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Yielding To The Holy Ghost
Yielding To The Holy Ghost
TO THE
HOLY
GHOST
ROBIN F. HARMIA
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...................................................... 4
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I pray and believe this teaching book has been a
blessing to you. Now, I would like to ask you to
not only read this prayer, but pray this prayer from
God wants to fill His people with the Holy your heart right now.
Ghost. He can use anybody in the Kingdom of
God by having them minister and operate under
His anointing through the Holy Ghost. God is not
looking for people who have a certain type or
amount of education. It does not take special
qualifications, laws, rituals or following certain
rules to operate under the anointing of the Holy
Ghost.
God is looking for yielded vessels He can flow
His anointing through. He is looking for your
availability. He wants you to allow the Holy
Ghost to flow through you to do whatever He
wants.
In this book, I will explain how to yield to the Name_______________________________
Holy Ghost, the importance of yielding to the Holy
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Ghost and how to flow in the Spirit. It is my
prayer for every person reading this book to learn
to yield and flow in the Spirit of God. God has
wonderful things for the body of Christ to share
with each other and the world. He can only use
you, if you know how to and are willing to yield to
the Holy Ghost.
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to minister to you. God wants to lay hands on you.
He will lay hands on you, but you must yield to the
Chapter 1
Holy Ghost. GOD CAN USE ANY
PERSON WHO IS
YIELDED
God wants you to stay full of the Holy Ghost.
The only way you can stay full of the Holy Ghost
is by drinking of God’s Spirit on a regular basis.
God can use any person who will yield to His
Spirit. He wants to use you in the Kingdom of
God. He is not looking for special qualifications
or education. He is not looking for a degree
hanging on the wall. He is looking for your
availability. He just wants you to yield to Him and
flow with His Spirit. Just allow the Holy Spirit to
flow through you to do whatever He wants.
A good example of two people flowing in the
Holy Ghost in the Bible were Peter and John.
They were both very aware of the Holy Ghost and
let Him flow in and through them.
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Holy Ghost, who do not have a High School Spirit. The Holy Ghost will guide you.
diploma. They open up their hearts to the flow of Everything you need is inside of you. Just let it
the Holy Spirit and let Him work through them. come out.
You don’t need a degree to flow with the Spirit.
I used to think I did not have a High School THE FIRST STEP
diploma. A few months ago, I found out I did IS TO ACCEPT JESUS
have one. God really doesn’t care if you have a
diploma or not. He is just looking for willing If you have never accepted Jesus Christ in your
people He can flow through. heart to be your Lord and Savior, you need to take
the first step. Jesus loves you right where you are.
HOOK UP AND FLOW He wants you to accept Him.
If you have never been baptized with the Holy
God can use any person. He is looking for Ghost with the evidence of speaking with other
availability. When you are flowing in the Holy tongues, He wants to baptize you with the Holy
Ghost, people will take notice of God’s knowledge Ghost. He wants to give you this free gift.
flowing through you. They will pay attention to If you are not right with God because you are
what you are saying because you start speaking backsliding, you need to come back home and get
with a boldness flowing in the Spirit of God. back in the Word of God. He loves you right
When you are flowing in the Spirit, you start doing where you are. He will restore you back into the
the things God wants you to do, without relationship of His family.
reservations or thinking about what people are If you have never accepted Jesus as your Lord
going to say or do about what is happening. You and Savior, or not filled with the Holy Ghost with
are not concerned with what other people think evidence of speaking in tongues or not in the right
because you are hooked up with heaven. relationship with God, you need to pray the prayer
God wants you to hook up in the flow of the on the last page of this book.
Spirit. He wants you to hook up to the place in My prayer for you is for God to fill you with
His Spirit where you will become totally the Holy Ghost. May He be allowed to reach into
intoxicated by the Spirit of God. He wants you to your heart and soften it. I pray He helps you to
allow the Spirit of God to take over you know He loves you. God wants to use you, by you
completely. yielding to His Holy Ghost. By being drunk in the
The Spirit of God is constantly trying to get you Spirit of God, He can minister to you. There is not
to the place where you will yield all the way to the always going to be a man or minister around to lay
Holy Ghost. He wants you to constantly yield to hands on you. The Holy Ghost is always around
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are worried about if you can sing or not, remember the Spirit of God and do what the Spirit of God
God doesn’t care. I usually don’t sing in a service wants, instead of what you want. He is constantly
unless I am totally intoxicated with the Holy trying to move you from the realm of the natural
Ghost. I have been told my singing in the natural and the flesh, over to the spiritual realm of doing
is like a hound dog howling. However, when I am what the Holy Ghost wants. When you start
under the Holy Ghost, I sing pretty well. I get moving in the Spiritual realm instead of the natural
loose in the Spirit because I am drunk and don’t realm, you will become so intoxicated and free,
care what people think about me. you will realize you and God are a majority.
God is speaking to us all the time. He will tell
you the direction of the service before you arrive WE HAVE ALL
so you can be prepared to let Him flow in and BEEN MADE TO DRINK
through you. God is speaking all the time through
the Holy Ghost, but often our hearts don’t listen. “For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one
He isn’t going to speak a word without you body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether
knowing it and yielding to Him. we be bond or free; and have been all made to
In this day and age, you really need to learn to drink into one Spirit.” I Corinthians 12:13
yield to the Holy Ghost. As a Christian, you must (KJV)
spend time with Him and let Him guide you.
You need to flow with Him. If you have received God wants everyone to drink into one Spirit.
something from the Holy Ghost, you need to give You say, “Pastor, what Spirit is He talking about?”
it. Don’t be afraid. Yielding to the Holy Ghost is He is talking about drinking and being baptized
the only way you learn how to do it. He will give into the Spirit of the Holy Ghost.
you the boldness and assurance, when you yield to When you are drinking of the Holy Ghost,
Him. which is the Spirit of God, He causes the Spirit of
Often when the Holy Ghost starts speaking to God to flow out of you. The body of Christ needs
people, they become afraid. You need to get to get intoxicated with the Spirit of God, so they
intoxicated with Him, then let Him flow. If you can yield easier to the Spirit of God.
are yielding to the Holy Ghost, it will be Him God wants you to get out of your head and
speaking through you. Get drunk and loose in the operate out of your spirit. God wants you to get
Holy Ghost. The hardest thing is to step out and out of your thinking and hook up with Him in your
be used by God before the devil puts fear in you. spirit. This is why He will baptize you with one
Jump into the river of living waters. You need Spirit, His Holy Ghost.
to get outside of yourself. You need to yield to the
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YOU HAVE BEEN given to the church ,before you leave the service.”
GIVEN ONE SPIRIT Throughout the entire service, the Holy Ghost
has not been allowed to move. With a tight
God gives you one Spirit when you get born- schedule for the service, the people cannot be used
again into the kingdom of heaven. You don’t get a by God. The Holy Ghost must be free to flow in
new spirit when you get filled with the Holy Ghost the service, in His timing, not man’s. People need
and speak in other tongues. You already have to get loose, so the Holy Ghost can flow.
been given the Spirit of God. You need to realize People should come to church filled with the
what He has given to you. Holy Ghost. They should come ready to give
We are all made to drink from one Spirit. That tongues, interpretations, prophesies, sing hymns,
one Spirit will cause us to become intoxicated, be psalms and spiritual songs. When the Holy Ghost
changed and to become bold. God wants us to is allowed to move, it will be a positive service of
become all that He wants us to be by letting the flowing between interpretations and the Word of
Holy Ghost flow through us. God.
You need to understand flowing in the Spirit
with the order of the Holy Ghost. He will move in,
around and through the service, if there is order in
following His flow. He knows the situation in the
church right now. He will manifest the revelation
of what should be done, if He is allowed to flow in
the service.
BE A LOOSE DRUNK
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the Holy Ghost. If no one knows the flow of the
Spirit of God, it can get things out of the order of
Chapter 2
Holy Spirit. BECOMING WHAT
The Pastor and the leaders of the church should
know the order of the Spirit of God before it GOD WANTS YOU TO BE
happens. The Pastor is responsible for the flow of
the Spirit of God. He is responsible to know what God wants you to become all He says you can
direction the Holy Ghost will flow in the service, become. You say, “How am I going to do that?”
before he gets behind the pulpit. This means he You are not going to do it by taking a piece of
can keep order in the service and let the Holy paper, writing on the blackboard or trying to figure
Ghost have freedom to move among the people. out how your destiny is going to come out. Your
Do you realize most ministers are out of the destiny is not going to be the destiny you think, if
order of the flow of the Holy Ghost, when they you are operating in the natural. The only way you
step behind the pulpit? They are not hooked up will know your destiny is by the Spirit.
with interrupting the flow of the Spirit. This is The Spirit of God has a different destiny for
why things like miracles, tongues or prophecy you than what your natural mind could ever think
never happen in their services. They have their possible. He is going to take you to a higher mind
programs to follow on a strict schedule. They sing level, than you ever dreamed possible. You will
five songs, have the offertory, then one song and do more with your life than you ever expected.
finally everyone sits down for a 20 minute sermon God will accomplish this in you, when you are
followed by a short benediction.. willing to yield to the Sprit of God inside of you
Sometimes, they might even have an alter call by allowing the river of God to flow out of you.
for anybody who really “needs” help. Most of the God wants to take the body of Christ into the
time they don’t want to bother the people because realm of being filled with the Holy Ghost and
the service must be over at a certain time. They letting Him flow through each and every person.
say, “We have closed the service, but if you He wants them to flow in His Spirit and yield to
“really” need prayer, you can come forward and a what He wants them to do from the Spirit, not
someone will pray for you. If you “need” from their head.
salvation, someone will minister to you, but we People can always be talked out of the will of
don’t time to do it during the service. Just make God by their natural mind. It is not logical to do
sure you put your offering beside the person next the things God wants you to do by your natural
to you, before you come up front to be ministered mind. The things of the Spirit are spiritually
to. That person can make sure your offering is discerned and not understood by the natural carnal
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mind. not understand what or why something is done, but
you need to let Him lead you. When the Holy
6 “For to be carnally minded is death; but to Ghost was leading me at Bible School, I didn’t
be spiritually minded is life and peace.” understand it, but I was willing to submit to His
7 “Because the carnal mind is enmity against guidance and order of doing things.
God: for it is not subject to the law of God,
neither indeed can be.” THERE IS ORDER IN
8 “So then they that are in the flesh cannot FOLLOWING THE HOLY GHOST
please God.” Romans 8:6-8 (KJV)
People have asked me, “When is the proper
ONLY SPIRITUALLY time to interpret what the Holy Ghost is revealing
MINDED PEOPLE UNDERSTAND to me?” My answer is always the same. You must
understand the leadings of the Holy Ghost as well
The Spirit of God flowing out of you can only as His order of doing things.
be understood by a spiritually minded person. God The Bible clearly tells you the proper place and
will use the Holy Ghost to flow out of you. He time to interpret. If you don’t understand the book
will give you instruction, details and show you of I Corinthians 14, you can misunderstand the
how to accomplish the things He wants order and timing of God. God has shown you in
accomplished. His Word the proper order to follow, but it is not
It is time for the body of Christ to flow in a new all collated together in one setting. Each verse fits
wave of the Spirit. We are all made to drink of something else into the order of God.
one Spirit and it doesn’t matter your education.
I have heard preachers say, “If you don’t have a 27 “If any many speak in an unknown tongue,
degree, you will never get anywhere.” That is not let it be by two, or at the most by three, and
a true statement. that by course; and let one interpret.”
Kenneth Hagin never had a degree. He has 28 “But if there be no interpreter, let him keep
done pretty well working with and through the silence in the church; and let him speak to
Holy Ghost. As far as I know, he has never had a himself, and to God.” I Corinthians 14:27-28
degree, but has been used mightily by God. Do (KJV)
you know what he has? He has a Holy Ghost
degree. The Bible says, “If there be no interpreter…”
When you get a Holy Ghost degree, you learn It doesn’t say someone else must interpret the
from the Holy Ghost. With the Holy Ghost as tongues spoken. You must understand the flow of
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the Holy Ghost. Understanding the flow of the your teacher, there is no better teaching or
Holy Ghost may sound like a simple thing, but schooling. He has the highest degree because it is
unless the Holy Ghost can operate in the simple coming from God.
things, you are not going to let Him operate or No man can take you out of what the Holy
move in the more complex things. Ghost has taught you. This is where God wants to
I thank God for the good Pastor I had when I take each person. He wants to take you to the
went I went to Bible School. He taught the church school of the Spirit. He does not want you to
how to flow in the Holy Ghost. When I went to attend the school of the flesh or the carnal mind.
school, I learned how to operate in the Holy Ghost He wants to impart to you and through you things
and listen to the Spirit of God. of God flowing out of your Spirit.
I would arrive at a service, but never be used in
that service by God. I would know everything that HOLY GHOST INVENTIONS
was going to happen during the service. At first it
would puzzled me. There are things that have not been invented
On Sunday morning, the Pastor stood behind that are going to needed before Jesus comes back.
the pulpit and said, “There are some people in the The way we are going to receive those inventions
service today who have been praying to be used by is through the Spirit. God is going to place in your
God. They are called into the five-fold ministry, heart the ideas for the inventions. You will not be
but may never be used while they are in this able to do them in the natural, but you can do them
church, in the operations of what God speaks to by the Spirit. When the Spirit reveals the
and through them. They know how to interpret the invention to you, it will bless the whole body of
flow of the Spirit of God, so they will know when Christ and the world. You will have prosperity
God leads them to do what He says to do.” coming into your household because of God’s
Several days before the Pastor said that, I knew blessing and your willingness to flow in the Holy
what he was talking about. The Holy Ghost had Ghost.
told me what was going to happen. I thought, God will not reveal the invention to you in the
“Man, that was just for me.” It may have been for natural, but by His Spirit. You are not gong to do
everyone else too, but I knew it was for me. I had them in the natural. You are not going to get it by
not known why I knew what the Pastor would say sitting down and trying to make your mind figure
before he said it, but now the answer to my out how you can create an idea. It is going to
questions had been revealed. come out of your spirit. One way it is going to
There is an order to following the leadings of happen is by you getting and staying filled with the
the Holy Ghost. Sometimes you may not Spirit of God. You need to stay constantly with
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the things of God. You need to be filled with
God, in the Word of God, in the presence of God
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and constantly going after God. LET IT FLOW,
LET IT FLOW
It is time for the body of Christ to come to the
place of understanding the timing of the Holy
Ghost in a service. People need to see the
manifestations of the Holy Ghost. Before they can
see the manifestations, they need to see the rivers
flowing out of them. People need to see things
operating out of them like never before. They
need to see and understand what is happening in
the local church, when the Holy Ghost is present.
God wants to move on His people. We are not
going to see the miracles, if we don’t see tongues
and interpretations in the church. We are not
going to see miracles, if we don’t see prophesies
coming forth in the church.
People say, “I want to see the working of
miracles in operation in the church.” You can’t
see those things because you are not growing up
with the maturity of the Holy Ghost.
The church has to have the fullness of God and
the development of the Spirit before the
interpretations can come out of individuals to flow
as gifts of the Spirit. Yielding to the Spirit and
allowing Him to operate through the gift of
healings and the working of miracles, can only
happen when the people are yielding and obeying
the Holy Ghost.
Most churches do not operate with the flow of
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have been told by the Holy Ghost to release the
revelation of knowledge you have received.
Chapter 3
THEY WERE ALL FILLED
“If any thing be revealed to another that sitteth
by, let the first hold his peace.” I Corinthians 2 “And suddenly there came a sound from
14:30 (KJV) heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled
all the house where they were sitting.”
People need to judge when the proper time is 4 “And they were all filled with the Holy
for them to reveal what God has given to them. Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues,
Most people don’t like judging. They don’t like as the Spirit gave them utterance.”
anything being judged because they think it might Acts 2:2, 4 (KJV)
be against them. It is just against being right or
not, when you learn to follow the leadings of the The Bible says, “They were all filled...”
Holy Ghost. It is a lost art in the body of Christ. Everyone received the infilling of the Holy Ghost
Christians need to learn to operate in the right because they were willing vessels. They were
order of the gifts of the Spirit. There is a proper yielding to receiving the Holy Ghost.
order to the way the Holy Ghost wants things done You must yield to God. You cannot yield an
in a service. It is the act of the Holy Ghost taking empty vessel for God’s service. If you don’t stay
something out of our hearts as He says something in the presence of God, in the Word of God, get
to us. We are to project it to the people through an tanked up on God by worshipping Him and getting
utterance in another tongue or in a known tongue hooked up with Him, you are not going to be able
to cause the person’s heaviness to be lifted up, to operate in the things of God.
burdens to be broken or to encourage people to People may wonder, “How did that person
hook up to what the Preacher is about to say. The become so filled with the Holy Ghost? Why does
Holy Ghost wants to cause the anointing to be that person act the way they do under the
increased to a higher level among His people. anointing? How did they get under the anointing
and Spirit of God? How do I get the Spirit of God
to come upon me? How does Holy Ghost come
upon anybody?”
The answer to all of these questions is “turn
your head off and hook up to the Spirit of God.”
The Spirit of God comes upon you by the unction
of the Holy Ghost. He gives you the words to
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speak out of the gospel, the uncompromising GOD WANTS TO USE US
Words that flow out of your heart with boldness.
God wants to flow something out of us. He
STAY HOOKED UP wants to flow joy and edification out of us to build
up the body of Christ. He wants us to be able to
Many times people wonder how they will sing psalms, hymns and spiritual songs in the
receive the Word of Wisdom or Knowledge. They church unto the Lord to build ourselves up. He
want to know how it operates and how they can wants us to be used like we have never been used
receive the gifts. The main way a person can before.
receive is to turn off their head (carnal thinking) Once we start yielding over to the Holy Ghost
and hook up with the Spirit of God, through the in the area of letting Him flow joy and edification
Holy Ghost. out of us, He will start using us in the Word of
When you hook up to the things of the Spirit, Knowledge, the Word of Wisdom, tongues or
heaven starts to stir things in your heart and tongues with interpretation.
reveals things for you to say and witness to others. God is going to start you at the lowest level so
He will speak through you the words He wants you you will learn to walk and flow with Him. Every
to tell other people in the service. Sometimes the Christian should be able to give a tongue,
Holy Ghost will ask you not to reveal His message interpretation or a prophecy. If God is living
to a certain person until you are in private with that inside of you, you should be able to do it.
individual. The only way you will know when the
proper time to reveal what the Holy Ghost has told YOU NEED TO JUDGE
you, is to stay hooked up to the Spirit of God. UNDER HIS GUIDANCE
You must stay hooked up to heaven at all times.
It is not a one time event. You must take hold of When you come to church and someone gives a
His presence, get full of His presence and stay full. tongue, you need to hook up with them right away.
There are many times you need to be refilled by The Holy Ghost will let you know if the tongue is
the Holy Ghost. Just because you were full of the of Him or of the flesh. He will also give you the
Holy Ghost and His presence once, doesn’t mean interpretation of what was said. You do need to
you will continually remain filled, if you do not realize although the Holy Ghost may have given
seek Him daily. you the interpretation, you have to wait to see if
Sometimes Christians say things to others when the person who has the tongues has the
the Holy Ghost does not want the words spoken. interpretation. The Bible says if one person gets
The words revealed to you may only be a Word of something, you are to hold your peace until you
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different times, as the Spirit wills. I can’t make it Knowledge to be used at a later date or to remind
happen. I can’t conjure it up. I am not going to try you to pray for the individual.
to even make it happen.
Once at a Bible Study home meeting, I felt led YOU DON’T HAVE TO
to give a Word of Knowledge to a young girl and DEFEND YOUR BELIEFS
young man at the meeting. I called them out and
asked them to stand in front of me. As they were When you believe in something with your
standing in front of me, I could see everything whole heart, you don’t have to defend your beliefs.
very clearly. It was like watching a movie. I saw An example of that type of situation could be if
them committing adultery. I could even see the someone walked up to you and said something that
place, time and everything where it had happened. “popped your bubble” concerning prosperity.
I had never had such a clear vision of the Word of They asked, “You believe in prosperity, don’t you?
Knowledge before. If you believe it, then why are you not living in
I thought I was supposed to give this what you believe?” Your first reaction might be to
information to them in front of everyone. The defend your beliefs in prosperity and the Bible.
young man looked like he wanted to kill me. The You don’t have to defend yourself, when you
Bible Study home meeting happened to be in the believe in something. Just live it. You don’t need
parent’s home of the young girl. I am sure the to be sorry someone said something against your
parents wanted to kill me too, but they didn’t say a beliefs. You don’t have to put up a battle, argue or
word. defend what you believe.
Everything I told the young girl and the young You say, “Well, I am going to fight you over
man was 100% the truth, but I was totally wrong to my beliefs.” You don’t have to fight because you
have told them the way I did. I missed listening to have already won, when you are speaking the
the Holy Ghost tell me the time and place to give Word of God under the direction of the Holy
the young people the “word” from God. Ghost. People speaking unbelief are the losers.
I totally missed it. Everyone misses it
sometimes. Sometimes God tells us things for our YIELD TO GOD’S SPIRIT
knowledge, but He is not ready for us to share the INSIDE OF YOU
information with the individual. We have to flow
with God in His timing. He wants to lead and You are to stay full of God by yielding to the
guide us, but we have to yield to the Holy Ghost Spirit, love of God inside of you and the will of
and wait for His timing before we take action to do God for your life. Let the Spirit of God inside of
something. you, have control of your life, action, words and
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deeds. the time, when I am on travel. I can speak under
You can stop the Spirit of God and keep Him the anointing because I am willing to yield to the
from moving and controlling you. The Bible says Holy Ghost and let Him flow in and through me.
the love of God restrains us, but the love of God As I yield to the Spirit, I can receive the flow of
doesn’t restrain a lot of people who are not filled. God to move me by the Spirit.
God wants us to move with the Spirit. The
“But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is more God moves in the church, the more you are
the love of God perfected: hereby know we that going to be able to move outside the church. You
we are in him.” I John 2:5 (KJV) will have more confidence with the Holy Ghost,
when He leads you.
We need to be yielding to the full potential
God has for us. God wants us to walk in the steps THE HOLY GHOST WON’T HURT YOU
of the ministry He has chosen for us. In order to
walk in the full potential of that ministry, we must You need to realize the Holy Ghost is not going
stay yielded to what He is saying and let Him to hurt you, when He has you do something. He is
direct and guide our words and actions. We need not going to make you do something you don’t
to let Him give and reveal His ideas for us to do. want to do. You will know in your heart what the
He wants to pull things out of us. Holy Ghost is doing. It is up to you, if you want to
follow Him.
17 “If any man will do his will, he shall know of Some people say, “Well, I just had to give my
the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I money because the Holy Ghost made me do it. I
speak of myself.” couldn’t control my actions.” That is not true.
18 “He that speaketh of himself seeketh his The Holy Ghost does not make do anything
own glory: but he that seeketh his glory that against your will.
sent him, the same is true, and no
unrighteousness is in him.” John 7:17-18 “And the spirits of the prophets are subject to
(KJV) the prophets.” I Corinthians 14:32 (KJV)
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understanding also.” Chapter 4
“Else when thou shalt bless with the spirit, how
shall he that occupieth the room of the YOU SHOULD BE
unlearned say Amen at thy giving of thanks,
seeing he understandeth not what thou sayest?” DRUNK
I Corinthians 14:15-16 (KJV)
You need to be singing in the Spirit. You don’t Do you know you can get drunk in the Holy
have to wonder if you can do it, because you can. Ghost? Many people get drunk in the natural, but
You should come to church without your you can get drunk in the Spirit of the Holy Ghost.
personal doctrines. You need to let the Holy I am not placing the importance on being
Ghost flow in and through you. You should come drunk. Being drunk is just a manifestation of the
with a tongue and interpretation and be ready to inner work of the Holy Ghost over flowing inside
give it to the church. You should always come of you. What is inside you, will affect the outward
with something to give. man. If the Holy Ghost is not showing affects on
Sometimes people come to church with your outward man, then whatever is inside of you
something to give, but it is from the flesh, not the is dead. The life of God wants to spring out of
Spirit of God. For example, Sister Bucket Mouth your inner man. The life of God is not flowing out
may be running around the church gossiping about of your natural or flesh man. The life of God
everybody. Brother Do Dad may say he has a flows out of your inner spiritual man.
word of knowledge, but it is the same “word” I was born-again at the age of seven years old.
spoken at every service. People heard it the first I never knew what it meant to be filled and get
time. God hooks up with what is going on in each drunk with the Holy Ghost, until I was twenty-five
service. If we are listening to our spirit, He will years old. At that time, I was baptized with the
nudge it and use us. Holy Ghost and my life took on a new meaning
I go to a church I love dearly, but it has trouble and direction.
flowing with the Holy Ghost. The leadership When God had me open the Bible, I started
won’t let the church operate the way it needs to reading it. The Holy Ghost taught me to
because they have established their doctrine under understand what the Bible said. Prior to that time,
a wrong Word. It is hard to operate in the gifts of I did not understand what the Bible was really
the Word, while sitting in this tiny church because saying. For over eighteen years, I never
of their doctrines. understood the Bible. It was by God’s grace I
I have the operation of the gifts of the Word all made it from day to day.
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If I had known then what I know now, I would
be much farther along in the ministry and doing
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the things God wants me to do. I had plenty of YOU MUST
time in my younger years to fulfill everything God
wanted me to do, but I needed to yield to God’s YIELD
direction. I needed to yield to the Holy Ghost. I
didn’t know anything before I hooked up with the
Holy Ghost. How are you going to be filled with the Holy
Ghost, if you are not yielding to the Spirit? God
THE SPIRIT WILL NOT wants you to get out of your mind and come to the
FORCE YOU TO CHANGE place where you can minister to others. God wants
you to walk in His maturity.
The Spirit inside of me, never made me change. Many people come to the church to be
The Holy Ghost does not use force to change a ministered to and receive a blessing. It is good to
person. He is a gentleman. He wants you to yield receive, but God wants you to go beyond just
to Him and let the Spirit of God move and guide receiving. He wants you to minister His Word
you. outside of yourself to others. He wants you to be a
Several people tried to convince me to become river of living water flowing from Him to flow to
a Mormon or a Jehovah Witness. I would invite others.
the people to come into my home, but instead of The only way you can become a blessing to
them convincing me to change, the Holy Ghost others is to yield to the Holy Ghost. You need to
inside of me would be bold and get them filled get hooked up with God and become a blessing to
with His presence. They didn’t like me. When I somebody else. The way you become hooked up
was first saved, I knew enough about salvation to to God is to start doing what God says in His
scare them. I didn’t know much about the Word of Word. Don’t look for God to always come to you
God, but the Holy Ghost would guide me every with the Holy Ghost. You need to yield and reach
step of the way. out to God.
When I first was saved, I didn’t realize the Holy
Ghost was at work on the inside of me. One BE READY TO GIVE SOMETHING
afternoon I was sitting on my couch in my living
room, when several Mormons came to visit me. I “What is it then? I will pray with the spirit,
preached Jesus to them and they were and I will pray with the understanding also: I
flabbergasted. They wanted to jump up and run will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the
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We need to become more effective in the out of my house, but I wanted to preach the Word
church. today. God wants us to be a blessing of God to them. I said, “If you want to leave, it is
inside the church, as well as outside the church. OK with me, but do you realize you are going to
We need to come in the church filled with the hell?” I didn’t know what I was doing. I was just
Holy Ghost and be ready to give as well as receive following the leadings of the Holy Ghost inside of
from God. me.
The Mormon people continued to come to my
LOSE YOUR PRIDE OR DIE home for a long time to convince me to become a
Mormon. I would not become a Mormon because
People need to get intoxicated with the Holy I had found the church of the living God and was
Ghost in church, so they can lose their pride. born into it. I had become a brand new person on
There is so much spiritual pride in the church that the inside.
it needs to be knocked out. People are prideful You need to be filled with the Holy Ghost and
about being a Christian. They can quote the Word become a new creature in Jesus Christ. You need
of God from Genesis to Revelations, but they don’t to become what the Holy Ghost wants you to
live it. become. The only way you can accomplish this is
Scripture pride is judged faster than natural to yield to the Spirit of God.
pride. God doesn’t like Spiritual pride. He will The Holy Ghost is constantly trying to nudge
put judgment on you in this lifetime. When you us to yield to Him. He wants us to yield over to
have natural pride, God will let you continue to the operation of the Spirit of God, instead of our
walk in it until the day you go home, if it is not head and our own thinking. When we yield to the
hurting you or others. However, spiritual pride Holy Ghost, things run a lot smoother in our lives
will be killed and God will take you home and we effect more people to come to the Lord.
prematurely.
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Chapter 5 YOU CAN’T MAKE THE
HOLY GHOST MANIFEST
RIVERS SHOULD
Sometimes, people do not see the move of the
FLOW OUT OF YOU Holy Ghost because they are not willing to yield
themselves to the Holy Ghost. I have known
37 “In the last day, that great day of the feast, several ministers who operated similar to Rodney
Jesus stood and cried, saying, ‘If any man Howard Brown, but they were not filled with the
thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.” Holy Ghost and yielding to Him. They would try
38 “He that believeth on me, as the scripture to make the Holy Ghost manifest Himself to the
hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of people, but it would not happen. You can’t make
living water.” John 7:37-38 (KJV) the Holy Ghost “just” happen. You can only do
what the Holy Ghost wants to do.
The Bible says, “Out of his belly shall flow The manifestation of the Holy Ghost is given as
rivers of living water.” Something should be He sees fit, not as we see fit. The anointing
flowing out of you. It should not be bad things. manifest as He wills, not as we will. Sometimes
Sweet and bitter water cannot come out of the the Holy Ghost is not manifesting because the
same vessel. hearts of the people are not willing to yield to Him.
Sometimes the Holy Ghost will want
10 “Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing instructions and teachings about Him given to the
and cursing. My brethren, these things ought people, before He will manifest. When people do
not so to be.” not understand the moves and manifestation of the
11 “Doth a fountain send forth at the same Holy Ghost, they will not yield to Him. Often
place sweet water and bitter?” James 3:10-11 instructions about the Holy Ghost must come first
(KJV) in a service, before He can manifest. The Holy
Ghost wants to fall on the people and help them to
God wants only one water to flow out of our grow, but the people must be yielded to Him.
insides. He wants us to be filled with His heavenly People’s lives are not going to change unless
water, until we overflow with it on the outside of they yield to the Holy Ghost. Without instruction,
us. it doesn’t matter how much the Holy Ghost falls,
When bitter water flows out of our inter most He cannot help you grow. God wants to take you
being, it is because we are operating in the carnal, beyond laughter and get intoxicated by the Spirit
natural, flesh realm of our lives. We are operating of God.
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They fall on their face and get up from the floor a out of our natural minds.
changed person. When sweet water flows from heaven out of
our inner most being, we are yielding to the Holy
THE HOLY GHOST Ghost inside of us. He can develop, train and
DOESN’T DO THE SAME mold us to become all God wants us to become in
THING ALL THE TIME this life. Now, we can be used for revival on the
earth.
Being changed doesn’t happen all the time. The only way for revival to happen on the earth
You must want the Holy Ghost to change your life. today is to have the Holy Ghost flowing out of His
If a person is just coming to the service to get people. It is not going to happen any other way.
drunk, they have missed the purpose of the Holy The Holy Ghost is not going to kick you into
Ghost falling on them. If you are coming for God heaven. He wants to mold, change and work on
to fall on you by yielding yourselves and you. He wants to use you here, on earth.
submitting to Him, you will step into His glory and
move to a higher level. The Holy Ghost will FEAR STOPS THE FLOW
change your life, when you yield to Him.
The Holy Ghost doesn’t do the same thing all The Bible says, “Out of his belly shall flow
the time. He moves in different ways in different rivers of living water.” Out of you, something
services and through different people. You must should be flowing. Do you know why people
yield to the move of the Holy Ghost. don’t get drunk in the Holy Ghost? It is because
Often the Holy Ghost will fall on a person and they are afraid they are going to act different than
the anointing will start to flow out of the person in normal and lose control of themselves. They fear
a great way. A wonderful example of the Holy someone might laugh at them.
Ghost flowing through a person is Rodney Howard When you are drunk in the Holy Ghost,
Brown. He is filled with the Holy Ghost and stays someone might laugh with you, but they will not
under the anointing. He allows the Holy Ghost to be laughing at you.
move in and through him through out his entire Many times a person will observe another
service. Although the anointing is on him, the person laughing in the Spirit. The joy of laughter
Holy Ghost doesn’t always move the same way in comes upon them, but they are not really drunk in
every service. Rodney Howard Brown must the Holy Ghost themselves. They are only
continually stay yielded to the flow of the Holy laughing with the person who is drunk.
Ghost. Sometimes they think God is blessing them, but
they are most likely only receiving the overflow.
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The person who is drunk and laughing is really thanks to God the Father, through the Holy Ghost.
flowing with the Holy Ghost. They can’t hardly When you are speaking psalm, hymns or
get up or function. The joy of God is flowing out singing spiritual songs, you might be correcting
of them. your outward man. Often when you let the Holy
Many times everybody else is just getting the Ghost flow through you, the outward man in your
overflow because they are laughing with them. mind realizes you have to let go of something.
They usually are not laughing at them, but some This is good correction. It is not a rebuke. It is
people may be. Usually a person laughing at correcting you or reminding you of what you
someone does not understand the way the Holy already know.
Ghost operates through a person under the God will not rebuke anybody in a public
anointing. assembly. He only rebukes you in your personal
A person flowing in the Holy Ghost and acting life. He wants to take you to another level of the
drunk may seem to be acting strange in front of spirit.
you and me. If you haven’t seen anyone get that
loose before or if you have never been that loose BEING DRUNK WILL
before, you may have trouble understanding the CHANGE YOUR LIFE
drunk person and their actions.
Often Christians who do not understand You need to get drunk in the Spirit of God in
flowing with the Holy Ghost, become offended order to go to another level. You need the
when someone gets drunk in the Spirit. They say, intoxication of the Spirit. When you are drunk in
“I am not going to act the way that person is acting the Holy Ghost, it will change your life.
on the floor!” If they understood how the Holy I knew of a lady who was drunk in the Holy
Ghost operated, they would become loose and Ghost for nine days. She was totally changed from
yielded to the Spirit. The reason people don’t act that day forth in her entire life. Her husband said
the way the Holy Ghost is leading them is because it was like getting a new wife. She was completely
they are not sure they are really in the Spirit. different because of her experience with the Holy
Ghost.
GOD IS NOT A TICKLE OR AN ITCH When you are drunk with Holy Ghost’s
spiritual wine, it will change your life. It is God
Sometimes people have fear when they think flowing in and out of your entire being. He is
they might hear from heaven. I believe about taking you to a higher level.
99% of all Christians don’t hear from heaven. Over the years of my ministry, I have seen
They hear from their flesh. They feel a tickle or an hundreds of people get filled with the Holy Ghost.
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itch and think it is the Holy Ghost speaking to
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LET CHRIST sweet and think God is talking to them. Most of
the time, God is not itching their ears or tickling
DWELL IN YOU them. They are trying to receive from the Holy
Ghost by means of the flesh.
Most of the time when God is talking to a
person, He is straightening them out. He is
15 “And let the peace of God rule in your showing them the errors or their ways and trying to
hearts, to the which also ye are called in one turn their hearts towards Him. He does not itch
body and be ye thankful.” your ear, if you are tempted. He straightens you
16 “Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly out. God speaks plain so you will understand what
in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one He is saying to you.
another in psalms and hymns and spiritual When God is speaking to you directly, you
songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the don’t have to say, “Well, I wonder what that
Lord.” Colossians 3:15-16 (KJV) meant? Was I hearing from God?” Some people
go so far as to say, “I see an ice cream cone. This
The key is to let the Word of Christ dwell in must be a message from God. I wonder what an
you richly in all wisdom. You have to be full of
ice cream cone meant”
the Holy Ghost in order to accomplish it. God doesn’t speak to you through an ice cream
Something has to be flowing out of you and it is
cone. He talks directly to you. The ice cream
the river of the living water from God. cone meant nothing. It just tempted you.
You need to be teaching and admonishing one
Sometimes people get in the flesh and think God is
another. The word “admonishing” has nothing to speaking to them through natural items and things.
do with correction. It does not mean to give a
God wants to speak to you directly.
person a “piece of your mind” when you have a People have come to me and said, “I had a
disagreement with them.
vision. Can you give me an interpretation?”
When you are operating in the Holy Ghost and Before I even have a moment to answer them, they
admonishing one another in the sanctuary, you are
start telling me their vision. For the next thirty
singing in the Spirit in psalms, hymns and spiritual minutes they go into great details about their
songs with grace in your heart to the Lord. vision. Finally they ask, “Do you know what my
You do not have to be in a public assembly to vision means?”
sing to the Lord. Whatever you do in the Word or I answer the person and say, “Yes, I can tell
deed, you honor the name of the Lord by giving
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you the meaning of the vision. It means nothing Ghost to enter into your life. He wants to be used
because you don’t have the understanding of it. If by you, but He can only flow out of you, if you
God is giving you a vision, He will give you the allow Him to flow into you. You must allow the
interpretation.” Holy Ghost to escape your lips by speaking
When God gives you something, you are going psalms, hymn and spiritual songs. You are to be
to understand it. You don’t have to run around singing the Word of God.
looking for somebody to tell you the meaning of it. When you learn to let the Holy Ghost flow
If God shows you a vision, He is going to give you through you by singing and speaking the Word of
the meaning of it, not someone else. God, you will discover you can also do it in the
Sometimes people think God has given them Spirit. By letting the Holy Ghost use you, will
the only eyes of understanding. They feel they are cause the church services to jump to a higher level.
the only people God talks through. Some people God wants to do more than you could ever dream
believe they are prophets. A prophet has been of in the service.
called by God and will operate in the prophetic God wants to mature you and the church. He
gifts and calling. They will do the prophet’s wants you to walk in the Spirit and hear from
business. Not everyone is called to be a prophet. heaven. He wants you listening to Him. He wants
You should have something flowing out of you. you to yield your spirit to the Holy Ghost inside of
The Bible says, “Out of his belly shall flow you. You can be blessed yourself and become a
rivers of living water.” It is saying rivers of blessing to others. That is what He wants.
living water shall flow out of you. This does not
mean you have to go to other people to interpret
what God is saying to you. God says rivers will
flow out of you.
You need to be yielding to the Spirit inside of
you. The Spirit of God is trying to nudge you to
get out of the operation of the norm and get in the
operation of the Spirit. When you operate in the
Spirit, you will see more demonstrations of the
Spirit. You will see more things by the prompting
of the Spirit.
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never have a “down” or “depressed” day. We will
wake up in the morning with a song in our heart.
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We will wake up to something that will cause a THE WILL
new spring in our step.
You say, “Why will this happen when I start OF THE LORD
speaking to myself in songs, hymns and spiritual
songs? What am I doing?” When you start
speaking to yourself in songs, hymns and spiritual God wants us to get completely drunk in the
songs, you have finally gotten out of your fleshly, Holy Ghost. He wants us so drunk and yielded
carnal head. Instead of constantly yielding to the completely to Him, we start producing fruit in our
natural realm everyday, you are looking for God to lives, instead of works.
say something through you that will build you up Most people want the fruit in their lives. They
and to minister to others. try to produce fruit by working in the natural.
When you start stepping into this anointing, They are putting in hours, days and weeks of lots
God will start the laughter in the church. When of natural work, but offering very little in the way
you have Holy Ghost meetings, everyone is going of spiritual work to produce spiritual fruit.
to get drunk. You may be putting in a lot of work that is not
The Holy Ghost Spirit of laughter is not going producing spiritual fruit because you are not doing
to happen overnight. Do you know why? It is it out of the Spirit. You are doing something to
because people always have a problem enjoying please other people or to look good in the eyes of
God and letting Him minister to them. It is time someone else.
for the joy of God to take over the service. God wants our hearts. God wants us to yield to
Everyone should be filled with psalms, hymns and the Spirit. All you have to do is unlock the door to
spiritual songs flowing out of their hearts, when the Holy Ghost. The way you unlock the door is
they arrive at the church. It is just something most to yield to Him. He wants us to get loose and get
churches have lost. drunk in the Spirit.
People say, “The devil stole my joy.” No, the Most churches don’t let the people move in the
devil didn’t steel your joy. You shut the door to flow of the Spirit of God. They may desire to
your joy by not getting full of the Holy Ghost. move in the flow of God and want the Holy Ghost
The Holy Ghost wants to use you to be a river of to manifest, but they do not know how to yield to
living water flowing out of you to bless others. Him. There is too much control over the Holy
The Bible says, “Speaking to yourselves...” Ghost in their services to let Him flow. The Holy
You are to speak to yourself and allow the Holy Ghost is unable to move because of restrictions
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laid down by the leaders. They usually invite people to come inside the
church. Most churches think if they get five or six
WHO CAN PROPHECY people saved all week, they are having a landslide.
There are hundreds and even thousands of
There has been a lot of weirdness over the past unsaved people in every town and city all over the
few years concerning prophecy and the Holy world. It is a crying shame to God to see His
Ghost. The Holy Ghost still desires to move in people pass by so many hurting and lost people
and through His people. Some people teach that each day. Christians are to go out on the streets
any person can prophesy to another person, but and invite the lost to come to the Lord. We are
this is not true. It is not even scriptural for just any supposed to be telling people to come in and be set
person to prophesy to another person. free by accepting our wonderful Lord Jesus.
I believe the Bible is very clear on the subject
about prophesying to someone else. The only GET DRUNK AND FILLED FIRST
person who can prophecy to someone else is a
person who stands in the five-fold ministry, You may ask, “Why does God want people to
usually a prophet. Sometimes a minister will get intoxicated? Why does He want them to get
allow an evangelist to step into the prophetic full on His new wine?” He wants us to get
anointing. Other times a pastor will step into the intoxicated and full of His Spirit, so we can come
anointing and say things because a prophet is into a church service and be hooked up with Him.
coming to town or because their church is not big He wants us making melody in our heart to the
enough to have a prophet. Lord. When we are full of the Holy Ghost,
boldness will come and we can witness to the lost.
“Wherefore be ye not unwise, but
understanding what the will of the Lord is.” “Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns
Ephesians 5:17 (KJV) and spiritual songs, singing and making melody
in your heart to the Lord.” Ephesians 5:19
The Bible tells us what the will of the Lord is. (KJV)
Most people use the above verse of the Bible to
show the reason why a person should be drunk and God wants us to get filled with the Holy Ghost
drink of the Holy Ghost wine. But that is not ourselves. He wants us to learn how we can build
really what Paul was telling us here. We have only ourselves up, when we start yielding to our new
heard the surface part of the subject. The people life to Him. When we start speaking to ourselves
have only grown to the place where they are in psalms, hymns and spiritual songs, we will
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starting to be touched by the Holy Ghost on the
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BEING USED BY
“And be not drunk with wine, wherein is
THE HOLY GHOST excess; but be filled with the Spirit.” Ephesians
5:18 (KJV)
God wants to use each person, not just in the Most Christians stop reading the Bible after the
church, but out in the street. He can use you by a above verse. The reason why God put this first is
Word of Knowledge or a Word of Wisdom as long because Christians are carnal and caught up in
as you are yielding to the Spirit of God and not their heads. If the Holy Ghost can’t get you
your natural mind or flesh. intoxicated, you can’t be used in the flow of the
When the Holy Ghost moves through you, it is Spirit. When you are not flowing in the Spirit, you
not going to be logical to you to say or to do what are not going to do what is right, because you will
He is leading you to do. That is what scares most be doing it out of your flesh.
people from operating in the Spirit. Often the In one of the churches I visited, the Pastor had
Holy Ghost is a thorn in the church because He is twenty or thirty people line up every service to
trying to get them to flow in the Spirit. He wants give a “word”. God does not need twenty or thirty
them to jump into the river of God so there can be people to give a “word” for one service. God is
revival. not confused. Something is out of order. The
Pastor would let everyone give a “word” for the
REVIVAL IS NOT service. By the time twenty or thirty people gave
JUST IN THE CHURCH their “word” for the service, the service would
become a mess.
Revival is not going to take place in the church. When I arrived at the church as the guest
Souls are not “only” going to be saved in the speaker, I had to wallow through all the mud, mire,
church. Hardly any souls have been saved in the quick sand, traps set by the devil and individuals
church because people are not bringing the and the junk of everything being said before the
unsaved people to the church. The church has to service. By the time I tried to conjure something
go out to the highways and byways to call the lost up to get the church back to the normal atmosphere
into the church. where the Holy Ghost could move in the service, it
I have not been in very many churches lately took twenty-five to thirty minutes. After that the
that drag people in the church with physical force. Holy Ghost entered the service and the anointing
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filled the church. Now, the Holy Ghost could not listing to the Spirit. They are only listening to
minister to the people in the service. the flesh. They think they are hearing from God
The reason God causes joy and laughter to and saying what He wants them to say, but they
come into the church and get the church really are only operating in their carnal head.
intoxicated is because He wants to get His people
outside of themselves. He wants them to get PIZZA VISIONS
caught up with Him so He can use them by the
Spirit, not by their natural or fleshly minds. You are not going to hear God by watching
The things of the Spirit have to come straight television and going to eat a late night pizza. Do
from the Spirit, not from the head. Many people not say, “I ate pizza last night and God spoke to
try to operate the things of the Spirit in the natural me while I was eating. I received a ‘word’ to be
realm and it really messes the things of God. given in the service today in church.” You have
received only a “pizza anointing,” not a God
SIGNS THE GLORY anointing. God doesn’t come through a pizza. He
OF GOD HAS DROPPED comes by you yielding to Him through the Holy
Ghost.
When a person in the five-fold ministry gives God wants us in the Spirit. He wants us
tongues in the church and later it is followed by yielding to Him in the Spirit. He wants to do
that person giving an interpretation of the tongues, things in and for us by His Spirit, not by what we
it is a sign the glory of God has dropped into that want to do.
setting or surrounding. It is God’s signature of
approval of what has been said by the Spirit of
God.
Most of the time when you hear something by
the Spirit of God, it will increase the anointing
instead of decreasing the anointing. When there is
a decrease in the anointing, it usually means the
person is operating out of their mind or out of their
flesh. They are not operating in the Spirit or they
were out of order. They were not supposed to give
the interpretation at that time.
Usually when the anointing decreases it is
because the person is operating in the flesh and is
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