Deeper

Let's open up our Bibles to the book of Ezekiel

Ezekiel 47 · chapter mention

chapter 47, verse number 1 to verse number 5.

The prophet Ezekiel, God gives him a prophetic

vision of a river. And listen, we cannot stay

the same. Once the Holy Ghost grabs a hold of

your life, listen, we got to go deeper. We have

to grow. Amen. We can't remain the same as last

Sunday or the year before. We have to grow. We

have to grow in our knowledge of Christ. We have

to grow in our relationship with God. Ezekiel

Ezekiel 47 · chapter mention

chapter 47, verse number 1 to verse number 5.

The Bible says, then he brought me back to the

door of the temple. And there was water flowing

from under the threshold of the temple toward

the east for the front of the temple faced east.

The water was flowing from under the right side

of the temple, south of the altar. What does

that mean? The water was even running through

the altar. The place of sacrifice. How badly

do you want to go deeper with God? Verse number

two, he brought me out by way of the north gate

and led me around on the outside of the outer

gateway that faced east. And there was water

running out in the right side. Verse number three.

And when the man went out to the east with the

line in his hand, he measured 1 ,000 cubits and

he brought me through the waters. The water came

up to my ankles. Everyone say ankle deep. Came

up to my ankles. Verse 4, again he measured 1

,000 and brought me through the waters. And the

water came up to my knees. Everyone say knee

deep. Again he measured 1 ,000 and brought me

through. The water came up to my waist. Everyone

say waist deep. Now we're struggling to stand.

Verse number 5, again he measured 1 ,000 and

it was a river. My God, it was a river that I

could not cross, for the water was too deep.

That was a deep river. Water in which one must

swim. A river that could not be crossed. Now

move over to the Gospel of Luke, chapter number

5, verse number 4. Jesus commands Simon to go

out into the deep. Luke chapter 5, verse number

Luke 5 · chapter mention

4. When he, Jesus, had stopped speaking, he said

to Simon, launch out into the deep. Everyone

say into the deep. Launch out into the deep and

let down your nets. Somebody help me. For a catch.

Listen, where's your expectation today? Let down

your nets. Listen, you're going to catch something.

Now move over to Acts chapter 2 verse 38. I'm

Acts 2:38

getting somewhere. That same Peter that launched

down into the deep. Listen, he gets up and he

preaches. They said, well, what do we do? In

Acts chapter 2 verse 38. Come on, we know this

Acts 2:38

verse. Then Peter said to them, repent. Everyone

say repent. And let every one of you be baptized

in the name of Jesus Christ. For the forgiveness

of your sins. And you shall receive the gift.

Of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Can I tell you that

this is the agenda today. That God wants all

of us to repent. That God wants all of us to

go down in the water. And be baptized in the

name of Jesus Christ. And the Bible says that

you shall. Not if. Come on. Don't wait until

next week. You shall receive the gift of the

Holy Ghost. I still believe. That's for us David.

I still believe. That's for the church today.

Come on, would you lift up your hands? Let's

pray. Father, in the name of Jesus, this is your

word. Help us, God. We give you glory. Would

you move? Come on, would you lift up your voice?

Let's just begin to pray. Connect with the Holy

Ghost. Connect with his presence. Come on, we

need the Holy Ghost. Come on, we don't need artificial

intelligence. We need apostolic intelligence.

We need a touch of the Holy Spirit. Come on,

we need the river of God that would flow in this

generation. Come on, just a little bit longer.

Jesus, would you speak to my heart? Jesus, would

you speak to me? Come on, ask God to speak to

you today. The mighty name of Jesus, amen. You

may be seated. Now, there is a great difference

between standing in water and being carried by

water. In shallow water, a person can stand.

But when it comes to deep water, listen to me,

when it comes to deep waters, that person can

no longer stand. In the book of Ezekiel chapter

Ezekiel 47 · chapter mention

47, the prophet Ezekiel, he's given this prophetic

vision, such a powerful vision of a river flowing

from the temple. And as the prophet walks through

the water, listen, that water begins to progressively

deepen. That water that started in the temple.

That water that started at the altar. Listen,

and all of a sudden it came up to his ankles.

And all of a sudden it came up from his ankles

up to his knees. And from his knees up to his

waist. And finally the water becomes so deep

that the prophet can no longer stand. Somebody

say surrender. He can no longer stand. He can

no longer rely on his human strength. He can

no longer rely on the comfortability of shallow

waters. Amen. But now he must be carried by the

current, by the flow of the river. I'm here to

tell you that it's time that we're carried by

the flow of the Holy Spirit. Amen. It's time

to step out of the shallow waters and allow the

power of the Holy Ghost to begin. To take you.

That began to flow within you. Somebody magnify

the name of Jesus. Come on somebody give him

glory. In Ezekiel chapter 47. Verse number 5.

Ezekiel 47 · chapter mention

The Bible says again. He measured 1 ,000. And

it was a river. It wasn't a reservoir. It wasn't

stagnant. It wasn't a swamp. It was a mighty

river. It was a river that I could not cross.

For the water was too deep. Listen, not only

are we supposed to go far in the kingdom of God,

we need to go deep with God. We need to establish

roots in his presence. It was too deep. Water

in which one must swim. He couldn't stand. Now

he got to swim. A river that could not be crossed.

What began as a trickle of water, listen, it

became a torrent. What became a stream of water,

listen, it became a mighty river. Ezekiel mentioned

earlier in this chapter, he calls it water. But

by verse number five, he calls it a river. What

does that mean? That the water began to grow.

The water began to grow into a deep river. Amen.

A river that is beyond your human comprehension.

A river that is beyond your human ability. The

river that is beyond human measurement and beyond

human ability. This is the picture of what the

Holy Ghost does when it takes over your ministry.

And it takes over your marriage. And it takes

over your family. And it takes over your life.

What starts as an encounter must become a lifestyle.

one touch could change everything in your life.

Can I tell you that I did not grow up in the

apostolic church, but when the Holy Ghost grabbed

a hold of my life, everything had to change.

Can I tell you that one touch of the Holy Ghost

needs to change everything in your life? Somebody

say river of God. Somebody say Holy Ghost. Somebody

say Holy Spirit. Second Peter chapter number

one. Verse number 5 to 9. Now listen, we can't

remain the same. We have to grow. We have to

go deeper with God. And the Apostle Peter, he

writes to the early church in 2 Peter chapter

2 Peter 1 · chapter mention

1, verse number 5 to verse number 9. He talks

about seven characteristics that we as Christians,

listen, where we need to grow. We're not adding

to the word, we're adding to our faith. And these

are important characteristics that we need in

order to go deeper with God. 2 Peter 1, verse

2 Peter 1:5–9

5 -9, the Bible says, but also for this very

reason, giving all diligence, add to your faith.

Not subtract. Add to your faith virtue. Somebody

say virtue. What is that? Supernatural ability.

The power of the Holy Spirit. Peter is saying,

add to your faith. I need you to add the power

of the Holy Ghost. I need that to grow within

your life. Add virtue. To virtue. Then he says,

add knowledge. Listen, we need to grow with our

knowledge in Christ. Doctrine is so important.

We were in India and all we did was teach on

doctrine, doctrine, doctrine. Because listen,

when you grow in the knowledge of Christ, you

grow roots that are deep. So that any time when

there's a storm and you're going through a storm,

you're not going to drift. Because you're anchored.

A ship without an anchor will drift. But what

happens when that ship begins to let down its

anchor, it's not going to drift. That's why we

need to grow in our knowledge of who Christ is.

We need to grow in our knowledge of who Jesus

is. Virtue, knowledge. Then he says, verse number

six, to knowledge, self -control. This is not

self -reliance. This is redirecting your focus

as God as your source, as your strength, so that

God can give you the strength to resist temptation.

That God can give you the strength to not feed

into that worldly temptation. Self -control.

Then he says, to self -control, add perseverance.

Amen. You know, what is that? The World Cup.

I don't watch soccer, but I see all the jerseys

going. Listen, they didn't just show up on the

soccer field overnight. They didn't eat french

fries and then just show up on the soccer field.

They had to prepare. How much more us was running

the spiritual race that we need to prepare and

grow and add stamina to our walk with God. Some

people don't want to pray, but let me tell you,

prayer still works. Fasting still works. Getting

to the word of God still works. We need to prepare

ourselves so that we can persevere. Somebody

say perseverance. We need perseverance. Then

Peter says to perseverance, godliness. That's

an unpopular topic nowadays. But we need to grow

in godliness. Godliness, not just in how we look

on the outside, but listen, in our character.

Anybody could be gifted with a nasty attitude.

We need God to mold our character. We need to

become more like Christ. The way we steward things,

the way we live our lives, we need to grow in

godliness. Then he says, from godliness, brotherly

kindness. Can I tell you that we need to love

our brothers and sisters? We got to be united

in the church. It wasn't until in the upper room

when they became one accord that the Holy Ghost

came upon them. Come on. There's something so

powerful that when everybody in the church gets

on the same page and they start agreeing, come

on, and they get becoming one accord, the power

of the Holy Ghost will begin to flow. Come on,

I'm prophesying to this youth group that if you

get together and you become one accord, that

the power of the Holy Spirit is going to begin

to increase, increase, increase. Increase, increase.

Praise God. Brotherly kindness. And then it says,

love. Everyone say love. For if these things

are yours and abound, listen, you will be neither

barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our

Lord Jesus Christ. What is Peter saying? Listen,

you're going to begin to bear fruit because of

the deafness of your faith. Verse number 9, for

he who lacks these things is short -sighted.

What does that mean? They're blind. Even to blindness

and has forgotten that he was cleansed from his

old sins. Listen, if we don't grow in this, listen,

we're going to lose our vision of the mission

of the church. If we don't grow, listen, we're

not going to take the great commission seriously.

Listen, we need to get out of the shallow, and

we need to go and grow in our knowledge with

God, grow in our brotherly kindness, grow in

our love, grow, come on, grow in God, grow in

our faith, and allow God to use us. Listen, because

once we forget about that, we lose sight of our

purpose in God. All of a sudden, we don't see

it important to open up a Bible study. We don't

see it important to talk to that person at your

workplace about Jesus Christ because, listen,

you put that vision to your peripheral side.

But listen, once Jesus becomes so evident in

your life that you begin to grow deeper with

God. God, let your will be done in my life. It's

no longer about my desire, but it's about God's

will in my life. Somebody praise the Lord. Would

you magnify the name of Jesus? Bless the name

of Jesus. So it's time to get out of the shallow.

Get out of the shallow faith and get out of the

shallow trust. And it's time to go deeper with

God. Somebody say deeper with God. Now in Ezekiel,

we read about the river. But in Luke chapter

Luke 5 · chapter mention

5, Jesus is standing beside another body of water.

And he finds Peter cleaning his nets, which means

that it's like he's clocking out of work. They

were fishing all night. And all of a sudden,

Jesus tells Peter to give him his boat so that

he can teach. And so Peter, listen, Peter surrenders

his boat. He surrenders his platform so that

Jesus could teach. But little did Peter know

that what he was surrendering, Jesus was going

to return much more than what he surrendered.

Let me tell you something. Whenever you surrender

your platform so that Jesus could be exalted,

so that the gospel, come on. If you surrender

the platform of your Instagram account, of your

TikTok account, come on, so that Jesus could

be magnified, God is going to return much more

than what you surrendered. He surrendered his

boat. And Jesus was teaching. I was wondering

why did he do that until I went fishing. And

all of a sudden I can hear how sound travels

on water. It was like their speakers back in

the days. And he was teaching. And after he was

teaching, he tells Peter who was fishing all

night, go out into the deep. That doesn't make

sense. If you've ever been fishing before. You

don't put a net in the deep end. That doesn't

make sense. And Jesus tells Peter, verse number

4, launch out into the deep. And let down your

nets for a catch. But we've been fishing all

night. We've been teaching all night. We've been

doing our Bible studies. Launch out into the

deep. And let down your nets for a catch. That

same Peter, listen, Jesus told him, follow me

and I will make you fishers of men. That he leaves

his career. He leaves everything behind. Because

he realized that the creator of heaven and earth

was in his boat. And he leaves everything behind.

Even Jesus shows up to our workplace. And he

leaves that behind and he follows Jesus and he's

discipled by Jesus for a couple years. And after

Jesus' death and burial and resurrection, Jesus

tells his disciples to wait in Jerusalem until

you're endued with power from on high. And then

in Acts chapter 2, after they get the Holy Ghost

Acts 2 · chapter mention

and the Holy Ghost falls upon the 120, Peter

gets up and he says, hey, this is that which

Joel was talking about. That in the last days

I will pour out of my spirit on all flesh. That

river of God that's going to flow. Listen, it's

right now. That's what you're hearing right now.

Why do we speak the way we speak? Listen, that

sound that they heard, he was saying, this is

that which Joel was talking about. That in the

last days I will pour out of my spirit on all

flesh. That your sons and daughters shall prophesy.

That your young men shall see visions and your

old men shall dream dreams. The river of God.

And he tells everybody, you know that man that

you guys crucified? That was the Messiah. They

felt that conviction. They felt that conviction

in their heart that they just crucified the Messiah.

And they said, well, what? What do we do? See

that's the question that this world is asking.

Can I tell you that every person that you come

across, there's a void in their heart. Even Ecclesiastes

talks about it, that God put eternity in man's

heart, which means that every single one of us

has been designed in such a way to long for something

greater than ourselves. And some people are looking

to their careers. Some people are looking to

relationships. Some people are looking to money.

Some people are looking to drugs. But listen,

that void can only be satisfied with the Spirit

of God. That's why we got the answer. We got

the Holy Ghost. And if you carry the Holy Ghost,

you got what this world needs. This world still

needs Jesus. This world still needs to repent

and be baptized in the name of Jesus for the

forgiveness of your sins. And you shall receive

the gift of the Holy Ghost. We still need Jesus.

We still need Jesus. That river in Ezekiel. That

deep place that Peter went to. And that spirit

that was poured out in the book of Acts. Listen,

they're all pointing to the same reality. God

is calling his people deeper. We have to go deeper.

We can't stay on the ankle level. We can't stay

on the knee level. We can't stay on the waist

level. We must be walking in the spirit of God.

The spirit of God. Walk in the spirit of God.

The flow, the current of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

According to Luke chapter 5 verse 4, Jesus challenged

Luke 5:4

his disciples. Jesus challenged, especially Peter,

three different things. Three areas that I believe.

Where the Lord is challenging us today. In Luke

Luke 5 · chapter mention

chapter 5, verse number 4, Jesus tells Peter,

launch out into the deep. What was Jesus doing?

He was challenging him where to go. Let me tell

you something. God, if you want to go deeper

with God, he's going to challenge you where to

go. You want me to go where? You want to go deeper?

God is going to challenge you where to go. Where

to open up a Bible study. Where to pray for somebody.

God is going to challenge. Listen, he's going

to challenge your college degree. He's going

to challenge us. He's going to take us deeper.

Peter was comfortable near the shoreline. The

shoreline represents familiarity. The shoreline

represents routine. The shoreline represents

comfort. But the miracles were not waiting in

the shoreline. The miracles were not waiting

in the shallow waters. But the miracles were

waiting in the deep end. Praise God. Miracles

are not waiting in the shallow waters. Miracles

are waiting, come on, in the deep ends. Jesus

told Peter to leave what was comfortable and

move into deep waters. My God, it challenged

him. It challenged him. As a fisherman, it challenged

him. Ezekiel could have settled for ankle -deep

waters. He could have stopped at that part of

the vision. Ezekiel could have stopped at the

knee -deep waters. He could have just stopped

there and said, this is good enough for me. Ezekiel

could have stopped at the waist. He said, I don't

know if I can swim on the next level. I'm just

going to stay here. But God was not finished

with Ezekiel. Eventually, that river became so

deep that Ezekiel lost his footing. Listen, what

does that mean? He had to surrender. He couldn't

stand on his feet anymore, pastor. He needed

to get to a level where he needed to yield to

the current of the river. He lost his footing.

He lost the comfortability of shallow waters.

And he gets to the dimension, man, I feel the

Holy Spirit, where the river starts flowing.

And all of a sudden, the only option that he

has is just to swim and go with the current of

that river. Listen, God never intended for us

to remain where we can control everything. Amen.

Many believers want enough of God, come on, to

be blessed, but not enough God to surrender.

Can I tell you that if you want to go deeper

with God, you're going to have to surrender something.

You're going to have to let go of that ungodly

relationship. You're going to have to let go

of that addiction. You're going to have to let

go of certain things in order to go deep with

God. Amen. Praise God. The shoreline of attending

just Sundays after Sundays after Sundays. Come

on. We got to progress. We got to go deeper in

our walk with God. We got to get away from the

shoreline of just sitting and warming up the

church pews. We got to go further than the shoreline

of just religion. Come on. God is calling this

young generation deeper. God is calling us deeper

in consecration. God is calling us deeper in

prayer. God is calling us deeper in ministry.

God is calling us deeper in the word of God.

He's calling us deeper. He's calling this generation

to go deeper with him. Somebody say, I have to

grow. We need to move into the dimension of the

river where we surrender and trust in God. Matthew

Matthew 28:19

chapter 28 verse 19 says, go. Someone say go.

Go therefore and make celebrities. no no no make

disciples of all the nations black white chinese

indian come on japanese tongue whoever you are

jesus says go and make disciples of all nations

baptizing them in the name of the father and

of the son and of the holy spirit my god the

name of the father is jesus the name of the son

is jesus the name of the holy spirit is Come

on, say his name. When I got that revelation,

everything changed in my life. I grew up Trinitarian.

I grew up in the Methodist church. But all of

a sudden when I was reading the book of Acts

and I realized that they were baptized in the

name of Jesus, I began to realize I got to get

deep into the water and bury my life. And when

I got into that water, I'm telling you, something

happened in my life that never happened in my

life before. I went under that water, came up,

and God filled me with his Holy Spirit. I've

never been the same anymore. I can never talk

the same anymore. I can't dress how I used to

dress because the Holy, Holy, Holy, Holy, Holy

Spirit began to change me. That Holy Spirit,

listen, it's holy. That's the Spirit of God.

It's going to change everything about us because

it's a Holy Spirit. Somebody magnify the name

of Jesus. Oh, yes. God is going to challenge

us on where to go. God is going to challenge

us where to go. About a month ago, I just came

back from India. A pastor, Bishop Joe Prado,

sent me to India to go and teach at a youth conference.

Listen, the first generation of messengers of

peace were sent out. It was, they just wanted

teachings. They weren't into the fancy, you know,

services. They just wanted to, they wanted teaching.

There's no hallelujah. They're just taking notes.

They're hungry for teaching. And I went there

to teach at a conference in India, a three -day

conference. And it was all -day conferences,

teaching, teaching, teaching. And I went with

Brother Moises Jimenez, who's the national treasurer

for National MOP, and with Bishop Moran. And

the first day we got there, the first day we

got there, you know, we were. Teaching back to

back. And it wasn't until we left that I was

held up by immigration. And I'm like, oh, my

God, I'm going to get arrested. I need to make

it home back to my wife. I almost texted her.

I said, I love you, baby. I walk up to the immigration.

And the man is taking, you know, when you travel,

you need to go on a visa for tourism. And out

there they have a lot of rules, they have a lot

of laws regarding preaching the word of God.

And so I go up and they ask for my passport.

And all of a sudden, the man that was processing

my passport started asking a lot of questions.

He said, why are you here in India? And I was

telling him, I love India. Come on now. This

is the place to go. Hyderabad, India. That's

where I was living it up. You know, I was trying

to be like a tourist or something. You know?

And he looked at me. He said, I don't believe

you. And I'm like, oh, my goodness. I got to

try something else. And I was like, I just came

here to visit. And he was like, where's your

reservation for your hotel? And I give my reservation.

And all of a sudden, he finds out that I'm a

Christian. Because he swiped out of my page and

started looking at my notes. Oneness of God,

baptism in Jesus' name. Oh, my God, this guy

is. And I'm standing there for ten minutes and

he says, you come here. And I step out of the

line and he takes me into an office. And he says,

you're not here to tour. You're here to teach.

What's your real occupation? You were here to

teach the word of God. And I looked at him, I'm

like, what do I do? Thousands of miles away from

home. My wife doesn't know what's going on right

now. And he takes me into the room. And God knows

I'm telling the truth. There's three officers

in there. And he takes my phone. And he goes

to the first officer. And he's trying to bring

up my case to them so that they can, you know,

they can detain me. And in that room, me and

Brother Moises, we begin to pray. Jesus' name.

We begin to pray and take authority in that room.

I say this for the honor and glory of God. The

first officer, he said he was too busy to take

that case. And we were watching him in the room.

He goes to the next desk over to the next officer.

And he tries to tell the officer that, you know,

our situation. That officer ignores him. Goes

on to the next officer. That officer ignores

him. This guy becomes so frustrated. He pulls

us out of the office and he looks at us and he

says, what makes you think you can reach India

with that teaching? And I told him, I said, no,

it's not me. Because we already sent out the

messengers of peace out to make, come on, to

make disciples of all nations. Then he said,

do you believe us Hindus believe in demons? I

looked at him. All of a sudden the Holy Spirit

quickened me and I said, I believe God loves

India. And I believe God loves you. And he looked

at me and he said, okay, come to the front. We'll

check you. Took my passport, stamp, stamp, stamp,

go on and go. God, come on now. There was a time

where I lost my footing. I had nowhere to turn

but to trust God in the deep end. God is going

to send you places, come on, where you just got

to swim and trust in the leading of the Holy

Ghost. Even God will confuse your enemies, come

on. Even God will protect you when God sends

you places that make no sense. I never thought,

India? But listen, God is faithful. God will

challenge you. Where to go? God will challenge

you where to go. We went knocking on doors to

evangelize. Door to door, knocking on doors.

And East Palau has a lot of Espanol speakers.

I don't speak Espanol. I don't. Amen. Muy bien,

gracias. Amen. And so we came to this apartment.

You were there, brother. We came to this apartment

and we were knocking on doors. And the first

door, Espanol. They said, okay. We just gave

them a flyer pointing at the Spanish translation.

Move on to the next. Español, Español, Español.

I said, man, this whole apartment is Spanish

speaking. And all of a sudden, this kid was observing.

Remember that kid? Young 12 -year -old kid was

looking at us. What are you guys doing? And so

we're inviting people to the park. We believe

God wants to reach people. All of a sudden, one

of our brothers, he prays for that young kid.

And that young kid, he says, I want to translate

for you guys. That kid, come on, 12 years old.

He goes to the front first door. He starts knocking.

He says, hola, como estas? And he starts speaking

in Spanish. And he starts translating. And he

began knocking on door after door after door.

That 12 -year -old probably knocked on more doors

than an apostolic. Come on, that 12 -year -old,

come on. One prayer changed his life. As he was

knocking on doors, he was translating. That young

kid started preaching the gospel. of Jesus Christ.

I will never forget that man that had pain in

his back got healed. And that young kid that

was translating, he was like, wow, this is awesome.

It was better than video games. Listen, God is

going to challenge you where to go. But listen,

God is a faithful God. You see, he will take

us places that might not make sense. But if you

just obey, if you remain submitted under your

spiritual authority, under Your parental authority

under your pastor. Come on. I still believe in

parental authority. Because listen, in order

to activate the supernatural, you got to walk

in obedience. And the more you obey the Holy

Ghost, the more you obey the leaders that govern

over your life. Listen, spiritual authority and

influence in the spiritual realm. Listen, even

the devil started to take notice. Paul, I know.

Jesus, I know. Who are you? Let me ask you a

question. Do you got some influence in the spiritual

dimension or what? But we need to go deeper with

God. We need to show up to meetings like God

sent us on an assignment. We need to step into

rooms and not conform to the things in this world.

But we need to step in this room and take apostolic

authority. Somebody magnify the name of Jesus.

Oh, somebody give him glory. Number two. The

second thing that Jesus challenged Peter, he

says, launch out into the deep and let down your

nets. What did he challenge him to do? Jesus

challenged Peter on what to do. Not only where

to go, but what to do. I'm going to tell you

something. God will challenge you. If you want

to go deeper with God, he's going to challenge

you. On what to do. You want me to pray for who?

You want me to give a Bible study to who? What

do you want me to do, Jesus? He's going to challenge

you on what to do. Peter was a fisherman. Jesus

was a carpenter. From Peter's perspective, that

instruction might not have made sense. And they

had fish, you know, they fished all night. You

know, there were. toiling all night, and they

caught nothing. No results. And it's probably

his fishing logic probably told him to quit.

And his experience as a fisherman probably said,

well, hey, just wash the nets, clock out, go

on with your life. And maybe fatigue started

to settle in. But when he got through doing all

what he was doing, Jesus said, let down your

nets. Go into the deep. Let down your nets. But

Jesus, we've been fishing all night. The miracle,

listen, it wasn't in his college degree. It wasn't

in his expertise as a fisherman. Listen, that

miracle was in his obedience. Are you going to

trust God in the deep? My God, are you going

to obey even if it doesn't make sense? Are you

going to obey even if it doesn't make sense with

your human comprehension? Because God is spirit.

And oftentimes when he speaks to you, listen,

he's going to speak to your spirit man. But your

human logic says, I don't know, things are not

lining up. But once you begin to yield to the

flow of that river, my God, heaven invades earth.

Miracles, healings. When you begin to obey the

leading of his spirit. Peter had to choose between

trusting his expertise. Or obeying God's voice.

The deeper God takes you, listen, the less your

natural understanding will be sufficient. The

deeper God takes you, listen, the less your college

degree is going to be relevant in that situation.

In the deep, God will challenge your human logical

thinking. In the deep, God is looking for obedience,

not perfection. He's looking for faith, not intelligence.

Come on. He's looking for faith, not... Artificial

intelligence. Come on. He's looking for faith

and obedience. He's looking for a surrendered

vessel. Amen. One of the greatest temptations

in our generation is that we consult with artificial

intelligence instead of the Holy Ghost. Come

on. Come on. Come on. Artificial intelligence

cannot pray you through the Holy Ghost. Come

on. Artificial intelligence cannot lay hands

on the sick and they shall recover. Come on.

We got to get a hold of the Holy Ghost now more

than ever in this generation. Get away from the

superficial. Get away from the artificial and

step into the flow of the river of God. Because

that's where God is going to speak. That's where

his word is going to become clear. That's where

God is going to give you direction. God is going

to give you vision. God is going to speak to

you, listen, through his spirit. Anybody can

download a sermon off of chat GBT. But listen,

we need the anointing. We need the power of the

Holy Spirit. We're surrounded by so much information,

so much information. We need the Holy Ghost in

our ministry. The Holy Spirit every second of

our lives. To magnify the name of Jesus. Praise

him. Give him glory. At ankle deep, you can rely.

On yourself and on knee deep, you can still maintain

some balance. And even at waist level, maybe

you're probably struggling a little bit. But

once the river becomes, come on, a level where

you can swim in, self -sufficiency is no longer

an option. You must trust the current of the

Holy Spirit. I said you must trust the flow of

the Holy Ghost. And you must trust the one who

even led you into the river to begin with. Come

on. The deeper God takes you, the less control.

I have. The deeper God takes me, the more dependence

I need on the Holy Ghost. Come on, spiritual

maturity. It's not about mastering Christianity.

It's about surrendering. Where I lose my footing

and I trust in God. Oh, would you magnify in

the name of Jesus. Would you give him glory,

give him honor, give him praise. Come on, lift

up your hands. Just begin to connect with the

Spirit of God. Saul, the persecutor of a church,

was crucifying and he was persecuting Christians.

And he said, praise God. He thought he was serving

God. But even on his way to Damascus, he knocked

off of his, of what was it, a beast or animal,

some big animal. And he was blind for three days.

Who are you? I am Jesus. Why are you persecuting

me? He was blind. Ananias. The Bible says there

was a certain disciple named Ananias. You know

what I love about him? There's no book named

after him. He's a disciple just like me and you.

And God tells him, I need you to go pray for

Saul. You want me to do what? He's a chosen vessel

of mine. I need you to go and knock on his door

and evangelize to him. You know. Go pray for

him. Go speak to Saul. The Bible talks about

how Ananias was trying to reason with God. Isn't

this the guy that was persecuting Christians

and killing your servants? God is going to challenge

you what to do. Even Saul was won by a door knocker.

He knocked on his door. He didn't say Saul. He

said, Brother Saul. Brother Saul, the Lord sent

me here. The Bible says that he laid his hands

on him. He got healed and he got baptized in

the name of Jesus Christ. Come on. God is going

to send you to uncommon vessels. God is going

to send you to wind souls. They might not look

like it. Come on. They might not make sense to

your logical thinking. But God is going to send

you to open up a Bible study at your school campus,

at your workplace. Come on. And some people are

going to walk. Come on, they're going to come

in with different colored hair and piercing.

I know that's all all right, but hey, God is

going to use you, come on, to reach people that

might seem like they're not all there yet. Brother

Saul, my God, that encounter, he ends up being

a powerful man of God. I wonder how many Saul's

are behind each door in the city of Mountain

View. I wonder how many encounters that you would

have like a Saul situation, Saul to Paul situation

by just one knock on somebody's door. How many

marriages will be restored behind each doorknob

in this city? I believe that when we grow deeper

with God in this generation, nothing's going

to be more important than fulfilling the will

of God in your life. There's nothing more satisfying

than being in the will of God. That's why Jesus

told his disciples, man, I'm not hungry. I got

food that you don't even know about. My food

is to do my father's will. There's something

so satisfying about being in the will of God.

But you need to go deeper. Listen, you got to

grab a hold. God's heart. All of a sudden, your

prayer is no longer about what I need, what I

need, what I need, what I need. All of a sudden,

it's God, let your will be done. God, send me.

I believe God is calling a young person here

today. Who's going to go for me? Who's going

to go into the deep? Who's going to get out of

the shallow pews and into the flow of this river?

Because wherever that river goes, listen, Fruits.

Disciples. Bible studies, man. Wherever that

river touches, listen, miracles break out. But

listen, you need to yield to that Holy Spirit.

What a gift that we have as the apostolic church.

To be connected to the river of God. That's why

in Psalms chapter 1 it says, blessed is the man

Psalms 1 · chapter mention

who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly,

nor stands in the path of sinners, nor sits in

the seat of the scornful, but his delight, listen,

it's in the laws of the Lord. His words treasured

so much that in his laws, he meditates day and

night, day and night, day and night, day and

night. I wonder if you can surrender the video

games day and night, day and night. Day and night.

I wonder if you can just let go of what you're

not supposed to be watching. Come on. Day and

night. Day and night. Day and night. Meditate.

Meditate. Meditate. Listen, yoga is all about

emptying your mind. But Christianity is about

filling your mind with the word of God. That

the word of God would dwell so richly in your

heart, in your mind. That listen, look at the

results. That in his laws he meditates day and

night. He shall be like a tree planted by the

rivers of water. You will be like a tree planted

by the rivers of water who bears fruit in its

season. What does that mean? You're going to

become fruitful. You're going to begin to produce.

Why? Because, brother, you're connected to the

current of the river of God, that Holy Spirit.

Somebody praise the name of the Lord. Somebody

give him glory. Somebody praise him. Somebody

praise him. God is going to challenge you. He's

going to challenge you on what to do. He's going

to challenge you. He's going to challenge you.

He's going to challenge you. When we were in

India, the first day we stayed at a hotel, there

was a young lady that was working in the restaurant.

Me, Bishop Moran, and Brother Moises, we were

in the lobby. We were sitting down in the lobby.

And all of a sudden, that young girl, listen,

this young girl. What happens in India and a

lot of in the city, a lot of people that come

from poor neighborhoods, they come to the city

looking for employment. And this young girl came

from a faraway village and she's been working

at this hotel for seven months. But listen to

me. Listen to this story. Because what happens

to this girl's life, it's amazing. Because what

happened was when we went back up to our room,

Brother Moises was ordering coffee at 11 at night.

And here she comes. And she serves. Brother Moises,

and she sees the logo, Messengers of Peace. And

she looks around, and she said, are you Christian?

Brother Moises says, yes, I'm Christian. All

of a sudden, she begins to cry. She said, I grew

up in a Presbyterian church, but I've been far

away from my family for seven months. I haven't

been able to. Have a Bible or go to a church

service. My boss took my Bible. I haven't been

able to read my Bible. Could you give me a Bible

study? And Moses says, okay, let me call, you

know, my colleague. He's going to come back down.

He calls me up and says, hey, there's this girl

here, young lady. She wants a Bible study. And

we asked her what time did she get up. She said

midnight. We waited until midnight to give a

Bible study to this young lady. She gets off

of work, and she comes up to us, and she says,

I cannot sit down with you guys. I have to pretend

taking order. I pretend taking order. You pretend

ordering food. You give me Bible study. All of

a sudden, she's there. Matthew 28, verse 19.

Matthew 28:19

Acts 2 .38. Mark 16. John 3. Born of water. Born

of spirit. All of a sudden, she just begins to

weep as she's standing there. She begins to cry.

And all of a sudden, we can't take it. That river

is just now flowing. I grabbed her by the hand.

I said, can we pray for you? She said, yes. We

said a prayer for her. And after that prayer,

we asked her one simple question. Have you been

baptized? She said, yes. I've been baptized as

a baby, sprinkled with water. And we said, well,

praise God. But do you want to be baptized the

Bible way? She said, what way is that? We said

Acts 2 .38, repent, be baptized in the name of

Jesus for the forgiveness of your sins. She said,

I want to be baptized. My God, we went back to

the conferences and listen, we got to find a

baptismal tank. Praise God. The next day we came

to pick her up to get baptized. She evangelized

to her co -worker. And her co -worker came with

her. And now we're driving with these two individuals

to go and baptize them. When we get to the baptismal

tank, there was a man that we hired to record.

And all of a sudden, he was impacted so much,

he puts his camera down, he gets into the water,

and the cameraman gets baptized in the name of

Jesus. Come on. They come to their first apostolic

conference service, and the Holy Ghost begins

to take over. Come on. What started as a trickle

of water started to increase into a mighty river.

I'm telling you, if you can let the Holy Spirit

flow, something powerful is going to break out.

She got baptized. And here's my favorite part.

They told Bishop Zion, they said, could you take

a team to my home village? My dad is a Trinitarian

pastor. My uncle is a Trinitarian pastor. Could

you give them Bible study on the name of Jesus?

And Bishop Zion said, yes, we will go. The river

of God. The last thing, number three. The third

area that Jesus challenged Peter. He says, launch

out into the deep. Let down your nets for a catch.

God is going to challenge your expectations.

God is going to challenge on what to expect.

I wonder if we come to church services Sunday

after Sunday after Sunday with great expectation.

If we know God is a miracle working God. If we

know that he's a deliverer. If we know that he's

a provider. What's stopping us from coming with

high expectations that God is going to do something

very special in service today? Come on, I believe

God wants us to raise our expectations. Come

on, raise your faith. Increase your faith. Increase

the expectations. Come on, that when you step

into the house of God, my God, somebody's going

to get delivered. Somebody's going to get healed.

Somebody's going to walk out of that wheelchair.

Somebody's going to get delivered from anxiety.

Somebody's going to get delivered, come on, from

depression. I wonder if we can just believe God

for what he says he is. If he's a miracle working

God, he's a miracle working God. If he's a deliverer,

he is a deliverer. If he's a provider, listen,

he is a provider. Come on. With God nothing shall

be impossible. My God. Jesus told Peter to expect

a catch. Peter probably expected another empty

net. But instead he received an overwhelming

catch. And even the nets began to break. I want

to get to that dimension that we have no more

space to take people. My God, you see what's

happening on the second harvest? I declare that's

going to be for this church. You see those cars

lined up waiting for their food? Come on. I know

that's second harvest. But we worship and praise

the Lord of the harvest. Come on. I'm speaking

that over this church. That cars, pastor, that

cars are going to line up. That we're not going

to have room enough to handle the people that

are going to come into this church, pastor. But

listen, that's going to come with the flow of

his river. Oh it's going to happen. It's happening

already. Oh, I feel the Holy Ghost on this one.

Come on, cars are going to line up. There's not

going to be enough room to contain the blessings

of God. I prophesy over this church. Come on,

that God is going to open up the floodgates of

heaven. Come on, that there's going to be an

overflow of the river of God. Come on, that Mormons

are going to step in here. And they're going

to be baptized. That Catholics are going to step

in here. There's something different about the

apostolic. church. There's something different

about what they have. We got the river of God.

We got the spirit of God. We got the river of

God. Everywhere that river goes, listen, there's

going to be healing. Everywhere that river touches,

listen, a marriage is going to be restored. Families

are going to be restored. Come on. There's going

to be people that's going to walk in here. They're

going to feel something different. Like, man,

I've never felt this in the Catholic church.

I've never felt like this in the Mormon church.

There's something that they have that I want.

And I'm prophesying over this church that there's

not going to be enough room to contain all the

families that are going to come through those

doors. Come on, would you lift up your voice.

Come on, pray in the spirit. I feel the Holy

Ghost on this one. Listen, that river, that river,

that river, that river. Listen, everywhere, the

Bible says that everywhere that river went, listen,

there was healing. Where was that river going?

It was going to the Dead Sea. There's Dead Seas

in the city that needs that living water. Everywhere

that river went, listen, everywhere that river

touched, listen, somebody got healed. Everywhere

that river went, listen, there was revival. There

was growth. There was fruit. Listen, that river,

that river, we carry that river inside. The Pharisees

were like, where's the kingdom of God? Jesus

said, it's not going to come by observation.

You can't say it's right there, it's right there,

it's right there. The kingdom of God is within.

And the river flows from within this temple.

Not made by human hands. But God who takes residence.

God who takes residence in this vessel. He wants

to flow not like a stagnant reservoir. He wants

to flow like a river. And you become a blessing

to the person next to you. I wonder if you could

walk in such a way that the river of God is flowing

so much that people next to you are going to

get blessed. That even, oh my God, that even

people that are dealing with demonic spirits

are going to get delivered just by you sitting

next to them. Because listen, us as apostolics,

listen, we're filled. With the spirit of Christ.

And if we're filled with his spirit, listen,

everywhere we go, listen, there should be growth.

That's where God is taking this youth group.

Something small turns into a mighty river. And

that river, when it runs. People are going to

experience the power of God. Would you stand

to your feet? Would you stand to your feet? Jesus

says in John 7, 38, he who believes in me. Do

you believe in Jesus? Say it like you mean, do

you believe in Jesus? He who believes in me,

as the scriptures has said, out of his heart.

will flow rivers of living water. Out of his

heart will flow rivers of living water. That

means every time when you open up your mouth

and you give that Bible study. You might not

be a theological student. You might not have

a college degree. But listen, if you just get

with the vision of your pastor, the vision of

your church, and you start participating in discipleship,

you start participating. You start winning souls.

You start opening up your mouth. Listen, you

carry something that the world needs. Such as

I have, I give unto you. That at the name of

Jesus, get up and walk. Listen, what are you

carrying today? Such as I have, I give unto you.

That even John and Peter who was walking to the

hour of prayer. That man that was begging for

money. Day after day after week after week. Finally,

some vessels with the living water walks by.

Silver and gold I don't have. I don't have money.

But what I have, I give it to you. What was that?

The river of water. That river. of the Spirit

of God took him by his hand, and that man received

strength in his ankles. He was healed by that

river. Imagine that river running through the

city. When we were in India, this young kid walks

up to the front. His arm stretched out like this.

He's walking up like this. Looks impossible.

You do one of those. Let me just warm up with

people with headaches. Start praying. Anybody

has a headache? Has a bone sticking out like

this. In India, they're so desperate for a move

of God that they will travel days just to get

to church. The desperation. Some of them don't

have access to. You see, here in the United States,

we're so busy by a lot of things. But some people

in India, they would travel. They would have

no access to like the hospital. They only come

to church with one expectation. God has to move.

The level of faith is so heightened that people

just a wave of the river. You can see it visually.

People just would just get healed and fall under

the. The unction of the Holy Ghost, it's not

a different Holy Spirit. That's the same Holy

Spirit. The question is how hungry are we in

the United States? I'm praying that God will

send that wind here to the United States. Come

on, we're behind. We actually got to catch up.

Ethiopia is baptizing people more than the book

of Acts. 100 ,000 baptized in Jesus' name. Come

on, in India, 70 ,000 baptized in Jesus' name.

Flow of the river. Here's the last thing. that

I don't want us to miss today. That river came

from the temple. That trickle, that stream of

water that turned into a river, listen, it came

through the altar. And you see, the altars were

places of sacrifice. You probably think it's

a murder scene because of all the blood that's

around that altar. But listen. If you want to

go deeper in the river of God, listen, something

has to die. You want to go deeper with God, listen,

your pride has to die. Even our schedule. Something

has to die. When pastor calls for prayer meetings,

come on. We have to sacrifice something. You

want to go deeper with God, something has to

die. Maybe it's your video games. Maybe it's

something that you're watching that you're not

supposed to be watching. Maybe it's a relationship

that we're not supposed to be in. Come on, something

has to die. If you want to go deeper with God,

where you enter into the dimension where there's

no footing, and all you can do is trust in the

one who carries you. All you can do is just,

my God, trust in the current of the Holy Spirit.

I wonder how much are we willing. To die today.

Not physically today. But surrender. What are

we willing to surrender? Because 2 ,000 years

ago, Jesus, who loves you so much. Jesus, who

loves me so much. Who created heaven and earth.

Why did he create it? Because listen, he loves

us. As a father, he loves us. He's the creation

of this world of heaven and earth. But it's sin

that separated us from a holy God. It's my sin

that separated me from a holy God. And because

God is a loving God, listen, brother, he's also

a just God. And so just like a parent who holds

their son or their daughter accountable if they

make a mistake, it doesn't mean that their parent

hates them, but they want to bring correction

because they love them so much that they don't

want them to make the same mistake. so much that

the price for sin the wages of sin is death that

he even has to hold our sin accountable but the

gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus

God stepped into this world and he paid the debt

that you and I were supposed to pay and he died

on the cross of Calvary And on the third day,

even the cross couldn't hold him. The grave couldn't

hold him. That he rose with the power of his

resurrection. Come on. And he has given us the

power of the Holy Spirit. So if God moved 2 ,000

years ago, he's waiting for us to move. He's

waiting for us to step in. Because Jesus paid

it all on the cross. That blood. That was shed

on Calvary. By his stripes, we are healed. By

his sacrifice, that's where that stream begins.

That's where the Holy Spirit began when Jesus

was crucified on that cross. Come on. That God

sent his Holy Spirit to fill us today.