You are called to pursue a passion that goes beyond mere emotion and embraces sacrifice for the joy set before you. Seek the baptism of the Holy Spirit today, stepping out in faith to receive the power needed to be a true witness for Christ. Don't let fear stop you from jumping into the deep waters of God's anointing.
And since we're in the announcement vein, we have a big announcement. I got a big 1. This announcement, when I share it with you, will reveal the possibility, the potential, because of this announcement, to advance the vision and mission that God has given Real Church further and faster than we've ever experienced. This announcement will open up that possibility. It will pour gas on the fire of what we're doing and allow us to have a greater impact in Pinellas County than we've ever had in our lives, which is awesome.
But it's illegal. Not illegal. It's not allowed You
got it.
By by the other party for me to be able to share what this announcement is until next week. But don't worry, if you come next week, you will not be let down. It's a good announcement. So if you call Real Church your home, or if you want to call Real Church your home, or if there are people here that call Real Church their their home and they're not here, like people that are somewhere and they're just missing out, go tell them they need to be here next week. Because next week, I will "let the cat out of the bag" about the potential that God has placed before us that is a not Well, it's not a small deal.
It's a big deal. So real church, "get excited". This is the announcement. If you know, you know. And if you don't, come and see.
Either way, come and see. It's gonna be awesome. Amen? Amen. We are in a series titled Rooted in Purpose.
And all of our small groups are going through Rooted in Purpose. The it's it's just it's a powerful series, and I would encourage you to buy this book if you can. If do we have that? That's there it is right there. You can scan the QR code.
It was written by 1 of our overseers, doctor Leon Van Rooyen, and it's going to push you to scripture. Your life is supposed to be "rooted in purpose" biblically. And chapter 1 was love God. And so, 2 weeks ago, I preached on loving God. And, man, I I believe that that imparted something to you guys and created a hunger and a desire for loving God more.
And then last week, chapter 2 was loyalty to the church, to the body of Christ, to his bride. And there were so many scriptures all throughout. My wife did an amazing job. Pastor Courtney. Lot of people don't know this.
Maybe you do if you've been around them a bit, but Courtney and I have been speaking together since I was 18 years old. She was 19. We were traveling around Louisiana speaking in different schools and stuff. And I knew my prayer was 1 day we'd get to do that, sharing the gospel together. And then, getting to see the fruition of that, you know, getting to see the answers to those prayers.
It's I'm just a proud husband and and really, I know that she's different, but better than me is speaking in a lot of different ways and so it's just a it's an honor to to get to have her as my wife. So would you guys give her a big old hand? And so rooted in purpose, I'd encourage you to buy that, especially if you're in 1 of the small groups. You don't have to buy it to go to a small group. If you're not in a small group, sign up for a small group and because it's it's a big deal.
If you're already in multiple ministries, don't feel obligated. You don't have to stretch yourself thin. But I just want you growing in the Lord. And growing in the Lord happens in relationship with 1 another. Amen?
Amen. You know, don't don't think that that you can grow in the Lord by getting 1 meal a week on Sundays because you can. Right? You it's supposed to create a hunger and a desire for you for you to go personally, get in your word daily, and then also be in relationship with 1 another because discipleship happens in the context of relationships. Amen?
Okay. So for today, really the focus of chapter 3, the first word of the title of chapter 3, I'm not gonna give you the whole title yet, but the first word of the title is passion. So I wanna talk about that today. The dictionary definition of passion, strong and barely controllable emotion. Number 2 is an intense desire or enthusiasm for something.
When we describe someone as passionate about something, we're describing the emotion and conviction that emanates from someone when they begin talking about a topic or engaging in that subject That person talking about a person. The passion usually emanates from a lifestyle of *sacrifice* to grow in relationship with that thing, that subject, that person that the speaker is talking about. A lifestyle of sacrifice. A lot of times we don't think about suffering and sacrifice and passion in the same context. But the word passion comes from the Latin word, pati.
I don't know how to pronounce it in Latin. But pati simply means to suffer. So passion is connected with suffering and sacrifice. And when you think about the passion of Christ, it's what we use to describe the week of *Jesus* going to the cross. That that week, the passion of Christ, the movie and then him carrying the cross up to Golgotha and being that's his passion.
What is he doing? He's suffering for the joy set before him. Who's the joy set before him? You. You are his passion.
A lot of times, we think about passion. I think, for me, I think about addiction. Like passion, this deep consuming desire for something so so significant that one's willing to endure hardship to sacrifice to obtain it. In high school, I shared all of this with the dream team this morning, our serve team. In high school, I would say that I had 2 things that I was addicted to.
I would always say this all the time. 2 things that I was addicted to. And I didn't know the definition of passion. It's really 2 things that I was most passionate about. I was willing to endure hardship and sacrifice my life, my time in order to get better at these things.
And I I'd say this all the time. I don't know if Courtney remembers me telling people this all the time. Courtney's like, all the time. We were high school sweethearts sweethearts, by the way. Number 1, I'm addicted to the feeling I get when I'm playing the drums.
I've been playing the drums since I was 11. Addicted to the feeling I get when I'm playing the drums, and it's it's like I'm getting lost in *worship* to Jesus as I'm playing. And And I begin playing things I didn't even know I knew how to play because of the anointing. And I know in that moment that the people, there's some people or somebody in the room that's watching me play and being drawn into a relationship with *God* or being drawn to give God glory for what's happening. I was addicted to that, passionate about it, and I sacrificed my life in multiple ways for it.
I would spend hours and hours practicing the drums. My dad had an office in the backyard with my drum set in it, very similar to where Tripp's drum set is in my office in the backyard. Crazy. He's beginning to spend hours practicing drums, by the way, which is kinda cool for dear old dad. But I would spend hours practicing the drums, going over and over these little monotonous things because I cared, because I knew that this was a gift that my heavenly father had given me to steward.
And it was worth sacrificing myself and my time, and enduring the pain of your limbs feeling like they don't know what they're doing, and pushing through until all of a sudden it becomes normal. And then you can put it into practice as an act of worship, knowing that it's giving glory to your heavenly father and people are watching and glorifying him. I was addicted to that feeling, man. Nothing like it. Except, I say the second thing I was addicted to, passionate about.
So I'm speaking. And, man, *God* bless me. I've been speaking in front of people since I was in fifth grade publicly. And I tell people in junior high and high school, I'm addicted to that feeling I get when I'm speaking to 1 person, 1 on 1, conversation, and it shifts, or I'm speaking to a small group of people, or a large crowd of people, didn't matter, thousands, 10 thousands, 1. Addicted to that feeling I get when I'm speaking, and I know that I'm saying things that are anointed.
Begin saying things with a flow that is better than me. I mean, I have a gift. I know that. But when God anoints it, it's life changing. God can use your gift and your flaws and anoint it and change supernatural supernaturally impact people no matter what it is.
When God anoints it, you could just know by faith, and you know that the words that you're saying are cutting their heart and causing them to consider life and consider a relationship with God or consider deeper levels of surrender. And it's worth it. It's worth the wonder, they gonna reject me when I start speaking? It's worth the nervousness. It's worth the hours and hours of preparation and sacrifice and learning necessary to get better at the gift, to steward it well, so that you can walk in the talent that God gave you as an act of worship, giving glory to him so that when people hear it, they're drawn into deeper relationship with the father and maybe, just maybe, come to know him more.
What are you passionate about? What are you willing to sacrifice your time and endure suffering for? And why? Some people sacrifice their families for drugs because of the feeling that they get. Because they don't know that there's someone better than a drug can alleviate the suffering.
Some people sacrifice themselves for sex, for acceptance, for the love that they missed out from daddy and when they were young, through a man or a woman looking passionate about things because you're created to be passionate. *God* is a God of passion and compassion over people and for people. What are you passionate about? And why? What fuels it?
*Revelation* chapter 2. *Jesus* is speaking. These are the words, verse 1, of him who holds the 7 stars in his right hand and walks among the 7 golden lampstands. This is Jesus. What does he say?
I know your deeds, your hard work, your perseverance. I know that you cannot tolerate wicked people, that you've tested those who claim to be apostles but are not and have found them false. You've persevered and have endured hardship for my name and have not grown weary. And he's encouraging them. It's powerful.
It's wonderful. And then he says this, yet I hold this against you. You've not forsaken or you have forsaken the love you had at first. Other versions say you've lost your first love. Consider how fall you've fallen and repent and do the things that you did at first.
If you do not repent, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place. But you have this in your favor. You hate the practices of the Nicolatians, which I also hate. He who has ears, let them hear what the spirit says to the churches. *Jesus* often said, he who has ears, let him hear because some people listen, but nothing changes because they listen without receiving it and believing it enough to stand in what was said.
*Jesus* said, he let he who has ears, let him hear because when you really hear and believe, it shifts things in your heart. You begin to operate from that place of belief because faith comes by hearing. So he who has ears, let him hear. Go back to the things that you did when you first fell in love with Jesus. What was it that you did when you first fell in love?
A lot of people, like marriage, talked about this in the dream team too. All of it. Talk about the honeymoon years. Oh, that's just the honeymoon years. Those first 6 months or year, 2 or 3 years, you know.
That'll fade. It shouldn't fade. Your passion for your wife and for your husband shouldn't fade. It should mature like fine wine. It should grow deeper, taste better, get better over time.
But passion is connected with suffering and sacrifice. Remember from the the message love God, agape love is sacrificing yourself for the sake of another? What happens and the reason that passion fades is we get comfortable in our relationship and stop pursuing the other, and instead start taking and receiving more and being stagnant. But if we're growing in love with our spouse, then we'll continue to sacrifice ourself and pursue the other. We'll just grow in maturity and wisdom knowing how.
You want the passion alive? You want it to mature and grow deeper? Keep doing the little things you did at first. At first, maybe you just had the feeling, but it grows more mature because maybe the feeling comes and goes, but you stay steady and continue to learn intimacy with who your spouse is, learn what they need and want, and grow in your ability to *sacrifice* to provide that. And as you sacrifice, passion is connected with suffering.
Suffering and sacrifice go together. As you sacrifice, your passion and love for your spouse again will grow and get more and more deep and mature. It doesn't have to dry up and say, oh, that's just the way it goes. But what is it that we do in Christianity? We sell those are just the young ones.
They just gave their life to Jesus. That's why they're so zealous for him. Oh, you know, they're sharing the gospel with everybody. They're passionate in worship. That's just like honeymoon phase.
They'll grow out of that. What gives you the right to say that? Where is that in the bible? *Jesus* said you've lost your first love, go back and do the things you did at first. There's no excuse to anyone whether you've been following Jesus for 2 months or 50 years.
Whether you're a child or you have white hair. As a matter of fact, I hope at real church, our white hairs are the most passionate. Maybe don't have as much energy, but the most passionate. A passion that has matured over time because passion is a product of proximity and sacrifice. We did this thing at Boiler Room on Friday night.
Mariah did this little analogy. She has great analogies. Courtney, would you come here? The the heavenly father wants you to be passionate about what he's passionate for. He doesn't want you to just be passionate and zealous for zealous's sake zeal's sake or passion's sake.
That would be unwise. Why does the white haired wisdom in your relationship with Jesus, why should it be more mature and just as passionate? Because they've spent longer amounts of time, should be, getting in closer proximity to the father and hearing his heart more clearly, so their zeal is more focused. Their passion is more focused because they've heard the Father's heart more over time. That's in a perfect world, that's the way it should be.
And, we're praying on on earth as it is in heaven. Right? So, man, we're going for that at real church. Passion is connected with proximity. And then hearing the heart and sacrificing yourself to align with that.
And I wanna hear my father's heart. I wanna know his heart. Wait. How did Jesus live? Jesus said, I only do what I see my father doing.
I only say what I hear my father saying in perfect alignment with the will of the Father. What is our role as Christians? Come to know the heartbeat of the Father and align our life with the heartbeat of the Father. That's called surrender. This saying, did you accept Jesus as your savior?
I don't like it. I don't like that saying, did you accept Jesus as your savior? Because to me, what that sounds like is, oh, Jesus wants to be my savior? I accept that. Now, I'm gonna go do my life.
That's not Christianity. I'm sorry.
It's did you surrender to Jesus as *Lord* and receive him as your savior?
So, I'm
surrendering to his way of life as my own. I'm learning to hear his heartbeat because of proximity. I'm growing in my confidence to be in proximity as I'm mature in him so that I can hear his heartbeat more clearly and align my life with what he's passionate about. Why was I addicted to the drums and to preaching or speaking with people? Because I learned at 11 and 12 how to align my life up with the Lord.
How to surrender and get in relationship with him. I I learned to create a discipline of getting in his word, not to earn anything, but because I knew how much he loved me and I wanted to be close to him. And so getting in his word is getting to know his heart and his will and then surrendering and reorienting my life to follow what he his heart beats for. But the only way I can do that is proximity.
Can I hear her heartbeat right here? No. Can I hear her heartbeat right here? Can I hear her heartbeat right here? Maybe, if I'm here and I'm not all distracted.
Does that make sense? Can I feel her heartbeat like this? No. I have to be still and focus and know that he she is near. Yeah?
And I get to learn how and where I can feel her heartbeat. So then I can, with him, know his will and passion grows as I sacrifice myself to line up with his will. And so the feeling is on the other side of obedience. Amazing. So we're gonna do something right now.
It's an interactive Sunday. They're gonna sing that beautiful song that Hannah wrote like they did earlier. And I want you The Bible says, "seek and you will find". Knock and the door will be open. Matthew-6:33 says, **seek first**.
Everybody say, first. First. His kingdom and his righteousness. And, all these things will be added to you. We don't seek first his kingdom to get all these things added.
That means all these things added is actually what you're seeking first. And, you're just doing this for a different outcome. We seek first him. Why? Because we're enamored by him.
We care we
we've we've been captured. Our heart's been captured by him.
He's our first love. So as we sing this song, my challenge to you, whether you sit still silently, whether you stand, whether you get on your face before the Lord, whatever it looks like, however the Holy Spirit is leading you to *repent* of any areas where he hasn't been your first love, where you've been passionate and putting other things before him. To commit to daily encountering him? What does a daily encounter with God look like? For me, it looks like first thing in the morning, I write in my journal, thank you Jesus for what you did yesterday.
Started it again. Thank you yesterday for just remembering, getting in his word, *worshiping* him when I'm alone, thinking, being aware that he's with me all throughout the day, Having a thirst, those who hunger and thirst for righteousness will be filled. Where does the hunger and thirst come from? Let me show you. The hunger and thirst comes from God.
He instills the hunger and thirst in you. Some of you, as I'm speaking, there's a hunger and thirst being created in you. That's not because I'm a good speaker. That's because the Holy Spirit has anointed these words to impact your heart and create
in your spirit a hunger and a thirst for more of God. But how do you cultivate that hunger? If when you're hungry, you don't eat, your stomach shrinks, you get less hungry. You're able to handle less food. If when you're hungry, you eat, your appetite grows.
You get able to handle less and less water, or able to handle more and more depending on if you're When you get thirsty, you do what it takes. And what does it take when you're hungry and thirsty? Seek him with all of your heart. Go after him. Get in the word, which is food.
*Worship him with everything that you have in full surrender*. Obey the things that he told you to do at first. Go back and quit making excuses for why you don't. Oh, I'm I'm I'm too old for that now. No, you're not.
What did you do when you gave your life to Jesus at 18 that you haven't done in 40 years? Go do that. What did you do when you gave your life to Jesus 6 months ago? Go do that and watch as passion for him is reignited because you're sacrificing yourself in line with his heart and his will again in those areas. And you begin to burn for him, and then it grows and grows until those around you are burning for him too.
We're not done. I got a little more. But I wanna take this moment. Holy Spirit, I ask you to put a hunger and a thirst. *Lord*, and I ask you to quench the hunger and thirst you put in them equal to their seeking you.
That doesn't mean I'm looking for something. Just whatever it looks like to seek him. Whatever authentic from your heart. Let's seek him together.
In all of your infinite *power*, you desire to know us in intimate love, more in all of your infinite power, you gave us beautiful sun.
*Jesus*, give us a desire to seek you. We want to want your word, Lord. We want to hunger for your word, Lord. We want to hunger and thirst after you more than we do. We ask you to implant a hunger and a thirst for your word and for worship, Lord God, for knowing you in our hearts, Lord Jesus.
*Lord God*, help us, Lord God to act on that, that we wouldn't just sit and say, oh, that's a good thought Lord. But we would act on it like desperate deer panting from the water, running, looking for the stream and the desert. Lord Jesus, we need more. Compassionate pursuit of your presence. That we have free access to because of Jesus and the blood, but still hungry for more.
Grateful for what we have, but hungry for more. A desire to know your word. Even though
we can carry it around
and have 20 Bibles at our house and more on our phone, Lord Jesus. A hunger to put aside everything and *sacrifice* the time and and and effort necessary to get in your word, to know
you more, to hear your
voice because you're that worth it to us, Lord Jesus. And Lord God, that you would reveal your heart. I want to take the next couple of minutes to reveal to you God's heart. It's actually right here. You can stay in whatever posture you need to, if you need to keep standing or kneeling.
But here's his heart. Revelation chapter 21. Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away and there was no longer any sea. I saw a holy city, the new Jerusalem coming down out of heaven prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, look, here it is, *God*'s dwelling place is now among the people.
He will dwell with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be their God. He will wipe every tear from their eyes, no more death, mourning, crying, pain. The old order has passed away. He was seated on the throne on making said, I am making everything new.
Then he said, write this down for these words are trustworthy and true. He said to me, it is done. I am the alpha and the omega, the beginning and the end. Here it is. To the thirsty, I will give "water without cost" from the spring of the water of life.
*God*'s plan and God's heart beats for family. He created Adam and Eve in the garden to walk with them in the cool of the day to multiply his family that he could know people personally, be their God and father, and us know him and worship him because the only way we can love him back is to worship him. Romans-12:2, present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God. This is our "spiritual act of worship". Passionate worship.
Not just here, but in your daily life. And how do we do that? We live a life that begins to beat in rhythm, in sync, in unison, in unity with our father's heartbeat. And our father's heartbeat is beating from your family. Those that are lost to come to know him.
It's beating for souls. It's why Jesus came. He came and he died on a cross and rose from the grave so that people could come to know him. He paid his life. Passion.
His passion was for the lost to come into relationship. Not just for religion, but to know Him, and to walk in not only passionate pursuit of Him, but in passionate pursuit of others too, co laboring with Him in the harvest. His heart beats for the harvest. What did Jesus say? Lift up your eyes.
The harvest is white. It's ripe, is what he was saying. It's ripe. But for us to do that, we have to take our eyes off of our self in our Christianity and put it on his heart, and then align our life with what his heart beats for. And his heart beats for souls.
His heart beats for people to come to know Jesus, for the lost to be found. His heart doesn't beat for your comfort, For you to get what you need to feel okay. His heart beats for you to join him in his passion of laying your life down like he laid his life down. Reorienting yourself to be in line with his commission, which is "go and make disciples" of all nations. You wanna be fulfilled?
You wanna experience that joy of walking in the giftings and talents he's given you, and it being like, I wanna devote all myself to this. That came to me after I devoted myself to him and began lining my life up with what he wanted me to do. And then God began to pour out on me. That passion and that feeling, don't follow the feeling, follow his heart and the passion will come. For your wife because that's holy and healthy and a reflection of him.
For your friends and for the lost. Amen? **passion for the harvest**. It's actually the title of this message. And you won't have a passion for the harvest until you have a passion for God, for the father.
And then your heart will be in line with his, and then you'll have a passion for the harvest. So, man, I want a passion for the harvest in everything that I do. So before I close, *Jesus*, when he gave the "great commission", in Matthew-28, another great commission is in John-20. The disciples are in fear because Jesus has been crucified. They haven't seen him resurrected yet.
They're scared they're gonna be crucified too. *John-20:19*, on the evening of that first day of the week when the disciples were together with the doors locked for fear of the Jewish leaders, Jesus came and stood among them and said, "peace be with you". After this, he showed them his hands and feet inside or his hands inside, and the disciples were overjoyed that they saw the Lord. What happened in this moment? They were born again.
They saw, believed in the risen Lord. What you gotta do? Confess Jesus as Lord? Yeah. And what did Jesus do?
He said, peace be with you. As the father sent me, I'm sending you. And he breathed on them and said, receive the Holy Spirit. What happens when you give your life to Jesus? You make him the Lord of your life.
He puts the Holy Spirit inside of you to lead you like a father lead the son. And that, *Jesus* talked about that drink welling up to eternal life so that you can know God. That's not just eternal life in the sweet by and by. That's eternal life knowing him now. But then, after the disciples were born again, after they gave their life to Jesus, and he commissioned them, as the father sent me, I'm sending you.
You're commissioned as soon as you're born again. But after this, *Jesus said in Acts-1:4*. On 1 occasion while eating with them, he gave them this command, do not leave Jerusalem, but wait for the gift my father promised, which you have heard me speak about. For John baptized with water, but in a few days, you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit. Why would they need to be baptized with the Holy Spirit at this point?
Didn't they have the Holy Spirit in them when Jesus breathed on them? Yeah. The Holy Spirit's all around you right now, and he operates how he wants. There's greater manifestations of him than you're experiencing now. Why did he say this?
What did the the disciples think when he said in a few few days, you'll be baptized in the Holy Spirit? What did they think? They were thinking about the anointing of old, how warriors like David and Samson were anointed by God. The judges were anointed with the Holy Spirit to win battles and defeat the enemies, the captors. Maybe maybe Jesus is talking about physically, I got this anointing on me now that they had so that we can defeat the Romans.
Jesus said, it's not for you to know the times or the dates the Father has set, but you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you. In that power, you will be my witnesses to Jerusalem and Judea and Samaria and the ends of the earth. For those of you of a different theological background, I give you this. In Acts-8:14, Philip had just preached the gospel and there are miracles and healings and and they received Jesus and were baptized in Jesus name. A lot of people I ask, I say, you know what the baptism of Holy Spirit is?
And they're like, yeah. Like, I gave my life to Jesus. I said, nope. It's not biblical. When you gave your life to Jesus, you were baptized in his blood.
He washed you clean of your sin. Well, when I was water baptized, nope. That's not biblical either. It's different. That's a baptism that demonstrates what God has done.
Baptism of repentance. It's obedience, like, to fulfill the righteousness of of Christ Jesus. Jesus said in John-3. The baptism of Holy *Spirit* can happen before that or after. It's different, but it gives you the power, the power to be a witness.
It's the anointing that was on the prophets and warriors of old, but for spiritual conquest, to lead your friends to Jesus, to experience more of the gifting of the Holy Spirit, and we believe in it. Watch *Acts-8:14*. Don't close your ears if you've been taught different. Listen to this. When the apostles in Jerusalem heard that Samaria had accepted the word of God, they sent Peter and John to Samaria.
When they arrived, they prayed for the new believers there that they might receive the Holy *Spirit* because the Holy Spirit had not come on any of them. They had simply been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. Then, Peter and John placed their hands on them and they received the Holy Spirit. And it was so powerful that Simon, an ex sorcerer, wanted to receive that power to be able to do that. So stuff happened.
When you receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit, *God's gonna move in power*. Most of the time in the book of Acts, they spoke in tongues. Don't be scared of that. It's biblical. *1 John-14* says, eagerly desire it and I'll pray with my spirit and with my understanding.
There's also prophecy and discernment of spirits and healing. We're a church that believes in the power of God, and I don't wanna be I don't wanna minimize his power, but I want it in his in fullness, but in authenticity, in line with scripture. So you want your heart to beat in the rhythm of the father's heart, which is the great commission. Souls. Souls.
Your job, your business, your talents, even though they're different than mine, many of you, they're still supposed to orient around the the heartbeat of the father wherever you go. Doing your job as an act of worship. Your boss sees the way you worship *Jesus* at your job by working for him as unto the Lord. Why why do you work so differently and be an open door for the gospel? But you want the power for souls, for people to come to know Jesus, the power to be a witness.
It's not just dependent on your effort and your words. It's from the Holy Spirit. The baptism of the Holy Spirit. And so, you've aligned, you sought him, you prayed in that moment. And now, what we're gonna do is I'm gonna dismiss.
And if you're hungry for normal food, go eat. I'm not gonna look down on you. I'm gonna assume that if you're walking out of here, I'm gonna assume that there is an emergency or something that you really need to go do that that is holy and awesome. Not I'm not looking down anybody walking out of here. And if God is moving on your heart and creating a thirst and a hunger for more of him, If he's aligned your heart with his and you wanna learn what it looks like to live a life going after the great commission and to be anointed to do so, so that when you speak, no matter what industry you're in, at times, people are hungry for more of God that comes after the baptism of Holy Spirit.
And it's a good gift you don't earn. He already earned it. He was glorified and then poured it out. But a lot of times, he gives it to those who seek. You got doubts and stuff?
That's okay. Those doubts and stuff, the way that you get stuff in the Lord is obedience, which means a lot of time you gotta step take a "step of faith" out on a limb, or you gotta jump off the proverbial cliff. I only go cliff diving into water I already know is safe and deep.
Only. I'll never jump in the water I don't think is safe
or deep. You're nervous. If you see it in the word, it's safe and deep. You can jump.