The Street Online - 6th March 2022

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[Music] is [Music] oh [Music] [Applause] [Music] right [Applause] [Music] who can stop the lord almighty [Music] who can stop the lord almighty who can stop the lord almighty no one who can stop [Music] who can stop the lord [Music] who can stop it [Music] [Applause] [Music] is [Music] [Applause] [Music] for the sins of world [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] hello everybody welcome this morning wherever you're coming from whether you're in a hub or a home it is wonderful to be gathered with you today yes it is we've actually got some celebrations uh this week we do want to share uh ryan avery who completed a 100 kilometer run for charity how crazy is that what i love is that he did it for a dcm and a south african charity for uh marginalized uh people well that's cool i like that part of it i know right and also uh the race he was going to do got cancelled so he just ran it on his own just ran to wyconite great i know right great job ryan um yeah a baptism celebrate that a slightly different running race and this guy his name is tim judge i was there on this last sunday at one of the night gatherings tim got baptised he's a marathon runner as well actually and part of his story was he was traveling around the world running marathons and he ended up in brazil i think it was and god was following him that whole way he was running doing other things in his life but god was always pursuing him and i'm calling him to have a relationship with him so it was awesome to be able to celebrate with tim on sunday as he um decided to follow jesus that is incredible you know it's been a big week uh in our world right um it's hard to ignore the incredible conflict that's going on in europe right now and actually many of us have maybe forgotten that before that there was a tsunami in tonga that's still being cleared up and then of course closer to home and i realized that many there will be many views and perspectives around what's going on in our country right now but i just wanted to us to acknowledge this morning that it's really clear in the aftermath of the protest that what we're clearing up is more than just tents and embers but we are dealing with a deeply divided country and as i went for a walk as i often do to have a pray this morning i found myself deeply grieved over there and what's going on in our world at the moment and i began to ponder our national anthem god of nations at your feet in the bonds of love we meet and and i looked up into such a strange moment i look up and there's the southern cross right above me and i just thought wow god you are so big you're above it all and so as we begin today i just want to acknowledge what's going on in our world and i'd love us just to pray and so wherever you are just join together right now in prayer and some of you might even want to pause this and just spend some time in prayer before you sort of press play again as we head into worship but can we just join in prayer together right now lord god we are grieved over so many things that are going on in our world and in our country things beyond our control things and hostility so deep that we don't know where to begin sometimes but we thank you that you're the god of nations we thank you that you're before it all and after it all and above it all and we thank you that at the very middle of time as tom took us through last week stands jesus christ crucified and raised to life again whose death and resurrection is about bringing together peace in our world and this good news that not only is there new life in his name but one day you are coming again lord jesus to rule and reign to over a world made right and we worship you today and we're so grateful for you today and we want to pray today for uh particularly for our nation right now that lord you would lead you'd give wisdom to those in authority uh over us that where there's hard-heartedness i pray that there will be forgiveness freely offered i pray that repentance would be would would be walked through where that is necessary and that lord god there might be a way forward as a nation and so we lift that to you today and we ask you would help us to that today and your wonderful name amen amen we're going to move into a time of worship now and it is just such a joy to be able to come together and worship god and remind ourselves of the joy that we can find in in him even amongst difficult times um i'd love to read from psalm 89 it says i will sing of the lord's great love forever with my mouth i will make your faithfulness known through all generations i will declare that your love stands firm forever that you establish your faithfulness in heaven itself and then in verse 8 it says oh lord god almighty who is like you you are mighty o lord and your faithfulness surrounds you and we get to come and remind ourselves as we sing with our mouths and with our hearts we get to remind ourselves that god is holy he is faithful and he is on the throne he is in control and so i pray now that we would find joy in bringing glory to him as we worship yes we're gonna sing uh no one like our god let's sing together there's nothing higher no one greater there is no [Music] there is [Music] there's no [Music] you've always been alive from the darkness [Music] [Applause] [Music] we respond with praise [Music] and no one greater there is [Music] there is [Music] by surprise [Music] you gave me [Music] [Music] forever [Music] is [Music] god [Music] [Music] there is [Music] there [Music] is no [Music] [Music] [Music] you're in control there's nothing that can shake you you stand alone now until forever [Music] [Music] [Music] we declare your greatness we say you give life you give life you are love you bring light to the darkness you give hope you restore every heart that is broken [Music] is [Music] you bring light to the darkness you give hope you restore every heart that is [Music] [Applause] [Music] great [Music] so we pour our praise for our [Music] [Music] is [Music] [Applause] [Music] me [Music] our hearts will cry these bones will sing grace [Music] our hearts will cry these bones [Music] our hearts will cry these bones [Music] [Music] is [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] be praised [Music] we're going to move to a time of communion now where we get to share together bread and juice and in acts chapter 2 acts as the book that talks about the early beginnings of the church once jesus had left this earth and it says that they devoted the believers devoted themselves to the apostles teaching and to the fellowship and to the breaking of bread and to prayer and then later it says that every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts they broke bread in their homes and they ate together with glad and sincere hearts and in this passage it reminds me of the kind of situation that we're in where we get to meet in hubs and we get to meet um in homes and have intimate time together now where we get to remember jesus and this time of communion of taking the bread and taking the juice was something that i think it was in luke's gospel that jesus said he was actually really looking forward to this meal that he got to spend time with his disciples and so this is something that we should be looking forward to and are excited that we get to share this five minutes of time that you're gonna get um to to remember together um what jesus did he lived a perfect life here on earth and then he died and then he rose again to life so that we could be in in perfect relationship with god if we choose that so we get to take this bread which represents jesus his body and his blood um his chose this juice that represents jesus's blood and we get to share with each other the joys of knowing jesus and remembering what he's done for us or coming before him and sharing with someone your brokenness and what you need jesus to do for you right now and how you need him to meet you in your life right now and we get to do this together forever until we are reunited with god in perfect relationships so we take this in faith that one day we will be reunited with him so wherever you guys are take your bread take your juice fear together be in community together and enjoy remembering jesus right now [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] cheers [Music] how high the mountain i could not climb in desperation i turned to heaven [Music] your loving kindness [Music] the work [Music] is written jesus christ [Music] what i [Music] is [Music] jesus christ [Music] salvation in your name jesus [Music] that sealed the promise your buried body began to breathe [Music] [Music] that sealed [Music] breathe [Music] is [Music] [Music] jesus christ [Music] set me free [Music] jesus christ jesus christ [Music] yeah god we give you praise we give you honor we give you worship for who you are for what you've done for us and god as we as we move into to the sermon i just want to lift up jenny to you i want to pray for her i pray lord that you would anoint her words um by your holy spirit would you empower her uh give her everything she needs um to to share um to share your word lord i thank you for the way you've been speaking to her this week as she's been preparing and i pray for us as we receive and listen to this message i pray for us soften our hearts make us willing to not just hear but obey and practice what she says we thank you lord in jesus name [Music] hello i'm jenny and i'm going to tell you that when i was 21 i landed my dream job shock um when i was 21 being a pastor was not my dream job sorry to say but um in the uk the government of the time brought in an initiative called shorestat that was designed to give funding to support low socioeconomic areas and one part of that initiative was creating a role in schools in those areas called learning mentors and the role of the learner mentor was to support children and families who were struggling to access education not because of special educational needs but because of other factors that were acting as barriers to learning and these kids were often not attending school or the ones they were the ones who got into fights a lot or they were ones with low self-esteem or they were ones with just difficulty getting on with people and my job was to do what was necessary to break down the barriers to learning for them and it was a rewarding role because i got to be someone who was focused solely on what an individual child needed in order to succeed and sometimes correction sometimes care sometimes encouragement sometimes truth sometimes new learning sometimes reminding sometimes just being present sometimes listening always for their good always on their side always cheering them on always wanting them to thrive and succeed and doing everything that i could to help and i wonder if you know what it feels like to have someone that is for you like that my big idea for my message today is that the holy spirit is just that he is for you unlike me as a learning mentor though he's perfect and good and he's not stretched thinly over a whole caseload of children he's powerful and he's able and he was sent for you he is for you the holy spirit is for you and so that's what we're talking about the holy spirit and you can probably imagine it's hard to pick one passage to speak from when that's your subject right um it's like preach about god in 20 minutes but there are some amazing chapters in the book of john beginning in chapter 13 in the upper room with jesus washing the disciples feet and it goes right through to john 17 where jesus prays this incredible prayer for the disciples just before he gets arrested and in these chapters we're getting to witness the last hours before jesus is arrested and before he goes to the cross and it's like jesus is sharing all the things that he wants the disciples to know before he goes and we all know moments like that right when time is short and there's important messages that we need to communicate it happens to me every morning when i drop izzy off at school as we're pulling up to the curb where i'm going to drop her off i suddenly remember all the things i need her to know like make sure you work hard today is it i'm so proud of you i love you do your best you're awesome have you got your lunch box and your water bottle okay see oh dad's picking you up where do you want to meet him okay have a great day have you got your mask you know those moments are not the moments i decide to talk about incidental things they're the moments where we talk about what matters and the limit of time forces the important things to come out doesn't it and so in these chapters jesus is taking his last opportunity to pass on the things he really wants them to know and he talks about the holy spirit a number of times jesus needs the disciples to know that the holy spirit is key to their success once jesus is gone and so we're going to look at just a few of those verses today and then a few other verses from elsewhere but i want to encourage you as you're reading your bible over the next days and weeks and months i want to just encourage you to take notice when it talks about the holy spirit what's the bible say about him what's it say that could teach you a little bit more about who he is today but i'm just going to pray and then we will read some of john together so let's pray father we thank you for your word thank you thank you for the way that you have revealed yourself to us through it thank you for what it teaches us about who you are we're so grateful that we have it and so pray for us now would you open our hearts would you soften our hearts we want to know you more we want to encounter you today um yeah we want to understand more of who the holy spirit is and what that means for us and so help us now help me now as i share what you've laid on my heart today in jesus name amen so the first few verses we're going to read are in john chapter 16 from verses 7 to 11. they're coming up on the screen it says but very truly i tell you it is for your good that i am going away unless i go away the advocate will not come to you but if i go i will send him to you when he comes he will prove the world to be in the wrong about sin and righteousness and judgment about sin because people do not believe in me about righteousness because i'm going to the father where you can see me no longer and about judgment because the prince of this world now stands condemned now i don't know about you but i often find myself reading the gospels and being super envious of the disciples they actually got to walk and talk with jesus they got to watch him in the flesh and follow him and listen to him and i just find it so profound here in this verse that jesus says to the disciples very truly i tell you it's for your good that i am going away and i love sometimes when a verse stands out to me like that to look up in different versions i find it gives me a fuller appreciation for what it means and so if you look at that verse in the esv it says it is to your advantage that i go away and if you look at it in the nlt it says it is best for you that i go away so this is extreme jesus isn't just saying it's going to be okay he's saying this is actually the best option and the reason is because he's going to send the holy spirit i'm wondering how the disciples felt when he said that imagine they found it hard to believe like who is this holy spirit who could possibly be better than jesus and so that's the question we ask ourselves today who is the holy spirit that he could be so awesome that jesus would say it is best for you that i go away and the basis of this series is that the holy spirit is god he's the third person of the trinity simon kicked our series off a few weeks ago with this statement and we believe in one god who eternally exists in three persons god the father god the son and god the holy spirit identical in nature equal in glory distinct in role so he is identical in nature to the father and the son he's equal in glory to the father and the son yet he is distinct in role from the father and the son he is a distinct person of the trinity in his own right and i love as you look at the holy spirit throughout the bible he appears in genesis chapter 1 verse 2. right in the beginning it says the earth was formless and empty and darkness covered the deep waters and the spirit of god was hovering over the surface of the waters he was there at creation and then in revelation 22 verse 17 the very last chapter of the bible it says the spirit and the bride say come he's there at the end and i just think that's so beautiful because just in case any of us wondered or had any doubt about his significance or his equality or his place in the trinity he's right there in the beginning and the end and all the way through but what i really want to focus on today is not those things i want us to focus on the fact that he has a distinct role because there are things that the holy spirit does that neither the father or the son do his role is significant and distinct and so i'm going to pull out two things for you today i said my big idea was that he is for you and there's two ways i think he's for you the first way i want to pull out is that he is for you personally and so we're going to go to our second passage today in john chapter 14 verses 15 to 18. it says this if you love me keep my commands and i will ask the father and he will give you another advocate to help you and be with you forever the spirit of truth the world cannot accept him because it neither sees him nor knows him but you know him for he lives with you and will be in you i will not leave you as orphans i will come to you i love this because it's another endorsement of the holy spirit being an equal person of the trinity john wrote this gospel and he also wrote some letters later in the new testament and in 1 john which he wrote in chapter 2 verse 1 john refers to jesus as an advocate and so when jesus said another advocate he's implying this advocate i'm sending to you is going to be just like me now if the holy spirit was not equally god that would have been an entirely inappropriate way of describing him he says he the father will give you another advocate another one just like jesus and then he says you know him for he lives with you and will be in you i don't know about you but i find that hard to wrap my head around god is sending an advocate a spirit he's going to be in me and with me but however hard it is to wrap our heads around it's the powerful truth if you love jesus the holy spirit is with you and he's in you and this isn't a general collective view you know you know he's with you all he's in you all i checked the greek because you can do that on the internet the you here is singular he's saying he is with you he is in you he means you this is personal it means that when the devil would have you believe that god is far from you it's not the truth because the holy spirit is with you and in you it means that when the devil would have you believe that you're not enough it's not the truth because you have the holy spirit in you when you believe you can't break that sin habit it's not the truth because you have the holy spirit in you and fill in what it is for you but whatever it is that you're believing that's not the truth it's not the truth because you have the holy spirit in you in matthew 28 verses 18 to 20 when jesus gave the great commission jesus said and surely i am with you always to the very end of the age and this this is the fulfillment of that promise the holy spirit is in you and he's with you and he's not leaving you so that's the first thing he is for you personally the second thing i want to pull out is that he is for you purposefully jesus didn't just send the holy spirit to keep you company so that you don't get lonely i loved how tom shared last week that um jesus wasn't just born he was sent and it's the same that with the holy spirit he didn't just come he was sent the holy spirit was sent to enable and to empower you and to equip you to fulfill what god has called you to do that in its simplest form is that commission to go and make disciples of all nations luke 24 49 says and now i will send the holy spirit just as my father promised but stay here in the city until the holy spirit comes and fills you with power from heaven fills you with power from heaven i looked into that word phil's a bit more and it the sense of it is clothes you with and so i was imagining i was trying to imagine what does it feel like to be clothed with power i love being clothed with a nice big thick coat in the wellington southerly that feels awesome right but what about being clothed with power i wonder if you just want to take a second to close your eyes and imagine what is that like what does that feel like as i imagine that i i picture a superhero getting into their superhero suit you know there's something of the superhero powers that come with those clothes but this is not a far off reality that you are clothed with power from heaven if you've put your trust in jesus like we talked about in john 14 before if you love me he lives with you and will be in you if that is you you are clothed with today with power from on high it's your reality now when i say he's purposeful his purpose isn't to make you feel powerful we're not all just going to sit here now and say woo hoo but he clothes you with power so that you'll be fruitful disciple makers you know this is the mission that he has called us to this is what he is empowering us for look at the day of pentecost in acts chapter 2 we're not going to read it but when the holy spirit first filled the believers there was a violent wind and there were tons of fire that rested on them and they were able to speak in other languages but it wasn't so that people would look and say wow aren't you amazing look at these amazing things that you can do it was to reveal god to the people who were there the reaction of the people that were around was wow they're speaking my language how can this be it says in verse 12 they were amazed and perplexed and they asked one another what does this mean as you read through the new testament you'll find the holy spirit gives every believer gifts of the spirit the purpose of these gifts is so we can be fruitful disciple makers using them to share the message with those who haven't yet believed and using them to build one another up in the church but my realization over this last few weeks as i've been preparing is we don't always live like this is true i don't always live like this is true i was thinking about um a show that i grew up watching in the uk called antiques roadshow did you have antiques roadshow in new zealand yeah um it was always on an early sunday evening and i loved antiques roadshow because you always were like willing the thing that the person brought in to be worth like a ton of money and it was always great when it was the thing that um was just like dusty in the corner or on the mantelpiece and nobody gave it the time of day and they suddenly found out wow this is amazing and the picture on the slide that i think you've just seen um is one of the highest valued pieces that they've ever come across on the antiques roadshow and the guy that brought in is the faberge i don't know something ornament the guy that brought it in said um well it's just been like part of the furniture it's always been around and you just think these people had been walking past this ornament for years and had never given it the time of day and yet he brought it into the antiques roadshow and they valued it at one million pounds so that's like two million dollars and it just struck me how much maybe we're living our lives like that when we have the very power and presence of god with us and in us and yet we live like we're just trying to do it by ourselves and i've been so convicted and i searched the phrase holy spirit in the new testament and i've i've written down a list of all the things that the holy spirit did and this doesn't include any of the times he's referred to just as the spirit or the spirit of god this is just the places where it said the holy spirit and i just want to read them to us now and i wonder if you could just close your eyes and allow these things to wash over you because i believe this is powerful as we allow ourselves to soak in just what the holy spirit wants to do in us so these are some of the things i found he helped people speak what god wanted them to say he filled people who revealed things to people he teaches you what to say he teaches you all things and reminds you what jesus said he gave the apostles instructions he gave people power to be god's witnesses to all people he enabled some to speak in tongues here's a gift to those who repent he filled peter so he could speak he failed them to speak god's word boldly he enabled stephen to see a vision of god he encouraged the church he spoke to them he sent people to particular places he kept them from preaching in other places he enabled people to prophesy he warned people about prison and hardship god poured his love into our hearts through the holy spirit he guides our consciences his power causes us to overflow with hope he sanctifies our bodies are his temples he enables us to say jesus is lord he's a seal that marks us when we're saved he renews us he gives us gifts the holy spirit was sent for you to have your back to teach you and remind you and empower you and to give you gifts to use for the sake of others he was sent to correct you when it's needed and to transform you from the inside out so that as you live every day you might look a little bit more like jesus he knows you better than anyone could ever know you and it's impossible for him to say anything that's not directly from the father he has sealed you as a guarantee to show everyone that you belong to the father now now that you've believed in jesus and so you've been adopted into the family as a son and he never leaves you he is for you do you live like that's the truth there's a response i think for every one of us today for me as i've prepared this message this week i found myself going into situations with a bit more boldness and courage as i've prayed because as i've prayed and asked god for help i've been so conscious that this is the power of god that i have clothing me i have the holy spirit in me why would i ever need to fear i wonder what it is for you today as you have realized things or learnt things about the holy spirit that are new or that you needed to remember if you've never articulated to god before that you believe in jesus and today you want to put your trust in him and receive forgiveness and salvation maybe now's the moment for you to do that the bible says in ephesians 1 13 when you believed in christ he identified you as as his own by giving you the holy spirit whom he promised long ago and so if that's you you can pray right now a prayer like this god i'm sorry that i've rejected you as i've lived my life for myself thank you for loving me thank you for sending jesus to die for me and to rise again so that i could know you i receive your forgiveness and your salvation today thank you for your holy spirit that you are filling me with now to help me to live for you i i dedicate my life to you in jesus name if you just prayed that there's a step that you need to take i'd love for you to share that with someone a christian that you know who can help you and to learn what it is to follow jesus or if you don't know a christian email us we'd love to help you with that but the other step i think there is today is for any of you who don't believe you're not ready to pray that prayer but i believe there is a prayer that you could pray today if you're brave enough to pray it because actually the bible says that the holy spirit is the one who enables us to say and believe that jesus is lord and so i wonder if you're brave enough today whether you could start with a prayer that says god reveal yourself to me show me who you are and so whatever your response is today i'm going to say a prayer as we finish this and then we're going to worship together but i wonder if you could just hold in your mind and in your heart what it is that you're responding to today father thank you thank you for pouring out your spirit thank you that he is for every one of us thank you that this is personal this isn't general thank you that it's purposeful well thank you that you see every person who's listening to this today you see their response you see my response today your desire is to draw us closer to yourself and so i pray lord don't leave us the same moved by your spirit now in our hearts and in our lives that we would be more fruitful followers of you that you would empower us to live extraordinary lives as we carry out this mission that you've called us to so we surrender ourselves today we love you we are more in awe of you because of who you are we worship you in jesus name amen amen um thank you jenny hey [Music] wherever wherever you're watching this service i just want to take a moment to um to wait on the holy spirit um and this this might be something you've never done before but we just we've got a little bit of time left uh in our service and we just want to i want to encourage you wherever you are to invite the holy spirit um to move and work in your life you may you may never have done this before but yeah you might want to just pray those prayers that jenny said for some of you you might just want to put your your physical body in a posture that's just like lord i'm open to you like you're receiving a gift almost hands out and we're going to we're going to sing sing a song just about welcoming the holy spirit and so let these words be a prayer as we sing them yes listen holy spirit you are welcome here come flood this place and fill the atmosphere [Music] your glory god is what our hearts long for to be overcome by your presence [Music] your presence lord [Music] thank you for your presence yes lord you're welcome come and do what you do there's nothing worth more that will ever come close nothing can compare [Music] your presence [Music] the sweetest of loves when my heart becomes free and my shame is [Music] we sing holy spirit holy spirit [Music] [Music] your glory god is [Music] by your presence [Music] is [Music] nothing can compare [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] holy spirit [Music] [Music] is [Music] holy spirit [Music] do what you want to do that's why i encourage you if you feel a touch of the holy spirit in this moment to not um to not shoot it away but welcome welcome that in and if you're in a hub or a service or you've got someone with you i encourage you to seek out prayer there are people who want to pray for you in this church community and if you're alone reach out and email online in the street there's people who want to pray for you um but wherever you are don't miss this moment to be to be filled to be empowered by the holy spirit and however you want to you want to do that you might want to just pause pause and come back to this service later and just do your own thing that's all good i encourage you to be [Music] that is watching this holy spirit break out break out do what you want to do do what you do what you want to do and do all work that we can't explain in our own human logical understanding but it's just all you all work in the spirit do a work do a work [Music] and we're just going to keep on playing this song [Music] let us [Music] let us experience the glory of your goodness let us [Music] let us [Music] let us [Music] let us [Music] let us [Music] it's the glory of your goodness [Music] [Music] is [Applause] [Music] presence [Music] [Music] is [Music] to be overcome by your presence [Music] and some of those words that jenny was speaking and shared with us i really want to remember them she said that the holy spirit he is for you he is for me and he's for me personally and purposefully and i love that there's those two parts to it is for me personally like um he's the advocate he's always on my side he's always going to be um loving me and and showing me truth when i i need it always someone that's got my um my back and like that's just like no one else in the world you know even the people closest to you the people that you love things aren't always perfect in those relationships but man to have this person that's always got my back always got my best interests at heart such a gift and then purposefully that i would um yeah be clothed in power so that i can live out my purpose in life i so need god to be able to live out my purpose to help others know jesus and i can't do that in my own strength i can't change someone's heart through my my words or my actions but um by having god with me and leading me i can live out my purpose in life and i just think what a gift like how stupid would i be to just ignore that and and carry on thinking i could do it myself it's such a gift and i want to you know just remind myself that he's for me personally and purposefully and just grab that and and run with it and not forget it yeah yeah that's great now i love that [Music] i want to i want to pray for us and um i want to pray for us as individuals i want to pray for us as the church and uh and then after that what you might want to do is like you know that'll be generally the sort of end and it might be that you want to pray together just respond among yourselves as you gather but but i i would love us to sing again something maybe the same thing maybe something uh different so that if you want to keep watching and just and just soak in what's going on here then then you can do that too at this picture as we were praying just before the service i've asked tom to tell you one day that that carl when he was there they used to like fire oranges in a giant catapult up to wellington east girls and um i said a picture of like i think maybe it was water balloons it might have been like tom fields oranges like they were being like shot in this giant catapult and i just i have this picture that tonight has like been this this big pulling back and if you'll let him the holy spirit is about to unleash you on the world and on your and on the people in your world like you've never known i think for some of you god is just dropping gifting it's like quit like arrows in a quiver that you've never had that god's gonna begin to use you in ways that you never experienced and it doesn't have to be like like i feel powerful like jenny was talking about it's just the words are going to come out of your mouth questions are going to come a boldness is going to come a prayer is going to come a scripture is going to come a picture's going to come a dream is going to come a vision's going to come and it's just be like where did that come from and one of the things i love is that is that when like jenny was talking about when the early church was was was was going about people looked and i'm like how what is going on ah jesus christ exalted the right hand of the father is pouring out what you now see in him now prayer for our church our prayer for one another is let what goes on only be explainable because god's at work in us and god's work among us so let's pray and then we're gonna you're either gonna go we're gonna continue to worship let us pray i'm conscious in in acts it says after they finished praying the place where they were meeting was shaken and they were all filled with the spirit and spoke the word of god boldly and our prayer lord god is that you would unleash us on this city in a way that we have never seen in this city has never seen i pray that prayers that have been prayed for generations and generations and generations would be answered in our day prayers for revival prayers for a move for the spirit prayers that the church will become more effective and more emboldened prayers that people would come to know jesus prayers that addiction would be broken uh prayers that families would be really reunited and and reconciled prayers that marriages would be would would uh be healthy prayers that children would grow up as lifelong followers of jesus prayers that the prodigals are going to return prayers that there will be a healing in our land prayers that have been prayed over generations are just going to be answered in our day lord would you unleash your church on this city and in this nation like we have never experienced let there be a boldness about us that we cannot explain unless we point to god and say only the holy spirit can do this in us and through us and even just in gatherings right now i pray lord god that there will be pictures shared scripture shared words of encouragement shared prayers prayed as you begin to work through us oh lord we need you and if you have been this priceless peace on a mental piece and we have ignored you let this be the last day that has ever occurred in the life of this church and in our lives from this day on be the indispensable advocate that jesus promised you would be in our lives holy spirit so come come in boldness come unleash us on this city we pray in your wonderful name amen if that's goodbye goodbye but if you want to stay just worship with us do that too [Music] we cry [Music] and let it be [Music] we need your power [Music] and let it be [Music] spirit of god [Music] oh we need your power we need your power [Music] [Laughter] [Music] once again [Music] push back the [Music] darkness again [Music] to see [Music] [Music] right [Music] we need yours [Music] crashing down [Music] crashing down in [Music] crashing down [Music] down in this city [Music] me [Music] once again [Music] [Applause] to see [Music] once again [Music] [Applause] [Music] lord sir [Music] let it be now the spirit of god we need your powers yeah lord pray for the spirit of god and the power of god please be all over this service all over this street use it use it lord for your glory lord we pray that this church the people in this church will be changed transform us lord where we've become complacent transform us when we've been tired turn it around for good lord send revival start with us start with us revive your church [Music] oh lord for every person who's watched this service we pray a blessing that the spirit of god will infiltrate every part of their life their heart their soul their mind their body that we would just be vessels people who can be used for you for your purposes lord that we would see revival and that wouldn't just be a word and it wouldn't just be a song but fill us up to send us out to change people do a work in this time lord thank you lord thank you lord amen [Music] you

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Published: Sun Mar 06 2022