This is the podcast of Jonathan David and Melissa Helser.

In this message, Melissa shares stories from raising her children, teaching them to lean into the Holy Spirit and practicing the same as a parent. So today we're going to talk about my favorite thing, the Holy Spirit.

I'm going to talk about leaning into the Holy Spirit. I want to give you some super practical tips.

I want to tell you a lot of stories.

My favorite thing in my life is really my private life. My mother wife life is what I love more than anything.

And I love coming into environments like this

and just really telling stories about my life

because this is where I encounter God the most.

And it's where I actually really learn his nature.

I never I never learn his nature when I'm on a stage because it's not meant for that.

Right? I never I don't really like I'm like right now I'm like right now I'm not

learning his nature I'm actually communicating so I learn his nature in the 98% so that I can stand up here confidently and

communicate to you what I believe. The Holy Spirit has saved my life. Yes, Jesus saved my life, but the gift of the Holy Spirit has absolutely

really rescued me.

I believe that the Holy Spirit was absolutely the crescendo of the cross.

You know, a crescendo in a symphony and an orchestra and music, it's the point where it all develops, right?

And it's just like, baa! I believe the gift of the Holy Spirit was that. It was Jesus saying, I know you want me to stay, but I actually want to get closer than just being with you.

I want to be in you. And I want to go to go beyond just being around you like I actually want to help you. I want to swallow up your

loneliness. When the father told me that the gift of the Holy Spirit was meant to

swallow my loneliness forever, it completely changed my life.

And he told me this in a season where I was really, really sick.

I have a bone disease like I shared the other morning and I've been six since I was 17.

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