Speaker 1: Spirit of the living God, thank you for your presence in this place.
Speaker 1: I thank you for all of the beautiful guests that you've sent for the first time.
Speaker 1: Thank you for the ones that have been led to return and check us out again.
Speaker 1: I thank you for the ones that have been led to return and check us out again.
Speaker 1: I thank you for our partners.
Speaker 1: I thank you for the souls that are online.
Speaker 1: Lord, the prayer today is that you will speak like only you can.
Speaker 1: The prayer today is that you will speak like only you can.
Speaker 1: The prayer today is that you'll move like only you can.
Speaker 1: The prayer today is that you will feel like only you can.
Speaker 1: We trust you.
Speaker 1: That was more than a song for us.
Speaker 1: That was a declaration that we trust you.
Speaker 1: We're not worried about what it looks like anymore.
Speaker 1: We trust you.
Speaker 1: Honestly, I can't even worry about what it feels like.
Speaker 1: We trust you.
Speaker 1: Draw in our minds, god, so we can focus for a few minutes.
Speaker 1: I pray over the students in youth church that there will be lives changed and more students will give their lives to you.
Speaker 1: I pray today that people will give their lives to you and when it's all said and done, god, we'll be careful to give your name all the glory, honor and praise, for it's in the powerful and undisputed name of Jesus we pray.
Speaker 1: Let the people of God say together amen, amen, amen To God, be the glory To God, be the glory To God, be the glory To God, be the glory Family.
Speaker 1: We continue to journey in this Breaking Barriers series and I've been asking the Lord, y'all, I see something today.
Speaker 1: I just want to let y'all know.
Speaker 1: Y'all don't see it yet, but I'm going to see if y'all see, see something today.
Speaker 1: I just want to let y'all know, y'all make, y'all don't see it yet, but I'm gonna see if y'all see it by the time worship is over.
Speaker 1: But anyway, um, as we've been journeying, I go with God in this, uh, in this, in this series.
Speaker 1: So there'll be like some weeks Give us an acronym, because some of us learn that way.
Speaker 1: We got stuff we can go back and do.
Speaker 1: For example, one week God gave us that the only way we're going to break the barrier Is to apply what Pressure.
Speaker 1: And we looked at what that acronym meant.
Speaker 1: It meant in the spirit, because that's a great way to learn, because we are living in a biblically illiterate society, so the more we learn, the greater that is, because the Bible also says that the people of God perish for a lack of knowledge.
Speaker 1: So I'll always do the best I can to evolve and to be the best instructor that I can.
Speaker 1: But when it comes to instruction and sometimes a mere utterance it's not an either or or, it's a both.
Speaker 1: And some of y'all feel like, well, I need to go to a church that it's all instruction, and others may feel I need to go to a church where we shout and run 42 times.
Speaker 1: I'm here to tell you it's not either or, it's both.
Speaker 1: And uh, today is one of those days where I pray that in the spirit realm, you, while there will be instruction, uh, that there's.
Speaker 1: Sometimes the move of god requires us to open up another part of ourselves.
Speaker 1: That's beyond logic.
Speaker 1: Does that make sense?
Speaker 1: Uh, this is one of those days that I'm going going to sometimes harder for some of you stoics.
Speaker 1: It's sometimes harder for some of you triple OGs, because you're going to have to go to a place of vulnerability to get what God got for you.
Speaker 1: Today.
Speaker 1: You got to go to a place of vulnerability, man of God.
Speaker 1: You got to go to a place of vulnerability, woman of God.
Speaker 1: But if you say, well, I got nothing else to to lose, I'm gonna try today and see what happens.
Speaker 1: I'm here to tell you God is gonna move in a supernatural way.
Speaker 1: I'm here to tell you that God is gonna move in a supernatural way.
Speaker 1: So today is one of those days you have to turn on the other plane.
Speaker 1: Your, your, your analytical skills ain't gonna help you today.
Speaker 1: Uh, your Greek and your your Greek, your Hebrew and your Aramaic won't get you there today.
Speaker 1: We'll come back to that next time today.
Speaker 1: Y'all know I love psychology, but uh, psychology today ain't gonna help you today.
Speaker 1: Uh, dr Montana, the only thing that's gonna help us today is that we got to embrace the power of the holy ghost.
Speaker 1: That's the problem with some of y'all.
Speaker 1: Y'all think too much.
Speaker 1: You think too much and ain't felt nothing.
Speaker 1: But the lord has said today we gotta, we gotta open up our minds and our hearts to hear what thus saith the lord acts, the second chapter, verse one through three.
Speaker 1: Now, some of y'all may be the lord.
Speaker 1: Acts, the second chapter, verse one through three.
Speaker 1: Now, some of y'all may be familiar with acts, the second chapter, you say wait a minute, pastor, this ain't that time of time.
Speaker 1: I'm like god is not a god of of of religiosity as we are when, when god said move this way, I moved this way.
Speaker 1: And god, he said don't wait to the actual day of Pentecost.
Speaker 1: He said take them there now.
Speaker 1: He said, because if they don't get there now, they will not break a barrier in this year.
Speaker 1: They said take them there now because I've been pressing on the Lord.
Speaker 1: I said Lord, you see the board.
Speaker 1: I thank God for the barriers that have been broken.
Speaker 1: We on our way, but there are still a whole lot of people waiting on deliverance.
Speaker 1: And God said take them there now.
Speaker 1: Somebody said we're going there today.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we're going there today.
Speaker 1: So, uh, there's a word from the Lord.
Speaker 1: We're going to look at Acts, the second chapter, verse one through four, acts two uh, verse one through four.
Speaker 1: It is our custom to read the word of God out loud together, so let's do that ready set read.
Speaker 1: On the day of Pentecost, all the believers were meeting together in one place.
Speaker 1: Suddenly there was a sound from heaven like the warring of a mighty windstorm, and it filled the house where they were sitting, then what looked like flames or tongues of fire appeared and settled on each of them, and everyone present was filled with the holy spirit and began speaking in other languages.
Speaker 1: As the holy spirit gave them this ability and I would just like to use as a subject today, as the holy ghost would allow, it's time to feel the fire.
Speaker 1: Uh, can you turn to somebody right there and just tell them it's time to feel the fire.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's time to feel the fire.
Speaker 1: Social media, can you type that in?
Speaker 1: It's time to feel the fire.
Speaker 1: You may be seated in the presence of our lord family.
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna give it to you raw and real, straight, no chaser.
Speaker 1: In order for you to break certain barriers in your life, it is going to require you to get closer to God.
Speaker 1: The scripture says this that if we draw near unto God, what will he do?
Speaker 1: He will draw near unto us, and this is what the Lord is saying for those of you who are trying to break some barriers.
Speaker 1: Breaking barriers is going to require you to get out of your comfort zone and to draw closer to God in this season than you have ever been in your life before, than you have ever been in your life before Hebrews.
Speaker 1: The 12th chapter, verse 28 and 29, gives us an interesting description of who God is.
Speaker 1: The writer says since we are receiving a kingdom that is unshakable, let us be thankful and please God by worshiping him with holy fear and awe.
Speaker 1: Verse 29 says for our God is a consuming fire.
Speaker 1: You ever think about the fact that the God that we serve is described as a fire?
Speaker 1: And what I'm trying to tell you is that for you to get where God is trying to take you, for you to be what God will have you to be, you're going to have to get closer to the fire.
Speaker 1: I want to meddle just a little bit this morning, if you don't mind.
Speaker 1: I thank God for those that come to church, whenever you come to church, but I got to be real with you today because I love you.
Speaker 1: There's a reason that you have not yet experienced supernatural deliverance or supernatural breakthrough.
Speaker 1: It's the reason you get just enough to survive, but you are empty before you get back here the next week.
Speaker 1: The reason is is because you have come close to the fire, but you are afraid to come close enough.
Speaker 1: Some of you come into the presence of God and to worship, but you stay.
Speaker 1: You come close enough to get warm, but you don't come close enough to get cooked.
Speaker 1: Some stay far enough in the back that you'll get a little smoke in your clothes, pastor Chris, but you can't find a singe on your body.
Speaker 1: Any steak cookers in the house you know.
Speaker 1: If you make a good steak, you got to get the grill up to about a good 400, 450 degrees, because when you drop the steak on the grill, what do you want?
Speaker 1: You want those grill.
Speaker 1: You want those sear marks.
Speaker 1: If you invite me to your house I'll come.
Speaker 1: But if you offer me a steak and ain't no singes on it, I don't want that steak.
Speaker 1: You about boil your meat before you put it on the grill.
Speaker 1: I don't want that.
Speaker 1: I need some meat that has been exposed to the fire.
Speaker 1: Too many of y'all will get a little smoke on you, but you won't get singed.
Speaker 1: But I got some good news.
Speaker 1: The old folks used to say you keep playing around fire long enough.
Speaker 1: After a while you'll get burned.
Speaker 1: You know why God keep bringing you back here, even though you keep in your distance.
Speaker 1: He keeps bringing you back here because he know after a while there's a great chance you're going to get burned.
Speaker 1: I need you to understand that God is saying that, for everything that's going on in this season of life, you have to become.
Speaker 1: You have to draw closer to him, and it's going to be beyond your intellect.
Speaker 1: You're going to have to draw closer to him and it's going to require you especially those of you who are not um expressive worshipers is going to require you to be a little bit more open to the move of God in your life.
Speaker 1: Now you keep saying that you want something different, but you keep doing the same thing.
Speaker 1: I want to talk to somebody in the room because they gave you a bad lesson.
Speaker 1: They told you that you could come into worship and get information without revelation.
Speaker 1: They told you that you could come and never really have a true, real life encounter with the Holy One.
Speaker 1: They told you that it was just enough to read the Bible and know the scriptures backwards and forwards, forwards and backwards, and all that.
Speaker 1: That's all that was required of your relationship with God.
Speaker 1: But think about it practically speaking, and that's how some of you operate you operate with this head knowledge of God, but you don't really have him in your heart.
Speaker 1: Can we make this real plain.
Speaker 1: If you got a boyfriend or girlfriend or a husband or a wife, that moment you said will you marry me?
Speaker 1: Or the moment you said yes, the moment you sent that letter, do you like me, circle one, yes or no?
Speaker 1: Whatever you did, wasn't there some emotions tied to that?
Speaker 1: My wife she's sitting right there she had the nerve to call me out after we got married.
Speaker 1: She said, when she came down the aisle she saw me standing there and she said it.
Speaker 1: She said it.
Speaker 1: I said, but did you see my joyous smile?
Speaker 1: I said, while I didn't cry, I was turnt up.
Speaker 1: I was pumped up.
Speaker 1: I was excited about finally having somebody in my life that understood my crazy self.
Speaker 1: I was excited about the honeymoon to come.
Speaker 1: I ain't got nothing to cry about.
Speaker 1: I'm, I'm, I'm excited.
Speaker 1: I'm excited how much longer we got in this.
Speaker 1: Say go ahead, preacher, we gotta.
Speaker 1: We got business to get to.
Speaker 1: Now I'm excited.
Speaker 1: So you didn't see tears, but there was excitement, and there are many of men and if there is a man in here that don't mind being honest, you were excited.
Speaker 1: But is there a man that don't mind being honest and saying you know, my excitement looked a little bit different.
Speaker 1: I did have tears in my eyes because I went through so much to get there.
Speaker 1: Any man that I see, a couple of men, thank you, I appreciate y'all.
Speaker 1: Y'all see the man that said man.
Speaker 1: I had tears in my eyes.
Speaker 1: What I'm saying is, even though I had a Kool-Aid smile Kool-Aid smile and some other man that had tears in his eyes, tears in his eyes, the thing that we both have in common is there was this emotional expression because we were excited about who God was bringing in our life.
Speaker 1: So, y'all, I want to talk to the people that come to church every Sunday.
Speaker 1: How can you come to a place where God has brought you to to think about his goodness towards you, to remind you of his love towards you, to remind you of how he kept you in accidents and storms and from attacks of the enemy, spiritual attack, to remind you why that bullet didn't kill you when it killed someone else, when you didn't have a job?
Speaker 1: You still ate.
Speaker 1: He reminds us, he brings us into this place to say I delivered your loved one from a cancer that killed someone else.
Speaker 1: What's wrong with us when I'm emotional about who won the Super Bowl, but when it comes to the things of God.
Speaker 1: I got to be logical when it comes to the things of God.
Speaker 1: I got to analyze everything, everything.
Speaker 1: When it comes to the things of God, I'm warm and I won't let him all the way in, because now I got to be vulnerable and I may have to cry in front of a stranger, but if you stay around the fire long enough, you're going to get a case of the.
Speaker 1: I can't help it.
Speaker 1: Anybody in the room ever got a case of the?
Speaker 1: I can't help it.
Speaker 1: I've been in places where I wasn't even in church and I started thinking about what I was going through and I started to deal with the pains that was wrestling in my head and I started to cry, not from a place of defeat, but from just trying to release into the presence of God to say God, you're the only one that can fix this.
Speaker 1: You're the only one that'll understand me.
Speaker 1: You're the only one that won't judge me.
Speaker 1: You're the only one that'll understand me.
Speaker 1: You're the only one that won't judge me.
Speaker 1: You're the only one that could dry my weeping eye.
Speaker 1: And when I was in his presence, it was like I was getting closer to the fire.
Speaker 1: And I want to talk to some men and some women in the room.
Speaker 1: It's been a long time since you allowed yourself to feel the fire.
Speaker 1: You've been going through these religious gymnastics, gymnastics but it's been a long time since you really cried out to God.
Speaker 1: I'm learning the congregation in a beautiful way and I'm learning that, we believe it or not, we have a large majority of people that would be, by definition, considered to be unchurched.
Speaker 1: Think about it as unchurched in the back in the day.
Speaker 1: Don't look like what unchurched look like today.
Speaker 1: Back in the day, unchurched, you was just a no good sinner.
Speaker 1: You, you were a.
Speaker 1: You was a dope fiend.
Speaker 1: You was a.
Speaker 1: You was on the struggle bus.
Speaker 1: Uh, you just was busted and disgusted because the highfalutin inside society went to church because that was the cultural thing to do.
Speaker 1: They didn.
Speaker 1: They didn't know Jesus, but they went to church because that was a cultural thing to do.
Speaker 1: But culture is starting to shift and now people don't necessarily some, but now all people don't go to church just because, because there's been a shift in the culture.
Speaker 1: Now we have people that are y'all making six figures.
Speaker 1: God has blessed you on your job.
Speaker 1: You're the head of the PTA and the PTO and the HOA.
Speaker 1: You, you, you, your child on soccer shots, basketball shots, little little miss this and little miss that.
Speaker 1: You got it going on and everything is going well.
Speaker 1: But guess what, in that business of doing everything for everybody else and everything, your children by definition you became unchurched Because, by definition, you have not been, you have not grown in the faith.
Speaker 1: We are about to make a shift in this church and not this is not to condemn unchurched people, this is to bless you and to take you higher.
Speaker 1: The Lord is saying that we have to go deeper.
Speaker 1: Because it's not your fault per se, because you were just taught to chase the things that you didn't have growing up and you were able to get some of those things that you didn't have growing up.
Speaker 1: But the one thing that your grandma had that was on section eight, that we missing out on is that she had the fire of the holy ghost and what you'll discover real talk.
Speaker 1: She may not live in the same zip code you lived in, but she, she went on all the depressive medication that you want.
Speaker 1: She ain't on all the anxiety medication that you on.
Speaker 1: Yeah, later on in life she had some blood pressure issue.
Speaker 1: That was from the fat back in the hall mall, but it wasn't because she didn't know how to lay her burdens down.
Speaker 1: And here we got all these highfalutin in society and won't even know how to lay our burdens down.
Speaker 1: We go in and come in the church with stuff and leave out of church with stuff.
Speaker 1: You know why?
Speaker 1: Because we have raised a generation of people that won't come close enough to the fire.
Speaker 1: So there has to be a shift and I need you to understand.
Speaker 1: It's not good enough just to have head knowledge of who God is.
Speaker 1: You got to know God in an intimate way.
Speaker 1: Family, you need to feel the fire because the fire is about to connect you to your now.
Speaker 1: You need to feel the fire because the fire is about to connect you to your now.
Speaker 1: One more time.
Speaker 1: You need to feel the fire.
Speaker 1: Notice I didn't say next, because the Lord is saying now.
Speaker 1: He didn't give me this sermon today because I had another sermon.
Speaker 1: I was so excited.
Speaker 1: But then on Friday God shifted and I go with God.
Speaker 1: I said, man, I did all this work all week long and now I had to make a shift.
Speaker 1: But I go with God.
Speaker 1: He said to tell the folk that you serve in this morning that you need to feel the fire, because the fire is about to connect you to your now.
Speaker 1: Exodus three is an account of an individual some of you may be familiar with by the name of Moses.
Speaker 1: Moses was an individual that was raised in the Pharaoh's kingdom in Egypt.
Speaker 1: That was raised in the Pharaoh's kingdom in Egypt, even though he was not an Egyptian.
Speaker 1: He was actually one of the children of Israel.
Speaker 1: He was raised as a kingdom citizen in Egypt, but when he found out who he was, he instantly had a conflict because, even though he was living in the Pharaoh's palace, it was the Pharaoh that had enslaved his people.
Speaker 1: It was a Pharaoh that was responsible for the struggles of his people, and he had a conflict because he could pretend like he wasn't one of the people that was supposed to be in slavery or he could keep living the good life.
Speaker 1: He had a conflict and one day, as he's seeing the taskmaster beat one of his kinfolks, he attacks the man, he kills him and he runs away.
Speaker 1: And now Moses is in this season of his life where he loves God, but he's ran away from the fire.
Speaker 1: I want to talk to somebody in the room and say I see you, you love God, but something happened in your life and you ran away from the fire.
Speaker 1: In that real life.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I can tell you, I remember something happened in your life and you ran away from the fire in that real life.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I could tell you, I remember a time in my life where something happened.
Speaker 1: Elder Mark and I ran away from the fire and so, after spending the first 40 years of his life living as a, as a son of the Pharaoh, the next 40 years of his life he is living in the wilderness, because he is in a posture where he can feel God's warmth just a little bit, but he ain't close enough to feel the fire.
Speaker 1: He's out there and he is tending to his family and minding the sheep when God shows him something and that's my prayer right now that God is going to show you something today, because you are in the wilderness, because you ran away from the fire and and he's there.
Speaker 1: And an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame in the middle of a burning bush Y'all see the picture A God uses his angel to set up the bush on fire.
Speaker 1: And and it's interesting because, even though the bush is on on fire, the Bible says that the bush was not consumed, that the fire.
Speaker 1: It catches Moses' attention and Moses said I will now turn aside and see this great sight of why the bush does not burn.
Speaker 1: I want to talk to y'all in the room and help you to understand what we're trying to do here at this local assembly.
Speaker 1: What we're trying to do is to set a fire ablaze that will draw your attention.
Speaker 1: We're trying to set a fire through the prayers that we pray.
Speaker 1: We're trying to set a fire through the scriptures that we read.
Speaker 1: We're trying to set a fire through the graphics that we use.
Speaker 1: We're trying to set a fire through the preaching that comes forth, because we understand that, through the power of the Holy Ghost, if there's a fire in this house, even though you've been in the wilderness, if the fire is hot enough, you can't help but to be drawn to it.
Speaker 1: That's why I asked the intercessory prayer team to pray.
Speaker 1: That's why I asked the intercessory prayer team to pray, that's why I asked the elders to intercede, because we need to set a fire in this house that will draw everyone the unchurched, the church, the re-church, those that are looking to grow in the spirit, and the thing about setting a fire is that the pastor can't do it by him or herself.
Speaker 1: No, I need the Holy Ghost that's in you and the Holy Ghost in me to agree so that we can set a bush on fire.
Speaker 1: And it's going to draw some people whose lives are on the line that we can set a bush on fire, and people who have never lifted their hands, people that have never worshiped with their mouth, will suddenly find themselves being drawn closer to the Lord.
Speaker 1: I remember a time in my life where I used to sit in the balcony in my church and I remember that a fire was set by my pastor at the time and I didn't understand the fire, I didn't understand what God was doing, but it started to draw me.
Speaker 1: Has that been your experience?
Speaker 1: You don't know why you keep coming back.
Speaker 1: I speak prophetically.
Speaker 1: Now there's somebody in here, matter of fact, there are several somebodies in here who.
Speaker 1: The truth of the matter you tried not to come back.
Speaker 1: The truth of the matter you tried to do something else.
Speaker 1: The the truth of the matter is you were headed in another direction.
Speaker 1: I I walk with god, so he already showed me, but but I thank god that we had enough fire, that that it drove you back anyhow, and and I'll just wonder what would happen if the Holy Ghost fire that is in you rimshank, and if the Holy Ghost fire that is in me, and if the Holy Ghost fire that is in Sister Breonna?
Speaker 1: What would happen if all that?
Speaker 1: There are going to be some folks on today that are about to come out of the balcony to see what God is up to.
Speaker 1: You know why?
Speaker 1: Because when you are drawn to the fire, god will start to speak to you about your.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 1: He says Moses, take off your sandals, because you are standing on holy ground.
Speaker 1: You do understand that when God calls you into the fire, when he draws you close, this is a holy place.
Speaker 1: Somebody say it's holy ground.
Speaker 1: When God calls you into his presence, when you open your heart to worship, when you come into a posture of praise, somebody say that it's holy ground.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I want you to understand that if you're going to have to have an encounter with God, we have to do it from a holy posture.
Speaker 1: And he says Moses, I am your God, I am your father, but I have a plan for you.
Speaker 1: He says you've seen the oppression of my people and I have drawn you to the fire because you are the one that I am going to anoint to go and tell that old Pharaoh to let my people go.
Speaker 1: Men and women of God, I'm here to tell you that you better start running from the fire, because what you are running from is an encounter that's about to speak to your now.
Speaker 1: The enemy never wants you to worship.
Speaker 1: He never wants you to cry.
Speaker 1: He never wants you to get into a posture of praise.
Speaker 1: He never wants you to be.
Speaker 1: He never wants you to get into a posture of praise.
Speaker 1: He never wants you to be the crazy one that runs around the sanctuary.
Speaker 1: He never wants you to be the one that falls out in worship, because he knows that if you ever open up your mouth like that, if you ever open up your spirit like that, then suddenly supernatural strategies are deposited Suddenly.
Speaker 1: You ain't got to figure out what to do next, because when you get up off the floor, god will speak to you about your assignment.
Speaker 1: You will be like Moses, he'll tell you to go, and not only is he sending you, he says you're not going to go by yourself.
Speaker 1: Can I talk to somebody in the room?
Speaker 1: If you get close to the fire today, god is going to tell you to go and you're not going to have to go by yourself.
Speaker 1: Isn't that good news that God is about to give you a supernatural deposit and you're not going to have to go by yourself?
Speaker 1: Tell somebody right now you need this fire.
Speaker 1: Tell them you need this fire.
Speaker 1: Tell somebody else who may be asleep.
Speaker 1: You need need this fire because the fire February the 16th 2025, is about to connect you to your now.
Speaker 1: But, men and women of God, because he's about to connect you to your now, you need this fire.
Speaker 1: You need this encounter with God.
Speaker 1: You need this to be in his presence in a supernatural way, beyond human understanding, because you need to feel the fire In order to kill what has been stunting your growth.
Speaker 1: You need the fire in order to kill what has been stunting your growth.
Speaker 1: This is Jesus talking to Matthew, the third chapter.
Speaker 1: He says this verse 11 and 12.
Speaker 1: I this is John talking first.
Speaker 1: John the Baptist saying I baptize you with water for repentance.
Speaker 1: Baptism cleanses us.
Speaker 1: It's a purification.
Speaker 1: Jews were accustomed to this method, in this mode, so.
Speaker 1: But he says but after me comes one who is more powerful than I, talking about Jesus, whose sandals I'm not worthy to carry.
Speaker 1: His baptism is going to look a little bit different, say, his baptism going to look a little bit different.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it says that he will baptize you with the holy spirit.
Speaker 1: Now, this is the type of language that the enemy makes us run away from, because we don't understand it.
Speaker 1: And it's the type of language we need to run to, because it's the thing that'll change our life.
Speaker 1: This, this is the type of language that'll break your barrier.
Speaker 1: Today, you need to understand why Jesus told us repeatedly that we need to be baptized with the Holy Spirit.
Speaker 1: Well, the word baptized in a natural language, baptizo, literally means to be immersed, it means to be saturated.
Speaker 1: That's why we immerse people in water when we baptize them.
Speaker 1: And and what John was saying?
Speaker 1: That when Jesus came there, there would be this immersion of the Holy Spirit, that that my mind will be immersed in the Holy Spirit.
Speaker 1: Meaning, now, I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't think the same way.
Speaker 1: I don't have the same mental health struggles.
Speaker 1: Can, can I?
Speaker 1: Can I tell y'all how I feel?
Speaker 1: The the truth of the matter is is that, uh, many of us, uh, either need to be filled or fresh with the Holy Ghost, or have never been filled at all, because our minds have never been immersed with the power of the Holy Ghost because we still think the same way.
Speaker 1: We still have the same stinking thinking that got us in the posture that we are in, the evidence that your mind has been saturated with the Holy Ghost.
Speaker 1: You'll look back on some stuff and say what was I thinking when I did that?
Speaker 1: I'm trying to help somebody, uh.
Speaker 1: Uh, listen, truth of the matter, I I thank god for all of the holy ghost, field, fire, baptized, uh, psychologists that we have.
Speaker 1: And the truth of the matter is we're going to need them until the end of time.
Speaker 1: And the reason we're going to need him until the end of time is because y'all are some hard, hard-headed, stiff-necked christians.
Speaker 1: In other words, you refuse to allow your mind to be immersed with the power of the holy ghost.
Speaker 1: That's why we gonna have them.
Speaker 1: Because you refuse to surrender, somebody say I surrender.
Speaker 1: I I'm going to surrender my mind to the power of the holy spirit.
Speaker 1: I'm going to immerse my body in it and I'm going to give myself to God, because the Bible says that my body is the temple of the Lord and to be immersed in the Holy Spirit.
Speaker 1: I give my mind to him to be immersed in the Holy Spirit.
Speaker 1: I give my body to him to be immersed in the Holy Spirit.
Speaker 1: I give my soul to him and now God starts to produce some spiritual giftedness in me that I never had before.
Speaker 1: That's my prayer.
Speaker 1: They ask me what do you pray for?
Speaker 1: I pray that chosen city is a place that people come in and there is this immersion of the holy ghost.
Speaker 1: Ge Patterson said it like this you won't leave here like you came and in Jesus name.
Speaker 1: Are y'all praying that with me?
Speaker 1: Do I have any prayer warriors in the room that say you know what?
Speaker 1: I can't do church like I did it before.
Speaker 1: I'm not here for the ordinary.
Speaker 1: I need a full immersion.
Speaker 1: I can't think about what my neighbor doing.
Speaker 1: I can't think about what somebody said in the hallway.
Speaker 1: I can't think about what somebody else is wearing.
Speaker 1: I can't think about somebody else's worship.
Speaker 1: I'm here for a full-out immersion, creating me a clean heart and renewing the right spirit within me.
Speaker 1: Wash me, god.
Speaker 1: Mow me God.
Speaker 1: Shape me, god.
Speaker 1: Here I am to worship.
Speaker 1: Here I am to bow down.
Speaker 1: I ain't got it figured out, but I finally learned.
Speaker 1: I ain't got to figure it out Every now and then, instead of figuring I need to fall.
Speaker 1: What do you mean, pastor Walt?
Speaker 1: Too many of y'all spend too much time figuring and not enough time falling.
Speaker 1: You spend too much time figuring and not enough time falling.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to help them.
Speaker 1: Elder Jay, I guess I got to use my old knees when I can't figure every now and then I just got to fall.
Speaker 1: Logic ain't getting it.
Speaker 1: I can't figure it out.
Speaker 1: They won't give me a job.
Speaker 1: They don't understand me.
Speaker 1: I got to get close to the fire and sometimes to get close to the fire I just got to fall.
Speaker 1: And when you fall you look crazy to some folk.
Speaker 1: You think I'm worried about how you thinking about me Because you ain't about to pay this mortgage.
Speaker 1: You think I'm worried about how you feel about me.
Speaker 1: You can't help my blood pressure to come down.
Speaker 1: Do you really think I care about how you think about me?
Speaker 1: This ain't no peep show.
Speaker 1: I'm here because I had to fall, because I couldn't figure it out, and there are too many of y'all.
Speaker 1: Your pride won't let you fall.
Speaker 1: Sometimes we got to fall in his presence, being immersed in the Holy Ghost.
Speaker 1: He says I baptize you with the Holy Spirit and I baptize you with fire.
Speaker 1: Somebody say fire.
Speaker 1: Baptism by fire is not as complex as it sounds.
Speaker 1: They use agricultural language that we may not be familiar with, but what Jesus said is when you look at a grain crop, wheat crop, it has a kernel, that's the good part, but it also has what's called shaft.
Speaker 1: The shaft is worthless.
Speaker 1: Somebody said the shaft is worthless.
Speaker 1: The shaft is the residue of a wheat stalk after the grain has been removed, and the truth of the matter is is that in agricultural society, look this up when you get home.
Speaker 1: Look up a winnowing fork.
Speaker 1: It's a massive fork, almost like a huge shovel, and they stick it in the pile of grain and they toss it in the air.
Speaker 1: You see, grain has some substance.
Speaker 1: It was heavy, it will fall pretty much right here, but the shaft, because it didn't have no substance and was taking up a lot of space.
Speaker 1: The wind would blow the shaft to the side, and so that's how a farmer could separate the wheat, the good stuff, from the shaft.
Speaker 1: Can I tell you all the reason that you got to get close to the fire Is because we are two parts, are both wheat and chaff.
Speaker 1: The wheat is the part of you that is productive.
Speaker 1: The wheat is the part of you that's a blessing to your family.
Speaker 1: The wheat is a part of you that the enemy is trying to destroy.
Speaker 1: The wheat is where your creativity comes from, the wheat.
Speaker 1: The wheat is why God is still rescuing you and protecting you from an enemy that wants to steal, kill and destroy.
Speaker 1: I thank God for your wheat because that's why you are gifted.
Speaker 1: That's why you can do some things that I can't do.
Speaker 1: You have an ability that I don't have.
Speaker 1: Somebody say you ought to thank God for the wheat of you, but but but the truth of the matter is family.
Speaker 1: As much as we are wheat, we are also shaft.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the shaft is the stuff that is taking up a lot of space in our life.
Speaker 1: The shaft is that proclivity that we keep turning back to.
Speaker 1: The shaft is that addiction that nobody knows that you are dealing with.
Speaker 1: The shaft is that relationship that is continuing to keep you down.
Speaker 1: The shaft is that stronghold that keeps you stuck where you are dealing with.
Speaker 1: The shaft is that relationship that is continuing to keep you down?
Speaker 1: The shaft is that stronghold that keeps you stuck where you are.
Speaker 1: The shaft is the stuff that you inherited, sometimes from your parents and grandparents, and we refer to them as a generational curse.
Speaker 1: The shaft is some of the things that you have yet to learn.
Speaker 1: The shaft is why you stay depressed.
Speaker 1: The shaft is why you stay afraid.
Speaker 1: The shaft is why you don't sleep at night.
Speaker 1: The shaft is why you are on the medication.
Speaker 1: The shaft is the thing that the enemy is using to kill, steal and destroy, and that's why the enemy doesn't mind if you come into the house of the God and stay in the back and never get into his presence, because for the shaft to be destroyed, for the strap to be removed, you are going to have to get close enough to the fire.
Speaker 1: Did you hear what I said?
Speaker 1: I want to talk to somebody that don't mind being honest and say Pastor Ward, I came into the house of God today with some shaft.
Speaker 1: I came into the house of God today with some.
Speaker 1: Last night.
Speaker 1: I came into the house of God today with some.
Speaker 1: Last night.
Speaker 1: I came into the house of God today with some fear.
Speaker 1: I came in being stuck.
Speaker 1: I'm waiting on the barrier to break, but it hadn't broken yet.
Speaker 1: God, I realized that it's shaft.
Speaker 1: Well, my real people in the room that don't mind being honest and saying I got some shaft in my life.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I got some shaft friends, I have to go to a shaft job.
Speaker 1: Shoot, I may drive a shaft car.
Speaker 1: I got some shaft in my life.
Speaker 1: But I just heard the Lord say that if I get close enough to the fire on February, the 16th 2025, that the Lord is saying, if you get close enough to the fire, that I'm about to burn up all of the shaft.
Speaker 1: I wish I had some people that want to get close enough to the fire.
Speaker 1: You ought to just start giving God some worship.
Speaker 1: If you want to get close to the fire, open up your mouth.
Speaker 1: I want to talk to all of the people in the room, especially those that don't normally worship.
Speaker 1: I get it.
Speaker 1: You like to listen.
Speaker 1: I get it.
Speaker 1: You like to learn?
Speaker 1: Keep listening and keep learning.
Speaker 1: But the Lord is saying for this day, for this sermon it's an experience.
Speaker 1: It's an encounter.
Speaker 1: Three points in a poem ain't gonna get it.
Speaker 1: Today, you got to be in a posture where you cry out to God for yourself.
Speaker 1: You got to be in a posture where you are tired of being sick and tired.
Speaker 1: You got to be in a posture where you are tired of being sick and tired, you got to be in a posture where the tears are starting to flow.
Speaker 1: I speak tears in your life right now because tears are just a release.
Speaker 1: I speak tears into every man's life right now because you've been holding this stuff too long.
Speaker 1: I just heard the Lord say let it go, because if you cry it out, if you scream it out, if you shout it out, god is about to burn up all of the shaft.
Speaker 1: I wish I had some people that came for an encounter with the Holy One, and if you came for an encounter, you ought to give him some glory.
Speaker 1: Now, because we have unchurched people, I need to help you to understand what that means.
Speaker 1: It means I start to meditate on the mess of my life and I start to think about all of the things that I'm having to deal with, but I don't think about that stuff too long.
Speaker 1: I think about it from a place of reference and then I start to think about Jesus and I start to think about what he brought me out of.
Speaker 1: I started to think about what he brought me over.
Speaker 1: I started to think about Jesus and I started to think about what he brought me out of.
Speaker 1: I started to think about what he brought me over.
Speaker 1: I started to think about how he fixed it the last time I started to think about how he fixed it.
Speaker 1: Before that I started to think about it was only him and it's him alone.
Speaker 1: And if it had not been for the Lord, who was on my side, tell me, tell me, tell me, where would I be Now.
Speaker 1: If you want to get close to the fire, say thank you God for rescuing me.
Speaker 1: Did you hear what I said?
Speaker 1: Do you want to get close to the fire?
Speaker 1: Say thank you God for rescuing me.
Speaker 1: Do I have any people that have never worshipped before?
Speaker 1: Do I have any people that have never screamed before?
Speaker 1: That doesn't know what it means to give God a Shabbat.
Speaker 1: It means to give God a praise from the bottom of your heart.
Speaker 1: It means to give God a praise from the bottom of your soul.
Speaker 1: I thought you wanted to burn the chef.
Speaker 1: Praise him from the bottom of your heart.
Speaker 1: I thought you wanted to burn the shaft.
Speaker 1: Praise him from the bottom of your heart.
Speaker 1: Praise him from your broken place.
Speaker 1: Praise him from the place of disappointment.
Speaker 1: Praise him from the place of pain.
Speaker 1: Let everything that has breath Praise ye the Lord.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to burn some shaft.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to get y'all closer to the fire.
Speaker 1: Now that I talk to the folk that may not normally worship, I need the worshipers in the room that have been through some stuff.
Speaker 1: I need you to model what it looks like when you throw logic out of the window.
Speaker 1: I need you to model what it looks like when you go into this posture of praise, where my worshipers at, where my runners at, where my dancers at, where my people with the gift of tongue at what a symbol's that?
Speaker 1: What a tambourine at.
Speaker 1: You see, we worship like this because we can't figure it out.
Speaker 1: So we just give God our praise.
Speaker 1: Somebody just picked it up.
Speaker 1: I just heard the tambourine.
Speaker 1: Somebody just picked it up.
Speaker 1: I just heard the tambourine.
Speaker 1: Because we give God our worship.
Speaker 1: Somebody say we're getting close to the fire.
Speaker 1: Listen to this, men and women of God.
Speaker 1: Deacon Jones, if you give me that water right there, man of God, listen to this family.
Speaker 1: We can take our seat in the presence of the Lord.
Speaker 1: Listen, god is saying to the people in this house, to the people that I pastor and love so much I really care about you.
Speaker 1: I really do.
Speaker 1: I'm honored to serve you.
Speaker 1: I don't deserve this opportunity to serve you.
Speaker 1: I'm honored to be your servant, but I got to give it to you straight.
Speaker 1: Y'all been hoodwinked and bamboozled about worship.
Speaker 1: You have you think, or maybe you haven't been taught that sometimes is beyond our intellect.
Speaker 1: It has to be an encounter.
Speaker 1: And the Lord says this Get closer to the fire and stop being lukewarm.
Speaker 1: He's saying that we got to get close to the fire and stop being lukewarm.
Speaker 1: Revelation, the third chapter.
Speaker 1: This is Jesus talking through John the revelator.
Speaker 1: You can't get mad at what these words, because they're not mine.
Speaker 1: It's Jesus all up in your DMs.
Speaker 1: Revelation, the third chapter.
Speaker 1: He says write this letter to the angel of the church at Laodicea.
Speaker 1: This is the message from the one who is the amen.
Speaker 1: Let us know who the author is Faithful and true witness to the beginning of God's new creation.
Speaker 1: This is what the Lord says.
Speaker 1: I know all the things you do, but he says this you are neither hot nor cold.
Speaker 1: I wish that you were one or the other.
Speaker 1: He like either you is or you ain't, and there are too many of y'all that come into the house of God.
Speaker 1: And you in the middle.
Speaker 1: He said but since you are like lukewarm water, y'all ever tasted lukewarm water?
Speaker 1: There's water right here.
Speaker 1: I hope it ain't lukewarm, it's cold, it's cold.
Speaker 1: Thank you, dickie Jones, he said.
Speaker 1: But since you were like lukewarm water neither hot nor cold I will spit you out of my mouth.
Speaker 1: Uh, I'll stop right there, because there's a point that I think we missed.
Speaker 1: For those that have read this passage before, when I was growing up, I thought it to be a lukewarm Christian was simply living one way, monday through Saturday and then showing up on Sunday.
Speaker 1: That's a good definition of a lukewarm Christian too, by the way, but it's deeper than that, and that's what Christian church folk mess up, we think, because our life was lame and boring, monday through Saturday.
Speaker 1: We was more Holy Ghost filled and set free and delivered.
Speaker 1: You know, nobody just call you, that's all but, but.
Speaker 1: But I'm just talking about what.
Speaker 1: I'm talking about the truth of the matter.
Speaker 1: The truth of the matter Is to be a lukewarm Christian is that individual that comes close to God's presence but will never get close enough for there could be a full transformation or deliverance.
Speaker 1: They will never.
Speaker 1: They just refuse to experience the Holy Spirit moving in their worship and moving in their body because it puts them in a place that they're uncomfortable.
Speaker 1: Jesus says this later on in that same chapter Look, I stand at the door and knock.
Speaker 1: The Lord is saying I'm knocking on your hearts.
Speaker 1: I want you to be closer to the fire.
Speaker 1: He says.
Speaker 1: If you hear my voice and open the door, I will come in and we will share a meal together as friends.
Speaker 1: Those who are victorious will sit with me on my throne, just as I was victorious and sat with my father on his throne.
Speaker 1: Anyone with ears to hear must listen to the spirit and understand what he is saying to the church.
Speaker 1: What am I trying to get across?
Speaker 1: Many of you, all in this room, will come into the building, but you'll never let him all the way into your heart.
Speaker 1: You'll clap your hands, but you will never let him into that emotional space.
Speaker 1: You'll listen, but you'll never let him fully into your head.
Speaker 1: Listen, but you'll never let him fully into your head.
Speaker 1: Uh, god is saying he wants a.
Speaker 1: It is not preaching emotionalism, but it's preaching that we have a god that desires relationship, and there is no relationship without emotion.
Speaker 1: There is no relationship without emotion.
Speaker 1: I want to say it one more time there is no relationship without emotion.
Speaker 1: If you don't care if I leave or if you don't care if I go, we ain't got much of a relationship.
Speaker 1: Because there is no relationship without emotion.
Speaker 1: I ain't going to lie Every now and then I chuckle when my wife calls me talking about where you at and where you been.
Speaker 1: I laugh.
Speaker 1: I'm like girl.
Speaker 1: You know I ain't been nowhere, but at that church or every now and then to the gym or at the courthouse or something like that.
Speaker 1: You know I got pretty much a circle, but it does make me feel good that she asked a question.
Speaker 1: She get to the point.
Speaker 1: She don't even ask the question, no more.
Speaker 1: We got some problems.
Speaker 1: I might need to ask her where she at, where she been, where she going.
Speaker 1: And that's how some of y'all think.
Speaker 1: Y'all relationship with God.
Speaker 1: You don't care where he been and you don't care if he know where you been, because there is no emotion.
Speaker 1: Because there is no emotion, there is no relationship.
Speaker 1: Do y'all know what the whole problem with the Old Testament was?
Speaker 1: That you had a whole generation of people who was trying to follow rules, but they had no relationship with God.
Speaker 1: God himself said I'm tired of y'all going through this religious gymnastics.
Speaker 1: I want some people that have come to worship and those that worship me must worship in what spirit and in truth.
Speaker 1: And if I'm gonna worship God in spirit and in truth, I gotta let him into some uncomfortable spaces.
Speaker 1: I got to let him into my tears.
Speaker 1: I got to let him into my vulnerability.
Speaker 1: Somebody in here you experienced church hurt and I got to ask you a question out of love, because your psychologist will be more caring than me, because they could talk to you three, four times.
Speaker 1: You might not come back.
Speaker 1: So I just got gotta ask you today how much longer are you gonna let church impact your relationship with god?
Speaker 1: I mean for real, how much?
Speaker 1: How much longer you're gonna allow what, what, what deacon no good did, uh, uh, pastor, do wrong did, to impact your relationship with God?
Speaker 1: How much longer?
Speaker 1: Five more minutes.
Speaker 1: Because we type of church that we believe that God moves, suddenly and quickly.
Speaker 1: I tell you, tell them you got five more minutes.
Speaker 1: Tell them you got church hurt.
Speaker 1: Matter of fact, hospitality team, we got tissues and stuff Pads and tissues out.
Speaker 1: They got five more minutes.
Speaker 1: You ever heard that song?
Speaker 1: I cried my last tear yesterday.
Speaker 1: We remix.
Speaker 1: I cried my last till five minutes ago.
Speaker 1: You got about five more minutes and we about done with this here now.
Speaker 1: You got about five more minutes Because you've been in the wilderness long enough.
Speaker 1: It's time to come back to the fire Digging.
Speaker 1: No good over there in this Cadillac, enjoying this life.
Speaker 1: You over here, miserable Reckon, do wrong over here doing and living the high life, and you, over here, stuck.
Speaker 1: How do wrong over here, doing, living the high life, and you, over here, stuck.
Speaker 1: How much longer, folk, are you going to stay in the wilderness before you come back to the fire?
Speaker 1: Many women of God?
Speaker 1: Don't worry, I can't keep you here as long as I would like to today, but I already tell you.
Speaker 1: Thank you, reverend Shane.
Speaker 1: I already know what we're going to do to resolve this issue, but here's what the Lord is saying.
Speaker 1: As we safely arrive to the portion of Acts, we see these individuals who have been walking with Jesus and now in Acts, the first chapter, jesus has ascended back to the throne room, back to the father, but he told them that even though I'm leaving, I'm not going to leave you comfortless.
Speaker 1: He told him to tarry and wait For the power of the Holy Ghost, the Holy Ghost.
Speaker 1: It's interesting because, even though they had been living for God, they had been warmed, but they had not yet warmed, warmed but they had not yet received the fire.
Speaker 1: And some people in this room you've been close, you love God.
Speaker 1: The issue is not your love of God.
Speaker 1: The issue, pastor Chris, is your proximity to God.
Speaker 1: These individuals had been close to him in the natural, but God was about to bring them closer to him in the spirit and he said now I need you to wait.
Speaker 1: They make it to Acts, the second chapter, and there's something that I see.
Speaker 1: Acts, the second chapter, verse one, says on the day of Pentecost, all the believers were meeting together in one place.
Speaker 1: The King James version says that on the day of Pentecost, all believers were together.
Speaker 1: With what?
Speaker 1: With one accord men and women of God.
Speaker 1: If we want to experience this fire that is going to change our lives, if we want to experience a fire that will change God, if we want to experience this fire that is going to change our lives, if we want to experience a fire that will change our church, if we want to experience a fire that's going to shift everything, as we know it, it starts with unity.
Speaker 1: The reason that they experienced God in a supernatural way is because they were unified.
Speaker 1: They were one band, one sound.
Speaker 1: They were unified.
Speaker 1: Their objective was this plane.
Speaker 1: It was not about who was going to be in charge.
Speaker 1: It was not about who was going to get the credit.
Speaker 1: They were going to wait on the promise of the Lord, and I want to tell you that I believe that today we are here because God wants us to be unified.
Speaker 1: We ain't got but a few more minutes left in this 10 o'clock service, but if we are unified in a few minutes that we have, I believe that we can experience the fire of the Holy Ghost.
Speaker 1: Are y'all praying with me?
Speaker 1: Do y'all believe that if every believer in this room started to pray, that the Lord will pour out his spirit afresh, as prophesied by Joel and as seen in the book of Acts?
Speaker 1: Do y'all believe that if every soul in this building started to pray like that, that God would not respond?
Speaker 1: Do you not believe it, elder David?
Speaker 1: Do you not believe that?
Speaker 1: That that if every last one of us said God, forgive us of our sins, have your way?
Speaker 1: I apologize for my stinking thinking.
Speaker 1: I apologize for my attitude.
Speaker 1: I apologize for a wrong posture.
Speaker 1: God, we are here with one accord because we need a miracle.
Speaker 1: We are here with one accord because we need a breakthrough.
Speaker 1: We are here with one accord because there's too much going on in the political realm.
Speaker 1: We are here with one accord because everybody is against us.
Speaker 1: Do y'all not believe that if we are on one accord with our prayer that we could see some miracles?
Speaker 1: We are on one accord with our prayer that we could see some miracles, signs and wonders.
Speaker 1: And do you also not believe that the only thing that could impact how God wants to move is if we operate with disunity?
Speaker 1: That's why God says that we got to be one band and one sound.
Speaker 1: Now we ain't got much longer, but if, if, if this was my church, it's not, it belongs to jesus.
Speaker 1: If it was my church, I'm I want the fire.
Speaker 1: So bad today that this was to be the point that I'd say that if you're not unified with us, that that, uh, you're more than welcome to come back next week if you can catch us at the bible study, because in a few short minutes that I got left.
Speaker 1: I I need some unity because we trying to see a move.
Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, I will tell you that it might be a soccer game on or a volleyball on the TV, or whatever you like to watch.
Speaker 1: Go ahead on and may God bless you and smile upon you.
Speaker 1: God bless and grant you peace, because for the next few minutes that I got, I need 100% participation.
Speaker 1: We're trying to set an atmosphere for somebody's deliverance.
Speaker 1: We're trying to set an atmosphere for somebody's suicidal thoughts to flee for good.
Speaker 1: We're trying to set an atmosphere for somebody online for their stronghold to be broken.
Speaker 1: And I love you, but I can't have you in my way today.
Speaker 1: Y'all know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1: Sometimes, as a father, I'm trying to do stuff for my family and as much as I love my children there Y'all know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1: Sometimes, as a father, I'm trying to do stuff for my family and as much as I love my children, there are days on the journey I'm like, boy, you got to go, sit down.
Speaker 1: Now I'm working on something.
Speaker 1: You're in daddy's way.
Speaker 1: I want to tell you I love you, but if you don't have unity and believe that God is about to do something in the next few minutes, may God bless you and bless you real good Security team.
Speaker 1: Help them to get to the parking lot and as I look up and the folk that's still here, I'm assuming that you are one band and one sound.
Speaker 1: I'm assuming that you have come because you believe God for miracle signs and wonders.
Speaker 1: I'm assuming you are coming because you want to get a little bit closer to the fire.
Speaker 1: I'm assuming that you're still here because you're done playing church.
Speaker 1: I'm assuming that you're still here because you need the Lord and you need him now.
Speaker 1: Well, I got some good news for you.
Speaker 1: The next verse says suddenly, everybody in the room say suddenly, suddenly, there was a sound from heaven like the roaring of a mighty windstorm.
Speaker 1: Can I pause right there just to make you think?
Speaker 1: God gave me this message on a Friday after I had prepared another one.
Speaker 1: I got up this morning and the whole house was awakened by the sound of thunder and a mighty windstorm.
Speaker 1: That was some of y'all waking in this morning too, y'all, I operate in the spirit realm.
Speaker 1: I don't think it was by happenstance.
Speaker 1: I'm here to tell you that that storm was just for you.
Speaker 1: You see, this morning we had to weed out the folk that are going through religious gymnastic.
Speaker 1: God said I had a word for those that are pressing their way.
Speaker 1: We got to read out the folk that are here just for sure.
Speaker 1: He said I got to send a mighty windstorm because I'm trying to see something.
Speaker 1: Those that press their way, I'm up to something.
Speaker 1: Those that pressed into his presence, I'm up to something.
Speaker 1: And the text said that the atmosphere was filled where they were sitting.
Speaker 1: Somebody say feel the atmosphere, god, right where I am sitting.
Speaker 1: Did you hear what I said?
Speaker 1: You can pray for God to feel the atmosphere right where you are sitting.
Speaker 1: I want y'all to pray that one more time God, feel the atmosphere right where I am sitting.
Speaker 1: And suddenly, y'all, there was a sound.
Speaker 1: I've told y'all this on multiple occasions there is always a sound that precedes the move of God.
Speaker 1: In 2 Kings, the seventh chapter, four lepers who were out of options.
Speaker 1: They were left outside of a city.
Speaker 1: They couldn't go back into the city to eat because there was no food in the city.
Speaker 1: They couldn't stay where they were because they would surely die, and the only option they had was to go into the enemy's camp.
Speaker 1: They say if we go into the enemy's camp, the enemy is either going to kill us or he is going to feed us, and some of y'all can relate to the lepers, because you've been in a spot where you're all out of options.
Speaker 1: I don't know about you.
Speaker 1: What is a bad spot to be in when you're all out of options?
Speaker 1: Help me, holy Ghost.
Speaker 1: But the Bible says as they went forward in faith until the enemies camped.
Speaker 1: When they reached the edge of the camp, what they were afraid of was no longer there, good God, almighty, because the Lord had lifted up a sound and they heard chariots and horses.
Speaker 1: They heard what they thought was a great army, and so they fled the camp and they left all of their silver and gold and left all of their food, all of their fatback and hogmog.
Speaker 1: They left it to the lepers.
Speaker 1: What am I trying to tell you?
Speaker 1: That there was a sound that preceded the move of God.
Speaker 1: When you look at Isaiah, in the year that King Uzziah died, in the year that King Uzziah died, it meant it was a time of great depression.
Speaker 1: In the year that King Uzziah died, that was the year that you went through a divorce.
Speaker 1: It was the year that King Uzziah died.
Speaker 1: That was the year you almost lost your mind.
Speaker 1: It was the year that King Isaiah died.
Speaker 1: That was the year you almost lost your mind.
Speaker 1: It was the year that King Isaiah died.
Speaker 1: That was the year that you stopped going to church.
Speaker 1: It was the year that King Isaiah died.
Speaker 1: That was the year that your mother passed away.
Speaker 1: It was the year that King Isaiah died.
Speaker 1: That was the year that your loved one took their own life.
Speaker 1: It was the year that King Isaiah died.
Speaker 1: That was the year that you almost let go.
Speaker 1: But I want to talk to somebody and remind you of the truth.
Speaker 1: There is always a sound that precedes your deliverance.
Speaker 1: In the year that King Isaiah died, god takes Isaiah and he shows him his temple.
Speaker 1: He saw the Lord high and lifted up.
Speaker 1: But then he saw these angels and there was a sound that came from the angels.
Speaker 1: The angels started to declare holy.
Speaker 1: What would happen if everybody in here started to declare holy?
Speaker 1: What if y'all just start saying holy?
Speaker 1: Why don't you try it right there now, because we're getting closer to the fire?
Speaker 1: Y'all just start saying holy, holy, holy, holy, as they were calling the Lord holy.
Speaker 1: There was always a sound that precedes the move of God.
Speaker 1: It was at that moment that Isaiah said I am unholy, I'm not worthy to be here.
Speaker 1: But what God did was listen to Isaiah's testimony.
Speaker 1: Isaiah said I'm not worthy because I got a dirty mouth.
Speaker 1: I'm not worthy because I cuss a little bit.
Speaker 1: I'm not worthy because I got a dirty mouth.
Speaker 1: I'm not worthy because I cuss a little bit.
Speaker 1: I'm not worthy because I drink a little bit.
Speaker 1: Has anybody ever felt unworthy but the Lord?
Speaker 1: Somebody said but the Lord, he goes and gets some fire.
Speaker 1: You ought to thank God for the fire.
Speaker 1: He gets a piece of coal straight out the fire.
Speaker 1: You ought to thank God for the fire.
Speaker 1: He gets a piece of coal straight out the fire and he puts it on Isaiah's place of discomfort and pain and saying Isaiah, I'm about to use the fire to purify you.
Speaker 1: I'm about to use the fire to prepare you.
Speaker 1: I cannot talk to about 30 of y'all in the room.
Speaker 1: The reason that you went through the fire is to perfect you.
Speaker 1: The reason that you went through the fire is to prepare you.
Speaker 1: The reason that you went through the fire is because God is up to something in your life.
Speaker 1: Because after Isaiah got close to the fire, god asked Isaiah a question.
Speaker 1: He said I got a problem in Israel.
Speaker 1: I need somebody to go.
Speaker 1: Who shall I send to preach the unadulterated truth?
Speaker 1: Who shall I spend to speak truth to power?
Speaker 1: Who shall I send that will operate under the Spirit?
Speaker 1: Isaiah, who was once afraid.
Speaker 1: He now stood up and said here I am, send me.
Speaker 1: I want to talk to somebody in this room.
Speaker 1: The reason that you got to experience the fire is so that you'll stop being a chicken Christian and be to the posture, what God calls your name.
Speaker 1: This time you will see that God has cleansed you up.
Speaker 1: You'll see that God has turned you around.
Speaker 1: You'll see that your sins are forgiven.
Speaker 1: You'll see that God has something for you.
Speaker 1: And your response will be here I am, send me.
Speaker 1: I bet you won't turn to somebody and say you ought to give God your yes.
Speaker 1: Tell somebody else give God a yes.
Speaker 1: You ought to tell somebody behind you give God your yes.
Speaker 1: There's always a sound that always precedes the move of God.
Speaker 1: Anybody remember Elijah?
Speaker 1: They were in a three-year drought.
Speaker 1: It hadn't rained in three years.
Speaker 1: The crops had begun to die, the animals had begun to die, the vegetation was drained.
Speaker 1: I want to talk to somebody in the room that you've been in a drought for three years.
Speaker 1: The Lord just showed me somebody.
Speaker 1: It's been three years.
Speaker 1: You might as well get to this altar now.
Speaker 1: I don't even know what you're waiting on If your situation has been three years on the dot.
Speaker 1: God brought you here for a reason.
Speaker 1: It's been three years now that you have been dealing with the drought.
Speaker 1: It's been three years now You've been dealing with the issues with the parent of your child.
Speaker 1: It's been three years now you've been dealing with the issue on your job.
Speaker 1: It's been three years now you've been dealing with that issue that just won't go away.
Speaker 1: It has become a thorn in your flesh.
Speaker 1: But I just heard the Lord say remind the people, there is always a sound that precedes the move of God.
Speaker 1: What do you mean?
Speaker 1: Well, 1 Kings, the 18th chapter.
Speaker 1: It declares that after a three-year drought, elijah said to his servants get thee up and eat.
Speaker 1: Get thee up and drink.
Speaker 1: What do you mean, elijah?
Speaker 1: What am I going to eat?
Speaker 1: I'm in a drought.
Speaker 1: What do you mean, elijah?
Speaker 1: What am I going going to eat?
Speaker 1: I'm in a drought.
Speaker 1: What do you mean, elijah?
Speaker 1: What am I going to drink?
Speaker 1: I'm in a struggle.
Speaker 1: He said don't worry about what's before you.
Speaker 1: I hear the sound of rain and I want to tell somebody that there's always a sound that precedes the move of God.
Speaker 1: And I just heard the Lord say I just heard rain coming your way.
Speaker 1: I just heard the Lord say haha, I just heard rain coming your way.
Speaker 1: I just heard the Lord say that I just heard rain coming your way, because there is always a sound that precedes the move of the Lord to get close to the master, there always has to be a sound.
Speaker 1: Many women of god, I tell you, like this.
Speaker 1: There's a reason that our worship sound is the way that it is.
Speaker 1: There's a reason we spend a lot of time and I got to do a better job spending time with Brandon and the other Brandon and Chris and Marcus and because they are on assignment to help us create a sound.
Speaker 1: You can't dismiss the importance of a sound.
Speaker 1: Every church has a sound.
Speaker 1: Every church has a sound, and what we're trying to do is to create a sound that will get you closer to the fire.
Speaker 1: You know that was a.
Speaker 1: That was an attack.
Speaker 1: Hold on, man of God.
Speaker 1: I'm going to let you lift up a sound.
Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, chris, right there where you are, the Lord said let him lift up a sound.
Speaker 1: I want you to take a second right there, chris, to just you and Marcus.
Speaker 1: Brandon, y'all lift up a sound right there, whatever you want, not what do I like, what I I like.
Speaker 1: But when you're trying to go into a posture of worship, chris, what's what's the sound that you lift up?
Speaker 1: What's the sound that you lift up?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: Do y'all know the words to this song.
Speaker 1: It essentially asks for us to let his glory fill this place.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, just just a little bit of that.
Speaker 1: Let it all consume your that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, right there feel this tabernacle yeah, that's a sound.
Speaker 1: That's a sound.
Speaker 1: Listen it's a sound.
Speaker 1: Purify our hearts.
Speaker 1: This sound is about to set some of you all free.
Speaker 1: Surround us in this place.
Speaker 1: That's a a sound.
Speaker 2: Listen to it and breathe new mercies within us and saturate our hearts.
Speaker 2: Rain on us, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: Breathe on us, lord.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, breathe on us, lord, yeah, yeah, that's going to be the prayer.
Speaker 2: Shower down, shower down, send your spirit, lord.
Speaker 2: That's going to be the prayer right there.
Speaker 2: Rain on us, god, breathe on us, god, breathe on us.
Speaker 2: Yes, shower down, shower down, shower down and sing a spirit love now listen.
Speaker 1: There's always a sound that precedes a move of God.
Speaker 1: Now, here comes the move.
Speaker 1: Somebody say here comes the move.
Speaker 1: In Acts, the second chapter, verse three, then what looked like flames or tongues of fire appeared and settled on each of them.
Speaker 1: We've lifted up a sound and that's my prayer and I need everybody in this room to pray that God will settle on each and every soul on the live stream, each and every soul in this building, y'all to pray, settle here.
Speaker 1: Verse 4 says and everyone present was filled with the Holy Spirit and began speaking in other languages as the Holy Spirit gave them this ability.
Speaker 1: In a nutshell, everyone was filled with the Holy Spirit and there was evidence in the text.
Speaker 1: That evidence was tongue, because that's the ability that the spirit gave them.
Speaker 1: But the key for today is this you ought to leave here today with evidence that you got close enough to the fire, that you have an encounter and the Holy Spirit has given you ability to do something that you otherwise didn't have the ability to do.
Speaker 1: For some it may be the gift of tongues.
Speaker 1: For others it may be the ability to forgive somebody.
Speaker 1: For others, they may be able to walk with many of the spiritual gifts.
Speaker 1: But one of the things I want you to understand is that the fire only rested on those who believed that the fire would come and had a desire for their religious barrier to be broken.
Speaker 1: I'm going to say it again the fire only rested on those who believed that the Holy Spirit would come and had a desire for the religious barrier to be broken.
Speaker 1: There are many of you in the room.
Speaker 1: You don't want to get close to the fire and God is saying I'm not going to force you, but if you're saying I'm tired of religiosity, I'm tired of just going through the motions, there's an invitation before you right now to come close to the fire as you can.
Speaker 1: There's an invitation right now for you to come close to the fire as you can.
Speaker 1: What do I mean by that?
Speaker 1: You already know, because the Holy Spirit is talking to you.
Speaker 1: You've been on the edge of the campfire long enough.
Speaker 1: I want you to come meet me right here in this aisle, right here at this altar, and we're going to pray that the Holy Spirit fills you, either for the first time or fills you afresh, because you do realize that life will suck all of the Holy Spirit out of you.
Speaker 1: So sometimes we need a refill.
Speaker 1: Elder J, will you bring me that oil?
Speaker 1: Man of God, y'all come to this altar Now, because we are unified with one band and one sound, since y'all all are believing in the power of the Holy Ghost.
Speaker 1: I want to do it like this If you're not at the altar, because you are filled with the Holy Ghost, you know what you ought to be doing.
Speaker 1: You got to be praying for the ones that's at the altar.
Speaker 1: We got to be praying for folks to be filled with the Holy Ghost for real, till their mind and their heart change, till their body change.
Speaker 1: We got to be praying that this room is saturated with the Holy Ghost for real, till we see healing like we've never seen healing before.
Speaker 1: Look at the people coming to the altar.
Speaker 1: Y'all come to this altar.
Speaker 1: Find a spot, Find a spot.
Speaker 1: There's room, there's room.
Speaker 1: There's some other people that need to come.
Speaker 1: Glory to God.
Speaker 1: There's some other women, some other men.
Speaker 1: Jesus said I'm standing at the door and knocking.
Speaker 1: Thank you, man of God, thank you, woman of God.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you the power of the Holy Ghost is real and we are praying that God is about to fill you afresh.
Speaker 1: Come to this altar.
Speaker 2: Come to this altar.
Speaker 1: Come to this altar.
Speaker 1: Come to this altar If you've never been filled with the power of the Holy Ghost and you say, God, I need a refill.
Speaker 1: I need a fresh feeling.
Speaker 1: I need something greater beyond my intellect Father, in the name of Jesus, fill this woman of God.
Speaker 1: Thank you, lord, for her obedience.
Speaker 1: Fill her right now.
Speaker 1: In the name of Jesus.
Speaker 1: God, this is your daughter, whatever she stands in the need of fill her right now in Jesus' name.
Speaker 1: Elder J, come here.
Speaker 1: This is what I want you to do.
Speaker 1: I want you to take this microphone and minister as God gives you utterance, but I want to touch and agree with every soul that's here.
Speaker 1: I'm going to give you the mic.
Speaker 1: You give me that.
Speaker 1: Hallelujah.
Speaker 1: Elder Irma, come up here with me.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get here in the microphone.
Speaker 2: Send your spirit low Rain on us.
Speaker 2: Come on now and breathe on us.
Speaker 2: Come on now and breathe on out.
Speaker 2: Shower down, shower down.
Speaker 2: Turn your spirit low.
Speaker 2: All right, breathe, shower down, breathe, breathe, breathe, breathe.
Speaker 2: Shower down, shower down, shower down, shower down, shower down, shower down, shower down, shower down, shower down, shower down, lord, shower down.
Speaker 2: Send your spirit.
Speaker 3: Lord, father, god, in the name of Jesus, search us, o Lord of Jesus.
Speaker 3: Search us, o Lord, if you find anything that is not of you, we ask that you remove every impurity from us.
Speaker 3: Search our hearts, search our minds, bring the coal of fire, touch our lips, touch our thoughts, make us new, even in this moment.
Speaker 3: Whatever would stand in the way of us seeing you, oh God, we ask that you remove it right now, in the name of Jesus.
Speaker 3: Whether it's those financial difficulties, god, we ask that you just lift those heavy burdens the burden of depression, the burden of anxiety, the burden of relationship issues, heavenly Father, the burdens of life.
Speaker 3: Lift those things, oh God, so that we can see you high and lifted up, shining in the light of your glory.
Speaker 3: The Heavenly Father, we ask that you do that in this moment because we want to be filled afresh.
Speaker 3: Fill us with your fire, fill us with your power right now, in the mighty name of Jesus, god, we're asking for your fire so that we can run on and see what the end is going to be.
Speaker 3: We're asking for your fire so that we can walk out our Jesus journey.
Speaker 3: We're asking for your fire so that we can love one another.
Speaker 3: We're asking for your fire so that we can treat our neighbors right.
Speaker 3: We're asking for your fire so that we can live and live in you, the Heavenly Father.
Speaker 3: We're asking for your fire.
Speaker 3: So we have a simple request Spirit of the living God fall fresh upon us.
Speaker 3: Spirit of the living God fall fresh upon us.
Speaker 3: Spirit of the living God fall fresh upon us until those barriers are broken.
Speaker 3: Spirit of the living God fall fresh upon us until the barrier of depression is broken, until the barrier of low self-esteem is broken, until the barrier of trust issues is broken, until the barrier of family drama and trauma is broken, until the barrier of a bruise and living up in abuse is broken.
Speaker 3: The Heavenly Father, we ask that the spirit won't fall on us until the past church hurt is broken.
Speaker 3: We we're breaking through barriers, heavenly Father, so we need your fire.
Speaker 3: We need your fire and we can rest assured that the windows of heaven are open.
Speaker 3: The fire is falling in this moment and since your fire is falling, we declare joy is released in this moment.
Speaker 3: We declare that peace is released.
Speaker 3: In this moment, we declare that peace is released in this moment, we decree and declare what the enemy meant for evil.
Speaker 3: God, you're turning it, you're turning it and you're working it for our good.
Speaker 3: We decree and declare no premature death.
Speaker 3: We shall live long life.
Speaker 3: We speak.
Speaker 3: Live long life.
Speaker 3: We speak long life.
Speaker 3: We speak health.
Speaker 3: We speak health, we speak prosperity.
Speaker 3: But the only way we're able to see it is if you release your glory.
Speaker 3: Release your glory, release your power, release your glory.
Speaker 3: Here comes the glory of the Lord sweeping through the room.
Speaker 3: So we go back into the song, crying out to you sing rain on us, us.
Speaker 2: Breathe on us, sing, breathe on us.
Speaker 2: Breathe on us, shower down, shower down, shower down, shower down.
Speaker 2: Send your spirit, lord.
Speaker 2: Send your spirit, lord, all right, breathe on us, breathe, breathe on us.
Speaker 2: I'll pray, I'll breathe, I'll shout it out.
Speaker 2: Shout it out Till you feel it.
Speaker 2: Right now,