Welcome to the Quality Christian Living Podcast.
I am your host, David Friend. Today we're going
into a brand new series entitled, The Holy Spirit.
And during this series, we will learn how the
Holy Spirit works in the lives of Christians.
We will understand how vital it is and how truly
important it is to be led by the Holy Spirit.
And also that our study will help us better understand
the power and the gifts of the Holy Spirit. And
we're gonna see how the Holy Spirit is available
to help us. always be there to help us and guide
us and direct us. So with that, let's get into
it, but first we need to pray. Heavenly Father,
I thank you once again for who you are. I thank
you for the opportunity we have to bring this
podcast at this time. And I pray now that the
Holy Spirit would come in and guide and direct
and anoint this podcast. Because without the
anointing, it will have no value, no impact.
But with the anointing and with the power of
God, we can see lives changed. And I pray for
those who are listening in who maybe don't understand
the clarity or have clarity on the gifts of the
Spirit, on the Holy Spirit, that these podcasts
will help them and bring new revelation into
their hearts and minds. And for those who are
aware of the gifts operate in the gifts, I pray
that they would be able to listen and receive,
maybe get something that the Spirit would help
them as they endeavor to operate in the gifts
of the Spirit. So I thank you once again for
what's about to take place. I'll be careful to
give you all praise and glory for it. In Jesus'
name I pray, amen. In the middle of my last series
dealing with living with purpose, which was well
received by people. I found something very powerful
and that was that one of the podcasts was entitled
The Holy Spirit Brings Our Purpose or Reveals
Our Purpose. And that particular podcast all
of a sudden had just an explosion of people listening
in and questions and thoughts came up. So I really
felt touched by the Holy Spirit that I should
consider doing a new series, a brand new series
on the Holy Spirit. So that's what really impacted
me to move into this particular topic for a while.
I'm not sure how long we'll be into this. We'll
be along, I believe, as long as the Holy Spirit
wants us, we'll go on and on and on, because
there's so much to learn and so much we can receive
as we study the powerful moving of the Holy Spirit
in the lives of Christians. This series will
be based totally on what God's Word has to tell
us about the Holy Spirit. Jesus spoke about it
frequently. Paul spoke about it. It's just a...
powerful part of living a Christian life, a quality
Christian life. Now, I've not set up a list of
topics, I really haven't, or an outline even
to follow so that we'll know where we go in the
next 10, 15, 20, 30, 40 podcasts, however long
the Holy Spirit takes us. My desire is to submit
to the leading of the Holy Spirit of God to direct
our podcasts. There's an old song entitled, Come
Holy Spirit, I Need You. Matter of fact, it's
one of my favorites. I was saved many years ago.
and that song came out and it was just so powerful
and even to this day when I hear it when I'm
with people who we get together and maybe some
people we pray and maybe someone wants to lead
a little bit of singing and worshipping the Lord
that old song comes up and it's just so inspiring
and really that tells us so much come Holy Spirit
I need you now that will be the theme of this
series of podcasts without the leading of the
Holy Spirit this series will lack value and it'll
lack purpose and it will not hit the mark. But
with the Holy Spirit, we can experience the power
of God. Now I realize that some of those who
are listening may have a great understanding
of the workings of Holy Spirit. You may have
been filled with the Holy Spirit with the evidence
of speaking in tongues and your heavenly language.
You may have the gifts of the Spirit, of healings
and faith and hospitality and all the things
that you're aware of. Yet I'm aware, definitely
there are people listening, I believe many. have
decided today they want to listen to this. podcasts
because they have questions on the topic and
sometimes in the church you don't hear it taught
much and other times you hear it in the church
taught and sometimes it gets a little radical
and quite frankly I think sometimes it gets away
from what the Lord told us about how to operate
in the gifts of the Spirit and not only that
how the Apostle Paul taught but all of that we'll
be covering in the many weeks that will come
as we move through this series on the Holy Spirit.
In the book of Joel in chapter 2 and verse 28
it says this I will pour out my Spirit upon all
people." So, now God's Word is the same yesterday,
today, and forever. So therefore, we've got to
understand when that was... came forth in that
scripture, God still is operating that way today.
Some people believe that the Holy Spirit has
now lifted and the gifts of the Spirit are not
operating any longer. Well, that just don't agree
with that at all, because I know that the Word
of God says that the Spirit of God will dwell
among men, that the Holy Spirit is here to operate.
And Jesus said when he left, he says, I'm leaving.
I've got to be with the Father. But he says,
I'm leaving you, the Holy Spirit, the Comforter.
He said, our Paraclete. He says, our counselor,
the one who will guide us and direct us and give
us us help. So the Holy Spirit is who we have
to help us. Don't refer to the Holy Spirit as
it. The Holy Spirit is a he. It's who he is that's
so important. The Holy Spirit is part of the
Godhead, the triune Godhead. God the Father,
God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. Three individual,
individual spirits. but all one God. We worship
one God, the Trinity, the Triune God. If you
have a problem with that and are struggling with
that, you might want to get some counseling and
help on that because it might be difficult for
you at times to relate to when I talk about the
Spirit of God and the Holy Spirit. Now, with
these words I've just given you, what you just
heard in the book of Joel, I will pour out my
Spirit upon all people. With those words being
spoken, how many want God to pour out his Spirit?
on you. I hope that all of you listening in are
feeling that way today, that you want the power
of God to pour out on you. You want the Spirit
of God to move on you and help you to operate
in the Spirit and operate in the gifts of the
Spirit and operate with wisdom from on high,
not just your wisdom and your intelligence. And
that's fine. Our wisdom or our intelligence is
fine, but it's minor inside of God's power and
his strength and his might and his wisdom, his
knowledge. In the book of Isaiah, The Lord tells
us that his ways are greater than our ways. His
thoughts are greater than our ways. Everything
that he is is greater than we are. So therefore
we've got to understand that we need help to
learn how to operate and walk in the power of
God and in the power of the Holy Spirit. So I'm
just asking that the Heavenly Father will help
us to get more of you. receive more of the Holy
Spirit. We submit to the Holy Spirit. We ask
the Holy Spirit to help us and to teach us and
to lead us into a deeper relationship with Him
and with God the Father and His Son Jesus Christ.
My prayer in this podcast is that we will all
receive a deeper understanding of the Holy Spirit.
If you're here for that, then may the Lord bless
you and may you receive that as we go through
these podcasts. Let me ask you a question. It
may seem silly to some people, but I really think
it's important. I'm going to ask you this. How
many are truly excited about what the Holy Spirit
has for you. I mean you can't wait to hear more
from Him and be led by Him. And ask another question,
how many of there are questioning as to whether
you understand the Holy Spirit when He's speaking
or not? Or you have questions about whether the
Holy Spirit is telling you to do this or to do
that or not to do this or not to do that and
you're just not sure where you should go? All
those things, if you'll stay with me on this,
all those issues we will discuss in the upcoming
weeks and maybe months and months of our teaching
on the Holy Spirit. You know, this podcast is
called Quality Christian Living and Quality Christian
Living is designed to do one thing. It's to help
Christians live a greater life. Now I said it's
designed to do one thing, but it's designed to
do two things, really. The second thing is to
ask people to receive Jesus Christ as their Lord
and Savior. I wouldn't be doing these podcasts
if I didn't have the opportunity to pray with
people and to ask them to pray this prayer, prayer
of submission to God and receiving Jesus Christ
as Lord and Savior. That's the reason that I
do this podcast, is to lead people to Jesus.
And Quality Christian Living is to help Christians,
current Christians, not only new Christians,
but Christians that have been Christians for
many, many years like myself. Live a quality
Christian life, a life filled with the power
of God, filled with abundant living. I'm not
talking about money, money, money. I'm talking
about abundant living. Abundant living is seeking
God daily, getting into His Word and loving it,
leading people to Jesus Christ. Yeah, it also
has a little bit to do with finances and being
blessed in that area, but abundant living is
so much greater than just receiving financial
abundance. I just... Hope that you understand
that. It's so important, so powerful to live
abundantly and Quality Christian Living, this
podcast, is designed to help us live that kind
of life. I receive from this every single time
that I do a podcast. There's something the Lord
teaches me or shows me or strengthens me or encourages
me or lifts me up into some situation that I'm
maybe having a little bit of a challenge with.
The Holy Spirit helps. So these podcasts, the
Quality Christian Living podcasts, are designed
to help Christians live a quality life. Jesus
said, I've come to give you life and give it
to you more. abundantly, and being led by the
Holy Spirit is abundant living. It just doesn't
get any better than that. So that's why we're
getting into this series, Dealing with the Holy
Spirit, and I hope that you're ready for that,
and I pray that you'll maybe contact me. I suggest
that you would contact your friends or your family
members or those around you, those you work with,
to join us as we seek a Spirit -led life. Now,
let's stop right there. A Spirit -led life. You
know, that is truly the goal of every Christian,
every Father of Jesus Christ. It's a life filled
with great expectations, with an anticipation
of the Holy Spirit filling us with His power,
His love, His comfort, His wisdom, and His guidance.
You see, the Bible speaks of being filled with
the Holy Spirit. That is our goal, to be filled
daily with the Holy Spirit. There's a great story
in the Bible, and I'm not going to get into it
right now. There's about a man, a man who is
a servant. I'm not even going to give you his
name. I'll be doing that in an upcoming podcast.
And they looked at him and they saw him. They
said he was filled with the Spirit, that this
man was so anointed of God that he was filled
with the Spirit of God and because of that they
put him in a leadership position and being filled
with the Holy Spirit led him in to face so many
great challenges in life and I'll be dedicating
probably at least one podcast to that as an example
of what it means to be living a life filled with
the Holy Spirit and being led by the Spirit of
God. So let me give you some other things before
we go much longer into this particular podcast.
I have several goals for this series, quite a
few goals. So let me just give you a few of them.
Here's three or four as the Spirit leads. Let's
see how many we get into. But let me give you
the first one here. How can we experience the
power of the Holy Spirit? Now, some people you
instantly know what I'm talking about and you
know the scriptures and all that and yet others.
are wondering about that, they might have heard
something about that, and still others may have
never heard anything about the power of the Holy
Spirit. Well, in Galatians chapter 3 and verse
14, it tells us who we are. as believers and
it tells us that we receive the promise of the
Holy Spirit through faith. So through faith and
our desire to seek God, we can receive the power
of the Holy Spirit. We'll have at least one or
two podcasts dealing with the power of the Holy
Spirit and we'll talk about the specific gifts
of the Holy Spirit, the miracle gifts, the gifts
of healings and all the power gifts and the fruit
of the Spirit, those things that we need to have
in our life, love, joy, peace, patience, goodness,
kindness, gentleness, faithfulness and self -control.
All of these topics we'll be getting into and
I'm not just trying to make this whole podcast
filled with teasers because it's really not.
I'm giving you some ideas of how important it
is to stay with me in this podcast and go through
it with me to receive that spirit -led life that
Christians need and if they don't feel that they
need it then they're missing out on really an
incredible relationship with God and an incredible
relationship with Jesus and an incredible relationship
with the Holy Spirit. Okay here's another topic
or question that I want to bring up that will
come up in this series. How can we live a Spirit
-led life? Well, you know, there's a lot of pressure
out there to keep us from being led by the Spirit.
Some of the pressure is our own knowledge, our
own wisdom, our own understanding. Well, that's
okay, and that's good, and God helps with those
things, but our understanding is nowhere near
as great as the Holy Spirit's understanding.
And we get distracted with life. We get busy
with life when we decide to do things on our
own rather than stopping and asking the Holy
Spirit to help us and guide us and direct us.
How can we live a Spirit -led life? There's one
scripture I'm going to give you right now I think
that's really powerful and it shows the battle
that we go through in our life to be led by the
Spirit of God. It's found in Galatians chapter
5 verses 16 and 17. But I say walk by the Spirit
and you will not gratify. the desires of the
flesh. For the desires of the flesh are against
the spirit and the desires of the spirit are
against the flesh. See, there's a battle going
on. There is a massive battle going on, a spiritual
battle taking place over our mind. It's amazing
to think how many people struggle with issues
that are stuck in their mind. They just can't
seem to get them out because they try to do it
on their own and we just can't do these things
on our own. It's not by might or by power, the
Bible where God says, but it's by my spirit,
says the Lord. So we've got to understand in
that it's the powerful life we want to live,
the overcoming life that we want to live, the
abundant life that we want to live, that life
filled with joy and peace and happiness and not
that we're not going to have trials, not that
we're going to have difficult times. I mean,
you're listening to a guy who's been told three
times that he's had incurable diseases. Two of
them were cancers, one was kidney failure in
my life, and those things have rocked my world.
They really hit me hard, but as soon as I heard
the diagnosis on a couple of those, I looked
at the doctor and I said, so you're telling me
this is incurable, right? And he says, yeah,
there's no way that I can get cured from it.
He says, no, no, we can try to help you. I said,
so you're trying to tell me and trying to scare
me with heaven? And then the doctor looked at
me when he said that. Now see, I didn't say that
in my own strength. That was Spirit -led. There's
no doubt in my mind because my flesh was saying,
oh, they said cancer. Oh, they said incurable.
Oh, they said there's no treatment. Oh, they
said there's no hope. Oh, they said this is going
to be difficult for you and on and on and on
they went. But the Holy Spirit quickened me to
respond to the doctor in the midst of that terrible
challenge that I had. And so it wasn't me, it
was the Holy Spirit who said, tell him you're
trying to scare me with heaven. And the doctor
looked at me and he said, wow, you must really
believe that. He said, I've never heard that
before. And I said, well, you should have. Christians
who are diagnosed with that should realize that
heaven is the greatest thing that will happen
ever to us. Spend eternity with Christ and our
loved ones. And so therefore, we either operate
in the flesh or we operate in the spirit. And
that's what Galatians chapter 5 verse 16, 17
is basically saying. It says, but I walk, I tell
you, I tell you, he says, I say walk by the spirit
and you'll not gratify the desires of the flesh.
The desires of the flesh say they're just carnal.
They're all about us. They're selfish, they're
self -centered, and we don't want those things.
It says, for the desires of the flesh are against
the spirit, and the desires of the spirit are
against the flesh. That sums it up right there,
is how we can live a spirit -led life. We need
to learn how to walk by the spirit and be led
of the spirit. Here's item number three, maybe
one of the goals that we have. How can we receive
the gifts of the spirit? Now I'm sure some of
you, as soon as you saw the topic on the Holy
Spirit, or you were searching for the topic on
the Holy Spirit through my podcast or other podcasts
or just trying to fishing for it. And that's
what led you to this particular podcast on the
Holy Spirit, because you're wondering about how
can I receive, how can we receive the gifts of
the Spirit? Well, first of all, we need to read
God's promises about the Holy Spirit. Throughout
the Word of God, there's wonderful examples in
the Old and New Testament about the power of
the Holy Spirit. I already gave you one in the
book of Joel. And let me give you another one
now in the book of Acts, chapter 1 and verse
5, where Jesus said these words. baptized with
water but in a few days you will be baptized
with the Holy Spirit so those are the types of
scriptures you need to find now if you don't
have a concordance that's something that many
Bibles have at the end of the Bible and you can
look up words look up the Holy Spirit it'll give
you numerous scriptures throughout the Word of
God that talk about the Holy Spirit and if you
don't have that just simply get on your phone
and and Google it they say and you can find scriptures
on the Holy Spirit find a particular translation
that you like I particularly enjoy the new Living
Translation. I also like the Message Bible somewhat.
I was raised on the... new version of the King
James, the new King James version I should say,
I was raised as a Christian on that and then
other translations came out. Now there's hundreds
and hundreds of translations but find a translation
that speaks to you and ask for what that translation
has to say about the Holy Spirit and get those
scriptures in your mind. I would strongly recommend
though you check with your pastor or a Christian
friend as to which translations you should listen
to and read. I strongly recommend New Living
Translation today. It's my absolute favorite
and it's one I believe that really ministers
to a lot of people. So how can we receive the
gifts of the Spirit? We get it through the Word
of God and look for the promises that Jesus gave
us in the Word of God. So in addition to that,
we can receive the gifts of the Spirit if you'll
stay with me in this series. We will help you
through God's Word and we'll be praying about
it and we'll be believing that God is going to
fill people with the Holy Spirit and that thousands,
tens of thousands of people will receive the
power of the Holy Spirit in their life. Here's
the last question I want to bring one of the
goals for this particular podcast. How can I
share with others the importance of listening
to the still, quiet voice of the Holy Spirit?
Well, some people say, I don't understand that
still, quiet voice of the Holy Spirit. I've heard
it, but where does it come from? Well, various
translations refer to that in 1 Kings 19 and
verse 11. It refers to, in other translations,
they call the Holy Spirit voice a gentle whisper
or a soft whisper or a low whisper, but it's
a still quiet voice. Let me give you an example
of what I like to explain what a still quiet
voice is. Have you ever been, you know, sitting
down somewhere where it's quiet or driving somewhere
or just going for a walk and all of a sudden
a thought comes into your mind like, call my
mom or dad or call my friend or I've got this
thing I need to do, whatever. I believe the Holy
Spirit still quiet voice speaks to us like that.
It's that thought that comes into your mind,
something that's there. And if it's a bad thought,
obviously it's not the Holy Spirit. But if it's
a good thought or a positive thought, let me
give an example. When I started a church in North
Scottsdale many years ago, I was sitting there
on a Saturday. It was kind of a tradition for
me to go in on Saturdays and then I would pray
and I'd ask the Holy Spirit to help me to call
people, maybe people that I don't know, that
I should talk to, maybe just call them and invite
them to church or remind them that we're going
to be speaking on a certain topic and those types
of things. I know it's probably old -fashioned
these days to do that but it was really something
that the Lord had me do and I would pray and
sometimes I'd make 10, 15, 20 phone calls on
a Saturday morning just to communicate with people
in our church. And as the church grew and got
bigger and bigger and bigger, you know, it became
more and more difficult to try and to do that.
And so I remember one particular Sunday was coming
up and I was there on Saturday morning and I
was praying. We had a little prayer meeting there,
people talking about the service and all that.
Then everybody left and I was by myself in the
church. And I'm in my office and I'm starting
to get onto my message and thinking about what
I should, you know, what I'm speaking on and
looking up scriptures and just doing my preparation.
And all of a sudden this still quiet voice said,
call this particular family. And I thought, well,
you know, they're new to the church and I don't
really know them that well. And I wonder if I
have their phone number. And I thought, no, I
can't do that. I'm like, well, I'm busy. I'm
putting this message together and I need to focus
there. So yeah, I'll get to that later. And so
all of a sudden I tried to get back into what
I was doing in the Holy Spirit. It was speaking
to me that still quiet voice saying call these
people right now And I thought well, you know
that that's okay and I thought well So I tried
to find their phone number and I found it and
I looked at and then my flesh was battling like
the scripture I told you earlier Remember when
I when I gave that one scripture to you that
was so powerful in Galatians chapter 5 verse
16 But I say walk by the spirit and you will
not gratify the desires of the flesh for the
desires of the flesh Are against the spirit and
the desires of the spirit are against the flesh
that was happening that scripture. I wasn't reading
it I didn't even think about that scripture,
but that's what was taking place. And that happens
to all of us. We've all had this happen to us.
Well, I'm sitting there and I'm really busy.
I want to get things moving for the sermon the
next day. That's the number one thing on my heart
and on my mind. And yet the still quiet voice
was saying, call this couple. So finally, all
of a sudden, I just stopped. And I said, OK.
And I didn't say, OK, Lord. I didn't say, OK,
Holy Spirit. I just said, OK, I'll call. And
so I got the phone, picked it up, called the
guy, and he answered. And he said, hi, this is
Gary. And then he started, I said, well, this
is Pastor Friend of the church. And he started
to laugh instantly. And I thought, well, this
is nice. The Holy Spirit or something is telling
me to call. And I call this guy and he hears
my voice and he starts laughing. And all of a
sudden I'm thinking, this is, this is. Difficult
I wish I hadn't called and then all of a sudden
this guy's laughing I said, I'm sorry, but did
I get it interrupt something there's something
funny and he said he said pastor Nope, forgive
me. Forgive me. He says you won't believe what
just happened He said, you know We've only been
coming to the church for a couple weeks and we
the church that we were in was only about 40
or 50 people and this church is now running about
a thousand people and he says and my daughter
and I were talking about what church we should
go to and our my wife and I we're all discussing
where we should go because we were used to a
small church didn't want to be a part of it anything
really big. And all of a sudden, my daughter
looked at me and says, well, Dad, you can't go
to that church because you used to talk to the
pastor all the time and the pastor of this church
it's so big he's so busy he'll never have time
to talk to you he said soon as she said that
he'll never have time to talk to you the phone
rang he says I picked up the phone and it said
hello Gary this is pastor Dave over at the church
he says and that's why I started laughing because
I had to stop I need to explain this to my family
what's taking place you see that's the still
quiet voice of the Holy Spirit I can remember
there was a Another time I was sitting in my
office studying and working on some things, but
I wasn't preparing a sermon, but I was doing
something and working on a project in the church
and I was extremely busy. It seems like when
I get the busiest, busiest, busiest, it's when
the Holy Spirit says, stop and give me your attention.
And quite frankly, I really like that. I like
when the Holy Spirit now calls upon me and says,
whatever you're doing, stop. It's not important.
And you need to do this. And I was sitting there
in the office and all of a sudden another member
of the congregation came to my mind. And it was
in the middle of the week. And I thought, well,
I should probably call them. And I thought, well,
I'll get to it later. And the Holy Spirit, that
still quiet voice said, call them right now.
So I thought, well, I'd had that other experience
a few weeks before that, so I called them right
then. And when I called, the man answered the
phone. He said, hello. And I said, hi, this is
Pastor David over at the church. I just wanted
to see how you guys are doing. And he said, did
my wife tell you to call me? And I said, no.
I said, I just really felt like I should just
call you and just see how you're doing. He said,
well, I'm just now. getting ready to walk out
the door and leave my wife. We just had a horrible
fight. We've been arguing. I think we're going
to have a divorce. And he said, so I'm heading
out. I'm going to get a motel somewhere. I don't
want to be part of her anymore. She doesn't want
me to be around. She wants me to leave, get out
of the house. And we're having this horrible
fight. Our kids are watching. It's just absolutely
terrible. He says, and just before I leave, he
said, my phone rings. And I answered, it's you.
And I said, yeah, I believe the Holy Spirit asked
me to call you. I said, I really believe that.
And I said, instead of you leaving, could the
two of you come down to the church right now
and we could meet? And he said, no, no, that'll
never happen. I said, well, why don't you ask
your wife? Why don't we just see if we'll have
favor and if I can get you down here? And so
I heard him say, honey, Pastor Dave just called.
He says, and you're sure you didn't call him?
She said, no, I did not call him. And anyway,
and she didn't. And he said, he wants us to come
down to the church said well maybe that's what
God wants and the two of them got in their car
and their kids were older were teenagers and
so they left their kids at home and they came
down to the church and we had a couple of hours
where we talked and visited and they started
to get healed and their marriage got restored
and healed and you know those are the kind of
things that I'm talking about when I'm talking
about a spirit -led life and please forgive the
personal experience, but I can only give you
the experiences that I've had that I know that
the Holy Spirit intervened. And I'll be doing
that a lot through this series because that's
what's happened in my life. It's not to boast
and say I've got it all together or that I always
walk in the Spirit and I never have any fleshly
thoughts or anything. No, I'm human just like
you are. But bottom line, it's important that
we need to understand that the Holy Spirit wants
to lead us. He wants to guide us. And if we listen
to that still, quiet voice, then we will be led
of the Holy Spirit. So the last question was,
can I share with others the importance of listening
to the still quiet voice of the Holy Spirit.
I would encourage you to read that scripture
first. Kings chapter 9 and look what it says
about the Holy Spirit's voice is a gentle whisper
and a soft whisper and a low whisper and when
you get that thought in your mind you can share
that with other people that I had this thought
and something happened in my life and something
I needed to talk about to my husband or talk
to my wife or talk to my boss or to my kids or
whatever it might be or talk to a neighbor or
invite someone to church listen for that still
quiet voice the still quiet voice will be that
voice that's bringing some hope and comfort and
something positive into our lives. So listen
to the still quiet voice of the Holy Spirit.
Now, these are just a few of the topics we're
gonna cover in this podcast series. And all of
these and many, many, many more will be covered
in greater detail in the upcoming podcasts on
the Holy Spirit. Well, I can see we've kind of
run out of time. I hope this has been a blessing
to you. We're gonna continue to be going through
this series on the Holy Spirit for a number of
weeks. The next podcast is entitled something
like the Holy Spirit. working in us, and it may
change a little bit between now and then, but
if it does, I pray it'll be the Holy Spirit that
helps me. So if you'd like to know more about
our podcast that we do, it's called Quality Christian
Living, I'd encourage you to go to my website,
and you can go to davidcfriendauthor .com, and
when you get on there, the front page will show
right up there, and there'll be a link right
on the front of it that says, link to podcast.
And if you'd like to know more about Quality
Christian Living, you can simply hit that link,
and you'll go through, this is my 316th podcast.
So there's a lot of podcasts on a lot of topics,
and that's what Quality Christian Living is all
about. Topics on miracles, topics on faith, topics
on finances, and how to get out of debt and stay
out of debt. Many, many topics, because my background
is kind of varied. I was a real estate developer
for many years. My wife and I had a real estate
development company. I was a banker for 15 years
before that. I was in the military, so I've had
a lot of wonderful experiences and some difficult
ones, but I believe God uses those so I can bring
a lot of different topics in. If you'd like to
subscribe to Quality Christian Living, you can
do that by going to cpnshows .com or wherever
you listen to your podcasts. Once again, I hope
this has been a blessing to you and let me just
pray for you. Heavenly Father, bless those who
are listening in. Those who have a wonderful
knowledge and understanding of the Holy Spirit
and operate in the Holy Spirit and those that
are new. It's new to them. They have a desire.
They want to be led by the Spirit of God. So
I pray blessing will be upon them. Help us in
this podcast and help those who are tuning in
to receive complete I thank you so much for listening
to the Quality Christian Living podcast and this
series on the Holy Spirit. This has been podcast
number 316 so obviously we've been doing this
for quite a while. This is a little over three
years that the Lord has blessed us with this
podcast and I just pray that you would invite
your friends and family and let them know about
this series. The last time I did a series on
the Holy Spirit was probably about a year and
a half ago. It was specifically on the Holy Spirit.
We had a huge increase in the number of people
who started listening in who were basically new
to the teachings on the Holy Spirit. So I'm sure
that same thing's gonna happen now. So I would
encourage you to invite those that may have questions
as we go through this. In addition to that, I'd
like to just close with a little blessing for
everyone who's listening in. May the Lord bless
you and keep you. May his face shine upon you
and may he be gracious to you and give you peace.
May you prosper and be in good health, even as
your soul prospers. So until next time, may God
richly bless you. Thank you once again for listening
in to Quality Christian Living. I'm your host,
David Friend.