Words the Holy Spirit Loves!

I apologize for the format of this post. I tried to transfer Pastor Bennets sermon from a PDF to the blog and it came out like this. I will have to get some help to clean it up! The following post is from Pastor Roger Bennet of Martinez, GA and was delivered to his church, with power and love. It is powerful and I am postive you will enjoy it and it will inrich your prayer time with our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. "7 WORDS THE HOLY SPIRIT LOVES - BUT MOST CHRISTIANS NEVER SAY" 1. SURRENDER I am Yours, Lord. Your Word says, "Therefore, I urge you brothers and sisters, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God - this is your true and proper worship" (Romans 12:1). Surrender is when I stop fighting for control and allow God to be God in my life. The Spirit doesn't move through pride or resistance. He moves through yielded hearts that say, "Lord, I let go. I trust you more than myself." I know that trust is not a feeling - but a choice I make as the very foundation of my relationship with You. True surrender is about giving in to the presence, the will, and the flow of the Spirit. It's standing before God and saying, "Not my will, but Yours be done." So, I declare my faith and surrender, Lord, and want You to guide my steps. I know that the Holy Spirit cannot fill my heart if its already full of self. The greatest freedom in life isn't found in having control; it's found in letting go. I know that real victory begins where my striving ends. 2. ABIDE Abide is the word that describes the desire of someone who wants to live in God's presence forever. It's a call to daily connection. The Holy Spirit is looking for those who build their lives around His presence. When I say, "Holy Spirit, I will abide," I'm choosing relationship over routine, intimacy over impulse. Abiding is what turns religion into relationship and duty into delight. When I abide, I start sensing His presence in ordinary moments. I'm choosing faithfulness over feelings. In abiding, my discernment sharpens, my peace deepens, and my strength multiplies. When I abide, I begin to mirror the One I'm close to. His patience becomes mine; His gentleness starts to flow through my tone; His wisdom begins to color my decisions. This is how He transforms me. John 15:4 states, "Abide in Me and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it abides in the vine, so neither can you unless you abide in Me.” To abide is to dwell - not visit - but stay in the Lord's presence. "Holy Spirit, don't just come - stay! 3. YIELD To yield is to allow the Spirit to move, to lead, to speak - even when my own mind doesn't understand what He's doing. Yielding says, "Holy Spirit, I'm not in charge; You are. I'll do what You want to do through me; I give You access and will stop trying to manage Your will, God, and instead simply flow with it." Jesus calls His disciples to leave behind everything and follow Him fully. Yielding reflects my full surrender and my trust in Your sovereignty, Lord - and that I trust that Your plan for me is better than anything I can imagine. Proverbs 3:5,6 says, "Trust in the Lord with all your heart and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight." Prepare me, Holy Spirit, to declare with all my heart, "I will follow You" - trusting Your plan for my life even when the journey may be difficult or require sacrifice. 4. SPEAK John 16:13 says, "But when He, the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into all the truth; for He will not speak on His own initiative, but what He hears, He will speak, and He will disclose what is to come." The Holy Spirit is the breath of God. When I speak in alignment with the Holy Spirit, that same creative power begins to flow through me. The Holy Spirit gives words declaring healing and freedom. "Holy Spirit, speak through me. My voice belongs to You." The more I speak in agreement with His Word, the more heaven begins to manifest around me. So speak life when there is death; speak faith when there is fear; speak love when there is hate, because every time I do, the Holy Spirit breathes through my words and heaven listens. 1 Corinthians 2:12-13 states, "Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may know the things freely given to us by God, which things we also speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit, combining spiritual thoughts with spiritual words." "Speak" means not just to hear, but to release what the Spirit is speaking to and through me. 5. WAIT To wait is to trust God's timing more than my own understanding. In God's kingdom, waiting is working. It's the process through which the Holy Spirit shapes, strengthens and sanctifies me for what's coming. Every great movement of God began with waiting. (Example: the disciples waited in the upper room for the Holy Spirit.) Waiting purifies motives and refines character. It burns away impatience and pride until only trust remains. In waiting, the Holy Spirit is deepening my foundation. "But if we hope for what we do not see, with perseverance we wait eagerly for it" (Romans 8:25) and as I wait in faith and trust, I witness the Holy Spirit move in ways that bring transformation, peace, and divine solutions. 6. LISTEN The Holy Spirit loves when I say, "Speak, Lord, I'm listening." Listening is heaven's language. "Blessed is the man who listens to Me, watching daily at My gates, waiting at My doorposts" (Proverbs 8:34). Listening to the Holy Spirit isn't passive; it's active faith. Sometimes it's a verse rising in my spirit; Other times it's a gentle conviction, a sudden peace or a burden to pray for someone at just the right moment. To listen is to lean in. It's too quiet my thoughts long enough to recognize His. The Spirit speaks in stillness. Revelation doesn't come through repetition; it comes through relationship. His voice always carries peace, even when it challenges me. Listening says I'm available and that humility attracts the presence of God. In moments of confusion, say, "Holy Spirit, I'm listening." Then don't rush to fill the silence because in that sacred stillness, He begins to speak sometimes not with words but with understanding, assurance, or direction that suddenly feels like light breaking through the fog. To listen is to love. It's to give the Spirit the honor of my attention, and when I make listening a habit, I'll never walk in darkness again because His voice will always lead me home. 7. COME "Come" is a word of invitation, humility and longing. It's not a command; it's a cry. The Spirit doesn't invade. He's invited, comes where He's wanted, where hearts make room for His presence. From Genesis to Revelation, the Spirit has always responded to an invitation. When I tell the Holy Spirit, "Come," I'm telling Him, "I can't do this without You." It's the most beautiful declaration of dependence a soul can make. The Spirit never forces His way into a heart. He waits for an invitation. Revival always begins with the sound of "come." It's the sound of desperation turning into worship; of emptiness making space for glory. When the Holy Spirit comes, He comes to heal, to restore, to renew. The Spirit always fills what's empty. He always honors the invitation. So I need to say it often. Say it when I wake up, before the noise of the day begins. Say it when I feel alone, when the weight of life presses down. Say it when I don't know what to pray - "Come Holy Spirit." Those three words melt the wall between heaven and earth. And when that happens, I'll feel it. Because the Spirit never ignores a heart that wants Him. He always comes. This is the life the Holy Spirit longs to build within me - not one of striving but of communion, not of religious effort, but of holy intimacy. PRAY 1. Lord, help me to walk closer with You by surrendering to Your Lordship daily and learning to better abide in Your love and yield to Your leading as You have called me to be your disciple and slave. 2. Lord, Lord speak through me when I have the opportunity to tell others about what a great and loving God you are and to wait for Your still small voice to guide me as I wait for Your direction and not my own desires to minister to others You bring into my path. 3. Precious Jesus, help me to always listening to You in my quiet time and time in Your Word so that I can allow You to work through me the things You have created me to be and do.