We're going to have to take a drink today.
OK, All right, I'm prepping you because for this whole month
we're going to be ministering on the gifts of the Spirit or
supernatural gifts, and we're going to do it all month.
So I'm going to do today, set you up, get you lit.
Can I say that get you lit on fire so that you're expecting so
that you're drawing, But then next week pastor's going to come
in and and minister on the three power gifts.
Those are the gifts that do something.
And then the last two Sundays I'm going to minister on the
revelation gifts and the inspirational gifts.
So these gifts of the spirit, you may be like, wait, what?
What is that? What are those?
We're going to talk about it. We're going to talk about it a
little bit today and we're going to understand how we can be in a
position to move more and the gifts of the Spirit as a body,
because you know, God wants to move through you and the
supernatural gifts of the Spirit.
And but if we're not full and we're not ready, then we're not
in a position to eagerly desire them like the Scripture says.
So we're going to start with some foundation.
I'm going to lay some foundation.
So whether you've been here a week or you've been here for 10
years, you better be expecting and you better be drawing
because the Holy Ghost wants to minister to us and speak to us
this morning. So our foundation, you and I
should be moving and operating in this and we're going to have
to change the course of it today.
I have about 20 pages, but it is font 3:30.
So don't worry about it, OK? Because so I'll be, I'll be
every two seconds I'll be flipping a page because that
font, I like that big old font. OK, so let's start by talking
about the Holy Ghost. OK, Now you know this is the
church age and you know this is the dispensation of the Spirit
of God. That's what this is.
And Jesus told us in John 16, seven, He said, nevertheless, I
tell you the truth, it's to your advantage that I go away.
He said it's way, way better, way better if I go away, for if
I do not go away, the helper will not come to you.
But if I depart, I'll send him to you.
The helper that literally is the Paraclete, the one that's called
alongside you to help. And that Paraclete, he is your
comforter. He's your comforter.
He's your advocate, he's your intercessor, he's your
counselor, he's your strengthener, and he's your
standby. That's what he does for us, the
Paraclete. And you know, the Scripture says
that the Holy Spirit loves, he loves you.
The Spirit. We know God loves you.
We know we we've heard it a million times, Jesus loves you.
But you know, the Bible says that the Holy Ghost loves you.
He loves you. And it says he thinks, he feels,
he speaks, he has a mind, he's also grieved, he's also quenched
at times, and he can be resisted.
He's a person, He's not a dove, he's not the wind.
He's not some impersonal thing that you just have whenever you
want him. He's not just something that,
oh, when I'm in a trial or when I'm, when I'm dealing with
something, I really need a word from God.
I'm now I'm going to ask him. No, he's there for you all the
time, every day, every minute of the day.
You're supposed to be with him in partnership with him.
He's supposed to be your closest partner, closer than your
spouse. So we're going to talk about it.
Second Corinthians chapter 13, verse 11, Second Corinthians 13
verse 11 says, finally, brethren, and you know Paul and
this benediction, you know, when you're leaving somebody for a
while, you've got some important words you want to say to them.
So he tells them in these, in these final scriptures, he says,
brethren, farewell, become complete, be of good comfort, be
of one mind, live in peace and the God of love and peace will
be with you. Greet one another with a holy
kiss. All the Saints greet you, the
grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and listen
the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you.
All that word communion means partnership, it means joint
participation, it means intimacy, it means intercourse
intercourse. It also means my partner and my
sharer in everything. So the scripture is saying he,
you're to be in constant communion, partnership,
fellowship, intercourse, participation with the Holy
Ghost all the time. So let's take just a minute and
explain because remember our goal is to talk about spiritual
gifts or the gifts of the spirit.
So we need to 1st understand the difference between the spirit
within and the spirit upon. So when you get born again, this
the Holy Ghost, you, you are a spirit.
We understand this whether you're born again or not, you
are a spirit, you have a soul and you live in a body.
And when you made Jesus the Lord of your life, the Holy Ghost,
the Holy Spirit came to live within your spirit man.
But your spirit is still there and you either have what the
Bible calls a strong spirit or a weak spirit.
And we need to be a church that have strong spirits.
The spirit of the man can, can, can cause you to overcome or
conquer sickness, conquer poverty, conquer, lag, conquer
anything. If you have a strong spirit now
you can walk around here and say, Yep, I'm spirit filled.
Yep, I go to a spirit filled church.
And you know what? Honestly that word is used way
too loosely. Because you're spirit filled yet
you're super carnal. I'd have to say I'm not saying
you are, I'm just giving an example.
You're super carnal, maybe in an area of your life.
Then I'd have to say you're not spirit filled.
You're not full. Can I say that you're not full
of the spirit? The Holy Ghost is in you, but
you're either yielded to him daily or not.
So we're going to make a, an effort today when we leave here,
that we're going to stay full, that we're not going to let our
natural thinking, our own plans, our own desires get in the way
of our intimacy with the Holy Ghost.
Amen. All right, so the 9 fruits of
the Spirit go with and are in you when you get born again.
That's from Galatians 5. The fruits of the spirit, love
and joy and peace and patience, kindness, goodness, gentleness,
faithfulness and self-control. So those are all in you.
Now whether you decide to yield to those or not is up to you,
but they are in your born again recreated spirit.
I can, I can walk in the love of God that's been shed abroad in
my heart by the Holy Ghost or not.
I can be patient or not. I can be kind or not.
You choose if you're going to yield to those fruits of the
spirit. So when you get born again, you
have those fruits to develop character within you.
Proverbs 2027 says the spirit of man is the candle of the Lord,
searching all the inward parts of the belly.
So the Holy Ghost within you at, at salvation, he is searching
all the inward parts of you and you should let him do that.
You should allow the work of the Holy Ghost within your heart.
John 414 says, But whoever drinks, there's that word drink.
We're going to talk about it again in a minute.
Whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never
thirst, will never thirst, but the water that I shall give him
will become in him. This is talking about the Holy
Ghost within you, in him, a fountain of water springing up
to everlasting life. Now that word springing up means
like to leap up. The Zoe life of God is in you.
It's it's the Zoe like like I'm jumping.
It's in you. It's big.
The greater 1 is in you. So you have the Holy Ghost
within you all the time. The Zoway life of God.
That's the spirit within. That's a spirit within you.
You are, you know, the Bible talks about you are the temple
of the Holy Ghost. You are the House of God.
We are corporately the house, the corporate house, but your
temple is also the House of God. You are the temple of the Holy
Ghost. But are we aware, You know, one
of the issues about the gifts of the Spirit and we'll get there
is that we're not even thinking about them.
And I won't have a show of hands, but, but I guarantee you,
a lot of us don't really understand the gifts of the
Spirit. And we're certainly not thinking
about them and we're definitely not desiring them.
We're changing that this month, OK?
Because when this month is over, we should have a clear
understanding about it and we should be open in our hearts,
open in our spirit to say, God, I'm here, I desire, I hunger for
spiritual gifts. Use me.
Use me in whatever you want to do.
And that's how we're going to be when this is over.
So the Spirit within is for holiness, is for character, is
for searching all the inward parts of you.
And that's that's where you start getting born again.
He begins to heal, He begins to mend.
You know, he came to heal the broken hearted and to bind up
the wounds. And that's what he does.
That's what the Spirit of God does.
He heals you. He speaks to you, He ministers
to you, He comforts you, He does everything that you need on the
inside. Now the Spirit upon the baptism
of the Holy Ghost is for service, is for power, is for
the thing that God's called you to do.
If we don't understand these basic things, then we, we won't
accurately operate in the gifts of the Spirit.
So the Spirit upon you is for power.
And you know in the Kingdom of God, you, you have a gift, you
have a call, everyone of you, there's a gift and a call that
God has called you to. That is without repentance,
which means He did not change his mind about it.
Whatever He's called you to do, that's what He's called you to
do. And if we'll get really, really
efficient in learning how to be led by the Holy Ghost, then
we'll walk in His perfect will for our lives.
You can hear Him. You know the Bible says you do
hear him, and you do know Him. You hear His voice and another
voice you don't ever have to follow.
You don't ever have to follow another voice, just His.
And you can be so intimate with him, so in partnership with Him
that there's no confusion. You know, when I sit with
someone and they tell me, you know, I just, I just don't think
I hear God. I just don't know if I'm hearing
God, then they're not staying built up in the Spirit.
They're not staying in the Word of God and in the Holy Ghost
building themselves up in their most holy faith.
And that's the key. So the Holy Ghost upon you have
to have the Holy Ghost, the baptism of the Holy Ghost before
you can operate in the gifts of the Spirit.
So the Holy Spirit within you is character is the 9 fruits.
The Holy Spirit upon you is the 9 gifts of the Spirit, which
we're going to get to make sense.
We understand all that. OK, Acts chapter one, verse 8
says, But you shall receive power when the Holy Ghost has
come upon you, and you shall be witnesses to me in Jerusalem and
in all Judea and Samaria and to the ends of the earth.
So when it says you shall be a witness, this is the Holy Spirit
coming upon you to to be a witness to serve.
And when it says Jerusalem, that's your home, that's your
home base. He's equipped you, He's anointed
you. He's giving you power to parent,
power to be a spouse, power. I'm talking about power, OK?
I'm not talking about I'm just I'm just got this ball and chain
and I'm just, you know, at home with my spouse and my kids.
And what a drain. And your home should not be
that. Your home should be full of
life, full of joy, full of peace.
You ought not to be somebody who has a form of godliness but
denies the power on the inside and upon you.
He's anointed you for Jerusalem, He's anointed you for your home,
He's anointed you for Judea. That's relatives, close friends.
He's anointed you to be a witness to serve Samaria, the
community without God. He's anointed us, all of us, for
this community that does not have the Lord Jesus.
He's anointed us for that and for the end of the earth, all
the nations wherever he's called us to go.
You like my my page, We're on like page 10 already.
John 737 through 39. This is the Holy Spirit upon
you. Remember John 414 was the Holy
Spirit within you. It said in him, in him, in him.
Now listen to 37 through 39. If anyone thirsts, let him come
to me and drink. He who believes in me, as a
Scripture has said, out of, out of, out of, instead of in Him,
out of His heart will flow rivers of living water.
Rivers of living water. But this he spoke concerning the
Spirit whom those believing in Him would receive.
For the Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus was not yet
glorified. So differing from in Him we have
supposed to flow out of us rivers of living water.
And that includes the gifts of the Holy Ghost, that includes
the gifts of the Spirit. What happened in the book of
Acts should be happening, but in an increased measure.
Now we are the, this should be the acts of the Church of Anchor
Faith Church, the acts of the Holy Ghost through Anchor Faith
Church. That's what it should.
We should be writing those pages today that we're operating in
the gifts of the Spirit. You know, he wants to confirm
his word with signs following. So you may have a lot to say and
you may be able to articulate the word of God to people in
your job, in your community, But does the Lord want to give a
word of wisdom through you? Does he want to give a word of
knowledge? Does he want for you to be able
to look at that person and tell them something, that they go?
How did you know that? Well, I didn't, but the Holy
Ghost did, and the Lord knew and He wants to guide you.
And those are the things that cause movement in people, that
cause them to go, wow. Not only could they speak the
word of God that had wisdom and had power, but then God did
something in my heart through them.
And we've got to be available and hungry and ready for these
things. So let's turn to 1st Corinthians
chapter 12. Let's look at them, the nine
supernatural gifts of the Spirit, verse one.
Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I do not want you to
be ignorant. You know you can be super smart
and still be ignorant, he says concerning spiritual guest.
Brethren, I do not want you to be ignorant.
You know that you were Gentiles carried away to these dumb
idols, however you were led. Therefore, I make known to you
that no one speaking by the Spirit of God calls Jesus
accursed, and no one can say that Jesus is Lord except by the
Holy Spirit. There are diversities of gifts,
but the same Spirit. There are diverse differences of
ministries, but the same Lord, and there are diversities of
activities, but it's the same God who works All in all.
But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to each one for
the profit of all. For to one is given the word of
wisdom through the spirit to another, the word of knowledge
through the same Spirit, to another faith by the same
Spirit, to another, gifts of healings, by the same Spirit to
another, the working of miracles, to another, prophecy
to another, discerning of spirits, to another, different
kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues.
But one and the same spirit works all of these things,
distributing to each one individually as he wills.
Now jump down to verse 31. It says but earnestly desire the
best gifts and yet I'll show you a more excellent way.
So there are three gifts that and you should write this down
because by the end of this month we should have a clear
understanding of these gifts of the Spirit.
There are three that reveal that are called the revelation gifts
and that's the Word of Wisdom, the word of knowledge and
discerning of spirits. The Word of Wisdom, the word of
knowledge and discerning of spirits.
There are three that do something which pastor will
cover next Sunday and they're called the power gifts.
That's the gift of faith, which is not your everyday live by
faith, faith and we'll talk about it.
Working of miracles and gifts of healings.
Those are the power gifts. And then there are three that
say something or they're in, we call them inspirational gifts or
gifts of utterance. And that's a gift of prophecy,
the gift of tongues and interpretation of tongues.
Now go back to verse one. It says now concerning spiritual
gifts, you know that word gifts was added.
So what it really says is now concerning spirituals.
Concerning spirituals, I do not want you to be ignorant.
Another way of saying that would be concerning spiritual things.
Another translation says concerning the things of the
Spirit, I don't want you to be ignorant.
And then there's another translation that I like
concerning the special supernatural abilities that the
Holy Ghost gives us. I don't want you to be ignorant.
So this is saying concerning these spiritual things, these
supernatural things that the Holy Spirit wants to do through
you. He doesn't want us to be
ignorant. That word ignorant just means
uninformed, unaware, without sound teaching or to ignore, or
just simply not aware of, not aware of.
This is most of the church in all honesty, most of the church
we are not aware we might read the scripture and confuse faith,
confuse tongues with our everyday building our self up
tongues. We confuse those things instead
of understanding clearly that these gifts, these things are
supernatural and they are as the Spirit of God wills.
But you have to be in a position to say, Lord, I earnestly desire
these, and if you want to move through me for a supernatural
gift of faith or a working of a miracle, I'm ready.
I think the problem part of the problem is that we're not
confident enough to believe that God would do something like that
through us. You better get your confidence
up. You better understand who you
are through in Christ because of Him, because it's not you who
lives, but it's Christ that lives within you.
And if you'll get that revelation every single day,
then when you get up in the morning, it won't matter how you
feel. It won't matter what's happening
in your life because you can say the greater 1 lives within me.
I have a conqueror on the inside.
Thank you Lord for this day. This is a day you made and I'll
rejoice and I'll be glad in it. It's your choice every day,
every day. If you're going to choose life
or death every day, nobody can choose it for you.
And it's not impressive if you can just choose it when you're
at church. There's nothing cute about it.
Nobody loves it. When we see you at Walmart and
you're doing something real weird, nobody likes it.
Nobody thinks that's mature. It's not.
You need to know who you are and
you need to know that the greater 1 lives in you.
This, this should not be our church.
When I say this is most of the church, this is not going to be
our church. We're going to walk in these
gifts, be available for these gifts.
They should be operating not just here in the church, but
outside of the church because they are an example.
They are Christ confirming his word because we're we're
stepping out in faith and saying, God, use me.
I desire these spiritual gifts. So we're not going to be
ignorant. Amen.
Verse 7 says, but the manifestation of the Spirit is
given to each one for the prophet of all.
And that word manifestation means it's something that the
Holy Ghost does, that is seen, it's obvious, it's clear, the
manifestation of the Spirit. He wants the holy, the work of
the Holy Ghost to be seen, to be clear, to be evident.
And when it says to each one, another translation says to
every man. That means anyone, anyone can
yield to a gift of the Spirit. A baby, new baby in Christ could
yield to a gift of the Spirit. That doesn't make them mature.
It just means they were yielded. It just means they were willing.
It just means they opened themselves up to be obedient
when the Holy Ghost moved upon them.
To each one or every man is given to profit with all.
So it means everybody would profit.
It brings profit to the body of Christ.
It brings profit to you because you gave and you served prophet
to the one hearing. It brings prophet to all.
Now verse 11 says, but one and the same Spirit works all these
things, distributing to each one as He wills.
These are as the Spirit of God wills.
But if He wills and we're not ready and we're not even think
about thinking about it, how's He going to use us?
If he. If he.
Moves across the congregation and and wants someone to yield
to a tongue or an interpretation of tongue or or gifts of
healings or or any other gift and and we we stand there we go.
No, he. Doesn't want to use.
Me, I don't know if I could do that.
I don't know if I can go forward.
Then he's going to find somebody else that's going to be willing
to do it. And and if nobody's willing to
do it, then you understand how selfish it is because the Spirit
of God wanted to communicate something and we chose to be
locked up. I speak out of experience
because I've been locked up more than once and and still being
called to the ministry. I've I've more than once, but
especially in years past, have gone up to pastor after the
service and went I had something and I didn't do it and I didn't
yield to it. Not no more.
If we have something, we've got to yield to it.
We and you're, you're going to miss it, maybe.
You. It may not.
Be for the body. It may be just for you and
pastors said this a million times.
Step out. How you going to learn how you
going to grow if you don't just step out, come down here and
we'll tell you, Nope, that's for you.
That was actually for you or Yep, that's for the body.
Get up there and share it. Marissa didn't want to come up
here and speak the scripture. And I said it's the scripture,
it's alive. Say only.
That's all you got to say. Just get up there and read it.
The word is alive. But yielding to those promptings
and those promptings are not just for this setting.
Those promptings are at home when the Holy Ghost says go
apologize to your spouse. I'm not talking about a gift.
Of the Spirit here. I'm just talking about yielding.
You don't need a. Gift of the Holy Ghost surely to
apologize to your spouse, you need to just be yielded to him.
You need to just listen and obey on the inside now First
Corinthians 12/31 says covet earnestly the best gifts.
Are we coveting, Are we earnestly desiring that word
covet? You know, this is a, this is a
good place for us to covet. We're not coveting somebody's
car or their house or things like that.
We're coveting spiritual gifts and we're not coveting spiritual
gifts so that we can be in the spotlight.
Because if you're coveting a spiritual gift so that you can
shine, your heart is going to be exposed anyway and you're going
to need to sit down. Because nobody.
Wants to hear from you. If your heart's not right, it's
just like the scripture we just read.
Greet each other with a holy kiss.
Well, I could greet you with a holy kiss, but if there's a man
around here that's greeting with a kiss because he wants
something different, then your heart ain't right.
And there's a difference. And the Holy Spirit knows your
heart. He knows what's.
Happening on the inside, and that's that internal work of the
Spirit within that we have to be yielded to. 1st, 1st.
So to covet, he tells us, to covet these gifts it means to
burn with zeal it. Means to.
Desire earnestly. It means to pursue.
I don't want to ask if anybody's been pursuing these gifts.
I'm not even going to ask to strive after to be fervently
boiling with zealousness for the object desired, an intense
desire that causes one to seek something until it's obtained.
He's telling. US covet these, desire these,
have a passion for these, have a zealousness for these gifts.
I want to move in your community, I want to move in
your church, I want to move at your job.
But I need you to listen. I need you to yield.
He wants to use you for these gifts.
We desire a lot of things. We covet a lot of things.
We pursue a lot of things. But he tells us.
To pursue these. To pursue.
This the first thing we got to ask ourself is are we hungry?
Are we desiring? Do we even think about it?
Do do we believe the gifts could move through US?
First Corinthians chapter 14, verse one.
It says. Pursue love and desire spiritual
gifts. There it is again desire
spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophecy that word
desires means and have an enthusiasm for have a fervor, a
passion, a devotion to an eagerness to achieve or possess.
So it's saying desire them, be excited about them.
Have a passion for these gifts when there's tragedy, when
there's things with people happening and and the hospital
or or you know, I know there's a serious thing happening often,
often I'll say on the my way there, Father, I earnestly
desire spiritual gifts. I thank you, Lord, I am
available. And if you want to move through
the gifts of the Spirit, I'm ready to do it.
You can't create it. You can't fabricate it.
You can't do it on your own, but you can be yielded and you can
be ready and you can be desiring and zealous about them.
And that's what we need to be. Pastor sent me.
A text and said get them ready. I said I will, I will.
All right, so Second Chronicles chapter 16, verse 9 says I don't
believe they have this one, but but I just want to read it to
you. For the eyes of the Lord run to
and fro throughout the whole earth looking for somebody to
show himself strong. And he wants to show himself
strong in behalf of the one whose heart is perfect towards
him. He wants to show himself strong,
not show you strong, but show himself strong.
And Daniel 1132 says the people who know their God shall be
strong and carry out great exploits.
Oh man, there's great exploits that we ought to be doing.
If he tells us to earnestly desire these gifts, how do we do
it? How do we burn?
How we get ourselves in a position to burn with zeal about
it. So spiritual hunger, we're going
to talk about that a little bit. The biggest hindrance to the
move of God and the Holy Ghost is apathy, complacency, a lack
of honor, and a lack of hunger. A lack of hunger.
We replace our spiritual hunger with natural things,
intellectual things, physical things, mental things.
We replace the hunger with those things.
And let me just take a a side note minute.
Can I just warn you about what the last days are supposed to
look like? And we are in those last days.
If you didn't know that we're living in the last days, and the
scripture says Jesus says it, Paul says it, the Scripture is
clear that in the last days people will become lovers of
their own selves. Lovers of.
Themselves. And it's an.
Unnatural thing which we know is going to lead to Romans chapter
1, which is why we see so much homosexuality and things
happening in the earth. But not just talking about that.
This is talking about you are so consumed with your own plans,
your own life, your own purposes more than his.
The scripture. Says that in the last days this
is not just going to be in the world, this is going to be in
the church. A.
Self centeredness, a selfishness or a generation of people who
are the I am. They look out for.
Themselves before anyone else preoccupied with themselves.
Self absorbed. Self absorbed.
Their own plans, their own pursuits.
This is the primary characteristic of the last days,
and there's a whole bunch of other ones that come underneath
that. But that's the number one way
and it leads to deception and we're seeing it happen.
We're seeing it. Happen in the church where
people take a thought they take on an offense of somebody else.
And next thing you. Know they're they're shrinking
back. They're starting to move.
Back just a little bit and now we don't even see them.
The scripture. Tells us it's going to happen.
So we can't be. Surprised by it or moved by it,
But we can guard our own heart. We can be in a.
Position to say, Lord, I hear you, the eyes of my
understanding are enlightened. I know you all walk in love.
I'm not going to be offended. I'm not going to give ear.
To to. Gossip to offense to anything
that is against the Word of God, against my pastors, against my
spouse, against anything else. You better be.
That solid in these last days that you're not giving heed to
seducing spirits and doctrines of demons.
It's happening. And we're in those last days and
we're seeing it. So if you're going to operate in
these gifts of the Spirit, you've got to not love yourself
so much. You've got to.
Quit getting your focus on just what you have going on.
You being the. Center of your little attention.
Recognize. Please be self aware or take an
examination. Judge yourself.
And go. OK, Have I been a little too
focused on what I want, what I need, what I think needs to
happen? You know, it'll help you to just
put your flesh down and serve and give and and do stuff that
your flesh doesn't like to do. Because the Paul tells us, I
beat my body daily. I don't think there's a lot of
beatings happening. But we're supposed to.
Be. We're supposed to be.
Beating our body daily. We're supposed to be.
Putting the flesh down every single day.
What could you do tomorrow that puts your flesh down?
You ought to just get yourself on a little 30 day challenge
that I'm going to every day do something that goes against my
flesh. That puts my.
Flesh under, because you need to be stronger here then you are on
the outside then you are here. Your mind will line up with your
spirit if you'll get strong and begin to meditate on the things
that are right. And if I'm yelling, it's OK.
We're going to get. This.
All right. Now let me say this about church
folk. In.
The last days church folk just have a little smoother way of of
being deceived and they just like to say, well the Lord told
me. Or the Lord.
Released me. Or the Lord.
Doesn't want me to do that. And you can look.
Them because the Bible says we can, we can judge each other's
fruit, we can speak the truth in love and we can say that goes
against the Scripture actually, but but church folk have a way
of making it spiritual. It's ugly, having a form of
godliness, but denying the power.
We're the church. We're the church.
And you know, the Bible says the gates of hell shall not prevail
against the church. What would happen?
What would happen if we all got on the same page?
You know one of the. Most frustrating things when
you're coaching a team is when they're not in unity.
Is when they have. Their own agendas when they're
not together. But once they get in unity and
they start meshing and loving and serving and not and being
unselfish, oh man, things can happen.
They don't even have to do with their talent.
How much? Different is it with us?
What would happen? If we all got on the same page
in our mind, in our spirit, what would happen in each of our
homes if we all woke up to tomorrow morning and said, this
is the day you made Lord? I'm going to be glad.
I'm going to rejoice in it. I'm going to walk in love.
If we all did that, the Holy Ghost would begin to move.
We would all come in this place. And we've been walking in love
all week. We've been putting our flesh
down all week. And we show up here and we're
hungry and we're expecting, and our spirit man's strong, and
we're on the same page with each other.
What would God? Do if we all got in faith?
Pastor Marcy has. Been teaching a phenomenal
teaching on faith on Wednesday nights.
If you haven't been here, get online and listen to that.
You either have strong faith, or you have weak faith, or you have
dead faith. The Holy Ghost.
Is with you and you may be born again, but doesn't mean you're
strong. It doesn't mean you're strong in
faith. It doesn't mean you're full of
the Holy Ghost. So are.
You hungry? Psalms.
One O 7 verse 9 says, For he satisfies the longing soul, and
he fills the hungry soul with goodness.
Luke 153 says He has filled the hungry with good things.
And Luke 621 says, Blessed are you who hunger now, for you
shall be filled. We've got to.
Get hungry. We've got to get zealous.
Hungry for the Word and hungry for the gifts of the Spirit, the
move of the Holy Ghost. First Corinthians 3 says Paul
says I couldn't speak to you as spiritual but as carnal.
Let that not. Be us that we're more consumed
with our natural thinking and our natural circumstances that
we have to say, you know, I can't even talk to you as
spiritual. I have to talk.
To you as carnal, because that's where you're at.
Could there be such an maturity and such a an expectation when
you come into this place that God begins to move in the gifts
supernaturally for those who are first time guests or for someone
who needs a word of wisdom or outside of here in your job that
you're so full and expecting that He can move through you in
an instant? He knows He can.
Now staying. Filled is the key.
We're going to end with this, although it's not the end.
John 7. 37 We already went there, it says, If anybody
thirsts, let him come to me and drink, And John 414 We read, it
says, But whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will
never thirst. Are you hungry?
Are you? Thirsting.
Are. You allowing the cares of life
to weigh you down. Are you?
Drinking. There's a right?
Way to drink. Staying full of the.
Spirit will keep you more susceptible for the move of the
Holy Ghost, for the gifts of the Spirit not being aware of them
will make us not in a position for them to move.
So. Acts Chapter 2.
Let's go there. Acts chapter 2.
When the day of Pentecost had fully come, they were all with
one accord. There's that Unity 1 accord in
one place, and suddenly there came a sound from heaven, as of
a rushing mighty wind, and it filled the whole house where
they were sitting. And there appeared to them
divided tongues as of fire, and one sat upon each of them.
Verse four. And they were all filled with
the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues as the
Spirit gave them utterance. First of all, they were all
together on the inside. It didn't mean they were just
all together together in one place.
They were all together here. They're all in.
Unity here, expecting in faith for what the Lord said was going
to happen. An indicator that you are
filled, that you are full, is that you will speak.
You. Something will come out of you,
and I'm not just talking about tongues.
I'm talking about. Praise the Lord.
Glory to. God.
Thank you. Jesus.
You know I. Believe and the scripture says
it when when we see the Lord, when we're all together well in
the new heaven and new earth, that that when, when an Angel or
when someone says glory to God, it just ignites something in
everybody, but we all just like glory to God.
Hallelujah. Glory to God, that's how we
should be. If you're full, if you're full,
it won't take much and nobody's got to come slap you, although I
don't mind, but nobody's got to come slap you and say let's go.
Get full. Get excited.
Get full. Of the Holy Ghost on the inside
of you. Let your spirit man be strong.
You like that? That sounded kind of good, and
there was like a in it. OK Ephesians chapter 5.
Ephesians. Chapter 5, verse 15 says, See
then that you walk circumspectly, not as fools, but
as wise, redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
Therefore do not be unwise, but understand what the will of the
Lord is, and do not be drunk with wine, in which is
dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit.
Speaking. There's that.
Speaking again, speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and
spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to
the Lord, giving thanks always. Giving thanks.
Always for all things. Giving thanks always for all
things. Some.
Of you didn't hear me giving thanks always for all things.
All. Things.
Can you really do that? Can you?
Really give him it doesn't mean that the the hard things he did
and he wants you to say thank you that I'm sick.
Not talking about that. Thank you Lord that I'm healed,
although there are symptoms in my body.
Thank you, Father, that I'm the healed of the Lord.
Thankful. In All Things You Know and in
Romans chapter 1 it talks about although they knew God, they
didn't honor him as God, nor were they thankful.
And so God gave them over to a debased mind.
Oh man. That should be so sobering for
us. Although they knew.
God. They knew God.
They. Didn't honor him as God.
He's first, he's Lord, he's King.
And they weren't thankful in everything all the time
Thankful. Giving.
Thanks always for all things to God the Father in the name of
our Lord Jesus Christ, submitting to one another in the
fear of the Lord be that word be filled with the Spirit is a is a
right now all the time present tense meaning it means be being
filled. All the time.
Be being filled. Stay full, stay filled and if
you are full, if you are filled, something should be coming out
of your mouth. He's talking to in Ephesians 5.
He's talking to spirit filled believers and he's telling them
don't be drunk with wine. But instead.
Be filled with the Spirit. Speaking.
To one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs and
making melody in your heart. To God.
Don't be drunk as like the world, there's no reason.
There's no reason there's. No.
Need. And the.
Scripture is clear about it. You don't need alcohol.
You don't need stuff to calm you.
You have the peace of God. You have the.
Joy of the Holy Ghost on the inside of you.
And if you don't know how to drink responsibly and drink from
the Spirit, that's the only people that need an alcohol
drink. They don't know how to drink
from the Spirit. I want to tell them.
That. All right, that.
Term spirit filled. Sometimes we use it too loosely.
Acts chapter 4. Acts chapter 4.
And this was when Peter and John were thrown in jail.
And it says. Verse 23 And being let go, they
went to their own companions. When they got out of jail, it
says they went to their own companions and reported all that
the chief priests and elders had said to them.
And when they heard that, they raised their voice to God in one
accord and said, Lord, you are God who made heaven and earth
and the sea, and all that's in them.
Verse 29 Now Lord, look on their threats, and grant your servants
that with all boldness they may speak your word by stretching
out your hand to heal, and that signs and wonders may be done
through your name of your holy servant Jesus.
Verse 31 And when they had prayed, the place where they
were assembled together was shaken and they were all filled
with the Holy Ghost and they spoke the word of God with
boldness. This was the the original 120
people plus more. So in Acts chapter 4 it says
they went back to their own company and they were filled
again. They were filled.
Again, you know there's refillings that should be
happening. You should be be being filled
all the time. I'm telling you, if you want to
live in victory, you've got to live like this.
You've got to be. Being filled.
You've got to stay. Full of the Holy Ghost, we live
drained, busy intellectual lives.
And we see God. Move here and there.
But oh, what would he do if we would get ourselves in a place
where we're expecting and we're we're drinking and we're full of
the Holy Ghost? We're supposed to be.
In communion intercourse in in joint participation with him.
Now the scripture compares being full and filled with the Holy
Ghost of being drunk. Now think about because some of
you I don't need to raise hands. Some of.
You have been drunk before and I'm talking about with alcohol.
And what did? That do for you?
It made you a. Little loose.
Made you free? To speak.
Made you. Full of joy, not real joy.
Now you understand what I'm saying.
Made you forget about your worries.
Made you just. Kind of lay any fear you had
down. Right.
So being drunk and the natural, he's comparing to being drunk in
the spirit now. When we're.
Drunk in the spirit, we're going to read Being full of the spirit
doesn't mean you're always drunk.
We're going to look at. Steven real quick and and what
it did for him being full of the spirit.
But but you can be drunk, and you're not going to ever get
drunk if you don't ever drink. So you you got to.
Start drinking every day of the Spirit.
That means you're. Waking up and you're saying, OK,
first of all, you got to be baptized in the Holy Ghost.
And I really believe if there's anybody here today that is not
baptizing the Holy Ghost in today's your day, it needs to
happen. It needs to happen for so many
reasons, so many reasons. You need the baptism of the Holy
Ghost, but we need to drink of the Spirit and, and we're going
to drink a little bit every day when we get up in the morning,
we go to work, we're praying in the Holy Ghost, building
ourselves up in our most holy faith.
It's not about what you see and how you feel, it's about what
you do. What you.
Do every day, verse 19 said, speaking to one another in
psalms and hymns and spiritual songs.
I I often chuckle at this because I sometimes want to just
go up to somebody and say glory to God.
But I won't. But but it says speaking to one
another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs.
Really, it's having a song in your heart.
Having. Joy on the inside, being quick
to be able to to sing or dance or run or be free or not have a
care in the world, not be afraid of it.
Why do you worry? The scripture says.
Why do you worry about what you're going to eat, what you're
going to drink, what you're going to wear, what you're going
to, what job you're going to take, what you're going to do,
how you're going to make ends meet?
Why do you worry? Do you not?
Know that your Heavenly Father. Feeds the little.
Birds. Every time you see a little
bird, you ought to say I am not going to worry.
I am not going to. Worry.
I'm better than a bird. You got to quit worrying.
Worry keeps you out of faith. Worry.
Worry squashes your faith because it's fear and it's
anxiety and the scripture is so clear about it.
Be anxious for nothing. But in everything, not some
things. Everything with prayer and
supplication with. Thanksgiving.
Make your request known unto the Lord and then and then the peace
of God that surpasses your, it surpasses your understanding,
will guard your heart and your mind in Christ Jesus.
Oh man, you should make a a declaration today.
I am not going to worry about one thing.
Not one. Not again, no more So we seem
like we we're a little distant from the thought of being drunk.
I want to look at a couple of examples.
First of all, First Corinthians 316 I already quoted that to
you, but we are the temple of the Holy Ghost and Second
Chronicles 513. This is an Old Testament
scripture about when the ark was brought into the temple.
Verse 13 it says, and indeed it came to pass when the trumpeters
and the singers were as one. Wow.
There seems to be a theme here about this unity.
Whereas one to make one sound to be heard and praising and
thanking the Lord when they lifted up their voice with
trumpets and symbols and instruments of music.
And praise the Lord saying for He is good and his mercy endures
forever. Look at what happened that the
house when they did this, that the house, the House of the Lord
was filled with a cloud, so that the priest could not continue
ministering because of the cloud.
For the glory of the Lord filled the House of God.
They were in one accord, in one place, singing, making melody in
their hearts, full in their trust of God, and they didn't
even have the Holy Ghost like we do.
Full in their. Belief.
What does being filled with the Spirit have to do with the gifts
of the Spirit? And will you always be drunk?
Not at all. Not at all being the full.
Being full, though, as the Spirit makes you ready, makes
you more susceptible, more ready for the move of the Spirit.
Now let's look at Acts chapter 6.
Now in those days when the number of the disciples was
multiplying, there arose a complaint against the Hebrews by
the Hellenist because they're widows were neglected in the
daily distribution. Then the 12 summoned the
multitude of the disciples and said it is not desirable that we
should leave the word of God and serve tables.
Therefore, brethren, seek out from among you 7 men of good
reputation. Look at the qualifications here
of good reputation full. Of.
The Holy Spirit and wisdom whom we may appoint over this
business, but we will give ourselves continually to prayer
and the ministry of the Word, and the same please the whole
multitude. And they chose Stephen, a man
full of faith, and the Holy Spirit, and they chose several
others whom they said before the apostles.
And when they had prayed, they laid hands on them.
Listen to verse 7. Then the word of God spread, and
the number of the disciples multiplied greatly in Jerusalem.
And great many of the priests were obedient to the faith, And
Stephen, full of faith and power, full of faith and power,
did great wonders and signs among the people.
And then there arose some from what is called the synagogue of
the freedom disputing with Stephen, and they were not able
to resist the wisdom and the spirit by which he spoke.
He was full, the Scripture says, full of the Holy Ghost, and he
operated in faith and power. You put yourself in a position
to for the supernatural gifts of the Holy Ghost to move through
you when you're full. When you don't come.
In here, drained, you put yourself in a position you don't
have to it. It's weird if you walk out to
your job and you act drunk and you act drunk in the spirit.
There is a place for that. But you.
Can be so full of wisdom. That that they're.
Not able to even resist the wisdom by which you speak.
Like Stephen, we've got to be full of the Spirit.
There's one initial feeling of the Holy Ghost.
When you got baptized in the Holy Ghost, the evidence that
you received it is that you spoke, or you would speak in
other tongues. But there are multiple
refillings, and you need to know that.
And those refillings can happen at home.
They can happen while you're singing, they can happen in your
car, they can happen right here. Those refillings should be
happening all the time, every day.
They should happen when you're praying in the Spirit, when
you're reading the Word all the time, anytime.
Why? Don't we see more?
I'm telling you why. I'm telling you.
Why? Number one is the lack of faith
and Pastor Marcy's been ministering on it.
Why don't we see more signs, wonders, miracles, gifts of the
Holy Ghost, moving, lack of faith?
#2. A lack of being filled with the
Spirit. And number. 3A Lack of hunger A.
Lack of. Hunger, Paul pleads with us.
Please don't be ignorant of spiritual gifts.
Please earnestly desire them. Please covet them.
Please. Pursue them.
Please be zealous of these gifts.
He's. Pleading with us to do this.
So our job. Today is one.
Our job today is to make sure that we leave here full of the
Holy Ghost.