WEBVTT 00:00:00.140 --> 00:00:02.740 You have your Bibles if you can turn to Psalms 00:00:02.740 --> 00:00:09.220 42, 1 through 2. And then we will be reading 00:00:09.220 --> 00:00:16.660 a supporting text in Psalms 27, 8. So Psalms 00:00:16.660 --> 00:00:22.480 42, 1 through 2, if you have it, say amen. I'll 00:00:22.480 --> 00:00:26.260 wait. Should I wait? Amen. Do you have it? Say 00:00:26.260 --> 00:00:30.789 amen. Amen. The word of the Lord goes on to read, 00:00:31.010 --> 00:00:35.810 As the deer pants for the water brooks, so pants 00:00:35.810 --> 00:00:40.710 my soul for you, O God. My soul thirsts, someone 00:00:40.710 --> 00:00:47.729 say thirsts, for God, for the living God. Someone 00:00:47.729 --> 00:00:53.109 say living God. In our supporting text, Psalms 00:00:53.109 --> 00:00:58.359 27, verse 8, it reads, And when you said, Seek 00:00:58.359 --> 00:01:04.239 my face. My heart said to you, your face, Lord, 00:01:04.459 --> 00:01:13.480 I will seek. Your face, Lord, I will seek. Amen. 00:01:13.500 --> 00:01:15.420 Heavenly Father, we come before you today, God. 00:01:15.560 --> 00:01:17.439 We give you honor. We give you glory, Lord. We 00:01:17.439 --> 00:01:19.420 ask you, Lord, to open up our hearts, open up 00:01:19.420 --> 00:01:22.319 our minds, God. Lord, that we would receive your 00:01:22.319 --> 00:01:25.180 word today, Lord. Lord, I'm merely a vessel, 00:01:25.319 --> 00:01:27.760 Father. Lord, I ask you, Lord, to use me, Father. 00:01:27.760 --> 00:01:30.760 Lord, anoint my lips of clay, God. Lord, to deliver 00:01:30.760 --> 00:01:33.060 the word that you have for your church today, 00:01:33.219 --> 00:01:36.819 God. Lord, let us, Lord, help us, let it help 00:01:36.819 --> 00:01:39.579 us to understand, Lord, what you are saying and 00:01:39.579 --> 00:01:42.599 what you want from your people today. We give 00:01:42.599 --> 00:01:44.920 you honor. We give you glory. In the name of 00:01:44.920 --> 00:01:53.439 Jesus, we say amen. You may be seated. I have 00:01:53.439 --> 00:01:58.319 a question for everyone today and you don't have 00:01:58.319 --> 00:02:05.219 to respond. Amen. But are you hungry today? Amen. 00:02:07.340 --> 00:02:13.979 Loud amen way in the back. Amen. If you're hungry, 00:02:14.120 --> 00:02:18.620 then what are you hungry for? What are we hungry 00:02:18.620 --> 00:02:23.780 for? There is something about hunger that brings 00:02:23.780 --> 00:02:32.979 how you and I behave. There is something about 00:02:32.979 --> 00:02:37.719 hunger that changes how you and I behave. You 00:02:37.719 --> 00:02:42.259 ever been hangry? Yeah. Are you the nicest person 00:02:42.259 --> 00:02:49.300 when you're hangry? No. Right? Who's nice when 00:02:49.300 --> 00:02:53.719 they're hangry? Anybody nice when they're hangry? 00:02:53.800 --> 00:02:58.319 No, you're not. My wife says like this. Nobody's 00:02:58.319 --> 00:03:00.219 nice when they're hangry. You're just hungry, 00:03:00.360 --> 00:03:04.060 right? You want something to eat. And so when 00:03:04.060 --> 00:03:06.500 you get to this point and you truly feel that 00:03:06.500 --> 00:03:09.360 hunger, you'll basically settle for anything. 00:03:09.560 --> 00:03:13.080 Like food is not an inconvenience. That is, those 00:03:13.080 --> 00:03:15.000 of you that are married, you know what I'm talking 00:03:15.000 --> 00:03:19.560 about when I say that that is the ultimate question 00:03:19.560 --> 00:03:23.750 that comes to mind. When you're hungry, where 00:03:23.750 --> 00:03:26.770 do you want to eat? I don't know. What do you 00:03:26.770 --> 00:03:28.750 want to eat? I don't know. What are you in the 00:03:28.750 --> 00:03:30.750 mood for? I don't know. What are you in the mood 00:03:30.750 --> 00:03:34.590 for? Right? So the good husbands that we are, 00:03:34.750 --> 00:03:39.090 right? Wink, wink. We go down the list. Hamburger, 00:03:39.150 --> 00:03:42.509 pizza, French fries. I mean, you go down that 00:03:42.509 --> 00:03:46.430 list. Tacos. I mean, and the answers are no, 00:03:46.650 --> 00:03:49.270 no, no, no, no, no, no. I don't. No, no, no. 00:03:49.689 --> 00:03:52.750 Okay, then what do you want? I don't know. What 00:03:52.750 --> 00:03:55.330 do you want? Right? It just goes back and forth 00:03:55.330 --> 00:03:58.610 until someone finally settles on whatever it 00:03:58.610 --> 00:04:00.810 is. And it's usually the first thing you mention. 00:04:01.449 --> 00:04:04.009 Right? It's usually like your go -to, whether 00:04:04.009 --> 00:04:07.270 that's tacos or hamburgers or salad, whatever 00:04:07.270 --> 00:04:11.169 it is. Right? You usually go back to that. But 00:04:11.169 --> 00:04:14.650 it changes our behavior. And so what happens 00:04:14.650 --> 00:04:16.949 is that hunger is no longer an inconvenience 00:04:16.949 --> 00:04:20.959 and it rearranges our schedule. Because we allow 00:04:20.959 --> 00:04:26.620 it to. We allow it to drive us out of our way. 00:04:26.740 --> 00:04:29.300 Like if you were headed somewhere, like, I don't 00:04:29.300 --> 00:04:31.800 know, somewhere important, right? And then you 00:04:31.800 --> 00:04:34.040 just get hungry and you just can't wait. You 00:04:34.040 --> 00:04:36.779 weigh something and then you allow it to take 00:04:36.779 --> 00:04:40.839 you off track for a moment. Right? Because now 00:04:40.839 --> 00:04:43.060 it was important to get to where you were going 00:04:43.060 --> 00:04:45.160 on time. But now I don't care if I show up 10 00:04:45.160 --> 00:04:47.939 minutes late. I need to eat. So we allow it to 00:04:47.939 --> 00:04:52.180 take us off track. We go out of our way, and 00:04:52.180 --> 00:04:55.759 we'll even wait in line once we get there. Sometimes 00:04:55.759 --> 00:04:58.860 I ask myself, like, you're such in a hurry, you 00:04:58.860 --> 00:05:00.839 couldn't wait to eat, and now you're waiting 00:05:00.839 --> 00:05:05.139 in this long line. Why do we do these things? 00:05:05.199 --> 00:05:08.740 Why do we behave this way? What's the answer? 00:05:10.439 --> 00:05:14.819 We're hungry. We'll do anything we need to do 00:05:14.819 --> 00:05:20.129 to get what we need to get. to satisfy our hunger. 00:05:21.389 --> 00:05:24.610 Now, the one thing that is strange about appetite 00:05:24.610 --> 00:05:29.490 and being hungry, it creates a pursuit, right? 00:05:30.230 --> 00:05:34.470 You were no longer in pursuit of food, but now 00:05:34.470 --> 00:05:38.149 you are. You were no longer in pursuit of In 00:05:38.149 --> 00:05:42.500 -N -Out that's all the way across town. But now 00:05:42.500 --> 00:05:44.800 you're in pursuit to getting to where you need 00:05:44.800 --> 00:05:47.779 to go because you're hungry. So hunger creates 00:05:47.779 --> 00:05:53.800 pursuit. And I believe that one of the most important 00:05:53.800 --> 00:05:59.540 questions that we can ask today as a church, 00:05:59.759 --> 00:06:04.699 and the church can ask itself is, how hungry 00:06:04.699 --> 00:06:13.100 then are we for God? How hungry are we for God? 00:06:14.939 --> 00:06:18.560 And I'm not talking about being hungry for another 00:06:18.560 --> 00:06:21.720 position in the church. I'm not talking about 00:06:21.720 --> 00:06:25.399 pursuing another title. I'm not talking about 00:06:25.399 --> 00:06:28.680 the hunger for more influence. I'm not talking 00:06:28.680 --> 00:06:32.060 about the hunger for recognition. I'm not even 00:06:32.060 --> 00:06:36.230 talking about the primary. reason why we come 00:06:36.230 --> 00:06:38.449 to church and to give God praise and to give 00:06:38.449 --> 00:06:41.290 God glory. We could do that all day in and out 00:06:41.290 --> 00:06:44.949 every day. But what I am asking you for is, or 00:06:44.949 --> 00:06:49.069 the question is, how hungry are you for God? 00:06:54.029 --> 00:07:00.430 Are we hungry for God? David said, my soul thirsts 00:07:00.430 --> 00:07:06.300 for God, for the living God. Now, notice that 00:07:06.300 --> 00:07:09.000 David doesn't say that my soul thirsts for what 00:07:09.000 --> 00:07:13.959 God can do for me. My soul thirsts for another 00:07:13.959 --> 00:07:18.699 blessing. My soul thirsts for another breakthrough. 00:07:19.379 --> 00:07:23.180 No, that's not what David said. David said, my 00:07:23.180 --> 00:07:32.500 soul thirsts for God. The living God. And there 00:07:32.500 --> 00:07:36.759 is a difference between seeking God's hand and 00:07:36.759 --> 00:07:42.699 seeking God's face. His hand represents what 00:07:42.699 --> 00:07:47.699 he provides. In Psalms 104, 28, it reads, and 00:07:47.699 --> 00:07:50.980 when you give it to them, they gather it up. 00:07:51.060 --> 00:07:56.319 When you open your hand, they are satisfied with 00:07:56.319 --> 00:08:01.220 good things. How many of you love to be blessed? 00:08:02.240 --> 00:08:05.560 Oh, come on. Come on. I know I'm talking to some 00:08:05.560 --> 00:08:07.899 blessed people in the house today. How many of 00:08:07.899 --> 00:08:12.399 you love to be blessed? How many of you love 00:08:12.399 --> 00:08:20.240 to receive gifts? Some of y 'all should have 00:08:20.240 --> 00:08:22.939 took off running. I know some. How many of you 00:08:22.939 --> 00:08:26.509 love that? Just out of nowhere, someone just 00:08:26.509 --> 00:08:28.329 comes and says, hey, I just want to bless you 00:08:28.329 --> 00:08:31.670 with this. Usually it's a gift card for what? 00:08:33.629 --> 00:08:36.610 Food, right? Coffee, right? The things that we 00:08:36.610 --> 00:08:41.889 love. But do we reject those things? No. Sometimes 00:08:41.889 --> 00:08:43.929 we look at the gift card and say, five bucks? 00:08:44.690 --> 00:08:48.210 What can I get for five dollars? Hey, if you're 00:08:48.210 --> 00:08:51.090 going to bless me, man, you got 20 bucks, 30. 00:08:51.190 --> 00:08:52.950 Come on, you got to give me like a week's supply 00:08:52.950 --> 00:08:57.299 here, right? We'll accept blessings. We love 00:08:57.299 --> 00:09:01.840 receiving blessings. And that's good. That's 00:09:01.840 --> 00:09:04.860 great. But then when it comes to the Lord, we 00:09:04.860 --> 00:09:09.360 also get in the habit of doing the same things. 00:09:10.700 --> 00:09:13.620 Seeking God's hand because that's what he can 00:09:13.620 --> 00:09:20.080 provide us with. His face, though, represents 00:09:20.080 --> 00:09:25.450 his presence. In 1 Chronicles 16, 11, it says, 00:09:25.590 --> 00:09:30.590 look to the Lord and his strength. Seek his face 00:09:30.590 --> 00:09:36.350 always. And sometimes we can become so focused 00:09:36.350 --> 00:09:43.350 on what's in his hand that we stop to seek his 00:09:43.350 --> 00:09:48.409 face, his presence. We pray, Lord, bless my family. 00:09:49.269 --> 00:09:53.299 Lord, open up another door for me. Lord, fix 00:09:53.299 --> 00:09:58.179 my situation. Lord, provide for me because I 00:09:58.179 --> 00:10:03.200 need to be provided for. Lord, you will never 00:10:03.200 --> 00:10:05.539 leave me nor forsake me. We start reminding God 00:10:05.539 --> 00:10:07.500 what his word says, right? You said you would 00:10:07.500 --> 00:10:09.600 always be there for me, God. You said that if 00:10:09.600 --> 00:10:12.379 I knock, it shall be opened. If I seek, I shall 00:10:12.379 --> 00:10:16.700 find. If I ask, it shall be given unto me. And 00:10:16.700 --> 00:10:18.580 there's no doubt that there's nothing wrong with 00:10:18.580 --> 00:10:20.940 that because at times that's the prayer. That's 00:10:20.940 --> 00:10:23.639 what we need to pray because we are in need. 00:10:23.779 --> 00:10:27.639 And when we are in need, where do we go to? God, 00:10:27.659 --> 00:10:32.679 right? And Jesus even taught us how to pray in 00:10:32.679 --> 00:10:36.460 Matthew 6, 11. Give us this day our daily bread. 00:10:37.669 --> 00:10:40.690 But there is something far beyond that. There 00:10:40.690 --> 00:10:43.250 is something much deeper than that. And there 00:10:43.250 --> 00:10:45.470 is something that we all need to remember and 00:10:45.470 --> 00:10:48.730 understand today. That even if God didn't answer 00:10:48.730 --> 00:10:51.389 my prayer. And even if God didn't put anything 00:10:51.389 --> 00:10:54.669 in my hand. I am still going to seek after his 00:10:54.669 --> 00:10:57.529 presence. I am still going to yearn for his love. 00:10:57.690 --> 00:11:05.500 I am still going to want more of God. Moses understood 00:11:05.500 --> 00:11:10.519 this in Exodus 33 15. He says if your presence 00:11:10.519 --> 00:11:15.580 does not go with us do not bring us up from here. 00:11:16.779 --> 00:11:21.960 Moses had seen miracles. He had watched the Red 00:11:21.960 --> 00:11:25.860 Sea open in part. He had watched Pharaoh's army 00:11:25.860 --> 00:11:28.899 disappear beneath the water when it closed. He 00:11:28.899 --> 00:11:31.639 had seen manna fall from heaven. He had seen 00:11:31.639 --> 00:11:34.700 water come out of the rock. But after experiencing 00:11:34.700 --> 00:11:38.720 all that Moses had experienced, Moses still says, 00:11:38.940 --> 00:11:45.460 show me your glory. Show me your glory, God. 00:11:46.220 --> 00:11:48.639 You see, because we have all witnessed the power 00:11:48.639 --> 00:11:51.559 of God in our lives. We have all witnessed God 00:11:51.559 --> 00:11:54.779 healing, his healing power in our lives. We have 00:11:54.779 --> 00:11:57.240 all witnessed and been participants and have 00:11:57.240 --> 00:12:00.059 received from God when he extends his hand and 00:12:00.059 --> 00:12:03.200 he provides for us day after day. But just like 00:12:03.200 --> 00:12:06.759 Moses said, Lord, that is not enough. I've seen 00:12:06.759 --> 00:12:09.860 you move, but I want to see you move again. I've 00:12:09.860 --> 00:12:12.440 seen you heal, but I want to see you heal again. 00:12:12.720 --> 00:12:15.779 I've seen you enter, but I want you to enter. 00:12:15.820 --> 00:12:22.240 again show me your glory God and when we think 00:12:22.240 --> 00:12:26.159 about it after everything Moses had already seen 00:12:26.159 --> 00:12:31.580 Moses still wanted more of God this is hunger 00:12:32.519 --> 00:12:35.320 That is the hunger that I am talking about today. 00:12:35.419 --> 00:12:38.320 That is the question that I am proposing to you 00:12:38.320 --> 00:12:42.200 today. How hungry are you for God? How hungry 00:12:42.200 --> 00:12:45.019 do you want more of God? Is it just going to 00:12:45.019 --> 00:12:48.379 be another Sunday that we come in with no expectation? 00:12:48.759 --> 00:12:51.879 Another Sunday that we come in, we raise our 00:12:51.879 --> 00:12:55.179 hand, we sing the song, we go about the motions, 00:12:55.320 --> 00:12:58.159 and we go back home like I said earlier. But 00:12:58.159 --> 00:13:01.000 what about more of God? What about the manifestation 00:13:01.000 --> 00:13:04.600 of God? Spirit in our services? What about someone 00:13:04.600 --> 00:13:07.279 walking up to the altar and receiving the Holy 00:13:07.279 --> 00:13:09.559 Ghost for the first time? What about somebody 00:13:09.559 --> 00:13:12.399 sitting in their seat and getting healed without 00:13:12.399 --> 00:13:18.000 even being prayed for? This is the power of God. 00:13:18.360 --> 00:13:21.980 This is the God that you and I serve. Do you 00:13:21.980 --> 00:13:24.580 know that before you ever needed anything, God 00:13:24.580 --> 00:13:26.960 already knew what you needed? He already answered 00:13:26.960 --> 00:13:31.860 and provided your every single need? Come on, 00:13:31.860 --> 00:13:34.159 somebody should say amen to that. The need that 00:13:34.159 --> 00:13:36.440 you have for tomorrow, God already answered it. 00:13:37.440 --> 00:13:40.159 What you needed to be provided for next week, 00:13:40.200 --> 00:13:43.600 God already provided it to you. The healing that 00:13:43.600 --> 00:13:45.639 God knew that you were going to need next month 00:13:45.639 --> 00:13:48.419 or next year, God already provided the healing. 00:13:52.639 --> 00:13:59.279 Hunger for God will change what we seek. Our 00:13:59.279 --> 00:14:05.399 hunger for God will change what we seek. Not 00:14:05.399 --> 00:14:07.740 because we haven't experienced him, but because 00:14:07.740 --> 00:14:10.659 what we experienced yesterday cannot become the 00:14:10.659 --> 00:14:15.679 limit of what is expected for today. In Psalms 00:14:15.679 --> 00:14:19.600 27, 8, it reads, when you said, seek my face, 00:14:19.799 --> 00:14:23.399 my heart said to you, your face, Lord, I will 00:14:23.399 --> 00:14:26.629 seek. This was David. And David understood that 00:14:26.629 --> 00:14:28.750 there was something greater than simply receiving 00:14:28.750 --> 00:14:33.929 something from God. He wanted God himself. He 00:14:33.929 --> 00:14:41.649 wanted God himself. He wanted God himself. How 00:14:41.649 --> 00:14:46.870 often recently have you just cried out to God 00:14:46.870 --> 00:14:51.450 because all you want is God's presence? That's 00:14:51.450 --> 00:14:55.809 it. Nothing else. I'm not here for blessing. 00:14:56.330 --> 00:14:59.269 I'm not here because I need anything. I'm not 00:14:59.269 --> 00:15:02.129 here because I want anything. I'm not here because 00:15:02.129 --> 00:15:08.169 I'm merely here because all I want is you. He 00:15:08.169 --> 00:15:11.149 wanted God for himself. There is a dangerous 00:15:11.149 --> 00:15:14.250 place spiritually where we can become satisfied 00:15:14.250 --> 00:15:18.049 with what knowing about God without continuing 00:15:18.049 --> 00:15:23.039 to pursue after God. It's almost like when you 00:15:23.039 --> 00:15:24.799 finally get to that place that you were going. 00:15:25.279 --> 00:15:28.440 Remember, we were hangry for a moment. And then 00:15:28.440 --> 00:15:31.340 we finally get to that place. And then now, I 00:15:31.340 --> 00:15:33.240 mean, you don't even swallow. I mean, you don't 00:15:33.240 --> 00:15:35.940 even chew your food. One gulp, man, it's gone. 00:15:37.139 --> 00:15:41.399 Right? I mean, you go at it. And then guess what? 00:15:41.639 --> 00:15:43.919 What do we do as soon as that happens to us? 00:15:49.440 --> 00:15:52.919 Satisfied. Right? And sometimes we even need 00:15:52.919 --> 00:15:55.659 to take a time out. That's probably the only 00:15:55.659 --> 00:16:00.279 time we'll put our phone down and just say, okay, 00:16:00.299 --> 00:16:05.200 I need a breather. Why? Because we are immediately 00:16:05.200 --> 00:16:09.960 satisfied. And sometimes spiritually, that can 00:16:09.960 --> 00:16:13.019 be a very dangerous place. We walk out of here 00:16:13.019 --> 00:16:18.090 satisfied. I hadn't prayed all week, but I listened 00:16:18.090 --> 00:16:21.830 to my favorite song on my way to work. Satisfied. 00:16:23.049 --> 00:16:25.389 I didn't tell God thank you for the blessing 00:16:25.389 --> 00:16:29.990 that he gave to me unexpectedly. Satisfied. I 00:16:29.990 --> 00:16:32.490 didn't even have to pray to be healed. That's 00:16:32.490 --> 00:16:38.370 how good my God is. Satisfied. I said thank you, 00:16:38.370 --> 00:16:40.370 God, and I felt like the chills. It was probably 00:16:40.370 --> 00:16:46.570 the Holy Ghost. I don't know. Satisfied. We grow 00:16:46.570 --> 00:16:51.309 complacent, and we get satisfied, and we're satisfied, 00:16:51.330 --> 00:16:57.309 and we're living in a satisfactory state of life 00:16:57.309 --> 00:17:01.529 where there's no need to cry out to God anymore. 00:17:02.429 --> 00:17:06.369 My altar at home has got cobwebs all over it. 00:17:07.109 --> 00:17:09.470 We do how sometimes when people come over to 00:17:09.470 --> 00:17:15.890 visit with... Wipe the cobwebs off the Bible 00:17:15.890 --> 00:17:20.109 so satisfied. We become satisfied Christians 00:17:20.109 --> 00:17:25.910 for an all -knowing, for an all -knowing, for 00:17:25.910 --> 00:17:31.710 an all -knowing, omnipotent God. For a God where 00:17:31.710 --> 00:17:34.589 our minds, we cannot comprehend even the mind 00:17:34.589 --> 00:17:38.170 of Christ. We are no longer in a place where 00:17:38.170 --> 00:17:41.609 we are now hungering for God, but we're satisfied 00:17:41.609 --> 00:17:47.609 for what we have. And we need to understand that 00:17:47.609 --> 00:17:55.009 our familiarity with church is not the same thing 00:17:55.009 --> 00:18:01.029 as intimacy with God. Because God, Paul had served 00:18:01.029 --> 00:18:04.460 God. and Paul had preached Christ and Paul had 00:18:04.460 --> 00:18:07.420 planted churches and Paul had experienced all 00:18:07.420 --> 00:18:10.559 these miracles yet in Philippians 3 10 he says 00:18:10.559 --> 00:18:13.960 that I may know him and the power of his resurrection 00:18:13.960 --> 00:18:16.859 you see because for Paul it wasn't even good 00:18:16.859 --> 00:18:19.599 enough that he knew God it wasn't even good enough 00:18:19.599 --> 00:18:21.680 that he had a front row seat to everything and 00:18:21.680 --> 00:18:25.160 all that God did it wasn't enough for Paul Paul 00:18:25.160 --> 00:18:29.940 said that I may know the power of your resurrection. 00:18:30.279 --> 00:18:37.059 God, show me more. There was still more of Christ 00:18:37.059 --> 00:18:41.200 for Paul to know. Paul, his past experience, 00:18:41.319 --> 00:18:44.559 it did not eliminate his present hunger for God 00:18:44.559 --> 00:18:49.700 and neither should ours. I share with all of 00:18:49.700 --> 00:18:52.099 you and others how I recall being a young man. 00:18:52.440 --> 00:18:55.599 I've said this plenty of times. And I've shared 00:18:55.599 --> 00:18:59.240 with you the days and the moments where I recall 00:18:59.240 --> 00:19:02.420 when we would go to church. And we were the first 00:19:02.420 --> 00:19:06.019 ones at the altar. Music hasn't even started 00:19:06.019 --> 00:19:07.839 playing. They were still setting up the instruments. 00:19:08.240 --> 00:19:11.259 And there was about 20 to 30 of us. And we were 00:19:11.259 --> 00:19:13.779 just crying out to God. And we were just asking 00:19:13.779 --> 00:19:16.200 God to move. We didn't know what the sermon was 00:19:16.200 --> 00:19:18.519 going to be about. We didn't have the song list. 00:19:18.700 --> 00:19:20.759 We didn't know who was going to be there. We 00:19:20.759 --> 00:19:24.890 didn't care. We showed up and we just started 00:19:24.890 --> 00:19:27.910 to pray, God, have your way. God, let your spirit 00:19:27.910 --> 00:19:30.869 move. God, visit us today. God, I need a brand 00:19:30.869 --> 00:19:34.970 new touch today. Lord, the hunger. The hunger. 00:19:35.509 --> 00:19:37.750 The hunger. And you know what I dislike very 00:19:37.750 --> 00:19:40.849 much? I dislike speaking of these things in past 00:19:40.849 --> 00:19:43.980 tense. Because this is not something that happened 00:19:43.980 --> 00:19:46.539 yesterday and that's where it stays. This is 00:19:46.539 --> 00:19:48.779 something that should be happening today. This 00:19:48.779 --> 00:19:50.779 is something that should be happening this moment. 00:19:50.920 --> 00:19:52.920 This should be something that's happening tomorrow 00:19:52.920 --> 00:19:56.160 and the next day and the next day. Why? Because 00:19:56.160 --> 00:19:59.079 the same God that moved then, it's the same God 00:19:59.079 --> 00:20:01.759 that can move today. It's the same God that will 00:20:01.759 --> 00:20:06.390 move tomorrow. Yes, I know time has changed. 00:20:06.490 --> 00:20:09.069 Don't talk to me about that. I know church has 00:20:09.069 --> 00:20:12.509 changed. Yes, I know we clap our hands. I know 00:20:12.509 --> 00:20:14.930 there's a time limit and we got to be out of 00:20:14.930 --> 00:20:16.650 here because we got a schedule. But you know 00:20:16.650 --> 00:20:22.950 what? I don't care. Because we don't leave enough 00:20:22.950 --> 00:20:29.130 time for God to move. We become satisfied with 00:20:29.130 --> 00:20:36.269 a fixed schedule. I'm not angry. I'm hungry. 00:20:37.609 --> 00:20:41.289 I said, I'm not angry. I'm hungry. You want to 00:20:41.289 --> 00:20:43.809 know why? Because those are the moments and times 00:20:43.809 --> 00:20:46.490 that I pray for my children. That my children 00:20:46.490 --> 00:20:49.150 would come to church and immediately they would 00:20:49.150 --> 00:20:51.990 start to feel the power of God. Immediately they 00:20:51.990 --> 00:20:54.130 would start to speak in tongues and they would 00:20:54.130 --> 00:20:56.589 say, hey, no, dad, I've got to get to the altar. 00:20:56.789 --> 00:20:59.589 I've got to worship God. I've got to praise God. 00:20:59.809 --> 00:21:02.170 I don't care who's teaching today. I don't care 00:21:02.170 --> 00:21:04.390 who's preaching today. I don't care what I look 00:21:04.390 --> 00:21:08.750 like today. All I care is I want more of God. 00:21:08.930 --> 00:21:13.849 Come on, clap your hands. We should be thankful 00:21:13.849 --> 00:21:17.150 for every encounter that we have with God. Yet 00:21:17.150 --> 00:21:19.630 yesterday's encounter should become evidence 00:21:19.630 --> 00:21:23.130 of what God can do today. Because there is still 00:21:23.130 --> 00:21:26.250 more. There is still more of God. Not permission 00:21:26.250 --> 00:21:32.019 to stop pursuing God. We talk about yesterday, 00:21:32.240 --> 00:21:35.160 Bishop. We talk about yesterday like if it was 00:21:35.160 --> 00:21:37.859 good and that was great and that was a yesterday 00:21:37.859 --> 00:21:40.119 church and that's what they did in the Old Testament 00:21:40.119 --> 00:21:42.039 and they spoke in tongues in the Old Testament. 00:21:42.079 --> 00:21:44.200 Yeah, yeah, we know. Fire came down for heaven. 00:21:44.299 --> 00:21:46.279 Yeah, yeah, we know. That's good for yesterday, 00:21:46.380 --> 00:21:54.740 but what about today? Remember our youth services? 00:21:56.559 --> 00:21:59.549 When we'd have to carry young people out? Because 00:21:59.549 --> 00:22:03.210 they were drunk in the spirit? Oh, God. Oh, God. 00:22:06.609 --> 00:22:09.150 When's the last time you had to be carried out? 00:22:17.250 --> 00:22:23.430 I remember. I remember. I was there. I experienced 00:22:23.430 --> 00:22:27.130 it. This is why. I believe the way I believe. 00:22:27.230 --> 00:22:29.869 And this is why I live the way I live. Because 00:22:29.869 --> 00:22:33.930 I know that there's more to God. I know that 00:22:33.930 --> 00:22:36.049 there is more to God. I've seen it with my own 00:22:36.049 --> 00:22:39.269 eyes. I've experienced it for myself. Even while 00:22:39.269 --> 00:22:41.650 I was a young man and there was a sermon that 00:22:41.650 --> 00:22:44.289 I preached. And I often get reminded about this 00:22:44.289 --> 00:22:46.809 every single time. For everyone that was in that 00:22:46.809 --> 00:22:49.170 service. I'm just going to step away from you. 00:22:49.369 --> 00:22:52.559 Everyone that was in that service. I remember 00:22:52.559 --> 00:22:55.660 so vividly. I remember going up and I'm preaching 00:22:55.660 --> 00:22:59.759 about the manifestation of God. And I'm going 00:22:59.759 --> 00:23:03.059 in and I'm telling the church about God and spirit. 00:23:03.259 --> 00:23:05.779 And things just start to move. And God just starts 00:23:05.779 --> 00:23:07.619 to move. And things just start to shift. And 00:23:07.619 --> 00:23:10.240 everybody comes to the altar and God just starts 00:23:10.240 --> 00:23:12.700 touching. The spirit of God just starts falling. 00:23:12.880 --> 00:23:14.720 It just starts falling. And they're speaking 00:23:14.720 --> 00:23:16.900 in tongues. And people that are coming up, they're 00:23:16.900 --> 00:23:19.900 receiving the gift of the Holy Ghost for the 00:23:19.900 --> 00:23:22.410 very first time. And you hear screaming in the 00:23:22.410 --> 00:23:24.029 back. And then you hear screaming in the back. 00:23:24.130 --> 00:23:26.650 And people are being delivered. And people are 00:23:26.650 --> 00:23:29.450 being. And all the while it's just an altar call. 00:23:30.970 --> 00:23:33.269 And God is moving. And God is moving. And then 00:23:33.269 --> 00:23:36.609 I go. And we used to have these chairs at the 00:23:36.609 --> 00:23:38.869 church where I was at. And I would go. And I 00:23:38.869 --> 00:23:46.390 just sat there. And I'm just staring out. And 00:23:46.390 --> 00:23:48.390 my pastor then, he's sitting across from me. 00:23:48.410 --> 00:23:50.390 And he looks at me and he says, do you see that? 00:23:54.220 --> 00:23:56.000 I didn't wear glasses back then. I actually had 00:23:56.000 --> 00:23:58.900 good vision. I was young. So I didn't have to 00:23:58.900 --> 00:24:01.900 take my glasses off. But he says, do you see 00:24:01.900 --> 00:24:09.579 that? And I look. And I look. And I just see 00:24:09.579 --> 00:24:16.480 a haze over the church. A haze. I saw it with 00:24:16.480 --> 00:24:33.299 my own eyes. She caught him. And as I saw everyone 00:24:33.299 --> 00:24:37.500 react to what was happening, I just felt God's 00:24:37.500 --> 00:24:42.779 presence is so strong like I do right now. And 00:24:42.779 --> 00:24:46.740 then God wasn't done showing off. Because to 00:24:46.740 --> 00:24:51.460 further, amen, someone say further. Someone say 00:24:51.460 --> 00:24:56.000 further. Prove that the manifestation of God's 00:24:56.000 --> 00:24:58.839 presence was there. There was a young man at 00:24:58.839 --> 00:25:07.099 the altar. Torrent. A young black man that visited 00:25:07.099 --> 00:25:10.779 our church, lovable guy, love that guy. And he 00:25:10.779 --> 00:25:13.940 was standing here at the altar and he was praying. 00:25:14.859 --> 00:25:18.220 The pastor at the time had a glass jar, a glass, 00:25:18.380 --> 00:25:22.359 a drinking glass. And as he was getting the water 00:25:22.359 --> 00:25:24.339 and he was throwing it out, because I'm telling 00:25:24.339 --> 00:25:26.059 you, God was moving. We were doing some crazy, 00:25:26.059 --> 00:25:28.200 we did some crazy things when God moves like 00:25:28.200 --> 00:25:31.420 that. Right. You guys hear of stories of people 00:25:31.420 --> 00:25:34.079 jumping from from from benches and things like 00:25:34.079 --> 00:25:36.480 that. Yeah. You get crazy when you when when 00:25:36.480 --> 00:25:38.680 God visits you that way. You don't know how to 00:25:38.680 --> 00:25:41.799 react. You don't know how to respond. You can't 00:25:41.799 --> 00:25:44.599 contain it because the power of God is so strong. 00:25:44.740 --> 00:25:48.519 And so he's doing this and then he reaches for 00:25:48.519 --> 00:25:51.720 the glass and he lets it and it slips out of 00:25:51.720 --> 00:25:56.859 his hand. Torrance is standing right here. I'm 00:25:56.859 --> 00:26:01.119 sitting here, so I'm a witness to this. Before 00:26:01.119 --> 00:26:05.000 the glass can reach his face, he's praying like 00:26:05.000 --> 00:26:08.400 this, opens his eyes, and then prays like this, 00:26:08.500 --> 00:26:11.839 thinking that the glass was going to hit his 00:26:11.839 --> 00:26:17.759 face. When he closed his eyes like this, nobody 00:26:17.759 --> 00:26:23.380 saw the glass. Everyone looked down to the floor, 00:26:23.500 --> 00:26:27.680 and that glass... Busted and broke in a thousand 00:26:27.680 --> 00:26:34.740 pieces. Now, I know you're thinking, come on, 00:26:34.740 --> 00:26:38.960 Brother David. Well, then how is it so that Peter 00:26:38.960 --> 00:26:43.559 can walk past a group of lame people that they 00:26:43.559 --> 00:26:46.140 brought to him that day and his shadow can heal 00:26:46.140 --> 00:26:51.400 them? Come on, I'm not talking crazy talk here. 00:26:51.500 --> 00:26:54.039 I'm talking about a crazy God. I'm talking about 00:26:54.039 --> 00:26:56.359 a powerful God. I'm talking about the manifestation 00:26:56.359 --> 00:27:01.059 of God. I'm talking about more of God. I couldn't 00:27:01.059 --> 00:27:04.700 believe it. Neither could anybody else. So to 00:27:04.700 --> 00:27:07.119 further confirm that, they went, they swept it 00:27:07.119 --> 00:27:10.559 up. It broke into a thousand pieces. Now, I'm 00:27:10.559 --> 00:27:14.180 not taking any credit for this. Because it wasn't 00:27:14.180 --> 00:27:19.750 me, it was God. I just lend myself to God because 00:27:19.750 --> 00:27:24.230 I had a hunger for God. There was a hunger for 00:27:24.230 --> 00:27:31.390 God then that I had been seeking, reaching, asking, 00:27:31.730 --> 00:27:40.890 wanting. Because I know what God did then, God 00:27:40.890 --> 00:27:45.500 can do today. God can do. Right now, I'm sharing 00:27:45.500 --> 00:27:48.740 this with you because some of us still need help 00:27:48.740 --> 00:27:53.119 with our faith a little bit. We still need help 00:27:53.119 --> 00:27:57.279 with our faith in believing that God can do these 00:27:57.279 --> 00:28:02.140 miraculous and wonderful things, not just in 00:28:02.140 --> 00:28:05.900 our lives, but in our church, in our church services 00:28:05.900 --> 00:28:09.819 through each and every one of you. But the question 00:28:09.819 --> 00:28:15.569 remains, are you hungry? For more. Are you hungry 00:28:15.569 --> 00:28:17.950 for more? The second thing very quickly is that 00:28:17.950 --> 00:28:21.450 hunger for God creates room for his spirit to 00:28:21.450 --> 00:28:25.130 move. In 1 Corinthians 12, 7 it says, but the 00:28:25.130 --> 00:28:27.630 manifestation of the spirit is given to each 00:28:27.630 --> 00:28:32.670 one for the profit of all. Now notice Paul's 00:28:32.670 --> 00:28:36.150 language here. Paul's language, he says, the 00:28:36.150 --> 00:28:40.319 manifestation of God's spirit. The Holy Spirit 00:28:40.319 --> 00:28:42.779 was never intended to become merely a doctrine 00:28:42.779 --> 00:28:46.779 that we believe in. He is God present and acting 00:28:46.779 --> 00:28:50.720 amongst his people. Paul continues to describe 00:28:50.720 --> 00:28:55.039 in verse 8 through 11. He says, for one is given 00:28:55.039 --> 00:28:58.230 the word of wisdom through the Spirit. To the 00:28:58.230 --> 00:29:00.130 other, the word of knowledge through the same 00:29:00.130 --> 00:29:02.430 spirit. To another, faith by the same spirit. 00:29:02.470 --> 00:29:04.630 To another, gifts of healings by the same spirit. 00:29:04.750 --> 00:29:07.029 To the other, working of miracles. To another, 00:29:07.130 --> 00:29:09.009 prophecy. To another, discerning of spirits. 00:29:09.230 --> 00:29:12.170 To another, different kinds of tongues. To another, 00:29:12.269 --> 00:29:14.890 the interpretation of tongues. But one and the 00:29:14.890 --> 00:29:19.569 same spirit works all these things, disturbing 00:29:19.569 --> 00:29:23.750 to each one, distributing to each one individually 00:29:23.750 --> 00:29:33.069 as he wills. These are not, amen, ideas for Christians. 00:29:34.109 --> 00:29:38.289 These are not great talking points. These are 00:29:38.289 --> 00:29:41.950 not good things to talk about. This is not a 00:29:41.950 --> 00:29:46.750 happy story that ends there. This is the manifestation 00:29:46.750 --> 00:29:51.029 of the Spirit of God working through the body 00:29:51.029 --> 00:29:59.039 of Christ according to His will. 1 Corinthians 00:29:59.039 --> 00:30:02.380 12, 11, but one and the same spirit works all 00:30:02.380 --> 00:30:05.240 these things, distributing to each individually 00:30:05.240 --> 00:30:08.619 as he wills. Now the church, amen, I don't want 00:30:08.619 --> 00:30:11.140 us to simply talk about what God used to do. 00:30:11.380 --> 00:30:14.480 Oh, we're thankful for God. We're thankful for 00:30:14.480 --> 00:30:17.059 what he did yesterday. We're thankful for what 00:30:17.059 --> 00:30:21.000 he did. And we hear it and we go on and on and 00:30:21.000 --> 00:30:23.759 on. This is not something for us just to be thankful 00:30:23.759 --> 00:30:26.359 about. This is not just something for us just 00:30:26.359 --> 00:30:29.519 to talk about the morality. miraculous uh deliverances 00:30:29.519 --> 00:30:32.220 that we've seen that we witnessed over time although 00:30:32.220 --> 00:30:34.960 i am grateful for that i am grateful for those 00:30:34.960 --> 00:30:37.460 prayers i am grateful for those services i am 00:30:37.460 --> 00:30:39.599 grateful for those experiences because it had 00:30:39.599 --> 00:30:42.099 not been for those experiences i would not be 00:30:42.099 --> 00:30:45.059 here you would not be here so i am not downplaying 00:30:45.059 --> 00:30:47.539 or discrediting anything that god has done or 00:30:47.539 --> 00:30:50.140 ever done in our lives but what i am saying is 00:30:50.140 --> 00:30:53.339 that our testimonies cannot all be in past tense 00:30:54.960 --> 00:30:57.900 We should not have to reach back 20 or 30 years 00:30:57.900 --> 00:31:00.619 every time we want to tell somebody about God. 00:31:00.720 --> 00:31:03.420 We should not have to go back to a time, amen, 00:31:03.480 --> 00:31:06.039 where God did this. No, no, no. What I'm saying 00:31:06.039 --> 00:31:08.539 is right there, right there, and then you can 00:31:08.539 --> 00:31:10.839 tell them about God's love. You can tell them 00:31:10.839 --> 00:31:13.000 about God's mercy. You can let them know that 00:31:13.000 --> 00:31:15.180 God loves them too. And as a matter of fact, 00:31:15.299 --> 00:31:17.400 why don't you lift your hand so I can pray for 00:31:17.400 --> 00:31:19.559 you? I don't care if we're at the mall. I don't 00:31:19.559 --> 00:31:22.339 care if we're at the store. I know God can move 00:31:22.339 --> 00:31:29.180 right now. More of God. Acts was not written 00:31:29.180 --> 00:31:32.539 so that we would admire Pentecost. So that we 00:31:32.539 --> 00:31:35.480 create a nice flyer and we post it and we have 00:31:35.480 --> 00:31:37.819 flames and fire and everything else. And then 00:31:37.819 --> 00:31:39.799 we come to church looking all pretty and the 00:31:39.799 --> 00:31:44.380 fire has been extinguished. There's no fire. 00:31:44.700 --> 00:31:46.859 We all should be coming to church wearing fire 00:31:46.859 --> 00:31:50.920 retardant clothing. Because we just don't know 00:31:50.920 --> 00:31:53.839 what to expect from God. We just don't know the 00:31:53.839 --> 00:31:56.119 power of God and what we are going to experience. 00:31:56.500 --> 00:31:58.519 That's the power of God that I'm talking to you 00:31:58.519 --> 00:32:00.880 about today. Those are the services that I'm 00:32:00.880 --> 00:32:03.380 talking to you about today. It's coming to church 00:32:03.380 --> 00:32:10.460 with an expectation of God's spirit moving. Acts 00:32:10.460 --> 00:32:14.549 4 .31. It reads, after they prayed, the place 00:32:14.549 --> 00:32:17.109 where they were all meeting was shaken. And they 00:32:17.109 --> 00:32:19.089 were all filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke 00:32:19.089 --> 00:32:23.109 the word of God boldly. They prayed and God responded. 00:32:23.309 --> 00:32:26.549 You see how that works? They prayed and God responded. 00:32:27.049 --> 00:32:29.869 They prayed and God responded. They worshiped 00:32:29.869 --> 00:32:32.450 and God responded. They praised and God responded. 00:32:32.650 --> 00:32:34.410 Why do you think we're constantly encouraging 00:32:34.410 --> 00:32:36.769 you and we're telling you when you come into 00:32:36.769 --> 00:32:39.849 the house of God, don't wait to praise him. Don't 00:32:39.849 --> 00:32:42.269 wait to worship him because all God is waiting 00:32:42.269 --> 00:32:44.990 for is to hear your praise. It's to hear your 00:32:44.990 --> 00:32:50.990 worship so he can respond to his children. His 00:32:50.990 --> 00:32:54.650 spirit is manifested. And in Acts 5, 15 through 00:32:54.650 --> 00:32:57.609 16, it says that people brought the sick to the 00:32:57.609 --> 00:33:06.670 streets and they were all healed. The shadow 00:33:06.670 --> 00:33:09.650 that was casted over them, they were healed. 00:33:10.109 --> 00:33:12.130 That's the power of God that I'm talking about. 00:33:12.589 --> 00:33:15.289 That's the God that I'm referring to today. That's 00:33:15.289 --> 00:33:19.410 the God that we still serve today. Yeah, it sounds 00:33:19.410 --> 00:33:22.839 crazy, right? It sounds crazy, but we believe 00:33:22.839 --> 00:33:26.940 every influencer we tap, like, and share on Facebook, 00:33:27.079 --> 00:33:30.460 on Instagram. We believe every picture that we 00:33:30.460 --> 00:33:33.720 see. We believe everything that we hear. We believe 00:33:33.720 --> 00:33:37.160 CNN. We believe Fox News. We believe everything 00:33:37.160 --> 00:33:39.940 and everyone. Then why don't we believe God when 00:33:39.940 --> 00:33:42.259 he says that if you call on me, I will answer. 00:33:42.359 --> 00:33:45.180 If you just have this hunger for more of me, 00:33:45.259 --> 00:33:49.940 I will pour out unto them, all my children, my 00:33:49.940 --> 00:33:53.279 spirit. Upon all flesh, he says. Right? He says, 00:33:53.279 --> 00:33:56.079 in the last days, I will pour out my spirit upon 00:33:56.079 --> 00:33:58.579 all flesh. But then I will recall the other scripture 00:33:58.579 --> 00:34:00.759 that says that the hearts of men shall wax cold. 00:34:02.599 --> 00:34:05.119 This is why every single day we've got to wake 00:34:05.119 --> 00:34:07.440 up and we've just got to thank God. There's got 00:34:07.440 --> 00:34:10.940 to be this hunger for God every morning that 00:34:10.940 --> 00:34:13.300 it's not just God, thank you for waking me up, 00:34:13.360 --> 00:34:15.519 but it's God, thank you for waking me up. What 00:34:15.519 --> 00:34:17.940 would you have for me to do today? God, where 00:34:17.940 --> 00:34:20.119 do you want me to go today? God, what do you 00:34:20.119 --> 00:34:22.400 want me to say today? God, who do you want me 00:34:22.400 --> 00:34:24.960 to witness to today? That's the hunger that I'm 00:34:24.960 --> 00:34:27.280 talking about. It's those hunger cravings that 00:34:27.280 --> 00:34:29.780 we have. I know we all have cravings. I know 00:34:29.780 --> 00:34:32.480 we all crave things. We crave cookies. cakes 00:34:32.480 --> 00:34:35.300 and sugars, right? And all those other good things. 00:34:35.400 --> 00:34:38.039 I don't, but I know a lot of you do, right? And 00:34:38.039 --> 00:34:41.500 you will go and you'll satisfy your hunger and 00:34:41.500 --> 00:34:44.139 you'll find whatever it is to satisfy that hunger. 00:34:44.179 --> 00:34:46.159 Then why don't we do the same when it comes to 00:34:46.159 --> 00:34:48.679 God? Why don't we crave after God? Why don't 00:34:48.679 --> 00:34:51.099 we crave after God the same way? Why don't we 00:34:51.099 --> 00:34:53.719 crave after God? God, I'm going to stop at nothing. 00:34:53.800 --> 00:34:56.679 I won't stop at nothing. I'm still going to seek 00:34:56.679 --> 00:35:02.960 you. I want more of you, God. Finally, our hunger 00:35:02.960 --> 00:35:06.400 for God refuses to settle for less than God's 00:35:06.400 --> 00:35:11.079 fullness. Just like that, I know we've been talking 00:35:11.079 --> 00:35:14.360 a lot about food. I'm going to end right now 00:35:14.360 --> 00:35:16.199 so y 'all can go eat and satisfy that hunger. 00:35:16.280 --> 00:35:18.619 But before you go satisfy that flesh, why don't 00:35:18.619 --> 00:35:23.159 you satisfy your spirit today? Because the Bible 00:35:23.159 --> 00:35:25.940 says in Ephesians 3 .19, it says, Paul prays 00:35:25.940 --> 00:35:29.679 that the church would be filled with awe. Someone 00:35:29.679 --> 00:35:33.539 say awe. Someone say all. Say all like you believe 00:35:33.539 --> 00:35:40.420 it. All the fullness of God. This is an extraordinary 00:35:40.420 --> 00:35:46.340 statement about an extraordinary God. Paul is 00:35:46.340 --> 00:35:50.599 saying that the fullness of God, amen, that the 00:35:50.599 --> 00:35:54.699 people in the church, that God's church will 00:35:54.699 --> 00:35:59.599 be filled with the fullness of God. Paul's exemption 00:35:59.599 --> 00:36:02.820 to the church was not a spiritual mediocrity. 00:36:02.840 --> 00:36:05.199 He wasn't praying that they would merely survive. 00:36:05.500 --> 00:36:07.679 He wasn't praying that they would simply maintain. 00:36:08.139 --> 00:36:10.340 He wasn't praying that they would simply just 00:36:10.340 --> 00:36:13.199 get by. What Paul was praying for, he prayed 00:36:13.199 --> 00:36:16.159 for fullness. He prayed for fullness and for 00:36:16.159 --> 00:36:25.420 the church to be fulfilled with all of God. Ephesians 00:36:25.420 --> 00:36:28.760 3 .12, now to him who is able to do exceedingly 00:36:28.760 --> 00:36:31.340 and abundantly above all that we ask or think 00:36:31.340 --> 00:36:35.760 according to the power that works in us. God's 00:36:35.760 --> 00:36:40.340 ability exceeds our expectation. Come on somebody. 00:36:40.500 --> 00:36:45.679 God, his ability exceeds our expectation. God's 00:36:45.679 --> 00:36:50.320 ability exceeds our expectation. He exceeds what 00:36:50.320 --> 00:36:55.279 we believe and what we think is to be true. He 00:36:55.279 --> 00:36:58.260 exceeds far beyond that. Far beyond that. Have 00:36:58.260 --> 00:37:00.059 you ever prayed for a job and then you didn't 00:37:00.059 --> 00:37:02.760 get that job but God gave you a better one? Right? 00:37:02.840 --> 00:37:05.219 Have you ever asked God for a car and then you 00:37:05.219 --> 00:37:08.639 show up to get the Toyota and then God miraculously, 00:37:08.780 --> 00:37:11.340 a Mercedes drives out and they said, hey, this 00:37:11.340 --> 00:37:14.460 one's yours. We don't know why, but we discounted 00:37:14.460 --> 00:37:16.699 the price and you don't got to put a down payment. 00:37:16.940 --> 00:37:18.800 We don't even need to check your credit. This 00:37:18.800 --> 00:37:22.079 one's just yours. We don't know why, but here 00:37:22.079 --> 00:37:25.739 it is. Do you know that that's God? Do you know 00:37:25.739 --> 00:37:28.159 that that's God? Do you know that that is God 00:37:28.159 --> 00:37:30.659 exceeding your expectations? Now, I'm talking 00:37:30.659 --> 00:37:32.820 about the lower level things, the things that 00:37:32.820 --> 00:37:35.079 don't even matter to God, but they matter to 00:37:35.079 --> 00:37:37.619 us. How do you think it is when we come into 00:37:37.619 --> 00:37:40.760 the house and we expect for God just to move 00:37:40.760 --> 00:37:43.559 mediocrely and for us just to sing a song and 00:37:43.559 --> 00:37:46.199 God is saying, no, I want to feel you once again. 00:37:46.360 --> 00:37:49.000 I want to touch you once again. I want to bring 00:37:49.000 --> 00:37:52.019 revival. I want to bring restoration. I want 00:37:52.019 --> 00:37:54.559 to bring deliverance. I want to set you free. 00:37:58.059 --> 00:38:02.699 Ephesians 3 .12, it says that we're in him that 00:38:02.699 --> 00:38:05.820 he is able to do exceedingly, abundantly above 00:38:05.820 --> 00:38:09.280 all that we ask or think. God's ability exceeds 00:38:09.280 --> 00:38:11.960 our expectations. So maybe the problem isn't 00:38:11.960 --> 00:38:16.440 that God stopped moving. Come on, somebody. Maybe 00:38:16.440 --> 00:38:20.539 sometimes we've stopped expecting for him to 00:38:20.539 --> 00:38:25.599 move. We have learned how to have church without 00:38:25.599 --> 00:38:30.960 expecting his interruption. We can sing without 00:38:30.960 --> 00:38:34.079 expectation. Come on, somebody. We pray without 00:38:34.079 --> 00:38:38.480 expectation. We preach without expectation. Come 00:38:38.480 --> 00:38:41.800 to the altar without expectation. And we leave 00:38:41.800 --> 00:38:47.179 saying, that was a great service. But what if 00:38:47.179 --> 00:38:52.639 good isn't good enough? What if good isn't what 00:38:52.639 --> 00:38:57.019 we are hungry for anymore? Tony, you can make 00:38:57.019 --> 00:39:01.360 your way up. What if good isn't what we are hungry 00:39:01.360 --> 00:39:05.539 for anymore? What if our prayer becomes, God, 00:39:05.619 --> 00:39:09.440 we want more than a good service. We don't want 00:39:09.440 --> 00:39:13.639 more than just a good service. We want an encounter 00:39:13.639 --> 00:39:20.900 with you. Mark 5. Remember the woman with the 00:39:20.900 --> 00:39:25.179 issue of blood? Remember? We preach about that. 00:39:25.199 --> 00:39:30.619 We teach about that constantly. But the one thing 00:39:30.619 --> 00:39:37.420 that happened that changed her whole story and 00:39:37.420 --> 00:39:40.199 changed her whole life around was that she was 00:39:40.199 --> 00:39:44.099 desperate for an encounter for God. She just 00:39:44.099 --> 00:39:46.880 didn't want to be healed. Her flesh wanted to 00:39:46.880 --> 00:39:50.400 be healed. Her mind. Her mind wanted to be healed, 00:39:50.460 --> 00:39:55.579 but her spirit wanted an encounter with God. 00:39:59.960 --> 00:40:04.480 So she pushed her way through. Pushed her way 00:40:04.480 --> 00:40:06.739 through. She didn't care who she had to push 00:40:06.739 --> 00:40:09.840 or knock down. She finally made it to God. And 00:40:09.840 --> 00:40:13.599 what did she say to him? If I could just touch. 00:40:24.329 --> 00:40:28.389 if I could just have an encounter with you again. 00:40:33.010 --> 00:40:36.989 How desperate are we to have an encounter with 00:40:36.989 --> 00:40:44.130 God again? How desperate are we to see God's 00:40:44.130 --> 00:40:49.889 hand move in our lives? How desperate are we 00:40:49.889 --> 00:40:53.889 to see God manifest His Spirit? in our lives 00:40:53.889 --> 00:40:59.510 I don't want to just go through life I don't 00:40:59.510 --> 00:41:03.170 want to live this mediocre life any longer I 00:41:03.170 --> 00:41:07.070 want God to move day in and day out I want my 00:41:07.070 --> 00:41:10.690 morning my day to start with God I want my day 00:41:10.690 --> 00:41:15.150 to end with God I know we still live life I know 00:41:15.150 --> 00:41:17.769 we gotta go to work I know we gotta pay bills 00:41:17.769 --> 00:41:25.059 I know we gotta do that How desperate are we 00:41:25.059 --> 00:41:28.599 for an encounter with God? How hungry are we? 00:41:33.920 --> 00:41:36.500 I was sharing with my wife last week, we had 00:41:36.500 --> 00:41:39.739 the opportunity to preach at a youth conference. 00:41:40.699 --> 00:41:43.780 The first night, they had over 100 youth there. 00:41:45.780 --> 00:41:50.369 100 youth. And the preacher got up, and God moved, 00:41:50.590 --> 00:41:54.510 and they felt God's spirit, and the spirit of 00:41:54.510 --> 00:41:56.710 God fell, and they called the altar. They called 00:41:56.710 --> 00:42:00.349 all the youth up to the altar, and one received 00:42:00.349 --> 00:42:03.070 the gift of the Holy Ghost, and others declared 00:42:03.070 --> 00:42:05.909 for baptism. And, you know, God would just say, 00:42:05.949 --> 00:42:11.329 remember? Remember when this would happen every 00:42:11.329 --> 00:42:16.570 time? Remember when I moved like this any time 00:42:16.570 --> 00:42:19.550 we gathered, any time. And I stood there and 00:42:19.550 --> 00:42:22.809 I wept. And I said, God, I remember. Remember, 00:42:22.889 --> 00:42:27.329 I remember, I remember. Then I started praying 00:42:27.329 --> 00:42:30.070 over these young people. And then something just 00:42:30.070 --> 00:42:33.769 gripped, something like gripped my heart. Brother 00:42:33.769 --> 00:42:36.650 Jose, something just gripped my heart and I stopped. 00:42:38.610 --> 00:42:44.309 I said, that's what it is. It's hunger. They 00:42:44.309 --> 00:42:47.710 don't even know what they're hungry for. But 00:42:47.710 --> 00:42:54.650 they're hungry again, God. That's what drove 00:42:54.650 --> 00:43:00.030 them to the church that night. Was the hunger 00:43:00.030 --> 00:43:05.670 for God. I looked over to their youth leader, 00:43:05.750 --> 00:43:09.570 youth director, whatever he was. But the director 00:43:09.570 --> 00:43:13.570 and I said, you've got a hundred hungry young. 00:43:13.820 --> 00:43:21.159 people. We've got to feed them God. Not doctrine, 00:43:21.300 --> 00:43:25.579 not principles, not do's and don'ts, but God. 00:43:27.940 --> 00:43:48.409 The love of God. God has just been dealing, dealing, 00:43:48.590 --> 00:43:59.269 dealing. Stand, stand with me. And in my prayers 00:43:59.269 --> 00:44:05.630 and in my thoughts, God is continually asking 00:44:05.630 --> 00:44:12.949 me, how hungry are you? How hungry are you, David? 00:44:17.099 --> 00:44:19.460 Because that occurrence where I showed up while 00:44:19.460 --> 00:44:22.019 you were a young man and I used you to preach 00:44:22.019 --> 00:44:24.320 my word, that wasn't just supposed to happen 00:44:24.320 --> 00:44:31.900 one time. Seeing someone filled with my spirit 00:44:31.900 --> 00:44:34.320 wasn't just supposed to happen one time. The 00:44:34.320 --> 00:44:36.519 healing wasn't just supposed to happen one time. 00:44:37.519 --> 00:44:39.599 Salvation is not just supposed to receive by 00:44:39.599 --> 00:44:42.800 one person. The outpouring is just not happening 00:44:42.800 --> 00:44:45.239 in a little town or a little place in the Midwest. 00:44:45.320 --> 00:44:47.340 Remember when all that happened? And everybody 00:44:47.340 --> 00:44:49.380 was flocking to that place. I don't even know 00:44:49.380 --> 00:44:52.599 where it was. Right? And people were going. And 00:44:52.599 --> 00:44:54.860 they had revival. Remember? Day after day. And 00:44:54.860 --> 00:44:56.659 they made the news. And it was all over social 00:44:56.659 --> 00:44:59.199 media. Right? And then they showed the inside 00:44:59.199 --> 00:45:02.039 of that church. There was no preaching. Maybe 00:45:02.039 --> 00:45:03.940 there was a little bit of singing. But you know 00:45:03.940 --> 00:45:06.440 what it was? It was hunger for God's spirit. 00:45:08.139 --> 00:45:10.780 That's why it kept going. And it kept going. 00:45:10.920 --> 00:45:13.780 And it kept going. And it kept going. And it 00:45:13.780 --> 00:45:17.030 should be going today. But then you know what 00:45:17.030 --> 00:45:23.869 happened? They got satisfied. And it stopped. 00:45:28.250 --> 00:45:31.949 I don't want you to raise your hand. I don't 00:45:31.949 --> 00:45:36.550 want you to say anything. The only question I 00:45:36.550 --> 00:45:41.030 have for you today is, how hungry are you for 00:45:41.030 --> 00:45:46.070 God? How desperate are you? To encounter God 00:45:46.070 --> 00:45:50.869 like that again. And not just today. Tomorrow. 00:45:51.230 --> 00:45:55.050 And not just tomorrow. The next day. The next 00:45:55.050 --> 00:45:58.510 day. The next day. If you want, make your way 00:45:58.510 --> 00:46:04.829 to this altar. And just begin to tell God. God, 00:46:05.090 --> 00:46:11.150 I'm here today. I'm here today, God. I'm here 00:46:11.150 --> 00:46:11.670 right now.