Veron Ashe at Trinity Chapel

the dictionary defines renewal as to make new or restore to awaken and transform life often is filled with challenges and problems that can bring the best of us down occasionally we need to just pull away from everyday life and renew our trust and dependence in Jesus Christ to freely receive his love acceptance and forgiveness in our own lives welcome to this segment of trinity chapels renewal at the springs [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] father is indeed always right to give you thanks and to give you praise for this reason of this reason alone did you create mankind in your own image and likeness that we would of our own will and volition offer unto you which was rightfully yours and so we join our voices with the unending hymn of praise to the son both by angels and archangels principalities powers Thrones dominions the many herbs cherubim and the six wings Seraphim will covering their faces and feet flying to one another chanting singing and declaring that you are holy the heavens and the earth are filled with your glory and so father we've come to give glory to your glory to bless to sanctify to magnify your most holy name and there's a secondary consequence of our worship we ask you to speak to us not as though we were babes but as though we were father's not from the outer court but from the Holy of Holies feed us not with the milk of thy word feed us with the meat of your word and we shall be changed from this vile image into the likeness of your glorious image now God grant unto me thine succour and thy favour clarity of thought and precision of speech I am unable to perform the task set before me called preaching but only say the word and I shall be made whole help me to be true to the text and to do thy word no harm bend my will to your will charge this word with your anointing that sinners may be saved and that your people may be edified all this we pray in the name of your only begotten Son our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ through your all holy good consubstantial Spirit amen and amen come and worship the Lord again as you take your seats [Applause] the abuse apiece [Music] and then the Lord bless you you may be sitting seated we all we bid you greetings and peace in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ it is indeed a blessing to be here and I went to get on my plane this morning and they told me there were no seats flight no I didn't even have a flight here this morning I paid for it I just didn't have it so I knew God wanted me to be here and and I always tell people whenever God brings you to new levels there's new Devils you have to deal with and so but we're excited I'm excited to be here with all of you and and my my covenant brother in the Lord who who I don't know anybody in the kingdom of God there probably is as much an example of what the kingdom of God should be in terms of covenant living and ministry as Bishop Jim Bohlen amen he is an example of leadership and humility [Music] my god y'all would think y'all loved him over y'all all the way here today I had a young pastor who was pastoring in Orangeburg South Carolina called me and I'm mentoring him I have about two to three hundred young guys who look to me regularly for apostolic counsel and wisdom and they called me and he said where you're going as well I'm going to share with a renewal Conference of pastors renewal conferences sponsored by this church and I began to talk to him just a little bit about bishop o'linn mess and I said I really want you to meet bishop o'linn he said why I said because I think that if there's anything that young men of God need to be really exposed to that is the reality of God's presence and they need to be passionate people that are in pursuit of God not successful ministry and I told him I said when you if you met Bishop Bolden outside of his church you would know whether he pastored a cathedral or a storefront because he's just so unassuming the man you meet on the street is the man you meeting the Pope with him and you mean the Pope is now you mean in the grocery store he's the same always there's no you don't meet his title you don't meet his success you don't meet his accomplishment you meet a man hungry for God and and that is so refreshing entirely like me and I've been to pastors conferences and we teach young men how to preach and we teach them out of pack their churches out and teach them how to get their finances together and make sure that they don't get in trouble with the IRS and we give them all of the things requisite for ministry and we don't really minister into their life we don't deal with the the things that their families will go through and the pain because we don't open ourselves up to them because there are risk there are risk you have to take when you open yourself up to people there's a danger you may get hurt amen but if you give me a glass of water that's benevolence that's not covenant covenant is when you share a glass of water amen and we've had a lot of ministries give us things but few call us to share in them and this man of God him and his wife don't give you anything but they will share with you everything that God has given to them and that is far greater than anything in the world that you could ever desire from men and women of God like them and I'm honored that they would call me friend and ask me to be here and share with all of these pastors and fivefold ministry we bet all of you grace and peace in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ well that's enough all let love you guys if you have your Bibles turn on me to the book of Acts the Acts of the Apostles and I'm gonna try not to be long now that was supposed to be a joke I don't know why he said there's a clock up there but like I got bigger since I was here last time there make sure I see it this time very long I'm oftentimes when I contemplate the seriousness of the task set before us it should never be approached lightly it should always be approached with with someone of some level of fear and intimidation some level of all at the immense task that God has given feeble men broken men to to carry out and so recently in the last couple of years I began to rethink some things and God began to take me back through the book of Acts from the first chapter all the way to the last chapter and and really began to challenge me to challenge God's people that our life must approximate the lifestyle of the New Testament our lifestyle today must approximate the lifestyle of the New Testament if we're going to see what they saw it is unfair for us to desire the miraculous and the supernatural and be willing unwilling to live the life that those who saw the supernatural lived there is an absence of the supernatural in our churches because there is an absence of people living a supernatural life so there must first be a lifestyle that puts a demand on God's kingdom to come are you with me and so God began to brood challenge me so if you have your Bibles only two acts the first chapter will read the first three verses the first account I composed Theophilus about all that Jesus began both to do and to teach until the day when he when he was taken up after he had by the Holy Spirit given orders or Commandments to the Apostles whom he had chosen to these he also presented himself alive after his suffering by many infallible proofs appearing to them over a period of 40 days and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God are you with me Acts the 28th chapter and the 31st verse this is the conclusion of Paul's ministry after a comma it says preaching the kingdom of God listen how the book of Acts opens he commands them to do all of the things that he has spoken to them to do he doesn't suggest he doesn't imply he gives them orders and then he spends 40 days speaking to them about the kingdom of God and in Paul's ministry the conclusion it says this preaching the kingdom of God and teaching concerning the Lord Jesus Christ with all openness unhindered are you with me turn with me now to the book of Acts the 29th chapter in the first verse that's my subject today acts 29 look to your right and look to your left because that's where you will find that text written my subject this evening is acts 29 the book of Acts the first chapter of the book of Acts of the Apostles is the historical record written by Luke the Evangelist who is later added to the disciples after the resurrection of Jesus Christ this is his second text his first was the Gospel of Luke and now he records for us the history of the church it's later picked up after this by Eusebius and later jerome who are church fathers later on they add to the history of the church beyond this text but this is the initial birth of the church Luke just by way of introduction was a physician he was not only a physician scholars tell us he was a surgeon which let us know that Luke understood the complexities of anything that is serious and that anything unnecessary could become dangerous you don't cut someone where they don't need to be cut and you don't prescribe medicine where they don't need medicine that a surgeon and a physician must exact their occupation with with an exactness that that is uncompromised because one mistake could cost somebody their life so Luke when he writes does not write anything unnecessary everything he writes is written with an exact list because he realizes more than any other person that could have been given this particular responsibility the dangers of unnecessary information of adding something that that that's not requisite or necessary or omitting something that is absolutely essential you can never read the book of Acts as a literary lover or a lover of literature or simply as a historian he gives us the secret to this text this book is not for everybody this book was not written for all of you sitting in here today this book was certainly not written for the masses of mankind this book was written for Theophilus fail meaning God filly's comes with a Greek word philia filial to love the lover of God this book only belongs to the lovers of God if you are not a lover of God this book will confuse you it will make you angry it will challenge you to the deepest core of your being and drive you away from the faith instead of closer - this book is not supposed to be examined within some dodge the dead dry dusty library by a story or a group of seminary students and some dead dry seminary somewhere this book is to be lived out it's not to be read to understand the Greek and the corner and understand each each particular participant and understand whether there's an RS principle or or a variable principle it's not it that's not even under play important you don't even need to know the Greek to understand this book its translation is good enough for us because if we just basically could conform our lives to what we read we would see such an eruption such a supernatural breakthrough in the church that would so erupt throughout the body of Christ worldwide that there would be nothing that could stop it that TBN wouldn't be able to get their cameras there quick enough and charisma wouldn't have time to write an article about it because it would not be pinpointed to Benny Hinn Crusader or George masters later a mega fence it would happen all over the body it would not be connected to a personality it would be connected to a people who are so hungry for God that they begin to radically change the way they live OC Ovilus my subject is actually 29 for a subtopic I'd probably call this an apostolic manifesto Jesus says in the book of Acts here very clearly or Paul write or Luke writes rather here then until the day he was taken he gave them Commandments he didn't give them options you didn't give them suggestions these are Commandments so the book of Acts is the recording of an absolute commanded life why why does why does he call these things commandments because there's no way in the body of Christ that you will ever be able to luxuriate that you are a civilian there are no civilians in the body of Christ every believer has been drafted you are not drafted to sit on the pew and just pay your tithe enjoy the show and go home you are drafted to be actively involved in something that is a lie something that is bigger than denominations bigger than the local church that you are a part of bigger than the family that you are connected to bigger than your culture bigger than your economic situation bigger than then your expression when we hear the word Kingdom he is saying something absolutely special it is it is Basilio's Paul fails the kingdom of God the rule of God the Dominion of God and what's happened is the message of the kingdom has gotten some bad rap because people have have misunderstood it or they used it to luxuriate certain experiences but the truth is we cannot step away from a truth because it has been abused in some circles as a matter of fact we need to question why is it abuse because maybe there is some truth there that if the devil could pervert it in one circle we will not apprehend it and embrace it for ourselves so people are almost scared to preach about the kingdom lest they be identified with the kingdom movement well I'm part of the kingdom movement I may not be part of what everybody calls the kingdom but I'm part of the kingdom whether I like it or not I am part of the kingdom because he commanded us after his resurrection and after his ascension the Bible says for forty days and forty nights he didn't luxuriate pass experiences he didn't talk about what had happened in the past what did he do he simply preached the kingdom of God all he talked about for 40 days after his ascension was the kingdom the kingdom the kingdom all he did during his earthly ministry was preaching about the kingdom it looks like this it's like that it's like a pearl it's like a Fisher it's like a farmer it's like a king it's like a great man it's like a poor man this is the kingdom and then after his death burial and resurrection he did not take that time to luxury past experiences these are men he had spent his life with these are the same men that saw him crucified these are the same men that were afraid they would be killed and now have witnessed his resurrection and he did not take the next 40 days to sit around a campfire and say you should have seen the look on your face when I walked in the room and you thought I was dead he didn't talk about Peter remember that time you try to walk on water and you did pretty good until you almost drowned and then I had to say that that's what most of us would do when we get together we want to remember we we reminisce about what had happened before what had taken place yesterday I want to taking place in the past because that's what happens but jesus said what I leave me in your hands is so important that I can't I want to talk about it but I can't I need to make sure that you are the guys that are gonna turn the world upside down and people are gonna refer back to you and I have to make sure that everything that you declare and everything that you do and everything that you experience and everything that is lived out in your life is exactly what I told you to do and for 40 days he poured his life into men and he preached one message the kingdom the Basilio's profiles the kingdom of God it was so important to him that he didn't say anything else except that it's unique because probably a child from school has a better sense of what the kingdom is the most of us do because they will understand it from a historical point of view or a political point of view or a sociological point of view if they study sociology or social studies they will learn the social studies certain things and they were probably deal with what a kingdom is and they will learn that a kingdom is a region that has an economic structure a social structure a political structure a cultural structure an ethnic structure a style a mode of being and it has an allegiance to a ruler and the kingdom takes its motif from the rulers character and the proximity of his person in other words the kingdom of God is not some supernatural message that's preached when the kingdom comes it's messing with everything the kingdom determines how you spend your money the kingdom determines what you do with your vacation the kingdom determines how close you live to the church the kingdom determines whether you take that second job to live a better life if it will take you away from the things that God has called you to do the King determines who you marry and who you don't marry the king of the terms who you hang out with who you pray with where you live what do it determines everything about your life the kingdom determines how you treat one another it messes with every dimension of your life the kingdom is not just something that shows up and a few people get healed the kingdom says you must live this way and when you live this way then you get the benefits of the kingdom you don't get the benefits of the kingdom and you do not approximate the lifestyle of the kingdom the kingdom is coming you don't join it it's coming and it only comes when it recognizes what is like it this is why worship it's so important hear me pastors those of you that I guess pastors here let me let me let me let me give you mine my doxological class let me give you my doxology 101 i sat in the office where the pastor many years ago and he's told to me he says this is where they're gonna get some singing and I told him to hurry up and rush the worship service sing just cut it short because we want to get the best part of the service up and I said sir what is that he said the preaching that's the most important part that's the best part is to serve you are confused the preaching is not the most important part of the service the preaching is not the best part of the service I said it is the worship that is the most important part of the service preaching it's the secondary consequence of sin we must preach today because man sinned yesterday but had man not sin he was still called to worship all of creation was created to praise the Living God and you never touch short let me tell you something because people come to your church to hear your preaching most people choose the church they go to because of the preaching that's her but God chooses the church he goes to not because of the preacher he chooses the church he goes to because of the word side and you can be a great preacher but if God is not here the bow will not be delivered the sinner will not be saying what's the use if we use all of our rhetoric Natha cut short the worship never tell your praise team to cut it down cuts your sermon short before you cut the braised short because Peter Peter only free the entire message on Pentecost you can read it was preached in 4 minutes and 37 seconds you can read the whole thing in 4 minutes but because they had been worshipping in the upper room it only took four minutes to break the will of sinners and that day three thousand to the church but for fifty days they had sat in his presence and we won't give him 15 minutes in its presence are you listening to me this is why it takes three hours to bend the will of one sinner because we only spent 20 minutes in its presence worship it's reckless said - its presence why then this worth - it's worth of so important because the kingdom only comes when it recognizes what resembles it when we are nurse begin to worship heaven understand this God only shows up in places where he is comfortable he'll go anywhere and so he lets us know how he likes it he let he let Isaiah say it say Isaiah you want to see how I live come on up he said I I created six Seraphim and I gave each one of them six wings to fly above and to fly beneath and two on each side of my throne two wings cover their face because they can't look at my glory to cover their feet lest men think that they can approach my presence and with twos they fly which means they're not allowed to standing anywhere that they are full-time ministry and their job their job is to do nothing but say holy I created their vocal cords the Jewish rabbis tell us that the vocal cords of the Seraphim were so designed that they could not say anything other than holy if they got thirsty and tried to ask for a glass of water it would come out holy if they said I'm tired of need to take a break it would come out holy that's all they can say that's all they were created to do and God says I surrounded myself and so when the top part starts singing they say holy holy holy Lord God Almighty heaven and earth are filled and before they get fill with the glory the next group picks it up holy holy holy Lord God Almighty heaven and earth are filled and the next group please up holy holy holy so while they're catching the breasts to start over again the next group is filling in so there's not one moment that is without praise not a millisecond that heaven is not reciting with praise God said that's where I live you want to know my pillbox it's pillbox praise I am happy I am happy tired happy I live in some praises of my people that's why I live that's why I live and and and then social so God says that's why I live but when Earth begins to sound like heaven I can't differentiate where I live the kingdom just doesn't come because you say come the kingdom comes because it recognizes what is like it and so then God is brought to earth because earth begins to sound like heaven that's why I says that kingdom come but it says just in case y'all get confused and think it comes cuz you asked for it to come that will be done on earth since it is never the reason the kingdom comes is because we're acting on earth like they act in heaven are you listening to me now listen to me because even when we worship let me give thee here's a key here's a key here's a key to the miraculous even when we worship in the church when we praise when we come together and exalt and glorify the name of God even when we praise in the church we bring God into our situation and even though we create an environment of praise where God is welcome my Anthropological place in the earth my my human condition is contrary to his divine condition in other words when I praise Earth sounds like heaven but are saying like heaven cuz I got some bills that aren't paid and I got some family then ain't living right and I got some issues of poverty I'm still trying to break and issues of infirmity and sickness that I'm trying to get out of my life but they're there and when I praise he shows up but he really can't make himself at home because my anthropological condition contradicts his theological condition my human nature contradicts his divine nature but the Bible says he inhabit Springs so he can't escape praise so I've locked him into my human condition and I tell God I want you to be comfortable but I don't have the power to change my poverty and I don't have the power to change my infirmity and I don't have the power to change my sinful condition so if you really want to make yourself at home and you don't like my human condition I will stop praising so you can't leave but if you want to kick up your feet you may want to deal with my poverty you may want to deal with my unsaved family you may want to deal with my infirmities because he inhabits I wish I had a praise in church never make the Lord welcome in his hammock Paul Luke records the history of the church and he says these words he says listen this is how the church lives Jesus preached the kingdom of God and the kingdom comes because it resembles it reflects it it becomes renowned if it understands when it hears us this is that that's that's how it sounds here so let's come and when it when it when it resembles when Earth's resembles have in the kingdom come that's more than just saying we've had wonderful succession of services the book of Acts will ruin your life because you will come to the conclusions at a church that started in glory must end in greater glory and a church that started in power must end in greater power and a church that started in the supernatural must end in a greater supernatural manifestation because the glory of the latter house is greater than that of the former house the end of a thing is better than the beginning Jesus had the works that I do you shall do and greater the truth is we have a generation of people who remember the past and say all y'all don't remember can't meet y'all ain't got no real Holy Ghost you don't even know how God used to move and then they want to throw up names like a a Alan and Kathryn Kuhlman and want to throw up all those guys and and and Jack Cole and thank God for all of them appreciate them but they ain't got nothing on the generation that God is about to bring forth now they don't have nothing because when this generation comes forth nobody will be able to say Jack Cole and hey Anna because there's going to be so many people there's gonna be no record of just one one one it's gonna be I went to Trinity who laid hands on you I was sitting next to a 10 year old kid and I was wracked with tension I've been told the pastor could make the altar call - speaking it I was sitting next to a married couple and they just began to pray in the Holy Ghost and all of a sudden I felt my situation as long as you're trying to make your name you're gonna miss it but if you're called watches I'm almost I'm almost finished with my first points it when we hear the word apostolic you must come to the conclusion that it is timeless scholars and theologians say that there is the Apostolic era it is this thinking that has the growth of the church because we think that there was an atmospheric era but there was no Apostolic era the Apostolic era is today we are still continuing in the Apostolic era the book of Acts though it's Canon is sealed so the Canon of this Texas seal left heresy creep into the church so the Canon of the written book is sealed the Canon of the Living books is not sealed for we all are living epistles written of men the Acts of the Apostles the Acts of the church how the church live is continued to be written and we must see ourselves as an active part of the history of what God is doing in terms of mankind and humankind you must see that what has begun here has not ceased here and the Bible says that they were able to preach the kingdom and teach about Jesus Christ with no hindrance to this day we still preach it to this day we are still consumed by it to this day the book of Acts is being written to this day there are Gospels the Gospel according to Jim the Gospel according to firaon the Gospel according to Mary the Gospel according to Susan there are Gospels being written then that will never be added to the Canon of Scripture but will speak sometimes louder than those books because sometimes those books lose people but when you stand in their presence and said baby let me tell you what I've been through I'm not telling you what Paul and Peter said I'm telling you that I was checked in and heal me I'll tell you that I was broke and was about to lose my home and my wife was about to be me and my kids in half both delivered me the Gospel of John the Gospel according to John the last verse says that if the whole world was filled with books it could not contain all of the works that he accomplished can I promise out to you that the whole world is Phil hello lo jesus said i come in the volume of a book he didn't that was the whole book he just said I was a volume in the book but I'm still writing it I just wrote a thirty three pages but there's a life being written after me and I'm still healing and delivering and doing the supernatural this is why the Bible says that a word that every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God shall not return to Him void but shall accomplish and prosper that that he sent out to the you our words you are a clever man you were chosen in him the word chosen in him is a click oh my and click on my neck is a Greek preposition it means out of look mi comes from the Greek word logos it'll all going means it is a small word so a clever man chosen to be chosen and it means that you were you are a small word in the logos you were a logo in the law God you are a word in D word he's the paragraph but you're the words that make up the and you will not return to his voice but you will accomplish next time that devil says your marriage is over I ever forget that hey Luke Luke writes this is for the lovers of God these are orders for the lovers of God this book was written for those that will follow a king but not just any king let no man who destroyed you let no man discourage you or distract you from the truth if he was just king he'd still be bad but he ain't just king he's king of kings he said I don't mess around with just anybody if I was kidding I'd be bad but what I do is I take the people that you would call servants the people that you would make subservient then I make them Kings and then I'll make myself King of Kings Lord of lords I give them what I've become and because he is the king we receive our motive the kingdom is within proximity of the king the further you are away from the king the less you benefit from the benefits of the kingdom if I was a citizen of the United Kingdom and I got sick in London and went to the doctor wouldn't have to pay nothing because in London in the United Kingdom health care is free so if I'm a citizen no I have to pay for medicine don't have to pay for a doctor you have to like him that's how they live we won't have to pay for nothing it's all taken care of now if I come over here and visit y'all and I catch a cold and I go to the doctor here he goes out care where you citizen up you ain't in London you're in America and in America we pay for medicine and doctor and everything even though I am a citizen of the United Kingdom because I am outside of proximity of the monarch though the benefit is there for me I can't get it because I'm far from them see we're not telling you to seek God because it's religious we're telling you to seek God because the closer you get to him you will need no one to lay hands on me because when you get close to the person when you get within proximity do you see my praise and worship is important because when you get close to the king there's benefits that come from being within proximity of the king don't think the third day worship it's just something that that the pastor's wife since the Bolin's coming here to do and it's just about for 250 200 people just crazy with some flags running around in circles they're trying to get close to the king so don't get mad when you there bro cluster discuss it can't be trusted old past suppose that's deep rest need to comes less don't get mad when y'all dare fight with demons because you have not come close but when you come closer that's why it's it's eat thirsty see it first and all this other stuff will be at it if you seek my kingdom you won't have to name it and claim it you won't have to say it say it say it to UCCS here you just be close to it and when you're close to it I'm operation just a minute forty days he talks about the king it is not of this world but it's for this world the kingdom is not of it but it's for it watch so many once said you're so having a man that you're no earthly good I say unless you're having in mind a you're no earthly good in his people who are in pursuit of heaven who will change this world it is when we get to the place in God that we realize he does not call us to witness there is no commandment in the Bible to witness oftentimes hear me whenever there is an apostolic move it first must correct poor vocabulary Paul before the church could become what God wanted the church to be Paul had to go back and take terms that were used in the Old Testament and show them that what they were saying was being misinterpreted they were talking about the temple applause excuse me let me correct this term because you think you're gonna go visit the temple but you don't need to face east when you pray because he lives in you you are the temple see he changes their vocabulary they said well you know he's gonna come and the Jews believe what we that it is in Zion that God has established Kingdom so Paul comes and tells us in Hebrews 12 that you have already been brought to Zion you've been brought there now the city of the Living God the heavenly Jerusalem an innumerable company of angels written in heaven he changes their vocabulary so I gotta change the vocabulary God has never told you to witness I've told you to stand on street corner handsome on the track and say if you die today where you're going to have a ham you know with the farm where that is it costs you nothing except 28 cents he called you to be witnesses witnessing is simply the conniving use of man's intellectual wisdom to bend an answer by emotionalism and fraud to simply meet the satisfaction of their soul we witness to feel better about ourselves not because we want to bring people in the kingdom but because I can say I got a hundred people saved but it cost you nothing to stand on a street corner and pray when you be a witness you don't invite them to the church you invite them into your life you don't invite them to Christ you invite them into the kingdom you don't just tell them I want you to meet the king you tell them that there's ways we do things and I want you to see how we do it firsthand I want you to see how I live I want you to see how I mess up and yet God loves me and how I'm able to to deal with issues I want you to see I want you to see that I ain't perfect and I ain't God's first cousin and there's sometimes I make mistakes but the graces of it I want you to see how I sacrifice and how even though I barely make enough money I still tithe and somehow I got enough money to pay my I want you to see I want you to see that I hurt and I cry and I get frustrated and sometimes I don't want to come to church and sometime when I stub my toe I cuz I know I ain't supposed but sometimes I just do and I want you to see that in spite of all of that he loves me and he puts up with me I don't want to just hand you a trap because I trap don't cost me nothing but I want you to see my life I want you to see the night God's first coming up dealing with stuff right now shoes right now but he loves me he loves me he loves me he loves me he loves me a lot don't invite them to your church invite them to your life because when they are invited into your life they don't come get saved and never come again they are connected to more he never calls us to just connect to himself he calls us to be connected to the body he calls us to the church not just to the head he calls us to the church he calls us to the church to a living body with all of its faults and all of its issues true salvation is only appropriated when you are an active part of the church it's not appropriated by your prayer the card you filled out in the free Bible you took home it is appropriated by the life you live it's not how you got in that determines whether you're saved it's whether you had the potential and the ability to stay in the race it's not given to the swift or to the strong it's the guy that endures to the end see some of us have connected with people because they run fast but they don't have the ability to run long sometimes you need to be walking with the guy who a walk in that fast but it keeps walking do you know how the children of Israel conquered Jericho not with prophecy not with slinging oil not with rolling on the floor nothing they did you know that they kept walking seven days he kept walking kept walking many theories of the devil commence with your money mess with your family mess with your emotions mess with all kinds of things but he can't stop you from walking you'd make my car break then but I'll keep walking this walk I'm gonna keep living this life you mess with my family she my wife can I come my husband can i and my kids can come back crazy and and trying to fight you but that's alright i'ma keep walking because it is the walk the steps of a righteous men they are ordered by God as long as you are walking your greatest potential is in your ability to live the life that you decree the greatest form of heresy the greatest form of heresy is hypocrisy heresy is to purposely twist the truth the greatest form of heresy is to declare truth and not live it because it is a twisting of truth it is to declare something that you yourself don't want to live it is a worse heresy than Mormonism it is a worse heresy than Jehovah Witness it is a worse heresy than historian as a man arianism in Gnosticism it is a heresy that many of us have been guilty of we declared the truth but did not try to approximate the truth that we declared it is that that makes churches successful it is when people come to your church and then I'll see the show but they meet people you know brings them back not what's on the big screens you know brings them back not the tapes sold in the foyer you know what brings them back not the excellency of the of The Sopranos section and the ability of the tenors section they hit every note and to modulate from octave dr. there's not those things that bring them back it is the person there sitting next to the average John Doe so Joe Blow who nobody knows well nobody gets a business card nobody shakes that nobody tries to get them no but that person sits there and every Sunday they're here and every Sunday they're struggling and every Sunday they're living and loving up and finally that person connects that person says they have been where you been I may never make it to the pulpit but I've made it into his kingdom it is that God has called us because people reproduce each other the Bible says every seed every seed produces after its own kind it is important that what you are producing in your congregation especially in its beginnings it's done with such an exactitude because it will continue to reproduce itself if you plant bananas you get bananas you plant grapes you get grapes you don't plan oranges and get apples you don't plan apples and get peaches and what you begin to plant in the beginning of the life of the church determines how will begin to replicate itself it's not hard to grow a church all you got to do is make sure that the first seeds appear all you got to make sure is that the first planting of the house is right because once it once it takes root in a replicate itself it'll begin to replicate itself all you got to do is stay over there water and every now and to make sure you get enough Sun but in a replicated stuff but if the first seeds I pervert it then it replicates that to the hundredth dimension are you with me I'm almost finished with my second point it is not of this world as for this world it's not to witness but to be witnesses because for Jesus the issue of salvation is the issue of the kingdom and it's not being saved from it is being saved too for the rich young ruler he was saved but not saved enough sometimes we wrestle with the issue of salvation because our our soteriological point of view are some salvific consciousness is somewhat limited limited by by sometimes undeveloped theological definitions Jesus the original says what must I do to inherit eternal life Jesus is easy just keep the commandments he says I've done all of that Jesus is okay he was saved from Jesus now you want to go to the next dimension of salvation it's not enough to be safe from is to be safe to go sell everything sell everything and follow me but that salvation was too expensive Jesus was not calling all people in the church to poverty he was not telling you to sell everything to this man it was his money to you it may be family prestige education position ecclesiastical titles every one of us has something that Jesus requires of us he requires utter frustration in every area of our life then everything that we have is laid at his feet with no hidden Genda simply submission to him hungering for more than we have already attained the greatest sin in the church is not the sin of omission to admit to do right and it's not the sin of comission the committing of that that is wrong it is the sin of satisfaction woe unto them verily is in Zion be careful when you think you've reached the spiritual pinnacle or zenith of your life when there is no longer a longing or a crying or desire in your life for more I recently sat in a in a pastors conference and I was with three four hundred guys and and we were sitting there and one of the the bishops came to me and said listen he said he said I want you to speak to these guys and and I and he said let me introduce Bishop ash who who is a scholar a theological scholar and when I got the mic I said I'm not a theological scholar I am a scholar of Aramaic I have mastered this dead language I've studied 10 years this language I understand the nuances about the eastern and the Western forms that are now translated in this arena I understood all of the the tenses and all of that that's what I'm but I've never mastered theology because theology is the study of God and you can never master the study of God because God is the unmeasured who could ever master him when when when he is beyond recognition beyond condition beyond enumeration beyond definition beyond even the ability to measure in any term or length or or dimension when it is God and so I don't said I'm not a scholar I can't I can't master God when when Maimonides one of the great Hebrew Sephardic scholars tells us that God in relationship to all beings is God but God is a definition not befitting the dignity of who years as a matter of fact to say God is a slap in his face but he allows us to get away with it but to himself he just says I am in other words to call him God in even good enough and what no others at my church didn't know not about no Maimonides she couldn't even ask Satan she be my my my my my you're careful that's all she'd get she wouldn't be able to say my money but you know what she said she say this every time I said God is good she say he's better than that baby he's better than that but she knew he was better than that Lisa said it this way the god that we behold is like the Sun that we behold in order to peer into the brilliance of the light we are blinded by the light that we see it is the risk we think in order to see him we are blinded in other words the more I learn about him the less I know about him the closer I get the father I feel the old mothers didn't know nothing about st. Gregory so so they put it this way he's so high you can't get over them he's so low you can't get under he so you can't get around him it's the paradox of faith he says if my people which are called by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face but the Bible says no man at any time has seen my face and lift yet he invites us to see a face that will kill us it is the price we pay that if I see him I die and if I die I see him he says look at me and I'll kill you but I can't use you if you're alive so I want you to see the face let's go to kill you but Paul says listen book qualifies me to say that Hebrew of Hebrews of the stock of issue of the tribe of Benjamin circumcised the eighth day concerning zeal a persecutor the church concerning righteousness I was a Pharisee I studied at the feet of Gamaliel hours a Roman citizen I was prolific in languages I had messed at all of the Philosopher's counted all done just to know him in the power of his resurrection and the Fellowship of his suffering Paul Luke says Luke says here to this church and I'm finished I'm finished we're going home in a minute for Jesus the issue of salvation is the issue of the kingdom I was saved into the kingdom or we just say from sin the gospel of the kingdom must be preached where in the whole is not just the gospel here mean not just the gospel he says when this gospel of the kingdom is preached then shall the NBD not some missionary with a box full of medicine and another box full of my mouse sitting somewhere in the African desert singing yes jesus loves me no that's not the power that he's called to witness he says when this gospel of the kingdom is preached when men and women get off boats and they walk in the power of the anointing like they went out two by two not with medicine and Bibles but began to lay hands on the sick and raise the dead they head into the sea can heal the only thing that's gonna change Cuba it's that annoying and it's gonna change Africa it's that annoying thing that's gonna change Asia it's not gonna beat it stories from Sunday school it's gonna be the excellent shape the power the demonstration it is that long if that power doesn't come cheaply that power doesn't come easy it costs you the Bible says these things here watch me listen to me closely the Bible says listen to me it is more than the promise we've preached a lesser gospel we have preached the gospel of personal salvation what's in it if I get saved we have told you make Jesus your personal Lord and Savior yet there is no such thing in the Bible anywhere that you will ever hear the term personal Lord and Savior Jesus never taught us to pray my Father which art in heaven he taught us to pray our Father but we live in such a hyper individualistic age that we are more concerned about what do I get out of it so that we are not called to the church so that we are not called to the community we see you on Sunday we wave and we go home the Bible says God added Paisley to the church such as should be safe here me pastors God is only committed to adding to a church that is daily that's good to me imma give myself an offer and hold on it it's alright this should be a mission I said it sometimes you gotta preach yourself down [Applause] touch your neighbor and say daily you know why is your family not saved your not daily while your children not in the kingdom you're not daily why is your church not growing you're not daily you've got to come to church every day no but you have to be the church every day and if you go home and you go to work you go to school and then you go home again and the only time you see the believers it's on Sunday if you have built no friendships no covenants no relationship there's the only time I see you is on suddenly but I have no relationship with you except my see you in them all and I wave then I am NOT the church because the church is daily and he only adds to a church that's daily my friendship should be connected to those that I'm in the church with I should call and check there should never be a time the office ever gets a phone call their sister Soren souls bills are not paid because if it gets to the office that means a slip past your Pew and none of you took responsibility telling this past your neighborhood and none of you felt the weight of that person's need get in God's house and walk out those doors and don't care enough about the person you sat next to that you shout and you holler and you'd hug and spit in their face but you and Assam baby is anything I can do for you before you go home out there a person sit on a bus bench before they go home how dare anybody if the churches the church we wouldn't need no benevolent offering we wouldn't need no social services the Bible said they had all things in common why was the supernatural present because the supernatural was the secondary consequence of the church meeting one anothers in here me the supernatural only comes bishop o'linn when we have exhausted all of our earthly efforts you know why there's broke people in the church and why god's not blessing them because god says some of you got the power to bless them you only need the supernatural when what you do doesn't work no more not done here things that men could heal he leaves that to the wisdom of men he gave us that wisdom to learn but when man says I've done all I could do I can't do anymore God says now it's my turn because if I heal you from what man could heal you from ain't getting no glory because they're gonna say that was something that could be corrected but when man has said I've done all that I can do she got all these steps in when he gets all glory he don't step in for half glory he don't step in for some Lord that's why the widow woman couldn't get blessed until Elijah took her last you know what Eliza said give me your last because he wanted to bless her but as long as she had one cake doc couldn't be all god only knows how to be all he don't know how to be son and as long as she had one cake he was son so when Eliza took her son not to be oh you're not hearing me and you wonder why pops messing with you what God's messing with you man because he's trying to take your son so then he can be all he's trying to mess with the stuff you been trusting in so that he could be your everything he try to mess with the things you put your faith in so let me give me everything I want to be everything was my job acting up but I want to be everything but I want to be everything touching a man say he wants to be here everything we have reached a lesser gossip oh yes we meet him individually but we don't continue in him individually I come that I can be we that we can be him there's only room for one person and that's one cries and so the eye becomes the we that the we can become to him i innocents in here watch I'm almost finished I'm an artificial I get 20 of those a bishop gets 15 an elder gets 10 a deacon gets five in a lane MEP against one okay that's that's then first two and three that's a great text you ought to read it you ask a question who then can be safe when we hear this kind of living and how the early church lived who which one of us can be say you know Jesus says none of you can none of you can do it on your own so you know what you do go to Jerusalem go to Jerusalem until you be endued with power now that I preach the kingdom to you you know you can't live it so I gotta get in you to live it through you god forbid that we have taken the Holy Spirit which is the third person of the Godhead which is the creative force of the universe which is the voice of God the spirit of glory the Lord of all things created he is the Lord the giver of life and we have demeaned him to simply be an experience I got it I got it something about the Holy Ghost I can't explain it it is not an it it is a he he is a person who is respected and worshipped the long with the father and the son and when he fills us he doesn't fill us to make us feel good he doesn't fill us to renew our dead damn denomination he doesn't fill us so that we can see the supernatural and brag on what he's done he fills us because it says I want you to live differently and you don't have what it takes so I gotta get in you so that I could live through you he wanted us to be like him but because that's the whole mystery of the Incarnation God said I want you to be like me we couldn't be like God is God so God became a man so that we could still be like God are you listening to me watch this I'm almost through that's 12 wait till you be endued with power we come into the church not to strive not to compete not to fight not to try to be better than the next person that's a compare up Church with the church down the street we're not trying to put on a better show we're not trying to do a better than them we're simply trying to be passionate about God there are enough sinners in every city that every Church should be packed statistics tells us that if every church would be filled on a Sunday morning only twelve percent of the community would be in church God promised us at least 25 percent he said one-fourth fell on good ground one fell among the thorns and was choked one fella stony ground was dry another four stolen by the foul but one fourth of it fella we we can at least claim 25 percent of each community we live in there's at least that that is for the kingdom of God what happens here listen to me the best standard of the kingdom is probably exemplified when a woman comes to Jesus and the Bible says that she takes an alabaster box and she breaks in and pours oil on his feet and when she breaks that alabaster box and pours pointman on his feet the first thing the disciples say is this that could have been used for the poor and Jesus says the poor you have with you always hear me but wherever you go there's no what Jesus says wherever you go on whatever you preach tell this story he never told us to preach about Lazarus but Lazarus preaches he never told us to preach about the boy with his fish and loaves he never commanded us to even preach about him walking on water the one thing out of everything he commanded him to he says whenever you go preach tell this story tell the story about a nameless woman who broke a box on my feet and poured ornament that you could have been used somewhere else tell the story about extravagant waste because I fear that the generations of those who will claim my name in the future will be so conservative that extravagant and wasteful living and wasteful worship when they said my god we could be home we could be watching the Superbowl our service it doesn't take five hours to get ahold of God it doesn't take all that long the longest movie is three hours that's Kevin Costner and he ain't made a movie in years and then and the last ones that's how we think but it's wasteful it don't take all of that it doesn't take all that worship it don't take all that music it doesn't take all that singing God says when you go preach tells this story because there's someone gonna be watching there watch just some house I've been trying to get on to watch again it's some woman talking about I gotta get the kids up for school in the morning there's always somebody with something and let them know that the only thing that makes me moves the only thing that I think I've imported you thought you thought me resurrected Lazarus as bad I didn't tell you to preach that you thought me feeding 5,000 people with fish and bread was bad I didn't tell you to freak out you thought walking on the water what's the miracle that until you be what not say to preach extravagant waste why because when my people get to the place that their worship and their life it's wasteful dreams I can't understand why is that church Trinity why are those churches that I gather there why that why are they so blessed why they bless because their extravagant they come early and they leave late they're people in the prayer room all night long all they do is fall before this prison I know some you got to go home you've got kids I know that but sometimes you just gotta you call in sick when they got a little sniffle you're calling the school when you get up and you keep her you don't feel like taking them anymore you keep them homes everything else when's the last time you kept from home because you in the presence of the Lord why isn't that the kingdom of God always suffers rise and that we are always the last when it comes to God's Word when it comes to tithe and it comes to your future you pay your visa before you pay your pad because the visa hey go get a disconnection they don't give you 30 days oh why is it always God takes the sword into the stick and then we want healing we wonder why he tarries when we want the supernatural we wonder why he somebody told me I remember my church back in Madera Fresno said I ain't come to Bible study no more I said wanna wait that is family time I need some time with my family you have Monday Tuesday Thursday and Friday and all they said and you want to pick the night you supposed to be a church in the fellowship of the Brethren where your strength is and the Lord is present to stay home I said that's fine so you know what I didn't preach that Wednesday I went to his house I want to see how he spent family time when I left on the door you know what his family time was his wife was in the kitchen he's flipping channels his son is upstairs and it's not over in the corner hey what you gonna wear to school tomorrow I said baby the same family tired this is confusion hey my darling Brady all-expenses y'all in around the table and now you want to cut short the kingdom of God but when your child comes up with a TV well she's diagnosed with lupus she walked me to brain but I'm here to tell you my prayers won't be answered because they only move according to the life you live you don't get you all to him such a neighbour inshallah want more of God tell someone as I refuse to be satisfied where I am I want to be extravagantly wasteful you want to see extravagance go on the Old Testament you know God says God says I want to sacrifice and you know what I want you to do with it I want you to kill it and pour the blood I'm not okay then I want you to divide it and boil it then I want you to take the skins and throw those in the corner and the fact I want you to burn and the meat I want you to burn it I want you to put it on the fire then do you know how many sacrifices they received do you know how many offerings were received in one week you're on the Feast of Tabernacles which is eight days that they receives two hundred and seventy two different offerings you know make poor people you could have said you're already soup lines you could have said but the Apostolic life is the waste for life where people say I can't understand why you go to church and you give all that and you give your life to the things of God get a life I've got a life is here wait Felicia you could be doing so much more you could be this you could be that no I'm being exactly what God wants me to and when I'm wasteful for him he becomes wasteful with me you'd say something God don't care what kind of car you drive I don't have no problem the prosperity message hey I will have a problem with Bentley's and Mercedes and jaguars and and BMW I don't have a problem with C because when you give God what he asks are you you do whatever you want with the rest I had a young man come to me I just moved to Miami and came to me said mission he said I need you to pray that God would increase my my income I said why because I'm so used to somebody saying increase man cause I'm gonna get a bigger house I want to drop and get the new car today BMW series at 7:45 Corte you know but if you're in the hood it's quite a day I've been trying to answer mckay's you come on nothing up here but a name or know what so you know that gangster where's it doc I'm driving a car today so and I'm used to that I'm gonna get a bigger car I wanna you know I want to go shopping I'm gonna do something my wife he said you know why cuz the church that you're gonna build my little tithe ain't enough to support that church I'm gonna have to make some more money cuz your vision is so big see and then I realized I realized this booger about to pull up here in the Mercedes he bout to buy a house on the lake you know why because his concern is not for those things his concern is for the kingdom and when you take care of God's stuff God says hey whatever is left over you buy whatever car you all about your tribe however you are living whatever you are I got no problem you driving a Bentley if you have given your potato to the kingdom of God if you have Wayne yourself with me I don't man what you waste the rest on with yourself I'm finishing I'm finished yeah I'm finishing on finishing right now okay watch us I'm finished not really but I'm almost seconds after the same chapter ii chapter 40 second verse here's where it gets good and they continued 'vote it themselves to the Apostles doctrine and the fellowship to the breaking of bread and to prayer first of all let me tell you what they did not continue in the pastor's doctrine they didn't continue in the evangelists doctrine an inconvenient that teaches doctrine of the process dr. they continued an apostolic dr. apostolic anointings have gifts to bring sound doctrine they have revelation knowledge of the Old Testament Paul had revelation of things in the Old Testament nobody else had he unfolded and broken open the problems we begin our doctrine from the wrong sources I don't leave my doctrine from a scholar and him a doctor from an apostle because apostles do not establish doctrine based on the issue of doctrine Apostles always established doctrine to confront lies every doctrine about Jesus Christ if you have ever study theology was not established because they want a doctrine the early church had no doctrine they didn't know what they believed they just believed they didn't know was 2 or 1 or 3 if he had two natures of one that it was all undefined but every time a teaching came out that didn't didn't sound like God they said now we need we need to come back together and say now that's wrong because the apostolic anointing always is a pioneering announcing it always confronts a lie it always proclaims truth they continued steadfastly in the Apostles doctrine what a church will not grow when it is basing its substance on wrong theology theology or doctrinal teaching is absolutely necessary why because if I don't know who he is if I have a poor view of him then my worship is not adequate let me tell you something Jehovah Witnesses worship the Mormon Church worships you better here the Mormon Tabernacle Choir y'all think y'all can think the problem is they don't know who their theology they're teaching is wrong so their worship is inadequate so we need sound teaching hear me pastors an index to the success of your ministry will be found in your library that's right you just can't pick up this one book and think it's enough you have to stretch yourself you have to read guys you never read like Brueggemann part Bonhoeffer tillich something I've never heard of a shame on you Merton these are great men and thinkers who challenged people to another dimension of faith we were talking today sitting pastors housing opening book by Kevin Connor he's a man have you read that he challenged me I said I love Kevin Carter I've been reading it for years reconnect it what of it it doesn't take all that you don't think so Peter uneducated two books Paul educate it change the face of the church well I can't go to seminary you don't need to go to seminary listen to what Paul says I preached this one day and at a seminary when they graduated Paul said three things he said Timothy bringing my coat bring me my parchment and bring me my books three things i requisite for any successful ministry make sure my body is covered make sure my physical man is taken care of give me something to write on because I'm a thinker God does not use dummies you must be a thinker you must press the boundaries of you will never experience God in the box you've been ranged in you ain't gonna experience them till you're Wayman able to press those boundaries and begin to see him in areas you've never seen them in before and then bring in my books because if I pour out I need to pour back in I need to feed me because I'm constantly feeding the laziest group of people I've ever met are preachers they pour out they pour out they pour out and they feel like they don't need to replenish and be fed your library is an index to the future of your ministry and if you begin to invent and I'm gonna talk about good more in the Holy Spirit been in here I'm not about the charismatic section I'm talking about there are great figures out there that will bring you to another dimension in God thinkers on the worship and and buffered every shiner one of the greatest Old Testament scholars Paul Tillich who was a survivor of the Holocaust and professor of ethics at Harvard and the chaplain at Harvard Harvard University when Harvard was still saved before they became atheist his own little continued steadfastly in the Apostles doctrine fellowship there's it is impossible for the church to accomplish what God wants us to accomplish on our own fellowship is absolutely requisite to the supernatural why of all expressions I was talking with somebody since a - what do you think about this oneness movement Jesus only I said I said I don't have a problem so much with them trying to be monotheistic because the Jews were monotheistic I understand their plight but what they're missing is the reason God chose to manifest as Trinity there's a reason why he didn't he he lured himself to human numerical value and chose to be three instead of just one though he was one he had three distinct persons why because God understands that love is not love if God is love love cannot be love without an object to love why is fellowship necessary hear me because you will never ever deal with the real issues in your life on your own you know what people come in your life cuz they manifest things in you you didn't think we're there you ever had a family members stay with you longer than they were invited and then you come home one day you've been at work all day and you come home and they sitting on your couch with your remote control with their feet up and all of a sudden in your spirit some type of anger rises up and you didn't even know you are capable of feeling that resentful and hateful against somebody that you used to love and you say what it's a it's a television it's a couch it's not that important all set is my couch I play but ain't paying for no cable over my lifetime I'm sick hey I mean if you did the Bob tell you right now lord help me [Applause] because fellowship I cannot be christ-like living by myself it is living with others that God exposes the parts of me that I have hidden deep down with all my Pentecostal charismatic games and my hook I massage through the Meseta kick on the I can I can put on a good game for you but when I live in fellowship when when that person hurts me and I know I won't like him and then she come right after church you coming straight from a lot of try get out of here come on get to me she gonna ask for a ride kids get in the car get in the car it is that fellowship how many times as a leader as a pastor have I sat next to people and they said can I talk to you and I'm trying to turn them home somebody I said look I got a meeting this is a flight I gotta be on a flight not today but eventually this week imma be on the flight [Applause] I'm amazed at how people can hurt me and God poor God knows how to mess with you Todd knows how to mr. I just finished this book by Thomas Merton and and the things that the the introduction counselor is dead he was a great assertion Cistercian monk a great writer but but the the man who wrote the foreword said I've never met a man who sat in the presence of kings and beggars and listened so intent to every word that you could not tell the difference to who he was talking to he treated the beggar like they were a king and I said oh yeah that's me uh-huh I kind of have that God call you know I quality I can walk with kings and sit with paupers right and then I get on my flight now I'm thinking I'm gonna be troubles first class and sitting next to me this woman that I knew from 20 years ago in ministry when I was just brother Ashe not his Eminence metropolitan Archbishop of the Mar Thoma Orthodox Church in the Syrian tradition didi and mth from Harvard Harvard you know if you say Harvard yet Harvard is even a bother this woman worked my nerves three and a half hours and I had a I had a I want them DVD players you know it works fine so I got on the flight I couldn't get files trying to put my soil that out trying to play now trying to turn it so she didn't even know it one working and she leaning over to man brother and she look like it's broken what do you think about who I need a bandage since she cut her hair I think she lost her northern I like stupid stuff like that you know what you like I want to talk about the deep things that I you know I like I really like I like that I like Rob parson he's really annoying it but but I don't what you think about that guy he's a little overweight I'll get that that preacher in Texas now how can you be preaching all that and be that that and I'm like woman I'm just trying to get home and literally I mean I mean I'm telling you she was driving me and literally almost called me to lie me in a few times I figure I was falling asleep I was like well it's trying to fake it till I make it out and there are things and I mean literally I was so mad with this woman but why I haven't seen them 20 years and then I realized Veron as much as I preach I want to be like Jesus as much as I have longed for his presence as much as I have fallen at his feet in worship there are things that are so buried deep within me that a woman an innocent woman who sits next to me on a plane can so disturb my spirituality maybe I'm not as spiritual maybe I'm not as deep maybe I'm not laugh y'all know some of y'all guilty to don't all the thing about time they find of me there's a few of you up in here up in here you ain't God's first cousin [Applause] fellowship is requisite because we will never ever manifest the fruit of the Spirit alone all nine fruits of the spirit always need an object to be made manifest to therefore spirituality cannot be appropriated by yourself it needs people and you can act like your wonder by yourself and about how we'll need mama you know Vicky why not love us here all I need your King Jesus and then they and then we they're singing that super self don't need my mother don't need my father don't need my brother don't need don't need the preacher excuse me you don't need the preacher how can you hear except to be a preacher how can you preach except they be sent you need a preacher but it is that theology that has messed us up so that we are super hyper individualistic you need the person you'll sit next to and if you sat here and have an introduce yourself you better take a moment because you don't know how important they are to your prophetic future are you listening to me some of you saying I liked it better when you talk about worship that's all right [Applause] fellowship the breaking of bread it is unique that here he's just words the breaking of bread here this is eucharistia Doctore here this is actually the breaking of our toy a toy bread this is actually an inference to communion this is an inference to the Eucharist this is very important because our communion services have messed us up in the early church they had one cup and one loaf of bread each piece of bread was broken off and they all drank out on one cup today we give you a little sterilized wafers and sterilized thimbles full of grape juice because we're more concerned about passing germs and here we are believing the supernatural power of God Communion and fellowship and I know that for some of us that's gross I would never drink behind I wouldn't ring by my own mama hang on drink value but we are not like our fashion there is something to be said the early church did that he one of the great texts did that he which was written 76 ad which is before the book of Revelation was written in 76 AD did he says let there be one bishop of every church let them come together around one table let there be one cup and one loaf of bread did that he goes on to write the importance of one loaf of bread this is the prayer they prayed in the Eucharist Heavenly Father as you gathered the wheat from the four corners of the earth to make this one loaf so gather your church scattered in the making in among the nations to make us one body oh don't give me your wafer give me your love why because a wafer isn't broken they broke bread you know why the but you know the Bible says in the book of in the book of Isaiah the fourth chapter in that day seven women will take hold of one man and say let us eat our own bread and wear own clothes but let us be called by your name hello seven women hello seven churches of Asia hello to the seven churches hello seven women hello church that say we want your name we don't want your bread because your bread is broken we don't want a broken life because if it's broken it means I share it I want my own bread I don't want to share what's mine hello we want to wear our own clothes we don't want to wear your clothes why hello we don't want to come under your cover hello apostles prophets evangelists pastors we want to cover ourselves are you listening to me that's revelation right there now the Holy Ghost they broke bread you'll get isthere for this cause Paul said as many sick among you let me tell you something the Eucharist communion is less than what the Catholic Church teaches but it is more than what we have been taught because if people are dead because of it if it is so carefully paul says you better be careful how you take it because if some of you're sick and some of you are even asleep because you took it wrong because you did not discern the Lord's body let me tell you something don't ever come to the table of the Lord and not discern the Lord's body don't think that he's more important than the person you're sitting next to and she's more important and I'm important and Eddy long and whiney to bind him and Joyce Meyer discern the Lord's body let the I'll never tell the mouth I have no need of you let the hand never tell the foot I have known let the fire for ministry never tell the foot I have no need of you let the ear those that hear never tell the mouth those of us who speak I have no need of you you hear you need us and we need you I understand examine hear there is a need there is a reception that is absolutely requisite to the things of God I'm finishing this I feel a weight of the anointing how do you feel the weight this is the Holy Ghost speaking to us tonight listen to me here they broke bread and the last thing they did is they prayed why is prayer absolutely essential to the purpose of God lies prayer so absolutely essential let me share this with you today because when you fully understand what God is saying in this sense turn your Bibles with me to the book of Acts the Sema's trouble on get into now acts that's something my sphere x13 and I'm finishing with this see how much trouble I can get into you before we do that I want you to hear this is severe before because the 13 chapters where there's a key here is very important the Bible says this that Paul goes to a particular city in while he's preaching this is importance of prayer the Bible says they did through four things the last thing they did is they prayed watch this key promises that Paul goes to sitting there's a certain woman possessed with a demon and she keeps saying these are men of God hear them here then Paul puts up with it for so long this what about us as the Bible says when they went out to pray when they went to pray a certain woman possessed with a spirit of divination the word the divination of the Greek esposa it's where we get the word Python from there's a lot of teaching on that Python which is a constrictor pythons are unique because they constrict without breaking bones they removed the life from the being without removing the structure they removed the life without the structure when did this demon appear whenever they went to pray whenever they went to pray this demon appeared and there are many churches that still have their structure but they have no life because they have failed to pursue him in prayer prayer is not the casual inviting of God into our services when we come together it is the passionate pursuing of his presence it is not something you do it is something you are the danger in the church today is that we have taken the responsibility of prayer and placed it on the shoulders of five or six people that come two or three times a week early in the morning I was talking with Pastor earlier today when I got to the house and he said he said something that blessed me he said you know what I am the worship leader of my church he said I these people they're here to assist me but I lead worship see it's that response it's that key there's the who who's there who's your head intercessor me ally prayer I'm the person I pray more than people I'll lead it I lead worship are you listening to me the key is not waiting the husband's husband's husband's in this church husbands don't let your wife and your wife carry the responsibility to prayer your home and then you wonder why there's where there's a disproportionate spiritual power in the house every time and you wake up in the morning she's on her knees praying sometimes you need to just when she when you see her getting ready to get on her knees praying you know you know y'all ain't been in some in a while just tap on the Sun and kind of whispering here and play with her and make a thing and then be and then when she trying to be friendly you jump on your knees and fall down to stop rains they beat you to it on out the preacher this house not you my kids then you creep back up in the bed when you finish and take care of business like a man [Applause] [Music] [Applause] and the Lord added daily to their number day by day those they were supposed to be saved let me say this in conclusion we get to the 13th chapter book and I'll say this before we get to the 13th chapter because the 13 chapter is the key to what God does in the house like this and in the houses where you are the reason we are not seeing the expression of the kingdom in our church is because we cannot say with conviction repent it is the cry for repentance that brings the move of God repentance is requisite for the supernatural repentance is the Sisir crying out of a broken people to a loving father repentance does not even need an offense repentance does not need an excuse people who are repentant just know that even their best is not worthy to be in his presence we wait till we mess up to repent and then we wonder why we mess up if you live a life of repentance you ain't gon mess up listen to me singing from or sayin Isaac of Syria one of the great Saints of the Middle East a Christian in the sixth century brought this book he said this life is given to us for repentance let us not waste it on vain pursuits why would I spend my life at just repent if I didn't do nothing wrong because if I constantly say repentance I won't do anything wrong if I hid if I get it before it becomes a monster the moment is a thought if I try to act like I'm a holy ghost Superman a supernatural Wonder Woman and act like well that's just a thought I ain't gonna bother me if it's a phone it could become a reality and if I spend my my presence on my knees as a God don't let this thing consume me I know it just passed through my mind and I know I've never done nothing like that I would even conceive a proceed but father I'm sorry for even allowing that thing I'm sorry that maybe I watched the wrong television program I listened to the wrong song and the presence is somebody too long they were speaking negatively there's some like that would even grass a hole in my sphere somehow it got into my spirit this thing didn't come from nowhere somewhere I allowed access and God I am repentant even now I repented for the things I've done it for the things I I don't even know I've done for the things I've done willingly and unwittingly are you listening to me when you live a life of repentance then the supernatural becomes obvious but why can't we not call people to repent it why our church is not full because we cannot adequately call men to repentance because in order to call them to repentance they must see something worthy of repenting for repent Metanoia can change to walk away from to turn how can I change from a walk away from something unless there is something greater than that that I'm walking away from you must show me something in the church better than in the world the tragedy is that most people do not come to church because they have found better community in the world how many sinners have ever told you why don't I go to church cut out because the church is filled with hypocrites because I see more friendliness and more reality in the world I got friends of mine who are unbelievers then something said are you going to church because at least in the world I know who don't like me in the world they don't smile in my face and stab me in the back they just tell me they don't even come on my block cuz I'm gonna take you out i'ma pop a cap in you don't even mess with me they let him know say but in the church you ain't sure they smiling speaking in tongues and then you wondering this is why did she suck her teeth did that one why did he leave his foot out when I was trying to get walk around dog to give my offering what was that about always that question the church must become real we must become so transparent the church must stop playing the game Church and we must open ourselves up that people don't see the person we want to portray but they see the real us they see our faults they see our weaknesses they see our struggles and Sarah teachers preachers I I had this meeting and I talked to this young guy said as an apostle what do you want from me you want you want to know what I read what my library is what my what my takes is no he says man I want to know how you struggle being a single guy preaching some church to church going from ministry the ministry with all them fine women he they'll talk about that they just say what pray and let the Holy Ghost use you gotta keep you if you wanna be captain yes he will and then we gotta go yeah that's it say hola bra cold showers its equal with the Holy Ghost I'm teddy covenant relationship staying in the pastor's house pastor can I stay with you tonight of this haven't even covered myself a dark I'm struggling that one was kind of she was hot that one was too bright there now I'm not hate playing that one was built just right they should know because I'm a man don't think I don't see but I take I'm a man God create if I ain't since that's when you need to be wearing some struck this one if he ain't looking at her better check the Brethren's [Applause] [Music] you have Michael Jackson PYT we know now legend I'm so sorry but lord I apologize I'm sorry the reality is this there are these dis watches I have to be transparent that's the beautiful women and there's not a day in my life that I'm not sometimes consumed with the desire to be with somebody I've given my life to singleness I've given my life to this and it's not easy and you will struggle with married men will struggle with it and if we continue to walk around like what gods first cos would have no issues that people will fight these battles by themselves do you know the priestess and I taught it here last time but I'll say it again because many of you have never heard me before there are three officers that Jesus had priest prophet King we hear about the Prophet we hear about the King but we don't hear a lot about the priestly ministry of Jesus a priest is a man taken from among men for men a priest is a man taken from among men for men why is the priesthood taken from among men why were they not created genetically different to be perfect because they would be intercessors they would have to be able to relate to the people they were praying for if priests were perfect they wouldn't pray for mercy they pray for judgment but because they're men like other men instead of praying God kill him they said God I don't know what they're going through cuz I've been through the same thing give him mercy give him mercy and anytime we don't open ourselves up to that life any time we don't show them that side of us we deprived them from becoming all that God has called them to be God added to the church daily said repent repentance can be preached when we live a chance formed and a transparent life come cuz I ain't playing no games and I'm gonna show you my strengths only I'm gonna show you my weaknesses i'ma show you that I have succeeded many times in my life but I have failed there are some things that I have accomplished I am proud of and there are some things that I am ashamed of there are some skeletons in my closet and I never want to be on earth but I'm letting you know they're there I'm not perfect watch me that kind of confession brings people in the church stop acting like a wonder you ain't no wonder he's a wonder in the finish you can call them you are not allowed to call them to repentance unless you can finish the sentence the sentence is not repent it is repent for the kingdom of heaven is at hand if you cannot breathe em to the kingdom then don't call them to repentance if you cannot provide an environment and an atmosphere that is more than where they are don't bring them out it's better that they never have tasted of the good things to come and look back on the world unless the church becomes the kingdom and shows them the kingdom and gives them the kingdom then the world will never come they'll come when they'll come when we preach the kingdom when he preached the kingdom to such a place that they say I want it I'll repent because you've shown me something better than I know it's gonna have its own issues I know the kingdom has problems watch this 14 so I've finished forget 13 I appreciate another time Oh y'all just having a good time laughing at me tonight I don't know Bishop - you're so funny praise the Lord acts 14 listen to this verse 24 Maji verse verse 26 I said verse 22 I'm winding verses in there is one of them we found in a minute printed on we just we just making this stuff up as you go along very music strengthening the souls of the disciples encouraging them to continue in the faith saying there's no appall preached through many tribulation through many tribulations we must enter the kingdom of God I preached this before but I need to repeat this again because many of us don't understand it the word tribulation there Phillips's in the greek Phillips's that through attorney Philip sees Conte on Basilio tour fails through much the word tribulation means pressure we enter the kingdom of heaven you know the kingdom don't come easy it's easy to get him to say get in the church repentance gets in the church but the kingdom takes a lot more it is the pressure of life Felipe's is pressure that gives you access to the kingdom and I'll close with this but it's an example I've given here this church last time I preached but for those of you that didn't get it I'm gonna give it to you again tonight cause it's so powerfully important that everything that goes wrong in your life goes wrong for a reason to give you revelation in areas of your life you did not have before are you isn't it come on brah tell me you come in you come here man you come here man come in come on step I'll make ya'll preachers tonight y'all hug Amen all three your reverend now you can stand in the pulpit there you go standing at night here's the key now just facing any stand next don't miss stand next to you kind of big eyelash it shows you but that's all right you stay right there I'm gonna need some brethren so long as I can through much tribulation you enter the kingdom of God on the other side here's the kingdom and then it is righteousness and peace and joy in the kingdom of God is everything that we have desired it is the supernatural that's what we have been longing for it is healing it is power it is the thing that will make your church dynamic your city doesn't need another Church it needs the kingdom it doesn't need another seeker-friendly Church it needs a church full of seekers not trying to make this that the one that you the seekers comfortable but make the one that they're seeking comfortable are you listening to me here we have designed our churches to gain people and not him but here is all that we need here's all the healing is all the deliverance is all the power that you need but you can't get it oh my god you can't get it because you know why because there is a realm a dimension between you and what God wants you to be and as much as you pray and fast you can't get in there and it's there God says I want you to get healing this is what you can't get it because it's in the kingdom but I can get you in there only tribulation gives you access I want you to have it but you ain't go you know why because if you get it without that if you don't deal with those guys you won't value it believe me Bishop you go ahead you buy your son a pair of Jordans you buy your son a pair of academic jeans and long as you plan for him they come back dirty you ain't had them two days lace is all hanging out broken filthy mud on them pass thrown in the corner you let him get a job and say hey by Nomura you want Jordans by y'all all of a sudden that Booker just taking the toothbrush he's scrubbing the sides he bleaching the laces and stuff he knows value God says like the kingdoms too valuable for me to give it to you without any tribulation so God says let me give it to you but you can't get it on you know so you know I'm do I'm ascent pressure the word for tribulation is pressure so you know number I'm a sin family lying on you come on line family come on I know you ain't talking to me the devil is alive I will I'll receive that in Jesus name letters I don't care if you are the archbishop yes you look like good pressure come on up here this this this is financial problems right here there's a big one look at you add a bit born I'd want to keep you come on bro you a big one come on over here right here in the glasses come in yeah you don't look that he look down act like I didn't see him come on up here all right this church folk bothering your right here is one big this is church folk right here this is Church vocal bother you come on up here man Oh God I need them come on run this is infirmity in your body come on up here this listen no this is new additions to the family now you gotta pay take care of more bills cuz you got new additions to the family you know Lord we didn't plan for now I gotta get a second job I thought you look at this stuff right here you'd be like Lord I got saved and you try to kill a brother you try you try to pull us full of Sopranos you trying to touch color pull a try on me all these problems these things will cause you to be overwhelmed let me say there's a leader in the church you mean look at the bills your church producers I mean look at people not coming and people not submitting to the leadership and I submitting to you and rebelling against you to speak against you and pastors in the city cussing you out and and and jealous cuz two of their people going to your church and you're like well I didn't it's not like I proselyte at him you know the little sheep were at your church was anorexic you weren't feeding them he got through that little hole in the fence he started eating on my side of the fence got too fat to go back I didn't steal it how about he's a shoe stealer I'm just leading them that's all if you'd feed him they couldn't get through the fence little anorexic feed the sheep having to get Sally Struthers to raise money for the Sheep and stuff in this spirit of silly coming on me I better do benediction here's everything but you know what God prophesy to you and said you're gonna have a city that's a church that's gonna change that city that's here you will have money to meet the needs of the poor that's gonna be here you're gonna have a church that's gonna see several thousand people and it's gonna be a prayerful church it's gonna be a worshipful church it's gonna be a church with married families it's gonna be a tithe paying church and you're like yes I want it my god I'm paid for the tape series and I want it I don't got went to the renewal conference this conference ain't gonna give you access to that tape you get all the tape you're gonna get nothing behind there God says I'm gonna give it to you though I'm gonna send this stuff and on your own you can't get there some sent pressure come on pressure and the pressure so that everything that's going wrong in your church because Todd is gonna gives you access so the sum total of the kingdom so that your church will be acts 29 still healing the sick he's still raising the dead he's still working miracles it's not some sub program it's the truth it's reality because there's worse of and tribulation and all of these things you access to [Music] the kingdom forever tribulation praise them forever until you said praise them all the hell you bit to praise him for everything that went wrong praising the chip into thinking rubbish all day you praise him right now you will be the extra in our church you will walk like him you will cast optimist like him you'll raise the dead like heaven you will heal the sick like him why because you walk more you refuse to be satisfied this is not the past this is the present it's much it's gonna happen in your city it's gonna happen in your neighborhood it's gonna happen with your people and when God begins to see don't give up because of what you've been soon don't because no it's abit soup don't shut the doors don't give up yet stop sending a second wave of the Holy Ghost a second wave of the anointing a second wave of pressure for you to do damage some is a mission but I feel like not did that and I missed how many ever felt like you missed the timing of God like God did something you missed the time I Got News for you he said you said I saw him and when I saw he was a wheel in the middle of wheel if you ever miss God it's okay cuz it's coming back around again you won't get another chance you don't get another day the Bible says they ministered to the Lord they worshiped him the Bible says in the thirteenth chapter Paul and Barnabas are also in worship the Lord administered the Greek word Minister means leichter Ghia liturgy they worship the Lord as a man should and the Holy Ghost spoke prophecy is the second side or it is the other side to a dialogue with God worship is my side of the dialogue prophecy it says you need a word from the Lord didn't worship you need got to speak concerning your situation and worship because God is a gentleman and your mama used to tell you and your kid and adult said hello she said speak when you're spoken to God knows that much of your momma knows that much and when you speak to him he begins to speak back to you pastors don't ever be in the study studying when your members out there worshiping study Saturday night and when the first song starts sometimes you got to be late to let people in but but don't come on right before you be there for the worship service you want to worship a church that worships an item see you worship you want a church that runs let him see you run you want to church the dances let them see you then you want a church that prays let them see you pray you want puzzles back husbands you want children that write let them see you live right you want a family let them you become the priests in your home you said that the place you set the tone for your family at God the last verse of the book of Acts says they preached it now we live it John said I heard seven thunders uttered seven things and when I John went to write with the seven thunders uttered a voice said John don't write John wasn't allowed to ride it because we were supposed to live it we're not allowed to write new books but we're allowed to be new books we're allowed to be a living witness a living testimony no mothers used to say when I think of the goodness of Jesus and all he's done for me my soul cries out hallelujah I praise God for saving me sometimes the greatest test someone is your pain and it's your process it is what God puts you through it is your pressure stop robbing us by keeping it to yourself yeah it's gonna cost yes some people will use it against you yes some people it's the prices that it's the risk we take for his presence it's what we're here for more than anything we want the presence of God it's the risk we take I told a young guy recently said he says man you're a great preacher how do I be a great preacher sir I'm not a great preacher I am a poor preacher but I'm a man who loves God you simply are allowed to listen in on conversations I've held with God there are no great sermons there's only prayers prayed in closets shared in pulpits every sermon is brought up is born out of a pastor's frustration sitting in the presence of God is God said I want more we come up here and simply somehow with limited vocabulary and vernacular try to express to you the conversation we held with him the night before you're simply allowed to listen in here listening something you have no relationship with him you'll never be able to touch the lives of people there's men and women all over this place so one day will be called to be great evangelist pastors teachers apostles and prophets it doesn't begin with collars it doesn't begin we're going to pastors conferences it does not begin with practicing how to preach it begins with getting to know him I dealt with the remain standing those either standing I was talking to a professor recently the professor of homiletic sin Yale University and I said what is your greatest frustration with preachers she says my greatest frustration with preachers is this he says is that guys who come to take a class on homiletics if they listen to you or they listen to Berger men or they listen to TD jakes or Noel Jones or rod parsley he says instead of them trying to understand the intent of the author they're so busy trying to sound like you or rod or something he says it's like if somebody was going to an acting class and you handed them the script to Scarface and they were supposed to play the part of Carlos Montana some of you I know you real save you don't watch movies understand or you get this by revelation and he said and you give him that script and they start let me introduce you to my little friend they're so busy trying to be Al Pacino playing Carlos Montana but they're not trying to understand what the writer of the script intended so they're not great actors they're great imitators but they're not being true to the script the danger in preachers as so many of us have found our favorite preacher and we try to emulate and imitate their style you're not create because of that you're great because you ask the author what did you want the text to say it's not my job to sound like Jake's to sound like Jim Bohlen to sound like Joyce Myers it's my job to sound like the way the author intended the text to be understood I must be true to the text and do no harm to his word great ministry is born in simplicity I said all that to say this great ministry is born out of great relationship you will never go beyond your ability to seek his face and he will never honor you beyond your ability to seek his face on the count of three all over this place let's take what we've heard for the last hour and a half or two hours but they were the Lord is as a thousand years most Finnish is as a thousand years when I count to three passionately and insanely and wastefully and extravagantly worship the Lord don't look at the clock don't leave forget forget forget home forget kids with you for five to ten minutes forget it all and get in its presence like you're losing your mind cry walk run falls meal whatever it takes and for ten minutes without any you know some time we got to be worked into a friends and we come to work and not just because you want him because you want him let what issues from your mouth and your heart be so touching that the king who sits in heaven will step out of heaven today and step down into Powder Springs Georgia and bring his kingdom with him how many want that to happen tonight on the count of three let's seek his face one two [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] tell him to send his kingdom in your life send his kingdom in your home send his kingdom in your family send his kingdom in your church Telecom I need your kingdom shut it now [Music] we need your kingdom [Music] they're all together [Music] [Music] [Music] oh [Music] Oh God [Music] you're mine [Music] worship the Lord worship the Lord [Music] [Applause] [Music] come on 30 more seconds everybody in this house come over [Music] well [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] all together [Music] quickly all over this place grab the hand of the person you're standing next to quickly grab the head because we can't do this by ourselves the Bible says that they were in fellowship leaders can lead by themselves and I heard the Holy Ghost speak while I was standing there that many of you that lack staff to help bear the weight off your shoulders that I heard all the Spirit speak that he is releasing qualified people to help in different aspects of ministry I hear the Lord saying that he's releasing you to ministry and children's church leaders and musicians and administrators to help bear the burden in these local churches he K devil Shandy and what I want you to do I thought about the priesthood a little bit but sometimes we are overwhelmed with what's on us but if we could bear the weight bear the weight of the same thing share the weight equally distribute that way the Bible says that the people had one heart and one soul the book of Acts says that that one heart and one soul and they had all things in common [Music] okay we have some things in common can you imagine this the life the the connecting the Holy Ghost did that they had all things in common you know how much you got to get delivered from you to have all things in common my only issue with somebody else is my issue with myself amen I had a pastor one time Toby said I can heal any marriage in 30 seconds I said you lying he said I don't need 12 months I can hear that I said but but he said I put a bolting room and said now which one are you gonna die just that quick it's a dying to yourself that causes it and it's not what the Bible says the Bible says that all things in common and the Bible and great grace was among them the administration of grace was the secondary consequence of them tapping into their brother and sister you don't hear me they before God released grace they had to start loving each other on a new dimension start bearing each other's burden on the dimension we're gonna begin to pray and I want you to pray for the person on your right in your level and we begin to pray how you pray for them is gonna determine about what what kind of grace God and grace means favor great favor great favor great favor and that there's a release of faith in here but it's gonna be whether you're just gonna play pray your little nickel dime tired prayer like your father bless them and you know save and heal are you really gonna begin a say God don't let my sister go through any more I know I'm feeling her pain I'm feeling my brother's strive and struggling the issues he's dealing with and and really said God let me feel the weight of my brother and sister and what I'm telling you as you begin to do that there's coming a grace of God released in your churches in your homes in your lives the lack of which you've never seen before quickly come on grab their hand and pray and press let them feel it don't just hold it let them feel you father in the name of Jesus we ask for your presence in a supernatural way we ask for your kingdom to come come with power signs and wonders come in a demonstration of all that you are touch the body of my brother and my sister puts their finances touch their family Oh God lifts the burden lifted it on door oh no a remedy said they live a order about how wipe the tears from their eyes every struggle they were dealing with every issue they've been dealing with don't leave me there to put this in your presence God don't leave them in the situation where they are but God lifts the lift the burden lift the burden and release the anointing release your presence release your power release your glory release your kingdom we need it right now comedy but we need your grace heal every sick person deliver every pound person every secrets in every hidden sin give them strength to overcome it every generational curse destroy it every demon that place them back hogs in the name of Jesus by your power by your glory we need you now to heal we need you now to the liver we need you now to move we need you now to lift up the burden from their head don't leave us in this place there's gonna be a great anointing there's gotta be a greater dimension there's gotta be a greater realm we want more from you miracles members release destiny release the annoying thing now release their ministry now in the name of Jesus Oh God we needs in them to do all you said you're going to do we need you to release your purpose and release your power and release your glory don't let us leave this place the way we came in but change us heal us let us swim the devil in the name of Jesus thank you shake it a male shot back do it now buddy your hands stretch forth your hand in the name of Jesus Oh whoa Jesus that's it press the head press it squeeze and let him know let alone you ain't dealing with this by yourself grab the shoulder your person dexter squeezes say you ain't alone you ain't alone I got your back I got your back up with you I'm praying for you pray for me blow I come in with judgment I'm coming with mercy with mercy with mercy thank you [Applause] you're all together [Music] [Music] Here I am [Music] [Music] Oh hard together food [Music] your heart [Music] come on this thing that together lift your voice take your voice a little walk [Music] right [Music] [Music] after death altogether [Music] [Music] Father in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ I pray that what you have done this weekend not only this weekend but what you've done over the many years that they have had these renewal services god I pray that you would seal in the hearts of every leader every pastor that has come in this place and father I pray that as you ignite their hearts and rekindle the flame of passion that like Samuel not one of their words would fall to the ground you have not called these men to be captains of tens or hundreds but captains of thousands you've called them not simply to passenger churches but to turn their cities upside down and father prophetically I cry out to those that are here tonight and to those that are here in generations pass and I call them to an extravagant waste of life an extravagant waste of worship an extravagant waste of giving an extravagant waste of praise and extravagant waste of prayer that will be so radical that when the world sees it they will either become a part of it or they will persecute it but there will be no lukewarm recognition of your kingdom either they will submit to it or they will persecute it God give us a life that excites persecution that people will be drawn or try to persecute us because they won't understand the radical life that we live in the name of Jesus thy kingdom come thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven come on give the Lord a praise amen lately

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