On Eagles' Wings Pt 206 — Don Courville

Acts chapter 1 we're going to go through these and take them not too long and Then we'll Then we'll share What the Lord has showed us as we go through the book of Acts. I want you to ask the Lord to teach you things then we'll come back as a body.

When we're done and share with each other what the Lord showed us this evening. So I'm going to try hopefully to take us through the book of Acts and not too much time. We're pretty familiar with the book of Acts, I assume and a lot of these things so we'll start off in Chapter 1 after I give you this introduction of something that Oswald Chambers said.

Co-Crucifixion and the Holy Spirit's Indwelling

About our being co crucified with Christ in relation to the Spirit of God. First let's pray Heavenly Father. We we ask you to teach us now. By your Spirit we thank you Holy Spirit that you're present you indwell us if we're your child.

We thank you that you guide and teach us and we ask you to do that tonight. We thank you now with Satan bound with no spirit working, but the Holy Spirit. That you will teach and direct in Jesus name.

Amen. Now listen to this statement. Romans 6 5 says for if we've been planted together in the likeness of his death We shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection. The proof that I have been through crucifixion with Jesus is that I have a decided likeness to him.

The incoming of the Spirit of Jesus into me readjust my personal life to God. This is what the Spirit of God does. The resurrection of Jesus has given him authority to impart the life of God to me in my Experimental life must be constructed on the basis of his life.

I Can have the resurrection life of Jesus now and it will show itself in holiness. The idea all through the Apostle Paul's ratings is that after the moral decision to be identified with Jesus and his death has been made.

The resurrection life of Jesus invades every bit of my human nature. It takes omnipotence to live the life of the Son of God in mortal flesh. The Holy Spirit Cannot be located as a guest in a house. He invades everything.

When once I decide that my old man, for example. The heredity of sin should be identified with the death of Jesus. Then the Holy Spirit invades me. He takes charge of everything. My part is to walk in the light and to obey all that he reveals.

When I have made the moral decision about sin It is easy to reckon actually that I am dead unto sin because I find the life of Jesus there all the time. Just as there is only one stamp of humanity. So there is only one stamp of holiness the holiness of Jesus and it is his holiness That is gifted to me.

God puts the holiness of his son into me and I belong to a new order. Spiritually, this is the work of the Holy Spirit this evening just before Y 'all got here. I finally was getting a little time maybe to prepare I thought and I was sitting down and been praying Lord.

You direct me about this evening. I'm just open to you. I Heard this noise outside my window it went butter but but but pow, I said that sounds like a car I used to drive. No, not really, but I thought this guy somebody's out my window out on the street got a problem sure enough.

I looked out the window and This kid with this old beat-up Subaru truck one of them little things was out there having trouble his truck just happened to stop right out there. Immediately spirit of God because I've had this happen.

So many times said this kid didn't stop just for any reason. And I thought well Lord he'll probably get it going and take off before I get out there. So I'll just listen to see what happens. I listened to him crank and crank and crank and crank on that thing till finally I could hear the clicking click click click click.

Oh, he's run his battery down dead. And the Lord said you might as well go on out there, you know, you're gonna have to go out there and I said, okay Lord. So I grabbed me a track and I went out there.

I Said you got a problem. He says yeah, I'm I'm Exercising all my mechanical experience. Yeah. Tell him, you know, I told him a few things. I said I used to have a car that do this. You know, it sounds like maybe you got a vapor lock.

Something on it like that. I had a Volkswagen like that. So I puttered around with him. I told him how to get it started and he's cranked it right up and then it went plop it quit and The Lord is saying okay.

I want you to talk to this kid. He ain't going anywhere. You talk to him. So I said maybe we ought to push it off the road. So we push it off the road and he told me the details what I was going on and we came back over the church to call For help and why he's coming over.

I began to talk to him about Jesus and a little bit about his church and things and asked him if he knew Jesus. He said no. And I hand him a track you ever seen one of these says oh, yeah I've seen something like this before and we made the call and we kept talking to him a little bit as we went and and.

Then he left and that was it. He had to get back his boss was mad because he was a pizza delivery kid and the time that was it. So I pray for him now. I said if you ever need some help you come back. To learn to be sensitive to the Holy Spirit is not easy because the flesh does not like.

The things the Spirit of God brings into our lives it invades our private zone. But until the Holy Spirit invades our private zone, we're never really comfortable with our Christian life. Because we always got our plans and we're always sort of upset and I'm continually having to learn this.

It's a I have to die daily the day I forget to die or the moment I forget to die the Holy Spirit doesn't get to live through me now. Let's go through the book of Acts. Quickly and just ask the Lord to teach you as we go through this seat this evening.

Just teach you anything that he would like to show you and then when we're done, we'll have some open time for discussion. I We keep interacting. I like the way we have interaction and Sunday nights. It's been a really good time for this and and Our sons go time and then even in our morning services this morning.

God was really working. It was good. Okay in Acts 1 8. The first thing we learned about the Holy Spirit in the book of Acts is that he gives power back up in in verse 2 Jesus had told them that actually.

It says until the day in which he was taken up after that He threw the Holy Ghost had given commandments unto the Apostles whom he had chosen. To him also he showed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs.

Being seen of them 40 days and speaking of the things pertaining unto the kingdom of God and Luke is recording this for Theophilus. He's he brings us down to verse 8 then verse 4. They were to wait for the promise of the Father.

Which saith he you have heard of him and this was the Holy Spirit in verse 5 for John truly baptized with water. But ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence Jesus had commanded them to wait.

Don't quote, you know, don't go out and try to do anything yet until you have the power to do it. Well, we've received the power because in verse 8 you shall receive power after that. The Holy Ghost is come upon you and ye shall be witnesses unto me.

First thing we notice that he gives power. Power for what? Power. For witnessing also power for living power over sin. He gives power. The Holy Spirit empowers us for every need that we have in our life.

I was looking back over at 517 and we'll get there in a second but I'll jump over there because in verse 20 32 it says we are his witnesses of these things and so is Also the Holy Ghost. I said we're just not giving you a witness but the Holy Spirit has given you a witness through us.

Of the things that they'd seen and and of course the church they got in trouble. Because they were manifesting God and Those that didn't want God didn't like it would come after them and then right in that same area if you come to chapter 2 One of the things the Holy Spirit does is he gives ability to do unusual things.

He gives ability to meet needs and sometimes some unusual situations. Well, the situation at this time was historically Jerusalem was full of Jews from all over the world and They didn't all speak the same language.

It must have been quite a mess guys going in for two motels trying to get rooms and trying to get communicated and in this. But God was going to get the gospel out into the world quick. So he empowered them to speak in known languages.

These were known languages look at chapter 2 verse 4 and They were all filled when the Holy Spirit came in. Acts 2 is when the Holy Spirit came. It was a wonderful thing. They were all with one accord in one place and suddenly there came sound from heaven as a Russian mighty wind and it filled all The house where they were sitting.

This is the Holy Spirit. He came there was a visible sign in verse 3. There appeared unto them cloven tongues like this is a fire and it sat upon each of them and then they were all filled with the Holy Ghost and began to speak with other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance and This is part of the book of Acts as you go through the book of Acts.

They had this divine ability to speak in known languages. Tongues was always a known language when it's recorded in Scripture when it was used. It was a known language and it was used to break down Mary not marriage barriers, but language barriers.

Matter of fact. Tongues might if they got in the right control could prevent some marriage barriers from coming up. So that went in but anyway It's a very practical thing and we don't have time tonight to get into this and sometime later on We'll cover the Holy Spirit in relation to the gifts.

And how he gives us for different areas. But it met an unusual need at that time a very practical powerful need as we go down through here. And you know how they were just astonished they could hear in their own language somebody preaching Jesus to them.

There's a wonderful thing you come over to chapter 2 33 when Peter was up preaching. He told them that the Holy Spirit had been promised therefore being by the right hand of God Exalted and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost.

He had said sent forth this which he now see in here they told him God had promised that he would send his spirit. Jesus had said wait for the Spirit and. And it was a wonderful thing now. They were empowered to go out and do you know Peter now instead of being So called chicken that would deny Jesus at his resurrection.

Now he's going to stand up before thousands. What made the difference it was the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit makes all the difference in our lives. It's made all the difference in mind. So he gives power he gives ability to to speak in other long tongue tongues.

He was promised and matter of fact in John 1 33 is promised that you shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost. Would be baptized and then as he's preaching if you look at 237. As Peter is preaching now when they heard this they were pricked in their heart.

This is the Holy Spirit. He's the one that pricks in their heart and sometimes he's not only did pricks. He just drops a brick on you. Man, you're just overwhelmed. Sometimes you're just like like this morning when it was shared.

How the Holy Spirit had woke one of us up at five o 'clock in the morning and had us go through our sins for a whole hour in the past. That was the Holy Spirit working and not only for for one but for all of us to do this that was a message.

This is wonderful when we learn to see how the Holy Spirit uses one of us to encourage the whole body. So he pricks and drops bricks on us. Sometimes you know It might just drop the whole house in on on top of us like maybe out in California the Spirit of God.

The Holy Spirit's Conviction and the Nation's Need to Listen

God doesn't shake a nation just to be shaken a nation he shakes he's shaking our nation like a rag and and We probably maybe hadn't even seen anything yet because we've we've turned from God. Our nation was founded on biblical principles on the Bible.

Most all of our Constitution is built Directly from scriptures, but yet we're turning from God and now God is beginning to shake our nation. Will we listen to the Holy Spirit as he hits different areas of the country?

He's shaking just shook, California with an earthquake. Will we listen to what the Holy Spirit is saying as a nation? We're in trouble if we want because I believe God's on the countdown on us then. This prick by the way, it's just like a prick in the finger.

It might just be a little jab at first and You know One of the things about is we can sear our conscience as the Holy Spirit would speak to us about something. Over and over and I listen. I try to listen to all of you.

I learn continually and It may be several times the Lord might have to run something back and forth across me before I begin to see how He's trying to teach me something from you, but it's like a little jab here little jab.

But we can sear our conscience if we're not careful and in the area and if we get seared in that area pretty soon the Spirit of God can't speak to us through that area and we're hardened and that'll be a maybe a spot where Satan can get in and have some ground in our life and It might take something sort of drastic for God might have to do some major surgery on a spiritual spiritually because we wouldn't listen to the Holy Spirit as he first started to practice and going on chapter 3.

We've already covered this how he gives us Ability to see beyond the surface when Peter and John went into the temple there and they saw the blind man been there a long time. There's a Spirit of God that gave them ability to see this man.

And and boy when they grabbed ahold of him and jerked him up. It just opened up a whole I'd say can of worms you might say is courting problems, but a whole can of opportunities to share Jesus as This man's going in goes into the temple hollering and shouting and praising God and got everybody's attention giving testimony of Jesus and of course when the news got around to the the hypocrites scribes and Pharisees that didn't like Jesus, you know ended up having some problems and they began to You know get him into trouble matter of fact.

Peter's Boldness, Stephen's Wisdom, and Spirit-Empowered Witness

If you look over at chapter 4 in verse 8 then Peter filled with the Holy Ghost when he got a crowd. He knew what to do. Then Peter filled with the Holy Ghost said unto them you rulers of the people and elders of Israel if We this day be examined of the good deed done to the impotent man.

By what means he is made whole be it known unto all of you and all the people of Israel that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth whom ye Crucified whom God raised from the dead and even by him that this man stand here before you whole while the Holy Spirit Knows how to make you sensitive to opportunities that come along your way and it might be just a little opportunity.

When you think about somebody dropping down Breaking down outside your window on the road, but who knows what might happen from one person. You sharing Jesus with them. They might go back. I've had and seen times when households would get safe from just one.

Just one whole household, maybe some families maybe cities just one. So there's no little thing that the Holy Spirit might want you to do. Is it getting warm in here? And Then something else in 4 8 going well 4 8 we cover that he controls he delivers from the fear of man.

That's the comment I had on Acts chapter 4 and 8 and down to verse 13 now when they saw the boldness of Peter I said this the Peter that we you know, is this the fisherman? Is this the same guy? Is he the one that denied Jesus?

Yep it's the Holy Spirit now operating Peter now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John and Perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant unlearned and ignorant Men they marveled and took knowledge of them that they had been to the seminaries.

Is that what it said. No, you don't have to go to the seminaries cemeteries. You got to be with Jesus. Get with Jesus and you're plugged in with the Holy Spirit. And so he gives boldness and and power if you look at 33 33 it says and they when they had prayed the place was shaken where they were assembled together and they were all Filled with the Holy Ghost and they spake the Word of God with boldness.

Assured this morning by nature. I'm timid. It's from the flesh. It's not my nature to speak publicly or talk with people. But as God has been able to conform into me the image of Christ There comes the ability for the Spirit of God to work through just a yielded instrument.

So we come back. It's not me. It as Paul said I'm dead. I'm crucified as we are dead to self. Then the Holy Spirit is able to live the resurrected life of Jesus through us. One of the reason we won't speak sometimes when the Spirit God gives us opportunity is because we're not dead in an area.

That maybe we should be and then something else they're slipping on down to chapter 5 in verse 3 he can be lied to. But you won't get away with it. You know the story of Ananias and Sapphira. They've been watching different ones bring in stuff bring in money given houses way and they said boy.

This looks like a pretty good thing. And so let's do it, too. They sold their what they sold some property was it and then the Spirit of God put something in their mind put an eye in a Thing in there.

Hey, nobody knows how much we saw this for let's just give half of it pretend like we gave all of it. Well who told Peter? That they did that, huh? Verse 3 but Peter and said Ananias why has Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost the Holy Spirit Had clued Peter in on what was going on.

Oh Peter being gifted as a prophet. Spiritual gift of profit perceived in the Spirit what was going on? You can be very perceptive in your spirit. What's going on said? Hey you lied to the Holy Spirit come down in verse 4.

He said you didn't you wasn't just lying to two men. You were lying to God. By the way, this is a good passage to show that the Holy Spirit is God. Said you were lying to God you come over to verse 9.

Then Peter said unto her. How is it? You know, they did one at a time. Husband did it then the wife did it then Peter said unto her. How is it that you have agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord?

The whole the feet of them which had buried your husband or at the door, you know. Her husband dropped down immediately dead. She came in tried the same thing. Peter already by now knew what was going on.

Gave her a fair trial. She's dead lying to the Holy Spirit. What would happen to us today if we did that if we if. If our lives were revealed day by day probably, you know in our churches we might really have a lot of extra room for growth if the if God just came in and just cleaned house by Knocking off and killing all the Christians that were lying their lives were a lie.

Sanskrit teachers preachers pastors wives deacons wives. Their lives were a lie to the body of Christ because they were not on the on. There they were not inside in the church when they were around with their grins and everything.

They were not the same In the church as they were at home or at work. That's lying to the Holy Spirit. And if we have a church that's pure where the Spirit of God is working. We won't get away with it in a church because the Spirit will bring it out.

Be sure your sin will find you out then something else in Chapter 3 we've seen this we've talked about this that it's a requirement for it was a requirement for the deacons in verse 5 and the saying blessed the whole multitude and they chose Stephen a man full of faith and of the Holy Ghost and That was the requirement in verse 3.

They were to get one that was full of the Holy Ghost and wisdom. This should be a priority in seeking out spiritual leaders so many times we say well as they have a doctor's degree. We need a new pastor.

Let's get one. This goes on a lot never ask if he's a spirit filled man, but they look for the degrees. I've seen this done so many times degrees I Mean you can have all kinds of degrees. But if you're not filled with the Spirit of God, it doesn't make any difference the ways of man.

This is what we're getting into. He gives them in 8 and 9 as you're going down there he gave power, you know the story about Stephen and he gave Stephen wisdom in verse 10 and they were not able to resist the Wisdom and the spirit by which he spake here Stephen tangling in with the men of law the doctors and lawyers in the in the Jewish system religious system here.

He is just Stephen just plain old Stevie Tangling in with all these guys and they couldn't resist him. So what did they do? After he got done giving them probably the sermon of their life. It was them.

It was the old version of sinners in the hands of a hang angry God. Stephen's version. Jonathan Edwards came along with it later. Boy, they couldn't stand it what they do. They stoned him. This is the Holy Spirit might get you stoned.

But it doesn't matter if you yielded to him. So he can be lied to he's a it's a requirement to be filled with the Holy Spirit for the elders he gives power 8 and 9 and Stephen full of faith and power did great wonders and miracles among the people and then he had the Wisdom and then you come over to chapter 8 and verse 19.

The Holy Spirit Cannot Be Manipulated

We and we come into an interesting little story about the Holy Spirit on how you can't use him for your own personal gain. Lord moved into this one area of Samaria and One fellow was watching what was going on.

We saw people getting saved he saw him getting filled the Holy Spirit and he supposedly got saved and. So he came around to the disciples and said hey I'd like to have this in verse 18 when Simon saw that through the laying on of the Apostles hands.

The Holy Ghost was given he offered them money. You can't buy out the Holy Spirit. You know what you can give money and all you want and into the church. It's not going to buy you any kind of power with God.

And so you can't just use him. But I wonder sometimes if I try to get God to come around the way would my way, you know God bless my efforts bless all my plans. They said come around Lord. Here's my here's my plans and my efforts.

Would you redirect me? Would you show me if there's something here? That's not really according to your will I've got my desires. But you said for me not to lean on my own understanding and all my ways to acknowledge you you direct my past.

So Holy Spirit, would you like to change my plans? And one of the reasons we get frustrated and been out of shape so many times is because the Lord comes along he wants to change our plans, but we're not wanting them changed and so just as This fellow here Simeon might wanted to buy off the Holy Spirit use him for his own personal gain his personal means.

We might want to do that too. We just have to continually check with him and be open to him then something else. And in that same passage in 29, it's just a little note in how the Holy Spirit will lead you and.

Then the Spirit said unto Philip go near and join thyself to the chariot, you know. Here's a case where? In 26 the angel of the Lord spake unto Philip saying arise and go toward the south and here He's being led by the Holy Spirit.

This is an exciting thing when God begins to put together in your life. Making you have contact with people as the Holy Spirit brings you in contact. You know the story about the Ethiopian how he received Christ and they stopped the chariot and and he was baptized and and by the way a little interesting thing right there on that note in 39 after the Lord was done with him.

It says when they were come out of the water the Spirit of the Lord caught Philip away. I Raptured him away and plopped him down in another place if he did boy, that's quite a Travel agent to have as a Holy Spirit you know, it's really neat if you're traveling and and if you I don't travel the way I used to I Used to travel in some you know, I used to hitchhike Airplanes when I fly places in the Air Force and that's fine as long as there's an airplane that comes around.

But if the airplane doesn't come around and you're hitchhiking you can sit places for days when I was in the Air Force and I Got stuck like that one time one time I came back from Israel and I got stuck in Athens and I've been in Athens a lot because it was sort of a pivot Center whenever I'd go anywhere and I got stuck there.

I'd come back from Israel. I was almost done on my leave and Been there four days. Well Lord, I've been waiting. I was only a hundred miles away from home. I might could have hitchhiked on around probably but it would have taken me months going around through Greece and Turkey like that.

But I just laid out my heart to him and I come up that fourth day. You're a great God. I can't remember what all I prayed on now. I'm sure I prayed because I was didn't have a lot of money and I come in that last that fourth day and and God just abundantly provided my need of an airplane I Come in that day and he says hey, we got you an airplane we can get you home.

You know here I was coming in every day and God just was really neat the way he did that He provided me an airplane. No, sir. And he provided me that airplane to fly home. He provided me another airplane to fly home on.

Two airplanes and here's how this other and I was standing there in the lobby and in walks my army buddy the guy that Bill Stewart that discipled me. He said hey, what are you doing here? I said I've been stuck here I just got me a plane to go home on that a plane to go home on.

Well, we just brought the general over here and we're flying back and his planes empty. Won't you come on hop in the generals plane? The generals plane sure man, so I went back and God got me back in the generals plane.

First class when we go with the Holy Spirit we can go third class or we can go first class is really neat and Just all kinds of little things so there I don't know if he if we plopped him down to a different place.

He just say come on. Let's go and Took off but it was his travel agent need to have the Holy Spirit your travel agent. Now, let's see. Look at 9 chapter 17 is a chapter 9 verse 17. I had something there I think.

Ananias, Saul, and the Spirit-Filled Witness

Okay, this is when Saul when Saul had got saved and He'd received his sight in 17 and Ananias went his way and entered into the house and you know Ananias is probably frayed because he'd been. It's all been come around killing all the Christians.

But the Holy Spirit had told him to go in and pray for Saul and so he was obedient to what he was told. You know in 13, he said Lord, we've heard a lot about him. You sure I Don't want to go and get hurt and the Lord was was sure and so he he he went in and 17 Ananias went his way and entered into the house and putting his hands on him said brother Saul the Lord even Jesus that appeared Into thee in the way his alchemist has sent me that thou mightest receive thy sight and be filled with the Holy Ghost it was very important to be filled with the Holy Spirit and God in the book of Acts has the record of the Holy Spirit filling the believer and he had visible signs by.

As we go through there by the speaking in tongues. For some there there was that sign. They spoke in tongues and known language is what that is and we'll get into that in a few minutes as we look at some of those passages, but later on we'll cover the gifts of the Spirit and verse 20 and straightway he preached Christ in the synagogues that he is the Son of God.

No one does that Unless he's filled with the Holy Spirit. I've seen many people Pray to receive Christ, but those that have got plugged into the Holy Spirit and understood to be filled with the Holy Spirit Would give a testimony to Jesus Young man that we've had here in the church.

It was a thrill for me a few weeks ago to see him sharing Christ with his brother. Talking about God just a little bit and nobody told him. I just went by and heard the conversation out of the you know, the side of my ears.

I walked by and I said Lord, that's a good fruit. Nobody tell it told him to do that. Okay in chapter 10 Just to go through some things maybe quickly here. He gave Peter a vision. The Holy Spirit gave Peter a vision in verse 17.

And when Peter doubted in himself what this vision which he has seen should mean behold the men which are sent from Cornus had made inquire for Simon's house and stood before the gate and you know the story hide.

God was trying to get the Holy Spirit trying to Peter to see that God was going to reach Gentiles, too. So you have a special working their special visions that they had because of the transitory time at this time.

The Holy Spirit did different things to get them to work. So he had to work on Peter's a old-fashioned way the hard way and get him shook get him out of this legalistic system and get him over on reaching out to the Gentiles to and one neat thing about the Holy Spirit in 38 is The testimony about how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power who went about doing good and Healing all that were oppressed of the devil for God was was with him.

And by the way, when we're filled with the Holy Spirit, we can go about with power. We can go about doing good and we can go about helping those that are oppressed with demons. Also, God can give us the power to help set them free.

We can have tremendous ministry just being yielded to him and our giftings as God has gifted us. And then in 44 through 47 is the testimony of how The Gentiles were saved and the Holy Ghost fell on them when they heard the word Tremendous 1128 to slip on down through here a little quicker and 1128 and there stood one of them named Agabus.

Prophecy, Preparation, and the Spirit's Warning

Which signified by the Spirit that there should be great dearth. The Holy Spirit used those with the gift of prophecy to warn the church. The church could know what was going on In the future because of the Spirit helping.

I believe the Spirit of God today is warning Through those in the church. They're giving their feeling what the Holy Spirit is trying to tell us. There's something coming get your act together be ready for what's coming.

This is a universal witness of the Spirit of God in our country that something's coming so he spoke through the prophets he come over to 13 and 2 through 4 he appoints 13 and 2 and they as a minister to the Lord and fasted the Holy Ghost said separate me Barnabas and Saul For the work wherein to I call them.

So it's the Holy Spirit that directs in the work he appoints and directs those that are to do things and. And 16 let's see. Where is it? Well in verse 52 is one I mentioned this morning. The disciples were filled with joy and with the Holy Ghost.

You can't fake joy. You can't wing it either your head you either have joy or you don't you know, you're defeated or living in victory. But they were continually they were it says they were filled with joy and the Holy Ghost and things wasn't easy for him 16 7 slipping over a couple chapters 16 7 he directed there and after they were come to miss you they say to go Into Bethania, but the spirit suffered them not here.

They were trying to go in one certain area on a missionary journey and the Spirit of God would not absolutely would not let them go. Just like the testimony shared this morning how the Spirit of God led To the right place to the school that was needed to find so the Spirit of God directed on missionary efforts and the Spirit of God direct us as Missionaries comes in.

We've just been trying to help out a missionary family. We heard about a need so we're pitching in where the ladies are pitching in trying to do a practical need of Making a quilt for the cold weather and we've pitched in to help financially the Holy Spirit leads in Missionary efforts and so we may not all be able to go to the mission field, but we may be able to support those.

Maybe God might want to raise up somebody from here to go to the mission field as we grow be a tremendous thing wouldn't the Holy Spirit was saying this brother this sister this family needs to go and They they need to be sent out.