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Notice the revelation that's coming: he's being told things he couldn't know; and Saul has seen in a vision a man called Ananias coming to him - so God is downloading to him words of knowledge and revelation.

Then He said: “I want you to go him and lay your hands on him, and he'll receive his sight”. This is a freaky thing, because he knows that Saul's been murdering all the Christians; and now God's telling him go to this place in this street, inquire; the guy is in there, and he's blind; and he's praying. I've shown him that you're going to come, and you're going to pray over him.

Now that takes courage - remember this guy's life is on the line. Can you understand that all moving in the spirit, there's a point where you have to take a risk? This was a big risk; He has to go to the house of a murderer of Christians - that's a step of faith. He probably said ‘goodbye’ to everyone before he went… just in case! (Ahora que se necesita coraje, recuerda que la vida de este hombre está en peligro. ¿Puedes entender que todo se mueve en el espíritu, hay un punto en el que tienes que arriesgarte? Este fue un gran riesgo; Él tiene que ir a la casa de un asesino de cristianos, eso es un paso de fe. Probablemente dijo "adiós" a todos antes de ir ... ¡por si acaso!)

Notice he says: “Ananias, I've heard a lot about this man, he does much evil to Your saints” - so he started to reason with God about it. The Lord said: “go, he's chosen unto Me, and I will show him great things he must suffer for My name's sake”.

So Ananias went his way, entered the house, and laid his hands on him. He said: “Brother Saul, Jesus that appeared to you in the way as you came, sent me that you might receive your sight and be filled with the Holy Ghost. Immediately he was healed; and filled with the Holy Ghost, spoke in tongues. (Entonces Ananías se fue, entró en la casa y puso sus manos sobre él. Él dijo: “Hermano Saúl, Jesús que se te apareció en el camino cuando viniste, me envió para que pudieras recibir tu vista y ser lleno del Espíritu Santo. Inmediatamente fue sanado; y lleno del Espíritu Santo, habló en lenguas.)

Isn't that a great story! There's an example of: words of knowledge; works of wisdom (knowing what to do); prophetic utterance (speaking over him); gifts of healing; and faith flowing - it's great! That's a great story, of many of the gifts all flowing together, with one man.( ¿No es una gran historia? Hay un ejemplo de: palabras de conocimiento; obras de sabiduría (saber qué hacer); expresión profética (hablando sobre él); dones de curación; y la fe fluye - ¡es genial! Esa es una gran historia, de muchos de los regalos que fluyen juntos, con un solo hombre.)

We see now that: you are designed to be supernatural. God wants you to operate in the supernatural. He is willing to do this for you.

Gifts of the spirit are given to everyone; so if God gives it to me, what does He expect me to do? What's my part? There's a number of things that we're called to do, so I'm going to identify them

So here are several things that God requires of us:

1) He wants you to learn how to flow with the Holy Spirit. He wants you to learn it. Your responsibility is to be a learner.God expects you to put in the effort to learn. Nothing comes easily; you have to put in some effort. You have to do something. (Él quiere que aprendas a fluir con el Espíritu Santo. Él quiere que lo aprendas. Tu responsabilidad es ser un aprendiz. Dios espera que te esfuerces en aprender. Nada viene fácilmente; Tienes que poner un poco de esfuerzo. Tienes que hacer algo.)

He wants us to learn how to work with the Holy Spirit… to build others. Here's an interesting thing: God wants you to be a builder of people. Flowing in the spirit is about discovering how to fulfil your destiny with God… wherever I am. (Él quiere que aprendamos cómo trabajar con el Espíritu Santo ... para construir a otros. Aquí hay algo interesante: Dios quiere que seas un constructor de personas. Fluir en el espíritu es descubrir cómo cumplir tu destino con Dios ... donde sea que esté.)

1) We're expected to passionately desire the gifts of the spirit. !” (

1 Corinthians 12:31 NTV

31 Por lo tanto, ustedes deberían desear encarecidamente los dones que son de más ayuda. Pero ahora déjenme mostrarles una manera de vida que supera a todas las demás.

1 Corinthians 12:31

Nueva Traducción Viviente (NTV)

31 Por lo tanto, ustedes deberían desear encarecidamente los dones que son de más ayuda.

Why? Because when you flow in them, it answers all arguments. If you have a miracle… no one can argue with the miracle. (¿Por qué? Porque cuando fluyes en ellos, responde a todos los argumentos. Si tienes un milagro ... nadie puede discutir con el milagro.)

2 Timothy 1:6 NTV

6 Por esta razón, te recuerdo que avives el fuego del don espiritual que Dios te dio cuando te impuse mis manos.

2 Timothy 1:6

Nueva Traducción Viviente (NTV)

6 Por esta razón, te recuerdo que avives el fuego del don espiritual que Dios te dio cuando te impuse mis manos.

The word stir-up means ‘to kindle a fire’ - to get something activated and happening; so we're called to stir up the gifts. This is completely contrary to a passive, ‘waiting around’ and ‘praying for a revival’, or hoping that ‘one day’ God will do something. This says: you - stir yourself up. (La palabra agitar significa "encender un fuego" - para que algo se active y ocurra; así que estamos llamados a agitar los regalos. Esto es completamente contrario a un pasivo, "esperar" y "orar por un avivamiento", o esperar que "un día" Dios haga algo. Esto dice: usted - agítese.)

1 Thessalonians 5:19 NTV

19 No apaguen al Espíritu Santo.

1 Thessalonians 5:19

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19 No apaguen al Espíritu Santo.

There are things that facilitate the spirit of God working; and some things quench His working in your life - reasonings in your mind will quench the flow of the Holy Spirit. Negative, critical talk will grieve and quench the Holy Spirit;( los razonamientos en tu mente apagarán el flujo del Espíritu Santo. Las palabras negativas y críticas entristecerán y apagarán al Espíritu Santo;)

5) Finally: don't neglect the gifts of the spirit.

1 Timothy 4:14 RVR60

14 No descuides el don que hay en ti, que te fue dado mediante profecía con la imposición de las manos del presbiterio.

– “don't neglect the gift that's in you”. 1 Timoteo 4:14 Reina-Valera 1960 (RVR1960)

14 No descuides el don que hay en ti, que te fue dado mediante profecía con la imposición de las manos del presbiterio.

Don't take it lightly - don't just waste what God has given you; don't despise the little beginnings that you start with. Even if you start with a little, and it doesn't seem much, it can grow. It can grow until it becomes a great flow through your life.

Some practical keys on what I've found is a big help to stirring your spirit man up, so you can begin to flow in the gifts of the spirit.

….A key part of it of course is your personal devotional life. Building a life where you're in the word of God, reading the word of God, praying the word of God, spending time with the Lord, worshipping Him, sharing with Him, building your spirit man, praying in tongues, all of this is the normal devotional life of a believer, so we need to be feeding our inner life, feeding your spirit man, so you've got something to give.

….. second.., free up your spirit. You can't prophesy and flow in the gifts if your spirit is all uptight with tension, so free up your spirit, relax, laugh more and pray in tongues, because praying in tongues actually energises your spirit. When you pray in tongues, the Holy Spirit is speaking through you. He's speaking language to your spirit, and your spirit is expressing, you are flowing with Him. It's a great way, pray in tongues, stir your spirit man and it starts to energise you, and we'll do some exercises on that a little later.

Third.. thing is expect faith, expect God to speak with you. You've got to reach out expectedly. See if I'm going to pray for someone and I'm full of doubt, not that much happens when there's doubt, but when you come, you say God, I just expect You to give me something for this person. I'm believing that when I get myself in that place, You will give me something I need.

It sounds a little risky, but actually what faith does is it steps out trusting God. What am I trusting, that I'm good enough? No, I'm trusting that God is good, God loves them, and God's willing to help them. I'm just here available, so it's a faith that God is willing to do something.

Fourth… thing is, so we stir up our spirit, reach out our faith, then just focus your attention. One of the things that people find very difficult to do, is to just focus their attention to listen. You know if you want to hear someone, you've got to stop and listen.

There's too much distraction, you can't hear, so the key thing we saw in flowing with the gifts of the spirit is hearing, being able to pick up the small impressions of the Holy Spirit - and they're very small, so I've got to get the noise out of my head.

Now for some people that's a problem, because there's a lot of noise, and the noise comes from unresolved personal conflicts, spiritual, emotional conflicts. The noise comes from the voice of demonic spirits speaking into our mind, condemning, judging, accusing, belittling, pressuring, confusing. That's one aspect.

They also come from your own beliefs in your heart; I'm no good, God wouldn't work through me, or I've just blown it, or I'm not - you know, all of those sorts of beliefs of the heart, which are contrary to the word of God, demonic spirits use to stir up and energise confusion and turmoil inside you.

He's promised to give us peace,

One of the most important steps to flowing in the gifts of the Holy Spirit is to earnestly desire them. Paul said

1 Corinthians 12:31 NTV

31 Por lo tanto, ustedes deberían desear encarecidamente los dones que son de más ayuda. Pero ahora déjenme mostrarles una manera de vida que supera a todas las demás.

1 Corinthians 12:31

Nueva Traducción Viviente (NTV)

31 Por lo tanto, ustedes deberían desear encarecidamente los dones que son de más ayuda.

He repeated that thought in :

1 Corinthians 14:1 NTV

1 ¡Que el amor sea su meta más alta! Pero también deberían desear las capacidades especiales que da el Espíritu, sobre todo la capacidad de profetizar.

1 Corinthians 14:1

Nueva Traducción Viviente (NTV)

14 ¡Que el amor sea su meta más alta! Pero también deberían desear las capacidades especiales que da el Espíritu, sobre todo la capacidad de profetizar.

Another way of saying this is, as long as you can live without flowing in the gifts of the Holy Spirit, you will. You have to seek these gifts with all your heart It’s also very important to understand that the gifts of the Holy Spirit are always flowing. God doesn’t turn them “on” and “off.” We are the ones who are “on” or “off.” (Otra forma de decir esto es que, mientras puedas vivir sin fluir en los dones del Espíritu Santo, lo harás. Debes buscar estos dones con todo tu corazón. También es muy importante entender que los dones del Espíritu Santo siempre están fluyendo. Dios no los enciende y los apaga. Nosotros somos los que estamos "encendidos" o "apagados".)

Now how would you go about finding something about someone that you didn't know? You'll have to ask. Now this is quite important when you're going to move in the spirit, you'll need to start asking questions. You ask questions of the Holy Spirit and He shows you things. Okay, so here's a good way to start… gift example….