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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