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Encounter the presence and power of the Holy Spirit.

I want to give you my process for how I position myself to more clearly hear the voice of the Holy Spirit.

First thing you're going to do,

and this isn't going to sound very spiritual, but it's actually deeply spiritual. And that is,

number one, you're going to relax. So many times our minds become filled with fears and questions

and doubts. And this makes it difficult for us to pay attention to the voice of the Holy Spirit.

In fact, some Christians develop what I call religious OCD. And maybe you've experienced

something like this where you get a thought that comes to your mind and then you obsess over

that thought thinking, is this God telling me this? Is the Lord instructing me to do that or say that or go there?

And so then we get all worked up with ourselves.

We get all worked up emotionally.

And in that tension, it's actually pretty difficult

to discern the voice of the Holy Spirit.

Take a look at this in 1 Samuel chapter 3.

This is really interesting.

Meanwhile, the boy Samuel served the Lord by assisting Eli.

Now, in those days, messages from the Lord were very rare, and visions were quite uncommon.

So people aren't often hearing the voice of the Holy Spirit in these days.

Verse 2 says, one night, Eli, who was almost blind by now, had gone to bed,

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