You are invited to step out in obedience and seek a deeper relationship with Jesus beyond just religious routine. As you trust Him fully, you will experience His peace and power to heal and share the good news with others. Go home daily to seek Him personally so you can overflow with hope and lead others to Him.
Well, you should you should get to know their tribe. Yeah. We are their tribe. Oh, we are their tribe. But they they take up like this whole section over here.
Basically, it's just a big family. I grew up with a big family like that. You know, we'd have about 30, 40 people on Sunday afternoons at my nanny and papa's house, that's what I called them. We'd watch the Saints game. Sorry.
I'm from Louisiana. And cheer them on and go play "tapeball" in the backyard. I don't know. Do you know what tapeball is? No?
You take a newspaper, me and my uncles, we take a newspaper, we get it, a little ball, we take some duct tape or some electrical tape and tape it up, small ball, and we go play home run derby in the in the yard or some kind of a baseball. It was just fun. That's how that's where I learned to play. Or, we're from the country, so we we'd also sight in our rifles when it was getting close to hunting season, and the backyard too, you know. Anyway, is what it is.
Praise the Lord. Okay. So I just got back from Brazil. Man, what an honor it is to get to be sent from an healthy church from a healthy church to another healthy church. I got to go to pastor Paulo Silva's church called Logos Church with 30 third Company.
And, we went and we did a "make disciples" event while we were there. And, the purpose of that, you guys know the the ministry we just started called Belong, where we have shoot. We've had between 20 and 30 people every Tuesday night from you guys, go and we we meet together at 06:30. We pray for the city. We pray 5 specific prayers, really.
We pray that we're led by the spirit. We pray chains are broken. We pray atmosphere shift. We pray that what am I missing? Nets are filled.
Nets are filled. Yeah. There we go. We pray the nets are filled. We pray God sends laborers into the harvest.
And then, we split up into groups of 4, and we go out and share the gospel. At the same time, new believers that we've led to Jesus over the past few months come in, and we sit in groups and disciple them. And then, the the people that went out come back and share testimony of what Jesus did. It's a powerful thing. It's multiplying.
There's new believers every week. We had 4 new people led to Jesus this past Tuesday night. Come on. So, we got to go. I got to take Daniel Achular, and myself, and Chris Donald went to Londrina, Brazil, and got to do this make disciples event.
And, just even on the way, you know, Daniel gave his life to Jesus back in the January. And, here he is going on his first mission trip. He sits by himself on the plane from Atlanta to Sao Paulo, about a 9 hour plane ride. We get done and he's like, pastor David, you won't believe what happened. Yeah.
Probably will. So, pastor David, I sat by this lady. She's like 80 years old. And, I'm sharing the gospel with her, and she won't have it, you know, she's But but, we're talking, we're opening up, we get to talk for about an hour and a half, 2 hours about the gospel. You know, and she's telling me about her husband who died a long time ago, and I had this thought.
And I said, ma'am, does September mean anything to you? She's like, yeah. His birthday was in September. It kinda began to open her heart. We end up going to sleep because it's a long plane ride, hour and a half, and woke up.
Next thing you know, we're talking about the gospel even more. I had her watch a Jesus movie with me. So she watched a Jesus movie with me. And then, I said I said, ma'am, I just hear my heart, does January mean anything to you? And she said, yeah.
And, January is my birthday. So, God gave him her dead husband's birthday that opened her heart, and he got to minister to. And then, God gave him her birthday, which opened her heart more, so she went from not wanting to hear the gospel to be to giving her life to Jesus on the plane right there. And this is a guy who gave his life to Jesus at the January, who's learning to hear God, learning to love people in a supernatural way, and you're seeing the "power of the gospel". I wanna share another another testimony, and that wasn't the only He he led somebody else to Jesus in a mall, which was cool down there with a translator, and I wasn't even around.
But then, also, we were in the church service doing this make disciples event. And, it was Sunday morning. Chris had preached. And then, the other pastor, pastor Paulo, had got up and he was just praying over the church, and they had the church all standing and praying, and ministering, and and I felt led. There's a there's a guy behind me, and I felt led to turn around and start praying for him.
Now, might you know, I don't know what your background in in the gospel, and the power of the gospel, and what it looks like, and But, as I prayed for him, he's standing there, and he just begins about 30 or 45 seconds, I'm praying for him, he just begins to shake under the presence of God. I'm I'm 30 or 40 I mean, I'm just praying for him, you know. And all a sudden, this begins to happen. I'm like, wow. That's cool, Lord.
What are you doing here? This is awesome. We get done praying. I just prayed for him about a minute and a half, 2 minutes, you know, and he's he's touched. I turn around.
I don't speak his language. He had no idea what I was saying. And I was just saying, Lord, touch him. Let him experience your love. Come Holy Spirit, overwhelm him with your presence, know, stuff like that.
And so then, I had the thought in my heart, there are people in here that need to be "born again", that need to come into a relationship with Jesus that's real. So I went to pastor Apollo on the stage, and I said, hey, there's people here that need to be born again. Just wanted to let you know. And so, starts sharing a simple the simple gospel and to give an altar call. As he's sharing that, I turn around to the guy I had just prayed for.
And I had a translator beside me. I said, hey, do you know Jesus as your Lord? Have you ever been born again? Something along those lines. He said, no.
And I said, do you know why God was touching you like that? He said, no. I said, because he was showing you that he's real and he's powerful and he has the power to change your life from the inside out. Do you want to follow Jesus as your Lord? He said, yes.
So I shared the gospel with him right there. And when you believe Jesus died and rose again, he and then you confess him as Lord of your life, that He washes you clean and puts His Spirit in you and begins to lead you in peace and and and credits His righteousness to your account. Do you believe that? Yes. Are you ready to to give your life to Jesus?
Yes. God used a sign and a miracle right there of Him powerfully touching this young man, probably 24, 25 years old. Opened his heart to the gospel right there in the moment in another country, so that he could receive the goodness of God, walk in relationship with him, and be forever marked by the power of Jesus. Amen? *Romans-15:13*.
It says, may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him. There's a little echo, so I was just turning it down a little bit. May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that Everybody say, so that So that. You may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. Some of us may be lacking a little joy and peace.
This verse tells me that I'm filled with all joy and peace as I trust in God. So Lord, help my lack of trust in any area of my life so I can I can see your character and your nature and trust in who you are so I can be filled with your peace and your joy in those areas? Amen? So that according to this verse, any area where I lack joy and peace, I lack trust. Because it says, as you trust in him.
You see it? Lord, help us to trust in you more fully. So that we may overflow with hope. Everybody say, hope. Hope.
Remember, from Hebrews-11:1, faith is the substance of things hoped for. And faith comes by hearing. So, in any area, hope is like a foundation of faith. In any area where I hope in God's character nature, that's an area where I have the capacity to hear His voice. In any area where I don't hope in Him, I lack hope in Him, that's I lack the ability to hear His voice in that area.
So crucial for you to understand. I wanna have complete hope in the full power of the gospel. And, that's really what I wanna give you today. What I what I want you to understand. I want you to understand the full power of the gospel and how that can impact every aspect of your life.
I want you to walk away with a deeper *hope* in the full power of the gospel. Let's let's go to Hebrews-4. I didn't give them this verse. So, if you have your Bibles, turn to it. If you if you have your phone, go to the Bible app and turn to it.
But, Hebrews-4:16. We're gonna go on a little bit of a journey. I got a lot in me that I wanna get out to you and I'm not really sure how it's gonna come out. So, we'll go on a journey through scripture together. Are you guys good with that?
Let's call it bible study with pastor David. Just kinda let what's boiling in me overflow, and and hopefully, it helps you. *Hebrews-4:16* says, let us then approach God's **"throne of grace"** with confidence so that we we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need. Because of the gospel, because of the power of the gospel, because of what Jesus did, we have the ability to confidently approach the throne of God. To confidently approach the throne room of God.
I want you to know that. I want you to be confident in that because of what Jesus did, you can confidently approach his presence. And, we don't just approach his presence, but we can go deep. I wanna give you the keys today on how to go deep in your relationship with the Lord. I wanna give you the keys today.
There's a lot of people that oh, and I I it it aggravates me, if I'm honest. A lot of people come to church like, man, I just wanna go deep. Man, you know, let's I just just open up the word and give me some deep word, pastor. We're gonna go deep today, but it's not what you think. I I just wanna show you guys, going deep does not mean finding some obscure scripture in the Bible that you've never seen before, and learning some piece of knowledge that you've never known before, and now, you know, you feel like you went deep.
That's not depth. That's just you expanding your knowledge, so you can feel smarter, and so you can have a conversation and feel more prideful in in how much bible you know. That's right. That's not depth. If I don't go to Leviticus-27:11, or whatever verse that you've never heard before, and don't pull out this treasure that you think you've never heard before, and you're like, well, the pastor didn't go deep.
No, we're going deep today. And, I'm a give you the keys to continue to go deep every single day of your relationship with Jesus, if you're willing to. So you're ready to learn how to go deep? Are you sure? Yes.
You're gonna find it's no different than what I've always been saying. So you may get mad at me at how simplistic this is, but it is what it is. Alright. So Ezekiel-47. Remember, you have confidence because of the gospel to approach the throne of grace.
*Ezekiel-47:1*. Ezekiel is being led around this vision. It's very applicable to you and how to go deep. He writes, the man brought me back to the entrance of the temple, and I saw water coming out from under the threshold of the temple towards the east for the temple faced east. The water was coming down from under the south side of the temple, south of the altar.
He then brought me out through the north gate and led me around the outside to the outer gate facing east, and the water was trickling from the south side. Okay. So first, you see water seeping out of the threshold, so out from under the door, and then you see it trickling. So it started as as seeping out from the altar which some would say is the throne of God or the throne room of God. The the ark of the covenant.
Some people, theologians would say, hey, that was that was built like a throne of what other people would see would would be the the throne of other gods. And, I don't have time to go into all of that, but in a way that we could understand that, hey, this is where God's presence rested. This is where God's presence was. And, there was an altar that where we laid ourself down, where Jesus Jesus sacrificed himself completely on the altar so that we could enter into his presence, and that's where we take a drink of his presence. That's where we get into his presence because of what Jesus did on the altar.
You guys follow me? Alright. So, you go to the temple. Who's the temple? Well, personally, because we've been born again, we've been made into a temple of the Lord where he puts his presence in us.
So, individually, I go, I can confidently approach his throne in grace because of what Jesus did for me. And, Jesus said, anybody who comes to me and takes a drink, that drink will become "rivers of living water" bursting forth out of his belly. So, single day, because I am his temple, I want to get alone in his presence and seek after him and take a drink of him, take a drink of who he is, and and let that multiply through me throughout the day. Does that make sense? You guys follow me so far?
But also, together, we are the temple of God. Together, we are his church where 2 or 3 are gathered together. There I am in his presence. So not only do do I get to experience the presence of God personally as a temple of the Lord and confidently approach his grace, but there's a deeper manifestation of the presence of God when we get together as his body and experience his presence corporately as the temple of God. Does that make sense?
You guys follow me? Yeah. Okay. So, with that being the foundation, understand that the water is just seeping and trickling there. It's not deep.
When we get alone with God, we take a drink. It's seeping. It's a trickle. We we experience his presence, but it's not deep yet. When we come to church on a Sunday morning and we celebrate together and God moves in a powerful way and it's beautiful and it's wonderful, you know, that's still just a trickle and that's still just seeping.
It's not deep yet. We may experience Him move and healing and power and deliverance and all kinds of cool stuff, but still, it's just a trickle because we're at the temple. *Ephesians-4:47*, the water was coming from under the side of the temple, south of the altar. He brought me out through the north gate and led me around the outside to the outer gate facing east, and the water was trickling from the south side. So, it starts at the altar, it starts seeping, and then as it gets out of the temple, it becomes a trickle.
You guys see that picture? Okay. As the man went eastward with a measuring line in his hand, he measured off 1000 cubits, is about a third of a mile, and then, led me through the water that was ankle deep. Started as a seep, then a trickle, got a third of the of a mile from the temple, from the "secret place", and it became ankle deep. He measured off another thousand cubits, so this is 2 thirds of a mile from the temple, and it was knee deep.
He measured off another thousand and he led me through the water that was up to the waist. Trickle, ankle deep, knee deep, waist deep. Now, we're a mile away from the temple. You guys follow me? He measured off another thousand, but now it was a river that I could not cross because the water had risen and was deep enough to swim.
A river that no 1 could cross. He asked me, Son of man, do you see this? Then he led me back to the bank of the river. When I arrived there, I saw a great number of trees on each side of the river. And he said to me, this water flows toward the eastern region and goes down into the Arabah where it enters the Dead Sea.
When it empties into the sea, the salty water becomes fresh. Swarms of living creatures will live wherever the river flows. There will be large numbers of fish because this water flows and makes the salt water fresh. So, where the river flows, everything will live. Jesus said, I guess John-4, anybody anybody who comes to me and drinks, that water will become rivers of living life life flowing out from your belly.
We have to our relationship with Jesus, everything that we experience in this life, it comes from the altar. It comes from knowing him personally. It comes from the secret place. It comes from corporately together worshiping him at the temple. But it doesn't get deep there.
It gets deep as we take what we've received from him personally and go outside of the secret place and give it out. See, Jesus is all about multiplication. And the way that it multiplies is you receive a drink and then you give out rivers. Jesus asked, what do you have in your hands? They said, the 5 loaves and the 2 fish.
Give it to me. We They gave it to him. He broke it. He gave it back. And as they gave it out, it multiplied.
You wanna go deep in the Lord. You don't you don't just sit in his *presence* by yourself for the rest of your life because you'll still be at a trickle. You gotta take what he gives you in his presence and go give it out. And, as you give it out, it gets deeper in you and other people experience a multiplication of that through you. *Jesus* said, I have so much more to tell you but it's more than you can now bear.
Why was it more than you can now bear? John-14:21. Watch this. Whoever has my commands and keeps them, it's obedience. Whoever obeys my commands, what I tell them to do, that is the 1 who loves me.
Man, I wanna I wanna live a life of loving Jesus. Live a lot living a life of loving Jesus is being obedient to what he says to do. Watch this. Whoever loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love them and show myself to them. You wanna go deep in your relationship with Jesus.
You wanna see more of Christ in your relationship with Him. You wanna experience more of who Jesus is. You have to obey the last thing He told you. You have to be obedient. You go to him in the secret place.
He gives you a word. Right? That morning, you you processes it, then you go out throughout the day at your job, at your work, in your life, with your family, with your kids, and you put that word to practice. And, as you put that word to practice, it goes from the trickle you received here, and it multiplies, and becomes deep within you, and then deep through you. And then, you go back to the secret place, He gives you more and reveals more of Himself to you, because you weren't ready to bear the more that He wanted to give you because you weren't being obedient to the last thing.
But, as you're obedient to the last thing, he says, oh, man, he love he's loving me back. Now, I can show more of myself to him. Does that make sense? Yep. You wanna know more of Jesus?
Be obedient. It's as simple as that. *Ezekiel-47:11* says, but the swamps and marshes will not become fresh. They will be left for salt. You know what a swamp in a marsh is?
Swamp in a marsh happens when a river overflows, or it it it overflows its banks because of rains, because of whatever happens. But, those swamps and marshes don't have an outlet. So, the water becomes stagnant or very slow flowing. There's no flow. There's no receiving and giving constantly.
And so, this is saying it will be left for salt. There will be no life there. People who just receive and don't give out what God's given them remain shallow in their relationship with Jesus no matter how wide their knowledge is of the Bible, How many obscure things of scripture they know. They remain shallow in their relationship with Christ and there's very little life. You wanna you wanna have a relationship with Jesus that touches many many people?
Everything you receive, give out. Everything you receive, be obedient to do what he says and give it out to to people. It's the great commission. Like I told you, it's it's not gonna be any different. You wanna know how to go deep.
It's be obedient and give out what he gives you. "Amen? Amen." Now, here's here's the Like, that's not new. I don't know if the rest of this is new either.
But, I just really I really want you to be able to receive the fullness of the gospel. Like, I I get this I have this picture in my mind of those a lot of Christians throughout the world and especially in America who go into the secret place to take that that drink that I'm talking about from John chapter I think it's John-4. I might be wrong. I hope I'm not wrong. Oh, yeah.
Nope. I'm wrong. You know what I do when I don't know where our scripture is? I Google it. So watch this.
Rivers of living water verse. Oh, so far I can't open because I have no internet. Let's try it again. Rivers of living water verse. Anybody got it off the top of your head?
Is it John-4:10? John-4:10? Was I was I right? No. It's not that 1.
Good try. There we go. John-7:38. Okay. *John-7:37, on the last day's greatest day of the festival, Jesus* stood and said in a loud voice, let anyone who is thirsty come to me and drink.
Whoever believes in me, as scripture said, rivers of living water will flow from within them. By this, he meant the spirit, which is the Holy Spirit, whom those who believed in him were later to receive. Up to that time, the spirit had not been given since Jesus had not been glorified. Okay. So everything that we experience in this life, in our relationship with Jesus, is from the Holy Spirit and the power of the Holy Spirit.
That's how he moves in us. That's he that's how he reveals what he wants to say to us. That's, you know, his power through us is all through the Holy Spirit. And, that happens as we go to him and take a drink. Now, the picture I have in my mind of people in the American church, but people throughout out the world, is they go to *Jesus* in order to take a drink.
They spend time in the quiet place. But because there's areas of the gospel that they don't believe, they they don't hear him in the areas that he wants to reveal himself to him because they have held no hope in his character or his nature there. Remember I told you in the beginning, in order to hear God in any area, in order to have faith in any area, you have to have hope in his character and nature in that area? So they go to him in order to hear from him. They read scripture, but there's areas of scripture because of their circumstance or because of what they've always been taught that they've blocked out, and there's no hope in his character nature as a healer.
And so, when God wants to reveal the full power of the gospel in their life, in their secret place, they're not able to hear him speak in that area because they have no hope there. So, when they go, there's no depth and healing in their life because they had no hope in the secret place when they were receiving the drink. And so, they can't give out what they can't receive because they don't believe him in that area. There's there's people all throughout America. I go to I go to Brazil.
I go to India. I go to Pakistan. I go to Africa, And I see deliverance. I see people I see demons being cast out of people. I see people with depression and and suicidal thoughts and and all kind of stuff, and they have all these strongholds in their mind, and and it's demonic.
And demons are being cast out of people, and I and I come here, and and I talk with people on my couch, and demons are being cast out of people on my couch. People crying, and and being set free, and demons being cast out of people. But, most people just explain it away as this, that, or the other, because they do they don't really wanna believe what happened in scripture is physically real for them today. So, when they go for the secret place, and they need deliverance, they x out hope that God can actually deliver them in those areas, and so they don't experience the fullness of the Holy Spirit in those areas, because they have no hope in his character nature, because they don't even believe it's real. Amen.
Yes. Amen. Come on. Let's write. I I don't hold on 1 second, miss Bianca.
I I don't want to allow you to be comfortable minimizing the gospel, and the fullness of the power of the gospel if you come to a church. I wanna be a church that puts on full display, the full the power of the gospel, every time the Holy Spirit moves in the ways that he wants to do it, and let that challenge every area of unbelief in you, and cause you to be uncomfortable in a way that you can only experience comfort if you go to the Holy Spirit and surrender. Amen. That's what Jesus did. Jesus confronted the lies with truth, and he didn't do it in a way that he was, you know, lacking fruit of the Holy Spirit.
He did it in the way of the Father, in spirit and in truth. So, he he said what needed to be said, what the Father wanted to say, in the way the Father would say it. But, he didn't back down in any way. So, what what what is the full power of the gospel? Well, Matthew-4.
Let's look at what Jesus did, and what he told the disciples to do. Matthew-4:23, Jesus went went throughout Galilee teaching in the synagogues, in their synagogues, proclaiming the good news of the kingdom. That's the gospel. The gospel means good news. Gospel of the kingdom.
And healing every disease and sickness among the people. So whenever the gospel is proclaimed, there's healing of sickness and disease. Watch when Jesus commissioned them. *Matthew-12* chapter 10. Jesus called his 12 disciples to them and gave them authority to drive out impure spirits and to heal every disease and sickness.
He gave the disciples that he's about to commission the authority to cast out demons and to heal the sick. And then, what did he tell them? Verse 7, as you go, proclaim this message. The kingdom of heaven has come near. It's the gospel of the kingdom.
Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the leprosy, drive out demons, freely leave your seat. You've received, freely give. He's teaching them how to go deep. You've received this from me. Now, give it out, and you're gonna go deep in me.
Yeah. Yeah. Amen. In those areas. Freely you receive, freely give.
Let this if this is challenging you, good. I love you enough to say it, and to read it from scripture, so that you can hear it. And, let it build hope that the gospel can do that. It's the power of the gospel. Watch this.
What what did did God anoint what did the Holy Spirit anoint Jesus to do? Luke-4. He opened the scroll in Nazareth and he read, verse 18, the Spirit of the Lord is on me because he has anointed me to proclaim the good news to the poor. I think that's the physically poor and the spiritually poor. Blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Those who recognize their need for a savior. He sent me to proclaim freedom to the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, spiritually and physically. We saw physical blindness healed in Scripture. We saw demonic captives set free in Scripture to set the oppressed free, to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor. So this, why the Holy Spirit was on Jesus.
Watch this. John-20:21. *Jesus* said, peace be with you. As the Father sent me, I'm sending you. So wait.
The Father, get put the Holy Spirit on Jesus in order for him to preach the good news to the poor, recovery of sight for the blind, to set the oppressed free. Sounds like a theme. Right? With the gospel, Jesus when we receive Jesus and we choose to follow him, he commissions us as the Father sent me, so I'm sending you. With the same Holy Spirit, Acts-1:8, you will receive power when the Holy Spirit on is on you, and you will be my witnesses.
You won't just do witnessing, you'll be a witness. Why? Because you've seen this happen. You've received it in your life when you were with me. Now, you're gonna go and give out the very things that you received, and as you give it out, it will go deeper in you.
And, there's something to giving it out because if we don't give it out, did we really receive it? Do we really believe it? If if if I received a gift of salvation, and I really believe that it's going to impact the world, and those that don't believe it are dying and go to hell, going to hell, Is it loving of me to not share it? Do I really believe it if I don't share it? If I if it's captured my heart out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.
Right? Amen? Amen. I I I look, I'm I'm not trying to be mean. I'm just I'm just spurring you on to good works.
Because I think sometimes we get so captivated by who we are that we live out who we are instead of who he is. It's no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And, I think that we have minimized the full *gospel* in the secret place, so we're only taking the drinks of Jesus that we're comfortable with. So, that's the only thing that grows in us, and a lost and dying world is looking for a full gospel, not an insufficient 1. A gospel that has the power unto salvation, the power to forgive, and to make someone new, and also that comes with it, the power to heal, and the power to deliver.
When we believe something spiritually, it should affect us emotionally, in our will, in our feelings, and physically. Should impact every aspect of our life. Do I say that, man, that that means I'm walking in complete and total healing? No. Got aches and pains, man.
But, I'm going to rejoice in the truth that of He's He's my healer in the midst of my aches and pains. Man, I'm in a lost and dying world full of sin and death, and in the midst of this, I know the Holy Spirit says in Romans-8 that He's gonna give life to my mortal body. So I'm gonna trust Him and experience more and more of life in my mortal body, and if I don't experience it now, man, I know I'm gonna experience in the the in the sweet by and by. But, that doesn't give me an excuse not to pursue, excuse me for all the spitting, not to pursue more and more of Him. I think so many people look at their circumstances, and they they have more faith in what they haven't experienced, instead of what the scripture tells us that we should be experiencing, a life, and life more abundantly in Christ.
And so, Christianity becomes, I'm going to get a drink at church, but not live it out the rest of the day, because they don't really believe that it can impact the rest of their day. What did what did what did Paul say about this? Paul said *Romans-15* verse 18, I will not venture to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me, and leading the Gentiles to obey *God* by what I've done and said, or by what I've said and done. Everybody say, said Said. And done.
Verse 19, by the power of signs and wonders, through the power of the Spirit of God. So, from Jerusalem all the way around Illyricum? Illyricum. I have fully proclaimed the gospel of Christ. Why had he fully proclaimed the gospel of Christ?
Because he preached it, and he demonstrated it. He preached the Kingdom of God, just like Jesus commissioned the 12 disciples and then the 72, and then he demonstrated it in power. And, the power of the gospel demonstrated, brought more people to Jesus, to an understanding of him as 1 that can literally and actually save them. Amen? Amen.
"Ain't that cool?" Now, you understand why I shared the testimonies in the beginning. I shared the testimony of the guy, as I prayed for him shaking, he didn't know Jesus yet. It was the power of the Holy Spirit. It was a sign and a wonder for him, so that it would open his heart to receive the power of the gospel to take him from death to life.
And you know if he's marked by that in the beginning, hopefully, somebody disciples him and teaches him that I didn't do that just because I was some, like, super holy man. I did that because I have Jesus in me, and now he's got the same Jesus in him, and he can go make disciples the same way. Amen? Amen. So, want to practice with you the power of the gospel.
See, I want I want to disciple you in this so that you can go and do that in your daily life. First, we go to the throne room of grace based on what Jesus did for us. We can confidently go to his throne room knowing that he's with us, that he loves us, and we can experience more and more of who he is because we've heard testimonies of what God has done, because we know God has healed many many people in our church over the last few months. Deliverance has happened, all kinds of stuff. We can have hope as we go to the throne room that God can heal my diseases, God can deliver me from my demons in every single way.
I can experience freedom. Now, as we go into His presence with hope, knowing that as if He's done it for all these other people, He can do it for me, now I have the capacity in His presence to hear him in those areas. Son, I'm your healer. Son, I'm your deliverer. Now, I take a drink and experience the freedom personally.
Now, as I go out, I have a deeper hope that if he did it in me, he can do it to those around me, And, he wants to use me to give out what I freely received. And, as I give it out, a deeper understanding of those things happens in me, and I'm walking in the depth of the goodness and character nature of God because I've not just experienced it personally, but I'm giving it out, and it's being multiplied through me. That's what I was trying to get across the whole time. Simple. I wanna invite you all to stand.
And we'll be done in about 5 to 10 minutes. I wanna encourage you to confidently approach the throne of grace as children of God right now. I want you to close your eyes, and I want you just to begin to thank God that you're his kid. I want you to go ahead. Begin to thank him.
You can talk under your you but just out loud, begin to thank God that you're his kid, that that he's forgiven you. Go ahead. Thank you, Jesus, that we're loved by you. Begin to thank Him for who He is. Thank Him that He's your healer.
Thank Him that He's your deliverer. We're approaching the throne of grace right now. We're taking a drink. Holy Spirit, come. Thank you, Lord Jesus.
You are the healer. You are the provider. "He is your provider". Somebody needs to thank him that he's your provider in the midst of your circumstance. You're you're looking at it as lack, but Bible says he's your provider.
So so begin to thank him that he's your provider right now. Come on. Seek him with your heart. Thank you, Jesus. We praise you for your goodness.
Thank you, Lord Jesus. We praise you. You're wonderful. All of our hope is in you. Thank you, Lord.
Alright. Raise your hand if you feel refreshed. You feel refreshed? Okay. So some people took some drinks.
That's good. Okay. So now, I wanna give you the opportunity collectively to go deeper. I'll give you the opportunity collectively. How do we go deeper?
We just experience his goodness as our healer, as our deliverer, thanking him for what he's done. Now, need to what do we need to do to go deeper? Give it up. Give it up. Okay.
So wonderful. So, if you have pain in your body, any kind of pain, and don't minimize it, if it's little or big, if it's cancer or it's a headache, whatever it is. If it's a blood disorder, if you have AIDS or something small. *God* cares about the big and the little things, and he's the healer of all of those things. I've seen I've seen it all, most of it healed.
So we just saw him as our healer. We saw him as our deliverer. If you have depression, specifically depression, I want you I want you guys to raise your hand if you have pain or depression or in in your body right now, you need prayer. K. Raise it high.
No. Keep it up. Alright. I I want you guys to to look around. Keep your hand up.
If you're a believer, I want you to go to somebody with their hand up, and I want you to begin to pray for them, to give out what you've received. Go ahead. Come on. This is practical. Come on, church.
Go pray for people. So the church being the church, we're serving 1 another. If you're comfortable, ask them ask them what you're praying for. You guys let them know what they need to be praying for so that they know they can speak specifically to the issue. Depression, we just command you in the name of Jesus to go right now.
Leave. In Jesus' name. Headaches, chronic headaches, I command you in the name of Jesus to go. In the name of Jesus, those that had issues from car wrecks, from an accident, that left over from trauma, We rebuke trauma in Jesus' name, and I command you to go. Leave now.
And every afflicting spirit that came with that, go now in Jesus' name. *Holy Spirit*, you are our healer. We thank you for your goodness. Thank you, Lord Jesus. We can't do this without you.
Lord, I just pray peace over people. Peace in Jesus' name. Okay. Okay. I want you to I want you to stay with the person you're praying for.
I want you guys to stop. Stop. Thank you, Lord Jesus. I want you to look at me. Okay.
We're not a "fake it till you make it" church. We confront the problem. Right? And we don't fake it like it's any better. But if it is better, we don't lie about it either.
Okay? So, I want you to test your body where the pain was, and literally, if if whether you felt something or you didn't. God heals when people feel something, and that increases faith. And, when people doesn't feel something, because of the Word, He heals. I want you to test your body where the pain was and everything, if it's at least 80% better.
Go ahead. I'm not seeing enough people move. Test it. Look. Move around.
Come on. Now, if it's at least 80% better or more, I want you to wave both hands at me. That many people. Everybody look around. Look at the people waving.
80% better or more. Okay. Let that build your faith. Pray again. Pray again.
*Jesus* prayed for a blind man twice. We might have to pray 3 or 4 times. Don't worry. We'll just pray twice today. Jesus is our healer.
He's moving in power. It's the power of the gospel. We just rebuke every religious spirit. Just be silent in Jesus' name. Thank you, Lord Jesus, for healing.
Thank you, Lord Jesus, for peace. I just speak peace over this congregation and over these people. Well, it's the gospel of peace that they would sense your peace and your presence. We praise you, Lord. Thank you, Lord Jesus.
Hey, you step in obedience here, you're depth. You're getting depth of relationship. Amen? Okay. I want you to stop.
Alright. If it's a 100% gone, a 100% better, want you to wave both hands. 100%, wave both hands at me. 2 hands. 2 hands.
Okay. We have some people that were a 100% healed. Come on. That's a big deal. The gospel goes out, and Jesus said, heal the sick, cast out demons, proclaim the gospel of the kingdom.
And then, said, proclaim the gospel of kingdom, heal the sick, cast out demons. Why? Well, because it backs the word. It backs the gospel. This doesn't mean that I'm a super holy man.
It means I'm preaching the gospel. Okay? Now, I wanna live a life that has character to back it up. Just because you see power and miracles here, you still need to inspect the people's lives. You know?
It backs the word. Now, there this happened today, 1, because God loves you and he cares for you and he sees you where you are and he wants to demonstrate his love to you. But 2, it also happened because there are people here that need to be born again. And, they realize for the first time that the gospel is the *power of God* to impact your life, but also the power of God unto salvation. Does that make sense?
I feel like we need to share 1 testimony. 1 testimony of somebody being healed. Who wants to share it? Today or Yeah. Today.
Just now. Somebody be bold. Yes, ma'am. Come on. Plantar fasciitis hurts to stand.
People can pray for her. She's getting emotional. Feels lighter. Pain gone. *Jesus wants is the also the power of God unto salvation*.
We believe he died and rose again, but then we confess him as Lord. I'm gonna follow you in fullness. Is there anybody here that would say, I'm ready to follow Jesus, to be my Lord's I've never given my life to Jesus, but I'm ready to give my life to Jesus right now. Who would that be? I'm ready to give my life to Jesus right now.
Okay. Well, there's people pointing at people, but I want I want them to raise their hand. I'm ready to give my life to Jesus personally. Okay. Here's the deal.
I want you to seek after him to know the full power of the gospel. I want you to seek after Him to know Him personally. I want you to go home daily, get alone and take a drink, and then daily, give out what he gave you, so that it can go deeper. Be obedient. And, if we do that, the city will forever be changed.
Amen? Amen. Well, I'm I'm done.