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hey family i’m pt pastor toray roberts
i’m the lead pastor of the potter’s
house at 1la
and denver on behalf of my wife pastor
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there are some worship songs that come
right when you need them the most i love
that song so much
when it talks about god catching us
where we fall and when we fall
that speaks to me so much i’ve been
sharing on my podcast lately that i’ve
been going through this
tough season and if i’m honest one of
the things that i’ve been afraid of
is to fall and yet i felt challenged to
allow myself to
actually fall in the presence of god
to dare to not hold it all together and
allow myself to come undone
and something powerful happened when i
allowed that moment to become my truth
when i stopped resisting this need to
hold it all together and finally fell
out in the presence of god
when i tell you i had new understanding
and new clarity
on what jesus meant when he was on the
cross and he says why hast thou forsaken
me
you see when we have these moments when
we feel forsaken
we turn away from god we’re like if god
has forsaken me i’m not going to listen
to the worship music
i’m not going to hear the messages
anymore because why has thou
forsaken me but there is something
powerful that happens when we turn to
god and say this is how i feel
this is where i am and do you know what
happened not too long after that
jesus says into your hands i commit my
spirit that means that in that moment
where i felt forsaken that i have a
decision to make
and i can allow my spirit to be
committed to depression
i can allow my spirit to be committed to
my anger to my fear or to my
insecurities
or i can dare to say into your hands
father i commit my
spirit and i’m praying that as you heard
that song that there was a nudging by
the holy spirit
that would allow you to finally fall
into god’s trusting hands his
faithfulness his consistency
i’m telling you i am being revealed i am
it is being revealed to me god’s
consistency over and over in new seasons
and stages of my life and there is
something that some things that only
experience can teach you but i’m praying
that that worship song is just the
beginning of you letting it all go
and trusting that god’s got you god’s
got you and i believe that even this
word is a reflection
of how god has you in mind i was praying
and i was studying this morning and i
got my shondo i thought my holy ghost
when i was praying for this message
so i hope it blesses you the way that it
blesses me come on activate it’s been a
minute since i got to activate so i’m
excited you
activate you know how we get down okay
so acts three let’s hit it okay
i’m gonna be in acts three i’m going to
start with
verse 11. for those of you who like to
take notes
or like the title this message is called
something to prove
something to prove i said that somebody
already felt something was that you can
you type in the comments it was me
it was me i felt it i already felt it
the moment you said it
listen you know i always say this it is
not too late to invite someone to
church if you heard just the title alone
or that worship song or something i just
said a few seconds ago
started resonating with your spirit it
is not too late to tag your friends and
say hey i think you might want to make
your way
to church and send them the link we want
them to be a part of what god is doing
don’t be greedy don’t be the only one
who gets a word from god allow
those around you to be filled up to so
i’m going to be in acts 3 verse 11.
now this is after jesus has resurrected
and he’s walked around the earth and now
he has ascended to
heaven the holy spirit has fallen come
on pentecost sunday
the holy spirit has fallen and now the
disciples
are out and about in the world armed
with the holy spirit this is
a different disciple than we see in the
gospels these disciples are not just
following jesus anymore they are now
partakers of the divine nature
of who christ is through the holy spirit
and i want to study for the sake of our
time together
what happens when they have this
impartation
from the holy spirit verse 11
begins after they’ve had they’ve
performed a miracle
there was a lame man by the gate called
beautiful
and peter tells him i don’t have silver
and i don’t have gold but what i do have
i give to you in the name of jesus
rise up and walk this man is healed he
begins walking
and now he is staying close to what
healed him oh come on somebody that’s a
word when it within
itself verse 11 says now as the lame man
who was healed
held on to peter and john come on
something you got to be willing to hold
on to what brings you breakthrough
a lot of times we get breakthrough and
then we go back to the same place
that we used to be or we get
breakthrough and we start moving away
from the very thing that brought us
breakthrough but this
lame man has an understanding that many
of us could benefit from
and that is when something gives me
breakthrough i gotta stay close to what
brings me breakthrough
there are people connected to
communities for years and years and
years they’ve been going to the same
church for years and years and years
they’ve been listening to the same
preachers it’s not because they
they just love the person but it’s
because they recognize this person
brought me
breakthrough this ministry brought me
breakthrough this anointing brought me
breakthrough and i want to stay close to
what brings me breakthrough because
guess what
i’m going to need breakthrough again we
go from glory to glory to glory
and if there is a ministry that
continues to feed you and pour into you
and i believe the potter’s house at 1la
in denver is that for some of you you
want to make sure that you stay
connected to what brings you
breakthrough
but that’s not what i’m preaching about
let’s go back to this text
now as the lame man who was healed held
on to peter and john
all the people ran together to them in
the porch which is called
solomon’s temple greatly amazed they
were
so when peter saw it he responded to the
people men of israel
why do you marvel at this or why
look so intently at us as though by
our own power or godliness we had made
this man
walk the god of abraham isaac and jacob
the god of our fathers
glorified his servant jesus whom you
delivered up and denied
in the presence of pilate when he was
determined to
let him go but you denied the holy one
and the just and asked for a murderer to
be granted to you peter is calling the
roll
and killed the prince of life whom god
raised from the dead
of which we are witnesses in his name
through
faith in his name has made this man
strong whom you see and know
yes the faith which comes through him
has given him this perfect soundness
in the presence of you all
spirit of the living god we invite your
presence
to fall on us afresh not in one of those
ways that we’ve become used to or
comfortable with
but in a fresh way father i pray that
you would fall
following the hearts of every person
listening and watching right now
following the hearts of those who will
be inspired by what someone receives i
feel this prophetically that someone is
not just receiving this word for them
they’re receiving this word to pour out
to those around them and so father i
pray that you would increase their
capacity
that they would never run dry that they
would never feel like i don’t have
enough to pour out but
because of this encounter with you
father i pray that they would have
overflow where they once had a deficit
because that’s the kind of god we serve
one encounter can push you into the
overflow
and so i decree and declare an overflow
anointing for
every person watching right now father
that this word would not just be for
them but for every person connected
to them and father i pray for me
that there would be no nerves that there
would be no fear that there would be no
anxiety
that this would be an opportunity where
your spirit holy ghost
that your spirit would rise up in me
undeniably
to the extent that lives would be
changed and transformed
in jesus name amen
and amen again you know i need you to
type amen in the comments or it didn’t
happen if you don’t say amen in the
comments the prayer didn’t even happen
so i need you to put it in the comments
put it in the chat
let’s talk for a little bit family the
world
is beginning to open up again outside is
opening up
and if you live in a busy city like los
angeles then you can
feel that this city has opened up again
when we were in the pandemic and being
gangster with it and still having our
services when we were going to be
supposed to be allegedly locked down i
can’t admit to any crimes here
but we would get on the highway and we
would get to the building
so fast there was no traffic no issues
for a minute i was like look at god
let me see what la would look like if
some of the saints weren’t here
but let me tell you the saints are here
and i am learning something about myself
that i did not know
well i knew it i just prayed that it
changed during the pandemic i became so
patient with l.a traffic a car would
pull up beside me during the pandemic
and i would be like look at them god
bless
them god help them to get to where
they’re going safely
i was so full and anointed with the holy
spirit
now when i get into my car and i’m
driving beside other cars
it’s like we’re in this competition like
you trying to get to where you’re trying
to get i’m trying to get to where i’m
trying to get i don’t have time to let
you over you don’t have time to let me
over and then the worst thing
ever happens i’m sitting in my car
minding my business maybe not even rush
to go anywhere
car pulls up beside me and they’re
supposed to be driving past me like all
the other vehicles did on the highway
but what do they do they pull up right
beside me
now we’re driving at the same pace down
the highway and you know what it is
they’re trying to audition me for fast
and the furious i know this in my spirit
man
i can tell when i am in competition with
someone while i’m driving
they pull up beside me they don’t want
to make eye contact that’s how you know
it’s vin diesel they
pull up beside me they don’t want to
make eye contact i got plenty of things
to say what i can do now i got to hit
the pedal to the metal
now i got to be tyrese or somebody i
don’t know i’m just saying
the spirit of competition is coming back
to me heavily i see it when i get home
and pt’s trying to walk up the stairs
and i’m trying to walk up the stairs
now i got to walk up the stairs extra
fast there is something about this
spirit of competition child it won’t let
me go if that is your testimony
and you are competitive like i am let me
know
i knew that this was a part of my
personality because when i went to the
gym
before the pandemic you know
i would be working out beside someone
trying to mind my business you know
and i would have my 15s or 20s depending
on what was happening during that day
and here they come get in the 30s now
look at you louis armstrong
minding my business and yours trying to
compete with me have you ever
thought to yourself why does it feel
like
i am in competition with everything and
everyone
around me honestly
simple things like driving our car
working out besides someone and god
forbid
getting on social media it’s social
media
not the place where it feels like i am
constantly competing with every post
that i see
oh they just got a car but is their car
as nice as mine
oh they’re in a relationship but is it a
good relationship
oh they’re enjoying being single why
can’t i enjoy being single
some studies are proving that 10 of our
thoughts
have to do with comparison and
competition
it is no wonder that president theodore
roosevelt once said that comparison is
the thief of joy
because if we’re constantly competing
and constantly comparing
then when do we have time to reflect
enjoy and have gratitude
this spirit of competition it happens
when we’re in school
and we graduate in a certain percentage
of our classroom it happens when we
are climbing the corporate ladder and
we’re competing for one spot amongst our
other co-workers
competition is all around us it is no
wonder
that there are sayings like the only
person i am in competition with
is the person i was yesterday
and that is beautiful for a social media
quote
and sometimes it does actually work for
me
but if i’m honest it’s difficult to
compete with who i was yesterday
when i’m not even sure who i was
yesterday or who i am
today i wish i could talk to some real
people today
who didn’t mind saying that sometimes i
do live my life trying to prove
something to other people and then even
in the moments where i say it’s not
about them that i don’t even know what
i’m trying to prove to myself
i feel lost i feel confused i haven’t
even done the work to examine my life
enough
to determine how i can become better
since yesterday
and then we end up stagnant stuck
and wondering how do i show up in the
world
after all you see it takes
a certain amount of work for us to
really examine
our motivation for growth
everyone tells us these days you got to
know your why you got to know your why
you have to understand your motivation
for growth the only thing is that no one
tells us what to do when our
why is toxic what do you do when your
why is about proving someone else wrong
or proving someone else right
what do you do when your why is about
hiding your insecurity instead of
healing that insecurity
i think that there are some people who
believe it or not are going to have to
abandon their why because the truth is
that your why and god’s will may not be
able to live in the same place
your why and god’s will may not be able
to live in the same place
so if your why is in opposition with
god’s will
then you have to be willing to ask
yourself can i live in the i don’t know
why
to bask in god’s will you see there are
some of us who had to abandon the
whys of our life where we thought that i
needed to prove that i was better after
i became a teen mom i needed to prove
that i could
survive after the divorce that is my why
but then i had to abandon my wife for
god’s will because i was trying to build
something that made me feel better
about myself without consulting god and
if we’re honest a lot of us
want god’s power so that we can have our
selfish why
but god’s power is reserved for his will
and god’s not going to give you power so
that you can do what you’ve been called
to do
he’s going to give you power for what
he’s called you to do and so until you
examine your why
and boiled it down to i’m doing what god
has called me to do and sometimes
i don’t know why i don’t know why i
don’t know why but i’m doing it anyway
i don’t know why god chose me to preach
but i’m doing it anyway
i don’t know why god called me to lead
but i’m doing it anyway i don’t know why
god kept me in this city but i’m still
here
i don’t know why god put me in this
family but here i am
i don’t know why every time i try to run
from my car it keeps pulling me back
i don’t know why but i surrendered
knowing why so that i could step
into god’s will there is something
powerful fat
powerful about not minding
not having the answers
i don’t know why but i’m doing it anyway
i don’t know i feel like that’s
somebody’s word
the more that i say that because i hear
god saying i don’t know who you
are but i hear god saying that you’ve
been waiting for the why before you go
and i hear god saying that if you’re
waiting for the y you’ll never go
but if you step into the wheel it won’t
matter whether or not you have your why
because you’ll have god’s will
the safest place in the whole wide world
is
in god’s will even if i don’t know why
you chose me even if i don’t know why
you keep pulling on me even if i don’t
know why
how how am i supposed to interact with
these people what am i supposed to do
when i get there i don’t know why this
is burning down on the inside of me but
i’m gonna write the book anyway
i don’t know why this business is
something that keeps coming up to my
mind
but i’m gonna do it anyway i wish i had
a while but the truth is i want someone
to know that social media
will never tell you you don’t have to
have a why if you have god’s will
social media will let never let you know
that you don’t have to have a why
if all you have is god’s will and peter
understands this
peter understands the beauty of
abandoning your why
for god’s will when we find peter he is
a fisherman
and his why is to
fish to provide for his family and his
community that is his why
and then jesus says something crazy to
him
jesus says that if you follow me
i will make you a fisher of men
we know that peter was not the only
fisherman he doesn’t know
why jesus chose him he doesn’t know why
he should be the one who would become a
fisher
of men and yet you have to trust god’s
will over your why because god will call
you into some spaces and stages that
doesn’t even make sense
but you take your i don’t know with you
while you walk
when we find peter in the text
he has stopped protesting god’s will for
his life
i really do believe that peter has
become one of my
favorite characters in the new testament
bible and it’s not just because he was a
little gangster and would cut somebody’s
ear off
there are allegations of him even being
a little bit of a cusser i don’t know
i’m just saying
peter has become one of my favorite
people in the bible and i think it’s
because he didn’t mind getting back up
again
even when he didn’t know why if you
heard the message i preached a few weeks
ago called glory days then you know that
he ended up being
separated from jesus after he denied him
but jesus still called
him back to him and when we find him in
the text
peter has moved from someone who doesn’t
know why but is in god’s will anyway
to someone who doesn’t care why
yeah there are levels to this thing
there is i don’t know why but i’m going
to be in god’s will anyway
and then there is i don’t care why
oof i’m praying that someone gets an i
don’t care why revelation down in their
spirit
because i don’t care why is even better
than i don’t know why
because in order to say i don’t know why
but i’m going to do it anyway it means
i’m going to take my skepticism
into this next dimension but when you
get to this place where you say
i don’t care why it means that there is
nothing that can come up against me any
longer
because i am so convinced of who i am in
god
i am so convinced in what god is doing
down on the inside of me
that i don’t even care why he’s using me
i just want to make sure that i make
myself still available for how he uses
me
i don’t care why he chose me i know that
he knows i got pregnant at 13 and had a
baby at 14
and i don’t care why he keeps putting me
in this position
i don’t care why he keeps giving me this
influence i just pray that god teaches
me to use it with humility and passion
so that lives can be changed and
transformed i feel like somebody needs
to get
i don’t care why down in their spirit i
don’t care why he blessed
me and not someone else i got to stay
focused on why he gave me what he gave
me
i don’t care why he pulled me out of my
city but everyone else got stuck
because i’ve come to a place where i
just trust who god is
i don’t have time to compare myself
anymore i don’t have time to see if i
measure up to other people’s opinions
anymore
i don’t care why here i am god send me i
don’t care why wherever you tell me i’m
going to go
i don’t care why i just know that i want
to be where you’re moving i don’t care
why but i want your
glory to fall wherever i am i don’t care
why anymore
i feel like that’s somebody’s word right
here you’ve been trying to run for so
long and i hear god saying i need you to
get a i don’t care why in your spirit
because as long as you’re wrestling with
god you cannot build with god
and god is looking for somebody who
doesn’t mind building with him
god’s looking for somebody who doesn’t
mind having not having all of the
answers and still moving in the
direction that god has called them to
move in anyway
i don’t care why you chose me but here i
am peter’s gotta i don’t care why in his
spirit
and i think he got that i don’t care why
spirit
when he realized that it was all riding
on him now
jesus has ascended to heaven and when
jesus
ascends to heaven after he’s walked the
earth
the glory the power of the glory to
invade the earth
is resting on just a few people who are
willing to say
i’ll take a piece of that when you come
to the realization like peter has
that everything is riding on me that
god’s ability to move in the earth is
riding on me
then you walk a little bit differently
when you have decided to partner with
god
because if you don’t do it then the
industry will never see god’s glory
reflected in his people if you don’t do
it then god’s glory will never be
reflected in your family
everything is riding on you i’m not
trying to put pressure on you i’m trying
to put glory on you
everything is riding on you anything
that god is going to do in the earth
he’s going to do through
people everything is riding on you this
doesn’t mean that you got to find your
own resources oh no baby this doesn’t
mean that you gotta hustle up on it on
your own
this means that you got to be so
connected with god that you recognize
that i
don’t wake up and have time for
foolishness i don’t wake up and have
time for games
i don’t wake up and have time for second
guessing because god’s glory
is riding on me if god’s going to invade
the earth he’s going to do it through my
art
if god’s going to invade the earth he’s
going to do it through my marriage if
god’s going to invade the earth he’s
going to do it through how i raise these
children
if god’s going to raise the earth he’s
going to do it through this church he’s
going to do it through this community
he’s going to do it through this
business
god’s betting on me and i’m a sure thing
baby because i know how to lay down my
life
it’s riding on you god’s glory is riding
on you
god’s glory will have you doing crazy
things god’s glory will put you in some
situations that you should have never
been in
because god says i can count on you in
that room i can count on you with that
brand
i can count on you with that business i
can count on you with that child
everything is riding on you if you turn
your back on god you then turned your
back on everything
but if you turn towards god you’ll never
need anything from anyone else because
god’s gonna make sure that you are
equipped
with everything you need it’s all riding
on you
and peter’s got this realization he’s
got this revelation that this thing is
riding on me now
so i don’t have time to deny him i don’t
have time to play around
i don’t have time to pacify other
people’s thoughts and opinions and i
don’t have time to sugarcoat anything
because it’s all writing on me and when
we find peter
in the text he is about to
introduce what has been imparted
into him when i was first studying i
thought to myself
peter’s going to introduce himself to
the world around him but that minimizes
what actually happens in this moment
what happens in this moment is that
peter introduces
what has been imparted into him
did you know that when you are in
connection relationship
or building with someone that you’re not
just
introducing yourself you’re introducing
what has been imparted into you
you see that’s why relationships start
to get tricky the more vulnerable we get
because now i’m imparting some of my
childhood insecurities i’m
imparting my brokenness you get me but
you also get what has been imparted into
me
there’s self-doubt that has been
imparted into me there’s brokenness that
has been imparted into me there are
negative thoughts that have been
imparted
into me when you come into connection
with someone you don’t just receive who
they are on the surface
you receive everything that has been
imparted down on the inside of them
and now what has been imparted inside of
them is imparted inside of you
and that’s how we have generational
curses but baby peter has found out
that when the holy spirit falls that
that’s an impartation too
and when the holy spirit falls the holy
spirit has something to prove
and what the holy spirit has to prove is
that anything that has been imparted in
you that doesn’t look like god
has got a depart so that what god has
imparted in you can take root and
produce fruit
somebody needs to run that back and play
it over and over in their mind
because there have been some things that
have been departed into your life
that cannot stay in your life and the
only way to get it out of your life is
to receive an impartation of the holy
spirit
if you’re hungry for it i want you to
type hungry in the comments hungry in
the comments
because i want heaven to know that
someone’s hungry for the holy spirit
i want heaven to know that someone’s
hungry for some spirits to depart out of
them
i’ve got some impartations that need to
depart so that god’s glory can be
imparted in my life
i’ve got some brokenness that needs to
depart so god’s holy spirit can come
into my life and allow for there to be
wholeness where there was once
brokenness
wherever there is a need god says i’ve
got an impartation that can fix
that peter’s been walking with jesus
but he wasn’t just walking with jesus he
was receiving an
impartation if you walk with me i’m
going to impart something to you
if you walk with me i’m going to give
you power if you walk with me i’m going
to give you vision
if you walk with me i’m going to give
you creativity if you walk with me i’m
going to give you clarity you got to be
careful
who you walk with because whoever you’re
walking with is imparting something down
on the inside of you
do i want what you carry do i want what
you have to give
or have you done the work to cleanse
your soul in such a way
that anything that’s in you that
shouldn’t be imparted god is pulling out
of you
there’s somebody listening right now and
i want you to know that it’s time for
you to pull away so you can get pulled
up
it’s time for you to pull away so you
can get pulled up you cannot afford to
keep connection with people who have an
impartation
that causes you to be destructive when
god is trying to build you up
that’s somebody’s whole word right there
i could say the benediction
peter has walked with jesus long enough
that the holy spirit has proved
something in him
and now the holy spirit is going to
prove something through him
the holy spirit has something to prove
the holy spirit has something to prove
and so when we see peter in this text
when it begins in verse 11 he’s got the
evidence of what has been imparted into
him which is the healing of the lame man
walking beside him
but he’s not finished yet i don’t know
who you are but i hear god saying that
was just the beginning
that i am not finished yet don’t be so
caught up in what you did well
that you miss out on what god can still
do with what you have left
peter is a bad boy baby because he’s
received this impartation from the holy
spirit
and he says i’ve got something else to
say people are
gathering all around and they’re saying
how did this happen and this was the
lame man
and now he’s walking and peter says why
are you looking at me
as if i did this on my own i know the
god that i serve
and the jesus who i walked with and it
was through faith through that very
jesus that i walk with that allow this
impartation of healing to take place in
this lame man
i wish i could say it the way that i
feel it in the spirit but i hear god
saying that it is going to change the
way you communicate
the same peter who was denying jesus
just days and months ago
is now the same peter that is
challenging everyone else around him
to open up his eyes and recognize what
this is i hear god saying oh god i don’t
know who you
are but i feel like this is your word
god has been showing you things that no
one else can see but you
god has been showing you visions that no
one else understands but you
you say it and you sound crazy you speak
it to someone and you start to feel
crazy yourself
but i hear god saying you hold on to the
vision because there’s going to come a
time when you start speaking out what i
gave you
and it’s not going to sound so crazy
anymore because it’s not just going to
be what you speak
it’s going to be in the evidence of what
you do god’s getting ready to give
somebody evidence
not so that your name can be great not
so that you can look good because the
holy spirit has something to prove
and he’s going to prove it with you he’s
going to prove it through your
creativity he’s going to prove it
through your passion he’s going to prove
it through the work of your hands
the holy spirit has something to prove
in you and then through you
in you and then through you in you and
then through you
in you and then through you you want it
to go through you but i hear god saying
i can’t go through you until i get in
you
you’ve got a vision for outside of you
but i need to focus on what’s down on
the inside of you first
peter didn’t just go from being a
fisherman to becoming someone who healed
the lame man
he had to walk this thing out i need you
to understand how the holy spirit deals
with you
how the holy spirit communicates how the
holy spirit leads you and guides you
so that when i finally unleash your hand
to go out into the world
you understand how to take orders from
the holy spirit and not from men
i got some for you i got some for you i
don’t know who you are
this is the kind of message that makes
me wish we were all in the room together
because i feel like there’s an
impartation that could take place in
this room
but i hear god saying as soon as i
started studying this message
and as soon as i started seeing things
click i heard god saying i got something
for my people
i got a fresh outpouring for my people i
got fresh fire for my people i got
something to give you
the holy spirit’s got something to prove
to the world the holy spirit had
something to prove to that depression
the holy spirit had something to prove
to that insecurity the holy spirit had
something to prove to that generational
curse
i don’t have anything else to prove to
man but the holy spirit’s got some
things that it wants to do in the earth
and it’s got something to prove
something to prove
something to prove something to prove
your mother couldn’t do it but the holy
spirit can do it
your father couldn’t do it but the holy
spirit could do it the job’s never going
to get it done but the holy spirit can
do it the holy spirit says i got
something to move
god does not give us the gift of the
holy spirit so that we can stay stuck
and stagnant god gives us the gift of
the holy spirit because the holy spirit
has something to prove
and what you have to ask yourself is god
what is it that you want to prove
through
me using the holy spirit what is it that
you want to do through me
using the holy spirit i don’t want to do
it in my own strength
i don’t want to do it in my own power i
want something that heaven has to back
up behind me because this is something
that only god could do
and if you don’t believe me just watch
because i’ve been in my prayer closet
long enough peter’s got something to say
he recognizes who he is he recognizes
who he’s talking to and he walks up on
them bolder than he’s ever been
there’s a boldness coming to you there’s
a courage coming to you
and it’s going to start with the holy
spirit falling
fresh on you when i was a little girl in
church
we used to have what could only be
called tearing services
and it was for people who wanted the
holy spirit
it was for people who wanted to be
baptized with the holy spirit
it was for people who wanted fresh power
and fresh anointing
not just so that they could build a
brand not just so that they could build
a platform
but they recognize if i don’t get the
holy spirit then i’m going to have these
other spirits tormenting me
if i don’t get the holy spirit then if
this insecurity is going to eat me up
alive
if i don’t get the holy spirit then
these abandonment issues are never going
anywhere
if i don’t get the holy spirit then i’m
going to be walking around rejected when
i’ve already been accepted in a royal
priesthood
i need the holy spirit to fall on me
afresh
and i felt like god gave me one thing
and one thing only for
you activate and what god wanted
me to let you know and it is time for
you to activate
a new revelation of how you and the holy
spirit partner in the earth
that old thing don’t work no more that
old thing doesn’t have any power anymore
peter can’t just follow jesus anymore
he’s got to step into something
and when he steps into this moment he
has to step into it with the knowledge
that he’s backed by the holy spirit
he tells us in our text after he reminds
them of where this power came from
that this didn’t come from me it started
with god
this didn’t come from me it started with
jesus
and then he tells them and his name
threw faith in his name
faith in his name i believe in the name
of jesus
i believe that when i speak the name of
jesus that demons tremble
i believe that when i speak the name of
jesus that hell gets nervous
i believe that when i partner with jesus
and i walk into the earth
the darkness has to back up off of me i
believe that when i prophesy the name of
jesus over my life
that there is no sickness there is no
disease not even death itself
can take me out of here because jesus is
walking with me
and i only go from glory to glory to
glory don’t worry about me when i’m in
the grave i’m going to be somewhere up
in heaven because i believe in the name
of jesus
it is through faith in his name that
your child is going to be saved it is in
faith through his name that that
business that that idea is going to get
up off of the ground
it is it is in faith in his name
that we see change and transition and
miracles happen
yes the faith which comes through him
has given him this perfect soundness
in the presence of you all
see he first had the presence of god
so that he could understand how to
navigate the presence of men
the presence of corporations the
presence of co-workers the presence of
bosses the presence of
the criminal justice system you’re not
equipped to handle the presence of the
outworld of the
world systems until you can handle the
presence
of the ultimate authority
because when you have the presence of
the ultimate authority when you walk
into the presence of those other world
systems you recognize
what you carry and you pour out what’s
been imparted
into you from the holy spirit baby you
got a holy spirit dream
this ain’t no regular kind of dream i
don’t know who i’m talking to
but this ain’t no regular kind of dream
that’s why you can’t find anything that
looks like what god has called you to do
this ain’t no regular kind of marriage
that’s why you couldn’t have any
marriages around you to taint your idea
of what marriage was supposed to look
like
this ain’t no regular child this ain’t
no regular family
this is a holy spirit dream
and what starts with this spirit has to
end with the spirit
don’t allow your flesh to take over with
what began
in the spirit i know you’re confused but
you gotta release your why
i know you don’t know what’s gonna
happen i know it’s uncertain but you
gotta release your why
this is a holy spirit dream
this is a faith action and when you walk
this thing out you can’t turn it around
you my friend have to present your body
as a living sacrifice
holy and acceptable
this is romans 12 verse one through two
it’s not an unfamiliar text but it’s
when paul says i beseech you therefore
brethren by the mercies of god
that you present your bodies as a living
sacrifice
holy acceptable to god that is to say
god here i
am a sacrifice
i’m not trying to prove anything to
anyone else
i’m not trying to prove anything to
myself
i just want to be in your presence
anything in me father is a living
sacrifice
to you burn it away if you have to
build it up if you have to comfort it if
you have to
but everything i have is yours present
your bodies
a living sacrifice holy and acceptable
to god which is your reasonable service
but then verse 2 tells us
and do not be conformed to this world
don’t shape and shift your way into the
room
don’t shape and shift your way into the
family
but allow that living sacrifice version
of you to never be conformed
somebody you were once a living
sacrifice and you started conforming
because it didn’t fit for where you were
going
and you started conforming because you
didn’t want people to be ashamed and you
didn’t want to be embarrassed
and so you began conforming i hear god
saying present yourself again
present yourself again god’s present has
presence hasn’t gone anywhere
present yourself again then it says
be transformed by the renewing of your
mind that you may
prove that you may prove
you are evidence
what is that good and acceptable and
perfect will of god
proving to the world what is that good
and acceptable and perfect will of god
the world doesn’t always believe
that the good and acceptable and perfect
will of god
can look the way that we know it can
look
the world doesn’t always believe that
the good and acceptable and perfect will
of god
can change the way you see yourself that
the good and acceptable and perfect will
of god
can change how you identify that the
good and acceptable and perfect will of
god
can chase out your insecurities can
chase out your low self-esteem
you are supposed to be proof which means
that the holy spirit has to get in you
because the holy spirit has something to
prove
about what is the good and acceptable
and perfect will of god
if you’re in sin it’s time to come out
if your brokenness is driving the car
it’s time to put it in the backseat
the holy spirit has something to prove
and i know this isn’t everyone’s word
but i just want to talk to that one for
a minute
the holy spirit has been nudging you and
pushing you and urging you
to do crazy things
going to therapy is a crazy thing for
somebody but the holy spirit has been
nudging you to do it
the holy spirit has been nudging you to
leave the only relationship you’ve ever
known and to be alone but the holy
spirit has been
nudging you to do it and you don’t know
why
i don’t have my why you don’t need it
the holy spirit has the why
god has the why and if you don’t move
then the holy spirit doesn’t get to
prove through you
but there is somebody listening who has
made a decision
that i’m going to allow the holy spirit
to prove
what it needs to prove done on the
inside of me
i’m going to allow the holy spirit to do
the work that only the holy spirit can
do
down on the inside of me
this is where i am this is my word
and as i was studying for this word i
came to the realization
that i’m going to have to constantly
live in the place of
i don’t know why but i trust god
i don’t know why but i want to figure
out what the holy spirit is trying to
prove i don’t know why
but here i am god send me
i want to pray for somebody
who knows that there are in they are in
a season in their life
and which they need to present
themselves as a living sacrifice
for too long you’ve been doing things
your way for too long you’ve been second
guessing what god says for too long
you’ve been talking yourself out of what
the holy spirit has been trying to do
in you for too long you’ve been married
to your way
and your way only and as i was speaking
as i was praying over you
for this message i felt god say
that the holy spirit has something to
prove
but you got to let go of what you’re
trying to prove i hear god saying that
you can show up without the anxiety
that you can show up without the fear
you can show up without the second
guessing because it’s not about
proving yourself it’s about observing as
the holy spirit
proves what’s happening down on the
inside of you
be patient with yourself be kind with
yourself
because as the holy spirit is proving
it’s doing it from the place of love
not condemnation it’s doing it from the
place of understanding and
empathy not rejection and abandonment
i want to pray with you first of all i
want to pray
for those of you who have not taken the
step to accept jesus as your lord and
savior
our gateway to the holy spirit our
ability to have
god’s voice moving and talking and
leading and guiding
us is only available to us because of
jesus
who saw himself from the heavens looking
down on earth and
wrapped himself in flesh and came down
here so that we could have someone who
understands our plight
but still reaches for the divine nature
anyway
and it is through his death burial and
resurrection that we all
have the ability to be partakers again
we are reunited with god because of the
way jesus walked the earth
we are reunited with the holy spirit
because of jesus
sacrificing his life
and by faith through him are we able to
receive the holy spirit and allow it to
work in us
and then through us then i want to pray
for someone who’s got to present
themselves as a living sacrifice
that they have to lay down their
thoughts and their concerns and their
worries and their fears
so that they can come to a place where
the holy spirit can move without
limitation and restriction and barriers
the holy spirit’s got to move without
bumping into your insecurities and
getting shut down the holy spirit’s got
to move
without bumping into your fears and
getting shut down it can bump into it
but it’s got to be able to move around
it and somebody’s
blocked somebody’s flow has been blocked
because the holy spirit can’t get beyond
you so
holy spirit have your way
holy spirit have your way
god as i was preaching this message
someone realized that the holy spirit
can’t even work through them because the
holy spirit’s not finished working in
them
and if this is you i want you to bring
to mind those thoughts that come
into your mind when the holy spirit is
trying to push you
you know those thoughts those insecure
thoughts those dirty thoughts those
nasty thoughts i want you to bring them
into the presence of god because they’re
not your little secret anymore
i’m bringing you into the presence of
god because i want the holy spirit to
fall
over these voices that have been in
control of my mind for too long
father i pray that for every space where
there is a barrier where there is an
obstacle where there is a thought
that is standing in the way of your holy
spirit being able to work in us
that you would rebuke it right now in
the name of jesus i plead the blood of
jesus over that thought because when i
plead the blood of jesus over that
thought
that thought is reminded that death has
been conquered
that thought is reminded that it has
that it cannot have the victory over
what jesus has already done
i plead the blood of jesus over your
mind i plead the blood of jesus over
your actions i plead the blood of jesus
over that second guessing and that
anxiety that keeps you from moving i
plead the blood of jesus over it
because i recognize that where the power
of the blood is that
nothing can stand against it that where
the power of the blood is there is no
principality no demon nothing in hell
can stand against what god is going to
do and so i plead the blood of jesus
both over your sin
your flesh and hell because sometimes it
is our flesh god
this isn’t even something that the enemy
sent this is our own
flesh our own human nature keeping us
from partaking in what you have for us
and so father we present ourselves as a
living sacrifice
anything in us you can have we surrender
anything in us that needs to be changed
father
i pray that your holy spirit will begin
to touch it
and i want those who are watching i want
you to take note of how you
feel when the holy spirit hovers over
that thought
i want you to take note of how you feel
when the holy spirit hovers over that
heartbreak
because there are going to be moments
when the holy spirit hovers and you
begin to feel healed
and you begin to feel joy and you begin
to feel like it doesn’t matter i’m a
little bit more resilient than i think i
am you’re going to feel courage when the
holy spirit hovers and i want you to
cling to what happens when the holy
spirit hovers
like the lame man who stayed with peter
and john cling to the holy spirit as it
hovers over your brokenness
i thank you god right now that the holy
spirit is moving all over the world
that the holy spirit is receiving
breakthrough all over the world
that is happening in africa it’s
happening in germany it’s happening in
australia it’s happening in arkansas
it’s happening in
happening in new york it’s happening in
atlanta holy spirit
flow holy spirit go holy spirit
break out everywhere and holy spirit as
you break out
allow it to be first intimate
intimacy
and then lead us into the path that is
ahead of
us father for those of them who
are watching and making the decision to
receive jesus
as a lord and savior father
i pray god that they would recognize
that through salvation
that they have a chance for all sins to
be washed away
and for them to walk in a newness a new
identity a new way of being that can
only come from you
father i thank you that this word is
just the beginning
just as it was just the beginning for
peter
that this word this message is going to
take root
and produce fruit and as it does so
may we remember to stay out of the way
so that the holy spirit can continue to
prove
what is that good and acceptable and
perfect will of god
in jesus name i pray amen
amen amen amen seal this word amen
amen amen amen i don’t know if you’re
like me
i’m kind of a church girl so i just have
to throw it out there and say it anyway
there are some words that shake us to
our core
there are some words where we say you
know what god this was for me i cannot
deny it you read my mail
and there is something about sowing a
seed in that environment
because that seed says this is the spot
where i want for roots to be taken
and for fruit to be produced and so if
this is your word
i want to at least extend the
opportunity for you to connect your seed
with your need this is by no way
obligatory it doesn’t mean that the word
didn’t hit your core if you don’t do it
but there are some people
who said this is my word and i want to
give you an opportunity to sow into it
family we love you we thank you for
walking things out with us like
the lame man with peter and john the
potter’s house that want to lay in
denver we cherish the opportunity to
serve what god is doing in your life
and we count it an honor to do life with
you we’ll see you next time
you