Living Your Life with the Guidance of the Holy Spirit

Summary

In a thought-provoking and enlightening session, Salifou Ministries delves into the transformative role of the Holy Spirit in a believer's life. The discussion begins with an exploration of what the Holy Spirit does within the world, as guided by John 16. The Holy Spirit not only convicts the world of sin but also guides believers into all truth, offering direction on life's journey. The talk progresses into the practical applications of listening to the Holy Spirit, including personal anecdotes of life-changing decisions made through divine guidance, and culminates in understanding the distinct difference between receiving the Holy Spirit at salvation and being baptized with the Holy Spirit. These insights are framed within engaging narratives, making the theological topics easily relatable and deeply impactful.

Highlights

• Exploration of John 16 on the Holy Spirit's purpose and role in the world. 📖
• Personal stories of divine guidance and decision-making. 🤔
• Differences between the Holy Spirit at salvation and baptism in the Holy Spirit. 🔄

Key Takeaways

• The Holy Spirit convicts the world of sin and directs believers to truth. 🙏
• Understanding and following the Holy Spirit's guidance brings clarity and purpose. 🔍
• Receiving the Holy Spirit at salvation is different from being baptized with the Holy Spirit. 💧

Overview

The session with Salifou Ministries offers a captivating insight into the workings of the Holy Spirit. Starting with an examination of John 16, the talk explains how the Holy Spirit brings conviction of sin to the world, guiding believers to truth and righteousness. This grounding in scripture sets the stage for understanding the depth of the Holy Spirit's involvement in daily life.

Listeners are encouraged to engage with the Holy Spirit as a source of direction and wisdom, with the hosts sharing personal anecdotes to illustrate the practical aspects of living under divine guidance. These stories serve to highlight the transformative power of listening to the Holy Spirit, from significant life decisions to everyday choices, painting a vivid picture of a life aligned with divine intentions.

The discussion further distinguishes between the receipt of the Holy Spirit at the point of salvation and being fully baptized in the Spirit as a separate experience. The hosts tease further exploration of this topic, along with speaking in tongues and spiritual gifts, inviting viewers to continue delving deeper into these compelling aspects of faith in their next session.

Chapters

• 00:00 - 00:30: Introduction The 'Introduction' chapter sets the stage for a series focused on understanding the Holy Spirit. It opens with a welcoming note to viewers, inviting them to continue exploring themes about the Holy Spirit. A recurring question—frequently asked by the audience—is mentioned, with a hint that it has been addressed in prior episodes, encouraging viewers to revisit previous content for the answer. This chapter establishes a conversational and inviting tone, fitting for a series that builds on continuous viewer engagement.
• 00:30 - 05:00: Role of the Holy Spirit The chapter begins with some anticipation about discussing topics related to speaking in tongues and associated doctrines, but it initially delves into the role of the Holy Spirit. There is an emphasis on understanding what Jesus mentioned regarding the actions and implications of the Holy Spirit coming to believers and followers. The speaker also invites engagement by asking listeners to contribute their understanding of what Jesus said about the Holy Spirit in the comments.
• 05:00 - 10:00: The Holy Spirit in Decisions and Life In this chapter titled 'The Holy Spirit in Decisions and Life,' the discussion focuses on the role and impact of the Holy Spirit as presented in the Bible, specifically referring to John 16. It highlights Jesus's reassurance to his followers about his departure being beneficial, because it would bring the Holy Spirit to them. The narrative underscores the spiritual guidance that the Holy Spirit provides in decision-making and everyday life, portraying it as a comforting and guiding presence in the believers' journey.
• 10:00 - 15:00: Personal Experiences with the Holy Spirit The chapter discusses the role of the Holy Spirit in convicting the world of sin, emphasizing that the world's sin is its refusal to believe in God. It states that righteousness is available because of Jesus's ascension to the Father, and judgment will occur because the ruler of this world has already been judged. The narrative suggests there is more that could be revealed, but it is not yet time, hinting at further truths to be revealed when the Spirit of Truth arrives.
• 15:00 - 25:00: The Holy Spirit in Salvation and Baptism The chapter discusses the role of the Holy Spirit in guiding believers into all truth by conveying messages heard directly from the Father. The Holy Spirit's guidance includes revealing future events to those who embrace His presence. This aspect is crucial for believers as it reassures them of divine insight into their lives and the world.
• 25:00 - 29:00: Conclusion and Prayer The chapter discusses the concept of knowing the future, suggesting that contrary to the common belief 'nobody knows tomorrow,' it is indeed possible for individuals to gain insight into their future based on divine revelations. It emphasizes that anyone can know their future if they are closely connected or 'acquainted' with the divine source providing this knowledge.

Living Your Life with the Guidance of the Holy Spirit Transcription

• 00:00 - 00:30 welcome to Ministry moment we are so glad that you joined us today because we are continuing our series on the holy spirit so what is the difference between the holy spirit this is your favorite question to ask if you've been watching we've answered this question already yeah so so we got an answer for you just go you got to go back to pre previous go back and watch and you'll find out
• 00:30 - 01:00 that's funny all right well today I know we we gave a teaser last time that we were going to get into a couple of things but before we get into what the Bible says about speaking in tongues and all the doctrine around that I wanted to talk just really quickly about just the Holy Spirit and what what did Jesus say the Holy Spirit would do when he came does anybody know put it in the comments if you know what did the holy Jesus say
• 01:00 - 01:30 the Holy Spirit would do when the Holy Spirit came we're going to go to John 16 I just love the word of God don't you it's so yummy all right John 16 and we'll start in verse 8 all right so Jesus tells them you know that he's going away and that's a good thing cuz the holy spirit's coming and he says he's talking about the Holy Spirit and says and when he comes he
• 01:30 - 02:00 will convict the world of sin and of God's righteousness and of the coming judgment the world's sin is that it refuses to believe me righteousness is available because I go to the father and you will see me no more judgment will become because the will come because the ruler of this world has already been judged there is so much more I want to tell you but you can't bear it now when the spirit of truth comes comes he will
• 02:00 - 02:30 guide you into all truth so the Holy Spirit guides us into all truth he will not speak on his own but will tell you what he has heard so he is the holy spirit will tell us what he heard directly from the father amen he will tell you about the future so in other words when you have the Holy Spirit he will tell you about the future about what's going to happen so so I know before you you finish there so are you telling me that or maybe everyone is
• 02:30 - 03:00 watching that so I know and people like to make a statement that nobody knows tomorrow is it true or is false based on what what you just read he will tell you about the future yeah that tells me that anybody can know everyone can anybody can know what you can know your tomorrow right and if you are acquainted
• 03:00 - 03:30 or if you have fellowship or you know the Holy Spirit yeah you know because he reveal because it is the holy spirit reveals you know your future everything about your life he he's aware of for you know what is going around you or your future MH so T sometime people make those statement you see sometime those statement that people some of the statements not from the scriptures is men's main stuff and we believe that M
• 03:30 - 04:00 and we have spoken for so long that sometime because of the Power of Words has affected our life and people are living a confusing life no seriously yeah you know what I'm saying so I just want to make sure that people understand this all right so that right you you age the because I I I have the right to know my tomorrow if if I they said the Holy Spirit who tells me will bring to my knowledge things that God has for me mhm okay yeah
• 04:00 - 04:30 yeah God God will give you Direction on what you're supposed to do now it doesn't mean that you know every single thing you can say oh tomorrow at 2 o' this is going to happen but you can know the future you can know what God plans and and look you see that throughout the books of Acts all through the book of Acts where the disciples knew where to go um because they had direction of the Holy Spirit or they started to make a wrong decision the Holy Spirit corrected them um he let them know what it was that com love the ministry of the holy
• 04:30 - 05:00 spirit so I'm excited it's like you're preaching to me but that's I'm let you finish this all right then next it says he will bring me Glory by telling you whatever he receives from me so the holy spirit will speak to us what Jesus says that means we can know the mind of Christ we can know the thoughts of God because the holy spirit will tell us what what Jesus said what God the father said all that belong to the father is
• 05:00 - 05:30 mine that is why I said the spirit will tell you whatever he receives from me so the holy spirit is so very important um to us and I don't I don't know how people live without the Holy Spirit honestly because he he guides Us in everything that we do it so we need the Holy Spirit to help us at least I do I'm not good enough on my own I need the help of the Holy Spirit to show me things and to tell me what to do and
• 05:30 - 06:00 speak to me what the father is saying and I can't tell you how many times the voice of the Holy Spirit has saved me from doing something I shouldn't have done or making a mistake or helps me make a right decision so um Having the Holy Spirit is so now you know I know I know there's a lot I told you I'm gonna let you talk do the most talking but I'm getting he always does that he tells me and then so so are you telling me you know I'm trying to help some of the
• 06:00 - 06:30 viewers because because this is a this is a big subject and it is a very profound subject and because because the things that the reason why people are not succeeding when I say success or people are not living you know uh life or to the uh the fullness of life or they're not living life to the the potential you know the the potential the your full potential is because you know people don't know what to do
• 06:30 - 07:00 right and the reason why people don't Excel they don't succeed or they don't live a life that Christ has provided for us is because they don't have Direction so it is the holy spirit that gives us the direction what to do where to go what house to buy what vehicle to get you know everything or what supermarket you should go maybe don't go to Target or stay warmer I'm just giving an
• 07:00 - 07:30 example you know what I'm saying because he want to be involved in our daily life I'm telling you something that even myself I you know I have to repent and now I'm training myself to be conscious of the holy spirit in every decision and every activity things that I do now always require what the the guidance of the holy spirit because I want I say holy spirit if you know what is going on
• 07:30 - 08:00 or maybe you praying for something espe when you are praying for somebody right now I'm speaking to someone but you know you've been praying for your health you've been praying for uh you know uh issues in your life you've been praying for someone but it seemed to me like you are not getting the answer to your prayer now can you try this can you stop praying making a decree and go back to the Holy Spirit say holy spirit what do you think about this situation what is
• 08:00 - 08:30 the way out of this crisis and you will see I feel like I sense that Holy Spirit will give you instruction guidance and the moment you apply these instructions into that situation your Miracle will manifest receive that in the name of Jesus receive it just ask these two questions and your life will become a great testimony and you will will
• 08:30 - 09:00 testify of the greatness of God in your life and uh the answer will come because it's time for you to allow the Holy Spirit to be involved in that situation I'm not saying praying or making a decree anything wrong with it but sometime we have to pause and come back say what is going on here you can ask honest question Holy Spirit oh Jesus what is the way out of this what can I do and he will tell you yeah and I think
• 09:00 - 09:30 what you said is key because what's important is we have fellowship with the Holy Spirit right some people I've heard you know the story about this guy who took it to the extreme where he's like I can't leave my house until the Holy Spirit tells me which TI wear well God gave us a brain to make decision Common Sense yeah common sense but if we continuously have fellowship with the Holy Spirit and we're asking for his input on things he's going to guide us uh you know on what to do on
• 09:30 - 10:00 we need the wisdom of the Holy Spirit on how to address certain situations or how to do certain things and sometimes we may be you know on our way to Target and the Holy Spirit says I want you to go to Walmart and because he has someone there he wants to pray for or he's protecting us but it doesn't mean that every time yeah you know it's that fellowship with the Holy Spirit the fellowship you know there's a there is a rich richness of The Fellowship of the Holy Spirit for example let me give another example from
• 10:00 - 10:30 uh old testament King Esa you know there was a Kinga the Bible talks about it and uh you know what happened was he was uh you know God blessed God blesses him all right God elevat him so he came into a place of power and he used to pray he used to ask get the guidance of the holy spirit so he always he he's so passionate about God now when he became very big God put him in that place of
• 10:30 - 11:00 power and uh guess what now he has no time to pray or require you know uh guidance from God so what he did was he was he F he was very sick so instead of asking okay the Holy Spirit or praying ask God what did what can I do in this situation you know what he did he went to see his best the best doctor I'm not
• 11:00 - 11:30 saying going to see your doctor anything wrong with it well you have to be careful because God is jealous about your life he want to be your number one that's why you got to pray okay prayer is the holy spirit make a prayer life very beautiful so so what what he did was he went to see because he now he has money he has a life insurance so he has he has a health insurance before he was broke God blesses him
• 11:30 - 12:00 now guess what he has no time to pray when he fell sick he went to see his doctor and God wasn't happy about this and God told him you're going to die and he asked why he said because you never what asked me about this situation so I'm not telling you not to go to see your doctor but I want you to put God first not only in your health situation maybe
• 12:00 - 12:30 everything you want to make an investment whatever you want to do in this life I I want you to require the wisdom of the spirit of the most high God and when you do these things I'm telling you you can never you can never make a mistake because holy spirit will never you know guide you to make a wrong investment and lose no when God the Holy Spirit speak to you you you
• 12:30 - 13:00 will always win so that's why I'm trying by the help of the Holy Spirit to explain this you I believe the reason why this message uh knowing the holy spirit is very very important is because for so long many of us we have suffered for so long mhm we we we did things wrongly and sometime we did we thinking about you know thought about the God is
• 13:00 - 13:30 speaking to us how many time people use God God told me no it's your own mind sometime I'm telling you but it's about time for us to to come back to ourself and get to know the voice of the Holy Spirit yeah and that's why you can never now if you want to hear the if you want to hear the voice of the Holy Spirit you can never neglect your Bible it's not going to happen God will never speak anything to you or the Holy Spirit it
• 13:30 - 14:00 said the holy spirit will never bring anything to your attention without that is opposite contrary to the scriptures so knowing the scriptures or making a time from the scripture and stay in that place of Fellowship okay and uh that's that's the best place you can place yourself to hear the voice of the holy spirit in your daily Affair okay of this life so I'm going to encourage you I think is about time I'm excited because I said H you know I'm
• 14:00 - 14:30 I'm H I'm I'm very hungry for this to get to know you know uh Paul says you know my my stronger desire is to know God you know what I'm saying I don't know what you are hungry for but I'm hungry to know the holy spirit amen so and uh and the Holy Spirit will will always guide you you know I thought about you know before I marry you I made a dumb decision in the past I'm serious so I've been a victim of do what I'm telling you you know I made a bad
• 14:30 - 15:00 decision in the past and uh finally you know I I say I say father you got to you got to help me here I was honest so and the Holy Spirit gave me your name that's how I know that she's my wife God gave me her name and I ask for the who is Chelsea and the rest is history so I know what the Holy Spirit can do can I just say since you you mentioned that so the Holy Spirit gave you my name um which he needed my name cuz I gave him a hard time but I Knew by the holy spirit
• 15:00 - 15:30 that you were the person I that I was going to marry to because you were the first person you brought me through hell fin I have you pray God would to speak to this lady I I was just I say I did it the right right he did that's good I love that you know I highly encourage every if you are a lady you want to get married you could don't just you know be be be loose yeah don't go around dating everybody you don't need to do that make it a little bit hard for the guy if
• 15:30 - 16:00 you're really serious he going to chase you I told the Holy Spirit I would rather be single the rest of my life than married to the wrong person and I had my list of what um my expectations were for my husband now I want to talk about my list CU sometimes people have crazy things on there that shouldn't be on their list my list was number one he had to be so on fire for Jesus I had to run after Jesus to stay up with my husband number one number two I knew where God had called me in Ministry and so number two he had to have that same
• 16:00 - 16:30 heart and passion to be in Ministry where God had called me these are the things that are important you know when when you're looking for someone to marry it's you know God calls you to do things together um as a couple it is your vision match if somebody feels called to be a missionary in Africa and someone else wants to be a finance director in Chicago it's not a good match you know I mean just common sense but but so so you were the first guy that came into my life that I thought maybe you could possibly you know fit
• 16:30 - 17:00 the interviews the Holy Spirit and had spoken to me yet and he passed she passed the test so he did well and the first time we met he asked me like the 20 questions like where do you see God you know because do you know why because I know we talking about the Holy Spirit this become very because I don't want to make a foolish mistake again I don't want to go back to hell yeah so I thought I'm never going to see this guy again cuz he was a friend of of a friend
• 17:00 - 17:30 of mine and um and I thought I would never see him again and so I'm like answering all these questions just thinking we're talking about God right because we both love God and he's interviewing me as his future wife and I so anyway but you are very persistent at asking I was and I just kept telling him no okay let me let me answer that question why that's why if you are praying for anything if you are praying for your health you praying for your finances you can just pray casual prayer you gotta be honest with yourself do you
• 17:30 - 18:00 how how how bad or are you bad how how how much how much do you want this that's why you have to stick with it because when God speaks to you you you get I don't know it gives you some kind of audacity yeah it it strengthen your faith wow that's what happened to me because I knew it was like the voice of God was talking in me it's like you know I thought about um the first man Adam
• 18:00 - 18:30 the Bible say God was talking to them the voice of God of God was speaking to them was walking with them that's what that was my experience that's why I knew that this is from him yeah it's not just from my my own head saying which is good cuz you didn't get discouraged when I kept you down so finally he was so very persistent so finally he asked me out again and I said look I'm not going to marry you so I'm not going to have coffee with you listen to this he said you
• 18:30 - 19:00 that so you do well yeah that's right yeah and you you got to know from the Holy Ghost so you know one day I was going on a walk and I was just talking to the Holy Spirit like I said like I didn't I didn't think that he was the Holy Spirit hadn't spoken to me that I was going to marry him um but you know as I got to know him more he was the first person that I was like yeah he's on fire for Jesus he has the same heart for Ministry and but you know the Holy Spirit hadn't spoken to me yet so I was
• 19:00 - 19:30 just taking a walk you know nothing super spiritual I was talking to the Holy Spirit about it and I'll never forget I stopped at a park and I sat on a swing and the Holy Spirit said what what is on your list look at your list and I realized oh he meets everything on my list and I knew cu the holy spirit said what's on your list amen and I knew that at that moment I was going to marry him and so before I ever went on a first date with him I knew I was going to marry him so that that no that's beautiful yeah well I think we should
• 19:30 - 20:00 know because he says now let's go back to the scripture I know I know holy know I'm we are we are sharing with you our own life how we we we are not preaching something to you that we don't experience ourself and and I can I just say too ition along that but it but we did develop a friendship now and can I say not intentionally on my part um but you were everywhere everywhere I went the holy spirit is orchestrating
• 20:00 - 20:30 everything so she cannot Escape you know that's hey trust the Holy Spirit I it yeah so anyway all right so back to the word of God yeah no let's go back to the scpt I know you said it said the Holy Spirit Will tells you what what he have heard from the father yeah okay and the Holy Spirit Will Reveal to us the future I'm a good listener I'm listening to what you preaching than let's let's give it well it wasn't me it was the Bible
• 20:30 - 21:00 that's good so I love this yeah all right all right so now so that was the Holy Spirit for us but at the beginning of the scripture um I love this because it talks about what what what about people that don't have the Holy Spirit because we know that if you're not born again you can't be filled with the Holy Spirit but the Holy Spirit still has a role to play yeah so the holy spirit in the world again at the beginning of the Scripture it says that that the Holy Spirit can convicts the world of sin
• 21:00 - 21:30 that is the role of the Holy Spirit now remember in the in the Book of Romans Paul says no one is without excuse because even nature testifies of God no one is out of Excuse excuse because the holy spirit is in the world convicting people of sin people know that things are evil and wrong I mean like don't kill someone that's evil there's the Holy Spirit to convict us that that's wrong and the goodness of God to draw men to repentance so the holy spirit is
• 21:30 - 22:00 working in the world to draw people in but that's different than if you're a Believer and you have a deposit of the holy spirit so there's and I want to start to get into this I know we're almost out of time but the Holy Spirit at Salvation and being filled or baptized with the Holy Spirit what the Bible says about the Bible explains that is two different experiences and you can see that as you go through the book of Acts or in the Bible and I so I just want to explain it this way cuz I was
• 22:00 - 22:30 like okay Holy Spirit how can you explain the difference between CU there's a work of the holy spirit in Salvation because it's the holy spirit that draws you um into salvation so when you get saved what happens you become a brand new creature right yep that's so what salvation is is building the new house that's what it is brand new I think it's a second 2 cor Corinthians chapter 5:1 17 I'm going to give that I'm going to I
• 22:30 - 23:00 know since you said that because I know what she's begin to tell you is to it is H we are laying on the foundation of what we're going to step into yeah you know praying in the spirit 2 Corinthians chapter 5 verse 17 right yeah it says this means anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person amen the old life is gone a new life is begun has begun so that's King uh what is it New
• 23:00 - 23:30 Living Translation okay I think King James version said therefore If any man or anybody be in Christ he is he is wow I need to preach about the he is you all or a new species new creature mhm okay old things are passed away say behold see you are not who you
• 23:30 - 24:00 used to be you are a brand new creature all things are become new that is the key I think the key for salvation is to see behold you know what I'm saying so that has been people are still blind that's why they still trying to live their old life you know because they are still subject to their physical body and so there's another another day talk so you know when the Holy Spirit the Holy Spirit what reveals to you that you are
• 24:00 - 24:30 a new creature in Christ Jesus yeah wow what a testimony yeah so when you become a new creature it's like brand new building a brand new house right the house is completely built so there's no past there's no past it's a brand new house and never existed before spilled brand new um completely washed righteous right the Old Man Died it's a brand new so there's a brand new house that's been
• 24:30 - 25:00 built up now when you're baptized with the Holy Spirit that's when the Holy Spirit comes and lives in the house that was built right so that's there's a difference there between receiving salvation because that's when you become brand new that is the work of Salvation you become a brand new person baptism is when the Holy Spirit comes to live inside dwell fill to overflowing rivers of living um water into you so that's what
• 25:00 - 25:30 we want to start getting into on the next next week so you're going to have to come back next week because we're going to go through the entire book of Acts we're going to show you examples of people getting saved and then the separate um experience of baptism we're going to show you in scripture where it talks about being baptized in the Holy Spirit different from salvation uh and we'll also just talk through um what is praying in tongues is praying in tongues for today what are the gifts of the
• 25:30 - 26:00 Spirit that are out there are those still for today so join us again next week but honey do you want to pray for us really quickly yeah yeah so so we're going to pray for you you know what I'm going to ask you know this prayer is is going to be uh uh life changing and you know I'm going to ask the Holy Spirit to reveal to you what is going on with your health your finances may God give you dreams I prophesy to you even as I'm speaking to you and prophesying to you
• 26:00 - 26:30 may the spirit of the most high God reveals to you things that need to be revealed so you know what to do in that situation in the name of Jesus I release the Peace of the the almighty to rest upon you may God's spirit overshadow you may God's spirit lives in you give life into your
• 26:30 - 27:00 mortal body I take authority over that caner cell in Jesus name I command it to come out of your body and stay out in Jesus mighty name and I decree and declare over your mind I rebuke anxiety depression oppression in the name of Yeshua the Christ and I decree I speak
• 27:00 - 27:30 over someone I speak over your finger your hands right now it's like you are dealing with athritis yes I command the pain to leave in Jesus mighty name and I decree I speak peace over your body every Bones come into alignment in Jesus might name and I speak to every nerve every muscles every organ your entire body to be healed in Jesus mighty name so right now what you
• 27:30 - 28:00 couldn't do before I'm going to challenge you begin to move your hands begin to move your feet someone God is healing your swelling knees right now in Jesus mighty name it's so big has SW that swelling is living your knees now in Jesus mighty name and I decree and declare that Divine health is your Birthright receive that now in the name of Jesus someone you are in the in a crossroad and you about you thinking
• 28:00 - 28:30 about making a decision don't be discouraged now the holy spirit is going to speak to you you're going to hear the voice the voice is the holy spirit you're going to speak to you will tell you what to do in the name of Jesus in the name of Jesus receive whatever you need call upon Him and He will answer you in Jesus mighty name amen amen well if you you haven't yet like and follow us on Facebook Facebook Instagram and YouTube and we will see you next
• 28:30 - 29:00 week if you would like to start a personal relationship with Jesus pray this prayer with me and mean it with your heart thank you Heavenly Father for loving me thank you for sending Jesus to die on the cross for my sins I believe with my heart that God raised him from the dead for my justification and I confess that Jesus is Lord over my life I receive righteousness into my spirit thank you Lord for forgiving my sins