 Welcome back after the break. Just before we went for our break, we started studying chapter 3 from the book, Kingdom Builders, where the Holy Spirit leads us and guides us even as we build God's Kingdom. We were looking at Matthew chapter 7 verses 21 to 23 that those who do the fathers will be rewarded. So we know that a priority should be to do God's will. When we do that, his work will go out in power and he will do whatever he has called us to do in his name. So we see that the Holy Spirit is our director, he is our leader and we are so privileged as children of God that the Holy Spirit leads the sons and daughters of God. Romans 8.14 says those who are led by the Spirit of God, they are sons and daughters of God. So we have the privilege of being led by the Spirit of God and the Spirit of God, what does he do? He basically reveals the heart and the mind or the will or the plan and the purposes that are in the heart and mind of the Father. He reveals it to us. So it is important for us to be led by the Spirit and we read John chapter 14, 15 and chapter 16. We see Jesus is talking about the Holy Spirit and what the Holy Spirit will do when the Father sends the Holy Spirit after Jesus goes back to the Father. So what are some of the things that the Holy Spirit will do for us when what Jesus mentions in John 14 chapter 15 and chapter 16? If you look at chapter 16 verses 13 to 15, it says, Jesus says, the Holy Spirit will tell you the very things that I have been speaking to you about. The Father reveals things to the Son and the Spirit will speak of those things to our hearts. And we also know the Holy Spirit reveals things ahead of time. Why does he reveal things ahead of time so that he can prepare us for those seasons of life? Prepare us in advance. How do we know is the Holy Spirit speaking to us? There will be a witness before. Okay. What is the main key to knowing that the Holy Spirit is speaking to us? It will align with the Word of God. It will align with the Word of God. Okay. Most important thing, it glorifies Jesus. Okay. Whatever the Holy Spirit speaks, you know, Jesus will be glorified and magnified. So if you want to know whether you've correctly heard the voice of the Holy Spirit, not your own voice of your own desire or the voice of the stranger. Who is the voice of the stranger? Okay. It is to know if actually Jesus is exalted or it is he being glorified. Okay. Now, when we do things that is not in accordance with the plan and the will of God, you know, it is actually birth out of our flesh. Okay. And it's not birth out of the Spirit. So what is born of the flesh? Jesus says in John chapter three verse six, what is born of the Spirit is of the Spirit. Okay. And we cannot convert what is born of the flesh into the things of the Spirit. Okay. So sometimes we think, you know, we do so many things for the kingdom of God and it is out of our own fleshly desires. It's not born of the Spirit. And we think why is God not moving? Why is he not working? Okay. So what is born of the flesh cannot be converted into the things of the Spirit. Now, one example we can look at is in Exodus chapter 20 verses 22, 23, sorry, Exodus chapter 30 verses 22 to 33. Here, God is telling Moses and he's asking him to prepare an anointing oil. Okay. And he's giving him all the materials, how much quantity he needs to take to make this anointing oil. Basically, like in our context today is like a spray, room freshener spray or, you know, something that hand sanitizer like that a sanitizer, you know, something like a perfume. Okay. So he's telling them, you know, to make this anointing oil and he's giving him all the instructions, what are the materials to use, how much to use quantity. And he's saying, you need to take this anointing oil and sprinkle it on everything in the tabernacle, all the utensils, everything in the tabernacle and whatever is sprinkled with this anointing oil, it becomes what? Sacred. It becomes sacred. It gets set apart. And he says you should also anoint Aaron and his son and consecrate them because they are his ministers and they are his priests. But he's saying that this anointing oil should not be made by anybody else and used for any other purpose, like, you know, like a body lotion or a body cream, you know, you know, or something that you can use at home as an incense or, you know, to anoint things, what you want in your home or in your tent, you can't do that. This is only for the tabernacle. Okay. So this anoint or holy anointing oil in the Old Testament is actually a type and shadow of the anointing of the Holy Spirit in the New Testament. Okay. Type and shadow means something that is similar to something that will follow through. Okay. So some of the important lessons we learn from this is whatever is used in the service of God must be anointed by God. So if you are serving God, it should be anointed by him and whatever is anointed by God becomes consecrated unto God. And, you know, God will not anoint what is born of the flesh and God will not tolerate any imitation of the anointing. He said nobody should make, you know, this composition with this same material, you can't make it for your own self. And what is born of the flesh does not have the life, the power, the authority, the presence of the living God. Okay. So basically saying that whatever you do out of your fleshly desires or passion, you know, cannot become a true work of God or cannot be an imitation of the work of God. It will actually not even stand in the presence of God. It will not hold on to the anointing power, the presence and the life of God. Okay. So what is born of the flesh actually hinders the things that is born of the spirit? Look at what Galatians chapter four was 29 says. Rin, can you please read that Galatians chapter four was 29. But as he who was born according to the flesh then persecuted him who was born according to the spirit, even so it is now. Okay. The birth of the flesh will be the very things that hinder. Okay. Destroy the things that are bought of the spirit. Okay. So it's very important that we know what the enemy is trying to do and birth through our flesh and not do it because that hinders the work of the spirit. Okay. So what are the things of the flesh? What are the fruits of the flesh? We read about this in Galatians. Okay. Chapter five, we see the fruits of the spirit, we see the fruits of the flesh, but we also see that the fruits of the flesh or what is birth of the flesh is always in opposition with the things of the spirit. So there is always a war, you know, things of the flesh and things of the spirit and whatever is birth of the things of the flesh is not so it will oppose the things of the spirit. Okay. And what is birth of the flesh is false, it's not true. Therefore, we should be very, very careful not to birth things out of the flesh. Okay. And what is birth out of the flesh will not benefit anyone, will not bring life, it will not profit anything to anyone. Can, can you please read John chapter six verse 63. John six verse 63. What is the spirit who gives life the flesh profits nothing the words that I speak to you are spirit and their life. Amen. So here we see that what is born of the flesh will not benefit people it will does not have the power to produce life godliness transformation encounter and people's life. It will just give an emotional, you know, stirring people to get emotionally stirred up and feel very excited. But there will be no real genuine transformation that happens in life in the lives of people that is why, you know, in the, in the past few years when there was a great mighty move of the Holy Spirit people being slain in the spread laughing in the spirit. Even though I was not part of a church where they used to teach about the Holy Spirit, you know, the person, the work of the Holy Spirit, I didn't know any person at the work of the Holy Spirit. Even the Bible colleague that I studied, you know, we were not taught about the Holy Spirit and speaking in tongues and all of those things. But there was a church where where I studied in Bible college, they were moving mightily in the things of the spirit. Okay. So they were laughing in the spirit and crying in the spirit. And I used to see people slain and, and all of those things. But for me at the end of it when I asked these people, they said, you know, whole night they've been laughing in the spirit and the stomach is paining the stomach muscles is paining. And they looked very tired for me, even though I had not studied about all of these things for me, I thought, Hey, if it is actually God's work, it should bring that lasting joy. You know, that, that life, that kind of freshness and newness of life, if the person is feeling tired and exhausted, is it really from God? So I had in those days when I was in Bible college, I was so scared about the move, the spirit, you know, even somebody praying for me for the anointing of the spirit and all of that. I used to run away, you know, and this church said, Hey, you ministered for us to our children during the family camp that they had. We're going to pray for you. And every time they say that I will go and hide in somebody's room. I remember so clearly. And then, you know, the last day they finally caught me just before I was going to take my train to go back to Bible college. And they said, we're going to pray for you. And I was like, God, I don't want to be slain here. I don't want to fall down here. I don't want to lie down here. I want to go back to Bible college. So even though they prayed for me, I keep eyes open, you know, so that I don't. And I didn't want anything to do with this because I didn't feel there was this life transformation. There should not be any tiredness or fatigue. There should the person should say, I felt something inside, you know, my burdens were lifted away or I felt new. That is what is about the Holy Spirit, the work of the Holy Spirit. So what is born of the flesh actually, you know, will please the emotions will bring about excitement or everything. But afterwards, you know, people going back to the same old lifestyles, the same old problems and difficulties. They can encounter the presence and the power of the Holy Spirit. So we need to discern what is of the flesh and what is of the spirit. We just can't, you know, have a feel good, you know, kind of a mentality when we come into the presence of God. It should be something where we encounter God in a powerful in a very, very real way. Okay. Another thing that we can know whether it's things are born of the flesh or is born of the spirit is what Paul says, you know, he says in 1 Corinthians chapter 3, verses 12 to 12 and 13, that what is of wood, hay and straw. Finally, if it does not stand the test, you know, there will be a test and things of the flesh that is birth out of, you know, whether it is, it will burn up. Okay. So like if you build a building out of wood, straw or hay, it will easily burn up. But if it's built, a building is built on strong material, it would stand the test of time. Okay. So one way we know what is birth out of the flesh, it will not stand. It will just quickly burn away, fills out, it will die off. Okay. But what is born of the spirit is something that is eternal and something that is lasting. Okay. And then, you know, we also learned that we need to walk in the spirit. Okay. Paul says, you know, we need to live in the spirit, walk in the spirit. And what else live, walk and sorry, live, walk and be mindful of the things of the spirit. Okay. So Galatians chapter five verse 16 says walk in the spirit and you shall not fulfill or you shall not gratify the desires of the flesh. Now, what does it mean to walk in the spirit? To be led by the spirit? Okay. What is to be led by the spirit? Being sensitive to the Holy Spirit and being yielded to the Holy Spirit. Okay. So when we are sensitive to the Holy Spirit and yielded to the Holy Spirit, we do not birth things of the flesh. Okay. And walking by the spirit is not something that we do once in a lifetime. It's a day by day, moment by moment, minute by moment, minute choice that we make to be under the influence authority and the power of the Holy Spirit rather than, you know, under the influence and the power of the dictates of the flesh. Okay. So sometimes the voice of our flesh will cry out, will demand, will want things, but at those moments we need to draw strength from the spirit. We need to shut down, crucify that voice or shut it down. Okay. The voice of flesh and we need to make a choice to, you know, follow the spirit of God or what the Holy Spirit is telling us. Okay. And we need to, as kingdom builders, even as the Holy Spirit is our director, we need to walk yielded and in brokenness. Okay. So sometimes, you know, some of us are very confident about ourselves because we're very competent, we're very skilled, we're very intelligent, you know, and most likely when we, you know, feel we are more capable, competent and all of those things, you know, it's very easy for us to birth things out of the flesh and not be dependent on the Holy Spirit. Okay. So I'm in this point walking yielded and in brokenness. So if you can follow in your books, it would be nice. Okay. So that you're not dreaming away. So it's important for us to remain in a state of yieldedness and brokenness. So yieldedness is a choice that we make where we choose to listen and submit to the Holy Spirit. Brokenness is also a choice. Brokenness basically means where we are completely dependent on the Lord. You know, we're saying, God, I'm nothing. You know, it's all about me. We think we are brokenness means we just consider ourselves to be those earthen vessels, which can break very, very easily. And we are nothing actually, but it's only the anointing of God that flows upon us that makes us as worthy vessels. Okay. As makes us as vessels of honor, even though we are those earthen vessels. Okay. And we need to stay in this place of dependence on God where we are receiving from his power and his anointing and just depending on him totally and wholly and solely on him. So every time we choose to minister, we need to come to this place of yieldedness and brokenness. Okay. Now, the two questions that we ask is what motivates me and who is glorified. So how do we know that we are birthing things of the flesh? We need to ask who's what is motivating me? And then I'm doing this to get more fame name, you know, popularity or to be well known or my church should become famous. You know, am I doing it for that? What is motivating me and who is being glorified is my name being glorified. Is, you know, the senior pastor, he or she has done so many things. So, you know, very powerful, very anointed. What is who is being glorified? Okay. So what is motivating you, whether you're motivated out of selfish ambition, you know, the lust of the flesh or the fruit of the flesh, whether it's hatred, jealousy, anger, selfish ambition, you know, competition with other men and women of God, you know, envy, whatever, it's going to produce things of the flesh. It can't produce things of the spirit. So if you're asking and saying, hey, this church has been so many ministries, but we don't see anyone really God being glorified or the glory of God falling, no science miracles and wonders. It's important to ask what is motivating, what they are doing. And another simple test is who is being glorified. Okay. Whether this Christ being glorified or the pastor or the men or women or the church being glorified. So these are two questions that is important for us. Each time we do something, each time we are planning something is important for us to ask this question. What is motivating us to do this program and who is being glorified? Okay. And the other thing we learn about the Holy Spirit is the Holy Spirit also reveals to us where we need to do things. When we need to do things and how we need to do things. Okay. Where? So we see, you know, if you read scripture, the Holy Spirit has guided people to go to different places to do ministry. For example, you know, the Holy Spirit told Philip, go near and overtake this chart in which the Ethiopian eunuch was there. And so we see that he just obeys ghosts and we see that the Ethiopian eunuch, he understands the gospel, he's baptized and he takes the gospel to Ethiopia. Okay. Acts chapter 10 verses 19 and 20, we see that Paul in a vision, you know, where he sees that cloth and, you know, many clean and unclean animals. And the spirit of God tells him, three people are waiting. Go with them. Do not doubt. Do not ask any questions. And so whose house was he led to the Gentiles house, Cornelius's house, and Peter being a Jew never thought the Gentiles would also be part of the kingdom of God. They would also receive the gospel and also be baptized in the Holy Spirit. Even before he finished speaking the message, what happened? People were baptized. Okay. They were cut in their heart and says, and they started speaking in tongues. And then he realized the vision that he had and that God also has, you know, has the plans for the Gentiles. Okay. So here we see that, you know, the Holy Spirit instructs us when, where, sorry, where to go and what to do. Okay. The next thing is when we need to go there. Okay. So we see that, you know, in Acts chapter six was, Acts chapter 16 was a six and 10, six to 10, sorry. You know, we see that Paul, you know, he goes to certain places, and he had come to Messiah. And then he tried to go to Bithynia, but when he goes to Bithynia, what happens? The Spirit of God does not allow him to go to Bithynia, but the Spirit of God tells, he, he, in a vision, Paul sees an, you know, a man of Macedonia coming and pleading with him and telling him, please come to Macedonia. Okay. So this vision confirms that Paul has to go to Macedonia, but he was actually trying to go to which place? Bithynia. Okay. So here we see that, you know, the Holy Spirit is not only telling us, you know, where to go, but also when to go. Okay. So he's telling the Holy Spirit is telling him it's not a time now to go to Bithynia, but you need to go to Macedonia. And so we see that, you know, Paul goes to Macedonia. He preaches the gospel there and the people are led to the Lord. Okay. And we read this in second Corinthians chapter one versus 15 to 17, but Paul says, you know, can somebody read that please? Second Corinthians one, 15 to 17. Second Corinthians one, 15 to 17. And in this confidence, I intended to come to you before that you might have a second benefit to pass by way of you to Macedonia to come again from Macedonia to you. And we helped by you on my way to Judea, Judea. Therefore, when I was planning this, did I do it lightly or the things I plan? Do I plan according to the place that with me there should be yes, yes and no, no. So here we see that the Holy Spirit knows exactly when, where and how we must go about doing the work of the kingdom. So here Paul is saying, you know, when I was planning all of these things, was I taking it very lightly? Was I doing it out of my flesh? But he says, no. For me, a yes is a yes and no is a no. Okay. It's from God, God who leads. So he's a Holy Spirit who inspires him, leads him, helps him plan. And he says, these are the very things that he does. So we also need to, we have our own plans, our agendas. We need to submit that to the Lord. Say, God, this is what I plan and I purpose what I think, you know, you're welcome to change it. You're welcome to move things. You're welcome to realign things, re-change things. And I'm just willing to submit and yield to your leading and your direction. Okay. So the work of the Holy Spirit or what is birth of the Holy Spirit cannot be done with just, you know, or the work of the Kingdom cannot be just done with human understanding. It requires spirit guidance, the Holy Spirit guidance and kingdom thinking. That means a mind that is renewed with the word of God where we're thinking in terms of God's ways and God's thoughts. Okay. And we know that the Holy Spirit prompts us in different, several different ways. And we studied all of this in fulfilling God's purpose. Sorry. When we were doing receiving God's guidance for your life in the first year. So, you know, you learned the Holy Spirit can speak to us through a quickening in a certain word, you know, witness, impression, you know, just put in me. A Reema word, a flash of information, a spirit, you just know inside, you know, you sense the peace of God with the Holy Spirit saying, go ahead. You speak, you feel tightness or restlessness, which means the Holy Spirit saying, don't do it. You know, you can also get through prophecies, dreams, visions and also through ideas and pictures. So various ways the Holy Spirit communicates to us. All of this we studied in detail when we were studying receiving God's guidance for our lives. Okay. From that publication receiving God's guidance. Okay. So even as a Holy Spirit is a director and leader, it's important for us, you know, to be mindful and sensitive to the Holy Spirit. How can we be mindful and sensitive to the Holy Spirit? How can we be mindful and sensitive to the Holy Spirit? Very simple. Be obedient. Be obedient. Seeking God continuously. Okay. Basically have a relationship with the Holy Spirit. Right. You know, communion with the Holy Spirit, fellowship with the Holy Spirit. We have communion and fellowship with the Father and the Son and not the Holy Spirit. The reason why we say the Holy Spirit doesn't speak to us is because we are not tuned or trained to listen to the Holy Spirit. So we have to maintain an undisturbed communication with the Holy Spirit throughout the day because the Holy Spirit is constantly reminding us and telling us and speaking to us, you know, at various points of the day. So we need to constantly be tuned to the Holy Spirit. Right. Okay. And listen to Him. Okay. So apart from just setting regular time and prayer and meditation is also important for us to constantly be engaged in tuning and listening to the Holy Spirit. And also when we are meditating on God's word, it renews our minds and it realigns ourselves to God because the Holy Spirit speaks to our spirit man and our minds is the processor. The mind is where things are processed. So if our mind is not renewed, then we can say, hey, this is not the Holy Spirit. It's not doable. It can't happen. You know, so mind is also very, very important. And sometimes in spiritual aspects, we leave out our mind. We think God does not use our mind. Okay. But it is important for us to also renew our mind and how do we do that to prayer and meditation? Okay. Another thing how we can be sensitive to the Holy Spirit is, you know, being calm on the inside. Okay. Because the Holy Spirit is very, very, you know, like very peaceful, calm. That is why the Holy Spirit came as a dove. Okay. So we need to be very calm and peaceful. And you know, if a dove is sitting on your shoulder, how will you, what will you do? You can walk like this, right? Or you will not jump or you will not move your shoulders. You know, you will very gently and very, very cautiously move without disturbing the dove. The same way it's important for us to maintain inner peace, inner calmness so that we can listen to the Holy Spirit. Okay. Like Romans chapter 16 verse 20 says, walking in peace, you know, is walking in him who's God of peace, who crushes the enemy under our feet. Okay. And also we need to maintain our heart of purity, our heart and life with right motives. Okay. It's important for us to do that. Okay. We need to be set apart for ourselves as Godly consecrated, sanctified for the master's use though this anointing can flow through our lives. Okay. And also we have to walk in love. Okay. Even as we, you know, when Paul is talking about the gifts of the Holy Spirit, he says, but walk in love because that is more important. If you're not walking in love, we cannot exercise the gifts of the Holy Spirit. Okay. So God is love. He who abides in love abides in God and God in him. One John chapter four verse 16. Okay. If we don't walk in love, we cannot walk in the spirit. Okay. We cannot walk in him or walk in the spirit if you're not walking in love. Okay. And also it's important for us to discern the spirit's timing. Okay. There is a time for every season, every action in under heaven, at least he has this. Okay. Sometimes the Holy Spirit will tell us to go and do things and we need to go and do things like Philip, the Holy Spirit told Philip in Acts eight, 29, go near and overtake the chariot. Okay. So that time it was immediate obedience. Instantly had to go without resting. There are other times, you know, when the Holy Spirit speaks, we need to take time to pray to prepare and then act on the instruction. So every time the Holy Spirit is teaching us and guiding us and preparing us, telling us something, it is also sometimes it can be to prepare us for the future, for the next season of our life. Okay. So we need to know when to act immediately, when we need to take time to pray and prepare and then act when the Kairos moment comes or the God appointed time comes. Okay. Now, praying in the spirit. Yes. Can you tell us some practical tips how to maintain the communion with the Holy Spirit? How to maintain communion with the Holy Spirit. Okay. So basically, like, like now you're going for, you're in this class. Okay. You're listening to the lecture and you're saying God Holy Spirit, even as I'm listening to the lecture waters, there's so many areas that we have heard where are the areas in my life where you want me to work or we learned, we were talking so much about God being glorified. So you're saying Holy Spirit, am I glorifying you 100% or am I seeking glory for myself? And if I am, so you're constantly speaking and engaging. Now you're talking about after classes going for a supernatural hour. What are the songs I need to choose for the ministry? So for the supernatural hour, God, Holy Spirit, give me the songs. Or, you know, I have to speak to this person after the class or I have to call this person. So Holy Spirit, you know, speak through me, give me words of wisdom or knowledge or understanding. So you're, you, you've meditated something in the morning, saying Holy Spirit, I didn't understand that. What are you doing? How can I apply what I have learned in my quiet time? How can I apply that? Oh, Holy Spirit, I'm feeling so down and so discouraged or I'm, you know, you know, not feeling too great. You know, reveal to me what is really happening. Why am I feeling like this? So you're constantly engaging and speaking to the Holy Spirit and in communion with the Holy Spirit. So one time, like, I hear on preaching from Benny Hinn. He used to talk with the Holy Spirit like good morning, Holy Spirit. So it's kind of relationship. How do you maintain that? Like we can create a relationship with the Holy Spirit. Yes. How to maintain that? Yes. Not only Benny Hinn, but even that Paul Yongecho, he, he's, once he came to a point of total depression and he was sitting there and he was saying, God, you said I'm going to have a church of 5000 and I'm not even having two members and those members who are coming now are also leaving what is happening. Then God revealed to him that he is not really, I, you know, walking, I mean, not communing with the Holy Spirit and leaving out the third person of the Trinity. And then he realized that, you know, he needs to commune in with the Holy Spirit. So he, you know, when he wakes up in the Holy Spirit, he's selling Holy Spirit, good morning. So what do you have for me today? What are the exciting things you have for me today? And he says, you know, when he goes up to the walking towards the pulpit to preach, he's saying Holy Spirit, you come with me, Holy Spirit, you speak through me, Holy Spirit, you minister to me, let your power. So like that. So even now, if you're asking me this question, I'm telling you, asking the Holy Spirit, how should I answer Francis? Even as I'm, you know, I'm, I'm thinking about an answer. You know, how can I answer? So sometimes we don't have to say Holy Spirit, what do you want me to say? You know, you can just say, you know, Holy Spirit, what should I say? Or what should I just say? I don't know why am I feeling like this? So you can talk Holy Spirit, why am I feeling like this? He's a person. You know, that is why God relates to us as, as a person because we can, we relate to each one of us as person. So he identifies us with a person as a person. And so, so that is so beautiful. So you can talk to him as a friend, like as a, you know, as a person. Nothing wrong to say, good morning, Holy Spirit, good night, Holy Spirit. Even as I'm speaking, sleeping Holy Spirit, consecrate my mind so that I get dreams and visions. If you want to speak to me through dreams and visions, you know, speak to me in the night. I'm very excited to hear, receive dreams and visions from you. Just speak to him. Yes. You don't like, we have a communion with God, the Father and Jesus, but we don't have the relationship with Holy Spirit. Like, how is the different like having relationship with Jesus, but not having the Holy Spirit? Can you explain more like, how can it be? Because like their fathers and the Holy Spirit, they are all three in one. So even if we are having relationship with God, is it not like having relationship with Holy Spirit? Yes, it is. When you have relationship with God, you have relationship with the Holy Spirit and with the Son, but they are three distinct personalities. Even though there's one God, they are three distinct personalities because of the three distinct roles that they have. The Father is the supreme authority. He is the one who speaks. The Son listens. The Son speaks. The Holy Spirit, you know, testifies what the Son has spoken. We read in John chapter 16. Okay. So the Holy Spirit's role is what? Comforter, teacher, guide, the one who comes alongside us, the one who enables us, he counsels us, he helps us pray in our weaknesses. So we need to identify the role of the Holy Spirit as well. So you're saying Holy Spirit, I don't know what to pray for this person. Give me the words to pray, but you are going to pray in the name of the Father and you are going to tank in the name of Jesus and you are declaring the finished work of the cross. But who is the one who is helping you to pray? The Holy Spirit. It's not that if you don't say Holy Spirit and the Holy Spirit is going to get angry, he's not going to help you because you told only Father, only you said, oh son, you ignore the Holy Spirit. No, it's not like that. But it's important for us to acknowledge each of these distinct personalities with their distinct roles that they have. And like as you have to remember, we can speak to Holy Spirit, like have conversations, speak what we are going through, we can speak normally but also from the other side. Speaking is the one but hearing is the other aspect of it. How we can be sure of it's the Holy Spirit that speaking to us. How can you be sure? How can we differentiate? Is it by our own? Is it from Holy Spirit or is it? Yeah, we learn that in Ministers Foundation. First of all, we need to see whether it is alongside God's word. Secondly, whether God has been speaking about this in various instances in your life. If you hear something new, wait for confirmation. Look at God's word, ask for confirmation. Also, whether it is glorifying Jesus Christ. So, did you listen to FM this morning? Did you listen to FM this morning? No. Why? You never listen to FM, right? So, how do you know the Holy Spirit is speaking to you when you never listen to the Holy Spirit? When you tune to listening to the Holy Spirit, you will know it's the Holy Spirit speaking. Then you will be able to discern whether it's the Holy Spirit speaking, your own desire speaking, or Satan speaking. And sometimes you will come to know with such deep clarity because you are accustomed and tuned to listen to the Holy Spirit. Now if I bring in all the faculty here and one by one, we blindfold you and ask them to speak, who is Pastor Jakes? Who is Pastor Nancy? Who is Pastor Paul? Because you identify their voice the same way when you are used to listening to the Holy Spirit. You are constantly tuned and you will discern very clearly. And also important to discern is you need to have a renewed mind. A renewed mind helps you to discern. What is a renewed mind when you are taking on the ways and the thoughts of God? So, that is a renewed mind and your mind is renewed daily by God's word. God's word is that's why God says I will write my words on your heart and mind and I put my spirit and my spirit will teach you all things. So renewed mind is very very important for us also to discern whether it's the Spirit speaking. And we have to grow into all spiritual wisdom and understanding. Pray that God help me to grow in all spiritual wisdom and understanding what Paul writes in Ephesians and Colossians. Then you will be able to discern. Okay. So, we need to any other questions? Okay. We need to pray in the spirit. Praying the spirit helps us to understand the purposes of God. Okay. First Corinthians chapter 2 verses 9, 10, 16 very famous verses okay. No man has seen, no year has heard, no heart perceive the things that God has prepared for those who love him and who reveals it to us. The Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is able to reveal to us because he knows the deep things of God. Okay. For who is known the mind of the Lord that he might instruct him but we have the mind of Christ. Why do we have the mind of Christ? Or when do we have the mind of Christ? When we are able to receive things from the Holy Spirit. Because the Holy Spirit reveals the mind of God to us. And so the Holy Spirit reveals the mysteries of God to us. It reveals the thoughts, the plans and the purposes that God has for us. The Holy Spirit reveals it to us. Okay. So when we pray, we know, you know praying in tongues, we are praying mysteries but it's not mystery to God. It's the Holy Spirit revealing things to us and we are praying in accordance with God's will, plan and purpose for our lives. Okay. And when we pray in the Spirit, we also learned, I'm just moving fast because we've already learned this in the Holy Spirit class and also minister's foundation. When we pray in the Spirit, we are actually aligning our will to God's will. Okay. We are coming under the submission subjection and the yielding of the Holy Spirit. Okay. So Hebrew chapter 5 was 7 and 9 says though he was a son he learned obedience by the things that he suffered. Okay. And having been perfected, he became the author of eternal salvation to all who obey him. Okay. So we say, we see that Jesus himself learned obedience by the things he suffered. Okay. How did Jesus learn obedience? He aligned himself to the Father's will. Okay. How do we know he aligned himself to the Father's will? On the cross. Okay. Even yes Father says, and I obey, I do the Father's have come to do the Father's will. Okay. One instant is in the garden of Gethsemane. You know, he just prays Father take this cup, remove this cup, but finally says not my will but your will be done. Okay. So when we pray, you know we pray in the spirit our will becomes aligned to God's will. So even Jesus when he was praying his will finally became aligned to God's will. Okay. So in times of prayer, you know, God works in our hearts. He brings our wills, our desires, our dreams in alignment with his plans and purposes. Okay. And the very famous verse in Romans chapter 8 verses 26 and 27. It says, you know the Holy Spirit intercedes for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. That means the Holy Spirit along with us prays for things that we do not know what to pray for. Okay. So when we pray in tongues, we pray by the spirit and and we it's a prayer that is coming from the very throne of God from the very heart of God and we're praying in accordance with God's will. Okay. And it's also praying in the spirit brings us to a place where we are aligning our will to become his will. Okay. Now very interesting you know content that is given here giving birth to the work of the spirit some lessons from the Mary miracle. This is a sermon that pastor preach is a very, you know, powerful truths that you know we see here and we look at the work of the Holy Spirit looking at you know how the Holy Spirit you know to the power the Holy Spirit Mary conceived you know to the power the Holy Spirit Mary conceived Jesus in her womb and looking at the whole the birth of Jesus and we look at some lessons about the work of the Holy Spirit. Okay. So we see that you know the Holy Spirit is released into this earth at the appointed time. Okay. We know that you know in Genesis chapter 3 verse 15 God already says there that I will put enmity between you and the woman in your seat and her seat he shall bruise your head and you shall bruises he that means on the cross God is already declaring that you know that Jesus will you know defeat Satan. Okay. The head crushes head crushes authority and power he will be rendered nullified powerless and with stripped of all his powers that is on the cross but it took 4,000 years for God to accomplish this that means God waited for the Kairos moment the fullness of time when he was going to release what he is already promised what he has already spoken. So you know the Holy Spirit speaks to us things ahead of time so that we can be prepared for the seasons to come and at the right time you know God the Holy Spirit or God will release what he has promised in the Kairos moments in our lives. Okay. And also we see that the work of the Holy Spirit is released through ordinary people Isaiah chapter 7 verse 14 says a virgin shall conceive and bearer son and you shall call his name Emmanuel so we see that God could have chosen some princess or some highly educated woman to give birth to baby Jesus okay but here he chooses a very insignificant inexperienced virgin like Mary okay so just imagine you know somebody like Mary who's never given birth to a child and this is the first time she's conceiving the power of the Holy Spirit you know what if there was she was reckless or careless and you know she had a miscarriage what if she didn't take care of herself during her pregnancy you know there were huge risks that were involved but you know from God's perspective you know God when he birthed something the outcome is dependent on him okay all that Mary had to do was just to be obedient to be available and once she was obedient and available and put her faith and trust it was God who enabled her and strengthened her and helped her out okay so here we see that you know God is not afraid to entrust big kingdom responsibilities or even you know what he wants to do how he wants us to build his kingdom to ordinary people even though his kingdom is eternal his kingdom is powerful okay he's not afraid to entrust it to ordinary people like you and me to do his work or his to build his eternal kingdom okay the next thing we can learn is the work of the Holy Spirit must be unadulterated born purely of his spirit okay so we already saw this what is born of the flesh you know cannot be converted into things of the spirit it does not have the life the power the anointing okay so we must say no to the things of the flesh and yes to the things of the spirit and that is what the angel tells Mary that what is born of you you know the Holy Spirit will come upon you the power of the highest will overshadow you and what is born of you will be called the son of God so the whole the angel is telling Mary that hey this is through the power of the Holy Spirit or it's God who is going to birth this in you it's the work of God okay also see that the work of the Holy Spirit might you know bring embarrassment to us okay I'll stop here because we just have one more minute and not move into the next point okay so very interesting things that we can learn from the Mary miracle will continue next class anyone has any questions any doubts before we just have one more minute any questions any doubts good to read through this very miracles very interesting very good profound thoughts that are there you know pastor preach this sermon once many years back for a Christmas thing yeah and I think it just came spontaneously or so I think I don't know yeah so powerful yeah even he was just revealed by the Holy Spirit I think we're just preaching so one of the one of times when he was doing this so very powerful any questions anyone okay there no questions we learn class so be a kingdom builder and follow what we've learned so far about being kingdom builders okay and pray that you know you will be a kingdom builder who's glorifying God and pure in your heart and your motives so there'll be no unrighteousness in you okay thank you everyone for joining class have a blessed day and a blessed week ahead thank you thank you