How to Yield to the HOLY GHOST Without Striving: Now Notice This Simple Key

Added: 2026-05-23

[00:00:00]Now, I want you to notice this. And I want you to get it settled on the inside of you. You don't make the Holy Ghost move, you yield and he does the work.

[00:00:10]Are you listening to me? Jesus called him the helper, not the help-ee. He didn't send you to help the Holy Ghost, he sent the Holy Ghost to help you.

[00:00:18]Praise God. And when the helper is present, you don't have to push, you don't have to pull, and you don't have to prime the pump. You see, that's where many get off. They try to substitute strain for faith, volume for authority, excitement for anointing that won't bear up under scriptural examination. We've all seen it. Folks working themselves up, praying louder, singing faster, imitating somebody else's gift, trying to talk in tongues by memory like they learned a phrase, hoping if they do something long enough, God will do something. And then they call it faith.

[00:00:59]But no, no, friend, faith is not frantic and the Holy Ghost is not moved by your flesh. He is honored by your yielding.

[00:01:08]Can you see that? When the spirit of God is honored, he manifests. When the flesh is in charge, it manufactures.

[00:01:17]One produces fruit, the other produces fatigue. Now, I want you to notice this word, yield. Yielding is cooperation, not coercion. You don't push God into action. You recognize his presence and you respond. You see a traffic sign that says yield and you adjust to the greater flow. You don't fight the traffic, you merge with it.

[00:01:43]The spirit has a flow. He doesn't need you to invent one. He needs you to yield to his. That means you stop trying to be the power and you start being the vessel. That means you stop trying to make him come and you begin acknowledging boldly, quietly, confidently he's here. Hallelujah. Are you listening? This is where we're going in these moments together. Away from spooky, away from weird, away from unscriptural pressure, and right into the simple, safe lane of cooperation. I'm going to show you from the words of Jesus and the testimony of the apostles that the helper is already here and that he lives in the believer. And when you know that, when you settle it, you stop begging and you start yielding, your prayer changes tone. Your worship changes posture.

[00:02:37]Your expectation moves from maybe he will to he is and I respond. So, relax your jaw, unclench your soul, and let the word do what straining never could.

[00:02:49]Let God be true and every man a liar.

[00:02:51]The way out of struggle is not more struggle, it's surrender to the helper's indwelling ministry.

[00:02:57]We'll walk this road step by step. We'll correct the ditches on both sides. We'll hand you a key so simple a child can use it and you won't have to pretend or push. The pressure is off because the person is here. Glory to God. Now, can you see that? Praise the Lord. He is honored when you yield. Now, take your Bible and turn real quickly to 1 Corinthians the 6th chapter. Notice the 19th verse. What? Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you and ye are not your own?

[00:03:30]Now, I want you to notice this. He did not say your emotions are his temple, though emotions will be affected. He did not say your church building is his temple, though we thank God for buildings. He said your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you. Not visiting you occasionally, not circling around you. Hopefully, he is in you. Are you listening to me? Praise God. Now, turn back just a few pages to 1 Corinthians, the 3rd chapter and the 16th verse. Know ye not that ye are the temple of God and that the spirit of God dwelleth in you?

[00:04:09]Paul says it twice to the same church because the Holy Ghost knew we'd need it said twice. You see, some folks act like God is mostly out there somewhere. Maybe if the song gets high enough or the prayer gets intense enough, he'll drop by. But that won't bear up under scriptural examination. The spirit of God dwelleth in you. That's present tense, continuing action. Not he might, not he used to, not maybe someday. He dwelleth. He makes his home in you. Can you see that? Now, go to 2 Corinthians, the 6th chapter and the 16th verse.

[00:04:45]Let's stack it up till it settles in on you. For ye are the temple of the living God. As God has said, I will dwell in them and walk in them, and I will be their God and they shall be my people.

[00:04:56]Now, I want you to notice this phrase, the living God, not a memory of God, not a museum of God, living God. And how does the living God relate to you in this new covenant? He said, I will dwell in them and walk in them. The amplified brings it out, I will dwell in and with and among them and I'll walk in and with and among them. In and with and among, intimate, immediate, continual. Glory to God. Under the old covenant, it was God with us, Emmanuel, and thank God for that.

[00:05:30]But this covenant is better.

[00:05:32]We've got a better covenant established upon better promises. Not merely with us, but in us. The curtain was torn. The presence moved out of a room made with hands, and now your body has become his temple. So, quit trying to chase down someone who moved in. You don't have to beg a resident to come visit. You don't have to perform to qualify for a father's house when the father chose your house.

[00:05:59]Let God be true and every man a liar.

[00:06:01]You yield best when you settle where he is.

[00:06:05]Where is he?

[00:06:07]Not across town with the anointed few.

[00:06:10]Not locked behind last Sunday's feeling.

[00:06:12]He is in you.

[00:06:15]That changes your expectation. You stop hollering toward the ceiling and start responding from your spirit. You stop saying Lord come and you start saying thank you, you are here in me and I yield. The direction of faith is not outward to impress men. It is inward to cooperate with the indweller. And when that is settled, striving loses its voice and yielding finds its tongue.

[00:06:44]Hallelujah. Now, I want you to notice this.

[00:06:47]Because if we don't correct the ditches, we'll keep driving off the road. There are two errors on two sides of the fence. On one side, you've got folks trying to manufacture a move, push it, prime it, shout it, shake it, repeat a few syllables they heard somebody else say and call it the Holy Ghost. They'll squeeze their eyes tight and work their jaw like that would produce power. Bless their hearts, they're sincere. But sincerity is no substitute for scripture. That won't bear up under scriptural examination. Zechariah 4:6 still says, "Not by might nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the Lord." And Acts 2:4 didn't say they invented utterance, it said they were all filled with the Holy Ghost and began to speak with other tongues as the spirit gave them utterance. You see, he gives the utterance and they did the speaking. He supplies the river, and you yield the channel. Are you listening to me?

[00:07:49]The spirit is not produced by pressure.

[00:07:51]He is honored by yielding. Praise God.

[00:07:54]Then on the other side, you've got folks who explain everything away. Well, God doesn't do that now. That was for the apostles. It's just emotionalism. And so they never yield at all. They fold their arms while quoting tradition and never open their mouth to receive what the Bible says belongs to them. That won't bear up under scriptural examination, either. First Corinthians 12:7 says the manifestation of the spirit is given to every man to profit with all. That's church language, not museum language.

[00:08:26]Hebrews 13:8 says, "Jesus Christ, the same yesterday and today and forever."

[00:08:33]And in Acts, you don't just have apostles, you've got believers, deacons, lay folk, whole groups filled and speaking as a spirit gave them utterance. The book never said when the last apostle dies, the helper retires.

[00:08:47]Let God be true and every man a liar.

[00:08:50]Can you see that? So, what is the middle of the road? The Bible teaches real Holy Ghost activity, and it operates through yielded vessels, not through human pressure. You don't force gifts into existence, and you don't forbid them by unbelief. You recognize the indweller, you believe his word, and you present your members to God, especially your tongue, and you let him do what he said he would do. The same Jesus who saves also fills. The same spirit who indwells also manifest. The same word that produces faith also guides your flow.

[00:09:28]It's simple, and it's safe, and it's scriptural. Glory to God. Now, listen.

[00:09:34]If you've been stuck swinging between trying harder and giving up, it's not more strain you need, it's more accuracy. Accuracy about who is in you.

[00:09:45]Accuracy about how he moves. Accuracy about your part and his part. Your part is faith and yielding. His part is the utterance and the power.

[00:09:58]When you quit performing for people and start responding to the person within, the pressure lifts and the river rises.

[00:10:06]You don't have to wind yourself up, you have to yield yourself up. Not by the flesh, not by denial, but by simple obedience to the word. Hallelujah. That's the balance that brings rest, and that rest is where the spirit works best. Now, I want you to notice this because order matters. Jesus laid it out plainly. In John's gospel, the 14th chapter, the 16th and 17th verses, he said, "I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him.

[00:10:48]But ye know him, for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you."

[00:10:54]Now, I want you to notice this. The world cannot receive. That's Jesus talking.

[00:11:00]You see, the world can receive Christ for salvation. Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved, but that's not the same category as receiving the Holy Ghost as the indwelling helper. That's why I keep saying it like this.

[00:11:16]Receiving salvation, that's being born again, is one experience.

[00:11:20]Receiving the Holy Ghost as a divine personality is an experience subsequent to salvation. Are you listening to me?

[00:11:28]You don't preach the Holy Ghost to the world, you preach Christ to the world.

[00:11:32]But, you can preach the Holy Ghost to Christians. That won't bear up under scriptural examination any other way.

[00:11:39]Look at the book. In Acts the 8th chapter, the Samaritans believed the preaching of Philip. There was great joy in that city. They were baptized, born again, and yet Peter and John came down that they might receive the Holy Ghost, for as yet he was fallen upon none of them. Notice the sequence. Then in Acts the 19th chapter, Paul finds certain disciples at Ephesus, gets them straight on Jesus, baptizes them in the name of the Lord, lays hands on them, and they receive the Holy Ghost and spake with tongues. Salvation first, then the reception of the Spirit as Jesus described. And yet God can move fast. Acts 10, while Peter yet spake the word, Cornelius and his house believed and the Holy Ghost fell, but even there the preaching of Christ produced faith under salvation, and then the Spirit fell. Can you see the categories? Praise God. Now, here's a pastoral warning, and I say it with love but with firmness. It is the most dangerous thing in the world to put a sinner down and tell him to seek the Holy Ghost. There's more than one spirit out there. The devil will accommodate folks who step outside Bible order. That won't bear up under scriptural examination. Get them saved first. Get the father-child relationship established. Then receiving the Holy Ghost is safe and simple, and that's where Luke 11 comes in. Jesus said, "If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone?

[00:13:12]Or if he shall ask an egg, will he offer him a scorpion?

[00:13:15]How much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?" Now, I want you to notice this. He didn't say your judge, he said your father.

[00:13:27]Father gives good gifts to his children.

[00:13:30]If a person, a real child of God, could ask the Father for the Holy Ghost and get a wrong spirit, then Jesus Christ told a lie, and He didn't. Let God be true and every man a liar. So, if you're born again, you don't have to be scared. You can ask in faith, you can receive in confidence. Hallelujah. Do you see the safety? When sonship is settled, yielding gets simple. You're not trying to pry something out of God's hand, you're cooperating with your Father's heart. The fear lifts, the striving stops. You recognize the indweller promised, and you present yourself, especially your tongue, in quiet faith.

[00:14:13]Order first, then overflow.

[00:14:16]That's the safe path, that's the scriptural path, and that's the path that brings rest and results. Praise God. Now, I want you to notice this, because this is where the rubber meets the road. Acts 2:4 says, "And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance." Now, I want you to notice the two parts. They were all filled, that's God's part. They began to speak, that's their part. The Spirit gave the utterance, that's God's part. They did the speaking, that's their part. Are you listening to me? He does not speak in tongues for you. He gives the utterance, you supply the voice. He gives the river, you yield the channel. Can you see that? Praise God.

[00:15:04]You don't make the Holy Ghost move by clamping down and waiting for a bolt of lightning to grab your jaw. He is not going to force your mouth open. He is not a puppeteer, He is a divine helper.

[00:15:18]You see, striving tries to feel enough to start, if I could just feel a surge, if I could just feel something pushing me. But yielding starts because the word is true, and then the feeling follows.

[00:15:31]Faith is ahead of feeling. You act on the word because you know you're a child asking a father who gives good gifts, and then the anointing rides on the obedience. Let God be true and every man a liar. Hallelujah. So let me coach you for a moment, very simply.

[00:15:50]Quit begging and start yielding. Relax your jaw. Unfurl your tongue from the roof of your mouth. Stop praying in English for a sign. Just lift your heart to Jesus and worship him quietly. And as you worship, begin to speak out the syllables that rise up from your spirit, not out of your head, out of your spirit. Don't hunt for a whole paragraph, start with a syllable, a phrase. Your action meets his utterance.

[00:16:18]As you speak, more will come.

[00:16:21]The faucet doesn't gush until you turn the handle.

[00:16:24]Turn it by faith and let the river run.

[00:16:27]Are you listening? Praise God. But brother, I'm afraid I'll make it up. No, that fear won't bear up under scriptural examination. First Corinthians 14, 14:56 says, "For if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my understanding is unfruitful." Notice my spirit prays, not my head.

[00:16:48]Your understanding is unfruitful. Your mind will try to check it, critique it, analyze it, but your mind is not the source. You can't speak in tongues with your mind, you speak with your tongue as an act of your will, but the content, the utterance, is supplied by the Holy Ghost in your spirit. It will sound strange to your understanding because your understanding is not producing it.

[00:17:16]That's Bible. Can you see that? It will be your voice, your breath, your lips moving, just like when you say amen, but the language will not be manufactured by memory or copied from someone else. It will bubble up from within. If you try to think it up, you'll jam the gears. If you'll yield and speak, the gears engage. He's not going to speak in tongues for you. You speak as he gives utterance. That's the simple key. Yield your tongue. Start because the word is true.

[00:17:51]Keep speaking as the river rises.

[00:17:54]And as you respond, the helper who already dwells in you will make himself wonderfully known without strain, without fear, and with the sweet assurance of a child receiving from his father. Glory to God. Hallelujah. Now, I want you to notice this because this is the engine that pulls the whole train.

[00:18:14]Romans 10:1-7 says, "So then faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of God." Not by straining, not by sweating, not by volume, by hearing the word. You see, results in the kingdom come because the word produces faith and faith cooperates with the helper. Striving tries to replace faith with intensity. Folks think if they get loud enough, fast enough, long enough, something's bound to happen, but that won't bear up under scriptural examination. Faith doesn't come by shouting, faith comes by hearing. Are you listening to me? Let me illustrate it the way the Bible does. If you and I prayed day and night that people would be saved, but never preached Christ, never told them what Jesus did, never gave them the gospel, we would not get anybody saved. Why?

[00:19:08]Because faith for salvation comes by hearing the gospel. The same is true with healing. You could pray, "Lord, heal the sick." and never preach that himself took our infirmities and bear our sicknesses, and you wouldn't get results. But, when you begin to preach healing, faith rises and people receive.

[00:19:28]It's the same with receiving the Holy Ghost. You don't beg him down, you preach what Jesus said about the Comforter, you preach Acts 2:4, Acts 8, Acts 10, Acts 19, and as you preach and teach, faith comes. Then yielding becomes natural. Glory to God. Now, here's why people strive. They're trying to get from feeling what only the word can give them by hearing, they think volume equals anointing. They're convinced that if they could just push hard enough, they'd break through. But, faith is not outside-in, faith is inside-out.

[00:20:04]The word spoken and believed in your heart gives you the inward witness, and out of that witness, you act. When faith is present, you don't have to talk yourself into obedience, you simply yield. The spirit's flow feels like help, not strain. Hallelujah. Let me give you a little diagnostic. If you must work yourself up before you can act, you're probably operating from the outside-in. If you need a certain song or a certain sensation before you can speak, you're leaning on props instead of promise. If your confidence rises and falls with the room's temperature, you're measuring by atmosphere instead of by scripture. But, when the word has entered and faith has come, you can act in a quiet room or a noisy room because the Indweller is the same. You lift your voice because you believe, not because you feel wind on the back of your neck.

[00:20:58]Can you see that? Praise God. So, the biblical method is simple. Preach and teach until faith rises. Talk the word, read the word, hear the word concerning the spirits indwelling and his gifts until your heart says, "That's mine now." Then your tongue yields without the clutch slipping. That's why I keep reading these verses to you. I'm not trying to entertain your head. I'm feeding your spirit. And when your spirit is fed, obedience is easy. You don't force gifts into existence. You provide a believing vessel and the spirit manifests as he wills.

[00:21:34]Let God be true and every man a liar.

[00:21:37]The pressure lifts when the word has its place. And in that place the helper helps, the river runs, and yielding is as effortless as breathing. Glory to God. Now, I want you to notice this because this is where rest replaces pressure.

[00:21:53]The Holy Ghost leads with an inward witness, not with outward push. Romans 8:16 says, "The spirit himself beareth witness with our spirit, not with our flesh, not with our nerves, with our spirit." You see, flesh pressure feels hurried, tight, performative, fearful, "Do it now or you'll miss God. People are watching.

[00:22:19]Make something happen." That won't bear up under scriptural examination. 1 Corinthians 14:33 says, "God is not the author of confusion, but of peace." And verse 32 says, "The spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets." Are you listening to me? The Holy Ghost leads, the devil drives, the Lord guides, the flesh performs. The inward witness is steady, clear, and quietly compelling without panic. Praise God. Now, I want you to notice how that witness operates.

[00:22:54]It's not always a thunderclap. Very often it's a nudge, a knowing, a green light on the inside. Colossians 3 15 inches the amplified says, let the peace of God rule act as umpire in your hearts. Umpires call safe and out.

[00:23:13]Peace calls it safe, unrest calls it out. If you sense that sweet peace while a scripture rises within you, that's safe. If everything in you tightens and you feel pushed to perform, that's out.

[00:23:29]Can you see that you can learn this?

[00:23:31]Hallelujah. And let's settle this fear right now. Yielding does not mean losing control.

[00:23:38]The Holy Ghost never violates your will.

[00:23:41]He's a divine helper, not a hijacker.

[00:23:45]You can start and stop, you can wait and weigh. 1 Corinthians 14:32 subject to the prophets means you remain the steward of your vessel.

[00:23:55]He doesn't seize you, he signals you.

[00:23:58]You respond voluntarily. That's why a pressure that says you must or else carries the scent of flesh, not the fragrance of the spirit. Let God be true and every man a liar. Here are some simple tests. Number one, does it align with scripture? John 16:13 He is the spirit of truth. He won't contradict the word he inspired. Number two, does it exalt Jesus? 1 Corinthians 12:3 says no one speaking by the spirit calls Jesus accursed. By the Holy Ghost we say Jesus is Lord. If it spotlights a man's ego, that's flesh. Number three, is there peace in your spirit? Not a spooky feeling, but the umpire calling it safe. Number four, does it edify in the right way and at the right time? 1 Corinthians 14:26 let all things be done unto edifying."

[00:24:59]And verse 40, "decently and in order."

[00:25:03]The right thing at the wrong time is the wrong thing. The Spirit's prompting will fit the flow. Flesh pressure cuts across it to be seen. Are you listening? So, practice this in small obediences. Quiet your mind, check your heart. Let the word be your governor and follow the peace. If there's a nudge to pray, pray.

[00:25:25]If there's a check, pause. If there's an urge that screams hurry and press, perform, back up and look for the witness. You'll find he leads from inside without strain with Jesus-centered clarity. And as you learn that witness, yielding becomes restful, safe, and fruitful. Glory to God. Now, I want you to notice this. 1 Corinthians 12:7 says, "The manifestation [snorts] of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal." Not the performance of the man, the manifestation of the Spirit. You see, gifts are not your inventions, they are His manifestations.

[00:26:05]And yet He does not manifest apart from a vessel.

[00:26:10]He doesn't bypass your will, your voice, your hands. He supplies the power, the light, the utterance. You supply the yielded member, especially your tongue and your simple obedience. Verse 11 says, "All these worketh at one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as He will." As He wills, not as you will, and yet He wills through your yielded will. Can you see that?

[00:26:37]Praise God. Now, on the forcing side, folks get into trouble. They say, "I'm going to prophesy tonight to prove I'm anointed." And they crank up their voice, elongate their vowels, and try to to something happen. Or they decide to word of knowledge people to impress the crowd calling out guesses fishing for reactions interrupting the flow of the service to be seen. That won't bear up under scriptural examination. First Corinthians 14:26 says let all things be done unto edifying. And verse 40 says let all things be done decently and in order.

[00:27:14]The Holy Ghost never needs you to break love or break order to make him look powerful. He is power. He manifests to help, to profit, to build. Are you listening? So, how do we cooperate? We follow the same pattern we've been teaching. Follow love and desire spiritual gifts. 1 Corinthians 14:1 and then yield when the witness comes.

[00:27:39]Step when prompted.

[00:27:41]Stop when the witness lifts. Speak what you have, not what you wish you had.

[00:27:47]Romans 12:6 says whether prophesy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith. That means you don't have to deliver a 10-minute discourse if all you have is a sentence. Give the sentence and stop. If another has a revelation, the first holds his peace.

[00:28:06]1 Corinthians 14:30.

[00:28:08]The spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets. Verse 32, you can start. You can stop. You can wait.

[00:28:16]That's Bible order and it keeps you safe. Now, I want you to notice how this looks in practice.

[00:28:23]The inward witness nudges you, edification rises in you for the congregation. Fear not, I am with you.

[00:28:31]Don't hunt for poetry. Don't inflate it to sound important. Speak what you have clear and kind. If it's a word of knowledge, it won't be a carnival trick.

[00:28:41]It will come with compassion and purpose. Something like, "There's someone with a heaviness in the chest, the Lord heals you now. Then wait. If peace remains, say what else you have.

[00:28:54]If it lifts, stop. The anointing increases as you're faithful with the measure you're given. He who is faithful in little will be entrusted with more.

[00:29:06]Glory to God. And don't forget the governor, love. 1 Corinthians 13 sits between 12 and 14 on purpose. Gifts operate best in the climate of love.

[00:29:17]Prophecy is for edification, exhortation, and comfort. 1 Corinthians 14:2-3. If your gift embarrasses, parades your ego, or bruises the weak, that's flesh, not spirit.

[00:29:31]The real thing exalts Jesus, helps people, and keeps order. Let others judge it. 1 Corinthians 14:29.

[00:29:41]If correction comes, receive it.

[00:29:44]We're [snorts] learning to yield, not to perform. Tie it right back to the simple key, your tongue.

[00:29:51]The spirit won't talk without your tongue.

[00:29:54]Don't wait for perfection, obey the prompting you have. Begin with a syllable in tongues, the sentence in prophecy, the step of faith toward that person who needs prayer. Your action meets his manifestation.

[00:30:09]You provide the vessel, he provides the manifestation as he wills, when he wills, in the sweet order of love and peace. Let God be true and every man a liar. Hallelujah. Now I want you to notice this because a living illustration will settle what we've taught.

[00:30:29]Years ago in a meeting, a dear sister came to the altar.

[00:30:33]She had been seeking for months. She was red in the face, jaw tight, fists clenched. Oh God, send it. Send it. Fill me, Lord, fill me, fill me, fill me. She said it like a machine, faster and faster, waiting for a jolt to seize her.

[00:30:52]Are you listening? I leaned down quietly and said, "Sister, what is it you desire?" She said, "I want the Holy Ghost, but I can't get through.

[00:31:02]I'm waiting on the power to hit me." I said, "Now, I want you to notice this.

[00:31:06]You're born again?" "Yes, brother, I know I'm saved." Then you're a daughter asking a father, not a beggar knocking on a stranger's door. Luke 11 says the Father gives the Holy Spirit to them that ask him. You're trying to make him do it. Just yield, open your mouth, and speak what rises up from your spirit.

[00:31:24]She blinked at me.

[00:31:26]"But I don't feel anything." I said, "Faith first, feeling follows. Acts 2:4, they were all filled with the Holy Ghost and began to speak with other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance." He gives the utterance, you do the speaking. He won't talk without your tongue. 1 Corinthians 14 14 says, "My spirit prayeth, not my head." So, quit begging in English, lift your hands, worship Jesus, and when syllables bubble up inside, speak them out.

[00:31:57]She hesitated. "What if it's just me?" I smiled. "That fear won't bear up under scriptural examination.

[00:32:05]You asked your father, not your judge.

[00:32:08]He won't give you a wrong spirit. Let God be true and every man a liar." She took a breath. I said, "Say thank you, Jesus, twice, and then don't say another word in English. Yield your tongue.

[00:32:21]Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, G." And right there, a little freeze rose up like a feather. She started to stammer it. I nodded. "That's it. Don't think, yield." In a moment, the river took it.

[00:32:35]Tears rolled, her shoulders relaxed, and a sweet language flowed like a brook over stone. No strain, no push. She laughed and worshipped in tongues, then in English, "Oh, brother, it's so easy. It's so easy." I said, "Praise God because it's help, not a performance.

[00:32:54]The helper helps." Now, I want you to notice what did not happen. I didn't hypnotize her.

[00:33:00]I didn't shake her.

[00:33:01]I didn't put words in her mouth. I aligned her with the book. We moved her from forcing to yielding, from begging to believing. Acts 2 to 4 furnished the pattern.

[00:33:12]Luke 11 established her safety.

[00:33:15]1 Corinthians 14:14 explained the mechanics. Her spirit prayed while her understanding was unfruitful. That's not psychology. That's scripture producing cooperation. Can you see that? And dear one, if you've struggled, you're not defective. You've just been approaching it wrong. Striving tries to produce what only the word can produce, faith that makes yielding effortless. Quit trying to make him do it. Acknowledge he dwells in you. Ask as a child, and then yield your tongue. Start with the syllable, he'll supply the utterance. When you stop performing and start responding, the relief itself will testify, "This is the spirit's help." Hallelujah. Praise God forever.

[00:34:04]Now, let's just wait a moment. Quiet your mind.

[00:34:08]Lift your hands right where you are and thank him, not because you feel a tingle, but because he's here. Are you listening to me? We're not calling him down. We're acknowledging the one who indwells. I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another comforter.

[00:34:24]He shall be in you. He is in you.

[00:34:28]So, let's thank him. Thank you, Jesus.

[00:34:31]Thank you, Father, for the Holy Ghost.

[00:34:33]Hallelujah. Now I want you to notice this calm, holy ease. No rush, no push, just the peace of God acting as umpire in your heart. Praise God. Now put words to what you believe because faith believes and speaks. Say this right out loud, bold but simple, "Father, I am your child. Jesus is my Lord. My body is the temple of the Holy Ghost. Greater is he that is in me than he that is in the world. I ask and I receive the Holy Ghost fullness."

[00:35:09]You give the Holy Spirit to your children who ask. You give the utterance and I do the speaking. I yield my tongue now. I receive by faith. Let God be true and every man a liar. Thank you Father in Jesus' name. That's it. That's the belief to speech loop. You see, Romans 10 says faith speaks. Are you listening?

[00:35:33]Now act on it. Don't pray for tongues, speak. Don't beg, thank. Don't strain, yield. Relax your jaw. Unhook your mind from planning the next English sentence.

[00:35:43]First Corinthians 14:14 says, "My spirit prayeth but my understanding is unfruitful." So let your understanding be unfruitful and let your spirit be fruitful.

[00:35:54]As you whisper, "Thank you Jesus."

[00:35:56]twice, stop the English and give voice to that first syllable rising up. Start with the feather, not the boulder. Your action meets his utterance. He won't talk without your tongue. So move your lips and speak by faith. There it is.

[00:36:14]Hallelujah. Don't think, yield. Glory to God. Keep your heart on Jesus. Worship and let the river take it. Praise God.

[00:36:22]Now I want you to notice the order and the peace. No condemnation.

[00:36:26]If you pause, that's fine. Start again from peace. If you prefer to worship in English for a moment, do it. Then yield again. No competition.

[00:36:37]Volume isn't anointing. We're not performing for one another.

[00:36:41]We're cooperating with the helper. If a prompting comes to prophesy, keep it to the measure of faith, a sentence that edifies, and we'll judge it decent and in order. The spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets. Follow love. Follow the inward witness. The umpire will call it safe. Can you see that? Praise the Lord. All right, right now, lift your voice.

[00:37:05]Thank him, and then yield that tongue.

[00:37:08]That's it. The sweetness of the spirit is here. Peace, not pressure.

[00:37:13]Help, not hype. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, G. Now, speak that phrase. Yes.

[00:37:22]>> [snorts] >> There it is. Hallelujah. Glory to God forever. Keep drinking. Keep yielding.

[00:37:27]The helper helps. The river rises without striving as you think and obey.

[00:37:32]That's the quick way into the flow, thankful acknowledgement plus obedient yielding right now. Praise God. Praise God. Praise God. Now, I want you to notice this as we bring it to where you live tomorrow morning. Jesus said in John 7:37-39, "If any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink. Out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water." But this spake he of the spirit. You see, Jesus uses drinking as the picture of receiving and cooperating with the spirit.

[00:38:04]And Ephesians 5:18 says, "Be not drunk with wine, but be filled with the spirit." The sense there is be being filled. Keep on being filled. Now, I want you to notice this. Anybody can take a sip and not be full.

[00:38:21]You can wet your lips and still be thirsty. So, what do you do? Keep drinking till you're full. Not with height, with yielding. Are you listening to me? How do you drink? With your mouth.

[00:38:34]That's why we've emphasized your tongue.

[00:38:36]Hebrews 13:15 says, "By him therefore, let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name." Praise is drinking. Thanksgiving is drinking.

[00:38:51]Praying in other tongues is drinking. 1 Corinthians 14:4 says, "He that speaketh in an unknown tongue edifieth himself."

[00:39:00]Jude 20 says, "Building up yourselves on your most holy faith praying in the Holy Ghost." When? Continually. Not just in a meeting. You set your heart, open your mouth, and drink morning, noon, and night without strain. Hallelujah. Now, I want you to notice some simple habits that keep you full.

[00:39:22]Number one, daily word intake. Faith comes by hearing.

[00:39:27]>> [snorts] >> Feed your spirit the scriptures we've walked through until your inner man stays strong. Number two, worship daily quiet steady thanksgiving. You don't need a band. Lift your voice in your kitchen and say, "Thank you, Jesus."

[00:39:42]Number three, pray much in the spirit.

[00:39:45]Paul said, "I thank my God I speak with tongues more than you all." Do it in the car, softly at your desk, on a walk.

[00:39:53]Number four, practice quick obedience to the inward witness when he nudges, respond.

[00:39:59]Quench not the spirit. 1 Thessalonians 5:19.

[00:40:04]Number five, refuse condemnation. Romans 8:1 says, "There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus." If you miss it, confess it, receive forgiveness, and step right back into yieldedness. Don't let guilt cork the well.

[00:40:22]Let God be true and every man a liar.

[00:40:24]Praise God. Why do folks dry up? They replace yielding with routine.

[00:40:31]They stop because they don't feel a tingle. They wait on a certain song, a certain crowd, a certain Saturday night.

[00:40:38]That won't bear up under scriptural examination. We walk by faith, not by sight. The same faith that spoke today can speak tomorrow when the room is quiet and the clock is early.

[00:40:49]Keep turning the faucet.

[00:40:52]Your action meets his utterance. Peace, not pressure. Set your expectation for growth.

[00:40:58]As you keep drinking, utterance increases, sensitivity sharpens. Hebrews 5:14 says, "Our senses are exercised by reason of use." The more you pray in the Spirit, the clearer that inward witness becomes, the cleaner the gifts operate, the steadier your heart stays under pressure. You won't need to force anything. You'll recognize the nudge, and you'll respond in love and order.

[00:41:29]So, hold yourself in this confidence.

[00:41:32]Praise God, He's in you. Praise God, He walks in you. The Helper helps. Staying filled is not chasing a feeling. It's continual yielding to the indweller Word in your ears, worship on your lips, tongues in your mouth, obedience in your steps, and no condemnation in your heart.

[00:41:54]Do that, child of God, and you'll live full. He'll help you every day if you'll just yield.

[00:42:01]Hallelujah. Glory to God.