Sunday, December 26, 2010

The Helper - Vision vs. Dream (notes)

The Helper - Vision vs. Dream

Joel 2:28

And afterward, I will pour out My Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions. 29 Even on My servants, both men and women, I will pour out My Spirit in those days.

Son Life’s Vision is to reach the lost hurting people in this area with the Good News of Jesus and to see them grow into strong followers of the Lord and His Word.

As We Prepare to enter a new season as a church let’s prepare ourselves for a great outpouring of the Spirit followed by supernatural visions and dreams. Prophecy will be very accurate and very powerful in our lives as God begins to reveal what He will do in our future and the future of the planet.

James Ryle

  • Told us when he spoke here that the difference between a vision and a dream is that when we dream we are asleep.
  • I recommend His Book “A Dream Come True.”
  • God is speaking through pictures in our minds-either when we are sleeping or awake.

I Believe there is a difference between visions and dreams.

With vision I can see where I am going while with a dream I know where I am going.

Principles

There is a difference between visions and dreams

  1. With vision I see the path in front of me. Vision gives guidance. Vision gives one a sense of direction.
  2. With a dream I see the end of the journey. A dream gives assurance. A dream gives one a sense of purpose.

People

  • With Vision see things that people without vision cannot see.
  • With a dream lead others to embrace their dream to the point that it becomes their dream also. This is what leadership does.

Everyone needs visions and dreams they can believe in for when life is hard. Vision gives us the stamina to overcome hard times.

Young People see visions because it is a characteristic of youth. Young people are visionary and when they come to Jesus the Holy Spirit gives them the ability to dream for their future.

As A 20 Year Old I was given a dream to establish a church that would reach the un-churched. Then God brought a young woman into my life, who joined her dream with me and now for over 30 years we have seen many un-churched people come to know Jesus as their Savior.

The Helper - Vision vs. Dream

The Helper - Vision vs. Dream this message was given on 12-26-10

Saturday, December 18, 2010

The Helper - The Messiah (notes)

The Helper - The Messiah

John 16:8-15

The Spirit will come and show the people of this world the truth about sin and God’s justice and the judgment. The Spirit will show them that they are wrong about sin, because they didn’t have faith in Me. They are wrong about God’s justice, because I am going to the Father, and you won’t see Me again. And they are wrong about the judgment, because God has already judged the ruler of this world.

The Holy Spirit shows what is true and will come and guide you into the full truth. The Spirit doesn’t speak on His own. He will tell you only what He has heard from Me, and He will let you know what is going to happen. The Spirit will bring glory to Me by taking My message and telling it to you.

Why Did Jesus Come?

  • To destroy the works of the devil. Sin is behind all the evil in the world and it was the devil who introduced sin to man.
  • Part of works of the devil is sickness. Part of the works of the devil is sin and sin is the result of believing the lies of the devil.

People Who do not believe in sin don’t believe in sin because they do not have faith in who Jesus is. Jesus is God, the Savior of the world and the coming King. Jesus was born of a virgin, lived a sinless life, was executed without sin, rose from the dead, ascended to heaven and sent the Holy Spirit.

The Works

  • Of the devil is sin and what sin does. Because of sin there is sickness, death, immorality, poverty, sorrow, pain, strife and misery.
  • The root of all suffering in the world is sin. When we sin or when someone sins against us. Anyone who does right is good, just like Christ. Anyone who keeps on sinning belongs to the devil, he has sinned from the beginning but the Son of God came to destroy all that he has done.

Principles

  1. A life of habitual sin demonstrates who people belong to--the devil.
  2. Whoever does right does it because he is good.
  3. Jesus came to destroy sin. Sin produces separation from God, sickness, and misery.
  4. God’s children cannot keep on being sinful. It is no longer our nature to sin because we are new creations.
  5. You can tell God’s children from the Devil’s because those who belong to the devil refuse to do right.

At Christmas Time

  • We remember that Jesus was born but in our culture we don’t know why He was born. The birth of Jesus is the greatest demonstration of God’s love for humanity.
  • “God so loved the world that He gave His only Son that whoever believes in Him will not perish but have everlasting life.”

John 3:16

The Reason

  • For Christmas is to look at Jesus and why He was born.
  • He was born so people could be born again. He came to die that we might live forever.
  • Jesus came as a child, grew up and astonished the world by the miracles and the His teaching.

Jesus established the church to continue the work of destroying the works of the devil. Setting the captives free, healing the sick, and preaching the Good News of the Kingdom of God.

During This Christmas Season

  • It is our job to do the works of Jesus.
  • Destroy the works of the devil.
  • Help the needy to see Jesus in us.
  • Love each other.
  • Proclaim the Gospel to this generation.

The Helper - The Messiah

The Helper - The Messiah this message was given on 12-19-10

Saturday, December 11, 2010

The Helper - The Spirit of Intercession (notes)

The Helper - The Spirit of Intercession

Romans 8:26-27

In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us through wordless groans. And He who searches out hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for God’s people in accordance with the will of God.

The Holy Spirit

  • Helps us in our time of need. The role of the Holy Spirit is to come along our side and help us in every situation. He helps us in our weakness. As humans we are weak but He is strong and able to help us in every situation.
  • Says to be strong in the Lord. So our power to overcome anything evil is in the Lord and the power of His might.

We Do Not Know What We Ought To Pray For

  • We don’t know the way to pray for situations because we are limited in understanding but God knows all things. So when we pray in the Spirit He comes along our side to help us pray in line with the will of God.
  • We lack understanding, wisdom and power to pray so the Spirit helps us to know.

When I Don’t Know

  • How to pray I pray in the Spirit and the Holy Spirit takes my prayer and through intercession presents it the way it needs to be presented.
  • What words to use I use spiritual language (tongues) that the Holy Spirit understands.

Romans 8:26 (The Message)

Meanwhile, the moment we get tired in the waiting, God’s Spirit is right alongside helping us along. If we don’t know how or what to pray, it doesn’t matter. He does our praying in and for us, making prayer out of our wordless sighs, our aching groans. He knows us far better than we know ourselves, knows our pregnant condition , and keeps us present before God. That’s why we can be so sure that every detail in our lives of love for God is worked into something good.

Intercession

  • Means to intervene on behalf of another. This is what the Holy Spirit does for believers. He comes along our side and helps us to pray in a way that takes our experience and presents it before God in a way that is right.
  • Sometimes the Holy Spirit intercedes for us in a situation. We might be going through a hard time and as we pray in the Spirit we find ourselves rising above the situation and we see things from heaven’s perspective.

The Holy Spirit intercedes for us with groanings to deep for utterance. Groaning is what the Holy Spirit does in the human spirit when someone is in a difficult time. It could be someone we know or don’t know or you. Groaning is travail in the Spirit, when we feel the heart of God for a situation, person or place.

When The Spirit prays through us we are praying in line with the heart of God. Intercession is what Paul is talking about. The Holy Spirit intercedes through the person praying in the Spirit. I could be praying for someone or myself.

No One Can Put Into Words

  • All the pain in the world at any given moment, so in intercession, the Spirit gives us a language to help us offer prayers in a way that is God like.
  • The great privilege it is to be able to talk with the Almighty Supreme Ruler of the universe.

It Is A Great Honor to be able to communicate with the one who created the galaxies with His Word. The Holy Spirit monitors every baby who cries on the planet, every woman who cries for a lost child, every man who can not make enough money to provide for his family.

The Helper - The Spirit of Intercession

The Helper - The Spirit of Intercession this message was given on 12-12-10

Saturday, December 4, 2010

The Helper - The Spirit of Truth (notes)

The Helper - The Spirit of Truth

1 Corinthians 2:9-16

  • No eye has seen, no ear has heard no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love Him but God has revealed it to us by His Spirit.
  • The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. God has deep things, mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven that the Holy Spirit can reveal to us.

1 Corinthians 2

  • For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the man’s spirit within him? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.
  • The Holy Spirit knows our thoughts, communicated to our spirit man.
  • The Holy Spirit knows the thoughts of God and can reveal them to the church.

We Have Not…

  • Received the spirit of the world but the Spirit who is from God, that we may understand what God has freely given us. (1 Cor. 2:12)
  • Remember that the spirit of the world is an anti-Christ spirit so we have not received that spirit but the Holy Spirit.

This Is What We Speak:

Not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, expressing spiritual truths in spiritual words. (1 Cor. 2:13)

When we speak, we speak words taught to us by the Holy Spirit, communicating spiritual truths with spiritual words. Not religious words but spiritual words.

The Man Without The Spirit

  • Does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned. (1 Cor. 2:14)
  • Does not accept the things that come from the Holy Spirit. The man without the Spirit does not get revelation--it is foolishness to him.

The Spiritual Man

  • Makes judgment about all things, but he himself is not subject to any man’s judgment’.
  • The Holy Spirit can be known only by spirit. When a man is spiritual he can judge all matters but he is not subject to man’s judgment.

For Who Has Known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ. What is the mind of Christ?

  1. It is the ability to think like Jesus.
  2. It is not thinking according to what we experience in this world.
  3. It is not being controlled by our emotions or carnal thoughts but by the Holy Spirit.

What Is Truth?

  • The quality or state of being true, that which is true in accordance with fact or reality.
  • God is truth, His Word is truth.
  • Jesus said, I am the Way, the Truth and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.

The Kingdom of Heaven is our reality not this world. Everything else must come under His authority and that authority is based on the veracity of the Word of God.

There are various levels of authority:

  1. Imperial or supreme.
  2. Veracious or truth.
  3. Conscience or human conscience.

Veracity

  • Is the conformity of facts; accuracy.
  • Habitual truthfulness.
  • There is no greater accuracy than what God says in His Word.

The Secrets of The Kingdom of Heaven

God is.

When Moses saw the burning bush and God spoke to Him.

Moses asked, when they ask me what is His name God tells Moses, “I AM WHO I AM.”

The Spirit of truth is the Spirit of Jesus.

The Helper - The Spirit of Truth

The Helper - The Spirit of Truth this message was given on 12-5-10