You know the world might tell you you have to have it all figured out
No, you don't have to have it all figured out. You have to have one thing figured out. Mm-hmm
I will fix my eyes on Christ and go wherever he leads. Amen
Because you can be just as supernatural in your everyday life
Mm-hmm as somebody else can in their ministry
God promises in Joel 2 28 to pour out his spirit on all humanity
Welcome to global outpouring where we contend for that promise outpouring
We equip for that outpouring so that we may engage in that very outpouring
I'm Philip bus and I'm Sharon bus. Welcome to the podcast today
We have with us our very good friend Matt
He's a great friend and he's a great friend and he's a great friend and he's a great friend
I'm Sharon bus. Welcome to the podcast today. We have with us our very good friend Matthew Reams and he's been with us for our
Generation awakening summer camp youth retreat and it has been a marvelous
marvelous event that young people and young adults have walked away from this with a
Changed life and he shared with us a message that wasn't recorded
So we're gonna kind of give you an overview of the thing that Matthew brought
about an average
supernatural life
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That's exploding. It's about to get so much bigger
So Matthew, thank you so much for joining us today
We're really really glad that you're with us. Amen. It's good to be here. Yeah, okay. Yes, so
you were
leading worship for us and these meetings that we had with the young people and can you just give us your perspective of what a
Generation awakening event is like I mean, it's hard to describe since every event is
Different right and yet at the same time every event builds on the one before true
But if you are in youth or you're young adult and you come down for one of the events they have down here
First off you're gonna get to enjoy just getting away from life for a couple days. Yeah your cell phone probably won't work
Yeah, my cell phone has not worked in about five days. Oh
and
That's a good thing for me, you know being a pastor my phone's kind of going off a lot. So it's relaxing
You're here and all of your meals are taken care of
All of your day is planned out. You don't really have to think through
What am I gonna do? Mm-hmm and in the mornings and the evenings
we're gonna have a time with worship and we're gonna have different people who are gonna come and bring the word and
You know, one of the things that I really appreciate is that there is never an assignment list where you're told
Okay. Now you're gonna speak on Wednesday night and your topic needs to be about
Whatever
Whenever they invite you if you're gonna teach a breakout workshop, they're gonna ask you
Hey, is there something that you want to teach on a few occasions?
They might suggest I was asked to teach on worship, which is your thing, which is a thing
Mm-hmm. One of your things. Yeah
But when I was asked to preach in the evening service, I was told go hear from God
Mm-hmm and tell everyone what they need to hear. Yeah, so there was no there was no parameter on it
So you never know what thing the Lord's gonna bring?
Unfortunately, that's not always true at every other youth event
Mm-hmm. A lot of them are very formulaic because there's five things that youth need to know they need to know
So behave don't do drugs. Don't engage in sexual immorality
love Jesus more and
Then we're gonna have like a pizza party or something because you know, we got to keep them interested after we did all this heavy stuff
But when you come down here you're gonna get the same kind of expectation that you would get at a normal adult
Pentecostal service. Mm-hmm. We're gonna believe for miracles
We're gonna talk about the gifts of the Holy Spirit. We're gonna have Bible teaching
We're gonna have opportunities for everything that you need in life. Yeah, but we're gonna do it in an atmosphere where
Okay, it's a little more entertaining than
some of the adult conferences
But we didn't even have pizza
We had other great foods like every meal taken care of
eat pretty much all you can eat and
Then try to stay awake and don't go into that afternoon food coma
While you then you've had your fill of natural food come get your fill of spiritual food. Yeah. Yeah, and I
Workshops to choose from yeah
I mean I was actually a little disappointed because
There was workshops that I wanted to sit in on that I couldn't because I was teaching a workshop at the same time
Yeah in an ideal world. I would you know
translocate and I would be sitting in the other room while I'm
Teaching in this room. There you go. That didn't happen to me this time
So I just have to trust that when the kids came and told me about it later. Those classes were great
They were yeah, they were I sat in on some of them
One of the gals that brought a group from her youth group from her church as she was commenting about this event
she said, you know, I've been to lots of youth things and
most of them are a whole lot of fun and a little bit of Jesus and
Then she said but this one is all about Jesus and it's lots of fun or something like that
I'm not quoting her exactly but something along those lines. Mm-hmm
I've been to a number of different youth young adult things and some are smaller and they have really great
camaraderie and
it's like, you know, just any other summer camp with a little bit of Jesus likes he said or
Some of them are huge and have you know
The biggest fanciest speakers and worship leaders and they're packing out an arena
Mm-hmm, but there's almost no
personability, right
It's hard to have an intimate conversation
With the guy who preached and just brought you to conviction under the Holy Spirit, right if there's also another
15,000 people in the room, right right down here in the valley. You're locked in the whole time you're here
The whole time you're here with all of these different people so you can sit and meet them at lunch
You can say hey after the service tonight, could you spend five minutes with me?
Yeah, I might meet them as you're walking back to the dorm
Mm-hmm. Every person who's teaching you is a person who's doing life for the whole week with you. Exactly
Yeah, I remember hearing
One of the you saying before, you know that had been to the big conferences and says, you know
You get more personal ministry here and that's really what you need. Sure, you know, that's what it's all about
You know, absolutely and I love those big conferences. I've been to many of them. I've heard some amazing speakers, you know
I've seen Francis Chan
Absolutely destroy me and leave me in a puddle of tears on the floor in an arena filled with 30,000 people
Yeah, but after that he didn't come over and console me in my tears
So I had to I had to rely on the Holy Ghost and the people that were sitting next to me to help
Me get back up and get moving, right? I mean you still can get up and get moving
But there is something there is something wonderful about the personal touch of being close together
And being able to reach out. I don't think there was anybody who
Wanted ministry personally that didn't get it. Yeah from from somebody who was very well
Capable and most likely the speaker that that brought the message and then on top of that, you know
You're in a small environment. Mm-hmm
Because we only have space for a limited number of people
But you get to know them well, right? Yeah, and some of these kids that are here. They were here last year, right?
And back before we took the kovat break that the world put us on
We had some folks that were coming
Five ten fifteen years that they're now lifelong friendships exactly that when they're going through something
They can lean on. Yeah, because of the intimacy of the valley. Yeah
I mean some we're hearing 20 25 years later are still friends. Yeah
It's just amazing
Absolutely amazing
So tell us Matthew how the Lord brought this message to you and just start sharing some of the things that you've been
Sharing some of the things that the Lord gave you sure the title of my message as you said earlier
it was an average supernatural life and
We are supernatural people we believe that I mean
Just five minutes ago if you were listening to the start of the podcast Philip
Shared about this outpouring that we are contending for that
We are equipping for that we fully intend to engage in
You know you can't be around global outpouring without believing for a supernatural outpouring
Absolutely of the Lord
Yeah, but that concept
has
somewhat been hijacked mm-hmm to
Automatically mean it has to be the most over-the-top
extraordinary things right and
A lot of people kind of create a mental divide
Okay, there's my supernatural life, and then there's my average life. Oh there you go my average life is where I
Get up I go to work. I go to the grocery store. I go to the gym. I come home
I'm tired. I put my feet up my supernatural life is
You know maybe when I go to church although sadly so many of these people who have been
Taught that they're supposed to be so supernatural have zero rooting and grounding in an actual
Expression of the body in their local region hmm
Then there's a spiritual life it might be in their church
It might be when they get to go to that conference or that youth camp or that whatever
And there's this there's this divide
You know and for some people it's well. It's not really supernatural until it looks like this
You know for some for some people young or old it doesn't really matter
They have a vision in their mind. It has to look like
Toronto did it has to look like Azusa Street did it has to look like the book of Acts and
All those were wonderful things, but we are never going to have a church that looks like the book of Acts
Because we don't ride around on donkeys, and we don't have to wait
I have to wait four weeks for a boat to take us from the shores of Israel up to Crete to
Preach the gospel yeah, we live in a world where I can get on my phone right now open up Instagram
Go live and start preaching the gospel and people could listen instantly mm-hmm
The fact that the world changes means
The way we engage with the world as we pour out is going to change
Mm-hmm, but because we get in this mindset
It has to look like Toronto or it has to look like Azusa Street, or it has to look like the Welsh revival
Anything that doesn't begin to look like that well. That's not really a supernatural life. It might be a good meeting
It might be whatever or we undervalue our local church where God is moving people are being saved healed delivered and
Discipled because well I remember reading about the story of the revival in this city
Where within three weeks suddenly they had four or five thousand people coming to their church because God was moving mm-hmm
Wow, you know do you remember just a year ago?
God was moving in a beautiful way mm-hmm at Asbury University
Yeah, we got to go there. Yeah, you guys got to go there. I heard your podcast from there mm-hmm
Yeah, I didn't go there
I thought it was cool, and I got invited some people were gonna take a road trip
And I said you guys can road trip if you want
But I don't want to chase revival mm-hmm. I want to build revival there you go
Yeah, it's good, and and it was zero shame and so if you heard me say that just now and you thought like
Well, he thinks if we go to the next revival or just chase. No it's not that it's
Someone else labored and got God in that moment in that place mm-hmm
Yeah, I want that same thing to happen here right mm-hmm. You know when when Steve Hill preached in
Brownsville mm-hmm everybody wanted what happened in Brownsville right, but you know John Kilpatrick
Every day for at least two years before that would be in the sanctuary of the church at 6 a.m. To 8 a.m.
Praying and crying out for God to move mm-hmm. Yeah, it's really easy to jump on the wagon when it's already moving
Come on. I want to load the wagon. Yeah
Now now I'm from Lawrence, Kansas, and that's a Lawrence, Kansas slogan, okay
You know our our college basketball team the Jayhawks
They're perennial favorites to win college basketball doesn't happen every year
Nobody wins every year
but every year when we do well when we
Struggle whatever the coach looks at the guys say just load the wagon and push
There you go, and if we had that mentality in the church. There'd be a lot more revivals happening
Yes, come on, but we're you know we're content to make this divide mm-hmm
I can go and have this experience over here, but the rest of my week is just
natural
Mm-hmm. You know what a drag. I gotta I gotta go to work
You know you had the episode just a few months ago with James Stone about being a
Praying and prophesying plumber right come on. I have never heard a
revival sermon with a
consecration call
at the altar saying
If you want to shake the world
Come down to the altar and commit to being a plumber
Come on
No, they're gonna call you come down to the altar devote your heart to Jesus give the next ten years of your life to
X ministry Y ministry Z ministry move across the country commit yourself to going on a missions trip
Sell everything you have and do this grandiose thing
And there are people who have done that successfully yeah and lived their life that way
Because they were called because they were called mm-hmm
But there are people who are called
To be a plumber exactly and shake the world around them yeah
by plumbing well and
Giving God room to move in the midst of their plumbing exactly yeah
That was if anybody would like to hear that part of the story
I would like to hear that podcast yeah, we'll put that in the we'll put it in the notes and it's even amazing
Yeah story where he goes to this house and it's a bunch of Satanist
So you have to listen to the story
You want to listen to it it was interesting yeah, but now you tell us what happened when you
Were cleaning a toilet. Yeah, so oh wow. Yeah, let me preface this by saying
most of my
significantly profound encounters with the Lord
Most not all most of them have happened outside of church services
And this one was important. I had been at a conference event
And it was being held actually at a golf course clubhouse
Someone let us rent it and at the end of the evening we had to
Get it all cleaned up because they were probably going to have a wedding the next day
It's one of those kind of places. Yeah
and I
was ministering
I spoke I played worship. I was the guy
And then everybody went home and I was handed a mop and a toilet brush
Side note if your favorite minister or pastor or leader
Is only anointed when they have a microphone and not when they have a mop?
They might need to check their priorities
Because if you can't move in the supernatural when you're called to serve the body and not just when you're called to
Minister to the body. That's not a healthy
lifestyle, but I digress I went into the toilet room and
It was unpleasant. It was a mess
I'm not going to tell you which gender but I'm going to tell you the one that you think was worse was actually better
And I'm down and I'm scrubbing and when I was looking into the waters and the porcelain
I
Had an encounter where I saw Jesus
And he began to minister to me and the next thing I know I'm laying on the floor of a bathroom weeping
and crying and praying in tongues and
That is not where I would plan my encounter
When you least expect it
Other people that were there heard me and they heard me crying and making weird noises
Because when I do get deep into the spirit, I'm not like some of those pretty ministers that
Are anointed and sound nice and I sound like I'm a mess
I'm just I'm all out. It is what it is
Well, they started to come in to check on me and they would walk into the bathroom and suddenly they're on the floor
and they're having an encounter with the presence of the Lord because
Despite how great the meetings were that night
The Holy Ghost chose to meet us on the floor of a dirty bathroom
Again, not where I would schedule it right but i'll never forget it, right?
You want to know the second most interesting encounter i've ever had with the Lord? Of course, of course. It's not in a church
I was in a little town in North Carolina
And I had been ministering at a conference there and if you know, North Carolina, there's lots of anointed people
I don't know why they needed my help, but they did
and I went to this particular restaurant because it was the only one in this little town where I was staying in a cabin
Your options are limited you go
And they it's one of those ones where they have the wooden benches that are curved and the menu has the plastic
That they can change the letters out depending on the day's special
Every small town has this diner
And the girl who was working hands me a menu
And I just look and said i'm assuming you have fried pickles and she says yeah, how'd you know?
I said every diner like this has fried pickles and they're usually the best fried pickles
I said i'm gonna need an order of fried pickles
And then you know like a double cheeseburger meal if you have it
She goes cool. You would just order a double cheeseburger meal if you have it
She goes cool. What do you want to drink? I said, you know what? Let's go die a dr. Pepper
and she scuttles off to the back and
I'm sure if i'd looked in the kitchen the person in the back was probably smoking a cigarette and
You know talking with a gruff voice because it was that kind of just greasy spoon diner
Best fried pickles i've ever eaten but greasy spoon diner
But as i'm sitting there munching on my fried pickles
I feel
pickles I feel a wind
And I look thinking the door opened
But it didn't
There was a man that was sitting at the counter because you know all of those diners they have the counter area. Yeah
He was an angry looking man and he was grumbling and mumbling everything
And you could tell he just wasn't having a great day
But when the when I felt the wind and I turned
I saw the lord
Lord walks into the diner
And just stands behind him and lays his hands on his shoulder
And starts ministering to him
and
I'm like
Wow
Okay
And so I just start praying
And after a minute or two, Jesus is done ministering to this man
And he starts to walk
And he looks at me and he smiles
And he smiles
And then he walks out the door
Wow
Oh, can I tell you I was offended?
You were this close to me and you couldn't come over to me
Oh my and the reality was
The lord needed to minister to that man in that way. Yeah
And he was gracious enough to let me see him do it
Yeah
Yeah, he didn't need to minister to me in that way my flesh rose up and wanted it
Because when we hear that someone else has a supernatural encounter, we often get envious and we want what they had
Yeah, and the reality is
I just got to witness something beautiful. Yeah. Wow and the lord smiled on me
Well, that's that's more than a lot of people have gotten right? Sure
Like I should be on cloud nine, but no i'm really good about letting my flesh rise up at the wrong moment
And aren't we all?
So most of my encounters that have profoundly impacted the way I think about the lord
Didn't happen
In a surface, right? Most of them have happened in the minutiae
Of day-to-day life, right the average the average
Supernatural life. Yeah
You know
You are called to be supernatural
And you're called to be supernatural. Absolutely. Yeah, and I shared with the students about steven
Steven in acts chapter seven
Was martyred for his faith, right? Yeah, the first person since jesus to be martyred
For the cause of the gospel, right?
Well in the chapter previous we're introduced to him
And we're basically told
The apostles are so busy with the work of the ministry
they don't have time to handle cleaning the dishes and
Making sure that the widows are being checked on and you know
You could almost look down on that because like what do you mean? You don't have time for that, but they they were the church was so busy
Mm-hmm. These guys couldn't handle all the different jobs, right? And so they said can you guys look for?
seven men who
Are full of the holy ghost have a good reputation and are ready to serve to do these jobs that we can't do
Waiting on tables. Yeah. Yeah, and steven was chosen and of course they give us a list of other ones, but i'm focused on steven
Steven wasn't an apostle
Nope, he he did not have that encounter in the upper room
Where jesus said here touch?
My side he wasn't there when jesus stepped through a wall
You know, he wasn't commissioned and said you're you're my apostles
He was just a guy who believed
And was in the meeting but he was found to be faithful and full of the holy ghost. Yeah
And his job assignment is
Clean the tables do the dishes go about your way
most of us
Don't want that assignment
Mm-hmm
We want the apostleship
Mm-hmm. Trust me
If you haven't yet, you're gonna meet in least 20 people that have it on their business card apostle
I wish it was just as easy as getting office depot to print me up business cards that said apostle
I don't know if i'd choose that. I think i'd I think i'd want to be like
The archduke or archbishop. I don't know. It just sounds fancier
but
You know, we all aspire to this title
Because we see oh, well, you know the apostles they were doing great things
Peter and john are going up to the temple and they heal a guy on the way and in axe 19
God's doing unusual miracles through the hands of paul, right?
I want to do unusual miracles. Absolutely. Yes, i'm unusual
So pretty much any miracle that god does to me is going to be unusual
But still I want to see and do that
Do I want to serve and wait the tables?
Not as much
however
And you know, you guys have known me long enough to know
I have trained myself regardless of how my flesh feels about it
I'm going to be a guy that offers to serve as much as I can
And you have served beautifully and
And the little stuff yeah in power washing the buildings and
Getting lots of poison ivy and bug bites and you know, yeah in all the in all the ways you can make it sound like
Why I wouldn't want to do that
and yet
Stephen did that
I'm willing to do that. Other people are willing to do that. You know, I think of billy krigger. Oh, yeah
Yeah, billy krigger. Most of you have never met you may never met. He probably will never have a podcast
Because he's just billy
But when we were getting ready to have convention he committed to come and spend a whole month here
Convention was only for five days
He spent the rest of the month going around the valley
And helping to fix things paint things take care of landscaping
Just because he wanted to be a blessing to the ministry
Yeah, you know
Some people they can bless the ministry with finances and if that's you great. Thank god. You are a wonderful person
You are a blessing but to the person that says I don't have the money
But I can give you time and come and serve
Be a billy. Yeah, yeah be willing and you know, it doesn't have to be coming to serve here. Although
I can tell you it would be a blessing if you could serve
Philip and Sharon and they would be a blessing for you in the meantime, but you have a church
You have a community you have a local place that needs you to serve just like stephen exactly
And so the very next verse after we read about stephen getting chosen
It says and stephen being full of faith and the holy spirit
Began doing many signs and wonders among the people amen
We think oftentimes that signs and wonders
And miracles are reserved for the super saints the power apostles
And unfortunately our church culture has propped that up
Because we've had god's man of power for the hour
And you know you you get excited because well brother so and so
Is going to be in such and such city. It's only like 20 minutes away and I know that if I can just get to there
God's going to use him to do a miracle for me. Yeah, and when you're desperate for a touch
You know, that's great
But what if we believed that stephen?
In our church
Was full of faith in the holy spirit and could do great signs and wonders and miracles
What if instead of thinking I just have to get to
Brother so and so's meeting
We believe james it says if any is sick among you let him come to the elders
Anoint with oil and pray the prayer of faith that he may be well, right? Yeah
we tend to
create this divide
There's average saints and then there's super saints. Yeah
And most of the super saints that you meet
Aren't all that super when you get to know them
And i'm not even saying they're bad people
I'm just saying the longer you know someone the more you realize
They're really just a person. Yeah average
They're average
They're just called to something so they're doing what they're called to. Yeah
But you might be called to be a plumber like brother james and
The episode that will be linked below and you might be called to be a mechanic
You know a mechanic can do supernatural things for people
And he can fix cars. Yeah, i'm gonna tell you
Your favorite superhero
apostle
Probably doesn't know how to change transmission
So
Who's really the hero the one?
That can only pray for you or the one that can pray for you and change your transmission. Come on. Yeah
Let's go. Yeah, you know and and one of the brothers that was here this week
We call him porch
That's what all the youth call him
No one really knows why we just go with it, but his real name is jordan
He runs a ministry at his church where he is
teaching
the young men how to become godly men
And the ministry through which they do it is they fix people's cars for free
Or at the cost of parts, you know
And so he is helping
people in need who need car repairs
And he's being a blessing while he's doing it. He's teaching these young men how to fix cars beautiful
So they can take care of their own stuff
For the rest of their life or at least until cars become too complicated for us to fix
And that way now at the same time he's also training them what a godly life looks like
And in the midst of that
He's praying for them. He's ministering to them
Porch is a great dude. Yeah
Porch will probably never headline a conference with 30 000 people
You probably won't one day get to read the biography of porch
Until you get to heaven and yet in heaven
He's going to be celebrated. Oh, yeah
For doing the ordinary average thing and using his ordinary life as an opportunity to do supernatural things
In the world. Amen
That's that's how steven was
Amen. That's that's how steven was. Yeah
You know steven didn't just settle for
Well, i'm gonna wait these tables. He was full of the holy ghost. Come on
It was a prerequisite if if you're gonna serve you need to be full of the holy ghost. Amen
So another side note for pastors
Don't just look for people that have skills
Look for people that have holy ghost and skills. Amen when david set up the tabernacle. He didn't just find
anyone who wanted to sing
He found the skilled musicians who are willing to pour out their heart
I'm blessed in our church
We have skilled people
We have a brother who is a painter
Who is so good that he is certified to do hospital clean rooms
That he runs a business does really well
But he's able to bless and help the church
We have a journeyman electrician
Who is in demand and constantly working and is able to come and bless the church
We have a construction superintendent who works on
big
large apartment complexes
Who is available sometimes to come and help us with projects around the church. We have
A gc who flips homes who will come
Don't overlook
The tradesmen in your church and think well, they're just laborers. Come on. No the
guy who
Runs the painting company has become one of the co-directors of our men's ministry
beautiful the
gc
Helps me run the prophetic ministry out of our church
The electrician is the new music director over our worship department and runs all the tech stuff
That's great
They have gifts they're doing supernatural things. They're transforming the world
Everywhere that our painter terry goes he's preaching the gospel to some people
beautiful people that work with him often find him almost like
Uncomfortably comfortable with sharing the gospel
He doesn't go anywhere that he's not going to be
Preaching to somebody
Wow, yeah
And he doesn't start a single workday without gathering all the workers together and having a bible study
Wow, that's great. You know
He's a hero of faith. Amen, but he's not
preaching in front of
Hundreds and thousands
And he's not traveling the world and he's not doing all these big things that we have made benchmarks for anointing
True. Wow, you know, I I love the word christian
Because it comes from the word christ obviously and christ means anointed one
And if you look in acts
I think it's 1038 that says jesus went about which means he just kind of wandered around
Doing good
And healing all that were oppressed of the devil
Why because god was with him because god was with him. He was anointed
With the holy spirit. That's what happened on the day of his baptism
The holy spirit came on him and remained on him
Mm-hmm, and that is the picture of what we are to be because
Paul tells us that we were predestined to be conformed
To the image of christ
So this this word christian has to do with us becoming
Anointed letting the holy spirit work in us to work
We talked about the g5 the galatians five fruit of the spirit
Working those fruit of the spirit into us
By the spirit is the spirit making it happen to make us look like jesus
Because that's what the world needs
That's the kind of laborers that that need to be going into the harvest fields the one that ones that look like jesus not necessarily the ones
Who know how to preach a sermon amen? Yeah, and you know in the great commission passages
And I say that plural because
There's multiple you know most most of us think of matthew 28 go into all the nations make disciples
Training them to obey all that i've commanded you baptizing them in the name of the father son the holy spirit right that wasn't just given to
Hey, you 12 guys you do this right was given to all of us right mark 16
He says and these signs will follow all who believe amen and he says things like they'll speak in new tongues
They will pray for the sick and they will recover. They'll cleanse lepers. They'll pick up
Deadly snakes and not be harmed. They'll drink poison and be safe
Now he wasn't telling you to go around and dance with snakes and drink poison
No, he was telling you that if you're doing the work of the kingdom, even the serpents can't
Stop you. That's right. Even those who try and poison you can't stop you. That's right
Even leprosy can't stop you
And then we get to acts chapter one jesus's final message for he's about to ascend and he says hey
Stay here for a few more days
When the holy spirit comes on you you will receive power
And you will be my witnesses to jerusalem judaea samaria and even to the ends of the earth
And again, he didn't just say it to the 12 right or I guess at that point the 11 because you know judas had
Gone, right
He said it to all who were gathered in the upper room. Mm-hmm. There were a lot of people there
And they waited they did what he asked
And then in acts chapter two boom the holy ghost is poured out right and some people mistake this
They think the holy spirit was poured out. They all got tongues
And therefore tongues was the key
Now tongues was a blessing
But the key was as soon as they got those tongues the very first thing they did was go out in the street and preach the gospel
Hallelujah. Yeah, we have a lot of people that they want to get spiritual gifts so they can look more spiritual
These guys got the spiritual gifts so they could be a witness. Yeah, man put them in operation
You need you shall be spiritual gifts so that you will be a witness the evidence that the holy spirit
Is going to be a witness
You need you shall be spiritual gifts so that you will be a witness the evidence that the holy spirit has come upon you
Is that you were using every gift he's given you to witness to christ and bring people to his feet
amen really good and
That wasn't reserved for just the apostles the whole of the upper room. There's 120 of them
Ran out into the streets and everywhere they went they made disciples and they advanced the kingdom
The problem for a lot of us is
We aren't advancing the kingdom
True, we're advancing our kingdom many times
And and you'll see a lot of big ministries
where
it's all about this ministry and
Building its mandate and if you're around here, everything is focused on this thing
rather than
the global kingdom of god, and so if my
Mandate is that i'm supposed to do xyz and you're around me. Well, then you need to be doing this too
But you need to do what you're called to do right you can you can be a part of my church
And if you live in the area of lawrence, kansas, you are welcome any sunday at freedom church
That that's where I am one of the pastors on staff
It's a great place you can come you can be a part of our church
You are not required to do everything that we do the way we do to be loved and to be used by god
All that's required of you is to be faithful to what god's calling you to do right?
but so many ministries
it's
You have to devote yourself to this thing and if you're not doing this thing, well, then you're a lesser saint
You even hear a lot of pastors go. Well, there's some that are you know, the they're just the pew sitters
And I understand what we mean by that like ideally we'd like to see everyone
actively engaged involved in what's going on and there's just some people who they're at the place in their life where
Simply getting to the church and being fed is all they can do right now
Yeah, but anytime we start looking at ourselves as better
Than another group of believers we're causing problems because you can be just as supernatural
in your everyday life
As somebody else can in their ministry very true
And for this group of young people that were here at this retreat
And for whoever's listening right now, you may not know what you're going to do with the rest of your life
And you don't have to decide at 13 years old
And you don't have to decide at 13 14 15
You know the world might tell you you have to have it all figured out
No, you don't have to have it all figured out. You have to have one thing figured out
I will fix my eyes on christ and go wherever he leads. Amen. Amen
And he may not lead you to sell everything and move
to the wilds of the middle east to preach to
People that have never heard the gospel if he calls you to that let's go. We need more people there
He may call you to become a plumber. He may call you to become a mechanic
He may call you to become a husband a wife a mother a father
He may call you to be the person that starts adopting the orphans in your community
All of these things can be supernatural
Because the reality of the supernatural is you have a place of influence
Use your influence to point people to christ. Amen. If your influence is a stage with twenty-four
People listening use it to point to christ if your influence is a podcast use it to point to christ
If your influence is a doctor's office use it to point to christ
It doesn't matter what your sphere of influence is
Use it to point to christ. Amen
It's beautiful. Amen. Would you pray for our listeners? Sure father god. I give you glory and honor and praise
everything
Everything revolves around you. Yes
And if we get one thing right in this life
Let it be
That we know you and love you. Well
Yes
Father I pray for the people that are listening right now
That you would meet them where they are
and fill them
With the holy spirit and with power
Yes
and that in every day of their life
They would be a walking demonstration
Of your kingdom your gospel and your power
Your word said these signs will follow them that believe
Lord all of those things
Can be incorporated into daily life. Yes
So I pray for the people right now that are struggling feeling like they're not doing enough because they haven't given enough
or because they haven't traveled
Traveled far enough or because they don't have the same platform that somebody else is
Lord I pray that you would so fill them with your presence
Yes, your father that they would just rejoice to know you
And I pray that they would be so full of your presence and so full of your nature that everywhere they go
They would leak out your glory. Yes
That whether it's
Going to someone's home as a plumber to fix their sink
Or whether it's being a doctor and treating their physical ailments
That just by being around them
People would begin to encounter you. Yes
Lord, let every area of our life
Be supernatural. Yes
Not because we're doing wild and crazy things
But because we have made you and your kingdom the center focus of everything that we do. Yes
Yes, father
Lord, I pray that in those areas where we feel inadequate
You would remind us that you are more than enough. Amen and in those areas where we
Are unsure or where we we have trepidation
Lord, let us find our confidence in you
To know that if we hear and obey
You will do everything that you've promised for us. Yes
Lord, I thank you for these people that are listening right now and for all those that are under the sound of my voice
And I just pray
That you would show them the areas of their life
Where you want to pour out supernaturally. Yes
That it would not be
That it would not be a divide between my average life and my supernatural life
But it would be one life
lived
Supernaturally for all of your glory
In the name of jesus
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