Going Deep With Holy Spirit | Elder Jeff Conley

Stay standing, Stay standing, Let's honor the Lord. Oh Lord,

You're so good, You're worthy, You're worthy. Thank you Lord

for your flow, Holy Spirit flow through this place. Lord, Lord,

blow your wind. Let the wind of the Holy Spirit

blow in this house today. Lord, let it. Let the

wind blow inside inside of us. Lord, and we thank

you for your presence, and we honor you this morning

in Jesus name. Amen. Thank you for that, and thank

you Lord. I'm so grateful to be with you. This

is the church of my dreams. My wife and I, Karen,

my beautiful wife, showed up here seven eight years ago

and we've been in heaven on earth at new horizons.

So yes, yes, so we're we're grateful. If if I

can flow today the way that John and Hugo we're

playing guitar, we're in good shape. Man, those guys can

just shred it. Okay, here we go. Two major seasons.

I've had two major seasons in my life as a believer.

The first season, the lights were off. The second season,

the lights were on. The first season was up until

I was age twenty one, and I'd tried to be

a Christian as a kid. I'd go and i'd sneak

into our TV room as a kid and turn on

hot summer nights and watch Billy Graham and his and

I'd get born again every time and walk down the

aisle with as that art sung by George Beverly Shay,

and it was I had an experience with God, but

I never experienced the power to live it. I'd go

to church, but I was just living like any normal

unbelieving person would. There was no real difference in my life.

I'd go to Young Life in high school and that

didn't take. And I was around the Jesus People movement

in the seventies when I was in high school and

that didn't really take. And I was in college and

trying different things, and it's just nothing really stuck until

the lights came on. And the lights came on when

I moved from the shallow end of the pool to

the deep end of the pool. And that's why I know.

I titled this message going Deeper with Holy Spirit, and

that's what we're going to do today. We're going to

get ourselves activated at a deeper level to go into

the deep with Holy Spirit. So I was at church

here Friday night and I thought, you know what, the

title of this message really needs to be pool party.

So we're going to have a pool party here and

we're going to get more of us into the deep

end with Holy Spirit. Is that good? That's okay? Okay.

So water was a big deal as a kid growing

up in Spokane. My parents said, moved from an eight

hundred square foot a little tiny house in the valley.

I was the oldest of six kids at age six,

and we moved up onto the hill with this big

house with five bedrooms that was built in nineteen ten,

you know, and it had this old pool in the backyard,

and the pool was concrete, it wasn't a fancy fiberglass one.

And my dad would repaint it with that aqua pane

every spring to make sure it was ready to go,

and we filled it with water. Eventually we got a

heater for it, and that was really cool. But there

was nothing like going into the deep end when the

paint was dry and all the repairs were done on

the pool in the spring and it was time to

bring in the hoses and we put those hoses in

because it took about three days to fill it just

running the hose, and it was so fun to go

into the deep end and play in that water as

it got deeper and deeper and deeper. And I think

that's some of what the Holy Spirit wants us to

do with him, is just go deeper and play in

the water with him and try stuff out and try

things and experiment with his presence and his goodness. So

we also had a pool up the street where we

took swimming lessons, a public pool, and I took Beginner

Intermediate Advance and took the swimming lessons. But when I

was a little kid, at the other end of the pool,

in the deep end, they had a ten foot high

diving board back in the day when you could have

diving boards and pools, and that would be so cool

to go in the deep end and jump off that thing.

So finally I got old enough to go to the

deep end. I got up enough courage one day to

go up the ladder. Once you're standing up there, you're

not just from five feet looking up at a ten

foot diving board. You're at fifteen feet looking down at

the water way way down there. And you're up on

the board and there's people waiting on line. You can't

go back down. That would be embarrassing, you can't return.

And so so I crept out there to the edge

of the board and just okay, I gotta step off. Okay, one, two, three, Oh,

I gotta do it. I gotta do it. I gotta

do it. Well, that's kind of like with the Lord.

You know. Sometimes he the Holy Spirit, is leading us

to go deeper with him, and it's okay. I wasn't

going to die jumping off that board. I might land

crook and hurt myself a little bit, but I wasn't.

You know, when we'd be at the lake as a

little kid, and my dad would take us out in

the water, and when we were little, and he'd throw

us way up in the air and we'd come down,

but you knew that when you went under the water,

his hands were going to be on you. Then sure

enough those big hands around my side and he would

pull me up out of the water. But I trusted

him to throw me up and enjoy me and have

that thrill. It was so fun to be suspended in

the air like that and then come down in the water,

knowing that his hands were there. Then I wasn't gonna sink.

So we're safe jumping into the deep the Holy Spirit.

So eventually I stepped off that diving board, and wow,

that was cool because you hit the water so hard,

and that's not you just crash into the water and

you go down a long ways too. You're in the water.

And then there came the day when it was not

cool anymore just to step off, had to go head

first and dive, and then you really went deep when

you hit the water, in fact, so deep that you

could touch the bottom. This is a twelve to fifteen

foot deep pool, and man, it's a long ways up

to the top. Let what you get to do and

you're on the bottom is push and you go shooting

up to the surface. And what a thrill. And that's

what it's like when we go deep with Holy Spirit

and go deep with him. There's more. He's got more

for us. He's got more gifts. He's a good father.

He gives gifts to his children. He's made that promise

that he gives good gifts and that he gives the

Holy Spirit to those that ask him. And Luke eleven

it says he gives the Holy Spirit to those that

ask him, and so we can have more of Holy

Spirit and more of his presence, and I've even been

practicing that over the last few weeks. I'm thinking, you know,

how come we don't really operate, not just in speaking

in tongues and that gift, but the interpretation of tongues

and Holy Spirit start convicting me. Why don't you start

practicing doing this in your own prayer time. I want

you to interpret your tongue, so I would willfully do it.

Now you might say all that you just make up

the interpretation of the tongue. Well maybe, but I have

the spirit in me that witnesses to whether, oh you

just made that up, Jeff, or you know what? That

was the Lord. You know, he encouraged me this week

about some stuff in business and so forth. Just a

little word that I spoke in English after I prayed

in tongus. I thought that was God. That was really

the Lord. Karen and I were sent on an assignment

one day. A church used to and we were building

a school, and our assignment was to go visit Oral Roberts,

you know, the healing evangelists the nineteen sixties. And we

sat in his living room in Newport Beach, California, and

he talked to us for two hours. I mean, what

a privilege. You know, the founder of Oral Roberts University,

and he said why. I asked him, how did you

build the school? What was the main thing you did?

And he said, we would first dig a hole. We

dig a hole, we would go to the edge of

the hole and we pray in tongues, and then we

would interpret what God was telling us to do, and

then we would get the strategy on how to fill

the hole with concrete and steel and beams. And now

he's built this. He built a beautiful university that has

sent tens of thousands of people in the mission field

and onto the seven Mountains of society. And our son

graduated from all Roberts University. I mean, it's still producing

for God. So it's like, what what are we called

to build? A family, a household, a business, a ministry?

What is it that you want to build? What is

it that you want to do? Would you like to

participate with the Holy Spirit in the design we've been

We did a remodel on the interior of a home

here this last year and we just decided, Karen and

I just decided we're going to invite you Holy Spirit

into this project. Jesus, you are the chief designer. You

are a designer, and we've just brought him into all

the details of it. And it's amazing the way we're

not experienced at doing remodels, and it's just amazing how

things came together. So he wants to help us. He's

the helper. So the lights came on when I got

filled with the spirit, when the baptism of the Holy Spirit,

or the immersion in his presence, with the evidence of

speaking in tongues was introduced to my life and I

responded to it, That's when the lights came on. That's

when they came on, and I was a changed person

from then. Actually calculated the other day. That was about

seventeen four hundred days ago, and I've been praying in tongues,

I think every day. I don't think I've missed the

day since then. You know, I could not keep my

hands on the plow in the lights off season. Not

only was I looking back, I couldn't even hold onto

the plow, but the Holy Spirit strengthened me with power

to be a witness. The Word of God just came

alive to me. It's like as I read the Bible,

it would leap off the page like it was living,

because it is living, and it would just grow in

me and stuff was happening, and I could measure my

progress as a Christian. And please keep in mind that

entering into this power of the Holy Spirit and all

that it is, it's not a free hall pass to

a trial less life. You're still going to have challenges

and difficulties. And there's still a whole part of walking

with God that involves repenting and holiness and purity. And

unless no matter how powerful you get, whether you whether

you get out there, you're prophesying, you're raising the day,

you're doing all that. We're doing all that. But if

we aren't repenting and looking at our soul and doing

our house cleaning, we're not going to be able to

fill our walk. We won't finish strong. We stand on

two legs and walk on two legs as believers. One

side is the holiness and purity. The other side is

the power. And some people don't choose to take the

power side. And that's okay, that's okay, Paul said, I

wish that you all prayed in tongues, but mostly that

you'd prophesy. Paul had that desire for everyone, knowing that

not everyone would, but it is available to all of us.

And what's the difference and what allows us to have

that or not. Sometimes if we think, well, I've tried

to pray in tongues, but it hasn't happened, so God

must not have that gift for me, I would suggest

that the gift is for you. The gift is for you.

Maybe there's just another piece of learning or something that

has to happen. But the gifts and callings of God

are without repentance. And what separates those that pray in

the spirit and enter in the gifts of the spirit

and those that don't is desire. Because it's God's the

same for all of us. He has these gifts for

all of us. But it's simply desire. Are you cultivating

the desire or not? And so let's not sweat it

with the ones that don't desire it. They want to

swim in the shallow end. Great, they're in the pool

with us. They're born again. Karen and I were in

Thailand on a mission trip with our daughter where they

were ministering two prostitutes in the Red Light district, and

we spent about a week there at night, going out

to the red light district, inviting the girls to the

restaurant and coffee house and so forth, to get ministry

and support and move on and separate from that lifestyle

they wanted. And so half the team would stay at

the house we are staying and pray. The other half

would be out on the streets. And one night we

were in the house praying, and there was other people

there that were praying too, but we were quietly praying

in tongues because there was people there that weren't and

in received, but they were in their Bibles and they

were turning pages and they're looking at things. And so

after the meeting, I said to the person that was

one of the people who is reading their Bible, son

till I said, well, what were you doing? What is that?

And they go, we are asking God for the scripture

to pray for the exact situation that the people out

on the street are in. And so they would be

asking God. Were they praying in tongues? No, but there

are brothers and sisters and so no big deal. But

by the end of the week I had a prophetic

word for one of them. For one couple and their

daughter and they just loved it. And these people don't

even believe in praying in tongues, but they were happy

to receive them word. And everybody loves edification, exhortation, and

comfort and that's what the spirit of prophecy is, right,

it's edifying, it's exhorting, it's it's comforting. And so amen,

I completely went off my notes. But we're moving from

the shallow end to the deep end. Okay, who is

this Holy Spirit? He's God for one, he's God. In

Acts five one to four where Anonius lied to the

people about the size of his gift, and Peter confronted

him and said, you lied to the Holy Spirit. And

then two verses later he said you lied to God.

So right there, God in the Holy Spirit are one

and the same. And we know Anonyus draw dead on

the spot and they drug him out and buried it.

I tell you a great power and respect. The Holy

Spirit is to be respected. You know, he has feelings

and emotion and he's easily grieved. But he is God

and he's a member of the Godhead. When Jesus was

baptized by John in the desert, he was water baptized.

He came up, and what does it say? The Spirit

of God, this Holy Spirit descended on him like a dove,

and so he was baptized in the spirit. I think

I don't know all the theology of this passed when

you probably do, but I imagine because he's a man,

as a human being, he needed the strength of the

Holy Spirit to go in the desert for forty days

and face the temptation. And it says the Spirit drove

him into the desert. So he submitted to the voice

of Holy Spirit. Okay. And also, Holy Spirit is like

the wind. Let's go to John three eight. Holy Spirit

is like the wind. The wind blows wherever it pleases.

You hear it sound, but you cannot tell where it

comes from or where it is going. So it is

with everyone born of the spirit. The spirit is like

when and a couple of weeks ago, I said, Lord,

what are the characteristics of wind? And Jesus makes so

many comparisons to weather and nature to illustrate the Bible, right,

So he gave me this one. Can you see with

me way back here? And it says, okay. So when

there's two basic types of wind and how they form,

there's high pressure and there's low pressure. Okay. The characteristics

of high pressure is the air is stagnant and it

doesn't rise. Okay. Here's the ground, here's the air, and

it just sits there. It just sits there, and nothing happens.

During the summer, this is characterized by weeks on end

of hot rye, windless weather and where the air gets

dirty and stagnant and so forth, and it's still the

air is still. Nothing happens in the winter time. It's

when it's cold week after week and sunny. That's a

low pressure or excuse me, high pressure system. They say that, right,

high pressure, high pressure. So the pressure is pushing down

on the earth. Okay. The low pressure, on the other hand,

is warm. Air is rising, okay. And the Bible says,

our prayers are like incense. What do our prayers do

they rise? Okay? You can start to see the connection here.

So low pressure air is rising. And what happens when

the air rises It leaves the void. And what has

to happen. Air has to flow into the void into

low pressure. So air has to flow in. And the

faster and the more this rises, the more air has

to swirl in. And the air doesn't just come straight in.

It swirls like this because the earth is round, it turns.

It causes this moving air to swirl. And this is

where rainstorms and bad weather and then moving up the ladder, tornadoes, hurricanes,

all the stuff. But was Jesus ever intimidated by a storm. No, No,

he likes storms. You know, if he would have been

in the movie, what's that movie called Twister? If he'd

been in Twister, he'd be the guy driving the pickup

trying to drive into the center of the tornado. Because

he took the boat into the middle of the storm

and slept. He didn't care. He walked on water in

the middle of a storm. The Spirit of God came

by Moses in a storm so strong that it broke rocks.

You know, Jesus was not intimidated by the storm. And

in the natural Jesus walk into a crowd that hated

him and wanted to kill him and walk white through him.

Jesus had no problem with storms. So so what if

we're praying a lot, the wind of the spirit can

move in right the window. Spirit and all great revivals

were preceded by prayer, warm air rising. The prayer created

low pressure in the Spirit and the Holy Spirit could

move and start to swirl, and yeah, there'd be storms

and havoc. Think about Azuza Street. They had so many

critics that the critics of William Seymour and his team

of prayer warriors would come in and try and mock

them and discredit them, and they'd get saved and repent.

You know this, the the Azuza Street started on the

front on the in the house in La and there's

so many people showed up to pray the front porch broke.

Then they had to to another building. I mean, in revival,

a lot of crazy stuff happens, and a lot of

wild stuff happens, but revival happens, the wind gets moving.

And what about all these people out here in the

world standing around looking waiting for something to happen in

their lives. This low pressure is just going to pull

them in to the Kingdom. And so I tell you

we need some storms, We need some low pressure created.

And what triggers it is our prayer, our prayer. Well,

it says in the Bible that we pray the mysteries

of God when we pray in tongues. It's a mystery

how that can happen in the spirit. We don't have

to know every detail about it. We just need to

partner with God. Can you imagine praying in tongues. It

says we're praying the mystery of God. We get to

participate with God's mystery. He has entrusted us with mystery.

You know, you say, well, I praying tongues, believe in

the interpret but I don't know if that's really God. Hey,

it's okay, it's a mystery. It's just it's just a mystery.

But he will He will give us insight through through

prophecy and and and so forth. So we get to

share in the in the in the mysteries of this.

So okay, Well, how did the Holy Spirit came on

that come on the scene. Well, uh, he he would

show up in in leaders profits and so forth, annointed lives.

But now it's available to all of us since the

upper room. Uh. In the in the Book of Acts

where the big group of over one hundred people were

had tongues of fire come on them. That said in

Acts two four that tongues of fire descended and they

all all prayed in in in other tongues. And that's

what really got started Jesus. Of course, we talked about

Jesus baptism, the Upper Room experience. But a lot of

critics will say that tongue cease there and the only

legitimate tongues is when people understand in a foreign language

when they hear their own language. But I would contend

with that just by reading Acts eight fourteen to nineteen.

Can we bring that up real quick? Acts Chapter eight

fourteen to nineteen. This is in Samaria. Philip goes to

Samaria and does great miracles and there's a revival of salvation.

But Peter and John were kind of the tag team

partners of Philip, and they go down to help people

with the Holy Spirit. And I guess we don't have

that scripture, but that's okay. So but they were filled

with the spirit separately. They didn't even know about this

Holy ghostism the spirit, but Peter and John helped him

with Paul in Acts nineteen two to seven goes to

Ephesus in a whole and these were believers in Ephesus,

but they didn't know about the Holy Spirit. And they

received the baptism of the Holy Spirit, and that was

the beginning of the giant revival in Asia. It said

all of Asia heard the word of the Lord, and

it was twelve people that got filled and baptized in

the spirit there. But Paul said, it said that he

took those disciples and they debated and contended with the

word of God for two years. In all of Asia

heard the gospel. We received power to be a witness.

When we're filled with the spirit, we don't have to

strain to witness and share the gospel. It's all you

have to do is walk around and live your life.

Told me, when you step out of your house, Jeff,

your life is not your own. Your on assignment everywhere

you go. And we just to celebrate our anniversary. We

just came off a cruise ship. There's five thousand people

in a twelve hundred foot space, fifteen story, twelve hundred

foot space. We had divine appointment after divine appointment after

divine appointment. Where we all we did. We were eating

and having fun and hanging out. We prayed for a

man in Morocco, a shop owner who was a devout Muslim.

We prayed for his sister who had twenty six surgeries,

and we prayed in the name of Jesus. Here's an

Infidel me praying for according to the Muslim, Infidel praying

for his sister, And on and on it goes, discussing

Christianity with Orthodox Jews and its God gives you the

power to be a witness. When I got I didn't

want any hype. I didn't want anything fancy. On the

phone with a friend. Their family had been mentoring me,

and I said, I'm ready for the Holy ghost. I

was in college. Is that when the lights came on

and I prayed, I received. I didn't really pray, and

the phone's kind of nervous, and I just relaxed, and

I said, I don't want anything weird. Lord, I don't know.

I don't want to do that holy roller thing. There's

holy rollers out there somewhere, you know. I've never seen

one since, but there's holy rollers. I don't want to

be a holy roller, but I want this gift. So

I prayed. I just relaxed. I prayed in tongues for

a half hour by myself and went to bed. And

that was that, and the Lord gave me my tone

down experience. There's lots of different ways people receive, but

there is an immersion in the holy ghosts that he

wants us to experience. I went to Denis a couple

of weeks later. He tried to talk me out of it.

He said, that's that gift is dead, it's passed away.

But his advice didn't take I'd already had the experience.

I'd already seen what the Word of God says about it.

And so we got involved with the church where Karen

and I over the years, where thousands of people through

our church got filled with the Holy Spirit. And if

we could bring up that guide to the Holy Spirit's baptism.

I want you to take a picture of this. This

is you know, people receive lots of different ways, but

we've Karen and I have helped and other people in

the service that went to our church have helped hundreds

and hundreds of people be filled with the Holy Spirit

through these steps. So we just we just go through it.

Who is the Holy Spirit? First of all, you got

to be born again, that's your meal ticket into the

pool and then going into the deep end. Who is

the Holy Spirit? He's God, He's the grant or powered

to spread the Gospel. He is the teacher, comforter, and helper. Three,

he has gifts for us that are available for the asking.

Luke eleven thirteen says says that God give gives gifts

to his children, and when you ask for the Holy Spirit,

he will give it. There's no other qualifications other than desire.

It's just desire. For Holy Spirit is with us. You

receive Holy Spirit when you become born again, get you

go into the deep end with Him. When you get

baptized in the spirit. Number five, when you receive his baptism,

he grants you the ability to speak in tongues. They say, well,

I've tried to speak in tongues. Nothing happens. You have

to move your vocal cords. You have to make a sound.

It's a step of faith. It's jumping off the high dive.

It might sound foolish, it might sound like baby talk,

but it's okay because God will meet you at your

point of faith and the language will start flowing. We

don't understand number six, We don't understand tongues in the

natural mind. It sounds foolish, but we are speaking mysteries

under God and building our faith. We build our most

holy faith. Jude one twenty says, when we pray in

the spirit, it's personal edification. You can get yourself out

of a depressed bag by praying in tongues really quick.

I would suggest you read one Corinthians fourteen. It's a

guideline for all things of the gifts of the Spirit speak.

This is huge number seven. Speaking in tongues is an

act of our will. The Lord will not force it

on you or do it for us. Rather he waits

for us to step out. It's all by faith, guys.

It's the same thing. The enemy may try and convince

you early on that it's not God, but it says

submitted to God, resists the devil, and he will flee.

Do you have any questions? Would you now like to

receive the Holy Spirit's baptism and then you pray with people.

So this is a guide for those of you want

to help people be filled with the spirit. After a while,

we just had it memorized. Karen and I were at

the prayer event with several couples from the church and

pastor Dwayne and Joel, and Holy Spirit said, this couple

over here needs their prayer language. So I went up

to the husband first, I said, you have your prayer language.

He goes, yeah, I'm good, but my wife has been

trying to receive it, and she doesn't have it. So

Karen came over. We prayed with hers, this wonderful young couple,

and she received her prayer language right in the middle

of the mall in wash In DC, in the prayer meeting.

And then her parents came. His parents came over to

us a little while later and said, yeah, we prayed

with them a month ago for her to receive her

prayer language manifest until now. So they were grateful. So

power to be a witness, power to be closer to God.

And there's so much more we can flow. That tongues

is the basic gift, but we can flow in prophecy,

working of miracles, signs and wonders of all kinds. So

let's do this. Let's everyone stand right now, and I

want us to take just a moment to pray quietly

in the spirit. How about we get the wind the

air rising, and here, let's create a low pressure. Let's

create a low pressure vacuum right here. Just begin to

pray in the spirit. Just take a moment here, just

pray quietly in the spirit while the band comes. Want

you really respect the move of God here. Please don't

move around too much. Unless you have to go get

your kids. Thank you, Lord quo K. Thank you Father

for the mystery of participating with you, with being part

of your your wonderful presence, Holy Spirit. We're so grateful

for our partnership with you. We're so grateful for your

moving in our midst. You're moving in our midst. Lord,

Thank you Holy Spirit. Now, with every eye closed, please,

every eye closed. Please, if you're not sure if you're

born again, if you're not sure that you know Jesus

as Lord and savior of your life, would you just

raise your hand right now, please, no one looking around,

it's just private. Please raise your hand if you would

like to be born again, if you'd like to know

Jesus as Lord. Okay, I see those hands, Thank you. Okay.

My next thing is I'd like you to consider going deeper,

to jump into the deep end. Now. That means that

you want to get re baptized in the spirit that

maybe you prayed in tongues once, or you were at

a camp when in the summertime and you prayed in

tongues or something and then it stopped. Today's the day

to have that reactivated. Today is the day. Now is

the time if you have never spoken in tongues before.

It says the Bible. It says believers shall lay hands

on them and they shall pray in new tongues. Destiny Team,

please come up, and we want you to come forward

and pray with one of the prayer partners up here.

Receive your step into the deep end, your immersion with

Holy Spirit, your re dedication to the baptism of the Spirit.

Maybe you want to flow more in in interpretation of

tongues and prophecy and healing and so forth. Now's the

time for that to be activated at a deeper level.

So we invite you to come forward. Thank your Lord.