Welcome to the Quality Christian Living Podcast.
This is your host David Friend. We have a wonderful
series we're dealing with here in dealing with
the Holy Spirit. And today's podcast is Life
With or Without the Holy Spirit. We're gonna
kind of hit both sides of that and see where
the Lord takes us. But first we need to pray.
Heavenly Father, I come to you in the name of
Jesus asking for your divine touch on this podcast.
Anoint those that are listening in and open their
ears and their hearts. Help me to present a podcast
that will bless them and help them and encourage
them I thank you now for what you've done in
all these podcasts over all these years. I pray
your anointing would fall down upon the ears
of those who need to receive special information
about the Holy Spirit. So, Lord, I yield to you.
Holy Spirit, take control. I give you praise
and glory for it in Jesus' name. Amen. Well,
what would it be like to have a life led by the
Holy Spirit and then all of a sudden find out
that your life is without Him? Now, if you're
a Christian, a believer of the Lord Jesus Christ,
you don't lose the Holy Spirit. lose connection
with Him. We can lose our communication with
Him. So how do we know when we are in the Spirit,
in the Holy Spirit, or in our own flesh? And
how can we lose our relationship with the Holy
Spirit? So how do we then in turn reconnect with
the Holy Spirit? So a lot of hows, but a lot
of scripture to deal with that. So let's get
right into that right now. I'm going to read
Romans chapter 8 verse, now let's see, verse
9. Romans chapter 8 verse 9, New Living Translation.
Paul's writing to the church and Let's see what
he had to say, led by the Holy Spirit, of course.
But you are not controlled by your sinful nature.
You are controlled by the Spirit, if you have
the Spirit of God living in you. Now, that's
a giant word, that if, but that if only applies
to people if they don't know Jesus Christ as
their Lord and Savior, because as we know, and
I've said many times, The Holy Spirit comes to
live and dwell inside of us when we receive Jesus
as our Lord and Savior. So let's read it again
slower. But you are not controlled by your sinful
nature. See, when we have the Holy Spirit who
lives in us, we're not controlled by him. We
have to submit or yield ourselves to him in order
for him to have any kind of impact on our life.
You are controlled by the Spirit if you have
the Spirit of God living in you. And it's so
important that this podcast is focusing on kind
of life. with the Holy Spirit and kind of life
without the Holy Spirit dealing with us. Now,
once again, I need to reiterate, and that is
that once you receive Jesus Christ as your Lord
and Savior, the Spirit comes to dwell inside
of us and you don't lose Him. We don't lose Him,
but we can lose connection or communication with
Him. And it's very easy to lose communication
if we don't seek Him. You know, it's the same
thing with a friend or a relative or a husband
or wife. If they don't communicate, they're going
to lose communication. And so it's truly the
same thing when you were talking about the relationship
that we need to have with the Spirit of the Living
God, the Holy Spirit, who lives and dwells in
believers. In 1 Corinthians chapter 2 verse 14,
it says this in the New Living Translation, but
people who are not spiritual, that means they
don't have the Holy Spirit, or have only a physical
life, they really can't receive these truths
from the Spirit. It all sounds foolish to them
and they can't understand what the Spirit means.
And verse 16 says it ends with, we have the mind
of Christ. So that's is really so important for
us to understand when we're talking to people
who are not Christians. They're not follower
of the Lord Jesus Christ. They've not surrendered
their life to him. So therefore they do not have
the Holy Spirit living and dwelling inside of
them. So these people don't understand and that's
why sometimes people want to witness their faith
to someone and they start talking in spiritual
terms that the other person doesn't understand.
Or they get the Bible out and they start reading
big heavy verses and and start what we call thumping
their Bible or putting their Bible in somebody's
face, and when the person has no connection with
that at all, we need to first make a connection
with people, show them that we love them. Jesus
did that by feeding people. He did that by showing
that he loved them, by healing people. Once they
had a connection with him and started to see
and to build a relationship with him, then they
came to know Jesus as their Lord and Savior.
Then the Holy Spirit, when he went to heaven,
Jesus did. The Holy Spirit came to live inside
of the followers of the Lord Jesus Christ. So
let me read this scripture again, slow. Let's
just ponder it a little bit as we go through
it. 1 Corinthians chapter 2 verse 14 in the New
Living Translation, but people who are not spiritual,
okay, these are not followers of Jesus, they
don't have the Holy Spirit in them, or have only
a physical life, that's all they know is the
flesh, the physical life, they cannot receive
the truths that God's Spirit has brought us.
It all sounds foolishness to them, because I've
had people tell me, oh, that's silly, that's
dumb, that's foolish. It's foolishness to them
and they don't understand or they can't understand.
what the Spirit means but we followers of the
Lord Jesus Christ in verse 16 tells us it ends
with we have the mind of Christ now when we have
the mind of Christ we've got it all I mean we
have everything that we possibly need in living
here on earth and we have the mind of Christ
only be because we follow the Holy Spirit. We
ask the Spirit to help us. We seek His guidance
and direction. We pray and ask the Holy Spirit
to tell us things, give us wisdom, give us insight,
because He has numerous supernatural gifts to
give followers of the Lord Jesus Christ. All
we have to do is seek Him, seek God's Word, read
God's Word, and claim the promises in God's Word.
If we don't do that... then we could have our
relationship with the Holy Spirit kind of separate
a little bit. Once again, he's still in us, but
we're not talking to them. We're not communicating
with him. Maybe some people, they stop going
to church, they stop reading the Bible, they
stop praying, and all of a sudden they become
kind of cold and indifferent to the Holy Spirit,
and then he can't work with them. And that's
so important. It can happen to any one of us.
So we need to draw close to him, seek him, and
spend our some time every day in addressing the
Holy Spirit through the Word of God. reading
the divine Holy Spirit scriptures that were led
by the Holy Spirit for these people to write.
That's what the Word of God is. It's a divine
inspiration of the Holy Spirit. In Jude chapter
1 verse 19 in the New Living Translation, listen
to this, they follow their natural instincts
because they don't have God's Spirit in them.
All these scriptures are talking about the fact
that some people have the Holy Spirit living
in them and others do not. Those who have not
given their life to Jesus Christ do not. This
would be a perfect time then for me to invite
anyone here if you've never given your life to
Christ. For those of you who are Christian, pray
with me and believe with me that people are going
to pray and receive Jesus as their Lord and Savior.
But if you don't know Christ, if you're not sure
where you're going to spend eternity, you're
not sure about this heaven thing, you can settle
that right now. If you're earnest when you pray
this prayer, Jesus can come into your life right
now. Say, Heavenly Father, I'm sorry for the
sins I've committed. I need a Savior. I want
you to come in and change my life. I've sinned
and I'm so sorry for that. Please forgive me
and I want you to be my Lord and my Savior and
I want to follow you all the days my life I believe
that you are the Son of God and that you were
born of the Virgin Mary and I believe that you
died for me So that I could have eternal life
So on this day at the beginning of this podcast
dealing with life with or without the Holy Spirit
I invite the Holy Spirit now to come into me
and I receive Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior
In Jesus' name I pray, amen. Quite frankly, it's
as simple as that. You know, people say, no,
it's not that simple. You have to go through
all these classes. You have to do all this training
and you have to get all these various techniques
down and understand the Word of God front to
back in order to become a Christian. Well, that's
just not true. My example is the thief on the
cross. There were two thieves on the cross next
to Jesus. One was cussing at Jesus and said,
you know, basically I just, you know, I don't
care or whatever, I care less about Jesus. The
other one looked at Jesus and said, basically,
He's saying, you don't deserve this. I do, he
said. I'm a sinner. He said, but you're not.
And Jesus looked at the man who had come and
had compassion on him, the one who turned to
Jesus and received and understood who Jesus was.
Jesus said, today you'll be with me. paradise.
That is so powerful when you think about it.
This man that went into heaven, went with Jesus,
he didn't go to classes, he didn't tithe, he
didn't pray much at all and yet Jesus knew his
heart and knew his heart was right and he had
compassion on him and received him. That's so
important to understand that, is that we can
come to know Jesus Christ just by simply humbling
ourselves and confessing our sins to receive
Jesus. So I felt like I should say that a little
bit, because some people say, well, why do you
have these altar calls in the middle of your
podcasts? And I don't plan them out. There's
no notes that I have. Do it now, do it here.
I just wait upon the Holy Spirit. And at the
right moment, I believe He knows the hearts of
people listening in, and He knows who's receiving.
And for those of you who know Jesus Christ as
your Lord and Savior, when this podcast over
could you just say a little prayer for those
who may have prayed that prayer it may have only
been one there may have been a thousand I don't
know because this goes all over the world but
if you are sincere about your walk with God you'll
want them to be sincere with their walk with
God and you'll pray for those who made a commitment
to Jesus Christ in this podcast okay after receiving
the Holy Spirit it's difficult for Christians
to understand how non -believers can deal with
life's trials. You know, I have the Holy Spirit
living in me and all of you who are followers
of the Lord Jesus Christ, you have the power
and the presence of the Holy Spirit in you and
we deal with challenges, difficult times. I know
I've had cancers, I've had all kinds of issues
in my life. I don't know how people can deal
with it if they don't have a relationship with
the Holy Spirit, a relationship with the Lord
Jesus Christ. So therefore, there is a difference,
there's a giant difference between the two and
we need to understand how we can get closer to
the Holy Spirit and how the Holy Spirit seems
to drift. away from us even though he's not drifting
we're the ones that are drifting the purpose
of the indwelling of the Holy Spirit are numerous
they're just there's so many purposes it's proof
of our salvation and assurance of our eternal
life with the Lord Jesus Christ It's helped to
live a godly life, to experience the gifts and
the fruit of the Spirit. The purpose of the Holy
Spirit is to give us strength and confidence
in God and knowing that trusting in Him is what
it's all about. We put our trust in Him and in
His Word. Holy Spirit helps us to understand
and live according to God's Word. When we read
the Word of God, it's the Holy Spirit that opens
it up to us and speaks to us. When I read a scripture
and like Proverbs 5 .3 that says, I trust in
the Lord with all my heart, lean not on my own
understanding and all my ways acknowledge him
and he'll direct my path, the Holy Spirit is
giving me confidence and trust. in the Lord.
Give me confidence in God my Father and Jesus
Christ my Savior that He's going to help me in
my life and that I don't want to operate on my
understanding, I want to operate on the Holy
Spirit's understanding. And when we do that we
understand that the Lord God loves us so much
and that we can have a very close intimate personal
relationship with Jesus with the Holy Spirit.
His purpose is to be our advocate, our paraclete.
His purpose is to help us with our prayers. You
know the word of God tells us and you know, I've
done so many podcasts on the Holy Spirit and
I've talked about the gifts of the Spirit and
the fruit of the Spirit and talked about how
the Holy Spirit, you know, does pray for us and
through words and groanings that we know not
of, and those are all wonderful scriptures, but
I just want us to catch that now, to realize
that when we're praying, if we lose track of
what we're praying for, who we're praying for,
and why we're praying, we can just yield to the
Holy Spirit and say, Holy Spirit, help me in
my prayer time. guide my words, direct my thoughts,
and just wait, and wait on Him. Don't expect
all of a sudden a massive amount of thoughts
and scriptures come flying at you. It can be
slow, it can be sweet, it can be tender, it can
be just simply the Holy Spirit speaking and telling
you, call this person and pray with them, or
talk to that person and apologize to them, or
tell your boss he's a great guy, or call your
mother up that you haven't called in a long time,
or your dad, or whatever it might be. That's
the Holy Spirit helping us and telling us through
our prayer. life how to pray and when to pray
and then of course there's the gift of a prayer
language which is a heavenly prayer language
where we're praying in the Spirit and that is
our prayer language between us and God. God knows
what we're praying and we're praying the divine
will of God. I've done several podcasts dealing
with understanding the gift of the baptism of
the Holy Spirit with the evidence of speaking
in other tongues. That's not tongues and interpretation.
That's for the congregation. But our prayer language,
that baptism of the Holy Spirit is where we have
communion with God through the Spirit in a prayer
language that we don't even know what it is.
we are praying according to the divine will.
of our Heavenly Father. Now we've talked about
what life is like with the Holy Spirit and how
we can't, it's hard for us to understand how
someone who doesn't have the Holy Spirit living
in them because they're not a believer can deal
with life and the challenges and that's why a
lot of people get into problems with drugs and
alcohol and pornography and running around living
a terrible life, an ungodly life because they're
not yielding to the Holy Spirit or they've never
surrendered to the Holy Spirit. They've kicked
him out of their life and never asked Jesus Christ
into their heart to receive forgiveness for their
sins and be led by the Spirit of God. Those folks
blessed their hearts. We need to pray for them.
We were all people like that. I didn't get saved
until I was 25 years old. I didn't give my life
to Jesus until 25. My wife was 25 years old.
My mom and dad didn't become Christians until
they were in their 50s, and I got to pray with
both of them to receive Jesus Christ as their
Lord and Savior. They were good people, really
good, wonderful, hardworking people, but they
had never committed their life to Christ. But
when they did, they changed. I mean, they loved
me before, but they loved me in a totally different
way when they changed and they became followers
of Lord Jesus Christ because they had the Holy
Spirit working inside of them. So now, we've
talked a lot about having the Holy Spirit. What
would life be like without the Holy Spirit? First,
we must think of what it was like to live before
we became followers of Lord Jesus Christ. Before
I became a Christian, before I gave my life to
Christ, I was a very focused person on my life,
my career. my business, my career with the bank.
That's all I thought about. I wanted to be successful.
I wanted to provide a nice house and all that
for my wife, but I was not loving. I was not
the kind of person who was sincere. I was kind
of manipulating people to try and get ahead.
I wasn't a crook, I wasn't a criminal, but it
was all about me. Life was absolutely all about
me. I thought about myself more than anyone else.
I didn't really have the love for others that
I needed to have. And all of a sudden, when I
received Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior,
Everything changed. I looked at my wife differently.
I looked at my job differently. I looked at my
children differently. Because God said, you know,
it's not all about your career. It's not all
about making money. I've got a greater plan for
you. And my son, our son was four, about five
years old when... I became a follower of the
Lord Jesus Christ. And at about five years of
age, he looked at me, he says, Daddy, he says,
I know that you've changed. And I said, well,
what do you mean I've changed? I'm not a drinker.
I don't swear in front of you. I've never beaten
you up or that type of thing. What do you mean
I've changed? He says, it's Jesus. And I know
it's Jesus. And he was five years old. And he
said, I just want you to know I love you, Daddy.
And I just love who you are. And it was so amazing
and so touching that he could experience that.
I'll never forget that conversation. It was so
powerful. Life without the Holy Spirit, though,
is spiritual death. And you've heard preachers
or people say, you know, without Jesus, you're
as good as being dead. What they're referring
to is spiritual death. Spiritual death, I mean,
there's no life in it. There's absolutely no
vibrancy in it. It's all the flesh. It's always
me, myself and I. It's always trying to get what
I can get and not being concerned about other
people and their faith and their walk with God.
That doesn't mean you can't be a good person
and treat people nice and all that and not be
a Christian. You can be a good person and do
that, but there's a total different relationship
with people when you start thinking about their
future, whether they're going to spend eternity
in heaven or hell or not. And that's how you
look at people when you have the Holy Spirit
in you and He dwells inside of you. You look
at people who are lost as being spiritually dead
and they have no hope and we've got to love them
and care for them and not beat them up with scriptures
and kind of pound it into them and turn or burn
type messages. No, we need to show love and compassion
and caring for people who don't know Jesus, who
do not have the Holy Spirit living in them. Life
without the Holy Spirit is based on luck and
it's based upon things that have no substance.
coincidences, things of that nature that simply
are just not what Christians believe in. We don't
believe in luck. We don't believe in a coincidence.
There are no coincidences. Our steps are led
by God. We have no luck because God is our provider.
He's our source. Every Christian must delete
the word luck from their vocabulary. Every Christian
must avoid talking about a coincidence. Oh, look
what happened. No, things don't just randomly
happen. When we're a follower of the Lord Jesus
Christ, we have the Holy Spirit living and dwelling
inside of us, we simply don't have a coincidence.
The word coincidence talks about events without
any connection. Some would call it the luck of
the draw, like playing cards or a game. A coincidence
is an event that has no connection. That is not
something a part of a Christian. We can't have
a coincidence. We know that our thoughts, our
steps are led of God and we know that the Holy
Spirit is there to help us and to guide our steps
and direct our steps and direct the thoughts
that we have. The words luck or coincidence have
nothing to do with God's Word. The Bible does
not accept these words because God's Word is
always a blessing from the Holy Spirit. The Word
of God is not our source of strength without
the Holy Spirit. The Word of God is our strength
when we have the Holy Spirit. When people who
are not followers of the Lord Jesus Christ and
they do not have the Holy Spirit living and dwelling
on them, they have a very difficult time accepting
the Bible. the Word of God. Some of them will
just reject it and just say, I don't believe
in that. I don't believe in that. And they'll
find all kinds of reasons to say it's not true.
It's not real. It's not anything that's important.
There's mistakes through it. It contradicts itself.
The Bible never contradicts itself. The Bible
has no mistakes in it. It has no errors in it.
The Word of God is the divine inspired Word of
God that was spoken out through people that the
Holy Spirit anointed and blessed. And that anointing
came through the Old Testament and the New Testament.
When King David sinned and he fell into sin,
he prayed to God and he says, create in me a
clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit
within me. It was the Holy Spirit that helped
him. People say, well, the Holy Spirit wasn't
around back then. Well, that's not true. The
Holy Spirit was around during the creation. The
Spirit of God hovered around the earth and that
was the Holy Spirit of God. But then God sent
the Holy Spirit to us when Jesus left. earth
to heaven he sent it so that we could have a
great personal relationship with him as i kind
of working towards closing this out i'm not real
close but i'm getting close it's important that
we in this podcast that we talk about real life
real vibrant quality of life with the holy spirit
and a life that's lacking if we do not allow
ourselves to be led by the spirit of god When
we're done here, I'm going to pray. To some people,
it'll be an extreme radical prayer because they
won't quite understand it, because maybe they've
not given their life to Christ. To others, they'll
embrace that prayer because they know that the
Holy Spirit is the one guiding and directing
that prayer. And if you've never surrendered
your life to Christ, and you did recently, just
about 20 minutes ago or 15 minutes ago, you gave
your life to Christ, remember you've got to now
nurture and train yourself and grow in your walk
with God. It's called the process of sanctification.
That's getting the Bible out and reading it,
reading it with other friends who are Christians,
finding a good church and settling down in a
good church, a church that believes in the workings
of the Holy Spirit, a church that believes that
you can have the baptism of the Holy Spirit,
the evidence of having a wonderful prayer life.
And those are things that are important to you.
Find a good pastor that you can become friends
with and get to know them. Get around Christian
people. Go to church faithfully. When the doors
are open, be there. Read your Word, the Word
of God faithfully. Pray every day, even if it's
only for a minute. or two, be sure and pray and
seek God and get the Word of God into your life.
That's the only way that will maintain and improve
the relationship that we have with the Holy Spirit.
The Holy Spirit is inside of us. He wants so
bad to have a wonderful personal intimate relationship
with us. But many times we grieve him because
we don't talk to him. We don't listen to him.
We don't wait on him. We just make decisions
on our own. We do things all on our own and then
we find the results sometimes are not very good.
So I'm just gonna kind of start wrapping this
up with a couple of thoughts. One, we're talking
about life with the Holy Spirit. Unlimited blessings,
unlimited potential. And then there's life without
the Holy Spirit. And that is having no hope for
eternity. understanding what life and death is
not understanding what heaven is and then there's
this life in between where we have the Holy Spirit
living in us but we don't nurture that relationship
we don't think about him my challenge to you
my challenge to anyone listening today is to
to go back and listen to these podcasts I've
done now 50 I think 54 55 of these every single
week for 50 for 54 55 weeks on the Holy Spirit
if you have questions about the Holy Spirit go
back and listen to them they're all little short
25 minute at max. They go close to 30 minutes,
but that's because I make some comments at the
end. But the actual meat of each podcast runs
to be about 24 or 25 minutes. That's because
it's easy to listen to and easy to remember.
I encourage you to go back and listen to some
of these podcasts. There's people that tell me
they go back and listen to them all the time.
They'll go back and re -listen to a podcast.
Maybe one, some they'll go back and listen to
the same podcast four, five, six, seven times
just to make sure that it settles into their
spirit. So I just pray that that all of us will
seek the Holy Spirit for guidance, direction,
and that He would lead us. And I pray that those
of us who know Jesus as our Lord and Savior and
the Holy Spirit living inside of us build that
relationship, increase that relationship, get
the Word of God out and understand the difference
between no relationship with the Holy Spirit
and one with the Holy Spirit. Because remember
I read 1 Corinthians chapter 2 verse 14 and in
verse 16 it ends with these words, we have the
mind of Christ. Just simply we have the mind
of Christ. How can and we have the mind of Christ.
We can only have it through the Holy Spirit and
the leading and guidance and direction of Him.
Father, I want to pray one more time. I pray
for those who just gave their life to Christ
that they would run to a good church, get the
word of God into their heart, pray and seek God,
get around Christian people. For those who've
been Christians and they know what it is to operate
in the gifts of the Spirit and to operate with
the love of Christ in their heart and feeding
the compassion, the comfort, the guidance and
direction, the wisdom, the knowledge of the Holy
Spirit, I thank you for them, Father. May they
continue to do that. And for those who are Christians
that maybe struggle with trying to get intimacy
with the Holy Spirit, I pray that this podcast
would help them open up their hearts to release
it. to believe and receive the difference between
not communicating with Him and communicating
with Him. The Holy Spirit is there to help every
one of us in our walk with God. I don't care
how long you've been a Christian, how much you've
operated in the gifts of the Spirit, we need
to continue every day to seek the guidance and
the direction of the Holy Spirit. I pray that
would come forth. I'll give you praise for it,
Father, now in Jesus' name I pray. Amen. Wow,
I cannot believe how fast this podcast went today.
There's just so much to cover, so much area there.
But I pray, and I'm very sincere when I say this,
that we'll all make an effort to get closer to
the Holy Spirit. I'm so blessed because I get
to spend hours and hours putting these thoughts
together, getting these ideas together, looking
up scriptures that will help people. So I get
to spend so much time in it and I just thank
God for that. And I do want to thank you for
listening and I'm gonna give you the title of
the name of the podcast. Next one has to be,
Come Speak to Us Holy Spirit. And that's kind
of a long title, but quite frankly, that's so
crucial. So with God's leading, that'll be the
next podcast. We're gonna have to address what
it means. There's an old song that said, come
Holy Spirit, I need thee. And it was a wonderful
song, a very powerful song. What was that saying?
What does that mean to us? And how do we know
for sure that that is the Spirit, the Holy Spirit
speaking to us and not just a guilt or some sadness
that we've got or regret or something like that.
There's a huge difference between the Holy Spirit
speaking to us and guilt and rejection and regret
for things that's taking place. The regret beats
us up and the guilt beats us up, but the Holy
Spirit comes to give life and to give freedom
and to bring truth and give it to us abundantly.
So we'll get into that and see how the Holy Spirit
leads us. So I do want to again thank you for
listening to this. And if you really enjoyed
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Once again, I thank you for listening to the
Quality Christian Learys series on the Holy Spirit.
You know, I keep thinking it's going to come
close to a close here in the next few weeks and
whatever and every time I start a new podcast
to get prepared, the Holy Spirit starts showing
me other areas and different topics to cover
and in different ways to discuss things. We've
got a lot of different topics that we're going
to be looking at in weeks to come. If the Spirit
is willing, we're going to talk about the Holy
Spirit's love and talk about the Holy Spirit
in the book of Proverbs, and the Holy Spirit
in worship, and the Holy Spirit in worry and
anxiety, and the Holy Spirit gives us talents
and abilities and then shows us how to use them,
how to apply them, and how the Holy Spirit helps
us from worrying and not letting that get into
our mind. He also helps us us to stop having
negative thoughts. You see what I mean? It just
can go on and on and on. So I thank God for it.
I really do. I feel like if God wants me to go
on for another year in this, then so be it. If
that's what the Holy Spirit wants, then I want
to follow that. I want to be in God's will in
this podcast more than anything else. And congratulations
to those who prayed that prayer to give their
life to Jesus Christ. We'll be praying for you.
If you'd like to know more about Quality Christian
Living, the podcast itself, the whole series,
all these series that fall under it, you can
go to my webpage at davidcfriendauthor .com.
And when you go there, right on the front page,
you'll see a link to the podcast. And there are
so many topics and so many subjects. This will
be the 374th or 75th podcast that will be listed
there. And I'm sure there'll be something there
of interest to you. There'll be a blessing to
you. People are listening to them all the time.
And I'm always amazed how many of the older podcasts
that they go back to and listen to. So I hope
that'll be a blessing to you. So with that, I'm
going to close. I pray the Lord will bless you
and keep you. And I pray that his face will shine
upon you and be gracious to you and give you
peace. And I pray that you're going to prosper
and be in good health even as your soul prospers.
And I pray that... The Holy Spirit will become
so alive in you that things will change. You'll
think differently. We all need that. I need that.
We all need to think in the ways the Holy Spirit
wants us to think. Holy Spirit, guide our thoughts
and direct our thoughts. Once again, I want to
thank you for listening to the Quality Christian
Living podcast. I'm your host, David Friend.
I'll look forward to you next time when we address
Come Holy Spirit. God bless you all.