Speaker 1: Stay standing, Stay standing, Let's honor the Lord. Oh Lord,
Speaker 1: You're so good, You're worthy, You're worthy. Thank you Lord
Speaker 1: for your flow, Holy Spirit flow through this place. Lord, Lord,
Speaker 1: blow your wind. Let the wind of the Holy Spirit
Speaker 1: blow in this house today. Lord, let it. Let the
Speaker 1: wind blow inside inside of us. Lord, and we thank
Speaker 1: you for your presence, and we honor you this morning
Speaker 1: in Jesus name. Amen. Thank you for that, and thank
Speaker 1: you Lord. I'm so grateful to be with you. This
Speaker 1: is the church of my dreams. My wife and I, Karen,
Speaker 1: my beautiful wife, showed up here seven eight years ago
Speaker 1: and we've been in heaven on earth at new horizons.
Speaker 1: So yes, yes, so we're we're grateful. If if I
Speaker 1: can flow today the way that John and Hugo we're
Speaker 1: playing guitar, we're in good shape. Man, those guys can
Speaker 1: just shred it. Okay, here we go. Two major seasons.
Speaker 1: I've had two major seasons in my life as a believer.
Speaker 1: The first season, the lights were off. The second season,
Speaker 1: the lights were on. The first season was up until
Speaker 1: I was age twenty one, and I'd tried to be
Speaker 1: a Christian as a kid. I'd go and i'd sneak
Speaker 1: into our TV room as a kid and turn on
Speaker 1: hot summer nights and watch Billy Graham and his and
Speaker 1: I'd get born again every time and walk down the
Speaker 1: aisle with as that art sung by George Beverly Shay,
Speaker 1: and it was I had an experience with God, but
Speaker 1: I never experienced the power to live it. I'd go
Speaker 1: to church, but I was just living like any normal
Speaker 1: unbelieving person would. There was no real difference in my life.
Speaker 1: I'd go to Young Life in high school and that
Speaker 1: didn't take. And I was around the Jesus People movement
Speaker 1: in the seventies when I was in high school and
Speaker 1: that didn't really take. And I was in college and
Speaker 1: trying different things, and it's just nothing really stuck until
Speaker 1: the lights came on. And the lights came on when
Speaker 1: I moved from the shallow end of the pool to
Speaker 1: the deep end of the pool. And that's why I know.
Speaker 1: I titled this message going Deeper with Holy Spirit, and
Speaker 1: that's what we're going to do today. We're going to
Speaker 1: get ourselves activated at a deeper level to go into
Speaker 1: the deep with Holy Spirit. So I was at church
Speaker 1: here Friday night and I thought, you know what, the
Speaker 1: title of this message really needs to be pool party.
Speaker 1: So we're going to have a pool party here and
Speaker 1: we're going to get more of us into the deep
Speaker 1: end with Holy Spirit. Is that good? That's okay? Okay.
Speaker 1: So water was a big deal as a kid growing
Speaker 1: up in Spokane. My parents said, moved from an eight
Speaker 1: hundred square foot a little tiny house in the valley.
Speaker 1: I was the oldest of six kids at age six,
Speaker 1: and we moved up onto the hill with this big
Speaker 1: house with five bedrooms that was built in nineteen ten,
Speaker 1: you know, and it had this old pool in the backyard,
Speaker 1: and the pool was concrete, it wasn't a fancy fiberglass one.
Speaker 1: And my dad would repaint it with that aqua pane
Speaker 1: every spring to make sure it was ready to go,
Speaker 1: and we filled it with water. Eventually we got a
Speaker 1: heater for it, and that was really cool. But there
Speaker 1: was nothing like going into the deep end when the
Speaker 1: paint was dry and all the repairs were done on
Speaker 1: the pool in the spring and it was time to
Speaker 1: bring in the hoses and we put those hoses in
Speaker 1: because it took about three days to fill it just
Speaker 1: running the hose, and it was so fun to go
Speaker 1: into the deep end and play in that water as
Speaker 1: it got deeper and deeper and deeper. And I think
Speaker 1: that's some of what the Holy Spirit wants us to
Speaker 1: do with him, is just go deeper and play in
Speaker 1: the water with him and try stuff out and try
Speaker 1: things and experiment with his presence and his goodness. So
Speaker 1: we also had a pool up the street where we
Speaker 1: took swimming lessons, a public pool, and I took Beginner
Speaker 1: Intermediate Advance and took the swimming lessons. But when I
Speaker 1: was a little kid, at the other end of the pool,
Speaker 1: in the deep end, they had a ten foot high
Speaker 1: diving board back in the day when you could have
Speaker 1: diving boards and pools, and that would be so cool
Speaker 1: to go in the deep end and jump off that thing.
Speaker 1: So finally I got old enough to go to the
Speaker 1: deep end. I got up enough courage one day to
Speaker 1: go up the ladder. Once you're standing up there, you're
Speaker 1: not just from five feet looking up at a ten
Speaker 1: foot diving board. You're at fifteen feet looking down at
Speaker 1: the water way way down there. And you're up on
Speaker 1: the board and there's people waiting on line. You can't
Speaker 1: go back down. That would be embarrassing, you can't return.
Speaker 1: And so so I crept out there to the edge
Speaker 1: of the board and just okay, I gotta step off. Okay, one, two, three, Oh,
Speaker 1: I gotta do it. I gotta do it. I gotta
Speaker 1: do it. Well, that's kind of like with the Lord.
Speaker 1: You know. Sometimes he the Holy Spirit, is leading us
Speaker 1: to go deeper with him, and it's okay. I wasn't
Speaker 1: going to die jumping off that board. I might land
Speaker 1: crook and hurt myself a little bit, but I wasn't.
Speaker 1: You know, when we'd be at the lake as a
Speaker 1: little kid, and my dad would take us out in
Speaker 1: the water, and when we were little, and he'd throw
Speaker 1: us way up in the air and we'd come down,
Speaker 1: but you knew that when you went under the water,
Speaker 1: his hands were going to be on you. Then sure
Speaker 1: enough those big hands around my side and he would
Speaker 1: pull me up out of the water. But I trusted
Speaker 1: him to throw me up and enjoy me and have
Speaker 1: that thrill. It was so fun to be suspended in
Speaker 1: the air like that and then come down in the water,
Speaker 1: knowing that his hands were there. Then I wasn't gonna sink.
Speaker 1: So we're safe jumping into the deep the Holy Spirit.
Speaker 1: So eventually I stepped off that diving board, and wow,
Speaker 1: that was cool because you hit the water so hard,
Speaker 1: and that's not you just crash into the water and
Speaker 1: you go down a long ways too. You're in the water.
Speaker 1: And then there came the day when it was not
Speaker 1: cool anymore just to step off, had to go head
Speaker 1: first and dive, and then you really went deep when
Speaker 1: you hit the water, in fact, so deep that you
Speaker 1: could touch the bottom. This is a twelve to fifteen
Speaker 1: foot deep pool, and man, it's a long ways up
Speaker 1: to the top. Let what you get to do and
Speaker 1: you're on the bottom is push and you go shooting
Speaker 1: up to the surface. And what a thrill. And that's
Speaker 1: what it's like when we go deep with Holy Spirit
Speaker 1: and go deep with him. There's more. He's got more
Speaker 1: for us. He's got more gifts. He's a good father.
Speaker 1: He gives gifts to his children. He's made that promise
Speaker 1: that he gives good gifts and that he gives the
Speaker 1: Holy Spirit to those that ask him. And Luke eleven
Speaker 1: it says he gives the Holy Spirit to those that
Speaker 1: ask him, and so we can have more of Holy
Speaker 1: Spirit and more of his presence, and I've even been
Speaker 1: practicing that over the last few weeks. I'm thinking, you know,
Speaker 1: how come we don't really operate, not just in speaking
Speaker 1: in tongues and that gift, but the interpretation of tongues
Speaker 1: and Holy Spirit start convicting me. Why don't you start
Speaker 1: practicing doing this in your own prayer time. I want
Speaker 1: you to interpret your tongue, so I would willfully do it.
Speaker 1: Now you might say all that you just make up
Speaker 1: the interpretation of the tongue. Well maybe, but I have
Speaker 1: the spirit in me that witnesses to whether, oh you
Speaker 1: just made that up, Jeff, or you know what? That
Speaker 1: was the Lord. You know, he encouraged me this week
Speaker 1: about some stuff in business and so forth. Just a
Speaker 1: little word that I spoke in English after I prayed
Speaker 1: in tongus. I thought that was God. That was really
Speaker 1: the Lord. Karen and I were sent on an assignment
Speaker 1: one day. A church used to and we were building
Speaker 1: a school, and our assignment was to go visit Oral Roberts,
Speaker 1: you know, the healing evangelists the nineteen sixties. And we
Speaker 1: sat in his living room in Newport Beach, California, and
Speaker 1: he talked to us for two hours. I mean, what
Speaker 1: a privilege. You know, the founder of Oral Roberts University,
Speaker 1: and he said why. I asked him, how did you
Speaker 1: build the school? What was the main thing you did?
Speaker 1: And he said, we would first dig a hole. We
Speaker 1: dig a hole, we would go to the edge of
Speaker 1: the hole and we pray in tongues, and then we
Speaker 1: would interpret what God was telling us to do, and
Speaker 1: then we would get the strategy on how to fill
Speaker 1: the hole with concrete and steel and beams. And now
Speaker 1: he's built this. He built a beautiful university that has
Speaker 1: sent tens of thousands of people in the mission field
Speaker 1: and onto the seven Mountains of society. And our son
Speaker 1: graduated from all Roberts University. I mean, it's still producing
Speaker 1: for God. So it's like, what what are we called
Speaker 1: to build? A family, a household, a business, a ministry?
Speaker 1: What is it that you want to build? What is
Speaker 1: it that you want to do? Would you like to
Speaker 1: participate with the Holy Spirit in the design we've been
Speaker 1: We did a remodel on the interior of a home
Speaker 1: here this last year and we just decided, Karen and
Speaker 1: I just decided we're going to invite you Holy Spirit
Speaker 1: into this project. Jesus, you are the chief designer. You
Speaker 1: are a designer, and we've just brought him into all
Speaker 1: the details of it. And it's amazing the way we're
Speaker 1: not experienced at doing remodels, and it's just amazing how
Speaker 1: things came together. So he wants to help us. He's
Speaker 1: the helper. So the lights came on when I got
Speaker 1: filled with the spirit, when the baptism of the Holy Spirit,
Speaker 1: or the immersion in his presence, with the evidence of
Speaker 1: speaking in tongues was introduced to my life and I
Speaker 1: responded to it, That's when the lights came on. That's
Speaker 1: when they came on, and I was a changed person
Speaker 1: from then. Actually calculated the other day. That was about
Speaker 1: seventeen four hundred days ago, and I've been praying in tongues,
Speaker 1: I think every day. I don't think I've missed the
Speaker 1: day since then. You know, I could not keep my
Speaker 1: hands on the plow in the lights off season. Not
Speaker 1: only was I looking back, I couldn't even hold onto
Speaker 1: the plow, but the Holy Spirit strengthened me with power
Speaker 1: to be a witness. The Word of God just came
Speaker 1: alive to me. It's like as I read the Bible,
Speaker 1: it would leap off the page like it was living,
Speaker 1: because it is living, and it would just grow in
Speaker 1: me and stuff was happening, and I could measure my
Speaker 1: progress as a Christian. And please keep in mind that
Speaker 1: entering into this power of the Holy Spirit and all
Speaker 1: that it is, it's not a free hall pass to
Speaker 1: a trial less life. You're still going to have challenges
Speaker 1: and difficulties. And there's still a whole part of walking
Speaker 1: with God that involves repenting and holiness and purity. And
Speaker 1: unless no matter how powerful you get, whether you whether
Speaker 1: you get out there, you're prophesying, you're raising the day,
Speaker 1: you're doing all that. We're doing all that. But if
Speaker 1: we aren't repenting and looking at our soul and doing
Speaker 1: our house cleaning, we're not going to be able to
Speaker 1: fill our walk. We won't finish strong. We stand on
Speaker 1: two legs and walk on two legs as believers. One
Speaker 1: side is the holiness and purity. The other side is
Speaker 1: the power. And some people don't choose to take the
Speaker 1: power side. And that's okay, that's okay, Paul said, I
Speaker 1: wish that you all prayed in tongues, but mostly that
Speaker 1: you'd prophesy. Paul had that desire for everyone, knowing that
Speaker 1: not everyone would, but it is available to all of us.
Speaker 1: And what's the difference and what allows us to have
Speaker 1: that or not. Sometimes if we think, well, I've tried
Speaker 1: to pray in tongues, but it hasn't happened, so God
Speaker 1: must not have that gift for me, I would suggest
Speaker 1: that the gift is for you. The gift is for you.
Speaker 1: Maybe there's just another piece of learning or something that
Speaker 1: has to happen. But the gifts and callings of God
Speaker 1: are without repentance. And what separates those that pray in
Speaker 1: the spirit and enter in the gifts of the spirit
Speaker 1: and those that don't is desire. Because it's God's the
Speaker 1: same for all of us. He has these gifts for
Speaker 1: all of us. But it's simply desire. Are you cultivating
Speaker 1: the desire or not? And so let's not sweat it
Speaker 1: with the ones that don't desire it. They want to
Speaker 1: swim in the shallow end. Great, they're in the pool
Speaker 1: with us. They're born again. Karen and I were in
Speaker 1: Thailand on a mission trip with our daughter where they
Speaker 1: were ministering two prostitutes in the Red Light district, and
Speaker 1: we spent about a week there at night, going out
Speaker 1: to the red light district, inviting the girls to the
Speaker 1: restaurant and coffee house and so forth, to get ministry
Speaker 1: and support and move on and separate from that lifestyle
Speaker 1: they wanted. And so half the team would stay at
Speaker 1: the house we are staying and pray. The other half
Speaker 1: would be out on the streets. And one night we
Speaker 1: were in the house praying, and there was other people
Speaker 1: there that were praying too, but we were quietly praying
Speaker 1: in tongues because there was people there that weren't and
Speaker 1: in received, but they were in their Bibles and they
Speaker 1: were turning pages and they're looking at things. And so
Speaker 1: after the meeting, I said to the person that was
Speaker 1: one of the people who is reading their Bible, son
Speaker 1: till I said, well, what were you doing? What is that?
Speaker 1: And they go, we are asking God for the scripture
Speaker 1: to pray for the exact situation that the people out
Speaker 1: on the street are in. And so they would be
Speaker 1: asking God. Were they praying in tongues? No, but there
Speaker 1: are brothers and sisters and so no big deal. But
Speaker 1: by the end of the week I had a prophetic
Speaker 1: word for one of them. For one couple and their
Speaker 1: daughter and they just loved it. And these people don't
Speaker 1: even believe in praying in tongues, but they were happy
Speaker 1: to receive them word. And everybody loves edification, exhortation, and
Speaker 1: comfort and that's what the spirit of prophecy is, right,
Speaker 1: it's edifying, it's exhorting, it's it's comforting. And so amen,
Speaker 1: I completely went off my notes. But we're moving from
Speaker 1: the shallow end to the deep end. Okay, who is
Speaker 1: this Holy Spirit? He's God for one, he's God. In
Speaker 1: Acts five one to four where Anonius lied to the
Speaker 1: people about the size of his gift, and Peter confronted
Speaker 1: him and said, you lied to the Holy Spirit. And
Speaker 1: then two verses later he said you lied to God.
Speaker 1: So right there, God in the Holy Spirit are one
Speaker 1: and the same. And we know Anonyus draw dead on
Speaker 1: the spot and they drug him out and buried it.
Speaker 1: I tell you a great power and respect. The Holy
Speaker 1: Spirit is to be respected. You know, he has feelings
Speaker 1: and emotion and he's easily grieved. But he is God
Speaker 1: and he's a member of the Godhead. When Jesus was
Speaker 1: baptized by John in the desert, he was water baptized.
Speaker 1: He came up, and what does it say? The Spirit
Speaker 1: of God, this Holy Spirit descended on him like a dove,
Speaker 1: and so he was baptized in the spirit. I think
Speaker 1: I don't know all the theology of this passed when
Speaker 1: you probably do, but I imagine because he's a man,
Speaker 1: as a human being, he needed the strength of the
Speaker 1: Holy Spirit to go in the desert for forty days
Speaker 1: and face the temptation. And it says the Spirit drove
Speaker 1: him into the desert. So he submitted to the voice
Speaker 1: of Holy Spirit. Okay. And also, Holy Spirit is like
Speaker 1: the wind. Let's go to John three eight. Holy Spirit
Speaker 1: is like the wind. The wind blows wherever it pleases.
Speaker 1: You hear it sound, but you cannot tell where it
Speaker 1: comes from or where it is going. So it is
Speaker 1: with everyone born of the spirit. The spirit is like
Speaker 1: when and a couple of weeks ago, I said, Lord,
Speaker 1: what are the characteristics of wind? And Jesus makes so
Speaker 1: many comparisons to weather and nature to illustrate the Bible, right,
Speaker 1: So he gave me this one. Can you see with
Speaker 1: me way back here? And it says, okay. So when
Speaker 1: there's two basic types of wind and how they form,
Speaker 1: there's high pressure and there's low pressure. Okay. The characteristics
Speaker 1: of high pressure is the air is stagnant and it
Speaker 1: doesn't rise. Okay. Here's the ground, here's the air, and
Speaker 1: it just sits there. It just sits there, and nothing happens.
Speaker 1: During the summer, this is characterized by weeks on end
Speaker 1: of hot rye, windless weather and where the air gets
Speaker 1: dirty and stagnant and so forth, and it's still the
Speaker 1: air is still. Nothing happens in the winter time. It's
Speaker 1: when it's cold week after week and sunny. That's a
Speaker 1: low pressure or excuse me, high pressure system. They say that, right,
Speaker 1: high pressure, high pressure. So the pressure is pushing down
Speaker 1: on the earth. Okay. The low pressure, on the other hand,
Speaker 1: is warm. Air is rising, okay. And the Bible says,
Speaker 1: our prayers are like incense. What do our prayers do
Speaker 1: they rise? Okay? You can start to see the connection here.
Speaker 1: So low pressure air is rising. And what happens when
Speaker 1: the air rises It leaves the void. And what has
Speaker 1: to happen. Air has to flow into the void into
Speaker 1: low pressure. So air has to flow in. And the
Speaker 1: faster and the more this rises, the more air has
Speaker 1: to swirl in. And the air doesn't just come straight in.
Speaker 1: It swirls like this because the earth is round, it turns.
Speaker 1: It causes this moving air to swirl. And this is
Speaker 1: where rainstorms and bad weather and then moving up the ladder, tornadoes, hurricanes,
Speaker 1: all the stuff. But was Jesus ever intimidated by a storm. No, No,
Speaker 1: he likes storms. You know, if he would have been
Speaker 1: in the movie, what's that movie called Twister? If he'd
Speaker 1: been in Twister, he'd be the guy driving the pickup
Speaker 1: trying to drive into the center of the tornado. Because
Speaker 1: he took the boat into the middle of the storm
Speaker 1: and slept. He didn't care. He walked on water in
Speaker 1: the middle of a storm. The Spirit of God came
Speaker 1: by Moses in a storm so strong that it broke rocks.
Speaker 1: You know, Jesus was not intimidated by the storm. And
Speaker 1: in the natural Jesus walk into a crowd that hated
Speaker 1: him and wanted to kill him and walk white through him.
Speaker 1: Jesus had no problem with storms. So so what if
Speaker 1: we're praying a lot, the wind of the spirit can
Speaker 1: move in right the window. Spirit and all great revivals
Speaker 1: were preceded by prayer, warm air rising. The prayer created
Speaker 1: low pressure in the Spirit and the Holy Spirit could
Speaker 1: move and start to swirl, and yeah, there'd be storms
Speaker 1: and havoc. Think about Azuza Street. They had so many
Speaker 1: critics that the critics of William Seymour and his team
Speaker 1: of prayer warriors would come in and try and mock
Speaker 1: them and discredit them, and they'd get saved and repent.
Speaker 1: You know this, the the Azuza Street started on the
Speaker 1: front on the in the house in La and there's
Speaker 1: so many people showed up to pray the front porch broke.
Speaker 1: Then they had to to another building. I mean, in revival,
Speaker 1: a lot of crazy stuff happens, and a lot of
Speaker 1: wild stuff happens, but revival happens, the wind gets moving.
Speaker 1: And what about all these people out here in the
Speaker 1: world standing around looking waiting for something to happen in
Speaker 1: their lives. This low pressure is just going to pull
Speaker 1: them in to the Kingdom. And so I tell you
Speaker 1: we need some storms, We need some low pressure created.
Speaker 1: And what triggers it is our prayer, our prayer. Well,
Speaker 1: it says in the Bible that we pray the mysteries
Speaker 1: of God when we pray in tongues. It's a mystery
Speaker 1: how that can happen in the spirit. We don't have
Speaker 1: to know every detail about it. We just need to
Speaker 1: partner with God. Can you imagine praying in tongues. It
Speaker 1: says we're praying the mystery of God. We get to
Speaker 1: participate with God's mystery. He has entrusted us with mystery.
Speaker 1: You know, you say, well, I praying tongues, believe in
Speaker 1: the interpret but I don't know if that's really God. Hey,
Speaker 1: it's okay, it's a mystery. It's just it's just a mystery.
Speaker 1: But he will He will give us insight through through
Speaker 1: prophecy and and and so forth. So we get to
Speaker 1: share in the in the in the mysteries of this.
Speaker 1: So okay, Well, how did the Holy Spirit came on
Speaker 1: that come on the scene. Well, uh, he he would
Speaker 1: show up in in leaders profits and so forth, annointed lives.
Speaker 1: But now it's available to all of us since the
Speaker 1: upper room. Uh. In the in the Book of Acts
Speaker 1: where the big group of over one hundred people were
Speaker 1: had tongues of fire come on them. That said in
Speaker 1: Acts two four that tongues of fire descended and they
Speaker 1: all all prayed in in in other tongues. And that's
Speaker 1: what really got started Jesus. Of course, we talked about
Speaker 1: Jesus baptism, the Upper Room experience. But a lot of
Speaker 1: critics will say that tongue cease there and the only
Speaker 1: legitimate tongues is when people understand in a foreign language
Speaker 1: when they hear their own language. But I would contend
Speaker 1: with that just by reading Acts eight fourteen to nineteen.
Speaker 1: Can we bring that up real quick? Acts Chapter eight
Speaker 1: fourteen to nineteen. This is in Samaria. Philip goes to
Speaker 1: Samaria and does great miracles and there's a revival of salvation.
Speaker 1: But Peter and John were kind of the tag team
Speaker 1: partners of Philip, and they go down to help people
Speaker 1: with the Holy Spirit. And I guess we don't have
Speaker 1: that scripture, but that's okay. So but they were filled
Speaker 1: with the spirit separately. They didn't even know about this
Speaker 1: Holy ghostism the spirit, but Peter and John helped him
Speaker 1: with Paul in Acts nineteen two to seven goes to
Speaker 1: Ephesus in a whole and these were believers in Ephesus,
Speaker 1: but they didn't know about the Holy Spirit. And they
Speaker 1: received the baptism of the Holy Spirit, and that was
Speaker 1: the beginning of the giant revival in Asia. It said
Speaker 1: all of Asia heard the word of the Lord, and
Speaker 1: it was twelve people that got filled and baptized in
Speaker 1: the spirit there. But Paul said, it said that he
Speaker 1: took those disciples and they debated and contended with the
Speaker 1: word of God for two years. In all of Asia
Speaker 1: heard the gospel. We received power to be a witness.
Speaker 1: When we're filled with the spirit, we don't have to
Speaker 1: strain to witness and share the gospel. It's all you
Speaker 1: have to do is walk around and live your life.
Speaker 1: Told me, when you step out of your house, Jeff,
Speaker 1: your life is not your own. Your on assignment everywhere
Speaker 1: you go. And we just to celebrate our anniversary. We
Speaker 1: just came off a cruise ship. There's five thousand people
Speaker 1: in a twelve hundred foot space, fifteen story, twelve hundred
Speaker 1: foot space. We had divine appointment after divine appointment after
Speaker 1: divine appointment. Where we all we did. We were eating
Speaker 1: and having fun and hanging out. We prayed for a
Speaker 1: man in Morocco, a shop owner who was a devout Muslim.
Speaker 1: We prayed for his sister who had twenty six surgeries,
Speaker 1: and we prayed in the name of Jesus. Here's an
Speaker 1: Infidel me praying for according to the Muslim, Infidel praying
Speaker 1: for his sister, And on and on it goes, discussing
Speaker 1: Christianity with Orthodox Jews and its God gives you the
Speaker 1: power to be a witness. When I got I didn't
Speaker 1: want any hype. I didn't want anything fancy. On the
Speaker 1: phone with a friend. Their family had been mentoring me,
Speaker 1: and I said, I'm ready for the Holy ghost. I
Speaker 1: was in college. Is that when the lights came on
Speaker 1: and I prayed, I received. I didn't really pray, and
Speaker 1: the phone's kind of nervous, and I just relaxed, and
Speaker 1: I said, I don't want anything weird. Lord, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't want to do that holy roller thing. There's
Speaker 1: holy rollers out there somewhere, you know. I've never seen
Speaker 1: one since, but there's holy rollers. I don't want to
Speaker 1: be a holy roller, but I want this gift. So
Speaker 1: I prayed. I just relaxed. I prayed in tongues for
Speaker 1: a half hour by myself and went to bed. And
Speaker 1: that was that, and the Lord gave me my tone
Speaker 1: down experience. There's lots of different ways people receive, but
Speaker 1: there is an immersion in the holy ghosts that he
Speaker 1: wants us to experience. I went to Denis a couple
Speaker 1: of weeks later. He tried to talk me out of it.
Speaker 1: He said, that's that gift is dead, it's passed away.
Speaker 1: But his advice didn't take I'd already had the experience.
Speaker 1: I'd already seen what the Word of God says about it.
Speaker 1: And so we got involved with the church where Karen
Speaker 1: and I over the years, where thousands of people through
Speaker 1: our church got filled with the Holy Spirit. And if
Speaker 1: we could bring up that guide to the Holy Spirit's baptism.
Speaker 1: I want you to take a picture of this. This
Speaker 1: is you know, people receive lots of different ways, but
Speaker 1: we've Karen and I have helped and other people in
Speaker 1: the service that went to our church have helped hundreds
Speaker 1: and hundreds of people be filled with the Holy Spirit
Speaker 1: through these steps. So we just we just go through it.
Speaker 1: Who is the Holy Spirit? First of all, you got
Speaker 1: to be born again, that's your meal ticket into the
Speaker 1: pool and then going into the deep end. Who is
Speaker 1: the Holy Spirit? He's God, He's the grant or powered
Speaker 1: to spread the Gospel. He is the teacher, comforter, and helper. Three,
Speaker 1: he has gifts for us that are available for the asking.
Speaker 1: Luke eleven thirteen says says that God give gives gifts
Speaker 1: to his children, and when you ask for the Holy Spirit,
Speaker 1: he will give it. There's no other qualifications other than desire.
Speaker 1: It's just desire. For Holy Spirit is with us. You
Speaker 1: receive Holy Spirit when you become born again, get you
Speaker 1: go into the deep end with Him. When you get
Speaker 1: baptized in the spirit. Number five, when you receive his baptism,
Speaker 1: he grants you the ability to speak in tongues. They say, well,
Speaker 1: I've tried to speak in tongues. Nothing happens. You have
Speaker 1: to move your vocal cords. You have to make a sound.
Speaker 1: It's a step of faith. It's jumping off the high dive.
Speaker 1: It might sound foolish, it might sound like baby talk,
Speaker 1: but it's okay because God will meet you at your
Speaker 1: point of faith and the language will start flowing. We
Speaker 1: don't understand number six, We don't understand tongues in the
Speaker 1: natural mind. It sounds foolish, but we are speaking mysteries
Speaker 1: under God and building our faith. We build our most
Speaker 1: holy faith. Jude one twenty says, when we pray in
Speaker 1: the spirit, it's personal edification. You can get yourself out
Speaker 1: of a depressed bag by praying in tongues really quick.
Speaker 1: I would suggest you read one Corinthians fourteen. It's a
Speaker 1: guideline for all things of the gifts of the Spirit speak.
Speaker 1: This is huge number seven. Speaking in tongues is an
Speaker 1: act of our will. The Lord will not force it
Speaker 1: on you or do it for us. Rather he waits
Speaker 1: for us to step out. It's all by faith, guys.
Speaker 1: It's the same thing. The enemy may try and convince
Speaker 1: you early on that it's not God, but it says
Speaker 1: submitted to God, resists the devil, and he will flee.
Speaker 1: Do you have any questions? Would you now like to
Speaker 1: receive the Holy Spirit's baptism and then you pray with people.
Speaker 1: So this is a guide for those of you want
Speaker 1: to help people be filled with the spirit. After a while,
Speaker 1: we just had it memorized. Karen and I were at
Speaker 1: the prayer event with several couples from the church and
Speaker 1: pastor Dwayne and Joel, and Holy Spirit said, this couple
Speaker 1: over here needs their prayer language. So I went up
Speaker 1: to the husband first, I said, you have your prayer language.
Speaker 1: He goes, yeah, I'm good, but my wife has been
Speaker 1: trying to receive it, and she doesn't have it. So
Speaker 1: Karen came over. We prayed with hers, this wonderful young couple,
Speaker 1: and she received her prayer language right in the middle
Speaker 1: of the mall in wash In DC, in the prayer meeting.
Speaker 1: And then her parents came. His parents came over to
Speaker 1: us a little while later and said, yeah, we prayed
Speaker 1: with them a month ago for her to receive her
Speaker 1: prayer language manifest until now. So they were grateful. So
Speaker 1: power to be a witness, power to be closer to God.
Speaker 1: And there's so much more we can flow. That tongues
Speaker 1: is the basic gift, but we can flow in prophecy,
Speaker 1: working of miracles, signs and wonders of all kinds. So
Speaker 1: let's do this. Let's everyone stand right now, and I
Speaker 1: want us to take just a moment to pray quietly
Speaker 1: in the spirit. How about we get the wind the
Speaker 1: air rising, and here, let's create a low pressure. Let's
Speaker 1: create a low pressure vacuum right here. Just begin to
Speaker 1: pray in the spirit. Just take a moment here, just
Speaker 1: pray quietly in the spirit while the band comes. Want
Speaker 1: you really respect the move of God here. Please don't
Speaker 1: move around too much. Unless you have to go get
Speaker 1: your kids. Thank you, Lord quo K. Thank you Father
Speaker 1: for the mystery of participating with you, with being part
Speaker 1: of your your wonderful presence, Holy Spirit. We're so grateful
Speaker 1: for our partnership with you. We're so grateful for your
Speaker 1: moving in our midst. You're moving in our midst. Lord,
Speaker 1: Thank you Holy Spirit. Now, with every eye closed, please,
Speaker 1: every eye closed. Please, if you're not sure if you're
Speaker 1: born again, if you're not sure that you know Jesus
Speaker 1: as Lord and savior of your life, would you just
Speaker 1: raise your hand right now, please, no one looking around,
Speaker 1: it's just private. Please raise your hand if you would
Speaker 1: like to be born again, if you'd like to know
Speaker 1: Jesus as Lord. Okay, I see those hands, Thank you. Okay.
Speaker 1: My next thing is I'd like you to consider going deeper,
Speaker 1: to jump into the deep end. Now. That means that
Speaker 1: you want to get re baptized in the spirit that
Speaker 1: maybe you prayed in tongues once, or you were at
Speaker 1: a camp when in the summertime and you prayed in
Speaker 1: tongues or something and then it stopped. Today's the day
Speaker 1: to have that reactivated. Today is the day. Now is
Speaker 1: the time if you have never spoken in tongues before.
Speaker 1: It says the Bible. It says believers shall lay hands
Speaker 1: on them and they shall pray in new tongues. Destiny Team,
Speaker 1: please come up, and we want you to come forward
Speaker 1: and pray with one of the prayer partners up here.
Speaker 1: Receive your step into the deep end, your immersion with
Speaker 1: Holy Spirit, your re dedication to the baptism of the Spirit.
Speaker 1: Maybe you want to flow more in in interpretation of
Speaker 1: tongues and prophecy and healing and so forth. Now's the
Speaker 1: time for that to be activated at a deeper level.
Speaker 1: So we invite you to come forward. Thank your Lord.