There Is Power in You — Receiving the Holy Ghost

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Without further ado, let's get right into it. God bless. I thought I had one

up here, but I don't. Hang on a second.

Hallelujah. Hang on just a second. He's going to bring it to me.

Okay. Anybody glad to be in church tonight?

Amen. Thank you, Daniel. I thought you had it in your hand. I got it somewhere. Acts 1 and 8.

Acts 1 and 8 We had a little piece

of technology We're losing here I don't think I put it in my pocket Nope,

It's just this little microphone helps you If you do it on the video it makes

it sound better And I don't know what I've done with it,

Don't get old You know what I mean Don't get old because you lose stuff,

I'm going to put this where I don't forget where it's at And then you forget

where you put it And I did that today I put that little microphone thing somewhere

so I'd have it. But guess what? I don't have it.

But anyway, Acts 1 and 8, shall we? We'll go without it. Praise the Lord.

Familiar scripture tonight.

But ye shall receive power after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you,

and ye shall be witnesses is unto me,

both in Jerusalem and in all Judea and in Samaria and unto the uttermost part of the earth.

And I would also like to read Ephesians 3.20.

I think I've got that up there. I got that. Yeah, there we go.

Ephesians 3.20. What did I do? I might have put the wrong one in there. Looks like I did.

Hallelujah. I can't blame nobody but me. You know, I'd like to be good Blame somebody, wouldn't it?

I can't blame nobody but me, though. All right.

Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or

think, according to the power that worketh in us.

Amen. And I'd like to talk a little bit tonight about the power in you.

The power in you. Can we pray one more time? Lord, we love you.

Thank you for your blessings, God. You're good to us, oh, Lord.

Help us, Lord, as we stumble along, try to do good.

Amen. Lose things and put the wrong scriptures in.

Hallelujah. We love you, Jesus, regardless. We love you, Jesus.

We really do love you. Hallelujah.

Oh, God, we honor you tonight. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Woo.

Praise the Lord. Hallelujah, Jesus. Hallelujah, Jesus.

Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.

Praise God. Praise God. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.

Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Praise God.

Amen. You may be seated if you want to. Aren't

you glad you got the Holy ghost tonight aren't you

glad one day god filled you with the holy ghost tonight oh

yeah thank god thank god hallelujah hallelujah

we stress the holy ghost we stress receiving the gift of the holy ghost because

when you receive the holy ghost you receive something one thing you receive

but we're not really talking about tonight but i talked about it today at the

mission when you receive the holy ghost you receive the spirit of grace Peace.

You receive the Spirit of the Holy Ghost. In case you don't know,

the Holy Spirit is the Spirit of Jesus Christ.

The Spirit of God is the Spirit of Jesus Christ. Amen.

Somebody say, it's all in Him. I said, it's all in Him.

So when you receive the Holy Ghost, you receive the Spirit of Jesus Christ.

And when you receive the Spirit of Jesus Christ, you are receiving the Spirit of grace.

And I was talking, I'm going to just kind of ease into where we're going here

tonight, because it all goes together.

When you receive the grace of God, the Spirit of God, the Spirit of Christ,

you receive that graciousness of God.

The reason the Bible says we're saved by grace, and we understand that it means

unmerited favor, but it means a lot more than that.

It's by the grace of God, the unmerited favor that comes to us from God comes

to us because He is gracious, because He is good.

I said, because He is good. Amen. man.

I respect the Lord, and I respect him, and I know the Bible tells us to fear

him, and I do fear him, but I tell you what, I know he's a good God,

and he cares about me, and he cares about you.

Praise the Lord, and he wants what's best for us. Praise the Lord.

He's not against us. He is for us.

Can I tell you, he's for you tonight?

I said he's for you. He's not against you tonight.

Praise the Lord. When you receive that grace, and I talked about it today,

about divine grace, that graciousness, that something that comes from God,

that something that he puts into our lives, and we start talking better,

and we start using manners, you know.

Anybody still believe in manners? I do. I don't know about you.

They need to teach them at the drive-thru, though.

Praise the Lord. I catch myself, they'll hand me my food, and I catch myself

saying thank you to them.

And they ought to be saying thank you for coming to Burger King.

Thank you for spending your money. You know that?

Amen. My friend Anthony told me, he said, my grandma told me that your spiritual

graces will take you, or not your spiritual, but your social graces will take you a long way in life.

Somebody appreciates it when you're gracious and you say thank you.

Don't you appreciate it when somebody says thank you? Don't you appreciate it

when somebody doesn't just barge through and knock you out of the way and they say, excuse me?

Isn't that better than just knocking somebody out of the way?

So when you receive the Spirit of Christ, you receive that grace.

And that grace is to be formed in us, okay?

And another part of that is when you receive the Holy Ghost,

the Bible lets us know that there is a power in you.

There's an ability in you. that God puts in you.

There's a power that comes from God. Praise the Lord. And it's just like the grace that's divine.

It's divine power. Praise the Lord.

It's divine something that comes from God that enables us to be what He wants

us to be. Praise the Lord.

Praise the Lord. He gave us, I said, there's power in you tonight.

I said, there's power in you tonight. I said, there's power in you tonight.

Amen. Don't discount the power that's in you. Amen.

Praise the Lord. The Bible says that the kingdom of God is not in word, but in power.

All right. The Bible also says that God has not given us this.

Paul told Timothy that he was not given the spirit of fear, but of love and

power and love and a sound mind.

Aren't you glad for a sound mind tonight? Praise the Lord.

But God has put something in us that is real.

Anybody believe that the Holy Ghost is real tonight?

Praise the Lord. Let's see Ephesians 1 and 18. Let's read this. This is so good.

Now, and he said, now I noticed that the scripture that got me thinking about

this, whereas he said, 320,

he said, according God, it's exceedingly abundantly can do exceedingly abundantly, not just not.

He doesn't say that God can do above what we can ask or think,

but he says exceedingly and abundantly above what we can ask or think.

But then he says something, and he says, according to the power that worketh in us.

We need to let the Holy Ghost work in us. Praise the Lord.

The Bible says don't quench the Spirit. Paul said forbid not to speak with tongues.

Paul said that he spoke with tongues more than everybody, but I want to tell

you it's more than just speaking in tongues.

When that Holy Ghost, you get that Holy Ghost, you got power.

I said you got power. Praise the Lord. You got ability that you didn't have before.

Praise the Lord, you got ability in you that you didn't have before.

But the part about it got me when I was thinking about this was that worketh in us.

You know, God is, the Lord is a gentleman, and he wants to work in our life.

I said he wants to work in our life, but I said he wants to work in our life,

but he's not going to make you do nothing.

He'll teach you. He'll lead you. Like they say, you can lead a horse to water,

but you can't make him drink.

I don't know about you, but if he leads me to water, I want to drink.

I said if he leads me to the water, just let me drink. Praise the Lord.

Amen. man, I want to do whatever the Spirit of God wants me to do,

because it's power that's working in us. Don't say you can't do it.

I can't do that. Well, if you've got the Holy Ghost, you can.

Come on, say amen. Let me find this scripture I got written down here.

Ephesians 1 and 18 says it like this. Paul says that the eyes of your understanding

be enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of his calling and what the

riches of the glory of his inheritance,

in the saints.

Now, Paul's saying, I want your eyes to be open.

Okay. Let me flip over here and go to the verse 18 in the Amplified.

He said, by having the eyes of your heart flooded with light.

So that you can know and understand the hope to which he has called you and

how rich is his glorious inheritance in the saints,

his set-apart ones, and so that you can know and understand what is the immeasurable

and unlimited and surpassing greatness of his power. Hallelujah.

Hallelujah.

This is good stuff here brother young I don't care who you are he said I'm going to read that in that,

the King James says it like this what is

the riches of the glory of his he says that you may know the height the calling

the riches glory and what is the exceeding greatness of his power to usward

who believe according to the working of his mighty power now let's break that down a little bit.

What I'm getting at is don't say you can't do it because you can if you got

the Holy Ghost. Don't tell me you can't live right.

Don't tell me you can't do right. Come on, somebody. Anybody still believe the

Holy Ghost caused you to live right?

Anybody still believe the Holy Ghost caused you to talk right?

Praise the Lord. Brother Winters used to say, and it'll make you spit white too. Praise the Lord.

Amen. Anybody, you believe in the power of the Holy Ghost tonight?

Amen. And he said, now, listen, he said, so you can know and understand what

is the immeasurable and unlimited and surpassing greatness of his power in and

for us who believe as demonstrated in the working of his mighty strength.

Now, how powerful is that? How powerful is his power?

Okay. How powerful is that Holy Ghost?

How powerful is it? Well, here's how powerful it is, which he wrought in Christ

when he raised him from the dead. Hallelujah.

That's how much power that is working in us or should be working in us.

That Holy Ghost is for us to work and live and do and operate in the power of God. Praise the Lord.

And I'm not just talking about in signs and wonders. Maybe we need more of that. I know we do.

But I want to tell you, that Holy Ghost, there's power working.

Don't tell me you can't quit smoking.

Don't tell me you can't. But you know what you got to do? You got to let it work in you.

You got to let it get past your own mind and say, wait a minute, I got the Holy Ghost.

I can do all things through Christ that strengthens me. That's what Paul said.

I can do it all. Praise the Lord. I can do it. I can give it up if the Lord

helps me. I can do it. Praise the Lord.

We need an I can do attitude, not an I can't attitude, because he is able to do.

Exceedingly and abundantly above all that we can ask or think according to the

power that worketh in us.

That power that the Bible says to usward, which is what he has entrusted us

with or what he has committed to us.

When you got the Holy Ghost, you didn't get just nothing. That's not just to

make us feel good, which it does.

That Holy Ghost is more than just make goosebumps go up and down our back.

That Holy Ghost will give you power, the ability, praise the Lord.

That Holy Ghost puts strength in your ankle bones. When you can't walk right,

that's why God gives us the Holy Ghost, so we can have the power to do right

and walk right, praise the Lord.

There's a lot of people tonight that need the Holy Ghost.

There's a lot of people that like to have the Holy Ghost. And I tell you what,

we ought to be a group of people that's glad we've got the Holy Ghost tonight.

Amen, because there's power working in us.

Amen, there's power in us. I said there's power in us.

Power of God, the ability of God to perform is in us.

Well, you know what that means, Brother Young? That means we don't have no excuse, folks.

We don't have no excuse. We can't. The old timers, you know, we don't have no excuse.

Say, well, you know, I just have a little trouble with lying.

I can't help lying. Yes, you can.

Yes, you can. I just have a little trouble with this and a little trouble with

that, and that's just the way it is. Well, you better get that Holy Ghost working in you then.

Come on. I don't want to frustrate the grace of God, do you?

Amen. man, I want that Holy Ghost working. I don't want to quench the spirit

by saying I can't do something.

I want to have an attitude that says by the spirit of God, it can happen.

Praise the Lord. The Holy Ghost is powerful.

The Holy Ghost will help me overcome if I let it. I said, if I let it.

Ooh, praise. I thought y'all would be jumping, climbing the pews by now. Hallelujah. you.

No, I'm kidding.

Praise the Lord. I'm going to tell you, you got power in you.

God committed it to you. He entrusted you with it. Amen.

And the Bible says you shall receive power. After that, the Holy Ghost has come

upon you to be my witnesses.

Amen. You got everything we need, Peter said.

And I'm trying to turn to it as I'm talking. But you got everything you need

to be a witness for Jesus.

I said, you got everything. If you got the Holy Ghost, praise him.

And let me say, if you ain't talked in tongues for a while, it'd be good to

find you a place and bury your head down and pray to God and say,

God, fill me all over again.

Let me talk in tongues all over again, Lord. Let me just cry and weep and get full of that power.

Praise the Lord. It works in me. There's power working. I want it to work in me.

I said, I want it to work in me. There's power in you.

There's power in me. And when I pray this way, I say, Lord, I just hate talking

about me all the time, but I'm the only one I know as good as I know. You know what I mean?

And I do. I pray, say, God, I want it.

I'm not too worried about being rich. I'm blessed, man. I don't have,

ain't nothing I need. I got everything I want and need. Don't need nothing. Don't want nothing.

But I want to tell you something. I'm not too worried.

Well, I got to be honest with you. When I see them Cadillac Escalades go by,

I kind of like to have one of them.

I don't need one but boy they sure are pretty when they slide by

you know it's kind of like the old mighty mouse cartoon anybody remember

mighty mouse them cars was so long when they'd go around the corner they'd bend

in half you remember that they have them limos and that limo go and that limo

turn and the front would turn before the back and it was real long them cadillac

escalades slide by them sure are pretty i ain't gonna lie to you but when it's all said and done.

I really don't want, I mean, I, you know, I'm not really, I don't definitely

don't want one enough to pay for it. Praise the Lord.

That's a lot of money that, but so really, I got everything I need.

I really don't want nothing.

You know, I don't want to be covetous. I don't want to be covetous.

I don't want to, I don't want to be dissatisfied with what I have.

You know, one thing the Holy Ghost do, it'll give you satisfaction.

Amen. You can be satisfied with what you got. You don't have to be implacable and unsatisfied.

Some people got so much blessing, they don't know what they got,

and they got an attitude, always wanting more, never satisfied with what they got.

But I don't want to be that way. But I'll tell you what I do want.

I want that Holy Ghost working in me. I want that power.

Now, I'm not talking, I mean, now I know, I understand that,

you know, Jesus said, you lay hands on the sick and they shall recover. And I like that.

I wish my faith was greater. I get that. I want that. I mean,

I want to have greater faith, but I want something else.

I want that power that exposes itself in me through my life.

I want to be a real witness for him.

I want to be known as a Christian, don't you that's what I want I want to be

known as a man of God I really do and I pray that because I've been around some in my day and you have to.

I've been around men that had it. They had the power of God.

And it wasn't because they called themselves an apostle and were laying hands

on everybody. It's because they're abiding.

There was something abiding with them. And it was the power of God to be his witness.

I was with Brother Spall one time. I was young, just wasn't married yet.

This was and there was a fellowship meeting and it was at Brother Garcinet's

actually. before they moved over on Washington Street. That's how far back it goes.

And I was riding with him in the car.

I could take you. He was coming off 70, coming up Holt Road.

I can tell you exactly where we were.

And I was driving along. It was just quiet. He's driving. Nobody's saying nothing.

And all of a sudden, you know what it feels like? You know what it feels like

when the Holy Ghost just comes in.

You ever been in a service and you could just feel the Holy Ghost come in?

Well, we're riding in that car. And it's like Jesus got in between us or in the back seat.

Oh, well. And I was too backward at the time to say anything.

I was too, I didn't know what to say, but I knew I felt something in that car.

Oh, something just happened here. That's what I want. I want to,

when I come in, I want, you know.

I'm not trying. I'm not saying it to be. I'm not trying to be a big shot.

I'm not talking about that.

I'm talking about, I want that abiding power in me. Hallelujah.

That's working. That I might be a real witness, praise. That I might really

be kind. And that I might really be joyful.

And that I might really be happy. And I might really be nice.

And I might really be a good person, praise alone.

Don't you want to be known as a good person? Don't you want to be known as a Christian.

Clean, walk right, got a good attitude, got all this stuff that God has given

you, this power, this Holy Ghost power, this dunamis, this explosive power of God.

That's where they get the word dynamite. I'm telling you, when you get the Holy

Ghost, there's explosive power to blow out sin, get out grudges out of your

life, get out ugliness out of your life, get sin out of your life, hallelujah,

get a bad attitude out of your life, get a bad spirit out of your life,

put joy in your heart, put love in your heart, hallelujah, and give you what you need.

There is power in you, praise the Lord, and God wants it to be working, amen.

Hallelujah. Somebody clap your hands. Praise the Lord. I'm here to tell you, you have something.

If you have the Holy Ghost, you have something. Hallelujah.

See, we don't have no excuse. Not that we're looking for one,

but we don't have one because he's given us.

Listen to what Peter said when I wrote it down there. 2 Peter,

where did I write it? Praise the Lord.

2 Peter 1, I think. All right, let me find it.

Praise the Lord. I'm going to just preach my heart here and be done.

Praise the Lord. Get me a Diet Coke on the way. Hallelujah.

This Daniel calls him a gray lady. Hallelujah. Get me a gray lady. Hallelujah.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy,

has begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ

from the dead to an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled that fadeth not away,

reserved in heaven for you, who are kept by the power of God through faith unto

salvation, ready to be revealed in the last day,

whereby you rejoice, greatly rejoice,

though now for a season, if need be, you are in heaviness through manifold temptations,

that the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perishes,

though it be tried with fire,

might be found unto praise and honor and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ.

I want this divine power, don't you?

I said, I want this divine power, but there's more to it.

He said, the Bible says that he has given us all things that,

He has given us all things that pertains to life and godliness.

God has, when he gives you the Holy Ghost and gives you his power,

he gives you everything that you need to have a good life that pertain to life

and to godliness. That's what I want, don't you?

Anybody want it tonight? Come on, help me out here a minute.

Amen, amen, amen. Hang on, I got to find this, praise the Lord.

There it is. 1 Peter 1 and 3. That's what I want. What did I do?

I read 1 Peter. That's my problem.

I got a lot of problems tonight. Pray for me. Hallelujah.

Now, here's what I really wanted to read. According, verse 2,

grace and peace be multiplied to you through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord,

according as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto

life and godliness through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue,

whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises,

that by these you might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the

corruption that is in the world through lust.

And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue and to your

virtue knowledge and to knowledge temperance and to temperance patience and

to patience godliness and to godliness through brotherly kindness and to brotherly kindness charity.

For if these things be in you and abound, they make you that you shall neither

be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

In other words, the power in you is what you need, praise the Lord.

Everything you need is in Jesus Christ.

Everything we need is in the spirit that God has given us. Come on,

somebody. I'm here to lift up the Holy Ghost.

I'm up here to uplift the power of Jesus Christ.

I'm here to tell us, hey, we can live for God. You can be saved.

You can make it another day. You can go forward. You can be victorious.

You can be more than a conqueror. You can. You can.

You can. Praise the Lord. I believe we can make it.

I said I believe we can make it. We can go forward.

We can keep doing it. We can live for God. You mean you tell me you can? You can.

I said you can. You can be clean. You can be delivered too, I believe.

And let me say this, sometimes we preach like this, but let me say,

if you've got some kind of problem or some kind of habit you think you can't

get over, you just keep on coming. Don't let me drive you away by the way I'm preaching.

But let me tell you, if you let God work in you, He'll give you the power to be an overcomer.

He'll give you the power. You just need, but I want to tell you, sometimes...

Sometimes we need to get it in us. We need to let his power work in us.

Let his power get in our mind because he's not going to override our mind.

But if we get his mind, praise the Lord, we can be an overcomer.

If we get it in his, if we get in tune with him and in his spirit and get our

spirit lined up with his spirit, you can be an overcomer. You can live for God.

You can be saved. Praise the Lord. You do have strength.

I said you do have strength. I said you do have strength. You might not feel like you do, but you do.

I said you do. You know we can go further than we think we can.

We can do more than we think we.

Said, there's nothing we can't do. We can go forward. We can live for God.

Somebody clap your hands or do something for me. Hallelujah.

Somebody help me out here a minute. Praise God. Well, I'm talking about the power of the Holy Ghost.

I said the Holy Ghost power.

You shall receive power. After that, the Holy Ghost has come upon you to be my witnesses.

Amen. You can live for God. Don't let the devil tell you I can't live for God.

I can't do that. I can't live like those people live. I can't dress like those

people dress. Yes, you can.

And you'll be glad to do it once you get that Holy Ghost. Hallelujah.

Once you get that power working in you, Jesus on the inside, working on the outside.

Oh, what a change in my life.

Hallelujah. I said Jesus on the inside.

He's supposed to be working in us, praise the Lord. Somebody say, let the Holy Ghost work.

Let the Holy Ghost work. Let the Holy Ghost work, praise the Lord.

Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah. You have power in you.

Hallelujah, hallelujah. Are you glad that you got power in you tonight?

I don't know about you, but I'm glad. I want to tell you, God can help you through.

You don't think you can make it, but you can.

I said, you don't think you can make it, but you can. You don't think you can

give that up, but you can.

You don't think you can quit that. You can. Praise the Lord.

I'm thinking of Richard Wilkins, thinking of Richard Wilkins.

He got the Holy Ghost, got the Holy Ghost.

Matter of fact, Richard Wilkins was the one that recommended me to come preach

for Brother Matthews years and years ago, first time.

And Richard was on drugs, on cocaine and everything, and he got the Holy Ghost.

And Brother Matthews went over to his house and he had his TV on and Brother

Matthews just kind of looked at the TV.

He didn't say nothing. Richard said, oh, Brother Matthews.

He said, oh, Brother Matthews. He said, I'm trying to give up.

He said, I'm trying to give up cocaine. He said, I'm getting off cocaine.

He said, don't make me do TV all at once too, praise God.

Don't ask me that, Brother Matthews. Don't ask me to do that too, Brother Matthews.

I'm gonna tell you what though, with the Holy Ghost, you can let everything

go that God wants you to let go.

I said, with the Holy Ghost, you can let it go, baby.

Well, you'd be glad to let it go. I want that tower working in me.

I want it flowing in me. I wanna let go of water.

Hallelujah. You see, I can't sell God short.

I can't sell his spirit short. I can't make excuses for him.

I can't make excuses for me. I can't make excuses. I want to be tolerant, people.

I want to, what's the word? Gentle, kind, loving, all those things.

But when it's all said and.

I guess you guys are all just doing like Sister Haven used to say.

Say, well, they're being quiet. That's because they're listening.

Hallelujah. I hope everybody's just listening that there's power in you.

And if you don't have the Holy Ghost, you can have the Holy Ghost before you leave here tonight.

And you can have that power in you that'll lead you and guide you into all truth.

It's like the Bible says the comforter. her. It's like one who comes alongside to help you.

That Holy Ghost is to help you. Let me go back a minute.

Like I said, let me say, I'm all about speaking in tongues, but I want to tell

you, there's more to it than that.

You know, we get the Holy Ghost when God's got control of our tongue.

Maybe we need to give him control of our hands.

Maybe we need to give him control of our mind.

Going in the drugstore, getting in my billfold and buying a fifth of Jack Daniels.

He don't want me going in a store, sticking my hand in my pocket and pulling

my money out and buying something he don't want me to have.

And I say, well, I can't. Oh, come on now. The power's in you.

This is not me tonight. This is what God says. There's power in you tonight.

I said, there's power in you tonight. But you need to let God cultivate it.

Let God work in there. Let God get you.

You know how you build up your most holy faith? Praying in the Holy Ghost.

You know, sometimes we need, you know what? We have problems sometimes.

We need to get a, I'm just going to preach here. We need to find a place of

prayer and stay there till we pray through. Praise the Lord.

Man, you guys are quiet on me tonight. Hallelujah.

Brother Gary Keller said he was young and the pastor, every time somebody would

come to the pastor and they'd talk about something and the pastor would say,

the pastor would tell them, pastor would just tell them, you need to pray through.

You need to pray through. And Brother Keller, he was a young preacher and he'd

say, when I become a pastor, I'm going to have a better answer than that.

You know? So he became a pastor and he started reading books and he wanted to,

and people would come and he'd try to get the answer out of a textbook,

you know, and try to have a better answer.

But you know what he said? He said, after pastoring for a while and people come

to him with their problems, he said, I just told him, you need to pray through. Hallelujah.

Need to pray through. That's all there is to it. You got a problem.

You got a situation you can't handle.

How about just finding a place and praying in the power of the Holy Ghost? Praise the Lord.

Just letting that power loose, praise God, in your mind, in your heart,

in the limb. Let it shake you. Let it do whatever it wants to do.

Hallelujah. That's why the Holy Ghost moves. It shakes us. It quakes us. It does things.

And that might look foolish, but I want to tell you, when that Holy Ghost is moving.

Now, there's more to it than just a shout. I understand that.

But I want to tell you, when it's doing and the Holy Ghost is working like it

should, there's a shout.

There's a moving of the Holy Ghost. But when you get done shouting,

when you come down off that mountain, you're going to walk right. Hallelujah.

You're going to walk straight. Praise God. You're going to do ways and do things

God wants you to do, because that's what the power is all about.

It's not just power to jump up and down. It's not power just to shout.

It's not power just to talk in tongue. It's not power just for that.

It's the power to really be his witness.

Let's raise our hand right now. Say, Lord, stir up the power in me.

Come on now, everybody. Stir up the power in me, Lord.

Stir it up, God. Stir up the power. Hallelujah.

Come on, saints. Well, you say, well, this power of drugs and homelessness and all this stuff.

That spirit is strong in Mars Hill and there ain't nothing we can do.

Things. Let's come against them. Let's work the power that's in us. Hallelujah.

Let's put it to work. Let's believe. Does anybody believe God's able tonight?

Does anybody believe God's got power? Does anybody believe he can make a,

he can do anything that needs to be done?

Well, but it's according to the power that works in us. Hallelujah.

This one's been cooking for a couple of days. Okay.

Paul told the Colossians, He says, for this cause, we also,

since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you and to desire that you

be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding,

that you might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing,

being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God.

Ready? Strengthened with all might,

according to his glorious power unto all patience and long suffering with joyfulness.

Don't say you can't be patient. Oh, yes, you can.

I can't put up with yeah, you can.

I can't get over my attitude. Yes, you can. Now, listen to this.

Power unto all patience, long-suffering with joyfulness. I got to read this in Amplified.

You'll have to excuse me, but you don't have to excuse me because I'm going

to read it anyway. Praise the Lord.

That you walk, live, and conduct yourselves in a manner worthy of the Lord,

fully pleasing to Him and desiring to please him in all things.

Do you have a desire to please him in all things? I do.

You do too, or you wouldn't be here.

Okay. Bearing fruit in every good work and steadily growing and increasing in

and by the knowledge of God with fuller,

deeper, clearer insight, acquaintance and

recognition we pray that you may be invigorated and strengthened with all power

according to the might of his glory to exercise every kind of endurance and

patience perseverance forbearance with joy hallelujah,

If we say we can't do it, we're saying God can't do it.

Because the Bible's telling Paul saying, I want you to know,

I want you to understand that you can have the power of God in you,

and you can live right, and you can do right, and you can walk with the right attitude.

You don't have to get mad and cuss somebody out every time somebody pull in front of you.

You don't have to have road rage. I'll never forget.

I just got the Holy Ghost. I mean, weeks, and I'm driving, and I was going to

take the route over to go to Lafayette, and there was a young guy that, we was buddies.

We used to go drinking together and everything, and, you know,

I was just young, and I just got the Holy Ghost, and I was waiting on traffic.

I was driving the truck, and he was sitting over here, and I was driving the

truck, and the traffic, we just had to wait and wait and wait,

and I was just chilling out.

I just got the Holy Ghost. The traffic wasn't bothering me none.

Had him all shook up you know come on i was these people come on come on come

on come on come on i'm just chilling out you know you get the holy ghost you

can just chill out let everybody else be all upset you just chill out i'm just

chilling out he said i don't understand he said i don't understand why you're not getting upset,

young, just got the Holy Ghost, and I just looked at him and said,

that's what the Holy Ghost will do for you.

I was just young enough in the Lord that didn't know what else to say.

That's what the Holy Ghost will do for you. We don't have to go through life

all worried, all impatient, all tore up, our spirit all upset,

all impatient, and all that.

We can rest in the Holy Ghost. We can rest in that power that's in you.

I'm preaching about the power in you tonight.

I'm trying to tell you, you got the power. You got it.

If you got the Holy Ghost speaking in tongues, if you spoke in tongues,

you got the Holy Ghost. Come on.

Now, I better not go down that road. I started to go down that way.

You know, you can't always follow every rabbit trail, I guess.

But you know what? If you speak in tongues, you got the Holy Ghost.

That means you can live for God.

Now, it's good to talk in tongues every chance you can. But the Bible says the

Holy Ghost is the initial evidence of receiving the Holy Ghost.

You know what the real evidence of receiving the Holy Ghost is? The fruit of the Spirit.

Is that Holy Ghost, that power in you, is it growing? What do you call it that

goes up in the sap in a tree?

If that tree don't have no sap, it ain't going to grow. If that tree ain't got

no sap coming up in there, it ain't going to bear no fruit.

Okay? But I'm going to tell you, the sap that God puts in an apple tree to produce apples works.

An apple origin and right at the end of summer they got so many

apples they don't know what to do with them they got apples

laying everywhere why because god put the power of

the apple in the apple tree and god puts

the power of what we need in us when he gives us the holy ghost amen the fruit

of the spirit love joy peace patience long suffering all those good things are

in us i don't know about you but i'm glad about it as music comes that's what

i want i don't want to be rich.

I just want to be known as a Christian, somebody that's long-suffering,

somebody that's patient.

Now, you pray for me, because I've been married 43 years, and I have found out

it's easier to lose patience with your husband than it is anybody or your wife.

Sometimes we get upset, and we say things to our wives or our spouses that we

wouldn't say to nobody else.

Somebody give me an amen on that. Come on now.

I told you I don't want to do that. Ring, ring, ring. Oh, hello.

Praise the Lord, Brother Matthews. Sure, I'll preach for you.

But I'm glad we got power in us tonight. Come on, folks.

Let's don't go down. Let's go around downcast. Let's don't go around saying we can't have revival.

Let's don't go around saying it can't be broken. The powers of darkness can

be broken by the power of the Lord. Come on, somebody.

Amen. When he gave us the Holy Ghost, he brought us out of darkness and put

us into his kingdom and brought us into the kingdom of his marvelous light. Praise the Lord.

He broke the power. He can still break the power of darkness.

I said he can still break the power of darkness. The power of light is greater

than the power of darkness.

So? You can have a dark room. You can have a pitch black room,

and you light one little match, one little flick of the bick,

light up to everything. Amen.

Let's raise your hands tonight and say, Lord, work in me tonight.

Oh, let us get a hold of it. You see, Paul noticed.

He prayed. He said, this is what I'm asking for. This is what I want you to understand.

I want you to get a hold of this, that there's something working in you. Hallelujah.

There's something in you. Hallelujah.

God put it in you. You shall receive power after that the Holy Ghost has come upon you.

And you shall be witnesses unto me, not just talking, but by your walking and

by your living and by your spirit and your attitude.

Hallelujah. Anybody want to pray tonight? Let's open the altar.

Anybody want the Holy Ghost tonight? You say, I got an attitude problem. I got a spirit problem.

I say things I shouldn't say, and I really don't want to say them.

You just need to ask God to give you the Holy Ghost.

You need to ask God to help you overcome because he can.

Anybody got something you're struggling with tonight? You'd like to say,

Lord, I need to overcome. I need to be an overcomer.

And Lord, I realize you have the power to do all things. There's not anything you can't do, Lord.

Help me not to make excuses. Help me to lean on your power.

Help me to lean on your power.

Because the power is in me.

According to the power that worketh in us.

Let's let it work, saints. Go ahead and start the music. Let's let it work. Hallelujah.

Hallelujah, Jesus. Hallelujah, Jesus.

Thank you for listening to our podcast. Southwest Apostolic Church is a place of refuge.

If we can help you, we'd be glad to do it. Pastor's cell number, 317-469-3100.

If we can help you, we'd be glad to do it. God bless.