Full of the Holy Spirit | Pastor Jim Cymbala | Tuesday Prayer Meeting | The Brooklyn Tabernacle

Everybody good? Hello, my name is Goldie and I live in Ohio and I  attend Brooklyn Tabernacle online services. Just   this past Sunday, July 26th, I joined the  9 9:00 a.m. service with a huge financial   burden on my mind. Just after worship, before the  sermon, Pastor Simba asked those with financial   needs to come forward. I wondered if it was God  answering my prayer for a financial miracle. So,   I keyed in while Pastor Simba prayed and asked  us to trust God to provide for us. Since then,   I've been reminded I have reminded God about how  he led the pastor to pray for us and asked him to   please answer that prayer that I had for the money  burden, financial burden. I w as I was dreading   how I was going to make it through the rest of the  month, I decided to check my bank bank balance and   out of nowhere was pleasantly surprised to see  a transfer of money into my account. Indeed,   I can make it through the month and God  answers prayer. Can we just thank him for that?

people here in the front. This is the best to the church. Deacon Kevin Quinn on my way  home after a full day of Sloan Keterling. My   encologist was very pleased with my blood work  results and scan scans. He's been fighting right   for years. Yeah. My tumor markers have  decreased from 1941 to 854. Wait, wait,   wait. Another cancer test showed my numbers were  now in the normal range. Perhaps best of all,   the MRIs, Come on up, singers. Perhaps best  of all, the MRI showed that the cancer tumor   on my pancreas and on my liver has shrunk for  the first time. It's only a slight decrease,   but it's actually shrinking. exclamation mark. Um  because of the side effects, the D uh doctor gave   me 5 days off the pills. She thinks it will help  my strength. Praise the Lord. I feel free feel   free to share this with the pastors, but I did  more. Kevin, I know you're watching. I know you're   watching. You know how much we love you, Kevin  Quinn. How much do we love Deacon Quan Quinn?

and thank everyone for their prayers.  God answers prayer. So, we were short.   I I'll give a couple here unwritten. We were  short today. I'm getting praise reports left   and right today. God is so good. I want to I  want to jump over the stage and do a moonwalk   here across the stage. Um we were a little  short in meeting all the needs for the kids,   the BT kids weekl long retreat. $700 per child.  We couldn't charge that, so we're charging $30,   but there's going to be hundreds going. And  we were just short some. And then a friend,   he might be watching who I haven't Carol and I  haven't seen in 25 years. He used to be the music   director at David Jeremiah's church. That's when  I knew him when we were out there speaking and   and doing whatever she Carol was doing. And uh he  said, "I watched and I saw the need that you had."   and he enclosed a check for $25,000. Come on.  Come on. Let us praise God. Come on. Louder than   that. Let us praise God. We praise you, God. We  praise you, God. To God be the glory. Sing to God.

Be the glory to God. Stand up everyone. Be the glory for the with his blood. He has saved me. and raise me to God for the Let's Lift our hands and sing God.

We praise you, God. We honor  you, God. We honor you,   God. We praise you. We exalt your name. The  great congregation celebrate your story. Heat. Heat. Hey.

Amen. We're going to celebrate communion tonight.  We're going to hear a great report from some   missionaries. We're going to have a special song.  We're going to have a lot of things tonight. God's   going to help us mostly to pray. Amen. So, if your  last name begins with M N O P Q R S T U V W XY Z,   if your last name begins with X, come up here  and and uh stand up here on the platform. But   if your last name is that, come on to the  front. Come on to the front. To the front. You need that mic. Go ahead. We're  going to praise God together. Oh man,   who's ready to worship? That's so great hearing a  pastor's testimonies of we come and we have needs,   right? We have needs and we bring him to Jesus  and he hears and he answers prayer. Amen.   Isn't that amazing? God is amazing. Let's give  them our best tonight. Lord Jesus, my Come on,   sing it out. My hope, my hope is there on  nothing else. And Jesus love righteousness.

I cannot trust the sweetest gra. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Christ we made and through the stor. Oh yes, he is Lord.

Oh darkness darkness to  hide his face. Oh, I change in every story. Yeah. Heat. Heat. Yeah. Heat.

Heat. Heat. He shall come with trumpet sound in him. his righteousness to stand before he shall come. Sh.

Heat. Yeah. Heat. Heat. Heat. We praise you Jesus. Come on, give him  praise all over this place. Hallelujah.   We bless the name of Jesus. Oh, we praise  your name. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Lord.

We bless your name God. Hallelujah. Oh, thank you Jesus. Oh, we praise you today God. We  worship you Jesus. May it never become mundane   or ritualistic or just something we do. But  God, every time we come into this place, God,   may we lift our voices and our hands and praise.  God, may we worship you with all of our hearts,   God. Oh, we're so thankful, Jesus. We're thankful  for the blood. We're thankful for the sacrifice   that you made on that cross. Hallelujah, Jesus.  Oh, we thank you, God. Hallelujah, Jesus. Sing way back. Oh yeah.

It will never. Come on. For a reaches to the highest mountain. Heat. Heat. Heat. Yeah. Today she Jesus for me is Glor.

Yeah. Heat. Oh, heat, heat. It reaches to the highest mountain. Heat. Heat. Heat.

Heat. Heat. Not again. We praise you, Lord. We praise you. We praise you. We praise you. Lord,  just praise him right where you are,   more than ever before. Lord, I  love you. We praise you, Lord.

We praise you, Lord. We praise you. We love you, Jesus. Let's sing more than ever before. Lord, I love you more than ever before. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. I come to you.

I love you. Come on everyone who loves  the Lord, sing to him and Yeah. Heat. more than ever before.

Lord, thank you that we're here tonight. You gave  us one more day to live. This is the day the Lord   has made. We're going to rejoice and be glad in  it. Lord, you also said we should pray this way.   Give us this day our daily bread, but give us our  daily everything that we need today. Daily grace,   daily strength, daily encouragement for those  who might have walked in here discouraged. God,   please lift their hearts, God. Lift their hearts.  Quicken them. Remind them how much you love them.   That they're going to make it. They're not going  down, they're going up. You're going to help them   today, Lord. teach us how to pray, lead us what to  pray for, how to pray, and we just thank you that   we're part of the body of Christ, and that you're  our savior, and you promise never to leave us nor   forsake us. Fulfill your word to us and help  us tonight in Jesus' name. And everyone said,   "Amen." You know, I read to the church, the  BT12 that gather at on 12:00 noon on Tuesdays   and Fridays. I read to them today from first John  and it says this among other things. By this we   know that we pass from death into life because  we love the brothers and sisters. One of the   signs that God has really changed you is when you  love other brothers and sisters. So we're going to  

take communion soon. We got to drop all hate,  all resentment, all bitterness. Whoever stuck   it in your back and turned it once or twice, we  got to release it in Jesus' name. Amen. And Jesus   said this way that by this everyone know you'll  be you're my disciples. Not because you carry   Bibles or know a lot about scripture or are used  in the gifts of the spirit. All of those things   are important, but because you love one another.  Wherever love is, God is because God is love. So,   um, they're going to just play. All the ladies,  show a little love to about six or eight ladies.   Brothers, show a little love to some brothers,  will you please? Come on, give someone a hug. Well, that's that's high, isn't it? That  high more than ever before. Lord, I love you.

Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. You may be seated. Thank you, singers. So,  the theme right now here as we get ready to   you have the bread and the cup. If you don't  have it, just lift your hand. The usher the   deacons will serve you. But, uh, right now, Jim  and Melissa, you come up if you be so kind. So,   do you know why? Look, this everyone look  attention. You know the bread is the symbol   of the bread matzah there the body and the  cup is the symbol of his blood. You know that   uh you know how this all happened  because God so loved the world.

He loved us before we were born. He loves us.  He is love. The longer I walk with God, I don't   understand a lot of mysteries in scripture. I do  not understand the love of God. It's so deep. How   many have found it so deep? It It's so strong.  And the enemy tries to condemn us and then we   fall back on the fact that God loves us. and and  um so the greatest verse songwriters I was talking   to Bill Gaither yesterday well-known songwriter  and we were talking about this song I found out   my friends Jim and Melissa Brady were staying over  in New York they were here Sunday but they were   staying over for the prayer meeting and I said if  they're staying for the prayer meeting they got   to sing how many say amen to that you just don't  walk in here and come to a prayer meeting you got   to thing. So, um, uh, Gather and I were saying,  Bill and I were saying that many people say the   greatest lyric ever been written, and it's very  mysterious. No one knows who wrote it. Supposedly,   it was found on a wall in some cave or some  place that that uh about the love of God. If   we with ink could the oceans fill and on and  on the love of God. So I thought before we   took communion they could sing it. Can we put  our hands together for Jim and Melissa Brady?

The love of God is greater far  than tongue or pin could ever   tell. It goes beyond the highest star and  reaches to the lowest hill. Heat. Heat. The wind is sh with the ocean skies of Mar.

Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Yeah. Heat.

Yeah. Heat. It's my favorite song, the love of God. If it  wasn't for his love, where would we be tonight?   Think where you might be tonight and me. I don't  want to think about it. The love of God. The   love of God. So deep, so rich, so pure. So the  bread, Pastor Hammond, if you come out, please.   The bread, could you undo the top part? The bread  represents the um body of our Lord Jesus Christ.   He was hung on a cross where he didn't deserve  to be, need to be. He was there for us there.   They had no accusations, no crime. And uh he was  put up there at 9:00 in the morning and he hung   there till 3:00 p.m. at which time around that  he expired. He gave up his spirit. But even on  

the cross, he was crying, "Father, forgive  them. They don't know what they're doing."   What kind of love is that? To pray for the people  that are killing you. So, and then the cup part,   which I'll instruct you to open, that represents  the blood that was shed. And the Bible teaches us   from the Old Testament, without the shedding of  blood, blood means life. Without the giving up of   a life, there's no forgiveness of sin. Sin is so  horrible to God. He's so holy that someone has to   be punished for every sin. The sinner is punished  unless somebody should step in and say, "No,   I'll take the punishment so they can be free."  Oh, love of God. Oh, love of God. We praise you,   Lord. Can you lift your hands and just  praise him for his love? We praise you,   Lord, for your love, for your kindness, for  your mercy, your patience with us, Lord.   Who is a godlike unto you? Who is a  godlike unto you that forgives sins?

That's the blood, the symbol of that.  And Pastor Hammond, if you come and just   pray over both the bread and the cup, and  then I'll instruct them. Okay. Thank you,   precious Lord. We are just so  overwhelmed by your love tonight.   We're sitting in this building. We've been able to  come in here freely. We could lift up our hands.   We could take the name of Jesus on our lips and  in our hearts. We are such a privileged people,   God. And we're so grateful tonight that  we're here. We're here because of you,   Jesus. And we're not just celebrating an event.  We're celebrating the love of God. And so Lord,   tonight as we partake of these emblems, we do it  with a heart of thanksgiving, a heart of praise,   a heart of just being overwhelmed by your love  tonight, God. This building would be empty were   it not for your love tonight. And so God, thank  you that we can be partakers of these elements   that remind us of oh what a love of God we  serve. Now help us as we take them. We take   them with love in our hearts. In the precious name  of Jesus we pray. Let us take the bread together.

Let's peel off for the cup. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. When I see the blood, I will pass  over you. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you,   Jesus. We're saved. We're going to heaven.  Only one reason. The blood of Jesus. Satan,   you have no accusation against us. We plead the  blood of Christ over our lives. They overcame by   the blood of the lamb. We overcome through your  precious blood. Tonight, let us take together. I think one of the deaconists sent me a  note. I don't know how many hundreds of   Christians have been killed in Nigeria in  recent years. It's high. So that well-known   Muslim militant group, they're they're on  hunting parties looking for Christians.   That might seem very foreign to you and me,  but in a lot of places in in the world, if   you're a Christian, your life is at risk. You know  that, right? So, those are brothers and sisters.  

I was reminded today because I was editing um u  a chapter of a new book that I'm working on and   um I tell the story which you've heard me say  about the time I was in Bangladesh which is   east of India Pakistan's on the west northwest  side Bangladesh is on the other I had never been   there it was a pastor's conference very few  Christians and under the gun I mean under the   um great hostility toward anyone who's not Muslim  and um I spoke in this little building. Other   speakers were there and the people by culture,  by habit I guess they were sitting on the floor   with their knees up listening, taking notes or  whatever. I had a translator and they took a break   when I was uh after I spoke and you just went out  into a side area and uh the room that I spoke in   was about as big as the stage and um I went out in  the side and one of my traveling companions said   to me, "You know the brother we told you about?  He's on the other end of the table." They just had   like picnic tables and bottles of water. That's  all the refreshments that were there. That's all   we needed. So they said, "If you want to see him,  go down there." And I had heard about him. He was   this Bangladesh man of God preacher who um was  bold, went into a village preaching the gospel.  

A young lady got saved, uh, confessed Christ,  received him, got all excited, went home,   told her husband in another village. Um, I'm a  Christian now. He was not happy. He exploded,   threatened her, and then got a pistol and went  right to where that preacher was and walked up   in front of other all the people and just fired  straight in his face. And the bullet ricocheted   all around. I don't know what happened, but if  you saw the man's face, you would know this was   not pretty. It ricocheted all over the his face,  but he didn't die. and he survived it. The guy,   I don't know what happened to him, the man who  shot him, but that man became like a legend or or   a a model, a hero of the faith over there because  as soon as he healed, they had surgery, the best   they could do. And the minute he got healed, he  went right back to the village where he won that   lady and he started preaching again the good news  of Jesus Christ. Can we thank God for people like   that? Some are shot at, some lose their lives,  some are just under the gun. But you know what?   When when Christians in Nigeria are killed, what  did the kids think? They lost their dad. How'd  

you like to lose your dad for no other reason  because he's a Christian? Think of the attacks   of the enemy, the the hints of fear that must  come on people. So, I think it's in order that   we pray tonight for all our Christian brothers and  sisters. Remember, the body of Christ is not New   York City or America. The body of Christ is huge.  It's all over the world. Amen. We have brothers   and sisters everywhere. And we're going to spend  eternity with them. you haven't met that guy that   I just told you about. I walked down there and I I  was I remarked to myself. I said, "Look at the joy   that guy has." Underneath that face that looked  like a a map, a road, like a road that had been   driven over. Um there was such joy. We're going to  be with all these people for all eternity. Amen.   I hope you love everybody, all Christians, all  colors, do you? You're not You don't prefer one   color over another, do you? No. Don't do that.  Don't do that. That's not right. We're all We   all bleed red blood and we're all saved by the  blood of Jesus Christ. So, we're all together. So,   you know what? Let's do that for a season uh of  just praying for persecuted Christians. Where are   they? They're everywhere. Especially in the Middle  East. Um Pakistan is no walk in the park. And   India now is getting much more militant. the Hindu  president there and um we got to pray for God to  

protect believers and then give comfort. You know  this is a hard thing because Jesus said if they   hated me they'll hate you. If they persecuted  me they'll persecute you. Am I right or wrong?   He said that. But we got to pray that the spirit  of comfort will come to those families and those   people that are Come on, let's stand up. It's a  prayer meeting. Every brother, find a partner,   face them, join hands, and one of you lead out in  prayer. Sisters, find a prayer partner. Come on,   decide who's going to pray. And let the Lord lead  you how to pray. If you want to name countries,   if you just want to pray in general, but God, for  all our persecuted brothers and sisters, we're   going to pray. Come on, pray one for another. The  Bible says, "Pray, intercede one for another."   Paul says, "Pray for me that God might grant  me boldness to preach the gospel like I should.   For God has not given us a spirit of fear,  but of love and power and of a sound mind.

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Protect our brothers and sisters.  Comfort the families, Lord. Preserve your people, God. God  have mercy, Lord. Turn it around,   God. Preserve them, Lord. Preserve them, Lord. Preserve them, God. Preserve them, Lord. Protect  the little children, God. Protect them, Lord. Oh God, help our brothers and sisters, Lord, in Africa, Lord, in the Middle East, Lord. in  China, Lord. In China, we lift up all our Chinese   brothers and sisters. Lord, in North Korea,  Lord, we lift them up, Lord. Protect them, Lord.

In India, Lord, Pakistan, in Egypt, Lord, oh God, protect your people. hear the cry of our  congregation, Lord. God, stretch out your hand,   Lord, and bring comfort, Lord, to those in  Africa that have lost family members, Lord. Oh God, help us, Lord. Help your church.  Help your people. Keep us strong, Lord. Father we love stay right where you are but singore Heat. Heat.

Oh, heat, heat. We're going to go right back and  pray some now. Um I want to pray for   um the churches in the Caribbean, whether it's  Trinidad, Jamaica, Haiti, all the little islands,   big or smaller. Um, the reports that I'm  getting are the churches are not growing   right now. Some are in kind of a negative  phase. I don't know what the problem is.   I don't care what the problem is. Jesus  is the answer to whatever that problem   is. And they need a revival like we need a  revival. If you're born in the Caribbean,   one of those islands I mentioned, not Spanish  speakaking, but English- speakaking islands,   could you just come to the front? Everyone here  from Trinidad, Jamaica. Anybody here? Come on.

Pastor Lincoln is going to come and pray. I want  you to represent your country. Okay. The rest of   us, we're going to pray. We need God to visit the  Caribbean. We need God to visit the Caribbean.   Do I get a witness here anywhere? God, we need  God to visit Haiti, Trinidad, Tobago, Barbados, Antigga, all the islands down there. Pastor Lincoln, Pastor Lincoln is a triny, but  he's going to he's going to pray for all the   places down there. Okay, are you ready? I want  to listen. You got to intercede for your islands,   for your people, right? We're going to pray  congregation, you're going to pray, too. Okay,   let's pray for every pastor and every church  that you can think of, brother. Hallelujah.   Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah  to God. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Lord   Jesus God, before we ask you of anything, God, we  praise you. We are serving a risen savior. We are   serving the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords.  We glorify your name, Jesus. We lift you up,   oh God. We magnify you. We say to God be the  glory. To God be the glory. To God be the  

glory. We thank you, heavenly father, for your  faithfulness, Lord. We glorify your name, Jesus.   We thank you for saving us, Lord, for healing  us, Lord, for cleansing us, Lord. We worship you,   Jesus. We enter your gates with thanksgiving and  your courts with praise. Blessed be the name of   our God. Blessed be the name of our God. Blessed  be the name of our God. We praise you tonight,   oh Jesus. We praise you tonight. We praise you  tonight. We praise you tonight, oh God. And Lord,   tonight we come Jesus calling on the name that's  above every other name on behalf of our brothers   and sisters in the Caribbean. Oh God. Oh God,  in the name of Jesus, all the countries. Oh God,   all the islands, Lord Jesus. Oh, from the lesser  antelles to the greater antelles, every island in   the name of Jesus, we are lifting up the name of  the Lord and we sing. Father, we pray, oh God, in   the name of Jesus, for all the churches, all the  churches that are calling on the name of the Lord,   we pray, Holy Spirit, you bring a revival. You  bring a revival to the churches. Oh God, bring a   revival to the the leaders, the pastors. Oh God,  cause them to worship. Cause them to praise you,   God. Give them a spirit, oh God, of evangelism  in the name of Jesus. Baptize them aresh. Baptize  

them aresh with your power. Baptize them aresh  with your might, God. Every leader, every leader,   every worker in the name of Jesus, every volunteer  in the name of Jesus across the Caribbean, oh God,   in the name of Jesus, spirit of the living God,  move in a mighty way in every church, my God,   in every church, every pastor that's discouraged,  every pastor that's that's discouraged. Oh God,   I pray oh God you would revive them. Jesus, give  them a fresh outlook. Oh God, let them look to the   cross and see Jesus victorious. Oh God, Jesus  victorious, Lord Jesus, Holy Spirit of God,   create a hunger, create a hunger, create a passion  in the name of Jesus. Oh spirit of the living God,   breathe, breathe out every church. Breathe  in every church. Breathe in every church.   Breathe in every church, my God. Every  young person, every young person, God,   cause a revival, cause a revival to move.  And oh God, in the name of Jesus, Lord,   we pray for those that call on the name of the  Lord. Father, do a new work. Do a fresh work,   my God. Spirit of the living God, do it, Lord  Jesus. Spirit of the living God, do it. Do it,   oh God. Breathe. Breathe. breathe that every  every church, every church that's called   on the name of the Lord. We're asking you,  Jesus, to do this work, to do this work. God,  

your people are crying out, Jesus. Your people  are crying out. Your people are crying out, God.   They know we know the church is back home. We know  the church is cry out to you. We cry out to you,   Jesus. We cry out to you. Do a work. Do a work. Do  a work. Do a work. Your people are crying out to   you, God. Let our Christ reach up to heaven.  Let our Christ reach up to heaven, Lord God,   and pour and pour your spirit upon your people.  Pour your spirit upon your people. God, you know,   Lord, folks have been praying for revival.  Folks have been praying for revival for a long   time. But oh God, begin the work. Oh God, even  this very moment, even this very hour, Father,   cause them Jesus, the bring the back slider  back. Oh God, bring the back slider back. Oh God,   bring the back slider back. Oh God, in the name of  Jesus, turn the hearts of the people toward you,   oh God, in the name of Jesus. Those pastors who  are discouraged, revive them, God, in the name   of Jesus. Those who have been asking you to do a  fresh work, do it in them. Oh God, we are praying,   Lord Jesus, and interceding on their behalf. We  are reaching up to heaven. Do a work, oh God.   Do a work in the Caribbean in the name of Jesus.  And we give you praise and we give you glory and   we give you honor. When we hear the report of  the Lord, when we hear the report of the Lord,  

God, remember Grenada. Oh God, remember Grenada.  Lord Jesus, remember Trinidad. Oh God remember   Jamaica. Oh God remember Barbados. Oh God remember  St. F. Oh God do the work. Oh God do the work. Oh   God do the work. Do the work in the mighty name  of Jesus remember St. Lucia. Remember Martinique   remember Guadaloop. Remember the Antila. Oh God  remember Jesus. All the islands. All the islands.   Oh God. Monerat. Remember Monserat. Oh God, in  the name of Jesus, the pastors, all the pastors,   all the pastors, do the work. Oh God, do a  fresh work. My God, in the name of Jesus,   in the name of Jesus, in the name of Jesus,  remember to beg her, oh God, remember to beg her,   oh God, in the name of Jesus. Oh, spirit of the  living God. Spirit of the living God. Spirit of   the living God. Spirit of the living God, we call  on your name. Breathe on the islands, breathe on   the islands, God. Breathe on the islands, Father.  In the mighty name of Jesus. In the mighty name   of Jesus. But we won't forget to give you praise.  We won't forget to give you glory. We won't forget   to give you honor. In the mighty name of Jesus,  we pray. Amen. And amen. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.

Let's sing it by faith over these  islands. God is moving by his   spirit. Come on folks from the Caribbean.  Lift up your hand and sing. Heat. Heat. Yeah. Heat. Heat. One more time. Sing. Sing with  all your heart to the Lord.

The Caribbean. Heat up here. Amen. How many How many years have you been there  now? How many How long ago did you three   So, let me just say this before I introduce  and we get a report from our missionary,   the Daryl family. That's Nick. That's his  wife Sandra. Eve is the pretty girl on the   end there. And that's Azie. And we've been  supporting them. You've been supporting them   with your giving. That's why we need folks. He's  there translating parts of the Bible into Ketwa.  

He's 100 miles from nowhere. He's up in a place.  The altitude is so high. Or those is it altitude   high where you live or no? Just 8,000. 8,000.  But you go to higher places than that. Well,   we have people in the balcony. That's as  high as we go here in our church. Um so, so   uh we need your giving. We really do. Offerings  actually were low on Sunday. Uh we're getting   special gifts to help us, but we need everyone to  just participate and be a giver. Be a giver. Be a   giver. Give systematically. Honor the Lord in your  giving and God will see you through. I I'm not   promising you anything. Those fake evangelists  who say if you give to them, you're going to   get hundfold and all of that. That's just a con.  That's they're con artists. I'm just telling you,   give and it shall be given unto you. God will  provide. How many believe that? Lift your hand.   He will provide in the thick and the thin. I  don't know how he does it. But most importantly,   you'll be laying up for yourself treasures.  Not here on earth. You can't take a dime   when you go. Not a nickel. All the money you're  saving and hoarding, those of you watching too,   use common sense. Ask the Lord for direction, but  be a giver. Invest in eternity in the kingdom.   And you can give as you leave here or you give  online. But I I And by the way, at the end of  

this service when it ends, I'm going to have this  family out there um to um so you can shake their   hand. So Nick and and Sandra Sandy, what your  ethnic background is? What? You're Korean? Yes.   and um she and Nick left here three years ago with  their kids who were three years younger than now   and uh went to way way way far gone. I've only  been to Lima, Peru. And I think by driving it   would be if you had to drive from Lima 16 or 20  hours heading toward Brazil to the jungles of   Brazil. and um they're doing a great work. I've  been concerned with them because I'm just going   to talk straight. I I don't want to embarrass  you, but I've been concerned because that's   such a drastic change for the children and the  mother and the father. He's busy doing his thing,   but they're she's helping school her children  and they are in some pro uh program online, but   they're very special people. And um I'm very proud  to know them. And Sandy is going a little slow,   I learned, on her English, uh Spanish. And uh she  she can speak Korean and she can speak English,   but the Spanish is coming along a little slower,  but not the two on the end. No, no, no. They are  

fuego. They're on fire with Spanish. So, you  know that verse in the New Testament that says,   "If you believe with your heart and confess with  your mouth that Jesus is Lord, you'll be saved."   Right? That's Romans, what is it? Uh, Romans 10  verse9. You want to hear a little Spanish? Come   on, Aussie. No clapping. Let him perform  first. It would be good. We got to hear. Yeah. With the microphone. Come on. That's what I'm talking  about. I'm talking about Azie. So, the whole family is going to  stay up here, but I wanted Nick and   uh to give a report, Sandy, however they want  to do it. We want to hear what God is doing,   what the stretching is like there. I mean,  the the the transition and all of that. Can   we hear it for this family? Come on,  let them know how much we love them.

Okay. So, the first thing I need to say is okay. Yeah, we're down for that. Whatever it  is. So I just said in Ketwa, how are you my   brothers and sisters? So that's what it sounds  like. That's one variant. Anyway, but um what   I really need to say is thank you. Um again and  again and again because we know how much you love   us because when we walk in this building, we are  swarmed with people hugging us and kissing us and   giving us things. And it's just like I mean it's  heaven on earth, right? To be with you cuz you're   our church. You're our family. This is the body  of Christ, right? This is we're one in him. So,   we just praise him for you and we thank him  for you. We know that not when we're not here,   you're holding us up before the throne in prayer.  So, um we would be nowhere without you guys. So,   we just praise you for your faith, your love of  Christ, and through him your love for us. So,   we just thank you so much. I think you should clap  for yourselves really because we are blessed to be   part of this family. Um, so yeah, I'm Nick, Sandy,  Eve, and Azie. Um, and yeah, we've been in PUR for   three years, and we before we were in BT for about  10 years, and the kids really grew up in BT kids,   and that uh has been a huge blessing. It really  prepared them for where we are now. It really  

gave them a solid foundation in Christ. Um, and  we actually Oh, yeah. Can we I have some We're   in a place called Abankai, which is um fairly um  it's a city. It's fairly remote. You can kind of   see it. So, Peruse up there in the green, and  then down here it says Aban Kai, Apuri Mak in   yellow. We're in Abankai, which is about 4 hours  from Cusco. And then I'll talk about a project I'm   working on later which is in Puno which is about  12 hours from where we live and that's at about   13,000 ft which means I don't sleep very well when  I'm there because the altitude is too high but   um so actually could you go to the next slide?  Okay. So, yeah, Alan Kai is almost 8,000 ft above   sea level and there's about 8,000 people that  live there or 80,000, sorry, and it's primarily   a Ketwa speaking culture. Um, people speak Spanish  there as well. It's a city, but the communities   you can in the hills there are communities all  around and a lot of those are mostly only Ketwa   speaking communities and those are all throughout  the Andes. Um, and then the next slide shows you   just a little bit of where we live. Um, this is  a view outside of our apartment. So, you can see   it's it's as Sandy phrased this, city living plus  rooster farm. So, that's pretty cool. Um, although   the roosters are not very polite. They decide to  crow, you know, add infin item whenever they feel  

like it. It could be midnight. Um, it's Yeah. I  don't like roosters anymore. I'll just say that.   Um, so this is uh just to show you a little bit.  This is at the kids school. There's Eve in the   middle. And they do this a lot. These are uh the  Andian the Ketwan people do a lot of dances. It's   part of their culture. So this is a traditional  one of the traditional dances. You can see this   young man in the green. He's a condor and that's  the their their bird. And um but really beautiful,   really interesting dances that the kids get to  kind of partake in as we're learning the culture.   And then the next one, okay, and this is Azie as  David because the school they go to is a Christian   school. And so they did a kind of an evangelistic  parade and did scenes from the Bible. So Azie   was David and then the following one is Eve and  they're doing with her friends and they're doing   the triumphal entry. So, and this was through the  streets of Aankai kind of as a a ministry. Um,   so just to give you a little taste of what our  day-to-day life can look like. Um, okay. So,   yeah, let me get to these fellows and some of the  other work. actually be we we can leave that up   but before I talk about them um so we work with  uh Wikliff Bible translators as pastor mentioned   translating the Bible and I work with there are  91 languages in Peru alone um 40 of them are  

Ketwa variants so Ketwa is a language family but  they're they're actually in the world 44 different   variants of Ketwa some are very similar but a  lot are quite different and so they don't really   understand one another um in certain areas. And um  we Oh yeah, another important thing is there are   many New Testaments already done in Peru but very  few Old Testaments. And this is really important   because you can I mean the New Testament is we  hear about Jesus. It's like it's it's you know   the new covenant but can you imagine not having  the Old Testament? You don't have Psalms. You   don't have Genesis. You don't have Exodus. You  don't have creation. You don't have any of this   context that really explains to us what Jesus came  to do and fulfill, right? He came to fulfill the   scripture. He he he this was his his purpose.  So, it gives us that background. So, to not   have that is, you know, it's a big deficit. So,  so we're working a lot in in the Old Testament.   Um, I want to also thank you because last time  I was here, I was uh asking for a prayer for um   a certification that I needed to continue to do  this work and in March I got it. So, thank you.   Thank you so much. And yeah, thank you for praying  and and standing with us in that because now what   that means is I can oversee projects and train  other people because there's a lot of work to  

be done and we need more people that can do what  I'm doing to finish the work cuz the goal is to   everybody has a Bible, right? Everybody needs a  Bible in their language that they can understand.   So that that has allowed me to continue to do this  work and also take on more projects and train more   people so that we can keep going. Um, and the main  job that I do is I train teams in translation,   but I also make sure that the lang that the  translations are clear and natural, that the   people can understand them, and most importantly,  that they're faithful to the scriptures, that the   translation really says what the Bible says. So,  so that's that's what I do to understand. Okay,   one other thing before I get to our translators  and the new the new project I want to remind   you last time I was here I did talk about this  but just to to know the spiritual um context in   Peru and in a lot of the Ketwa culture um is is  difficult um because it's it's really a mixture   of Catholicism and a and an old pagan religion  and really it's just the old pagan religion with   kind of a a layer of Catholicism on top. And the  problem there is, well, there's lots of problems   with that obviously, but one of the big things  is they they're very fearful and they're they're   very superstitious. And so they have um they'll  take Christian objects and believe that they have  

power. So they really turn Christian objects  into idols. So a cross can instead of just,   you know, representing Christ and what he's done  for us becomes like a talisman to ward off evil   spirits. That's not true. That's a false gospel,  right? And and I'm not saying that to criticize   them. I'm telling you this to cry out for them.  Right? That's that's dark. And that's twisting   the hope of the gospel into something that it  it is not. It's it's turning it into something   that it should never be used as. So So that's an  important battle that we're we're always fighting.   And that the Bible, the more that people can  read the Bible and have the full council of God,   the more they can see through those lies and be  able to fight against it. Okay. So this is this is   I want to get you excited about this work that's  being done. And I'm not the only person doing it,   but it's it's very important that people can  really know what does God say? What does he really   say? Who is he really? Okay. Okay. So, finally,  this these these men are Ketwa Puno speakers. So,   they they live near the border of Bolivia. That's  Jose, Auseavio, Epolito, and Heramman. And they   are doing a new translation that we just started  in April. That's a Ketuapuno. And there's about  

850,000 Ketuapuno speakers. So, it's a goodiz  group. And these guys, I love these guys. These   guys are all pastors. They they love the word. Um,  it's usually very cold in Hulyaka where Hulka is a   city near Puno because it's high altitude and um,  they're just a joy. I mean, you can kind of see on   their faces they are they're a good a good bunch.  So, so keep them in their in your in your prayers.   But the project we're working on is is actually  so I said we're you we're usually doing Old   Testament, but the project we're working on is a  full Bible and and we're using um Oh, we'll get to   that in a second. You can leave the Yeah. Uh we're  using it's a new project and it's experimental and   we're actually going to be using AI to do it.  And um so you can pray for that because I think   as most of us do have some concerns about AI in  general in the world. So I have concerns about it   with the Bible. But I can see that God is doing  something in this project. And um I'll explain   a little bit more. But we're doing AI because  typically it takes 10 to 20 years to do a full   Bible. With AI it's maybe possible. They think  they can do it in five. Maybe it's ambitious. It's   an experiment, but pray that. But I think going a  lot faster than 15 to 20 years is a possibility,  

especially if God's really doing the work here,  right? So, it's exciting to think that more Bibles   could be done at a quicker pace using AI, but we  need to pray about it. we need to and and at first   I had apprehensions about this but I I we know  that AI is not going to disappear and so it was   really exciting to me later God kind of said look  you need to know how this works what's good about   it what's bad about it so go do it and you know  take good notes and pay attention and keep you   know be in prayer bring it before me but don't be  afraid we don't have to be afraid of AI my friends   right we don't have to be afraid of AI god is  greater than everything. AI is never going to take   over and dethrone the Lord. Okay? I'm not saying  we shouldn't be cautious, but we don't have to be   afraid. So, and if it can be used to produce more  Bibles so more people can hear the the the word   of the Lord in their own language, well, amen to  that. I mean, let's do it. So, so anyway, we we're   we just started this in April. We're just getting  started. Um it's going pretty well. And oh yeah,   another thing that was really exciting is that  um I so with this new process, the translators   end up doing a lot of editing because the AI  produces drafts produces drafts for them to edit,   but that's a completely different skill and and  they're not usually trained in that. I used to   work in editing at a publishing house in New York.  and I was an editor and so I actually have that  

skill already which was another amazing thing  that God kind of provided. I was like, "Okay,   I'm ready. I'm ready to do this. I'm ready to, you  know, he he did that. He knew that years and years   ago that I was going to be doing this." So, it's  another just, you know, God has always prepared   the way. He always prepares the way for us. And we  never know what he's doing and how he's going to   use it later. But time and time again, this has  just been happening. So, this is the Ketwa Puno   team. Please keep them in their in your prayers.  Keep the the whole process in your prayers. Um,   you know, I'm excited about it. I want  you to be excited about it. But, you know,   we need the Lord to lead it. Okay. I would like to  share a quick testimony. Is that okay? Okay. So,   one thing um that happened right at the beginning  of this project, uh I noticed something a a very   crucial change that needed to be made immediately  and or right at the beginning before we got   started. And I emailed my supervisor and said, "We  need to make this change." Thinking he's going to   say, "Oh, absolutely." Well, he did not say that.  He said, "I don't think so." And I said, 'Okay,   I think maybe because it's a new method and a new  project that he might not understand exactly why.   So I said, 'I' going to try again. I tried again.  He said, 'N no. And he didn't say this, but it was   like, don't talk to me about it again. And I was  like, okay, case closed, but not really because   uh it was a big problem. And I talked to some  other colleagues who have been doing this for a  

long time and they said that is a huge problem.  You have to get it solved. And I said, okay.   So I had this idea. You know what? Maybe it's a  cultural problem. I know we understood each other   language-wise, but maybe there was a way that I  wasn't explaining it. So, I said, I'm going to   bring my friend in who understands this, explain  it to him, and then he can talk to our supervisor   together. He he works with me. So, he and I he  said, "Oh, absolutely. Let's do that." So, I   make the meeting. I go to the meeting. My friend's  not there yet, so we're kind of talking. Still not   showing up. Still not showing up. I said, "Well,  let's just start the meeting. We'll talk." We're   talking. We're going around why this change needs  to happen. My supervisor's like, "No, no, no, no,   no. This isn't going to happen because of this  and that." And I say, "But what about this?" Going   around. And then finally, my friend texts and  says, "I'm I'm not coming. I can't come." And I   was like, "You were the one that was going to make  this happen. Like, what do you mean you're not   coming?" Okay. So, I'm just like losing my mind.  Okay. to be completely honest, we're not supposed   to lose our minds, but I was starting to just a  little bit. Um, and so I'm sitting there and it's   probably been 45 minutes now that we're just going  around the horn and I say, "Lord, I you know,   I need you to do something. If you don't want this  change to happen, I guess that is not going to   happen." But I think as far as I can tell, this  really needs to happen or this project's just   going to almost, you know, maybe fail right from  the get- go. and that would be terrible for the  

people for for the whole for everybody. And I'm  just sitting there silently. And I look over and I   don't remember what I said. I think I repeated one  other thing that I had said already. And he says,   "Oh, oh, sure. That's fine. Yeah, yeah, go ahead.  Let's do it. That's a great idea." And I'm said,   and I just looked at him going, "What? Wait, I'm  What? What did you say?" Yes. And he we he I I   I I have no idea what changed other than the Lord  changed it. I mean just completely there was this   understanding. Okay, that may seem like a small  thing, but I want to explain to you why it's   it's a big deal to me and why it was. I was I felt  first of all, I just felt rescued. God was like,   "No problem. Thanks for asking. I got this one.  But he was also telling me this project is mine.   It's not yours. It's not your supervisors. It's my  project. It's my word. And I am going to take care   of it from this moment. And you know now what I  can do until the very end. So just keep asking me,   keep bringing it before me. It's my word.  You think I'm not going to take care of it?   So yeah. Amen. Right. Praise him. It's like but  so it's it's a big deal. And and also just like   communication in translation and just in general  when you're in another culture is difficult. You  

think you know, you don't know. You find out  everyone's thinking something else. So I just   wanted to share that with you. Encouragement. You  guys again encourage us so much. So praise the   Lord. Praise him. Okay. You know what? Let your  wife say hello. Yeah. Actually, do you want to go   to the next? Come on. Come on over here. We whole  family. Pastors, come on around. Say hello. Say   something. Thank you so much for this opportunity  to share uh the love and the power of what God's   doing. And it is a difficult uh but very important  vital work for people to have the word of God for   people to know him in the first place and also  to deepen their understanding to have clarity.   Actually if we could go to the next slide. Um I'm  I'm like the wind beneath his wings. I don't know   anything about translation, but God put this on my  heart to um create these double-sided cards with   links to the Bible in Spanish on one side and  Ketwa on the other. Great. And actually, one of   the brothers here, Jonathan Vieas, who's with the  missions department, he designed these beautiful   cards. And we hand these out as an evangelistic  tool, but also because the word of God in this   version of Ketwa is completed where we live, East  Apurimach, Ketwa. But I don't know, people don't  

know. And so we h we had these cards made so  we could give them out to the taxi drivers,   the people at the market to as in the villages and  so on. But also because people don't know, they   all have cell phones. I I went to in the village  um where we just visited with Pastor Petri. There   were about 40 or 50 people. I said, "Raise your  hand if you have a cell phone." Everyone raised   their hand. I said, "Raise your hand if you have  the Bible on your cell phone." One person raised   their hand. So, they need resources. And you can  listen to the Bible. You don't have to read. You   can listen. They have audio. They have visual  visual resources. And so I'm just excited again   to partner with Brooklyn Tabernacle and to  to do things like this because it's important   to get the word translated and then to get it in  people's hands and in their phones. Amen. Amen. So So let me stay here. Stay here. So  let me get something straight. No,   go back. Go back. Go back. The last slide.  So did a biblia Spanish. So, biblant biblant.

No, no, no. You got to hear that. I want to hear  ketua. By the way, Sandra, how many languages do   you speak? You speak Korean still. Oh, you don't  have Korean. Korean. Oh, you're adopted. You never   learn Korean. Oh, you're crying. Yeah. So you  speak English and you're learning and you and   you're learning Spanish. Yeah. So brother just  say it out loud in in Ketua that that one thing which means the same thing. Yeah. Which means  which means do you want to know more about   the Bible? And it's Psalm 34:8 which says  taste and see that the Lord is good. Amen. Come on, stand here. Pastors, come behind.  Everyone, just turn your heart toward this   family. Lord, you have raised them up. I did  not raise them up. This church did not raise   them up. Almighty God, we give you all the praise  and glory for raising up such a beautiful family.   Protect them in Peru. Guide them in Peru. Continue  to give Nick and Sandy great wisdom, discernment,   especially Nick with what he's doing. Lord,  let him just sense your arms underneath him,  

holding him up. No matter what he goes through,  watch over Eve and Azie. Lord, keep them close to   your heart. overcome any loneliness or transition  difficulty. Lord, I just thank you for them. You   sent them there. You're working through them  and we praise you for it in Jesus' name. And   everyone said aloud. Let's one more hand for  the family. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Eve, do you know a verse?  You don't know a verse. Well,   come here. Translate for me. Okay. Can  you speak Spanish? Good, right? Pretty   good. Okay. Translate for me. All right.  I'll say in English. You tell the people   in Spanish. Okay. Okay. Hello, everybody.  Hola toos. I love Jesus with all my heart.

I'll see you in the lobby. Amen. Amen. Isn't she beautiful?  She's my girl. One more time. You're going to be a good translator.  You're going to be a good translator.   You know, if you don't have a good translator,  you're cooked. You know that, right? If you're   preaching somewhere or speaking, you don't have  a translator, it's over. First time I went to the   Philippines, they told me before the meeting, "We  have a great translator for you." I said, "Good,   because uh they were putting it in Tagalog."  So, the the translator never came and they're   late. Are they coming? There was a rainstorm.  So they said, "There's a sister in the church,   but she's good in English. She'll help  you." I went, "Really?" So they went, "Yeah,   don't worry about it." So the meeting is going on.  I'm praying. Please translate her come. Please,   please come. Nothing against the lady, but I  wasn't sure. And you're cooked. If you They   don't know what you're saying. How can you do it?  So they introduced me and I go, "Well, this is   it. She's standing on my left." And I went, "I'm  so happy to be here." her and she went, "What?"

As God is listening to me. As God is listening,  the doors burst open in the back and the   translator comes running down the middle aisle.  And everyone was praising God, but not as much as   I was. I was like, "Yes." I want to leave you a  verse tonight and then we can pray as we leave.   What a good night tonight. Amen. We're hearing so  many good things. So, you know this passage when   Jesus was going from the south Judea, he's going  back up to Galilee. He had to go through Samaria   where the Samaritans had no love for the Jews.  Likewise, the other way. And you know this story,   but let's read it quick. Now, he had to go through  Samaria. So he came to a town in Samaria called   Saikar near the plot of ground Jacob had given  to his son Joseph. If you just play my brother,   Jacob's well was there and Jesus tired as he was  from the journey. Is this amazing? Jesus is God.   But in the mystery of he being a man, he's totally  tuckered out and tired. God is tired. I mean,   that's just so hard that he lowered himself to  come to earth and take on our form where he could   be tired and thirsty. So tired as he was in the  journey, sat down by the well. It was about noon,   hottest time of the day. When a Samaritan woman  came to draw water, Jesus said to her, "Will  

you give me a drink?" His disciples had gone into  town to buy food. The Samaritan woman said to him,   "You are a Jew and I'm a Samaritan woman. How can  you ask me for a drink? For Jews do not associate   with Samaritans." Jesus answered her, "If you knew  the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a   drink, you would have asked him, and he would have  given you living water." "Sir," the woman said,   "you have nothing to draw with." Let's see. She's  thinking just physical. You have nothing to draw   with and the well is deep. Where can you get this  living water, whatever it is? Are you greater than   our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank  from it himself, as did also his sons and his   livestock? Jesus answered, now listen, everyone  who drinks this water will be thirsty again.   Before we get to the next one, anything you taste  on earth never will satisfy. You'll get thirsty   again. Only Jesus satisfies. Only salvation  satisfies. When you drink water, you need more   water because it's in the realm of the physical.  Anything in the realm of the physical, you need to   keep doing it. But only he can satisfy the deepest  part in us, which is our spirit, our heart.   So he's telling her, "You drink this water,  you'll be thirsty again. But I have a water,  

listen to this water, speaking of salvation  of the Holy Spirit. But whoever drinks the   water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the  water I give them will become in them a spring   of water welling up to eternal life." Keep that  one on there, please. Whoever drinks the water,   what's the water? The spirit. Salvation. New  life. eternal life. The water I give them,   they will never thirst. It satisfies. Indeed, the  water I give them will become in them a spring of   water welling up to eternal life. So, not only  will you be satisfied, but the water I give you,   the Holy Spirit, when you accept me and turn turn  your hearts to me, I I will give you water that   becomes not enough just to sati satisfy. Not a few  drops, not even a faucet coming with water. No,   no, no. It will become a spring of water welling  up to eternal life. And that word welling up means   jumping up like like uh exploding up up to eternal  life. So that was the promise Jesus gave us that   when we would become Christians, he would put  the Holy Spirit in all of us. If anyone doesn't   have the Holy Spirit in us, in us, they're not  a Christian. That's what Romans chapter 8 tells   us. If anyone doesn't have the spirit of Christ,  i.e. the Holy Spirit. He doesn't belong to Christ.  

But my question is, in how many of our lives is  it welling up, exploding, overflowing? You know   why there's an overflow? Not to satisfy you, to  help the people around you. How are you going to   minister to people if you just barely have enough  to get through yourself? Right? There's a where   is that in the Old Testament somewhere? No, a  prophecy about one of the sons of Jacob. I think   that he he will be like a tree planted and his  fruit will go over the the wall. In other words,   people coming by can eat from that tree.  And this is what the Lord says. You you'll   have a well, a spring, not a well, a spring,  something bubbling up, going out to people,   speaking of the Holy Spirit. So the question I I  want to address to myself, I've been praying for   this yesterday and today is I I don't want to just  have the Holy Spirit in me. I want to be full of   the Holy Spirit. Do you get it? Every believer has  the Holy Spirit, but every believer not obviously   it's not full of the Holy Spirit bubbling over,  flowing over, meeting needs of other people,   directed by the Holy Spirit, overflowing joy,  overflowing peace. Not every believer has that.   How can that be? Because although we all have the  spirit, that's why the Bible says in Ephesians   uh chapter 5:18, don't get drunk on wine, which  leads to debauchery. Instead, be filled with the  

spirit. Keep on being filled is what it literally  means. That's written to believers. Are you filled   with the Holy Spirit? Is there an overflow in  my life and in your life that will meet the   needs of other people? Not are you are are we  getting by? I'm thanking the Lord. He helped me   through. I know. But look look what the promise  is. It'll be like a spring of water bubbling up,   overflowing. That's what the promise is that the  Lord wants for all all of us to be filled with   the Holy Spirit. Be filled with the Holy Spirit.  And Satan is doing his best from what I perceive   my opinion in the days we live in that we have a  deadness in one part of the body of Christ where   they are anti-holy spirit even though they're  reading the Bible and quoting verses but they   many times leave out the promises about the Holy  Spirit. To them it's emotionalism. It's craziness.   It's fanaticism. No, no, no. We just want to have  studied the Bible and and then go out to Cracker   Barrel and have something to eat or wherever  you go, Chick-fil-A, and that's it. We don't   we're not into that wildfire, okay? And there  they're not bubbling over there. There's no sense   of God. There's no sense of overflow. There's no  sacrifices being made. I talked to a a a leader   of a seminary of a certain denomination, and he  told me that, and this is true of across the body   of Christ. Now volunteerism is down in churches.  Pastors tell me, "How do you get people to sing  

in the choir? How do you have ushers? How do you  have this uh what you do in your church?" I said,   "Because the people love God and that's what they  do." He said, "In my church, we can't even have   ushers because the average person in our church  comes to church 1.4 times a month. Not every week.   It used to be every week 50 years ago. Unless  you're sick or on vacation. But now I don't know.   There's no bubbling over. There's no excitement  about Jesus. It's I'll go to church if I'm, you   know, if I'm feeling good. And and attendance at  Bible schools is so bad that they're shutting down   Bible schools. And from one major denomination,  all the Bible schools that started in the 30s,   in the depression, and in the ' 40s have now been  turned into regular universities where you can   study nursing, business, admin, and all of that  stuff. And there's nothing wrong with that. But   you can get that at a regular college and be a  witness for Christ. Why turn a Bible school into   that? The reason is because nobody is wanting to  apply. And what? Give my life away. What? Are you   kidding me? go to the ketchup of people, serve  in a church, give up something in my life. See,   without the Holy Spirit, you get dead. I'm  feeling you're dead right now. Are you say,   give me an amen. Good grief. Say amen or something  that I know you're there. So then on the other   side of in the body of Christ, it's wildfire. It's  Katie bar the door. all kinds of crazy things all  

blamed on the Holy Spirit and usually involved  with ministers showing off and drawing attention   to themselves trying to get a following for  themselves or uh filthy money but all done in the   name of the you know the Lord just showed me wait  he just showed me a hundred people out there in TV   land are supposed to give $10,000 each a hundred  of you I just got that from in the spirit. Well,   if he did, why doesn't he give you the names of  the people so we can just get on with the meeting? How many you know exactly what I'm talking  about? Just lift your hands. Okay. But don't   you see what the devil's doing? He's playing  both ends against the middle. In the middle is   the power of the Holy Spirit. That's why, excuse  me, that's why Jesus chose fishermen to lead the   church and other tax collectors. Why? Because they  wouldn't be able to trust in anything but the Holy   Spirit. No seminary, no speaking skills.  They were fishermen. They smell from bait.

He said, "No, you be in charge." But you'll  receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon   you. That's what transformed all of them. How  great a Christian was Peter when he walked with   the Lord. Those of you who are into disciplehip,  disciplehip's very good. Those of you into who's   going to disciple me, I'm into disciplehip. That's  very good. Peter had Jesus for three and a half   years. What good did it do to him? On the night  Jesus was betrayed, what did Peter do? Stand with   him? No. He ran and denied him three times because  it's not by might nor by power, but by my spirit,   sayeth the Lord. So, it's for our church and for  you. If you really want to be used and you're   hungry, it's Holy Spirit or bust. Holy Spirit  or bust. No, I'm going to study and learn the   Hebrew and Greek. Learn Ketwa. Learn anything  you want to learn. But without the Holy Spirit,   you're just an empty gong. You clanging symbol.  It's the Holy Spirit or nothing. You can create   emotion. You can create warm fuzzy moments with  music and this but only the spirit breaks the   yoke breaks the into the thing. Come on,  can we clap for that and say amen to that?

So when I was 14 years old, I had an experience  which I would call being filled with the Holy   Spirit. Because when you're filled with the Holy  Spirit, you know, you know, you know somehow. I'm   not going to tell you how God has to do it in  each one of us. But you know when God comes in   in a new way, floods you and you you come into a  new possession, you know, demon possession is a   counterfeit of what God wants to do in all of  us, possess us by the Holy Spirit. So demons,   what they do is they possess for Satan the  poor souls that come under their control.   So when I was 14, I was filled with  the Holy Spirit. And in my case, I was just totally changed. I spoke in  other languages that I didn't know for   maybe 20 minutes. And you couldn't con me  to do that? Are you kidding? I was dubious   about everything. I didn't trust ministers.  I saw some ministers pushing over people.   You ever see that? Like they put their foot  behind and they push him over there. And my   mother got on the line. I was about 13 then.  Not a nice person to be around. And I saw the   guy push my mother over. And my mother went  down on the ground. Everyone was going, "Oo,   hallelujah. Oh, did I get mad?" I went up on  that line. I said, "Yeah, pray for me now."

I dug my feet in. I went Brooklyn. You know what  I mean? I went, "Yeah, come on." And he started   to go like that and my back went like, "No." He  started to devil, I rebuke you out of this young   man and all that con artist. So, I wasn't easily  fooled, but there's a real Holy Spirit. And when   he comes on you, he changes everything. Have I  had battles since then? Absolutely. But the only   reason I'm in the ministry, I just give you this  testimony. My wife's in Florida. She's driving up   soon. And um this week, the only reason we're  in the ministry, if my wife's helped anyone,   if I have helped anybody, it's only through  the power of the Holy Spirit. I'm telling you   the truth. God made it had to be that because he  didn't let me go to Bible school. He let me go to   seminary. I don't have a good speaking voice. I'm  I'm um I'm just a regular guy. You know me. Well,   I'm nothing. But when the Holy Spirit comes on  you, you can be a blessing to everyone. Don't you   get it? It's not you. Hello. Hello. It's not you.  You get it? It's you, but it's not you. It's the   Holy Spirit inside of you overflowing. And some  of you, you need to be exercising the gifts of   the spirit that are listed. You need to be filled  with the Holy Spirit without the spirit of God.  

Remember Jesus said, "It's better for you that I  go and I'm done." It's better for you that I go   because unless I go, I can't send him. Who's him?  The Holy Spirit. You'll send you'll have another   comforter and he will help you and you'll receive  power. power that I couldn't give you because when   I was walking with you, you were here and I was  in my body and you were there. But when I leave   after I accomplish the cross and resurrect, I'll  send the Holy Spirit. He will not be with you.   He'll be in you. He's been with you, but he'll be  in you. And notice, not with a little trickle of   water. A spring bubbling up, surging up, going  past whatever is trying to contain it. and all   for blessing to people. I don't care who you are.  Are you watching me there? Any pastors watching me   there? That's the great need in your life and my  life. Not more money, not a nicer building, uh not   a different congregation. I'm not training this  congregation for anyone. So, what you need is the   Holy Spirit. That's what you need. You need the  Holy Spirit. My wife wants you to know that, too.   She's helpless without the Holy Spirit.  Helpless. Can't do anything. But Paul said,   "Through the Holy Spirit, I can do all things  through Christ who strengthens me." Aren't you   Some of you hungry and thirsty. Don't Don't you  think for some of you, don't you know there's  

something more God has for you? No. Come on.  In your battles against sin, because that's   what the Holy Spirit produces, holy living. His  name is Holy Spirit. So when he's possessing you,   you you gain a new dominion of and victory over  sin. Not the same old same old fighting it in   your own strength. No. When the spirit comes, he  just pushes stuff out. You trying to pick it up   with a little fork and get rid of it and he just  comes in, blows everything up. But a good blowing   up. Some of us need a good explosion. Amen. A good  fire. Fresh fire, fresh wind blowing stuff around. Let's close our eyes. Everyone hungry for the  Holy Spirit. We're going to pray and wait and   sing and call on God. But I ask you to be open  and have faith. That's all I can do. I am not   the Holy Spirit. But if you come to God tonight  and say, "God, I give you everything. Give me   your everything. You gave me Christ. Now, he wants  me to have this bubbling up. I I have I know your   your spirit's in me. I'm born again, but I know  there's more. I know it. And I want that more   from the Holy Spirit. Singers, come behind me. And  uh anybody here want to come and pray with me for   a season? The pastors are going to stand in the  front of the platform with and reach over and pray  

for you. Anybody would just want to come up. Come  on. Come up and stand. We'll pray for a season. Come on. Right to the edge. Come on.  Anybody else thirsty? Anybody else hungry?   The measure of what you get from God is  according to your hunger. Blessed are   they that hunger and thirst after righteousness,  they will be filled. Without hunger or thirst,   we're not going anywhere. I wanted God  to use me to make you thirsty tonight. Come to the edge. Come on, move  forward. People are behind you.

Lay hands on them. Pastors, deacons,  deaconisters. Lay hands and pray out   loud. Pray out loud. Come Holy Spirit.  Everybody here in the when we sing here   is come Holy Spirit come Holy Spirit fall on  me change me renovate me fill me I give you   my heart my head my tongue my arms my  legs I give you everything Holy Spirit spirit of the Yeah. Heat. Heat. Heat.

Lift your hands and sing. Break me and break me. Say, "Fill me. Heat. while he plays it. Just pray out loud. Pray, but  pray out loud. No one will hear you. Pray out   loud. Pray out loud. Lift your voice and pray out  loud to God. He's rich in mercy to everyone who   calls upon you. Call in the day of trouble and  I will answer you and help you. and I will show   you things you've never seen before. If you'll  just call on me. If you will just call on me.

Hallelujah. Hallelujah.  Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Pray. Everyone pray. Pray like your life depended  on it. Pray for Christ's sake. Send the Holy   Spirit. Lord, make me the person you want me  to be. Make us the church you want us to be. Come Holy Spirit come. Come Holy Spirit. Jesus,  baptize us. Fill us with the Holy Spirit. We need you, Lord. We need you, Lord. We need  you, Lord. Holy Spirit, come. Holy Spirit,   come and fill your people. Holy Spirit,  come and fill your people. Holy Spirit,   come and fill your people. Let us have a spring  springing up, welling up inside of us. Lord,   how else can we bless the world,  Lord, without your spirit, Lord, we call on you, Holy Spirit. Holy Spirit,  

come in your fullness. Overwhelm us.  Breathe on us. Wind of God, blow on us. Breathe on me, Lord. Breathe on me. Breathe  on me, Lord. Breathe on me. Breathe on me. Heat. Heat. Call on the Lord. Call on the Lord.  Call. Don't give up. Call on the Lord.

We're thirsty for you. We're hungry for you. Heat. Oh god. Holy Spirit, please come and help us. Heat up here.

Fill my cup, Lord. I lift it up, Lord. Jesus Christ. Amen. Heat. Heat. Let the church sing.

Heat. Come and see me. Let's lift our hands and see.

Yeah. Heat. Lord is here to Yeah.

Heat. Yeah. Heat. Yeah. Heat. Heat. Yeah. Heat.

Oh, heat, heat. Praise the Lord out loud. Just praise him now.   Praise him. Come on. We We ask him  now. Praise him. We praise the Lord. We praise you. We praise you. Not embarrassed.  Not ashamed. Grab us, Holy Spirit.

Praise him out loud. Everyone in the  building in the name of the Lord. Praise   your God. Praise your God. We praise  you. We wait for you and we praise you. Heat. Lift your voice in your hands one more time.

Yeah. Heat. Oh, heat, heat. Lord, we thank you for being with us tonight.   Thank you for speaking to us through  your word. Thank you for helping us   to pray for the Caribbean, for persecuted  Christians, for the Daryls. Oh, bless them,   Lord. We're thirsty and we're hungry and it's not  going away until you fill us to overflowing. Lord,  

we're like Jacob. We're wrestling with you.  We will not let you go until you give us   everything and then some, Lord. And it's for  your name's sake. It's not for us. We don't   want an experience. We want you. You flooding us,  filling us, working through us, giving us victory   over every kind of weakness in us or enemy  against us. We love you, Jesus. We love you. Seorama, bless the offering. Bless  everyone getting home safely and keep us close to you now. Lord,  wake us up in the middle of the night   if you want us to talk more with you. Do  whatever you want to do, God. We're yours.   We belong to you. We're your  servants, your bonds slaves.

Help us with our financial needs.  Just do what needs to be done,   God. We give it all to you in Jesus name.