THE BREATH OF GOD | Pastor Tim Gaddy

[Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] good morning new life can everybody make your way to your seat and stand with me today it's so good to see everybody here this morning in new life church why don't you turn to someone and tell them that they look good this morning you look good this morning before we start i want to make one quick announcement we do have a staffed nursery available um if you need you need to find your way there just go out to the connection or they can direct you there and we also have a cry room available as well the the men and women in the connect center they can they can direct you to that as well is there anybody in here who likes to fish any fishermen in here i like to fish yesterday i went fishing with my grandpa and we woke up really early in the morning pastor we woke up at four o'clock he said we gotta get to the lake before we got there right as the sun was coming up put the boat in and i was sitting there on the boat as we were fishing and i began to look at my grandpa and myself and it was a little bit of a slow morning fishing but i was i'll be honest it was slow but our eyes were fixed on the water now ours was fixed on our bait and we there was such anticipation for what was about to happen there was such anticipation we knew that there was going to be a fish any moment come and get that and we did brought home 11 nice crappie i'm ready to fry those up amen but there was such anticipation and my mind went to acts chapter 2 when it says when the day of pentecost had fully come they were all with one accord and one place see the lord had directed him there and said go to jerusalem for i'm gonna send the promise and i can imagine the anticipation that they felt as they were in that upper room the anticipation that they failed as they lift up their voices in prayer and i said lord i pray that there would be that same hunger and that same spirit of anticipation and expectancy that would be here in new life today can we just lift up our voice and pray that the lord's will would be done that his spirit would move in like a mighty rushing wind lord in the name of jesus christ lord we come here with the spirit of expectation understanding your power understanding your authority understanding lord that your spirit can move in this place and we can see miracles signs and wonders let our hearts be open our minds be open to what you have for us lord that you would just move in a mighty way in the name of jesus christ [Music] [Music] are you ready to worship today put our hands together [Music] so father you are holy there is no one else like you you are faithful father you are faithful we have put our trust in you our god hallelujah is father you are holy there is no one else like you has he been faithful to anyone today faithful faithful father you are faithful we have put our trust in you we praise your name praise to the only living god praise [Music] we praise your name there is freedom to dance in your presence freedom we praise your days [Music] [Music] you're worthy [Music] freedom [Applause] [Music] hallelujah [Applause] [Music] that's it new life just lift up the name lord we lift you up today lord we worship you today lord there's freedom in the house today lord praise to the only living god lord it's you and you alone who sits on the throne of heaven lord and we will lift up our voice and magnify you in this place today anybody in here ever coming to a church service whether that's on a sunday wednesday never matter what day it is and you you felt bound as if the way me the week was hard the week was heavy but there's something as soon as you step into the presence of god that there was freedom there was liberty you you might have felt bound but you when you as soon as you lifted your hands you felt the presence of god sweep over you you felt the liberty the freedom of god i feel that i feel that liberty in this place i feel that freedom in this place and i believe that if you are bound today you will leave this place set free by the power of the holy ghost look at your neighbor and say it's going to happen and you may be seated it's going to happen in the name of jesus i would like to take just a few moments like we do every sunday we don't do this just out of tradition but because we truly appreciate every guest who's with us today and if you're a guest with us i want to say thank you so much for joining us today at new life new life can we give them a hand if you're a guest with us here on site you can if you can make your way to the connect center after service that's in the lobby uh stop by there um we'd like to meet you uh get your information maybe have a special gift for you as well but not only our on-site guests but our online church family thank you so much for joining us today new life can we give them a hand we love our online church family people watch on facebook youtube our website not just in the united states but all around the world and that's powerful and that's awesome and we're gonna have pastor come today but while he comes why don't you just give the high five to a person beside you amen thank you pastor jace good morning everybody i trust that you are feeling good and you look good on this holiday weekend just look at somebody one more time and say i'm so glad you came to church on labor day weekend so glad you came to church on labor day weekend amen amen i have a lot of pastor friends as you can imagine and one of the things that we talk about from time to time is hey are holidays tough for your church too and i told someone recently i said well i i know there are certain holidays historically here at new life where the the crowds are a little bit lower due to travel but i also think there's a flip side to that and we have guests that join us on holidays and we're just thrilled with everybody that is here so i'll just add my voice to what pastor jay said and welcome all of you here and it's so good to have dominic and shayna back home paul and terry are here we appreciate the kastner shannon great to see you and we're going to be celebrating with doc and shayna their wedding shower will be after service today and then in just a few short days they're going to be mr and mrs and we're excited about that we're excited about that amen i want to take just a moment and celebrate something that is very very noteworthy when it comes to reaching the world because once a month on sunday mornings we take time and we su we really challenge our church and also celebrate the fact that this church reaches literally around the globe with partners that are connected to this church that are preaching the gospel teaching the word of god making an impact and making disciples in really every continent of the earth and uh brother shirley i want you to come up here and join me up here this he didn't know i was going to do this but i want him to come up here because i want to just brag on brother shirley for just a minute come on up on the platform with me brother shirley and sister shirley by the way they're just recently home from a trip and we're glad they're back home but they are retired missionaries some of you who don't know the shirleys they were overseas doing missions work for many many years and we appreciate the caliber of the shirleys and their their life and their witness and their example to us as a church and they are pastoring our flying eagles which is everybody 65 and over and those are the ones that have the the best culinary expertise in the church and many of them have quite a few years of experience in living for the lord and always enjoy being with them but brother shirley when he was involved in missions he still is involved in missions one of his jobs was he was the director of education and short-term missions and it was one of his visions in his role in that in that specific regard that bible schools would be planted all around the world and and not only bible schools would be planted but there would be a standardized curriculum being taught in those bible schools and one of the things that i've noticed and brother shirley and i have talked about this before that in the nations of the world where the greatest impact is being made in the kingdom almost without exception it is due to the training of local and national leaders it's not simply due to crusades or some big service and there's nothing wrong with those and we need those but it's making sure that those local pastors and those national workers are trained to be able to carry the gospel in their nations and one of the passions of brother shirley for years now has been getting that curriculum standardized into all different languages in all different parts of the world and i'm happy to report to this church and we can celebrate this because this is one of ours that just in the last few weeks a church in this this country has worked with this effort to get curriculum into bible colleges around the world and specifically translations are being made in three languages in access challenged nations which is nations where the gospel is very difficult to get in because of persecution or the country's literally close to evangelism but how many of you know you can't keep out the word of god and great effort is being made even today to getting this curriculum online so that people can be trained in these countries and the word of god can spread and this is really a dream come true for brother shirley because he's been working on this for many many years even after his tenure as director of education and short-term missions it started with obviously curriculum in english and then spanish and then french but now there are many different languages that it's being translated into and that is a big big deal when the gospel is in print and it's online so people can access it literally from around the world and brother shirley we just want you to know as your church family we rejoice with you in this this is a real dream come true and uh i'm thankful to be a part of something bigger than us amen amen would you thank brother shirley for his investment in this we love lloyd shirley so very much thank you we rejoice with you brother shirley we get to be a part of that folks thank god for that thank god for that amen amen why don't you just remain standing if you would and if you're not standing would you stand with me this morning we're going to give all of us an opportunity to give as unto the lord and our ushers are going to make their way down to the front we have several different ways that you can give through new life church we have a text to give option you'll see that on the screen we have a website that you can set up scheduled giving or if you're just old-fashioned like pastor and you give checks or cash we've got some ushers up front that can help you with that certainly if you would like contribution credit at the end of the year for what you give to a 501c3 charitable contribution we can give that to you at the end of the year for everything that you designate through this local church amen but god is so good to us to help us to be able to partner with people around the world and i'm thankful for that so why don't we pray for our partners right now focusing on missions we've been giving the missions we've got some exciting things to share with you in the next few weeks about how this church is responding to missions but specifically this morning let's pray for our partners right now let's pray for our missionaries that we're partnering with lord we lift our voice today on this labor day weekend and we are asking in the name of jesus for every partner on every continent that we are joined with that you will multiply their efforts lord i pray jesus that you will protect them yes but not just defensively protect them but let them lord reach and touch and thank you for the efforts that are being made in our bible colleges lord i pray that you will multiply those efforts and this curriculum this global association of theological studies lord let your anointing continue to rest upon that effort i thank you for our missionaries i thank you for our national pastors lord we speak blessing and provision over them lord thank you that you're helping us to continue to give as a church our prayers and our finances to support these works we give you praise for what you're doing around the world lord and we bless you for it we speak this all in the great name of jesus bless your people as they give today thank you for those who tithe thank you for those who give offerings lord multiply in jesus name everything that comes through this church and lord i also pray that you will help us as a church to continue to be very wise in our stewardship of the money that comes through this local assembly lord it's not our money it's people's money that they give in trust and i pray you'd help us to be wise lord in jesus name we thank you for that in the name of the lord jesus we pray and everybody would you say amen amen here's how we'll do this if you have something to give up front here in the baskets you can bring that up here as we begin to sing and if you would like to give online you can see the the directions on the screen for that but take just a moment and fellowship with someone around you while we get ready to worship the lord again and then we'll enter back into worship and hear the word of the lord preach today may the lord bless you let's come and bring our gifts this morning in jesus name [Music] [Music] i will bless the lord i will bless for the rest of my life [Music] this for the rest of my life magnify the lord with me let us exalt his name o magnify the lord with me let us exhaust his name [Music] [Music] for the rest of my life he's gone you are gone all the time forever go [Applause] like jesus [Music] [Music] here i go you are good all the time all the time you are good you are good all the time all the time you are good you are good all the time you are good you are good all the time all the time you are all the time foreign [Applause] [Music] you are how can somebody thank you right now for how good he's been to you why don't you just tell him right now you are good you are good you are good [Applause] you're good all the time yes [Music] oh come on let's worship him some more and let's thank him for how good he's been you are good all the time all the time you are good you are good all the time the whole night you are good you are good all the time you are good you are good all the time all the [Music] all the time all the time you [Applause] once again [Music] [Applause] all the time you are good you are you are you are good to [Music] [Music] thank you jesus hallelujah [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] this is the name of jesus wonderful isn't the name of jesus wonderful all the world can come to him and have their sins removed isn't the name of jesus wonderful isn't the name of [Music] in the jesus of jesus beautiful [Music] son of god and one of us lover of our is in the souls of jesus beautiful [Music] eternal king you will reign forever and we will see the glory of your names be lifted high for all the world to see your name is all [Music] every meme is bound isn't the name of [Music] and jesus we see the glory of your name [Music] your name is all we need forever [Music] there is freedom in the name healing in the name there is power in the name salvation in the name there is life in the name there is no other name but jesus jesus [Applause] the day there is power there is power in the name today salvation in the days there [Applause] is life in the [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] how many of [Applause] there [Music] there is all through the day forever [Music] is [Music] he's way the truth the lie the only sovereign [Music] god that's the way you feel let's tell the lord that right now thank you jesus come on that feels good let's praise him let's thank him for his name today thank you for your great name lord jesus hallelujah many are standing around this room our praise team is here i want us to sing that again and as they are singing i want to open up this front of this church if you need something a need you have a physical need in your body you have somebody that you would like to stand in for and the bible is very clear in the book of james it says as any sick among you let him call for the elders of the church and let them pray over them anointing them with oil and here's what the scripture says and the prayer of faith will save the sick so we believe that prayer really does work when we pray in faith in the name of jesus so i'm going to ask our pastoral team our small group leaders our leaders to come and just fill up the front of this area right here church family guests you don't have to be a member to receive prayer today however you have come today you can have someone pray with you and it can be discreet you don't have to even share the need unless you so choose but can we take just a moment right now and just step out in faith thank you victor i want you to come with your family we want to pray over you all as you're getting ready to go back to california we want the hand of the lord to be upon these individuals right now if you need someone to agree with you in prayer right now is the time would you step out and let's fill up this altar area we'll have people agree with you in prayer we'll just believe that god will touch we'll pray against sickness right now lord it's by the authority of your word it's by the authority of your word that we pray right now it's by the authority of the name of jesus that we speak healing over this house right now i pray that healing virtue will flow lord then pain will be gone and sickness will be erased we pray against infirmity and we pray against disease lord and i pray that your spirit will minister right now lord your power will touch right now lord in the name of jesus hallelujah in the name of jesus god we're thanking you for your healing power we're thanking you for your healing virtue lord we're thanking you that you hear our requests lord jesus be lifted high today lord we speak the name of jesus we pray by the authority of that name lord by the authority of that name lord in jesus [Music] the name there is power in the name salvation in the day that is no other day but jesus [Music] in the jesus is [Music] there is power [Music] [Music] [Music] being touched by the power of the lord hallelujah there's life through your name there's healing through your name oh yes touch kevin that's gary lord in the name [Music] there's power in your name [Music] yes lord [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] oh yes jesus [Music] hallelujah [Music] thank you jesus oh yes hallelujah hallelujah lord we thank you for healing today we thank you lord for hearing our requests this morning we thank you lord that you are more than able to do exceeding and abundantly above all that we could ask or think lord jesus thank you lord for your restoring power thank you for your healing power lord jesus we give you the glory we give you all of the honor lord jesus hallelujah thank you lord thank you lord thank you lord hallelujah god i pray that as the word is preached today that you will allow it to find a good lodging place i pray lord that the seed of your word that eternal word from heaven god will touch the hearts of each of us we haven't come presumptuously today lord we haven't come just believing that because we're here great things will happen it's because you're here lord it's your word that touches it's your word that sets free lord and i pray in the next few moments that you'll allow your mighty power to be seen through the declaring of your word and we'll give you all the glory and all of the praise in jesus name in jesus name amen and amen praise god i'll just say this at risk of sounding like you would expect a pastor to say this if you're not a part of a local church family you need to be a part of a local church family because especially in the day in which we're living right now it's great to be surrounded by people that love and people that pray and people that support amen and i'm thankful for that good communal feeling that i feel in this house today people lifting one another up and praying for one another and we certainly if you are not a part of this local church family welcome you and we want you to be a part of what's going on here amen just remain standing if you would during the preaching today we have a preschool class for those who have children three and four years old and so if that pertains to you if you just want to exit right out these back doors our church will our staff rather will direct you and make sure you get the right classroom there brother and sister tub it's good to see you i look back here and see my friends we welcome the tubs back to new life thank you for being here today amen next sunday is going to be a very exciting day because we're starting a brand new thing called tracks everyone say tracks it's at 9 30 now for the last month or so families have been used to children and youth having class at 9 30 but beginning next weekend on sunday everybody will have class at 9 30 and there's different tracks you can choose from i think they're going to put there it is on the screen there's several different classes and so you can find something that kind of piques your interest and we'll have a team here who can direct you once you get here at 9 30 and of course along with that we also have our kids ministry that'll be going on in our student ministry as well but it's going to be a great great day beginning next sunday and then also next sunday evening we're going to have a spanish revival service here right here in the worship center on sunday night at six o'clock and everyone said gloria adios amen we've been having tremendous moves of god's spirit in iglesia and nueva vita and we're going to have it right here in the sanctuary this next sunday night at six o'clock and this is open for everybody and we're gonna even have some some software suggestions for you on your smartphone if you are just an english speaker where you can get a little bit of a sense of what is being preached i watched this last weekend during our spanish service as the preacher was preaching and i was straining to understand him in spanish and he would say something like hallelujah and i'd say amen i can i can say hallelujah amen to that but we also had a piece of software where you can get the sense of what they're preaching it automatically translates for you and uh so we want you to come we want you to be a part of that we have some tremendous tremendous times and that will be this next sunday night not tonight but next sunday night at 6 pm amen now i'm going to invite your attention in just a minute to the book of zechariah in the old testament so if you have your bible or if you have your smartphone your tablet i want you to turn with me the book of zechariah and i know as soon as i say that there's a couple different emotions that come the first emotion may be well yeah i remember that that's a book in the old testament because i was in bible quizzing or i remember from sunday school that's one emotion and then there are other people right now when i said zechariah you said in your mind i didn't even know that was in the bible it is in the bible if you go to the old testament and keep turning right just pass nahum just past micah and habakkuk is the prophetic book of zechariah in case you need further clarifications it's right before you get to the last book of the old testament so if you can find malachi you can find zechariah it's right before malachi amen if you're there would you say i'm there amen go ahead and be seated thank you to our praise team great job today leading us in worship before i read from the scripture i want to give a little bit of context to this unusual passage and uh then i will read a few verses of scripture one of which some people in this room whether you have ever examined the book of zechariah or not you will probably recognize some people here not everybody but some people will recognize a portion of one of the verses that i will read here in just a few minutes when we talk about the old testament we cannot remove ourselves from the understanding that initially god spoke to only the children of israel or only the jews they were his people and through their disobedience the jewish people were sent forth to captivity a portion of them in the north were taken captive by the nation of assyria and then the ones that i'll speak of today were taken captive in babylon one of the kings that resided in babylon was a man by the name of darius and at the close of their occupation or their captivity in babylon he permitted a portion of the jews 50 000 of them to go back home they were taken captive out of jerusalem but he was permitting them to go back home because they had been wanting to travel back home it's always nice to go home and to rebuild solomon's temple it was an edifice that was very important and still is important to the jews in this period of time in israel's history two very significant individuals are given to these jews to speak to them one of them is a prophet by the name of haggai you may have seen his book in the old testament h-a-g-g-a-i the other one is the prophet zechariah or where we will read from today i'm thankful that whenever we get in trouble god gives us someone to speak life to us and to speak direction to us if you have ever been in a church service whether it is here at new life or somewhere else and a preacher got up and he or she professed god's word declared god's word and you left feeling more equipped or better or more enabled that's really the plan of god for that to happen because all throughout history when people get in trouble god's remedy is someone to declare something to them and so it was for the children of israel the word of god came through haggai and through zechariah this actually isn't altogether strange because later on in the new testament paul the apostle talks about a five-fold ministry he was writing to the ephesian church in ephesians chapter four and he says i'm giving you pastors and teachers and apostles and prophets and evangelists and he said i'm giving these to you i'm sending these people to you for a few purposes number one for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry for the edifying or the building up of the body of christ and again whether it's old testament or new testament he loves people enough to give them his word through individuals and i would venture to say that god loves every man and woman and young adult and child and teenager in this room enough today to send a preacher to this pulpit now i know that may sound self-serving i'm not trying to over glorify the role that i'm in right now but what we are doing here today is more than just catechism what we are doing today is more than just habit thank you pastor jace for reminding us of this we're not here just because we don't have anything else to do on sunday morning we'll be here we're here today because this is what god chooses to communicate his word to his people amen and so we come to this man named zachariah a man with a strange name and he sees even stranger things he sees visions of horses and horns that's in chapter one he sees a measuring line in a high priest that's in chapters two and three it gets even crazier later on he sees a vision of a flying scroll a woman in a basket i mean this is stuff like you dream about you ever had a dream and you wake up and you're trying real hard to think that maybe that was a spiritual dream but you're not sure if pizza and cantaloupe have anything to do with anything spiritual he had a vision of a woman in a basket and four chariots in chapter number five but it is from the vision he sees as recorded in chapter four that i want to take my sermon today in this vision he sees a lamp stand now i don't think i'm going to preach a long time so you're going to have to really focus today but he sees a lamp stand and at the top of the lamp stand he sees areas of light and next to it is where i want to draw your attention there are two trees they're olive trees and it's from this context that i will read zechariah chapter 4 and verse 1. now the angel who talked with me came back and awakened me as a man who has wakened out of his sleep now you just have to pardon me but i put myself in this story because verse 2 says and he said to me what do you see now if you wake me up and say what do you see right away what do you see um i say exactly what zachariah said in the rest of that verse so i said i am looking give me a second wiping the sleep out of my eyes there is a lamp stand of solid gold with a bowl on top of it and on the stand seven lamps with seven pipes to the seven lamps wow that's that's intense two olive trees are by it one at the right hand of the bowl and the other at its left so i answered and i spoke to the angel who talked with me saying what are these my lord in other words give me some understanding here and the angel who talked with me answered and said to me do you not know what these are it's not enough that he's interrupting your sleep now he's insulting your intelligence when you first wake up you don't know what these are in verse number 5 and i said no my lord so he answered and said to me this is the word of the lord to zerubbabel not by might nor by power but by my spirit says the lord of hosts who are you o great mountain before zerubbabel you shall become a plain and he shall bring forth the capstone who shall zerubbabel shall he's going to finish this rebuilding of the temple with great shouts of grace grace to it it's interesting to me that wedged in the middle of a very bizarre passage is a verse that i literally have heard my entire life it's not by might and it's not by power but it is by my spirit says the lord of hosts remember it was zachariah coming out of captivity with 50 000 jews who looked at a situation of a broken down temple wanting more than anything else to see that temple rebuilt to its glory that temple represented the very presence of god it was the central place for consecration and dedication and zachariah and those children of israel so desperately wanted it rebuilt they're just fresh coming out of captivity and yet the word of the lord from zachariah to the children of israel is very simple and it is this what god has put in your heart to accomplish is not possible by your might it is not possible by your power in other words if you think you are strong enough and if you are you think you are able enough to construct this temple and to rebuild it to its glory i've got a word from the lord for them zachariah go and tell the people of god it is not by their might and it is not by their power when you and i examine those words the word might means it's not by their numbers they could have fifty thousand they could have a hundred and fifty thousand they could have five hundred thousand jews but it is not by their numbers it is not because they're a big army collective in their power and in their strength it is not by their might it's not even by their power it's not even inherently how much power they have in themselves the word power comes originally the first word time it's ever used in the old testament this is genesis chapter 4 and verse 12 when god is judging cain and he says because you have murdered your brother when you till the ground it shall no longer yield its strength to you it's not going to give you what is inherent in it and zechariah said i want you to know people of god the lord has spoken to me and the power that you have inherent in you is not enough now i know this is kind of negative i want you to look at someone say hang on pastor's going to get more positive here in just a minute but what he has called us to the vision he has put in our spirit what he has embedded inside of us we can't do it in our own power we can accomplish it in our own strength oh i preached to people today there are some things god has whispered into your spirit that in your own power you will fail and i will fail in my own mind i don't have it in my strength i don't have it in numbers we could get all of us together and it still wouldn't be enough but zechariah said i've got good news it might not be in your power and it might not be in your mind but i've got a wild card back here it is by my spirit oh somebody who really believes this you help me preach right now there is something about when the spirit is loosed on a situation there is something about when the holy spirit is involved in a situation there is something about the holy ghost when it is loosed on a situation anything impossible becomes possible anything that can't be done can be done hallelujah everybody say by my spirit literally by the breath of god by the word of god we we see this borne out in the second verse of the bible genesis 1 and 2. the earth was without form and void and darkness was upon the face of the deep and the spirit of god was hovering over the face of the waters that word spirit of god is literally the word that means the breath of god in all that was created in verse number one there was just the breath of god hovering over the darkness this scripture is quite illustrative of the spirit of the lord and the breath of god ezekiel chapter 37 the lord brought ezekiel out to a plane and it says the lord laid his hand on me and brought me out in the spirit of the lord and set me down in the midst of a valley and it was full of bones and he caused me to pass by them all around and behold there were many in the open valley and indeed they were very dry and he said to me son of man can these bones live so i answered oh lord god you know and he said to me prophesy to these bones and say to them o dry bones hear the word of the lord thus says the lord god to these bones surely i will cause breath to enter into you and you shall live i'll put sinews on you and bring flesh on you and cover you with skin and put breath in you and you shall live and you shall know that i am the lord so i prophesied as i was commanded and as i prophesied there was a noise and suddenly a rattling and the bones came together bone to bone i looked and the sinews of the flesh was upon them and the skin covered them over watch but there was no breath in them it's not enough to have numbers it's not enough to have a collective army of people who have no breath in them he didn't say to ezekiel that's good enough he said you're not done prophesying i want you to prophesy to the wind i want you to prophesy to the breath and i want you to say thus says the lord god come from the four winds o breath and breathe on these slain that they may live so i prophesied as he commanded me and breath came into them and they lived and stood up on their feet an exceeding great army i've got a word from the lord for somebody that just sees deadness and nothingness and you see a body but there is no breath breath is coming you've got to believe it today breath is coming come on i'm preaching about the breath of god when god breathes on us when god breathes on something that was dead everybody say the breath of god i mean if you know there is there's possibilities that are endless when god breathes on somebody oh i feel it in the holy ghost today i i mean just i feel the same spirit in this house that i felt last sunday morning in this house there is multiplication power there is creative power there is demonstrative power there's miracle power when the breath of god settles on somebody and they take who they are and what they are and their prayer requests and they say lord i'm going to keep on praying but i'm not enough i need the breath of god i need the spirit of god i need you to breathe upon me come on somebody say breathe on me lord breathe on me god let your breath be upon me today [Applause] hallelujah interesting to me that this this continues this thread goes all the way into the new testament when these same jews these children of israel are standing with jesus and the scripture says in acts chapter one and verse number six therefore when they had come together they asked jesus lord will you at this time restore the kingdom to israel in other words we remember what it used to be like when we were a united kingdom we remember when everybody was unified we remember when everybody was together and surely that's why you came isn't it to give us back what used to be lord will you make it all like it was before will you come in and restore it to what it used to be verse 7 and he said to them jesus said to them it is not for you to know the times or the seasons which the father has put in his own authority but you shall receive power when the holy spirit has come upon you can i preach it like this you shall receive power when god breathes on you i just thought i was living until he breathed on me i just thought life was good until the breath of god came you shall receive power when the holy spirit has come upon you and you shall be witnesses to me in jerusalem and in all judea and in samaria and to the end of the earth please note this somebody please hear me right now their desire was to get things back to the way they used to be and jesus to their question never answered them specifically rather he gave them a principle and here it is i'm gonna put it on the screen the answer to each of our questions is the breath of god oh god they're away from you couldn't you get them back to the way they used to be and the lord's not going to come today and say yeah i promise you it'll be to every i dotted and t crossed all he's saying is this you have questions i've got an answer for you you need the breath of god on you because when you get the breath of god on you it's going to empower you it's going to enable you it's going to help you to be a witness in whatever situation you're in when you don't have answers the breath of god is going to let you witness in that moment when you have the breath of god on you you're gonna be encouraged when you should be discouraged when you have the breath of god on you you're gonna have faith to keep praying and keep believing and keep trusting oh i'm praying somebody in this house with lots of questions we'll park your questions and say breathe on me god let your breath be upon me today more than i need answers i need your breath i need your touch i need your anointing breathe on me god let the breath of god be upon me come on to all of our questions the answer is the same we need the breath of god i'm going to time out right there i want to say it again to all of our questions we don't need answers as much as we need the breath of god whoo is there anybody in this house that when god breathes on you when the holy spirit steps in and he touches you from the top of your head to the sole of your feet and he infuses you with something that you needed more than anything else all of a sudden the questions seem to pale in the background why because i got his breath on me i got his life inside of me he's working on my behalf acts chapter 2 and verse 1 when the day of pentecost was fully come they were all with one accord in one place they had numbers they had might they didn't just have one they had 120 gathered together and suddenly there came a sound from heaven we don't need that we got numbers no the lord said it's not about numbers it's not about your efficiency it's not about your professionalism it's not about your presentation can i just say this and i hope you understand this today we try this church to do do good with what we have we try to present things well that's why people practice before they sing that's why we test the sound system before you all show up that's why we get people in place and greeters and ushers but here's the thing that's not going to deliver anybody but when his spirit comes [Applause] oh when his spirit comes when the holy ghost steps in when the spirit steps in he can take a mess and put something together he can move past our presentation he can move past our might or our ability [Applause] i'm just going to confess to you last summer there was a service at our church and i'll i'll get very i'll be vague on purpose we had a service and i was very interested in that service i had prayed and i'd fasted and i was out in the lord to pour his spirit out and i'm here to tell you something some i'ma help somebody right now because you have some bad days at work we have some bad days at work that service last summer was less than perfect you know how you sometimes go home and you review the day preachers do that too and as i was reviewing the day i thought that wasn't good that was the preaching the reason why i can say that because i was the one preaching i know it wasn't great and yet when we got to the end of that service i remember giving an appeal and i said would anybody like to pray today and i'm going to confess something to you in my flesh i thought well if it's based on what we just showed everybody's going to be running for the buffet line today and i looked out and there was a high school student sitting about six rows back and she shot her hand straight in the air and started reaching out to the lord and praising him and lifting her voice she had never been baptized with the holy spirit and in a matter of about two minutes she is over there and god is filling her with his spirit speaking with other tongues glorifying god praising god meanwhile pastors over here in all of my might and all of my thinking i told someone afterwards about that service and here's what they said to me they kind of went to me they didn't realize they did it but then they said when are we ever going to realize that he doesn't need our might and he doesn't need our strength he can step in now here's what i know he will respond to our faith so i'm not talking about not preparing i'm talking about not leaning on that i'm not talking about not presenting well just don't lean on that can i just tell all the guests that are here we can't make it professional enough to change your life we can't present it well enough to change my life but we lean upon the spirit of god and we ask for the breath of god to come and we do the best we can do and then we say come lord jesus rest lord jesus let your presence baptize this house suddenly there was a sound that came from heaven like a rushing mighty wind it filled the whole house where they were sitting divided tongue sat on them as fire one sat on each of them they were all filled with the holy spirit began to speak with other tongues as the spirit gave them utterance so i want to ask a question it's an honest question how do 120 people gather in an upper room in one room in one city touch the world how do you go from 120 in one room in jerusalem to more than 120 in cabot in 2021 how do you go from 120 in an upper room in jerusalem many years ago to now 600 million plus around the world that have been baptized with the holy spirit how does that happen it's the same way it happened at the day of pentecost because the bible says when the spirit came when the breath of god came parthians were touched medes were touched elamites were touched those in mesopotamia were touched judea heard about the lord cappadocia and pontus and asia and phrygia and pamphilia and egypt and libya and cyrene and rome jews by birth and jews by choice cretans and arabs heard people speaking the wonderful works of god how do you go from 120 to dozens of cultures at one time being impacted by the lord you don't do that in our power we don't do that in our strength we give that to the lord and let his breath come we need to go no further than the second chapter of the bible to see our need of the breath of god we were created with god's breath being breathed into us genesis chapter 2 and verse 7 the lord god formed a man of the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and man became a living soul this is why life really doesn't make total sense until god breathes on us this is why we will try a lot of things and at the end of the day everybody say the end of the day they'll fail us why because we were not created to lean on our strength we were not created to lean on our might we were created with the breath of god being breathed into us i want you to stand with me if you would please when i open up my bible and i read from the first chapter of scripture the bible says in the beginning god created the heavens and the earth the earth was without form and void and darkness was up on the face of the deep or the face of the waters and then it almost is an after thought before he creates but verse 2 says and the spirit of god was hovering over the face of the waters i want you to notice with me just for a moment at what happened when the spirit hovered that which was in darkness became in light because there are some things that we don't see adequately until the breath of god comes that which was without shape and void all of a sudden the dry land appeared and the birds and the creeping things and the mammals because until the spirit hovered on the earth it was without form and it was void light to see comes when his spirit hovers shape and definition to life's purpose comes when the spirit breathes upon us i wish today to make sure we understand the cry of zachariah it is not by our might exclusively and it is not by our power exclusively but it is by my spirit says the lord there's something about the breath of god zachariah said that next to the lampstand the source of its power was two olive trees one was on the left and the other was on the right the source of its strength was not its own ability but what was inherent in the tree itself you see the root system of an olive tree is so robust that it is capable of regenerating itself even when the olive tree is destroyed it was in tuscany in italy in 1985 that a severe frost destroyed many productive and aged olive trees olive trees can actually grow to be over two thousand years old when i was in israel with brother odle been there a couple times with him we went into the garden of gethsemane and here's what brother odell said to me and this rocked me when he said this he said we're gonna let you take a few moments and pray here in the garden of gethsemane and it might be that the tree you pray next to was the same tree that jesus knelt next to because that's how long those trees can last in 1985 when the severe frost blew through tuscany it wiped out the aged olive trees ruined the livelihood of many farmers in that area of italy however come spring they took notice that out of the ashes of a destroyed crop came shoots coming up out of the ground and when the dead wood was removed and when everything was cleared out new fruit producing trees began to shoot forth out of the ground why because there's something inherent in that tree that refuses to be shut down this is why someone who has the breath of god in them can go through tragedies you know how many people have said to me i wouldn't want to try losing a loved one and not have the lord on my side that is more than a cliche why is that because there's something about the breath of god that when things are destroyed it keeps shooting forth and it keeps reaching up and it keeps reaching for that new life that new strength so here's what i want to ask today and this is an appeal to everybody in this house members in this church guests in this church everybody are there people here today that you want to invite the breath of god to hover over you to bring the light that's necessary to bring the form and the shape that is necessary see it might not look like god's working anything out but that's why we need his breath remember the answer to all of our questions is the breath of god so just very quickly we'll sim we'll symbolize it by just stepping forward for prayer we'll pray for just a few moments and then we'll go off into our labor day weekend but if you're here and you want the breath of god the spirit of the lord to hover over you hover over your family i want you to come and just stand up here at the front guests members come on come on you don't have to be a member here to respond right now we're just going to pray together we're going to pray together [Music] thank you jesus thank you jesus thank you jesus that's good i feel the the prayers of people lifted being lifted up right now go ahead and pray to the lord right now go ahead and call out to the lord right now hover on me breath of god hover on us right now god hover on us right now lord hover on us right now god come on the breath of god is what we need today the breath of god is what we need today i need it on my family i need it all my family i need it on my marriage i need it on my parenting i need it on my body i need it on my health i need it on my leadership i need the breath of god i need the breath of god hallelujah come on those of you with lost loved ones the breath of god is here the breath of god is here to give you strength to give you hope to give you peace to carry on to keep coming keep going keep pressing hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah oh yes lord it's not by our mind we're not gonna see that built by our might we're not gonna see it constructed by our power it's gonna be by your spirit we're gonna have to get up on the wall and build but it's ultimately gonna be done when your breath comes hallelujah that's it go ahead let your voice out to the lord right now go ahead and pray out loud to him right now hallelujah we're gonna sing we're to pray we're going to go home in just a few minutes let's reach for the lord right now let's reach for the lord right now thank you jesus come on breath of god breath of god breath of god it's what we need it's what we need [Music] spirit of the lord's movement right now let's let the spirit of god breathe on us [Music] bring shape to the void i need the breath of god i need the breath of god [Music] oh yes lord [Music] let's let each other just feel the collective strength of the body maybe someone in your family is near you right now connect with them right now would you do that if your family's near you just connect with them right now yes come on the breath of god's gonna help give shape to something maybe someone near you some friend that's near you we're going to let the breath of god settle on us right now we're going to let the breath of god settle on us right now hallelujah we need your breath god we need your help lord jesus [Music] we need your help lord jesus oh yes come on i speak to a young adult right now god's got direction for you god's got formation for you god's got something for you thank you jesus [Music] salvation oh yes lord thank you jesus oh we need your breath lord we need your breath lord we need your breath god we need your spirit lord jesus come on that's the holy ghost that's the holy ghost let the spirit of god baptize you today holy spirit breathe on me [Music] hallelujah [Music] [Music] holy spirit [Music] we're not going to have an official dismissal today let me say before you go back to praying or whenever you want to be dismissed you can let me say something to everybody that's here god saw you simply i gave an appeal god saw you step out this is proof that you can respond to the presence of god god saw that he can work on our behalf he's breathing something on us today let's stay in that atmosphere let's stay in that atmosphere amen we're gonna keep singing it let's lift our voice you can be dismissed whenever you would like if you want to pray for a long time we've got time for you today have a wonderful labor day weekend we need your breath to hide [Music] is [Music] restore my soul

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Published: Sun Sep 05 2021