Encountering the Holy Spirit

Your fake posts and your fake pretend life and your fakeness and all those are all your fig leaves you trying to cover up and

You're utterly wretched and naked without me so confess that

Show me your need and then I'll meet you there so there has to be a cry Lord. I need you

I want you

I need you more than the air that I breathe more than the food that I eat come God

I'm nothing apart from you. You are my life. You are my everything

Welcome to the City Light Church podcast. Thanks for joining us today as we look into God's word and discover the hope and

Truth that he has for us. If you want to connect with City Light Church, feel free to visit us at citylightnyc.com

That's citylightnyc.com

Pastor Boyan Jansik and his team believe that the power of the Holy Spirit is already working in our hearts and minds

As you listen to today's teaching remember that you are deeply loved by God

That you are surrounded by his grace and that he has a real hope and a future for you

Welcome to City Light Church welcome to those of you joining us online

Hallelujah

2025

It's going to be a monumental year

2025 is going to be a year of advancement of taking new ground and

possessing the land

If you've been around City Light for a while you know that I don't declare this at the start of every new year

I'm positive at the start of every new year

I have a faith goal at the start of every new year, but this is different

This is something that I feel like the Lord spoke directly to me and many of my friends and ministry

They sense the same exact thing and also he's doing it already

It's almost like he started preheating the oven in October, November

And now it's going to be the bake off in 2025. It's going to be incredible. It's not going to be a 350

That thing's going right up to 600

It is going to be listen. It is going to be a year

Where those things that that have been like invisible obstacles in front of you where the Lord is going to tear them down

A year where years will happen in weeks and months will happen in days a year of tremendous advancement

In order for us to realize that because I'm describing a supernatural year

In order for us to realize that

We have to be a supernatural people and we have to be a people that are familiar with the supernatural

Amen and even when I say that word supernatural for some that has a negative connotation

who

Supernatural. I say supernatural

So it has a negative connotation people think of some history channel documentary that we're there discussing poltergeist activity

God is supernatural. He's not natural. He's above. He's supernatural

I don't want a natural life. I want a supernatural life

So I have to know the God of the supernatural

And the way we do that is through the Holy Spirit

So the Holy Spirit

Has to be our friend now from his side. He is but many of us we just don't know him in that way

There's a scary

Statue, you know, I don't know you know stats

Stats are made up oh

Like 85% of all stats are made up at least 50% of the time

But

I've heard it and it resonates and it goes something like this that if the Holy Spirit were to leave and go back to have a 90% of the Church would keep functioning business as usual

And that resonates with me. I'm like, yeah

Because they got their programs. It's like Disneyland but church style you got your coffee and lasers or fog machine

You got the little system pro you get the people you plug them in and they just and the Holy Spirit can leave and it just keeps on running

If the Holy Spirit left city light I'd be in the corner in the fetal position going help me help me take me too

I don't know what to do next. We need the Holy Spirit

But it's sad that some people wouldn't recognize the Holy Spirit if he wrote it in on a city bike and the loops around the sanctuary

You got to know him

He's not God's active force on earth

And he's not a fire

He's not a wind those assembles of him. He's a person

He is God. He is God Almighty. The Holy Spirit is as much God as Jesus is God

That's why the Holy Spirit is known as the Spirit of Jesus or the Spirit of Christ the Holy Spirit is as much God as the Father is God

Hallelujah

That's why the angel told Mary that she would be found with child of the Holy Spirit

Oh, I thought the Father was Jesus's father. Yes. Well, you just said the Holy Spirit now a quarter of the Scripture and the answer is still yes

Jesus was a child of the Holy Spirit. It's his spirit. We have to know him

I'm after you

I want you to have the best year of your life

But that's not going to happen if you have a frontal obe in Christianity

If you have a merely intellectual Christianity

You won't have a supernatural year because everything's got to fit into your neat little paradigm

And God wants to take that paradigm and blow it away

Yeah

He's the Holy Spirit

He's not the Holy brain

The Holy Spirit will deal with you in your spirit and communicate to you in your spirit

And so we must be a spiritual people open to spiritual things

In fellowship with the Holy Spirit

Now I'm grateful

For my history with the Lord in that I started off that way in 1992 when I got saved

I didn't I wasn't saved

By a miracle in some religious church because people can't get saved in religious churches

But man, it's like a miracle when you hear their story

They're like I was told this and I was told that and the Lord navigated them through this maze of religiosity

And they still found him that's a miracle

But I was saved in a church that was filled with the Holy Spirit

Why they believed in the power of the Holy Spirit. I visited that church came late

I'm just kidding

You're so early for second service you guys were like the first ones here

They came in the first third of the first service just to have front row seats and be on time for second service

That that's the kind of hunger I'm talking about

A 16 years old I'm invited to this church

I go to the church I show up like 10 minutes before the service is over

What I see is wild to me people were spinning around dancing just happy praising God

But for me and my my background it just seemed like the mother ship had landed

And then a fella comes up and he shakes my hand

Great guy we later became great friends

But I didn't know him when he shook my hand he didn't want to do these things he took my hand and went

Like he was both sucking out my soul and reading it at the same time

Do you know that we can take the spook out of things like we get to choose how weird we are

I'm just saying he's less weird now just as powerful but less weird

You know you you actually get like I can speak in tongues right now

And then I'd be weird I can go Easter a lot of custom on tour to do but I can also go

Yeah

You get to decide right

You can pray for someone like with a normal face gently

Or you can look like a runaway steam train

Oh

And just freak someone out for no reason

Just being weird for the sake of being weird

Anyway, he should take my hand

I was already I'm on guard as it is now I'm going all great

What cult have they brought me into and how weird is this going to get

Is this brother can I talk to you?

I said yeah, he said meet me at the Burger King across the street

I'll go good it's not going to be in this place it'll be safe in public

I go to the Burger King across the street

And he shares several things with me. He shares the gospel

He shares just general

General stories about God and then he starts talking to me about my life

Things that he couldn't have possibly known things that my friend who brought me to church didn't know things

That nobody really knew it wasn't so so specific

But it was specific enough that it really got my attention. He was operating in the gifts of the Holy Spirit

And as he spoke these things

The only way I can describe it is I I felt what he was saying like stuff started moving and shifting inside of me

I just felt I felt like I was touching the spiritual realm

Through this and meeting with him through him ministering

To me and then he said

Repeat after me

And he said say the blood of Jesus

And I actually I was so silly and I'm 16 and I have no scripture in me at all

I thought is he mocking the Lord is he mocking the I was keep waiting for the trick because he was so kind and so nice

I mean nobody's this kind nobody's this nice

You know when he's gonna ask me for my money. How's he gonna trick me

Said say the blood of Jesus and I thought is he mocking the cross but really no when you say the blood of Jesus

It's a declaration

It's a declaration to every entity in the spirit realm and the natural realm that you

Have been purchased you no longer are your own you belong to the Lord all of your sins are taken away

And you your god's own special people your his he's causing his peculiar possession

I'm glad the scripture called me peculiar

So he says say the blood of Jesus and I say it and it's a say it again

And I say it again and he says now this time say with all your heart

So the third time I just I go the blood of Jesus and when I said it that third time

I felt like something snap over me and I got old woozy

oh

And I look up and I just see him

Smiling I had already cried my gut side as he was just sharing things about my life

I cried and I cried and like not normal crying I cried for over an hour this whole encounter was three hours long

I cried for over an hour. I went I'll never forget

I went through a whole canister of those Burger King napkins

You know the flimsy cheap napkins, but still a whole canister to where he had to reach over to the other table

Get another one of those can't tell you don't have those canisters anymore now you got to go see

Stose green people you got to go all they're trying to limit because then you boy-ons would come in and use up a whole canister

Now you got to go all the way to the front you know and they give you two napkins and can I get some ketchup with that?

Yeah, here's one

Give it to me like it's the 90s

So I look up after saying the blood of Jesus I I don't even know what's happening

I'd never encountered anything spiritual all I knew was something was happening

I felt different I felt lighter I felt freer I opened my eyes and it goes how do you feel?

I go really really good and he says I just saw two spirits fly off of your head

I believed him and I do believe him to this day because I know something happened in me

And the fruit of that is evidence this day because several months later

I went back to that church and made a decision to give my life to Jesus

Hallelujah now this was a church that believed in

not just

praying Jesus into your heart

Which by the way is really found nowhere in the scriptures

We we cheapen the gospel and we present it as we'll just say this little prayer and pray Jesus into your heart

That's not that's not the gospel the gospel is give your whole life to Jesus

surrender to him and trust in him for his righteousness and now his righteousness is on you

And when God the Father looks at you he sees you without any spot or speckle of sin

Just as clean just as righteous as Jesus. Amen

Well when you

Got saved when you got born again when you receive Jesus

They then baptized you right then in the service. He was an old school church service

This is where like three to four hours long

So you give your life to Jesus and then there's a changing room upstairs with fresh clothes

You put on the fresh clothes and you get water baptized you think they're done no

They're doing it book of act style after you get baptized you put you put on your your clothes

You came in with and then they pray with you for the baptism in the Holy Spirit

They weren't weird

churches who don't do it that way are weird

That's actually the book of acts model

We split up the whole salvation package into three parts

Get saved then maybe if you filled out the connection card and you really feel it

I don't feel to get baptized who cares how you feel the words says get baptized

I feel I'm waiting for a sign you got like 20 signs and the new testament telling you to get baptized

And what are you waiting for sparkles in the air

Traffic lights to go backwards what the word is telling you do it

So you get saved you get baptized in water and then there's a third part that is essential that is key

That many churches just leave it open for people to stumble upon and that's the baptism in the Holy Spirit

We don't leave it open for people to stumble upon

You come into our sanctuary the first books you're greeted with mini books are about this subject

We have a ministry team at the end of every service who will lead you into the baptism of the Holy Spirit if you desire

We devote several services a year where the whole service is devoted to people getting baptized in the Holy Spirit

The baptism in the Holy Spirit just like baptism in waters you're immersed in water now you're immersed in the Holy Spirit

And he fills you the words or the terms baptized in the Holy Spirit filled with the Holy Spirit

Receive the Holy Spirit those are all interchangeable terms you'll find in the book of Acts

And you'll find that every time someone's baptized in the Holy Spirit

something happens

There actually is a

physical evidence

A response call it a

manifestation

And the evidence the physical response the manifestation is speaking in other languages

speaking in tongues a language you never heard of nobody ever taught you you didn't go to school to learn you

supernaturally speak it it's biblical

Jesus prophesied it in Mark 16 he said those that believe in me they'll speak in new tongues

It didn't mean they're they're going to get dualingo and learn because they're going to be missionaries supernaturally

You'll speak in tongues

So I'm 16 years old I've been baptized about half an hour

But on my dry clothes they pray for me to receive the Holy Spirit

I remember speaking in over three definitely least three specific languages. I just took off

Brain and other tongues as I was filled with the Holy Spirit. I had a supernatural experience and that I'd

Grateful for because that's how my journey with the Lord began

Hallelujah and it was all a big setup because two weeks later he called me into ministry

That wasn't fulfilled until a decade later, but when I was 16

It's the last thing I was ever thinking about I've never thought about God never thought about Jesus the last thing

I'd be thinking about was being in ministry

When I when you even mentioned ministry the only thing I would think of was some TV

But like 80s TV like like like the the priest and little house on the prairie I joke about the little house on the prayer

I used to watch little house on the prayer

The priest you know there they're always like these Matt

Um

Just emasculated guys

The week where the TV preachers are never strong

They're never dangerous

Preacher should be dangerous. You know why because Jesus was dangerous

Yeah, you don't kill someone after just three years of ministry if they're not dangerous

Jesus was the opposite of harmless

Hallelujah

Anyway, it's another story that's

He calls me into ministry

Then two years later. I'm just growing in the things of God

First two years were rough and tough because you know when you first get saved Satan wants to he wants to cut you off

He's terrified of a person who's just gotten saved and I dare say that the biggest attack you you'll ever have is your first year or two of

Of walking with the Lord

It's because Satan's a pervert. He has no shame. He you see looking throughout the scriptures

He doesn't mind killing babies loves killing babies actually

I wanted to kill Moses as a baby. I wanted to kill Jesus as a baby

He wants to

Crush that acorn before it becomes a giant oak tree. So he's raging

Thank God by the mercy of God and good people around me. I made it through now. I'm 18

I'm going out to college in Long Island at Stony Brook University

It's November of 1994. Don't do the math. I'll be 49 next week

And I'm told that there is a man coming a man of God

Who's most used powerfully by the Holy Spirit this man was only 33 years old at the time

He would a few years later become my pastor and I studied under him and went to the Bible school that he founded

It was the largest church in Long Island that he was visiting who was doing a week

Two services a day each service was four to five hours

Yeah, we like the quick version, you know, we want

snappy express

One hour dry cleaning lord will come in and come out and change my whole life

But just do it real quickly because I get bored easy because I fried my dopamine receptors from too much scrolling

So I go to those services

He's talking about the Holy Spirit

He's talking about the Holy Spirit

And fellowship with the Holy Spirit. He's talking about the anointing

And it's the first time I really heard any preaching on the anointing which by the way that's strange

Jesus his last name isn't Christ. Did you know that if you try to look him up online or on the phone book

You don't look under sea for Christ. That's actually his title

Christos. It means the anointed one

It's Jesus the anointed one because Jesus

Everything he did he did by the anointing

He had a very touchy ministry laying hands on people he was transmitting the anointing

They pressed in just to get some of that anointing. What is the anointing? It's the good stuff

It's the presence of God the manifest presence of God

The active dynamic presence of God because people say God is God is everywhere. Yeah, but not in his anointing

You can say God is omnipresent, but he's not everywhere the same

He was everywhere in Jerusalem in Acts chapter two, but in up a room. That was different

That's where the anointing was

That's why you can be sitting next to someone and you're like under a waterfall of the anointing and they can be totally thinking about what they're gonna get for lunch

One is experiencing the manifest presence of God one is thinking of Chick-fil-A

In the omnipresence of God

So that week changed me

I had experienced a fresh touch from God

I experienced revival and what revival does is it it softens your heart and it makes you susceptible to the things of God

And there is when you're in a spirit of revival there's no pressing into God's presence

You just go Jesus and he's right there

You don't have to work yourself up to anything you don't have to

struggle the striving is taken away

And that's how he really he won me over and

His spirit always comes with his love because he is love

And I started to experience healing. I noticed that the more I was under the anointing the more I changed

And I became very aware as he was changing me as I was experiencing the touch from heaven

I became very aware of my own brokenness and I realized ah

I messed up. I got a lot of baggage

I've got insecurities I got anxieties and fears and complexes and all this stuff that

I just picked up by being alive in this fallen world

And I noticed whenever I'd be with the Lord that I would have less of that and that he was working on you know

The Lord will do when you what no therapist can ever do

The Lord will can heal years and years of trauma of abuse. That's what his anointing is for in fact

Let's look at Isaiah 61

This is Jesus's number one sermon

We know this from the gospels because it says Jesus as was his custom

He went into the synagogue and he asked for the book the scroll of the prophet Isaiah

And he would read look at Luke chapter four. He reads from Isaiah 61

Which is really awesome because he's reading a scripture about himself

And because he knew some of his listeners were too dull of hearing they wouldn't figure that out

He said this day the scripture is fulfilled in your ears. I'm the guy that that's talking about

He said the spirit of the Lord God is upon me because the Lord has anointed me

And then there's the description about what the anointing does

This is no joke actually felt right in worship

Before the second service

Lives hang in the balance here your life hangs in the balance here

2025 can go one way or it can go an entirely different way and there's actually people

And events that are dependent on you getting a fresh touch of God

There's people and events dependent on you

Being a friend of the holy spirit and having a god encounter you got to have a god encounters that had one when

30 years ago have another one

He doesn't limit you to just one

But you got to have one anyone whoever did anything in the scriptures of any significance that had a god encounter

Abraham had a god encounter Isaac had a god encounter Jacob had a god encounter Moses had a god encounter

David had a god encounter hey after Moses we saw Joshua couldn't even go into the promised land until he first

Had a god encounter

Solomon had a god encounter

You

You get to have a god encounter. Hey, it's already been purchased. It's been purchased with the blood of Jesus

You say okay. I won't what does it require requires you being open you being hungry and asking for one

And really being hungry

The anointing is attracted to true hunger

Hunger out of the heart of man and it comes in the form of God. I need you. I need you

I'm not self-sufficient. I'm not independent. I need you. I need you more than the air that I breathe

You know what Solomon said the touch of God's heart so much

He said I don't know how to come in or go out unless you lead me

He was already a prince. He was already successful. He was an adult

And he said I don't know how to come in and out of a door

Unless you lead me and God said I like that and then he said because you've asked for you

You haven't asked for riches or fame but you asked for wisdom now. I'm going to give you wisdom and riches and fame because you humbled yourself so much

It's that humble lord. I need you cry coming to my life that activates the power of God. You see it all throughout the gospels

Hallelujah. I want your 2025 to be an overflow year a supernatural year

But it's not going to be a supernatural year if you're closed off to the supernatural

The spirit of the Lord God is upon me because the Lord has anointed me to preach good tidings to the poor

And then I came across this and I had a broken heart

I knew it was but I

I don't know. I just knew I was messed up whenever I would check inside. Oh, it's like a horror show

And I didn't really even have that bad of a past but for me was a horror show

He has sent me to heal the broken hearted the anointing will first

Patch you up so you stop sabotaging yourself and getting in your own way

It's very hard to make good advance healthy advancements in life when you're just a walking wound

The anointing will heal the broken hearted the anointing is to proclaim liberty to the captives and the opening of the prison to those who are bound verse two

To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord and the day of vengeance of our God to comfort all who mourn

To console those who mourn in Zion to give them

beauty

For ashes the Lord has a wonderful divine exchange program

He takes our trash our crud our ashes and he gives us beauty by the anointing

There is nothing that you're facing right now that more of God's anointing can't solve

Hallelujah

Hallelujah

You can go to so many churches and never even hear the word of anoint never even hear the word anointing

And go for years

That's criminal

Because it was Jesus number one subject

It was in his last name

In fact to be a Christian it means little Christ you're a little anointed one

Hallelujah

In fact when that new car comes in that's what the license plate will say

I will

Depends which one they let me have

It'll be anointed or it can be an N

Ointed one

I've given this some thought I didn't just say that right now

I've given this some thought

I hope I hope nobody skids nobody skids driving behind me in that anointed vehicle

To give them beauty for ashes the oil of joy for mourning the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness

That they may be called trees of righteousness the planting of the Lord that he may be glorified

This is all the results of the anointing

so

I'm 18 for the first time. I'm reading Isaiah 61

I sense the Lord coming to me. I sense him changing me. I sense him healing me

And I'm falling in love with him. I went from loving God to being in love with him

And two years later I go to a church in Toronto

This church had four million visitors in several years in the mid 90s

It was a little church at the end of the airport runway in Toronto

A little church of several hundred people that when revival hit them quickly

Outgrew that and they bought a giant warehouse and became a church. I became a church turned it into a church

The pastor of that church is going to be with us next weekend

Friday night Saturday night and Sunday morning. Do not miss any of those services

a mighty man of God

I actually didn't ask him to come

You'd mention I didn't he said I want to minister and bless your people

I don't think that's coincidental at the start of 2025 when

Somebody of that caliber says I want to minister. I want to bless your people

He's coming here at 83 years old for no other reason than to see you go further in God and get positioned right for 2025

So there is an outpouring

In this church

Started January 20th in 1994. I'm visiting it in January of 1996 just two years later

And any given night they have 15 nations in the service

They all have headsets. I know today that might not look so cool, but back in the mid 90s

Everybody had translation headsets those from another nation

They could you look like the United Nations and people other translators speaking so people could understand

But that's not the good part the good part is the presence of God was there in a way that I had never seen before or experienced before

When you walked into the church it was like walking into a bubble of heaven

It just

felt like an open heaven you felt alive and you I mean

People would walk in and instantly start weeping

Because of the presence of God in fact even before you walked in there was some people that would be on all force

Crawling into the building because of the glory of God

This is in January in Toronto. It's like minus 10

Hallelujah

And I'm hungry. I know the anointing is the good stuff and I want more and I want more Jesus and more the Holy Spirit

So that first night I go

I go to the service and it's wonderful. It's awesome

And then announced after the service if you want prayer there's a ministry team that will pray for you

But I'm one definitely one prayer

But I didn't know about this ministry team. I've never seen that model before

If ever I visited a church it was in my own church. I wanted the senior pastor to pray for me

That's not right. It's just how I was

I just figured this guy seems like he knows more about what he's talking about than everyone else. I want that guy

And I had this ministry team which communicated something that it wasn't about the person

It was about God

It was a bug out God using anyone

So I stood on this line and there was just this

Regular people on the ministry team and the guy with his wife that came up to me look like a hitchhiker

He had a hiking backpack on

Like with the metal frame and everything like he had three bags stacked up on top of each other

But they all seem to glow with this love and peace like otherworldly creatures like they had been in that anointing for so long

I just remember staring and I'm going they look different they move different these people are in the holy presence all the time

And they come up to me on the first thing I noticed was they weren't yelling because I came from a church where everything was a yell

If you weren't shouting

You weren't anointed

Anointing was a factor of decibel level they weren't they were real quiet in fact it was the opposite and then

Church I was a part of really really when they laid hands on you they lay their whole hand on you and their elbow and their shoulder with a hip movement

They believed in the leaning on of hands not the laying on of hands. I don't like that

In fact, if ever there's a heavy-handed

Ministry team member let us know right away so we can have a talk with them nobody should be moonwalking backwards when getting prayed for

I want the real and you by the way you might ask what is this all about there's catchers and why would

Why do people fall down? There's a very spiritual reason for why people fall down sometimes you're ready for the answer

It's because they can't stand anymore

It's that deep

Why do people fall down they can't stand anymore? Well, I don't see that anywhere in the Bible. That's because you haven't read the Bible

That's not my fault go read the Bible and you find it in the Bible

You'll read in Chronicles how they dedicated the temple and the glory of God came down and says nobody was able to stand

You'll read all the time how Jesus had to pick people up how people were lifted up

You'll see how in the garden of Gethsemane they came to arrest Jesus

They said where is he and he just said I am he within that he said the name of God I am and every they don't show you this in the movies

Even in the good ones like

Passion of the Christ they don't show this scene

But it's in the scriptures. He says I am he and all those soldiers that came to arrest him they fell down

Why they fall down because they couldn't stand anymore because when this mortal finite body touches the supernatural

Something's going to give out and it's not going to be God

Hallelujah so they come up to me and they're whispering they go they only put two fingers

Towards my forehead

Dear Jesus won't you just come and touch just touch this young man

Just Lord and then it just more holy spirit and they didn't even touch me

I didn't feel anything, but when they said more holy spirit I crumble I just

I didn't nicely fall back for the ushers to catch me. I just crumbled like a bag like a bag of rocks just

Crumbled down

I'm shaking under the power of God. I'm crying. I'm laughing. I'm crying laughing and I'm laughing crying

There is a response

Now if you're struggling with control

You're gonna come to God like he's Burger King and you're gonna demand to be your way right away

You're gonna say God I want you to touch me, but nothing weird or strange see

I don't mind one

Like really cinematic teardrops slowly coming down my cheek

But I don't want to cry cry. I don't want to laugh laugh. I don't want to shake. I definitely don't want to fall down

Can I be cool and you touch me and the divine response is no you cannot

Nobody nobody in the scriptures was cool when Jesus touched them

Find me a scripture where someone was cool. No

They went walking and leaping and praising God

Walking and leaping and praising God

They lost their marbles when Jesus rolled into town rushing towards them because of the anointing

He said well Jesus never acted that way true. He's God, but everyone he touched did

Hallelujah

So I crumbled to the ground and I feel like a fireman standing over me with a fire hose

Just dousing me like a high-pressure washer

Just getting rid of all the debris and the cobwebs and the hurts and the pains and those things that were binding me and

causing me to

Be miserable and feeling out of sync with God. It was all coming off

Look, there's a picture of this in the scriptures

When Jesus raises Lazarus from the dead. That's a type of the new birth. It's a type

Of getting saved

Lazarus is raised from the dead

but

Lazarus is still in his grave clothes

He's mummified. So the next words Jesus says is

Loose him

Loose him release him and let him go. I was raised from the dead, but I wasn't loose yet. I was still

God do something with my life. Why do I keep falling? Because your feet are all tripped up tied together

I felt anointing coming and doing an operation on me

Which set me really on a path

To having an experiential Christianity that for some people when you say experiential Christianity

They hear different things. They might hear not a word or scripture-based Christianity

No, no, you can only have an experiential Christianity if you have a word-based

Scriptural Christianity. Doesn't mean getting goofy getting flaky getting weird

Some people for the first time they're hearing that you can have an experiential Christianity. What else is it?

I didn't give my whole life for religion

That would be the saddest story ever

Definitely not for some frontal lobe in Christianity where I try to understand the ways of God with my intellect

No, Paul he prayed for the Ephesians. He said I pray that you would know the love of God which can't be known

How do you know the love of God that can't be known?

You experience it. He said it can't be known. You look at the two different Greek words one is I pray that you would know

Experience the love of God that cannot be known intellectually

And that's what he wants for you because your 2025 is dependent on it

There is a grace upon us. How many of you just by a show of hands you feel like the last full few years

You've been like in a holding pattern of sorts like things just are

Yeah, I have even though so much has changed for me personally still. I feel like this isn't it

But when God butters your steps things just start crack a lacking and snapping in place

pop pop pop pop and and I'm telling you years happen in weeks and months happen in days

You just he puts you on that accelerated lane

Hallelujah

Let's read Revelation. Thank you for the three people clapping. I appreciate that you're gonna have I believe a very good year. Amen

Thank you Jesus

There has to be a hunger and you can't be happy with where you are

Now this this passage here became very real to me. This is Jesus addressing the church

He addresses

Seven different church ages in Revelation. This is the church age the wherein the leo de cnh

And to the angel of the church of the leo de cn's right

These things says the amen the faithful and true witness the beginning of the creation of God

I know your works that you are neither cold nor hot

I could wish you were cold or hot

So then because you are lukewarm and neither cold nor hot. I will vomit you out of my mouth

Well, what does it mean to be lukewarm?

Well, he defines it in the next verse

Because you say you say I am rich have become wealthy and have need of nothing

That's a very dangerous place to be

To be independent

Self-sufficient and I'm really raging against

Obviously the way mankind and humanity is since day one which is proud

But especially against the current culture

That's all about empowerment this and just

Who are you who I'm high nothing apart from Jesus nothing

And that kind of humility that kind of desperation that kind of hunger is like a magnet for the Holy Spirit

When you get to the place where you can say like Solomon

I am not all that far from it put the mask down

Drop it you're only hurting yourself and you're not even fooling anyone

I don't know who that was for but that was for somebody. I yelled at you in love

The mask has to fall

Because men people are professional hiders

What did Adam and Eve do right after they sent they hid

You ever wonder why Jesus cursed the fig tree

Here's all these theories of seasons and I just believe he doesn't like fig trees

He doesn't like fig because fig leaves is what man used to hide and cover themselves with is

Those are the things that you do your fake posts and your fake pretend life and your fakeness and all those are all your fig leaves

You're trying to cover up and you're utterly wretched and naked without me so confess that

Show me your need and then I'll meet you there. Yes

So there has to be a cry lord. I need you. I want you

I need you more than the air that I breathe more than the food that I eat the water that I drink. I need you

I need you come. God. I'm nothing apart from you. You are my life. You are my everything

That's what causes the holy ghost to come and drop on your life a cry from your heart where you need him

To the proud arrogant mask fig leaf wearer. They're saying oh, I'm okay. I'm rich. I've become wealthy

I have need a nothing wake up. Don't you know

That you are wretched miserable poor bind and naked. I counsel you to buy from your gold refine in the fire that you may be rich and white garments that you may be clothed

That the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed and anoint your eyes with eyes south

That you may see

Hallelujah

Hallelujah

Are you ready for more of the Holy Spirit in 2025?

Thank you Jesus

So there

There are hindrances to receiving from the Holy Spirit a big hindrance is religion and tradition

You see that really evidence in the ministry of Jesus because the number one people that opposed them were the Pharisees and they were also the most religious and most traditional

He's the one that he said you know neither the scriptures nor the power of God you should know both

Sad is those people a lot of times people who claim to know the power of God they don't read the word

And they're swinging from the light bulbs and get goofy

And then there's those who are only reading the word so they don't know the power of God, but they know the scriptures

Eat some bread and drink some wine they go great together

Yeah both together all spirit you blow up all word you dry up

Put the two together and you grow up and where's church on Sunday you'll show up

And when the QR code flashes you'll pay up

Yeah

And when the trumpet sounds you'll go up

Hallelujah

Thank you lord

Where was I in my preaching what was I just talking about

hindrances religion and tradition the Pharisees opposed can you imagine you spend your whole life studying the scriptures

That all have to do with the Messiah

So you're the one who's supposed to recognize him when he comes and yet they not only didn't recognize him

They were his primary opposition and they crucified him that is what religion and tradition is

You know what Jesus called him white washed

Sepulchers pretty and clean on the outside he said inside you're full of dead man's bones

That's what religion and tradition is I hate it

I hate it because I see how it robs people from the life of God

He gives them the appearance of godliness, but it denies the power thereof

And so religion will say things like well, I don't know about the Holy Spirit

I don't know about the supernatural I've never seen that happen

Well what you're saying is you've seen every which way the Lord moves every possible way the Lord can move you've seen it and

It doesn't compute for you how arrogant can you be

Well, he's never touched me that way

So then he just doesn't touch people that way because he's never touched you that way

Did it ever occur to you that maybe you're the one missing out?

No, it couldn't be me. It's everyone's the whole world not me

Hallelujah

One of the biggest hindrances is people's need to be in control

I want to be in control

And you got to give up control to the Lord even in the context of getting touched from God

When he first would come upon me, I would freeze up

I freeze up

And I muted I could see my brain scrambling trying to process and compute in my spirit

I feel the Lord's it just let go just let me do a work and you just trust me

You know, I don't want I don't want to fake it

You know and it always comes so like

Not just proud, but the these excuses that keep you away from the Lord come masquerading as something noble

Like well, I don't want to I don't want to fake it. I don't want to be deceived by the devil

Okay, so I'm putting more faith in Satan's ability to to deceive than in God's ability to bless what

That's a hindrance

Jesus knew about that hindrance. That's why he specifically said if you ask your father for bread

You're gonna get bread. You're gonna get an egg. You're not gonna get a snake. You're gonna get a fish. You won't get a scorpion

In other words when you want the Holy Spirit you'll just get Holy Spirit some other weird spirit isn't gonna sneak in there

You have Jesus's word on that

But people want to be in control for other reasons

usually because of pride

Sometimes it's just fear

Fear of the unknown fear of crossing over

But when you do cross over you'll realize you're more at home over there than you are here

That's the real place

Yeah, people come to him with a menu

I'll receive you Lord, but in this way

No crying no laughing no exuberant worship

Anything you gotta let go and be willing for anything

There's people who come up for prayer. They're so in control. It's like they're wearing cleats and then they actually brace themselves

All right

Pray for me

People like that. I don't even touch. It's gonna be blessed

I see you're so terrified. You're so terrified of falling down

Let me not mess with you. Be blessed from afar

Hallelujah

Hallelujah

Hallelujah

Hallelujah

Hallelujah

Hallelujah

Yes, some people are afraid even of speaking in tongues

Or could it be the devil

There's a lot of things that could be the devil you know these people who are afraid of losing control

I remember witnessing back in college people. Oh, I don't want to lose control bro

You just spent 48 hours partying you got drunk out of your mind

You can't even remember the last 24 hour. You're telling me now you're afraid to lose control

People who drop six gummies go get bottle service

Swing from the light bulbs and party and then coming into shwale. You know, I don't want to lose control

Your life is out of control as it is

Lose control. It'd be good for you to the Lord

And then they want to get all this well could it be the devil could speaking in tongues be the devil

It's speaking in tongues. It's from the devil. How come the mafia doesn't do it

How can you never hear Vinny say? Hey, Luigi

Go bring out that 45 and ramata kashala rabos tatata

How come at the how come at the head of the pride parade there isn't like 10 people going

Oh

Worship team, why don't you come on up

Thank you Jesus

Hey, some people their hindrance their hindrance is a fear of love

There's people and right now I know in my spirit. There's people here. You actually are afraid of God's love

You don't even know you argue with me, but really I've been doing this a while

You're afraid of God's love because people have hurt you

People that were close to you have hurt you so you put walls around to keep them out

But that same wall that you put to keep people out is going to keep God out too

This is the ask that I'm asking you is to open up your heart

It's surrender to the Lord into his anointing

Come

For as I know you can maybe make it to all three, but a majority of you can

This is a journey you need to go on a quick hit won't do you

A Friday night a Saturday of deep marination

Asking the Lord to bring his supernatural touch into your life

hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah

And then be on the lookout for the Lord doing things in your day to day

As you go to sleep as you wake up

You're going for a walk

When the Lord first started touching me I'd be on the Long Island Railroad

I'd have to hide my head so people wouldn't think I'm insane. I just start thinking about Jesus. I'd start weeping

I just hide my head because I didn't want him to think I was like having an episode or something

But what I'm saying is I could get touched on the train

Be on the lookout for him in prayer open up your heart

Because this year is going to be here the supernatural

hallelujah

hallelujah

Thank you Lord

Listen when when you're flowing in the Holy Spirit

You're in this relationship with him

He'll give you instructions weird things will happen he'll speak to you at funny times

Tell you what to do next

When he speaks pay attention do what he tells you to do success is attached to it

This morning as I'm driving Brian I saw your face

And and I heard something I haven't heard ever

And he he said I he showed me some things about you

About your future and he said I want him to preach on a Sunday

Amen and I sense it needs to be before Easter

So and what and the head the Lord's hand will come up. This is in you. He's put it in you

And I know you know that he's been as I'm saying that right now

But you're going to preach and it's going to be like fire

You

It's going to be awesome

I was just minding my business with my son singing worship

hallelujah hallelujah

Just close your eyes

Halla rava shingha dararara suntanta hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah

hallelujah

Pendasta serim pola la lanta la raveva vava vanga dararasta support for

hallelujah hallelujah

A blessed 2025

A year that's stopping soaking wet with the presence of God

hallelujah

Thank you, Jesus

Thank you, Jesus

Thank you, Jesus

hallelujah

ministry team, I want you to go to my left

You're right. That's the ministry area beyond those lights if you want prayer for anything

Our ministry team

Including the hitchhikers and campers

We'll meet you there

The people who love the Lord and people who want to see you blessed

Let's all stand

If you want prayer go and meet them meet them in that ministry area

We'll see you every night at 7 p.m. For our prayer meetings

And then do not miss next Friday and also know next Friday won't be here. It's all on our website

It's all in the email you'll receive and have received

Lift up your hands and just say this holy spirit

Whatever you want

Do it in my life. I'm hungry. I'm desperate for more of you and your will

In Jesus name

Shouting amen

hallelujah

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