1 00:00:08,840 --> 00:00:11,760 Hi and welcome to the Via Zion Sermon podcast. 2 00:00:12,120 --> 00:00:14,840 We are a local church based here in Chennai, India. 3 00:00:15,280 --> 00:00:18,040 We are so glad you are with us and hope that this will 4 00:00:18,040 --> 00:00:21,600 encourage, inspire and instill fresh faith in you. 5 00:00:22,480 --> 00:00:24,920 We are in the season of Pentecost and are awaiting the 6 00:00:24,920 --> 00:00:28,720 reign of God's revival on us. Today we look at how revival 7 00:00:28,720 --> 00:00:32,640 begins with each one of us, just as it did with the Samaritan 8 00:00:32,640 --> 00:00:36,280 woman at the well, whose encounter with Jesus changed not 9 00:00:36,280 --> 00:00:38,480 just her life, but an entire village. 10 00:00:39,080 --> 00:00:41,680 How ready are you for the Holy Spirit to meet with you 11 00:00:41,680 --> 00:00:45,040 personally and revive you from the inside out? 12 00:00:46,240 --> 00:00:48,200 Hi church. It's such a joy and a privilege 13 00:00:48,200 --> 00:00:49,960 to be bringing God's Word to you today. 14 00:00:50,520 --> 00:00:53,880 Even as we are preparing ourselves for Pentecost Sunday, 15 00:00:54,160 --> 00:00:58,120 I believe God is stirring up the Church to be prepared. 16 00:00:58,200 --> 00:01:00,960 God is asking us. Be expectant. 17 00:01:00,960 --> 00:01:05,280 God is asking us that we'd be ready for His outpouring 2000 18 00:01:05,280 --> 00:01:08,360 years back. His outpouring came on the upper 19 00:01:08,360 --> 00:01:12,080 room for the 120 odd people who are waiting, I believe, as we 20 00:01:12,080 --> 00:01:14,600 wait a week from now to celebrate that day. 21 00:01:15,160 --> 00:01:18,560 The reason we celebrate is a reminder that we are in 22 00:01:18,560 --> 00:01:21,120 desperate need of the Holy Spirit today more than ever 23 00:01:21,120 --> 00:01:25,960 before, and I love how the last two Sundays has set me up to 24 00:01:25,960 --> 00:01:28,320 speak today. I know we didn't stream our 25 00:01:28,320 --> 00:01:31,320 online service and we had a guest speaker here, but Jeremy 26 00:01:31,320 --> 00:01:34,720 spoke on the recipes of revival and he spoke to experiences. 27 00:01:34,720 --> 00:01:36,880 Revival. We need to have certain things 28 00:01:36,880 --> 00:01:38,640 in place. One is to be extremely 29 00:01:38,880 --> 00:01:42,440 committed, to be extremely generous, and to be extremely 30 00:01:42,440 --> 00:01:46,200 sacrificial. And even last week, as Tina 31 00:01:46,200 --> 00:01:50,200 spoke about revival in families, she centered around this whole 32 00:01:50,200 --> 00:01:52,760 thing that we need to praise and to pray. 33 00:01:53,320 --> 00:01:57,080 We also saw that the river of God that she spoke about is 34 00:01:57,080 --> 00:02:01,400 where God resides and he wants us to flourish. 35 00:02:01,800 --> 00:02:04,680 And many at times it's us who's moving away from the river of 36 00:02:04,680 --> 00:02:05,720 God. It's not the river that 37 00:02:05,720 --> 00:02:09,199 disappears, but it's rather us which get so caught up with 38 00:02:09,199 --> 00:02:10,440 everything that's happening around that. 39 00:02:10,440 --> 00:02:13,040 We miss being around his presence. 40 00:02:13,040 --> 00:02:18,400 We miss being in his presence. And today, as we continue on, I 41 00:02:18,600 --> 00:02:24,760 have titled my sermon as Revival Starts with me, Revival Starts 42 00:02:24,760 --> 00:02:26,920 with me. And I want you to repeat that. 43 00:02:27,080 --> 00:02:29,200 Even wherever you're seated or wherever you're listening or 44 00:02:29,200 --> 00:02:31,360 wherever you're watching, would you repeat this? 45 00:02:31,360 --> 00:02:34,440 Revival starts with me. If you can just touch yourself 46 00:02:34,760 --> 00:02:39,280 and say it starts with me. You know, many times we've seen 47 00:02:39,280 --> 00:02:42,360 and heard different outpourings happen. 48 00:02:42,960 --> 00:02:46,400 The last we heard was it entered into a university campus and 49 00:02:46,400 --> 00:02:49,840 they started experiencing the revival that got birthed out 50 00:02:49,840 --> 00:02:51,640 there. When a lot of them started 51 00:02:51,640 --> 00:02:56,360 coming in and just started experiencing Jesus, experiencing 52 00:02:56,360 --> 00:02:59,800 His Holy Spirit, experiencing His presence, they were 53 00:02:59,800 --> 00:03:02,440 convicted of their sin. They returned back to the cross, 54 00:03:02,720 --> 00:03:06,880 They exchanged their sin, their shame, and they received His 55 00:03:06,880 --> 00:03:10,280 grace and His life. We've heard from the Azusa St. 56 00:03:10,280 --> 00:03:14,200 We've heard different expressions happen, but many at 57 00:03:14,200 --> 00:03:17,720 times we are content knowing of these expressions, but we'd 58 00:03:17,720 --> 00:03:21,680 rather are safe for many at times hoping that you know it 59 00:03:21,680 --> 00:03:23,320 doesn't. It shouldn't start with me, but 60 00:03:23,320 --> 00:03:27,400 the Holy Spirit today is saying revival starts with you and with 61 00:03:27,400 --> 00:03:29,480 me. Revival starts with me. 62 00:03:29,480 --> 00:03:32,600 And so today, even as we dwell a little deeper, I want God to 63 00:03:32,600 --> 00:03:36,720 really bring His word, enlighten His words, so that it'll not 64 00:03:36,720 --> 00:03:39,640 just remain like an enlightenment moment, but rather 65 00:03:39,640 --> 00:03:43,400 be a seed that falls in that this will become one of those 66 00:03:43,640 --> 00:03:47,000 milestones or those one of those markings that we have to say 67 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:51,800 definitely it's after this that I have been intentional with 68 00:03:51,800 --> 00:03:53,800 what the Holy Spirit is asking me to say. 69 00:03:53,800 --> 00:03:58,840 And do you know when we think about revival, starting with me, 70 00:03:58,840 --> 00:04:02,760 there's a bit of us that we are scared about. 71 00:04:02,760 --> 00:04:06,200 You know, we we suddenly are so conscious of a lot of the 72 00:04:06,200 --> 00:04:08,600 defects that we all have. If I have to ask you, do you 73 00:04:08,600 --> 00:04:12,480 feel whole as a person, You know, you would say, you know 74 00:04:12,480 --> 00:04:17,519 what, I've I I don't feel WHOLD. But I feel a lot. 75 00:04:17,959 --> 00:04:22,520 I have a lot of HOLES. We feel we have a lot of holes 76 00:04:22,520 --> 00:04:26,000 in US, and every time it's a shortcomings, it's the things 77 00:04:26,000 --> 00:04:29,120 that we think we need perfection, we think we need, 78 00:04:29,560 --> 00:04:32,280 needs to look right, that we think, You know what, if this is 79 00:04:32,280 --> 00:04:36,200 not right, I don't think God can do any work in me, but I want to 80 00:04:36,200 --> 00:04:40,400 remind you that when God created us, He created us whole. 81 00:04:41,240 --> 00:04:46,440 When he thought of you and me in our mother's womb, when he knit 82 00:04:46,440 --> 00:04:48,320 us together, he thought of us whole. 83 00:04:48,320 --> 00:04:49,280 He didn't think. You know what? 84 00:04:49,520 --> 00:04:53,080 I leave Geshom with a defect, or I leave Geshom with this gaping 85 00:04:53,080 --> 00:04:55,960 hole in his in his life or in his physical form? 86 00:04:55,960 --> 00:04:58,400 No. In who he was as God when he 87 00:04:58,400 --> 00:05:04,040 created me, He created whole. But the problem is the condition 88 00:05:04,040 --> 00:05:07,800 I'm born into. This world has sin in it. 89 00:05:08,320 --> 00:05:11,800 So everything, that's what we are born into sin, we when we 90 00:05:11,800 --> 00:05:18,200 are born, we are born with so many things that don't work 91 00:05:18,200 --> 00:05:21,760 right for us. We find our upbringing, our 92 00:05:21,760 --> 00:05:27,000 challenges, our hardships, our struggles, the way we look, our 93 00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:31,000 colour, you know, everything adds up and we feel we're not 94 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:34,880 whole. But today God's saying, even if 95 00:05:34,880 --> 00:05:39,400 you feel you're not whole, revival still starts with me. 96 00:05:40,320 --> 00:05:45,040 Revival still starts with you. So today what is my emphasis to 97 00:05:45,040 --> 00:05:48,640 say that you don't have to discount yourself thinking 98 00:05:48,640 --> 00:05:53,640 you're not whole our end. In fact there was a message 99 00:05:53,640 --> 00:05:58,480 which I just preached 2-3 weeks back and it was on the lines of 100 00:05:58,480 --> 00:06:02,160 our we are exiled citizens. And in the conclusion I had 101 00:06:02,160 --> 00:06:05,720 taken this passage from Haggai chapter 3 verse nine and in the 102 00:06:05,720 --> 00:06:08,400 message it says this we who are his temple today. 103 00:06:08,600 --> 00:06:12,880 It says this temple is going to end up far better then it 104 00:06:12,880 --> 00:06:15,600 started out. A glorious beginning, but an 105 00:06:15,600 --> 00:06:19,520 even more glorious finish. A place in which I will hand out 106 00:06:19,520 --> 00:06:24,960 wholeness and holiness is the decree of the God of the Angel 107 00:06:24,960 --> 00:06:28,920 armies. When we allow Jesus to come into 108 00:06:28,920 --> 00:06:32,560 our lives, when we allow His Holy Spirit to work in and 109 00:06:32,560 --> 00:06:37,480 through us, His residency is in our hearts, We become His temple 110 00:06:37,800 --> 00:06:41,880 and in turn, the characteristics of God start coming into us. 111 00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:45,640 We become whole and we become holy. 112 00:06:46,120 --> 00:06:49,600 Because wherever the Lord is there, His Holiness is. 113 00:06:50,520 --> 00:06:52,720 And so today, for a lot of us who are in the corporate world, 114 00:06:52,720 --> 00:06:55,680 for those of us who have gone through leadership courses and 115 00:06:55,680 --> 00:06:57,880 all that, we probably have come across this word called 116 00:06:57,880 --> 00:07:01,320 Enneagram. I completely agree with the 117 00:07:01,320 --> 00:07:03,800 Enneagram test. It's kind of demarcates us. 118 00:07:03,800 --> 00:07:07,000 It shows us how what we have character are, what we have 119 00:07:07,000 --> 00:07:10,400 built up about what we can do, what we cannot do. 120 00:07:10,800 --> 00:07:13,120 And it has a very clear distinctive in terms of our 121 00:07:13,120 --> 00:07:16,400 personality traits. And I want us to come to a place 122 00:07:16,400 --> 00:07:19,440 to realize that even though we do all this, this helps us so 123 00:07:19,440 --> 00:07:22,680 that when we're in a team, we realize that each N gram number 124 00:07:22,680 --> 00:07:27,520 someone is different, you know? And so me expecting something of 125 00:07:27,520 --> 00:07:31,640 someone to do it this way may not be right because they they 126 00:07:31,640 --> 00:07:37,160 aren't wired that way, but often times even allow that to be 127 00:07:37,160 --> 00:07:41,760 dictating what the Holy Spirit can do in and through us and God 128 00:07:41,760 --> 00:07:44,120 is saying today. Irrespective of what your 129 00:07:44,120 --> 00:07:48,720 enneagram you know personality traits are, there are totally 9 130 00:07:48,720 --> 00:07:50,800 personality traits. Whatever those nine personality 131 00:07:50,800 --> 00:07:55,520 traits are for each and every personality trait revival is for 132 00:07:55,520 --> 00:07:58,440 each and every one of you. So don't discount that. 133 00:07:59,200 --> 00:08:02,720 So the after effects of sin have really left us helpless. 134 00:08:02,720 --> 00:08:07,200 When we see God move and want revival, we do discount, we fall 135 00:08:07,200 --> 00:08:11,840 short, we cancel ourselves. But every time the Spirit of God 136 00:08:11,840 --> 00:08:14,680 came upon someone, the more we read the Bible, the more you 137 00:08:14,680 --> 00:08:18,480 start meditating, the more you see his story intertwined with 138 00:08:18,480 --> 00:08:21,960 each other. How he built an entire nation 139 00:08:22,000 --> 00:08:25,520 Israel, and how he led them on. And how in their disobedience. 140 00:08:25,520 --> 00:08:29,040 How they went into exile and captivity and how he brought 141 00:08:29,040 --> 00:08:31,520 about the remnant out and how he established them. 142 00:08:31,960 --> 00:08:36,080 And through that we see Jesus coming into this world so that 143 00:08:36,080 --> 00:08:39,120 we all can be saved because his redemption was just not for a 144 00:08:39,120 --> 00:08:41,159 nation but was for entirety of mankind. 145 00:08:41,799 --> 00:08:46,040 We see at the end of it the revival that the Holy Spirit 146 00:08:46,040 --> 00:08:49,640 brings is 1 where you and me are very much involved. 147 00:08:49,960 --> 00:08:52,000 The story does not continue without us. 148 00:08:52,480 --> 00:08:55,720 We find it easier to say, You know what, I think it's just for 149 00:08:55,720 --> 00:08:57,440 this particular group of people, you know. 150 00:08:57,440 --> 00:09:00,680 It could be either for the apostles or for the prophets, or 151 00:09:00,680 --> 00:09:04,280 for the evangelists, or for the teachers or for the pastors. 152 00:09:04,280 --> 00:09:06,560 It's for them. Because we've come up with all 153 00:09:06,560 --> 00:09:07,920 these roles and we think, you know what? 154 00:09:07,920 --> 00:09:10,600 If that person fits that role, this is only for them. 155 00:09:10,600 --> 00:09:13,760 The word revival is for no revival is for everyone, because 156 00:09:13,920 --> 00:09:16,640 you and me today are the hands and feet of Jesus. 157 00:09:16,760 --> 00:09:19,680 I can't enter the spaces where God has ordained you to enter, 158 00:09:19,960 --> 00:09:23,240 and you eventually become a carrier of his revival into that 159 00:09:23,240 --> 00:09:25,000 very space. But today? 160 00:09:25,000 --> 00:09:28,520 Are you willing to deceive it? Are you willing to receive it? 161 00:09:29,800 --> 00:09:33,760 Because today I want us to come to a place to realize when we 162 00:09:33,760 --> 00:09:37,480 are talking about revival, we are seeing Holy Spirit. 163 00:09:38,080 --> 00:09:41,720 You can take residency here. You can make this your home. 164 00:09:41,960 --> 00:09:46,280 This is your house. This is your place of holiness. 165 00:09:46,760 --> 00:09:50,160 Use me as you see fit. Maybe all this while you've 166 00:09:50,160 --> 00:09:53,000 accepted Jesus into your heart and you've not allowed the Holy 167 00:09:53,000 --> 00:09:55,120 Spirit to move. Or you've said you know what, 168 00:09:55,120 --> 00:09:56,600 God, I don't want the Holy Spirit. 169 00:09:56,600 --> 00:09:58,160 I don't know what background they're coming from. 170 00:09:58,440 --> 00:10:00,920 Probably, you know, we have so many backgrounds from 171 00:10:00,920 --> 00:10:04,880 Presbyterians, Baptists, Pentecostals, non 172 00:10:04,880 --> 00:10:10,480 denominational, whatever it is. We believe in God the Father, we 173 00:10:10,480 --> 00:10:14,320 believe in God the Son that is Jesus Christ, and we believe in 174 00:10:14,320 --> 00:10:17,920 God the Holy Spirit. And so today you need the Holy 175 00:10:17,920 --> 00:10:22,200 Spirit, He needs to move in and through that Spirit is what 176 00:10:22,200 --> 00:10:25,560 breeds life. And even as I was meditating and 177 00:10:25,560 --> 00:10:28,600 I was thinking, God, if that revival has to start in me, 178 00:10:28,800 --> 00:10:31,800 where do you want me to, you know, really look into your 179 00:10:31,800 --> 00:10:34,840 scriptures to really learn and see this from? 180 00:10:35,040 --> 00:10:39,080 And he led me to this book in John, Chapter 4A story, which we 181 00:10:39,360 --> 00:10:42,040 most of us have probably heard of Jesus meeting the Samaritan 182 00:10:42,040 --> 00:10:44,160 moment. And so as part of our story 183 00:10:44,160 --> 00:10:47,000 today, we're going to see how revival starts with each and 184 00:10:47,000 --> 00:10:49,640 every one of us included, not excluded. 185 00:10:50,120 --> 00:10:54,080 So the first thing I want us to make a note is when revival has 186 00:10:54,080 --> 00:10:57,280 to start with you and me involved in the mix. 187 00:10:57,640 --> 00:11:00,560 Revival first meets us in our mundane. 188 00:11:01,720 --> 00:11:05,000 Revival first meets us in our mundane. 189 00:11:05,000 --> 00:11:07,560 So what is that revival meeting us in our mundane? 190 00:11:08,240 --> 00:11:11,160 You might think, OK, you know what Revival will happen when we 191 00:11:11,160 --> 00:11:13,360 have a specific three day prayer. 192 00:11:13,560 --> 00:11:16,520 The Spirit of God will move. Yes, He will move. 193 00:11:17,120 --> 00:11:22,040 But us experiencing this revival, us saying that revival 194 00:11:22,200 --> 00:11:25,960 starts with me means I need to take it into my Monday, into my 195 00:11:25,960 --> 00:11:30,080 Tuesday, into my Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and 196 00:11:30,080 --> 00:11:33,080 Sunday. It doesn't start on a Sunday and 197 00:11:33,080 --> 00:11:35,600 ends on a Sunday. It starts on a Sunday and 198 00:11:35,600 --> 00:11:38,880 continues on all the way to Monday, Tuesday, all the way 199 00:11:38,880 --> 00:11:42,800 through to Saturday. And I want us to read today from 200 00:11:42,800 --> 00:11:46,480 John Chapter 4, to see what this is reading from John Four. 201 00:11:46,480 --> 00:11:49,440 And this is what it says. He had to go through Samaria on 202 00:11:49,440 --> 00:11:51,080 the way. Eventually he came to the 203 00:11:51,080 --> 00:11:54,920 Samaritan village of Sikkur, near the field that Jacob gave 204 00:11:55,040 --> 00:11:57,880 to his son Joseph. Jacob's well was there, and 205 00:11:57,880 --> 00:12:01,520 Jesus, tired from the long walk, sat wearily beside the well. 206 00:12:01,720 --> 00:12:06,080 About noon time, soon as Samaritan came to draw water and 207 00:12:06,080 --> 00:12:08,040 Jesus said to her, please give me a drink. 208 00:12:08,600 --> 00:12:11,240 He was alone at that time because his disciples had gone 209 00:12:11,240 --> 00:12:12,760 into the village to buy some food. 210 00:12:13,120 --> 00:12:16,560 The woman was surprised, for Jews refused to have anything to 211 00:12:16,560 --> 00:12:19,560 do with Samaritans. She said to Jesus, you are a Jew 212 00:12:19,560 --> 00:12:23,000 and I am a Samaritan woman. Why are you asking me for a 213 00:12:23,000 --> 00:12:25,120 drink? Verse 10 Jesus replied, If you 214 00:12:25,120 --> 00:12:29,600 only knew the gift God has for you and who you are speaking to. 215 00:12:29,920 --> 00:12:33,400 You would ask me and I would give you living water. 216 00:12:34,800 --> 00:12:38,360 You know, when we read the context here, we see that Judea 217 00:12:38,360 --> 00:12:41,080 and Galilee, and right in between that is Samaria. 218 00:12:41,600 --> 00:12:46,160 And we see as Jesus is leaving Judea and heading into Galilee, 219 00:12:46,160 --> 00:12:49,360 he has to go through Samaria. So it just lies here. 220 00:12:49,360 --> 00:12:52,320 And so from Judea is going all the way to some Samaria, and 221 00:12:52,320 --> 00:12:54,520 through Samaria he gets into Galilee. 222 00:12:55,120 --> 00:12:57,880 And here is where Jesus encounters A Samaritan woman. 223 00:12:58,480 --> 00:13:02,520 The enmity that we see happen time and again between the Jews 224 00:13:02,520 --> 00:13:05,320 and the Samaritan. Samaritans were considered 2nd 225 00:13:05,320 --> 00:13:08,040 grade citizens. They was count looked down upon. 226 00:13:08,600 --> 00:13:14,520 They believed in the God of Abraham and Jacob, but they had 227 00:13:14,520 --> 00:13:15,800 no other place to go and worship. 228 00:13:15,800 --> 00:13:18,320 So they had a place of worship within Samaria itself. 229 00:13:18,320 --> 00:13:21,200 And we see this long standing feud that existed. 230 00:13:21,360 --> 00:13:25,360 And so it was considered a taboo to actually talk to a Samaritan 231 00:13:25,360 --> 00:13:27,360 person. But here is Jesus as he's 232 00:13:27,360 --> 00:13:29,880 walking. He's tired, he's seated there. 233 00:13:30,200 --> 00:13:34,240 But what we see happen is a simatan woman is coming at noon 234 00:13:34,480 --> 00:13:38,400 to come and take water. And it's in that same place. 235 00:13:38,560 --> 00:13:41,720 He needs her. You know, we, when we think 236 00:13:41,720 --> 00:13:45,160 about it, is just an ordinary scene where she's coming to take 237 00:13:45,160 --> 00:13:46,480 water. But it's one of habit. 238 00:13:46,480 --> 00:13:48,760 It's one of discipline. When we. 239 00:13:48,920 --> 00:13:52,520 For those of you who are having a regular rhythm in life, you'll 240 00:13:52,520 --> 00:13:55,760 realize at this particular point in the morning you're doing 241 00:13:55,760 --> 00:13:58,160 certain things, you know, probably from 6:30. 242 00:13:58,160 --> 00:14:01,400 You're making coffee 644. You're putting the laundry in 243 00:14:01,480 --> 00:14:03,200 seven o'clock. You're doing a quiet time. 244 00:14:03,560 --> 00:14:05,600 These could be some of the things in which you have certain 245 00:14:05,600 --> 00:14:07,480 things in order. And probably this is where the 246 00:14:07,480 --> 00:14:10,320 Samaritan woman had this place where she had to go and take 247 00:14:10,320 --> 00:14:13,720 water for the rest of the day for her to use in the house. 248 00:14:14,520 --> 00:14:20,440 And it's in this special time she meets with Jesus. 249 00:14:21,040 --> 00:14:24,320 And it's interesting. As you know, Tina has been 250 00:14:24,320 --> 00:14:27,800 mentioning in her previous sermon about the Holy Spirit 251 00:14:28,000 --> 00:14:31,400 being to one of the river of God, the living water. 252 00:14:31,800 --> 00:14:36,400 It's beautiful how this is tying into that where Jesus is asking 253 00:14:36,560 --> 00:14:39,120 this woman, could you give me water to drink? 254 00:14:40,880 --> 00:14:46,720 And it got me thinking, what does it look like if I had to 255 00:14:46,720 --> 00:14:50,280 take this living water into my everyday life. 256 00:14:51,600 --> 00:14:55,600 You know, we we pray about it. We say God be with me today, 257 00:14:55,600 --> 00:14:59,160 even as I go to work. But are we specifically praying 258 00:14:59,160 --> 00:15:00,560 for everything that we are doing? 259 00:15:01,360 --> 00:15:04,440 Are we are we expecting God to show up? 260 00:15:05,400 --> 00:15:09,880 Because if God has to show up, we need to be open for certain 261 00:15:09,880 --> 00:15:15,640 disruptions to happen. The Samaritan woman made sure 262 00:15:15,640 --> 00:15:17,960 that this was her everyday thing. 263 00:15:18,360 --> 00:15:23,840 Her mundane was being disrupted. And I believe God wants us to 264 00:15:24,920 --> 00:15:27,320 to. And I believe God wants to 265 00:15:27,320 --> 00:15:32,680 disrupt our mundane a bit so that freshness can come in, so 266 00:15:32,680 --> 00:15:34,800 that there'll be a bit of newness that come in. 267 00:15:34,800 --> 00:15:36,360 There'll be life that's getting breathed. 268 00:15:36,360 --> 00:15:40,760 And his wind starts blowing and it gives as this breeze of 269 00:15:40,760 --> 00:15:44,360 comfort knowing he's in control. His living water comes in so 270 00:15:44,360 --> 00:15:48,000 that it wipes away everything that is weary and dry and 271 00:15:48,200 --> 00:15:53,760 encourages that parch and dry land to experience freshness. 272 00:15:53,760 --> 00:15:56,680 And you know, a sense of completion. 273 00:15:58,840 --> 00:16:01,720 For revival to rebirth. We need to be open for our 274 00:16:01,720 --> 00:16:04,920 mundanes to be disrupted. Mundanes are good. 275 00:16:05,560 --> 00:16:09,160 Mundanes Bring discipline. It helps us stay in focus so we 276 00:16:09,160 --> 00:16:11,000 can accomplish all that we set out to do. 277 00:16:11,680 --> 00:16:16,120 But may it also have room for revival. 278 00:16:16,680 --> 00:16:19,280 May it also have room to be disrupted so that the Holy 279 00:16:19,280 --> 00:16:22,720 Spirit can move and change certain things. 280 00:16:23,720 --> 00:16:26,440 Let's continue on reading John chapter 4, verses 10 to 14. 281 00:16:26,680 --> 00:16:29,840 The previous few verses that she read were from NLT, but I've 282 00:16:29,840 --> 00:16:34,480 taken this John 410 to 14 from the message version and this is 283 00:16:34,480 --> 00:16:36,600 what it says. Verse 10, this is what it says. 284 00:16:36,600 --> 00:16:38,640 Jesus answered. If you knew the generosity of 285 00:16:38,640 --> 00:16:43,080 God and who I am, you would be asking me for a drink and I 286 00:16:43,080 --> 00:16:47,920 would give you fresh living water, the woman said. 287 00:16:47,920 --> 00:16:50,480 Sir, you don't even have a bucket to draw with. 288 00:16:50,800 --> 00:16:56,280 And this well is deep. So how are you going to get this 289 00:16:56,280 --> 00:16:58,760 living water? Are you a better man than our 290 00:16:58,760 --> 00:17:01,520 ancestor Jacob, who ducked as well and drank from it? 291 00:17:01,520 --> 00:17:04,079 He and his sons and livestock and passed it down to us? 292 00:17:04,560 --> 00:17:07,640 Jesus said everyone who drinks this water will get thirsty 293 00:17:07,640 --> 00:17:09,839 again. Anyone who drinks the water I 294 00:17:09,839 --> 00:17:12,079 give will never thirst. Not ever. 295 00:17:12,480 --> 00:17:16,760 The water I give will be an artisan spring within gushing 296 00:17:16,760 --> 00:17:20,839 fountains of endless life. It's interesting that when we 297 00:17:20,839 --> 00:17:28,400 read this, Jesus is asking his human form was one which 298 00:17:28,400 --> 00:17:32,120 probably desired, was tired, was worn out, was probably tired and 299 00:17:32,120 --> 00:17:37,080 wanting to have physical water. But when he saw this woman, I 300 00:17:37,120 --> 00:17:39,400 believe he was moved with compassion. 301 00:17:39,400 --> 00:17:41,800 He wanted to touch up. He wanted something in her life 302 00:17:41,800 --> 00:17:44,360 to change. And he says I would give you 303 00:17:44,360 --> 00:17:49,440 fresh living water. And many a times this revival, 304 00:17:49,440 --> 00:17:54,160 this disruption that happens, God will do it in such way where 305 00:17:54,160 --> 00:17:57,520 our logic is questioned. The Samantha's woman logic was 306 00:17:57,520 --> 00:17:59,600 right. She said, hey, you don't have 307 00:17:59,600 --> 00:18:01,640 anything here. I'm the only person who can 308 00:18:01,640 --> 00:18:03,360 actually take and give you this water. 309 00:18:04,320 --> 00:18:06,360 And what are you saying? You'll give me fresh living 310 00:18:06,360 --> 00:18:08,560 water. I don't see a bucket in your 311 00:18:08,560 --> 00:18:09,720 hand. I don't see anything where you 312 00:18:09,720 --> 00:18:14,600 can draw water out from. And Jesus goes on to say this 313 00:18:14,600 --> 00:18:18,800 profound thing, and I believe this is the truth where we will 314 00:18:18,800 --> 00:18:22,880 need Jesus in our life, he says. Yet everyone who drinks his 315 00:18:22,880 --> 00:18:26,720 water will get thirsty again. If we are running after physical 316 00:18:26,720 --> 00:18:34,000 things, we acquire it, we get it, and then we feel we don't 317 00:18:34,000 --> 00:18:36,560 have enough of it's OK. Is this what I pursue? 318 00:18:36,560 --> 00:18:39,480 I think I need to pursue more. But Jesus saying, anyone who 319 00:18:39,480 --> 00:18:43,280 drinks the water, I give the water that Jesus gives. 320 00:18:43,280 --> 00:18:46,040 The revival that Jesus gives will never thirst. 321 00:18:46,520 --> 00:18:49,920 Not ever. The water I give will be an 322 00:18:49,920 --> 00:18:54,320 artisan spring within gushing fountains of endless life. 323 00:18:54,520 --> 00:18:57,440 If you're taking notes, if you want to make a note on artisan 324 00:18:57,440 --> 00:19:02,000 spring within gushing fountains of endless life, what does that 325 00:19:02,000 --> 00:19:04,520 look like? Revival that the Holy Spirit 326 00:19:04,520 --> 00:19:07,960 wants us to participate in is fresh and it's living. 327 00:19:08,600 --> 00:19:11,120 It's fresh and it's living. What is fresh and living? 328 00:19:11,240 --> 00:19:15,200 Which means every time you ask the Holy Spirit to come into 329 00:19:15,200 --> 00:19:18,520 that situation, every time you ask God, come into my mundane, 330 00:19:18,520 --> 00:19:21,480 come into my this He will bring a fresh anointing. 331 00:19:21,760 --> 00:19:24,320 He will bring a living anointing. 332 00:19:24,680 --> 00:19:27,440 He won't allow you to operate out of yesterday's anointing. 333 00:19:28,440 --> 00:19:32,200 I love that a lot of us have been carrying and breezing 334 00:19:32,200 --> 00:19:38,400 through life, carrying old water, carrying recycled, 335 00:19:38,400 --> 00:19:41,480 repurposed. But God saying no, I want to 336 00:19:41,480 --> 00:19:43,480 give you fresh and living every day. 337 00:19:44,040 --> 00:19:46,960 What does that look like for those of us who are parents? 338 00:19:47,680 --> 00:19:50,800 That's something we need every day of fresh and living water. 339 00:19:51,160 --> 00:19:52,560 The Holy Spirit is saying I can do that. 340 00:19:52,560 --> 00:19:55,120 For those of us who are married and are struggling in our 341 00:19:55,120 --> 00:19:57,760 marriages, he's saying I can give you that fresh and living 342 00:19:57,760 --> 00:20:00,520 water. Would you ask me, Don't look to 343 00:20:00,520 --> 00:20:02,720 your spouse, Ask me. Start praying about it. 344 00:20:02,720 --> 00:20:06,200 Ask for everything what however small it may be. 345 00:20:06,640 --> 00:20:09,120 If there are struggles, ask him. If there are communication 346 00:20:09,120 --> 00:20:11,400 problems, ask him. If there are struggles and 347 00:20:11,640 --> 00:20:14,360 getting along, ask he will find a way. 348 00:20:14,360 --> 00:20:19,400 He will can mend broken hearts, he can put broken hearts 349 00:20:19,400 --> 00:20:23,160 together, he can do everything. And the reason why I asked you 350 00:20:23,160 --> 00:20:26,440 to underline this word. Artisan Spring and I was just 351 00:20:26,440 --> 00:20:29,480 reading up on this. It's basically where this 352 00:20:29,480 --> 00:20:37,520 waterbed is locked in between 2 sections of ground level of dirt 353 00:20:37,520 --> 00:20:42,160 water and so usually what happens is this is where usually 354 00:20:42,160 --> 00:20:45,480 the water is not coming onto the surface at all, so it's right 355 00:20:45,480 --> 00:20:52,520 below in the deep. OK, so the reason why I talked 356 00:20:52,520 --> 00:20:55,320 about these artisan springs is it's a waterbed which is present 357 00:20:55,320 --> 00:20:58,640 between 2 confining beds. So these two layers can be 358 00:20:58,640 --> 00:21:01,080 different. In most cases it's a it's a 359 00:21:01,080 --> 00:21:03,680 layer where it doesn't allow the water to go. 360 00:21:03,680 --> 00:21:06,440 So eventually what happens as a pressure that gets formed 361 00:21:06,640 --> 00:21:09,560 between these two layers and the waters present there. 362 00:21:09,960 --> 00:21:13,680 And so when you stick an entire pipe which goes right down, it 363 00:21:13,880 --> 00:21:16,920 causes, it crosses through this confining bed. 364 00:21:16,920 --> 00:21:21,720 It could be clay, it could be a material, it could be a compound 365 00:21:21,720 --> 00:21:24,600 on of the earth which doesn't allow water to go through. 366 00:21:24,600 --> 00:21:27,520 And when you go through that and when you tap into that spring, 367 00:21:27,760 --> 00:21:29,920 you don't even need a water pump for the water to come out. 368 00:21:29,920 --> 00:21:32,720 It just starts gushing out. And that's what it says here. 369 00:21:32,960 --> 00:21:35,360 Gushing fountains of endless life. 370 00:21:36,560 --> 00:21:41,800 And God's asking today, whatever your confining beds are, would 371 00:21:41,800 --> 00:21:47,640 you push through so that you can put your pipe straight into my 372 00:21:47,640 --> 00:21:52,200 living water so that it can gush fountains of endless life? 373 00:21:53,320 --> 00:21:57,480 And this is what we all need. A lot of times our mundane has 374 00:21:57,480 --> 00:22:02,040 just gone by every day after every day, week after week, 375 00:22:02,040 --> 00:22:09,960 month after month, because because of us being in a place 376 00:22:09,960 --> 00:22:12,720 of running after EMI is making payments. 377 00:22:13,080 --> 00:22:16,080 You know what, I'm in this dead end job and I just have to do 378 00:22:16,080 --> 00:22:18,040 this because I have things to do. 379 00:22:19,080 --> 00:22:22,920 You need revival right now because there is something more 380 00:22:22,920 --> 00:22:26,640 that the Holy Spirit wants to do, something more in terms of 381 00:22:26,640 --> 00:22:30,680 the gushing fountains of endless life that he wants to pour into 382 00:22:30,680 --> 00:22:33,600 your life, into your specific life, into every area of your 383 00:22:33,600 --> 00:22:35,720 life. You can't discount that. 384 00:22:36,440 --> 00:22:38,760 You know, if I have to talk about a science experiment with 385 00:22:38,760 --> 00:22:42,160 this coming out of VBS, you can see it right over here behind. 386 00:22:42,360 --> 00:22:45,240 And if I have to take, you have these Tetrapack juices. 387 00:22:45,640 --> 00:22:48,240 And if you hold it tightly, there's a pressure that's 388 00:22:48,240 --> 00:22:50,480 formed. And what happens when I poke it 389 00:22:50,480 --> 00:22:53,160 with a straw? Juice just keeps coming out. 390 00:22:53,160 --> 00:22:55,640 I don't know how to do anything because the pressure causes the 391 00:22:55,640 --> 00:22:59,080 juice to come. And I believe sometimes in our 392 00:22:59,080 --> 00:23:03,720 most crushing of these confining beds that we are, it could be 393 00:23:03,720 --> 00:23:06,880 work, It could be relationships. It could be the pressure of 394 00:23:07,320 --> 00:23:10,040 being a child. It could be the pressure of, you 395 00:23:10,040 --> 00:23:13,200 know, walking through some of the trauma that you've gone 396 00:23:13,200 --> 00:23:16,200 through. It could be everything he's 397 00:23:16,200 --> 00:23:19,080 saying, The pressure of that. Would you dig your pipe deeper 398 00:23:19,080 --> 00:23:23,040 in so that my living water will start working in and through? 399 00:23:23,040 --> 00:23:26,320 It'll refresh you. It'll become your artisan 400 00:23:26,320 --> 00:23:30,560 spring. The clear representation for us 401 00:23:30,760 --> 00:23:36,160 today is are we willing to stick our pipes further in so that he 402 00:23:36,320 --> 00:23:41,240 will become our only source? Are you in a dry and parchy 403 00:23:41,240 --> 00:23:43,240 land? He is the water that you need. 404 00:23:43,560 --> 00:23:46,600 Are you struggling with thirst and you feel you're choking? 405 00:23:46,720 --> 00:23:50,520 He is the water that you need. Revival has to start with you 406 00:23:50,520 --> 00:23:53,480 and me. And so in our mundanes, when our 407 00:23:53,480 --> 00:23:58,200 mundanes get disrupted, we soon realize there's more to what God 408 00:23:58,200 --> 00:24:01,480 has placed me here for. It starts gushing out. 409 00:24:01,480 --> 00:24:04,560 It starts giving us this curiosity. 410 00:24:04,560 --> 00:24:06,880 God, what is it? And we start diving deeper into 411 00:24:06,880 --> 00:24:09,440 His word. We start spending those moments 412 00:24:09,440 --> 00:24:13,800 of being quiet around him. We tune our ears to His words. 413 00:24:14,040 --> 00:24:17,560 Not to the frequency of everything that culture is not 414 00:24:17,560 --> 00:24:20,520 dominating and to what social media and influencers are 415 00:24:20,520 --> 00:24:24,400 saying, but rather we tune it to what the Holy Spirit is saying. 416 00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:34,080 So as we heard, when we move towards this place and say God, 417 00:24:35,280 --> 00:24:37,960 and so today, even as I close the first point, I want to ask 418 00:24:37,960 --> 00:24:44,240 you in this revival, would you dig deep, put that pipe straight 419 00:24:44,240 --> 00:24:47,320 into that artisan spring so that his life would come out, his 420 00:24:47,320 --> 00:24:50,560 living life, The water that never runs dry, the living water 421 00:24:50,560 --> 00:24:53,040 would come into each and every one of our lives. 422 00:24:53,760 --> 00:24:58,560 The second thing that we see is Revival confronts our deepest, 423 00:24:58,560 --> 00:25:03,680 darkest secrets. Every day it it has to do it. 424 00:25:03,680 --> 00:25:07,680 It it confronts our deepest and our darkest secrets. 425 00:25:08,360 --> 00:25:11,280 To access this artisan spring, it has to go through some hard 426 00:25:11,640 --> 00:25:14,120 peeling and digging. And a lot of times it's 427 00:25:14,120 --> 00:25:17,680 confronting the emptiness and the lack that our lives have. 428 00:25:18,560 --> 00:25:22,880 You know, in the last few months I've been walking through some 429 00:25:23,040 --> 00:25:27,720 my own personal journey and I've realized I've had layers and 430 00:25:27,720 --> 00:25:30,840 layers of areas where I've just masked it, thinking, you know 431 00:25:30,840 --> 00:25:33,720 what, It won't come up. It won't come to the surface. 432 00:25:34,280 --> 00:25:38,560 But over time, I've realized the Holy Spirit causing me to nudge 433 00:25:38,560 --> 00:25:41,560 that space. And as I've been putting my pipe 434 00:25:41,560 --> 00:25:45,640 deep in, it's those pipes that aren't defining me. 435 00:25:45,640 --> 00:25:49,480 It's that it's the joy of his word that causes me to go deeper 436 00:25:49,480 --> 00:25:53,400 in always so that I'll enjoy what comes out of him. 437 00:25:54,560 --> 00:25:57,600 It says here in John four was 15 to 20 and let's go on to read it 438 00:25:57,600 --> 00:26:00,640 says please Sir, the woman said, give me this water then I'll 439 00:26:00,640 --> 00:26:03,840 never be thirsty again and I won't have to come here to get 440 00:26:03,840 --> 00:26:06,360 water. Go and get your husband. 441 00:26:06,360 --> 00:26:10,120 Jesus told her I don't have a husband, the woman replied. 442 00:26:10,800 --> 00:26:13,520 Jesus said you're right, you don't have a husband, for you 443 00:26:13,680 --> 00:26:16,720 have had five husbands and you aren't even married to the man 444 00:26:16,720 --> 00:26:19,400 you're living with now. You certainly spoke the truth. 445 00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:22,000 So the woman said you must be a prophet. 446 00:26:22,400 --> 00:26:25,240 So tell me, why is that You Jews insist that Jerusalem is the 447 00:26:25,240 --> 00:26:28,520 only place of worship while we Samaritans claim it here in the 448 00:26:28,520 --> 00:26:31,920 mount of Gethism where our ancestors worshipped. 449 00:26:32,320 --> 00:26:37,400 We can see here the minute Jesus talks of this life giving thing, 450 00:26:38,280 --> 00:26:41,400 she's ready to accept it. There's a void in each and every 451 00:26:41,400 --> 00:26:43,360 one of our lives which only the Holy Spirit can fill. 452 00:26:43,680 --> 00:26:46,520 There's a sense of purpose and direction that only the Holy 453 00:26:46,520 --> 00:26:50,080 Spirit will cause us to have contentment in. 454 00:26:50,800 --> 00:26:54,160 Yes, things may not change, but because he's present, we'll have 455 00:26:54,160 --> 00:26:56,520 contentment. We will start seeing things his 456 00:26:56,520 --> 00:27:01,120 way. And here She asks Jesus, give me 457 00:27:01,120 --> 00:27:03,520 this water so that I won't be thirsty again, thinking that I 458 00:27:03,520 --> 00:27:04,840 may not have to come back to the well. 459 00:27:06,240 --> 00:27:10,720 But she goes on to and Jesus goes on to say conference by 460 00:27:10,720 --> 00:27:17,000 asking her where's your husband? And even as she answers saying I 461 00:27:17,000 --> 00:27:21,520 don't have a husband, she Jesus goes on to tell her history in 462 00:27:21,520 --> 00:27:25,560 just a verse. And that's what many a times we 463 00:27:26,480 --> 00:27:29,920 are unable to participate in the revivals because we have a story 464 00:27:29,920 --> 00:27:33,320 cooked up. We have a story that we've time 465 00:27:33,320 --> 00:27:35,720 and again told ourselves and made it the truth. 466 00:27:36,840 --> 00:27:39,560 But Jesus saying, hey, when you come to me, I know everything. 467 00:27:40,200 --> 00:27:42,080 I know everything. I know your intentions. 468 00:27:42,080 --> 00:27:46,560 I know how the story came about. I want you to admit the real 469 00:27:46,560 --> 00:27:49,360 truth. And we can see here that when 470 00:27:49,360 --> 00:27:55,840 Jesus points that out, she puts a guard on and says you are a 471 00:27:55,840 --> 00:27:59,400 prophet. What does this look like? 472 00:27:59,880 --> 00:28:03,720 We can pass off by saying our version of the story, but the 473 00:28:03,720 --> 00:28:06,640 Holy Spirit knows us inside out. It is there. 474 00:28:06,640 --> 00:28:09,160 He wants us to be real to ourselves. 475 00:28:09,600 --> 00:28:14,000 We need to come to our place and say admit this is my wrongdoing. 476 00:28:14,160 --> 00:28:18,600 This is something that I'm God, I've, I've been struggling with. 477 00:28:18,880 --> 00:28:21,600 I've covered it up. I've probably fabricated a good 478 00:28:21,600 --> 00:28:25,480 story so that I'll be acceptable by people outside or I'll be 479 00:28:25,760 --> 00:28:28,040 it'll be OK for people to know who I am. 480 00:28:29,040 --> 00:28:33,080 But Jesus is saying and the Holy Spirit is saying today, if 481 00:28:33,080 --> 00:28:36,040 revival has to be birthed in you, we need to come to terms 482 00:28:36,040 --> 00:28:38,920 with the story and with the sins that you're dealing with. 483 00:28:39,720 --> 00:28:43,320 Not an embellished version, not something that looks well. 484 00:28:43,320 --> 00:28:46,000 Because today we're living in a world of filters. 485 00:28:46,560 --> 00:28:53,160 Filters look good, but sin is sin and we need to come to the 486 00:28:53,160 --> 00:28:56,600 Father and say God, I'm sorry, I need your forgiveness. 487 00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:03,520 Jesus does not need any convincing of our story. 488 00:29:05,480 --> 00:29:08,880 He knows all of me, even my intentions, in which I'm telling 489 00:29:08,880 --> 00:29:11,040 the story. And I love how the Samaritan 490 00:29:11,040 --> 00:29:15,920 woman did not try to justify what Jesus said. 491 00:29:17,360 --> 00:29:19,720 Oh, God, I'm lonely. That's why I've been, you know, 492 00:29:19,720 --> 00:29:21,720 switching partners. Oh, you know what? 493 00:29:21,920 --> 00:29:23,360 I don't know if this guy's committed. 494 00:29:23,360 --> 00:29:25,320 He's probably just here for a fling. 495 00:29:25,560 --> 00:29:28,680 He didn't. She didn't elaborate. 496 00:29:29,360 --> 00:29:31,520 She came to terms with This is my life. 497 00:29:32,160 --> 00:29:36,760 This is where I'm rock bottom. And that's where Jesus met with 498 00:29:36,760 --> 00:29:42,600 her, started giving her the truth, and said you can 499 00:29:42,600 --> 00:29:48,680 experience this living water. She deflects it by saying why do 500 00:29:48,680 --> 00:29:51,000 you insist that we come to Jerusalem and we see? 501 00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:53,760 In the next few verses? Jesus addresses that. 502 00:29:54,400 --> 00:29:58,320 But the truth is, today, are we willing to allow the Holy Spirit 503 00:29:58,320 --> 00:30:03,040 to revive us so that he can take everything of us? 504 00:30:03,040 --> 00:30:06,680 When he wants to use us and shape us and mold us, he wants 505 00:30:06,680 --> 00:30:11,120 to take everything. And we sometimes are scared to 506 00:30:11,120 --> 00:30:16,960 show our sin, our brokenness, our emptiness to the Creator 507 00:30:16,960 --> 00:30:20,680 himself, you know Genesis chapter one verse 2 says the 508 00:30:20,680 --> 00:30:24,400 earth was formless and empty and darkness covered the deep waters 509 00:30:24,400 --> 00:30:27,440 and the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the 510 00:30:27,440 --> 00:30:31,640 water. The Spirit of God was in holding 511 00:30:31,640 --> 00:30:35,080 over the earth, which was formless and empty and dark. 512 00:30:36,040 --> 00:30:39,520 There's no amount of darkness that will scare him away. 513 00:30:40,280 --> 00:30:46,280 If he can shape and bring life into the earth, he can do that 514 00:30:46,280 --> 00:30:49,800 same into you. So quit trying to cover up and 515 00:30:49,800 --> 00:30:53,400 tell God or put it in good words to explain to God. 516 00:30:53,400 --> 00:30:56,280 Go out there and just say God. This is who I am. 517 00:30:57,160 --> 00:30:59,640 These are my intentions. This is what I think. 518 00:30:59,880 --> 00:31:03,960 My, my, these are things that I've struggled with. 519 00:31:03,960 --> 00:31:08,640 These are my my closeted issues lot, which no one else knows. 520 00:31:08,640 --> 00:31:11,800 But I'm willing to open it up because I want revival to come 521 00:31:11,800 --> 00:31:13,840 in. I want revival to come in. 522 00:31:15,040 --> 00:31:21,480 The Holy Spirit is I love what it says in the message version. 523 00:31:21,480 --> 00:31:24,840 In fact, it says he's owe everything that is formless, 524 00:31:24,840 --> 00:31:28,400 empty and dark. Earth was a soup of nothingness, 525 00:31:28,600 --> 00:31:32,600 A bottomless emptiness, an inky blackness. 526 00:31:33,960 --> 00:31:36,760 Today, if you have to describe sin, it would come under the any 527 00:31:36,760 --> 00:31:39,160 of this category. You might feel like it's 528 00:31:39,160 --> 00:31:41,280 nothing. You might feel the sin that 529 00:31:41,280 --> 00:31:44,120 you're in. You are struggling to break the 530 00:31:44,120 --> 00:31:47,440 cycle of guilt. You give up, you feel guilty, 531 00:31:47,440 --> 00:31:49,480 and then you go back to it. You feel guilty again. 532 00:31:49,480 --> 00:31:53,560 You go back to it and it's just seems like a bottomless fit and 533 00:31:53,560 --> 00:31:57,640 you just feel that part of your heart is just marked with 534 00:31:57,640 --> 00:31:59,280 blackness. But God saying, I want to touch 535 00:31:59,280 --> 00:32:04,480 that very part and revive it. The Holy Spirit is never afraid 536 00:32:04,640 --> 00:32:09,200 to handle our mess, be it whatever shape, whatever size, 537 00:32:09,440 --> 00:32:14,520 however cracked it is when we allow the Holy Spirit to come, 538 00:32:14,520 --> 00:32:17,280 and even when we're looking at the Holy Spirit, this time as a 539 00:32:17,280 --> 00:32:22,000 river of God, as living water. Water can take up any shape, it 540 00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:25,760 can come into any crack, it can come in and flood that space. 541 00:32:25,760 --> 00:32:32,360 But would you give room if an iceberg could break a section of 542 00:32:32,360 --> 00:32:35,480 the ship on the board of the Titanic and cause the entire 543 00:32:35,480 --> 00:32:38,080 ship to sink? I believe water can come in. 544 00:32:38,560 --> 00:32:41,880 Give him, give him room so that he'll be able to enter and give 545 00:32:41,880 --> 00:32:45,160 him room so that he'll be able to come in and shape you and 546 00:32:45,160 --> 00:32:47,920 break you. Break that pattern of sin. 547 00:32:48,160 --> 00:32:53,640 Break the clutches of what Satan is having over you, John 421 548 00:32:53,840 --> 00:32:56,600 goes on to say in message. And So what? 549 00:32:56,600 --> 00:32:59,320 It says the response. Believe me, woman, the time is 550 00:32:59,320 --> 00:33:01,720 coming when the Samaritans will worship the Father. 551 00:33:01,920 --> 00:33:04,360 Neither here at this mountain nor there in Jerusalem. 552 00:33:04,360 --> 00:33:06,520 You worship guessing in the dark. 553 00:33:06,560 --> 00:33:08,760 We Jews worship in the clear light of day. 554 00:33:08,760 --> 00:33:12,480 God's way of salvation is made available through the Jews. 555 00:33:13,000 --> 00:33:16,720 But the time is coming. It has, in fact come when when 556 00:33:16,720 --> 00:33:19,520 what you're called will not matter, and where you go to 557 00:33:19,520 --> 00:33:23,080 worship will not matter. It's who you are and the way you 558 00:33:23,080 --> 00:33:26,440 live that count before God. Your worship must engage your 559 00:33:26,440 --> 00:33:29,200 spirit in the pursuit of truth. That's the kind of people the 560 00:33:29,200 --> 00:33:32,120 Father's looking out for those who are simply and honestly 561 00:33:32,120 --> 00:33:35,160 themselves before him in their worship, God is sure being 562 00:33:35,160 --> 00:33:38,880 itself spirit. Those who worship Him must do it 563 00:33:39,040 --> 00:33:43,520 out of their very being, their spirits, their true selves in 564 00:33:43,520 --> 00:33:46,680 adoration, the woman said. I don't know about that. 565 00:33:46,880 --> 00:33:48,760 I do know that the Messiah is coming. 566 00:33:48,760 --> 00:33:53,000 When he arrives, we'll get the whole story and Jesus response. 567 00:33:53,000 --> 00:33:55,120 I love it. He says I am, he said. 568 00:33:55,120 --> 00:33:59,200 Jesus, you don't have to wait any longer or look any further. 569 00:33:59,560 --> 00:34:02,920 The very question what the Samaritan woman posed was to 570 00:34:02,960 --> 00:34:04,560 come into the technicality of it. 571 00:34:04,560 --> 00:34:07,240 Saying you say that we're to come to Jerusalem, but we are 572 00:34:07,240 --> 00:34:10,360 worshipping here, But Jesus goes to the important issue. 573 00:34:10,360 --> 00:34:17,560 Saying no, when you worship the way you live counts before God. 574 00:34:17,800 --> 00:34:22,480 Our worship must engage in pursuit of truth. 575 00:34:24,199 --> 00:34:25,840 God is looking for those kind of people. 576 00:34:25,840 --> 00:34:31,000 And so today when you and I are in this walk moving towards 577 00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:36,760 worshipping God for asking for his revival, may he invade every 578 00:34:36,760 --> 00:34:40,719 area of our lives. May there be no area that is not 579 00:34:41,000 --> 00:34:45,199 where he's not able to convict us about or we are so sensitive 580 00:34:45,199 --> 00:34:47,480 that we don't allow God to push the buttons. 581 00:34:48,280 --> 00:34:50,880 God should have a free reign over us where he's able to push 582 00:34:50,880 --> 00:34:53,960 us whereas he's able to say, you know what if you're stuck up in 583 00:34:53,960 --> 00:34:55,600 this, this is the very area I'm going to push you. 584 00:34:55,600 --> 00:34:58,440 I'm going to train you in this so that you allow me to be 585 00:34:58,440 --> 00:35:01,840 controlling of allow me to be in control. 586 00:35:01,840 --> 00:35:03,360 I don't want you to be in control. 587 00:35:04,000 --> 00:35:08,720 So today what happened When the Somatin woman heard this, she 588 00:35:08,720 --> 00:35:12,240 could put two and two together and realized they said of a 589 00:35:12,240 --> 00:35:15,720 Messiah who's coming, who will, who will set right, who will be 590 00:35:15,720 --> 00:35:19,840 able to worship. And Jesus says I am that person, 591 00:35:20,560 --> 00:35:23,200 I am that person. And so today church, I want us 592 00:35:23,200 --> 00:35:29,000 to ask us personally, each and everyone of us asking ourselves, 593 00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:33,480 God, would you come into those areas where I have left undealt 594 00:35:33,480 --> 00:35:35,320 with? I've I've probably brushed 595 00:35:35,320 --> 00:35:36,920 through it thinking you know what is allowed. 596 00:35:36,920 --> 00:35:38,880 It's OK. It's permissible. 597 00:35:39,560 --> 00:35:41,200 But God, is it permissible to you? 598 00:35:41,320 --> 00:35:42,840 Would you convict me? Would you show me? 599 00:35:42,840 --> 00:35:46,040 I pray God There are areas in my life which I've hidden away from 600 00:35:46,040 --> 00:35:47,720 you. I've failed to confess it, 601 00:35:47,760 --> 00:35:50,160 thinking that if I confess it I might be the worst Sinner. 602 00:35:50,400 --> 00:35:52,440 But God saying nothing would scare me. 603 00:35:52,440 --> 00:35:54,200 Would you come? Would you allow my living water 604 00:35:54,200 --> 00:35:58,160 to flow through? For those of you who are really 605 00:35:58,160 --> 00:36:02,720 struggling to give up sin patterns, I would request you. 606 00:36:02,720 --> 00:36:05,880 Would your hearts cry be for revival, To come and let the 607 00:36:05,880 --> 00:36:09,480 living water flow through you? Let him go. 608 00:36:09,480 --> 00:36:11,400 Go to him. Go to the source every day. 609 00:36:11,680 --> 00:36:14,200 Dig deeper your trenches so that you go in. 610 00:36:14,480 --> 00:36:17,760 Don't let the markings of your trenches cause you to not dig 611 00:36:17,760 --> 00:36:20,120 deeper. Dig deeper so that when the pipe 612 00:36:20,320 --> 00:36:23,400 hits the living water, you'll experience life, you'll 613 00:36:23,400 --> 00:36:25,720 experience liberation. You'll experience truth. 614 00:36:26,360 --> 00:36:29,200 So as we've seen two things. First, the revival. 615 00:36:29,200 --> 00:36:32,720 As it starts with us, it meets us in our mundane. 616 00:36:33,120 --> 00:36:36,440 The second thing when it meets us in our mundane it deals with 617 00:36:36,440 --> 00:36:41,320 our deepest, darkest secrets so that God can do his work in and 618 00:36:41,320 --> 00:36:44,440 through us, so that we can have living water. 619 00:36:44,720 --> 00:36:47,240 And the third thing is this revival experience that we've 620 00:36:47,240 --> 00:36:50,560 had moves others towards transformation. 621 00:36:51,000 --> 00:36:53,840 John chapter 4, verse 39 to 42, goes on to say many of the 622 00:36:53,840 --> 00:36:57,160 Samaritans from that village committed themselves to him 623 00:36:57,160 --> 00:37:00,920 because of the woman's witness. He knew all about the things I 624 00:37:00,920 --> 00:37:03,880 did. He knows me inside and out. 625 00:37:03,880 --> 00:37:08,360 They asked him to stay on. So Jesus stayed two days. 626 00:37:08,360 --> 00:37:10,800 A lot more people entrusted their lives to him. 627 00:37:11,080 --> 00:37:14,760 When they heard that, what he had to say, they said to the 628 00:37:14,760 --> 00:37:18,400 woman, we are no longer taking this on your say so. 629 00:37:18,400 --> 00:37:21,520 We've heard it for ourselves and know it for sure. 630 00:37:21,760 --> 00:37:26,480 He's the saviour of the world. The revival starts in me. 631 00:37:27,040 --> 00:37:30,920 When it meets with me, when it deals with all my the deepest, 632 00:37:30,920 --> 00:37:35,160 darkest areas of my life. I'm unable to contain it. 633 00:37:35,160 --> 00:37:38,040 Why? Because I start understanding 634 00:37:38,040 --> 00:37:42,120 that I can live in freedom. Jesus gave her the living water 635 00:37:42,120 --> 00:37:45,840 and when she experienced it, she in fact left her thing there. 636 00:37:45,840 --> 00:37:49,680 And she goes into the village to go and tell group of people who 637 00:37:49,680 --> 00:37:52,120 probably knew her and the way she was living. 638 00:37:52,120 --> 00:37:54,480 There's a man here who knows me inside out. 639 00:37:54,480 --> 00:37:58,480 She probably didn't have a very good reputation, but in spite of 640 00:37:58,480 --> 00:38:00,480 that, she went. And when she went as a man who 641 00:38:00,480 --> 00:38:03,320 knows everything I've done come and meet this man. 642 00:38:03,320 --> 00:38:05,760 They took her at a word because if someone had to know 643 00:38:05,760 --> 00:38:09,000 everything that she's done, it definitely had to be someone 644 00:38:09,800 --> 00:38:12,320 like God. So they came and they found out 645 00:38:12,320 --> 00:38:18,040 it was God. The personal story of the 646 00:38:18,040 --> 00:38:24,000 Samaritan woman caused a stir in her itself, she realized. 647 00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:27,920 This is my story. The living water that is coming 648 00:38:28,040 --> 00:38:31,440 has is starting to work in me is my story. 649 00:38:31,440 --> 00:38:34,720 And many times we think when we have to share, we always are 650 00:38:34,720 --> 00:38:39,080 wanting a story to share. Share from your own life, share 651 00:38:39,080 --> 00:38:43,280 of what God's done. Even if it sounds small, it's 652 00:38:43,280 --> 00:38:45,920 OK. God is not looking at the 653 00:38:45,920 --> 00:38:49,680 quantity of our story. He's just looking at the fact 654 00:38:49,680 --> 00:38:52,320 whether he's present in that story. 655 00:38:52,560 --> 00:38:55,800 Because if he's present in that story, the same living water 656 00:38:55,800 --> 00:38:57,960 that worked in you will start working in others. 657 00:38:58,520 --> 00:39:00,120 Too. Many times you're thinking, you 658 00:39:00,120 --> 00:39:01,840 know what? I need to have a perfect story. 659 00:39:02,040 --> 00:39:04,080 I need to have a good intro and a good outer. 660 00:39:04,080 --> 00:39:08,760 I need to have a hook. If you have the Holy Spirit and 661 00:39:08,760 --> 00:39:11,160 if he's intertwined in your testimony, that's more than 662 00:39:11,160 --> 00:39:13,280 enough. We see when the living water 663 00:39:13,280 --> 00:39:17,400 came into the life of the Samaritan woman, it transformed 664 00:39:17,400 --> 00:39:21,280 her, It changed her. And she went about telling what 665 00:39:21,280 --> 00:39:25,520 God had done in her life. And I'm asking you today, if 666 00:39:25,520 --> 00:39:29,280 revival has to start spreading from us, It has to start with 667 00:39:29,280 --> 00:39:31,560 us. It has to start with you and me. 668 00:39:32,320 --> 00:39:36,040 It has to start with us telling about our encounter with the 669 00:39:36,040 --> 00:39:37,640 Holy Spirit. So what is God telling you 670 00:39:37,640 --> 00:39:40,960 today, two days from now? What has God been speaking to 671 00:39:40,960 --> 00:39:42,640 you? What has He been doing in and 672 00:39:42,640 --> 00:39:44,440 through you? What is He revealing you? 673 00:39:44,440 --> 00:39:46,760 What are some of the dreams and the visions that He's given to 674 00:39:46,760 --> 00:39:48,800 you? What are some of the deeper 675 00:39:49,080 --> 00:39:51,480 insights that he's been talking to you from His word? 676 00:39:52,200 --> 00:39:54,840 Is it coming in alignment? Because when you start doing 677 00:39:54,840 --> 00:39:57,880 that, you'll start seeing connecting pieces time and 678 00:39:57,880 --> 00:39:59,120 again. That's why when we gather as a 679 00:39:59,120 --> 00:40:02,000 church, when we gather as communities, when we gather as 680 00:40:02,160 --> 00:40:04,720 fellow believers together, and when we see that a lot in the 681 00:40:04,720 --> 00:40:07,480 early church, when they gather together, the reason why they 682 00:40:07,480 --> 00:40:11,320 were able to have a lot of community time was the fact that 683 00:40:11,600 --> 00:40:15,080 in their personal time they saw. Some revelation the Holy Spirit 684 00:40:15,080 --> 00:40:19,200 gave them come into, you know, some another person have 685 00:40:19,200 --> 00:40:22,720 probably got a song or a word. And when they came together and 686 00:40:22,720 --> 00:40:26,080 everything came together, they knew this was what God was 687 00:40:26,080 --> 00:40:28,680 calling them to do. This is what God's calling us to 688 00:40:28,880 --> 00:40:31,080 step into. This is what God is calling and 689 00:40:31,080 --> 00:40:38,040 speaking to us as a generation. This is an indication of what 690 00:40:38,040 --> 00:40:40,520 freedom looks like for what the samatan woman did. 691 00:40:40,680 --> 00:40:43,680 Because when she walked out of the power of darkness into the 692 00:40:43,680 --> 00:40:47,040 power of light, when she walked out of the freedom that came 693 00:40:47,040 --> 00:40:50,880 because the clutches of sin were broken, that living water, she 694 00:40:50,880 --> 00:40:54,040 was able to go and testify. And the fruit of that was people 695 00:40:54,040 --> 00:40:56,960 came to see who this God was, who this person was, that was 696 00:40:56,960 --> 00:41:00,480 able to identify her and tell her whatever wrong she did. 697 00:41:00,480 --> 00:41:03,320 She probably came to that well alone, knowing that she'll be 698 00:41:03,320 --> 00:41:05,600 talked about, she'll be scorned, she'll be looked down. 699 00:41:06,000 --> 00:41:09,800 But what she received, she took it out there, and she came and 700 00:41:09,800 --> 00:41:11,920 draw. A lot of her brokenness was 701 00:41:11,920 --> 00:41:18,760 hers, but when she laid it at the altar for Jesus, when his 702 00:41:18,760 --> 00:41:23,880 living water redeemed it, it became a testimony in her 703 00:41:23,880 --> 00:41:25,600 brokenness. She felt empty, and she could 704 00:41:25,600 --> 00:41:29,880 have kept the door shut, sitting all by herselves because she was 705 00:41:29,880 --> 00:41:32,280 already judged, ridiculed, mocked, scorned. 706 00:41:32,840 --> 00:41:37,080 But rather her brokenness made room for a saviour who wanted to 707 00:41:37,080 --> 00:41:43,240 change her state. In Two Corinthians chapter 12, 708 00:41:43,240 --> 00:41:45,640 verses 9, This is what it says. But he answered me. 709 00:41:45,880 --> 00:41:49,120 My grace is always more than enough for you, and my power 710 00:41:49,120 --> 00:41:52,440 finds it's full expression through your weakness. 711 00:41:52,680 --> 00:41:56,240 So I'll celebrate my weakness, For when I'm weak, I sense more 712 00:41:56,240 --> 00:41:59,520 deeply the mighty part of Christ living in me. 713 00:42:01,000 --> 00:42:08,680 The power of Jesus is evident when we are allowing Him to move 714 00:42:08,680 --> 00:42:13,200 in, and through our weakness His grace and His power finds its 715 00:42:13,200 --> 00:42:16,320 full expression. So today, whatever it is, allow 716 00:42:16,320 --> 00:42:19,400 him to invade you with His living water. 717 00:42:20,400 --> 00:42:22,960 Because what will come out of that will be glorious. 718 00:42:23,200 --> 00:42:26,080 What will come out of that will be a Jesus testimony. 719 00:42:26,080 --> 00:42:28,880 What will come out of that will be the outworking of the Holy 720 00:42:28,880 --> 00:42:30,240 Spirit. And then through you, what will 721 00:42:30,240 --> 00:42:33,320 come out of that will be you saying this is not me, but this 722 00:42:33,320 --> 00:42:37,560 is of the one who is in me, that I'm able to do all this. 723 00:42:38,680 --> 00:42:41,160 And what do you see in the conclusion in John Chapter 4 is 724 00:42:41,400 --> 00:42:45,280 the people asked him to stay. And I love this section where 725 00:42:45,440 --> 00:42:50,160 they tell her, you know what, we no longer are believing this 726 00:42:50,160 --> 00:42:55,640 because you told, but we are. We've heard it for ourselves and 727 00:42:55,640 --> 00:42:59,080 know for sure that he's a saviour of the world, are 728 00:42:59,080 --> 00:43:00,960 starting. The igniter would be a 729 00:43:00,960 --> 00:43:04,520 testimony, but the sustaining part will be his Holy Spirit's 730 00:43:04,520 --> 00:43:06,840 work. So a lot of us today what God's 731 00:43:06,840 --> 00:43:10,080 preparing us as a nation? What God's preparing us as 732 00:43:10,080 --> 00:43:11,960 individuals? What God's preparing us as 733 00:43:11,960 --> 00:43:15,600 churches and as marketplace people and as His children who 734 00:43:15,600 --> 00:43:20,640 are in this world, not of this world, is that we will be ready 735 00:43:20,640 --> 00:43:24,720 for a revival that starts with you and me, ready for a revival 736 00:43:24,720 --> 00:43:29,920 that will change us, which will change, transform us personally. 737 00:43:30,080 --> 00:43:33,960 So when we take it out, our testimony with him will bring 738 00:43:33,960 --> 00:43:38,320 transformation to others. And I'm sure at the end of the 739 00:43:38,320 --> 00:43:44,320 day, that living water cost a revival in that own village, in 740 00:43:44,320 --> 00:43:47,880 that own town. And so today, can you and I be 741 00:43:47,880 --> 00:43:50,920 partakers of that? A lot more people entrusted 742 00:43:50,920 --> 00:43:53,600 their lives to him, and they heard what he had to say. 743 00:43:54,960 --> 00:43:57,320 And I love that again. I am repeating that again. 744 00:43:57,320 --> 00:44:01,720 We've heard it for ourselves and know it's for sure he's the 745 00:44:01,720 --> 00:44:04,080 saviour of the world. They will taste and see that the 746 00:44:04,080 --> 00:44:06,120 Lord is good. That when they look into our 747 00:44:06,120 --> 00:44:08,720 lives, when they see our change, when they see what God's doing 748 00:44:08,720 --> 00:44:13,080 in and through us, they will be encouraged to seek for 749 00:44:13,080 --> 00:44:14,960 themselves and they will find him. 750 00:44:15,560 --> 00:44:18,480 We do not know who God will bring into salvation through our 751 00:44:18,480 --> 00:44:21,440 story. We can discount it because of 752 00:44:21,440 --> 00:44:25,080 our low self esteem, because of the nature of our brokenness, 753 00:44:25,320 --> 00:44:28,520 because of whatever we've been through. 754 00:44:28,520 --> 00:44:31,360 But when we bring God into the mix, when we bring the Holy 755 00:44:31,360 --> 00:44:35,760 Spirit and His living, what into the mix, His grades, His 756 00:44:35,760 --> 00:44:40,120 strength, His redemption power gets mixed into our battle of 757 00:44:40,120 --> 00:44:44,120 our lives. And we are not our we're not us 758 00:44:44,120 --> 00:44:48,440 anymore, We are His. And we start pointing everyone 759 00:44:48,440 --> 00:44:50,400 to Jesus because He's in the mix. 760 00:44:51,160 --> 00:44:54,520 He, he, his hand is in that battle. 761 00:44:55,280 --> 00:44:58,720 He's starting to shape us. He's shot, starting to mold us. 762 00:44:58,720 --> 00:45:02,520 And I pray and ask that the living water will become ours 763 00:45:02,520 --> 00:45:05,960 forever. So church, even as I close, I 764 00:45:05,960 --> 00:45:09,200 just want to ask specifically that as we prepare for Pentecost 765 00:45:09,200 --> 00:45:15,280 Sunday, we won't be ashamed. We won't be stiff, but we would 766 00:45:15,280 --> 00:45:18,080 rather be flexible. We would allow him to say, Lord, 767 00:45:18,080 --> 00:45:20,760 would you move in and throw us today I want that artisanal 768 00:45:20,760 --> 00:45:23,480 spring. I want that revival to happen. 769 00:45:23,480 --> 00:45:27,800 Lord Jesus, in you, in me, in everyone that gathers, in 770 00:45:27,800 --> 00:45:29,920 everyone that calls on the name of Jesus that they'll be 771 00:45:29,920 --> 00:45:32,760 revival. So today when I say pray, can we 772 00:45:32,760 --> 00:45:36,480 just pray together that we'll experience his revival? 773 00:45:36,480 --> 00:45:38,600 Lord, I pray even right now for all those who are listening, 774 00:45:39,160 --> 00:45:41,040 for, who are watching. I pray even right now. 775 00:45:41,040 --> 00:45:44,760 Holy Spirit, would you Would you just flood open into their 776 00:45:44,760 --> 00:45:46,920 lives? Lord, no longer, Lord, will they 777 00:45:46,920 --> 00:45:51,320 be so worried. I pray every worry, every shame, 778 00:45:51,920 --> 00:45:54,720 every guilt will be broken in the name of Jesus. 779 00:45:55,200 --> 00:45:58,240 We pray for your blood covering to Pierce through everything. 780 00:45:58,520 --> 00:46:01,600 I pray every abuse, every torment, everything that's been 781 00:46:01,600 --> 00:46:05,720 spoken off and spoken about and spoken into will be completely 782 00:46:05,720 --> 00:46:07,720 broken. Lord Jesus in the name of Jesus 783 00:46:07,720 --> 00:46:10,560 that they'll find deliverance. Every shackle will be broken. 784 00:46:10,560 --> 00:46:12,920 Every shame and guilt will be gone. 785 00:46:13,320 --> 00:46:16,440 Every cycle will be broken, every addiction will be broken. 786 00:46:16,640 --> 00:46:19,800 That you will set your people and your children free. 787 00:46:20,600 --> 00:46:23,400 Lord, we are about your mission. Lord Jesus and I thank you for 788 00:46:23,400 --> 00:46:27,080 the word revival. I breathe revival into my own 789 00:46:27,080 --> 00:46:29,760 life. I breathe your revival into each 790 00:46:29,760 --> 00:46:31,600 and everyone. Right now I ask you to breathe 791 00:46:31,600 --> 00:46:34,480 it in. Lord Jesus, I pray living what I 792 00:46:34,480 --> 00:46:38,200 pray we will all take our pipes and dig in to find that 793 00:46:38,200 --> 00:46:40,040 artisanal spring. Lord, I pray we will 794 00:46:40,320 --> 00:46:43,880 breakthrough every shackle, every everything that's taken 795 00:46:43,880 --> 00:46:48,600 shape to get that living water gushing out so that we will live 796 00:46:48,600 --> 00:46:49,960 in the fullness that comes from you. 797 00:46:49,960 --> 00:46:54,840 Lord, I pray even right now that our mundanes will see revival, 798 00:46:54,840 --> 00:46:57,960 disrupt our mundanes. I pray, Lord, our deepest, 799 00:46:57,960 --> 00:47:01,280 darkest secrets will experience a revival and they will get 800 00:47:01,280 --> 00:47:05,760 extinguished, gone once for all, Lord Jesus, the marks of it. 801 00:47:05,760 --> 00:47:09,560 Lord will be ones of redemption, one of grace, one of strength, 802 00:47:09,560 --> 00:47:12,960 one of overcoming by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of 803 00:47:12,960 --> 00:47:15,640 your testimony, Lord Jesus. It'll happen right now, Lord. 804 00:47:16,280 --> 00:47:18,920 I pray, Lord, that revival will just not stop with us, Lord, 805 00:47:19,120 --> 00:47:22,880 That we will be able to share our story with you and it, Lord, 806 00:47:22,880 --> 00:47:26,760 so that it'll bring about many others to find truth. 807 00:47:27,320 --> 00:47:29,960 And they'll be able to experience that living water, be 808 00:47:29,960 --> 00:47:31,840 glorified, be honored, be praised. 809 00:47:32,120 --> 00:47:33,360 Thank you for all that you're doing. 810 00:47:33,360 --> 00:47:35,080 Go before us. I pray, Lord, for your blood 811 00:47:35,080 --> 00:47:37,640 covering over each and every one of us, that he would strengthen 812 00:47:37,640 --> 00:47:39,200 us. I pray even as we are in the 813 00:47:39,200 --> 00:47:41,480 peak of summer. Protection will be upon each and 814 00:47:41,480 --> 00:47:43,880 everyone. I pray your hand of mercy and 815 00:47:43,880 --> 00:47:46,000 grace upon each and everyone. Lord, we thank you. 816 00:47:46,320 --> 00:47:49,960 Strengthen us, take charge, be glorified. 817 00:47:49,960 --> 00:47:52,600 We thank you for all that we get to do, Lord Jesus, because we 818 00:47:52,600 --> 00:47:55,320 are your children. I pray that we'll have testimony 819 00:47:55,320 --> 00:47:58,520 after testimony of your living water flowing in and through our 820 00:47:58,520 --> 00:48:00,520 lives, and we will see a revival. 821 00:48:00,520 --> 00:48:03,800 I pray even as you wait expectantly for this week, Lord, 822 00:48:03,800 --> 00:48:07,800 we ask that you would show up. Lord, there will be a revival 823 00:48:07,800 --> 00:48:12,040 that starts birthing out in different parts, in different 824 00:48:12,040 --> 00:48:15,200 sections in our online community, in our physical 825 00:48:15,200 --> 00:48:17,920 gathering, we'll see revival happen. 826 00:48:17,920 --> 00:48:19,320 Lord, so that you'll be glorified. 827 00:48:20,000 --> 00:48:22,280 In your most holy name, we pray. Amen. 828 00:48:22,400 --> 00:48:25,200 Amen. So, church, even as you step out 829 00:48:26,120 --> 00:48:30,920 into your mundane, even as you start working through and seeing 830 00:48:30,920 --> 00:48:34,600 all your deepest darkest secrets, I pray revival will be 831 00:48:34,600 --> 00:48:37,320 birthed. I pray as living water will flow 832 00:48:37,320 --> 00:48:42,040 through and leave you changed. I pray your story and the 833 00:48:42,040 --> 00:48:45,760 experience of that revival with Jesus and the Holy Spirit in the 834 00:48:45,760 --> 00:48:51,200 mix will bring about, will bring about a revival in others. 835 00:48:51,840 --> 00:48:56,240 That you will be the reason that many are able to see Jesus 836 00:48:56,240 --> 00:48:58,960 clearly, will be filled with the Holy Spirit and live in the 837 00:48:58,960 --> 00:49:02,800 holiness that He is called us. I pray that you have a blessed 838 00:49:02,800 --> 00:49:04,720 week ahead. God bless you all. 839 00:49:05,800 --> 00:49:07,600 Thanks for listening to this message. 840 00:49:07,920 --> 00:49:11,440 We hope you are blessed to hear more messages like this. 841 00:49:11,720 --> 00:49:15,760 Make sure to subscribe and check out our podcast channel for past 842 00:49:15,760 --> 00:49:18,080 episodes. 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