You say: well I don't feel like that. No, you're living out of your feelings, rather than living out of what's the reality, which is true: God's spirit is in you. There's an overcoming spirit in you. The same spirit that raised Christ from the dead lives within you!
I don't feel it. No, you won't either, until you start to decide I will agree with what God says: body, stop whinging; Spirit, start rising…. and begin to draw on that life. If there's something I can't overcome, something that continually disempowers me, then Holy Ghost: show me what the block is, because that's part of your job description.
Show me where the block is. Show me what's in the heart. Show me what the thing is I need to deal with, someone I need to forgive, something I need to renounce. Whatever it is, I need to remove out of my heart - Holy Ghost show me.
If you don't hear from the Holy Spirit, just go to someone who can help you find it, and then remove the block, and get on with where you're supposed to be, rather than accepting that's how it is. That is not how God has planned for you and I to live our life; plan to live our lives full of the Holy Ghost, full of the Spirit of God.
First step: receive Christ, and become joined one spirit to the Lord; get water baptised, so that old life has passed away. You're a new person, a new creation. The DNA of God is in you. Greater is he in you than he that's in the world. Then make a decision: I need to get filled with the Holy Ghost. I need to be stamped with that sign of God's ownership on me! I want the Holy Ghost, so I need to come and ask Him: Holy Ghost, come!
John the Baptist, the greatest prophet (end-time prophet in fact) - the spirit of Elijah was on him. You know the two revelations he had of Jesus? The first one was: oh! Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world!
He saw Jesus as the lamb who would remove this issue of sin. Most people carry on like that's all he said, but this next bit is the important bit, because this is where it gets to…
He said: he will baptise you, immerse you, dip you, plunge you, put you into the whole realm of Holy Ghost living - and that's why he's come.
We get caught the other side of the cross, hung up with condemnation, hang-ups, failures, guilt and all that. That's all demonic, and it's all the flesh just moaning and groaning - and we live under that, we're defeated. Jesus said: “he's the Lamb of God, who removes the sins of the world”. If He's removed your sins and failures, why live like you're still living in them?
If you're a new person, why live like the old person? “I don't feel very happy…” However, I'm a new man, a new creation in Christ. Therefore I will rejoice in the Lord always. Today I choose to rejoice.
Coming into church, I come here to meet with God, so I turn up on time, because it's an appointment with God; and I don't come waiting, drawing on all the musicians and everything they have. I come to bring something from my temple. I want to flow with the Holy Ghost.
We were singing a song, something about being overcome by the Holy Ghost. Most of you wouldn't become overcome by the Holy Ghost, because of attitudes in the soul and the heart. It's easy to be overcome by the Holy Ghost. It's all about just being able to yield, and release, and let go. It's only the things in our mind and heart that stop us from receiving. He's here. How about if we were to just worship in His presence and just start to let go trying to control our world, and allow this loving God to fill us.