MAKE ROOM FOR THE HOLY SPIRIT
Zechariah 4:6
6 So he answered and said to me: "This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel: ’Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit,’ Says the Lord of hosts.
The Lord has said to me --- “make room for the Holy Spirit.”
That’s all he said!
Q: I said what do you exactly mean by that?
Don’t stick to the things you want to do…“make room for the Holy Spirit.”
The way I interpret that is…
1. Take a moment step back recognize the Holy Spirit yield to Him …
2. make yourself available to Him
Then say “Holy Spirit”…
1. If you want to say something different than I was planning on saying…
2. If you want to do something other than I was planning on doing….
3. I’m going to make some room for you right now.
That means I’m going have to change…that’s a good thing
Something about change
If you have ever tried to help change someone especially if you’re in the ministry
Maybe you have seen people… that need to change - or - wanted to change
If you’ve ever tried to help them change them it can be very frustrating
If you’re married you ever want to change your husband are wife…
You know there are just some things that are just not going to change!
It’s really beyond our ability to change them
AMEN
Then if you’ve ever seen people with problems and try to help them
about the time you think that you have the situation diagnosed
it slips into something else…
and is really not a problem you thought it was
So if you’re really trying to help somebody
Many times you come to the collusion
that you really can’t help them
in the way that they need to be helped
• Without the power of God
• Without the working of the Holy Spirit
Sometimes you can see the problem - but - you can reach it
Your resources are limited… And you can’t seem to solve the problem
Ah..
There is something about the Holy Spirit
1. where he can reach right into where the problem is
2. and change things on the inside
3. and do a work that you could never done
So…. there is tremendous value in making room for the Holy Spirit
T.T. 2 Kings 4
The Lord has said to me --- “make room for the Holy Spirit.”
Then I saw this Shunammite woman where she made room for the man of God
2 Kings 4:8-37
The story says Elisha went by her house regularly
She constrained him to come in
She recognized him as a man of God
She feed him
She asked her husband why don’t we just make room for him
Lets make a room for him
Because if we make room for him he might just turn in here
What she was saying was
Let’s facilitate him – make room for him
Facility and make room for the Holy Spirit that was in Elisha’s life
A double portion of the Holy Spirit
Sure enough when she made room for him he turned in their
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One thing that I’ve learned is that the Holy Spirit is a genius
• If you listen to him he will make you look smart…
• If you ignore him you’re going to look stupid
Not only the genius with a gentleman
As a gentleman you going to have to recognize Him
– and – yeald to him
or
he won’t even interrupt you
You have to desire him – yeald to him – make room for him
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So when she made room for him Elijah …
Elisha turned in there…and said
Because you’ve made room for me what is it that I can do for you?
1. In other words because you have made room for me
2. I’m gonna make room for you
Let me say that again
If you make room for the Holy Spirit He will make room for you
So when she made room for him
Elisha turned in there
Elisha said because you’ve taken such good care of me what is it that I can do for you?
We know that she could have a child
And Elisha said by this time next year you will have a child
In other words
When we make room for the Holy Spirit - He makes things that are impossible; possible
So…every time you make room for the Holy Spirit….
you become pregnant with something from heaven
that you could have never given birth to
He does something on the inside of you that looked impossible
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Sure enough about a year later
We know this Shunammite woman had a child
And some years later – the devil tried to steal that child - he died…
LISTEN
Never be surprised at what the devil will try to come and take from you
SO…the boy, he died…
This woman knew enough
This woman had made room for Elisha - and - the anointing in his life.
So she took her child - and - laid him in there…
She put him in the room that she had made
LISTEN
Once you make room…you can say “I know where I got my miracle from
- and - I know where I can get it back”
So…she went to the room and laid the child in there
Went and got Elisha
He cane right in the room
Got on top of the boy
And raised him from the daead
the child sneezed seven times, and the child opened his eyes.
All is well!!
All because she made room for the Holy Spirit!!
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One thing about the Holy Spirit is…..He said
Joel 2:25 (KJV)
25 And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm….
I will restore the things that has tried to mess up your life
that has tried to mess up your feature
Mess up the will of God
He will restore time, years, things the devil has stolen from you.
He will bring opportunity back up to you again
Where the devil has told you that you are too old.
He will restore where the devil has stolen
I believe that when we make room for the Holy Spirit
That He will say “by this time next year”
you will birth the things that you desire!
This year I believe God is going to bring His blessings to us
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So… we want to make room for the Holy Spirit!!
we want to make room for the Anointing!!
God will do things for you that you wouldn’t do for yourself!
Things we weren’t planning on doing!!!
All because we made room for him!!
Thank God for the Holy Spirit!!
Thank God for the moving of Holy Spirit!
Thank God for the Anointing!!
Acts 1:8 (NKJV)
8 But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you;…
make room for the Holy Spirit!!
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The Bible says…
Ephesians 5:17-18 (KJV)
17 Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is.
18 And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;
God wants us to continually make room for the Holy Spirit
So.. if our assignment is bring filled
The Bible says…
Zechariah 4:6 (KJV)
…Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the LORD of hosts.
It’s not by our accomplishments, abilities, intellect or talent…
We are going to have to yeald to the Holy Spirit!
We are going to have to make room
T.T. John 14:16
Just before Jesus went to the cross
He kept teaching on the Holy Spirit
Teaching ….you will need him!
We see Jesus teaching on the Holy Spirit
He said …. When He comes
John 14:16-17
16 And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;
17 Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
The Holy Spirit will change his address
He’s going to live in you
Your gonna have to make room for the Holy Spirit
Acts 3:19 (KJV)
19 Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord;
Acts 3:19 (AMP)
19 So repent (change your mind and purpose); turn around and return [to God], that your sins may be erased (blotted out, wiped clean), that times of refreshing (of recovering from the effects of heat, of reviving with fresh air) may come from the presence of the Lord;
Psalms 92:10 (AMP)
10 But my horn (emblem of excessive strength and stately grace) You have exalted like that of a wild ox; I am anointed with fresh oil.
1 Corinthians 2:4 (KJV)
4 And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man’s wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:
1 Corinthians 2:4 (AMP)
4 And my language and my message were not set forth in persuasive (enticing and plausible) words of wisdom, but they were in demonstration of the [Holy] Spirit and power [a proof by the Spirit and power of God, operating on me and stirring in the minds of my hearers the most holy emotions and thus persuading them],
We need to add to that that we are a Holy Spirit Church!
