As you receive ministry in the church, listen to what the Lord says. The Lord will prompt you by His Holy Spirit. He will be filling you with good things. When you are confronted by situations, listen. You will hear the Lord speaking to you. We were at the market one Saturday and I saw an acquaintance sitting on the bench opposite. I gave him a wave, not really wanting to go over to him. I did not want to get involved in conversation. He waved back and immediately I felt the Lord urging, "Speak to him." I did not want to, but because you come to know the voice of the Lord, you know you must do what He says. Jesus said that His sheep would know His voice. So I went over and sat down next to him and began to talk to him. Now I do not know what the outcome of that situation will be, but the word has again been sown. Some time ago, the Lord spoke to us here, in this church, in an open meeting, that we would be ministering to gypsies before there were any around. Eventually a large group arrived and when we got the witness that these were the ones, we went and sang and spoke to them. And what did we discover? They had already been discussing, the previous night, where the Bible came from and how it was written. Again the seed was sown. The Lord speaks; we must listen.

Rejoice together in the fellowship the Lord has brought you into. Sometimes, maybe, we allow ourselves to be drunk with the wine of this world, with activities and so on, and then we do not get filled. The Holy Spirit cannot then move and operate in our lives. The Lord says to us, "Be still: be still and know that I am God." We can spend so much time complaining to the Lord that He does not seem to be doing anything in our lives; but He urges us to be still and know that He is God. If we listen, we will hear the voice of the Lord. Without Him we can do nothing. So if you want the solution to all these practical issues and problems of the Christian life, let the Holy Spirit fill you. If you are not full of the Holy Spirit, seek that blessing. It is yours; it is a gift from God. Be baptised in the Holy Spirit. Know that fulness within. Get thrilled with Jesus; the Holy Spirit will thrill you with Jesus. Then go on letting the Holy Spirit fill you with Jesus and all the wonderful treasures of wisdom and knowledge that are in Him. Keep on being filled by the Holy Spirit!

And now a benediction:

"Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Spirit." Romans 15 v 13