Hello again, it's Pastor Steve Wohlberg here with a short Bible message just for you, short
and sweet. Have you ever heard the expression, “the best things in life are free”? Well,
I tell you, it is the truth and what I'm going to share with you right now in the next couple
minutes is absolutely free, no strings attached, and I can promise you that if you will do
what I'm telling you, it will change your life for good, forever. My thought is based
on 1 verse in Luke chapter 11 verse 13 where Jesus Christ said these words. He said, “If
you then being evil know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more shall
your Heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask Him?” I’m a dad, I have
a 13 year old daughter and a 17 year old son and I know how to give good gifts to my kids,
so does my wife. We love our children very much but God loves us more. He loves you more
than any parent could ever love a child and Jesus tells us that if we who are evil know
how to give good gifts to our children, how much more will our Father in heaven give the
Holy Spirit to those who ask Him? So Jesus here tells us that we need to ask specifically
for the Holy Spirit to come into our lives. I started doing that in earnest in 1986. I
went through a terrible crisis in my life, my life was falling apart, I was very confused,
I had a lot of problems. And one night, in a little room near San Francisco, I got on
my knees, turned off the lights and I prayed that God would help me and this little voice
came into my head, just a still small voice, and it said “pray for the Holy Spirit, for
the Spirit of Truth to guide you into all truth.” And so I started doing that and
I've been doing that almost every day for the last 35 years. I just opened my mouth
and I say “Dear God, please give me the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Truth, to help
me and to guide my life.” And I tell you that since I've been doing that, wonderful
things have happened. My confusion cleared away, it helped me to understand the Bible.
The more I pray for the Holy Spirit, the more I can understand God's Word which has been
inspired by that Spirit. And the Holy Spirit has shown me things in my life, things that
need to be changed. He’s made things very clear to me, He's awakened my conscience.
He showed me that Jesus is my Savior, that I can trust my sins and my mistakes into his
loving hands, that He forgives me by His grace and He gives me, through the Holy Spirit,
He gives me power to do what's right and to resist what is wrong, to resist the world,
the flesh, and the devil which is something we're all battling with. So like I said, I've
been doing this. It hasn't cost me anything, it’s free except, I guess you could say,
that what it has cost me is some habits I’ve needed to give up but outside of that, it
hasn't cost me any money. I’ve just been praying and praying and I want to recommend
this to you. I don't know what's going on in your life. I don't know whether you're
confused or discouraged or feeling like you're in a dark hole or whatever is happening, here's
my tip. My heavenly tip for you is to start doing what Jesus said and to pray for the
Holy Spirit. That's what Jesus said right here, “how much more shall your Heavenly
Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?” And that's your part. That's what
you have to do. You have to actually open your mouth and ask God, on a daily basis,
to give you the Holy Spirit. And I promise you, if you'll do that simple thing, it'll
change your life for good, forever. You’ve probably heard the expression, “you can
lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink” and that's the result, that's really
the same thing for this talk right now. I've given you the water, the water of life and
now it's up to you to drink, to make a choice, to begin praying for the Holy Spirit and,
if you'll do that, I promise you, you'll never be sorry and it will change your life forever.
So thanks for watching and start praying. God bless you. Wait! Before you go, and you
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