Overflow: Week 1

Have the honor of serving as the adjunct teaching pastor

here at Church at the Crossing. So if we haven't met,

this is our introduction. I'm going to let you know

you picked a perfect place to worship this morning. Whether

you're watching online or you're here in person, I'm so

glad you're here today this morning. I've been on a

little journey myself just with God as we talk about

overflow and allowing the Holy Spirit to overflow in your

life to guide you, to lead you into places and

spaces that you may not have been prepared for. As

many of you know, I serve a very distinct population.

Although I've served young people my whole life, all the

way from pre k all the way up to college age.

I've worked with young people most of my life. I

did discover that pre K is probably not my thing

because when they take nap time, so do I. And

not safe, not safe and so. But I found a

particular population that my heart goes out to, and that

is young people who are often forgotten, and those are

young people who are incarcerated across the country at youth

detention facilities. So several months ago, the Lord started speaking

to me about this situation, and it started asking me, like,

where's your ministry. I'm like, my ministry. Do it every

day when I go to work, I'm doing it. I'm

working with young people everywhere I go, I'm doing ministry.

And the Lord is like, no, what about your ministry?

What about your ministry? And then the Lord started downloading

in small bits and pieces this ministry that has unfolded

very quickly to go into those spaces and to be

able to preach and teach young people the Gospel and

expose them to the love of Christ. Just this week,

I was able to go to a detention center in Springfield,

Ohio and share the good news. And the good news

is twelve young souls came to the world. Amen. Amen, Amen.

And so how this ministry works is that it's based

out of Matthew twenty five when Jesus says, what you

have done to the lease of these. When I was hungry,

you fed me, when I was naked, you clothed me.

When I was in prison or sick, you came and

visited me. So we do that through this ministry. We

visit these young people to see about them, We feed

them the word of God, and then we also leave

behind the T shirt that's on the screen there. And

what we do with this T shirt is basically, anyone

who purchased one, they not only purchased a T shirt

for themselves, but they're also purchasing one for a kid

who's incarcerated. And so when these young twelve people gave

their heart to the Lord, they receive the shirt, and

even the other kids that were in the room receive

the shirt because it's just a reminder when they leave

that they're still counting. On the shirt, it says Everybody's it.

And John three point sixteen lets us know that God

so loved the world that he gave is only begotten son.

He loved the world everybody. Everybody is it and so

tagged these young people are it. And so glad to

know that we have twelve added to the kingdom. Amen.

So we talked about this. So much is happening at

the church at this time. Pastor James is actually traveling

at this time. He is in the backwoods of Wisconsin. Amen,

He's at a outreach event where he's going to be

sharing or has already started sharing, and we'll be sharing

four times while he's there. And so this group of people.

Are there many that are there unsaved and have not

come into relationship with Jesus Christ. And so please pray

for him as he shares the good news of Jesus,

and we pray that others will come into the fold. Amen. Amen.

I want to transition into this topic of overflow and

get us back to that. I felt like everything I

said before was an announcement, and I want to kind

of get us back into this, uh, this idea of

the overflow of the Holy Spirit. And so I'm gonna

ask my granddaughter daughter, Kayln, Kaylyn, come on up here,

help me out. Kaylyn's gonna help me out this morning,

just kind of help us flow back by singing a

prayer song. Okay, we're gonna make this our prayer song.

So if you would bow your heads, close your eyes,

and we're gonna sing this prayer song. She's gonna sing

this pre song. Lead us in this pres song. Let's pray.

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your God, God is word of love.

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Come by your asis.

Holy Spirit. You are welcome. Come in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen.

Let me thank you for but you'll thank you Amen.

So that have young people, there's always something so sensitive

about when a young person sing. When our kids were little,

we would go to their chapels at Liberty Christian School

and Anderson and all these little kids, little babies singing

these songs. And I would be sitting there bawling. I'm

just bawling because of the sensitivity. Who thank you God

in the spirit that it produces to remember the innocence

of a child. Today, the big idea for today is

experiencing the fullness of the Holy Spirit. We all have

heard about the Holy Spirit. We have lessons taught to

us about the Holy Spirit. We've heard about the gifts

of the spirit, the fruit of a spirit, all those

things that are produced through the Holy Spirit. But we

need to understand who the Holy Spirit is. So I'm

going to start us out by acknowledging that the Holy

Spirit has always been a part of the life of

the Church, the creation of the world, everything that the

Holy Spirit has been a part of. Because the Holy

Spirit is a part of God, the Triune God, God,

the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.

And so when we encounter relationship with God, we come

in through the Holy Spirit. It's the Holy Spirit that

draws us and invites us. It's that tugg in your

heart that says, ooh, my life needs more than what

I'm living right now. It's that poll that says, come

to an alter of prayer, give your heart to Jesus.

You need Jesus. Come to Jesus while there is time.

It's that feeling that we have. The Holy Spirit woos

us into a place where we're open enough to receive Jesus.

And so we have God, the Father, God, the Son

and God, the Holy Spirit, God, the Father supreme over everything, Jesus,

the sacrificial Lamb of God, who lays down his life

to give us access to the Father, and the Holy Spirit,

who then empowers the believer to be effective and to

others into the presence of God, to be witnesses, ambassadors

of God's presence and goodness. So this morning I want

to spend a little time in the scriptures this series

here overflow. So honored to be opening this series that

we'll be doing over the next several weeks. But today

we want to start out just in Chapter one, and

we'll be moving through all the chapters there and Acts.

I want to look at Acts one and we're going

to start with verse one and we'll flow through verse eleven.

I'm going to read this in your hearing, and if

you will not turn because people don't turn pages, how

many y'all got physical Bibles? How man y'all got physical

Bibles with you right now? Amen? Just curious, all right,

How man y'all got digital Bibles with you right now? Yeah? Okay,

So swipe to swipe to Acts, the first chapter, and

we're going to get reading the Bible says this in

my form of book Theophilis, I wrote about all that

Jesus began to do and to teach until the day

he was taken up to heaven after giving instruction through

the Holy Spirit. The apostles had chosen he had chosen

after his suffering, he presented himself to them and gave

many convincing proofs that he was alive. He appeared to

them over a period of forty days and spoke about

the Kingdom of God. On one occasion, while he was

eating with them, he gave them this command, do not

leave Jerusalem, but wait for the gift my father promise

which you have heard me speak about. For John baptized

with water, but in a few days you will be

baptized with the Holy Spirit. Then they gathered around him

and asked him, Lord, are you at this time going

to restore the king to Israel. He said to them,

it is not for you to know the times or

dates the Father has set by his own authority. But

you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you,

and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in

all Judaea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.

After he said this, he was taken up before their

very eyes, and a cloud hid him from their sight.

They were looking intently into the sky as he was going,

when suddenly two men dressed in white stood before them,

men of Gotie. They said, why do you stand here

looking into the sky. This same Jesus who was taken

from you into the heaven will come back in the

same way you have seen him go into the heavens.

Today I want to focus on that passage, that scripture

in verse eight. But you will receive power when the

Holy Spirit comes on you, and you will be my

witnesses in Jerusalem and all of Judea and Samaria and

to the ends of the earth. I want us to

understand today that in order for us to be witnesses,

we are going to need the Holy Spirit. There are

three points I want to point out today. The first

point is is that the Holy Spirit empowers believers. The

Holy Spirit empowers believers. If we are a believer, you

can be a believer in Jesus. And many people claim

that they believe in God, that they're Christians, that they

have confessed and accepted Jesus as their Lord and savior.

But many walk around and they are not in powered.

And when I say empowered, I mean able to do

the things that Jesus did. It's a challenge for many

of us to think about all that Jesus did. Jesus

turned water into wine. I know some people are signing

up for that miracle. Right he healed the sick, He

restored sight to the blind, He caused death ears to hear.

He the gave of sin, brought people back into relationship

with God. He healed a woman who had been bleeding

for twelve years, and he also raised the dead. And

many of us we think about those miracles and they

seem so far and in so far off. But I

want to let you know that we have access to

the same power that Jesus displayed in the earth. Amen.

But the only way that we can have access to

that power is to allow the Holy Spirit to empower us.

The Holy Spirit brings this power to us, gives this

power to the believer. I want to let you know

that the Holy Spirit is not new, that it's the

same power that we see in Genesis One when we

see that at the beginning of creation, the Holy Spirit

was therewith God hovering over the surface of the deep,

hovering waiting for the moment when God says, let there

be light, and there was light. The Holy Spirit is

the acting moving power of God. I'm gonna say that

the Holy Spirit is the acting moving power of God

anytime there is a need for activity, anytime there is

a need for movement, if there's ever a need for power,

the Holy Spirit provides that power. The Holy Spirit provides

those actions, that movement that needs to happen in the earth.

It's the same power that separates water and allows people

to walk on dry ground. It's the same power that

allows Jesus to do the works that he was doing

in the earth. That same power is available today to

everyone who's under the sound of my voice. But what

do we need to do in order to get that power.

We have to be open to receive the power. Now

this morning, if I came in this space and I

said that the Holy Spirit is the acting moving power

of God, I want to explain how it works. Right now,

you are able to hear my voice because my voice

is being carried through the sound system. But if I

took my hand and put it here, it'll be very

difficult to hear me. I'm sorry, mate, he's gonna get

me for doing this. You can't hear me as well

because it's muffled. But the acting moving power does this,

the acting moving power. Here we go. When I say acting,

what's the first letter of acting participation? When I say moving,

what's the first letter of moving? Uh? Huh? And when

I say power. What's the first letter of power, pee right?

And so we got those letters together, and if you

were doing an acronym, it would be amp right. The

Holy Spirit amplifies God, amplifies the things of God, moves

and amplifies, bring more sound to brings it to other people.

It takes it to places that no one has seen before.

And so it's so important as a body of Christ

that we accept that power so that God can be amplified,

amplified on your job, amplified in your marriage, amplified in

your community, amplified in places where there's darkness. The Holy

Spirit amplifies the light of God. Oh my God, it's

nothing like when a believer. People of light walk into

dark spaces and they can see now because you are there,

because you're present, things change. There's a shift because you're there.

There's got to be a shift in our world. I

don't know about you, but this world is in a

very oh Man treumunctuous place, a place that is devastating,

a place that is falling apart. We need light. We

need the amplification of the Holy Spirit in all spaces.

We need amplification in the prison system, we need amplification

in our school system. We need amplification in our white house.

We need amplification all around. We need to see the

light of God in every space. We are in need

of amplified power. And so the Holy Spirit empowers the believer,

gives us what we need in order to get the

job done. I want to let you know you can't

get this job done in your own strength, but you

need power when Jesus says, and you will receive power

when the Holy Spirit comes upon you. When you look

at the word power, power. And this phrase is in

Greek dunamous, dunamous, dunamous, it means there's some ability to

do mighty works. Mighty works. Mighty works. Not just listen.

It's not going to the mailbox. That's not mighty work. Okay,

that's just normal natural thing you do. Go to mailbox,

get to mail out, whatnot. But mighty works means moving mountains.

We sing songs about stuff like this. I believe in

moving mountains, and I believe this, and I believe that.

Well do you well if you do allow the Holy

Spirit to move some mountains out of people lives, out

of our lives, out of our communities, out of all

that we encounter because that is the dunamous power of

the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit to do can do

mighty acts, but needs a vessel that is willing to go.

They won't know unless you go, unless you're willing as

a disciple of Christ. Remember he said, then you will

be my witnesses to all these places. I'm going ahead

of myself. Let me slow down. So the Holy Spirit

allows us and empowers us to do the work of

the Father through this power, this power that does mighty works.

Always think about the fishes and the loads. That's a

mighty work. I think about the disciples on the stormy See,

that's a mighty work because there's power. But they experienced

this because Jesus was there. Here we go the Holy Spirit.

Point two brings ongoing personal transformation. I want to let

you know that if you are the same person that

you were when you got saved, that's a problem. Talk

to this side. They don't believe what I was saying.

If you are the same person that you were on

the day you got saved, that's a problem the whole Amen,

y'all with me. Amen, I'm gonna give y'all another chance later, Okay.

I promise, y'all just wasn't ready. So the reality is

is that the Holy Spirit transforms us. The Holy Spirit

changes us. The Holy Spirit starts to work in our

lives in such a way that we start wanting transformation.

The Bible tells us that in Romans, it says that

do not be conformed any longer to the pattern of

this world. When the Holy Spirit comes into your life,

you are looking for ways to not look like the world.

Mm hmm. You ever walked in someplace and somebody's got

the same outfit you got on, and then you and

your mind said, well, I work better than them. Right,

what if everybody in the room had on the same outfit.

There's something about the Holy Spirit says, no, no, no,

I'm gonna pull you out of the pattern of this world,

and I'm gonna give you a new identity. I'm gonna

give you a new look. I'm gonna give you a

new way that you're doing this thing under my power.

But do not conform any lower too the pattern of

this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.

The Holy Spirit will change your mind. You won't think

the way you used to think. You won't act the

way you used to act. You won't do the things

you used to do. Why, Because the Holy Spirit is

changing Your mind. Used to have a strong stance on

certain things. But the Holy Spirit invade your life and says,

ah ah, we don't think that way anymore. We don't

do that anymore, We don't act that way anymore. So

the Holy Spirit starts to impact your mental. If the

Holy Spirit can impact your mental, everything else follows. Our

bodies follow, our minds, our voices, our speech, our diet,

all those things change because our minds have been changed.

The Holy Spirit overflows. The Holy Spirit worked. The work

of the Holy Spirit in our lives isn't a one

time event. It's not like boom, I got the Holy Spirit.

I'm good. No, it's a continuous renew and transformation that

leads to overflow in every aspect of our lives, our attitudes,

our actions, and our relationships. Our attitudes. Some of us

got bad attitudes, let's just say it. Some of us.

We don't wake up well, we're like, you know, I'm

not a morning person. Then you have some people who

are not night people. Can't stay up too late. I

turn into another person. And then you have some people

who are just bad in the middle of the day,

and some of us just have a bad attitude all day. Right,

So the Holy Spirit comes in and starts to change

our attitudes, the way that we see things, the way

that we focus, the way that we operate, the way

that we deal with things. The Holy Spirit teaches us

about him and then teaches us about us so that

we can flow in the spirit. The Holy Spirit adapts

our actions. The things that we used to do, we

don't do no more. The places we used to go,

we don't go no more. The way that we used

to interact and communicate, we just don't do that anymore.

The friends I used to have, I don't have no

more because the Holy Spirit starts to move in our life,

and I know it's easier just to go with the flow.

Some of us we just want to be in control.

Just want to be in control. You want to drive

your own car, You want to go where you want

to go, when you want to go with. You don't

want anybody driving you around. Some people I have friends

like that, And to be honest, I'm a little like

that too. If you invite me somewhere, I'll drive myself.

You know why, because I want to leave. When I

want to leave, I will not be held hostage to

your time schedule. M hm. And some of us do that.

With the Holy Spirit, we're like, uh no, I'm gonna

go to church, but I'm telling if that preacher preaches

five minutes past, I'm out. The Holy Spirit changes our actions,

our modes, the way that we think, and I know

there's a game going on. I see people in jerseys,

Amen today, go colts. Amen. Amen. We praying for them

and they gonna need prayer. Amen anyway. But changes also

our relationships. It changes our marriages, it changes he changes

the way that we interact with our kids. He changes

the way that we interact with people around us, the

people that we love and the people that we are

growing to love, the people that we don't even know.

The Holy the Spirit will even impact the way you

deal with your enemies. Some of us we love everybody else,

but we will cuss out our enemies. The Holy Spirit

will change those things about you, but you have to

give access. So when I say ongoing transformation, that means

you are continuously change, You're continuously going through the process.

It looks a little bit like a fawcet a water

falter that's being poured into water that's being poured into

a glass from a divine place that the Holy Spirit

continues to pour into us over and over again, removing

all of the stuff that would normally settle to the bottom.

The Holy Spirit, no, that can't settle. I need to

renew you, refresh you, give you new all over again.

So every time you think you're going to become stale

as a Christian, the Holy Spirit says, nope, getting here.

I'm gonna do something new. I am doing a new thing.

Can you see it? The Holy Spirit It's word is

not a one time thing. But the Holy Spirit continues

to refresh us over and over. I can developing us personally,

transforming us personally. Thirdly, the Holy Spirit equips us to

be witnesses. It's hard to tell others about Jesus sometimes,

but I want to let you know the best tell

of Jesus. The best way we can tell people about Jesus,

the best way we can communicate about Jesus is through

our lives. Your life will speak more than your words

could ever say. People are watching your life to see

if what you say and do are connected. But after

we have lived around people long enough and they watched you,

it gives you permission to then speak. Oh watch that

some of us we start talking first mm hmm. Live

it out, and then the Holy Spirit gives you credit

to be able to speak into lives, to be able

to tell truth into lives, to be able to give

direction into lives, because people know that what you say

is what you do, and so the Holy Spirit equips

us to be witnesses. I want to let you know.

You could try to do this of your own. You

could try to do it of your own power, do

it your own way, but you will not be successful

because you need the Holy Spirit. Every person in here

under the sound of my voice and me included, and

those who are online, we need the Holy Spirit if

we are going to be equipped to carry this great news,

if we're going to be equipped to be able to

bring the message of Christ to others. The Holy Spirit

is looking for those who will enlist in the army

of the Lord to say, I am opening up my

life so that you can have control and you can

do what you want to do in me, so others

will know Jesus well, how does this works? How does

it work? How does this process work? Well, this is

how it works. We receive the Holy Spirit and we're transformed.

We share, and then we repeat. We receive again from

the Holy Spirit. We continue to be transformed. We share, repeat, transform, share, repeat.

This is happening through your whole life, because, believe it

or not, you are not who used to be when

you were twenty. That sounded like some needs that start popping. Amen,

But I'm not just talking about the physical thing. You

are also spiritually. You should not be thinking the same

way you thought when you were twenty because the Holy Spirit.

As you receive the Holy Spirit, he what transforms you,

and you are being changed into the likeness of Christ.

And then you share that good news about the change,

the things that you're experiencing, the things that God is

doing in your life. And guess what others are also

being changed to? Well, why do you need the Holy Spirit? See?

Because most of us we would settle just to be

visual Christians. Right, it's gonna be a casual Christian, go

to church, sing a couple songs, pray a little bit,

and do all the other things. Because what it's really

about is really about me, you know, doing well for

myself and doing well for my family and doing well

in the world. Well, I want to let you know

that the Holy Spirit is not concerned about your personal gain.

The Holy Spirit is there to equip you to spread

the message of Christ. The Holy Spirit does not care

about your house, your car, how much money you have

in the bank. If you got the two point five kids,

and I think the five is that little dog right,

And no, the Holy Spirit's not concerned about that. The

Holy Spirit wants to equip you to share the good news.

Because everybody will not have a house. Somebody's gonna live

in an apartment. Somebody's not gonna have a car. Somebody

takes public transportation. But that same person who lives in

the apartment and lives and takes the bus or takes

the train, that the same person as being equipped to

be filled with the Holy Spirit to share and spread

the good news of Jesus. It's not about our stuff.

The Holy Spirit doesn't care about your stuff. The Holy

Spirit cares about you being equipped to carry the good

news of Jesus. Well, why is the Holy Spirit so

important to the believer? Why, I'm gonna give you the

short list of why the Holy Spirit is so important

to the believer. Now, remember this is the short list,

short list in alphabetical order. Are you ready? The Holy

Spirit gives us access to God, anoints us for service,

assures us, author's scripture, baptizes us, burst believers, calls and commissions, cleanses,

convicts of sin, creates, empowers believers, fills believers, gives gifts,

glorifies Christ, guides us into truth, helps in our weakness.

Can I take a breath and dwells in the inspires,

prayer into seeds, interpret scripture, leads, liberates, molds, character, produces fruit,

raises from the dead, regenerates, sanctify, seals, strengthens, teaches, testifies

of Jesus, and gives us victory over the flesh. And

that's the short list. So much more that the Holy

Spirit does for the believer. You need the Holy Spirit.

We need the Holy Spirit. There's no one who can

make this life's journey without the Holy Spirit. Several years ago,

I was traveling from Chicago to Indianapolis, and I normally

fly on Southwest, and you know why, your bags fly free,

and so seemed like the flights were always a little

cheaper or something. You know that that was my airline

but this particular flight, I was flying on a different carrier,

and the carrier was going from Chicago to Indianapolis. And

so I got on the plane, paid for my bags

and my original destination, and on this one hour trip,

I think it's even shorter now, this one hour trip,

I was just ready to get home, had been journeying,

ready to get home. My wife was going to pick

me up from the airport. And so I got on

the plane and my phone had started. I was in

the red zone. You know what the red zone means.

It's like it's about to die. But I was like, oh,

we're good, I'll charge it when I get there, when

we get in the car, I'll be fine. So I

didn't call home right away. But then all of a sudden,

my phone went past the red zone and it said

and it died. Then we were on the tar. I'm

at for over an hour, almost two hours, just waiting,

waiting because there was bad weather in Indianapolis. So what's

great at Chicago was like, why can't we go? Well,

the weather's okay, fine. So I'm sitting there and I'm

becoming a little anxious because I'm looking around and I

know my wife at this point is at the airport

waiting for me, and you know, we don't like to

go into the airport. Just you know, call me and

I'll come up, pick you up, swoop you up. And

so I'm like, I need to let her know something.

So I'm sitting in this row, I'm sitting seated here,

and there's a lady by the window. There's an open

seat here, and I'm just watching this lady and she's

on her phone and she's just and I'm like a

little envious, a little jealous, and so I'm looking at

her and I'm like, man, I wish my phone was working.

I wish I could call my wife. And I'm thinking

in my head, you know what, maybe you should just

ask her if you can use her phone to call

your wife and let her know that you're okay. And

then while I'm sitting there, I said, you are a

grown man. You are not about to ask this woman

to use her phone like some little fifth grader. So

I fought through that and I became a little more humble,

and I said, excuse me, ma'am, would it be okay

if I use your phone to call home and just

let my wife know that I'm okay that we're delayed

a little bit. And she looked at me and she said,

what's wrong with your phone? Yeah, there you go talking

to God's special people again. Well, ma'am, my phone died

and so I don't have I can't call. And then

she said to me, she said, do you have a

charge accord? Lady? I'm just like, really, okay. Now I

could have sad anywhere on this plane, but I selected

this seat. This is what I selected for my life.

And so I was like, well, ma'am, still being respectful,

because we got to be respectful, right, I'm the person

in need. She could say whatever she want to say.

So I said, yes, ma'am, I do have a charge

of cord. It's in my in my laptop bag. And

she said, good, that doesn't solve my problem. She said, well,

if you get your cord and plug it into your phone,

and then you take that same chord and plug it

in the little outlet that's down here under the seat,

you can have power. So I'm the problem. I'm the problem.

It's not her. She's not special. He's not going to

any No, that's not one of God's special people. She's

somebody who knows what's going on on this plane. Because

I was with a different carrier, I didn't realize I

was sitting on power all along. I want to let

you know that's just like the Church. Many of us

are sitting on power that we have not access. We

have batteries that are dying, spiritual batteries that are dying.

And the Lord is saying, if you just get plugged

into the Holy Spirit, if you will just plug in,

I will empower your life. I will allow you to

do the work that the Spirit is calling for. That

when you walk into different places, you are so amplified

with the power of God that people know there's something

different about you. That you came to do business that

devils tremble, when you walk into spaces that you're taking

back territory, that you're shining light in darkness, that sickness

says nine fooling with him today. I gotta get up

off this person because they just walked into the room.

I want to let you know that when you get

in filled with the Holy Spirit, when you allow the

power of God to rule in your life, things around

you start to change. Situations start to change, marriages start

to change, your kids start to change. When you surrender

everything to the Holy Spirit, there's a change that happens

in your life this morning, Church, I am telling you.

I know it feels good to be saved and to

know that Heaven is going to be your internal home.

But I want to ask you, what will you do

for the kingdom? Where will you cause things that are

dark to see the light of Christ? Where will you

step into the spaces empowered and begin to do the

things that God wants. The Spirit is waiting on you,

just like in Genesis, hovering and waiting. Will you stand

on your feet with me today? What happens when the

overflow comes? What happened when the overflow comes and starts

to impact our lives. When the overflow comes, it takes

control of everything. I don't know if you've ever had

a flood in your home, your basement ever flooded. Several

years ago, one of our kids probably brushing their teeth

in the morning, and we were rushing out the door,

and they left folk the bathroom sink on all day long.

Eight hours. We came home and there was water from

the second floor where the bathroom was, all the way down.

There was an overflow. You can't control water. You can't

hold it back. When it starts to move, it does

what it wants to do. It goes where it wants

to go. I want to let you know the Holy

Spirit is just like that. The Holy Spirit wants to

go to spaces that you have access to. To your classroom,

you're the teacher. Wait until the Holy Spirit comes into

your classroom. Wait until the Holy Spirit walks into the supermarket,

into the bank, Wait until the Holy Spirit gets on

the bus and sits beside a stranger. Lives will be

changed when you allow the Holy Spirit to take control.

I want to pray for you this morning. I want

to pray that you will release control, that you'll stop

trying to control your narratives, control how God operates in

your life, and allow the Holy Spirit to do something

that you may not even be ready for, but I

promise you it will be beautiful. When you release control,

you're changed and others are changed. To let us pray, Father,

I thank you who for this message. God. I feel

you in this place and somebody's in that space right now.

They've been trying to fix it themselves. They've been trying

to do it themselves. They've been tweaking it and trying

to make it work. But Lord, I pray that you

will help them to take their hands off and to

invite the Holy Spirit to live in them. Holy Spirit,

come come and fill every open vessel. The vessel doesn't

need to be empty, Holy Spirit, but just available. And

when you come, you will empty out everything that doesn't

need to be there and fill it with your presence,

fill it with your power. That we can do the

work that Jesus spoke about. That we will be your witnesses,

the witnesses of the Kingdom, and all the spaces, the

high spaces, the load spaces, and every space in between

that we will go. We will say, we will do

only what the Spirit says. That we will be so

sensitive and so tender to your presence that will acknowledge

when we walk in a space and the space says

that the Holy Spirit is necessary, that miracles can take

place because we are open, open us up. Let nothing

stop us. I pray this now.

For every receptive ear, every receptive heart, every receptive believer

to receive be filled, transformed, refreshed by the Holy Spirit.

And She's as name. Let us all say Amen, Amen, hallelujah.

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