WEBVTT 00:00:16.481 --> 00:00:26.941 Everybody in the room, lord, breathe on me, please. 00:00:26.941 --> 00:00:35.198 Everybody in the room, lord, breathe on me. 00:00:35.198 --> 00:00:42.814 If you're on duty in the hallway, if you're on media, if you're on the worship and arts, everybody in the room. 00:00:42.814 --> 00:00:48.511 I'm trying to create a unified atmosphere. 00:00:48.511 --> 00:00:51.944 Everybody say Lord, breathe on me. 00:00:52.044 --> 00:01:00.432 Yeah, breathe, breathe, breathe, breathe, breathe. 00:01:02.173 --> 00:01:05.397 Breathe, breathe. 00:01:05.397 --> 00:01:17.274 Everybody say Lord, breathe on me, breathe, breathe, breathe. 00:01:17.353 --> 00:01:25.894 Breathe, breathe, breathe. 00:01:28.885 --> 00:01:38.650 You ever notice that when something happens traumatic in our society, in our culture, we use language such as that thing took my breath away. 00:01:38.650 --> 00:02:00.644 But I hear the Lord saying today I'm about to breathe on you so you can get your breath back, but this time you're going to breathe like you've never breathed before. 00:02:00.644 --> 00:02:08.385 This time is going to be no comparison to the last time. 00:02:08.385 --> 00:02:13.247 You have to receive this by faith. 00:02:13.247 --> 00:02:17.909 A God move is instigated by faith. 00:02:24.082 --> 00:02:43.094 Breathe on us move is instigated by faith, breathe on, father, the name of Jesus on this day that has been set aside in history to commemorate the Pentecost. 00:02:43.094 --> 00:02:44.557 Pour it out of your Holy Spirit. 00:02:44.557 --> 00:02:49.806 Let us not leave here like we Came in. 00:02:49.806 --> 00:03:01.433 Let us leave here with Power, authority and in alignment with your will. 00:03:01.433 --> 00:03:06.962 Speak, lord, like only you can. 00:03:06.962 --> 00:03:11.661 And, lord, when you finish speaking, when you finish moving, help us to be obedient to what you have declared. 00:03:11.661 --> 00:03:29.247 And when it's all said and done, we'll be careful to give your name all, all of the glory, all of the honor and all of the praise, for it is in the undisputed name Of Jesus we pray. 00:03:29.247 --> 00:03:37.203 Let the people of God say amen, amen and amen To God. 00:03:37.203 --> 00:03:39.584 Be the glory To God. 00:03:39.584 --> 00:03:40.980 Be the glory To God. 00:03:40.980 --> 00:03:41.862 Be the glory to God. 00:03:41.862 --> 00:03:43.146 Be the glory to God. 00:03:43.146 --> 00:03:43.727 Be the glory, hallelujah. 00:03:46.231 --> 00:03:51.490 We continue our journey in this series on the Holy Spirit. 00:03:51.490 --> 00:03:52.693 This would be chapter four. 00:03:52.693 --> 00:03:57.328 Today we're coming from Acts 1, verse 5. 00:03:57.328 --> 00:04:01.295 I'm going to ask that you read the word of God aloud with me. 00:04:01.295 --> 00:04:06.948 Just one verse on today Acts 1, verse 5. 00:04:06.948 --> 00:04:14.324 Ready set read John baptized with water. 00:04:14.324 --> 00:04:23.120 But in just a few days you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit and I would just like to use as a topic today. 00:04:23.120 --> 00:04:27.089 You know, school like the old school, holy Ghost field. 00:04:27.089 --> 00:04:35.548 Fire baptized, amen, you may be seated in the presence of the Lord. 00:04:35.548 --> 00:04:39.274 I'm gonna try, sister, I'm gonna try. 00:04:39.274 --> 00:04:42.848 I'm a try, sister, I'm a try. 00:04:42.867 --> 00:05:00.752 Acts gives us an account of the fulfillment of the prophecy that Joel shared, which declared that a day would come where the Lord would pour out his spirit on all flesh. 00:05:00.752 --> 00:05:05.542 It's interesting that the Lord does not discriminate in this prophecy. 00:05:05.542 --> 00:05:12.261 He doesn't say black flesh, doesn't say white flesh, he doesn't say good flesh. 00:05:12.261 --> 00:05:14.405 He doesn't say bad flesh. 00:05:14.405 --> 00:05:19.100 He doesn't say those dealing with addictions or those that are pure. 00:05:19.100 --> 00:05:20.966 He doesn't say those that are dealing with sexual things. 00:05:20.966 --> 00:05:22.610 He doesn't say those dealing with addictions or those that are pure. 00:05:22.610 --> 00:05:23.894 He doesn't say those that are dealing with sexual things. 00:05:23.894 --> 00:05:30.209 He doesn't say he says I'm going on the in the last days I'm gonna pour out my spirit on who all flesh. 00:05:30.209 --> 00:05:36.204 That's interesting because we are the ones that try to be selective about the grace of god. 00:05:36.204 --> 00:05:46.750 In the last days he's going to pour out his spirit on who all flesh, and because when he pours out this spirit, there is always manifestation. 00:05:46.750 --> 00:05:55.655 It was also prophesied that that that individuals would dream dreams and they would have visions and they would prophesy. 00:05:55.655 --> 00:06:07.084 You know that sometimes the reason you have the vision that you have is because the Holy Spirit has been poured out upon you and really it's not your vision. 00:06:07.084 --> 00:06:11.112 It is what God is trying to do through you. 00:06:12.021 --> 00:06:24.762 We are here to celebrate Pentecost Pentecost representing the number 50, because it was 50 days after the resurrection in which the day of Pentecost transpired. 00:06:24.762 --> 00:06:40.062 We had our social media team take something down this week because I found it to be theologically inaccurate because what it talked about was Pentecost from a historical perspective. 00:06:40.062 --> 00:06:51.867 This particular book said that churches around the globe will be celebrating Pentecost because what Jesus had done, because what the Spirit did years ago. 00:06:51.867 --> 00:06:56.701 It said come and celebrate Pentecost because the Spirit was poured out on Mary. 00:06:56.701 --> 00:07:02.343 It said come and celebrate Pentecost because the Spirit was poured out on Mary and said come and celebrate Pentecost because the spirit was poured out on Peter. 00:07:02.343 --> 00:07:06.976 Come and celebrate Pentecost because of what happened in the upper room. 00:07:06.976 --> 00:07:17.622 And the problem is that if my worship is predicated solely on what he did, then what impact does that have for me now? 00:07:17.622 --> 00:07:20.047 But I got some good news for you. 00:07:20.047 --> 00:07:33.581 We are here today celebrating Pentecost, not because of what the Holy Spirit did, but we are here in red because of what the Holy Spirit is doing. 00:07:33.581 --> 00:07:54.425 I want to let you know that that same Pentecostal fire that changed everything many years ago is upon us, and I got some good news that that power is available to everyone in this room today If you can receive it by faith. 00:07:54.485 --> 00:08:05.786 This is not the day for you to be distracted by social media, so if you're not taking notes, I'm going to ask you to put the device away. 00:08:05.786 --> 00:08:09.341 This is not the day to be talking with your neighbor about nonsense. 00:08:09.341 --> 00:08:11.105 Today ain't the day for that. 00:08:11.105 --> 00:08:31.132 Today is a day that we have come with expectation that God is going to pour out his spirit today, like he did over 2,000 years ago, because maybe we don't have Pharisees and Sadducees chasing us, but we have our own problems here in 2024. 00:08:31.132 --> 00:08:34.971 We have political issues that we have to deal with. 00:08:34.971 --> 00:08:38.571 We have child raising issues we have to deal with. 00:08:38.571 --> 00:08:39.846 We have marital issues that we have to deal with. 00:08:39.846 --> 00:08:42.059 We have marital issues that we have to deal with. 00:08:42.059 --> 00:08:47.170 We have sickness in our body that we have to deal with Demonic attack. 00:08:47.170 --> 00:08:52.230 We have to deal with Spiritual strongholds that we have to deal with. 00:08:52.230 --> 00:08:59.026 And God, if you had to pour out your spirit over 2,000 years ago for them to make it? 00:08:59.026 --> 00:09:02.653 Lord, we need a double portion right now. 00:09:06.980 --> 00:09:13.410 But I'm here to let you know that an immersion has hit this house. 00:09:13.410 --> 00:09:16.494 An immersion has hit this house. 00:09:16.494 --> 00:09:18.622 Do you know what an immersion is? 00:09:18.622 --> 00:09:23.961 An immersion is when you are saturated in a substance. 00:09:23.961 --> 00:09:37.432 If you think about going into a room filled with smoke, if you walk into a smoke-filled room, you will be immersed in it because it will saturate everything concerning you. 00:09:37.432 --> 00:09:44.522 For example, smoke will saturate your taste and it will because it could get on your taste buds. 00:09:44.522 --> 00:09:53.333 Smoke will saturate even your hearing, because you could even hear the smoke, because something has to be on fire for there to be smoke. 00:09:53.333 --> 00:10:00.750 Smoke will saturate the outside, because if you get smoke in your clothes, it's a hard thing to get out and smoke. 00:10:00.750 --> 00:10:07.411 Or saturate you on the inside, because if you get smoke in your lungs, it can even damage your lungs. 00:10:07.491 --> 00:10:21.375 And I want to talk about immersion has hit this house and I need you to understand the power of immersion because God wants to do something in your life on Pentecost 2024. 00:10:21.375 --> 00:10:29.959 The problem is is that many of us come and we get a little taste, but we never experience a full immersion. 00:10:29.959 --> 00:10:36.433 You see, in the text Acts, chapter 1, jesus was talking about baptism. 00:10:36.433 --> 00:10:38.707 He said John baptized with water. 00:10:38.707 --> 00:10:47.108 Now, the purpose of water baptism was to make a declaration that you believe, but before Jesus, it was also a cleansing. 00:10:47.108 --> 00:10:57.424 So John was trying to let people know if they repented and got baptized, they would be cleansed with the water and and you can understand being immersed, can't you? 00:10:57.424 --> 00:11:01.117 I need some ladies in the room to help me to testify now. 00:11:01.378 --> 00:11:06.069 You remember that time that you got and went yourself together and went down to South Beach. 00:11:06.069 --> 00:11:07.741 You know what I'm talking about. 00:11:07.741 --> 00:11:09.224 Now, what was interesting? 00:11:09.224 --> 00:11:10.207 You went to the gym. 00:11:10.207 --> 00:11:11.410 You got your abs right. 00:11:11.410 --> 00:11:14.504 You went to the gym and you got your biceps right. 00:11:14.504 --> 00:11:18.320 You went down and got your little two-piece and everything was awesome. 00:11:18.320 --> 00:11:20.005 But I discovered something. 00:11:20.005 --> 00:11:23.184 I noticed something when I looked at your hair. 00:11:23.184 --> 00:11:24.489 Your hair was flowing. 00:11:24.489 --> 00:11:26.126 It was beautiful, woman of God. 00:11:26.126 --> 00:11:28.267 But I instantly knew what was up. 00:11:28.267 --> 00:11:30.708 You had no expectation. 00:11:30.708 --> 00:11:34.579 No part of you was going to fully get into that water. 00:11:34.579 --> 00:11:46.727 Now you did get your pedicure and you got a toe ring, but the objective was simple you was going to put your toe in that water and you was going to look good and that was about all that was going to happen. 00:11:46.727 --> 00:11:51.151 Well, I want to let you know, fam, that's good for South Beach. 00:11:51.720 --> 00:11:56.231 When you come into the house of the living God, we treat God the same way. 00:11:56.231 --> 00:11:58.098 We come in looking good. 00:11:58.098 --> 00:12:09.600 I may give God a golf clap, I may get in a little bit, but I ain't. 00:12:09.600 --> 00:12:11.165 Came for a full immersion, you see, to be fully immersed. 00:12:11.165 --> 00:12:11.967 I got to expose myself completely. 00:12:11.967 --> 00:12:12.770 I got to go deep to get fully immersed. 00:12:12.770 --> 00:12:16.581 I got to go to an uncomfortable place to get fully immersed. 00:12:16.581 --> 00:12:19.829 My hair gonna get messy if I get fully emerged. 00:12:19.829 --> 00:12:24.461 People gonna look at me and say she can't swim, but she's fully emerged. 00:12:24.722 --> 00:12:37.953 But I need some people to understand, on Pentecost 2024, that the Lord is calling us to get fully emerged, fully. 00:12:37.953 --> 00:13:05.182 Because if you ever fully emerge yourself by fully surrendering to God and fully being obedient to every precept not just the part that you like, not the part that you agree with full immersion requires us men of God to be obedient to every precept. 00:13:05.182 --> 00:13:11.693 When we fully emerge ourselves, god is saying I want you to emerge. 00:13:11.693 --> 00:13:12.214 You know why? 00:13:12.214 --> 00:13:16.524 Because you need power. 00:13:16.524 --> 00:13:28.856 The Lord is saying to be Holy Ghost filled, to be fire baptized is essentially to say that you've been fully emerged in a hope, under the power of the Holy Ghost. 00:13:28.856 --> 00:13:58.564 The way you invest money, the way you build businesses, the way you go to college, the way you build your entrepreneurial dreams, the way you are advancing on your job, everything has been emerged and God is saying I'm emerging you because of the assignment that's on your life, you are going to need more power. 00:13:58.564 --> 00:14:08.986 He says the power that sustains you in 2023 is not enough power for what I'm about to do through you in 2024. 00:14:08.986 --> 00:14:18.125 He said you've been doing this thing with a half-charged battery, but in this season you're going to need all power. 00:14:18.125 --> 00:14:24.014 Acts 1, verse 8, jesus talking and he says this to them. 00:14:24.014 --> 00:14:32.550 He says but you will receive what family Power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you. 00:14:32.550 --> 00:14:34.526 Can I deal with that one sentence? 00:14:34.526 --> 00:14:38.991 But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you. 00:14:39.640 --> 00:14:42.980 The Bible talks a lot about the power of the Holy Ghost. 00:14:42.980 --> 00:14:55.191 In our series, we talked about the power of the Holy Ghost being present at creation, because the Holy Spirit is what inspires us to create For all of you creatives out there. 00:14:55.191 --> 00:15:05.289 You are made in the image of God, and the reason that you can look at a blank wall and draw and make something out of nothing is because of the power of the Holy Ghost that is on you. 00:15:05.289 --> 00:15:08.479 That has given you the ability to be a creative. 00:15:08.479 --> 00:15:13.912 The Bible talks about the power of the Holy Ghost as a wind. 00:15:13.912 --> 00:15:33.142 In the book of Exodus we talked about dry bones in a valley and how an east wind came after Ezekiel prophesied and spoke to the dry spaces and spoke to the dry bones, and a wind came across the dry bones and those dry bones came back together. 00:15:33.162 --> 00:15:42.810 Can I talk to some dry bones on this Pentecostal Sunday morning and let you know that God is still breathing on the dry places? 00:15:42.810 --> 00:15:48.290 That's why you ought to not be ashamed to come into the house of God and say I'm in a drought. 00:15:48.290 --> 00:15:54.010 That's why you ought to not be ashamed to come into the house of God and say I need a fresh wind. 00:15:54.010 --> 00:16:02.080 That's why you ought to not be ashamed to come down to this altar and cry, because the only one that wants to keep you stuck is the enemy. 00:16:02.080 --> 00:16:19.449 The only one that does not want to see you win is your adversary, and that's why, every now and then Pastor Chris and Sister Brandy and others are aspired, under the power of the Holy Ghost, to sing songs which simply declare breathe on us. 00:16:20.070 --> 00:16:21.913 I don't need a lot of words this morning. 00:16:21.913 --> 00:16:25.930 I just need to be able to say breathe on us. 00:16:25.930 --> 00:16:31.549 That's why I asked everybody to say it together, because I understand the weight of your assignment. 00:16:31.549 --> 00:16:34.068 But I understand the power of his breath. 00:16:34.068 --> 00:16:37.549 We call it the ruach, the wind of God. 00:16:37.549 --> 00:16:55.664 So when we talk about his power, we're talking about the fact that when the going gets tough and the tough get going and my back is against the wall and I don't have enough money and I don't have enough connections and I don't have any more people to call and everybody has said no, my God says yes. 00:16:55.664 --> 00:17:00.052 How does he say yes, he breathes on me. 00:17:00.052 --> 00:17:08.353 You ought to be glad today and celebrate a God today that will breathe on you just when you need it the most. 00:17:08.353 --> 00:17:23.773 Maybe you've never had God to breathe on you, but if you've liked me and sickness has ever hit your family, don't you know the reason that your family member is still here is because the breath of God moved where the surgeon could not move. 00:17:23.773 --> 00:17:35.379 Don't you know the reason that you are still here is because the ruach, the breath of God, the pneuma, the life-giving wind, hit you just when you needed it the most. 00:17:35.379 --> 00:17:47.731 I need some people that will testify unashamedly that it was the breath of God, the Holy Ghost, that has kept you when you couldn't keep yourself. 00:17:48.220 --> 00:17:55.733 The Bible talks about the breath of God, the ruach of God, the wind of God, the creative power of the Holy Ghost. 00:17:55.733 --> 00:18:02.693 But then we get to Acts 1, verse 8, and we see a new description of the power of the Holy Ghost. 00:18:02.693 --> 00:18:08.731 You see, the Holy Ghost is so strong, he's so powerful, it's hard to describe him. 00:18:08.731 --> 00:18:11.604 That's why we often refer to him as a wind. 00:18:11.604 --> 00:18:13.908 He's often referred to as water. 00:18:13.908 --> 00:18:19.807 But here in Acts 1, verse 8, we see a new definition for the Holy Ghost. 00:18:19.807 --> 00:18:22.893 He's referred to as dunamis. 00:18:23.213 --> 00:18:30.176 If you were looking at Acts 1, verse 8, in a Greek lexicon the word for power is dunamis. 00:18:30.176 --> 00:18:35.531 You may be familiar with dunamis because that's where we get our word dynamite from. 00:18:35.531 --> 00:18:42.331 Can I tell you there's some stuff going on in your life that only the dunamis of God can deal with. 00:18:42.331 --> 00:18:45.148 I like how Dr Lentz taught me about dunamis. 00:18:45.148 --> 00:18:50.011 He said if you understand dynamite, you can partway understand dunamis. 00:18:50.011 --> 00:18:54.370 You see, dynamite does what you don't have the ability to do. 00:18:54.370 --> 00:18:59.489 There are things that are blocked in your life, there are things that are in the way of your life. 00:18:59.489 --> 00:19:05.090 There is a track that you're supposed to be on, but suddenly you've hit a rocky endeavor. 00:19:05.090 --> 00:19:07.143 What do you mean, pastor Walt? 00:19:07.143 --> 00:19:14.486 If y'all know anything about road construction, every now and then, as they're trying to make a road, they'll come into an impasse. 00:19:14.486 --> 00:19:15.809 It becomes rocky. 00:19:15.809 --> 00:19:25.087 In order for the road to be paved, they got to get rid of the rocks, and the best way to get rid of rocks is some type of explosive power. 00:19:25.087 --> 00:19:46.447 And if you know anything about dynamite, it is amazingly powerful, because Dr Lynch taught me the thing about dynamite is this All you got to do is to take the stick, light the fuse, drop it and get out of the way. 00:19:46.467 --> 00:19:52.042 I want to talk to somebody and tell you that's the power that's in you, but the problem is you've yet to grab hold of the stick, you've yet to light the fuse. 00:19:52.042 --> 00:19:54.528 I need some people to light the fuse. 00:19:54.528 --> 00:19:56.432 How do I light the fuse? 00:19:56.432 --> 00:20:02.860 I light it with my worship, I light it with my prayers, I light it with my prayers, I light it with my obedience. 00:20:02.860 --> 00:20:05.506 I light it with my cries unto the Lord. 00:20:05.506 --> 00:20:07.392 Is there anybody that got something? 00:20:07.451 --> 00:20:10.849 in the way that you need to light the fuse on the power. 00:20:10.849 --> 00:20:13.017 Is there anybody beside myself? 00:20:13.017 --> 00:20:21.173 You're dealing with some roadblocks and the God has said the problem is not the roadblock, the problem is that you have yet to use the power. 00:20:21.173 --> 00:20:25.667 But I need about 75 people and I will be number 76. 00:20:25.667 --> 00:20:32.691 That I'm about to light what God has given me, because if I don't use it, good God, almighty, I'm going to lose it. 00:20:32.691 --> 00:20:35.127 But I'm about to light what God has given me. 00:20:35.127 --> 00:20:44.126 I'm about to drop this dynamite and I'm about to get out of the way, because when the Holy Ghost starts moving, he don't even need my help. 00:20:44.846 --> 00:20:49.271 I wish we could light a fuse right now, because there's something that's been in your way. 00:20:49.271 --> 00:20:53.355 It's been in your way for the last two years, but Pentecost is here. 00:20:53.355 --> 00:21:06.352 You might as well light that thing and get out of the way, because God is giving you authority to be able to move mountains. 00:21:06.352 --> 00:21:08.115 It's in the Bible. 00:21:08.115 --> 00:21:11.829 You have the authority to move the mountain. 00:21:11.829 --> 00:21:14.346 Don't come in here and complain about the mountain. 00:21:14.346 --> 00:21:14.667 Move it. 00:21:14.667 --> 00:21:27.303 An immersion has hit this house. 00:21:27.303 --> 00:21:27.604 Why? 00:21:27.604 --> 00:21:28.826 Because you need power. 00:21:28.826 --> 00:21:31.289 Why do we need power? 00:21:31.289 --> 00:21:34.654 Because the lord is saying there is a mission. 00:21:34.654 --> 00:21:36.461 Everybody say mission. 00:21:36.461 --> 00:21:38.244 Look at acts 1, 8.8. 00:21:38.244 --> 00:21:40.947 Again it reminds us but the Holy Spirit. 00:21:40.947 --> 00:21:45.553 But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you. 00:21:45.553 --> 00:21:55.267 And what you will be my witness, telling people everywhere about me. 00:21:55.267 --> 00:21:57.828 Watch this, keep that up, media team. 00:21:57.828 --> 00:21:58.328 I'll be brief. 00:21:58.328 --> 00:22:04.714 Watch this, keep that up, media team. 00:22:04.714 --> 00:22:05.415 I'll be brief. 00:22:05.415 --> 00:22:09.960 Your success is the Lord's success. 00:22:09.960 --> 00:22:21.653 In other words, god wants you to be successful More than you want to be successful, so that when he puts you on the platform you can tell everybody about him. 00:22:21.653 --> 00:22:26.590 To all my athletes. 00:22:26.590 --> 00:22:36.316 I know y'all think it's cliche we see so many athletes in this season Giving God the glory at a time where they say that people don't believe anymore. 00:22:37.626 --> 00:22:47.929 I believe that there's a fresh outpouring of the Holy Ghost available, because the truth of the matter is a young person who may or may not have been raised in church. 00:22:47.929 --> 00:22:56.013 Why would they give God glory on TV but for the fact that they realized that it had not been for the Lord that was on their side? 00:22:56.013 --> 00:22:59.326 And God is saying in this season I want you to be a witness. 00:22:59.326 --> 00:23:06.328 He says nobody is going to listen to you if you are a failure, so I'm not going to allow you to be a failure. 00:23:06.328 --> 00:23:09.519 You may go through some stuff that feels like failure. 00:23:09.519 --> 00:23:12.506 You may go through some stuff that looks like failure. 00:23:12.506 --> 00:23:21.360 You may go through some stuff that smells like failure, but God is saying that you are fearfully and wonderfully made and you are not a failure. 00:23:21.360 --> 00:23:29.739 And he says that if you tell them to hold on a little while longer, I'm going to show out and I'm going to show up in their life. 00:23:29.739 --> 00:23:44.544 I'm going to show out and I'm going to show up in the season when everyone had closed the door and said it was too late for you, when everyone had said it was over for for you, when everyone had said it was over for you, when everybody said that you were finished, when everybody said that it was too late. 00:23:44.826 --> 00:23:55.774 I thank God for the Pentecost season because it reminds me that we are a servant of the Most High God, who is the God of the comeback. 00:23:55.774 --> 00:24:04.875 And may I declare on Pentecost Sunday morning that there are about a hundred of you that are on a way to your comeback. 00:24:04.875 --> 00:24:08.270 You are on the way up, you are on the way. 00:24:08.270 --> 00:24:10.913 How great is in store for you? 00:24:10.913 --> 00:24:11.474 Why? 00:24:11.474 --> 00:24:16.617 Because God is saying that you have been called to be his witness. 00:24:16.617 --> 00:24:19.534 He needs a witness in the schoolhouse. 00:24:19.534 --> 00:24:23.115 He needs a witness downtown at the county offices. 00:24:23.115 --> 00:24:26.254 He needs a witness in the banking industry. 00:24:26.254 --> 00:24:29.274 He needs a witness in the political realm. 00:24:29.464 --> 00:24:33.979 God is saying I am sending you and you will win. 00:24:33.979 --> 00:24:37.395 You will be the lender and not the borrower. 00:24:37.395 --> 00:24:38.854 You will be the head and not the borrower. 00:24:38.854 --> 00:24:40.284 You will be the head and not the tail. 00:24:40.284 --> 00:24:43.554 You will be above and not beneath. 00:24:43.554 --> 00:24:49.852 You will be blessed in the city and blessed in the field, so long as you remain obedient. 00:24:49.852 --> 00:24:50.294 Why? 00:24:50.294 --> 00:25:03.580 Because you are my witness and I want the world to see that the same way I did it for you, the same way I'm going to do it for them. 00:25:03.580 --> 00:25:15.475 You will be his witness where In Jerusalem, judea, samaria, ends of the earth. 00:25:15.475 --> 00:25:20.617 I want you all to remember this Jerusalem, judea, samaria, ends of the earth. 00:25:20.617 --> 00:25:24.147 I want you to remember this Jerusalem, judea, samaria, ends of the earth Missions model that we use here. 00:25:24.147 --> 00:25:26.051 We look at Acts 1 8. 00:25:26.051 --> 00:25:28.475 Jerusalem was where they were. 00:25:29.337 --> 00:25:49.656 That's local mission work, meaning that there are things that we do right here in Charlotte because God called us to do things here, but then sometimes God calls us to go a little bit further and we do state ride missions that would have been like Judea in the Bible, because they would have had to travel a little bit further. 00:25:49.656 --> 00:25:55.101 But then, every now and then, we go on a national effort, such as when hurricanes hit the coast. 00:25:55.101 --> 00:26:02.454 We've we've served with Hurricane Matthew, we've served with Hurricane Sandy, we've gone to Haiti after the earthquake. 00:26:02.454 --> 00:26:17.297 We have been doing mission work for a mighty long time and God is saying I've called you to go to Judea, jerusalem, judea, samaria, to the ends of the earth, local, state, national and international. 00:26:17.297 --> 00:26:22.571 That's why we partnered last year with World Vision to do work in Rwanda. 00:26:22.812 --> 00:26:36.913 That's why Elder Colleen is about to go back to Belize in about another month, because God has said I've given you this power not just for yourself, but for you to be a blessing to others. 00:26:36.913 --> 00:26:45.537 And God is saying I need people that I could trust to use the power, and that's the type of people that I want to fill up. 00:26:45.537 --> 00:26:50.933 That's the type of people that will be Holy Ghost filled and fire baptized. 00:26:50.933 --> 00:26:58.136 That's the type of people that can go out into the mission field and lay hands on people and people get healed. 00:26:58.136 --> 00:27:02.024 That's the type of people that can drive by atrium health. 00:27:02.024 --> 00:27:22.030 You don't have to go in, but you will just start prophesying and you'll start speaking, healing to everyone in the building, because God is looking for some people that he can give that type of power to, because there's an immersion that's happening because power is upon us, because we have a mission. 00:27:22.030 --> 00:27:32.517 As a matter of fact, I'm putting the mission team on notice now that next year's mission blitz in 2025 will be the Saturday before Pentecost. 00:27:33.018 --> 00:27:47.657 Because we got to understand that the power of Pentecost is for us to be able to take care of the Lord's business, and I've been preaching this at this church a long time that if you ever learn how to take care of the Lord's business, the Lord will take care of your business. 00:27:47.657 --> 00:27:49.852 You see, we got this thing backwards. 00:27:49.852 --> 00:27:53.345 There are too many of you that come into the house of the Lord. 00:27:53.345 --> 00:27:56.855 You say I'm going to serve once I get my stuff together. 00:27:56.855 --> 00:27:58.417 I'm going to join once I get my stuff together. 00:27:58.417 --> 00:27:59.866 I'm going to join once my family gets fixed. 00:27:59.866 --> 00:28:02.815 I'm going to give once I have some money. 00:28:03.196 --> 00:28:08.633 But I want to remind you that's counterculture to what the Word of God declares. 00:28:08.633 --> 00:28:18.837 The Bible declares that if we seek ye first, the kingdom of God and his righteousness, then all these things shall be added unto me. 00:28:18.837 --> 00:28:23.195 God is looking for some people that are willing to put him first. 00:28:23.195 --> 00:28:30.239 God is looking for some people that will counsel somebody else when you need counseling for your own doggone self. 00:28:30.239 --> 00:28:37.078 God is looking for some people that will pray for somebody else's healing when you need healing for your own family. 00:28:37.078 --> 00:28:39.201 God is looking for some people that will pour into somebody else's healing when you need healing for your own family. 00:28:39.201 --> 00:28:46.164 God is looking for some people That'll pour into somebody else's children, even though you ain't talked to your own in a while, because there's been a disconnect. 00:28:46.866 --> 00:28:53.494 But I heard the Lord say and he said it real loud Tell the people on Pentecost 2024. 00:28:53.494 --> 00:28:57.777 It's not that I'm teaching them to forget about their sorrows. 00:28:57.777 --> 00:29:02.673 I'm just teaching them to prioritize so that they can experience a move. 00:29:02.673 --> 00:29:08.992 He said if you put me first in everything, I promise you I'm going to take care of it for you. 00:29:08.992 --> 00:29:15.588 Do I have any witnesses in the house of God that have ever put God first before your own desires, before your own ideologies? 00:29:15.588 --> 00:29:19.452 God first before your own desires, before your own ideologies, before your own pleasures? 00:29:19.452 --> 00:29:29.162 There are too many of us who are putting our own feelings and our own emotions in front of what God has declared and we wonder why it's not getting any better. 00:29:29.162 --> 00:29:41.794 But the Lord is saying in this house if you want to have a fresh point out, if you want to feel his power, you got to do it his way. 00:29:41.794 --> 00:29:43.520 I need some people in the house of God to stop being hard-headed. 00:29:43.520 --> 00:29:53.488 Because I'm from Alabama, my mama own live stream and my mama used to say that a hard head make a soft behind, and there are too many people in the house of God. 00:29:53.488 --> 00:29:58.377 You can bust upside the head to the white meat and that's because your head is hard. 00:29:58.798 --> 00:30:05.765 But on this Pentecost Sunday, the Lord is saying I don't want to condemn you, I just want to turn you around. 00:30:05.765 --> 00:30:07.450 I want to favor you. 00:30:07.450 --> 00:30:09.733 I want overflow to hit your house. 00:30:09.733 --> 00:30:11.858 I want power to hit your belly. 00:30:11.858 --> 00:30:14.629 I want your name to be in the lights. 00:30:14.629 --> 00:30:18.277 I want to do more for you than you want for yourself. 00:30:18.277 --> 00:30:32.018 God is saying I want it better than you want it, but you just got to be willing to surrender, you got to be willing to trust, you got to be willing to obey and God will take care of you. 00:30:32.338 --> 00:30:36.251 Do I have any witnesses in the house that have been on the wall long enough. 00:30:36.251 --> 00:30:42.094 You tried it your way, but you said, lord, I can't fix it, I'm going to do it your way. 00:30:42.094 --> 00:30:50.657 I need you to testify because they don't believe me that you finally did it the Lord's way and God showed up. 00:30:50.657 --> 00:30:57.332 You wanted to quit, but the Lord said that ain't what I commanded of you, but you want to do it your way. 00:30:57.332 --> 00:31:02.712 Ain't got the nerve to ask why you ain't being blessed, but there's a shift in the house today. 00:31:02.712 --> 00:31:05.313 There's a deliverance in the house today. 00:31:05.313 --> 00:31:14.929 There's a transformation in the house today that the folk gonna stop being hard-headed and start to surrender All to thee. 00:31:14.929 --> 00:31:22.813 I surrender my will is gone, my thoughts about it is gone, my social processes about it are gone. 00:31:22.813 --> 00:31:33.258 Now, god, I'm going to do it your way, because if I do it your way, I'll be what you call me to be. 00:31:33.258 --> 00:31:37.168 Then I'll do what you call me to do. 00:31:39.311 --> 00:31:45.840 There is a move happening in this house right now. 00:31:45.840 --> 00:31:48.726 He's emerging us. 00:31:48.726 --> 00:31:50.711 There's an immersion happening. 00:31:50.711 --> 00:31:53.956 You feel God in a way. 00:31:53.956 --> 00:31:57.950 Some of you never felt him before and that's because there's an immersion happening. 00:31:57.950 --> 00:31:59.831 It has nothing to do with me. 00:31:59.831 --> 00:32:04.378 This is the power of the Holy Ghost, but I just need you to understand what's going on. 00:32:04.378 --> 00:32:08.875 There's an immersion happening. 00:32:08.875 --> 00:32:17.788 There's such a download that I just got to focus, because I feel like I'm in a computer room in heaven right now and I see what God is showing me and I'm just trying to give it to you the best way. 00:32:17.788 --> 00:32:25.053 I know how he's saying that there's a, there's an immersion happening here because you need this power, because there's an omission there. 00:32:25.053 --> 00:32:29.826 There's something that he has for you to do and only you can. 00:32:29.826 --> 00:32:31.892 You can do it only you. 00:32:31.892 --> 00:32:34.015 Somebody said only me, somebody said only me. 00:32:34.015 --> 00:32:36.067 Pastor Walt can't do it. 00:32:36.067 --> 00:32:39.777 Only only you can do it, but you can't do it by yourself. 00:32:39.777 --> 00:32:43.414 There's an emergency happening because we need this power. 00:32:43.414 --> 00:32:47.816 And we need this power because there's an omissional assignment on our life. 00:32:49.467 --> 00:32:53.196 The whole purpose of Pentecost was to give us power to accomplish his mission. 00:32:53.196 --> 00:32:55.571 But how do we get this power? 00:32:55.571 --> 00:32:57.389 That's the core question. 00:32:57.389 --> 00:32:59.476 We all believe the power, but how do we get this power? 00:32:59.476 --> 00:32:59.980 That's the core question. 00:32:59.980 --> 00:33:01.573 We all believe the power, but how do we get the power? 00:33:01.573 --> 00:33:03.769 That's one way we get the power. 00:33:03.769 --> 00:33:14.455 We have to wait in Jerusalem, because our wait in Jerusalem will produce a poor. 00:33:14.455 --> 00:33:25.057 We have to wait in jerusalem because our way in jerusalem we will produce a poor luke. 00:33:25.116 --> 00:33:32.015 24, 44, verse 49, one of jesus's last discords with his disciples before he would leave this crusted earth. 00:33:32.015 --> 00:33:43.463 He says to them when I was with you before he's having a flashback y'all I told you that everything written about me in the law of Moses and the prophets and in the psalms must be fulfilled. 00:33:43.463 --> 00:33:48.903 He goes on to say then he opened their minds to the understanding of the scripture. 00:33:48.903 --> 00:33:53.619 And that's my prayer for this Pentecost that the Lord will open your mind. 00:33:53.619 --> 00:34:01.302 Because for some people this kind of conversation, this type of flow is they can't get it because they're trying to get it from the flesh. 00:34:01.302 --> 00:34:23.880 But the Lord is saying, when it comes to spiritual things, I, I have to open your mind, I have to, uh, wash your mind, I have to to to impart into your mind, I have to deliver your mind, I have to transform your mind, because if you try to get it from your flesh, you try to get it from the natural. 00:34:23.880 --> 00:34:27.827 You will miss the power of this Pentecostal experience. 00:34:27.827 --> 00:34:32.605 So I'm glad Jesus took a few minutes to open up their minds. 00:34:32.605 --> 00:34:52.862 Y'all don't mind if I take about 15 seconds and decree and declare that minds are being opened right now that minds that were closed to this move of God are suddenly being opened, that minds that were closed to the miracle signs and wonders still being a real thing, their minds are being opened. 00:34:52.862 --> 00:35:01.887 That minds that were closed to a charismatic worship style, their minds are being opened because God is showing them something. 00:35:01.887 --> 00:35:08.949 Minds are being opened that God is imparting spiritual gifts into some of you that you've never had before. 00:35:08.949 --> 00:35:12.273 Minds are being opened to a move of God. 00:35:12.273 --> 00:35:19.009 I know I'm preaching to several of you right now because you have a shaking in your spirit. 00:35:19.009 --> 00:35:23.623 There is a quivering going on because your mind is being opened. 00:35:23.623 --> 00:35:34.603 You can hardly contain it because God is downloading into you the same way that he's downloading into me and your mind is being transformed. 00:35:34.603 --> 00:35:40.246 Your mind is being renewed so that you can receive what God has to say. 00:35:40.246 --> 00:35:44.003 What does he have to say to us after the mind is open? 00:35:44.003 --> 00:35:45.806 Run it back up, media team. 00:35:45.806 --> 00:35:48.018 I need them to see what Jesus was saying. 00:35:48.018 --> 00:35:51.887 Jesus told them as he said yes. 00:35:52.009 --> 00:36:00.041 It was written long ago that the Messiah would suffer and die and rise from the dead on the third day Verse 37,. 00:36:00.041 --> 00:36:09.878 It was also written that this message would be proclaimed in the authority of his name to all nations, beginning in Jerusalem. 00:36:09.878 --> 00:36:13.887 There is forgiveness of sin for all who repent. 00:36:13.887 --> 00:36:18.724 Don't forget that the power of Pentecost is the fact that you are forgiven. 00:36:18.724 --> 00:36:20.757 Your sins are now removed. 00:36:20.757 --> 00:36:30.784 You ought to celebrate the fact that nobody can hold your yesterday against you, because Jesus declared who the Son sets free is free. 00:36:30.784 --> 00:36:41.994 Indeed, do I have any free folk in the house that don't mind celebrating that you are free in the Spirit, that don't mind celebrating that you are free in the spirit, that don't mind celebrating that you are Holy Ghost filled? 00:36:41.994 --> 00:36:46.626 Don't mind celebrating that God is doing a great work in your life. 00:36:46.626 --> 00:36:48.619 Don't mind celebrating. 00:36:49.061 --> 00:36:50.545 You don't know my story. 00:36:50.545 --> 00:36:52.762 You don't know what I've been through. 00:36:52.762 --> 00:36:55.224 You don't know what I had to experience. 00:36:55.224 --> 00:36:57.764 You don't know why I made that decision. 00:36:57.764 --> 00:36:59.130 You don't know why I laid down with her. 00:36:59.130 --> 00:36:59.523 You don't know why I made that decision. 00:36:59.523 --> 00:37:00.315 You don't know why I laid down with her. 00:37:00.315 --> 00:37:03.000 You don't know why I laid down with him. 00:37:03.000 --> 00:37:04.985 You don't know my story. 00:37:04.985 --> 00:37:10.981 You cannot judge me, but my God has declared that I am forgiven. 00:37:10.981 --> 00:37:15.449 My God has declared that yesterday is behind me. 00:37:15.449 --> 00:37:19.485 My God has declared that he's up to something new. 00:37:19.485 --> 00:37:21.822 How do I know he's up to something new. 00:37:22.536 --> 00:37:23.862 Read the rest of the text. 00:37:23.862 --> 00:37:26.023 We get right here to verse 48. 00:37:26.023 --> 00:37:28.583 He says that you are my witnesses. 00:37:28.583 --> 00:37:33.554 But verse 49 gets us to where the power resides. 00:37:33.554 --> 00:38:02.570 He says and now, since I have some witnesses, and now since I got some people with a testimony, and now since I got some people that chose the city, who believe, and now since I got people that have come with expectation, and now since I've been waiting for this moment my whole life, and now since my mind has been changed, I will send the Holy Spirit, just as my father promised. 00:38:02.570 --> 00:38:05.994 The Holy Spirit is a fulfillment of a promise. 00:38:05.994 --> 00:38:13.288 But he said stay here until the Holy Spirit comes and fills you with his power. 00:38:13.288 --> 00:38:15.322 Here is our problem. 00:38:15.322 --> 00:38:17.661 Here is the challenge of the text. 00:38:17.661 --> 00:38:21.416 Here is our problem. 00:38:21.416 --> 00:38:22.639 Here is the challenge of the text. 00:38:22.659 --> 00:38:26.750 God is saying that there is power that's available for you, that he's going to pour out his spirit upon you and he's about to do a new thing. 00:38:26.750 --> 00:38:35.177 But the problem is we miss that key word that every now and then, god is saying we got to wait in Jerusalem. 00:38:35.177 --> 00:38:36.438 What does that mean? 00:38:36.438 --> 00:38:45.101 That meant for the apostles on this 40th day, as Jesus was going up to the throne room, they got a command to wait. 00:38:45.101 --> 00:38:52.106 Now they knew that they were anointed, they knew they had an assignment, but they did not have the power to go forth. 00:38:52.106 --> 00:38:58.282 And I'm so glad they waited, because had they not waited, the enemy would have killed them. 00:38:58.282 --> 00:39:00.505 Had they not waited, the enemy would have killed them. 00:39:00.505 --> 00:39:01.927 Had they not waited, the weight would have been too heavy. 00:39:01.927 --> 00:39:05.630 Had they not waited, they would not have been successful. 00:39:11.355 --> 00:39:12.356 And I want to talk to a few people in the room. 00:39:12.356 --> 00:39:13.077 You've come in asking questions. 00:39:13.077 --> 00:39:16.764 What you need to understand is that for every new season of your life, you're going to need new power. 00:39:16.764 --> 00:39:18.427 Can I run that one back? 00:39:18.427 --> 00:39:20.456 It felt good when I said it. 00:39:20.456 --> 00:39:25.532 I'm going to say this one more time for me because I'm in a new season. 00:39:25.532 --> 00:39:27.659 Is there anybody else that's in a new season? 00:39:27.659 --> 00:39:42.329 Yeah, in a new season, old power won't do, and I want to talk to somebody and let you know that for every new season, you're going to need new power, and the way you get new power is that you've got to learn how to wait on the Lord. 00:39:42.855 --> 00:39:50.933 Many times we get anxious because the prophet declared that good things were coming our way and we start moving ahead of God. 00:39:50.933 --> 00:39:54.786 I want to let you know it's dangerous to get ahead of God. 00:39:54.786 --> 00:40:00.978 I want to tell you right now that the key to your new next is your ability to wait on the power. 00:40:00.978 --> 00:40:03.487 Well, pastor Walt, how do I wait on the power? 00:40:03.487 --> 00:40:06.737 Well, you got to be like these 120 individuals. 00:40:06.737 --> 00:40:17.583 You see, the Bible declares there were 120 individuals that were waiting on the power, and the Bible says they found themselves waiting in the upper room. 00:40:17.583 --> 00:40:20.068 What were they doing in the upper room? 00:40:20.594 --> 00:40:25.867 Well, circumstantial evidence would suggest there was a whole lot of worship going on. 00:40:25.867 --> 00:40:27.862 What do you mean, pastor Walt? 00:40:27.862 --> 00:40:32.043 Well, you look at the other times they found themselves in the upper room. 00:40:32.043 --> 00:40:43.063