07/19/2026
What are you carrying??
Let me start this morning with a question. What are you carrying around?
All of us will carry something in this life, and we will choose what we will carry. Some of us will carry guilt, shame, unforgiveness, jealousy, rage, anger, hatred.
But some of us will carry love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, Self- Control.
Can I tell you today that you get to choose which of these you cerry around with you.
Why be broke busted and disgusted. When you can be blessed and highly favored.
You can choose joy or misery. Forgiveness, or non-forgiveness
Honor or shame.
Peace or distress.
Happiness or anger.
You get to choose what you carry inside of you.
If you are Christian, then the Holy Spirit lives inside of you.
A Christian can carry the Holy Spirit and still struggle with sadness, depression and other emotions that are not from God.
We are carrying the Holy spirit inside of us and we need to ask the Holy spirit to help us with our emotions, problems, struggles and failures. That is what he is there to do.
Jesus said he would send the comforter.
John 14:16 KJV
And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;
The Holy Spirit is there to teach us and help us. But so many Christians are not using him. Why not use what Jesus has given us
Remember the woman at the well. She was carrying guilt, shame, sadness, depression. But when she had an encounter with Jesus, she left his presence with joy, hope and happiness.
She received the Holy Spirit that day. She left her water pot. She left the guilt, shame, sadness and depression behold and took the Holy Spirit with her. WOW what a trade.
She become an evangelist. She was the first woman evangelist.
Mary Magdalene would become the second woman evangelist.
You're going to carry something in this life. Choose to carry the good things.
Let the Holy Spirit help you with your faults and failures. Ask him for help.