Welcome to the Quality Christian Living Podcast.
I am your host, David Friend. We are in our new
series entitled Simply the Holy Spirit, and today
we're going to talk about the Holy Spirit working
in us. We're going to search the scriptures for
a better understanding of how the Holy Spirit
works and what He wants to do in our life. We're
going to see how the Holy Spirit will help us
in our weaknesses and our difficult times in
that we're going through trials, and how the
Holy Spirit brings wisdom and power and understanding
into our life. And we're going to discover how
the Holy Spirit works in us so that we can be
a blessing for someone else and be an example
of how He can give us power and strength and
understanding. And we're going to find a way
to live and walk in the Spirit. Before we do
that though, we need to pray and seek for His
guidance and direction. Heavenly Father, I thank
You for the opportunity once again to get into
Your Word, to be able to speak to people quite
frankly around the world who have a desire to
learn about the Holy Spirit. I pray that You
would bless it now. And I now submit and yield
to the Holy Spirit. I ask him to come in now,
take control of my thoughts, my minds, any prayers
that we may have or any scriptures that we read
that he would help us and take control of this
podcast and guide our thoughts and our minds.
And I pray those who are listening in would receive
a very special touch from him today and that
the anointing of the Holy Spirit would flow through
the airwaves to people around this country and
this world who need a closer walk with the Holy
Spirit. us and guide us, and I'll give you praise
and give you glory in advance for what you're
about to do. For I ask these things in Jesus'
name I pray. Amen. There are so many places in
the Word of God that talks about the Holy Spirit.
The Old Testament refers to the Spirit of God
hovered over the earth and all the way through
the Old Testament and throughout the New Testament
we hear of the power of the Spirit of God. So
we're going to get into some examples in the
Word and one of my absolute favorite stories
in the Word of God has to do with the life of
a man named Stephen who was quite frankly a servant,
a man who served others. It's such a powerful
story and has great examples of how we can then
operate underneath the power and the anointing
and the grace of the Holy Spirit. So I'm going
to read it to you. It's in, not the whole story,
but I'm going to read excerpts of it, scripture
here and there, in order to see how the Lord
wants us to understand how the Holy Spirit worked
in Stephen's life and how he can also work in
our life. So as we go through this story and
as we go through the example of his life, I want
you to think about how the Holy Spirit wants
to work in us, wants to touch us and help us
in our weaknesses and our difficult times. And
even when we're on top of the world, so to speak,
when we are absolutely being blessed in every
area of our life and experience the joy of the
Lord and when living that abundant life that
God promised us. truly understand that the Holy
Spirit wants to bless us, that He has a desire
to bless those who are followers of the Lord
Jesus Christ. So I'm going to be reading this
story found in the book of Acts in chapter 6
and verse number 8 in the New Living Translation
says this, it tells us that Stephen was a man
full of God's grace and power and that he performed
amazing miracles and signs among the people.
So here we have a man who was an average guy
as far as You know, as far as he wasn't a special
leader, he wasn't a wealthy man. He was just
simply someone who wanted to serve Jesus Christ
and he did it by serving others. The apostles
loved him and they wanted him to be a part of
the ministry. Stephen was a man who simply served
other people daily. That's the main theme that
we hear about him is that he was there to help
others. You see, when we help others, we're going
to be blessed. When we give, it comes back to
us. Press down, shaking together and running
over. That's what Stephen did, and I believe
there's the key to him being filled with the
Holy Spirit. He was one of the seven men who
were chosen by the apostles to serve and to minister
to the members of the church because the apostles
were told, you need to preach, you need to study,
you need to prepare, you need to reach out, you
need to go to the masses. Well, they needed a
group behind them. They needed a group of people
who were servants to help and support the apostles
and hold up their hands and lift them up. It's
the same way in the church. have a senior pastor
who's just a wonderful powerful man of God and
someone who's blessed to the Lord and anointed
by the Holy Spirit and he's reaching people and
doing a great ministry but the behind -the -scenes
things the things that opening the doors and
getting the place cleaned up for the services
and going out and talking to people inviting
people to come to the church and the people who
who watch the floors and the people who who set
up the tables and the people set up the chairs
these are all people that are vital part of the
church and that's what Stephen So I hope that
gives hope to people out there. Maybe you're
not a pastor, maybe you're not ordained, maybe
you don't really feel you have a call in your
life that you're supposed to quit your day job
and go into full -time ministry and like that.
But bottom line, you know that you know that
you know you want to be used of God. And if you
want to be used of God, He will put us to work.
It reminds me of a story of my pastor who came
to me one day, Pastor Tommy, and he came to me
and he says, you know David, he says, I just
really feel that the Lord wants to use you in
the church and would you Do me a favor and help
this one Sunday school class." He says, I just
need someone to step in and kind of teach it
and oversee it. It's an adult class. And maybe
for four, five, or six weeks or so, you can help
it and kind of see if we can't find someone else
to come in and take it over and do this permanently.
And I said, well, sure, I'll be happy to do that.
So my wife and I decided, OK, we'll be the Sunday
school teachers. So we started in first week,
second week, third week. The next thing you know,
the class started to grow. And it was five and
six weeks. And it was growing and growing. grew
and grew and grew it wasn't because of me it
was because of God it was a divine move of God
a sovereign move of the Holy Spirit to draw people
in that class we started with about 25 or 30
people that were meeting in the church sanctuary
and in a period of about a year we had like 200
people then it went to 300 to 400 to 5 we had
roster of 600 people who attended that class
we tended that class now don't don't take this
wrong I'm not boasting or bragging about anything
that my wife and I did but there was a in the
church, the pastor came, they needed someone
to serve other people. He asked us if we would
do it for six weeks. We wound up teaching that
class for 15 years, and God blessed it. Matter
of fact, that was how my wife and I were being
taught. Quite frankly, we didn't know it at the
time. We were being trained and put in a position
that someday we would pastor our own church,
and that's what happened, and so we thank God
for that. But that little six -week assignment
that we were asked to do, we stepped in. What
if we'd have missed on that? What if we had have
passed on that? We could have missed our opportunity
to be quite frankly led into pastoring and starting
a church in North Scottsdale. So God blessed
it. I thank God for it. And to God be all the
glory and honor. And I want to thank my pastor
Tommy for asking us to take a stand and do that.
So you may be in a church that needs someone
to step up and take over an area or help in an
area. Go to your pastor, talk to them, and volunteer
to be a servant of the Lord. I know God will
richly bless you in all that you do. Now, none
of that I had prepared to talk about my past
experience with our pastor and the class and
the Sunday school class and all that. And none
of that was anything I planned to talk about,
you see. So therefore, the Lord obviously has
placed the Holy Spirit in this teaching already
to take me in an area that I think would help
and minister to people who are trying to make
decisions on what they should or should not do
in their church. Let's get back to Stephen now.
He was chosen because it was evident to the apostles
that he was with the Holy Spirit that he just
showed it in everything that he did. That tells
us that anyone in the church can experience life
being filled with the Holy Spirit. Now let's
look a little closer at Stephen. In Acts chapter
7 we see that because of Stephen's faith in Jesus
Christ. The religious priests hated him. The
apostles loved him. The people loved him. The
people in the church loved him. But the outside
people, the people that were not followers of
Jesus Christ, matter of fact they were enemies
of the gospel, they hated Stephen because Stephen
was doing something that would bless the kingdom
of God and bless the ministry of the Lord Jesus
Christ. But because of his acceptance by the
Holy Spirit and his acceptance by the Lord and
acceptance by the apostles to be a part of that.
He was filled with the power of the Holy Spirit
and that power was making quite an impact in
the church in those days. He was a servant to
others. That's all he did. So any of us can be
filled with the Holy Spirit if we just simply
submit our lives to Christ and submit our hearts
and our minds and our thoughts to the Holy Spirit
and ask him to lead us, guide us, and direct
us. Now Stephen was anointed by the Holy Spirit
to challenge his accusers. You see, they came
after him. But he had something to say back to
them. Now, he was bold and strong in this. If
you want to really read the whole story, you
should read the book of Acts, chapter 7, and
I believe in chapter 6. If you'll read those,
you'll see the whole story, but I'm going to
just use a few scriptures in order to help us
better understand how Stephen's life affects
us today and how the Holy Spirit can work in
each and every one of us. In Acts, chapter 7,
verse 51, Stephen called his accusers. This is
what he said to them. You are stubborn people.
You are heathen. at heart and death. in the truth
you must forever why is it he says why is it
you must always forever resist the Holy Spirit
he didn't say you're resisting me he didn't say
you need to hear my message you needn't say you
need to hear the Apostles message he said a very
powerful statement that's what he had great wisdom
and it came because he was filled with the Holy
Spirit he said you are always resisting the Holy
Spirit see the Holy Spirit wants to move into
everyone if you're a Christian or not if you're
of another faith of maybe even in a cult or something,
or no people in a cult, the Holy Spirit wants
to speak to them, wants to speak to every single
person on the face of the earth. And we need
to yield to the power of the Holy Spirit. And
he knew that they were fighting against the Spirit
and would not surrender to the Holy Spirit. You
see, the Jewish leaders were infuriated, absolutely
violently upset with Stephen and the words that
he had to say. So let's look a little closer
as this story goes along and we can see what's
taking place as Stephen is filled with the hope
Spirit and his enemies are filled with an evil
spirit. So let's look at Acts chapter 7 and verse
55. I'm reading again in the New Living Translation.
It tells us that, but Stephen, full of the Holy
Spirit, gazed steadily. Now while they were his
accusers, were coming after him and they were
attacking him and they wanted to beat him to
death and soon they would kill him. In the midst
of all this, Stephen stopped and it says, but
Stephen, full of the Holy Spirit, gazed steadily
into heaven. You know, that's what we need to
do in the midst of trials. We need to gaze steadily
into heaven. We need to ask the Holy Spirit for
guidance and comfort. I know when I've been diagnosed
with incurable cancers and given basically death
sentences by doctors in my lifetime on three
different occasions, I needed to gaze steadily
into heaven. I need to gaze steadily into the
Holy Spirit and seek comfort and his guidance
because my flesh wasn't going to give me any
comfort. My flesh was being accused and my flesh
had no way of battling it but the Holy Spirit
who lived and dwelt in me gave me the strength
in the power of the Holy Spirit to deal with
these issues and that'll happen in your life.
It'll happen in every one of our lives if we
gaze into the eyes of our Heavenly Father and
that's through seeking the Holy Spirit in our
life. It says, but Stephen full of the Holy Spirit
gazed steadily into heaven and saw the glory
of God, and he saw Jesus standing in the place
of honor at God's right hand." Wow. Verse 56,
let's go on. Stephen told his accusers in verse
56, look, I see the heavens opened and the son
of man standing in the place of honor at God's
right hand. Now, picture this. My goodness, the
man is under attack. I don't know how many people
were at him. They were picking up stones to stone
him to death. They were yelling and cursing at
him and saying all kinds of hideous things about
him and threatening him and all this. And in
the middle of that, he decided to turn his attention
away from all that stuff, all those trials, all
that anxiety that could be upon him and look
for the Holy Spirit and look for the guidance.
And the Holy Spirit is the one who revealed the
vision of Jesus being in heaven to Stephen. So
it's pretty powerful. This angered the priest.
The more they yelled at him, the more he looked
up into the heavens. It's basically what happened
to him. So this angered the priest and the leaders.
So they began to stone Stephen. They figured,
well, this guy, we can't shake him with words.
We can't shake him with threats. We can't shake
him with all these accusations and whatever.
But basically, they're saying, we're just going
to have to take you out. And so they started
to stone him. The Bible continues to tell us,
it says this, as they stoned Stephen, prayed,
Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. He fell to his
knees and shouted, Lord, don't charge them with.
the sin, and with that he died. We have to stop
and think for a second. Look at what he was going
through. Look at what this incredible scene must
have been. These people were gathered all around
him. They had taken him out into the countryside
to stone him to death. And as they're stoning
him to death, he's so filled with the Holy Spirit.
See, as he's facing the most difficult thing
he'll ever face in his life here on earth, in
the middle of all that, he is so filled with
the Holy Spirit that he has compassion for those
who are attacking him. Such compassion that he's
based saying the same thing that Jesus said when
Jesus was on the cross and before Jesus gave
up his life he said forgive them father for they
know not what they're doing and Stephen was so
filled with the power of the Holy Spirit that
in the middle of this horrendous, absolutely
horrendous event that was taking place, he knew
that he was dying. He said, please forgive them.
These people don't know what's going on. They
really are not aware of it. What amazing power
that is. And I know that's heavy, and I know
that's extreme. A lot of people would say, well,
that's a pretty extreme example. But really,
when you think about what we face in life each
and every day, we've got to learn how to overcome
it. We've got to know that when we're told that
we've got a sickness, we've got to trust God.
When we're told that We have a financial problem.
We've got to trust God. When our marriage is
maybe shaky and in trouble, we need to trust
God. When our kids are wayward, we need to trust
God. Whatever takes place in our life, we've
got to understand that we've got to walk in the
power of the Holy Spirit. We cannot do this on
our own. We can't just say, well, I've got strength.
I can do this. I can overcome. I'll do it my
way, that type of thing. No, we've got to stop
thinking that way. We can't think that we can
do it in our own ability because we are weak
in our abilities. God's abilities are unlimited.
and his power is great and unlimited, the Holy
Spirit's power is unlimited, and that's where
we get our strength. I think after all this,
you can now understand why I love the story of
Stephen. And by the way, as Stephen was being
stoned to death, the Bible tells us that the
accusers took off their coats and laid them at
the feet of a young man named Saul. This was
Saul, the man who eventually became the apostle.
Paul. You see, in those days, Saul was a man
who hated Christians. He wanted to take out Christians.
He wanted to kill as many Christians as he possibly
could. And I believe that when he experienced
and saw what Stephen went through and Stephen's
faith and Stephen's trust in his God, that was
the beginning. That was the first thing that
ever happened, I think, that made Paul, back
then known as Saul, started to look in a different
direction. And of course, we know later on the
road to Damascus, Paul was slain down on the
ground and he lost his eyesight. and Jesus came
there and said, why are you persecuting me? Why
are you coming after me? And Saul was converted
and named Paul the apostle, one of the greatest
men that's ever walked the face of this earth.
But he did that under the power and the anointing
of the Holy Spirit. You know, we've learned so
much from this Bible story. Let me first list
just maybe a couple of those items I think we've
learned from it. One, we learned about a deeper
relationship with the Holy Spirit, that that's
what we've got to have. We need to have that
in our life in order to face all the trials that
we're going to face. And we learned that it's
so important to understand how God wants so much
to help us and wants to bless us. Stephen was
able to face difficult times, but we learn from
that that the Holy Spirit was with him. And I
think it's important I make a statement here.
I talk about a lot on how the Holy Spirit is
with us when we're facing trials, but the Holy
Spirit's with us all the time. He's with us when
we're really doing well, when things are going
great. If we yield to Him, He'll give us direction
and guidance, and He'll lead us in our life.
So we've got to understand the Holy Spirit is
there to help us in good times and bad times
alike. You know, we need to stop and think. every
time in our life about whatever we face, good
or bad, that the Spirit is there to comfort and
to help us. All right, number two. In this story
of Stephen, I think that we see how the Holy
Spirit gives us strength and grace for others.
Isn't that interesting? Strength and grace, they
go together. You know, Jesus came to earth and
he was filled with strength, but he was filled
with grace. And the Holy Spirit has all the grace
that we'll ever need and all the strength that
we'll ever need. So we've got to understand and
we see that in Stephen is that the Holy Spirit
gave him strength to face the challenges and
strength to be able to be aggressive and to be
able to tell people what he believed and when
he believed it and to serve others and in all
areas of his life but grace for other people
when he was being mistreated and I think that's
a great lesson for us to learn. And now number
three, in this story we see how the Holy Spirit
filled Stephen so that others could see that
Stephen was full or filled with or filled in
the Holy Spirit. You know, other people will
see us. Have you ever been to someone and walk
up to you're chatting with them and they'll look
at you and they'll say something like, you just
seem to be happy all the time. You just seem
to bring a kind of joy into the room and you're
just a positive, encouraging person. You see,
when that's said to us, we've got to realize
if we're a follower of Jesus Christ, that's the
Holy Spirit that brings that to us. And people
are drawn to that. They are drawn to the Holy
Spirit. They're drawn to the power and the presence
of the Holy Spirit. So I think it's amazing that
from this story we can learn that we can live
filled with the Holy Spirit that other people
will see. And we'll have so much of God in us
and so much power and strength and love and grace
in us that it'll overflow. It literally will
overflow. We'll have an abundance for good works
and we'll have an abundance to be able to reach
out. We'll be blessed but we'll have so much
left over that we can be a blessing to others.
And then the final step here maybe for this particular
podcast dealing with this story on Stephen, we
found in the book of Acts chapter 7, it shows
us how the Holy Spirit brought wisdom to Stephen.
even in what to say and how to say it. Now think
about that for a second. A lot of times as a
pastor I counsel people that are having problems
in their families, problems in their marriage,
difficulties with their kids and they come in
to see me and I pray with them and I many times
pray and say, Heavenly Father, I pray that the
Holy Spirit now would help these parents or help
this husband or this wife, this spouse to know
what to say and how to say it. So that's so important.
The Holy Spirit knows what to say. But just as
importantly, he knows how we should say it. And
so ask for the Holy Spirit to guide us and help
us in that area of our life. Now I realize that
some may say that Stephen, after all these great
things you're talking about and this great man
that he was, he was stoned to death. The bottom
line was he was stoned to death. Well, it's true,
that's true. But listen to this. The story of
Stephen that took place over 2 ,000 years ago
has brought life, and hope and peace and comfort
and grace and forgiveness of sins to hundreds
of millions of people in this world. He went
through all that, and yes he was stoned to death,
but now he's spending eternal life with Jesus
Christ, his Lord and Savior. And no matter what
we go through here in life, here on this earth
while we're here, we have a goal and a plan in
our life is to spend eternity with Christ. And
Stephen was so filled with the Holy Spirit that
the good times and the bad times, he was led
by the Spirit of the Living God and his life
was strong and vibrant. He had a great impact
and so can we as followers of the Lord Jesus
Christ. We're kind of running out of time because
I have a goal to keep these below 30 minutes
That's kind of my goal And I know the Holy Spirit
will help me to keep it within that in addition
to that if I get a thought or something I'll
write it down the Holy Spirit gives me and we
can talk about that in future podcasts because
I don't have to get everything done in one podcast
so let's just kind of as we wrap this thing up
talk a little bit about what we've learned today
and what we've come to understand about the Holy
Spirit living in us the Holy Spirit truly lives
in every believer in first Corinthians chapter
Chapter 6 and verse 19, Paul wrote these words,
Don't you know that your bodies are the temples
of the Holy Spirit? Who is in you? So therefore,
you know if Jesus Christ is your Lord and Savior,
he lives. The Holy Spirit lives and dwells inside
of you. The Holy Spirit is always available to
help us. So we need to yield to Him. That means
think only about Him and think upon only those
things that are good and true and right. Paul
talked about that and we'll talk about that in
future podcasts. The Holy Spirit has many titles.
He's the Comforter, the Periclean or the Helper.
He is the grace in our heart and in our mind.
He reveals the deep things of God. He intercedes
for us. He is truth. He has the answers to to
our questions. There's only one condition. that
we have to meet in order to have, I should say,
the power of the Holy Spirit in our life. And
that condition is to know Jesus Christ as our
Lord and Savior. So before I close this podcast
out, I need to just take a moment. It'll only
take a moment, but if you don't know Jesus Christ
as your Lord and Savior, or if you're not sure
of where you're going to spend eternity, whether
you're going to spend it in heaven or not, I
want you to pray this prayer with me. Because
the Holy Spirit will dwell only in believers,
followers of the Lord Jesus Christ, those who
have submitted their life to Him and are trying
to him and follow him all the days of their life.
So if you don't know the Lord or if you're not
certain of your relationship with the Lord, just
repeat this prayer with me right now. Say, Heavenly
Father, I need a Savior. I need you to help me,
but I've sinned. I've fallen short of your glory.
I ask that you would forgive me of the sins that
I have committed. I repent of my sins, and I
believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God,
that He was born of the Virgin Mary, that He
was crucified but resurrected, and He sits at
the right hand of the Father. So on this day,
I surrender my will, my desires, and my heart
and mind to the Lord Jesus Christ, and I accept
Him as my Lord and my Savior. In Jesus' name
I pray. Amen. If you prayed that prayer and you
really meant it, you really meant it with all
your heart, get to a good church. Find a good
Bible preaching church. Get yourself a Bible.
I truly recommend you read the book of Romans.
It's a powerful, powerful book and will help
you in your walk with the Lord. There's a lot
of other things you should read, but get into
Christian fellowship. Find fellow believers who
know Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior and
start searching the scriptures and see what God
has planned for you because he has a purpose
and a plan for your life. And the Holy Spirit,
as soon as you accepted Jesus Christ, the Holy
Spirit, came to live and dwell with you. So he's
in you now. So seek him, ask for his guidance,
ask his direction, and yield to his power and
presence. And I ask all these things in Jesus
name I pray, Lord. Amen. You know, when the Holy
Spirit comes into your life, he will always be
there to help. He's waiting to help. His first
desire is to comfort us. He's ready, willing,
and able. So now let's seek him. Well, I hope
this has been a blessing to you, and I just want
you to know we're going to continue on this series
on the Holy Spirit. Matter of fact, my next podcast
is going to be entitled, I Believe, unless the
Lord changes this, if the Holy Spirit redirects
me. But I'm planning my next podcast to be entitled,
The Holy Spirit, Our Helper. And I believe that's
something that will help people, encourage people.
So with that, I would like you to invite some
family and friends, tell some people that we're
doing this series on the Holy Spirit. tell you
how excited I am about this particular series
on the Holy Spirit. My wife loves to talk about
the Holy Spirit. She loves for us to share with
people and pray with them to receive the infilling
of the Holy Spirit. And she just really wants
people to understand the power. And so she's
so excited about this. So she's praying about
this series and that God will bless it. And I
just feel an anointing on this. It's just wonderful.
And I pray that it'll bless you. You know, if
you'd like to know more about Quality Christian
Living, which is the name of our podcast, you
can go to my webpage at davidcfriendauthor .com
and when you go there, pull up that first page
and you'll see a link to all the podcasts that
we've done. This is podcast number 317, so you
can tell there's been a lot of topics that we've
covered. We've talked about the Holy Spirit before,
but not as in depth as we're going to now in
the months, depending on how the Holy Spirit
leads us. And I wouldn't be surprised if this
could take six months or so to really really
complete the work that I believe the Holy Spirit's
called us to do in this particular series. So
you can look at that and you'll see a list of
all of those and you can scroll all you want
to. It talks about finances. We talk about miracles,
about having faith. We talk about the gifts of
the Spirit. Just a plethora of topics that you
can be blessed by. And if you want to know more
about me as an individual, you can scroll down
on my webpage and you'll see a number of books
that I've written dealing with various topics
including our veterans, including our finances,
including various issues, I think, on faith and
miracles and things that are important. So I
believe that that will be a blessing to you.
And if you'd like to subscribe someday to my
podcast, you can do that by going to cpnshows
.com or wherever you listen to your podcasts.
Once again, I appreciate so much you being here
and being a part of this. Our next podcast is
going to get into talking about how the Holy
Spirit helps and the way He wants to help and
how we can find help and we all need help. from
time to time and so I believe that we'll get
into something that will be very very helpful
very strong with people so if you know people
who are struggling with questions about where
do I go from here or should I do this or is it
is it okay if I do that or they have questions
about the Holy Spirit just contact them and let
them know about this series because I believe
this is going to be one of the quite frankly
the most anointed series that we've ever done
and I claim that in Jesus name just to kind of
give a little hint about what I believe the Holy
Spirit has placed upon my heart We're going to
have podcasts. We're going to talk about what
it means to receive. the comfort of the Holy
Spirit. And what does it mean to understand that
the Holy Spirit is willing and that He's ready
and that He's able? Those could all be individual
podcasts. I truly believe that. So we're just
going to yield to the power and the presence
of the Holy Spirit and ask for His guidance and
direction so that He can lead us through every
area of this. And I believe it's going to be
fun, exciting, and I believe it'll help us in
our walk with God. Before I close, let me pray
for you. Heavenly Father, pray for those who
are listening in, and they, many of them are
here because they have a desire to get closer
to you and be led by the Spirit of God. Those
who are Christians that are strong in their walk
with you and and they walk and they're filled
with the Holy Spirit I pray that this could be
a blessing to them to share some of these thoughts
with others So I pray a blessing upon everyone
who's listening in both in the United States
and across the world as we've been blessed To
see so many different countries around the world
who are listening to these podcasts I pray that
you would bless them father and that they would
receive Exactly what you have for them help them
to be led by the Holy Spirit and help them to
learn to yield by the power of the Holy Spirit
into everything they face whether it be good
times or bad times bless them and keep them I
pray and I'll thank you for it in advance in
Jesus name amen let me just give you one final
blessing as I close out this podcast 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 may God now richly
bless you in all you do and may you be filled
with the power and the might and the strength
and the grace of the Holy Spirit in your life.
May you walk daily in it and just receive the
goodness of God. Be blessed in all that you put
your hand to. Thank you once again to listening
into our podcast entitled Quality Christian Living
with this series on the Holy Spirit as we continue
on it. I pray you'll be blessed, and I pray that
you'll let others know about this opportunity.
We'll give you praise, Lord, and give you the
glory for what's taking place. Bless those that
are here. I am your host, David Friend. Thank
you once again for listening in. This has been
podcast number 317, The Holy Spirit Working in
Us.