 Okay, let's pray as we start. I just want to read from this one scripture and then we'll pray. Okay, so Matthew chapter 7. Okay, Matthew's Gospel chapter 7 and verses 7 onwards, right, 7 to 11, the words of the Lord Jesus. He says, Ask and it will be given to you, seek and you will find, knock and it will be open to you. For everyone who asks, receives and he who seeks finds and to him who knocks, it will be opened. Or what man is there among you who, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will he give him a serpent? If you then being evil know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him? Okay, therefore whatever you want men to do to you, do also to them. For this is the law and the prophets. Okay, so what people call as the golden rule, whatever you want people to do to you, you do to them. And the first one starting with verse 7, ask and it will be given seek and you will find knock and it will be open to you. And you see that God does not give anything substandard. And the Lord is saying, this is what as human fathers or human beings, as human parents, you know how to give good gifts to your children. When they ask for something, you will not give them anything that is worthless or something that is not good for them. That's what the Lord is saying, you will not give them a bread and then if asked for a bread, you won't give them a stone. You will not give them a substitute which is worthless, which does not really satisfy their need. And the Lord is giving like three things like ask, seek, knock and it is all positive. And the fact is that he is our God, he's a good God, he's comparing himself to an earthly parent and he's saying that as earthly parents, you know how to give good gifts, but as a heavenly father, how much more. So there's a lot of assurance when we consider these words, we see that God, you will never do us wrong. When we ask for something and when we ask, when we don't ask a miss, we are asking in line with your will, you will never do us wrong. That's the assurance that we have. And I remember, I think I shared, one person, a friend of ours saying that, I think somebody's, no worries. So a friend of ours saying that, well, if I ask God, what if I get, if not the Holy Spirit, what if I get something else? So that was a fear. I'm asking God for the Holy Spirit, for the gifts of the Holy Spirit, what if something else jumps in, I get something that is evil. Well, know whom you are asking, he's our father. And this is the assurance he says, he gives, saying that even if an earthly father were to give this, I will not. That's the assurance of the Lord Jesus. So today, why don't we just pray and I don't know what our needs are, maybe it could be various things. Maybe you want to go deeper spiritually and maybe you're asking for certain gifts of the Spirit. Let's just ask without any doubt, ask without any fear, ask without any doubting, without any anxiety. And say, God, based on these words, we come, we ask, we seek, we knock. Can we just pray? Father, we thank you Lord, we come before you, reassure that we are your children with that full reassurance, God. We thank you for these words that we read just now, ask and seek and knock. And Lord, you desire, it is your desire that we ask. It is your desire that we seek and pursue and it is your desire that we knock. And you want us to engage with you in prayer. And so God, we come because it is you who has invited us. The Lord has invited us to ask. The Lord has invited us to seek. The Lord has invited us to knock. Lord, we thank you for this invitation. And so we come based on your invitation, God. You are a good God that you will never do us wrong, that you will never give us something substandard. You will never give us, oh God, something of a substitute, oh Father God. And so God, based on that, we come and we ask and we seek and we knock. Now just go ahead and just, you know, whatever it is that you are seeking, whatever it is that you've been asking God, just go ahead and ask. Thank you Lord. Thank you, Father God. Thank you Lord. Thank you, Master. We ask in faith, trusting Lord, your timing, your grace, trusting in your power to bring things to pass. We ask you. We ask you. Yes, even right now we just move aside all hindrances. Everything that probably comes before us like a barrier, we remove that. Maybe regrets of the past, we remove that, oh God. Maybe disappointments of the past, we remove that out of the way. And Lord, we look at your word, oh God, renewed in strength, oh God. And yes, Master, we don't want to be double-minded about anything but single-minded and focused, oh God. And yes, Lord, based on your word, we mix our faith, oh God, with your word. We receive your words, oh God, this morning, God. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Father. You are who you said you are. And so based on that, oh God, we come and we receive God. We receive, oh God, from your hands. Now just go ahead and just thank the Lord. Just thank the Lord saying, oh God, just want to thank you. Thank you for the work of your Spirit. Thank you for the gifts of the Spirit. Thank you for the things that you're bringing to pass in my life. Thank you for orchestrating, Lord, the place, the people and everything, God, that you are orchestrating, which I can see only with eyes of faith, God, but you are doing that. And so we thank you. Thank you, Master. Thank you, Lord. Thank you. Thank you, Father God. Thank you, Lord. Your plans are way beyond our imagination, God. Your Lord, your work, so God, way beyond anything that we can even imagine, God. We thank you. And Lord, as you said in your word, God, that you will, as your word declines, that you will do exceedingly abundantly above all that we can ask or think. You will do exceedingly abundantly above all that we can ask or think. We thank you. We trust in you, Master. We trust in you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. We thank you. We yield ourselves to you. We surrender ourselves to you, Lord, that you will mold us, that you will shape us. Hallelujah. We thank you. We thank you. We bless your name. We give you all the praise and all the glory. In Jesus' matchless name, we pray. Amen, amen. Okay. Okay. So we've been looking at the work of the Holy Spirit in the life of a believer, right? So even as you go through it, you see that, well, if not for the Holy Spirit, where would we be? Right? And it's such an amazing plan and purpose. And just look at God's wisdom. Right? He knows that we cannot do things on our own, in our own strength. Right? Because this humanity is lost in sin. They're not able to come out of it. They cannot come out by themselves. So this great sacrifice, which, you know, which does, which, which puts away the body of sin, what we read in Romans chapter six. So he says, okay, this is what will happen, that whatever is causing them, whatever is like generating them, generating sin, you know, I'm just, I'm going to deal with it. I'm going to put that aside. That's the first thing. Second thing, okay, now these are born again. They are new creations. They have a new, you know, spirit. They can talk to me now. I'm going to live in them. Right? I'm going to live in them. I'm going to dwell in them. And even as they, you know, I want to invite them to abide in me. And I'm going to dwell in them. And I'm going to lead them. I'm going to prompt them. I'm going to talk to them. Right? And it's not going to be, you know, just a visitation, like the previous dispensation, but I'm going to be in them. And I'm going to make my tabernacle among them. And then I'm going to lead them onto their destiny. Right? So if you look at it, it's amazing. Only God could have thought of something like that. Right? So our response is to say, Lord, I thank you. Right? Our response is obedience. Our response is trusting Him. Right? And it's the greatest adventure that each of us could have. The greatest adventure. Right? Well, will it be challenging? Okay. All adventures are challenging. Yes or no? Yeah. But will it be exciting? Absolutely. Right? Will it be a walk of great contentment? Absolutely. Right? But there will be difficulties. There will be challenges. But He is with us. That's the thing. He is with us through all this. Right? We have that great promise. He'll never leave, never forsake. He will be with us forever. So, you know, for a believer, for a Christian, for a believer, this is the greatest hope. This is the greatest hope. You know, where else can we have such hope? Where else can we get the sense of purpose? Right? So we don't have to be a people who are without hope, without purpose, without meaning, without direction. This is it. God Himself, the God of Heaven and Earth, Himself dwelling within us and saying, you know, I will lead you. Right? And we've been studying the work of the Holy Spirit and the work of the Holy Spirit is amazing, like bringing about new birth, the regeneration, leading us in a sanctified or consecrated walk. Right? Showing us, okay, these are things that you don't have to be a part of. It's a life that is way below or way beneath what I've called you for. Right? And then so it's a sanctified, consecrated life. And, you know, he chooses to reveal his plans, reveal his purposes. It's not like he's keeping everything secret and saying, okay, you know, you cannot understand. No, he will make us understand. Like he's the spirit of revelation and wisdom. Right? As we see. Okay. So that is where we stopped, right? That the revelatory work of this, the Holy Spirit, right? He's the spirit. He has prepared those things for us, the Holy Spirit and God, the Holy Spirit reveals those things, which God has prepared. No, I have seen, no, you have heard, nor entered into the heart of man. We looked at that. Okay. So he's the one who revealed the plans, the purposes of the kingdom to the Apostles and to the Holy Spirit. The plans, the purposes of the kingdom to the Apostles, to the prophets. You know, if you go through some of the episodes, we see that, oh, it was not there. Paul himself says that, you know, in the previous season or in the dispensation, people did not know, right? It was not revealed, but in our time, it has been revealed. Okay. So revelation to the Apostles and prophets and he teaches us what are the things of God. Okay. So let's look at the next topic, which is the Holy Spirit helping us to pray. The Holy Spirit helping us in prayer. Okay. So let's look at Romans 8, 26 and 27. Romans chapter 8, 26. Likewise, the Spirit also helps us in our weaknesses. Okay. So he helps us in our weaknesses. Is it there? Romans 8, 26. Spirit also helps us in our weaknesses, for we do not know what we should pray for as we ought. But the Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. Now he who searches the hearts, knows what the mind of the Spirit is because he makes intercession for the saints according to the will of God. Something beautiful. Intercession for people according to the will of God. So he says, a couple of things that we see here, the Holy Spirit helps us in our weaknesses. Whatever be the area where we see, okay, I perceive this as a weakness. Now I see this as an area. I don't see this as an area of strength. This is an area of weakness in my life. I'm not strong in this. Who helps us? The Holy Spirit helps us. He helps us in our weaknesses. For what? Obviously to overcome. To root it out, to overcome. So that his strength might be made perfect in our weaknesses. His strength will be when we actually, sorry, when we're walking around and saying, God, I'm weak in this, I'm weak in this. I need your help. The Lord is actually bringing a revelation of who you are. First of all, an identity. This is who you are. This is what you have become as a new creation. Now that doesn't mean that all problems disappear. That doesn't mean that we become super spiritual overnight. It's a process. Maybe there are certain things that we continue to see as, these are limitations in my life. I'm not able to overcome. It's like painting a target on your back. When you say, God, I just need, I see this as an area which I need to overcome. You're not saying, okay, I will never overcome. This is how I am. It's not like that. You're telling God, God, I see this as something that needs to be overcome. So what is it? It's like painting a target. You know a target, right? Circles, circles, concentric circles. And then that's something that you shoot at or you, actually you shoot at that. So you're like painting a target for whom? For God to work. It's like a target in your back. You're walking around saying, okay, God, you know, you just do your work. And he says very clearly that the Holy Spirit helps us in our weaknesses. He helps us. And this is what he does for we do not pray, we do not know what we should pray for as we ought to pray. Sometimes we don't even know how to, you know, where to begin. It seems so big, so confusing. I don't even know where to start, how to start praying for this thing. You know, how to start praying for this problem. I don't know. Or maybe it's a, you know, maybe it's not a problem, but it's a choice that you need to make. It's, you see, you know, there are choices in front of me, A, B and C, and everything seems to be good. But Lord, what is the best one? Right. So here I says, for we do not know what we should pray for as we ought to pray. I don't know, you know, what should I pray for? Should I pray for this? Should I pray for that? I don't know. Here, the Holy Spirit, the Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. And the Greek explanation for that is groanings which cannot be uttered into articulate speech. Okay. And we know, you know, when we pray in the Spirit, when we pray with the Spirit, this is what it is. It's, you know, we are groaning. We are groaning with words which cannot be uttered into articulate speech. You know, in speech that cannot be, you know, speech that can't be understood by others. But it's the Spirit of God praying and you're groaning and you're making intercession. And the Spirit himself prays for us. For what? Here are your weaknesses to be turned into strength. We don't know what we should pray for as we ought to pray, but he's praying so that the choices become clearer. Right. Things become clearer. And I remember once I was working for this company which was making toys. I think this was my second, third, you know, organization that I worked with, company that I worked with. So this was making toys and a global, you know, toy MNC. So I was making, I was working for this thing. And then, and they had some toys which were, you know, which were signs of the, what do you call those? Star signs, you know, astrology. Right. So they had those very cute stuffed toys, but they were all sun signs, you know, like Leo and Taurus and all that. They were all sun signs. So, you know, people were buying them and all that. So I was, you know, all these big dealers. And so I was troubled. My God, you know, what am I promoting there? You know, promoting astrology, promoting horoscope and all that. And kids are buying this. Do you want me to do that? And on one side I was thinking, okay, it's just a stuffed toy. I know it's just, it has all those things, but I know it doesn't, you know, it doesn't mean anything. On the other hand, I was like thinking, you know, what should I do? And so the only thing that I could do was come to this verse and it says that we don't know what we should pray for as we ought, but he helps us. The Spirit himself makes intercessions with us, with groanings which cannot be uttered. So I just trusted him, trusted him and said, okay, God, I'm just going to spend some time just praying. I don't know what, I don't know what to choose. I'm a little confused here, double-minded here. I don't know. I just look at it as a toy, but then look at it as a stuffed toy. But, you know, I don't know what I should pray for, you know. And just continue to pray, took some time fasting and praying. And at the end of the prayer time, I think it was late night, you know, with such clarity, came through with such clarity. Yeah, maybe you just need to change. Don't go with it. Okay, so don't go with it. It's about this. It's something that's contradicting the word and don't go with it. So then I started looking out and, you know, in a very short span of time, you know, there was another job opportunity and I just moved to that. So it seemed like a small thing. It seemed like, okay, you know, you're making a big thing out of this small stuffed toy. But then it was, you know, bothering me. I didn't know what I should do every day I was being, it was bothering me. And so best thing that you can do is pray in tongues, pray in the spirit. So just want to encourage us, you know, we're looking at things like, you know, there are some weaknesses, things that need to change, you know, stubborn, maybe thought patterns, stubborn habits, choices, difficult choices, pray in the spirit, pray in tongues, right? Knowing who's praying, Holy Spirit is praying, right? Many times we think, okay, I'm, you know, I'm doing this, what will happen? You know, sometimes we think, right? I don't understand. Is it a waste of time? It's not a waste of time. We're praying, you know, extended times, you're praying and you're praying the mind of God, the mysteries of God. Are we going to spend, you know, the whole chapter about, you know, baptism of the Holy Spirit and the outflow of that. So we'll get into a little more details there. But the good news is this, the Holy Spirit helps us to pray. And when we are at our weakest, when we don't know what choice to make, He helps us. Amazing again, right? We have such a friend. He has all the wisdom. He has all the knowledge and He brings that into our lives. What more can we ask for? Praise God. Amen. Come on. Let's look at one more verse, 1 Corinthians 14. Of course, this is again about praying in tongues. You know this. Okay, 1 Corinthians 14 and verse 2 says, He who speaks in a tongue does not speak to men, but to God, for no one understands him. However, in the Spirit, He speaks mysteries. In the Spirit, He speaks mysteries. And then we look at verse 14, for if I pray in a tongue, my Spirit prays, but my understanding is unfruitful. What then is the conclusion? I will pray with the Spirit. I will also pray with the understanding. I will sing with the Spirit and I will also sing with the understanding. Otherwise, if you bless with the Spirit, how will He who occupies the place of the uninformed say amen at your giving of thanks since He does not understand what you say? So here, again, specifically about praying in the Spirit. I think Prince asked the question. Last time when we had... Oops, sorry. I think I just pressed that key by mistake. So yeah, Prince asked the question. Prince, I think it was you about praying in the Spirit. Last time we had the mentoring hour about is it praying in tongues? Can I pray? Is praying in the Spirit also a prayer as led by the Spirit of God? Absolutely, yes. But here, the context is that whenever we see praying with the Spirit or praying in the Spirit, we see in the Bible that, especially this particular chapter in verse, Paul is referring to praying in tongues. And if I pray in a tongue, my Spirit prays, but my understanding is unfruitful. And then he says, I will pray with the Spirit, but I will also pray with the understanding, meaning in a language that I know I will pray, but I will also pray with the Spirit. So he's making that distinction in between. What happens? Verse 2, He who prays in a tongue is not addressing men, but addressing God. No one understands him, but in the Spirit, he speaks mysteries. What are these mysteries? Revelations, things that are hidden. It's a mystery. I don't understand it. God has kept them hidden so that they will be revealed through the Spirit and by the Spirit. If you read through the episodes, you see that Paul is bringing out so much of revelation about the cross, about the kingdom, about the body of Christ, which was not there earlier. In the Book of Romans, yesterday we saw in the Book of Romans, in Corinthians, in Ephesians, he's talking about the body of Christ and so much of revelation. He's talking about the cross and revelation about new creation, what we have become, the gifts of the Spirit, which was not there earlier. Now where did that come from? Of course, Paul had a very unique, distinct ministry as an apostle. He was the founding father of some of these doctrines. He was establishing them. It was a unique call. But also, if you look at the process, how did he receive God? Of course, reveal. But he says, this is how it is. You pray and you speak mysteries, things that you do not understand, but they are being revealed to you. So maybe you've been reading certain portions of scripture and you're saying, I don't understand this. I don't understand this and it's a little confusing. Pray in the Spirit. Pray in the Spirit, ask God, pray in the Spirit and read it again and see, he's the Spirit of revelation and he will bring that understanding to our spirit. He'll bring that understanding. So even if you look at, I think Galatians, let's move to Galatians chapter one. So Paul writes about how he received the revelation about the Son. Galatians chapter one and says in verse 15, but when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb and called me through his grace to reveal his Son in me that I might preach him among the Gentiles. What happens? Verse 16 he says, to reveal, there was a revelation, there was an uncovering about Jesus to reveal his Son in me. Is that what he says? To reveal his Son in me. So God is revealing, giving him revelation, giving him understanding about Jesus, about the kingdom. And he says, for what purpose that I might preach him among the Gentiles? So he was receiving this revelation that he might preach Jesus to the Gentiles. And everywhere he went, he just preached this revelation, he wrote to them. And if you look at, typically if you look at this ministry among the Corinthians, this epistle is to the Corinthians, right? So this is what he established, a very strong church. He was there for three and a half years, also established a strong church, same with the efficient church. He was there for some time, maybe 18 months or something, and then established as a strong church with the revelation, revelatory teaching. And people received that and they were so strong in the Spirit. So as men and women of God, we need the revelation of the Holy Spirit. It's like, you know, what is revelation? You've read that so many times. Suddenly, it's like some light is switched on on the inside of you, right? Some aspect of that truth is just revealed. You're like, wow, I didn't see it before, but now I see it, right? And you've read it so many times, and you know that verse by heart, but there's an understanding that the Holy Spirit brings and he brings it. So in prayer, he brings a revelation, right? Okay. Let's look at some verses. Prayer motivated out of love of the Spirit, Romans 15 and verse 30. Romans 15 and verse 30. Okay. Now I beg you, brethren, through the Lord Jesus Christ and through the love of the Spirit that you strive together with me in prayers to God for me. Okay. Through the love of the Spirit. I beg you, brethren, through the Lord Jesus Christ and through the love of the Spirit that you strive together with me in prayers for me. Okay. So through the love, you know, the way to look at it is, okay, through the love that you can be a response to the Holy Spirit, a response to God, a response of love, or it can even be the love that the Holy Spirit puts in our heart. Okay. So it puts in our heart for His purposes, for His plans. Right. So, well, I don't know, you know, I don't know how many of you find prayer interesting. Right. Mike Bickel was one person who actually started the 24, 24, 7, you know, House of Prayer, the very movement, right, worldwide, started in Kansas City and he shares his testimony, you know, in his college days. He was a good believer. He was, you know, he was really excited. You know, he loved the Lord Jesus. He was excited about sharing Christ with others. He was excited about studying the word, but one thing that he was not excited about was prayer. And he said, you know, I just found it so difficult to pray, sit down and pray. And so he says, you know, everybody was telling him, hey, you need to have a prayer life. You need to pray. You need to pray, extended time in prayer. And he just couldn't do that. He was so bored about it. So one day he says, okay, he just went to his college in this hostel room and he's just locked and he said, okay, God, I'm from today onwards, I'm going to pray. Okay, I'm going to pray. Then he says, okay, half an hour, I'm going to pray. So let's say for a, he started at 10 o'clock, sitting and started praying. God, everything that he knew, what he should pray for, he's praying for this, for that, you know, that he should do well and he's praying for others and everything. And then slowly opened his eyes and looked at the clock. 10, 5. He prayed for five minutes and he was like, oh, God, this is so difficult. This is so boring, God. And then he says, actually, for the first time, he really prayed because it was a cry of his heart. He was telling God, God, I'm so bored. This is so difficult. There was no pretense, right? There's nothing superficial. He just pulled out his heart to God and he says, you know, for the first time he prayed, then God helped him, gave him, you know, God really helped him to pray. God really gave him a vision for prayer and he would do that. And slowly his, you know, his times of prayer kind of extended and he got used to him to start a global movement of 24-7 prayer. You know, if you look at the house of prayer, like they have, I think it's one hour of prayer and one hour of worship. I forget, maybe two hours of prayer, two hours of worship, something like that. But 24 hours, like 24 hours, right throughout. And people come as volunteers to lead worship. People come as volunteers to pray and it started them in contemporary times. Actually, if you look at the history, there were, you know, movements like that in the past also. So how did it happen because of the Holy Spirit? So if you're saying, I'm really, you know, prayer is not my strength, not my area. The Holy Spirit will help us and he will help us. And Paul is saying, out of love for the Spirit, you know, just try with me in prayers. Try together with me in prayers to God for me. So praying for various needs, praying for missions, praying for, you know, various things. He will actually help us and motivate us to pray. And God really wants us to partner with him in this. Okay. So Ephesians 2.18 talks about how we have access to the Father through the Spirit. Sword of the Spirit, I think all of us know that. Ephesians 6.17, maybe let's look at that. Ephesians 6 and verse 17. Ephesians 6 verse 17. So Ephesians 6 verse 10 onwards talks about Paul says, be strong in the Lord and the power of his might. And verse 11, he talks about, put on the whole armor of God. Okay. There is the shield of faith, Helmest of Salvation, Belt of Truth, etc. And goes on to verse 17 and says, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God, the sword of the Spirit. Okay. So what is the sword of the Spirit? Word of God. Okay. Obviously. So how do I have access to it? And how do I use it? Is there a difference? Okay. We all have the Bible. Right. So is that the sword of the Spirit? Okay. Yeah. How we tell it to others? The truth in the Bible. Okay. Okay. So if we face temptations and the way the Lord Jesus faced temptations, every time he said, it is written. It is written. It is written. Okay. Online folks, what do you think? Sword of the Spirit. How do I use it? How do I receive it? Okay. What is the sword? What is the sword? It is, what is it used for? It's for battle. It's not used in the kitchen. Yeah. It's not used for, you know, it's a weapon. Right. It's used in battle. So Paul is talking about the armor. I can just see. Okay. So Nina here says, the Spirit reminds us of the right scriptures at whatever time we need them. Okay. Okay. So it is used for the battle. Okay. So that's the, you know, the word used there is Reema. Okay. Sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God and the word which is, the Greek word which is used for the word of God is Reema. Okay. What is Reema? Reema is the word which is quickened by the Holy Spirit, highlighted, prompted by the Holy Spirit. Okay. Maybe it could be a promise. Maybe you, you know, you open the Bible and you're reading, meditating, and there's something, you are drawn to one particular scripture or something that God reminds you about. Right. Now that's something that's highlighted by the Holy Spirit and brought to us by the Holy Spirit. Okay. Now that Reema, well, you know, we get very happy as God has spoken. Whether, yeah, okay. I just read out some of the comments of God. When we are in battle against the devil, we can use a sword. Yes. Whether it's temptation, battle prayer. Yeah. Yeah. So the, the word of God highlighted, prompted, by the Holy Spirit. Okay. Now, sometimes it's just a, it's a very simple revelation, very simple thing. But that is a weapon, weapon against anything that the enemy might bring. Okay. What can the enemy bring against us? Discouragement. Right. Fear. It could be anxiety. And like you said, it could be temptation. Confusion. Right. So this word of God, this high, this revelatory, quickened word of God is a weapon against all of these things. It's a sword of the Spirit. Yeah. So, so it's very important, right, that we receive this Rema word of God and we remember this Rema word of God. Right. We, we know it's a weapon. God is giving us powerful arsenal, powerful weaponry. And these need to be used in battle. Should we face them? These needs, these need to be used in, you know, against everything. So how do we use it? What do you do with this? By proclaiming and it trials. Yeah. It could be trials, temptations. So, first of all, you know, we receive the word. Okay. We hold on to it. We receive the word. We hold on to it. Maybe, you know, your human mind is actually, you know, we remember certain things. We forget other things. Right. It's kind of tricky. We remember certain things. You know, sometimes people remember dates, information, that this, then they forget, okay, where did I leave the keys? Right. The thing is to remember to, you know, do whatever it takes, you know, for you to remember, you know, maybe jot it down, write it down. Okay. This is what he said. Put the date there and say, okay, God, you spoke this. Remember it. Meditate on it. Think deeply over and over about it. Right. And when we face those trials, when we come to those places of, you know, facing some mountains, maybe facing some temptations, the Holy Spirit himself, will remind us. That's the beauty thing. You know, the Holy Spirit is teaching, the Holy Spirit is quickening, and the Holy Spirit will remind us of these things. Now, the Lord Jesus said that, right, He will teach and He will remind who, the Holy Spirit. Right. So He will teach and He will remind. So the Holy Spirit will bring to our mind these things, but we need to first, you know, meditate on it, think about it and not lose, and bring it out. So we remember and we say, yeah, I'm facing this, but this is what God has said. God has spoken. You know, there could be doubts in our minds. You know, are you really, you know, your friends could be like, what are you doing in Bible college? Right. You should be doing this. You should be doing that. What are you doing in Bible college? Why? You know, you reminded, okay, God, you spoke to me this. You showed me this. And yeah. So this is it. I'm not going to be confused because of whatever voice I hear in a voice of people, opinions of people, but God, you have spoken and in that still small voice, and I'm going to hold on to that. Okay, this one. The Spirit gives us God's perspective through His Word in times of difficulty, encouragement, sickness, yeah, whatever the situation. Absolutely. Yeah. Like somebody said, when discouragement comes from the world, encouragement comes from the word. And God prepares us well ahead of time. He gives us that so we can actually rise up in faith and stand against those things. So it's something wonderful that the Spirit of God does, right? Sword of the Spirit. So you use it. Your faith rises up and you confess it. You declare it and stand strong saying God has spoken. God has spoken. It is written, right? Okay. Prayer releases the supply of the Spirit and keeps us in the love of God. Okay. So all these wonderful things related to prayer, we see that the Holy Spirit brings into the life of the believer. Okay. So what are some of the other things that we see? Okay. John chapter 4 verses 23 and 24 that Lord Jesus having conversation with the woman at the well, right? And He's giving a revelation about what worship is. You would have studied that. So verse 23, 24 is saying the hour is coming but now is when the true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and truth. For the Father is seeking such to worship Him. God is spirit and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth. So you're worshipping out of our innermost beings. Okay. Innermost being like our spirit man. You worship God in spirit and truth. Okay. The other thing is also that in spirit as led by the Holy Spirit. Okay. So it enables us to worship in spirit and in truth. You know, Philippians 3 and verse 3. Let's read that. It talks about how we worship by the Spirit of God, right? Philippians 3 and verse 3. For we are the circumcision who worship God in the spirit. Rejoice in Christ Jesus and have no confidence in the flesh. So we worship God in the spirit, you know, as led by the Spirit of God, as laid out by the Spirit of God. Okay. So it's not a ritualistic thing. It's not a routine, but we engage our spirit man. It's something deep within. It's nothing superficial. But here, Philippians 3 3 talks about we worship God in the spirit. You know, and like I said, when we encounter this word in the spirit, you know, in the Greek, it's in, with, by, you know, all that is used interchangeably, right? So as led by the Spirit of God, right? With, in the, with the spirit of God. Okay. What else? Romans 15, verse 13. There is a bounding hope by the Holy Spirit. Let's look at that verse. Maybe someone can turn to Galatians 5 and verse 5 also. Romans 15, 13. Romans 15, verse 13. Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. Okay. See, when hope is lost, everything is gone. Right? You might have everything else in life. But if you do not have hope, if you are hopeless, then you cannot actually continue. You find it very difficult to go on, face the next day, face the next moment. Why? I don't have hope. A lot of people, you know, you read about people who have achieved fame, people who have achieved great things, accomplished great things, and then they're like, what next? I don't have, I've lost all hope. I've tried everything. I know it's, it's, I'm still having a void in me. I don't have hope. Now here we see that may the God of hope, which means that, you know, like we said, the hope that comes from him, the hope that, which is the source, God is the source of that hope. May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing that you may abound in hope. Okay. What does abound mean? Over and above. Right. It's not a small measure. It's abundance that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. Okay. So just imagine, right, that all of us abounding in hope. The way we look at the world, the way we look at ourselves, the way we look at our problems, everything will change. Everything will change. Right. Paul and Silas in prison, singing. Can you believe that? Singing. It's a very challenging verse. Because they've been ministering. They've been, the cause of that deliverance of that slave girl, they've been beaten and their feet are in stocks, Acts 16 talks about that. Their feet are immobilized, which means, and they are in prison, probably back is bleeding, prison not the comfortable thing. No hope for tomorrow. You think about that. You don't know whether justice will happen or not. But at midnight, Paul and Silas are singing. Worshiping God. It's a very inspirational verse. You know, for me personally, because many times I just complain, why is it like this? Why do you like that? Here they are singing, worshiping. And it is only possible because they've allowed God, the God of hope, to fill them so that they might abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. So they're like, hey, God has said this, I'm going to exalt God. I'm going to lift up God, even in this situation. Okay, we'll stop here and then we'll take a break and come back. Okay.