Before Jesus left the earth, He kept emphasizing to His disciples the promise of the arrival of the Holy Spirit. This manifestation was going to be the key to getting the message of the gospel out into the world. All of us have a message that we must get out into the world and it is not a message that is so much spoken as it is lived. One of the things we must understand when it comes to fulfilling our purpose in life—when it comes to getting our core message that God has given us to the world—is that we can only do it through the grace that is given by the Holy Spirit.
We have been talking about the Holy Spirit because it’s vital for believers to understand who the Holy Spirit is, how He operates, and how to make sure that we partner with Him in our lives. I believe that we have not done a very good job in the church with teaching the message of transformation and showing people how to partner with the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is the One who has been sent to help us through life and to guide us so that we can accomplish the Will of God and fulfill our purpose.
Pentecostal churches used to put a lot of emphasis on the Holy Spirit, but it was more dealing with manifestations where people spoke in tongues and “felt” some type of way. Then they would respond to the Holy Spirit based on the feeling that they would have. This evolved into the usage of the gifts and the manifestations of the Spirit which came about as a result of tapping into the gifts and graces that the Holy Spirit enables us with. However, in doing all of this, there really wasn’t an emphasis, like there should have been, with regard to our relationship and our walk with the Holy Spirit.
Jesus said that the Holy Spirit would empower us to be witnesses. A witness delivers a message in word, in deed, or through both. The Holy Spirit has been sent to empower us to communicate a message to the world. Often the reason why believers are showing up with a lack of power, not fulfilling this message that God would have them fulfill, not operating in purpose, not being the light, not being the salt, is because they have not cultivated the relationship with the Holy Spirit needed to walk out their destinies.
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As I began to think about our relationship with the Holy Spirit, I thought about a recent issue we have been experiencing. Over the last couple of weeks, we have had trouble streaming our Sunday in-person broadcasts because the building where we are holding services is a very dense and solid structure. Recently, during one of our Sunday livestreams, the broadcast experienced a lot of freezing due to the building itself coupled with the flow of rain that persisted throughout the morning. In checking with internet providers to see what we could do to get a better reception with our present circumstances in mind, we were able to learn a few things.
We found that our bandwidth, (the maximum amount of data transmitted over an internet connection in a given amount of time) could be increased so that our broadcast streamed better. To further explain, bandwidth is often mistaken for internet speed when it is actually “the volume of information that can be sent over a connection in a measured amount of time.”
With these facts about bandwidth and speed in mind, I am reminded that time is a key factor in being able to effectively communicate and execute vision, accomplish tasks, and fulfill purpose. Our present internet challenges have also made me realize some key things as it relates to the Holy Spirit and this next move of God that I believe will be taking place in the earth.
It’s no secret that there is something brewing in the heavenlies and if we don’t want to miss it, we need to understand bandwidth. If you notice, the key factors in our previous definition of bandwidth are speed, capacity, and information. Speed is the amount of time it takes for the information to transmit and capacity is the ability to receive the information being transmitted and the volume of information we can receive. I’d like to relate these three concepts of speed, capacity, and information to more universal terms that can be applied anywhere in our lives: time, space, and matter.
Please note that anything that is manifested in the physical realm has no space, time, or matter in its spiritual state. This is why spiritual things are not limited by time, space, and matter, and neither is God. Although God is not limited by time, space, and matter…we are. Our ability to achieve results in life and be in sync with the Holy Spirit will be determined by our ability to understand, utilize, and maximize time, space, and matter, the three of which I am paralleling with speed, capacity, and information. With the power of the Holy Spirit, we can maximize and even transcend them all.
The Holy Spirit gives us the capacity to do what we need to do in the time that we need to do it. When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place. “All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them.” Acts 2:1, 4 (NIV)
The Holy Spirit is an enabler. He is here to enable us to do some amazing things!
Join me for the next parts of this message as I will provide some illustrations, Scriptures, and analogies to help this revelation be imparted into you and to prove to you the limitless possibilities we have when we partner with the Holy Spirit:
Get more of this teaching by staying tuned to this page as there are more parts that will be published. Also, listen to my podcast Mastering Your Message and to this episode, Partnering with the Holy Spirit: Being an Effective Witness HERE.
Dr. Kisia Coleman serves as the Lead Pastor of Empowered People Church and the Co-Founder of Kingdom Church Int’l. Ministries, a non-denominational Christian ministry in which she and her husband founded. Her job has encompassed many roles in leadership and the organization’s development. She is a Certified Life and Leadership Coach and the Founder of KishKnows, Inc., which has several divisions including consulting, coaching, and book publishing services. Dr. Kisia is also the author of several books and stage productions. In both October 2012 and October 2013, she was the proud recipient of the Literary Award given by A.I.M. (Association of Independent Ministries) out of Houston, Texas.
Dr. Kisia and her husband live in a suburb of Chicago and are the blessed parents of five children: two boys and three girls, which include two orphaned nieces and a nephew that they have raised since the untimely deaths of the children’s parents.
DR. KISIA L. COLEMAN
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