MONSTER IN THE CHURCH

[DK Grooms]

John 16:13

Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of     himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.

 

When the Holy Spirit directed me to begin sharing what He has placed in my heart I understood that there was going to be reality and truth that was certainly going to offend many, especially those in the Pentecostal realm who believe that their lives are being directed by the Holy Spirit simply because they speak in tongues.

 

But here is reality and truth, we speak in tongues but we are not drawing on the power of the Holy Spirit, we are not allowing Him to lead us into all truth and we are not allowing him to guide us to the fullness of walking through Him in completeness

 

With all that he is, with all that he possesses, with all that is available to us through Him, we still do not draw on his power.

 

The truth is that we have access to God through God the Holy Spirit and the prophets of old longed and desired to see what we are seeing; they longed and desired to hear the things that we are hearing from the word of God

 

Matt 13:17

For verily I say unto you, That many prophets and righteous men have desired to see those things which ye see, and have not seen them; and to hear those things which ye hear, and have not heard them.

And here we are living in this blessed day where it is more beneficial for us to have the Holy Spirit than it is to have Jesus Christ

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John 16:7

Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you.

 

And we walk around depressed, discouraged, wanting a fresh touch from God, constantly looking for some thing new that can be felt, chasing God here and chasing God there and the whole time the Holy Spirit (Almighty God) lives on the inside of us.

 

If you have been born again and baptized in the Holy Spirit with the evidence of speaking in tongues then He lives and dwells on the inside of you,

He lives on the inside of you where you can be refreshed and if you are weary can find rest

 

Isa 28:11-13

For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people.

To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing : yet they would not hear.

 

He lives on the inside of you where you can build up your most holy faith,

 

Jude 20

But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith , praying in the Holy Ghost,

 

But what does the child of God do, they chase God from one event to another, they chase God from one church to another and God is not running.

They are looking for a well to drink from, they are looking for a place to get a fresh drink of water and they never come to the revelation that the well that they are looking to drink from is on the inside of them.

A well of living water springing up, leaping up into everlasting life,

The Holy Ghost.

 

John 4:10---Jesus is speaking to the Samaritan woman at the well of Jacob

Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.

The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: from whence then hast thou that living water?

Art thou greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle?

 

VERSE 13

Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again:

But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life .

 

Notice the words,

But whosoever shall drink of the water that I shall give shall never thirst and it will be a well of water springing up into everlasting life

 

John 6:35

And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life : he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.

 

Hear the words,

You shall never hunger, you will never thirst if you drink of the water that he gives and it shall be to you a well of living water that is constantly bubbling up, that is springing up like an artesian well, it never has to be primed, it never has to be pumped---it is a well of springing water.

And one of the biggest monsters in the church today is

Lord I hunger for you

Lord I thirst for you

Fill us up Lord we are so desperate for you.

 

It’s like sitting down to a six course meal and then telling every one how hungry you are,

If you are hungry --- then why don’t you just eat, if you are thirsty then why don’t you just drink, it has been given to you so that you will never hunger, so that you will never thirst.

 

But the language of the church is I feel so empty, so dry, so drained, instead of telling every one how hungry you are—why don’t you eat.

 

The reason you’re so empty, so dry, so confused and so drained is because you are not drawing on the power of the Holy Spirit to refresh you and bring you rest

When did you stop realizing who it is that lives on the inside of you?

When did you stop seeing the potential that lives on the inside of you?

When did you stop the flow of the resurrection power that dwells on the inside of you?

When did you stop promoting spiritual growth and strength.

 

Speaking in tongues edifies and builds you up, when did you stop allowing it to do that.

 

1 Cor 14:4

He that speaketh in an unknown tongue edifieth himself; but he that prophesieth edifieth the church.

 

The word edifieth in the Greek is oykodomehoo and it means to build a house,

Building a house promotes growth and strength.

 

Jesus said come to me and you will never hunger and you will never thirst again and yet in the body of Christ there are multitudes that are doing just that, hungering and thirsting, desperate for him and the whole time the well is on the inside of them.

 

The Holy Spirit has been sent to be your encourager, your comforter, to build you up, to strengthen you, to refresh you, to bring you rest when you are weary, to lead you into all truth and we walk around depressed discouraged and confused.

 

There is something terribly wrong with this picture.

 

It is not about what we do not have; it’s about not appreciating what we do have and not walking in the revelation of power that has been given to us.

 

John 16:13

Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.

 

He will guide you into all truth

Those words he will guide in the Greek are hodaygeho and it means to show you the way and the meaning is literal

To show you the way means to start revealing to you the things of God

 

John 15:26

But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:

 

The Holy Spirit reveals Jesus

The Holy Spirit takes the things of Jesus and reveals them

The Holy Spirit is sent to exalt Jesus, to glorify Jesus, to lift up Jesus, to magnify Jesus and many of God’s people do not know the Holy Spirit intimately.

Are they born again---Yes?

Are they baptized in the Holy Spirit—yes--but they do not know Him apart from speaking in tongues.

 

The way that you think reveals whether or not that you know Him, The things that you speak reveals whether or not you have intimacy with him.

 

What is intimacy---knowing Him?

Paul said it in

Phil 3:10

That I may know him , and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;

 

It is the Holy Spirit that reveals Jesus to you, you can come to the place in your life where you know Jesus and it will keep you from being depressed and discouraged, it will keep you from being confused.

I am not speaking about superhuman strength in which to persevere through

I am revealing to you intimacy and love through the Holy Spirit..

 

John 16:13

Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.

 

If you only take the last part of this verse it would transform your life if you would grasp what is being said.

 

and he will shew you things to come.

 

If you were open to see just what he would reveal unto you about next week it would transform you, and if you would take advantage of what he would show you it would radically change your life, it could prevent you from having a car wreak and being killed, it could prevent you from having an accident at home.

There have been times when the Holy Spirit has told me to move and if I would not have moved I would have been seriously hurt.

The Holy Spirit shows you things to come and because he knows about those things he can save your life.

 

Rom 8:26

Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.

 

The word helpeth our in the Greek is soonanteelombanomahee and it means to take hold together.

 

The Holy Spirit does not intercede for you by himself, He does not help our infirmities by himself, He does not help our infirmities on his own and you can not intercede on your own

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It is beyond human ability.

 

But when you begun to pray and to intercede then the Holy Spirit takes hold with you and He then joins with you making intercession with groanings which can not be uttered making the prayer of a righteous man effectual and fervent that avails much.

 

 

 

 

[DK Grooms]

Thank you Sister and Blessings to you as well---BE Blessed