Upgrade Begins With U || Have You Heard Part 1 || Bianca Olthoff

church we are going to open up today's service by opening up the word of god now the scriptures are on the screen so don't grab your bible just yet i want to read this over us because this right here this is the foundation of the entire series i have more questions for you than i probably have ever had i've got more information for you than i've probably ever given but i'm cutting nothing away from my notes so gird your loins friends okay because we're gonna have an encounter with the spirit of god today but let me read acts chapter 19 verse one and two over us to set the precedents while apollos was in corinth paul paul the apostle took a road through the interior and arrived at ephesus so he's in a new city there he found some disciples well what are disciples disciples are followers of jesus so these are followers of jesus and he he speaks to his brothers and sisters and he says hey did you receive the holy spirit when you believed and they answered what are you tripping no we have not even heard that there is a holy spirit we have not even heard that there is a holy spirit my fear today in the church is that many people are saying i haven't even heard of the power that i possess as a person of god so today church i'm asking you a question have you heard have you heard that there's a power that you possess as a people of god all right so we're about to get started before you take a seat what i want you to do i want you to turn to your right turn to your left if you're at home talk to yourself and ask yourself have you heard now orange county orange county specifically don't say have you heard i want you to stay with flavor like have you heard have you heard turn to your neighbor and then y'all could go ahead and grab a seat but have you heard have you heard i got a ton of questions and a ton of content and a ton of passion and a ton of zeal today okay i don't know if you had your espresso but i had mine glory to god i'm gonna ask you a couple questions before we get this party turned up litten started did you know have you heard that y'all have a gift have you heard that you have a strength to empower you on the inside of you that wants to overflow out of you i got some more questions have you heard that the thing that you've been needing and the thing that you've been wanting that you didn't even know you wanted do you know that you have access to it now some of y'all are with me i hear victoria in the back yes i do i got jasmine right here on camera nodding at me i got an amen corner so you all could sit there mean mugging stink faces and just be like i don't know what she's talking about you will by the end of today okay that is your forewarning the question that paul the apostle asked the believers the followers the disciples of jesus is the question i'm asking us today did you receive the power of the holy spirit now we are about to turn up and fire up this joint on a six-week series it may go eight it may go ten i don't know right but as of right now we're gonna be doing a six week journey on the topic of the holy spirit now i am passionate about this i'm excited about this because i firmly believe that well this is what i will say i'm not the preacher i'm not the teacher i'm not the pastor i'm not the leader that's me like i have a message to change your life listen to my words that's just never been me all right i like to under promise and over deliver okay that's how i like to roll all right i may not have a seminary degree or a theological background training now i went to undergrad and went to grad school i'm not a dumb chick but i think i've always been a little cautious about being authoritative on certain things because i feel like some somehow the the knowledge of man will qualify me but today i am here to prophesy which means speak life i'm here to declare that god will use the least things of this world to to confuse the wise and i am chief example of that now i'm not going to tell you that these words are going to change your life i'm going to tell you the holy spirit change my life and what i want is for you to radically encounter the power we possess as the people of god so have you heard that you have an upgrade in your faith do you know what you have access to if you don't know get ready because we're all about to open up the word of god and i pray that we open up a can to the glory of god okay so uh the best way that i can kind of explain this is my fear is that within the church we've been like a sleeping giant like we don't even know how big we are we don't even know how bad we can be we don't even know the power that we possess as people god because we don't talk about the power we possess now i remember serving at my daddy's church uh i was uh the events planner i didn't get paid for the role but i just love god's people love the house want to serve get involved and my dad love creating experiences for people and i love creating environments for people to encounter god and my dad and i were talking he said hey what if we plan a cruise and i said that's amazing so we planned a five-day alaskan cruise and be bible studies at night and people would get to hang out it'd be a party be fun well there's a big group of us and there's this one couple never forget steven maria steve and maria were celebrating their 40th wedding anniversary and their kids surprised them with this trip it was so precious because their parents had never traveled it was their first big adventure and i remember explaining to our people like hey guys you guys have a lot of free time feel free to do whatever you want to do these are the days that we're meeting whoop-de-whoop well that night first night at sea we had a certain area relegated to the large group that we were traveling with and i noticed steve and maria were not at dinner well the second night i i noticed that steve and maria were not out to dinner then the third night i realized that steve and maria were still not at the dinner so on the fourth day i find steve i said brother steve wow wow i do not like the dinners do you not want to come to the graham banqueting hall so if you ever cruise before you will know that the nightly dinners that's the turn up you have lots of silverware and plates why because it is a buffet it is all you can eat there's service upon service and there's food upon food and buffet buffet i mean it is like a food galore and i said why didn't you why don't you want to come to the grand dining hall he's like well i've passed by and i saw you in there but that's for me that's for us i said steve this is for everybody it's part of the price the price has been paid your kids covered the cost for you to sit here and he was shook he said whoa so that night steve and maria came and they sat down in the green grand banqueting hall and i sit right next to them and every bite in between because my brother ordered not one not two but three lobster tails and four desserts because he said he was gonna make up for the food he didn't eat and between any every buttery garlic bite of lobster tail he's like are you sure this included i said eat up baby it's included the price has been paid now my fear is that many of us are living lackluster lives eating pool food and to-go containers when the spirit of god is giving us a buffet because the price has been paid the spirit of god has been given to us jesus said hey brothers he's talking to his disciples talking to us he said it's good that i go up to you my father because i'm gonna send you an advocate i'm gonna send you a comforter and you know what that is the spirit of god and so many of us need to be reminded today the price has been paid the gift of your upgrade is already being covered can i please get an amen okay now when i talk about the spirit of god holy spirit i think i want to just kind of really bring this down to bear but bare bones foundation and the reason why is because of a church of this size and in terms of this diversity which i love i love how diverse our church is but but i believe that we all come with a little bit of theological baggage like if we come from different denominations we come from different churches or we come from different religions our concept of the holy spirit it's going to be different so let's do a quick poll quick poll because your understanding of the holy spirit is going to be most likely formed by how you were raised so by a show of hands in this room in the video experience and online put a little double hand chat emoji if you were if you come from a baptist background raise your hand it's me great couple yes for the frozen chosen yes your chosen friend yes okay so me um do you have a uh episcopalian background raise your hand lutheran background raise your hand catholic background raise your hand hands up all over all right um maybe you have a methodist background raise your hand uh maybe you all have a charismatic background raise two hands because we know you like to party okay they're always the loudest they're always the loudest maybe you have no spiritual background whatsoever and the concept of the holy spirit is like something so different and so new this is why because we're such a diverse group i want to get back to basics all right we're going to keep it real simple but my goal is to make the holy spirit so appetizing so delicious so delectable that you cannot help you cannot help now when we talk about the spirit of god the spirit of god is the gift the spirit of god is the gift pull your notebooks put your bibles i'm gonna throw a lot of scripture at you and i'm not gonna slow down okay i don't talk fast you listen slow so this is what we're gonna do you're gonna jot down these scriptures because when we talk about the spirit of god and the spirit of god being the gift my fears that you might hear gifts of the spirit or fruit of the spirit now fruit of the spirit love joy peace patience kindness all that other stuff don't worry if you haven't read it go check out galatians you'll love me whatever that is the fruit of the spirit that's not what we're talking about this week that is the fruit of the manifestation of the spirit of god being in our life i'm not talking about the gifts of the spirit okay the gifts of the spirit uh miracles faith teaching tongues because we're going to talk about that all right week five get ready gergen loins all right we're gonna go there we're gonna talk about that we're talking about the fruit of the spirit the gifts of the spirit i'm just talking today that the spirit is the gift okay have you heard that you have a gift of an upgrade i got two people with me today y'all need some espresso in your bones have you heard that you have a gift of an upgrade because if you don't know get ready friends the title of today's message is the gift of the upgrade now i'm saying this because in acts chapter 2 we see where this concept comes from i didn't pick this out from divine celestials is straight of scripture in acts chapter 2 we have this apostle we have this follower of jesus and his name was peter now peter was a dang fool okay he had verbal diarrhea he cut somebody's ear off he was a fisherman he had no education i resonate with that anybody else okay bless god bless god well peter this fisherman this uneducated man we discovered in acts chapter 2 that he gives one of the greatest dissertations and defenses of the gospel written in biblical history well where did he get that from scripture says it is the power of the holy spirit well scripture says that his words cut them deep in fact the phrases cut them to their core that he was killing them softly with the words straight from heaven they were shook they were like what do we have to do to be saved and in verse 37 in acts chapter 2 peter says repent and confess your sins to jesus christ and then check out what he says in verse 38 and you will receive the gift of the holy spirit i want us to say gift and i want us to begin to articulate with our mouth what god has confirmed in our heart i will repeat this and you will fill in the gap the answer is gift and you will receive the of the holy spirit oh this is the gift of the holy spirit she's beautiful amazing decorative oh this is amazing but my fear is that us as the christian church we look at this and be like i have the gift i don't know what to do with the gift this is this is a cool gift i i like this gift but i don't want to open the gift because i don't know what's inside it's going to make me crazy is the spirit of god make me going to move to botswana and love orphans what am i going to do is the spirit of god going to tell me to marry that busted tooth brother with a gap and a unibrow like i don't know if i want that gift so sometimes we just leave it as this beautiful present yeah i have the gift i totally have the gift i have the gift but who cares if you're not over opening it and and and operating in it see the gift of the spirit is not wack present i remember my second cousin gifted me a box of socks and a mcdonald's gift card i don't even eat mcdonald's okay that's a lame gift this gift this gift has the power to change lives this kid has the power to revive dead dead bones this gift right here will allow you to have the hands and the feet of jesus the mind of christ the eyes to see what god has for his people so why don't we want this gift why is this gift scary to us i don't know i'm pontificating in my pastoral privilege as i do to say maybe we don't want the gift because in your translations it might be listed the description maybe listed as holy spirit or holy ghost i don't know about you i don't want to kick it with the ghost you know casper is the only friendly ghost i know that feels freaky you know no and we fear what we don't understand we very we don't understand whether it's languages or food or ethnicities or different people we it all could feel a little bit scary another reason why is that it's the unknown oh i don't know i don't me i i don't know what's in this box and what if i can't control it and what if well i i don't know i don't know so it's that fear of the unknown another reason and there's multiple but these are the ones i kind of pulled that the holy spirit has been manipulated and abused and brought in a lot of erroneous doctrine and has been manipulated and it left people really harmed i i remember my first encounter with uh experiencing the holy spirit in a setting i was 16 years old and i come from a conservative background so when i went to this youth group it wasn't part of my dad's church it was a local area and with all my friends and we were going for a couple weeks and i really enjoyed it but one night particularly there was a speaker that came in and was saying you need the holy spirit the holy spirit is going to do this and let me tell you something i was terrified of what was going on like people would be shouting foaming at the mouth writhing and i was like if this is the holy spirit i don't want this this is weird me and my friends went to our car we cried and we asked god to forgive us of everything that we saw i believe that the holy spirit has been misrepresented and so to make sure that we're all on the same page when we talk about the holy spirit in the bible i want to make this as easy as possible so no takers pull out your notebooks pull out your pens when we talk about the holy spirit in the new testament there's three greek phrases that are used i want us to get a visual perrier is my visual of holy spirit amazing perrier sponsor me okay so just kidding half kidding half kidding okay i like grapefruit okay so here's the holy spirit the first greek phrase that we see is this phrase para p-a-r-a in latin it's para it means alongside so the holy spirit is alongside and then the next greek phrase verb that we see is n where we get our english word in uh we get our word like entrance or endometriosis the holy spirit when we say yes to jesus we're like yes lord i receive you in my life guess what holy spirit is refreshing i'm making you thirsty i know i am holy spirit is in but then this new greek phrase that we see comes onto the scene in acts chapter 2. in acts chapter 2 the greek verb changes to epi e p i it means upon it is the upon experience that comes over the disciples and there the church is radically changed this the upon experience is what shifted and changed the church of the new testament and i believe will change and shift our church of today we're going to discuss more about acts chapter 2 which is pentecost in week 3. i'm telling you i've never advocated for a series more than this specifically of attending every week because we are building upon theological principles to give us a holistic picture an idea of the power that we possess as people of god so um when i'm talking about the holy spirit sometimes maybe given your background or something you might feel like oh yeah i feel the holy spirit i get chill bumps and chicken skin and oh it's the holy spirit i get emotional and and when they sing at church oh yeah that's the holy spirit oh i feel a certain way i feel something the holy spirit just isn't chill bumps on a sunday i believe that the holy spirit can be with you in your depression on monday and relieve that from you that the spirit of god when you calm the spirit of god that he will give you wisdom when you sign that business contract on tuesday that the spirit of god will give you the discipline that you need to not quit your diet on wednesday that the spirit of god will give you patience when you want to kill your child on thursday that the spirit of god will convict you when you open the club on friday because on sunday you're like praising the lord and on friday your hands are all other places that they shouldn't be okay and my fear is that believers of god we think that the spirit of god is relegated to sunday oh it's at 245 west birch street at 9 pacific standard and 11 pacific standard time that's a lie from the pit of hell the spirit of god is it with us in us and around us at all times so the things that you see the spirit of god is there the things that you hear the spirit of god hears it the things that you say i'm convicted of the things that you say the spirit of god hears the spirit of god is with us so here's the truth let's talk about why this is a hard concept for many of us to understand when we talk about god the father it's a concept that we understand we all have a father they may not be active or participant father but we all have a father we get that concept jesus is the son son of man son of god as referred to in the bible we get the concept of son you either are a son or you know a son or you have a son but what we get tripped up on is spirit we don't get spirit but this in line really wrecks our theology because we serve a triune god the trinity three in one okay so god jesus spirit are one we're okay with god the father we're okay with jesus but we ain't okay with the holy spirit so we have been relegated to living a life at 67 because that's the god that we could like and put in a box and understand and we've omitted 33 percent of power see god is in heaven and jesus is in heaven but the holy spirit is around us in the here and you're wondering why you're living a half-baked life you are wondering why you cannot kick that habit you are wondering why you cannot get debt free you are wondering why your marriage is in the crapper and you love jesus and you read your one your bible and you go to bff bsf bible study you're doing all the things you're doing the most and you're like why can't i do this because you're fighting a supernatural war in your natural weakness we need the power of the spirit of god why would we reject this so the question i'm asking i got lots of questions today pique your interest make you excited about week two three four five and six maybe even seven cause number of completion hello you know into numbers all right so the question i'm asking today is do you believe in god or do you believe god see many of us can believe in god i believe that there's a cosmic god of the universe i believe that i believe in god or maybe you're like yeah i believe in god i accepted my heart in vacation bible school i went to kids church yeah i'm not talking this isn't an issue of salvation this is an invitation of revelation for the god that we have ignored the god that we have forgotten do you have a relationship with the spirit of god who wants to know you and advocate and comfort see my fear is that we will not live the life that jesus promised in john 10 10. he didn't come to give us a half-life he didn't come to give us a fractured life he said i have come to give you life and life to the fullest john 10 10. so let's back this up jesus makes a promise that becomes a presence i'm going to give you some scriptures hang with me write them down they're also on the screen so john jesus talks to his disciples in the book of john john 14. you can turn there if you're fast in john 14 jesus has a conversation with his disciples and he is about to impart a divine gift a supernatural gift to his disciples is applicable for us today in john chapter 14 verse 12 jesus says whoever if you're there circle whoever black white asian haitian croatian eurasian black white rich poor short skinny floofy whatever whoever whoever you are not precluded whoever you turn up last night you were drunk whoever you sleeping and shacking up with your boss and he's married whoever whoever believes in me will do the works that i have been doing no no no y'all listen they will do even greater than these greater than these because i'm going the father and i will do whatever you ask in my name so the father may be glorifying the son you may ask me you may ask me for whatever in my name and i will do it but the problem is in western society in western culture we hear greater and we're like more money more fame more success more influence more popularity so i can have greater influence greater popularity that's the greater but is that the greater that jesus is talking about no it's not in fact if you look at the scope and the ministry of jesus what we see is if i were to ask you hey what did jesus do on earth nine times out of ten we go straight to the supernatural he calmed the storms the lame could walk the blind could see the death could hear the dead can live he casted out demons but we always forget that jesus forgave his enemies jesus remembered the poor and the widows jesus fed people and multiplied food jesus played with kids if jesus needed the power of the spirit which had descended as a dove at his baptism how much more do we need the spirit of god now some of you are like i think i live a holy life hey here in orange county everything's as smooth as my botox forehead as clean as my tesla oh we're fine so i'm just going to talk about myself okay i don't know about y'all real holy folks this this this girl um let me confess to you that i need the spirit of god to help me from not cussing out someone on the freeway who cut me off okay i need the spirit of god to give me the supernatural gift of faith and healings when i pray for people who bring their children or their sick family to be prayed over here i need the spirit of god to love my husband when everything in the world is saying give up on your marriage give up on love i need the spirit of god to make a text of antiquity modern and relevant for today i need the spirit of god jesus said the things that i have done you will do these and greater the gift is the greater the upgrade starts with you you want the gift of the upgrade don't forget what letter starts with you and you and you and you and you and you and you okay upgrade starts with you jesus said that we would do this and greater so it's either you believe the words of jesus or you don't you don't get to cherry-pick what promises you like from the words of jesus you either believe it or you don't so i began to go on this daring journey when i heard when i first heard when i had my ears open to the revelation of who the spirit of god was now keep in mind y'all i've been a christian for over a decade at this point i heard about father son and holy spirit but i didn't get it in fact if i'm honestly i didn't want to get it it was all weird and i'm a control freak so i was like give up control no thank you but once i had an understanding of the power that i possess because of the spirit the gift that god has given me i was like turn up for jesus i want a holy gho a double dose of the holy ghost all right i'm gonna be selfish with my gifts i want all the gifts give me healing give me prophecy except tongues because tongues is weird don't worry we're talking about tongues of week five you don't want to miss it cause now i'm all about it okay shoot about a handover somebody up in here all right listen listen i i began to pray i said god god if you have given me this gift i want you to give me words straight from heaven for your people i want healing and faith to be in my hands god i want to hear what you have for your people i want to see you like you see people i want my mind to be the mind of christ because that's what we possess now like i mentioned i had been i had just been christian i've been saved i've been a follower of jesus for for 10 years in addition to this you know i i knew about the gift as a church kid i learned about the gift i was around lots of christians as a pastor's kid because my parents my my dad's still a pastor even to this day in east los angeles california like as a pastor's kid i knew more theology and bibles bible verses and bible stories than i did american history but as millie and poncho's daughter oh you better believe scripture was ingrained bible readings and disciplines like the law-loving legalist in me was about it read my bible okay pray pray for people pray with people pray over people fast get in ministry but i was doing all the things and not seeing the fruit or the results of it i was like what's wrong with me why don't i possess the joy that that she possesses in the midst of a cancer diagnosis why don't i have the faith of that person who should be faithless why don't i have the hope of that person who should be hopeless i felt like i was driving a two-cylinder car well everyone else was driving a 10-cylinder lambo you know that's a lamborghini for those that don't know urban vernacular it felt like i was being short-changed now i had this moment of clarity i was in atlanta i was there to speak at a conference at the time i was working for an ngo a non-profit organization and maybe because i'm cheap maybe because i grew up poor but i was always about to upgrade life like let me see what i could do you know little hustle a little grind let me see what i can get well i was gonna believe and hope and ask for an upgrade at hertz i landed at atl airport and there was this huge long line outside the hertz station and the guy behind the desk looked like he hadn't smiled since 1973 i mean he was having not a bad day the man was having a bad decade okay and i was like you know i'm still with the fear to i'm i'm filled with the spirit of god and i'm gonna i'm gonna make this man laugh all right i'm gonna bring some spirit of joy in this man's life and i finally got to the front he didn't ask me anything i was trying to say hi how are you doing where are you at let me see that smile he was giving me nothing he didn't ask me for anything except uh what type of car i rented and he said what's your name i said my name is beyonce because i'm a queen and he didn't laugh he said what kind of car do you did you rent i said i got the basic economy car which i believe is yaris i said but you know queens love some lamborghini so see what you could do and he's that's what made him laugh he said girl this hurts we ain't got no lamborghinis so let me see what we could do so he wrote a number on my hertz contract that corresponded with a stall in a parking structure well the parking structure had cars lined up and i signed up for the yaris if you have a yaris yarses are awesome don't hit at me don't side of my dms don't why are you throwing shade on yourself yarises are great they get you from point a to point b it's a car it's four wheels praise god but i knew that i was good i wasn't gonna have power windows so i was gonna have to oh roll up my window roll down my window pick up my locks lock my locks all the best i said lord just give me like even if it's just like a prius lord so i could save the environment and have ac you know like something so i get i get i get outside and i see the yaris move past the yarises i see the priuses move past the priuses i see the corollas move past the corollas i see the camry's and i was like oh yes jesus imma get this car but i had to keep going you know what car i got i stood as a number that matched the number on the ground of my contract yo it was a drop top locked out mercedes benz okay with rims that's when you know you're in hotlanta when the rental car facility has rims okay i was like yes lord won't he do it yes lord yes lord yes yes lord i was excited okay i got in the car i said won't he do it glory to glory strength the strength yes lord we out here we out here run these streets and then i was hit with the reality i had two problems i had an external problem and an internal problem the internal problem the existential problem was i'm going to a conference for an ngo organization i'm a roll up with this bougie car and be like who's this snake oil salesman stealing money you know i was like i was afraid that they were going to judge me about how i showed up that's one thing i was maybe afraid that maybe they were going to say well do you think you're better because you have this car than us but the real problem was the external problem of the fact that it was a stick like that car is designed for the autobahn your girl from california i don't know stick you know so i was like okay do i go back to my friend that hurts and say thank you but no thank you i don't want this upgrade because i don't know what to do with it and i'm afraid of what people will think or do i figure this trash out i said you did not come this far to only come this far bushetto queen get out 12 for jesus all right i figured out that car jerking down the atlanta highway all the way to the conference and i couldn't help but parallel that same thing that we have this gift from the spirit of god that we are either afraid of what other people are going to think of me afraid of how they're going to judge me are they going to think that i'm better than them because i got a gift and they don't or am i going to get in and figure out i don't know what the heck to do the spirit of god is going to give us revelation and wisdom and my fear is that you all feel safer with a two-cylinder yaris and so you're relying on self-help rather than spirit help this is what i want for god's people to make sure that we're on the same page when we talk about this holy spirit i want us to understand that our concept and our understanding isn't the best translation with holy spirit the reason why is because our english language is is limited it's more of a description than a title so in in the old testament the hebrew hebrew is used for the old testament the word for spirit is ruach now i remember i'm one percent jew so i'm going to teach you how to say this correctly repeat after me say ruach no no you got to have that at the end right you're going to spread covet if you do that out loud without your mask all right great and what does that mean it means breath it means a breath like wind even a violent exhalation well the name numa in the new testament is spirit and it is referred to a current of air a blast a breeze or a breath now write the scripture down write the scripture down but job 34 says this and i think it is so important for us to know the power of breath job says if god were to take back his spirit and withdraw his breath all life would cease and humanity would turn to dust now now the concept of breath might not mean anything to you uh but but here's a fun reminder if you don't breathe you die okay i know it seems like revelational whoa wisdom because we don't really think about breathing our body does it naturally but as a lifeguard for 10 years move over david hasselhoff old toff is here today okay as a lifeguard for 10 years let me tell you something that the most important thing as a lifeguard that we are trained in isn't cpr it isn't first aid the most important thing we are trained in is rescue breathing because your breath is so important we are tested on it every single year it is the core of our existence uh breathe uh breathing makes your heart beat it makes your eyes blink it makes your brain think it makes your cheeks pink that is what breath does we cannot live without breath do you know where we get the word revival from it comes in its truest sense of the word the strictest meaning is that people have lost their ability to breathe they've lost their breath and they need to be revived without breath we will die and the cry of my heart since we started this church is god send revival i see a valley of dry bones of people he need to awaken to the power that we possess as the people of god through his spirit and so many christians are walking in with spiritual asthma breathe and you come to sunday and you inhale the spirit of god but then you walk out on monday tuesday wednesday i'm here to tell you that the spirit of god can give you breath you don't need to sing the rap lyrics let me catch my breath okay that's gone you don't need to do that and look at the beginning of human history god wants to breathe life into his people i'm going to string some verses from genesis i'm going to give you some words from the prophetic from ezekiel i'm going to polish it off with the words of jesus in genesis 2 7 write it down read it later genesis 2 7 and the lord god formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed into nostrils the breath of life and man became a living being ezekiel 37 9. then he said to me this is the voice of god prophesy to the breath prophesy son of man and say to it this is what the sovereign lord says come breath from the four winds and breathe into the slain that means dead do you feel dead today you may know jesus but do you feel dead inside come breath from the four winds and breathe into the slain that they may live again and this is the words of jesus in john 20 22 jesus says to them he breathed on them and then says receive the holy spirit so what do we know about breath breath is consistent you don't have to tell your body to breathe in and breathe out do you know that the spirit of god that that is true for the spirit of god that we breathe in and breathe out and the spirit of god is there day in and day out breath is consistent what's another thing that we know about breath well breath is invisible you can't see it i just breathe out no one saw it but you see the effects of my breath when i blow a bubble when i blow on a piece of paper the same is true of the holy spirit you might not be able to see him but you could see the effects of him and lastly i love what jesus says in john chapter 3 verse 8 he says the wind blows wherever it pleases you hear the sound but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it's going so it is with everyone born of the spirit and lastly breath is powerful breath keeps you alive without breath we cease to exist now what is all this information worth what is all this information for yes we have a gift glory hallelujah yes the spirit of god can give you breath glory hallelujah yes the spirit of god can revive things that no one else could say could ever live yes the spirit of god can give you fruit of the spirit and and gifts of his spirit but i just want to make this super practical that the spirit of god is breathing on us we have the ability to breathe his goodness and to people that need to know that god is good that god exists that god has a plan and purpose through life i say this because i i was attending this is uh i was i think i was 25 yeah i was 25 years old and i was attending a midweek bible study i was serving in my dad's church but there was like a college group that was meeting here in orange county and i would go and i loved the teaching and i started getting convicted because i would go to the church but i wouldn't serve i wouldn't tithe i wouldn't give i wouldn't get involved i just liked it i started getting convicted i was like you know what i'm gonna serve and begin to sow into the ministry here and so i signed up to be on the new believers team in fact we have a team here at church that does the same thing so when someone says yes to jesus uh we would give them a bible we'd collect their information and pray with them just let them know that they weren't alone and i remember this one particular monday night the preacher gave an invitation for salvation similar to what we do every single week and a group of people stood to their feet who were declaring jesus as their savior they walked down they were prayed over and me and a group of others had ushered them off to the side to give him a bible and pray with him well i had prayed with my my person and got their information was putting things away and people were still waiting and praying and i wanted to wait to shut down until everyone was done well the corner of my eye i see this girl see this girl she had black fishnet stockings on she had a shredded like leather skirt she had a tattered ramones t-shirt she's piercings everywhere a denim jacket with bunch of buttons on it she had jet black liner jet black hair chipped net black nail polish she was off to the side so i went over to her and i said hey my name is bianca what's your name and she had the oddest laugh she's like huh hi i said what's your name she's my name is heaven heaven i was like that's a beautiful name heaven wow so divine i'm so glad you're here what brought you here i don't know my friend's over there you know and i can't tell you what happened that the heavens didn't part a shining light didn't come down but i i can't tell you how i knew this but i knew that i knew that i knew it was a gut feeling god had revealed to me something about her life that only he could have i looked at her and i said you need to stop laughing because you're laughing to mask the pain that you're facing inside and she stopped startled i said i know about the rape when you were a kid i know that your your uncle molested you i know that you did drugs before you came into this church and this laugh is a facade there's an oppression over your life and your soul wants to be free but you're so afraid at this she fell to her knees i began to talk to her and look at her i said heaven jesus loves you jesus the plan and purpose for your life jesus isn't done with you he wants to take the broken pieces of your life and put something so beautiful together she's weeping begin to pray over her and pray with her and pray for her i asked i said heaven are you ready for jesus to be your lord she said yes and we got to pray the prayer of salvation with her she stood to her feet it was this beautiful moment she had a ring on her finger and she took it off and it was this ring right here she said she said my life is forever changed i want to give you my ring and when you wear this ring i want you to remember me remember that god used you to speak to me i wear this ring and i pray for heaven wherever she is the lord knows where she's at what i believe is that the spirit of god wants to use every single one of us so that he can whisper his truth to bring freedom to someone who is enslaved to whisper healing and faith for those that are ill for restoration for relationships that are messed up i believe when jesus said you will do these things and greater i'm gonna take him for his word and i want that for this church i want this for the people of god i want this for you for you to walk in the fullness of everything that god has called you to to be used by him and for him for his glory so that the broken pieces of your life can be formed together and healed for that you to step into your destiny your calling your purpose to bring glory to god so church this is what we've crafted this whole series upon this is just the beginning there is so much more we cannot wait to dive into scripture and get you excited and passionate about the power that we possess as people of god but upgrade starts with you upgrade starts with you church without any weirdness without any craziness people hanging off of chandeliers or foaming at the mouth we are going to be so supernaturally natural and you're going to articulate if this is what you want i want you to everyone to do this if you feel comfortable grab your hand and put it over your chest i want you to feel yourself breathe can we all do this do do me a favor can you breathe in and slowly let go may the spirit of god breathe into you may you hear from god in this moment what i'm going to do for those that are listening to this message and you're like i want the upon experience i want the spirit of god to come upon me i'm going to pray a prayer of blessing over you and if that's you i want you to keep your hand on your chest and i'm going to pray a prayer blessing and the band is going to lead us you can sit down you can stand up however you can kneel i don't care it's your time it's your time with god the band is going to worship over us and i want the spirit of god to speak to you you don't need a priest you don't need a prophet you don't need a spiritual guru you don't need a televangelist the spirit of god can speak to you will you open your ear say spirit of god what do you have for me so if you feel comfortable and you want an overflowing experience of your life when you put your hand on your chest say prayer prayer of blessing over you spirit of god i raise my hands over your people father son and spirit i pray lord god that you overflow over your people that your spirit covers them from the top of the head to the souls of their feet that what they have been longing for what they have been desiring god that you meet them in the most supernatural way the things that they think are going to fill them will fall away and be empty your spirit your presence will overflow in their life and you will do something that will shake them and shock them god so spirit of god will you have your way over your people will you touch them now lord god will you speak to them in this moment of worship we give you our worship we give you our praise we give you our faith we give you our skepticism we give you our doubts we give you our fears they have your way with me spirit of god you are welcomed here in jesus name to be overcome by your presence is by your presence oh let us become more aware of your presence let us experience the glory of your goodness let us become more aware of your presence let us experience the glory of your goodness let's become more aware of your presence the glory of your goodness let us foreign holy spirit must feel your glory god is what our hearts look for to be overcome by your presence lord and we give god an ovation of praise in the house today online by yourself surrounded with people in the video experience you're live here that is a very polite golf clap church can we thank god for the gift of the upgrade that we have yes turn up for jesus turn over father son holy spirit amen yes hey this is what we do every single week the day that heaven accepted jesus as her lord and savior her life was forever changed i've been brought here to tell you that when you accept jesus as your personal lord and savior your life can change as well so every sunday we give this invitation but if you are visiting you're watching online you're watching on youtube two years later i don't know but you're hearing this and you're like i want jesus maybe you're in this room if you're in the video experience maybe you're in the chat box we've got team all over that are looking and acknowledging and saying hey so even if i can't see you the spirit of god can see you i'm gonna count to three if you're saying yes to jesus for the first time or maybe at one point you were walking with the lord but you have since turned your back on god this is your invitation to turn back to repent means turn around and go back to god so if that's you never accepted jesus or you were coming back to the lord today is the day of salvation i'm the count of three and you're gonna raise up your hand if that's you but one by raising your hand you are saying i believe that jesus is the lord and savior of my life two my mistakes and my failures my sin can be removed because of what jesus did for me on calvary and three the same spirit that rose jesus from the grave as romans says is alive in me that spirit that gift of the upgrade is alive in you so if that's you one two three will you raise your hand raise the heist can you see it god bless you god bless you hey in the video experience the people are seeing you god bless you thank you brother yes the video experience we got a pastor there that wants to see recognize you online gabby's in the chat box gabby is going to make sure that you get a bible you get resources hey we don't want anything from you we want to just pray with you pray over you and put resources if you want in your hands because you're not alone in this journey you have a family a dysfunctional family a people who glorify a good god and i want to say welcome to the family if you don't have a church this could be your church if you do hey get plugged into your local church but that's what we're going to do we're going to pray a prayer of faith prayer salvation for those that that raise their hand and we don't ever want to let anyone do this alone so if you're here in the room will you say this out loud say this you've got a mask on so you've got to go a little louder someone could hear you because of faith in the room but if you are saying this prayer as a prayer of faith repeat after me you say jesus forgive me of my sins today i choose you as my lord and savior cleanse my heart cleanse my mind cleanse my conscience fill me with your spirit your upgrade your gift to do what i cannot do in jesus name amen let's thank god yet again every sunday people say yes to jesus people's lives are transformed people are stepping into their destiny how can we not turn up for that this is just the beginning this is just the beginning of have you heard so have you heard we're meeting again here next week same time same place same location youtube facebook website and here at 245 westberg street we love you and we don't want you to do life alone there's ways where you get involved everybody online here off location annalise is in south africa there's another girl i can't pronounce your name but i know you're in south africa it's 9 30 p.m there we got people waking up at four o'clock in the morning in australia to be part of this church y'all god is on the move and if you want to get involved take your next step getting baptized getting a community group to meet people maybe you just want to learn more about the church like these people crazy i don't know all that information is online you can go to the information center we'd love to put resources in your hand if you're watching online there's a link below but we love you we pray god's blessings over your life may god look down from heaven and give you the gift a double portion of his holy ghost in your life double dose of the holy ghost we love you we can't wait to see you next week thanks guys you

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Length: 50min 14sec (3014 seconds)

Published: Sun Apr 25 2021