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blood flow forever a lot of us have been
praying for Revival and we’re missing
Revival because we’re thinking of Rome
I’m saying don’t miss Malta on the way
to Rome God says up Paul your vision was
too small you had just thrown but I had
a Revival waiting in Malta for you he’s
brought safely through he begins to
build a fire with everybody else you’ve
got to build a big fire for two I mean
this is just four of us here imagine a
fire for 276 people yeah 276 Goldman and
I love this because the Bible says this
it says um the people showed us unusual
kindness
for they kindled a fire and worked
welcomed us
um
because it had begun to rain and it was
cold when Paul had gathered a bundle of
sticks and put them on the fire a Viper
came out because of the Heat and
fastened on his hand when the native
people saw the creature hanging from his
hand they said to one another no doubt
this man is a murderer okay
so they build this fire this is just
cracks me up yeah let me get you a piece
of wood here so you can see this yeah
this is great okay so here’s a piece of
wood for you yes you need you need the
so he’s doing the wood he’s building
this this is great he’s putting it on
and as he’s putting it on let me I’ll
jump on and then jump off so I hope you
get me here he’s got the wood there and
because of the heat now the the
commentators think that the Viper the
the where it was on this island in Malta
they said that the heat because the wood
was wet the Heat this vipers would jump
out that’s what happens I’m on this
island of Malta and so as Paul’s doing
this
um and I want you to know that as the
heat the ambers of Revival someone needs
to hear this because that’s what’s
happening if we got to walk by faith and
not by sight there’s Revival fires
burning and every time that starts to
heat up you start getting full of the
Holy Ghost you start pressing into God
you start wanting more of the presence
of God you’re getting hot which a lot of
us have gone back to our prayer closets
we’ve gotten the Lord again and we’re
like okay get rid of the fluff I I need
the Holy Ghost okay so you were speaking
in tongues again even if we didn’t
believe in it we’re we’re all everywhere
people there were cessationists have
suddenly become like you know it’s like
we’re all doing this because we need the
Holy Ghost That Fire starts do not be
deceived the enemy will always jump out
and by so what happened is the Viper
comes out attaches himself the Bible
says to Paul so here’s the deal couldn’t
take you out with the storm
couldn’t take you out with the Shipwreck
so what if since I couldn’t take you out
from the outside in I’m gonna put some
Venom on the inside out to try to take
you out from your heart you get a choice
is that then I’m going to get into my
heart poison me that take that which is
what the enemy wants
um or am I going to do what the Bible
says that Paul shook it off
before Taylor Swift There was the
Apostle Paul some of us it was that’s it
you know Taylor was not the first one to
Shake it Off what Paul the Bible says
that Paul shook the Viper off into the
fire he didn’t Shake It Off
to try to poison everyone else you know
if it was in today’s language you didn’t
Shake It Off on social media he didn’t
shake it off to his mother-in-law on the
telephone or to his friend no no no he
shook it into the fire and that’s where
some of us need to shake off some of
this unforgiveness and bitterness and
offense and anger and hatred and lust
and greed and envy it needs to go into
the fire to burn and not out there to
poison everybody else and so that he
shakes it off now these guys they had
thought he was a murderer with a snake
next couple of verses they think he’s a
god that is the crowd that that I mean I
just like I’m reading this in the text
and I’m like you’ve got to be kidding me
this if I had to live for the Applause
of the crowd one day I’m a God the next
day I’m a murderer I like it’s just like
you this is why
you can’t get your esteem from how many
likes you get on social media or how
many favorites or how many shares you
have to get in the word and know what
God has said about you this this is
where we have to get it
okay first of all you got us all fired
up uh in regard to this word that you’re
talking about Christine is about faith I
would say we’re just getting back to who
we’re supposed to be we’re supposed to
be a people that see by faith and I
think a lot of the times you know as
we’re talking about uh the toxicity that
comes into our heart from the venom bite
it’s because the enemy doesn’t want us
to walk by faith so if he can get us up
in our feelings or our normal our
rational mind then that’s the whole
thing imagine what would happen with
Paul so here we are if he gave up in the
when he was a prisoner so let’s go right
at the beginning when he was the
prisoner if he gave up when he was on
the ship and he felt all the storms like
everybody else and he thought we’re all
going to die if he then gave up when the
ship ran aground imagine when he if he
gave up because that’s how a lot of us
feel right now it’s like really God I
went through all this storm I went
through all this shipwreck and now a
snake bite like are you serious and I
think in the spirit we’re right at that
moment you get to choose you really do
get it you might go but I feel bitten
and I’m full of unforgiveness and anger
and there was injury yes yes yes yes yes
it’s a real snake I’m not denying it the
snake of offense of unforgiveness of
bitterness of hurt Injustice it’s real
no one’s denying the reality of it but
whether this is going to determine your
destiny or not is up to you wow you can
shake it off so no one’s denying the
real and allow the Redemptive power of
God to come because here is the power
and you go is there a purpose yes
because the Bible says now in the
neighborhood of that place where lands
belonging to the chief man of the island
so now God takes him to the chief man a
man named Publius who received us and
entertained us hospitably for three days
it happened that the father so now
you’ve got the most influential man on
the island hit the father of Publius lay
sick with fever and dysentery and Paul
visited him and prayed and putting his
hands on him he healed him and when this
had taken place the rest of the people
on the island who had diseases also came
and were cured and then it goes on and I
love this right at the end it says they
also honored us greatly and when we were
about to set sail they put on board
whatever we needed everything they had
lost and then some so they went and
where did Paul end up yeah in Rome doing
exactly what God called him to do
Destiny was complete yep and he just had
a couple of really unexpected things
happen that all worked for his Goods yes
and that led to not just his good but a
lot of us we’ve been and praying for
Revival and were missing Revival because
we’re thinking of Rome I’m saying don’t
miss Malta on the way to Rome God says
oh Paul your vision was too small you
had just Rome but I had a Revival
waiting in Malta for you so I will bless
the Lord at all times so all means all
all means all all means all the more
when you’re in trouble all all the more
because that’s when the soul cries out
for equilibrium
if if I lose my equilibrium the first
thing I’m going to try to do is grab
something solid and if your life has
become crazy you want to grab something
that’s not shaking every the Bible said
everything that can be shaken will be
shaken so that that which cannot be
shaken will remain that’s God yeah and
so all the more reason to reach out to
him is when everything is shaking around
you he is that’s on Christ the solid
rock I stand he is that solid Place some
people have that completely backwards
absolutely you know this Wilderness
thing is God’s torturing he doesn’t like
me he’s mad at me he doesn’t want me
anymore and that’s really just kind of
almost 180 degrees wrong it’s absolutely
wrong it’s not hard for me I’m the baby
of my family so that part was easy for
me to embrace when you’re the baby of
the family and you come up in a healthy
family everybody loved me so when I got
saved
of me everybody loved me so but I gotta
say they told me that God did too I said
go cool come on in come on in to accept
the favor of God becomes challenging
when you’ve never had the favor of men
whether you’ve never been celebrated and
you’ve never been appreciated it’s kind
of foreign to you to accept the fact
that God likes me um
he might not like everything I do
but he loves me let’s bring it closer
let’s start with he likes me
he loves me he has loved me with her
everlasting love
if you’re having trouble receiving that
right now there’s something blocking it
you’re not used to opening up to the
idea of being preferred favor is to be
preferred God prefers you and you didn’t
earn it and you don’t deserve it you
didn’t work for it and that’s why it’s
hard for you to accept it because you
know every little silly stupid thing you
ever did in your life
but it’s not meritorious
it is his graciousness which is made
perfect in our weakness let’s start with
the fact
he’s in love with me
have you ever had somebody in love with
you and you couldn’t figure out in the
world why and and they were just in love
with you and when you’re in love with
somebody you get on the phone with them
run out of words and just breathe you’re
just on the phone breathing nobody
thinking nothing to say just running up
the phone bill I’ll call my wife she’s a
long distance we’d just be breathing
breathing up the rent money just
breathing what are you thinking about I
don’t know what do you think about all
that stupid stuff you know
it’s just crazy but but his love is
crazy he he just chooses to love us and
that is the Glorious gospel that God so
loved the world that he gave his only
begotten son not God so loved the church
we don’t want to hear this word it
wasn’t it wasn’t said the god soul of
the church he said God so love the world
that he gave his only begotten son that
whosoever believeth on him whoso
not just the people that church people
like whosoever believeth on him
not just the people that your Mama Liked
not just people that your daddy like who
so is all of us whosoever believeth on
him shall not perish
but have everlasting life do you believe
on him then believe he loves you if you
believe on him believe I uh I I was uh
at a church and and I listened at a
singer sing a song and she started
singing about I I know that you are for
me that’s the name of the song
and I started crying
I started crying I couldn’t hold back
the tears and I came back I told her
music Ministry you got to learn this
song you gotta learn the song I’m just
because I have always known that he was
for me yeah I have always known I didn’t
deserve it
but I have always known that God was for
me and if if you get nothing else out of
my book if you could settle on the fact
that God is for you even if he has to
correct you my parents would chastise me
to to the living in they’d have been in
jail today
but but I never doubted that they were
not for me I never I never doubted that
they were not for me and even though
I’ve been chasing of the Lord that does
not mean that he doesn’t love me because
whom the Lord loveth he chasing it don’t
confuse the chastening with malice or
hatred God loves you and if that can
sink in the soil of your head right now
healing is coming right now thank you
Lord restoration is coming right now
renewal is coming right now that God
isn’t trying to make up his mind about
you and if you pay your times he loves
you and if you do this or that he loves
you and if you if you fast three weeks
he loves no you’re then you earned it
he has chosen to love you because he is
gracious when we are not graceful
lead people to Jesus
may I take this opportunity
to speak to you
maybe you’ve never heard anybody talk
like that in all your life and you
didn’t even know that you were eligible
to this glorious thing called salvation
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your life is ridden with guilt and shame
you’ve done some things you’ve seen some
things horrific things immoral things
you’ve been in wars and conflicts and
seen dead bodies you’ve you’ve been
through all kinds of stuff and they
haunt you and you have night terrors and
you drink a lot
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and you can’t imagine
that a holy God would love a Wretch like
you
I get it
I’m a rich too
but Amazing Grace How Sweet the Sound
that saved a Wretch like Me
accept him into your heart right now
he’s waiting he’s anxious he’s so
anxious that even though your door is
closed he’s knocking on it behold I
stand at the door knock If any man hear
my voice I will come in and sub with him
he’ll come in right now you’re watching
in the house at a truck stop in your
bedroom open that door open it he’s at
it right now right this minute right
this minute Jesus is knocking at the
door he wants to be with you
in the trailer in that mansion in that
penthouse suite in that Porsche on the
bus in a cab
he wants to be with you
father right now I pray that Hearts
would open that mines would open and
that the love of Jesus would seep in
like water falling on dry ground in the
wilderness of sin
God let your grace seep into that
parched soil
and bring life where there has been
death
and bring joy where there has been
depression and bring peace where there
has been confusion
you’ve come to bring the gift of eternal
life
we accept you now as our personal savior
just ask if we accept you now as our
personal savior we invite you to come
into our heart I’m throwing the door
wide open
my future is in your head 2022 belongs
to you thank you Lord
I accept you as Lord Of My Life
right now
in the name of Jesus we pray
amen congratulations thank you Lord a
party just broke out in heaven
the angels are dancing and they just
turned up the music and they’re gonna
rock till it drop because another Soul
was added to the kingdom today and your
name is written in the Lamb’s Book of
Life
this difficult moment in your marriage
in this trying moment in your finances
in this struggle on your job in this
difficulty in this relationship you’re
rubbing Corners with your boss or your
spouse or this struggle you’re having on
your University campus or in your high
school campus this hard time that you
were having he is there he just may have
come in the package you don’t prefer
and that oftentimes the Fingerprints of
God are not recognized not because he’s
not there it is just because the
expectation we have set up about what he
looks like and how he will speak and how
he will move the prayer request the
solution that he will bring doesn’t
align with the prayer request that we
have prayed we have boxed God into the
way we want him to answer instead of
believing that his ways are not our ways
and his thoughts are not our thoughts as
high as the heavens are above the Earth
that’s how high his thoughts are above
our own and so we box God in when we say
Lord answer my request in this
particular way do you know that you
limit not God but you limit I limit our
experience of God when we say Lord
answer my request exactly this way I
have learned to pray here Lord is my
request you said that I can make it
known here’s how I would like to see you
move in my circumstance thank you Lord
that I can come boldly and make my
request known so I’ve made my request
but at the end of that prayer I’ve
learned to pray Lord Do It
or do something better
because do you know there are categories
of options that our brain doesn’t even
know are available and accessible to us
and if we limit God to what we can think
and what we see as the way we have not
even considered the categories of
opportunity that this Divine holy
Almighty being has accessible to him
y’all he’s not just thinking about you
he’s thinking about your children and
your grandchildren and your
great-grandchildren and those that
aren’t to come and how his kingdom
purposes are going to be outworked in
this generation and so on this occasion
the Messiah shows up and nobody
recognizes him except somebody say
accept
except a guy named Simeon
he had been told and promised
just like we have
that we he would see the Manifest
presence of God he’d been told it
he’d been promised
like we’ve been promised because of our
relationship with God through Christ
Jesus and the Holy Spirit indwelling us
that we will see the Fingerprints of God
working in our lives this is called the
Manifest presence of God
it is unique to omnipresence
omnipresence means that God is
everywhere all at the same time I’m so
grateful for God’s omnipresence because
God’s omnipresence means that when I fly
back to Dallas where I live when my new
friends that I just met from Uganda fly
back to where they live
um that when you all fly back to
wherever it is you’ve come from whether
all over different areas of California
or afar it means that no matter where we
go he is as much with me as he is with
you
because he is omnipresent
but if you’re anything like me you’re
grateful for a zombie presence but you
want more than that
you want the manifested presence of God
I’m talking about where you can look
back over your circumstances and realize
that his fingerprints were all
throughout that thing I’m talking about
where you can see footprints in the sand
as you actually recognize that God was
walking beside you the whole way I’m
talking about what other people call
coincidence encounters you see The
Sovereign hand of God that was aligning
your footsteps and setting you in the
right place at the exact right time the
Manifest presence of God
I wanted to know what made simeon’s eyes
open to recognize what nobody else in
this scenario did I figured whatever
opened up his eyes might open up our
eyes as well are you ready three things
that I want to point out to you it says
in verse 26 about Simeon it says that it
had been
actually verse 25 I want to start there
there was a man in Jerusalem whose name
was Simeon he was righteous devout
looking for the consolation of Israel we
could spend a whole lot of time in those
three but here’s where I want to harden
the Holy Spirit was upon him
the Holy Spirit was upon him
it says
that he came into the temple verse 27 in
the spirit
verse 26 says it had been revealed to
him by the Holy Spirit
look at the presence of the holy spirit
permeating this text look at how the
author has over and over and over again
highlighted the work of the holy spirit
in opening up simeon’s eyes to be able
to recognize the manifested presence of
God before him in the person of Jesus
Christ Luke here he is just in the
second chapter of this book and by the
way just in these first two chapters he
has already alluded to the spirit ten
times the work of God’s spirit is so
powerful and so needful to a fruitful
experience in the life of the of the
believer that even before the book of
Acts even before Pentecost even before
the spirit has come
Luke points out the movement of the
spirit here in the life of Simeon this
shows you how important the spirit’s
work is how critical it is to making
sure that your spiritual senses your
spiritual radar is heightened so that
you can detect the presence of God
the Holy Spirit was upon him now I want
you to see the work of God’s spirit this
is just the first uh characteristic of
Simeon but I want to just just take some
time for just a few moments on it the
work of God’s spirit is so important it
deserves a little bit of our attention
here there are three ways that the holy
spirit is described as relating to
Simeon in these few verses just just a
few ways that the Holy Spirit relates to
Simeon in these few verses the first
thing it says is that the Holy Spirit
was upon him now listen I want you to
know that if you have placed faith in
Jesus Christ the Holy Spirit lives on
the inside of you
Ephesians chapter 1 says that the moment
you believed you received the Holy
Spirit you were sealed by the Holy
Spirit of promise I want you to know
that at the moment you became a believer
in Jesus Christ you received the most
incredible gift you will ever receive
this side of Eternity and that is the
very presence of God living on the
inside of you the holy spirit is not a
ghost or a wind or a fire or a dove he
is often symbolized by those things but
don’t minimize him that 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’s
the last to be revealed to us in the
pages of scripture but all of the Power
all of the glory all of the authority
all of the Grandeur of God the father is
in the person of the Holy Spirit
which means
if you’re a believer in the Holy Spirit
lives in you
that means all of the Grandeur and all
of the greatness all of the authority of
God himself now lives on the inside of
you so if you are a Believer you have
the Holy Spirit you are not waiting on
more of the holy spirit all of the Holy
Spirit you ever gonna get you got the
moment you got saved
now you do need to be filled by God’s
spirit so that his influence in your
life grows and grows so that you operate
under the gifting of the spirit so that
you can live according to the fruit of
the spirit that means living beyond your
natural capacity it means when your
patience runs out you can still have
more patience with that person it means
when gentleness has long since left the
building you still find you’ve got a
little gentleness for that when
self-discipline I mean you just don’t
have no more self-discipline in that
area we need the fruit of God’s spirit
so we need to be filled by the spirit as
we yield to him in obedience we are
filled which means he influences us more
our mind is renewed and transformed we
are Sanctified into the image of Christ
Jesus
so the holy spirit is in you
Simeon
his relationship with the spirit is not
described in that way
it doesn’t say that the spirit was in
him
it says that the Holy Spirit was on him
which means
there is a difference between the spirit
being in you
and the spirit
listen to me
the gift of God’s spirit in you oh this
brings tears to my eyes
the gift of God’s spirit in you
he will never leave you nor forsake you
there is nothing you can do to work
yourself out of a relationship with the
Holy Spirit
okay
but him being on you
you got to live a life I I want to live
a life that is a magnet for the presence
of God to rest on me
we can sit in this conference until
we’re blue in the face and applaud the
truths of God and say Amen to the truths
of God but if we leave this room and
live in a way
that is out of alignment with the truth
of God we will not have the spirit
resting
if you want the mark of God’s presence
on you I’m talking about where other
people can see you operating in your
gift moving about in the assignments
that you have been given where they can
just see there’s a unique favor on your
life toward that particular task or that
particular Endeavor where you are marked
by something that gives you favor that
gives you his grace for a particular
area of your life then you must live I
must choose to live in a way that honors
God so that God’s presence can rest upon
us
because he will not force himself on you
he offers you this resting of his
presence and his grace upon your life if
you will choose to live in a way that
does not uh disturb his presence that
does not keep him from being able to be
near you because you have chosen here it
is to be
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