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LUSH - 9.14.2025 - 12PM Elder Brett Rodway

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  1. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Love Quest International

  2. Church Podcast, where we seek to love all nations, equip the

  3. church, mobilize the equipped, and serve all.

  4. We're super glad you're joining us from whenever and wherever

  5. you're at in the world. Welcome to the family to get

  6. your Bibles ready, get some water, get some coffee, maybe

  7. some tea, and get ready to receive.

  8. It's go time. Let's get into it, Jesus.

  9. Isaiah 11, verse 2. And the Spirit of Lord shall

    Isaiah 11:2

  10. rest upon him the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the

  11. spirit of counsel and might, the Spirit of knowledge, and of the

  12. reverential and obedient fear of the Lord.

  13. This is prophesied of Jesus. And then in Romans 811.

  14. And if the Spirit of him who raised up Jesus from the dead

  15. dwells in you, then he who raised up Christ Jesus from the

  16. dead will also restore to your life mortal bodies through his

  17. Spirit who dwells in you. Oh, the same Spirit that raised

  18. Jesus, The same Spirit that raised Jesus, the spirit of

  19. counsel, the spirit of might, the spirit of knowledge, the

  20. spirit of the reverential fear of the Lord.

  21. Hallelujah. The same Spirit that raised

  22. Christ, He dwells in you who believe.

  23. The same Spirit of understanding, the same spirit

  24. of counsel, the same spirit of might.

  25. You're looking for counsel. The Spirit of Lord is upon you.

  26. You're looking for the spirit of mind.

  27. He dwells richly within you. And to all who've received

  28. Jesus, Amen. What a revelation man God is

  29. good. Wow.

  30. Now, my name is Elder Brett and our pastors, Pastor Terence and

  31. Pastor Julia, are away this weekend.

  32. For those who are new, they're just to wait for this weekend

  33. but send their love. And we are excited to see what

  34. God is doing here in this house today.

  35. And I want to thank Pastor Terence and Pastor Julia for the

  36. opportunity and blessing it is to be able to share from this

  37. platform. And thank you.

  38. Thank you for being courageous and bold in your faith to

  39. establish a work and walk with Jesus and in honouring him.

  40. And you're a blessing for us and an example of what it means to

  41. follow the Lord. Do you agree?

  42. Yeah, Very blessed to have pastors like that.

  43. So we're going to continue with the message on Lush perfecting

  44. the Saints. And this has been the subject

  45. for the theme for a few weeks now.

  46. And it's the perfecting of the Saints.

  47. So who here is a St. right? All those who believe in Jesus,

  48. right? And the perfecting is the

  49. maturing. He's bringing us into maturity.

  50. He's bringing us into a place where we come to know Him in a

  51. deeper way. And then Pastor Teres gave a

  52. prophetic word, and in the prophetic word says he's

  53. equipping us because the wind's about to blow.

  54. The wind is about to blow. We were singing about the Holy

  55. Spirit in Acts 24. The Spirit came is the sound of

  56. a rushing, mighty wind. A sound of the wind is a great

  57. sound when the Holy Spirit came in Acts chapter 2.

    Acts 2 chapter mention

  58. In John chapter 3 and verse 8, Jesus is speaking to Nicodemus

    John 3 chapter mention

  59. and he says the wind blows where it wills, and though you hear

  60. its sound, yet you neither know where it comes from nor where it

  61. is going. So it is with everyone who is

  62. born of the Spirit. Often we can hear the wind going

  63. through the trees or you hear the wind whistle through through

  64. the, the sheds or back home. We'd often have corrugated iron

  65. back home. I'm home.

  66. But back in Australia where I grew up, we had corrugated iron

  67. roofs and sometimes the wind would blow through and get a

  68. whistle sound, you know, and you could hear the wind but you

  69. couldn't see the wind, right. You didn't see wind.

  70. You'd see what the wind would, would blow up or the, the flags

  71. would move and you know there was wind because the flags, you

  72. know, straight out. So there's a wind occurring, but

  73. you don't see the wind. And so Jesus is saying as it is,

  74. so it is with the Holy Spirit. As the wind of the Spirit blows,

  75. we see how the Spirit of God actually works in US and to to

  76. move through us to touch other people's lives as well.

  77. So it's the effect of the wind. And today we're going to talk

  78. about three things. The wind exposes, the wind

  79. refreshes and the wind reveals. Would you?

  80. I've seen some tropical cyclones in Australia, hurricanes here.

  81. I've never been in one. Has anyone been in a hurricane

  82. before? Anybody?

  83. No, we're all. Oh, yeah.

  84. Well, there you go. J TS been there.

  85. And you go in into a hurricane and that wind will blow really

  86. hard. And usually there's a little bit

  87. of time. And so you see on the news, oh,

  88. there's a, there's a hurricane coming in.

  89. So they've, they've got plywood in there, they're boarding up

  90. all the, the windows and they're securing anything they can find,

  91. trying to make sure that the wind is not going to blow away

  92. what they have. But what happens in the

  93. hurricane is the wind exposes weakness.

  94. So there's a, a weakness maybe in a roof.

  95. And also that roof is gone. It's exposed.

  96. It's exposed that it wasn't secure, it wasn't able to

  97. maintain its position. And if a roof comes off a house

  98. or a building, everything within the building is now exposed,

  99. exposed to the rain, exposed to the elements.

  100. And this is part of how the Lord works when he blows in the

  101. Spirit. The work of the Holy Spirit is

  102. to expose those parts of our life to make an exposure, not to

  103. embarrass, not to point the finger, not to condemn, but

  104. rather exposure to heal, to bring correction, to create a

  105. new space to to make the way clear.

  106. And that exposure reveals things.

  107. And so when the wind of the Spirit is blowing, be aware that

  108. the wind of the Spirit will expose those things that are

  109. weaknesses. Where there's a weak point,

  110. there's an exposure because the wind blows through, it finds a

  111. space. Matthew Chapter 7 and verse 24

    Matthew 7 chapter mention

  112. reads Anyone who listens to my teaching and follows it, You

  113. said that and follows it and follows it.

  114. Repeat after me and follows it. This is a workshop.

  115. It's more of a workshop than a than a lecture.

  116. So I'm going to invite you to participate and I'll surprise

  117. you from time to time. OK?

  118. Anyone who listens to my teaching and follows it is wise,

  119. like a person who builds a house on solid rock.

  120. Though the rain comes in torrents and the floodwaters

  121. rise and the winds beat against that house, it won't collapse

  122. because it is built on bedrock or solid rock.

  123. But anyone who hears my teaching and doesn't obey it is foolish,

  124. like a person who builds a house on sand.

  125. When the rains and floods come and the winds beat against that

  126. house, it will collapse with a mighty crash.

  127. So we have two houses and before the winds come and the rains

  128. come they could look like the same house.

  129. Beautiful Bay windows, a lovely gourmet kitchen.

  130. The extra spice kitchen, which I don't know what they do in

  131. there, but sometimes the houses have that spice kitchen and then

  132. the, you know, 5 bedrooms and a media room and all the

  133. accoutrements you want. And they might look the same.

  134. But then the wind comes and the rain comes and the storm comes

  135. and the challenge comes and then we find out that one of them is

  136. built on a solid rock and one of them is built on sand.

  137. And have you ever made a sand castle, made a sandcastle and

  138. then the then the wave comes in and he goes, it's gone, right?

  139. All that work down the drain. OK, never was much work when I

  140. did them. But but the sandcastle does not

  141. stay because it's not on solid rock.

  142. It's on sand sand. It moves, it shifts, it has

  143. uncertainties to it. Now what's interesting is Jesus

  144. doesn't say that the house built on the rock is the person who

  145. built the house on the rock heard, but the person who built

  146. their house on the sand did not hear.

  147. It says both of them heard the word.

  148. So both the man who built the house on the rock and the man

  149. who built the house on the sand heard the same things they heard

  150. from the Lord in the same way. The difference was the

  151. obedience. It wasn't that they didn't hear

  152. the same thing. And the guys go, oh, I didn't

  153. hear that. No, you heard the same thing.

  154. One person put it into practice and when the exposure came, they

  155. remained solid. The other one heard the message

  156. but didn't apply it, didn't put it into practice, didn't, didn't

  157. say, yeah, that's, that's for me.

  158. I've got to do something about that.

  159. I've got to see change in my life.

  160. I've got to see a move in my life.

  161. I I hear that word, I'm going to act on it.

  162. Rather, they heard the word and let it slide.

  163. And when trouble came, when exposure came, it fell flat on

  164. the ground. So it's not hearing the word,

  165. it's doing it. In fact, you honour the word of

  166. God. When you activate the word of

  167. God, there's an honour attached to it.

  168. The wind is blowing to blow out the shakable.

  169. We're talking about hurricanes. If it finds a table that's not

  170. secured, it's going to take it off.

  171. It's going to, I think it was in the movie Twister or maybe it

  172. was in Wizard of Oz, I don't know.

  173. There's a tornado and then there's a cow in there with a

  174. cow wasn't secured that ends up blown away.

  175. That's right. But it but the wind is coming to

  176. blow out the shakable. And in many cases, what it is,

  177. is areas within our life where we have decided our way was

  178. easier. And as the Holy Spirit is

  179. moving, especially in this season, he's calling us to live

  180. in the unshakeable. In Hebrews 12, verse 28, the

    Hebrews 12:28

  181. writer talks about how there's a shaking, but do not fear because

  182. we live in an unshakeable Kingdom.

  183. When we are built on Christ and obedient to what He's called us

  184. to, we are in an unshakeable Kingdom.

  185. They're shaking around us. They're shaking in the world.

  186. They're shaking. That occurs.

  187. But we are built on the solid rock of Jesus, an unshakeable

  188. Kingdom. First John chapter 2 and verse

    1 John 2 chapter mention

  189. 3. And we can be sure that we know

  190. Him if we obey his commandments. Say that with me obey his

  191. commandments and we can be sure that we know him if we obey his

  192. commandments. If someone claims I know God, I

  193. know him, I've heard all about him.

  194. I, I I read it, I read the Bible.

  195. I I know who he is but doesn't obey God's commandments.

  196. That person is a liar and is not living in the truth.

  197. Now this is some straight talking from John.

  198. He said you can claim to know him, but if you're not obeying

  199. him, you don't know him, you don't know who he is, continues

  200. on and says. But those who obey God's word

  201. truly show how completely they love him.

  202. They show it in the words they speak, in the way they engage

  203. with people, in their steps of faith.

  204. They show it, They show their love.

  205. It's revealed. If I said to my wife Stacey, I

  206. love you. And then I never talk to her all

  207. day. I ignore her.

  208. At night. I make dinner, but just for me.

  209. I I walk out in the morning, never talk to her, turn my face

  210. away from her. What does my love word mean?

  211. Does this saying the word I love you, does that, does that mean

  212. anything? If it doesn't have a backup to

  213. it, have a support to it, have a substance to it.

  214. But those who obey God's Word truly show how completely they

  215. love Him. This is how we know we are

  216. living in Him. Those who say they live in God

  217. should live their lives as Jesus did.

  218. Here is the example. This is the standard He's

  219. calling us to, seeking to walk out our lives as Jesus did.

  220. Walk out our lives in the way that he set as an example.

  221. And this is how we know we're living in Him.

  222. Dear friends, I'm not writing a new commandment for you.

  223. Rather it is an old one you have had from the very beginning.

  224. This old commandment to love one another is the same message you

  225. heard before, yet it is also new.

  226. Jesus lived the truth of this commandment, and you also are

  227. living it. For the darkness is disappearing

  228. and the true light is already shining.

  229. But if anyone claims I am living in the light but hates a fellow

  230. believer, that person is still living in darkness.

  231. Anyone who loves a fellow believer is living in the light

  232. and does not 'cause others to stumble.

  233. But anyone who hates a fellow believer is still living and

  234. walking in darkness. Such a person does not know the

  235. way to go, having been blinded by the darkness.

  236. It's quite a clear separation between light and dark.

  237. In first John chapter one verse 4, John says God is light and

  238. there is no darkness in him. So right at the outset of this

  239. letter he is identifying the clear defining marks between

  240. what is of God light and what is not of God, darkness.

  241. Remember, darkness of itself is not a thing, it's just the

  242. absence of light. They measure the amount of

  243. darkness by the amount of light they see, because you can't

  244. measure darkness. Darkness is just the absence of

  245. light. So here he's saying when you

  246. love, when you care for your fellow believer, the way you're

  247. treating them is an indication of whether you're abiding in

  248. him, how you are joined to God. If you hate your brother, you're

  249. not walking in the light. You're not walking in the light

  250. that he's called us to, you're choosing to walk in the

  251. darkness. Proverbs 26, verse 20.

    Proverbs 26:20

  252. For lack of wood the fire goes out, and where there is no

  253. whisperer, contention ceases. As coals are to hot embers and

  254. as wood to fire, so as a quarrelsome man to inflamed

  255. strife, a whisperer is someone who likes to go into the corner,

  256. a gossip, A whisperer, someone who's coming into the corner to

  257. the quiet place to have that conversation because it doesn't

  258. want to be exposed to the lights.

  259. In in our foundations course that we we run as an

  260. introduction to love quest. In the second foundations

  261. course, we talk about being centre of the ring, not going to

  262. our corners, not going into our dark places, not going into the

  263. side places, but bringing it up to the open so we can talk about

  264. it, we can expose it. And when you do that, you take

  265. wood away from the fire, right? The Whisperer adds wood to a

  266. fire, adds stocking to that flame, the the flame that burns

  267. to destruction. But when you bring it to the

  268. open, the open spaces, that's when God moves.

  269. That's when we're able to see in light.

  270. And when we are doing that, now the whole body can operate in

  271. unity. The whole body can operate well

  272. because there's not a dysfunctional little pinky toe

  273. going off to the side here, right?

  274. There's a unity that keeps us together, keeps us strong

  275. together, and sets us up for what God has for us.

  276. You see, there's health in that. At first, John, it was very

  277. clear. Love one another.

  278. Love that. Love that cares enough to watch

  279. over somebody, that love that cares enough to be vulnerable.

  280. Love that doesn't go to the darkness.

  281. Love wants to be in the light. So there's a wind that is

  282. exposing and bringing us into a place of vulnerability.

  283. Now that exposure is not for embarrassment, but for good.

  284. We talked about in the first experience, God is good.

  285. And when we understand that first it becomes our governing

  286. measure for everything else that's going on.

  287. A governing measure is the measure from which all other

  288. measures come from, right? How we so this is three, well,

  289. Home Depot kind of have a governing measure, right?

  290. They've got that thing post on the board and 10 feet is 10

  291. feet. If it's 10 feet to that right,

  292. that's 10 feet. I can argue that the 10 feet is

  293. longer or shorter, but the 10 feet is what the governing

  294. measure says, right? And so I have to pay that amount

  295. in the same way. God is good is our governing

  296. measure. God is good.

  297. So now I interpret my encounters, my experiences, my

  298. personal challenges in light of God's goodness.

  299. And now his exposure, in light of the fact that God is good, is

  300. actually for our well-being, our health, our strength, our

  301. capacity, our maturity into the things of Jesus.

  302. The wind exposes, then the wind refreshes.

  303. Acts 319 says, and now you must repent and turn back to God so

  304. that your sins will be removed, and so that times of refreshing

  305. will stream from the Lord's presence.

  306. What an amazing thing when we repent, when we come into God's

  307. presence, when we turn our back on our sins, it promises that we

  308. get times of refreshing and not just ordinary times of

  309. refreshing. What does it say?

  310. From the Lord's presence, from the very presence of God,

  311. refreshing flows from the very presence of the Saviour.

  312. He's refreshing us. He's filling us.

  313. Chris letting on our Monday night prayer call gave.

  314. We were talking about the wind is blowing and he gave this

  315. story illustration. He was out, they were doing some

  316. hunting and they were coming back from that and coming up the

  317. mountain and they had a backpack full of of gear and coming up

  318. that mountain. It was hot and it was difficult

  319. and it was challenging. And as he was doing it, then he

  320. caught the breeze, the refreshing of the breeze, and it

  321. gave him a second wind. The wind of the Spirit is

  322. blowing to refresh us, to enable us, to strengthen us.

  323. The wind of the Spirit is blowing to refresh our souls, to

  324. refresh us to be able to walk in the next steps He's calling us

  325. to, to be prepared for it. The spirit is blowing to refresh

  326. your soul. Matthew 11 verse 28 past Terence

    Matthew 11:28

  327. preached from this just last week.

  328. It says come to me all you who labour and are heavy laden and

  329. overburdened and I will cause you to rest.

  330. I will ease and relieve and refresh your souls.

  331. There's a power in that. When we come to the Lord, we

  332. come to Jesus and we we come in repentance and we come in with

  333. hope and we come filled with faith.

  334. He says I will cause you to rest.

  335. We don't have to fight to find rest, he's saying.

  336. I will actually cause you to come into rest.

  337. I will cause you to come into a place where your soul is

  338. undisturbed, a place of rest in me.

  339. The first step is come to me. Come into his presence.

  340. Come to Him and He'll cause you to rest.

  341. He'll bring you to a place of rest.

  342. In Psalm 23, He leads me beside still waters.

  343. He restores my soul. That is what He's doing,

  344. restoring our souls, restoring us from the insider.

  345. That anxiety that has possessed you is causing you to rest a

  346. trouble that has consumed your mind.

  347. He says come to me and I'll cause you to rest.

  348. That addiction that has bound you, that thing that has caught

  349. you up, He says I'll come to me, I will deliver you and give you

  350. a rest. You see, we talked about how

  351. great God is in Job 38 to 41. I read it this week because why

  352. not? And it's a fantastic part of Job

  353. where we get past all the complaining bits and all the

  354. back and forth. And the Lord says Job questions,

  355. what are we doing? And the Lord says, where were

  356. you? Where were you when I measured

  357. the earth? Where were you when I set the

  358. boundaries of the water? Where were you where I told and

  359. taught the lightning bolt to go a certain path?

  360. Where were you when I said how the way of light?

  361. He is God Almighty, and He's calling you to come into His

  362. rest. He's inviting you to come into

  363. that place of His peace. His invitation has come back to

  364. me. Yes, certainly.

  365. For those who have yet to receive Christ, come back to

  366. him. Be reconciled to God, as it says

  367. in Two Corinthians 5. Be reconciled to Him.

  368. And for those who do believe, come into His presence.

  369. Don't let the busyness of life keep you from His presence, the

  370. place of His rest, the place of His fullness, the place where He

  371. desires to be dwelling with you. His word says abide in me and I

  372. will abide in you. And if you abide in me, you'll

  373. be greatly fruitful and abiding presence.

  374. And the invitation is to everyone.

  375. There's no one cancelled from this invitation, but the

  376. requirement is that you come. That's the first part.

  377. Come to me, that's our call, that's our action, and I will

  378. cause you to rest. I will refresh your soul, take

  379. my yoke upon you and learn of me.

  380. As interesting is he wants to teach us.

  381. He wants to he's he wants to teach you about who he is.

  382. He wants to teach you. He wants to teach you about how

  383. to live life. He wants to teach you the best

  384. way, the best ways. Learn of me next slide, for I am

  385. gentle and humble in heart and you will find rest for your

  386. souls. The wind is moving to refresh

  387. our souls. He's calling us to a place of

  388. rest. He's calling us to a place of

  389. absolute dependence and reliance on Him and communion with Him,

  390. time with Him, time spent in his presence.

  391. He loves you. He desires to be with you.

  392. The wind reveals. So we had the wind exposes,

  393. revealing those, making us aware of those things that maybe have

  394. weaknesses or where he wants to bring change in our lives.

  395. The wind refreshes us to build up our soul, to encourage us, to

  396. help us in our life and in our days.

  397. And then the wind reveals and in the revelation, in the

  398. revealing, the Holy Spirit is revealing the things that he's

  399. spoken into your life. Maybe there's a windstorm and

  400. all of a sudden you see those stories where there's a storm

  401. and also, oh wow, that's the secret treasure right there.

  402. We never knew it was there because it was covered with all

  403. the dust and cobwebs and everything.

  404. But now we know because the wind is blown, right?

  405. The Holy Spirit is moving to reveal Jeremiah chapter 23 and

    Jeremiah 23 chapter mention

  406. verse 23 to 24 says am IA God at hand, says the Lord and not a

  407. God afar off. Can anyone hide himself in

  408. secret places so that I cannot see him?

  409. Says the Lord did not I feel the heavens and the earth, says the

  410. Lord fills it. You go back to the other slide.

  411. Can anyone hide in a secret place?

  412. God's saying I made the heavens and the earth.

  413. You can't hide from me. I made it all.

  414. I put it all in place. There's no way you could run

  415. that. I can't see you.

  416. It's revealed. No way you can hide.

  417. No secret place where God can't reach you.

  418. There's nowhere he can't see you, but he wants to reveal

  419. himself to you. Hebrews 4 verse 12 to 13 says,

    Hebrews 4:12–13

  420. For the word of God is living and powerful and sharper than

  421. any 2 edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and

  422. spirit and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the

  423. thoughts and intents of the heart.

  424. See the Word of God. The word that God gives pierces,

  425. breaks through, breaks through the facade, breaks through the

  426. barrier, breaks through those things that you're putting up.

  427. God's Word gets to the heart of it.

  428. He gets to the heart of what you're dealing with, and he is a

  429. discerner. It is a discerner of the

  430. thoughts and intents of the heart, the unseen places.

  431. The place where you have a thought but you don't tell

  432. anybody, can't hide from him. The place where you maybe have

  433. that disappointment you should never shared with anybody.

  434. Can't hide from him. But he reveals.

  435. To heal, He reveals. To build you up, He reveals.

  436. To empower you, He reveals to mature you.

  437. He reveals because His heart is towards you.

  438. He reveals because He is intent on knowing you and having you

  439. know Him. He reveals because His intention

  440. is that you might grow into the image of Jesus.

  441. He reveals because He doesn't want you to scrape by, scrape

  442. into heaven, get a golden ticket, run up the fire escape,

  443. all those different things that define somebody who says, oh I

  444. prayed once and I am good, sure, OK, but God did not save you to

  445. leave you unchanged. He saved you to bring you into

  446. the image of Christ. Galatians 419 says that you

  447. would be moulded into the image of Christ.

  448. Ephesians chapter 4 around verse 21 says that you're matured into

    Ephesians 4 chapter mention

  449. the very stature of Christ, that we're growing more and more like

  450. Him. Your kids have two fairly grown

  451. up kids now and your kids start to grow more and more like you.

  452. Not that much, but sometimes there's a, there's a saying or

  453. a, a, a twitch of, you know, we can both wiggle our ears, things

  454. like that. Because we've been around each

  455. other, right? We, we, we've, we've rubbed off

  456. on each other. You, you've, you've influenced,

  457. you've been, you've had times of closeness because family do

  458. that. Then you have times in family

  459. where it's not joyous, but that rubbing off that that that

  460. that's what comes as we are more in his presence to know him.

  461. There's a verse, it's Philippians 3 verse 8 and Paul's

    Philippians 3:8

  462. writing and he says I counted all as dung for the knowledge of

  463. Jesus. He's talking about all the big

  464. things he's done all the, all the the the accolades he could

  465. have and talk about. And he says I counted all as

  466. rubbish compared to this knowing Jesus because he's revealing in

  467. you to bring fruit in your life. He's he's showing these areas

  468. the wind is blowing to reveal so that you can be more like him.

  469. You can walk like him, talk like him, love like him.

  470. The wind is blowing to bring us to surrender.

  471. Galatians 5, verse 22 to 23. But the fruit of the Holy

    Galatians 5:22–23

  472. Spirit, the work which His presence within accomplishes, is

  473. love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness,

  474. faithfulness, gentleness, self-control.

  475. Against such things there is no law that can bring a charge.

  476. The wind of God is revealing, so we can be fruitful, the verse 22

  477. says. But the fruit of the Holy

  478. Spirit, the work which His presence within accomplishes,

  479. His Lovejoy, peace, patience, kindness, etcetera.

  480. It's his presence within us. It's our abiding in him.

  481. It's our resting in him. It's our reliance on him.

  482. It's our hoping in him. It's our yielding to him.

  483. It's our surrender to him. See these things are, you know,

  484. we might try for a short period of time to just change our

  485. behaviour. I'll just, I can really do it.

  486. I'll just, I'm going to, I'm going to just not swear for the

  487. next 14 days. I can do it right.

  488. OK, the next 14 days, All right. The behaviour modification by

  489. intent can have some results, but a surrendered life.

  490. Has a different motive. See a life that is determined to

  491. behaviour modification by my own grit must require the power to

  492. do it from you. A surrendered life.

  493. A life surrendered to God. Now I'm pressing in.

  494. I'm leaning into him. And yeah, I have my trips, I

  495. have my bumps, I have my fault, but my leaning is into him.

  496. My surrender is in him. And now when I go, oh, this,

  497. this, this person's hard to love.

  498. But am I surrendered? Am I surrendered?

  499. Have I surrendered to him? Have I surrendered my life to

  500. him? Then it doesn't matter what I

  501. think about that situation. I am a surrendered vessel.

  502. John 15. I think I referenced it earlier,

  503. but it's abide in me and I will abide in you and you'll be only

  504. those who abide in me will be fruitful.

  505. Abiding is the dwelling, the living, the surrendered life.

  506. The wind of the Spirit is moving and calling us to that place of

  507. surrender, the place where He is the governor of my life, a place

  508. where I am fully at rest in Him. And that will change the way I

  509. see. It'll change the way I speak.

  510. It changes my priorities. A surrendered life is a yielded

  511. life, but a surrendered life in Him is an abundant life.

  512. Jesus said if any man come after me, he must take up his cross,

  513. deny himself and follow me. Holy Spirit is blowing to bring

  514. us into a place of holiness and surrender.

  515. Holy Spirit is calling to us, revealing, revealing to us so

  516. that we can walk clear sighted. He is exposing roots that are

  517. broken and damaged. He's exposing roofs that have

  518. become weakened. The Holy Spirit is speaking.

  519. Have ears to hear. The Holy Spirit is calling,

  520. calling us to a place of His abundance where we abide in Him.

  521. Holy Spirit is exposing for your good.

  522. Let the light shine. Let the light of His glory have

  523. full sway in your life. Holy Spirit, we thank you for

  524. your great work. Lord, move on us.

  525. Bring us to the place of dependence on you.

  526. Lord, move through our life. Reveal what you're doing, Reveal

  527. correction, reveal maybe lost calls, Reveal those

  528. disappointments when we gave up on a promise that we know is

  529. true in the Word. Bring it back, Lord, to our

  530. remembrance. So we take it up again in faith,

  531. Lord, the calls on our life, the promises that we have allowed

  532. slip by. Lord, thank you, You're

  533. refreshing them, You're renewing them.

  534. You're bringing them back to our remembrance.

  535. Those spirit is blowing to reveal Lord a thank you, that

  536. new life, New Hope, new love, Lord of freshness to our love

  537. for you. Let us come back to that first

  538. love, that first zeal, that first passion that that first

  539. reality and joy we had in you. Oh, that enthusiasm and zeal for

  540. God, this knowing of who you are.

  541. Father, I praise you. Your wind is blowing, touching

  542. every part, every corner. Lord, move on huts.

  543. Bring to remembrance the call. Bring to remembrance the

  544. passion. Bring to remembrance, Lord,

  545. those things you brought us to and brought us through.

  546. Holy Lord, we surrender to you, surrender our anxieties, we

  547. surrender the things that have tormented us, and we come to

  548. you. Lord, peace, come life, come

  549. joy, love. Thank you, Lord, you're pouring

  550. out your love. Thank you, Lord, you're pouring

  551. into hearts a refreshing of your love to have a fresh experience

  552. of what that love means. You're equipping us to walk out

  553. that love and share that love. Talk about that love.

  554. Lord God, thank you that you're moving here.

  555. I invite you call on the Lord. Call on the Lord.

  556. Maybe there's a something he's revealed, come to the Lord and

  557. repent and yield it up to him. Maybe he's reminding you of a

  558. call, a promise you've become detached from through time, but

  559. God is bringing you back. Call upon the Lord.

  560. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord.

  561. Walk in your ways. Walk in your presence.

  562. We rested you, Lord. Thank you, Holy Spirit.

  563. Thank you, Lord. Praise you, mighty God.

  564. Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah.

  565. All glory to you, Lord. Hallelujah, Hallelujah,

  566. Hallelujah. All be revelation, Lord.

  567. Thank you, Holy Spirit. Hallelujah, Hallelujah.

  568. Praise you, Lord. Praise you, Lord.

  569. Hallelujah. For some of you, darkness has

  570. surrounded you in your mind. You don't think anyone saw it,

  571. You don't think anyone noticed it.

  572. You have a great facade, a great image, but there's darkness come

  573. to Jesus, come into his presence.

  574. He sees it. He is the deliverer.

  575. He is light. There's no darkness in Him.

  576. He is light, the torment of nightmares.

  577. He is light. There's no darkness in him.

  578. He is life. He is hope.

  579. He is the deliverer. Don't double check, don't double

  580. think. Just call on him now.

  581. He's here to bring life. He's rare to bring lights.

  582. He's here to bring hope. He is the Lord God Almighty.

  583. Here's our deliver. Thank you, Lord.

  584. Hallelujah. Thank you so much for tuning

  585. into this week's sermon. We pray you were challenged,

  586. equipped and encouraged. Make sure to follow us on all

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  588. We out here for real. We're really doing it.

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  590. You can find us anywhere you need to find us.

  591. But until next time, you know the drill.

  592. You know the motto, get your love fixed man and we'll see

  593. y'all real soon.