Ep 30 - The Spirit of the Lord

• Isaiah 11:1-5 
• Revelation 19:10 
• 1 Corinthians 14:3 NKJV 
• 2 Peter 1:21 NKJV 
• Luke 4:18-22 NKJV 

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Speaking the truth in love, let's grow in every way. Welcome to the Let's Grow There podcast. I'm your host, Holy Star Jackson. I'm so excited to grow with you today. Are you ready? All right then, let's grow there.

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Hello and welcome to the show today. We are talking about the Holy Spirit the last couple of weeks on the show, and we're continuing that today and talking about the spirit of prophecy. We're going to start with our theme scripture for this series that we're in, and it's found in Isaiah 11, verses 1 through 5. And I'm going to read it for you in this in the New Living Translation first, and then we're going to look at the Passion Translation as well. So out of the stump of David's family will grow a shoot. Yes, a new branch bearing fruit from the old root, and the spirit of the Lord will rest on him. The spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and the fear of the Lord. He will delight in obeying the Lord. He will not judge by appearance, nor make a decision based on hearsay. He will give justice to the poor and make fair decisions for the exploited. The earth will shake at the force of his word, and one breath from his mouth will destroy the wicked. He will wear righteousness like a belt and truth like an undergarment. Now I'm going to read it in the Passion Translation as well, just like I did last week, because I really like the way the Passion Translation lays out what the seven spirits of God are, or the sevenfold spirit of God, the seven aspects of the Holy Spirit. So it says the cutoff stump of Jesse will sprout, and a fruitful branch will grow from his roots. The spirit of Yahweh will rest upon him, the spirit of extraordinary wisdom, the spirit of perfect understanding, the spirit of wise strategy, the spirit of mighty power, the spirit of revelation, and the spirit of the fear of Yahweh. He will find his delight in living by the spirit of the fear of the Lord. He will neither judge by appearances nor make his decisions based on rumors. With righteousness he will uphold justice for the poor and defend the lowly of the earth. His words will be like a scepter of power that conquers the world, and with his breath he will slay the lawless one. Righteousness will be his warrior's sash and faithfulness his belt. We we talked about how uh this Holy Spirit came and rested upon Jesus when he was baptized by John in the Jordan River, and how Isaiah 11 is the is the prophecy for telling that, foretelling when the Holy Spirit would come upon Jesus and empower him to fulfill and carry out his ministry and his assignment, his purpose in the earth to do all of the things that he did and live the life that he lived so that he could redeem all of mankind, so that he could purchase us back, so that he could pay for our sins and purchase our healing and our redemption in every aspect of life. In order to do that, he needed the power of the Holy Spirit. And so that's what we're talking, that's why we're talking about this, because if Jesus needed the Holy Spirit, we need the Holy Spirit in our lives today. And so we want to understand all that we can about the Holy Spirit and all that he is and all that he does in our lives, all that's available to us. Because if we don't know what we uh what we have access to, then we're not going to really, we're not going to really utilize that. We're not gonna, we're not going to um make the most of it, right? So we want to understand all that we can. And I will tell you, I don't know it all about the Holy Spirit for sure. I'm still learning and I will be all of my life because the Holy Spirit is a person. He's, you know, you never stop getting to know a person as long as they're in your life. You're continuing to learn things about them, and you're continuing to, you know, um get closer to them, someone you love. Obviously, I'm not talking about just a stranger somewhere, but like um someone that you love, someone that you care about, someone that you want to be with. You're gonna always be learning more about that person and the Holy Spirit is a person, and so we're gonna always be learning more about him, getting to know him better. And so this is just a start. This is just a kind of a foundation that I'm um endeavoring to lay for people to just get better acquainted with the Holy Spirit, knowing what he is, who he is, what he does, and how he works in our lives, how he works in the earth through people. He worked through Jesus and He He worked through the disciples, he worked through the apostles, he works through us, he works through his people today. And um honestly, it's one of the most fulfilling and wonderful things in life when you partner with the Holy Spirit to accomplish his purposes in the earth and to accomplish the assignment that God has for you, because we know that God has a purpose and a plan for each and every one of us, and he has designed us to partner with him in life, to not do it on our own, to not um to not just live, to not just exist and get through each day, but we have a purpose and we have a reason that we're here. God ordained us, he wrote, he wrote our story out before the foundation of the earth. And uh, we've talked about it on the show before. We know that God has good plans for us and good purposes for us, and we're not here by accident, we're not here, you know, just for just because our you know, our parents had us. It wasn't their idea. It was God's idea that we would exist. And each and every one of us has a purpose to fulfill for the kingdom of heaven, not just an you know, for natural reasons, not just you know, for natural purposes and functions, but because God designed us and planned for our lives to impact the people around us and to have a purpose that will last for all eternity. And it's up to each of us if we're gonna fulfill that or not. And the only way that we truly can fulfill our God-given potential and purpose is if we partner with the Holy Spirit, if we um come into alignment with him, come into relationship with him and know him and work with him and hear from him and obey him. So that's what this, that's what this series is all about. It's to get to know the Holy Spirit more, to know, uh, to know what you don't already know, to find out what what you don't know about the Holy Spirit and get to know him more, and just to to lay the foundation for that, because it's so important and it's so um it's hard to even put into words, but I I love the Holy Spirit so much. He is my best friend, and you know, to some people that that I know that that sounds crazy to say that there's a spirit that I talk to that I hear from that I know that is my best friend. He's not an imaginary friend, he's not like a little kid playing, you know, this is my imaginary friend. It's not like that. He is a real person to me, and I see him moving in my life. I hear his voice, and I feel his presence every single day. And, you know, the more time I take to sit and listen and be aware of him, the more I feel his presence, and the more I hear his voice, and the more I get to know him, and you can too. And that's that's the whole point of this because I want people to know that you can know the Holy Spirit. The Bible says there's a friend who sticks closer than a brother, and it's talking about the Holy Spirit. He is our friend, he is our everything. We've been we've been talking about it the last couple of weeks. He's our comforter, our teacher, our counselor, our guide, and he is he's everything. He's the most important thing, the most important person in my life. And, you know, some people get hung up on saying it when I'm referring to the Holy Spirit or saying things, you know, I keep saying he's the most important thing in my life. He's the most important person in my life. Um, he is a person, and he's not a thing, he's not an it, but just in our terminology, you know, we we say things, we say it that way, and and I do. I I say it that way, but I know with all of my heart that he is a real person and he is not just an it or just a thing, even though, you know, when I'm talking and going through this, sometimes I do say it that way. I just want I want you to know that I don't get hung up on wording a lot with when it comes to that, um, because it's not necessary. I know the Holy Spirit, I know who he is in my life, and uh every single day I'm getting to know him more and more. And so you can too. And that's my desire for you in doing this. And so the Bible shows us that there are seven aspects to the Holy Spirit and what he brings into our lives and what he brought into Jesus' life, and that's what this scripture here is about in Isaiah 11. And the first one is the spirit, it says the spirit of the Lord rests upon him. And in the Passion Translation in the footnote, um, Brian Simmons explains that the saying, the spirit of the of Yahweh rests upon someone in those times when Isaiah was written, that would mean when somebody said that, it would mean that the spirit of prophecy was upon them. So, about Isaiah, you would say that the spirit of the Lord was on him because he was a prophet. He prophesied, he had that spirit of prophecy operating in his life, and that's what he functioned in. Um, that's what his ministry and calling and purpose was, you know, and other prophets as well, like Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Nehemiah, different, different um prophets throughout the years, and um Jesus operated in this. Jesus operated in the full, uh, the full aspects, all the aspects of the Holy Spirit, as we see here in both the New Testament scriptures that we've read and in um Isaiah 11, where it's it's foretelling and prophesying about Jesus. So when we say the spirit of the Lord here, we can interchange that with the spirit of prophecy. So today we're talking about the spirit of prophecy. So um in Revelation 19.10, I want to read this verse for you in several translations. In the New King James Version of Revelation 19.10, it says, For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy. The New Living Translation says the essence of prophecy is to give a clear witness for Jesus. The Amplified says, the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy. His life and teaching are the heart of prophecy. The Amplified Classic says, for the substance or essence of the truth revealed by Jesus is the spirit of all prophecy. It's the vital breath, the inspiration of all inspired preaching and interpretation of the divine will and purpose, including both mine and yours. Okay, so I know I just read four translations, and that's a lot. But there's so much, there's so much here, and the way that this ties in is really neat. It says the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy. The spirit of prophecy is the first aspect of the Holy Spirit that came to rest on Jesus, that comes to rest on us when we're baptized in the Holy Spirit, that comes to live in us when we are saved, and and the Holy Spirit begins to indwell our lives. So we have the spirit of prophecy, and the spirit of prophecy is the testimony of Jesus. First Corinthians 14 3 says, But he who prophesies speaks edification, exhortation, and comfort to all men. To exhort is to strongly encourage or urge someone to do something. And then 2 Peter 1 21 says, For prophecy never came by the will of man, but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit. Okay, so what I want to get across here with these verses is that the spirit of prophecy is the testimony of Jesus. And prophecy is edification, it's to exhort, it's to comfort, okay? And it comes by the Holy Spirit, because the Holy Spirit is the spirit of prophecy, the spirit of the Lord. And it's so neat to me to see how this works. Um, let's look at one of my absolute favorite scriptures in the Bible in Luke 18. I've read this to you guys before, but let's look at it real quick and read it in light of what we're talking about today. So Luke 4, 18, I'm reading in the New King James Version. It says, the Spirit, this is Jesus talking. He is quoting Isaiah. This is when he um let me actually just back up a little bit and read in verse uh let's just start in verse 16. It says, So he came to Nazareth where he had been brought up, and as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day and stood up to read. Now remember, this is right after Jesus came out of the wilderness, and he had been uh tested by the devil after he had been baptized by John, after the Holy Spirit had come upon him, and then the Holy Spirit led him into the wilderness, where he fasted and prayed for forty days and forty nights, and then the devil tempted him, and he passed all the tests with the word of God, and then he began his ministry. So he re he uh came to Nazareth, and he was speaking in the temple, and he was handed the book of the prophet Isaiah. Uh, when he had found when he had opened the book, he found the place where it was written, The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me. Now, this says the spirit of the Lord is upon me. And I love this because that we just read that the spirit of the Lord is the testimony of Jesus. And when John baptized Jesus and saw the Holy Spirit land on him uh or rest on him like a dove, he testified that Jesus was the Son of God, that he was the one that God sent into the world to be the Savior, to be he was the Lamb of God. And we read that last week and the week before last, where John testified that Jesus was the one, that God told him, the one he sees the Holy Spirit come and rest upon is his son, is the savior of the world. So the Holy Spirit came upon Jesus and anointed him, and it was the testimony of Jesus. And it's so neat to me the way this all this all goes together. It says, Because he has anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor, he has sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed, to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord. Then he closed the book and gave it back to the attendant and sat down. And all the and the eyes of all who were in the synagogue were fixed on him, and he began to say to them, Today, this scripture is fulfilled in your hearing. So this scripture, which is quoted, Jesus quoted from Isaiah what we know as Isaiah 61. Of course, they didn't have chapter and verse back then, but we do, and that is from Isaiah 61 that Jesus is quoting that, and he's fulfilling that um, that prophecy about him, because first he fulfilled the prophecy about um from Isaiah 11, where the spirit of the Lord came and rested upon him. That prophecy was fulfilled, and because that prophecy was fulfilled, he was empowered to carry out his ministry and his assignment on the earth. And then the first part of that of the Holy Spirit that came to rest upon him, the spirit of the Lord is the spirit of prophecy. So we see here that Jesus is fulfilling prophecy by the Spirit of the Lord, and part of that is the spirit of prophecy, which is the testimony of Jesus. And and what we just read in um 2 Corinthians, I'm sorry, 1 Corinthians uh 14 3 says, He who prophesies speaks edification, exhortation, and comfort. What was what did Jesus say? What did he quote from Isaiah? And what did it say that he came to do? To preach the gospel. What is the gospel? The gospel is good news to the poor, to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty or freedom to the captives, to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, or you could say the year of God's favor, to declare favor over people. That sounds like comfort to me. If to preach the good news to the poor, that's comfort, to bind up the brokenhearted, to heal the brokenhearted, that's comfort. Um, and so everything that Jesus uh said that he was anointed to do fits right here in what the spirit of prophecy is, and what prophecy is, and that it is to edify, exhort, and comfort. That's the very uh that's the very life and testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy, which is what Revelation 19 said. The testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy, and the amplified it said that um, let's see, where was it? The substance of the truth revealed by Jesus is the spirit of all prophecy, the vital breath, the inspiration of all inspired preaching and interpretation of the divine will and purpose, including both mine and yours, and of course his, which is what he did. He uh he fulfilled prophecy and he lived it out, and the testimony of his very life is the essence and the spirit of prophecy. And what is so amazing about this to me is that okay, so the first part of the spirit of the Lord is empowerment to preach good news, the spirit of prophecy, the testimony of Jesus. And when um we are, so when it's the Holy Spirit, it's that the Holy Spirit, the testimony of Jesus, the spirit of prophecy that draws us into salvation in the first place. Um, I don't remember what the scripture is, but it says that no man can say Jesus is Lord except by the Holy Spirit. So it's the Holy Spirit that draws us in to salvation in the first place. And then when the Holy Spirit comes into, when we are born again, we receive God's free gift of salvation in our lives, then the Holy Spirit comes to live inside of us, which we talked about two weeks ago. Um, and when he comes to live inside of us, then we become a testimony to Jesus. And then as we are empowered, as we're baptized in the Holy Spirit, and the Holy Spirit comes upon us, remember he's in us, and then he comes up on us when we're baptized in the Holy Spirit. And so when he comes up on us, we're empowered to live out the testimony of Jesus and to live out what it says that the testimony of Jesus is in uh Revelation 19, 10 to live out the divine will and purpose for our lives, including um everything that God's designed and planned for us. The Holy Spirit empowers us to do that. And this first, this first facet or aspect of the Holy Spirit is the spirit of prophecy. And just like Jesus fulfilled the prophecies written about him, we can read the prophecies about Jesus in the Word, which we've done that many times on the show, uh, especially around Christmas time. I read some of those prophecies that he would that he would come. And then we've been reading in um in Isaiah where he fulfilled the prophecies that were things that were written about him in the In Isaiah. Okay, so we have we have the the written word of God that tells us the prophecies of Jesus, and then Jesus lived out and fulfilled those prophecies when the Holy Spirit came upon him and empowered him to live out his purpose and his. I keep turning off of this page and I keep going back to it and having to find it, but to live out the divine will and purpose for his life. And this same thing is what happens in our lives. God has already written down our story long before we were ever born, long before our parents were ever even born, before they ever thought of us, before they even existed. God had already planned out my life. He had already planned out your life. He had already written your story. And in fact, let's go. Give me one second to find this. I want to read this to you. In Psalm, in Psalms, it says In Psalm 139, let me see where I want to start here. It says Well I think we have time. Let's just read all of this. In Psalm 139, it says, Lord, you have searched me and known me. You know my sitting down and my rising up. You understand my thought afar off. You comprehend my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all of my ways. There is not a word on my tongue, but behold, O Lord, O Lord, you know it altogether. You have hedged me behind and before, and laid your hand upon me. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me. It is high, and I cannot attain it. Where can I go from your spirit, or where can I flee from your presence? If I ascend into heaven, you are there. If I make my bed in hell, behold, you are there. If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, even there your hand shall lead me, and your right hand shall hold me. If I say, Surely the darkness shall fall on me, even the night shall be light about me. Indeed the darkness shall not hide from you, but the night shines as the day, and the darkness the light are both alike to you. You formed my inward parts, you covered me in them in my mother's womb. I will praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Marvelous are your works, and that my soul knows very well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in secret and skillfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Your eyes saw my substance yet being yet unformed, and in your book they all were written, the days fashioned for me, when as yet there were none of them. How precious also are your thoughts to me, O God! How great is the sum of them. If I should count them, they would be more in number than the sand. When awake when I awake, I am still with you. Okay, I want to stop there. But in verse sixteen it says, Your eyes saw my substance being yet unformed, and in your book they all were written, the days fashioned for me when as yet there were none of them. So God has written about my life. And then Jesus came and fulfilled those prophecies because the spirit of the Lord, the spirit of prophecy, was upon him and empowered him to live out the life that God wrote for him before the foundations of the earth. And you and I are living out the I mean, we we're living out the life that God has planned for us by the power of the Holy Spirit. We can't fulfill all of the things that He has for us, all of the plans and all of the days that He's written out for us in His book. Um, we cannot fulfill that fully and adequately without the empowerment of the Holy Spirit, without the spirit of prophecy in our lives. And you know, I talked about this before. The Holy Spirit's working in our lives long before we ever even recognize that he is, long before we ever even know him or acknowledge him. He's moving and working in our lives to bring about God's plans and purposes for us. And this is just the more I think about this and the more I read about it and study into it and look into it, the more incredible it is to me that the more real the Holy Spirit comes to becomes to me, and the more uh determined I am to live out my purpose. You know, we were talking about the scripture, my determined purpose is that I may know him, that I may become increasingly more acquainted with him. And the more I know him, the more I want to know him. And the more I read about this and the more I see how it's working together, how it all, how it all works, you know, the ins and outs of it, how Jesus fulfilled his assignment and his purpose because the Holy Spirit empowered him to do that. And as I'm studying out what the Holy Spirit entails, what all he entails, what all the aspects are of his personality, of his being, the more I look into that and the more I read about it, and the more scripture I see that puts it together, the more incredible and fascinating it is to me. And that's what I'm hoping to share with you to just spark your, to spark your imagination, to spark your hunger and your desire to get to know this wonderful, wonderful person that the Holy Spirit is and all that he brings to our lives and all that he does in our lives because he is the spirit of prophecy, and he is he's causing us to fulfill the prophecy about our own lives that God wrote about us in his book, that someday we'll get to read that book. And we're actually every single day that we live, we're actually discovering what he wrote about us. And I don't know about you, but I want to fulfill God's highest and best plans for my life. I want to fulfill everything that he put me on this earth to do. I want to fulfill my assignment. I want to hear, well done, good and faithful servant, someday when I get to heaven. And in order to do that, I know that I have to have the empowerment of the Holy Spirit. I have to walk in that anointing, that same anointing that Jesus walked in of the Holy Spirit, the spirit of the Lord, the spirit of prophecy and all the other uh aspects of the Holy Spirit that we're going to talk about over the next several weeks. Um, this is just the beginning of it. This is just the first part of it. But I mean, how incredible is it that the spirit of prophecy is what draws us in. Um, you know, it's it's part of what draws us in because the Holy Spirit, it it's like the Trinity. The Trinity is three beings, but they're one. And the Holy Spirit is it's got seven aspects. There's seven spirits of God, but and yet at the same time, they're one, the spirit of the Lord. And the first aspect of that being the spirit of prophecy, which is the testimony of Jesus, which draws us to Jesus, which draws us into salvation, and then makes us to become that very that very thing that we receive in salvation that that draws us into salvation, it causes us to become a testimony of Jesus. And then as we receive the empowerment of the Holy Spirit and the the um baptism of the Holy Spirit, then we begin to live out that same that we give begin to live out with power the testimony of Jesus and live out the spirit of prophecy in our own lives in in testifying about Jesus in our lives. You know, we are we are representatives of Jesus as Christians. That's what we are. And the Holy Spirit is what makes us representatives of Jesus. The Holy Spirit is who, I keep saying what, and see what I mean. I don't get caught up in the words. Um I'm bad about that anyway. I say I say that about people too. So don't make a thing of it. Um here what I mean. The Holy Spirit is who empowers us to be a testimony of Jesus, he is who makes us to be a witness of Jesus, to testify of Jesus in our lives, to be like Jesus and to be part of the body of Christ. So we're not just like Jesus, we are part of his body. And I think there's just, there's just so much here that I cannot possibly even begin to fully relay it to you in one program or even in several programs because there's just so much. And, you know, it's amazing. And I hope that, you know, because I cannot tell you all of it, I cannot, I can't share all of it with you. I can't teach all of it to you. I'm still, I'm still growing and learning and grasping it myself, but I hope to inspire you to get in the word because this um this is this um sorry, this chapter in Isaiah, I've been in this chapter for I think three or four years now. And as I read through the Bible every year, I see things that tie back to that. I see aspects of the the different spirits of God and how they are all throughout the Word of God, how they're all throughout the promises of God for our lives, how they're all throughout the working of God in people's lives and the working of God to bring about his plans and purposes, how they're it's all in the life of Jesus and all in the New Testament when it talks about the things that we will do, the things that we that, you know, the body of Christ is to do. And it's just, it's incredible to me. And I hope that that what I'm talking about causes you to hunger and thirst to know more, to have that, to come to an understanding of this and to seek it out and search it out for yourself, to get to know the Holy Spirit for yourself, because you can only get to know him so much by what I tell you about him. You know, I can tell you about my husband, but if you never meet him, you're not really gonna know him. You're gonna know about him, you're gonna know his name is is David, and he likes me to call him Dave. So, you know, he he's David. I call him Dave. Um, you know, he's I can tell you all the things about him. I can tell you he's six foot tall, he has dark hair, he has brown eyes, you know, he's kind, he's thoughtful, he's funny, he's goofy sometimes, he's he's wonderful. I love him. He's a good father, he's a good worker, he's you know, I can tell you all kinds of things about him, but you will never actually know him until you meet him for yourself, if you ever do, right? Um, and with the Holy Spirit, it's the same, but to a much higher degree. I can tell you all that I know about the Holy Spirit, and that's what I'm endeavoring to do. I'm endeavoring to tell you all that I know about the Holy Spirit in, but I can never cause you to know him. You have to know him for yourself, you have to get to know him for yourself. And you do that, like we always talk about, by getting in the word of God, reading it, and it's him that's speaking to you through the word of God, through the written word of God, the Holy Spirit speaks to you and shines his light on what the word says and gives you revelation to live by. And you you read the word and you get to know God through his word, and you get to know him through prayer. And you know, one of the absolute most important and best things that that you have to to do to get to know the Holy Spirit is to be filled with the Holy Spirit. And when you're filled, filled with the Holy Spirit, then you have the baptism of the Holy Spirit with the evidence of speaking in other tongues. And we've only touched on this a little bit, and I'm I'm not gonna go into it like a lot right now, but I I want to encourage you, if you do not have the baptism of the Holy Spirit with the evidence of speaking in other tongues, to begin to seek that because you need that. It's one of the greatest gifts that God has given us. It's one of the most important tools that we have as um as spirit-filled believers is praying in tongues. Because when you pray in tongues, you're praying out God's perfect will. You're praying mysteries that you don't understand, but your spirit does. And the Holy Spirit um causes you to know things, to learn things, to have knowledge. He deposits things and imparts things to you when you pray in tongues. And I wasn't planning on talking about that today, so I don't um I don't have the scriptures written down to share that with you, but I will look for them so that I can put them down and bring them to you, um, the references of what they are, so that you can have it in front of you and you can have it before your eyes, so that you can read it and you can become fully convinced and persuaded that that is for every Christian, it's for every believer, and it's for your life, so that you can, when you know what the word of God says, and when you know what he has available to you, and you believe it, and you then can receive it, and you can partake of the provision that he's made for you. The Holy Spirit, the baptism in the Holy Spirit with the evidence of speaking in other tongues, a heavenly prayer language is a promise that God's provided for you because you need it. It is something that your natural mind doesn't comprehend and doesn't grasp, and that's the whole entire point because your mind is limited, but your spirit is not. Your spirit comes from God Himself, and you are made in the image of God, and your spirit can communicate with God in that language that you get from when you're baptized in the Holy Spirit and you he you receive your prayer language. So it's if you don't have that, I want to encourage you to begin to seek that, to begin to seek the Holy Spirit, to begin to just, you know, just start with asking him, Holy Spirit, make me hungry. Help me to understand what you want to give me. Help me to desire it, help me to hunger and thirst for all that you have for me. I don't want to leave anything on the table. I don't want to leave any promise of God on the table. If the Holy Spirit was promised to me, I want to receive the fullness of the Holy Spirit. And that includes the your prayer language. It includes being able to talk to God in a language that your mind doesn't understand. And you you might be sitting there going, that makes absolutely no sense to me. Why would I want to pray in a language that I don't understand? This is where faith comes in. This is where you have to believe that God knows what he's doing, he knows what's best for you. And you have to believe before you receive, and you have to trust God. And you have to, you have to believe that God knows what he's doing and his ways are perfect, and that the best thing for you to do is to line up with his word to come into alignment with his plans and purposes and his plans for each and every one of us, for each and every believer. His plan is for us to be full of the Holy Spirit, to be empowered by the Holy Spirit. Remember, we read where he sent the disciples to go and wait in the upper room until the power of the Holy Spirit came upon them. And when it did, they spoke in other tongues. And then there's scriptures, like I said, I wasn't planning on talking about this specifically today, so I didn't bring them. But there are scriptures that that say that what the purpose of praying in tongues is, that it edifies us, that it uh, you know, that you can give thanksgiving to God perfectly when you pray in tongues, that He I'm gonna get the scriptures and I'm gonna bring them to you. But you can, you know what? You don't even have to wait for me. You can look them up yourself. You can Google it, you can use the Bible app, you can get a concordance, you can just go look it up for yourself. And and if you're hungry and thirsty, you're gonna do that. But I'm gonna bring the scriptures to you. I will do it. I just don't have them right this minute, but it empowers us, and it's it's the it's uh, it's it's it's indescribable, truly. And the thing is that when you do it, then you begin to understand how it works. You begin to hear the Holy Spirit talking to you, and and you know, it takes faith because God wants us to live by faith. He said, My righteous ones live by my faith. Without faith, it's impossible to please God. And so He's not gonna He doesn't give us things that make sense to our mind, He gives us things that require us to possess them by faith, to walk by faith, to live by faith, to receive them by faith. But then when we do, we begin to have understanding. But that understanding comes from our spirit, not from our minds. It comes from our spirit, from the Spirit of God. And when you get full of the Holy Spirit and you begin to pray in tongues, you begin to pray out mysteries, and the Holy Spirit will reveal to you, sometimes, not always, but he will reveal to you what you are praying. And then He will He will speak to you as you're praying in tongues. He will speak to your spirit, and you'll know His voice in a new way, in an in a in a greater way, in a deeper way, in a more intimate and personal way, in a more sure way. You be the more you do, the more you do it, the more you know it. Just like, you know, the more you talk to somebody, the more you recognize their voice. You know, if I talked to somebody on the phone one time, if they called me again, I might not know who it was if they didn't tell me or if I didn't know their number. Um, but if I talk to him a couple times, two or three, four times, if I talk to them in person, you begin to recognize their voice. And it's the same way that it is with the Holy Spirit. You the more you listen to him, the more you hear him, the more you begin to recognize his voice. You begin to recognize when it's him talking to you or when it's another voice. And the Bible says, uh, my sheep hear my voice, and they do not follow the voice of a stranger. Jesus said that. And so you have to believe that you can hear God's voice. You have to believe that you can hear and know the Holy Spirit speaking to you, and you have to believe that what he says is for you is for you. So the baptism in the Holy Spirit is for you. Speaking in other tongues is for you, and it's for a purpose in your life. It's for edifying you, it's for enlightening you, it's for strengthening you, it's for helping you to give God glory and give God praise. It's for helping you to live from your spirit and not your mind. It's to help you to live by faith and not by sight. This is what it does for you. This is what um praying in tongues does for you. And it's it's one of the best ways to get to know the Holy Spirit, to speak his language, and you will begin to understand what he's saying to you the more you do it. So I um I pray that you begin to hunger and thirst for that gift, to begin that you begin to hunger and thirst to know the Holy Spirit like you never have before, and that if you are not yet filled with the Holy Spirit with the evidence of speaking in other tongues, that you will begin to believe for that, that you will a hunger will be stirred up in you uh to find out what that is, what it means for you, and how to acquire it. And you know what, I'm gonna talk about that on the next show. I will get the scriptures and I will bring them and I will share them with you so that you have the scriptures to stand on and to receive it. And once you once you have the scripture in front of you, once you know what it says, and once you believe with your heart, all you have to do is receive. And we're we're gonna talk about that. Um, yeah, I wish I thought of it before I started recording today, and I would have brought it so that we could today, but I didn't. It's okay. Um we'll talk about it next time. All right. So um, we are just getting started here on this whole thing, whole series talking about the Holy Spirit, and today talking about the spirit of prophecy. And the last thing that I want to say to you is that um About the about the spirit of prophecy. Let's not the last thing I want to say to you. The last thing I want to say about the spirit of prophecy is that just like the spirit of prophecy, the Holy Spirit came and rested on Jesus and caused him to be able to fulfill all of the things that God spoke about him before he came to live on the earth, before he was born, in the exact same way, the Holy Spirit empowers us. And I want to tell you something else. When you read, like we read in my, like I said, it was one of my favorite verses in Luke 4, 18 and 19, where it says, where Jesus read in Isaiah, the Spirit of the Lord is upon me because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor, to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom to the captives, recovery of sight to the blind, and to set at liberty those who are oppressed, to proclaim the acceptable year or the year of God's favor. That same spirit is upon you for the same reasons. We are all called to share the good news. We are all called to bring the gospel to everyone that we meet, to everyone that we know. We have a call and we have a purpose and we have the power to bring the good news to the poor, to bring freedom to the captives, to bring healing, to bring wholeness. Jesus said, the same works that I do, you will do, and greater works than these. And he said that he sent us out to share his the testimony of Jesus, to share the good news, to share his life and his love and the salvation that he came to bring to everyone. So when you read those verses, you can actually put yourself there just like Jesus did. Because while that's that prophecy was about Jesus, remember, we're the body of Christ. We are Jesus in this earth to an extent. We are his hands and feet. You know, Jesus went back to heaven and sat down at the right hand of the Father. He's not the one here in the flesh now. He's not the one physically here now. We are as his body, as his church, we are here to continue the work that he started, to bring the good news to the poor, to bring healing to the brokenhearted, to bring restoration, to bring God's favor to people. And every single Christian has a call of God to do just that. Now, that doesn't mean every Christian is supposed to be a pastor or uh, you know, a prophet or an evangelist or a teacher or an apostle. That doesn't mean that. But what it means is in the place that God has ordained for you to be, in your job, in your home, uh, you know, with your with your children, with your friends, with your family, and with the people that you meet, the people that you work with, the people that are in your sphere of influence, you're anointed to bring the good news to them, to bring the news of salvation, the testimony of Jesus, which is the spirit of prophecy, which you have received because you're a born-again believer, and the Holy Spirit lives in you. So that's the whole purpose to bring you into the kingdom and then to cause you to bring the kingdom into your sphere of influence. So I hope that all of this made sense. And I I trust that it did because the Holy Spirit is helping us to learn about himself. He wants us to know all about him. He's not hiding anything from us, he's not um, he's not shy. He wants us to know all there is to know about him because he wants to be our companion, our best friend. He wants to come alongside us and do life with us. And he wants to see us fulfill all that God has written about us in his book. He wants to see us fulfill our purposes. He wants to see uh us bring heaven on earth. He wants to see us empowered with his power, he wants to see us bringing others into the kingdom of God. That's his greatest desire is to work with us to bring about God's plans and purposes in this earth and in our lives. So I hope I've given you plenty to think about today. And I hope that you'll meditate on it and get in the word for yourself. Go back and look at the scriptures that I read, look at it in different translations, read the footnotes. That's that's what got me all started on this in the first place was reading the footnotes when I first read it in the Passion Translation in Isaiah. It it opened up a whole uh whole nother world to me of um just getting to know the Holy Spirit on a whole nother level. So uh, you know, like I said, I can't tell you and teach you every single thing. You have to, you have to get to know him for yourself. But I hope that um I hope that I inspire you and stir a hunger in you to get in the word and to just take some time apart just to pray and ask the Holy Spirit to reveal himself to you because when you ask him to, he absolutely will. We know that when we pray anything according to his will, he hears us, and if he hears us, we know we have what we've asked of him. We read that last last week in 1 John. So I pray for you today that the Holy Spirit will draw you closer, draw you in. And, you know, I spoke, I spoke a lot to those who maybe have not received the baptism of the Holy Spirit yet and speaking in other tongues. But for those of you who have, for those of you who, you know, you know, like me, who have been saved your whole life and have been baptised baptized in the Holy Spirit your whole life, you know, this is for you as well, because you can get to know the Holy Spirit better and better and better every single day. You can learn more and more about him. And the more time you spend with him, the more you're going to learn about him. The more time you acknowledge him, the more you're gonna learn about him and the more he's gonna partner with you in your life. So I encourage you to use your prayer language, make the most of it, take advantage of what God's given you in that and just make it a daily, you know, habit, make it a discipline, not to do religiously, but to do it because, you know, you like to talk to your best friend, right? I love to talk to my husband. That's, I mean, I spend most of my life talking to my husband about what we're doing or about what we want to do, about our kids, about each other, you know, about what's going on with me, about what I'm loving, what about what I'm struggling with, about what I need, about what I'm dreaming of, what I desire, you know, what God's speaking to me. I'm always talking to my husband because I love him and I want to talk to him. And that's the way we should be with the Holy Spirit. We should always be talking to him, always want to talk to him, always want to get to know him more because we love him. And so I pray that you will do that. I pray that a hunger is stirred, even in you that have the baptism of the Holy Spirit already, that you won't take it for granted, that you won't leave it on the shelf, that you won't just keep doing life at the level that you're doing it, but that you'll you'll be determined to know him more, to come up in your knowledge of him and in your understanding and in your relationship with him, that you'll become more intimately acquainted with who he is and what he wants to bring into your life. So I hope you have a great rest of your day and week. And I will look up those scriptures and bring them to you next time for those of you who have not yet received the baptism of the Holy Spirit. I'll look them up and I'll get them out for you next time on the show. So have a great week. I will see you next Tuesday.