"Being Led By The Spirit Made Easy" - Rev. Harpre…
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Pastor Kirk
Isaiah 48:17 says that this is what.
Pastor Nancy
The Lord says, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.
Pastor Kirk
I am the Lord your God, who teaches you what is good for you and leads you along the paths you should follow.
Congregation Member
Hallelujah.
Pastor Nancy
He is the one who teaches you what is good. He's the one who leads you what is good and what you should follow.
Pastor Kirk
So leading of the Holy Spirit is critical for us because we don't know.
Pastor Nancy
What is good for us.
Pastor Kirk
We certain times we pick and choose what we see, what we think according to our natural mind, is it good or not?
Pastor Nancy
Is it beneficial or not?
Pastor Kirk
We go according to that.
Pastor Nancy
But God says, I am the one who leads you.
Pastor Kirk
I am the one who will guide you. I'm the one who has picked up everything for you. And if you follow me, I'll show.
Pastor Nancy
You what is good and you should follow.
Congregation Member
Hallelujah.
Pastor Nancy
There are always benefits connected to his leading. There are always benefits. And it is our responsibility to be.
Pastor Kirk
Led by his Spirit, to be led, to follow and to learn how he is leading us. Because there are benefits for our lives.
Pastor Nancy
And there are benefits connected to our lives, the people who are connected to our lives.
Pastor Kirk
So we have been teaching here.
Pastor Nancy
Pastor Kirk has been very transparent about the stories he has been sharing from few weeks. How he missed, how he hit the nail, how he again missed, how he has done. Like he has been very transparent.
Pastor Kirk
We should make.
Pastor Nancy
That's why I'm saying, like we people should be here.
Pastor Kirk
If people are not here, they should.
Pastor Nancy
Be at least listening that what he's.
Pastor Kirk
Teaching himself, he's teaching those little, little.
Pastor Nancy
Details where he missed and where he was perfectly done that it would help us to follow what he missed, we shouldn't miss.
Pastor Kirk
What he did that he missed, we shouldn't do.
Pastor Nancy
Why he missed.
Pastor Kirk
So it is our church is passion.
Pastor Nancy
NC always says church is like a university or a school.
Pastor Kirk
There's always a homework.
Pastor Nancy
When you go out of here means.
Pastor Kirk
When you listen, you always judge like.
Pastor Nancy
Am I doing this or not?
Pastor Kirk
Am I doing the way he's teaching or not? Am I doing the way Lord says or not? If I'm not, I endeavor to change.
Pastor Nancy
Right away so that I can benefit from the Word. Because word always profit us.
Pastor Kirk
God is into our profit. God wants us to benefit and profit from in our lives, but only when.
Pastor Nancy
We tweak, when we change because we are not perfect.
Pastor Kirk
If you are thinking you are perfect.
Pastor Nancy
Oh, you are further than perfection.
Pastor Kirk
Right?
Pastor Nancy
Because we are not.
Pastor Kirk
So he said, I'm the one who leads you. I'M the one who guides you. It's for your benefit if you are led. If you. If it's in your benefit, it will profit you if you follow me.
Pastor Nancy
What I'm trying to tell you.
Pastor Kirk
So.
Pastor Nancy
I'll tell you what I feel.
Pastor Kirk
The hardest thing or the number, not number one.
Pastor Nancy
The main thing that has hurt me.
Pastor Kirk
Also few times or few people I.
Pastor Nancy
Know closely that has hurt them.
Pastor Kirk
Not following the proper way, what God.
Pastor Nancy
Has said to them. Romans 8, chapter. Let's go to Romans 8. This many people, many big people, scholars, they think, they say this is one of the greatest chapter in the New Testament. So why not? It is actually loaded with everything. So this is a chapter where the Bible says Romans 8, 14, 8, 15, 16, 17. That as many as read by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God and all those things. But I'm not focusing on that. Because you have read that many times. I'm not focusing on that. So what I think is main reason why people.
Pastor Kirk
It gets hard for people to follow.
Pastor Nancy
His leading, which he is leading is unrenewed minds, people's people, unrenewed mind of people. It hurt them more than it should profit them. What is unrenewed mind? Reaction. Go to Romans 8:5. I'll read from the Passion translation. Romans 8:5. It says those who are motivated by the flesh only pursue what benefits them.
Pastor Kirk
But those who live by the impulses of the Holy Spirit are motivated to.
Pastor Nancy
Pursue the the spiritual realities. What is flesher? Flesh means carnal mind. Flesh means your carnality. What is carnality? It's not saying like carnality here. This is a scripture written to a Christian. This is just verses talking to us.
Pastor Kirk
To a Christian, to a believer, to.
Pastor Nancy
Sitting in the church.
Pastor Kirk
It says those who are motivated by the flesh means there are Christians that can be led, that can be motivated, that can follow the leading of flesh. Flesh means their carnal minds.
Pastor Nancy
What is a carnal mind?
Pastor Kirk
Unrenewed mind. What is unrenewed mind?
Pastor Nancy
The mind which doesn't think the way God thinks.
Pastor Kirk
The mind which is not washed with the word of God. The mind which cannot submit itself to the word of God. The mind which goes the other direction, which is not submissive to the Word.
Pastor Nancy
Of God or God himself.
Pastor Kirk
So that's called unrenewed mind. That's called carnal mind. That's why sometimes you have heard pastors say carnal buckets. What is bucket? Carnal.
Pastor Nancy
Not bucket. What is carnal? Bucket. You all know what is bucket?
Pastor Kirk
What is carnality here means he's talking not to the people outside the world. They are called sinners. Not that we want to call them, because they are called sinners, because they are the biggest sinners. They have not received Jesus yet. That's why they are called outside the covenant. They are sinners. We were one time sinners outside the covenants of God. But once we received Jesus, we came inside. But after coming inside, can you still be a carnal?
Pastor Nancy
Oh, big time.
Pastor Kirk
Can you stay fleshly?
Pastor Nancy
100%, guys.
Pastor Kirk
So here Paul is saying those who are motivated means those who are always into thinking fleshly carnality thoughts. They are the ones who benefit nothing. But those who are living by the impulses of the Holy Spirit means those who listen and, and hear and follow what the Holy Spirit is saying. They are the ones who will be pursuing the spiritual realities. Everything in Christian life has been given to us as a reality in the spiritual life. Bible says in Ephesians 1:3 that we have been blessed with all the spiritual blessings, all the spiritual blessings there is in any. We have been blessed. They are positional.
Pastor Nancy
They are not realities in real life like in natural.
Pastor Kirk
It has not manifested in life. They are in spirit. We are blessed with all those blessings. But how can you bring them here? If you still stay carnal, if you still stay fleshly, if you still stay the way unrenewed mind.
Pastor Nancy
If you stay, you will never be.
Pastor Kirk
Able to bring those realities into your life. That's why Paul is saying here that those who are motivated by flesh, they.
Pastor Nancy
Will never benefit from it.
Pastor Kirk
But those who are motivated, those who are led, those who are following the impulses of the Holy Spirit. What are the impulses? How you feel impulse. You have to go close, you have to quieten. You cannot hear the impulse with a loud music going on. You cannot hear that. What is loud music? Distraction. You cannot follow Holy Ghost without distractions in your life. You cannot say, oh, God is leading me. And when you are praying like two times in a week, bro, that's big clue.
Pastor Nancy
Don't follow that leading. That's a big clue.
Pastor Kirk
Don't follow the leading.
Pastor Nancy
Oh, I'm praying 50 minutes a day and I know I'm marrying that person. Don't marry that person, man.
Congregation Member
Hallelujah.
Pastor Kirk
Because it's going so much. Why?
Pastor Nancy
Because to renew your mind, to stay.
Pastor Kirk
Focused in your mind, to make it the way God things. It will take time. And it will take time every day, every week. You cannot say, I read the word yesterday or I read the word last month and Mind is perfectly fit and fine. My mind thinks like God thinks. No way. Brother Hagen used to say, if you don't come, you wake up in the morning and calm your hair. If you don't come, it will stay boom, boom, boom, wherever you want to go, right? You have to do every time. All of you look very beautiful. You know that. You have done that work half an hour before you come here. So you know that. Similarly, our mind will never stay renewed or perfectly in line with God unless it's washed completely every day with the word of God. He's saying, if you are not doing.
Pastor Nancy
That, you are not being led by the Spirit.
Pastor Kirk
So don't put a label that God.
Pastor Nancy
Is speaking to me.
Pastor Kirk
It's easy to put label.
Pastor Nancy
God is speaking to me.
Pastor Kirk
It's easy to say because our pastor is saying, because other people are.
Pastor Nancy
Because, listen, don't copy somebody's slogans.
Pastor Kirk
Don't copy. Because either copy their lifestyle or don't copy their slogans. Because if you can copy the lifestyle.
Pastor Nancy
Slow slogans will not help you in life. Bless God. I can do this. No, no, no, no.
Pastor Kirk
What you are doing in private life, Tell me. I'll tell you what you will do.
Pastor Nancy
In life or not.
Pastor Kirk
Oh, you know, I'm Christian. Listen, Christian means it doesn't give you that license that you are success in life.
Pastor Nancy
No, no, no. It depends how do you do with your mind?
Pastor Kirk
So that's why he's saying, but those who live by the impulses of the Holy Spirit are motivated to pursue the spiritual realities. For the sense. Verse 6. For the sense and reason of the flesh is death. But the mind controlled by the Spirit finds peace and life. Mind controlled by the Spirit. Either your mind will be controlled by the emotions or things going around in your life, or it will be controlled.
Pastor Nancy
By the Spirit of God.
Pastor Kirk
What do you mean by the Spirit of God?
Pastor Nancy
Means the word of God.
Pastor Kirk
If you're. If your mind listen, nobody can tell.
Pastor Nancy
What you are thinking right now sitting here. Some of you may be looking at me and thinking, what do you think? Listen, my mind is on the word because Right, Right now. Right now.
Pastor Kirk
But you can be sitting here and.
Pastor Nancy
Thinking a lot of other things.
Pastor Kirk
You can be sitting here and thinking about your neighbor. You can be sitting here and thinking wrong thoughts about anybody. So nobody needs to tell you that whether your mind is renewed or not. You only know that you can tell by yourself. The problem is people don't admit.
Pastor Nancy
That's the biggest issue with people.
Pastor Kirk
People don't admit. They don't like saying, I Did it?
Pastor Nancy
They always say, neighbor upside down beside anybody.
Pastor Kirk
Not me.
Pastor Nancy
You know, humility.
Pastor Kirk
Humility always says, even if he's not.
Pastor Nancy
Wrong, the person, he always says, you know what? I'll take the blame because it will create peace in the environment.
Pastor Kirk
Because people think I have to say I'm right.
Pastor Nancy
God doesn't care about your right. It's always first God's right. You go with that right, Then we'll think about what is your right.
Pastor Kirk
So he said, if you are motivated.
Pastor Nancy
By your flesh, you are not following the Holy Ghost.
Pastor Kirk
But if you are following the Holy Ghost means you are following the impulses of the Holy Ghost.
Pastor Nancy
You will follow and benefit from it.
Pastor Kirk
And either your mind will be controlled by the flesh or it will be.
Pastor Nancy
Controlled by the spirit.
Pastor Kirk
Only you can tell.
Pastor Nancy
Only you can tell. Nobody else can tell.
Pastor Kirk
Because the mind controlled by the flesh is death.
Pastor Nancy
Now verse seven says that in fact.
Pastor Kirk
The mindset focused on the flesh focused on the carnal things of carnal things. Focus on the fleshly things, focus on every negative thing in there fights. God's plan refuses to submit to his direction.
Pastor Nancy
What is direction?
Pastor Kirk
Leading. It says that it refuses to submit to his direction.
Pastor Nancy
The because it cannot.
Pastor Kirk
For no matter how hard they try, God finds no pleasure with those who.
Pastor Nancy
Are controlled by flesh.
Congregation Member
Hallelujah.
Pastor Nancy
Being led by the spirit. Pastor Pegg is doing a series on radio too. He said being led by the Spirit is easy. It is not hard. It is easy, but.
Pastor Kirk
But only for those people who are continually in the process of renewing their mind. If you are not engaging yourself in renewing your mind, in changing the way you think, in changing your direction of your mind, not putting your mind towards fleshly things, carnal things, wrong things, but in right things, then you are on a process of renewing your mind means your mind is being renewed every day. Your ear is into the impulse of the Holy Ghost and God is directing you and you will be able to pick. Why does God. People don't pick. Is it hard for God to lead? He said, I want to lead everybody. I want to lead everybody. But why it's hard for people to be led. Why it's hard for people? God is not that he's not speaking to you. He's speaking.
Pastor Nancy
He's leading. He's guiding.
Pastor Kirk
Because you are a Christian, it's your.
Pastor Nancy
Birthright to be led by your spirit of God.
Pastor Kirk
It is our birthright. As soon as you got born again, the same day God said, you will.
Pastor Nancy
Be led by my spirit.
Pastor Kirk
But it is my responsibility to be led it is my responsibility to hear. And if I am not hearing means it is something I am not doing. If I am something not doing is what it is with my mind. Because your mind will always stand in between God's voice and your actions. God can be speaking, but as long as you have unrane mind and you are consulting with the mind, you will.
Pastor Nancy
You will never act on what God said.
Pastor Kirk
And until you act on what God said, you will not profit what God said.
Congregation Member
Hallelujah.
Pastor Nancy
You will never. I want to read you a quote Brother Hagin said.
Pastor Kirk
He said any Christian who is in a bondage is in a bondage to.
Pastor Nancy
Unrenewed mind, not to the devil. It's brother Hagin who said that any.
Pastor Kirk
Christian who is in a bondage is in a bondage to unrenewed mind, not to devil. Listen, you are free because Jesus said, you have been set free from the powers of darkness. You have been translated from the kingdom of darkness and brought into the kingdom of light. You have been set free. Whom the Son set free is free indeed. You shall know the truth and truth shall set you free. You have been freed. But he said you he is in still bondage. He is not bondage to devil.
Pastor Nancy
He is bondage to his unrenewed mind.
Pastor Kirk
So it will behoove us to work on our mind. Because people say, oh, I am trying to hear. I am trying to hear.
Pastor Nancy
It can open a door to some other voice which can lead you into.
Pastor Kirk
A direction where you don't want to be. So what is my purpose?
Pastor Nancy
To keep renewing my mind.
Pastor Kirk
To keep running my mind, to keep washing my mind. How you can wash your mind only and only with the Word. You cannot renew your mind by praying in Holy Ghost. People say I pray in Holy Ghost for half an hour every day before I wake up in the and because God pastor said you pray in Holy Ghost before you go to business and it will prosper.
Pastor Nancy
Uh huh.
Pastor Kirk
Tell me, when was the last time you read the word? Oh, I read the Word last Sunday.
Pastor Nancy
When?
Pastor Kirk
Passage and open your book to Romans 8, chapter and fifth verse. I opened that time, but it is third Saturday night and I've been praying six days, half an hour in the morning.
Pastor Nancy
Yeah, you are doing good brother.
Pastor Kirk
But you are missing a clue. Because it's your mind who needs to be understanding. It's your mind who had to be enlightened. It's your mind who has to catch up. What Holy Ghost is speaking in you. It will not unless. Unless you wash it with the word with, not with the prayer. Prayer is drawing out of you. Word is washing here. And this is the one who said, if it is not controlled here, if it is not into the. This is not hearing the impulses of God. He won't benefit though. He said, I want to lead you, I want to guide you. I want to show you what you should do in your life. Because my leading will profit you. And I want you to profit. That's why I said, I will go and he will come.
Pastor Nancy
And until he comes, he will profit you.
Pastor Kirk
Jesus said that it's expedient for me to go. It's profitable, it is advantageous, means it will help you in your life when I go. Because he will come and he'll show you the things he's showing. But why I'm not seeing?
Pastor Nancy
Because your mind is not renewed.
Pastor Kirk
Because you're still thinking the way you shouldn't think. You're still acting the way. Because wrong thinking produces wrong believing. Wrong believing produces wrong speaking. And wrong speaking will end up with wrong things you have been doing.
Congregation Member
Hallelujah.
Pastor Kirk
So what should I do?
Pastor Nancy
You should be renewing your mind.
Pastor Kirk
Process continuously, always.
Pastor Nancy
Pastor Nancy said it's wrong thinking. Brother Ed, when Jesus met him in Peru 2004, he said, My people are not enjoying the best 97%. Why they are not enjoying the first thing they say. Pastor Nancy elaborated that statement she said was wrong thinking.
Pastor Kirk
What is wrong thinking? You can have a wrong thinking about the spouse. You can have a wrong thinking about the opposite sex. You can have a wrong thinking about the Word. You can have a wrong thinking about when offering is taken. You can have a wrong thinking about your boss. You can have a wrong thinking about your neighbor. Anything which is not in line with the word. It's wrong thinking. It's wrong thinking. But they did wrong to me and I'm not forgiving them. Oh, I'll forgive them from far, but I'm not.
Pastor Nancy
You're fooling yourself. It's not called forgiveness.
Pastor Kirk
It's wrong thinking. What? Will it help you?
Pastor Nancy
No.
Pastor Kirk
Will it help anybody?
Pastor Nancy
No.
Pastor Kirk
Why?
Pastor Nancy
Because wrong thinking never advantage person.
Pastor Kirk
It will never take person further. You cannot think whatever some people think wrong because they are pressured by the society.
Pastor Nancy
They are thinking what others will think. You cannot think what others will think.
Pastor Kirk
You cannot always be like, oh, what other people will think about me?
Pastor Nancy
Don't care about other people. Care about what God thinks about you.
Pastor Kirk
Your thinking should be aligned with the word of God. Your thinking should be in line with God's thinking, not other people thinking.
Pastor Nancy
There was a man Of God in India. Big mighty man.
Pastor Kirk
God.
Pastor Nancy
He saw God. He saw Jesus like brother Hagin. Multiple times he went to heaven multiple times. He, he had a big ministry in India, one of the largest ministries in India till these, these last days. And he was called to be apostle. He, he prophesied over brother Benny Hinn many. He went to heaven multiple times. Even in heaven he met brother Branham. William Branham came up to him and said to him few things about his life and what he shouldn't do, what he did to him. So he shared all those things.
Pastor Kirk
Great man of God. Millions used to gather him when he.
Pastor Nancy
Used to preach in India. God spoke to him while he was praying. One day he said to him, I want you to go and buy Mercedes, certain model, okay? He goes, he goes to a showroom, he checks the Mercedes, it's expensive. I'm not talking about 20, 20, I'm talking about 19, like late parts of that, like 25, 30 plus years ago. Anyways, he went and he saw expensive, he saw it's expensive. Instead of inquiring to God before again he said okay, use God. You said buy this Mercedes and this model. Buy Mercedes, this model. So he goes out and buys used Mercedes and the same model but used previous years. And because he loved God, he didn't want to disobey God. He did God's part. Click. I did it. And then he did it. And one day the family was going in the car and they had. They met an accident. And in an accident his daughter died. Now I'm not talking about a person who is just a regular member. I'm talking about apostle of God who had a highest position in the land. His daughter was in the car. And when the accident happened, his daughter died. Now some people will give up their salvation and run away from God for this. This man was a mature man. But his one part in his mind was not renewed the way he thought.
Pastor Kirk
Wow, people will think if I have a Mercedes, this one. He didn't think right in that. I'm not knocking him down. I said to you before him, I set his testimony. I'm telling you he was the highest general of God. But it doesn't matter who you are, you are going through a same process of renewing your mind.
Pastor Nancy
And he didn't act on that.
Pastor Kirk
And what happened? His daughter died. And he went to God, inquired about.
Pastor Nancy
God and said God because he was crying. And God said to him, stop crying, why are you crying my daughter? He said, go and check the model and the Mercedes. I said you to Buy he went and checked. There was every single bell and whistle in there.
Pastor Kirk
There was every single thing that would have prevented her from being dead.
Pastor Nancy
God said, I knew this will happen. But I was trying to tell you.
Pastor Kirk
Buy this, not that you bought dead. Why?
Pastor Nancy
Because you thought what people will think now you suffer. It was God who brought suffering. No, his wrong thinking. God was leading him. He was leading him to a right place.
Pastor Kirk
Why? If he had not, if he had obeyed God.
Pastor Nancy
Who cares what people think?
Pastor Kirk
It's his money. Even if it's ministry car, who cares? That's why God spoke to Dr. Jerry that unless you are delivered from people's.
Pastor Nancy
Opinion, you will never progress in your ministry. Why the wrong thinking? Wrong thinking? Well, these are big ministers.
Pastor Kirk
What about us little people walking in the streets? What about us who are doing a regular thing?
Pastor Nancy
You can have a wrong thing in some other part.
Pastor Kirk
Don't leave unchecked.
Pastor Nancy
Don't leave unchecked because these little things can hurt you. Big future.
Congregation Member
Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
Pastor Nancy
His ministry is still there. His next to next generation is still working. And they have a biggest, one of the biggest ministries in the world. But one wrong thinking in his mind cost the life of his dear daughter whom he loved dearly. Dearly he loved her. It hurt him badly, but he was enough mature in his walk with God. He knew it is not God who has killed, it is Satan who came to steal him. It was because he knew.
Pastor Kirk
Because a lot of people, they say, oh, I don't know, God took it away. No, God didn't take it away, it was Satan. Because Jesus said, I came to give life.
Pastor Nancy
But Satan comes to steal, kill and destroy.
Pastor Kirk
He came. Why? Because he was not obedient to what God said. Why he was not obedient because his mind was not renewed. How people think about me. How people will treat me. How people will look at me. Because in India.
Pastor Nancy
Listen. India is a land where multiple religions are there.
Pastor Kirk
And those religions are run by people created by those people.
Pastor Nancy
They have images. That's why I said there is a fine line between worshipping men and honoring pastors.
Pastor Kirk
And those men are being worshipped. Those men are being treated as gods. Those men take the money and use it vulgar word.
Pastor Nancy
You can use whatever word you can use that way.
Pastor Kirk
And he knew that in those days there were not many big ministries in India. And he thought, if I take that car and take God's offer, I will be treated in that category and what people will think. But God was trying to change his thinking. God was trying to break that mold and break that so that next generation of preachers, next generation of Christians will follow him. And he said, no, God. And God said, I gave you a choice. I gave you a chance. Because I know what is coming in two years, what is coming in half year. I know what is coming. You don't see, but you need to follow.
Pastor Nancy
But his unrenewed mind cost the life of his daughter.
Congregation Member
Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
Pastor Kirk
So it behooves us that we want to be led by the spirit of God. But if the word of God is not in your mind, if the word of God has not washed your thinking, if you are not seeing the way God wants you to see, if you are not acting the way God wants you to act, if you are not washing it with the Word, he can be leading you, but you are not confident enough to step it. Why?
Pastor Nancy
Because you are thinking something.
Congregation Member
Hallelujah.
Pastor Nancy
He always leads.
Pastor Kirk
He always guides. His word is not his voice.
Pastor Nancy
That's why he said, my sheep hear my voice. It's not just you will hear.
Pastor Kirk
His voice means my sheep knows how I lead them. You know, people know. It's not hard. It's just our mentality that is tripping people. How I think about money, how I think about neighbors, how I think about church, how I these things have to be in line with how God thinks about his pastor.
Pastor Nancy
You should think about that pastor.
Pastor Kirk
How God thinks about the church.
Pastor Nancy
You should think about the church. How. How God thinks, you know, God thinks.
Pastor Kirk
Highly of his house.
Pastor Nancy
You have people have house. You live in house, right?
Pastor Kirk
How you think of your house?
Pastor Nancy
Great. Very good. Right? You don't want to mess up things there, right?
Pastor Kirk
You don't want to put things there. Why? Because that's your house. If I come to your house and spill, you will say, oh, that's fine. But when I'm gone, you'll say, scrub it, I missed it in my face. You may say, oh, that's okay, that's okay. But I know what will happen when back. Why? Because that's your house. You want to keep it clean, you want to keep it nice, you want to keep it tidy and perfectly. But what about the house of God? If you spill a coffee here, don't look around and say, nobody saw it. Just say to a cleaner, say, hey.
Pastor Nancy
Brother, my bad coffee spilled.
Pastor Kirk
Can you help me clean? We'll do it together and clean it. Don't say, nobody saw. And then go and stand on that.
Pastor Nancy
Corner and say, yes, I escaped. Nobody saw, nobody saw that if gum.
Pastor Kirk
Fell from your Mouth, that's fine, pick it up. It's your mouth, it's your saliva, it's your gum. Pick it up. Take it in the garbage. No. Oh, it's your.
Pastor Nancy
No.
Pastor Kirk
Why?
Pastor Nancy
Because it happened. It happens, it happens.
Pastor Kirk
Ms. Sharon, I was witness because she was scraping one day a gum from the back. I was like what's that? She's like, it's a gum.
Pastor Nancy
How you treat house of God?
Pastor Kirk
Why?
Pastor Nancy
Because people don't think the way God thinks about his house. He rebuked the entire generation through prophet Haggai about only one matter, how you are treating my house. Didn't he say to them, you are.
Pastor Kirk
Living in your mansions, you're living nice lives, you're living beautiful lives. But yet you don't understand that you sow and you don't reap. You are clothed, yet you are half naked. You do things, yet you are not successful. You know why? Because you are not treating my house properly. Then he said to them, go and do what I tell you to do and treat my house properly and I will make sure that your house is taken care of. And people went changed. Why? Because they said God we didn't know it was wrong thinking they changed, they.
Pastor Nancy
Changed and God brought increase to them.
Pastor Kirk
Listen, you can listen the word, you can laugh at the word only will.
Pastor Nancy
Benefit you if you accept and do the word. What is change it?
Pastor Kirk
Change the thinking, change the way you.
Pastor Nancy
Acting, change the way you're treating.
Congregation Member
Hallelujah.
Pastor Kirk
Hallelujah brother. You use the tissue in your home and you throw in your dust bin. And it didn't fell in the dust bin, it fell on the floor. What do you say? Leave it there. What do you do?
Pastor Nancy
You will go and pick it up.
Pastor Kirk
And put it there. That's fine, it's your bro anyways. Why we do in the house of God in the washrooms? Oh, because washroom nobody sees. But it is still the part of house of God he treats. People think, oh, this is the holy place. Listen, everything around it is holy because.
Pastor Nancy
This belongs to holy God.
Pastor Kirk
Because nobody saw you in the parking lot. You kept the Tim Hortons cup because you wanted to put in the garbage. And you didn't want it to keep the garbage in your car. No, you should. Why?
Pastor Nancy
Because it will help you guys.
Congregation Member
Hallelujah.
Pastor Nancy
What is this wrong thinking? What is this wrong thinking?
Pastor Kirk
Because we are not thinking the way.
Pastor Nancy
God thinks about his house.
Pastor Kirk
Unless you do that, you make those things, you tweak those things God will always like, okay, I love you.
Pastor Nancy
Listen, God loves you, God loves Sinners and you the same. But sinners are not led.
Pastor Kirk
You are privileged to be led.
Pastor Nancy
So take that privilege.
Pastor Kirk
Don't have the privilege and don't use it, but utilize that privilege.
Pastor Nancy
If you have the privilege, it will benefit you and your family.
Congregation Member
Hallelujah.
Pastor Kirk
So the mind is what trips people, because the mind is what is in.
Pastor Nancy
Between here and here.
Pastor Kirk
God lives here and speaks here.
Pastor Nancy
But unless this is renewed, this will never be able to come out of you and step into. You will always keep tripping here. Is it God? I don't think so. And you know what other people people do next? When they don't, are they not sure the next wrong thing the people do is they run to somebody and say, I want to talk to you. I want to talk to you and ask you. I am thinking about this. I'm praying, and I'm picking up this thing. Is it God? Is it God? Let's go to Galatians, first chapter. I don't have to finish on time. And I promise you that you will be out of this on time. I have to be on my word. No pressure. Galatians, first chapter and verse 16. He Galatians, first chapter, verse 16 and 17. He said Paul talking about his story. Okay, I cannot go back.
Pastor Kirk
What?
Pastor Nancy
You can go back one.
Pastor Kirk
But he said in 16 to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the Gentiles. I did not immediately confer with flesh and blood.
Pastor Nancy
The word confer here means consult.
Pastor Kirk
The confer word is advice.
Pastor Nancy
Can I. I'll show you from what it says and let me find man. The word confer here. Confer whatever you want to say.
Pastor Kirk
Yeah. It says to put oneself upon another.
Pastor Nancy
By going to him.
Pastor Kirk
Another word is take one into counsel, to consult, to seek advice.
Pastor Nancy
And the best one I like is middle voice.
Pastor Kirk
You don't want to put a middle voice between what God said to you and what you should do, because middle voice is trustworthy or not will determine.
Pastor Nancy
Where you end up.
Pastor Kirk
Paul said, I heard from God. And as soon as I heard from God, I didn't go to a person. I said, brother, do you think it's God? He said, you know what?
Pastor Nancy
Let me judge him. He went instead. The Bible says in 17th verse, nor.
Pastor Kirk
Did I go to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me, but I went to Arabia and returned to Damascus. What he's saying here, that when I heard from God, I didn't go to them and say, sister, judge by that. No, he said, I didn't go to apostles who were before me way before me, great people. I didn't go and talk to them and say, what do you think he said? Instead I went alone.
Pastor Nancy
Where does Arabia means desert, means lone place?
Pastor Kirk
Where he went in a lone place for what? To inquire more of God, to get it solidity, to get it more, more solid in him.
Pastor Nancy
I love Pastor Nancy in this. She said I'm never moved in rush. When she hears from God, she sits on it. That's why she never misses it. It's barely, you can tell in few years, in last 10 years, five years, eight years, whatever that she has missed. I'm not saying she never will miss, I'm just saying barely missing it.
Pastor Kirk
Why?
Pastor Nancy
Because when she hears, she says, I'll let it settle down. I let it settle down. I let it keep on rolling in me.
Pastor Kirk
Why? Because I don't need to go into people. Because God is in me. Holy Spirit is in me. He is the one who said, I will lead you, guide you, show you the things to come. He has said, my leading is for your prophet. He has said those things and I've heard something. And let, let me give it few days, let me settle it on it, let me sit on it. Whether this is from God or somebody else, let us sit. And when she sits, the more solid it gets into, more assurance comes. And then she's like, oh, this is.
Pastor Nancy
God, I'm moving in it.
Pastor Kirk
But here Paul is saying the same thing that when I, I didn't confer, I didn't consult, I didn't ask advice of I didn't do and go and say, oh, what do you think the most wrong thing you can do is if you're a young person, go to another young person and say, oh, what do you think? Can I marry her? Can I go to this college? Can I do this or can I do this business? You shouldn't. Why? Because you don't know what other person's mind is renewed or not even. And you are not led by another person's mind anyways to follow God's leading, you have to understand that it is coming from God. And for that you have to have alone time with God. For that you have to have a security in it that it is God.
Pastor Nancy
Who is speaking to me.
Pastor Kirk
I will not run to a person. That's the quick thing. What people miss it, they hear it, they run next morning, oh, by the way, I heard this breathing.
Pastor Nancy
You want to know what they think.
Pastor Kirk
But you didn't know what they think at all.
Pastor Nancy
You want to take their advice.
Pastor Kirk
And the worst thing you can do is you can pray in the night and something comes up into your spirit. And you can go to work in the morning and sitting on your neighbor's desk who is not a Christian at all, and start sharing with them what.
Pastor Nancy
The holy things of God.
Pastor Kirk
And you expect God to lead you.
Pastor Nancy
And guide you and show you the things?
Pastor Kirk
No. Learn from Paul. Paul said, I didn't consult them, I didn't confer with them. Though I knew, these apostles are greater than me, these apostles are mighty than me. These apostles were with Jesus. I was persecuting them, I was against them. But these men are ahead of me in spiritual things. But still, you know what?
Pastor Nancy
I will not go to them. I'll go alone with God, alone and make it sure this is solid in me. Go read in the next. Actually, next chapter says. In second chapter and second chapter says.
Pastor Kirk
Then after 14 years, I went up.
Pastor Nancy
To Jerusalem with Barnabas and also took Titus with me.
Pastor Kirk
And I went up by Revelation.
Pastor Nancy
Listen, Revelation is what when God shows you.
Pastor Kirk
He said, I went with revelation. He didn't go because I thought, that's a good idea. I thought, it's okay, I should do it. Maybe so and so did it. I should do it. No, he didn't do any. He didn't copy anything. Because leading of the Holy Ghost cannot be copied. It's not a copy paste thing that you can say, oh, this happened to him will happen to me. No, he didn't do that. He said, okay, I heard from God. Let me make it sure this is it. And after so many years, he said, I went with so and so two friends and went to Jerusalem. And when I went, I went by revelation and communicated to them with the gospel which I was preaching. I privately to those who were of reputation less by any means.
Pastor Nancy
I went and run means. First he heard from God in first chapter and then he made it solid in him.
Pastor Kirk
Then in after years, he went to the others.
Pastor Nancy
He didn't go to consult. If you read the word in Greek, it says, I went to declare. There's a difference between updating. There's a difference between consulting. There's a difference between declaring.
Congregation Member
Hallelujah, Hallelujah.
Pastor Nancy
He didn't consult with anybody. He consulted with God.
Pastor Kirk
He had enough time with God to.
Pastor Nancy
Make sure this is from God.
Pastor Kirk
When he had made sure this is from God, his mind was renewed enough, he didn't go up to them and said, what do you think by the way? He said to them, what I am.
Pastor Nancy
Doing is this thing.
Pastor Kirk
Now you tell me, are you doing the Same thing.
Pastor Nancy
He was declaring.
Pastor Kirk
Declaring means with authority, with assurance, with a commanding position.
Congregation Member
Hallelujah.
Pastor Nancy
You can make a big mistake if.
Pastor Kirk
Your mind is unrenewed.
Pastor Nancy
Go to another person and ask them first of all.
Pastor Kirk
Or go to pastor and update them. By the way, I prayed last month.
Pastor Nancy
For two hours and by the way, I'm marrying so and so would you bless me?
Congregation Member
Hallelujah.
Pastor Kirk
Either you have solid like Paul has.
Pastor Nancy
Or if you are not solid, go right away.
Pastor Kirk
To who?
Pastor Nancy
To your pastor.
Pastor Kirk
If it's a major decision, don't go after him and say I was grocery from this store.
Pastor Nancy
What do you think?
Pastor Kirk
I've heard bad news from them. Should I go back to that?
Pastor Nancy
No, no, no, no, no.
Pastor Kirk
It's a big thing. Should I move here? Should I apply here? It can change my direction of the whole home, my family, my marriage, all those things.
Pastor Nancy
What do you think, sir?
Pastor Kirk
That's a different story. But little things you shouldn't be.
Congregation Member
Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
Pastor Kirk
So that's why you have to have.
Pastor Nancy
To have to make sure your mind is being renewed. Mind is being renewed. Mind is being renewed.
Pastor Kirk
Because if your mind is being renewed, being washed by the water of God, by the. By the word of God, by. The Bible says that he restores my soul. The Bible says the word is the one Paul David said restores my soul. What is restoring means?
Pastor Nancy
What is restoring means that what was.
Pastor Kirk
Not in this condition, he makes it in this condition. You go restore your so fast. You go restore. Restore your certain things which are precious to you. You can go to restore means. It was not in this position. It was in this position but became this. But I wanted to turn it this way. So he restores what restores God. What is God? His word restores my soul. He said it is the incorruptible seed who has the power to save my soul. My mind means it is the only.
Pastor Nancy
Way that can change my mind.
Pastor Kirk
No amount of praying, no amount of coming to church, no amount of anything. You come to church one day, Sunday, two hours and out of two hours, 45 to one hour is a preaching announcement doesn't change your life.
Pastor Nancy
We have few this evening too.
Pastor Kirk
They don't change your mind. The Word of God changes your mind. If you get the word of God only 45 minutes in one week, what you expect to be led by the God and you have a decision of mountain to make.
Congregation Member
Hallelujah.
Pastor Kirk
So what you should do I've been praying every day I'll do is I'll.
Pastor Nancy
Put word first and then pray Word first and then pray. Word and pray. Word and pray.
Pastor Kirk
Because you are washing your mind also. You.
Pastor Nancy
You are praying also.
Pastor Kirk
You are washing your mind also. You are pulling it out of that too. You are washing your mind also. Because once you are pulling because you are praying, it will come up. It will come up. Whether you renew your mind or not, it will come up. But if it's not renewed, you will.
Pastor Nancy
Not know what to do.
Pastor Kirk
But if it's renewing also same time, and you're picking it up, renewing and pulling it out by praying in the spirit, what will happen when that answer come? In 5 days, 15 days, 1 month.
Pastor Nancy
2 years, you will know what to do. Boom. And then that will happen to you.
Congregation Member
Hallelujah.
Pastor Nancy
So what is. I'll quote you, brother Big guy. Brother Ed Canyon. He said, as our minds are renewed.
Pastor Kirk
He didn't say Christian. He said as our.
Pastor Nancy
It means like. What do you call takli? I don't know, man. Those English words.
Pastor Kirk
As per. As your minds are renewed, that devil.
Pastor Nancy
Is no longer a problem to us.
Pastor Kirk
For the knowledge of word reveals us.
Pastor Nancy
Our complete victory and his utter defeat. That's Ed Canyon.
Pastor Kirk
He said, as our minds are renewed, he is defeated, you are victorious. But if your mind is not renewed.
Pastor Nancy
You will never walk in that victory.
Pastor Kirk
You will walk in his defeat for life. Why? Because your mind doesn't know what to do. But if your mind is renewed and you understand what the spirit of God and the word of God is telling you is that you are a victorious one and he's a defeated one, this is the complete victory for us. He said, as per. As your minds are renewed, the devil.
Pastor Nancy
Is no longer a problem to you. He cannot be a problem to you.
Pastor Kirk
But sometimes people say, oh, devil, it's not always devil. It.
Pastor Nancy
It's our unrenewed mind. It's our unrenewed mind.
Pastor Kirk
Renewing our mind and exercising our faith.
Pastor Nancy
Makes us intelligent, Victor. That's what Pastor Nancy quoted again, E.W. kenyon.
Pastor Kirk
She said, renewing our mind and exercising.
Pastor Nancy
Our faith makes us intelligent, Victor.
Congregation Member
Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
Pastor Nancy
Amen. Don't run after minds of men. First Corinthians, chapter second says that God has prepared things for us. Right? God has prepared things for us.
Pastor Kirk
And we don't know what those things are. Only those things can come out of him into us, our life, by praying in spirit, by speaking not with the.
Pastor Nancy
Wisdom of men, but the wisdom of God, by praying in spirit.
Pastor Kirk
So don't run after men's wisdom. Don't run after men's. Minds don't run after those things because.
Pastor Nancy
Men'S minds are troubled minds.
Pastor Kirk
They rehearse thoughts. They do those things which will not.
Pastor Nancy
Benefit you at all. So run to God, like Paul said. I ran. I found out and I didn't go.
Pastor Kirk
And consult anybody, flesh or blood, because.
Pastor Nancy
Flesh is always carnality, he said. I didn't consult with any flesh, with any anybody, but I stayed here with alone God until it became a surety. And after that I went and declared what I know.
Congregation Member
Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
Pastor Nancy
So remember that your mind being renewed is your weapon.
Congregation Member
Hallelujah.
Pastor Nancy
Unrenewed mind is a. Is a minus in us. It's a loss for us. You being spirit filled, carrying unrunning mind. Oh Father, I bless them in Jesus name. I thank you for their lives, my father. I thank you for Pastor Ken and Pastor Jenny and Father for the honor you have bestowing upon them, Father. And thank you Father that you are lifting them up and up and higher.
Pastor Kirk
And closer to that anointing that will.
Pastor Nancy
Help not only them, but this ministry also and these people also, Father. So Lord, let this word gone into their minds and to their hearts produce from produce. And let you and none other be glorified in this. In Jesus name we say amen.
Podcast: Promise of Life Church Podcasts
Episode Date: July 19, 2024
Speaker: Rev. Harpreet Khosa (with contributions from Pastor Nancy and Pastor Kirk)
Main Theme:
This episode centers on demystifying the process of being led by the Holy Spirit, making it approachable and practical for every believer. It emphasizes the necessity of renewing one’s mind with the Word of God in order to clearly discern and follow divine guidance, showing that spiritual leading is easy—if one’s thoughts and attitudes are aligned with God’s truth.
On the Need for a Renewed Mind:
On the Dangers of Wrong Thinking:
On Guidance and Consulting Others:
The episode compellingly argues that being led by the Spirit is accessible, practical, and intended for every Christian, provided they commit to the continuous renewal of their mind through God’s Word. Daily devotion, honest self-reflection, and a commitment to God’s perspective—rather than people’s opinions—are the building blocks for clear spiritual direction and victorious Christian living.
“As your minds are renewed, the devil is no longer a problem to you.” – E.W. Kenyon (44:06)