Once again, I want to welcome you to the quality
Christian living podcast. I am your host David
friend We're in a series dealing with the Holy
Spirit and today's topic is Holy Spirit led thoughts
and so today we will discover how it is possible
for the Holy Spirit to help our thoughts in life
and how can we defeat the attack of Satan on
our mind and see how we can Control our thoughts
and speak words that will please God We're gonna
learn how the Holy Spirit helps us to live abundantly.
So got a lot to cover but I know that the Lord's
gonna help us with it, and so let's now go to
the Holy Spirit and ask for his help. Heavenly
Father, I thank you once again for who you are
and for this podcast. I pray you would bless
it and that you would anoint it, that the Holy
Spirit would come in and direct my thoughts.
Help me as I read the scriptures to interpret
them the way, Lord, that you desire for this
podcast, that people receive something very special
when I read the word today. Holy Spirit, do what
only you can do. Take control, take charge, direct
our thoughts, control our process, and help me
to discuss only those that will be pleasing unto
you and be a blessing to those listening in.
I'll thank you for it in advance because I think
great things are gonna take place today and I
give you all the glory for it. In Jesus name
I pray, amen. To get started, I think I need
to make this statement. The Holy Spirit desires
to help us in the battle for our mind. You know
there's a battle every single day for our mind,
for our thoughts, what we say, how we respond,
how we react, and... It's something that the
Bible tells us about and warns us about that
we need to submit and surrender ourselves to
the Lord and let the Holy Spirit speak through
us and use us in a way that only He can do. And
so we really want to focus on that today and
how the Holy Spirit has a plan for us and a way
to help us to win the battle over our mind and
to think those things that will be pleasing unto
the Lord. So He will help now. He will help us,
the Holy Spirit will, in our thoughts. He'll
block them from becoming destructible work. He
will caution us and even in the middle of our
talking, you know, when we're speaking to someone,
have you ever been speaking to someone and you're
about ready to say something and all of a sudden
you feel like, should I say that or not say that
or how should I say it? When that happens, I
believe if you're a follower of Jesus Christ
that you are basically being touched by the Holy
Spirit to help you speak the right things at
the right time to the right person. So that's
something that we want to talk about today. When
Jesus left his disciples, he promised them that
he would send the Comforter, the Paraclete, the
Advocate, and the Counselor. We read about that
in John chapter 14 and verse 16. So let me read
that to you now. I will ask the Father, and he
will give you another Advocate. This is Jesus
speaking, who will never leave you. And verse
17, he is the Holy Spirit who leads into all
truth. Now, look what Jesus is saying to him.
He's telling them, I've got to... plan for you.
I've got something that's going to help you and
guide you in each and every day of your life
and every thought that you have and every action
that you take. He says in John 14 -16, it's recorded,
I will ask the Father. So he goes to his Father
and he asks the Father to send the Holy Spirit
and he'll be another advocate, which means I've
been your advocate, I've been on your side and
you've had my back and I've had your back. And
he says that, he says, but he'll be another advocate
who will never leave you. He's saying that he's
always going to be there. You know, it's so important
that as followers of Jesus Christ that we understand
that we have power of the Holy Spirit in us each
and every day and every single moment. And I
know it's hard to act in the Spirit all the time
and respond to the Spirit all the time, but we
need to train ourselves and teach ourselves to
surrender to Him, to His leading. And so therefore
we'll say the right things at the right time
to the right people and we'll be led by the Spirit
of God to know exactly how to deal with every
situation that we face in life. And he's telling
us that he'll never leave us and that he is the
Holy Spirit who leads us into all truth. So if
we're looking for truth, then just just call
upon the person of the Holy Spirit who lives
and dwells in each power of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Now Jesus went on to say things that are so powerful.
He said that the Holy Spirit will live in them
and that's something that we've got to understand.
I know most of us don't have any problem relating
to that and understand that, but there's some
people that we, and I've been to the point at
times when I don't always surrender to the Holy
Spirit at the right time. And usually when I
make that mistake, I find out very quickly and
that's the Holy Spirit telling me, you didn't
listen to me, you didn't hear what I had to say,
you didn't come to me. And so that is the crucial
part of this teaching is having Holy Spirit -led
thoughts so that we'll also have Holy Spirit
-led words that we speak. And the Bible says,
let the words of my mouth and meditation of my
heart be acceptable to you. Well, that's just
what we're talking about here and what we want
to focus on today in this podcast today. Let
me ask you a question. As a follower of Jesus
Christ, how often do we think of what Jesus said?
The words that he just spoke, that he's going
to send us an advocate who won't leave us and
that he'll lead us into all truth. How often
do we rely upon that? The Holy Spirit lives in
us and he does comfort us. At least that's his
desire is to comfort us. We've got to yield to
him, submit to him, open up ourselves to receive
his comfort. He wants to counsel us. He is for
us and not against us. If you're feeling down,
you know, if you're frustrated as a follower
of Jesus Christ, you get frustrated, we all go
through those times of frustration, maybe a little
bit of irritation will come into our life. As
soon as we start feeling that, we've got to remember
that the Holy Spirit who dwells in us, He's on
our side. He's for us. And you say, well, does
He correct me sometimes? Absolutely. That's what
His job is to instruct us and help us and even
give us discipline on the things that we say
and the actions that we take. So we've got to
stop and say to ourselves, Even though I'm going
through this, I've got the greatest power that's
ever walked on the face of this earth, living
and dwelling inside of me, ready to help, willing
to help, able to help, and we've got to submit
to Him, surrender to Him, and that's something
that is difficult, but then the more you do it,
the easier it gets. The more we rely on the Holy
Spirit, the easier it is to continue to rely
on Him and seek His face and seek His guidance
and seek His direction. Now I want to pray for
you right now. This is a good time to do that.
I believe in now is a time as we're just getting
into this podcast to talk about how we can receive
what the Holy Spirit wants us to have. Heavenly
Father, help us to never take for granted or
ignore power that lives in us. Help us, Lord,
to surrender to you, to submit to you. Help us
to understand that the power of the Holy Spirit
is a gift from God the Father. Jesus sent him.
to be our advocate, to be the one who is there
on our side, who's there to counsel us and to
comfort us and guide our thoughts. The very thoughts
that we have as they come into our mind, he's
ready to sort them out. He's kind of like our
editor. You know, I'm an author and I've written
a number of books and with every book that I
write, I have to hire an editor. I need an editor.
I need someone who will come in, take a look
at what I've said and evaluate it and make sure
that it flows right, that the grammar is right,
that the punctuation is proper, that I've said
things, maybe I didn't use one word too often,
or maybe I didn't explain a word clear enough,
or something like that. Just the editing part
of my book, because I write a book that has some
35 or 40 thousand words in it. I'm going to make
mistakes. I'm going to use a is when I shouldn't
be saying isn't and those types of things. So
an editor comes in to correct that and I have
to hire them to do that. And I bring that example
up because as Christians, the followers of Jesus
Christ, the Holy Spirit is our editor. He's the
one inside of us saying, not now, don't say that
now or say it this way or find another opportunity
to say it. When you hear that voice, you hear
that, yield to it. Yield to that power, that
presence because the Holy Spirit knows what's
best for us. Have you ever said something and
said then after later said oh crumb I wish I
hadn't said that man I wish I hadn't said it
that way or I wish I hadn't said at this time
you know we've all done that we all have and
so we want to allow the Holy Spirit to yield
to the Holy Spirit to edit our conversations
to edit what we write down the email that we
send or the letter that we write or the card
that we write edited if we're having problems
with people in our family maybe there's challenges
going on we have a wayward child a son or a daughter
or grandchild or a husband a wife or not getting
together and we write a little note we shouldn't
just write that note with our own words our own
thoughts we need to yield to the Holy Spirit
and ask the Holy Spirit to guide the words that
we write so that we'll say the right things many
times when I see people having major challenges
with their children they've got prodigal kids
or the kids have just turned against them for
one reason or another I tell them don't write
them these long letters because they'll just
get frustrated with them just send them a little
postcard and on the postcard says God loves you
and I love you and that's about all you need
to say and they'll get that card and they'll
look at it and think, wow, they're thinking of
me. Now, they might still be upset with you,
but they'll look at that card and they'll think,
that's nice that they sent that. They may not
tell you that, they may not say that, but they
saw those words and they didn't see a bunch of
explanations about why your conversations have
gone bad or why you've had the disagreements
that you've had. They're not going to go there
because all they'll simply have is just a comment
from you that says, God loves you and I love
you. And when you do that, you take away the
outside influence of things that you maybe shouldn't
have said and you allow the Holy Spirit to operate
in love through you to express love to others.
Because the Bible says that love never fails.
There's a lot of talk about love in the Bible.
There's a lot of talk about the gifts of the
Spirit in the Bible, the fruit of the Spirit,
and all these things. But bottom line, it always
ends with it's all about love. Because love is
the greatest thing we can show. So the Holy Spirit
is the one who can bring that love so that we'll
have the right loving words to say rather than
try and explain ourselves about how we want these,
see things corrected or changed. or modified.
So I hope that's connecting with you because
I recently, I think the reason I brought that
up is because recently I've had a lot of people
I've been talking to that are having conflict
with their kids and the kids will, they'll send
their kid a letter and then the kid will just
tear it up and send it back and just say, I didn't
read this trash, this garbage. And it's just
terrible. They have terrible experiences. I had
a couple once where the married couple were having
problems with their mother, this gal's mother.
They just had a terrible time with her and they
were out of state. And so this young couple would
send pictures pictures of their children to their
mother and their mother would get the pictures
and she'd tear them all up, the baby pictures,
tear them up, put them back in an envelope and
send them back and say, I don't want to see these
disgusting pictures. And it was just terrible.
And they said, what do we do? How do we get a
hold of her? And I said, take a postcard and
just write on there that God loves you and I
love you. And don't put anything else on there.
Don't say, I'm sorry about this or I'm sorry
about that and I wish you would have understood
this or wish you would have understood that.
No, no, no, no. Don't do that. Just Jesus loves
you and I love you. send it to them and they'll
get that card and they'll say and I said and
they might even tear it up and send it back to
you but that's okay that's okay because they
saw the words that you spoke and they saw the
words love and it will break down barriers and
I've had situations quite a few of them over
the years where people have said that little
process has helped mend relationships with people
family members or friends you know that that
they had where they were having all kinds of
struggles and they were trying to write letters
back and forth bottom line If we show love, that
prevails. They may still be angry, they may still
be upset, but they can never get away from the
fact that you've said that. And I believe those
words are being led by the Holy Spirit. So let
me just leave that with you. And I hadn't planned
to talk about that, but I think there's some
people out there that may have needed to hear
those words because you're having a struggling
relationship with some people and you need to
know how to write them and how to notify them.
And I think that's something that you should
at least try. See, the Holy Spirit will help
us if we need physical or emotional healing.
Whenever we need anything, all we must do is
press into the power inside of us. Press in until
we start to live abundantly. Press in until we
believe that we are an overcomer. Press in until
we live without anxiety, fear, doubt, and worry.
Press into the Holy Spirit to ask Him to help
guide our thoughts and the words that we speak,
and He will send healing. He will send wisdom.
He will send instructions, direction. He may
discipline us, but that's okay because when He
disciplines us, we're going to be blessed by
it, and we're going to be a blessing to other
people. So I pray that we need to understand
that the key to controlling what we say and what
gets into our mind is to press into the Holy
Spirit. We need to call upon the Holy Spirit
to defeat our evil thoughts, our negative thoughts,
our hateful words. Call on the Holy Spirit with
confidence in the scriptures to help us. Here's
an example of a scripture that will help us in
those times of need. In 1 John chapter 4 and
verse 4 in the New Living Translation says this,
but you belong to God, my dear children, you
have already won a victory over those people.
That means false prophets he was talking about.
because the Spirit who lives in you is greater
than the Spirit who lives in the world. Now,
I have heard that statement all of my Christian
life. Pastors preach it, evangelists come through,
Bible studies and all this, and that scripture
is used a lot, and it's wonderful. And that is
because the Spirit who lives in you is greater
than the Spirit who lives in the world. And it's
important that we understand that, but it's another
thing to understand, it's another thing to apply
it, which simply means go to the Holy Spirit
for help. Don't go to the world for help. A lot
of people who struggle with problems and challenges
might go to a counselor who's not a Christian.
I don't think that's wise. I honestly don't.
I don't think it's smart to go to someone for
counsel and help if they're not a follower of
the Lord Jesus Christ. Or they go to a church
maybe that doesn't really preach out of the Bible.
They use other things and other tools and stuff.
I would not attend a church like that. I would
stay away from it because I want to be taught
the Word of God. Because I want to live that
scripture that says, because the spirit who lives
in you is greater than the spirit who lives in
the world. We need to stay out of the world for
any guidance or direction or wisdom and be led
by the Spirit of God. Because what that's telling
is that no matter what we're going through, God's
greater. No matter what our challenges are, God's
greater. Kind of reminds me, and I've used this
before, and forgive me for using it again, but
it kind of reminds me of when I was diagnosed
with incurable cancer. I went to the doctor and
he says, well, you've got a cancer that's incurable.
You have multimyloma, bone marrow cancer. There's
no cure. for it and unless this medication takes
place unless things really happen unless we can
do something to help you we doubt that you have
even six months to live now when he said that
you know it's so easy for my mind to jump in
there and just make some statement you know or
some people are gonna react differently some
would cry some would weep some would get angry
God whatever it might be the bottom line of it
is the Holy Spirit instantly just hit me he just
hit me and as soon as the doctor said that you
probably may only have up to six months to live.
As soon as he said that word live, I said, so
let me get this straight. You are trying to scare
me with heaven. Now that was not me. That was
the Holy Spirit inside of me, because the scripture
became alive in me. The spirit who lives in you
is greater than the spirit in the world. The
world was saying, you're going to die. There's
no cure. It's over. You might as well just hang
it up. But the Spirit of God said, tell him that
the success of life is heaven and tell him that
there's nothing that can happen to me here on
earth that will take away the ultimate joy, the
ultimate life of eternity with the Lord Jesus
Christ in heaven. And I was even shocked at myself
when that came out and that was, you're going
to try and scare me with heaven. And the doctor
looked at me and he said, wow, I've never heard
that before. I've had people cry. I've had people
get upset. He said all kinds of things. He said,
but Never have I had such a quick response that
said that. He said, you must really believe that.
And I looked at the doctor and I said, you know,
you watch this. God's gonna be glorified in this.
And what the devil intended for evil, God's gonna
turn out for good. And when I shared with him
that my faith was not, I'm happy that he's there
and I'm happy he has medication and I'll take
the medication and I'll believe in prayer. I
can tell you, at the end of the rainbow, there's
heaven for those of us. And that's what God promises
is, no matter what we go through here on earth.
Bottom line, if we follow Jesus Christ and serve
Him, then when we pass on from this life to the
next, we're going to spend eternity with Jesus
Christ and also with our saved unloved ones that
we knew for years, we'll be reunited with them.
So that's the type of response the Holy Spirit
gives us. It wasn't me saying that, it was the
Holy Spirit inside of me that gave me that instant
response to encourage that And the doctor looked
at me and said, wow, that's just amazing to hear
that. And I said, yeah, before this is over,
you will believe this, and you'll believe there's
going to be a miracle. And thank the Lord, within
eight months, instead of me being gone, my healing
took place. They still were treating me constantly,
and they still said there's no cure for it. And
they still said, you have to take all this medication.
I took medication for seven and a half years
of chemo. And think about that. And God was going
to be glorified in it, though. And God healed
me and restored me. God for that. Give him the
praise in Jesus name. Okay, let's move on. The
Holy Spirit can help the battle over our mind
and thoughts and actions. The Holy Spirit helps
us win the battle against Satan. We will be able
to keep Satan from knowing our thoughts if we
yield to the Holy Spirit. Now, that's an interesting
thought. That just popped in my mind. I thought,
Lord, maybe I should make a comment about what
that means. We will be able to keep Satan from
knowing our thoughts if we yield to the Holy
Spirit. You see, I don't believe that Satan knows
our thoughts. I know Satan comes to try to change
our thoughts and wants to direct our thoughts.
He knows what we're saying and what we're confessing
and what we're not confessing, but the actual
thoughts in our mind, I believe, is something
that is withheld from the devil himself because
of the power of the Holy Spirit who lives and
dwells inside of us. So when I made the statement,
we will be able to keep Satan from knowing our
thoughts if we yield to the Holy Spirit, that
means if we're filled with the Holy Spirit, there
won't be any room for any satanic attack upon
us. Satan only knows what we speak out. Satan
will suggest to us the thoughts that he wants
us to accept. He wants to influence our thoughts.
Satan tempts us to do what we don't want to do.
The Apostle Paul talked about that. Remember
in the Bible, the Apostle Paul said, you know,
there's times that I do things that I know I
shouldn't be doing, even while I'm doing them,
I still do them, even though I know it's wrong
that I shouldn't be doing them. And I know I
said that kind of fast, but that's what he's
doing. We've all done that. We've all said that.
We've all said things and while we were speaking
it, we knew we were being checked that, you know,
we probably shouldn't go there and probably shouldn't
say that and maybe this isn't a good area to
go into. When we're being checked like that,
that's the Holy Spirit trying to influence. The
devil wants to influence us by getting angry
and becoming mean and have vengeance on people
and try to get even with people and some people
start swearing at other people and that's what
the devil wants to do. But the Holy Spirit wants
to influence us so that we will be influencers
of others, that our words will be led by the
Holy Spirit and will have great power. I mean,
totally great power. The Apostle Paul covers
this particular topic in 1 Corinthians chapter
10 and verse 13 in the New Living Translation.
Listen to this, the temptation in your life are
no different from what others experience. Let
me read that again, the temptations in your life
are no different from what others experience.
See, other people are going through the same
thing and God is faithful. That's crucial. Remember,
as you're going through stuff, remember God is
always faithful. He will not allow the temptation
to be more than you can stand. When you are tempted,
He will show you a way out so that you can endure.
That way out is to yield to the Holy Spirit and
then the Holy Spirit then will give us the way
out of what we're going through, that challenge
that we face, that difficult we face. These temptations
can be temptations to get frustrated and angry
at people or to feel defeated and destroyed at
work or maybe through a physical problem or it
might be. Those are temptations that come at
us and they will come at us. But the Word of
God tells us that the Holy Spirit will not allow
the temptation to be more than we can stand.
And it says when you're tempted, He will show
you a way out so you can endure that situation.
And I just think that's just so powerful because
we all know there's a battle over our mind. We
all know that we face it each and every day.
As soon as I get up in the morning, I know the
devil wants to start correcting my thoughts and
start maybe feel like, oh, that's right. I got
that meeting with such and such. I'm not particularly
looking forward to that. You don't want to receive
that. Just rebuke that and move on. Or you get
up and think, well, I just ran out of coffee.
So I can't get my coffee first thing. And then
that starts messing up our minds. And it starts
making us feel like, well, it's going to be a
bad day. See, from then, it leads into getting
out in traffic getting frustrated because the
car traffic is bad and so then all of a sudden
you get irritated someone you honk your horn
at somebody when you're thinking you know I probably
shouldn't have done that but you did anyways
and that can just carry out through the whole
day and just have a miserable time but we need
to stop at the beginning of the day and say I
can do all things through Christ Jesus who strengthens
me I'm not gonna worry about anything or be anxious
about anything I'm gonna bring everything to
the Lord and then he'll give me the peace that
pass us all understanding and tell you that's
the kind of thoughts the Holy Spirit wants us
to have now I believe that all All this tells
us that the Holy Spirit can capture our thoughts
so they will be focused on Him and He will help
us. So Lord, help us, I should say, to receive
this. When we yield to the Holy Spirit, God will
reign in our heart and mind. Every word we speak
can be Holy Spirit led. I believe that. And every
thought is ruled by God and can be ruled by God.
God can and will reveal the deep things that
we need for us. Listen to what the apostle Paul
wrote in 2 Corinthians chapter 10 and verse 5.
Listen to this. We destroy every proud obstacle
that keeps people from knowing God. We capture
their religious thoughts and... teach them to
obey Christ. That's how we have to handle these
challenges that we face in the battle over our
mind. The scriptures can apply to us and to other
people and they do. They apply to everyone that
we know. With the Holy Spirit, every word we
speak will be held captive. Every thought is
ruled by God. That's something that we need to
read over and over again and place it into our
heart and make a foundation of how we're going
to control the thoughts that we have in our life.
Now I believe it's possible that through the
whole Spirit, our soul can live as Christ did.
With the Holy Spirit, trials lead. to great victories.
And the challenges that we will or currently
face will bring greater faith to each and every
one of us. Well, I hope that this has been a
blessing. I've thoroughly enjoyed this podcast.
It's kind of gone quickly for me, but I've got
a couple things to say before I close it. I want
to talk about the upcoming podcast, but I hope
this has been a blessing to you. So let me just
say a quick prayer for you. Heavenly Father,
I pray that you'd take this and these words today,
these scriptures and the teaching you gave us.
There's a lot of things in here I hadn't planned
to say, so I know the Holy Spirit gave some guidance
and direction. that applied to people who are
listening in. I pray that you would bless them,
Father, and keep them. And I pray, Lord, that
they would receive what you had for them today
and they'd walk in the power of the Holy Spirit
and the anointing of what would be upon their
lives to be led to handle the challenges of life
because we all face them. And bless them and
keep them, I pray in Jesus' name. Amen. Well,
like I said, I hope this has been a blessing
to you. I've certainly enjoyed doing it. Matter
of fact, my next podcast coming up is entitled,
The Holy Spirit Brings Unshakeable Faith. Now,
that's a powerful statement. As a matter of fact,
it's so strong that I am now going back and looking
at a series of podcasts I did on unshakable faith,
and I know I'm going to turn that into a book.
The Lord has put that upon my heart, so I'm pulling
out all my notes and all the things I had. I'm
getting ready. It'll take a while. It'll probably
take quite a few months, four, five, six months
to get it done, but I truly believe I need to
release that teaching because I've used that
a lot on the podcast and also when I've spoken
to people. So we're going to have just one podcast
on The Holy Spirit Brings Unshakable Faith. We're
going to do how can the Holy Spirit strengthen
our faith? We're going to discover how to walk
in faith greater than what we have. That we'll
have a greater faith, I should say, than what
we have. And we'll understand the difference
between faith and unshakable faith. When does
the Bible show us how to receive and maintain
greater faith? So I believe the Lord's got something
in store for us there. Now if you would like
to know more about quality Christian living,
you can go to my webpage. I'd encourage you to
do that at davidcfriendauthor .com. And when
you get to my webpage right on the front page
there there'll be a link to my podcast this is
the 321st podcast that we've done in almost I
guess it's getting close to four years now and
I thank the Lord for that but I just want you
to scroll through there and find something that
speaks to you we're in this series on the Holy
Spirit and I don't know how long this is gonna
go it could go on for months there's so much
more to talk about and I just believe I want
I need to be led of the Holy Spirit to know how
long we go and what topics to cover so I pray
that you maybe even pray for me to know that
and to have God's direction there. If you'd like
to know more about how to live a quality Christian
life because that's what this whole podcast is
about that I've been doing for these years. Just
go through there and scroll through. You'll have
help on finances. You'll have help on understanding
the gifts of the Spirit and the fruit of the
Spirit and on and on and on. So I pray that'll
be a blessing to you. And then if you scroll
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Before I close out completely today on this podcast,
let me just read a couple of topics that I'm
going to be talking about in the upcoming weeks
and months on the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit
can be that still quiet voice giving guidance.
The Holy Spirit brings a life filled with holy
experiences. The Holy Spirit brings power, comfort,
and direction to our lives. If we surrender our
will to God, the Holy Spirit will take us into
a level of abundant living. And that abundant
living is just, quite frankly, a promise from
God. God wants us to live abundantly. The Holy
Spirit takes us from natural. to the supernatural.
The Holy Spirit transforms the ordinary into
the extraordinary. These are some more areas
and topics. These are areas that I'm studying
and getting working on to do podcasts on. Here's
another one we're going to talk about. The anointing
of the Holy Spirit brings a fresh, new, and safe
direction from God. The Holy Spirit brings a
flow of divine healings and leadings. The Holy
Spirit fills our heart and mind so we will live
in peace. We're going to talk about how the Holy
Spirit brings a higher level of life as followers
of Jesus Christ. and that he also brings God's
way. God's will and his peace to believers, and
that we can live filled with the Spirit to do
greater works. You know, the same anointing that
we're talking about today was the anointing that
the Apostle Paul had when he received that incredible
touch from God and when he gave his life to Jesus
Christ on the road to Damascus. And here was
a man who hated Christians. He oversaw the killing
of Christians. He was there when Stephen was
stoned to death, and he approved of all that.
And here he was later on, walking down the road
in the power of God. hit him. That was the Holy
Spirit hit him and convicted him of his need
to surrender to Christ and he did and what an
amazing man of God he became. So I hope that
you'll stay with me in this series on the Holy
Spirit. We have so much to talk about and that's
just some of the topics that the Lord's put up
on my heart. So like I said, this could go on
for quite a while and I'm really excited about
it because I've never had a particular topic
that seems that there's just endless the amount
of things that we can discuss and where we can
go from here. So I hope that you'll... tune in
and listen to these podcasts, let your friends
and family members know where we're going and
where we're heading, and I think it'll be a blessing
to you. So before I close, let me just give you
a blessing. May the Lord bless you and keep you,
and may his face shine upon you. 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, I pray that God would richly
bless you and I pray that the power of the Holy
Spirit would come alive in your life. If you
don't know Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior,
just take a moment right now and say, Father,
I'm sorry for the sins I've committed. I repent
of my sins. I ask you to forgive me and cleanse
me from all unrighteousness. I receive Jesus
Christ as my Lord and Savior, and I promise to
serve Him all the days of my life." If you prayed
that prayer and you've never prayed it before,
find a good church, get into the Word of God,
get a Bible, read the books of John, Matthew,
Mark, Luke, and John, read the book of Romans.
These are great, great writings that will just
change your life. And now that you become a follower
of Christ, Get that Bible. Find one that's a
good translation you'd be comfortable with. I
like the new Living Translation. It works best
for me. So I encourage you then to do that. But
most importantly, get around Christian people.
Find a good church and be a part of that. So
thank you once again for listening in. This has
been the Quality Christian Living Podcast number
321 entitled Holy Spirit -Led Thoughts. I'm your
host, David Friend, and I pray God will bless
you and keep you. And I pray the Holy Spirit
will lead and guide your thoughts. Thank you
for listening in.