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Today I’m going to talk about the Holy Spirit[br]and what it is to be led by the Holy Spirit.

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And if there is something I love to talk about,[br]if there is something I am so excited about

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then it is the whole part of being led by[br]the Holy Spirit. In the book of Acts in the

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first church you saw that the Holy Spirit[br]was an active part of the church, the Holy

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Spirit was the one who was working in the[br]first disciples, He was leading them and He

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wants to be a part of our lives and our church[br]today, I heard somebody say that if the Holy

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Spirit left the church today 90% of all the[br]activities are going to continue as if nothing

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had happened and I believe there is something[br]about that. You are going to see that in

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this teaching I’m going to share a lot of[br]amazing testimonies of how we can be led by

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the Holy Spirit today and how God is working[br]by His Spirit and I’m also going to give

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you some practical tools you can use in your[br]life so your life can be led by the Holy Spirit

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exactly as we read in the [br]book of Acts God bless you.

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Welcome to the Pioneer School this is [br]lesson number 12 out of 20. Today I’m going

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to talk about being led by the Holy Spirit.[br]I’m going to talk about how it is to walk

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by the Spirit, how it is to listen to the[br]Spirit and being led by the Holy Spirit.

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I love teaching about these things because[br]some years ago me and my family got a taste

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of what God has for us when it comes to [br]being led by the Holy Spirit. When we tasted

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that we just looked at each other and we said[br]this is what we want, we want this life. Because

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being led by the Holy Spirit is what it is[br]all about and it is so much more than just

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coming in a church on Sunday. I believe many [br]people have the idea that the Bible said

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that you can walk by the flesh and you can[br]walk by the Spirit. Walking by the flesh

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is living in sin and we agree with that. But[br]then we think that walking by the Spirit is the

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opposite of living in sin. That it is just [br]don’t sin. So now I’m a nice person, I don’t

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sin, I don’t live in sin and I come to church [br]on Sunday. I live my everyday life trying

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to not do a lot of things and [br]come to the church on Sunday.

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But to be led by the Spirit is much more than[br]just standing still and don’t sin and come

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to the church on Sunday. To be led by the Spirit[br]is to live a supernatural life, it is to walk

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by the Spirit, it is to go from one place[br]to another it’s not to just stand still.

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And not sin it is to live an exciting life[br]where the Holy Spirit is leading us in everyday

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life. You are going to get a taste of that,[br]because in this teaching I’m going to come

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with a lot of amazing testimonies and then in[br]the end I’m going to give you some practical

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tools that can help you to come in and walk[br]by the Spirit and live the life. Before I start

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I’m going to pray and I’m going to take[br]some questions out of the last teaching.

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Then we are going to continue looking [br]at what it is to be led by the

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Spirit. God I thank you for this teaching I[br]pray that you will help me to share this word

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I pray that it is going to be a revelation for[br]everybody who sees this, that it is going to

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open their eyes and it is going to help them[br]to come into the life we read in the book

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of Acts. That they are going to live a life[br]led by the Holy Spirit in everyday life, God.

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God thank you because this is something You[br]have for every one of us so help me to share

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this word and come with your Spirit and open[br]our eyes God in the name of Jesus. Amen

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OK, I have been talking about repentance,[br]baptism in water and baptism with the Holy

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Spirit. This is part of salvation, everything[br]is part of getting saved, Peter stood

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up and said, "Repent, get baptized in water[br]for the remission of your sins and you will

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receive the Holy Spirit." Then he said that[br]"this promise is for you and your children

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and everybody God is going to call on." What[br]promise? The promise of the new covenant. The

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promise that had been spoken by the prophet[br]Joel, the promise that had been spoken by the

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prophet Ezekiel, the promise by Jeremiah, the[br]promise from the old prophets. That one day

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God is going to create a new covenant with[br]His people, a covenant where He is going to

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put a new heart inside of us and give us a[br]new spirit. So we may walk in His statues, so

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we may walk with Him. That promise, He said,[br]has to do with all of those three things. And

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the Holy Spirit is like the end of it. The [br]fulfilling of that; the new Spirit. It’s not like

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you get saved, you repent and you get baptized[br]in water and yes you are saved and if you want

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the Holy Spirit, like something extra, you [br]can say yes to that. No, everything is part

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of salvation. I’ve been teaching about[br]that the last times. I’ve got a lot of

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response, out of this teaching, out of baptism[br]with the Holy Spirit. A really good response.

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One of the emails I got was this, "Hello[br]Torben, I’ve been waiting for this topic

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the whole way through the Pioneer School since[br]God revealed Himself to me in a Pentecostal

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church. I want to get baptized with the Holy[br]Spirit but in our days it seemed like baptism

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in the Holy Spirit happens more seldom. Why?[br]Especially during the Bible school God has

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opened my eyes. And there is still a question.[br]Why is it in the book of Acts it is so simple

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to get baptized with the Holy Spirit but now[br]it is so complicated compared to the book

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of Acts? I know brothers who have been serving[br]God for more than ten years and asking for

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baptism of the Holy Spirit during all [br]of those years but have not yet got it.

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They are members of the church and are baptized[br]in water. I personally miss this power of

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God in my life. God bless you." Why is [br]it like that? Why is it so simple in

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the book of Acts and so difficult today? The[br]answer, I’ve been trying to work with during

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the whole Pioneer School, the answer is [br]our religion glasses. We have a lot of

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teaching today that is not built on the Word[br]of God, it is built on tradition. We have a

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lot of wrong doctrines and we have a lot of[br]fears. At the same time we build our doctrine

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on our experience instead of what the Word[br]is saying, as I said when it comes to healing,

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when it comes to all the other things I’ve[br]been looking at during the Pioneer School.

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We need to come back to the simple life [br]we read in the book of Acts. We have a

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lot of theology, a lot of knowledge, but there[br]is not so much life. Why? Because the knowledge

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complicates things. An example is what we [br]read here. Those people have been praying

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to God during ten years, and have not received[br]it. The last time I spoke about how my wife

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when she was ten or eleven years old, just[br]went and prayed a simple prayer, "God I pray

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that you will give me the Holy Spirit." and[br]immediately she got baptized with the Holy

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Spirit and she started to speak in tongues. She [br]prayed one prayer in faith like a child. We

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have to be like children. It’s not about[br]praying, praying, praying ten years, it’s

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about simple faith. You don’t have to pray[br]ten years to press through to get it. No.

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I think what those people need instead of [br]just praying and praying and praying is they

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need discipleship and they need to get their[br]eyes open and get the wrong doctrine out of

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their lives. If I met them, I would not say [br]continue praying for ten years, I would say, "Let’s

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sit down and talk and let's go through what[br]the word is saying. Have you repentance?"

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And seems like they have, "And have you got[br]baptized with water?" And they have and then

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talk about baptism with the Holy Spirit and[br]sit down with them and explain what it is

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all about. This is what we need, discipleship.[br]And again I can come to a church, come to a

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meeting. I can speak from the pulpit and ten [br]people can come up to me, I pray and five

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of them get baptized with the Holy Spirit[br]in an instant, and I can go over there and

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there are only five got baptized with the [br]Holy Spirit. Why did the other five not

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get baptized with the Holy Spirit? Because[br]it is all about discipleship. It’s all about

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taking people from where they are right now and [br]helping them to take the next step. Maybe some

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of them have not repented, some have not [br]been baptized in water and have something

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they need to deal with [br]before they can receive it.

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Some of them just need to get the fear out[br]of their lives. This is what I want, I want

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us to focus on discipleship instead of just[br]having a meeting speaking from a pulpit, and

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then expect everything to happen. We need[br]to take people from where they are, sit down

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with them and go through the Word and talk[br]with them. And another lady also, she

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wrote this, "I had difficulty receiving the [br]Holy Spirit, but I needed to be delivered.

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She said that somebody talked with her [br]and she burned her old books, a lot of

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new age stuff she had. And two people prayed[br]and she was delivered. About fifteen minutes

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later, she wrote, "I was getting in my car[br]and driving home and I started to praise God

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in English and then tongues just started to[br]flow through me and I stopped the car while

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I was enjoying this whole experience. So[br]here we have a lady who wrote that she also

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didn’t receive the Holy Spirit like this. But [br]somebody did discipleship with her. Somebody

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sat down with her, talked with her and she got[br]to understand. She didn’t have books, but something

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else she had not turned away from. When[br]she turned away from it, she had at the

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same time gotten delivered from a demon. When[br]that happened the Holy Spirit came instantly.

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It just flowed out of her. Like my wife she[br]didn’t have so much to get set free from,

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she was a young girl but she just prayed a[br]simple prayer. This woman had something she

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needed to repent from and when she had [br]done that she just worshipped God in

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the car and it came like this. So I want to[br]say if you don’t have it yet what you need

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is, of course, to pray to God in faith. But [br]what we really need also is discipleship.

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We need to go back to step one, step[br]two and step three. Another wrote,

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"I’ve been praying for baptism with the[br]Holy Spirit since Friday but have not yet

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experienced it. Unfortunately there is nobody[br]around me in my town who teaches about this

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so I hope you can help me." [br]Sometimes we have to do something

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extra ordinary to get it. What I mean is in[br]the Acts chapter 8, the people in Samaria

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had not yet received the Holy Spirit and[br]when the apostles in Jerusalem heard about

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that they travelled there to lay their hands[br]on them so they could receive it. And what we

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need today often, is to jump in a car and [br]go to somebody else that you have not

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been together with all the time. Go to another[br]church find other people, find some people

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who have it, who know about it and let them[br]pray for you. Because this promise is for you,

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this promise is for your children, this [br]promise is for everybody God is calling on.

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OK, I’m going to talk about being led by[br]the Holy Spirit. I love the whole part

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of being led by the Holy Spirit. I can share [br]a lot of testimonies about being led by

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the Holy Spirit. The next time I’m [br]going to have a lesson here in

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the Pioneer School is one month after Christmas.[br]So in one month I’m going to come with the

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next teaching. They are going to wait one[br]month because next Sunday me and my family

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are going to South Africa. And like many[br]other things this has also to do with being

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led by the Holy Spirit. I think everything[br]we do has to do with being led by the Holy

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Spirit. If we buy a car, every time we move[br]from one place to another. All we do, we see

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that God is in it and God is leading us by[br]His Holy Spirit. The way we came to South

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Africa... the reason we are going to South Africa[br]is because some months ago we were on a mission

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in Poland. I was sitting in the car and[br]driving, on my way to Poland. My wife

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was sitting beside me and she looked at me[br]and she said, "Torben, there is something

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I have been talking with God about, but [br]I’ve not told you." I looked at her and

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said, "What have you been talking with God[br]about without telling me?" I was curious. What

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is it? She said, “I’ve been talking with [br]God that I want to go away for Christmas,

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I don’t want to be home this year; the Christmas[br]dress and presents and all the things there

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are with Christmas. I want to go away,[br]have a holiday with the family and at the

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same time serve God; do something with meaning, [br]with a purpose.” I looked at her and

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said, "Yes, I want that, I am open for [br]that." It came as a big surprise! Because it

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was the first time ever she said something[br]like that with Christmas and going away.

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But I was open for that, but I said, “But,[br]but, but...who would want to invite us for

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Christmas? Because every church, every person[br]I know they are closing down for Christmas

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because everything is about Christmas and[br]presents and all those things, no one is having

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meetings so who want to invite [br]us. But I was open and we laid

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it over to God and prayed. Two [br]hours later, we were in Poland and

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I checked my email there was an email [br]to me from South Africa, where one guy

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wrote, "Hello Torben, I want to invite you [br]and your family to South Africa, Cape Town,

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for two weeks in December. Come down, relax, [br]have a holiday, swim in our swimming pool, and

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have some meetings with us, and train us,[br]do you want that?" And I was like, "Wooo!

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Yeah! Yes, I want that!" We said yes to that [br]and I didn’t hear from him for a long time.

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Later he sent some money to me, he just [br]wrote, "I will send the money everything

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is OK. He send a lot of money because it[br]cost a lot of money for us five persons

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to jump in a plane from Denmark and fly to[br]South Africa to Cape Town. And he just paid

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everything. So next Sunday we are going to[br]South Africa; Cape Town. I love that because

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when we are there, we are not there because[br]my wife prayed a prayer, we are not there

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because he invited us, we are not there because[br]he paid for us to come there, we are there

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because God sent us. My wife prayed because [br]the Holy Spirit led her to pray this.

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And we know if we pray according to the[br]will of God we have already received what

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we are praying for. And it was something[br]God put in Lene to pray. God worked in her and

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she prayed at the same time God worked in [br]a man in South Africa. We haven’t seen

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him yet. God told him to invite us and[br]he gave us the money so we could go there.

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And when we are there, like many other [br]things, we just know we are exactly where we

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are called to be, exactly where God [br]wants us to be. We are not there just by

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accident, we are not there because we choose[br]in our own free will to go there, we

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are there because God had led us there. [br]The Holy Spirit has sent us. I have a lot

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of stories like this, a lot of testimonies[br]where you can hear how the Holy Spirit is

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leading, how the Holy Spirit is working.[br]I want to say that everything we do today,

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every big thing, I’m not talking [br]about going out go to a shop to buy

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some food or what time we have to [br]get up out of bed. I’m talking about

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every big thing, like God, what shall we do[br]with this? How shall we use our money? What

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about the Pioneer School? What about the teaching?[br]What about this invitation? What about the

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books? What about what you want us to...I[br]can say that God is leading by His Spirit.

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and I’m so excited about the whole part[br]of being led by the Spirit. I am going to

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tell a lot of very short testimonies. Now we[br]have to continue and do what we always do when

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we come to theology and teaching. [br]We have to look at Jesus.

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So I’m going to start with looking at Jesus[br]when it comes to the Holy Spirit. I want to

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say, of course, the Holy Spirit was a part of[br]Jesus life from the beginning. He was conceived

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by the Holy Spirit so the Holy Spirit was[br]there at the beginning. But at the same time

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Jesus needed to get baptized with the Holy[br]Spirit. When John baptized Him the Holy Spirit

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came over Him. We can read about that in[br]Luke 3. After Jesus was baptized with the

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Holy Spirit we read this in Luke 4, "Jesus, full[br]of the Holy Spirit returned from the Jordan

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and was led by the Spirit in the wilderness[br]for forty days, being tempted by the devil."

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So we read here that Jesus, after He got baptized[br]with the Holy Spirit, was full of the Holy

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Spirit and when He was full of the Holy [br]Spirit we read that He was led by the Spirit.

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He was led in the wilderness where [br]He was tempted. When you get

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baptized with the Holy Spirit you are going[br]to experience that you are getting filled

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with the Holy Spirit. So baptism with the[br]Holy Spirit is something that will happen

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one time in your life. It’s when you receive[br]the Holy Spirit but the Bible also says

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that we need to not get drunk [br]with alcohol and other things but

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let us get filled by the Spirit; in Ephesians[br]5:18. So when we have received the Holy Spirit

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we also need to do something to live in that.[br]And this has to do with living close to God

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because when we spend time with God or when [br]we pray a lot in tongues, when we serve God,

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when we live there, we are going to experience[br]we are filled by the Spirit. And what I want

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to take up here is that Jesus was filled up[br]by the Holy Spirit and also that He was led

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by the Spirit. The first place He was led[br]by the Spirit was in the wilderness, where

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He was tempted by Satan. And when He came [br]out of that and we can read this word,

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"And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit[br]to Galilee, and a report about Him went out

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through all the surrounding country." After [br]Jesus was tempted by Satan forty days,

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He came out of that place he returned in [br]the power of the Holy Spirit. I believe

0:22:52.082,0:22:58.163
there is something in these three Words that[br]I have here. This is my personal experience

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also. That we get baptized with the Holy Spirit[br]and we can experience being filled with the

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Holy Spirit, and then this is also something[br]we can live in by living close to God. We are

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full of the Spirit and when we are filled by [br]the Spirit we can be led by the Holy Spirit.

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When we are led by the Holy Spirit the result [br]of that is we are walking in the power

0:23:25.001,0:23:30.087
of the Holy Spirit. So if you [br]want to walk in the power of the

0:23:30.096,0:23:35.105
Holy Spirit, what you need is to get baptized[br]in the Holy Spirit. Or if you are baptized

0:23:36.086,0:23:41.144
with the Holy Spirit, get close to God spend[br]time and let the Holy Spirit fill you up from

0:23:42.044,0:23:48.082
your innermost being and it is going to come[br]out as living water. When you spend time with

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God, with the Holy Spirit, and you learn [br]to be led by the Holy Spirit, you will see

0:23:55.067,0:24:00.118
the power of the Holy Spirit in your [br]life. Because when you are led by the

0:24:01.018,0:24:08.018
Spirit you know, right here, right now, that[br]right moment is here. You are not here by

0:24:10.002,0:24:16.002
accident because the Holy Spirit has sent you. [br]And when you know you are walking in what

0:24:16.002,0:24:23.002
God has prepared for you to walk in, then you[br]have a faith that is stronger than any other

0:24:23.002,0:24:28.044
thing because right now you are acting on[br]the Word of God. Of course we are acting on

0:24:28.062,0:24:33.137
the Word of God when we go out, what Jesus[br]is saying each time we go out, what Jesus

0:24:34.037,0:24:39.109
has commanded us to when we go. Also we hear[br]the Holy Spirit leading us when we go on the

0:24:40.009,0:24:45.037
Word of God, He is with us, we know that [br]because the Word of God is the truth.

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But at the same time we have a lot of [br]fear in our life, but when you experience

0:24:51.005,0:24:57.076
that the Holy Spirit is there in a special[br]way and leading you at that moment, the fear

0:24:58.021,0:25:04.000
is not there the same way. Because [br]you know, that you know that God has

0:25:04.007,0:25:10.045
sent you and he is there right now. I’m[br]going to share some testimonies about that.

0:25:11.008,0:25:18.008
Jesus, was baptized with the Holy Spirit[br]but He still took time to be together with

0:25:21.061,0:25:28.061
God. You see that in Jesus life. One time[br]when he needed to choose his twelve disciples

0:25:29.096,0:25:36.096
we read that just before that He[br]went up to the mountain to pray. All

0:25:37.054,0:25:44.054
night He continued in prayer to God. He did [br]this just before he was going to choose his

0:25:45.071,0:25:52.071
twelve disciples. We read other times where[br]Jesus went out early in the morning. He went

0:25:53.011,0:26:00.011
to bed after the sun went down and got up [br]early before the sun rose up He went out

0:26:01.063,0:26:08.063
to pray. So that night, I don’t know if He[br]got many hours of sleep. And this night

0:26:08.064,0:26:15.064
He continued in prayer all night. So He didn’t [br]sleep. Jesus the Son of God needed to take

0:26:16.041,0:26:23.041
time to be together with God. He needed [br]to take time to pray, to fast and it is

0:26:29.035,0:26:36.035
the same with us. If we want to not only experience[br]the baptism of the Holy Spirit but if we want

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to be led by the Holy Spirit and if we want[br]to walk in the power of the Holy Spirit.

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We also need to take time in praying and[br]fasting like Jesus did and like other persons

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did in the Bible or church history.[br]The secret... I’m going to talk about

0:27:03.061,0:27:10.061
fasting next week. For me, fasting is...[br]If somebody asks, "Torben what is

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the secret?" What you have experienced,[br]is no secret, it is just about Jesus. But

0:27:18.002,0:27:23.040
at the same time I can say that fasting is[br]special for me. Because each time I fasted

0:27:23.058,0:27:30.058
maybe forty days or twenty days or other times,[br]it had done something in me. It had become

0:27:31.007,0:27:38.007
the beginning of something new. Jesus [br]took a period of fasting and He returned

0:27:39.003,0:27:45.042
in the power of the Holy Spirit. I believe[br]that when you receive the Holy Spirit one

0:27:45.042,0:27:52.042
of the first things the Holy Spirit is going[br]to lead you into is closeness with God. To

0:27:53.059,0:28:00.000
walk with God, the Holy Spirit is going to[br]start to cut all the other things out of your

0:28:00.000,0:28:06.047
life, so there is nothing other [br]than God left; this is how He works.

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OK, we looked at Jesus and now we are going[br]to continue to look at the first disciples.

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It doesn’t matter if it is the first disciples[br]or disciples like you and me who are living

0:28:20.002,0:28:25.039
today. Because Jesus is the same every [br]day. I’m going to go through the book of

0:28:25.039,0:28:29.098
Acts now and just take some of the things[br]you read in the book of Acts when it comes

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to the Holy Spirit. I heard somebody say about [br]the church today that if the Holy Spirit

0:28:39.036,0:28:46.036
was to leave the church today, 90% of[br]all activities would continue like

0:28:47.007,0:28:54.007
nothing happened. 90% of all the activities[br]in the church; the programmes, the meetings,

0:28:57.076,0:29:04.076
the worship, the preaching is going to continue[br]like nothing has happened. To be honest,

0:29:06.061,0:29:13.061
sadly, I think it is like that, because much of [br]what we do today has to do with our programmes.

0:29:18.097,0:29:22.173
We do it because we have the programmes, [br]we have the money we can do it. We are

0:29:23.073,0:29:29.112
not really dependant on the Holy Spirit. But[br]if you go to the book of Acts and see how

0:29:30.012,0:29:35.046
the Holy Spirit was there, you will see that[br]the Holy Spirit was working in everything.

0:29:35.046,0:29:42.046
The Holy Spirit was Him who was working in[br]the church. But during the Catholic church

0:29:43.002,0:29:49.093
a lot of things changed. One of the things[br]that changed was the Holy Spirit went out.

0:29:49.093,0:29:56.093
We got a big system at the same time. [br]This is what we are building on today.

0:29:58.024,0:30:05.024
But you are going to see now, in the book of [br]Acts, the Holy Spirit was part of it. In

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Acts chapter 5. ""we are His witnesses[br]to these things and so also is the Holy Spirit

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Whom God has given to those who [br]obey Him." God has given the Holy

0:30:28.011,0:30:35.011
Spirit to those who obey Him, but I [br]want to say, we are His witnesses also

0:30:35.021,0:30:40.079
is the Holy Spirit. So it was not only them[br]who were the witnesses but the Holy Spirit

0:30:40.079,0:30:46.848
was also there. And they recognized that they[br]were there but also that the Holy Spirit was

0:30:47.559,0:30:53.000
part of that and we read something like this[br]"the Spirit said to Philip" in another place

0:30:53.093,0:31:00.093
"the Spirit said to Peter" another place[br]we read this, "as they ministered to the

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Lord and fasted." So they also did that. The[br]Holy Spirit said, "Now appoint unto me Barnabas

0:31:14.008,0:31:21.008
and Saul to the work to which I have called[br]them." So they were together praying, they

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were fasting and the Holy Spirit said to [br]chose those people to do the work I have

0:31:33.065,0:31:40.065
called them to. Who had called them? The[br]Spirit had called them. Another place, "for

0:31:40.086,0:31:47.086
it seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us"[br]When have you last been in a meeting where

0:31:51.003,0:31:58.003
someone said, "Oh, it seems good to the Holy Spirit[br]and us" or, "the Holy Spirit and us are witnesses

0:31:59.057,0:32:06.057
to this" or, the Holy Spirit has said that[br]we should call him and him to the work the

0:32:06.086,0:32:13.086
Holy Spirit has called him to? Can you see? It [br]was not only what seemed good to those people,

0:32:15.007,0:32:22.007
it was what seemed good to those people and[br]to the Holy Spirit. So the Holy Spirit is

0:32:23.026,0:32:29.059
a person. He is a person in the Godhead, He [br]is there, He is not just a power, He is just

0:32:29.059,0:32:34.153
‘NOT an IT’ and sorry if I said ‘it’.[br]Somebody said to me that I said ‘it’ about

0:32:35.053,0:32:40.112
the Holy Spirit, but it is because of my [br]English translation. He is not an ‘it’ He is

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a person. The first church again said it [br]seems good to the Holy Spirit and to us

0:32:50.033,0:32:56.107
and they said something like this and they[br]said also that "...they were forbidden by the

0:32:57.007,0:33:02.055
Holy Spirit to preach..." and they were "led [br]by the Holy Spirit" and Paul is saying, "I am

0:33:02.055,0:33:09.055
going to Jerusalem bound by the Holy Spirit".[br]So at one time we read that they were led

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by the Holy Spirit, another time they were[br]forbidden by the Holy Spirit to preach, another

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time it seems good for the Holy Spirit and[br]us are witnesses to this and this. And if you

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look through the book of Acts, these are just[br]some of the places, you will see that the Holy

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Spirit was a big, big part of the church in[br]what was happening. It was not just a programme,

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the leader of the church was Jesus Christ[br]working by his Holy Spirit here on earth.

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Jesus is in heaven sitting at God’s right [br]hand, the Holy Spirit is here on earth. He is

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not just a power, just a power to heal the[br]sick out on the street. No, it was Him who

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was leading the things, who was organising,[br]who was saying where to go, who to point out,

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where not to go, stop here, go [br]there, choose them, do this and this.

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It was not just leadership who sat down and[br]said what shall we do? I think we should do it

0:34:24.149,0:34:31.149
like this because I think it is a good [br]idea. What about God? For me, today we can

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experience the same with the Holy Spirit that[br]He is leading us. I want to say one more

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thing because in chapter 6 they were [br]going to choose some men who were

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going to help with the tables and other things[br]So the apostles could take time with the Word

0:34:52.023,0:34:59.023
and praying. You read that they said, "...pick[br]out seven men of good repute, full of

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the Spirit and wisdom, whom we will appoint[br]to this duty...they chose Stephen, a man full

0:35:11.067,0:35:17.141
of faith and of the Holy Spirit, and..."[br]and you read that they prayed and

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laid their hands on them. So what they needed[br]to do there was find seven men who were full

0:35:27.789,0:35:34.789
of the Holy Spirit. Because what God wants to[br]use today is people who are full of the Holy

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Spirit. Because we cannot do what we are [br]supposed to do in our own power. No, we can do

0:35:45.023,0:35:50.115
what we are supposed to filled by the Spirit.[br]I’ve written a lot of books, I don’t write

0:35:51.015,0:35:55.069
books because I’m good at writing, when I [br]went out of school I could not read, I could

0:35:55.069,0:36:00.143
not write, I had never imagined I was going[br]to write one book in my whole life. Before

0:36:01.043,0:36:08.043
I became a Christian I only read one book,[br]a small book. I could not read. But God

0:36:10.049,0:36:17.049
has chosen me to do this thing, why?[br]Because I was taking time with Him, I was

0:36:17.088,0:36:23.145
full of the Spirit. And I know, I recognise[br]today that what I do I only do because He

0:36:24.045,0:36:31.045
is leading me. I cannot do it in my own power.[br]Not one of us can serve God in our own power.

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So they were going to choose some [br]men who were full of the Holy Spirit.

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It was not because they had just got[br]baptized with the Holy Spirit. But there

0:36:42.489,0:36:48.492
were some people who had been living in that [br]fullness. And again got filled by the Spirit.

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You can read in Acts that they [br]prayed and the Holy Spirit came

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and filled them again. And they took time [br]with God and were filled by the Spirit.

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They chose the people who were [br]filled with the Holy Spirit. After

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they had chosen them they [br]laid their hands on them.

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They didn’t lay their hands on them to [br]receive the Holy Spirit, they already had Him.

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They laid their hands on them to recognise[br]what God had already given them. I believe

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in laying on of hands when it comes to baptism[br]of the Holy Spirit. When somebody lays their

0:37:33.279,0:37:39.000
hands on you, you get baptized with the Holy[br]Spirit and you receive the Holy Spirit, yes. But

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I don’t believe you have to run from meeting[br]to meeting, from meeting to meeting, from

0:37:45.017,0:37:50.093
conference to conference, conference to conference,[br]after you have gotten the Holy Spirit to let

0:37:50.093,0:37:56.098
every woman or man of God lay their hands[br]on you and pray for you. No. I don’t

0:37:56.098,0:38:00.119
believe that because I don’t see that in[br]the Word. I believe when you have received

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the Holy Spirit you have to walk by the[br]Spirit. You have to be led by the Spirit out

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in the wilderness: led by the Holy Spirit[br]so you can take time with God. And then walk

0:38:12.096,0:38:17.168
by the Spirit and when you are full of the Holy[br]Spirit, God is going to point you out, and

0:38:18.068,0:38:24.071
use you. Because He uses people He filled by[br]the Holy Spirit. And that being filled by the

0:38:24.071,0:38:31.071
the filling of Holy Spirit doesn't come by [br]going from meeting to meeting. It comes by

0:38:31.869,0:38:38.000
paying a price, it comes by taking the[br]time to seek God. I am going to share some

0:38:38.072,0:38:45.072
testimonies now about being led by the Holy[br]Spirit. It is not something that came instantly,

0:38:47.044,0:38:53.893
in two seconds, "Hey I want that!" It [br]didn’t come because I went to a conference

0:38:54.289,0:38:58.385
and somebody prayed for me and I got a special[br]anointing. No. I got the Holy Spirit like

0:38:59.249,0:39:04.000
you and every other person who has the Holy[br]Spirit. It comes by taking time to seek

0:39:04.093,0:39:11.093
God, taking time to listen, being led by the[br]Holy Spirit in the small things so God can

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put us over [br]more and more.

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OK, they were led by the Holy Spirit. The [br]Holy Spirit was working. Now to my life. Some

0:39:23.068,0:39:30.068
years ago I was out camping and [br]I prayed. Praying is more than

0:39:31.799,0:39:38.799
just, God! Praying is a life, it is fellowship,[br]fellowship with God, For many people praying is

0:39:41.009,0:39:47.015
like what I am going to say now. I am married[br]to my wife. Try to imagine; I have a small

0:39:47.096,0:39:52.885
room and I put my wife in the room. And twenty[br]minutes each day I open the room and I go

0:39:53.749,0:40:00.000
in, I closed the door, sit down with my wife and [br]then I just talk for twenty minutes, everything

0:40:00.043,0:40:06.482
that has happened, then thank you! Go[br]out, and close the door again. The day after

0:40:06.869,0:40:13.869
go in again to my wife, close the door talk[br]twenty minutes-...-and then I go out again.

0:40:14.319,0:40:19.344
One day she knocks on the door, I open[br]the door and she says, "I have something to

0:40:19.569,0:40:24.640
say." -- "Not now, tomorrow." and I close[br]the door. And the day after I sit down, I talk

0:40:25.279,0:40:28.333
twenty minutes, "Thank you." and I go out. And [br]she says, "I have something to say." -- "Not

0:40:28.819,0:40:35.819
now, not now." What marriage relationship[br]is that? It is not a marriage. No. Because

0:40:39.096,0:40:45.975
I cannot put my wife in a room and just use[br]twenty minutes with her every day when it

0:40:46.839,0:40:53.839
suits me. No, my wife needs to talk to[br]me also, it’s not only me who has to talk,

0:40:53.095,0:41:00.095
she also has something on her heart she wants[br]to tell me. When she needs to tell it to

0:41:01.119,0:41:07.144
me, I need to be ready to listen. At the same[br]time there are times when I need to tell my

0:41:07.369,0:41:14.369
wife something here and now and then she is[br]ready to listen. But the same with God many

0:41:16.049,0:41:22.000
people put God in a room and take him out[br]five, ten minutes each day just talk, talk,

0:41:22.088,0:41:29.088
talk and never give God also time to talk[br]back because praying is not only one way, it

0:41:30.063,0:41:36.962
is two ways. It is not only us who talk to[br]God, God talks to us. Praying is not only

0:41:37.529,0:41:43.580
going to a room and close your door, this[br]is part of it, praying is a life, it

0:41:44.039,0:41:49.133
is an everyday life. I want to show how[br]I pray. I was out camping some years ago

0:41:49.979,0:41:56.979
and when I prayed something like this, "Hello[br]God, Oh, it was good, it was really good

0:41:57.071,0:42:02.167
yesterday. What do you think about the[br]meeting? OK, Hey, I got an email today.

0:42:03.067,0:42:07.496
I don’t know exactly what...what shall I[br]write? I’m not sure, because...what do

0:42:08.099,0:42:15.099
you think? What do you think I should do?[br]Hey... one more thing, mm what about this? I

0:42:17.014,0:42:23.043
don’t understand exactly what this is...I[br]pray God, help me, help me to explain things."

0:42:23.043,0:42:28.140
This is what I am praying, I’m talking with[br]God, I am taking God into my life, I’m talking

0:42:29.004,0:42:34.353
about the emails, I’m talking about the journey[br]we are going on, I’m talking about things

0:42:34.749,0:42:41.000
I am struggling with, I am talking about the[br]Word of God, what about this I don’t understand.

0:42:41.047,0:42:48.047
God ...if this is the truth... what about this[br]then? This is the way I pray and often I experienced

0:42:48.499,0:42:55.499
that God works in my prayer like God works in[br]my wife Lene. God put the Holy Spirit, God

0:42:57.049,0:43:04.049
put something in my wife to pray. God opened[br]the door to South Africa for Christmas.

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It was the Holy Spirit in my wife. When[br]I was praying some years ago I was walking

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and in prayer and it came very clear, "Torben,[br]pray for an open door to TV so you can go

0:43:19.369,0:43:26.369
against evolution and Darwin." I thought,[br]"What?" It just came to me out of nothing,

0:43:29.499,0:43:36.499
it just came, the Holy Spirit put it in me.[br]So I said, "OK". So I prayed, "God open

0:43:36.066,0:43:41.635
the door to TV, God. God I pray you are going[br]to open the door to TV so I can go against

0:43:42.229,0:43:49.000
evolution and Darwin, God. God let the lies[br]of Darwin fall down in our country." It was

0:43:49.014,0:43:54.213
my praying and I prayed that. The next day[br]I was out walking and I prayed the same, "God

0:43:54.339,0:43:58.405
I thank you for opening the door to TV. God[br]I pray that you will open the door to TV so

0:43:58.999,0:44:04.000
I can go against evolution and Darwin." and[br]while I was walking and praying that, I saw

0:44:04.089,0:44:10.808
a man there, where we were camping and[br]when I saw him, "This...this is this man."

0:44:11.609,0:44:17.701
It was a famous stand-up comedian one I have[br]seen on TV and TV programmes and commercials.

0:44:18.529,0:44:23.000
And this stand-up comedian, you know, like many[br]other stand-up comedians, don't speak the most holy

0:44:23.044,0:44:27.953
words and it is also with him. It was [br]not holy words he was speaking. He

0:44:28.349,0:44:33.000
was making fun of the Christians. He was cursing[br]all the time and I saw him there. And

0:44:33.071,0:44:40.071
my heart started to jump and I just felt...[br]this is God, so I went to him and when

0:44:41.038,0:44:46.957
I went to him to talk with him, just one meter[br]before I was there, he turned his face and

0:44:47.299,0:44:52.393
I saw his face and saw it was not him. [br]I thought... "It’s not him, it’s just

0:44:53.239,0:45:00.239
someone who looks like him. And there God spoke[br]to me. God spoke and said, "Pray for this

0:45:01.589,0:45:08.589
guy, his name is Simon Jul." -- "What?"[br]-- "Pray for Simon Jul" -- "You

0:45:09.089,0:45:16.089
mean the one on TV?" -- "Yes, pray for [br]Simon Jul." -- "But God I don’t know where

0:45:18.047,0:45:23.436
he lives, I don’t know if he is living in [br]Copenhagen or other places...God I’ve just seen him

0:45:23.859,0:45:30.859
on TV like other people." -- "Pray for Simon Jul."[br]-- "OK" So I continued praying, "God I thank

0:45:32.069,0:45:37.000
you for opening door to TV so I can go against[br]evolution and Darwin. God I pray for Simon

0:45:37.042,0:45:41.118
Jul." It seemed crazy to be praying [br]for Simon Jul because I didn’t know

0:45:42.018,0:45:48.000
this guy. I had just seen him on [br]TV, so I was walking. "God, send

0:45:48.004,0:45:53.079
somebody to him. Speak to him God, God he needs[br]to hear Your Word, he needs to hear the gospel

0:45:54.015,0:46:00.023
he needs to repent, God, send somebody to him,[br]and open the door to TV." It was what I prayed

0:46:00.095,0:46:07.095
that day. When I came home from prayer, two[br]meters before I was home I got a phone call.

0:46:08.099,0:46:15.099
I took the telephone and somebody said, "Hello[br]Torben, this is from Danish TV we are making

0:46:15.089,0:46:21.568
a program about evolution and Darwin we want [br]to know if you want to be a part of it?

0:46:22.369,0:46:29.369
The one who is going to interview you is Simon[br]Jul! The one I had just been praying for.

0:46:35.619,0:46:42.619
There are about six million people in Denmark,[br]almost six million. God put in my heart that

0:46:43.729,0:46:50.729
day to pray two things: open door to TV so[br]I can go against evolution and Darwin and

0:46:50.859,0:46:57.859
a guy I had just seen on TV his name is Simon[br]Jul. I prayed those two things and two weeks

0:47:00.069,0:47:06.168
later I was sitting in Copenhagen right [br]beside Simon Jul and his TV crew. I was

0:47:07.068,0:47:11.115
sitting there in a café and we were sitting[br]talking and I said Simon I am here because

0:47:12.015,0:47:17.015
of you. I was praying for you that day when[br]your secretary called me and God wants you

0:47:17.015,0:47:21.334
to repent. And he looked at me and everybody[br]looked at me and they were in shock and I

0:47:21.469,0:47:27.000
was the only one who was eating now and I[br]told the story and everybody was surprised

0:47:27.021,0:47:32.680
and shocked. Then we went out to the middle of [br]the street in Copenhagen and we were stopping

0:47:32.869,0:47:36.963
people and talking about God and evolution [br]and when we were talking with people I saw

0:47:37.809,0:47:41.908
a young guy come with crutches. The Holy[br]Spirit said, "Him! him, him, him!" And when

0:47:42.799,0:47:48.866
I saw him I just knew it was God, because the[br]Holy Spirit led me. So I knew it was God and

0:47:49.469,0:47:54.472
I said, "Simon come with me!" And we went[br]to him and I prayed for this guy with crutches

0:47:54.769,0:48:00.000
and he got completely healed. He could walk[br]without crutches and I stood with the crutches

0:48:00.063,0:48:07.063
like this and Simon is not so tall, so[br]he stood like this and he said, "Tom,

0:48:08.079,0:48:12.000
what is this?" And I looked, "What do you[br]mean?" Simon said, “This Tom! What is this?"

0:48:12.007,0:48:19.007
I said, "Have you not read the Bible? This [br]is what we read in the Bible." Afterwards

0:48:21.019,0:48:28.019
we went to a big museum in Denmark. A big museum[br]with a lot of things about Darwin also about

0:48:32.539,0:48:39.539
the missing link, who is still missing. [br]in that museum I was sat on a chair

0:48:40.589,0:48:46.630
with two spotlights on me. Simon Jul [br]was sitting in front of me on a chair.

0:48:46.999,0:48:51.035
We were sitting a little high, we were sitting[br]on a suitcase. We had to come higher because

0:48:51.359,0:48:55.427
there was some missing links behind me they[br]also wanted to see when they were filming me.

0:48:56.039,0:49:02.040
Simon was sitting in front of me and[br]I was sitting there for one and a half

0:49:02.049,0:49:09.049
hours he was asking questions about God. "Do[br]you really believe in Noah’s ark? Do you

0:49:12.969,0:49:18.055
really believe God created the heaven and earth [br]in six 24 hour days? Do you really believe

0:49:18.829,0:49:24.904
in this? What about DNA? What about about[br]this? If God is going to say kill your

0:49:25.579,0:49:31.677
wife are you going to do it? He asked a lot[br]of questions about God and evolution for one

0:49:32.559,0:49:38.000
and a half hours. (I have a picture here)[br]Here you can see me sitting and there you

0:49:38.069,0:49:43.408
can see the two spotlights on me. I am [br]sitting on a suitcase in a chair, and there

0:49:44.029,0:49:49.000
is Simon Jul with the paper. He is [br]sitting there for one and a half hours

0:49:49.013,0:49:56.013
asking questions. You can see one of the missing[br]links behind me where I am sitting and talking.

0:49:57.068,0:50:04.068
And to sit there giving an answer for what[br]I believe in. The best way to explain

0:50:06.089,0:50:13.089
it was like being in heaven, because in one [br]and a half hours I knew everything. It was

0:50:15.019,0:50:22.019
so special because for every question I had[br]an answer and many times during the one and

0:50:22.099,0:50:28.122
a half hours. I thought, "Where, where did that[br]come from?" But I knew where it came from...the

0:50:28.329,0:50:34.000
Holy Spirit. What did Jesus say in Mark 13? [br]He said, "When they take you to trial...

0:50:34.007,0:50:39.336
Or it can also be other things, "don’t[br]worry beforehand about what you are going

0:50:40.029,0:50:47.029
to say, but say whatever is given to you in[br]that hour for it is not you who speak but

0:50:48.329,0:50:55.329
the Holy Spirit." Mark 13:11. This is what [br]I experienced that day. Somebody said to me

0:51:02.018,0:51:09.018
later, and also before, "Torben why do you go [br]to this program?" You know it is a stand-up

0:51:09.071,0:51:13.145
comedian program. They are stand-up comedians,[br]they want to make fun of you." I said

0:51:14.045,0:51:21.045
to them, "I am not going there because they[br]invited me, I’m going there because God

0:51:23.859,0:51:30.859
sent me. No matter what any other person[br]was going to say around me I knew I needed

0:51:32.042,0:51:37.181
to go there because God sent me. It[br]was interesting when I went to see

0:51:37.559,0:51:43.577
the program. Because they almost forgot one[br]thing, they almost forgot Darwin, there

0:51:43.739,0:51:48.798
was a little of Darwin. But my testimony[br]was what filled most of the program, where

0:51:49.329,0:51:54.000
I told how God led me and saw how the young[br]guy got healed with crutches. Many hundreds

0:51:54.071,0:51:58.169
of thousands saw that. Later I met people [br]who had known me from that program and came

0:51:59.069,0:52:06.069
to me and wanted prayer and other things.[br]So this is one story of how the Holy Spirit

0:52:07.779,0:52:13.876
can lead us. Because Jesus is the same yesterday,[br]today and forever, the Holy Spirit is the

0:52:14.749,0:52:21.749
same yesterday, today and forever. He can[br]speak to us and He can lead us the same today

0:52:22.229,0:52:28.266
as we read in the book of Acts. There is [br]nothing like being led by the Holy Spirit.

0:52:28.599,0:52:33.000
I’m not only talking about ministry I’m [br]talking about everyday life. I remember

0:52:33.091,0:52:38.020
some years ago my daughter was ten years[br]old. She was going to school on bicycle she

0:52:38.839,0:52:42.000
was going one and a half kilometres. I [br]said goodbye Stephanie, and she said goodbye

0:52:42.096,0:52:46.905
in the morning and went on her bicycle. So[br]she went this way and I went the other way

0:52:47.769,0:52:53.792
to pray. And as I was walking the Holy Spirit[br]spoke to me, "Stop! Your daughter needs you."

0:52:53.999,0:52:59.052
And I thought, "What? -- "Your daughter needs[br]you." -- "No, no, she... I just said goodbye

0:52:59.529,0:53:05.613
to her." -- "Your daughter needs you." I[br]said, "Oh, my daughter needs me." So I was

0:53:06.369,0:53:12.000
going that way but the Holy Spirit said, "Stop[br]your daughter needs you." So I turned around

0:53:12.018,0:53:18.044
and I was now running the other way. It[br]was one and a half kilometres to school. But

0:53:18.044,0:53:23.073
after one kilometre I saw my daughter. There[br]was a small bridge and she was standing on

0:53:23.469,0:53:30.469
the bridge and I went there and she was standing[br]beside her bicycle and crying. I said, "Hello

0:53:31.339,0:53:38.339
Stephanie." She looked at me! And the[br]first thing she said, "Father! What are you

0:53:39.259,0:53:46.259
doing here?" I could then say, "God said[br]that you needed me, and now I am here."

0:53:48.009,0:53:54.015
It was really strong for her because she[br]saw me go the other way and suddenly I’m

0:53:54.609,0:54:00.000
standing beside her and could say that[br]God sent me. "The Holy Spirit told me that

0:54:00.018,0:54:06.021
you need me and now I’m here." She had[br]a problem with the bicycle and I could help

0:54:06.021,0:54:10.080
her go back. Another testimony: [br]I remember one time when I

0:54:10.269,0:54:14.328
was going to open the mail box and before[br]I put the key in, the Holy Spirit said, "There

0:54:14.859,0:54:21.000
is something here you don’t like but no[br]problem I have everything in control."

0:54:21.014,0:54:26.973
When I opened the mail box and there was [br]something I didn’t like: one time there

0:54:27.099,0:54:34.099
was a bill because we got some money from[br]the state here in Denmark from a house we

0:54:34.002,0:54:38.009
had. There was a bill we had to pay a lot[br]of money back and we didn’t have it.

0:54:38.009,0:54:44.408
I thought, "Oh no, ...hey, God is in control."[br]The Holy Spirit had warned me beforehand.

0:54:45.299,0:54:49.000
So I just contacted them and said can you just[br]check it one more time?" They said, "Yes

0:54:49.044,0:54:54.092
we will check it and come back to you." [br]This is now six years ago and I’ve

0:54:54.092,0:54:57.191
never heard anything and [br]I’ve never paid the money.

0:54:58.019,0:55:05.019
So the Holy Spirit can lead us in everyday[br]life, and this is the life we are called to;

0:55:07.007,0:55:14.007
each of us. One more story: I want to share[br]one more testimony to show how it is working.

0:55:14.839,0:55:21.839
Some years ago I was out evangelizing and [br]stood talking with 3-4 young persons and

0:55:22.799,0:55:27.816
there was a young guy there who came and stood[br]beside me when I was sharing the gospel. When

0:55:27.969,0:55:33.027
he came the Holy Spirit said to me, "You[br]are going to be his father." I thought,

0:55:33.549,0:55:40.549
"What?" It came as a total surprise to [br]me. I looked at him and then he left.

0:55:40.959,0:55:45.995
I continued talking and then he came back[br]again. When I had finished talking I said,

0:55:46.319,0:55:51.000
"OK, is anybody here sick? And that young[br]guy said yes! And he took his trouser leg

0:55:51.066,0:55:56.163
up he had a lot of bandages on his knee. He [br]said, "Yesterday I fell off my scooter and

0:55:57.063,0:56:01.722
I have a lot of pain, I’ve not been able to [br]bend my leg, I could not walk." I said, "Look

0:56:02.289,0:56:08.000
here." I prayed for this guy and he took the [br]bandage off and he was surprised! He took

0:56:08.064,0:56:14.000
the plaster off and he was standing and the[br]tears were coming out, and he said, “No

0:56:14.009,0:56:19.958
more pain!" And I said, "Come with me." and[br]I took him, I didn’t know this guy, and

0:56:20.849,0:56:25.926
the first thing I said was, "Tell me about[br]your parents." And he was so surprised! So

0:56:26.619,0:56:32.682
he said, "OK, my father is dead, and my [br]mother is very sick, she is going to

0:56:33.249,0:56:38.310
die." And I said, "I’ve never seen you [br]before, but when you came God spoke to

0:56:38.859,0:56:43.864
me that I was going to be a father for[br]you, I am going to help you." He was so

0:56:44.359,0:56:49.404
surprised, I was also surprised. And then[br]I got his phone number and we were writing

0:56:49.809,0:56:55.861
to each other but he had just met me, and so[br]strong an experience, so he was a little afraid

0:56:56.329,0:57:02.000
to meet me again. But two weeks later there[br]came some people to me who were going to become

0:57:02.015,0:57:07.194
journalists so they were studying [br]and they came to me and wanted

0:57:07.329,0:57:12.347
to interview me. We were sitting in Burger [br]King and talking, they were interviewing me.

0:57:12.509,0:57:16.595
Then one of them said, "Hey I have a[br]camera with me, we want to go with you and

0:57:17.369,0:57:22.403
see what you are doing on the street, can we [br]do that now?" -- "Now?" I didn’t want to,

0:57:22.709,0:57:26.000
to be honest, I didn’t want to do that, I [br]wanted to go home and relax because I was

0:57:26.091,0:57:33.091
tired. But because he said that I said,[br]"OK ...shall I? OK, OK...let’s go. Let’s

0:57:36.489,0:57:42.000
go to the city." I jumped in the car and[br]I went to the city and was sitting in the

0:57:42.065,0:57:49.065
car and I was praying. And I felt like the [br]Holy Spirit spoke to me, I felt like... I

0:57:50.329,0:57:57.329
looked at my hands...I said, "God...I pray[br]right now. Hands...yes. Hand in bandage...God

0:57:57.065,0:58:03.004
send somebody ...send somebody to the street[br]right now God who has their hand in a bandage

0:58:03.589,0:58:07.677
who is going to get healed God. Thank you because[br]it is going to be a testimony for those people,

0:58:08.469,0:58:13.554
in the name of Jesus." It was what I prayed.[br]We came to the street, I was walking there,

0:58:14.319,0:58:19.398
We didn’t find any right there who wanted[br]to talk with us. Then I saw the young guy

0:58:20.109,0:58:24.201
I met two weeks before the guy God told me[br]was to be his father. I saw him and said, "Hey

0:58:25.029,0:58:32.029
how are you?" -- "Hey...I’m fine." I [br]saw he had a bandage on his hand and

0:58:32.017,0:58:35.063
I said, "What is wrong with you?" -- [br]"I don’t know, it was yesterday I

0:58:35.063,0:58:40.902
got a lot of pain and it hurts." -- "Hey![br]I have some journalist people who are

0:58:41.469,0:58:46.000
studying to become journalists, they don’t believe [br]in this. Can I pray for you?" -- "Yes, you

0:58:46.045,0:58:50.304
can do that." It is OK they are filming and[br]you can tell what happened two weeks ago.

0:58:50.709,0:58:54.000
Yeah! So they were filming him in the middle[br]of the street and he was telling them how

0:58:54.067,0:58:59.686
he met me two weeks before how he got healed[br]with the knee. Then I pray for him and

0:59:00.289,0:59:05.000
this time, the bandage ..One more time not[br]the knee but the hand and then tears in

0:59:05.041,0:59:10.970
his eyes again, and he said, "It’s gone!"[br]It was really an eye opener for them!

0:59:11.339,0:59:17.343
And it was really strong for him. Then he [br]was ready to meet me, and we talked again

0:59:17.739,0:59:23.816
and said that we were going to [br]meet later. Then I met somebody

0:59:24.509,0:59:29.000
the day after, a Christian, and I told[br]the story of what God had done and how God

0:59:29.004,0:59:34.056
had led me to this boy. He came to me and [br]said, "Tom, I feel like the Holy Spirit

0:59:34.092,0:59:41.092
is saying to me I should give you two hundred[br]dollars, this is for you and your son."

0:59:42.339,0:59:46.383
I called this young boy and I said, "I want[br]to invite you out to eat." He said, "OK

0:59:46.779,0:59:53.779
let’s go out." I met with him and we[br]were out eating and he said, "Tom there

0:59:54.089,0:59:59.144
is something I want to say to you, something[br]special, do you remember the day you met

1:00:00.044,1:00:07.044
me in the street when you prayed for my hand?[br]I never go to the street, it was the first

1:00:07.065,1:00:14.065
time after school I went to the city, I [br]was on my way home, but I felt there was

1:00:14.819,1:00:21.819
something inside who said that I have to go[br]to the city and there I met you." Can you see

1:00:22.739,1:00:29.739
it? I was praying in the car God send[br]somebody with their hand in a bandage. I led

1:00:30.859,1:00:36.931
me to praying that because God knew this guy. [br]This young guy had the hand in a bandage

1:00:37.579,1:00:43.658
and God spoke to him and said, "Go in the[br]street." And we met each other and he got healed.

1:00:44.369,1:00:48.000
I got in contact with him and two days[br]later he called me, "Tom my scooter has just

1:00:48.095,1:00:53.163
broken down and I got a new job and I cannot[br]go to work because I do not have any scooter."

1:00:54.063,1:01:00.192
But because I had the money I paid. It [br]cost exactly what I had, so I paid for

1:01:00.759,1:01:06.770
his scooter and went to his job. So [br]everything is God working. This is

1:01:06.869,1:01:11.904
what I like when it comes to being led[br]by the Holy Spirit. I meet many people

1:01:12.219,1:01:19.219
who are very sceptical when it comes to God.[br]When we talk about healing they are also

1:01:19.219,1:01:24.282
very sceptical saying, "No, no, no... [br]this is just something in the mind- they

1:01:24.849,1:01:30.942
don’t believe in it. Because they think[br]it is something just in the mind. But when

1:01:31.779,1:01:38.779
I start to talk and tell testimonies about being[br]led by the Holy Spirit, everybody closes[br]549[br]01:01:38,093 --> 01:01:43,712[br]their mouths and are surprised because[br]it is not just something I can imagine in

1:01:44.549,1:01:49.627
my mind. Because God can speak to me. But[br]before things happen God had to speak to this

1:01:50.329,1:01:55.408
person and this person and this person and[br]everything has to go like this. And this is

1:01:56.119,1:02:03.119
what I like and I am seeing sceptics, non-believers[br]getting their mouth closed when I start to

1:02:09.014,1:02:16.014
tell about everyday life with the Holy [br]Spirit. This life is not only for me,

1:02:17.014,1:02:24.014
IT IS FOR YOU! Because Jesus said we have[br]to get born again by the Holy Spirit:

1:02:24.289,1:02:29.000
not born of water, but of water and Spirit;[br]he is talking about repentance, baptism in

1:02:29.067,1:02:34.986
water and the Holy Spirit. And in John 3 when[br]He is talking about that He is saying this,

1:02:35.589,1:02:41.000
"Do not marvel when I say to you, you [br]must be born again." and He continued,

1:02:41.066,1:02:46.725
"the wind blows where it wishes and you[br]hear its sound, but you do not know where it

1:02:47.319,1:02:54.319
comes from or where it goes. So it is with[br]everyone who is born of the Spirit." He is

1:02:56.063,1:03:03.063
talking about the wind. And I want to explain[br]that. "So it is with everyone who is born of

1:03:06.119,1:03:12.153
the Spirit." Jesus said we have to get [br]born again. We have to get born again

1:03:12.459,1:03:18.467
by the Spirit. Getting born again by the Spirit[br]is like the wind. The wind: you don’t know

1:03:18.539,1:03:23.000
where it is coming from and you don’t know[br]where it is going and so is everyone who is

1:03:23.014,1:03:29.143
born of the Spirit. Or I can say- who is[br]being... who is walking- led by the Spirit.

1:03:29.269,1:03:34.000
Romans 8 is says- we are not walking[br]by the flesh...led by the flesh, but led

1:03:34.039,1:03:39.178
by the Spirit. It is much more than helping us[br]keep away from sin, it is to live the life I have

1:03:39.529,1:03:41.546
just spoken about.

1:03:41.699,1:03:47.706
Being led by the Holy Spirit, the wind... [br]Sometimes the wind will blow this way...or the

1:03:47.769,1:03:54.769
this way... then the wind is blowing the [br]this way....and it is going back...so

1:03:55.069,1:04:02.069
the wind is coming from here and there and[br]the wind is coming really fast from there

1:04:02.559,1:04:09.559
and slow from there. The same as is being [br]led by the Spirit. God said, "Pray for Simon

1:04:09.709,1:04:14.767
Jul." Go to Copenhagen! God said, "Your[br]daughter needs you, go back." God said,

1:04:15.289,1:04:22.289
"Pray for this guy with the hand there."[br]And God told my wife to pray for something

1:04:24.092,1:04:29.881
in December and God spoke to somebody in South[br]Africa and now we are going there. "Can you

1:04:30.709,1:04:37.709
see it? It is like the wind, we don’t[br]know every day where we are going. We just

1:04:37.799,1:04:44.799
know that the Holy Spirit is leading us. One[br]day he says this way, then he says this way,

1:04:44.799,1:04:51.799
then he says this way. These [br]testimonies I am telling you

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today can seem like, "Oh, this is powerful[br]Tom, you are powerful. You experience a lot

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of things." No, this is normal! This[br]is for EVERYONE who is born of the Spirit.

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Go back to the book of Acts. Read about Paul, [br]about Peter, about Ananias, about the persons

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I’ve been talking about during this Bible[br]school. See being led by the Holy Spirit was

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not only for a few people, it’s for everyone.[br]It’s the same today. I want to give

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you some advice. I want to end up giving [br]you some practical advice, something

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that can help you to come into this life. Because[br]there is something we have misunderstood when

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it comes to the Holy Spirit. I want to say [br]to you also, I got born by the Holy Spirit,

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born again, eighteen years ago. But the [br]first many years I didn’t experience what

1:05:56.839,1:06:03.839
I am experiencing now. It isn’t that God [br]hadn’t been speaking. God had been speaking

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from the day I got saved. [br]Because everybody who is

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born by the Spirit is a child of God.[br]We have ears but we have to use the ears

1:06:19.599,1:06:26.599
to hear what God is saying. And from the first[br]day when I got born again the Spirit was talking

1:06:28.359,1:06:34.660
to me, the Holy Spirit was leading me. But[br]I was not listening. I didn’t know how to

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listen, and because I was not listening [br]there were so many things I didn’t do. When

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I think back it is so sad; all the things[br]I’ve been missing out on because I didn’t

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listen. Because I was walking in my own power.[br]Because I was doing what I thought to do instead

1:07:00.369,1:07:05.432
of listening to what the Holy Spirit was saying.[br]There is so much we have been missing out

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on, because we don’t know how God is [br]working, we don’t live the life we read in

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the book of Acts, we don’t make disciples,[br]we don’t train and equip each other.

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I’ve been missing out on so much. But some years[br]ago I tasted what it is to be led by the Spirit

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and I looked at my wife and she looked at me and[br]we said this is what we want. And we changed

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our life totally upside down and we changed[br]a lot of things so we could have time to seek

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God and listen. In my book The Last Reformation[br]you can read a little about my story how we

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had a house and we gave it all up and we live[br]very simply because we needed to have the

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time to seek God. Because like every other[br]person, it’s not that I just hear voices

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all the time. No, it’s difficult to [br]hear. It’s not like I’m better to hear

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than other people, but I have been training[br]and this is the difference. I want to say

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something about praying, I have never heard[br]God speak to me with a loud voice. When God

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speaks to me He is speaking in my mind.[br]every story I have just been telling you now,

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where God has been speaking, -pray for Simon[br]Jul, -pray for an open door, -pray for this,

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-do that, -go this way, every story has just[br]been in my mind, what? Yeah and this is

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often what we misunderstand, because when we [br]read in the book of Acts, the old testament

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and other places, when the Holy Spirit led...[br]we think yeah...it was so easy to live there.

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It is so easy to do it because they didn’t[br]doubt, they just knew it was God, but

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I don’t believe you will ever know [br]with 100% certainty that it is God you

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are hearing because then it is not by [br]faith. God wants everything to be by faith.

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Every time I’ve told a story about [br]how God had spoken to me by the Holy

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Spirit; every time it was by faith. I get a [br]thought and I have to choose and if I believe

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if it was God or not, and I have to act[br]on it. This is how I started. I remember

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some years ago, I was out walking and I was[br]starting to take time to seek God. I needed

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to come in and learn to listen to God’s[br]voice. I was walking and I saw there was

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a forest, at the end of the forest there was [br]a field and at the end of the field there

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were some people who were working. And [br]I got a thought. "Go talk with them."

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-- "No, no, no.-- "Go and talk with [br]them?" -- "No...it’s just me."

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It was like every other thing I hear. The first[br]thing I say is, "It’s just me, but...maybe

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it’s God? No...it’s just me...Is it God? [br]And what could I do there?" There was

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only one thing I could try: I could not say...[br]"God if it is you, please..." No, it doesn’t

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work like that. God had been speaking one[br]time and then I had to find out if it was

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God or it wasn’t God. So I decided I had to [br]try. So I went there and I was really nervous

1:10:46.000,1:10:50.073
and I said, "Excuse me, excuse me, can I talk[br]with you ten minutes?" And there were some people

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who were sitting there eating who were working[br]in a forest. And I just shared a testimony

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and said thank you and went I was so afraid.[br]As I went from there I said, "Oh it was

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just me." Because no supernatural experience[br]happened, I thought it was just me. But

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what happened was, one week later a girl [br]came and said, "Hey...can I say thank you?

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Thank you!" -- "Thank you for what?" -- "My [br]brother is a fallen away Christian, he was working

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in the forest and one day you came and spoke[br]to him and now he has come back to God."

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I thought, "Woo....nice!" I had thought it[br]was me, but when I heard her say that, I

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suddenly knew that it was God. Later, I [br]experienced something similar and because

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I had that experience the last time it helped [br]me to tune in and recognise if is this thought

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is from me or is it from God? For [br]example, if my wife is calling me from

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a different telephone, I take the telephone, [br]she can say, "Hello." and I say, "Hey Lene,

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why are you calling from this number? I don’t[br]know; whose telephone number is that? Because

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I have spent a lot of time with my wife and[br]I know her voice. But if other people are

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calling, and say, "Hello it’s me." I say[br]"Who are you?" because I don’t recognize

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their voice. The same way with God, if we[br]want to get better at recognizing His voice

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we have to be quiet, listen and take some[br]chances. If you get a thought you have

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to try it..."God is that you? Or is it me?" Because [br]God, for me, is not speaking loud like this, God

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is not speaking loud like this! God is speaking [br]to my head with a small thought. But the way

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I recognise it is, "Hey....where did that come[br]from?" It’s not like I’m sitting focusing,

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thinking, we don’t have to use [br]our minds to get it, No, we have

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to worship God, we have to focus on Him and [br]then suddenly there comes a thought. "Hey,

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God this is you." So we have to [br]practice. This is discipleship

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again and again, it’s all about discipleship.[br]You start where you are and then you practice

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and you become better and better and better[br]to listen to God, to do other things.

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But at the same time, it always takes faith,[br]you always have to believe and take a step

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by faith. Hebrews chapter 5 when it is talking [br]about a new believer, an old Christian, a mature

1:13:36.003,1:13:42.035
believer says, "Those, who by reason of use,[br]have had their senses exercised to discern

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both good and evil." So you get your senses[br]exercised by reason of use, you use it again

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and again. We need to exercise our senses[br]so we can discern what is from God and what

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is not from God, it is so simple like this.[br]It is like when Jesus is talking about praying

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in Matthew 6. He said, "But when you pray, go [br]into your room and shut the door and pray to your

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Father who is in secret. And your Father [br]who sees in secret will reward you."

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Pray to your Father who is [br]in secret, God is not like...

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taking God, sitting Him on a chair, sit down with[br]him and say, "God what about this?..OK..What

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about this? What about this? We are not talking[br]to God like one man talks to another man, it’s

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not like that. It is by the Holy [br]Spirit and the way we learn

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is by exercising, using, what God has given[br]us like I did. I got a small thought, is

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that God or is it not God? Then I try it and[br]know it was not God, then another time, yes

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it was God, yes it was God, and then [br]I learned and after time it became

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easier for me. It is easier to recognize[br]what is God and what is not God.

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God speaks to our minds, but at the[br]same time I want to say that Satan

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can also speak to our minds. That is why we[br]need to try everything by the Word. If God

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says something like, "Go and pray for him,[br]go and do something good, you can do it

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without a problem. Try it. but of course[br]if you hear something bad, don’t do it.

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Go to the Word of God and always get things[br]confirmed by the Word of God and by the Spirit

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inside of you; the peace. OK, is that good [br]thing or not a good thing? Because every

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good thing is coming down from God. [br]And it is not like we have to...

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I don’t believe that we have to say. "OK[br]speak...God speak God speak..." then your mind

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is going around. No, just take time, spend [br]time on God, talk with Him, be together with

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Him, focus on Him, thank Jesus. A good [br]thing, I believe, if you really want to

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be led by the Spirit and know what[br]God is saying is to throw your TV out.

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It has helped me, really, to be honest, if [br]you are watching TV more than one or two

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hours every day, throw it out, if you are [br]listening to radio the whole day, throw

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it out. When you are listening to music the[br]whole day throw it out, why? Because if you

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are doing TV or music and radio, when you go [br]from there the last thing you hear is still

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going into your mind spinning. You still hear[br]the last song, you still hear what they have

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been talking about, you still hear a lot of[br]voices a lot of activity in your mind. And

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because you have a lot of things your mind[br]is not at ease to say, "What is it God?" and

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what is all the rest? So we need to get rid[br]of many of those things and learn something.

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We don't to be quiet in the west. Learn [br]to just listen, learn to just take time

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and just be quiet with God. Just talk with[br]Him, don’t have a lot of things happening all

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the time. Take time, take time, it is all [br]about taking time. Jesus was led by the

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Holy Spirit in the wilderness for forty days[br]and then he came out in the power of the Holy

1:17:55.004,1:18:01.058
Spirit. Forty days, yeah but I [br]don’t have time for that. Everyone

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of us has the same time 24 hours. It is [br]how we choose with our time. Some years ago

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we had a house, we had a car, I was working[br]a lot and doing a lot of things. But then I

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tasted what it is like to be led by the Holy[br]Spirit. I got an experience and I said this

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is what I want, I want this life. And[br]because I wanted that life so much I changed

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a lot of physical things around me which [br]helped me to get more time. At one time we had

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been living in a big house, had to earn a[br]lot of money. Later we were living in a small

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basement, with three kids. But because we[br]changed everything, we got more time, time

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to be quiet, time to seek God. Everything [br]I have experienced has not come for free,

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it doesn’t come suddenly. You don't[br]live like every other person and then

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you experience a lot of other strong [br]things. No, you get what you pay for; you

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do. We choose what we want. I have fasted [br]forty days many times, I have taken

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time with God. I walk a lot, I pray[br]just like every other person. It’s not easy

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for me to hear God speak. But because I[br]have taken time to exercise concerning what

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is good and evil, it has become so much[br]easier for me now. I still need to learn

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and I am learning every day. So what I [br]have been teaching about here is that we

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get baptized with the Holy Spirit and we need[br]to be filled by the Holy Spirit. We need to

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live in that fullness by taking time with [br]God, we need to be led by the Spirit, we

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need to have time to be led by the Spirit;[br]to listen. We need to also move, we need to

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take some chances and learn by using; by exercising.[br]And when we do that we are going to walk in

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the power of the Holy Spirit and as you [br]see the Holy Spirit was part of the

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first church and the Holy Spirit is part of[br]the church today because He is the same.

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This is for everyone, this is for you, this[br]is for me, this is for everyone, so I hope

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you got something out of this teaching. I [br]want to encourage you, take time. Take time

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to just be together with God, take the [br]other things that are disturbing you,

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all the sounds in your head ..all the things...[br]just take time and throw it out...do some fasting

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with you and God together, and just reading[br]the word and praying; Word and pray,

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you and Him. And then you will see that God[br]is starting to speak to you clearly. And you

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take some steps in faith and you will [br]recognize when God speaks it is like that,

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the next time, and next time...and next time and[br]then we can start to live the fellowship where

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God puts something on our heart and we pray[br]and then it happens. God puts something there,

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we pray and it happens. It’s all about [br]the will of God. I don’t say that...we go

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to South Africa because God put it in my wife’s[br]heart to pray these things, it’s not like

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Oh, we just pray because my flesh wants[br]it, or I want to go on holiday and I want

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to have a new car, and I want to have that...[br]No, I don’t believe in that. I believe that

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if we pray according to the will of God then[br]we know that we already receive what we pray

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for. But we have to know what the will of[br]God is, and that comes by living with God.

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The next time after we go to South Africa,[br]I am going to talk about fasting, this is

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an important message. I’m going to talk [br]about fasting and give you some practical

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tools for fasting. If you have a question[br]out of this teaching come with it and I

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will to start with it next time. And [br]after fasting I am going to continue with

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Luke 10 and other places in the Bible. Now[br]Lene is going to sing one of her songs.

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You have heard it before, but just let[br]the words speak to you out of this message

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because it is your life and many things...I[br]know it is radical, but how much has God been

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speaking to you the last years. But you have[br]not been able to listen, and because you have

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not been listening you have not been able to [br]receive what He has for you. The testimonies

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you have lost, the experiences you have not[br]gotten, where God has so much more for each of

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us. The first many years I was a Christian[br]I didn’t see this life, then I tasted

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a little of it and said this is what I want [br]and now I am seeing it more and more. It

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is not because God is speaking more and more,[br]it’s because I am getting better to listen.

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I am getting better to act on what He is giving[br]me, and I believe if you act in faith, God

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is not going to say, "What did you do! [br]It was not me who was speaking!" ‘No’

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He would say, look at this guy, look at this [br]girl, this woman. And then He will help you, so

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you can recognize the voice of God. So don’t[br]be afraid, start to do something, ask God

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every morning, “God help me today, give[br]me something...talk to me, I want to be open."

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Then take some step in faith, [br]at the same time seek God.

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OK My wife is going to sing. I look forward to next [br]time when I'm going to talk about fasting. Bye, bye.

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Do you still remember the word I spoke[br]to you?

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Do you still remember the dream I gave[br]to you?

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Time passes and the calendar is filled up.

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But one is necessary: Spend time with me.

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Wake up my people[br]Soon I'm coming back

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One is necessary[br]Spend time with me

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I'm guiding you

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If you want to be my disciple[br]You must deny yourself

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and lay your own will down

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Follow me no matter what the cost is[br]then you will get eternal life

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Wake up my people[br]Soon I'm coming back

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One is necessary[br]Spend time with me

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I'm guiding you

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The salvation-gospel of the kingdom[br]shall be preached in all the world

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Don't be absorbed in daily chores but be[br]faithful in what God has entrusted you.

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Wake up my people[br]Soon I'm coming back

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One is necessary[br]Spend time with me

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I'm guiding you

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Wake up my people[br]Soon I'm coming back

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One is necessary[br]Spend time with me

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I'm guiding you[br]I'm guiding you

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I'm calling you. I'm calling you today.

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I'm calling you. I'm calling you.

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Will you follow me no matter what the cost[br]is? Will you lay your dreams down for me?

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I'm calling you. I'm calling you today.

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I'm calling you. I'm calling you.

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Will you go and preach my Word? Will[br]you lay your hands on the sick people?

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Will you bring my freedom to people?

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I'm calling you. I'm calling you.

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I'm calling you. I'm calling you.

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Will you go no matter what the cost is?

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Will you lay down your dreams down for me?

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Will you surrender everything to me?

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I'm calling you. I'm calling you,[br]My child, I'm calling you.

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Seek my face and I speak to you.[br]I'm guiding you step by step.

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I will never leave you alone,[br]you can trust on me.

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I will lead you. I will guide you step[br]by step. My child.

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One step at the time.[br]Trust in me. Trust in me.

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I will never leave you alone, my child.[br]I will give you everything you need.

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My child, you can trust on me.[br]You are not alone. Don't fear.

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You are not alone, my child.[br]I'm going with you. I'm going with you.

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I'm calling you. I'm calling you,[br]Soon I'm coming back

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I'm calling you. I'm calling you.[br]