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Make Room For The Holy Spirit
Contributed by Mike Sanders on Sep 10, 2009 (message contributor)
Summary: This sermon gives the believer direction with making room for God in their lives
MAKE ROOM FOR THE HOLY SPIRIT
6 So he answered and said to me: "This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel: ’Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit,’ Says the Lord of hosts.
The Lord has said to me --- “make room for the Holy Spirit.”
That’s all he said!
Q: I said what do you exactly mean by that?
Don’t stick to the things you want to do…“make room for the Holy Spirit.”
The way I interpret that is…
1. Take a moment step back recognize the Holy Spirit yield to Him …
2. make yourself available to Him
Then say “Holy Spirit”…
1. If you want to say something different than I was planning on saying…
2. If you want to do something other than I was planning on doing….
3. I’m going to make some room for you right now.
That means I’m going have to change…that’s a good thing
Something about change
If you have ever tried to help change someone especially if you’re in the ministry
Maybe you have seen people… that need to change - or - wanted to change
If you’ve ever tried to help them change them it can be very frustrating
If you’re married you ever want to change your husband are wife…
You know there are just some things that are just not going to change!
It’s really beyond our ability to change them
AMEN
Then if you’ve ever seen people with problems and try to help them
about the time you think that you have the situation diagnosed
it slips into something else…
and is really not a problem you thought it was
So if you’re really trying to help somebody
Many times you come to the collusion
that you really can’t help them
in the way that they need to be helped
• Without the power of God
• Without the working of the Holy Spirit
Sometimes you can see the problem - but - you can reach it
Your resources are limited… And you can’t seem to solve the problem
Ah..
There is something about the Holy Spirit
1. where he can reach right into where the problem is
2. and change things on the inside
3. and do a work that you could never done
So…. there is tremendous value in making room for the Holy Spirit
T.T. 2 Kings 4
The Lord has said to me --- “make room for the Holy Spirit.”
Then I saw this Shunammite woman where she made room for the man of God
The story says Elisha went by her house regularly
She constrained him to come in
She recognized him as a man of God
She feed him
She asked her husband why don’t we just make room for him
Lets make a room for him
Because if we make room for him he might just turn in here
What she was saying was
Let’s facilitate him – make room for him
Facility and make room for the Holy Spirit that was in Elisha’s life
A double portion of the Holy Spirit
Sure enough when she made room for him he turned in their
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One thing that I’ve learned is that the Holy Spirit is a genius
• If you listen to him he will make you look smart…
• If you ignore him you’re going to look stupid
Not only the genius with a gentleman
As a gentleman you going to have to recognize Him
– and – yeald to him
or
he won’t even interrupt you
You have to desire him – yeald to him – make room for him
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So when she made room for him Elijah …
Elisha turned in there…and said
Because you’ve made room for me what is it that I can do for you?
1. In other words because you have made room for me
2. I’m gonna make room for you
Let me say that again
If you make room for the Holy Spirit He will make room for you
So when she made room for him
Elisha turned in there
Elisha said because you’ve taken such good care of me what is it that I can do for you?
We know that she could have a child
And Elisha said by this time next year you will have a child
In other words
When we make room for the Holy Spirit - He makes things that are impossible; possible
So…every time you make room for the Holy Spirit….
you become pregnant with something from heaven
that you could have never given birth to
He does something on the inside of you that looked impossible
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Sure enough about a year later
We know this Shunammite woman had a child
