In Week 4 of our series The Upgrade, we learned about the gifts of the Holy Spirit. The gifts of the Holy Spirit are not evidence, they are BENEFITS! There are four different categories of gifts; The Motivational Gifts, The Manifestation Gifts, The Ministry Gifts and The Ministerial Gifts. During this message, Pastor Michael unwrapped The Manifestation Gifts which are Discerning, Declarative and Dynamic. To learn more about the benefits of the Holy Spirit, watch this message now and don’t forget to share it with your friends and family!
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
get your phone your notebook whatever it
is that you take notes with and get
ready for today’s message
oh come on transformation church let’s
make a joyful noise unto the lord
hallelujah
oh i’m excited today if you’re excited
to be alive why don’t you give god one
shot of praise
hey hey hey today is a special day
because today is mother’s day if you got
a mama make some noise
that should be everybody amen today i
want to say happy mother’s day to
every mother that is out there we are
nothing literally without you um
to the mothers that literally make up
this amazing community that we have um
to pastor debbie
um our founding mother here at
transformation church
we love you uh to my mommy
who’s sitting and looking so beautiful
you look like a beautiful flower you’re
just blooming
y’all can’t see her i’ll post a picture
later um my spiritual heritage
and uh my my my fervor and prayer
and going after the things of god it
comes from you and i just love you and i
appreciate you
i would not be who i am today had you
not spit on my head and prayed over me
at four o’clock in the morning every
night and
the more years that go by i’m just more
grateful
that you’re my mommy and i love you hey
listen can i say this to everybody if
you got a mommy
call them today text them i know it
might be rough i know it might
you never know what one act of kindness
even if they don’t deserve it you don’t
know what type of seeds of forgiveness
that could be sown
through just the i love you and so today
let’s let’s honor remember we honor up
we honor down hey we are all the way
just one more time there we honor oh
let’s go we on or down come on we honor
uh
the way that’s even when it doesn’t feel
like you should honor
this is the only promise that god says
there’s long life that comes with
honoring your mother and father
and so today transformation nation i’m
asking you send a text
put a dove in the air do something send
a smoke signal
and uh just tell them you love me and i
could not um
go past this moment without honoring all
the mothers of transformation church but
specifically
pastor natalie who is the mother of all
my babies
and um y’all
i know you’ll be like i know you got to
do the mother’s day thing and all that
other stuff this ain’t a mother’s day
thing for me
this is an everyday thing for me we
have been through so many things
and the fact that my three and a half
children we got one on the way right now
have the best mother in the world
natalie i appreciate you i love you
and i see why god gave me my greatest
gift in you
today i honor you i i how about say i
lift you up
you know what i’m saying you’re starting
magnus i’ll lift you up now hey
anyway um i i honor you
and i thank god and on behalf of me and
my kids and transformation church we
thank god
for pastor natalie and i think we want
to do something
okay since today’s mother’s day bring me
that joe
y’all know we’re having a child in in 24
days
so i thought why don’t we find out the
gender of the baby right here
at transformation church today we’re
having a 30-second gender reveal right
now at transformation church
in the comments if you think it’s a boy
or you think it’s a girl i need you to
put it in the audience what do y’all
think it is is it a boy
is it a girl i need you to put it come
on put some pink
in the thing we’re about to see if you
really here holy spirit all right y’all
ready
i need y’all to give me a countdown here
we go five
four three two
one
oh yes
yeah so
for all y’all thought it was a boy you
didn’t hear the lord
no i’m just playing uh me and natalie on
this mother’s day are so grateful
to bring into the world now make it pink
put the name back up there
this is my last kid i’m doing the whole
thing you understand what i’m saying
this is it this is the
finale my four and no more um the name
of this child is going to be gia
simone hope and um we are
really excited about what god is about
to do through this finale
in the todd household and i wanted to
share this moment with my church family
because that’s who you really are you’re
our family
and so over this next season we need you
to be praying for us it’s 24 days pastor
nat
is at at home in the bed right now
because she just swole up
and and and and i need y’all to be
praying y’all go ahead and start doing
this thing
it makes me they’re going to clean all
of this up y’all can be seated but it
makes me just want to have just a family
talk real quick
about um this next season of ministry
we’re about to go into okay
and um i think so they can be able to do
all of this you just camera follow me
over here you can turn it back to
regular now and they can do all of that
um
what what what’s about to happen over
this next three months
is something that if you’re just
starting to follow transformation church
you may not know it’s something that we
do every summer
and um i’m going on paternity leave
after this
series about the holy spirit and um i
know this is something that most pastors
and most ministers don’t do because
their ministry is more important than
their family
but i want to be very clear this is what
god’s called me to
do my family is what he’s called me too
you see how little the amens are right
there but this is what i’m saying to you
i won’t get to the end of my life and
god asked me what did i do
with your most important thing i gave
you
and i said well god i did crusades and
god we did crazy faith and god we
packed arenas and we wrote songs he said
but i gave you my daughter
and i gave you those four children and
you didn’t steward over them right
so one of the things i’m trying to model
for you is that there is no level of
success
that is worth neglecting your family i’m
gonna
say it again there is no level of
success
not grammys not bags of millions
not new york time bestseller nothing is
working
worth you neglecting your family and so
one of the rhythms that we put in place
at the beginning of ministry
given by our oversight pastor pastor tim
ross
he said michael every summer you need to
take a break and i said i can’t take no
break
we we going after the the the lost and
the founding we’re doing all this for
the kingdom he said yeah yeah but you
can’t lose what’s important
in the midst of all that every summer
you need to take a break and you need to
give specific time to your wife
you need to give specific time to your
kids you need to give specific time
to me the holy spirit
see every series that has blessed your
life relationship goals
came the first series after i took a
break
planet not buried the first series after
i took a break
crazy faith the first series it’s
because i had a moment to recreate
to allow god to minister to me and to
show me things that he needed to correct
and to really make me know watch this
that i ain’t all that
it humbles me the fact that this church
can go without me
like y’all don’t miss me like like it
puts me back in a position that lets me
know that this is god’s church
these are god’s people and this is god’s
work
and so i’m letting you know that after
we finish we got three more weeks i
think of this series maybe four i don’t
know what’s gonna happen
but after this series the beginning of
june we’ll be giving birth to gia
and pastor mike is gonna go on paternity
leave and i’m gonna be out of here
i’m not gonna be answering no dms i’m
not gonna be at the office
i’m not gonna be praying for people
outside unless the holy spirit
specifically says pray for them
like i’m going to take a break and then
i’m taking my extended time of
sabbatical
and i’ll be back in the fall
no no i need to say it that clear
because here’s a chance for spiritual
maturity
because if you only get fed because of
this cook you’re actually not
mature and my responsibility i have to
tell you just like this because this is
a chance for you to mature
the fact that you would vote can god
speak through them in the bible he spoke
through burning bushes
he spoke through animals he spoke
through signs
if you need an aesthetic for god to
speak you’re going to miss him a lot of
the times
i promise you that whoever stands on
this platform
they will hear from god they will have a
word from god
and they will speak a word in season to
you and your family you don’t have to
worry and i’m just believing
that as we said the word is anchored
this year
i think that we would be anchored to the
word of god not anchored to the word of
pastor mike
uh-oh i think we would be anchored to
the spirit of god
and not anchored to the aesthetic of
pastor mike
what i’m saying most pastors are too
insecure to say this to you
but i want you not to be connected to me
more than you are connected to him and
whatever he has to say he can get it
through
anybody and i wanted i felt like this
was a moment to model it in front of you
and can i give you permission
i give you permission to miss a couple
weeks of service
not all at the same time don’t do it all
at the same time but i want you to miss
for the intense
purpose and intentional purpose of
giving to your family
i know i would rather you miss a sunday
here
and be present with your family and
children
and make memories because you don’t know
how many people i counsel right now
who their entire um um testimony is
i don’t know my parents because they
gave their life to the church
and now their view of god is messed up
because your ability
your inability to prioritize
today i want to encourage you as your
pastor is about to take a break and
recreate i want you guys to be praying
for us
we don’t know what the heaven or hell we
doing with four kids
don’t even have a clue and let’s not
even talk about how a dog showed up on
my doorstep yesterday i don’t
i need y’all to pray but we’re in a
season right now of trying to do this
and my commitment
is to transformation church to live
authentically
and hot in front of you humble open and
transparent my plan is to do this as
long as god would have me do it and the
only way we can do that
is if we do it in health so will y’all
pray for your pastor over this next
season
will y’all hold us up and lift us up i’m
excited about what god’s gonna do and
this is going to be i’m speaking it
it’s going to be a summer of growth it’s
going to be a summer of exponential
revelation
this oh y’all don’t even hear me this is
going to be a summer that god
grows the church and expands it and
we’re going to mature amen
somebody say we’re getting anchored
hallelujah
are y’all ready for the word today
[Music]
i think i got one
um we in week four
of a series we calling help me the
upgrade
and we’re talking about the power the
person
and the presence of the holy spirit let
me say it again
the power the person
and the presence of the holy spirit
and this has been one of the things that
has been kept out of so many people’s
christian walk
and it really is the thing that empowers
them to live
a life that looks like christ you cannot
live like christ
without god on the inside of you
it’s not going to be a good plan or a
good idea
or wanting to do about better you need
the empowerment of the holy spirit
somebody say i need
the empowerment of the holy spirit
now the crazy thing about it is the holy
spirit has had
very bad pr because there’s some crazy
people out here
there’s some people who have never
explained it properly so over this
next this whole six weeks or seven weeks
that we’re doing this series
my job is to represent the holy spirit
to you
and let you see that he is alive he is
active
he’s a person he’s got power and he
wants to change your situation
and so today i feel like i got to be a
teacher
on this day i feel like i got to teach
you some stuff that you were never
taught before and let me be very clear i
was never taught before
raised in church grown up this is why
it’s so important
to discover god for yourself and to go
to the scriptures
what they say ain’t all of it do you
know that there is things that god wants
to reveal
god the holy spirit to you in your
everyday life so i’m going to walk you
through this
and i need you to go with me so that you
can understand this process we got to go
back to higher dimensions
um when i was about nine years old
it’s the church that i grew up in pastor
carlton pearson is actually
three miles down the street where i grew
up
and i would walk into these services
and there would be this feeling that you
got i mean you come in the music it was
just
angelic and people were singing and you
saw white people and black people
and all different ethnicities and they
were worshiping and you could feel
something that was in the atmosphere and
then there would be just somebody that
blurred out in these unknown tongues
and i was sitting there like okay is
that spanish
can i be very honest with you that’s
badass okay
and then i hear somebody over here and
they’d be going i’m like is that friends
and then somebody going to everybody
that would start speaking in his
language and then all
i was nine years old i remember i was
like i think my
uh children’s church worker
knows a bunch of languages and i went
home
and i would hear my mom speaking in this
unknown tongue
and i was like what in the world is this
did i miss a class do i not
have something that somebody else has
and then i heard this one preacher say
this thing
and this was the definition i thought
of the holy spirit they said this phrase
that today i’m coming to correct
today i’m coming to change the attitude
and the idea it wasn’t said wrong but it
left the wrong
mark on me and it may have left the
wrong mark on you
the the person said today you need to be
filled with the holy spirit
and he said have you been filled with
the holy spirit
with the evidence of speaking in tongues
how many people have heard that before
have you been filled with the holy
spirit with the evidence
of speaking in tongues so in my
nine-year-old mind
i equated that the only way you know
that you’ve been filled with the holy
spirit
is that you can prove it by speaking in
tongues
so my entire christian walk and right
now i’m messing with some people’s
theology some of y’all tight booty right
now
you’re sitting there like oh my god what
is he um go to somebody else td
jakes you’re trying to get there but i’m
gonna teach you today
that i thought all the year up into my
30s
i only been 30 for five years
in the last five years i have
undone this
fallacy that has had me
can i be honest judging people
[Music]
i thought if you did not speak in
tongues you were not filled with the
holy spirit
which made me better than you and now i
can judge you
i’m gonna be real today cause there are
some religious spirits that are in this
place right now
and some some uh traditional christians
that have been sitting from oh they’re
not real
they ain’t filled with the spirit they
don’t got the evidence
now let me help you the bible
never says that the proof of being
filled with the spirit
is that you speak in tongues speaking in
tongues
is very real and i’m going to talk about
that and i’m gonna get and i pray that
everybody speaks in tongues
i want you to know i would not be
standing here today if i did not have a
heavenly language but what i need to do
before i introduce you to the heavenly
language
is break down the walls that have made
there be
separation over this idea of the holy
spirit
it’s not evidence that you have the holy
spirit
it’s a benefit of the holy spirit
speaking in tongues is a benefit
of the holy spirit and this is why we
all need to be
baptized in the holy spirit and when
you’re baptized in the holy spirit
the holy spirit comes with gifts and the
only gift the church talks about
is the gift of speaking in tongues did
you know that the gifts of speaking in
tongues
is one of nine gifts
that the holy spirit brings oh i’m about
to teach this thing in the hole
it is one of the nine gifts that the
holy spirit brings
and it’s the one that we’ve used to
judge other people
can i be very clear with you if you
speak in tongues
it is a benefit if you have received
jesus
and you have allowed him to come into
your life
the holy spirit lives on the inside of
you
some of you have not released the holy
spirit yet to work in your life
so when you get baptized in the holy
spirit
then you release him to bring these
gifts to you
and there are nine gifts of the holy
spirit
that every believer has access to
at all times i just said
access to act all
time and i gotta teach you today okay
acts 19. i feel this thing my teacher is
in here today
acts 19 verse one this is paul while
apollos was in corinth
paul traveled through the interior
regions until he reached ephesus
on the coast where he found several
believers so he walked up there was a
bunch of believers there
and look at the question he asked him
which is a valid question
did you receive the holy spirit
when you believed so it goes back to
last week’s message
that tells you there’s a baptism into
salvation that’s when we believe
then there’s a baptism in water and can
i just stop real quick
and let you know that the 23rd of this
month is flood sunday at transformation
church
and people have said welcome to the holy
spirit can i tell y’all how many people
have signed up as of about an hour ago
to get baptized
fifteen thousand seven hundred and nine
people from 25 different oh y’all better
help me
25 different countries are getting
baptized glory to god
if we don’t do another thing we just
help 15 000 people take their next step
on their journey with christ and you
know what pumps me up about that
is that if fifteen thousand seven
hundred and nine people
have decided that i’m gonna take this
next step and being baptized in water
it just makes me pumped up to see how
many people are gonna take the next step
and be baptized in the holy spirit
and let me just say if you want to be
baptized we are sending
actual physical kits to 15
700 and i pray for the team this week
y’all we’re sending them to
everybody if you want to be included in
that and you want to get baptized we’re
getting baptized in ponds
and kiddie pools in hot tubs and jacuzzi
tubs
in in neighborhood pools on the 23rd i’m
telling you it may be a guinness world
record i don’t know what’s about to
happen but we are going to
baptize as many people as want to if you
want to be baptized
text in to the number that’s on your
screen and and if you text in by
midnight tonight right by midnight
tonight we’re going to send you a
physical package
and if you’re watching this after on
rebroadcast do not worry
we’ll still still send you a digital kit
so you can do everything and get
baptized but i feel like we’re about to
see a revival
something start up on the inside
[Applause]
but this is the thing that we we we have
to see
paul comes to these believers and said
did you receive the holy spirit
when you believed and look what they
said no
and this is like most of y’all before
the upgrade we haven’t even heard of the
holy spirit
do you know how many believers serve
on the worship team go through
everything and have never even
heard of the holy spirit so then look
what paul says like i’m saying to you
then what baptizing
baptism did you experience what were you
baptized then if you haven’t heard of
the holy spirit
and they replied you know the baptism of
john what he was doing down there paul
said john’s baptism
called for repentance from sin that’s
salvation but john
himself told the people to believe in
the one who would come later meaning
jesus
and as soon as they heard this they were
baptized in the name of the lord jesus
watch verse six
then paul laid hands on them
the holy spirit came on them and they
spoke in other tongues
and prophesied
the holy spirit gives gifts
right after he prayed for these
disciples two of them showed up
and most of us only found one
he said they spoke in tongues and they
i’m just trying to show you that we’re
not going to maximize on one and leave
out everything that the holy spirit has
for us
okay speaking in tongues is real
i speak in tongues every day i speak in
spoken tongues with our executive team
and our pastors right before we came out
here
every meeting that we have at this
church no matter if you’re a cameraman
to everybody
we pray and many of us are speaking in
tongues
monday night prayer if you want to come
and hear a world when
of people praying out in their heavenly
language come tomorrow night at 6 pm on
youtube
we pray but can i make a very strong
statement
tongues is not evidence of the holy
spirit
it’s a benefit of the holy spirit
don’t judge another believer
based on if they can speak in a heavenly
language or not
that is a spirit of criticism and it’s
the spirit of
judgment and i’ma show you a little bit
later
that that person’s prayer has more
chance to reaching heaven
than yours even if you do speak in
tongues okay
i just gotta say y’all feel the
tightness in the room right now
i’m gonna try to help you because i need
us to be able to have a biblical view
on what the scriptures say about the
gifts of the holy spirit so then we can
display it
to people in a way that they can receive
it first corinthians 12
1 it says now concerning spiritual gifts
brethren
watch this i do not want you to be
ignorant
the whole reason i’m preaching this is
because i don’t want the church
another day to be ignorant of the gifts
of the holy spirit
and i didn’t say stupid i didn’t say
that you were dumb
you were just void of understanding
and there’s a lot of things in this
christian walk
because of leaders because of maybe the
denomination because of
other people we are void of teaching
that the word is very clear on well
that’s not sexy enough
like i don’t even care if the numbers
are going down on youtube right now
because people aren’t checked in the 25
000 people that are checked into this
they’re gonna get an upgrade in their
ability to understand the holy spirit
and they will no longer be ignorant
void of understanding but because you
need the holy spirit to live this life
and so i want to talk about the benefits
of the holy spirit so that we’re not
ignorant of it
is that okay now i don’t know if i
should make this a bible study class
there’s so much to teach right now
and so little time so let me just help
you because i want to develop an
appetite
for people to study the word of god if
you’re only listening to pastor mike you
have missed the point
i give you all these scriptures and all
these points so that you would go home
and in your quiet time daily you will
look up those scriptures and god can
give you watch this a better revelation
than i got
when you study and ask the holy spirit
for wisdom so i’m gonna give you
um categories four categories of gifts
in the bible
and write this down and go study it on
your own time there are motivational
gifts according to romans 12.
there’s motivational gifts according to
romans 12. i cannot go
through them all right now but i want
you to go through them the one that i’m
going to talk about today
is that there’s manifestation gifts in
first corinthians 12
and we’re going to walk through all of
those today then there are ministry
gifts found in first corinthians 14
so you need to walk through that whole
thing and then there are ministerial
gifts
found in ephesians 4 and these are the
gifts of jesus this is the pastor
prophet teacher
evangelist apostle and i don’t have time
to go through all of that today
but there are gifts that we get
as a benefit of believing in jesus
my question to you is how many gifts
have you left unwrapped
excuse me how many gifts have you left
unopened
they’re still wrapped up you’ve got them
and you have access to them
but they are still unopened
because you’re scared of what somebody
else will think about it
because somebody was weird who taught
about it no no no
i’m gonna dispel all that today and i
want you to get these gifts
so you can actually benefit everybody
say benefit
this is the thing i need you to
understand you don’t have the gifts
the holy spirit possesses these gifts
and you have the holy spirit
let me back up because some of y’all was
like hold on i thought you said i got
access to the gifts
you do because the holy spirit the
person of the holy spirit
possesses all nine of these gifts and
because you accept the holy spirit
now you have access to all these gifts
people like i have the gift of prophecy
no you don’t
the holy spirit has the gift of prophecy
and because you listen to the holy
spirit
you can prophesy i’m going to help you
so many people have walked around
claiming something that they can’t do on
demand
they’ve walked around holding these
titles and going to another place and
call me prophetess
and prophet and this and all i’m good
i’m good with your titles
as long as you know you are not the gift
holder
and that’s why it’s so backwards that a
prophetess or a pastor or somebody would
make somebody feel smaller
because they’re not on a platform and
the same holy spirit that’s speaking to
you up there
is the same holy spirit speaking to me
on the floor of my daughter’s room
telling me to write down that this
building would be ours
this is what i’ve got to calm down this
is what i’m trying to tell you right now
is you don’t have the gifts the holy
spirit has the gifts
and because you have the holy spirit you
have
access everybody say access to nine
gifts
how can i make it plain um okay there we
go
bella my daughter thinks she has an ipad
she don’t have no ipad she ain’t bought
an ipad she don’t pay
the payments for the ipad she does not
have an ipad but she has a daddy
and because she has a daddy she has
access
to the ipad and if you ask her
this is my ipad but when it comes down
to it the only reason she
is able to benefit
is because of her relationship
all i’m trying to say with you your
relationship with the holy spirit
is more important than anything that
you’ve ever manifested or made
known because he’s the one that is an
endless source of understanding an
endless source of creativity
and in the source of wisdom and you
somehow thought you made that up
and you thought that was your idea
and what i’m telling you is that the
holy spirit
is the one that gives the gifts so let
me run through all nine of these because
it’s going to it’s going to take a
minute okay
um god lee i don’t know how i’m going to
do this
because i could preach a whole message
on each one of these things
y’all ready can i go wrap it through
them so i can show you what it is
there’s three categories of these nine
gifts the first are the discerning gifts
okay and these are all found in
scripture in first corinthians
the first one is a word of knowledge
write this definition down
a word of knowledge is to know something
specific
without having learned it by natural
means
the holy spirit carries a gift that you
can have access to as he wields
of a word of knowledge you see it in
jesus’s life
when he’s with the woman at the whale
and some of y’all would say well no
jesus is god no remember that he laid
down all of his divinity
to be able to rely on the holy spirit to
be an example for
us so he’s with the woman at the well
and
and and jesus says um tell your husband
to come here
and she says well i don’t have a husband
he said that’s right because you have
five husbands and the one that you’re
with
he’s not your husband right now she said
i think he’s a prophet
that was a word of knowledge
and what you can walk into when you go
into that board room and you don’t know
what to say
is you can say holy spirit give me a
word of knowledge
tell me what i need to say that i don’t
know the physics of how all of this
works and the science behind all of this
but i know you know everything so give
me a word of knowledge i can’t tell you
how many rooms i’ve walked in
had no earthly understanding
of what they were saying and they said
three words and the holy spirit
illuminated what i was supposed to say
in that meeting
are they looking at me like how long
have you studied this
and i’m looking at them like oh please
don’t find me out
but it was the holy spirit giving a word
of knowledge that
is a gift that is available to you
through the holy spirit the next one
a word of wisdom a word of wisdom is a
divine answer or solution
for a particular event you can have an
answer for something that you don’t know
but he knows and it allows to come
through you
i use this every day pastoring this
church
i get words of wisdom do you remember
bree
when um we were in um a very
very very tough situation as a staff
and we were trying to figure out who to
hire in a specific situation
and bree and me leave a meeting
praying she goes to sleep wakes up in
the morning she said i got it mike
i know who it is and i’m calling them
right now and i said um
god didn’t speak to me about it
god god didn’t he didn’t tell me the
pastor
he didn’t give me insight
that’s not what i said i said what is
the word of wisdom what did he tell you
see because when you realize that you’re
around people that have the holy spirit
in them the answer comes from him but it
can come through anybody
the answer does not have to come from me
to be him and because i was secure that
i had a friend
and a partner that heard the holy spirit
this is why it’s so important who you
marry
because you don’t know which way to go
unless the holy spirit leads you in some
certain situations
and you need to make sure that you are
hearing and you don’t both have to hear
it as long as you know one of y’all
is actually hearing it and god spoke to
brie
and we called that person and just the
right moment and the right time and god
lined everything up and now she’s an
intricate part
of our staff what did god do he gave
bree in that moment
the answer to a particular problem
that we weren’t even thinking about it
was a word
of wisdom and i need you to begin to
know that this is an available gift
a benefit of the holy spirit in your
life
the last one in this category of the
discerning of gifts this is called the
discerning of spirits
to be made aware of the presence of a
demonic spirit
this one the church
has to up your game
because some of y’all be taking pictures
with devils
birthday and i can see the spirit
but you’re not you’re not discerning of
spirits you thought they were coming
to just connect with you
but they are going to connect with you
and they’re going to keep you in a cycle
for the next five months and if you
don’t have people around you that can
discern spirits
another this is not spooky this is a
benefit
like if your marriage is jacking up and
there’s a demonic attack against the
the unity of your household wouldn’t you
like to be able to see
that spirit coming and be able to attack
it
and bind it and lose it because you can
see it you never fight an enemy you
don’t think it’s there
and so many of us are getting wore out
cause we can’t see the enemy
i’m gonna have to do a whole series on
this y’all
but a spiritual gift that the holy
spirit brings
is the discerning of spirits since we’re
on the topic of correcting things can i
correct something else real quick
there’s no gift of discernment
people get it from this scripture and
people
should discern but there’s no gift of
discernment what i found is when people
say i have the gift of discernment
really they have the spirit of being
critical
and what they end up doing is they start
reading people
that tears them down and they say i have
the spirit of discernment
biblically there’s no spirit of
discernment so you just sound a little
left
when you say that there is the
discerning of
spirits which is so that
you can edify each other
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help me holy spirit when i see
somebody hanging with somebody that has
an evil spirit and i discern that i
don’t go to the person and start
reading that person i go to the person
that needs to be safe and i say hey
listen the relationship that you have
with them it seems amazing
but there’s such a call of god on your
life and it’s very crucial
who you have being able to speak into
your life at this season
i want to encourage you to make sure
that the people that are around you
are lifting you up are praying for you
are leading you towards this
this person seems good but i just
deserve i have a spiritual discernment
a gift that the holy spirit has given me
not something that i’m claiming that i’m
the only one that has
but it’s something that the holy spirit
showed me and i want to let you know
that if you do nothing with this i’m
praying for you and i’m praying for that
relationship
oh excuse me and actually do it
can we normalize not saying i’ma pray
for you
if you’re not actually gonna pray for
them like if you gonna actually pray for
them some of y’all need to just stop and
do it then
cause you know you lying if you’re gonna
walk away from that conversation
and start praying for them i’m on one
today pray for your pastor
so the discerning gifts are a word of
knowledge
word of wisdom and the discerning of
spirits
and and that is the first three let me
give you the second three they’re the
declarative gifts
these are gifts that the holy spirit
brings who brings them
who brings them who gets to benefit
from them who gets to benefit me
i want you to understand this that we
have
gifts that we get to benefit from and
the next three are declarative gifts
ones that use your mouth
and all three of these gifts are for
edification
encouragement and watch this not
correction
i gotta help you because this first one
a lot of people use for correction
the first gift is prophecy
and prophecy is a message of
encouragement
from god through a person
and i’ve heard so many people
stand people up and read them up and
down
and say you’re just gonna have to deal
with it thus says the lord
a message of encouragement from god
through a person be careful
of putting your opinions out there and
saying thus says the lord jeremiah tells
us very clearly
be careful there are consequences for
saying god
said and he didn’t like i am very
normalized with my team and staff
of being like y’all i don’t know if this
is god or not
but i feel like they respect me
more for not throwing the god card out
there
in prayer last night at 4 00 a.m why is
it always at 4am you’re not asleep at
4am i’m sleepy most of the time at 4am
but you could say on my way to to work
today
i felt like and if it’s god say it’s god
but if it’s not god keep your mouth shut
because prophecy is a word of
encouragement
from god through regular people okay
first corinthians 14
31 because people are looking at me they
tight right now
watch this for you can
all prophesy can we go back and say read
that one more time
for you can say it oh prophet
i don’t care what your past has been and
i don’t care how many mistakes you’ve
made
once you release the holy spirit in your
life
you have the ability and the
availability to prophesy
to speak something that is to come for
the encouragement of people
that are listening it says for you can
all prophesy
one by one that all
may learn and all may be
encouraged it’s bible
so be weary of somebody that tells you
to pay them 99
i’m messing up somebody’s whole 2022
right now
but be leery of somebody that tells you
to pay a 99
to get a prophetic word and then all
they do is tear you down
and tell you how
prophecy is for encourage me
let me just move on because i’m getting
in trouble right there the declarative
gifts
the next one is tongues
what happened everybody got
quiet on that one huh tongues watch
a message from god in a language unknown
to the person through whom the message
comes
tongues is not scary tongues is not
weird
all it is is a message from god in a
language
unknown to the person i don’t know this
language through whom the message
comes next week i’m spending the entire
service talking about speaking in
tongues
you do not want to miss the revelation
that is coming next week
and about your heavenly language but
there’s a couple of things i want to
make clear in this sermon
there is a difference as you study the
word between the gift of tongues
and the grace of tongues okay
the gift of tongues is when you start
speaking in the heavenly language
and you’re speaking to another man or
woman it needs
interpretation this is the scriptural
reference for me
so when i start going in my tongues but
i’m talking or speaking to somebody
the bible tells me it needs
interpretation
then there is the grace of tongues which
is to
god and it is our prayer language
they sound the same but who
you are directing them to delineates
how where and when you’re supposed to do
this
nobody ever taught me this but if i’m
speaking in tongues
over a person or to a person the bible
says interpret that
let them know what that actually says
which we’re going to get to in a minute
because that’s another gift
of the holy spirit it’s not just tongues
it’s tongues and the
interpretation of tongues but when you
start praying in your heavenly language
it sounds the same but it’s directed
to god and the bible tells us that when
we pray in the spirit we begin to pray
the groanings the mind and the will of
the father we don’t know how to pray as
we are and we begin to speak things into
existence
that we couldn’t form with regular
language it is
better for us to pray in our tongues
when we’re talking to god but it is not
better when we’re talking to somebody
else
i know nobody’s told you this but you
got to be able to interpret let me help
you first corinthians 14 27
if anyone speaks in a tongue let there
be
two or at the most three each in turn
and let one of them people interpret
i didn’t hear what you and god just said
help me be edified
so interpret but we leave this out
because we have not
understood it so i’m going to help you
but if there is no interpreter
let him keep silent in church
is the bible i know you this the part
you don’t like and let him
speak to himself so you can still do it
to yourself
and to go so when i’m
in church and i begin to speak in
tongues
i’m not doing it as a filler because i
forgot what i was going to say
because you forgot the scripture you
were supposed to go to
i i just got to be honest with you it
has become
habit more than holy
it’s a habit that you have of hey
da like you just felt something and
instead of saying that felt good you say
it’s a habit that many times you picked
up from somebody else that was ignorant
of the truth
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and you’re not a bad person if this is
your habit i just want you to know what
scripture says
about it so that you can govern yourself
accordingly
i come into services and worship is
going and i speak in tongues
to myself it says you can still speak in
tongues
to yourself and to god
so when i’m in a situation and i’m
sitting over here before every service
on my knees you better believe i’m not
speaking out of my understanding
i don’t have that but i’m not getting up
here to you
and speaking in tongues why i’m going to
show it right here go to first
corinthians 14 23.
therefore if the whole church comes
together in one place like we are today
and all speak with tongues and there
come
in those who are uninformed or
unbelievers will they not say
these people lost their mind but if all
prophesy or speak in english make it
clear
and an unbeliever or an uninformed
person comes into that
service he will be convinced by all
he will be convicted by all and thus the
secrets of his
heart will be revealed and so
falling down on his face because i
didn’t speak in tongues out of habit
i made it plain what god was saying he
will worship god
and report that god is truly among you
that’s nasty bible that at some point
you’re gonna have to grapple with
i’m not coming to tell you that you’re
wrong or you’re right i’m just gonna put
the bible out here
and i’m gonna let you have to wrestle
with what you have done
for many years how you have felt about
people that don’t speak in tongues
and maybe that there is a difference
in what we do in church and what we do
in our quiet time the problem is most of
you don’t have a devotion life
outside of this time so if you can’t get
your full expression off within 90
minutes of this service
you feel like somebody’s quenching you
baby you should be praying every day
you should be going to god i don’t not
have 20 minutes
that i’m not praying i am in my car in
my
shower at the bank i am praying and
seeking god’s will
but if you leave your whole relationship
with god relocate it to an hour on
sunday mornings you will be depleted and
unhealthy and so what god is saying is
yeah yeah you should pray in tongues all
the time but when we come into this
because somebody once asked me why don’t
you be praying in tongues pastor mike
on sunday mornings it’s because i have
the uninformed
and the unbeliever at thousands
at the numbers of thousands watching the
same holy spirit
is here though and he’s given me words
of wisdom
how many of y’all have said how did he
know that it seemed like pastor mike’s
talking directly to me
that’s the same power of the holy spirit
at work touching individual situations
and we have how many people have gotten
saved this year
at tc how many oh almost 30 000 people
have gotten saved
now what now now listen
the bible’s telling us if i would have
just sat up here for two hours and spoke
in tongues
they wouldn’t have got it
all i’m telling you is that tongues is
so powerful
but it’s now in a place for us to have
the understanding
to be able to know when where and how
when we come together in a staff meeting
with our team you better believe if you
turn the camera on in there you gonna
hear robocop
all of us should have bought a honda and
couldn’t tie my bow tie you’re gonna
hear all of it
but when i come here on sunday mornings
i’m gonna make sure everything that i
have i have an interpretation for
so that it can be profitable for the
hero so the third one in that category
is the interpretation of tongues
and write this definition down it’s
understanding and expressing the thought
or the intent
of the message in tongues so i need to
clarify this there’s a difference
between
um translation and interpretation
so somebody can speak in tongues and
what the bible said is there needs to be
a a interpretation not a translation
so that’s why you can hear somebody
speak in tongues and then somebody will
say i have an
interpretation of that god says have
peace and it was like hold on that baby
he spoke in tongues for like 20 minutes
and then
and then he just said god said that
doesn’t match up it does because it’s
not a translation a translation
it’s word for word everything that’s
happening what god’s calling for is an
interpretation
so you can have a long time of speaking
in tongues and a short interpretation of
that or you can have a short inter um
speak time of speaking in tongues and a
long
interpretation of that why is that
important because
if you don’t understand this god will
speak to somebody i’ve been in tons of
prayer circles
where somebody begins to pray in the
spirit and then somebody else on the
other side of the room says god says
that everybody needs to rest
this is the season of rest and it was
like god
was speaking through that person and
picked up in the other person
and it gave all of us the ability
whether you are a believer or an
unbeliever now we can do that in front
of anybody
the scripture is very clear if you are
going to do tongues
in front of the uninformed and the
unbeliever there must be
interpretation because then
even if they didn’t get the blah blah
blah blah blah blah blah blah when
somebody says and god says there needs
to be peace
got it peace okay got that one okay
peace i got that
y’all get i’m trying to i’m trying to
take something that’s really big
and disarm it but this is the truth of
god’s word
first corinthians 14 i need everybody
to take this down because you’re gonna
have to write you’re gonna have to
wrestle with this
first corinthians 14 5. i wish
you all spoke with tongues
who wrote this somebody says paul wrote
it paul penned it
but the holy spirit wrote that
and even if you like i don’t believe
okay this
is the greatest apostle that ever walked
the face of the earth wrote one-third of
the new testament that’s one-third more
than you
so i just want us to be very clear that
this is his language and theology
i wish you all spoke with tonks
for every person that came from a
denomination that spoke against this
for every person that had a weird auntie
that just threw anointing oil on you
instead of feeding you
you know it’s like i gotta eat like the
holy spirit will fill you up like no i’m
hungry
y’all don’t know there’s some weird
stuff out here all i’m saying is forget
all of that
the greatest apostle that ever lived
said i wish you all
spoke with tongues and it says but even
more
than that that you prophesied
for he who so he’s saying he’s bringing
value to the other gifts
he’s saying for he who prophesies is
greater than he who speaks in tongues
unless
there’s an interpretation that the
church would receive what
edification it’s about building each
other up
it’s about helping people see what they
can’t see
it’s about using these gifts of the
spirit to build up your children and
build up your husband and build up your
mother
and build up your wife and build up the
people in your department
everybody say build them up and why is
it in the church that we think that for
us to get ahead
we got to tear somebody down maybe we’re
not working in the holy spirit
let me give you the last three the
dynamic gifts and this is the gifts i
like these
that word dynamic comes from the word
dunamis
and that word means power these are the
power gifts
and it actually means explosive power
like the dunamis
these are explosive gifts that will be
unlocked and released and whose gifts
are they the holy spirit
but who gets the benefit me i can walk
in the explosive power of these gifts
every day of my life the first one is
faith
this my womb it’s a supernatural
impartation of belief and confidence
for a specific situation
when pastor mike got that word
that the spirit bank event center would
be transformation church
the holy spirit imparted me the
dunamis explosion power of faith into my
life
and i walk in this this is my life story
me and the holy spirit
i mean if you ask anybody on the team
anybody around i
have the gift of faith that the holy
spirit provides to me daily
i just have supernatural belief yeah
this can happen
and god’s going to do it and he’s going
to make a way and there’s going to be
more like i have the supernatural
ability to believe
and i’m not special
you have access
to the explosive gift
of faith you don’t got to wish yourself
happy you just need to ask the holy
spirit
god i’ve been in this bad situation over
and over
holy spirit release the gift of faith on
me
let me be able to believe you like never
before
let me let me be able to stand and this
is the thing this
gift of the holy spirit and these gifts
of the holy spirit it’s just god
breathing into the situation
it’s in the new testament it’s there’s
types and shadows in the old testament
let me tell you something i found out in
the scripture you remember our father of
faith
what’s his name abraham and and his name
was not abraham first what was it
abram and what god did was
put an h in his name
and the the ancient way that you say
that is rua
and it means spirit of god or the breath
of god so what god
did was take him from a mortal man
and he put his spirit how do you say an
h
he you have to breathe out to be able
he put his spirit in abraham and now he
becomes the
father of our faith because he had the
spirit of god on the inside of him and
you know he did the same thing
to sarai
his wife’s name was sarai and he took
out the eye
that’ll preach by itself if you would
take out the eye
i don’t feel like it i don’t know what
people will think about that
i don’t want people if you take out the
eye and put in the spirit of
the god power of god would be able to
come into your life and change
everything i’m preaching up here i don’t
care what nobody’s saying
listen you can have the dynamic gift of
faith
how many people need more faith for
situations come on let’s be
if you have the holy spirit you have
access
to faith the next one is gifts of
healing
and this is a dunamis power gift
supernatural endowments
of divine health can i tell you
that there are situations that you’re
going to the doctor for
that there’s nothing wrong with the
doctor that before you go to the doctor
you could literally say holy spirit
give me the gift of healing
your son took stripes on the cross so
that i could be healed
why are you telling us this pastor might
you never can open a gift that you don’t
know you have
so many people don’t know that the gift
of and it’s plural healings
it’s not the gift of healing it’s the
gift of healing
you can believe for the gift of healing
for somebody else i remember when we
were in youth ministry
there was a young lady that we knew and
we loved that was diagnosed with cancer
and to watch these young people
who had just met the holy spirit still
crazy still probably doing all kind of
dumb stuff
but for some reason it was like the holy
spirit gave our youth ministry
the gifts of healing to watch young kids
who just had their hand on a blunt
put their hand on this young girl and
begin to believe that
god would heal her and today the cancer
that was tumors in our brain
is gone y’all don’t hear me in the
building right now
that there are gifts of healing
that god wants to release to you the
same way he wants to release faith
and even as i’m saying that some of you
are challenged in your thought process
but god ain’t scared he’s never been
intimidated by a doctor’s report
and he’s never been intimidated by what
and how long somebody has dealt with
something
ask the woman with the issue of blood
oscar was 12 years too long
but still at the moment that she reached
out and touched the hem of his garment
something that she went to every doctor
for
one touch from god changed everything
last one in the dynamic gifts the
working of miracles
divine intervention that alters
natural circumstances can i just ask you
a question
how many people in your life have
experienced a miracle
hands lifted all over the all over the
world dang that’s a lot of people
what makes you think god stopped doing
them
i just no no i know you grew up
you got bills or you you dealt with the
harsh realities of a sin
filled world and how there’s injustice
in
and wrong things and it reigns on the
just and the unjust
but god never stopped doing miracles he
did them in the old testament
he did them in the new testament you
just saw all the people around you he’s
done them in our lives
what makes you think that the holy
spirit does not want to give us the gift
of working miracles can i help you
you don’t need to wait in a line to get
one specific person to pray for you
the holy spirit is available
to you everybody say right now
like at this moment if there’s anything
ailing you in your body touch that spot
right now
come on i know i feel the presence of
god right now if anything i’m about to
prove to you and we’re going to get
testimonies
i feel the presence of god we’re going
to get testimonies
from people who the holy spirit i need
y’all to begin
to pray and believe right now holy
spirit come on ask him
holy spirit do a miracle in my life
holy spirit do a miracle some people are
holding their necks
and some people are holding their heads
and some people are touching their heart
and some people are touching their ankle
and thyroid i want you to begin to ask
the holy spirit holy spirit could you
give me the gift
of working of miracles right now father
they say
the miracles don’t happen anymore but
right now god
i’m thanking you that you’re gonna do a
miracle right now and the miracles
are gonna be a sign and a wonder for the
unbelievers father do it in us right now
yeah we’re that church that believes in
miracles
we’re that church that believes that god
can still do the impossible
if you want to go somewhere else you can
but we’re that church
that will see god still do the things
that everybody else says
is impossible and what but better gift
on mother’s day for some of you mothers
that god do a miracle that that wayward
son who’s far away from you
oh i’m talking about a miracle something
that would take divine intervention
i’m talking about a miracle come on i’m
talking about a miracle
something that would allow every
definition
that has been set up into this point to
be defied
these are the gifts of the holy spirit
let me sit down and talk to y’all
um let me just let me be real clear
the holy spirit has gifts
that he wants you to access every day
and if you’re living without the power
of the holy spirit working in your
everyday life
you are missing out on such a
powerful amazing
awesome benefit of having the holy
spirit with you
where’s the evidence pastor mike it’s
not evidence
it’s what benefits
but i did this whole thing
to tell you there is evidence
there is evidence that the holy spirit
lives in you
and it’s not speaking in tongues
do you want to know what the evidence is
that the holy spirit actually has taken
up residence and you’ve released them in
your life
it’s found in galatians galatians 5.
they’re called the fruits of the
spirit for these are the
fruit or the evidence you only get
fruit if something was actually planted
there
i’ma walk you through this you can’t get
an
apple if an apple seed was never planted
it can look like an apple tree but the
only evidence
that there was an actual apple seed put
there
is the fruit so can i tell you
that there is evidence if the holy
spirit really does live in you
and it’s the fruit of your life
and the fruits of the spirit are what
help me
love joy huh pete
that no y’all let’s read it they don’t
even get it
go to go to galatians 5 22 but the fruit
or the evidence
of the spirit that you have them is what
love
joy say it all out peace long-suffering
kindness goodness faithfulness
gentleness self-control against such
there is no law can you write this point
down if you really have the holy spirit
the proof is in your fruit
i’ve met more mean tongue-talking
christians you ain’t got no evidence
you’re selfish and mean but you can
speak in tongues
there’s no proof that you have the holy
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spirit
you can prophesy but you’re not kind to
people
ain’t this what it says you can speak
mysteries but you’re not faithful
you don’t keep your word we can’t trust
you at all
but you know what thus says the lord
there’s no fruit
stop telling me because you can shout
you got i feel the spirit no you’re
mean and because you’re mean
and you’re selfish and you do not keep
your word there’s no
evidence of the holy spirit being in you
it’s the bible
if the holy spirit is in you it should
produce fruit in your life
and if there’s no fruit don’t check the
seed check the soil
it’s tight but it’s right happy mother’s
day
let me just prove it to you with one
more scripture because
i just need you to know that it would be
better
for us to display love joy peace
long-suffering kindness goodness
faithfulness gentleness and self-control
it would be better for us to do that
that would prove the spirit actually
controls us
then dancing speaking in tongues
prophesying to everybody
all of that stuff is good but the proof
the evidence that people see in your
life
do you know who the greatest testimony
is of
or the greatest witness witnesses are if
you actually have the holy spirit
your kids and family
you can fool everybody out here
but the fact your kids don’t love god
the fact the people around you can’t
stand to be around you
they feel forced to celebrate you
there’s no fruit what i’m trying to come
and tell you is it’s time
for the fruitless church to get planted
again
and to come back to a place where you
say holy spirit feel me again
fill me up let me not just be able to
prophesy and speak in tongues and do
this
let me love people who look
nothing like me and have done me wrong
god let me be long-suffering with that
youth
or that child or that team member that
gets my last nerve you know the one
that’s back here and i only got three
nerves and they
dancing on this last nerve let me be
long suffering remember the holy spirit
comes to empower you
to do what you cannot naturally do on
your own
it is hard for me to love people i don’t
like
it is hard for me to have joy when y’all
make me mad and i’m depressed it is hard
for me to have peace when everything’s
going chaotic around me
it’s hard for me to be kind when i was
raised in a toxic household
it’s hard for me to see goodness in
others when i don’t see goodness in
myself
it’s hard for me to be faithful when i’m
suspicious of everybody
leaving me it’s hard to be gentle when
i’ve only be
been handled harsh
it’s hard for me to have self-control
when i’m used to doing whatever i feel
but the holy spirit oh i feel that thing
right now
but everybody say but the holy spirit
you can put that
in front of anything i used to do this
but the holy spirit
i can’t usually stand people like this
but the holy spirit
i usually would fall right here but the
holy spirit
you better put a but the holy spirit in
front of everything you’re going through
i would have left this marriage but the
holy spirit
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transformation church would have been
another one hit
three-year success story but
the holy spirit
somebody say but the holy spirit
and that’s why i’m just trying to get us
to understand
don’t leave eight of the nine gifts on
the table
get the benefits and have the evidence
get the benefits and have the evidence
have the nine gifts that we get because
we have the holy spirit
but then have the evidence of the fruits
of the spirit
i’ll sum it up at first corinthians 13.
there’s a lot of bible but it’s so good
i don’t even want to add no words to it
if you speak in the tongues that’s what
we just talked about
of men and angels so you got your
heavenly language together and you got
your language to people together okay
but do not have love
i am only a resounding gong
or a clapping symbol is this what we
look like to people
a church full of symbols
who when you come to your church when
you open your mouth
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just a bunch of noise
you go to your workplace well i have an
idea let’s hear your idea
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go to your family reunion because you
don’t have love and you think you’re
better than them when you walk in there
so what have you been doing johnny oh
god’s been good to me
you get on a platform in front of a
bunch of people
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god gave me a word for you today
and that’s the sound of many churches
it’s the praise and worship leader
we don’t hear his presence
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this is how your small group looks
this is how our family pictures look
a bunch of noisy believers
why because we can prophesy
we can use all the gifts but there’s no
evidence
if you don’t have love just like a noisy
symbol
and if you have the gifts of prophecy
and can and can fathom all
mysteries and all knowledge and never
have all the faith these are all the
things that we just talked about
that can move mountains but do not have
what
love evidence i am nothing
if i give all my possessions to the poor
and give over my body to hardship
that i may boast but do not have love
i gain nothing
love is patient
love is kind it does not envy
it does not boast it’s not proud it does
not dishonor others
it is not self-seeking it is not easily
angered
it keeps no records of wrongs love
does not delight in evil but rejoices
with the truth
it always protects always trust
always hopes always persevere
love never fails and that
love can only be empowered by the holy
spirit but where there are prophecies
they will cease where there are tongues
they will be stealed y’all this is the
bible
where there is knowledge it will pass
away
for we know in part and we prophesy in
part
but when completeness comes what is in
part
disappears when i was a child look at it
we’re going back to maturity
see we always quote this scripture but
we quote it out of context we don’t know
where it comes from
this is talking about us being
spiritually mature because we have
evidence
in the fruit in our lives it says for
when i was a child
um i talked like a child
i thought like a child i reason like a
child i’m an add one
i sounded like a scientist
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but when i became a man
i put childish things away
for now we see only a reflection
as in a mirror then we shall see face to
face
now i know in part then i shall know
fully
even as i am fully known and now these
three remain
my dad used to say this scripture to us
all the time
faith hope and love
but the greatest of these is love
it’s the evidence that the spirit of god
works in you
that you can love people your heavenly
language without love
is just loud
these gifts all nine of them are from
the holy spirit
and he wants you to take advantage of
every single one of them
but some of you have ignored these gifts
you know about them
and there’s nothing worse than an
ignored gift something that somebody
paid
for and it’s available but you just
ignored it and then others of you have
neglected this gift
and some of us have been products
of people who perverted these gifts
but the holy spirit is here to empower
you
in everything that is hard in your life
write that down
the holy spirit is built to empower you
in the heart whatever is hard for you
the holy spirit said let me step into
that let me help you with that
let me give you let let me give you
proof
that i’m real and today all i want you
to do
is receive the gift
of the holy spirit he’s the gift
and he comes with gifts
remember i don’t know if you’ve ever
seen those little things that open up
and then there’s another one and you
open them up there’s another one and you
open them up there’s
y’all know what i’m talking about my my
family used to travel and it’d be like
this weird looking man or woman
on this little thing and and then you
take one off and then there’s another
one and you take one off and it just
keeps building
jesus left us the holy spirit
that was the gift but when you open that
up there’s more
and you open that up there’s more and
you open that up
there’s more today
receive the gift of the holy spirit
pastor i’m like you’ve been going on
this
for four weeks now it’s because i don’t
know how you’re living
without the empowerment of holy spirit
i can’t do it i can’t be a good husband
a show can’t be a pastor i can’t be a
good son i cannot i don’t have it within
me
to be able to do what i know god’s
called
unless i have the empowerment of the
holy spirit
this is why people turn to substances
it’s because they buckle under the
weight of life
and they need something to empower them
to stay
consistent even if it’s killing them
we have many relationships that we go to
success that we go to
alcohol pills whatever it is
the holy spirit is saying could i can i
come in and give you the empowerment
that you need
and can i make it evident to people
through love joy peace patience kindness
can i make it evident that i changed you
you know one of the craziest things that
people say about me that knew me back in
the day when i was wilding
and now that know me now they say
something’s changed in you
i mean you’re the same person but like
you’ve but
something’s different about you
and all i can think in my mind is it’s
the holy spirit
like the only thing that took me from
being a liar and a manipulator and
addicted to pornography
was not that i had enough will not to
look at the website
you know how many times i failed that i
tried that
yeah it was like well since i’ve done it
let’s make it a weak binge
of being in the wrong space
and the enemy says yeah that’s the good
idea go further and further down the
hole
but when i get the empowerment of the
holy spirit
i can want to and not do it
ain’t nobody that real with you i can
literally be
in the place where i want like i’m i
want to do this and the holy spirit
will rise up on me so there’s so much
more in you
all you have to do is call somebody
right now
call him and then he’ll let somebody
call me
the person he told me to call
why are they calling me pick up the
phone hey i just gotta
they don’t call it this but they’ll say
i just had a word of wisdom
because the holy spirit that was
fighting with me in the temptation
is the same holy spirit that speaks to
them
and if they listen to the holy spirit
and say call mike right now
why would i call mike right now he was
trying i have a solution for something
that he has a problem with and i want it
to come through you
and it’s not sunday morning and it’s not
in the board meeting and it’s not but
you don’t even know
that i’m working major things out and
that obedience
to give me a word of wisdom
was the same thing that kept me from
giving in to my temptation
and those were two gifts working but it
was all the holy spirit
that’s a real story that really happened
to your pastor
and it continues to happen in different
areas of our lives
if we would receive the person
of the holy spirit today
today you can ask god to feel you
well what happens is there a ritual or a
ceremony no
how did you get saved by faith
when you get water baptized that’s 15
000 of us are going to do
in in two weeks how how does going down
signify that my old life is gone and
then coming up means that i have
new i’m a new creation by faith
how do you receive the baptism of the
holy spirit
by faith what everybody just put your
hands out like you’re
getting ready to receive a gift just
close your eyes
just black out everybody else right now
it doesn’t matter who else is there
god has a gift for you and it’s the gift
of the holy spirit
and i’m just gonna pray and if you want
if you want
the gift of the holy spirit if you want
to be able to have
access to these gifts and have evidence
in your life
i’m going to ask you in just a moment
not out loud like a trumpet to prove to
somebody
that you’re saying i want the holy
spirit i mean just in yourself
even out loud i want you to ask the holy
spirit to feel you
yeah that’s all we’re going to do we’re
going to ask the holy spirit to fill
us from the top of our heads to the
souls of our feet
and and we’re going to ask him i feel i
feel the presence of god wherever
you are whether you’re watching this
live or on rebroadcast the holy spirit
is there and he’s coming with nine gifts
and so much more that he wants to give
you and if you’re watching and you’ve
been filled with the holy spirit but you
want a you want a fresh feeling of the
holy spirit
you you want to be endowed and empowered
you want that dunamis
to come back to your life i want you to
ask him you can prophesy it said we all
can prophesy
all nine of these gifts are usable for
the edification
and the holy spirit can allow the fruits
of the spirit to be evidence to
everybody around us
today let’s pray father i thank you
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i thank you that today you would fill us
with the holy spirit from the top of our
heads
to the souls of our feet the same way
that you did in matthew
the same way you did in mark and luke
and john
in acts the same way you did with the
disciples in the upper room
the same way father god you did in
samaria in acts 8
father i’m asking you right now that you
would fill
us with your holy spirit
father god i thank you that you would
come and make yourself
real to each of us right now holy spirit
you
are welcome here in our hearts in our
minds
in our thoughts father god this is not
weird
this is not strange this is our benefit
father god
and today i thank you that you would do
what you did for the gentiles in acts 10
and in acts 19
that you would allow us to fully receive
the holy spirit
somebody say i receive fully
and completely the holy spirit
father seal this work
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for the ones that skeptic right now
father make it evident
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where’s the evidence watch how we live
after this
where’s the evidence watch how we love
after this
father let us fully receive the benefit
and the evidence of holy spirit
in jesus name
this is my prayer for you right now say
let us become the lord
of yours god’s working right now
don’t move out of this moment
come on just begin to worship him right
there say let us
let us
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we feel you god
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let us
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god’s doing the work right now for some
of you this is the first time
you’re feeling and sensing the holy
spirit in a new way
come on we’re just welcoming them in say
holy
holy spirit
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said your glory
thank you god for doing something that
none of my teaching could do
it’s your word it’s your empowerment
it’s your spirit god
do it in your children’s life right now
god we need you say
holy fill us up god
fill us up fill me again god
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all week i’m praying for you that you
would become aware say let us
become more aware of your
friend sing that again sing that again
let us speak
that’s what’s going to happen to you
today you’re going to get a word of
wisdom
a word of knowledge you’re going to
begin to speak in tongues
god’s going to give somebody
interpretation of tongue you’re going to
move in the gift of faith
you’re going to move in the gift of
miracles the holy spirit is available
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i hear so clearly the holy spirit saying
don’t
rush out of this moment
we’re going to end service but you don’t
have to end your experience
i’m gonna say that again we’re gonna in
service
but you don’t have to end your
experience
put a worship song on get in your
scripture go look back at this
the holy spirit can i give you a message
he wants to talk to you
and i know it’s easier to hear pastor
mike talk but it’s more powerful to hear
him talk
i can’t help but think there’s some
people that are in
this moment right now who are saying man
i want to experience that
but i feel like there’s a disconnect
there’s a wall all you have to do
is accept jesus he’s
the way the truth and the life
no one can get to the father except by
him and today i want to give you the
opportunity
accept jesus as your lord and savior
what better day than mother’s day
to give your life fully and completely
to god
and i’m telling you it’s the one thing
that took me from being a liar addicted
to pornography
somebody whose heart was bad had all
kinds of wrong
negative things in my heart and it
didn’t make me a perfect man but it
transformed me
into a progressing man and today i’m
telling you
that god wants to give you the gift
of jesus and guess who’s presenting this
gift the holy spirit
and when you give your life to him it
changes everything
almost 30 000 people this year that’s
nuts
to even think about have made this
commitment and today is your day
don’t turn off don’t walk away today is
the day of salvation
and i believe that everything is aligned
for you to accept jesus today on the
count of three
we’re going to pray and i believe there
are hundreds if not thousands that are
going to accept jesus
today and you’re saying i want to make
him my personal lord and savior
according to romans 10 9 you don’t have
to stop doing everything that you’ve
been doing
god says just let me come in let me get
in your heart if i get your heart i’ll
help you change your habits
and today he wants to come in one if you
want to receive jesus it’s the greatest
decision
you’ll ever make two i’m so proud of you
but more than that your name
will be written in the lamb’s book of
life your eternity
is secure three lift your hand up if you
want to
give your life to jesus there are people
all over this world
and listen listen we’re about to pray
we’re in a holy moment right now
i want to pray for you and with you and
as we pray
transformation nation already knows how
we get down everybody’s about to pray
together
for the benefit of those who are coming
to christ
can we just lift our voices and say god
thank you for sending jesus
just for me today i admit
i need you as my savior i believe you
lived
you died and you rose again
just for me i give you my life
change me renew me
transform me i’m yours
in jesus name amen can we give god
some praise right there if you just made
that decision
your eternity is secure
and now watch if you have access
to the holy spirit if you just got saved
text saved to the number on your screen
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today i want to make a commitment to
walk with you
as a church we want to walk with you
we’re going to send you some information
we want you to get baptized if you’ve
never been baptized in two weeks
we’re having flood sunday text us right
now it’s only open until midnight to
actually get t-shirts and whatever else
the team is bringing to you but and
we’re going to send it to you and we’re
going to get baptized together and
you’re going to take videos and we’re
going to see pictures and it’s going to
be thousands of people all over the
world
get baptized and receive the holy spirit
i just want to say again i said it last
week i want to say it again
it feels good to lead a church
that you don’t have to candy coat
everything for
we don’t got to dip it in corn syrup
to get you to be able to eat it
what does that mean we’re we’re getting
stronger
we’re growing and we’re anchored on the
word of god
i’m making a commitment to you every
time i stand in this pulpit
and every time anybody stands in this
pulpit we will
have gotten a word from god to help you
go and grow closer to him
i love you transformation church i
cannot wait till next week
when i get to talk to you imma give them
the title of the message now
next week’s message is called the
language of heaven
and i i’m telling you the revelation
that god’s given me
of what the benefit of speaking in
tongues is
it’s gonna some of y’all ain’t gonna
speak in english barely ever anymore
i mean paul said it y’all remember what
paul said i speak in tongues more to
everybody
i’m telling you it’s going to be so
beneficial and i’m grateful
happy mother’s day to every person
that’s out there
don’t rush out of the presence of god
let god do something in you this week
that changes you forever father bless
our church
bless this team i feel just a sovereign
unique anointing
that’s sitting and resting on people
right now god’s trying to do something
he’s trying to give you something he’s
trying to open up them gifts unwrap them
i just feel unwrap the gifts of the holy
spirit
don’t rush don’t don’t don’t don’t don’t
let him i’m trying to move i’m trying to
close servant
but god not
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to the available of the holy spirit have
your way
in jesus name amen will y’all go out
and live a transformed life let’s give
god one more shout out praise i love you
thank you so much for joining us today
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