctified, and one day we'll be glorified. That's when I look like Christ. That's our glorification. So, justification is instant, sanctification is the process, glorification is the finish to work. Now, picture it like a hallway. The door to salvation is justification. You've been freely justified by believing. Abraham believed God and it was counted to him as righteous. Just believe God. Believe the gospel, believe in your heart. Confess that he's Lord, believe he rose from the dead. That's simple. You enter through the door. Now you're in the hallway of justification. Now, if you truly come to the door of justification, you've begun your process of sanctification. You don't enter the door by saying a prayer, you don't enter the door by just filling out a card out of church, no. Justification begins when you truly committed to say, Lord, I put my trust in you. Okay. Now, if that truly happened, then God responds to the justification by doing a miracle. He transforms your heart. Only he can do this. Nothing you can do to earn it. There's nothing you can do to keep the process going. It's totally him. He transforms your heart completely, right? He transforms your heart. And now that you've been justified, because you've been truly transformed, you willingly walk in the process of sanctification. But no matter where you are in the hallway of justification, your sanctification, maybe you take a couple of steps forward, maybe you take five steps back. As long as you're still in the hallway and the door behind you of justification is closed and locked, doesn't matter where you are in your sanctification problem. You'll mess up every day and you'll still be on your way to glorification. So being a Christian is not about being perfect. It's about being perfected. Every true believer has begun the process of being perfected and every true believer willingly submits their lives to being changed, okay? So that's how that works. And then you go through glorification. By the way, the Holy Spirit's the one who laid out the welcome mat. Okay, is antipsychotic medication a sin? I don't think it's a sin because Timothy talks about, Paul writes to Timothy, says, a little wine for the stomach's sake does the heart, will do your stomach good. So Paul endorses medicine, okay? And Jesus endorsed medicine when he talked about the sinner. It's not the sick. It's not the healthy that need a doctor, but it's the sick. Now I understand in context, Jesus was talking about the sinner needing a savior and he was talking about the need of the savior coming to the world in context, yes. But in a very disinterested comment, Jesus is somewhat inductively endorsing the medical field. So we understand Luke was a doctor and he was a disciple of Christ. He didn't quit his practice when he did that. So we understand that medical purposes are good. Now, is antipsychotic medication a sin? No, does it work? That's a debatable thing. I used to be prescribing on some of those things and to me personally, I look, I'm not a doctor. I'm not psychiatrist. You have to go and consult with your pastor. You have to do what you believe is right for you. But personally, I avoid all those things because it's just not, I've never seen any good come from it, for me personally, but I'm not making any judgment call. Is it a sin? No, is it healthy? Maybe not, but I'm not a doctor. So don't trust my medical advice. Okay, Brandon Wallace, listen to Abba by Jonathan David Hessler. Okay, we'll do. Okay, there are nine, six and three in Magdalena, nine, six and three that will be sure to keep them in prayer. You're welcome. I love praying for them. Okay, need healing of multiple cirrhosis and intestinal problems, also for blessings in my periscope ministry of being an encouragement. Well, Mitchell, you're already encouragement to me. I'm just encouraged to know that there are others out there doing things for the gospel. So let's all pray for Mitchell now, Father. We pray for Mitchell. We agree for healing. We pray bless that periscope ministry. Thank you, Lord, that you've anointed Mitchell for the healing ministry. God told me he wants to put you in the healing ministry and he's gonna heal you. We believe that, okay? We believe that he's going to heal you and I'm joining my faith to declare that by faith with you in Jesus' family prayer. Amen, you're looking great, David. God's light definitely shines through you. There might also be my very light skin, but thank you. Hey, David, been watching on ministry for a really long time now. This is Joseph, Yagu or Yeg, forgive me, or Josepha, but forgive me if I mispronounce that, okay? For a really long time and I feel like God, I feel like God, we once need to start my own ministry, but how can I know if this is willful in your life? Let me tell you something. The devil didn't tell you to start a ministry. Your flesh didn't tell you to start a ministry. Go start a ministry. Do what God put on your heart. It's God because it's in the scripture. Healing and encouragement and getting rooted strong in the Bible in prayer. Yes, we're praying for you, Mitchell. I hope it doesn't sound like I'm glossing over the prayers, guys. I just wanna make sure to get to everybody. Okay, wow, wow, wow. Okay, how do I silence doubt in my salvation? You do it by reading the word. Can a Christian, does the spirit of Christian always pray? The spirit, yes. Can you lose your salvation? Okay, guys, I may drive some of you nuts here. You may dislike me. I still love you. We can disagree and still love each other. I believe personally, a Christian can lose their salvation. You don't look, but here's the truth. It doesn't matter what we believe on that. Let me tell you why. Say for example, we get someone who, they come to church and they leave the church. They backslide, right? If I'm someone who believes that that person is not, if I'm someone who believes in once saved, always saved, I'll look at that person and I'll go, hmm, well, they probably were never really saved to begin with anyway. But if I'm someone who believes in the losing of salvation, I look at that person and go, hmm, they lost their salvation. Whether you believe that person is going to hell because they lost their salvation, or you believe that person is going to hell because they were never saved, doesn't matter, that person's still going to hell and they still need the gospel. Ultimately, you nor I, neither you nor I will judge them and it's up to God, so the debates don't matter anyway. David, thank you. Thank you, brother, for helping me with many questions I've had. I had to talk to him over the phone before. Yeah, I think we did talk on the phone. That's right. I have a very academic personality and I stress daily and I don't understand. I feel you and then that's actually anxiety, believe it or not. I too tilt toward guilt. I still to this day, there are times where you ever just kind of go throughout your day and then a thought will come in your mind of something embarrassing you did like six years ago and you feel the embarrassment all over again. That's an assault from the enemy and maybe, and he does the same thing with your sin. There are days where randomly, I'll think of something I did like 10 years ago and it comes to me and oh, I'm condemned and you know, I just learned to just, that's garbage, that's the enemy. So if you have a tilt toward guilt, make sure to keep that filter on your mind. I call it a faith filter. How do I stop self condemnation? You know what, that does it. I'm gonna do a video on condemnation because you guys, if that's three of you asking that, that means more of a struggle than we know. Okay, so let me email my director. Remind me to do a video on condemnation. Let's address that head on guys. In the meantime, I have a video called three keys to overcoming guilt and condemnation or guilt. Look that up or just go on my YouTube channel, type in guilt, you'll see it in the spirit church. Okay, and then, okay. Okay, guys, I'm gonna log off now. Well, we've got to bring this to the, okay, well, let me just take a couple. You guys are keeping me going. Condemnation always drives you away from God. Conviction will draw you to God. Very good point, very good point. Why does Paul tell us to pray without ceasing if the spirit is always praying? And what is the difference in the spirit and the soul? Spirit and the soul, okay, your spirit is your connection with God. It's what's dead before salvation. Your soul is your mind, your real emotions and your point of decision. Now, Paul, the apostle tells us to pray without ceasing, not in a literal sense, but in the sense that we need to be doing it as often as we possibly can. So that's the original language, the implication. Anyway, okay, I have this deep desire for revival in New York. There was Brownsville in Florida, the Toronto blessing, the revivals in South, South and California, but there's nothing in New York what should I do? Keep praying, pray, pray, pray, that's how it all starts. Come to Texas and do a miracle service when you can. Oh guys, by the way, if you want me to come and to your city to do a service, I want to come. Here's how it works though. I need a church to host me because it costs, not that we put the cost on the church, but it costs for airfare, it costs for, I gotta fly my ushers, I gotta fly my TV crew. Well, not ushers, could we get local launchers? I fly my TV crew, I fly my worship team, I fly myself, we get hotels, some of us stay at houses. Then we gotta get a venue. So if we get a church that's willing to let us use their venue, we will come to your city and do it. It's just that simple. Counter TV's so cool, this channel has been such a blessing. Thank you, well thank you brother. Is sexual desire even for marriage the same as lust? Yes, it's the same. All sexual desire is not a sin unto itself and it's not a sin to be tempted. Sexual desire becomes a sin when you fulfill it in a way that it's not meant to be fulfilled. So the best way to overcome, I got a great book that I recommend. I read it before I got married and before I started dating my wife. It's called Every Young Man's Battle. Excellent work, one of the best I've ever read on the topic, it'll really help you. Okay, we will do this again. And in the meantime guys, here's where I need your help. This month I told you we're gonna be taught, we talked about Carriers of the Glory. This is my book, Carriers of the Glory. We wanna get this out to as many as possible. I'm trying to get this, I don't know if it's backwards or what if the channel actually flips around. The Carriers of the Glory, you can pre-order it now guys. Click on the links in the video that you're gonna see like a little circle with the top left hand of the screen or top right hand of the screen. Click it, scroll down. You're gonna see where you can order this and you can also order it in your bulk for your church. We need to move 1200 copies by the end of this week. I need your help with that. Every little bit counts also. If this ministry helps you guys, no pressure. But if this ministry helps you, I need your help spreading the gospel. Consider a one-time gift of 10, 20, $30. Consider also a one-time gift. Some of you could do 100, 500, 1,000. Also consider a monthly gift, 10, 20, or $30. Some of you can deal monthly gift of 100. I love you guys, I'm praying for you. Please do that today. Let me hear from you. Let me know you're supporting. All the links are in the cards which are at the top right hand of the screen. Click it, love you guys, praying for you. Please email me. Contact DavidHernandezMinisteries.com. Any suggestions, topics, questions about today's broadcast, put questions in the comments. My TV director will be on later answering any questions in as far as logistics go for any other ministry thing. All right, love you guys, bye-bye.