Thank you for listening to this message from
Lifehouse Church. Thank you for participating
and praying and continue to pray. We are truly
blessed with children in this church. And as
a church, man, I remember growing up, I had people
praying over me. I remember going to the altar.
I remember people pulling me off to the side
and just laying hands on me and praying over
me. So do that. You see kids running around this
church or walking around this church, get a teenager,
hug them and say, hey, I just want to pray a
prayer of blessing over you and speak over their
lives. It's an incredibly important thing. and
it's an amazing thing to be a part of and really
actually to be a recipient of those things. Well,
I want to read a little article, a little something
I came across this week. Dave Harvey writes in
Rescuing Ambition, he says this, For the past
couple decades, I've had a condition that has
kept me from sleeping well. The technical term
was apnea, so I went to see the doctor. The doctor's
solution, I'll remove your uvula, and you will
not snore anymore. You'll sleep better. I didn't
even know what a uvula was. But I freaked out
when he suggested removing it. And they cut it
out, and now I really can sleep. But there was
something that I didn't expect. When he removed
it, I found my dreams. You see, because I never
slept, I never really dreamed. Now, I know, he
says, the experts tell you that you dream all
the time. You just don't remember dreaming. But
not once do I remember a dream because I could
not sleep through the night. I didn't even know
I had lost my dreams until I found them, or rather
until they returned to me. Actually, they were
rescued, airlifted in from some cold, lifeless
crevice where dreams hibernate until the arrival
of deep sleep or something like that, he says.
Now, I know all this may sound a bit strange,
but it's true. My dreams were rescued by a guy
with a scalpel. Outside of survival, one of the
most motivating factors in all of life is a vision
or a dream. If you have a right vision, if you
have a right dream, it can change it all. A God
vision, a God dream will not just simply spice
up your sleep time, right? A God vision or a
God dream will send you on missions that may
last you a lifetime. It'll send you on a path
that will shift and change. And so many of us
have heard the stories, right? How many of you,
raise your hand if you've heard the story of
somebody that got a dream or a vision. They felt
like God placed something in their lives. Come
on. How many of you know someone like that? Right?
Maybe it was you. And they started a nonprofit.
They started a business. They started a ministry
somewhere because the moment in time God gave
a vision or a dream. You're sitting in a church
that started with a vision and a dream. God's
speaking into our hearts. You're listening online
this morning. You're listening to a church that's
birthed out of a vision and a dream. And back
in 2008, a few things, few things, very few things
are more powerful than a God -given vision and
a God -given dream. A holy snapshot of a preferred
future, right? They come straight from the throne
room of grace, right from God's house, right
from God's voice. How we live, it shifts what
we do. It changes the direction we go in. And
it is the Holy Spirit who gives us those God
-sized visions and dreams. Turn to somebody right
now. Tell them it's in visions and dreams today.
It's visions and dreams. Come on, preach to them
for a second. If you have your Bibles, we're
going to go to Acts chapter 2, verse 17. We're
going to jump back and forth between Acts chapter
2 and Acts chapter 1. And I'm going to pray over
the message and pray over the green invitation
balls that we have down here. If you're new and
didn't know what these are, these are invitations.
We're believing for people to come into the house
of God this morning. Father, we come before you.
Lord, we place our lives before you. We give
ourselves to you. Lord, we ask that you touch
our ears and our hearts that we might be able
to hear your word. And God, that it might settle
in. our spirit. And Lord, that we might live
out the truth of God in our lives. And we just
give you praise and glory. God, we pray over
these invitations. God, that have gone out, we're
believing for more. God, I'm believing to fill
this tank up by the end, God, of this summer.
And Lord, God, to see souls and lives come in,
represented in these orange balls. In Jesus'
name, we believe this. And everybody said together,
amen and amen. Well, following Pentecost, 120
believers. I preached about this last week. If
you want to hear more about that, go ahead and
back and listen to next week when you get home.
But 120 believers are baptized in the Holy Spirit.
The Holy Spirit is poured out. And these 120
believers that are in the upper room, they pour
out into the streets of Jerusalem. They begin
to preach. They begin to speak. The name of God,
the word of God, they begin to worship. And Peter
is one of these individuals who pour out into
the street. Peter is one of Jesus' closest disciples.
And as they go into the street and people begin
to listen to the noise and what's taking place
as the Holy Spirit is poured out, Peter sees
a crowd begin to gather, and he thinks this is
an awesome time to preach. And he ends up preaching,
and 3 ,000 people come to know the Lord. And
they begin to listen to prophetic words that
he speaks, and that's what we're going to pick
up in Acts 2 .17. And it says this. And it shall
come to pass in the last days. Now, I don't know
if you know this or not, but I believe we're
in the last days. If you know Bible prophecy,
if you're looking and listening in any kind of
way, this is true. This is relevant for us right
now. It says it shall come to pass in the last
days, says God, that I will pour out my spirit
on all flesh. Holy Spirit on all flesh. Your
sons and your daughters shall prophesy. That's
what it says. That means that your sons and daughters
will become spokesmen for God, that the word
of God will begin to come from our sons and our
daughters. That should get you excited for any
of the teenagers in the house, even children,
right? And it says your young men shall see visions.
Say visions. Young men will see visions. Your
old men shall dream dreams. The young men are
going to see visions. The old guys are going
to dream dreams. Amen? I thought about that for
about 30 seconds, and I thought. Why are the
old guys have to dream the dreams? And then it
dawned on me, they sleep a lot more, right? God's
like, don't wake them up. Just talk to them while
they're sleeping, right? They're going to dream
dreams. And young men are going to see visions.
And verse 18, ladies, he doesn't leave you out
either. He says, on my menservants and on my
maidservants, same for you, I will pour out my
spirit in those days and they shall prophesy.
They will speak God, right? One of the reasons
that the Holy Spirit was sent to them and to
us is so that we experience God -sized visions
and God -sized dreams personally. Now this morning,
I'm not talking about pizza dreams. How many
of you have ever had a pizza dream? You know
what I'm talking about. A pizza dream is one
of those weird dreams about people and places
you may or may not know. I had one of these the
other night. I didn't know the people in the
dream. I didn't know where I was in the dream.
It didn't make any sense. I think I ate too much
food before I went to bed. It was just strange,
random information. And if you don't know anything
about what happens when you sleep, your brain
kind of recategorizes all the information from
the day. Things that you took in consciously
and subconsciously, your brain will recategorize
and organize. It kind of drops into your memory.
That's what happens in the middle of the night.
I'm not talking about those kind of dreams this
morning. I'm talking about the kind of dreams
that God gives you. They're different kind of
dreams. When God gives you a dream, you're going
to know it's him, right? It's not a random bunch
of information that's flying around. When God
gives you a vision, when God gives you a dream,
it's not just... cataloging information. It is
something that God births in you. It's something
that settles in your head, your heart, and your
soul. I've only had this happen a few times in
my life, but I could tell you every one of them.
I could tell you in detail what God dropped into
my spirit. It's God bringing a dream alive. He's
birthing a plant. It's one of the ways God talks
to us. It's Holy Spirit communing with our spirit
so that we hear God. So we see him. It's one
of the ways God speaks. Visions and dreams. God
is amazingly creative when it comes to communication.
And this is a big deal. Because pre -Pentecost,
right? Pre -Jesus coming out of the grave. Pre
-Pentecost, the way God spoke was through prophets
and prophetesses, right? Prophets, men and women
who were prophets. Men and women who were sent
by God to be messengers of God. Basically, before
Jesus and before the Holy Spirit, when you heard
the word of God, it was kind of third hand. God
will speak to a prophet and then the prophet
would come and speak to the people. It was kind
of like YouTube, but more reliable, right? More
holy, more actually true. Right? That's how it
worked back pre -resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Pre -Pentecost. Pre -baptism of the Holy Spirit.
The Holy Spirit being poured out. Prophets would
speak. One of the reasons that Jesus said, when
I leave, it's expedient that I go away. He told
his disciples, the followers, he said, when I
leave this earth and I go back to be with the
Father, it is expedient that I go. Because if
I go, I'm going to send the Holy Spirit back.
And he's going to speak to you. He's going to
give you dreams. He's going to give you visions.
He's going to speak in your heart. He's going
to bring the word of God alive. And every one
of us have the opportunity. Holy Spirit comes
to every one of us in Christ, right? And if we
get immersed in God's presence, we have the opportunity
to hear from God personally. You can experience
hand -delivered visions, hand -delivered dreams
from heaven. It's not a third -party spokesman
like the prophet. It's direct mail from heaven,
right? How many of you like getting mail? Everybody
likes getting mail, especially if it's lumpy
mail. You ever get that mail that's got a pen
in it? You have to open it. Amen? It's true.
A direct connection through the Holy Spirit.
He's the third person of the Trinity who comes.
And so many people, you know, especially in Christian
circles, so many people are, you know, going
and chasing after prophets, people that call
themselves prophets, modern day prophets. And
I'm cool with a modern day prophet. Sometimes
God speaks through the word, but usually when
a prophet comes and speaks over you, it should
be something that the Holy Spirit's already speaking
into your spirit. Usually it's just a confirmation
of something that God's already saying to you.
We've got a direct line to God. Holy Spirit came
back. The word of God tells us came to dwell
in each one of us at salvation, so we hear from
God personally, and then we can have the experience
of being immersed in the Spirit. If you want
to hear and see the Holy Spirit, you want to
get God -sized vision and dream, I want those
messages, you want those messages, a direct line
from God. I want a snapshot of God's preferred
future for my life. Amen? It's true. It's always
so much better than mine. I know we all got our
own snapshot of what God's preferred future is,
or what our preferred future is, but God's is
always so much better. Seek him out. Seek for
this. And the Lord does not just give us visions
and dreams through the Holy Spirit, but he provides
what I call complimenting empowerments. This
comes along with Holy Spirit. This comes along
with the Holy Ghost. Visions and dreams, and
then he gives complimenting empowerments. Now,
I want you to go in your Bibles, jump back to
Acts chapter 1, verse 4, and I'm going to read
that. It says, being assembled together, and
I read this last week for you, with them, he
commanded them not to depart from Jerusalem,
he's talking to the disciples, but to wait for
the promise of the Father, which he said, you've
heard from me, for John truly baptized with water,
but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit,
not many days from now. Therefore, when he had
come together, they asked him, saying, Lord,
will you at this time restore the kingdom to
Israel? He said to them, it's not for you to
know the times or the season, what the Father
has put in his own authority, but you shall receive
power. Say power. Power. When the Holy Spirit
has come upon you. Come on, say that like you
mean it. Power. Come on, get it down deep. There
it is, all right. Use some deep voice, right?
But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit
has come upon you and you shall be my witnesses
to me in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria
and to the ends of the earth. At the genesis
of the church, as Jesus completes the work of
salvation that the Father sent him to do, in
Jesus' final words to his disciples, right before
he would leave them, he said, you shall receive
power. power when the Holy Spirit comes upon
you and you'll be my witnesses, right? You'll
witness of me. One of the complimenting benefits
of Holy Spirit is God's power in my life. Holy
Spirit is sent. to empower the God -sized vision
and dream in your life. Holy Spirit was sent
to empower the believer in your walk and in your
talk. One of the reasons, right, the Holy Spirit
is sent to reside inside of you is so that the
power dwells with you. One of the reasons, right,
that Jesus said, I will baptize you, I will immerse
you in Holy Spirit so that the power of God is
at work in me, in me. Now, listen, church, it
has become abundantly clear to me over the years
that I have very little power on my own to change
anything. Actually, that my power just on my
own power is ridiculously limited in so many
ways. Physically. Limited, right? We were working
on a roof this weekend. How many know it was
hot this weekend? We were working on a roof this
weekend, and at the end of the day, I felt like
a wrung -out dishrag, man. I felt powerless,
you know, physically. I know that it's just that
God gives me some power, but it's limited, right?
Mentally, how many times have I felt mentally
exhausted at the end of the day? Emotionally,
socially, financially, relationally. How many
of you have ever felt powerless in a relationship?
You want the other person to change. You want
something to shift, and you try everything in
your power, and nothing turns. Nothing changes,
right? Because you can't change the person that's
sitting beside you. Only God can, and only if
they yield to him. Or maybe powerless in a social
setting. I've watched crowds of people lose their
minds, right? Get violent, begin to smash things.
It could be financially. You might be limited
financially. One of my teenage kids, when my
kids were teenagers, they're all adults now,
but when they were teenagers, one of them used
to say, Dad, I'm broke as a joke. That's what
they'd say. I'm broke as a joke. I don't really
know what that meant, but I knew it was pretty
broke, all right, because they were coming to
get money. I was broke as a joke. You might be
financially, you might be broke as a joke right
now. You might be thinking, I'm so powerless
right now. Sometimes we're powerless spiritually.
We feel so low. We feel so inadequate. We feel
like the enemy's running rip shot over top of
us. We need power that I do not possess to overcome
what I face in the world. You need power that
you do not possess within you to overcome what's
in the world. Significant power, life -changing
power, power that is not sourced from me. Because
I don't have the goods. I really don't. It's
why Jesus said, but you shall receive power.
He told this to his disciples, the ones he trained.
When the Holy Spirit has come upon you, you shall
receive power. One of the complementing benefits
of the Holy Spirit is power to live. It is power
to overcome. And more of him and less of me.
That's how it works in the kingdom of God. I
don't know if you ever realized, the world will
tell you the complete opposite. Reward of you,
go find yourself, all those kind of things. But
I found out that the less of me and the more
of him, the better things go, the more power
I've got at work in my life. It's true. It's
true because I am powerless. I'm powerless compared
to him. I really am. If you put God and I side
by side and you had to give us a rating of power,
mine wouldn't even hit the charts. I'm one horsepower.
He's a jet engine right on turbo charge. No horsepower
here. I need him. I need him. Do you need the
power of God in your life? I do. I do. Why would
I not want? God's power at work in my life. Why
would I not want to be immersed and baptized
in the one he sent to empower me? Why would I
not want to live and grab a hold of all that
God's given me to overcome? I don't know what
power you're tapping into or what power you're
trying to tap into. Maybe you're coming up empty,
right? Maybe you tried all the self -help stuff.
Maybe it's some lesser power that you grabbed
a hold of that's out there in the world. Maybe
you're trying to get the force to be with you,
right? Star Wars person of some kind. I'm telling
you, God sent the Holy Spirit, and he has unlimited
power to empower your life and to move you forward.
It's true. Last complimenting empowerment. I'll
give you another one. It's in Acts. It says that
the Holy Spirit adds this, again, to our God
-side vision and dream. And we see this, to get
you a picture of what I'm going to talk about
here, this empowerment for the visions and dreams
in your life that God places. You've got to take
a look at the disciples. Pre -Holy Spirit baptism
and then post -Holy Spirit baptism. Pre -Pentecost.
Post -Pentecost. So I'm going to take you to
Acts 2, verse 1. I told you we were jumping around
today. Right? And the day of the Pentecost, when
the day of Pentecost had fully come, they were
all in one accord in one place, and suddenly
there came a sound from heaven as a mighty rushing
wind, and it filled the whole house where they
were sitting. Then there appeared to them divided
tongues as of fire, and one sat upon each of
them, and they were filled with the Holy Spirit
and began to speak with other tongues as the
Spirit gave them utterance. And they were dwelling
in Jerusalem, Jews, devout men from every nation
under heaven. And when this sound occurred, the
multitude came together and were confused because
everyone heard them speak his own language. And
they were all amazed and marveled, saying to
one another, Look, are not all these who speak
Galileans? How is it we hear each one in our
own language, in which we were born, Parthians
and Medes and Alamites, those dwelling in Mesopotamia
and Judea and Cappadocia and Pontus and in Asia?
Pergamon and Pamphylia, Egypt and parts of Libya
adjoining to Cyrene, visitors from Rome, both
Jews and proselytes, Cretans and Arabs. We hear
them speak in our own language the wonderful
works of God. So they were all amazed and perplexed,
saying to one another, whatever could this mean?
When Pentecost takes place, the 120 believers
that are in the upper room waiting for the promise
for the baptism of the Holy Spirit, when it takes
place, they go out into the streets and they
boldly begin to proclaim Jesus Christ. Pre -baptism
of the Holy Spirit, these same disciples were
hiding out. They weren't speaking in the streets.
And if you read on, Acts 2 .13 says, others mockingly
said their full new wine. How many know somebody's
always going to mock the work of God? But 14
says, but Peter's standing up. Peter, standing
up. Peter's the same guy who previously did this,
not too many days before this, denied even knowing
Jesus. When Jesus was being arrested, Peter's
the guy that three times before the roaster crowed,
right, denies that he even knows Jesus. He curses
and pretends he doesn't even know Christ. He
goes and runs off. He hides. This is the same
guy. And it says Peter standing up with the 11,
right, raised his voice and said to them, there's
a crowd around. He's preaching to thousands of
people, men of Judea and all who dwell in Jerusalem.
He's preaching the same place that he was hiding
out previously, the same place that Jesus gets
crucified, the same place that he was worried
about the Roman leaders and the religious leaders
who crucified Christ, crucifying him. That's
why he was hiding out, is now in the streets
boldly proclaiming Christ. And he says, for these
are not drunk as you suppose, since it is only
the third hour day, but this is what happened,
which was spoken by the prophet. Joel. Peter.
Preaching in the streets. Holy Spirit baptism
embolds us in the God -sized vision and dream.
It makes us bold for the witness. It makes us
walk into life boldly in whatever God has placed
before us. We go with an emboldened vision and
an emboldened dream and passion in our hearts.
It's one of the complimenting effects of the
Holy Spirit is to remove the fear in our lives,
right? And embolden us in him. Now, I got to
clarify something here because the Holy Spirit
boldness in our life is not arrogance in my life.
Amen. I need to clear that up because sometimes
people take boldness and they mix it with arrogance.
I don't care what you wrap arrogance in, it's
a sin. You can try to wrap it in anything, even
if it sounds spiritual, it's sin. That's not
what I'm talking about. I'm not talking about
spiritual arrogance. I'm talking about boldness,
right? And boldness, arrogance is self -confidence
on steroids. Boldness is confidence in Christ
on steroids. It's a whole different thing. And
I heard somebody use this term and I like it.
So I use it. I kind of stole it from him. It
plagiarized, borrowed, whatever you want to call
it. All right. But I heard this thing. You know,
if you want to understand boldness in Christ,
it is not self -confidence. It is Godfidence.
It is God -fidence. That's what makes you bold
in Christ. It's not that I'm self -confident.
It is that I have God -fidence. I got confidence
in God. I got confidence in the Holy Spirit.
I got confidence in His power. My reliance is
on the one who cannot fail, not on the one who
fails regularly, right? It's all in with Him.
Boldness, confidence. It's one of the residual
effects of Holy Spirit filling my life. Peter
hopped up and began to preach fearlessly. Thousands
of people listening had no idea how they were
going to react, had no idea if he was going to
get arrested, had no idea if they would do to
him the same as they did to Jesus Christ, and
he did not care. He came out boldly and began
to preach. And that didn't happen because he
sat off to the side somewhere after he failed
and did deep, introspective work in his life.
That's not what happened. It was after he was
filled with the Spirit. There's a boldness that
comes. It comes. I'll never forget. Way back
when I was a youth pastor, I refer to that about
to 100 years ago because that's what it seems
how long ago it was. But I remember when I was
doing youth pastor work, I remember getting a
call from a pastor of another church. And he
called me up and he said, hey, I know you're
heading on this youth trip. You're going to take
a bunch of teenagers. You're going to this youth
conference. I said, yeah, I am. And he said,
could you take a couple more? I got a couple
of kids from my church and, you know, they want
to go. And I'm like, sure. Because back then
I'd be like, yeah, I'll do anything. So I said,
sure. So these kids show up. There's like four
of them. And three of them get out of the car.
And then this one kid gets out of the car. He's
got a cigarette tucked behind his ear right here.
He's got a cigarette tucked. He's wearing punk
clothes. And I'm like, oh, man, it's going to
be a long weekend. He gets on the van. And I'm
like, oh, this is going to be a long weekend.
That person came with all the attitudes. You
could stuff in the clothes that they were wearing.
And, you know, you could tell they didn't want
to be there. Somebody made them go on this trip.
You know, they challenged me at every turn. Every
time I'd say do this, they wanted to do something
else. There was this kind of thing that was going
back and forth. They'd be getting church, right?
We'd have church service. They'd just cross their
arms. Right, and sit in this seat and just like,
go ahead, try to make me move. It was kind of
the whole thing, the whole vibe. And I remember
the whole weekend, this kid, you know, just with
this. and attitude the whole way. And it wasn't
until the van ride home, I'd like to say something
happened amazing in one of the services, and
they broke down. It didn't happen that way. It
wasn't until the van ride home that I finally
got a chance to talk with this kid, this long
van ride, and they opened up. They finally began
to break down. The walls began to break down,
and I got into this conversation, and I'll never
forget what they said. Because they went and
watched a bunch of teenagers worship God and
connect with God. I remember this kid sitting
in the seat and looking me in the eye and he
said, they were honest as can be, they said,
I have never seen so many teenagers with no fear
in their eyes. Never seen anything like it. This
kid who had no experience with God, no experience
with the Holy Spirit, he said, I've never seen
anybody, I've never seen it. No fear in their
eyes. It's because God was moving. that weekend.
And these kids were pressing in to Holy Spirit
and all that God had for them. And there was
this boldness that came, not arrogance, but boldness,
the love of God, the peace of God, boldly in
their lives. And it blew this kid away. They
didn't know what they were looking at. They couldn't
get their head around it. And I saw the wall
begin to come down. As we journey through the
book of Acts, you're going to be blown away by
God's power. and boldness and what God accomplishes.
Worship team, if you'd come. Just a few weeks
ago, we got the opportunity and the privilege,
honestly, to go to Guatemala, to Casa Shalom
Orphanage. And there, as a short -term missions
team, just one week being there in that country,
we got the opportunity just to minister and do
some small slice in the kingdom, right? To be
part of a dream, actually. be part of a vision.
We have a team right now that's currently, this
weekend, is in Tangier Island, and they are down
there working as well. But I'm here to tell you,
it is the Holy Spirit who emboldens you, who
empowers you, who raises you up. It's the one
that God sent. And I want you just to hear and
see a little bit, if you turn your attention
to the screens, and then we're going to talk
about your vision and your dream. What if losing
your family wasn't the end of your story? At
Casa Shalom in Guatemala, children who have experienced
loss, hardship and uncertainty are finding something
many never thought possible. A home, a family
and the hope of Jesus. For 40 years, Casa Shalom
has provided a safe place for children to grow,
learn, heal and discover God's love. Every meal
served. Every lesson taught, every prayer offered
is helping shape a new future for these children.
But like many ministries around the world, there
are real needs. This year, one of the greatest
needs was replacing a roof that helps provide
safety and shelter for the children who call
Casa Shalom home. Through the generosity of our
church family, the funds were raised to make
this project possible. Then our team traveled
to Guatemala to help bring it to life. Together,
we weren't just building a roof. We were investing
in the lives of children and in the future of
this ministry. One of the ways I saw God move
was through the unity of our team, each person
using their gifts to serve. While the courage,
love, and faith of the Casa Shalom community
challenged me to see God's calling in a whole
new way. While on our project with the roof,
I got to experience God's protecting hand in
a way I'll never forget. But I am very grateful
on how faithfully he watched over not only me,
but over our team as well. Even though heavy
rain was in the forecast, God gave us exactly
the time we needed each day to work on the roof,
holding back the rain during the most critical
moments and reminding us that he was faithfully
providing every step of the way. It's easy to
believe the lie that what we have to offer is
small and doesn't really matter. But during our
mission trips to Casa Shalom, I've seen firsthand
the impact each person can have. Each year, God
doesn't assemble a random team. He brings together
the right team for the work he's called us to.
And each person's role reveals itself along the
way. One of the things that impacted me the most
on the trip was the unity of our team. Spending
a week serving alongside people who love Jesus
and were united by the same mission deepens my
relationship, strengthens my faith, and reminds
me of the beauty of the church. Well, another
roof is complete, but the story isn't over. Casa
Shalom continues to provide hope, healing, and
a future for the children every single day. And
as a church, we invite you to partner through
prayer, generosity, and a future mission opportunity.
Because when we say yes to God's call, lives
are changed, both theirs and ours. God will give
you a dream. He'll give you a vision. He'll give
you an opportunity to be part of somebody else's
dream and somebody else's vision. When we go
on these missions works, we're part of a different
vision that's taking place, a different dream.
Part of the body of Christ, part of all over
all what God's doing. And God empowers us by
the Holy Spirit to go do these things. There's
a... deepening that comes. There's a power that
comes when we are immersed in God's spirit so
that we can go do what we normally cannot do.
We all went this year and we weren't a bunch
of roofers, I can tell you that, but we got it
on as a team. And those who went will tell you,
God equips, he helps you. And I'm going to ask
you to stand this morning. He's doing this very
thing with those who are currently in Tangier.
on Tangier Island serving this morning. I'm sure
in a place of worship at this very same time.
But God said in Acts, Jesus said in 217, it shall
come to pass in the last days, says God, that
I will pour my spirit on an all flesh. Your sons
and your daughters shall prophesy. Your young
men will see visions and your old men will dream
dreams. And on my men servants and on my maid
servants, I will pour out my spirit in those
days. and they shall prophesy. We believe in
the power of the Holy Spirit. God sent Him. Jesus
sent Him to us. And if you have a desire to be
full, to be immersed, to be baptized in His Spirit,
to further serve God, We wanna give you that
opportunity. We have the prayer team over here.
They're poised and ready to pray with you if
you want to. As they go into this last song,
you can just slide over there. They'll pray with
you. They'll begin to, all the prayer team members,
I'm gonna slip around there and I'll pray with
you as well if you want to. But we. I want you
to have vision. I want you to have a dream. I
want you to see what God has for your life. And
not only just to step through, but to thrive
and to move to what God is speaking in your spirit.
And that might be a dream or a vision that he
gives you individually to start. That might be
joining in on a dream or a vision. I believe
we're all part of that here at LifeHouse. a dream
and a vision to see God move in our lives, to
become biblically healthy, to see people come
to Jesus Christ. So with your heads bowed and
your eyes closed at this moment, I'm going to
ask you, do you desire the power of God in a
greater way in your life? Do you want God to
move and speak in and through you in ways that
you've never experienced before? Do you want
immersed? in the presence of the Holy Spirit.
It is something that we can continue to do, but
there is a separate experience. Holy Spirit comes
to dwell in us at salvation, but there was a
separate experience. The disciples were given
that separate experience. God gives that still
today. This is the last days. He said, I will
pour my spirit out on all flesh. You're all flesh.
So if that's you, don't talk yourself out of
this. Don't try to, you know, I'll do this another
time. I want you to do something this morning.
When they begin to play and sing, when they begin
to worship, I want you to make your way over
to the prayer team. I want you to slide over
there. You may have another need as well. If
you want to know more about the baptism of the
Holy Spirit, as your eyes are closed and your
head's bowed, I got something. I got a gift for
you. I got something that will be a minor investment
for you, a $5 investment that will change your
heart. You might say, I don't know that much
about the baptism of the Holy Spirit. If you
want to know more, I'll give you something that'll
make it so clear if you engage and read. But
we want to pray with you. But if you're ready
this morning, we want to pray that you're going
to receive. So Father, I thank you, God, for
each one in the house. Lord, as you prepare hearts
and minds, God, for those, God, who want more
power in you. God, they want more confidence
than they've ever had in their lives. God, they
want to know the dream or the vision. God, maybe
you've spoken the dream or vision. And Lord,
they need clarification. Maybe they just need
prayer this morning. God, I pray that you give
them a heart to move, God, so that they can be
ministered to. And Lord, we ask this in Jesus'
name. And amen. Visit our website at www .lifehousecog
.com.