 God is good and all the time amen amen we believe the truth that God is good in our lives and there's no one better than Jesus and now no one can love us no one can have more compassion have more mercy on us no one can take care of us better than he can do he is better to us than we even to our own self sometimes we even beat ourselves down we condemn ourselves but Jesus he loves on us he cares for us he forgives us and he has mercy on us and that's why we always declare we always remind to each other and to ourselves that God is good and all the time that's right if you've been coming to our church if you've been coming to our church for some time now you've noticed that we we always have few few subjects that we talk about it and we just change the titles and our messages and we continuously every single service to to talk about it in and emphasize on it is because when when there's something if you want something to live by something you have to only always constantly remind yourself of it you'll always in order to keep focus in your life in order in order to to be sharp in your life you always have to have focus and focus comes out of repetition of doing same thing over and over again if you look in athletes lives for example I'm like Kobe Bryant don't judge me okay you know and he before he starts up his practice technical practice you know in the morning he put up a thousand shots and he's been already doing that for 20 years he doesn't need to he probably can do in blindfolded but the reason why he does it so he can stay focused the reason why we continue to talk about same thing over and over again so that we can be focused and we can achieve what God has placed for our lives and for our church amen amen that's right as I'm gonna go ahead and open to Genesis chapter 25 and I'm just gonna I'm gonna talk while you open today what I want to talk about is I want to talk about the Holy Spirit I want to talk about the importance of having Holy Spirit in our lives having a relationship with the Holy Spirit in our lives in a New Testament the New Testament really is about the Holy Spirit and it reveals to us the Holy Spirit and who he is and what he came here to do in the Old Testament Holy Spirit was prophesied about we actually even have the scripture right here from Acts 2 17 but that that scripture is actually a reference of an Old Testament scripture it says it shall come to pass the gods as I will pour out of my spirit and throughout the prophets God prophesied about the Holy Spirit and then Jesus came on this earth he came to die on the cross to shed his blood to redeem us to make us holy and made so then that Holy Spirit can be with us and then whole Jesus constantly in his life he talked about the Holy Spirit and he said and mentioned multiple occasions that said he said that it's better that I go and because the one the wonder is to come he'll be better for you he was talking of the Holy Spirit so Holy Spirit is a very important person in that we need to know as as Christians as a people that as people that believe in God we need to know the person of the Holy Spirit Holy Spirit who is the Holy Spirit he is a third person of Trinity now when we say he is a third person of Trinity got the father son and the Holy Spirit when we mentioned that he's a third person of Trinity we don't we don't mean that he's a third on the importance list that means that God the father is the most important Jesus is the second most important and a Holy Spirit is a third and you know that nobody remembers people in third place many if I ask you about you know even last year Super Bowl okay you know we might remember the who who won the first you know who got the Super Bowl title we might remember who they who this who's the second contender was but we quickly forget at least I don't remember who was in the third place if there is such a thing okay we just we quickly forget we don't remember who's the third and that's not who the Holy Spirit is he is not third in importance he's actually very very important he's just as important as the father and as Jesus so we need to understand that in order for us to have a good relationship with the Holy Spirit another thing that I want you to remember and I want you to to get it deep in your mind is that relationship with the Holy Spirit is only available and is only based on the blood of Jesus it's not based on who you are it's not based on how good you are it's not based that that this week you read the Bible and you prayed and you feel good about it and you feel deserving to have of the Holy Spirit it's based strictly and solely on the blood of Jesus Jesus is the only foundation for our relationship with the Holy Spirit one of the reasons that Jesus had to come on this earth before the Holy Spirit came is so that he could pave the way for Holy Spirit to come and that way was the blood of Jesus it was the redemption of Jesus it was a sanctification that we received so anytime you feel like you've sinned too much anytime you feel like you're not deserving of the Holy Spirit anytime you've you feel like you can't talk to him you always refer back to the blood of Jesus you always refer back to the cross it's not what you have done it's what he has done and because of the blood of Jesus today you can have a relationship with the Holy Spirit amen to know the Holy Spirit is to know happiness is to know greatness is to know love to know the Holy Spirit is really to know who you really are think about it God created you and he knows you he knows who you are he knows your talents your gifts your capabilities things you can do things that you sometimes don't even know things that you know I hated pickles when I was little right and I thought that's what I didn't I didn't like because I thought that's what I don't like but then as I grew up I began to discover that I actually like pickles you know same thing with other things I hated Chinese food and then came to love it right so sometimes you think what you know about yourself quickly changes and then you finally kind of unravel discover sometimes we start a career we think oh this is exactly what I want to do in life and then we graduate from college we start doing it and then we discover you hate doing it but Holy Spirit knew all along that that's something you'd not like it I have a body of mine that when got a degree in computer engineering and some high tier you know spent six years whatever went and got a job at at Hanford or PNNL one of those related nuclear related jobs and was making really really good money forty five dollars an hour that's a really really good money okay and but he was sitting in a cubicle you know in a cubicle all day long and when I met him I actually run into him in gas stations okay I haven't seen you blah blah blah since high school you know how you're doing you know the stuff you know how you like a new job he's like dude I'm quitting either I'm gonna kill myself or I'm gonna I'm gonna quit the job he's like I can't do this he's like I can't I can't sit in a cubicle eight hours a day I was like but dude you spent six years and a hundred grand on the college he's like I know but I can't do I don't like this job and so he went and started construction business he's actually doing quite well and so the point is that sometimes we think we know ourselves but we don't in reality at the end Holy Spirit knows us and if we get to know the Holy Spirit we really get we will rediscover ourselves we will discover who we are truly made to be who we are on inside amen and so to have a relationship with the Holy Spirit is very much important and I want to tell you something that you know if you noticed in our church actually we talk a lot about it almost every single message we mentioned about the Holy Spirit we sin about him we sin to him and we really even a lost song lost song that we were singing we were singing to the Holy Spirit say I don't want to talk about you like you're not in a room I don't want to talk about you something that's vague something that's you know a little cloud in the sky I want to talk to you like a person look in your eyes and speak to you personally and that's what the Holy Spirit is Holy Spirit is a person and he wants to have a relationship with us and he wants to have fellowship with us so let's go down right in the scripture and we're gonna talk about this story from the Bible and we're gonna draw a couple lessons for ourselves and we're gonna and then we're gonna pray so Genesis chapter 25 verse 29 one day when Jacob was cooking some stew Issa arrived home from wilderness exhausted and hungry Issa said to Jacob I'm starved give me something give me some of the red stew this is how Issa got his other name Adam which means red alright Jacob replied but trade me your right as a firstborn of firstborn son look I'm dying of starvation said Issa what good is my birthright to me now but Jacob said first you must swear that your birthright is mine so Issa swore an oath thereby selling all his rights as a firstborn firstborn to his brother Jacob then Jacob gave Issa some bread and lentils to Issa ate the meal then got up and left he showed a contempt for his rights he showed contempt for his rights as a firstborn son so this is a story of two brothers they were actually twins Issa was born first Jacob was born second in that culture and those times firstborn had everything firstborn you mean I meant that you get all your father's possessions that means that only you get your possessions you also you are respected in society more your word means something also your siblings are your servants that will serve you means they're not necessarily your slaves but they they kind of serve you they look up to you you are the top you pretty much like the top dog in the neighborhood type of a thing and they they are accountable to you they they they address you you know sir yes no type of a thing and so firstborn meant a lot on top of that and in in this family it was a godly family the blessing that was hanging over their life meant even more than any possession or anything because that blessing would continue with them God was watching over those words and he would put their ways together guide them lead them in many different ways so the first first firstborn right was very very valuable and very expensive in a sense and was very prestigious and very very honorable and if you were firstborn you were lucky if you were not if you were second born or anything after that you were not so lucky you were kind of a leftover that's pretty much what it was and I want to compare from the story first first birth birthright as Holy Spirit Bible says that when we upon our salvation we received the Holy Spirit we received a right to be called the sons and daughters of Christ of God and we received we were Bible says in Philippians 413 that we were sealed by the Holy Spirit onto the day of our redemption so I want us to see from the story Holy Spirit birthright as Holy Spirit and I want us to look at the life of Jacob and life of Isa and draw some lessons for ourselves so that we can position ourselves better in life and so that we can be successful in our walk and our relationship with the Holy Spirit first I want you to see first I want you to see the the significance of the Holy Spirit we talked about significance of birthright and we compared it to to the Holy Spirit to have any relationship with the Holy Spirit I want us to I want us first of all to understand this when we were when we were born into God's family we received Holy Spirit in our heart Holy Spirit right now lives in your heart and my heart if you are born again Christian Holy Spirit is with you you have the Holy Spirit and sometimes we throw these words around and we say yes Holy Spirit is with us Holy Spirit is on my side and we we kind of toss this words around without really understanding who the Holy Spirit is and what comes with the Holy Spirit in order for us to understand that better I want us to take a look at few characters in the Bible in the Old Testament to really see who the Holy Spirit is what he's capable of doing and what it really means to have Holy Spirit in our lives first I want us to look at the story of David I want us to look at his life David is a shepherd's boy David is the youngest in the family and he is a nobody historians think that David most likely was born out of wedlock and he was not part of the family in a sense that all of the brothers one out of one family and he was from a different family so he was treated differently I mean think about it if somebody's important from your family a good family friend coming to town and your parents are excited that gathering together the crew they're getting together symbol and they invited everybody by besides you to the table how would you feel about that you would feel pretty rejected you feel like you're not a part of the family you feel like you're nobody this is exactly what's happening to David here comes a prophet Samuel he's a he's a big shot he's a big deal if he's coming to your town if he's coming to your house it is a big deal and he says call all your children I want to dine with you and I want to anoint one of your sons as a king and Jesse the father invites everybody besides David then we see from the story that David was a reject he was nobody he was lonely he was sort of all by himself and we see when eventually Samuel calls upon David and he's anointing anointed in Old Testament represented that you that you had Holy Spirit you have to understand and in Old Testament not everybody had Holy Spirit only few people had Holy Spirit those people that had the Holy Spirit were the kings priests and prophets that's it I mean you can already see from these three categories that Holy Spirit is a big deal Holy Spirit is is something valuable something important and so here is David in here is David comes he becomes he gets anointed by the oil Holy Spirit comes upon him the thing is a right at that moment just like in a Jacob story nothing changes Jacob still goes back to do his own thing Isaac he continues to do his own thing but something shifted in a spiritual world David goes back to wilderness to feed the flock and attend to the flock he is nobody but one moment comes in a position comes a bear and he goes at it at him and defeats the bear now it's cute when you hear the story but it's a whole different thing when you run into one and you begin to wrestle one just recently I read a story some Marine went hiking in the woods and you know Marines they're tough guys and ran into a bear and guess what he wasn't so lucky if it wouldn't be for his dog to distract the bear just for enough for a few seconds so he can run away that guy would have been dead that's what we're talking about a bear okay a teenager wrestles with the bear and kills it if that was not bad enough okay lion comes around and he kills the lion now let me tell you something about the lion lions are such a strong and powerful animal that a swing of lions tail is about 500 psi now let me translate that if you were standing in his way and he swung the tail he would break both of your legs at once that's the strength of a lion we're talking about his tail we're not talking about his jaw and his paw the swipe of a lion's paw is about that's the best that they could calculate it's 1200 pounds of force when the lion swipes 1200 pounds okay that's like half a car running into you like a mini Cooper okay so we're talking about a teenage boy something changed he kills a lion and then he faces he goes as an errand boy a delivery boy to deliver some food to his brothers while they're deployed in a mission field in the army and he comes around he sees this whole chaos they see this people are scared he comes and he sees that this Goliath twice the size of David he's a man a man he's a warrior from his youth he's covered from head to toe in in all armor he I mean he's just as a as a bed of a warrior you can you can find that's that's Goliath he won many battles David goes up and faces him with the rock and the rubber sling a leather sling and he kills it takes his sword chops his head brings it to the king now that's I don't know what you called it but that's some pretty pretty intense stuff and all because the spirit of God rested on David and then Spirit of God continues to lead him further and further and further and eventually this timid boy reject nobody needs them becomes a king of all nations and if that was not enough he Bible says that he please got so much that God is gonna come and sit on David's throne today David is a legacy today we hear about David his name and mentioned all over the news when we speak of Israel we think of David David star it's the symbol of Israel nation because one person was walking with the Holy Spirit there was Elijah Elijah the prophet when he was surrounded by the army big army there was only two of them and they were not armed he came out with the Holy Spirit and he blinded the army he led the whole army into captivity and they surrendered there was a man named a prophet like a prophet Elijah who spirit of God was upon he prayed to God and God shut the heavens for three years there was no rain and no famine and when he prayed to God once again God opened the floodgates of heaven and rain began to pour down we look in we look in in a in a life of Solomon Solomon is a nobody it's kind of like David the reject he was not supposed to be in a throne he was born out of wedlock I mean this just it's it's not it's not going good for him but God anoints him to be a king and he becomes the wisest person that there ever was and ever will be in the world that's the anointing of the Holy Spirit he becomes the richest person that ever was that ever lived and so far history says that nobody has surpassed the richest that Solomon had because of the person of the Holy Spirit that was with him he was so wise that kings and queens came from afar just to listen to him talk they brought gifts to him that's what the person of Holy Spirit is so when we talk about Holy Spirit a lot of times we begin to forget who he really is what he has to offer we begin to forget the resources that he carries we begin to forget that he is the creator of the universe he has all the connections he has all the resources that we ever needed need or will ever need that he is the greatest person in the universe that we could ever know Jacob was a nobody he was not supposed to be anybody he was supposed to be a servant he was not supposed to be the first he's not supposed to be great history shouldn't remember his name but Jacob because he valued his the birthright because he valued the Holy Spirit because he valued the relationship with the Holy Spirit the guidance of the Holy Spirit he became a person of great influence he became a person that we today talk about and speak about so I hope from these few stories that you begin to understand who we're talking about the person of the Holy Spirit what he has to offer and what he can bring how he can benefit our life we have to understand we are privileged to be with the Holy Spirit we see that Jacob with the Holy Spirit leaves on the journey all by himself but comes back with bunch of riches and influence and fame it's better to be alone but with the Holy Spirit than in a crowd with multitudes it's better to be it's better to cry with the Holy Spirit than to laugh with the crowds it's better to be in pain in your body with the Holy Spirit than to be healthy and have everything want in your life it's better to be poor but with the Holy Spirit than rich and enjoy the riches of this world all these things are temporary because Holy Spirit never leaves anybody broke he never leaves anybody sick he never leaves anybody discouraged he never leaves anybody he never fails those that trust in him and so I want us to continue to look at at their life and compare a few things Issa had everything but he did not value his birthright he had a birthright but he was careless about it today all of us have the Holy Spirit all of us those those that ask Lord Jesus to come to be the Lord of our life he is in us by this Holy Spirit in our hearts all of us have them but not everybody values them the same not everybody puts the same value on the Holy Spirit we see that Jacob he valued the birthright he treasured it he wanted it he was covenant it while he didn't have it but Issa had it and he was really really careless about it he didn't know what he had he did know what he meant to him until he lost it Bible says that he cried bitterly when he realized he lost his birthright so I want to tell us is that it's it's the value that we place on our relationship with the Holy Spirit that will determine how we will benefit from him you see in some churches Holy Spirit not talked about it he's not addressed as a person a lot of times he addressed just as a feeling as some kind of cloud many times Holy Spirit and his movement and the man of God that he uses and the manner that he uses them is being criticized is being mocked and therefore you see that in those churches Holy Spirit doesn't do much Holy Spirit doesn't heal people he doesn't set people free people's lives don't get permanently changed and church is dead and full of religion I remember here in the stories some Chinese Christians came to United States and as you know Chinese Christians they go into persecution from the government and they they they can't have an open meetings and when they get caught with the Bible or having meetings they go to prison and so they have to rely a lot on the Holy Spirit and Holy Spirit is really active in there in their midst in there in those churches and churches are growing Christians are Christians are get people are getting saved and converting to Christianity on daily basis by thousands and so when they some came to visit America and they visit some American churches the visit some churches in America they and so they asked them at the airport they before they departed so what do you think of churches in America and they and they said with a smirk and a face is that we're surprised how much church can do without the Holy Spirit and so that has to show is that the Holy Spirit if you don't value him if you don't appreciate him if you don't spend time with him if you don't want him then you will have very little benefits of him you can live your life without him you can live you can quickly get into religious routine and church will just become a check mark church will become just a routine for you you quickly gonna begin to judge other people because maybe they're not as good as you are because you don't have that relationship with the Holy Spirit you don't have that real tangible relationship with God Jacob was nothing but because he valued his birthright because he valued his relationship with the Holy Spirit he became a great person I want to ask you today what does Holy Spirit mean to you what does relationship with the Holy Spirit mean to you are you spending time with the Holy Spirit are you spending time daily in prayer are you spending time daily in the Word of God are you spending I use do you spend every single day do you take time and do you take that moment to recognize the Holy Spirit as a person that he is with you that he is there with you do you recognize him that he you know he's a person that has his own will he has his own goals has his own passions has his own desires and then he wants to partner up with you that he wants to work with you I want to ask you how much value do you put today on the Holy Spirit how much does he mean to you or is he something that you just talk about as a cliche or he see the person that you treasure him the most you you you rely on him every single day of your life you know Holy Spirit when Holy Spirit comes he changes your status he changes of who you are maybe circumstances don't change at the moment we see in life of Jacob we see in a life of David when when they receive their birthright when they receive that anointing upon their life their life didn't change immediately David didn't become a king at right at that moment he didn't become respected influential he didn't become people didn't become follow didn't start following him right at that moment but when he got that relationship with the Holy Spirit when he cultivated when he held on to it Holy Spirit slowly but surely developed him into this great leader great king a person of influence a person that we all inspire and want to be like today and same thing with the Jacob I want to tell you that Holy Spirit is not looking for perfect people Holy Spirit is not looking for people that have things put together like I mentioned right in the beginning that our relationship with the Holy Spirit is not based on what we can do for him and what we deserve or if we're some kind of special people our relationship with him is based solely on the blood of Jesus what Jesus has done and Holy Spirit is not looking for perfect people he's looking for people that value him he's looking for people that are willing to spend time with him he's looking for people that are willing to sacrifice an hour two in the morning to come just spend time with him spend time in his words spend time talking to him spend time listening to what he has to say and receive his guidance Jacob you know Jacob he was a thief and he was a liar he was a not really an honorable man eventually he changed God changed him but because he had that birthright because he had Holy Spirit in his life Holy Spirit guided him all throughout the life he helped him to overcome his mistakes he helped him to overcome his character he helped him to overcome his bad habits and addiction and eventually made him a great man David he was a cheater unfaithful and he was yeah he killed a person he murdered a person when he was actually his fault to cover his faults I mean that's a terrible terrible person I mean this person we would have no regards for such a person today and we would we would not even want him probably to see a church but because he valued the Holy Spirit so much God was willing to overlook and forgive all those things and bring him out of the mistakes even though he paid a heavy price for it and still make him a great man I want to tell you whatever you're facing through whatever you're going through whatever maybe you're an ex-con criminal a prostitute a whoever maybe you come from bad family maybe you come from bad family tree nobody made it in your life you you're nobody maybe you were next drug dealer who's talking to one a couple weeks ago he said God can't forgive me because you know I deal drugs and I sold drugs to people to teenagers too and I'm you know and he can't forgive himself while God can forgive everybody and everything if we're willing to value his spirit if we're willing to value what he asked for us and we see that David one thing David knew really he David knew really well because he saw him Saul when Saul became disobedient Saul had the Holy Spirit he was anointed he was just like David and he disobeyed God on the multiple occasions and God took the spirit of God from him even though Saul still remained a king he still had an army he still had a kingdom but David saw all of this throughout his life and he saw how it is important to have the Holy Spirit and so when it came to him when it came to David he David knew very well for what he did the dishonesty that he did for the fact that he killed an innocent blood David could have easily lost the kingdom but the amazing part to me about David is that David did not care about his kingdom he did not care he did not ask God God please don't take the kingdom from me God please don't take the influence from me God please don't take this or that from me don't take my money don't take my my armies he didn't care for all of it the only thing that David was crying out for is God don't take your spirit from me even a murderer even a person that took advantage of a woman he still was able to be called a man after God's own heart because he hold on to the Holy Spirit said yeah I'm not perfect I'm not I messed up take the kingdom take everything from me I will be in the caves in the deserts running be a haunted man like I was for half of my life but as long as I'm with your spirit please have your spirit don't take your spirit from me David valued the spirit of God he he wanted it he desired it he covered it and therefore God was not ashamed to call him a man after his own heart so I want to tell you is that doesn't matter what you've done doesn't matter the mistakes you've done we all have done many mistakes but as long as you learn to value the Holy Spirit in your life as long as you learn to value relationship with the Holy Spirit as long as you learn to to to spend time with him to constantly come back to him when you sin when you make a mistake not to run away from him as long as you make up your mind that you and him are forever together and nothing can break you apart God will honor you God will help you to overcome every mistake he will help you to overcome every setback in your life he will have you he'll help you to overcome anything that stands against you everything was against Jacob he wasn't supposed to be anybody he was supposed to be a nobody but because he valued his birthright he valued the Holy Spirit he valued the guidance of the Holy Spirit today he's remembered as one of the heroes of faith and today we look up to him and if he was persistence and perseverance that's something that Jacob had he held on to it I want us to examine our lives I want us to look at our lives to see do we value the Holy Spirit his Holy Spirit important to us do we see for the Holy Spirit for who he is as a great and mighty person do we see as a privilege to know him as to have to have a relationship with him there was another man we named Moses and I want you to think about his life Moses this great leader now I mean his fame spread throughout that throughout the land nations fear Moses when they pass by they beg him to leave them alone that's how they would send gifts and send representatives before him they would ask so nation Moses pretty much is this this big mean well he isn't really mean but I'm saying mean like he is this big dude he's like United States let's just compare United States in this in this days and time just bullies everybody around says one thing and does it and doesn't matter if the world agrees with them or not that's pretty much how Israel and Moses was this big leader and then God gets fed up with the nation of Israel he can't take them no more because they keep disobeying him they keep to keep disappointing them and he says Moses you go you take those people to the promised land I'll take you to the promised land I even will send my angels to make sure you get to the promised land but I am not going with you my spirit is not going with you you know think about it what if God came to you today and said Susan or whoever you are okay I will make your wildest dreams come true I will give you what I promised I will send my angels to make sure they protect you all the way all the way there but I am not going with you would you what would you say at that moment why would you answer to God would you say oh great that sounds good I mean these are angels okay that's that's good enough for me I wonder sometimes as Christians if we settle for the blessings of God if we settle for few small things that God can provide for his protection for his for his peace for his joy for for just just for the comfort and with that neglect the Holy Spirit with that get comfortable when it was hard when it was tough we ran to church we prayed we fasted we promised God to do everything we went to church every Sunday we went to church every Wednesday we went to church on Friday night prayers we came in the morning prayers we were after God's heart we were running after God as soon as God changed our lives as soon as those additions that we struggle and are there no more as soon as God gave us that love about life the girl that boy that fiance or whatever as soon as we got that car the house we wanted we got that promotion that job open the business things are going well now all of a sudden we're too busy now all of a sudden we don't have time for God we don't have time to come to prayer all of a sudden we don't have time to to go and talk with somebody spend few dollars to take somebody to coffee to talk to them about God to listen to the problems to pray for them now all of a sudden we're busy to do what God wants us to do and I wonder if at that moment we exchange our birthright for stew we take the blessings of God temporary pleasures and exchange for the person himself see with the Holy Spirit you can go through thick and thin at the end you'll come out victorious but without Holy Spirit even if you have the whole world at the end you will go bankrupt in your soul that's why a model 21 years old that just just starting her life got the biggest contract model in career in her life and the next day go through go throws herself in New York off of 22nd story building or a people that I listened to a testimony of Mel Gibson the year I mean he was very successful one of those years he was very successful he was named the hardest man alive he was I mean he made couple movies they hit the box thing called and I mean he was on top of his he's he was on top of his game and at that very moment drinking himself and thinking how to commit suicide we see that you would have you can have all the things in the world but if you don't have God if you don't have relationship with the Holy Spirit at the end it all will be empty and meaningless those things were only meant to complement our relationship with God those things were only meant to show how good God to us is he wants to give us the world he wants to give us a wildest dreams he wants to bring us the big the biggest dreams that we have in our lives but the question is will we be faithful to maintain relationship will be faithful to fight for our birthright like Jacob did will we be at the moment of our highest calling at highest achievements we'll be able to say what Moses said God I don't care about all these things I don't care about being the best nation in the world I don't care about even getting your promises that you promise if you're not going with us I'm not going anywhere or being like David say God you take everything I don't care house cars money possessions women fame but if you take your Holy Spirit from me I can't live no longer and so we have to we have to we have to examine our lives we have to examine our focus we have to examine our motives we have to examine do we hardly review the Holy Spirit he became just a puppet to us he became just another cliche to us he became just you know another thing that we talk about or we say or it's a real person that we have a real conversation with that we commit our life to him for reals have we made a exchange our birthright first to for temporary blessings of God or have you maybe or or are we holding on to that relationship with God the thing is about Jacob he left alone but with the Holy Spirit he came back wealthy rich influential I want to tell you when you put your relationship with God as a priority God will never never leave you to your own self God will never disappoint you God said I will always be faithful to those who trust in me God has not failed one person in the history he will not fail you maybe today you're coming out of broken family you coming out of a family that just just rich curses and you you know you see people on there's curse of drinkiness constant divorces there's a constant fighting in the homes just nothing good you can't you look around and you see you know there's nothing nothing good in your family and nothing good around you in your friends and you feel like you are disadvantaged I want to tell you that Jacob was a disadvantage if you make a decision today like Jacob to hold on to relationship with the Holy Spirit God will take you out God will bring you out God will help you to overcome every challenge and if you continue to hold on to him at the end of the day he'll make you a person that you never think you could become he will work on your character he will remove the things the flaws that bug you the mistakes that you wish like if I could only overcome this if I can only become this I can be success so Holy Spirit can empower you to do that today and everybody today I can have a relationship with the Holy Spirit last thing I'm gonna finish with is that when you begin to have a relationship with the Holy Spirit Holy Spirit begins to give you dreams he begins to give you resurrect your dreams Holy Spirit is never a taker he's always a giver when you begin to spend time with the Holy Spirit we see the first thing that when Jacob receive his birthright after he became a haunted man he was a nobody the now he became a nobody and hunted by his brother who Bible says was very skillful hunting that's not a good place to be in and first thing that he receives as a revelation every time you choose to make a relationship with the Holy Spirit priority every time you choose to spend time with the Holy Spirit every time you choose to spend time in his word every time you choose to spend time in prayer first thing that you will receive is you're gonna begin to receive a revelations from God revelation who God is in your life revelation who he he is in your life you begin to receive revelations after we see Jacob he begins to receive a revelation God begins to take him God begins to take him even further God begins to give him God begins to give him thoughts God begins to give him strategies we see that Jacob was constantly cheated constantly lied upon he can't he was he constantly he couldn't break out of that cycle of poverty in his life he served 14 years and there's nothing to show for his life and then God comes to him and he begins to give him a strategy he begins to speak to him he gives him a strategy how to become wealthy and we see that out of like very short amount of time he becomes a very wealthy man that people around him begin to feel threatened because he becoming wealthy and powerful when you walk with the Holy Spirit first thing he will give you revelation you will discover who he is and who you are in him second of Holy Spirit will begin to give you strategies how to become who he called you to become maybe he called you to become a doctor he will give you strategies watch college to go how to pay for it he will provide the resources maybe he called you into the ministry he will show you how to do it he will teach you what to do he will show you how to be successful he will show you he will give you the knowledge and the strategy what to do if he called you to be anything that you can think of Holy Spirit has all the resources all the knowledge all the power all the connections that you need to get you to give it a strategy to get you to where you need to be so I want to tell you today renew your relationship with the Holy Spirit renew your commitment to follow Holy Spirit renew your attention to the Holy Spirit renew your value of who the Holy Spirit is begin to see Holy Spirit for who he is like an Almighty God begin to see him as a person begin to see him as a as a as a being that has his own feelings his own thoughts as a person that wants to communicate with you to lead you and guide you and take you to the places that you never dreamed of could be possible I want I want us to all sit up on our feet and we're right now we're gonna go into the Son of worship and we're gonna begin to after that we'll begin to pray and ask God that today our relationship with the Holy Spirit will be renewed that today our value of him will be renewed that today we can walk with him walk in his newness and his power in Jesus mighty name