Friendship with the Holy Spirit — Vlad Savchuk

Friendship with the Holy Spirit

Now this morning I want to speak to you about friendship with the Holy Spirit. Catherine Kuhlman said the following, Christian today operates very little in the Holy Spirit because of their ignorance concerning the Holy Spirit himself.

Jesus said in John chapter 14 verse 17 he says, the Holy Spirit who is about to come the world cannot receive him because it neither knows him. Apostle Paul goes to one church and he says, have you guys got the baptism of the Holy Spirit?

And they're like we have not even heard about the Holy Spirit and they were quote-unquote Christians. I believe there's four types of ways Christians can relate to the Holy Spirit. The first one is the foggy way.

Ignorance and Familiarity with the Holy Spirit

The foggy way is like Holy Spirit is something like Jesus yeah 2 ,000 years ago died on the cross, Messiah saved me from my sins. God the Father loves everybody, sits on the throne. Holy Spirit is just like atmosphere, power, falling on the floor, running with the flags, yelling, screaming, weird crazy stuff.

You don't want to get too close to that because you will be weird. Foggy. Some people have that view of the Holy Spirit. Let me just make something clear. The Holy Spirit is wild. He's not weird. People he uses can be weird.

The Holy Spirit is not weird. I can be weird, you can be weird, the Holy Spirit is not. But the Holy Spirit is wild. He is not just a little, he's just a powerful God and God doesn't want us to be foggy, unclear about him.

The second view that some people relate to the Holy Spirit and that is this, is that they are familiar. Somebody say familiar. Familiar with the Holy Spirit meaning they grew up in a church where they heard the teaching on the Holy Spirit.

They maybe have read a little bit about the doctrine. They have studied the Christian foundations and they are familiar with the Holy Spirit and maybe you are in that place. In fact I was. I grew up in a very strict Pentecostal church.

I mean Pentecostal, when I say Pentecostal not like some of you think Pentecostal. We had women and men seated separately and the way we knew that you were Christian is if you didn't wear makeup, earrings and no like extra lashes and your nails weren't painted, long skirt and a long covering.

And my idea of the Holy Spirit really was very loud Pentecostal prayers. I'm talking about like no music, no drums, no smoke machine. You get on your knees and like very, very, very, very loud. It's like something is possessing you but it was very powerful.

Like I remember when people would, I'm like 13 year old, get on my knees and like everybody's praying very, very, very loud and I'm like I don't understand what's happening but it's like feels powerful.

So I would close my eyes and just start repenting and so that was, I'm like that's the Holy Spirit. He comes on people, they yell uncontrollably and they experience this amazing connection to God and this was amazing.

Then I come to the United States, we're 13 and a half. My uncle, when we start the church, he says you know these guys are 13. So I was about 13 years of age. He says we need to get them all filled with the Holy Spirit which I knew what that means.

We all need to speak in tongues. So 13 and a half, 14, we get in a circle kids, one assignment. We're gonna pray for you and y 'all gonna speak in tongues. Why? Because before you get your license we need to speak in tongues.

Now out of all the teenagers, I was the most behaved one. Not to be proud or arrogant or self-righteous but I really thought I was better than them. So guess who got the Holy Ghost last? Me. Everybody starts speaking in tongues instantly.

All the people that I thought they don't even deserve Holy Spirit and the one that was worthy and qualified for six months I couldn't get tongues. Then I finally got tongues Saturday 2 p .m at the balcony of my parents house because see for those six months while everybody spoke in tongues, kept going to the pool, Holy Ghost passed me by.

So I had to now press, press in fast and pray and what came easy, it's always been my journey, what came easy for other people took me some time. And on Saturday 2 p .m balcony of my parents house, first time I uttered some syllables came out of my mouth.

It felt so good but also so scary because like something just came out. I called my pastor and said is this what it feels like? He's like exactly, go back and keep on praying. And that Sunday I remember I came to Sunday I was like yes I got it.

Open my mouth. And there I thought that's it. I got the certificate. I got the degree. I reached my ceiling. I got the Holy Ghost. That's it. I arrived. The fact that I was addicted to pornography and still struggled with many things and nothing else really changed in my life because the Holy Spirit wasn't a person to me.

He was more like a force, a feeling, an experience speaking in tongues. That was what that was. I was familiar but I didn't have fellowship until 13 years later. 13 years later speaking in tongues for all those 13 years I hit a rock bottom in the ministry.

From Religious Familiarity to Personal Fellowship

Nothing morally bad. It's just the sameness in the youth group. We would see 20, 30 kids. No breakthrough. We would go for actually a year and a half without water baptizing anybody. I remember one time we went actually for eight months without seeing one new person and one new person getting saved.

Our youth service was this, this, and this. On the breakthrough Sunday, breakthrough Wednesday we had this room. When it was a really big revival it was three people right here. Everything else was empty.

In fact the pulpit was always right here for 13 years. The reason why is because there was no need to put it right here because never nobody came ever to this side and that was like this for 10 years until something happened personally to me.

The Holy Spirit went from someone that I was familiar with. He became a person to me. Now how did that happen? I traveled to the Ukraine. Me and my wife decided to give our savings, all of our savings away so God can give breakthrough in our ministry.

I wasn't trying to buy a blessing. I really felt that that's what I needed to do and it was painful process but it was what needed. Came to this pastor in the Ukraine who was seeing 600 people getting saved every single Sunday and I'm from America, young guy that's like hey could you pray for me while I want power, miracles, and big church.

He said uh you don't need that. I was like trust me I do. He's like you need to know the Holy Spirit. I was like oh yeah I speak in tongues. He's like no you don't get it. You need to know the Holy Spirit.

I was like I have a sermon series on the Holy Spirit. I know Holy Spirit. I read the Good Morning Holy Spirit. I read Cash Loomis in honor of the Holy Spirit. I've read the books. I know the Holy Spirit.

I need the power, miracles, and big church. And he says you don't understand. He says you don't know the Holy Spirit. You only know about him. I was pretty offended. The reason why is because here I am emptying my savings account for somebody to tell me something I already know.

And he prayed for me and he says I'll pray that God will release miracles. He said but my biggest prayer for you is when you go back home that you know the Holy Spirit. When I came home and I started to pray this prayer I said Lord I want to know the Holy Spirit.

Not just I want to speak in tongues more because I've been doing that but I want to know who the Holy Spirit is. I want to know him personal not just about him so I can preach. So I can know him so he can change me, change the ministry.

So what I started to do is I would take a chair and put a chair in my prayer room. Again this is for children. I was not necessarily super mature in that area. Put a chair and I put on the chair Holy Spirit sits here.

So I finished my prayer. I did my prayer. Praise God. Worship Jesus. Confess my sins. Speak in tongues. Sit on my chair. Next chair. And I imagined, sanctified imagination, wasn't coming up with anything, that the Holy Spirit sits there.

And I would take about three four minutes every time and just talk to the Holy Spirit. Nothing super spiritual also nothing super casual. Just talking to him as a person. Now a lot of that was in my head but he was here.

So not I wasn't coming up with anything. It's in the Bible that he lives with us and he wants to talk with us. And I started to feel his presence. Started to sense that he was talking back to me and through his scripture and all other stuff.

And I started to have a fellowship with the Holy Spirit. I started to wake up in the morning and say good morning Holy Spirit. When I would get a little bit tense and my wife would get under my nerves and pull that last nerve that I thought I got delivered from.

You know I would say Holy Spirit help. And he gives me just a little bit of help to zip my mouth muzzle my mouth and just kind of be nice to her. And I would start noticing that like my personally I started to become a better husband to my wife.

I started to just as a person. It didn't make me better than you. It just made me slightly better than me. Because the Holy Ghost is not there to make you better than me. But it's to make you better than you.

So he started to make me different. And what started to happen after that. I started to pray for the sick every single service. I would travel and pray for the sick. I went to Seattle. It was this second story small youth group gathering.

And I just normal thing six months already. I'm praying every time. I give a call for salvation. Invite the kids to get rocked by Jesus. And then before I dismiss everybody say if you're sick I'm gonna pray for you.

Now for six months I didn't see one healing. But I still prayed. I was like I'm just gonna pray. Something's gonna happen. So I prayed. Nothing happened. A month later a lady brings her son for prayer line deliverance here.

And the lady goes through screening. And she says I was scheduled for a surgery. They had to replace something with my shoulder. It was deeply wounded. Deeply scarred. Injured. She says the next day I was scheduled for surgery.

But I came to one of the meetings in upstairs room somewhere in Kent. And a lad did this prayer for healing. I felt heat going through my shoulder. I went to surgery. They said they found out that I absolutely don't need the surgery.

My soldier is completely healed. So then this lady comes up and she tells me that. I was like my jaw dropped. I said you what? What happened? You felt heat? Describe that to me. Because this is first time that somebody testified that when I prayed something happened.

Now I could tell you things that when I prayed things got worse. So sometimes when people come up for prayers. They say could you pray for me? I say do you want things to get worse? Because my my my percentage of things getting worse is higher than things getting better.

So I'm like yeah let's just keep that one headache instead of getting you three and stuff. Because I just didn't see a lot of results in prayer. I'll just be honest with you. I'm just being very honest with you.

Just because I spoke in tongues I didn't see the power flowing through the ministry. When this lady shared that story on Sunday. She brought her son for deliverance. But when she shared that I was like my God.

God is alive. That night we went to Portland. Seven people testified of healing. And since that day I haven't seen one time when I pray for healing somebody doesn't get healed in the service. Things just started to grow in the youth group.

Things started to just take it to another level. We started to see kids. Actually Louis was one of the first people that got saved. And he was working at Chico's Tacos. Two weeks later he brought everybody from Chico's Tacos.

People started getting saved. It was crazy. Every week we start seeing people saved. Louis is still to this day serving and married my cousin Vicky. And a few years later it was funny that he married my cousin or that either way I say cousin or Chico's Tacos.

All right never mind. A few years later the youth group started to grow. Now I am not in any way going to attribute it to this is just because of what I did. I think collectively there's a lot of other components.

I'm sharing my journey about the relationship with the Holy Spirit. The third thing that I mentioned is the fellowship of the Holy Spirit. But the friendship with the Holy Spirit is slightly different.

Friendship with the Holy Spirit Requires Obedience

And something that I want to share with you today about the friendship of the Holy Spirit and that is this. Friendship with the Holy Spirit is different than fellowship. Fellowship is this. You're talking to the Holy Spirit.

You recognize he's a person. Friendship is when you obey the Holy Spirit. Do you remember how Jesus says in John chapter um one of the in John Jesus says to his disciples he says you are my friends and you will think because we hang out together.

Jesus says this thing that you should never say to your friends. You are my friends because you do what I say. Now Ivan is my friend. Imagine me coming to Ivan say Ivan you're my friend. Why? You always do what I say.

Well okay well that's an interesting definition of friendship. Jesus's definition of friendship is not you are my friend because we hang out. Jesus's definition of friendship is this you're my friend because you do what I say.

Fellowship is when you have a communion with the Holy Spirit but it will never grow into friendship until there is obedience. It's possible to have a communion with the Holy Spirit and live in sin. It's possible to have a communion of the Holy Spirit and never pray, read the Bible, evangelize, forgive, even practice homosexual tendencies like our sister shared today and walk around say me and the Holy Spirit are cool.

Yeah but just be disobedient. It's kind of like having a marriage. If you're married you know and and my wife she gives me these instructions. Hey take the garbage out and then you know she needs to remind me every two days, every two hours.

Hey can you I'm like babe I got it. I put it in my reminder list you know but did you take the garbage out? Well no but I will and then two years two imagine two days later can you take the garbage out?

I learned it how to say that in Greek and Hebrew and I have a Bible study that talks about we map direction from the garbage can to the other garbage can and and we we discuss how we would feel taking the garbage out.

I get it good you have a support group for the taking the garbage out. Did you take the garbage out? Well I'm gonna get to it. See your intimacy with the Holy Spirit is contingent not on just learning a more about the Holy Spirit but obeying what he asks and sometimes it could be simple things forgive the person.

Sometimes it could be simple things throw away things that don't belong to you. It could be simple things to pull away more to prayer. What I found out personally sometimes that what the Lord asks us to do in our hearts it's consistent with the scripture.

It's so hard that we we play trade with him. We're like Lord you know I don't want to do that but I'm gonna double my prayer time. I remember one time when the Holy Spirit would put on my heart to um empty my savings account and I said Lord no but I will double my prayer.

I'm gonna pray four hours a day. He said I didn't ask you to pray four hours a day I asked you to empty my account. I said okay I'll pray five. I'll have fasting every other day I'll fast until I die.

He says I'm not asking you to fast every other day. Empty your account. It's like Saul you know God says go and take the Amalekites out. He's like no God I'll bring you a lot of sheep a lot of sheep a lot of sheep and God's like I don't want the sheep I want the Amalekites head and we we love to we love to overcompensate with sacrifice where we lack in obedience.

Intimacy with the Holy Spirit is contingent on this one thing. Obedience. That's why when you see people who are friends with the Holy Spirit you would think oh yeah they probably talk to the Lord five hours a day.

Not always. It's about obedience. They are obedient. Oh they probably fast a lot. There are people who are very close to the Holy Spirit and the Holy Spirit uses him. It's not about how much you fast, how much you pray and how much you read the Bible.

Yes all of us have to pray, all of us have to fast, all of us have to read the scriptures but ultimately we have to obey what he tells us and what he asks us to do. There are people here today when the Lord begins to speak to you say hey cut away that that drink.

Cut away those friends or maybe walk away from that. Begin to serve. Begin to begin to do that. For me I remember there was a time where like hey write a book about deliverance. I was like no I'm not writing a book on deliverance.

I have a high school diploma. I'm an immigrant but some people think I'm a Russian spy. I ain't writing no books. Who is going to publish it? And I was like Lord you'll see. You'll see that I'm not called to write a book.

I called two publishing people. They didn't even pick up my call. I was like uh-huh see I'm not called. He says I didn't ask them to publish it. I asked you to write it. I said but who's gonna publish it?

He says use Google. Figure it out yourself. I credit you as an intelligent human being. Use that brain. And today when I published it you know and this week is I think it's the fifth book. Now I have publishing companies.

Some of them are the same ones who didn't pick up my call but now would message like hey we want to publish your next book. I was like where were you five years ago when I really needed you. Obedience unlocks friendship.

Fellowship is when I hear him. When I talk to him but the friendship is when he speaks to me and I listen to him. I remember when we came from the Ukraine and I let my cousin borrow my car. We had two cars.

Two Toyota Camrys and we needed two cars because I we lived in Richland. I worked at the church lawn. I worked at at the local BMW over there in Richland. So um we drop off. I give my car to my cousin for a week while I was in Ukraine and we come back.

We just gave that big sacrifice that I was just telling you about and I come back and I said Lord just speak to me. God I just want to hear your voice. Holy Spirit. Anything and I don't pray those prayers anymore but when I was younger I prayed those prayers.

Lord anything you ask me I'll die for you. I'll go anywhere. You know emotions are high. Devotions are low and I remember at two in the morning I can't sleep. I have a jet lag so I decided to go to the local bank to withdraw money for a tithe and as I'm driving so happens I'm driving by the house of my aunt where my cousin lives and my car is parked in the driveway and I get this weird thought.

Give your cousin your car. I was like two o 'clock in the morning hearing voices this is not good and I sped up. I was like no that's my car. What about my wife? Who's gonna I mean who's gonna take us?

No. So on the way back I was like I'm not driving back that road. I don't want to see my car. I want my cousin to drop off my car. I don't want to see my car in her driveway and start thinking weird thoughts.

Withdrew my tithing. I'm going out the other way and then I'm remembering the prayer I prayed on the way there. God anything. I said God anything except to Yorack Camry. I wrestled from two o 'clock to six.

I couldn't sleep. I couldn't sleep. Part of me is like but what if that's not God? What if so what is this gonna stop? So giving to Yorack Camry. What about what if God's gonna come for the second one?

God sees that you're like yielding to start taking everything. My wife woke up and I said to the Lord. I said Lord if this is you my wife has to agree with it instantly. And she will have to know we're gonna have one in one car.

So we're eating breakfast and you know and I'm nervous. My heart is beating like this. I don't want to do it and I'm hoping my wife will not agree. So I will have a good excuse. So I tell her I said listen I know we just gave everything.

We're not seeing any changes but what do you think if the cousin the my cousin you know who keeps the car. What if we just just keep the car? Let her just just just just just I'm using a lot of just just just and and my wife even finishes my sentence.

She's like let's do it. Let's you know we're young. We don't have children and I almost felt like God you got to her. This is not fair. I'm over there wrestling all night and she just wakes up and she hears directly and she's completely fine.

And I'm over there like oh no God this is so hard and she's just like yeah let's let's just do it. Well because it was my car it was not her car. So it was way easier and then uh a lot of transit and a lot of borrowing and everything but honestly looking back at it a year later I was in a meeting and a good friend of mine Andres Bisoni who I was watching and reading books and when I started to do these acts I didn't do them so I could be generous.

I did this so I can be obedient. I understand some of you might think Holy Spirit will never ask you of that. See when you have these guardrails in your life where you only think Holy Spirit tells you only what you like to hear you might not hear those things.

Holy Spirit leads you to become more like Jesus not to become more like you. And so a year later after about few of these things we end up giving Lana's car so we end up without both cars so like we we end up with nothing pretty much almost.

But it was our journey this is not everybody's journey this this was our journey. I was willing and I'll be honest with you at first I only said it didn't mean it which time I meant it I was willing to give my whole life so that I can know this person the Holy Spirit.

I wanted to know him not just about him I lived my life Christian life for 15 years I call it a pigeon religion. It was more like a pigeon religion it wasn't a dove it I didn't sense that presence that anointing that grace and I wanted that and I and I said in my heart for 12 months what if I'm just gonna give all of it when he asks and just leave my life with him.

If I don't do it the devil can take it anyway and stuff so I'm just gonna do that. I remember a year later we're at the meeting Andres Bessoni is praying for everybody he comes up to me and he grabs me with my hand and he says God wants me to tell you the Holy Spirit considers you as his friend.

Oh man I just like I felt like a to me that was more important than anything else and after that I held on to those words from this man of God and I said Lord that's my desire. Some people want to be friends with this president that president that famous person or that I want to be friends with the most famous person on the world the Holy Spirit.

You can be friends with him too. It starts with being more familiar which is exactly what this message is bringing your familiarity a little bit more then you start with fellowship but I do have to warn you to go deeper and to go further there is a cost and it might not be might not be anything with cars for me the reason why it was cars and money is because my heart was so attached to that.

For you it could be fasting it could be prayer it could be honestly serving for you maybe it could be commitment committing to church prioritizing your family whatever that is but it's going to be in line with God's word it will not be in line with your flesh.

I can guarantee you that right away and it will be something that more of you will die more of him will live and then the very area where you are tested the most will be the areas you will get the most breakthrough.

Going Deeper Through Abraham's Servant

Amen. I want you to open your bible with me so this was my introduction. Let me just give you the conclusion and then we're gonna pray. Genesis chapter 24. Genesis 24 and verse 1. Now Abraham was old well advanced in age and the Lord had blessed Abraham in all things.

And Abraham said to the oldest servant of his house who ruled over all that he had. Please put your hand under my thigh and I will make you swear by the Lord the God of heaven and the God of the earth that you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites among whom I dwell.

I want to share with you just five things about going deeper in the Holy Spirit especially cultivating friendship. Number one. The Holy Spirit is like a ruler of all heaven's wealth. Look at this story.

The Holy Spirit Manages Heaven's Resources

Abraham had a son but Abraham had an unnamed servant. We don't know his name for sure. You know some people say it's Eleazar but we don't know for sure. What I find interesting is this servant didn't have a name because it's kind of like Holy Spirit.

He wants to remain anonymous. You don't see Holy Spirit always blasting himself promoting himself. He always promotes Jesus. But I want you to see here. Jesus also says that the Holy Spirit will take off what is mine in Gospel of John and he will declare it to you.

The Holy Spirit manages all of heaven's wealth. Holy Spirit is like this servant who managed all of Abraham's wealth. The Holy Spirit manages all of the resources of heaven all of the power. In fact God didn't even create the earth without the Spirit first being there miracles and signs are his activity on this earth.

He is the one that does those things. He manages all of the wealth. So instead of seeking power develop a relationship with him who has the power. Instead of chasing after miracles. Why don't you develop a relationship with the manager that has all the miracles.

Instead of just saying hey but I just want to be used by God. There is one person who does that the Holy Spirit. Jesus says you will receive power when the Spirit of God comes upon you. So it wasn't the power that there was the focus.

It was the Spirit that was coming upon that. Jesus says that behold the Spirit of the Lord is upon me for he has anointed me to heal the sick to cast out demons. God's power is in the Holy Spirit. So instead of chasing the power develop intimacy with the Holy Spirit.

He is the ruler of heaven's wealth. Can somebody say amen. The second thing I want you to notice is he is sent to find Isaac a bride. The Holy Spirit is sent to bring Jesus a bride. Catherine Kuhlman said.

And I'm going to paraphrase it is the Holy Spirit's job is to promote and he's the greatest promoter. But the person that he promotes is Jesus Christ. The Holy Spirit is sent to glorify Jesus. In fact Jesus says that unless I am exalted the Spirit will not be given he says.

But when I am exalted the Spirit will be poured out. Something we have to be very careful is when many of us think that special charismatics or Pentecostals or tongue speaking. You know people who love the power love the miracles and all of this stuff.

You must understand the Holy Spirit's job isn't to glorify himself but to glorify Christ. Now is he God. Yes. Can we worship the Holy Spirit. Yes. In fact in Assyrian Creed says we worship the Spirit and Christ.

He is part of the Trinity but on the earth that he lives in us. His goal right now his mission right now is point everything to Jesus. So we don't focus on the Spirit. If we want more of the Spirit we focus on Christ.

Some people like well but if I don't glorify and always kind of focus on the Holy Spirit. You know I'm going to ignore the Spirit. No no. You can have a relationship with him but his assignment is to glorify Jesus.

Amen. That's why when we win lost people Holy Spirit likes that. Because it brings people close to Jesus. When we stand here and when we worship Holy Spirit loves that. Because we glorify Jesus he is God.

He's not looking for attention for himself. He's giving all that attention to the lamb that was slain and Jesus says don't you dare do anything bad to the Holy Spirit otherwise I'm gonna knock you out.

Jesus is very protective of his Spirit. The Bible speaks of God that he said to the Israelites he went against them because they grieved his Spirit. So both the Father and the Son they fight for the Holy Spirit.

But the Holy Spirit doesn't fight for himself. He doesn't defend himself. If you grieve him he won't punish you. He'll just walk away. He always comes in loudly leaves quietly. Samson didn't even know the Spirit left.

Why. Because when he exits he doesn't announce it. He's very gentle very sensitive. Not like easily sensitive like we know some people but sensitive in the sense that you can harm him. You can cause him pain.

But one of the greatest joys of the Holy Spirit is not when you only fellowship with him. It's when you worship Jesus. When you honor Jesus when you exalt Jesus when you trust in Jesus. That's why many of us we know about Jesus from reading the history.

But when you come in contact with the Holy Spirit he makes Jesus precious. He makes Jesus real. The closer I get to the Holy Spirit more fascinated I am with Jesus more in love. I am with Jesus more adoring I become of Jesus.

Can somebody say amen. Number three. So not only he's the ruler of the heaven's wealth. Not only Holy Spirit is sent to point people to Jesus. But number three I want you to notice what happens. So this unnamed servant arrives at the well camels.

He has servants with him. And this lady named Rebecca comes in there. And the servant ran to meet her and said please let me drink a little water from your pitcher. Please let me drink a little water from your pitcher.

Giving the Holy Spirit Time and Attention

Now I'm so glad Rebecca was not part of the feminist movement. She be like excuse me someone got my nails done the lashes over here. I ain't getting water. You got your arms. You get your own water. Sir.

I ain't gonna do this for you. Let me ask you a question. Could he get a water for himself. Of course the guy was a guy he had servants with him. He could have asked any of the servants. Hey could you get me water.

They could have gotten the water. He runs to a woman. He doesn't need her help. But he starts something I really believe his thirst was her test. Wow. Do you remember Jesus did the same thing with a Samaritan woman.

He comes up. He could. Jesus didn't even need to get water. He was water. He comes to her and he says woman can you give me water. And she's like and you know a Samaritan woman she washed a lot of soap.

I was like you know you shouldn't be talking to me even you got Samaritans and just brings all this kind of nonsense stuff. And she's like girl shut up. I can give you the living water. What's your problem.

I can give you the living water. Bring your husband. And so Jesus kind of puts her in her place. She repents and he has a really really amazing amazing awakening. This Rebecca represents all of us and the Holy Spirit represents this servant.

And he comes to her. And I believe the Holy Spirit comes to us and he says this question. Will you give me a drink. I want you to notice the words please indicates I'm not going to force it. It's a petition not a command.

Let me indicates I can force it but I will let you decide to do that. A little bit of drink. Meaning I'm not asking you for a well out of your picture. I think it symbolizes out of your schedule out of your time.

Holy Spirit wants fellowship with you. He's asking you for a little bit of water. Is there. Somebody has a. I'm pretty sure we don't have a picture. But um I don't think I'll be um drinking water from from the.

I'm just gonna use this for just a second. Now let's just pour some water right here into this picture. Sermon illustration. Right in this spot. Every single day that you're that's it. Let's go. Every single day that you wake up you have a cup.

It's filled with 24 hours. You spent six or eight hours with sleep. Very important getting ready going to work going to school. And every day you have some water in your jar. You have some water in your cup.

The Holy Spirit is asking you because he is a person he wants to be a friend. And he's asking you. Will you give me a little bit of your time. Would you give me a little bit of your attention. Would you give me a little bit of your affection.

Would you invite me in your situation. You're overwhelmed. Your husband or wife is getting on your last nerve and you're about to let him have it. What if you would pause for five seconds and in your heart you say Holy Spirit help.

Please. 9 -1 -1. Holy Spirit help. And just wait for him to give you help to respond differently. Maybe you're facing exam test financial problems and you can't do it. What if he says would you invite me.

Would you help. Would you give me that water. Give me that invitation. Invite me into your circumstances. Involve me in your situation. I'm God I created this world. I can help you. Would you give me a little bit of attention.

It doesn't have to be prayer. It could be a conversation throughout your day as you're gardening as you're putting your children to sleep as you're washing dishes. You can be playing a song in your mind.