Prayer Works Bible Study: May 18, 2025

"The Fruits Of The Holy Spirit"

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So we are on this journey of studying our relationship with the Holy Spirit. And you know I'm now of the belief that in order for us to live successful lives, the Holy Spirit has to be involved and I don't know if we are able to live successfully.  

Spiritual lives without the Holy Spirit. Because again, just looking at what we've been talking about that the day of Pentecost and I can and you can kind of see why though, why we kind of put this day on the back burner.  

Because I think the enemy does not want us to really understand that relationship with the Holy Spirit. I mean, resurrection salvation, great.

But that relationship with the Holy Spirit, I see why the enemy would do whatever it takes to make sure that you and I cannot successfully master that relationship. 

Because out of it right comes the power, the authority, the strength, the wisdom, the knowledge, understanding. So when the scripture says my people perish because they lack knowledge.  

You can pretty much see the connection between that and the Holy Spirit. Because without knowledge, we perish.

So if we perish because we don't have knowledge, and yet we also understand that the Holy Spirit is the one that gives us knowledge And information and wisdom.  

Yeah, I'm sure every single one of us has experienced a moment where you know, you say something or do something and you kind of catch yourself and say, my God, that was profound.  

How would I have thought of that? But in most times we don't recognize that's the Holy Spirit working in us, producing things. That's how you just know this person has been healed. How? Cause the spirit goes and do whatever it needs to do inside the human body. 

That what was there a cancer cell that was not there is no longer there. I mean, Calvin, he can attest to this. Where back there, yeah, we see it. Then the next thing they don't see it. What happened? Nobody knows.  

So that power and authority we understand now fully well that it is really ascribed to the Holy Spirit. So without him I don't know if we can successfully live life as believers, I think it's impossible.  

And again, we can just look at Jesus instructions to the disciples. Hey he gives them power in Matthew 10. Says I give you them power. He tells them greater works did he do than I did.  

So all the necessary information they need to go and do what they have been instructed to go and do they haven’t. They've spent three years with him. They have learnt all the necessary things but then his final instructions to them as like hey before you get up and start anything. 

Go and sit in Galilee and wait for the promise my Father said he will give him. And then when that day happened, these same people become a whole, totally different group of people. And not only that, that becomes the foundation in which the church sits on.  

That event is the foundation which the church, the whole of church, sit on. So which means without that event, without the day of Pentecost. The church as we know it wouldn't be what we know to be.  

So mastering this relationship right is so important. In our total existence. Again, yeah before we go into scriptures, we go back to the Garden of Eden Genesis 2. In Genesis 2, we see the prevailing conditions which God intended humanity to live in. Perfect environment controlled. 

Everything happening at the speed of thought. Man says what God says and God endorses it. There is this perfect harmony and synchronized relationship that exists between man and God.  

You, I tell you, you obey. You don't question you don't ask, you just do. Genesis 3 happens and we have all this set of consequences that God pronounces to humanity. From now onwards, I'm distancing myself from you.  

I no longer come in the cool of the day. Neither will I speak to you. So from Genesis 3 to when God finally speaks again. That's thousands of years. I think it should be 6 to be precise. And the next time he seeks, he speaks again.  

I want you to imagine you are daily hearing from the Lord every day he comes and talk to you. You get instructions and you understand this relation and all of a sudden stops. You go on to raise a family, have children, you're making mistakes and you don't know what this is.  

Murder happens in your family for the first time and you are like what is this? Only then does God come now and speaks for the first time after Genesis 3. And he is speaking to a sinner a man who had just killed his brother.  

And he says, yo, what's up? Why is your countenance and he tries to deny it. And then God says, don't you know that's where we get the first principle that God gives to humanity. Don't you know that when you do well, you'll be accepted.  

So which means doing well gets you to be accepted principle first principle that God gives humanity. But now from then onwards, collectively as a human species, we are now living a life. 

That you and I were not designed to live outside of God, we were not designed to live outside of God. Women are going to have pain in child labor. Which means that before that there was not going to be pain in child labor, right?  

Man, you're gonna have to toil and work hard for your existence. Which means before that there was no working hard. And this is how you know too the opposite of that is kind of true that if you don't work hard in this world, what happens?  

Because it's a principle that was given after the fall. That you now have to work hard for your existence. So which means collectively as an experience, this life that we are living collectively outside of God. God never designed me to be that way. 

His solution? I'm going to send Jesus who's going to live the same life that you are living that is outside of me? But he is going to do it so well that he will not sin at all. And when he does that, he's going to give you this doorway back to what things used to be Genesis 2.  

Because God is trying to get us back over there. How do we know that? Because in Genesis 2, remember after he said, he says, and God placed an Angel at the doorway of the garden. Why? To make sure that nobody ever finds it again with your unholy self.  

You will never find the Garden of Eden. That's why researchers and all this try to go, they cannot locate it. Why? Because God made sure that nobody would ever find the Garden of Eden.  

Because we were banished from it and we don't deserve to be in it. God then says the way back I'm going to send the Messiah. And the Messiah comes, and he's going to give you the door. I am the door. He’s going to give you access back to what we used to have.  

But since your mind is already corrupt anyway we're going to have to change it and transform it. So when my son comes back in exchange of him coming back. I'm going to give you the Holy Spirit. So that you can successfully live this life.  

That I never intended you to live in the first place. So that's your solution. Jesus and the aid of the Holy Spirit, so he says he's going to counsel, he's going to be a friend. He's going to be a comforter.  

So when you look at all these names that the Holy Spirit is ascribed to. They are all positive names. So which means nobody can ever say, oh, the Holy Spirit caused me to do negative things. 

In other words you can't be used by the Holy Spirit to bring confusion. Because that's not him. That's not part of his nature to bring confusion. His part of his nature is to bring the same environment that existed in the garden before the fall.  

And he brings that in our hearts. Now let's go to Galatians 5:22. If you have that, can you read it? For me, anybody. It's 5:22. Hmm. Galatians 5:22, But the through the spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control against such things there is no law. 

If you backpedal and go to verse. Yeah, let's read. Let me read the whole Chapter let's start from verse one. It is for freedom that Christ has set you. Stand firm then and do not let yourself be burdened again by what? The yoke of slavery.  

So in other words, Genesis 3 bring slavery where we are enslaved by yokes. The negative things that we do enslaves us right, Mark my words. I Paul tell you that if you let yourself be circumcised, Christ will be of no value to you at all.  

Again, I declare to every man who let himself be circumcised that he is obligated to obey the whole law. You who are trying to be justified by the law, have been alienated from what? Christ.  

You're falling away from grace, but through the spirit we eagerly await by faith. The righteousness of which we thought through the spirit, we eagerly await for what? Righteousness.  

So you don't become right by your own gates. It's through the spirit that we become righteous. Seven says you were running a good race who cut in on you to keep you from obeying the truth.  

That kind of persuasion does not come from the one who causes you. A little yeast works through the whole batch of dough. I am confident in the Lord that you will take no other view. The one who is throwing you into confusion, whoever that may be, will have to pay the penalty. 

Brothers and sisters, if I am still preaching circumcision, why am I still being persecuted in that case, the offense of the cross has been abolished as of those agitators I wish they would go the whole way and emasculate themselves.  

Verse 13 life by the spirit. You, my brothers and sisters we were called to be free. But not use your freedom to indulge the flesh. Rather serve one another humbly in love for the entire law is fulfilled in keeping this one commandment.  

Love your neighbor as you love yourself. Now let's stop right there. How do you love a person? Vee how do you love Calvin? I mean, just think about that. How do you, is it possible you can conjure up this thing that your whole being become fixated with one person?  

How is that possible? How do we do that? How do we? How do we love the friends that we have out of 8 billion people? How do you just say, you know what? I love Nadia. Why not my neighbor?  

Why not this guy across the street? Why does it have to be this person? Because we can't do it in our own strength. It's something the Holy Spirit puts inside of us. This thing, this yearning to love other people that even if you if you want to, you can’t stop it.  

Even if you desire to. It's one of those. It is what it is. Because he's putting in you something that you are not able to control or also make up for and so I say walk by the spirit and you will not gratify what?  

The desires of the flesh. So in other words, the things that we struggle with Paul is saying, hey, if you walk by the spirit. What will happen? You will not gratify your flesh.  

Where did this happen first? In the garden, right? When we walked with God and there was no need for Adam and Eve prior to Genesis 3 to gratify their flesh, because they were working with the spirit.  

For the flesh desires, what is what contrary to the spirit and the spirit, what is contrary to the flesh? So in other words, here it is your flesh and your spirit will never go together. Will never go alone. So in other words, if you are doing something and your flesh is saying, yeah.  

Most likely your spirit is saying no. If your spirit is saying yes, your flesh is never going to say yes too. Is always going to say what? No. So this is how you know if this is by the spirit. When the spirits say it's time for you to fast and your flesh says no.  

Then that means what was said the first time is true. Cause the two don't hang together. There is no correspondence theory here. So if you want to know any answer to any question that you are either debating. 

If the spirit says yes and you hear your flesh say no then this is the right way to go. If your flesh is saying yes and it's pretty saying no then this is the right way to go. Because the two don't hang together.  

Verse 17 for the flesh desires what is contrary to the spirit and the spirit what is contrary to the flesh, they are in conflict with each other so that you are not to do whatever you want. But if you are led by the spirit you are not under the law.  

In other words, the law will cease to have any power over you if you are led by the spirit. All right, let's look at the commandment. Love one another as I have loved you, and by this people would know you are my disciple, love your neighbor as you love yourself. 

So now, how do you love your neighbor if you don't have a relationship with them. You can only do that if you're walking by the Spirit, because contrary to what you see or hear them, you probably want to hate them.  

But you're going to love them because you're walking by the spirit. Now, if the law says thou shalt not kill right. If you are walking without the spirit. That means that law is most likely going to get you. 

Why? Because if you don't have the spirit, there's a likelihood that you will commit murder. Out of revenge, out of whatever it is your flesh says, go ahead and do. But if you are walking by this spirit you will love your neighbor, as you love yourself. 

So which means you don't ever have to ever worry about the fact that there's a law that says thou shall not kill. Because the spirit will never lead you and put you in a place where you have to do that in order to deal with the law.  

So that's why Paul says walk by the spirit. Because if you walk by the spirit then it will always go against what the flesh is pushing you to do. Hence, you don't ever have to worry about the law because the law was put to govern what the flesh. That's why law exists.  

When Moses, when God gave the law to Moses. It was to govern this belligerent people. Because why would you say thou shall not kill if nobody has no intention, or has no intention to kill anybody. You say that because you know they want to kill each other.  

Thou shall not steal. Why would you say that? Because, you know they are stealing because when the laws came in, the in Exodus, right. There have been thousands of years that humanity had lived and God realized.  

No, we gotta have to put laws in place cause this year if unchecked there is no society. So if you walk by this spirit you don't have to worry about the law. In other words, if you walk by this spirit, you're never going to get a traffic for going through a red light.  

So that law does not matter to you because you're working by the spirit. The acts of the flesh are obvious. You have to love Scripture, man. The acts of the flesh are obvious. Sexual immorality, impurity, debauchery, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, discord, jealous, fits of rage, selfish ambitions, dissension functions and envy.  

Drunkenness, orgies and the like, I warn you. As I did before that those who live like this will not inherit what? Now, wait a minute. We have a list of things. That the flesh produces. Obviously not sometimes, obviously.  

This is what it does and so we are being told that in order to inherit the Kingdom of God we have to walk by the spirit. I mean, walking, that's every day. That's not sometimes that's if you're walking towards something that means every step you take has to be governed by what you have to have the spirit with you.  

Now here we go, verse 22. This is where we want to get to, but fruit of the spirit. So if you are working with the Holy Spirit. Not only will his top few from being harassed by the law. I know Daniel is laughing at this right now.  

Stops you from being harassed by the law. It now in turn gives you something else and this is what this spirit, the Holy Spirit, will give you if you walk with him. This is here's the list of things that you give you. But the fruit of the spirit is what? Love.  

So how do you know you're working with the Holy Spirit? Number one, if you find yourself loving people unconditionally and you feel love for humanity. The need for salvation so they don't perish.  

You know, you are walking with the Holy Spirit. We're not talking about feeling the Holy Spirit. I'm talking about walking every day with him. What's the opposite of that? If you hate people. 

You better make sure you should know that the Holy Spirit is far from me. Second one Joy. It's impossible to be miserable all the time. If you have the Holy Spirit, how? Righteousness, joy, and peace in the Holy Ghost that's life, right? 

According to scriptures this is fruit. What happens to fruit? People eat it, right? So out of you people are going to eat joy. Out of you people are going to feel loved. When people are around you, they should feel loved they should feel joy.  

Peace, if chaos is happening and somehow you were present and it gets worse check yourself. If there is chaos and you come, there is peace then you know you're working with the Holy Spirit.  

If people feel in other words we are being shown. What we have to carry or what we are going to carry when we walk by the spirit. People should feel or should want to be around you.  

Because they know, man if I come around you with my chaos I'm going to feel peace. But if  more chaos is added we have to check ourselves. Forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. 

Have they heard people who say you know what? I'm a loyalist and there's no such thing as a loyalist. His faithfulness when you're faithful, you're not faithful because you want to.  

You are faithful because this spirit that is governing you it automatically pushes you this direction because this is what it produces. Now when you look at this whole list, right? You will recognize this one thing.  

That every single one of these things that are listed here. They are there for the edification of other people who should you be gentle to? Yourself or somebody who doesn't deserve gentleness? Right.  

Who should we be self-control for? Somebody that we want to what? Punch. So we have to now exhibit self-control right. Who should we be faithful to? People who don't deserve faithfulness.  

So look at what this spirit does right? Because now, contrary or the opposite of this is what the flesh wants you to do. Oh, what's this so and so did this to me. Oh my God. The Flash says you have to push them away.  

You don't have to deal with them. And the spirit says no I demand that you now produce the fruit of self-control and faithfulness. Now, why is the Holy Spirit pushing us to do this? Because in this Kingdom that we are part of, it is values and statues that hold it together otherwise it will not be a Kingdom, right?  

The United States right now, everybody is saying, Oh my God, we will not have a country. Why? Is it because of people or is because of the violations of the Constitution? 

So we don't have a Kingdom if these things are not what is being produced out of us as a fruit? Because I can't serve you as my fellow brethren if I don't have self-control. If I have anger issues. How am I going to serve you? It's impossible.  

I can't be your friend if I'm not faithful. So we are getting the characteristic traits that flows out of the people that walk by the spirit. If you are a believer and you are telling me, oh, they're going to hear about me. Ah, maybe you are half empty.  

The Holy Spirit hasn't filled you up. Because when he when he comes he's telling you, I don't just come empty handed. I come bearing the fruit that makes this Kingdom function, that's where it can be called the Kingdom, because this is what it produces.  

You can name any nation in the world and we will say this is what they produce. Go to South Africa they produce diamonds, gold and tobacco. You can you can name all kinds of countries and they produce something, and they are known for that.  

This Kingdom, this is what is known for. That's what happens when we walk by the Spirit. Now, why is the Holy Spirit producing this fruit? Again, let's go back Genesis 2. This was what was available in Genesis 2.  

You could just access it. There was number need, it was available. So when God moved himself out and the Holy Spirit left. That's why the scripture says you now have to work. Now I want you to think about these guys.  

We have worked at different corporations, right? Where people who are not Christians or if you have a boss who's not Christian right. You are now having to work for what? you have to work hard for them to love you right.  

To be accepted in this environment or there are certain things that you're going to have to do. That's what was God says in Genesis from now you're going to have to. Work hard for things that you should not work hard for.  

You have to work hard for being loyal. You have to work hard for your boss to be faithful to you. You have to work hard for them to appreciate what you're going to do. We're not giving you a bonus until you work hard.  

But in this other Kingdom that we are part of. That's not your job to work hard to get is the person who is giving because if I love you, because I'm walking by the spirit, you don't have to work hard for that.  

It's a gift. That's why it's called the gifts of the spirit, the fruit of. The tree does not know how many mangoes are going to come out of this tree. But he just knows that when winter comes, I'm going to leaves going to fall.  

When spring comes, we're going to burn. Some are going to have to produce something and people are going to clockwork. This is what the Holy Spirit does. So the full scale and scope of who he is extends just from the gifts to the fruit.  

Why is he? Why was he given so that he shapes the characteristics traits of this Kingdom that we are part of. That's why we can say oh I'm in the Kingdom because the evidence of that is the fruit in which you produce.  

So if you are not producing any fruit you have to master what your relationship with the Holy Spirit. That's all you got to do. You have to invite him. Now let me find this. Remember when Jesus says?  

If you who are evil  can give what? Gifts what more of your father in heaven? Let me find it. Matthew 7:11. Who has Matthew 7:11? If you can find Matthew 7:11. Or I'll read it. If you then being evil. He is not saying we are evil, he's saying we have the propensity of being evil.  

And you know how to give good gifts to your children. How much more will your Father, who is in heaven give you things to those who ask him. So if we are asking God to give us the Holy Spirit.  

How do we know he’s going to give us. There is the answer. That if you ask God to give you the Holy Spirit or to fill you. What I'm giving you this spirit, demonic spirit, right. Because that's not contrary to his nature.  

Says if we good if we can give good gifts to our children when you ask your Father to give you the Holy Spirit. This is how we can have the assurance that when we say hey on June 8th, Lord, when we gather together to fellowship with one another and we are asking you to pour your spirit on us. 

God has to honor that because the scripture says if you ask, I can give you something else that you are not asking for. I'm going to give you because you guys actually do a better job with your own children.  

What makes you think that I can do a better job than that? This is where we get the assurance and confidence that when we ask the Holy Spirit to show up, he shows up. Remember, if you were in Bible study last year when we did a little study of the Holy Spirit.  

Do you remember when we did the study of the Holy Spirit. Remember when we did the study of the Holy Spirit. We took the very first lesson when I asked, we did a teaching and then we asked everybody, hey, in your own little space.  

Let's invite the Holy Spirit and write, the first thing that he tells you, how many remembers that? And then everybody wrote in their own homes. I think that day we probably like maybe 14-15 people on Bible study and wasn't it amazing that out of what everybody read?  

We all had pretty much the same thing. People who were in North Carolina, people who are in Ohio, people who were in New York, people who were here in Birmingham because when you ask him He is not going to give you a negative thing. 

He's going to give you the qualities that he produces because he can't give anything that he doesn't have and he only carries positive things.  

So nobody can ever say the Holy Spirit made me do that. He’s incapable of making you do something that's negative. Which leads us to these moments here in church, where sometimes the Holy Spirit shows up in the person right.  

They say, oh, I have the spirit on me. He doesn't bring confusion. So if your actions are bringing confusion un the middle of the service. It means that that's not the spirit of God because he doesn't bring confusion.  

He doesn't stop you or he doesn't deal just with Nadia and make everybody confused. But he makes sure that if we are going, if he is going to help Nadia. That somehow, collectively as a group, we will all feel the need to gravitate towards this one person.  

Because he is always in control, he's not trying to figure it out. He's not confused. He's not trying to piece it together. He knows all things even the deep things of God. The mind of God, what God is thinking.  

The Holy Spirit knows and he makes sure that everything lines up to what God is trying to do 10 years from now.

We can only see tomorrow, but he says now you know what I'm going to cause this to happen and this to happen and that to happen this to happen because I want this to happen and 10 years from now, these are the effects of it.  

So when you show up in a place and the Holy Spirit is walking. And you are walking with him. That means you are never going to get lost or find yourself in a place where you're like, what am I doing here?  

That's the scope of who he is. He's not mistaken. It's not like, Oh my God. I have to redo that. That's not him. He is a powerful force that if you think that since 2000 years ago, when he was poured on all flesh.  

People who have come and gone. His influence in what the church was and is, and it will be. He is in total control. He is not misplacing ideas. He has it together. Who needs to be where and at what time?  

If it's not happening, it's because he's doesn't want it to happen. So when we kick him out or when we fail to recognize him, it doesn't mean he is not there. It means that our minds will push us in the direction that produces the things that we just read before this.  

That's how we get in trouble, because we choose to forgive him and do what pleases to the flesh again. If you always remember these guys. What your flesh is pushing you to do. Do the opposite.  

Because you know, the Holy Spirit does not align with your flesh at all and this should help us in making decisions correct. Now you know that if you hear again eat that extra piece of cake.  

And you're like, yeah, it really looks good. But you know you are full if you go that way. That means you're just negated the Holy Spirit. So again, the goal is that we want to master this relationship. We want it to be incredibly great and good.  

Our walking with the Holy Spirit. If we master that, then our whole entire journey is going to be easy. Because we have this relationship that we know we can fall back on. If we don't know what to do, we just lean on him and you tell you take left.  

It says come down, keep your mouth shut right now. You keep your mouth shut. If you hear him say you know what, go ahead and tell him this is for my sister, Veronica. Go ahead and tell him and then and then you're like. 

I feel like I will that's your flesh now trying to contradict. And most times guys and I can use Vee on this, because hey, she bullies me, I bully her back. I can use Vee on this in that most times when she comes up with an idea.  

I can almost guarantee probably 90% of the time I'm already thinking about it. Because he knows all things. He knows what needs to be done when needs, when it needs to be done. 

What is that? He knows what needs to be done and he makes sure everybody is in order. So that's Galatians 5. The fruit of the spirit. I think next week we will look at the gifts.  

Because again if you can see the fruit, you realize, oh man, this is what he is this is the culture. This is the culture of our Kingdom. And the goal is that that's how we can say, whoa, we are in the Kingdom.  

If these things are manifesting themselves in us, then you know yeah, the Holy Spirit is working with you. If you find yourself loving people that don't deserve to be loved celebrate. 

If you find yourself hitting this to control yourself when people want to cause you to fight, celebrate. If you find yourself having to be faithful un areas that you're like, man, I feel I wish I should not celebrate. Because the Holy Spirit is working with you.  

So I want us to master this relationship and become incredibly great in it. Because out of it we get back to the garden. That's how we get back to the garden. Salvation is at the door. The Holy Spirit leads your steps.  

It makes you walk. The right way, right places doing the right things, Amen. And you will hear him say calm down, it's all going to be ok. This stuff sometimes that gives me confidence.  

That man, even when stuff is bad or like man, he knows. Let me tell you a story, then we can go. I'm in Germany and soccer playing professional soccer is not working out that means stuff is not coming together and I'm at the end of it. 

I'm realizing yeah, you know what, I'm gong to have to change course and I'm looking here is a young man who came to this country with an incredible dream.

And I'm like man once I do ABCD and do this all, everything is going to all wake out and it's going to be incredible. 

 And now you're realizing 1 + 1 in the world does not always equal to 2. I remember this one particular day I was so broke. I'm telling you all. I had nothing to eat that the whole entire day. 

And I had 10 Euro on me and I'm thinking how am I going to make rent for next month in this incredible apartment I'm living? I don't even have food if this team does not extend this contract I'm in trouble.  

It was cold that night. I got out of the house on my tracksuit 9:00 PM. And I went to the Rhine and I started walking along the Rhine. I must have walked 14 miles that night. And at one point, the moon was so bright. 

And I remember this so vividly standing on that bridge, looking up. And I'm like man God. Right now, nobody that I know of family, friends know where I am right now. I'm hungry, I don't know what to do and I don't have an answer.  

I remember looking up in the sky and I said, I remember saying these words. I was like, God, you know exactly where I am. People might not know the challenges and the issues I'm facing right now, but you alone, you know it all.  

And you are aware of my needs and the things that I need to accomplish and do. And from this moment here I'm looking at you and saying, God, the next step I take. If you don't show me, I don't know which way to go.  

Now I've worked 40 miles going. Now I have to walk 40 miles back home. Going was ok because I was just in the spirit. But boy, when you get out of the spirit, you realize what you have to do and now how long you have to walk one of the most hottest nights of my life.  

Now I got home so tired, freezing, frost bite and I went to bed. Not knowing cause, I went to bed out of exhaustion. And I woke up the following day at 4:00 PM missed the whole entire day, unaware of what's going on.  

The first thing that I did was to go check my emails. Now, the same time I was walking, I literally left my phone for a reason. I didn't want anybody to talk to me or looking, I just wanted to talk to God.  

Now when I looked at my e-mail. The time I was out there by myself having this conversation with God. An e-mail was sent last night at 10:00 PM from France. While I'm on this little journey here talking to the God. Not knowing what to do.  

At the same time the answer was in the e-mail. Which I saw hours later and from the time I saw the e-mail I had 3 hours to go get ready, pack my suitcase, go to the airport, to the train station and catch a train straight to Paris to Monet's Garden.  

The Holy Spirit, He knows all things. Now I'm young, I have no idea what's going on. But now when I look back and you realize the entire time God was on your shoulders watching over you. Even giving you instructions and she had no idea what that was.  

But I want us now to be aware of him all the time because the victory that he provides. It gives you a guarantee a surety that man, it's. All going to be fine. Nadia, it's all going to be fine. Not because I know it's going to be fine, because I know that the spirits, when God says I will never leave you nor forsake you.  

That I'm giving you this console that is always going to be right, never wrong. It's not trying to figure it out. You are trying to figure, but he's not. He knows tomorrow. He knows what needs to happen today in order to accommodate what's coming tomorrow.  

Every decision that you make while you are working with him leads to victory. Every single one of them. There's not one rod that is going to take you where you going to find yourself saying, man, why did he bring me this way? In this lifetime, I have seen a lot.  

Brothers and sisters and now when I look back at some of the things I went through and I find myself sitting here. You realize, man, it's a privilege to know the Holy Spirit. And once you know that relationship, nobody can ever take it away from you, nobody.  

They can jump and scream over here. They can change laws. They can do all this, whatever it is they need to do. But you know, and you know and you know it's going to be all right.  

Not because we're going to figure it out because he says I will never leave you nor forsake you. And if you walk with me, you are going to produce these things whether you like it or not, because you're walking with me.  

That's the gift of the Holy Spirit, powerful entity. That's why you see why let's commit these kids to the God. Because you know every single one of them, when they get this gift. I can fold my arms and say Daddy got them.  

He helped them because you and I, what do we know? I mean, think about it. What do we know? Nadia, what do we know? It's going to happen tomorrow to your children. What do you know? We have done all that we know how to do.  

But we just place it in God's hands and say, man, if they can understand and master their relationship with the Holy Spirit, your job is done. Because you know they're going to produce because the Holy Spirit is with them, they're going to produce.  

So I want you and I to master this relationship. Because out of it, the people around us are going to benefit incredibly well. Because when they get a mother and a father and uncle, we have self-control whose faithfulness, who is loving, who is kind, forbearance.  

If they get that as their anchor what they are eating and what they are drinking, that's what the scripture says if you believe in me then out of your belly will flow rivers of living waters. This is what he was talking about.  

If you believe in me, the fruit that you produce, that people who eat. You don't want people to taste your food and say, Oh my God, this is bitter. That's why you always hear me said the longer you are in this work, the sweeter you should become.  

That when you see a situation where there is no joy and you know if I walk in that place. If I come and connect with this place here there will be joy. Not because I know how to produce it because of who I know is working with me.  

So everybody make it your mission to walk with the Holy Spirit. Because you will always lead you in the path of the righteous. In as much as demonic spirits leads you in the path of the wicked. That's why, he says I'll never leave you nor forsake you.  

That's what he meant. That if you master this relationship, it's going to be your friend right here. All the time. He’s everywhere. He is talking all the time. He’s counseling you all the time giving you counsel when you needed wisdom, understanding knowledge when you don't understand the thing it gives you understanding.  

That's why we should never, ever worry. Once we master that because we know it's all going to be fine. It's all gonna be good. That's why you always hear me saying it's going to be good.  

It's not because I know it's going to be good because I know the Holy Spirit never leads you to a place where it's like, Oh my God, I can't believe he's doing this to me, AMEN. So to next week, we're going to talk about the gifts of the Spirit.  

Because our goal is that by June 8th, when we get together at the Vestavia Civic Center. That we are fully aware of how massive he is. So that when we invite him into our presence and we are asking the Lord to fill us up.  

Everybody should know what you are getting in return. Then, oh, when I leave that place, I'll be full of fruit. I’ll be full of the gifts of the Holy Spirit. Want that to be a reality? I don't want us to just be Christians.  

No, they're Christians. No, no, no, no, no, no that time is long gone, Amen. So, Heavenly Father, we thank you for your goodness and your mercy towards us. All we ask you today is to bless us mightily and to give us this ability to have an incredible relationship with the Holy Spirit.  

The great exchange, the spirit you gave us to direct to counsel and to lead us in the path of the righteous. Now we bless you and we honor you in Jesus name, Amen.