Embracing God's Presence: Expectation, Worship, and Community

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### Quotes for Outreach

1. "What I would suggest and what I want to do is I want to sing with worship. With an expectation, an awe, and a request for direction as we worship. Like David did in Psalm 5. What might God do amongst us if we have that kind of attitude? If we have an expectation, if we have an attitude of worship and awe and humility to receive what He wants to give." [01:01] (30 seconds) ( | | )

2. "We need more of you to know how to love each other well. We need more of you, Lord, to know how to live out this walk, to become more like Christ. So, Lord, I pray that your Holy Spirit in us would build us up, would encourage us, would equip us, would transform us, God. Amen. That the fruit of your Spirit would become more real in our lives." [34:06] (20 seconds) ( | | )

3. "Yeah, I don't know about you, but man, one of the things that is part of our culture and what I want to continue to build on is that a key way that we interact with God is through worship. So I want to encourage you as you are singing these songs, as you are spending time worshiping god enter in man god is with us god is here yeah make sure that you're taking the time that you can to enter in." [45:03] (32 seconds) ( | | )

4. "What I know to be true is that oftentimes as we worship god what happens is that god will speak to us either prophetically he'll speak through somebody to the congregation or in the heart of of each person he'll be doing something as we worship him because by worshiping him we are basically saying god i am here i'm expecting you to show up so if god has spoken to you that is that's what we're doing this for to hear from him." [45:03] (35 seconds) ( | | )

### Quotes for Members

1. "Peter a letter. And in that letter, he reminded the people, we are not just a bunch of people gathering together with a couple of leaders up front. But he said, no, no, all of you are, as Christ followers, all of you are new, you are transformed, you are a new creation. But listen to this. He says, you are a chosen race. Not color of your skin race, not blood race, but a chosen race in that God has adopted all of us into His kingdom. A royal priesthood. A holy nation. A people for His possession. So that, this is who you are, so that you may proclaim the praises of the one who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light. Once you were not a people. Now you are God's people. You had not received mercy. Now you have received mercy." [39:32] (75 seconds) ( | | )

2. "There are three truths I want us to hang on to as we talk about the gifts of the spirit this morning and for the next several weeks. There are approximately 21 22 gifts plus whatever the holy spirit wants to do beyond that we talked about that last week and god wants to do something through us and to us through those gifts so as we talk about the different gifts we're not going to talk about all of them over the next few weeks but we're going to talk about some key ones as we talk about the different gifts we're not going to talk about as we talk about them three things i want you to remember number one god gives them to us for a purpose and that purpose is the great commandments does anybody remember what the two greatest commandments are that jesus mentioned what love god and love others love god love others every gift that is practiced should be done with that in mind." [55:13] (64 seconds) ( | | )

3. "So as we talk about the different supernatural gifts we are asking god at least i hope you're asking god to pour them out on us in order in order to enjoy and practice the fullness of god all of that all that he wants to give to us in order to love him and love people so that they may experience that same fullness of god and we also want to make sure we understand the proper use of those gifts so we don't fall into the same trap the corinthians did." [56:41] (28 seconds) ( | | )

4. "Speaking in tongues is very simply speaking in a language that you the the person speaking doesn't know it is doing so under the anointing of the holy spirit the power of the holy spirit speaking something whether well i'll get into that in a minute but it's it's in its simplest definition it is speaking in a language that you don't know this could be a language that is known to the person listening as in the story of our jewish rabbi we see that in the book of acts chapter two when the disciples were first anointed with the holy spirit chapter two verse four then they were all filled with the holy spirit and began to speak in different tongues as the spirit enabled them now there were jews staying in jerusalem devout people from every nation under heaven when this sound occurred a crowd came together and was confused because each one heard them speaking in his own language." [01:05:12] (56 seconds) ( | | )

5. "So in that way it's not for everyone and yet the holy spirit is in you when you surrender your heart to christ and if you say jesus i want more of you jesus i want all the fullness of god from you that you want to give to me god doesn't turn us down he doesn't look at you and say you're not good enough it all depends what are the circumstances what are you wanting it for how is god wanting you to use it what is god wanting to do through you so both of those things are true it's one of those wonderful paradoxes that i love in scripture that two things can be true at the same time even though they seem to be opposite." [01:21:34] (50 seconds) ( | | )

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