2022
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Fellowship Project: Blog Posting
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Discuss:
1. Discuss how the Spirit of God can reveal things concerning yourself, your friends, your family, and the time you live in today.
2. Discuss how you have to be willing to pray against the things you know you can change. You can speak to mountains, and they'll be removed.
3. Talk about how the Holy Spirit is the one who reveals the Father to us, and He wants to show Himself to us and help us understand the Spirit of God.
4. Pray with one another and for anyone with specific needs or prayer requests.
“But I will send you the Advocate—the Spirit of truth. He will come to you from the Father and will testify all about me.
John 15:26 NLT
DISCUSSION:
The Spirit wants to come in and help you in every way, but one of the things that we lose the emphasis on is that we are in need. We are constantly surviving. We have to get out of that mentality. The only way to do that is to show yourself friendly and show yourself to the Holy Spirit as one who wants to be a friend. The Holy Spirit will start to reveal Himself to you and cause you to understand how the things of the Spirit work, and this will put you over and give you an edge against the enemy.
You've got to have an edge against the enemy. The only way that you can do that is to deal with him spiritually. The Holy Spirit is the master of his realm, which is the spirit realm.
The Holy Spirit is the expert, the one that you need to be friends with but make yourself friendly. How I do it is I treat Him just like He is. He is a person, and He is part of the Trinity. I'm going to love and respect Him, and I'm going to ask Him for help all the time. The Lord wants to reveal Himself to us, but it's by the Spirit. The Spirit Himself has been given, and that's the one we have right now on the earth. I mean, Jesus and the Father are in Heaven, and the Spirit is here on the earth with us.
1 Corinthians 2:10 NLT:
But it was to us that God revealed these things by his Spirit. For his Spirit searches out everything and shows us God’s deep secrets.
I know that over the years, in the 43 years at the time of this Warrior Fellowship, I've been walking with the Lord. I think about when the Holy Spirit came into my life and when I got born again. I was shocked that I had lived 19 years and didn't know that I needed to be born again of the Spirit of God. I was so shocked that I'd been to church several times a week. All my life I was tithing, donating of my time, cleaning the church, and cutting the grass at the church. It's just profound what I was doing, yet I did understand that salvation wasn't all these good works. When I found out that the Spirit of God is the one who gives you salvation by causing you to be born again then the revelation started coming, and it gifts of the Spirit started to manifest.
Then, I got baptized in the Holy Spirit, which is a separate encounter, according to scripture. In the book of Acts, people that were saved by believing in Jesus were born again. Then when they were asked, have you received the Holy Spirit? They said we didn't even know that there was a Holy Spirit. They were explained that and then they received the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues right off the bat. It had not been explained to them that they needed to speak in tongues. They said that you need to receive the Holy Spirit after the born-again experience.
I received that, and then the revelation and the gifts of Spirit just started to flow. I remembered thinking to myself, “what have I been doing?” Yet I was really thankful that, yes, for the first 19 years of my life, 18 years of my life, I didn't really have a clue. I was thankful that at a very young age I was able to come into the Spirit of God and the salvation of Jesus Christ and understand these things. It was a shock to me that people spend a lot of time in church, they do a lot of good things for others, and they do things for God, yet they don't know that the Spirit of God is the one who has been given to help us and cause us to be re-created as new creations in Christ.
The thing that you need to start to look at in your own life is that, yes, maybe you've had what I call bumper car faith, where you just run into something, you're bumping into things, and then you find out something about God or something about the Spirit of God or something about yourself, but there is an intention in the realms of God, in the realms of the Spirit. There's an intention, there are strategies, and there are ways of doing things. God wants you to be on track, and there are things right there for you. You don't have to think about the past and think about wasting time. No matter what age you are or where you're at in life, we can just right now have a total reset and get things right, and then allow the Spirit from now on to reveal Himself. He wants to be your friend. He wants to help you discover who you are and what the plan of God is for your life. He shows us deep secrets that would not have been there, would not have been revealed if it wasn't for Him showing you. These deep secrets were always there, but I didn't see them.
To me, they weren't there. So they wouldn't have been able to come to my understanding if it wasn't for Him. And yet I wasn't introduced to Him properly in church. So be aware of this, that just because you go to church, your church may not even believe in these things that are in the Bible. And I was shocked at how many churches don't preach the right thing.
That's why we're doing these fellowships and these Bible studies every week, so at least you can get something because I feel the burden and really the loss for what the churches I went to didn't show me, and it wasn't until later on in life that I found places that do believe and teach like this. We have Warrior Fellowships just to help all of you to at least get some understanding and maybe increase your spiritual sensitivity and the temperature and your understanding of Jesus Christ. So, you can receive these things by the Spirit. He has secrets that you don't even know about, but He can tell you, and then He can show you, and then you can start to participate in that knowledge which is going to cause manifestation. That’s what it's all about. It's really about the fact that God's word became flesh and dwelt among us and Jesus was a manifestation of the Father.