So when you're in a court of law, so you're either
going to plead guilty or not guilty. But in God's
court, you can plead the blood. You plead the
blood. Because, you know, the blood of Jesus
is your covering. You know, it's your protection.
Right. And it's your salvation. Right. And the
blood of Jesus is your passport to heaven. God
promises in Joel 2 .28 to pour out his spirit
on all humanity. Welcome to Global Outpouring,
where we contend for that promised outpouring,
we equip for that outpouring, so that we may
engage in that very outpouring. I'm Philip Buss.
And I'm Sharon Buss. Welcome to the podcast today.
We're so glad that you're with us. This is our
third episode on strategies for defeating your
enemy. This is our first time to try video, and
we're not sure whether we're going to actually
publish the video or not, but we're experimenting.
So today we're going to talk about the power
that we have for defeating our enemy in the blood
of Jesus and with the Holy Spirit. Thanks so
much for joining us today. We are really excited
about this opportunity to be with you and to
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So we want to encourage you to get close to us.
One of the ways to get close to us is to come
to our convention. Convention 2026 is coming
up May 21st through the 24th. It's going to be
amazing. We're holding it in the Hilton Hotel
at the airport in St. Louis, Missouri. And it's
easy to get to. It's very close to the airport.
So it's just minutes on a shuttle to get there
from if you're flying in. And it's right next
to the interstate if you're coming by driving.
Please plan to be with us. Tony Kemp will be
with us and Dean Braxton. You've been hearing
about Dean Braxton, hearing from Dean Braxton
on these podcasts. And, you know, he's just so
personable and really approachable, too. And
we're going to be having him for some Q &A times.
And we also have Anna Werner, who is a dynamic.
prophetic voice in these days. And I'm going
to speak too. And also we have Claren McQueen,
who will be leading in praise and worship for
us, with us, leading us into dynamic worship.
And he's also going to bring the message for
our Israel night. We have a special service every
time to celebrate Israel and what God is doing
in his land and in his people. So plan to be
with us. It's going to be a glorious time. You
can go to our website and there's a whole page,
a whole event page. Just click on events and
you'll see the information there and how to make
reservations. And pretty soon we'll have a registration
form up there as well. So today we are going
to also go into some of the... Bible studies
that our founder, Gwen Shaw, has written. She's
just such a dynamic teacher. You know, I love
the fact that we are in this together. We're
lifted up in heavenly places. We're seated in
heavenly places in Christ Jesus. And those that
have gone before us are already there. And, you
know, the relationships continue. This isn't
necromancy. I'm not talking about necromancy
where we reach out and try to talk to somebody.
No, no, no, no, no. That's not from God. That's
not legal in God's ways. But the things that
she wrote, her legacy continues. And the books
that she wrote continue to carry that same anointing.
And we can enter into that same anointing that
she carried by reading her books and by studying
the things that God gave her so that we can.
As one of our teachers at our International School
of Ministry years ago said, we want you to stand
on our shoulders and go higher. And I know that
that was Sister Gwen's heart. And of course,
that's our heart as well. We want to help the
next generation go higher because. you know,
this thing just keeps getting bigger and bigger
because God keeps creating and he keeps getting
greater and keeps becoming more glorious. So
today we're going to talk about Gwen Shaw's book,
The Power of the Precious Blood, and we have
it on our website. It's a wonderful book. It's
a book that you can use for your personal study.
It's a book that you can use if you want to start
having Bible studies in your home because there's
a need. for training people. There's a need for
equipping people. So we're trying to help equip
you, and you can help equip others. So, you know,
it's going to be all hands on deck as the Holy
Spirit is poured out in a greater and greater,
greater way all the time. So I just want to bring
some information from this book, and we're going
to also hit her other book, Ye Shall Receive
Power From On High, about the baptism in the
Holy Spirit. But we'll start with the power of
the precious blood, because that is... is key.
It's absolutely key to overcoming and getting
into that place where we're able to defeat our
enemies. It's our foundation. Absolutely. Absolutely.
So Sister Gwen had this experience when she was
a missionary in Hong Kong that gave her a greater
understanding of the blood of Jesus and the power
of the blood of Jesus. She had a dream one night.
And in her dream, she saw Satan appear to her.
And he said to her with this cunning sneer, I
have power to harm you. And of course, she sensed
that he was challenging her to go to war with
him. And she knew that she didn't want to do
it. And then she answered him, I know you have
power to do me much harm, but you are afraid
of the blood. And immediately he answered, I'm
not afraid of the blood of bulls and goats. And
she said, you know, she was stopped for just
a moment. And then the Holy Spirit prompted her.
No, but you are afraid of the blood of Jesus
Christ. And immediately he began to shake and
tremble. And he said, yes, of that I am afraid.
And right in front of her eyes, he began to shrivel
up and get smaller and smaller and smaller. But
she. was awakened with fear. You know, she was
kind of frozen from that because that's one of
the devil's tactics. He works with fear. He's
busy trying to keep us afraid of him because
he can overrule us if we have fear. God did not
design us to work with fear. He designed us for
love. So anytime we're experiencing fear, we're
being attacked. by the enemy of our souls. I
mean, there is a godly fear of God. You know,
there's a righteous reverence of God, but that's
the only fear that we should have. And it's not
the same kind of a fear. So she understood that
she was about to be attacked and that the blood
of Jesus was going to be the key to the deliverance
that she needed in the situation. And so she
got out of her bed and got on her knees and began
to pray. And a couple of hours later, one of
the missionary sisters that she knew came to
visit her and she told her the dream. And this
sister said, Sister Gwen, you will be attacked
by Satan in a very powerful way. But when it
happens, remember God has given you the key.
Plead the blood of Jesus and God will give you
the victory. And she knew this was a confirmation.
So a couple of hours later, she left the kids
in charge of a Chinese sister that was there.
And she went out into the country to preach.
And she had two meetings that she had to do.
When she came back, she found out that almost
immediately when she left, that the youngest
boy, Tommy, was attacked with a fever. He was
in bed and groaning with the fever. And she went
to him and she began to plead the blood, plead
the blood, asking Jesus to cover Tommy with his
precious blood. And then she let him. sleep with
her and and all night long he's groaning with
the fever and so that the next day there was
no improvement and the next day there was no
improvement and then on the next day his temperature
was down but he got out of bed and he was all
crooked and he couldn't straighten up and so
sister gwen was was concerned about this and
she heard in her head this Nasty voice saying,
meningitis, meningitis. I've given him meningitis.
And all of your pleading with the blood, pleading
of the blood couldn't help anything. And then
the next day, a Chinese sister came and saw this
situation and got down and prayed. She said,
Lord, I'm a mother and I have children. I know
how this mother's heart is broken to see her
son sick. I beseech you, heal Tommy. When he
wakes up tomorrow morning, let him be well. And
in that moment, Sister Gwen knew that the prayer
had gotten through. It had gotten through. She
knew that the answer was on the way. When he
woke up the next morning, he was completely well.
So, you know, this was her first real strong
lesson in what it means to use the blood of Jesus
Christ. We call it pleading the blood. So what
does pleading the blood really mean? Well, in
a court of law, they're going to bring evidence
against you, but they say you're innocent unless
you're proven guilty. Right. And so, but you
have the legal right to present your case, and
that's usually with an attorney. Right. Yeah.
And how do you plead? It says, well, you either
plead guilty or non -guilty. Right. So when you're
in a court of law, so you're either going to
plead guilty or not guilty. But in God's court.
You can plead the blood. You plead the blood.
Like you can plead the Fifth Amendment, right?
Like the Fifth Amendment lets you not incriminate
yourself. You don't have to give evidence out
of your own mouth that incriminates you. So you
can plead the Fifth Amendment. So this is another
way of bringing something to the court that will
be different than a plea of guilty or not guilty.
And with the blood of Jesus, there's no jury.
Yeah, that's true. There's no jury that's going
to decide. Once you receive Jesus and you have
the blood of Jesus Christ, so what have you been
forgiven of? You know, you have all your sins.
Yeah. Because, you know, the blood of Jesus is
your covering. You know, it's your protection.
Right. And it's your salvation. Right. And the
blood of Jesus is your passport to heaven. Absolutely.
You know, you can't go into another nation. You
know, well, it used to be you could go to Canada,
we could cross the bridge, Niagara Falls, pay
10 cents, show your ID, and you're in. But because
of what happened. That was back in the day. Back
ways back. But now you have to have, you know.
passport and everything and and has your picture
and all your and it can expire you know and you
if you're overseas you have you know you can't
travel into another nation if your passport's
going to expire within so many months right so
you have to have it but the blood of jesus never
expires right it's always there for you And even
when the devil just comes at you like he did
to Job, you know, he didn't have the blood of
Jesus because that sacrifice had not happened
yet. Right. But he found that he was innocent.
He cried out to God, you know, and, you know,
woe is me. Why is this? You know, curse it be
the day I was born. Right. Because he's in so
much agony and pain. But he loved God and he
never lost his faith in God. And he was vindicated
and given back more than double of what he had.
It's true. But what he went through. Yeah. And
we have to go through stuff a lot of times, sicknesses,
things like that. But it's the blood of Jesus
that gets you through. Right. You have to stand
on it. You stand on the blood. It's a place to
stand. And we do that. And we've mentioned this
before. When we get on an airplane, any vehicle
we get into, I don't care who's driving. I put
my hand somewhere and I'll just pray over this
car. Lord, I thank you for your precious blood.
And I just speak full covering. Full assurance
over this car. Keep us from any accidents, incidents,
close calls. Amen. And we do that. We get on
an airplane, any mode of transportation. We speak
the blood of Jesus over that. Amen. We speak
the blood of Jesus over our luggage. All right.
Now, we've been traveling overseas for 40...
Something about 40 some years plus. And we've
never lost our suitcases. I mean, they came back
after a few days. You know, we've had our traveled
with our guitars. We just speak the blood of
Jesus because this is for the kingdom of God.
And our guitars would be there on the other end.
We've never had one damaged. And so God has been
so good. But we don't travel with guitars anymore.
Yeah. You know, things have changed now. Yeah.
But the power of the blood, it's the strongest
force of the universe. Amen. It's because it's
life -giving. Yes. Life -giving. And one of the
things, it has the power to deliver us from the
sentence of death. True. Because there's life
in the blood. That's right. And your own body,
when you read that in Genesis, I think it is,
isn't it? The life is in the blood. Because when
Cain killed Abel, And the Lord came and spoke
to him. He says, where's your brother? He says,
well, I don't know. I'm not my brother's keeper.
And he says, your brother's blood cries unto
me from the ground. That's right. Your blood
has a voice. Your blood has a voice. And Henry
Groover, many of you have heard of him, and he's
a real seer, and he hears from God. And he could
go down the street and he can tell where there's
an abortion clinic. Yeah. Because he could hear
the blood crying out in the sewer system. It's
true. There's, you know, the spirit is in the
blood. Your life is in the blood. Absolutely.
Wow. And so the blood of Jesus speaks better
things than that of Abel. And so Abel's blood
is crying out for. retribution. It's crying out,
I've been murdered. Do something. I'm dead. But
Jesus' blood is crying out for mercy because
he said from the cross, Father, forgive them.
They know not what they do. So when he shed his
blood, his blood was crying for mercy rather
than crying for retribution. Yeah. And even in
the Scriptures, when God was giving the law,
he forbid the children of Israel to drink blood.
Right. Because, you know, the life is in the
blood. Exactly. Exactly. So if you go through
the Scriptures, you'll find that there are many
covenants that God made with his children. And,
you know, with Adam, God... covered them with
skins. There's different ways of looking at it,
but one of the ways is that he would have shed
the blood of some animal to give skins for them
to wear. So that would be the first covenant
that was with blood. And then, of course, Abel's
sacrifice was a sacrifice of blood, and Cain's
wasn't. But there's also the idea that Abel offered
it with faith. where Cain didn't. I think that's
very clear in the book of Hebrews. Anyway, moving
on, we have Noah, you know, when God promised
that there would be no more flooding and he put
the rainbow in the clouds, there was a blood
sacrifice to make that covenant. So that's why
they took seven of all of the clean animals so
that they'd have something to sacrifice. Sacrifice
on the other end. Yeah. And then Abraham's covenant,
you know, that there was that. time when Abraham's
saying, you know, how am I going to know that
you're actually going to give me a son? Because
it looks like my servant is going to be my heir.
And so God had him cut up these animals, and
he passed through them. He caused a deep sleep
to come on Abraham. He was making it clear that
I'm going to see to this covenant, and you don't
even have to. I'm making this covenant with you.
This is your sign. And he came through it like
a smoking, flaming furnace and made that covenant
with Abraham to give him and his descendants
the land that Israel has come back to. So then
we have the Mosaic covenant. And that's where
God instructed them to make sacrifices in a tabernacle.
So that was picturing for us. The requirement
that when we have sin, it requires blood to bring
forgiveness. So it was a picture of what we should
expect. to happen in the new covenant where Jesus
laid down his life and shed his blood. Once for
all. Once for all. Once for all. Hallelujah.
The final sacrifice. Yeah. And even prior to
that, in order for them to get out of Egypt,
remember there were 10 plagues, and the last
plague was the worst. The death of the firstborn.
And in order for the children of Israel to not
lose their firstborn, they had to kill a Passover
lamb. And it could be either a lamb from the
sheep or a kid from the goats. And that was a
blood sacrifice where they put the blood on the
doorpost. And that is absolutely a picture of
what Jesus did for us to cause the death angel
to pass over us. And there's different ways to
look at that. You can look at it that the death
angel had to pass over the house and not strike.
And you can also look at it that God passed over
that house to overshadow them. and protect them
from the destroyer. Yeah. Maybe you're in a dangerous
place in another country and you just speak the
blood over your hotel room. Yes. You know, over
the car you're in. Yes. You know, over the doors,
the windows, that there's nothing demonic is
going to come in. And if there's something in
there, you need to go out. Yeah. Absolutely.
Absolutely. And, you know, we're not going through
the entire book that Sister Gwen wrote. So you
may want to go and order this. Yeah, we're just
taking some pieces. Yeah, we're taking some highlights.
So this is just to whet your appetite for more.
And one of the things that I love in chapter
seven is talking about the sprinkled blood. And
in Leviticus 5 .9, Moses is given the instructions
to sprinkle the blood of the sin offering on
the side of the altar, and the rest of the blood
shall be wrung out at the bottom of the altar.
It's a sin offering. And talking about in Leviticus
5 .10, about the priest shall make an atonement
for him for his sin, which he sinned and forgiven
him. And the blood on the altar of the sacrifice
was for the forgiveness of the sinner. So there's
this point in time where even when they're dedicating
the whole tabernacle, there is this the sprinkling
of the blood that is done to dedicate, to dedicate
everything to God, to make it so that he is the
owner, okay? It's dedicating it to him. So I
was really excited to learn when we interviewed
Dean Braxton some time ago, and he described
for us what he saw. When he was in heaven, he
was transported to see Jesus on the cross, and
he saw that Jesus had been shredded, just so
mangled that you could hardly recognize that
he was a man and that he was even human. And
it reminded me of what is written in Isaiah 52,
just prior to Isaiah 53, where, in case you don't
know, Isaiah 53 describes Jesus as the suffering
servant, as the one who would redeem us and set
us free from sickness and grief and sorrow and
iniquity and all those things. But it says in
Isaiah 52, verse 14, it says, as many were astonished
at you, his visage was so marred, so beaten up,
so pulped. I don't know that that's a word, but
pulpy. Anyway, he was beaten to a pulp is what
I'm trying to say. He was so marred more than
any man in his form, more than the sons of men.
So what Dean described reminded me of this scripture,
but the next scripture is very important too.
We've shared this before, but it absolutely bears
repeating. Verse 15 says, so shall he sprinkle
many nations. The kings shall shut their mouths
at him, for that which had not been told them
shall they see, and that which they had not heard
shall they consider. And this word in The word
kings in the Hebrew can mean kings like, you
know, kings of nations, but it can also mean
demonic kings. Oh, and the other thing that Dean
said about what he saw was that every time Jesus'
heart would beat, he had been so lacerated that
the arteries had been pierced just enough that
whenever his heart would beat, there would be
the spray of the blood sprinkling. It was like
a spray. Every time his heart would pump, it
was spraying out. And so it was literally sprinkling
for our transgressions, for our iniquities. And
what I see here is that. The kings, the demonic
kings, had shut their mouths. Up to that point,
they thought they had won, that they had defeated
this so -called king of glory, their enemy. And
they thought they were just rejoicing with glee
at how they had mutilated him, not realizing
that that was for their demise. Had they not
known, they would not have crucified the Lord
of glory. Had they realized it, they would not
have crucified him. So it's like they shut their
mouths. It was like, uh -oh, we're in trouble
now. Because it hadn't been told them what was
going to happen. That was one of God's secrets.
You've got to know how to keep God's secrets.
And it was one of those things that was hidden
from the foundation of time. that this would
be their demise. And it was even prophesied in
Genesis chapter 3, I think it is, where it was
talking about the seed of the woman would crush
the head of the serpent, but the serpent would
bruise his heel. And that was exactly what happened
on the cross. So this sprinkling is something
that is so clear that is for our deliverance
from iniquity. So that's one more way of defeating
our enemy with the power of the blood of Jesus.
And then we have the cup. When we take communion.
Yes. And taking communion with the body and the
blood, it's reminding what Jesus did, the Passover
lamb. You know, as Jesus is called the Passover
lamb. Yes. And the blood of forgiveness of sins.
And many churches, you know, they will maybe
take communion once a month. Yeah. Some don't,
you know. But, you know, we try to every day
if we can. Yeah. You know, just the cleansing
of the blood of Jesus Christ, taking his body,
just when he's in the upper room, he said, this
is my body which is broken for you. You know,
they were actually doing the Passover Seder,
and they were on the third cup. It's the cup
of redemption. Yes. And that's when, if you've
ever done a Seder or you studied it, That's the
cup of redemption. And he was speaking of himself.
Yes. That, you know, I am the redemption. I am
the word of life. And this do in remembrance
of me. Yes. So this wasn't something he did just
then. He was a sacrifice once and for all. But
as a reminder that we take communion. And many,
they just, they don't know the power of it. Right.
They don't understand how holy it is. It's just
like you have to be holy and pure. Otherwise,
you can, as Paul says in 1 Corinthians 11, 29,
he that eats and drinks unworthily means if you're
not pure when you take communion, you're eating
and drinking damnation or condemnation or judgment
to yourself. You know, it seems there is no excuse
for ignorance. Right. So when we take communion,
it's a holy thing. It has to be treated as such.
It's not something that you just do because it's
a habit. Right. Which happens, you know. Yeah.
Do you have to be pure and holy taking communion?
In order for you to use the power and authority
of the blood of Jesus Christ, you have to be
clean yourself. Absolutely. You have to be clean
in order to, or it will not work for you. It
will not go good for you. Yeah. And I remember
when we interviewed Shirley Smith, when she was
giving her testimony of how she fought cancer.
Yeah. And when she came here, Sister Gwen set
her up so that she could have communion every
day. And having communion every day was something
she was afraid of. Because she knew that this
was really a critical thing, and she was afraid
to have communion because she didn't think she
was pure enough. And the Lord made it clear to
her that the communion is also for helping you
to overcome. Yeah. So we'll put a link in the
show notes to that. interview, because it was
so powerful, and God used the communion to bring
healing to her. And one of the things, too, about
that cup is that Jesus said, this cup is the
new covenant in my blood. Okay? Remember, we
said earlier that covenant is done by the shedding
of blood. You have shedding of blood. in most
covenants, not all, but most covenants. There's
a shedding of blood. So Jesus is saying, this
cup is the new covenant in my blood. And so if
you go back to Jeremiah, where Jeremiah 31, where
it's describing the new covenant. And verse 31
says, I will make a new covenant with the house
of Israel, with the house of Judah. And there's
four things that come with this new covenant.
The first one is I will put my law in their inward
parts and write it in their hearts. And I will
be there. That's the second thing. I will be
their God and they shall be my people. They shall
teach no more every man his neighbor. saying,
know the Lord, for they shall all know me from
the least of them to the greatest of them. They're
going to know him. Everybody in the hold of Israel
and Judah, it's promised that they're going to
know him. Okay. And then the fourth thing is
because I will forgive their iniquity and remember
their sin no more. So if he's saying this cup
is the new covenant, the reason why he won't
remember their iniquity against them is because
of the blood of Jesus. Okay? So it's important
that, especially when we have sinned, to come
to the communion table and say, Lord, I'm so
sorry. Cover me with your blood. Cover me. Forgive
me. See this blood. Hear this cry for mercy from
this cup. for my sins, Lord, to forgive me of
my sins and cleanse me and set me free and destroy
this power of the enemy that's in my life. So
it's huge. The Holy Communion is huge. And I
just want to kind of wrap up this particular
study here. Did you want to cover those review
things? Yeah. And I've taken this out of the
book. You know, in Hebrews 13, 20, 21, the blood
of Jesus makes us perfect in every good work
to do his will. Amen. In 1 John 1 .7, the blood
of Jesus cleanses us from all sin. Ephesians
2 .13, we are made night of God by the blood
of Jesus Christ. Amen. We can approach him because
of the blood. Yes. 1 Peter 1 .18, we are redeemed
with the precious blood of Jesus. Yes. Romans
5 .9, we are justified by the blood of Jesus.
See all the legal terms we can use in here? Yeah.
Hebrews 13 .12, we are sanctified by the blood
of Jesus. Yes. Ephesians 1 .7, we have redemption
through the blood of Jesus. Yes. Colossians 1
.20, we are reconciled through the blood of Jesus.
Revelation 1 .5, we are washed from our sins
by the blood of Jesus. Amen. So we can understand
why Satan hates the blood of Jesus, because it's
what defeats him. Absolutely. And that wraps
us up by taking us to Revelation chapter 12 and
verses 10 and 11. It says, the accuser of the
brethren is cast down. which accused them before
our God day and night. And they overcame him
by the blood of the lamb and by the word of their
testimony. And they loved not their lives unto
the death. So our overcoming and the verse right
before that spells out who is the accuser of
the brethren. Let's just look at that for a second
so that nobody has any question as to who we're
dealing with, because our enemy is Satan. Right.
But in Revelation chapter 12, you know, if you
start with verse seven, it says there was war
in heaven and Michael and his angels fought with
the devil and his angels, the dragon and his
angels. And they prevailed not. The dragon prevailed
not. Neither was their place found anymore in
heaven. And the great dragon was cast out. So
here's his names. The great dragon, that old
serpent called the devil. and Satan, which deceives
the whole world. Okay, there's five clear descriptions
of who our enemy is, because he's really God's
enemy. And because he's God's enemy, he's our
enemy, because we're made in the image of God.
And he's made us to work with him. God made us
to work with him, to function with him, to overcome
and defeat this enemy. So we defeat him by the
blood of the Lamb and by the word of our testimony.
We love not our lives unto death because we're
already dead in him. We're dead in him and our
life is hid with Christ in God. So it's because
of the blood of Jesus. You know, he allowed himself
to be opened up to make room for us to come in
and to be a part of him, to be a part of his
body. So it's the blood that makes us close to
him. And we just want to encourage you to press
in and receive the grace that comes by working
with the blood of Jesus Christ as a weapon, a
powerful weapon of warfare. It's not just a tool.
It's a weapon. It's a weapon. Hallelujah. So
we also want to. talk about the mighty power
that we have in the power of the Holy Spirit.
So we've talked other times about receiving the
power of the Holy Spirit, but we've talked about
Pentecost several times. But this book that Sister
Gwen Shaw wrote is A Bible Study in the Baptism
in the Holy Spirit. If you've been listening
and you're still not filled with the Holy Spirit,
it would be good for you to get this book and
help to understand it, and also to give you a
tool to teach it, because we desperately need
to be filled with the Holy Spirit in these days,
because it's all about the outpouring of the
Holy Spirit, this global outpouring that we're
talking about. We want to see God pour out His
Spirit. All flesh. And this title, this is when
Jesus is with his disciples. He was crucified,
rose from the dead, resurrected. And he said,
but tarry ye in Jerusalem. I mean, they wanted
to get out of Jerusalem, I think, you know, the
quickest way you can. But he says, tarry in Jerusalem
until you be endued with power. from on high.
Yes. And this is what he's referring to. And
that's what this book is about for you to experience
the Holy Spirit, where you can be endued with
this power. Because Jesus says, when I leave,
I will not leave you comfortless. I will send
the comforter, which is the Holy Spirit. That's
right. And it's part of the Trinity, Father,
Son, Holy Spirit. Right. The Spirit of God, the
Ruach of God, the breath of God. Yes. Which becomes
in us. It's there and it's available to us, but
you have to let it take control because we have
this fleshly nature, our carnal mind, you know,
because it works through our spirit. We have
to let our spirit, because our spirit is in total
obedience with what God wants to do because your
spirit came from God. But it's this flesh nature
that we have, our mind, our intellect, that gets
in the way of everything God wants to do through
us. Very true. And it's learning how to put that
under your feet and let the spirit man arise
in you. And believe me, that's one of the hardest
things you'll ever do. But it's worth it. But
it's worth it, yes. Absolutely. Because the more
you do. that, the more you can hear from God,
the more He'll orchestrate your day. That's true.
That's true. And the more He'll use you. Yeah.
And that's what this is all about. We're trying
to help you get equipped. Yeah. And when you
let the Holy Spirit use you, it's like in the
morning, we have our prayer time. And I can just
tell when I've had that, you know, just good
time, Holy Spirit. I have to go to town. Things
just fall into place. Yes. And even just the
other day, we have a crew down here cutting wood.
They're the power line people. They're clearing
everything out 20 feet either side of a power
line, any trees and their stuff down. And there's
some stuff that had to have attention. I thought,
how am I going to find the right guy just to
do that? And all of a sudden, here comes the
truck. down the hill, just the person I need
to talk to. Thank you, Holy Spirit. You know,
he's just so good, saving me a lot of step trying
to find. And that's what he'll do. He'll orchestrate
your day for you and make things just flow a
whole lot better. Absolutely. If we keep connecting
with him. That's true. That's true. And there's
continuous depths. of of relationship with the
holy spirit and continuous i like to think of
it in in terms of continuous surrenders where
the more we surrender the more we sink down from
our fleshly stand yeah and let let the holy spirit
stand up on the inside of us instead of our flesh
you know and and that makes such a difference
because just think back about I keep referring
to Dean Braxton, but, you know, the experiences
that he has had have really helped me to develop
in the Spirit. And when he talks about how looking
at the Father or looking at Jesus and just being
overwhelmed with the glory of looking at him
or them, you know, that the glory is just so
amazing and the majesty and the love and all
of these things. And then he'd look again and
it was more so. And then he'd get overwhelmed
and he'd look again and it was more so. So God
is continuously growing, shall I say. There's
just continuous, continuous creation of love,
continuous creation of light and life. And so
the Holy Spirit wants to do that inside of us.
and draw us deeper and draw us closer and help
us to grow up and leave behind the childish things.
You know, there's so many things that... that
happen to us as children that can stunt our growth
emotionally or stunt our growth mentally, that
we just get stuck. And when we get under pressure,
you know, whatever happened at the age of 7 or
2 or 8 or 10, it causes your maturing process
to get stuck at that age so that if you get under
pressure, you start behaving like that 7 -year
-old or that 2 -year -old or that 10 -year -old
or whatever. And so the Holy Spirit is here to
help us grow. And in the Old Testament, it says
the Spirit of God came upon people. Oh, yes.
We talked about that recently. Yeah, in the book
of Judges. It came upon Samson. It came upon
Gideon. And he blew a trumpet and gathered the
army. Midianites. Midianites. Yeah, it was the
Midianites because the Holy Spirit came upon
them, came upon Samson. Samson was not what you
call a righteous man, you know. Yeah. And in
the end, it got him. But the Holy Spirit would
come on him, this normal looking guy, supernatural
power that could rip the gates off a city, which
who knows how heavy that was, and carry it to
the next town. Wow. You know, that's supernatural.
But now we have the Holy Spirit within us. And
when it was poured out on the Temple Mount and
the Book of Acts, they're in the synagogue all
that night. They're celebrating the giving of
the law. That's what it is. What happened on
Mount Sinai with Moses and the mountain shook
and the fire and flames. And so that's what they're
celebrating, the giving of the law, the fire
of God. And that's what happened in the book
of Acts. You know, when they were all night and
in the morning, they go to the temple. Yeah.
And it was up on that temple mount because when
you study the scriptures. when it talks about
upper room and the house, it's not the same place.
So it wasn't like the Holy Ghost came down in
the upper room, they all run out and 3 ,000 people
got saved. How does that happen? But when they're
on the Temple Mount and everybody sees the fire
come down and not a little flame on their head,
I mean, they was probably a couple feet tall.
And people just, and then everything happened.
And so the Holy Spirit came in. And you have
Peter who denied the Lord 50 days earlier. Yeah.
totally just thought he totally messed everything
up. And all of a sudden he preaches his first
sermon because the Holy Spirit kind of had quickened
him to scriptures because they didn't go to,
he was a fisherman. He didn't go to Torah school
and the Holy Ghost just gave him everything he
needed. And 3000 people got converted. I mean,
that's the power of the Holy Spirit. That's right.
And that's how he wants to move in you. That's
true. And you had mentioned before we were. speaking
about the Holy Spirit. And a brother from Indonesia
was listening to our podcast, writing his cycle
on the way to work at an attorney's office. And
he starts speaking in tongues on the way. Holy
Ghost filled him on his motorcycle on the way
to work. And Sharon's dad, you know, he was praying
for the Holy Spirit. And in the middle of the
night, Holy Spirit comes on and he just starts
speaking in tongues. Yeah, he woke himself up.
Because he sought it for months and months and
didn't get it, didn't get it. All of a sudden,
one night, it happened in a dream. Can I just
share this? Before Jesus was crucified, he's
in the upper room with the disciples, and they've
probably already had their communion. And he's
given them this little sermon, this kind of last
words of encouragement. And he talks to them
about what the Holy Spirit is going to do. The
book of John really gives a lot of information
about that. In John 14, 16 and 17, it says, I
will pray the Father and he shall give you another
comforter that he may abide with you forever,
even the spirit of truth, whom the world cannot
receive because it sees him not, neither knows
him. But you know him for he dwells with you
and shall be in you. So this is the first promise
that they get, this first inkling that. the Holy
Spirit's going to come into them. I don't think
they knew how to process that. But when it happened,
they got it. Yeah, they understood. And then
then in verse 26, it says, but the comforter,
which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will
send in my name, he shall teach you all things
and bring all things to your remembrance whatsoever
I've said unto you. And that is so important.
As we study the Holy Scriptures, the Holy Spirit
who breathed them, inspiring the writers in the
first place, will bring them back to us. you're
in a situation where you need to have a word
from the Lord. Many, many times for me, it comes
up in my spirit as a scripture. Like I get a
phrase from a scripture and I go back to my Bible
to find out what's the rest of the verse or what's
the context. And it always... turns out to be
something that I needed. So he's going to do
that for us. And then in John 15, 26, it says,
but when the Comforter has come, whom I will
send to you from the Father, even the Spirit
of truth, which proceeds from the Father, he
shall testify of me. So this is a promise that
the Holy Spirit is going to help us to understand
more about the ministry of Jesus. and what he
did and how he wants to do that in our lives
and use us the same. And then in John 16, 7 and
8, nevertheless, I tell you the truth, it is
expedient for you that I go away. For if I go
not away, the Comforter will not come unto you.
But if I depart, I will send him unto you. And
when he has come, he will reprove the world of
sin and of righteousness and of judgment. So
this idea of of reproving the world of sin is,
I think this is so key. And I think this is part
of what we need to be considering as we are looking
for the weapons of warfare to deal with our enemy.
that we understand the importance of flowing
with the Holy Spirit and not just trying to do
things on our own, but letting the Holy Spirit
use us instead of us using him. You understand
the difference? You know, it's important that
we get in sync with him, that we get flowing
with him so that whatever he's trying to get
us to do, that we'll do it. And when we do what
he says to do, we're going to see. results. So
this idea of convicting the world of sin, when
we're in intercession, we're asking the Holy
Spirit to bring conviction on people. And we
talked to... few episodes back about remitting
sins or forgiving sins, that we can pray prayers
where we're asking our Father to see the blood
of Jesus and hear his cry for mercy over people
who need intercession, the people who need to
get saved. So we can remit their sins. We can
pray for the blood of Jesus to cover their minds
and cleanse their minds and deliver them from
the things that are keeping them from flowing
with the Holy Spirit and bring the conviction
of sin so that they'll repent. You know, if we
ask God to forgive, we're not saying that that
takes the place of them repenting, but it removes
the judgment over them so that they can repent.
And I just think that's such an important part
of our intercession, which we talked about, I
think, in our last episode about intercession.
Yeah, because the title of this book, Ye Shall
Receive Power From On High, that comes from Acts
1 .8, but ye shall receive power after that the
Holy Ghost has come upon you. And ye shall be
witnesses unto me, both in Jerusalem and in all
Judea and Samaria, into the outermost part of
the earth. Amen. You know, that is our blast
-off point. Exactly, exactly. And he spoke to
them in Luke 24 -49 and said, Behold, I send
the promise of the Father upon you, but tarry
in the city of Jerusalem until you be endued
with power from on high. So it just goes together
with that. So it's a promise. And the other thing
that he said in John 16 that I forgot to mention
was that verse 13 and 14, it says, How be it
when he, the spirit of truth, is come, he will
guide you into all truth. For he shall not speak
of himself, but whatsoever he shall hear, that
shall he speak, and he will show you things to
come. He shall glorify me for he shall receive
of mine and shall show it to you. And so we need
that in all of our walk, everything that we do
every day, all day long, we need him to guide
us and help us to be in the right place at the
right time with the right words. And there was
four instances in the New Testament of the outpouring
of the Holy Spirit. Yes. The first was, you know,
in the book of Acts, chapter 2, we're all familiar
with. And there was a second outpouring. This
is after the crippled man was healed at the gate
of the temple. And Peter, John, they're being
arrested, you know, interrogated. And they were
commanded, don't you preach anymore in this name.
Yeah. They were released. And they went back
to their own company, and this really inspired
a prayer meeting. And so they're in this meeting
in Acts 4 .31. And when they prayed, the place
was shaken where they were assembled together,
and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost,
and they spake the word of God with boldness.
See, they were filled with the Holy Ghost before,
but this is a continual thing. Right. It keeps
getting bigger. Yeah, you keep getting filled,
and God just gave them a new boldness. The third
time that is mentioned is in the book of Acts,
chapter 8, starts in 17. And this is Peter when
he's up on the rooftop, and he's just praying,
and he has a vision of the sheep coming down
and all these unclean animals. And the Lord says,
arise, Peter. You need to kill these and learn
how to eat these. Lord, they're unclean. But
three times he had this vision, and then all
of a sudden somebody comes to the door and says,
your appearance is requested to come in the house
of Cornelius. Yes. Now, Cornelius being a centurion,
a Roman centurion. A Gentile. A Gentile, which
means you better come because he's a Roman centurion.
And if you don't come, he can maybe take your
head off because you did not obey him. Not that
he would have, but. Not that he would. So Peter's
scratching his head. And he said, there's people
coming to the door. You go with them, doubting
nothing. Yes. So he goes to the house of Cornelius.
And you know the story. We've told this before.
And while he's talking to them about Jesus, all
of a sudden, all the household there, you know,
and there's those that probably didn't want to
be there because this is part of family, mom
and dad. boss says okay you gotta be here for
this they all get filled with the holy spirit
yeah they did they don't know what it is right
and all of a sudden they're all speaking in the
holy ghost yeah and and it was a good thing it
wasn't just peter yeah he had his company there
and so so they're witnesses of all this going
on and presented it to the council when they
went to damascus and you know to jerusalem to
jerusalem rather and they got together with a
council and that's where I says, well, that means
the Holy Spirit is for the Gentiles, too. Yeah.
The salvation is them, too. It's just not for
us. Yes. Because Jesus said, you go to Judea,
Samaria. Now, the Samaritans, you know, they're
like half and half. There's Jewish blood there,
but it's intermingled. And they don't go up to
the Jerusalem to worship. They have their own
place. Right. And they're despised by the Jews,
the Samaritans are. But he says, you go to Samaria.
The uttermost parts of the earth. Right. I mean,
there's Jews to the uttermost parts of the earth.
There are now. But even when Paul went first,
he would go to the Jew first. Then he would go
to the Greek or to the Gentile. Right. And that
was his pattern. And the Holy Spirit used him
wherever he went. And the Holy Spirit will use
you wherever you go. Amen. Wherever you go, just
to speak a word, it might be just a couple words,
an encouragement to somebody. You might have
a little window of time. God gives you a Kairos
moment where you can just speak into their lives
and change their life around, give them direction.
It's just be obedient to him, and he'll just
kind of set your course. Absolutely. Absolutely.
And I love this, the scripture that Peter used
when he was in Cornelius's house. And he talks
about in Acts 10, verse 36, the word which God
sent unto the children of Israel, preaching peace
by Jesus Christ. He is Lord of all. He says this
to these Gentiles. That word, I say, you know.
which was published throughout all Judea and
began from Galilee after the baptism which John
preached. So Cornelius must have been there for
a while. He knew what was going on. He had been
there through the ministry of Jesus. He had heard
about it, I'm sure. And in verse 38, how God
anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost
and with power, who went about doing good and
healing all that were oppressed of the devil,
for God was with him. Yes. And I love the fact
that he talks about how Jesus was anointed with
the Holy Spirit. And we need to catch that, that
that was the thing. The word Christ means the
anointed one. So he wasn't anointed with oil.
He was anointed with the Holy Spirit. And what
are we called? We're called Christians. Christ.
Yeah. little, little versions of Christ, okay?
We're like, could we say the descendants of Christ?
We're part of his body, okay? We're part of the
body of Christ. So this anointing of the Holy
Spirit is what makes us living. stones, okay,
the stones in the temple and living cells in
the body of Jesus. So we are also anointed with
the Holy Spirit. Now remember when Jesus was
baptized by John, he was not only baptized in
water, but the Holy Spirit came down on him and
remained on him like a dove. And we've talked
about this recently, but as the Holy Spirit came
upon him, I'm picturing it like a dove fluttering
over her babies. And that's one of the words
that's used where it talks about how the Holy
Spirit was fluttering over, brooding over the
waters at the very beginning when the earth was
without form and void. And God just hovered over
it and imparted life to it. So when we are baptized
in the Holy Spirit, there's a hovering of the
Holy Spirit over us. And he comes into us. And
he comes into us to... empower us, to empower
us, to give us the grace to obey him, to give
us the grace to let his character be formed in
us. Okay. That's what the fruit of the Holy Spirit
is about. And so many times, especially in the
Pentecostal move and the charismatic move, we've
had such a focus on the power gifts and the gifts.
And the gifts are amazing. The gifts are meant
to help us get the point across and bring in
the kingdom, right? So there's this gifting,
but it's to be balanced with the anointing of
the... maturity of the character of Christ, where
we're walking not only in his power to do things,
but in his power to be, to be like him. We are
human beings, not human doings. We talked about
that fairly recently as well, that we are to
be like him, that his fruit. of love and joy
and peace and patience is being manifested in
us and his faith, the faith to do the things
that he's called us to do so that we will walk
in his ways and as he's using us. See, so one
of the problems that we're having in the body
of Christ these days is people who are operating
in the gifts without the character. And that's
what's turned people off. So God is calling us
to let that Holy Spirit anointing bring us into
a likeness that it can be seen on us, that his
anointing is flowing in us, his anointing is
working in us. And that when we bring a word,
that it'll be a word of power when we lay hands
on the sick, that they shall recover. He promises
that. But it's from the Holy Spirit. It's that
anointing of the Holy Spirit that came on Jesus.
He didn't heal anybody until he was anointed
with the Holy Spirit. And every believer, every
believer, every believer, to become a believer,
it has to have the Holy Spirit working in them.
But there's that baptism in the Holy Spirit that
gives you the more so, where you can continue
to grow. And you can continue to be anointed
and you can continue to receive power from on
high on a regular daily basis. Amen. So this
book, we recommend you getting this because in
Sister Gwen's Bible studies, after each chapter,
she has questions. Yes. So it makes you go back
and you get that. It helps to get that in you
so you're not just reading something and forgetting
it. Be endued with power from on high. Receive
it today. Let's just pray. Father, in the name
of the Lord Jesus Christ, we pray for our listeners,
Lord, that each and every one of them will have
a new, fresh baptism in your Holy Spirit, that
they will have a new, fresh revelation of the
power of the blood of Jesus Christ that comes
into them to... Cause them to overcome, to bring
them into that place of rising up in the anointing
and being used by you in obedience to you, walking
with you as you are pouring out your spirit in
a brand new, fresh way in their lives. And that
that will impact the people around them in Jesus
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