How To Depend On The Holy Ghost. || Apostle Michael Orokpo
Apostle Michael Orokpo: How to depend on the Holy Ghost.
- By acknowledging what Christ did for you.
That means you’re accepting a new reality. Philemon 1:6, “that the communication of your faith will become effectual by the acknowledging of every good thing that is in you”
I am the righteousness of God not because of what I’ve done but because of what Christ did. And then, the Holy Ghost will come to make you become what Christ did. I healed the sick, not because I’m smart but because Christ has commissioned me to. Then, the Holy Ghost comes to affirm it
So, when you acknowledge what Christ said and did, the Holy Ghost comes to perform it because he’s the witness. You can’t depend on the spirit if you don’t acknowledge what Christ said.
- By waiting on Him.
They that wait upon the Lord, they renew their strengths they mount up with wings. That’s when you enter the spirit.
So, if you don’t wait, you won’t mount up. When you acknowledge what Christ did, the Holy Ghost is under obligation by God to confirm it, because he’s the witness. So he feels you when you wait on him, he feels you(you mount up), that’s how you depend on the Spirit.
- By staying spiritually minded.
Don’t let anything get you carnally minded. Some people are full of facts, full of reason, that’s why the spirit can’t take over them. It say, we have not received the spirit that is of this world, but the spirit that is of God.
So, we know the things freely given to us by God, which things we speak not with words that human wisdom teaches but with words that the Holy Ghost teaches comparing spiritual things with spiritual. The natural man receiveth not the things of the spirit, neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
So, we know the spirit we have received and we commune of those things. He said to be carnally minded is death but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.
So, the Spirit takes over when you build spiritual mindedness and this is why you come for fellowships like this, we are not talking football here, we are not talking business, we are talking God. So, it builds your consciousness.
You must stay spiritually conscious to be full of the spirit.
- Talk to yourself in Psalms, in Hymns, in spiritual song, make melody in your heart to the Lord. Ephesians 5:18-19
You want the spirit to take over, you want to depend on the spirit, talk to yourself.
- Minister to the Lord.
Acts 13:2, “they minister to the Lord and fasted, the Holy Ghost said, “separate unto me Paul and Barnabas for the work”.
How do you minister to the Lord? You adore him, you exalt him, you speak of his goodness, you declare what he has done. As you are doing that, the Holy Ghost fills you, as you talking to yourself in Psalms he feels you, as you are waiting on him, he feels you. That’s how you depend on the Spirit. As you acknowledge what Christ has done, he fills you.
This is the practice of the Christian life. The reason you find many Christians not making impact, is because although they come to church, they don’t do these things. You hardly find christians who sit down to acknowledge what Jesus has done and to affirm it in their lives.
You hardly see christians, who just step aside and say they are waiting on the Lord, pray in tongues and be there quiet. You hardly find christian who set out time just to honor the Lord, to adore him, to minister to the Lord. That’s why you find dry christians, you hardly find a christian speaking Psalms and Hymns and spiritual songs, they don’t know it. They only come to church and go back, that’s why the things we preach here look to them like drama. You can be filled with the spirit, these are the channels.
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