God is looking for people who will worship Him and serveHim in spirit and in truth (John 4:23). I realized one day that God did not expect me to be able to do what I was called to do by my own mind or ability. He expected to give me His strength and ability supernaturally. He expected to be my portion for whatever I needed. I knew I could only please God by walking in the spirit and not in the flesh. So I prayed, “Lord, teach me to walk in the spirit,” and He began to teach me. I learned things that changed my life.

The Holy Spirit will unveil His blessings to us if we will give Him an opportunity. Remember that Jesus did not become your Savior until you recognized Him as Lord and were born again. When you gave Him that recognition and allowed Him to take over your life, He became your Savior.

The Holy Spirit is the same way. He is not going to take over your life as Comforter, Counselor, Helper, Intercessor, Advocate, Strengthener and Standby until you invite Him, until you give Him place, until you recognize Him as the One Who comes to your aid and support. When you begin to listen to Him, lean on Him, rely on Him and trust in Him, He will begin to work in just that way. The more you lean on Him and not your own understanding,the more He is able to fulfill His ministry to you.

God speaks to us by His Spirit. We don’t have to go to a prophet to hear from God in this dispensation of grace. We are born of God. No longer is the Holy Spirit in the holy of holies as He was in the Old Covenant. No longer is He kept in a place that is unapproachable that only the high priest can enter. He is no longer there. He is within you and me.

With the Spirit of God in us, we become mobile temples of God. Satan does not want you to know this, because he doesn’t want you to realize that when you face a problem, the Spirit of God faces it with you. When you know not how to pray as you ought, the Holy Spirit takes hold together with you against that infirmity or weakness in your life and prays the perfect will of God into existence, and gives you direction that will bring victory. Then He gives you the power and ability to do whatever He directs.

Where does the Holy Ghost live? Within your spirit. God wants to talk to you spirit to spirit, and that is how His Spirit communicates with you most of the time. Usually, He does not speak directly to your mind or to your physical ears.

When you hear these promptings come up within you, you may ask, “Was that me, Father, or was it You?”

It will sound like you—and it is—because it is your own spirit that you hear most of the time. Your spirit relays to your soul (mind, will, emotions) what the Spirit of God is saying to you. It is sometimes difficult to differentiate between the two. I cannot tell you how to know the difference. I can only tell you how to get started and that you will begin to know. As you spend time in prayer and in God’s Word, your spirit, which is directly infused and connected with God’s Spirit, is a reliable witness to follow.

Kenneth and Gloria Copeland

Deuteronomy 28:1-14

Amp—If you will listen diligently to the
voice of the Lord your God, being watchful
to do all His commandments which I command
you this day, the Lord your God will
set you high above all the nations of the
earth, And all these blessings shall come
upon you and overtake you, if you heed the
voice of the Lord your God.

Blessed shall you be in the city, and
blessed shall you be in the field. Blessed
shall be the fruit of your body, and the fruit
of your ground, and the fruit of your beasts,
the increase of your cattle, and the young
of your flock. Blessed shall be your basket
and your kneading trough. Blessed shall you
be when you come in, and blessed shall you
be when you go out.

The Lord shall cause your enemies who
rise up against you to be defeated before
your face; they shall come out against you
one way, and flee before you seven ways.
The Lord shall command the blessing upon
you in your storehouse, and in all that you
undertake; and he will bless you in the land
which the Lord your God gives you.

The Lord will establish you as a people
holy to Himself, as He has sworn to you, if
you keep the commandments of the Lord
your God, and walk in His ways. And all
people of the earth shall see that you are
called by the name [and in the presence of]
the Lord; and they shall be afraid of you.

And the Lord shall make you have a surplus
of prosperity, through the fruit of your
body, of your livestock, and of your ground,
in the land which the Lord swore to your
fathers to give you. The Lord shall open to
you His good treasury, the heavens to give
the rain of your land in its season, and to
bless all the work of your hand; and you
shall lend to many nations, but you shall
not borrow.

And the Lord shall make you the head,
and not the tail; and you shall be above
only, and you shall not be beneath, if you
heed the commandments of the Lord your
God, which I command you this day, and
are watchful to do them. And you shall
not go aside from any of the words which
I command you this day, to the right hand
or to the left, to go after other gods to
serve them.

Kenneth and Gloria Copeland