 Well, I'm excited to share with you this fresh revelation from the word that the Lord has given to me and it's concerning those seasons in our lives Where we sense a distance between us and the Lord now There are times in your life where you will feel like God has distanced himself from you But rest assured that is only a feeling the Holy Spirit abides with us. He does not leave us still Even though the Lord does not really leave us or distance himself from us He still has a hiding nature and I want to talk to you about the three reasons why God will hide We're gonna be talking about that on this edition of Spirit Church, but first Steven Mock to zoom us here He's going to lead you in some anointed worship worship with him and then we're gonna get right back into this lesson here It's Steven Mock to zoom a holy spirit. I call him The hidden dove and we're gonna show you in the song of Solomon Where we find the Holy Spirit's hiding nature revealed now first I want to read a scripture to you so that you understand that all prayer all seeking all worship Everything that connects you and the Lord is birthed by the Holy Spirit. It's inspired It's invoked by the Holy Spirit the scripture says in Psalms Chapter number 27 verse number eight My heart has heard you say come and talk with me and my heart responds Lord, I am coming So first the Lord will call unto you and then you are summoned into prayer first comes the royal invitation Every time you've had a desire to pray It was an invitation from the Lord for all spiritual desires come from the Holy Spirit So when you get a desire in your heart to seek the Lord when you sense that gentle nudge of the Holy Spirit Pressing you into the places of prayer know that he is drawing you closer The Holy Spirit Has to invite you into the depths of God's presence before you can go and you may say well There are times when I desire to be in God's presence and I don't think the Holy Spirit has spoken to me Well, the truth is that that desire itself is the Holy Spirit drawing you for without him We have no desires that are spiritual whatsoever now looking to the song of Solomon I found the person of the Holy Spirit in the song of Solomon and he's represented symbolically now in the song of Solomon There is a conversation between two lovers a man and a woman And the young man represents Christ and the young woman represents the church It is a prophetic parallel for christ and the church So the Holy Spirit actually appears a few times in the song of Solomon First of all in song of Solomon chapter 8 verses 6 and 7 the scripture says Place me like a seal over your heart Like a seal on your arm For love is as strong as death. It's jealousy as enduring as the grave Love flashes like fire the brightest kind of flame Many waters cannot quench love Nor can rivers drown it The Holy Spirit here is the unquenchable fire of God's love fire is a symbol of the Holy Spirit The Holy Spirit is also found in song of Solomon chapter 4 verse number 16 where the scripture says Awake north wind rise up south wind blow on my garden And spread its fragrance all around Come into your garden my love taste its finest fruits The Holy Spirit is also represented in scripture by wind And here the Holy Spirit is the alluring wind That spreads around the fragrance that brings together two who love each other and to my point here on this lesson The Holy Spirit is also found in the song of Solomon chapter 2 verse number 14 remember The young man represents christ and the young woman represents the church The young man tells the young woman in song of Solomon chapter 2 verse 14 My dove is hiding behind the rocks Behind an outcrop on the cliff Let me see your face. Let me hear your voice for your voice is pleasant and your face is lovely now He is saying that the dove is hiding and he uses this language to try to draw The young woman to come and seek after him notice here That the young man who represents christ has a longing to be with the young woman which represents the church or you He says this let's read it again. Let me see your face Let me hear your voice for your voice is pleasant and your face is lovely now We often use this kind of language in worship songs to express our adoration of the lord But did you know that the lord desires to be in your presence just as you desire to be in his and Again the communication here the language being used here is the dove in the rocks christ is saying That he is giving the holy spirit to the church It means that the holy spirit also it also means that the holy spirit has a hiding nature in fact Other scriptures point to this hiding nature of the dove, which is a symbol of the holy spirit Jeremiah chapter 48 verse 28 Says you people of moab flee from your towns and live in the caves Hide like doves That nest in the clefts of the rocks. So here we see again that doves have a hiding nature In fact in the book of psalms the israelites were said to have found treasures in plunder Among the treasures they found doves so psalms chapter 68 verse 13 says Even those who lived among the sheepfolds found treasures Doves with wings of silver and feathers of gold So treasure is something that is found here again We see that the dove has a hidden nature a hiding nature Now the holy spirit never leaves you let me make that very clear But he does hide and what I mean by that is though he abides near you Sometimes he makes that Unapparent sometimes he makes it seem as though he is not near and he does this For three reasons But before I give you those three reasons Let me give you one more verse to demonstrate that god does have a hiding nature Isaiah chapter 45 verse 15 says verily Thou art a god that hideous thyself. Oh god of israel The savior So why does he hide himself number one? He hides himself To draw you Simply put he hides because he wants to be sought so he'll hide to draw you Jeremiah chapter 29 verse 13 says and ye shall seek me and find me When ye shall search for me with all your heart now He doesn't hide you to hurt you or to tease you or to cause you to be anguished He hides you to draw you he hides you to bring you deeper When the holy spirit hides He is not leaving you. He is leading you The holy spirit is calling you into deeper waters When the holy spirit hides your desperation and your hunger begin to intensify And something deep within you says I have to search for the lord When you sense a distance between you and his presence and again, it is only a sense You Are driven To seek him with passion. You are driven to seek him with fervor even as I am talking now Within you there is an intensification A desire To seek the lord and that's what happens when you talk about his hiding nature. So number one He hides so he can draw you number two the holy spirit hides to test you second chronicles chapter 32 verse number 31 says However, when ambassadors arrive from Babylon to ask about the remarkable events that had taken place in the land God withdrew from Hezekiah In order to test him And to see what was really in his heart Psalm chapter 14 verse number two says The lord looks down from heaven on the entire human race He looks to see if anyone is truly wise if anyone seeks god In those seasons Where you feel the distance between you and the lord Where you feel like There is a gap between you and the heavenly Where you sense as though you cannot hear god where you don't Feel that abiding warmth of his presence In those seasons where you cannot see god at work The lord is watching you He wants to see how you'll respond now some believers what they do in these seasons Is they grow angry with god they they stop seeking god they stop praying they stop reading the word they stop worshiping They stop committing their lives because they base their lives on feelings rather than on faith And here is the merciful aspect of god's nature and action If you start to distance yourself when the lord hides his nature When the lord hides his presence The lord will come out of hiding and draw you back into where you need to be But he's trying to teach you something He's trying to test you. He's trying to get you to function on faith and not on feelings He's trying to get you to operate on your trust in his word and not on what you see in the natural And so this is why he'll do it. He will do it to test you. He will hide to test you And so here's how it works God withdraws the sense of his presence You feel this distance between you and the lord and then he watches you He watches to see how you operate in that circumstance Do you seek him in prayer or do you get angry with him and distance yourself even more? Are you faithful to do the work of the ministry or do you because a lack of passion and emotions? Seize to do the work of the ministry. He's watching now If in that hiding season you get a little bit off track the lord will come out of hiding and pull you back in But he wants to mature you. He doesn't want to have to Do those things for you. He wants you to learn to seek him yourself And so in those circumstances where you're asking where's god at work in this or how do I see the lord in this situation? In that place that is where god is testing you and watching you pass that test Seek him despite what you feel And he will draw you even closer and trust you with greater riches of the spiritual So number one he hides to draw you number two He hides to test you and number three the holy spirit hides to purify you The scripture says in josea chapter 10 verse number 12 So to yourselves in righteousness reap and mercy Break up your follow ground For it is time to seek the lord Till he come and reign righteousness upon you When you seek god righteousness is rained down upon you The holy spirit withdraws because it is in our seeking that we are purified When we seek the lord we are being Purified we are being made holy. We are being processed you see God withdraws not just to withdraw He withdraws so that we will seek him he withdraws so that he can test us And it is in that testing it is in that seeking that we are purified This is why your flesh begins to squirm the moment you begin to pray This is why your flesh begins to fight you the moment you begin to try to develop a prayer life It knows that it's dying when you are praying and seeking the lord And in seeking god you are shedding the flesh in seeking god You are refining the spiritual in seeking god. You are being purified So the process of seeking makes you one who can receive all that god has for you So number one God hides to draw you number two The holy spirit hides to test you and number three the holy spirit hides to purify you I want to pray with you now And ask the lord That wherever you are in this season that you would seek after him I'm going to pray that the fire of the holy spirit that unquenchable fire of god's love Would stir within you a passionate pursuit of his presence I want to pray that your heart your spirit would be ignited that there would be an inferno Of love for god burning inside of you So let's pray now that he would give you a hunger a desire and the discernment to seek him Father in jesus name I pray for that one receiving this prayer right now And I ask you lord That by your spirit you will draw them you will lead them You will show them father The way into your glory The way into the depths of your presence I thank you holy spirit that you have a hiding nature I thank you holy spirit that you allow us to seek you I pray now That hunger would be stirred A fire would be ignited And that seeking would begin I hear the lord saying he wants me to tell you it's time to ignite again The fire of your prayer life It's time again to seek the face of god Lord help them do it Remind us holy spirit when we get too busy and distracted In your faithfulness remind us to seek you In the precious name of jesus we pray And I want you to say it because you agree say Amen Well, that is it for the lesson. I want to welcome now the new members of spirit church. There you are up on the screen We love you. We are praying for you I always say that because I always mean it and in fact we are now at almost 3,000 members 3,000 global members of spirit church If you would like information on how you can join the spirit family use the information at the bottom of the screen sign up today It's 100 free. You'll receive a fresh weekly teaching from me and your email inbox on sunday mornings And then you'll also be able to reply to that email for prayer support from our ministry staff So join today become a member again It's free and also you'll be joining a community of believers from all around the world I want to read your comments now and the comments are from last week's video The power of the holy spirit by the way, you leave your comments here. I will read them on next week's video Terry writes I've been asking god for the gift of healing for quite a while now As he began to pray my hand began heating up I'm so glad I watched this teaching and that he confirmed my gift in this way Another commenter writes hi, I have just subscribed to your channel I have been struggling in my life and finding it hard to find my way I was raised in a non-religious family that didn't pray I wanted to find god and change my ways and I found this video It helped just by watching, but I know I have a long way to go. God bless you Well, god bless you and thank you for watching spirit church here on encounter tv I want to ask the spirit family to pray That they would find the lord in ways they never thought they could find him That the holy spirit would draw them closer to jesus than they ever imagined possible Another commenter writes my ear pain was cured. Thank you lord. Thank you pastor. David exactly the left ear like you said it May god bless you. Well, she's referring I believe to a word of knowledge I gave on last week's video and that's the wonderful thing about our channel Is we like to just let the holy spirit move this is his channel The holy spirit is free to do whatever he wants to do So often words of knowledge will flow miracles the healing power of god and the presence of the holy spirit Those are the things that make this channel unique Menna writes definitely steven's best awesome worship and if you haven't seen that video, I agree It's definitely I'll say definitely one of his best You have to go check out steven mock the zoomers worship playlist My absolute favorite worship leader, which is one of the reasons why he's featured on this channel But go take a look at last week's video listen to that worship and let it just I want you just to get into worship And let the presence of the holy spirit touch you Karen grace writes thank you brother david for the encouragement in this teaching I feel the power of the holy spirit as you preach this lesson Indeed apart from god. 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