In Week 5 of our series The Upgrade, we learned about The Language of Heaven; Speaking in Tongues. Speaking in tongues should be a desire and not a demand. God never meant for tongues to be a burden, he meant for it to be a blessing. Today we learned that every believer can speak to the Holy Spirit, Are you ready to be built up?
welcome to transformation church where
we exist to represent god to the lost
and found for transformation in christ
my name is amber lee bell and i have the
honor and privilege of serving as one of
the executive pastors here at tc
we are so honored that you’ve decided to
join us today
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is that you take notes with and get
ready for today’s message
come on let’s give god a shout of praise
hallelujah
thank you lord you all know at tc we
have to be led by the spirit
and um good segue into the topic that
we’re
um on today welcome to week
five of a series we’re calling help me
the upgrade and in this series we are
talking about the person
the power and the presence of the holy
spirit
and um i am so grateful
and i think i keep saying this but i’m
so grateful to lead a church
that we can eat more than
um mushed up fruit when it comes to the
spirit
that we can talk about things that they
serve at the
adult table
and it may take a steak knife and a fork
to get into it and we may
cut it up into strips that look like a
little chicken strips and we still may
dip it in sweet and sour sauce
but we’re eating something with
substance everybody say the word
substance
that is the only thing that is going to
keep you anchored in this year
is substance and at the beginning of
this year
god gave us a word a prophetic word he
said michael transformation church
transformation nation
you need to be help me anchor it and the
only way you get anchored
is you are connected to something with
substance or weight
so we decided to dive into the deep
y’all when i tell y’all we so in the
deep right now
on the topic and the subject that we’re
talking about but the lives that are
being transformed
the people that are being reignited the
things that are
happening to people i would not trade it
for anything and this is what i want to
say
if you have not felt what i’m talking
about yet
you got three more weeks
to open yourself up to the holy spirit
i know some people have been watching
this entire series like this
prove it
this is the thing about this attitude
is you cannot receive
when your arms are folded like this
you have to at least be in a posture
of receiving and i’m not talking about
physically i’m talking about your heart
so i’m asking you right now at the top
of this message because what i’m about
to dive into
has the power to transform everything
about what you’ve ever thought about the
holy spirit
but you cannot do it like this you have
to do it like this could you just put
your arm
your hands out like you’re ready to
receive something and just say these
words holy spirit
i’m ready to receive just one more time
by faith i know you’re with a bunch of
people and some of them may be looking
around like you invited them over to do
a watch party it’s okay
this is the moment that god wants to
give you just put your hands out and say
holy spirit
i’m ready to receive so let’s get right
into it
i want to talk to you today
about something that has probably
had more controversy around it and has
brought more division
in the body of christ than anything else
in the last
hundred years maybe except politics last
year
that was one of the worst dividing
things that ever happened
i want to be bring clarity to it and i
want
to untangle this thing that has been
generationally confused
okay now that is a bit what i just said
is a
big task and i cannot do that
without you staying um checked in and
leaned in in this series
and without the power of the holy spirit
today i want to talk to you about the
language of heaven
aka speaking in tongues
like i don’t want no sugar coating i’m
not about to
kind of say to do it or kind of not i’m
we’re going straight for it
today the title of my sermon is the
language
of heaven aka what
speaking in tongues now when i just said
that some of y’all just saw an old lady
at your church
going off in the corner like yeah yeah
yeah yeah yeah
you just saw that’s what you just saw
some of y’all saw a parody off of a
movie
some of you just got very shocked
and even scared because the people who
you ever saw do this or
are acting this way they were bad
people after they left the church
uh-oh some of us have fear attached to
this
and some of us are just ignorant of it
it’s like speaking in tongues what are
you talking about heavenly language what
is you talking about
like today i’m going to bring all of
those people and i want you to sit in
this class
and i’m going to systematically teach
you
about the language of heaven aka help me
speaking into and i’m going to take the
fear out of it
i’m going to take the mystery out of it
i’m going to even take
the hurt out of it because
in churches depending on how you were
raised and where you came from
this was used to make people feel less
than
if they did not have what they called
the evidence of speaking in tongues
and some of you today are going to get
healed
because we’re going to yeah no no no
somebody got to hear me
today you’re going to get healed and let
me help you today is really not the
beginning of the service
last week after i preached
and if you haven’t watched the last four
segments of this series
the holy spirit started today’s message
at the end of last week’s message
i said amen and and and we tuned off
and then the spirit of god fell in this
place
i think we got a little video footage
that i’m going to show you and the
spirit of god
people from all over our little staff
studio audience started coming
up and people were filled
with the holy spirit i began to pray for
people
i began to call out different things
people received
their heavenly language for the first
time
healing started flowing all over the
building
people that have been damaged in
churches and in ministry
there were tears people’s fathers who
were over 70 years old started speaking
in their heavenly language y’all don’t
hear me there were stuff
that happened
that all i can say is that god
wanted to to have us experience it
so that the conviction that i’m speaking
to you with today
is not something that i’m hoping happens
it’s already happened and the same god
that was with us
last sunday and the same god that was
with the disciples on the day of
pentecost
and the same god that met him in the
upper room and the same
god that met me as a teenager
is the same god somebody shouted me same
god
he’s the same god that is available and
with you right now
and he wants to unlock your heavenly
language just stay with me just stay
with me this is going to help you
um can we go to history class real quick
let me give you a history lesson this
whole
thing when it comes to the western
church um
and this idea of speaking speaking in
tongues and all this stuff it has an
origin back in 19 early 1900s i believe
1906 to be exact
there was a group of people that started
a prayer movement in l.a
okay this is in california this is not
like in some place you’ve never been
like this is
like caleb like that l.a okay like i
just want everybody to realize
and there was a man named william
seymour
that um he started praying
with a group of people and there was a
revival that broke out on a street
called azusa street
and and this man studied under another
name man named parham
and what they were doing was they were
for the first time
in centuries teaching what i’ve been
teaching in the upgrade
that you get baptized into salvation but
then there is a
separate baptism of the holy spirit and
when you get baptized in the holy spirit
that’s when miracle signs and wonders
start happening
that’s when you get this new heavenly
language and what ended up happening
in this season or in this time is that
these people
begin to experience such a move of god
that that they literally had to go to a
warehouse where
thousands of people would literally
gather
night after night this made it to the la
times if you go back this wasn’t like a
little side church movement
this was like front page a revival was
happening in the church
that was making people come from all
over the world they were getting
healed delivered and set free before
this there was a welsh revival
in wales and and and people saw that the
spirit of god started moving over there
and they believed it could happen here
and it started on azusa street and when
this happened
when the power of god started to pour
out the enemy came to do what he always
does
he comes to pervert and divide
now i have to expose the enemy because
if you don’t learn this
you’ll get tripped up all the time we
have an adversary the bible is very
clear
it’s the enemy it’s the satan that’s
been the same enemy since the garden of
adam and eve what did he try to do there
pervert
and divide them and i need to tell you
this write this point down the enemy
only tries to pervert
what brings you power
he never tries to twist anything that is
not going to give you power
but adam and eve in the garden had power
until it was perverted
and this whole thing with the holy
spirit why is it such a controversy
it’s the only reason the enemy comes to
try to divide us
and bring us all of these what-ifs and
all this and all of that
is because if we ever got in unity on
this one subject
it would bring us great everybody shout
at me
and power live in 2021
with everything that’s going on i don’t
know how you’re living without the
power of god
so what happened in these these revivals
it was almost like
the spirit of debate came in
and people started to come like this
remember what i said arms folded
spectating
they were trying to see was it real or
was it not and all of these different
things
and and as they searched scripture they
found that praying in tongues
was sometimes the initial sign that you
had the spirit of god it wasn’t
all the time but it was an initial sign
in certain cases
in the scripture and what had happened
is people started to debate
and try to qualify and quantify this
whole thing
that was happening and so they started
saying words like this
instead of it being an experience it was
the evidence
and then they started saying things like
it’s the initial evidence
and then they even went as far as saying
that speaking in tongues was the initial
physical
evidence that you had the holy spirit
which then made people be able to judge
if you had the holy spirit or not
they were trying to put something that
was so out of the realm of people
into a box they could explain
and then race started to play a factor
so now all these people are being filled
with the holy spirit and you know what
the scripture says
in the last days he will pour out his
spirit on off
it didn’t say on black people and white
people on hispanic people on asian
people
it’s set on offer so the spirit is
moving on everybody but then somebody’s
flesh got in the way
and they said the white people and the
black people can’t be receiving from the
same spirit
can i give you a fun fact that the
assemblies of god
and the church of god in christ were
formed
out of this azuza movement
and assemblies of god said we cannot do
it
with the church and god of christ and
the church of god and christ said we
can’t do it
with the assemblies of god they believe
the exact same thing
but they split off into denominations or
d visions because of the color of their
skin
so the enemy from the beginning came to
pervert
and divide
the reason i have to give you this
history is because something that god
wanted to be
an ethnic coming together
in 1906 it would have ended racism
[Applause]
if we would have done what we were
supposed to do
in 1906 in l.a
and the spirit of god could have
continued to move
without the divisions of ethnicities
would have been the place they looked at
and said if the church could do it
and that line has to do with us at
transformation church today can i just
give you a little further history lesson
bishop carlton pearson and gary mcintosh
went to oru together our founding pastor
and they moved to tulsa and they were
impacted by what happened almost 100
years earlier
in 1906 and this dotted line from
william seymour
follows us to 1988 where pastor carlton
and bishop gary and my parents and
uh helen trowbridge and all of these
people
started a conference titled after the
street that the spirit of god
fell on it was called the azusa
conference
and thousands of people from all over
the world
will flood tulsa now let me give you a
education about the word tulsa
that literal word means gathering place
so god allowed this to be a gathering
place
this started two years after i was born
every year of my life
that they had this conference i was on
the pew of
this atmosphere this is why parents it’s
so important
to get your children into atmospheres
even if they don’t understand what’s
happening
even if they don’t get it take them to
prayer service even if they don’t
understand it
even if they don’t want to be there get
them in the atmosphere
that changes the trajectory of their
life my parents took me into this
atmosphere
we took off a week of school every time
azusa would come around
in 1988 they had the first azusa
conference and it went for decades
and out of this conference many of the
names you know today their first
platforming
was at this conference to the world and
the spirit i remember
driving up and there would be 10 000
people outside
with no musicians and they would be
singing songs unto the lord
lines of people wrapped around it was
like the holy spirit descended on this
place
until perversion and division
but god never stops his plan
because of people he wants to use
us and he wants to do it through us
but he will wait decades
to get his will done and somehow as i
was in that atmosphere
there’s another line that goes from that
to bishop mcintosh who helped organize
and do everything that was happening for
those conferences
he started a church in 1999
and the way he started the church is god
telling him to reverse the curse
can you see all the way back here race
played an impact in this
and as you continue to move around i
forgot to tell you this was the most
ethnically diverse conference in the
world at the time
azusa white black every denomination
they will come into this
and then god tells bishop mcintosh to
start a church him and his wife
and for 16 years they build
a church and then hand the baton to me
and six years into my pastorate
i feel this desire and this urge to
preach on the holy spirit
this ain’t sexy this is not
seeker friendly this is not
get everybody in their mom who wants to
be filled with the holy spirit in 2021
but this wasn’t a series
for people to be fans
this was a series for people to be
filled
i feel that thing that what god
needs is no more fans he needs people to
be filled
with this spirit to have power to
trample on scorpions and snakes
to be able to look at a situation and
declare
something that does not look like it’s
going to live and say you
shall live and not die somebody say
power
the reason i’m preaching to you today is
not because i want to be a blessing i
have a burden
that we will not make it in this
next decades of life
without the power of the holy spirit
mark my words it will be the people
who release the power of the holy spirit
that will be the leaders of this next
move in the church
i’m not playing you can have all your
plans and all of your
your your schedules and all your
planning centers and all your led
screens
but if you ain’t got no power
if you cannot speak to mountains and
they start
moving if you get
this generation will be marked by
power
and it’s not our power
you thought it was something so you
could stand up and be great no no
no no it’s not your power it’s the power
of holy spirit
[Music]
and that’s why i have to bring clarity
to this topic of speaking in tongues
because it is one of your greatest
weapons as a believer
speaking in tongues speaking in the
spirit
praying in the spirit is one of your
greatest
weapons as a believer
but i have to apologize
because for anybody who’s been in church
and maybe the doctrine was wrong and the
heart posture was wrong and they didn’t
really have
the fruits of the spirit working
speaking in tongues became a demand
instead of a desire
and today if you’ve had any experience
like that from childhood to teenagers to
when you were in college when you were
serving in the church
i want to be a surrogate for whoever
offended you because they may not have
the maturity
or have the understanding they may not
even know what they did was wrong
they’re not bad people they may just
not have known but today i want to
apologize
i’m sorry that they made you feel less
than that you couldn’t
be used by god that something was wrong
with you
because speaking in tongues is not a
demand
speaking in tongues should be a desire
today i want you to desire it i don’t
want to say now you speak in tons of you
cannot serve in this church
there are people that last week that we
had already hired as transformation
church staff members
they worked at the church and they did
not speak in tongues
they did their job good but they didn’t
speak in tongues we didn’t make it a
demand but last week after the teaching
it became a desire for them
and today i can say that there were
staff members of this church
that got filled with the holy spirit
with the
benefits of
speaking in their heavenly language
and today as your pastor i desire that
for you speaking in tongues should not
be a demand it should be a desire
can i say it a different way because i
just want to keep getting this thing
deeper in you
god never meant for tongues to be a
burden he meant for it to be a blessing
it’s not supposed to be a burden at all
well i don’t know if i can go to that
church i don’t know if they’re not gonna
i don’t know if i can no no this is a
blessing
because it’s the upgrade
like i remember this one time that i
stayed at this really nice hotel and you
know for me
um where i come from uh my meager
background you know what i’m saying my
parents we did we did
they did great things and gave us all
kinds of great experiences but when it
came to staying at a hotel
we were like the holiday inn uh
hotel stairs you understand what i’m
saying so like holiday inn is a really
nice hotel it got an
indoor pool it all the rooms basically
look the same
everything we’re not spending 700 800 a
thousand dollars a night we
129 119 98. you understand what i’m
saying like
that’s where we stayed hotel watch so
all my life
i didn’t think nothing was wrong with
them hotels we go into my hotels we love
them we traveled all over the country we
stayed in motels
so so later on in my life i start to
experience some different hotels like
some hotels that have bougie
type of situations in them like hotels
that had floors that you only could get
on with a key
see some of y’all don’t know nothing
about that but there’s some hotels out
here
that you walk into the elevator and if
you just press the button it don’t light
up
y’all you ever been there i’m just
sitting there like what is they told me
and then the person comes on it’s like
oh you’re on the upgraded floor
you have to use your access you got to
use your key
so i put my key up there and then i hit
him like bing and it started moving i
was like oh okay this new okay all right
walk into the room and looking around
it’s this
it’s just me in the room i was like this
is enough space for like four five
people
and then i’d go up in the blinds just
and it’s different views and all this
other stuff and then i got hungry
and i was on the penthouse florida hotel
but i went back down to the bottom floor
to get snacks because i was hungry
it was until five days at staying at
this hotel that i did not really
realize that a part of the upgrade
was all my meals were taken care of
i settled for snacks
when i could have had sirloin
i did not understand what came with my
upgrade
so i was paying for less than
what was already provided for me
and paid for
[Applause]
and may i submit to you that in your
spiritual walk
many of us have had the ability to walk
in a different level
of power understanding
and spiritual maturity but we keep going
to the bottom floor
settling for snacks
speaking in the spirit is something
that’s already been paid for
for everyone who’s believed and all you
have to do is everybody say access
that’s all you got to do is access it
so today i’m going to walk you through
how you access your heavenly
language okay so let’s go to the first
thing
point praying in the spirit is
scriptural
let’s just start there where is it in
the bible
first corinthians 14 2
for he who speaks in
a tongue does not speak to men
but to god for no one understands him
when i’m speaking out they don’t
understand me when i’m speaking in
tongues
however in the spirit
he speaks mysteries
bible if you’re speaking in tongues
you’re not speaking to other people
you’re speaking in a prayer language to
god and this is where i bought
delineation last week
between the gift of tongues and the
grace of tongues
the gift of tongues is one of the nine
spiritual gifts that the holy spirit
gives along with prophecy and all these
other things
go back and watch last week’s but the
gift of tongues is
to man and it needs interpretation so if
that ever happens in a church service or
somebody starts speaking in tongues
there should be an interpretation to
that
but the grace of tongues is what i’m
talking about today
and that’s true god and it is your
heavenly prayer language and
every believer listen to me say this
clearly every believer
can pray in the spirit
yes you oh yeah and you
yeah you somebody say i can
pray in the spirit one more time say i
can
pray in the spirit well because i’m like
how
how’s that gonna happen let’s talk to
paul real quick
first corinthians 14 14. for if i pray
in a tongue
it ain’t really you praying my spirit
prays
but my understanding of my mind is
unfruitful it doesn’t make sense to me
what is the conclusion then after i’ve
weighed this praying in tongues thing
and how i don’t really understand it and
people may think i’m crazy what should i
do i will my conclusion is
i will pray with the spirit and i will
also
pray with the understanding so i’m going
to pray
in something i can’t understand and i’m
going to pray
with words i can understand okay
i will take it up a notch i’ll sing in
the spirit
and i will also sing with understanding
what we did in praise and worship today
was singing in understanding you sustain
you sustain
but there’s a tongue that you could pray
over that melody
and sing notes that also would pray what
you don’t know
what to pray or how to pray it and it
will get the same thing done let me help
you i’m getting ahead of myself
verse 16 otherwise if you bless or pray
with the spirit
how will people who who occupy the place
that are uninformed or how will
unbelievers or people that don’t know
nothing about this say amen
when you give thanks or you pray since
he does not understand what you’re
saying
so he’s basically saying if you pray in
the spirit with people that don’t know
what’s happening how can they agree or
understand anything
but then it says for you indeed give
thanks or pray well
you did a great prayer in the spirit but
the
other people did not get edified so it’s
teaching you
times and places of when to pray in the
spirit
and then when to pray in the
understanding what i found out and what
i came to tell you
if you have a debate between well do i
pray in english or do i pray in the
spirit
there’s a blessing in both
i wanted to say it that plane first
corinthians 14
says there’s a blessing and both paul
decided
i will pray in the spirit and i will
pray in english i
will pray in the spirit somebody say i
will pray in the spirit
and i will pray in english i will sing
in the spirit
and i will sing in english
you love all these songs that are coming
out
but what if the greatest song ever sung
to god
was not pinned by any of your favorite
worship leaders
what if you opening up your mouth in a
melody
speaking in your heavenly language
was the song that god wanted to hear
more
than anything on your playlist i’m gonna
leave it alone
and the crazy thing is some people even
with it being that clear in the word of
god
think that this has passed away
they think that the bible is the only
way that god speaks and it is a primary
way that god speaks but can i say
something that might
challenge your theology this is not
the holy trinity the father the son and
the holy bible
it’s the trinity the father the son
and the holy spirit
the holy spirit did not stop speaking in
393 when the bible was canonized
he’s still speaking today
and when you pray you can play the
mysteries of god
if you would just open your heart and
mind
to know that you have the grace
of tongues you can
speak in a heavenly language it’s
already been paid for
you don’t have to get a tattoo or do 9
000 push-ups
or run through some spiritual hoop
because i got to say this because
believers make it seem like you have to
earn this
come on you got a terry come on
throw up do this do that do that do this
all you’re doing is spiritual aerobics
for somebody
when the bible tells you this
is a gift that
any believer can walk in
and it is scriptural okay let me keep
going
because this scripture you may need to
read a couple of times that scripture
that i just
and let me just help everybody that’s
going deeper and bible study
um this is something that i found it
really ain’t got to do with my message
but i think it’s going to help you
repetition breeds revelation
the more you go over something over and
over and over you ruminate on it you
think about it
i can’t tell you how many times i just
read the scripture over and over until
the light comes on
in the scripture and that first
corinthians 14 of 14-17
this week i dare you to read it at least
two times every day
i just dare you to just read this well i
want to speak in tongues but
it doesn’t make sense to me just read it
and watch god open up a revelation over
the scripture
that would change your life and some
people be like well paul didn’t even
speak in tongues how are you going to do
that pastor
you don’t read your bible there’s some
stuff that i know that people get
exposed because they don’t read their
bible and they just say stuff
but first corinthians 14 18 paul
says himself i thank my god
i speak with tongues more than all y’all
paul don’t speak in tongues he flexed on
everybody
he’s like i don’t speak in tongues i
speaking more to all y’all
to write one third of the new testament
to have a conversion from killing
christians now
to being sent all over the world to be
able to
do you think that was empowered by
self-will
do you think he went from being a sniper
you don’t ever think he had the urge to
kill
oh y’all be fake y’all be acting like
when god saves you you don’t still have
the urges to do some of the things you
used to
you used to be a whole sleeping with
everybody and you don’t think that
sometimes
it rises up that you want to drop it
like it’s hot
you used to be a scammer and now you
don’t think it ever tempts you
when you get low on money that you could
just type in a few numbers
how do you live an empowered transformed
life
without the holy spirit
and this is why so many people fail
it’s because the enemy has perverted
what we think about the holy spirit
how does pastor mike after being
addicted to pornography for over a
decade
be able to work on a laptop a computer
and a cell phone
every day and not go to those websites
it’s not because i’ve never had the
desire
i know most pastors won’t tell you that
as a pastor
i’ve had the desire to look at
pornography again
i am in this flesh suit
and i do not always
want to do what i know i’m supposed to
do
y’all want to be fake today
but when i get the urge and i type in
www
die and when i hit it the holy spirit
said we come too far
for us to turn back now i’m with you
i’ll help you then the phone rings then
the ipad shuts down oh y’all don’t hear
me
and i can overstep all of that if i want
to
i can go past all of it if i want to
but because i’ve developed a real
relationship with holy spirit
i remember and am reminded
that i will not be able to do this on my
own
i need the power of the holy
spirit and my go-to weapon
to interrupt the attacks and the lies of
the enemy
as i begin to speak
in tongues it just rises up
out of me it just comes from somewhere
it’s not me praying it’s the spirit
it’s not me michael wants to look at it
but the holy spirit prays the mind
the will of the father on my back i’m
getting too ahead of myself
what are you saying pastor mike write
this down praying in the spirit
is a benefit it’s a benefit
i don’t know how y’all staying married
without the spirit i don’t know how
you’re running that company without the
spirit
i don’t know how you’re parenting with
that do you know how many times i’ve
wanted to lay hands on my children
for them to never walk again
but the spirit of god helps me
praying in the spirit is a benefit
first corinthians 14 4 he who speaks in
tongues
edifies himself that word edified we
could stop at this whole scripture right
here
the word edified means to build up
if you want to get buff in the spirit
all you got to do is speak in tongues
he who speaks in tongues edifies or
builds himself
but he who prophesies edifies the church
now i need to correct something right
here because people try to create a
delineation
prophecy is better than speaking in
tongues and no no no
if you go back to the regular language
of this whole thing
this is a conjunction this could also be
translated
and so it could say who speaks in
tongues builds himself up
and he who prophesies edifies the church
or on the other hand
he who speaks in tongues edifies or
builds himself up and on the other hand
he who prophesies edifies the church
what he’s saying is you need both
you need to be able to prophesy when
you’re at your small group
and you need to build them up and you
need to be able to speak in tongues when
you’re at home depressed
to build yourself up i don’t know
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you could save yourself a lot of time
if you would stop going to instagram to
build you up
stop going to facebook to build you up
stop going to your orange theory class
so they can tell you how good you’re
doing
on the calories you burn i’m all for all
of that but if you really want to be
built up
pray in the spirit ain’t that what the
bible says
prophecy builds the church okay
but praying in tongue builds the person
i’m going to say it again prophecy
builds the church
but praying in the spirit praying in
tongues
builds the person it builds you look at
jude 1 20.
i’m about to get stuck on this i can
already tell right now oh
jude 1 20. it says but you beloved
building yourself up
let’s stop right there
you don’t need anybody else
to build you up if you
wield the weapon of praying in the
spirit
come closer because they didn’t hear me
you don’t need anybody else
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to build you up if you
wield the weapon
of praying in the spirit
see people quote these scriptures but
they don’t understand what they actually
have context for look at it
jude 1 20 but you everybody say me
beloved your love say i’m loved
building i love i love how
fatherly god is when he speaks through
scripture
he tells you who he’s talking to you the
one i love
build yourself up like that’s exactly
how he said it like
you the one i love
build yourself up
you don’t need them to do that well god
i just need you to come through with the
word
from the prophecy so i’m going to go to
this other state and i’ll wait in line
all night
to get a seat in the nosebleed section
so that he could speak to me
or she could call me out or she could
confirm
you the one i love
build yourself up
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on your most holy faith
how how do i build myself in my most
holy faith uh oh
praying in the holy spirit
that’s some nasty bible right there i
don’t know how el
what what you arguing with you want to
get buff in the spirit
pray in the spirit you want to get buff
in the spirit
pray in the spirit you want to get buff
in the spirit
somebody say praying whoa you want to
get buffed in the spirit
oh somebody say pray in the spirit
everyday you
want to get fit in the spirit everybody
talk to me
pray in the spirit i don’t care what
you’re going through
you need to pray in the spirit i don’t
care where you’re going too
hey you need to pray in the spirit
i don’t care who’s ringing your phone
you need to
pray in the spirit i don’t care who’s
coming to your home
you need to pray in the spirit if i’m on
the mountaintop
i’m going to pray in the spirit and if
i’m going to go never let me stop god
let’s go go so
pray industry
it builds you up
it’s like this this is your life
and life comes to poke at you
and take pieces of you when it comes to
when you go to that job and when you
start working
and your family situation oh
oh it’s getting hard out here it’s
getting hard out here
and you’re just trying to survive and
make it
oh oh no
oh no this is the anxiety you live your
life with
this is an exact depiction of week to
week in your life
because without the spirit you’re trying
to hold it all together
and the situation happened with your
kids and you
think that you’re doing a good job
because life has come to take all of
this from you but you’re still standing
and then all it takes is one situation
and what was supposed to be the thing
that stayed up has come crumbling down
and this is where we go to substances
and people and we’re broken
and the word clearly says you want to be
built back up
start praying in the spirit i start
praying in my heavenly language it’s
like the holy spirit comes out of
nowhere
and starts putting pieces back together
i’m just at my house
praying in the spirit and the crazy
thing about it
is now i’m not walking alone anymore
i’m out here trying to put it together
and tomorrow i gotta go to work
and tomorrow and it’s like when it
starts coming out
but i begin to pray in the spirit the
holy spirit
before it even gets out before i cuss
them out
before i get going on that situation i
begin to pray in the spirit
i begin to pray and when things start
going through my life
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i can’t hold it all together
but when things of life begin to happen
what the holy spirit does
is begin to as soon as it gets out of
line people get oh
yeah he begins to start putting it
build your self
how in the world do y’all think pastor
mike got it all together
it’s not because i got it all together
it’s because i’ve
taken the stance of paul i pray in
tongues more than oh yeah
how do i show up every day how do i how
do i deal with the diagnosis of my son
how do i
help walk my wife through the depression
how do i how do i do all of that
not because i got it all together
and this is the thing what happened to
me when we got mj’s diagnosis is it
wasn’t a brick by brick
this is what most of us feel like
the whole thing came tumbling
and we’re waiting for a person to pick
us back up
but the advocate the comforter when i
don’t even have the words to say and all
i can do is sit on the floor
and all i got to shrift to do in the
morning
is not use my mind cause what i would
pray would be unfruitful right now what
i would pray right now
would send some people away from me and
i would curse people and i would talk
because i’m feeling but i pray in
and with the spirit
and i don’t know when it happened i
don’t know what oh
when it came to pass but at some moment
the holy spirit helped me
and what was all ruins on the floor
didn’t look like what it used to look
like
but i kept praying in the spirit and i
kept getting
being built up
and all i can tell you is today
the pastor and the leader that i am i
would not
be because of education
because of degrees because of even being
in church
it’s not me being in church
it’s me releasing the power
of holy spirit and day by day i don’t
know even as holy spirit is building
this i see this as a prophetic sign for
your life
some of you are going to begin to start
to speak in your heavenly language
and you’re going to be able to be built
up
you speak in tongues because it
builds you up
on the way to church today guess what i
was doing it
in the shower this morning guess what i
was doing it
before i talked to my wife about
something that i know is sensitive to
her heart
guess what i’m doing
why because it builds
me up
and can i tell you something you can be
built up
anytime anywhere
without anybody
i don’t need mama b
bishop mcintosh bree charles
the way i get built up is with me and
holy spirit
i can remember so vividly when i lived
when when bree’s husband aaron me him
and fred lived in this house
on garnett 7425
and i remember i started feeling this
call that i was going to greater in
leadership
and i was just the sound man and the
music director at greenwood at the time
and holy spirit directed me to do
nothing else but wake up in the morning
go
walking and pray in the spirit and i
remember
walking around that neighborhood
i even put on headphones to act like i
was listening to some music
because i didn’t want people to think
anything about me
and i would just day after day i was
praying in the spirit
and i know that today i’m
standing in the result
of the mysteries of god
when you pray in the spirit you’re
praying the things
your mind don’t even understand to pray
for you
somewhere i prayed about you charles
some y’all missed it
somewhere i didn’t know charles i didn’t
know but god knew i needed
a companion to walk with me and as i was
speaking in the
uh the language of heaven
i didn’t know to pray for evan i didn’t
know i didn’t know
to pray for bree and what her and aaron
appeared i didn’t know
i didn’t know but when i begin to pray
and i feel something happening right
here
the mysteries of god
i didn’t know to pray to be able to
handle millions of dollars
i was handling sins
i remember looking in the couch
for change to go get a mcchicken
this is not fake
it wouldn’t have logically made sense
for me to pray father give me
the capacity to manage
millions of dollars and change the
fabric of the body of
i couldn’t have prayed that while i was
getting 85 86
87 a dime oh god like i
but when i prayed in the spirit
y’all remember in um bible school uh not
bible school um
what do kids go to like vacation bible
school or uh
children’s church or any of those things
sunday school
where they talked about the whole armor
of god y’all remember
that and they would say stuff like this
you need the belt of truth
the breastplate of righteousness the
shoes of the gospel of peace
to shield the faith the helmet of
salvation and the sword of the spirit
swing swing okay
they left out a part
of the armor
that is right there
ephesians chapter 6 verse 17
and take the helmet of salvation and the
sword of the spirit
which is the word of god they left out
18.
praying always
with all prayer and supplication
in the
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[Music]
it is the bible how many believers
have thought they had on the whole armor
of god
[Music]
and because they did not release the
language of heaven
they’ve been getting their beat kicked
[Applause]
just put on the beat you’ve been getting
your
your butt kicked because you came
with everything you thought was the
armor you needed
but you forgot the weapon
of praying in the spirit
is this helping anybody right now okay
so speaking in tongues or speaking in
the spirit
is a benefit can i give you one more
praying in the spirit is a choice
like i need i need everybody to hear me
say this
the greatest thing that god ever gave to
mankind
was choice and he will never
violate your choice
there are things that build us up that
we know to do
but we choose not to do everybody know
working out will build you up
but you can walk by and drive by a gym
every day and some of y’all don’t even
feel nothing like you
you drive by the gym it’s like that’s a
building like you
there’s no you know it would build you
up
some of y’all know drinking water would
build you
up but as long as it’s carbonated and
fizz filled in glucose field
you think it’s the spirit but you know
and it’s a choice it it you choose to do
it
everybody knows reading your word will
help you
but it’s a choice god will never violate
the thing he gave you to choose
so can i say it very clearly if you put
your faith in jesus
and you never speak in tongues you’re
still going to heaven
you you don’t have to speak in tongues
to go to heaven
okay you also
don’t have to drive a car to go
to california
you can take you can walk
from tulsa
to california it will take you forever i
just hear the sandlot
forever like it’ll take you forever
and you might be dead when you get there
but i need you to get you’ll still get
to california
and you never took an automobile
but why would you
why wouldn’t you take the upgrade
from your feet to the car and
maybe can i just take you another step
up why wouldn’t you take the upgrade
from the car
to the plane can i take you one level
why wouldn’t you go
from the commercial to the pj
if the upgrade was available and it cost
you as much
to walk as to go for the private jet
why wouldn’t you accept the upgrade
that’s the whole question i’m asking you
right now
you can go to heaven without ever
releasing the spirit in your life
but why would you settle for the lowest
level of what god has to offer you
and not receive the holy spirit
look at first corinthians 14 14.
remember i said it’s a choice everybody
say
speaking in the spirit is a choice
if that’s what it says
first corinthians 14 14 for if
that means there’s a choice if i pray in
tongues
so i can choose not to pray in tongues
or i choose to pray in tongues
this is paul talking my spirit prays but
my
but my understanding is unfruitful watch
this
what is the conclusion then i will
when you say i will you just chose
if somebody says you want to go to the
movies
i will go that was my
paul is saying is going to happen
when you choose for it to
church has made it like this spooky
thing that comes upon you like you’re
just going to be walking
and then the spirit yeah
that’s dumb and paul wouldn’t have given
instructions of where to do it
when to do it and how to do it if it was
uncontrollable
this is a choice
paul said i will pray with the spirit
it’s an act of his choice
it’s your decision if you want to
the holy spirit’s not going to make you
let me say it like this
we decide if and how much we pray in the
spirit
you decide this is a
choice that god has given you
you’re not going to be walking in target
one day
and go into a trance and pick up the
intercom
and start
the same way that you will pass somebody
in need
on the street money doesn’t just jump
out of your purse or your wallet
and go to them it is a choice
that you would make you don’t say i got
the gift of giving or i got the gift of
spirit
the spirit no you would have to choose
to take out money take out a check
write a check get cash out and give it
to them
it’s the same thing with speaking in
tongues
the reason i need to say this
is because you have a weapon that you
need to use
but only you can pull it out
some of you i just feel by the spirit
right now are going through hard
relational problems
and you and him talking is not going to
solve anything right now
there’s so much hurt there’s so much
pain
there’s so many problems there’s so many
violations that happen
the greatest thing you could do right
now
is pray choose to pray
in the spirit some of you are figuring
out what college to go to
and all of them look good but you need
to know the mind
and the will of god for your life not
for your friends not for
what would look good on a resume for
your life
and instead of asking all your family
and friends
who don’t know what your future holds
but they like a certain football player
on one of the teams
do y’all know how many people make
decisions based off of stuff that don’t
have nothing to do with their lives
best thing you could do is everybody say
choose
to pray in the spirit
first corinthians 14 5 this one messed
me up
and at some point in your christian
journey if you keep reading the bible
and believe in jesus
you’re gonna have to wrestle with this
one paul said
i wish you all spoke with tongues
who wrote that no no no he pinned it
holy spirit wrote that i wish
all y’all spoke in tongues
i wish let me say it a different way all
of you
would take on the ability to build
yourself up
i wish all y’all would would everyday
build yourself up
instead of going to instagram with
comparison that would tear you down
i wish you would wake up in the morning
and start speaking in your heavenly
language
and build yourself up
and can i take the words of the holy
spirit and paul and just tell you as
your pastor
i wish that all of you would speak in
tongues
it would settle all the counseling
disputes you want to talk to pastor mike
about
like i keep telling y’all this and i was
like no i need to talk to the pastor
every week
we have so many people like i need to
talk to pastor mike i need to talk
to a pastor mike this is the crazy thing
about it
pastor mike don’t have your answer
like the only thing if you come to me
with your stuff that imma do
is ask him and hopefully
but you could have saved gas money
you could have saved the trip and the
phone call
and you could choose to ask the holy
spirit
yourself romans 8 26.
where i’m gonna end the plane i’mma land
the plane here romans 8 26
in the same way the spirit
helps us in our weakness
we do not know
what we ought to pray for
but the spirit himself
intercedes for us
through the wordless groans that’s
speaking in tongues
and he who searches our hearts
knows the mind of the spirit y’all this
is powerful
because the spirit intercedes for god’s
people
in accordance with the will of
god write it in a point praying in the
spirit
communicates the exact will of god
for your life
okay charles come here brent come here
charles stand over here
all of you are gonna be charles okay
charles is going through a situation and
um
he’s frustrated because he wants this
business to get off the ground
if charles prays in his
natural understanding his prayer may
sound something like this god
thank you that i can get this alone
because if i get this
loan then i can hire these people and
when i can hire these people then i can
go
from this this spot to the next spot
which more people will come
and god i thank you that you would send
me um john john needs to be my number
two person
and i thank you lord that you wouldn’t
allow that other situation to happen
and this situation happened and he would
start praying out of his understanding
and and that’s what god would hear as
the prayer
but the more exact will of god
is when charles begins to pray in the
spirit
the holy spirit then says oh
okay oh yeah yeah keep doing that
starts praying in the spirit charles
he’s praying in the spirit
and the holy spirit said god what’d he
do bro
all right charles um he actually
wants this business to go off the ground
but it doesn’t need to actually happen
right now
so so so because if he gets into that
business he’s going to neglect his
family
and so so what charles is actually
asking for is clarity on the vision that
you’ve given him
he needs another sign that you’ve
actually called him
into ministry and when you call them in
the ministry he’s gonna think he needs
to plant his own church and he’ll start
a church called eden
and what what because he’s praying in
the spirit he’s not praying his will
he was praying lord let eden work but
now that he’s praying in the spirit
he’s praying god put me in the place i
need to be to reach the purpose so i’m
going to connect him and mike todd
and i’m going to allow them but let him
be able to see
that he’s not less than see he doesn’t
know how to pray that at this moment
but let him to see that his position is
more intricate
and what i’m doing than anything and he
begins to pray the mind
and the will of the
father on charles’s
behalf this is why paul and pastor says
i pray in the spirit more than all y’all
cause i would pray that you die cause
you left
or or or be be not successful in your
neck because i’m flesh
my flesh doesn’t want yeah
i don’t know how real i can be in here
sometimes when i allow my flesh to pray
i get my opinion mixed in
i get my i get my biases mixed
come on let’s be honest like like like
lord like
let it let the church grow until
yeah yeah i don’t really want it to like
do your will make your thing happen lord
your will we say that stuff but it’s
like up until a point that i’m
comfortable with it
how many prayers do you pray about
changing them
see but some of us need to pray in the
spirit begin to pray in the spirit oh
yeah
yeah i hear you i hear you hey father um
charles actually is praying about the
person he’s in relationship with
but what it really is is i need you to
heal the child
that feels insignificant and
he doesn’t know how to pray his
five-year-old prayer
but he has a five-year-old prayer a
wound that happened on the soccer team
that makes him feel insignificant and so
holy spirit would you reveal
that to him that i don’t know how you
would do it but maybe in some facebook
memories like he could be on facebook
looking for something else
and somebody pops up a picture of this
year
uh 10 years ago you know how y’all do
you know how they do it like yeah just
and this is what we say something told
me
it coincidentally can’t no no no
when you pray in the spirit
it prays the holy spirit is going
from earth to heaven
from earth to heaven
he’s the only one that can go from earth
to heaven and make sure there’s exact
translation of what needs to happen
at what time for what season
and god is saying if you would allow me
if you would allow me
i will make you pray perfect prayers
this is the only area
that you can pray perfect
prayers
i no longer have to guess
about remember what it says right there
it says
in the same way the spirit helps us in
our weakness because we do not
know so when we pray
we don’t know we don’t know we don’t
know
we don’t know if these are going to be
our friends 10 years from now
we don’t know we don’t know if we’ll
still work here we might want to but we
don’t know
so the only perfect prayer
is praying in the spirit
because it takes my heart
and to con it says it searches the heart
and it translates from heaven to earth
what really should be communicated
and it’s by faith because the whole time
i don’t understand what i’m even praying
about
this is the mystery
of god and all i’m telling you
is it’s scriptural all i’m telling you
is it’s beneficial and all i’m telling
you is a choice
so um
yeah let me just say it like this we
don’t know what to pray
but the spirit never misses
i can’t tell you how many times i’ve
been in a place where i had
no idea what to do and i began to pray
in the spirit
my mom and dad taught me how to
normalize praying in the spirit parents
the greatest thing you can do is
walk through your house
normalize them hearing you in your
closet
in the kitchen they can be on their game
boy they can be playing but
normal lies praying in the spirit
it’s the weapon that will save them from
divorce
it’s the thing that’ll break the
generational habit of poverty
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the spirit never misses
can i tell you the secret that i found
that your heavenly language is the
language of humility
see the crazy thing about it is most
people only pray in the spirit
when it’s above their pay grade
so when they come up to something that’s
bigger than them
that’s when they pray in the sphere your
boy
i pray in the spirit about
and for everything
stuff that i know how to do
i still because it is the language of
humility
when you do not bring it to god you’re
saying you know
wow you’re saying i know
i know how to fix this i know how to do
this
but if you want to be empowered by the
holy spirit
take the language of humility
pray in the spirit on all occasions
with all supplication because what ends
up happening is you’re saying god
i need you
comforter i need you father i need you
spirit of god i need you like i could go
in and do what i did last monday
but this is a new day so i i need you
right now
on my way to work yeah it’s great that
you listening to gary vee and everybody
else and all that but they don’t have
the pneuma
the breath of god in there they may give
you a tip but they don’t know your
future
they may ah you’re listening to
everybody’s podcast and not
not tuned in
to the spirit of god and when you do
that
you get this beautiful gift and you know
what
i just feel led to say this i was going
to leave it out of the sermon but i feel
that to say this
some people have felt like
if it’s spiritual it’s evil or
maybe i’ll get a demon or maybe
something bad will happen because
i’m opening myself up to spirits and and
when i was kid it was ouija boards and i
watched jumanji and that gave me
nightmares for years and
these are real things people deal with
one day i call
the psychic hotline mama cleo and this
like
all of that stuff all that is is the
perverted version of the real thing
all psychics are perverted prophets like
all it is
and they try to profit off of prophecy
like pro
anyway you’ll get it later all it is is
the perversion
of the real thing that’s all the enemy
tries to come do
so this is what i want to show you in
luke 11 11.
it says if a son asks for bread
from any father among you
will he give him a stone no
or if he asks for a fish would a good
father give him
a serpent instead of a fish no
or if he asked him for an egg would he
offer him a scorpion
no if you then
being evil know how to give good gifts
to your children
how much more watch what it says how
much more will your heavenly father
give you the holy spirit
to those who ask him
see i’ve always read that scripture and
i always stop i didn’t
finish it if if earthly fathers know how
to give good gifts
then how much more does your heavenly
father know how to give good gifts like
i just made up the second part of it
that’s not what it says if earthly
fathers know how to give good gifts
the best gift your heavenly father could
give
is the holy spirit to those who ask him
so how do you speak in tongues how do
you speak in the language of heaven
how do you do this i’m gonna give you
four simple steps it will take five
minutes to do this
write them down the first thing is you
ask
that’s it all you need to do
is everybody say it ask
why would the writer of this chapter
highlight your heavenly father will give
the holy spirit to those who
ask him it may have been just the simple
step of not being taught but if you want
to speak
in a heavenly language that’s available
to you right now already been paid for
part of the upgrade
all you have to do is say it with me ask
in just a moment
we’re going to do it like this is not a
go home later
when everybody’s gone and no no no
you’ve been educated
you are not uninformed anymore if you
watch this whole thing
we’re about to ask god to fill us with
the holy spirit
with the benefits of our heavenly
language
so we’re going to ask god second point
you have to be available
see see after you ask then you have to
be available to be obedient
because there will be thoughts that come
to your mind and syllables that come to
your mouth and
there’ll be things that you feel like
you’re supposed to say and the unction
that you’ll have but you
like if you’re i’m not um
you’re gonna have to you don’t have to
make me do it
it’s gonna have to just come up out of
me
it’s not going to remember it’s a
choice it reminds me of pastor robert
morris who spoke
in uh our paper chaser series and is a
theologian
and um went from this conversion of not
believing in the holy spirit to fully
embracing the holy spirit
and his story of becoming filled with
the holy spirit is funny and it may
happen to some of you
he was stubborn him and his wife heard a
pastor
talk about being filled with the holy
spirit and they both asked god to fill
them with the holy spirit and his wife
automatically
started saying the syllables she was
available but he was a little more
standoffish and
didn’t know and and one day his wife
looked at him
and she had this smirk on his face and
and he was like you know when your
husband or wife knows something they act
like they know something and they tell
you so he finally asked her he’s like
why do you keep
looking at me like that she said i heard
you last night
and she was like you heard me doing what
speaking in tongues
he said i didn’t speak in tongues he
said i was asleep
she said well i heard you speaking in
tongues last night so he went to his
pastor
and he said hey my wife said she heard
me speaking in tongues
and he and i was asleep he said oh yeah
that sometimes happens to the stubborn
ones
that that the spirit had to wait for his
mind to go to sleep
to begin to start activating what was
ready and all ready to come out
and i don’t know if that might be you
but but but there are there are people
that it doesn’t have to be if you are
available okay
so you need to ask and be available
and then this is the most important one
you have to be okay
with awkward
it’s going to be awkward you’ve never
spoke in a different tongue before you
ain’t take spanish class you failed
french
you don’t know a different language and
now you’re about to get a heavenly one
it might be a little awkward let’s go
ahead
and say it right now there will be
people that be like
i never heard that that sounds like
chinese that sound like this that sounds
like
it doesn’t matter it might be awkward
but this is the thing that’s going to
give you
last point access
how do i speak in tongues i use the
access i’ve been given
i keep i keep using that language i wake
up every day
and i just if it’s bow bow bow bow bow
bow bow bow bow bow bow bow bow bow bow
bow bow bow bow bow bow bow bow i’m just
every bow
bow bubble i’m going to use the access
that i have been given
what happens is you
start transforming from the inside out
what do you do
you’re building yourself up
and i don’t know about you i need all
the building up
that i can get does anybody need to be
built up in your most holy faith
you don’t need another conference
you don’t need another worship album
you don’t need an extended um
um life group all those things are good
but you can be built up if
you surrender your whole self
to the holy spirit and start using this
heavenly language
of speaking in other tongues
it is your benefit
so right now i’m gonna do two things
because there are people in this room
that say like how do you do this
do you consider yourself saved if you do
how did you do that
by faith
and next week 20 000 almost 21 000
people
how many people getting baptized next
week i don’t put it on the screen real
quick because we need to celebrate
what god’s doing they told me that 20
983 people
have oh y’all better help me have signed
up
for next week flood sunday
this is going public old life buried
with christ
new life coming as a resurrection
and 20 i cannot believe that y’all
983 and it’s not too late for you to
sign up
people are going to be doing it next
week service is not going to be right
here
i’m going to go find somebody’s house
and i’m gonna do it at somebody’s house
because i need to normalize this is not
a production
it’s a transformation i’m gonna say it
one more time
it’s not a production it’s a
transformation
and so we’re gonna go i’m gonna i don’t
got a pool so i’m gonna find somebody’s
pool
and we’re find a pond find a lake find a
puddle of water go buy a kiddie pool
get in your jacuzzi tub i don’t care
where you got to do it
i’m gonna preach a short message next
week and i’m gonna inspire people and
this is why i need you
to get more people to come and just
invite them like they’re just coming to
watch you get baptized because i promise
you there’s gonna be more spontaneous
baptisms
than maybe even the people who signed up
friends and family
are going to come i need you to invite
them this is a special moment
it’s significant but how will water
baptism happen
just like it did at salvation by
faith and how will you be filled with
the spirit
with the benefit of speaking in tongues
by faith
if you’re in this this moment right now
whether you’re watching live or on
rebroadcast
in a moment i’m going to ask some of the
pastors to come up here and we’re going
to begin to pray
but i want to invite you to salvation
first
because you don’t get access to the holy
spirit and his gifts
until you give your heart to jesus so
right now if you want to give your life
to jesus christ
this is the greatest decision i ever
made it took me from being a liar
a manipulator somebody who was addicted
to pornography
had very bad dark things in my heart and
it didn’t make me a perfect man
but it put me on a road of progression
today i want to offer you the gift of
salvation
it’s not by works it’s not by all the
good things you do
it’s already done because of what jesus
has done for you
today i want you to experience grace
like a flood
on the count of three if you want to be
a part of this prayer of salvation
according to romans 10 9 all you have to
do is believe
and confess that jesus christ is lord he
died for your sin and he rose again with
all power and you’re saved and i know
what religion
has told you that you need to change
this and do this and jump through this
hoop
but god said if you would give me your
heart i’ll help you change your habits
and today is the day of salvation
i believe that there are hundreds if not
thousands of people
that need to give their life put their
whole life in the hands of the master
and he doesn’t just want to be your
savior
he wants to be your lord he wants to
take care of everything that has to
concern you
he wants to give you his precious holy
spirit to walk with you and guide you
into all truth
but first you have to receive him so
today if you want to do that
on the count of three i don’t care who’s
around you i don’t care what they think
i don’t care what you did last night or
what you were planning to do after this
this is your moment
and today god wants to give you the
precious gift of salvation
one you’re making the greatest decision
of your life
two i am so proud of you but more than
that your name
is about to be written in the lamb’s
book of life three would you shoot your
hand up all over the world
if you want to accept jesus as your
personal lord and savior come on hands
are going up everywhere
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i can’t physically see you but the holy
spirit just saw every person
and transformation church you know we’re
family we all pray together
so right now we’re going to pray this
prayer together for the benefit of those
who are coming to christ would everybody
just put your hands out and just say
lord
thank you for sending jesus
just for me today i believe
that you lived you died and you rose
again
for all of my sins today
i ask you to be the lord of my life
change me renew me
transform me i’m yours
in jesus name amen
can we give god pray oh y’all let’s give
god
praise all over the world hallelujah
heaven is turning up right now for every
person
that just gave their life to christ
i want to tell you that if you just made
that decision
your life just changed forever your
eternity is secure
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and you will be with jesus in heaven
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would you text the number saved to the
number on the screen
and we want to give you some information
and help you walk through this
but the greatest gift that you could
leave this experience with today
is the gift of the holy spirit
with the benefit of speaking in your
heavenly language or tongue
this is not weird this is not strange
this is a weapon this is your advantage
pastor mike does it every day several
times a day
before i preach after i get off the
stadium
i speak in tongues all the time because
it praises the mind and the will
of god on my behalf and it edifies
or builds me up today if you’ve been
broken down
i want you to have on demand the ability
to be feel tough
and you can do that with your heavenly
language staff team would y’all just
come
and surround all the people you’re about
to see the reason i’m bringing up
them up here is not for a show i want
you to know that
regular people speak in tongues like i
don’t want this to be
if you’re in the room i want y’all to
stand up if you’re there
and you feel uncomfortable in the space
that you’re in with the people go to the
other room take the phone
take the thing pull the car over like i
want you
i i want you to know this is regular
this is this is
normal abby bring arlo out here they
need to like i just
i need i need y’all to see this is
normal
jules de mario i know y’all gonna have
to leave for tcp in a tc post in a
second come on evan i just need them to
see some different people
that that that all of us speak in
tongues okay
this is not come on brent like this is
not a weird
awkward if you saw us in target we
wouldn’t be
shouting and jumping around and like we
would be regular people we will talk to
you
but we would choose to pray in the
spirit
and all we’re going to do is those four
things we’re going to ask god
to give us the gift of the holy spirit
we’re going to be
available to whatever comes to our head
our hearts and our mind we’re gonna
actually begin to say that out
we’re gonna do and three it might be
awkward
some of you as soon as we start this
it’s just gonna flow it’s gonna be like
a damn that unlocks
and busts and it’s just gonna flow out
of your belly will flow
rivers of living water that’s gonna
happen to some of you
and for others it’s gonna be a trickle
and you’re gonna continue to do it
and you can continue to access this
power
but i’m telling you thousands you’ll
hear me thousands of people
are about to be filled with the holy
spirit
with the benefit of speaking
and unknown to our minds and our
understanding tongues we’re going to
access
our heavenly language i feel the
presence of god
he’s here but he’s there wow
will you put your hands out like you’re
ready to receive something
[Music]
we’re going to walk through this
together
and i love the fact that worship leads
us in
can we just sing the chorus of holy
spirit you’re welcome
here come on we all just lift that up
real quick say holy spirit say
holy spirit
come on just just say come flood
not just this place but this place
you’re not too young
you can receive this gift you’re not too
old
you can receive this gift
[Music]
just a couple more times
come on say holy
you’re welcome right here people are
about to be filled
i feel it some of you are already
tapping in
[Music]
build that up just a little more sing it
again
we’re inviting them into this place said
holy
god you’re welcome here you’re welcome
in my mind my thoughts my heart
my life love me god
overtake me you lose me overwhelm me god
[Music]
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god
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is
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come on just hands out like you’re
receiving something let’s ask god
to fill us with the holy spirit
with the benefit of speaking in a
heavenly language y’all ready
this ain’t weird this ain’t crazy he’s a
good father he’s not going to give us
scorpions and snakes when we ask for the
holy spirit
he’s going to give us the holy spirit so
father right now come on just begin to
pray
holy spirit we ask you to fill us up
from the top of our heads to the soles
of our feet
we thank you that we are the temple of
the holy spirit hey
and god i thank you that this grace of
tongues
would be unlocked and released
in your people all over the world right
now
we are asking you to fill us
with your spirit that we would have
the benefit of speaking in a heavenly
language
and god now we are available
to however you want to do that i need
you right now
to whatever’s in your heart whatever’s
in your mind team i need y’all to begin
to lift up your heavenly language
everybody in here if you have a heavenly
language and you’re watching begin to
speak in your heavenly language
i want you to begin to let it flow let
it flow let it arise
come on be available be available
whatever syllables come to your mind
begin to speak those out
it may sound like gibberish it’s
unfruitful to the mind
but it is the mastery of playing the
mystery
of god right now come on begin to lift
it up
oh it’s happening oh it’s happening
that’s it come on we’re just making
space right now
it’s a choice you have to choose this
he’s not gonna make you but if you
choose to right now
come on lift it up lift it up lift it up
lift it up
these are all regular people and we’re
doing it
together unity is coming the language of
heaven
is invading earth stop thinking about
what other people are thinking of you
right now
be available come on
[Music]
yeah it might be awkward but you’re
getting access
come on you’re getting access right now
holy spirit you’re welcome
holy spirit you’re welcome come on
continue to speak in your language
you’re welcome lord
[Music]
[Applause]
i know this may seem strange to others
but you’re getting power
you’re getting a weapon you are getting
something that builds you up
this is
[Music]
say let us become more aware
yeah it’s happening somebody has an
untapped whale don’t stop cause the
music came down
begin to exercise that use your access
right now
we will speak in the spirit and speak
in english we will sing in the spirit
and sing in english
unlock it in the name of jesus do it
only you can do god
[Music]
the only reason we’re doing this in this
type of setting is for five weeks i’ve
taught
every step of this and we are
with people who understand and now we’re
experiencing
what’s happening come on just for about
two more minutes
is regular people this is regular
kingdom talk
this is regular heavenly language
this is not weird this is normal we ask
god
we ask god we acknowledge that it’s a
gift from him
and then we said we’re available
and we understand to other people it may
seem awkward
but now we have access to the upgrade
deep
we got access to the upgrade
this is what we’re praying all over the
world
[Music]
said spirit breakout
like you did on azusa street said break
all
walls now oh i feel the presence of god
somebody declares they spirit break out
[Music]
come on i dare you to lift that up say
spirit of god
break out
[Music]
like oh did in 1906 like you did in 1988
what you’re doing here today
[Music]
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is
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holy spirit
oh
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god
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god
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so
it’s not the time to spectate some of
y’all are watching
when you need to be yielding your tongue
yielding your life this is what you’ve
been praying for
this is what you’ve been asking for
[Music]
god is not intimidated by any of your
questions
any of your concerns or any of your
fears
[Music]
no doubt there are thousands of people
i there is no doubt
that thousands of the same spirit of god
he’s omnipresent
thousands of people
just spoke in their heavenly language
for the first time
can we give god glory honor
can we thank god that the same power
that raised christ from the dead is
available
today
[Music]
and no doubt there are certain people
that desired and maybe in this last
seven minutes
it didn’t happen be encouraged
[Music]
just like my daughter isabella when she
asked her daddy for something
and she doesn’t get it in that moment
guess what she has the
audacity to do ask again
and she persistent with her asking my
daughter my because she knows i’m a good
father
when she knows that it’s within my realm
of possibility
to help her she asks boldly
and today i’m asking you to ask bowling
tomorrow ask about desire
it’s not a demand it’s a desire
for everybody who got that access don’t
let it be
another church service where somebody
tells you
that you can speak in your heavenly
language this is not for the church
service this is for your shower
your car ride the nights in the bed
when you’re doing the dishes when you’re
making food when you’re playing
basketball
it is your on-demand ability
to build yourself up
you may have to watch this message five
times
remember what i said repetition brings
revelation
the reason i kept going this is a longer
sermon
is because somebody’s desperate for the
power that comes only
when you pray the mind the will of the
father on your behalf
thank you church for allowing me to walk
you even if you’re still
on the fringes thank you for allowing me
to walk you
through the truth of god’s word remember
one of the jobs of the holy spirit
is he will lead you into all
truth so today
i feel like our church just got anchored
oh y’all better help me i just feel like
we out here in the deep we might as well
be angry
father i pray over every person
who received jesus
over every person that next week will be
baptized in water
for every person today or whoever
watches us on rebroadcast
will be baptized in your spirit and have
the benefit
of speaking in a heavenly language
thank you father that this journey is
about progression not perfection
and today god i thank you that we are
edified
that we are built up in our most holy
faith
i declare this will be the best week for
every person in transformation nation
that we will walk in dude with power
that we will use our weapon of
praying in the spirit and that you would
lead us into all truth
thank you for giving us a church who
allows
your spirit to lead us and guide us
have your way in jesus name everybody
say we agree
we expect amen
can we give god one shot of praise y’all
have an amazing week go out
and live a transformed life thank you
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the lord of your life
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