To the uttermost

Good morning. Grab your Bible, open up to

Romans chapter 8. I don't know if your Bible's

Romans 8 · chapter mention

like my Bible. It now opens it automatically

when I put it down. We've been in there for quite a

while and I want to, I want to just jump in to the 1st 4 verses

before we unpack it. I'll read it for you.

It'll be up on the screen. But if you're there, I'm reading

from Romans 8 verse one. Therefore, there is now no

condemnation. For who?

For those who are in Christ Jesus, because through Christ

Jesus, the law of the Spirit who gives life, has set you free

from the law of sin and death. Who has He set us free at?

Those who are in Christ Jesus For what the law was powerless

to do because it was weakened by the flesh, God did, by sending

His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh to be a sin

offering. And so He condemned sin in the

flesh in order that the righteous requirements of the

law might be fully met in US. Who's us?

Those who are in Christ Jesus. Comma Paul makes a sudden turn

here because all of a sudden he delineates from those who are in

Christ Jesus essentially the work of the cross.

And now for the rest of Romans 8, he's going to start talking

to us about the walk of the cross.

So he's defined those who have no condemnation, those who are

set free, those who in whom the fullness of the law has been

fully met, those who are in Christ Jesus comma.

Now he defines what you and I are meant to look like in this

walk of the cross. And he says we are those who do

not live according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.

There should be the defining fruits.

When people see you at work, they should know that you are a

Christian, not because you go to church, not because you have a

big family Bible, but because you do not live according to the

flesh, but you live according to the Spirit.

So we're going to take a look at that.

What does that mean? Live according to the spirit?

Because when you dig a little deeper, this word living

according to or in accordance to the spirit is a, is a very short

Greek word, Qatar, but it means living to the uttermost in the

spirit. Now remember, we're right at the

very beginning. We were talking about the full

inheritance that God has for us. And we're looking at those

boundary lines in Romans eights. Those boundary lines are found

in the fullness, the uttermost of living in the spirit.

So we're going to dive into that over the next few weeks.

But what I want to do today, before we we jump into this, I

would just want to take a bit of a bird's eye view, you know,

30,000 feet high view of the work of the Holy Spirit through

Scripture. Because you know, sometimes when

you jump into things, there's a whole bunch of past and

preconceived ideas that come to the surface.

I don't know if you know, I don't know if you've actually

ever bungee jumped at Bloke Grants Show of hands, has anyone

here? OK, for those of you who don't

know, Bloke Grants is the highest bungee jump in the world

and not only is it the highest, but they say that the recoil is

so strong and it is so high that you recoil almost to as high as

the second highest bungee jump in the world.

So you really do get your bang for your buck, right?

So I had the privilege of doing this a while back, but I heard

apparently now this might just be rumour, but I heard

apparently that you get a birthday special.

So next time you're there, if you go, they ask for the

birthday special. I must have spoiled it for you,

but the birthday special, essentially a bunch of mates did

this and they had decided, no, they're going to give their

mates a birthday special because it was his birthday, but also he

had done the jump quite a few times.

And so the birthday special, instead of jumping out 321

bungee jumping or forwards, the birthday special is that you

turn around, you stand on the edge and then you fall

backwards. And apparently it's way scarier

because you know, you still don't see where you're going,

You just see yourself disappearing into the ether.

So that's the story. The real story is now you're

strapped in. They've done all the security

checks and everything like this. And as they go 3 to 1 bungee and

you start falling, the security officer, the instructor, as you

tip off the edge goes wait, wait, wait.

Apparently the guy literally wet himself.

Now tell that story because if we are talking about the Holy

Spirit in this city, I've got saved in the city, I've

experienced the Spirit in the city.

And a lot of the time when we start talking about the Holy

Spirit in in Pretoria, a lot of you are going to wait, wait,

wait. I've heard, I've seen I've, I

don't know who is this Holy Spirit.

What role does he play? Isn't that's sensationists.

And so I just want to clarify some things so that we're all on

the same page and so that our hearts are open and responsive

to the Holy Spirit. Because you if you've been

around like I have you seen things, done things, experienced

things, had questions, not just in one sense with very broad

brush strokes when I answer some of those questions before we get

deeper into living in the spirit to the uttermost.

So this is how I want to do it. I want to look at sort of the

meta narrative of Scripture in three ways.

The Bible talk. I can very crudely put the Holy

Spirit into three different compartments.

The one would be the Holy Spirit in you, the other would be the

Holy Spirit working through you, and then lastly, the Holy Spirit

coming upon you. We're going to look at how the

Bible talks about that. Very broad brush strokes.

I know there's going to be a lot going unsaid, but I just want to

bring everyone onto the same plate that that's OK.

So the Holy Spirit in you, I want to ask you a question.

When was the last time you had a personal encounter with the Holy

Spirit? When was the last time you had a

personal encounter with the Holy Spirit?

Now, I'm sure when you think about that, you're probably

thinking of something dramatic, maybe something weird.

And that is our tendency whenever we start talking about

the Holy Spirit. It seems like we go to the

external immediately. But the whole meta narrative of

Scripture builds towards a God who wants to come close, the

Holy Spirit in you. And it's funny when we think,

when I ask you that you're not thinking about your the last

time you were really convicted about your driving or really

challenge to obey or maybe to start tithing, That's the Holy

Spirit working in you. It's funny.

We don't think of that, but you'll think of the weird

things. Yeah, people rolling around,

barking like a dog jumping on the spot.

But in Romans 8, Paul looks specifically at the work of the

Spirit in us. Now, I raised this because I've

come front and center when it comes to all the weird and

wonderful of the Holy Spirit, and he's God and he can do as he

pleases. But we had this one occasion.

So I was at Bible college at Hadfield Christian Church when,

what was it called? The Toronto Blessing Porter.

Anyone familiar with that? I think it was 94.

It was way back when, and what happened was Ed Rabbit, who was

leading Hatfield at that stage, he began to prepare us for the

move of the Holy Spirit. And so we would spend 1015

something, sometimes 20 minutes just waiting on the Holy Spirit.

The band would be playing and we'd just sit and wait and kept

on saying, come Holy Spirit, come and do what you want to do

in our midst. And then the Holy Spirit came

and now we're a second or third year in Bible college.

So we kind of important, you know, we really, we've got our

act together. And there was this one lady who

didn't, she broke all the rules. But the thing was she was, and I

don't mean it defensively. She was German in all her

mannerisms. I want to hear Vaughn click.

She was sort of dressed in in Gray and had her familiar Babel

and you know, the the dress went below the knees and she was

stoned and had a forehead like Flint and then got a good hold

of her. Now we're all studying the word

of the Lord and we're watching this lady drunk as a skunk look

for days cannot stand. She's rolling and laughing and

crying. And so we decided as students we

were going to run a little bit of an intervention.

And you know, she needs to give an account for this.

We want to know what is going on.

Like give us chapter and verse, please.

So she comes, and it was probably a month later before

she could actually string a sentence together.

Like, seriously, it was unbelievable what God was doing.

And so she stands. And now we're all sitting there.

I remember it was in between class.

We're like, OK, explain yourself.

Yeah. And now high and mighty biblical

theology. And so she gets up there and she

was probably spoke for 30 seconds.

All she said was, I don't know. I don't know what God was doing,

but you know what God was doing. You've known me for many years.

You know who I was, and now you know who I am.

And I remember when she said that, I was so rebuked because

I've never seen someone transform as radically as she

did, not only internally but externally.

The only way I could describe it visibly was like she lost

wrinkles, but she was young. Like she went from Gray to full

3D living color. It was unbelievable.

But when she said that, I remember realizing, you know,

we've lost touch with what God is actually doing here in our

high and mighty ivory tower. We've lost the wonder that the

God of all creation has set his sights on her, has poured

himself out upon her, is rescuing and redeeming and

healing and restoring and delivering and empowering.

And we're going like, yeah. But it doesn't fit my 2

dimensional approach to how God ought to, should do, could do.

We had lost the wonder of what was happening right in front of

us. No wonder the Holy Spirit wasn't

doing that to me. His story of a father who took

his son on the plane for the first time.

His dad was a businessman. It was a business trip and he

took his son along. So they're sitting in business

class, him and his. I think it was like a six year

old boy. And so because he had never

flown before, he had booked a seat right next to the window as

a real treat. And so you can just imagine, you

know, it's all the La Di Da's in business class and then the

pilot does this and this little 5-6 year old boy is like, I

think I'm going to die. Are you the same daddies?

And then, you know, that moment that I absolutely love my wife

dreads. And the dad initially was keep

it down. Yeah.

Because what will the rest of the people in business class

think? But when he looked around,

everyone was like, you know, with a little bit of a wonder in

their eyes. And then they'd taken off.

And so the boys looking at daddy, the causes is small,

like, can't see the houses anymore.

Daddy, Daddy, is it bumpy when we go through the clouds because

it was a rainy day. And then when they Pierce and

Daddy, Daddy, Daddy, I can see the sun.

I thought the sun went away. And the entire business class is

stupid, still marveling at this renewed wonder.

They've flown so many times but lost the wonder of 300 people in

a tin can 50,000 feet in the sky.

But when they saw the wonder in this kids eyes, When I saw the

wonder in her eyes, your see we forget forget the same spirit

that we bump into on page one of our Bibles where it says now the

earth was formless and void. Darkness was over the surface of

the deepness Spirit of God, the Holy Spirit was hovering over

the waters. That same spirit, at the very

foundation of the world, was busy in her life, hovering over

the darkness, the chaotic waters of her life, restoring and

rescuing and redeeming and renewing.

And we were sitting, judging on the side here.

The same Spirit that raises Jesus from the dead dwells in

you. Have you lost the wonder of a

God like this, wanting to dwell in you, wanting to draw near to

you? Or as Tyler Staton says, every

follower of Jesus has been filled with the very Spirit that

filled Jesus. And I'd like to add Phil, Samuel

and David and Esther and Peter, James and John dwells in you.

But that's not all. I don't know if you've seen the

movie past lives. I haven't.

So I can neither recommend it or encourage you not, you know, to

stay away from it. But I did see a little snippet.

I can't remember where I came across it.

The past lives. The back story is it's a it's a

romance, a ROM com where a American guy marries a Korean

lady. And the little snippet was about

how he was trying to learn Korean because he was a true

blue American boy. And she had been raised in Korea

and then come over with her parents.

And the moment in this clip is she's challenging him because

he's trying to learn Korean. And so she's like, what's the

point? I speak fluent English.

My family speaks fluent English. You don't need to learn this

language. And he was really struggling.

And then he said the following to he said, listen, The thing is

you dream in Korean and you speak and you sleep and you

speak in Korean. And he says, I want to learn

Korean, not so that I can talk to you, but so that I have

access to a part of your heart, a part of your life I don't have

access to. I want to know you.

I want to love you and I want to pursue you to the NTH degree.

I don't want anything to be kept from me.

And I say that because in the same way, God has given us his

Holy Spirit and he has given us the gift of tongues.

Because in the same way that he didn't have access to that part

of her heart, God wants to give us access to that part of his

heart that sometimes we bump up against because we just can't

find the right words. And so He's given us this gift,

a language of love so that we can drop anchor in His heart.

And the Bible talks about us praying in the spirit, which

allows us to drop anchor into his heart.

It it gives us this gift of, of tongues so that we can commune

with our heavenly Father. When you're going through a

tough time or when you're broken or when you just don't know, he

said, just just come to me. But we steer clear because to us

it's like a wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

And so Paul leans in here. He says, I want you to know that

the Plumb line for your relationship with your heavenly

Father, this walk of the cross is a life in the spirit to the

uttermost nothing hidden, nothing kept away.

And he calls us to this Will you let a little opinion stop you

from full access to the heart of your Heavenly Father?

Would you let past experience or the unknown really block you

when Paul is saying give him everything that you have, take

hold of everything that he has to the uttermost.

When you reach the uttermost, then you've only really reached

the foothills of all that he has for you and I.

And so the Bible talks about that from page one to the very

last, this call to respond and allow the life of the Holy

Spirit in us. But it doesn't stop there.

It also calls us to allow the Holy Spirit to work through US.

Now, this is tricky because I had a conversation with the

businessman. I said, I wonder if your staff

knows that you're a Christian. Anyone in business here?

I wonder if those you work with know that you're a Christian.

You know, because the kickback is no, no, business is business.

No, no, no. A son and daughter of God is a

son and daughter. It doesn't matter where you're

at. And Scripture says we are called

to live to the fullness, the uttermost of the Holy Spirit.

And so you can't just rub out in your Bible the gifts of the

Spirit. Now, if you're new to church,

I'll give you just a brief overlay.

We don't have time on it. That's not the purpose of this

morning to go into it. But the Bible talks on three

different spaces about the gifts of the Spirit.

They're not exhaustive. But in one Corinthians 12, it

talks about the gift of word of Wisdom.

Now that's where you chatting to Dennis and you just feel God say

something about him and you encourage him or ask him about

that and there's a breakthrough, a moment of prayer, gift of

healing, prophecy, faith, all of those in one Corinthians 12 and

make notes and look at it for yourself.

In Romans 12. They're teaching and encouraging

gifts. You know that encouragement is a

gift of the Holy Spirit, mercy, leadership.

And then you've got the the churchy top gifts.

Ephesians 4 apostle, prophets, pastor, teacher, evangelist.

But I say that because I was looking at this thinking like,

sure, should I put this in and how much time will it take to

unpack all of this? When I came across a statistic,

you know me and my statistics. So in 2023, they did a study of

you and your cell phone and they discovered that you pick up your

phone, phone on average 144 times a day.

What has that got to do with the gifts of the Spirit?

Well, that works out to be about once every 5 minutes.

And I was thinking, imagine if we reached for the gift of the

Spirit every 5 minutes in our day, 144 times in the office,

and we just went, Lord Avril, what are you saying about Avril?

And then it says it's something like 89% of us have had what

they call phantom vibration syndrome.

Have you ever had that? And I was like, oh, sorry, my

phone is ringing, you pick it up.

No, it wasn't. Imagine if we were that

sensitive to the Holy Spirit. That's one thing, The Holy

Spirit in me, but through me for all of no.

So we're going to do the Alpha course in the next few weeks.

We're rolling it out in some of our life groups, and we're going

to have a corporate one here in the building.

And I don't know if you know this, but part of the Alpha

course actually covers the work of the Holy Spirit.

And in prepping for that, I came across an unbelievable account

of a guy named Liam who went to Alpha.

So the back story was Liam. He describes himself as a

militant atheist, an alcoholic, suffering with depression and

all of that was a fruit of the fact that he had early onset

blindness. So in I think it was primary

school, he started losing his sight and he tells the story of

how and 11 moment he was. Now his eyesight was terrible.

He tried 7 or 8 times to put toothpaste on his toothbrush.

Now I've had that experience, you know, wife is asleep and you

sort of come home late and so you're in the bathroom in the

dark and he's like, yo, it's actually quite tricky.

But this was his every day. And he said that after like the

7th or 8th time, he just screamed.

He threw his toothpaste at the mirror and he collapsed in the

heap and he kicked a hole in the cabinet door in front of him and

he screamed. He's like, God, if you're there,

show yourself. And like that suddenly it was

almost like 20% of the cloudiness over his eyes

disappeared to the point where he was like, just smile and

wave, boys, just smile and wave. You know, don't know what

happened there. But it bothered him because he

had cried out to God and something had happened.

And so he walking down the streets of London, I think it's

HTB who do it. Yeah.

So HTB, it's Holy Trinity Brompton.

It's a church in London that formulated the Alpha course.

Have these big signs. You know, you've got questions.

Want to know more about God or whatever it is?

Come do the Alpha course. So he decided, OK, he's going to

do the Alpha Course. So he goes there and they get

now to this point where they're discussing the Holy Spirit.

So he's got a million questions and like cynical because of this

depression. And as a militant atheist, he

like, he's still not fully convinced.

And so he's asking questions like, seriously, how can this

Holy Spirit come through me? And you know, how can I hear his

voice? And and so one of the guys said,

well, interesting you asked that because when I first met you,

it's like God gave me this picture.

You know, we're talking about the Holy Spirit through you.

He just said, God gave me this picture of you sitting with a

box over your head because I don't know what that means.

But I kind of feel like, you know, God would never shame you.

And actually there's maybe areas in your life where he wants to

take this box off your head. And someone else said, well,

listen, I always had a picture. I saw you playing in the bath.

You know, there's a young boy splashing and, you know, with

these submarines and your ships and laughing.

And I just, I don't know what it means.

Maybe like, you know, God the lasts in you.

So these two people have now shared this.

And he breaks and he cries so hard he falls off his chair.

And once he'd gathered himself, now everyone's like, OK, what

did we say? So that you said you saw me with

a box over my head. He said when I was young, when

my eyes started failing me, my parents didn't understand.

I didn't understand. So I was that raucous,

rebellious kid because I couldn't see the board.

I could hardly see my handwriting.

And so I was kept back a year. And the teacher whose class I

was in when I was kept back used to punish me and berate me by

putting a box on my head, having me sit in the corner.

Can you imagine the scars and a young boy's heart when that is

done to you? And at the same time, he's not

having this little moment. He said, you know the picture of

me in a bath. He said that happened.

So when I was 8 years old, I was sitting in the bath.

I was playing. I was having a lot of fun.

Yeah. I was messing around and

splashing everywhere. My dad burst in the doors,

screamed at me. So I cannot handle you anymore.

Walked out, walked past his mom and never came back.

They got divorced. So yeah, you're struggling with

early onset blindness. You're being tormented and

bullied by teachers at school. You've got a dad who left

because of you and these two people.

Just in a moment. They didn't have him come up,

rub up, up, up Shunda. They didn't anoint him with oil.

They just said Holy Spirit, work through me.

Not only did he get set free, but got radically saved and

baptized. This is an atheist, an

alcoholic, suffering with deep depression, probably suicidal.

Just a moment of obedience. Now I know this is not an

everyday occurrence, or maybe it could be, or maybe it should be,

but because we never know, we never ask, we never say.

Holy Spirit, would you work through me?

Instead we reach for our phone rather than reaching for just a

sense around what God is doing here.

How can I step in here? How can I be your hands and feet

here? Because you cannot read from

page one to the end of of Scripture without coming across

accounts upon account upon account upon accounts of the

Holy Spirit working through people.

Actually, I'd go as far as saying the only reason why you

know about them in Scripture was because they were willing for

the Holy Spirit to work through them.

So in you, through you, upon you.

So the Bible talks in Acts that says you will receive power when

the Holy Spirit comes upon you to be my witnesses in

Mozambique. Jesus reading from Scripture

says the Holy Spirit is upon me because he has anointed me to

preach, to teach, to set the captors free.

And while I'm prepping, I kid you not, last night I decided I

haven't read for a while. You know, sort of like whenever

I'm preaching, you know, everything else comes to a

standstill. So last night I climbed into

bed. I grabbed for a book.

I opened it up to the chapter where I was at, and it says

there. And I don't even know if I've

ever read this verse before in my whole entire life.

I must have because I've been through the whole of Scripture a

few times. But Luke 2449 says, and you will

receive, you'll be clothed with power from on high.

I don't know if I have a category for that in my life.

You will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you.

You will be clothed on high with power.

So what I had prepped to share about on this point was a guy

named Duncan Campbell. I don't know if you know him.

He was the guy that got used for the revival in the Hebrides.

So the, the, the Hebridean revival is, I would say the, the

greatest revival in living memory happened in the, the

early 1950s. And I've mentioned it a few

times. But just for those who don't

know, we're talking about a moment when Duncan Campbell,

who's the, the pastor of the church at the moment, at that

time just saw the Holy Spirit come upon this congregation.

And they were worshipping and, and crying and praying and

repenting and gods were on their knees and people were lying on

the floor on their face. And, and we're talking like

about 5-6 hundred people. While this was happening, a

police officer came in sort of like stepping over all the

bodies and everything came to the Duncan and said, listen, you

need to come to the police station.

There's about 1000 people there. It seems like the Holy Spirit

had come upon them and they felt the need to repent.

So they didn't know what to do. And it was like, well, let's go

tell the police. I did this.

I said that to my mom as this year.

So there's almost 1000 people around there.

He goes out there the Holy Spirit just fulls and power

comes upon them to the to the point that people who are on

yachts or sorry shipping vessels and ships going past would be

falling down under the presence and weight of God and said we

need to get to shore because we need to repent.

We need to get saved. So this is that's why I said

like one of the greatest revivals definitely in living

memory. But Gordon, oh, sorry, Duncan

Campbell says this. He says he's talking about up to

that point, he talks about 17 years of faithfulness, but

fruitless. And he says, I'll read it to you

after spending 17 years in a barren wilderness, baffled and

frustrated in Christian work and witness.

Maybe that's you. Maybe you're a life group

leader. And you say I'm frustrated just

like this just feels like duty. Maybe you were in the ministry

and you called it quits because just like Duncan Campbell's like

17 years of wilderness. Canimiani Corporal.

But he said I suddenly came to realize that God had made

provision for clean hands and a pure heart.

We sang it earlier, clean hands and a pure heart.

He's referring to Psalm 24 that says who may ascend the heal of

the Lord, who may stand in his holy place.

Remember, he is the Holy Spirit. While we're dabbling with

WhatsApp groups, commenting and criticizing, he said.

I came to suddenly realize that God had made provision for clean

hands and a pure heart. And he said on my face, in my

study, I came to know the power of the blood of Christ, clean

hands and pure heart, and the glorious baptism in the Holy

Spirit. Explain it as you will, he says.

It was a baptism from God, the Holy Spirit coming upon me, and

the result was history. Hebridean revival, You know, AW

Tosa says this. We'll pop it up on the screen.

If the Holy Spirit was withdrawn from the church today, he

guesstimates 95% of what we do would go on and no one would

know the difference. Can I hear an A?

Nah. If the Holy Spirit was withdrawn

from three CR today, would that statistic be true If the Holy

Spirit was withdrawn from you, from me?

See, we are called to live a life in accordance with the

Spirit to the uttermost. What are we holding back?

What are you holding back? Since the pandemic, there's been

such a swing from a church in decline.

We're talking about the US to the church in renewal, that the

majority of churches in the US are now reporting that they're

growing. Bible sales in the US alone are

up 22 percent. 30 million Americans have come to faith in

Jesus in the last four years. Globally, growth of the church

is outpacing the growth of the population.

There's been a 30% increase in church attendance in Denmark, a

31% spark in adult baptisms in France, massive increase in

young men attending churches in Finland.

In the UK, 18 to 24 year olds are now 50% less likely to be

atheists like their parents. Today, China is the global

center of atheism, but experts believe that by 20-30 there will

be more Christians in China than in America.

In Great Britain, Bible sells up a whopping 87%, and with it

young people and young men in particular are returning to the

church in droves. The underground church in Iran

is currently growing by 20% each year, the church in Iran, making

Iran the fastest growing church in the world.

God is on the move. We have no claim to him or his

move or the outpouring of his Holy Spirit because we are three

CR. We have a claim because he says

this is what I have for you. One last quote, Doctor Ed Young,

take a look at this. He says historically in the US

there's never been a revival that was not directly connected

to the study of the book of Romans.

Wake up three CR God is on the move.

Life in the Spirit to the uttermost.

Are you hungry? Are you open?

You'll be clothed with power from on high.

Who see if I can get through this.

This is Richard Fath, He's a preacher.

I heard him read this letter and I want to read it to you to whom

it may concern so someone who not in their church but sent

this letter to him. As the senior pastor says for

you it may be an everyday moment, but for me it has been

an unbelievable life changing miracle.

My name is Josiah, and I've lived near your church for

almost 20 years to make me think about the people living next

door. I migrated here as a hippie in

search of peace. I deviled in witchcraft, which

empowered me and destroyed me at the same time, often leading to

me living under bridges. When things got really rough.

And this is over the past 20 years here right next to your

church, at least 100 of your people came to me, talked to me

and wanted to get me saved. And then he says they had words

but no power until last Thursday morning at 11:30.

AMI and some friends were putting putting curses on cars

and I was laughing because there was a car with your church

sticker on it and we were spitting on it and putting

rubbish on it when a young guy came out of the shops.

I turned around, I looked into his eyes and I saw a power I did

not know. He just looked at me and said

you came here looking for peace and they took it from you.

You came here looking for peace, do you still want peace?

I went crazy. He said everything in me wanted

to kill him but he just stood there asking do you want peace?

I burst into tears as I felt the power of God flood my soul and

set me free. As a young guy who came out of

the shops, I turned around and looked into his eyes and I saw

power I did not know. On the last page he said I don't

know who it was but tell him I love him for what he did.

Oh and please put the same power in the rest of your people.

Sure, if he looked into my eyes what would he have seen if he

looked into your eyes? If he looked into my eyes, he

would have seen a man who keeps guard at arms length.

Because I like to be in control. It's my way.

I think I've got it all. And if he looked into your eyes,

that's when a young guy came out of the shops.

I turned around and looked into his eyes and I saw a power I did

not know. I'm going to ask the band to

come up and I'm going to ask you if anything in here has stirred

in you and you want him to say, Lord, I don't know what to do,

but my eyes are on you. Then I'm going to ask you to

stand. Are we going to pray?

That's you, Holy Spirit in you. Maybe Holy Spirit through you or

his power upon you. Come Holy Spirit, Come Holy

Spirit, Lord, we as best as we know how, we just, we just want

to open our hearts to you, our lives, our fears, our past

experience, or our lack of understanding of you.

We want to lay it all before you, Father, and we want to say,

come Holy Spirit, Lord, as Eugene said before the service,

you are wanting to do something new.

Old things are passed away. Behold, I'm doing a new thing.

And would you do that? And thus, Father, I pray for

those here who have never cried out for it to you to be filled

with the Holy Spirit. I know that you give your Holy

Spirit as a as a down payment to deposit when we are saved, but

your word also says that we are to keep on being filled.

And it talks about your Holy Spirit coming upon us and we

want everything, everything that you are willing to give, we are

wanting to receive. So Heavenly Father, this morning

we turn our eyes to your Holy Spirit and we say, Holy Spirit,

would you come? Would you be in US?

Would you draw close where we have put gods up?

Would you tear that curtain and come in?

But we also want to say we want to be your vessels.

We want our lives to be yours. That you would flow through us,

not just in US. Or that you would touch the city

in and through us. That you touch our families, our

relationships, our future, our finances through Your Holy

Spirit working through us. But Lord, if we have permission,

I would like to ask that you come upon us, Holy Spirit, that

you would come upon us. You came with tongues of fire.

You came in the wind. You came like you did on that

German friend of mine and radically changed her from the

inside out. You came on Liam's life, early

onset blindness, but you radically set them free.

And I pray wherever we are in our journey with you, Holy

Spirit, I just ask for more spirit.

Come, Holy Spirit.