 My question was, is there a way to embrace the life of the Holy Spirit, the supernatural without becoming weird? And I promise you today is going to be a weird free zone. Hopefully we'll see some wonderful stuff go on, but I promise you I'm not going to try to make it weird. It doesn't have to be. It doesn't have to be. We can do a lot in our own strength, but only the Holy Spirit can transform us and use us as agents of transformation. That is why Jesus sent the early saints to the upper room to wait until they were endued with power. Acts 1-8. Endued means to bestow upon, to clothe. It means to put on. The Greek word for dunamis is a root word for dynamite or dynamic. And the night I was filled with the Spirit and I asked God to give me a prayer language. I didn't receive tongues. I received tongue. I got one word. And it was the word dunamis. And I didn't know what that meant. And what I thought was just, I heard this word I'd never heard before and I said it. And this this studious looking guy came over who turned out to be a college professor in Bible. And he said, Sunday, do you understand Greek? And I said, no, I'm struggling with English right now. He said, well, the words you've been saying for the last 20 minutes is dunamis. He went on to say it's the word for power. And then he prophesied over me that I would be a pastor and that I would prophesy to nations. And that word came over me again and again for the next few years until I finally caved in and submitted to God and put trying to go my own way. But that dunamis power is not just potential power. It's power in motion. It means power to work to get things done. It's about a power that actually moves things, moves people, moves cities, moves churches. Here's the deal. I believe the world is waiting to see a naturally supernatural church. And I believe it's possible for disciples of Jesus to embrace the supernatural work of the Holy Spirit without getting goofy. All right. Wouldn't that be something that we just were normal enough to be accepted at Walmart and say revival breakout at Walmart and not just in our church on a Sunday morning? Well, if you've got your Bibles turned to Acts 11, the early church continued the ministry of Jesus. And that's what the book of Acts is all about. Dr. Luke told the story what happened after Jesus, what happened when Jesus was here, but he was telling the story of what was happening with the disciples after he departed and went to heaven. Dr. Luke wrote in the book of Acts, he wrote to his friend Theophilus. Theophilus name means lover of God. So I guess the book of Acts was written to lovers of God. Anybody in here come under that category, written to lovers of God, written to us. The theme of Acts is that which Jesus continued to do by his spirit through his disciples. The heart of being naturally supernatural is to continue to do what Jesus did, being endued with power by the Holy Spirit. Let's look at verse one. I'm going to read through verse 11. Now the Jesus movement was about three things basically, is about being witnesses. I'd never witnessed anybody in my life until I was filled with the Spirit. And the night I got filled with the Spirit, I started telling my friends about Jesus. It just started bubbling out of me. So the Jesus movement was about being witnesses, is about getting baptized in the Holy Spirit. The big question was, I got it last night. Did you get it? I heard even Mary got it. Oh my God, everybody's getting it. And we thought that the Holy Spirit wasn't it, was an experience. And that would have been good enough. But when we learned that he really was third part of the Godhead, the Comforter, the one that comes alongside, the one that points us to Jesus, the one that empowers us to do those things that Jesus did, it changed everything. So I quit praying just to the Father, just to Jesus. Sometimes I just talk to the Holy Spirit and praise God. Sometimes the Holy Spirit talks to me. So the Jesus move is about being witnesses, being baptized in the Holy Spirit, and proclaiming the return of Jesus. We told everybody, Jesus is coming again. Jesus is coming again. We weren't worried about when he might come. We were just filled with the hope that he would come again. I remember one time in one of our meetings, we met every morning at 12.30 on the college campus, and there's a time change. And so a friend of mine went into the meeting and there's nobody there. He fell down on his knees and said, oh Jesus, you came and took everybody and you didn't take me. And he was crying when all the rest of us start trickling in, and he just, he forgot to change his clock as some college kids do. Let's read this starting with verse one. In my former book Theophilus, Lover of God, I wrote about all that Jesus began to do and to teach. Now there's an order there, do and to teach, until the day he was taken up to heaven after giving instructions to the Holy Spirit to the apostles he had chosen. After his suffering, when he had suffered and died on the cross, he showed and resurrected. He showed himself to these men and gave many convincing proofs that he was alive. He appeared to them over a period of 40 days and spoke about the kingdom of God. On one occasion while he was eating with them, he gave them this command, do not leave Jerusalem, but wait for the gift my Father promised, which you have heard me speak about. For John baptized with water, but in a few days, you'll be baptized with the Holy Spirit. That was the promise, the promise of the Holy Spirit. So when they met together, they asked him, Lord, are you at this time going to restore the kingdom to Israel? He said to them, it is not for you to know the times or dates the Father has set by his own authority, but you will receive power, dunamis, when the Holy Spirit comes on you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and all Judea and Samaria and to the ends of the earth, even Texas. After he said this, he was taken up before their very eyes and the cloud hit him from their sight. They were looking intently up into the skies. He was going when suddenly two men dressed in white stood beside them. Men of Galilee, they said, why do you stand here looking at the sky? This same Jesus who has been taken from you will into heaven, will come back in the same way you have seen him go into heaven. Now, when we started reading the book of Acts together, we just got lit up. We thought, that's exactly what's happening to us. That's what we're doing. The Holy Spirit is filling us and doing this with power, and we're sharing the gospel everywhere we go. We're talking about Jesus coming again, and we're seeing the stuff, we're seeing signs and wonders and miracles, and it just seems normal. It's like normal life. And I've been in church all my life, and I've not seen these kind of things that was going on. This seemed more real than anything I'd ever seen. Now, doing and teaching. We do a lot of teaching. We form a lot of committees to plan the doing, but often we don't get around the doing. We just do the teaching. Let me tell you what, teaching is a lot easier if they've seen you do it. If you do the stuff, then the teaching comes alive. And I'm telling you, people are hungry for the stuff. They're tired of our words. They're tired of our platitudes. They're tired of our cliches. They just want to see their mom who's dying get healed. That's what they're wanting to see. And it is a ripe time for another move, the Spirit to come. Pentecostal or Charismatic folks I've noticed through the years are all about worship and they're about baptism in the Spirit. But if you want to go to a Pentecostal or Charismatic Church, you're going to hear about baptism in the Spirit. And that's what they bring to the body of Christ, and I so appreciate them for it. Evangelical or Word folks tend to focus on the Bible and being witnesses to the ends of the earth. I love my Baptist friends. They love the Bible. They'll witness to anything that moves. They're like witnessing tanks. But I don't think they do as well without each other. Evangelical or Word folks, they're strong. They win people to the Lord. They love the Bible. Charismatic Pentecostal folks will worship until the cows come home. They'll get in the presence of God. They'll be transformed. They'll receive the Holy Spirit and the gifts of the Spirit. And then often that's it. They'll just echo around the walls inside the church and enjoy God's presence. Well, I think God is combining. The Word and the Spirit was meant to walk together. Jesus said they began to do and to teach, began to do the stuff. So the Charismatics and the Pentecostals need the Baptist. The Baptist evangelicals need the Charismatic and the Pentecostals. Maybe we just need to take those labels off and just be believers. Just be followers of the way. Here's the focus. Verse 3 shows that after his resurrection, Jesus appeared to them over a 40-day period, and he spoke about one thing. He didn't talk about the gifts of the Spirit. He didn't talk about the Torah or the word they had at the time. He talked about the kingdom of God. And that is the focus of being naturally supernatural. It's not about events or how many people come or how many records you sell or how many books you sell. It's about the kingdom of God. And when you tap into that, God can start using you in more powerful ways than you ever imagined that you could be used. Now, Jesus had one message in ministry. It was the Good News of the Kingdom. Mark 1, 14 and 15 says this, after John was put in prison, Jesus went to Galilee proclaiming the Good News of God. He said, the time has come. The kingdom of God is near. Repent and believe the Good News. Now we have messages like, we hope you have a great weekend experience. And I want a good weekend experience. I want to experience the presence of God. I want to make it easy for my neighbors and my unsaved friends to come to church. But it's more than that. The kingdom of God is near. There's a move of the Spirit that's breaking out all over the world right now. And we want to be a part of it. Since January, I prayed with, I think, 70 people to give their hearts to Jesus just since January. And I've not had a bunch of hype. I just asked people, wouldn't you like to be saved? Wouldn't you like to give your heart to Jesus? And people are saying yes. But no one's ever told me what to do. Let me tell you, the opportunity is unbelievable right now. We just need to meet. We just need to meet it with our doing and just quit teaching about it, but do it. Repent, believe the Good News. The Word and the Spirit working together. Matthew 9, 35 through 38 says, Jesus went through all the towns and villages teaching in their synagogues, preaching the Good News of the kingdom. Look at this. And healing every disease and sickness. Word and the Spirit together. When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them because they were harassed and helpless like sheep without a shepherd. Then he said to his disciples, the harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field. The kingdom of God is the recurring theme of Jesus' message and ministry. It needs to be ours as well. I don't need 12 more steps. I need the power of the Holy Spirit. Now I've got friends whose lives have been saved in some of the 12 step ministry, and I'm not putting that down, but I'm telling you what the church needs is the power of the Holy Spirit moving through believers. Two consistent expressions of Jesus' ministry, proclamation, and demonstration. He proclaimed, repent, the kingdom of God is near. I've tried to change my prayers from, oh God, please do this. I go and I pray over cities. I pray over churches. I pray over neighborhoods. I pray over families. And I start proclaiming what I know God wants for them. I'll start proclaiming, repent the kingdom of God is near. God has a destiny for you. He wants you out in front on the front lines. He doesn't want you hiding and cowering in your house. He wants you out there where the harvest is. Now, I'm not necessarily an evangelist. I mean, this is what evangelists always tell you, but when you get filled with the Holy Spirit and you start to experience a move of God, you get evangelistic. Your heart starts burning to see your friends and family members come into Jesus and you quit worrying about that they might get mad at you if you say something. Amen. Demonstration acts of mercy, healing, deliverance, multiplying food, raising people from the dead, power and authority over sin, sickness and death, doing the stuff. Jesus was doing the stuff before John Wimber coined the phrase and he was saying, you do this stuff too. And he said, greater stuff will you do than I've done. And I thought about that. How can you do something greater than Jesus did? Well, I led somebody to the Lord in Australia a few weeks ago from my office on Zoom. I don't think Jesus ever did that. I mean, he could have. But I thought, this is a greater thing. I got to lead someone to the Lord in Australia from Arkansas on Zoom. How cool is that? Now, many wonder why we don't see the stuff today, the healing, the miracles, the signs of wonders. Could it be that we've gotten away from the main aspect of Jesus' ministry? It's about the kingdom. It's not about me and my kingdom. It's proclamation with demonstration. Is it possible that we rely on human effort and human wisdom to fulfill a commission that could never be accomplished in our human strength? What Jesus asked you to do, he's tricky. You can never do it by yourself. You'll never be able to do the things that Jesus asked of you in your own strength. He wants you to depend on him. He sent the Holy Spirit to come alongside you to empower you to do those great and wonderful things that you'll never be able to do. I don't care how charismatic you are. I don't care how smart you are, how rich you are, how handsome you are, how beautiful you are. You don't have the stuff without the stuff. You don't have it within your human self. The Holy Spirit has everything you need and God will provide according to his riches and glory all that you need to fulfill your calling and we all have a calling. Is it possible that we rely on human effort and human wisdom more than we do on the Holy Spirit? Is our confidence in the Lord or is it in ourselves? People say all the time. Now, brother so-and-so, he witnesses to everybody and I'm just not that. I'm just not an evangelist and I just can't tell people about Jesus. That's just not my gifting. It's not my grace. Well, the Great Commission was to everyone. It wasn't just to the gifted evangelist. It was to everyone and he said, I will be with you. I will walk with you if you'll just do it. If you'll just tell others about me and I'm finding some ways that it's a lot, it goes a lot easier if you show people the gospel and don't just tell them the gospel. It's coming home. The whole COVID thing happened and my travel was shut down and I was coming home one day going, you know, Lord, my call is now out there. What do I do? I just can't shut down in my house and I had a picture of this little three by five card and I saw my name and address and phone number on it. I said, Lord, what are you showing me? He said, write all this down just like that and take it to your neighbors and just tell them that you're there if they need you. So I'm ashamed to admit of my four neighbors, I only knew one of them a little bit. I traveled all the time. I went around and said, hi, I'm your neighbor. You may not even know my name, but it really is Wayne Drain and this is my address and this is my phone number. I know that we're really concerned about COVID right now and you may be scared. You may need someone to go and get some food for you, whatever. Just let me know. Well, I had responses like this. Who does this? Who does this? I'm sitting here scared out of my mind wondering what am I going to do and you come up and you make yourself available. And so she starts talking to me. We talk about the Lord and we've had subsequent talks. Another guy who was, I think probably a college professor, who was probably an atheist. My wife felt when we went over to him to take a puzzle for some reason and she gave a puzzle to his wife who loved to do puzzles. Then they came back and they brought us some cookies that she had made and we took them a pie and now we're praying for each other all these things are happening and I just saw, naturally supernatural isn't always in front of thousands of people. Sometimes it's in your office writing on a three by five card your address and just saying, if you need me, I'm here. There's all kinds of ways that we can be used, that we haven't even thought about, that the Lord will help you. Well, let me give you an overview of the kingdom of God message that we proclaim. This is the Wayne Drain version. I haven't copyrighted it so you feel free to use it. Number one, we have a king who created everything. He gave creation to Adam and Eve to oversee and attend. They blew it by sending and gave up the authority, their authority to the devil. Satan wants to keep it, but our king has a recovery plan. Did a whole lot of things in the Old Testament getting ready for it, but in the New Testament, God sent his own son, the second Adam, on behalf of the king who brought with him the kingdom of God. Now the kingdom of God is not a place necessarily. It's wherever his rule and reign is. The kingdom of God is wherever you find his rule and reign. In the first place, you want to find it is in your own heart. Is the kingdom of God really in your heart? Are you willing to do what God wants you to do? It's his rule and reign in your heart. On the cross, Jesus ripped the authority and the power of Satan away from him, disarming him and delivering what would be a fatal blow. Jesus' death and resurrection took the keys of the kingdom right back into God's hands, and then salvation and deliverance from the devil became a reality. And God started a whole new tribe of people on planet earth. They're called believers, disciples of Jesus, Christians, followers of the way, lovers of God. And if you know Jesus, you're part of that tribe if you want to be. I'll tell you right now, you'll never be happy if you're passive. You need to do stuff. As subjects of the king, we work alongside the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Many think it's the Father, Son, and the Holy Bible, and I love the Bible. But the Trinity is the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Empowered by the Holy Spirit, we look for every opportunity to rob the enemy of his prizes. That's people held captive by his lies and his deception. That's why we proclaim and demonstrate. That's why we need to show and tell the kingdom has come and chains are broken. So we prophesy, we preach, we do the stuff wherever we go, wherever we are. That's what we do. I was trapped in a I was missing a conference in Nashville not long ago because of a bad connection. I'm sitting there frustrated. Then I thought, well, I wonder if God has me here for a reason. I looked over and there was a gal over there crying. I'm sensitive. A guy talking to a galley doesn't know, so I always kind of do this. I said, ma'am, I'm a believer. I said, I'm not trying to flirt with you. I'm a married man and all that. But I feel like a breakthrough is coming in the next few minutes. She starts crying and she had just gotten engaged and she was going to South Africa, her, the guy she was engaged to was going to meet her in South Africa, meet the parents for the first time. And they only had a little window between classes that she could go and the thing got shut down. I said, do you want to pray? And we prayed and she had all but given up hope. She was going to have to stay there all night and sleep there. And I said, let's, we prayed and then we heard an announcement. The flight is opening up. She runs down to the plane and she waves at me. Now that could have been, that could have been just something that would have happened anyway, but I don't think so. I don't think so. I think God wanted that little girl to get home and she had said, oh God, please help me. Opportunities are around us all the time if we will just look all the time. The kingdom has come, the chains are broken, but the final consummation of God's kingdom is still yet to come. So we live in the time between the times, the now, but the not yet between the first coming of Jesus and the second coming of Jesus. It's a unique season. The devil is defeated, but still powerful, bound, but not yet condemned to hell, active on earth, but limited in influence. Wimber taught that our job description as ambassadors of the kingdom of God was very specific, very biblical. He said, as subjects of the king, our job is to simply listen and obey. I remember I saw him in Little Rock and sometimes in his meetings demons would start crying out of people. So a lot of my friends I took hadn't experienced that before. So there's these people in the back in this lady just starts manifesting these demons. John's up there preaching and he said, he said, don't worry about that. That's just demons. My team will go back there and take care of that. You just let's keep talking here. And he was so cool and laid back his team went back there, prayed for her. She was delivered, set free, normal again. And I love it. It's like when Smith Wigglesworth woke up one night and the devil was standing at the foot of his bed and he said, oh, it's just you. Roll over, went back to sleep. I believe we can live that way, but it's going to take some investment in the kingdom. It's going to take you trusting the Holy Spirit to do what he wants to do through you. Amen. A couple more things real quick. John said something that changed my trajectory of ministry. He said, the ministry of Jesus is transferable. That idea rocked my world. It means that the professionals are not the only ones who get to do the stuff. God's people are a kingdom of priests where everyone has access to the Father. Everyone has a pulpit. Everyone gets to play. Everyone gets to do the stuff. And you're thinking even me and I'm saying yes, even you. The reality is this, Jesus kingdom ministry of words and works are transferable to every born again disciple of Jesus. And that includes all of you. There's only one ministry that can transform the lives of millions. And Jesus kingdom ministry. Now get this part expressed through us and I'll add in naturally supernatural ways. Church scared me when I was little. I thought I was going to get yelled at and get called out of all my sins and I just wanted to get out of there as quick as I could. But one night when I saw a member of my family healed, I thought maybe I can follow this Jesus. What is all this about practically? Simply this, it's about hearing and saying his words and doing his works. It's about proclamation and demonstration. It's about doing the stuff. I believe the world is waiting to see a naturally supernatural church. Doesn't always make sense to our human logic, but sometimes God offends our minds to reveal our hearts. With all the challenges swirling around us in church, city, states, nations, politics, education, you name it, everything swirling in confusion. We need to hire logic. We need to hire wisdom. We need greater strength in our own. We need words and wisdom and power from heaven. If we ask God to use us and listen till we hear and then do what we hear can be a time that faith overcomes fear. Generosity can overcome greed. Covenant can overcome broken promises and love can overcome hate. How does that work by saying his words and doing his work? Not just in churches on Sunday mornings, but at Walmart on Mondays, Wednesday at Wendy's. I was in a hurry to get to a meeting and I had just a few minutes to grab a chicken sandwich at Wendy's a little while ago. So I didn't go inside because living in a small town and everyone sees you and they want to talk and all that. I just had a few minutes off, pulled through Wendy's. I'm just going to grab my chicken sandwich and get to my next thing. And I hear the girl come on the intercom and she said, can I help you, sir? And when she spoke, God said, I want you to tell her something. I said, oh Lord, I'm in a hurry. I've got to get, I just want my chicken sandwich. And he said, no, are you going to say this? And I said, oh Lord, I'm in a hurry. And he said, all right, I'll get somebody else. I said, okay, okay. I knew I was really close to a woodshed moment. So I said, what do you want me to tell him? So he told me, I get up there and I get to the window and I say, excuse me, ma'am, and I did this. And I said, I'm not flirting with you. I did all that stuff. I said, but when you spoke on the intercom, the Lord told me that last night you had prayed a prayer, a desperate prayer. I'm supposed to tell you not to be afraid that everything's going to be all right. She looked at me and she said, do you know me? And I said, no ma'am, I don't. Did someone tell you about me? And I said, no, I didn't. I said, she said, well, do you know what happened last night? And I said, well, just what I just told you, that's what I know. She said, well, my husband left with my best friend last night and left me alone in my living room. And I cried out to God and I said, God, that's my husband. I'm not going to let him go. Please, Jesus, if you're real, bring my husband home. So I said, well, can I pray for you? And so she said, yeah. So I just prayed there and she's leaning out the drive-thru window and I'm praying for her and holding her hand and she's crying and all that stuff. I mean, she's sobbing. I'm getting all the chicken sandwich wet, all that stuff. So I went on, I circle around, I come back a couple of weeks later and then she's there. And I said, hey, how are you doing? She said, you're that guy. You're that guy that God spoke to about me. That's never happened in my life. I said, well, what's happened? My husband came back the next morning, had left my best friend and said, I'm sorry. He repented. He went with me to see a pastor and we're in counseling. Our marriage is going to make it because I cried out to God. I was going to give up. You heard the Lord. You spoke that to me and my marriage is together. It doesn't have to be a big Reinhardt-Bonkey thing. It can be you at Wendy's, moving naturally, supernatural. Somebody said, that's good. That's good stuff right there. What would it look like if we took our gifts and talents and hearts to serve out beyond the walls of our church? What about if you went out in those doors today, you determined, I want to be naturally supernatural? God, is there someone you want me to talk to? There's something you want me to see or do? I can tell you, it can feel scary, uncomfortable and risky, but it's worth it to see people set free and added to the kingdom. And I promise you, whenever I've taken a step of faith, and I think this is the same for you, whenever you take a legitimate step of faith, you'll find Jesus is already there waiting for you. He's always there going, oh, I'm so glad you're here. Let's go do this. Let's go do this. Here's what I'd like to do. I know there may be some questions. Here's what I'd like to do. I'd like to just wait a minute and just be still with the Lord. See if you might have something for us. We're going to do that in just a minute. Can I just ask you first, is there a Paula or a Pauline in here today? Maybe someone's online. Well, if Paula or Pauline is here, and maybe you're online, let me know. I think the Lord gave me a word for you. This lady with the blue jean jacket with dark hair, girl in the mask, the one right behind her. That's you. Yes. What's your name, hun? Donna. I feel like I heard this for you when I walked in. This is how it happens. I just walk in, I turn around, I see Donna, and the Lord just speaks the word. I could say, that's good Lord, I'll pray for her, or I can take a chance of embarrassing myself and missing it by just giving her what I have. Donna, here's what I got. Just a simple thing. You're at a tipping point. It's a place where prayers and waiting become actions. I saw a gate opening and you running out of it like a little dog that's just been released from being inside a pen. What you have cried out for and secret, you will see answers and breakthroughs out in the open. I think by July, everything is going to change for you. Things you've been praying about, almost giving up hope on. They're going to come true. Breakthroughs are coming. July's going to be a big month for you. Can you receive that? Amen? All right. Let's just be quiet for a second, wait on the Lord and see what he might want to do with us. Thank you Jesus. I was doing a class like this at an Anglican conference in England a couple years ago and I'd been teaching on the Holy Spirit and I just could tell people weren't getting it. I think you're getting it. I'm not saying that about you, but they just weren't getting it. There's about 500 people there and we didn't have a lot of time and I said, Lord, it just seems like I'm not getting through. And he said, ask them if they want to receive the Holy Spirit. I said, Lord, this is a Holy Spirit conference. Ask them. So ask if anybody would like to be baptized in the Spirit and 200 of the 500 stood up, gave their lives to Jesus. And before I even talked about the gifts of the Spirit or a prayer language, they just start spontaneously speaking in tongues all over the room. Then they start singing and this sound goes up from that place that we were at and it was amazing. And then the very next thing we did is I just, and I prayed a prayer over them and they went out all over the campus telling people about Jesus, many witnessing for the first time. And I just wondered if there's anyone here today and this is not to call you out, this is to call you up. If there's anyone here today that you've been wondering about the Holy Spirit, about being baptized in the Spirit, about receiving spiritual gifts, maybe receiving your prayer language in tongues as well, I promise you it won't get weird. But if you'd like for me to pray for you, would you just stand up where you are and if there's anyone in there that wants me to pray, I'll pray for you. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Father. Thank you, Lord. When Peter had had a trance and the Lord showed him, he wasn't going to be prejudiced about Jews. He was going to, I mean, about Gentiles. He was going to love the Gentiles and I won't go into that story. But at the end of it, he went and prayed for people. He normally wouldn't pray with and the whole family came to the Lord. And then he said in Acts 11, verse 15, as I began to speak, the Holy Spirit came on them as he had come on us at the beginning. Then I remembered that the Lord had said, John, baptize with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit. And God gave them the same gift as he gave us who believed in the Lord Jesus Christ. Who was I to think that I could oppose God? Now, what you're doing in standing up is you're not admitting that you're less than anyone. I personally believe the Holy Spirit comes in when you are saved. But there are baptisms, there are feelings, there's continual feeling and there are little baptisms of feeling being filled as you go along. And I believe today I want to pray for you that you'd be baptized in the Holy Spirit and there'd be a release of you being naturally supernatural, that your gifts, whatever gifts the Holy Spirit decided to give you would be activated. And I'm also going to pray that you would receive your prayer language. So now as I give you a chance to pray, it just may start to happen. It may happen in the car on the way home. It may happen in the shower in the morning, but it's going to happen. All right, put your hand on your heart if you want me to pray for you and many people around you could just point their hands towards you. Anyone else want to stand before I pray? All right. I want you to pray out loud what I'm praying. All right, those of you standing pray out loud. Lord Jesus, I can't do this on my own. My strength is not enough. I want to be baptized in the Holy Spirit. I want to be in dude with power so I can be a witness so I can embrace a holy life and I can find faith to obey you. Holy Spirit, whatever gift you have for me, I want. I tell you, you are welcome. You are welcome in me. Come Holy Spirit. Now I'll say this, now Father, I ask you to come and baptize these that have stood in the Holy Spirit. Let them be able to speak in other tongues. Let them have a prayer language. If they're prophetic, activate that prophetic gift. If they're evangelistic, activate that evangelistic gift. Lord, give them words of knowledge, words of healing. Come Holy Spirit. They'll never be the same. When they walk through these doors, they'll have more power. They'll have that dunamis, that dynamic, that dynamite power of the Holy Spirit to do things beyond their human ability. Now come Holy, not just be quiet and you guys just begin to pray. One of you is standing just pray and there may be some syllables come out of your mouth you hadn't heard before. Chances are that's the Holy Spirit. All right, just begin to pray. Thank you God. That's it. Thank you Holy Spirit. Thank you Holy Spirit. Father in Jesus' name, let this not be something for the moment. Father, I pray that they'd walk out of this door different, more power, more faith. I pray this in Jesus' name. You can be seated if you're able. Now I want to demonstrate that for these that stood up and let's just applaud them for having the courage to stand up. But I also wanted you to see that that whole activation doesn't have to be, you don't have to screw up your face and speak in King James and yell and stuff. You can just speak normally, naturally, and supernatural things are going to start to break out of these that stood up. Amen. I don't know how much time, just a few minutes. Are there any questions that have someone's given you, whoever's doing that, or anybody in here you got a question for me? All right. Yes sir. What advice would you give a younger you to start with? Tell yourself. Could we repeat the question? Yeah, his question was what would I advise someone if I could see myself 20, 30 years younger, what to do, what to focus on. I would keep it about Jesus. I wouldn't chase doctrines. I mean, I'd study the Bible. You know, I would serve in church, but I'd keep it about Jesus and I would chase him. He's the one that I would chase. I would focus on him. I wouldn't try to have a ministry. I just try to serve Jesus. That's what I do. And I try to be more obedient quicker. It took me a while to learn that. Anybody else got a question? All right. Do you believe a lack of desperation for God and the minimal natural move of the supernatural is disconnected? So a connection between lack of desperation and what you're talking about here today. You know, there's a lot of folks talking about being desperate for God. And I just like to change that narrative. It's almost you feel like you're condemned. Oh, I'm not desperate enough. Oh, I must not be desperate enough. I mean, just fall to Jesus. Just fall in love with him. Want him more than you want anything else. And you'll walk with a holy desperation. I wake up in the morning, I get up early. And the first thing I do is I set myself up to hear from God. I'll say, this is the day the Lord's made. I'll rejoice and be glad in it. First thing I say, then the next thing I say is, Jesus, is there anything you want to say to me? Holy Spirit, is there anything you want me to do for you today? And then I write it down. I make it more of a habit, a lifestyle, rather than trying to work up a desperation. So I'm telling you, yes, we need to be desperate for God, but it can become the new legalism if we don't watch it. I'm just telling you, Jesus is greater than you can ever imagine. He sees more in you than you'll ever see in yourself. He never calls you out. He always calls you up. So just get up and just make a step toward Jesus. And I promise he will meet you there. I promise he'll meet you there. One of the things that I've learned is music styles have changed through the years, and songs that used to really light me up. And then some of the newer songs, as things started to change, didn't light me up so much. And then I started realizing I was married to a style. And on my worship, I should be able to worship with two sticks out in the middle of the jungle. And so it just, I mean, this morning, I was just worshiping like a wild man. And it just felt so good. A lot of songs I didn't know. But let me tell you, there's something about just making a choice. I'm going to follow after Jesus. I'm going to worship. The context doesn't matter. This is who I am. Maybe one more question? Yes, ma'am. I'm just going to use this opportunity. Do you have a word over Kalamazoo for this day, this hour, that you can just declare of us, please? Well, I have thought about that. Michigan's kind of known right now as a very cross the nation, a very liberal state. It's known more for those that are nominal Christians than those that are Christians. But I've seen revival in the middle of this church. I've told Pastor Lee I've seen an awakening breaking out in Kalamazoo. And we walked around downtown last time I was here to do offices. I just saw revival breaking out. I saw an awakening breaking out. And when the enemy tries to control the narrative, you can bet the Holy Spirit is going to break out and he's going to reverse it. So I believe something wonderful is rising up in Kalamazoo. One thing you're going to have to do though is you're going to have to be unified. If someone divides with you, make sure it's not your fault. Make sure you've done nothing but maintain the unity and the bond of peace. Bible says in Psalm 133, how beautiful, how lovely it is when people dwell together in unity because it says there in that place, I command a blessing. And I sense a blessing of God coming to this city, an expansion of his kingdom. And I think there are some key leaders here that are going to impact the nation and maybe even the world. So something's up. Anybody else? All right, there's one more thing I want to do and then it'll be time to go. Impartation means to transfer or to extend something that you have. Now you can't you can't give somebody something you don't have. So I can't impart to you the art of bricklaying. I'm not a bricklayer, but I've been giving gifts in the pastoral and in the prophetic, worship leader, songwriter, and I move in the apostolic. So in those areas I can impart. Paul said to the Romans, I long to see that I might impart some spiritual gift to you. So if you're here and you'd like for me to pray for you in those one of those areas, the prophetic words of knowledge, words of wisdom, the pastoral side, the creative side, whether it's songwriting or worship leading. If you have gifts in those areas and you'd like for me to just pray a prayer of our impartation over you, would you stand up and let me just pray for you and those of you that are watching do the same. Wow. Wow. It's most of you. Those of you that stood up, please put your hand on your heart and I just want to pray. Lord, you said that I could impart gifts that I've been given. I could give away what I've been given. So Lord, this morning in the name of Jesus, I impart, I extend, I transfer those gifts in the prophetic, those gifts in the pastoral, those creative gifts in leading worship and songwriting and music, words of knowledge, words of wisdom. Lord, those things and a heart for evangelism. Lord, I don't call myself an evangelist, but I have a heart for evangelism. So I just impart, I extend into everyone that's standing up and I ask you Lord for them to walk out of this place with a greater measure of anointing than when they walked in. So I pray this prayer of impartation because I want to see the kingdom expand. I want to see the ministry of Jesus transferred and extended and I challenge all of you when you have an opportunity impart the gift that you've been given and do others. Those sons and daughters and granddaughters and grandsons coming along call out their destiny and impart your gifts into them and bless them in that way. I pray all these things in the powerful name of Jesus. Amen. Thank you so much for coming. I'll see you a little later.