How can Jesus say that it is better that He go away so that He could send His Spirit? Wouldn't Jesus in the flesh be better than a Spirit that you can't see or touch? This episode is a sample sermon on John 14 and 1 Thessalonians 5:16-19 that models how to discuss the role of the Holy Spirit today in relationship to prayer with conservative evangelical Christians and how to lead large groups to listen in prayer. 

This sample sermon models how our team helps conservative evangelical Christians to re-consider what the Bible has to say about the Role of the Holy Spirit and then in the same service model what it looks like for the Holy Spirit to lead, guide, teach, remind, and show things to come (Jn. 14-16).

Note: Prayer is located at: [00:27:09]-[00:34:35]

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The Holy Spirit and Prayer (Sample Sermon and Prayer)

[00:00:00] Don Love: This is the New Covenant. That's better than the Old Covenant! And it's not just about having the Bible. It's about having God with us, Emanuel, indwelling us. The Spirit of God is inside of us. There's something powerful about this. It's not just about Jesus dying for our sins that we can go to heaven someday, and we need to preach the gospel till he comes. It's about the Spirit of God, abiding in us and us in Him, it's not about just us moving into the father's house someday. It's us having fellowship with the Father and the Son through the Spirit until that day that we move into that house.

[00:00:58] Don Love: Part of our ministry at pray through it as speaking to conservative churches about prayer and the role of the Holy Spirit demonstrating the biblical foundation of conversational prayer (that's both speaking and listening in prayer). And how this listening in prayer is so essential to experience inner healing and intimacy with God Recently, what's been especially exciting is the churches that we have been speaking in more and more, are churches led by pastors whom first experienced life changed through praying through things with us, then planted seeds by unashamedly sharing their testimony of struggle and healing with their congregations, and then, at the proper time invited us not only to speak, but to begin helping to develop their prayer teams. You heard last episode from one of those pastors. In this episode, we want to share a sample sermon with you where we open up the Gospel of John and 1 Thessalonians to discuss the relationship between the role of the Holy Spirit and praying without ceasing. Then the sermon and the episode concludes as we model what it looks like to lead a whole church to listen in prayer, for the first time.

[00:02:08] Dale Pierce: You will be blessed this morning by this couple by what they have to bring I met Don probably four or five years ago now at one of the Word and Spirit gatherings in the free church in Knoxville. And we were doing some listening prayer together, and Don kind of stepped in and I was praying with Don over a man next to me. And as Don prayed, he was helping this man kind of unpack some of his things and reflecting with the father over some things that were going on in his heart. And I could hear things going on in my heart, reflecting on what this guy was saying as Don, was leading Him. And through that time, I actually was healed of some of the sin and brokenness that was in my heart as Don was praying for this guy. And that's where our friendship kind of kicked off. And Jen and I had been a part of some things that they've done with Christ Community up in Greeley. And so it's just a privilege to be able to have someone come who will help us lean into not only who the Holy Spirit is or how God wants to work in us through that, but how we can listen to Him for ourselves and help others in that regard as well. And so I'm excited to have Don and Jennifer here. Don,