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Overtaken by the Holy Spirit 0:01 Welcome to the men's global livestream. If you have a bible, I want you to hold a couple spots, 2 key passages, 1 in Matthew 5 and the other in Matthew 11. And I also wanna encourage you to download the notes. You0:13 can click the button right there on your screen. Download the notes for a couple reasons. All the scriptures that you see on the screen are all there. All the fill ins are there. But more importantly, you can experience0:24 today's global live stream, and then you can lead a group of men through the same study that we went through and multiply the fruit of today's session. So if you're joining us for the first time, we're in our0:36 new series called overtaken. We're in part 4. And that word overtaken, implies that a force or a feeling takes over a man. Jesus predicted0:47 that that would happen with his first followers and every follower. After that, he predicted that the Holy Spirit would overtake, would come upon them, and it would rock their0:59 private world, but it would actually rock the world, planet Earth. And then as now and with every believer, since those first followers,1:11 the Holy Spirit has been overtaking the mind, heart, soul, bodies of men and influencing and rocking their private world. So our point in this series is1:23 that God wants to overtake your heart, soul, mind, and strength, and then he wants to set you loose for kingdom impact.1:35 He wants to set the Holy Spirit loose in you where you live at home, where you work with your coworkers, right, where you pray at your church, where you play, you know, your communities1:47 where you recreate and have fun and and go to the gym. Why? Because god's spirit in you is purposed to come through you to advance1:59 god's kingdom. Right? And today, we're gonna look at the third way that the holy spirit works through God's man. And to get you thinking in the right direction, I want you to think of2:11 maybe helping a buddy move. Right? Usually, moves involve boxes, and some boxes are lighter. And then there's those boxes that are just2:22 like, be careful, with that 1. And so what do you do when you get that 1? You kinda you kinda get your hands underneath it, and then you sort of squat and you grab it and2:34 then you say to yourself, okay. I got this. Right? And then you start to lift up that box. But then you realize really quickly you don't have this. Alright? When2:46 something is heavy, keyword for today's study, it's difficult for you to bear yourself. Alright? Box, squat, lift,2:58 I got it, and then you're just like, Right? No. You don't. You don't have it. But how wonderful it is, right, when a second set of hands3:10 arrive. Right? What was once heavy is not just manageable now. It's doable, and it's movable. Alright? So let's3:22 just agree together that lighter is better. Alright? I want you to say that with me. Lighter is better. Right? You can feel the weight shift because3:33 someone is in it with you, and that's kind of the key theme for today's study. Alright? God says that everybody around you is carrying3:45 some form of burden, and guess what? They can't carry it alone. They think they can. They think they got this, but you know what they need? They need a second set of hands. They need a second3:57 person that will help them feel, listen, the joy and the relief of lightness. Remember, lighter is better. Right? Now4:09 Jesus said, on earth, before he redeems it, heaviness is constant and heaviness is everywhere. He said, in this world, you're gonna have tribulation.4:22 Alright? Tribulation feels heavy, pressure, circumstances, right, of a broken planet with broken people, lots of injustice, disease,4:34 circumstances, situations, delays, difficulty, distresses that weigh people down. So when people are constantly4:45 experiencing the heaviness of an imperfect world and a broken planet and selfish people and injustice. Right? You know what's really rare and4:57 powerful is choosing to make someone's burden lighter. Right? When you're used to heaviness, light is rare and powerful. And5:09 in the the places and the spaces that you occupy, right, in your unique context that's uniquely connected to you. God's spirit is saying to5:21 us, god's man, make it lighter. Right? Light is different. Heaviness is constant. Alright? So here's where we're headed in today's study. We're gonna5:33 see the Holy Spirit at work in the words and ways of Jesus as he interacts with those first following men. Alright? And we're gonna put5:45 ourselves in their shoes because their shoes because we're followers. Right? And there's a couple of instances, 1 in Luke 22 and 1 in Matthew 5 that we're gonna unpack. Alright? And then we're gonna look5:56 at ways that a spirit empowered man makes other people's loads lighter. Alright? So let's first look at these 26:08 instances where Jesus is talking about how God's spirit in him and how it will be in his men and what it's gonna look like. Alright? The first 1 is in6:20 Luke 22 where you you come into this situation. Here's here's the situation. We'll just read the passage. They they were bickering over who of them would end up the greatest.6:32 But Jesus intervened. Quote, kings like to throw their weight around, and people in authority like to give themselves fancy titles. It's not going to be that way with you. Let6:43 the senior among you become like the junior. Let the leader act the part of the servant. Who would you rather be? The 1 who eats the dinner or the 16:55 who serves the dinner? You'd rather eat and be served, right? But I've taken my place among you as the 1 who serves. Like you have the downloaded7:07 note circle, it's not going to be that way with you. Jesus is contrasting broken male culture of his time. Right? Which7:19 position, power. When you have position and power, you're the 1 who's being served. Right? And Jesus says, not gonna be that way with you guys. Alright? You have a new identity7:31 and that new energy inside of you, right, is going to lead to a new expression. Doesn't mean you're not gonna have power or authority. Alright? It's7:43 just that kingdom power and kingdom authority does not look like earthly power and earthly authority. Let me say that 1 more time. Really, really important. Kingdom power and7:55 kingdom authority does not look like earthly power and earthly authority. Right? And Jesus demonstrates that himself. He says, you'd rather eat and be served.8:07 Right? Earthly power, earthly authority. Right? Has earned that spot. Now people serve them. Alright? But Jesus says, but I've taken my place among you as the 18:18 who serves. So you have the servant king? Yes. Kingdom power and kingdom authority give you power and authority8:30 to serve other people, and you have power and authority to rise up over and above broken culture, selfish culture, self serving culture,8:42 self indulgent culture, self protecting culture in the power and authority of the Holy Spirit. And that's kingdom power and authority that allows you to serve. And8:54 Jesus models it. Right? He's their rabbi. He's their savior. He's their lord. He's their king. He's their messiah. What is rabbi lord king and9:05 messiah doing? He's making the load lighter for other people. Why? Because he has kingdom power and kingdom authority and kingdom9:17 purpose. Alright? Really important to see that. That was a culture shift for his first followers. It's a culture shift now. But9:29 if you're god's man and you're filled with god's spirit, we don't act like culture. We act like Christ. So when we're among people, what are we doing? We're9:41 making their load lighter. Alright. Let's look at the second instance here. He's also talking to his followers in Matthew 5 in the Sermon on the9:52 Mount. And he says this, quote, you've heard that it was said, eye for eye and tooth for tooth. But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If someone strikes you on the10:04 right cheek, turn, to him the other also. And if someone wants to sue you and take your tunic, let him have your cloak as well. And if someone and if someone forces you to go 110:16 mile, go with him 2 miles. Give to the 1 who asks you and do not turn away from the 1 who wants to borrow from you. Alright? Now Jesus10:28 used these powerful teaching techniques. He's he's speaking right into the mindset of the day, and the mindset of10:40 the day for men in Jesus' culture is somebody hurts you, you you you heard him back, man. Someone hits you, you hit him back. Right?10:53 Someone tries to take something from you, you hold on to it. Alright? If a Roman soldier, which was custom for the time, has the right to ask11:05 you to carry his his pack for a mile, which was in operation and law in Jesus' time and day, Jesus says, okay. Yeah. Go with him 1 mile. Take him11:17 a second mile. Right? And if someone asks you for something, don't turn away from them. Give them the whole enchilada. Alright? Go beyond. Alright? And11:28 if this sounds unusual, right, it's on purpose. It sounded unusual to them. What's the common denominator? These behaviors for11:40 that time are not natural. Why? Because they're super natural. Right? There's there's things that that11:52 people got upset about. They wanted to get back, get theirs, keep their rights. And Jesus says, in those instances, when you wanna get yours, alright,12:04 make it easy for another person to get theirs. It's totally counterintuitive. Why? Because it's the kingdom thing versus a cultural12:16 thing. Make a note of that somewhere. When god's spirit is inside of a man, when the spirit of Christ is operating, he doesn't do the natural,12:28 fleshly, cultural thing. He does the kingdom thing. And when he does the kingdom thing, people take notice. It's totally12:40 different. Alright? And let's unpack that. Let's see the contrast, alright, that they're feeling and that they're experiencing. Right? So let's look at the first contrast. It's expected12:52 actions versus unexpected actions. Alright? That's what you see. People expect people to try to get revenge. People13:04 expect people to punch them back. Alright? And I'm not saying, you know, let people walk all over you. But when you have opportunity, man, don't don't feed into the13:15 flesh and fleshly reactions. Alright? Do the kingdom thing. Right? So there's expected actions and unexpected actions. Alright? What else is different? Number 2, write this down.13:27 There's natural reactions versus supernatural reactions. I love that if someone forces you to go 1 mile, go with him too. I mean, just imagine13:39 the scene. You're a Roman soldier. Alright? You have the authority by your king, your Caesar, to stop a Hebrew and say,13:52 carry this for a mile, and they have to do it, Right? At the risk of punishment if they refuse to do it. So you're cruising along and, you know, alright. It's about a mile. And he's like, alright.14:04 You know? He goes, alright. Alright. I'll take my backup. Or it's like, alright. I know this is a mile. Here you go. Right? And then can you imagine the scene where a Roman soldier is just walking along with somebody14:17 and the the the Hebrew says, no. I'm good. Let's go too. Right? That's not a natural reaction. Right? The natural14:28 reaction is, get this thing off of me, you oppressor. You know? Right? Does that mean that because he's walking a second mile that he's pro14:40 Rome or pro oppressor? Not at all. He's pro kingdom because he's doing it to elicit a curiosity and14:52 a response from the soldiers. Like, what what what's going on? Right? All of those things that Jesus describes are so counterintuitive that it would elicit, like, wait. What15:04 what in what is up with you? What has gotten into you? Why are you doing this? And that's where you really see the power of the holy spirit in someone. Okay? Third, we15:16 see usual selfishness versus unusual selflessness. Alright? That's the third thing that you see. So there's15:28 expected actions and unexpected actions. There's natural reactions and supernatural reactions. And then third, you see usual selfishness versus unusual selflessness.15:42 Right? Do you notice in each of the situations where the the common denominators, you're making it easy for the other person to do what it is that they're doing.15:54 Alright? And it's it's so unusual, but you're making it easy for another person to take what they want. You're making it easy for another16:06 person to get what they want. You're making it easy for another person to but in in letting the rope out and making it easy for them to continue to do what they're16:18 doing, Jesus is implying, hey. You know what? That's gonna create a curiosity. That's a kingdom thing. That's it's like you're not bent on your rights.16:30 And, actually, you're giving up your right to strike back, your right to to elicit another response. Right? You're gonna take an action that's gonna elicit another response. Something that's just16:42 gonna throw them off. Alright? So when you look at the 2 columns, expected actions, natural reactions, usual selfishness, and unexpected actions, supernatural reactions, and16:54 unusual selflessness. Question for you. Which column best describes you? What would the17:05 people around you say? Right? Having looked and looked at those 2 2 columns, they would say, oh, yeah. Bill fits that category. Paul fits that category. Craig fits17:17 that category. Right? Martin fits that category. Right? The 1 on the right. Unexpected actions, supernatural reactions, unusual17:29 selflessness. Based on what? Who you used to be before Christ came into your life, how you used to act before the Holy Spirit overtook your life17:41 and your actions. You see, guys, we live in a world right now that really needs a clear message sent by spirit empowerment, and we've got opportunities17:52 all around us, right, to do the unexpected, to do the supernatural, to be unusually selfless. What message are you sending? What would best describe you? Because the clear18:04 message that Jesus is pointing to when he says, it's not gonna be that way with you, and he points out all these cultural situations where you could act 1 way or you could18:16 do the kingdom thing, which is totally unusual and rare. The clear message is this. Write this down. Higher forces are at work. Right? They're wondering.18:28 Okay. Where's this coming from? What's driving this? What has gotten into you? What has overtaken this other person who18:40 I never expected to act that way, who's acting unnaturally, and who's not acting selfishly? You got it? That's what the holy spirit does. The holy spirit, you know, makes people go,18:51 woah. That was unusual. I'm not used to that. That's not normal. Yeah. It's not normal because it's supernatural. The Holy Spirit inside of you advancing God's kingdom and God's19:03 kingdom purposes, you're gonna do some wildly different things, and people are gonna go, that's not like him. Right? So there's19:15 the foundation. There's Jesus talking about our new identity in him, our new power to be different and to do19:27 different things, and how that influences, people. And it's not because we're trying to,19:39 be great in ourselves. We're trying to draw attention to the kingdom. These are kingdom behaviors. Right? So now let's look. Let's get real practical. Alright? There's the foundation. We're19:51 gonna do some different stuff. We're gonna reduce people's loads. We're gonna reserve people. In each of those instances, we're gonna you see that it's it's the our our commission from god to make things easier20:03 for other people, right, to help them feel lighter in what they're trying to accomplish or in what's going on, in the situation. Alright? Lighter is better. Now let's look at some practical stuff. We're20:15 gonna start by looking at Matthew chapter 11 and look at Jesus himself, his identity, and how he describes himself, and then we're gonna draw a conclusion and look at some powerful examples. Alright? Matthew 1120:27 verses 28 through 30. Just Jesus talking. He says, are you tired? Are you worn out? Are you burned out on religion? Come to me. Get20:39 away with me and you'll recover your life. I'll show you how to take a real rest. Walk with me and work with me. Watch how I do it. Learn the unforced rhythms20:51 of grace. I won't lay anything heavy or ill fitting on you. Look at this last line. Keep company with me, and you'll learn to live freely and21:03 lightly. Alright? So you see Jesus asking questions of people that he know already knows the answers to. Right? You don't ask, are you tired, worn out,21:15 burned out on religion, unless people he knows are tired, they are worn out, and they're burned out on religion. Alright? Man's best attempts to21:28 reach God. Right? And so what's his solution? Come to me. Right? Be with me. And guess what you'll experience when you21:40 come to me and you get away with me? You're gonna experience real relief, real rest. Walk with me. Work with me. Alright? I'm not gonna lay anything heavy on you. In fact,21:52 you're gonna you're gonna feel lighter. You keep company with me, and and guess what you experience? Living freely, right, and lightly. Oh, wow. So here's22:04 the connection to you. That was Jesus. You're a follower of Christ. Jesus lives in you. Right?22:16 Jesus makes other people feel lighter when they're around him. Jesus lives in you. Question, do the people you keep company with and walk with22:29 feel freer and feel lighter. That's convicting. Right? But, again, this is Jesus. Jesus lives22:41 in us. Jesus lives in you. People are with Jesus. They feel freer, and they feel lighter. How do people feel around us? Like, when you22:53 walk into the room in your house, do people feel heavier because of your presence or lighter? Like, it's like, Craig's here. Or, put your name in there. So23:05 and so's here. Or do they feel oppressed and, like, heavy? Alright? Really important question. Right? We gotta work this out because the23:17 Holy Spirit inside of god's man, right, releases captives, relieves pain, and reduces the loads of people to help them feel lighter. How do I know that? Because23:29 that was Jesus. Jesus lives in me. Jesus lives in you. Jesus makes people freer and lighter. We, men of God, when we're among people, where we live, where we work, where we pray,23:41 where we play, Doesn't matter. Do people feel lighter in our presence? We have to work that out, but we need to see that that's what Jesus wants to do. So now let's look23:52 specifically. I'm gonna give you 4 ways that spirit empowered men make others feel lighter. And the first way is through presence to disperse heaviness. Remember how we talked about24:04 someone lifting a box. Alright? You lifting a box, and you're like, I got this. No. I don't have it. Right? It's too difficult to bear yourself. But then the second set of hands arrive, which makes it manageable and24:16 movable. Right? Because it's lighter. Lighter is better. Okay? That's what presence does. Right? People are in it alone. It feels heavy. The24:29 second person comes into the mix. Alright? All of a sudden, the heaviness is now not located unilaterally on 1 person. It's dispersed24:41 between 2, which makes half the weight shift, okay, onto the other person. Alright? That happens supernaturally when god's man filled with the holy spirit comes into the situation24:53 to help reduce a load and we see an example of this in a wonderful god's man named Titus. Talks about him in second Corinthians 7 verses 5 through 7. Listen to kind of the situation and25:04 then watch how Titus comes into the situation. Right? This is the apostle Paul writing. He says, when we arrived in the in Macedonia province, we couldn't settle down.25:16 The fights in the church and the fears in our hearts kept us on pins and needles. We couldn't relax because we didn't know how it would turn out. Circle this word on the notes. Then,25:28 the god who lifts up the downcast lifted our heads and our hearts with the arrival of Titus. Well, I would like to have that written in the25:40 Bible about me. We were glad just to see him, but the true reassurance came in what he told us about you, how much you cared, how much you grieved, how25:52 concerned you were for me. I went from worry to tranquility in no time. Wow. You get that picture? Right? You have a26:04 burdening situation, an an anxious situation, a fighting situation, a fearful situation. Right? Couldn't relax,26:16 pressure, oppression, and then the god who lifts up the downcast. Right? Why are they downcast? It's because they're have heaviness on lifted our heads and our hearts with the arrival26:28 of Titus. Man, every man listening to the sound of my voice would love to have their name in Titus's spot. Right? And then you see what he does.26:41 He brings gladness. He brings reassurance. He brings words. He he gives them good news. Right? And all of a sudden, the heaviness and worry26:53 turns into lightness and tranquility. Right? Titus's presence disperses heaviness. Question for you. What does your presence do?27:05 I asked it before. When you come into a situation, right, would people be able to say that of you? Man, so glad that person came and I was feeling heavy, but when they come into my27:17 situation, I feel lighter. Right? Just know, man of god, the holy spirit in you wants that to happen through you. Titus was a spirit empowered follower of Jesus, and he's doing this with27:29 believers, by the way. Believers who are working, believers who are serving, but you know what? It's not limited to believers. In any space, in any place where your physical27:40 presence is, you can disperse heaviness, and we know it's already there. Why? Because this world puts heaviness on people, this unredeemed,27:52 broken, unjust world. In the circumstances, this unredeemed world puts on people creates heaviness. And it's the context for the man of god coming in through28:04 his very presence and bringing lightness into the situation. Alright? Gonna ask you again, do people feel in your presence lighter or heavier? Holy28:16 spirit presence, right, is a present that's disperses heaviness. Number 2, the spirit empowered man makes others feel lighter through providing what lifts28:27 heaviness, alright? Listen to this simple word from god in James chapter 2 and just take it personal, alright? If you're a brother, this is addressed to you.28:40 If a brother or a sister is without clothing and in need of daily food and 1 of you says to them, go in peace, be warm, and be filled, and yet you do not give them what is necessary for their28:52 body. What use is that? Even so, faith, if it has no works, is dead, being by itself.29:03 Alright? So you see a situation that's creating heaviness and someone in comes into it and says, oh, I I feel for you. I I29:15 want you to have peace. Be warm. Be filled. But you don't give people what's necessary in that situation. Alright? That's a dead faith. Your faith is meaningless.29:27 Right? It's not real faith at all. Why? Because faith sacrifices to to fill the hole. You see that providing what's needed lifts the heaviness. Right?29:40 When someone's burdened by a need, right, weighed down, burdened. Alright? How do we unburden them? Well, you unburden them by meeting that need. Now the burden is29:51 lifted. Right? So a spirit empowered man makes others feel lighter through dispersing heaviness but more practically through providing30:03 what lifts heaviness. Right? Meeting a need. Alright? Number 3, the spirit empowered man makes others feel lighter through praying god's word into the30:15 heaviness. Alright? Remember, everybody around you feeling heaviness. Right? Jesus is a lifter. Jesus is in you. Alright? Listen to how30:27 god's word comes into play here, right, with prayer. In Ephesians 6, it says this, god's word is an indispensable weapon. In the30:39 same way, prayer is essential in this ongoing warfare. So, it's combining the 2. God's word and prayer. Both essential. Pray for your brothers and sisters. Keep your eyes30:50 open. Keep each other's spirits up so that no 1 falls behind or drops out. Okay? In a world full of heaviness, you've got31:02 spirits impacted, people's motivation, people's energy, right, being weighed down, brought low, right, versus kept up.31:14 And what's this passage saying? You got god's word and you have prayer. Both are essential in this battle, right, of heaviness versus lightness, devil31:27 versus holy spirit. And then there's you, the agent of lightness. Alright? So how do we put those 2 together? Well, you have a situation31:38 creating heaviness. You know that people are experiencing heaviness. Maybe they might even share. You say, how's it going? And they share a situation that's creating heaviness or burden. Right? What do you say? I'll tell31:50 you what you say. You say, can I pray for you? And then, what do you pray? Well, you pray what god says. Here's an example. Right? People in their32:02 heaviness sometimes because it brings them down. Their spirits are low versus up. Right? Messes with their perception of things. Clouds their thinking. Right? Creates all these negative32:13 feelings, and they think their feelings are the facts when they're not. Alright? But the facts are found in god's word. Alright? So someone thinks a32:25 situation is impossible, you declare god's word in that situation. You pray with that person. God, your word says, with man, this is impossible.32:38 But with god, all things are possible. So I don't know how you're gonna work this out, but I know you're bigger than a situation affecting my friend. And32:50 so we give this situation to you, and we ask you to do the impossible. Do what only you can do. That's how you pray god's33:02 word into the heaviness. You see, you may not be able to provide what's needed or disperse heaviness through your presence, but guess what? You know somebody who can.33:14 Yeah. Most of the situations, you're not gonna be able to help immediately or physically or practically. You can't fix it. You can't change. You can't throw pixie dust over it, but you know what you have? The most33:23 powerful weapon. Access to god. You can talk directly to god. You can you can call down his promises and what he says. Right?33:35 And when you call down what god already says and what he already wants to do, right, you have what you ask. That's what the Bible teaches and so god's already wanting to33:46 get involved in this situation, but he's letting you participate an agent, his involvement. And what's the net result of that? It's people's spirits instead of being down, they come up. Right? Instead of33:58 feeling burdened and heavy, they feel unburdened and they feel lighter all through prayer. Why? Because you're taking them to god. You're you're declaring what34:10 god himself says. And I don't care what the circumstance is that someone's in. God's bigger. Right? The problem is heaviness brings our head down,34:22 and we only look at what's going on around us. Prayer shifts our focus and lifts our head like Titus did in that passage that we read. And all of a sudden, people34:33 go, oh my gosh. There's God. When there's God, there's possibility. And when God speaks, there's we can declare what God speaks. And when we declare what God speaks, that's what God wants to do. And if34:45 god wants to get involved and that's what he wants to do, he can do what he says. He wants to do. Men, it's simple. All around you today,34:58 People are people are in need. They're burdened. And all you have to say is, hey, man. How's it going? I mean, you're doing good. Everything okay? And then they'll share heaviness. Okay? They'll share problems. They'll35:09 share an obstacle or and your response needs to be, can I pray for you? I've never been rejected. I've never had anyone say, in my 3935:21 years of walking with Jesus, no. I don't want you to pray for me, especially when they're feeling heavy. K? So just know that you're gonna get a hundred percent response if you're sincere and normal and not goofy35:33 or weird. Right? You listen, ask some questions, and then you just like, you know what? I really wanna do for you. I can I pray about this? I I don't know that35:45 I have the resources to fix what's going on, but I just really feel like God wants to show you his power. And then say what god says. Pray god's word into35:56 that that situation. God makes promises. God says things. God says he can use all things. And that assumes that you've got a few promises in36:08 here. You you know god's word. You know what Jesus says. Right? So pray god's word into the heaviness. Look at what it says in Philippians 4 6 and 7. It36:20 says, don't fret or worry. Instead of worrying, pray, let petitions and praises shape your worries into prayers. Letting god know your concerns.36:32 Before you know it, a sense of god's wholeness. Everything coming together for good will come and settle you down. It's wonderful what happens when Christ displaces36:44 worry at the center of your wrath. Did you see the language there? Right? Prayer reshapes worry. God's36:56 presence comes into a situation. God's presence, the presence of Christ in you and through you displaces and disperses worry at the center of a life. Could be37:08 your life, could be the life of someone else, could be the life of a friend at the gym. Right? So when people panic, god's man goes to prayer. Right? Panic,37:19 is dispersed through prayer. Burdens are dispersed and become lighter through prayer. Why? Because we're getting god involved. Alright? There's the ultimate set of hands,37:31 but you're the second set of hands that helps another person put it all in the best set of hands, which is god's. Alright? So we37:43 got the holy spirit presence is a presence that disperses. Right? A present that lifts. A present that prays God's word37:54 into it. And then fourth, a spirit empowered man makes others feel lighter through providing insight to reduce heaviness. Alright? So38:06 sometimes people's physical issue, you can't resolve for them. People's emotional issue, you can't resolve. But you can certainly pray and you can provide insight.38:18 You can provide truth. Right? That that helps make them feel lighter and reduces heaviness. Alright? Look at what it says in Proverbs chapter38:30 2. Let's read that together. For the lord grants wisdom. From his mouth come knowledge and understanding. He grants a treasure of common sense to the38:42 honest. He is a shield to those who walk with integrity. He guards the path of the just and protects those who are faithful to him. Then, you will understand what is right, just, and38:54 fair, and you will find the right way to go. For wisdom will enter your heart and knowledge will fill you with joy. Wise choices will watch over you. Understanding will keep you safe.39:05 Right? When heaviness is present, just assume cloudiness because heavy circumstances, heaviness creates feelings,39:17 negative feelings, negative feelings cloud, right, our understanding and we feel confused. Did you follow that? Heaviness, cloudiness, confusion. Right? Because when you're things are39:29 cloudy, you can't see. But you know what cuts through? The heaviness, wisdom, and clarity. Right? And a lot of times people in their situation, they're feeling too heavy.Show more In this video 0:00 Overtaken by the Holy Spirit
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