How to have Great
Breakthroughs in the Midst of
Darkness – IV
Five Supernatural
Breakthroughs of Resting
in the Holy Spirit
The Key to Overcome your ‘fate’
Hannah – darkest time – barren
years - yet
Dark – difficult – time. Easy to
say: Well - just got to bear –
whatever – just my fate
Fated – what will be will be
– if chicken year – going to
have chicken life
Faith is of God – fate is not
2006 is not fated
OT: If want to sell – priest assess – you
– whatever he assess – gd or bad
Today – you – royal priest hood
People saying – bad year
Not just hope – basis to it:
Psalms 91:1-4
He who dwells in the secret place
of the Most High shall abide under
the shadow of the Almighty. 2 I will
say of the LORD, "He is my refuge
and my fortress; My God, in Him I
will trust." 3 Surely He shall deliver
you from the snare of the fowler.
And from the perilous pestilence. 4
He shall cover you with His
feathers, And under His wings you
shall take refuge; His truth shall be
your shield and buckler. NKJV
Shelter – becos of Isa 53 – did –
54 – basis – 55 - how
no weapon – prosper - heritage
New strain – no weapon - prosper
– their righteousness is of me.
Isa 55:12
"For you shall go out with joy,
And be led out with peace; The
mountains and the hills Shall break
forth into singing before you, And
all the trees of the field shall clap
their hands.
Being Led forth peace and joy –
your job – passive voice
You job is rest – his job - lead
God calls – when RESTING –
Not crying – those day over –
resting in finished work
Holy Spirit guide you GENTLY
with His joy and peace
Samuel Samuel
Warm and gentle - like Jesus –
warm – reassuring
Saul Saul – Martha Martha –
Simon Simon – gentle – even
Be careful people manipulating
using God’s name
– Oh yeh - marry – business – 5
fold – bad name – mention after
If feel – like obligated – forced
into it – not of God
Let the Holy Spirit LEAD you to
personally experience your
inheritance
Help – APPLY Word
Watch your diet – others – eat
whatever – peace and joy
Fancy Diet – Protein Diet - Daniel
diet – forced to – you don’t have –
for what
Stop – gain more than lost
Been starving – learning to
preserve – next intake – eat normal
– gain a lot
next intake – don’t spend it –
preserve it
Little – eat – put on more
Body – afraid it will starve
Without t – die
He guides us through creative
ideas
Placed: tabernacled
– placed cheribim – earliest
pict of tabernacle – mercy
seat
Place – Cain Abel brought the
offering
Prob: Fire of judgement –
NEWS -fall on Jesus
Flaming sword – fire of God’s
judgement – fell on Jesus
Jesus took the sword – way to
God open
He placed at the east of (or
before) the garden of Eden the
cherubim, and a sword-like
flame, which turned every way,
to keep the way to the tree of
life.
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
Commentary
Acts 2:3
Then, what looked like flames or
tongues of fire appeared and settled
on their heads. TLB
Acts 2:4
Then there appeared to them
divided tongues, as of fire, and one
sat upon each of them.4 And they
were all filled with the Holy Spirit
and began to speak with other
tongues, as the Spirit gave them
utterance. NKJV
First gift – tongues - why
Proverbs 15:4
A wholesome
(healing) tongue is a tree of life,
but perverseness in it breaks
the spirit. NKJV
Two trees – midst
Good and evil – law
Marpay: wholesome, healing
Life to body, business,
relationship
Thousands of years – d
programmed human language
– die lah – sie - cake
– no one say – I living of the
cake
Life and death
Unwholesome (negative)
tongues Æ tree of death!
How I know – idea fr God – 2
extreme
There are two extremes here.
One hand – God never speaks –
on the other hand - "Every
impression is from God." May
have eaten too much roti –
indigestion – too much acid – test
it – peace – cannot be imitated
How experience Holy Spirit?
Genesis 3:24
So He drove out the man; and He
PLACED cherubim at the east of the
garden of Eden, and a flaming sword
What are some of the
which turned every way, to guard the
tongue that we use?
way to the tree of life. NKJV
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unwholesome
D don’t know what you think afraid
Don’t know how afraid you are –
until open mouth and say it
Speak negative – enforce it control
How have a healing tongue?
Heb picture language - tithe:
Maaser Rich: Asher
Minus m – rest
Prov 14:30
A relaxed attitude
lengthens a man's life; jealousy rots
it away. TLB
Driving – sticker – relax – fridge computer
i. Not enough – relax bro
Don’t tension – maintain bal
Play soccer
Doesn’t help – if full of stress –
don’t be stressed
Just like saying to one who is sick –
don’t be sick – or one who has no
money – don’t have no money –
ridiculous – yet we do it all the time
Discuss the above:
M in hebrew picturegraph – rivers
of water – Holy Spirit – like 7 perfect
What picture?
Resting and relaxing in the Holy
Spirit brings life.
Key to health – not just diet or
exercise
Exercise – still die of heart attack
Drop death – while or after running
Sp Forefathers – Abraham - never
run – work – not exer like hemster
– gym
ii. Pray – tongues - rest
Karl Petersen – Brain surgeon ORU
Studies on people praying in tongues
Brain releases 2 chemicals
Immunity increase by 40 %
Show why tongues – so power Æ
life
2. Great confidence in life
Why is confidence and faith
essential in the last days?
so
Luke 21:25-26
And there will be signs in the sun,
in the moon, and in the stars; and on
the earth distress of nations, with
perplexity, the sea and the waves
roaring; 26 men's hearts failing
them from fear and the expectation
of those things which are coming on
the earth, for the powers of the
heavens will be shaken. NKJV
Adam to us – 6000 - age
Adam 2000 – Abraham 2000 –
Jesus to us 2000 yrs
1 day – 1000 yrs - 7 day
What about carbon 14 dating,
earth and animals – millions of
years – created w age, Adam was
created as a mature adult – not a
baby
Christ can come at anytime –
borrowed time
Days of completion
Tsunami – sea rage
Katrina
Exponential – catastrophic inc of
calamities – 1900 to 2005 –
hurricanes, tsunamis,
pestilence, earthquake,
erruptions.
People of world - worry – rightly
so - tomorrow – wrong perfect
Worry – things going wrong –
doing too perfect
Something wrong – few days – no
problem
What if
- cancer – accident – interest
go up – lost job
Jude 20 … building yourselves
up on your most holy faith,
praying in the Holy Spirit. NKJV
When you rest in Holy Spirit –
when d said – what if … - so
what
Lost job – so what
Wherever I go – as long as
The Lord is my portion – my
inheritance
Don’t put my security in boss
- control my fut
Actor - well known expert –
reading classics –
Shakespeare – always end 23
– great applause
There once was a Shakespearean
3. Praying the perfect prayer
actor who was known
everywhere for his one-man
Romans 8:26
shows of readings and recitations
In the same way, the Spirit helps us
from the classics. He would
in our weakness. We do not know
what we ought to pray for, but the
always end his performance with
Spirit himself intercedes for us with
a reading of Psalm 23.
groans that words cannot express.
Each night, without exception, as
Not one word wasted – touch the actor began his recitation
"The Lord is my Shepherd, I
root
shall not want"... the crowd
Not one single word is wasted –
would listen attentively. And
every word touches heaven!
then, at the conclusion of the
Dealing w root problem
psalm, they would rise in
Lady went to pastor for prayer:
thunderous applause in
pray for my husb – Lord fill this
appreciation of the actor's
wo with grace - root
incredible ability to bring the
Don’t have need to know what
verse to life.
you praying – thank God
One nite – young man – sir – do
Thank God we don’t know - Cho
you mind if I recite – Ok –
If God reveal all the strategies of
knowing his ability to read no
the d – going to break son’s leg,
match
etc – you will be so panic - mess
But one night, just before the
things up
actor was to offer his customary
Or if God reveal – great things –
recital of Psalm 23, a young man
we will also panic
from the audience spoke up. "Sir,
Dr Cho
do you mind if tonight I recite
How you build such a big church –
Psalm 23"?
tremendous pressures – 10
The actor was quite taken aback
Koreans – 15 opinions
by this unusual request, but he
Close my eyes –at rest - open –
allowed the young man to come
stress
forward and stand front and
center on the stage to recite the
Why is it better not to know what we
Psalm, knowing that the ability
are praying?
of this unskilled youth would be
Don’t have to drop – what doing
no match for his own talent.
Surgeon – don’t drop what you
Soft voice – recite – no applause
doing – and go grotto
– standing ovation – sound of
Gardening, cooking, behind
weeping – moved to tears
computer
With a soft voice, the young man
Driving – keep eyes open
began to recite the words of the
Open eye – saw heavenly vision –
Psalm. When he was finished,
angel – trust me – real thing – in
there was no applause. There was
heaven
no standing ovation as on other
nights. All that could be heard
4. Intimate relationship with
was the sound of weeping. The
your Shepherd
audience had been so moved by
the young man's recitation that
every eye was full of tears.
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I don’t understanding – been
performing – years – lifetime of
training – secret – you know the
psalm – I know the shepherd
Amazed by what he had heard, the
actor said to the youth, "I don't
understand. I have been performing
Psalm 23 for years. I have a lifetime
of experience and training, but I have
never been able to move an audience
as you have tonight. Tell me, what is
your secret?"
The young man quietly replied,
"Well sir, you know the Psalm. I
know the Shepherd."
How to pray long hours effortlessly and
why pray for long hours?
That is why - don’t have to be
aggressive – tongues. Don’t walk
down park
You don’t always have to pray loud
or aggressive in tongues - Ok in
prayer meet – not sleep
Speak under your breath
Honey I love you
Close to Jesus - shepherd – can
rest
Know - Who take care of tomorrow
– Lord – see - traps
Put yourself - hand in the one who
can see the beginning to the ends
Knows all the traps
5. Releases power, love and
sound mind
2 Timothy 1:7 For God has not
given us a spirit of fear, but of
power and of love and of a sound
mind. NKJV
God – not want fear - worship
God doesn’t want you to be afraid of
him in the wrong sense
Luke 4:8; Deut 6:13
Luke 4:8 And Jesus answered and
said to him, "Get behind Me, Satan!
For it is written, 'You shall worship the
LORD your God, and Him only you
shall serve.'" NKJV
Deuteronomy 6:13 You shall fear
the LORD your God and serve Him,
and shall take oaths in His name.
NKJV
Worship
Respect born out of love
Luke 1:74 … serve Him without
fear.
Why serve without fear?
Whoever afraid – ultimately hate
resent
Try my best – not to let my staff
fear me
If fear will lead to hatred resentment
If afraid of mum in law –
Fear – give birth to hate,
therefore, call mother in grace
Power – dunamis
Deuteronomy 8:18
"And you
shall remember the LORD your
God, for it is He who gives you
power to get wealth, that He
may establish His covenant …
LXX- Not give wealth – but
Power to get wealth
If poverty is holy – go – places
– tell me
kid selling bodies – so that parents
– food
Tell – poverty – blessing or curse
Wealthy – but not set heart on
wealth but Jesus
Run after Kingdom – blessing –
foll – added – overtake - mean
Overtake – pursuing something
else
God is not against wealth – greed
Eyes on money instead of him
God gives you power to get
wealth. why
May est covenant – grace and
blessing
Blessed to be a blessed - poor corner
We cannot help poor if we are
poor
How send – 4 corners of earth
Get – create – idea - save
No money problem – idea – save
lots of money –
Sound mind
Why is a sound mind so impt?
6 years cannot sleep - 2
another drug after 2 hr
panic attacks – fear – stomach sinus
stomach ulcer - doc – every week
– drain sinus
tongues –
peace comes
pray more – more peace
Try – hit a gusher – joy and peace
unspeakable – start days, 1 hr – 15
min hit gusher - Love to pray
Sleep well?
One hour before bed time –
tongues – listen to Tape – health prosperous
Overcome hurts and resentment.
Proverbs 14:30 A sound heart is
life to the body, but envy is
rottenness to the bones. NKJV
Envy is cancerous - Jerusalem
Bible
Some Arthritis – bitterness –
release – go
Eaten up alive by unforgiveness
– resentment
Tranquil
Jude 20-21
But you, beloved, building
yourselves up on your most holy
faith, praying in the Holy Spirit,21
keep yourselves in the love of God.
Tongues – help rest in his love
Hurt, angry, depress? – won't stuck in past
Pray in the spirit - Keep in the love
of Christ – won't be stuck in the
mud – move on
6. Stirs up the various gifts of
the Holy Spirit
Why is it impt to stir up the spiritual
gifts in the market place?
2 Timothy 1:6
Therefore I
remind you to stir up the gift of
God which is in you through the
laying on of my hands. NKJV
Stir up gifts of God - teh
Like teh tarik – no stirred – put
own sugar - Like drain water
Little bit of stirring - Little corner
become 6 star hotel
How stir – charisma – not dorea
CANDELABRA
Centre lamp – lights the rest
Tongues- lighting of all gifts
How faithful – How you light up
other gifts
You light it – when praying
tongues
Creative ideas
Need supernatural weapon – in
business – word of wisdom –
knowledge – discernment – etc
Three simple keys to receive
the gift of tongues
Rest in His Grace
It’s a gift!
Romans 5:17 For if by the one
man's offense death reigned
through the one, much more
those who receive abundance
of grace and of the gift of
righteousness will reign in life
through the one, Jesus Christ.
NKJV
Who made you worthy to go
heaven
Same way – worthy to receive
Holy Spirit
If not holy?
– that is why you need Holy
Spirit!
Thirst and hungry for his
presence and fullness
John 7:37 … If anyone thirsts,
let him come to Me and drink.
NKJV
Step out in faith
"Lord, if it is You, command me
to come to You on the water." 29
So He said, "Come." And when
Peter had come down out of the
boat,
Don’t help God – with phrases
like – praise God – hallelujah
These can be said some other
times
No matter how strange the
sound is - speak it our
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Acts 2:4
“.. and they began to
speak with other tongues as the
Spirit was giving them utterance
Peace – know – God or not