Coming Into Agreement With The Heart of God Pt 5 - Joe Sweet

this is a my fifth week in a series I'm calling it coming into agreement with the heart of God John 17 verse 20 and 21 jesus prayed father I pray that they may become one as you and I are one that the world may believe and so we are invited by God to come into union to come into agreement with God's knowing his mind his heart in his will in the same way that Jesus is one with the father that's astounding anybody get what I just said are you hearing how many are here today amen now jesus said the father in me does the works I don't do the works I can do nothing on my own it's the father that does it works he said I came not to do my own will but the will of him that sent me that's what Jesus said he said well as I see is where the father shows me I do it as I hear I judge the father said that's my son and whom I well pleased the father glorified the son the father spoke to the son guide to the son led the son empowered the son the son would abide in the Father and the father would do the works through him so Jesus said father in the same way you and I are one I pray they'll be one also in us so God has given us everything that we need to grow into oneness with Jesus Christ that's our invitation to lay down and lose our life our agenda and come into union in agreement with his heart his thoughts his will and enter into and partake of his very life inside us he wants to fill us he wants our thoughts to start agreeing with his our heart to start agreeing with his so that his spirit who's already in you already in me his spirit in us but he wants our soul to agree with him so that he can once again manifest his life love people teach people lifts people help people through us we are his body we're his hands in his feet now it's a process because we all start out broken all of us start out with negative experiences sins that were done to us sins that we did those things we come we start out with our mind not in agreement with God the Fallen nature of man is self-absorbed self-centered God wants to deliver us from that he wants to be our God he wants to take care of us he wants to be the one that protects us so we don't have to protect ourself he wants to be the one provide for us so do we don't live a life of getting all you can and canning all you get he wants to relax rest in him that's what Trust is faith is a rest I abide in him learn of him he said in Matthew 11 learn of me and you'll find rest so that's what is coming to know the Lord know his heart know his will and abide in him it's a process it doesn't happen by next Tuesday but happens progressively as we eat his word Jeremiah said I did find his words and I ate them and they were the joy and the rejoicing of my heart jesus said in John 14:21 in John 14:23 whoever keeps my word that's the one that loves me and I will love him and I will manifest myself to him John 14:23 the one that keeps my Commandments is the one that loves me and my father and I we will come and we will make our abode so God to the degree that we know his word his word reveals his heart we and we keep his word in us as progressive psalm 119 verse 130 says the entrance of his word gives light first John 1:5 says God is light G said my words are living they're active they're alive they're sharper than any two-edged sword they'll divide between soul and spirit jesus said the words that I speak their spirit and their life so when we meditate on these words and hold them in our heart the Holy Spirit breeds them life into them and illuminates us to know the Lord and as his word abides in us that's what Jesus said in John 15 the secret to abiding in the Lord is for his word to abide in us and again is progressive it takes time it's a process our minds have to be undone and rewired not it's not doesn't happen overnight so Jesus Prayer his father I want them to become one just like you and I are one God wants us to love what he loves hate what he hates be led by his spirit until if we'll keep walking on this journey the Bible says in proverbs 4:18 the light for the righteous gets brighter and brighter and brighter until the full day so we start out here and our walk with Christ and people can criticize us they can fault find us look at that that your fleshly look at your anger but they don't see what's going on inside Christ is growing in us his word is growing we're growing now five years later we're different than we were then if people want to fault find us and pick us apart they can you don't have to look hard but Christ is being formed in us and I'm not amen we and we shouldn't condemn ourselves and we shouldn't condemn others we should call forth Christ - being formed in each other he's being formed in us and that's what the Lord wants and as to the degree that he is formed in us we come home would come to rest for in him we live and move and have our he's hope he's our rest coming into Union giving up our will and saying yes to his will is our rest and that's what the battles over my will are his well I protect myself or while I trust the Lord so we've been talking about coming into agreement with the heart of God and we're gonna come into agreement of the heart of God one of the things the Holy Spirit is emphasizing now for the body of Christ is that we revisit the Great Commission preach the gospel to every creature going to all the world in Luke he said repentance and remission of sins must be preached to all nations that's what we've been talking about revisiting the Great Commission if we were to asked the Lord what's on his heart he was sent into this world to seek and to save the Lost he said I didn't come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance he wants to bring us out of darkness into his marvelous light if we're gonna walk with Him and our heart is gonna beat in sync with his our heart will progressively take on his burden for unsaved people for backsliders for baby Christians that need to be discipled our heart will begin to care that people find christ and if their babies we care that they grow up that's the Great Commission evangelism is part of the Great Commission but the the fullness of it is making disciples teach them to observe he said everything that I've commanded you and lo I'm with you always even unto the end of the age so I want to read a prophetic experience that Bobby Connor had he shared it briefly here at our conference in August but it's printed here and I'd like to read it it's an encounter he had now for those that are listening and maybe you're not familiar with this the Bible says in the last God will pour out his spirit upon all flesh and there will be dreams and visions if you read the book of Acts three times trances are mentioned in the book of Acts see we don't talk about that a lot but it's a real experience the Holy Spirit can put you in a trance your spirit can be transported you can have visions there's a time as a young Christian I can't remember what years in the late 79 or 80 I was working with a youth ministry in Baldwin Park and there were numerous times when we would we had youth retreats youth meetings I was the old youth I was 23 or 24 and the younger youth were 18 and I remember we a lot of times praying for young people they'd go into trances but first happened we didn't know what was happening we knew as the Lord we pray for people they just go just into a trance be like that for 45 minutes they come out and they had an experience with the Lord it's happening a lot so these things happen we can't judge things by our little experience but it's in if it's in the word so Bobby Conner had this experience he said he was sleeping sound that his bed and Moravian falls well beneath his warm comforter he said he felt his blanket move he thought at first that was his wife moving around he said I looked over and she was asleep quickly I turned to the other side of the bed at this point it was the Lord that spoke to me in a very firm yet gentle voice get up it's time to go fishing now I talked with Bobby personally about this he's had a number of encounters with the Lord and I asked him about this I said was this a vision or what kind of encounter he said Joe I could not tell you for sure if it I wasn't in my physical body I saw the Lord appear at my bed in his physical form when he carried me away I felt I don't know if I was in body or spirit but I could feel my body so could you know Paul said I know man caught up the third heaven in the body or I don't know it's in the body or not it felt real that's what he said so he said the Lord said it's time to go fishing the time was exactly 2:22 a.m. in this experience I was transported by the Spirit of God from the comforts of my bed to an enormous Li large body of water standing at the edge of this massive sea the sky was awfully dark the clouds were violently turbulent the winds were swirling and blowing incredibly strong lightning flashed across the darkened sky and illuminated the storm-tossed sea this was not a peaceful setting but very troubled waters the waters were stirred the way surmounting with white caps and foam the raging wind caused the rain to sting against my face as lightning flashed and the thunder was crashing the sound rolling across a wave seemed to be amplified I shivered as the wind drove the Wain rained deep into my clothes it was one of the most stormy times I've ever experienced but I could feel that this storm was more than just a natural storm I can't explain it but I knew it was somehow very unnatural disturbance that I was experiencing standing at my side the Lord Jesus said I'm hungry you are to catch dinner intensely he was steadfastly gazing over the troubled waters I knew he was expecting me to catch some fish but I was thinking how hard it would be to fish in such a violent storm it was difficult for me to even stand in the strong gusts of wind although I didn't say what I was thinking out loud the Lord knew what I was thinking and he said to me this is the best time for fishing fish are more easily caught at this time are you following this there's storms right now all over the world the nations are troubled Europe is troubled Africa nations are shaking I came back from the Philippines there's been close to 30,000 extra-judicial that means outside the law murders by the government they've they've murdered close to thirty thousand people in the last few years the nation's are shaking France is shaking Germany is shaking it's a troubled time we're in the harvest is ripe he said this is the best time for fishing the fish are more easily caught at this time then I looked more clearly closely at him I noticed that his hair was not being blown about by the wind his clothes were not wet and they were not flopping in the wind his mind were the Lord knowing what I was now observing said come and stand closer to me as I moved closer to him the winds became calm when I came near his side there was a place of perfect peace and protection from the storm and he smiled at me and he said in the most comforting tone yes I'm still the Prince of Peace are you getting this where should we be when things are stormy as close to Jesus as we can get what should we be doing when there's a dark storm out catching fish let's keep going even though the situation with the wind and weather had not changed there was a quiet calm confidence of the Lord's presence I wondered why I had not come closer to him sooner looking deep into my eyes I knew he was expecting more from me than just standing by he expected me to get busy obeying his command to catch some fish I felt extremely ill-prepared and I said to him I don't have anything to fish fish with I don't have any bait he said you don't understand I am the bait he then slowly placed his right hand over his heart holding it there for a moment he extended his hand out from his chest I was not prepared for what I saw there in his hand was a part of his heart is a deepest crimson red almost purple bloody piece of flesh in his hand I was overwhelmed with the immense Worth and value of that heart I could feel its eternal Worth and value and the Lord placed it in Bobby's hand he said I knew now that what I was holding in my hand was the most precious thing in all of creation and the scripture of first Peter 1:18 came to me for you know that you've not been redeemed by corruptible things like silver and gold from your vain lifestyle but you've been redeemed with the precious blood of Christ I couldn't words cannot express the worth of one single drop of the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ but I couldn't think of casting this portion of his heart into the dark troubled waters that were raging yet the Lord instructed me and he said cast this upon the water now I was openly weeping and I said no Lord no this is far too precious to cast out into the store the Lord said what you're feeling is right and those who sow in tears shall reap in joy the Lord filled my heart with the promise of Psalm 126 verse four and five it says they who sow in tears will reap in joy he that continually goes forth weeping bearing seeds for sowing shall doubtless come again with rejoicing bringing his sheaves with him as I looked at the part of the Lord's heart in my hand it now appeared to be very bright orange almost illuminated her glowing he said cast it out upon the water this portion of the Lord's heart was attached to his heart through my hand by a very thin yet bright scarlet line I knew I was to throw this as far as I could with all my might and so I did as I released it into the air because of its bright orange glow I could see it clearly as it flew through the gusty wind just as it was about to come in contact with the water an extraordinarily large shiny silver fish leaped up out of the water and took it in his mouth this was a magnificent brilliant beautiful fish the lightning flashed against a shiny silver body there was no fight nor pulling him in this enormous fish just quickly swam to the shore at our feet the huge fish was extremely beautiful solid silver as I look closely at the fish it appeared almost transparent you could see inside the fish and it was filled with an untold number of smaller fish inside it it represented the harvest I gazed into the face of Christ Jesus and his face was radiating with the most satisfying pleasant joyous smile he spoke with great compassion for this cause I've come into the world the seeking and saving of lost mankind this is a reason I've established my church on the earth to reach mankind with my heart then he questioned me he said do you know how big the fish is somehow I just knew that it was fifty five pounds I said yes it weighs 55 pounds Lord said yes it's 55 times 55 at this the words the fish multiplied to the size each time it was touched so the harvest is exponentially great five is a number of grace then he said pick up the fish and place it in my hands when I place the fish in his hands Christ placed the fish into his heart and he said this is the meat that I have to eat I was thrilled and I was also sad at the same time thrilled because of the immense pleasure the Lord was having yet sad at the thought that I didn't have any more of that special bait knowing my every thought he said please hear this you will always have my heart from my hand if you will come to me the more you give away the more I will give you you will have my heart from my hand if you will come to me ask me Lord I want your heart but then we have to give it away and he said the more that you give away of my heart the more I will give to you is that biblical it sure is Luke 6:38 given it shall be given press down shaken together running over the measure you use will be measured back to you he fits faithful and little will be given much words can't describe the contentment I felt as I stood in those shores with Christ I could see without a doubt that bringing people to Christ is the highest calling we can have nothing will bring more pleasure to Christ than presenting to him souls for which he died now is the harvest time only as we follow Christ can he make us to become true fishers of men this is a great task that we can all give ourselves to what an awesome prophetic experience coming into agreement with the heart of God let me just say what the Bible says to remind us some of the things we looked at last week in mark 16 jesus said now if we want to know God's heart and walk with God we have to assimilate and digest his word he said in mark 16 go into all the world preach the gospel to every creature he that believes in Him baptized will be saved he that does not believe will be condemned these signs will follow those who believe he talks about casting out demons healing the sick and so on and so forth if we want to see signs we have to go and preach Matthew 28 and that's not for special people it's for any believer that will open their mouth signs will follow you signs will follow me if we will dare open I'll testify of Jesus and start praying for people signs will follow Jesus said it Matthew 28 he said all Authority has been given to me in heaven on earth go therefore and make disciples of all the nations baptizing them that means immerse in the name of the Father that means the character of the nature go and make disciples and immerse them in the character and the nature of the Father Son and Holy Spirit I'm not saying you shouldn't also obey water baptism that's a public identification with Christ teach them to observe all things that I've commanded you and lo I'm with you always even to the end of the age Luke 24 Jesus said thus it is written thus it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day this is Jesus speaking of himself and that what should we preach and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name to all nations then he said behold I send the promise of my father upon you but tarry in the Sea of Jerusalem until you are endued with power from on high so now the Lord says go preach all people all nations every creature make disciples teach them to obey my commands that I've given you to obey I'm with you signs will follow you but wait till you get power so they waited and on the day of Pentecost the Holy Spirit and fire came 120 the upper room they spilled out of the upper room full of the Holy Spirit speaking and unknowing tongues but those people that were many different nations heard them speaking in their own language as a sign now there's different kinds of tongues I'm not going to teach on tongues today there's a tongue it's a prayer language there's a tongue that's a prophecy that needs to be interpreted and then there's a tongue that's an actual language of man that's a sign in a wonder so that's why the Bible says there's a diverse of tongues if we don't understand it we we don't understand it amen so jesus said repentance a remission of sins must be preached to all nations we talked last week about what repentance looks like Jesus himself referenced the repentance of Nineveh as an example for us and he told the city that he was speaking to in his own day he says the men of Nineveh are going to rise up in judgement day and condemn you because they repented at the preaching of not of Jonah but Jesus said a greater than Jonah is here with signs and wonders who didn't repent Nineveh is going to condemn you on Judgment Day now when you go back and look at Nineveh how they repented that Jesus referenced it says they won they acknowledge their sin they home with themselves with sackcloth and ashes he's not telling us that we have to do that but look at their heart we're not saying sackcloth and ashes but they humble themselves it says they cried out mildly to God and every man turned away from his wickedness that's called repentance they acknowledge their sin they humble themselves they cried out to God for mercy and they turn from their wickedness the Bible says God saw their works and he relented of the judgment he was going to release we don't preach judgment today but Jesus did Paul did John did the Apostles did Jesus said Jesus said who warned you to flee from the wrath to come Jesus was warning people of a judgment and a wrath to come John was sent before Jesus to prepare the people and he warned them of the wrath to come John said the same exact words forward that Jesus did before Jesus said it John said every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire say well that's Old Testament Jesus came right along after them and repeated it word for word every tree that doesn't bear good fruit Skutt down and thrown in the so there's a Judgment Day coming and were to preach repentance why do we preach repentance because there's a Judgment Day so we see in Acts chapter 17 Paul is writing he said times of ignorance God overlooked in the past but now acts 17 verse 30 now God commands all men everywhere to repent why next verse because he has appointed a day on which he will judge the world in righteousness so here's the gospel message Judgment Day is coming God has provided a savior for us repent and come to the Savior that's what the Apostles preached so we touch on that now if we're going to embrace and partake of evangelism and discipleship now the believers that were baptized in Acts chapter 2 in the Holy Spirit and Fire they were refilled with the Holy Spirit in Acts chapter 4 some of the same believers meaning that it's not a one-off experience we receive about his MO Holy Spirit we need to be refilled and refilled on a continual basis and it's a lifestyle of living close to the Lord amen now let's I don't I can't remember if I did this first or not over the last five weeks but if I did we're gonna do it again we're gonna relook at how Jesus said to be filled we want to be filled with the Holy Spirit in other words we want the baptism the Holy Spirit so we have power to be a witness here's the transformation here's Peter before the baptism of the Holy Spirit in his heart he loved the Lord he he told the Lord and I don't believe Peter was lying he just didn't know his own weakness just like you and me Lord said I'm gonna be turned over I'm gonna be betrayed I'm gonna be put to death and you guys are all gonna leave me Peter said not me Lord they might leave but I won't I'm gonna follow you to death do you think he meant it but he didn't have the power he didn't have the power he had the desire but not the power and Jesus said no Peter he said before the crows twice you're gonna deny me three times and when you read that in John chapter 13 in the original text of the gospel there's no chapters there's no numbers by the scriptures it was just written so if you take all the numbers and chapters out and read the flow here's what Jesus said the end of John chapter 13 he's saying Peter you're going to deny me three times the very next verse John 14 verse 1 he's still talking to Peter don't let your heart be troubled in my father's house are many mansions I'm going to prepare a place for you that where I am you can be and when you put it together with the other gospel account he said in Peter I've prayed for you so your faith won't fail and when you when you return to me he said strengthen your brethren so that the awesomeness of God God sees our blunders he sees our fall in advance and said I've prayed for you I still have a place for you in heaven come on somebody [Applause] see if you read Revelation chapter 13 it says Jesus Christ was the lamb slain from the foundation of the world before God put Adam and Eve in the garden he saw what was coming he already had Jesus was already slain before Adam and Eve were created God said I got you covered it's not a license for sin it's redemption for sin amen now Jesus told us how to be filled with the Holy Spirit we we need God's heart and I'm going to talk with you about that in a moment and I come back to getting God's heart I believe that the most precious thing God could give any of us is his heart if God could make us feel in our heart what he feels what can be more precious than walking in sync with the Lord now I know that parts of my life or parts of your life may not line up but let's start with whatever we can and let's grow into it just because it's not perfect I'll take part of his heart and keep growing that's our calling so Jesus gonna tell us it's not going to get any better we don't need a book we have the book the it's not gonna get better wisdom than the words of Jesus he's telling us how to get so full of the Holy Spirit that God will give us everything we need to meet people's needs now before we read it I'm going to tell you in advance what it is when the believers prayed in Acts chapter 4 John and Peter were arrested they were threatened told not to preach in the name of Jesus anymore because they realized that when they did it miracles happen and then they then the Jews lost followers who became Christians they went back to their own and they prayed for boldness they didn't say fill me touch me hold me bless me I'm not saying that that's wrong I'm not saying that God in your devotional time I'm not saying that but that wasn't the primary focus they said Lord we want to obey your commandment to preach the gospel were scared they're persecuting us but we don't want to back down but we need boldness and that when they prayed they said Lord will you give us boldness and then they had an idea and I believe it came from the Holy Spirit said Lord stretch out your hand and do healings and miracles because that'll make us bold and the Bible says when they prayed the place was shaken and the all they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and great grace came on all of them they weren't praying give us great grace fill us they said give us boldness to get the job done give us what we need to get the job done God said I'm gonna fill you all with the Holy Spirit there's only one place in the Bible where the word great grace is used it's in in that chapter in response to their prayer says great knock grace great grace was on them all now what is Grace is divine enablement to do the will of God so God saw their heart they said God were weak were afraid were scared of persecution but we still want to obey will you give us boldness God said I will I'm gonna fill all of you with the Holy Spirit and put great grace on all of you that means every believer had divine enablement boldness to do the will of God come on somebody that's what happened to Peter he couldn't stand up to a Jewish yet a servant-girl you're one of his followers no I'm not yes you know I'm not the third time he started swearing I wonder if someone heard him and later when he was preaching brought it back to my heard you cussed before well people like to do that they like to dig up our past and throw it in our face he couldn't stand up to one servant girl when he just swore that he would go with Jesus to death but after he's full of the Holy Spirit he comes out of the Upper Room there's three thousand people from all different nations and he's bold and preaches to him to repent he tells him he preaches and they get so convicted they cry out what do we do he doesn't say everyone pray this prayer he said I've and I've done that but here's what he said he said repent every one of you and be baptized for the remission of sins and you'll receive the gift of the Holy Spirit he was bold 3,000 people got saved so now Jesus is gonna tell you and me how do we get filled with the Holy Spirit Luke chapter 11 verse 5 jesus said to them which of you shall have a friend go to him at midnight and say to him friend lend me three loaves for a friend of mine has come to me on his journey I have nothing to set before him okay let's here's the picture it's midnight someone wakes you up they said hey friend I'm on a journey with my family we're all hungry can you give us some food you have nothing to give them you can be stingy you can say no I don't sorry and shut the door some people do that or your heart can say I want to help you but I don't have anything wait and you go to your neighbor and you wake your neighbor up and your neighbors stingy your name he goes I'm already in bed leave me alone and you said no I'm not gonna leave you alone because I care about these people it's midnight they're home and you keep knocking and he says go away we're in bed you said no I won't go away that's what Jesus said he keeps persisting it says he will say don't trouble me the door shot my children been with me I can't rise but I say to you though he will not rise and give him because he's his friend yet because of his persistence he'll rise and give him the watch as many as he needs he'll give you as much as you need to give away how many are seeing this now Jesus interprets it he said so I say to you ask it'll be given to you the word is continuing tense in the Greek it means cultivate a lifestyle of asking and receiving and asking keep asking receiving keep asking in other words it's a continuous don't not a one-off ask you stay before the Lord Lord I need to be filled I need to be filled everyone that asked receive everyone seeks finds new moon knocks it will be open for what son asks for bread and a father will give him a stone or he asked for a fish a father give him a serpent or you asked for an egg you know give him a scorpion now listen here's Jesus interpretation of his own parable if you then being evil know how to give good gifts to your children how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him so the everything you need to help your neighbor is the Holy Spirit to those who ask him so now Jesus just told us how to get full of the Holy Spirit when we can I can you can and we've probably all done it both ways we can see in need and think oh that's beyond me as what can I do shut the door and go to bed there's a need whatever or we cannot even see the needs I can be so consumed with my own life I don't see any needs us for no more but it's the the start of the process that ended up with the man getting all the bread he needed to give to the guy at midnight who was starving was he saw the need and he decided he wanted to get involved he wanted to be involved in meeting it see why does the holy spirit come in our life here's why the Holy Spirit came and rested on Jesus Luke 4:18 he said the Spirit of the Lord is upon me for he's anointed me to bring good news to poor people to heal broken hearts to make blind people see to open prison doors now you look at all those every one of those is help people so the way to get full of the Holy Spirit is say Lord now this parable is exactly what the Lord told Bobby Connor in his prophetic experience come to me and get my heart from my hand come to me and get my heart from my hand and he said now the way to get more filled is get his heart and give it away now if I'm not even trying now I know it's a process and we're scared I'm afraid to I feel awkward passing out a tract pray for boldness you know there's lots of ways we can all share Christ everybody has a testimony when the demoniac was of gadarenes was delivered from demons and he's found in his right mind he wanted to follow Jesus here's what Jesus instructions were he made him that demoniac he woke up one day demon possessed with a legion he went bed that night dressed as an evangelist he was naked cutting himself with stones demon possessed living in the graveyard when he went to bed at night he was clothed he was an evangelist that's what happened one day here's Jesus instructions to the Angeles he sent into a town called Decapolis I've been there it means ten villages Jack rose and I walked through Decapolis we climbed up on the buildings the ruins he said go back into the capless those ten towns here's his instructions already tell everybody how good God's been to you and we can all do that you can goat when I go to El Pollo Loco like I did yesterday and you can do that everybody can do this you're paying for your thing ask the person behind the register how's your day going just smile say how's your day going and most of the time I do this all the time people say good how about you how's your day going and there's your opening said oh I'm excited about the Lord elated our church got healed she needed surgery but God healed her shoulder really yeah you want to know more sure here read this at your break so we can all do that we can all do that everybody can tell how good god is really my aunt's what she needs healing bring her to church well then no enter with oil well finally there'll be lots of people when lay hands on her where was I getting full of the Holy Spirit yes we have to get God's heart you heard me say this before and I'm I'm praying this for my own self I'm praying it for our body I'm praying that God will do something supernatural in our hearts mine yours all of us that God will cause his heart to be made known to us on a greater level and our hearts will start being moved like never before about the things God's moved about I'm praying for that to happen I'm praying for that I'm gonna ask you if you're willing to please start praying that for yourself because if we start praying for God's heart if we come to him ask him for his heart he'll give us his heart now the way we're gonna win the harvest is with his heart we have to have his heart it's not a formula or doctorate it's his heart and when we have his heart the supernatural flows the supernatural flows when we have his heart I want to give an example of let me let me back up and I'll tell you a story and then I'll give you I'll tell you two stories all right brothers say do told me about a man that mentored him forty years ago when he was young he was a very saintly minister in India and brother said do used to be an assistant and serve him like Elijah served Elijah and he said I learned a lot from this saintly man of God and he moved in the gifts of the Holy Spirit and visions and healings powerfully and he shared with brother said to and brother said who shared with me how he came to the place where God just said anointed him with all the gifts of the Holy Spirit he had been praying very similar to dgs Denikin and he'd been praying for a long time Lord and how long maybe weeks Lord I need all the gifts of the Holy Spirit my I just interject here I would to God I hope that everybody here is praying like that and if you're not ask yourself why aren't you why aren't we asking God give me all the gifts we should want the gifts because gifts are keys a word of knowledge opens a prison door a healing can heal a broken heart well a gift of the Holy Spirit can take someone out of darkness into the kingdom so we should all be praying fill me with the gifts amen and if you're not please repent and start asking God for the gifts and don't be full of the sin of unbelief God wants to give us the gifts but here's what he said he prayed and prayed lord I want all the gifts I want the gifts of the Holy Spirit and then he had an experience after praying like this he was actually taken up in the spirit before the Lord in heaven the Lord said to him what do you want he said do you want the gifts or do my love he said Lord I need the gifts I need the gifts for my ministry to help people the Lord asked him again he said do you want the gifts or do you want my love he said lord I need the gifts then the Lord asked him a third time this is true story he said the third time he started feeling really awkward it felt like I I don't think I'm doing this right so he just thought about it he said lord I want your love the Lord smiled and said you asked wisely because all my gifts are hidden inside my love he said if you'll ask me to fill you with my love all the gifts will start flowing okay that's the truth now let me explain there's I can give a scripture I don't know if I have enough time or if you're willing to go but I can show you from the scripture where the gifts of the Spirit manifest when love increases in us it's found in Philippians chapter 1 verse 9 10 and 11 Paul is praying he said this I pray that your love would abound more and more in knowledge and discernment those are supernatural it's the word of knowledge and discernment that your your love would abound more and more in knowledge and discernment that you may approve the things that are excellent that's a discernment now when I'm a critical spirit masquerades is wisdom but it's from the dark side a fault-finding spirit takes pride it's sort of self-exalting sort of look down your nose a little bit because you can see false it's a demonic thing it's not from the Lord the discernment that comes to the heart of the lord could see a pile of rubbish and go right through it and see some Jam inside there you can see someone whose life is all messed up and see past all the faults and go oh I still see Christ in there so he said that the discernment the knowledge and discernment is a result of love increasing in us so it says you can have knowledge in discernment and approve the things that are excellent that's the opposite of find fault so we can all see the faults of everyone in front of us right but the holy spirit can look past that and say well I see something awesome in you you have a heart of compassion everyone thinks all that person is this or that well I see a gem inside there so he said you can approve what's excellent then it says you can be sincere and without offence as our love grows we become offense proof every time I feel my heart starting to get offended it's a red flag to me of immature love in my heart and when I recognize it I try to stop back up repent and ask the Holy Spirit to help me change says I won't be offended but I'll grow in love so anyway the love will cause the gifts to manifest here's an example of it what happened to me I'll try to close with this this is talking about getting God's heart some have you ever heard this some of it haven't so I'll repeat it again this happened before I was married I was still single and lived in Palm Desert across the street from where I grew up there's a family the Phillips family they were friends with us I went we went to school together they had a live-in nanny was not related to them by blood but was like a family member they'd like inherited her from the dr. Phillips from his father when they moved from Pennsylvania she was slight she was what they call high function mentally so if you're around her you may not even know that she was mentally slow unless you're talked to her for five or ten minutes she's a very pleasant kind lady she was then a live-in nanny and I love Danny she's the older lady when I was in high school she was probably in their 60s and uh now fast-forward I'm in my early 20s I'm a relatively new Christian one night I'm awakened in in know at this time in my life in my 20s I never woke up in the middle of the night I never woke up in the middle night until I got married we had kids does anybody remember those days I'd go to sleep and I would not wake up until it was morning so this I don't get up in the middle that but this this time in the middle of the night I would guess it was 2:00 in the morning I I found myself sitting straight up in bed and what woke me up was hearing the words gushing out of my heart it was coming out of my spirit it bypassed my mind I heard myself and that's when my mind kicked in here's what I was saying oh god keep Annie alive Oh God keep Annie alive Lord don't let her die of a heart attack Lord keep her alive until she gets saved Lord don't let her go to hell keep her alive Lord keep her alive Oh God keep her alive don't let her die of a heart attack Lord I'm not exaggerating that's how I was praying with tongues and English groaning and crying with tears and then the burden lifted and just like that I fell asleep I went bang out I forgot the whole experience until after I got up got the shower got my breakfast was going out the door to work and then I remembered it I said wow what was that that was the Lord now this is before cellphones you actually had to go back in your house and pick up a phone back in the house the phone was on the wall remember those you dial like this Rylee some of you don't even know what that is like dying like that today it's anyway so I'm dyin I still remember hi darling hi Annie how you doing are you okay I couldn't sleep last night I had real bad pain in my chest and all the way down my arm it hurts so bad I was crying I was tossing and turning and my chest hurt so bad but she said I don't know what happened but somewhere in the middle of the night it just all went away it's gone now and I feel good now come on somebody now a doctor will tell you that pain in the chest and down your arm is a classic sign of a heart attack about to strike now now please listen to this let's say analyze this well I'll try to close with this I knew that what happened to me was a holy thing I knew was awesome and I thought to myself God your God why would God need me to ask him to do what he already wants to do to save her from dying and going to hell the scripture psalm 116 verse 15 the heavens belong to the Lord but the earth he's given to the sons of men God needs us to ask him for mercy for him to release it in the earth he's given authority to men you say is that biblical yes it is read Ezekiel 22 God said the people the land are committing abominations the priests are corrupt the prophets are corrupt the princes are corrupt the people are corrupt God said my fury his indignation was being aroused so here's the heart of God God said he was about to release justice and here's God he said so I looked for a man among the would stand in the gap and make up a wall before me so that I wouldn't destroy the people God hate need somebody on earth to stand in the gap and say Lord save our high school Lord save our city Lord save my neighbor save my brother save our schools Lord and when we do it that's why the Bible says the Lord delights in the prayer of the upright God's waiting for that because when he gets that he can do what he wants now watch this now the Holy Spirit is scanning everything he's monitoring he sees she's about to slip into eternity lost his heart is like I don't want any to die I've got to have prayer if someone doesn't pray for her she's gonna die so God starts looking I asked the Lord Lord why I said Lord there's a million people not that I wasn't complaining I was glad God used me to pray for Annie but I said Lord why did you use me why I just want to know why because I'd like it to happen more often here's what he said because I know that you loved her he said your heart agreed with my heart I'm not gonna come and force prayers through a heart that doesn't care I'm gonna look for a heart that agrees with my heart so now that love that I had for Annie came from him in the first place Romans 5:5 says the love of God is poured into our heart by the Holy Spirit now we can be calloused and we can be absorbed with our own life so much that the love of God for lost is not there then if it's not there how can God pray through us if it's not there in the heart then our prayers become a duty and ABBA pray but when you love you get to pray so the first thing I said he said the Holy Spirit it wasn't in words it was in and knowing that in word knowing voice he said I I prayed through you he didn't even ask me he knew that I already agreed with him I don't want any to die he said I prayed through you because you loved her now look what happened because God had put love in my heart for her I always loved Annie and my wife and I got to go and share the gospel with her and love on her she lived for years they're not amazing because love was in my heart and the Holy Spirit moved me to pray for her here's what happened what came out of my mouth word of knowledge and wisdom knowledge and wisdom that she was about to die of a heart attack and the wisdom that's a word of wisdom and knowledge together don't let her die keep her alive that's the word of wisdom so knowledge and wisdom came out there's this there's that that's a flippin 1:9 their love would abound more and more in knowledge and discernment so God caused the knowledge that she was about to die and the wisdom to pray that she would stay alive and get saved okay that resulted in a supernatural healing miracle of her heart and blood vessels no heart attack and she lived for years so where did the supernatural come from love so now when it comes to reaping the harvest what do we need we need to go to the Lord relentlessly and don't give up and say Lord fill my heart with your love I want your love I want to love the teenagers I want to love the Millennials I want to love the lost city kids of Lord and if we if God answers that prayer of love everything else will be set in motion we go to the Lord and get his heart and we'll be able to win the harvest come on giving praise let me just say this because I'm just because I'm saying this doesn't mean that I have it all I know that I have a little bit little bit of his heart I'm asking the Lord for me and when I pray I'm including everybody in our body I want you to know you're getting prayed for all the time day after day and I'm praying that God will give us his heart there's nothing more precious than a God to put his heart God put his heart I'm never talking to Jack in the 80s and listening to the heart of God beating a jack for missions it's the Lord that comes from the Lord God puts a part of his heart none of us can handle all of it he God gives us little pieces of his heart but whatever he gives it it's the most precious thing we could ever have it's the most precious thing we could ever have is to care about what Jesus cares about so let's pray Lord we ask you to do that for us Lord here here we are Lord we want to have room in our hearts I know for myself I don't want my heart to be so occupied with life and ministry and all that I it there's no room left to care about what you want me to care about Lord we asked you to give us baptisms of the love of God just like you gave brother sad news mentor you filled him with your love and all your power followed Lord I pray that you'll do that work in our lives we'll even love those that persecute us we'll love those that backstabbers we'll love those that hurt us Lord we want our hearts to love the exact same way you do Lord we need your power Lord you said tarry until your power comes Lord we need the baptisms of the Holy Spirit Lord we're asking you we're gonna keep asking it till this building shakes Lord we need miracles we need words of knowledge we need prophecies Lord we're asking you to give us the keys to open prison doors Lord I pray that you'll pour out on this body prophetic gifts come on lord I ask you to pour out working of miracles faith healing words of knowledge words of wisdom prophesy Lord but give us your heart and then Lord give us the keys of the gifts of the Holy Spirit that we could partake in fishing being fishers of men Lord would you transition us would you help our body grow into this I you know we may stumble and fumble but I'm gonna stumble and fumble in the right direction I may not do it smoothly or do everything right but I'm gonna go in the right direction Lord will you help our body Lord to move into this lord I pray that Lord they'll be visitations of your love that will break into our hearts change the way we see people change the way we see our city change the way we see our schools and our neighbors Oh God God fill us with your love bring us into union with you are you ready for it it'll be an inconvenience it'll be an inconvenience it'll be an inconvenience God Oh Lord let your heart break into us that our lives would be disrupted in your will and your heart would begin to manifest Lord you purchased us with your own blood for yourself not for our own lives we're not here to get what we want Lord we want to be vessels of your love help us Lord in the name of Jesus if you agree with that same in this all stand to our feet and give the Lord praise [Music]

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Published: Sun Nov 03 2019