My friend the Holy Spirit
Every child of God has a friend, the Holy Spirit. He lives inside of all those who are born of God, and He directs their steps, He helps them in moments of weaknesses and He counsels them in everything that they do. This is why the Bible tells us in Luke 12:12 that “at that time, the Holy Spirit will tell you what to say”. When you allow the Holy Spirit to be your friend, He will guide you and tell you what to say, when to say it and how to say it.
When we look at Peter, we can see that the way that he was ministering was led by the Holy Spirit. Because he ministered with power, signs and wonders accompanied his ministry. Even here at LCMN, we do nothing without the counsel of the Holy Spirit. As a Man of God, I rely on the Holy spirit in everything that I do. I remember a time when my father in the Lord Prophet TB Joshua said to me “ allow your friend to suggest to you more”. At that time I could not understand what he meant because I did not have a friend, but as I spent time in prayer and in the Word, the Holy Spirit revealed to me that He is my friend. Then I started understanding that my father meant that I must allow the Holy Spirit to direct me in everything that I do.
Many are living a life of confusion and frustration because they do not allow the Holy Spirit to be their friend. The Holy Spirit always speaks, but if He is not your friend you will not understand what He is saying. Whether you are praying or not, the Holy Spirit will speak to you. Just like the Holy Spirit spoke to king Nebuchadnezzar in his dreams, but because he did not allow the Holy Spirit to be his friend, he could not understand his dream. Even magicians and wizards could not interpret the dream. Only a friend of the Holy Spirit could interpret the dream.
Many are in difficult situations today because they did not allow the Holy Spirit to be their friend. The Holy Spirit has told them be in fasting for 3 days, but because of their disobedience, they don’t fast. Somewhere in those 3 days they eat poison and become sick. But if they had listened to the Holy Spirit, who is able to see ahead of time, they would have not been poisoned because they would have been in fasting. Some of you the Holy Spirit will tell you don’t go there, but you insist and try to go, and you find that your car doesn’t want to start, not that it has a mechanical problem or anything, but because the Holy Spirit sees that if you take the journey you will meet accident.
You need to allow the Holy Spirit to be your friend. The Holy Spirit speaks every day and every second. The Holy Spirit speaks from within you. When you do not understand what He says, then He comes to you in dreams and in visions. When the Holy Spirit is your friend, you will never go wrong, and every action you take will bring along the manifestation of God’s power.
You need to allow the Holy Spirit to be your friend, in that marriage, the Holy Spirit must be your friend. In your career, you need the Holy Spirit to tell you when to make a move and when not to make a move. In your finances, you need the Holy Spirit to be your friend. This is why now we are busy taking pledges from people in the church, to help build the Temple of God. This was not my decision, but it was the decision of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit, my friend said to me, “some will get their deliverance through partaking in the pledge, some will get their breakthrough, through partaking in the pledge”.
In 2 Peter 1: 20 to 21, the Bible tells us that no one can understand the prophecies in the Scriptures on their own. This means that the Scriptures are full of prophecies, and without the Holy Spirit, you will not understand the prophetic message of the Scriptures, Why? Because the prophets who wrote the Scriptures, did not write on their own accord or their own initiative, but they were guided by the Holy Spirit. This is why I say every child of God needs to make the Holy Spirit their friend.
How else will you hear from God if the Holy Spirit is not your friend? How else will you hear from God without the Holy Spirit? The Holy Spirit is there to teach us, to guide us to rebuke us and to bring revelations from God. Child of God you need the Holy Spirit now more than ever. God has promised us in the book of Joel that He will pour His Spirit upon all flesh, all we need to do is to receive the Spirit of God.
Do not quench the Spirit of God by your disobedience. When He tells you what to do, do it without hesitation. You need the Holy Spirit in order to discern what comes from God and what doesn’t come from God. Every decision of a child of God must be guided by the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit will take you out of your carnal nature, and lead you into a spiritual being. This is why some people cannot understand things of the spirit, because they are carnal in their nature.
In John 14 from verse 15, Jesus says, He will ask the Father to give us the Spirit of truth, who will be our advocate. “The world cannot accept the Holy Spirit because it does not see Him and it does not know him. But you (meaning all believers) know Him, for He live with you and is inside you”. Jesus also says, “soon, the world will not see me, but you will see me”. This means that for those who make the Holy Spirit their friend, they will see Jesus every day of their lives, but for those who have not made The Holy Spirit their friend, they will not see Jesus.
And so child of God, this should be your daily prayer, so that you can get closer and closer to God, and so that the Holy Spirit can be your friend. You say “ Oh Holy Spirit, take more of me, and give me more of you. Give me more of your love, more of your patience, more of your kindness and more of your gentleness.” When you pray like this, you will begin to hear more and more from the Holy Spirit, and He will become your permanent friend, and when the Holy Spirit is your friend, your life will never be the same again.
To God be the Glory.