Clive Urquhart - Engine Room: Strike the Ground

And what do we sense God's doing at the moment? Well, one of the things, God wants to strengthen the engine room in our hearts and lives.

What does that mean? The engine room is your spirit man, and everything flows from your spirit man, from relationship with God, with the Father.

And every one of us has an engine.

A car has an engine.

but the engine's hidden, you can't see it from the outside.

But an engine has a sound.

When you switch the thing on, suddenly there's a sound going and you think, hmm, there's something under there, something in there.

When the engine is running, you know something's happening, and the vehicle can move, it can go somewhere.

When the engine is not running, the vehicle can't go anywhere, it's static, it can't take anyone anywhere.

But if you start the engine, then there's so many possibilities of movement, of travel, of going places, of direction.

And a natural engine needs fuel, petrol or diesel, but your spiritual engine needs fuel, which you've already said, which is the Word and the Spirit.

Now, what is key to any engine inside the engine is oil.

And what is key in our lives is the Holy Spirit, the anointing, the oil, as it's talked about in the Bible.

And what you do with a car, you look after it, you service it, you make sure that the oil is kept fresh and clean.

If you never change the oil, then bits of the engine start to get into the oil and it can shorten the life of the engine.

And so you serve as the thing, you look after it, you take care of the engine.

And it's the same spiritually when we spend time with God and as we are with one another, as we inspire and cultivate each other, what we're doing is we're keeping the oil fresh.

We're keeping the oil clean.

Because oil heats up in an engine and it gets to an incredibly high temperature.

Somebody might be able to know what temperature it runs at in a car.

But engine oil, and it's got to be clean.

It's got to be the right stuff.

And you've got to put the right oil in the right engine for the right car.

And it's the same with our own lives.

What we put into this engine, into this temple, into this life, determines how well the engine does or doesn't run, how effective it is or how much you then cause trouble and strife and angst because of whatever we feed on, whatever we put in, affects the oil.