I like that look I speak every week I have never had that
reception in my life what's your name Abel you're my hero
I want you to come with me everywhere that was that was insane I am I am
really excited to speak right now lately I've just been so you know I think it
became a job maybe or just a responsibility not a job but just you
know you just know you've got to do this what God's called you to do um but
lately like there's an excitement that's come back to speaking as I look in
Scripture and and I think about how the Bible says that every one of us to each
one has been given a manifestation of the Holy Spirit for the common good that
it's not just preparing something a speech and then coming and giving it but
that there's actually like an intertwining of the Spirit of God with
my own spirit and the thought that he could actually take control of my body
take control of my lips take control but we're talking about God here okay you
know I mean he can do anything and the thought that what he wants to do is
basically have Francis died to himself and have Christ lived through me like
like the reality of that it's just hitting me harder lately like you're
serious you're serious just like like the Holy Spirit
filling the temple of God or the Holy of Holies like that type of power now
actually could manifest through me to you like this isn't just this speech
this isn't just okay that's what no no like like I want that and I start
getting excited like like I just I want that with you Lord I I don't know who
I'm quoting it's either Martin lloyd-jones or RC scroll or John Piper
but one of the three of them I made this statement they said the two most
romantic places on earth to him are the prayer closet and the pulpit and I
totally got it it's like there are times when I am alone and I'm praying to God
and I'm just gone I don't want to leave this place I am so happy right now this
is what life is about in fact is there a way you could just
take me up into your presence right now I just want to see you I want to be with
you like it's it's it's a new thing understand this is newer for me there's
times I'm praying and you know how when you're holding your toddler or your
newborn you have so much affection but you you you just don't want to squeeze
too hard but you want to because you want to show more love this baby's just
been born and you want to squeeze this baby because you have so much love you
want to express but you can't and that's what I feel towards God like there's
times where I'm going god this isn't enough this isn't enough I can't touch
you like I I really want to see you right now I really want like it's like
talking on the phone or prayer this is getting a little bit old I like I want
more of you God like that type of longing like it's a romantic place that
time of prayer I hope it is for you and then this this
it used to be when I was younger it would like stress me out and I prepared
I'd be thinking about everyone else but now I'm at an age where it's like God
it's like we're dancing up there it's like you're here and this is what I was
made for that your spirit could manifest
father could your spirit just speak through me now I can't really be your
spirit not me in the flesh
could you call people in this room to leave the comforts of their homes make
your name known your glory known in a foreign country
it's an unreached people may they believe that that could happen and just
hunger for it your spirit would just fall upon them in such a way that you
move them to someplace they've never even heard of and where they're just
enjoying your presence and it's enough it's enough God would you awaken us to
who you are and this amazing amazing mystery amazing mystery God man I just
speak I don't want to just speak Lord
God may there be a demonstration of your spirits power hallelujah Jesus you're so
good you're so wonderful Holy Spirit you're welcome here
I want you here I don't want to be led by you my brothers and sisters for your
name's sake that you would wake up your church
and that we would fall in love with you all over God for those who have not been
in love with you enjoying you made they put that above all things may we
experience you like never before oh god may I experience you like never before
God we pray these things in Jesus name Amen
I'm coming off of one of the best weekend's of my life maybe the best just
in my personal ministry and my time with the Lord
Friday afternoon I'm going to share some things I don't know where you are at
theologic that I don't know where I am anymore
I'm just gonna be honest and not hide what's going on and you can I don't know
do what do what you want with it but I only knows Friday I was asked to come
into the office and speak with some people that were visiting from another
place wanting to know more about what we're doing with church and and I was
like okay I've got an hour I'll come in for an hour I'll answer some questions
we'll pray and I really need to get back so 11 a.m. I had I get to the office
meet with a group of people and we I say let's just pray before we knew it it was
already past 12:00 and there was no talking and I was like you know let's
just let's just keep praying I don't want to leave this this is so sweet this
is so good and and and just because we have other things that we have to be at
like what what's what's bigger than this this has been so good and before we know
what it's 5 p.m. and we're still praying and I was like let's just keep going
this is awesome and before we know it it's midnight and one hour of prayer
turn into 13 hours of prayer and and I this isn't normal for me
this isn't this wasn't I don't know that I've ever prayed I don't believe I've
ever prayed that long but it was just it was just awesome it was awesome just
seeking the president times when we were just crying like sobbing over the lost
as we were praying for people that we love the
don't know Jesus whatever I think everyone in there was just quite there
maybe 20 of us just crying two other times when we're screaming at the top of
our lungs you know and this is new for me and you gotta understand there have
been times when I've been in worship settings like like I remember
specifically one time in Sydney Australia where there's a group about
this size probably everyone in there is jumping and worship and I'm just
standing there seriously I'm like god I want a job I'm just so embarrassed like
you know because I strand you're so much cooler than us and I just like you know
moving my head a little bit okay so that's me
and man and Here I am in prayer I just I'm screaming I'm I'm picturing that
woman that that that was weeping at Jesus feet you know and cleaning his
feet with her hair and washing his feet with her tears while everyone else is
looking on like oh my god I don't want to be one of those onlookers anymore you
know it's this this coolness this dignity this self-awareness our dignity
is destroying our worship and and to worship with all of our heart all of our
soul all of our mind so we're screaming at the top of our lungs
we're weeping I mean just it it just it was I just loved it I loved it I just
love being in the presence of God then there was a gal that we're actually
playing for a husband she was can you just pray for me too she's just had a
baby I can't even wipe and I broke my toe my
little toe I'm yeah it's a little thing but it's it's huge you ever broke your
little toe you know because I came in why I can't even carry the baby it's so
hard to walk and I took forever to get my boots on this morning and just even
to make it here and they just started praying for her and I'll tell you I've
never healed anyone I've tried I believe it like I see it in Scripture
you know but I mean there was a while that I didn't even believe in it but
then I was like gosh it it just seems like we should be able to but every time
I'm in the room seriously like nothing happens um hi this is no joke even
overseas like you think no I'm I'm being so serious right now cuz people are like
oh you got to go to Africa you want to see miracles as I show up and it's like
nope now while he's here you know India I mean everywhere you think like okay I
want to see miracles I want to see miracles I hear about them all the time
but I never get to see it and we're in this room and and and we're praying
there's like 20 of us praying for one toe this after screaming crying like
okay this if it's gonna happen I serious there's gonna lure dree Lee how many
Christians does it take to heal at oh that's I seriously thought that I prayed
that like god I'm gonna be so discouraged today again they're praying
for hurt oh no lie I start backing away thinking I'm not gonna screw this one up
because I'm thinking it's my lack of faith that I've just never seen it I've
never seen it and and I know this cow is one of our pastors wives I love her and
they're praying and like hey be honest how does it feel now hmm I think a
little better my oh here we go again I think a little better this this is this
this is a perfect snapshot of my healing career but this group their theology was
a little different from mine and they were talking about persistence and they
go you know the persistent Widow they said there are times Jesus even you know
started healing someone he could see some
thing moving and he prayed more and more like okay talked about Elijah when he
prayed and the cloud he kept just seven times like I would have quit I would
have and so they'd pray some more and like okay a pain level it was that a ten
where's it at maybe eight maybe prayed some more maybe five oh it actually does
feel better it's out of four whoa it's actually a lot better now it's a tattoo
this is crazy but I still feel the sharpness in my toe and they kept
praying praying and I'm like God it's gotta be all or nothing like this is you
and I'm back I seriously was not praying at that time just watching and then I
just started thinking you know what that's Satan saying that oh it's
whenever you're around there's no way that's just satanic and I just pictured
myself on my face holding her toe and praying for and I just thought you know
I'm just gonna go for it and just kind of burst in the circle got on my knees
got on my face grabbed her toe and prayed and I said Lord and this is
quietly in my own mind just going god I don't want like it feels better I want
her to scream I wondered just to be overwhelmed
I want her jumping up and down not it went from a 10 to an AIDS or something
like that Lord I want it all gone
suddenly I hear no way no way she starts jumping up and down going I feel nothing
I feel nothing I can't believe it I can't believe it I mean it was just
and then this past weekend like after that we had like a dozen different
people get healed I haven't had a dozen people seriously in my lifetime
even with it's just something the Holy Spirit it started with prayer it was the
first time in our church's history and I know that we've been around that long
but in these five years where we felt like in Acts chapter 2 verses everyone's
feeling a sense of awe that's exactly what went on this weekend everyone's
like what just happened what's going on elders pastors work on what is going on
here this is awesome this is awesome we're
feeling the sense of awe and and and it's it's it's rooted and prayers rooted
in love it's not just or just that's just seeking the sides it's just I'm
just saying it just happened and my prayer time to the Lord have been so
rich and so good and I I hope that's true of you and as I've been coming to
speak at different places I'm just more mindful of the presence of the Holy
Spirit of him he's here he's with me and he could speak to me through through me
to you and I want that I want that I want I know some of you guys are hearing
this and it may sound a little weird to you
maybe not the healing part I'm sure that's that's unique to somebody I'm
telling it's new to me but maybe the the weirder part is is the affection and the
love and the desire and prayer and the that just oh I want Jesus because one of
the things that saddens me is is I don't I don't see a lot of that in the church
in America where I don't hear a lot of verbage of I hear a lot of oh my pastor
gave the sermon Oh our church was like this oh this program or did you go did
you hear the new song did you do this oh we had a great but I don't hear a lot of
you going oh man I with Jesus this morning it was just me
and Jesus in his word and he was just speaking to me and I couldn't get enough
of him oh I just wanted that for me to live is just to be with him and to die
can't wait to die and just be with him because I'm obsessed with him like I'm
not hearing that verbage come out of our churches and yet what's this book all
about we say when you become a Christian oh this isn't a religion it's about a
relationship with him but how many people talk like it's a relationship
with him a real person Atlee you love with all your heart soul mind and
strength I mean isn't that what the Garden of Eden was all about like
walking when you read about Adam think about this suddenly dust and then it
just forms a man and God breathed into him and he's looking at his Creator
imagine that the first man first human being what does that like to exist
suddenly and then look at your Creator and someone's looking at you saying I
just made you what am i I exist you made me I can't imagine
Adam just gone right you know right I mean what a moment you made me and then
how he makes a partner for him Eve and the two of them can you imagine try to
imagine you and your spouse or a loved one literally walking in a perfect
garden with the Creator the one who made you just corner you've gotta be kidding
me an understanding that there is no power
anywhere that rivals has not even close everything that was made was made
through him and for him and now he's walking with
for you in the garden how peaceful do you feel what is there to fear man when
you hear that I hope you're jealous if there's nothing in you that screams and
goes that would be insane then you don't get it this book was about God and how
he would speak face to face sometimes not visibly but but it is like this
communicate like like Moses going up on the mountaintop and go home he was with
God Moses going to the tent of meeting Abraham being a friend of God
then this book is about David saying gosh I could be in a desert I'm not
gonna dry weary lad like I'm about to dehydrate and die and yet all I can
think about is you and being with you and how I want you more than I want
water right now it's about people who are obsessed like he's like gods this
addiction to them you know you work with addicts before and how an addict like
nothing makes sense you're gonna lose your family that you love I love my kids
but give me that drug you're gonna lose everything you can die on the streets I
know this is ridiculous but I gotta have this drug that's the way I see them
talking about Jesus that's the way I see them talking about God like I'm gonna
try to wear that tie but you know what all I can think about is God how I want
him this is what I hunger for that there's
one thing I ask Lord this is what I'm gonna go after I just want to dwell in
the house of the Lord every day of my life can I just every day have this
experience where I'm just with you and I feel you and I'm just staring at you -
I'm just Daisy at the beauty of your temple like can I can I just can I do it
every single day might that's the only thing I want God is everything is trying
to distract me that I get one thing on the earth make us of it every day I'm
like dwelling in your temple and I'm like looking at you and staring at you
and you're looking at me and we're communing it's one thing I asked that
will I seek I may dwell in the house of Lord all the days of my life
it's Paul sang for me to live is Christ to die is gain I cannot wait to die I
love Jesus so much I just want more everything else is crap all my
achievements everything else he said amounts to a pile of crap he says in
Scripture I consider it all that's its bit dung
oh is that make it more biblical dung it's just you know like it's it's it's
like everything you guys it's obsession right and then what is the end of the
book say God says and I'm gonna dwell with them again that's what happens
about there's no more sickness there's no more pain yeah but I'm gonna dwell
with them again happy awesome that'd be awesome
because I can't get enough of him I don't hear that type of verbage in the
church what are we producing if not lovers of Jesus consumed with his
presence I can't get enough of him you know and I guess I didn't even mean to
say all that I but I I think it's of the Lord I think if you're not in love with
him desiring him forget anything else I say I mean what in the world
forget about missions forget about discipleship why would we want you
disciple in anyone seriously that's serious no I'm be I'm not trying to be
facetious I'm just saying if you don't love Jesus why would we want to of you
you know I talked to guys if you're so stressed
out and everything else and they're trying to lead people to the Lord and
and they're trying to multiply and make disciples and I'm going gosh what are we
multiplying if it's not lovers of God that isn't I thought that was the
greatest come in I thought God says look if you don't repent and return to that
first love I don't care that you're doing all the other stuff I'll remove
your lampstand from its place he wants love he wants us to love him and are you
a lover of him if not ignore what else on that whatever else comes out of my
mouth and be focused on that and let God know there have been times I've told
them specifically God I'm not feeling it there's so many other things I want
right now get my heart right cuz I don't want to be like this now Sharon in the
workshop a few minutes ago like I like last August and August I turned 50 and I
told my church look I don't want any gifts but if you would fast and pray for
me that day and maybe we get together after a day of fasting and praying I'm
asking people to fast for me but here's some specific things in my assistant
sent it out number one would you ask God to make this the year where I just know
him more than I've ever known him like where I'm closer to him than I've ever
been that's my number one prayer request I
feel close to the Lord but I want more I want so much more I want to I want to
know how much can a human being know God while he's on this earth pray for that
fast and pray for that that God would take away all insecurities any doubt
I said fast and pray pray that I would be bold enough to say whatever he wants
me to say I just want to know where he wants me to go and what he wants me to
say pray for that and pray that I would be
disgusted with sin no like I like I hate it like I hate it prayed some something
something supernatural because some sin still appeals to me and I just want it
to be gross I want to be like that vomit like the Bible says like a dog returning
to its vomit I just want it to look that way feel that way smell that way like I
just don't want any of it in my life cuz I want to be so close to him like I want
to enter a new journey in life and so my church fasted and prayed and laid hands
on me that night and it was awesome and then my assistant gave me my present
which was a calendar it was a calendar of the rest of 2017 and on that calendar
every day there was a name of someone who committed to fast that day and pray
for me and so yeah is that like the coolest
present ever I'm like are you kidding me right now
this is the coolest gift I've ever heard of seriously someone was fasting and
praying for me every day for the last four months no wonder I jump into this
year and I am just a new man so in love with Jesus man and I just I'm just
focused I'm just getting serious like Lord I don't know what's left I don't
know what is left of my life my parents I didn't have any parents that live this
long you know like this is reality this is all that matters and I think
sometimes we just get caught up in the business of church and this and that and
we say things we don't really mean and we sing things we don't really mean and
and oh you know talk about how much I love him I love him I love him and and
yet we spent all week just doing stuff and not just enjoying him people like
whoa you prayed for 1213 hours it's like saying whoa you hung out with your wife
for a full day
how did you do that
you know like we you guys we're gonna be spending eternity with him and I'm just
saying that rush is coming like it's never come before and the flowing and
the thoughts that I feel like it's the mind of Christ that's coming into my
mind and words are coming out and I love it I do know that I was praying
Ephesians 1 for myself for a while as I was praying it for my church for my
pastors for other people where he says in verse 16 I do not cease to give
thanks for you remembering you in my prayers that the god of our Lord Jesus
Christ the father of glory may give you may just give you the spirit of wisdom
and of revelation and the knowledge of him having the eyes of your heart
enlightened that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you what
are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the Saints and what is
the immeasurable greatness of his power toward us who believe I've been praying
for this I'm saying God I this is something you just hand someone you just
give it to them you give them this spirit of wisdom and revelation in the
knowledge of him like I this isn't something I can teach you right now
hey you guys know him love him enjoy him understand his hope that's it's not
something that you can write on a screen or a PowerPoint and good good I
explained it to you Paul says know something a divine
interaction has to happen where he God on his throne gives you he hands you
heap in imputes puts into you this spirit of wisdom and revelation
where the eyes of your heart now suddenly the lights come on I can't do
this Paul couldn't do this that's why he goes I keep praying for this God
give it to him give it to him give it to him get the eyes of their heart what are
we don't even understand that what are the eyes of my heart like it's something
from the inner man where I get it deep inside boom I finally understand
how valuable he is I finally understand what it means to love him and to enjoy
him he says I want their eyes open so that they may know what is the hope to
which he has called you here's God can you do something miraculous God please
I'm begging you I have not ceased praying for these
people that the eyes of their hearts would be enlightened so they would just
know the hope the hope to which he's called you what's he talking about when
I read that I wonder and I I don't I haven't studied this enough to be sure
but I think of 1st Corinthians 2 when it says what no eye has seen nor ear heard
nor the heart imagined heart a man imagine what God has prepared for those
who love him these things God has revealed to us through the spirit
I think these go together where Paul says I'm praying for the spirit of
Revelation that the eyes of your heart would be in line so you would know the
hope to which he's been called which he's called you and then they're um 1st
Corinthians 2 he says no eye has seen no ear has heard no mind has conceived what
God has prepared for those who love him but God has revealed this to us by his
Spirit like there's something that doesn't it's just like it doesn't even
pass through our mind which is insane for some of you but if you study
scripture there are transactions between God and us that don't go through the
frontal lobe of your mind they're trans rationals that's why Paul
says sometimes I'll pray or I'll praise God and my mind is actually unfruitful
it's a quaint how can you do that then how can anything be good if your mind
isn't what there's just something that sits trans rational beyond just thinking
where he says you know that's why that's why Paul says I'm not gonna just keep
lecturing lecturing lecturing you I'm on my knees saying God make how how do you
lecture someone to where the eyes of their heart are enlightened Funko's I'm
praying for this that something happens through the spirit of revelation and
wisdom that God gives you and now suddenly you know the hope to what
you've been called no I seen it no ears heard no Minds conceived but God has
revealed it to us by his Spirit I've been praying that I go god I'm terrible
at hoping I'm like some of you who I don't like to get my hopes up and I
expect the worst when I go places so that I'm never disappointed and so then
I come to God's Word and he's telling me that there's this hope that should
anchor my soul and that's why Paul says I want you to know this hope to what
she's called you and I want you to know that there are things no I see no no
mind is even imagined what God has in store but God reveals it to us - spirit
I'm praying that for you so you then suddenly cuz when you get that and I
feel like I'm getting it more and more the things of the earth just seems
stupid they really do and now I understand why Paul says all those
achievements everything it's it's dumb I don't even I don't there's nothing I I
crave it about as much as I crave crap seriously because I've got this hope and
my eyes have been open and he says I'm praying that your eyes would beat of
your heart would be enlightened so do you know what the hopes the hope to
which he's called you what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in
the Saints because I want you to know what are the riches of his glorious
inheritance in the Saints he's not talking about our inheritance in Christ
he talked about that earlier he specific with his words here and now he
says I want the spirit of wisdom and revelation to come into the depths of
who you are and your eyes of your heart enlightened so you actually know the
riches of his glorious inheritance in us it's about God who can't wait to inherit
us wait you're telling me the creator of the earth who opened his mouth and
universe has just exploded that guy that God can't wait to inherit me he
considers me and you that Christ do something that beautiful on the cross
that that he's actually going I can't wait to inherit them here comes
my the glorious riches of my glorious inheritance I I want like so you're
telling me Francis Chan who's dead didn't even want him who never felt love
like like who was that weird kid rejected so you're telling me that the
god of the universe wants me that bad and sees me as his glorious inheritance
no psychologist is gonna talk me into that believing that that's only the
Spirit of God and for some of us that grew up just feeling like never good
enough never matched up never was got one hug from dad for me never one
conversation and now you're telling me that my Heavenly Father wants me and
sees me as his glorious inheritance and I can look at you and say yeah I'm
getting it I'm getting it I've been praying for this I really believe if he
loves me look at my life and look at the scriptures and go
how could I deny it he loves me oh how he loves me there's times I just I just
can't stop singing humming that melody just cuz I'm loved believe he's loving
me right now he's loving speaking through me
can't wait to inherit me precious and the sight of the Lord is the death of
one of his Saints oh wow Wow and here's the part I really wanted to
focus on in our remaining moments he says and what is the immeasurable
greatness of his power toward us who believe she wants the eyes of our hearts
in line so we know what the the hope is to which he's called you what are the
riches of his glorious inheritance and saints and what is the in look at these
adjectives immeasurable greatness of his power toward us who believe like do you
believe this because I I am sure there are many of you in this room you may
look at your life may think of what a mess you've made of it some of you are
older here I can tell and and you may go I don't know what I can do at this age
and I'm saying would you look at the scripture what is the immeasurable
greatness of power toward those who believe immeasurable see I could walk up
here in the flesh and just freak out be nervous think about what you were
thinking of me whatever or I walk on this stage and go god there's no limit
to what I could do in a few minutes there's an immeasurable man for those of
us who are so used to not matching up man I think about so you man I was just
in a room with like these Brainiac Christians that I love having dinner
there was like 10 of us in a room they got in a theological discussion and I
used every bit of my brain that I could to just listen I was paid
I was so attentive and at the end I looked there there I go I don't have a
clue what you're talking about not a clue I've been in context like that
where I'm just going I have limits you know I just do I I'm never I'm not gonna
make it in the Olympics no matter how much I train like I have physical limit
I mean maybe the luge cuz you just kind of lay there right but but other than
that like I just go there's limits right we're used to limitations I'm only gonna
be this strong only this fast only this intelligent and then you read a verse
like that where it says yet but there's immeasurable greatness of power toward
us who believe and then he explains it because you want an example he says this
power it's it's according to the working of his great might that he worked in
Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the
heavenly places far above all rule and authority and power and Dominion and
above every name that is named not only in this age but also in the age to come
he is you want to know about this power that's that's that's toward you he goes
imagine because it's like to pray let me give you an example of the power that's
towards you it's it's like when Jesus was crucified remember how God took that
body and raised it not only raised him from the dead but had him ascend into
heaven and not just barely above all rule far above all rule and
40 and he gave him the name above every name and it's not just for this
generation he goes it's for ever and ever so he took a dead body raised him
far above every other power that exists forever and he says there's an example
of his power there's a picture of his power and there is a measurable
greatness of his power towards you who believe do you believe that I mean
seriously when you look in the mirror do you think
that and go this is God's Word what can't I do
lor what's that we know what he says later in Ephesians 3:20 now to him was
able to do abundantly more than we could ask or imagine according to his power at
work in us it's not like it's not just God can do anything he wants to I says
no God can do beyond what you can even think and he does it through you and
here's saying there's an immeasurable greatness of power like this is stuff
where we go god you're gonna have to reveal this to me because I can't talk
you into believing this god you're gonna have to enlighten their hearts so they
believe this I I was in Brazil a month or so ago and it's having lunch with
this pastor out there what a great work great ministry and I was just telling a
man this is really cool what God's doing in your church and he made this comment
he goes yeah but it still feels like a zoo because you know what I mean I go
now I don't know what you mean he goes he has you ever see the movie Madagascar
I know of course I'm Christian it's it's a it's a smell those rare clean movies
we can watch right I think there's probably some thing with the hippo but
uh but he started explaining and once he he
said it he goes he goes you know our churches are like zoos where we
domesticate these wild animals and if you've seen the movie Madagascar the
movie starts off with the zebra in the zoo
it's his 11th birthday I think and he's he's looking at this painting of the
jungle while he's running on a treadmill and it's his birthday so the hippo and
the lion the giraffe come over sing happy birthday and he's just like I
gotta get out of here I spent half my life in this zoo I don't
belong here meanwhile the Lions like why would you
leave here look I sit in my cage they bring me to me and then I come out I
roar the kids scream I know what's gonna happen it and the hippo and the giraffe
they're all just like yeah yeah let's just stay in these cages what are you
talking about the wild he's like no I just know I was made for something more
than this and if you see the story and the long story short they break out
penguins help them and they they end up they end up in Madagascar and I remember
that scene where the animals are terrified and the Zebras like trying to
coach him go no this is where we've always belonged and and and he's trying
to run with the lion go run with know and use all four legs get out do you
know like let's go who's the lion who's a lion and then suddenly the line just
lets out this roar like he didn't even know it was in him and then suddenly all
these instincts came back and then he starts to eat the zebra you know and you
know and it was just that moment and and and and so as he said my church is like
a zoo you'll be seeing that movie right because it's just do we understand the
power given to these people and yet they're going No just just leave me in
my cage and feed me every week and then I'll put my kids in that cage and you
feed them all but my you there you feed them and this is this
this is but meanwhile there's a lot of us that are sitting in these cages going
man I don't belong in here there's something more than just roaring that
just once more I can do something with my life I belong where it's dangerous
you know and there's something in us where we're where it's there but we
can't just like he was explaining we can't just release all the animals
because they've been domesticated some of them really don't think they can
raise their own kids some really don't think they could make a disciple they
think they the only way to survive is to stay in this cage and have someone feed
me and we'll just sit here and complain about the food we've been given and
someone needs to come along like that zebra and run alongside and say no you
were made for more than this Holy Spirit show them show them the hope to which
they've been called help them understand your glorious inheritance and the Saints
and help them to really get this immeasurable greatness of power toward
those who believe now that power is like them power the power he exerted when he
raised Christ from the dead you guys yeah I understand I love the church more
than I ever have I love my local church so much I've never enjoyed praying with
the local church this much I've never just just been so grateful to be a part
of the body but in our churches we're just going you know what we need to
release yeah you know what it's dangerous in the jungle I'm not saying
you're not gonna get martyred I'm just saying it's what you were made for and I
think we know that deep down inside there must be more than this and I want
to pray right now that God enlightens you empower some of you to break open
some of those cages and start training some of these wild
to release them rather than contain them cuz there's a dying world I can't
imagine living in a country or a city where no one knows Jesus how desperate
that would be to not know this God that we've come to love but we need people
with boldness to really believe you know I was actually made for this to be his
witness he's gonna give me power Holy Spirit's gonna come in to me and he's
gonna give me power and I can be as witnesses in Portland in Oregon and all
the u.s. to China Africa India Indonesia Afghanistan like it's in me it's just
this wild power and God for your church leaders in here we got to start looking
at our congregations differently not just as people to protect
but these incredible gifted manifestation the Holy Spirit you know
people that have immeasurable greatness in them and to figure out how to release
and get to those who haven't heard and so I praise God for this conference I
praise God for some of you that are in furlough on furlough that have have been
out there and you knew it was crazy you got in some crazy situations but in the
midst of them you're like this is what I was made for I can feel the Spirit of
God in those times let me pray for you
father would you right now just give us the spirit of wisdom and revelation God
could you right now enlighten the eyes of her hearts so that we would know from
the core of our beings the hope that you've called us to the hope of being
with you the hope of walking with you help us to get it Lord open our eyes the
eyes of our hearts to the fact that you see us as your inheritance there were a
part of your eternal plan and you actually loved us long for us otherwise
the cross doesn't even make sense in God would you help us to know good because
there's times I just get scared and God at the core of our beings help us to
know the immeasurable greatness of power toward us help us to really believe that
you could do more than we could ask or think according to your power that works
in us Holy Spirit which you just move throughout this room enlightening
enlightening giving us vision for the future giving us courage giving us
security giving us hope thank you for my brothers and sisters in this room please
keep them strong keep them focused on you
I pray they have wonderful times alone with you this week which translates to
wonderful fellowship with other brothers and sisters and their churches which
translates to the sending and going in your power and your spirit and we just
dance with you alone in our prayer closet and while we use our gift for the
body that you so love your bride the church thank you God thank you it's been
so good Lord being here with you I love you more of you Lord all of you in Jesus
name we pray
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