 Good morning church. How many of you are excited to be in the presence of the Lord this morning? Come on give the Lord a shout! Yes, David said I was glad when he said unto me, let us go into the house of the Lord. So we're about to sing songs of praises and give God all the worship that he deserves. Hallelujah. How many of you believe God and nothing is impossible for the Lord? Put your hands together for Jesus. Come on put your hands together. Yes, God, you reign above it all Lord. God, we thank you Lord for the sacrifice that you laid for us. To give us victory Lord. To give us you Lord God. We thank you Lord God. Yes Lord God. We give you glory. We sing. The rain of darkness now has ended In the kingdom of life In the kingdom of life Forever under your dominion. Come on sing all together. You reign. Here we go. It's you reign above. Come on sing on the cross all together. Jesus you above all darkness Lord. You reign above it. Yes, you reign above it all God. Come on, can we just lift up our hands to the Lord here in this house? Come on. It's you reign. Now let's sing. It's you sent the darkness running Out of an empty grave Now seat it alone And throne on the highest praise It's you sent the darkness running Come on, out of an empty grave Now seat it above it all There is no high end Jesus you We lift you up on high God We give you glory. Yes, we give you praise. So we come all together. We've come to join a song A song long before To raise our voice alive We've seen in dark kingdom Live your sacrifice So we sing all together So be influenced upon the praises Of a thousand generations Here this life we sing It's on to you And on to you The slain and risen Come on church. How many of you guys know our God is holy? Come on, let's give God some praise. Because he is the alpha. How many of you guys are blessed this morning? Come on, we have a God as good as our God. There's no other way but being blessed And being joyful, amen. We have came to a time of prayer. I have here Malachi, one of our students. Malachi is 12 years old. Come on, give it up for Malachi. He is 12 years old. He goes to Ochoa Middle School. And Malachi tells how many years have you been here at Hungry Gen? 12 years. Come on, give it up for Malachi. Come on, 12 years being here at Hungry Gen. Malachi, you've been here for a while now. You've gone into seeing how you have developed and how it came to where it's at now. Can you just give us a bit of a word of how it's been for you? How has attending Sunday youth every Sunday night been in your life? How has it impacted your life? How has it touched your life? Share a little bit about that. I've got a chance to grow connections with new friends and new leaders. And the leaders impacted my life a lot. Amen, amen. Come on, Sunday nights. Come on, give it up. God is good. We are in the midst of changing lives when it comes to Sunday night services. Malachi, you've gone connected to your group leaders. You've gone connected to new students. And through this all, you've mentioned to me you've gone through struggles. You've gone through a lot of thoughts. Can you share a little bit with us? What happens when this happens in your life? What do you do? Do you get connected to a leader? Do you talk to someone? Give us a little bit about that. What is Sunday night to you? It's just like a time to worship God, like serve God, thank Him for His glory. Just like really connect with Him, really talk to Him. Amen. God is good. God is good. Now, can you share a quick word of encouragement? If there's a student in this place that doesn't attend Sunday night youth or there's a parent that has their children here, can you share a word with them? What would you tell them about Sunday nights? Definitely go to Sunday night youth because it could change your student and it could really impact their life a lot. Come on, come on. Church God is good. Come on, give it up for God. We've seen countless testimonies of the goodness of God. We've seen deliverance take place. We've seen healings break through. Baptisms of the Holy Spirit take place on our Sunday night services. We've seen in the last weeks how we've been packed out to the back. I'm talking about 250, 300 students on the Sunday night praising and lifting up the name of Jesus. We have been in our schools every single Tuesday and we just started this Last on the Shame Club. We had 280 attendants. Come on, give it up to Jesus. 280 students that came to the club to listen to the good news. And not just that, it gets better, church. We had 40 salavations of students in our high school. 40 kids that say yes to Jesus. 40 kids that I will follow Jesus. Come on, our God is good. We have seen amazing things happen through these clubs, breakthrough healing deliverance. And that being said, we are believing that this weekend, September 21st to the 24th, we're gonna see nothing less. We're gonna believe that our Unashamed Conference, we're gonna see breakthrough deliverance, healings, baptism of the Holy Spirit, that we will see a chain break in anointing, that our youth will no longer struggle with depression, our youth will no longer struggle with anxiety, our youth will no longer be tormented with the trials and tribulations that the enemy tries to bring upon them. So that being said in Malachi, can you please lead us in a prayer because there's something that happens when the church unites in prayer. Can you lead us in a prayer that we will see radical salavations at our conference, that we will see deliverance, that our healings begin to take place. Come on church, lift your hands and pray or let's pray. We're Father God right now. We pray for Unashamed Conference, Lord God, that any kid that is struggling with addiction, that is struggling with anything in their life, that it will be gone and it will no longer be there in the name of Jesus, Lord. We pray for Unashamed Conference, Lord, that we will see the whole church packed out, Lord God, from the front to the back. We're Father God, that it will be amazing in Jesus' name, Amen. Yes, Father God, we come together, Father, all together in one spirit, God, in one accord, Father, and we lift up our Unashamed Conference, Father. We pray, God, that as we step into this conference, God, you will prepare this place, God, to be in the arena of Liberty, God. You will prepare this place to be in the arena of Peace, Father. We pray, God, that as students step into this place, God, that your chain-breaking anointing, God, will begin to take place, God, that no suicidal thought will prevail in their life, God. No depression, no anxiety, God. Every gang affiliation, God, will be broken up in life right now, God. We pray that every generational curse will be broken, Father, and that you will prepare this conference, God, that we will see deliverance, we will see breakthrough, we will see healings begin to take place, Father, and we pray for every student, God, that we're going out to these clubs to evangelize of the good word, Father. We pray that you will give them the boldest, God, to invite their friends, God, to invite their family, God, anybody who needs God to hear your word, Father. We pray this in your mighty name. Amen. Come on, church. If you believe the prayer we just prayed, give God your loudest shout. Come on, church. Come on, church. God is good. That being said, please place your eyes on the screen for the promo. What are we doing today? It's always a good day to come and gather and worship the Lord and just bathe in His presence and hear the word. We've come to a time of giving now. That was an amazing time as we reflect on what God is doing at the youth. You see that the youth is literally beyond capacity now. It's literally all the way to the back. This whole place is filled. But we know God has already been planning ahead for this. We've got a new building being constructed right now. And we've got the building fund that is growing. New stages of development are happening. You can even give specifically to that or partner with that this next phase of development. You can also actually partner with the Unashamed Clubs as well and the youth, wherever God is leading you. But I want to share a quick word. The Bible says that God loves a cheerful giver, not when we give out of pressure or compulsion or begrudgingly, but he loves a cheerful giver and he's able to supply all things we need. And what's really amazing about that is when you think about if you're a father or even a mother, if you have a kid, and if they gave you something and they're like whining about it and they're like, you know, whimpering, like, oh, and they give it to you, they're not really that happy about it. How much of a difference is that when the kid is just abounding with joy, ready to give you something because they love you so much and they want to just bless you and give to you. That's how our Heavenly Father feels about us when we give. The Bible says that where our treasure is, our heart is also. And we see in the Bible that there were actually women who partnered with Jesus's ministry so Jesus and the disciples could do what they needed to do. It's pretty expensive to travel with 12 people in this day and age, back then as well, to travel for food and lodging and transportation, all those things. But there were people who gave and partnered with his ministry. And today, Jesus is still alive and the church is the body of Christ. We have the opportunity to still give to his mission here on earth. We are vessels. It's not I who live, but Christ who lives in me. We are vessels for the will of God to be done. So when we partner with the church, the body of Christ, the mission of the gospel, we're partnering with the greatest cause known to man. There are great nonprofits. You got the Red Cross. You got other, you know, helping children who are hungry and needy and amazing nonprofits, helping all sorts of things. But there's only one nonprofit that has an eternal reward. That has an eternal purpose. And that's the gospel, the message of Christ. And so I want to encourage you today, if God is putting on your heart right now to give, to partner with the building fund, to partner with just the church in general, you can do that now. I personally use the app, the church center app. There's also behind you in your pews, envelopes that you can give. There's going to be a bucket that comes around. But let's look at this as an opportunity to worship God with what is dear to us, which is our treasure. And let's put our heart in the kingdom of God. Amen. Church, let's pray for this offering. Lord, we thank you for what you're doing in this house. Lord, we thank you for all the youth that are being impacted, set free, saved, being discipled. God, we thank you for this, this building, Lord, and all that you've done here, all that you continue to do here, God. And God, we pray that you would continue to do your work, Lord, that there would be generosity to abound, that the gift of giving that you give to us as you talk about in your word, Lord, would be expressed through this generosity, Lord, as fuel for your mission to win souls, to make disciples, and set the captives free, God. We pray that there's a blessing on these finances, Lord, and the construction of the building, Lord, that be done according to your word, as the tabernacle, as the temple, Lord, with excellence, the spirit of excellence, God, that there would be salvation and freedom and love that just covers that place, Lord. We thank you for all you're doing. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Please focus your eyes on the screen for the R2D promo. It all started in March 2006 with a message I preached as a youth pastor called Raised to Deliver. The 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 the Raised to Deliver conference. As I'm remembering how the Raised to Deliver started, the first Raised to Deliver, we saw already God marking those conferences with healings, deliverances, as well as invasion of God's kingdom. There was a guy named Nehemiah. He had asthma since birth. And there, on our first conference, God healed them. He still healed till this day. I remember years later, on the Raised 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 Raised to Deliver is going to be at. This is the place where the Raised to Deliver conference will take place this year. Tri-Cities Convention Center. Raised to Deliver conference is free of charge. Everyone is welcome. But registration is required. So go to hungrygen.com and register today for this amazing event. And I can't wait to see you at Raised to Deliver. Come on, if you're excited for what's going to take place this year. Amen. Come on, let's give it up for Jesus. We have an amazing conference that is brewing behind the scenes. And it's going to be in October, in November. First week of November. So I want to encourage you to begin to pray and say like, Lord, who can I invite to this? Who is in need? Who is around me, Lord, that can benefit from an encounter with you at this event? Amen. Amen. So I have this wonderful testimony that I want to share today. And it's a testimony of healing. This testimony is probably not going to look like something you may need. But it is a testimony of the same God that we serve and His power to heal you and your circumstance, whatever it may look like. There is nothing too small or too big for our God. Amen. Amen. With that, please help me welcome our testimony to the stage. Amen. Hi, guys. Welcome. So why don't you tell us your name and your little girl's names and where you're from? All right. My name is Sanyi. This is Gloria and this is Abigail. And we're from Virginia, Maryland area. Awesome. Welcome. You are from Virginia, but you're... We live here now. Yeah, we live here now. Okay. Well, welcome. Thank you for agreeing to share your story. So I see you have your little girls here. Tell us what was going on behind the scenes? What healing took place? So it's for Gloria. So when she was about three months old, you know, we started to notice some changes in her skin. You guys may be familiar with eczema. Eczema has like a mild to moderate and moderate to severe. Herce was more on the moderate to severe side. When it started with small, her big sister had like a little one, you know, spots here and there. So we used, you know, steroid creams, the one you can get over the counter. It kind of got better for her. But for Gloria, it was actually getting worse. You know, we went to, you know, the doctor, you know, we increased the type of steroid to like the high potency and stuff. But it didn't work. We also tried like the most expensive steroid cream. None steroid cream still didn't get better. We changed her diet. We changed her mom's diet because she was breastfeeding. It didn't work. It actually got worse and worse. And her quality of life was actually worse because like at night she used to scratch. She doesn't sleep well. And then, you know, her mom especially had to go through all that because I was in school most days. But that was a tough time for us and for her a lot. And how old was it when you first noticed it? It was about like when she was three months and it lasted until like she was two and a half. Wow. Wow. So what, I guess how did you end up coming here? What began to change? What led you here? Okay. My wife and I actually visited here in February 2022 for a marriage conference and a prayer line. That was a time when we actually came here. We saw the area. We were familiar with Hungry Gen type church. So, you know, we prayed to God. I was in school at that time. So we prayed to God for God to give me a job and then God did. And we're here. So we moved about a year ago. Amen. Come on. Let's give it up for Jesus leading him here. So when you were here, was she still sick? Yes. Yes. She was still having, you know, that severe eczema. I don't know if they put it on there, but yeah. And what happened after a few months while you were here? Yeah. So there was a family service here. I don't know if it was in October or November, but, you know, we came together and we were sitting on the second pew. And then, you know, after the service was over, the pastors were praying for, you know, anybody who needed prayer. So I brought her up to a passive lad and he put some oil. He prayed for her and, you know, she still remembers. And, you know, we, we, you know, he prayed for her. And then after that, you know, that was when we actually started changes and about two weeks after we started to see changes in her stool. And I was like, okay, let's try while we tried before to kind of change her diet a little bit. Like we started with just changing her milk. And then, you know, two weeks later, her skin was smooth and getting better. We just wanted to wait it out and started to introduce foods that she was allergic to like peanut, fish, everything that she was allergic to. Because we believed that God has actually delivered her, you know, and then, and then, you know, after that completely her skin was smooth and she got delivered. We've introduced every type of food. She has a good appetite. Come on, let's give it up for Jesus. Wow. What a wonderful testimony. So she's good. Has she been medically verified as good? I'm a PA. I, I couldn't verify that at home. Come on, praise God. So what is the word advice that you would give to anybody who may be listening or rewatching? You know, for parents, you know, for some of us, maybe it's, you know, some, something small, but for parents, we go through a lot, especially parents, you know, seeing our child, you know, worrying. I was worried. I had asthma when I was six year old and God delivered me from that. And so, you know, eczema is related to asthma at some point. And so I was worried she's going to have that as well. So, you know, the worries and everything, you know, I, I just, you know, want to advise parents to just leave it to God and God will, you know, take care of it. The second one I would say is whatever God uses, you know, your afflictions, your problems, your disease, he's going to use that to bring him to you, to bring him close to you so that he can deliver you and actually maintain his relationship with you. Amen. Let's give it up one more time for God. We serve an awesome and powerful God. Thank you so much for sharing your story. Bye, sweetie. Amen. Let that be a word of encouragement for you. This circumstance looks like our God is able to heal, to save and deliver. Amen. Amen. With that, please focus your eyes on the screen. Good morning. God is good. And all the time. Amen. Welcome to Hungry Jen. If you are visiting us today for the first time, you are our guest. Make sure before you leave, we have a gift for you in the lobby in our Connect Center. And for those of you that are here today, as a part of Hungry Jen, it's a big day for us because we celebrate what God is doing. Last Sunday, we had 400 youth here. Do not tell that to the city, please. Because we technically can't fit them here. So you may say, what happened? This is what's been happening. I've been bringing just a powerful move among the youth. On Tuesday, we go to schools, to minister to schools, and we had over 280 students that we reached in schools, and 40 of them gave their life to Jesus in schools. This is not at the youth in schools. I want to thank every parent that has been praying for that. And, Jeremy, I want to thank you for helping to actually sponsor some of the stuff that's happening in schools. When we tried that first, we went into schools, we brought a person and a staff, and there's a person that I just highlighted who helped to finance that. It was a risk. We were like, we're just going to see what's going to happen. We never thought that this is what's going to happen. Or we're going to see just a massive impact in our schools. And this impact is now spilling to the fact that kids are coming to Sunday night, and we usually would have, you know, 170, 180 to 200 kids, which is a lot. There are churches I travel to, mega churches, that would have thousands of people on Sunday morning, 3,000 people on Sunday morning, and only 20 children at the youth service. That's the norm now in a lot of churches. So to see the breakthrough in the revival among the youth, it's something that we celebrate, we pray for, we sow, and we invest into that. And so the youth conference is taking place this week. It's going to be crazy week. Thursday night, Friday night, Saturday morning, Saturday night, and then it's going to get really loud and rowdy on Sunday morning. Because all that youth is going to stay for Sunday morning. So next Sunday morning, do not come late or on time. A little bit early. And so we're excited. We love the noise, the wildness, the craziness, all that God is doing among the youth, amen. That's our next generation, but it's our present leaders right now. And so when you see us building a new building, that's what we're doing for. We're not just doing it for us. We are doing it for the next generation. But I believe by the time we get there, that building is already going to be too small. But because things are so slow nowadays with building, it is what it is, amen. God is building the fruit of patience in each and every one of us, amen. And so it has been a great blessing. This week also was a great week where we're just celebrating the goodness and the joy of our God in spite of where we are going through. We are just 40-something days left from race to deliver. And church, I do want to remind you, though it's your conference, you still have to register. So we will not be able to come in and say, hey, I'm hungry, Jen, let me in. Like we're still all going to have to register, even our team. And so we ask you that you register if you're planning to be there. We ask you that you don't just come, you bring your family. You invite your cousins, your crazy uncles. You invite everybody. Because you don't know how the Lord can touch them at this conference. It will be Friday night service. It will be a mass deliverance service. Saturday morning will be a powerful equipping service. Saturday night will be the prayer line. And then Sunday morning will be a service there focused on the baptism of the Holy Spirit and healing. So we are excited. Families are bringing other families. It's our time. It's for our region in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen, amen. Today I'm going to continue the series that I started last week called Host the Holy Ghost. About relationship with the Holy Spirit. If you're watching us online, in fact, can I ask you for those of you who use the phones during the service regardless, could you pull out your phone and do something good with it and share a Facebook live stream on your feed. And if you're ashamed to be a Christian on your Facebook, ashamed be not. I just did it in not a proper English. Ashamed be not. Please don't be ashamed. Share about the goodness of Jesus. Share with your friends right now on YouTube if you have a YouTube channel. If you're watching us on Facebook right now, go ahead and hit that share button. And then if you're watching on YouTube, let us know where you're watching from. Share this on WhatsApp, Telegram, Viber, every kind of group that you have so that we can get the word out on Sunday morning for those people who may be at home sleeping in or they're sick, perhaps they're not able to come to church. Amen. Amen. And I'm going to come down. It's a little bit easier when I come down. So Ryan, I'm going to work with you with lights, mainly for live stream. Ryan's putting his head like this already. He means he's not very happy. He doesn't help to Ryan in Jesus' name. Amen. Somebody say, host the Holy Ghost. But this morning I want to speak with you about sensitivity to the Holy Spirit. Sensitivity to the Holy Spirit. If you have your Bible, let's go with me to Hebrews chapter 3 and verse 7. Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says, today if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion. In the day of trial in the wilderness where your fathers tested me, tried me and saw my works 40 years. Therefore I was angry with that generation and said, they always go astray in their heart and have not known my ways. So I swore in my wrath, they shall not enter my rest. Now fix your eyes on the verse 7 again. It says, therefore, as the Holy Spirit said. Now for those of us who read the scripture, sometimes we won't pay attention to that. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to flip to Psalm 95 and verse 4. He is our God. We are the people of His pasture, the sheep of His hand. Today if you hear His voice and pretty much it quotes that verse that writer of Hebrews writes. What does this mean? The Holy Spirit is a person. He has feelings. He has a personality. Jesus referred to Him as a person. He does the works of a person, speaks, convicts, guides, inspires, prays. He takes the place of a person, Jesus, on this earth. But I want you to notice the other part about the Holy Spirit. Not only He is a person that you cannot see with your eyes, just like a wind you cannot see, but it's real. But unlike wind, the Holy Spirit is a person. The wind is a force. But the Holy Spirit is a divine person. Meaning He is God. In the Old Testament we just read in Psalms it says, the Lord said. So you would read that and you would say, God said that, the Lord said that. In the New Testament, for the Lord, it uses the Holy Spirit. Paul, or the author of Hebrews, we think it might be Paul, instead of saying for God said, he says as the Holy Spirit says, meaning the Holy Spirit is not just a person, He is a divine person. He is God. In fact, what I want to bring to your attention today is a story of Israel that this is referring to. The wilderness. When they tried me, when they tested me, saw my works, my works. Whose works? In this verse, the Holy Spirit. Saw my works, tested me, tried me. In the wilderness. We know what it's referring to. It's referring to the famous story. Israel getting out of Egypt, getting delivered from Egypt, going through 40 years of trials, testings and hardships, driving God crazy, getting on His last nerve, and then God disciplining them by not letting them enter into the promised land. Did you know who they drove crazy in the wilderness? In this verse, it says the Holy Spirit. In fact, let's go to Isaiah chapter 63 verse 10. But they rebelled speaking of Israel in the wilderness and grieved His Holy Spirit. So He churned Himself against them as an enemy and fought against them. In light of that, this week I re-read the account of Israel coming out of Egypt. Because I always, when I've read it, I saw this as Father God being driven crazy. They just did things to really grieve Him, despise Him. But the New Testament gives us an insight. It wasn't just the Father, but the Holy Spirit was grieved, rebelled against. And because of that, God says, you grieved my spirit, and God's like, you're not going to have a friendship with me. You're going to be my enemy, meaning there's no intimacy there. And God the Bible says, He fought against them. Now, the Holy Spirit can be grieved. The Holy Spirit, His heart can be hurt. He is a divine person, but He is still a person. His number one goal for us as Christians, one of His goals is to take us from deliverance to our destiny. He's involved in our deliverance. The Bible says, whom the Son sets free is free indeed. But the Bible also says, with the Spirit of the Lord is there is liberty. Jesus drove out demons through Him, the finger of God through the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is involved in our deliverance. Then He takes us through the season of development. Somebody say development. Somebody put that in the chat. Development. So deliverance, development, and then there is destiny. Somebody say destiny. So when we get delivered by the Lord, the Holy Spirit takes on a task of developing. Somebody say developing. He's developing us. And this is the season of wilderness. This is the season of hardship. This is the season of what we like to call it in between. Meaning you got out of this, you haven't got into that. That's the development season. And the Holy Spirit is intensely, intentionally, closely involved with each one of us in that season to develop us so He can take us into His rest, into His destiny, into His purpose, and into His calling. Israel goes through this season and the Bible says in Hebrews chapter 3 verse 7, it says that as the Holy Spirit says, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion in the day of trial in the wilderness. The period of development is a hard period. Somebody say hard period. This is not a happy period. Hard period. Turn to your neighbor and say not a happy time. This is not a time when you're most happy. This is a time where you are least happy and you're most likely extremely miserable. And the Holy Spirit is there with you. Why does He allow for seasons where we don't find happiness? Because development cannot happen as long as you're always happy based on your happenings. The Holy Spirit cannot develop you if you always get what you want, how you want it, when you want it, and how you like it. He takes us through the season of development and this development is a hard season. It's not a happy season and what happens in this season, a lot of times as we go through hard times, we develop hard hearts. Put this into your notes. Do not develop a hard heart when you go through a hard time. Hard times should not last but the hardness we develop could last. The Bible says in Hebrews chapter 3 verse 7 it says do not harden your heart. It's dealing with the season of your life where things are hard. Not happy. Not easy. You just came out of the Egypt. You experienced deliverance, salvation, maybe healing and now you're stuck in between. You thought this will go from that to Hallelujah! It's going to be just all of God's promises. You got married such a happy day and the first two years are development and you're like how can I get rid of this spouse? Where do they deserve return policy on this? You conceived, you were so happy, the pictures of the announcement of your pregnancy were amazing but now the development of that baby, now the hardships, the difficult things and this is the time when we can, if we're not careful, develop hard hearts where a heart loses baby skin and becomes callous, hard and we become extremely sensitive on the outside and extremely cold on the inside. The Holy Spirit connects our deliverance to our destiny through a process called what? Development. I'm going to say that again, the Holy Spirit connects our deliverance to our destiny through the process called what? And that's what we're going to talk about today, how sensitivity to the Holy Spirit during development can speed the process and how we can walk through that process. The first thing that I want to highlight in this process, number one, we have to choose to surrender to the Holy Spirit instead of surrendering to our circumstances. Surrender to the Holy Spirit. When times get hard and they do, when life throws its worst and it does, when dreams seem to be broken, when your heart seems to be broken, what do you do? One option is to surrender to your surroundings, to become a captive of what's happening to you. The other option, in spite of the challenges, you go and you surrender to the Holy Spirit. You can have a doctor's report that says you have cancer in your body. One option is surrender to this cancer. The other option is surrender to God in the midst of this cancer. The Bible says in 1 Peter 5 verse 6, humble yourself under the mighty hand of what? God. It doesn't say humble yourself under the mighty hand of your problem. Many Christians have allowed their issue to become their identity, their problem to become who they are. Why? Because the problem is big. God is bigger. You can choose to say, I can't change this. This is big. This is hard. This is hurtful. This is painful. This is confusing. But I choose to surrender to somebody bigger, greater, mightier. My God is not my cancer. My God is not my poverty. My God is not my rejection. My God is not my past. My God is Jehovah. I will humble myself. I will not surrender to my problem. I will surrender to my sickness. I will surrender to my symptoms. I surrender to God. What if you will die from that sickness? I will die in faith. What if nothing will change? My faith won't change either. It rests in God. And my God is bigger than my problem. My God is bigger than my sickness. My God is bigger than my issue. My God is bigger than my dilemma. So what are you going to do is what Israel did not do in the promised land. What they did is they surrendered to cucumbers, onions, and garlic. What they surrendered to was to a part of their past they forgot it was bad. They constantly yielded and they worshipped at the altar of their circumstances. Some of you have an idol and your idol is your circumstances. Because that idol steals your joy every time it shows up. That problem steals your joy. Now it can steal your happiness. Happiness is based on what's happening. Joy is based on what God has done and what he is. Don't worship at the altar of your problem. This doesn't mean you can't weep. It doesn't mean you can't hurt. It doesn't mean you can't process your pain. It just simply means that when you're done with all of that, you rise up and you say, I humble myself under the hand of my God under the hand of the Holy Spirit. Can somebody say amen? Practically how do we do that? We remember what God has done. We remember what God has done. Instead of what he's not doing. Secondly, we remember that he is with us. Not focus on those who are not with us. And number three, we remember his future promise. Past faithfulness presence of God that's present with us. And thirdly, his future promises. When you surrender to your circumstances, this is what happens. You develop amnesia about what God did. Everything God has done in the past blank. Almost God has no credibility with you anymore because he has to start from zero. Everything he's done on the cross doesn't matter. Everything he's done, how he saved you doesn't matter. Every prayer he ever answered doesn't matter. All that matters is I have this sickness. All that matters is that I got fired. All that matters is my heart got broken. All that matters is that this sickness is developing. That's all that matters. What God did doesn't matter. I miss cucumbers. I miss onions they said. I miss those I miss those that garlic from Egypt. But you forgot about how God delivered you through ten plagues. You forgot about the Red Sea. So to surrender to the Holy Spirit that means I wake up my memory to his previous faithfulness. Some of us need to be delivered from spiritual amnesia because the faith for the present a lot of times is hidden in the past. When you can find faith for the present, you look back to what God did before. When we have a hard time right now, maybe for example if we were to have hard time with finances for the next building, we remember how God supplied the needs for this building. God gives us his previous faithfulness to fuel our faith when it seems like he's no longer with us. And then we rely on his presence now. Did you know that you have a greater reason not to be afraid? And that reason is not that everything will be okay. It's that not alone. God always gives assurance behind a command don't be afraid. And that assurance is surprising. He says I am with you. In other words, God says my presence is enough. Not only my past faithfulness, my presence don't be afraid. Going through the valley don't be afraid. Going through a bankruptcy don't be afraid. Going through a heartbreak don't be afraid. Going through a loss. Going through a difficult season not knowing what's happening in your life. God says don't be afraid. Why? Because you're surrendering to me. I'm with you. And then he promises us future blessings. He will see us through. You know what faith is expecting God will show up in your future. You know what fear is expecting the devil will. Faith is this. Waking up every day knowing he's with me. Knowing this my tomorrow will have an appearance of my God. I don't know how I don't know when and I don't know how that will look like but he will show up. That's faith. Fear says I don't know if he will or if he won't but I have a feeling the devil will show up ruin everything like he did it the last time. Like he did it at that time. He did it with that relationship. He did it with that job. He did it with that person. He did that with my health condition. Yeah, it got better and then it got worse and I'm expecting the devil to show up in the future and it's almost like you're walking with anticipation expecting the devil to make a move. Faith says God will show up in my future. He's with me now and he will show up in my future. How do I walk in sensitivity to the Holy Spirit in my heart in between difficult trial wilderness and that is this. I surrender to him by remembering his previous faithfulness, remembering he is with me right now and remembering the promises he gave me for my future. Number two the way we walk in sensitivity to the Holy Spirit is during trial we don't test the Lord nor do we try the Lord. We trust the Lord. In Hebrews it says in the day of trial in the wilderness where your father has tested me when you're testing something you're challenging it. You're expecting it to prove to you it's trustworthy. When people test cars they test them to find a verification. They're not sure can this car endure this and that. When we're testing a student we just want to be sure we are challenging that thing. God tells us to test him in the area of tithing in every other area God told us to trust him. Trying God and I understand maybe some of you are here today and you're brand new to faith and the way you came to faith is you said I tried everything Jesus I'm gonna try you. Jesus is not a sample on the Costco hall where you try things. You can taste the Lord and see that he is good but Jesus is not on trial. You don't try him for 30 days and then get him back. I understand there's a quote that says try Jesus and if you don't like him the devil will take you back but that's not Biblical it sounds cool but it's not Biblical. Jesus doesn't want a trial with you. He wants trust. Why does he deserve that trust? He has past faithfulness. He has a record you can check. He has a really intense resume. You can trust him. Now in the wilderness a lot of us don't have a lot of faith and this clarified something for me. I've read this first in the book of Genesis excuse me Generations it's not in the Bible though. Generations by Pastor Howe and Leah I think it's from Singapore and they mentioned this they said this in the book that faith is active trust is passive faith is saying God I got you trust is God you got me. In the wilderness you most likely not going to have faith you're going to feel like you don't have energy strength to lay hold of God you don't have the tenacity to push through the crowd and lay hold of the hem of his garment you might not have that thing of circling around Jericho I'm going to name it, claim it come on devil get out of this you might do the first day, second day you can't do that for 40 years you wear out, you lose it and then what people do is this faith, what do you do when you hit the season in your life where you feel like you don't have faith there's something you can do you can rely on trust when your faith is not there meaning when that boisterous pushing, advancing, yeah I believe everything is going to be alright I confess God's word when that is gone and you literally cannot even muster that what you do in that season is you lean on quiet confident restful assurance that when I didn't get him he got me and that's called trust and Proverbs says this trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your destiny you know what trust is in the hard times when you just people will say are you still believing I'm trusting and I've went through a few seasons in my life and I do not want to compare them with yours because that's not fair where honestly I felt guilty for not having active loud faith I felt like I displeased the Lord until I started to read a lot in the Bible and I saw how he invites me sometimes when I don't have this active, boisterous loud name it break it faith and all I can do is trust it pleases the Holy Spirit and some of you here today I'm here to give you permission trust in the Lord if you don't have enough courage strength to push through you may say miracle won't happen trust me trust him, don't trust me trust him, it will happen trust in the Lord and lean not on your understanding can somebody say amen so sometimes you have faith and sometimes you have trust number three the Holy Spirit develops us in this difficult season when we replace complaining with communion with him when we replace grumbling with gratitude when we replace whining with worship Jesus went through the wilderness and Israel went through the wilderness Israel went through the wilderness times were difficult for them and what they did is they whined and complained they caused their wilderness to be extended from 14 days someone said to about 40 years Jesus went through his wilderness in 40 days instead of 40 years you notice the difference between both of them Jesus he spoke God's word Israel spoke their feelings Israel always quoted what they felt and what they were going through now there's nothing wrong with expressing and processing stuff there's a difference in processing and becoming negative naysayer and complaining chronically complaining tolerated is faith contaminated you can contaminate your faith by letting your mouth always say what your emotions feel you don't have to give words to emotions they'll fade out the moment you give emotions fuel and what is the fuel verbalize them I don't feel good things are really bad I'm sick things never work out for me my life sucks I don't even know why I do that keep on saying that and you will dig a grave the devil doesn't even have to do anything you pretty much dug yourself in the grave and then you can of course blame God for putting you in the grave in fact your mouth was the shovel the power of life and death is in our tongue and it's hard to do control our tongue submit it to the Holy Spirit when we go through a difficult time because feelings are like boisterous waves and they overwhelm us they overwhelm all of us and the way to subside those feelings the Bible says we can speak to our soul many of us live in our soul David would speak to his soul and he says soul why are you disquieted and sad and he says what's up what's happening why are you also rowdy today David is speaking to his soul many of us live in our soul our soul is the one that does the speaking yeah my life is not good I don't like to say personally I'm sick I like to say that I'm healthy fighting sickness I don't like to say I'm a sinner no I am a righteous person fighting sin I don't like to say I'm weak I like to say that I'm strong in God fighting weakness I'm not a person that is lustful I'm a person that is pure fighting lust I'm not a person that's poor I'm blessed fighting poverty I'm not rejected person I'm accepted and I am dealing with rejection why my identity is not in those things and through my confession no this is not name it claim it grab it confess it stuff I'm just talking about us using our mouth to align with God's truth instead of always putting it under the subject of what is happening in our emotions the Holy Spirit cannot develop us if our mouth always reflects what's happening in our soul because our mouth can redirect our soul we can be like David and says come on soul come on emotions praise the Lord for yet I will praise him so you're gonna have to get on board or do whatever you need to do but I'm gonna be praising God you don't feel like praising God I'm gonna be praising God I'm not gonna be complaining and whining I'm gonna be praising God how is that to the Holy Spirit see you have to understand is complaining to the devil what worship is to God God sits on your worship seeks your worship uses your worship the moment you develop chronic complaining now once twice different story but chronic but it becomes you it's kinda like your friends already know yeah she's negative don't get around her why she's always like that she's always getting negative always not enough not good always bad guess what begins to happen after that it's a matter of time the precious Holy Spirit's presence manifests presence lifts he doesn't leave you he's always with you his presence lifts when his presence lifts you don't have clarity here and when his presence lifts you don't sense his guidance anymore his precious sweetness did and then guess what begins to happen it opens the door for snakes Israel was bitten by snakes any time we develop chronic complaining when we go through a difficult time instead of choosing to worship God not only we grieve the precious Holy Spirit we actually put an open side and it's an open season for the enemy to start biting and how did that feel at first it starts with complaining and then venom gets in venom is bitterness venom is resentment venom is stronghold inside I God why it's always been like and it goes through your body you realize this and there is enough circumstance because once the venom gets in all the circumstances align like planets you begin to say yes that person and that everyone is like that and your worldview shifts when in reality you're just sick everything feels sick but in reality venom got in and you spiritually begin to die and instead of being developed I decay so what the Holy Spirit wants to do in this difficult time it's not easy but with His help it's possible He wants to help us change what comes out of our mouth He wants to build our spirit so we speak to our soul when you wake up and your soul doesn't want to wake up from the right foot you speak to yourself David strengthened himself the Bible says we speak in tongues to build ourselves up that means we speak to our emotions and we still listen I know it's been a rough day you're saying it's a year or you're saying it's been a rough decade alright decade regardless God is good you're still breathing you're still alive He's with you He will never leave you the Holy Spirit is here all is going to be well with you soul so soul let me put you to sleep let me put you to sleep and that you are not going to speak I'm going to speak to you I'm going to speak God's word that's how Holy Spirit develops us in difficult times if you think that you just become a positive faith driven person because that's your personality we're all human our inclination is negativity our fear our inclination is criticizing doubting, questioning, God prove yourself that is our inclination all of our inclination even those of us who grew up in healthy homes our natural inclination is defeat, decay but with the help of the Holy Spirit we can develop gratitude we can develop gratefulness we can develop praising Him and not looking for every wrong thing to convince ourselves we are always in the wrong we are always in the blessings of God one by one to fill our cup of gratitude every day grass will be greener the skies will be bluer people will be nicer why? because your heart is being worked on by the Holy Spirit because somebody say amen so to develop this intimacy with the Holy Spirit to develop this sensitivity to the Holy Spirit we must unlike Israel not complain we can extend our wilderness by complaining we can shorten it by trusting God whatever you're going through you can make it worse by running your mouth not properly you know you can't catch a fish with its mouth closed I wonder how much as husbands trouble we would avoid if we would just zip that lip and process everything in that head of ours and went to the Lord wives how many things would have been better in your marriage if everything that comes into your head wouldn't come out of your mouth some things need to have a border patrol need to build a wall nope these things cannot pass through where is your papers is this in line with God's promise? nope and then we're not okay we can send one watch over every step of the way because I don't know where you're going to get some of us allow a lot of terrorist words come out and we're like man why is my life destroyed because we're destroying with our mouth what we're building with our hands going to college to build our degree going taking classes to build our family and all we have to do is open a mouth and then three bombs come out destroyed literally in 30 minutes what we're building for three years your mouth, my mouth is a very powerful effect interestingly when the Holy Spirit baptizes you what is the first thing he affects your mouth why so that you speak in tongues more and less nonsense I know the world thinks when we speak in tongues we speak nonsense no it's when they speak how they speak it's nonsense God wants you to speak in tongues more to build your spirit why so that you don't live a life of complaining and grumbling because Holy Spirit his past faithfulness is with you and he promises future faithfulness can somebody say amen this whole message was just the preparation for what I'm about to share which is the last thing this made me shout yesterday cry and weep develop sensitivity to the Holy Spirit when you cannot when your sight fails wake up your hearing interesting when you go through a difficult time do you remember that in a difficult time your sight my sight fails meaning it seems like what I see is bad what I see is not good what I see is not good so what do you do when you're walking through a season of your life and what you see is dark is bad in Hebrews chapter 3 it says therefore the Holy Spirit it just hit me yesterday it says it doesn't say Holy Spirit shows meaning he knows in a hard time your sight is failing you so he's leading you not through your sight he's leading you through your ear speaking to you so you gotta be sensitive to him when your sight is not there give me your example blind Bartimaeus born blind most likely you cannot see actually he does see dark everything is always dark the world is dark and the Bible says about blind Bartimaeus is though he cannot see in verse 47 and when he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth so I can't see good I don't see colors all I see is dark I've seen dark yesterday I've seen dark the day before all I remember is seeing dark God why did you make me do that see that's what Bartimaeus could have done is complain and whine but he was sitting on the road and while his sight was dark his antenna was open the Bible says and he heard Jesus Jesus said why did you let this happen he says have mercy on me and because he activated his hearing Jesus opened his sea if you are in a place today where you are not seeing where you should go you are not seeing changes in your life you are not seeing transformation and that's all you have been seeing is bad, dark, confusion hardship, wilderness no water, no food the Holy Spirit speaks when you don't see why because if you hear when you don't see good that hearing will activate your seeing and the Bible says this about Bartimaeus in verse 52 and immediately he received his sight and followed Jesus now I know where to go why because my sight changed many of us say God changed my sight but God says open your sensitivity the Holy Spirit says don't harden your heart in the day of the wilderness when you don't see anything good when you don't know where to go train your ears to listen and listen and listen and listen to him your sight fails in the wilderness in the hard time but that's where the hearing is open Jesus says in Mark chapter 4 verse 24 he says take heed how you hear because we've reached seasons in our life we don't know where to go we don't know what step to take which school to go to should we move should we continue with this business there's no verse in the Bible specifically tailored to our situation we're confused we cry out God what should I do and when you cannot see open your ears because the Holy Spirit speaks he speaks I love this about Paul in the book of Acts chapter 9 about Paul God comes to Ananias and he said this and in a vision he has seen a man named Ananias so Paul goes blind and he starts seeing something else blind and God comes to Ananias and says Paul is blind he actually already saw something while blind because something else got open spiritual ears got open and I start to see something else now in the realm of the Spirit in the realm that's not visible because the Bible says what is seen is temporal what is not seen is eternal how did Paul see when he was blind the Bible says this about Paul behold he is praying you can be in the same situation for 10 years and never see a breakthrough the devil will lie to you and say that's how your life is always going to be one day the Holy Spirit speaks everything changes so what do you do when you don't see open your ears because you can change what you see if you learn to hear what he says when he speaks it will change what you see what Jesus said to blind Bartimaeus changed what he saw and then it changed his direction when Jesus will speak through the Holy Spirit it will change your visible circumstances and it will change the direction of your life so what do we do we remain sensitive to the Holy Spirit when our sight when our circumstances when what we are around failed, failing and not changing because the Holy Spirit's voice the Holy Spirit's presence holds the key Bartimaeus be open he says his eyes opened and now his seeing changed but where did that come through the hearing a lot of times we focus on what we don't have but God will always use what you do have to unlock what you don't have people say well you know in pasco the airbnb got closed out I don't know what I'm going to do God's always going to use what you have in your house God will always use what you have in your gifts he's not going to use what you don't have he will use what you do have to get you what you need a woman whose sons were about to be sold into slavery came to the prophet he says my sons are about to go into slavery we are in debt the prophet didn't say let me make a miracle out of nothing he says what do you have in your house Jesus didn't feed the multitudes until he said what do you guys have God will not use what you don't have he'll use what you do have but I'm blind I don't have anything I'm beggar I'm begging for money do you have ears open them because if you hear Jesus you'll cry out and Jesus will give you what you really need don't walk around looking for what you don't have ask God use what I do have Lord and right now I'm going to ask you use your ears to look to the Holy Spirit use your prayer time to be sensitive to his spirit allow his spirit to guide you allow his spirit to develop you allow his spirit to train your mouth your heart and your attitude different times allow him to fashion you and develop you because if you look at the destiny that God is taking you there will be a development period that God has to take each and every one of us through God decides when that period starts he decides when that period ends and God decides what he does in that period all we have to do is stay on the operating table and allow him to work his work in us through his spirit in Jesus name amen God used what I have he doesn't use what I don't have I'm not a singer and I'm not a musician but he uses what he has given me to unlock the destiny that he has for me he uses what he has given you to unlock the destiny that you have and instead of saying Lord why is this happening to me you can waste your time doing that or you don't really need an explanation we need a miracle blind Bartimea did not need God to explain why he was born blind it won't change anything explanation can wait but we need to have a breakthrough and to have a breakthrough we got to choose to trust in him and we got to choose to be sensitive to his voice when our sight what we see is failing it's not there we want to change what we see we got to improve what we hear his voice sensitivity to his presence and let him guide us economy right now is crazy prices of gas inflation is just insane everything is changing around us so fast as Christians what do we do when you don't know where to go when you don't know what to do listen listen to the Holy Spirit listen to the Holy Spirit why because the direction will come through your ears and it will change what you see and how you live listen to his voice it could be a prompting it could be a guidance it could be honestly sometimes common sense he will just speak he will just guide and you will go in and you say it's scary I don't know what I'm doing but I know what I'm hearing and I have to act on that test to see whether it's the Lord or not and then as you begin to act more on that your family begins to change as you begin to act on that your life begins to change you begin to see a shift in your life in Jesus name Holy Spirit we welcome you right now Holy Spirit we want to be sensitive to your voice Holy Spirit all of us have areas in our life that are dark all of us have areas in our life that are hard Holy Spirit all of us have areas in our life where we are tired of fighting and we are tired of believing and we don't know when that will ever change and sometimes it's easier to grumble and complain and whine and to shift everything on you Lord and today we choose to surrender to you right now we choose to surrender to your promise we choose to surrender to your presence we choose to surrender to your power and Lord we choose to trust in you when we cannot trace you we choose to yield to you right now and just lean on you when we don't have the capacity to be boisterous in our resolve and in our push for faith and Lord we choose today to use our mouth to glorify you to bring thanks to do everything without grumbling and complaining but in everything to give thanks to you God not because everything is alright but because you are on our side and you are with us and Lord today we choose to open our ears when our eyes seem to be dark we choose to hear your Spirit when Goliaths and Giants and the Promised Land seem so difficult and so painful and so impossible and so enormous that it overwhelms us we close our eyes and we hear in the Spirit like Paul did like Bartimaeus did he heard and his eyes were open guide us Holy Spirit lead us Holy Spirit we are hungry for you we need you for those of you who are saying you know what I am going through that season right now I feel lost I feel confused I don't know what to do I don't know where to go I am in that fork and this is for me I want to be sensitive to the Holy Spirit you gave me something to do now just raise your hand every eye closed every head bow if you are saying this is me I need the Holy Spirit to guide me just raise your hand I am going to pray with you right now Holy Spirit I ask you for that person right now and those online as well in the name of Jesus I pray for those God right now that are in that development in between stage they came out of one season they haven't entered into another season of heartache and heartbreak it's hardship upon hardship and it seems like it's just getting worse and worse and all they see is dark I ask you Holy Spirit may you come for them with your presence right now and may you bring assurance of your word Holy Spirit I ask you that you will begin to guide them with your eyes guide them with your voice strengthen their resolve I ask you that your peace will come enjoy that's unspeakable that in uncertainty there will be certainty of your love and your grace and your power in Jesus name I rebuke every depression I rebuke every spirit of heaviness I rebuke every spirit of death premature death every spirit of abnormal grief every spirit of fear the paints and imaginary picture that will never happen the eyes worst things taking place imagination I rebuke that right now and I speak God's word into your situation I speak God's word into your soul as a minister of God God's word is living and powerful sharper than any two-edged sword God's word bringing comfort God's word bringing light when there is darkness God's word like a hammer breaking the strongholds and convictions of doubt fear and negativity darkness in your heart God's word like seed going deep into the soil of your heart and strengthening your resolve in Jesus name I want all of us right now to take next few minutes and to pray in the Holy Spirit for a few reasons because a lot of us complain a lot and I want us right now just pray in the Holy Spirit our mouth was given to speak wholesome words if you're filled with the Holy Spirit with evidence of tongues I want you just even as you see it just pray in the Holy Ghost right now close your eyes and just pray in tongues say Lord purify my mouth Lord cleanse my mouth Lord I want my mouth to be pure I want my mouth not to have garbage I want my mouth not to have negativity constantly flowing I don't want my mouth to have chronic complaining and whining I want my mouth to be full of purity full of wholesome right now in the name of Jesus Christ come on just take next 60 seconds and just pray in the Holy Ghost you can pray louder you can pray quieter however you want there's freedom in this house if you're watching us on live stream do the same thing right in front of your television on your couch just pray in the Holy Ghost right now the best antidote to live a life of complaining whining and negativity is to be filled and strengthened by the Holy Spirit thank you Lord thank you Jesus thank you Holy Spirit thank you Jesus thank you Holy Spirit we welcome you we worship you right now just worship the Lord worship the Lord you can rise you can kneel but just worship him right now love on Jesus we love you Lord church you can rise in your car in your house in your living room those of you in the second century rise as well as we continue to worship if you are in our building today and you would like to receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit you would like to speak in tongues you haven't spoken before and you desire you're born again Christian and you desire that you can come forward to the altar we want to minister to you in the next few minutes so only those who are hungry for it in the second century you can come forward and we want to minister to you we want to pray for you this is a good season this is a good time to come to church and receive all that God has for us amen and so you can just come forward and we will minister to you right now in the second century do the same just come forward our pastoral team is there and they're gonna lay hands on you they're gonna pray for you let's believe the Lord's gonna touch you today powerfully and that you will leave this place fill with the fire of God in Jesus' name so in the first and in the second century just come forward to the altar and I'm gonna give you just one instruction in a moment and then we're gonna have our team lay hands on people and we're gonna pray for you so if there's anybody else just come forward we would love to minister to you today all the Christians have the Holy Spirit but the Holy Spirit wants to fill all of us and the Bible says be filled with the Holy Spirit every time the Holy Spirit came upon people in the Book of Acts there was evidence they spoke in other languages they prophesied they experienced God's power so for those of you that are here right now in the front I want you to look at me for just a second and those of you watching us online as well our pastors in just a moment we're gonna come and pray with you the Bible says even Jesus out of their belly will flow the rivers of water so the Holy Spirit is like that well is like those rivers of water the baptism of the Holy Spirit is what we call it it's not somewhere there in heaven it's in your spirit now it's in the river think of like a water connected to your house it's already there when you open the faucet the water comes out so when people speak in tongues we don't receive the Holy Spirit by speaking in tongues we receive Him by salvation we release the Holy Spirit when we speak in tongues we release that river when we speak in tongues because some people say that when you speak in tongues you get the Holy Spirit that's not what the Bible teaches we receive the Holy Spirit when we receive Jesus but when we speak in tongues it's like that river it's kind of like when you have water connected to your house you open the faucet you didn't get the water to your house by opening the faucet no the water was already there but now the water is coming out of that I'll tell you right now there is few hindrances to that one is overthinking is what people will think of me because speaking in tongues is one of the biggest insults to our pride because it's something we kind of can't control and these syllables come out we're like man I'm not sure how I feel about that and everything so you gotta kind of let that go we don't turn off our brain but we just yield to the Holy Spirit and whatever syllables come out we don't filter them and say no I don't like those ones Holy Spirit get different ones you just let it flow you just let it flow so you just release those rivers syllables from your spirit and let them just flow it could be one syllable it could be many whatever it happens it could be a song and it takes a childlike faith to do that and so the biggest thing we have to do is relax the moment you get super stressed you're like man it just hinders that so we just rest in the Lord you are loved by God amen those of you in the second century and in the first century I'm gonna lead in a very simple prayer right now and then we're gonna come and lay hands on you and pray for you and then the church we will all together pray in the Holy Spirit and the things that come out you just release them by faith in Jesus' name amen I want you to stretch your hands like this like you're receiving a gift say Lord Jesus Christ you are the baptizer with the Holy Spirit and with fire I believe you died on the cross to make me into the temple of the Holy Spirit you gave me your spirit Lord but you said if we are thirsty we can come to you and drink and that out of our belly will flow rivers of living water I trust in you Lord that the sounds syllables will come out of my spirit and that you add meaning to them baptize me into your spirit fill me with the Holy Spirit right now Amen Father fill them with the Holy Ghost right now in the name of Jesus Christ fill them with the Holy Spirit right now in Jesus mighty name if we can invite the team just lay hands on them right now and just pray church pray in the Holy Spirit if you have the gift of tongues just pray in tongues come on church in the second sanctuary and those of you online you don't pray in tongues on the chat but just pray in the Holy Spirit the Holy Spirit will baptize you right now even if you are watching us Father fill them with your Holy Spirit right now Father fill them with the Holy Ghost right now fill them with the Holy Ghost right now in the name of Jesus Christ Lord fill them with the Holy Ghost right now from the top of their head to the soles of their feet we love you we love you Jesus we praise you Lord come on raise those hands church sing the chorus to the Lord that you desire him more than anything in the second sanctuary congregation enter it to his presence enter it to his courts with thanksgiving with the petition with hunger with craving with yearning for more of him we love you Lord thank you Lord man it's so beautiful seeing the Lord touch people come on somebody hallelujah you guys can go back now God bless you hallelujah I remember that experience when the first time I spoke in tongues oh man I was like believing it for six months I was like believing it for six months I was like believing it for six months I was so jealous when people get it like right away first time it feels so not fair but it's incredible every joy with every person amen church I'm going to ask you bow your head and close your eyes if you are here today maybe you're visiting us for the first time or you've been coming already perhaps you came with a spouse or a family member and just the whole topic on the Holy Spirit was very new for you he's the one that reveals Jesus he's the one that convicts us of sin he's the one that makes Jesus real to us and convicts us that we need to be saved the Bible says that each and every one of us were born into sin because of Adam's sin and therefore we don't need to be taught to be bad it naturally comes to us without even nurturing that part of us and Jesus came that he can deal with that and give us new life by forgiving us of what we did and giving us new heart so that we don't want to do bad things and give us the Holy Spirit who can enable us to live a new life if you are here today and you don't know Jesus as your Lord and Savior if you haven't experienced what we call this new birth this new life through forgiveness of sin I would like to give you that opportunity today this is not about becoming religious it's about life with Jesus forgiveness of sins forgiveness of life with Christ every head bowed and every eye closed in the first and second sanctuary if you are in that place where you feel that that poking of the Holy Spirit saying that is you you need that you need to repent of your sin your eternity is not secure without Jesus you know you will not spend your time with the Lord if you die because you're not living right and you just don't have a relationship with Christ and the Holy Spirit is convicting you he wants you to be saved today in Jesus that person just raise your hand high and saying hey this is me I want to pray that prayer today I want the Lord to come into my heart I want the Lord to come into my heart and save my soul today and so just raise your hand and I'm going to pray with you if you are in the second sanctuary do the same and then we're going to pray together in Jesus name thank you I see your hand thank you I see your hand I'm going to ask you to do something bold right now even some of the way I saw you kind of raised your hand like shyly just in case and the reason why we do that is because the Bible says to confess the Lord with Christian faith it's private but it's also public so if you raise your hand or you didn't but you knew that this is for you I'm going to ask you to take a bold step of coming forward right now to the altar and meet me right here I would love to pray with you just come come and we will pray with you I see young men over there I saw another man over there second sanctuary the same they brought a friend or a family member and they want to make the decision come with them as well and let's celebrate for the glory of God in Jesus name amen God bless you God bless you in the second sanctuary I'm waiting for you as well amen God bless you God bless you so as people come forward those of you watching us online you can be a part of this as well distance is not a barrier to give your life to Jesus right now I'm going to lead you in prayer I'm going to ask the Lord to come into our heart we will repent of our sins and confess Jesus as our Lord amen and the church will help you to do the same you can stretch your hands like this if you would like it's up to you say Lord Jesus Christ I believe you are the Son of God who died on the cross for all my sin