Is the Holy Spirit still for today? - Part 4

Summary

In Part 4 of 'Is the Holy Spirit Still for Today?' from Salifou Ministries, the discussion centers on the continued relevance and active presence of the Holy Spirit in contemporary Christian life. Through various personal anecdotes and scriptural references, the speakers emphasize the essential role of the Holy Spirit in guiding, empowering, and communicating with believers today. They address common misconceptions about the Holy Spirit, encourage spiritual inquiry, and advocate for the importance of speaking in tongues as a spiritual gift. The hosts also share prophetic words and prayers, encouraging listeners to embrace the Holy Spirit's transformative power in their lives.

Highlights

• The Holy Spirit acts as an earnest deposit, guaranteeing believers of God’s promises. 🎁
• Faith and communication with God occur through the Holy Spirit, who guides spiritual growth. 📈
• Personal stories highlight how the Holy Spirit influences life decisions and brings believers together. 💫
• Speaking in tongues is seen as an important spiritual gift relevant for Christians today. 🗣️
• Listeners are encouraged to seek the Holy Spirit’s guidance in their lives and question any doubts. 🤔

Key Takeaways

• The Holy Spirit remains a vital presence in today’s Christian life, guiding and empowering believers. 🙌
• Receiving the Holy Spirit is a gift from God, not earned through our actions or works. 🎁
• Miracles and communication from the Holy Spirit are accessible through faith in Christ. 🔮
• The Holy Spirit helps reveal God’s presence and purposes to believers, leading them to their destiny. 🌟
• Blaspheming the Holy Spirit is cautioned against, as it's considered a grave sin in Christian doctrine. ⚠️

Overview

This episode revisits the significant role the Holy Spirit plays in modern Christian life, serving as a steadfast guide and source of empowerment for believers. The speakers from Salifou Ministries emphasize how the Holy Spirit continues to communicate God's will and facilitate miracles through faith. It's highlighted that receiving the Holy Spirit is a divine gift rather than a result of following religious laws.

Drawing from scripture and personal experiences, the hosts discuss how the Holy Spirit has personally guided them in significant life decisions, emphasizing the idea that God communicates with believers in profound ways. They encourage listeners to cultivate a deeper relationship with the Holy Spirit, welcoming His transformative power into their daily lives.

The speakers address common misconceptions, strongly arguing against the belief that the Holy Spirit is a thing of the past. Instead, they assert its ongoing relevance. They also caution against blasphemy while fostering an environment of curiosity and faith exploration, encouraging everyone to seek the truth and embrace the Holy Spirit’s active presence.

Chapters

• 00:00 - 03:00: Introduction and Discussion of Holy Spirit In this chapter, the host begins by greeting the audience and referencing the Bible, setting a tone of spiritual exploration. The host humorously notes the reciprocity of questions, emphasizing the idea of 'reaping what you sow,' a spiritual law. The focus is on the Holy Spirit being a helper and guide, reflecting personal connection and reliance on divine assistance in understanding questions and life challenges.
• 03:00 - 09:00: Relationship with Holy Spirit This chapter discusses the relationship with the Holy Spirit, emphasizing that receiving the Holy Spirit and experiencing miracles is not due to obedience to the law or through works, but is a result of what Jesus has done.
• 09:00 - 15:00: Prophecy and Prayer The chapter titled 'Prophecy and Prayer' discusses the notion of faith and the holy spirit as a free gift from the Father. It emphasizes the idea that self-righteousness is insignificant in the presence of the Almighty. The narrative highlights the importance of believing in the message, with an anecdote about a pastor's approach to answering questions, implying the complexity and personal nature of faith-related inquiries.
• 15:00 - 23:00: Blasphemy and Truth about Holy Spirit The chapter titled 'Blasphemy and Truth about Holy Spirit' delves into the concept from the Bible of the Holy Spirit being an 'earnest deposit' or a 'down payment' from God. This is described as a proof from God for the promises and wonders, including heaven and miracles that He has in store. The Holy Spirit is depicted as a guarantee or assurance of the truth and fulfillment of God's promises, emphasizing a personal and miraculous connection believers possess through the Holy Spirit.
• 23:00 - 30:00: Gender and Identity Discussion This chapter titled "Gender and Identity Discussion" seems to delve into religious beliefs regarding identity and the interaction with spiritual elements. The discussion emphasizes the role of the Holy Spirit and underscores a faith-based perspective on identity. It highlights how God, described as the 'father of spirits,' communicates with people through the Holy Spirit. The theme suggests a spiritual approach to understanding gender and identity, presented as a divine mystery underpinned by faith in God, who is portrayed as a miracle worker. This reflects a dialogue deeply rooted in religious convictions about the essence of identity and the spirit.
• 30:00 - 35:00: Invitation to Experience the Holy Spirit The chapter titled 'Invitation to Experience the Holy Spirit' delves into the concept of divine communication. It discusses the ability of God, through the Holy Spirit, to communicate with all creations, including humans, speaking to their souls. The chapter emphasizes the Holy Spirit's role in revealing God's presence and power to believers. It also reflects on biblical accounts such as Jesus speaking to trees, highlighting the comprehensive obedience and communication within the divine realm.
• 35:00 - 45:00: Testimony and Encouragement The chapter "Testimony and Encouragement" focuses on motivating the listeners, especially those who are tuning in for the first time, to engage with previous discussions on the ministry of the Holy Spirit. It emphasizes the reality of the Holy Spirit today, suggesting that understanding and experiencing the Holy Spirit is not just a thing of the past but very relevant to our current lives. The speaker encourages the audience to explore the powerful experiences with the Holy Spirit shared in previous messages.
• 45:00 - 49:00: Conclusion and Invitation to Share In this chapter titled 'Conclusion and Invitation to Share', the speaker talks about the Holy Spirit as a real and integral presence in their life. They describe the Holy Spirit as their best friend who knows everything, including details about their life before they were born. The speaker emphasizes the role of the Holy Spirit in guiding them, sharing a personal example of how it led them to be in Omaha and to the USA, reflecting on the intimate knowledge and plan the Holy Spirit has for their life.

Is the Holy Spirit still for today? - Part 4 Transcription

• 00:00 - 00:30 welcome to ministry moment we are continually her Bible was open before she greet you because I wanted to ask I you do this to me and you'll say I have a question so I'm going to do this to you now okay i have a question for you oh my goodness lord help me holy Spirit help me see it's you reap what you sow it's a spiritual law no you know what holy Spirit is going to help me he's my helper he is thank you Holy Spirit yeah you I know what you're going to ask me you already told me what's the question
• 00:30 - 01:00 then all right so I want to ask you a question yes does God give you the Holy Spirit and work miracles among you because you obey the law no no why because that is a filthy and garbage [Laughter] doing by works we don't get it by works is because of what Jesus Jesus qualified
• 01:00 - 01:30 made it possible the way for that you have the holy spirit because it's a free gift from the father right just by because we have faith in him and I love that you know I say garbage man yeah selfrighteousness garbage before the you know in the presence of the almighty so so that means I hope I answer my question right you answer the question you answered yeah because it it's because you believe the message yeah I my pastor said when he asked He doesn't like to answer a question when they ask you a
• 01:30 - 02:00 question that's another The Bible says the Holy Spirit is our earnest deposit it's our down payment that hey look so God's saying "Oh look all these promises and all the great stuff and heaven and everything here I'm proving to you i'm going to show you this is all real so I'm giving you an earnest deposit to prove to you this is the proof that what I've said I'm going to do." And I just love this okay okay so not only that you get the Holy Spirit as a deposit but God works miracles among us through what the
• 02:00 - 02:30 power of the Holy Spirit yeah because why because of our faith in Christ amen amen yes our faith and uh God is a God of miracle you know the Bible says you know God is a father of spirits god relates to us what by the Holy Spirit m to our spirit all right and that's how God communicate with us yeah god is he's a master
• 02:30 - 03:00 communicator he can talk to you to your your your soul he can talk to Hey God can talk to anything and they has that ability to recognize his voice wow c can you imagine that you know that God talked even Jesus talked to trees and they obey his command so God is a master communicator and the Holy Spirit is the one that reveal the presence and the power everything to to us so I'm
• 03:00 - 03:30 going to encourage you i know some of you maybe you are you know you maybe today's your first time that you are listening to this message you know I'm going to highly encourage you to go back to a few weeks back and I wish we don't have time to do a recap but we've been having an amazing time with the Holy Spirit talking about you know the ministry of the Holy Spirit who is the Holy Spirit is it the Holy Spirit is real today or is the things of the past or or what this is all about the Holy
• 03:30 - 04:00 Spirit is real he's the one that reveals the presence of God to you when you pray when you worship you know the Holy Spirit is our best friend it is my best friend he he knows everything he knows about my life even before I was born okay he knew he knew every detail about my life he knew you know that I'm going to be in Omaha today and uh you know I I I came to USA is because of the Holy
• 04:00 - 04:30 Spirit he spoke to me told me that hey I'm going to have you go to Omaha Nebraska that's how I ended up that is a miracle itself that's how I ended up here too because and I think I think I'm from Ohio for the ministry of the Holy Spirit has been made available so you know nobody can wait okay i just really quickly I just wanted to say this because sometimes people get so hung up on them being able to meet you know their spouse and get
• 04:30 - 05:00 married to the right person and so I just want to share this really quick i'm not going to share a whole story but God had to bring my husband from Togo West Africa to Omaha Nebraska togo is in a is in a Zion is in heaven man and me from Ohio and here's the thing you didn't know where Omaha Nebraska was no I didn't know when I came i didn't either i knew it was in the middle of the US somewhere but I didn't know exactly where i had to get a map out this was before Google maps and all that
• 05:00 - 05:30 stuff was a big thing um you know so I had to I looked on a map and had to see where um that was in Map Quest days when that's how you got everywhere but I had to look it up and say "Oh that's exactly where it is." Because God knew and here's the thing when you when you are running after the Holy Spirit and you're you're listening to his voice he's going to order your footsteps so you're in the right place at the right time so instead of trying to make things come to pass whether that's a prophetic
• 05:30 - 06:00 word that was spoken over to you a promise of God or you know you want to get married or you want to buy a house whatever it is if you just continually follow the voice of the Holy Spirit and keep pushing forward he's going to order your footsteps so that you are in that right place at the right time that way you know you the Holy Spirit even gave you my name yeah yeah so this is beautiful how Holy Spirit you know orchestrated my my steps and you know what the key for all of that folks
• 06:00 - 06:30 there's nobody get hungry all right for God and by the same time you don't fulfill God does not fulfill the desires of your heart go after him that's what I can tell you hey honey the rest is history if you Go after the Holy Spirit he will arrange your life oh you know one of the scripture says by the spirit of God he
• 06:30 - 07:00 beautify the heaven may I prophesy to you i know I'm pointing my pen to some of you but that's not what I mean by the by may I prophesy to you that in the name of Jesus may the Holy Spirit beautify your life mhm that all the bitterness in your life must be cut off may the Holy Spirit bring sweetness into your life may the Holy Spirit brings the answer to your prayers may the Holy
• 07:00 - 07:30 Spirit open your spiritual eyes so you can see the future that he has prepared for you may the Holy Spirit elevate you gives you promotion whatever area that you need the Holy Spirit right now you need God to step in i pray I prophesy like uh the prophet spoke to the wind and say the the Lord asked me to speak over dry
• 07:30 - 08:00 bones i speak to your dry bones in the name of Jesus may life come to you may God's provision find you may God take your life take that mess and make a miracle out of it amen you will be a testimony to everyone that comes in contact with you you are like a tree planted by the river of waters and you are bringing
• 08:00 - 08:30 forth fruits in every season no dry season in your life in the name of Jesus i speak over you i speak over your health i speak over your children i speak over your spouse your relationship in the name of Jesus and I decree and I declare over your life that you are not a loser amen listen to me some of you you are been so hard on yourself you are you you are condemning yourself for what
• 08:30 - 09:00 nonsense that the enemy has has been using to to talk you out of your position no draw the line right now as I'm speaking to you say no more of this nonsense in the name of Jesus i am the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus in the name of Jesus I am victorious in the name of Jesus by the power of the Holy Spirit through the ministry of angels I release the blessings long life
• 09:00 - 09:30 provision into in your way may God locate you and let his face shines upon you right this very moment this is your new season is it a set time for you to rise above every situation that you are going through amen you are winning you have won and you are winning on top of it in the name of Jesus i feel like I need to prophesy to some of you and and I thank God for what God is doing with
• 09:30 - 10:00 you in Jesus mighty name wow I'm excited for this we haven't start teaching anything yet but that's okay that's what the Holy Spirit i love the Holy Spirit when he shows up hey you you get out of the way and let him take be the driver when the Holy Spirit drives your life you'll never lack for anything and everything is gonna go well with you so I'm excited yeah well and I just I love what you said because even Jesus told
• 10:00 - 10:30 the disciples don't do anything until you receive the Holy Spirit like this is important you need the Holy Spirit before you go out and we need that same thing i think you know when people we talked last night we or last time you gave a little teaser about the language of the spirit but you think about Paul said I thank my God that I speak in tongues more than you all why yeah this is a question that sometimes that's what
• 10:30 - 11:00 we will be addressing that I I'm not sure this program yes go ahead okay well sorry I'm excited for what you because I'm going to debunk some of the lie from the pit of hell about you know praying the holy spirit is Is it for today or for yesterday it's for today let me tell you yeah it is for today if you know how to speak you Yeah oh my goodness this is This is This is beautiful it is for today don't be deceived mhm yeah it is for
• 11:00 - 11:30 today it's not from the devil for those who believes from the devil you better be careful don't blaspheming the Holy Spirit don't call something that is holy demonic it may cost you your salvation don't go to that route if you don't understand what sometime we we don't understand everything one time first time but ask you can ask him questions the holy spirit you know I challenge you for all
• 11:30 - 12:00 of you who uh maybe if you know someone everyone all of you maybe you have a question about you know is it the holy spirit speak in tongues or praying the holy spirit for today I challenge you why don't you ask the holy spirit hey if you really really want to know ask him the question if you are real show me is this is real what an honest question don't just go against it because when people start arguing that tells me they
• 12:00 - 12:30 don't want to know they've been driven by devils they don't want to know so you know honest person you know ask a simple question say "Father if this is real I want to know." Remember he's your papa he's a good father if he say my sheep knows my voice and the voice of the stranger they will not follow because he's a good father you ask him a
• 12:30 - 13:00 question he will he will Oh my goodness he will answer the question yeah he's going to reveal himself to you if he if hey you if you know God if you know the Lord Jesus he's he's amazing he's not going to cut your heads off punch your face or destroy you because you ask a question yeah no ask him a question
• 13:00 - 13:30 father if this is real I want to know talk to me yeah he will speak to you so I know I know some people don't don't hurt yourself and don't go to that route holy Spirit is for today don't blasphemy the Holy Spirit i'm cautioning you I'm warning you don't don't don't go to that route stay away from that you know uh that false
• 13:30 - 14:00 doctrine ask him the question if he's God if he's your father he will talk to you because every parent love to talk to their children and say he said even you know if you that if you love your father as a natural human being you love your kid how much more your father which is in heaven so God is great is better than your your natural parent anyway well and I think maybe in case someone's not familiar with the scripture why saying you know you don't blasphemy the Holy
• 14:00 - 14:30 Spirit why that's so important is because that is the only sin that the Bible says you can't be forgiven for is blasphemy the Holy Spirit yeah and so calling something which no one can argue is not in the Bible and was the Holy Spirit in the Bible calling something that is in the Bible clearly the devil that's dangerous calling the Holy Spirit the don't make that I don't want you to make anybody to make that mistake is don't don't find yourself in that place
• 14:30 - 15:00 I don't know what to tell you that's don't do it don't play with fire yeah so you can ask question yeah ask God knows your heart if you you can't fool him I think we should take a time where we go through all the scriptures on it and explain it but I just wanted to say one more thing on that no I'm laying the found I think we are laying the foundation today maybe in the next program we're going understand this topic because some of the things that we're going to debunk we're going to help you understand all the lies all right this is a it is a year is a it is
• 15:00 - 15:30 a season of truth we must speak the truth he if the truth what will set you free if you know the truth so that's why I'm I'm trying my best by the help of the Holy Spirit to communicate this with you it's okay to ask question it yeah it is and study it out i think one of the things I just want to mention before we you know really do the deep dive and go into the scripture is that one of the erroneous
• 15:30 - 16:00 teachings out there is that the Holy Spirit passed away with the disciples that it was just for the disciples to you know why they would need the Holy Spirit and we don't i don't understand uh we need the Holy Ghost today but there's this teaching that it was just for that time and it passed away so if that's true then we should be able to look at church history and see that after the disciples were gone the Holy Spirit and speaking in tongues it was just gone but that's not historically accurate um you can see the ministry of
• 16:00 - 16:30 the Holy Spirit continued speaking in tonesues continued through the early church um you know and so I just wanted to mention that because sometimes people come up with these doctrines that don't not only do they not make sense biblically because you cannot support that in the scripture but they don't historically even line up um and the only scripture in the Bible and the one that people try to use is they say "Oh see um this scripture says that when he
• 16:30 - 17:00 which is perfect is come," which talking about the second coming of Christ which let me ask you a question has Jesus come again just checking has he come yet again no no no not yet we're still here i know he I know i know by the way he want to come i told him "Wait I got a lot to do for you first." It it that's my joke so it's true it's true we got We got because we got a lot to do for Jesus before he returned back because Yeah so okay so that anyway that scripture it
• 17:00 - 17:30 says that speaking in tonesues will pass away when Jesus comes again because once the second coming of Christ happens we won't need to speak in tongues anymore it won't be necessary we'll be with Jesus and it also says knowledge will pass away last time I checked knowledge hadn't passed away yet no so people p completely pulled that scripture out of context and I am amazed that so many Christians have grabbed hold of that without reading just read just read the
• 17:30 - 18:00 scriptures right around there i mean it's so clear it takes I I mean it takes effort to really mess that scripture up and yet people have done it and they hold on it like their their wrong interpretation the scripture doesn't even say that i mean it's so clear what it's saying and yet people say see it pass i do believe that you know using using your common sense will save you from a lot of troubles most of the time people don't use their common sense and also when you're going
• 18:00 - 18:30 to read your Bible when you grab your Bible to read don't read your Bible upside down just make don't don't read your Bible like a newspaper just you know you know what's proof that sometimes it's so so sad people don't use their common sense i was just I could not believe how quickly people jumped on the bandwagon for how many There are only two genders male and female and yet people jumped on these bandwagons of like how many I don't know
• 18:30 - 19:00 96 96 genders how do you even know what a confusion oh my goodness you see common sense XX and XY chromosomes there's two genders and yet people if it's science is be proven by science they ask that you believe science but they they are confused man they say follow the science except when we don't want Except when it doesn't support our narrative no the Bible didn't change it's the same male god created male and female yeah we We pray for We pray for them we do and we cast out those devils
• 19:00 - 19:30 of And we love the people yeah that's right it because here's the thing they don't know their identity in Christ and so really what it is is there can we've told people that you know you came you evolution happened there's no creator no god your life has no purpose there's no life after death there's no consequences for your actions so basically you don't matter your ident you know and then we wonder why people struggle with their identifying identity no you need to know
• 19:30 - 20:00 that you were created by God for a purpose and loved by him and if you aren't solid in that if our society isn't and solid in that then you see people not because they did something wrong but because we live in a fallen world with doctrines of devils the Bible says the spiritual warfare if you look at what it's talking about it's talking about those ideologies that it calls doctrines of devils and this multi-gender thing it is a doctrine of devils that has woven its way into our
• 20:00 - 20:30 society to get people confused because it's trying to separate them from the identity that God gave to them and who God created them to be so that they don't fulfill their purpose people get so wrapped up and they become so consumed by this idea of their identity being connected to a gender that they miss who God called them to be and what God called them to do because they're
• 20:30 - 21:00 fighting for something that doesn't even make sense even chicken knows that they are chickens and they understand two gender yeah even dogs knows that there's a two two what gender male and female cow they know there's only two what's wrong with mankind you know but now this you one of the they not the first one remember from the beginning from book of Genesis
• 21:00 - 21:30 because of the corruption yeah because of Lucifer everything has begun from the beginning and so but there's a way out of all of that that's why we must speak the truth Yeah and people that are the only thing that will save people from this uh demonic doctrine the only thing that will save them from evil and is for us we the church that we speak the truth so and uh so pray in the Holy Spirit it is for
• 21:30 - 22:00 today and I'm proudly I can I have a I have breaking news for all of you i speak in tongues and I love it it's so yummy okay all right you know I want to show you at the end of this message if you don't speak in the Holy Ghost I'm I'm I'm speaking to you you will speak in tongue trust me well yeah you will because the
• 22:00 - 22:30 Holy The Holy Spirit is going to grab get hold of you yes and you're going to curse you you're going to start talking nothing like it it's so sweet if you rely on what the scriptures say absolut so I just want to share this really quickly because we don't have more lot of time though i know this just went so fast but I just wanted to share this my own experience so I got saved and uh filled with the Holy Ghost speaking in tongues now I was not raised in church which you know at first I was kind of
• 22:30 - 23:00 like after I met Jesus I was like I you know wish I would have been but then I started going to church and I was like thank God I wasn't because I didn't get indoctrinated with lies so I was a spiritfilled Christian baby Christian and before I started going to church really regularly I had read pretty much the entire Bible on my own and you know the Holy Spirit was teaching me things and giving me revelation on things and um so I started going to church and I was shocked i could not
• 23:00 - 23:30 believe there were Christians that didn't believe in speaking in tongues i was like "Wait a second i read this book did you read the same book I read how can you believe speaking in tonesues is of the devil?" And did I mean did you read the book i couldn't believe it i was I was shocked i was shocked because Christians listen Christians did not
• 23:30 - 24:00 believe the word of God that was testifying of the Holy Spirit just like the Pharisees who were supposed to be the guardians of the word of God didn't recognize Jesus wow wow that's you think about that now it's it was the religious people then and it's religious people now that reject the purpose and the ministry of the Holy Spirit that's proof that the enemy is afraid of the Holy Spirit and you speaking in tongues just like the enemy was afraid of Jesus you
• 24:00 - 24:30 know is one you know if you want I'm trying to create and what you for we everything we are telling you today to make you hungry that's all so next week we're going to kind of dive into it show you from the scriptures and now make you I want you to promise this you're going to make sure that you take you write down the scriptures yes and you go back home or you open the Bible for yourself and uh this is a simple question you
• 24:30 - 25:00 need to ask the Holy Spirit if a father if it this is you I want to know if it this is from you that's it that's honest person if you want to know you you you serious about knowing God you are allowed to add this you are allowed to add this question all right don't don't Yeah so I'm going to encourage you just ask the question but making sure when he speaks to you you listen all right don't resist
• 25:00 - 25:30 because you can't fool God he knows your heart the Lord knows you all right so and for sake of time and thank you for being a part of uh our ministry moment and we believe that the spirit of the most high God is touching your life wherever you are and you know I I I see a bright future for you amen i see God is doing something powerful with you wow
• 25:30 - 26:00 i see the glory of God all over you i see that God is God is doing something new and all you know the things of the past are wiped away you have stepped into a new season in your life i see God is is lavishing his grace his love his compassion on you for this purpose all right for this reason to display his beauty through you so many can come and
• 26:00 - 26:30 to get to know him wow what a testimony you are a great testimony for people around you we prophesy over your life that you are next in line to testify of the goodness of God in this land of the living and I we declare we speak over you that nothing shall by any means will touch your life or will delay answers to your prayers in the name of Jesus we
• 26:30 - 27:00 release the anointing of the Holy Spirit to touch your life whatever you are we bring healings to you whatever area that you need to be healed receive your healing in the name of Jesus and I we decree and speak over your body i say body be well in Jesus mighty name we decree and and declare over you no death will touch your life no disease will come close to your home your children
• 27:00 - 27:30 are protected your loved ones are protected no tragedy no accident in your path i speak long we speak long life over you yes we speak may things has been tied up in your life or are or loosened right now in Jesus mighty name and you will testify you will sing a new song and songs of glory nor songs of
• 27:30 - 28:00 accomplaining no in the name of Jesus yes the writing of death is cancelled in Jesus mighty name receive whatever you need you know be like Mary when the me messenger came to her she said she came into an agreement with the messenger and the message and the baby was formed in him that's what we are celebrating today because she knows she knew that I have to agree with heaven and may you agree
• 28:00 - 28:30 with God with God's messenger God message and your life will be a great testimony wow thank you Lord we thank God for your life we can't wait to hear back from you let us know share your testimony how your life been transformed by this program we believe God is touching your life in a special way yeah you can submit your prayer request online at solof ministries.org and don't forget to like and share this on Facebook Instagram Rebel and YouTube
• 28:30 - 29:00 we'll see you next week