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Speaker 2: What if the reason you feel dry is not because
God left, because your environment is choking the flow. The
Holy Spirit is not weak, But the Bible does show
us that there are atmospheres he is welcomed in, and
there are atmospheres he is resisted. In if Uses, chapter four,
verse thirty says do not grieve the spirit of God,
meaning you can be saved, love God, but still creates
space where his flow is blocked. In this video, I'm
gonna show you and give you seven signs that your
atmosphere is secretly blocking the flow of the Holy Spirit.
Here is sign number one, and that is you're always
full meaning busy, but you're actually never filled. Your schedule
is packed, your mind is overloaded, your life is very
loud on social media. Yet you wonder why you are
not sensitive to the Holy Spirit. Holy Spirit often speaks
in stillness. In Elijah's case one Kings nineteen twelve, it
says that Elijah couldn't find God in the wind, earthquake,
or fire, but he found him in a still small voice.
If your environment is NonStop noise, social media, constant talking,
constant entertainment, you're not creating room for the voice of
the Holy Spirit. If your life has no space for quiet,
it will have no space for the spirit. So practical,
you can cut back the noise. You can cut back
the noise daily at least for fifteen minutes. Put back
worship in your life, remove background media that numbs your spirit.
You know one of the verses in the Bible that
really became like an anchor for me in this season,
and that verse what it says that you know, make
it your ambition, or make it your aim, to live
a quiet life or to lead a quiet life, mind
your business, and to work with your hands. And I
really believe that that is the key in order to
hear Holy Spirit more. And that is you gotta aim
not to be ambitious to be loud, but to be ambitious,
to be quiet, to have a margin in your life
so that you can have overflow. Because I've noticed when
you have no margin in your life, you're intimacy with
God decreases, and intimacy with other people decreases, and your
anxiety increases. So we want to have anxiety decrease and
intimacy increase. And for that to happen, you have to
have you have to have margins. So the moment you
are full, busy, overloaded, stacked up with meetings, you have
no breathing room. You have no margin. Of course, you
won't be filled with the spirit. You're filled with anxiety,
You're filled with overwhelmness, You're in a hurry, You're constantly worded,
and that's not going to help you to know the
Holy Spirit. A second sign or the second thing that
blocks the flow of the Holy Spirit, and that is
when the room has more complaining than gratitude. Some atmospheres
in our lives, they are saturated with grumbling, complaining, Murmuring
does not just affect your mood, It actually affects your
spiritual connection, your spiritual momentum. Israel in the Wilderness is
a case example of that. And they saw the miracles,
they saw the man, and they saw the supernatural, they
saw cloud by day, fire by night, but they constantly complained,
and it actually kept them from entering the promised Land.
And First Corinthians chapter tender Stand Paul says, nor complain,
as some of them complained. A complaining environment is an
unbelief environment. A gratitude invites the presence of the Holy Spirit.
Complaining invites the presence of heaviness.
Speaker 3: So practically, what do you do about it?
Speaker 2: Start speaking gratitude, thanksgiving to God out loud in your
home and in your atmosphere, in your environment, and learn
to shut down constant, repeated negative conversations. Turn testimonies into
a new language for your atmosphere. Make sure your room,
your conversations, where you are at spending most of your time,
is saturated with the gratefulness to God, thanksgiving to God
versus God didn't do this, He didn't do this.
Speaker 3: This does not happening. This is not happening.
Speaker 2: It's constant grumbling and complaining and murmuring because it blocks
the flow of the Holy Spirit. You know, Jesus face
Lazarus who was dead. He didn't say, Oh God, why
did he die? He says, Father, I thank you. You
always hear me. So Jesus found something to thank God
for in front of the death of his friend. You know,
he faced the crowd that was hungry and he only
had five lows in to fish, and Jesus didn't say, oh, God,
Why is this? Why do we have so little? He
raised his hands to God and he thanked God. So
gratitude opens the door for the flow of the Holy Spirit.
Complaining blocks the flow of the Holy Spirit. Sign number
three is you're around people who mock supernatural things or
spiritual things. Holy Spirit is not welcomed in an atmosphere
of mocking in cynicism. So when Jesus went to raise
Jerius's daughter, the scripture says that people laughed at Jesus,
they ridiculed him, and he actually had to put all
of them outside Mark five, verse forty. So Jesus removed
a ridiculing, mocking atmosphere before his power flowed. Could it
be that some miracles happened until some people are removed
from your life, that were at least distanced from your life,
who mock the supernatural, who mock the Holy Spirit, who
mock them manifestations of the Holy Spirit. You don't have
to hate them, but you also cannot keep feeding the
environment that starves your faith. You have to protect what
God wants to do, and so you might need to
distance yourself from podcasts and books of people who undermine
belief in the supernatural. Who mock and who ridicule people
who seek the Holy Spirit and love the Holy Spirit
and Sign number four. And that is when there is
an unchecked sin that has been easily normalized in your environment. See,
the Holy Spirit is holy. When sin becomes normal, your
sensitivity to him will become rare. Do you remember the
time in the scripture where it says that the word
of the Lord and divisions were very rare in the
days of Eli, the prophet or the priest. And then
you see the Samuel who was rising in that environment,
and yet he was able to hear the voice of
God in spite of that environment. But in that environment
the voice of God was so rare. Why if you
read that story, you will see that there was a
passive attitude the Word's sin. And it confirms Psalm sixty
six eighteen where it says, if I regard iniquity in
my heart, the Lord will not hear. And Samson is
a beautiful warning. You know, he kept playing with compromise
until one day the scripture says he did not know
that the Lord departed from him Judges sixteen twenty. And
that's a very terrifying truth, is that he lost the
flow he lost the closeness, didn't even notice it. Compromise
doesn't usually remove your gift, it doesn't always remove your position,
it doesn't even affect sometimes your income. But it removes
your closeness, it removes your sensitivity, it removes the flow.
So if you notice that the flow is not there,
if you notice that the compromise has become normalized, I
would really encourage you to repent, fast, break agreement with
secret sins. Don't let what Jesus died for become something
you casually tolerate. In my personal life, when I noticed
that the flow of the Holy Spirit is missing, I
notice that my spiritual edge is gone. I start to fast,
like fasting is my to go to because biblically speaking,
fasting is a biblical way to humble yourself. And I'm
not fasting to trying to squeeze God's arm. Actually, I'm
fasting to try to squeeze mind. You know, I want
to get myself down. I want to get myself broken.
I want to my body and my mouth and my
thoughts to yell to God, God, I'm sorry. God, help
me get me back. Lord, help me to get my
way back, help me to get the flow back because
that close and that flow is so important to me
that I'm willing to do whatever it takes. And fasting
has been my way of dealing with small ways. Maybe
I've missed the Lord's closeness by allowing certain things and
by life that are not pleasing to him anymore that
I'm so oblivious to, and fasting helps with that. Sign
Number five, there's a constant strife, offense, and unforgiveness. And
that is when you have an environment that you do
have prayer and you do have worship, but there's no peace,
there's no flow. There's one problem a lot of times
with environments that are filled with spiritual disciplines who tolerate
offense and bitterness. That environment of a fans strife and
bitterness and unforgiveness. Even though you have prayer, even though
you have Bible reading, even though you have church attendance,
it will block the flow of the Holy Spirit. See
in Matthew five twenty three and twenty four, Jesus says,
if you're bringing your gift to the altar and you
remember your brother has something against you, you got to
go and reconcile.
Speaker 3: Why well, because.
Speaker 2: Heaven responds the purity of your heart. It responds to unity.
You know, remember when the Holy Spirit fell upon the
early Church. The scripture says they were all in one
accord in one place in Book of Acts, chapter two,
verse one.
Speaker 3: Then the Holy Spirit fell. So this unity is the highway.
Speaker 2: The moment you have offenses, the moment you have bitterness,
it becomes this roadblock.
Speaker 3: You can't go past that.
Speaker 2: So practically, what do you do is that you got
to forgive even if they didn't apologize. You got to
cleanse your atmosphere with humility. And sometimes you actually have
to go to the person that you know is offended,
but it's too weak to approach you and apologize and
make it right. I remember I had this situation where
I knew one person was offended at me and it
was not my fault, well at least I thought it
was not my fault. Plus they're kind of known to
be very offended about a lot of things, and so
it was going on for a few months and I
was like, man, that is their problem. So I'm reading
this verse in Matthew five that I just quoted, and
this just jumps at me, and I feel the Holy
Spirit just grieved. He's like, blad, you know he's offended.
I was like, yeah, and that's his problem. And he
says but in here it says you go to your
brother who is offended. I was like, God, no, they
need to come to me if they're offended. If well,
if they want to make it right. I don't have
a problem with them. They have a problem with me.
And so I brush it off. The next day, you know,
I moved on to the next chap that I'm reading,
the next chapter, and I you know, like you know that,
you know that, you know the Holy Spirit isn't pleased
with that, And man, it was. It took a lot
of humility because part of me there was a pride.
You know, there was an offense in that brother, but
there was a pride in me. And I remember messaging
this person and you know, say, hey, I'm sorry, I
think I hurt you. Can you tell me what happened?
How did that make you feel?
Speaker 3: You know?
Speaker 2: And part of me just wanted to like, no, it's
your fault. You're just easy to offend it. You were
just a snowflake, you were just a spine list and
you know, all these bad thoughts, and so I ate
my piece of the pie, I apologize for how I
made this person feel for what I did, and then
we reconciled and it was just it was a beautiful
restoration and the flow of the Holy Spirit continue to flow.
And now I know the Holy Spirit wasn't grieved anymore.
Speaker 3: He was pleased. And so that's a huge thing.
Speaker 2: The sign number six is when your environment you're tolerating
or you're allowing it.
Speaker 3: To starve your faith.
Speaker 2: So faith is not just something that you have, it's
actually something that you can constantly feed. Faith comes by hearing.
Hearing comes by the word of God. If your environment
is a constant flow of bad news, filthy content, ungodly
jokes and humor, sensual sexual music, constant doom and gloom,
don't be shocked if your spirit is weak and the
flow is broken. See Lot lived in Sodom, but the
Bible says his righteous soul was tormented daily. Lot, you
gotta move from Sodom. You can be living there and
expect to have a spiritual flow. Of course, you're going
to be tormented. You're in Sodom. See you can be
righteous and be drained by toxic environment. Your spirit will
always reflect what your environment is consuming in a lot,
wanted to focus on God. Well, his environment was perverted.
His environment was toxic, it was ungodly. And you can't
flourish in your walk with the Holy Spirit if you
tolerate an environment that robs your faith. So learn to
audit your inputs. Learn to replace entertainment with edification at
least daily. Learn to put the Word of God back
and repeat in your life. And the last thing is
when your environment has no hunger. When there's no hunger
in the room, the Holy Spirit comes where he is wanted.
He comes where he is desired. Holy Spirit comes where
he is appreciated. Scripture says in Matthew five six, Blessed
are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they
shall be filled. See God comes. God is drawn to hunger.
The scripture says that Jesus would often withdraw to pray.
Why because Jesus didn't live off of yesterday's encounters. See,
when you have no hunger, you will have no flow.
Hunger is the atmosphereful revival. And so learn to pray
prayers like Holy Spirit. I want you make space for
hunger in your life. Stop being satisfied with spiritual dryness.
One of the things I love to do to keep
the hunger alive is to do regular fasts, sometimes short
fast like you know, twelve hour fast, or you miss breakfast,
you miss lunch and then you eat very late dinner,
or like a.
Speaker 3: Twenty four hour fast.
Speaker 2: You do that weekly like it will restore and renew,
sharpen your spiritual hunger. Why is hunger is powerful because
it attracts the flow. The moment you're content and you're complacing,
you actually become dull. So you need to have whatever
you need to do, whether it's some kind of spiritual retreat,
a fast, wake, a couple bit early, take one day away.
Speaker 3: Can you go for extended prayer?
Speaker 2: You know, maybe your normal fifteen prayer, fifteen minute prayer,
go to like an hour, do something, go an extra mile,
go far. I like to say, go far to get
fresh fire. Keep the hunt good alive because that attracts
the flow of the Holy Spirit.
Speaker 3: So what do you do if.
Speaker 2: You've noticed your environment is actually blocking the flow. One
is consecrate your space. The scripture says consecrate yourselves for
tomorrow the Lord will do wonders among you. So take
your environment spiritual environment, physical environment, consecrate that to the Lord.
Number two is fill that space, don't just remove something
or replace it. And number three is you have to
guard your inputs or guard your gates. What comes through
your ears, what comes through your eyes, what comes through
your relationships does shape your atmosphere. Pay attention to that,
and you will see the flow of the Holy Spirit
more and more like the river that comes from the Temple.
It will first be ankle deep, knee deep, waist deep,
until you cannot walk anymore. If this video hit you today,
I want you to comment that below I'm shifting my atmosphere.
And if you already know one thing that I touched
on that is blocking your flow, don't delay. Make changes
today and let us know in the comments what you
are going to change. Let me pray for you, Holy Spirit.
We invite you.
Speaker 3: We remove everything that grieves you, our.
Speaker 2: Compromise, our offens, striving unbelief and distraction. We ask you
that you cleanse our homes, that you cleanse our minds,
that you cleanse our relationships. Release fresh hunger, fresh sensitivity,
and fresh fire in Jesus name, Amen. If you want
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