Living in God's Supernatural Power: From Ordinary to Extraordinary

Welcome to the Illuminate Church podcast.

We hope today's message is encouraging to you.

Wow, I, I am just blessed and honored to be a part of this

church. And like they said, nothing's

changing there. We love this church family and I

just want to personally say thank you, Pastor Tim, Pastor

Christine, Pastor Kim, our elders, our staff, and to all of

you, I am so blessed to be a part of this family.

We're, we're staying here. We're just getting to do some

different ministry, but we'll, we'll be here every Sunday.

So we, we love illuminate churches.

Our family, you guys are our family.

We're blessed to be a part of this.

And yeah, I, I, I'm proud and will always just proudly say I'm

a son of this house. What the Lord has done in, in my

life, in my wife's life, these last 10 years is they're,

they're the greatest years of my life.

And I've grown more in Jesus than I ever did before.

And I'm just so thankful that I get to be a part of Illuminate

Church. So, so thank you all.

Thank you for what you've meant to me and what the Lord has done

through you in my life. What a blessing.

What a blessing. OK, I could blubber all day

about that. I, I, oh man, I love you all.

But yeah, we're going to dive into the word today.

We didn't plan it this way. We had pre planned that that I

would just get to bring the word today.

But just so happened it aligned with the the sending.

So glory to God. Very excited about what he's

doing, but also sad. I'm not going to see these guys

every day in the office, but yeah, so we're going to we're

going to pray and we'll get going.

Would you mind praying with me? Holy God, you are here.

You are moving. Lord, I pray your presence would

set on this place because it's true, you're here.

But Lord, that we would, you would help us to be aware of

what you're doing in each moment, the power of God resting

upon this house, upon this people.

Lord, it's not by our power of might, but it's by the Spirit of

the living God. And I ask that you would speak

today, the hearts, I ask that he would do what no person can do

but the Holy Spirit. But but those who who are able

just to step in just to receive what you would do in their lives

today, God, I pray you would, you would bless every heart with

you. I pray you would help us to see

that you are a supernatural God. You've given us a supernatural

calling. And we need your water.

We need to be filled with your water.

So we're overflowing with it in order to live it out.

God, I pray this blessing over our hearts in Jesus name.

Now if you would right where you're at, if you would ask

Jesus, Jesus, if he would speak to you today, just you and him,

just take a moment. And then if you would pray for

me, that God would give me words that would help you.

God, we love you, we trust you, we step in believing in what you

can do today. Thank you.

God, pray this in Jesus name, Amen.

Amen. So do you know what this is

People in the back are like, I don't know, it doesn't look like

much. I can hardly see that.

But other people in the front are like, Yep, you're going to

mansplain a candle to us faster, Drew, And yes, I am.

I am going to try this is like a pinkish purple candle.

I can't really tell if it's pink or purple.

All y'all are like, he's colorblind.

What's happening? But by itself, we look at a

candle and and it's not all that extraordinary, right?

It's just like this stick of wax, but when you put a flame on

it, it becomes extraordinary. It lights up a room.

It's what it was created to do, right?

And every person, we were created to host the flame of the

living God without Him. Honestly, you are extraordinary

already because you were made in His image.

But when the Spirit of the living God is put on our lives,

we become supernatural in what He does through our lives and

what He fills us to do. And that's what we want to talk

about today. You and I are the light of the

world, a city on a hill, salt of the earth.

And God is calling us up today. He's saying rise up, rise up.

I've given you a supernatural calling for I'm a supernatural

God. And we're going to talk about

how we step in to that today. So we're going to start in

Matthew 10, verses 7:00 and 8:00, and we see Jesus, this

master disciple, Maker, He's helping his disciples learn how

to do ministry. Now, up until this point, He's

been preaching the gospel with power, right?

He's been healing the sick, cleansing the leper, raising the

dead, casting out demons, and He's freely giving the Kingdom

away. He's doing this powerful

ministry. He is the Messiah, the Son of

God. And then we come to this passage

and he tells his disciples what they're called to do.

And let's read what he tells his disciples to do.

He tells his disciples as you go proclaim this message, the

Kingdom of heaven has come near. He's like, it's not out there.

It's not some idea that oh, I hope God moves because he's kind

of in heaven, but I don't know where he is.

No, he says the presence of God, the Kingdom of God, his power is

here. It's right here is what he's

saying. And then he says in verse 8, he

says, heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse those who have

leprosy, drive out demons freely received freely gift.

So I don't know if it's as startling to you, but when I

first saw that this what this was actually saying, I was like,

wait a minute, Jesus is saying that the same ministry he did is

the ministry is calling his disciples to do like that just

blew my mind. I was like, wait, it's not a

lesser ministry. It's it's not, it's not like

Jesus did this and he's calling his disciples to do this because

they're not him. He's like, no, it's the same

power, it's the same spirit. It's the same Lord that is in US

working in and through. And so as disciples, when you

see what they did, you can look in Luke 10 and see how they went

out and, and they did what Jesus is saying.

They went out and they ministered just like Jesus and

they came back and they were astonished.

They're like, Oh my goodness, we did it and and we're doing all

the things that you were doing and even the demons were

listening to us and we commanded them in Jesus name.

They did what we told them to do and Jesus being the master,

disciple, maker and encourage her that he is, he's like, gosh,

he's like when you were ministering, he's like, I saw

Satan fall like lightning because my Kingdom has come.

We're doing this and like he's pumping him up.

He's helping him see what he's empowered to do, what he's

empowered him to do. So they were able to live the

same ministry Jesus lived. And then we come to Matthew 2819

through 20, which is what we know is the Great Commission,

right? This is Our Calling.

This is Jesus calling all disciples after his disciples

and what he's calling them to do.

And it says this, It says, go and make disciples of all

nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son

and the Holy Spirit. So he says, go, make disciples,

baptize them. And then he says this, teaching

them to obey everything I've commanded you, for I'm with you

always to the end. Now what did he tell his

disciples to do? He told his disciples to preach

the gospel. He told him to say that God is

coming close through Jesus, through what he did on the

cross, through his resurrection. The veil was torn and all

separation from God was removed and God came in close once

again. And now we have access is what

he's saying. He said go preach the gospel.

And he said heal the sick, cleanse the leper, cast out

demons, raise the dead freely, give the Kingdom away just like

me. And he's telling us, he's

saying, all right, disciples, now when you go make disciples,

I want you to teach them to do the same thing, not a lesser

thing, not a lesser calling. It's the same Spirit.

It's the same Lord. It's the same one who empowers

us to do the ministry of the gospel that empowered Jesus.

This is the Holy Spirit in our lives and for all who have

trusted in Jesus. This is Our Calling.

Now for some of us, we may be like, what in the world?

How, how are we supposed to do that?

Like you're asking us to do something impossible with.

Let me just encourage you with this.

There is a reason that your calling is bigger than your

capacity. You, you remain that way on

purpose because we need Him. We need Him in order to live out

what He's called us to live. Look, I really don't care about

the supernatural unless Jesus cares about it.

But because it's a part of the calling He's given us, I care

about Him. I want what is in Him and what

He's called us to, to fill me and to fill you so that we can

go out for His glory, so we can do what he's called us to do, to

be a light into the world. Now you may say, yeah, but Drew,

why don't we see this happening as much?

And I'm, I'm going to testify something to you.

I don't say this out of anything, but just what Jesus

can do. I see this all the time and so

the question is, who are we hanging out?

We may think we don't see as much supernatural, but it's

happening. The Kingdom is still moving.

He's the same God yesterday, today and forever.

And I see people get healed and I see people get prophesied over

and I see demons get cast out a lot.

Again, this has nothing to do with me, has everything to do

with what Jesus has called his people to do.

And when we receive this gospel, receive what he wants to do, the

fullness of Christ in me. This is Galatians 220.

When we receive not, it's not I who live, but Christ who lives

in me, what God will do through our lives.

It's wonderful, but there's a reason why Our Calling is bigger

than our capacity. It's because we need the Lord.

One more thing and then I'm going to talk about how we get

filled up with the Lord. That's how we live the

supernatural life. John 1412, some of y'all might

be here today saying, OK, I don't know about this.

That's crazy. We're called to do the same

things Jesus did. John 1412 says Whoever believes

in me will do the works that I do in greater.

Now, what's awesome about this is he doesn't say the 12 are

going to do the works that I do in greater.

And he doesn't say the religious elite will do the works that I

do. And even greater, he doesn't say

the pastors and the elders are going to do the works that I do.

And even greater, he says all who believe, whoever believes in

me, that's, that's all of us. Whoever believes in Jesus will

do the same works. And even greater, I, I want to

hopefully burst some bubbles in here this morning that the

hierarchy of the Kingdom is 2 levels.

There's Jesus and then there's everybody else there.

There is no religious elite. There is no, oh, that person can

do it because they're, I don't know, pastor, priest, whatever.

I don't know what we think, but I'm no different than you.

I have no more access than to Jesus than you.

We have all been given full access to the living God and he

comes upon us and he wants to move through it.

Praise God. And I joyfully say this because

this is the good news. Jesus is accessible, just as

accessible to you as he is to anyone.

I want to demolish some things this morning, some some lies

that the enemy has told us. And I feel like the enemy is

trying to whisper it even now. But yeah, I feel like the enemy

is trying to say, yeah, but you're unworthy.

And this is the lie that I believe for years that I was too

unworthy to embrace the Lord in this way, that I was too

unworthy to let God move in my life in this way.

And and the Lord, he kept convincing me of how close he

is. And he, and he told me, he said,

he says, Son has nothing to do with how unworthy you are.

He said, yes, you have sinned, but my I have paid the price for

your sin upon the cross. And I just want to speak this

over hearts this morning that it's not about how deep of sin

that we are in. It's about how great of a savior

he is that his blood can wash us clean.

And for all who trust in Jesus, it's not about whether I can be

enough. It's the fact that he is enough

for me. Now, on the flip side of that,

we think, yeah, but he's holy. And I'm, I'm, I'm imperfect.

Now, maybe this is just me that has felt this in the past, but

maybe some of you can identify with this, but you feel

imperfect coming before a holy God and wanting to embrace

whatever he wants to do, wanting to embrace his presence in your

life. And what the Lord taught me was

that he created Adam and Eve in the garden.

He created them so he could have companions.

He doesn't need them. He doesn't need us.

But he loves Adam and Eve and he loves us and he wants to be with

us. So the point of whether I am

worthy to be with him is less important than he wants to be

with me and he wants to be with you.

And I kept doing this to God. I'm not.

I'm not worthy. I'm not worthy God.

And he kept saying what about me?

He's like what, what what about what I want?

I want you. I want to be with you.

And I would encourage every heart this morning that feels

like I don't know how to get past this wall of unworthiness,

this wall of feeling like I can't because he's too great

when he is coming to you and he's saying I love you and he's

like this, just step in. I've loved you all your life

than before and I just want you to step in.

So we have a supernatural God. He's given us a supernatural

calling and I'm trying to just whet our appetite to see, for us

to see what it takes to live out that supernatural calling.

And it's, it's as simple as this, to drink the living water

that Jesus would give you to get filled up to overflowing with

Jesus. And This is why I'm trying to

remove these walls, remove hindrances that would keep us

from coming in close to Jesus because he wants to be with you

and he's so close. But let's look at John four.

I want to talk about the woman at the well and Jesus's

experience with her. Now, I don't know if any of you

can identify with this, but this woman, she comes to this well

and she is pretty cynical. And we know from the story,

she's been married at least four times.

The guy she's with right now, she's not even married to Jesus

knows this prophetically and speaks it to her.

But from this, we know women, they can't even they weren't

lawfully allowed to divorce their husbands back in that day.

So she was rejected 4 times. So she feels this relational

trauma in her heart and she steps into this conversation.

She's coming to the well at a time in the day when no one else

is there and that reveals that she didn't want to be around

anyone else. She wanted to be alone.

She wanted to get her water and and go about her business and be

at home. She didn't want all the

judgmental looks. She didn't want the to feel

misunderstood as she continually felt misunderstood.

Maybe we have some people that I felt misunderstood in life today

here in. Jesus is waiting, just as he did

for the woman at the well, and he wants to give you living

water. But the woman, she, she walks up

and Jesus is there now. Now, I don't know if you've ever

been around someone that's filled with life and filled with

joy and, and every time they see you, they're excited to be

around you and they love you. And, and I, if you want, if you

want some more of this, then one of the most wonderful examples

of this that I know of is Pastor Valdemir right here.

If you would hold your hand up, Pastor Valdemir, this man is

filled with the joy and the love of God and when you get around

him, he, he genuinely wants to be around you.

He's like Jesus and like she gives you a hug, you know, it

makes you feel special. He's like, I love you.

I'm like, I love you, you know, like thank you, you know, but

this is what I believe Jesus being there at the well was like

that day. He's filled with life, he's

filled with joy. He knows God the Father's about

to change this woman's life and he's pumped, he's filled, you

know, the overflowing. And he just got that

anticipation. You know, he's like, it's like,

have you ever seen the people on planes?

You get on a plane and, and if you ever sit next to someone

like this, they're so happy. They're excited.

They just want to talk to you. And maybe you just want to mind

your own business, you know, and, and, and they're like,

they're like, hey, you know, how you doing?

You know, and you're like, Oh my goodness, you know, I got one of

these today. Yeah, it's good to see, you

know, and they're and they're like, they're like, where are

you going? You know, you're like, I'm the

same as you, you know, I'm going to the same place.

But it's good to see you, you know?

But anyway, the point is we know these people when we're not

feeling like talking, it can kind of rub us the wrong way.

And you see this happening in the conversation with Jesus and

the woman at the well, she starts talking to him and

everything he says, she kind of combatively comes back against

it right now. If you haven't read this story,

I just don't have time to go through the whole story today.

But she's coming with a cynical view.

Jesus is coming with his living water.

He wants to give her living water and he knows it's

happening and it's coming and he's talking to her.

He begins by saying, will you give me a drink?

And finally they go through the conversation.

Verse 10. Jesus answered one of her

questions and said, if you knew the gift of God, who it is that

is saying to you, give me a drink, you would have asked him

and he would give you living water.

Verse 13 Whoever drinks of the water that I give him will never

be thirsty again. The water that I give him will

becoming him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.

Fast forward in the conversation.

This woman came in wounded, feeling hopeless, wanting to be

alone. Jesus speaks words of life,

words of identity, words of love.

He speaks of of the one that she had always hoped would be the

Lord that she worshipped. He speaks of how she would

worship Him in spirit and truth, that it wasn't about being of

this people or this race, but but the the way she comes to God

is freely and fully and that he has invites her into this.

And something happens in that conversation as she's in the

presence of the living God, as he's so close and he's speaking

these words of life, she gets transformed, so much so that

when the conversation ends, she doesn't even care what she came

there for, which was jugs of water.

It says. She leaves them there and she

runs into the village filled with new life.

And she starts saying, hey, come and see the person who told me

everything about I never did in life and and he is the Messiah.

He's got to be the Messiah. And she's filled with something

new. This is what it's like to be

filled with the living water. Now, I believe in the American

church, the majority of the American church anyway.

We get Jesus in our hearts, in our lives and, and, and in the

very beginning, we get saved and, and we, we get a drink,

right? That's good living water, right.

Thank you, Jesus. Oh my goodness, I've never

experienced this, this hydration that is good for my spirit, that

that brings life into me. And that's why when people get

saved and Jesus put their trust in Jesus, they, they're, they're

ignited. There's something that comes

alive in them, right? We've seen it again and again,

but we've also seen again and again people after they get

saved, they kind of just start going.

They're like, was that as good as it gets?

But the reality is people, I believe people stop drinking the

water. They stop drinking.

And most people, they believe there's this high when you get

saved, but but there's nothing else after.

But it's only that we're not drinking the water.

We walk around, we're like, I got Jesus, you know, we think

we, we got him and we do. He's right here.

But proximity doesn't get the water in me.

I've got to get the water in me. And God was telling me again and

again, Come on. God was telling me again and

again when I prep for this message, drink the water.

Tell him to drink the water. Drink the water.

God is a supernatural guy. He's given us a supernatural

calling. Now the only reason I tell you

about the calling today is I want you to feel motivated to

step in to drink the water because here's what's happened

in my life. The closer I get to God, the

more I come into contact and receive that He doesn't just

want to be with me, but He's closer than the air I breathe.

And I come in and I commune with Him, and I get to know him.

The more I do this, the more the reality and my heart and my mind

begins to expand. And what I thought love was

before expands. And the lid I had on my life

that was limited me just gets tore off and the walls fall down

and I find myself in wide open spaces.

For this is God that rules my life.

And when He rules my life, it's no longer I who lives and all

that I thought I was limited to before.

I'm no longer limited to anymore because all things are possible

in Jesus, because Christ in me can do it.

And now when I step into a situation and I'm not perfect at

this, I'm still growing in the Lord.

But when I step into a situation, if I was step in

filled with his living water because I've been drawing close

to him, if I was step into that situation and not ask what can I

do? But I can now ask, what can

Jesus do? It's Christ in me.

It's Christ in you. It's no longer whether whether I

can accomplish something, or whether a miracle can be done,

or whether a word can be spoken from His Spirit.

It's Lord. What do you want to do in this

situation? And then as he helps me discern,

boom, God does something because of Christ in me.

So how do we receive this water? Say Drew, OK, I get it.

You're saying he's a supernatural God.

He's given us the same calling as Jesus.

But how do we receive this water so we can be filled?

And that's that's really what I want to encourage us in today.

Now, as I've told you, just as He came to the woman at the

well, He's standing before us today and every day offering us

this water. But we have to be willing to

receive the water. I have to be willing to say I'm

not just going to know that Jesus is there.

I have to let Him love me. I have to let Him pour into me

so that I can love others the way that He loves first, John

419 says. We love because he first loved

us. I can't love the way Jesus loves

unless I'm I'm willing to let him love me.

Peter wrestled with this concept just like I do.

And Jesus is washing the disciples feet and Peter's like,

you know, you don't wash my feet.

I wash your feet. Your Lord, I'm, I'm unworthy,

you know. And Jesus, he tells Peter this

thing he says, Peter, you don't understand.

If you don't let me wash your feet, you have no pardon me.

If you don't let me fill you, if you don't let me love you, you

have no pardon me. You see the the power that to do

what God has called us to do doesn't come from us trying

harder. It comes from us drinking deeper

of the water that he gives us. It comes from stepping in closer

with Jesus. OK, so how do we do this?

1st, I must become aware that He actually wants to be with me and

I would encourage you. Just as I said, He wants to be

with you. He created you so you could

enjoy him. He wants you, He loves you, but

not just this He is. He wants to be with you, but

He's so close. Just as I said before Jesus,

when he died on the cross, the veil in the temper that divided

God's presence from us was torn, and now there is no division.

Now God is coming close. Ephesians 26 says He seated us

with Him in the heavenly places. It says in four and five that he

was so great in his love and mercy that that that he raised

us from our trespasses and sin, our death, and he raised us up

to life in him, and now we're seated with Him in the heavenly

places. This means that are your spirit

and his spirit are like this. We're like this close.

We're so close to him. So he wants to be with you and

he's so close. Now if I know that he wants to

be with me and that he's so close, then I read a passage

like Psalm 23 and it is totally different.

It's totally different because he's right there with me and I

and I begin to read the Lord is my shepherd.

Thank you Lord, you, you were right here.

You were my shepherd. I shall not want.

Thank you God, because you provide everything I need.

He makes me lie down in green pasture.

He leads me besides Stillwater. He restores my soul.

Thank you God, You're actively restoring my soul.

You love me and and you've come in close.

He loves you. He's coming close.

And these words are true. Do we see how this is different?

It's different when Jesus walks in the room then thinking of

him, he's, he's out there somewhere.

I hope he gets involved someday, but I don't know when I think of

him out there and then it's like, OK, Psalm 23, the Lord is

my shepherd. I shall not want.

Oh God, I need this to be true. You know what I mean?

But when I recognize who he is, his goodness and His love, that

He is here now, He's moving in power, He's resurrect y'all.

He loves us so much that he went to the cross for you.

He's like, what stands in the way of me being with them?

I'm going to pay that price. I'm going to do it so they know

how much I love them, so they know they have total access to

me. We've got to know that He's

accessible, that we can just reach out.

He's there. The Kingdom of evidence.

It's right here. So if we want to drink the

water, know that he wants to be with you and know how close he

is, he's right here. And then I encourage you to pick

up your word. Pick up the word and drink.

Just drink it in. Start taking big gulps, start

drinking His love and affection for you.

Start drinking of His goodness in his life.

This takes on a totally different flavor when we start

getting how much He loves us and how good he is.

And what he wants to do in our lives is fill us with him and it

starts to, to transform and change us into something we

didn't think was possible. So I encourage you to drink the

water. I had this old thing planned for

the end and I'm, I'm just going to skip it because I think the

Lord wants to do something else. But I want to walk us through

something that just reveals how close he is.

And I hope that the the Holy Spirit will just fill you with

his living water. As I said before, Ephesians 26

says that we are seated right next to Jesus in the heavenly

places. And then Hebrews 416 invites us

into his throne room. He invites us in.

It says come into the throne of grace.

We receive mercy for your time of need.

He's inviting us. If you've never felt invited

into the presence of God, He's inviting you today.

He's standing before you with living water and he's like,

drink up. Because when we drink up, we

become like him. We get filled with him.

Lord, I pray that I'm making this clear enough for hearts,

but I ask that you which speak what I can't.

All right, if you would, we're just going to close our eyes

right now. Remember, Jesus is so close.

He's so close. As Paul says, no longer I who

lives, it's Christ who lives in me.

He lives in you, He's with you. And so right now, I would just

encourage you to visualize Jesus before you visualize him in his

throne room, just as Hebrews 416 says, where he invites us into

the throne of grace. Step into his throne room and

picture your King, who is so close in the Spirit to you.

Picture him right there. And as He's right before you,

I'm just going to ask you some questions.

They're rhetorical questions for your own heart, just to ponder

as you look at Jesus, what does He look like?

What do you see? Encourage you to gaze upon His

face, to look into the eyes of the One who loves more than we

can comprehend, the life giver, the one who is willing to do

anything to rescue you. And look into his eyes.

And what do you see there as he looks at you?

What do you experience in his presence?

And now is you're with your King.

If you would just I'm going to ask him to speak to you and I

would just encourage you. Let him tell you whatever he

wants. Holy God, I pray that you would

give each heart in here your living water.

You would speak your words over their hearts or do whatever you

want. Lord your Lord, you know what

you want to do. I'm just going to give you a

moment with the Lord. Just you and Jesus.

For some of us, we don't really know what's happening.

I just want to encourage you, we're not trying to get spooky.

I just am inviting us to practice how close we are with

the Lord. For some of us, you heard the

Lord speak to your hearts today and the Lord is is moving in

you. He's speaking his life, He's

speaking his identity, He's speaking his love over you.

He's calling you up, he's saying rise up, He's saying come into

my arms and be filled and I hear him saying I love you.

Now it's one thing to read how God loves us in the Bible and

that is what we find our faith on.

We it's founded on the Bible, but it's another thing when we

meet with Jesus and we hear a spirit whisper I love you and

he's saying this today to you. He's saying I love you and my

love transforms everything. He causes everything to to

change. You didn't know it, but you were

made to fly. He's giving you wings so you can

rise in him. You were made for more than what

you thought you were made for. It's not just the purpose of

life that He's calling you to, it's to Him.

He is everything. He's calling you into His arms

where you find life so you can give it.

Holy God, I pray for every heart in here.

And if, if you're willing, if you would just hold out your

hands as if you were going to receive a present.

Holy Spirit, you are our Lord. You are the one that comes in as

our best friend and our counselor, the one that helps us

beyond what we even knew we needed help with.

And Lord, you want to fill and to bless every heart and Holy

Spirit, I pray you would come upon every heart and life right

now with what they didn't know they needed.

That you would draw every heart unto you, as this is your heart

and your passion. Lord, we receive what you would

give us. Would you say that I receive

what you give me? Lord, I receive your living

water. I receive you as Lord.

You are the life giver and I want to be filled with You so I

can love you and love others in the way you desire.

Thank you God for what you're doing in each heart.

Lord, I pray that you would bless every person in this room.

Now, if you are here today and you said that prayer, you, you

declared Jesus is Lord for the first time.

I just want to welcome you into Jesus's lordship, into what he

will do in your life. And so I'm not very good at the

invitation part of this and I just confess that, but wow, God

is moving in your life. If you've received him today and

stepped into a relationship with Him, He is now in you.

He's with you and I pray the joy and the life of Christ come upon

you. Thanks for joining us today.

We hope God is speaking to your heart through this message.

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Have a great week.