How can we measure if a cup is filled? We can tell that a glass is filled when it overflows. The kingdom is measured in the same way, and we can tell how full we are by the measure of the kingdom of God that is demonstrated in and through our lives. Bill Johnson breaks down Isaiah 61 verse by verse to encourage us to represent the Father by being filled with the Holy Spirit to the point of overflow. This message will invite you to be so filled by the presence of God, that cities and nations around you will be transformed by the glory of God.
good morning
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how many of you are horse people and you
like horses
you like this for fast riders we have
fast horses
for slow riders we have slow horses for
those who have never ridden we have
horses that have never been ridden
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probably not huh i’m not a horse i
i got on a horse i mean i’ve been on
horses but i got in one
that was demonized
it was the it was the horse where all
the demons went from the man of the
gadarenes here in reading
that horse wanted to kill me and he knew
that he had an idiot on his back he knew
it
they just they know they know instantly
what you know
and what you don’t know and that thing
tried to kill me
they had to keep it in a small corral
because they’d run itself to death
that it just won and so my friends
put me on that horse friends
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that horse took off across the field
like a rocket ship and then it ran
towards a tree
with low branches because he was trying
to get deliverance
for me and i i seriously i melted into
the saddle like this
and the branches scraped over the top of
my head and back and i
think i need a sozo
ride yours yeah i you know i
i have gotten as close to horses as i
have an appetite for
so i i just got it out of my system all
on that one day about
35 years ago or whatever it was
everyone thinks a girl’s dream is to
find the perfect guy
please every girl’s dream is to get thin
by eating cupcakes
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i didn’t make it to the gym today that
makes
five years in a row
my bathing suit told me to go to the gym
but my sweatpants were like
nah girl you’re good
i i probably have two or three hundred
of these i just save them you know
there’s three kinds of people in this
world those who are good at math and
those who aren’t
there’s always a little delay what did
he say
spell check has got to be my worst enema
[Laughter]
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as your phone ever spell checked you and
you sent a message
and as it’s going you go come back come
back come back
yeah i i had a pastor friend of mine
send me something voice voice and it
it puts where it put
but a nice healthy swear word in there
he brought me back it was it was it was
the
the voice thing whatever so anyway he
was full of repentance and
i’d rather believe that he did it on
purpose just so i could tease him
one last one if you pre if you’re
depressed about being fat you should eat
right and exercise
then you can be depressed about being
hungry
all right grab your bibles and uh
it’ll take me a little while to get
there so open to isaiah 61 it’s
it’s kind of a hallmark passage for us
and actually
probably for the church in the last 2000
years
we’ll get to it a little bit put a piece
of paper in there or something
unless you get bored with what i’m
saying then you can just read it while
i’m talking
yeah jesus
jesus modeled what it looks like to be
full of the holy spirit
being filled with the spirit is actually
command and scripture it’s a
it’s both an invitation and a command
it’s kind of like being invited to a
birthday party
somebody says you will be at my birthday
party that’s that’s kind of the way this
command came says be filled with the
holy spirit don’t be drunk with wine be
filled with the holy spirit
don’t live under the influence of this
live under the influence of this
don’t let this shape how you walk let
this shape how you walk
so jesus modeled what it looked like to
be
full of the holy spirit imagine this um
thankfully we just got finished with a
drought we got tired of it and got rid
of it last year
and uh and it wasn’t near as fun as they
said it would be so we
we got rid of it prayed it out of here
and we
enjoyed bountiful rain last year i’ve
been here during three or excuse me two
droughts one back in the 70s and then
one that just finished last year
both times the drought was so severe
they said it would take like 10 years
for our lake to recover and both times
the lord
restored the lake in one year one season
a real a real miracle i’m i’m thankful
for
but let’s just imagine for example that
you live in
let’s just say san diego i don’t know
what the rainfall is but let’s just say
they get 10
inches of rain a year and you move to
reading during a drought
and we get 20 inches and you move into
this environment where there’s 20 inches
of rain
droughts don’t mean it doesn’t rain it
just means it doesn’t rain enough
but if you move from an area that has 10
inches and you move to an area where
there’s 20
you might think it’s more than enough
see a lot of people experience
outpourings of the spirit
and they think it’s abundant but
according to biblical standards it’s a
drought
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jesus models what the fullness of the
holy spirit looks like
and never to shame us never to ridicule
look what i have what you don’t have
never it’s always the invitation to
pursue it’s always
it’s always the invitation to to go
after what he has made available it’s
interesting to me in scripture that some
things he has just determined will be
given to you and
and sometimes that’s what happens
sometimes there’s just you know you’re
just in the room and you catch something
other times
you know he’s he’s unpredictable because
he’s a god to join in relationship he’s
not just a philosophy
he’s not just a god of principles where
you take one two and three steps and
you end up with an equation point four
or something
he’s not that way it’s a relational
journey
and in this journey he’s invited us to
do things and some things just happen
simply because you’re in the room some
sometimes it’s a simple prayer i’ve i’ve
watched some of the most extraordinary
things happen to people who
who weren’t even asking for god just
literally just visited them we’ve had
people
join us here some some come very hungry
others come
to be honest with you they’ve told me
just to check it off the list
you know they had somebody say you need
to go and and they come just to kind of
get their friend to leave them alone for
a while you know and i i get that i’ve
done the same thing
you know you just they won’t get off my
back till i do what they ask so i just
do them a favor and some people
literally have just come into the room
that way
and then jesus completely totally heals
them of something that’s impossible
remember a pastor friend sitting right
over here that
almost didn’t become a pastor because
his dyslexia was so bad he just couldn’t
couldn’t read
and uh is it it would turn things around
so bad he’d have to
study the bible on on like cds and stuff
and uh it was just so challenging and he
sat here and the spirit of god
fell upon him in fire and and he’s
while it’s happening he re he discovers
his bad attitude
he goes face to face with the fact i
don’t even want to be here
and you’re touching me anyway it’s a
it’s a wonderful story
god in his grace is just touching and he
says oh god please don’t let me mess
this up because he could tell
something was happening and he went from
someone who can’t read
to someone who then within just days
is reading like six and eight hours a
day he just can’t get enough because he
suddenly
suddenly has no problem whatsoever with
his uh with his eyes he’s
sitting right over here just the lord
just healed and and so there are things
like that that he just does the surprise
thing
and there are other things that just
come to us in seed form or come to us
as promises and he waits for us to
pursue he waits for us
to come hungry and there’s so much of
of so much of the kingdom is actually
available for those who pursue
and we pursue according to his
invitation we pursue according to his
command so
anyway we have this concept of of jesus
modeling fullness of the holy spirit
another
term that that i use often we use often
is jesus christ is perfect theology
there’s i don’t believe there’s a
problem with a phrase with a statement
but what’s
highly possible is theology is is
typically thought about that which we
know about god
and jesus was perfect theology in that
he modeled
perfect knowledge of god the burning
conviction
of what to do and the actions that
followed that illustrated
what he believed there was there wasn’t
a separation between
idea and display there was no separation
between
the philosophy of healing the burden to
heal and seeing people healed they were
they were
seamless in in the way they merged and
jesus was perfect theology in that sense
that he
he not only had the perfect insight and
knowledge of the father
because he is the eternal son of god he
is exactly like the father
i love hebrews oneness maybe sometime
we’ll take some time just to
to study because i i really love the i
love hebrews 1 how it says
that jesus is the exact representation
of his nature
he is that which emanates from the
father in the same way that light comes
from
these light bulbs so jesus comes forth
from the father
so he is exactly like the father he
represents him perfectly there’s
zero blemish there’s zero difference
between the father
and him in nature in kind in action in
the word everything is exactly the same
so when jesus uh said it’s better that i
go and he would send the holy spirit
he used a term to describe the holy
spirit the word
another he says i will send you another
comforter
and there’s a couple words that could
have been used as a word that
for example behind the piano here is a
chair
and then you’re sitting in a chair
they’re not the same kind of chair
but they’re both chairs would you agree
so here’s a chair that you’re sitting
and then there is another but they’re
not the same
whereas in the chairs you’re sitting in
what tom is sitting in is exactly the
same as what paul is sitting in
there’s another so when jesus describes
sending the holy spirit he uses a
a word that means exactly the same as me
so here’s jesus
he emanates from the father he’s exactly
like the father
and then he says i’m going to go and the
holy spirit who is with you is going to
be
in you it’s better that i go and he is
another comforter he is exactly the same
as me
so now if you can imagine this perfect
representation of the father
now dwelling inside every born-again
believer
and his longing is that accurate
expression of who god the father is
would flow
in and through us
so he models the fullness of the holy
spirit he models perfect theology he
he contains illustrates demonstrates
the knowledge of god and brings about
the deliverance to healing etc
jesus
every situation he entered into he had a
redemptive solution for
in other words there wasn’t like a
problem that he walked into
and he looked at it
and walked out he goes i got to avoid
this one
there wasn’t any of those he he um he
he calmed storms he slept in a storm he
would walk
through a storm he just he was stormless
he did it was unaffected by storms he
affected storms he
he he was carrying something that
affected storms so every
every situation he entered into he
brought a redemptive
touch into that situation so the dead
child he raised
the blind eyes he opened the storm he
would calm
or he would direct his disciples so the
point was
as he didn’t avoid problems he always
walked into them with redemptive
solutions
we know the bible says that the devil
comes to kill steal and destroy that’s
not an assignment by god it’s just what
he does
the devil is not the opposite of god
he’s the opposite of michael the devil
is a created being
who has zero zero authority
don’t want to talk about him but you get
the point
so the devil comes to kill steal destroy
which means death loss and destruction
are the fingerprints of his work it’s
the residue of him
being present in a situation you find
death
you know you find something that’s dying
you find something that’s broken
then you know where the enemy’s been
that’s his that’s the
what what he leaves behind but jesus
comes in every situation with redemptive
solutions and answers
in first john 3 8 says that he came to
destroy the works of the evil one
elsewhere it says that he came to openly
display the foolishness
of darkness and all of that
is is in measured way what the
fullness of the holy spirit looks like
when when the lord says be filled with
the spirit
it is literally enabling us to do
exactly what jesus did illustrate the
father
and deal with the affirmative
afflictions the issues of life
there’s not one that jesus bypassed
i remember
a passage that really messes with me a
bit is out of mark 9
and because it’s very personal to me
there’s a there’s a moment where a dad
who’s got a demonized child
he he brings this child to the disciples
to set him free
and they they were so well experienced
in the area of healing and deliverance
that jesus
actually trusted them to go on their own
in pairs
to their hometowns and they were they
were so successful
in their ministry in their home towns
that when they regrouped with jesus they
started arguing as to who was the
greatest
they only argued as to who was the
greatest because they just had such a
great week
you know they just saw demons leave and
they saw miracles happen they thought
well
peter’s thinking there’s no way john
could have carried that kind of
anointing i’m pretty sure
i have the corner on what jesus just did
and so they got back and they were
arguing and jesus
doesn’t mind making you successful to
the point
ugly things come to the surface he’s not
afraid of the ugly things in fact he
wants them
to come to the surface so we can deal
with them
it’s when we put religious names on them
we actually
we actually pretend we’re broken we give
it a virtuous name
and it now has permission to stay and to
grow
so when you take things that are really
marks of brokenness
and you put a virtuous name on it then
it now has permission to stay and set up
camp
anyway back to the story so jesus brings
the disciples into places of great
success
and they taste of heal uh miracles of
healing
deliverance and all the stuff and no
doubt
the the crowd that the disciples are in
have
they’ve been doing that because that’s
what they’re assigned to do jesus told
them to heal the sick raise the dead
cast out devils etc
so the the dad sees us going on with the
disciples and he grabs his son
because now there’s hope and he brings
the son to the disciples and they try
everything they’ve tried
they rebuke every way they’ve rebuked
before they’ve bound they’ve loosed
they’ve done
everything they know to do they probably
poured oil blew the shofar
played the tambourine every christian
toy that they had available to them
i’m sure they used just to get rid of
that demon but nothing happened
i i had a similar situation i’ll never
forget it
i happened to be in southern california
i was i was in uh
i was in uh some meetings there that
quite honestly were extraordinary it was
just one of those times where jesus just
seemed
to enter the room and there was so much
stuff going on
and i don’t remember one situation
besides the little boy that was brought
to me
a young mom brought her son to me
probably five or six years old
and he was just horribly horribly
demonized
i’ve seen jesus set people free it’s a
great privilege to bring liberty and
freedom
from that torment from that evil evil
one
i did everything i knew to do that i had
done before
i prayed i bound i you know i just tried
to do exactly what the father was doing
and
and that child didn’t get free and the
mother looked at me after i spent
a fair amount of time with them both
she said what do i do now because the
child wasn’t free i’ll never forget it
i’ll never
i’ll never forget the look at her face
she wasn’t rude she wasn’t
she didn’t point the finger at me and
but
but it seemed to me that when she said
what do i do now she was really saying
is that all you got
you know and and it was it was you
you’re stuck
realizing you’ve done your best
and that child that you are so moved
moved for is leaving in the same
condition they came in with
it’s the same with the wheelchairs that
come in week after week it’s the same
with various conditions i am thrilled
with what we see happen i
i’ve seen things i didn’t know i’d ever
get a chance to see
we had more stuff happen this week just
unusual invasions of god
absolute raw miracles and i’m thankful
i’m not ungrateful at all i
he’s already gone way beyond anything
i’d see in my lifetime
but he’s he’s touched me deep enough to
ruin me
to stay there and this father brought
this
child to jesus uh to the disciples they
couldn’t
they couldn’t get him free and so he saw
jesus and he took the
child to jesus and jesus drove the evil
spirits out and
the child was free the disciples watched
this
and they were stunned by his success
they were stunned by
him being able to do what they couldn’t
do because they were trained by him they
they weren’t careless uh rookies i mean
they actually knew what they were doing
and
they couldn’t get free and so they saw
jesus bring deliverance to the child
and it says they took jesus aside
and they asked him how come we couldn’t
get the child free
and there’s that great very famous
statement that jesus made he said well
this kind
only comes out with prayer and fasting
and to come out of that story with that
as a
formula and i mean that in a good sense
as a a principle to follow when you
don’t get breakthrough
praying fast is really really huge it’s
it’s something all of us can glean from
that story
but i think there’s a bigger lesson from
that story
when there’s not a breakthrough you take
jesus aside
because sometimes the breakthrough comes
to prayer and fasting but sometimes
it’s a decree sometimes it’s a radical
act of obedience sometimes it’s
it’s a giving sometimes it’s it’s the
shout of praise i mean
it’s just any number of things that he
brings us into i’ve watched all these we
learn them as principles
but we don’t turn them on and turn them
off at will to get what we want
we are we are children that learn to
respond to a father
and do as he’s leading us to do and
that’s our life’s journey that’s our
life’s goal is to
say what the father is saying do what we
see the father doing
we’ve been invited into that kind of a
relationship where we actually get to
represent the father it was the
command of jesus in john 20 when he
after he had raised from the dead the
disciples were hiding
in a room they’re scared to death jesus
walks through the wall which really
helped them with their fear issues
[Laughter]
i’m sure pampers were needed by everyone
and he gives them there’s this encounter
that extends for several verses but the
but the conclusion or at the at the
conclusion of
this encounter jesus says as the father
sent me i send you
if you look at every verse that
describes jesus’s coming
as sent from the father the overwhelming
theme
is he was sent by the father to reveal
the father
and so if we take that as jesus’s
primary function
to reveal the father and then jesus
turns to those who follow him and he
says
as the father sent me i send you then
really what he’s
saying is your privilege in life is to
reveal the father
but i’d like to suggest you it’s
impossible to do adequately
without being filled with the spirit
i’m not trying to make this a doctrinal
issue there are many who i
i i think praying in tongues is
glorious i can’t imagine life without it
i like what paul said i pray in tongues
more than all of you
the language he uses there he says i
pray more in tongues and all of you
combined
in other words i’m a tongue talker and
that’s that’s you know i i believe that
i believe in that breakthrough i know
what it’s like to be edified
by just praying in the spirit and have
the holy spirit pray through i i
love but it would be like it would be
like
if that’s the goal it’s a worthy goal
but if that’s the change somebody died
right there
i was i was almost did crowd surfing
right there
that would have been fun to see if you
caught yeah with no crowd down here that
would
plop yeah i’ll be careful around that
little hinge again all right
i don’t know what i was saying but it
was really good
help me out somebody tongues it would be
like going through the
the river jordan into the promised land
and you cross the river and you’ve got
houses built you’ve got lands
vineyards planted you’ve got all this
stuff to inherit you walk through this
river on dry ground you stand on the
banks of the river
and you stand there for your entire life
and never enter the purpose for going
through the river
yes tongues are valuable yes that
shoreline is important but it’s the
beginning
of a breakthrough in which the the lord
almighty the
god of the universe is represented and
manifest through people that taste of
his goodness in his provision
isaiah chapter 61.
i i fear that sometimes
i become too familiar with the passage
sometimes i’ll read it a different
translation sometimes i’ll
i’ll read it out loud sometimes i’ll
stop after each phrase and
think i i need to jar myself from
familiarity because
some things are so huge
some things are so weighty that it’s
easy to skim
over the surface of something and not be
impacted by its depth
and this is one of those passages this
is what jesus read
in his hometown of nazareth i think we
studied it a week or two ago
a little bit this is what he read to
announce the beginning
of his ministry from nazareth and so
it’s in verse one he says the spirit of
the lord god
is upon me because the lord has anointed
me to preach
good tidings to the poor he has sent me
to heal the brokenhearted
to proclaim liberty to the captives the
opening of the prison to those who are
bound
to proclaim the acceptable year of the
lord the day of vengeance
of our god to comfort all who mourn
to console those who mourn in zion to
give them beauty
for ashes the oil of joy for mourning
the garment of praise
for the spirit of heaviness that they
may be called trees of righteousness
the planting of the lord that he may be
glorified such a
such a wonderful wonderful verse and
really what he’s saying is
he’s saying listen the holy spirit is
upon me i know the holy spirit lives in
us
as as we as i’ve stated countless times
through the years
the holy spirit is in me for my sake but
he rests
upon me for yours we have to understand
that when the spirit of god comes upon
us
it’s always for action it’s always for
impact
it’s always to change something we’ve
been privileged to step
into the middle of an impossibility we
may not know what’s supposed to happen
we just know god doesn’t want it left
the way it is
and we come in looking to him our hearts
turned in for solutions we don’t
we don’t come as the smart people we
don’t come with the people that always
have the plan
sometimes we know the least about a
given situation but we step into the
middle of an impossibility knowing that
the god of the universe the creator of
all
lives in us and he has practical
solutions for the situation
and here we have this announcement that
jesus makes over his own life and he
basically is describing the broken the
poor the
blind the lame the you know the
imprisoned the tormented
all this stuff he says i’m here to fix
that
but then he comes to this the end of
verse 3 talks about these people that
are broken
becoming oaks of righteousness i i
remember uh we used to
oh we would go get firewood in
weaverville
and uh and it it was it was a love-hate
relationship
it was fun to be outdoors but man it was
work and we’d we’d go in
in areas you know where they had uh
trees had fallen down because of the
wind
windfall and we’d get in there and chop
or cut them up and get the rounds put
them into the truck and
and it was always this uh very very
interesting
journey but we would get on these
logging roads and sometimes we’d have a
friend that’d have a key to a gate and
we’d get on these logging roads and
maybe the area hasn’t been logged for
you know like 20 years 30 years and
there’s these little pine trees about
this big around that grow up in
in the middle of right in the middle of
the road well into your truck
you just go right over them it doesn’t
it doesn’t kill them
they just bend over and then they bounce
back up after you go past them
you run into an oak tree that size you
got an issue
because that thing isn’t budging and you
now have damaged your car
and so we learned oh oak tree don’t you
go around the oak tree you know
but we’d see the pines they just bounce
down bounce back up
oaks of righteousness are absolutely
stable and that’s the goal
of the lord for the most broken of the
world oaks of righteousness
he’s saying i will take the most broken
among you
remember he doesn’t choose us because
we’re qualified
he doesn’t choose us because if we’re
gifted if we have anything it’s only
because he gave it to us
it’s not about that at all he chooses
the least for a reason
in this passage he champions the most
broken why because that’s where he
receives the most glory
and so here are the most broken of the
world jesus steps into their life are
you the anointed one
you the one who carries the fullness the
power of the holy spirit in your life
step into that person’s life to see that
that individual restore they’re now set
free they sleep at night they’re not
tormented anymore
those that were so bound with fear and
anxiety are now free
to think creatively they have an impact
in their job
they have an impact as an entrepreneur
they influence other people’s values
they don’t do the
addiction the drug thing anymore they’re
now reaching out to the friends that are
bound by those addictions and what
happens
is the person that were once the most
broken the community
community become the oaks of
righteousness that which has such
firm roots that you just can’t budge
them you can’t move them
well there’s a reason for there’s a
purpose there’s a there’s an
unto something in that great miracle
it’s verse 4
they shall rebuild old ruins they shall
raise up former
desolation say they shall repair the
ruined cities
the desolations of many generations this
is a this is one of the most beautiful
pictures in the bible
you’ve got the most broken become the
most stable but they don’t stop with
their own personal stability
they don’t stop by saying i can now
prosper they’re saying
all right let’s rebuild the city let’s
rebuild this city
here’s the point that i want to share
out of this
you don’t get the rebuilders if you
don’t get broken people healed
if you don’t get broken people healed
you don’t get rebuilt cities we keep
crying out for our city to be
healed and restored and you know all the
stuff that’s in our heart
this only happens when you have people
here
that are filled with the spirit there’s
a cause and effect there’s people
that carry this fullness of the spirit
that live under the influence of this
outpouring this constantly changing ebb
and flow and
constantly moving from this to that
because it’s relational it’s not
it’s not we memorize six principles and
then change the world
it’s a relational it’s a relational
thing
we had an interesting experience this
last week i met with some leaders on
monday tuesday and wednesday morning and
uh tuesday was the 500 year anniversary
of the
of the reformation yeah it was pretty
cool and i
i i didn’t realize when i called these
leaders together i didn’t realize
that we would actually be meeting on the
actual day
of the 500 year reformation we’ve been
celebrating it all year praying into it
talking about it but
i didn’t realize i’d be with these
friends of mine on the day
and they my team put name tags for
everyone because they come from
uh nations around the world about 40 of
them so we met
up at the summit by the lake and and
we’re in this uh
lodge area for a couple days and
on the name tags at the top of the name
tag is is a
is a skeleton key and uh
that was above the name check well on uh
it’s a beautiful sunny day and we’re
outside during breaks we
all stand outside so beautiful you can
see shafts the dam in the lake and
down into the valley it’s just it’s just
gorgeous and
you know they’re all out there taking
pictures because the view is so pretty
and come back in one of the guys is
looking through his pictures and he
looks it goes man
he says look at this and they’re clouds
in the shape of a skeleton key
do you guys have that i was told you
guys actually had that i should have
warned you don’t have it okay
maybe someday i’ll show you until then
you have to imagine
i have people take pictures of clouds
and they say do you see him
i go who am i supposed to see
he goes jesus oh is that it look at the
top
now if if i could show look at that you
do have it presto
all i have to do is dream and it happens
it just
okay you see the top the circle that’s
exactly how the key looks on the name
tag
do you guys have a picture of that as
long as i’m asking
how about ferraris do you have any
ferraris back there i really like
ferraris
no no furs okay all right so here’s
here’s the point
here here we’ve got this unusual
thing there it is skeleton key
it looks exactly like the one in the
nape tag so we come aside we’re kind of
chuckling about it
we’re we’re thinking this is so
fascinating one of the guys turns around
and in a vase is a beautifully decorated
decorated
lodge in advance the guy turns around
and he looks in her vase and
inside the vase is the skeleton key so
we’ve got these clouds in the sky we’ve
got the name tag
we’ve got the skeleton key i i it came
with a house i don’t know why it’s there
but it was it was hiding in his face he
pulls that out and someone had a
prophetic word
500 years ago they nailed the 95 thesis
to the door but the lord is now giving
you a key to go through the door
in this next reformation it’s amazing
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i have people give me pictures of clouds
and go do you see him we go
man i’m trying um i’m trying i
don’t think my staff makes fun of me
they hang up hung up one in my office
just so that i
can look at it it doesn’t look like
jesus to me but that’s all
anyway so here’s
here’s the point is we’ve got verse four
we’ve got this beautiful
beautiful declaration of god can i put
it this way
verse 4 rebuilding cities
that was the target god began with when
it began to fill people of the spirit
it was the target he was saying all
right
all right so you’ve never dealt with
addiction but guess what i’m gonna put
the spirit of god upon you in such a
profound way
i’m gonna have you talk with somebody
who’s bound by addiction
you’re gonna bring freedom that fullness
of the spirit on you
is to bring freedom to them and that
person that becomes free
they are going to become stable and as
they become stable
they will become the rebuilders of
broken cities
but it all starts with somebody saying
holy spirit come
baptize me anew baptize me afresh
fill me with your spirit
many people stop short of a divine
encounter because they’re satisfied with
good theology
they’re happy with meeting whatever
qualifications they may have for being
filled with the spirit well i pray in
tongues while i do this i do that listen
the point is
is there power coming forth from your
life that sets captives free
that’s the issue it’s the issue the holy
spirit’s in you to comfort you
to bring peace to you to give you
insight all that stuff that’s for you
but this spirit of god who comes upon us
that is for us to bring about
transformation
in the events and stuff around us that’s
the purpose
it’s measurable the fullness of the
spirit is measured by impact
in acts chapter 2 we know that they were
filled with the holy spirit so
extraordinary chapter it’s a
pentecostal’s favorite chapter
it’s where there’s this outpouring of
the spirit it’s extraordinary
but in chapter four it happens again
and it’s anywhere from someone say two
to maybe
so many five years after the day of
pentecost
and so we’ve got some of the same people
that are in extreme that are rocked
where thousands are added daily
they’re in the same experience
a couple years later what’s the point is
you’re a broken vessel
you leak old timers used to put it this
way they say
stay under the spout where the glory
comes out you know that’s
that’s how that’s the whole deal is just
you just stay under
in that place where the spirit of god
comes upon you continuously
my testimony yesterday is wonderful
but it is no excuse for the absence of
hunger today
anytime yesterday’s experience erases my
hunger for today
i’ve shown i’ve chosen where to level
off
when in fact the lord has invited us
into
this relationship where being filled
with the holy spirit ongoing filling
of the holy spirit actually becomes
necessary for us to demonstrate who the
father is
yes
i don’t think it’s possible but i’m
confident
it’s not possible to adequately display
the love of god without power
i i love the practical stuff i mean i do
i i
love and i do mean i really love i love
giving the sandwich to somebody that’s
hungry and giving the coat and the
shoes and the stuff the people in need
this we love to do this i love this
but without power they’re still bound
their belly may be full which is
important
but the addiction that’s that got them
to that place of brokenness
it’s got to be broken somebody’s got to
come in
filled with the spirit of god that
breaks that thing off and knows how to
end this cycle
maybe it’s five generations of poverty
just break it off god has
given the ability to make wealth to
every individual anyone who will just
turn their hearts to him and say yes
he gives the ability and then he reveals
the purpose for wealth for prosperity
for blessing
it’s unto something it’s never about
accumulation this
this kingdom that we live in is so
different
so different to you you you’re exalted
by going
low you become filled by becoming empty
you
it’s just it’s just a different kingdom
it’s just a different kingdom and he
welcomes us
into this kingdom where there’s
conflict and understanding that enables
us to understand
it’s just it’s a it’s a strangest thing
where you realize
abundance is measured by what you’ve
given away not by what you have
fullness give me those two water bottles
down there
thanks aaron so we’ve got two one water
bottle that’s full
the one that’s almost full this is legal
to sell because it’s full
this one has been tampered with
this is legal to sell it’s full but it’s
not really full in fact it’s not full
until it overflows
it’s overflow that’s that’s what reveals
its fullness
the fullness of the holy spirit is never
measured by what you have it’s measured
by what overflows you
it’s what is measured what overflows
see this kingdom is a different kingdom
it completely functions differently
it’s not by what i contain it’s not by
what i keep it’s what i release
it’s what i give away
i almost threw this without the topper
that would
just yeah throw throw it on chris just
throw it over like this
i love the privilege of coming together
any time we have the chance i
i do love sunday mornings they’re full
the multiple gatherings but i i do i do
love the chance to get together
my only regret is that sunday night
is the service without end
so when we come to this point in the
meeting we just say all right everybody
come to the front we start laying hands
on people and just going for it
sunday morning if i do that to you
we have a whole other group coming up
the hill in just a few minutes
and so i’m just going to say if you if
you have the nerve come back
come back come back to the gathering
without end
that’s not a threat
i do want to pray for you now i want you
to understand i do want to pray that
the spirit of god would come so
powerfully upon
you that he would so deeply expand
our ability to represent them to carry
presents
is paul speaking tonight is that is that
a rumor
paul paul and sue are in the house am i
wonderful
back from from the uk for a short time
so we’re going to turn polish tonight
i also want to have a testimony or two
from robbie dawkins so we’ll see how
that works he
my goodness he just rocked my world this
week with some stories
oh jesus
you know when how many of you are
parents how many of you remember
when you would have a little child that
just wasn’t hungry
and it was always a sign of something
not right fever
something’s not right you remember that
the absence of hunger actually revealed
something
that wasn’t right
sometimes the beginning place for me
through the years has been just the
the invitation the willingness to become
hungry
if shame and guilt could get us there
we’d all all of us would already be
there we know
he never shames us he’s such a perfect
father he never shames us
but he’s also not afraid of making me
uncomfortable
he’s also not afraid of offending the
way i think to show me how he thinks
so i want you just to begin to pray i
want you to ask the lord
to completely fill you with his his
spirit
just put it on your lips i want you just
to pray
ask him to release the presence the
power of god upon you in ways that
are new just lift your voices and pray
yes lord we are hungry we’re so hungry
for you to do
of above and beyond all we could ask or
think of
we don’t even know what we’re asking for
we just know it’s available and we know
it’s good
so we just ask for more
father god let this be the beginning
season of the fullness of the spirit
that we’ve never yet known about
let it be that which enables us to not
just nail something to the door
but actually go through the door at the
beginning of this next reformation let
it happen
through people that are actually filled
to fullness
overflowing with the holy spirit
just continue to pray folks if you would
but put your hands down only because i’m
going to give an invitation
but just pray just if you’re born again
ignore me
all right just pray just pray ask god
for more we’re gonna
we’re gonna multitask here i want to
give opportunity for anyone in the room
that would just say bill i i’ve not
surrendered my life to jesus i don’t
know what it is to be forgiven
i don’t know what it is to be born again
and i want that the rest of you pray
don’t stop
don’t stop i’m not offended by you
making noise
you pray but i want to invite anyone in
the room that would say bill i don’t
want to leave here till i know i’m at
peace with god
till i know i’ve been forgiven until i
know that i have truly turned from my
life of sin to follow jesus
i don’t want to leave until i know
that’s happened if that’s you while the
others are praying put a hand in the air
and i want to pray with you this is
right where you are
just put your hand up high because i
want to see you just wait way back over
here i see that one yes
anybody else put your hand up high if
you’re saying yes i want jesus yeah
right over here is another one
to my left anybody else put your hand up
high there’s another one way over to my
right
thank you lord we thank you for this god
there’s a yeah
see that one there okay thank you
there’s one in the back yes thank you
lord for that
thank you for that
keep praying church keep praying because
this is this is this changes everything
this changes everything this is where
this is where
everything changes in a person’s life
it’s where everything changes
so we just say holy spirit come bring
people to faith
bring them to that place of faith of
relationship with you
yes lord we thank you for that i want to
ask i saw four people i want to ask the
four people
that put their hand up i want you just
to look up at me for a moment here
the four that put their hands up uh what
i want to ask you to do
is we’ve got a team over here that we
know and trust i want them to have just
a couple minutes with you to talk
and pray for you so i want you just to
come down to the front church
bless them as they come if if you would
come over here
i also want the ministry team to come to
the front right now
have the ministry team come let these
four come on down right over here to my
left
there may have been more but i know
there’s at least four
just come on come on down to the front
come right over here where this banner
is
and uh and these folks will uh talk with
you and pray with you
wonderful wonderful thank the lord thank
the lord
yeah come on come on over bless you god
bless you
god bless you yeah bless them again
would you they’re still coming
so coming to jesus wonderful we’re so
thankful for this god
we’re so thankful for this now just put
your hands up in front of me i want to
pray for you
because here’s what i want to do is i
want to praise that the spirit of god
would come upon
everybody in this room in such a deep
and profound way that it would take
weeks to unravel take weeks to fully
discover
what’s happening in this moment because
i believe honestly i believe the lord
is giving us a key it’s a key of
surrender it’s not a key of our
strategic
wisdom it’s a key of gildedness that
he’s going to take us
into the next season to really see
reformation first
cities and nations of the world so put
your hands in front of you i say holy
spirit
please come even now with great power
great power great power
mark us with purpose the purpose of the
fullness of your spirit
mark us deeply and profoundly for this
next season i ask
in jesus wonderful name amen
in a moment we’ll have a chance for you
to come and receive ministry
we’ve got a great team that’s ready to
pray for you if you could hold your
places it really does help
i’ll get to the back door and then chris
is going to give some directions
amen what a wonderful morning amen why
don’t you just put your hand
on someone next to you
just begin to declare more say god get
them
fill us with more just begin to declare
the more of the lord
father that we would be a vessel that
would be full and overflowing that they
would be a vessel that would be full
and overflowing
thank you jesus thank you jesus
all right you guys ready to go and
impact the city
yeah let’s go out let’s go out of this
place let’s
overflow into our city and let’s see our
city
this city and the city you’re from
impacted and
if you’re here this morning and you need
you need a miracle in your body we have
got a team ready to impact you
we have a miracle team here so you can
just begin to become begin to come and
line up at the front here
and uh for the rest of you bless you and
we’ll see you tonight
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