Empowered by the Holy Spirit: Embracing God's Plan

1. "I would just encourage us as disciples that every time you get into the scriptures and you read the bible read it like it's the first time you've ever seen it if you position your heart that way god will continue to pour out new and greater revelation of who he is and what he's about and every time you listen to a sermon don't just say i've heard that stuff before because there will be something new and fresh in it for each and every one of us." [01:49] (33 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


2. "When Jesus gave the great kingdom, the great commission in Mark chapter 16, after he rose from the dead, he said, go into all the world and preach the good news of the gospel of the kingdom to all creation. He who believes and is baptized shall be saved. And these signs will follow those that believe. In my name they will cast out devils. They will speak with new tongues. They will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover. And with that, Jesus ascended into heaven, and his disciples were foolish enough to believe him, and they went everywhere preaching the good news of the gospel of the kingdom and proclaiming the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. And the Lord confirmed the word with signs following." [06:05] (50 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


3. "In the last days, whoever calls upon the name of the Lord will be saved. And that word called upon means to be surnamed the name of the Lord. When there's a wedding that takes place, the bride takes on the name of the groom. And we, as the bride of Christ, take upon his name. So baptism is kind of like a wedding ceremony, where we, as the bride, take upon ourselves his name. And so he said, this Jesus that God gave you was crucified by you, but God raised him from the dead. And when the people heard that, they were convicted in their hearts, and they said, well, what must we do? And Peter said this. Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, for the forgiveness of your sins, and you shall receive, receive the gift of the Holy Spirit, for the promise is unto you and your children, and all to afar off, even as many as the Lord our God will call." [07:32] (87 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


4. "Well, what does baptism do? What does baptism do for you? Well, glad you asked. In Galatians 3, 26 and 27, it talks about the fact that you are all children of God through faith in Jesus Christ. And when we are baptized into Jesus, we put on Christ. And it brought me back to thinking about what happened in the garden when the Lord killed the lamb and put the animal skins on him. When we are baptized, the Lord covers our nakedness. He covers our shame. And it's gone. And we can walk totally clothed in the presence of the Lord. We take on his anointing. We take on his name. We take on his cause. We take on his mission. And he empowers us to do the work." [13:15] (54 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


5. "In Romans chapter 6, it says, Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? God forbid. God forbid. He said, don't you realize that all of us who were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death. And so it is in baptism we identify with the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus. How many of you know that's kind of an important thing? And so when we're baptized, we identify with the fact that we have been crucified with Christ. And in our burial, we bury the old man of sin. And when we come out of the water, we come out with the resurrection power of a brand new life. So it's so important. And then he says, consider yourself dead to sin but alive to God. We identify with the fact that we've been resurrected to new life through the power of Jesus Christ." [14:17] (67 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


6. "When Jesus rose from the dead, he met with his disciples for 40 days and he taught them about the kingdom of God through the Holy Spirit. And while he was teaching, he spoke to the disciples and said, don't leave here, but wait for the gift my Father has promised that you've heard me talk about. For you will be baptized with water, but also you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit. Not many days from now. And 120 believed what Jesus said. They went into an upper room and they waited for the gift of promise, the Holy Spirit. And the Bible said on the day of Pentecost, they were all in one place and one accord. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind. It filled the whole house where they were sitting. And there appeared unto them divided tongues like as of fire. And it rested upon each of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues as the Spirit of God gave them the utterance." [19:12] (66 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


7. "So if the disciples on the day of Pentecost needed the baptism of the Holy Spirit so they could be filled with power to be effectively ministering and witnessing to the others, how much more do we need the baptism of the Holy Spirit today? The kingdom of God is not diminishing but it's advancing and growing in power. Lord, we declare today that we need all the power that you have for us. All the power that you have for us. And Lord, we thank you today that there's going to be a fresh outpouring." [20:35] (39 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


8. "In Acts chapter 4, Peter and John had gotten in trouble because they had prayed for a man who was crippled to be healed. He was actually begging. And they said, we don't have any silver or gold but what we do have we give to you in the name of Jesus Christ, rise up and walk. They were threatened. Don't you ever talk anymore. In the name of Jesus. And they said, we ought to obey God rather than men. And then they spoke and said, if you want to know how this man was healed and is standing before you, we want you to know it's through the name of our Lord Jesus Christ that he was healed and he stands before you whole. They would not be intimidated by what they were told. And so the church prayed. And they prayed this, Lord, we ask you that you fill us with boldness so that we can proclaim the name of the Lord Jesus Christ in power. And the Lord heard their prayer and the Lord shook their place where they were and they were filled with the Holy Spirit." [21:19] (70 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


9. "In Romans chapter 8 it says that there'll be times when you don't know what to pray for. But the Holy Spirit will pray through you. 1 Corinthians 14 says, I will pray with the Spirit, but I will pray with the understanding also. I will sing with the Spirit, but I will sing with the understanding also. I can't tell you how many times in my life that I've been in challenging situations, sometimes dangerous situations, and I didn't know what to do. But I began just to pray in the Spirit, and then the Lord drew me in. He dropped into my heart what to say and what to do. I remember one time, I was called out in the middle of the night to cast the devil out of someone. So I drove over, I just began to speak with tongues, and the Lord told me exactly what to do and what to say when I got there." [23:21] (52 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


10. "When I was in Russia the first time, and it was like a vacuum. They had been told that God is dead for 70 years, and now we were bringing the good news of the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. And so I had an invitation. I just asked anybody that wanted to be baptized in the Holy Spirit to come forward. And they had a culture hall with a high stage, so I was like down here against the wall, and I asked people to come up. Anybody want to be baptized in the Holy Spirit? I thought they were going to crush me against the wall. They were that hungry for the things of the Spirit. That's how hungry we need to be. We want to receive everything our Rabbi Jesus has for us. Jesus told them, don't leave until you get it. And so we're going to ask the Lord to baptize us fresh and new in the Holy Spirit. And it says, the Holy Spirit gave them the utterance, but how many of you know the people had to cooperate?" [24:35] (59 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)