 Today I would like to continue a series that I started last week, but it's not just a series It's one of the messages of hungry Jen and one of the heartbeats of hungry Jen And that is the personal relationship with the Holy Spirit last week I talked about the Holy Spirit being a person and us developing communion with the Holy Spirit I also mentioned that you can have a fellowship by talking to the Holy Spirit But if you have friendship with the Holy Spirit, it's because you're actually doing what the Holy Spirit says We are an assemblies of God Church We believe in the Holy Spirit Some people call us Pentecostals Some people call us crazy Some people call us wild And we believe in the moving of the Holy Spirit But we also don't believe in weird stuff Just because Holy Spirit is wild It doesn't mean things have to be weird We believe in order We believe in winning souls as the number one priority of the power of the Holy Spirit in the Church The purpose of the Holy Spirit is coming in the Church It's not for all of us to roll around on the floor Shake and bake It's for us to win the world for Jesus Anybody who says I have one Holy Spirit I have one Holy Spirit And they do not care about people getting winning for Jesus I'm missing the whole point Any church that claims that we all have miracles We got the power But if people aren't getting saved If new people are not meeting Jesus Christ We're missing the whole point And so hungry Jen will always keep people's salvation The center of everything that we do Not the manifestations Not even the speaking in tongues Not even the miracles We believe in them We welcome all of the moving of the Holy Spirit But we know that the purpose of it Is people meeting Jesus Christ Somebody say amen Otherwise it just becomes weird If we don't keep souls being saved Everything will just go crazy Bananas weird after rails And that's not what the hungry Jen is going to be about The Holy Spirit Today what I want to focus on is slightly different Than what I've talked about last week When we get delivered When we get saved God takes us from deliverance To development From development To our destiny Let's practice this Say deliverance Development And destiny Wilderness is Where the development happens We call it discipleship Centification Is where God is working on us Pruning us, changing us, transforming us He's fashioning us He's molding us And then he's bringing us into the destiny Now destiny is not necessarily You're chilling on the beach Some are chillaxing and enjoying retirement Destiny is serving God But there's a different shift in that purpose Same thing happens with the wedding And then you enter into development Called fighting, arguing, disagreeing Where you are wondering Where can I return my husband Is there a return policy on my wife Can I get rid of this Problem that I have right now And But if you endure that If the Lord works on you You enter into destiny Where you grow together in love And you develop a beautiful family Same thing happens even With almost everything in life We go from this point of decision To development And into destiny Today I want to introduce to you The work of the Holy Spirit in our life In the area of our development In between Many of us development For us is being in between Somebody say in between It's in between of where we used to be And where we are should be But we're not there yet The Holy Spirit Wants to help us Take us from that place To this place He wants to help us with development When we don't allow The Holy Spirit to develop us We begin to decay We begin to die Slowly in this season Complain, grumble, whine We begin to turn this season That is difficult and that is challenging Into more difficult More challenging More harder seasons To the point where sometimes we just don't make it If you have your Bible Let's go with me to Hebrews chapter 3 And verse 7 This is a reference to Israel Being in wilderness Israel being through that development stage And it says the following In verse 7 Therefore As the Holy Spirit says Today You hear my voice Do not harden your hearts As in the day of rebellion In the day of development Trial in the wilderness Where your fathers tested me Tried me and saw my works For the years Now I want you to see this This is Holy Spirit speaking He's speaking about himself And he says I'm going to speak today Make sure you don't harden your hearts As this happened with your parents Did to me Now I always saw What Israel went through in the wilderness As more of like this is what they did To Jehovah God, God the Father And the Holy Spirit was just like on the back seat Saying man you guys suck You're horrible Causing all these problems to God But in here the Holy Spirit reveals Actually this is what they were doing To the Holy Spirit This verse is a quotation From Psalms chapter 25 95 verses 7 through 11 Where the Bible says Where the Lord speaks God speaks But in Hebrews it says the Holy Spirit speaks That tells us The Holy Spirit is not just a person The Holy Spirit is a Divine person Say this with me The Holy Spirit is a divine person Person meaning He has a personality Person meaning that he is a person That you can talk to He has feelings, he is not a force He is not a mist He is not an experience He is not an atmosphere And he is not a feeling He is not something that you just feel He is a person you can know An experience But he is also a divine person Because the Old Testament says The Lord said Today if you hear my voice do not harden your heart In Hebrews it says The Spirit of the New Testament Is the Lord of the Old Testament That's why Peter tells Ananias And he says you lied to God And then he says In the next verse you didn't lie to man You lied to the Holy Spirit Interchangeably using word God And the Holy Spirit Because the Holy Spirit is not just a person He is a divine person Christians we believe In the doctrine of the Trinity Do we fully understand it No Muslims have a big beef with Christianity Based on this they say you believe in many Gods How could you be a Christian And believe in one God Yet it seems like there is three Gods It's not three Gods It's one God in three persons Those of you who live in Tri-Cities It should help you, we have one Tri-Cities But we have three cities You're in Kenwick You're in Pasco, that's not Richland Yet if you're in Kenwick you're in Tri-Cities You're in Pasco, you're in Tri-Cities And if you are in Richland you're in Tri-Cities So it's one Tri-Cities and it's three Tri-Cities So which one is that, both Now Of course it's not a best explanation Of the Holy Spirit Trinity But it comes close to us in Tri-Cities To say you know what, okay I kind of get it So the Holy Spirit Is a person In the Trinity So we don't have three Gods We have one God We have three Tri-Cities We have one Tri-Cities with three cities Okay, now For those of you who are like I still don't get it Actually You wouldn't want a God You can completely comprehend He wouldn't be worthy of worship I don't understand how a brown cow Eats green grass produces white milk I still drink it You don't have to fully comprehend A God who created the galaxies And multi-universes And everything, I mean Incredible being You can't fit him into your Tiny box And you don't want God that you have figured out You want God that you can trust Who deeply loves you And calls you his own So the Holy Spirit is God The Holy Spirit is a person The Holy Spirit is a divine person And the Holy Spirit in the Old Testament We see the Lord says if you harden Your heart when you hear my voice The Holy Spirit says This is referring to This portion of the scripture is referring to Israel's development There in between In the wilderness In the trial, in a difficult time And that's exactly what I want to share with you today There's somebody here today, you came here And you don't know but God actually Prepared you For this service and God is going to speak to you Right now, so I'm going to ask you that you open up your heart Because he will help you Get through this season of your life Let's share with you four thoughts To take home with you And to practice Number one When you're hitting that season Do not surrender To your circumstances Surroundings Surrender to the Holy Spirit When you hit a hard time The enemy will use hard times to make you hard Hard He will use difficult times To make you difficult When you hit that season Where you're in between Maybe you're in that season where You're coming out of something You haven't entered something else It's a challenging season It's a difficult season In fact it's a season where One person told me that Before the service today Where it just sucks It's just difficult It's just not easy What will happen Where we make the mistake And where we grieve the Holy Spirit In this season is what Israel did They grieved God's Spirit In fact in Isaiah it says the following About what Israel did to God's Spirit Isaiah 63 verse 10 They rebelled and grieved His Holy Spirit So he churned himself As an enemy to them In this season I always thought that I had a problem with God Never saw that it was with the Holy Spirit Because God says They grieved My Spirit In Hebrews it says In the day of your trial In the day of your difficulty He says you hurt me Holy Spirit says you rebelled against me You caused me this So this week I went and I re-read The story of Israel's trial In the wilderness In order to feel the Holy Spirit Being the one that is being rejected That is being denied That is being grieved As they went through a difficult season And God says because you grieved My Spirit during your development You grieved your Spirit and rebelled against him God says intimacy between me And you is broken He's like we're not friends we're foes And God says now he says Instead of favoring you I'm gonna fight you Because God always stands for his Spirit He loves his Spirit And if we don't like the Holy Spirit If we don't love the Holy Spirit And one of the ways that we grieve the Spirit Is when difficult times come And what we do is we surrender To a lesser God Which is our problem We make our problem into a God We make our problem into something We surrender to and yield to Now if you're not a Christian Honestly There are options But surrender to the doctor's report Surrender to your diagnosis Surrender to the symptoms in your body Surrender to your poverty Surrender to your heartbreak You have to surrender because it's big It's out to get you But if you have the Holy Spirit He is greater Therefore you don't ignore the problem You don't ignore the headache, the heartache And all of the stuff but you say the Holy Spirit Is bigger, greater And I yield to the Holy Spirit I surrender to the Holy Spirit I don't know if this situation will change I don't know what's going to happen I am not going to have some false hope But I'm going to have true worship To the God, the Holy Spirit And I will honor the Holy Spirit And I will surrender To the Holy Spirit In 1 Peter chapter 5 verse 6 The Bible says, humble yourself Under the mighty hand Of your cancer Humble yourself under the mighty hand Of your arthritis Humble yourself under the mighty hand Of my kids do not serve God Many of us got humbled By the mighty hand of our situation We surrender to our surroundings We conform to our world And that grieves the Holy Spirit Why? Because he's more powerful than your situation And he doesn't love When we in a difficult situation Give our allegiance, our worship Our obsession and all of our emotions You're sucked by the vacuum of our problem He wants us to come And say, Lord, this is very difficult It's very hard It's very painful I don't know what I'm going to do But when it comes to my worship When it comes to my allegiance When it comes to my loyalty Holy Spirit, I trust in you I love you And I worship the Father I worship the Son And I worship the Holy Spirit I worship my problem I worship my God I don't worship my feelings I worship my God I don't worship my emotions I worship my God I don't worship the doctor's report I love doctors, but I worship God I don't worship my bank account statement I worship God I don't worship the fact that I got sacked A job or somebody broke my heart I don't worship heartbreak I worship God I worship the Holy Spirit When the devil is seeking and saying No, I want you to worship the problem I want you to obsess with the problem You honor the Holy Spirit When you surrender to him When in reality you should have been surrendering to your problem Israel, when they went through development They didn't surrender to the Holy Spirit They surrendered to their problems They forgot God's past faithfulness They forgot God's present promise To be with them And they honestly despised God's future promise Past faithfulness Presence in the present Future promise When we surrender to our situation Few things happen We develop amnesia to what God did It goes blank Everything he did in the past No longer matters We develop This thing where His presence now Doesn't matter What matters is I have sickness What matters is I don't know how I'm going to pay my bills What matters This person just left me What matters my kid isn't changed That's what matters The fact that God you are with me That doesn't matter What you did in the past doesn't matter And what you promise in the future doesn't matter And that grieves the Holy Spirit It's not that the problems don't matter It's that he's greater than the problem And he doesn't like When we obsess over molehills Instead of obsessing With someone who created the mountains And can move molehills In the difficult Most challenging season Fight for your focus To keep it on the Holy Spirit Fight for your focus To surrender to the Holy Spirit Your situation might not change So don't let it change your focus The devil might stand there and say You will die from this sickness And you say devil take this I'm going to die trusting God If that's going to be my Lord Great King you shall know To your God I will not bow And your idols I will not serve I will serve my God I will serve my Lord He's greater than any problem But what if he doesn't change anything If I die I'm going to see him So I'm going to be still happy I'm going to still be a winner with God And devil you will go to hell I'm not saying for you to go all crazy On the devil When he reminds you of your past Remind him of his future When he reminds you how bad your life Remind him how bad he's going to have And say you think I have it bad Were you headed Really really bad for eternity Surrender to the Holy Spirit How do you surrender when times get hard You remember God's past faithfulness Count God's blessings One by one Remember what he has done Remember his present presence God always tells us don't be afraid And he gives us usually one reason You would think the reason would be Oh because everything would be fine You would go to the doctor everything would be fine Oh you're about to get money in the check God doesn't always give us that reason He only gives really one main reason And he says I am with you But what about this God says you got me But what about you got me I walk to the valley of the shadow of death Because you are with me It doesn't say because the valley will not be very long God says to Joshua He says when you enter the promise Be strong courageous Because I am with you whatever you go Jesus says I will never leave you I will never forsake you And he says Lord I am with you Until the end of age That means that you have a reason not to be afraid And that reason is God's presence Present with you right now Through the power of the Holy Ghost Somebody say surrender To the Holy Spirit Not to your surroundings Number two Don't test the Holy Spirit Don't try the Holy Spirit Trust the Holy Spirit Hebrews chapter 3 It says this They tried me and they tested me The Bible actually tells us we can test God In tithing so the only place We can test God is in tithing Every other place We are not allowed to test God Why because when you test something You are challenging its authority Its intention Satan Tested Jesus and says turn Rocks into bread Pharisees challenged Jesus And they said give us a sign Ignoring all the signs Jesus did People challenge Jesus on the cross Says come down from the cross we will believe you Jesus never played Magic never did magic for entertainment Jesus will never perform Tricks To satisfy your skepticism Why does God not do that Because God doesn't like to be tried And tested He's not Costco's sample Now I understand some of you And I heard some of our testimonies I tried everything and then I came to God And I said Jesus I'm going to try you And I get it God understands that But if that is your relationship with God Is you're trying God He's not an AOL internet That you can try for 30 days And then return it back God is not on trial And he doesn't like to be tried He loves to be trusted Now something I want to share with you That liberated me personally About a year ago In the development In the times of testing Trial and hardship for us I used to feel guilty For not having faith The difference between faith And trust as pastor Howe and Leah in the book Generations Outlines is that faith is active Trust is passive Faith says God I got you Trust says God you got me Faith is aggressive Push through the crowd Touch the hem of his garment Power healed Standing on the promise Come hell high water Man I'm standing on a solid rock That's faith But when you hit the grinder That's God I ain't got enough energy to get out of bed I have hard time to stay sane Like I ain't got energy to fight And then you give me the other believer Who's like no man you got the spiritual warfare But weapons right here man You gotta go to war You lad I can make it and then of course they guilt trip And they say no that's why you're gonna get stuck Nope In the trial time You rarely will have energetic faith You will have passive trust And that pleases the Holy Spirit He knows It's hard He knows it's difficult And passive trust Is the greatest form Of warfare Of faith When hell breaks loose It's when the sickness is progressing And instead of you just Claiming the verses Across the sickness You kinda did all of that and honestly You're out of it already And you have this quiet confidence Not that you got God You're past that now God got me Not that you surrender into the sickness Lord cancer that's just my identity No no no you're not sick person Trying to get healthy You're a healthy person fighting sickness You're not a poor person Trying to get blessed Fighting poverty You're not a weak person trying to get strong You're a strong person fighting Weakness Your identity is not in your issue Your identity is in the Holy Spirit But sometimes you hit that season Where all of that fighting All of that You're tired You're exhausted And the devil will lie to you and say God will never manifest his power in your life Because you don't have that aggressive faith But I'm here to remind you The Proverbs 3.5 it says Trust in the Lord Meaning sometimes you can't just fight anymore But you can passively Leave And rest on God God got me He's got my health He's got my family He's got my crazy children He's got my spouse He's got my finances I trust in him And I'm not no longer even praying for them Not because I don't believe it I just trust God got it God got it God's got it He's got it What's gonna happen? I don't know God's got it Peace because he who trusts in God The Bible says and leans on His understanding God will see you through Sometimes Your faith is like the Centurion Send the word and my servant will be healed Sometimes your faith is like Bartimaeus, son of David And sometimes It's like a trust of a paralyzed man Jesus comes to him, he's not even asking for healing He just says He wanna be healed, he says And he almost seems like he has no Excuses and sometimes we're in that place And I just, I don't wanna condone Doubt, skepticism I just wanna encourage that when it's hard To fight in faith Rest in trust Just lay down your weapons and say Lord, I've done the best I can I can't walk anymore Carry me please And I lean 100 God I'm dropping And I'm afraid I will hit the rock bottom Could you catch me Before I do That's trust When I get on the airplane I trust the seed I trust the pilot I don't bark orders, I don't hit the door Every five seconds if he's awake I relax And I trust that the pilot Is not drunk Is not a terrorist Is not gonna fly that plane into a building And I fall asleep And I wake up In a different destination Sometimes in the development That's all you have to do Is trust He's got you Don't try him Don't test him Don't try to say God If you don't do that next time I give you 30 days, I will not believe you Trust me, he created the universe He's intimidating with threats You can't push this thing If you come down right now Some people like to make arguments But if you heal me, I will do this It's like God over there in heaven Struggling financially And really that thing from you Is gonna make a big deal for God God is testing us sometimes By letting us realize we need to learn to trust And there are seasons in my life Where I fought in prayer Yelling, screaming Confessing, stomping on the snake Walking around my mountain Seven times and then shouting Seven times more And yeah, but as I'm getting older A lot of that hype Begins to fade And a lot of times when hell breaks loose Stuff hits the fan And I grab to my seat I buckle up With the truth and I said Jesus You still here? And I hear the witness Yes I am, I said God We're still on the track? Yes we are Okay God, I'm closing my eyes I'm going to sleep You stay awake and worry It's passive trust It's strong When you're struggling People will blame you and say Oh, you don't understand until they hit the stuff And then they'll come back to you Saying I don't believe in God anymore I can't go to church, you're like huh Yeah, it's easy to judge somebody Who's going through something you're not going through Instructions on what they should do But sometimes you're going through the difficult season And all you can do Is silently trust Job had a lot of questions to God And we judged Job, we were like man he had a lot of doubts But you know Job said this I know My redeemer lives Meaning he's got me And he said in my flesh How we see God Meaning in my future The devil isn't showing up That's what real trust is Trust is not Trust is expecting God will show up in my future I don't know how I don't know how he will make the appearance I know he's showing up in my future Fear says the devil will show up And mess everything up like he did the last time Faith says Trust says I trust God Will show up in my future During your trial, during your development Trust the Holy Spirit And no longer exercise active Aggressive, passionate Vibrant, Pentecostal charismatic faith Just trust in him Number three The Holy Spirit will develop you During development If you replace Complaining With communion Grumbling with gratitude Wining with worship What messed Israel up And what really grieved the Holy Spirit Look in Israel's development story Was this one thing They used their mouth To grieve the Holy Spirit And how did that do that They used their mouth As a thermometer To always notify the Lord Of what they felt And that grieved God It's okay to process things It's okay to In worship come to God And express your feelings It's another thing When you develop it as a part of your routine Your habit and your character To be a whiny, complaining Grumpy, negative Toxic individual Jesus went through wilderness He felt pain He felt hunger There were wild animals there Satan was tempting him And you don't see Jesus Vomiting his feelings You see Jesus speaking God's word You don't always have to say What you feel I know our culture That worship therapy And counseling And you know process your feelings You always have to talk about your feelings I get that, that has its place But some of us have been Developed this thing Where everything that comes to our head Comes out of our mouth To the point we have become Chronically complaining people And then this chronic Complaining becomes something That we become those people Where now people around us they know Yeah, she's always going to complain The guy's always unhappy Always mad at somebody, always un-angry Never grateful for anything Complaining to the devil Is what worship is to God Worship God inhabits it Satan inhabits grumbling No wonder when Israel grumbled When snakes came When you worship The dove comes When you complain Serpents come And guess what the serpents do They bite What do they do with their bite It's not just something like a mosquito It hurts and then you stop scratching it It goes away When snakes bite they release venom Venom goes into your system And it begins to shut things down They attach, they are in love They are attracted to complaining Constantly grumbling people The more you complain The more you grumble, the more you are negative all the time What begins to happen is the dove The Holy Spirit begins to withdraw Because the Bible says do everything Without grumbling, it says that The Holy Spirit loves Thanksgiving Entering to God's courts Not with whining, but with Thanksgiving Thanksgiving, gratitude, being worshiped Being alive, being grateful That you are alive, that you are God's child That you are forgiven Yes, everything else might not be good But you're headed to heaven Holy Spirit lives inside of you And you focus on those good things And you being grateful something happens The presence of God is more like attracted to worship But the moment you switch Constant complaining Whining This is bad, this is bad Oh, but he doesn't love me But she doesn't love me This is bitterness And then you do that, you do that for a while The Holy Spirit's presence withdraws He doesn't leave you His sweet presence does The Holy Spirit doesn't leave us When we grieve him It's his manifest presence Lifts us the same way If you grieve your spouse, they don't divorce you They'll just be distant from you No, not distant Meaning that they'll move across the country It's as you will be in bed with them And you are as far from them as east is from the west Why? Because emotional distance happens When we grieve the spirit We feel distant from him It's not that he is far from us It's like a grieving spouse They are distant emotionally And distant in the heart But they're not distant, they're not Gone, they're there When you chronically Constantly complain like Israel did The Holy Spirit Is grieved He won't tell you a lot of times he's grieved In fact He will leave You won't even know he left How do I know the Holy Spirit is grieved? Peace of mind is gone Instantly, secondly The soul no longer has stillness A lot of irritation comes in And what begins to happen, what else there? The sweetness of the Holy Spirit Is gone I know I'm saved, I know I'm going to heaven I'm currently living in hell right here Like over there, just everything is just like There and then you're mad, you're angry There's no sweetness anymore There's no stillness there anymore Mind becomes foggy There's no clarity anymore He doesn't announce his departure When he left Saul Saul never got the memo When he left Samson Samson never got the letter Hey, in three days I'm leaving He just departed and the Bible says Saul did not even know And sometimes you feel afterwards What do you feel? What Saul? What Samson did? Yeah, I got this Oh, this doesn't work anymore Why? The sweet presence Left But the amazing part it can always come back If we repent If we realign our life But as his presence departs Guess what begins to happen There is a short window of opportunity The sweetness of his presence is gone And this is a time where the big alarm Sounds to the demonic kingdom I'm available, I'm open Open season, anybody out there Come and attack me That's really what's happening Because in that moment, bitterness Offends And you start A little bit manifesting And you stay in that season long enough Venom begins to come into your system Give it 24 hours I can stand Give it 42 hours 48 hours Next thing happens you want to kill him Give 72 hours You researching what to put into the soup Give 7 days You already on the couch thinking Man, should have married the other girl in high school I think it was stupid me I knew I made a mistake My parents told me I was making a mistake And now you know that you have a mistake Give it 2-3 weeks Venom already shutting Different stuff in our life Why? Because when the dove leaves Serpents come That's why in the same portion of the scripture Where it says do not grieve the spirit Few verses before that it says don't give place to the devil Those two things always work together We're not talking about salvation We're talking about bondage Or blessing When the sweetness of his presence is there There is a protection That exists against the demonic When we grieve his spirit He doesn't announce his departure We begin to feel lack of that peace Lack of that joy Lack of that righteousness And if we don't take caution and say God I need you Like David he says Lord take not your spirit from me I saw what happened to Saul God please take the crown Take everything but please do not take your Presence from me I need that back clean my spirit Purge me break me mold me Oh God I need that I can't function without that King Saul on the other hand When that happened Completely oblivious And the Bible says the stressing spirit comes Starts tormenting him the guys that's literally having Manic episodes throwing spears at everybody And he doesn't register The dove is gone And I got snake venom everywhere And you know what Saul does the rest of his life For 20 years chases David thinking His problem is David All of my problems will be gone And instead of looking For a prophet or prayer line or something He's looking for a musician who can play music So that his demons could be comforted And that's why God never delivered Him and the dove never came back I want to encourage you today Do not develop complaining grumbling Anger resentment We all fall into that all of us But the difference between people Who keep relationship with the Holy Spirit They don't give a long gap Between their sin and their repentance We all mess up All of us, myself included But if we bridge the gap Between when we messed up And we know in our heart Our consciousness is just like eating us alive Like no and then you want to go and watch a movie And some people go get drunk Do whatever they need to do Silence them, do not silence them That's the mercy of God Telling you the dove is leaving Wake up And if you do that the dove will come back Now I'm not saying the Holy Spirit left His sweet presence has The Holy Spirit Rested on Jesus and the Bible says He remained on Jesus because Jesus Never once Did anything Thought nothing, they grieved the spirit The dove always stayed on him But he doesn't always stay on us Because we, well we're humans Communion is more important Than complaining Gratitude is more important than grumbling Worship is more important than whining Now does that mean we Can never complain? Of course we can Make sure it doesn't become a habit And make sure it doesn't become a routine And make sure We give ourselves 2 minutes And come out of that Not like give ourselves 20 years And become it Because what complaining does is this It allows our soul To have a field day The more you have your soul Have a field day You become soullish And carnal As a Christian you have a spirit Soul and the body Your spirit can Get strengthened in the Holy Spirit Can tell your soul Hey Behave Remember David says Bless the Lord all my soul So David is speaking to his soul He's not living in his soul David would speak to his soul And say why are you so discouraged What's up with that? You woke up this morning Oh cranky and stuff He says for I yet will praise the Lord So he's telling soul You I know you're cranky I know you're not feeling good right now I just want to give you heads up The orders come from the headquarters You're going to do what we need to do And that is we're going to praise God So you get on with it, we're praising God Your little titty potty stuff is over When you complain and you grumble What happens is your spirit gets pushed aside And your soul is the one that Yeah this is what's happening And the soul always just reflects the circumstances But when you allow the spirit To lead your soul Speak to your soul, direct your soul Sometimes it could be literally like you Speaking to yourself and this is not weird It's in the Bible, David did that And most of you speak to stuff anyway You speak to your car, you speak to your cat You speak to your fridge, you speak to your taco You speak to your ca-phone, you speak to other stuff So just you might as well speak to yourself Sometimes you got to encourage yourself The Bible says David strengthened himself So when you're going through stuff And you realize your soul is over there Making its own stuff, wants to have a speech Can I have a 30 minute speech? You're like wait wait hold on Let me see your script When your soul wants to express all of its emotions Many people do not have borders And do not have a border patrol in their life We need to have that Because whatever happens here We don't have to let it always Come out of there in our mouth The Bible says what comes out of the mouth Defiles a man And some of us unfortunately destroy With our mouth what we're building With our hands Come on how many arguments we had In our marriages there was only Because of this We only zipped the lip And just kind of nodded Avoided the fight You can't catch a fish with its mouth closed Sometimes the best remedy Is silence Is to just kind of say no I'm not feeling good right now And if I'm going to open my mouth Somebody is going to get hurt So I'd rather not do that I got to calm this down Give me a break, let me go around the neighborhood Deliver myself from these demons And I can say something sweet The Israel said a lot of nasty stuff They said God you left us God we missed the cucumbers We lifted garlic, really You want to go back to Egypt for garlic? Are you kidding me? You got beaten there for hundreds of years Literally made slaves, didn't have a day off And all you're missing is garlic? God you left us What kind of God you are You're not taking us anywhere You lied to us You felt that? Trust me everybody did They didn't have to always say it I believe that We can silence the voice Of those negative feelings By the help of the Holy Spirit How do I know that? Because what is the area the Holy Spirit affects when he fills you Why do we have to learn to speak More and more in tongues Because our tongue is the last thing we can control We can't But when the Holy Spirit fills it He begins to control it And a lot of us need to speak more in tongues And less in English Because when we speak in English A lot of nasty stuff comes out I'm not against us speaking in English I'm not saying come to your family says no I'm so mad I'm just going to speak in tongues to you right now Not that part But what I'm saying is that if every day we take time to speak in tongues What begins to happen is that When we feel tempted to say something With our tongue that is painful The Holy Spirit will pull the e-brakes Oh, hold on keep that Don't let it come out because once it comes out World War 3 will start We don't need that Then you hold it and next thing that happens The Lord preserves us Amen Amen The last thing that I want to mention And that is develop sensitivity to the Holy Spirit When you When your sight fails you When you don't see What you want to see as a Christian And now the Holy Spirit Wants you to see that I want you to notice what Hebrew Chapter 3 Verse 7 says Therefore, as the Holy Spirit Says When you are in development When you are in the most Difficult season of your life When you are in between places You typically will only See in front of you Bad Darkness Challenging situation like Israel No water No food No meat No cucumbers No garlic No other food And then they get the report about the promised land And the report is pretty exaggerated But report is things are actually worse In the promised land than they are here So when what you see in development Season in between place A lot of times it's just hard Spouse is hard At the same time with children Young children and elderly parents And it seems hard You're looking at your finances and it's very hard You look at your gas prices, it's very hard The cost of food, it's very painful Everything seems to be painful Hard and difficult So your sight, what we see Is very difficult What I love Holy Spirit for Is in the development He doesn't change what we see He changes what we hear That's why it says As the Holy Spirit says Because what I see is bad He doesn't come and change what I see He starts to speak to me And what I hear changes Give an example Bartimaeus was blind Most likely he was blind all his life What he saw was bad In fact it was dark He saw that every day He saw that for lunch, he saw that for dinner He saw that when he was a teenager He saw that when he was a teenager He saw that when he was a young man And most likely he would be seeing for the rest of his life But did you know when the turning point happened In Bartimaeus? Nothing changed with his sight The Bible says in Bartimaeus Heard Jesus Your hearing Is going to be the key To change What you're seeing If what you're seeing hasn't been changing That's why it says the Holy Spirit Speaks Why is he speaking? Because the only way he can change What you're seeing With your health, with your family, with your finances Is by speaking to you But what we do many times When everything is dark And we are in between place We say Lord change what I see Open my eyes, open my eyes But what we need to be doing is saying Lord help me to open my ears To hear what you are saying Lord cried out to the Lord He didn't ask Jesus for an explanation Like if this would have been some of us We would be like Jesus, why was I born blind? Well it's not a Like you can ask for an explanation Or you can get a miracle And Bartimaeus is like I will ask for explanation when I die and go to heaven Right now he's nearby, God is walking by I'm not going to waste my prayer to ask for an explanation I need a miracle How did that miracle came Through his hearing Jesus faith comes by hearing The Holy Spirit speaks the Bible says So as I go through a difficult time And everything is dark, everything is bad I don't know where to go, I'm confused, I'm lost I'm trying to go this way, I'm trying to go that way I don't know where to go I don't have a direct verse in the Bible of what to do next I'm asking this person and that person Everybody's giving me contradictory answers Honestly, I'm confused, I'm lost And everything is dark What do I do? Open your ears Because the Holy Spirit Won't be showing He will be speaking As Bartimaeus heard the Lord And then Jesus called Bartimaeus Something happened, the Bible says Bartimaeus' eyes were opened And he followed him Meaning the direction where to go next Came after something changed In his sight, which came from Him hearing first When we are lost, when we are Stuck, when we are confused When we feel like it's bad, dark It's gonna get worse We go into panic mode, but instead We should develop sensitivity To the Holy Spirit We should develop hearing to the Holy Spirit Because hearing will unlock seeing Same thing happened with Apostle Paul He means Jesus goes blind completely And God comes to another Disciple Ananias, and he says Ananias Paul is in that house Here's the address, he says I'm thinking, how did Paul see you in the vision When you're blind? Because though his physical eyes were closed Something else was opened They say that blind people a lot of times Develop sensitivity in their ears They're so sharp Their senses, other senses Are beginning to work way better Than their sight, because they cannot rely On the sight, so they rely on their sound So much more When you feel like what you're seeing Is bad God will get you out of that season Through your hearing Hear Listen Pay attention to the Holy Spirit Follow the whispers of the Holy Spirit Follow the guidance of the Holy Spirit Discern the moving of the Holy Spirit And you will see how he will Change you And then change what you see How do you do that? How did Paul saw when he was blind? A verse before that Because Paul was praying That means we pray Until we hear We pray, I like to say this I read until I feed myself I read until he speaks Until peace comes into my heart Until assurance comes I don't have what to do I don't know what the next step to do What I just know is I'm alright Holy Spirit is with me Everything is going to be okay And the next thing that happens Is just enough to see So you step into that Kind of like when you drive in the dark The light from your car does not light up The way from your present place to your destination It just lights up just enough So you can get there and once you're there It pushes more light It gives you more light on the road And more light on the road I want to encourage you today That in the most difficult season of our life The Holy Spirit wants to fill us He wants us to have our mouth be pure In the Holy Spirit's version Of our Bible Pure means that we're positive Pure and not positive That we're oblivious to the problems Walk around saying no I don't have a sickness That's not faith, that's stupidity Because if you have sickness There's no need to lie about it And that's not faith Faith simply says I'm healthy fighting sickness Fear says I'm sick And I'm gonna die from this And I'm not gonna take any medication Seek medical help We're not on that side We're just trusting in Jesus We don't surrender to our sickness We don't surrender to our problem We don't surrender to our issue When things get harder We keep our mouth filled of positive things We communicate with the Holy Spirit And when our faith fails And we're like I can't believe anymore It's very hard We rest We say Lord I trust you I can't trust you But I trust you How do we get out of this You listen Why? Because he knows what you're going through He will decide when that What you're going through comes to an end And he will whisper something And he will say Bartimaeus come here He will say to Israel Cross to Jordan and everything changes Things will change And the Holy Spirit will do his work Through and in you In Jesus name In our jobs In our careers But the most important is not the changes that he makes The most important is the development Of the relationship that we have As a result of that Our marriage changed When we first got married It was such a happy day It was my dream to get married Actually for a long time I thought I'll never get married And I just didn't know the girls Don't necessarily look They like to flirt with guys that are good looking They just don't marry them Somebody should have told me that But I didn't know that So they look more about what's in your wallet And what's in your brain than actually how your face looks But again nobody told me that So I finally married this beautiful girl And very very happy And then hell breaks loose Not that she was the hell that broke loose It's just demons were attacking her And then I thought I was so self-righteous Because I was a virgin All the way till our wedding night And stuff So I thought there was this special thing What I didn't need to crucify myself I could be impatient, I could be arrogant I could be just coming in like Why are you sleeping till 7 o'clock you're not praying I did all the stuff that you shouldn't do And it was very hard And after I was done with all of that The Lord started to work on my heart He started to change me as a person He started to cut off a lot of that Ugliness that nobody Had to confront in me because Nobody was that close and it was painful It was very painful But it was necessary because the development season Is very important it's to change us And I'm not gonna lie to you There were times I had lies Coming this close in my head Like right there knocking on my door and saying I'm not gonna leave and the lies were You married the wrong person Man You should have not married her She's from Vancouver and all of this stuff You're from here You didn't even know her you got a cat in the bag All of the lies like crazy stuff I won't tell you everything that knocked on the doors Of my mind But I remember I made a decision I said I will not let that in That could come and tempt me But that's not gonna come out of my mouth And it's not gonna come into my heart I made the right decision I married the right person I said that at the time The person that I married is God's choice for me Period And then My wife goes through her deliverance I go through my brokenness Through my sanctification and everything And we started to step into a new season Our marriage is not perfect Not the furthest thing but the relationship That developed through that season Is solid And that relationship is healthy That relationship brings me joy Through that season became so close I realized how messed up I am And though I didn't need deliverance From drugs but sometimes self-righteousness Arrogance and nasty attitude Is as bad as other stuff And the Holy Spirit come through And started to bring that deliverance That development that happened I'm still being developed please don't I'm not walking around you look at me I reached my destiny no that's not There's still a lot of areas that are still being developed But in some areas I see the breakthrough Thing in the ministry There was a time of 10 to 15 years Where there was a very heavy Heavy development and it was hard And it was hard and yes at first There was a lot of yelling and screaming We're gonna have a revival we're gonna da da da da I mean we took virgin oil Dropped it in front of the nightclubs So that everybody will come in and will slip Into the presence of God And you know did all of this stuff Very aggressive like I remember I was In high school Pasco High stapled a thousand On my hall bringing everybody to Our youth rally nobody came except I almost got kicked out of the school And it's like passionate aggression Let's go and stuff is And then after about like 10 years of doing All of this stuff and I was like Kind of tired Is anything ever gonna change And the Holy Spirit started to deal With idols you know You want revival because you love people You want revival is because you want to be famous No God don't go there All of that started to get exposed And it started to break things And then the big thing happened as I've shared To you many times when he put on my heart My wife's and he knew Exactly the area that was like Super sensitive for me and that was money I was like a religious tither Like a Pharisee you know I only tithe I would never give a dollar about my tithe Like I was strict Pharisee And the Lord I think it was the Lord I knew it was the Lord now Put on my heart to take the savings And I fought with it and I Because that was breaking point for me It had nothing to do with money It had to do with my heart being attached And me being materialistic But I thought because I don't make a lot of money I'm not materialistic The fact that I was addicted to that money And the Lord brought that up and I flared up Like oh how dare you talk to me about that soul And I rebuked the voice and I rebuked That's not from God God doesn't steal, kill and destroy This thing coming to me right now In Jesus name, all of that nonsense And then of course when I come down And I realize yeah I don't think it's the devil Who wants me to give to the missions And I was like and I don't think this is God Who's getting all flared up about the fact That I should be more generous And I'm like but I don't want to confront The fact that I got a little ugly Green monster living right here How can a Pentecostal boy like me have that Where has this monster been living? In the basement Of my Pentecostal faith And he came up And man I remember when the Lord had to Confront that and deal with that And it was painful, died million deaths Pruning had to happen, that's the development That's the development And so, and if you walk away from this And say no I'm not going to allow that You know it's kind of like leaving a surgery Open heart surgery in the middle Of the surgery and say no this is too hard I'm leaving, you got to stay on the table And say Lord I'm yours Holy Spirit changed me Holy Spirit I want to be more like Jesus I don't want to live American dream I want to fulfill your purpose for my life I want my life To be a living sacrifice on the altar And Jesus if there are idols And there are good idols That I really like Jesus but please take it slow Not all at once Please be patient with me And Lord please Don't leave me But Lord be patient with me I will come around but please help me And Jesus through the Holy Spirit Will work on us He will speak When we can't see And then our circumstances change And then we begin to follow the Lord now We know clearly where we need to go But even then God takes us deeper And God takes us higher Some of us have sensitivity We are overly sensitive People walk on eggshells around us And we should stop that Seriously Instead we should take the Holy Spirit seriously And make sure that We are sensitive to Him Let people hurt your feelings once in a while You're not that important But make sure that we don't hurt His feelings Because He's that important But many of us we made ourselves Into a big Holy Spirit Nobody can hurt us But we can walk around and hurt Him I don't want to be that I want to be a person that Can't hurt His feelings seriously Amen Thanks for watching this sermon If this was a blessing to you Would you let me know in the comments below What stood out to you from this message What are you taking home with you from this message Also if you enjoyed these messages Would you help us and hit thumbs up to this video And subscribe to our channel So you can get new videos every single week Delivered to you On your YouTube app If you go to hungrygen.com You'll actually be able to download the transcript The notes And the quotes of this sermon And the rest of all of our sermons Free of charge Until next time