WEBVTT 00:00:01.199 --> 00:00:02.080 Hallelujah. 00:00:02.240 --> 00:00:03.120 Praise God. 00:00:03.359 --> 00:00:04.639 Thank you, Jesus. 00:00:04.879 --> 00:00:09.759 I want to speak to you today on the power of communication. 00:00:10.000 --> 00:00:13.599 We're talking about the powers of the Holy Spirit. 00:00:13.679 --> 00:00:14.560 You may be seated. 00:00:14.800 --> 00:00:19.120 We're talking about the powers of the Holy Spirit. 00:00:20.079 --> 00:00:26.160 Jesus was about to be taken away from his disciples, and this is what he said to them. 00:00:26.960 --> 00:00:34.320 Go and wait in Jerusalem for the promise of the Father. 00:00:35.359 --> 00:00:39.920 He said, And you shall receive power. 00:00:40.560 --> 00:00:42.079 Somebody say power. 00:00:43.039 --> 00:00:46.159 After that, the Holy Ghost has come upon you. 00:00:47.119 --> 00:00:59.920 And you shall be my witnesses unto Jerusalem and Judea and Samaria and to the uttermost parts of the earth. 00:01:00.320 --> 00:01:08.239 Jesus never intended for those that would receive him to be powerless. 00:01:08.799 --> 00:01:18.239 We right now are in an age of communication like nothing we have ever seen. 00:01:18.480 --> 00:01:21.280 It's amazing, isn't it, how communication has changed. 00:01:21.439 --> 00:01:27.920 I'm 73, and just during my lifetime, we've moved from do you have a telephone in your house? 00:01:28.959 --> 00:01:30.079 It's true. 00:01:30.400 --> 00:01:39.359 To every member of the family owning a smartphone that can give you a wealth of information rivaling the Library of Congress. 00:01:40.079 --> 00:01:52.239 And not only that, AI tips on playing video games, as well as allowing you to talk face to face with your whole family all over the world at the same time. 00:01:52.480 --> 00:01:54.480 I still haven't gotten over that. 00:01:55.040 --> 00:02:01.920 There's even an app that simultaneously translates speech from one language to another. 00:02:02.159 --> 00:02:06.159 So communication is enhanced internationally. 00:02:06.640 --> 00:02:20.080 Communication has never been easier, but the challenges in communication for us as human beings on a personal level have never been more challenging. 00:02:20.960 --> 00:02:32.560 We find it increasingly difficult to communicate with those who disagree with us, who disagree with us about politics or philosophy or theology or sports. 00:02:33.039 --> 00:02:45.919 As with no other generation before this one, people become hostile, insulting, and threatening to those who dare share a conflicting point of view. 00:02:46.240 --> 00:02:50.879 Marriages are also disintegrating because of a lack of communication. 00:02:51.120 --> 00:02:55.520 22% of marriages end in divorce within five years in America. 00:02:55.840 --> 00:03:00.719 39% of marriages end in divorce by 10 years. 00:03:01.039 --> 00:03:05.039 50% of marriages end in divorce by 20 years. 00:03:05.280 --> 00:03:15.759 And 67.5% of marriages that ended did so primarily due to communication problems. 00:03:16.319 --> 00:03:20.000 But here's the good news this morning, and I want to get right to it. 00:03:20.240 --> 00:03:30.159 One of the supernatural powers that you have access and a right to is the power of communication. 00:03:30.800 --> 00:03:40.560 Let me tell you, the Holy Spirit is God's divine power of communication. 00:03:41.039 --> 00:03:47.039 And it's first of all the power of communication from God to man. 00:03:47.360 --> 00:03:51.840 The original desire of God in Eden was to communicate with man. 00:03:52.000 --> 00:03:57.039 He would come down, the Bible says, and walk in the cool of the day in the garden. 00:03:57.120 --> 00:04:01.039 And he would communicate with Adam and Eve. 00:04:01.280 --> 00:04:16.399 And when sin entered into the world, the thing that was lost for God was the right and privilege of the Godhead to communicate with the created ones. 00:04:17.120 --> 00:04:24.800 Because now, through being polluted by sin, their mind was no longer the mind of God. 00:04:25.519 --> 00:04:29.120 Their thoughts were no longer the thoughts of God. 00:04:29.360 --> 00:04:46.639 And while he would have interaction with men throughout the generations at specific times for specific purposes, that wonderful Eden-like communication power was gone. 00:04:46.879 --> 00:04:49.279 Let me say something to all of you. 00:05:02.079 --> 00:05:09.439 Let me tell you, I have been the beneficiary of God speaking to me so many times. 00:05:10.000 --> 00:05:13.920 Don't buy that car, don't make that deal. 00:05:14.720 --> 00:05:16.480 Don't make that investment. 00:05:18.000 --> 00:05:20.079 Don't go there today. 00:05:21.120 --> 00:05:22.800 Take the other way home. 00:05:23.040 --> 00:05:24.240 You say, are you kidding? 00:05:24.319 --> 00:05:25.439 I'm not kidding. 00:05:25.680 --> 00:05:47.839 Let me tell you, I'm alive and well on this platform today, simply because early in my life I learned about the power of the Holy Spirit that would allow God to speak to me just like he spoke to his created object of his love in the Garden of Eden. 00:05:48.399 --> 00:05:51.120 God wants to speak to you. 00:05:51.279 --> 00:06:00.319 But how many of you will say, I really can't say that God speaks to me. 00:06:03.600 --> 00:06:05.600 You just need to get full of the Holy Ghost. 00:06:06.560 --> 00:06:10.560 When you get filled with the Holy Spirit, God will speak to you. 00:06:10.879 --> 00:06:13.040 It will be absolutely amazing. 00:06:13.199 --> 00:06:18.160 There's a young man in this congregation, he's here today, and he said something to me last week that so touched me. 00:06:18.319 --> 00:06:21.600 He said, I have never had a time in my life. 00:06:21.759 --> 00:06:23.759 And he said, I've been a Christian all my life. 00:06:23.920 --> 00:06:29.279 He said, where the Holy Spirit has been guiding me and speaking to me like he is now. 00:06:29.439 --> 00:06:33.759 I, for the first time, I believe, am able to hear God's voice clearly. 00:06:33.920 --> 00:06:41.279 Do you understand that you can be where you are with the silence of God today? 00:06:41.519 --> 00:06:50.879 And tomorrow morning, you could literally wake up in a brand new world simply because you invited the Holy Spirit to take complete control. 00:06:51.519 --> 00:06:54.240 God wants to speak to you. 00:06:54.720 --> 00:06:56.879 He wants to say something to you today. 00:06:57.040 --> 00:06:58.720 He wants to talk to you about your marriage. 00:06:58.879 --> 00:07:00.399 He wants to talk to you about your job. 00:07:00.560 --> 00:07:02.160 He wants to talk to you about your children. 00:07:02.319 --> 00:07:07.120 How many of us throughout any given day are gonna say, I don't know what I'm gonna do? 00:07:07.360 --> 00:07:08.879 I don't know what I'm gonna do about this. 00:07:09.040 --> 00:07:10.319 Well, I don't know. 00:07:10.560 --> 00:07:11.199 Search me. 00:07:11.279 --> 00:07:13.759 There's just no way that I have an answer for this. 00:07:13.920 --> 00:07:15.519 This is out of my wheelhouse. 00:07:15.759 --> 00:07:17.759 Man, this is beyond my pay level. 00:07:18.000 --> 00:07:19.120 No, it's not. 00:07:19.439 --> 00:07:30.800 You have access to God, and God is able to speak to you about the most minute circumstances of your life and the greatest challenges. 00:07:31.680 --> 00:07:34.079 You're a businessman, you're really good, aren't you? 00:07:34.240 --> 00:07:39.279 You make great deals, you have a sixth sense in business. 00:07:39.519 --> 00:07:43.040 I'm so glad, but there's something more. 00:07:44.639 --> 00:07:54.720 You could have God speak to you, you could have access to him where he would literally whisper to you what your direction should be. 00:07:54.879 --> 00:07:59.600 And let me tell you something: God takes this thing seriously. 00:08:00.240 --> 00:08:03.279 I've asked God throughout my life to speak to me. 00:08:03.439 --> 00:08:08.639 I'll never forget going through a little western rodeo town. 00:08:08.879 --> 00:08:14.720 I always wanted to visit this little place, I think it's in Montana, where they had these great rodeos. 00:08:14.879 --> 00:08:20.160 And I was up visiting a relative of mine, and I thought, you know, I said, I'm just gonna drive up there. 00:08:20.240 --> 00:08:25.199 It's just an hour and just see those rodeo grounds because I've heard about them all my life. 00:08:25.439 --> 00:08:28.720 So I drove through this little town and it was really worth the drive. 00:08:28.800 --> 00:08:30.000 I enjoyed it so much. 00:08:30.079 --> 00:08:32.559 So I'm driving through this town, never been there before. 00:08:32.799 --> 00:08:38.159 And the Lord speaks to me and says, pull off into that parking lot and just wait. 00:08:38.320 --> 00:08:40.399 I'm I'm gonna send somebody to you. 00:08:40.879 --> 00:08:43.759 And I went, What? 00:08:44.879 --> 00:08:46.879 I said, I'm not doing that. 00:08:47.759 --> 00:08:49.600 But what if it's God? 00:08:50.320 --> 00:08:52.240 What if it is the Lord? 00:08:52.639 --> 00:08:55.440 So I just pulled off into the parking lot, got out. 00:08:55.600 --> 00:08:57.279 So this was only a few years ago. 00:08:57.360 --> 00:08:58.399 So I'm standing with something. 00:08:58.720 --> 00:09:00.399 So I stand there an hour. 00:09:01.120 --> 00:09:02.559 Nobody comes. 00:09:03.279 --> 00:09:07.279 I got in my car to drive away, and I said, Well, Lord, I guess that wasn't you. 00:09:07.360 --> 00:09:08.879 He said, No, no, it was me. 00:09:09.200 --> 00:09:17.919 He said, I am gonna take you to a deeper level and a more profound understanding of hearing my voice. 00:09:18.159 --> 00:09:22.559 And I said, I'm certainly not gonna do that for you until I have a practice run. 00:09:24.639 --> 00:09:26.320 Let me just tell you something. 00:09:26.639 --> 00:09:31.679 God takes it seriously when he finds a man that wants to hear his voice. 00:09:32.000 --> 00:09:35.200 Do you know what it takes to hear the voice of God? 00:09:35.360 --> 00:09:40.320 Oh, yes, Pastor, it takes an amazing purity, not necessarily. 00:09:41.039 --> 00:09:47.360 Oh, it just takes someone who is all out and all in and who's just no, not necessarily. 00:09:47.840 --> 00:09:52.080 I have seen God use people that you and I wouldn't have thought were worthy. 00:09:52.320 --> 00:09:59.440 I've seen God use people that you and I probably would have judged severely, but there was one thing that all those people had in common. 00:09:59.679 --> 00:10:12.960 They just believed that anybody at any time and any place that was hungry for the power of the Holy Ghost could receive the Spirit and that they could begin to hear their God clearly. 00:10:13.200 --> 00:10:26.080 It is a right and it is a privilege, and we must get to the place where we shove back the darkness and the fog of our own deception, and we hear his voice. 00:10:27.440 --> 00:10:36.720 Oh God, please in America give us give us leaders everywhere that will hear your voice on every level of government. 00:10:36.799 --> 00:10:38.879 Lord God, that's the answer. 00:10:39.120 --> 00:10:49.519 It's not figuring something out, it's not gathering people around a table and seeing what the experts say, it's somebody that can hear the voice of God. 00:10:55.919 --> 00:10:58.000 God wants to speak to you. 00:10:58.639 --> 00:11:05.679 And let me tell you, when Emmanuel was born, communication was restored. 00:11:06.879 --> 00:11:10.000 John said it in the beginning was the word. 00:11:10.559 --> 00:11:15.840 The word was with God, the word was God, the same was in the beginning with God. 00:11:16.639 --> 00:11:24.240 And then he says this a few verses later, and the word was made flesh and dwelt among us. 00:11:24.960 --> 00:11:33.440 When he spoke on the earth, hallelujah! The molecules became alive again. 00:11:33.759 --> 00:11:38.000 It was back to Eden, it was back to what God had planned. 00:11:38.320 --> 00:11:43.840 God walking with men and women and speaking to them. 00:11:44.240 --> 00:11:50.720 Everything that was of sin and evil and death cringed and fled when he spoke. 00:11:50.960 --> 00:11:57.840 These were not just the words of God, this was God on the earth speaking words. 00:11:58.080 --> 00:12:08.240 Hallelujah! And God never ever gave up his edge from the moment that baby was born in Bethlehem. 00:12:08.559 --> 00:12:19.759 From that point on, when his plaintive little cries were heard in that poor little community, his voice would always be in the earth realm again. 00:12:19.919 --> 00:12:30.240 And he promised his disciples, he said, I know you're upset that I'm leaving, but I want you to understand that I am about to do something unprecedented. 00:12:30.480 --> 00:12:34.639 What you have seen in me, I am going to give to you. 00:12:35.120 --> 00:12:40.320 I will not be speaking to you with this voice on this planet anymore. 00:12:40.559 --> 00:12:44.159 But oh, I am sending the comforter. 00:12:44.399 --> 00:12:49.120 He's the one that has allowed me as a man to do what I've done. 00:12:49.200 --> 00:13:04.000 And when I get safely back to the Father, then I am going to send him, and he is gonna fill every one of you, and God Almighty is gonna speak to you just like he spoke to me. 00:13:08.080 --> 00:13:10.399 You just get so hungry, don't you? 00:13:11.039 --> 00:13:12.879 When are you gonna hear about this? 00:13:13.279 --> 00:13:20.799 Because here's the fact you're gonna walk out of here this morning saying, Wow, that was a good word, or he was beside himself. 00:13:22.080 --> 00:13:26.399 You'll have some comment, or either you're gonna say, That's what I want. 00:13:28.639 --> 00:13:30.960 God, I'll give anything to have that. 00:13:31.679 --> 00:14:07.039 To have you speak to me, to be able to have the counselor, the Holy Spirit, guide me through all of the mind fields of my marriage, to be able to have the Holy Spirit give me wisdom keys and raising my son and running my business, to be able to spend just quiet moments and literally hear from God. 00:14:07.919 --> 00:14:12.240 You see, it just makes you so hungry, so hungry. 00:14:12.639 --> 00:14:19.200 For more of God, you see, here's the fact there are people in the body of Christ, and when you begin to talk to them about the deeper things of God, they don't want to hear it. 00:14:19.279 --> 00:14:29.200 They say, Well, you know, I I'm I'm real happy with where I am in God, or I know the scriptures and I've been walking with God for a long time. 00:14:30.080 --> 00:14:51.840 All I can tell you is this if you would excuse yourself from the delight of hearing the voice of God, then you must make sure that you are free of conflicting spirits that are fighting his control. 00:14:55.519 --> 00:15:05.120 Because only a conflicting spirit of evil in us would deprive us of the voice of the Maker. 00:15:07.759 --> 00:15:19.440 He wants to be speaking to you, he wants to talk to you, he wants to guide you, he wants to give you wisdom. 00:15:20.159 --> 00:15:28.639 You're just walking through this thing, just kind of waltzing through, coming to church, doing the good things. 00:15:29.039 --> 00:15:31.200 So grateful you are to keep coming. 00:15:32.320 --> 00:15:53.039 You want your kids to be Christians, want to make sure that we don't get involved with any of the big league sins, just make sure that we're okay, but we're just so satisfied when that book is supernatural, so supernatural fire jumps off the pages. 00:15:54.320 --> 00:16:02.559 And that book has been given to us to tell us it's our right to hear from our sovereign. 00:16:04.720 --> 00:16:12.559 Dan Newman was down here at the and our precious Brenda Nichols was going into surgery, open heart surgery. 00:16:12.720 --> 00:16:14.879 She was so afraid. 00:16:15.120 --> 00:16:17.360 She wasn't afraid to go to heaven. 00:16:17.600 --> 00:16:23.600 It was just this was a very serious surgery, and she was so concerned. 00:16:23.759 --> 00:16:35.600 Now, if you don't know Brenda Nichols, Brenda Nichols is like one of the um SEAL team six people spiritually in this church, and that's the truth. 00:16:36.639 --> 00:16:38.559 But Dan felt a word. 00:16:40.240 --> 00:16:45.759 God had one of his men who hears his voice at the front. 00:16:46.080 --> 00:16:48.480 Can you imagine how God puts all this together? 00:16:49.840 --> 00:17:01.279 You know, we've uh we've seen some of the technology on television of the United States of how they can put missiles, you know, through an open window. 00:17:01.440 --> 00:17:03.600 I mean, pinpoint it, right? 00:17:03.840 --> 00:17:07.039 But somehow God's had that technology a long time before. 00:17:07.200 --> 00:17:21.599 And he always knows where his conduits of blessing are, those that hear his voice, those that have his Holy Spirit, and are able to have God speak to them. 00:17:21.920 --> 00:17:23.519 Dan's down here in the front. 00:17:23.680 --> 00:17:29.119 I think the angel of the Lord said, Well, Lord, I know you want to give a word to Brenda, your servant. 00:17:29.279 --> 00:17:39.200 She's been praying and crying out to you recently and in her bedroom and asking you to take care of things, and and she's concerned. 00:17:39.359 --> 00:17:41.680 And I know you want to can encourage her. 00:17:41.839 --> 00:17:48.720 Well, you one of our one of our agents is right in proximity to her now. 00:17:49.440 --> 00:17:52.240 God downloads something to Dan. 00:17:52.480 --> 00:18:05.599 Dan walks over to her and said, Brenda, I don't know how you're feeling about this, but the Lord just spoke to me and said, You're gonna come through this surgery with flying colors and you're never to worry again. 00:18:06.160 --> 00:18:07.920 It completely put her at peace. 00:18:08.079 --> 00:18:08.880 What was that? 00:18:09.039 --> 00:18:16.000 It's the power of communication from God to man. 00:18:16.160 --> 00:18:23.599 But also we have the power of communication that comes through the gifts of the Holy Spirit. 00:18:23.680 --> 00:18:29.920 The Lord has broken it down for us because he so wants us to have access to all of this. 00:18:30.480 --> 00:18:48.079 And what I can tell you is uh there are gifts of the Holy Spirit that have been given to us, and and these gifts are celebrating the power of God, of God speaking to man. 00:18:48.799 --> 00:18:52.400 And these these are wonderful gifts. 00:18:52.720 --> 00:19:01.279 The word of God says the Holy Spirit works in each person in one way or another for the good of all, and one person is given the gift of teaching words of wisdom. 00:19:01.440 --> 00:19:07.839 Do you know that God speaks to us, and then somebody say through us? 00:19:08.480 --> 00:19:09.359 Through us. 00:19:10.160 --> 00:19:18.559 So it's the power of communication from God to man, and now the power of communication from man to man. 00:19:20.240 --> 00:19:24.559 Have you ever been talking to somebody and suddenly you just knew it was hitting? 00:19:25.519 --> 00:19:27.519 Talking to them about Jesus, and you just knew. 00:19:27.680 --> 00:19:32.319 You just knew that no matter what they did to squirm out of this, that they weren't gonna be able to shake it the rest of the day. 00:19:32.640 --> 00:19:36.960 Because you had just spoken, and then but there was fire on what you said. 00:19:37.039 --> 00:19:41.200 You didn't even expect it, it just really touched them. 00:19:41.839 --> 00:19:45.839 I had a football coach that called me in one day, and he was so disturbed. 00:19:46.960 --> 00:19:58.000 He was one of my favorite humans, by the way, that Louisiana tech, and he put his feet up on his desk and lit a big cigar, and and um this was our custom of visiting. 00:19:58.160 --> 00:19:59.200 This is the way it happened. 00:19:59.279 --> 00:20:05.920 And he wasn't my position coach, but he would call me in if he thought that he needed to talk to me about anything, or maybe he was just going to encourage me. 00:20:06.079 --> 00:20:26.799 So I went in and I sat in front of his desk and he put his feet up on the desk, lit up a big stogie, and and uh filled the room with smoke, and then he looked right at me and said, Well, some people have been telling me that uh you have been saying the end of the world's coming. 00:20:29.119 --> 00:20:31.359 I said, Well, coach, it is. 00:20:31.519 --> 00:20:35.440 He said, No, it's not time. 00:20:37.279 --> 00:20:40.720 I said, Well, coach, pretty much it's time. 00:20:41.359 --> 00:20:43.359 Because the signs of the times are just everywhere. 00:20:43.440 --> 00:20:45.200 You know, Jesus is he's coming. 00:20:46.319 --> 00:20:48.240 No, just not time. 00:20:49.839 --> 00:20:51.119 He sat there a second. 00:20:51.279 --> 00:20:52.799 I didn't know where this was going. 00:20:53.519 --> 00:20:56.079 He said, Well, let me just tell you. 00:20:56.960 --> 00:21:06.480 I went to a funeral the other day, and the pastor that did that funeral, he got to the end of what he had to say, and he just left it up to us. 00:21:07.200 --> 00:21:12.240 He just left it totally up to us what we were gonna do. 00:21:12.559 --> 00:21:15.039 He didn't pressure anybody, Duran. 00:21:16.000 --> 00:21:18.640 And that's the way it should be done. 00:21:19.920 --> 00:21:27.680 And uh I looked at him and suddenly, man, God's on me. 00:21:29.839 --> 00:21:34.160 I said, Coach, I totally agree with you. 00:21:34.720 --> 00:21:37.920 It's a man's business if he wants to go to hell. 00:21:41.359 --> 00:21:44.079 Where in the world did that come from? 00:21:45.359 --> 00:21:47.920 That was not what I was gonna say. 00:21:48.480 --> 00:21:52.079 I didn't think that was what I needed to say to my coach, frankly. 00:21:53.680 --> 00:21:58.559 At that point, the Holy Spirit hit him like a flamethrower. 00:21:58.960 --> 00:21:59.759 He said, Oh. 00:22:00.079 --> 00:22:01.039 Oh my God. 00:22:01.359 --> 00:22:04.559 Put his feet off the desk, put the cigar out. 00:22:04.960 --> 00:22:06.400 He said, My God. 00:22:06.480 --> 00:22:07.920 He said, I don't want to go. 00:22:08.160 --> 00:22:09.200 I don't want to go. 00:22:09.680 --> 00:22:11.440 You see, why was that important? 00:22:11.599 --> 00:22:22.240 Because it wasn't too long after that that I was able to get on my knees with that man in his living room and hear him confess Jesus Christ as his Savior. 00:22:22.400 --> 00:22:30.079 You see, the fact is, God is not going to speak to the world without your voice. 00:22:30.319 --> 00:22:33.599 He speaks to us through the power of the Holy Spirit. 00:22:33.680 --> 00:22:38.400 And then he speaks through us by the power of the Holy Spirit. 00:22:38.640 --> 00:22:43.039 You know, I was so rocked by this new film. 00:22:43.119 --> 00:22:47.519 I don't even know what the name of it is about George Whitfield. 00:22:47.599 --> 00:22:48.400 What's the name of that show? 00:22:48.480 --> 00:22:49.759 Somebody's what? 00:22:51.039 --> 00:22:52.319 The Great Awakening. 00:22:53.599 --> 00:22:55.759 And of course, I know the history here. 00:22:56.559 --> 00:23:02.480 Everything shown on that film falls short of what actually happened. 00:23:02.640 --> 00:23:08.559 Nothing has been dramatized past the point of the historical reality. 00:23:09.119 --> 00:23:10.319 You see, what happened? 00:23:10.400 --> 00:23:16.720 There was a young man by the name of George Whitfield that had actually been ostracized by the Church of England. 00:23:16.960 --> 00:23:22.480 He came to the United States in its very early struggling days. 00:23:22.720 --> 00:23:24.880 And he began to preach the gospel. 00:23:25.359 --> 00:23:30.160 And hundreds of thousands of people gave their lives to Christ. 00:23:30.240 --> 00:23:32.799 And there was a mighty revival. 00:23:33.359 --> 00:23:36.000 God swept through the colonies. 00:23:36.160 --> 00:23:39.680 It was glorious beyond belief. 00:23:40.079 --> 00:23:45.119 And every detail of that movie is correct, except it didn't go far enough. 00:23:45.279 --> 00:23:46.720 It was even more powerful than that. 00:23:46.799 --> 00:23:48.319 You say, how could that happen? 00:23:48.480 --> 00:23:55.279 How could there be a man like that who would stand on a balcony and his voice could be heard for a mile? 00:23:55.680 --> 00:24:06.559 How could it be that coal miners would come up out of the caves and out of the mines and they would fall on their knees immediately the moment that they heard the sound of his voice? 00:24:06.720 --> 00:24:16.640 And then how could one man actually shape the courageous response of the troops to the attack of the English? 00:24:16.799 --> 00:24:17.839 How could it happen? 00:24:18.240 --> 00:24:27.759 Well, friend, it's the Holy Ghost, the Holy Spirit, and he wants to speak through you. 00:24:29.279 --> 00:24:33.680 The Holy Ghost gives the power of communication for God to be able to talk to us again. 00:24:34.240 --> 00:24:38.960 The Holy Ghost gives the power of communication for us to be able to speak to others. 00:24:39.200 --> 00:24:41.519 You say, I don't know what I would say. 00:24:41.920 --> 00:24:44.480 Open your mouth and God will fill it. 00:24:47.839 --> 00:24:49.920 You say, I'm afraid I don't know enough scripture. 00:24:50.000 --> 00:24:50.480 Let me tell you something. 00:24:50.559 --> 00:24:52.240 The Holy Ghost knows all you need. 00:24:56.160 --> 00:25:00.960 The Bible says, holy men speak as they were moved upon by the Holy Ghost. 00:25:01.279 --> 00:25:03.680 He is the one that we're talking about. 00:25:03.920 --> 00:25:08.400 You represent Jesus because the Holy Spirit is within you. 00:25:08.559 --> 00:25:10.960 You say, Well, how do you receive the Holy Spirit? 00:25:11.119 --> 00:25:12.960 Oh, this is really revolutionary. 00:25:13.200 --> 00:25:14.160 You ask. 00:25:16.079 --> 00:25:19.839 But you must ask in faith. 00:25:20.960 --> 00:25:22.079 So what do you mean? 00:25:22.960 --> 00:25:29.119 Well, faith is a believing force, but is also a tenacious force. 00:25:30.079 --> 00:25:31.359 So you don't give up. 00:25:32.319 --> 00:25:34.880 You ask and you keep on asking. 00:25:35.440 --> 00:25:41.039 You don't have somebody come to you in a permit and say, Let me just show you the word I think you already have. 00:25:41.680 --> 00:25:43.440 Here's what I want to say to those people. 00:25:43.680 --> 00:25:46.640 I don't have what I want yet. 00:25:47.440 --> 00:26:01.759 And I am going to continue to seek the living God, the creator of heaven and earth, the sender of the Holy Ghost and fire, because I think He's capable of giving me what I ask for. 00:26:02.400 --> 00:26:05.200 I have something I want from God. 00:26:06.079 --> 00:26:10.079 That's the power of the Holy Ghost. 00:26:10.400 --> 00:26:15.920 Friend, today we're going to pray and we're going to keep praying. 00:26:16.799 --> 00:26:29.759 And we have announced that, you know, these couple of three weeks, what we're going to do is just be seeking a new experience with the power of the Holy Spirit in this church and in our individual lives. 00:26:31.039 --> 00:26:35.920 But I want you to understand we're not stopping it at the end of two weeks. 00:26:36.400 --> 00:26:38.480 This is a new era in God. 00:26:39.200 --> 00:26:41.920 And it's been declared by our pastor. 00:26:42.640 --> 00:26:50.240 This is a new era of seeking the power of the Holy Spirit in our lives. 00:26:50.559 --> 00:27:05.279 And ladies and gentlemen, my brothers and sisters, my children in the Lord, my wonderful co-workers and comrades, I want to tell you we can have everything we want in Jesus. 00:27:05.680 --> 00:27:08.240 Stand with me, please, all over this place. 00:27:10.160 --> 00:27:11.440 Hallelujah. 00:27:12.640 --> 00:27:13.359 Hallelujah. 00:27:15.680 --> 00:27:17.039 Glory to God. 00:27:19.200 --> 00:27:36.640 You know, wonder, I wonder, Dan, if I had not been filled with the Holy Ghost when I was 17 over in that Baptist church basement in Bouchier, that's where it happened. 00:27:39.759 --> 00:27:42.079 I don't think you would be standing here on this front row. 00:27:42.160 --> 00:27:43.359 I don't even think I'd know you. 00:27:43.440 --> 00:27:45.039 And you wouldn't know me just slightly. 00:27:45.200 --> 00:27:47.599 We'd see each other at youth camps when we're kids. 00:27:50.240 --> 00:28:11.200 But God so filled me with the Holy Ghost that I went to Lafayette to try to pick up a guitar player for my little Jesus band that I was heading up that we were gonna travel all summer before my freshman year at La Teg. 00:28:12.559 --> 00:28:14.000 And I met this guy. 00:28:14.160 --> 00:28:18.799 He was the he was the program manager, can you imagine? 00:28:19.279 --> 00:28:24.720 At 16 years old for a top 40 station in Lafayette. 00:28:24.799 --> 00:28:26.240 That's how gifted he was. 00:28:36.960 --> 00:28:40.480 A lot better than the keyboard player I had, frankly. 00:28:41.759 --> 00:28:46.160 And I said, How would you like to hit the road, buddy, this summer? 00:28:46.400 --> 00:28:47.519 He said, I'd love it. 00:28:47.599 --> 00:28:50.160 He quit his job, moved to Shreveport. 00:28:50.319 --> 00:28:51.359 He's still here. 00:28:57.519 --> 00:29:04.400 I don't think, Mary Ann, I don't know, Mary Ann, if you would be here, honestly, baby, sitting standing by that guy. 00:29:08.640 --> 00:29:25.839 If the Holy Ghost hadn't led me to radically get up on a park bench and preach open air, because there was that fateful day that you and who was with you? 00:29:26.400 --> 00:29:28.480 Debbie Lomax, I remember, yeah. 00:29:33.599 --> 00:29:44.960 You walked up to this guy preaching at the top of his voice on the college campus off of the bench. 00:29:45.119 --> 00:29:45.839 Because why? 00:29:46.000 --> 00:29:50.319 Because the Holy Spirit told me to do it. 00:29:51.359 --> 00:29:54.559 And the conviction of the Lord fell on her life. 00:29:55.359 --> 00:30:00.799 That was the day it turned around for her. 00:30:02.000 --> 00:30:04.880 Mark, I don't know if we'd know each other today. 00:30:06.480 --> 00:30:15.039 If I had made a deal with the Holy Spirit years ago, that I would walk through every door he opened up, big or small. 00:30:15.759 --> 00:30:17.759 You can't believe the kind of meetings I've done. 00:30:17.839 --> 00:30:19.920 I've done debutante parties. 00:30:22.480 --> 00:30:25.599 Man, I've done barbecue cook-offs. 00:30:25.839 --> 00:30:28.480 I've preached everywhere a man can preach on this earth. 00:30:28.559 --> 00:30:30.400 I'm gonna tell you, it's the truth. 00:30:31.440 --> 00:30:38.319 But on this day, it was a banquet for some little league teams. 00:30:39.599 --> 00:30:40.880 You were there. 00:30:42.720 --> 00:30:44.559 Something happened to you. 00:30:44.960 --> 00:30:46.559 The Holy Spirit. 00:30:47.200 --> 00:30:53.279 See, here's the thing: you don't have to be anybody special to be a conduit of the Holy Spirit. 00:30:54.720 --> 00:31:06.559 You don't walk out in your backyard and pick up the hose and say, This is the freshest, clearest, most wonderful hose I've ever had. 00:31:07.680 --> 00:31:10.720 I'm always going to be refreshed by this hose. 00:31:11.200 --> 00:31:12.160 No, no, no, no. 00:31:12.240 --> 00:31:14.880 That hose is just a conduit. 00:31:15.200 --> 00:31:17.359 It's the water we're after. 00:31:18.079 --> 00:31:23.599 And that's the glory of working for him and being his. 00:31:24.000 --> 00:31:32.400 I have never in my life, one day of my life, felt like I was special to God or or that God had to have anything I had. 00:31:32.559 --> 00:31:39.440 I I have nothing to give him outside my yieldedness. 00:31:40.720 --> 00:31:43.920 But I want him to have all of me that there is. 00:32:03.680 --> 00:32:08.319 So hungry for him that nothing means as much. 00:32:09.759 --> 00:32:12.880 It's being filled with the power of the Holy Spirit. 00:32:12.960 --> 00:32:17.119 When Rick Berlin gave his life to the Lord, he always wanted more. 00:32:17.279 --> 00:32:21.039 He wanted, he wanted everything I had, he wanted everything everybody else had. 00:32:21.279 --> 00:32:24.400 He wanted all of the Lord, he wanted God to speak to him. 00:32:24.640 --> 00:32:26.640 He wanted to be able to speak to God. 00:32:26.799 --> 00:32:27.839 Let me tell you something. 00:32:28.000 --> 00:32:33.359 In his pursuit, he had some moments that could only be described as hilarious. 00:32:35.119 --> 00:32:38.480 He had revelations about God nobody's ever received. 00:32:38.720 --> 00:32:42.480 In fact, he was able to get rid of them very quickly. 00:32:43.680 --> 00:32:49.440 But I watched him grow through months and months of seeking so hungry for God. 00:32:49.599 --> 00:32:53.359 And you know, Rick was he was an assassin. 00:32:53.519 --> 00:32:59.279 I mean, he was a tough football player, but he was a fighter, always a fighter, even in high school. 00:32:59.440 --> 00:33:04.640 In fact, when he started doing karate, our high school coach Lee Hedges said this. 00:33:04.720 --> 00:33:05.839 These are his exact words. 00:33:06.000 --> 00:33:08.720 Oh God, that's like giving a gun to a crazy man. 00:33:10.319 --> 00:33:13.119 But here's what I will tell you about Rick Berlin. 00:33:13.759 --> 00:33:19.599 Rick Berlin, when he got filled with the spirit, folks, let me just tell you, he broke before God. 00:33:19.680 --> 00:33:20.799 He wept before God. 00:33:20.960 --> 00:33:24.640 He wanted God more than his necessary bread, as Job said. 00:33:24.799 --> 00:33:26.880 He wanted him so desperately. 00:33:26.960 --> 00:33:31.599 And it was month after month after month, and he could not seem to get through to what he wanted. 00:33:31.680 --> 00:33:40.480 But I'll never forget being in South Florida, University of South Florida, and our band was doing this huge conference, Christian conference. 00:33:40.640 --> 00:33:43.200 And I, after the conference was over, I said, Where's Rick? 00:33:43.359 --> 00:33:44.960 He said, He's in the back room. 00:33:45.200 --> 00:33:47.279 And I walked in and he was lost in the spirit. 00:33:47.359 --> 00:33:48.720 You know what lost in the spirit means? 00:33:48.960 --> 00:33:51.119 That means you are so locked into God. 00:33:51.359 --> 00:33:56.960 You are so absolutely being filled with his spirit that you don't know what's going on in the room. 00:33:57.359 --> 00:33:59.039 And he didn't know what was going on in the room. 00:33:59.119 --> 00:34:04.319 He was by himself in a little dressing room in the back of the stage, and he was praying. 00:34:04.400 --> 00:34:07.839 And he was praying in an unknown tongue. 00:34:09.280 --> 00:34:09.920 Wow. 00:34:13.280 --> 00:34:17.440 Filled the power of the Holy Spirit. 00:34:18.400 --> 00:34:20.480 Let's bow our heads all over this place. 00:34:22.719 --> 00:34:28.800 Lord, the power of communication, Lord, we want you to be able to speak to us. 00:34:28.960 --> 00:34:32.239 We want you to be able to speak through us. 00:34:33.119 --> 00:34:34.000 Oh God. 00:34:35.119 --> 00:34:44.639 More than anything, we want your spirit to enhance our praise, to enhance our prayer, to enhance our intercession. 00:34:44.719 --> 00:34:53.679 Lord God, we want it your spirit to totally transform our lifestyle, our desires, our taste in life, everything. 00:34:55.280 --> 00:34:57.280 Oh God, our choices. 00:34:57.760 --> 00:34:58.719 Help us. 00:34:58.960 --> 00:34:59.920 Help us. 00:35:00.480 --> 00:35:02.480 We're so hungry for you. 00:35:02.960 --> 00:35:04.400 We're so hungry for you. 00:35:04.559 --> 00:35:09.280 These invitations are not going to be complicated, folks. 00:35:09.519 --> 00:35:21.599 We you don't get where you want to get seeking God unless you're willing to wreck your schedule a little bit. 00:35:22.559 --> 00:35:32.000 And right now, if if you are just hungry for more of him, I want you to come to this front and just stand and wait on him. 00:35:32.159 --> 00:35:33.039 Will you do it? 00:35:33.199 --> 00:35:35.920 I don't know what God's going to do or how God's going to do it. 00:35:36.079 --> 00:35:37.280 I don't I don't have any idea. 00:35:37.360 --> 00:35:41.760 I'm not trying to direct anything, not trying to manipulate this. 00:35:43.199 --> 00:35:46.559 You're just hungry for more of God. 00:35:48.079 --> 00:35:49.360 I want all you have. 00:35:49.599 --> 00:35:54.400 When you look in those scriptures, there's more in those scriptures. 00:35:54.559 --> 00:35:56.719 There's more in that Bible. 00:35:57.119 --> 00:35:58.000 Hallelujah. 00:35:58.400 --> 00:35:59.679 Thank you, Jesus. 00:35:59.920 --> 00:36:01.280 Thank you, Lord. 00:36:01.679 --> 00:36:02.800 Hallelujah. 00:36:04.960 --> 00:36:05.679 Hallelujah. 00:36:05.840 --> 00:36:06.400 Hallelujah. 00:36:11.360 --> 00:36:23.199 The Bible will sporadically give us the anatomy of praise and worship. 00:36:23.840 --> 00:36:26.000 It speaks of our hands. 00:36:27.360 --> 00:36:30.800 Right now, I want you to loose your hands. 00:36:30.880 --> 00:36:32.079 You may have your Bible in your hand. 00:36:32.159 --> 00:36:32.559 That's good. 00:36:32.639 --> 00:36:34.880 Just hold that Bible up to the Lord. 00:36:35.119 --> 00:36:36.320 Hallelujah. 00:36:36.639 --> 00:36:38.800 But I want you just to release your hands right now. 00:36:39.039 --> 00:36:41.199 Maybe it's just you're just going to put them out in front of you. 00:36:41.519 --> 00:36:44.480 Maybe you want to lift them high right now, but I want you to. 00:36:54.239 --> 00:36:57.840 That which is of God, that which is not. 00:36:58.480 --> 00:37:01.119 So right now I want you to think about your heart. 00:37:01.360 --> 00:37:06.960 And I want you to feel the Holy Spirit filling your heart. 00:37:07.199 --> 00:37:08.400 Just stand before Him. 00:37:08.480 --> 00:37:10.719 We're going to just wait on the Lord here. 00:37:11.039 --> 00:37:12.239 Glory to Jesus. 00:37:12.400 --> 00:37:13.440 Thank you, Lord. 00:37:13.679 --> 00:37:15.039 Thank you, Lord. 00:37:15.440 --> 00:37:16.800 Thank you, Lord. 00:37:17.519 --> 00:37:18.960 Just wait on him. 00:37:20.239 --> 00:37:22.320 Glory to your name, Jesus. 00:37:22.719 --> 00:37:23.920 Hallelujah. 00:37:24.400 --> 00:37:25.280 Hallelujah. 00:37:26.079 --> 00:37:32.000 We're almost ready to just tell him what we want because we have to ask. 00:37:39.199 --> 00:37:41.440 Seek and you shall find. 00:37:42.079 --> 00:37:42.960 Knock. 00:37:43.360 --> 00:37:45.599 The door will be open to you. 00:37:46.079 --> 00:37:48.880 You have not because you ask not. 00:37:49.519 --> 00:37:50.719 Hallelujah. 00:37:51.599 --> 00:37:53.119 Jesus' name. 00:37:53.760 --> 00:37:55.599 Oh God, we love you. 00:37:56.079 --> 00:37:57.599 We love you, Lord. 00:37:57.840 --> 00:37:59.519 We love you, Lord. 00:38:00.159 --> 00:38:01.840 We love you, Lord. 00:38:05.199 --> 00:38:06.159 Hallelujah. 00:38:17.440 --> 00:38:18.639 Oh, hallelujah. 00:38:19.199 --> 00:38:20.400 Glory to God. 00:38:21.199 --> 00:38:22.800 Bless your name. 00:38:23.679 --> 00:38:25.599 Bless your name, Lord. 00:38:26.880 --> 00:38:27.840 Hallelujah. 00:38:29.119 --> 00:38:30.079 Oh, God. 00:38:31.440 --> 00:38:36.000 And now, my friends, I want you with your voice. 00:38:36.159 --> 00:38:41.920 I'm not asking you to shout loudly or I'm just asking you with your voice so that you can hear your voice. 00:38:42.079 --> 00:38:44.400 The Bible says faith comes by hearing. 00:38:45.039 --> 00:38:46.639 Hearing by the word of God. 00:38:46.800 --> 00:38:49.760 And here's what I want you to do. 00:38:50.639 --> 00:38:58.159 I want you to ask the Lord for what you want in Him. 00:38:59.440 --> 00:39:03.360 If you don't have a description for what you desire, that's fine. 00:39:03.519 --> 00:39:05.760 Maybe you're going to say, Lord, I want it all. 00:39:06.079 --> 00:39:09.760 I want everything that you have for me. 00:39:10.400 --> 00:39:14.880 But I want you to spend some moments telling him with your voice. 00:39:15.199 --> 00:39:17.199 You'll say, I'm not comfortable. 00:39:17.440 --> 00:39:21.440 I'm not comfortable speaking out like that. 00:39:21.599 --> 00:39:26.320 Well, friend, number one, nobody's going to hear you because everybody around you is praying. 00:39:26.400 --> 00:39:34.400 But number two is this your voice is the key instrument of praise that God recognizes. 00:39:34.880 --> 00:39:40.960 Lift your voice just as you would speak to me, as you would speak to someone else. 00:39:41.039 --> 00:39:44.880 And I want you right now to just ask God, say, Lord, fill me. 00:39:45.199 --> 00:39:46.480 Fill me, God. 00:39:46.880 --> 00:39:50.159 Lord, give me what you have for me right now. 00:39:50.239 --> 00:39:50.719 Everyone. 00:39:50.880 --> 00:39:52.559 One, two, three. 00:39:52.719 --> 00:39:53.599 Everyone. 00:39:53.840 --> 00:39:54.880 Everyone. 00:39:55.280 --> 00:39:56.239 Everyone. 00:39:57.119 --> 00:39:58.880 Everyone asking God. 00:39:59.119 --> 00:40:01.519 Now, Lord Jesus, I know you see this. 00:40:02.159 --> 00:40:09.599 Lord, this whole body of people crying out to you, asking you for more. 00:40:10.639 --> 00:40:13.119 We want more of you. 00:40:13.760 --> 00:40:16.880 We desire more of your Holy Spirit. 00:40:17.119 --> 00:40:18.800 More of your power. 00:40:19.360 --> 00:40:20.239 More of your love. 00:40:20.320 --> 00:40:22.800 Lord God, we see it in the scriptures. 00:40:23.280 --> 00:40:25.119 And that's what we want. 00:40:25.599 --> 00:40:28.000 If it's there, it can be here. 00:40:28.960 --> 00:40:34.559 And if anyone has tapped into your divine flow, we can. 00:40:35.199 --> 00:40:36.960 God, we give you glory. 00:40:37.119 --> 00:40:38.239 Give us more. 00:40:38.559 --> 00:40:39.679 Give us more. 00:40:40.000 --> 00:40:41.840 In the name of Jesus. 00:40:42.239 --> 00:40:43.840 More of you, Lord. 00:40:44.320 --> 00:40:45.599 More of you, Lord. 00:40:45.840 --> 00:40:46.719 More of you. 00:40:47.840 --> 00:40:58.880 You're going to get down into the quick of your soul where you're actually feeling that twinge of God dealing with you so deeply. 00:40:59.119 --> 00:41:00.239 Hallelujah. 00:41:00.480 --> 00:41:02.320 Bless the name of the Lord. 00:41:02.639 --> 00:41:04.079 God, we love you. 00:41:04.719 --> 00:41:06.159 God, we love you. 00:41:06.800 --> 00:41:08.719 Oh, we love you, Lord. 00:41:09.199 --> 00:41:10.800 We give you glory. 00:41:11.920 --> 00:41:13.039 Hallelujah. 00:41:13.920 --> 00:41:14.719 Rebecca. 00:41:22.400 --> 00:41:23.199 Rebecca. 00:41:42.159 --> 00:41:43.599 God, we love you. 00:41:44.079 --> 00:41:44.960 Oh, we love you. 00:41:45.119 --> 00:41:45.679 We praise you. 00:41:46.800 --> 00:41:47.519 We pray you. 00:41:51.679 --> 00:41:53.199 Thank you, Jesus. 00:42:05.119 --> 00:42:08.239 Jesus is here. 00:42:09.440 --> 00:42:10.239 Sing it. 00:42:12.079 --> 00:42:15.440 Jesus is here. 00:42:15.679 --> 00:42:16.800 Help me, help me. 00:42:18.239 --> 00:42:22.079 All things are possible. 00:42:22.559 --> 00:42:23.199 Yes. 00:42:24.719 --> 00:42:27.199 Jesus is here. 00:42:27.599 --> 00:42:29.679 Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. 00:42:30.559 --> 00:42:34.719 Jesus is here. 00:42:34.960 --> 00:42:35.599 Amen. 00:42:40.960 --> 00:42:42.079 Hallelujah. 00:42:43.039 --> 00:42:46.719 All things possible. 00:42:49.519 --> 00:42:54.159 Jesus is here. 00:42:55.199 --> 00:42:56.719 Lord, I believe. 00:43:00.800 --> 00:43:02.239 I believe Lord. 00:43:06.559 --> 00:43:08.159 Thank you, Jesus. 00:43:09.679 --> 00:43:14.000 All things possible. 00:43:15.840 --> 00:43:16.400 Lord. 00:43:18.960 --> 00:43:20.239 Believe. 00:43:24.880 --> 00:43:33.519 I believe Jesus. 00:43:39.760 --> 00:43:41.199 Thank you, Jesus. 00:43:42.960 --> 00:43:46.800 Lord, I believe. 00:43:48.000 --> 00:43:49.440 Thank you, Jesus. 00:43:56.159 --> 00:43:57.039 Praise God. 00:43:57.119 --> 00:43:59.679 What's gonna happen is this, ladies and gentlemen, listen. 00:44:03.599 --> 00:44:10.239 There is going to come a season of the Spirit upon us. 00:44:11.519 --> 00:44:16.639 Just like we have summers and falls and winters. 00:44:17.920 --> 00:44:21.360 There's a season of the Spirit coming upon us. 00:44:22.239 --> 00:44:31.840 This is the season when the voice of God is crying out to the nations to prepare yourself. 00:44:33.599 --> 00:44:41.119 And there are so many of us that have just walked every day out like we have in the past. 00:44:42.079 --> 00:44:44.559 Because we never heard the voice. 00:44:46.639 --> 00:44:58.239 As this season of preparation comes upon you, I'm not going to in any way begin to suggest a litany of things that might happen. 00:44:58.719 --> 00:45:08.400 Because I want you to be surprised and guided by your own journey, by what God says to you. 00:45:09.039 --> 00:45:16.880 That's part of the delight of a season of God really coming upon you. 00:45:18.159 --> 00:45:32.079 I believe with all of my heart that this is going to be a wonderful turning point in many ways for people that desperately need it. 00:45:32.880 --> 00:45:36.880 And let me just tell you, I'm one of the ones who desperately need it, okay? 00:45:37.199 --> 00:45:41.920 I want revival in my soul, and you should too. 00:45:42.159 --> 00:45:49.679 You say, Well, I'm already pretty much, yeah, and there's a whole lot more in that book you need to experience. 00:45:50.159 --> 00:45:55.920 So let's all believe that God has more. 00:45:56.079 --> 00:45:56.719 Amen. 00:45:57.199 --> 00:45:59.760 Let's believe that God has more. 00:45:59.840 --> 00:46:01.599 How many of you are refreshed in your souls? 00:46:01.840 --> 00:46:04.320 Raise your hand if you say, I like this pastor. 00:46:04.559 --> 00:46:06.320 I'm refreshed in my soul. 00:46:06.639 --> 00:46:07.280 Amen. 00:46:08.239 --> 00:46:09.519 Glory to God. 00:46:10.079 --> 00:46:11.360 Praise the Lord. 00:46:11.679 --> 00:46:13.119 Can you say amen? 00:46:13.519 --> 00:46:14.400 Hallelujah. 00:46:14.559 --> 00:46:15.280 Praise God. 00:46:15.440 --> 00:46:16.320 Let me bless you. 00:46:16.480 --> 00:46:20.559 And then we're going to leave with a focus. 00:46:20.719 --> 00:46:22.239 This is the season of God. 00:46:22.480 --> 00:46:23.119 Amen. 00:46:23.440 --> 00:46:24.960 This is the season of God. 00:46:25.119 --> 00:46:26.559 Listen for his voice. 00:46:26.800 --> 00:46:28.159 He will speak to you. 00:46:28.400 --> 00:46:29.280 I promise. 00:46:29.519 --> 00:46:29.920 Amen. 00:46:30.079 --> 00:46:32.719 May the God of Jacob protect you from all harm. 00:46:32.960 --> 00:46:35.440 May the Lord answer you when you're in distress. 00:46:35.760 --> 00:46:39.360 May He send you help from the sanctuary, grant you support from Zion. 00:46:39.760 --> 00:46:44.159 May remember all your best sacrifices, accept all your best offerings. 00:46:44.320 --> 00:46:46.000 May He give you the desire of your heart. 00:46:46.239 --> 00:46:48.000 Make all your plans succeed. 00:46:48.239 --> 00:46:51.199 And yes, we will shout for joy over your victory. 00:46:51.440 --> 00:46:53.920 Lift up our banners in the name of our God. 00:46:54.320 --> 00:46:54.960 Amen. 00:46:55.199 --> 00:46:58.880 May the Lord answer all your prayers. 00:46:59.039 --> 00:47:00.159 You are loved. 00:47:00.480 --> 00:47:01.119 Amen. 00:47:08.800 --> 00:47:11.039 Thank you for connecting with us today. 00:47:11.199 --> 00:47:18.480 The first step to a new life in Christ is receiving the gift of salvation through Jesus Christ. 00:47:18.639 --> 00:47:25.760 If you have never received Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and Savior, repeat this prayer after me. 00:47:26.079 --> 00:47:32.079 Jesus, I believe you died on a cross and rose again for me. 00:47:32.559 --> 00:47:38.000 I ask that you come into my heart and be the Lord of my life. 00:47:38.320 --> 00:47:40.719 In Jesus' name I pray. 00:47:41.280 --> 00:47:41.920 Amen. 00:47:42.480 --> 00:47:51.920 Whether you committed your life to Jesus for the first time today or are already on your journey of faith, we would love to stay connected with you. 00:47:52.079 --> 00:47:59.440 Please visit scchurch.com and follow SCchurch on all social media platforms. 00:47:59.599 --> 00:48:03.199 And remember, 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