One of the things as we’re coming down the stretch that we can’t get too jacked up over in these last days is signs and wonders; amen?  They’re going to be prolific.  Jesus warns in the last days when men begin to say in these last hours, when people are desperate, “Behold, the Lord is over here!”  Amen?  And people will run to that great miracle-worker, whoever it could be for the hour, and, “Lo, he’s here!” and they run over.  Let me remind you where the Lord is: we are the temple of the Holy Ghost.  You want me to tell you where God is?  He’s inside you.  Amen?  And you don’t need to run around chasing Him by chasing some personality.  God and His Word are one.

You want to have some time with God?  Here it is, right here. (Holds up Bible.)  He said He’s always present.  The Holy Ghost…  Jesus said, “It’s necessary that I go away.  If I don’t, the Comforter will not be sent to you.”  What is this Comforter going to do?  Well, we know the word itself, Paraclete—it talks about the fact that it’s someone who comes alongside and becomes an advocate for us.  The Comforter is an advocate for us.  He is one that comes alongside to give ballast, to stabilize our lives; He’s one that comes to teach us and to bring to remembrance all things that the Lord had said.  He is our divine helper, praise God!  All of these things that the Holy Ghost does.

The Holy Spirit can be offended, He can be grieved, He can be quenched.  Oh, that we would know the fervency of the Holy Ghost!  Amen?  For something to be quenched, it needs to be hot, it needs to be on fire.  We need to get on fire for God.  We need to be pliable; we need that white-hot heat that makes as malleable into the image of Jesus Christ.  That person of the Holy Spirit, in this hour of weariness and torment and trials brings refreshing, praying in the Spirit, hallelujah!  Amen?

This is the refreshing: praying in the Holy Ghost.  Oh, thank God!  So many Christians don’t even know anything about praying in the Holy Ghost.  Praying in the Holy Ghost is not just praying in other tongues.  Paul writes plenty of that.  We know that when we pray in tongues, we speak not unto men but unto God; amen?  We know that when we pray in the Holy Ghost, the Bible tells us, we give thanks well.  You can’t praise God any better than when you’re praying in tongues, praying in the Holy Ghost.  It is pure worship because it’s from spirit to spirit.  Paul said, “I thank my God that I pray with tongues more than all of you.”  Do you?  I know many of us, as we go through the day, constantly praying under your breath in the Holy Ghost; amen?  Pray without ceasing, the Scripture says.

That love, that passion, that obsession with the presence of God.  I am so obsessed with the face of God, with the presence of God, that nothing else can distract me.  Are you walking in the Spirit?  That’s walking in the Spirit.  Now, when I say that, I don’t mean that we have to be physically, at all times, able to hear ourselves pray or involved in a ministry of some kind of articulating the gospel.  But this is the refreshing, praying in the Holy Ghost, just constantly communing with the Holy Ghost.  He lives inside of us; spirit to spirit, we’re communing with Him.  The Holy Spirit, Who is constantly reminding us and encouraging us that we are the sons of God; amen?  You see, that’s one of His roles.  We’re sealed in the Holy Ghost.  He comes and reminds us that no man can pluck us from the Lord’s hand, (praise God!) that we’ve been bought with a price, the precious blood of Jesus.