 Hallelujah let's rise to our feet come on who came ready to praise the Lord this morning come on our God is faithful he is just and he is amazing can somebody say amen come on can somebody shout hallelujah come on our God is alive and he is on the throne and we're gonna give him praise and worship today come on let's praise him come on come on sing all together tonight oh one in a place you hide this weary soul this bag of bone and I try with all my mind let's rest another one I am free cuz I am free yes I am free we sing hell I'm another one cuz I am free come on I am free can the church say lost another one oh Jesus you became my king for it come on sing and with the crown of bones you became my king forever and with the crown of bones come on say you became my king for it is praise Lord lift your hands and let us worship the Lord in the beauty of his holiest tell him how much you want to experience him more and more such a beautiful atmosphere here right now the spirit of God is in this place right now if we can just continue to worship for not another moment right now we are in his presence right now we have come to a time here in just a few minutes we're gonna take communion and we're gonna pray for healing but right now if you could just envision Jesus on the throne right now something to help me when I was struggling to press into the the most holy place as I was in worship as I was growing as a Christian someone told me that just just in your imagination see Jesus on the throne and this is not some kind of a mental practice but this is just to help to calm everything else down sometimes mind is running and how stomach is grumbling and worries of the day are still lingering but when we press in we need to just be able to shut those things down and just worship Jesus for a moment if we can just sing that song one more time right now just see Jesus on the throne he's on the throne he paid the price the lion and the lamb the lamb that took away the sin of the world that died on the cross for us to have healing we worship you Lord intervene in our affairs you never left us you never put suckers those of us who are here yesterday we saw incredible miracle signs and wonders many of us are here today to celebrate and give glory and thanks to God for what he has done in our lives and and we're gonna take a moment right now of communion we are a church that believes in sharing the community remembers of a Christ did for us and we believe that there is power in that that when Jesus commands us to do something when we obey what Jesus has instructed us that his blessings and his presence will be on us and so if you are watching us online right now encourage you run and get a cracker run and get some juice join us in this holy moment right now it's not about you have to take the exact church cracker if you are not here find some kind of a piece of bread find some kind of a juice and join us right now as they are giving out the communion elements right now you have it in the front of your pew and we're gonna do this in remembrance of of Jesus thank you so much he said take this take this bread and eat it in remembrance of me and drink this and when you drink this drink it as if it's the blood of Jesus and I believe there is power in the blood there's power in the blood of Jesus and once we take this we're gonna pray for healing as well so right now this is the holy moment right now and we do this in obedience to God's instruction in remembrance of the sacrifice that he did we are not just here because you know it's Sunday morning or it's this or that but Jesus paid a massive price for us to walk in health today he paid a massive price for us to walk in freedom I always used to tell people that coming here you know some people think that deliverance and healing is cheap just because it's free doesn't mean that it's cheap someone paid a massive price for your healing for my healing and for our freedom so because something is given freely does not mean that it's cheap and when we understand the price that the Son of God paid we reverence that and we'll say oh I've received my freedom I'm not letting this go I've received my healing I'm not letting this go because Jesus paid for it right now prepare your communion elements if you got it in your hand let's pray right now Lord we just come before you right now in a moment of holy reverence Lord of the sacrifice that you did on the cross of Calvary Lord because of your sacrifice we can live in good health we can walk in freedom today and we have eternal life because of it we worship you Lord and as we take this holy communion Lord we pray that it will be on to sanctification for our bodies we pray Holy Spirit that you will touch us that you will meet us at the point of our need Lord we worship you let our lives be a pleasing aroma before you throne Lord in the mighty name of Jesus you may take the wafer you may take the grape juice we thank you Lord for your sacrifice as the worship continues right now we're coming to a moment of healing right now we're gonna pray for healing we prayed yesterday but there are new people here today and they're new people watching us online we're gonna pray for healing right now we have seen here at hungry Jen in just the twinkle of an eye cancer being healed we have seen pains chronic incurable diseases being healed in the name of Jesus that's why we boldly and confidently speak about it and pray about it all the time so I believe the right now if you've got pain in your body if you've got some sickness in your body maybe you're struggling with barrenness there's something in your reproductive organs maybe there's some kind of a blockage in your womb or some something that is hindering you and your husband or you and your wife to get kids to have children of course the devil will attack that area it's the first instruction that God gave to us he said be fruitful and multiply of course the devil is gonna attack that I want to pray for that right now if that is you you're watching us online or you're here in the crowd just place your hand right now place your hand on that place right now if you got pain in your in your bones your spinal cord in your tendons arthritis rheumatism some kind of pain some kind of an injury accident work injury or something that came with age and you seem like I can't move any longer place your hand there right now there's a healing anointing in this room right now and Jesus wants to heal you right now we believe here at hungry Jen that coming to church we're not coming with the faith that oh one day Jesus will heal me Jesus wants to he can and he will heal you today this is the day the Lord has made I will rejoice and be glad in it you've got problem with your eyes right now place your hand right now as we prepare to pray you got some pain in your body you've got some problem in your organs asthma breathing problems some kind of a shortness of breath maybe extended cold symptoms something in your lungs right now place your hand right there got high blood pressure diabetes heart conditions does not need asbestos I believe right you might feel some kind of a shake you might be cold matter what you feel Jesus is touching you right now Holy Spirit right now a faith you know when Peter and John came up to the beautiful gate there was a man who was crippled and he said silver and gold I do not have what I have give you I find it interesting that Peter said what I have I give you rise up and walk and then it says in the next verse that he lifted him up the healing didn't happen when he said rise up the healing happened when he said rise up and then he lifted him it says as he lifted him strength entered his body sometimes you need to cooperate with the power of God the resurrection power is available but sometimes you need to take that little step and say yes in the name of Jesus I might feel the rest of you of the pain but I believe in the name of Jesus I walk in my healing and that strength will come right now as we worship one more time right now just open your lips you're still waiting for that healing right now pain is still there you haven't felt anything right now lift your hand right now lift your hand as a sign of surrender we surrender our bodies to Jesus say this body is the temple of the Holy Ghost say it with me this body is the temple of the Holy Ghost this body is the temple of the Holy Ghost not a temple of sickness not a temple of disease say it right now you can command your body say in the name of Jesus you body be healed in the name of Jesus you lungs be healed in the name of Jesus you need be healed in the name of Jesus back be healed in the name of Jesus I see in the name of Jesus ears here in the name of Jesus blood pressure reduced in the name of Jesus body be restored right now thank you Lord for your healing power right now hallelujah if you believe that Jesus is your healer would you worship with us for another 60 seconds right now if you believe that Jesus is your healer and healing is available and healing has you with us for another 60 seconds right now keeping the spirit of God is touching some people in the pews right now yes Lord we thank you right now we thank you right now who felt the presence of God and to your body who felt that pain reduce who felt that thing leave I see people waving the hands all over right now can we put our hands together for Jesus if you if you felt pain leave the body if you felt something happen meet with our ushers tell them we want to hear your story if you receive healing you can go and tell one of the ushers I received something the pain went away we want to hear your story right now in Jesus mighty name hallelujah how many know that you're in the right place at the right time oh no better place to be on a Sunday morning can you greet your neighbor right now tell them you love them but Jesus loves them more and tell them they're welcoming to the presence of God hallelujah and you may have your seat as we find our seats right now I'm gonna welcome pastor Martin to the stage God is a good God amen as you're greeting your neighbor want to welcome every single person that is watching us live online all over the world please comment below where you're watching us which city which state which country you're part of our family and those of you also with us on a second sanctuary let's put our hands together for them also put your hands together for yourself that you're at the right place at the right time where God does miracles to God's power and nothing is impossible amen we believe in a God that just that doesn't want only to bless us as we prayed here in our bodies heal our bodies not just only wants to deliver us not only just wants to restore our families but God wants to be involved in every area of our life including our finances amen God is concerned about every detail of your life as we've seen God move and today you'll hear many testimonies where God is blessing many times it's hard for us to believe that God also wants to be involved with our finances we feel like that's maybe carnal that's maybe fleshly earthly but I want to remind you that our God wants us to be blessed to have more than enough that we ourselves are blessing to others amen in first Chronicles 410 Jabez comes to God and says and Jabez called on the God of Israel saying all that you would bless me indeed and enlarge my territory that your hand will be with me that you will keep me from evil and the Bible says so God granted him his request God wants to bless you God wants to expand your territory that you may be a blessing to others in Jesus mighty name amen that in your finances in your business in your studies and whatever that you are doing that you have more than enough that you can sponsor kingdom projects amen that you'll be able to bless those who I need that you may be able to give to the orphans to the widows to those who are like a teen challenge to the orphanages to the rehab centers that your life is a blessing to others and just like God promised to Jacob he says so God granted him his request I pray the God will grant your request in Jesus mighty name amen church there's many ways to give you can give through the envelopes that's behind you pew or add there's different ways in the back of the screen right now and I want to pray if you have your phones with you if you have your wallets I want you to take it in your hands we're going to pray we're gonna pray the same prayer that jade jade is prayed we're gonna ask God that you're gonna bless me God that you're gonna expand my territory that your hand will be in every area of my life in my business in my studies in my school and everything that I do that the work of my hands will be blessed when I come in in the city in my workplace in my house whatever that I do when people look at me people will say that's God that's blessing him it's not the work of the hands of the men it is God's blessing upon his life and man I want you to take your phones your wallets to your hands so let's begin to pray father we thank you for the opportunity father to be able to bless you and honor you with our finances we thank you that you're a God of more than enough we thank you that you're a God of Jebus Lord that you will bless his life Lord you expand in his territory that we might not cause pain Lord but we are a blessing to our generation Lord that we can sponsor on a shame clouds we can sponsor father new building fun father we can sponsor the poor the widows Lord though we live a life Lord that is blessed to others because you are the God the blessed us Lord that we reflect the character of our heavenly Father Lord I thank you I ask you Lord that every single person that is given this morning Lord we pray Lord for their challenges that might be facing Lord maybe some of that are laid off looking for jobs Lord that you begin to bless our lives Lord that some that are looking for business contracts Lord that there will be emails there'll be phone calls will come this way this weekend a mighty name of Jesus Lord we pray Lord that they'll live father a life of more than enough that they're our blessing to others in Jesus mighty name we pray and everybody said amen amen amen and as the baskets will come around let us watch a video it all started in March 2006 with a message I preached as a youth pastor called raised to deliver that message made an impact on our kids and on myself it became the name and the theme of our conference which happened on April 2015 we are on our way to the convention center where this year we will host a race to deliver conference as I'm remembering how the race to deliver started the first race to deliver we saw already God marking those conferences with healings deliverances as well as invasion of God's kingdom it was a guy named Nehemiah he had asthma since birth and there on our first conference God healed him he's still healed till this day I remember years later on the race to deliver conference there was a young lady that was brought on the wheelchair from a different state she actually rented a wheelchair she had an accident which rendered her paralyzed from neck down and there at that conference Jesus Christ touched her and she was healed I can't tell you how many people have been delivered from demons curses have been broken parents who brought their children who didn't believe in Jesus and they met Jesus after they encountered the power of God of healing and deliverance now let's go and see where this year's race to deliver going to be at this is the place where the race to deliver conference will take place this year tricities convention center race to deliver conference is free of charge everyone is welcome but registration is required so go to hungry gen.com and register today for this amazing event and I can't wait to see you at race to deliver right now if you have a moment take those days November 3rd to the 5th put them in your calendar I highly encourage that is gonna be a time in a place that you will encounter Jesus that you will be touched by God and if you or anybody you know this is a time to invite them to bring them and with that said as we believe that what just happened in that video happened here last night we had a our Saturday night deliverance service and God Almighty just touched and met so many people at their needs it was incredible and with that we just want to jump in to share some of the testimonies from just last night so if you guys can please help me welcome our first testimony can you share with us your name and where you're from I'm Christina and I'm from court in Idaho Christina can you share with us what brought you to our prayer line last night what were you expecting God to do for you so I've actually been experiencing intense attacks spiritually at nighttime in my sleep they've been waking me up kind of lucid dreams where I just feel like there is a demonic entity trying to possess me and so I came here just seeking freedom from that and so as you're getting prayed for last night what was happening what were you experiencing and what happened as a whole I was honestly feeling a little bit of like crawling up my back I was feeling some like kind of some sensations on my back and as I was praying I think it was Pastor Martin that was praying over me last night I began to manifest I had I almost felt like a dog kind of snarling I felt my nose kind of curling up and I started manifesting I wasn't I wasn't you know it was it wasn't coming out of my mouth it was definitely something manifesting out of me and I'm not honestly sure everything it said but I definitely had that manifestation happen last night here and then by the grace of God I was set free from that well praise God Christina can you show this just one backtrack just one bit bit how did it all started when did you notice this happening so I actually had a lady that had prophesied over me I did not test that I just kind of accepted that and then after after that happened it just did not sit right with me and I just kind of felt like that was she she told me that she didn't see that God was going to give me a husband and so it just did not feel right to me and actually it was a spiritual spouse I think that may have attached to me because that's when that that same night I started having those intense attacks where I felt like it was trying to take me over it's unbelievable just to think that what the words can carry life or death and as she mentioned it did not set set well with her and we know that God is a God that gives God is a God who blesses and not removes and cancels things over our lives amen Christina can you share with us a word of advice for someone who's in the same situation or just seeking deliverance seeking their freedom what would you advise them I would just say just fully surrender to the process just allow God to reveal things to you and like prior to this I was really surrendering my heart surrendering my wounds surrendering any trauma just saying God you take it you do with this as you want and then just allowing God to kind of meet me here in this process wow so good thank you Christina for sharing and we believe that God has completely set her free let's give God a round of applause just as God set her free from that we believe that God has something ready and in store for you without we have two more testimonies can we give a round of applause for our second testimony so I will be translating for her she only speaks Spanish so no spoiler this is a Beatriz Camacho y vengo de Otello so Beatriz is coming from Otello Beatriz can you share with us what brought you to our prayer line us puede compartir que es lo que vino que viniera a la línea de oración anoche y a mí me invitaron y este ayer en la mañana mi niño me dijo que él me había puesto pero para que también por mí y por sanidad por mi rodilla so last night someone invited her to come to prayer line and her son told her mom I actually signed you up for deliverance so she came her son is right there so she came seeking for healing for her knee can you share with us what was it doing what was the knee pain causing and what was some of the daily hindrance that your experience nos puede compartir algunas cosas que su rodilla no podía no la dejaba usted hacer si ya no me dejaba oran yo en la iglesia donde con grego esté orábamos los miércoles ya no podía orar solamente de pie o sentada pero anoche aquí cuando viene yo me puse de rodillas y yo pensé que cuando me levantaba ya no iba a poder con el dolor y no no me dole o nada so she was not able to pray her knee was hurting she couldn't come to her knees to pray anymore so it was painful for her but last night when she came she was on her knees and she thought she wasn't going to be able to get up but God healed her and she was able to get up that these can you share with us how long was this pain how long had you been experiencing this pain and what after last night what happened son os puede decir cuánto tiempo tenías el olor y que lo que pasó después anoche 18 años llevaba con este dolor 18 years with this pain y en las noches me levantaba y oraba mucho y le pedía mucho adiós que me sanara porque ya no aguantaba con este dolor meses atrás ya estaba usando muletas y tenía cita el 10 de este mes tenías cita con una especialista so she had lots of pain with it 18 years of pain that she even had to use crutches for seasons and she actually had an appointment scheduled for October 10th with the specialist finally after 18 years and so tell us what are you believing for this appointment to look like with a specialist que estoy sin that I am healed so just gonna brief brief summary of some of the things she mentioned earlier so the 18 years of pain she couldn't work she couldn't she did not she wasn't working so she wasn't able to afford health insurance so she was not able to see a specialist and some of her friends and family actually got together collected some funds so she can see a specialist October 10th but from the grace of God she is healed she does not have to go to the specialist but she's believing to go and come back with the report that there's no problem and she has been completely healed can you show it to us awarded advice for someone can you show us something that you are not able to do before and that you're able to do now she was not able to even just rub it the way she's doing it right now constant pain so we thank God we thank God and we praise God for the miracle that took place like last night that healing that for 18 years she carried that pain but last night God delivered her and healed her completely in Jesus name and last testimony if we can help welcome our last testimony up to the stage I think we're gonna have to wait for the second service for that one and so if we can just go on and believing that today what God did last night the testimonies that took place last night we believe that God has that in store and ready for you guys today to have that faith and to receive what God Almighty has for you today to build that faith and just open your heart and be ready to receive so if you guys can just open your heart and be ready to receive from what the word that God has prepared for us by welcoming our pastor up to the stage actually we're gonna watch a video God is good and all the time he is very good amen we welcome everyone that's visiting us today for the first time for those of you that are from Tri-Cities visiting us or if you are from a different city or a different country you're also especially welcome and those of you in a second sanctuary you are with us in one spirit amen just two different places can we give a round of applause to every first-time guest as well as our second sanctuary those of you in a second sanctuary give yourself a round of applause if you're watching us and YouTube and Facebook go ahead and drop in the chat of where you're watching from go ahead and slam that like button and share this with your friends and your neighbors a few things that I wanted to highlight before we go into the message today and that is this week we broke I but when I say we it's a together two million subscriptions on your version Bible app reading plans come on thousands locally millions globally so two million people have subscribed to the reading plans that we have produced in the past five years and so it's a huge milestone for us as well as what I want to highlight if we can play the small trailer of the Newsmax that's coming out tonight it's on a secular but conservative news station and I think it's going to be really powerful so it's gonna happen tonight on Newsmax from 9 to 10 p.m. and it's gonna be a one-hour special where when I was on Sid Roth he recorded an extra recording so that he can play this it's a very very large opportunity for people who maybe have conservative views but most a lot of them are not Bible-believing Christians and so this would be also a great opportunity for them to hear about our ministry so I want you to if you have Newsmax make sure you gather with your family and watch and if you don't have it just pray amen I'm gonna be praying and so I don't have the Newsmax and so and but I'm gonna be praying today that the Lord's gonna use this to expose people to the reality who the Holy Spirit is amen and then we will see more and more people being impacted by the power of Jesus Christ from a little tri-cities touching the world amen and then the actual Sid Roth show is going to air on November 13 so in one month from now it's gonna air on November 13 but this is a Newsmax so it's a different than the Sid Roth show that airs on Jerusalem Israel and around the world on different networks so this is more of a where a lot of unbelievers are watching so we're really believing the Lord's gonna use this to impact the world for the glory of God amen last night so many amazing things happened so many people got delivered so many people also got healed it was wonderful beautiful experience I also presented something that we are launching in our church about a month ago our church board had a meeting and we voted on we already made a down payment for air conditioning we put a down payment for the electrical because it takes about nine to twelve months to actually get those things to come so it's about $500,000 just for the down payment for the electrical and for the HVAC so we will have air conditioning in our new building that is a good news and we will have electrical that will make the air conditioning work in our new building that's also a very good news amen so we're just really glad for that the other part that that started already so give you just a just a two minute recap of where we at so we bought the building over there on Edison it used to be some kind of a skating arena and then it was a welfare center some people are still going there to pick up welfare checks we're like gospel tracks we ain't got welfare checks for you here just the gospel of Jesus Christ and so and then when we got the building we've right away realized we cannot build anything more than 200 seat auditorium without sufficient parking lot and that building only had one entrance and exit on Edison which is a very Edison is a very busy street so what we had to do is the lot next to this building for three-something acres was available but they wanted a lot for that and so we were trying to negotiate for months we got that lot so that we can have two entrances and two exits into and if you have the location grace and if you can follow with me maybe show the map or as I'm mentioning different things and so so we have two entrances to exits and one thing that we will have is we will have sufficient parking space so so that took a while to get that and so now when we got that we started to work on the building what we couldn't do though is we couldn't raise the roof in the building and it has beams these beams are Paul how big how heavy are they so fifty thousand pounds one beam it's very heavy way heavier than you and I put together we have eight of them there they support the roof so what we could do the city let us do is to raise the beams they're five feet deep so we can raise the beams but keep the roof the same now the problem is to raise fifty thousand pounds a beam takes a special engineering which we figured out and now to actually raise it is not that easy and so we figured out our own way with approval of the city and engineers to raise each beam it took about a month to reach each beam keeping the roof the same why we had to do that because this way we can number one have more space in the sanctuary to allow us more of under auditorium seating secondly it allows us to have two stories in the kids zone doubling the amount of kids we can have and and we couldn't raise the roof because the foundation was really bad and so they did let us raise the beams thus giving us extra five feet in the sanctuary and extra five feet to allow us the second floor so that's what we've been asked so those of you who are wondering maybe like man what's been happening with this building that's what's been happening with this building we stripped everything from the inside everything on the top of the roof all the wiring and everything we finished the roof with just few more things left to the roof which is a big deal to finish all the roof and what's happening now is we're cutting the concrete inside of the building we will take all the concrete out and then we're gonna run all the plumbing underneath of the concrete put the new concrete in and then we're gonna start the framing material we're gonna buy the material and we're gonna start framing so our next challenge our next goal for the next five six maybe four months maybe seven months is to raise six hundred fifty dollar fifty thousand we should be six hundred fifty dollars six hundred fifty thousand dollars it will cover the flatwork meaning all the concrete stuff it will cover also the framing and the framing material so for those of you in the first second and those of you watching online I want you to prayerfully consider especially if you're visiting a church or maybe you're one of those people you're sitting on a lot of money you absolutely stressed out don't know what to do with it you know there's those problems too you know very few of us have them but but maybe you're in that situation or maybe you're simply just looking you know how how you can partner and maybe you have a framing company or perhaps you have access to material or you have favor with with some people we would really appreciate that we all could participate and if you are not able to participate I ask you that you pray because that's most important amen but if you are that person that God has blessed your life and you like man this is what my church is gonna be this is my church is I want to partner with it I want to help to build it this next phase is gonna be crucial for us be praying for that we're believing that the Lord by the end of the year that's our faith we will raise six hundred fifty thousand dollars to help us cover for that and then we will move forward into the next phase is amen come on somebody let's give the Lord a clap offering for this wonderful update and then go and talk to the Lord see what the Lord tells you to do okay definitely didn't get a response that I was expected I understand we're pondering and thinking about this amen let's go to Ephesians chapter 4 and verse 30 I want to speak today about grieving the Holy Spirit or not to grieve the Holy Spirit how not to grieve the Holy Spirit Ephesians chapter 4 and verse 30 and it says the following and do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption let all bitterness wrath anger clamor and evil speaking be put away from you with all malice and be kind to one another tenderhearted forgiving one another even as God in Christ forgiven you the very idea we see in here where the Bible says do not grieve the Holy Spirit the word grieve in this text means simply to cause grief to grieve to be in heaviness to be sorrowful to affect somebody with sadness to cause grief and to throw somebody into sorrow the word grief in a simple English is where we get our word getting your feelings hurt the very idea if I could read reread this do not get the Holy Spirit's feelings hurt that way the way tells us something about the Holy Spirit that he is not a ghost in the sense a spirit that doesn't have a personality in the sense of force in the sense of a dove in the sense of a wind or oil but he is a person that you can grieve but if you can make somebody hurt you can also make somebody happy right every married husband every married wife everyone who has parents if you can make somebody hurt you can also make somebody pleased you can also make somebody be very excited by certain things that you do the Holy Spirit is a divine person who lives within us and we as Christians have the ability to have a relationship with him and we have the ability to cause him deep heartbreak it was actually Catherine Coleman said the very famous words that sometimes are used she says please don't grieve the Holy Spirit he is all that I have in one of the other services she said actually that is one thing that I am so afraid of I am afraid lest I grieve the Holy Spirit for when the Holy Spirit is lifted from me I am the most ordinary person that has ever lived now three things I want you to notice about the grieving the Holy Spirit number one and that is when we grieve the Holy Spirit we actually break his heart secondly when we grieve the Holy Spirit we don't lose the Holy Spirit the Bible in here does not say if you grieve the Holy Spirit you lose being sealed by the Spirit in fact it says when you grieve the whole do not grieve the Holy Spirit by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption in the practical relationship example if you are in a relationship with somebody and you break their heart it doesn't mean you lose the relationship it simply means your relationship now is still there but the intimacy the closeness of that relationship is broken when you grieve the Holy Spirit you don't lose your salvation but you lose the joy of your salvation when you grieve the Holy Spirit the Holy Spirit doesn't leave you he stays there the same way if you hurt your husband with your word or you hurt your wife with your word they don't divorce you they will still be in the same house with you probably sleep in the same bed but you will feel million miles away from them what does happen when we grieve the Holy Spirit is we lose a sense that we are pleasing to God we also lose peace we become quickly and very fast irritably we become irritated very quickly we lose sense of direction we lose sense of consolation from the Holy Spirit our whole inside world goes into a turmoil and it goes into a chaos on the inside and of course we quickly blame it on our spouse we blame it on other people but in reality if we quiet down and be very honest we find out that us and the Holy Spirit are not on the same frequency us and the Holy Spirit are no longer enjoying the sweetness of that fellowship and the sweetness of that presence the danger of living and grieving the Holy Spirit is this the last thing that it will do is it will expose you to the demonic in the same verse where Paul says do not grieve in the same reference where Paul says do not grieve the Holy Spirit in verse 27 so three verses above Paul says do not give place to the devil and three verses down he says don't grieve the Holy Spirit as you grieve the Holy Spirit if you don't repent and you don't quickly fix that you're opening the door to the demonic to come and take advantage of your vulnerable hurt broken place that you are in with God and the demons smell and they are attracted to people that grieve the Holy Spirit I'm not saying you get a demon I'm saying you potentially can get a demon if you live in the state of the Holy Spirit being grieved by you this happens in relationship as well the Bible says do not let son go down on their anger so we don't give place to the devil if you stay angry overnight you stay angry the second day you stay angry the third day you begin to develop thoughts in your mind about the person that you are angry I wish them dead they're so wrong they get on my nerves all the time that's it I will never have a relationship with them again and if it's your spouse you begin to think man why did I even marry them that person was right I made a mistake about that why because when you allow anger when you allow all of that frustration when your heart is hurt and it's not being processed correctly it exposes and it attracts all kinds of demonic rodents demonic spirits living your life living our life with ungrieved Holy Spirit is the greatest guarantee you will not be demonically harassed living your life where the Holy Spirit is not grieved by you is the greatest protection that demons will not have access to you they will yell they will bark but they will not bite you because the Holy Spirit is pleased and he's your greatest defense mechanism when the Holy Spirit is not grieved what we experience is clarity of thought what we experience is stillness and peace in the midst of the most chaotic most difficult and most challenging situations in our life when the Holy Spirit is not grieved we have access to divine wisdom divine strength and divine guidance when the Holy Spirit is not grieved you are a person not just someone who has a big bank account you actually have a debit card and a pin code to use it when the Holy Spirit is grieved what begins to happen imagine yourself my David my friend David Diga use this example imagine yourself having a bank account where you have a million dollars but you don't have a debit card to access that so while you're rich you also cannot use any of your riches why because your debit card is lost and what you have to do is you have to go through the process of getting the debit card again when the Holy Spirit is grieved it's not that you no longer have the Holy Spirit and you no longer have the access you do but that contact point with the access is broken the heart gets worse with time as it gets more sick as it gets more hurt it's more offended and all of these things will happen in other words what I'm trying to say is this let's live our life in such a way where the Holy Spirit is ungrieved would you know if you grieve them would you know if he's pleased to even grieve the Holy Spirit you have to have some kind of a closeness with him you have to have some kind of a nearness to him to even know that he is grieved this doesn't belong to people who don't have any kind of connection to real to the Holy Spirit and some of us live our life without even knowing is the Holy Spirit pleased or he is not and our desire that everyone at hungry Jen watching our ministry will develop closer relationship with the Holy Spirit where we live our life and we know if he's pleased or he's not and when he is not pleased we do everything in our strength to reconnect to restore and to renew that fellowship and to renew that relationship because our very life on this earth depends on it amen if you've been with somebody if you've been married you probably can already know them I've been married to my wife for 13 years she's watching the stream right now I know when she's not happy she doesn't have to say anything you smell it in the air there's this vibe everything changes in the room the room gets colder and she and you know and and women there could be a little bit deceptive sometimes how you doing fine this is when you know nothing is fine you know I'm doing okay and when you have a relationship with somebody and you love them and you are close to them you pick up on those things very quickly and then you of course you do whatever it takes in your power you right away start thinking what did I do what did I not do what did I say what did I not say in the last 24 hours let's extend it to 72 hours no this I it couldn't be something that I've done before that it has to be the last 72 hours maybe in the last three hours so you examine your heart quickly like man I'm clean I'm good this must be something else and then you probe around a little bit more and then you find out okay this is why this person is hurt this is why this person is not feeling good right now and you do your best to make the person feel very good imagine living with the Holy Spirit the same way now yes it's not easily offended but he's hypersensitive hypersensitive which tells us to know him personally we have to be aware that he has feelings he has desires and he could quietly depart and he can quietly lift not he leaves us but he can be the Bible says in here be hurt by us now the amazing part is that the Holy Spirit is not such a mystery where we don't know what hurts them I cannot say that about my wife though women sometimes are a mystery you don't know what can hurt you can just do exactly same thing you've been doing it and one day what you did is just hurt them and so you constantly got to be on tiptoes and kind of constantly be a student of your person that you are married to to the Bible says to in Peter it says that dwell with them with understanding I'm like Peter that's impossible I don't I can't understand them that's why the Bible requires the Holy Spirit to help us obey the Bible because it's very difficult with the Holy Spirit it's not that difficult because the Bible doesn't hide to us what grieves him in these verses we see three things that grieve the Holy Spirit and that's what I want to highlight today in the summary if you wanted to get all the stuff right away is this it's the way we live grieves the Holy Spirit it's not always not reading enough of the Bible as much as not obeying any of it because so many of us think yeah I know the Holy Spirit is grieved why I should have had 20 chapters instead of 15 man I should have fasted five days instead of I did three but when you really read about the grieving of the Holy Spirit you don't see any of that you see more on how we live when we are young and on fire for God and we want to go and fast and pray evangelize to everything that moves and we feel like man if I don't do that enough I'm gonna grieve the spirit no no no if we don't do that enough we can quench the spirit but that's not what grieves the spirit what grieves the spirit is not how you minister it's what could come out is the how we live and there are three simple things that I want to highlight from the scripture the first one and that is this when we hold on to toxic emotions we grieve the Holy Spirit the Bible clearly states in here let all bitterness wrath anger clamor be put away from you toxic emotions are emotions I mentioned just three of them being holding a grudge having an offense and holding on to bitterness sometimes the closer you get to the Lord the more on fire you get the more prayer you start praying and the more you start purifying your life what I've noticed about these people myself included is we are prone we might not be prone to pornography might not be prone to smoking and drinking we might not be prone to stealing or robbing a bank but we get prone to these petty sins called holding a grudge holding on to bitterness and staying offended a grudge is something if you nurse it it doesn't get better it get worse and the reason why many of us love to hold down to a grudge is because a grudge takes time and energy and we are unsure of who we are without it we have replayed our personal betrayal and hurt movies so many times we know it by heart the idea of moving on is so terrifying whereas staying miserable is familiar the offender has done nothing to deserve forgiveness harboring resentment stops me from getting hurt again and nobody can ever get close to me again so it makes sense in our hurt mind well at least I'm not doing any other heavy sins but the Bible right after it says do not grieve the Holy Spirit it says this do not hold on to bitterness offense and resentment the closer you get to the Lord when he starts freeing you from the demons of succubus and incubus and Jezebel and Leviathan and all of this stuff there's something that we become prone to because we become sensitive to the Holy Spirit we become sensitive to the voice of God is that we become overly sensitive to people we take ourselves too seriously develop a baby skin over the outer shell of our character instead of having a baby skin over the inner shell of our heart we develop a very thin skin easily offended and we get hurt very quickly and if you just got on fire for God and you join a church that you have this high expectation from man they will love me this is heaven and earth this is paradise and you find out this is not paradise this is more like Hades people here are like people they have issues and they have problems and guess what begins to happen we get hurt and when we get hurt we hold on to a grudge you cannot host the Holy Ghost and harbor a grudge you can have the Holy Spirit and harbor a grudge you can host them you can have the Holy Spirit and hold on to an offense but you cannot host the Holy Spirit and hold on to an offense he's not hosted when you host somebody you treat them with honor you treat them with respect they get attention from you when they come into your house they're hosted versus somebody who just sneaks in quietly into the into the room and just sits there the Holy Spirit wants to be hosted but he cannot be hosted properly if we harbor things offense is the second one a offense in one of the most common words used for offense is Scandalon the Scandalon is actually a Greek word that describes a trigger of a trap on which bait is placed when an animal touches the trigger to eat the bait the trap springs shut an animal is caught when it's used in the moral context what it means is this Scandalon indicates enticement to conduct which ruins the person in question offense is like an automated weapon once you pull the trigger it keeps firing offense is always tied to pride and control offense pride and control are the deadly trio the moment you let offense in and let it stay and offense will always give you a legitimate justifiable reasons why you need to feel the same this way but while you have the reasons to stay and to harbor that offense you must understand the dove is withdrawing because the Holy Spirit cannot be hosted where somebody is busy harboring something you can't harbor an offense you will be offended I will be offended Jesus says in this world offense will come he said make sure that you're not the one causing the offense is intentionally we will be offended we will get hurt we will get our feelings hurt but what hurts the Holy Spirit's feelings is when we hold on to our hurt feelings and we develop theories we begin to switch churches we begin to gossip about people and we begin to hold on and become these people who hold on to a grudge hold on to offense and then the third thing that becomes from that is this grudge this offense becomes deeply seated bitterness bitterness is different than betrayal betrayal is what people do to you bitterness is what you do to yourself bitterness is internal betrayal is external betrayal happens anybody can be betrayed bitterness is optional we can choose to allow that when you're not a Christian or maybe you're not a believer it's so easy to fall into that but when you are a spirit-filled believer you must understand it breaks the Holy Spirit's heart when you hold on to bitterness now I have not been hurt so bad in my life to experience this on a very deep level praying for somebody just last week whose wife been cheating and left him and he now needs to deal with all of the stuff and big tough guy but crying like a baby and saying I want to accept Jesus and I want God to give me a soft heart and I cannot imagine what it takes for somebody to go through that I interviewed I think was this year a woman named Frida Frida grew up in Rwanda at the age of six she realized that she was in the wrong tribe Titsu because they would make fun of them in school at I think it was 1994 is when the president who to president was assassinated and what they did is they declared a war on this Titsu tribe and they killed 1 million Titsu in 100 days it was government sponsored government provided machetes government provided clubs and guns she was 14 years of age when they went running with their family they ran to their grandfather's house and thought they were safe there now the biggest problem with this genocide is the people that were killing you were your neighbors it was not the military it was your neighbors so they had such a good relationship with their neighbors they thought our neighbors will never do that we borrow sour cream from each other we we go to each other's houses they'll never do that until the government declared to wipe out this particular tribe so they go into the grandparent's house at 3 in the morning they get caught by their neighbors and other people now to be killed with the gunshot you had to pay for it so to be shot you actually had to pay your assassins or your killers for that they didn't have the money and so they brought the whole family and they each one had to choose a weapon by which they would be killed she's 14 years of age so she chose a club because she thought the club will be an easier way to die but before they kill her they first cut her mother's head off and the rest of the family was buried at 3 in the morning they beat her with a club turns out she didn't die and later next day around three afternoons so 10 to 14 hours later somebody dug her out and found out she still had a pulse and so she recovered losing all of her family she struggled with stomach ulcers chronic nightmares I mean the kind of trauma that you endure from your childhood having this be done to you by your own neighbors that you grew up with the anger that you feel toward humanity toward God toward everybody she had a difficult time sleeping she had migraine headaches depression and everything but then somebody takes her to church and at 18 she gives her life to Christ she falls in love with Jesus but she still hates the people who did this to her and then she started to understand that I cannot hate them but I cannot stop not hating them and she started to ask the Lord for the grace to release the harboring feelings the harboring hurt frustrations with both God the Hutu tribes and with other people and she said it took time and when the Lord removed all of that the interesting part happened the moment the heart became empty of that hurt her future became brighter and God supernaturally healed her of every disease stomach ulcers were gone the back pain were gone nightmares they stopped depression was gone and not only she had the strength to do that she had the strength actually to go to those neighbors some of them already in prison and to offer the forgiveness to them and she said it was so difficult so hard but she said with God's grace I was able to do that when you release that towards somebody who did that to you you must understand you are not setting them free you're setting your future free because what happens when you stay in that harboring feeling of hurt and shame and guilt and even if what they did to you was unthinkable and they deserve to suffer but the person that's suffering is not them it's usually the person that's holding on to that unforgiveness is like drinking rat poison hoping for a rat to die from it whoever opts for unforgiveness and revenge should always dig two graves one for their enemy and one for themselves when we hold on to those feelings and we all have them what what begins to happen is they push away the intimacy with the Holy Spirit and you may still read the Bible you may still go to church but if you are angry if you are holding on to the previous church how they treated you and you can't release that the Holy Spirit cannot be released to flow freely in your life and I want to invite you today and encourage you today to let go and let God because the Holy Spirit wants to possess you and fill you so powerfully but he cannot possess a vessel that is filled with toxic emotions these emotions have to be pure it's not because everything that's done is pure it's that you are keeping your heart pure for the Holy Spirit amen the second thing I want you to notice not only the Bible says let all bitterness and lot wrath and clamor and anger be gone from you but it says an evil speaking be put away from you the second thing and that is this the Holy Spirit is grieved when our speech is morally rotten morally rotten if you read few verses before this it says this verse 29 one verse above the verse and do not grieve the Holy Spirit let no corrupt word the word corrupt there is the word that we use for a fruit the gotten rotten the Bible says let no corrupt word proceed from your mouth but only that which edifies now we live in a Christian world today especially online there are people that are rising up who are influencing young people and influencing Christians who think cussing is cool some of them even call themselves cussing pastors their idea of Christian liberty is this we don't want to be legalistic because these fundamentalists you know made us dress this way take our earrings and makeup and so they swing to the other side we're pretty much we be like the world we throw f bombs we let all kinds of gutter language come out of our mouth because we're all about Christian liberty and I call that greasy grace that's not biblical definition what is the first thing the Holy Spirit does when he fills you to the overflow you speak in other tongues if your tongue is not cleansed the Holy Spirit is grieved when Isaiah came into the presence of God he vote whoa whoa to you whoa whoa whoa whoa to everybody until he got to the presence of God and he says whoa to me I'm a man and the first thing you notice that the problem was is his tongue wasn't clean and he says God you need to heal my tongue you need to cleanse my tongue I want to encourage you today that the second area that grieves the Holy Spirit most is what comes out of our mouth there are three things that I'm gonna highlight one is cursing the other one is lying and exaggerating and the third one is being real with your words that actually come out to be harsh cursing the Bible says when Peter denied Jesus he cursed and swore that was the state of somebody walking away from Jesus anybody who allows cursing to come out of their mouth is a person who already has something broken in the relationship with God now if you just became a Christian and you cuss like a sailor and honestly your English vocabulary was reduced to cuss words and you're learning kind of how to process that listen welcome to the journey of sanctification the founder of KFC says when I got saved it cost me half of my vocabulary when Welsh revival took place not only the courts were closed prostitution stopped the judges didn't have a job but there was one big problem they had the coal miners coal miners who were digging up coal they had donkeys they carried this coal in these little places and the donkeys only responded to cuss words so these coal miners get saved and now they're using normal language and the donkeys do not know what to do so now some of them struggled to cuss again just to get the donkey moving so they had to retrain and donkeys are slow they had to retrain donkeys because donkeys only knew how to respond to the curse language now I grew up in a very strong godly healthy home but because I was a teenager and I was in school and I was influenced I wanted to be cool with my friends in Ukraine and I remember for a week I tried smoking yeah repented of them my dad found out that in Ukraine and didn't it wasn't good the reason we're easily read the real reason I quit is because we were having a test in Kiev so that we could come to the United States and I was afraid they'll find it in my lungs and my dad will not let me come to America and he'll leave me in Ukraine to smoke and I was like no I want to go to America I don't want to be in Ukraine's and smoke but there's a problem I developed as a teenager and it was cussing I don't know how I picked it up it was a vivid memory in my mind when being influenced in the school in the Ukraine it was pretty popular to curse so I picked it up and then I was cussing but then the cussing took over me I remember being so addicted to cursing where every word I would say outside of interacting with teachers was cuss words would walk on the streets and just curse like a sailor just everything I saw I just cursed and of course I would come home and put my little Pentecostal mask on zip my lip muzzle my mouth and tame my tongue but we had this thing that I had to do is milk a cow and so I was milking a cow and the cow did something very foolish you know with this hoof it hit the bucket so all the milk splashed on me and I gave that cow so much glory I mean I just it was like demons were manifesting out of me I just just let it have it the car the cow doesn't even understand but I just let it have it now at that time my dad was walking by bought a barn my dad is thinking it's a spirit of a Leviathan probably possessing the barn he's thinking it's a demon that escaped Hades and is right now milking a cow so my dad sticks his head and lo and behold his beautiful wonderful oldest son my dad is like what was all that accident he's like those colorful words do not come out as accidents there were many of them for a long time so in Ukraine they had a different method of deliverance for children my dad took me out of the barn my pants were down he used I don't remember what it was nothing bad I know one thing after that I never cursed again in my life deliverance by power that demon was gone like that amen parents you can try that on your kids once in a while when they're young it is in the Bible but if you're struggling with cursing I want to submit to you to surrender your tongue to God because that grieves the Holy Spirit if you say well I express myself this helps me to express my anger this grieves the Holy Spirit the Bible says those who use profane language lack the vocabulary to express themselves without resorting to gutter language no Christian should be guilty of such an unbecoming talk Holy Spirit gives us self-control and when I am angry Christ's name should not be blasphemed and when I am frustrated unbecoming gutter language should not be cut shouldn't be coming out of my mouth you may say but I think those things abort those thoughts quickly in your head and don't give them birth by verbalizing them amen but the other part about our tongue is lying now lying is something that is like a snowball effect the longer it is rolled on the ground the larger it becomes Martha Luther said lying is a deceit deceit often requires sufficient truth to make something seem realistic to seem valid to appear true but in reality it's not partial truth is not truth but a little lie Abraham sort of so that should set the truth my wife is my sister almost had his wife be pregnant by some other men Sapphire and Ananias came they kind of said the truth I mean they sold the house they did give money just not all of it but they said all of it I mean kind of rounded the numbers from 50% to 100% drop dead exaggeration is not a mistake it's a lie and this happens in churches this happens among Christians when we flat out exaggerate or we lie sometimes I remember I had a pastor in our church and the next day we went to eat and you know he asked me how many people we had so I texted my assistant and she gave me the number it was a very low number I don't know if he felt embarrassed or something and I didn't round out that number I just said exactly how many people he had he said no we had 1200 people yesterday and I'm like did you count I was like how did you see 1200 people we had three services and there was no way we fit 1200 people each sanctuary seats only like 200 people I said we didn't have that and he's pushing on me and he says no you don't know how to count we had 1200 people I said I don't know where you come from how you guys count but I'm like we count usually people once I was like I know that 1200 will make me feel good but it's not true Smith Wiggisworth said this he says I have asked the Lord to let me never tell this story accept the way it happened for I realized that God will never bless exaggeration when you exaggerate when you present a half truth you align yourself with the father of lies sometimes it's easier to just add something to it to exaggerate something to it to make yourself appear better but you must understand the Holy Spirit's name Jesus says is the spirit of truth he honors the truth he loves the truth it's better to look small in the eyes of men but be right in the eyes of the Holy Spirit than to look great in the eyes of men and to grieve the precious Holy Spirit he's not moved by our numbers he's not moved by our records he's not he doesn't care about if we had a million a hundred a thousand whether you made a million dollars so you didn't he doesn't care about his stuff what he honors is the truth because he's a spirit of truth and what he's allergic to his lies because that remind him of the devil and the spirit of the enemy and so I want to encourage each one of us that we pray this prayer that Isaiah prayed Lord cleanse my lips Lord help me to say the truth and not exaggerate help me to say the truth in my workplace help me to say the truth to my wife help me to say the truth to my parents help me to say a truth to my children and never lie or exaggerate can somebody say amen but the other part about our speech is harsh speech the Bible says in Colossians it says this that season your speech with grace and I used to not understand this in our culture today being vulnerable say it the way it is be real cells it's very admirable and trendy the Bible doesn't give us permission to say it the way it is I didn't come on the stage the way I am I put some clothing on and for that we are grateful imagine me coming in and saying no I'm gonna come in the way God made me well the way I feel it is the way I'm gonna say it and that's not my problem that you can't deal with the truth the Bible has a word for that it says season your speech with salt some of us do not like food that doesn't have proper seasoning to it and the Lord gives us a requirement almost a command for our speech we cannot say things the way they are we got we cannot sugarcoat it we got a salted the world sugarcoats it but the Bible says put some salt put some seasoning in your speech that means that your speech has to carry a feeling of grace of God in it it cannot be well it's the way it is no no no the way it is hurts give me some grace give me some salt you are the salt of the earth that means my speech cannot be just real and raw my speech has to be seasoned even if we're correcting somebody even if we are reproving somebody the Bible clearly states that Holy Spirit is honored when I do not present someone real but I give him something that is seasoned by salt and that is great because somebody say a man so for those of you who maybe have a personality and you're like man I just like to tell people the way it is they need they need to get over themselves you also need to understand that the Bible doesn't give you the permission to do that the Bible gives us permission to put some salt on that at least a little bit of salt that the person doesn't leave that conversation feeling stupid feeling below or feeling like they're a total loser but they feel that conversation knowing yeah this was a bitter truth but there was some salt in it there was grace in it I know that I'm gonna make it I know that I messed up but I am not a mess I'm a new creation in Jesus Christ I know that I'm not my mistake I know that I'm not stupid I know that I'm not slow I know that I'm not gonna not gonna make it no I can make it but I do have to work on my laziness I do have to work on that parents we have to season our speech with salt when we are frustrated with children when we are frustrated with our spouses we have to season our speech with salt when we are dealing with our employees when we are dealing with our co-workers and when we are dealing with volunteers why because every person has a value in God's eyes and God does not want them to eat your raw stuff he wants him to eat stuff that seasoned because somebody say man this was worth coming to church fighting with your spouse getting all the kids just to hear this today come on somebody amen you're like how did you know we fought I know how Sunday mornings go and the last thing and that is this the Bible says we grieve the Holy Spirit when we are rude to people it says in Ephesians chapter 4 verse 32 that kindness tender hardness and forgiveness should be our portion it says about Jesus that Matthew chapter 3 verse 16 in the net translation he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and coming to rest upon him a dove and the lamb a dove is not a characteristic of the Holy Spirit it's a description of the Holy Spirit a lamb excuse me it's it's a characteristic of the Holy Spirit not a description so is the lamb it's a characteristic of Jesus not a description of Jesus I heard the statement from somebody if you want the presence of the dove you have to have the nature of the lamb the reason why the Holy Spirit not only descended on Jesus but the Bible says he remained on Jesus is because Jesus's nature was not rude he didn't say come to me all you who have you led and who are troubled I'll give you rest learn from me and you will see how snappy impatience rude and harsh I am and you will find rest for your souls Jesus is not rude Jesus is not snappy Jesus is not impulsive Jesus is not impatient Jesus is not harsh the scripture says broken bruised read he didn't break what does that mean means somebody who's already bruised you meet those people they have a hard day and they vent to you they respond through their brokenness by maybe being harsh and instead of coming back and breaking that I say this is what you did you're coming in understanding this person probably is hurting and instead of coming and reacting you pull back and say how was your day what's happening to you I see you're flunking your work I see you're not doing this what is really happening and then you find out that read is bruised and the Bible says the nature of Jesus is that he doesn't break bruised reads meaning he gets to know people he's kind to people he sees that woman coming at the here of the day the Samaritan woman and he's kind to her he sees the blind people he sees the lepers and and this is the nature of the lamb the dove doesn't descend on the bull the dove will not descend on a goat the dove is not gonna descend and some kind of a wild crazy this is just the way I am this is just the way my personality well that personality needs to be transformed because for the Holy Spirit to remain in you there has to be inside of us a pursuit of kindness tender hardness and forgiveness humility not being hearty kind instead of being harsh being mean and being rude and sometimes the more successful we get especially those of us who grew up in a more of a dominant you know whether being a man simply means being mean and the idea of being meek is being weak being meek is not being weak it's being strong under control it's controlling your strength it's controlling your reactions it's controlling your harshness why is that because the Holy Spirit is deeply affected by how we treat people he loves people so much and when he sees injustice when he sees that somebody goes in and becomes harsh loses tenderness in their heart and they can say all the right things with the wrong attitude they can say all the right things but with the wrong spirit the Bible says it grieves it breaks his heart I want you to rethink about what grieves the Holy Spirit's heart it's not just about the things that we sometimes think do I harbor unforgiveness towards somebody and justify it in my head because they'd never apologized number two is my mouth something that doesn't glorify Christ do I have a tendency to lie do I have a tendency to exaggerate and do I have a tendency to tell the way it is without seasoning it with grace and number three do I lack tenderness do I lack kindness do I lack forgiving spirit toward a human being when I see a bruised read why break it and say well they should get their act together or do I portray and carry and develop and nurture the nature of the lamb he said learn from me for I am gentle and lowly in heart and you will find a rest for your souls what is that means being harsh is hard on your soul being gentle is good for your soul being kind is rest to your soul when you find the way of the cross when you take the highway instead of the shortcut will we begin to experience is peace and who gives this rest who gives this peace the Holy Spirit because he rests he can rest and when he rests we rest when he has a rest inside of my heart I'm at rest when he doesn't find rest in me because I am rude I am mean I'm snappy I call people with names I cut corners I always jab I punish people you do something wrong to me I won't respond to you I'll let you drink your own medicine and all of that stuff doesn't give him rest he doesn't like that he withdraws and when he withdraws his rest leaves with him and I lack rest I'm right but I can't sleep I'm right but I can't put a relationship together I'm educated but I have peace I have money but I don't have rest my mind is not clear though my brain IQ is high why because when the Spirit withdraws he take all the kingdom all of the presence that he carries with him away and we are left with our human depravity we are left with our human weakness and we are left with high positions high ranks and all of that but inside his cat of scratching our soul and we can't sleep we can't think there's no peace in here there's no peace in there we break one relationship break second relationship break third relationship and we can go for deliverance until these carpets get stained with our vomit but until we take responsibility for our reactions and until we repent of our sin because some of us blame demons for what our own nasty character is responsible for some of us God does not say to always blame demons for everything that Bible teaches us to crucify put away all things put on the new things and put some stuff away put off put on put away put off things put on things put away things we have to have a role to play can somebody say man then those children don't have to see a therapist those relationships can see the light of the day then the church can flourish and the Bible says they will know you not because you spoke in tongues and people cast out demons and because you walked around saying but but I've seen a miracle Jesus says they will know you by the love that you have and love is kind love is not supernatural miracle signs and wonders its kindness we need both the supernatural and our church focuses on that we love that but at the same time we don't want to be supernatural jerks we don't want to walk around mean spirited but God I'm prophetic and pathetic prophetic and pathetic God doesn't want that to be God wants us to walk in meekness and that's not weakness because somebody say amen come on somebody I want us to rise every head bowed and every eye closed do you have any unforgiveness are you that person today who is here if I can just ask for everybody to just close the eyes for a moment if you're here today and you sing you know what this is me when you were talking about harboring and forgiveness when you were talking about harboring offense when you were talking about bitterness you hit that that that's me and I need to let go of that today I want you to raise your hand if you're that person we say I need to let go of that today for the ex-husband for that person that hurt me for that person that betrayed my trust for that person that has did something that is so difficult to forgive father in the name of Jesus I pray for that person with the hand up right now in Jesus name at the precious holy spirits anointing is going to touch them right now I ask you as those who are right now releasing forgiveness toward maybe a business partner toward an employee an employer a spouse or maybe even somebody in their life a best friend that your presence will come right now they will be a release that will happen right now in Jesus name you can put your hand down for those of you that are here today and you struggle with your mouth you have a habit of lying and maybe you have a habit of exaggerating or perhaps you have a toxic habit of cursing and you want God to bring healing to your mouth today I want you to raise your hand if you think I need the Lord to bring healing to my mouth I'm gonna ask you to put your hand right now that hand that you raised even in a second century put it over your mouth and I want you to ask the Lord right now say Lord cleanse my mouth put a coal of fire over my mouth Lord put a gate put a guard Lord I ask you for your grace that my mouth will speak of your goodness that it will be a wellspring of life that power of life will flow through it Lord help me to season my words with grace help me not to give unseasoned words to my family to my workers and to my friends in the name of Jesus we break off right now any addiction any demonic attack on your mouth right now any lying exaggeration in Jesus mighty name as you are repenting of that made the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ made the love of God made the fellowship of the Holy Spirit begin to be hosted inside of you in Jesus name in the name of Jesus every head bowed and every eye closed if you're in this room and you don't know Jesus Christ as a Lord and Savior or perhaps you walked away from Christ living a life that grieves the Holy Spirit living a life that doesn't reflect Christian values and you just turned your back on the Lord and what they call is a backslider just kind of leave Jesus completely today I want to give you an opportunity to get right with God the Bible says the wages of sin is death but the gift of God is everlasting life through Christ Jesus the scripture says if we confess with our mouth and believe in our heart that God has raised him from the dead we will have eternal life the scripture says for by faith by grace through faith we are saved not ourselves not of God works lest any man should boast if you're in this room and you don't know where you will spend eternity you're not in right relationship with God through Christ Jesus or you walked away from that relationship today God brought you here not an accident he brought you here to rescue you and to save you he wants to forgive you and he wants to accept you into his family like a backslider like a person that's lost he wants to save you today when i count to three if that is you i'm gonna ask you to raise your hand and i want to pray a prayer with you today that Jesus will become the Lord and the Savior of your life that you will go from death to life that you will go from darkness to light that you will go from hell to heaven and have the Holy Spirit living inside of you one two three just raise your hand high if you're saying i need to get saved today i'm not right with God in the second thanks you do exactly the same and we're going to believe that the Lord is going to do a miracle that only the Lord will do in your life today in Jesus mighty name those of you online you also agree with us right now say this prayer out loud with me say Lord Jesus Christ i believe you are the Son of God who died on the cross for all of my sin i repent of my sin i place my trust in your finished work on that cross deliver me from sin wash me from sin and make me whole from this day forward i promise to follow you all the days of my life