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Hallelujah.

I am continuing in my series called ghost Writer. I think that you are more excited than your shout just indicated.

I will say that again.

I am continuing in my series called Ghost Trouble. Come on, Graham, clap grama life good. We are in Acts chapter two, verse one, and I'm gonna read eighteen verses. I know you didn't read your Bible all week, so I got to stack a few extra on for you. Take a look at this scripture with me, from Acts chapter two, verse one through eighteen.

Imagine if you would.

With me the crushing pressure on the disciples of Jesus Christ as they wait for the Holy Spirit to be poured out, which Jesus has promised them, but how many not Just because Jesus promised it doesn't mean the process of waiting for it gets any easier. In this predicament that you find yourself in in this season of your life, it's not really that you doubt God, is it. It's that you doubt you? Can I hold out? Can I

The whole house.

Last week I ended on that verse. I talked about plot holes in our lives, things we don't understand, can't make sense out of, and how God filled the hole. But I used the word whole, wholi versus whole, and how God has everything taken into account for your life. Now, look at what the Holy Spirit did. He filled the whole house where they were sitting. They saw what seemed to be tongues of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them. All of them were filled

Utterly amazed, they asked, aren't all these who are speaking Galileans?

Then? How is it that each of us here's them in our native language? Parthians, Medes, Elamites, residents of Mesopotamia, Judea, Cappadocia, Pontus, Asia, Phrygia and Pamphilia, Egypt and all the parts of Libya near Syreene, visitors from Rome, both Jews and converts to Judaism, Cretans and Arabs.

Y'all clap.

I worked hard on pronouncing those words all week, got practice ship out loud about ten times. I did it. I did it.

I didn't even have to speak in tongues.

I did it in English. We hear them decl clearing the wonders of God in our own tongues. Now watch this contradiction, Verse twelve. Amazed and perplexed. Amazed and perplexed, It's like, God, I believe what you're doing, but I'm still confused. That's how they felt, amazed and perplexed, really blown away, but at the same time kind of you know, tossed about, wondering what's going on. Amazed and perplexed. They asked one another, what does this mean? Somehowever, you always

So so.

You know how you do. Hey, anytime God is moving, someone will be mocking. So if God is moving in your life as a teen and your friends aren't inviting you to all the parties and they're making fun of you, oh you're that little Christian kid, You're that little Bible tote kid, You're that little virgin girl. Absolutely God is moving in my life and I'm getting ready for the next season He's bringing me into and they're mocking. Will never stop your God from moving in your life unless

Let me break it down. You're talking about it.

But let me say something about it because I know something about it. Listen carefully to what I say. These people are not drunk as you suppose. It's only nine in the morning. Theeter had jokes. Theeter had a great opening line and rapport with this audience. Now if you come back at nine o'clock to night, they might be drunk. I can't speak, but it's too early for that.

It's only nine in the morning.

No, this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel in the last days, God says, I will.

Pour out my spirit on all people.

Your sons and daughters will prophesy. Your young men will see visions, Your old men will dream dreams. Even on my servants, both men and women. I will pour out my spirit in those days, and they will prophesy. Tell your neighbor you will prophesy. Tell them man I prophesy over your life. God is going to speak to you today. Welcome to Part three of Ghostwriter. The name of our

I understand page turner.

That's kind of like, oh yeah, new chapter, new boyfriend, new neighborhood, new net worth, new zip code, new network. My new network is my new net Worth. Put another zero because it's a page turner. Open another chapter. It's a page turner.

And then plot hole.

Once you found out what that was last week, you were shouting about it because you were Sometimes what you think is a plot hole is actually God setting up a twist to take your life in a different direction. This one source material, I need to break it down, even though you know what it means basically. But how about this, First of all, let me just write it. And I do appreciate all of you who are praying for me while I write on this screen, that God

It is the.

Data, the documents, or the information source material. Yeah, let me start over.

It's the original data.

Yeah, that's the word I needed. Original, the original data, documents or records used as the basis for creating new work. If you apply it across multiple disciplines, it would look like this. If you are a journalist, your source material should be first hand accounts, accurate, quote in context, facts, statistics, things like that, so that when I read your report, I can trust your source. Okay, let me move off that, because I felt like that was a little bit needlessly edgy.

Bach had twelve notes, Beethoven had twelve notes. What you do with those.

Twelve notes, and what you do with meter and rhythm and melody is largely up to your talent and your ingenuity and creativity, but you get twelve notes, and from those twelve notes, millions of songs have been sung and written. If you are a screenwriter trying to write a movie, you might take a book, or you might take an original screenplay, but whatever you built that movie from, that.

Would be your source material.

So a musician might take a sample and make a source material. An author might take a historical account and then kind of embellish it and then make a new story out of source material.

I thought about using Barbara Kingsolver.

She wrote a book called Demon Copperhead, and she based it on the Charles Dickens book David Copperfield, but she reset that story in a modern context in Appalachia, and so when she did it, it was a fresh story, but it came from a classic source. This book that I brought up here with me today was written in two thousand and four, and it was a New York

That I am, and I've never met him. I respect him.

The year two thousand and seven, we were both twenty seven years old, and I'm pretty sure I went in a bookstore when I was twenty seven at some point that year, at least once, and this book was such a big deal that I'm sure I walked by this book. But I did not look at this book and think that would make an amazing Broadway musical where I could recast the Founding Fathers as hip hop artists and take

I believe.

Check it out later when you get home. You can go check the source and see if I'm right about it. But what I thought was interesting and we're I want to bring this into your life. Is because how was I in the bookstore where this book was.

And maybe even walk by it.

I mean, it's not typically the section I walked by in the bookstore, I'll be honest, but possibly I was close by. And why did this book call out to him? And why did he take it? Do you ever see somebody on shark Tank And you're like, I could have thought of that, you know, I picked up this book, and I did.

I bought it this week and I didn't read it. I just flipped through it a little bit, skimmed it a little bit, and not.

Once did I think, Huh, this would make an amazing, amazing presentation. I could probably create something so wonderful of this that people would memorize every line of it. And I was holding the book this week, and I was thinking about Hamilton the musical, which I have now seen eight times, eight times.

Pray for me. I get obsessed.

The first time I saw it, I knew I would be seeing it again, and I watched it again and again and again. But then when I picked up the book that he said inspired him to write the story of the Treasury Secretary in the form of a hip hop musical.

Here's the question I had, How did he get that out of this?

Put the picture up, there's lin Manuel, there's the cast. One of the greatest musicals of all time started with something that I won't even ever look at again. In fact, I will give this away after church today. Put your name in the offering bucket, and I'll find you because I'm not reading it. How did he get that from this? How was I in the same store walking by the same book and he turned it into something so appse, I mean a cultural phenomenon.

He performed this in the White House.

And I'll be honest with you, I kind of feel the same thing about these disciples that we're looking at in Acts chapter two, because I'm looking at them right, and they're sincere, and they are sincere, and they are sincere. But that's about all they have going for them, because they're in this small room everybody say small room. And they have a big task. Everybody say big task. And if you look at the disciples on the surface, they do not have the talent that is equal to the

But by the time you'll get to the end.

Of the Book of Acts, if you ever read it cover to cover, you will see the Gospel standing before kings and princes. You will see the Gospel from this little small room in Jerusalem all the way to the heart of the Roman Empire, the most powerful center.

Of the day.

As it journeys through Antioch, where the believers are first called Christians, as it makes its way through Ephesus, which was a center of commerce and trade, as it even sweeps through Corinth, which was the most decadent Las Vegas city. What happened in Corinth stayed in Corinth, But what happened in Jerusalem didn't stay in Jerusalem. What happened in Jerusalem

They didn't have.

The Book of Acts to preach a series from.

They were living it out.

They didn't have the Book of Romans to tell them I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me. Because Paul was still in prison, he hadn't picked up the pin yet. They had none of this at the time, and yet.

They did all of that. I bring it up not.

To discourage you, but to encourage you because there may be a place in your life today where you're saying to yourself, not out loud, but you're saying to yourself, how am I supposed to do that when all I have is this?

How am I supposed to do that?

How am I supposed to raise these kids when I don't even understand the world that they're living in. How am I supposed to raise a family when I came from a broken family. How am I supposed to move up in my job so that I can provide for my future when I don't even have the basic education that was required to be in the position I'm in now, let alone the one.

That's ahead of me. How do I do this?

How do I do that?

And all I have is this?

Now, Fortunately, there is a principle that you and I can lean on should we choose to. And I want you to take this with you into every situation in your life where you're saying, how am I supposed to do that? All right, preacher, you're telling me to forgive and move forward and move and be healed and be sanctified and be free and live for Jesus and do these things and be patient and be kind and be humble. And I hear you, how am I supposed to do that?

And here's the principle.

If you're supposed to do it, you will have God's support for it.

Past that, it's a lot of me.

If you're supposed to do it, you will have God's support for it. Now. I know it doesn't feel like that right now, because sometimes when God is beginning to do something in your life, you do not see his support. So when all the way back to the beginning of the whole Bible in Genesis won one, and I figured, since we're talking about the source, we should go to the source and see what the source did to create

God, that's the source. Uh huh.

That's why I can move forward into the next season of my life because in the beginning, God, what did he do? Created the heavens and the earth? And I love this part. It says, now the earth was formless and empty. Darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. Stay right there, The Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. There was no light yet, but there was still spirit. There was darkness, no light, but there.

Was still spirit. There was no form yet. That means it hadn't taken shape yet.

But even before the earth took shape, there was still spirit. There are some things in your life that have not taken shape. Yet there are some things in your life that are formless and empty and dark and dreary. Just because there's no light yet doesn't mean there's no spirit yet. Just because there's no apparent solution yet doesn't mean God isn't on the scene yet.

For the Bible says that.

God hovered over something that seemed empty. But it's not just that the spirit was there. Now put up verse three, because it was dark, and because it was formless, and because there was no light, and because there was no shape.

Let there be light. And there was light.

Because God said it, everything we see started here with the Spirit and the word, the spirit and the spoken word of God.

And now you understand.

What I mean when I say that if you're supposed to do it, you will have God's support for it. Are our disciples sitting in a small room with a big task.

How are we supposed to take the Gospel.

To the ends of the earth. For one thing, we don't have a car, let alone a plane. How are we supposed to speak their language when we get there?

But as he.

Does so many times in our life, God had the answer on the way before they even formed.

The question to ask who is this?

For God has already dispatched the answer.

And there's no light yet, but.

He's already on the scene. And here's where it gets confusing. When we go to our scripture. At first it looks like maybe God isn't there. Look at this in Acts chapter two. I don't always know why people shout about stuff in the Bible that they shout about. When you say the day of Pentecost came, that was a Jewish festival.

It was called the Festival of Weeks.

It was the end of the barley harvest and the beginning of the wheat harvest, and so you had to make a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, and they would usually see about triple the population in the city, so every street was crowded, and everybody's there. They're coming from all over the world, those who honor and fear God, and they're bringing their first fruits, offering to say, thank you, Lord for this harvest. We believe you for the next. Everything

And everybody, when you read that, they always like if you read it in a church, everybody will always shout.

When you say suddenly, and they will shout about the sound of a violent win. But let's take ourselves out of just the fact that this sounds exciting. What is a violent win when this is called a storm? If you subtract all of the nice, oh, the sound suddenly the sound of violent the sound of a violent wind. That's not something that we usually shout about.

That's something that we usually close the shutters and try to survive. And then look at the next thing that happened.

It said that the violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting.

And they saw verse three what seemed to be tongues of fire.

And you say tongues of fire, and everybody will shout and.

Tongues of fire? Can you ever put your tongue on the stove? Have you ever even eaten the halapeno pepper? Why would you shout about that? A fire will burn you.

So now we shout about the storm, and we shout about the fire.

But let's be honest. If a wind is un controlled.

It can kill you. A wind is a blessing if it's in the right amount and you have a sail. But a wind can also take you off course. A wind can also create a hurricane. A wind can also knock you on your back. A wind can destroy, so can a fire. A fire can sweep through everything that you love. A fire can reduce to ruppish an entire village, an entire city. We've seen this happen in our time. So why are we shouting about a storm? Why are we shouting about a fire? I'll show you why. This

Of your life, where did it come from?

Did it come from the enemy to destroy you or did it come from the Lord to develop you? Better question, does it really even matter? Because if God is the source, by the time the storm has to pass through his hand, the storm that was sent to destroy you. I'll know why I'm screaming the whole sermon. I'm just passionate about what I say because I hear the sound and it sounds like a storm. But it came from the Lord, and it will not destroy me.

It will only develop me.

You feel that it came from heaven. Say that out loud, it came from heaven. I just want us to read the Bible like it's real. Here comes a violent win. You're not shouting, you're ducking under stuff. Here come tongues of fire, And the Bible doesn't say that it was actual fire.

Watch this. Read it real slow.

It says it was to sound like the blowing of a violent wind. It seemed to be tongues of fire. It wasn't what it looked like. It wasn't what it looked like. It wasn't what it looked like. I know it looked like it was the end for you last year, but it wasn't what it looked like. I know it looked like the reason they pushed you away is because you're no good, But it wasn't what it looked like. Ah, tell your neighbor it wasn't what it looked like. It

Looked like it would be the last time. But Doc's got new wine.

Well for your mouse had well this atmosphere with Ray, it wasn't what it looked like.

Never thought they had him, put him in the brave. Looked like he was a criminal, they're to stay. But it wasn't what it looked like.

Three days.

Don't let me preach on the holy ghosts. I'm telling you right now, it wasn't what it looked like. Yeah, all right, sit down. Interesting the Bible said that it filled the house where they were sitting, sitting sitting. Are you sitting where you're supposed to be sitting? I don't mean like right now in the church? Is usher told me it's not my fault. Is he sitting where you're

Where you should be sitting.

Okay, if the disciples try to go in their own strength and take the Gospel all through the Roman Empire, what are the chances that it makes it to Valentine today? What are the chances that it makes it to Winston Salem. What are the chances it makes it to Gaston County? What are the chances that it makes it to Zimbabwe? What are the chances that it makes it to your room, your hospital room right there? What are the chances that we're still preaching about Jesus today if they tried.

To do it in their own strength.

Recently, in preaching, I had to adjust some things about my style of preaching to sustain my ability to preach. And one of the things that I decided I would do, in addition to the way that I prepare and plan and try to lean more into God and less into this idea that I have to change someone's life when I preach, and more that He is source, that he is the source, and I am just a sail and

You were supposed to be sleeping.

Then you saw something you weren't supposed to be seeing. Because you were scrolling on something when you should have been sleeping, and you were sitting somewhere that you shouldn't have been sitting, and now you're not getting what you could be getting because you're sitting where Anyway, it's half holygoes half doctor SEUs. Today.

But I went to see a guy.

I said, one thing I need to work on is my voice, because I would preach a lot of times and I would feel very horse after I preached. And I thought the guy he was a voice coach. His name is Roger Love. I thought he would say stop screaming so much. So I came to him and I said, I know you're gonna tell me two things to do, and I'm not going to do either one of them. You're gonna say, stop drinking diet coke.

That's off the table. The Lord. The Lord and I have an arrangement that is not my Isaac.

And number two, number two, you're gonna tell me to stop screaming and I'm not doing either. And he said, I don't need to drink diet coke. It's gonna kill you. But it's not what's messing up your voice. I said, it's not. I thought you were gonna tell me the chemicals came from a conspiracy in China. They're trying to He said, no, no, no, He said, you can drink that coke and you can scream all you want. He said, I don't want you to stop screaming. I want you

And my voice.

Still feels strong because he taught me, I can scream if I breathe. If I breathe, if I breathe, I can make the sound I need to make.

Whether I should scream or not, that's your business.

But I do have a scripture, Acts Chapter two, verse fourteen. Then Peter put the scripture up, stood.

Up with the eleven.

Raised his voice of a scripture.

I can screen bar.

He didn't say a soft He said it from a deep place.

And it says he stood up, and it says he raised his voice.

But I have been learning that the only way you can really make a volume is if you take a breath. The Bible says he raised his voice. What the Bible does not say is that he took a deep breath. However, we have evidence that he took a deep breath before he raised his voice, because that day, off of one sermon, he preached about the crucifixion of Jesus, he preached about the resurrection of Jesus, he preached about the judgment of Jesus.

He preached about the need.

For repentance and baptism and confection of sin. And he pierced their heart and three thousand of them became believers that day. There were no microphones, there was no public address system. How did his voice get all the way from here to three thousand people.

He had to breathe. He had to breathe, And.

I want to give you a Holy ghost voice lesson today for your life.

You got to breathe. You're not breathing.

Is some things that are hurting in your life that aren't supposed to be hurting, but you're not breathing.

If you would get a breath from Heaven before you.

Would take that next step, you would feel the wind of God in.

Your sel and you wouldn't have to row your boat alone. You would have something blow in.

Your sales that would help you get where you're trying to go. But you hadn't been breathing. You've been running from one appointment to another. You've been running from one stressful situation to another. You've been running from one hypothetical scenario to another, and you haven't been breathing. You haven't stopped lately and said, God, I need you for this. God,

You're not supposed to be.

Hanging around them, so you will not have the strength to avoid the temptation if you keep spending the majority of your time with them, because you are not supposed to have them as your inner circle. I am going to preach this word to help somebody so you don't hurt where you're not supposed to hurt, because you are

Now imagine this. They are hearing the Gospel in their own language.

When you talk about tongues in church, there's different things that can mean. One is a prayer language that is known to God but unknown by others, and spoken by the person that speaking, And that is real. This is not that they were speaking in one language and the people were hearing in another. It was known to the listeners even though it was not previously known to the speakers,

The spirit will enable you.

How am I going to show up in that situation and know what to do?

The Spirit will enable you.

How am I going to be a witness to Jesus Christ when my life is such a mess. The Spirit will enable you. God hovers over darkness. God feels emptiness. God comes to people who are open and waiting and

That's why God gives you the gift.

Of his spirit. That's what Peter said. He stood up, raised his voice. Let me circle that because I like that, raised his voice and addressed the crowd. The answer was not coming from the crowd. It had to be given to the crowd. Peter raised his voice and said to the crowd, fellow.

Juice, let me do it loud, fellow juice, let me get deep breath, fellow juice, in all of you who live in Jerusalem, let me explain this to you Listen carefully to what I say.

Stop asking one another.

Stop looking for solutions from people who don't know any more more than you do about it. He raised his voice addressed the crowd, said, all of you, listen to me. These people are not drunk as you suppose. Oh I love that phrase. As you suppose. Everybody say as you supposed, Say it again, as you supposed.

Here's what happened.

The crowd saw this crazy thing happening, and they thought they must be crazy, they must be drunk.

This is ridiculous, This makes no sense. What do you think they're doing. I think they're drunk.

What do you think they're doing?

I think they're crazy. What do you think they're doing?

And as they're passing this around all through the crowd, they begin to support what they have already supposed. Have you noticed this in your life that you support whatever you've supposed. So if you supposed today that you came to Elevation and you're like I heard as a call because somebody told you it was a cult, and you come in here looking for a cult.

You know what, you will find evidence.

For the verdict that you already created because you thought you were supposed to be the judge, and you're really supposed to be a witness. Even if you suppose somebody doesn't like you. I don't think they like me. You will find every reason they don't. Did you see how they just looked at me? They smiled at you. Yeah, but it wasn't a full smile. It was like a three four smile. Do you see that three quarter smile? Eighty percent at the most was I didn't see any teeth.

So then I find the friends.

That will support what I suppose. I suppose that I'm never going to get out of this cage. I'm never going to break free, I suppose, and then.

So I don't see anything. What happens in your life is you see.

Something, you think something, you think something, you think something, you think something, and then you believe something, You believe something, you become something.

I'll do it again. You see something, so then.

You think something, you think something, you think something, you think something, so you believe something. And then you become something and then you say see no, no, no, you saw something, you thought something, you believe something, and then you became something and then you said, see, I told you that's how it was. No, no, no, You just supposed and then support it. You supposed that nothing ever goes your way. You supposed that God can't use someone like you.

You suppose that it's too late. You supposed that you're too young.

Meanwhile, somebody else that's half your age already did it. Somebody else that's twice your age is still doing it. But you support what you suppose, and sometimes you.

Don't realize that.

Help me, Holy Spirit, that what you have supposed is not coming from the right place.

It's not coming from God.

I studied it in the Greek because I really wanted to understand.

What Peter said.

He said, these people are not drunk as you suppose. The Greek word for suppose you ready for this?

Hoopolambano.

Yeah, it's a Greek kind of week in elevation church.

H limbano. What does it mean? It means to take up from below? Hoopo lombano. Everybody say hoopo lombano.

Put it in the comments I want to see who spells at.

The worst hoopo limbono. I'm not writing that on the board. Hoopo lombano.

It means to.

Take from below.

You might recognize this verse because it is also in Acts one nine.

Put Acts one nine on the screen. Can I teach you a little while today? I'm almost done, but I want to.

Give you this. He he's speaking to his disciples. He's getting ready to leave the earth. He's getting ready to send the spirit. And Jesus said to them that you will be my witnesses. And he was taken up before their very eyes. The word taken up hoopo limbano. The word suppose, hoopo limbano, taken up. He was taken up from below? Where did they get their opinions? Where did they get the conclusions? Hoopo limbono? They took it up from below? And Peter said, no, this is not a

And if its source is not in.

God, it will sabotage you and it will lead you to a conclusion that is absolutely unsustainable.

But this is not a take up from below moment in your life.

This is a.

Come down from above moment.

Peter said, this is not a moment for you to take up an assumption from below. This is a moment for you to receive an assignment from on high. I feel God saying you are looking up at the wrong thing. You are looking around at the wrong thing for in this season of your life. You cannot get it from below. It must be given from above. Now, there were two things present at the creation of the cosmos, the spirit of God and the Word of God. That's the source material.

He worked? He worked, he worked, he worked. This will work in your life if you work it. How did the gospel go from a small room and spread all over the globe to you and I today?

The source material, the spirit of God, the source material, the word of the God. Do you not realize we have the same gospel. Do you not realize you have been given the same gospel that broke chains off Paul and Silas see.

The same gospel that the.

Ethiopian eunuch pulled over and stopped this chariot.

What are you doing with me?

Ah? I believe there is so much more inside of you. And I hear a sound sounds like a violent wind. I see what seems to be tongues of fire. I hear the voice of the Lord speaking over your life today. And God said, everyone standing, we will pray and seal this word. Stop right where you are. Nobody moving out of this room. Stay where you are. Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah.

You hadn't been breathing. Baby, you can't run if you.

Don't breathe, you can't lead if you don't breathe.

You can't think if you don't breathe. Breathe, breathe.

Peter raised his voice. He breathed, the sound of the Holy Spirit. That's the breadth of Almighty God coming to fill your lungs, fill your life.

Breathe, baby, breed, breed, breathe, breathe.

That's the sound of the wind.

It's the spirit of God.

It's not a violent wind, it's a creative breath, and it's coming to you right now. Lift your hands like their sails and receive it. I receive the Holy Spirit. I receive a fresh filling of the Holy Spirit for my life. I receive it. Tap into it. Speak to me, Lord, I'm breathing. Oh, I'm breathing this week for me to have the Holy Spirit, for me to have the same stuff that created the world, and not worship God. I'm

I worship you. Open your mind and tell him. I worship you God. I worship you Lord. I worship the one who is and was and is to come.

His name is Jesus.

He is the Almighty God.

He is the Ancient of days. I worship you, Lord.

I'm not drunk, I'm not crazy. I just need you, Lord. I worship you, Lord. I worship you Lord.

And Lord, Now is your wind, your fire? Come and light us up again and fill our lungs with your praise. We intend to accomplish every assignment that you've given us for our lives this week.

No, we're not one of.

The twelve Disciples, but we are your children. I commission these your children, by your grace, God, that from the upper room of their waiting, they will see manifestations of your glory in every area of their life. I believe it because you've spoken it. We didn't come to church to look around today. We came to look up and look in and to praise you for who you are. Now, every person who receives this word, clap your hands and let the Lord know you're great.

It's about eyes closed.

When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place, and suddenly your life can change suddenly, right now, there is someone in this room who needs to receive Jesus Christ as your Lord and savior. It is an amazing moment when you finally stop trying to do in your own strength what can only be done by the spirit of God. And I want to invite you right now to receive Jesus Christ as your Lord and savior. Everybody in here needs to saying. We need

I receive this new life. This is my new beginning. I am a child of God on the.

Count of three shoots your hand up if you prayed that one, two three. We celebrate you.

A new beginning upon you. We believe God for greater things in your life.

New beginnings, new mercies, a fresh foundation.

Let's praise God for what he did for every so many said in Jesus' name. Clap those hands and give God praise in the name.

Of Jesus camphis fasters. You can take it right here, church.

Let's celebrate the Lord who brought us together today. Clap both of those hands. If you know who gave you breath. Let everything that has bread praise the Lord.

Holly is gonna come close us in prayer at Valentine. You'll welcome her as she comes today. I saw her at nine am and I said, that's a stage outfit. I need to get you up on that stage, Holly. I want you to pray for everybody today who feels like, how am I supposed to do this? How am I supposed to do this? We saw a woman this week give a testimony who's been in a wheelchair for fifty years,

That He has put in our life.

How many of you received that today, that God wants to show you the source of your strength.

So Holly sealed this work for prayer.

Would you join hands with the person on either side of you, Please, let's join together.

Father, we come to you now, and we are Our hearts are so full.

We're so grateful for the word that has been spoken over our hearts today.

Thank you Jesus, Holy Spirit.

Your presence has been welcomed in this place. God, Thank you Holy Spirit that every time the word of God has spoken on this.

Stage, that you show up. Thank you Jesus.

Thank you seal this word on our hearts today, God, that we are supported. Lord, open up our eyes to see the support that is all around us this week. God, God, help us to see that you are with us, and that you were working for us, and that you were working through us. Lord, give us the courage to move forward and the callings that you have given each and every one of us. Lord, Thank you for our pastor, Lord, for the word that you have spoken through him.

Today we receive it.

God, we receive what you are speaking to us.

Thank you that we get.

To move forward in the strength that you have given us.

In the strength for our calling.

Lord.

And it's in Jesus the same we pray.

Amen. I five three people who say you got the stuff, you got the stuff.

I dismiss you in the name of Jesus. Have an amazing week. You got it, you got the stuff, you got the stump.

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