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Today I’m going to talk about the Holy Spirit
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,
if there is something I am so excited about

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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to talk about being led by the Holy Spirit.
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
Spirit and being led by the Holy Spirit.

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

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

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

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

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

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that you can walk by the flesh and you can
walk by the Spirit. Walking by the flesh

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

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opposite of living in sin. That it is just 
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 
on Sunday. I live my everyday life trying

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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tools that can help you to come in and walk
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
some questions out of the last teaching.

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

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Spirit. God I thank you for this teaching I
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
everybody who sees this, that it is going to

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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promise that had been spoken by the prophet
Joel, the promise that had been spoken by the

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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opened my eyes. And there is still a question.
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
it is so complicated compared to the book

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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they need to deal with 
before they can receive it.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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the car and it came like this. So I want to
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 
what we really need also is discipleship.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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led by the Holy Spirit. I think everything
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
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
His Holy Spirit. The way we came to South

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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about the Pioneer School? What about the teaching?
What about this invitation? What about the

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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there is something in these three Words that
I have here. This is my personal experience

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

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Holy Spirit, and then this is also something
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 
the Spirit we can be led by the Holy Spirit.

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

00:23:25.001 --> 00:23:30.087
of the Holy Spirit. So if you 
want to walk in the power of the

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Holy Spirit, what you need is to get baptized
in the Holy Spirit. Or if you are baptized

00:23:36.086 --> 00:23:41.144
with the Holy Spirit, get close to God spend
time and let the Holy Spirit fill you up from

00:23:42.044 --> 00:23:48.082
your innermost being and it is going to come
out as living water. When you spend time with

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

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the power of the Holy Spirit in your 
life. Because when you are led by the

00:24:01.018 --> 00:24:08.018
Spirit you know, right here, right now, that
right moment is here. You are not here by

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accident because the Holy Spirit has sent you. 
And when you know you are walking in what

00:24:16.002 --> 00:24:23.002
God has prepared for you to walk in, then you
have a faith that is stronger than any other

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thing because right now you are acting on
the Word of God. Of course we are acting on

00:24:28.062 --> 00:24:33.137
the Word of God when we go out, what Jesus
is saying each time we go out, what Jesus

00:24:34.037 --> 00:24:39.109
has commanded us to when we go. Also we hear
the Holy Spirit leading us when we go on the

00:24:40.009 --> 00:24:45.037
Word of God, He is with us, we know that 
because the Word of God is the truth.

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

00:24:51.005 --> 00:24:57.076
that the Holy Spirit is there in a special
way and leading you at that moment, the fear

00:24:58.021 --> 00:25:04.000
is not there the same way. Because 
you know, that you know that God has

00:25:04.007 --> 00:25:10.045
sent you and he is there right now. I’m
going to share some testimonies about that.

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Jesus, was baptized with the Holy Spirit
but He still took time to be together with

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God. You see that in Jesus life. One time
when he needed to choose his twelve disciples

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we read that just before that He
went up to the mountain to pray. All

00:25:37.054 --> 00:25:44.054
night He continued in prayer to God. He did 
this just before he was going to choose his

00:25:45.071 --> 00:25:52.071
twelve disciples. We read other times where
Jesus went out early in the morning. He went

00:25:53.011 --> 00:26:00.011
to bed after the sun went down and got up 
early before the sun rose up He went out

00:26:01.063 --> 00:26:08.063
to pray. So that night, I don’t know if He
got many hours of sleep. And this night

00:26:08.064 --> 00:26:15.064
He continued in prayer all night. So He didn’t 
sleep. Jesus the Son of God needed to take

00:26:16.041 --> 00:26:23.041
time to be together with God. He needed 
to take time to pray, to fast and it is

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the same with us. If we want to not only experience
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
to walk in the power of the Holy Spirit.

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

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

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fasting next week. For me, fasting is...
If somebody asks, "Torben what is

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

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at the same time I can say that fasting is
special for me. Because each time I fasted

00:27:23.058 --> 00:27:30.058
maybe forty days or twenty days or other times,
it had done something in me. It had become

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the beginning of something new. Jesus 
took a period of fasting and He returned

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in the power of the Holy Spirit. I believe
that when you receive the Holy Spirit one

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of the first things the Holy Spirit is going
to lead you into is closeness with God. To

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walk with God, the Holy Spirit is going to
start to cut all the other things out of your

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life, so there is nothing other 
than God left; this is how He works.

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

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

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today. Because Jesus is the same every 
day. I’m going to go through the book of

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Acts now and just take some of the things
you read in the book of Acts when it comes

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

00:28:39.036 --> 00:28:46.036
was to leave the church today, 90% of
all activities would continue like

00:28:47.007 --> 00:28:54.007
nothing happened. 90% of all the activities
in the church; the programmes, the meetings,

00:28:57.076 --> 00:29:04.076
the worship, the preaching is going to continue
like nothing has happened. To be honest,

00:29:06.061 --> 00:29:13.061
sadly, I think it is like that, because much of 
what we do today has to do with our programmes.

00:29:18.097 --> 00:29:22.173
We do it because we have the programmes, 
we have the money we can do it. We are

00:29:23.073 --> 00:29:29.112
not really dependant on the Holy Spirit. But
if you go to the book of Acts and see how

00:29:30.012 --> 00:29:35.046
the Holy Spirit was there, you will see that
the Holy Spirit was working in everything.

00:29:35.046 --> 00:29:42.046
The Holy Spirit was Him who was working in
the church. But during the Catholic church

00:29:43.002 --> 00:29:49.093
a lot of things changed. One of the things
that changed was the Holy Spirit went out.

00:29:49.093 --> 00:29:56.093
We got a big system at the same time. 
This is what we are building on today.

00:29:58.024 --> 00:30:05.024
But you are going to see now, in the book of 
Acts, the Holy Spirit was part of it. In

00:30:09.037 --> 00:30:16.037
Acts chapter 5. ""we are His witnesses
to these things and so also is the Holy Spirit

00:30:23.039 --> 00:30:27.111
Whom God has given to those who 
obey Him." God has given the Holy

00:30:28.011 --> 00:30:35.011
Spirit to those who obey Him, but I 
want to say, we are His witnesses also

00:30:35.021 --> 00:30:40.079
is the Holy Spirit. So it was not only them
who were the witnesses but the Holy Spirit

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was also there. And they recognized that they
were there but also that the Holy Spirit was

00:30:47.559 --> 00:30:53.000
part of that and we read something like this
"the Spirit said to Philip" in another place

00:30:53.093 --> 00:31:00.093
"the Spirit said to Peter" another place
we read this, "as they ministered to the

00:31:05.073 --> 00:31:12.073
Lord and fasted." So they also did that. The
Holy Spirit said, "Now appoint unto me Barnabas

00:31:14.008 --> 00:31:21.008
and Saul to the work to which I have called
them." So they were together praying, they

00:31:23.072 --> 00:31:30.072
were fasting and the Holy Spirit said to 
chose those people to do the work I have

00:31:33.065 --> 00:31:40.065
called them to. Who had called them? The
Spirit had called them. Another place, "for

00:31:40.086 --> 00:31:47.086
it seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us"
When have you last been in a meeting where

00:31:51.003 --> 00:31:58.003
someone said, "Oh, it seems good to the Holy Spirit
and us" or, "the Holy Spirit and us are witnesses

00:31:59.057 --> 00:32:06.057
to this" or, the Holy Spirit has said that
we should call him and him to the work the

00:32:06.086 --> 00:32:13.086
Holy Spirit has called him to? Can you see? It 
was not only what seemed good to those people,

00:32:15.007 --> 00:32:22.007
it was what seemed good to those people and
to the Holy Spirit. So the Holy Spirit is

00:32:23.026 --> 00:32:29.059
a person. He is a person in the Godhead, He 
is there, He is not just a power, He is just

00:32:29.059 --> 00:32:34.153
‘NOT an IT’ and sorry if I said ‘it’.
Somebody said to me that I said ‘it’ about

00:32:35.053 --> 00:32:40.112
the Holy Spirit, but it is because of my 
English translation. He is not an ‘it’ He is

00:32:41.012 --> 00:32:48.012
a person. The first church again said it 
seems good to the Holy Spirit and to us

00:32:50.033 --> 00:32:56.107
and they said something like this and they
said also that "...they were forbidden by the

00:32:57.007 --> 00:33:02.055
Holy Spirit to preach..." and they were "led 
by the Holy Spirit" and Paul is saying, "I am

00:33:02.055 --> 00:33:09.055
going to Jerusalem bound by the Holy Spirit".
So at one time we read that they were led

00:33:11.014 --> 00:33:17.025
by the Holy Spirit, another time they were
forbidden by the Holy Spirit to preach, another

00:33:17.025 --> 00:33:24.025
time it seems good for the Holy Spirit and
us are witnesses to this and this. And if you

00:33:25.097 --> 00:33:30.139
look through the book of Acts, these are just
some of the places, you will see that the Holy

00:33:31.039 --> 00:33:38.039
Spirit was a big, big part of the church in
what was happening. It was not just a programme,

00:33:43.025 --> 00:33:50.025
the leader of the church was Jesus Christ
working by his Holy Spirit here on earth.

00:33:51.011 --> 00:33:57.033
Jesus is in heaven sitting at God’s right 
hand, the Holy Spirit is here on earth. He is

00:33:57.033 --> 00:34:04.033
not just a power, just a power to heal the
sick out on the street. No, it was Him who

00:34:04.091 --> 00:34:10.989
was leading the things, who was organising,
who was saying where to go, who to point out,

00:34:11.809 --> 00:34:18.809
where not to go, stop here, go 
there, choose them, do this and this.

00:34:19.369 --> 00:34:23.447
It was not just leadership who sat down and
said what shall we do? I think we should do it

00:34:24.149 --> 00:34:31.149
like this because I think it is a good 
idea. What about God? For me, today we can

00:34:33.518 --> 00:34:39.000
experience the same with the Holy Spirit that
He is leading us. I want to say one more

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

00:34:46.579 --> 00:34:52.000
going to help with the tables and other things
So the apostles could take time with the Word

00:34:52.023 --> 00:34:59.023
and praying. You read that they said, "...pick
out seven men of good repute, full of

00:35:00.071 --> 00:35:07.071
the Spirit and wisdom, whom we will appoint
to this duty...they chose Stephen, a man full

00:35:11.067 --> 00:35:17.141
of faith and of the Holy Spirit, and..."
and you read that they prayed and

00:35:18.041 --> 00:35:25.041
laid their hands on them. So what they needed
to do there was find seven men who were full

00:35:27.789 --> 00:35:34.789
of the Holy Spirit. Because what God wants to
use today is people who are full of the Holy

00:35:36.045 --> 00:35:43.045
Spirit. Because we cannot do what we are 
supposed to do in our own power. No, we can do

00:35:45.023 --> 00:35:50.115
what we are supposed to filled by the Spirit.
I’ve written a lot of books, I don’t write

00:35:51.015 --> 00:35:55.069
books because I’m good at writing, when I 
went out of school I could not read, I could

00:35:55.069 --> 00:36:00.143
not write, I had never imagined I was going
to write one book in my whole life. Before

00:36:01.043 --> 00:36:08.043
I became a Christian I only read one book,
a small book. I could not read. But God

00:36:10.049 --> 00:36:17.049
has chosen me to do this thing, why?
Because I was taking time with Him, I was

00:36:17.088 --> 00:36:23.145
full of the Spirit. And I know, I recognise
today that what I do I only do because He

00:36:24.045 --> 00:36:31.045
is leading me. I cannot do it in my own power.
Not one of us can serve God in our own power.

00:36:32.289 --> 00:36:36.360
So they were going to choose some 
men who were full of the Holy Spirit.

00:36:36.999 --> 00:36:42.048
It was not because they had just got
baptized with the Holy Spirit. But there

00:36:42.489 --> 00:36:48.492
were some people who had been living in that 
fullness. And again got filled by the Spirit.

00:36:48.789 --> 00:36:52.000
You can read in Acts that they 
prayed and the Holy Spirit came

00:36:52.068 --> 00:36:59.068
and filled them again. And they took time 
with God and were filled by the Spirit.

00:36:59.829 --> 00:37:04.881
They chose the people who were 
filled with the Holy Spirit. After

00:37:05.349 --> 00:37:08.000
they had chosen them they 
laid their hands on them.

00:37:08.094 --> 00:37:15.094
They didn’t lay their hands on them to 
receive the Holy Spirit, they already had Him.

00:37:19.046 --> 00:37:26.046
They laid their hands on them to recognise
what God had already given them. I believe

00:37:27.759 --> 00:37:32.811
in laying on of hands when it comes to baptism
of the Holy Spirit. When somebody lays their

00:37:33.279 --> 00:37:39.000
hands on you, you get baptized with the Holy
Spirit and you receive the Holy Spirit, yes. But

00:37:39.019 --> 00:37:44.117
I don’t believe you have to run from meeting
to meeting, from meeting to meeting, from

00:37:45.017 --> 00:37:50.093
conference to conference, conference to conference,
after you have gotten the Holy Spirit to let

00:37:50.093 --> 00:37:56.098
every woman or man of God lay their hands
on you and pray for you. No. I don’t

00:37:56.098 --> 00:38:00.119
believe that because I don’t see that in
the Word. I believe when you have received

00:38:01.019 --> 00:38:06.088
the Holy Spirit you have to walk by the
Spirit. You have to be led by the Spirit out

00:38:06.088 --> 00:38:12.096
in the wilderness: led by the Holy Spirit
so you can take time with God. And then walk

00:38:12.096 --> 00:38:17.168
by the Spirit and when you are full of the Holy
Spirit, God is going to point you out, and

00:38:18.068 --> 00:38:24.071
use you. Because He uses people He filled by
the Holy Spirit. And that being filled by the

00:38:24.071 --> 00:38:31.071
the filling of Holy Spirit doesn't come by 
going from meeting to meeting. It comes by

00:38:31.869 --> 00:38:38.000
paying a price, it comes by taking the
time to seek God. I am going to share some

00:38:38.072 --> 00:38:45.072
testimonies now about being led by the Holy
Spirit. It is not something that came instantly,

00:38:47.044 --> 00:38:53.893
in two seconds, "Hey I want that!" It 
didn’t come because I went to a conference

00:38:54.289 --> 00:38:58.385
and somebody prayed for me and I got a special
anointing. No. I got the Holy Spirit like

00:38:59.249 --> 00:39:04.000
you and every other person who has the Holy
Spirit. It comes by taking time to seek

00:39:04.093 --> 00:39:11.093
God, taking time to listen, being led by the
Holy Spirit in the small things so God can

00:39:12.049 --> 00:39:17.073
put us over 
more and more.

00:39:17.289 --> 00:39:23.000
OK, they were led by the Holy Spirit. The 
Holy Spirit was working. Now to my life. Some

00:39:23.068 --> 00:39:30.068
years ago I was out camping and 
I prayed. Praying is more than

00:39:31.799 --> 00:39:38.799
just, God! Praying is a life, it is fellowship,
fellowship with God, For many people praying is

00:39:41.009 --> 00:39:47.015
like what I am going to say now. I am married
to my wife. Try to imagine; I have a small

00:39:47.096 --> 00:39:52.885
room and I put my wife in the room. And twenty
minutes each day I open the room and I go

00:39:53.749 --> 00:40:00.000
in, I closed the door, sit down with my wife and 
then I just talk for twenty minutes, everything

00:40:00.043 --> 00:40:06.482
that has happened, then thank you! Go
out, and close the door again. The day after

00:40:06.869 --> 00:40:13.869
go in again to my wife, close the door talk
twenty minutes-...-and then I go out again.

00:40:14.319 --> 00:40:19.344
One day she knocks on the door, I open
the door and she says, "I have something to

00:40:19.569 --> 00:40:24.640
say." -- "Not now, tomorrow." and I close
the door. And the day after I sit down, I talk

00:40:25.279 --> 00:40:28.333
twenty minutes, "Thank you." and I go out. And 
she says, "I have something to say." -- "Not

00:40:28.819 --> 00:40:35.819
now, not now." What marriage relationship
is that? It is not a marriage. No. Because

00:40:39.096 --> 00:40:45.975
I cannot put my wife in a room and just use
twenty minutes with her every day when it

00:40:46.839 --> 00:40:53.839
suits me. No, my wife needs to talk to
me also, it’s not only me who has to talk,

00:40:53.095 --> 00:41:00.095
she also has something on her heart she wants
to tell me. When she needs to tell it to

00:41:01.119 --> 00:41:07.144
me, I need to be ready to listen. At the same
time there are times when I need to tell my

00:41:07.369 --> 00:41:14.369
wife something here and now and then she is
ready to listen. But the same with God many

00:41:16.049 --> 00:41:22.000
people put God in a room and take him out
five, ten minutes each day just talk, talk,

00:41:22.088 --> 00:41:29.088
talk and never give God also time to talk
back because praying is not only one way, it

00:41:30.063 --> 00:41:36.962
is two ways. It is not only us who talk to
God, God talks to us. Praying is not only

00:41:37.529 --> 00:41:43.580
going to a room and close your door, this
is part of it, praying is a life, it

00:41:44.039 --> 00:41:49.133
is an everyday life. I want to show how
I pray. I was out camping some years ago

00:41:49.979 --> 00:41:56.979
and when I prayed something like this, "Hello
God, Oh, it was good, it was really good

00:41:57.071 --> 00:42:02.167
yesterday. What do you think about the
meeting? OK, Hey, I got an email today.

00:42:03.067 --> 00:42:07.496
I don’t know exactly what...what shall I
write? I’m not sure, because...what do

00:42:08.099 --> 00:42:15.099
you think? What do you think I should do?
Hey... one more thing, mm what about this? I

00:42:17.014 --> 00:42:23.043
don’t understand exactly what this is...I
pray God, help me, help me to explain things."

00:42:23.043 --> 00:42:28.140
This is what I am praying, I’m talking with
God, I am taking God into my life, I’m talking

00:42:29.004 --> 00:42:34.353
about the emails, I’m talking about the journey
we are going on, I’m talking about things

00:42:34.749 --> 00:42:41.000
I am struggling with, I am talking about the
Word of God, what about this I don’t understand.

00:42:41.047 --> 00:42:48.047
God ...if this is the truth... what about this
then? This is the way I pray and often I experienced

00:42:48.499 --> 00:42:55.499
that God works in my prayer like God works in
my wife Lene. God put the Holy Spirit, God

00:42:57.049 --> 00:43:04.049
put something in my wife to pray. God opened
the door to South Africa for Christmas.

00:43:06.229 --> 00:43:11.000
It was the Holy Spirit in my wife. When
I was praying some years ago I was walking

00:43:11.069 --> 00:43:18.069
and in prayer and it came very clear, "Torben,
pray for an open door to TV so you can go

00:43:19.369 --> 00:43:26.369
against evolution and Darwin." I thought,
"What?" It just came to me out of nothing,

00:43:29.499 --> 00:43:36.499
it just came, the Holy Spirit put it in me.
So I said, "OK". So I prayed, "God open

00:43:36.066 --> 00:43:41.635
the door to TV, God. God I pray you are going
to open the door to TV so I can go against

00:43:42.229 --> 00:43:49.000
evolution and Darwin, God. God let the lies
of Darwin fall down in our country." It was

00:43:49.014 --> 00:43:54.213
my praying and I prayed that. The next day
I was out walking and I prayed the same, "God

00:43:54.339 --> 00:43:58.405
I thank you for opening the door to TV. God
I pray that you will open the door to TV so

00:43:58.999 --> 00:44:04.000
I can go against evolution and Darwin." and
while I was walking and praying that, I saw

00:44:04.089 --> 00:44:10.808
a man there, where we were camping and
when I saw him, "This...this is this man."

00:44:11.609 --> 00:44:17.701
It was a famous stand-up comedian one I have
seen on TV and TV programmes and commercials.

00:44:18.529 --> 00:44:23.000
And this stand-up comedian, you know, like many
other stand-up comedians, don't speak the most holy

00:44:23.044 --> 00:44:27.953
words and it is also with him. It was 
not holy words he was speaking. He

00:44:28.349 --> 00:44:33.000
was making fun of the Christians. He was cursing
all the time and I saw him there. And

00:44:33.071 --> 00:44:40.071
my heart started to jump and I just felt...
this is God, so I went to him and when

00:44:41.038 --> 00:44:46.957
I went to him to talk with him, just one meter
before I was there, he turned his face and

00:44:47.299 --> 00:44:52.393
I saw his face and saw it was not him. 
I thought... "It’s not him, it’s just

00:44:53.239 --> 00:45:00.239
someone who looks like him. And there God spoke
to me. God spoke and said, "Pray for this

00:45:01.589 --> 00:45:08.589
guy, his name is Simon Jul." -- "What?"
-- "Pray for Simon Jul" -- "You

00:45:09.089 --> 00:45:16.089
mean the one on TV?" -- "Yes, pray for 
Simon Jul." -- "But God I don’t know where

00:45:18.047 --> 00:45:23.436
he lives, I don’t know if he is living in 
Copenhagen or other places...God I’ve just seen him

00:45:23.859 --> 00:45:30.859
on TV like other people." -- "Pray for Simon Jul."
-- "OK" So I continued praying, "God I thank

00:45:32.069 --> 00:45:37.000
you for opening door to TV so I can go against
evolution and Darwin. God I pray for Simon

00:45:37.042 --> 00:45:41.118
Jul." It seemed crazy to be praying 
for Simon Jul because I didn’t know

00:45:42.018 --> 00:45:48.000
this guy. I had just seen him on 
TV, so I was walking. "God, send

00:45:48.004 --> 00:45:53.079
somebody to him. Speak to him God, God he needs
to hear Your Word, he needs to hear the gospel

00:45:54.015 --> 00:46:00.023
he needs to repent, God, send somebody to him,
and open the door to TV." It was what I prayed

00:46:00.095 --> 00:46:07.095
that day. When I came home from prayer, two
meters before I was home I got a phone call.

00:46:08.099 --> 00:46:15.099
I took the telephone and somebody said, "Hello
Torben, this is from Danish TV we are making

00:46:15.089 --> 00:46:21.568
a program about evolution and Darwin we want 
to know if you want to be a part of it?

00:46:22.369 --> 00:46:29.369
The one who is going to interview you is Simon
Jul! The one I had just been praying for.

00:46:35.619 --> 00:46:42.619
There are about six million people in Denmark,
almost six million. God put in my heart that

00:46:43.729 --> 00:46:50.729
day to pray two things: open door to TV so
I can go against evolution and Darwin and

00:46:50.859 --> 00:46:57.859
a guy I had just seen on TV his name is Simon
Jul. I prayed those two things and two weeks

00:47:00.069 --> 00:47:06.168
later I was sitting in Copenhagen right 
beside Simon Jul and his TV crew. I was

00:47:07.068 --> 00:47:11.115
sitting there in a café and we were sitting
talking and I said Simon I am here because

00:47:12.015 --> 00:47:17.015
of you. I was praying for you that day when
your secretary called me and God wants you

00:47:17.015 --> 00:47:21.334
to repent. And he looked at me and everybody
looked at me and they were in shock and I

00:47:21.469 --> 00:47:27.000
was the only one who was eating now and I
told the story and everybody was surprised

00:47:27.021 --> 00:47:32.680
and shocked. Then we went out to the middle of 
the street in Copenhagen and we were stopping

00:47:32.869 --> 00:47:36.963
people and talking about God and evolution 
and when we were talking with people I saw

00:47:37.809 --> 00:47:41.908
a young guy come with crutches. The Holy
Spirit said, "Him! him, him, him!" And when

00:47:42.799 --> 00:47:48.866
I saw him I just knew it was God, because the
Holy Spirit led me. So I knew it was God and

00:47:49.469 --> 00:47:54.472
I said, "Simon come with me!" And we went
to him and I prayed for this guy with crutches

00:47:54.769 --> 00:48:00.000
and he got completely healed. He could walk
without crutches and I stood with the crutches

00:48:00.063 --> 00:48:07.063
like this and Simon is not so tall, so
he stood like this and he said, "Tom,

00:48:08.079 --> 00:48:12.000
what is this?" And I looked, "What do you
mean?" Simon said, “This Tom! What is this?"

00:48:12.007 --> 00:48:19.007
I said, "Have you not read the Bible? This 
is what we read in the Bible." Afterwards

00:48:21.019 --> 00:48:28.019
we went to a big museum in Denmark. A big museum
with a lot of things about Darwin also about

00:48:32.539 --> 00:48:39.539
the missing link, who is still missing. 
in that museum I was sat on a chair

00:48:40.589 --> 00:48:46.630
with two spotlights on me. Simon Jul 
was sitting in front of me on a chair.

00:48:46.999 --> 00:48:51.035
We were sitting a little high, we were sitting
on a suitcase. We had to come higher because

00:48:51.359 --> 00:48:55.427
there was some missing links behind me they
also wanted to see when they were filming me.

00:48:56.039 --> 00:49:02.040
Simon was sitting in front of me and
I was sitting there for one and a half

00:49:02.049 --> 00:49:09.049
hours he was asking questions about God. "Do
you really believe in Noah’s ark? Do you

00:49:12.969 --> 00:49:18.055
really believe God created the heaven and earth 
in six 24 hour days? Do you really believe

00:49:18.829 --> 00:49:24.904
in this? What about DNA? What about about
this? If God is going to say kill your

00:49:25.579 --> 00:49:31.677
wife are you going to do it? He asked a lot
of questions about God and evolution for one

00:49:32.559 --> 00:49:38.000
and a half hours. (I have a picture here)
Here you can see me sitting and there you

00:49:38.069 --> 00:49:43.408
can see the two spotlights on me. I am 
sitting on a suitcase in a chair, and there

00:49:44.029 --> 00:49:49.000
is Simon Jul with the paper. He is 
sitting there for one and a half hours

00:49:49.013 --> 00:49:56.013
asking questions. You can see one of the missing
links behind me where I am sitting and talking.

00:49:57.068 --> 00:50:04.068
And to sit there giving an answer for what
I believe in. The best way to explain

00:50:06.089 --> 00:50:13.089
it was like being in heaven, because in one 
and a half hours I knew everything. It was

00:50:15.019 --> 00:50:22.019
so special because for every question I had
an answer and many times during the one and

00:50:22.099 --> 00:50:28.122
a half hours. I thought, "Where, where did that
come from?" But I knew where it came from...the

00:50:28.329 --> 00:50:34.000
Holy Spirit. What did Jesus say in Mark 13? 
He said, "When they take you to trial...

00:50:34.007 --> 00:50:39.336
Or it can also be other things, "don’t
worry beforehand about what you are going

00:50:40.029 --> 00:50:47.029
to say, but say whatever is given to you in
that hour for it is not you who speak but

00:50:48.329 --> 00:50:55.329
the Holy Spirit." Mark 13:11. This is what 
I experienced that day. Somebody said to me

00:51:02.018 --> 00:51:09.018
later, and also before, "Torben why do you go 
to this program?" You know it is a stand-up

00:51:09.071 --> 00:51:13.145
comedian program. They are stand-up comedians,
they want to make fun of you." I said

00:51:14.045 --> 00:51:21.045
to them, "I am not going there because they
invited me, I’m going there because God

00:51:23.859 --> 00:51:30.859
sent me. No matter what any other person
was going to say around me I knew I needed

00:51:32.042 --> 00:51:37.181
to go there because God sent me. It
was interesting when I went to see

00:51:37.559 --> 00:51:43.577
the program. Because they almost forgot one
thing, they almost forgot Darwin, there

00:51:43.739 --> 00:51:48.798
was a little of Darwin. But my testimony
was what filled most of the program, where

00:51:49.329 --> 00:51:54.000
I told how God led me and saw how the young
guy got healed with crutches. Many hundreds

00:51:54.071 --> 00:51:58.169
of thousands saw that. Later I met people 
who had known me from that program and came

00:51:59.069 --> 00:52:06.069
to me and wanted prayer and other things.
So this is one story of how the Holy Spirit

00:52:07.779 --> 00:52:13.876
can lead us. Because Jesus is the same yesterday,
today and forever, the Holy Spirit is the

00:52:14.749 --> 00:52:21.749
same yesterday, today and forever. He can
speak to us and He can lead us the same today

00:52:22.229 --> 00:52:28.266
as we read in the book of Acts. There is 
nothing like being led by the Holy Spirit.

00:52:28.599 --> 00:52:33.000
I’m not only talking about ministry I’m 
talking about everyday life. I remember

00:52:33.091 --> 00:52:38.020
some years ago my daughter was ten years
old. She was going to school on bicycle she

00:52:38.839 --> 00:52:42.000
was going one and a half kilometres. I 
said goodbye Stephanie, and she said goodbye

00:52:42.096 --> 00:52:46.905
in the morning and went on her bicycle. So
she went this way and I went the other way

00:52:47.769 --> 00:52:53.792
to pray. And as I was walking the Holy Spirit
spoke to me, "Stop! Your daughter needs you."

00:52:53.999 --> 00:52:59.052
And I thought, "What? -- "Your daughter needs
you." -- "No, no, she... I just said goodbye

00:52:59.529 --> 00:53:05.613
to her." -- "Your daughter needs you." I
said, "Oh, my daughter needs me." So I was

00:53:06.369 --> 00:53:12.000
going that way but the Holy Spirit said, "Stop
your daughter needs you." So I turned around

00:53:12.018 --> 00:53:18.044
and I was now running the other way. It
was one and a half kilometres to school. But

00:53:18.044 --> 00:53:23.073
after one kilometre I saw my daughter. There
was a small bridge and she was standing on

00:53:23.469 --> 00:53:30.469
the bridge and I went there and she was standing
beside her bicycle and crying. I said, "Hello

00:53:31.339 --> 00:53:38.339
Stephanie." She looked at me! And the
first thing she said, "Father! What are you

00:53:39.259 --> 00:53:46.259
doing here?" I could then say, "God said
that you needed me, and now I am here."

00:53:48.009 --> 00:53:54.015
It was really strong for her because she
saw me go the other way and suddenly I’m

00:53:54.609 --> 00:54:00.000
standing beside her and could say that
God sent me. "The Holy Spirit told me that

00:54:00.018 --> 00:54:06.021
you need me and now I’m here." She had
a problem with the bicycle and I could help

00:54:06.021 --> 00:54:10.080
her go back. Another testimony: 
I remember one time when I

00:54:10.269 --> 00:54:14.328
was going to open the mail box and before
I put the key in, the Holy Spirit said, "There

00:54:14.859 --> 00:54:21.000
is something here you don’t like but no
problem I have everything in control."

00:54:21.014 --> 00:54:26.973
When I opened the mail box and there was 
something I didn’t like: one time there

00:54:27.099 --> 00:54:34.099
was a bill because we got some money from
the state here in Denmark from a house we

00:54:34.002 --> 00:54:38.009
had. There was a bill we had to pay a lot
of money back and we didn’t have it.

00:54:38.009 --> 00:54:44.408
I thought, "Oh no, ...hey, God is in control."
The Holy Spirit had warned me beforehand.

00:54:45.299 --> 00:54:49.000
So I just contacted them and said can you just
check it one more time?" They said, "Yes

00:54:49.044 --> 00:54:54.092
we will check it and come back to you." 
This is now six years ago and I’ve

00:54:54.092 --> 00:54:57.191
never heard anything and 
I’ve never paid the money.

00:54:58.019 --> 00:55:05.019
So the Holy Spirit can lead us in everyday
life, and this is the life we are called to;

00:55:07.007 --> 00:55:14.007
each of us. One more story: I want to share
one more testimony to show how it is working.

00:55:14.839 --> 00:55:21.839
Some years ago I was out evangelizing and 
stood talking with 3-4 young persons and

00:55:22.799 --> 00:55:27.816
there was a young guy there who came and stood
beside me when I was sharing the gospel. When

00:55:27.969 --> 00:55:33.027
he came the Holy Spirit said to me, "You
are going to be his father." I thought,

00:55:33.549 --> 00:55:40.549
"What?" It came as a total surprise to 
me. I looked at him and then he left.

00:55:40.959 --> 00:55:45.995
I continued talking and then he came back
again. When I had finished talking I said,

00:55:46.319 --> 00:55:51.000
"OK, is anybody here sick? And that young
guy said yes! And he took his trouser leg

00:55:51.066 --> 00:55:56.163
up he had a lot of bandages on his knee. He 
said, "Yesterday I fell off my scooter and

00:55:57.063 --> 00:56:01.722
I have a lot of pain, I’ve not been able to 
bend my leg, I could not walk." I said, "Look

00:56:02.289 --> 00:56:08.000
here." I prayed for this guy and he took the 
bandage off and he was surprised! He took

00:56:08.064 --> 00:56:14.000
the plaster off and he was standing and the
tears were coming out, and he said, “No

00:56:14.009 --> 00:56:19.958
more pain!" And I said, "Come with me." and
I took him, I didn’t know this guy, and

00:56:20.849 --> 00:56:25.926
the first thing I said was, "Tell me about
your parents." And he was so surprised! So

00:56:26.619 --> 00:56:32.682
he said, "OK, my father is dead, and my 
mother is very sick, she is going to

00:56:33.249 --> 00:56:38.310
die." And I said, "I’ve never seen you 
before, but when you came God spoke to

00:56:38.859 --> 00:56:43.864
me that I was going to be a father for
you, I am going to help you." He was so

00:56:44.359 --> 00:56:49.404
surprised, I was also surprised. And then
I got his phone number and we were writing

00:56:49.809 --> 00:56:55.861
to each other but he had just met me, and so
strong an experience, so he was a little afraid

00:56:56.329 --> 00:57:02.000
to meet me again. But two weeks later there
came some people to me who were going to become

00:57:02.015 --> 00:57:07.194
journalists so they were studying 
and they came to me and wanted

00:57:07.329 --> 00:57:12.347
to interview me. We were sitting in Burger 
King and talking, they were interviewing me.

00:57:12.509 --> 00:57:16.595
Then one of them said, "Hey I have a
camera with me, we want to go with you and

00:57:17.369 --> 00:57:22.403
see what you are doing on the street, can we 
do that now?" -- "Now?" I didn’t want to,

00:57:22.709 --> 00:57:26.000
to be honest, I didn’t want to do that, I 
wanted to go home and relax because I was

00:57:26.091 --> 00:57:33.091
tired. But because he said that I said,
"OK ...shall I? OK, OK...let’s go. Let’s

00:57:36.489 --> 00:57:42.000
go to the city." I jumped in the car and
I went to the city and was sitting in the

00:57:42.065 --> 00:57:49.065
car and I was praying. And I felt like the 
Holy Spirit spoke to me, I felt like... I

00:57:50.329 --> 00:57:57.329
looked at my hands...I said, "God...I pray
right now. Hands...yes. Hand in bandage...God

00:57:57.065 --> 00:58:03.004
send somebody ...send somebody to the street
right now God who has their hand in a bandage

00:58:03.589 --> 00:58:07.677
who is going to get healed God. Thank you because
it is going to be a testimony for those people,

00:58:08.469 --> 00:58:13.554
in the name of Jesus." It was what I prayed.
We came to the street, I was walking there,

00:58:14.319 --> 00:58:19.398
We didn’t find any right there who wanted
to talk with us. Then I saw the young guy

00:58:20.109 --> 00:58:24.201
I met two weeks before the guy God told me
was to be his father. I saw him and said, "Hey

00:58:25.029 --> 00:58:32.029
how are you?" -- "Hey...I’m fine." I 
saw he had a bandage on his hand and

00:58:32.017 --> 00:58:35.063
I said, "What is wrong with you?" -- 
"I don’t know, it was yesterday I

00:58:35.063 --> 00:58:40.902
got a lot of pain and it hurts." -- "Hey!
I have some journalist people who are

00:58:41.469 --> 00:58:46.000
studying to become journalists, they don’t believe 
in this. Can I pray for you?" -- "Yes, you

00:58:46.045 --> 00:58:50.304
can do that." It is OK they are filming and
you can tell what happened two weeks ago.

00:58:50.709 --> 00:58:54.000
Yeah! So they were filming him in the middle
of the street and he was telling them how

00:58:54.067 --> 00:58:59.686
he met me two weeks before how he got healed
with the knee. Then I pray for him and

00:59:00.289 --> 00:59:05.000
this time, the bandage ..One more time not
the knee but the hand and then tears in

00:59:05.041 --> 00:59:10.970
his eyes again, and he said, "It’s gone!"
It was really an eye opener for them!

00:59:11.339 --> 00:59:17.343
And it was really strong for him. Then he 
was ready to meet me, and we talked again

00:59:17.739 --> 00:59:23.816
and said that we were going to 
meet later. Then I met somebody

00:59:24.509 --> 00:59:29.000
the day after, a Christian, and I told
the story of what God had done and how God

00:59:29.004 --> 00:59:34.056
had led me to this boy. He came to me and 
said, "Tom, I feel like the Holy Spirit

00:59:34.092 --> 00:59:41.092
is saying to me I should give you two hundred
dollars, this is for you and your son."

00:59:42.339 --> 00:59:46.383
I called this young boy and I said, "I want
to invite you out to eat." He said, "OK

00:59:46.779 --> 00:59:53.779
let’s go out." I met with him and we
were out eating and he said, "Tom there

00:59:54.089 --> 00:59:59.144
is something I want to say to you, something
special, do you remember the day you met

01:00:00.044 --> 01:00:07.044
me in the street when you prayed for my hand?
I never go to the street, it was the first

01:00:07.065 --> 01:00:14.065
time after school I went to the city, I 
was on my way home, but I felt there was

01:00:14.819 --> 01:00:21.819
something inside who said that I have to go
to the city and there I met you." Can you see

01:00:22.739 --> 01:00:29.739
it? I was praying in the car God send
somebody with their hand in a bandage. I led

01:00:30.859 --> 01:00:36.931
me to praying that because God knew this guy. 
This young guy had the hand in a bandage

01:00:37.579 --> 01:00:43.658
and God spoke to him and said, "Go in the
street." And we met each other and he got healed.

01:00:44.369 --> 01:00:48.000
I got in contact with him and two days
later he called me, "Tom my scooter has just

01:00:48.095 --> 01:00:53.163
broken down and I got a new job and I cannot
go to work because I do not have any scooter."

01:00:54.063 --> 01:01:00.192
But because I had the money I paid. It 
cost exactly what I had, so I paid for

01:01:00.759 --> 01:01:06.770
his scooter and went to his job. So 
everything is God working. This is

01:01:06.869 --> 01:01:11.904
what I like when it comes to being led
by the Holy Spirit. I meet many people

01:01:12.219 --> 01:01:19.219
who are very sceptical when it comes to God.
When we talk about healing they are also

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

01:01:24.849 --> 01:01:30.942
don’t believe in it. Because they think
it is something just in the mind. But when

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

01:01:44.549 --> 01:01:49.627
my mind. Because God can speak to me. But
before things happen God had to speak to this

01:01:50.329 --> 01:01:55.408
person and this person and this person and
everything has to go like this. And this is

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

01:02:09.014 --> 01:02:16.014
tell about everyday life with the Holy 
Spirit. This life is not only for me,

01:02:17.014 --> 01:02:24.014
IT IS FOR YOU! Because Jesus said we have
to get born again by the Holy Spirit:

01:02:24.289 --> 01:02:29.000
not born of water, but of water and Spirit;
he is talking about repentance, baptism in

01:02:29.067 --> 01:02:34.986
water and the Holy Spirit. And in John 3 when
He is talking about that He is saying this,

01:02:35.589 --> 01:02:41.000
"Do not marvel when I say to you, you 
must be born again." and He continued,

01:02:41.066 --> 01:02:46.725
"the wind blows where it wishes and you
hear its sound, but you do not know where it

01:02:47.319 --> 01:02:54.319
comes from or where it goes. So it is with
everyone who is born of the Spirit." He is

01:02:56.063 --> 01:03:03.063
talking about the wind. And I want to explain
that. "So it is with everyone who is born of

01:03:06.119 --> 01:03:12.153
the Spirit." Jesus said we have to get 
born again. We have to get born again

01:03:12.459 --> 01:03:18.467
by the Spirit. Getting born again by the Spirit
is like the wind. The wind: you don’t know

01:03:18.539 --> 01:03:23.000
where it is coming from and you don’t know
where it is going and so is everyone who is

01:03:23.014 --> 01:03:29.143
born of the Spirit. Or I can say- who is
being... who is walking- led by the Spirit.

01:03:29.269 --> 01:03:34.000
Romans 8 is says- we are not walking
by the flesh...led by the flesh, but led

01:03:34.039 --> 01:03:39.178
by the Spirit. It is much more than helping us
keep away from sin, it is to live the life I have

01:03:39.529 --> 01:03:41.546
just spoken about.

01:03:41.699 --> 01:03:47.706
Being led by the Holy Spirit, the wind... 
Sometimes the wind will blow this way...or the

01:03:47.769 --> 01:03:54.769
this way... then the wind is blowing the 
this way....and it is going back...so

01:03:55.069 --> 01:04:02.069
the wind is coming from here and there and
the wind is coming really fast from there

01:04:02.559 --> 01:04:09.559
and slow from there. The same as is being 
led by the Spirit. God said, "Pray for Simon

01:04:09.709 --> 01:04:14.767
Jul." Go to Copenhagen! God said, "Your
daughter needs you, go back." God said,

01:04:15.289 --> 01:04:22.289
"Pray for this guy with the hand there."
And God told my wife to pray for something

01:04:24.092 --> 01:04:29.881
in December and God spoke to somebody in South
Africa and now we are going there. "Can you

01:04:30.709 --> 01:04:37.709
see it? It is like the wind, we don’t
know every day where we are going. We just

01:04:37.799 --> 01:04:44.799
know that the Holy Spirit is leading us. One
day he says this way, then he says this way,

01:04:44.799 --> 01:04:51.799
then he says this way. These 
testimonies I am telling you

01:04:52.041 --> 01:04:58.043
today can seem like, "Oh, this is powerful
Tom, you are powerful. You experience a lot

01:04:58.043 --> 01:05:04.092
of things." No, this is normal! This
is for EVERYONE who is born of the Spirit.

01:05:04.479 --> 01:05:11.479
Go back to the book of Acts. Read about Paul, 
about Peter, about Ananias, about the persons

01:05:12.249 --> 01:05:18.346
I’ve been talking about during this Bible
school. See being led by the Holy Spirit was

01:05:19.219 --> 01:05:26.219
not only for a few people, it’s for everyone.
It’s the same today. I want to give

01:05:28.013 --> 01:05:34.017
you some advice. I want to end up giving 
you some practical advice, something

01:05:34.017 --> 01:05:40.576
that can help you to come into this life. Because
there is something we have misunderstood when

01:05:40.729 --> 01:05:47.729
it comes to the Holy Spirit. I want to say 
to you also, I got born by the Holy Spirit,

01:05:48.063 --> 01:05:55.063
born again, eighteen years ago. But the 
first many years I didn’t experience what

01:05:56.839 --> 01:06:03.839
I am experiencing now. It isn’t that God 
hadn’t been speaking. God had been speaking

01:06:05.066 --> 01:06:12.066
from the day I got saved. 
Because everybody who is

01:06:13.065 --> 01:06:19.014
born by the Spirit is a child of God.
We have ears but we have to use the ears

01:06:19.599 --> 01:06:26.599
to hear what God is saying. And from the first
day when I got born again the Spirit was talking

01:06:28.359 --> 01:06:34.660
to me, the Holy Spirit was leading me. But
I was not listening. I didn’t know how to

01:06:34.066 --> 01:06:41.066
listen, and because I was not listening 
there were so many things I didn’t do. When

01:06:43.989 --> 01:06:50.989
I think back it is so sad; all the things
I’ve been missing out on because I didn’t

01:06:53.289 --> 01:07:00.289
listen. Because I was walking in my own power.
Because I was doing what I thought to do instead

01:07:00.369 --> 01:07:05.432
of listening to what the Holy Spirit was saying.
There is so much we have been missing out

01:07:05.999 --> 01:07:12.999
on, because we don’t know how God is 
working, we don’t live the life we read in

01:07:14.249 --> 01:07:19.324
the book of Acts, we don’t make disciples,
we don’t train and equip each other.

01:07:19.999 --> 01:07:25.098
I’ve been missing out on so much. But some years
ago I tasted what it is to be led by the Spirit

01:07:25.989 --> 01:07:32.989
and I looked at my wife and she looked at me and
we said this is what we want. And we changed

01:07:33.043 --> 01:07:39.812
our life totally upside down and we changed
a lot of things so we could have time to seek

01:07:40.199 --> 01:07:47.199
God and listen. In my book The Last Reformation
you can read a little about my story how we

01:07:47.259 --> 01:07:54.259
had a house and we gave it all up and we live
very simply because we needed to have the

01:07:54.063 --> 01:08:00.542
time to seek God. Because like every other
person, it’s not that I just hear voices

01:08:01.109 --> 01:08:08.109
all the time. No, it’s difficult to 
hear. It’s not like I’m better to hear

01:08:09.109 --> 01:08:14.000
than other people, but I have been training
and this is the difference. I want to say

01:08:14.067 --> 01:08:21.067
something about praying, I have never heard
God speak to me with a loud voice. When God

01:08:22.098 --> 01:08:29.098
speaks to me He is speaking in my mind.
every story I have just been telling you now,

01:08:30.075 --> 01:08:34.894
where God has been speaking, -pray for Simon
Jul, -pray for an open door, -pray for this,

01:08:35.569 --> 01:08:42.569
-do that, -go this way, every story has just
been in my mind, what? Yeah and this is

01:08:43.087 --> 01:08:48.166
often what we misunderstand, because when we 
read in the book of Acts, the old testament

01:08:49.066 --> 01:08:54.140
and other places, when the Holy Spirit led...
we think yeah...it was so easy to live there.

01:08:55.041 --> 01:09:00.087
It is so easy to do it because they didn’t
doubt, they just knew it was God, but

01:09:00.087 --> 01:09:07.087
I don’t believe you will ever know 
with 100% certainty that it is God you

01:09:09.002 --> 01:09:16.002
are hearing because then it is not by 
faith. God wants everything to be by faith.

01:09:17.011 --> 01:09:21.067
Every time I’ve told a story about 
how God had spoken to me by the Holy

01:09:21.067 --> 01:09:28.067
Spirit; every time it was by faith. I get a 
thought and I have to choose and if I believe

01:09:34.064 --> 01:09:41.064
if it was God or not, and I have to act
on it. This is how I started. I remember

01:09:42.023 --> 01:09:49.023
some years ago, I was out walking and I was
starting to take time to seek God. I needed

01:09:51.076 --> 01:09:57.164
to come in and learn to listen to God’s
voice. I was walking and I saw there was

01:09:58.064 --> 01:10:02.160
a forest, at the end of the forest there was 
a field and at the end of the field there

01:10:03.006 --> 01:10:07.013
were some people who were working. And 
I got a thought. "Go talk with them."

01:10:08.003 --> 01:10:13.100
-- "No, no, no.-- "Go and talk with 
them?" -- "No...it’s just me."

01:10:14.027 --> 01:10:19.108
It was like every other thing I hear. The first
thing I say is, "It’s just me, but...maybe

01:10:20.008 --> 01:10:27.008
it’s God? No...it’s just me...Is it God? 
And what could I do there?" There was

01:10:27.066 --> 01:10:32.145
only one thing I could try: I could not say...
"God if it is you, please..." No, it doesn’t

01:10:33.045 --> 01:10:38.045
work like that. God had been speaking one
time and then I had to find out if it was

01:10:38.045 --> 01:10:45.045
God or it wasn’t God. So I decided I had to 
try. So I went there and I was really nervous

01:10:46.000 --> 01:10:50.073
and I said, "Excuse me, excuse me, can I talk
with you ten minutes?" And there were some people

01:10:50.073 --> 01:10:54.076
who were sitting there eating who were working
in a forest. And I just shared a testimony

01:10:54.076 --> 01:10:59.162
and said thank you and went I was so afraid.
As I went from there I said, "Oh it was

01:11:00.062 --> 01:11:07.062
just me." Because no supernatural experience
happened, I thought it was just me. But

01:11:09.031 --> 01:11:13.032
what happened was, one week later a girl 
came and said, "Hey...can I say thank you?

01:11:13.032 --> 01:11:17.089
Thank you!" -- "Thank you for what?" -- "My 
brother is a fallen away Christian, he was working

01:11:17.089 --> 01:11:21.145
in the forest and one day you came and spoke
to him and now he has come back to God."

01:11:22.045 --> 01:11:29.045
I thought, "Woo....nice!" I had thought it
was me, but when I heard her say that, I

01:11:30.001 --> 01:11:36.008
suddenly knew that it was God. Later, I 
experienced something similar and because

01:11:36.071 --> 01:11:43.071
I had that experience the last time it helped 
me to tune in and recognise if is this thought

01:11:47.033 --> 01:11:51.102
is from me or is it from God? For 
example, if my wife is calling me from

01:11:52.002 --> 01:11:57.000
a different telephone, I take the telephone, 
she can say, "Hello." and I say, "Hey Lene,

01:11:57.001 --> 01:12:01.006
why are you calling from this number? I don’t
know; whose telephone number is that? Because

01:12:01.006 --> 01:12:08.006
I have spent a lot of time with my wife and
I know her voice. But if other people are

01:12:10.049 --> 01:12:15.108
calling, and say, "Hello it’s me." I say
"Who are you?" because I don’t recognize

01:12:16.008 --> 01:12:22.037
their voice. The same way with God, if we
want to get better at recognizing His voice

01:12:22.037 --> 01:12:29.037
we have to be quiet, listen and take some
chances. If you get a thought you have

01:12:30.096 --> 01:12:37.096
to try it..."God is that you? Or is it me?" Because 
God, for me, is not speaking loud like this, God

01:12:38.084 --> 01:12:45.084
is not speaking loud like this! God is speaking 
to my head with a small thought. But the way

01:12:45.097 --> 01:12:51.102
I recognise it is, "Hey....where did that come
from?" It’s not like I’m sitting focusing,

01:12:52.002 --> 01:12:57.075
thinking, we don’t have to use 
our minds to get it, No, we have

01:12:57.075 --> 01:13:03.083
to worship God, we have to focus on Him and 
then suddenly there comes a thought. "Hey,

01:13:04.055 --> 01:13:08.137
God this is you." So we have to 
practice. This is discipleship

01:13:09.037 --> 01:13:13.110
again and again, it’s all about discipleship.
You start where you are and then you practice

01:13:14.001 --> 01:13:20.053
and you become better and better and better
to listen to God, to do other things.

01:13:20.062 --> 01:13:27.062
But at the same time, it always takes faith,
you always have to believe and take a step

01:13:27.067 --> 01:13:34.067
by faith. Hebrews chapter 5 when it is talking 
about a new believer, an old Christian, a mature

01:13:36.003 --> 01:13:42.035
believer says, "Those, who by reason of use,
have had their senses exercised to discern

01:13:42.062 --> 01:13:49.062
both good and evil." So you get your senses
exercised by reason of use, you use it again

01:13:50.052 --> 01:13:57.052
and again. We need to exercise our senses
so we can discern what is from God and what

01:13:58.029 --> 01:14:04.077
is not from God, it is so simple like this.
It is like when Jesus is talking about praying

01:14:04.077 --> 01:14:11.077
in Matthew 6. He said, "But when you pray, go 
into your room and shut the door and pray to your

01:14:13.029 --> 01:14:20.029
Father who is in secret. And your Father 
who sees in secret will reward you."

01:14:20.049 --> 01:14:25.068
Pray to your Father who is 
in secret, God is not like...

01:14:25.068 --> 01:14:30.157
taking God, sitting Him on a chair, sit down with
him and say, "God what about this?..OK..What

01:14:31.057 --> 01:14:36.135
about this? What about this? We are not talking
to God like one man talks to another man, it’s

01:14:37.035 --> 01:14:43.132
not like that. It is by the Holy 
Spirit and the way we learn

01:14:44.032 --> 01:14:51.032
is by exercising, using, what God has given
us like I did. I got a small thought, is

01:14:53.004 --> 01:14:58.007
that God or is it not God? Then I try it and
know it was not God, then another time, yes

01:14:58.034 --> 01:15:05.034
it was God, yes it was God, and then 
I learned and after time it became

01:15:06.035 --> 01:15:13.035
easier for me. It is easier to recognize
what is God and what is not God.

01:15:15.035 --> 01:15:20.087
God speaks to our minds, but at the
same time I want to say that Satan

01:15:20.087 --> 01:15:25.142
can also speak to our minds. That is why we
need to try everything by the Word. If God

01:15:26.042 --> 01:15:31.109
says something like, "Go and pray for him,
go and do something good, you can do it

01:15:32.009 --> 01:15:38.015
without a problem. Try it. but of course
if you hear something bad, don’t do it.

01:15:38.015 --> 01:15:44.096
Go to the Word of God and always get things
confirmed by the Word of God and by the Spirit

01:15:44.096 --> 01:15:49.190
inside of you; the peace. OK, is that good 
thing or not a good thing? Because every

01:15:50.009 --> 01:15:55.077
good thing is coming down from God. 
And it is not like we have to...

01:15:56.058 --> 01:16:03.058
I don’t believe that we have to say. "OK
speak...God speak God speak..." then your mind

01:16:06.004 --> 01:16:13.004
is going around. No, just take time, spend 
time on God, talk with Him, be together with

01:16:15.049 --> 01:16:22.049
Him, focus on Him, thank Jesus. A good 
thing, I believe, if you really want to

01:16:23.004 --> 01:16:30.004
be led by the Spirit and know what
God is saying is to throw your TV out.

01:16:30.006 --> 01:16:37.006
It has helped me, really, to be honest, if 
you are watching TV more than one or two

01:16:37.085 --> 01:16:42.097
hours every day, throw it out, if you are 
listening to radio the whole day, throw

01:16:42.097 --> 01:16:47.191
it out. When you are listening to music the
whole day throw it out, why? Because if you

01:16:48.091 --> 01:16:54.165
are doing TV or music and radio, when you go 
from there the last thing you hear is still

01:16:55.065 --> 01:16:59.164
going into your mind spinning. You still hear
the last song, you still hear what they have

01:17:00.064 --> 01:17:07.064
been talking about, you still hear a lot of
voices a lot of activity in your mind. And

01:17:10.006 --> 01:17:16.034
because you have a lot of things your mind
is not at ease to say, "What is it God?" and

01:17:16.034 --> 01:17:23.034
what is all the rest? So we need to get rid
of many of those things and learn something.

01:17:24.045 --> 01:17:31.045
We don't to be quiet in the west. Learn 
to just listen, learn to just take time

01:17:35.007 --> 01:17:41.000
and just be quiet with God. Just talk with
Him, don’t have a lot of things happening all

01:17:41.009 --> 01:17:47.094
the time. Take time, take time, it is all 
about taking time. Jesus was led by the

01:17:48.075 --> 01:17:54.140
Holy Spirit in the wilderness for forty days
and then he came out in the power of the Holy

01:17:55.004 --> 01:18:01.058
Spirit. Forty days, yeah but I 
don’t have time for that. Everyone

01:18:01.094 --> 01:18:08.094
of us has the same time 24 hours. It is 
how we choose with our time. Some years ago

01:18:12.022 --> 01:18:16.000
we had a house, we had a car, I was working
a lot and doing a lot of things. But then I

01:18:16.009 --> 01:18:20.016
tasted what it is like to be led by the Holy
Spirit. I got an experience and I said this

01:18:21.006 --> 01:18:27.080
is what I want, I want this life. And
because I wanted that life so much I changed

01:18:28.034 --> 01:18:35.034
a lot of physical things around me which 
helped me to get more time. At one time we had

01:18:36.002 --> 01:18:40.035
been living in a big house, had to earn a
lot of money. Later we were living in a small

01:18:40.035 --> 01:18:47.035
basement, with three kids. But because we
changed everything, we got more time, time

01:18:48.021 --> 01:18:55.021
to be quiet, time to seek God. Everything 
I have experienced has not come for free,

01:18:56.068 --> 01:19:00.135
it doesn’t come suddenly. You don't
live like every other person and then

01:19:01.035 --> 01:19:06.087
you experience a lot of other strong 
things. No, you get what you pay for; you

01:19:06.087 --> 01:19:13.087
do. We choose what we want. I have fasted 
forty days many times, I have taken

01:19:14.019 --> 01:19:21.019
time with God. I walk a lot, I pray
just like every other person. It’s not easy

01:19:22.055 --> 01:19:29.055
for me to hear God speak. But because I
have taken time to exercise concerning what

01:19:31.008 --> 01:19:37.012
is good and evil, it has become so much
easier for me now. I still need to learn

01:19:37.012 --> 01:19:44.012
and I am learning every day. So what I 
have been teaching about here is that we

01:19:44.023 --> 01:19:48.104
get baptized with the Holy Spirit and we need
to be filled by the Holy Spirit. We need to

01:19:49.004 --> 01:19:56.004
live in that fullness by taking time with 
God, we need to be led by the Spirit, we

01:19:56.063 --> 01:20:01.064
need to have time to be led by the Spirit;
to listen. We need to also move, we need to

01:20:01.073 --> 01:20:08.073
take some chances and learn by using; by exercising.
And when we do that we are going to walk in

01:20:10.093 --> 01:20:17.093
the power of the Holy Spirit and as you 
see the Holy Spirit was part of the

01:20:19.006 --> 01:20:23.077
first church and the Holy Spirit is part of
the church today because He is the same.

01:20:23.077 --> 01:20:28.154
This is for everyone, this is for you, this
is for me, this is for everyone, so I hope

01:20:29.054 --> 01:20:35.140
you got something out of this teaching. I 
want to encourage you, take time. Take time

01:20:36.004 --> 01:20:42.017
to just be together with God, take the 
other things that are disturbing you,

01:20:42.053 --> 01:20:47.140
all the sounds in your head ..all the things...
just take time and throw it out...do some fasting

01:20:48.004 --> 01:20:54.058
with you and God together, and just reading
the word and praying; Word and pray,

01:20:54.094 --> 01:21:00.094
you and Him. And then you will see that God
is starting to speak to you clearly. And you

01:21:00.094 --> 01:21:06.115
take some steps in faith and you will 
recognize when God speaks it is like that,

01:21:07.015 --> 01:21:14.015
the next time, and next time...and next time and
then we can start to live the fellowship where

01:21:14.057 --> 01:21:18.115
God puts something on our heart and we pray
and then it happens. God puts something there,

01:21:19.015 --> 01:21:26.015
we pray and it happens. It’s all about 
the will of God. I don’t say that...we go

01:21:26.032 --> 01:21:33.032
to South Africa because God put it in my wife’s
heart to pray these things, it’s not like

01:21:33.004 --> 01:21:38.006
Oh, we just pray because my flesh wants
it, or I want to go on holiday and I want

01:21:38.042 --> 01:21:42.048
to have a new car, and I want to have that...
No, I don’t believe in that. I believe that

01:21:42.048 --> 01:21:46.102
if we pray according to the will of God then
we know that we already receive what we pray

01:21:47.002 --> 01:21:54.002
for. But we have to know what the will of
God is, and that comes by living with God.

01:21:54.029 --> 01:22:01.029
The next time after we go to South Africa,
I am going to talk about fasting, this is

01:22:02.076 --> 01:22:07.079
an important message. I’m going to talk 
about fasting and give you some practical

01:22:07.079 --> 01:22:12.114
tools for fasting. If you have a question
out of this teaching come with it and I

01:22:13.014 --> 01:22:17.051
will to start with it next time. And 
after fasting I am going to continue with

01:22:17.051 --> 01:22:24.051
Luke 10 and other places in the Bible. Now
Lene is going to sing one of her songs.

01:22:25.029 --> 01:22:30.031
You have heard it before, but just let
the words speak to you out of this message

01:22:30.031 --> 01:22:37.031
because it is your life and many things...I
know it is radical, but how much has God been

01:22:38.006 --> 01:22:45.006
speaking to you the last years. But you have
not been able to listen, and because you have

01:22:45.094 --> 01:22:51.097
not been listening you have not been able to 
receive what He has for you. The testimonies

01:22:52.024 --> 01:22:59.024
you have lost, the experiences you have not
gotten, where God has so much more for each of

01:23:00.001 --> 01:23:06.043
us. The first many years I was a Christian
I didn’t see this life, then I tasted

01:23:06.052 --> 01:23:11.119
a little of it and said this is what I want 
and now I am seeing it more and more. It

01:23:12.019 --> 01:23:18.048
is not because God is speaking more and more,
it’s because I am getting better to listen.

01:23:18.048 --> 01:23:25.085
I am getting better to act on what He is giving
me, and I believe if you act in faith, God

01:23:25.085 --> 01:23:29.098
is not going to say, "What did you do! 
It was not me who was speaking!" ‘No’

01:23:29.098 --> 01:23:36.098
He would say, look at this guy, look at this 
girl, this woman. And then He will help you, so

01:23:36.098 --> 01:23:44.932
you can recognize the voice of God. So don’t
be afraid, start to do something, ask God

01:23:45.019 --> 01:23:50.078
every morning, “God help me today, give
me something...talk to me, I want to be open."

01:23:50.078 --> 01:23:55.000
Then take some step in faith, 
at the same time seek God.

01:23:55.000 --> 01:24:01.986
OK My wife is going to sing. I look forward to next 
time when I'm going to talk about fasting. Bye, bye.

01:24:01.986 --> 01:24:10.386
Do you still remember the word I spoke
to you?

01:24:10.386 --> 01:24:17.926
Do you still remember the dream I gave
to you?

01:24:18.349 --> 01:24:26.110
Time passes and the calendar is filled up.

01:24:26.110 --> 01:24:33.621
But one is necessary: Spend time with me.

01:24:33.621 --> 01:24:49.441
Wake up my people
Soon I'm coming back

01:24:49.741 --> 01:25:00.926
One is necessary
Spend time with me

01:25:00.926 --> 01:25:07.976
I'm guiding you

01:25:08.086 --> 01:25:16.629
If you want to be my disciple
You must deny yourself

01:25:16.629 --> 01:25:21.700
and lay your own will down

01:25:21.700 --> 01:25:36.111
Follow me no matter what the cost is
then you will get eternal life

01:25:36.111 --> 01:25:51.816
Wake up my people
Soon I'm coming back

01:25:51.816 --> 01:25:59.975
One is necessary
Spend time with me

01:25:59.975 --> 01:26:08.191
I'm guiding you

01:26:08.191 --> 01:26:21.052
The salvation-gospel of the kingdom
shall be preached in all the world

01:26:21.052 --> 01:26:32.672
Don't be absorbed in daily chores but be
faithful in what God has entrusted you.

01:26:33.077 --> 01:26:51.255
Wake up my people
Soon I'm coming back

01:26:51.255 --> 01:27:01.419
One is necessary
Spend time with me

01:27:01.419 --> 01:27:11.100
I'm guiding you

01:27:11.100 --> 01:27:21.467
Wake up my people
Soon I'm coming back

01:27:21.467 --> 01:27:32.525
One is necessary
Spend time with me

01:27:32.525 --> 01:27:37.151
I'm guiding you
I'm guiding you

01:27:37.151 --> 01:27:44.861
I'm calling you. I'm calling you today.

01:27:45.013 --> 01:27:57.313
I'm calling you. I'm calling you.

01:27:57.313 --> 01:28:08.756
Will you follow me no matter what the cost
is? Will you lay your dreams down for me?

01:28:08.756 --> 01:28:22.703
I'm calling you. I'm calling you today.

01:28:22.703 --> 01:28:32.194
I'm calling you. I'm calling you.

01:28:32.194 --> 01:28:44.451
Will you go and preach my Word? Will
you lay your hands on the sick people?

01:28:44.451 --> 01:28:49.870
Will you bring my freedom to people?

01:28:49.870 --> 01:28:57.179
I'm calling you. I'm calling you.

01:28:57.179 --> 01:29:04.783
I'm calling you. I'm calling you.

01:29:04.783 --> 01:29:13.267
Will you go no matter what the cost is?

01:29:13.267 --> 01:29:21.280
Will you lay down your dreams down for me?

01:29:21.280 --> 01:29:25.819
Will you surrender everything to me?

01:29:25.819 --> 01:29:40.046
I'm calling you. I'm calling you,
My child, I'm calling you.

01:29:40.046 --> 01:29:54.803
Seek my face and I speak to you.
I'm guiding you step by step.

01:29:54.803 --> 01:30:08.761
I will never leave you alone,
you can trust on me.

01:30:08.761 --> 01:30:17.452
I will lead you. I will guide you step
by step. My child.

01:30:17.452 --> 01:30:28.115
One step at the time.
Trust in me. Trust in me.

01:30:28.115 --> 01:30:35.515
I will never leave you alone, my child.
I will give you everything you need.

01:30:35.515 --> 01:30:44.368
My child, you can trust on me.
You are not alone. Don't fear.

01:30:44.368 --> 01:30:50.804
You are not alone, my child.
I'm going with you. I'm going with you.

01:30:50.804 --> 01:31:02.237
I'm calling you. I'm calling you,
Soon I'm coming back

01:31:02.237 --> 01:31:13.987
I'm calling you. I'm calling you.