Encounter Night // May 21st, 2021

oh foreign foreign foreign yes my [Music] jesus when he is high and lifted up he starts drawing people listen jesus did not come to do difficult things he came to do impossible things we're here for the presence of god we're here for whatever god wants to give us we're here for the oil of healing we're here for the oil of deliverance we're here for the oil of the baptism of fire [Music] god's going to come into the building and he's going to put pressure on us why not to not to bring condemnation to us not to make us feel bad but so that we can prepare ourselves to host the next level of glory jesus is not the pinnacle to attain he is the foundation in which your life begins he is the shoulders that you stand upon the victory he gained you begin with [Applause] [Applause] [Music] me too i'm so excited i'm just super honored that you guys would come and worship with us if we have met before my name is brett i'm the family pastor here at the gathering place church and if this is your first encounter i just want to let you know what you can expect this night is all about going after the lord with everything that we have and so we just want to encourage you to worship freely whatever your authentic expression of worship is we say yes to that so if you want to jump around you can do that if you want to hit your knees you can do that if you want to do the worm like pastor matt does you're more than welcome to do that whatever your authentic expression of worship is that's what we want to go for tonight and i just want to tell you guys as i was praying about tonight i have become fully convinced that there are going to be some life-changing moments that happen in this room tonight i think that if you're in this room and you're facing an impossible situation if you're looking at a wall or a mountain that seems insurmountable you're in the perfect place to be tonight does anybody believe that in the room amen i'm going to read some scripture we're going to come out of acts 16 and this one paul and silas are in prison it says about midnight paul and silas were praying and they were singing hymns to god and the other prisoners were listening to him suddenly there was such a violent earthquake that the foundations of the prison were shaken at once all the prison doors flew open and everyone's chains came loose is that good news that's good news tonight here's the revelation the lord gave him about this scripture is paul and silas weren't focusing on the prison walls around them they weren't focusing on the chains that were on their wrist they lifted up their eyes and they looked at the face of jesus and they worshipped him out of adoration and out of love and as a side effect the chains had to fall and the prison doors had to fling wide open they didn't have a chance and here's something i want to encourage you with tonight i know that many people are in here and you've got chains on your wrist maybe you're suffering with addiction maybe there's a sickness maybe there's an issue in your family or maybe you feel like you're in prison also i believe that some of you guys have family members that you've been praying for interceding for going in the gap before here's the cool thing about this scripture it wasn't just paul and silas who had their doors open and their chains fall off the wrists it was everyone else in the prison with them and so what i'm believing tonight is this night is so much larger than this just the people in the room i'm believing tonight that as we worship and as we look up at the face of jesus the people in our families the people in our schools the people in our city the chains are gonna fall off and the prison doors are gonna fling wide open and the king of glory is gonna step into our situation how many believe that tonight well let's just go to the lord in prayer jesus we love you just engage the lord right now jesus we love you we are here for you because we are fully in love with you we're head over heels god god we thank you for who you are for what you've done for us we called to memory that time were you stuck without a hope without a future and you stepped into our situation and you pulled us up so we could see you face to face god we thank you holy spirit you're stepping in the room you're coming to do impossible things right now you're coming to break chains you're coming to fling wide prison doors lord we yield this service to you we throw our plans out the window and holy spirit we truly invite you to come and do whatever it is that you want to do in this moment we just make our hearts available right now we just make a conscious decision to make our heart available to whatever you want to do tonight we honor you lord we bless you when we praise you in jesus name and everybody said it good let's worship together man just lift your hands to heaven tonight i just feel the peace of the lord in the room already the sweet presence of the almighty [Music] deliverance the exitus of my heart you found me you free me held back the waters for my release [Music] i [Music] you [Music] [Applause] the cloud by day is a sign that you are with me the fire by night is the guiding light to my feet [Music] hallelujah [Music] you're the kind of fights for me royal [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh [Music] [Music] [Music] is [Music] and now i will not forget to die [Music] of [Music] lord of every victory hallelujah [Music] hallelujah you have torn apart the sea you have led me through the deep [Music] hallelujah [Music] all this joy in the house tonight there's freedom in the house tonight [Music] you [Music] [Music] [Music] this swallowed up [Music] hallelujah [Music] [Music] oh i just sense the joy of salvation being made brand new again [Music] oh the joy of salvation the joy of freedom in jesus oh we rejoice in our freedom [Music] we rejoice in our freedom oh can you feel that joy rising up in your heart [Music] once was lost but now i'm found let it never get old that you saved us that you saved us when we couldn't reach you you reached us [Music] lord [Music] hallelujah [Music] hallelujah how could we just lift our voice and sing hallelujah [Music] hallelujah [Music] [Music] hallelujah [Music] so so you stopped you stepped into my egypt you took me by the hand you let me out in freedom into the promised land now i will not forget to god i'll sing of all you've done [Music] you marched me out in freedom into the promised land now i will not forget you god i'll sing with all you've done death is swallowed up forever [Music] [Music] [Music] all my words fall short i've got nothing to do [Music] how could i express all my gratitude i could sing these songs as i often do but every song must end [Music] praise you again and again cause [Music] i know it's not much except for a heart singing [Music] i've got one response i will worship you praise you again and again [Music] except for a heart singing so come on my soul don't you get shy on me lift up your soul you've got a inside of those laws get up and praise the lord come on my soul don't you get shy on me lift up your soul cause you've got a lying inside of those lungs get up and praise the lord on my soul don't you get shy of me lift up your sight you've got a lion inside of those get up and praise the lord come on my soul don't you get shy of me get up and praise the lord [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] is i know it's not much but i'm nothing else fit for you except for a heart singing [Music] you oh we worship you jesus [Music] jesus [Music] yes [Music] [Applause] me [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] don't you get shy of me lift up your [Music] songs [Music] the lord [Music] [Music] oh [Music] just let it rise [Music] oh you're worthy of all the honor all the praises [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] oh [Music] i am [Music] [Music] oh [Music] always [Music] do [Music] come on don't you get shy of me lift up your soul you've got a lie inside of those lungs get up and praise the lord [Music] [Music] don't you get shy on me you lift up yours you've got a lying inside of those get up and praise the lord [Music] get up and praise the lord come on my soul don't you get shy of me lift up your song cause you've got a lion inside of those don't you get shot with me get up and play [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] so [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] awaken my soul [Music] awake my soul to praise the lord awake my soul wake my soul to praise the lord to praise the lord awake awake my soul [Music] wake my soul to praise the lord to praise the lord [Music] oh oh make my soul awake my soul to praise the lord to praise the lord owing my soul awake my soul to praise the lord to praise the lord away my soul awaken my soul to praise the lord to praise the lord and wake my soul awake my soul awake my soul to praise the lord [Music] [Applause] oh wake my soul [Music] [Applause] oh to praise the lord to praise the lord awake my soul wake my soul to praise the lord [Music] awake my soul [Music] to praise the lord speaking to lift up your own song to him tonight your own song of worship straight from your heart to his just begin to lift up a voice [Music] well that's it [Applause] that's it it's that song to the lord [Music] worthy oh in a clear way [Music] oh [Music] is [Music] [Applause] worthy worthy worthy is the lord we declare worthy worthy worthy worthy is the lord so worthy to receive all glory and honor and [Music] worthy praise is the lord [Music] awake my soul awake my soul to praise the lord [Music] to praise awake my soul awake my soul to praise the lord [Music] awake my soul awake my soul to praise the lord [Music] do [Music] we find our freedom in your presence we find our life jesus [Music] we find our freedom right here with you [Music] i put off all my heaviness and put on this garment of praise you turned my morning into dancing you turned the night in the day i put off all my heaviness and i put on this garment of praise you turned my morning into dancing you turned the night in the day i put off all my heaviness [Music] [Music] all my heaviness [Music] today [Music] i put on all my [Music] all my happiness come on just celebrate [Music] i put off all my heaviness [Music] [Music] i put off all my said i put on this garment of phrase you turned my morning into dancing you turned you put off all my heaviness then put it on you turn come on if that's you i just want you to begin to dance [Applause] we're just gonna begin to celebrate what the lord has done [Music] all right let's go [Music] so [Music] oh come on god's breaking something tonight he's breaking up [Music] heaviness [Music] next thing i put off pull put off all my [Music] put happiness all my happiness [Applause] [Music] today [Music] put us i pull it off [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] is the serious business of the kingdom oh joy is the serious business of the kingdom yes it is old joy it's the serious business of the kingdom oh joy is the serious business of the kingdom can we just say that together joy is the serious business of the kingdom yes it is joy is the serious business of the kingdom [Music] sing that one more time i put off [Music] [Music] yes [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] um [Music] [Music] to [Music] me [Music] [Music] [Music] so [Music] [Music] there [Music] let it rain [Music] oh [Music] [Music] me let it rain [Music] foreign [Music] let it reduce [Music] let it rain [Music] is let it rain [Music] let it rain [Music] is [Music] ready [Music] oh [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] hey we cry [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] oh [Music] just open your hands if you feel comfortable doing that just posture yourself in his presence tonight you don't need to try hard you don't need to strive the king's in the room amen everybody jesus christ laid down his life to open up heaven for us jesus christ lay down his life to open up heaven the resources of heaven his blood purchased for us the resources of heaven [Music] while we were worshiping i saw some very large mountains [Music] that appeared to be obstacles i believe that there was there's some mountains in the room tonight that the lord's gonna move i actually saw a picture of the mountains exploding as if somebody put dynamite within the mountains and they just exploded they became rubble so if you're here tonight and maybe you walk in the room with a mountain whether that be a physical mountain a mountain mountain of the soul maybe a mountain of the mind a relationship thing going on maybe a financial thing going on whatever that mountain might be i think the lord wants to remove some mountains and i don't think it's going to be hard so once you just posture yourself and just if that if that mountain has a name you know what that name is and i want you to just speak to that mountain whatever it is and say in jesus name i command you to leave in jesus name i command you mountain be thrown into the sea be thrown into the sea i wouldn't be a bit surprised i wouldn't be a bit surprised if things are already happening right now in the name of jesus [Music] if bodies are being healed if souls are being healed relationships are being restored and so father we thank you so much for sending jesus christ thank you for sending him on a rescue mission thank you for sending him to save to save us from our sins to open up heaven for us for eternity what a great gift we praise you god for the hope that we have in salvation [Music] but we thank you for hoping for him opening up heaven while we're here open up the access the windows the floodgates of heaven [Music] it is to his glory to the glory of jesus that we reach up tonight and that we pull down those resources resources of healing of deliverance of wholeness of joy we thank you god for destroying anxiety and fear and depression even as we worship it was destroyed we thank you for destroying mountains hopeless situations have been destroyed just through worship it's amazing what happens when we fix our eyes on you so we thank you god and we praise you we praise you in advance [Music] for everything you've done and for everything that you're going to do it's in the mighty name of jesus that we pray and everybody said it good amen won't you praise him one more time amen amen amen who's happy to be at church tonight say me yeah me too me too it's good to see our family and friends in the house we got a lot of guests in the house hey gather place family we want you welcome all the guests that are here tonight want to do that thank you so much for being here we're going to jump right in to the word of god we'll we'll uh won't we uh do this won't we just say hey to a few folks around just get some high fives get some hugs tell somebody they look good [Music] so [Music] [Music] amen was good to see everybody tonight who enjoyed worship what you once you let our worship team know how much you appreciate them [Applause] such a serious business worship is it's so good it's hard to keep a straight face when he's telling me that serious business do you remember when you do you remember trying to keep a serious face in church when your mama was getting onto you and the only thing that you could do is laugh you remember that am i the only one that ever went to church and got huh okay all right once you open your bibles to genesis chapter 7 and john chapter 7. i want to start by reading some testimonies can i read some testimonies i think it's really important that we do that so these some of these are actually six months to eight months old but i just went through and i dug some out today some of them were recent but the the date on the testimony never expires did you hear what i said the date on the testimony never expires meaning that whatever testimony i read whatever testimony i broadcast the lord is always willing this is his words he's always willing to repeat it again it the testimony of jesus is the spirit of prophecy whenever we talk about the things that jesus has done it releases into the atmosphere the capacity for him to repeat the miracle that's what prophecy is it changes current and future realities so when we talk about the things that jesus has done it actually it's very it's very common that he does it again in our very myths and so for those that are here for those that are watching online we've we've learned i've really learned over the past year and a half that god is not limited to just the space in which we are in uh especially in the last year and a half we've been broadcasting probably more people online than we've ever have and we'll release the word of knowledge or we'll share a testimony and we may not see something happen in the room but we get feedback throughout the week hey when you said that the spirit of god came in my living room and i was healed of that situation and so and what we're even seeing is that it's not people just watching live it's people that are watching it later we receive testimonies from people that watched messages or services from two two years ago we talked about something i got healed in the moment isn't that crazy aren't you glad that god is not limited to time and space me too so let me read some testimonies he says i came in this person said i came in with stabbing pain in my back a word of knowledge was called out that was very specific the word of knowledge was right side above your hip and as soon as the word of knowledge was spoken the specific back pain that i had which was that left no one prayed i didn't stand up i didn't step forward i didn't come forward it just immediately went as the word of knowledge was given that's it i think it's awesome that we can just talk about something that god wants to do and before we even have a chance to reach up or reach out or claim it he just does it as faith just enters the environment that's how powerful faith is another one says a man with kidney and liver issues a word of knowledge was given about kidneys and my dad this is the person writing about his dad my dad said a warm sensation went down his left side with his left kidney issue and after the sensation had left his kidneys were completely healed in jesus name someone came in with a bad stomach pain had it all weak um the a word of knowledge was given by one of our prayer partners about stomach pain the person was instantly killed again with this these are all without even coming forward lady with nerve pain uh had had been dealing with nerve pain for a while every time we would pray for an area this is this was actually uh testimony given by the prayer partner or the prayer team member the lady was praying every time we would pray for a specific area where the nerve pain was it would move to a different part of the body we had to chase it around god began to download words of knowledge and we were able it was actually deliverance that took place this was not just a pain this was a demonic spirit that was tormenting this lady after we got to the root of an inner healing issue she was freed and all the pain left her her body instantly another lady had four or five surgeries on her spine and back area she said she she never goes without pain her pain level was constantly at a three to five out of ten she had a knot of some sort um at the top of her spine prayer team member laid hands on it and it actually moved out from under her hand she prayed again and the deformed area was um just it just dissolved immediately she immediately said her pain level was now it is zero she began to lift her arms and jump something that she was not been able to do in five years she said she said i've always wanted to put my hair in a ponytail i can now do that she couldn't lift her hands behind her head sometimes it's the small things that really matter amen a ponytail is a big deal it's hot out here y'all all right one lady with a generative degenerative disc disorder had all the pain leave her back and fire which she described as fire that was excruciating went up and down her back when the fire went away um all of her pain was gone in jesus name sometimes we'll put up for the with a fire for a minute if it means getting rid of the pain amen everybody a lady with redness and itching and uh some type of uh rash due to food allergies we actually saw the redness and the bumps leave in front of us as we pray intense pain in the left ovaries this person is believing in complete healing this person a word of knowledge was given for polycystic ovaries they laid their hands upon themselves nobody else laid hands on them they laid their hands on themselves immediately ovaries ceased hurting one god this is a testament i love this one i shared this one a lot one guy his this was his testimony i got touched by god and fell down i love that people often ask me why do people fall down and my answer is so simple because they can't stand up because i can't stand up somebody came up to me one time and said i think some of these people are faking when they fall down i said what do you mean by that i said i think they fall down on purpose i said really i said how do you know that he says i just feel it i told him a story i don't think he liked it but i told him a story i said when when my kids were little sometimes they would fake being asleep in my arms so that i would hold them longer and i never got upset i never said oh wake up you faker i was actually touched by the fact that they wanted to remain judgy judgers we are sometimes the things that make us uncomfortable flatter the lord i'm not promoting faking by any means but i don't know why in the world we would get so upset about someone laying in the lord's presence whether it be voluntary or involuntary whatever is going on in those moments is not between me and that person or even me and god it's between that person and god and it whether it be the flesh or whether it be god or whether it be demonic my response should always be the same god whatever you're doing more more lord touch them touch them touch them so this guy fell down and he had never done that before in fact he said i was afraid to fall down i saw people falling down and i didn't want to come up there because people were falling down and i've got a bad back i thought it might make it worse but my wife tricked me into coming up there talking about the prayer line because she said i just want you to come up there and stand with me while i get prayer little bait and switch she's a genius she said as i was standing there while she was being prayed for my back got hot and i fell down and when i got back up my back wasn't hurting anymore he didn't even come for prayer i love it one lady had the spirit of heaviness and anxiety god delivered her of that she received joy also had a young boy receive his prayer language so this happens frequently now this one's been about six months ago and he was so excited that he received tongues some of his friends were confused and they asked what's the purpose of that and if you don't know what the purpose of that is i really challenge you to look in scripture because it it's it's pretty clear scripture tells us that none of god's gifts are just for nothing they all accomplish a great purpose god doesn't do things just to do them they all have a great purpose and so um he came up to me afterwards and he said they're asking me what the purpose of this is can you help me with that he said i like it but i would like to know what it's doing and i said man your prayer language you talking to the lord that way it's it's helping you get closer to god is what scripture tells us it's when you're praying that way you're actually praying the perfect will of god that's what scripture says has i asked him i said have you ever prayed in english and guessed whether or not this is what god he said all the time i said well when you pray this this way you're 100 guaranteed that you're praying what god wants you to pray he said why shouldn't i just pray like that all the time i said that's a good question i said well here's the answer though because the apostle paul who's a leader in the church said that you need to pray in english and you need to pray in tongues sometimes you need to pray in english so that your mind is involved he wants your mind to be involved but when you don't know what you should pray pray in the spirit pray in the spirit so now you've got two you got two bullets to go after you've got multiple weapons and um and so after i told him some of those things talked about the gift of tongues he was he was so excited that he had received that and he came back with two of his friends and he said they want it too and god released their prayer language are they good amen so powerful the apostle paul the apostle paul said that i wish that you all speak in tongues oh if i say all you know what that means in the greek everybody everybody say everybody it means everybody he said i wish that you everybody speak in tongues but if that bothers you more so i wish that you prophesy i wish that you use your mouth to edify exhort to lift up and to encourage there's a story actually a pastor friend of mine tells the story he had a church out in colorado springs which is colorado springs is perk population more witchcraft warlocks covens in colorado specifically colorado springs than any other part of the us and he said that a warlock came into their church with the assignment to curse what was going on but got saved accidentally got saved filled with the spirit and god radically began to move this man the man is now a pastor he planted he planted a church but this pastor wanted to interview him and he wanted reconnaissance he wanted information he said you worked for the other team for a long time tell me what what what is one of the things that the spirit of darkness is concerned about as it pertains to church and he said unfortunately he said not much but one thing that the spirit of darkness can't stand is when a christian prays in tongues he said we actually can see what is being accomplished when christians pray in tongues so why in the world do you think that satan works overtime to convince christians that it's not necessary that it's foolish that it's even of the devil it's because the devil don't want you to do it so we've had a lot of people release the prayer language to speak in tongues uh we had a lady are you bored okay i'll keep going uh we have ladies suffering from ms essentially wheelchair bound we prayed she fell under the power of god heath's in session came through her legs and then she stood up and took care of several unassisted steps in jesus name many filled with baptisms of the holy spirit man i just i saw so many of those filled with the spirit speaking in tongues it's not the only sign of being filled with spirit you know actually with the number one sign of being filled with the spirit is in scripture is the person testified they were filled with the spirit and then they boldly proclaimed their story that's the number one sign of speaking in tongues is the testimony we've had many healed from um emotional things it seems to be this seems to be a house of deliverance god uses this this house to deliver people from evil oppressive spirits had a guy come up to me afterwards to search one day and say you know i just don't believe that christians can be oppressed or possessed by the devil i said well that's not going to change reality whether you believe it or not you're looking can i give you a hint your personal theology does not change reality so what you believe to be true or don't believe to be true just because you don't believe it doesn't mean the devil doesn't do it how do you know that because i've seen a lot of christians delivered myself being one of them i was gonna mention the sermon i got delivered this morning this morning and here i am teaching you spirit spirit of bitterness was lighting me up and i knew i knew that i would be absolutely worthless tonight if i continued to let him kick my tail so i went to my small group and i said i confess i have partnered with the spirit of bitterness all week and i'm done with him and i need him i need him gone so i confess my sins on one to another and the prayers of my brothers and sisters delivered me i was delivered i felt it come off my back and i was saved this morning y'all i didn't get unsaved and then bitterness got me i've been saved all week so we've seen a lot of people delivered of stuff and listen if you're being if you're being if you're being tormented by sleeplessness and anxiety and fear and depression and bitterness and unforgiveness you don't have to leave tonight with those with those with those partners hanging out with you you can get delivered this weekend is pentecost sunday and we're going to celebrate the moment when the spirit of god invaded the earth and on pentecost one of the things that god did is he opened the door for revival for revival now when i say revival because i get asked that question a lot what is revival and if i were to ask everybody in the room i'm getting to the sermon now if i were to ask everybody in the room what is revival i would probably get this many different answers it's a word that we sing about it's a word that we talk about we have t-shirts that say revival god of revival i am revival he is revival she is revival we are revival revival so let me start with what revival is not revival is not an event it's not a church meeting it's not a conference it's not a special gathering it's not a friday night saturday night sunday night sunday night for eight consecutive years it's not an event that's not what revival is even though we call them revival services the event is not revival in the same way that this is not the church this building is not the church this event is not the church we are the church so revival is not an event revival is not a it's it's not even a brief visitation of the lord because sometimes we revival broke out have you ever heard that before revival broke out what do you mean god showed up whoa did he stay now the next week it was as dull as it was the previous three weeks okay that's not revival that was a visitation of the lord praise him for that visitation we want him to come we want him to show up we want him to be magnified we want him to be glorified we want him to be worshiped and when he is worshiped and he does things praise god praise god revival is when the presence of god comes in such a way that business as usual is disrupted and business as usual is redefined because all of the sudden he has shown up and he now has control of the room revival at its core is the dynamic overt demonstration of the raw power and love of god it is revival is textbook new testament christianity as defined by jesus seen in the first church and prophesied about for the latter church that's what revival is it is jesus himself being unveiled and revealed in and through the person of the holy spirit and by the power of the holy spirit it is oh i feel the lord you feel the lord it is a good friend of mine pastor todd smith says this he says revival is a divine visitation from god that results in a sustained habitation of god in his glory he comes and he stays revival uh oh confronts old wineskins revival challenges religious traditions revival irritates those who are more in love with church and church programming than they are in love with god and people they hate revival revival calls the backslidden to repentance revival calls the sinners home revival calls the demons out revival calls the hungry to come and eat more it is a continuous river of the holy spirit being poured out upon a people it involves not just the saved but the entire city revival contained to a church in a church building is not true revival because true revival cannot be contained by the walls of a church true revival flows not from a building true revival flows from a people revival effects cities countries states regions nations revival summons people to come and see but if people don't come and see revival goes out and demonstrates revival sets off every alarm in hell every one of them [Applause] revival should be the norm not the exception to the rule so why isn't revival the norm if heaven is not locked up then nor is revival if god has not withheld the resources of heaven if he has not withheld his spirit and he has not then he is also has not withheld revival from god's perspective from god's word from god's vantage point the great last days revival began on the day of pentecost the day that we celebrate this weekend that's when revival began heavy rain was poured out and has been pouring out since that day heaven has not withheld its outpouring since pentecost we haven't gone through seasons where the floodgates shut and then open shut and then open what was opened in acts chapter 2 has remained open he has not changed his mind there's not a different strategy it's opened it's always been open we're not waiting revival we're not waiting on god to send something else or send something new he's already sent him in his name is holy spirit even when we pray and sing pour out your spirit let it rain we just say let it rain when we're saying that we're not asking god to turn on the faucet we're simply asking him to place us under the already pouring faucet it's already pouring i just gotta find it do i believe in increase yes zechariah says pray for rain in the season of latter rain meaning pray for rain in the season when it's raining the hardest most of the time we pray for something when there's a deficiency of it we pray for money when we don't have enough we pray for favor when we don't sense it we pray for his presence when we don't feel we pray when we don't have zechariah said no no no god wants you to pray for the outpouring for more in the season when you got the most and this is the season that we have the most the post-pentecost church should be praying for his presence nonstop so i do believe in increase but i don't think you receive more until you learn to do with and steward well which you already have if my kids came up to me with a handful of cookies and say i need some cookies they bro no you don't you got a handful of cookies eat the cookies that you have the post pentecost church often stands in buildings like this with hands full of cookies saying we need more cookies we need more cookies we need more cookies and god's saying do something with the cookies you got and i give you more and i'll give you new ones girl scout cookies tagalongs come on somebody eat some vanilla wafers and you'll get some tagalongs upgrade all right so we got to think about this though it's pentecost weekend we got to think about this let's not just be religious this weekend man if the floodgates from heaven have been opened and have been pouring out since that day why are we not seeing great evidence of this heavenly flood i mean i just read you some testimonies and i am so grateful for every single one of them so grateful for the hundreds of testimonies the hundreds of stories that support the fact that god is moving and god is amongst us and god is here and god's doing things aren't you grateful that he's doing these things aren't you grateful that he's touching people i'm grateful for for them all it's why we share them to show our gratitude but i don't know if i would categorize what's happening here or other places like this as a flood of god's presence and power i don't think it's a flood because when it's listen when it's flooding no one questions whether it's flooding or not like when it's a flood nobody's wondering i wonder if this is a flood no you know everyone agrees when it's flooding yep it's a flood how do you know there's water everywhere you cannot deny the fact when animals are floating and cars are floating and when things are floating that shouldn't be floating that it's a flood so some say we're in revival i don't know for a revival or not listen when it happens everyone will agree yep this is it huh we're not there yet i don't know many churches that are it's one thing to have a move of god in your church and we should always be grateful for that but when the flood comes when revival breaks out it won't be contained to this space it won't be contained to this altar everyone in the city will be talking about everybody so why are we not seeing revival rain and greater demonstration why are we not seeing outpouring well i think it's simple okay are you ready we have not yet learned to acknowledge the rain that is falling to receive the rain that is falling and to release the rain that we receive all of those components are very very very important in order to see revival there is a perfect storm that is coming it's a perfect storm and when it comes when it happens no one will be able to deny that god is moving in the earth so i'm going to entitle tonight's message the perfect storm all that was just the intro praise god go the bathroom if you need to release some rain hallelujah they're taking me up on it go go go go do what you need to do i think i think i only got about 20 minutes left we're good perfect storm look at your neighbor and say not the movie not the movie there is a movie called the perfect storm i have not watched it but some people i'm not promoting or not promoting it but a perfect storm is a rare meteorological that's a big word event that is aggravated and initiated by two or more uncommon combination of circumstances for example perfect storm raise your hand if you were alive in 1993 just a few praise god do you remember a meteorological event that happened in 1993 huh if you live in alabama you should know because we talk about this every year every year we recall to remembrance the blizzard of 1993. now was it a blizzard like other people have blizzards no but it was very much a blizzard for us i remember as a small child it was over my head even if it were over my head today that's still not a blizzard because i'm not tall but i remember all right so what happened two uncommon forces came together we had this cold front came through in the spring and we had a moist front coming up from the gulf they met each other and boom we all have to melt snow in order to flush our tinkle right for two and a half weeks we were out of power so so the this was the perfect storm as of recent um maybe a little bit more recent april the 27th 2011. you might remember that day the perfect storm actually that day i looked it up today google who never lies about anything said that this was the super outbreak of tornadoes which was the largest costliest and one of the deadliest outbreaks ever recorded in u.s history on that day we had a front again coming in and a front coming up that created instability these two these two forces met together and caused the perfect storm in a very bad way now biblically when i say the perfect storm and we just think in terms of weather immediately my mind goes to genesis chapter seven do you remember what happened in genesis chapter 7. did anybody go to vacation bible school do you remember noah now god told noah this is so interesting you know meteorologists give us seven to ten days now and that's good god told noah a hundred years ahead of time a hundred years there's going to be a perfect storm and i need you to start constructing a boat that dude worked on the boat for over a hundred years god gives some of us a prophecy and we don't see it in three days we give up i'm dead serious he gives us a word we don't see it come to pass and we think we didn't hear from the lord that brother kept that word for a hundred years he said i'm going to create a perfect storm and it's going to wipe the planet clean and there's some details in this storm and i'm going to go somewhere with this a promise actually a brother of mine is eric in the room eric soon he's in the back eric eric shared in our bible study we have a i have a bible study on friday mornings to meet with some guys and uh he shared this revelation just a little snippet i think are you going to preach on it this week at the chapel okay so if you want the original story go to the chapel on sunday and you can get the original story but he gave me a revelation and uh god just kind of lit lit something up in me but i see something here in this perfect storm that i think god very much wants to do today and so in genesis chapter 7 verse 11 it says in the 600 year of noah's life god was so old on the 17th day of the second month on that day look at this all of the springs of the great deep burst forth and the floodgates of heaven were opened for 40 days uh i'm verse 7 17 now i think for 40 days the flood kept coming on the earth and as the waters increased they lifted the ark high above the earth the waters rose and increased greatly on the earth the ark floated on the surface of the water they rose greatly on the earth and all of the high mountains under the entire heavens were covered the water rose and covered the mountains to a depth of more than 15 q that's about 23 feet so the water was 23 feet higher than the highest mountain so water surges it begins by surging from the earth the springs of water from the earth burst forth initiating water from heaven to come down two uncommon simultaneous events uncommon because it had never rained before from heaven huh to this day to that day it had never rained from heaven and the springs from the earth had never burst they were constantly fertilizing and nourishing everything but water had not come up and water had not come down and all of the sudden these two simultaneous events occur and it resulted in a great flood so much water that no one had to question whether this was a flood or not when the water is 23 feet higher than the greatest peak i guess it would be everest right huh what scripture is that do you know because i wanted to look this up i was like god was it over everest that's what 29 000 feet yes or no who knows eric how high is it 29 000 feet 23 feet above 29 000 feet do you know science has found oceanic fossils at the summit of everest do you think they just wandered up there do you know that every mountain range in the world has oceanic fossils and they'll tell you things like well all mountains at one time yep okay i just think it's interesting here's all i'm saying is when that flood happened no one looked at their neighbor and said you think this is the flood the people on the ark going do you think this is it or is this the prequel no it was the event it was the event now god makes a promise god makes a promise he says i'm never going to flood the earth in that way again send a rainbow but it he did not promise not to flood the earth prophets begin to tell us that he's going to flood the earth but he's going to do it in a different way he's not going to flood the earth with water physical water he's going to flood the earth with his presence massive amounts of rain came from heaven and massive amounts of water came from the earth creating the flood that we have in genesis chapter seven and the prophets begin to see that there's gonna be a day where massive amounts of the lord's presence comes from heaven but it's also going to come from the earth and they're going to come together simultaneously to create this outpouring in which no one on the earth will be able to question joel chapter 2 is one of the prophecies he sees joel sees into the in the future and he says it will come to pass god says i will pour out my spirit on all flesh your sons and daughters shall prophesy your old men shall dream dreams and your old men shall see visions so it was prophesied that there would be a great outpouring from heaven i will pour out my spirit on oh everybody say all look at your neighbors say everybody a great outpouring in the same way as genesis chapter 7 a great outpouring of the lord's presence is going to consume the church jesus said john chapter 7 whoever believes in me put it up there whoever believes in me as scripture says rivers of living water will flow from within them water from the earth flowing out water from heaven coming down simultaneously jesus said now listen this water is not just so that you can have a good church service it's not so that you can go to lunch on sunday and say man the lord's presence was amazing today it's not just so that you can be beneficiaries of the water jesus said this water this outpouring is not just for you it's for the earth in the same way that the first outpouring was for the entire earth and covered the entire earth so should this one acts chapter 1 verse 8 i think we know this one you will receive power when the holy spirit comes upon you and you will be my witnesses in jerusalem put it up there judea samaria and the ends of the earth the earth will be impacted because of the spirit that comes upon you and then shall be released in the earth isaiah 45 8 he saw this too he said you heavens above rain down my righteousness let clouds shower it down and also let the earth open wide let salvation spring up let righteousness flourish with it i the lord have created it righteousness coming down and righteousness going out simultaneous surges of god's presence from above and from below resulting in god's power and love consuming the earth it's the perfect storm but it hasn't happened yet and we keep looking to heaven wanting to know why it hadn't happened open up heaven where's the rain i've already sent it quit looking up and start looking within start waiting for stop waiting for it to come down and start looking to push it out it's not on his hand there is not a closed heaven but there is a lot of close christians ignorant to the fact that they don't have anything thinking that they're they're there's no i mean what one one of the oh there's so many issues one of the issues is we don't even believe in the holy spirit he's not present his gifts aren't real there is no water we just have to live in this drought until jesus comes back jesus said he's not coming back until we reach the earth so you're just gonna have to die and get there the hard way i'd love to see him come back but according his words this gospel of the kingdom will be preached to all the nations then the end will come it's what he said so until we do our part he's not coming back well nobody knows how can you say that nobody knows the time of the day we don't know the time of the day but we do know some things that need to happen before he does i'm not even a prophet i have scripture so what we need to do is we need to learn how to release the river that is within us i've got a few minutes are you okay is everybody okay i want to show you a movie clip all right it's short it's from the lord of the rings raise your hand yeah i know raise your hand if you no raise your hand if you have not seen the lord of the rings all right so keep your hands up ushers keep your hands up us these are the unsaved folks that we really need to go after in the ministry moment because they are not saved all right so let me tell you what's going on i need to show you this this is actually really powerful i think it's going to be powerful if i'm the only one that gets something out of it praise god but there's this part in the second lord of the rings where um one of the let's let's just call it one of the principalities or the strongholds on the earth has damned up the river has damned up the source of life and because he has damned up the source of life things are dying in the valley trees are dying they're cutting them down they've created this big hole they're making orcs and evil things all right just that you don't need to know the details but they're just making evil stuff in this listen wherever there is not a source of life there is death there is death wherever the river does not go people perish so there is no river in this place because they've dammed it up and these trees come back to life like living trees they're walking around like i'm a tree it's incredible but these trees come to fight for their friends and for others and there's a part of the movie where one of the trees says breach the dam release the river [Applause] and it's powerful just watch it just watch it it's really good let's watch it turn the lights off get the popcorn out let's watch it come on turn the lights off release the river that's a bad guy that's a bad guy [Music] hold on [Music] there's stevie after worship [Applause] [Music] [Music] yes is that not incredible what's wrong with you people who don't watch movies like that my gosh i need to give you a visual i wanted to give you a visual when the dam was released when the dam was broken and the river was released not only did life return but everything that opposed life was dismantled it didn't have a chance is actually there's a lot of biblical stuff only the oaks of righteousness were able to stand strong in those moments everything else was wiped away and what i see is i see that when the church gets it when the body of christ when the people of christ understand who is in them and begins to release like jesus said floods of living water will be released from when you when that happens that's a picture of what's going to happen on the earth these demons are going to flee evil is going to be pushed back and life will return so what was once dead cities in dead valley you're seeing this all right so what's the key to releasing the river this is a big deal i don't have time to unpack it all but i think there's two keys to releasing the river it's repentance and obedience all right so those those logs in the damn those bricks and the damn whatever it is because listen uh there's i don't care how righteous you are there's there's some bricks if we're just being honest i mean i had to get one written one this morning but sin let's just go with the first one sin acts as a log that damns the water that seeks to flows out of you some might even say it acts as an umbrella that keeps water from falling upon you now i know that all sin was paid for past present and future listen i'm not i'm not preaching works for saving grace it's not what i'm preaching but paul says in galatians 5 i don't know if i gave this to him just listen he says the acts of flesh are obvious sexual immorality impurity debauchery idolatry witchcraft hatred he's talking to christians hey he's talking to christians witchcraft christians don't do witchcraft all the time they do it's called manipulation it's called rebellion rebellion is witchcraft manipulation is witchcraft when i manipulate and lie and try to control the situation i am practicing in witchcraft hatred discord jealousy fits of rage selfish ambition dissensions factions envy drunkenness orgies and the like i warn you as i did before those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of god it's not saying you won't go to heaven it's saying that the riches of heaven that are being rained out and desire to be reigned forth from you will not happen if you're living in this but yet we don't talk about sin enough we want to come in we want to get touched we want to flop on the floor we want to have all of these experiences all while being all damned up you can have all of the experience in all the fields and all of the thrills that you want but none of it will come out you may get a wet head but nobody will get wet around you i'm sorry to be debbie downer tonight but we're about to have ministry and unless we get this this ministry will be in vain it'll be in vain all of these things act as logs in a dam that block the flow of the river that god desires to burst forth galatians 5 ephesians 5 first timothy colossians all talk about how partnering with the flesh and partnering with evil robs you of what god wants to do in you and out of you robs you and because it's robbing you it's robbing those around you a lot of people think well i can just sin in isolation that doesn't affect anybody around me false it affects everybody around you the porn addiction that you have in isolation is affecting your entire family and all of those around you you can't live in secret sin and in isolation it did not affect people around you wherever sin goes death follows eighty percent of the church is addicted to porn eighty percent is either dabbling with porn or addicted to porn why is the river not flowing because we're damned up with secret sin we're dabbling in everything that the world is dabbling in and as long as we continue to do that the devil is safe from revival he's buying time because he has convinced the church that you can live however you want to and still get to heaven and we're so self-centered heaven is all we want we could care less if the people around us go to heaven as long as i'm going i'm good so i'm going to keep all of my addictions and all of my porn and all of my anger and all of my fits of rage because i'm going to get to heaven one day the porn sexual addictions it's killing marriages you're inviting spirits into your house that's not just tormenting you but it's tormenting your wife it's tormenting your husband it's tormenting your children one of the main side effects of that yeah i'm gonna say is impotence and it's just a picture in the natural of what's happening in the spiritual not being able to reproduce call the offspring you need to hear this and it may not be for you praise god if it's not for you but it may be for you and if it is for you there's no condemnation in this room right now there's no condemnation coming from heaven he's trying to remove the log so that you can be a river [Applause] actually he doesn't he the enemy doesn't come against those that don't possess great gifting and great power the reason he's coming against you with these things with jealousy with anger with gossip with slander with fits of rage with pornography is because you are a threat to the kingdom of darkness and you're still a threat we just need to get rid of the logs and release the river are y'all hearing what i'm saying so satan tempts with these things he tempts the church why because he knows that if the church gets saved delivered and filled with the spirit the river's coming and two seismic uncommon events are going to collide and the world's going to be reached for jesus christ matthew chapter four last last verse is everybody okay okay jesus said this he said repent matthew 4 17 for the kingdom of god is at hand repent so that you can see the kingdom repent the kingdom is around you listen this is what he says to the church today it's no different repent the kingdom is repent so that you can see what's being poured upon you and so you can participate in what you've been called to do but you've got to repent well i've tried i just can't get rid of it so essentially what you're saying is the blood of jesus is not strong enough to defeat that addiction there is freedom in christ from all sin all addiction all issues but it's going to listen it's going to require that you humble yourself and come to somebody the reasons that they stay logs that damn up our flow is because we do not confess one to another i'm not talking about going into your small group and saying hey guys well here it is you need to find a friend a pastor someone that you trust confess that unto there is power and confession don't stand up in front of the church come to a person confess and there is power in confession that will break the chains of that stronghold and then deliverance can take place y'all hear what i'm saying like god loves his church he loves you no longer should we tolerate the sin that comes against us eric come help me lighten it up a little bit so much more digestible when there's a piano play and here's the last thing so repentance is the first we have to repent and listen i don't repent once i repent daily if there is a mindset or something going on here i mean just like this way i waited four days too late i should have repented on tuesday when it happened but i waited till friday so i just got my tail kicked for three days unnecessary amen so when it happened when you feel it when you sense it like oh this is a problem don't wait repent and then the last thing is is obedience we pray for people in here we prophesy in here we're generous in here but sometimes it's like we can't we can't do what we're doing in here out there there's something keeping us from doing that i'll tell you what's keeping you from doing that the devil he doesn't want the things that break loose in here to break loose out there and so the fear of man has paralyzed the church and are you not feeling the pressure i mean if you haven't felt the pressure from the world in 2020 you didn't have your eyes open i mean they tried down they tried to shut down everything i mean did we not see this and and the world's still trying to leverage certain things to keep the church silent to keep the church shut down i'm not making this political i mean it's a spirit it's not even people it's a spirit it's trying to stifle revival so i think we just need to be obedient outside of this place not not just listen not just to do the supernatural things i i don't think that we need to be a people who chase down every wheelchair that we see and just thinking in only terms of the supernatural like god wants to do something used today whoa there they are not just chase ambulances and funeral home or with a hearse you know i hear what i'm saying sometimes god does supernatural things through a natural conversation like we just we got to just be willing to open our mouth and talk about jesus this happened about four years ago i used to be by vocation i worked in a hospital and um i was working in the hospital talking to a nurse and i was just talking out loud there were people around but i didn't care and i was talking about how god had changed my life through a book that i read so man this book was amazing i don't really remember what it is i was talking there's a christian author a christian book like this is what happened this is what i discovered and we were both getting into it well little did i know people were listening and this nurse that was listening to me talking to this anesthesiologist went and bought the book and she got saved and filled with the spirit as she was reading the book and she came up to me like three months later and she says listen i was eavesdropping on your conversation i heard about this book some something weird i haven't started crying and i felt all warm inside and i went to the bathroom i thought i was getting sick but i then i put two and two together i felt like it might have been god i didn't even know god but i wouldn't bought this book and this guy's talking about god in a way that i've never heard him talk about before and i received christ as in one of the chapters as he led us to a prayer in the book and this is what she said she said thank you for talking out loud about jesus have you ever noticed that when we get on public place and we start talking about jesus we get real quiet yeah and went to church he was talking he was talking he was talking he stopped me he shot me we get all secretive it's like that we're going to get assassinated like because we're talking about jesus we get all embarrassed we say the blessing we get real quiet what is that that's the spirit of the antichrist trying to shut your mouth and sometimes it's just natural conversation seeing a family pray together seeing somebody talk about jesus that ignites a fire in somebody you don't have to go pray over everybody do that too but just be outspoken about the jesus who has saved you and delivered you and freed you we should be ashamed we should be embarrassed this is his earth this is his earth why are we tiptoed around his house don't cower down don't be ashamed release that water in that conversation release that water when you see someone who needs it and i think you'll be amazed i think you'll be amazed not only what he does in you because it's just so refreshing when what's within comes out i could give another illustration that just would be bad but when you're all clogged up i will use that you won't forget it you won't forget it so i'm going to use it not dead serious when you're all congested or clogged up you're irritable and you're in a bad mood i'm dead serious you're irritable and you're in a bad mood and there are so many christians that are spiritually clogged up and they're in terrible moods because they're not doing what they were created to naturally do and when you're irritable listen to me when you're irritable you take it out on others and you stop coming to church and you turn your face away from god and you turn your face toward things that can gratify you things of the flesh and things of the devil the number one reason that christians leave is because they do not see the significance in their christian life you are created to receive and then give receive and then give receive and then give and when you're not giving you're all congested okay i'm done stand up so god's gonna do a lot of stuff tonight i know that some some folks come here specifically for healing because we have so many testimonies of healing god's gonna do that tonight but i just felt really led to give this message because i think god will do so much more in and through us if we can embrace this message do you agree with that yes or no so i think that this is going to be a night i saw it earlier this week i just see dams being broken and rivers coming out tonight i really do i see repentance taking place i see confession taking place do not be embarrassed do not be ashamed again i had to do this today so do not be embarrassed do not be ashamed to come and confess your bitterness your anger your unforgiveness your rage your addiction do not be embarrassed to confess this to a brother sister in christ i would i would encourage you if you're a male and you've got some type of addictive thing come to a male female to female but confess whatever it is that's keeping the river from bursting forth y'all hear what i'm saying and then i would immediately listen don't just get the rocks that way immediately ask for a filling and for boldness ask that god listen you don't have to wait six weeks to see if it took y'all hear what i'm saying get free tonight and go release tomorrow freely you have received freely gift there's not a timetable so receive and then ask god to fill you for boldness ask for healing tonight ask for a prophetic word all of these individuals hear clearly from the lord and they'll be happy to tell you anything that god has placed upon their heart all right so ask our ministry team to come forward they've got stickers on okay so this is how we roll on encounter nights you can pray amongst yourselves if you know the person and if you ask the person if it's okay don't go up to somebody and just say hey um and start praying for them we want to create a house that's very safe for everybody involved and so these are the people that are going to pray for folks tonight again if you're there with your spouse or with your family you can pray one to another but as far as releasing prophetic words and praying and all that kind of stuff let's just do it right up here if i say okay everybody say okay okay all right so that's what we're gonna do up here did any of these individuals stand in front of me have a word of knowledge only give it unless you have a strong word of knowledge and the microphone brett you got the microphone what's that hand me that one right there here you go hi okay words of knowledge gonna be released if anybody's got a hernia or hernia type injury hernia all right anybody else [Music] when i was standing outside my shoulder was doing something like this so left shoulder left shoulder come to the person if you have the condition matter of fact just raise your hand if you have any government have a hernia issue hernia issue in the room in the back anybody else have a hernia issue all right right here come to this person left shoulder if i got left shoulder here anybody else in the room have left shoulder all right in the back come to this individual sonia raise your hand i heard rotator cuff right okay shoulder either side either side okay um i saw the number one five two and also two five one and then after that i saw the name teresa one five two two five one do those numbers mean anything to anybody in the room and and theresa okay anybody else okay if you're online or watching this well if you're online live type it in and we'll pray for you i saw a man fall and hit it specifically his left side of his head some type of head injury anybody anybody in the room or have a family member who suffered from a head injury due to a fall okay that's somebody online again type in i have i've had two pearl the name pearl does the name pearl mean anything to anybody [Music] i think it's a name i don't think it's a color i think it's the name pearl and then right knee right knee head i had burning on the inside of my right knee if i have right knee raise your hand if that's you okay all right all right so if any of these words of knowledge pertain to you that's usually god's way of saying i want to do something about that condition tonight i want to do something about that so that's his invitation to come um anything else that we've talked about that we want to get out of the way we're going to begin to sing as we begin to sing you come and we'll be ministered to sound good let me pray for us father i thank you so much for the opportunity to come together tonight just be in fellowship with one another but more so to worship and acknowledge you to acknowledge what you're doing in the earth what you're doing in this season what you desire to do to in the room so we thank you for showing us that heaven is open and you desire for heaven to come out of us rivers of living water just stream forth anything blocking the rivers of living water god remove it tonight do us all a favor and remove it tonight we're believing for salvation and deliverance and freedom and for supernatural feelings of the holy spirit it's in jesus name we pray and everybody say the good amen [Music] like the rushing wind would you breathe [Music] through the raging storm would you hold me in your arms [Music] cause i need [Music] i need your [Music] just like a fire come and take me over jesus draw me closer to your eyes [Music] through the wind and rain [Music] when the nights get rough [Music] cause i need i need you to 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