5 Smooth Stones

C. THIRD STONE -- THE HOLY SPIRIT

1. The Holy Spirit is a wonderful gift God has given us to overcome the enemy and difficulties.

2. He INDWELLS us (lives inside us) and gives us the NEW NATURE of Christ. His presence CONFIRMS GOD’S REALITY to us. He opens our minds to help us UNDERSTAND God’s Word.

3. He CONVICTS us when we sin, helps bring us to repentance, and shows us the correct way to go. He COMFORTS us. He REVEALS CHRIST to us and works to TRANSFORM us from sinners to Saints/ holy ones.

4. He gives us POWER TO make good choices and OBEY God’s commands. He gives revelation of what to say to others when we’re impressed to WITNESS about Jesus.

5. Jesus said, “But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses…” Acts 1:8.

6. The Holy Spirit GUIDES like a Compass (Jn. 16:13); QUICKENS or “Jump Starts” like a Defibrillator (John 6:63); and REGENERATES us (Tit. 3:5) in our spiritual beings.

7. “Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty!” 2 Cor. 3:17 and “the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing” Isa. 10:27. We need the anointing and power of the Holy Spirit!

D. FOURTH STONE -- THE BLOOD OF CHRIST

1. The Blood is the ultimate STAIN REMOVER. Wherever there’s death, the Blood brings Life. Wherever there’s darkness, it brings Light. It’s a cleansing wave that wipes out the powers of darkness, rendering them weak & ineffectual.

2. Just as Matter and Anti-Matter are opposites, Sin and the Blood are opposites. The Blood CANCELS THE POWER of Sin!

When you plead the Blood of Christ in prayer against the enemy, he has to flee!

3. The Blood is the FORCE FIELD the enemy can’t penetrate; Satan can’t cross the “bloodline;” Ps. 78:49. The Death-Angel in Egypt had to pass over the houses of those who had the Blood on them! Plead the Blood over your homes, your cars, your businesses, your families, etc. and the enemy has to leave them alone! Keep at it – Saints of God!

4. The Blood ENABLES US TO OVERCOME SATAN --“And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony,” Rev. 12:11. In the spiritual realm, there is no more sacred thing than the Blood of Jesus. Even heaven is

purified by that Blood. It defeated the devil because its sacredness outweighed all the evil sin could ever produce!

5. Pleading the Blood is a potent weapon for the Saint of God!

E. FIFTH STONE -- PRAYER

1. One final weapon is PRAYER. Paul said in Rom. 15:30, “Now I beseech you, brethren, for the Lord Jesus Christ’s sake, and for the love of the Spirit, that ye strive together with me in your prayers to God…”

2. To “strive together” suggests that prayer is a strenuous work. Look at how Jesus prayed in the Garden of Gethsemane; “[He] offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared” Heb. 5:7.

3. He was in a wrestling match, not the lazy type of prayer that a lot of people do today. This “striving” in prayer sounds like a soldier fighting in a war. The Greek word is “agonizomai;”to “agonize.”