No matter how much we know, or thing we know about God and his Word, there is
always more. Today on Always More, Rebecca Keener discusses how
the Holy Spirit is relevant to our everyday lives. He is the one who is our
comforter in times of need and gives us the power to live a victorious life.
Now, here's Rebecca.
Hello everybody.
Welcome to Always More, I'm Rebecca Keener and we're continuing in our
study on the Holy Spirit. And today's lesson is
the Holy Spirit is our strengthener. Let's have a word of prayer
and we'll get right into our lesson. Lord, in Jesus name, we thank you
so much for this time that we've been able to spend in your word and learn more
and more about the Holy Spirit. I pray, Lord for those that are
watching today or this evening, whenever they're watching,
Father that you would bless them, bless their homes, and bless this word,
Lord, that they will receive your strength and your blessing
and your empowerment, in Jesus name we pray, amen.
Amen, thank you so much for being with us
today. Our text is in John 14 and 16, and I'll
just begin reading there and I'm reading out of the Amplified Version.
And it says this, "And I will ask the Father
and he will give you another Comforter." And that word
"comforter" is actually the word "paraclete" in the Greek
which means, and the Amplified Version will break it down for you,
I have a side-by-side King James-Amplified Version. So in the
Amplified side it says that "Comforter means
counselor, helper, intercessor, advocate,
strengthener, and standby. So, all of those
facets we have taken the past few weeks just to look at
what does that mean that the Holy Spirit is our Counselor? What does it mean
that he is our Helper? What does it mean that he is our
Advocate? What does it mean that he is our
Standby? All of those different facets of the Holy Spirit we've
taken a look at. So, those notes are on the Always
More blog, alwaysmoretv.org, and then
you can go back one by one, we're posting these lessons
on YouTube, so you can follow right along.
So, we see that comforter or paraclete means all of these different
facets of the Holy Spirit's personality.
And then it goes on to say, Jesus said that, "He, the Holy Spirit,
may remain with you forever."
And then Verse 16, "The Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot
receive," or welcome, or take to its heart, "because it does not
see him," it does not know him or recognize him.
"But you know, you know, and will
recognize him for he lives with you constantly
and he'll be in you." So, we see here that the Holy Spirit
is with us and he is in us.
He's with me right here today, speaking to you,
he's with you and he is
permeating and filling your life just like he's permeating and filling my life.
And that is the amazing thing about the Holy Spirit!
And the bible says that we know in part, we only know just
a little bit about him and we see through a glass
darkly, Paul said. But, you know, one day
we're gonna see Jesus face-to-face and one day we're gonna be
with God the Father and we'll be
together with the Holy Spirit, all together
in our new heavenly home, praise God, I'm so thankful
for that. And if you haven't received Jesus Christ as your Lord
and Savior, that is your ticket
to be able to spend eternity in heaven and you want to make sure
that you give your life to Jesus Christ so that you
can live as days is heaven on earth here with the Holy Spirit,
on this earth and in all the years
to come, eternity to come. So, we see here
and back to our lesson, the Holy Spirit is our
Strengthener, that the definition for strengthener there
in that particular context is: a device designed to provide
additional strength, additional strength. And we
know that the Holy Spirit is not a device, a Holy Spirit
is not an "it", we've talked about that before, that
there's even songs out, "Send it on down, Send it down, Lord,
let your Holy Ghost come on down." The Holy Spirit, I understand the intent
of that particular song, but the Holy Spirit is a person.
He is part of the Triune, the
Trinity: God the Father, God the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
Three in one, three separate
entities, yet one; three separate
personalities, yet one. And one doesn't
contradict the other, they're all in perfect
synchronized unity moving together in our life.
Isn't that an amazing thought to think about?
So, God sent the Holy Spirit to give us
additional strength, you might wanna say that with me today, and even
write that down: additional strength. Some of you watching today
are needing additional strength. Maybe you're facing
some health challenges, financial challenges, relationship
challenges, challenges on the job, whatever it may be,
and you need additional strength.
Well we find that additional strength through the power of the Holy Spirit.
I love the verse in
Philippians 4:13, and you know this verse, "I can do
all things through Christ who strengthens me."
And that word means to empower or
to enable. And if you look at a word study
there on that particular word, who "strengthens", that is
actually a word that means the power of resisting
an attack. Because we know that we wrestle not against flesh and
blood but against powers and principalities and rulers of darkness,
and that's the enemies job here on this earth as
the prince of the power of the air is to release as
much as he can: hatred, murder, strife, envy.
All the works of darkness, that's his, that's his
whole motive in life is to do as much damage. The bible
says he came to kill, to steal, to destroy. Those are his
three things: kill, steal, and destroy. And so,
we need the strength of the Holy Spirit to empower
us or to enable us to resist his attack.
Just like James says, he says, "Submit yourself
to God," first and foremost, that's the first step we do, we submit our self to God
resist the devil and he'll flee. In other words, you
gonna put him on the run. And I believe
somebody watching today, you've been needing the strength of the
Holy Spirit and you're gonna put the enemy on the run
today! Amen! With his word and by the blood of
Jesus. You know the bible says that
we overcome Satan by the
blood of Jesus and the word of our testimony, those two things.
And so, we have not been left here just vulnerable
to the attacks of the enemy but we have the strength of
the Holy Spirit. We have the power of the Holy
Spirit, we have the anointing of the Holy Spirit,
we have the weapons of our warfare that are not
carnal, in other words they're not flesh and blood, they're not guns, they're not knives,
they're not whatever, bombs. Our weapons
are not carnal but they are mighty, mighty, mighty,
mighty, mighty; you need to say that out loud today right where you're sitting and
encourage yourself in the Lord. They are mighty, through God,
there's the key, through God to the
pulling down of strongholds. So, we remind our self of
the Word and we remind our self of the
fact that he is our Strength.
Now, I'll just share with you, just personally for me, we launched Always More
we're on our tenth program today, we launched it in May,
this is May of 2018. And in that particular
month we had three family members in the hospital,
at the same time! And
it was the same week that the first
program aired of Always More. We had
numerous other challenges that happened and kind of
hit our family which was very overwhelming,
very overwhelming to me. And you know, any time
you are making any kind of headway for the Lord or for
the kingdom of God here on this earth, you're gonna be resisted
by the enemy. He's going to try to
distract you, he's gonna try to disrupt you, he's gonna try to
harass you, he's gonna try to stop you, provoke you. Again,
he came to kill, to steal, and destroy.
And so, what we have to do in times like and
in times like what we just experienced with our family, is just lean
in harder to the Holy Spirit, draw upon his
harder and just say, you know, we studied a few weeks back how the
Holy Spirit is our Helper. Sometimes we just need to, several
times throughout the day, just say, "Help me, Holy Spirit. You gotta help me here,
you gotta help me, help me Lord, help me, Holy Spirit!
Your Word says you're my Helper, help us!" And so, we just cry out
to him and we lean into him in those times
of attack, when the enemy is
really trying to clip us at our knees and he's trying to stop
the advancement of the kingdom of God in your life
and my life and in the body of Christ.
You know, there's so many times in the bible
that we read about strength, and I'm just gonna give you some scripture
just to wash over you and encourage you today about how
the Lord is our strength. In Psalms
1 through 3, David talked about, "God is our
refuge and our strength," you know this verse, "and our ever,"
I hear you at home, you sound good, "ever present
help in time of trouble." And you know,
America's in a time of trouble, the world is in a time of
trouble right now. We know that it's the end times, we are in
the last of the last days, we believe, where the
spirit of the anti-christ, I'm not saying the anti-christ, but his spirit
is rampant upon the earth, evil is waxing more
and more and we need to know that God is our refuge.
He's our place we can run and when we get in that refuge,
he is our strength. Amen!
In Proverbs 8 and 10, it says, "The name
of the Lord is a strong tower," not just a
tower but a strong tower. And it says, "The righteous
run into it and are safe." You are safe! You
are safe behind the name of Jesus. I've told my
sons this through the years of them growing up, you know, we would teach
them how, according to Matthew 18
and 19, that says, "Whatsoever you bind on
earth shall be bound in heaven, whatsoever you loose on earth shall be loosed in
heaven," that when you bind the enemy, you do it in the name
of Jesus! We don't use any other name,
there is no other name in heaven and in earth, the bible says, by which
men can be saved! That we have to resist
the enemy, almost his name is like a shield, you hold it
up in front of you like that, and the enemy just has to
fall back and flee. Amen? That's what we call resisting the
enemy and James says he will flee. So, use
the name of Jesus, the name of Jesus.
At the name of Jesus, every knee will bow, every tongue shall confess
that he is Lord. Amen!
I love the scripture Nehemiah 8 and 10 that says,
"The joy of the Lord is our strength," but the beginning
of that verse says, "Grieve no more." Grieve no more.
And if I'm speaking to you today and maybe you've lost a loved one or lost
a job or lost a friend, or lost a home,
lost a car, whatever the case may be, a relationship,
I just speak to you by the Holy Spirit, today,
grieve no more, amen! Grieve no
more, there's a time of grieving, there's a time where we have to allow
the Holy Spirit to heal us. But you know what, that verse goes on to
say in Nehemiah 8 and 10, "For the
joy of the Lord is your strength."
That verse didn't say the joy of the Lord is our laughter,
it didn't say the joy of our Lord is our happiness, it didn't say
the joy of the Lord is our fulfillment; it says
the joy of the Lord is our strength! Now,
if you look up that particular word in Nehemiah 8 and 10, strength
means a military fortress. Amen!
That when you keep your job, you take off your grave clothes
of grieving, of mourning, of being
sad, of being depressed; you decide, you choose
to take life. You decide to
take joy, then the Lord becomes your strength
and he is that military fortress around you
to shield you, to stop the
enemy in his tracks before he can even get to you.
I love that! And you know, joy of the Lord
is the second fruit mentioned in Galatians
in the fruit of the Spirit. Amen!
So, Paul knew something there, that joy is essential and it is important
to our strength in our walk in the Lord and
walking in his strength, in his wholeness.
Isaiah 40 and 29 says this,
it says, "He gives strength to the weary and he
increases the power of the weak." Amen!
Whenever we are weak, he is strong.
And I just have to remind myself of that at times. When I'm going through times of
attack, maybe financial attacks or attacks
in my marriage, attacks in my health, whatever the
situation may be, I have to remind myself, I'm not
relying on my own strength or trying to psych myself up
or pump myself up or build myself up to do the work of the Lord,
that you know, in our own human strength,
we're very, very weak; but when the
anointing of the Holy Spirit comes on you, he makes us
supernaturally strong. And you know, I thought
about in America, we're kind of obsessed with
movies about, you know, superheroes. We love
superheros and hearing about superheros,
the Avengers and Star Wars, you know,
the fight against between good and evil and darkness and
light and, you know, you're always wanting the
light, the good guy to win. And you think about
the Incredibles, that's a big
movie out now that everybody loves, a little cartoon about
the Incredibles and this family that has super-powers, they're superheros
they're super-strong and they're able to do supernatural feats.
Well, you know what? That's who you are, that's who
your family is, you're like an Incredible because you have
supernatural strength in the power of the Holy
Spirit who comes on you; when you're weak,
he is strong. Isn't that great to know?
And some of you watching today, maybe you are weak
in your body and you're battling illness, I don't know what your
situation may be, but I speak strength to you, in the name of the
Lord Jesus Christ of Nazareth. And if you're at home today and maybe you
have been depressed or you have been down and out,
you've been oppressed, which is spirit of heaviness,
you know, the bible says that we're to put on the
garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness. God has given us
clothing that we're supposed to put on
in order to receive our strength. And so, we put on that garment
that robe of praise around us
and lift up our hands, when we don't even feel like. Sometimes you may have to
even get somebody to lift your hands for you, maybe even if you're
in a situation where you can't lift your hands. Lift your hands or lift
your spirit to the Lord and just
believe that you are receiving that robe, that robe
of praise and it's taking that heaviness off of you
that's trying to weigh you down and depress you and rob you of
your strength. Because God wants you strong, he needs you strong
in these last days. And he needs every single one of
us in our place doing what he called us to do. Not
feeling sorry for our self, not isolating away from other
people, not sitting at home in offense or hurt or
brokenness or bitterness; no, he needs us strong!
We are in the last days so just shake yourself, if you're in that
situation today or maybe you've been grieving for a long
period of time. Maybe you lost your spouse and trying to just
overcome that and get past that and come into
a new season. By the power of the Holy Spirit, I speak
to you today, Come out! Come out of that grief
come out of that depression, come out of that oppression, come out of that
heaviness and receive the robe, the robe, the robe
of praise and joy and laughter
and the Lord's strength. You know, the bible says we put on that
full armor every day, even when I don't feel like it.
Even before I came today to talk to you, I put on that
armor of God because I know, you see, that's my super-suit.
Just like the Incredibles in that little movie or any kind of superhero
movie, they put on a super-suit. Well, see that's a picture
of what the Lord has provided for us in his
Word, to give us his strength. We put on the Holy
Spirit, amen! And I'm feeling his strength now,
I pray you are too. Ephesians 6 and 10-, Paul
said, "Finally," finally, finally, in other words
he's saying, finally, after everything Paul went through:
shipwreck, being bitten by a snake, and beaten, and
imprisoned, and everything that he had gone through. He said,
"Finally, bothers, be strong, be strong
in the Lord and in the power of his
might." It's not like we're trying to drum up strength and "Ohhh!
I just hope I can be strong in the Lord. I'm just trying my best!"
No, see when the Holy Spirit comes, it is his
enablement, that's what that word means in Ephesians 6, strong means
to enable or to make strong. It's God who's making
you strong, it's the Holy Spirit who is your strengthener
and making you strong. In Mark 12 and 20,
Jesus said this, he said, "Love the Lord
your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your
strength." He could've said with all your eyes,
with all your mouth, with all your money, with all your
home, with all your family; but no, he said with all
your strength! And that word means forcefulness
or ability. Forcefulness or ability.
See, when we're strong in the Lord, we're a force to be
reckoned with; you are a force to be reckoned with.
You are valuable to the kingdom of God, you are
lethal to the devil because you are a force of strength against hell
and the gates of hell shall not prevail against us.
Amen! I hope you're receiving this today.
Acts 1 and 8 says that you will receive power
when the Holy Spirit comes on you. Now, we've heard that verse before
that word power means "dunamis,"
and that word means it's a physical power, a physical
power, not just a spiritual power but a physical power. Amen!
That's why Elijah was able to take off running and
run past the chariots is because a physical force, a physical
power, a dunamis power, came on him.
It also means force, might, ability,
energy, and it also
implied powerful deeds. You will be able to
do exploits and deeds and things that you can't do in your natural strength.
Amen! There is no way any of can accomplish
anything in the spiritual without supernatural
strength and power. And all of this dunamis
came during Pentecost when the disciples were
waiting, the bible says, in the Upper Room and the Holy Spirit came.
And I love what David Wilkerson said from the
author of "The Cross and the Switchblade" about Pentecost, he said,
"Pentecost stands for power and for life.
That's what came into the church when the Holy Spirit came
down the day of Pentecost." So, see in this
age, after Jesus' ascension and he released the Holy Spirit upon
the earth, we now have at our
ability to receive his
strength. Amen! Ephesians 3:18 says,
"Be strengthened with the power through his Holy Spirit."
In your inner man, in your spirit, amen,
receive his strength. That word "ininer-man" means your inner makeup.
Your strength means to
increase in vigor, to wax strong. Those of you who are in your
70's and 80's, receive the strength of the Lord, that you are increasing
in vigor. Say, "I am increasing in vigor
and in strength." Amen! Now,
the Holy Spirit is like a trainer and he's going
to make us stronger and so you look for places.
When things come at you, watch and see; become
sensitive to the Holy Spirit. I'm trying to grow in this!
And watch him make me stronger.
And you know what, that's the thing, no matter what comes at us,
God is working all things together for our
good, you see, because the Holy Spirit, whatever the enemy tires to
throw at us, the Holy Spirit takes that to make us even
stronger. And strength comes through the word
and through prayer. It comes by learning to rest,
not striving, but learning just to rest in the Lord and flow in the
Holy Spirit and allow him to lead us in
his gentle way. There are some strength-stealers, though.
When we are prayerless, that's like not working out,
you know, we have to workout to get our muscles strong; well, when we don't pray
we don't sense the strength and the power of
the Holy Spirit. Now reading the Word, which that's our
nutrition and getting in the Word. When we lose our joy,
when we focus on our self and self-pity.
And you know, we're in an age of that now where everybody's taking selfies,
everybody's looking at themself, taking a picture, holding the phone up
of themself in the mirror. Self, self, self!
Well see, the Holy Spirit's wanting to redirect our
focus not on ourself, but on him. Amen, because he
is trying to say, "This is where your strength comes from."
Whenever we're just focusing and feeding on carnality
worldly noise, worldly music, TV, radio,
entertainment, shopping; and we have no spiritual
nutrition, we lose our strength. Amen?
So, I wanna encourage you today, I wanna encourage you in the Lord,
if you need strength today, this program was for you
to know and to be reminded that the Holy Spirit is
your strengthener. He is the one, just say right there where you
are now, "Holy Spirit, give me your strength.
I need it, fill me with your power, fill me with
your might. Give me your dunamis power to do
great exploits for the kingdom of God!" Amen!
Now, if you prayed that prayer, I know the Holy Spirit is speaking to you
and if you have never given your life to Jesus Christ, that's the first step.
Give your life to him, say, "Lord, take my life. Forgive me of
my sins and do something mighty with my life. Give me strength
give me strength!" And he will do it.
I'm so glad you joined us today. I was thinking of that verse in Ephesians
where we are to be filled with the Holy Spirit
and as we're looking at each of these facets about the Holy
Spirit, we are becoming more and more filled
with knowledge of him, with his Holy Spirit. And that
reminder that we don't have to do things in our own ability,
in our own strength. He's not left us here, the bible says, as orphans just to
wander around. No! He has given us his
precious Holy Spirit. And you know, no matter how much we know,
no matter how much we think we know about God and his Word,
there is always more. I'm so glad that you
tuned in and if you missed any of our lessons, feel free to go
to alwaysmoretv.org and check out some of our
videos on YouTube, you can look at the notes from our past lessons,
and just meditate on the power of Holy Spirit.
He loves you, God loves you, we love you and
may the Lord be with you. We'll see you next time on Always More.
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