The Danger of Broken Cisterns: Discerning True Living Water

• The Fountain of Living Waters vs. Broken Cisterns [01:10:08 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor uses Jeremiah 2:13 to contrast God as the only source of life with human attempts to find satisfaction in self-produced or worldly sources that ultimately drain and fail.
• Obsession with Information and Self [01:15:22 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor identifies 'lovers of information' and 'lovers of self' as modern manifestations of the tree of knowledge, arguing that consuming excessive information hinders spiritual flow and replaces reliance on God.
• Ministry and Spiritual Source [01:13:23 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor warns that even ministry can become a 'broken cistern' if ministers are obsessed with activity rather than drinking from the Word, emphasizing that transformation comes from the source, not the work.
• The Tree of Knowledge vs. Tree of Life [01:15:41 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor draws a parallel between the Garden of Eden and the modern believer's choice between the tree of life (God's presence) and the tree of knowledge (information/conspiracy), framing the latter as an enemy's trap that leads to death.
• Information Addiction vs. Spiritual Flow [01:18:40 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor argues that consuming worldly information (conspiracy theories, news) is addictive and draining, whereas believers should seek information from the Holy Spirit to maintain spiritual flow.
• Clinging to God (Hesed) [01:25:55 ▶️ 📄]
  > He explains the Hebrew concept of 'dabaq' (cleaving/clinging) and 'hesed' (God's loyal love), emphasizing that our response to God's attachment to us is to cling to Him in return.
• The Fountain of Living Water [01:22:48 ▶️ 📄]
  > Using John 7:37-39, he illustrates that Jesus is the source of living water, and believers become fountains rather than drains when they drink from and flow from Him.
• Marriage and Covenant Imagery [01:28:13 ▶️ 📄]
  > He uses Isaiah 54:5 and Ephesians 5 to compare the believer's relationship with God to marriage, highlighting that just as a husband cleaves to his wife, God cleaves to His people.
• Spiritual Source and Vulnerability [01:33:56 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor argues that relying on sources other than God creates vulnerability to the enemy, whereas drinking from the 'fountain of living water' keeps believers out of darkness.
• Attachment and Emotional Health [01:35:56 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor connects biblical concepts to therapy and attachment theory, suggesting that a healthy attachment to God allows believers to self-soothe and overcome addiction.
• The Baptism of the Holy Spirit [01:39:51 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor discusses the indwelling Holy Spirit as the 'spirit of belonging' and the source of power for the church, referencing Pentecost and the gift of tongues.
• Personal Testimony and Heritage [01:45:32 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor shares personal stories about her baptism in the Holy Spirit, her Baptist roots, and her mother's spiritual influence to illustrate the importance of tapping into the divine source.
• The Holy Spirit's Presence and Power [01:48:43 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor discusses the Holy Spirit as the source of life and power, illustrated by her mother's spontaneous spiritual expressions and speaking in tongues.
• Spiritual Sensitivity and Intuition [01:50:09 ▶️ 📄]
  > Stories are shared about the pastor's mother sensing the spiritual realm in mundane settings (Taco Bell line) and during prayer meetings, despite cognitive decline.
• Clinging to the Lord / Abiding [01:53:37 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor exhorts the congregation to cling to the Lord, describing various methods of connection like meditation, music, and simply resting in His presence.
• Continuous Baptism in the Holy Spirit [01:57:41 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor teaches that baptism in the Holy Spirit is an ongoing event ('keep on being filled') rather than a one-time occurrence, leading to a 'river of revelation'.

• Sermon Illustration [01:09:08 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor shares a personal dream from a few weeks prior where he was preaching on the 'fountain of life,' which served as the inspiration and foundation for the current sermon message.
• Sermon Illustration [01:07:17 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor recounts his recent experience officiating the wedding of Abby and Thomas, noting that they performed a Hebrew ceremony with yarmulkes to honor the bride's Jewish heritage, which he felt was spiritually significant amidst current antisemitism.
• Sermon Illustration [01:10:15 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor uses the analogy of 'broken cisterns' from Jeremiah 2:13 to describe how people build their own sources of satisfaction (like information or ministry activity) that cannot hold water, contrasting them with the inexhaustible fountain of God.
• Sermon Illustration [01:28:13 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor references a recent wedding and the 'hoopa' demonstration to illustrate the power of attachment and cleaving, linking it to the biblical concept of marriage as a mystery of Christ and the Church.
• Sermon Illustration [01:33:03 ▶️ 📄]
  > He shares a personal anecdote about preaching a message at a park the previous year regarding his own inheritance from God, noting that clinging to Jesus is the key to accessing it.
• Sermon Illustration [01:38:10 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor recounts the biblical story of Ruth clinging to Naomi, using it as a picture of spiritual attachment and refusing to leave one's source.
• Sermon Illustration [01:45:32 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor shares her personal testimony of being baptized in the Holy Spirit with speaking in tongues in her bathroom as a teenager, despite her Baptist background, and how this shaped her love for worship.
• Sermon Illustration [01:48:31 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor tells a story about her mother, who was spiritual and described the Holy Spirit like 'popcorn,' and her father who began speaking in tongues after eye surgery, illustrating a family heritage of spiritual openness.
• Sermon Illustration [01:50:09 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor's mother, even with dementia, would enter a spiritual state while listening to worship music in the Taco Bell drive-thru line, with eyes closed and arms up.
• Sermon Illustration [01:51:02 ▶️ 📄]
  > During a prayer meeting, the pastor's mother ignored the structured order of prayer to pursue spiritual connection, prompting the pastor to try to leave, but the mother insisted on staying.
• Sermon Illustration [01:52:31 ▶️ 📄]
  > Near the end of her life, the pastor's mother, watching Benny Hinn on Christian TV, physically moved from her seat to the pastor and clearly expressed love, saying 'Becky, don't you know you're my little girl?'
• Sermon Illustration [01:52:07 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor and her mother would rest in the presence of God together, listening to children's worship music and soaking in the 'living water' after getting coffee.

• Pastoral Charge [01:05:50 ▶️ 📄]
  > The congregation is invited to physically join together, touch shoulders, and pray in unity for rain to end droughts in their sphere of influence.
• Pastoral Charge [00:58:44 ▶️ 📄]
  > Congregants who are sick in body or mind are invited to stretch out their hands to receive healing.
• Pastoral Charge [00:59:52 ▶️ 📄]
  > Congregants needing specific healing or ministry are instructed to come up to the front after the service.
• Pastoral Charge [01:31:47 ▶️ 📄]
  > Choose life, love the Lord, obey His voice, and cling to Him.
• Pastoral Charge [01:34:50 ▶️ 📄]
  > Stop seeking life/information from worldly sources and go directly to Jesus.
• Pastoral Charge [01:44:16 ▶️ 📄]
  > To consciously and deliberately seek spiritual nourishment from God/Holy Spirit.
• Pastoral Charge [01:57:41 ▶️ 📄]
  > Physically place a hand on the shoulder of the person next to them to release a fresh baptism of the Holy Spirit.

[00:12:34] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_04]
[00:12:34] Ready for service to get started? Well, if you can hear my voice in the foyer, why don't you make your way on in here? We're going to get this meeting started. We're going to praise the
[00:12:43] Lord this morning. How's that sound? Sound good to anybody else? I'm excited for it. Becky's excited for it, so that's enough. Two or more, right? So why don't y'all stand with me, and let's enter
[00:12:53] into the presence of the Lord in His house this morning. Oh, bless the Lord. Bless the Lord, oh my soul. I'm just going to pray and then turn it over to the worship team. So Holy Spirit,
[00:13:08] would you be in this place this morning? Heavenly Father, we bow our heads before you and we put your name on our lips this morning. There is nothing else that we want to be thinking about.
[00:13:20] Lord, would you remove all distractions from our minds this morning so that we could only be focused on you? So Heavenly Father, we ask that you would renew our heart this morning, give us life afresh
[00:13:32] and turn us back into love with you in Jesus name, amen let's worship

[00:13:40] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_01]
[00:13:40] suddenly articulate a thousand fight in your heart this morning lift it up to him

[00:28:13] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_02]
[00:28:13] as you buy this morning sing it together, lift our voice up worthy of it God

[00:53:30] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_04]
[00:53:30] let every breath that we have be in praise to you God oh we lift up your name with a shout of praise Lord Yeah, just say his name.
[00:53:45] Jesus, Jesus.
[00:53:49] Over everything in our life, Lord.
[00:53:52] Over every trial, over every hardship, we just say Jesus.
[00:53:56] We praise you, Lord.
[00:53:58] You're so good, God.
[00:54:02] Oh, we bless you, Lord.

[00:54:04] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_01]
[00:54:04] We lift you up above everything else.

[00:54:19] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_04]
[00:54:19] Oh, let our lives be a throne for you to sit upon, Lord.
[00:54:26] Let every step we take be a testament to your goodness.
[00:54:32] Oh yeah, Lord, we bless you.
[00:54:35] Yes, Lord.
[00:54:37] Hey, I'm feeling this this morning.
[00:54:38] I'm feeling a grace for second starts.
[00:54:43] If you've been on a journey and you feel like you've slipped up, just hop on back in.
[00:54:48] There's grace for it.
[00:54:49] There's grace for renewal, refreshment.
[00:54:51] So grab onto that this morning if you need it.
[00:54:55] Yes, Lord.
[00:54:57] Let's just sit in this place for one more minute, just worshiping in your seats where you're at.
[00:55:02] Yes, Lord.
[00:55:37] You're so good to us, God.
[00:55:43] We're so thankful to you, Lord.
[00:55:47] Lord, we put your name on our hands and on our heads this morning.
[00:55:50] We declare that you are the king of our lives, that there is no one else, there is nothing else that takes that place, just you, God.
[00:55:58] So Lord, would you be with us in this space as we continue to worship, Lord, as we move throughout the rest of this service, throughout the rest of this day.
[00:56:06] We just want to hold you as sovereign.
[00:56:08] We want to hold you at the forefront of our lives.
[00:56:13] Yes, Lord, renew our hearts this morning.
[00:56:18] Yes, Lord.
[00:56:25] While we're in this sort of space, we're going to move into offering.
[00:56:29] So we're going to take up, the ushers are going to come forward.
[00:56:33] We really believe that this is not an obligation or a pathway to church membership, but this is an opportunity that we get to sow into what the Lord is doing.
[00:56:44] This is a chance that we have to show our praise for Him in a physical and monetary way.
[00:56:49] So in a moment, the baskets are going to be passed around for cash and checks.
[00:56:53] There's instructions on the screen behind me for how to give digitally.
[00:56:57] But really, I just ask that you would see in your heart where the Lord is leading you.
[00:57:02] And if he would have you to give, then do so joyfully with the knowledge that he will reward you above and beyond what you could ever imagine for that faithfulness.
[00:57:13] Heavenly Father, we thank you that you have given us an opportunity to partner with you in this life.
[00:57:18] with our actions, with our words, and with our finances as well, Lord.
[00:57:24] So we ask that as we give, Lord, that that gift would be taken above and beyond and that the ministries that we give to would be blessed with overabundance, Lord, with a fresh harvest.
[00:57:42] And Lord, we ask that we would be blessed too, that we would be edified and sanctified through this process.
[00:57:47] So we're trusting in you, Lord, even though gas is not cheap.
[00:57:53] Lord, we are trusting you that you're going to make a way in the midst of all of this.
[00:57:58] Jesus' name.
[00:58:40] All right, well, while the baskets are being passed around, we're going to take this opportunity to pray for the sick.
[00:58:44] So if you are sick in your body or in your mind, I just invite you to stretch out your hands and receive the goodness of God.
[00:58:54] So, Lord, we believe in the power of healing.
[00:58:56] We believe in the power of healing that was won for us on the cross, Lord, that your striped and marred body was not only for our salvation, but for our thriving.
[00:59:10] So, Lord, we say yes to healing, Lord, whether it's physical, Lord, whether it's sickness or any affliction that is keeping us bound in a set of thinking, Lord.
[00:59:22] We declare freedom from that in the name of Jesus.
[00:59:25] so we pray that you would totally transform our bodies lord in this moment and give us hope for the future healing if we need that lord give us hope for the future healing yes lord call out if
[00:59:52] you need something specific there will be some time after the service where we'll be doing ministry up up here so we really say come on up here and get some get something if you need something
[01:00:02] specific. That'll be later, so hold on to that. Amen. That was good. Thanks, worship team.
[01:00:35] Somebody just give the Lord a hand clap of praise this morning. I'm feeling good. I'm feeling like, yeah, praise the Lord. That was good, and it's not done yet. That was just the warm-up. We've
[01:00:48] got a lot of good stuff on the way. Speaking of which, I don't know if anyone saw on the way in that they're doing lunch outside, so I hope you didn't make any plans because I'm really excited
[01:00:57] about that. That lunch is 15 bucks a plate, so make sure you stick around after service for that.
[01:01:04] Kids, you can be dismissed. We have classes in the back for kids, infant, in this building from infant to kindergarten, and then in the back, first through fifth grade and middle school. So head on back there. Welcome, y'all. I'm so glad you're here. Such a beautiful day. Hints of rain,
[01:01:35] which we've been needing for sure. So glad y'all are with us this morning to celebrate the Lord together. Also, welcome to anyone who's joining us online. We're glad you're here too.
[01:01:49] All right, I'm going to move into some announcements real quick, then we'll get our special speaker up on the stage. First things first, next Monday, not tomorrow, but the Monday after that is our monthly Sojourns Women's Meeting. I don't know, somehow I always get stuck.
[01:02:03] Well, I'm always blessed to be able to announce these.
[01:02:06] So if you don't know, I don't know, it's just a fun little quirk of the schedule.
[01:02:10] So if you don't know, Sojourn is our monthly women's meeting where all the women 18 up get to gather together and have some fellowship, have some worship, and hear from a special speaker.
[01:02:21] This month, it is Alicia Forsyth.
[01:02:26] So for especially any of the younger women who are college-aged, definitely make sure to come out to that.
[01:02:32] That is going to be Monday the 27th.
[01:02:34] in here at 7. That'll be great. The following Sunday, Sunday the 3rd, is going to be our graduate recognition service. So we're going to have some time to recognize anyone who has fought the good fight and graduated from whatever program you have graduated from, high school,
[01:02:54] college, trade school, anything. We want to recognize you. The deadline to submit your details for that is this Friday the 24th. So make sure you get that information to Kristen.
[01:03:04] there is information in the email announcements or on the events page online of what exactly you need to submit. That same Sunday after service is going to be a newcomer's meet and greet. So if you
[01:03:16] have been hanging around here for a while and have not gotten to know some of our pastoral and head ministry team or just want to get kind of better connected, check that out. That's going
[01:03:25] to be in the Lily's room. Yes, Lilypad room, which is just down that hallway right after service.
[01:03:31] bring your families too, because there will be some childcare provided. So if you are new or haven't been to one of those newcomer meet and greets before, go check that out. Lastly, this is the most exciting one, Church in the Park. We're doing it again this year. It's going to be super
[01:03:45] fun. That is the 17th. So we will meet at Sloan Park that Sunday. Don't show up here. Go straight there for a fun little picnic. We are asking folks to bring sides. So if you are a family,
[01:03:58] bring some homemade sides if you are single bring a dessert bring your own drink and show up for just a fun little event I will say in order to make this happen we need some volunteers
[01:04:09] volunteers are really they make the world go around so we've got a sign-up sheet out in the foyer that you can volunteer for also there's like a million other things going on at this church
[01:04:19] we're so blessed to have so many amazing ministries so check out the email announcements or the events page on the website those are both good ways to get kind of a better idea of what's going on so
[01:04:27] all right, that's it for my part. Thankfully, gosh, is Becky? Becky's on her way up. So everyone, give her a nice, awkward, long round of applause. We'll clap until she gets up here. It's great.
[01:04:41] We're so excited. So blessed to have such an amazing pastoral team. Yeah, there we go.
[01:04:49] Can you tell I work in youth ministry? All right. Well, just extend your hands towards Becky. We're going to pray for her. Well, Lord, oh, thank you. Thank you, Lord, for everything that you have done
[01:05:00] in Becky Wicker's life.
[01:05:02] Lord, thank you for all the things that you have given to her in her spirit, Lord, the things that you have equipped her with and all of the trials that she has faced that you have helped her through
[01:05:11] to make her more equipped on the other side of them, Lord.
[01:05:15] So we just ask that your voice would be heard through her tongue this morning and that we would all come away with something fresh.
[01:05:23] In Jesus' name, amen.

[01:05:25] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_00]
[01:05:25] I don't know if I'm gonna be able to stand up now.
[01:05:27] That was good.
[01:05:29] Y'all had some power coming at me.
[01:05:30] That's good. How is everybody this morning? Y'all good? Wow. Could we pray for rain real quick?
[01:05:42] Why don't we stand up real quick and pray for rain? We need rain. We're headed to severe drought.
[01:05:50] So, Lord, we ask you right now, just join somebody. Just touch their shoulders. Some people don't like the hand thing because, you know, germs, that kind of stuff that goes on, you know.
[01:06:01] Lord, right now, as a congregation, Lord, in unity here, we are just saying, rain. Let the heavens open and rain, Lord. We're asking you that every area that is in drought, that is within our sphere of influence, wherever it may be, we declare rain falling from the
[01:06:26] heavens and water in these farms that desperately need rain to feed the people. So we cry out for that, Lord, today. We decree it. We declare it that you will send the rain. Thank you, Lord.
[01:06:41] And we just say this drought will be broken in Jesus' name. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord.
[01:06:49] Amen. Do some family business there, right? Well, we've had a really, just having a great, we had a great week. Byron and I got to marry Abby and Thomas. They're not here today. Family's still here, but wow. That was, for y'all that got to come, I'm sorry weddings have gotten expensive.
[01:07:17] You can't invite everybody anymore, but because we used to invite the whole church, but now it's just kind of gotten like wow but um Byron and I just felt like there was something just really
[01:07:26] special about that wedding um we we did Abby and Thomas's premarital and they just really were dialed in to to things we really tried to share with them make a difference but um we actually did
[01:07:43] um, a Hebrew. We really did a Hebrew. We had the, uh, Hoopa and over in the ceremony and the guys wore yarmulkes. And it was, it was almost like, um, and I'm just going to say this. I felt like
[01:08:00] as we honored her heritage, the Lord, the spirit of the Lord came in and there was just something really special with what, um, is going on in the world today with so much antisemitism. Um,
[01:08:13] So I just felt like it was just sweet that we honored her heritage, her Jewish heritage.
[01:08:20] So I just wanted to share that, and I'm going to try to get ready.
[01:08:24] Paula, get up here a minute.
[01:08:26] Paula's always my helper.
[01:08:28] She catches people when they fall down when I pray for them.
[01:08:31] That's right.
[01:08:39] Y'all bless Paula.
[01:08:40] I mean that with all my heart.
[01:08:42] She has been amazing here with us, and we couldn't live without her, honestly, because she's such a helper.
[01:08:52] And I'm very, very grateful for Paula, very, just got my heart.
[01:08:57] So I need to brighten this.
[01:09:00] Okay.
[01:09:01] So I actually, a few weeks ago, felt like the Lord, I had a dream, and in the dream, I was actually preaching.
[01:09:08] And I was preaching on this message I'm about to preach.
[01:09:12] And it was, I was preaching that about the fountain of life and how we need to drink from the fountain of life.
[01:09:21] We need to get back to that as our source.
[01:09:25] And, and I, that was it.
[01:09:27] It was quick.
[01:09:28] And so I've really developed this message around that.
[01:09:32] And just wanted to share some with you, some of the thoughts.
[01:09:36] So if you could put up Jeremiah 2.13.
[01:09:38] And I felt like last night I was actually was soaking in the fountain of life.
[01:09:47] I was resting in the presence of God.
[01:09:50] And I felt like the Lord gave me the word exhortation.
[01:09:54] This is actually an exhortation this morning.
[01:09:56] It's not really a teaching.
[01:09:57] It's just to exhort us all that we continue to drink from the fountain of life.
[01:10:03] There's so many other sources we can drink from.
[01:10:07] But I wanted to share with you.
[01:10:08] I found this scripture and I thought, wow, for my people have committed two evils.
[01:10:15] They have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters.
[01:10:19] And they've hewn for themselves cisterns, broken cisterns that can hold no water.
[01:10:25] And I really was thinking about that so often.
[01:10:31] And the way our flesh pattern goes is we will start drinking from other places besides the source of life.
[01:10:40] And there's only one place where we're going to get life and have it abundantly.
[01:10:45] And that's from Christ, Jesus himself.
[01:10:49] And, you know, the thing that we do is we exchange it for things that we produce ourself.
[01:10:58] that's really what the pull is is our own selves I thought about that this morning where Jesus said we take up our cross daily we deny ourselves and follow him and I feel like the exhortation
[01:11:16] these are all just reminders of where we need to go to drink because we're drinking a lot of other stuff these days and I believe the Lord wants to draw us back to himself and tell us where to drink and I'm
[01:11:37] preaching to myself I'm not just trying to bring anybody into correction or anything like that but just again the word the Lord gave me is an exhortation and um and the thing about the thing
[01:11:53] I was seeing in this verse is as we begin to drink from other sources besides the fountain of living water, there's a lot about this in scripture. We don't really realize what's happening is we're building these cisterns that can't hold water anyway. They're just
[01:12:12] going to drain out. They do nothing for us in the long run. Um, you know, we, we do all this there's a lot that it does even as believers i believe we can really put our attention on a lot
[01:12:28] of other things besides the lord himself and i feel like the church is sort of in some failure right now over it because there's been a lot of failure in our circles but it's not just our
[01:12:39] circles it's everywhere uh people want to blame it on the charismatic movement no it's everywhere If you follow Christianity all over the globe, there's trouble everywhere.
[01:12:50] And I believe this is really at the source of it as we begin drinking from the wrong source that leads to dissatisfaction and failure.
[01:13:03] Because only the Lord himself can satisfy us.
[01:13:07] It's the only cistern that will never run dry.
[01:13:12] We will always be able to drink from that place and be satisfied.
[01:13:17] But every other thing we turn to will only dry up and will not be satisfied.
[01:13:23] And I'm going to tell you what, y'all, even ministry can be that way.
[01:13:27] Ministers get so obsessed about ministry, and that's the other thing.
[01:13:30] We're so obsessed about being in ministry.
[01:13:34] It's ridiculous, you know, like our goal has been to keep people in ministry.
[01:13:38] and that's that's not the goal not at all is to be people that have a life that drinks from the living waters that drinks from the word and it affects our life where there's transformation
[01:13:57] daily because we're drinking from the right source okay don't do this on me my fingers okay here's a scripture I wanted to put up 2 Timothy 3 but we know this that in the last days perilous times
[01:14:25] will come for men will be lovers of themselves lovers of money, boasters, proud blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful unholy, unloving unforgiving, that unforgiving there means not willing to reconcile slanderers, without self-control, brutal despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure,
[01:14:50] rather than lovers of God.
[01:14:54] And so this is what I felt really in this message, is this lovers of self, lovers of pleasure, lovers of doing our thing over the kingdom, being kingdom people.
[01:15:12] Okay, and the one thing that I really felt such a thing about is lovers of information.
[01:15:22] We have become obsessed with information.
[01:15:28] And I'm telling you, when we're obsessed with information, we begin drinking from the wrong source.
[01:15:37] Because there were two trees in the garden.
[01:15:41] There was the tree of life that God intended for us to drink from.
[01:15:45] and there's the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and we are at a crossroads today as believers of where what tree are we going to drink from are we just going to keep filling ourself with every
[01:16:02] information that's coming down the pipe and and altering even what we believe what we our foundations are even in the faith because somebody said it somebody out there who's got some clout said it so we believe it and i just want us to be careful be careful lord help
[01:16:30] us help us you know it's scary to look on your iphone and see how much time you've been on there today don't look don't look it doesn't lie it doesn't so um that was just one thing I felt in
[01:16:53] that place in my dream because somehow when we're in that place of just hearing and just drinking and all this stuff all the time it is we don't realize that what it is doing is stopping up
[01:17:11] this fountain of life that is inside of us that wants to flow we've been given a life that's meant to flow and as we just pack ourself with this stuff i believe it is a it is hindering us
[01:17:29] from the life that we are meant to live can anybody say amen so you know the first thing that Adam and Eve did when they took, they, you know, Jesus said, you know, you've got this tree
[01:17:44] of life, eat freely. You just eat as much as you want of this tree. But this tree of the knowledge of good and evil will only lead to death. And it was really the enemy's trap then. And it's the
[01:17:57] enemy's trap now. It's still the same trout, trout, but here's, here's what it is. Here's why, because we have a spirit man we have a soul we have the flesh and so this your soul is still
[01:18:12] being transformed the spirit man is completely whole he's this is where the holy spirit is just whole and he's and the spirit man is affecting the soul realm on our on a regular basis but
[01:18:26] here's what's happening soul realm is swinging back and forth from the natural realm to the spirit realm to get information. And I'm going to tell you, how much are we swinging over here?
[01:18:40] How much are we doing that? That's affecting us in our growth and in the flow of the spirit in our life. And I know this is hard. I'm not trying to be hard. Listen, we're all guilty.
[01:18:56] Let's face it. Information is addictive. And that is what I told Byron this. In fact, I think this I'm going to tell you Byron and I believe a lot of the conspiracy stuff has come to pass
[01:19:11] we're not saying that it hasn't but I believe it's become a religion people are just tracking going in holes and digging and digging and digging there's no end and how do we know how do we know what's real
[01:19:27] what's not it's not that we're to be unaware of what's happening in the world I don't want to be dumb but i don't want that to be my religion can anybody say amen you know and the reason why
[01:19:46] is all this stuff doesn't hold water it's going to drain out going to drain us it's going to drain and we're going to be drained and i love this you know do we want to be a people that are fountains
[01:20:02] getting our getting we're drinking out of the fountain of life and are we ourselves going to be drains to people? Are we going to be fountains? Is that what we want in this life? To make a
[01:20:18] difference. We're here for a reason. We want to make a difference. We're here for this. And I think I'm going to repeat this one more time. That's it. I'm going to move on because I've got something
[01:20:36] else to say. I believe we're in a world now ravished with information and distraction that is coming from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and as we focus so much on that
[01:20:52] it is really affecting this life given flow that is a god-given gift that god has given us that we can drink from the river of life from the fountain of life and we can live our life
[01:21:08] that way as spiritual beings that make a real difference when a lot of that stuff does not make a hill of difference in anybody's life. In fact, when I just start hearing too much of it,
[01:21:21] I'm just worn out. It just wears me out. Y'all are kind of quiet. I love y'all. I love y'all so much.
[01:21:33] Jesus loves us all. So John 7, 37 through 39. This scripture is interesting because, you know, I want to make the statement before I move on, because in that statement, Jeremiah, it says that we have forsaken him that live in water, okay, and the opposite of forsaken
[01:21:59] him is clinging to him, right, it's the opposite, is where that's really what he was saying, you've not clinged to me, you've gone to something else, and John 7, 37 through 39, that this was jesus stood before oh it was on the great and final day of the feast of tabernacles
[01:22:19] when according to custom this is what he was doing the high priest would draw water from the pool of psyllium with a golden jar mix the water with the wine and then pour it over the altar
[01:22:32] this is when jesus stood up and made this statement he says now he says this this was on the final day and he says this he cried with a loud voice if any man is thirsty let him come to
[01:22:48] me and drink he who believes in me now this is amplified who cleaves to trust and relies on me as the scripture has said from his innermost being shall flow continuous springs and rivers can somebody say rivers of living water now there's a condition on this did you catch it
[01:23:13] it's the clinging it's the believing it's the clinging to him is where these waters how they work and they operate is as we're clinging to him and forsaking the things of the world is we're going to Him for what we need.
[01:23:35] He was speaking here of the Spirit whom those who believe, who trusted, had faith in Him, were afterwards to receive for the Holy Spirit.
[01:23:48] Can you say Holy Spirit?
[01:23:49] Had not yet been given because Jesus had not been raised from the dead.
[01:23:54] So this fountain of life I'm talking about is what we've been given is the holy spirit we've been given the holy spirit to live our life by he's the knower he should be giving us our information on a daily basis everywhere we go everywhere we turn he's
[01:24:12] the knower we should be living from a flow of the spirit from the inside of us this is an intentional thing this is a really intentional way that we're meant to live and when we're just caught up in
[01:24:28] everything else, this will stop that flow. And I'm going to tell you, the older I get, the most wonderful thing there is, is living a spiritual life. We have five spiritual senses, just like we have natural senses, and God's built us to live by them. And it's really exciting because
[01:24:45] when he's speaking to us to go, do, say, read, whatever it is, it's a, I can't, to me, it's just it's adventuresome. That's all I've got to say. You know, I mean, it's just adventuresome. I just,
[01:25:00] I think of all the, all, I could just name you a lot of ways that God has spoken to me and I've moved out on them and how things just work. He is, it's pretty amazing. And don't we want to
[01:25:14] live a life in the spirit? We have to make some choices in our life to do that. You know, the point that he said, come to me. Jesus said, come to me. He's where our life is. He is the tree
[01:25:35] of life. He really is. So it's whoever comes to me and cleaves to me and clings to me. And that's, that's really key here. So that word, there's a word, it's D-A-B-A-Q, D-A-B-A-G. It is a Hebrew
[01:25:55] word okay and it's always relational when you see that and it's actually what i've preached on a lot that's related to the word hesed which is god's attachment to mankind his love to us it's his loving kindness it's his goodness it's his faithful love that is mentioned over and over
[01:26:15] in scripture it's the thing that we really need a depth of understanding about him because we love him because he first loved us. It's how we respond to him because we know that and we really
[01:26:29] understand that covenant nature of God that he is clinging to me. He is not letting go. And I will say this over and over. Israel is our picture of a God who has clung to a nation who did not deserve
[01:26:46] it and but that whole history of Israel is to show us his covenant has said nature to mankind to all of us he clings to us and so the response that was totally understood in the Hebrew scriptures
[01:27:03] was our response back to him as we were singing this morning is that we cling to him come to me Cleave to me.
[01:27:13] Cling to me.
[01:27:15] This is where that fountain of life is going to flow from.
[01:27:19] It's not going to flow from cisterns that we've built for ourselves that does not hold water.
[01:27:26] Things that we are given our time and our attention to that are draining us.
[01:27:30] They're draining us of the spiritual life that God has given to us as a gift through the power of the Holy Spirit.
[01:27:38] This is what he was telling us in these verses.
[01:27:41] out of your and he says it at the woman at the well out of your belly is going to flow rivers of living water can somebody say amen so we just did a wedding okay and um i wanted to just bring
[01:28:13] this in because it it i thought of the verse um man that that hoopa thing is so powerful i i could preach a message on the hoopah because it was so powerful seeing it demonstrated um but the
[01:28:28] scripture that says this isaiah 54 5 for your maker is your husband the lord of host is his name okay this i'm giving you some hesed stuff isaiah you see that it's like marriage there's a cleaving
[01:28:45] in marriage that's what he's telling us he clings and cleaves to us and we cleave and cling to him for this life it's a life-giving thing for us um isaiah 54 10 i love this is one of my favorite
[01:29:03] hesed ones is for though the mountains should depart and the hills be shaken or removed yet my love and kindness shall not depart from you nor shall my covenant and peace and completeness be removed say say that completeness yeah this this attachment to us
[01:29:24] actually is what causes us to be complete it's a it's everything i've talked to y'all about this before that brain science has discovered from the time a child is a baby if there's not good
[01:29:38] attachments there's a good chance as that child grows they're going to grow up with deficits and we also know this that attachments in the brain is the source of joy okay I could never say that enough because that's important for us but I love this completeness it will not be removed
[01:30:03] says the Lord Ephesians 5 31 through 32 this is all in the context of cleaving not forsaking but cleaving can somebody say cleave I love that word cleave says this for this reason and and Paul had
[01:30:20] just preached a message on marriage at this point but he's saying I'm showing you a mystery this is about us and God okay this is about how we are with him says for this reason a man shall leave
[01:30:34] his father and mother and be joined to his wife and the two shall become one flesh this is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the church. And you see, Jesus again is relating
[01:30:49] cleaving to drinking. Are y'all getting that? Those verses about when you come to me and you cleave to me, that there's these fountains of living water, the way I designed you to live from the beginning when you got talked out of who you are. So he's telling us the way back to live
[01:31:16] the life God intended for humans to have. Deuteronomy 30, 19 through 20. I call heaven and earth as witnesses today against you, that I've set before you life and death, blessing and cursing, therefore choose life. That's important. That you and your descendants
[01:31:47] may live. That's important. That you may love the Lord your God, that you may obey his voice, and that you may cling to him for he is your life for the length of days and that you may dwell in
[01:32:03] the land which the lord swore to your fathers to abraham isaac and jacob to give to them wow there's just this is just like a whole message right here that our clinging to him to live with
[01:32:21] this fountain that he wants us to have. It's our very life. Our life is at stake. Israel's life is at stake over this. Our very life, our children's life is at stake. I have told people
[01:32:37] for years, the very best thing you can do for your children is commit your own life to the Lord and let them watch you live a committed life to Christ. That's the very best thing you can do for
[01:32:48] your children. I also think it's for the sake of our inheritance of what God has for us.
[01:33:03] That God has things for each and every one of us. I have another message that the Lord showed me about my own inheritance. I preached it at the park last year, shared it. It was pretty wild.
[01:33:15] But I believe God has an inheritance for us. But the way we really get it is clinging to him.
[01:33:22] That he's our very life source. That there's a river of living water that comes with that.
[01:33:27] It's the tree of life.
[01:33:30] We're living from the tree of life, God himself.
[01:33:39] John 12, 46, I have come as a light to the world so that whoever believes in me, whoever cleaves to trust and relies on me may not continue to live in darkness.
[01:33:53] I believe this is another thing I talked about in the beginning.
[01:33:56] This thing about getting our information from the fountain of living water rather than other places, it's our very life it's our life source but it's also the thing that keeps us out of darkness you know when we're we start running on other stuff i don't know about you but
[01:34:14] i feel it i think we have an inbuilt thing when we know when we're distracted by other things that we're i start feeling i'm like lord i got to get back to you because i believe when we get in those places there's vulnerability there and the enemy knows
[01:34:31] it. There's a lot of vulnerability in that. And so my point to you today is this. Go to the right place. Don't go to other places to get life. Go to the source. Jesus said, I'm the way, the truth,
[01:34:50] and the life, and there is no other. There's no other way. There's not another way.
[01:35:11] One of the things, I'm going to look at this real quick and make sure there's nothing there I really going to say to you? Okay, the one thing I wanted to say, too, about this thing about Cleveland
[01:35:27] to him is, you know, we go through things, and we've learned how to access the source of life, the fountain of living water. It's really this, that we've learned how, you know, in in the therapy world you know they're always trying to help people get back to a healthy
[01:35:56] place in their emotions you know that's really really big learn teaching people how to basically self-soothe get themselves back to a place of health learning how to do that and we we also know through that same a lot of you know people that know about attachment that attachment is
[01:36:17] everything i've talked to y'all about that people trying to overcome addictions they can't do it really without attachments and i believe that the thing about drinking from the the river of living water out of our belly is flowing rivers of lit it's the holy spirit we that we learn how to when
[01:36:38] we're going through rough times to basically know where to go you know we we've learned how to do this. And I've watched so many of you do all this, going through death, going through sickness,
[01:36:54] going through breakups, going through all of it, going through. I've watched so many of you learn how to do this. It's because the attachment with the Lord was already there. You know, it was already operational, already getting our information from that place. This church itself
[01:37:15] has been through severe trials and testing if you're new here we have been through severe times of trial and testing but the thing i know is that we had a life in the spirit that carried us through we had already been baptized and and encountered god so much
[01:37:38] that it carried us through in rough times and every one of us are going to go through them We really, really are, but the thing that we know is we can always go to the source
[01:37:48] and get our information from there instead of trying to find answers everywhere else that has no answers. Thank you, Ruth. Her name means, you know, you know about Ruth.
[01:38:10] Ruth clung to Naomi.
[01:38:13] This girl was named right.
[01:38:18] Yeah, we see a beautiful picture of that in the Old Testament, of Ruth and Naomi.
[01:38:26] Ruth refused.
[01:38:29] She refused to leave Naomi.
[01:38:33] She left all of her people.
[01:38:35] Naomi had nothing to offer her.
[01:38:38] It's a beautiful picture of this clinging.
[01:38:40] It really is.
[01:38:41] As Byron loves, he read it in that Ruth's, you know, what is it?
[01:38:46] What's it?
[01:38:48] Ruth's Vow.
[01:38:49] What's the beginning of it?
[01:38:51] Entreat me not to leave you.
[01:38:53] And I think that's a point I'm making this morning.
[01:38:57] I told Byron a long time, I'm getting emotional with all this stuff going on.
[01:39:01] I think the church is backslidden.
[01:39:06] I think in a whole we've backslidden in some way from this.
[01:39:11] not that we're just these terrible sinners or something like that because we know sin's been taken care of at the cross you know there's forgiveness and all that but what we've done is this jeremiah where we're leaving we're leaving and getting our stuff somewhere else
[01:39:29] lord help us he's the only one that satisfies he's the only one and i think about on the day of pentecost when this holy ghost broke out when jesus said go wait on the father okay go wait on
[01:39:51] this promise isn't that beautiful the promise of the father wow the you know what the and this is what's the most interesting thing to me about the promise of the father because he was talking about
[01:40:04] the holy spirit being poured out that at that point we were going to have an indwelling holy spirit not one just resting on us can we say indwelling an indwelling spirit living in the spirit of the living god indwelling us and and for us to walk away from that kind of life
[01:40:28] think about that to be distracted what a gift we've been given the holy spirit is and this is what's so great about him he's the spirit of belonging he's the greatest attachment there is we know we're attached to god himself because of the indwelling holy ghost within us
[01:40:51] it's a beautiful thing so i'm just going to read a little bit just things um yeah i want i just want to read some out of this that day and in the day of the pentecost being fulfilled
[01:41:10] they were all in one accord at the same place and there came suddenly out of the heaven a sound as a bearing violent breath and it filled the house where they were sitting and as we know tongues of fire began to settle on people they began speaking in tongues
[01:41:28] from all kinds of tongues of every you know the scripture calls them tongues of men and of angels we're not just speaking in natural we got tongues of men and of angels that's just talking about
[01:41:42] that heavenly realm that we're accessing through the holy spirit and i loved it because after that point when that holy ghost settled in on that day for mankind to be forever changed i love peter's response he stands up and think about this and preaches an amazing message he
[01:42:05] preaches through the scriptures explaining what has gone on. This is that spoken by the prophet Joel. And he said, we are not drunk as you suppose, but we are drunk on the Holy Ghost.
[01:42:20] And I'm telling you, they were drinking that day from the source. This is talking about what we're drinking. And then the scripture says, don't be drunk on wine, but be filled with the Holy Spirit.
[01:42:35] that's what I'm talking about what are we filling ourselves with I'm not necessarily talking about alcohol and wine because you can't argue that in scripture that you can't drink wine I'm just going to make that point
[01:42:49] yeah people get quiet some do some don't some may some may not you know some may not and some may and we have to be good with that okay we really have to be good with it
[01:43:06] but I'm just the point is what we're drinking what source is it coming from but i that i i see man that day when that holy spirit was poured out the reformation that happened and this is why we drink from the right source because you see the
[01:43:27] preaching of the gospel and like flames of fire going through the scriptures the scriptures just like the history of it all and i believe for us today here's what it is for the sake of the gospel
[01:43:40] because I love this scripture.
[01:43:42] He said, This reform and be baptized each of you in the name of Jesus for remission of sins and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
[01:43:52] Now 3,000 people were added that day, mind you.
[01:43:55] 3,000 in one day came to faith.
[01:43:59] And then he says, For to you, he was prophesying from the book of Joel this.
[01:44:04] This is that spoken by the prophet Joel.
[01:44:07] He says this, For to you is the promise, and to your children, and to those far off, and as many as the Lord shall call.
[01:44:16] I believe for the sake of our children, for the sake of our children, learn to be intentional about drinking from the right source.
[01:44:28] And for the sake of the lost.
[01:44:31] And there's so much that happened after the Spirit was poured out.
[01:44:38] It's incredible.
[01:44:39] really incredible. You can read through the second chapter of Acts. I mean, the church was actually birthed. The church was birthed at that point. Think about that.
[01:44:51] Do you think the church needs some rebirthing these days? I would say amen to that.
[01:44:56] You know, there's so many wonderful things that were happening. People being baptized, generosity worship constantly worship constantly praying they were devoted to the disciples to the apostles teachings what do you think they were teaching they were teaching jesus's stuff
[01:45:14] don't you know they were going through the scriptures and saying he said this and he they got it i just can't imagine that they were just men going back to everything jesus said right it was amazing so um but i just wanted to give you a little bit of my own testimony right now
[01:45:32] um i got baptized in the holy spirit when i was a teenager byron and i were in the jesus movement and this was something happening then it was wonderful um i was raised baptist one of the
[01:45:47] baptism of the holy spirit with evidence of speaking in tongues so bad and all these people pile around me and pray, and they'd be speaking tongues around me, and nothing worked, you know, and I finally got baptized in the Holy Spirit with evidence of speaking in tongues in my bathroom by
[01:46:08] myself, and I needed that because my Baptist brain was still in gear, you know. It was hard, and I want to say this. I always want to honor my Baptist roots. I love my Baptist roots. I
[01:46:21] really treasure that. That's not against a Baptist thing, but I did not hear about baptism of the Holy Spirit in the Baptist church. So the Lord baptized me in the Holy Spirit, and it has really
[01:46:36] been a lifetime for me, honestly. I think why I love worship so much is because when praise goes up his presence comes down and praise goes up his presence comes down and suddenly I'm in that source
[01:46:59] I'm drinking you know I'm drinking from the well and that's really why I just talk to these people all the time that lead worship we're not satisfied just saying a few songs we want to tap in we
[01:47:16] really want to tap in in this place this is our heart it's been our hearts from the beginning that we have been pastoring from the very beginning our hearts is really to live drinking from the
[01:47:29] river of life from the fountain that does not run dry and so that's been a thing for me and then later we had a move of God in this church that the Holy Spirit was just manifesting like crazy
[01:47:44] just wouldn't believe it I mean we everybody just laid in the floor all the time because we were just so under the power of the Holy Spirit and just drinking from this well of life and we all
[01:47:56] really a lot of people have been here for a while have really tasted that kind of thing now the Lord's not been doing that in the last few years but what we did learn to do was drink we've learned
[01:48:09] to drink from the source and I pray that we never ever go back ever um so important but I wanted to tell you about my mother. I was thinking about her. She, she's Baptist, but she was so spiritual
[01:48:31] at the same time, wasn't she, Jim? She was, everybody knew my mama. We had to hold her down in here because she always wanted to say something because she said the Holy Spirit's like popcorn.
[01:48:43] pop time to say it's time to say what God's given you you know so but I learned later that she really was so out of the box in her time and I have even leaned into that heritage that she's given me
[01:49:03] I think that's why I've been at liberty to be a woman in ministry and really let the river flow when I preach or whatever I'm doing because that's all I care about. I don't care about
[01:49:14] perfect it is or how great it sounds. Only thing I'm interested in is the Holy Spirit in it.
[01:49:20] It's the source of life showing up here. So a few things with her. She loves the Holy Spirit.
[01:49:32] Later, like all of us, siblings were getting baptized in the Holy Spirit. Worship was breaking out in the Jesus movement, and the Lord was breaking out. It was so good, and my mom and dad
[01:49:42] got caught up in all that. It was so good. I mean, my dad started speaking in tongues in the middle of the night without seeking it. After eye surgery, he couldn't sleep and was praying and just started
[01:49:55] speaking in tongues. Isn't that amazing? I love it, and so, but my mother, and we get back to her, so these are a few things when she was older she had dementia I mean and just a few things that I
[01:50:09] love because she was so spiritual and I love this about her but she one time we were in the line at Taco Bell and my sister and I were listening to Josh Baldwin's song it's open up the heavens
[01:50:24] open wide I want to see the love inside and it's a very spiritual song if you've ever heard it when we praise when he goes up he comes down it's beautiful well she's in the back seat and we're in
[01:50:39] the taco belt line and she's back there she's already gone up she's gone up in the heavenly realm and you know and i just i look back there she's just got her eyes closed her arms up and
[01:50:49] she's she's just gone you know and i loved it and um the other another instance when she was older was when we were at Pam Stevenson's prayer meeting.
[01:51:02] It's one of our earlier prayer groups.
[01:51:05] There's always been a prayer group.
[01:51:06] By the way, I love prayer meetings because guess what?
[01:51:09] The Holy Spirit comes.
[01:51:11] It's a secret here on Wednesday mornings.
[01:51:13] He shows up.
[01:51:15] So that's why I like prayer really more than anything.
[01:51:18] I like why he shows up.
[01:51:20] But we were in a prayer meeting, and she had to mention, you know, when we pray, we have an order of things.
[01:51:26] You know, we pray one subject at a time.
[01:51:28] We pray through that subject, you know.
[01:51:31] But she kept going somewhere else, you know.
[01:51:34] And it was, I mean, I'm like, my mother is wrecking this pyramid, you know.
[01:51:39] And so I was sitting there and I thought, I got to get her out of here.
[01:51:45] I got to get her out of here.
[01:51:46] So I thought, Mom, we're going to leave.
[01:51:48] And I said, we got to go.
[01:51:50] I said, we got somewhere to go.
[01:51:51] She said, leave me here.
[01:51:52] oh and there was another sweet time I wish Lindsay LaMonica was here but she has a children's album and we were listening to it in my car it was early in the morning I think we'd gone to get
[01:52:07] coffee and I parked and we just began to rest in the presence of God to Lindsay's we did that was one of the sweetest things we did together was resting in the presence of God just enjoying that
[01:52:19] source of living water you know the fountain of life and then the very last thing that was so precious to me was she pretty much was gone at this time this was near the end of her life
[01:52:31] in her brain she always liked to watch Christian TV you know that was her thing and we I was with her by myself we were listening to a Benny Hinn service and in this service the worship
[01:52:45] wouldn't stop. I mean, the Lord started moving. It was obvious. I mean, they just couldn't stop, and then he gets up and just says, let it go. It was powerful, and of course, my mother dials
[01:52:58] right into that because she, wherever the Holy Spirit is, there's where she is, and I kid you not, she gets up out of her seat in the middle of that, and she moves, comes over to my, where I was,
[01:53:10] and she sits in her clear mind and says this, Becky, don't you know you're my little girl?
[01:53:15] I love you, and you'll always be my little girl, clear as could be in the spirit realm.
[01:53:21] That's what I'm talking about.
[01:53:25] Lord, help us when we stand up.
[01:53:30] If y'all, you know, I didn't tell you how, maybe that'll be another message.
[01:53:37] But I just wanted to exhort you today, to exhort you to really help us, Lord, to cling to the Lord.
[01:53:53] Help us, God.
[01:53:54] we're just praying Lord right now for each and every one of us Lord to just Lord I just pray that you do a new thing in us today whatever it looks like for you it looks
[01:54:09] different for everybody you know it's not there's not a formula but however way you connect to the Lord because when we connect to his spirit it really does and we understand his heart to cling to us
[01:54:24] we so easily just want to be with him and so however that looks for you there's not not something you do i mean i know what i do i meditate on scriptures i put soaking music on and rest in his presence um you know and i i
[01:54:43] honestly just being with you receive life among us there's life being together there's life okay worshiping there's life flowing so Lord we just ask you today that today would be a new day and that Lord your
[01:55:01] kingdom yeah if you just yeah play for a minute Ethan's got such a powerful anointing on those keys let's just rest here for just a minute okay just do business with the Lord for a minute okay
[01:55:20] thank you Lord just bless you Lord, we just ask you, Lord, to just come.
[01:55:28] Lord, let your kingdom, Lord, come more in us, Lord.
[01:55:32] Lord, let us become more aware of your presence.
[01:55:37] Lord, more aware, Lord, Lord, of your nature and covenant nature toward us, Lord.
[01:55:47] Lord, will you say, Lord, that our relationship with you models marriage.
[01:55:52] that's commitment that's attachment that's clinging that's cleaving to you Lord for our very lives it's for our very lives it's for the sake of our children Lord God and we're just asking you Lord to just come Holy Spirit right now Lord we just lift up our hands to you Lord
[01:56:12] say fill us fresh fill us fresh right now Holy Spirit the dove of the Spirit land on hearts hands here today, Lord. Lord, do what only you can do. Lord, we're not, Lord, we're just saying,
[01:56:28] Lord, this is really a grace river. It's a grace flow. It's a letting. It's a letting. And you just lift us up, Lord. Thank you, Lord. We thank you that we're just going to let you do this in
[01:56:43] us, Lord. We're going to allow it, Lord. We're going to yield to you, Lord, because that's all that happened that day on the day of Pentecost was they were there just waiting on you, Lord,
[01:56:53] as you said, for the promise. So we just yield right now to you, Holy Spirit. Lord, we want to live the life of drinking from the fountain of life, Lord, where all the resources of heaven
[01:57:08] are available to us to live this in an abundant way, Lord, full of joy, full of glory, full of purpose lord god full of purpose lord god for the sake of our children lord god thank you lord
[01:57:25] kingdom of heaven come will of god be done thank you lord i think we're just supposed to wait a minute still lord jesus oh just baptize us fresh in the holy spirit right now baptize us fresh
[01:57:41] put your hand on the person's shoulder right now next to you and we just just release a fresh baptism baptisms are ongoing you know it's not just a one-time event keep on being filled keep on being filled keep on being filled keep on being filled with the holy spirit thank you lord
[01:58:04] keep on being filled. Fill. Oh, fill. Fill us up, Lord. Fill us up, oh God. Oh, fresh oil upon your people, Lord. Fresh oil. Thank you, Lord. Oh, thank you, Lord. I believe there's a river of revelation
[01:58:27] being released in this room right now. As we access this, it's a river of revelation. Oh, a river of revelation just breaking loose. The scripture is being opened, opened as they were to Peter that
[01:58:41] day. Opened, opened, opened right now in Jesus' name. Fueling, fueling, fueling us. Thank you,

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[01:58:49] Lord. Thank you, Lord. Oh, oh, thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. Thank you. Thank you, Lord. You're so good to us. I'm going to invite the ministry team forward as we kind of hang out in this space
[01:59:17] for a few more minutes. If you've got, like I mentioned earlier, if you've got needs with sickness or something that you've been working through, come on up and get some prayer for it.
[01:59:29] If you really want to keep chasing after what Becky was talking about, that fresh, fresh flow, then come on and get some. We've got some amazingly anointed people who would love to pray for you.
[01:59:40] But I'm just going to leave this space for a few minutes to keep pressing in.