 Hello and welcome to another Prophecy Files briefing. I'm excited to bring this message to you because it is so relevant for the times we're living in. Recent days we've seen shootings that have been taking place around our country, lawlessness that has been abounding, and that's exactly what the Bible said would take place in the last days. And one of the reasons why is one of the top ten indicators. In fact, I may share some of this with you in subsequent weeks. One of the top ten indicators that we're living in the last days, and we're living on the edge of the coming of the Lord, is the fact that there would be a vacuum for a world leader. We've got plenty of world leaders that are trying to posture for position, but I can tell you right now none of them are going to fit the role that is needed in order to step on the scene and be able to speak the words that actually bring peace and can straighten things out in our economy and our world with the wars and rumors of wars and all that is happening. In fact, from this article, the dawn of a new alliance of nations as U.S. power fades. This along with many other articles are letting us know that we're watching as America's influence in the world is declining. Now the Bible has a lot to say about this, but I'll share with you from the book of Matthew chapter 24, verse 24, the Bible said there would be many false cries that would come, false prophets, showing wonders in the last days, and here's the key, deceiving many. Deception is at an all-time high with the spirit of lawlessness and the lying spirit that has been turned loose in the last days, and that's exactly what the book of Revelation said would take place as the Antichrist is making his appearance. But here's a little note that I've found in the Word of God from the book of Timothy. In fact, from the book of 1 Timothy chapter 4, you can read along or find it a little bit later. But the Bible says, now the Spirit speaks expressly that in the latter time some would depart from the faith giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of devils. Speaking lies and hypocrisy, we're seeing that. Having their conscience seared with a hot iron. They have no feeling about it. They can lie straight up and it makes no difference. But here's what caught me in verse number 3. Forbidding to marry, and watch this, and commanding to abstain from meets, do you realize that the UN and the World Economic Forum's platform for 2030 that is fast approaching only seven years away is literally trying to transfer and shove the entirety of the world into not eating meat, but actually eating bugs. It's all right there well documented. These are the things, ladies and gentlemen, that are pointing us toward the imminent return of Jesus Christ and the rise of the Antichrist. In fact, the Antichrist system is already in place in so many different ways. You can see what's happening in our world by folks that are environmentalists that are saying to us, hey, you've got to embrace the environment and not have so much of a carbon footprint. But when it comes to East Palestine, Ohio, where there's been one of the greatest environmental disasters that has taken place through that train that was derailed, there seems to be no concern. And on and on the list goes, ladies and gentlemen, we're living in the last days. And one of the most important things you can do is be ready because at any moment Jesus Christ is coming soon. Amen. Amen. Do you believe that tonight? All right. Hello, Pace family. Let's go ahead and stand to our feet. How's everybody doing this evening? Has the Lord been good to you this week? Amen. Amen. You will take out your prayer and praise. There's some needs that are represented here. We want to go to the Lord for it. And I'm sure if we ask everyone in the house there's a need represented right here in the building. Amen. I don't know about you, but I'm grateful that God hears and answers prayers. Hallelujah. So Father, right now we come into your presence with praise and thanksgiving. Knowing that you're a God that hears and answers our prayers, Lord, that you're a very present help in time of need. So Father, right now we lift up the needs of our brothers and sisters here that are listed on the prayer praise and also those that are present with us tonight and those that are watching via online. God, we cry out to you, Lord Jesus. Come and heal. Come and save. Come and deliver. Come and set the captive free. Jesus, we're desperate for you in this hour, God. And we need you like never before. And we thank you tonight that we're heard on high. In Jesus' mighty name. And we all said amen. Well, let's cross the aisle and say hello to our brother and sister. Hallelujah. I want to welcome our online guests. We're so grateful that you're with us this evening. Leave us a comment. We would love to know where you're watching and how we can pray for you. And we know that you can be tuning in anywhere but you've chose to be right here with the Pace Assembly family and that is an extreme honor and we don't take that lightly. So thank you so much. Hallelujah. Thank you, Jesus. If we can go ahead and give Jesus a hand and our online guests, let's show him some love tonight. Give him a hand as we're making our way back to our seats. Hallelujah. So grateful for Wednesday nights. Fellowship and Bible study. Thank you, Lord. Just a few announcements to make. Sunday is Mother's Day. Come on, let's hear it for the moms. It's a great day to bring mom to church and I hope to see mine sitting right next to me right there. It's also baby dedication. And tonight is our last night for sign ups. There are yellow cards in the lobby. So please on your way out. Make sure you fill that out. We have one in the offering bucket so we can have baby dedication this Sunday. Amen. Hallelujah. Who loves a joyful giver? Amen. God does. That's who he does. Amen. So let's pray over the offering. We can give in the buckets on in the back there and online QR codes. You can also text to give. But Father, right now we thank you for the offering. We pray God that you would multiply it to supply the need. And God bless the giver. In Jesus mighty name we pray. Amen. Hallelujah. Let's hear it for Pastor Joey as he comes to bring the word. Thank you, Ben. Good to see you here tonight. You glad to be here? Amen. All of our folks that are watching online, we're glad that you're here as well. You get your Bibles and your handouts ready to go. We're going to dive into the Word of God this evening. You saw a few moments ago, the little over three minute clip that we post every Tuesday. For prophecy files briefing, I encourage you to go online, share that out. Just a little snippet of information that's going on. There's a lot that is taking place. There's no way to get to everything. But I can tell you more and more every day we're seeing events that have been foretold in the Word of God with 100% accuracy of the coming of the Lord. And that should encourage us. It should strengthen us. It should help us to be better prepared. But mostly it should cause us to reach out to people that need Jesus Christ desperately in their life and to share with them the gospel so that they can go to heaven. Because you like going to heaven, right? Amen. And so you want to bring somebody with you, don't you? Okay. So I want to encourage you to invite, and here's the thing. There's different levels of rewards that are in heaven. I don't know if the Lord pays commission on souls. I don't think that happens, but I'm just saying. I do know this. There will be rewards. There will be a crown called the soul winner's crown. And the last thing you want to be doing is standing there without one. One thing I know. If you will win a soul to the Lord and be able to get them in and disciple them so forth, I'm going to tell you, it becomes addictive. Once you get one, you want to get two. And on and on. So I just can't encourage you enough to be able to do that. And let's be ready for the Lord's return. Amen. Amen. Father, thank you for the Word of God tonight that is a lamp to our feet, a light to our path. We believe, mighty God, that you are already moving inside of this sanctuary. And I pray that this Word tonight would find the lodging place that it needs to inside of the hearts and lives of people. We believe, Lord Jesus, that you're going to feed us from the very throne of God, both here and those that are watching online. So do what you do and only what you can do. In Jesus' name we pray. Everybody said a good amen. I want you to go with me first over to the book of Acts, chapter number four. I shared this passage of Scripture with you and I didn't know that I would really be coming back to it. But behold, here we are. Acts, the book of Acts, chapter number four. And verse number 31. And the Bible reads like this. Just as a, these are a couple of backdrop Scriptures for us here this evening. And when they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were assembled together and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost and they spake the Word of God with boldness. That is a powerful event that took place after Pentecost, after the initial outpouring of the Holy Spirit. Now if you flip over to Ephesians chapter five and verse number 18, as a matter of fact, let's back up to verse 14 there for a moment. A few additional passages here. Chapter five, verse number 14, says, wherefore, he sayeth, Awake thou that sleepeth, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light. I want to say to you, and this is not every context of it, but whenever you see the word Christ, you're obviously thinking about Jesus Christ, but I want you to also think about in the context here of the anointing. So let me come back to this and say it like this. Awake thou that sleepeth, and arise from the dead, and the anointing shall give thee light. The Holy Spirit, the anointed one, the Holy Spirit, the Christ man who's living on the inside of you. See then that you walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, redeeming the time because the days are evil. Wherefore, be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is. Verse 18, and be not drunk with wine, whereas in excess, but be filled with the Spirit, speaking to yourselves. This is the results here. We'll see this unfold in a moment. Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord, giving thanks always for all things under God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God. I want to stop right there, and tonight I'm beginning a brand new series. I don't know how far it will go, but in recent weeks, even months, the Lord has dealt with my heart about the importance of being refilled with the Holy Spirit, staying full of the Holy Spirit, staying full of the Christ man. One of the reasons why I believe that we've got such issues in the church and in the lives of believers and sometimes weakness that we may feel to be able to accomplish what God wants us to do is our lack of the fullness of the Holy Spirit. Let me say it like this. When there is space in our lives, a place in our lives where the Holy Spirit is not in control, then there is a place that the enemy will want to sow in fear, doubt, all these kinds of things, anxiety, whatever it may be. And as a result of it, the need for us to replenish and refill is of great, great necessity. I cannot stress it to you enough. In fact, some people may argue with me about this, but I'll let you argue with somebody who'll argue with you. We have made in many cases the infilling, the baptism of the Holy Spirit to be some kind of option in our lives. He is the second subsequent infilling. I am first born again, the blood, and then the Spirit, okay? But we've made it optional even in our preaching, and in most churches today, you don't hear any preaching about the baptism of the Holy Spirit, gifts and operation, fruit of the Holy, all that kind of thing, and even the moving of the Holy Spirit inside of any given service or church. And because, first of all, we don't have time. We've got to get our worship list in in 35 minutes and a 25-minute sermon, and then we've got to get out the door. And the bottom line is making time in our lives, making room in our lives for the Holy Spirit is what is identified, and we'll unfold this for you a little bit more by the description here that's found in Ephesians 5 verse 18 about being filled with the Holy Spirit. That is not a first-time infilling. That is subsequent infillings, renewing. I mean, you didn't just drink one glass of water today because you got thirsty, you drank again. And sometimes you know, like I know, that if you're in the heat of a situation or you're exerting energy, maybe even not necessarily physical, but mental or spiritual, there is a depletion that takes place. Now the Holy Spirit is not going to leave you. You've been filled with the Holy Spirit, but it is a necessity for me, as sure as eating and drinking, that I take in continually, daily, sometimes multiple times a day, meaning I'm making room for the Holy Spirit and he is filling my life with the Christ man once again to face and do what I need to do and accomplish in the power of the Spirit. So with that in mind, I want to start this off tonight by giving you this statement, anything, anything. Somebody help me get it on the wall so they can see it back here. Anything that is... Let me get it here first before I say it out loud. We got a blank screen, but they're helping us. I got it back there, but I don't have it back here. Now we don't have it back there, but we'll get it. They're making it happen. They're touching Jesus and praying and interceding. In fact, they're being filled with the Holy Spirit. There we go. All right, so anything living has to have three things. A source. Now, hey, brothers and sisters, y'all have done really well up here. I need it back there. If you don't mind. Helps me to know what I even wrote down and said. If you know what I mean. A source, a system, and a cycle to survive. A source, a system, and a cycle. Okay? So, here we go. You love my drawings, don't you? Okay? So, behold the Son. And then there is... There is around that multiple ways, multiple planets, otherwise known as the solar system. And what are they yet? Well, the first one here is Mercury, and then Venus, and then Earth, the third. It's interesting that God desired and designed the thing for the Earth to be the third location. Some of you are not thinking about it, but let's try the third day. Father, Son, Holy Ghost. Okay, you'll get it later. All right, so here we go. Here's the Son. Now, the Son is not generated of its own power. Okay? So, it is God who is the source for the Son, and then revolving around as a system of continual action. Okay? One notch off of that, and we burn up or freeze up, so He's put us in a perfect system, a perfect cycle that's taking place here. We have the source, we have the system, and we have the cycle that's going on right here. This plays out in the Scripture. It plays out in our lives on a daily basis. Our source is God. The system that we're in is one that the Holy Spirit is moving in. And He has that cycle that is going on inside of our life for a continual replenishment. Let's just take consideration of the fact that you're breathing. Take a nice breath. You don't think about it, but on the inside of you, God touched your heart and you started the cycle of breathing. And because you're breathing, because of that, you're replenishing your lungs. Hold your breath and see how you feel, right? So now with that in mind, I want you to look at this, because I shared this with you the other day, but I want you to, if you haven't written this down, there are the practical steps of church growth that is going on, and at the center of that is our worship, okay? So then there is the connection that is made. We come to Jesus Christ, and then there is the growth of discipleship that takes place, okay? So there's growth that takes place, and then there is the ability for us to serve and be involved in ministry, okay? And then there is the go. So what we have here is everything centers around worship because you've been created to worship. And to worship who? To worship your source, who is God. I shall have no other gods before me. Why? Because I'm your source. I'm the one who feeds you. I'm the one who nourishes you. Whether you believe in me or not, God says I want you to know everything you have is because I am. When you understand that, now in the cycle of growth of any given church is the Acts 2 model, so what's taking place? Everything centers around worship, but I'm going to get connected, and then I'm supposed to disciple myself and be able to grow, and then I'm supposed to get involved in the service of the Lord, and then the Bible says that I'm supposed to go into all the world and preach the gospel, and then what do I do? That cycle continues because it is growth. If it stops, you die. If the church stops in this cycle, you die. I was looking before I got here, and I think it was some 100-year-old very significant Baptist church, I think in the state of Alabama, that they preached their last sermon in, this prayer, that they preached their last sermon in this past weekend, and close the door. The lack of interest, the lack, there's so many things. I could go in so many directions here, but the lack of the acknowledgement of God and even by God's people as being the source breaks the system. You lose the cycle and you die. Now this is something that Adam and Eve didn't understand at the very beginning because whenever the tempter came and said, hey, thou shall not surely die if you eat of this. God knows that you're going to be like God. You'll be like him. You'll be your own God. You can call your own shots. You can tell everybody what you're going to do and what you're going to be. You'll be enthroned as God. And what did they do? They rejected God, who was their source. They were disobedient. Sin came in. What took place? They broke the system. What was the system? They'd been put into the garden. He said, have dominion. Take over, replenish, replenish, replenish, replenish. What's going on? There was a cycle inside of that garden where everything was perfect. Everything was perfect until sin came in and broke the cycle. Now that's what takes place inside of your life and mind. Whenever this is broken, it stops the cycle of life going on for us. Now how does that relate to the fact of being filled? Well, let me just make a statement right here. First of all, God is the only one in all of the universe past, present, future who does not need replenishing. He is the source of everything. Okay? That's the reason why that men want to get him out of it because they don't like God. Well, you take God out of it and the trees die. Stars fall. All the word of God is retracted from the solar system and the planets start falling. Now, you usually don't become a believer in that until like it was, I think out in Arizona you were telling me this morning and I looked it up and found out that some piece of a meteor fell down somebody's house and went right through inside of their house. I can guarantee you that those folks now believe in meteor showers and falling stars. Those of you that have never had that happen to you, you understand right now that there is, what my dad used to say is you've been made a believer now. He usually said that before he tanned my hide, I'm going to make a believer out of you, but nonetheless I think the application applies here. So there is no greater need that's going on today as I draw reference to these passages in Scripture in Ephesians 5 and 18. There is no greater need than the command for us to follow Ephesians 5 and 18 and the necessity of the spirit filled life is not an option. It is God's command for you to be filled with the Spirit. Now here's something you need to know. While every Christian possesses the Holy Spirit in regeneration and maybe even in baptism of the Holy Spirit, not every believer is being possessed of the Holy Spirit. Well, I have the Holy Spirit. Well, that's wonderful, but is he in control? And that, my friends, is the litmus test. Are you following what I'm saying? So with that in mind, it's one thing for the Holy Spirit to dwell your life, but it is entirely another thing for him to be filling and controlling your life. Every believer comes to the Lord in salvation and the Spirit of God comes into the life of the believer. That's the only way you are notified that you're born again. He bears witness with our spirit that we are the sons of God, the Bible says. So that happens in regeneration. He comes in, but there's a second subsequent infilling, according to the book of Acts, chapter two, where the Holy Spirit now is coming out of us in rivers of living water, and we are now baptized into the power of the Holy Spirit to be witnesses for the cause of Christ. And that witness, I must add to this because it's not in these notes here for you tonight, is that witnesses of the resurrection life of Jesus Christ. I want to make sure you understand, you are being a witness of Jesus' resurrection. How can I do that, Pastor? I wasn't there. The Holy Spirit Christ man living on the inside of you is the one that bears witness that he got up from the grave on the third day, and you are now a living witness of the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Why is that? Because I'm made alive through the power of the Holy Spirit. You follow what I'm saying? So you can find that, and there's passages in Scripture that we've given you as references there, but it's important that you understand that every believer should be filled with the Holy Spirit, but it's the same connotation, the same wording here in Ephesians 5, 18 is not what we see as a initial baptism of the Holy Spirit. In other words, in the book of Acts, chapter number two, the day of Pentecost, the Holy Spirit is poured out, 120 approximately were filled with the Holy Ghost, and they all spake with tongues as the Spirit gave evidence. Many of you that are in this building, and those of you who are watching, have had that glorious experience upon your life and in your life, and you now are filled with the Holy Spirit. Tongues is not the Holy Ghost. It's the indicator, the initial physical evidence that the Holy Spirit has now baptized you and you are ready for service. Why is that so important? Because Jesus told his disciples when he was lifting off of the earth of Mount Olives, he said to them, don't do anything. Don't preach, don't do anything. Go into Jerusalem and tarry in the upper room until you are endued, endued with power from on high. And then when you are filled with the promise, when you receive the promise, then you are discharged to go and do what I have done because the Christ in me will be the Christ in you, and now there's not going to be just me walking around the earth with the fullness of the Holy Spirit on the inside of me. Now I'm going to go back to the Father, sit down at the right hand, and my spirit is going to be discharged in the lives of every person who receives me as Savior and Lord, and this baptism is going to be power for you to be a witness unto all of Judea, Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, and the uttermost parts of the earth. How then, ladies and gentlemen, are all the people around this world, people that are watching me online right now, people around the world, how then are they able to receive the Word of God of Jesus Christ and Him crucified and then give their life to Jesus? It's because somebody who's full of the Holy Ghost power had the boldness to open their mouth and tell somebody about the goodness and the gospel of Jesus Christ end of story. That's what the Lord wants to use your life to do and be. But we give the Lord excuses. I'm shy. I'm this. I'm that. I don't talk very much. I found out people that say they don't talk very much are actually the ones that do most of the talking about whatever it is they want to talk about. Okay? And in our narcissistic society, most of the time, people want to talk about themselves instead of about Jesus. Do you know what? Jesus, the apostle Paul, set it up for us to make it so easy because here's a man who was learned underneath and schooled underneath the greatest teachers of his day, and yet he never used any of that kind of background or credentialing to be able to relay to people. He simply opened his mouth and said, I was blind, but now I see. I am the chiefest of all sinners. And on and on, he does self debasement and then he lifts Jesus up. And after all, Jesus said, if I be lifted up from the earth, I'll draw. I'll do the drawing. Okay? It's not your wonderful testimony that does it. It's what the Lord has going to use your testimony to accomplish. And where does that power come from? It comes from the baptism of the Holy Spirit in your life. But tonight, I'm talking to you about the fact that there is a need for us to be refilled and refilled on a daily basis. Filled and refilled, replenished. Some of you are a little bit weak right now in your physical body. And you're like needing a cracker and some juice or a protein drink or whatever. Don't ask me how I know that. If I was giving out chicken wings here tonight, I'd have a long line up here. Okay? What are you saying? I'm saying our physical man, our physical man is in need of nourishment. It's in need of replenishing. And it makes no difference what you deal with in the day. You may not have done a whole lot. Even folks that are couch potatoes have to get up every once in a while to get the potato. They're tired of being tired. Come on, somebody. But when you're out there pounding it every day and you're giving out in multiple different ways, and this is what pressed me in my spirit to bring this series of messages to you. Because I'm concerned, and I'll deal with this perhaps next week, I'm concerned that too many believers have succumbed to the voices of this world that are telling them what are allowing, that person is allowing those voices to control them more than the voice of the Holy Spirit because they've allowed space in their life by not being full. I'm just gonna tell you, there is a generator that is in your car, alternator, generator, that is once you crank it up, it's running too. You don't pay very much attention to it, but I guarantee you if your battery ran out, you pay real close attention to it. Well, I want you to know the Holy Spirit is the generator. He's the activator, and you're running on a battery. And if the generator is not continually replenishing that battery, sooner or later, that battery is gonna run down, even if it's sitting there idle and leave you stranded, what a lot of people have described as operating on fumes. I'm gonna ask you a question. Have you ever operated on fumes in your life before? Some of you know what I'm talking about. You've tried to keep it going. You tried to do what you needed to do and you found out that I just don't have the strength to do it and it may be mental, it may be spiritual, it may be emotional, whatever. What's the devil trying to do? He's trying to break that cycle. You've got to have a replenishing, not just of the physical man, but your spiritual man has got to be filled and refilled on a daily basis. You've been sealed with the power of the Holy Spirit under salvation. You've been given the Holy Spirit to show you and to guide you and to lead you, but how much control does he have of your life? And here is a key verse that brings it to our understanding in Ephesians 5 and 18. Go back there one more time and be not drunk with wine whereas in excess, but the Bible says, but be filled with the Spirit. So what is this meaning, being filled with the Spirit? Well here in the Greek phrase translated, it means be filled, but it's not referring to the initial filling of the Spirit as a one time or once and for all experience. He is saying here, it's a verb form that says be being filled with the Spirit. Repeatedly filled with the Spirit. How many of you drank some water today or tea or coke or whatever? Let me see you in. Okay, the rest of you are dying. Okay, you drank. You may have drank another bottle of water, a glass of water. You may have had three or four. If you were out in the sun, I was out in the sun a little bit today and it was really ramping up. It's promising to be a wonderful summer. And if you're out there in the sweat, you're having to hydrate more. Why? Because without you even exerting any energy, here comes the depletion out of your life that you don't even realize can take you over. Now, this is a whole another sermon, but if you dehydrate, there's a lot of ramifications for that. Dehydration can cause you to be affected in your eyesight. Dehydration can mimic all kinds of stuff. It can cause you to have nausea and pains in your body, aches in your body, all that simply by not having enough water inside of your system. And you know that most people are actually dehydrated for lack of physical water. So that what does that say to me? That says most likely that the spiritual body is even in most, even believers is most assuredly most likely they are dehydrated in some form in their spiritual body. This is the reason why the exhortation is coming to us to be being filled. And I will say to you, in the time we're living, there's an awful lot of impulses and stuff that's coming, information, all that kind of stuff is coming to you all the time. What you give yourself to and allow to fill your life with is what is going to control you. According to Romans chapter 8, same thing. So why is this important? The believers, those that follow the Lord must, it's a command. It's not an option. Be being filled with the Holy Spirit. You must have a continual, a constant spiritual refreshing and a renewal by constantly being filled with the Holy Ghost. Now for those of you that have never been baptized on the Holy Ghost, you need to begin to seek for the baptism of the Holy Spirit. It is a command of the Lord Jesus to be filled. You cannot accomplish what you need to accomplish in the kingdom without being baptized on the Holy Ghost. If Jesus himself was filled with the Spirit, you and I, let me be filled with the Spirit. If he took time to start the church in the book of Acts chapter number two by the first thing he did with filling them with the Spirit, how much more today do we need the one who is the Spirit of truth, the Spirit of wisdom, the Spirit of knowledge, the Spirit of prophecy? And on and on he goes. We need him to fill us up. At any moment we may have to make decisions or whatever that it may be, and sometimes if those are difficult decisions, it's very depleting. How many of you understand what I'm talking about? You can get into the mental stresses of something that's going on in your life and it can affect you mentally, spiritually and even physically deplete you. I know what I'm talking about. So believers, first of all, are to be baptized in the Holy Spirit after their conversion to faith in Christ, meaning you come to the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ first. The Holy Spirit comes in and regeneration and acknowledges that you've been born again by faith that you placed in the cross. Okay? And you'll find this, that it's going to turn you into immediately into worship and service and to be a witness for the Kingdom of God. That's what the Holy Spirit's purpose is. Okay? So with that in mind, believers experienced then or are supposed to experience a repeated or continued filling with the Spirit by maintaining an active and growing faith in Jesus Christ. Now, what does that mean? Well, here's some Scripture and I think that's on your paper. There's some of the ways that you're... This is some of the ways that you are filled with the Spirit continually by praying. That should be your first default. Do you have an active prayer life? I promise you this. The Bible says, and we've just studied it now, we've just come out of this in Matthew 5, it's important for you to get a hold of. He said, for those that hunger and thirst after righteousness, they shall be filled. I can assure you, you will never ask God for an infilling that you will not leave from that asking without being filled if you're hungry and thirsty. The problem is, is that we're not hungry and thirsty for God. We're hungry and thirsty for stuff and so we pack stuff in. And things and whatever that it may be that's going on, entertainment and sports and whatever that it may be. But whatever it is that's packed into your life that's filling you up, because you're going to be full of something. Oh, there you are. But if the Holy Spirit is not filling your life, the Bible says that you become a double-minded man in all of your ways. Hard to make decisions. Now here's, I mean, the reality of that is this. Visiting with some people in the hospital this week, the reality of it is this. Is that everything may be fine right now, but one phone call and all of a sudden you're having to make decisions about something. And if you're not full of the Holy Spirit at that moment, but you packed it full of bubblegum, you had a great time, you know, all that kind of, you had a wonderful time and you felt good in your feelings, but now you don't have something to draw on in order to make this decision. I should say someone to draw on to make this decision. Well, I'm baptized in the Holy Ghost, well then what was the last time you spent time cultivating that in your prayer life, in giving thanks and singing songs unto the Lord and serving others. In fact, in what does the Holy Spirit desire in your life, are you resistant to that? Let me run that by you again. What does the Holy Spirit desire for your life or are you resistant to it? In other words, the Lord's trying to send you this way but you're pulling against it going this way. Then that means he's not in control. You hear me? Now there's not a person in here, those that are watching, that haven't felt that battle go on one time or another in your life. Okay, it doesn't mean that you've lost your salvation or God's manage and all that kind of stuff. What it does mean is that there's too much of me. Let's just narrow it down. You know, I started talking about sports and all that kind of stuff. Let's take all that out of the question. It's too much of me and not enough of thee. Come on, somebody. This is critical for us to get a hold of because this is the reason why that I believe this message series is coming to you as the Lord was dealing with my heart. Now and the days ahead are going to become some challenging days for believers, okay? Challenging days. Days when your faith is going to be put on trial and you're going to have to give an account and Jesus prayed the prayer for his disciples in the Garden of Gethsemane. You pray that you don't enter into temptation because if you get yourself in a place where you're not spiritually prepared to be able to answer whoever it is. Give an account according to 1 Peter. Give an account for the gospel of Jesus Christ and you acquiesce. You answer out of your feelings. Well, I feel that, you know, because of the pressure that's applied. You understand what I'm saying? We're living in a society right now where the pressure is being applied for you to conform to some kind of thinking. Are you hearing me? And to abandon this. Now, one thing I know about the Holy Spirit, he's not going to speak of himself. He's come to glorify Jesus Christ and the only thing he's ever going to speak is this. He'll never be extra biblical. So whatever you're feeling, oh pastor, you know, I have a feeling. I have a good feeling about this. Let me tell you about feelings. Let me tell you the reality of feelings. I couldn't wait to get here tonight to tell you this. The reality of feelings is this. You know what feelings are? Feelings inside of your physical body are nothing more than chemicals reacting to some stimuli. You have a thought and suddenly those chemicals go into action. Like, watch this. Chocolate cake. You may not even like chocolate cake, but suddenly your thoughts go to chocolate cake and suddenly your mouth is starting to salivate. Come on, somebody. Y'all not talking to me, but you know it's true. You know what I'm saying? A glass of, forget all that. Let me just tell you, it's been a long time. Yesterday afternoon when we were coming back, we were having to come back through Nine Mile Road after doing a little business and my precious, wonderful wife said, how would you like to stop by Krispy Kreme? To which I said under the unction of the Holy Spirit. Yes. And so we did. By the leadership of the Holy Spirit, I turned the blinker on and we turned in. And to my amazement, the Holy Spirit knew that the hot sign was on. And the Lord was leading me continually because she said, how about ordering some of those minis? This was Thursday. She said, order the minis. We can eat more of them. Are we all rocking with that right there? Look what desire did. And chemicals started kicking in. But the Holy Spirit knew better than we did. Because when we came around and we asked for minis, they had minis for moms up there. She said, let's get the minis for moms. I said, it's great, that's great. Just every one of them. The person in the little voice said, we have run out of minis for moms. I said, that's perfectly fine. I'll be led by the Spirit. Give me six hot glaze going down right now. And the desire... Listen, why am I saying this to you? Because some of you are going to leave here tonight and you're going straight down to Krispy Kreme. Because before I got to the stop sign, which was from here to where that bleacher is back there, I already had one hanging out of my mouth. You understand what I'm saying? I could chew on it with both hands on the wheel. Come on, somebody. Why am I saying that? Because you now have a feeling that simply was chemically introduced. That's feelings. And if we go by our feelings and not by the leadership of the Holy Spirit, we'll find ourselves doing things simply because we felt good about it. And I'm just telling you everything that is stimulating your mind for a feeling is not the direction of the Holy Spirit. If the feeling never comes, in fact, faith and feelings are absolutely diametrically opposed. Now the introduction of this message here tonight, that you must be filled with the Holy Spirit to be led by the Spirit because you will be put under pressure to respond to something that if you go by your feelings you're going to wait to see how it tastes, how it smells, how it responds, what it looks like, what it sounds like. You cannot operate in that carnal state of mind in the time that we're living in right now. Are you hearing what I'm saying? So let's go just a little bit deeper here tonight because believers must live under the constant control and influence of the Holy Spirit. Now remember the Holy Spirit is not an it, he's not a force, he's not a thing, he's a person. So why is that so important? Because the person of Christ, the Christ man is living on the inside of me right now. And his control and his influence must be able to transform my mind from thinking of this world or carnal thoughts, direct my life to develop the character in my life. That's what he's there for. We just came through the Beatitudes just in this past study. All of that is the Holy Spirit operated and produced inside of our life. Without him we have no ability to be able to love our neighbor and bless it or the poor in spirit for theirs is the kingdom of God. I don't have a poor in spirit at that moment with the Holy Spirit not in control. It's what this world's mind said is, it's all about me. So with that in mind there are several results that come. Before I get into that let me back up just a minute because let me just touch on this I won't have time to stay here but in verse number 18 he says be not drunk with wine whereas in excess but be filled with the spirit. Paul draws this contrast between the person that is drunk with wine and how they act how they respond and the person who is filled with the spirit. The point is not to be able to make the agreement of it but it is to say that the total influence of that has taken over that person. You follow what I'm saying? That's what he's saying that we should be with the Holy Spirit active inside of our life. Now let me teach you something right here because this is so critical in this infilling and necessity of infilling most people who are seeking to be filled with the spirit will find themselves struggling because their attitude is wrong. This is the mindset of people that are many times wanting to be filled with the spirit. They say I want more of the Holy Spirit and I understand what people are saying but the action of the Holy Spirit inside of our life for refilling is not about you getting more of Him to control Him because many people who are false seekers or deceived seekers will say give me more of the Holy Spirit so I can and it's a form of pride is what it is so that I can use it for personal gain. It's almost like looking into a I'm going to have some crystal ball ESP in order to figure stuff out that's not what it's all about the infilling of the Holy Spirit and the refilling of the Holy Spirit is to get more of Him to possess you not for you to possess Him so let's make sure we get that right because the there's real pride that comes out and I understand what people are saying many times but they don't really, I don't think they understand what they're asking for oh I want more, more Lord I want more of all why and if that's true okay if that's true that you want more of the Holy Spirit not for you to control Him but for Him to control you then that means that you need to put yourself on the altar and say Lord possess me take over my life all the things that are me get that out and fill me with you are y'all following what I'm saying that's what sacrifice on the altar is all about it's not about me having some kind of experience with the Holy Spirit it's all about me putting myself on the altar and saying Holy Spirit take all of me and anything that is not possessed inside of my life by you then work out get me out of it until you are fully in charge of me that's what being filled with the Spirit is all about people pray to be filled with the Spirit and they think that's another opportunity for me to speak in tongues and oh I'm filled with the Spirit I understand what people are saying but it's about control of your life it's about the Holy Spirit controlling your thoughts your actions, your deeds your decisions anything crops up inside of our life that is some kind of ambitious mentality of pride or self then what is it going to do we're going to seek to have the I want more of the Holy Spirit for what so that you can control him or you can walk out the door saying oh what a service we had because that is not the function of the Holy Spirit the function of the Holy Spirit and you're going to get this is to be able to be the witness through us and make us more like Christ are y'all with me let's go just a little bit deeper y'all still with me out here tonight I know you are I'm liking this so what are we doing we're being brought into complete subjection to the Spirit of God that's what being filled with the Spirit is every day I'm saying Lord fill me every day when I say fill me every day I'm saying Lord give me more control of my life does that make sense okay so here's several results that are found there in Ephesians chapter 5 verse number 18 that come as a result of you being filled because ladies and gentlemen hear me in the time we're living in how many of you understand that just about five minutes worth of breaking news from Fox ABC NBC or whoever it is can cause you to lose a lot of your Holy Ghost right a depletion alright not losing but a depletion that's the reason why that what we listen to in the time we're in what we watch what we see somebody sent me a note late this afternoon in fact I had several of them that hit me up and said pastor I think somebody has hacked your Facebook because I've gotten a friend request from you and it doesn't look like you you know you know how it is so my response to which I responded was if I asked you to be a friend it's not me um and I had a little scripture in there from Matthew 24 Jesus said take heed you be deceived don't be deceived that's not me and if you want to know if it's me any friend request of mine will be followed with an invitation to a fried mullet dinner and fakers don't know what that is some of you out here don't know what that is I hate it for you I will tell you it is the second subsequent infilling is what I'm saying what happens when the Holy Spirit comes in in a world that is filled with bad news and all kinds of mess going on when the Holy Spirit comes in what's he going to do he's going to he's going to raise the level of our joy in our life it's not that things aren't going on what he's doing is taking control of our mind our soul and our spirit to let us know that we belong to him are you hearing me what else is going on when the Holy Spirit comes in one of the results of being filled with the spirit is that there is an immediate response of thanks it comes it's going to raise the level of our joy in our life it's not that things aren't going on it's the response of thanks it comes not just to God but there's a thankful spirit that comes a thankful spirit how many of you know you need a thankful spirit okay a thankful spirit a yes ma'am and no ma'am kind of thing so here we go so Taylor and Lauren got this thing going on with Henry and Adeline right now that if they respond like they should and saying yes ma'am and no ma'am they get a marble dropped in to this jar and when at some point then they'll be able to do something of whatever that that may be so little four-year-old Henry caught on real quick and when dinner's going on he's saying yes ma'am no ma'am yes sir no sir all that kind of stuff and then he's walking around doing whatever and he said yes sir no ma'am yes ma'am because his mind is the more I give thanks the more I respond in the right way more marbles are going into that jar how many of you know what I'm talking about he grabbed great grief over the fact that his daddy told him when he had done something wrong that the marbles that can go in can come out if you don't respond correctly so he took one out and he responded like a lot of church people threw on the floor and started kicking like a cockroach you took my marble out it's the end of the world I'm going to tell you we're living in a world that knows no thanks and if we don't show it child of God filled with the Holy Ghost and all the things that all the attributes of the Holy Spirit inside it if we're not thankful then where is this world going to hear it from I think this is good teaching tonight I know this may be elementary but it's you know elementary school so here we go submitting one to another in order to honor God what does that mean humble yourself I want you to say this out loud I don't know everything say this I'm not God how many of you feel some relief right now I just had a total deliverance service in this place right now you can cease to be God you don't have to know everything that's the reason why the Holy Spirit has come along and if we'll humble ourselves submit ourselves one to another then we're honoring God by taking the lowest state you don't hear that going on today do you I could never be in some of the places that I hear and see some of these you know Hollywood stars whatever it may be political whatever it may be because all they do is talk about themselves and I'm just telling you I would get sick of hearing my own self after a while come on somebody we have to acquiesce and say we're going to submit ourselves one to another let the Holy Spirit take the lead and give people place the Holy Spirit is going to is going to help us to be keep our pride level down let me say it like that so without the fullness of God the breath of God we are left with a form a life without purpose and passion a form of what we could be so watch this cycle watch this system that God put into place what God forms is meant to be filled and function what God forms is meant to be filled and then move to a function what God forms here he is forming the world he's establishing a then he filled it and then it's supposed to function that goes for the solar system that goes for the church that goes for us individually he formed the church and then he filled it suddenly and they all they all spake and then what were they supposed to do they were supposed to go out under the power of the Holy Spirit fully controlled by the Holy Spirit and function are you hearing me being filled with the Spirit is the beginning of what the Bible calls in John 10 10 the abundant life are you living that there are many people many believers I should say that wonder why there's such a vacuum and lack of power over the world the flesh and the devil and they have no witness for anybody so watch this cycle watch this system that's in place from the book of Acts first of all the Bible says they were all in one place he formed them he put them in one place and then what did he do Bible says then a sound a wind from heaven and what did he do the Bible says it filled all the house where they were sitting there's the form there's the filling all the way back to the book of Genesis and you'll find that he formed he made man as a form then he filled him with the breath of life and then he turned him loose in the garden to function that's what happened right here what happened when they were all filled with the Holy Ghost Peter steps out and begins the function under the unction of the Holy Spirit and what takes place when some people get saved isn't that great so what's the function the function happens inside of the container or the body the body is not the filling the body is what the container is holding if there's nothing in the container to satisfy what people are looking for then the body will serve no purpose it's only a form without the power are you hearing what I'm saying now that's so critical in a world that is needing to drink from the living water Jesus Christ if the church is not full let me say it like this if the church is only running on enough to sustain me let me get some scripture for you if the righteous scarcely be saved where will the sinner and the ungodly be what is he saying to us you cannot operate on half a tank you're not somebody said oh I'm filled with the Holy Spirit that's all wonderful but the filling many times the filling many times is like what we see in a glass up to here but that's not being baptized baptized is running out and running over and how many of you know that if there's any space in there the enemy is going to do what he can to fill that with something and I'm just going to tell you here you are with the full tank of the Holy Spirit but if you let fear get in there it will discount faith every time who's going to drink it if I drop a little iodine in there anyway how about a little round up I mean it still looks clear come on anybody thirsty no because now you've got a contaminant that's going on here that causes a person to hold back on their witness or hold back on their bought listen we've got to be filled ladies and gentlemen in this hour filled with the Holy Spirit not afraid to bring a defense for the gospel of Jesus Christ if we don't this world's darkness and it's word is being plastered constantly out there but if you don't give a clear witness from your fullness now what happens when you give out of your fullness that means you got to go back and get refilled and I've used something you understand what I'm saying so Peter preached and that was the function so what's the big deal about this this is the question the Holy Spirit put in my spirit what was the necessity we read about it in Acts chapter 4 verse 31 when they prayed the place was shaken where they were they were all filled and then they spoke the Word of God with boldness three things okay let me get that to you real quick watch this they were all assembled they were formed in fact they were reformed in there not to say that they did not have the Holy Spirit because these are the same folks that were in the in the upper room okay but they got assembled again kind of like we're doing here tonight come on somebody track with me a little bit explain everything we were all assembled we were formed together and then what took place they were all filled now this terminology is not the first in filling this is not the initial in filling this is a refilling I'm going to show you why in a minute this is a refilling of those same believers that were baptized in the Holy Ghost because something happened that drew on that anointing that Holy Spirit inside of their life and for some it could have kicked them out it could have messed them up they could have lost their faith but they found themselves assembled together started praying and when they had prayed the place was shaken the presence of God came in he formed them he put them back he filled the place and then the Bible says that they spoke the Word with boldness here they are functioning again so that same church came out of the book of Acts that was baptized in the Holy Ghost that was formed in the book of Acts in Jerusalem and was filled with the Holy Ghost and then Peter stepped out and started preaching and the function took place is the same thing that took place in Acts 4 in verse number 31 all over again this is listen I know what people are saying what we need is another Pentecost no we do not what we need is a refilling the original source come on somebody I understand what you are saying oh we need another Pentecost but we already have Pentecost the initial outpouring of the Holy Ghost has already happened so I am not waiting for that because I am filled with the Holy Ghost right now alright and the indicator is I will pray in the Spirit on a daily basis building up myself on my most holy faith praying in the Holy Ghost in the book of Jude what I need is another drink of water what I need is another filling of the same power of God to take control of my life why? because I am fearful because I am worried because I lack faith because I have got decisions to make because I get this crisis because I am having adversity the enemies fighting against me because I got trouble in my own house and at the core of all of that the enemy is trying to do what he is trying to get you to doubt what God said now what is the Holy Spirit going to do is he going to bring doubt or is he going to bring you faith and encourage you to keep believing alright so if he can get his foot in the door by causing you to question whether or not God said this thing it would bring it to pass even though you are not seeing it right now in your spirit you read it in the Word God is going to bring my child back into the fold he is going to bring them back the prodigal is going to come back home but when you see their life and the more you pray it is like all hell is breaking loose in their life and it is looking like they are running the opposite direction as hard as they can and the more I pray the worse he gets but the Holy Spirit fullness is going to remind me of what? the Word God and what is that going to do that is going to give me peace what comes with the Holy Spirit well a cluster bomb of blessings you get peace you get love you get joy you get long suffering you get goodness you get meekness you get all the fruit of the Spirit you get all of this in one package it is called the Holy Ghost and the more full that I am the more fullness is happening inside of my life more control of what he is taking over inside of my life the easier it is for me to believe that book right there and keep believing in the face of doubt and unbelief he says to his disciples hey guys we are going to the other side of the Sea of Galilee they got in and a storm happened and now Jesus has got to come walking on the water to remind them of what he said in other words no storm happening out here is going to stop what my Word said from the beginning of coming to pass we are going to the other side I will meet you on the other side you're in the middle you're in a transition and what you need is a refilling so here I am here comes the Christ to fill them up right there in the boat to remind them of what he said come on now some people are waiting on another word from the Lord like a fleece like Gideon Lord if you let seagulls fly backward and the sun moon and stars fall from the sky they leave it ain't going to happen it ain't going to happen he's already giving you his Word what did the rich man say who died and went down to hell he says listen he said Father Abraham whatever you do send somebody back to my five brothers and let them hear about the torment and the horror of this place so that they don't come here and what did God say God said not so he said they have Moses and the prophets let them hear them in other words the Word of God is in your lap on your phone on your iPad in your ears all the time television radio I mean I'm amazed that some of these major news networks are even allowing allowing the advertisements that they are from Franklin Graham and others in the adversity that we're in right now hey I was watching the Braves a little bit last night walk through the room and behind the banner where the umpire was standing and the guy hitting the ball and whatever he is the hitter the batter and I look back there and there's a whole dot com of how people could track on that and find Jesus Christ they didn't say oh find a man they said here's Jesus dot com come see us that takes boldness because when somebody gets in your face and tells you I don't believe in that don't get around me I'll give you about five minutes of the book of Revelation and what's going on today like I did about five guys standing in my front yard today I mean less than 15 minutes they started saying boss can we go eat lunch it wasn't cause they wanted to get away I can tell you why cause the spirit of conviction landed right there in the middle of the front yard I was told to be able to do that in this hour come on somebody so let me get this to you cause we're almost done so what this was the question that the Holy Spirit said tell these people what made acts 431 necessary the praying the refilling the fresh function that they needed to get in well here's the back story to that entire verse why did they need that cause ladies and gentlemen this is not the only time in the book of Acts a refilling it happens multiple times so what led to this well wonderful miracle led to it you got to go back to Acts chapter 3 to find out what necessitated this prayer meeting and this refilling Peter and John are going to the gate beautiful they're going to the temple to pray and all of a sudden they see a lame man laid there for all of his life they grab him by the hand in the name of Jesus they raise him up and what happens he's leaping and praising God the preacher is trying to preach all that kind of stuff is going on Sanhedrin Pharisees are there they said hey sit down security and he just kept running well I would too it's the first time in 38 years that he'd ever been able to stand up and walk on his own what kind of religious spirit is going to stop me now I have now been filled with the power of the Holy Spirit that's caused my limbs to get up and move it's a wonderful day it's revival inside the church and then Peter starts preaching about all this and as a result in Acts chapter number 4 there's 5,000 people that come to Jesus Christ there's a result of it and then guess what then they arrested him Peter and John they arrested him for what? for saying in the name of Jesus and the man got up was fully evident of a healing that they haven't even bothered to do all of the days that they came to church because nobody had the infilling fullness to lay on this guy did you hear what I said they had no unction they had no juice they had no function but Peter and John said what was this the other day we got to hold up Holy Ghost let's lay in the name of Jesus took him by the hand raised him up God give us in these last days many believers that are so full of the Holy Ghost they're not waiting for a Sunday morning service lay hands on somebody do it at the mall do it at the grocery store with boldness speak the word of God so what takes place they're arrested marvelous get ready ladies and gentlemen they're arresting people for doing stuff right now that's God I don't want to get arrested let's just do a little church let's not talk about all of those pastor don't be political don't talk about all that kind of stuff well first of all you got to know you're at the wrong church if you want the first church of the frozen chosen who will never have any problem whatsoever and they can sing all their songs and feel nothing then you'll find that one somewhere else but here I'm going to tell you the truth and let the truth set you free this is not about politics this is not about pumping up somebody's ego this is about the function of the church the way it ought to be ladies and gentlemen come on somebody I don't think you understand what I'm saying so here they are they're arrested for doing a good deed how would you like to do that suddenly it intimidates the entirety of the church our leaders have been arrested and put in jail they put their mugs up on television the Jerusalem Post has got it out there two insurrectionists who claim that Jesus Christ is alive they did a whole expose on them come on somebody they even worked up some fake laptops for them and stuff like that got all this evidence they got false witnesses against them and they looked at them and said don't you ever speak again in the name of Jesus Christ how many of you know that's intimidating to the church at that moment it's still intimidating today don't you speak the name of Jesus anymore and the Bible said they beat them I mean you know that's starting to get intimidating they put that one on social media here's what's going to happen if you speak the name of Jesus they said don't you speak the name of Jesus anymore they got up and said hey we can't but speak of the things that we have heard and seen that Jesus did are you going to go back out there and speak Jesus name again and preach the word of God again yep then they had to call a meeting they called a meeting over here now the church is waiting on the verdict nobody's moving nobody's doing anything they're out there hanging out for the verdict of their two brand new preachers that came right up out of the book of Acts chapter two and they said what are we going to do let's just kill them and Glamiel pulls them over and says listen let me give you some advice you can kill them but you're going to get a whole group of insurrections here's what we need to do let's beat them and remember this if it's of the Lord you couldn't do anything about it if it's not of God it'll fall apart y'all got that yes ready break so they went back and said okay we're going to turn you loose but don't you preach anymore in the name of Jesus read the book and you'll see it again over in chapter 13 of the book of Acts same thing takes place pressure comes this is what I wanted to get to you tonight because these infillings in the book of Acts are not just so that everybody can gather up and say what a wonderful revival we had they came as a result of pressure being applied to the church to the believer to try to get them to stop doing what they were doing and as a result they got filled up again in Acts 4 and 31 and went out and did it again the mode church why do we gather together on Wednesday night and on Sunday morning so you can get filled up in the presence of God and be encouraged by others around you that are going through struggles themselves and they got the diagnosis of cancer and they are having trouble in their family and they're going bankrupt in their business and all kind of stuff is going on but here they are with their hands lifted up singing praises into God and saying Lord fill me again with the Holy Spirit because I need your encouragement I need your strength and the Lord promises a hungry and a thirsty heart he does so he fills them up and they say guess what I got boldness to go and do it again come on let's go fight and that's the necessity of being filled with the Holy Spirit these guys went through such trouble that it exacted so much energy physically they were beaten physically spiritually they were depleted mentally they were in anguish what's going on I'll tell you what's going on they're getting filled up again look at Acts 4 and 8 the Bible says Peter being filled with the Holy Ghost you remember when they were looking at Stephen they said Stephen why is he a good deacon because he's a man full of the Holy Ghost come on somebody there's Paul and Acts 13 filled with the Holy Ghost this is not the first filling this is a refilling event that's taking place in the book of Acts Acts 1352 I just told you and what took place right here I mean they were under a horrible attack because of their faith are you hearing me because of their faith they had pressures coming from all angles and whenever Paul don't you do that I mean they came against them in a horrible way the Bible says they almost defeated them but you know what they did come on you're going to love this Acts 13 you should go read it here's what they did the Bible said they shook the dust off of that city and went on to Iconium and kept right on preaching the Christian areas that we support here because we get reports and we're not able to bring every one of them to you but I'm amazed at the fullness of the spirit that they have to face the things they have to face and still get up the next day and preach the Gospel to somebody what happens it's literally translated I think this is I think this translation comes from with a great preacher who said this really means drink deeply of God's spirit you know what I'm talking about drink deeply you know when you're sipping the Holy Spirit and when you're really thirsty and somebody tries to take your glass from you come on somebody we sat in the restaurant and that was really thirsty and I down that half and half tea about that quick and then the waitress came by and she said sir I'll be back with another full glass of tea in just a moment I said great hurry it didn't take her long she comes back boom and there it is sometimes I've been in there sitting at a restaurant just like you would you like a refill here's the ones I really like and this really kind of came alive during Covid would you like a glass to go yes if I don't drink at all that's okay but I got one on the go come on somebody just in case I get thirsty from here to the house I need to stop by and pick up a Krispy Kreme I've got a tea to wash it down with come on somebody man did you eat that last one it's still sitting on the counter up there I'm telling you the microwave will have that thing back shining again I've come to you tonight with this message and I will the Lord willing next week to describe some more about this filling but I'm going to ask you to ask begin now today for a refilling when you fill me with your spirit again what you're saying is Holy Spirit take control of me I don't want control of me come can I just pull you how many of you have been in control of it and you pretty well driven it off the cliff anybody ever done that before I have two Holy Spirit would you oh I know somebody wrote a song Jesus take the wheel take control of this situation take control of my whole life I'm going to admonish you please begin to ask for the infilling because this is what the Holy Spirit pressed on me and I may say it again next week I'm concerned that too many people that are calling themselves believers under the influence of depression of mental anguishes that they don't seem to be able to come out from underneath and I'm telling you right now that is not the abundant life that God designed died on the cross for and gave you the Holy Ghost to have he came to give you life and life more abundantly and I'm asking you how much of that life is in charge of your life your children's lives come on somebody your business life every part of your life I'm concerned that too many people are listening too much to what's going on out here and it's filling them up with fear and doubt and unbelief and then when it comes down to the Lord saying go do something we hesitate we need to be filled with the Holy Spirit enough that when the voice the gentle still voice of the Holy Spirit says go witness to the cashier you're not afraid of rejection you're not afraid of what's going on you're just going to step out and say hey I just wanted to show you some kindness today whatever whatever the Holy Spirit leads you to how many of you enjoy being led by the Spirit how many of you are control freaks like me come on somebody the rest of you that didn't admit it I know better because about the time that we feel like we're getting out of control that's what some people when they come in the building like few weeks ago when the power of God just descended into place and took over the service this place is crazy no no no we're more in control the Holy Spirit is in control of the situation and we're going to be better off for it are you right are you with me right there ask for a daily infilling what am I saying I'm saying make room for God make room for God close off the other stuff and make room for God Lord how much more do you need to take up you need to take over my tongue would you get my tongue no wonder I need to speak into it isn't that funny that the initial physical evidence of the baptism of the Holy Spirit is speaking in tongues meaning controlling your tongue the one thing that is lit on fire of hell and can tell somebody off in a second Lord take hold of my tongue no grab that little boneless piece of muscle in there and control it how many of you will join me in this right here for the sanity of your mind for the peace of your home start asking for more of the Holy Spirit to take control I'm going to pray for you right now Father in the name of Jesus I thank you for this opportunity to teach this Word of God I believe Lord that you want this church full and running over with your spirit and I pray God that you would give us the freshness of the infilling of the Holy Spirit even now as people in this congregation those that are watching right now begin to sense the hunger and the thirsting in their soul for more of God Holy Spirit would you flow through us right now and fill us up take absolute control of my mind, my soul, my spirit part of me and I give you the glory before it's ever done right now in Jesus mighty mighty name everybody believes it say a good amen may I have stirred up your hunger and thirst tonight get up and be kind to somebody would you right now and for all of you that are watching online thank you for joining us don't miss this Sunday it's mother's day we're going to dedicate some babies preach the Word of God it's going to be a great Sunday don't miss it and it will enjoy having you with us God bless you for being with us tonight