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Now let's just hold up our Bible and make this confession Say Heavenly Father, I'm so glad to be in church on a Sunday night.

You're a good God, you're a faithful God and you're mercy endures forever.

So I respond to the anointing, I respond to your spirit.

I make fresh changes tonight that set me up to receive a harvest that I can't even contain.

We're believing you for greater works, for fresh vision, and we trust you completely.

Jesus' name, amen.

Well, if You'll turn with me I'm ringing just a little bit, I can tell, but Stephen is fixing that as we speak If You'll just turn with me to Ephesians, chapter 3, we could most of us could quote it.

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And if you can't, don't worry about it.

I just encourage you.

This is the Ephesians 3 prayer.

How many times have we heard it?

How many times have we prayed it?

Hundreds of times, but it's right here in front of us.

Speaking a word tonight, I just wanted to preach a message and title more.

There is more, and I don't know about you, but I'm just not satisfied with where I am.

I want more.

I'm not satisfied where my family is.

We want more.

We desire more, more of God's glory, more of His presence, more of His spirit.

And I've been listening this week to an old Lindell Cooley song that it was one of my dad's favorite songs and the title of that song is More, and it talks about what I just said More of your Spirit.

And I remember we devoted like two practices years ago to try to learn that song and we couldn't, we couldn't do it.

It was like one or two of the only songs we couldn't.

It just had so many notes and we just kept messing up and we just couldn't pull it off.

And so maybe one day we'll give it a try because we've grown in talent and over the last many years and so.

But it's one of my favorite songs too.

But you know God has more for us.

And let's just read, starting in verse 16.

And I'm going to read it out of the Amplify Classic If you don't mind, miss Nancy.

Are you up there?

Miss Nancy, there you are.

She's such a blessing.

Amplify Classic, ephesians 316.

May he grant you, out of the rich treasury of His glory, to be strengthened and reinforced with mighty power, where In your inner man, right by the Holy Spirit Himself and dwelling your innermost being and personality.

Thank God.

Thank God the Holy Spirit and dwells my personality.

I don't know if you need help in your personality, but Selena might shout the loudest on this one, but you know.

But he is strengthening by His glory, the rich treasury.

He is rich toward us in His glory, and real quick.

If we just pop one page back in Ephesians 2, verse 4, it says but God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which he loved us even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ.

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By grace, you have been saved and raised us up together and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus.

Sit down right.

He just told us to sit and we did right.

We didn't feel like a dog, we just sat down in our place of authority.

Amen.

But he's rich in mercy.

So he's rich and it's out of His glory that he's rich.

He's rich in love, he's rich in mercy, but it's out of the glory that it's it's talked that the Apostle Paul is talking about in 316.

He's granting us according to the riches of His glory.

May Christ, through your faith verse 17, actually dwell and settle down and abide and make His permanent home in your hearts.

May you be rooted deep in love and founded securely on love, that you may have the power and be strong and to apprehend and grasp, with all the saints, god's devoted people, the experience of that love, what is the breadth and the length and the height and the depth of it?

That you may really come to know.

And again, that, practically through experience for yourselves.

I love that.

That it's very clear that we're to experience His love, we're and it's and it's, and we were experiencing that.

It's an experience.

And so years ago I think it might have been like the second slogan Maybe Claire can, can, but experience Jesus.

That was our church slogan of 1996 or so, and I'm pretty sure I know it was from Pastor Preachin, but I know it was from Claire as well and and we got put on a license plate frame.

And there's, 27 years later, we still have people with that license plate frame, praise the Lord.

I don't know how years lasted that long.

I think you must have gotten a reprinted or something, because mine cracked like a year in.

Those were just really cheap.

But anyways, experience Jesus, jesus is way more than an experience.

But I'm telling you, when we experience His love, when we experience His glory, there's no theologian, your best friend, your mom.

It doesn't matter that no devil in hell can talk you out of what you've experienced.

When you actually have an experience of His glory, when you actually experience His love, there's no devil in hell that can talk you out of it.

And so we just want more.

We're we're excited for more, we're always pressure, pressing the envelope for more.

And I'm telling you behind the scenes I'll kind of get off my notes for a second Behind the scenes, I'm telling you your pastor is not retiring, he's refiring and he is full of vision, he's full of passion, and you can tell by his preaching lately he's just come up yet another level.

I was sitting in church last Sunday and my mouth was just open Like, oh my goodness, like what, what, what can come next?

He's just so sharp, and so you know he's just hitting it out of the park and, and I'm telling you, there's fresh vision here.

So I'm a man under authority and and so it's under that vision that I get to operate, that I get to stand up here, and so I know I'm called to do this.

But if I'm called to do this, I might as well be good at it, right, and so like, and whatever it is that you're called to do.

It's a very specific calling.

God has called you to do it, and the last thing you want God to do is to go around you and get somebody else to do what you've been called to do.

And so there's just a fresh.

I see David back there and it just stirred me up.

Thank you, david, for coming.

And just I'm telling you, god is doing more, he's shifting us into more, and we have to be faithful, to listen and to apply the word of God and not just sit in church and think, oh man, it's one more service.

Well, I did that check, check mark, I can go to Sunday lunch now.

No, we have to review, we have to go back, we have to study and we've got to do the things that our pastors teaching and feed out of this pasture right From our pastor, and so and it's always a fresh word, and so we refuse to be deceived right, the blood of Jesus has been applied over our minds and I'm telling you, like I said earlier, there's no devil in hell that can steal the revelation that we've experienced, because we've experienced it.

It's an experience straight from heaven and it's something, and so like we always want to write down and chronicle the moves that God is doing.

You know I was receiving the offering a couple weeks, a few weeks back, and I mentioned that that my dad, you know it moved me that he always kept a journal and you know I told the story when we lived in Corpus.

I was about nine years old or so and I and I, you know he left the house and I went and got in his prayer chair out on the porch and the back porch and I grabbed that prayer journal and I just began to read and I was just in awe that he had a relationship that was so close to the Lord that he talked in his journal like back and forth to the Lord.

And so, you know, at a really young age I was taught that that you, jesus, really can be your best friend and you really can take him everywhere you go and treat him like your best friend.

You know, I know Kenneth Hagen tells a story.

I think I forgot the name of that series but it has to do with the revelation of God, the Father.

I forgot the title but in one of those it's old school, it's on CD but he tells a story of being caught backstage, you know, before a service in some random town.

You know he's getting ready to preach and the pastor comes down the hall backstage and here's a bunch of talking and he knows there's only one way in and one way out and Kenneth Hagen was the only one that go, and so he thought he had gone crazy.

And so he peeks in the room and Kenneth Hagen, sitting Indian style on the floor, talking to God, like he's right there, like he's right there in the room, and they're going back and forth and anyways, and so and he almost got sent the Ascension Psyllum, ascension Psyllum, anyways.

So anyways, let's pick it back up in verse 19.

You know, we can have that kind of relationship with God, the Father, amen.

And it says that you may really come to know practically through experiences for yourself, the love of Christ, which far surpasses mere knowledge without experience, that you may be filled through all of your being unto all the fullness of God and may have the richest measure of the divine presence and become a body wholly filled and flooded with God himself.

And that word fullness in verse 19, it's really meaning to completion, and so that means to be filled up all the way with the fullness, with everything that God has for you, can you just imagine?

So I just thought we'd go around the room a little bit.

I'm sorry, stephen, let's see.

This looks like it's number one microphone.

I'm gonna grab the microphone and I'm gonna see.

Let's start with Mr Tom.

What do you believe in God for?

It could be something just really not.

Not, it doesn't have to be real deep and real serious and real private.

You can generalize it, but what's name?

Like one thing doesn't even have to be your top thing.

Just one thing on your list that you're believing God for Just cool weather, cool weather.

I can hey that is possible, amen.

That's trivia, but I, most of you know, I've gone through cancer twice, and recently it was probably a harder time, even though it was maybe simpler than the first time.

And Trace and I just sat and figured out I don't mean to take a lot of time, Jay, but from August 31st until last month I think and she normally goes with me I went to see the same doctors 50 times.

Wow, and I just kind of got tired of it and so I'm on a respite now until next month, latter part of next month, but all those reports that are coming in next month are just follow up to make sure everything is still clean and I am actually enjoying myself and our relationship and everything is great, Hallelujah.

I'm just in awe.

I really am Like I'm being serious, I'm not just preaching the message and using your story as an example.

I just, I really am completely honored that you and Ms Teresa attend this church and have been so faithful all these years, and God has so much more for you.

He has more in store.

He's not finished with your voice.

He's not finished with moving on your behalf and having you be a living testimony of his faithfulness and his goodness.

You know his glory really is his goodness, it's the goodness of God and it's in full operation in your life.

I appreciate you sharing that.

Amen 50 times.

Wow, but God, here you are, healed.

All right, ricardo, what's one thing God's you know?

I'm believing that my whole family coming to this, you know, amen to the Lord and the surgery going to yes.

Jesus name you want to.

You want to tack anything on Carolina?

I'm just grateful for everything the Lord is gonna do.

I mean, I'm believing along with the same thing with Rick you know our family and his surgery in Amen, amen amen.

There's no fear Jesus name.

No fear Amen, you're healed.

Amen.

How about you, barry?

What do you?

What's one thing you're believing God for?

Put you on the spot.

Okay, I'm gonna kind of combine this.

Right now I'm believing God to restore the strength I had as a youth and for a brand new circulatory system, heart and veins and arteries.

God is well able amen.

How about you?

I'm believing God for schools, for young people to experience God in schools.

As the chaplains come in this year in Texas, I'm just believing that every school we touch, that every teacher and All hope is not lost on this generation.

This generation is gonna see the coming of the Lord and be stronger than ever.

Amen.

Thank you, lorena.

How about you, brother Pete?

I don't know if I can keep going around the whole room.

We might be here all night.

I'm just Give God the grace and God that he is continued blessing me to be a blessing to other people.

Amen, because uh, devil was telling me that I wasn't gonna have enough to retire.

And he's a liar.

Look at you now.

I wouldn't be a paymaster, that's right.

Amen, amen, you and miss her.

My art paymasters, amen, amen.

Let's see how about you, brother Bob.

Praise the Lord.

Hmm, I wanted to Really complete the the call the gods call me to.

And.

I believe that part of that, being a paymaster like Pete and I think it's gonna have real quick Amen, I think this year is gonna be a good amen yeah this is your year.

Yes, the year ain't over, amen, and God's not through working for you.

Amen.

All right, brother Dave.

One thing, brother Dave well be turning 78 A couple days.

Praise the Lord, believe in God.

Strength and vitality yeah, that I had a few years back.

Yeah, I had a trainer over here that was pushing me alone.

So, thank you Lord, I received that Amen y'all are a blessing.

Thank y'all.

Rocko, you got one thing.

I'm just grateful to be here and I'm grateful for this family and I'm just believing God for restoration, for being good father and oh no, no, go ahead, you can, you?

you want to finish yeah?

well, we just, we're just believing, for you know everything that our family's been through, that we're gonna come out, you know, a lot stronger Amen.

Amen.

You've already been made strong.

We can see it.

We can completely see it.

It's all over you, there's joy, and there's joy all over your kids and we're looking forward this week to having Vika at camp with us.

We leave for camp at 425 am Tomorrow, praise the Lord.

So I'm trying to preach a little shorter tonight.

I don't know if it's working, but all right, mr Bloss, you got one thing for us, sir.

I got nine grandchildren, two great grandchildren Wow.

The Lord says that those that err in the spirit shall come to understand in the age you'll learn doctrine.

Amen.

That's it, amen.

Believe in God for your kids and grandkids.

Yes, yes, amen.

Believe in God with all our hearts.

Amen With a dawn.

You got anything for us, sir.

Put you on the spot One thing you're believing God for.

You can do it.

For me, my life's health.

They stay good, Amen.

God's well able.

Amen.

How about you, David?

For his love, to share the love of Christ with the unsaved that's out there in the world.

Amen.

Well, his love has been shed abroad in your heart.

And all those experiences of his true, real love, how deep and how wide man, the people that you're sharing the gospel with man, they can experience the same thing and they do.

Amen, it's powerful.

And so there's just more.

There's available, there's power available.

You know, david and I we ride motorcycles occasionally together, and when I first, when I got this motorcycle, I just noticed my riding skills have improved.

But also when I go riding with people, I will just completely leave them in the dust.

Usually not David, but usually and I don't mean to, it's just there's so much power available on that motorcycle.

And so I took it in to get service and at a new shop and, long story short, the owner, when he was done fixing my bike, he got on it and rode it to test everything.

And he comes back and he's like Mr Griner, you have the fastest stock motorcycle I've ever ridden in all these years.

You've got a good one.

And I said I'm blessed, right, and so there's power available, and so there's.

It's always better to have more power and not need it.

But I'm telling you, you need the power that's available If you just tap in to what God has more, and so it was so encouraging to hear one or two things of what, what you're believing God for, and so it's so good.

I kind of did that on purpose.

I was watching, we were watching camp meeting last week or two weeks ago from the Defrains Did anybody else catch that?

From Nancy Defrain, and Jesse DePlanus was preaching.

How's we catch them later in the evening, cause they're two hours behind over in Murrieta, california, and so, and so Jesse kind of went out there and asked the audience what they're believing God for and I thought, man, that's a great idea.

I saw, kind of saw myself doing that.

So here I got to do that, and so it.

But it encourages us, but it also should encourage you to tap into, to write it down, to have a list, and we have to ask.

It's a requirement and so real quick we'll get to verse 20.

Now to him who is able.

God is able, right, it's his ability, it's his grace, which is his ability.

He is able to do exceedingly, abundantly, above all, that we ask or think according to the power that works in us.

First of all, the word abundantly in my margin of my Bible brings me back to John 10, 10,.

For the thief comes a steel steel kill and destroy.

But I've come that you might have life and have it more abundantly.

So that word abundantly is the same word in the Greek and I'm telling you.

It means to the full, and superior in quality and in quality, and super abundant in quantity, right.

Okay got it.

Yes, amen, I can preach.

Praise the Lord Above all that we dare ask or think.

And that word ask sends you to Matthew 7, 7.

Here I'll just flip over there real quick, and it's Jesus talking and it says ask, matthew 7, 7,.

Ask and it will be given to you.

Seek and you will find.

Knock and it will be opened unto you for everyone, not just 2.2% of the people, but everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds.

And to him who knocks it will be opened.

Amen, and so notice.

It says and he who seeks, so women are just exempt.

No, I'm just kidding, I'm just playing that.

And to him who?

No, it's a given that it's men and women, right, obviously, when we read our Bibles I was just playing around.

But the word ask it means in the Greek that he longs, god longs to distribute.

He has it available and he longs to distribute it to you.

All you have to do is ask.

And so when you ask and think, do you like?

I'm kind of a daydreamer, always have been.

I like to daydream, I like to.

You know, it's always filled with faith.

I don't want just waste time, I'm just talking about.

I like to daydream about what God can do and where God can lead us and take us.

And it kind of runs in the family.

I remember my uncle Bob, my dad's brother, is in heaven now, and we would just sit around sometimes and just talk about all the things that we've been daydreaming about, and so you know I do miss him, but just he used to just talk about what it would look like on the earth after Jesus comes back.

You know, and just all of a sudden you know the daycares are empty, right, because all the children are gone, and so, and just all the airplanes, just half of the people aren't there anymore, and all the pilots, what happens to the plane, and we would go on and on and on with every single thing that's gonna happen.

But you know, it's good to know what you're believing God for us it's good to be faithful, to ask and to know and to trust that he's gonna do exceedingly abundantly, above all, that you could dare ask or think, and that he longs to distribute it to you.

And so I didn't tell you.

You know one thing, that I'm believing God for.

There's tons of things I could talk about that Selena and I are believing God for, down to the smallest thing.

But I'm telling you, when you get a word from God, you've gotta believe that it'll come to pass and you've gotta pray and you've gotta process the plan of God.

And so on my birthday I felt like it was for my birthday we had Brother Gene Wiseman come Thursday night prayer.

Who was there?

Anybody, quite a few of y'all were there and it was.

You know, that message is available on our website, both the audio version and also the video version, so you feel free to go watch it.

It only has like 54 views or something on YouTube, but it was a really powerful service.

And you know, he spoke over the whole church.

But he set an old vision that he had my dad kind of spurred him to.

It was talking about all of his kids in this vision.

All of my dad's kids me and Selena and Claire and James were just like trees surrounding him and growing up taller and taller and taller.

And it reminded me of, you know, psalm 13,.

And he shall be like a tree planted by the streams of water, ready to bring forth its fruit in its season, you know?

And so, and then later on that same night, brother Wiseman had a word over me about visions and dreams that I would receive more visions than he had, and so that just really blew me away, because here he was preaching about some of the visions that God has given him, and then he prophesies over me that I'm gonna have more visions than he's had.

And so, man, I gotta stir up my faith right, and so that I won't remain silent.

He said that I hold a trumpet and end time trumpet and that I won't be silent and that I'll have the boldness.

And so I need to believe God for that right.

I need to be aiming at that.

It's in my prayer time, it's something God is talking to me about, and so that's what happens.

You know, our public ministry is born out of our private devotion, and so I saw, in worship this morning we kind of came up to another level because separately, carol and Asian, they had a lot of time this week to devote their private devotion to the Lord and receive encouragement about worship, and then, boom, they were both able to lead us into the throne room and it was just so powerful and Asian.

They did a great job tonight and it was just really on another level, the next level, and so we all need to be like that Whenever we take the time to receive from the Lord man, he's always pouring more into us.

Amen.

So there's more, and so you know.

Just, I just have a couple of points.

I hadn't seen how far along I'm preaching here, but.

But number one is more love, and we talked about that back in verse 18, that we can comprehend with all saints the width and the height and the length.

But I wanted to turn over.

I forgot to go back and write where this came from, but it's somewhere in Corinthians.

I'm just gonna read it.

I'll be bold enough to read it, but it's in verse nine of some chapter that I don't remember and I feel bad for not going back and catching that.

But concerning brotherly love for all other Christians, you have no need to have anyone right to you for you.

Yourselves have been personally taught by God to love one another, and indeed you already are extending and displaying your love to all the brethren throughout Macedonia.

But so think about that.

Like in our church, right, we've, we've.

How many of you have been taught about your love?

Walk, right, we've been taught, we've been taught.

We've been taught, we've, we're walking.

You know, the love of God has been shed abroad in our hearts.

Brother David was talking about the love.

Believe in God, that he would be able to share the love of God in a strong way to the nonbeliever and witness to them.

And so here it says you don't need, you don't need another sermon, another words on love, and and you already have a level of love that you've shown all brethren throughout Macedonia.

I'm kind of putting my own version to it.

But then Paul says but we beseech and earnestly exhort you, brethren, that you excel in this matter more and more.

And so there is more, a different, a stronger level, a greater level of love that we can walk in.

Amen.

So there's more love that's available.

And it says in verse 11, to make it your ambition and definitely endeavor, to live quietly and peaceably, to mind your own affairs and to work with your hands as we charged you.

And so Paul is encouraging the church at Corinth to walk on another level of love.

Hey, you're already doing a great job.

You already, we all see your level of love, but it can step up a notch.

That's what he's saying.

And so he's earnestly exhorting them that they can have a different so we can do the same.

Amen, we all can do a better job of loving and shining through the love of God and the love of Jesus, right, and we can all experience how deep and how wide his love is for us.

And so in the number two, just to stop making excuses, and so if we'll flip over to John, chapter five, we can read about the man who was healed at the pool of Bethesda, and it says in verse one, john 5, 1,.

After there, in the new King James says after this there was a feast of the Jews and Jesus went to Jerusalem, and in Jerusalem, by the sheep gate, was a pool which is called in Hebrew Bethesda, having five porches.

And so if you can imagine this pool of water surrounded with like five areas, covered areas surrounding the water, and in these lay a great multitude of sick people, blind, lame, and then, in my margin, it says withered.

So they're lame, they're withered, they're paralyzed and they're waiting for the moving of the water.

Verse four.

For an angel went down at a certain time they don't know when the certain time was, but at a certain time into the pool and the angel stirred the water and whoever stepped in first after the stirring of the water was made well of whatever disease he had.

And then it talks about a certain man who was there who had an infirmity of 38 years.

Everybody say that's a long time, it's a long time.

And so in it says in verse six, when Jesus saw him laying there and knew that he already had been in that condition for a long time, in other words, jesus didn't stop and ask him his testimony, right, but he just knew by looking at him.

That's how desperate, desperate people have a look about them and you can tell how long they've been suffering, am I right?

And so they just have this look about them.

And Jesus recognized that look and he said to him do you want to be made?

Well, he just asked him a question.

And let's see what the man said.

Did he reply in faith?

I mean, jesus was always measuring people's faith, right, and he didn't, though.

He said.

The sick man answered him and said, sir, I have no man to put me into the pool when the water stirred up, but while I am coming, another steps down before me.

In other words, he's a victim, right, and he just makes excuses.

But what does Jesus do to Jesus?

Jesus said, oh, forget it then and walk away.

No, he's filled with compassion.

He can see how desperate this man is of 38 years, being lame and um, and knows that he can't get up on his own and get into the pool and it's.

And even though this man has no faith, or at least he doesn't speak any faith at all, he didn't say, yeah, I'll be made whole, sure.

No, he's full of excuses, right?

What does Jesus say?

Jesus says rise and take up your bed and walk, and what you know.

And then what happened?

Did he just laid out?

No, he immediately.

The man was made well and took up his bed and walked, and it was on the Sabbath, and then all the religious people tried to come up and and come against Jesus.

That didn't work out too well.

But, um, but my point is what excuses are you making right now that are holding you back from the will of God and from and for what God has for you?

Just, you know, um, in fact, let's, let's, let's pray, father, we just thank you for your word right now.

We just thank you for the Holy Spirit illuminating in our hearts all the times that we've drawn back and made excuses not to follow your will, not to do what you've called us to do, not to believe you for greater not to believe you for more, all the times that we put you in a box, all the times that we put a lid and and and believed in man greater than believing in you.

We ask you to forgive us and, lord, we just thank you for illuminating change in our hearts tonight.

And, lord, we just change positions and we move over underneath the glory and we thank you for your presence and you're all knowing power.

Lord, we open up our hearts to you.

We ask you, lord, for wisdom and guidance into more.

Lord, we know that there's more.

We're hungry and thirsty for more and, lord, we know that you can satisfy that desire.

And so we move in tonight into the greater, into an atmosphere for greater, into an atmosphere of more.

And that atmosphere is in our talking.

It's in our faith filled words, because our words are full of your word.

And so, lord, we speak the word only and we look and have expectation to you only and not in demand.

And, lord, we just thank you for the greater.

We refuse to doubt, we refuse to walk in fear, we refuse to walk in shame and the defeat of our past and our past mistakes.

They're over.

Jesus, you took that on the cross and Lord, we walk in victory.

Today.

We've been made righteous and we see ourselves as righteous, as you see us through the blood.

We look at ourselves as in Christ and we look in the mirror.

We see the faithfulness of your word shining back at us, lord, because we see ourselves in Christ.

And, Lord, we thank you that you're well able to do, exceedingly, abundantly.

Above all, that we dare ask or even think.

And so, lord, our thoughts are on you, our prayers are on you, and we're bold to ask.

We're filled with a new level of boldness and we don't walk in deception, but we walk in your truth and the truth of your word, and we refuse to doubt.

In Jesus' name, we have the greater Amen.

Amen.