 Are you glad to be in the house of God tonight? Amen. Stand with us all over this sanctuary The Lord is good Come on. The Lord is good All the time and all the time the Lord is good. So let's try that again. The Lord is good and all the time Amen, I want us to go to the Lord in prayer tonight I want you to grab your prayer and praise hold that in your hand tonight a number of needs Represented all over this house. No doubt about that. Maybe you've walked in and you have a need in your life You're needing a touch from the Lord strengthen your body. I Know that the Lord is strong and powerful and he's able today. Do you believe it? I believe in the power of prayer and I want us to do that right now How many of you walked into this house? So brother Jason I have a need in my life my family and I need God to intervene look around at all the hands one thing That we never run out of his needs, right? And I'm so glad one thing that we never run out of is a God that is more than enough and a God that Supplies all of our needs according to his riches in glory So let's come together tonight in the name of Jesus and let's believe God as you have your prayer and praise Father we thank you tonight for the privilege that we have to be in your house We thank you Lord for the spirit of the Lord that is here that is evident Thank you for what you're doing what you are going to continue to do and father We just lift up right now every need represented in this house You know what your people are facing in their lives right now Nothing is hid from you You are the great eye in the sky and you look down upon the affairs of man And you know everything taking place and I'm asking you God that you would reach down your hand and bring Strength and bring healing today Lord bring encouragement today father Lord We thank you that we can put our trust in you We could put our trust in a God that has never can never will never fail tonight So father every need represented in this house every need on this prayer and praise people Lord that that believe that Pace assembly praise and Lord they called in they they wrote in they emailed their prayer needs Father we just thank you Lord that they have confidence in this church to know that we're going to pray and we do that right now Come on place your hand on that paper right now father every need we speak healing today We speak peace we speak breakthrough we speak financial miracles. We speak salvation and restoration Over the needs Lord of every prayer request that was turned in and God we thank you so much Lord that we can trust in you and we can believe you and we ask this in the mighty name of Jesus and Everyone says amen and amen. Come on. Give God a great big hand tonight Amen, come on. Let's give him a great big hand. Why don't you just shout hallelujah tonight? Hallelujah hallelujah, hallelujah now before your seated. I want you to cross the aisles shake someone's hand Let them know you're glad to see him at Pace assembly tonight God's gonna do great things in this house. Amen. Amen. Amen Amen, we want to take this time to welcome those of you that are joining us online We pray that you'll stay in tune for the entirety of this service Want you to open up your hearts and lives to the word of God that's gonna be given tonight by pastor Rogers Right now. This is a good time to download the app or open up the app and follow along with the teaching tonight You're going to be blessed. Let us know where you're watching from and also send us your most urgent prayer need. God bless you Amen Are you glad to be in Wednesday night Bible study? Come on. Are you glad to be in Wednesday night Bible study? Well, we welcome you if this is your first time being with us Thank you so much for being in God's house tonight if you're just if you're new you're checking out what wins tonight's all about Well, you came to the right place great things are taking place all over this campus from children's ministry to youth ministry Discipleship that is happening here tonight and that's going to happen in this sanctuary So you came to the right place and we welcome you amen Let's take the time right now to appreciate our those that are visiting and those who are watching online right now Thank you so much for joining us. Amen Several things that are taking place around the campus. We want to we want you to make sure that that you are Familiar with what's happening whenever you walked in you received your handout and a few other things in regards to what's taking place in The ministry make sure that you you pay very close attention to that whatever pertains to you If you have the pace assembly app This would be a good time for you to open up that app and go ahead and click on the study Notes for tonight and follow along with pastor those of you that do not have the app Make sure that you have your handout the influence of the Holy Spirit going to be a powerful powerful lesson tonight Amen, amen Isn't it a privilege to be able to give to the work of the Lord anyone believe that tonight that it's a privilege to give God gives seed to the sower and if you will be those that give God will make sure he gets seed to you And so we encourage you to give tonight honor the Lord in the air of your tithing offering Amen several ways in which you can give whatever is most convenient for you. Thank you so much. Amen Let's pray father. We thank you Lord for the great privilege that we have to give We pray that you would bless the tithe and the offering tonight Bless those that have to give Lord Lord. We thank you that every need is going to be met according to your riches and glory by Christ Jesus we stand on the promise of your word that you've never seen the righteous forsaken or his seed begging for bread Thank you that we can trust you today in the area of our finances And we give you praise and glory for it in Jesus name and everyone says amen God bless you tonight. Praise God Good to see all of you here this evening It's a blessing to be here on Wednesday night get some refreshing from the Word of God So I want you to open your Bibles up and get your study ready for this evening as We prepare to bring you this message the influence of the Holy Spirit As you're getting ready for that. Let me just mention to you a couple of things of importance One of which you've got some information in your hand concerning a Health care freedom rally this information I believe will be very helpful to you if you're can be an attend if you can be in attendance and so The information I think you have in your hand concerning that it's going to be at the Wahoo Stadium Help you to be able to be fully informed on Things of importance, especially in your area of health. So we want to encourage you to be able to You don't have any of that. Okay. Well, behold I Tell you now the truth At 6 p.m. This coming Sunday Sunday this This coming Friday night at 6 p.m. At Wahoo Stadium. There's going to be a health care freedom rally There the tickets are five dollars to be able to get in that just helps with the sum of the expense and If you want to call the office, it's from 6 till 8 if you want to call the office Tomorrow we can get more information to you whatever we have or at least point you towards the QR code and It's much like one of the rallies that took place That I had the privilege of being a part of here a few months ago and will help you I'm sure to be informed which is the biggest deal about it. So I would encourage you to perhaps even go online Just call the office tomorrow if you want more information How's that for great announcing It's just terrific. No, don't clap. No, that's not worth clapping for I mean if you're gonna clap I just want to ask you if you're watching God TV or anything, but anyway, that was last week, wasn't it? No, I'm sorry Okay, I have another announcement that I need to give to you and I Really regret This but we've just been able to come in through this particular information for the past several weeks. We've been Trying to move the congregation toward the New system that we were hoping was going to be a good system for us We've only management system for the church and financial system for the church after getting deeper into it and correspondence and so forth I regret that we can no longer participate in push pay Because It just doesn't work like we need it to work at Pace assembly Sometimes you don't find that stuff out till you get in it So I'm gonna ask you most of you will not be able to tell the difference. We're gonna go back to sub splash For those of you that are familiar with that most of you won't even realize that unless you're looking in the Coding and so forth at the top if you are doing reoccurring giving or Anything like that then please we're gonna get the information out to you so we can transition to sub splash We have several different ways that people have been able to give but we want to whittle that down to One if we possibly can it helps the accounting department, so Please forgive me for us having to endure a month worth of that But we've just been able to figure out some things and corresponding with them and conversations We've had with them that just have not made us feel comfortable with Proceeding with them so I Won't say anything about them being in Washington State, but anyway We have friends in Washington State that are watching at this moment and we love all y'all And everybody out there. So there you go. How's that? Amen, that's enough of that isn't it open your Bibles up. Let's get some good news, huh? Your Bibles open to the book of John chapter 16 Tonight I want to share with you a little bit about the influence of the Holy Spirit And I believe that God is gonna speak to our heart as a matter of fact I'm gonna jump right into this. So I want you to get your pen paper ready roll If those of you that are watching online from around the world you want to download that study You heard that a month ago you can do that or fill it out right there online take notes Whatever you need to do Because I believe one of the most important things that we can do on a daily basis is yield ourselves To the power and the influence of the Holy Spirit to lead us and to guide us Things are changing so rapidly in our world And I have not brought you a forecast Bible prophecy, but I will once again on Wednesday night very soon perhaps a couple of weeks from now There's so much that's happening in our world That I want to be able to keep you informed I want to be able to help you because it takes a filter sometimes to be able to get some of the minutia out of the Way and look at what is actually going on one thing I will say to you and this is relevant to the whole situation In the days and in the next few days there's going to be a gathering in Switzerland for the World Health Organization Unfortunately, we've not been able to trust them either with information in the way they shut things down However, according to what I understand They're going to be gathering together and nations of the world including the possibility of the United States of America Submitting itself to the World Health Organization Collectively in their decision-making process as it was during COVID for shutting things down Whatever that it may be in what is being identified as the next pandemic or whatever Let me just say to you the more you see going and moving towards a one-world government Of which this is whether it's health care economics or whatever that it may be You're witnessing in your lifetime the preparation of this world for the entrance of the man of sin the antichrist That's why and this is a reason why I'm bringing this lesson to you tonight because We need to be a people as we are a people of the Spirit of God the Holy Spirit But the influence of the Holy Spirit now He's not Influenced he is the power of the Holy Spirit that should be the influencer the main influencer in our life Everything we do everything we say the very characteristics of Jesus Christ through the Holy Spirit living on the inside of us displayed to a world and if we ever needed the guidance and the leadership and the Influence of the Holy Spirit in our daily. Let me break it down hourly. Let me break it down minute by minute by minute We need that right now and so I want to bring you into that and Hopefully help you tonight to be able to allow The Bible says to submit your members Unto the leadership of the Holy Spirit your very physical body Everything about what the Holy Spirit is going to do in these last days is going to be critical for us step by step to be able to to to see The hand of God inside of our life to not make missteps if you will To be influenced on purpose To take the right steps because in the time we're living in right now as you see Everything is just on a roller coaster ride within a 24-hour time. Everything could change You know who knows what's going on the Holy Spirit The Bible says right here in the book of John Chapter 16 starting in verse number seven Jesus is speaking and he's talking to his disciples Question are you one of his disciples? Amen, so then this letter is to you and he says this nevertheless. I Tell you the truth. It is expedient. It's better for you that I go away For if I go not away the comforter, that's the name of the Holy Spirit one of them Will not come unto you. Well, how why not because he is all dwelling on the inside of me while I'm on this earth Jesus to say but if I go away, I will send him to you Now he goes on to say and when he has come he will reprove This is the operation of the Holy Spirit right now He will reprove the world of sin and of righteousness and of judgment He goes on to say of sin he explains it because they believe not on me of Righteousness because I go to my father and you see me no more of Judgment because the prince of this world that is Satan and everything a part of him the antichrist all of it is judged So let's take a look at it here tonight because the influence of the Holy Spirit Inside of our life. He's not going to bust the door down and demand taking hold of our life. We submit ourselves Willingly to the operation of the Holy Spirit. That's the reason why some people have yet Even though they have asked the Lord to come into their heart and been washed in the blood of the Lamb They've been to the cross but they've yet to receive the baptism or the second subsequent work of grace in the baptism of the Holy Spirit inside of their life with the initial physical evidence of speaking with other Tones we're about to celebrate the birthday of the church on June the 5th, which is Pentecost Sunday and because of that We are a church right here at Pace Assembly that believes in the full operation and all the gifts of the Spirit and operation moving in our midst We believe in the full five The operation of the full five areas and ministry of the church Taking place we believe in the gifts of the Spirit all of that and we welcome the operation of all of that inside of our church We are a spirit filled and not by title, but by experience Pentecostal church and So for that reason we're not here to try to hold up some standard We're here to be the flow of the Holy Spirit through us when I say hold up the standard I'm not talking about we're the only one We're not exclusive in this because I'm just telling you there's some Baptist folks that I know and Baptist preachers that are just as Filled with the Holy Ghost as people that claim Pentecost inside of their life. They live within arms reach of here Okay, so I'm saying that because the Holy Spirit's work is not Confined to one group one denomination one select portion of people He's wherever people will open up their hearts and allow the spirit of God to move Okay, and I can assure you in the time. We're living in he's moving further and further away from strict Denominational mindsets and religious mindsets he looking for somebody who's wanting the flow of the Holy Spirit inside of their life And will allow him to influence them on their daily life. I want you to understand the Holy Spirit is not about Some just just being churched Church eyes in other words the Holy Spirit is not just an operation because we showed up here tonight He wants to be in every part of your daily life in your business in your money in your mind in your family in Every part of your life to saturate it all and to lead you in God Listen, if you've had kids, you know what I'm talking about. You need the Holy Ghost to raise in kids If you've been in business, you know exactly what I'm talking about you've got to have the Holy Ghost before you sign that contract You need the leadership of the Holy Spirit and he's more The Holy Spirit is not talking in tongues. That's just the evidence that he has come out of you When he comes into you on conversion when you come to the cross he comes in and Regenerate you regenerate you he comes in at that moment changes your life But to be a witness. He's got to come out That's called the baptism of the Holy Spirit and Now you become a living witness and how do I know that he's there? Well, how do I know the lights are going to be working? Well, as soon as I turn the lights on and they shine the light works How to know my my car is going to do it Well when I stick the key in the ignition and turn it on and I hear that motor running and I drop it into Drive push on the gas. I know that the motor is operating the way it needs to how do I know? I'm baptized and holy ghost because when he came and he's coming out of me He flows out of me with rivers of living water John 4 says and I will speak in tongues in another tongue not known to me not taught to me But the infilling of the Holy Spirit in the initial physical evidence that he has arrived in his power and flowing out of me Is when I speak with another tongue as the Spirit of God gives me utterance or language Okay Why is that so important? Well, I want to give you this illustration because the influence of the Holy Spirit is not meant to be limited by us Into the little God box that we have when we open him up on Sunday or open him up on Wednesday And then we put him back in he will not be contained He will not be limited now. He may be limited in your life Because you put a limiter on him, but I can assure you you can't put God in a box No more than you can put the Mississippi River into one glass So what you're looking at Here on the screen Any second now? What you're looking at right there is a picture from 1901 I want you to notice the body of water there this is in This is in Minnesota and as you see the caption in the bottom left hand corner As these two ladies are standing on top of rocks This is where the Mississippi River starts I find it interesting that it was right there at the turn of the century that Mr. Oh His name escapes me right now who discovered the headwaters of the Mississippi River in Minnesota He discovered them in 1901 Right around the turn of the century about the same time as the outpouring of the Holy Spirit took place in the North American continent in California at Azusa Street So what you're looking at right here is literally today in fact you can go online and there's a live camera that shows you The water flowing and this little rock dam right here is the beginning of the mighty Mississippi River You can walk across this wait across it, and it'll be ankle deep Now if you've read your Bible, you know about where I'm about to go Because you can start at the headwaters in Minnesota Right here at the Mississippi River you literally can walk across the Mississippi River in Wait up to your ankles, but Ezekiel Saw a mighty river in the last days Where he said you can have as much as you want you can walk across wait across in Ankle deep, but if you'll wait a little bit deeper it'll come up to your ankles and to your knees But if you really want more of the Spirit you can wait a little deeper, and it'll get up to your loins But if you really want to move in to the mighty moving of the Holy Spirit You can wait out there in water to swim in It's entirely up to you. I Show you this tonight because what we see 2,552 miles away from this particular area is Something that you cannot walk across Just a few weeks ago. I drove across the Mississippi and it took me a little while to get across it and And it was moving with all kinds of ships and containers and boats and all kinds of stuff going on People literally get in canoes at certain times of year and will float out all the way down the river and The further the river goes The more it encompasses the land now According to what they're saying, and this is Information that's just of late that it's actually been reduced in some of its Area and mileage because of flooding and different things that have taken place down to 2,300 and 18 miles, but it makes no difference It starts in a little trickle in a spring. That's just a little bit further up this direction and It starts at this particular location for the mightiest river North down to south and it pushes its way through All these states Widening itself out the further it gets and nobody since 1901 I don't care what kind of thing they do the river has not stopped flowing. I Just want to stop and say and you know you pray for me over there and pull your ear when you get ready But I just want to stop and say to all those climate change folks that are having problems with everything being reduced down on all that This river right here is steady running tonight Without any problem of drying up Because when it started it hasn't stopped since Now what else has happened? Well, here's the way it goes There's these other rivers that I feel like preaching there's these other Ribbit rivers and tributaries that have that are in other portions of the states all the way down from Minnesota all the way down through Louisiana all the way to the Gulf of Mexico where this mighty river the Mississippi runs and And those rivers tributaries along the way have found out that it's good to join in with something that's taken up So they too will run into it and find life in these tributaries by coming into the river which expands its Compacity even that much more. Are you all with me out there? The picture that I'm showing you here tonight of the influence of the mighty Mississippi River is steady flowing tonight Without anybody standing there rooting it on Trying to help it run Nobody's over there going. Oh, I really hope it gets going today Nobody has to sing in a song Don't get locked up for me now. Nobody's got to coax it to come It just does what it does And if I can borrow a passage of scripture that's not necessarily directly applied to the Mississippi But there is a heavenly flow of a river that the Bible says Everywhere it goes it brings healing and everything it touches it brings life to and now the influence of the Holy Spirit which is the measureless life of God Flowing through the believer and you don't have to crank it up pump it up try to prime it up It's steady flowing ever since it was poured out at the day of Pentecost And if you want to get in the river you can but if you don't want to you don't have to you don't have to go To a church where the river is flowing you don't have to your preacher talk about it You can go to a dry stagnant lifeless pond of tadpoles, but I've got news for you I was raised in the power of the Spirit and I say oh God do it again Here at pace do it again in Kenya do it again wherever they're hungry for it Let the river find the place where the people are hungry for the Holy Ghost The only limitation is our capacity to receive the Mississippi River has all these tributaries running into it and It increases in power and in strength The further it goes down the river and you know what? People have found out that this is water. We will swim in and They found out this is water we can fish in and When they got around it, they said let's build a home here and we can live here in fact some people live on the river Not even beside it. I'm talking about on it houseboats and and river boats and everything else they live actually on it Y'all don't make me preach This is this is only an illustration of the possibilities of a spirit-filled life That I trust that you're tapping into and if you're not May what I say here tonight and what the Holy Spirit does inside of your life make you thirsty Hungry and desiring the infilling of the baptism of the holy ghost. I didn't really know this until My son who's all called up in the Gators I don't know about alligators. I'm talking about the Gainesville type University of Florida and he's done the study and all that kind of stuff And he brought the illustration of the young people not long ago And he brought it in my office that the maker of Gator egg because that's what it's named after the The inventor of that was doing it because the guys on the field Dearing football season there in the heat and all were were literally Dehydrating because they weren't drinking enough and it's not that they weren't drinking water They were drinking water, but but they were evaporating and and dehydrating faster So the inventor of Gator egg made this concoction This is so powerful and added the sodium necessary to it So when you drink Gator egg some of you like me Have drank it and going man. This is not quenching my thirst. I need more Well, guess what? Oh god, I'm about to run It's designed to make you thirsty so you will drink more Y'all didn't hear what I said The Holy Ghost is designed So that you'll never have your first quiz Because the more you drink the more you want. Oh my god Now now if you've got something where you're getting satisfied and you don't want no more You're not drinking Holy Ghost water Because I'm gonna tell you once you give out and You give out and you witness and you do what you're supposed to do and you're living a Christian life And especially with the pounding of the spiritual battles that are going on today That extracts more out of your life on a daily basis Can I tell you you have to drink more of the Holy Spirit? Because you're gonna need more help than you ever have before but guess what that's why Jesus sitting He said I'm gonna send you a comforter and he shall be with you and he'll not just be with you He'll be in you in other words stop living on the side of the river and jump in There all y'all didn't hear what I said jump in the river Jesus Influencing the world has been so powerful and is so powerful that tonight. We're still talking about it That's exactly what Jesus came to do Your Bible is not a bunch of stories about historical biblical things Your Bible is a story About Just a few things It's about a king a kingdom and And the people of that kingdom a king a kingdom and the people of the kingdom That's what this Bible is all about and he has put all that is necessary Into this book and into your life through the power of the Holy Spirit to cause you To pray the appropriate prayer. Thy kingdom come Thy will be done How does that accomplish only through the power of the Holy Spirit's influence inside of our life? In the Old Testament the Spirit of God the Holy Spirit moved upon situations people events and Changed them. That's what he did from the very beginning. He's still doing it today and Most of the time the Holy Spirit will wait until the most critical time to step in Pastor, I don't know about oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, you know what I'm talking about He is capable of changing any situation Now why is why is the fact that the Holy Spirit arriving changes things scare people? Because most people shun an Anointed atmosphere in a church or wherever it may be Because they know once the Holy Spirit is free and allowed to flow like he wants to Something is got to change in my life And so for that reason Jesus said it's expedient for you that I go away. It's better for you why Because you're having to deal with so many issues and and as a as the Christ man So Jesus last name is not Christ It's the identification of him being the anointed one Jesus the Christ Now Jesus bodily was here completely representing his father in his own image But he had the Christ anointing come upon him when he stepped up out of the River Jordan And he went about doing good the anointing of God upon him went about doing good and healing all that were oppressed to the devil for God was with him the Bible says That anointing the Holy Spirit the crystal the Christ was upon him exclusively That's the reason why he said when I leave it's gonna be better for you because I can only be the Christ in one location But when I go to my father and I say father sin My Christ me the comforter back to these people He's gonna send you the comforter. He's not a different spirit. He's my spirit in you The abiding presence of God meaning when he comes in he doesn't come in a little bit He doesn't come in just doing one thing. It's not the fruits of the spirit It's the fruit of the spirit So you're not gonna just be Having joy and no peace He's coming in in his fullness and when he comes in in his fullness that means that you and I Have to take up what Christ is and allow him to influence our life in every situation Love when we don't feel like loving Maintain joy. That's who Jesus is Righteousness peace all of those things and the operation of the Holy Spirit All of that's coming through the Holy Spirit into our life to influence us. Why to influence us So we can influence our environment and our surrounding and other people He is and to backtrack just a little bit to Easter and resurrection Sunday He is the witness of the resurrection How how do I know? Since I wasn't there when they put him in the tomb and I wasn't there when he came out How do I know that I know that Jesus is alive? Because somebody told me because I go to church because the preacher preaches. He's alive Oh, no, no, no every day of your life because the same Crystal that was in him that did not die according to some people saying that his spirit died He did not die his spirit was very much alive He went down in the corridors of hell snatched the keys of death hell in the grave walked out carrying captivity captive And they said where you go and he said I got a body on ice up there named Jesus And the Christ came back in Jesus and the revealing of Jesus stepped out of the tomb full of the Christ Come on somebody and now he took all that Christ And put it inside of you and to the degree that you allow him To influence your life change your life use your life You don't get the Holy Spirit and use the Holy Spirit the Holy Spirit takes control and usage you You're the container. He's the contents and the container is worthless without the contents What good is a coffee cup without some coffee in it? What good is a bottle of water without water in it? What good is a Christian without the Christ in him? So with that in mind he wants to influence Now why does he want to influence? Well, let's backtrack to this past Sunday. He said Greater works shall you do at least you're supposed to I Want you to do what I do But do it greater Well, how can I be any greater than raise on self up from the dead? Jesus did that. I mean, that's a anybody do that lately like last week this week today You might felt like dying, but you hadn't been able to raise yourself from the dead Jesus Jesus did that He's the only one who's done it Come on Mama Muhammad ain't done it and booted into it And nobody else done it Jesus did it. That's pretty awesome. Oh, what is he saying? He's not talking about surpassing him in different kinds of of signs and wonders He's saying greater because now the Christ isn't just in me But the Christ is in you and you and you and you and you and you and you and all you out there Who are believers who have received Jesus? You don't get Jesus without the Christ Are you here what I just said? You can't have Jesus without the girl. Well, I like Jesus, but I don't know about that Holy Ghost Time out. Jesus is not gonna separate himself from his ghost Come on and don't get spooky with me out there. Oh pastor. I don't like you talking about go Don't talk to me about that You've been watching every programs got ghosts and supernatural stuff on it and you need the real stuff because when the real thing Operates inside of you. You can do signs and wonders and by the way Jesus I'm just teaching right now. Jesus said that these signs shall follow. It's supposed to follow Them that believe you shall lay hands on the sick and see him recover Come on now. What did he say speak with new tongue? Well, that went out with the Apostles problem He hit me at ten years old And I've never been the same I wish I had a witness in this Presbyterian church here Got way too many Presbyterians here tonight Let me tell you what he's gonna do in the influencing area of your life. What's he gonna do? He's gonna do these three things right here First of all, he's going to reprove of sin Well, that's fine a day as long as he reproves somebody else. I said, no, no, no He said I'm gonna reprove you of your sin. What does that mean? He's gonna convict us He's gonna expose sin inside of our life. That's what the Holy Spirit does And I'm glad about it Paul said I would have never known what sin was unless the law brought it to my attention and the Spirit is magnifying that To get us to a place where change takes place Because you can't go heaven without a change Y'all ain't here what I'm saying. I want to go to heaven, but I don't want to change. Well, you're gonna change Because what you are can't get in there This mortal shall put on immortality this corruptible shall put on incorruptions. There's gonna be a change You're gonna leave something behind Pastor, did you know how much I pay for these shoes? You're leaving them behind Barefooted you came into this world and He will approve you of sin Convict you of wrong you were approved. Well, what else is he doing? That's what he's doing in the world He's doing these three things in the world today just like he always have he were approved you of your sin He will convince you of righteousness Right standing. Why does he say that right there? He said because because you see me no more who was righteous among us Only Jesus Christ. He was the epitome of righteousness as long as Jesus was walking around the disciples said well There's righteousness right there if you're gonna live right look at him not us Right Cuz Peter said I just cussed something out and then I just whacked off somebody's ears. Oh, don't look at me look at him Come on. I know I'm talking about Simon Peter none of y'all out here Y'all righteous, but I'm just saying Jesus said because you see me no more You don't have a model of righteousness in front of you So I'm gonna send you the Christ who will convince you of righteousness He will tell you what's right and what's wrong And I don't know about you, but I want to stay flat-footed right here and just thank God that the Holy Ghost is telling me What truth is in this hour of a whole bunch of lying going on come on say amen So it writes standing what's God's goodness to us and and how he saw all that's going on And then the third thing he says he will convict you of judgment That is your future encounter with God and Every ungodly influence that causes you to drift away from sin. That's what he's doing. He's convicting you He's convincing you he's reproving you and thank God the Holy Ghost is still working on you And if you feel conviction then that's a good thing I Said it's a good thing to be convicted. I Don't want to feel guilty. Well, if you don't feel pain in your life, you'll keep putting your hand on a hot stove The only thing that causes you not to put your hand on that stove is because you felt pain and Guilt is to the soul what pain is to the body So it's not about the Holy Spirit making me feel guilty Because for that it's condemnation the Bible says and the Holy Spirit doesn't do that. He convicts us of sin He doesn't condemn us over it You're missing a lot of places to shout, but that's all right We're going on he wants to bring a change into our life until the world sees Christ in us and How we need that today the Holy Spirit shines always shines the light on Jesus never upon himself because because he's not He's not the one who redeemed He's the one who's shining the light on the redeemed The change he's working into our life is what pastor the character and life of Jesus Christ as we see him in Scripture and Not somebody's opinion or list of rules Are you hearing me? Influencing us is to be transformed by the Bible says by the renewing of your mind That is to the mind of Christ. Let me say to you the word repent means to change your mind It's not coming to the altar crying around the altar and shed a bunch of tears and feeling sorry about it Repent means that I will change my mind from the way I was thinking to the brand new mind of Christ That's what the Holy Spirit is doing in the life of the believer right now as much as you allow him to do it Remember I brought you that passage from Ephesians 5 this past week Where he's able to do exceedingly abundantly according to the power that work if in us So as if you want to stay in the little trickle up in Minnesota That's how much he's gonna use your life. Okay, but but here's the problem Not all of you is in Why why? Wonder why in the world that I'm not feeling and and and doing what I needed it because you're only an ankle deep You're too in to be out too out to be in to save to be lost to lost to be saved You're allowing more of the influence more of your body is Out of the river So the influence is to be transformed by the renewing of your mind That is the question to us tonight is what or the statement is this whatever has the greatest influence over you is your leader I've talked to people in the past few days who have allowed money to be their leader and Consequently the Bible is so true. They lose it. They idolize it and then they lose it Because the Bible tells us to put everything up underneath the feet The Holy Spirit is not gonna leave me and guide me into the lottery Because watch this I might win and I might not and quite frankly the chances of that of me losing Is great But when the Holy Spirit leads me and directs me and I follow the principle of the pattern the character of Christ I will always overcome Because why because greater is he that is in me than he that is in the world You can't now. This is why it's so important because you cannot legislate holiness You can't legislate righteousness You can't pass enough laws to make people love one another And I want to stop right here and say that the basis of all the Holy Spirit is First Corinthians 13 is love my dear friends Because you can speak in tongues and do all these great things, but if you hate one another Here's sounding brass and tinkling cymbals shut your mouth. We don't want to hear you prophesy Don't take up the service giving me some false deal when you've been living like the devil out there and come in here and try To be holy that's that doesn't match and if the congregation is prayed up like they should they'll recognize it immediately Come on somebody I've been in church when people got up in the flesh. That's what used to call it It's still flesh today got up in the flesh and people recognize that they just stood up and started praising God. Oh Glory to God. Glory to God. Glory to God. I Love that service Cuz no flesh is gonna glory the Holy Ghost is not gonna turn a light on itself He's always gonna turn it on Jesus. Jesus gets all the glory. Come on somebody So why is it so important because he's changing our heart into him into Christ Now our hearts may be willing To allow the Holy Spirit to work but if we don't allow him to fix our brokenness and change us from Unforgiveness to forgiveness and love and hate and all that kind of stuff my dear friends The media and everybody else is gonna turn the light on all that you're seeing going on right now But if the church will do what its part is and keep beating salt and light and keep loving people Come on somebody So you can't legislate this stuff Satan will be judged the Bible says and sentenced and why is it so important? We'll give you these things I'm gonna be out of your way. Hey, why is it so important that we allow on a daily basis the Holy Spirit to influence us and to lead us and guide us Because you and I are facing spiritual battles and to hear what I'm telling you and I feel confident in what I'm saying Then in all of my years of serving the Lord I have never seen the spiritual battles like they are today and people are facing today Okay And don't don't don't think it's a little pill called fentanyl Behind that is a demon spirit trying to kill people in this country, and it don't happen to be fentanyl. It can be anything else So so what's the Holy Spirit wanting to do inside of us? Well, he wants to change it So I'm gonna give you five things here as the influence of the Holy Spirit working on the inside of us number one The Holy Spirit sets the stage for the word of God according to Genesis chapter 1 verse number two in The beginning was the word and right after that he says in verse number two and the spirit of God moved The spirit of God moved the first thing that we find the Holy Spirit doing is moving So why was he moving? Because the condition of the atmosphere the environment of the world according to the Scripture right there in Genesis chapter 1 it was dark and void and Empty and darkness cover the face of the deep That's the description of what we walk into in Genesis 1 it's not only a description of of Time before God spoke the worlds into existence and set things in order as we'll see But it is also a description of the life of a person who is lost without God It is void. It is empty. It is dark Without form and void. It is in ruin. It is in chaos There's no there's no Order to it and look what God does into the misery and into the chaos The Bible says the spirit of God moved Now the word move there is the term hovered and the picture illustration there is like a hen Covers or hovers over the eggs the unhatched eggs or chicks Because there is life present, but it's not seen yet So what's the Holy Spirit doing inside of you? He is tonight hovering over the top of us and He is guarding protecting nurturing Keeping it warm because God sees in you more than you see in yourself and into the void and Darkness of your life that you feel like you don't have any worth no value anything else The Holy Spirit is hovering over the top of you until what's on the inside of you is birth So the first thing that happens as we see the Holy Spirit hovering Why is he hovering because like a like a hen does the chicks? He's hovering over the top of it because something is not yet broke through we call that a Breakthrough if we're waiting on the chick to be hatched the bird to be hatched There's got to be a breaking of where you were Into a brand new world We had a little nest outside of the office here several months ago and the bird I think it was a blue jay came in there and landed in there and dropped three little eggs and and we took pictures of it as We were watching the the events to unfold and the mother would come and bring What was necessary and sit there on those eggs and and and then we walk out and she would fly away and come back and all The sudden we started seeing that little beak come pecking through that little tiny egg right there Why because out of all of the adversity that was going on that could have killed those little birds those birds Started pecking through because outside of this shell There's a brand new life that I've never experienced before And something on the inside is demanding that I break this shell of limitation So that I can get out into an and spread my wings and fly. Oh My god, I think anybody in this building can preach this the night come on So the spirit actually prepares the place for the word of God to speak Now Why do churches do their that what you might call forms? I got a hurry on this Why do they call it? You know that do the formula somebody stands up and prays and somebody then the music kicks off And we sing the songs and all that kind of stuff. What's that all about? It's all about Inviting the Holy Spirit to come in and prepare the room For the word Now you can shout I love to shout you run you can dance all that kind of stuff and I'm all about that The Holy Spirit gives us that freedom teaches us tells us that was that's that's that's our worship unto the Lord When it's in order and decent in order, but without the word All you've done has gotten sweaty Come on somebody He's not having a move Just so you can feel the move Worship creates the atmosphere But never overdone in worship To not hear the word of God I'm not saying that the preacher may not preach But somewhere in there the word of God comes because the Spirit moves so that the word can change things the words That come after the moving of the Spirit out of the mouth of God Actually implies the influence of the power of God's word upon our life and what does he say let there be And the following words and it was Let there be and it was Let there be it actually implies that there is absolutely a resistance against God's word How many of you understand there's a resistance of God's word today? Go out there in that world bow your head at the table out there We got people today that Don't want you mentioning Jesus here or don't want don't use keep your religion use keep it in the four walls Of it all that kind of stuff listen Mr. Trudeau in Canada has literally declared war upon the Canadian military and told all of them There will not be any more religious military chaplains that are not what with this that are not lining up with our belief in our military Really? So now mr. Trudeau your God calling the religious strings This is the inclined. This is the climate we live in. I hear them all talking about the most Existential threat on humanity is climate change. I'll tell you what the most existential threat is It's sin that is so rampant and the rejection of God that is going to cause people to go to hell That's the greatest threat against humanity, but guess what I have the Holy Spirit to tell somebody You don't have to go to hell and he gives me the bonus to be able to do it So the Holy Spirit comes and he says let there be and it was and he brings about a change and The devil's always trying to prevent that work and that influence from happening inside of your life But the Holy Spirit's hovering over me So when you when you go home tonight and you lay your head on the pillow I want you to hear the gentle wings of the dove Standing over the top of you telling you to sleep on tonight. I got you covered Take your rest come on take your rest. I got you covered. Look at your neighbor and tell him a Holy Ghost got you covered Yeah, he's hovering over you like a hen does his chicks Fluttering over the eggs to create the right environment for life to come I say Holy Spirit hover over pace assembly until every hindrance is broke through and the word of God can Let there be What else will he do the Holy Spirit will will set things in order? Bible says in Genesis chapter 1 verse number 4 that he declares and separates. I Say that he sets it in order. That's what he's doing when the Spirit is moving. He sets things in order He brings order out of chaos There's chaos at your house get the Holy Ghost flowing Let the river flow Because out of disorder Things that didn't work. Come on. You see the sign on the vending machine or whatever it may be out of order It's a dumb thing to invest in something that's out of order Put your money in the machine that clearly says it's out of order. Don't be shocked When the bathroom don't work when the sign says this stall is out of order I'm going in anyway. Well, that's dumb Come on. You might get something that you won't you know why he's saying it's chaos and out of order It's not that it just didn't work It's the fact that it's not bringing forth life. I preached in churches like that. I Hate to say it Where there wasn't a man a hundred miles away and we call ourselves Pentecostal But is anybody getting a refill an infill Come on a move a word. Is there something happening because if there's not I got to get out of here. I Got to go where the life is flowing. I got too short of time here I need him to set some things in order. My life is in chaos I'm not bringing forth the life that I need. Let me get into a place where he can set things in order Maybe that's the problem. You don't you like chaos God help us You know, there's some people just like being sick because it's their personality One of my preacher friend said he was praying for somebody one time the lady come up She said oh, you know, I just want to blah blah blah. You know, I appreciate you praying for all this pray right now Oh, no, no No, God put this on me. She said Really? God put sickness on you. Well, you have read this Bible He doesn't put dis ease on your life He puts ease on Your life Come on somebody So what was it like? When God began to speak the spirit of God's hovering and giving an atmosphere keeping the devil away The word is coming forth let there be he turns He turns night in the day He turns the in the in a few short days While the spirit is hovering upon the face of the deep he's calling things in the order y'all ain't hearing what I'm saying He said he said this is gonna be night and this is gonna be day When you leave it here tonight Take a glance up in the heavens and the same word God spoke in Genesis is still reverberating tonight Because when the spirit hovers and the word goes forth his word will not return void But it shall accomplish and the book of Hebrews said that he's holding up the entirety of the world by the power of his word I don't want to just have a good stimulating feeling of the Holy Ghost When you get the atmosphere right Holy Ghost speak a word into me that changes my life heals my body Forgives me of my sins Come on, so I throw your hand up the air say change me Lord And before you think that he cannot change you because your situation is too bad Consider the world was in complete chaos and darkness and planets and everything else are in chaos And he starts calling it into order and it stays right where it is Why is it ladies and gentlemen that when the storms come through when the hurricanes blow through and the water and the Titlesurge that they tell us is coming upon it and it flows up on the earth and then all of a sudden after the storm is over It starts receding back to the very baseline of where it is because when God said there's gonna be order He will not allow chaos to happen. It's got to go back where it is because God said it that way And whatever is going on in your life tonight You may feel like that it's gotten out of the banks and it's going crazy But I want you to get in the atmosphere of the hovering of the Holy Ghost and stay there until you get a word from the Lord And when you get a word from the Lord, you're gonna start hearing things clicking and popping back into place Because God's Word will be performed. He watches over his word to perform it Y'all don't make me preaching this place tonight He sets boundaries Let me throw this one at you real fast He says this is truth and This is not consider the Holy Spirit the necessity of the Holy Spirit leading and guiding us and We're getting a flood of information every day from every kind of news Organization and internet and everything else under the Sun and We're trying to figure out What's truth? What's a lie? But if you walk with God I wish I had somebody who walked with God if you walk with God and you commune with him and the Holy Spirit's hovering over your life He'll speak in the back of your head and said that ain't right. That ain't right. That's right. That's right Come on somebody Pastor don't that only work in church? Oh, no, no, no that works on ABC NBC Xbox on the internet with Twitter with Facebook Everything else he will lead you and guide you into all truth. No matter who it affects Come on somebody Don't tell me I'm doing great. I'm sorry Don't tell me I'm doing wonderful and inflation is wonderful while I'm paying five dollars a gallon And I'm supposed to be thinking that this is true and it's wonderful and it's great Come on somebody the Bible is right and Somebody's wrong He does this he sets things in order he puts limitations in our life You just don't want me to marry them. No, I Just at least want them to be saved while you're limiting me I'm not you can do whatever you want you can jump out of the banks if you want to But the Holy Ghost is saying don't be unequally yoked Come on somebody Limitations are good. How many of you know what I'm talking about. I Got six hands. Let me try this on your husband's going out with six other women and you're his wife How many you know limitations are good? Come on. I don't know where Solomon's mind was with 700 and some odd concubines I don't know what in the world. He was thinking but thank God he put it in the book just to let all of us know You can't handle but one woman over here Limitations are good. He sets the borders He drives out the enemy. He tells you where to put your foot. He orders Your steps He orders your steps. Are you running ahead of Holy Ghost? He says stop because I'm not ordering you're running I'm ordering your stepping and I don't mean for you to stop on one step Because a step is only supposed to take you to where you're supposed to go Don't get mad at the Holy Ghost because you've been on this step now for a year You're uncomfortable and so is he the moment that you passed the test of yielding to the Holy Spirit You can take another step. How many of you say tonight pastor? I think I need to take another step Come on. I'm losing people here tonight. I got to hurry up. You need your Tweeties Don't you your weedies or whatever do the Holy Spirit will bring buried seeds to life Now ladies and gentlemen, let me know, you know the infamous question is asked Which came first the chicken or the egg Well, I can emphatically let you know that the egg did Because the seed was buried in the ground It's in the Bible right here. Don't look at me crazy. Y'all gasping for breath right now The seed was already in the ground How do you know the seed was in the ground because God said bring forth and It brought forth Bring forth bring forth this bring forth that God already put the seed in the ground But because of all the darkness and chaos that was going on it had no sunshine no life and no word from the Lord So it laid dormant just like it is in some of your lives here tonight and those of you watching If you'll get in the absolute presence of God and allow him to speak his word over you He's gonna resurrect things out of you that's been hidden buried some of you saying I you know If I could just get this happening in my life if you'll let the Lord forgive you of sin He's gonna open up to you something that's brand new. How about this? You've been hurt. You've been abused You've you've been this you've been rejected all that kind of stuff But inside of all of that ladies and gentlemen, how do you know we learn from our hurts and our pains? And if you don't learn the same lesson then you're gonna be forced to repeat the class come on How many of you done a little opinion of the class before amen six of us praise God. It's just a wonderful club We're in I just want to let you know something if you don't get it right the first time He's gonna send you back through it Why because he can't afford to put you out there helping somebody when you haven't been able to see that happen in your life But here's the thing don't doubt what God said because what God put in your life because he brought you into this world God he's bringing talking to me so fast. I'm trying to get it to you He brought you into this world at the right time at the right place because he wanted you to be alive at this time But before you ever arrived in your mother's womb, he'd already put the seeds as anybody talking seeds here to me tonight Apple seeds come on. I carved it up for you and there it is It's the proof that there is life beyond what you're living right now So whatever your age is it makes no difference if you'll allow the Holy Spirit to hover over your life He's gonna bring buried seeds in there. Oh pastor. I've been hurt so bad. That's all right. He'll say Joseph. It's all right I'm gonna make you the prime minister all that pain was to bring forth this And if all the pain that I've suffered in my life and you have is for nothing Why did we go through it? Some of us are walking through it right now and We're wondering God. Where are you? What's going on with this? somewhere You won't find that in the chaos of this world. Oh My god, I feel him moving on me right now. I said you won't find it out there Today Today I turn on the praise and worship turn on some preaching feed my soul because what is that doing? It's giving me hope for the seeds that are on the inside that have yet to be born The children that have yet to be born. I Know you're looking at the end, but God's looking at the beginning Whatever you went through was meant to bring you to the next level And the Holy Spirit has buried seeds on the inside of you I'm just gonna tell you the Holy Spirit is the master of resurrections My god, did you know if we didn't have the power of the Holy Spirit that raised up the three-day dead body of Jesus Christ We wouldn't be in this building doing what we're doing right now But the only reason why we have is because the Holy Spirit Came back into the life and the body of Jesus Christ stood him up and he walked out alive Showed himself for 40 days since at the right end of the father right now and the Holy Ghost You feel right now is the same spirit that raised up the three-day dead body. He's a specialist in resurrection. I Said he's a specialist in resurrection whatever you thought was so dead It's never too dead for God. I Said it's never too dead for God Who pushed your neighbor and tell him it's never too dead for God. I said it's never too dead for God I said it's never too dead for God Pastor. You don't understand. I don't have to understand God is the power of the resurrection You just let the spirit of God move and he'll bring Lazarus up out of the grave and they'll look at him And they'll say is that the same guy and all you get to do is stand there and point say there. He is there He is there. He is yep. He went down to Walmart Lazarus is alive. He went to Walmart. Is that a ghost? Nope There he is right there. He is there is what did he do there? It is there It is there. It is look at what happened. God did this God did that Hey, hey, hey, the Holy Spirit wants to resurrect some stuff in you tonight Pastor don't talk about my dreams and visions. Oh, I am Because it's a frustration when seeds are still on the inside of you and you're not living out what God's full potential is inside of your life Are you hear me Seeds Seeds buried seeds buried under shame sin guilt question How does God get the glory from the seed? By it's still being a seed Just a thought just an idea Well, that's what it was in its infancy But the only way that the seed Manifest the glory is for it to come forth And you see a tree with fruit on it That's the manifestation of what was in the seed all along. I got a hurry on So the Spirit is watching over this like the chicks are getting ready to hatch Whoo, I would ask you to turn to somebody and tell them your chicks are getting ready to hatch But I don't think that's appropriate. So we'll move on Don't tell Sarah she can't get pregnant she laughed but God didn't You may laugh but God ain't laughing what he said over your life is gonna come to pass Assures the moment it left his holy mind. Did you hear what I said? Haven't seen it yet pastor. That's all right. Hold on to that seed Hold on to that hold on to the hope of God that seed is all about my hope for the future It's so critical for us. I was standing on the top of Masada in Israel And our guide was talking about the fact that they had date Dates date palm seeds that were up there that were 2,000 years old so they took them and Buried those seeds in the ground roll the tombstone over the door so to speak and wait in and 2,000 year old date palm seeds Started doing what they do Came forth with date palm tree coming right up out of a 2,000 year old seed whatever you do Don't let what God told you a long time ago slip if God said it He will bring it to pass just like he said you better hurry up preacher I'm about to run the Holy Spirit will strive with men Now that's what some of you're feeling right now He's trying to get the power of the influence of him greater than that influence of that world out there Or what you're watching on the news or whatever that it is and if that's all you talk about Then that's your leader. That's your influence But you know and I know that when you get around somebody who's full of the spirit It won't be long before you start talking about spiritual thing There's some preachers I get on the phone with Just and all of a sudden it's about two three minutes and we're starting to share the word of God together Come on now, you know when you get around somebody that encourages your spirit and Those that you want to run from Dream robbers come on somebody People that people that just suck the life out of you and leave you like a lizard on the ground Come on say amen for somebody that's not sitting beside you tonight. There you go The Bible says he's gonna strive with us somebody say thank God for striving He gonna wrestle with me. He's gonna contend with me He's gonna he's gonna in listen He's not striving to lose if the Holy Spirit loses in the striving with you you lost But if he wins in the struggle You're gonna win. How do you know ask Jacob? Jacob was out there doing his thing and all of a sudden the spirit of God very the antithesis of I should say the theophany of of Jesus Christ comes down as an angel and wrestles with him all night long He said I ain't gonna turn you loose to you to your resurrect these buried seeds in me He said what's your name? Said my name's Jacob. Oh, you've been a trickster all your life. Haven't you Jacob your mama was a trickster You've been conning and doing all kinds of stuff all your life. He said today the word has come to change you He said no longer is your name Jacob your name is Israel and guess what? You're gonna be the father over the deal going down the family's gonna grow and your seed is gonna cover all over the place And I want you to go back and tell all your boys that it's about to be resurrection time get ready And here's an assurance that my word is gonna happen in your life and To this day Jews won't eat that part of the hip as a sign That Jacob wrestled with God all night long And guess what? God won and Jacob won too If you got a walk with a limp the rest of your life you just tell everybody God won I was fighting with God and God won God won. I don't understand. Oh, I'm telling you I'm so glad God won. Aren't you hurting? Yeah, I'm in pain. I'm gonna tell you every time I have to walk I might need to go to one of them evangelists tempt me to revival So I give a leg stretch now But I don't think I will because it reminds me that I was out there with God in the middle of the night And we struggled all night long But when I came up out and the Sun rose on the next day I became an overcomer because the Lord pow touched me and I've never been the same. I got a hurry Here's the thing you need to understand the Bible says God won't always strive with me So let me just say to you I'm preaching this word here tonight, and you're not feeling any striving going on in your spirit You better call on the Lord Because the word is gonna put some tension in the room It or put some tension in your spirit when the word comes forth. Did you hear what I said? I said there ought to be something that tightens up on you Because God's getting you influenced to make a change is gonna be a child can't I cannot come and encounter God and not have a change Don't come to the burning bush just to see the site and call it an entertainment and amusement park No, no, no this fire is meant to burn on the inside of you And when you leave my presence put a veil over you to let everybody know you've been in the presence of God My spirit will not always strive with you So you better take make sure you respect the things of God and respect God all the way around My spirit will not always strive with you. So while he's moving. It's the time for you to move My spirit would not always strive with you. So when he starts striving with you I don't care where it is when it is how it is you better respond in the influence of the Holy Spirit The last thing I'll share with you here tonight is the fact that the Holy Spirit seeks a place to rest his authority Bible says in Genesis chapter number eight That Noah took that dove after the days of the flood He took that dove and said That dove flew out there and Bible said he could not find a place to rest his foot So he came back Couldn't find a place to rest his foot Let me give you a little bit of information here as we're leaving out the door a Dove flies up to 150 miles to find good migration But I want to tell you in the spiritual realm the dove has been flying to looking for you a dove will make his nest up High above the earth That's the reason why David wrote it down and said leave me to a rock that is higher than I a dove flies for the nest resisting other birds Because he's fighting for you to have a place to rest The dove is a symbol of the Holy Spirit I wonder if the dove can find your house. Is there a place at your house that he can rest his foot? Noah Through that dove out he came back couldn't find a place Noah sent him out. He tried landing on different ones all throughout the Old Testament. He flew over Abraham Isaac and Jacob, but they weren't the ones He flew over Moses and said he's me but I'm gonna give him power, but he's not the one to rest on he came to Samson and Samson did some stuff But he said that in it because he's got a Delilah problem and David He said I love David, but he's not the one and Isaiah and Jeremiah and Micah and Ezekiel and Hezekiah and Elijah and Elisha and all that and he finally looked down in the River Jordan one day and and he found the one worthy Above all of heaven and earth and he flew down and rested upon his shoulder and put his foot down on top of him And the dove sounds his coup and the Holy Spirit comes upon Jesus Christ right there in the middle of the river and a voice from heaven says This is my son in whom I'm well Please hear ye him and the influence of the Holy Spirit through the life of Jesus Christ is the only reason why we're in this building tonight And so the Holy Spirit that's in Jesus is in me as a believer And now he speaks and the sound of his voice is so sweet that the birds hushed there singing the psalmist said Question will you let him rest on you? I'm talking about to the point where he influences every decision you make full of influence. I Want to be full of the spirit. I want to be full of the spirit I'm gonna tell you what the Holy Spirit is doing right now in many cases He's like the Delta airline in Atlanta, Georgia. We'll be landing soon He's circling he's circling and he's looking for somebody Who's looking for him And as soon as he finds the church as soon as he finds the person as soon as he finds a hungry seeker Somebody who says I'm tired of doing it my way. Bring me some order out of this chaos That's the reason why you're to value the presence of God ladies and gentlemen Some who come just to get the word but but it can't get in the soul because it hadn't been broke up by worship So you can get a word but the letter killeth, but the spirit gives life When the spirit of God comes and hovers upon us, he's breaking up that hard callous ground Why because the next ingredient is the seed going in and then the Holy Spirit's gonna watch over and remind you I planted something in you. I just Somebody says it like this. I got did I get a word? I got a word on that and and I might go a week or a month or Months and maybe not even think about it. And then all of a sudden The Holy Spirit the divine reminder goes you remember that thing I put on the inside of you You remember I told you that I was gonna do this thing I just flying over to let you know and remind you I said I was gonna heal you and I'm gonna heal you at The time that I choose Don't you love the presence of God? Why don't you just slip your hands up right now and entertain the Lord right now come Holy Spirit and flood my soul I don't want to be half full or quarter full. I want to be overflowing full I want to be like the rushing of a Mississippi River Looking for the greater Expansion the greater glory that you have Lord I refuse to believe that the greatest days of the church are behind us. I believe oh God that there's Room even more even more tonight for people that are hungry Oh God put a hunger inside this congregation at Pace assembly put a hunger in the lives of people that are watching online right now Wherever there's a people who are hungry for you come in a hover Come in a hover Come in a hover Hover at my home hover on my job get in my car and hover in my car while I'm sleeping tonight I haven't been able to sleep my mind has been just uneasy and just Tossing and just a turning would you just get over the top of me tonight and just breathe into my spirit? Would you just breathe into me tonight? Would you just exhale from heaven and let me inhale the peace of God that passes all understanding? Holy Spirit put your word in me that influences me at the right time in the right place Don't let me make bad decisions in this hour. Don't let me turn to the left or right Let me wait for your voice. Let me wait for the moving in the mulberry bush Let me wait until the spirit flies by And then oh Lord, I will lead where you follow. I give you glory for it right now I'll give you glory now. I'm gonna ask you to pray this prayer right here simple prayer Lord. Feel me again Would you just pray that Lord feel me again? And I'm gonna tell you when you get up tomorrow morning first thing you do throw your hands in the air and say Lord Feel me again for today. Hallelujah Hallelujah, if you got to get a glass out of your cupboard and put it on your counter and fill it up to the Very brim and let it overflow to remind you. That's exactly what he wants you to do He don't want you to give any place to the devil. No, no little half glass full I want to be full and overflowing and running over Every day of my life because that's how bad. I need you Holy Spirit Come and feel me all over again Father I thank you right now for this wonderful group of people that are here tonight Thank you God for your word that has set us free to understand more about who you are and what we need to do Holy Spirit influence us Influence us even as we leave this place influence us if we need to turn left on the highway instead of right influence us I pray God that is even as we rest our minds tonight Let this word just get way down in our soul and let us wake up tomorrow I just thinking about the filling of your spirit Put a hunger in us. Oh God and we give you glory for it in Jesus name tonight. Amen You love the Lord this evening church. Amen. Now if you love the Lord and you're full of the spirit I don't want you to get up here and race out of here like it's a fire drill Because I'm gonna tell you something my friends There's things that are taking place in our world that things could change 24 hours from now a few hours from now You need the fellowship of other like precious faith in people at least stop by and shake hands with somebody before you Leave and let them know you love them. Amen. Now stand to your feet this evening God bless you. I look forward to seeing you this weekend. God's speaking to my heart. Don't miss it It's gonna be a great weekend, and we'll see all of you there too. God bless you for watching online. Amen