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Title: Ask for the Holy Spirit.
“So I say to you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.
For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.
If a son asks for bread from any father among you, will he give him a stone?
Or if he asks for a fish, will he give him a serpent instead of a fish?
Or if he asks for an egg, will he offer him a scorpion?
If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children,
how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him!” Luke 11:9-13 NKJV.
Point of Reflection:
After believing on the Lord Jesus Christ and acknowledging Him as Lord of your life, you are made a child of God.
Your sin is forgiven, you are born again or regenerated,
You are adopted into God's household.
You are redeemed by Jesus Christ.
You are given eternal life.
This is the most privileged position of this life.
The next most significant event or experience anybody could have after that is being filled with the Holy Spirit.
It makes one to function as a child of God with power.
It changed the disciples and apostles of Jesus Christ from being weak, impotent, fearful, and carnal
individuals to being men of strong conviction, fearless, who could demonstrate the power of God with undeniable miracles.
Without the Holy Spirit the church is dead and with Him it is dynamic.
Without Him you are weak, with Him you have strong convictions.
The Holy Spirit activates the word of God within you, making it alive and real,
He guides, He teaches, He gives you the wisdom and counsel of God to apply to situations you encounter.
He gives you utterance. He is the Game Changer.
So then how do you get filled with the Holy Spirit?
First understand the Holy Spirit is given by the Father in the name of Jesus Christ. (John 14:26).
He is the Spirit of Jesus Christ.
So you need to have believed on the Lord Jesus Christ.
Secondly and as equally critical you need to set yourself apart, to consecrate yourself for God.
This is a declaration you make: I am yours Lord with all that I am and with all that I am not, I give my life to you.
In the process you need to reject, renounce and denounce every working and influence of satan and his demons in your life.
This is the other side of the same coin with consecration.
Renouncing satan and demons prevents you receiving counterfeits spirits of the enemy
which is what Jesus Christ referred to when He said "for bread give a stone", "for fish give a serpent", "for egg give a scorpion".
Scorpions at rest coil up to look like an egg yet they have a venomous sting.
These are things which look like but are not the real thing.
This is also a declaration you make: satan and your demons, I reject you in the name of Jesus Christ, you have nothing in me
and I have nothing in you from today I belong to Jesus Christ.
Thirdly you need to ask for the Holy Spirit with a seeking and knocking faith, desire and passion.
You need to hunger, thirst and yearn for the Holy Spirit. As His word says in Psalms 42:1-2"As a deer pants for the water brooks, so pants my soul for You, O God.
2 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?(NKJV)
Let your soul pant for the Holy Spirit as a deer pants for the water brooks.
Thirst after the Holy Spirit.
That is why we read in John 37:37-39: On the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink.
38 He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.”
39 But this He spoke concerning the Spirit, whom those believing in Him would receive; for the Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.
Do you desire to be filled with the Holy Spirit?
When you are ready-
Prayer for the Holy Spirit:
Heavenly Father in the name of Jesus Christ, I thank you for redemption through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the cross.
Today I acknowledge the risen Jesus Christ as Lord of my life.
I set myself apart and consecrate myself for you.
I reject, renounce and denounce every working and influence of the enemy satan and his demons upon my life.
I ask you Father in the name of Jesus Christ to fill me with your Holy Spirit right now.
I desire and seek to be filled by your Holy Spirit in the name of Jesus Christ.
You say in your word, if we being evil know how to give good gifts to our children,
how much more will you Heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to me when I ask you?
I believe multiplied many times over.
I therefore receive the abundant outpouring of your Holy Spirit upon my life in the name of Jesus Christ.
Thank you Father for hearing me.
(At this point allow the Holy Spirit to manifest tongues through your mouth and take time to speak in other tongues).....
I remember my family today and ask you to fill them by your Holy Spirit in the name of Jesus Christ.
I remember Planet Ministries and ask for the outpouring of your Holy Spirit in the name of Jesus Christ.
I remember your children across Planet Earth and ask for the outpouring of your Holy Spirit in the name of Jesus Christ.
Thank you Father for hearing me. In the name of Jesus Christ I pray. Amen.
Additional resources:
Https://planetministries.org.uk/message/needs/understandingredemption
Https://planetministries.org.uk/message/promises/characterstatureandachievement
Https://planetministries.org.uk/message/youarewitnessestothesethings
Https://planetministries.org.uk/message/yourcallingtointercede
Https://planetministries.org.uk/message/needs/righteousness
Year in Focus: With best wishes for the Year 2024, the year in which the Lord God is visiting His restless ones with an anointing that breaks the yoke of bondage of the enemy.
There is a big financial dimension to the victory for the restless ones in 2024. The yoke of poverty and financial struggles is being broken.
a) Things you need to know:
The year in which the restless ones rise up with the zeal of Almighty God to cause the spreading of the cities of Almighty God through prosperity.
Almighty God says: proclaim saying 'Thus saith the Lord of Hosts: "Iam zealous for Jerusalem with great zeal."' Zechariah 1:14
He also says: 'Thus says the Lord, "I am returning to Jerusalem with mercy; My house shall be built in it," says the Lord of Hosts,
"And a surveyor's line shall be stretched out over Jerusalem."' Zechariah 1:16. See also Zechariah 8:1-5, 12-13, 15, 21 and 23.
He goes further to say: "Again proclaim, saying, 'Thus says the Lord of hosts: "My cities shall again spread out through prosperity;
The Lord will again comfort Zion, And will again choose Jerusalem."' Zechariah 1:17.
He says: "Take the silver and gold, make an elaborate crown, and set it on the head of Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest." Zechariah 6:11.
Almighty God wants to put a crown of gold upon your head.
b) What you need to do:
1. In 2023, take away your measuring line. Do not limit what God can do for you and through you in the way you think, the way you speak and the way you act.
Do not limit the Holy One of Israel. ( Zechariah 1:1-5 )
In Psalms 78:41: His word says:Yes, again and again they tempted God,
And limited the Holy One of Israel.
Remember also Ephesians 3:20 says: He is able to do exceedingly abundantly, above all we think and ask, by the power at work within us.
2. Call with a strong conviction on the Almighty God for whom all things are possible, for whom nothing shall be impossible.
Remember His waord says in Genesis 18:10-14:
10 And He said, “I will certainly return to you according to the time of life, and behold, Sarah your wife shall have a son.”
(Sarah was listening in the tent door which was behind him.)
11 Now Abraham and Sarah were old, well advanced in age; and Sarah had passed the age of childbearing.
12 Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying, “After I have grown old, shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?”
13 And the LORD said to Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh, saying, ‘Shall I surely bear a child, since I am old?’
14 Is anything too hard for the LORD? At the appointed time I will return to you, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son.”
See also Jeremiah 32:17-22, Jeremiah 32:26-27.
In Luke 1:34-38 we read:
34 Then Mary said to the angel, “How can this be, since I do not know a man?”
35 And the angel answered and said to her, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Highest will overshadow you;
therefore, also, that Holy One who is to be born will be called the Son of God.
36 Now indeed, Elizabeth your relative has also conceived a son in her old age; and this is now the sixth month for her who was called barren.
37 For with God nothing will be impossible.”
38 Then Mary said, “Behold the maidservant of the Lord! Let it be to me according to your word.” And the angel departed from her.
See also Mark 10;27 and Matthew 19:26.
Remember the Holy Spirit will come upon you and the power of the Most High will overshadow you- to make the will of Almighty God happen in your life and in the work of the Ministry.
In Jeremiah 32:19 -21 we read that our Almighty God is great in counsel and mighty in deeds and that He brought out His people Israel from the land of Egypt with signs and wonders,
with a strong hand, and an outstretched arm and with great terror and He gave them the land that flows with milk and honey- they came in and took possession of it.
Let Him give you His counsel, let Him show you His signs and wonders, go in and take possession.
c) What you need to understand (have a revelation of):
You need to understand the following things:
1. There is in the calendar of God something called the fullness of time.
In Genesis 21:1-2 we read: 1 And the LORD visited Sarah as He had said, and the LORD did for Sarah as He had spoken.
2 For Sarah conceived and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.
2. Almighty God fulfils His promises.
In Numbers 23:19-20 we read:
19 God is not a man, that He should lie,
Nor a son of man, that He should repent.
Has He said, and will He not do?
Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good?
20 Behold, I have received a command to bless;
He has blessed, and I cannot reverse it.
In Isaiah 46:9-11 we read:
9 Remember the former things of old,
For I am God, and there is no other;
I am God, and there is none like Me,
10 Declaring the end from the beginning,
And from ancient times things that are not yet done,
Saying, My counsel shall stand,
And I will do all My pleasure,’
11 Calling a bird of prey from the east,
The man who executes My counsel, from a far country.
Indeed I have spoken it;
I will also bring it to pass.
I have purposed it;
I will also do it.
3. It has been done before-
Remember in her restlessness Rachael cried: Give me children or else I die (Genesis 30:1). God answered her prayer and she bore Joseph, who subsequently received
the portion of the first born of Israel.
In her restlessness, Hannah prayed for a male child and pledged to give him to the Lord all the days of her life. God answered her prayer and she bore Samuel,
a mighty prophet of God who was also a judge of Israel. (1 Samuel 1:11).
In her restlessness Mary Magdalene sought to find where they had laid the body of the Lord Jesus Christ and she refused to be comforted.
The Lord Jesus had to make an unscheduled visit to the tomb while on His way to the Father. The Lord Jesus Christ had to appear to Mary. (John 20:11-18).
We love you and continue to pray for you as you set yourself apart and consecrate yourself for the purposes of Almighty God on the Earth in our day.
Apostle Dr Max and Joyce Matonhodze.
Planetministries.org.uk