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Hey guys, welcome to Supernatural Saturday.

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If this is your very first one, it's going to be a doozy.

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It's going to be great.

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This is the day of the week where we gather as a community and we look to heaven.

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Not that we don't do that on our prayer times, but we're really just expecting God to show

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up and give us the current prophetic reality.

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What is the current prophetic reality?

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What is it?

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Whatever it is that we are experiencing in our life, our circumstances, it's something

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more than that.

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And so this is the day when we let go of whatever it is that we've been thinking about, that

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we've been feeling, that we've been seeing possibly, and we ask God to show us, how are

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you feeling?

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What are you thinking?

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What are you seeing?

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And today we're going to talk about Pentecost.

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Guys, the Jews have feasts, right?

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And I celebrate most of those feasts, just so you know, because I believe that when the

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new comes, the old doesn't get thrown out.

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I believe that they're all pieces of a big, beautiful, amazing puzzle, right?

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Jesus said, I haven't come to do away with the law of the prophets.

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I've come to fulfill it.

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And so tomorrow is something called the Feast of Pentecost, and we're going to talk about

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that in a second.

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But what does that mean to us as Christians?

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I'm going to give you guys a little bit of background about Pentecost for those of you

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that are not aware of it.

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Guys, I was just thinking this morning, something really unusual happened to me.

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You guys know that I met Jesus in my twenties, right?

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But I had lots of touch points with him during my adolescence.

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Touch points just mean a time when I came into proximity to people that possibly knew

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Jesus.

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My grandmother was a Christian.

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She was actually what they call a Pentecostal, so a Pentecostal Christian, which just means

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that she was charismatic.

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She was part of that church where the women wear skirts and everyone speaks in tongues

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really loud.

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And I spent a summer, actually, I think two summers with my grandmother.

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And so I got exposed to that while living with my grandmother.

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Of course, you know, she went to church like seven times a week, it felt like.

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But also my grandmother had a lot of hard work to do.

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Has anyone else ever experienced this, that some of the touch points that you have with

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Christianity growing up, yeah, people were professed Christians.

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They may have been even some real spiritual people, but they also had a whole lot of hard

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work to do.

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They might've been mean, they might've been bitter, they might have been gossips.

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They might have been physically, mentally, or verbally abusive, but at the same time

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professing Christ.

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Raise your hand if you had a little bit of a dichotomy like that.

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Let's see all those hands up.

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Because I'm loud and proud, it happens, it happens.

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And so I was really intrigued by the things that I heard at my grandma's church.

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I was intrigued.

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I feel like God was already wooing my little heart, but also being the kind of person that

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I am and the way that God has created me, the disparity, the difference, and I'm going

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to try to say that word at seven o'clock in the morning on the Pacific coast.

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The difference between those two things, my husband's laughing at me, the difference between

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those two things, it wasn't lost on me, even as a child.

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I was like, hmm, is this really true?

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Because if it was true, then why are these people so mean?

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And so a lot of us, we had arrested development spiritually because of that reason.

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I probably could have met Jesus in a profound way like I did in my twenties a lot sooner

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had there not been that difference.

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There was definitely some things happening there that were causing me to think, hmm,

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I don't really know if there's anything to this.

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So my grandma's Pentecostal.

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And so I was around that and this is the thing that I was thinking about this morning.

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So my mom, everything kind of makes sense now, right?

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My mom, every time she would get into a crisis, every time she would get in over her head,

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which was lots of times actually, she would drag us to some Pentecostal church.

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Why?

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Because she was raised that way.

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But guess who also thought that if this was really real, then these people wouldn't be

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so mean?

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My mother, probably, because she was raised by those folks, right?

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So when she was 18 years old, she got the heck out of Dodge.

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She's like, I'm out of here.

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And that's probably why my mom never wore dresses.

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That's probably why every time my mom got in this situation, she was like, I'm out of

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some sort of situation she would go to church

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because she obviously thought God was punishing her.

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So she was trying to go back

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and kind of make amends with him, right?

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Because she ran away from the church.

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So that's why all these bad things are happening in her life.

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So let's just drag my two little kids to church.

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Let's try to be a church family.

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But let me just tell you guys something.

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It never lasted very long at all.

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Not at all.

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We go to church for a few weeks, maybe a month,

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month and a half.

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My mom would get mad about something, we'd be gone.

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And the thing is,

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I didn't know what was happening in the grownup world.

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So I didn't know what she was getting mad about.

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I just knew that she didn't wanna go to church anymore.

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And I was kind of okay with it

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because church happens early in the morning

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and you gotta get dressed up.

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With this kind of church, you gotta get dressed up.

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Gotta wear dresses and all the things.

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And I had shorter hair.

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I definitely cut my hair.

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I've always worn my hair pretty long,

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but not as long as these girls, y'all.

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These girls are like Crystal Gale.

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These girls have hair down to their feet.

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I don't know what's going on with these girls.

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Okay?

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They braided all the way down

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and then they'd wrap that braid around their head

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like 50 times.

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But during one of these little stints

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when we were going to church,

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I remember staying after church

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because there was something called Bible quizzing.

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Does anyone know what this is?

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There's this Bible quizzing thing

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where young people sit around and they memorize the Bible

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and then there's like a game that you play

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where the moderator asks questions

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and whoever hits the buzzer first

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and has the answer wins.

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So I stayed after church

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because I was interested in this Bible quizzing thing

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because it sounded interesting to me.

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And guess what chapter of the Bible they were memorizing?

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Acts chapter two,

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which you guys are about to see if you don't already know

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that that is the birth of the church,

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that that is what Pentecost is all about.

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That is when the Jews celebrate the feast of Pentecost,

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this is what they're celebrating, Acts chapter two.

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I don't think it was a coincidence, you guys.

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And I was this many days old

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when I put those two things together

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that I happen to stay after that church,

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that day at that church that we went to briefly

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for this event of memorizing the book of Acts chapter two.

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And I still to this day can quote most of it.

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Very interesting, right?

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God was already teaching me

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about the power of the Holy Spirit.

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He's already teaching me things.

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And so a lot of us,

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we have a lot of touch points in our life

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that we're not even aware of.

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We're not really aware of those things,

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but God has been speaking to us.

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He has been leading us and guiding us all of our lives.

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I just want you to sit in that

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for just one second this morning.

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Let's just sit there for just one second.

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God has been leading you and guiding you,

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protecting you, loving you all of your life.

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All of your life, all of your life.

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Even when you didn't know it, you didn't see it,

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you didn't know him and know God.

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I didn't.

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Yes, Lord, we thank you for this.

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All right, somebody needs to hear that this morning.

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They need to remember that truth

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because they feel like they're all alone.

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You feel like you're all alone.

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You feel like you've been abandoned, which is not possible.

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It's not that God wouldn't abandon us.

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It's not possible for him to abandon us.

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I want you to wrap your head around that.

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It's not that he wouldn't, because a lot of times, okay,

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it's like, well, I don't really believe

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in the character of God, that he is good yet,

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that he's a good father.

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Okay, he's a good father.

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He is good yet, that he's a good father.

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Okay, so if you're struggling there,

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then you need to just wrap your head around the fact

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that God cannot abandon you because you're inside of him.

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Okay, all of us right now.

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We are dwelling, we are living, we are abiding inside of him.

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So he can't abandon you because he's everywhere,

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all around you.

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And today we're gonna talk about him living in us

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in the form of Holy Spirit.

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It's great to have God around us,

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but we wanna have God in us.

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We wanna invite the indwelling of the spirit.

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And I'm about to tell you about my experience with that,

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but first I'm gonna read about it.

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So let's go to John 14,

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because some people just,

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they need this refresher,

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or maybe they never knew.

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John chapter 14,

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and these are verses 15 through 31.

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This is Jesus promising Holy Spirit

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to the people that were dwelling with him on earth,

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his disciples and his followers.

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If you love me, keep my commands,

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and I will ask the Father,

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and he will give you another,

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an advocate to help you and be with you forever.

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The spirit of truth,

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the world cannot accept him

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because it neither sees him nor knows him,

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but you know him for he lives with you

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and will be in you.

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Come on, y'all.

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I will not leave you as orphans.

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I will come to you.

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Before long, the world will not see me anymore.

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Jesus is talking about him as physical body,

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the man Jesus.

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Before long, the world will not see me anymore,

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but you will see me because I live,

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and you also will live.

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And on that day, you will realize that I am in my Father

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and you are in me and I am in you.

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And whoever has my commands and keeps them

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is the one who loves me.

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The one who loves me will be loved by my Father,

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and I too will love them and show myself to them.

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And then Judas said, but Lord,

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and by the way, you guys, this was not Judas the betrayer.

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It was a different Judas.

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So we see this is not just the 12 disciples

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that he's talking to.

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But Lord, why do you intend to show yourself to us

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and not to the world?

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And Jesus replied, anyone who loves me

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will obey my teachings.

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My Father will love them and we will come to them

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and make our home with them.

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Anyone who does not love me will not obey my teachings.

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These words you hear are not my own.

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They belong to the Father who sent me.

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And all this I have spoken while I'm still with you.

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But the advocate, the Holy Spirit,

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whom the Father will send in my name,

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will teach you all things and will remind you

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of everything I have said to you.

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Guys, look at that.

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Will teach you all things and will remind you

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of everything I have said to you.

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Peace I leave with you.

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My peace I give to you.

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Okay, we gotta remember to mute guys when we come on.

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Peace I leave with you.

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My peace I give to you.

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I do not give to you as the world gives.

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Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.

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You heard me say I'm going away and I'm coming back to you.

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If you loved me, you would be glad

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that I'm going to the Father

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for the Father is greater than I.

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I have told you now before it happens

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so that when it does happen, you will believe.

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I will not say much more to you

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for the Prince of this world is coming,

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but he has no hold over me.

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But he comes so that the world may learn

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that I love the Father and do exactly

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what my Father has commanded me.

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Come now, let us leave.

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Okay, so we see that Jesus is telling them,

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hey, he's telling them I'm about to die, right?

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The Prince of the world is coming.

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I'm gonna be betrayed.

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I'm gonna be crucified.

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But he says here, I'm gonna live.

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Because I live, you will also live.

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Saying I'm gonna rise again.

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He's also telling them that I'm gonna give you someone

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that's not just with you.

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Like I'm with you right now, okay?

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We're traveling this earth together.

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I'm in this flesh suit along with you.

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And I'm teaching you things

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and I'm leading you and guiding you.

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But I can't be inside of you.

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He said, but you're gonna know him

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and he's gonna live with you and he's gonna live in you.

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He's gonna be inside of you.

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Who?

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This advocate, this comforter, this teacher

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that's gonna teach you all things,

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the spirit of truth that the world cannot receive

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but you can receive.

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And he's gonna teach you all things

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and he's gonna remind you of everything

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that I have said to you.

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That shows you right there, friends,

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that Holy Spirit cannot speak of himself

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but only speak of Jesus.

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He can only speak of what Jesus has said.

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And so if you ever feel like Holy Spirit

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is telling you something that does not come into alignment

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with the written, the Logos word of God,

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then it's not Holy Spirit.

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Because don't forget, friends,

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there's a whole spiritual realm all around us right now.

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There's a spiritual realm, the unseen realm.

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You can't see it but it's here and it's full of spirits.

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Hopefully that doesn't freak anybody out

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but it's full of spirits.

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We get so busy with our lives, our natural lives,

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you know, our getting up and lying down

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and eating and drinking and running around

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and doing the things that we forget

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that there's a spiritual war going on all around us.

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There's all kinds of spiritual movement

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happening all around us every single day.

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Do you think that you just get up

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and pop out of bed and go about your day?

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on your own?

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Do you think you're by yourself?

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You're not by yourself.

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There's angelic beings that are with you.

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They're going with you, right now.

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Right now, all around you, they're there.

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There's angels that are assigned to you.

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Their assignment is you.

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As long as you're walking on this earth realm,

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those angels are assigned to you.

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Some of them are assigned to be with you every day,

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possibly one, two, I don't know.

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But then there's angels that come to you

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during different seasons and assignments as well.

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So we're not gonna teach about angels today,

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but it's important for you to understand

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that there's stuff happening all around you

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that you can't see and sense.

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Now, I know a lot of people are like,

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the devil's after me, Jackie.

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The devil's after me.

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I got it, I get you.

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And it feels like that sometimes,

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but I promise you, the actual devil, okay?

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The devil, the Lucifer, the angel that fell from heaven,

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Beelzebub, all right?

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Him, he is not after you,

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meaning that you probably are never gonna come in contact

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with him while you're on this earth, him.

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But remember, there were a lot of other angelic beings

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that also got booted from heaven on that day, right?

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Lots of them.

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They're like a third of heaven or something,

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and who knows how many angels there were to begin with.

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So yeah, are you gonna come into contact

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with some opposing forces?

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Would you possibly come into contact

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with someone who's given themselves fully over

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to some kind of demonic possession?

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Remember that Bible story where Jesus shows up on the shore

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and he steps one foot on the shore out of the boat,

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and the man from the tombs, the man of the Gadarenes,

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the maniac, the demoniac that they couldn't chain up

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because he was so strong,

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that he was out there naked, cutting himself, wailing.

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As soon as Jesus steps on the land

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that this demoniac is dwelling in,

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the demoniac runs to Jesus.

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That shows you that greater is he that is in you

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than he that is in the world.

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We're not talking about Jesus when we say

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greater is he that is in you,

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we're talking about Holy Spirit.

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So don't be afraid of the opposing forces

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is what I'm trying to say, okay?

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When you're with God and you're in alignment with God,

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and you are filled with the Spirit of God,

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you don't have anything to worry about.

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Jesus already said, I'm seated in heavenly places

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and my foes have become my footstool.

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So that man, that precious man that was possessed

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with the Bible, that was possessed with the Holy Spirit,

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that man that was possessed with the Bible said,

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a legion of devils ran and threw himself at Jesus' feet.

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Even those demons weren't strong enough to keep that man,

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that human person from running to his deliverer.

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And Jesus told them to go and they went into the pigs.

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You guys remember this story, right?

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I saw a funny cartoon where the pigs are just hanging out

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and they're like, what, no.

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Anyway, so friends, Holy Spirit,

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people are like, do you need the Holy Spirit

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to go to heaven, Jackie?

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You need the Holy Spirit to go to Walmart, friend.

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You need the Holy Spirit to go anywhere.

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Holy Spirit, can't live in this world without Holy Spirit.

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Okay, so this is the scripture, John 14,

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if you guys wanna go back and read it, 15 through 31,

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just talking about Jesus telling his followers,

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not just his disciples, that's important,

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not just his disciples, but his followers

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that he was going to send this advocate, this comforter,

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this counselor, this teacher, this spirit of truth

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that was gonna remind them and teach them

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to continue in Jesus' words and remind them

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of everything that Jesus has spoken.

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And so I love that about Holy Spirit,

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always bringing to our minds the goodness of God,

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always bringing to our minds the words of Jesus.

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Love that so much.

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Okay, so let's skip to Acts chapter one.

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This is where Jesus has been crucified, he has risen,

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and now he's spending some extra time with his followers

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before he ascends into heaven.

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So a lot of people don't know this,

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but after Jesus rose from the dead,

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he actually continued to teach his followers

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for a specific amount of time,

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for 40 days before he ascended into heaven.

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And that is why from Easter to Pentecost,

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there's how many days?

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That's what we're celebrating, you guys.

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We're celebrating that, yes, after Jesus rose from the dead,

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he stayed on earth.

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continued to teach his disciples, and then he ascended.

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Okay, and then after he ascended, let's talk about this.

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Acts 1, 5, let's see.

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Trying to get where Jesus, hold on one sec.

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Okay.

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For John baptized with water, but in a few days,

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you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.

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Then they gathered around him and asked him,

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Lord, are you at this time going to restore

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the kingdom to Israel?

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He said, it is not for you to know the times or dates

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the father has set by his own authority,

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but you will receive power when the Holy Spirit

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comes on you and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem

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and in all Judea and Samaria and to the ends of the earth.

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And after he said this, he was taken up

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before their very eyes and a cloud hid them from his sight.

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Taken up before their very eyes and a cloud hid him

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from their sight.

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They were looking intently up into the sky

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as he was going when suddenly two men dressed in white,

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angels, stood beside them.

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Men of Galilee, they said, why do you stand here

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looking into the sky?

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This same Jesus who has been taken from you into heaven

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will come back in the same way you have seen him

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go to heaven.

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Then the apostles returned to Jerusalem from the hill

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called the Mount of Olives, a Sabbath day's walk

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from the city.

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When they arrived, they went upstairs to the room

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where they were staying.

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Those present were Peter, John, James, Andrew, Philip

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and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew,

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James son of Alphaeus and Simon the Zealot

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and Judas son of James.

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They all joined together constantly in prayer

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along with the women and Mary.

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Ladies, we were there too.

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And the mother of Jesus with his brothers.

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Okay, you guys, so you see here that Jesus told them

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to go and tarry.

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Okay, the angels told them, hey, go, go and wait.

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You're gonna see him come back again the way that he came.

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And the Bible says that they were told to go and wait

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until they were in dune with power from on high.

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And they went into the upper room and they began to pray.

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They began to tarry there.

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And they were told to go and wait

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until they were in dune with power from on high.

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And they went back there.

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Okay, they began to contend and tarry

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until what happens next.

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And so in the second book of Acts,

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we see the Holy Spirit comes.

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When the day of Pentecost came,

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they were all together in one place

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and suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind

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came from heaven and filled the whole house

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where they were sitting.

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They saw what seemed to be tongues of fire

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that separated and came to rest on each of them.

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All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit

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as the Spirit enabled them.

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Now they were staying in Jerusalem,

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God fearing Jews from every nation under heaven.

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When they heard this, a crowd came together in bewilderment

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because each one heard their own language being spoken.

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Utterly amazed, they asked,

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aren't all these who are speaking Galileans?

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Then how is it that each of us hears them

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in our native language?

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There was Parthians and Medes and Elamites and Mesopotamia,

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Judea, Cappadocia, Pontus, Asia, Phrygia, Pamphylia,

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Egypt and parts of Libya near Cyrene,

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visitors from Rome, both Jews and converts to Judaism,

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Cretans and Arabs.

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We hear them declaring the wonders of God in our own tongues.

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Amazed and perplexed, they asked one another,

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what does this mean?

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Some, however, made fun of them and said,

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hey, these guys have had too much wine.

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Then Peter stood up with the 11, raised his voice

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and said, all of you who dwell in Jerusalem,

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let me explain this to you

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and listen carefully to what I have to say.

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These people are not drunk, as you suppose,

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seeing it's only nine o'clock in the morning.

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No, this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel.

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In the last days, God says,

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I will pour out my spirit upon all people

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and your sons and your daughters will prophesy.

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Your young men will see visions

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00:24:24.440 --> 00:24:26.080
and your old men will dream dreams.

516
00:24:26.080 --> 00:24:28.400
Even on my servants, both men and women,

517
00:24:28.400 --> 00:24:30.120
I will pour out my spirit in those days

518
00:24:30.120 --> 00:24:31.640
and they will prophesy.

519
00:24:31.640 --> 00:24:33.400
I will show wonders in the heavens above

520
00:24:33.400 --> 00:24:35.160
and signs on the earth below,

521
00:24:35.160 --> 00:24:38.120
blood and fire and billows of smoke.

522
00:24:38.120 --> 00:24:41.080
The sun will be turned into darkness and the moon to blood

523
00:24:41.080 --> 00:24:43.840
before the coming of the great and glorious day of the Lord.

524
00:24:43.840 --> 00:24:46.080
And everyone who calls on the name of the Lord

525
00:24:46.080 --> 00:24:48.520
will be saved.

526
00:24:48.520 --> 00:24:50.680
And then he goes on to talk about Jesus,

527
00:24:50.680 --> 00:24:51.960
that they crucified.

528
00:24:51.960 --> 00:24:52.800
Guys, you have to remember,

529
00:24:52.800 --> 00:24:56.720
Peter's in Jerusalem where all this went down.

530
00:24:56.720 --> 00:25:00.120
Jesus was betrayed, arrested, crucified.

531
00:25:00.000 --> 00:25:08.680
Peter, the one that denied Christ three times after he was arrested, Jesus said, hey, you're

532
00:25:08.680 --> 00:25:10.480
going to deny me, Peter.

533
00:25:10.480 --> 00:25:11.480
You're going to deny me.

534
00:25:11.480 --> 00:25:13.400
You're going to deny that you even know me.

535
00:25:13.400 --> 00:25:15.600
You're going to try to save yourself.

536
00:25:15.600 --> 00:25:17.080
You think that you would do anything for me.

537
00:25:17.080 --> 00:25:18.200
You think that you would die for me.

538
00:25:18.200 --> 00:25:20.720
But really what you're going to do is you're going to hide in fear.

539
00:25:20.720 --> 00:25:22.360
And why was that, friends?

540
00:25:22.360 --> 00:25:28.320
The reason why is because Peter had not been filled with the Holy Spirit yet.

541
00:25:28.960 --> 00:25:31.560
Guys, the flesh is weak, but the spirit is willing.

542
00:25:31.560 --> 00:25:32.840
That's what the Bible says.

543
00:25:36.080 --> 00:25:38.680
Falling after the spirit is life and peace.

544
00:25:38.680 --> 00:25:41.880
Falling after the flesh is death.

545
00:25:41.880 --> 00:25:45.620
Peter had not been endued with power from on high.

546
00:25:45.620 --> 00:25:51.360
He was just doing the best that he could as Peter, the man in his flesh.

547
00:25:51.360 --> 00:25:53.520
And he was scared.

548
00:25:53.520 --> 00:25:54.680
And we're not going to fault him for that.

549
00:25:54.680 --> 00:25:56.360
We would have been scared too.

550
00:25:56.440 --> 00:25:59.640
I know that we'd like to think we would do something different, but we're all

551
00:25:59.640 --> 00:26:03.320
filled with the Holy Spirit now, or most of us are.

552
00:26:03.320 --> 00:26:04.720
Now, let's talk about the Holy Spirit.

553
00:26:04.720 --> 00:26:07.800
So, Holy Spirit is always with us.

554
00:26:07.800 --> 00:26:12.640
I can look back in my life and see all the times when there was divine

555
00:26:12.640 --> 00:26:16.160
intervention, whether it was angelic intervention or whether it was Holy

556
00:26:16.160 --> 00:26:22.840
Spirit speaking to me, but I really didn't know who he was yet, okay?

557
00:26:22.840 --> 00:26:25.960
Because remember, I had these touch points.

558
00:26:25.960 --> 00:26:30.480
I had these touch points where even as a child, I gave my life to Jesus.

559
00:26:30.480 --> 00:26:32.960
I didn't meet Jesus, but I gave my life to him.

560
00:26:32.960 --> 00:26:36.960
I said the sinner's prayer when I was a child at my grandma's church.

561
00:26:36.960 --> 00:26:42.480
I was even baptized in water, but I didn't get any more information.

562
00:26:42.480 --> 00:26:45.600
And there's a lot of us that have gotten to a certain place.

563
00:26:45.600 --> 00:26:49.320
Remember, we've been talking about watermarks on our last couple

564
00:26:49.320 --> 00:26:53.480
Supernatural Saturdays, but for some of us, spirituality can be a watermark.

565
00:26:53.520 --> 00:26:55.000
We've only gotten so far.

566
00:26:59.560 --> 00:27:01.640
We've only gotten so far spiritually.

567
00:27:01.640 --> 00:27:05.800
We've never gone past a certain place, and maybe our family never went past

568
00:27:05.800 --> 00:27:09.080
that place, and that's why we never went past that place.

569
00:27:09.080 --> 00:27:11.720
But it's time for us to take more territory spiritually, friends.

570
00:27:11.720 --> 00:27:14.520
That's what we're going to talk about today on Supernatural Saturday.

571
00:27:14.520 --> 00:27:17.720
God wants to upgrade us, and that means all of us.

572
00:27:17.720 --> 00:27:21.600
Some of you are like, Jackie, this is Spirituality 101.

573
00:27:21.600 --> 00:27:22.800
I've known this for a long time.

574
00:27:22.800 --> 00:27:23.640
Great, wonderful.

575
00:27:23.640 --> 00:27:26.920
God still wants to upgrade you.

576
00:27:26.920 --> 00:27:31.280
He wants to upgrade you to a different place of understanding spiritually.

577
00:27:31.280 --> 00:27:35.000
But there are a lot of people on here that, like me many years ago, 28 years

578
00:27:35.000 --> 00:27:37.280
ago, they hadn't gotten this memo yet.

579
00:27:40.000 --> 00:27:42.880
And remember, I was around the people that were speaking in tongues and doing

580
00:27:42.880 --> 00:27:45.360
stuff, but behind the scenes, they weren't good people.

581
00:27:45.360 --> 00:27:46.280
They weren't nice people.

582
00:27:46.280 --> 00:27:47.920
They weren't kind people.

583
00:27:47.920 --> 00:27:51.840
And so I think that in my head, I believe that that was just some kind

584
00:27:51.840 --> 00:27:57.560
of circus act, that it couldn't possibly be real.

585
00:27:57.560 --> 00:28:00.640
Because if it was real, why in the world would this God that I'm hearing

586
00:28:00.640 --> 00:28:03.680
about give these people this gift?

587
00:28:03.680 --> 00:28:08.840
And that's when we have to remember that gifts and fruit are not the same thing.

588
00:28:08.840 --> 00:28:12.840
God has promised us that he would send Holy Spirit as a gift to us.

589
00:28:12.840 --> 00:28:13.960
Gifts are not earned.

590
00:28:13.960 --> 00:28:17.280
They're not deserved.

591
00:28:17.280 --> 00:28:20.800
The fruit of the Spirit, which is an entirely different thing, you can find

592
00:28:20.800 --> 00:28:24.120
all these gifts of the Spirit and all the fruit of the Spirit in the book of

593
00:28:24.120 --> 00:28:24.720
Galatians.

594
00:28:24.720 --> 00:28:27.200
You can go read about it.

595
00:28:27.200 --> 00:28:33.480
But the fruit of the Spirit, that indicates relationship, love, joy, peace.

596
00:28:33.480 --> 00:28:38.160
Like, these are not things that we can work up in our own flesh for very long.

597
00:28:38.160 --> 00:28:40.160
Yeah, you can have a counterfeit form of joy.

598
00:28:40.160 --> 00:28:40.840
How are you doing?

599
00:28:40.840 --> 00:28:42.120
Oh, I'm blessed.

600
00:28:42.120 --> 00:28:44.120
I'm blessed and highly favored.

601
00:28:44.120 --> 00:28:45.280
I'm so happy today.

602
00:28:45.280 --> 00:28:50.160
But as soon as something bad happens, you get a flat tire, okay?

603
00:28:50.200 --> 00:28:51.640
Someone runs over your cat.

604
00:28:51.640 --> 00:28:55.280
You're not that blessed anymore, okay?

605
00:28:55.280 --> 00:28:57.600
Seriously.

606
00:28:57.600 --> 00:28:59.400
So that is not a fruit of the Spirit.

607
00:28:59.400 --> 00:29:00.920
That's a personality.

608
00:29:00.920 --> 00:29:02.600
Maybe you're just a happy-go-lucky person.

609
00:29:02.600 --> 00:29:04.000
That's awesome.

610
00:29:04.000 --> 00:29:09.600
But even happy-go-lucky people have bad days.

611
00:29:09.600 --> 00:29:11.600
They have times when they feel depressed.

612
00:29:11.600 --> 00:29:13.880
They feel down.

613
00:29:13.880 --> 00:29:17.240
Joy that comes from the Holy Spirit is a whole different thing.

614
00:29:17.240 --> 00:29:23.360
Peace that comes from the Holy Spirit is a whole different thing.

615
00:29:23.360 --> 00:29:25.920
So in my 20s, I was having a rough life.

616
00:29:25.920 --> 00:29:27.120
You guys know my story.

617
00:29:27.120 --> 00:29:28.480
I was separated from my husband.

618
00:29:28.480 --> 00:29:30.320
I was getting a divorce.

619
00:29:30.320 --> 00:29:36.000
I had not matured anywhere past what I had learned as a child about God.

620
00:29:36.000 --> 00:29:40.880
Nothing.

621
00:29:40.880 --> 00:29:43.920
And one day, I was driving down the road.

622
00:29:43.920 --> 00:29:45.400
I had just seen my former husband.

623
00:29:45.400 --> 00:29:46.600
We're about to be divorced.

624
00:29:47.480 --> 00:29:50.480
I mean, there was no paperwork filed because I was only 22 years old,

625
00:29:50.480 --> 00:29:52.800
and I didn't do any of that yet.

626
00:29:52.800 --> 00:29:55.200
But I'm driving down the road.

627
00:29:55.200 --> 00:29:58.480
I haven't been living with him for months.

628
00:29:58.480 --> 00:30:00.040
And I'm going to go look at an apartment.

629
00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:07.700
I was living with a friend, and I look up in the rear view mirror, and I just, I can't

630
00:30:07.700 --> 00:30:14.380
explain it any other way, but I didn't just see myself, I saw myself.

631
00:30:14.380 --> 00:30:17.820
My eyes were open in that moment, and I saw myself.

632
00:30:17.820 --> 00:30:23.180
And when I saw myself, I said to God, who are you?

633
00:30:23.180 --> 00:30:24.180
Are you there?

634
00:30:24.180 --> 00:30:25.180
Are you real?

635
00:30:25.180 --> 00:30:29.020
What do you, what do you want from me?

636
00:30:29.020 --> 00:30:32.620
And that's really the last kind of thought that I had after that happened, because what

637
00:30:32.620 --> 00:30:35.660
happened next is really not explainable.

638
00:30:35.660 --> 00:30:37.180
I didn't wreck my car.

639
00:30:37.180 --> 00:30:38.180
I wasn't hurt.

640
00:30:38.180 --> 00:30:43.340
I wasn't injured, but I kind of lost consciousness.

641
00:30:43.340 --> 00:30:47.820
I ended up at the emergency room.

642
00:30:47.820 --> 00:30:52.180
The people around where I had been driving, you know, they called the squad for me.

643
00:30:52.180 --> 00:30:53.180
They came.

644
00:30:53.180 --> 00:30:54.180
They got me.

645
00:30:54.180 --> 00:30:55.620
They took me to the emergency room.

646
00:30:55.620 --> 00:30:57.100
They were checking me for a stroke.

647
00:30:57.180 --> 00:30:59.500
They were checking me for all different types of things.

648
00:30:59.500 --> 00:31:01.860
Everything came back negative.

649
00:31:01.860 --> 00:31:09.460
My former husband came to the hospital because I called him, and I ended up having an experience

650
00:31:09.460 --> 00:31:10.460
with God.

651
00:31:10.460 --> 00:31:17.340
What happened was is he took me back to this house that we used to live in together that

652
00:31:17.340 --> 00:31:19.900
was still available.

653
00:31:19.900 --> 00:31:22.420
You know, he hadn't moved out of it yet.

654
00:31:22.420 --> 00:31:23.700
In fact, he hadn't been living there.

655
00:31:23.700 --> 00:31:24.880
He was staying with his parents.

656
00:31:25.000 --> 00:31:30.040
I went back to this house, and you guys, for the next few weeks, I really wasn't able to

657
00:31:30.040 --> 00:31:31.040
do much of anything.

658
00:31:31.040 --> 00:31:33.560
I kind of felt like the story of Saul to Paul.

659
00:31:33.560 --> 00:31:40.820
You know, Saul has this encounter on the road to Damascus with Jesus, and he becomes a completely

660
00:31:40.820 --> 00:31:43.360
different person because of this encounter.

661
00:31:43.360 --> 00:31:48.120
But as this encounter is taking place, he's kind of out of commission, right?

662
00:31:48.120 --> 00:31:54.720
Paul couldn't see, and Cornelius comes and, you know, lays hands on him, and he's delivered

663
00:31:54.720 --> 00:32:01.360
from that malady that was, you know, whatever was going on with his body.

664
00:32:01.360 --> 00:32:02.360
But he had this encounter.

665
00:32:02.360 --> 00:32:08.360
So, you guys, I was having this encounter with Jesus, and God's talking to me, speaking

666
00:32:08.360 --> 00:32:09.360
to my heart.

667
00:32:09.360 --> 00:32:10.920
He's sending people to speak to me.

668
00:32:10.920 --> 00:32:16.260
For the next couple weeks, I was just basically unable to do anything.

669
00:32:16.260 --> 00:32:19.420
Whatever happened to me on the road that day, even though the doctors couldn't find

670
00:32:19.420 --> 00:32:22.100
anything really wrong with me, I was paralyzed.

671
00:32:22.100 --> 00:32:25.700
In fact, the left side of my body didn't work.

672
00:32:25.700 --> 00:32:30.620
Now, for those of you that don't understand the character of God and that he is good,

673
00:32:30.620 --> 00:32:32.820
I don't want you to be like, God did this to you.

674
00:32:32.820 --> 00:32:41.980
No, you guys, I was in the middle of some kind of spiritual birth.

675
00:32:41.980 --> 00:32:47.260
And then one day in these weeks, as I'm experiencing this, and you guys, I'm still full of fear.

676
00:32:47.260 --> 00:32:51.780
This is how you know the Holy Spirit has not come upon me, okay?

677
00:32:51.780 --> 00:32:53.100
Holy Spirit is with me.

678
00:32:53.100 --> 00:32:56.980
I'm having some kind of spiritual encounter, but I haven't had this, what we call the new

679
00:32:56.980 --> 00:32:59.700
birth experience thing yet.

680
00:32:59.700 --> 00:33:06.260
When Jesus said he'll be with you and in you, I hadn't invited Holy Spirit to be in me yet.

681
00:33:06.260 --> 00:33:09.020
He was with me, but he wasn't in me yet.

682
00:33:10.020 --> 00:33:15.140
And in one of these nights, my former husband came over and he was raised in this religion

683
00:33:15.140 --> 00:33:20.420
that my grandmother came from, these Pentecostal folks, okay?

684
00:33:20.420 --> 00:33:21.820
He teethed on a pew.

685
00:33:21.820 --> 00:33:24.460
He understood Holy Spirit.

686
00:33:24.460 --> 00:33:28.620
He understood the indwelling or the baptism of Holy Spirit.

687
00:33:28.620 --> 00:33:32.540
And so he came over and I remember it was about two o'clock in the morning in this living

688
00:33:32.540 --> 00:33:38.900
room and he said, Jackie's like, just invite Holy Spirit to live inside of you.

689
00:33:39.780 --> 00:33:40.780
Folks, I didn't understand that.

690
00:33:40.780 --> 00:33:43.740
I didn't understand what that meant.

691
00:33:43.740 --> 00:33:47.660
But I do remember that I was sitting there, I was kneeling at the couch and I had been

692
00:33:47.660 --> 00:33:55.800
crying and I just said inside of my own mind, I didn't say it out loud, I said it inside

693
00:33:55.800 --> 00:34:01.460
of my mind to God, I said, God, I don't understand any of what's happening to me.

694
00:34:01.460 --> 00:34:07.560
I said, but I do love you and I surrender.

695
00:34:07.560 --> 00:34:14.159
And as soon as I said that in my mind, the very next time I opened my mouth to say anything

696
00:34:14.159 --> 00:34:21.760
out loud, it was in a different language.

697
00:34:21.760 --> 00:34:25.719
And y'all, I was about as freaked out as you are right now, okay?

698
00:34:25.719 --> 00:34:26.719
But I wasn't afraid.

699
00:34:26.719 --> 00:34:30.000
It was like a miracle.

700
00:34:30.000 --> 00:34:36.560
It was, wow, what, wow.

701
00:34:36.560 --> 00:34:39.280
And I began to praise God.

702
00:34:39.280 --> 00:34:42.360
That's what I was trying to do in my English speaking mind.

703
00:34:42.360 --> 00:34:47.719
I was trying to praise God, but what was coming out, I believe it was praise to God, but it

704
00:34:47.719 --> 00:34:51.719
was not in a language that I understood.

705
00:34:51.719 --> 00:34:55.440
And it continued and it continued and you guys, I began to sing in this language, I

706
00:34:55.440 --> 00:34:56.440
began to sing.

707
00:34:56.440 --> 00:35:00.000
In fact, most of what I was doing was singing in this language.

708
00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:05.000
not even speaking, and as I was singing in this language,

709
00:35:05.740 --> 00:35:07.300
and I'm not promising this is gonna happen to you,

710
00:35:07.300 --> 00:35:08.420
but this is what happened to me.

711
00:35:08.420 --> 00:35:10.940
This is what I needed, and this is what God gave me.

712
00:35:10.940 --> 00:35:12.820
But as I was singing in this language,

713
00:35:12.820 --> 00:35:17.820
I heard in my mind the English version of what I was saying.

714
00:35:19.940 --> 00:35:23.300
So I knew what I was saying in English in my mind

715
00:35:23.300 --> 00:35:24.660
as I continued to sing.

716
00:35:24.660 --> 00:35:27.540
And you guys, I was filled with so much love,

717
00:35:27.540 --> 00:35:30.540
and so much joy, and so much peace

718
00:35:31.580 --> 00:35:35.080
as Holy Spirit indwelled my physical body.

719
00:35:36.580 --> 00:35:39.220
And I remember waking up the next day and being like,

720
00:35:40.620 --> 00:35:41.860
is it still there?

721
00:35:43.820 --> 00:35:45.740
Like, is it still there?

722
00:35:45.740 --> 00:35:47.620
Like, is it over?

723
00:35:47.620 --> 00:35:48.580
Is it still there?

724
00:35:48.580 --> 00:35:49.400
I don't know.

725
00:35:49.400 --> 00:35:50.240
How does this work?

726
00:35:50.240 --> 00:35:51.700
I didn't have anyone to teach me yet.

727
00:35:51.700 --> 00:35:53.900
I didn't know anything.

728
00:35:53.900 --> 00:35:56.000
And I was brushing my hair in the mirror

729
00:35:56.000 --> 00:35:57.200
because friends, remember,

730
00:35:57.200 --> 00:35:59.600
I still have all this problem with my body,

731
00:35:59.600 --> 00:36:01.160
paralysis of my left side.

732
00:36:01.160 --> 00:36:02.460
That hasn't gone away yet.

733
00:36:04.360 --> 00:36:06.640
As I'm brushing my hair in the mirror,

734
00:36:06.640 --> 00:36:09.240
I began to just worship the Lord and talk to him

735
00:36:09.240 --> 00:36:10.380
and tell him how much I love him.

736
00:36:10.380 --> 00:36:12.340
And then here it comes again.

737
00:36:13.960 --> 00:36:15.520
Here it comes again.

738
00:36:15.520 --> 00:36:19.780
It's beautiful prayer language that God gifted me with

739
00:36:19.780 --> 00:36:21.600
at the indwelling of Holy Spirit.

740
00:36:21.600 --> 00:36:24.280
Now, friends, we don't always get our prayer languages

741
00:36:25.160 --> 00:36:26.600
at the indwelling of Holy Spirit.

742
00:36:26.600 --> 00:36:28.720
We invite Holy Spirit to indwell us,

743
00:36:28.720 --> 00:36:31.360
but we do get power from on high.

744
00:36:31.360 --> 00:36:32.760
And so whatever that looks like for you,

745
00:36:32.760 --> 00:36:34.480
some people prophesy,

746
00:36:34.480 --> 00:36:37.660
some people have the gift of faith come upon them

747
00:36:37.660 --> 00:36:40.480
where they just, they feel strong in the Lord,

748
00:36:40.480 --> 00:36:41.760
stronger than they ever have.

749
00:36:41.760 --> 00:36:44.040
They get up from that place of surrender

750
00:36:44.040 --> 00:36:47.640
and they know that something has sifted inside of them

751
00:36:47.640 --> 00:36:49.680
because they just feel a boldness.

752
00:36:49.680 --> 00:36:51.520
Remember, the purpose of Holy Spirit

753
00:36:51.520 --> 00:36:53.680
is to help us to live in this fallen world.

754
00:36:53.680 --> 00:36:54.880
Jesus broke the curse,

755
00:36:54.880 --> 00:36:58.000
but the world hasn't fully gotten the memo yet.

756
00:36:58.000 --> 00:37:00.040
There are lots of people that have been,

757
00:37:00.040 --> 00:37:02.880
siding and aligning themselves with the opposing forces.

758
00:37:02.880 --> 00:37:05.600
There's all kinds of wickedness in the earth still.

759
00:37:06.800 --> 00:37:09.880
Now we have come apart, by the way, that's what that means.

760
00:37:09.880 --> 00:37:11.840
Come apart from them and be separate.

761
00:37:11.840 --> 00:37:13.400
That's what it's talking about.

762
00:37:14.440 --> 00:37:16.160
There should be a difference about us

763
00:37:16.160 --> 00:37:18.800
as we walk with the Lord, right?

764
00:37:18.800 --> 00:37:20.720
People should know that there's something different.

765
00:37:20.720 --> 00:37:22.880
The Bible says that we should be living books

766
00:37:22.880 --> 00:37:27.720
known and read of all men, living epistles.

767
00:37:28.800 --> 00:37:30.280
The experience that I'm talking about,

768
00:37:30.280 --> 00:37:35.280
inviting Holy Spirit in and experiencing this transformation

769
00:37:35.600 --> 00:37:38.200
and once again, it doesn't have to be bombastic.

770
00:37:38.200 --> 00:37:40.640
It doesn't have to be wow, like mine was.

771
00:37:40.640 --> 00:37:43.640
It can just be like a quiet knowing of strength,

772
00:37:43.640 --> 00:37:46.760
that strength has come inside of you and come upon you.

773
00:37:46.760 --> 00:37:49.080
Because remember, it's about being bold and being a witness.

774
00:37:49.080 --> 00:37:50.440
Look what happened with Peter.

775
00:37:50.440 --> 00:37:52.440
Peter was afraid, he was denying Jesus.

776
00:37:53.000 --> 00:37:55.400
He was cursing Jesus after the betrayal,

777
00:37:55.400 --> 00:37:58.440
before the crucifixion and then you find him,

778
00:37:58.440 --> 00:38:00.400
40 days later, where do you find him?

779
00:38:00.400 --> 00:38:02.760
You find him in the same place in Jerusalem

780
00:38:02.760 --> 00:38:04.600
and it's a holy holiday, y'all.

781
00:38:04.600 --> 00:38:07.040
That's why all those people were gathered.

782
00:38:07.040 --> 00:38:10.760
He could have been easily been arrested and taken in.

783
00:38:12.240 --> 00:38:14.240
They were already looking for the followers of Jesus.

784
00:38:14.240 --> 00:38:15.960
They were already public enemy number one,

785
00:38:15.960 --> 00:38:20.960
but Peter stood up and preached in Jerusalem

786
00:38:21.920 --> 00:38:24.000
and told those people, what did he tell them?

787
00:38:24.000 --> 00:38:26.560
The Jesus that you crucified.

788
00:38:28.080 --> 00:38:30.160
He began to boldly tell them,

789
00:38:30.160 --> 00:38:31.640
under the unction of Holy Spirit,

790
00:38:31.640 --> 00:38:33.520
that they had crucified the Messiah.

791
00:38:35.000 --> 00:38:39.040
He told the Jews that were in Jerusalem for a holy holiday,

792
00:38:39.040 --> 00:38:42.040
waiting for their Messiah to come,

793
00:38:42.040 --> 00:38:45.480
that Jesus was their Messiah and they killed him.

794
00:38:45.480 --> 00:38:47.200
You guys, them are fighting words.

795
00:38:48.200 --> 00:38:50.320
But Holy Spirit was giving him the utterance.

796
00:38:50.320 --> 00:38:52.680
Holy Spirit was giving him the boldness.

797
00:38:52.680 --> 00:38:54.600
One of the main things that Holy Spirit does

798
00:38:54.600 --> 00:38:57.120
when he is living inside of us,

799
00:38:57.120 --> 00:38:59.600
is he gives us the boldness to be a witness.

800
00:39:02.120 --> 00:39:03.720
So maybe that's what happened

801
00:39:03.720 --> 00:39:06.000
when you invited Holy Spirit inside of you.

802
00:39:06.000 --> 00:39:09.120
You just became bolder to live your faith out loud.

803
00:39:09.120 --> 00:39:11.840
Something happened, but whatever did happen,

804
00:39:11.840 --> 00:39:13.520
you don't have to stop there.

805
00:39:13.520 --> 00:39:15.320
All of the gifts and all of the fruit

806
00:39:15.360 --> 00:39:17.000
that are listed in Galatians are for you.

807
00:39:17.000 --> 00:39:18.440
You can have all of them.

808
00:39:18.440 --> 00:39:20.080
If you don't have your prayer language yet,

809
00:39:20.080 --> 00:39:21.160
you can have that.

810
00:39:22.240 --> 00:39:24.960
My husband invited Holy Spirit into his heart

811
00:39:24.960 --> 00:39:26.720
when he was five years old,

812
00:39:27.600 --> 00:39:30.920
and he received his prayer language at five years old.

813
00:39:32.080 --> 00:39:33.240
And you know what else he received?

814
00:39:33.240 --> 00:39:35.920
He received a gift where he would look at people

815
00:39:35.920 --> 00:39:39.120
and he would see words written on their forehead.

816
00:39:42.560 --> 00:39:43.400
Isn't that cool?

817
00:39:44.400 --> 00:39:45.960
Isn't that cool?

818
00:39:45.960 --> 00:39:47.800
He'd have visions.

819
00:39:47.800 --> 00:39:50.040
What does the book of Joel say?

820
00:39:50.040 --> 00:39:51.280
Your old men will dream dreams,

821
00:39:51.280 --> 00:39:52.880
your young men will see visions.

822
00:39:54.760 --> 00:39:57.880
On every walk of life, doesn't matter.

823
00:39:57.880 --> 00:39:59.560
God's no respecter of people.

824
00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:04.320
on every walk of life, every person of every color

825
00:40:04.320 --> 00:40:07.840
and every age, of every social economic status,

826
00:40:07.840 --> 00:40:11.040
I will pour out my spirit and they will prophesy.

827
00:40:13.680 --> 00:40:14.960
They will start living in the spirit.

828
00:40:14.960 --> 00:40:15.800
They will dream dreams.

829
00:40:15.800 --> 00:40:16.640
They will have visions.

830
00:40:16.640 --> 00:40:18.960
They will be empowered from on high.

831
00:40:21.460 --> 00:40:24.880
So friends, it's time for us,

832
00:40:24.880 --> 00:40:26.520
even if we've experienced this power,

833
00:40:26.520 --> 00:40:28.960
if you haven't, it's for you.

834
00:40:28.960 --> 00:40:30.800
Don't be afraid of it.

835
00:40:30.800 --> 00:40:32.400
Doesn't matter what your Sunday school teacher

836
00:40:32.400 --> 00:40:36.440
told you growing up that the Holy Spirit is not for us now

837
00:40:36.440 --> 00:40:38.240
because we can't live in this world boldly

838
00:40:38.240 --> 00:40:39.600
as witnesses without it,

839
00:40:40.840 --> 00:40:42.360
without Him, without Holy Spirit.

840
00:40:42.360 --> 00:40:44.560
It's not an it, it's a person.

841
00:40:44.560 --> 00:40:49.560
We can't live without Him and be bold.

842
00:40:53.200 --> 00:40:54.040
We can't.

843
00:40:56.160 --> 00:40:58.000
Hey, we're living in a wicked time.

844
00:40:59.960 --> 00:41:02.040
If you feel like a lot of times you feel angry,

845
00:41:02.040 --> 00:41:06.640
you feel depressed, you feel discouraged,

846
00:41:06.640 --> 00:41:09.040
you're not spending enough time with Holy Spirit.

847
00:41:10.360 --> 00:41:15.360
Remember, He's supposed to mature us in the words of Jesus.

848
00:41:18.560 --> 00:41:20.840
Supposed to continue, He's supposed to teach us truth

849
00:41:20.840 --> 00:41:22.560
and help us continue in the truth.

850
00:41:24.320 --> 00:41:25.960
So we need to spend time.

851
00:41:25.960 --> 00:41:27.160
If you have your prayer language,

852
00:41:27.160 --> 00:41:29.640
spend time praying in your prayer language.

853
00:41:29.640 --> 00:41:33.040
Paul says that that bypasses your human reasoning.

854
00:41:33.040 --> 00:41:34.640
When you pray with your prayer language,

855
00:41:34.640 --> 00:41:35.800
of course you don't know what you're saying.

856
00:41:35.800 --> 00:41:37.320
You don't speak that language.

857
00:41:37.320 --> 00:41:39.840
It could be an earthly language that you're praying in.

858
00:41:39.840 --> 00:41:42.520
It could be a heavenly language that you're praying in.

859
00:41:42.520 --> 00:41:44.680
But the bottom line is is that your spirit

860
00:41:44.680 --> 00:41:47.800
is praying to the spirit that created it

861
00:41:47.800 --> 00:41:50.560
and it's bypassing your human mind,

862
00:41:50.560 --> 00:41:52.080
which is great because your human mind

863
00:41:52.080 --> 00:41:56.440
gets in the way all the time, all the time.

864
00:41:56.480 --> 00:41:57.480
Let me finish my story.

865
00:41:57.480 --> 00:42:00.880
So I was indwelled that day with power,

866
00:42:02.480 --> 00:42:05.560
but I continued to be physically altered

867
00:42:06.640 --> 00:42:08.800
until one day I went into the church,

868
00:42:08.800 --> 00:42:10.520
probably a few weeks later.

869
00:42:10.520 --> 00:42:12.360
But remember now I'm filled with the joy

870
00:42:12.360 --> 00:42:13.720
and the peace of the Holy Spirit.

871
00:42:13.720 --> 00:42:16.560
So I'm not laying around, I'm not fretting.

872
00:42:16.560 --> 00:42:18.760
I'm not sad, I'm not fearful.

873
00:42:18.760 --> 00:42:20.680
I feel strong.

874
00:42:20.680 --> 00:42:21.880
I feel strong in my faith.

875
00:42:21.880 --> 00:42:23.840
I feel like God is in control

876
00:42:23.840 --> 00:42:25.400
and everything's gonna be okay.

877
00:42:27.080 --> 00:42:29.560
And one day I wake up in the middle of the night

878
00:42:29.560 --> 00:42:31.320
and I pulled myself out of the bed

879
00:42:31.320 --> 00:42:33.360
to the middle of the room on the floor

880
00:42:33.360 --> 00:42:35.560
and I laid there and I said to the Lord,

881
00:42:35.560 --> 00:42:37.800
I said, I don't know how much longer I have to live.

882
00:42:37.800 --> 00:42:38.960
I don't even know what's wrong with me.

883
00:42:38.960 --> 00:42:40.920
The doctors don't know what's wrong with me,

884
00:42:40.920 --> 00:42:43.320
but I do know this, that as long as I'm alive,

885
00:42:43.320 --> 00:42:44.240
I will live for you.

886
00:42:44.240 --> 00:42:46.120
My life belongs to you.

887
00:42:46.120 --> 00:42:49.040
And for however long my life lasts,

888
00:42:49.040 --> 00:42:51.840
I will live for you and I will be your witness.

889
00:42:52.280 --> 00:42:53.120
And guess what?

890
00:42:53.120 --> 00:42:57.000
The very next day, I went to church with my in-laws

891
00:42:57.000 --> 00:43:00.800
at the time, my former husband was off with the Marines.

892
00:43:00.800 --> 00:43:02.320
I went, my in-laws took me to church.

893
00:43:02.320 --> 00:43:03.800
I wasn't able to drive, friends,

894
00:43:03.800 --> 00:43:05.680
I wasn't able to do anything.

895
00:43:05.680 --> 00:43:09.400
And at that service, people came and laid hands on me

896
00:43:09.400 --> 00:43:10.800
and I was instantly healed,

897
00:43:12.640 --> 00:43:15.040
delivered whatever you like

898
00:43:15.040 --> 00:43:16.640
because we don't know what was going on.

899
00:43:16.640 --> 00:43:17.480
And you know what?

900
00:43:17.480 --> 00:43:19.800
We don't need to, you don't need to know.

901
00:43:19.840 --> 00:43:20.920
I don't need to know.

902
00:43:22.600 --> 00:43:25.400
All I know is what happened because of it,

903
00:43:27.760 --> 00:43:28.880
what happened because of it.

904
00:43:28.880 --> 00:43:33.880
And after that day, I have been on this crazy assignment

905
00:43:33.920 --> 00:43:38.920
with Jesus for 28 years and I've never looked back.

906
00:43:39.320 --> 00:43:42.080
And why, why have I never looked back?

907
00:43:42.080 --> 00:43:44.120
The power of the Holy Spirit.

908
00:43:45.800 --> 00:43:48.320
It's not me, it's not you, it's not me.

909
00:43:49.320 --> 00:43:52.000
It's not me and my flesh, trust me.

910
00:43:52.000 --> 00:43:55.000
Trust me when I say it's not me and my flesh,

911
00:43:55.000 --> 00:43:57.720
but it is the power of the Holy Spirit

912
00:43:57.720 --> 00:44:00.280
that continues to propel me forward.

913
00:44:02.360 --> 00:44:04.680
Yes, and you can have that too.

914
00:44:04.680 --> 00:44:07.000
Some of you do have it and God wants to upgrade you

915
00:44:07.000 --> 00:44:08.760
to even higher understanding.

916
00:44:09.920 --> 00:44:11.600
A lot of times we start living in our flesh

917
00:44:11.600 --> 00:44:12.440
when we don't have to.

918
00:44:12.440 --> 00:44:14.480
We start living in our own power and our own strength

919
00:44:14.480 --> 00:44:15.920
when we don't have to.

920
00:44:16.920 --> 00:44:19.000
If you have uttered the words,

921
00:44:19.000 --> 00:44:20.880
I just can't do this anymore,

922
00:44:22.400 --> 00:44:23.720
you are living in your flesh

923
00:44:23.720 --> 00:44:25.800
because you don't have to do it anymore.

924
00:44:25.800 --> 00:44:28.520
God's like, good, I don't want you to do it anymore.

925
00:44:28.520 --> 00:44:29.640
Now let me do it.

926
00:44:32.640 --> 00:44:35.400
Go read John 15, we're just branches.

927
00:44:35.400 --> 00:44:38.400
I thought about getting a tattoo that just says,

928
00:44:38.400 --> 00:44:39.680
I'm just a branch.

929
00:44:40.520 --> 00:44:43.800
He is the vine, Jesus speaking, we are the branches.

930
00:44:44.040 --> 00:44:47.600
He says, apart from me, you can bear no fruit.

931
00:44:47.600 --> 00:44:49.720
Apart from me, you can do no thing.

932
00:44:50.920 --> 00:44:53.040
Nothing, friends.

933
00:44:53.040 --> 00:44:56.200
But with me, you can bear abundant fruit.

934
00:44:56.200 --> 00:44:57.040
What is that?

935
00:44:57.040 --> 00:44:58.560
That's the fruit of the Holy Spirit.

936
00:44:58.560 --> 00:45:00.160
What attaches us to the vine?

937
00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:05.000
Holy Spirit, Holy Spirit attaches the branches to the vine.

938
00:45:09.320 --> 00:45:11.040
Remember what Jesus said?

939
00:45:11.040 --> 00:45:13.640
Jesus said, Holy Spirit is gonna keep you tethered

940
00:45:13.640 --> 00:45:14.960
to my words.

941
00:45:14.960 --> 00:45:18.860
Holy Spirit is going to help you to understand me.

942
00:45:18.860 --> 00:45:23.860
If any abide in me and my words abide in them,

943
00:45:31.360 --> 00:45:35.200
they will ask and they will receive.

944
00:45:39.720 --> 00:45:41.140
Guys, this is for every area of life,

945
00:45:41.140 --> 00:45:42.180
including your love life.

946
00:45:42.180 --> 00:45:46.300
Look, please do not go about your love life in your flesh.

947
00:45:46.300 --> 00:45:47.460
Please don't do that.

948
00:45:48.420 --> 00:45:49.980
You have to follow after the Spirit

949
00:45:49.980 --> 00:45:54.720
in every area of your life, including your love life.

950
00:45:55.820 --> 00:45:57.100
If you have your prayer language,

951
00:45:57.100 --> 00:45:58.660
you should be praying in tongues

952
00:45:58.660 --> 00:46:00.700
before you get on those dating apps,

953
00:46:00.700 --> 00:46:03.380
asking Holy Spirit to give you divine appointments.

954
00:46:03.380 --> 00:46:05.380
You should be praying in the Spirit

955
00:46:05.380 --> 00:46:07.540
before you go on those dates.

956
00:46:07.540 --> 00:46:10.340
You wanna see who someone really is?

957
00:46:10.340 --> 00:46:13.500
And remember, sometimes God hides some yellow flags

958
00:46:13.500 --> 00:46:16.140
from us on purpose because he knows we're super judgmental,

959
00:46:16.140 --> 00:46:18.080
even though we think we're not.

960
00:46:18.080 --> 00:46:19.420
And this is really a good person

961
00:46:19.420 --> 00:46:21.980
because God sees the heart, man sees the outside,

962
00:46:21.980 --> 00:46:24.580
we see the outside, God sees the heart.

963
00:46:24.580 --> 00:46:26.260
And so sometimes you won't see something

964
00:46:26.260 --> 00:46:28.780
because you don't need to see it.

965
00:46:28.780 --> 00:46:32.060
Frankly, you don't.

966
00:46:34.420 --> 00:46:36.580
But if you're out here in your anxious attachment,

967
00:46:36.580 --> 00:46:39.220
dating, just wanting somebody to love you,

968
00:46:39.220 --> 00:46:40.720
then you need to be praying in the Spirit

969
00:46:40.720 --> 00:46:42.620
before you go on these dates.

970
00:46:42.620 --> 00:46:45.380
You can really save yourself a whole lot of heartache.

971
00:46:47.140 --> 00:46:49.260
Let's pray, friends.

972
00:46:49.260 --> 00:46:51.660
Let's follow after the Spirit and not the flesh.

973
00:46:52.780 --> 00:46:54.140
If something doesn't sit right with you,

974
00:46:54.140 --> 00:46:55.540
if you don't feel like doing something,

975
00:46:55.540 --> 00:46:57.300
even though it doesn't make a lot of sense,

976
00:46:57.300 --> 00:46:58.700
that's probably Holy Spirit.

977
00:47:00.740 --> 00:47:02.420
If you do feel like doing something

978
00:47:02.420 --> 00:47:04.660
that doesn't make a lot of sense to your human intellect,

979
00:47:04.660 --> 00:47:06.420
that's probably Holy Spirit too.

980
00:47:11.060 --> 00:47:15.820
It's time for us to do some spiritual weightlifting,

981
00:47:15.820 --> 00:47:17.340
some spiritual bodybuilding.

982
00:47:17.340 --> 00:47:19.920
We have to get stronger in our spirits.

983
00:47:20.860 --> 00:47:23.100
We have to, because our flesh is too strong.

984
00:47:25.820 --> 00:47:29.820
We live in a society where our flesh is so strong.

985
00:47:29.820 --> 00:47:31.860
It's being reinforced and strengthened

986
00:47:31.860 --> 00:47:34.380
every time we turn around.

987
00:47:34.380 --> 00:47:35.860
As soon as you get up in the morning,

988
00:47:35.860 --> 00:47:37.420
you put your feet on the ground,

989
00:47:38.940 --> 00:47:41.380
your carnality, that part of you

990
00:47:41.380 --> 00:47:43.540
is already asking to be fed.

991
00:47:44.500 --> 00:47:48.820
Food, entertainment, worry,

992
00:47:52.260 --> 00:47:54.900
negativity, it's already asking to be fed.

993
00:47:54.900 --> 00:47:55.740
Is it not?

994
00:47:58.100 --> 00:48:00.660
Another day, gotta go to work, blah.

995
00:48:06.820 --> 00:48:08.740
What if it happened if we were in the Spirit

996
00:48:08.740 --> 00:48:10.660
and we got up and we began to pray

997
00:48:10.660 --> 00:48:13.340
before we even got out of bed?

998
00:48:14.140 --> 00:48:15.780
Begin to pray in our prayer language,

999
00:48:15.780 --> 00:48:18.220
or for those of you that don't have your prayer language,

1000
00:48:18.220 --> 00:48:21.420
you begin to prophesy and speak the Word of God over you

1001
00:48:21.420 --> 00:48:22.260
in faith.

1002
00:48:23.380 --> 00:48:24.780
And remember, you can have your prayer language,

1003
00:48:24.780 --> 00:48:26.780
just keep asking for it, it will come.

1004
00:48:29.740 --> 00:48:32.860
Father of lights is the giver of all good and perfect gifts,

1005
00:48:32.860 --> 00:48:34.700
and that scripture goes on to say,

1006
00:48:34.700 --> 00:48:37.140
would you give your kid a stone if they asked for bread?

1007
00:48:37.140 --> 00:48:40.660
Would you give your kid a snake if it asked for fish?

1008
00:48:40.660 --> 00:48:42.260
No, you wouldn't, but how much more

1009
00:48:42.260 --> 00:48:45.340
would you give the Holy Spirit to those that ask them?

1010
00:48:45.340 --> 00:48:48.180
And so make sure that you are asking,

1011
00:48:48.180 --> 00:48:49.900
and I promise you, it will come.

1012
00:48:52.100 --> 00:48:53.660
But what if you are doing,

1013
00:48:54.900 --> 00:48:58.540
you're priming the pump of your Spirit

1014
00:49:00.220 --> 00:49:01.620
before you get out of bed?

1015
00:49:03.300 --> 00:49:05.620
How is that gonna change the day?

1016
00:49:05.620 --> 00:49:07.780
How is that gonna create divine appointments?

1017
00:49:07.780 --> 00:49:10.260
How is that gonna put you into alignment

1018
00:49:10.260 --> 00:49:12.380
with what God has planned that day

1019
00:49:12.380 --> 00:49:14.860
instead of what your flesh is just gonna fall into

1020
00:49:14.860 --> 00:49:17.540
that day, whether it's negativity,

1021
00:49:17.540 --> 00:49:22.540
whether it's some sort of overeating or overspending,

1022
00:49:24.340 --> 00:49:26.620
all that, by the way, is just medication, y'all.

1023
00:49:26.620 --> 00:49:30.420
Remember, broken hearts, deferred hope

1024
00:49:31.620 --> 00:49:33.780
causes the heart to be sick,

1025
00:49:33.780 --> 00:49:36.220
and sick hearts go looking for medication.

1026
00:49:37.220 --> 00:49:39.020
But we wouldn't fall into a lot of that stuff

1027
00:49:39.020 --> 00:49:42.100
if we were living after the Spirit and not the flesh, right?

1028
00:49:42.100 --> 00:49:44.100
Because all of that exists in our flesh.

1029
00:49:47.700 --> 00:49:49.540
The joy, peace, and righteousness exists

1030
00:49:49.540 --> 00:49:51.380
in the kingdom of God and the Spirit.

1031
00:49:52.940 --> 00:49:55.020
And so what would happen if we started to

1032
00:49:55.020 --> 00:49:56.700
look to our spiritual,

1033
00:49:59.180 --> 00:50:00.540
and our spiritual,

1034
00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:03.480
hearts, our spiritual person, more than the flesh,

1035
00:50:00.540 --> 00:50:01.780
and our spiritual,

1036
00:50:01.780 --> 00:50:02.980
and our spiritual,

1037
00:50:02.980 --> 00:50:03.820
and our spiritual,

1038
00:50:03.480 --> 00:50:06.040
with the power and the help of Holy Spirit,

1039
00:50:06.040 --> 00:50:07.840
how would things shift?

1040
00:50:07.840 --> 00:50:10.680
I wanna prophesy over you that if you've begun to do this,

1041
00:50:10.680 --> 00:50:14.500
if you even began to do it for as long as the disciples

1042
00:50:14.500 --> 00:50:17.100
had between resurrection and Pentecost,

1043
00:50:17.100 --> 00:50:19.960
if you even just started doing it for 40 days,

1044
00:50:19.960 --> 00:50:24.200
maybe we'll do a 40 day spiritual activation,

1045
00:50:24.200 --> 00:50:26.940
that your life would shift drastically.

1046
00:50:27.960 --> 00:50:29.720
You might not even be at the same job anymore.

1047
00:50:30.600 --> 00:50:32.920
You might be packing up to move out of the zip code

1048
00:50:32.920 --> 00:50:34.280
that you live in right now.

1049
00:50:35.800 --> 00:50:37.840
You might be in a marriage-minded relationship

1050
00:50:37.840 --> 00:50:39.360
within the next 40 days,

1051
00:50:39.360 --> 00:50:41.840
if you're following after the Spirit and not your flesh.

1052
00:50:41.840 --> 00:50:44.800
By the way, your type exists in your flesh.

1053
00:50:44.800 --> 00:50:47.000
Just wanna let you know that.

1054
00:50:47.000 --> 00:50:48.680
The thing that you think you're looking for,

1055
00:50:48.680 --> 00:50:50.320
it exists in your flesh.

1056
00:50:50.320 --> 00:50:51.960
It is a fleshly situation.

1057
00:50:51.960 --> 00:50:56.360
It is not a spiritual situation for 99.9% of you.

1058
00:50:56.360 --> 00:50:58.400
The things that you think you're attracted to,

1059
00:50:58.400 --> 00:50:59.600
mostly in your flesh,

1060
00:51:01.340 --> 00:51:03.880
will that be a good partner?

1061
00:51:03.880 --> 00:51:05.560
A purpose partner?

1062
00:51:05.560 --> 00:51:06.960
A kingdom alliance?

1063
00:51:07.880 --> 00:51:09.880
Maybe, but also maybe not.

1064
00:51:09.880 --> 00:51:13.560
But if we allow God to cleanse our palate, so to speak,

1065
00:51:13.560 --> 00:51:17.000
if we allow Him to co-author this story

1066
00:51:17.000 --> 00:51:19.040
with the help of Holy Spirit,

1067
00:51:19.040 --> 00:51:20.680
your attractions can shift.

1068
00:51:22.640 --> 00:51:26.520
To someone who can actually be a partner to you

1069
00:51:26.520 --> 00:51:28.800
in this crazy life,

1070
00:51:28.800 --> 00:51:32.340
which I have a good feeling is gonna get interesting.

1071
00:51:34.440 --> 00:51:36.280
I'm not a doomsday prophet.

1072
00:51:36.280 --> 00:51:40.680
I believe that we're always gonna be winning

1073
00:51:40.680 --> 00:51:43.400
as long as we stay on the winning team.

1074
00:51:43.400 --> 00:51:47.860
It may not look like that on the outside all the time,

1075
00:51:49.120 --> 00:51:52.180
but I've already read the back of the book, and we win.

1076
00:51:54.840 --> 00:51:56.400
What happens in between now and then,

1077
00:51:57.240 --> 00:51:59.480
I don't know, but I do know that we have the words of life.

1078
00:51:59.480 --> 00:52:01.320
I know that we are the ones

1079
00:52:01.320 --> 00:52:02.700
that are the salt and light in the earth.

1080
00:52:02.700 --> 00:52:06.480
We are the city set on the hill, Matthew 5, that's us.

1081
00:52:06.480 --> 00:52:11.000
And so we have to continue with the help

1082
00:52:11.000 --> 00:52:13.960
and the power of Holy Spirit to overcome

1083
00:52:13.960 --> 00:52:16.060
and to show people what heaven looks like.

1084
00:52:17.920 --> 00:52:19.960
I don't care if you're a super nice person,

1085
00:52:19.960 --> 00:52:22.760
you're a really kind person, you're a really generous person,

1086
00:52:22.760 --> 00:52:25.680
you've not even seen the best version of yourself

1087
00:52:25.680 --> 00:52:28.480
until you've seen yourself empowered by Holy Spirit.

1088
00:52:30.640 --> 00:52:32.680
Some of us just have gregarious personalities.

1089
00:52:32.680 --> 00:52:34.040
We're really friendly, we're really nice,

1090
00:52:34.040 --> 00:52:36.140
we're really kind to a certain extent,

1091
00:52:38.920 --> 00:52:42.560
but you haven't even begun to realize

1092
00:52:42.560 --> 00:52:46.040
the level of power that you can walk in

1093
00:52:46.040 --> 00:52:48.800
until you're surrendered to Holy Spirit.

1094
00:52:53.080 --> 00:52:54.960
Lillian, I didn't suggest a fast.

1095
00:52:55.320 --> 00:52:59.760
Well, maybe a flesh fast, but I suggested an activation.

1096
00:52:59.760 --> 00:53:02.840
What if every day, every morning,

1097
00:53:02.840 --> 00:53:05.640
before you got out of bed, you just laid in bed,

1098
00:53:07.560 --> 00:53:09.160
and if you have your prayer language,

1099
00:53:09.160 --> 00:53:10.660
you just prayed in the Spirit,

1100
00:53:12.120 --> 00:53:14.180
just prayed in the Spirit with no understanding,

1101
00:53:14.180 --> 00:53:16.960
that's fine, your spirit's praying to God,

1102
00:53:18.220 --> 00:53:20.960
it's moving all kinds of things out of the way,

1103
00:53:20.960 --> 00:53:22.960
it's activating angelic assistance,

1104
00:53:22.960 --> 00:53:24.240
all kinds of things that are happening.

1105
00:53:24.240 --> 00:53:25.920
For those of you that don't have your prayer language,

1106
00:53:25.920 --> 00:53:29.440
what if you laid in bed and you just began to

1107
00:53:29.440 --> 00:53:34.440
declare the Scriptures over yourself,

1108
00:53:36.520 --> 00:53:41.520
begin to invite spiritual things to happen,

1109
00:53:44.080 --> 00:53:47.300
begin to activate that gift of faith?

1110
00:53:49.580 --> 00:53:51.440
What if you did that?

1111
00:53:51.480 --> 00:53:52.560
What would happen?

1112
00:53:52.560 --> 00:53:54.080
What would the day look like?

1113
00:53:55.300 --> 00:53:57.100
You'd have more divine appointments.

1114
00:53:58.520 --> 00:54:00.840
Opportunities would start to open up.

1115
00:54:00.840 --> 00:54:02.120
Things would start to move.

1116
00:54:02.120 --> 00:54:03.920
Friends, I'm basically here to tell you,

1117
00:54:03.920 --> 00:54:05.600
you're doing this the hard way.

1118
00:54:07.520 --> 00:54:08.920
You're doing this the hard way.

1119
00:54:08.920 --> 00:54:10.360
I'm talking to myself, too.

1120
00:54:11.560 --> 00:54:13.560
We have so much distraction that tries to keep us

1121
00:54:13.560 --> 00:54:15.960
in our flesh and out of the Spirit.

1122
00:54:15.960 --> 00:54:17.800
This is why Jesus said, hey, look, you guys,

1123
00:54:17.800 --> 00:54:19.920
you can't do anything more until you just go here,

1124
00:54:19.920 --> 00:54:21.720
carry weight.

1125
00:54:21.720 --> 00:54:23.600
The Father's gonna send another.

1126
00:54:23.600 --> 00:54:25.800
I'm leaving, but you can't be alone.

1127
00:54:25.800 --> 00:54:28.380
You gotta have another.

1128
00:54:29.880 --> 00:54:31.920
He's gonna send this advocate, this teacher,

1129
00:54:31.920 --> 00:54:34.460
this counselor, this truth teller.

1130
00:54:36.900 --> 00:54:38.600
That power is gonna come upon you

1131
00:54:38.600 --> 00:54:40.800
and it's gonna be with you and in you.

1132
00:54:40.800 --> 00:54:42.880
And this is how you're gonna overcome.

1133
00:54:42.880 --> 00:54:45.560
This is how you're gonna do all the things

1134
00:54:45.560 --> 00:54:47.960
that I have said are gonna be done in the earth.

1135
00:54:47.960 --> 00:54:49.620
You're not gonna do those yourself.

1136
00:54:50.320 --> 00:54:52.220
The Holy Spirit's gonna do those things through you.

1137
00:54:54.660 --> 00:54:56.060
But we forget that, friends,

1138
00:54:56.060 --> 00:54:58.660
and we're trying to even love God in our own strength.

1139
00:54:58.660 --> 00:54:59.500
You can't.

1140
00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:03.360
You can't love Jesus on your own. You need Holy Spirit to love Jesus.

1141
00:55:06.960 --> 00:55:11.760
Your flesh is going to get offended. It's not going to be able to stay tethered to Christ.

1142
00:55:13.920 --> 00:55:19.200
Holy Spirit is the glue that keeps the branch on the vine.

1143
00:55:22.560 --> 00:55:26.640
So tomorrow night we're going to activate this more. For those of you that want to receive your

1144
00:55:26.640 --> 00:55:30.880
prayer language, we'll be praying some simple prayers. For those of you that have been really

1145
00:55:30.880 --> 00:55:36.560
scared by charismania, is what I call it, and you've seen the gifts of the Spirit out of control,

1146
00:55:36.560 --> 00:55:42.080
not in order, not being used correctly, as the Bible says, hey, things were not being

1147
00:55:42.080 --> 00:55:47.760
decently and done in order, all kinds of crazy things. As a result of bad teaching, guys, and

1148
00:55:47.760 --> 00:55:51.680
bad theology, those people are not bad people. They just don't understand because they haven't

1149
00:55:51.680 --> 00:55:59.520
been taught. But that hurt you. It scared you, possibly. That's not going to happen here tomorrow

1150
00:55:59.520 --> 00:56:07.120
night. This is not something that we believe that we have to deserve. It's not something we have to

1151
00:56:07.120 --> 00:56:12.240
wait around and tarry for. They tarried in the upper room for the first pouring out of the

1152
00:56:12.240 --> 00:56:18.880
Spirit. We don't have to do that anymore, okay? It's a gift. It's a gift to us. It's a free gift,

1153
00:56:19.440 --> 00:56:26.480
and we will pray over the blanket prayer over everyone that wants to receive that, to receive

1154
00:56:26.480 --> 00:56:32.080
it. You could possibly receive it tomorrow night, or you could possibly, and when I mean receive it,

1155
00:56:32.080 --> 00:56:39.120
I mean receive it with some sort of endowment of power. Whether you begin to prophesy, you begin to

1156
00:56:40.080 --> 00:56:45.520
have visions, whether you begin to feel empowered by faith in a way that you haven't been before,

1157
00:56:46.240 --> 00:56:50.880
or you begin to speak with your prayer language. But specifically for those of you that want to

1158
00:56:50.880 --> 00:56:54.880
have your prayer language, I think it's really beneficial. Paul did, too. He said,

1159
00:56:54.880 --> 00:57:00.320
I'm glad I speak in tongues more than all y'all. That's what he said. And why did he say that?

1160
00:57:00.320 --> 00:57:07.680
Because he was living a hard life, y'all. He was being very persecuted as he went advancing the

1161
00:57:07.680 --> 00:57:14.400
kingdom, and he needed that prayer language to get out of his flesh, out of his human reasoning,

1162
00:57:14.400 --> 00:57:20.000
and just praying the Spirit to be empowered from on high in his circumstances. He needed that,

1163
00:57:20.560 --> 00:57:24.800
that break from his current reality, because his current reality was not good.

1164
00:57:28.240 --> 00:57:33.360
He was revelatory. I'm revelatory. I have the gift of revelation. Where

1165
00:57:33.360 --> 00:57:36.240
do you think that comes from? It doesn't come from Jackie. It comes from the Holy Spirit.

1166
00:57:38.640 --> 00:57:41.920
So it's going to look different on all of us. It's supposed to look different on all of us,

1167
00:57:41.920 --> 00:57:45.680
but we all do need it. So if you specifically want your prayer language—and remember,

1168
00:57:45.680 --> 00:57:48.800
that's for you. That's during your private prayer time. That's what it's for.

1169
00:57:48.800 --> 00:57:55.360
If your prayer language is being used in a community, unless it's a time of intercession

1170
00:57:55.360 --> 00:58:04.000
where we're all praying in the Spirit to bypass the limitations of our human reasoning,

1171
00:58:06.000 --> 00:58:09.120
it should come with an interpretation. If it's done in public,

1172
00:58:10.000 --> 00:58:15.760
in a public setting, with a group of people gathered that don't know each other, like a church

1173
00:58:15.760 --> 00:58:20.960
service type of thing, it should be happening with an interpretation. If it doesn't happen with

1174
00:58:20.960 --> 00:58:25.600
interpretation, once again, it might be a spiritual community of believers that are close-knit and

1175
00:58:25.600 --> 00:58:30.080
doing life together and warring together and possibly interceding in the Spirit. That's okay.

1176
00:58:30.800 --> 00:58:35.440
But if you wander into a church service—and maybe this happened to some of you—where you're a

1177
00:58:35.440 --> 00:58:39.440
stranger there and it's just some big public service and everyone's kind of like speaking

1178
00:58:39.440 --> 00:58:44.000
in tongues and crazy stuff's happening, that's very confusing. It causes confusion

1179
00:58:45.680 --> 00:58:50.960
and it causes fear in a lot of people because the human mind is the enemy of the supernatural.

1180
00:58:50.960 --> 00:58:54.400
It doesn't understand it. It's enmity to God, is what the Bible says.

1181
00:58:54.400 --> 00:58:57.600
So I just want to break that off of you, if any of you have been afraid of that in the past,

1182
00:58:57.600 --> 00:59:00.640
because it hasn't been done in order. It hasn't been done with good teaching.

1183
00:59:01.280 --> 00:59:05.280
I get it. I understand. But once again, this prayer, this language is for you.

1184
00:59:05.280 --> 00:59:09.600
It's for your private prayer times. It's for the empowerment and the maturity of you

1185
00:59:10.160 --> 00:59:14.000
as a believer. And so, Father God, I thank you for your children. I thank you for your sons and

1186
00:59:14.000 --> 00:59:20.000
daughters. I thank you that wherever we are in our spiritual maturity, you want to upgrade us.

1187
00:59:20.000 --> 00:59:24.720
It's a time of upgrade. As we celebrate the Feast of Pentecost, as we remember and commemorate

1188
00:59:25.280 --> 00:59:30.800
when you poured out Holy Spirit on the earth, when you poured out this beautiful gift,

1189
00:59:30.800 --> 00:59:36.960
when you gave him to mankind, we commemorate that, Lord. We honor that, Lord. We're excited

1190
00:59:36.960 --> 00:59:42.320
to be the generation that gets to go further and farther, that we get to step into the fulfillment

1191
00:59:42.320 --> 00:59:48.160
of the prophecies, that we get to step into what others have contended and prayed for.

1192
00:59:48.160 --> 00:59:52.880
But we can only do that with the power of Holy Spirit. And so, Lord, we're asking that each and

1193
00:59:52.880 --> 00:59:58.000
every one of us get an upgrade, whatever that looks like for us, individually, Lord, and corporately,

1194
00:59:58.000 --> 00:59:59.840
in Jesus name, amen.

1195
01:00:00.000 --> 01:00:02.640
All right, friends, have an amazing Supernatural Saturday.

1196
01:00:02.640 --> 01:00:04.040
We'll see you tomorrow night.