Wednesday Service | THE HOLY SPIRIT | Part 4: Divine Encounters | Pastor Bernard Kirabira

[1] Last week we looked at Key People

Abraham was a Key Person to Ishmael and Haggar had to come back to the home to have the child born.

[2] Key

Genesis 28:10

Jacob left Beersheba and set out for Harran. 11When he reached a certain place, he stopped for the night because the sun had set. Taking one of the stones there, he put it under his head and lay down to sleep. 12He had a dream in which he saw a stairway resting on the earth, with its top reaching to heaven, and the angels of God were ascending and descending on it. 13There above it c stood the Lord, and he said: “I am the Lord, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac. I will give you and your descendants the land on which you are lying.

• Jacob is a Key person that gets to a Key place

• There is a place ordained for you to encounter God

• Notice that when Jacob got there, angels began by ascending, then descending. Angels had been waiting for him to arrive

• The Holy Spirit leads you to your key place

[3] Key

Exodus 17:10

So Joshua fought the Amalekites as Moses had ordered, and Moses, Aaron and Hur went to the top of the hill. 11As long as Moses held up his hands, the Israelites were winning, but whenever he lowered his hands, the Amalekites were winning.

• This was a Historical battle to prove what God had promised His people.

You need to ask:

• What territory do I gain in this battle?

• What is the power shift in this battle

• Does this battle mark a turning point?

• Is this battle decisive of Victory or Defeat?

• The Holy Spirit will lead you into a battle or even out of a battle.

[4] Key

Matthew 1:20 (NIV)

20 But after he had considered this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, “Joseph son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary home as your wife, because what is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit.

Matthew 2:12-14 (NIV)

12 And having been warned in a dream not to go back to Herod, they returned to their country by another route.

13 When they had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream. “Get up,” he said, “take the child and his mother and escape to Egypt. Stay there until I tell you, for Herod is going to search for the child to kill him.”

14 So he got up, took the child and his mother during the night and left for Egypt,

Why Key insights?

• You make preemptive moves

• You get solutions to complex issues.

• Strategize for future opportunities.

• Gain Preeminence in every situation

[5] Key

The story of the 10 virgins in Matthew 25

2 Kings 2:9-10 (NIV)

⁹ When they had crossed, Elijah said to Elisha, “Tell me, what can I do for you before I am taken from you?”

“Let me inherit a double portion of your spirit,” Elisha replied.

¹⁰ “You have asked a difficult thing,” Elijah said, “yet if you see me when I am taken from you, it will be yours—otherwise, it will not.”

• A moment might return after another 10 years