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Responding To the Holy Spirit | Ike Akabogu | World Harvest Church | Murrieta, CA
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Hi. I'm Nancy Dufresne. Welcome to our podcast channel. We know you'll be blessed by today's message. Hallelujah. Praise God. Wow. What an honor to be here tonight. You may be seated. It's a wonderful privilege to be with you. This is my family. Amen. This family means so much to me and my family and. And to our church in Nigeria. This company means so much to my life. Amen. I can tell you for sure that if it wasn't for this company, I wouldn't be where I am. Amen. Because if it wasn't for this company, my spiritual father, Pastor J, wouldn't be where he is. Amen. So we are thankful and honored to be here. Mom. Thank you. Praise God. And it's a wonderful thing to be associated with all of you. Amen. Are you happy tonight? Let me see your faces. Praise God. Amen. My wife and I pastor a church in Abuja, Nigeria. This is our third year. We've been there three years this month. Amen. Time flies. Amen. So God's doing wonderful things. The church is growing. We're seeing all kinds of miracles and fun things that you may not even think about. But it's just wonderful to obey God. Amen. There's always something good after. Yes. Amen. So we're thrilled to be a part of that. Amen. Well, in tonight's service, in asking the Lord what he would like me to minister to you, it was very direct. So I'm glad. Amen. He said to talk to you about. Remind you about responding to the Holy Ghost. Amen. So we're gonna have a good time tonight. Amen. Hallelujah. Father, we're so thankful for the privilege of handling your word tonight. Father. May you be glorified. May this word be glorified. May this word have its course among us. And may the people be elevated and brought into what you desire for them tonight. In Jesus name, Amen. Amen. Glory to God. Turn with me tonight. Let's start somewhere. Amen. Let's go to John, chapter 16. John 16. We'll start reading from verse 13. Praise God. I'm not preaching anything new to you tonight. I apologize ahead of time. Amen. I didn't bring something fancy. I'm so thankful that God showed me earlier on that I can preach the same thing. My parents and the Lord are preaching. My elders and the Lord are preaching. I don't have to come up with something new. Amen. I don't need to impress anybody. I just stick with the normal thing. Amen. Praise God. I hear all kinds of doctrines in Nigeria and I think, how could you come up with stuff like that? But people do when they're empty. Amen. Glory to God. John 16. We will start reading from verse 13. He said, but when he the Spirit of truth, I'll read it to you in amplified Bible so we can save time. The truth giving Spirit comes. He will guide you into all the truth, the whole truth, full truth. For he will not speak of his own message on his own authority, but he will tell what he hears from the Father. He will give you the message that has been given to him. He will announce and declare to you the things that are to come that will happen in the future. He will honor and glorify me because he will take of mine what is mine and will reveal, declare, disclose, transmit it to you everything that the Father has mine. That is what I meant when I say that he, the Spirit will take the things that are mine and will reveal them, declare, disclose, transmit it to you. Amen. Everything that God does, He does by His Spirit. Amen. The Holy Spirit is the part of the Godhead that is charged with the responsibility, leading the believer into all that the blood of Christ guaranteed in the new covenant. Amen. But without our response, without our response to his leading, the plan of God can be delayed and often frustrated. Amen. The more we learn to respond to the Holy Spirit, the more we will know God. Amen. And the farther we will go with the plan of God. Amen. And the more impact we will have on our world for Jesus. Amen. Because you see, the Bible says that no man knows the things of the Father except His Spirit. You remember that in First Corinthians, chapter 2, verse 11, it says, for what man knoweth the things of a man, save the Spirit of man which is in him, Even so, the things of God knoweth no man but the Spirit of God. Amen. You want to know God? Get to know the Holy Spirit. Amen. Praise God. Doctor used to say this, and he said this for a while. He said, in every service you will only get as much as you respond to the Holy Spirit. Amen. It's key to everything. And the Bible also tell us that God has planned a wonderful life for us. But it wouldn't matter that he planned it if we're not responding to it. Amen. Praise God. So it is important that we realize this huge subject of responding, responding to the Spirit, responding to the Holy Ghost. Amen. See, the church is a place of training for you to learn how to respond. That's why when people have trouble responding to the Spirit in church services, they have trouble responding to him outside. Amen. Because this is our lab. Amen. This is our training place. Glory to God. Go with me. Let's go to First Corinthians. I think you're already there. First Corinthians 2. If we look at verse 12, it says, now we have not received the Spirit that belongs to the world. Thank God, but the Holy Spirit, who is from God given to us. Why that we might realize and comprehend and appreciate the gifts of divine favor and blessing so freely and lavishly bestowed on us. But without you responding to the Holy Spirit, you wouldn't realize it. So when we say responding to the Holy Ghost, we're talking about responding to seeing all the wonderful things that God has so lavishly, lavishly bestowed on us. You know, when it comes to believer's life, the problem is not supply. The problem is response, response. The biggest training we should ever gain as believers is learn how to respond. Because, you know, Ephesians 1:3 tells us that God has blessed us with all spiritual blessings in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus. And what he did to bring us into it was just brought us into Christ. Amen. When Jesus raised from the dead, we made a triumphant return into a life of supply. Amen. Glory to God. Many times people pray, oh God, do this, oh God, do that. If we realize what he's saying, our focus should be, how do I respond? How do I respond? Second Peter, chapter one, in verse three, it says, for his divine power. This is one of my favorites. For his divine power has bestowed upon us all things that are requisite and suited to life and godliness. So I often sit down and I ask myself, does money pertain to all things? And I answer to myself, yes. Does houses pertain to all things? I answer to myself, yes. Does tools or whatever I need, is it part of all things? And I answer that, yes. And if my answer is yes, the Bible says, he hath given it. He hath given it. So I often ask myself, so how come I don't see it? And I go back to that scripture. It has to be shown to me. It has to be shown to me. The job of the Holy Spirit is to take you and unveil to you these treasures. But we have to learn to respond. We have to learn to respond. Amen. It's not, you know, we like to say amen when we hear certain things, but there's a difference between amen and responding. Actually responding Amen. Glory to God. Knowledge of the Word reveals Christ. We know that when the Word of God comes to you, it comes to show you Christ. Amen. And what he did for you. Amen. And when that Word comes to show you Christ and show you what Christ did for you, it causes an expectation rise. Amen. When you hear about the Savior and what he did, expectation rises. We call it faith. Faith rises. But the problem is that many people think that the knowledge of the Word is just to get something, but it's really to reveal Christ. Amen. So that your faith in him will rise. Faith according to the Word of God is not to be placed on something. Faith must be placed on someone. And that is Christ for it to be faith. Otherwise, it's a principle. Amen. Faith means I trust Him. Amen. I trust him. So no matter what things look like, I trust him. That what he said he'll do, he'll do. Amen. And if your faith is. If your faith is that way, it's anchored. Amen. Yes, the Word gives you faith, but faith is to believe God. Are you with me? So your ability to respond to the Spirit of God will bring about so many things in your life that God planned for you. So the number one thing to know about how to respond to the Spirit of God is learn the Word. Know the Word, know Jesus. Because the Spirit of God will lead you according to your knowledge of God's Word. Amen. So where there's no knowledge of God's Word, you will not even recognize the leadings. Amen. So many of the leadings we ignore are really designed to empower us. But because of lack of understanding the Word, I'm talking about Christ himself, we ignore those leadings. Amen. Why is it important that we must learn to respond? Because our response can change a nation. Our response can change a nation. You remember Cornelius in Acts, chapter nine, who was praying? You know, a devout man who served God, gave lots of alms, and was praying one day, and the Lord showed him in a vision, and he said, send men unto Joppa and ask for one. Simon, you know, but what's interesting that is that while God was telling him to send men to Joppa, the Spirit of God was dealing with Peter at the same time. That's when, you know, he. He went up the rooftop to pray. We've heard all these teachings. And while he was there, he had a vision. He went into a trance, and the Lord showed him. But there's one verse here I'd like to bring to your attention. In Acts, chapter 11, verse 12, it says, and the Spirit bade me go with them. Here's what God's wanting to do in this man's family, in this man's community. He prompted him and said, send men to Joppa. And he responded. Now, on the other end of the transaction, he prompted Peter. While Peter was fellowshipping with him, he said, the Holy Spirit bade me go. And if we continue, say nothing, doubting. Moreover, these six brethren accompanied me and entered into the man's house. So he's just giving us what happened. In other words, the Spirit prompted him and he responded. And because he responded, salvation came to Cornelius house. Because he responded, what about if the Spirit of God had baited him to God and he gave reasons for not going, the plan of God would have been delayed. God would have had to look for somebody else that would say, yes, Amen. You see, your response can bring about a change in a nation. Amen. Glory to God. Your response can bring marvelous things to the whole body of Christ. You think you're a small Christian? I'm just a little Christian. I go to church. I guess you didn't check with Ananias. Ananias was a simple layman, as far as we know, who had a life of fellowship with God. And while he was fellowshipping with God, he saw inner vision about Saul, who was persecuting Christians. I mean, this guy that was slaughtering Christians, jailing them. God sent one person that didn't even have a name in the whole body. You know, he wasn't recognized. He just showed him in a vision, and he responded. And he responded. So many times we pray, but we don't respond. And because we don't respond, things don't happen that should have been happening. Amen. Glory to God. So tonight in this service, there will be many things that will happen. Your job is simply to respond. Amen. Your job is simply to respond. So let's go over some keys that will help us in responding to the Holy Spirit. I just was giving you overview. Amen. Let's go over what are some keys that will help us to be better responders. It's not in a certain order, so the first one is, how about practicing the presence of God? We've heard all this before, so, I mean, I'm just wondering what mom has preached before. What. What my elders have preached before. So just listen and respond. Amen. So one thing you ought to do is practicing the presence of God. Be God inside minded. Because if you're not God inside minded, how are you going to respond? Amen. In Nigeria, you know, we teach people. A lot of people go to the mountain in order to hear God. They spend days there, nights there. You hear all kinds of stories. And after they came back, you know, I asked, did you hear God? I couldn't tell yet. I said, did you know he's inside of you? You didn't have to go that far to hear Him. Amen. So people do all kinds of. All kinds of things in order to hear God, not realizing that this God that they are endeavoring to hear from is inside. That's number one, one of the first things you ought to know in order to be a better responder to the Holy Spirit. He's inside of you. He's inside. Amen. Say inside. Amen. Talk back to me. Say inside. That's called responding. Say hallelujah. See, that's responding. Amen. Praise God. I used to, you know, I still do it. I terrify people in my services. You know, they come and they're sleeping and I walk around. Glory to God. Oh, don't you sleep in my service? Amen. So praise. Practicing his presence. Practicing the presence of God. Recognize that he is inside of you. Amen. Recognize that he is inside of you. If you will recognize that he is inside of you, you'll be able to recognize his promptings. You wouldn't look for outside stuff. For those promptings, you will be looking inside. Amen. Something else is another key to responding is expect to be led. Expect to be led you in service tonight. Expect that God could prompt you. The Spirit of God could prompt you. Expect to be led. You know it takes faith to respond. Amen. Romans chapter 8, verse 14 says, for as many as are led by. By the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. In other words, because you are a child of God, you can expect to be led by the Spirit of God. You don't have to pray, oh, God, please lead me. The covenant guarantees that he will lead you. Amen. So expect it. Expect it. Amen. Expect it. Expect it. I said expect it. Expect to be led. You see, that's one of the things you have to have in place in order for you to respond. If you're not expecting it, you won't respond. Amen. That's why, doctor, over the years will tell us, when you come to service, prepare for service so that whenever the Spirit starts moving, you respond. But many come burdened down with issues and difficulties. So their expectation is for God to touch their problem instead of expectation on him. Amen. Oh, praise God. We need to Learn this. Expect to be led. Take your eyes off of your problems. Amen. He said, we don't come to church for our problems. Amen. You know, the Lord said to me a few years ago, he said, it's wrong to come to church for your problems because of your problem. He said, that's wrong thinking. I said, well, what would I tell the people? Then he said, teach the people that I got them out of problems when they were born again because their identity changed. And with the change of identity should come a change of experience. Amen. That's why it's important that we know who we are. Amen. Praise God. So expect to be led. That's one of the ways you can be in a position to respond. So, because you are expecting to be led by the Spirit, because you are expecting to be prompted by the Spirit, what do you do in preparation? You fill up. You fill up. You stay full. Why? Because you expect him to be led. You stay full. You stay full. Amen. You stay full of the Spirit. You see, staying full of the Spirit is a demonstration on your part that you are expecting him to lead you. If you're not full of the Spirit, it means you're playing. Amen. Remember, in Luke, chapter four, the Bible tell us that Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost, was led. You are moved by what you're filled by. Amen. You're moved by what you're filled by. So in preparation to be led by the Spirit, you get full of him. Amen. We know these things, but I'm just reminding you, you stay full of the Spirit. Amen. Somebody said, how do I stay full of the Spirit? Well, you go to Ephesians, chapter 5 in verse 17, where it says, wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is? And be not drunk with wine where there is excess. But be filled with the Spirit. Be filled with the Spirit speaking to yourselves, speaking to yourself. Not speaking about yourself, speaking to yourself. Amen. Sometimes we think we're obeying it, but we're speaking about ourselves. So, speaking to yourselves in psalms. Amen. Glory to God. And hymns and spiritual songs. Singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord. Be filled with the Spirit speaking. Be filled with the Spirit speaking. Be filled with the Spirit speaking. Be filled with the Spirit speaking. Speaking. Speaking. Speaking. It wouldn't happen any other way. That's what he told us to say, be filled with the Spirit speaking. It didn't say, be filled with your trouble. He said, be filled with the Spirit. Amen. Be Filled with the Spirit. You see, that is a demonstration that you are expecting to be led. Amen. I mean, if you're expecting company in your home, you start cleaning, right? You clean. You do this and do that. In preparing, in expecting to be led by the Spirit, you start getting filled. Okay, Lord, I'm going to feel my. I'm going to be filled. I'm expecting. I'm expecting to be led. I'm expecting to be led. So I'm getting ready. I'm getting ready. That's you demonstrating your faith. Amen. That's you demonstrating your faith. And until you do that, it will be a story to you. Well, Pastor said, you know, Amen. God is real, but God will only be real to us to the measure that we respond to his word. Amen. Praise God. Another key thing in preparing to be led is worship. Oh, I'm not going to do it any justice because pastor has been teaching on it. You know it, which, you know it. So this is just a reminder. Worship. Worshiping the Lord. Taking time to worship him prepares you to hear him. Taking time to worship him puts you in a position to hear. Amen. And if you're in a position to hear, then you'll be in a position to respond. Amen. Worship him praising the Lord. Amen. Another thing that will keep you in a position to respond is keep yourself within hearing distance. So many of us are expecting to be led by the Spirit or respond, but we're not within hearing distance. Amen. One of the ways you'll be in hearing distance is through worship. You know, worship brings you into his presence. Amen. And then another way you can be within hearing distance is by you keeping yourself in the love of God. Amen. Learn to appreciate the love that God has for you. Amen. Believe the love that God has for you because that is the foundation for his witness to you. Amen. If you don't believe the love that God has for you, then you have trouble responding. Because the only reason he's doing what he's doing in your life is because of his love for you. And when that revelation dawns on you that my Father loves me, that's why he's saying this to me, that's why he's prompting me, then it's easy to respond. Amen. The sole purpose of God giving you the Holy Spirit, to direct you into what he made available to you is because of his love. So keep yourself in that love. When you keep yourself in the love of God, you are within hearing distance. Amen. Glory to God. Amen. See, when you realize that every leading of the Spirit is engineered by the love of God. Every leading of the Spirit is engineered by the love that God has for you. That's his motivation. That's his reason. Amen. God so love you that He. I mean, put everything together to lead you the way he's leading you. Amen. So believe that love. Amen. Believe that love. Praise God. Because if you don't, you will resist his response. Amen. You will resist and you'll be slow in your response. You tell a person how much you love them, man, they respond if they receive that love. So it's important that we do that. Amen. We should allow the love of God to become our motivating for factor. Amen. Why are you responding? It just dawned on me the love that the Father has for me. Oh my gosh. He loves me. He loves me. He loves me. He loves me. Praise God. Amen. And when that. The more that love dawns on you, the freer you become. Amen. Glory to God. Amen. Another thing we ought to do in order to put ourselves in a position to respond is practice peace. We know these things, but I'm just reminding you. Amen. Practice being still. I mean, the Spirit of God shared these things with us during the Holy Ghost meetings. Amen. Many times some people have difficulty responding to the Holy Spirit because they are not sure if it is truly God prompting them. You know the reason why they are not sure? Because they are not still. When you still. When you are still. You know, Bible says be still and know. Amen. So avoid things that will make you unsteel, if that's a word. Amen. So practice peace. Practice peace. Amen. Why do you need to practice peace? Because you need to be in a position to respond to the Holy Spirit. Amen. Great peace have they that love thy law and nothing shall cause them to stumble. You remember that. Amen. Glory to God. Avoid noise if you're going to practice peace. You know what noise mean, don't you? Noise is any sound that does not fit in the time that you are in. What time are you in? You are in the time of victory. You are in the time of consecration unto God. So anything that does not fit in that category is noise. Amen. Any word that's not submission to what God is saying to you is noise. So you must learn to avoid it if you're going to respond. Amen. So many people are in noisy places and they say, I can't hear from God. I don't Know why this is not happening? Get out of the noise so you can hear and then you can respond. Amen. Glory to God. We see a lot of this. Did you notice the more people are displaced, the more noise they are partaking of? We have places in Nigeria where you go, it's noisy, very noisy. I mean, music is blasting, everything is noisy, and you go, can you even hear God? You see, when you are surrounded by noise, you will listen to things that will end up destroying you and not even recognizing. So avoid noise if you're going to hear and respond to the Holy Spirit. Amen. Praise God. You know, if you're not careful, people will respond to noise. Instead of the voice of the Holy Spirit, Noise addresses the flesh. The flesh grabs hold of noise quicker. So when noise comes, the first person to respond is the flesh. So learn to back up from noise. Learn to back away from noise. Why? So you can keep yourself in a position to hear and respond. Amen. Glory to God. Something else that will help you to respond to the Holy Ghost. Are you with me? Is learn to recognize and highly esteem the voices that God put in your life. Oh, I can preach for five hours on that. And I'm serious. Amen. Many people don't remember that. Part of training yourself to respond to the Holy Spirit, learning to properly respond to the voices that God put in your life. Because it's the same Holy Spirit, the same Holy Spirit. One of those voices is the voice of your pastor. Amen. People who have trouble responding to the voice of their pastors have trouble responding to the Holy Spirit. I mean, you can see it anywhere, anytime. Amen. Why? Because it's the same Spirit that is in them that's also encouraging you or prompting you to respond. Amen. Glory to God. Many times, in looking for direction from the Holy Spirit, some people will forsake the direction from their pastor. I want to hear you, O Lord. And you show up and the word comes from your pastor, oh, God, I want to hear you. Oh God, I want to hear you. What did your pastor say? Because if you can hear and respond to that, it's the same Holy Ghost. Amen. Pastor Morgan gave us a wonderful example over the Holy Ghost meetings about when she was needing to hear from the Lord and the Spirit of God. Encourage her to go tell Mom. And one phrase, one phrase, cut her loose. Amen. You see people who say, well, it's just Pastor. That's dangerous. That's dangerous. Do you know what you mean when you say that it's just Jesus because he's the one that anointed them. Didn't you read in Ephesians, chapter four? He says, after he ascended, he gave gifts unto men. Some he gave to be apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers. He anointed them. He placed them there. So when we don't respond to those voices, we will have trouble responding to the Holy Spirit. Amen. I'm so thankful that God gave me a pastor. Amen. I tell you what, I tell you what. I've got my AK47 cart ready. You come around my pastors, you're in trouble with me. Amen. Why? Because you see those that God put in your life, they are God rail for you. I can tell you many times that I had, you know, difficulty discerning. Is this the way? And just around my man of God, I hear he'll say one phrase without even knowing, and I go, oh, thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. Oh, you so love me that you give me a pastor. Oh, hallelujah. Amen. You see, you learn to appreciate that. See, God never does anything just to, you know, be casual. He does it with a purpose. I learned that you could go faster in life if you recognize the way God operates. And one of those ways is recognizing the office of the pastor, those voices that God put in your life. Amen. Glory to God. See, if you don't have honor for the voice of your pastor, then you won't recognize the leading of the spirit. Amen. Some people are used to wanting special word. Oh, gosh, we have a lot of that in Nigeria. I need a special word. They come to service and that special word that they're looking for is preached. And they're sleeping. And afterwards they want special word. I said there's no. You see, I said, I don't have any office hours. Don't even bother. Amen. Come to service. That's a special word. Amen. I said come. This is happy hour. Amen. I mean, you leave knowing what to do. Praise God. Amen. Glory to God. Something else that will help you to respond to the Holy Ghost is learn to shun opportunities for offense because offense dulls your ability to recognize the voice of God. Amen. It dulls your sensitivity to the spirit. Offense provides a platform for the flesh. You don't want flesh on your platform. Amen. The Bible encourages us to live in the spirit, walk in the spirit. Amen. Do not give room to the flesh. Amen. Praise God. So these are some of the things that will help us to respond. It's not the whole thing. It's Just a few of them. Amen. Something else you need to know about responding to the Spirit of God is respond quickly. Respond quickly. Oh, I tell you what you see. Your quickness is the expression of your faith. Your quickness is your expression of your faith. If you're not quick, then you're not doing it in faith. Amen. Amen. Respond. Look at somebody respond and jump in with them. Amen. I got to experience so many marvelous things in my life just by watching people that are responding, responding. Amen. Praise God. Hallelujah. Years ago, I used to watch dad Hagin, you know, and he get to praying in the Spirit, and he gets to sit down and talking to the Lord, and he would say some things. He said, yes, Vada. Yes, Lord. So years ago, I started learning. I said, okay, I'm going to do just that. I said, yes, Lord. I stopped praying. I said, yes, Lord. My head said, you haven't even heard anything I said. I'm preparing. Amen. You see, I'm prepared. I'm expecting. So, yes, Father. And, you know, it wasn't long before I started hearing. I said, yes, Lord. Did you notice that when the Spirit of God prompted Ananias, or God showed him in a vision, he said, ananias. He said, yes, Lord. Yes, Lord. Yes, Lord. Before he went on, acknowledge his presence. Acknowledge that he called you. Amen. So you come to service, say, yes, Lord, I'm here. I'm here. I'll respond however you lead me. Then you're primed for it. Amen. So I started doing that. And it's been a few years, and it's been working. Yes, Father. Praise God. Whenever I say that, my spirit just goes poof. Light comes. Amen. That's how you make it real to yourself. Amen. Somebody said, I'm praying for God to become real to me. No, you step out in faith, and he'll be real to you. Hallelujah. I said, hallelujah. See, you're still thinking about it. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. See, you respond quickly. Respond quickly. Respond quickly. Respond quickly. Whenever you're prompted. That's how it starts. You just respond. Your head says, what about if it's not this or that? Do it before your head kicks in. Let me tell you a story about responding quickly. Years ago, I was working at the University, University of Iowa. And on my way to the office in the morning, you know, I prayed up and I'm glowing. I'm ready to go. And the Spirit of God said to me, when you get to the office today, go to the secretary's office and tell her that it's not her fault that I'm working on it. I've never done anything like that before. And this is the university. We're not talking about church. So needless to say that I say, okay, Lord, you know, you learn. This is how you practice. I just step. Yes, Father, I'll do it. You commit yourself before you find out the details. Amen. So I said, okay. So when I got there, I had my coffee cup in my hand. Okay, I can do this. Okay, Father, I promise you I will. So I went into her office. Never been in there for any discussion like that. So I said, ma', am, God told me to tell you that it's not your fault and that he's working on it right now. I stood there, and she started crying. I'm thinking, okay, great. So I stood for a moment. I'm like, how do I leave from here? And she looked up and she said, you don't know what you just said to me. I said, I really don't know. Bye. Bye. I left a couple of weeks later. No, in the afternoon, she came to me, she said, you know, what you told me was my daughter and her husband had taken my grandkids away from me for over four years. No explanation of what happened or why. That's what the Lord said to Taylor. And I told her, you know, the Lord said, let her know it's not her fault. He's working on it. Two weeks later, they called her and brought the children back. She was elated. I thought to myself, what about if I hadn't responded? The next thing that happened, I studied the Bible study during that time, and she was one of the first ones to show up. Gave me the key to the audit. I mean, nice conference room. So I had the key with me. I can open it for Bible study, bring in medical students, and we'll sit and discuss the word. What about if I hadn't responded? Many of them got born again. What about if I hadn't responded? What about if I hadn't responded? You know how it became so real to me in service? Pastor say, praise the Lord. I say, praise the Lord. Pastor said, glory. I said, glory. Why? I'm training my ears to the voice of the same Holy Spirit who will prompt me outside. Amen. You see, I'm ready to receive what? So whatever comes, I'm like, yes, amen. Amen. You train yourself to respond in services is where we're trained. So many times we think it's. Oh. Prompted me To. I almost run tonight. I was almost there. You know what you're saying, Jesus, I denied you opportunity. Hallelujah. He's not prompting you just to prompt you to say, oh, there's a purpose behind. Grows from that little prompting to Ananias, go down to that street called straight. That's how it starts. That's how it starts. I said, that's how it starts. I was feeling it. I was feeling it, Pastor. I was feeling it. Respond. Hallelujah. Glory to God. Amen. So you respond quickly. Do you know the greatest way a man can be a blessing on the earth is to stay responsive to the Spirit of God. That's the greatest way a person can be a blessing on the earth is to stay responsive to the Holy Spirit. Because he is the manifesto of God. He's the one who handles every transaction of God on the earth. So if you're responsive to him, you will be heard from. Hallelujah. I said, hallelujah. Glory. See, you train yourself to respond. You respond, amen. How do you get sad by responding, except for you're responding to the wrong thing? Amen. You're responding to your issues. They'll make you sad. Respond to the Holy Ghost. He'll make you glad. Amen. Glory to God. Amen. Responding, responding. Be the first one to respond. Amen. Pastor needs something done. Be the first one to respond. That's the same voice. That's the same voice. Many are looking for miracle. But miracle comes through one single instruction. I've been checking. I haven't found yet. I've not seen one miracle that didn't have an instruction before it. Amen. We think about the miracle in Canaan of Galilee. How did it come about? Whatsoever he tells you to do, just do it. Simple. Just do it. Just do whatever. Whatever. So that tells us something. Jesus could have started and said, okay, you know what? Take all those bushes out of the way. That's an instruction. It's part of whatever. If he had asked that, they should have done that because she said whatsoever. What's my point? Many times we're looking to hear God in one area so we can respond. But the instruction can be completely different. The Lord said something to me years ago. Whoo. Whoa. Glory to God. Hallelujah. The Lord said something to me years ago. He said, if you're believing me in one area and I said something to you concerning another area, consider that your answer and respond to that as if it was the answer for the other area you're asking. Because we only see little pieces. He Sees it all. So when he gives you instruction, consider it as the final in that area and do it whether it is related or not. Amen. Glory to God. Somebody's kidneys been having trouble filtering. Is working right now. The percentage should come up after tonight. The percentage should come up after tonight. Kidneys, kidneys not filtering like it's supposed to. I just saw that. The percentage will come up after. After this service. While this service is going to. Praise God. Praise God. Hallelujah. Praise God. Glory to God. Glory, glory. Glory. Hallelujah. Who is that? Dealing with some ankle issue. Your ankle is bothering you. It swells up and it swells up again. It goes, are you here? It swells up and it goes down. It swells up and it goes down. Yeah. Part of the problem is that your sugar level has been having issues too. Are you here? Praise God. Stand to your feet. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, I speak to that. From this hour mend. Glory to God. Amen. Respond. Responding, Responding. Everything about the home doesn't have to be all perfect for God to finish what he told you he'll do. He just said, tell you that. Amen. Does that bear witness with you? Praise God. Glory to God. Amen. I was getting ready for service. The Lord said something to me concerning this congregation. He said, when you get here, let them know that I have a season set out to reward this congregation. And one of those areas you will see very fast is if you've had issues with real estate that has been stalling or been having issues, you will see it just like a quick turnaround. So believe it, believe it, and it will work for you. Amen. I saw in a vision before I came a little. It was like a little girl. They were using candle for light. It reminded me of Africa. They were using candle for light, and they were getting ready, praying for this ministry, saying, thank God we could hear the answers. Thank God we could hear answers. A little girl with a candle. I thought, dear Lord, Wow. So the Lord said, tell you part of the reward for you this year will deal with real estate. Praise God. Hallelujah. Praise God. Amen. Hallelujah. Amen. Take it. You see? Take it. Take it. You respond. Amen. Glory. Hallelujah. Praise God. Amen. So we learn to respond. When we hear, we respond. I said, when we hear, we respond. When we hear, we respond. When we hear, we respond. I said, when we're here, we respond. Glory. Amen. Praise God. It's all right. Just obey God. That's all. You know, you. You don't have to know everything to obey God. You just keep saying, yes, that's what I did. I ended up in Abuja. You just keep responding. You just keep responding. Learn to respond. Learn to respond. Learn to respond. The power is in the response. The power is in the response. Hallelujah. Praise God. Amen. Hallelujah. Praise God. Glory. Hallelujah. Glory. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Whoo. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Yeah, they're here. There are angels in this room tonight. Amen. Some of us will get a quicker jump start than you ever dreamed of. Amen. Quicker jump start. They said they're here for jump start. I'm going to jump start you. I'm going to jump start you. I'm going to jump start you. Jump start you. Jump start you. Praise God. God. Hallelujah. I see a reward coming. Praise God. Reward. Hallelujah. A reward. You have to be careful so you don't walk for it. It's a reward. So you don't walk for it. Just receive it. Just receive it. It's a reward. That's what the Spirit call it. It's a reward. You don't have to walk. Just receive it. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Praise the lord. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Praise God. Praise God. Hallelujah. Whoo. Amen. You know people. You will always find people that will go the other way. But just because they went the other way doesn't mean you have to go the other way. That belongs to somebody. Doesn't mean you have to go the other way. You just stay the course. Keep responding. Keep responding. Amen. God's not going to question you for why somebody else didn't respond. He's going to question you why you didn't respond. And as long as you're responding, that's all that matters. Amen. Glory to God. Glory to God. Glory to God. Glory to God. God. Amen. Hallelujah. You used to walk in the children's church. You used to walk in the children's church. Something happened. You didn't get over it. You better change it. Change it. Get back in there. Change it and get back in there so you don't lose ground. Amen. So you don't lose ground. Amen. You know, we can come up with fancy excuses for not responding to God. Don't ever protect your family against the response to the Holy Ghost. Otherwise you end up losing them. Amen. Be seated a moment. Praise God. Praise God. It's different now. It's different now. It's different now. We should Avoid giving excuses. Excuses. Avoid giving excuses. Giving excuses. Yeah. Praise God. Do you run businesses? Do you own a business? Stand to your feet. Stand to your feet. It seems like things go. It recycles. When it's supposed to get into a greater cycle, it just quits. It spins. And when it's supposed to get up to greater one, it just stalls. If you will respond to everything God has spoken to you. I know some of them you remember. But as you respond to one more, you'll be reminded of the rest. The spirit of God said tell you from this night, if you will make those adjustments, you will look back and go, wow, wow. Come up here. Praise God. Thank you, Father. Does what I'm. Does it make sense to you? That's been my concern, yeah. Well, see, pays to be in church. Yes, it does. Amen. Yeah. Yeah. Don't worry about that other issue. Don't worry about it. Don't make that your focus. Make obeying and responding to God your focus. I don't know you, but that's what the spirit of God is telling me to tell you. Thank you. Don't focus on. Don't make that your focus. Yeah. Yeah. It's a lot of noise, but so what? Respond to God. Amen. Yeah. That's why that health issue comes up every now and then, too. Yeah. When I lay hands on you tonight, it'll be gone. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Praise God. Hallelujah. Just simple responding to God. Simply respond to God. Who is in here? Wrist. Your wrist has been bothering you. Who is that? Stand to your feet. Stand to your feet. Stand to your feet. Praise God. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Go. Ministering spirits, touch each one of them. Glory to God. Praise God. Thank you, Father. Be free. Be loose. Yeah, Nathan. A runner that looks like this will be overtaken. So you have to set your eyes on Jesus. Like, just. If you keep doing like this, keep doing like this, it slows you down. And there are things, you see, I found out, with God, there are. God sets things, but he puts timing with it, too. There are space, if we could say, space of time, with things that God assigned you. Don't let stop doing that so you can stay on pace, on track with God. Praise God. Amen. There are things when you just follow God, he will explain to you more. When you try to get it all in your head, it becomes a trap that the enemy will use to stall you. I have no natural knowledge what I'm talking about. Does that make sense to you? Yes, sir. Okay. Praise God. Amen. Glory to God. Amen. Praise God. We're just responding. Amen. Christopher, come up here. Praise God. Time, Time. Time. Time is important. Time is important. But time coupled with complete action. Not half and half complete. Complete. That's what I'm hearing. Complete. Not half here, half there, half there. Just complete. The Lord said, remind you, start completing things. Start completing projects. Don't do it. Half and half. It's affecting some things. Amen. Fire of the Holy Ghost on you. In the name of Jesus. Fire, fire. Fire. Fire is not enough. It's not enough to be burning. Two years ago One year ago. Get back on fire. Does that make sense to you? Get back on fire. There are things to be done. Yes, sir. Bless you in the name of Jesus. Praise God. Glory to God. Thank you, father. Glory to God. Glory to God. Glory to God. Glory to God. Yes, father. It will all come to pass. Yeah. Yes, father. Yes, father. Yes, father. Yes, father. Yes. It will all come to pass. Praise God. Praise God. Yeah. Brother Tony, I see a couple of angels. The spirit of God said, it's come to you before, but they brought. It's like a folder, has businesses in it inside. You've looked at one before. You go, ah, man, you think too much. And you dropped it. You grab another one, man. It took too much. He said, don't drop that. He said, take time with God and he will explain some of the stuff behind it. That's why he's been coming more often trying to get you. He's so good. He's a great God. Amen. And he'll bless you, and he'll bless you. Amen. Praise God. Amen. What's that? Somebody's back. Somebody's back. Somebody's back. Are you here? Somebody's back. Amen. If you stand up, it'll be gone. If you stand up, it'll be gone. Yeah. If you stand up, it'll be gone completely. Praise God. Praise God. Praise God. Hallelujah. Praise God. Thank you, Jesus. Praise God. Amen. Praise God. Amen. You will obey God, wouldn't you? Don't be like that lady that threw dad Hagen. Yes, I'll obey. If he's easy. You will obey, won't you? Amen. He heard you, and we're his witnesses. Amen. Praise God. Amen. Hallelujah. Amen. Stephanie, come here, please. Where's Stephanie? Come. Yes. You're Stephanie, right? Okay. Yeah. Come on. Yeah. The Lord said, minister this to you. There's some things that seem like it's gone in circle for a while. You thought last two years would have been the time to clear it? He said this year is that year. To clear it, receive it in the name of Jesus. Thank you for it, Father. Does it make sense to you? Yeah. Hold it. Hold it tight. That's what he said. Hold it tight. Amen. Praise God. Amen. Praise God. Amen. Praise God. Hallelujah. Praise God. Praise God. Where's that woman that works in the kitchen a lot? She stays in the kitchen a lot. Is she here? Huh? She stays in the kitchen a lot. If I. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, she's not here. That's not russia. It's not rochelle. Praise God. Yeah. That wound will heal. That wound will heal, and that obstacle will be gone. That's what the spirit of God said to tell her. That wound will be healed. That obstacle will be gone. It'll be gone. Oh, thank you, Jesus. Hallelujah. Praise God. Praise God. It'll be gone. It'll be gone. It'll be gone. It'll be gone. It'll be gone. It'll be gone. It'll be gone. Yeah. No, Jacob. You're not stuck. You're not stuck. You're not stuck. You're not stuck. Amen. Praise God. You're not. Praise God. Amen. Hallelujah. Praise God. Isn't God good? Amen. He's a good God. I think I've gone beyond loving Jesus. Me, I like Jesus. That's what I tell him in Nigeria. I like Jesus. You know, when you love, you know, you feel like, I gotta love him, but he's my favorite. Amen. Praise God. Amen. Amen. In and out, in and out. But this year, you're going to be in and that. More, more, more, more, more. Get you a pad and pen and start writing. Have you studied already? But start writing. Writing right in. That will propel you fully into it. Does that make sense? Yes. Yeah. Yeah. It'll get you right in, because it just gets you right in. Hallelujah. Amen. What we say tonight. Responding to the Holy Ghost. Responding to the Holy Ghost. You don't have to know everything. Just respond. Just respond. Just respond. That's all you need to do. That's all. Just respond. If you will respond, you will always see a miracle. Always. Always. Always, Always, always, always. What's that about? Artery, artery, artery, artery, artery. I come in front of you, I'm hearing, artery, artery, artery, artery, artery. Correct that in the name of Jesus. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yes, Father. Yeah. Thank you for reminding me. Somebody was getting ready to have a surgery but they are waiting for a certain number to come up before they would think it's okay to do. Are you here? Praise God. That's you. Praise God. Praise God. Amen. Yeah. Okay. Okay, I'll do it. I'll lay hands on you and that number. Praise God. Come, come, come, come, come. Praise God. Hallelujah. Glory to God. Praise God. Thank you, Father. Praise God, Father. In the name of Jesus. Oh, let's just sing to him. O come let us adore him O come let us adore him O come let us adore him Christ the. Praise the Lord. Hallelujah. One more time. Oh, come let us adore Somebody say, that's Christmas song. Every day is Christmas. Sing it. Oh, come let us adore him oh, O come let us adore In Christ the Lord. Jesus jesus. Thank you, Father, for it. Where's your wife? Where's your wife? It's important that she's in agreement. Full agreement. Sit down again and let her know. Praise God. Okay. Hallelujah. Praise God. I'm trying to quit. Hallelujah. Praise God. Amen. Glory, glory. Glory. Glory. Glory, glory, glory, glory. Hallelujah. Father, I thank you. Where's bear? He's in class. Can somebody get him, please? Thank you, jesus. Hallelujah. Praise God. Thank you, lord jesus. Yeah, they start early. Visions. Visions. And when they talk, don't just. Just say, it's kids talk. There's some more attached to it. They start early. Praise God. Amen. Come here, Bear. Praise God. Thank you, Father. The fullness of it all shall come to pass. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. Yeah. No, no, no, no, no. It won't track them now. In the name of Jesus, I thank you for it. Glory to God. Amen. Amen. Glad I obeyed. Hallelujah. Amen. Mom. Thank you so much for the honor. Pastor Morgan, Reverend Stephen, Brother Grant. This is family to me. I'm so grateful that God put me, me among you. Amen. I love every one of you and appreciate you. This will be our best year yet. Hallelujah. Amen. Praise God. We trust you've enjoyed this message. Visit us at dufresneministries.org to learn of our upcoming meetings. Share your testimony, become a partner or visit our online store. This program has been made possible by the friends and partners of Dufresne Ministries.