Hey guys, welcome to Supernatural Saturday.
If this is your very first one, it's going to be a doozy.
It's going to be great.
This is the day of the week where we gather as a community and we look to heaven.
Not that we don't do that on our prayer times, but we're really just expecting God to show
up and give us the current prophetic reality.
What is the current prophetic reality?
What is it?
Whatever it is that we are experiencing in our life, our circumstances, it's something
more than that.
And so this is the day when we let go of whatever it is that we've been thinking about, that
we've been feeling, that we've been seeing possibly, and we ask God to show us, how are
you feeling?
What are you thinking?
What are you seeing?
And today we're going to talk about Pentecost.
Guys, the Jews have feasts, right?
And I celebrate most of those feasts, just so you know, because I believe that when the
new comes, the old doesn't get thrown out.
I believe that they're all pieces of a big, beautiful, amazing puzzle, right?
Jesus said, I haven't come to do away with the law of the prophets.
I've come to fulfill it.
And so tomorrow is something called the Feast of Pentecost, and we're going to talk about
that in a second.
But what does that mean to us as Christians?
I'm going to give you guys a little bit of background about Pentecost, for those of you
that are not aware of it.
Guys, I was just thinking this morning, something really unusual happened to me.
You guys know that I met Jesus in my twenties, right?
But I had lots of touch points with him during my adolescence.
Touch points just mean a time when I came into proximity to people that possibly knew
Jesus.
My grandmother was a Christian.
She was actually what they call a Pentecostal, so a Pentecostal Christian, which just means
that she was charismatic.
She was part of that church where the women wear skirts and everyone speaks in tongues
really loud.
And I spent a summer, actually, I think two summers with my grandmother.
And so I got exposed to that while living with my grandmother.
Of course, you know, she went to church like seven times a week, it felt like.
But also my grandmother had a lot of hard work to do.
Has anyone else ever experienced this, that some of the touch points that you have with
Christianity growing up, yeah, people were professed Christians.
They may have been even some real spiritual people, but they also had a whole lot of hard
work to do.
They might've been mean, they might've been bitter, they might have been gossips.
They might have been physically, mentally, or verbally abusive, but at the same time
professing Christ.
Raise your hand if you had a little bit of a dichotomy like that.
Let's see all those hands up.
Because I'm loud and proud, it happens, it happens.
And so I was really intrigued by the things that I heard at my grandma's church.
I was intrigued.
I feel like God was already wooing my little heart, but also being the kind of person that
I am, and the way that God has created me, the disparity, the difference, and I'm going
to try to say that word at seven o'clock in the morning on the Pacific coast.
The difference between those two things, my husband's laughing at me, the difference between
those two things, it wasn't lost on me, even as a child.
I was like, hmm, is this really true?
Because if it was true, then why are these people so mean?
And so a lot of us, we had arrested development spiritually because of that reason.
I probably could have met Jesus in a profound way like I did in my twenties a lot sooner
had there not been that difference.
There was definitely some things happening there that were causing me to think, hmm,
I don't really know if there's anything to this.
Okay.
So my grandma's Pentecostal.
And so I was around that and this is the thing that I was thinking about this morning.
So my mom, everything kind of makes sense now, right?
My mom, every time she would get into a crisis, every time she would get in over her head,
which was lots of times actually, she would drag us to some Pentecostal church.
Why?
Because she was raised that way.
But guess who also thought that if this was really real, then these people wouldn't be
so mean?
My mother, probably, because she was raised by those folks, right?
So when she was 18 years old, she got the heck out of Dodge.
She's like, I'm out of here.
And that's probably why my mom never wore dresses.
That's probably why every time my mom got in this situation, she was like, I'm out of
some sort of situation she would go to church
here.
because she obviously thought God was punishing her.
So she was trying to go back
and kind of make amends with him, right?
Because she ran away from the church.
So that's why all these bad things are happening in her life.
So let's just drag my two little kids to church.
Let's try to be a church family.
But let me just tell you guys something.
It never lasted very long at all.
Not at all.
We go to church for a few weeks, maybe a month,
month and a half.
My mom would get mad about something, we'd be gone.
And the thing is,
I didn't know what was happening in the grownup world.
So I didn't know what she was getting mad about.
I just knew that she didn't wanna go to church anymore.
And I was kind of okay with it
because church happens early in the morning
and you gotta get dressed up.
With this kind of church, you gotta get dressed up.
Gotta wear dresses and all the things.
And I had shorter hair.
I definitely cut my hair.
I've always worn my hair pretty long,
but not as long as these girls, y'all.
These girls are like Crystal Gale.
These girls have hair down to their feet.
I don't know what's going on with these girls.
Okay?
They braided all the way down
and then they'd wrap that braid around their head
like 50 times.
But during one of these little stints
when we were going to church,
I remember staying after church
because there was something called Bible quizzing.
Does anyone know what this is?
There's this Bible quizzing thing
where young people sit around and they memorize the Bible
and then there's like a game that you play
where the moderator asks questions
and whoever hits the buzzer first
and has the answer wins.
So I stayed after church
because I was interested in this Bible quizzing thing
because it sounded interesting to me.
And guess what chapter of the Bible they were memorizing?
Acts chapter two,
which you guys are about to see if you don't already know
that that is the birth of the church,
that that is what Pentecost is all about.
That is when the Jews celebrate the feast of Pentecost,
this is what they're celebrating, Acts chapter two.
I don't think it was a coincidence, you guys.
And I was this many days old
when I put those two things together
that I happen to stay after that church,
that day at that church that we went to briefly
for this event of memorizing the book of Acts chapter two.
And I still to this day can quote most of it.
Very interesting, right?
God was already teaching me
about the power of the Holy Spirit.
He's already teaching me things.
And so a lot of us,
we have a lot of touch points in our life
that we're not even aware of.
We're not really aware of those things,
but God has been speaking to us.
He has been leading us and guiding us all of our lives.
I just want you to sit in that
for just one second this morning.
Let's just sit there for just one second.
God has been leading you and guiding you,
protecting you, loving you all of your life.
All of your life, all of your life.
Even when you didn't know it, you didn't see it,
you didn't know him and know God.
I didn't.
Yes, Lord, we thank you for this.
All right, somebody needs to hear that this morning.
They need to remember that truth
because they feel like they're all alone.
You feel like you're all alone.
You feel like you've been abandoned, which is not possible.
It's not that God wouldn't abandon us.
It's not possible for him to abandon us.
I want you to wrap your head around that.
It's not that he wouldn't, because a lot of times, okay,
it's like, well, I don't really believe
in the character of God, that he is good yet,
that he's a good father.
Okay, I don't believe that.
I don't believe that God is good yet,
that he's a good father.
Okay, so if you're struggling there,
then you need to just wrap your head around the fact
that God cannot abandon you because you're inside of him.
Hey, all of us right now, we are dwelling, we are living,
we are abiding inside of him.
So he can't abandon you because he's everywhere,
all around you.
And today we're gonna talk about him living in us
in the form of Holy Spirit.
It's great to have God around us,
but we wanna have God in us.
We wanna invite the indwelling of the spirit.
And I'm about to tell you about my experience with that,
but first, I'm gonna read about it.
So let's go to John 14,
because some people just,
they need this refresher,
or maybe they never knew.
John chapter 14,
and these are verses 15 through 31.
This is Jesus promising Holy Spirit
to the people that were dwelling with him on earth,
his disciples and his followers.
If you love me, keep my commands,
and I will ask the Father,
and he will give you another,
an advocate to help you and be with you forever.
The spirit of truth,
the world cannot accept him
because it neither sees him nor knows him,
but you know him for he lives with you
and will be in you.
Come on, y'all.
I will not leave you as orphans.
I will come to you.
Before long, the world will not see me anymore.
Jesus is talking about him as physical body,
the man Jesus.
Before long, the world will not see me anymore,
but you will see me because I live,
and you also will live.
And on that day, you will realize that I am in my Father
and you are in me and I am in you.
And whoever has my commands and keeps them
is the one who loves me.
The one who loves me will be loved by my Father,
and I too will love them and show myself to them.
And then Judas said,
and by the way, you guys,
this was not Judas the betrayer.
It was a different Judas.
So we see this is not just the 12 disciples
that he's talking to.
But Lord, why do you intend to show yourself to us
and not to the world?
And Jesus replied,
anyone who loves me will obey my teachings.
My Father will love them.
We will come to them and make our home with them.
Anyone who does not love me will not obey my teachings.
These words you hear are not my own.
They belong to the Father who sent me.
And all this I have spoken while I'm still with you.
But the advocate, the Holy Spirit,
whom the Father will send in my name,
will teach you all things
and will remind you of everything I have said to you.
Guys, look at that.
Will teach you all things
and will remind you of everything I have said to you.
Peace I leave with you.
My peace I give to you.
Okay, we gotta remember to mute guys when we come on.
Peace I leave with you.
My peace I give to you.
I do not give to you as the world gives.
Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.
You heard me say I'm going away and I'm coming back to you.
If you loved me,
you would be glad that I'm going to the Father
for the Father is greater than I.
I have told you now before it happens
so that when it does happen, you will believe.
I will not say much more to you
for the Prince of this world is coming,
but he has no hold over me.
But he comes so that the world may learn
that I love the Father
and do exactly what my Father has commanded me.
Come now, let us leave.
Okay, so we see that Jesus is telling them,
hey, he's telling them I'm about to die, right?
The Prince of the world is coming.
I'm gonna be betrayed.
I'm gonna be crucified.
But he says here, I'm gonna live.
Because I live, you will also live.
Saying I'm gonna rise again.
He's also telling them
that I'm going to give you someone
that's not just with you.
Like I'm with you right now, okay?
We're traveling this earth together.
I'm in this flesh suit along with you.
And I'm teaching you things
and I'm leading you and guiding you.
But I can't be inside of you.
He said, but you're gonna know him
and he's gonna live with you
and he's gonna live in you.
He's gonna be inside of you.
Who?
This advocate, this comforter, this teacher
that's gonna teach you all things,
the spirit of truth that the world cannot receive,
but you can receive.
And he's gonna teach you all things
and he's gonna remind you of everything
that I have said to you.
That shows you right there, friends,
that Holy Spirit cannot speak of himself,
but only speak of Jesus.
He can only speak of what Jesus has said.
And so if you ever feel like Holy Spirit
is telling you something
that does not come into alignment with the written,
the Logos Word of God,
then it's not Holy Spirit.
Because don't forget, friends,
we are, there's a whole spiritual realm
all around us right now.
There's a spiritual realm, the unseen realm.
You can't see it, but it's here
and it's full of spirits.
Hopefully that doesn't freak anybody out,
but it's full of spirits.
We get so busy with our lives, our natural lives,
you know, our getting up and lying down
and eating and drinking and running around
and doing the things that we forget
that there's a spiritual war going on all around us.
There's all kinds of spiritual movement
happening all around us every single day.
Do you think that you just get up
and pop out of bed and go about your day?
on your own?
Do you think you're by yourself?
You're not by yourself.
There's angelic beings that are with you.
They're going with you, right now.
Right now, all around you, they're there.
There's angels that are assigned to you.
Their assignment is you.
As long as you're walking on this earth realm,
those angels are assigned to you.
Some of them are assigned to be with you every day,
possibly one, two, I don't know.
But then there's angels that come to you
during different seasons and assignments as well.
So we're not gonna teach about angels today,
but it's important for you to understand
that there's stuff happening all around you
that you can't see and sense.
Now, I know a lot of people are like,
the devil's after me, Jackie.
The devil's after me.
I got it, I get you.
And it feels like that sometimes,
but I promise you, the actual devil, okay?
The devil, the Lucifer, the angel that fell from heaven,
Beelzebub, all right?
Him, he is not after you,
meaning that you probably are never gonna come in contact
with him while you're on this earth, him.
But remember, there were a lot of other angelic beings
that also got booted from heaven on that day, right?
Lots of them.
They're like a third of heaven or something,
and who knows how many angels there were to begin with.
So yeah, are you gonna come into contact
with some opposing forces?
Would you possibly come into contact
with someone who's given themselves fully over
to some kind of demonic possession?
Remember that Bible story where Jesus shows up on the shore
and he steps one foot on the shore out of the boat,
and the man from the tombs, the man of the Gadarenes,
the maniac, the demoniac that they couldn't chain up
because he was so strong,
that he was out there naked, cutting himself, wailing.
As soon as Jesus steps on the land
that this demoniac is dwelling in,
the demoniac runs to Jesus.
That shows you that greater is he that is in you
than he that is in the world.
We're not talking about Jesus when we say
greater is he that is in you,
we're talking about Holy Spirit.
So don't be afraid of the opposing forces
is what I'm trying to say, okay?
When you're with God and you're in alignment with God,
and you are filled with the Spirit of God,
you don't have anything to worry about.
Jesus already said, I'm seated in heavenly places
and my foes have become my footstool.
So that man, that precious man that was possessed
with the Bible, that was possessed with the Holy Spirit,
that man that was possessed with the Bible said,
a legion of devils ran and threw himself at Jesus' feet.
Even those demons weren't strong enough to keep that man,
that human person from running to his deliverer.
And Jesus told them to go and they went into the pigs.
You guys remember this story, right?
I saw a funny cartoon where the pigs are just hanging out
and they're like, what, no.
Anyway, so friends, Holy Spirit,
people are like, do you need the Holy Spirit
to go to heaven, Jackie?
You need the Holy Spirit to go to Walmart, friend.
You need the Holy Spirit to go anywhere.
Holy Spirit, can't live in this world without Holy Spirit.
Okay, so this is the scripture, John 14,
if you guys wanna go back and read it, 15 through 31,
just talking about Jesus telling his followers,
not just his disciples, that's important,
not just his disciples, but his followers
that he was going to send this advocate, this comforter,
this counselor, this teacher, this spirit of truth
that was gonna remind them and teach them
to continue in Jesus' words and remind them
of everything that Jesus has spoken.
And so I love that about Holy Spirit,
always bringing to our minds the goodness of God,
always bringing to our minds the words of Jesus.
Love that so much.
Okay, so let's skip to Acts chapter one.
This is where Jesus has been crucified, he has risen,
and now he's spending some extra time with his followers
before he ascends into heaven.
So a lot of people don't know this,
but after Jesus rose from the dead,
he actually continued to teach his followers
for a specific amount of time,
for 40 days before he ascended into heaven.
And that is why from Easter to Pentecost,
there's how many days?
That's what we're celebrating, you guys.
We're celebrating that, yes, after Jesus rose from the dead,
he stayed on earth.
continued to teach his disciples, and then he ascended.
Okay, and then after he ascended, let's talk about this.
Acts 1, 5, let's see.
Trying to get where Jesus, hold on one sec.
Okay.
For John baptized with water, but in a few days,
you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.
Then they gathered around him and asked him,
Lord, are you at this time going to restore
the kingdom to Israel?
He said, it is not for you to know the times or dates
the father has set by his own authority,
but you will receive power when the Holy Spirit
comes on you and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem
and in all Judea and Samaria and to the ends of the earth.
And after he said this, he was taken up
before their very eyes and a cloud hid them from his sight.
Taken up before their very eyes and a cloud hid him
from their sight.
They were looking intently up into the sky
as he was going when suddenly two men dressed in white,
angels, stood beside them.
Men of Galilee, they said, why do you stand here
looking into the sky?
This same Jesus who has been taken from you into heaven
will come back in the same way you have seen him
go to heaven.
Then the apostles returned to Jerusalem from the hill
called the Mount of Olives, a Sabbath day's walk
from the city.
When they arrived, they went upstairs to the room
where they were staying.
Those present were Peter, John, James, Andrew, Philip
and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew,
James son of Alphaeus and Simon the Zealot
and Judas son of James.
They all joined together constantly in prayer
along with the women and Mary.
Ladies, we were there too.
And the mother of Jesus with his brothers.
Okay, you guys, so you see here that Jesus told them
to go and tarry.
Okay, the angels told them, hey, go, go and wait.
You're gonna see him come back again the way that he came.
And the Bible says that they were told to go and wait
until they were in dune with power from on high.
And they went into the upper room and they began to pray.
They began to tarry there.
And they were told to go and wait
until they were in dune with power from on high.
And they began to contend and tarry
until what happens next.
And so in the second book of Acts,
we see the Holy Spirit comes.
When the day of Pentecost came,
they were all together in one place
and suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind
came from heaven and filled the whole house
where they were sitting.
They saw what seemed to be tongues of fire
that separated and came to rest on each of them.
All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit
and began to speak in other tongues
as the Spirit enabled them.
Now they were staying in Jerusalem,
God fearing Jews from every nation under heaven.
When they heard this,
a crowd came together in bewilderment
because each one heard their own language being spoken.
Utterly amazed, they asked,
aren't all these who are speaking Galileans?
Then how is it that each of us hears them
in our native language?
There was Parthians and Medes and Elamites and Mesopotamia,
Judea, Cappadocia, Pontus, Asia, Phrygia, Pamphylia,
Egypt and parts of Libya near Cyrene,
visitors from Rome, both Jews and converts to Judaism,
Cretans and Arabs,
we hear them declaring the wonders of God in our own tongues.
Amazed and perplexed, they asked one another,
what does this mean?
Some, however, made fun of them and said,
hey, these guys have had too much wine.
Then Peter stood up with the 11, raised his voice
and said, all of you who dwell in Jerusalem,
let me explain this to you
and listen carefully to what I have to say.
These people are not drunk, as you suppose,
seeing it's only nine o'clock in the morning.
No, this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel.
In the last days, God says,
I will pour out my spirit upon all people
and your sons and your daughters will prophesy.
Your young men will see visions
and your old men will dream dreams.
Even on my servants, both men and women,
I will pour out my spirit in those days
and they will prophesy.
I will show wonders in the heavens above
and signs on the earth below.
Blood and fire and billows of smoke.
The sun will be turned into darkness
and the moon to blood before the coming
of the great and glorious day of the Lord.
And everyone who calls on the name of the Lord
will be saved.
And then he goes on to talk about Jesus
that they crucified.
Guys, you have to remember, Peter's in Jerusalem,
where all this went down.
Jesus was betrayed, arrested, crucified.
Peter, the one that denied Christ three times after he was arrested, Jesus said, hey, you're
going to deny me, Peter.
You're going to deny me.
You're going to deny that you even know me.
You're going to try to save yourself.
You think that you would do anything for me.
You think that you would die for me.
But really what you're going to do is you're going to hide in fear.
And why was that, friends?
The reason why is because Peter had not been filled with the Holy Spirit yet.
Guys, the flesh is weak, but the spirit is willing.
That's what the Bible says.
Falling after the spirit is life and peace.
Falling after the flesh is death.
Peter had not been endued with power from on high.
He was just doing the best that he could as Peter, the man in his flesh.
And he was scared.
And we're not going to fault him for that.
We would have been scared too.
I know that we'd like to think we would do something different, but we're all
filled with the Holy Spirit now, or most of us are.
Now, let's talk about the Holy Spirit.
So, Holy Spirit is always with us.
I can look back in my life and see all the times when there was divine
intervention, whether it was angelic intervention or whether it was Holy
Spirit speaking to me, but I really didn't know who he was yet, okay?
Because remember, I had these touch points.
I had these touch points where even as a child, I gave my life to Jesus.
I didn't meet Jesus, but I gave my life to him.
I said the sinner's prayer when I was a child at my grandma's church.
I was even baptized in water, but I didn't get any more information.
And there's a lot of us that have gotten to a certain place.
Remember, we've been talking about watermarks on our last couple
Supernatural Saturdays, but for some of us, spirituality can be a watermark.
We've only gotten so far.
We've only gotten so far spiritually.
We've never gone past a certain place, and maybe our family never went past
that place, and that's why we never went past that place.
But it's time for us to take more territory spiritually, friends.
That's what we're going to talk about today on Supernatural Saturday.
God wants to upgrade us, and that means all of us.
Some of you are like, Jackie, this is Spirituality 101.
I've known this for a long time.
Great, wonderful.
God still wants to upgrade you.
He wants to upgrade you to a different place of understanding spiritually.
But there are a lot of people on here that, like me many years ago, 28 years
ago, they hadn't gotten this memo yet.
And remember, I was around the people that were speaking in tongues and doing
stuff, but behind the scenes, they weren't good people.
They weren't nice people.
They weren't kind people.
And so I think that in my head, I believe that that was just some kind
of circus act, that it couldn't possibly be real.
Because if it was real, why in the world would this God that I'm hearing
about give these people this gift?
And that's when we have to remember that gifts and fruit are not the same thing.
God has promised us that he would send Holy Spirit as a gift to us.
Gifts are not earned.
They're not deserved.
The fruit of the Spirit, which is an entirely different thing, you can find
all these gifts of the Spirit and all the fruit of the Spirit in the book of
Galatians.
You can go read about it.
But the fruit of the Spirit, that indicates relationship, love, joy, peace.
Like, these are not things that we can work up in our own flesh for very long.
Yeah, you can have a counterfeit form of joy.
How are you doing?
Oh, I'm blessed.
I'm blessed and highly favored.
I'm so happy today.
But as soon as something bad happens, you get a flat tire, okay?
Someone runs over your cat.
You're not that blessed anymore, okay?
Seriously.
So that is not a fruit of the Spirit.
That's a personality.
Maybe you're just a happy-go-lucky person.
That's awesome.
But even happy-go-lucky people have bad days.
They have times when they feel depressed.
They feel down.
Joy that comes from the Holy Spirit is a whole different thing.
Peace that comes from the Holy Spirit is a whole different thing.
So in my 20s, I was having a rough life.
You guys know my story.
I was separated from my husband.
I was getting a divorce.
I had not matured anywhere past what I had learned as a child about God.
Nothing.
And one day, I was driving down the road.
I had just seen my former husband.
We're about to be divorced.
I mean, there was no paperwork filed because I was only 22 years old,
and I didn't do any of that yet.
But I'm driving down the road.
I haven't been living with him for months.
And I'm going to go look at an apartment.
I was living with a friend, and I look up in the rear view mirror, and I just, I can't
explain it any other way, but I didn't just see myself, I saw myself.
My eyes were open in that moment, and I saw myself.
And when I saw myself, I said to God, who are you?
Are you there?
Are you real?
What do you, what do you want from me?
And that's really the last kind of thought that I had after that happened, because what
happened next is really not explainable.
I didn't wreck my car.
I wasn't hurt.
I wasn't injured, but I kind of lost consciousness.
I ended up at the emergency room.
The people around where I had been driving, you know, they called the squad for me.
They came.
They got me.
They took me to the emergency room.
They were checking me for a stroke.
They were checking me for all different types of things.
Everything came back negative.
My former husband came to the hospital because I called him, and I ended up having an experience
with God.
What happened was is he took me back to this house that we used to live in together that
was still available.
You know, he hadn't moved out of it yet.
In fact, he hadn't been living there.
He was staying with his parents.
I went back to this house, and you guys, for the next few weeks, I really wasn't able to
do much of anything.
I kind of felt like the story of Saul to Paul.
You know, Saul has this encounter on the road to Damascus with Jesus, and he becomes a completely
different person because of this encounter.
But as this encounter is taking place, he's kind of out of commission, right?
Paul couldn't see, and Cornelius comes and, you know, lays hands on him, and he's delivered
from that malady that was, you know, whatever was going on with his body.
But he had this encounter.
So, you guys, I was having this encounter with Jesus, and God's talking to me, speaking
to my heart.
He's sending people to speak to me.
For the next couple weeks, I was just basically unable to do anything.
Whatever happened to me on the road that day, even though the doctors couldn't find
anything really wrong with me, I was paralyzed.
In fact, the left side of my body didn't work.
Now, for those of you that don't understand the character of God and that he is good,
I don't want you to be like, God did this to you.
No, you guys, I was in the middle of some kind of spiritual birth.
And then one day in these weeks, as I'm experiencing this, and you guys, I'm still full of fear.
This is how you know the Holy Spirit has not come upon me, okay?
Holy Spirit's with me.
I'm having some kind of spiritual encounter, but I haven't had this, what we call the new
birth experience thing yet.
When Jesus said he'll be with you and in you, I hadn't invited Holy Spirit to be in me yet.
He was with me, but he wasn't in me yet.
And in one of these nights, my former husband came over and he was raised in this religion
that my grandmother came from, these Pentecostal folks, okay?
He teethed on a pew.
He understood Holy Spirit.
He understood the indwelling or the baptism of Holy Spirit.
And so he came over and I remember it was about two o'clock in the morning in this living
room and he said, Jackie's like, just invite Holy Spirit to live inside of you.
Folks, I didn't understand that.
I didn't understand what that meant.
But I do remember that I was sitting there, I was kneeling at the couch and I had been
crying and I just said inside of my own mind, I didn't say it out loud, I said it inside
of my mind to God, I said, God, I don't understand any of what's happening to me.
I said, but I do love you and I surrender.
And as soon as I said that in my mind, the very next time I opened my mouth to say anything
out loud, it was in a different language.
And y'all, I was about as freaked out as you are right now, okay?
But I wasn't afraid.
It was like a miracle.
It was, wow, what, wow.
And I began to praise God.
That's what I was trying to do in my English speaking mind.
I was trying to praise God.
But what was coming out, I believe it was praise to God, but it was not in a language
that I understood.
And it continued and it continued and you guys, I began to sing in this language.
I began to sing.
In fact, most of what I was doing was singing in this language.
not even speaking, and as I was singing in this language,
and I'm not promising this is gonna happen to you,
but this is what happened to me.
This is what I needed, and this is what God gave me.
But as I was singing in this language,
I heard in my mind the English version of what I was saying.
So I knew what I was saying in English in my mind
as I continued to sing.
And you guys, I was filled with so much love,
and so much joy, and so much peace
as Holy Spirit indwelled my physical body.
And I remember waking up the next day and being like,
is it still there?
Like, is it still there?
Like, is it over?
Is it still there?
I don't know.
How does this work?
I didn't have anyone to teach me yet.
I didn't know anything.
And I was brushing my hair in the mirror
because, friends, remember,
I still have all this problem with my body,
paralysis of my left side.
That hasn't gone away yet.
As I'm brushing my hair in the mirror,
I began to just worship the Lord and talk to Him
and tell Him how much I love Him,
and then here it comes again.
Here it comes again, this beautiful prayer language
that God gifted me with at the indwelling of Holy Spirit.
Now, friends, we don't always get our prayer languages
at the indwelling of Holy Spirit.
We invite Holy Spirit to indwell us,
but we do get power from on high.
And so whatever that looks like for you,
some people prophesy,
some people have the gift of faith come upon them
where they just, they feel strong in the Lord,
stronger than they ever have.
They get up from that place of surrender
and they know that something has sifted inside of them
because they just feel a boldness.
Remember, the purpose of Holy Spirit
is to help us to live in this fallen world.
Jesus broke the curse,
but the world hasn't fully gotten the memo yet.
There are lots of people that have been siding
and aligning themselves with the opposing forces.
There's all kinds of wickedness in the earth still.
Now, we have come apart.
By the way, that's what that means,
come apart from them and be separate.
That's what it's talking about.
There should be a difference about us
as we walk with the Lord, right?
People should know that there's something different.
The Bible says that we should be living books,
known and read of all men, living epistles.
The experience that I'm talking about,
inviting Holy Spirit in
and experiencing this transformation.
And once again, it doesn't have to be bombastic.
It doesn't have to be wow, like mine was.
It can just be like a quiet knowing of strength,
that strength has come inside of you and come upon you.
Because remember, it's about being bold
and being a witness.
Look what happened with Peter.
Peter was afraid.
He was denying Jesus.
He was cursing Jesus after the betrayal,
before the crucifixion.
And then you find him 40 days later,
where do you find him?
You find him in the same place in Jerusalem.
And it's a Holy holiday, y'all.
That's why all those people were gathered.
He could have been easily been arrested and taken in.
They were already looking for the followers of Jesus.
They were already public enemy number one,
but Peter stood up and preached in Jerusalem
and told those people, what did he tell them?
That Jesus that you crucified,
he began to boldly tell them
under the unction of Holy Spirit
that they had crucified the Messiah.
He told the Jews that were in Jerusalem
for a Holy holiday, waiting for their Messiah to come,
that Jesus was their Messiah and they killed him.
You guys, them are fighting words.
But Holy Spirit was giving him the utterance.
Holy Spirit was giving him the boldness.
One of the main things that Holy Spirit does
when he is living inside of us
is he gives us the boldness to be a witness.
So maybe that's what happened
when you invited Holy Spirit inside of you.
You just became bolder to live your faith out loud.
Something happened, but whatever did happen,
you don't have to stop there.
All of the gifts and all of the fruit
that are laid out in the Bible,
the gifts and all of the fruit
that are listed in Galatians are for you.
You can have all of them.
If you don't have your prayer language yet,
you can have that.
My husband invited Holy Spirit into his heart
when he was five years old
and he received his prayer language at five years old.
And you know what else he received?
He received a gift where he would look at people
and he would see words written on their forehead.
Isn't that cool?
He'd have visions.
What does the book of Joel say?
Your old men will dream dreams,
your young men will see visions.
On every walk of life, doesn't matter.
God's no respecter of people.
on every walk of life, every person of every color
and every age, of every social economic status,
I will pour out my spirit and they will prophesy.
They will start living in the spirit.
They will dream dreams.
They will have visions.
They will be empowered from on high.
So friends, it's time for us,
even if we've experienced this power,
if you haven't, it's for you.
Don't be afraid of it.
Doesn't matter what your Sunday school teacher
told you growing up that the Holy Spirit is not for us now
because we can't live in this world boldly
as witnesses without it,
without Him, without Holy Spirit.
It's not an it, it's a person.
We can't live without Him and be bold.
We can't.
Hey, we're living in a wicked time.
If you feel like a lot of times you feel angry,
you feel depressed, you feel discouraged,
you're not spending enough time with Holy Spirit.
Remember, He's supposed to mature us in the words of Jesus.
Supposed to continue, He's supposed to teach us truth
and help us continue in the truth.
So we need to spend time.
If you have your prayer language,
spend time praying in your prayer language.
Paul says that that bypasses your human reasoning.
When you pray with your prayer language,
of course you don't know what you're saying.
You don't speak that language.
It could be an earthly language that you're praying in.
It could be a heavenly language that you're praying in.
But the bottom line is is that your spirit
is praying to the spirit that created it
and it's bypassing your human mind,
which is great because your human mind
gets in the way all the time, all the time.
Let me finish my story.
So I was indwelled that day with power,
but I continued to be physically altered
until one day I went into the church,
probably a few weeks later.
But remember now I'm filled with the joy
and the peace of the Holy Spirit.
So I'm not laying around, I'm not fretting.
I'm not sad, I'm not fearful.
I feel strong.
I feel strong in my faith.
I feel like God is in control
and everything's gonna be okay.
And one day I wake up in the middle of the night
and I pulled myself out of the bed
to the middle of the room on the floor
and I laid there and I said to the Lord,
I said, I don't know how much longer I have to live.
I don't even know what's wrong with me.
The doctors don't know what's wrong with me,
but I do know this, that as long as I'm alive,
I will live for you.
My life belongs to you.
And for however long my life lasts,
I will live for you and I will be your witness.
And guess what?
The very next day, I went to church with my in-laws
at the time, my former husband was off with the Marines.
I went, my in-laws took me to church.
I wasn't able to drive, friends,
I wasn't able to do anything.
And at that service, people came and laid hands on me
and I was instantly healed,
delivered whatever you like
because we don't know what was going on.
And you know what?
We don't need to, you don't need to know.
I don't need to know.
All I know is what happened because of it,
what happened because of it.
And after that day, I have been on this crazy assignment
with Jesus for 28 years and I've never looked back.
And why, why have I never looked back?
The power of the Holy Spirit.
It's not me, it's the power of the Holy Spirit.
It's not me and my flesh, trust me.
Trust me when I say it's not me and my flesh,
but it is the power of the Holy Spirit
that continues to propel me forward.
Yes, and you can have that too.
Some of you do have it and God wants to upgrade you
to even higher understanding.
A lot of times we start living in our flesh
when we don't have to.
We start living in our own power and our own strength
when we don't have to.
If you have uttered the words,
I just can't do this anymore,
you are living in your flesh
because you don't have to do it anymore.
God's like, good, I don't want you to do it anymore.
Now let me do it.
Go read John 15, we're just branches.
I thought about getting a tattoo that just says,
I'm just a branch.
He is the vine, Jesus speaking, we are the branches.
He says, apart from me, you can bear no fruit.
Apart from me, you can do no thing.
Nothing, friends.
But with me, you can bear abundant fruit.
What is that?
That's the fruit of the Holy Spirit.
What attaches us to the vine?
Holy Spirit, Holy Spirit attaches the branches to the vine.
Remember what Jesus said?
Jesus said, Holy Spirit is gonna keep you tethered
to my words.
Holy Spirit is going to help you to understand me.
If any abide in me and my words abide in them,
they will ask and they will receive.
Guys, this is for every area of life,
including your love life.
Look, please do not go about your love life in your flesh.
Please don't do that.
You have to follow after the Spirit
in every area of your life, including your love life.
If you have your prayer language,
you should be praying in tongues
before you get on those dating apps,
asking Holy Spirit to give you divine appointments.
You should be praying in the Spirit
before you go on those dates.
You wanna see who someone really is?
And remember, sometimes God hides some yellow flags
from us on purpose because he knows we're super judgmental,
even though we think we're not.
And this is really a good person
because God sees the heart, man sees the outside,
we see the outside, God sees the heart.
And so sometimes you won't see something
because you don't need to see it.
Frankly, you don't.
But if you're out here in your anxious attachment,
dating, just wanting somebody to love you,
then you need to be praying in the Spirit
before you go on these dates.
You can really save yourself a whole lot of heartache.
Let's pray, friends.
Let's follow after the Spirit and not the flesh.
If something doesn't sit right with you,
if you don't feel like doing something,
even though it doesn't make a lot of sense,
that's probably Holy Spirit.
If you do feel like doing something
that doesn't make a lot of sense to your human intellect,
that's probably Holy Spirit too.
It's time for us to do some spiritual weightlifting,
some spiritual bodybuilding.
We have to get stronger in our spirits.
We have to, because our flesh is too strong.
We live in a society where our flesh is so strong.
It's being reinforced and strengthened
every time we turn around.
As soon as you get up in the morning,
you put your feet on the ground,
your carnality, that part of you
is already asking to be fed.
Food, entertainment, worry,
negativity, it's already asking to be fed, is it not?
Another day, gotta go to work, blah.
What if it happened if we were in the Spirit
and we got up and we began to pray
before we even got out of bed?
Begin to pray in our prayer language,
or for those of you that don't have your prayer language,
you begin to prophesy and speak the Word of God over you
in faith.
And remember, you can have your prayer language,
just keep asking for it, it will come.
Father of lights is the giver of all good and perfect gifts,
and that scripture goes on to say,
would you give your kid a stone if they asked for bread?
Would you give your kid a snake if it asked for fish?
No, you wouldn't, but how much more
would you give the Holy Spirit to those that ask them?
And so make sure that you are asking,
and I promise you, it will come.
But what if you are doing,
you're priming the pump of your Spirit
before you get out of bed?
How is that gonna change the day?
How is that gonna create divine appointments?
How is that gonna put you into alignment
with what God has planned that day
instead of what your flesh is just gonna fall into
that day, whether it's negativity,
whether it's some sort of overeating or overspending,
all that, by the way, is just medication, y'all.
Remember, broken hearts, deferred hope
causes the heart to be sick,
and sick hearts go looking for medication.
But we wouldn't fall into a lot of that stuff
if we were living after the Spirit and not the flesh, right?
Because all of that exists in our flesh.
The joy, peace, and righteousness exists
in the kingdom of God and the Spirit.
And so what would happen if we started to
look to our spiritual,
and our spiritual,
hearts, our spiritual person, more than the flesh,
and our spiritual,
with the power and the help of Holy Spirit,
how would things sift?
I wanna prophesy over you that if you've begun to do this,
if you even began to do it for as long as the disciples
had between resurrection and Pentecost,
if you even just started doing it for 40 days,
maybe we'll do a 40 day spiritual activation,
that your life would sift drastically.
You might not even be at the same job anymore.
You might be packing up to move out of the zip code
that you live in right now.
You might be in a marriage-minded relationship
within the next 40 days,
if you're following after the Spirit and not your flesh.
By the way, your type exists in your flesh.
Just wanna let you know that.
The thing that you think you're looking for,
it exists in your flesh.
It is a fleshly situation.
It is not a spiritual situation for 99.9% of you.
The things that you think you're attracted to,
mostly in your flesh,
will that be a good partner?
A purpose partner?
A kingdom alliance?
Maybe, but also maybe not.
But if we allow God to cleanse our palate, so to speak,
if we allow Him to co-author this story
with the help of Holy Spirit,
your attractions can shift.
To someone who can actually be a partner to you
in this crazy life,
which I have a good feeling is gonna get interesting.
I'm not a doomsday prophet.
I believe that we're always gonna be winning
as long as we stay on the winning team.
It may not look like that on the outside all the time,
but I've already read the back of the book, and we win.
What happens in between now and then,
I don't know, but I do know that we have the words of life.
I know that we are the ones
that are the salt and light in the earth.
We are the city set on the hill, Matthew 5, that's us.
And so we have to continue with the help
and the power of Holy Spirit to overcome
and to show people what heaven looks like.
I don't care if you're a super nice person,
you're a really kind person, you're a really generous person,
you've not even seen the best version of yourself
until you've seen yourself empowered by Holy Spirit.
Some of us just have gregarious personalities.
We're really friendly, we're really nice,
we're really kind to a certain extent,
but you haven't even begun to realize
the level of power that you can walk in
until you're surrendered to Holy Spirit.
Lillian, I didn't suggest a fast.
Well, maybe a flesh fast, but I suggested an activation.
What if every day, every morning,
before you got out of bed, you just laid in bed,
and if you have your prayer language,
you just prayed in the Spirit,
just prayed in the Spirit with no understanding,
that's fine, your spirit's praying to God,
it's moving all kinds of things out of the way,
it's activating angelic assistance,
all kinds of things that are happening.
For those of you that don't have your prayer language,
what if you laid in bed and you just began to
declare the scriptures over yourself,
begin to invite spiritual things to happen,
begin to activate that gift of faith?
What if you did that?
What would happen?
What would the day look like?
You'd have more divine appointments.
Opportunities would start to open up.
Things would start to move.
Friends, I'm basically here to tell you,
you're doing this the hard way.
You're doing this the hard way.
I'm talking to myself too.
We have so much distraction that tries to keep us
in our flesh and out of the Spirit.
This is why Jesus said, hey, look, you guys,
you can't do anything more until you just go here,
carry weight.
The Father's gonna send another.
I'm leaving, but you can't be alone.
You gotta have another.
He's gonna send this advocate, this teacher,
this counselor, this truth teller.
That power is gonna come upon you
and it's gonna be with you and in you.
And this is how you're gonna overcome.
This is how you're gonna do all the things
that I have said are gonna be done in the earth.
You're not gonna do those yourself.
The Holy Spirit's gonna do those things through you.
But we forget that, friends,
and we're trying to even love God in our own strength.
You can't.
You can't love Jesus on your own. You need Holy Spirit to love Jesus.
Your flesh is going to get offended. It's not going to be able to stay tethered to Christ.
Holy Spirit is the glue that keeps the branch on the vine.
So tomorrow night we're going to activate this more. For those of you that want to receive your
prayer language, we'll be praying some simple prayers. For those of you that have been really
scared by charismania, is what I call it, and you've seen the gifts of the Spirit out of control,
not in order, not being used correctly, as the Bible says, hey, things were not being
decently and done in order, all kinds of crazy things. As a result of bad teaching, guys, and
bad theology, those people are not bad people. They just don't understand because they haven't
been taught. But that hurt you. It scared you, possibly. That's not going to happen here tomorrow
night. This is not something that we believe that we have to deserve. It's not something we have to
wait around and tarry for. They tarried in the upper room for the first pouring out of the
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,
and we will pray over the blanket prayer over everyone that wants to receive that, to receive
it. You could possibly receive it tomorrow night, or you could possibly, and when I mean receive it,
I mean receive it with some sort of endowment of power. Whether you begin to prophesy, you begin to
have visions, whether you begin to feel empowered by faith in a way that you haven't been before,
or you begin to speak with your prayer language. But specifically for those of you that want to
have your prayer language, I think it's really beneficial. Paul did too. He said,
I'm glad I speak in tongues more than all y'all. That's what he said. And why did he say that?
Because he was living a hard life, y'all. He was being very persecuted as he went advancing the
kingdom, and he needed that prayer language to get out of his flesh, out of his human reasoning,
and just pray in the spirit to be empowered from on high in his circumstances. He needed that,
that break from his current reality, because his current reality was not good.
He was revelatory. I'm revelatory. I have the gift of revelation. Where do you think
that comes from? It doesn't come from Jackie. It comes from the Holy Spirit.
So it's going to look different on all of us. It's supposed to look different on all of us,
but we all do need it. So if you specifically want your prayer language, and remember, that's
for you. That's during your private prayer time. That's what it's for. If your prayer language is
being used in a community, unless it's a time of intercession where we're all praying in the spirit
to bypass the limitations of our human reasoning, it should come with an interpretation.
If it's done in public, in a public setting with a group of people gathered that don't know each
other, and like a church service type of thing, it should be happening with an interpretation.
If it doesn't happen with interpretation, once again, it might be a spiritual community
of believers that are close-knit and doing life together and warring together and possibly
interceding in the spirit. That's okay. But if you wander into a church service, and maybe this
happened to some of you, where you're a stranger there, and it's just some big public service,
and everyone's speaking in tongues, and crazy stuff's happening, that's very confusing.
It causes confusion, and it causes fear in a lot of people, because the human mind is the
enemy of the supernatural. It doesn't understand it. It's enmity to God, is what the Bible says.
So I just want to break that off of you, if any of you have been afraid of that in the past,
because it hasn't been done in order. It hasn't been done with good teaching.
I get it. I understand. But once again, this prayer, this language is for you.
It's for your private prayer times. It's for the empowerment and the maturity of you
as a believer. And so, Father God, I thank you for your children. I thank you for your sons and
daughters. I thank you that wherever we are in our spiritual maturity, you want to upgrade us.
It's a time of upgrade. As we celebrate the Feast of Pentecost, as we remember and commemorate
when you poured out Holy Spirit on the earth, when you poured out this beautiful gift,
when you gave him to mankind, we commemorate that, Lord. We honor that, Lord. We're excited
to be the generation that gets to go further and farther, that we get to step into the fulfillment
of the prophecies, that we get to step into what others have contended and prayed for.
But we can only do that with the power of Holy Spirit. And so, Lord, we're asking
that each and every one of us get an upgrade, whatever that looks like for us,
individually, Lord, and corporately, in Jesus' name. Amen.
All right, friends, have an amazing Supernatural Saturday.
We'll see you tomorrow night.