Hour of the Holy Spirit -Keeper of Our Day & Seasons
Executor of Our Destiny
Asking to Receive, Seeking to Find, Knocking on Doors That Will Open
• Lk 11:13 If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children,
how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him?
Parent’s Work & Children’s Glory
• Psa 90:16 Let your work be shown to your servants, and your glorious power to
their children.
• Lk 11:13 If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children,
how much more shall your
heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him?
Summary
• Luke 11:13 – O Lord make your people receive all they ask and be
impassioned for more
• Lord Jesus heal them from disappointment of having asked & not received
• Rom 8:26 – Now O Lord help us to ask aright & receive all – Hanna asking for Samuel
• Rom 8:27 – Holy Spirit build the bridge for more – bridge all we have in
God’s will & searching our heart – in it we learn what to seek to find
• Finding the door to knock on
• Ever wider doors
Threefold Ministry of the Spirit
• Joh 16:13-14 When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into
all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever
he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come.
(14) He will glorify me, for he will take what is mine and declare it to you.
• Lead to Saving Truth – paramuthia
• Speak to us to lead us daily – paraklaysis
• Disclose our Destiny one step at a time – Oikodomeo
Destiny – Walking with God Assured the Best of God
• and he will declare to you the things that are to come.
(14) He will glorify me, for he will take what is mine and declare it to you
> Destiny is going with God where God takes you
> Destiny is God chartered God sponsored Journey
> Destiny is God’s Future for you today
> Destiny is Now & Unfolding Every Day
> Destiny is you getting into shoes God made for you
> Destiny is God’s best for you for His glory
Luk 11:9-13 And I say to you, Ask and it shall be given you.
Seek and you shall find. Knock and it shall be opened to you. (10)
For everyone who asks receives. And he who seeks finds. And to him who
knocks it shall be opened. (11) For what father of you, if the son asks
for bread, will he give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish,
will he give him a snake for a fish? (12) Or if he shall ask for an egg,
will he give him a scorpion? (13) If you then, being evil,
know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more
shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him?
Pro 13:12 Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a desire fulfilled is a tree of life.
Asking to Receive
Rom_8:26 Likewise the Spirit also helps our infirmities.
For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought,
but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings
which cannot be uttered. 27 And He searching the hearts knows
what is the mind of the Spirit, because He makes intercession
for the saints according to the will of God.
> Asking to Receive
> Holy Spirit helps us pray & ask according to the will of the Father
> This removes frustration about God not answering prayer
> Received answers provoke gratitude making us give more
> Received answers provoke us to dare more – to serve more, attempt more
> We pray bolder prayer for salvation of oikos
> We begin to ask for nations for our inheritance
Hanna Asks to Receive
• 1Sa 1:10 And she was in bitterness of soul, and prayed to Jehovah,
and wept sorely.
• 1Sa 1:11 And she vowed a vow and said, O, Lord of Hosts,
if You will indeed look upon the affliction of Your handmaid and
remember me, and not forget Your handmaid, but will give to Your
handmaid a man-child, then I will give him to Jehovah all the days
of his life, and there shall no razor come upon his head.
Hanna Gives Her Son to the Lord
• 1Sa 1:20 It came about in due time, after Hannah had conceived,
that she gave birth to a son; and she named him Samuel, saying,
“Because I have asked him of the LORD.”
• 1Sa 1:27-28 “For this boy I prayed, and the LORD has given me my
petition which I asked of Him.
(28) “So I have also dedicated him to the LORD;
as long as he lives he is dedicated to the LORD.”
• And he worshiped the LORD there.
Searching & Seeking to Find
• Seek, plan, future, move forward – you ask God for His next best.
• Mat 6:33 “But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness,
and all these things will be added to you.
• 1Co 2:9-10 But, as it is written, “What no eye has seen,
nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined,
what God has prepared for those who love him”– (10)
these things God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the
Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God.
Seeking to Find
• Holy Spirit helps us take aim
• Seek God’s pleasure
• Seek God’s Promotion
• We give up distractions
• We take the narrow way rather than side roads
• Selling all to seek the Pearl of Great Price
Seek Affections Above
• We get to our goal and begin forward movement rather than
circular & repetitive wilderness treks pursuing the wrong goals
• We begin to seek what Jesus seeks – lost souls
• Life become adventurous – a treasure hunt with Jesus
• Same adventure continues with scripture findings & revelation from the word
Samuel Seeks the Lord
• 1Sa 2:11 Then Elkanah went to his home at Ramah.
But the boy ministered to the LORD before Eli the priest.
• 1Sa 2:18 Now Samuel was ministering before the LORD,
as a boy wearing a linen ephod.
• 1Sa 2:26 Now the boy Samuel was growing in stature and
in favour both with the LORD and with men.
• 1Ch_28:9 “As for you, my son Solomon, know the God of your father,
and serve Him with a whole heart and a willing mind;
for the LORD searches all hearts, and understands every intent of the thoughts.
If you seek Him, He will let you find Him;
but if you forsake Him, He will reject you forever.
• 2Ch_15:2 and he went out to meet Asa and said to him,
“Listen to me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin:
the LORD is with you when you are with Him. And if you seek Him,
He will let you find Him; but if you forsake Him, He will forsake you.
Heaven Opens to Samuel
God Scope more than All Scope
• 1Sa 3:1 Now the boy Samuel was ministering to the LORD before Eli.
And word from the LORD was rare in those days, visions were infrequent.
• 1Sa 3:10 Then the LORD came and stood and called as at other times,
“Samuel! Samuel!” And Samuel said, “Speak, for Your servant is listening.”
• Great Prophet Influencing the Whole Nation
• How much influence, cutting edge, advantage can you give your son or daughter?