The Spirit Without Limit | John 3:22-26 | Pastor Walter Bowers Jr.

To God be the glory.

To God be the glory.

To God be the glory.

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Thank you so much.

There's a word from the Lord this morning found in John the third chapter.

We'll be reading, we'll be working verses 22 through 34, but for the sake of this reading moment, I really just want us to read one verse.

John the third chapter, I want us to read verse 34.

John the third chapter, I want us to read verse 34.

And as we it is our powerful custom here, we enjoy reading the word together.

Let's do that now.

Ready?

Set read.

For he is sent by God.

He speaks God's words, for God gives him the spirit without limit.

That's it.

And I would like to preach today as the Holy Ghost would allow.

The Spirit without limit.

Yeah, the Spirit without limit.

You may be seated in the presence of our Lord.

Hey fam, in the season that we're in and everything that is going on, I believe I understand why God is pouring out his spirit afresh on his people across the entire planet.

I believe that worship houses across the globe are having supernatural encounters with the Lord.

Because if there ever was a time, family we needed his power, that time is now.

If there was ever a time that we needed his presence, that time is now.

And so we shouldn't be surprised when more often than not, his glory, his Shekinah glory, fills our place of worship.

Because he says, I'm trying to put a deposit within you so that you will be victorious regardless of what the adversary may bring you away.

I'm trying to put a deposit in you that even though the word of God has to come to truth, it will come true as it relates to things that will happen before He returns.

I want you to know that you have nothing to worry about.

He says, I need you to be reminded that I have not given you an ordinary spirit, but I have given you a spirit that knows no fear.

I've given you a spirit that has no limits.

And I've given you a spirit that has power.

And my sisters and brothers, the reason that um I believe that the Holy Spirit would have me to uh minister today, because to be honest with you, this was um singles um weekend and and they had a great time, but um uh our speaker um for for today got uh got caught up in uh some of those flight cancellations that y'all saw uh on on the news.

And um it was funny if I'll be honest with you, the way that God moved uh uh uh last uh Sunday.

I said, Lord, I want to I want to tap into that, but um I'm I'm I'm I'm okay with the fact that you're you're you're you're going to be sending uh somebody else.

She she she'll be able to tap in.

She's Holy Ghost filled, she's an amazing woman of God.

But but but this time the Lord said, no, um tag you're you're it.

Yeah, yeah.

Tag, tag.

I'll I'll bring her to y'all another time.

Uh uh, but I'm gonna send her back to her house because her house needs a word, and I'm gonna I'm gonna send you to your house because your house needs a word.

You you you you serve a group of people that know me, but there are limitations on their understanding of me.

You you you serve a people that are saved, but they their limitations keep them from being set free.

You you serve a people that that love me, but they have yet to get loose in me.

They they're they're still bound, and and and he said, You you know uh your people because you are an under-shepherd.

You you know their concerns, you you know their conditions, and you know their calamities, and you know their dreams, you know their visions, you know their nightmares.

And he says, So this time I gotta tap you on the shoulder to go speak to my people and tell them it's time for them to learn to operate in the spirit without limitation.

Can can can you turn to somebody early and say, it's your time now?

Yeah, yeah, encourage them, say it's your time now.

You uh man and woman of God need to learn how to operate in the spirit without limitation.

God is saying that too many times you put restrictions uh on what he wants to do in your life.

Listen, I'm not a big NASCAR fan, but every now and then I'll I'll watch a race and and and they have put these things on race cars called restrictor plates.

Any NASCAR people in here, um, the goal of the restrictor plate is to keep the car but going but so fast because the track can't handle the full speed, because it's dangerous when you go full speed and and in the natural on at Concord Motor Speedway and in the natural at the at the dirt track.

It it may be okay to operate with a restrictor plate, but the Lord is saying, uh, what works at NASCAR, good God Almighty will kill you in the spirit realm.

Did you hear what I said?

That that there are too many of you walking around with a restrictor plate on your faith.

There are too many of you walking around with a restrictor plate on your worship.

There are too many of you that have a restrictor plate on your praise.

Uh that's why you never get on bending knee.

Uh that's why you never lay prostrate, uh, that's why you never cry out to God, because there's a restrictor plate on your connection with God.

But I don't know about you.

Uh huh.

Missiles are flying across the atmosphere.

I don't know about you.

It's craziness going on in our government, and God is saying, My people gotta take the restrictive plate off because of my people who are called by my name shall humble themselves and pray, and then I will heal from heaven, and I will heal their land.

We can't be the reason that God doesn't heal Charlotte.

We can't be the reason that God don't heal our houses, we can't be the reason that there's not a shift in the church because you're walking around with limitations on the move of God.

Our text today, women of God, men of God, helps us to understand how to operate in the spirit without limitation.

The Bible tells us that at this time Jesus is revealed himself as an adult man.

He started his earthly ministry.

John had just recently baptized him, and the Spirit of the Lord descended upon him as adult.

Jesus knows who John is, and John knows who Jesus is, and so they have a relationship that allows them to operate without limitation.

If I'm gonna operate without limitation in this season of my life, I have to have a deeper understanding of who God is, so that I can understand what it is that he's trying to do.

The third chapter of John.

John the Baptist is at Anon.

And he is baptizing there because the text says that there is plenty of water, and folk kept coming to him for baptism.

A debate broke out between John's disciples.

You gotta keep in mind, John had been baptizing towards repentance for a long time before Jesus showed up.

So John and his disciples was going around telling people you gotta repent, you gotta turn around, you gotta do better, God has something better for you.

And then when Jesus showed up, he submitted himself to the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords.

It was one thing that John submitted, but John's disciples had a problem.

They go and they start to have a debate between certain Jews and those of them that were following John.

They start to argue about whose baptism was the best baptism.

You gotta understand that language always reveals our spiritual limitations.

If I'm gonna operate without limitations before I tell you how, I gotta tell you what's blocking it.

Now I want you to look carefully at the language here between the 23rd chapter and the 26th chapter.

Jesus has started his ministry.

John has taken a step back because Jesus is on the scene.

But John's disciples are big mad because everybody going to Jesus' church and not going to John's church.

So they start to argue.

And I want to remind you, unnecessary arguments will put a limitation on the move of God.

Can I talk to somebody in this house and say we got to be careful of unnecessary arguments?

Uh, the people of God have to be careful of what we are going back and forth about.

Uh, can I ask you a question?

Do you have any conversations this week that were petty?

We we we got master degrees in petty, but but well, when we operate being petty, it it puts a limit on what God is trying to do in the spirit realm.

And and they're having this petty conversation about whose um uh baptism is the best.

And then it gets worse because language not only um limits how the spirit wants to move, watch this language will also show you the posture of your heart.

So John's disciple came to him and they said, as y'all look at verse 26.

They said, Rabbi.

Rabbi means that they are giving John the reverence that he deserves as a teacher.

But then look at how they would talk about Jesus, Rabbi lowercase, the man that you met on the other side of the Jordan River, which suggested they didn't know him.

I want to talk to some people in the room and say, sometimes you are limited in your spiritual operation because you don't know Jesus the way that he wants you to know him.

They say, Rabbi, they give John his credit, the man lowercase that you met, because we don't know him yet, on the other side of the river.

Watch this.

The one that you identified as the Messiah.

Yeah, y'all see it?

Y'all see the language?

Uh uh you you worship him, but but we don't know him.

You you praise him, but we don't know him.

We uh you you sacrifice, but but we don't know him.

You claim that he is the messiah, he's baptizing, and everyone is going to him.

Here it is, here's the posture of their heart.

Everybody is going to him instead of coming to us.

Somebody say, Houston, we got a problem.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Their language is starting to show the posture of their heart.

And and can I ask you a question?

Well, what has your language been like as it relates to the thing that God has called you to do?

How many times have you talked about your goal?

Have you talked about your vision?

Have you talked about your desire?

I'm trying to figure out when this thing became about you.

I'm trying to figure out when you became the center of the universe.

I'm I'm just trying to help somebody to say you got to be careful of the language uh that you use, and you got to be careful of the language that the people that are around you uh use.

And and here is the reality: is that everybody around you is not bad, everybody around you is not uh sinful, uh, but everybody around you can't reach your capacity because they are limited because of their language.

In this season of my life, I have to be careful about who I'm having conversations with because some of y'all are too limited.

In this season of my life, I gotta be careful about some of the dreams that I share that God has given me because some of you with your limited capacity, you couldn't handle it.

And so it is with you when you are saying, God, I need you to move in a supernatural way.

You gotta look at who you having conversations with.

Can I ask you, ask somebody, say who you talking to?

Ask them, who you talking to?

Where God has shown you something in the spirit realm.

Uh, now who you talking to?

Ask them, ask them, say who you talking to?

Because if I'm talking to somebody that's limited, then they're gonna start projecting their insecurities on me.

If I'm if I'm talking to somebody that's limited, their faithlessness might poison the pot.

If I'm if I'm talking to somebody, don't you transfer your negative attitude to me just because you don't have the faith capacity that I have.

And I'm trying to help somebody today to say that you gotta be careful.

Elder David, you gotta be careful.

Pastor Chris, you gotta be careful about who you're talking to in this season.

Because the Lord is saying everybody's not your hater, everybody's not your naysayer, but it's a whole lot of people that's limited.

If you tell somebody right now at 60 years old, you're about to go back to school, watch this.

Can I say it how I really feel it?

Your wife may be limited to hear that one.

If you tell somebody you're about to suddenly go out and be an entrepreneur and do what the thing that was in your heart to do, your husband might be limited on that one.

Because he's trying to figure out how much money is about to be reduced in the bank account.

But I'm trying to talk to some people and help you to understand that when we operate in the spirit realm there, that there is no limit.

And the first thing we gotta understand is that our language limits what God is trying to do.

So am I going to experience the spirit without limitation?

That's guess what that means?

It means there has to be a shift in my language.

If I'm going to experience the spirit without limitation, there has to be a shift in what I say about everything that's concerning me.

Pierre, if there's going to be a shift in my limits, you're an entrepreneur, a man of God.

You I love when I talk to you because every time I talk to you, I hear what you can do.

I I never hear what's not possible.

I I need some people in the room that's going to shift their language today.

And in order to shift your language, you got to guard your ear gates.

Because if I'm not guarding my ear gates, every time somebody got something sideways to say, before you know it, I'm gonna start parroting them.

But God is saying that if we shift our language that we will experience the spirit without limitation.

How do you know?

Because Mark the 11th chapter, verse 22, says it like this Jesus said to his disciples, have faith in God.

If I'm going to operate in the spirit without limitation, Montina, I got to have faith in God that he's going to perfect everything concerning me.

I have to have faith in God that he is going to keep his promises.

I have to have faith in God when it looks like I'm going left.

I believe Elder Sherry said at the eight o'clock morning, this service this morning, that sometimes we have to just trust the process.

And there are too many people in the room that don't trust the process.

And when you are in a process, you lose your faith in God.

But if I am going to operate in a spirit realm without limitation, I gotta trust God's process.

Yeah.

Somebody in the room, you gotta trust God even though you are going through a divorce.

Um, somebody in the room, you gotta trust God even though it doesn't look like you're gonna be able to pay the mortgage this month.

Somebody in the room, you gotta trust God regardless of the diagnosis.

Somebody in the room, you gotta trust God regardless of how you feel in your head, because your feelings are not facts.

Uh we stand on the word of God, and the Lord said, get out of your emotions.

He said, Your emotions have become a limitation on your faith.

He said, Get out of your feelings, your feelings have got in the way of the fire.

Help me, Holy Ghost.

I need some people in the room.

I hope I step on your toes real good.

And say, sometimes your tears have limited what God is want to do in your life.

Don't get me wrong now.

There are times when we cry out to God, but every now and then when we need God to move, we gotta be like the songwriter and say, I cried my last tear yesterday.

I'm about to come over this, I'm about to win this because I have faith in God.

And if I can just get about 75 people, uh-huh, I only need 75.

If I can get about 75 people that have an extraordinary and an unusual faith in God in this season, it don't even look like you're gonna win.

Somebody done already told you to give up, somebody already told you you're not gonna get approved, but the devil is a liar.

The Lord said, uh, this is just process.

I am preparing you.

I know it's painful, uh I know it's tedious, I know it's been a long time coming, but I feel my Sam Cook coming on.

I know it's been painful, I know it's been tedious, I know it's been a long night, I know the struggle has been real, but did you hear what I said?

I feel my Sam Cook coming on.

It's been a long time coming, but I know do I have them 75 that say I know that a change is gonna come and I need y'all to give God glory because you got an unusual faith, uh you have an unusual measure of faith.

You ain't worried about the stacks, you're not worried about the critics, you're not worried about how you feel, uh, you know that a change is gonna come now.

Give God a banana praise because you know, because of a high faith in God.

Verse 23 says, I tell you the truth.

Here's the language shift.

Because if you're going to experience the spirit without limitation, your language has to shift.

Look at what verse 23 said, Matthew 11, verse 23.

Matthew 11:23

The Lord said, I tell you the truth.

If he was saying it today in 2025, he would say real talk.

He said, I'm trying to keep it 100.

If he were born in 79 like me, perhaps he'd say raw and real.

I don't know if he'd say straight, no chaser, but he certainly say raw and real.

He said, I'll tell you the truth.

Watch this, y'all.

This is what it looks like to have language that that moves beyond the limits.

He said, You somebody say me.

Somebody you just you can say to this mountain.

Yeah.

Because some of y'all have come to church this morning, and there's a mountain that you gotta deal with on the way to the promised land.

But somebody said my language just shifted.

Now I learn that I don't cry about the mountain, and sometimes I don't even try to climb the mountain.

Sometimes I just gotta open my mouth, help me, Holy Ghost, and I gotta start speaking to the mountain.

Good God Almighty.

I need some prophets in the room to start prophesying to the mountains.

The Lord is showing you the mountains that the people in the church house are dealing with, and the mountains that the uh uh community is dealing with, and the mountains that the nation is currently dealing with, and and the mountains that the current administration uh uh is putting up.

I need you to talk to the mountains.

Uh-huh.

Do I have any people that say, God, today I'm going to operate beyond my normal limitation, and I'm not gonna try to climb this thing, I'm not gonna try to go around this thing, I'm no longer gonna go under this thing.

It's too high.

I can't get over this thing, but I'm gonna get on my bending knee and I'm gonna speak to the mountain.

Now it wasn't long ago that I taught y'all about the power of being prophetic, that the prophetic is not just for people with titles, but it's that ability that comes when you're filled with the Holy Ghost and the Spirit speaks through you based on what God is releasing in the throne room and it gives you the ability to speak to any mountain.

Now I need everybody in the room now to start speaking to your mountain.

You better open your mouth, woman of God.

You better open your mouth, man of God.

You better speak to your mountain.

Are y'all willing to speak to your mountain?

Closed mouths don't get fed at chosen city church.

I need some people that's willing to speak to the mountain.

Are y'all talking to the mountain?

Because Jesus said, You can speak to the mountain.

May you be lifted up, good God Almighty, and thrown into the sea.

I cast down every mountain in your life that is against God's plan for your life.

I cast down every mountain that is coming against what God wants to do in this city.

I cast down every mountain that comes against what God wants to do in the earth.

I hope y'all are helping me here because I need you to speak to the mountain.

It's been a long time, but the change is gonna come when you speak to the mountain because Jesus said if you speak to the mountain and believe what comes out of your mouth, oh Jesus just identified the problem, chosen city.

He said, Some of you will speak to the mountain, but you don't believe the words that are coming out of your mouth.

You will say that you are healed, but you will walk as if you're still wounded.

You will say as you are delivered, but your actions show that you're still bound.

You will say that you are debt-free, uh, but you're still walking around on the struggle bus.

I need some people in the room that are not only willing to say it, Sister Sylvia, but believe it with everything that is in your body, uh, you believe it with everything that is in your limbs, you believe it with everything that is in your soul, uh, then surely God got something better for me.

Surely this is not how my story is.

Surely it's gonna turn around for me.

Ain't no way he brought me this far.

Believe me right here.

I need some people in the room that believe it with everything.

I feel my head coming up on the room, you know, no limit, no limit, no limit.

God has not poured out his spirit in this season for you to operate in the ordinary.

No limit.

Men and women of God, our language will no longer limit the spiritual move in this house.

Your language will no longer limit the spirit or the how the spirit wants to move in your house.

Your language will no longer limit how God wants to move in your business and in your home.

Because God is saying you've been called to move in the spirit without limits, and in order to move in the spirit without limits, not only must my language change, family, we must decrease so that he may increase.

Oh my god.

John, he is talking to his disciples who were just involved in unnecessary conversation.

And instead of rebuking them, he began to teach them.

He said, First of all, no one can receive anything unless God gives it from heaven.

In other words, there's no way that Jesus could do what he is doing unless he is Lord.

He said, I told y'all this already that I am not the Messiah.

He says, I am only here to prepare a way for him.

He said, It is the bridegroom who marries the bride.

And the bridegroom's friend is simply glad to stand with him and hear his vows.

Therefore, I am filled with joy at his success.

He must become greater and greater, and I must become less and less.

Man and women of God.

My assignment to your life as your pastor, as some of your spirit, being your spiritual father, is to be a steward for the bridegroom.

And the bridegroom is Jesus.

And the Bible says that the bridegroom will show him come back for his bride.

And the Bible says that the bride is whom family his church.

But my job, I don't get to marry the pretty bride.

I don't get to enjoy everything of that connection.

In reality, I am an under-shepherd.

I am a steward, doing the best that I can to make sure that when the Lord shows up for his church, can I go King James only when the Lord shows up for his church?

He wouldn't find it without spot or blemish.

The Lord is saying that uh uh He is looking for me to do my job for the perfecting of the saints.

What does that mean?

He I have to do my job so that you can be complete in who God has called you to be.

I have to do my job so that you don't see me, but you shall see his face.

In other words, God told me last Sunday when we were having a move of God, he said, uh in order for the move to go elevate, he said, the more that you decrease, the more that I will increase, the more that you submit yourself to a posture of prayer, the more that you submit yourself to a posture of devotion, the more that you say, Lord, you are welcome here, the more that you decrease, the more that I will increase.

When people ask you, how is Chosen City doing what it is doing?

You will be careful never to take credit for something that you didn't do.

You will always say to God, be the glory.

And I'm trying to help somebody to move in the spirit without limitation.

The Lord is saying that you gotta decrease.

Stop telling people what you did, you ain't did a thing.

You ain't even wake yourself up this morning.

Stop telling people about what you did, you ain't did a thing, you didn't send a customer your way, the Lord did it.

Stop telling folks about what you did, but by the grace of God, you wouldn't have made it here safely off the highway.

And the Lord is saying that I want you to move in the spirit without limitation.

But in order for that to happen, you must decrease so that He may increase.

The word of God is clear, Luke 14.

See verse 11 for those who exalt themselves will be humble, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.

In other words, for those of you who got the big head, God got a way to bring your back down to the earth.

But for those that stand up every day and say to God be the glory, I see doors opening for you in the spirit realm.

I see new opportunities coming for you in the spirit realm.

I see new provision coming for you in the spirit realm.

He said, Because I'm looking for people that are willing to decrease so that I may increase.

He said, I'm just using you as a vessel.

Uh can I help you to understand what that looks like?

In Acts the 14th chapter, the the apostles had gotten to the point, y'all, where God was using them supernaturally, to the point that sometimes they even wanted to be found in Peter's shadow, uh, to the point that they just wanted to touch uh their their clothing and their handkerchief.

And there was this one conversation that was going on in Acts the 14th chapter, that the move of God was going through them so powerfully that people started to call them Greek gods.

They concluded that Paul was one Greek God and his companion was the other Greek God.

And they started to worship them as Greek gods.

When the apostles heard about it, they ran into the middle of the people and they stripped off their clothes to say, I'm just a man, just like you are man.

There is nothing special about me, with the exception of that his power flows through me.

And they said, I can't, we can't take credit for what God is doing in this season of our life.

Men and women of God, I'm trying to tell you the way that God wants to use you in this season.

There are some of you that are about to go into a space and a place where everybody's gonna be trying to figure out how you have been so successful.

I literally see some news cameras showing up at your place of business, trying to spotlight and tell you how in the world did you figure out this business plan?

And you gotta be careful because what you're gonna want to say is that you went on chat GPT and you figured out an awesome sauce and you figured out an awesome recipe, and and you went to school, and at school, you went to one of them Harvard business schools online, and and you did all of that, and because of that, that's how you were able to do what you do.

But the Lord is saying, I'm looking for some people that when the news camera comes to your face, when the podcaster shows up in your life, and they ask you how in the world did you do what you did?

I'm looking for some people that the first thing that's gonna come out of your mouth is to God be the glory.

I wish I had some help in here.

Yeah, I was y'all know what I was the most excited about when I got my recent elevation to work for our governor.

The most exciting thing about was that I didn't have to shrink to get to this position.

You see, in politics, most of the time they want you to stay away from religion, they they want you to stay away from faith talk.

And and when the governor wrote the press release, he he said, I'm so glad to have Pastor Bowers.

Lord have mercy.

It may not do much for you, but you got to understand.

He he could have said, I'm so glad to have attorney bowers, uh, but attorney Bowers only got a little bit of power.

He could have said, I'm I'm glad to have former military officer Walter Lee Bowers Jr.

but but I'm about 40 pounds over my military weight, so there ain't too much power there.

He he could have said I'm glad to have former Charlotte Mecklenburg police uh officer uh Walter Lee Bowers Jr.

but but but but I don't operate in that vein anymore.

Uh uh he could have said, I'm glad to have JR uh because that's what my folks in Alabama call me.

But I'm so glad that when he when the Lord opened the door, uh, he said, I'm glad, y'all, uh-huh, that I have a pastor in this position.

Uh-huh.

Help me, Holy Ghost.

Because all that did, y'all, uh-huh, was open a door, y'all.

Uh-huh.

For me to be able to declare To God be the glory.

I need some people in the room to get ready now.

That you ain't got the strength to be great.

Get ready now.

Operate in every space.

Holy Ghost filled and fire baptized.

Get ready now, uh huh.

Go into the boardroom, uh-huh, knowing that who you are, uh, and know who's ya are.

Uh-huh.

Some of y'all keep cold switching in the Holy Ghost, uh.

And the Lord said, stop cold switching, uh.

You ain't got a lot of kickets.

Stop faking the folk, uh.

God said, be who I called you to be.

Do what I call you to do.

Say your grace at your table, uh.

Even when you in the business meeting.

Because if you lift me up, uh, I'ma lift you up.

If you are on a shame of me, uh, I'll be on a shame of you.

That's why I put you in the room, uh.

Because you bring my glory, uh.

That's why I put you in the room, uh-huh.

Because you are an atmosphere ship.

I need that, I need you to decrease so that I can operate through you.

Uh-huh.

Because the place that you work, uh-huh, it needs the spirit without limitation.

Uh-huh.

The business that you own, uh-huh.

It needs the spirit without limitation.

Uh-huh.

The children you're trying to raise, uh, they need the spirit without limitation.

Uh-huh.

And the spirit flows when we decrease so that he may increase.

Men and women of God.

It's our language.

Men and women of God.

We gotta decrease so that he may increase.

I got one more and we done.

Before I get to this last one.

Can I ask you?

Where is the area of your life that you need to decrease?

What area in your life has it become all about you and how you feel?

What area of your life has your ministry become one of comfort?

We just got out of God's way, didn't we?

The more we decrease.

The more we laid on the floor, buddy, the more the glory showed up.

The more we cried out of God, the more the glory showed up.

You know, I had four people last week when we was in our posture of decrease.

Told me that they saw something in the room.

Psalm the cloud described it as a white fog.

Some said, Pastor, I promise you I saw a cloud in there.

Four people on different occasions.

I ain't even asked them.

They wanted to say, Pastor, am I crazy?

Because I promise.

I felt like I could see some smoke in the room.

I said, You ain't crazy.

That's his glory.

And that type of glory only shows up when we decrease.

Lord have mercy.

And the Spirit said, I'll show up like that every day.

I show up like that in your cubicle.

I declare this week, one of y'all gonna be sitting at your cubicle and you're gonna see the glory.

I declare it.

Email me when it happens.

You're gonna be sitting there.

Don't worry about your neighbor.

Ain't there?

They're gonna think you're crazy because they can't see what you see.

But but but if you know how to I ain't I ain't trying to get you fired or nothing like that, but under your desk, just pick them up and put them down a little bit.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Just right up under your desk.

You ain't ashamed, you just trying not to lose your job.

Yeah, maybe, maybe you just take your little bathroom and break it, get in a stall.

Because uh the more you decrease wherever you are, he'll show up.

He'll show up.

I want to talk to some of our young athletes and say he'll show up on the football field, he'll show up on the basketball court, he'll show up, and and the more you decrease, help me, Holy Ghost.

The more he'll he'll he'll increase.

And I just pray in the spirit that we become a people that decrease so he can show his glory.

Men and women of God, we are reminded that our language can't be our limitation.

We're reminded that we must decrease so that he can increase.

And the last thing that we're reminded of, men and women of God, is this it's time to increase your spiritual capacity.

Say it with me.

Say it's time for me to increase my spiritual capacity.

Now we're gonna try that till y'all get it right.

We say it like you mean it.

It's time for me to increase my spiritual capacity.

One more time.

It's time for me to increase my spiritual capacity.

Here it is.

John is talking now, and he's helping them to understand who Jesus is in the spirit.

He says, Jesus, he has come from above and is greater than anyone else.

That ought to be good news for us men and women of God, because every name has to bow at the name of Jesus.

Cancer still bows at the name of Jesus, let all the other names fade away at the name of Jesus.

John says that we are of the earth and we speak earthly things, but he has come from heaven and is greater than anyone else.

Watch the language shift.

John helps us understand the power of the language.

This is how he describes the language of Jesus.

He testifies about about what he has seen and heard.

He he he he he he testifies about the fact that in the beginning he was there.

Because the Bible says, in the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

In the beginning, he said, let us, who us, God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost.

He he he testifies that he was there when uh earth was put between uh Mercury and Venus.

He he he he testifies that he was there when the father uh put the ocean perfectly where it's situated.

He he he testifies that he was there uh when the birds and the bees and the flowers and the trees came together.

He testified that he was there when God had you on his mind, and when God declared that he has a plan for you, he testifies about everything that he's seen and everything that he heard.

He testifies that he knows the end from the beginning and he knows the beginning from the end.

He testifies that he knows that your ladder shall be greater, he testifies that the current condition that has had you sleepless at night uh it's about to fade away.

He testifies that you have been brought to this place not by happenstance or coincidence, but he is trying to stir up something within you.

He testifies that the reason that you didn't die when your neighbor died is well because he has something uh that has to be produced through your experience.

He testifies uh that even though that you have made bad choices along the way, uh, that you are covered in his blood, and what can wash away my sins, nothing but the blood, what can make me whole again, uh nothing but the blood.

Oh, how precious is the blood uh that washes me uh whiter than snow.

Uh no other help I know uh nothing but the blood of Jesus.

He testifies uh that weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning, he testifies that I'm up to something in your life, he testifies that you are coming out of this, he testifies that after you've done all that you can, the Holy Ghost is about to give you power to stand.

He testifies that he's close to the brokenhearted, he testifies that he is a healer, he testifies that he is the restorer of our soul, uh, he testifies that's about to turn around for you, he testifies that he died for you, uh testifies he took your bad choices to the grave, uh, he testifies that your sins are now forgiven, uh he testifies that there's no condemnation in Christ Jesus, he testifies uh who the Son sets free is free indeed.

He testifies uh that the Roman government thought they had me dead, uh but on a Sunday morning, uh he testifies that he got up with not some power, but all power in his hand.

He testifies there is no secret to what God can do the same way he did it for me, uh he's about to do it for you.

Uh-huh.

He testifies if I open the door for your pastor to elevate, uh, you ought to be excited now because blessings flow from the head.

He testifies you ought to get ready now, uh, because elevation is on the way to your house.

He testifies if I could use your pastor after all of the mess ups in his life, if I could use him, I got a news flash for you.

I'm about to use you.

He testifies, but if I'm going to use you, uh you're gonna have a fresh anointing.

If I'm going to use you, uh you don't need ordinary power if I'm going to use you, uh, you need supernatural power if I'm going to use you, uh, you gotta learn to operate in the spirit without limits.

If I'm going to use you, uh you gotta understand that I had spiritual power, that I could defeat the grave, uh, but now there's been a transfer.

Somebody say transfer.

Somebody say transfer.

Uh-huh.

You see, there's been a transfer.

Uh-huh.

You don't mean Holy Ghost.

The same spirit that raised Jesus from the dead, uh, the same spirit that operated without limitation.

Uh-huh.

There has been a transfer.

You ought to thank God for the transfer.

That's why Jesus told the disciples, uh, I know you don't want me to leave you on this crested earth, uh, but if I don't leave you, uh, there won't be a transfer.

What did they mean?

Because they didn't understand at the time that Jesus was referring to the fact that the same spirit that allowed him to open blinded eyes, that the same spirit that got Lazarus out of the grave, uh, that the same spirit that healed the woman with the issue of blood, that was about to be a transfer.

You wanna thank God for the transfer, uh?

And on Acts the 2, uh, on the day of Pentecost, uh, there was a transfer where God kept out his promise, uh, and he poured out his spirit, not on some flesh, uh, but on all flesh, uh, and there was a transfer, uh, not of an ordinary spirit, uh, but a spirit without limitation, uh not an ordinary spirit, uh, but a spirit that can walk into atrium health and start praying and somebody gonna get held, uh-huh.

Not an ordinary spirit, uh, but a spirit that can walk down the hallway of our classrooms, and no school shooter, uh-huh, is gonna come in that direction.

Uh-huh.

Not an ordinary spirit, uh, a spirit that can walk into the halls of government and pray over the elected leaders.

That God will control their mind, uh-huh.

That God will control their heart.

I've given you a spirit without limits.

I've given you without limitless.

I've given you uh authority for heaven, uh I'm just waiting on some people, uh-huh, that's willing to walk in their authority.

I'm waiting on some people that believe in this power, uh-huh.

Because y'all told his disciples, uh-huh.

So the only thing that's blocking is your ability to believe.

And God is saying, uh-huh, if you believe him today, uh, start operating in it right now.

Help me, Holy Ghost.

He said, if you believe me today, operate in it right now.

There's a reason I keep saying it.

Because God has shown me there a lot of different areas that we gotta operate in.

But every last one of us, uh, we have our own it.

My wife, she has her own it.

My children have their own it.

Elder Jamal has his own it, uh, Elder Nikema has his own it.

Elder Dorian has his own it.

Two, you got your own it.

And the Lord just said, uh, if you believe me in my word, uh, and you believe that you got the spirit beyond the limitation, uh-huh.

He said, walk in it, uh, and walk in it right now.

I declare, uh, over the politicians that I pastor, uh, you have been put in the position that you have been put in because he said I need some elected officials that operate in the spirit without limits.

Uh-huh.

I need some elected officials that have my heart.

Uh-uh.

That's why I put you where you are.

Uh-huh.

Uh-uh.

For the nurses in the room, uh-huh.

You're not an ordinary nurse.

Uh-huh.

You operate with the spirit without limitation.

Uh-huh.

That means when the doctor tells the family, uh-huh, we've done all we can do.

Uh-uh.

And when the doctor stepped out of the room, uh-huh, you might just touch that IV line.

Help me, Holy Ghost.

You might just touch that IV line and pray one more time.

Uh-huh.

Good God almighty.

I need some people in the room, uh-huh.

That's gonna operate in their icks.

Uh-huh.

There's a coach in here, uh-huh.

And the Lord said, uh-huh, it's bigger than basketball, uh-huh.

It's bigger than football.

It's bigger than strike.

Uh-huh.

You have a it within you.

Uh-huh.

That young men and women, uh-huh, they respect you.

Uh-huh.

They will hear you before they hear the preacher.

Uh-huh.

And so God said, uh-huh.

Stop limiting your call to what you do on the field.

And stop speaking life into these children.

I need everybody in the room.

They got a it.

I'm about to walk it, it, I'm about to master it, I'm about to conquer it, I'm about to be, uh, what God has called me to be.

I'm about to do.

What He's called me to do.

I see a shift in the house.

I see a shift in the house.

I see a shift in the house.

I see a shift in the house.

I see a shift in the house.

I see a shift in the house.

The Lord is saying, in a season such as this, He needs you to learn to operate in the spirit without limitation.

I had an opportunity a couple of weeks ago to talk with an individual that is stateless.

Do y'all know what it means to be stateless?

It means that he does not have a home country.

He was born in Egypt.

But his father is from Palestine.

So in Egypt, it doesn't matter if you were born on your grounds or not.

He said he didn't have enough blood ties to the country.

He's 60 years old.

He's been living in America this entire time.

He said back in the 90s, they tried to deport him to Egypt twice.

And both times, Egypt sent him back because he's stateless.

And he said he's not a citizen here.

And so, when America realized he didn't have anywhere to go, they left him alone since the 90s to now, until there was a shift in administration.

I'm trying to help y'all to see a couple things while we as a body of believers gotta operate in the spirit without limitation.

See, we don't think about issues that don't impact us directly until it's too late.

And I believe that the Lord brought this man of God in my presence to remind you that it's some people that's going through hell right now.

And it ain't just you.

So we gotta operate in the spirit beyond limitation.

Because suddenly he went from being able to check in with immigration, and I don't care about your politics.

I'm not talking about that, I'm talking about a soul.

He's been checking in here for all these years with no issues, not even a traffic ticket.

And suddenly now he's afraid that if he shows up at the immigration office, that he's gonna be arrested.

And not only will he be arrested, because he doesn't have a country, they're gonna send him to a Middle Eastern country.

Watch this.

He told me this.

He said, Sir, what's gonna happen to me?

He said, I'm a Christian, and they may send me to a Middle Eastern Muslim country.

He said, Can I tell you something?

I know you're a pastor, I hope you don't look at me this way funny, but he says, I'm also gay.

He said, So I'm a Muslim, I profess to be a Christian, and I'm gay, and if I get deported, you know what's gonna happen to me, I'm not gonna be alive anymore.

I'm trying to bring the reality of what's going on in the world beyond a news clip.

I talked to this man in my office.

I'm trying to help y'all understand why the body of Christ has to start to operate in the spirit beyond limitation.

We gotta start praying.

I don't care if you voted for him or not, but we gotta start praying in the spirit.

Because people's lives are on the line every day.

I'm being real, it was a news story to me until that man sat at my desk.

It was a news story to me until that man cried in my office.

And I'm trying to help somebody to understand that God's why God said you got to be what I call you to be.

He said you can shift everything at the church universe.

Whoever in the White House don't have the authority that we have in the kingdom.

And he said, I'm waiting on you to stop being limited about what the news say.

I'm waiting on you to stop being limited about what the people say.

I'm waiting on you to stop being limited about what the Democrats or the Republicans or the Independents say.

I'm waiting on you to start operating on what I say.

What did I say?

As we stand to our feet, the door to the house of God is open, family.

The door to the house of God is open.

I'm gonna do an invitation.

But before I got it, before I do an invitation, I want to do an impartation.

I want to I want to pray because God is raising many of you up for a season such as this.

Notice I kept saying politicians, because there's some of you all that will be engaged with the school board, there's some of you all that will be engaged with the county and the city because we need people that are Holy Spirit fill in everything that touches our sons and daughters.

We need Holy Spirit filled people in the hospitals and in the banks.

That's why God is elevating you.

But He said, I'm not gonna elevate you if you're gonna do what everybody else is doing.

When they get afraid of the interest rate and start getting nervous, you should go into a posture of prayer.

You should ask God for wisdom and guidance on how to be able to manage what's going on right now.

In the name of Jesus.

I want to pray for you.

Father, in the name of Jesus.

It's everyone right now that believes in you.

And everyone right now that says, Lord, I want to operate in the spirit in a fresh way.

I want to operate in the spirit beyond limitations.

Y'all are praying until the Holy Spirit told me to ask y'all this question.

How many of you really have a heart desire?

Don't lie on the Holy Spirit.

But how many of you have a heart desire by show of hands?

That you want to be able to operate in the spirit reality imitation.

I want you to I want you to put both hands in the air because that's a posture of surrender.

Yeah, don't lie on the Holy Spirit.

Don't do it just because your neighbor did it.

You may not be there yet, but if you are there, the Lord today, not tomorrow.

Because lives are on the line right now.

This is sometime we got this happening today.

I see the Lord.

A fresh anointing, but not just a fresh anointing.

Because you've been anointed, you have the Holy Spirit, but you have not been operating in the power of the Holy Spirit.

So the Lord is saying, for the work that you have to do, there is about to be a release of power.

He's about to give you everything that you need to tap in to the power.

He said, This is your moment to tap in.

Fear is gone, worry is gone.

The Lord is saying, Tap in now.

Tap in now.

This is your moment.

You will be shocked at how you decree and declare some stuff this in this season.

In Jesus' name, in accordance with his will, and it'll come to pass.

Hear this.

The first time you do it, it's gonna scare you because you've never operated in that way before.

But he's saying, start opening your mouth, and you are gonna be shocked at how your Holy Spirit field declarations come to pass.

He says, for some of you who have been operating, he says you got comfortable where you are, so I don't have to stretch you beyond where you are.

He says, You've gotten too familiar with me.

He says, You've gotten too familiar with what you think how it's supposed to work.

So he says, I'm stretching those of you who have become familiar because I'm taking the lid off.

I'm removing all the limitations.

I just heard the spirit say, tell them that the lid has been removed.

The lid has been removed, the lid has been removed.

Whatever you thought was the lid is removed.

The lid of your bad choice has just been removed.

The lid of your age, because some of you thought you were too old, and others don't think you're old enough.

The lid of your age has been removed.

Some of y'all just got saved, and you say, I ain't been in church long enough.

God says, Supper the lid.

Little children to come unto me because he says, I want you to have a childlike faith.

And he said, Because you are so new, you are open to the impossible.

So he says, I can use you more than some people who have become familiar.

So the lid has just come off.

The lid has just came off.

I declare forgiveness in this house.

The Lord says, Some of you all have been limited because you are struggling to forgive whoever harms you.

And others are struggling because you want somebody to forgive you, but they won't take your call.

But the Lord is saying that you've done your part.

He says, You've done your part, so the lid is off.

You can flow freely in the spirit.

Flow freely in the spirit.

As the Holy Spirit would allow our loose new spiritual gifts in this house.

Flow in your gifts like never before.

Flow in your gift like never before.

Flow in your gift like never before.

We were in some altar training yesterday, and a woman of God said, Sometimes you can help people to flow in the spirit.

She said, when they think, and they think, and they remember.

I need everybody in the room that I need you to think.

Everybody in the room, everybody in the room.

I want you to start thinking.

Because it is about y'all about to flow in the spirit.

I see.

I see what's about to happen.

I need you to start thinking about everything that God has done in your life.

Every time He's rescued your life.

Every time He's healed you.

Every time He's kept you one more time.

Every time He kept your child one more time.

Every time He didn't let it kill you one more time.

He said, I know your heart was broken, but I'm going to give you another chance one more time.

I need you to start thinking.

Y'all thinking?

Now you start thinking about what God has done for your life.

And you start thinking about what He's done to get you to this point.

The next thing is that you start thinking.

Yeah.

I think and I think.

Now y'all start thanking God.

Say, God, you didn't have to keep me.

You didn't have to give me the job that I have.

You didn't have to give me the apartment that I have.

You didn't have to give me the children that I have.

You didn't have to give me the church that I had.

You didn't have to give me the one-wheel friend.

I could have none.

You didn't have to give me, you didn't have to wake me up.

I start thinking and I started thinking.

Now y'all start thanking God right there.

Because if you think and you think, if you think and you think, I believe that there will be a release.

Yeah.

If we think and you think, there's about to be a release.

I need everybody in the room to think and think there's to be a release.

Everybody in the room start thinking, start thinking, there's about to be a release.

Everybody in the room start thinking, start thinking, there's about to be a release.

He said, I need you to start thinking because your mind needs to understand it was Him that kept you.

I need to start thinking because your spirit needs to show that you are of a thankful heart.

And if you are thankful, that means that you're ready to receive more.

Now get ready for the release.

Get ready for the release.

Spirit of the living God fall fresh on your people.

Fall fresh on them right now in Jesus' name.

In Jesus' name.

Rain on your people.

Rain on them right now.

Rain on them right now.

Rain on your people, oh Lord.

For the assignment that's not tomorrow but today.

Rain on them right now, God.

Rain on them, Lord.

Until they pray in such a way they've never prayed before.

Until they speak, oh Lord, a spiritual language they never spoke before.

Rain on the Lord until they can pray for healing in a way that they never prayed before.

Rain, oh Lord, until we see miracle signs and wonders.

Rain, oh Lord.

Rain, oh Lord.

Rain on your children.

Rain on us.

We live too high.

Rain on us.

We live too high.

Rain on us.

Rain on us.

Rain on us.

Lord, we lift your name highs up.

Hands up.

Hearts open wide as God.

We lift you high.

We lift you hands up.

Hands up.

Hearts open as we cry.

Lord, we lift your name up.

Hands up.

We lift you high.

We lift you hang the door to the house of God stands open.

Why?

Why as we cry?

Lord, we need shift right there.

Lord, we live joy.

Oh Lord, we need your spirit.

Your Holy Spirit.

Right now.

Lord, there's some people in this room.

They are about to operate.

They say, okay, I'm gonna go today and I'm gonna operate in the spirit without limitation.

No limits.

No limits.

Somebody say no limits.

No limits.

No limits.

We're all gathered here.

In your presence, Lord.

As he's ministering in songs.

The door to the house of God stands open.

With a lifted hand.

There's somebody here today, the spirit has been talking to you about you need a church home.

And for you to operate in the spirit without limits, you need a place where you can grow.

And I want to welcome you to your church family.

I want to welcome you.

Some of the elders and ministers are walking right now.

We're coming to meet you.

There's somebody today that needs to reconnect and rededicate their life to God.

There's somebody today that needs to get baptized in the name of Jesus.

This is your day.

Ask them how they're doing.

Just ask them how they're doing.

Ask them if they have a church home.

Ask them if they've been baptized.

Cause we all need to operate in the spirit without limitation.

Let's celebrate God right now.

Celebrate God.

Thank you, God.

Thank you, God.

So please, please, please, please, please, Lord.

Check on your neighborhood.

Y'all say your word.

We need your Holy Spirit.

It's your day.

It's your day.

Give us a spirit.

This is your day.

Come on, somebody come.

Sing Spirit.

Everybody sing it.

Spirit, Spirit.

This is your day.

This is your day.

Holy Spirit.

This is your day.

This is your day.

This is your day.

Six spirits.

Thank you, Lord.

Thank you, Lord.

Thank you, Lord, for a fresh deposit.

Thank you, God, for removing the leaves.

Thank you, Lord.

Thank you, Lord.

Thank you, Lord.

Thank you, Lord.

What I'm doing now is I'm not belaboring the moment.

For some people, they've been in a fight their whole life.

They fighting right now.

They just it's a wrestler.

They're trying to discern.

Should they go?

Thank you, musicians.

That's the answer right there.

The answer is yes.

The Holy Spirit is waiting on you.

No pressure, no pressure, but the Lord is waiting on you.

Man of God, the Lord is waiting on you.

Man of God, the Lord is waiting on you.

Woman of God, the Lord is waiting on you.

No pressure.

He's not a pressure God, but he said, I'm waiting on you.

He said he's gracious enough to give you a whole nother minute.

Because he knows it took everything for you to just show up this morning.

He knows what you're going through.

But he brought you here for this reason.

And only the enemy wants you to stay where you are.

Only the enemy wants you to stay where you are.

Only the enemy wants you to stay where you are.

Somebody say yes, Lord.

Yes, Lord.

Yes, Lord.

Now all the saints are saying yes with you.

You just waiting on you to manifest a yes.

Elders and deacons and ministers.

Y'all stay in the house.

I believe somebody about to give me a yes.

Look at God.

Look at God.

Look at the prayer.

Come here.

Come here.

Come here.

Come here.

Come here.

Come here.

Sometimes it's prayer.

Somebody just need to get to the altar.

Somebody need to give him a yes.

Man of God, you tried everything else, haven't you?

You suck other sources, haven't you?

So the Lord has said, try me today.

He says, I'll never leave you.

I'll never forsake you.

He said, I didn't leave you.

That's how you survive when you weren't thinking about me.

Do we realize that God was there when we were in the midst of our sin?

He was right there.

Because he says, I will never leave you.

And I'll never forsake you.

So now he's opened up his arms wide open.

His heart is open wide open.

He just wants you to give him a yes.

For a soul that's online that just gave God a yes.

Can we celebrate God for that?

Yes, soul said.

Yes, Lord.

Elder Rosa Young said something to me last week.

And I had to receive it in the spirit.

She said, sometime, Pastor, I think the Lord shows you certain people.

And she said, You don't want to embarrass them, so I know you don't, but every now and then she said, You never know.

She said, His soul may be on the line.

She said this story, and I'm gonna let you go because I feel that this way this is the day, and I'm gonna let you go.

She said, She was in a church service with her, I believe her brother, if I'm not mistaken, and her and her husband.

And it was like the man at the Lord, the pastor kept saying, there's somebody in the room.

But then the pastor got specific.

She said, because she was there with her brother was preaching.

And I said, the Lord saying, You are the one.

And the brother said, No, no, no.

And the man said, Well, you know, praise God.

I don't know what the Lord is calling me to do.

Sometimes I said, You know what?

Sometimes the Lord showed you.

He said, But you just never know.

He said, Don't be afraid.

I see a man of God in a white shirt.

All I can say is that the Lord has need of you.

I'm not going to embarrass you by that.

You know what color shirt you got on.

Every man in a white shirt don't get nervous, man.

May not be talking to you, but I know I see a man in a white shirt.

And if the Holy Spirit, if I'm saying this, it's not the first time you hear it.

I'm confirming what the Spirit already told you.

That's how you know it's you.

The Spirit is already talking to you.

Now I'm just confirming it.

So I see a man in a white shirt.

And I'm certainly not speaking a curse over your life, saying that you're going to die or anything terrible like that.

But what I am saying is that tomorrow is not promised to any of us.

That's real.

And maybe it ain't the man in the white shirt, maybe there's somebody else.

But the Holy Spirit is saying, I need you to give me this yes.

This is you.

This is you.

We're about to transition to worship through giving.

But before we leave this place, don't you leave here without giving God a yes if that's you.

Don't you leave here.

Come here, man of God.

Come here, man of God.

I need every man to grab him now.

We move slow sometime.

We move slow sometime.

We move slow sometime.

We move slow sometime.

We need move slow sometime.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Y'all minister to him right now.

Would y'all believe this crazy country past if I tell you that there was still yet another man in a white shirt?

Would y'all believe that or would y'all think I was crazy?

There's another one on this side.

I'm sorry.

I just want you to, I'm just confirmation.

Don't feel pressure.

Because if I'm if you you the Holy Spirit already spoke to you, I believe it's I believe it's one more.

On this side.

It's confirming.

See, God said it to you first.

God said it to you first.

Men of God, let's go.

Let's go.

Let's do what we do.

The Lord has need of you.

The Lord has need of you.

The Lord has need of you.

The Lord has need of you.

The Lord has need of you.

The Lord has need of you.

The Lord has need of you.

The Lord has need of you.

The Lord has need of you.

The Lord has need of you.

The Lord has need of you.

The Lord has need of you.

Body go home.

Man of God with the the blazer on.

It may not be for joining or salvation.

But the Lord has need of you.

Wherever you are, right there.

Y'all see the man of God right here.

He got a necklace on right here.

Yeah, right here.

Right here.

Yeah, he is.

Man of God right here.

You see me?

That's it.

I see you, man of God.

Don't know who you are, but the Lord just said he has need of you.

Whatever that means, he has need of you.

Alright.

Now, wherever that means, wherever you serve, wherever you are, the Lord is saying you need to give him a yes this week.

Alright?

I don't know what state you're from.

I don't know if Charlotte.

Don't even know if you go here.

I got I got cataracts.

I'm just I can't see everybody, so don't know.

But I'm just saying the Lord has need of you, and the Lord is saying give him a yes.

Not tomorrow, but today.