Word and Spirit [Part 2]

Pastor author and Bible teacher Alan Wright that I was so naïve. I said criticism can criticize. All I did was lay hands on people and bless them what I mean you did under the asset limits of the criticism is it will faster come to another message of good news that will help you see your life in a whole new light. I'm excited for you to hear the teaching today. In this series word and spirit, unity of balance as presented with an older church in North Carolina that you're not able to stay with us throughout the entire program to make sure you know how to get our special resource. Right now it can be worse for your nation this month to Alan Wright mysteries. So as you listen to today's message go deeper as we send you this resource. Today's special offer. Contact us@pastor.org that's pastor out.org or call 877-544-4860 that's 877-544-4860.

More on this later in the program but now let's get started with today's teaching here is Alan Wright. There is no separation between word and spirit. All the word and spirit are distinct and God is a triune God. This is one of the mysteries of the faith is very hard to wrap your mind around it, but it is it is that God is father, son and Holy Spirit buddies one God is one God in three persons, but is one God is can be confusing to other religions that will help you have one in three is a mystery that transcends our mind, but God is one God, but his father son and Holy Spirit and the son of God is called in John chapter 1, who became flesh and the spirit of God, Jesus, as I send forth. So the most important thing to understand about this is that the Spirit himself is God himself. So God is with us by the presence of his Holy Spirit is no difference in saying God is with the Holy Spirit is with us no different society of Jesus in your heart you have the Holy Spirit in your heart the way in which you commune with God, your father is, by the very real presence of the Holy Spirit. And so what we need is not only our meditation in the word that is the truth, but we need the illumination and the empowerment of the Holy Spirit in our lives.

The word is full of the Holy Spirit and the spirit illumines the word, and so what happens is that this word is Scripture which is timeless and true lies there like words on a page unless the Holy Spirit makes them alive to you and this is why so important to just open up yourself to let God reveal himself to you in the Scriptures because truth, even if it's a absolute truth if you don't know what you don't believe it is not a truth to you all for you. When you believe something that's false. You believe it's true. And so when you have a paradigm shift and something changes in your way of thinking we say the light turns on see it differently now mean is, it was something that I was blind to before I saw incorrectly it was false and I believed it.

But now I see what the truth is, and this is so much what Jesus means, which is it's better for you that I go away, because us in the spirit of truth that he is going to show you the truth is to show the truth about who I am is or show the truth about who you are need you and guide you into all truth. We need the Holy Spirit word of God is alive and active and sharper than any two-edged sword, and we need the Holy Spirit who is filled.

This word this word alive so that our faith explore the government to do before the man's uncle Stanley once had a neighbor who had a little five-year-old boy who was afraid of dogs particularly. He was afraid of a dog in the neighborhood named Lucky and the boys mother decided that in order to help them overcome this fear. She would have him memorize the Scripture that says God is not given us a spirit of fear but of love and power and a sound mind as a little boy memorized and he had to say it over and over until he had a just down pat and one day the boys outside here comes Lucky and the boys just as scared as it's ever been.

His mother says now what I teach you that you just go ahead and say it say it out loud and he said God is not given me a spirit of power and of sound mind, but I'm still afraid of lucky you say I know what his word says that this word has it become my word, it had become real to me yet is often this happens if we think of the word is this dormant kind of religious attacks and it never has life to us and it never means anything to us is what God does is he is in a miraculous way. He who is filled with the spirit filled his word with his spirit also makes this word unique to you by his spirit is people are concerned that so people rightly are concerned. We don't want to have Revelation this extra biblical that in some way adds to the Bible, but what I'm saying is liable God's word is being attended to by God spirit. He is utterly for you getting this and seeing this you measured one time before, but tender and beautiful story and in my life saved with care so as not to cause any offense to anyone who would hear this from a previous chapter in ministry and in my life, but we were in an enduring passerine church for about eight years and is a wonderful wonderful church was so so many many dear friends in the church and a warm evangelical message of the love of God and how you can have a personal relationship with Christ and we grew a lot and in the midst of this time I also was growing in my faith in growing in my experience of the power of God. You must understand this me to say this parenthetically the reason that I am attracted and wanting more of the power of God is not for the sake of having the power of God.

But I want people to be helped. I want people to be helped. I see what people walk through I see the sicknesses that people face I see the difficulties in relationship I see the confusion. I see the pain I see young people today.

I talked to the girls that are cutting themselves and feel suicidal.

I talked to the boys who are lost in confusion without a sense of purpose.

I talked to the people who are in depression. I see what is going on people to receive help from God. So this is really the thing that feels very open to the power of God will in this time of ministry sometime around about our sixth year in Durham, I began to discover the principal and the power of blessing as seen in the Scriptures as the Hebrew patriarchs would bless their children begin to see the call on our lives to speak, blessing, which is essentially a powerful faith filled vision that is in accord with Scripture uniquely spoken over someone's life and what happens in our lives is just as God interacts with us as we interact with others and we announce that sense of positive destiny people's hearts become filled with faith and they rise up to meet that there is a real virtues that is released when you bless somebody and it has a prophetic significance to it and I was teaching about this in my church and it was a very powerful thing to be discovering and at the end of the service. The first service that day. I just felt led to say we never did this. We didn't have healing ministry team didn't have prayer ministry life in Sweden have that kind of thing.

But on this day acid if you would like for me to come in just lay hands on you speak a blessing over your life. At the end of the service after the benediction just day stay in Europe to be so happy to come and just speak this blessing over you and and after that first service. Maybe a dozen people stay and I went and as I begin to lay hands on people and speak blessing over them. Something happened that it never happened in my public ministry ever before.

I can only say it was a prophetic type thing. It began to happen. I was completely just under an unction of the Holy Spirit, and I just began to speak whatever words I felt like the Lord was giving me as I was speaking these words of positive vision over these lives and one after the other. As I began to just blast like this you could just see there was something that was being imparted in people's lives.

And there were some miraculous things are happen. I remember in particular. After that first service. There was one young couple and as far as I knew they had a wonderful marriage and I just again to bless their marriage and the words that I was speaking as is blessing their marriage began to I began to have the sense of maybe there was struggle in their marriage, and I remember even feeling like why these words coming out because I don't and later as I wept in the later tennis and how did you know we were having so much difficulty in those areas in our marriage that you bless us and I didn't know but God knew that in this kind of thing we can have the room and after the second service I gave the same limitation even more people stayed and I went and I laid hands on people. I was absolutely enthralled and full of worship to the Lord to be an instrument of his grace, like that lives were being touched. The word was being made real to people and it was beautiful and afterwards my associate came to me and he said I just want you know I thought is one of the most anointing was an awful mornings I've ever had in church.

It was just John just want to know it was spot on. You were totally in tune with the spirit today which is fantastic. He said I just wanted you to know that before the will have more teaching moment from today's important series being filled with the Holy Spirit shutting off your mind hearing for a wonderful surprise God's word and spirit were never meant to be separated spirit always belong together to keep your abundant life in Christ knowing your Bible been filled with the spirit, the answer is both word and spirit subjugation of Scripture and some traditions emphasize the spirit to real Christian growth both word and spirit to support this man was thinking.

Alan writes newest album on CD or digital download word and spirit Airlines embrace the fullness of God's word and his spirit realm like never before with wording spirit realm up helping someone else grow as well. Remember when you partner with broadcasting the love of God to every day, six 877-544-4861 come to our website pastor.like these teaching now can you once again is totally in tune with the spirit today which is fantastic that I just wanted you to know that before the criticism comes that I was so naïve. I said criticism could criticize. All I did was lay hands on people and bless them what I mean. I said I limited the criticism is it will okay I just want you know and then it started and it didn't start from the people who experienced the start of the people who had experienced it, and had heard that something had happened. Still to this day absolutely mystified is how somebody who goes to church and even as a leader in church could be mad if God himself moves in that church, but it does happen a lot and I say this with all respect to even some of those beer dear ones that later we worked it through with. But it was it was and it was a kind of form of persecution that really hurt me a lot because there were some who began to make fun of it and that's a painful thing if you're used by God and then someone marks your gift and so it was painful at the same time I had been doing the training course on the ministry of healing and I had been teaching people from 50 people for semester and was going to start a healing ministry in the church just to pray for people after the service following to do and there were several who came up in real opposition. They were very afraid that it would be too charismatic looking or something. Whatever. And so was kind of being is kind of being attacked and all this is going on in my soul is hurting with this and I just be honest with you, as a young man.

It doesn't feel good to be experiencing that and I'm trying to figure out what I do with this. Do I just sort of tone all this down to how to handle this and there's that little part of you that just wants to quit acknowledging the Holy Spirit and this is exactly what happened to you the story. For this reason, this is exactly what happened.

I was going into my house one day into the front door and across the street.

My neighbors were saying goodbye to some friends had obviously been visiting and if they were seeing them get into the car. They were just a simulator and the person who think about what can I help close the door to the car so you're seeing them into their car and this is exactly exactly what happened. I could hear them talking but is fairly as categorical street. I could hear a lot, but when the final words were spoken by my neighbors to their visitors. This is what it was like yelled the words and I heard this is a was closing the door behind him. Luke 12 verse eight, and I was like you know they were Christian, my God out of the loop 12 are cited, but in almost the same instant I really knew God had just hollered out in Scripture to meets only time this is ever happened in real life that God just had Scripture out there, and so I raced into the house to look up Luke 12 verse a and when I read the words I began to weep for the words of Luke 12 verse I say I tell you, everyone who acknowledges me before men, the Son of Man also will acknowledge before the angels of God and I just went for a long time because though I know that Scripture was there and I have read that scripture before the Holy Spirit made that Scripture go into my heart in a way that it was like God himself was in the room and speaking to me that's what I want the word of God to be any every day and I want for you so that the Scripture the truth of God, illumined by the spirit of truth. If we have the word and we don't have the spirit, then we dry up. We have no life and that word to us to start by saying this I is you hopefully have detected law of the Bible. I don't worship the Bible hours of Jesus. But I love I love love the Scripture Bible is God breathed. The Bible is so marvelous I just cannot say enough about how much I love the word of God is the only infallible rule of faith and practice is the primary source for the greatest heart in the history of the world. It is the inspiration of the finest music ever compose its verses are literally etched into the columns and corridors of our nation's capital.

This book has been deemed so powerful that it is used in secular courtrooms is the proof of honesty when a witness gives his of been reckoned so influential that both Hitler and the devil misused. It is been viewed so threatening that religious aristocracies have kept it from ordinary readers and governmental agencies have kept it from entering country borders.

It is been banned and burned and his translators have been killed and through it all, the word of God stands, it's life-giving is imperishable and incorruptible. It is utterly timeless and yet always timely. It is incomprehensible to the proud, but readable to the simplest child. The Bible may be criticized. It may be misapplied, it made to be debated, hated, or even rejected. But one thing is for sure you cannot ignore this book, for it is the best-selling book of all time.

I love this book so understand that for me to say that if you only have the word you dry. I don't mean this in the sense that you don't understand the vitality and how alive. This word really is. I grew up in a highly liturgical church and this now as I have grown and matured is in no way a criticism of the highly liturgical church.

In his case in point, the church I grew up in as a youth.

I'm just giving you my perspective.

No offense to all of my brother and his sister, and who have been in these churches, but it was a whole lot of standup sitdown meals.

Stand up sitdown meal and minister would sort of chant.

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