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and the one thing that invites the favor
of god on our life like simeon that will
open our eyes to see him more clearly so
that we don’t miss him when he comes
into our circumstances trying to speak
to us to answer us to make himself a
parent in our lives the one thing that
opens up our eyes is god’s spirit on us
and if you want if i want god’s spirit
on our lives then we gotta decide to
live holy
hey
so glad to be with all of you listen
don’t even take your seat yet let me
just let me just go ahead and read god’s
word over you while you’re standing is
that all right i think every now and
then we ought to just stand up when
god’s word is read just to remind
ourselves who’s talking to us
listen to luke chapter 2
verse 21 through about verse 32 or so
when jesus was
about eight days were completed he was
circumcised his name was then called
jesus
the name given by the angel before he
was conceived and when the days for
purification according to the law of
moses were completed that’s about 40
days after jesus was born or so so he’s
40 days old they brought him into
jerusalem to present him to the lord
every firstborn male that opens the womb
shall be called holy to the lord
and they came to offer sacrifices
according to what was said of the law of
the lord a pair of turtle doves or two
young pigeons
and behold somebody say behold
come on y’all say behold
and behold there was a man in jerusalem
this guy’s name was simeon and he was
righteous and devout and looking for the
consolation of israel and the holy
spirit was on his life
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and it had been revealed to him by the
spirit that he would not see death until
he had caught sight
of jesus
so he came into the spirit into the
temple and when the parents brought in
the child jesus to carry out the custom
of the law simeon saw him he recognized
that this little baby was jesus christ
he gathered the baby up in his arms he
blessed the child and he said lord now
you can let me depart in peace i don’t
have to see anything else i haven’t yet
seen this guy perform one miracle
lazarus hadn’t been raised from the dead
the sick have not yet been healed uh
deaf ears haven’t yet been opened i
haven’t seen any of that but once i’ve
caught sight of the savior
lord he says you can let me depart in
peace because my eyes have seen your
salvation which you’ve prepared in the
presence of all the people he’s a light
of revelation to the gentiles and the
glory of thy people israel thank you
for letting me see
jesus
lord open up our eyes so that we can see
you lord open up our spiritual ears so
that we can hear you god we are sitting
on the edge of our seat because we are
anxious to see how you will introduce
reintroduce yourself to us today lord
i’m so grateful that all of us is here
but we didn’t come to see each other we
came to see you
so lord come we’re your daughters and we
want to see you
in jesus name everybody agreed when they
said amen
give somebody a high five before you
take your seat
i’m so grateful and i’m so honored to
have an opportunity to be here with you
and to share in god’s word i believe in
the power of the word of god i i do
parent uh chris just told you three sons
they are giants i just have giants
walking around my house
my nearly 16 year old is six foot two
inches tall his 14 year old brother is
the exact same height they both wear a
size 14 men’s shoe
um my youngest son his name is jude so
i’ve got jackson jerry jr and jude and
we named our third son jude on purpose
because y’all that’s as close as i could
get to revelation because it is finished
that is it it’s the end of the line
and they’re giant somebody come help me
feed these people that’s all i do is try
to feed the boys and i remember this
particular weekend because i was in
memphis tennessee there were very little
at the time and i remember being very
very tired on this particular trip i
could not wait to get to the location in
memphis tennessee so i could get to the
hotel i’d had an early flight and was
very excited to be at the hotel early so
that i could
immediately go and get in the bed and go
to sleep early that night i was so happy
to have that opportunity and so i
arrived in memphis tennessee was picked
up at the the airport driven by a sweet
woman who had come from the church where
i was going to be at their conference
she’d come and pick me up
took me to the hotel and it was about 7
30 in the evening i was so happy she
said would you like to go out to dinner
first i was like oh no
i get to go into this hotel room all by
myself and have the bed all to myself i
could not wait so i laid down watched a
little something on television i think
in about 8 30 i mean i was out i needed
all those hours of rest
except that
around 3 a.m or so
i was jarred awake jolted awake by a
train
that started to go by right outside the
back of the hotel
there were train tracks that were just a
few feet behind the hotel the conductor
was sitting on the horn the entire time
that all of the cars of the train went
by i was jolted awake and i went
immediately to the window and looked
outside and i saw how close that that
train actually was and then you know you
have to kind of sit there and wait for
the whole thing to pass and this one’s a
small train this is one that goes on
and on and on
finally it passed and i tried to get
back to sleep but really couldn’t nestle
down into a good sleep i knew i had to
be up really early in the morning so i
couldn’t sleep real well but did my best
got up in the morning the sweet woman
from the church came picked me up i got
in the car didn’t say anything about the
train
had a great long day at the at the
church at the conference and then could
not wait to get back to the hotel so
that i could try to get a good night’s
sleep this was gonna be the night that i
got all my good hours of sleep in before
having to go home the next day and so i
laid down in the bed about 8 30 9
o’clock in the evening fell into a very
deep sleep until 3 a.m in the morning
when a train went roaring by the
conductor sitting on the horn the entire
time that the train went by this time i
was jolted awake went and looked at the
train outside the window and i thought i
can’t wait for the sweet woman from the
church to come pick me up
so that i can tell her about this train
that is passing by right outside the
door or outside the back of this hotel
so when she came i sat down in the car i
said thank you so much for picking me up
i gotta ask you
about this train
i described to her how at three o’clock
in the morning for the last two nights
this train had gone roaring by in the
back of the hotel as i
explained it to her i felt bad for her
because it was like it was occurring to
her dawning on her like she was reminded
about this train that comes to their
community her eyes were as wide as
saucers and she said priscilla
i am so sorry i i totally
forgot about that train and she said the
reason why is because those of us who
live in this community
have gotten so used to the sound of the
train that we don’t even recognize it
anymore that train comes by two or three
times a week every week and we paid
little attention to it because we’ve
lived here so long that we’ve gotten so
used to the sound of the train that when
it comes we don’t recognize it we’ve
been desensitized to the train in this
community it occurs to me that those of
us who live particularly in this part of
the world where we have been
overwhelmingly blessed by the presence
and the power of god among us we’re here
in this country you and i can go on a
saturday to a christian’s women event
like this one or we can go to a
christian bookstore when we can pick up
any bible in any translation in any
language or we can turn on christian
radio and listen to gospel if you like
that or contemporary christian music if
you like that we have options available
to us could it be that we have lived in
this neighborhood of blessing for so
long
that when the train of god’s glory wants
to fall in an unusual way when he wants
to show up in power and in glory that we
have become so used to it that we don’t
even recognize his blessing anymore
that we’ve become so desensitized to
god’s presence among us that it doesn’t
cause us as it always should for us to
fall to our knees in adoration our arms
outstretched and worshiped that god
would visit us in this unique beautiful
way lord help us to never be
desensitized to the train of your glory
and in the old testament or in the new
testament rather in the book of luke
luke’s gospel i love so much because
luke writes about people who encounter
the train of god’s glory in the person
of jesus christ
he gives a story after story encounter
after encounter of jesus meeting with
people and transforming their life he
included a handful of these stories so
that you and i would be not only
reminded of their encounter with jesus
but recognize that they are not
exceptions to the rule they are examples
for us of the encounters that we should
also expect to have with jesus and
listen this should be your goal
not just hearing about him but
experiencing him
that should be your goal like your
appetite should be wet your heart should
hunger for more than just a knowledge of
who jesus is
you ought to come to the place i ought
to come to the place in my relationship
with the lord we’re more than anything
else we want to see him with our own
eyes we want to hear his voice with our
own ears that the same god who divided
the red sea in the old testament the
same god who raises lazarus from the
dead in the new testament the same god
that did those things we don’t want to
just celebrate it in the lives of other
people we want to stand in line to have
an encounter with god like that
ourselves
luke writes about encounters because he
wants to whet our appetite to have an
encounter with jesus christ because
listen y’all we have wasted our time if
all we’ve done is come here on this
satur saturday to applaud what jesus did
yesterday i’m so glad about what my god
has done yesterday but i want to see him
today anybody interested
i want to see him in my own marriage and
in my own finances and raising my kids
and on my job and in my ministry i want
to see and encounter the power of the
almighty living god
that’s what today is about
it’s to make you hungry again
it’s to whet your appetite again
it’s to not let when the day ends
something to end in your life but really
to launch you forward to a brand new
beginning and an adventure with jesus
christ so luke writes about encounters
and he writes during a time when the
nation of israel is experiencing
national depravity and decay they have
been oppressed by oppressors who have
come in and stolen from them much of
what they valued they are living in a in
a place of oppression and a praise of
destruction and
luke writes to them during this time
when their nation is in trouble
and i don’t know if if you’ve noticed or
not but our nation is in trouble
we are living during a time of moral and
social decay and decline like never
before and listen the more god is
marginalized the more he’s segmented to
the periphery of society the more he is
completely ignored or disregarded the
more we will continue to see an influx
of chaos and an influx of destruction in
our nation
but luke doesn’t just write to people
who have national trouble luke is
writing to people that have individual
personal struggles they’ve been waiting
on a hero to show up they’ve been
waiting for the kingdom of god to be at
hand they’ve been waiting for the
prophecies of all to come to floridian
that there would be a messiah a savior
who would come and rescue them from all
that they’ve been experiencing
nationally but also the things that they
have been experiencing personally
so i know our nation is in trouble but i
didn’t really come to talk to you today
about what’s happening in the white
house i want to talk to you about what’s
happening in your house
underneath the roof of your home
the trouble that might be happening in
your marriage the thing that causes the
tears to fall down from your eyes in
regards to your kids or your finances or
your health or on your job or in your
ministry you like the children of israel
like me
been waiting on a hero
somebody who can come in and speak life
to the dead places and refresh the dry
places of our life luke is writing for
people who need an encounter with a god
like that
and i just want to tell any of you that
might be in a struggle personally
underneath the roof of your own house
and the landscape of your own house and
you’re in a struggle you’re in a time
like luke writes to where man things are
just plain old flat out difficult i just
want to
suggest to you the possibility
that sometimes
sometimes your difficulties are less
about the enemy being against you
and more about god wanting to show you
what it looks like when he’s for you
sometimes the stuff that you are facing
is stuff that i’m facing that are
difficult it’s less
about the enemy being against you and
sometimes it’s just about god allowing a
stage to be set in your life to where
when he shows up you will never ever
doubt again that you’ve had an encounter
with jesus
the children of israel need an encounter
with a messiah
they need an encounter with jesus christ
and finally jesus arrives on the scene
after 400 years of silence between the
old testament and the new testament
jesus arrives on the scene after
centuries of waiting after prophecy
desiring to be fulfilled jesus shows up
on the scene their hope has finally been
fulfilled but here’s the tragedy when he
comes he does not come as they supposed
he would he is not on a throne he is not
riding a white horse he is not coming in
power and vengeance and authority that
they had mirrored in their oppressors
that they had pictured that their
messiah would come in no he is born as a
baby
all of that deity and authority and
miraculous working power that they
longed for was packaged in the skin of
humanity and a small human at that this
is not what they wanted it’s not what
they recognized it wasn’t the
expectation they had built up in their
heads so when he came they did not
recognize him
when he showed up because he was not in
the package that they had pictured in
their minds
he didn’t come in the package they had
prayed for
he had come in a different way because
he did not meet their expectations when
he showed up they did not recognize him
in the passage that we read jesus is
being brought into the temple he is
being carried uh by his mother mary
joseph is along for the ride as well
they have come with jesus about 40 days
old into the temple they are in a
religious gathering where people have
come
to perform their religious duties
and all the people who are gathered that
day are in the presence of the one they
prayed for and do not know him when he
comes
would you please notice that they’re not
just anywhere
they are in the temple
and still don’t recognize the presence
of god
i want to suggest to you that it is
possible to be at propel
and not see jesus i want to tell you
that it is possible for you to be in
your church every single sunday which i
pray you are but you can be in your
church and not have an encounter with
jesus
i want to tell you that i’m so glad many
of you are in bible study stay in bible
study but you can read a verse a day to
keep the devil away until you are blue
in the face
but if you read the scriptures with a
hardened heart with your eyes not open
you can be filling your days with the
duty of religious activity and never
catch sight of the lover of your soul
never have an encounter an experience
with jesus all these people
were in the presence of jesus christ and
did not know him when he came
because oftentimes many times
when the lord comes to minister to you
to speak into your life’s circumstances
he will come in a way
that is not the way you expected
why because his ways are not our ways
his thoughts are not our thoughts as
high as the heavens are above the earth
that’s how high his ways and his
thoughts are above our own and
what i attempt to do what you often
attempt to do i’m sure is to dumb him
down so that his ways match our ways his
thoughts match our thoughts we want him
to answer our prayers the way we’ve
prayed them
we want the solutions that work out in
our minds to be the solutions that will
be best given the scenario that we see
given the prayer requests that we’ve
prayed but y’all sometimes we pray for
growth
and he answers with rain
sometimes we pray for oak trees and he
answers with an acorn
and when the answer comes for your
marriage when the answer comes for your
parenting when the solution that god
listened today god is going to give some
of you solutions and divine strategies
for things that are happening in your
life and on your job and in your
finances the struggles that you’re
facing and i’m saying when he answers if
the answer does not come in the package
that you have expected will you miss it
because you want your way not his way
and so jesus he comes and he’s in a pool
of religious people and they do not
recognize the presence of god near them
now i want to open up a little
parenthesis here before we jump to a
specific person that i want to draw your
attention to he’s the only person in the
text who actually sees jesus but i want
to open up a little parenthesis because
you may have recognized that luke went
into a whole lot of detail to sell us
something about the texas one thing i
love about luke is that he gives us
details i like all the juice and all the
details out of the text so that i can
get a full picture painted of what’s
happening in the story and luke wants us
to know that that mary and joseph are
coming for the ceremonial dedication of
their firstborn son that’s what
everybody did they would come to
jerusalem particularly during this time
when they had a newborn son to present
their newborn son to the lord get the
picture of this the lord in this case is
being presented to the lord
and they come in and
luke writes and tells us exactly what
they have with them other than the baby
jesus
says that mary had two turtle dubs or
two pigeons for her sacrifice
now that wouldn’t really be of interest
except that we know from leviticus from
the sacrificial system that had been set
up divinely mandated by god in leviticus
that when someone came to make their
sacrifices they didn’t need two animals
to be sacrificed one was a pigeon or a
turtle dove the other was supposed to be
a lamb that they were supposed to bring
a lamb with them but we find in luke’s
gospel that he’s made sure we know mary
and joseph do not have their own lamb
luke chapter 12 tells us or leviticus
chapter 12 tells us that there was a
caveat for why someone would not bring a
lamb to be sacrificed there’s one little
verse luke chapter 12 verse 8 or so that
says if someone could not afford a lamb
if their financial resources were so
that they could not buy for themself a
lamb to bring into the temple to be
sacrificed there would be an exception
made for them they could bring two
turtle doves instead of one turtle dove
and a lamb they could just bring two
turtle dubs but that was a symbol of the
fact that they were insufficient in some
way they did not have the finance
finances to buy their own lamb which
means
when mary and joseph came on that
particular day with their two turtle
doves in tow people would have
automatically looked at them and
recognized them as a couple who had
insufficient
funds as a couple who was inadequate in
some way as a couple who had lack and
who had knees i wonder how many people
turned their noses up at the couple who
could not afford their own lamb i wonder
how many people ignored the poor couple
who didn’t fit in with everybody else
who had been able to purchase their own
lamb i wonder how many people did not
get an opportunity to have an encounter
with the baby jesus because they ignored
the people who had him carried in their
arms
i want to speak to who anybody who’s in
this room and you’ve ever felt excluded
or ignored from the clique of people who
have the money to buy their own lamb
they drive the car and they live in the
house and they’re able to to communicate
or to experience life in a certain way
that that man you just can’t afford
maybe you’ve got lack financially or
you’ve got lack emotionally you have
lack relationally you have poured
everything out and you find it that
you’ve got insufficient funds in some
way in your life and you can’t afford
what it looks like everybody else can
afford and you’ve been ignored or
ostracized people have turned their
noses up at you can i just tell you that
sometimes
you don’t need to have your own lamb
when you can carry the lamb of god that
takes away the sins of the world
in fact
the lamb is most often best experienced
in the lives of those who have
insufficient funds
in fact i think it is our affluence that
keeps us from actually having an
encounter with the living god we’ve
become so used to being able to bless
ourselves
that we don’t have a real authentic
relationship with the blesser
we are so affluent we have prosperity
particularly in this part of the world
where listen if you’re poor in this
country you’re rich in other countries
and here where we’ve been able to
sustain ourselves where we know where
our next meal is coming from where we
choose from a closet full of clothes as
to what clothes we’re gonna wear to a
particular event where we might have
financial struggles everything is not
perfect but we still have our daily
needs met it is sometimes in our
affluence
because our arms are so full of the
lambs we have bought for ourself we
actually don’t even have room we don’t
have margin to have an intimate ongoing
relationship with the lamb of god that
takes away the sins of the world lord
forgive us when we’ve turned our noses
up at people who don’t have all of the
external markings of affluence in doing
that we have missed out on the blessing
of having a relationship with the people
who often have the most intimate
relationships with jesus christ because
sometimes y’all those people are not in
the in the spotlight they’re the ones
behind the scenes sometimes those are
the people that are not in mega church
churches they’re in store front churches
sometimes there are the people that are
not the ones on the platform with the
microphone in their hands they’re the
people that volunteer their time to
clean up in a sanctuary like this to
sweep up after us they’re the people who
volunteer their time to be in the sunday
school teaching our second graders and
third graders so that you and i can
enjoy an opportunity like that lord
forgive us when we ignore those people
and clamor after the people whose gifts
happen to put them in the spotlight but
we ignore those people who are who are
uh
an intercessory prayer who are on their
knees in the secret quiet places the
lamb of god tucked within their arms
having an intimate encounter with him
but we ignore them because they don’t
look like us or dress like us or drive
what we drive or live where we live
so if you’ve ever been that person
the text speaks to you today that it was
mary and joseph who did not have what
everybody had
but they had
what everybody else didn’t have
and so they come into the building
nobody recognizes that jesus has arrived
except one person
luke writes at the top of the passage
he writes and behold somebody say behold
come on y’all say behold
any time an author in the text writes
that word it isn’t a throwaway word it
isn’t something that you just need to
skip or skim over quickly
anytime you read behold in the text the
author’s trying to tell you lean in put
your chin in your hands just in case you
kind of fell asleep during all the
minutia and the fine details that led up
to this moment this is when the author
wants you to open up your eyes and sit
up straight because there’s somebody he
wants you to meet
he says behold
there was a man named simeon
and when no one else recognized the
presence of god when god came near there
was one guy who did
and if in this room today
there are only going to be a handful of
us who actually have an encounter with
god i’m talking about where we hear his
voice when we our hearts are set aflame
by the holy spirit when you when we get
some some uh direction for the purpose
that he has for our life if they’re
going to be a whole lot of us who have
an experience today but only a few that
actually encounter the living god that i
don’t know about you but if there’s only
going to be a few i want to be one of
them anybody
so luke says pay attention because
there’s one guy that’s going to show you
how to have your eyes open so that you
aren’t just in the religious place but
so that you encounter a holy living god
he says there’s a man named simeon he’s
righteous devout
and he’s looking for the consolation of
israel his eyes are open peeled to the
horizon waiting for jesus in whatever
package he chooses to come
waiting for an encounter with the
long-awaited messiah
and then he gives us
at least the one there are many
throughout this text but the one
characteristic of his life that i
believed opened up simeon’s eyes to
catch sight of god that will open up our
eyes to catch sight of god he says at
the bottom of verse 25 he says and the
holy spirit
was upon him
luke says simeon’s eyes were opened to
catch sight of god
because
god’s spirit was on him
the holy spirit is the greatest gift you
will ever receive this side of eternity
the moment you place faith in jesus
the moment you received jesus as your
personal savior i don’t know if you knew
it or not but you received in that
moment the greatest gift you will ever
receive the holy spirit of god
and the holy spirit is not a ghost or a
wind or a fire or a dove he is often
symbolized by those things but y’all
they ain’t who he is
the holy spirit is the third person of
the trinity
not third because he is least in value
just third because he is the last to be
revealed to us in the pages of scripture
but all of the fullness all of the power
all of the authority all of the
greatness all of the grandeur of god the
father is in the person of the holy
spirit
which means when you place faith in
jesus christ and the holy spirit takes
up residence in you
that now means that all of the power all
of the glory all of the grandeur all of
the greatness of god the father now
lives on the inside of you ephesians
chapter 1 says the moment you believe
you receive the holy spirit with promise
you are not waiting on the holy spirit
you have the holy spirit right now you
did not receive the holy spirit in
installment plans
you can’t give away a person in parts
all of the holy spirit you’re ever going
to get you got the moment you got saved
now we need to be filled by god’s spirit
as we yield to his conviction in our
life in obedience
as what is happening in us becomes an
outward expression as our behavior is
modified as we are sanctified somebody
say sanctified
that means as we are molded into the
image of christ jesus so that we start
to think like him and talk like him and
walk like him and behave like jesus
jesus behave we need to be filled by
god’s spirit but when you got saved
listen to me you received the holy
spirit of god god’s spirit is in you the
benefit of this is
all of the fruit of god’s spirit is
available to you
that means that there is gentleness
that you don’t have in your own natural
ability for that person or that problem
that now you are able to have that is
beyond your own natural capacity because
the holy spirit what he does is help us
to live beyond ourselves when we’ve come
to the end of our patience you know with
that one co-worker that one that if she
says one more thing to you you gonna
knock her out that one
the holy spirit is the one that gives
you patience when your patience has long
since run out the holy spirit is the one
who gives you self-discipline so that
you have discipline in areas where you
know left to your own natural desires
and propensities you would not have
discipline in that area of morality or
that area of gluttony you wouldn’t have
discipline but now because the holy
spirit lives on the inside of you you
can live beyond your natural capacities
anybody excited about that
the holy spirit gives you fruit so that
you are able to have more than what you
would have if left to your own
but you don’t just get his fruit you get
his gifts
the holy spirit gives you gifts through
which you can edify the body of christ
he turns what would have maybe possibly
been just a talent into a gift that
actually causes what you do or what you
craft to actually get to the hearts of
the people that you were singing to or
speaking to or dancing for or writing to
those people now don’t just read words
on a page that you wrote now the words
are like fire shut up in their soul it
changes their heart it renews their mind
it accomplishes spiritual purposes in
their life so listen if you’re a writer
well then write do your best work but in
the end what you’re praying for is that
god’s spirit will anoint your words with
power and with fire to affect people for
the glory of god
don’t just speak
ask god for fire on your message
don’t just dance perfect your craft but
in the end what you’re looking for is
not just talent
what you want is a gift
and there’s no amount of manufacturing
that can give what only the holy spirit
can give
so when the holy spirit takes up
residence on the inside of you and on
the inside of me at the moment we are
saved we have the privilege of having
relationship with jesus christ having
relationship with god having
communication with him because of the
holy spirit that lives on the inside of
us that if when god sent his son jesus
to die on the cross if when we received
that gift we got a ticket to eternity
and that was all we got just that we
knew we were saved from death hell and
the grave and we got to experience
eternity with jesus christ listen if
that’s all we ever got out of this
salvation deal that would have been
enough for us to celebrate for the rest
of our days but when that might have
been enough for us it wasn’t enough for
him amen he said no i’m gonna send you
the holy spirit so that i don’t you
don’t have to wait to get to heaven to
experience heaven but so that you can
have a little bit of heaven right now
while you’re here on planet earth i’m
going to give you myself in the person
of the holy spirit so that you will see
what it’s like to walk with me and talk
with me and have friendship with me and
an ongoing relationship with me that is
what it means to have the holy spirit
but luke says
that simeon did not just have the spirit
in him
it says that the spirit was
upon him
this tells us
that there is a difference
between the spirit being in you
and the spirit being on you
i want to live a life
that invites the presence of god’s
spirit
on me
i know he’s in me but i want the kind of
life that is a magnet that calls down
the grace the favor the anointing the
presence of god upon my life i want to
live in such yielded surrender to him
that not just is he in me that’s a gift
that all of us get who place faith in
jesus christ but i don’t just want him
in me i want him on my life
i want the evidence of him on my life i
want it so that when i do something or
say something or participate in
something or pray over something i want
it so that when i walk away people don’t
just say priscilla was here i want them
to say no god’s presence was here that
only happens when the spirit of god is
on you
and so if you want to mother your kids
in such a way that you leave the imprint
of god on those kids the spirit can’t
just be in you he got to be on you
if you want to be the wife that god has
called you to be single woman if you
want to be the kind of single woman that
god has called you to be if you want to
be the kind of employer or employee that
god has called you to be if you want to
walk with purpose in the way that god
has called you to then thank the lord
that god’s spirit is on you
but i’m asking that god will allow it
there to be 2 000 women who leave this
place today at the end of the day and
god’s spirit isn’t just in us but god’s
spirit is on us
where we are marked by the presence of
god where when people encounter us
there’s something unusual something
distinct something that they cannot
touch or taste or communicate with their
five physical senses there’s an
intangible that is on their life where
when the employer is looking to give the
promotion it’s not that your resume says
you are the most qualified out of all
the candidates but there’s something
about you that they just
can’t put a finger on that’s called the
spirit of god being on you
it’s called
favor
favor
is what opens up doors no man can shut
favor is what puts you in places you
know you don’t have no business being in
favor is what sets you in positions that
you know you aren’t qualified for
safe favor is what makes it so that you
are exactly where you’re supposed to be
to accomplish exactly what it is that
god has set for you to come it’s it’s
what qualifies you when you don’t have
the degree and you don’t have the
diploma you don’t have the connections
you’re just where god has opened up a
door for you to be and even though
people might talk badly about you or try
to push you out of that place you cannot
be moved not because you manufactured
your way there but because god’s spirit
has placed you there
god’s spirit on your life
is what makes it so that you don’t have
to market yourself because you’ve
already been marked by the presence of
almighty god
oh i want god’s spirit on me and can i
tell you this are you listening
there is one thing that attracts the
presence of god to rest on our lives
and it
is holiness
plain old
flat out
old school
holiness
i implore you sisters by the mercies of
god
to walk in a manner worthy of the
calling by which you have been called
that if you come if i come into this
room and we celebrate till we are blue
in the face and we wave our hands and we
read the scriptures and we worship but
we walk out of here and we live in a way
that is incongruent
with everything that we’ve heard here
today
if we do not choose to walk in a way
that honors god we will have wasted the
time that we have spent here
and if there is something that breaks my
heart for my own generation and the
generation coming up after me
is that social media has made it so that
we are more interested in impressing
people
than walking holy before our god
we are more interested in being
perfectly lit
than we are in making sure that we’re
laying up treasures for ourselves in
heaven
lord help us
when because of our hubris because of
our arrogance because of our pride we
are more interested
in receiving the applause of people than
we are of making sure that we will
receive the applause of heaven
but a day is coming y’all sooner than we
think where we’re going to look our
savior in his face where we’re going to
see him face to face and when we see him
he will not ask me how many instagram
followers i had
he will not wonder how many people liked
my message on twitter what he’ll ask me
is number one did i have a relationship
with his son jesus
and then i will give
an account
you will give an account
and i don’t know about y’all but when i
give an account i’m looking for
a well done
not because i necessarily please people
but because he is pleased with my life
and the one thing that invites the favor
of god on our life like simeon that will
open our eyes to see him more clearly so
that we don’t miss him when he comes
into our circumstances trying to speak
to us to answer us to make himself a
parent in our lives the one thing that
opens up our eyes is god’s spirit on us
and if you want if i want god’s spirit
on our lives then we got to decide to
live
holy
i implore you by the mercies of god to
lay aside every sin
every hindrance anything that is keeping
you entangled so that you cannot run
with endurance the race that is set
before you
any relationship separate at the past so
that you can walk holy sister
any addiction any habit any lifestyle
choice that is keeping you from being
free and walking in victory in jesus
name let it go by the power of the holy
spirit so that he can rest on your life
going to church is good but it’s not
enough
do in your bible study oh it’s great but
it’s not enough if you want god’s
presence on you marking you making you
distinct and different from the people
around you then you’ve got to walk in a
manner worthy of the lord
be
ye
holy
it’s not perfection
it is a call to yield to the power of
the holy spirit in you so that you do
not give way to all the desires of your
flesh
what it means is that you have not
chosen as a lifestyle
an attitude or an action that you
already know is displeasing to god
you know up front that you’ve already
got on your calendar after this is over
a place you’re going or a person you’re
seeing that you know you don’t have busy
any business being in relationship with
but you’ve already scheduled sin into
your calendar
i’m saying walk away from everything
that is keeping you from having the
biggest most amazing blessing you can
have on your life and that is god’s
presence
marking you
all up on you setting you apart girl for
his purposes
and with his power evident through your
life if you are in this room and you are
in chains in some area of your life
where you’ve tried the 12-step program
you’ve tried to walk away from that
illegitimate relationship you’ve tried
to not live this lifestyle because you
know that it is out of alignment with
the truth of god but everything you’ve
tried in your own power has not set you
free so that you can walk in holiness
and have god’s presence resting on your
life i believe that before this day is
over those chains can fall off of your
life
that you can decide that i’m going to
live holy so that i can have god’s favor
like simeon so that my eyes can be
opened because i want to see my god
i want to hear his voice i want to have
an experience and an encounter with him
if you are in this room
and you know you’re not walking in
holiness
you know there is an area of your life
whether in attitude
or an action
i mean god’s asked you to forgive that
person and you have dug your heels in
the ground you have refused to forgive
or in your actions where you were
literally doing something participating
in something engaging in something and
you’ve dug your heels into the ground
you’ve ignored the little pricks of the
holy spirit asking you to walk away from
that
or to participate in that
you’ve you’ve ignored it and you know
you are not living holy before the lord
and you want to get that strike today so
that we can all be women who honor god
in our attitudes and in our actions and
invite the favor of god on our lives
listen if you are in this room and you
know holiness is the call that god has
given to you this morning
would you please right now in this holy
space just rise to your feet if that’s
you if you need freedom in a specific
area of your life we’re going to walk
out of here a holy band of women
who want god’s favor on us
don’t be embarrassed don’t be ashamed
listen ain’t nobody got time for that
this is the moment where we say god we
give ourselves to you a living and holy
sacrifice
we present our bodies to you we present
our minds to you we present ourselves to
you lord a living and holy sacrifice do
with us what you will we surrender the
area of life that is our area of bondage
the area we’ve been holding back the
little cove we’ve kept from your
fingerprints being upon it we surrender
that to you if you want freedom in jesus
name this is your moment stand to your
feet
you don’t have to go home the same way
you came girl
you don’t have to think the same you
don’t have to act the same you don’t
have to be in bondage like you are
and have been we can change that by
god’s spirit today lord jesus i looked
up every single sister who is standing
underneath the sound of my voice and i
pray right now in jesus name that you
would give them a holy boldness and a
courage
to surrender to you every area of their
life that they’ve been holding back
sister would you picture that area where
you know you need to ask for forgiveness
i’m going to ask you to just put your
hands out in front of you cup cup those
hands in front of you like you’re
holding that thing picture it in your
hands
right now the scripture says that if you
confess your sin he’s faithful and just
to forgive you your sin and to cleanse
you of all unrighteousness picture that
in his hand in your hands ask the lord
to forgive you
ask
your for his forgiveness
and only when you are ready you lift up
those hands as if you were yielding it
finally completely to him
and you lift up those hands and
surrender
give it to him just let it go
lord every attitude every action
every little hidden place in our life
lord
every bondage lord every illegitimate
relationship every immorality father
everything that is not like you we give
it to you right now in jesus name
lord i pray that if there is a bondage a
shackle on somebody’s life that is
demonic in nature lord i pray in jesus
name and by his bloodshed on calvary
that you would cancel every demonic
assignment against these women and
against their families lord i pray that
you would by your holy spirit break the
shackles lord loosen them help us to
hear the shackles falling off right now
in jesus name and lord i pray that we
will walk in a manner worthy of the
calling by which we have been called
father i pray that you would enable us
by your spirit to no longer walk by the
flesh but to walk by the spirit so that
we will not fulfill the desires of the
flesh lord i pray for freedom in jesus
name i thank you for galatians 5 1 that
says it is for freedom that we have been
made free therefore we will stand firm
and no longer be subject again to any
yoke of slavery that is in our life we
are free in jesus name
and it is in the matchless name of jesus
christ that everybody agreed and said
amen
amen
at tbn our mission is to use every
available means to reach as many
individuals and families as possible
with the life-changing gospel of jesus
christ thank you for helping
make the gospel of grace go around the
world
without you we couldn’t do it god bless
you
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