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[00:00:00] Ira Yates was a sheep farmer in West Texas back in the 1930s, during the dust bowl depression days.
[00:00:09] He didn't have enough money.
[00:00:12] The sheep operation wasn't producing what he needed to put food on the table to clothe his kids. He needed to live on government assistance. He was desperate. He would just look out across this vast area of land and wonder, what am I going to do?
[00:00:28] Then there was a knock on the door.
[00:00:30] It was an oil company showed up and said, ira, we believe that there could be oil on your land.
[00:00:39] Lease agreements were signed. He gave them permission to sign a to drill a wildcat test well at 1,115ft.
[00:00:51] They hit oil.
[00:00:54] The first well, 80 barrels a day.
[00:00:58] Subsequent wells, twice that amount.
[00:01:02] He immediately became incredibly wealthy. In the 1960s, his pool of oil, called the Yates Pool, was still producing 125,000 barrels.
[00:01:19] In 2000, the Yates Pool was still within the top 10 producers of all oil producers in the United States.
[00:01:29] I always owned it all.
[00:01:34] He always owned all of that. He could have been living in great wealth, but he was living in poverty. Why?
[00:01:44] Because he didn't know what he had and he didn't know how to access it.
[00:01:51] Friends, I think when we think about what God has given us access to in the power of his Holy Spirit, I believe that many of us are living in spiritual poverty when the incredible wealth of the Kingdom of God could be available to us. Life change, changing wealth, because we don't know what we have and we don't know how to access it.
[00:02:17] In 2022, Ligonier Ministries, they did a survey to ask committed followers of Jesus kind of their level of theological understanding.
[00:02:27] Here was a true and false question that was on that survey. The Holy Spirit is a force, not a person.
[00:02:36] 60% of people answered true to that.
[00:02:41] Nearly 2/3 of committed Christians believed not that the third person of the Trinity was a person, but that he was some kind of a mysterious force, not someone that we could actually know and be known by.
[00:03:02] Here's my question for us as we step into the scriptures today. Do you know that you know that you know that you know him?
[00:03:11] Not just know about him?
[00:03:14] Do you know him? Do you experience him? The person of the Holy Spirit, the presence of the Holy Spirit, the power of the Holy Spirit?
[00:03:26] Or is he just kind of an urban legend out there that you've kind of heard about, you've heard people talk about, but you've never experienced for yourself?
[00:03:35] We've got to know how to answer that question. Because for Jesus, knowing how to understand and Engage the Spirit is crucial, imperative for us to be able to know and to follow Him. Here's how Jesus said it. In John, chapter 4, verses 23 and 24. He says, Yet a time is coming and now has come when the true worshipers, true followers, true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth.
[00:04:06] For these are the kind of worshipers that the Father seeks. God is Spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.
[00:04:19] Do you hear what Jesus is saying? It is the Holy Spirit and truth, the Holy Bible together, spirit and truth.
[00:04:30] Here's the challenge that we see in American Christianity today. Often those two things are pitted against one another.
[00:04:37] You can see churches that focused on one and they minimize the other, focus more on the Bible, less on the experience of the Holy Spirit. And there are other churches that is all about the Holy Spirit with just minimal attention given to deep study of the Scriptures.
[00:04:55] But for Jesus, it's not an either or.
[00:04:59] It is a both and deep teaching and understanding of the truth of God's Scriptures and deeply rooted in an experience of God's Spirit.
[00:05:13] Brandon mentioned in the previous series that we've been going through in the book of Romans, we looked at Romans chapters one through seven, where Paul outlines the powerful message of the Gospel, the good news. But this series, these 12 weeks, we're going to be focusing specifically on Romans chapter 8 and the Holy Spirit, because the Holy Spirit is the main character in Romans chapter 8.
[00:05:37] And one of the great themes of Romans chapter 8 is that the Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit, one of the things that he desperately wants to do for you as a follower of Jesus is that he wants to give you what theologians call assurance.
[00:05:53] And here's what assurance means.
[00:05:56] Assurance is the Holy Spirit given confidence, absolute confidence and inner certainty that we as a follower of Christ, can have one about our position as a child of God. That we would know that we know that we are a child of God and we would know the reality of our eternal salvation.
[00:06:19] We know where this is going to end for us through our faith in Christ and only through our faith in Christ. The Holy Spirit wants you to know that, that you know, that you know that you know him, his person, his power, his presence, not just know about him.
[00:06:40] This idea of assurance starts at the very beginning of Romans chapter 1, Romans 8. One says, Therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. It starts out saying the things that separated us from God. Our sin, it was paid for by Christ. Us putting our faith and trust not in what we do but what he did for us brings us to a place where there is no condemnation in Christ Jesus. We can know that we know that we know Him. And then Paul ends Romans chapter 8 with this climactic statement. In verse 38, it says, For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
[00:07:40] Do you get what Paul's saying there? I mean, it's like he just ran out of adjectives. Like it's not this or this or this or this. There's nothing, absolutely nothing, that can come between us and the love of God. He wants us to know, as we deeply study this chapter, that we know that we know that we know that we know the Holy Spirit, not just about Him.
[00:08:05] But why is that important?
[00:08:07] Why is it important for us? Why is this so important to Paul that we would have an assurance of. Of our salvation?
[00:08:15] One of the reasons, I believe is that we have the capacity to live in perpetual condemnation. If we don't know what is true about the gospel and our we can wonder how God thinks about us. And if we wonder where God's love relates to us, it causes distance between us and God.
[00:08:36] We don't draw near to someone that we don't know if they love us or not.
[00:08:42] We can live in this constant fear and anxiety that my sin and failure in this life will somehow cause God to abandon me, that somehow I can actually lose my salvation.
[00:08:54] And if we believe that, friends, if we don't have assurance, it leads us to a place where we believe that what we need to do is we need to try to earn our salvation.
[00:09:03] If I feel this sense of condemnation, I need to do more. I need to try harder.
[00:09:09] And we find ourselves in this place where we're just exhausted and we're not experiencing the joy and the freedom that God's Spirit wants to bring to our life. Now, don't hear me say that following God and listening to the Spirit in our life doesn't require effort. It takes an incredible amount of effort.
[00:09:30] But there's a difference between effort and thinking that we are earning that no condemnation or earning that love.
[00:09:40] If we don't know, if we don't know where we stand before God, if we're not experiencing that sense of assurance, we don't know what's going to happen to us as we head into eternity. And we could live in great fear if we don't have assurance of how God feels about us.
[00:10:00] When the hard things happen in this life and not just around us, hard things are always happening around us. But friends, hard things are happening to you personally as well.
[00:10:12] When we get to that place where there's hard things in our life, if we're not assured of what God thinks about us or where we stand before him, we are 10. We can tend to believe that God has somehow abandoned us. Where is. Is He?
[00:10:28] In the midst of my pain and suffering. Does God really care?
[00:10:34] And that's what Romans chapter 8 is about. He wants to give us assurance.
[00:10:40] Now here's how I want to unpack this. Because I want to lay a theological and a biblical foundation for all that the Spirit wants to provide in our lives. And here's how I'm going to. How I'm going to do it. We're gonna look at a chart here, and I'm gonna look at all the things that the Spirit wants to do in our life. And what we're gonna do is we're gonna look at it. Where is it in the word?
[00:11:04] What does it mean?
[00:11:06] And when does this happen?
[00:11:07] On our spiritual journey. If you like taking notes, today's your day. There's gonna be lots of stuff and I'm just gonna leave it up there. There was too much for me to try to write while I preach. But I want you to have all of this in your notes. The first thing that the Holy Spirit does for us is that we are indwelt by him. Romans 8, verse 9.
[00:11:36] I think that's the first time that I've ever actually drank from that. I always just have. There just. You gotta. You don't wanna do a trapeze without a net. So.
[00:11:46] Romans 8, 9.
[00:11:48] You, however, are not in the realm of the flesh, but are in the realm of the Spirit. If indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, they do not belong to Christ.
[00:12:04] Here's what Paul's saying is that the mark of every true believer, every actual follower of Christ, is that the Holy Spirit is. Lives in them.
[00:12:15] God's Spirit lives in them.
[00:12:19] God's actual presence, that third person of the Trinity makes his home in your body.
[00:12:32] Just stop and let that sink in for a minute. God's presence lives within you.
[00:12:40] And Paul makes it clear. When did. When does this happen in our life? It happens at salvation. When we put our faith and our trust in Him. God's spirit is poured out in our life.
[00:12:50] Now maybe you've put Your faith and your trust in Jesus. And you didn't feel anything happen in that moment. You didn't feel the Holy Spirit come into your life. But Paul wants you to understand that that is true when, whether you know it or not. And that's why Paul says this. In First Corinthians 6:19, he says, do you not know?
[00:13:14] Why would he say that?
[00:13:16] Do you not know? Because he realizes there's the potential that they may not know that reality, even though it's true of them. Do you not know that your bodies, your physical bodies are the temples of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have received from God?
[00:13:37] Paul wants them to know that they know that they know him, not just about him. He wants them to understand he's in you, his person, his presence and his power. He is in you.
[00:13:51] Secondly, the Scriptures tell us that we are sealed with the Holy Spirit.
[00:13:58] Paul talks about this in Ephesians, chapter 1, verse 13.
[00:14:02] It says this, and you also were included in Christ when you heard the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation, when you believed.
[00:14:16] Paul's saying, when you put your faith, when you put your trust not in what you did for salvation, but what God has done for you, when you put. You believed, you were marked in him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit, who is a deposit guaranteeing, guaranteeing our inheritance. It's God's promise. It's not what we do. It is God's promise. His stamp, his seal, until the redemption of those who are God's possession, to the praise of, of his glory.
[00:14:53] The Holy Spirit is God's stamp on our life, that we are his possession. It's this idea of ownership.
[00:15:01] We belong to Him.
[00:15:04] Now, in the first century, as they're reading what Paul wrote here, the way they would be thinking about this idea of a seal is that this is something that would be very common for a king or a ruler or some kind of a dignitary to stamp things, oftentimes with a signet ring, oftentimes into wax.
[00:15:23] And what he would be communicating by that act is, this belongs to me. This is my stamp. This is my approval. This is my property. This belongs to me. And you don't mess with it.
[00:15:41] This is mine.
[00:15:44] That's what the Spirit wants us to understand about what God has done for us, that we belong to him. We are his kids.
[00:15:54] And God is saying to the rest of the world, don't mess with them.
[00:15:58] They are mine. They belong to me. They are deposit guaranteeing not only his assurance in this life, but in the Life to come. We are secure. We can know that we know that, that we know Him.
[00:16:12] And when does that happen?
[00:16:14] Paul says it when you believed.
[00:16:18] God stamps us as his own when you believed. And Paul says it even more explicitly, this idea of ownership. In 2 Corinthians chapter 1, he says, now it is God who makes both us and you stand firm in Christ.
[00:16:35] He anointed us, and here's what he says. Verse 22. Set his seal of ownership on us and put His Spirit in our hearts as a deposit guaranteeing what is to come.
[00:16:50] God seals our life. We belong to him, so that we will know that we know that we know that we know Him.
[00:17:01] Not just about him, but we would actually experience his power and his person and his presence in our life.
[00:17:09] Paul also talks about the idea that we are baptized in the Holy Spirit.
[00:17:15] Now, to understand this idea of baptism in the Holy Spirit, we've got to understand the word baptism.
[00:17:23] Baptizo in the Greek, it's a simple word that this is how it was used. It simply means to dip, to place within.
[00:17:32] Sometimes it's used with the idea of to identify with, to dip, to place within, to identify with. A picture that would probably be in the mind of a first century person is thinking about the idea of dyeing a white cloth. What they would say is you take a white cloth and you baptize it into the dye and when it comes out after you've dipped it, it is now identified with, with the dye. That's how they would think about this idea of baptism. Now let's think about how we often talk about baptism. We talk about being baptized with water. We are dipped into the water, we are placed into the water, but we are also identified with something through baptism. What is it that we're identified with? The Scriptures tell us that we are identifying our life with the life, death, burial and then resurrection of Jesus.
[00:18:30] Our life is identified with Him. That's what baptism means, to be placed within and identified with something. So here's the question, what is it that we are identified with as it relates to the baptism of the Holy Spirit?
[00:18:46] Paul tells us, 1 Corinthians chapter 12. Starting in verse 12, it says, Just as a body, though one has many parts, but all its many parts form one body, so it is with Christ.
[00:19:05] For we were all baptized by one spirit so as to form one body.
[00:19:13] Whether Jews or Gentiles, slave or free, we were all given one spirit to drink.
[00:19:20] The idea behind the baptism of the Holy Spirit is that it places us into the body of Christ.
[00:19:27] We are now identified as part of Christ's body together. When do we become a part of the body of Christ? When we place our faith in Jesus at salvation.
[00:19:41] And I just want to highlight this. This matters so much to God that we are a part of one another. We are connected to one another.
[00:19:52] So far I've talked about this idea of the Holy Spirit indwells me.
[00:19:57] But what Paul wants us to understand is that the Holy Spirit indwells we, us together.
[00:20:05] This is how Paul says it in First Corinthians, chapter three. He says, don't you know that you yourselves.
[00:20:12] That's weird English right there to say you yourselves. But what Paul is trying to make sure, and that the English translators are trying to make sure that we understand, is he's not talking about a you singular. This is not just you as an individual. This is a you plural. This is all of us together. Don't you know that you yourselves also are God's temple and that God's spirit dwells in your midst?
[00:20:40] It's not just a me, a me with God, it is a we with God. And here's how much this matters to God. Listen to what Paul says. If anyone. If anyone destroys God's temple, meaning his group that are connected to each other, if anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy that person. For God's temple is sacred and you together are that temple.
[00:21:13] Yes, you individually. God's spirit lives in you.
[00:21:18] But what Paul makes crystal clear is that he dwells in us.
[00:21:23] He's the one that binds our lives and our hearts together. He's the one that can create a supernatural unity out of incredible diversity of people, diversity of backgrounds. But God's spirit supernaturally ties all of our lives together.
[00:21:41] That's why what Michelle was talking about earlier today is so important. It's not like, hey, just get in a group. That's just kind of what we do around Journey. It's not just a thing to do. We understand that if we want to experience God, if we want to experience his power and his presence in his person, we do that together as a group of people. It is not just me and God. It is we and God. That's why we will always be challenging you. Yes, we gather together, but we connect with one another. We connect our hearts and lives.
[00:22:18] Groups of people that are committed to the Spirit's work in their life, working together, learning together.
[00:22:26] And we serve one another to create those bonds of unity. And we're generous toward one another because we want to build the body of Christ. Not only here, but around the valley and around the world.
[00:22:38] Friends, it's not just me, it's we.
[00:22:43] And if you really want to understand how you can know that you know that you know the spirit, you've got to do it in the context of community.
[00:22:55] Page 2.
[00:22:59] The Scriptures talk about the reality that we are filled with the Holy Spirit.
[00:23:04] There's one of the clearest places where Paul talks about this idea of being filled with the Spirit. Ephesians 5, 18. He says, do not get drunk on wine, which leads to debauchery.
[00:23:16] Instead, be filled with the spirit.
[00:23:20] What Paul is doing is he's comparing being drunk with alcohol or drunk with wine. He is comparing that to being filled with the Holy Spirit.
[00:23:32] Now, here's the challenge with this is because none of you in this room know what it's like to be drunk.
[00:23:41] Here's what I hear about that.
[00:23:46] Something outside of us comes inside of us, and it starts to change us.
[00:23:55] It starts to direct our lives. It starts to empower our lives. It starts to control our lives.
[00:24:03] You might have heard people that are referring to someone that is drunk with alcohol. That. Oh, that's. That's the alcohol talking. The way that they're acting, it's not them. It's something inside of them. And Paul's saying, don't do that. Don't let that thing come inside of you that leads you to a place of debauchery, wild living into a way that doesn't honor God. But what he is saying is that take something that has been outside of you and has been given to you on the inside, the Holy Spirit, and allow that to empower your life and to control your life and to direct your life.
[00:24:43] That's what it means, to be filled with the Holy Spirit, that we would allow the Spirit to direct our lives. Now, I'm gonna say this. I want you to put a pin in that, because we're gonna unpack that in great detail, in greater detail over the next two weeks. It's that important. We're gonna be talking about it, but I want you to understand just the biblical understanding of what. What Paul's talking about. And I want you to understand just a little bit what Paul is trying to communicate with just the verb that he uses, be filled. And now all the. You don't have to understand the Greek language always to be able to understand what the scriptures are saying. But I believe in this place, it's actually really, really helpful to understand the verb that Paul uses, be filled.
[00:25:28] It's in the present tense.
[00:25:30] It's in the passive voice and it's an imperative.
[00:25:34] Now, some of you that are English language challenged, like me, are probably getting a little shaky right now, but I want you to have this English lesson.
[00:25:43] Paul uses the present tense. What does that mean? That he's using the present tense? What Paul is saying is, be filled in the present now and be filled in the present now and be filled in the present now.
[00:26:02] What he's trying to communicate is this isn't something that happened past tense like when we were indwelt, when we were sealed, when we were baptized. This is something that is ongoing in the life of a believer. It is ongoing as we learn how to surrender to the Holy Spirit in our life.
[00:26:20] Ongoing. That's when it happens in our life.
[00:26:24] And this verb is in the passive voice.
[00:26:27] Here's what this means. For a verb to be in the active voice means that I do the action like I hit the ball.
[00:26:36] If a verb is in the passive voice, what that means is I was hit by the ball. It means that something happened to me. I didn't do it.
[00:26:48] This is what we need to understand.
[00:26:50] The passive voice of being filled means, this isn't something that I go out and do. This is something that I allow the Spirit to do to me.
[00:26:59] I allow him to do this. I yield to him.
[00:27:03] I think a great word to use is surrender.
[00:27:07] Whatever the Spirit is saying in my life, I say yes. I respond to him.
[00:27:13] So many times when we talk about things like the fruit of the Spirit in our life, like love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, we think, I want the fruit of the Spirit in my life. But immediately we go to, well, I'm just going to try really hard to be more loving. I'm going to try really hard to be more peaceful. I'm going to try really hard to be more joyful in my life. That's not the role. That's not what the Holy Spirit wants to do in our life. We just surrender to him. We say yes to him now and, and now and now. Whatever it is that he would be asking of us, we say yes.
[00:27:50] And then the fruit of that. What starts to happen in our life is that we're characterized by love and joy and peace and patience, kindness, gentleness, faithfulness, self control. Those things. It's not the fruit of self effort. It's not the fruit of white knuckling at do more, try harder. It is the fruit of learning to hear the voice of the Spirit in your life and say yes to him moment by moment by moment in an ongoing way in your life. That's what it means to be filled with the Spirit.
[00:28:26] And lastly, be filled is an imperative, which just simply means it's a command.
[00:28:34] It is an absolute command of God.
[00:28:38] Do this.
[00:28:40] Do this. Do this now. Do this now. Do this now.
[00:28:45] This is not something for us to consider.
[00:28:48] It's something for us to do.
[00:28:52] And lastly, the Scripture talks about that we would walk or we would live by the Spirit.
[00:29:00] Galatians 5:16, Paul uses the word walk. So I say walk. Walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.
[00:29:11] And at the end of that chapter in 5:25, Paul says this. Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit.
[00:29:23] And what this means to walk or to live is that we would just be continually filled, that we would be continually allowing and yielding and surrendering to God's Spirit.
[00:29:35] Anything that he says to us, the answer is yes, that's how we walk and live by the Spirit. And I think that's a beautiful picture that Paul gives.
[00:29:48] Keep in step with the Spirit. It's like the Spirit says, step here, so we step here. The Spirit says, take another step. So. So we step here. The Spirit says, take another step, so we step here. It's this idea of continually responding to him in our life.
[00:30:06] And you may have noticed if you've been around Journey for a while, we talk over and over about, what's your next step. Have you heard that before?
[00:30:16] This is what we know.
[00:30:17] We know that the Spirit of God has a next step for you.
[00:30:22] We just want you to discover it.
[00:30:25] We want you to get in a place in your life where that's what you're looking for.
[00:30:30] You're looking for, what is it that God wants me to do next? And whatever it is, I'm gonna say yes, we want the Holy Spirit, his indwelling presence in your life, to be the loudest voice in your life. That we would learn to get rid of all the other voices and distractions in this life and. And start to think about, what is it that the Spirit might be saying to me.
[00:30:53] And to go back to what we were talking about last week, that there is a gap for all of us between what the Bible describes about the Christian life and our life.
[00:31:05] And when we continue to take step after step saying yes to the Spirit's work in our life, what we see is that gap starts to shrink.
[00:31:16] When we become immediately obedient to the voice of the Spirit in our life, that gap starts to shrink.
[00:31:23] And when we experience that over and over in an ongoing way, continually being filled.
[00:31:29] We actually know what it means to experience the power of the Holy Spirit in our life. And when we experience that moment by moment, it's in that place that we know that we know that we know that. That we know Him.
[00:31:44] We don't just know about him because we're experiencing him as we walk with Him. We're experiencing his power, we're experiencing his presence, we're experiencing his person.
[00:31:57] Those first three things that were on there, these are things that I believe point to assurance.
[00:32:06] He wants us to know these things true. They are absolutely true of our life. That is about assurance.
[00:32:14] The next two are about experience.
[00:32:17] How do we experience moment by moment, day by day?
[00:32:25] A lot of information.
[00:32:29] But here's the question that I can't get around.
[00:32:35] If all this is true, if all this is true, and I believe with everything in me that this is true, shouldn't there be.
[00:32:44] Shouldn't there be maybe a huge difference between someone who's got God's spirit living in their life and someone who does not?
[00:32:57] Shouldn't there be a great difference?
[00:33:02] And I want to press. I want to press that one layer deeper in your life.
[00:33:08] If you were pressed and someone said, give me evidence of the work of the Holy Spirit in your life, what would you say?
[00:33:22] Could you do it?
[00:33:24] Could you say, this is what I'm seeing the Holy Spirit do in my life, what would you say?
[00:33:31] Now, I'm going to say this really, really clearly. Is that as I'm not trying to put you in a place where this creates fear or wondering, because this is what I believe to be true, is that some of us, the reason that we don't have the kind of assurance that the Holy Spirit wants is because we don't have an awareness of what he's doing.
[00:33:53] Here's what I want this series to be about.
[00:33:56] I want it to be about growing in our awareness of what the Spirit of God is doing in our life.
[00:34:03] Just because you can't answer that question doesn't mean that the Holy Spirit is not actively involved in your life. You just don't know how that's happening or how to explain it. So here's your assignment.
[00:34:17] Here's your assignment. I want you to put your antennas up in your life.
[00:34:24] Put your antennas up. Begin to think about God.
[00:34:28] What are you doing in my life, Holy Spirit? I know that you live in me.
[00:34:33] What is it that you are trying to say to me? What is it that you are doing in and around my life? Invite the Holy Spirit to raise your awareness of him in this life, because it's that awareness. As that awareness grows, our assurance grows. Awareness is proportional to our assurance. We need to be aware of what the spirit's doing. And as you start to see those things in your life, I want you to take it even one step further.
[00:35:03] Tell somebody about it.
[00:35:05] Tell somebody. If we're in this together, you telling someone what the spirit is doing in your life can be incredibly fruitful to someone else's life because they can be seeing those same things in their own life. I can't tell you how many times I've been with an accountability group or a small group, and someone is just expressing what God is doing in their life. And God's spirit in me says, that's for you.
[00:35:31] What's going on in them, that's for you as well.
[00:35:35] That's why friends groups matter.
[00:35:39] Getting connected to the body of Christ in a powerful and a transparent way is going to be transformational for your lives. Get your antennas up and do that in the context of relationships with other people.
[00:35:54] Let's pray.
[00:36:04] Holy Spirit, I just want to acknowledge that you are here with us.
[00:36:09] You are in the heart and the life of everyone that's bowed their knee to you. And we just thank you. You are a beautiful gift.
[00:36:20] Holy Spirit, I ask you to make yourself known in powerful and even quiet ways to all of us this week.
[00:36:31] Let us see ways that maybe we didn't. We weren't aware of what it is that you're doing.
[00:36:37] Holy Spirit, we need you.
[00:36:40] We don't want to live in a spiritual poverty when we have all the resources of heaven with us and in us and available to us.
[00:36:50] Holy Spirit, come.
[00:36:52] Holy Spirit, speak.
[00:36:55] We are so grateful and Holy Spirit, I just want to pray that in the midst of what Michelle talked about, all the things that we are dealing with in our lives and in our culture and the brokenness of this world, we are in a desperate place of needing you to pour yourself out on our country, on our valley, on this church, in a way that we would stand up and take notice. Holy Spirit, come and pour yourself out in power.
[00:37:26] Holy Spirit, we understand that this world needs to change. Start with us, start with us, change us, our hearts from the inside out, and let there be a ripple effect from this place to the whole world.
[00:37:41] Holy Spirit, come and it's in Jesus, powerful and risen name that we pray. And all God's people said amen.
