The Power of Language | Dr. Matthew Stevenson | DWELL

praise the name of the Lord welcome Memphis to your Pentecost service I cannot say how happy and elated I am to stand before you once again even through we're going through global uncertainty to declare the glorious gospel of Jesus Christ you are as it were an anomaly to everything in your city you stand apart you are separated but consecrated for an unusual purpose and an unusual calling and I just sense in my belly that Pentecost is gonna be a turnaround time for all nations worship Assembly of Memphis I salute and give grace and peace to a consul Brandon and prophetess Christabel clack and their outstanding leadership in your lives and in your stories may the hand of God the favor of God the power of God come upon everything concerning you as a matter of fact the word of the Lord comes to you concerning this next season in your life that you're going to be an example and a testament of the power of God through endurance and what it means to be resilient even through a trial and the father has given you even through this season even concerning the next several weeks an unusual Authority that will become the insignia of your ministry your life your destiny but also your resource I prophesy and I declare a divine turnaround in your economics that entire campus is getting ready to experience a shift and upgrade or move up in their economic power that is the word of the Lord concerning you so Memphis look up do not be in despair the inn that you would abandon your post with regard to praise and worship and that you would lose your savour for the presence of God but I decree the taste of the goodness of the Lord who is coming back to your tongue the praise will be palatable for you and you will understand that it's the power of princes that praise the name of the Lord so look up Brandon Christabel the Lord told me you will be dancing again in no time he's going to talk whoa he's gonna turn this thing around in a miraculous way shout hallelujah wherever you are in your homes in your jobs type that thing here because God's gonna do something powerful for the pack plane hey God's gonna do something powerful for the Memphis Church that's going to be the house of miraculous demonstration we declare that it is so and not otherwise listen there is a word from the Lord and I want to give you some preaching didactics about something that is the International and historic sign of Pentecost what we are celebrating is the instruction of Jesus very often when we preach Pentecost we hurry up and we rush to acts the second chapter but what we really do celebrate is what Jesus told the twelve which was go to Jerusalem and stay there and he told them to stay there with what would seem to be too many and big ewis instruction he told them to stay there until you be endued with power and there was a word there that shakes very many into human conscious and in the human psyche it's the word until very few people had the dexterity and the maturity and the focus and the concentration to stay there until it's a difficult thing to stay there until and when I say stay there I mean stay at whatever principle whatever instruction whatever directive whatever information the Lord gave you less and right now even though the world is in quarantine and people are in fret and worried and in fear I'm encouraging about a hundred of you to stay there do not abandon your last set of instructions don't abandon your last series of information because there is power in the soul to stay there and when you look at it clearly he said stay there until now the way the Lord works is that because he enjoys and he uses the instrument of expectation and he uses the instrument of anticipation what happens is he allows for people to expect and to wait and to lean in even when they don't know what's coming come on now what will we see this there was an audience of about 380 when Jesus told him and this is not my tanks when Jesus instructed them that I'm going on to the Father there were about 380 people present for that discussion but when we go over to the book of Acts to the second chapter you and I know that there was only a hundred and twenty people that were present and what you and I know to be the upper room what that means was that there was more people that got distracted that were unfocused that were unsettled that thought that they had more to do better to accomplish than there was not so the majority could not stay them but the 120 actually stayed there to wait and see what the until would bring listen to me and I got to get to my text there is an until in the earth right now what that means that you are now waiting we're expecting we're watching we're seeking up we're searching we're looking until and here's the thing that I love about our God he is so good that we don't even have to know what we're waiting on all I know is that a good God can't make a bad promise and so if he says stay there until whatever he's going to do is going to work for us it's going to work in us it's going to work around us it's going to work through us come on I want you to type in them comments until until until we don't know what we're waiting on we don't know what we're waiting for we can't describe what is going to look like we can't describe what is going to do but what we do know about our god is that we've got history with him that's what the Biblio Sea is it's the history the autobiography of the eternal maker the creator of the ends of the earth who fainted not and neither is really he graciously gave us a manuscript whereby we can understand him and so when he who has been integral through our ages passed an integral throughout history tells us to wait until we've got to wait come on I want you to be willing to wait on him Pentecost is a national celebration after the resurrection of Jesus about the reward of men and women who are willing to wait this is all introductory you know when we see what happened in that room there were a couple of phenomena that would forever change the world and one of them was as they were waiting they were introduced to another realm of God that they had not witnessed before come on through here which was the realm called suddenly there is a side of God that is patient and kind and slow to anger and paste in his doings but then there is another realm of God that's called suddenly there is a swift side of God when he does a thing quickly without human comprehension oh yes without human understanding and what Pentecost shows is that when people gather together both in unity and anticipation it gives birth to this suddenly now the Bible says that this suddenly came and when they suddenly came there were cloven tongues of fire and what I love about this is that what would happen this transformation this ordination this consecration would not be selective it sat upon each of them that means that all you had to do at Pentecost was be in the right room all you had to do was understand the power of a divine schedule all you had to do was be a part of an environment where men and women were waiting and wanting and looking for something they did not even understand what do you do when you instruct it to wait for something you can't comprehend when you instructed to wait for something you've never seen before when you instruct it to wait for something the biblical word is tarry for something that you're not seeing yet I'm challenging I'm charging 100 of you out there to tarry and I'm not talking about the repetitive repeating of the name of Jesus I'm talking about setting your heart at a deal like pacer to seek out whatever God has promised you set in your soul and your mind yeah even your belly at a rhythm and a rate that can follow after the promise of God because when you're dealing with the promise of God you've got to be willing to tarry for it so we see an environment now where they are tearing and they're anticipating and I can imagine even in my head the questions and the ruminations and the rhetorics that were born in that room as they were trying to figure out what the Messiah was going to leave him consider this interpretation and acts the first chapter he appeared to them in a resurrected form and the Bible saying acts 1:8 ye shall receive power after that the Holy Ghost has come upon you now they had no idea to connect the announcement of the arrival of the Holy Ghost to what would happen to them in acts the second chapter but something was getting ready to happen that would never be able to be reverse you and I brothers and sisters are sitting here in America filled with the eternal power of the Living God because of what happened in that room you got to understand the revelation of the room what happened was God had ordained a space and God had ordained a place to reveal himself in a way he had never done it I know Bible said that wouldn't happen cloven tongues of fire sat upon each of them now an important part of Pentecost is not just that phenomena it is also the translation the interpretation and the declaration of Peter God's apostle he stands up in the midst of ambiguity and he stands up in the midst of confusion and he stands up in the midst of rhetoric and questioning and he says these men are not drunk as you suppose you think they're out of their mind you think they're losing their mind you think they don't understand and comprehend the logic and sensible behavior but these men are not drunk as you suppose but this is that that was spoken by the Prophet Joel we'll come on Bible that in the last days saith god I will pour out of my spirit watch this all upon all flesh your sons and your daughters will prophesy your young men will see visions hallelujah your old men will dream dreams and in those days I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh even upon your handmaidens what happened in that room was the Spirit of God who raised every socio-economic educational class he tore down the wall of perdition between who did and did not deserve it but more importantly he showed them that the New Covenant was more powerful than what Moses said he showed them that the New Covenant was the thing that was written in his side the thing that was put in his hands the thing that was put in his feet would take new precedent on determine who could have the Holy Ghost now as we examine and we venture into what that means contemporarily for you and I we cannot ignore and avoid the fact that the gift God gave us was a new language you had to understand that the gift of the Father is the son and the gift of the son is the spirit but the gift of the Spirit is a different way to talk now listen I understand that we are in a millennial culture and I realize it right now everybody's talking about deaths and death tolls and numbers and testings but I want to know who's talking in tongues here's a problem with us whenever we abandon the route of pentecost war way but the route of pentecost the the the sign of pentecost the symptom of pentecost which the word Penta means fifty which means that this whole thing was about the release of grace we preach the fire we preach the cloud but we don't preach the might of God as expressed through the tongue and the might of God has expressed through the language and the Bible says that one of the consistent signs after Acts chapter two was that whenever men were filled with the Holy Ghost one of the phenomena one of the bizarre happenings that occurred in the life of those people was they would be ridden of one language hey and they would be filled with another one of their languages would be coming out God through the baptism of the Holy Ghost through the Greek word plural Roma would feel man so much but they would start talking differently than they had ever talked before now I'm gonna give you my text and I'm gonna give you my verse but I want to let you to know that God is trying to disciple your tongue he's trying to baptize your tongue so he's trying to do a thing in your throat where you can express the glory the power the splendor the wonder the justice the righteousness and the power of a God who is still alive I'm talking about talking in tongues and so when we want to explain this when we want to understand this most scholars use the term glossolalia and what that means is expression and what that means is decree what that means is communication in an unknown language it means the ability to express from your life to another and to communicate through the power of language and so this is a contiguous du Testament phenomena wherever you saw the Holy Ghost you saw a change of talk wherever you saw the Holy Ghost a change of speech you saw as it were a disciple of the vernacular and the conversation and the speech and the dialect and the dialogue he did something to the conversation and right now I understand that everybody is facing unprecedented and unparalleled pressures but what I'm adding this word that is in your conversation God is trying to do a thing with your speech because after this I want you to just by faith type the phrase after this because there will be and after this and after this is being determined and been decided but also being constructed by what you're saying in this so now as we understand this and we press into this precious mystery of divers and languages we journey into Paul's letter to the Corinthian church even 1st Corinthians chapter 14 verses 14 and 15 and for comprehension I want to read it in the amplified version and here's what his epistle reads to his precious church for if I pray in an unknown tongue my spirit prays but my mind is unproductive because it does not understand what my spirit is praying the first principle as we interpret and scholarly approach this text is it Paul is giving you permission to not understand he is giving allowance for you to lose at some points realms and spaces or levels of intelligence listen to me beloved there will be people you don't understand there will be situations you don't understand there will be moments you don't understand there will be all kinds of events in the the space of human life that you do not understand but God through his precious spirit I was giving you a weapon in the arsenal of the Bible to do something when you don't know what to do I'm very many people get exhausted and they get anxious when they don't know what to do but listen to me beloved it's okay to not know what to do that's the reason why you've got to help his name is the Holy Ghost even the Paraclete he continues to write then or what am I to do I will pray with the spirit by the Holy Spirit that is within me and I will pray with the mind using words I understand and then he says I will even seeing what the spirit by the Holy Spirit that was within me and then I will also sing with the understanding of the mind what he allows for is a use of a dual weapon which is understanding and lack of understanding he leaves us actually with no stone unturned in that that there are things that you can employ and release when you understand a circumstance and when you understand a situation and when you understand a season and when you understand a moment but good news to use on here now there are also things that you can do when you do not understand and right now it's frustrating to look at so many believers who are wrestling with the lack of understanding and they're not utilizing the gift of God that was poured out on the earth over two centuries ago even the gift of the Holy Ghost now we've got to look at the power of language what does it achieve why was that God's choice of gift why was that God's sign of being filled the power of language what was it in the logic of God that decided in language and tongues and speech and conversation and decree and Declaration and oratory why would that be the gift upon the earth when the baptism of the Holy Ghost came it's because what joins and what unites and what centers are what enables all communication and all understanding between human beings is a language the only way we can understand each other the only way we can reach each other the only way we can relate to each other is through the power of some form of a language so then the Creator decided that when he released the authority the sovereign authority the sovereign rule of the planet into the guardianship and the custodianship of the Holy Ghost one of the things he would use to regulate it would be a way to talk you understand that how you talk represents where you come from you understand that how you talk is a sign of where you were born so then and only makes sense that if you and I are citizens of heaven even an eternal Kingdom and we are only aliens and foreigners upon the planet but it makes sense that we talk like heaven it makes sense that we direct like heaven that we make speeches like heaven so now we've got to explore how language is the universal power that strengthens and clarifies and upholds communication in every realm and in every field a language is used for every species on the earth to articulate its desires to articulate its identity to articulate its passions its actions it's once it's long as its needs its dangers its fears its worries hallelujah its campaigns its planes its views and its arguments so the only limitation of language then is the barometer of difference wherever you have a language barrier you have a restriction on what can unite what can work together in tandem what can move forward to accomplish and to achieve and to build so the only barometer and the only barrier and the only restriction of language is there is difference let me let me show it to you like this dogs bark hallelujah cows Moo cats meow sheeps sheep ha ha so what we're dealing with now is a weapon that's given to everything under the created order that allows them to express what's going on on the inside of them and God would have it that those of you who know the name of the precious sound would not be without a language to express you yourself your knees and your agony your wants and your desire so glory to the Son of God now I want to show you this in a unique way to express oneself is to use a language to hear the sentiment of another requires the understanding of language so then we have an Old Testament parallel of what happened in both Acts chapter 2 and what Paul wrote in 1st Corinthians 14 and that's the Tower of Babel that word means confusion that words mean misunderstanding so now we extract here huh that whenever something is going on on the earth you've got to say it before you see it what God does is he allows and provokes men to start talking about stuff that looks crazy huh looks like it's not going to happen huh looks like it's not going to come to pass it's called prophesying he starts pulling things out of the incorporeal and allowing it to manifest because by your words the world is frame so in the Tower of Babel it explains what language can achieve what it shows is when you start talking how you're supposed to talk the joining of the heart and the mind makes you build things that you could not build before I want to read to you Genesis the eleventh chapter to display how this works this is Genesis chapter 11 verses 1 through 9 it shows the power of sound dialect shows the power of moanings that cannot be uttered of men it shows the power of the thing that's right behind your prayer language and it's called the mystery of the growth then I take a parenthetic Paul's right here and prophesied that the groan is coming back in the earth God is getting ready to raise men that groan again Oh women that groan again huh I even see it coming up on teenagers I see it coming up on children we're in the middle of the night with anxiety and panic huh and night terrors are trying to kidnap and abduct the vision and the dreams of me huh to be wrong on their return appreciate your singing preciate your meditation but somebody's got now in Genesis 11 chapter 1 Genesis 11 verse 1 through 9 preaching power the Bible said now the whole earth spoke one language and use the same words or vocabulary and as people journeyed East where they found the plain of the land next to Shinar and they settled there but they said to one another this is when we had one language but they said to one another come let us make bricks and fire thoroughly in a kid in to harden them so they use brick for stone listen to me and building material and they use star for mortar they said come let us build a city for ourselves and a tower whose top listened to me will reach into the heavens the human intention had turned in a direction that it had never done before the human effort had turned in the direction but it had never done before and this was done by the power of the language listen what they said we're going to build a tower who will reach into the heavens and they said let us make a famous name for ourselves that's the danger of not having diverse tongues you start trying to make a name for yourself but when you are brought in to even the accountability of another tongue hey even the training of another tongue what it does is it rearranges your motives glory to the son of God it rearranges your agenda and rearranges your calendar it rearranges your passions and rearranges your efforts it rearranges your meditation it goes into the corpus callosum the cerebral cabins of your brain and empties out to be true in the mine of his gonna use the people right now if you say you're going to walk into the holy going to be ashamed be joined together once again some of you allowed your beliefs are to Rome because of what's going on around you but put your hand on your belly hush and scream the word I believe understand people have died but I still believe God I understand what the news is saying but I still believe God [Music] it's looking for people huh just going to believe him and relieve him hard and believe him strong and believe him consistently his reasonable people huh who's gonna believe him us against the wall against the obstacle against the hardship against the diagnosis against the decree believe him of Genesis 11 come on mr. breech it says now the Lord now the Lord now the Lord came down to see there's very few examples in the Bible when God came down and it's time that you and I examined what happens when God comes down he came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built but the Lord said Behold they are one there are unified people and they have all the same language again this technology was working but at this point it was about to work to the disadvantage of the human race and God through the baptism of the Holy Ghost wanted to work pull the advantage and the fort move and the progress of the human race he continues to ride this is only the beginning of what they will do in rebellion against me and now no evil thing they imagine can do will be impossible for them here is where we get our preaching power verse 7 of Genesis 11 says this come let us Father Son and Holy Spirit go down and confuse the language go down and mix up the way they talk go down and allow for and enable for different ethnicities different locales different regions different neighborhoods or different zones to talk just a little differently so the Bible said he went down and they didn't understand each other's speech and the Lord scattered them so what does the Tower of Babel teach us about talking with tongues what does the Tower of Babel offer us as a necessary lesson for contemporary application number one it teaches us that languages was used to determine their vision go if you got a vision and if you got a goal out there you got to start talking in tongues if you've got something that's been supernaturally revealed to you if you've got something that's been promised to you from the eve is it the invisible you got to understand by praying and the Holy Ghost number two tap the Bible teaches us that language was used to determine the strategy and the plan you cannot give birth to something that came from heaven with earthly strength with earthly strategy with earthly concept if you need a strategy I'm working in here if you need a plan if you need a program in a calendar you better pray in the Holy Ghost come out of the snare of the English language and start to pray in such a way where God can speak through you the stuff that's good for you that you don't have to run by you it's the power of the Holy Ghost number three it shows us that language was used to determine the direction of energy and effort my brothers and sisters energy and effort is a power for earthly resources very many people around the world are uncertain about how to use their energy and their effort right now they are misallocating they are Mis budgeting the use of their strengths hallelujah the use of their effort the use of their wheel because everything happens at the wheel if it's going to work it's gonna work in your wheel and your wheel is where the strategy and the plan is born therefore and thereby when your strategy is loose when your strategy is unrefined when your strategy is unprotected there is only one other person that knows how to prevent the unprotected - glory to the son of God there is only one other person that knows had a dot and punctuate up an unprotected plan and strategy and his name is the Holy Ghost his name is the his name when he the Spirit of Truth has come he will lead you high he will guide you into all truth and he will show you what is to come the past it's the power of language and strategy then the final one his language was used to get the attention of God to get the attention of God when Babel started talking crazy about their intention and about their direction and about their plan God started to look in that direction I want to let you know that God listens to the prayers of men but there is something about when God through you start speaking to God in heaven when the Spirit of God in you starts reaching out to express the perfected will of God because he is what you don't know God speaks one language and it's his will God speaks one language it ain't English or Spanish he speaks the language of eternity God's made of tongue is his will this is about the Bible saying first Corinthians 13 if I speak in the tongues of men and angels that means that angels have a dialect in a dialogue and if my Bible range true they only respond to the sound of God's Word the language of God's Word and that can only be done to a people that's not embarrassed to say yo son AHA you gotta be done through a people that's willing to go up in in different places I'm willing to express themself in the power of the Holy Ghost now I want to deal with those of you that are better scholars and agnostics and you don't believe that this is necessary for you you are gonna hit a season where your mind is going to run bankrupt you are gonna hit a season at a reason a a clause for pause that's gonna make you understand that your strength is going to run out your power is going to run out your desire is going to run out your emotions are gonna run out your physical strength is going to be abated and if you don't have the Holy Ghost you better hear this warning mister if you don't have the Holy Ghost you are going to lose your I said that if you don't have the Holy Ghost you're going to wanna kill yourself every other day the Holy Ghost his job is to apply the parts of you that ain't hold up on his own I'm gonna tell you the Holy Ghost will uphold ya with his free spirit he will hold ya with the strength of his right hand but you gotta open your mouth use your lips teeth until the time to declare the mysterious works of God through the Holy Ghost I'm going to pray for you that you don't allow the reports of the devil the reports of the enemy the reports of the lying accuser because this is what we're dealing with we're not just dealing with political evil and we're not just dealing with wickedness in high places we're dealing with an evil regime that's as old as the world who has decided to try to take the glory of God and turn the attention of an entire generation away but I dare you to open your mouth and begin to let that language come out of you it will settle your heart it will ease your anxiety it will regulate your mind you're thinking I want you to talk the language that you did not learn to talk in and what will happen in your emotional self is you'll notice that the peace of God that passes all understanding will guard your heart and my father I lift my voice to you concerning Memphis even concerning all nations worship assembly Memphis and I'm thanking you that the assignment the anointing the destiny of this campus is to be the Upper Room that the destiny of this campus is to be the place where men can experience the new wine the latter rain I'm asking right now that you would begin to do a thing even in signs and wonders where you will feel people with the Holy Ghost under speaking with tongues that are disqualified disenfranchised I want you to do it for the Deaf and the dumb the blind I want you to do it but those that have autism I want you to do it for the senior citizen I want you to feel every class every category with the power of the Holy Ghost and Lord with earn the captivity of this city double this campus in the strong name of Jesus met desire that hunger let thirst come upon them in a way they've never seen before there's no mattress name of the head of the church I declare this so over you in Jesus name Amen

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Published: Sun May 31 2020