 It is really critical for us to understand, you know, how to cooperate with the Holy Spirit. And each one of us is different, uniquely made, and it's interesting that the Lord, the Lord, the Holy Spirit relates to each one of us uniquely. There's universal promises and universal realities and expectations we walk in, but he gets to know our own, our individual hearts, minds, gifts, talents. And we learn how to hear him, we learn how to follow his lead, we learn how to sense when his anointing is present. Sometimes his anointing is present, we don't always sense it, but there are times you just kind of feel like the Lord's here now and he wants to do something. You just know, like pay attention, here we go, you know? And so what I want to do is step into that a little bit more today, but in the overall context, I'd like to start with just some passages from the Catechism to talk about the unique relationship, the relationship between Jesus and the Holy Spirit and what the Holy Spirit does to help us see Jesus, know Jesus, proclaim Jesus, follow Jesus, and live Jesus. The Holy Spirit's the center of all that. And then I want to talk about how the anointing is particularly expressed in our calling as priests, prophets, kings. This is one thing we all do share. We participate in Jesus's, you know, identity as priest, prophet, king. And it's one of those things that lots of Catholics could say, yeah, I think somebody told me that somewhere along the line, but I don't know what difference that makes in my life today. I don't know what I can expect. I don't know I accept it, but I don't know exactly what it means. So I want to talk about that a little bit today and to tie in the anointing of the Spirit, the release of God's power with the power of the Word of God. These things are very connected. They're critical. And I'm hoping that a theme that can run through what I'm saying today, if I stay on message will be the critical place of the Word of God and learning how to speak the words of God because the Holy Spirit animates the words of God. The Holy Spirit confirms the words of God and the Holy Spirit gives power to the words of God that are spoken by the people of God. And so our anointing has nothing to do with our own emotions, our own energy, our particular personalities and the movement of God. It has to do with what God has decided to do, what he's doing, and how and where he typically manifests that. So we want to touch on some of that. Does it make sense? Yeah. Okay, good. All right, I want to begin a little story about, I don't know, maybe 10 years ago, I was in St. Paul. I grew up in Minnesota. I was in St. Paul for a conference, kind of statewide conference. I think it was through the Charismatic Rule and Father Contel Amesa was there. And Father Dave Parmanca. So that was fun. The three of us were speaking. And I was hoping to connect. I knew Father Contel Amesa from some work in Europe together, hoping to connect with him. We miss each other all weekend long. But there was a meeting at the end that we were required to go to. I was walking out the door and Father Dave yells, hey, where are you going? I said, I'm leaving. He said, we got a meeting upstairs. I said, oh, I forgot. So we go up and there's two seats available. One was somebody Dave had to talk to. And the other one was right next to Father Contel Amesa. And so I sat down next to him. I'm eating my sandwich. My brother was actually waiting for me in the car. And I didn't have a phone to tell him I wasn't coming for a while. And he lives in St. Paul. And so I was in a hurry to get out of there. And Father Contel Amesa was talking to Mary Healy. And they were in this intense conversation. And so I quick ate my sandwich and I was going to sneak out. And also he turns around and says, stay there. I said, OK, Father, I'll stay here. And he finished talking to her. And then he turned to me and he said, Peter, I want to tell you something. The power is in the anointing. I'm like, OK. You know, like no argument there. And I thought, yeah, it's like a self-evident thing. There's no look in my eyes. I'm telling you, the power is in the anointing of the Holy Spirit. Study the spirit. Study how the spirit works in you. And always be ready to move with the Holy Spirit. I said, what do you mean? So if you've got an outline, you're about to give a talk. And the Holy Spirit moves you pretty clearly to talk about something else. Do that. Because the important thing is it's the spirit of God that changes human hearts. And cooperating with it is critical. So it's kind of something that stuck in my mind for a long time. So I've been trying to kind of think about it, study it myself, and try to become, wow, look at that. What is that? It's red. It's the Holy Spirit. I don't know what this is. I've never seen it before on my phone, anyway. So, yeah. So I just want to read a few things from the Catechism that sort of situate and clarify for us the anointing and the meaning of the anointing. It's essentially the Holy Spirit. But the church is so wise. And everything she teaches is rooted in the scripture here. And so I'll just make sure to give you the passage so you can look it up when you get home. So paragraph 690 of the Catechism. Jesus Christ is anointed because the Spirit is his anointing. Say with me, the Spirit is his anointing. All right? And everything that occurs from the incarnation on derives from the fullness Jesus has in the Holy Spirit. Okay? From the incarnation on. Now pay attention. That was a zygote, a human person that was united. It all happened right there. The hypostatic union. But it was God's plan to unite the Holy Spirit to human flesh. And because of Jesus, it's the only way it could happen. Which I'll preach on tonight. I won't do it down. Sorry. When Christ is finally glorified, he can in turn send the Spirit from his place with the Father to those who believe in him. He said the Holy Spirit communicates to God's people the glory of Jesus. Think about that. Lord, we ask right now, Holy Spirit, you would communicate to us today more and more. And we thank you so much for your mission, Holy Spirit. Communicate to us the glory of the Lord Jesus. He said that is the Holy Spirit who glorifies the adopted, those who are adopted by the Father. The mission of the Spirit of adoption is to unite them to Christ and to make them live in him. So essentially the paragraph says this. The Spirit communicates his glory to us. The Spirit is the one who glorifies God the Father and God the Son. The joint mission is manifested in us now. God's children, the same joint mission between the Holy Spirit and Jesus is now manifested in us because Jesus took on human flesh and rose to the right hand of the Father and he poured out the Holy Spirit on human flesh, given to us. So we could follow him in the joint mission that belongs to him. Does that make sense? That's just so good. That was a mouthful. You can look it up. Okay. Paragraph 667. Jesus Christ, having entered the sanctuary of heaven once and for all, intercedes constantly for us as the mediator who assures us the permanent outpouring of the Holy Spirit. Isn't that beautiful? Let me read it again. Think about this is what he's doing. People say what is Jesus doing right now in heaven? He's interceding. That's what we're being told. This is biblical. What is he interceding for? Because he has the authority. He's calling it forth. He's commanding the permanent outpouring of the Holy Spirit on the earth, into his body. It's super abundant in him and it will never stop. Isn't that beautiful? And he's praying about it being poured into your life and mine. You know what else he's doing in heaven right now? First Corinthians 15. He's subduing the enemies of God. So Paul tells us. That didn't make you smile as much as the last one. Paragraph 670. Since the ascension, God's plan has entered into its fulfillment. We are already now in the last hour. We're in the last hour of human history. It's the time between the two comings of Jesus. It's the time of the Spirit and of witness. Say it with me. The time of the... Spirit. And of... Spirit. Say it again. Spirit and witness. The Catechism teaches this comes right from the Scripture. It's critical. Those two things are tied together. The Spirit is given to you to bring you from death to life. But the Spirit is with you to empower you to be a witness. The way Jesus was a witness and to move in that power. It says Christ's kingdom already manifests its presence through the miraculous signs that attend its proclamation by the church. So the kingdom, the church is to manifest on the earth the reality that Jesus Christ is Lord. The king has taken his seat on the throne. He's now exalted. The final stage of history is underway. That final stage of history is the time of the church. And it's a time of mercy for the world. It's a time when between when the Lord came as a lamb to lay down his life to shed his blood for the sake of the salvation of the world. And that mercy of the author of salvation is going out to the whole world. To everybody that Jesus offered through the church. But then he's going to come again in glory to do what? To judge the living and the dead. And so the church when the church is healthy is a wake to the reality that she's been she's filled with the Holy Spirit. She's anointed with the anointing that's on Jesus. And Jesus said you shall receive power and that we would come to know and experience the reality of that power and to move in that power to have confidence in it. Not because I feel it all the time, but because God said so and he said go. And I'll tell you one thing if you don't remember anything else from what I say today. The Lord anoints goers and walkers. You know what I'm saying? A lot of people who received a lot from the Holy Spirit are sitting in the same place they were in when they first received it. There's a certain kind of passivity and the whole sense of mission and being sent and bearing the urgency of the Holy Spirit's movement. Is often missing Pope Paul the sixth put it this way. He said for many of the baptized. He said the spiritual gifts they've been given at baptism and confirmation lay dormant. Their whole life long. What does that mean? Right. And that's the same to said that not me. And so what the whole outpouring of the Holy Spirit is in this generation is an awakening to the reality of the permanent outpouring of the spirit that's meant to be a living reality in the church. It's meant to be in our conversation. This is meant to be a living awareness, right? You think about that and you think about where our churches are at currently and how rarely that's ever a part of the conversation. There was a study done a couple of years ago called the league and it's an organization called the league and airs. And they did a study called the state of theology. Big study. Bishop Baron mentioned this a few years ago in one of his videos. And so part of what they do is they do a true false of true false statements. And then a big group of self identified Catholics who took this poll. And this statement was made. It says Jesus Christ was a great teacher, but he was not God. 57% of self identified Catholics said that that was true. Okay. Here's another statement. True false. The Holy Spirit is a force, but the Holy Spirit is not a personal being. Self identified Catholics in the study said that said that is true. You know how many said that? 72% said that. And 11% said they didn't know whether it was true or false. So that's 83% of people in this very large study. You know, not every study is like completely covering everything, but it's just it's a real study. This is why Bishop Baron talked about it. 83% of baptized Catholics, self identified Catholics basically said they don't really know who the Holy Spirit is. Right. So you know why we're living at a time when the Lord's pouring out the Holy Spirit that is awakening us to it, right? The Spirit has always been in the church. It's not like, and everybody's been baptized has been given the Holy Spirit. But as Thomas Aquinas says, you have to engage it essentially by faith. You have to receive it and respond to the real presence of the Spirit in your life. Otherwise, like Paul the Six said, it will remain and it will lie dormant. Amen? Yeah. Here's a beautiful line from St. Francis talking about preachers. How many of you are preachers here? Raise your hand. Like three people. Guess what? You all are. You're communicators of the faith. Yeah, I know it's a little tricky because you're not standing out preaching, but you're communicating the gospel. So here's what St. Francis said. Preachers of the gospel. They have been chosen by a certain great king to deliver edicts that proceed from his mouth. The preacher must draw from secret prayers what he will later pour out in holy sermons. He must first grow hot within before he speaks words which are cold in themselves. Isn't that interesting? He must grow hot. Remember Father Francis Martin saying to a whole about 2,000 priests here years ago and under a big tent. He told me, he said, after your day off on Monday, get up in the morning on Tuesday, get the readings for Sunday, do the work, the form-geschipped and the zits and laban and the background stuff you have to do as commentary. And then once you're done with that, he said, get on your face in the carpet and beg God to put a living word and the spirit in your heart for your people. And he said, don't get off the ground until you get it. That's seeking the anointing. That's partly what was going on. I was thirsting, Lord, you're the shepherd of my people. What's your word for my people that you're shepherding? I'm serving you. I want a living word. I don't want any routine here, Lord. I want to be surrendered to you. So any kind of ministry we're involved in, any kind of work we're involved in, that's the same kind of thing we want to have. That's the same heart we want to have that's really surrendered and listening to the present voice of the Holy Spirit. Amen? Okay, let's shift a little bit. Okay, I'm going to have to go through this quick. The relationship between Holy Spirit word and those particular identities and the assignments that go with them, with them, excuse me. I'm going to start out with the kingly. The Holy Spirit sent Jesus into the desert. What did he do in the desert? He went into the desert to do spiritual warfare against the enemy. And he went in under the anointing and under the lead of the Holy Spirit. So the Holy Spirit leads us into spiritual combat. How did Jesus fight that battle? How did the devil try to win that battle? Anybody remember? Through scripture, right? From trying to trip them up and what did Jesus say? Jesus countered with the truth. And so we need to know the word of God and we need to be able to speak the word of God. Because when you know the word of God, you speak the word of God. The spirit of God will, I'd say, energize that word. And it's exactly what happened with Jesus. That's exactly what's meant to happen in our lives. Now we know each of us individually battle some of the things we've been praying with already, spiritual strongholds. We heard that today. Anybody go to Heather's workshop today? Or even yesterday it was talked about how to break spiritual strongholds. So what we do, we do three simple things. In relationship to the spiritual combat that's there. So this is all I want to say about this area. The kingly and bringing down the kingdom. Because the spirit is moving you to confront the kingdom of darkness in whatever place you are in the world. Whatever the assignment is in my family began in my own home. In an alcoholic home. And God broke in. And what are you supposed to do? You confront the lies that you're living under that form strongholds in your way of thinking and keep you in a posture of slavery. So you expose the lie. What was the lie? What are the lies in my family? We don't have any problems. We're fine. Big time denial was there, right? And then shame that comes with it. And the shame we were under. I'm not good. Not just that I fall in sin again, but there's something wrong with me. Anybody relate to that at all? Okay. So these are lies. These are strongholds, right? And so you break down those strongholds in the authority, in the anointing of the Holy Spirit by speaking the word of God. You expose the lie. That is a lie. Then you renounce it. Say it out loud. You know? And then you what? What do you do? You expose it. You renounce it. And you replace it with the truth. I'm a son of God. I'm a daughter of God. And speak to it. And do it. I've learned that's been such a helpful thing for me. I do it every day of my life today. How many of you do that occasionally? Yeah. That's a really good habit to do. Just kind of expose the lies, right? Renounce the lies. Replace the lies with God's truth. And say it out loud. What do you say out loud? The spirit of God. I'm just telling you something really powerful in saying it and asserting it. It started with my mom. I don't have time to tell you. It started with my mother in our house. And she just had had enough. And God was breaking her home. And all of a sudden, these little 3M stickers were appearing around my house. On the bathroom mirror in the cabinet. And just little promises of God. Little truths about God. And my little mom who lived in New All-Minnesota never lived further than two blocks from the church for almost 90 years of her life, literally. She lived in a small town. Something changed in her. She went from accepting across to starting to fight a battle. I still remember her in her kitchen in a hot summer day. Standing there in her tennis shoes and kool-ots. You remember what kool-ots are? I'm serious. And my mom, I just, my mom's over there. She goes, no. Devil? You go back to hell right now. In Jesus' name. And that never happened in my house. And she didn't even know I was there. I got out of there. She was like, it was like, whoa. I thought she was talking about me. You know? It's real. I can tell you tons of stories. The climate changed in our house. The whole atmosphere changed. Because somebody, my mom and two of my sisters actually started going on the offensive in this area. They were living like kings and queens, so to speak, right? They were filling that role with confidence using the authority that they had. Number one. Number two. Okay, is the prophetic. The prophetic is really, Jesus was sent to preach glad tidings. We've heard all day, right? Every one of us has been sent to proclaim. And the central thing we proclaim is what? Jesus. Jesus is Lord. This is what Father Cotter Lamesa calls the germ cell of the church's entire preaching. And to acknowledge and to be able to proclaim and to say, why do I believe what I believe? Because Jesus Christ rose from the dead. Why do I have hope in the midst of all the hopelessness? It's in the world. If they ask me, I can tell them. I'll just tell them, you know? Because this isn't my future. This is a present that's going to pass. And my future, my destiny is great. And yours can be too, because Jesus Christ is risen from the dead. And when you say Jesus Christ is Lord, this is the point. Don't forget. It's not your energy and persuasion. The power of God gets released in speaking the word of the karygma, right? And this is not what's on, you don't have to feel it. You don't have to be on the top of your game. You just have to believe and say it when the opportunities come. And the Holy Spirit will back it. That's why, because the Holy Spirit loves to energize the words about Jesus. And a lot of things don't get energized in the church, because we're talking a lot of times about things that the Holy Spirit isn't particularly concerned about. Interested in, helpful, but he wants, he's not, we're not finding a turning of the tide or a breakthrough happening, partly because too many of the baptized don't know what they don't know. And they're not living with that level of faith and confidence and yielding to the Spirit and saying the things the Spirit wants to say. Say what God wants you to say. Say the words of God. It'll change your life and it'll change the people around you, right? Because we need a massive shift, because you guys know the kind of conversation that's happening in the world every single day. The hatred, the discouragement, the despair. If I see another headline that says there's an epidemic of psychological problems with young people, it's everywhere. This went to a funeral just last week of a young boy who played basketball with my son in AAU. Really good ball player, nice kid, his dad was a coach. He took a gun and shot himself in the face. He was just shocked, you know? I mean, there's a war going on out there. Okay? So the kingly, the prophetic and the priestly. This is the last one. This is really critical. The priestly is what? It's fundamentally you living out John 15. Jesus said, Jesus said, as the father loves me, so I love you. Now abide in my love. And then in John 17 it says, as the father loved me, so the father loves you. So how does God love you? God loves you the way God loves God. And how many of us know that? The Holy Spirit's mission is to help us hear the Lord, believe the Lord, and to be in union with him at a deep level. Leaving out of that, having our lamp filled, having our heart filled, being able to really know the delight of Jesus. So we can rest. Jesus said, come to me, you know, I'm meek and humble of heart. You'll find resting me. Most of the time, friends, honestly, we're all on that hamster wheel. Aren't we just like, you know, I'm just working so hard. Maybe the Lord will like me. Maybe the Lord will think I'm doing okay. You know, instead of, instead of being able to find rest in him, it's the Holy Spirit who escorts us into intimacy with Jesus and the Father. In the deeper we go there, the more transformed we become, the less fearful, anxious, angry, bitter, lustful, vengeful, all the kind of things that are in the human heart. Jesus wants to heal it. But if we're not going deeper in that area, in the priestly, and Jesus is called to bless the Father, to give blessing to the Father, so are we. So are we. So I'm going to say something tonight about this, but only in here. Three simple things to think about. Meditate, okay? Bless and declare. Meditate, chew on the words of God. The scripture, the Bible, is God's conversation material for us. This is where we, guys, some guys say, they're like, I don't know, did I just sit down? Don't just sit down or wait. Pick up the word of God and engage the conversation with the word of God. What is he saying? Holy Spirit, help me see. Holy Spirit, help me internalize this. Show me more. Show me more of what he's trying to say. And that's where it begins. It begins with a conversation. That's what abiding is, and living just little ways, little prayers with the Lord. Thank you, Lord. And then learning the promises of God and the Holy Spirit internalizes those promises for you, right? Talk to God, internalize his promises, and follow his leadership. That's what abiding means, right? And then meditate, bless. You hear what God is saying? When you feel, when you're reading the Bible, when your heart starts to come alive, something's touching you, you can feel sometimes the passage just jumps out at you on occasion. Stop right there and say, thank you, Holy Spirit, show me more. And say it out loud. Seek first the kingdom of God as that first passage that ever jumped out at me in my life when I was 20 years old. He said, just say it out loud. Holy Spirit, thank you. Lord, I bless you. I bless you for this promise. I receive this promise. I bless you, Lord. And declare it to other people, right? Our Lady did that. It's called the Magnificat. She went and told her cousin what God had done in her, and she magnified the Lord. She blessed him, and she declared it, right? Okay, so those are the three fundamental areas that we want to lean into with the grace of God. I'm saying so that you expect, you have an expectation, an open heart and faith, how the Lord wants you to grow, priest, prophet, king. That's part of your fundamental identity. And it's something you have to follow the Lord in, and it'll be critical for you to be engaging the Word of God around those things, because the Word of God will help you get from here to there. Make sense? Okay, anybody have a question or two before we pray? Yeah, I'd say first one is talk to God in very simple terms and abide him. What's he saying to you? He just told you, John 15, my father, right? As the Father loves me, so I love you. Then you say, Lord, thank you. Show me more, Lord. I love you too. You know, just simple response. You're gauging a person. That's one. Number two, then, is internalizing his promises and with you always to the end of the age. Right? What do you say about tribulation? You know, in this world, what's your name, sir? Ron. Ron, Jesus said to Ron, Jesus, I got to tell you this. Jesus told me, he said this to Ron. I just want to let you know. He said, Ron, in this world, you'll have tribulations. But be of good cheer, brother, because I have overcome the world. Right? And Ron said, Lord, Lord, it doesn't look like it. You know what I mean? It doesn't look like it. It doesn't feel like, why should I believe that? He said, because my father knows what you need. Jesus said, there's another promise. There's another word from God. Internalize that. Jesus went all the way to the cross knowing that. Right? And in the end, he conquered everything. He trusted the Father right going into the place that everybody's afraid of going. And he conquered it all through that because he trusted the promise. So you're living, you're having the kind of conversation. You're internalizing those promises. These are for me. The devil's going to say, oh, they're not. You schlep, you blew it. You went too far, and now you're out. That's a total lie. Then, okay, expose the lie, renounce the lie, and come back 70 times, seven times a day, I can come back to my Lord. It's like I can come back. Right? And he's going to throw it in the sea of forgetfulness. Priests might have to help me on one or two of those. But yes. Right? And then the third is, follow his leadership. Everybody in this room has an assignment, multiple assignments from the Lord. Every married couple, assignment together, to love one another and to raise a family, a domestic church. How does the Lord want you to lead that? You're anointed for that. You have broader responsibilities and parishes and neighborhoods. Sometimes you feel like, gee, I'm hardly doing anything. I just have a little small footprint. I'm not Dave Pavank. I don't have a whole you. No, it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter how big your footprint is. That's not what the Lord cares about because it's all him anyway. You know what I mean? It's not Father Mike Schmitz. It's not Dave Pavank. It's not Peter Herbeck. It's just an assignment, God gave. God does it. What he cares about is the size of your heart and your heart response to what he's given to you. You know what I mean? Okay. Why don't we stand? Let me ask you, how many people have been through different kinds of prayer times like we're going to do? Just ministry times. Raise your hand. I want to know. Okay. How many haven't? How many have no idea what we're talking about? How many would like to leave right now? Raise your hand. No. No, all we're going to do is do it very simply. It's just pray into some areas. Why? Because number one, we've spoken the Word of God. The Lord is with us. I'm going to just stand first. I'm going to just ask the Holy Spirit to come. And just wherever you are, you can close your eyes and put your hands out if you'd like. Just some kind of posture of receptivity. And we ask the Holy Spirit to come and release the power of his kingdom. And we'll just wait on him for a little bit. In the name of Jesus Christ, our King. Lord Jesus, we ask you to send the power of your kingdom. Release your power. Release your anointing. Come Holy Spirit. Come Holy Spirit. And just receive. Let the fire of God come. Come Holy Spirit. Yes Lord. Holy Spirit, manifest the King. Come Holy Spirit. Lord, send your anointing. Receive. Let the power of God come. Let the fire of God come. Release your kingdom. Jesus, Holy God. More Lord. Let the power of God come. When you're just asking, anybody feel like your heart's on fire? If it isn't, like seriously, like almost raise your hand if you do. If you are right now. Yeah. And just like so, burning hearts. Anybody's hands tingling? Are they crazy? I raise them up? Yeah. Yeah. You know, sometimes the Lord gives these just indicators. Just pray. Keep praying in. Come Holy Spirit. Let the fire of God come. Receive. Holy God. Holy God. I'm going to just pray into some areas. We're going to break that things that are obstacles to, not because any of you are experiencing it now, but I just think it would be a good thing to do as a lesson and something I've done regularly. Like one of the things that really does stop the move of the Holy Spirit is unbelief. And just say it with me if you'd like. In the name of Jesus. In the name of Jesus. I renounce. I renounce. I renounce. A spirit of unbelief. A spirit of unbelief. I break your power. I break your power. And I command you to leave. I command you to leave. Come Holy Spirit. Come Holy Spirit. Another one is fear. Fear of man, fear of failure, whatever it is in the name of Jesus. In the name of Jesus. Spirit of fear. I renounce you. I renounce you. In the name of Jesus. In the name of Jesus. I command you to leave. Come Holy Spirit. I'm just going to pray here. Just plead the blood of Jesus. The blood of Jesus is very powerful. Jesus. The blood of Jesus. Jesus break the yolks right now in this room right now those who are carrying yolks that are not from the Lord in the blood of Jesus and the power of his blood I break any bondages condemnation condemnation be gone in Jesus name by the blood of Jesus. God let the power of God come. Yes Lord yes Lord come Holy Spirit yes Holy Spirit come Holy Spirit. In the name of Jesus I come against the spirit of discouragement in the power of his blood I command you to be gone and I break your power. There's just a heavy kind of self-condemnation too I sense that happening just like people just can't there's shame there's there's there's heavy burdens once right now to deliver some of you from some it's related to sexual sin or things done whatever I don't want to do just to say the blood of Jesus is on you just receive it now just receive the grace and the forgiveness he loves you he's here the devil is trying to condemn you you are a pure child of God baptized into Christ he's made you a new creation so repeat after me if this applies to you or if you'd like in the name of Jesus I break the power of shame and I command you to leave in the name of Jesus I come against every spirit of condemnation and I break your power by the blood of Jesus and I command you to leave come Holy Spirit another thing that's really popular in our country right now lots of people are messing around with New Age stuff in all kinds of ways everywhere in the country right and so I'm just gonna pray in the name of Jesus in his holy blood I break the power of any new age spirit psychic spirit gnostics spirit and I command you to leave in the name of Jesus come Holy Spirit let's set the captives free Lord come Lord come Lord that's my friend Paco to lead in a prayer here it's good friend longtime friend from Ann Arbor okay in the name of Jesus I command the spirit of powerlessness to depart from me and Jesus name and do not lie anymore to telling me that I am not free to know the power of God come Lord Jesus amen amen amen come Holy Spirit okay I just want us to just pray now on the eve of Pentecost just brothers this should be in a spirit of continued in a spirit of receptivity I'm just gonna pray for a fresh outpouring of the spirit of God and I think the Lord's got callings that he's going to release here now maybe or maybe tonight some of you are gonna leave this weekend with a sense of call that you didn't have before you're gonna have a sense of an assignment from the Lord you haven't had before so let's just be an apostrophe of receptivity Lord Jesus we welcome you we thank you and we yes father in Jesus name I pray that you would release the grace the full grace of baptism and confirmation in these brothers and sisters and you'd give us on this beautiful day of fresh anointing in your spirit come Holy Spirit come Holy Spirit yes some of you some of you you're going you're saying earlier the Lord wants to make you a goer some of you are about to get sent to remain some of you are been in in the past you know in a posture of being stagnant the Lord's gonna move you some of you have been sensing the word calling you all weekend to something more your confidence point looks saying say yes to me and I will bless you says the Lord in the anointing comes in the movement the anointing really gets released in the going in the risking not in waiting going right come Holy Spirit come Holy Spirit Lord we love you let the power of Pentecost you said Lord you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you and you shall be my witnesses Lord release the power of your kingdom Lord shower down your power Lord come Lord Jesus come Lord Jesus Holy God Lord we pray for tonight and our time together and worship we pray that just freedom would reign the freedom of the children of God power of your kingdom in Holy Spirit we ask you humbly to give to us tonight and many people who are here for the first time and never experienced anything like that we're in there hungry that you give them a revelation of your glory in Jesus name we pray I just have a very strong sense that the Lord would like us to have a moment here that the spirit of praise in thanksgiving for the resurrected Lord and the power of the Holy Spirit be released in his all he wants us to come into a place of great celebration for the victory in the triumph that we have in our God through our Lord Jesus Christ let's just open up to the spirit of praise praise your name Lord Jesus we exalt you Lord Jesus Christ all we open our hearts to you we praise your name Lord we will not hold back we will declare your wonderful works of Lord your wonderful deeds among your people Lord Jesus and all the earth Lord Jesus all your wonders and signs may they be to us signs of your love Lord your nearness your power your glory your goodness all we bless you Lord we adore you we glorify you again with all the saints and angels we sing praise you holy holy holy is our God hallelujah glory to you Lord Jesus just picture for a minute our lady imagine you know your Elizabeth and she comes to you and she says to you Elizabeth my soul magnifies the Lord my spirit rejoices in God my Savior the Almighty has done great things for me and holy is his name that that's the first disciple we're following her right I mean just say let's say it out loud you don't say to anybody because let's just say it Lord well magnify the Lord come Holy Spirit my heart my soul magnifies the Lord my spirit rejoices for the mighty one has done great things for me and holy is his name you know you can say it in truth because he has he's come to live in you the biggest thing in your life is God has made his home in you very physically but us in reality you're a temple so let's say it again right from the beginning my soul magnifies the Lord my spirit rejoices in God my Savior for the Almighty one has done great things for me and holy is his name blessed the Lord turn to somebody next year and tell them that go ahead okay you guys we're done so it was that help to yourselves honestly was that helpful was there is there anything we can clarify in terms of what was said anything I can clarify a question when you said to bless God I don't understand he would he need us to bless him okay why do you say bless God when God doesn't need our blessing and God has everything under the Sun right because the Lord wants us to say out loud to thank him to praise him for his beauty and it's good for us to do that it's good for our souls to do that right and we're confessing the truth get your hand up again question yeah yeah yeah yeah good yeah you don't have to feel silly at all go ahead sir yeah how do you deal with doubt when you think you're hearing something and then you know the first thing you think about it now that's just you okay just to let you know that's a universal experience just to let you know you're not you're at the Lone Ranger just so you know that okay and that's just it can be our own flesh because we're trying it's on might be a certain kind of humility or they're like I don't know for sure but what the best thing to do is take those little tidbits you get from the Lord then you think he's saying to write them down and then just ask the Lord go back to an answer Lord show me more Lord show me more and he'll confirm things you know and you'll show you and then if it's a little heat to it like you feel like yeah there's something here share it with somebody you know in the Lord share with a brother or sister and so I really feel like the Lord is saying this to me you know like I was saying when I was like 20 years old I was in the dormitory I just began a friend of mine said read the Bible if you want to get serious about following the Lord read Bible every day you know and so I was reading and and I came to Matthew 6 where it said seek first the kingdom of God in his way of holiness and everything will be added to you and that verse like it almost lit up and I just felt it and and so I said look Jesus you know I'm just trying to think I honestly felt in my heart the Lord say if you make this verse your mission statement for your life I promise you I will make something beautiful out of your life I will vindicate this word in your life I had a decision at that moment right now I'm gonna believe that am I making this up which you know happens all the time you know and I say yes to it's the best things ever happened in my life and I claim that passage from that day until today and it changed my life you know and the Lord whispers that's why it's like he doesn't usually do big signs he little tiny whispers and he wants you to take baby steps in his direction you know so there was a farmer in northern Minnesota who is at a blue prayer group with my oldest sister when my family was still in bondage and this guy got a word from the Lord in a prayer group and that said that for my family and he never had one before I didn't know I even met the guy and my sister's walking to the car and he was like should I should I not this is probably not true this is probably me whatever what if it's wrong this guy and he spoke the word to her and the Lord touched her deeply and she came home and spoke that word to us and our family was never it didn't happen just like that but Pope Francis calls it a current of grace I tell you what a current of grace started moving into our family that we never experienced before and over a five or seven year period my entire family all seven kids came back to Christ and it started there my mom's prayers was really the beginning of it all but that word that grace by that farmer who probably thought who am I like what you know I shove him in there wow who's gonna talk you know Jesus loves that you know and he loves that faith to step out and spoke a word and it helps save our family's life but he had to have here to fight that battle so if there's no reason to doubt it just keep moving okay alright God bless you