Shekinah 7- Baptism in the Spirit _ Day 2

So here's what God said, even though it's yesterday, it seems like eight years ago.

Here's what God said, so don't be afraid.

I'm with you.

I will bring your children from the east and gather them from the west.

I will send orders north and south.

I will say to the north, give them up and to the south, do not hold them back.

Return my sons from afar and my daughters from the ends of the earth.

I want them back.

Every last one of them who bears my name, every man, woman and child whom I created

for my glory, he has personally formed and made each one.

How wonderful and beautiful they will be.

Young men will thrive on abundant grain and the young women will flourish on new wine.

You will raise up young men and young women, bishops, strong apostolic ministry, strong

teachers going out from your company and they will reproduce this anointing.

Your young people will freely join you at the break of dawn with all the vigor of youth

resplendent in holy armor on the day of your conquest.

I'm going to read it out again.

One of the things I've been asking the Holy Spirit to help me with is to imagine what

this looks like.

Not an imagination that is Jacob generated but an imagination that is Spirit generated

that Jacob imagines.

I would suggest you do that too because sometimes God puts pieces of a puzzle together by inspiring

divine imagination.

And so let me read it again.

And this is something that God gave as a word for us for the next two or three years hopefully

where what he wants to do on the earth amongst the teenagers, the 20s, the 30s and even the

40s will be accomplished because he wants to bring about a revival in those that are

young so that the ship that has veered off course will come right back on course.

It is not specific to any denomination.

And if you didn't listen to what we were talking about yesterday, please go and listen because

it will give you a background.

I'm reading it again.

So don't be afraid and feel free to read it if you're at home.

So don't be afraid because the more we agree with and speak out the promises of God, the

more the Spirit realm hears it, the more the Jacob realm hears it, his mind and his spirit

and soul engage with it.

And God hears it too.

And he opens his books as he says in Haggai and he writes down those that remembered and

spoke about him and his word.

So join me.

So don't be afraid.

I am with you.

I will bring your children from the east and gather them from the west.

I'll send orders north and south.

I will say to the north, give them up and to the south, do not hold them back.

Return my sons from afar and my daughters from the ends of the earth.

I want them back.

Every last one who bears my name.

Every man, woman and child whom I created for my glory.

Yes, personally formed and made each one.

How wonderful and beautiful they will be.

The young men will thrive on abundant grain and the young women will flourish on new wine.

You will raise up young men and young women, bishops, strong apostolic ministries, strong

teachers going out from your company and they will reproduce this anointing.

Your young adults or your young people will freely join you at the break of dawn with

all the vigor of youth resplendent in holy armor on the day of your conquest.

Hallelujah.

So guys, today what I want to talk about is that for God to bring about this revival across

the earth, beginning in this city, beginning in our midst and through us, we need to talk

about being freshly baptized in the Holy Spirit.

So that's what we'll be talking about today.

I just want to remind us that revival is the descent.

Revival is the descent, the quickening, the outpouring.

Revival is and always has been the descent, the quickening and the outpouring of the Holy

Spirit, of the Holy Spirit with extraordinary power, with extraordinary power.

He is powerful, He is present ordinarily, but when we talk about a revival, we are talking

about the descent, the quickening or the outpouring of the Holy Spirit in extraordinary power.

And the other cool thing is, it's brought about, I love this, brought about by the intercession

of Jesus Christ.

It is brought about by the intercession of Jesus Christ.

I was so relieved to know that, that as much as it is good to pray, it is brought about

by the intercession of Jesus Christ.

We read about this in Romans 8.34.

It is brought about by the intercession of Jesus Christ.

What does it do?

It brings new life to the church.

It brings new life to the church.

And it converts those that do not know Him.

It converts or it pours grace, grace and conversion of those who do not know Him or of those unconverted.

When does this happen?

It happens from time to time throughout church history.

It happens from time to time throughout church history.

One of the things that really astounds me is that it is happening now and that we have

been given the heads up and we get to be part of it.

That astounds me.

I can never wrap my head around things that God invites us to take part in when He is

doing it and when there are so many other places He can go.

This then just further expands our understanding of revival.

It is the descent, the quickening.

And I go over this because it just takes the pressure off us.

When we realize that revival is a descent of the Holy Spirit, the outpouring of the

Holy Spirit in extraordinary power, it is not an ordinary way that He always is.

I mean even His ordinary is highly extraordinary.

But what does it mean when it says extraordinary power?

It takes the pressure off me.

And then I love it that it is brought about by the intercession of Jesus Christ, the Lord

of heaven and earth.

It is He who intercedes for this to happen.

He who intercedes for this to happen.

And in the process His intent is to bring new life here on earth and to bring new life

here to the church and then pour His grace out on those that have not known Him yet.

And this happens time and time again through church history.

And so today I just want to talk about the baptism of the Spirit.

A baptism of the Spirit.

And it applies to every Baptist, every Presbyterian, every Pentecostal, charismatic, Lutheran,

not reformed, free, not free church.

Covers everybody.

So the baptism in the Spirit, when we talk about the baptism in the Spirit, I am not

going to go doctrine on you.

But what I am saying is the baptism in the Spirit must be, there must be an emphasis

on the experiential nature.

There must be an emphasis on the experience or the experiential nature of the Holy Spirit.

Not so much the doctrine that the mind can comprehend.

I don't think there is a problem with what the mind can comprehend.

We can teach on that for the next eight hours.

Really, I mean that in all sincerity.

But we are talking about the baptism of the Spirit as in experiencing the Spirit's presence.

Experience of the presence of the Holy Spirit.

So the emphasis today will be on the experience of the presence of the Holy Spirit.

Because we are talking about extraordinary power.

And it's been very long since I experienced this.

Extraordinary power of the Holy Spirit.

Extraordinary power of the Holy Spirit.

Why?

So that we can engage in Christ exalting ministry.

So that we can engage in Christ exalting ministry.

That's what revivals look like.

Extraordinary power of the Holy Spirit.

So that we can engage in Christ exalting ministry.

The strange thing is guys, Christ himself needed it.

To engage in the kind of ministry that Christ engaged in, he required the extraordinary

power of the Holy Spirit.

And today we are going to ask God to give us the experience of the presence of the Holy

Spirit.

Every believer cannot be a believer unless he has the Holy Spirit in him.

Every believer receives the Holy Spirit in his fullness.

Holy Spirit is a person.

We know all that.

So we are not talking about doctrine that the mind can comprehend.

We are talking about a strong emphasis on the experience of the presence of the Holy

Spirit.

Yeah?

The extraordinary power of the Holy Spirit.

Because that alone is what is required for Christ exalting ministry.

Just imagine what we are being asked to do guys.

We are being asked by God to awaken and to be empowered to penetrate the frontiers of

the young world.

That's what God is saying.

Listen, I want to awaken you.

And then after I awaken you church, I want to empower you.

First is the awakening of the church.

And after I awaken you, I want to empower you so that you can crack and penetrate the

frontiers of a young world.

It's almost a repeat of Acts chapter 1 8 only in the context of a target audience.

Acts 1 · chapter mention

In Acts 1 8 it was, and you shall be witnesses to me in this and this and to the ends of

the earth here.

It's the frontier of a young world.

And so the baptism of the Holy Spirit is unpredictable and it's diverse.

It is unpredictable and it's diverse.

So open our hearts and minds to that.

Put to bed your age, your ethnicity, your preconceptions, your disdain, your dislikes,

your tastes, your likes.

Put it aside so that he may be unpredictable and diverse.

And may your experience not be the norm for someone else.

May what you and I experience today not become the norm for someone else.

So the next time this God wants to do this, we say this is how it should happen.

Let's not bottle it like Peter, James and John tried to do on the Mount of Transfiguration

where he said can we build a hut for you so that we can have Elijah in one and it was

almost like a tent.

They wanted to bottle it and that's, we won't go that way.

The other thing I want us to be aware of is that in Acts chapter 1 4 God says go to Jerusalem,

Acts 1 · chapter mention

and the Holy Spirit will come.

And in Acts chapter 2 4 it says that they were filled with the Holy Spirit.

Acts 2 · chapter mention

So in Acts 1 4 it's weight, in Acts 2 4 it's filled.

And so just in faith, trust that if we ask for the baptism of the Spirit that we will

be filled.

That these are two overlapping realities that we will experience.

We will experience starting today that baptism or immersion in the Holy Spirit results in

filling every time in the Bible and that's our standard every time God said go wait or

go ask there was a filling of the Holy Spirit.

The fullness and baptism are overlapping truths and so we will take time shortly to wait not

for him but wait on him.

Wait not for him but on him because the for him part ended in Acts chapter 2 he is here.

Acts 2 · chapter mention

But wait on him and trust that these overlapping realities will happen to us.

And that we are looking not for an experience but we are looking for the experience of his presence.

Yeah and we will cry out oh God I need a fresh baptism, oh God I need a fresh anointing,

oh God I need a fresh filling, oh God I need a fresh outpouring of the Holy Spirit.

I'm just appalled that it's been a while.

It's been a while.

And that one can be satisfied with what one has when one should never get satisfied.

And when the Holy Spirit comes in power he comes suddenly on his own terms and time.

Remember that eh?

When the Holy Spirit comes in power he comes on his own terms and he comes at his own time.

When the Spirit comes in power he comes suddenly on his own terms and time.

And so let that be the cry out.

I'll cry it out again and again today oh God I need a fresh baptism.

I need a fresh baptism.

I might be able to teach well, I might be living life well but my God I need a fresh baptism.

I need a fresh anointing.

I need a fresh filling.

I need a fresh outpouring of the Holy Spirit.

For what is set ahead of us with Christ interceding and the Spirit wanting to express himself in extraordinary power

I must experience the presence of God afresh.

I must experience it.

My mind may comprehend it but that's not what I want.

I want to experience the presence of the Spirit of God.

And so in that context I just want to say a few things that I think are important for us as a church.

See guys I don't want my mind to define and decide what is permissible for the Holy Spirit.

I don't want my mind to define and decide what is permissible for you a Holy Spirit.

I say to you Holy Spirit I don't want my mind to define and decide what is permissible for you in my life.

I've done that.

I don't want my mind to define and decide what is permissible for you Holy Spirit in my life.

I want to say these things and maybe some of you are in the same boat maybe you're not

but my fear of the excess, the error and the deception that I've seen in churches and through ministries

my utter disdain for those that peddle or practice excess, error and deception

has unfortunately made me distance myself from the fullness of the Holy Spirit.

I've been careful.

The living God that I serve is a person and his presence is tangible.

But my fear of emotionalism and my disdain for the abuse and the excess I have seen

has made me distance myself from the fullness of the Spirit

and my mind kicks in and starts rationalizing experiences I hear

so that I can try and figure out whether I want it or not.

Instead of having the courage to choose to pastor or shepherd

what may occasionally be carnal manifestation or uncontrolled manifestation

I've built a barrier that may occasionally filter the Holy Spirit out too.

Rather than have the courage to shepherd it should it go out of control

I've built barriers that occasionally may filter the Holy Spirit too

and that is so sad especially when you're a pastor

because the flock will get what you allow.

Instead of receiving like a little child

I've been more concerned about deception or a counterfeit experience

and so instead of trusting the word that God has put in us already through all these years

instead of trusting Luke 11 verse 11 to 13 where if we ask more of the Holy Spirit

Luke 11:11–13

He won't give us a snake or a scorpion

I have guarded the door of this church with my own wisdom and I repent of it.

I repent of it as in I repent before God saying I am so sorry.

Oh God I'm so sorry Spirit of God.

And I ask your church to forgive me

because perhaps we could have experienced more.

So as we go into this I want to surrender my mind, I want to surrender my emotions

I want to surrender my body, I want to surrender my strength

I want to surrender my spirit, I want to surrender my will to the Holy Spirit and to the word

and God has taught us enough not to set up our own barriers

that He has made us Berians

so that if required the Berian barrier of the word will be enough.

So I yield control over even my body which is the temple of the Spirit

and I yield control over the body of Acts 29 which is the temple of the Spirit.

So don't hold on to fleshly self-control guys as we begin to pray

don't hold on to fleshly self-control.

Let worship undo you. I'm not even talking about music I'm just talking about worship.

Let worship undo you. Let worship undo you like it undid Isaiah in Isaiah chapter 6.

Isaiah 6 · chapter mention

It is both terrifying and it is full of glory.

And my God what if we don't experience these things before we die?

Isn't the Old Testament supposed to be a shadow?

I feel so bad that I've set up these barriers because of the disdain I have for the abuse and the excess

and for the peddlers that do that.

Man in my disdain I have distanced myself and in the process distanced this church

from what the Spirit would love to do amongst us.

And if in the process of just calling out to him saying Spirit of God I hunger for a fresh anointing

I need a fresh filling. Renew them oh God I have heard of your fame.

In the process if you're overwhelmed by the greatness and the nearness of God

and it spills out into prayer and praise and tongues so be in church.

If it spills out into dancing or crying or lamenting or calling out so be it.

There's this beautiful scripture in Isaiah 64 which says oh that you would rent the heavens and come down

that the mountains might quake at your presence and that is what I want to do.

So I'm going to ask my mic to be turned down and turned down not turned completely off.

And I want to just begin to ask you in your homes with your children with your spouses with your fathers and mothers

To begin to call out to God for a fresh baptism a fresh anointing a fresh filling a fresh outpouring of the Holy Spirit.

And as Christ intercedes may the extraordinary power of the Holy Spirit be experienced

in his presence not in doctrine.

Don't go for self-control go for yielding to the Spirit your mind your emotions your body your strength your spirit

your will to the Holy Spirit yeah.

Let's go guys.

At any point if anyone from the music team feels like going sitting on the piano and playing feel free but you have to be

it's something that you have to know and do and I'm not going to ask you to but

whenever you think it's required from you to do it.

So I'm going to ask you to do it.

I'm going to ask you to do it.

I'm going to ask you to do it.

I'm going to ask you to do it.

Whenever you think it's required both for yourself us and those that are listening feel free.

Okay.

Ha shucks.

Hey just focus put that picture on and then just keep my mic kind of turned on.

And

You might need to move around guys.

If you want to like I'm not telling you what to do just feel free.

Ha shucks.

Spirit of God.

Spirit of God.

Spirit of God. How have I lived so long

between experiences.

What have I satisfied myself with?

With the word

but doesn't the word lead then to this place

of experiencing your presence and shouldn't it increase?

So I come Holy Spirit

to be filled afresh. Oh God.

I know how this works but I ask to be filled afresh.

I ask for extraordinary power upon this church.

I ask for an outpouring. I ask for a descent.

I know you don't take away control but I'm yielding control.

I ask to be filled to overflowing.

I ask that any limit that I have said be dissolved.

I don't want to speak in tongues.

That's good but I want more.

I want to experience the presence of the Father and the Son and you.

I want more.

I want nothing contained. I want

fire. I want flames.

Like happened on Acts chapter 2.

Acts 2 · chapter mention

I want fire. I want flames.

I want you.

I don't want to be able to contain you.

I don't want to be able to contain you.

I don't want this

just for myself. I want it for all of us. Oh God.

I want this body to be so full of you

Holy Spirit that nothing else can enter.

Nothing else can enter.

That the cloud enter the temple and the people could not

minister. Why do you need to minister when God is

in the place? You're in awe of him

Holy Spirit.

Bring you a mind

and bring you a will.

Please when I say my mind, my will, would you consider it as ours?

I bring you my mind

so that you're never limited by my thinking

again. So that all things become possible.

My body

so that I may be undignified or dignified as you please.

That what King Saul

thinks or Michael thinks won't

bother me.

That your love will be expressed without the barrier

of the veil of flesh.

I give you my will

so that you can always rule

my emotions Holy Spirit.

You are tangible, you are real, you are a person, oh God.

Holy Spirit

break upon us, break upon us in

homes, break upon us in homes, break into Rosalind's

home, break into Ann and Kamal's

home, break into Shireen and Nishan and Maya

and Isaiah's life,

break into Sheldon and Jane and Phoebe's

life, break into Aaron and Reni's life,

break into Dano and Blessie and Eva

and Aaron and Abby and Eden's life, break into

Eric and Penny and the kids' lives,

break into Sammy's life, break into Luke's life,

into Hope's life, into Zach's life, into Eden's life,

break into the world of the Lord,

into Reba's life, break into my mum's life,

break into Katie's life, into Reba's life, and name them before you

oh God, I'm doing this deliberately.

Break into Liddy and Rachel and

Leah's

life.

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