Recording in progress. All right, so raise your hand if you were at Supernatural Saturday
yesterday. Guys, all day yesterday I thought it was Sunday. Very interesting. I don't know why
because I did Supernatural Saturday, but then for whatever reason, because I was traveling,
I lost track of all of the time continuum. So I did not know when it was. Did not know what
was going on. Lots of hands going up. Keep them going. Okay. Lots, lots of people. Okay,
go ahead and put those hands down. Put the hands down. Guys, yesterday I was just rambling on and
on during Supernatural Saturday. And I said something incorrectly. And then later on Holy
Spirit was just like, Hey, you said that wrong. And I was like, Oh yes, you're right. So I said
from resurrection to Pentecost was 40 days, actually 50 days, you guys, 50 days. So if
you're going to do that activation of, you know, praying in your bed before you get up, I said,
do it for 40 days, do it for 50 days, add another 10 days in there. 50 obviously is an amazing
number. It means a lot, has a lot of significance spiritually. Make sure that you, um, that you,
uh, add that extra 10 days on because 50, I just turned 50. I'm in what we call Jubilee. This is my
Jubilee year. And, um, and it's been phenomenal guys, six months in so much movement, so much
breakthrough. And so I believe if you do anything to activate yourself spiritually for 50 days,
let's just, it's not a formula, but it's an invitation. If you do that, I believe that you're
going to have some significant breakthrough. David and I purpose in our hearts years ago,
when we were having a paradigm shift in 2009, God invited us to do two fifties, 100,
100 days of morning prayer at five o'clock in the morning. And we did that and we had
crazy stuff happen, such significant breakthrough, such downloads, incredible, incredible, incredible
stuff. You know, the Bible says that we should provoke one another to good works. And so I'm
here to prime your pump. I'm here just priming your spiritual pump, provoking you to spiritual
things, provoking you to good works. Remember good works can't come unless they come from a good God.
There's nothing good in you. The Bible says there's no good thing in us. There's only him
that's in us that is good. And so it's important that we understand that in our flesh, we're not
going to do anything. What's John 15 say? You're not going to do anything apart from me. You can
do no thing, nothing, but with me, you can, what bear much fruit guys. This is eternal fruit. This
is a temporary fruit. This is kind of the fruit that remains. It's the kind of fruit that is
forever for eternity. That's the kind of fruit that's good fruit. Everything else is just
rusting. It's just rotting. Anytime you get really, really, really freaked out by all the
stuff that's going on in your life. I told my daughter this yesterday at the airport, I said,
well, you can't take it with you. You can't people have tried. You ever seen those tombs of the
Pharaohs? They packed them with all kinds of goodies, y'all all kinds of riches and wealth.
And because they thought that they were going to get to use it in the afterlife.
Guess what? It's still there. Besides the people that came and raided the tombs and stole it.
They even, they even put living people in there with them because that's how significant they
thought their lives were that they wanted to have their servants and other people that were
lower than them. When they woke up on the other side of eternity, they wanted to have those people
still serving them and helping them. So they had those people buried alive. That's a really,
really morbid story, but also true. So you can't take it with you. Can't none of it. So anytime you
get your panties in a wad about something that's temporal, I want you to remind yourself, Oh, you
know what? This is a temporary situation and I'm an eternal being. It's a temporary situation and
I'm an eternal being. That means that this can't last forever, but I'm gonna, that means this can't
last forever, but God's love is gonna his peace, his joy. What are the things that are going to be
eternal? Faith, hope, and love, baby. And so we already know that. And the greatest of these is
love. And so the things that we do in love, those are eternal things. Those make eternal impact.
The only treasure that you're laying up in heaven is people, right? That is the treasure. That's
God's heart. That's his treasure. That's all he really cares about is his family. That's all he
ever wanted was a family. And so when we do anything that impacts a person's life for eternity,
you know, a temporal situation that we're helping solve for them, but it's showing them the goodness
and love of God that's impacting their life for eternity. And guess what? We just made an internal
and an internal impact on that person. Eternal and internal, right? Good stuff. And guess who
will lead you into more and more and more opportunities to have internal and eternal
impact? Holy Spirit. Holy Spirit's already leading and guiding every single one of you.
I want you to raise your hand because we're celebrating the feast of Pentecost today.
If you read Acts chapter two, you see, this is the day that they were in the upper room.
They were in the places of worship. They were in the place of solitude. They were shut away.
They were waiting the promise that Jesus spoken in the book of John saying that he was going to
send another. They're pretty soon. They weren't going to see him physically on the earth anymore,
but that's okay. He was going to send one that could be with them and also in them.
So they were waiting for the indwelling, the arrival of this person that was going to be with
them and in them Holy Spirit. And it says, and when the days of Pentecost, the day of Pentecost
was fully come, what was that? That was the feast of Pentecost. And what's fully come means it's
here. It's arrived. There's only one other time in the Bible that that language is used in its
original translation. And that is at the birth of Jesus and the original Greek that the,
that the new Testament is primarily written in. You will see that fully come fully come wording,
meaning that the days have been fulfilled, right? And we're also, we see that language when Mary
gives birth to Jesus. So the birth of the Messiah and the birth of the church, do you guys think
that's an accident? Do you think that it's an accident that we only see that language at the
birth of Messiah, a long awaited promise coming to into being and also the birth of the church
that should show you that the birth of the church is a very significant event.
And guess who the church is. That church is you. That church is me. That church is built on the
rock of Jesus Christ so that the opposing forces, the gates of hell can not prevail against it.
Right. Yes. So raise your hand. If you've experienced your own personal Pentecost
where Holy spirit's not just with you, but you feel like you've been baptized in the spirit
with the evidence of your prayer language, raise your hand. I don't care if you've only said two
words in your prayer language. I don't say, I don't care if it sounds like gobbledy goop.
I don't care if it sounds like baby talk, raise your hand. If you've had any kind of experience
with speaking in tongues is what people call it. Prayer language is a little bit more politically
correct. And the reason why you guys, cause a lot of people have been abused by the idea of
speaking in tongues. I remember, remember in supernatural Saturday, a lot of you guys were
there. If you weren't there, go listen to the replay. I spent two summers in a row with my
grandmother who was Pentecostal. And guess what? They try to give you a Holy spirit rub down to
a Holy spirit rub down to get you to receive the baptism of the Holy spirit. They got the
hands all over you. They breathe in their bad breath in your face. They're telling you to
sit up, you know, sit down, stand up, raise your hands, put your hands down.
It's like the hokey pokey, turn yourself around and maybe you get the Holy spirit.
Okay. And I was just a kid and I was super traumatized by this. Cause guess who didn't
get the Holy spirit? Me at one point, I just started faking it friends because I was just
like, I'm done with this. I'm not doing this anymore. Okay. People are spitting on me.
All kinds of stuff is happening. And I just, and you guys, it's like sitting at a dinner table
with someone who was raised in the military. You're not leaving that table until you eat your
food. You're not leaving that altar until you speak in tongues. That's what's going to happen
if you're in one of these old time Pentecostal churches, does anyone else have that experience?
Or is it just me being traumatized as a little kid? And you guys, I got it in my mind that it
wasn't actually real because like I said, on Saturday, a lot of the people that I knew that
had this gift of the spirit were also pretty mean in real life. They were kind of mean people
outside of the church environment, of course. And so I was like, Oh, I'm not buying it.
And so fast forward and we'll let some of our other leaders tell you about their experience
when they received this gift, this personal gift of their prayer language, speaking in tongues.
Remember that's what Pentecost was all about waiting for Holy spirit to show up. And one of
the things that happened corporately to all of them was a cloven tongue as a fire sat upon each
of them. And they all began to speak in other languages as the spirit gave them the ability.
That's what the Bible says. Okay. So we'll let some of our other leaders,
because everyone's experience with this is very different.
So I told you that in my twenties, after, after I met Jesus, that's important.
After I met Jesus, after I was filled with his love, after he delivered me
from the situation that I was in, after he healed my body, I was in my
living room and I was worshiping.
I think that a lot of times that is a common denominator to a lot of
people's baptism in the spirit story is that they were worshiping.
I was just in love with Jesus and I was just worshiping.
I wasn't trying to get anything.
Okay.
I was just very thankful.
I was very grateful.
Okay.
And because he's a good, good, good father, the Bible says, if you being
evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more does
your heavenly father know how to give the Holy spirit to those who ask him?
But here's the thing.
And this is what was not taught to me as a child, because those
Pentecostal people didn't know this.
Right.
They're always looking for some reason why you're not receiving this gift.
Remember gifts are not deserved.
They're not earned.
They're just received.
So they had me doing all kinds of gymnastics, trying to receive, trying
to be worthy, repent, pray, do this, do that, all the things instead of
just what believing in receiving by faith.
Why do you think all those people were sitting up in that upper room?
They believe what Jesus said to them about, Hey, go Terry in Jerusalem.
Until you're in dude with power from on high, basically saying you can't
do what's coming next in your flesh.
You're going to need power, resident power.
The Bible says that the Holy spirit is like rivers of living
water flowing out of your belly.
The problem is a lot of people want it to flow out of their
mind, not their belly, right?
You let your human reasoning get all involved and it's really easy to do.
And that's why the Bible says that the human reasoning is the enemy of
the supernatural or God, I know friends.
And I really kind of went back and forth about whether we should even
celebrate this feast as a community.
You know, Sunday night activation is very supernatural.
It's very school of the Holy spirit already.
And I didn't want to chase people off, especially people that just have a lot
of, you know, unfinished theology.
In their mind about the ministry of Holy spirit and what that looks like.
And so if that's you, please don't pull away.
We still can help you get married.
We can agree to disagree.
If this is beyond, you know, what your theology tells you is true or right.
We're teaching from a place of where we are as leaders here.
And we want people to be empowered to not just live in their
flesh, but live in the spirit.
And once again, those of you that are following after the spirit, you're not
going to fulfill the lust of the flesh, continue to fall off of the spirit.
That's a daily thing.
That's an everyday get up and do it again and again and again and again.
So if your prayer language is not activated, then activate the word of God
and declarations when you're laying in bed for that 50 days, begin
to pray the word over yourself.
You're built on that rock.
The word was with God and it was God.
And it came, became flesh and dwelt among us.
Jesus is the word.
He is the truth.
He is the life.
Okay.
It's the word.
He's the way he's the truth.
He's the life.
Be declaring as you feel led.
And by the way, that's Holy spirit leading you.
So let's talk about that for a second.
Have you ever just started praying with your human understanding?
You're praying for all the things that you know how to pray for.
Oh, I pray for my dog and I pray for my cat and I pray for my grandma.
And I pray for this job that I don't like that.
My boss would be nicer to me.
And you're praying with your understanding.
And then all of a sudden, as you start praying, something starts
happening where you start praying for things from here and not here.
All of a sudden you find yourself praying for things that
you weren't thinking about.
Where's that coming?
That's coming up out of your spirit.
Isn't it?
That's the same way that this gift of your prayer language happens.
Same exact way.
Friends, raise your hand.
If you start praying in the, in the human reasoning, the things, you
know, your understanding, and then all of a sudden you're praying for
all kinds of things that you had never initially sat down to pray for.
You find yourself saying all kinds of stuff, God, I pray for this person
and that person in this situation, in that situation, once again, in
English, because maybe you don't have your prayer language for some of
you, that turns into you starting to pray in the spirit with your
prayer language too, right?
Once again, you're not praying from here.
You started here and now you're praying from here.
I don't know if you guys can see me.
I'm pointing to my spirit, to my belly.
I feel like I disappeared, but I'm here somewhere.
Okay.
There I am.
All right.
Do you guys see how that works?
Right.
So who's leading?
You in those prayers that weren't coming from your mind, Holy Spirit, Holy
Spirit's leading you in those prayers, those thoughts and ideas are coming
from Holy Spirit, and that's exactly how the words, when you pray in your
prayer language or speak in tongues, that's exactly how they come to.
I've heard lots of different testimonies for me.
I just started singing when I opened my mouth and into, in a foreign language to
me, it was foreign to me, but for other people, I've heard them say it felt like
it felt like a river coming up and then they just couldn't contain it.
They opened their mouth and out.
It came other people, just like I just told you with about the praying, they
started praying in English with their understanding and pretty soon their
tongue got kind of heavy and there's just saying a couple of sloppy words
that aren't really words, right?
As the spirit is taking more control of their language and they just went with
it.
A hundred percent of what I think happens to every single person when they
surrender to this experience is that their mind tells them that they're crazy.
I will tell you after I had this experience, I literally either with my
flesh or the enemy, one or the other telling me, Oh, now it's good.
Now it's happened, Jackie.
You're you've completely lost your mind.
You're mentally ill.
You've totally gone crazy.
You guys know that one of the, one of the things in the DSM four, which is now the
DSM five, which is the diagnostic manual to, to diagnose mental illness.
That's a diagnostic manual in order to diagnose mental illness.
How do I know this?
Cause I went to school to be a psychologist.
One of the things in there that is a criteria for being mentally ill is
thinking that you hear from God.
Did you guys know that thinking that God's talking to you?
Thinking that God's talking to you.
So remember, I don't know God that well yet when this is happening to me.
And one of the very first things I thought is, Oh, now you've done it.
You've crossed the bridge, baby girl.
You crazy.
Right.
You're crazy.
You're in a delusion.
You're delusional.
Now you're making stuff up.
And friends, it's going to feel that way because once again, it's not coming from
you, it's happening in you.
It's coming out of you.
Right.
And so you're going to have to ignore that if you want to continue to grow in
this and growing in this as a must.
So some people say their tongue just gets heavy and they're starting to say some
gobbledygook and then they just go with it.
Okay.
Other people say that they hear strange words in their mind, in their head.
Like they hear words that are not English words, or if you're, if you're a native
speaker of a different language, obviously this happens, this baptism happens to
people, not just English speakers.
And so you hear a language in your mind and then they just give voice to it.
They start repeating the words or the, or the sounds I should say that they're
hearing that they hear in their head.
So raise your hand again, if you have had this experience where you have spoken in
your prayer language once, twice, three times, you do it every day.
Now.
Come look at this having David's here.
You guys were all here.
The team's here.
Looking to see, keep your hands up, please.
So about 62, keep putting your hands up.
Don't take them down.
Just leave them up.
63, 68.
There's 187 of a 70.
Keep on going.
72, 73.
You can't all be crazy, right?
76, 77, 79.
Come on, keep them going up.
Let's see them.
Don't be shy.
Don't be afraid.
Some of you just did it once or twice and then you chickened out.
Didn't speak with your prayer language anymore.
You didn't get any more teaching on it.
You didn't really know how to use it.
Just so you know, it's always there.
It's still there.
Now you can reactivate it tonight.
It's always been there.
It hasn't left you guys.
The gifts of God are without repentance.
He doesn't remove them after you receive them.
And remember it's about receiving.
It's not about earning 90.
So when I was a kid, I always thought for a minute, I thought there was
something wrong with me because it wasn't happening for me, but
it's happening for others.
And then pretty soon after that, I thought there was something
wrong with everyone else.
First, I thought there was something wrong with me, but then I took a
deeper look at the people around me.
I'm like, maybe there's something wrong with them.
Okay.
And so regardless of what happened, I did not end up really allowing this
gift to fully be received by me until I was until 15, 16 years later.
Okay.
Yes, it's okay.
Uh, Margaret, it is for your private edification.
It is for your private spiritual edification for sure.
There are different forms of tongues that happen corporately in the church
service intercession and in.
some interpretation as well. Okay. All right. So friends, once again, you have to ask and you have
to receive by faith. You have to ask and receive by faith. And that means if you believe it,
that you've received it, then you have it. And then you begin to activate it. Okay. And so we're
going to do a little bit of an activation here. David's going to lead that, but I just want to
talk about a couple more things. Okay. For those of you that did not raise your hand,
you didn't raise your hand. Okay. As having ever had this experience, I just want to see who else
here, raise your hand. If you desire it deeply, if you have desired it, if you do desire it,
you just desire it, raise your hand. If you desire it, but it has not fully happened to you before
you haven't fully been able to activate that. Come on, get your hands up. Let me see.
There are about 75 of you that said, yeah, I've had this experience. And now there's
33, 34, 35, 36, 38, 39.
And you guys, I want you to be fully honest. Okay. This is important for tonight to be fully
honest. Okay. Go ahead and put your hands down for those of you that said, yeah,
it hasn't happened. And for those of you that has happened, start just releasing your faith
for these people. Okay. Start releasing your faith, start praying in your prayer language,
not unmuted. Okay. Quietly in the place where you are, if you can, if you're alone and you
feel comfortable, start praying, start praying. Let's just go ahead and prime the pump a little
bit. Okay. So I added those two numbers together of people that have received and people who want
to receive. And there's still a whole lot of people that didn't raise their hand for each one.
So get honest with us tonight, raise your hand. If you just think it's weird and you're not
interested at all, and you wish we would just talk about, you know, how you can get married.
It's okay. We're fully okay with, with that. So raise your hand. If you're just like, yeah,
I'm not into it. I don't really believe in that. I'm good. I'm good. I'm good.
Larissa, thank you for your honesty. Love it. Love, love, love honesty. Couple people.
I'll also raise your hand. If you're just not sure you're like, I'm not against it,
but I'm also really not sure I'm on the fence. I'm a skeptic. I'm kind of skeptical.
No, no. It's like, I'm not sure.
Come on. See those hands. And we bless all of you folks. We bless you. We're not offended by that
at all. There were many years that I was in your camp as well. Trust me many, many years that I
was in your camp and was just like, what is this sorcery? You know? And then I met Jesus
and my heart shifted. And then when holy spirit came and I was baptized in holy spirit,
the spirit of truth, I began to see things differently, but you guys I'm 28 years in.
Okay. Actually 29, 29 years in 29. You're 29 years old. No. Um, yes, yes I am. Um,
okay. All right. So that's just another, let's see. That's another 11 people. Okay. There's
still a lot of people unaccounted for that. Just don't want to raise your hands for anything.
Raise your hand. If you're against raising your hand,
Dave is not lying. Anytime we're at any kind of thing. And they're like, Hey,
raise your hand at this or that. He doesn't ever participate. He is not a participator
of raising his hand anyway, shape or form. Okay. I don't like to shake my neighbor's hand. I don't
like to turn to my neighbor and tell them that, uh, he doesn't do any of that. Okay. Okay. Guys,
thank you for your honesty. Thank you for your candor. We thank you for all of these things.
We appreciate all of you. All right. Okay. I promise you nothing's going to get crazy weird.
Everyone's going to stay muted here. It's all good. You're not going to be subjected to something
that makes you want to run for the Hills. Right. But I do want to break that trauma off of you.
If you've been traumatized by this. Okay. In fact, go ahead and raise your hand. If,
you know, part of the reason why you're skeptical is because like me, you had some earlier trauma
with quote unquote, spirit filled people. You've had some kind of earlier trauma with people who
were overzealous. All right. They just were, they may have been, they're falling some kind
of spirit, but you're not pretty sure that it wasn't Holy spirit or you just don't know,
or they, they probably were just, you know, uneducated in what it is that they were doing.
There's okay. There's another whole group of people there. All right. Right. You guys will
in honor of the birth of the church, which started with people receiving empowerment in this way.
And remember that 50 day challenge that we put out.
there to really prime the pump of being, following the spirit and not the flesh.
It doesn't have to, you'd be you praying in your prayer language.
It can be you just, just speaking the word of yourself.
You just laying there and worshiping and just surrendering to God.
And guess what?
That's when your prayer language might come because everyone that I've ever
heard, it started out with them having some moment of surrender them,
some having some moment of worship.
So quickly before we start this activation, um, we will let just very
quickly, we'll let our leaders that are on here, David, Bethany and candy.
And Kemi, I think are the only people here tonight, briefly, you guys, and
very quickly let people know where you were and how this happened for you when
it happened, because I know that it happened for all of you guys.
All right.
So desiring it as the first thing.
And if you don't desire it right now, because you're just afraid or
unsure, that's okay.
It's fully okay.
God knows who you are, where you are, what you need and how to get it to you.
And so I don't want you to worry about that.
Okay.
All right.
And then to all of you, you're going to be activated when David activates
you just to ask and receive, it's just very simple friends ask and receive by
what, by faith, by faith, I want to read two scriptures over you.
If you then know how to give good and gifts, good gifts to your children, how
much more will your father in heaven give the Holy spirit to those who ask him.
It's just about asking, asking and receiving.
And then there's a prayer here.
I'm going to let David do that.
Letting go of control.
This is harder for most of us.
I remember that night when I received this gift, I didn't know how to surrender.
I said, I said to my former husband who was with me, he said, just let go.
I said, and I said, I don't know how, I don't know what that means.
It didn't make any sense.
Like what it does fall down limp, like a fish, you know, like, what do you do?
Like a dead fish that just came out of the water.
Like, what do you do?
You just turn into Gumby.
Like what, what do you mean?
Let go.
What does that mean?
But in my head, I said to the Lord, I said, I love you.
And I want to surrender to you.
So I just, I surrender.
And that's what I said.
And so maybe once again, not a formula, very, very personal experience for everyone.
Um, it's not about being overtaken.
You guys are possessed.
Some of you are afraid of stuff like this because you think it's being possessed.
No, the spirit is always subject to the prophet, to the, to the person.
Okay.
Always, you can always shut it off.
You can always shut it down.
You can always stop.
This is why I never was into the theology of people saying, well, you know, whenever
you feel like it, when it comes on you, you know, you just, it doesn't come on
you, you guys, it lives in you.
It's a very different thing.
It's about turning on and off the faucet.
And guess what?
You're the person that turns that on or off.
And as you grow and mature in all the gifts, not just this one, you will realize
that it's subject to you, turning it on and turning it off.
I have lots of gifts of the spirit.
You go read about them.
Once again, the book of Galatians, I operate in words of wisdom, words of
knowledge, words of prophecy.
I operate in tongues and in diverse tongues, which is a completely different
gift than what we're talking about here.
Interpretation of tongues.
I've operated in all of these gifts, the gifts of healing.
Well, guess what?
That's subject to me.
It doesn't just possess me and overtake me and force me to do it.
You know, there's an invitation to pray for someone or to release a word over
someone, you know, when I receive a word from the Lord for somebody, whether it's
wisdom or knowledge, I have a choice of whether or not I feel like that's
something that I should pray into for that person, or if it's meant to be
spoken to them, and that all comes from good teaching and really just maturity.
And then of course, the fruit of the spirit, which is even more important,
love and joy and peace and patience and all of those good things.
Okay, friends.
All right.
So.
Letting go and co partnering or co laboring with the spirit.
Really important.
Remember we're doing the speaking.
We're like giving it sound.
We're giving it sound, but he's giving the utterance.
Holy spirit is, so we're not going to wait for him to open our mouth.
Just like, we're not going to wait for God to open up that dating app or to,
you know, put on a nice outfit and go out to a singles event, right?
God's not going to do that for us.
We're going to do that.
But then what happens when we get there?
Because we're partnering, he's not writing the love story.
We're co-writing the love story with him.
We have to take action.
Belief requires action.
The Bible says, if you believe that you have received, then you will have, but
guess what belief looks like something.
It looks like action.
Doesn't it?
And so beginning to give sound after we pray and ask God to give us this
gift, beginning to worship, beginning to praise God, beginning to give the
sound that is necessary for speech is our part.
And they were all filled with the Holy spirit and began to speak.
They began to speak.
They began to.
speak. They begin to give sound.
They begin to speak with other languages as the spirit gave them the ability.
Okay. All right. So what does that look like?
It means opening your mouth and beginning to speak.
And you can just like when you're praying, you can start with the understanding,
just start worshiping God,
start saying things that you understand what those words mean,
because that's your language. And as you continue, because once again,
you've just prayed that God would
send Holy spirit to indwell you to be with you, but also in you.
And you guys, I'm promising you that it's probably going to feel awkward,
but as those syllables begin to come out,
as your tongue begins to get heavier,
you begin to hear strange syllables and sounds in your mind.
And you begin to give those things sound. It's going to feel weird.
Or maybe you might feel that rising up of your spirit.
That's coming up from your belly and out of your mouth, whatever happens,
your human mind is going to probably try to rebel against it,
thinking that you're making it happen because of this session,
or it's all just being contrived or, you know, whatever.
And that's why you can't overthink it because the spirit is flowing from your
belly, not your brain. Don't overthink it. Don't overthink it. Okay.
Right. And out of your innermost being will flow rivers of living water.
John seven 38. So we've got to ignore that inner critic friends.
Your flesh is going to whisper. You're making this up, ignore it.
The enemy might whisper like the opposing forces, you know,
depending on if you have some trauma, remember what I said,
trauma doesn't just hurt us. It creates different versions of us.
And we have all kinds of lies that have been sown and woundings in our hearts.
And you might have a spiritual wounding in this area that starts to try to pipe
up and make some noise. Okay. You have to ignore it.
You have to keep going. The flow will grow, write that down.
It might just be a couple syllables tonight. And then tomorrow,
remember I said the next day I woke up and said, wow, that was amazing.
I wonder if that's going to happen anymore.
And I began to praise the Lord and it started happening again.
And then I continue to pray and it happened again. And the next week again,
and the next month again, and then again, and again, and again,
I kept climbing the pump and guess what? There was more water there.
There was more living water there.
And now I'm almost 30 years in and I can tell you that I love to pray in the
spirit. Paul says, I'm glad that I pray in tongues more than all y'all.
And you can see why he would be glad, right?
Because his human reasoning was probably always trying to tell him that God had
forsaken and abandoned him because he was always getting arrested.
He was getting beaten. He was getting thrown in prison.
He was getting threatened with death. He was getting bit by snakes,
bro had it hard for those of you that are like, Oh,
Paul said it's better to be single. It ain't better to be single.
If you're Paul, Paul had a rough life. Okay.
But he had the grace to endure what he went through.
And that's probably why he was praying in the spirit a lot because he was,
it's like spiritual bodybuilding for your spirit. Like, right.
It's increasing your spirit so that your flesh doesn't get in control and be
like, you're doomed. God has forsaken you because your flesh,
it gets pretty negative really fast.
And you can see that Paul probably could have gotten pretty negative pretty
fast.
If he wasn't praying in the spirit and really continuing to build his spirit
man. Right.
For those of you that have been considering whether you have the gift of
singleness or not, just remember Paul's grace to be single,
included snake bites and shipwrecks and beatings and imprisonments.
He had a whole different maturity plan, didn't he? Us,
we're being matured by marriage and family.
I'm going to call God up and make sure that I stay on that plan.
I like that plan. I like that maturity plan better than any of the others.
Okay. So the flow will grow. You guys
practice daily practice daily guys.
Let's talk about it really quickly. Let's talk about the gift of healing.
I have a good friend. Raise your hand.
If you know a guy named Jim Baker with one K not the dude that sold all the
money back in the eighties. Okay.
Jim Baker with one K who pastors a church called Zion Christian fellowship in
Ohio. He also owns something called wealth with God. Raise your hand.
If you know who Jim Baker is, he also teaches on grace and he teaches on healing.
If you've ever been to Bethel Redding and you've gone to the healing rooms,
the videos that they show you before you go into the healing rooms,
that is Jim Baker talking on that screen.
He is a good friend of my husband and I,
and he used to be our pastor when we lived in Columbus, Ohio.
A lot of you are raising your hand. You guys,
when he got invited him into receiving the gift of healing,
he was praying for the gift of healing. And God said, you have it, believe it,
receive it. You have it. He started praying for people.
He started praying for people. He started activating it.
He would find anyone who was sick,
every church service because he was already a pastor.
He would invite the sick people to come up guys, the gift of healing.
The way is different than laying hands on the sick and they shall
recover, laying hands on the sick and they shall recover is just a
ministry of the church at large.
It is what we are to do as, you know, saints in the church pray for the sick
among us, the gift of healing is when you pray for someone and they're healed.
Okay.
They're healed.
It's a gift of healing.
It's supernatural.
So he began to pray and I can't remember the exact number, but he told us that
he prayed for like 200, let's just say it's 200.
It was a lot of people.
It was at least 200, 200 plus people before he ever saw a healing.
And you guys I'm talking about, I'm not talking about like a healing,
like someone grows back a leg.
That would probably be a gift of miracles, but healed of a disease, healed of a
disorder, I'm not talking about those.
I'm talking about someone being healed of a headache, being healed of the flu,
being healed of before he ever saw any type of healing, he had believed and
received and activated that gift.
At least 200 times, do you see what I'm saying here?
The proof of belief is action.
The Bible says, if you believe by faith, you will receive and you will have.
That means tonight we're going to activate that faith and you're
going to begin to practice it because the flow will grow.
The flow is going to grow.
So praying daily, worshiping, praying with the understanding.
If you get a few words, not a few syllables, even not even words, even if
there's a few sounds, my friends practice that every day, continue to repeat
those sounds until more come because they will, and then more and then
more and then more, and then more.
It'll deepen the gift and strengthen the gift.
Going back to the fact that it's for us, like our sister said in the comment
stream, first Corinthians four, four 14, four says he who speaks in tongues,
edifies himself.
What are you doing?
You're building your own faith.
You're building the supernatural up in your heart, your belief in the supernatural.
That's what you're doing.
You're building it.
Once again, speaking in your prayer language is to the spirit as lifting
weights is to the body.
It will strengthen your spirit.
All right.
And then remember, this is your direct connect to God, bypassing your human
intellect.
So when you're getting in the way, when you're getting in your own way, you
can pray with these utterances that are going to become words that you're not
going to understand.
Okay.
And as that happens, you're going to be bypassing your human reasoning and
interceding for yourself to your creator, your spirit speaking to him because he's
a spirit.
You can use it in worship.
You can use it in prayer.
You can use it in intercession.
And when you don't know what to pray, that's my favorite time to use it when I
don't know what to pray.
Okay.
All right.
And then Romans eight and eight 20, I'm sorry, eight 26.
The spirit helps us in our weakness.
The spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words.
Right now I'm going to give it over to our team.
Really quickly, ladies, Bethany candy, Kimmy, if you could just give your
personal testimony and then we're going to give it to David and he's going to
activate.
Yeah, thank you.
Um, so just wanted to share real quick tonight.
Um, I received the gift of speaking in tongues when I was in a leadership
development class and we were learning all, all the things Jackie's talking
about tonight was asking God for it, seeking him, believing that I would
receive it.
Um, and one day we were in a worship service and the Holy spirit was moving.
There was a woman that was there with me that I had been mentoring and spending
a lot of time with, and she needed prayer.
And so I asked her if she wanted to go up.
She said, yes, we went up to the front for her to receive prayer.
And, uh, another minister came up, was praying with her.
I was praying for her.
And as I was praying for her and doing as kind of Jackie was saying earlier, just
going with whatever God put in my spirit as I was doing that, that is when I
received the gift of speaking in tongues and was able just to flow in that
gifting and pray for her in ways that I think I wouldn't have been able as Jackie
was talking about my human intellect, just a really powerful moment, undeniable
for me.
Um, but that is how I received the gift of speaking in tongues.
So I'm going to pass this over to candy.
Yeah.
So mine was, uh, actually I started going to a spirit filled church when I was 16 and
I got saved at 10.
Um, and then though, when I was 19, I was in Florida and it was a tent, I believe
it like a tent revival kind of thing.
And I knew that that day was the day, um, because they offered it, they did like a,
you know, uh, an offer to come up.
And I said, yes, I want it all.
And I knew that that something had happened to me and that I was filled with the spirit
and tongues that particular week, that particular day.
And I've never been the same since.
So that's my short, my short rendition of mine.
Uh, who's next Kimmy?
Is Kimmy here for sure?
Yes, I am.
I'm sorry.
Uh, uh, the beginning and didn't quite get the direction.
Just if you, if you have a testimony to share about receiving, uh, the gift of tongues,
you can share that now.
If you want to pass it over to David, he can take it from here.
I'll pass it over to David.
Thank you.
Awesome.
Hey guys.
Um, so glad to be with you tonight and, uh, thank you for being here.
I just want to, um, honor every single one of you that are here for the session because,
um, this is, it's very important and it can be very powerful in your life.
Um, you know, I received baptism of the spirit, my tradition and faith and faith development
was definitely a very charismatic, very, um, spirit filled, um, type of way, but I didn't
receive salvation and didn't receive baptism of the spirit in a church type of organized
situation.
Um, you know, my aunt, my great aunt was the one who really just personally, she received
salvation.
We should receive the truth and the light of the, of the, the work of the cross and
very good teaching.
And she literally single-handedly evangelized her entire family, including my mom and her
siblings.
My mom is a one of six children and cousins.
So all of us were really, the gospel was really shared with us by our aunt and we received
salvation and the work of truth initially through, um, just one-on-one teaching and
talking and sharing in our living rooms.
And I was a young child during this time when my mother was receiving, um, a lot of this
information as an adult.
And, um, I just wasn't in naturally, supernaturally an environment to where, um, the Lord was
just moving and I began to vocalize and to speak in tongues and I received it, not even
really knowing what was happening to me.
And so I was just open to it because I was a child, but then furthermore in my life,
as I grew in faith and I grew in ministry and I grew in experience with the Lord, that
gift, because it was so naturally, uh, supernatural, uh, it just began to really grow in me.
And had I not been very fortunate to be in that environment and that faith development
and the other places that we went to church and continued our faith, of course, I wouldn't
be the person I am today.
So even though I received it very young, um, it's still a part of activating.
It's still part of understanding it.
And I love speaking in tongues.
I speak in tongues.
I feel like I'm a lot like Paul.
Like I feel, I feel like I speak in tongues more than most people think.
They, if they, if you know me, um, uh, and maybe even more so than a lot of other people.
And, um, but there have been seasons in my life where I like forgot and you're like,
how could you forget the Lord?
But you get in a pattern of when you're trying to do your life and everybody, we all do this.
We all do this with trying to figure things out, trying to come up against obstacles and
trying to overcome them or trying to overcome something in yourself and trying to, you know,
and you get to a certain point where like, oh yeah, I forget.
Um, I'm a son of God.
I'm a daughter of God.
I have tools.
I have things that can activate.
I have the power to be able to overcome these things, you know?
So just like any other believer, you know, we forget the truth that is in us sometimes, but
that's why I encourage you to say that, um, speaking in tongues is very natural and normal.
I just want to say one thing really quick.
Um, my friend, Bethany Hicks, a lot of, you know, her, she's a friend of this ministry.
She's a good friend of ours, but she's also a very, very well-known prophet.
Um, she just was texting me because today was her daughter's graduation party.
And she was just thanking us for the card.
And I said, Hey, we're teaching about Holy Spirit right now.
Like, how did you receive Holy Spirit?
Cause I just wanted to see, cause you guys know.
Or she's a powerhouse prophetic voice in the earth right now, author of lots of
books on the prophetic and spiritual things.
And I'm, you know, a sought out speaker.
And this is what she said.
She said, I was so hungry.
I asked, I asked God and I opened my mouth and I just started trusting that
the gibberish coming out was him.
Yeah.
So it's important you guys to understand that even people that you highly respect
spiritually, they didn't start out with any kind of fluent prayer language.
Absolutely.
And I tell you, I've had my, I've had my moments of doubt.
I've had my moments of like, you know, is this, is this really anything?
I mean, and I'm not talking about like just personally, I'm talking about
like in the midst of like some of the most spiritual, like moments,
like me on a platform ministry.
I'm having doubts and I've had questions.
I've had them like, this is all it's cracked up to be all that kind of thing.
And so I tell you, I I've been through all of the iterations, you know, but.
I feel like speaking in tongues, I think the biggest thing for those who might be
skeptical or most have never experienced this yet is one of the, is, is not only
the, the heavy put on that religion, lots of times puts on these types of topics.
Like, oh, you must do this.
Like, I don't like it when I go to church and somebody is like, you know,
you really ought to, you ought to pray more and you know, we ought to really
need, you know, we ought to really read our Bible more.
Right.
And I'm like, so just reading the Bible, like I want to get into, I'm always
asking the why what's in it, like where, like what's the purpose, like, is just
reading your Bible more just as such a, a value and that doing that alone.
Makes all the difference.
No, it requires.
And so you read God's word because it is his word to us.
It is his story to us to be able to share and reveal who he is, what he's like, what
he's done, those are, it's like, that's the reason why we write, why do you read
a good story?
Because the story is fascinating.
It's good.
It's dramatic.
It's all the things.
It's the same thing.
Why would you speak in tongues?
Because it's the zest of the spirit that brings that, that sort of X factor to
your life, can you receive the truth of the cross and receive that salvation on
your way to heaven on a way to, you know, the, the, the age to come, whatever
that looks like, right.
Can you receive salvation and go to heaven?
So to speak, right.
Without receiving the baptism of the Holy spirit, evidence of speaking in
tongues.
Yes, you can, of course.
But if you want a power, a resident spirit within you, that you could activate at any
moment to be able to break through in certain situations where you need clarity,
where you need an increase of faith, where you're, where you're needing, um, words
to say, like, I've come to a point where I prayed certain prayers.
I said, Lord, I, you know, I'm praying for this person.
I'm praying for the situation.
This is what I see.
And this is what I'd like to happen.
And I'm praying, Lord, make your, you know, have your way in this.
And I would like to have it done this way.
And, you know, I'm making my prayers known.
Right.
But then I get to the end of that.
I'm like, this just doesn't seem sufficient.
It doesn't seem like enough because I'm not really hitting the words I want to say.
And so that's a perfect time for me to use my prayer language, to just speak and
another time goes, and that sounds silly to someone who may just be listening to
that, but to me, I just tapped in and a matter of seconds into a realm of the
spirit that, you know, that I didn't know a few minutes before you understand.
And so it just activates, activates the spirit in your life.
It activates what God is trying to do in your life in so many different ways.
And the last thing I want to say is that, um, you know, there are linguists, like if
you want to get technical about it, there are people who are linguists that actually
study speaking in tongues, I have a term for it, glossolalia, and it refers to the
phenomenon of speaking an unknown or ecstatic language and linguists have
observed that there are phenomenas and syllable patterns, usually from the
speaker's native language.
So if you're an English speaker, if you're an Italian speaker, if you're a
Russian speaker, typically your tongues will sound syllabolically like the
language that you speak in.
And it does lack a consistent grammar or a syntax of a known language.
and is usually not intelligible to others unless interpreted, which aligns specifically with Paul's
teaching in 1 Corinthians 14. So even people who are academics are aware that this is a thing,
this is something, there's something to this, like even from a linguistic standpoint.
And there's been observation that there's part of the brain that when somebody is speaking,
you understand, scientists say when you speak, you can't be hearing and receiving at the same time
because you're speaking, you're putting out. So when you're speaking, you can't be listening to
somebody else at the same time. That's difficult and that's not really good communication,
especially if you're trying to actually actively listen to something. So usually you're quiet when
you're actively listening. But when somebody is speaking in tongues, scientists have actually
read brain patterns where the part of the brain that receives information is actually activated
while speaking in tongues. Fascinating, unbelievably fascinating to me. So even science
is involved with this part of speaking in tongues and curious about what it is. And you as the
believer receiving it by faith can activate it in your life. Really it's just, I feel like it's a
bonus. I don't feel like it's a put on of any sort. I don't feel like it's like, oh, you're not holy,
you haven't earned it, you don't understand it, you're not like me, none of that. I feel like
it's a bonus. I feel like it's an upgrade. I feel like Jesus is like, look, God was in the temple
manifested as a pillar of fire by night and a cloud by day. Jesus came and then was the
physical manifestation in the form of a man on earth. And now since Jesus has died, rose again
as ascended to heaven, Holy Spirit is now the manifested presence of God in the earth, in the
lives and active in every believer. Now, another one thing I want to say clear about tongues is
that does that mean if you're not speaking in tongue, does that mean you're not filled with
the Holy Spirit? No, that's not necessarily true. There are instances in scripture where people were
filled with the Holy Spirit and didn't recognize what the scripture didn't specifically say they
spoke in tongues. Speaking in tongues is not the only evidence of being filled with the Spirit.
So if you want to be able to like parse, you know, well, you know, are you saying that I have to speak
in tongues in order to be filled with the Spirit because I feel like I'm filled with the Spirit
and I will speak in tongues? That's okay. Scripture bears that out. Scripture supports that.
It's not required, but I'm telling you what, it makes a difference. It makes a powerful difference
in my life to be able to go into a place where I can speak in tongues. I've literally shifted
things in my family, things in my children's life, situations that I could not have any control or
anything to be able to work out. There have been resolved, there have been answers to problems
that worked out because I was willing just to go into a moment of speaking in tongues and just
connecting in my heavenly language with heaven and getting heaven on the scene in that instance.
Amen? So that's all I really wanted to teach and share about that, but I hope you've been
encouraged. I hope you've been strengthened, and I tell you what, whenever I'm just lacking like,
Lord, I really want to believe you. I want to have faith for this. I just, I'm lacking understanding
because I really believe that faith is knowing you, knowing God. So I'm going to speak in tongues
and I'm going to allow my faith to be increased towards this situation or towards whatever I'm
facing, towards this thing that I'm trying to really lean into, right? Because there are things
that you're like, I know there's truth there. I know there's something to be had there. I just can't,
it's just difficult to obtain. I'm trying to use faith. So where does faith come from? Your faith
gets built in part by speaking in tongues. It's what the scripture says directly.
And another comment from the peanut gallery. Hi, I'm a peanut. Okay. At least one person is
wondering why there's such an emphasis on finding this for everyone. There isn't an emphasis on
finding it for everyone. This is, this, all this is, first of all, we announced on Saturday what
we would be doing tonight, and so we have to believe that the people that have shown up here
are interested in it. We have a very large community over a thousand people. And so there
are, there are, let's see, there are how many people here? Right over here. 180. 180. So only
180 people showed up tonight.
We have to believe that they showed up here for this exact reason.
If you wandered into this session, not knowing what was going to happen and
you're not interested, once again, no judgment, but we're, we're offering
this, um, for the people that are interested, because we just want to be
a bridge for people to grow spiritually in any way that they don't feel like
they're getting, um, they're getting that encouragement maybe from their
spiritual community or wherever.
And so that is why we offer things like this.
Once again, our, our community is about, um, Christian marriage minded
folks, stepping into kingdom family and marriage, that is what we're
primarily about, but we also love to help people increase their knowledge
of God, um, in any, which way they need to and their relationship
with God themselves and with others.
And so on Sunday nights, that's what we do.
We activate it's kind of school, the Holy spirit.
And so this is not your thing.
You don't actually have to come on Sunday nights and you're still going
to get great value from the other six days of the week, man.
Yeah.
I think it's just because I think everybody that I know that speaks in
tongues and uses their prayer language has, has experienced such value that
it's something so important to share.
So it's just a sharing.
It's just an offering.
I'm just going to pray simply without any drama or anything.
And, uh, I just want you to follow along.
If you want to, you want to say this prayer and meet him from your heart
and just get into a, just a posture and just a few seconds of just like
receiving from the Lord, because it is a gift, you know, if I came to my
child, my children were young and I had a gift wrapped up for them and I
had it in a nice presence and I said, Hey son, Hey daughter, I love you so much.
Hey, here's a gift.
I don't want to give it to you.
And then in that moment, I give them the gift.
If my son or daughter reacted with, Oh father, I really wish that you would
give me this gift because I've been wanting it for a long time and I'm
asking for this gift and I just wish that you would, you know, just, you
know, take the moment and give, I'm like, why are you asking for this?
I already gave you the gift.
I came to you.
I'm just waiting for you to receive it, open it up and enjoy the gift.
And because it's a gift, it's also something that cannot be earned.
It's not something earned.
It's not something that worthy of, it's not something that you can attain
because you have access, some level of spirituality, it's not like that at all.
You can receive what God is freely giving to you in this moment.
So pray this prayer with me.
If you want, Holy Spirit, fill me now.
I receive you.
I yield to you, Holy Spirit, baptize me with power and release my prayer
language, I receive it by faith in Jesus name, I encourage you in this
moment, or even after this call, whatever you're comfortable to begin to be
able to just exercise and speak syllables.
My first syllable was Shundalaka, Shundalaka, Shundalaka, Shundalaka.
Shundalaka, Shundalaka, Shundalaka, whatever syllable or phrase that you
feel like uttering now and just speak it out, just do it.
Nobody can hear you.
Nobody's unmuted.
You're doing this in the privacy of your own home.
And if you just step out in faith with a vocalization, a word, a phrase,
Holy Spirit will fill the moment because you've stepped out in faith to receive
this gift, yes.
Thank you, David.
Let's begin to worship the Lord.
You're going to tell him how great he is, how much you love him, how thankful
you are that you could be anywhere else in the world right now, doing anything
else, but you're with him, you're here, you have knowledge of him.
Do you know how many millions and millions and millions, even billions
possibly of people do not know God the way that you do?
Yes, Lord. We're so thankful for you. So thankful that you're a good father, that you love us.
You're kind. You're patient. You don't give up on us.
Yes, Lord.
There was a prophetic song that was written from just prophetic speaking continue to worship the Lord to you to thank him and love him.
Just let it start flowing from you.
It was just, it was just some spontaneous was spontaneous worship song that was that happened.
And then it became a song they produced it because it was just so powerful and it just says, I knew what I was getting into this is God talking to you.
I knew what I was getting into when I called you.
I knew what I was getting into but I still chose you.
I knew what I was getting into but I still love you.
And one verse says I knew what I was getting into but I still like you.
So don't give up and don't give in. If you don't quit you win. You win, you win.
Yes, you win. Thank you God that we win. Thank you Lord that you've empowered us. You sent your son because you loved us so much to die for us so that we could live and be fully alive in the spirit.
We're dead in the flesh but we're alive in the spirit. Holy Spirit come Holy Spirit come Holy Spirit make your presence.
Make your presence known in each and every person's environment right now make your presence known in their room in their house or where they are right now in their car, make your presence known.
Make your presence now.
Let them sense you let them feel you.
Let them feel like they're coming alive in areas where they've been shut down let them feel you breathing life into them.
Joy is coming joy is coming. Oh well spring up a well for those that haven't activated their gift in a long time spring up a well. We just say uncap well and spring up spring up a well spring up a well let those rivers of living water begin to flow freely flow flow flow flow.
Yes.
He loves us. Oh how he loves us.
He loves us. Oh how he loves us. Yes, yes, yes.
Yes, yes, yes. Begin to sing friends begin to sing a spontaneous song come out of your heart for a lot of people that's how activating the spirit begins to happen.
They begin to sing their own song sing a new song or to the Lord. Sing, sing, sing. Yes.
Yes.
Yes, he loves you. He loves you. He loves you.
He loves you woman in the pink shirt. He loves you.
He loves you. You don't even really think pink shirt color but you bought that shirt now you're wearing it.
You're wearing it. You may or may not be on camera, you might have your camera off.
You're feeling kind of beat down and tired today but God sees you.
God sees you. He loves you. He loves you. He loves you so much.
Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
You're pretty and pink my friends. You are beautiful to the Lord he loves you with an everlasting love.
Yes, Lord.
Know that song. Yes, Lord. Yes, Lord. Yes, yes, Lord. Amen. Whoo. Come on.
Come on exchange some of those beauts some of those ashes for beauty tonight.
You're trading your sorrows for the joy of the Lord. That's what that song says I'm trading my sickness. I'm trading my shame. I'm trading it all for the joy of the Lord.
Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. Come on begin to worship the Lord begin to sing begin to shout.
Yes, thank you God. Thank you God.
Thank you, Jesus.
You are good, your mercy endures forever begin to quote his word over yourself.
The Lord he is good and his mercy endure it forever.
Ever and ever.
ever and ever. Yes, he loves you. He loves you. I know the guy
just actually just met him the guy who wrote the song. You're
good, good father. It's who you are. It's who you are. It's who
you are. And I'm loved by you. It's who I am. It's who I am.
It's who I am. You are perfect in all of your ways. So perfect
in all of your ways. Perfect in all of your ways to us. Yes,
and he wrote that in a dark place friends. That song was not
written on a mountaintop that that song was written in a
valley. But he was declaring you're a good good father.
That's who you are. My flesh might want to say something
different. But my spirit declares you're a good good
father. Whoa, you're a good father. That's who you are. And
you can't change. There's no shadow of turning in you. You
are good. You are good. You are good. There's no good but you
you are good. You are good. You're a good father. You're a
good father who knows how to give perfect gifts to his
children. Who knows how to give the Holy Spirit to those that
ask them and who am I? I am loved by you. That's who I am.
That's who I am. That's who I am. Whoo. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes.
Receive and believe he is good. Your flesh can't say he's good.
Your flesh will only say he's good when things are going okay.
But your spirit will always say the truth. Remember, he is the
spirit of truth. It is not any spirit is Holy Spirit and Holy
Spirit can only testify of Jesus. He can only continue with
the truth and he's the spirit of truth that he declares to you
that he is a good good father that God is a good good father.
That's who he is. That is his character. That is his
character. He's not a man that he should lie. He cannot lie. He
cannot fail. Love cannot fail and he doesn't just have love.
He is love. He is love. Let that spirit of love invade you right
now. Pushing out all the darkness, all the negativity,
all the desperation, all the despair, all the discouragement,
push it out, push it out, push it out. Push it out right now.
Like Bethany received that gift when she was helping others what
we help make happen for others. God does for us begin to pray
and intercede over someone right now. Begin to pray with the
understanding until it gives way to the supernatural. Begin to
pray. Begin to honor God. Begin to thank him for what he's
done and what he is still yet to do. It's already done. It's
yes and amen in him, but it hasn't manifested yet. Thank him
for the manifestation. Thank him for the manifestation. God, we
thank you for the manifestation of your promises in our lives.
We thank you, God, that you love us. Oh, how you love us. Oh, how
you love us. Find up any religious thoughts in our mind
right now that would try to war against the idea that you are
good and that you love us. That would try to war against the
idea that it's all yes and amen done on the cross for us. And as
us, we don't have to do it. It's done. It's done. It's done. He's
done. It's done. It's done. It's done. It's done. Oh, yes. Jesus.
Yes, it's done. It is done. It is yes and it is amen. But he's
not a maybe God. He's a yes and amen God. Just start declaring
that over yourself. He's not a maybe I'll think about it. No,
that was your parent growing up and you need to forgive them
because they never made good on their promises. But he is not a
man that he should lie. He is not your mama that lied to you.
He is not your daddy that lied to you. He is not the parent that
abandoned you when they were supposed to pick you up for
practice and they left you hanging on the street corner.
And you had to walk there you had a bum ride there and then you
were late and you didn't get to play because the coach puts you
on the bench because the coach didn't understand that it wasn't
your fault. You didn't have parents that cared about you.
That is not God. Let go of these ideas so that you can receive
from him. You don't earn it. Some of you never received
anything from a parent that you didn't work and earn. You had to
work for their love, their attention. You had to work for
every single thing you ever got. There were no free lunches and
no free rides. I hear that in the spirit right now some parent
telling you that because their parents told them that, you
know, there's no free lunch. You know, this world nothing's for
free. You got to earn it. And then they just forced you to
earn every single thing you got in life. Nothing was given to
you, not your clothes, not your shoes, not your food, not your
car. Nothing that you ever got was given to you as a gift. You
had to receive all of you had to get all of it by your own hard
work. Well, that doesn't happen in the kingdom.
act your hard work. It doesn't, it doesn't pay off here. It's
not, it's not going to be given to you here, according to your
hard work. That is not what you're going to receive here.
And so Lord, we just thank you, God, that we don't work to
receive. All we have to do is believe to receive. Prime that
pump of faith, prime that pump of faith, faith.
Maggie?
Yes. Pour it out. Pour out that alabaster box. Pour it out.
Pour it out. Pour it out. Begin to sing, begin to worship, begin
to praise, begin to glorify, begin to declare. Come on. I see
some of your mouths are not moving. And once again, nothing
can come out. Think about it as your car. God can't steer a
parked car. You got to put it in drive and you got to, you know,
take your foot and put it on the gas pedal. Yes, yes, yes,
yes, yes. Come on, come on, come on. Any religious ideas that are
keeping you stuck right now, Lord, we just pray that you
would bind those things up. Spirit of truth, that you would
just release the truth over each and every person. Every person,
every person. Yes, Lord. Yes, Lord. Yes, Lord. Yes. Yes, yes,
yes. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. Continue, continue,
continue, continue, continue, continue. Yes, Lord. We thank
you, God. Thank you, God. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. Oh, yes.
Trust the Lord with all your heart and lean not to your own
understanding. But in all your ways, acknowledge him and he
will direct your path. Someone just receive that word right
now. Receive that word. Yes, Lord. Yes, Lord.
Guys, I butcher names because I can't sound them out. But I'm
gonna try my best. Laurie Tichella, I just hear the Lord
saying that he is taking your ashes and he is making them
beautiful. There have been several things that have gone
wrong in the last six years that have been devastating to
your heart. Things that, you know, you're so disappointed by
and you've been discouraged by. Things not going the right
direction. Things not working out the way you wanted them to.
And God just wants you to know that the story is not over yet
and he's taking those ashes and he's making them beautiful. Just
begin to press in with him, begin to trust him. Go ahead
and take this 50 day challenge and begin to declare his
wondrous works over your life, over your family. He is not
through with you yet. There is a revival. There's a
restoration. There's a regeneration that's coming for
you. It's coming for you. It's coming for you. Yes, yes, yes.
It's coming for you. Yes, Lord. We just declare that over our
sister and come into agreement with it. Yes, don't give up.
Don't give in. If you don't quit, you win. That's the words
of that song. It's a prophetic utterance, you guys. That person
was singing from the Holy Spirit when they began to sing those,
sing those words. And that is why those words are so powerful.
Even when people re-sing them. Songs that are birthed by the
power of the Holy Spirit are powerful songs. Powerful songs.
Nothing that you've done or not done has surprised God. He
didn't choose you because of your goodness. He chose you
because of his. I love that y'all because I have a hard
time being good all the time.
I have a hard time being good all the time. You guys have a
hard time. Maybe none of you do. But that's why I'm so glad that
it's not based on my goodness, but his.
I mean, the 50 day challenge can start whenever you want it to
start. Start yesterday, can start today.
Guys, remember, it's just about priming that well. Has anyone
ever had like a, any kind of a well that you had to pump, you
had to prime it in order to get the water to come out? You guys
know what that is, right? You've seen that before. So let this 50
days just be like you declaring the world is yours. You're
praying in your prayer language. If you've received it, continuing
to believe and beginning to continue to practice it, the
flow. Okay. Go with the flow, go with the flow, praying the word,
declaring the word, and then you're going to be able to
practice it.
word. Let's see what happens. Praying before you go on those
So let this 50 days just be like you declaring the word of God
over yourself, you know, praying in your prayer language. If
dates, praying before you get on those apps. In the spirit, if
you've received it, continuing to believe and beginning to
you if you're able to, if not in the word, which is good, is
amazing, is amazing, praying the word. Remember, just like all
the testimonies you've heard, don't give up. If you just have
a few syllables, just use those syllables. Remember, it's
supernatural, friends. Supernatural is supernatural.
In fact, the most supernatural things that I have ever
experienced were not complicated things. They were very simple.
They were very, very simple, simple, simple things. Yes.
People are putting things up, they're hearing in the spirit,
guys, whatever you're hearing in the spirit right now, as you're
pressing in with Holy Spirit, go ahead and put in the chat. It's
gonna bless somebody. Gonna bless somebody. Yes, yes, yes,
yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
Yes, Gina from West Michigan, I'm just seeing a house. I'm
seeing a house when I see your picture and your name, I just
see a house. I see favor, I see open doors. Well, I just see the
Lord going before you like a realtor, like a, like a, like a
house finder. And Lord, we just thank you, God, whatever this
means, Lord, this word of knowledge, just release it,
Lord, I release it, God, you're going before her Holy Spirit,
you're leading and guiding her in places of habitation, Lord,
this thank you, Lord, just, yeah, just like, you know,
there's people that have jobs or like apartment locators, you
know, but a locator of a habitation, just Holy Spirit
just going before you and locating and so and leading and
guiding you. So we just release that over you right now. Our
friend there in West Michigan, I've lost you now, but you were
right here, but now you're gone. All right, leading and guiding.
Yes, amen. Right, people receiving personal words for
themselves from Holy Spirit. Love that. Love, love, love that.
Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. Right.
Yes, Lord. Thank you, God.
Who feels encouraged? Raise your hand. Raise your hand if you
felt the presence of the Lord, you felt the presence of Holy
Spirit. Yes, thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. Right, to be
obedient to the Lord and just say, you know, that Brittany
Johnson, God loves you. Loves you. And that is not that is not
a weak blessing, because God does love everyone. You're
right. He does. Your human reasoning will tell you that.
But he wants you to know that he loves you. It's important that
you understand that in this season of your life. He wants
you to know, God loves you, Brittany. Brittany Johnson, God
loves you. Yes, he does. He does. Brittany, God loves you.
Yes. Yes, he does. He does. Brittany, God loves you.
He does. He loves you so much. Hey, Brittany Johnson, God loves
you.
Sorry, all I can do is laugh.
laugh because I know the Lord.
I know.
And he wants you to laugh and he wants you to feel the joy of the Lord.
He wants you to feel the joy.
We know that, you know, but he wants you to know, and he will not let
me stop saying, Hey, Brittany, I love you.
Yup.
He'll keep telling me too.
He loves you.
And you know what?
Not a bad, it's not a bad place to be, to know that God loves you.
Whoa.
And of course he loves all of you too.
Um, but he wants Brittany to feel the joy of his love tonight.
Um, yes, yes, yes.
Praise the Lord.
All right, friends.
Got anything, bubba?
Good.
That's a little good.
Right.
So go spend some time with the Lord.
Go ahead and let your, someone said, does it start today?
Sure.
Let your 50 days start today.
Let's start tonight.
It doesn't have to be the morning.
It could be at night before you go to bed.
It can be any time, right?
Just spending some time priming the pump, priming the pump, allowing Holy
spirit to just flow to you and through you.
Yes.
He loves you.
And you guys remember for those of you that feel unworthy, you are.
You are a hundred percent unworthy.
You're so unworthy.
It's not funny.
Oh, you're so unworthy.
Just say that to yourself.
I'm unworthy.
You just need to, you're unworthy.
You are, but didn't stop him.
Didn't stop him from coming and dying for you.
And as you, you are unworthy.
So stop trying to earn it.
Cause you can't, it's a gift.
Receive it, receive it, receive it, receive it, receive it, receive it.
You are unworthy.
Remember he knew what he was getting into.
He knew all your weaknesses and frailties and eccentricities.
Trust me.
I'm very eccentric person.
He had, he knew all that stuff about you, all of that stuff.
I don't like to hear people chew.
I don't like when people talk to me when I'm trying to think about something
whole family full of people trying to talk to me when I'm trying to think.
I don't like that.
I don't like to hear people chew.
Did I mention that?
Hey, did I mention that?
I like to hear people chew at all.
Anything, not food, not gum, nothing.
I don't like the sound of forks on a plate.
So I don't like the sound of crinkling paper.
You know what it's like for me on a plane, I have to put on my headphones
and be like the girl in the bubble.
I gotta be in a bubble.
I got to put on worship music and just tune out the world because people are
sniffing their nose and they're making sounds and they're stuck in their teeth
and they're chewing things and they're crinkling paper.
And it makes me feel enraged.
Anyone else?
Like I feel enraged.
It's called misphonia and I've been trying to get healed from it.
Lord heal me.
But I've had it since I was a child.
They used to send me to bed during dinner time because I could not sit at the
dinner table with other people because it could be a bad experience.
Cause I could not handle mouth noises and chewing noises and plate noises.
It would make me start crying and freaking out.
And I'm still like that because you know what?
There's something wrong with me, but God loves me anyway.
He does.
He knew what he was getting into.
He was like, Oh, I can use Jackie as long as no one eats around her.
She'll be all right.
It's going to be all right.
Oh, so that's just one of the many eccentricities that I had.
Did I tell you that my husband, I'm not allowed to tell other people's
eccentricities, not allowed to tell other people's stuff.
You come in and confess yours.
Come on, hurry up.
What is my answer?
And that's interesting.
I'm going to give you charades.
Okay.
What is that?
My wife accuses me of road rage.
I'm like, what?
My wife accuses me of road rage.
He has road rage.
I don't accept it.
He does.
One of the, one of the fruit of the spirit is joy and laughter.
Um, you, you don't be honest to the people.
Yeah.
I get frustrated.
I, I, I do have a little hair trigger on certain things.
I have a lot of patients in certain ways, but in certain things like driving is
one of them where I have little patients and I'm always hurried to
long.
And so I know some of the root of this, but I'm still working through it.
Yes.
And you guys, those are just, that's just like, that's like the, that's
like the top that's the top of the list.
Those are the easy things.
And so we're all unworthy.
You guys, none of us are perfect.
It's important that you understand that we all have fears.
We all have, y'all get angry about.
things. We all judge other people. We all gossip a little bit when we shouldn't like judging other
people talking about, you know, people, you know, I know that maybe you don't do that about the
people, you know, but you do it a lot about the people you don't know. You read about something
in the news and you're like, ah, I can't believe that person did that. That's not your business.
That's not any of your business, right? The celebrities and their love lives and all the
things. Oh, did you hear so-and-so broke up with their wife and had an affair? Oh,
I think they went gay. This happened that that's not your business. Okay. We all have failed
frailties. We all have failings. We all talk about other people when we shouldn't, even when
we're trying to be good, kind Christians, all of us get angry. All of us lose our tempers.
Even if we don't do it in front of people, some of y'all start murmuring under your breath. He
waits, you get in your car, you got self-control in the moment, but you don't have self-control.
When you get in your car, you get home. Then you'd be just talking up a whole storm of stuff
and you know who you are. And guess what? God loves us.
He doesn't take away Holy spirit from us when we mess up. In fact, some of the most
anointed times I've ever had in my life or when I was just being a jerk
in my flesh, there's no good thing, but in the spirit is life and peace.
And so we just released that over, you know,
Holy spirit just wanted to say all that stuff at the end, because it's important that you
understand that this is not about you. This is about Jesus. And since Jesus can't be with us
physically here on earth, his time on earth was not during our lifetimes. He sent another,
not just for the folks that were gathered in the upper room, but for all of us, you guys,
because he knew that we were not going to make it through this life without spiritual empowerment.
Do you guys realize, please listen. Do you guys realize without the spirit of God, without Holy
spirit in the earth, by the way, it's his time in the earth. Jesus's time on earth is over with.
Now we are the ones fulfilling his commission on earth. We're the hands and feet of Jesus.
We're in the mouth of Jesus. We're partnering with Jesus on earth through what? Through the
power of Holy spirit, the same power that raised Christ from the dead dwells in you.
But do you realize without that, without that, you guys, we would just be big humps of flesh.
We'd just be flesh walking around without that. You guys, there would be no good thing in us at
all. Without that, these would just be stories. The reason why the Bible comes alive is because
of Holy spirit. Otherwise it's just dead words on a page. What gives it life is Holy spirit.
That's why you can't read it without the help of Holy spirit. If you know what happens when
you read it without the help of Holy spirit, it brings death to you. You know why? Cause it's
supposed to the law destroys it kills, but the spirit gives life. You ever read that scripture,
reading the Bible without the interpretation, without the help, without the translation
of the spirit of God, the spirit of life, the spirit of peace without reading it with that
help, you're just going to be beating yourself up. All you're going to be doing is seeing all
your flaws, all the things that are wrong with you. The law was created to show you your need
of a savior. That's its whole purpose. That's why it exists. And so if you read the Logos
without the Ramah, okay. If you read the Logos without the spirit of God, and of course the
Ramah, the words coming straight from God through the spirit, you're going to be legalistic.
You're going to be religious. You're going to be hard, hard, hard on yourself, judgmental.
You're going to see all your fall flaws, all your failures. And guess what? You're going to be like
that on other people too. So if you're super critical of yourself and others, you need life
in the spirit. You need this more than anything else. You need tonight more than anything else,
more than everyone else, because you are beating yourself up. You're beating other people up.
Nothing's ever good enough because that's what happens when you read the word without
the help of Holy spirit. Okay. Whoever God is to you, he will be through you.
So raise your hand right now as we close tonight's gathering. If you feel like you're really,
really hard on yourself, you're not receiving the ministry of Holy spirit.
You feel like you're never measuring up. You're never enough. You feel like God's always mad at
you, or you haven't done enough to deserve or receive anything good from the Lord.
Raise your hand, get them up, up, up, up. You feel like
All the good things happen to other people and not you because you just don't you're just not worthy
not worthy
You're always trying to please god, but you're falling short all the time
Okay
friends
Those feelings those thoughts those ideas. They're not coming from god
Remember what jesus said in john
He said i'm going to send another that's going to be with you and in you and he's not going to testify of himself
He's going to testify of me
Of me jesus and he is going to remind you of all of the things that i've said and done
Guys the only thing that holy spirit can do when the bible says he convicts us. You know what that word really means
It means he convinces you of your righteousness
He doesn't convict you of sin he convinces you of righteousness there's a big difference there
Basically, he tells you who you really are
Hey, you don't need to do all this stuff over here you want to know why because you're a daughter of god
You're a son of god
You don't have to do this anymore because you've been set free you've been delivered
The conviction of holy spirit doesn't sound like you're bad. You're no good. You need to repent you need to change
It sounds like you're better than this
Jesus died before you and as you you're better than this
And you no longer need these things
Take the upgrade
That's what it sounds like
Convincing you of righteousness not convicting you of sin
Yes, lord, so right now that we ask that the ministry of holy spirit
The convicting ministry of holy spirit that convicts us of our sonship
Convinces us of our righteousness that jesus paid for us to have because our righteousness in our flesh and through works is filthy rags
And we release it
We release those filthy rags at the foot of the cross and we take on
The righteousness that's been blood-bought for each and every one of us
Freedom from sin
Freedom from condemnation
Free to walk in liberty who the son has set free is free indeed
And friends, you can only be free if you live in the spirit in your flesh and in the law, you will have death
You will have judgment but in the spirit
Spirit
You will have life you will have peace in jesus name. Amen. All right friends. Love you so much
Have a great one. Have a great night
I'll see you guys soon
Brittany johnson. God loves you
See y'all soon. Bye everybody