Embracing Holiness and the Flow of the Spirit

### Summary

Welcome, everyone. As we gather today, let's open our hearts and minds to receive the word of the Lord. We are entering a new season, and God's grace and presence are with us. Let's begin by lifting our voices in prayer, breaking through the dimensions of our flesh and spiritual opposition to tap into the limitless possibilities of what God has for us. The Spirit of God is like a river, essential for bringing life, but it requires us to allow it to carry away anything that doesn't belong.

As we pray, let's focus on the vision God has for us, not our own. Let His vision be branded into our minds and hearts, becoming part of the DNA of this church. The prophetic word comes to confirm, encourage, correct, and redirect. Today, it comes to confirm and encourage us. Let's respond by being encouraged in the Lord, clapping our hands, and thanking Jesus for speaking to us and showing us what lies beyond our current understanding.

We are called to deeper consecration and holiness. Holiness is not a cuss word; it's essential for seeing the Lord. We didn't come to Dallas just to plant a church; we came to establish the kingdom. This house will be an epicenter of authority, a place where the river of life flows from the altar of God. The altar is not just a physical place; it's where God is enthroned in our hearts. Out of our innermost being will flow rivers of living water when God is enthroned in us.

Let's pray for our neighborhoods this week. As we do prayer walks, let's claim areas for the Lord Jesus Christ. Feel in your spirit the strongholds that need to be bound and pray for God's intervention. We are not at war with the devil as much as we are at war with ourselves. Jesus has already disarmed principalities and made a mockery of them. To have dominion in a region, we must not have anything in common with the strongholds of that region.

Let's also pray for those who are crying out to God in secret. There are people all over the Metroplex who are seeking more of God. Let's pray that God visits them in dreams and sends angels to guide them to where the truth is being preached. We believe that God can do more than we think, and we lift our faith to believe in the God of the Bible.

As we move to our new location next Sunday, let's continue to pray for the spirit of wisdom and revelation to reside in this place. Pray for the leaders and the people who have shown us kindness. Pray for blessings and increased anointing. Let's also pray for those who have been a blessing to us, like Kenny and Sarah, and welcome them with open hearts.

Finally, let's lift our hands and relinquish control to God. Allow the Spirit of God to flow freely in our lives, carrying away anything that doesn't belong. Pray in the Holy Ghost and let the river of God bring purity, healing, and deliverance. As we do this, we will see the life and vitality that comes from allowing the Spirit to have total control and supremacy in our lives.

### Key Takeaways

1. **The Importance of Holiness and Consecration**: Holiness is essential for seeing the Lord. It's not just about following rules but about embodying the opposite of the strongholds in our city. We are called to deeper consecration and holiness, which will bring down the strongholds and establish the kingdom of God. [02:15:43]

2. **The Power of Prayer and Prophetic Vision**: Prayer is a powerful tool that allows us to break through the dimensions of our flesh and spiritual opposition. The prophetic word comes to confirm, encourage, correct, and redirect us. By aligning ourselves with God's vision, we can see beyond our current understanding and be encouraged in the Lord. [02:07:47]

3. **Claiming Territories for Christ**: As we do prayer walks in our neighborhoods, we are called to claim areas for the Lord Jesus Christ. Feel in your spirit the strongholds that need to be bound and pray for God's intervention. This act of faith will bring down principalities and powers, establishing God's dominion in our region. [02:13:43]

4. **Interceding for Those Seeking God**: There are people all over the Metroplex who are crying out to God in secret. We must pray that God visits them in dreams and sends angels to guide them to where the truth is being preached. This act of intercession can lead to supernatural visitations and divine guidance for those seeking more of God. [02:10:00]

5. **Relinquishing Control to the Holy Spirit**: To experience the full flow of the Holy Spirit, we must relinquish control and allow the Spirit to carry away anything that doesn't belong. This involves praying in the Holy Ghost and letting the river of God bring purity, healing, and deliverance. When we do this, we will see the life and vitality that comes from allowing the Spirit to have total control and supremacy in our lives. [01:45:25]

### Youtube Chapters

[0:00] - Welcome
[01:05:09] - Introduction and Prayer
[01:42:38] - Praying Through the Flesh
[01:45:25] - Relinquishing Control to the Holy Spirit
[01:52:08] - Removing Boulders in the River
[01:54:58] - Building an Altar for the River
[02:00:08] - Giving God Control Over Your Life
[02:07:47] - Prophetic Vision and Encouragement
[02:10:00] - Interceding for Those Seeking God
[02:13:43] - Claiming Territories for Christ
[02:15:43] - The Importance of Holiness and Consecration
[02:16:48] - Final Blessing and Prayer

### Bible Reading
1. **Ezekiel 47:1-12** - The River from the Temple
2. **John 7:38** - "Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them."
3. **Colossians 2:15** - "And having disarmed the powers and authorities, he made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross."

### Observation Questions
1. What does Ezekiel 47:1-12 describe about the river flowing from the temple? How does this relate to the sermon’s message about the river of life? ([01:54:58])
2. According to John 7:38, what is promised to those who believe in Jesus? How does this connect to the idea of rivers of living water flowing from within us? ([02:02:18])
3. In Colossians 2:15, what did Jesus accomplish through the cross? How does this relate to the sermon’s point about Jesus disarming principalities and powers? ([02:14:33])
4. What are some of the strongholds mentioned in the sermon that need to be bound during prayer walks? ([02:14:00])

### Interpretation Questions
1. How does the imagery of the river in Ezekiel 47 help us understand the role of the Holy Spirit in our lives? ([01:54:58])
2. What does it mean to have "rivers of living water" flow from within us, as mentioned in John 7:38? How can this be manifested in our daily lives? ([02:02:18])
3. How does understanding that Jesus has already disarmed principalities and powers (Colossians 2:15) change our approach to spiritual warfare? ([02:14:33])
4. Why is it important to align ourselves with God's vision rather than our own, as emphasized in the sermon? ([02:07:47])

### Application Questions
1. The sermon calls for deeper consecration and holiness. What specific steps can you take this week to pursue holiness in your life? ([02:15:43])
2. During prayer walks, we are encouraged to claim territories for Christ. Is there a specific area in your neighborhood or city that you feel led to pray over? How will you go about doing this? ([02:13:43])
3. The sermon emphasizes the importance of relinquishing control to the Holy Spirit. What is one area of your life where you struggle to give up control? How can you start to surrender this area to God? ([01:45:25])
4. We are encouraged to intercede for those seeking God. Can you think of someone in your life who is searching for more of God? How can you pray for them and support them this week? ([02:10:00])
5. The sermon mentions the need to build an altar in our hearts. What does building an altar look like in your personal spiritual practice? How can you make this a regular part of your life? ([01:54:58])
6. Reflect on the idea of the river of God carrying away anything that doesn't belong. What are some things in your life that you need to let go of to allow the Holy Spirit to flow freely? ([01:45:25])
7. The sermon talks about the prophetic word confirming and encouraging us. Have you experienced a prophetic word in your life? How did it impact you, and how can you remain open to receiving such words from God? ([02:07:47])

Day 1: The Call to Holiness and Consecration
Holiness is essential for seeing the Lord. It's not just about following rules but about embodying the opposite of the strongholds in our city. We are called to deeper consecration and holiness, which will bring down the strongholds and establish the kingdom of God. Holiness is often misunderstood as a set of restrictive rules, but it is actually about aligning our lives with God's character and purposes. When we pursue holiness, we are actively participating in God's plan to transform our communities and break down spiritual strongholds.

Holiness requires us to examine our lives and remove anything that hinders our relationship with God. This process of consecration is not a one-time event but a continual journey of becoming more like Christ. As we grow in holiness, we become vessels through which God's power and authority can flow, impacting the world around us. Let us embrace this call to holiness and consecration, knowing that it is essential for seeing the Lord and establishing His kingdom on earth. [02:15:43]

Hebrews 12:14 (ESV): "Strive for peace with everyone, and for the holiness without which no one will see the Lord."

Reflection: What is one area of your life where you need to pursue greater holiness? How can you take a step towards deeper consecration today?


Day 2: The Power of Prayer and Prophetic Vision
Prayer is a powerful tool that allows us to break through the dimensions of our flesh and spiritual opposition. The prophetic word comes to confirm, encourage, correct, and redirect us. By aligning ourselves with God's vision, we can see beyond our current understanding and be encouraged in the Lord. When we pray, we are not just speaking words into the air; we are engaging in a spiritual battle and accessing the power of God to bring about change.

Prophetic vision helps us to see things from God's perspective and to understand His plans and purposes for our lives and our communities. It encourages us to move forward in faith, even when we cannot see the full picture. As we pray and seek God's vision, we are strengthened and encouraged to continue the work He has called us to do. Let us commit to a life of prayer and seek to align ourselves with God's prophetic vision. [02:07:47]

Jeremiah 33:3 (ESV): "Call to me and I will answer you, and will tell you great and hidden things that you have not known."

Reflection: How can you incorporate more intentional prayer into your daily routine? What is one area where you need to seek God's prophetic vision for your life?


Day 3: Claiming Territories for Christ
As we do prayer walks in our neighborhoods, we are called to claim areas for the Lord Jesus Christ. Feel in your spirit the strongholds that need to be bound and pray for God's intervention. This act of faith will bring down principalities and powers, establishing God's dominion in our region. When we walk through our neighborhoods and pray, we are not just taking a stroll; we are engaging in spiritual warfare and declaring God's authority over the land.

Claiming territories for Christ involves discerning the spiritual strongholds that exist in our communities and praying specifically against them. It requires us to be sensitive to the leading of the Holy Spirit and to pray with boldness and faith. As we do this, we can expect to see God's power at work, breaking down strongholds and establishing His kingdom. Let us take up this call to claim our neighborhoods for Christ and to pray for God's intervention in our communities. [02:13:43]

Joshua 1:3 (ESV): "Every place that the sole of your foot will tread upon I have given to you, just as I promised to Moses."

Reflection: What are the spiritual strongholds in your neighborhood that need to be bound? How can you incorporate prayer walks into your routine to claim your community for Christ?


Day 4: Interceding for Those Seeking God
There are people all over the Metroplex who are crying out to God in secret. We must pray that God visits them in dreams and sends angels to guide them to where the truth is being preached. This act of intercession can lead to supernatural visitations and divine guidance for those seeking more of God. Many people are searching for truth and meaning in their lives, and our prayers can play a crucial role in guiding them to Christ.

Interceding for others involves standing in the gap and praying on their behalf. It requires us to have a heart of compassion and a willingness to seek God's intervention in their lives. As we pray for those who are seeking God, we can trust that He will answer our prayers and reveal Himself to them in powerful ways. Let us commit to interceding for those who are searching for God and believe that our prayers can make a difference. [02:10:00]

Acts 10:30-31 (ESV): "And Cornelius said, 'Four days ago, about this hour, I was praying in my house at the ninth hour, and behold, a man stood before me in bright clothing and said, 'Cornelius, your prayer has been heard and your alms have been remembered before God.'"

Reflection: Who in your life is seeking God and needs your prayers? How can you intercede for them today and ask God to reveal Himself to them?


Day 5: Relinquishing Control to the Holy Spirit
To experience the full flow of the Holy Spirit, we must relinquish control and allow the Spirit to carry away anything that doesn't belong. This involves praying in the Holy Ghost and letting the river of God bring purity, healing, and deliverance. When we do this, we will see the life and vitality that comes from allowing the Spirit to have total control and supremacy in our lives. Surrendering to the Holy Spirit means letting go of our own agendas and allowing God to work in and through us.

Relinquishing control can be challenging, but it is essential for experiencing the fullness of God's presence and power. As we yield to the Holy Spirit, we open ourselves up to His transformative work in our lives. This process brings healing, deliverance, and a renewed sense of purpose. Let us commit to surrendering control to the Holy Spirit and allowing Him to lead us into a deeper relationship with God. [01:45:25]

Galatians 5:16 (ESV): "But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh."

Reflection: What is one area of your life where you need to relinquish control to the Holy Spirit? How can you practice surrendering to Him today?

You're doing a great job. Can we clap our hands unto the Lord tonight?

He is able to perform it. I wonder if we could just let a shout of praise go up in this room right now. Come on, let a shout of praise and victory come up from you in this room tonight. Hallelujah! Because this is a house of prayer.

What we're about to do next is normal. I want the music off for just a second, and I want this room to just be filled with the sound of the people of God praying and crying out to Him. Come on, can we just do that right now?

Come on, lift your voice with me and let a cry of desperation ascend up to God in this room right now. You hungry for God? You need God to do something in your life tonight? You need God to show up. He's here. He's here. He's here.

If you can open your spiritual eyes and actually see what is in the room, it would blow your mind what heavenly activity is taking place in this room right now. Everything you have, everything you've requested God to do in your life, the provision for it is here right now.

Come on, let desperation come out of you right now. Maybe you need God to intervene in your marriage. Cry out to the Lord. Maybe you need God to give you direction. Cry out to the Lord. Maybe you need a job. Cry out to the Lord. You need healing in your body. Cry out to the Lord.

Oh, yes! Ha! Come on, and in this environment of prayer, would you reach over to somebody? And grab them by the hand if they're okay with it. Lift it up to heaven and begin to pray together right now.

Begin to pray together right now. Some of you came in this room tonight; you needed to hear the voice of God today. You needed an answer from God today. You needed a word from God today. You needed healing in your body today. You needed heaven's intervention today. You need a word from God today.

So reach out for it. Because it's in the room. The Bible says, "Be it unto you according to your faith." Lift your faith right now. Lift your faith right now.

I'm going to tell you that God is able. God is fully capable. He doesn't come up short. He's not behind. There's a purity flowing in this room right now. The gift of healing is here. If you need healing, not just in your physical body, but you need healing in your whole self—body, soul, and spirit—lift your hands right now unto heaven.

Ha ya no lo bo. Speak in faith the healing touch of Jesus upon you right now. Body, hear the word of the Lord. Be healed in Jesus' name. Be healed in Jesus' name.

Come on, let your faith come into alignment with what God can do. Let your faith come into alignment with what God can do. The Bible says He can even move a mountain into the sea. That's what He can do. What can He do for you today?

The Bible says He heals all manner of disease. That doesn't leave a one out. Whatever you have tonight that you need a touch from God, God can do it now. I say, "Be it unto you according to your faith." Jesus looked at those that He healed and said, "Your faith has made you whole."

Your faith has made you whole. Na la bra ka ta bra asan da bra ata. I'm telling you, I'm not satisfied with what I've seen when I know that there's more. I know there's more of God than I've ever seen. I know there's more of God than I've ever tasted.

The Bible says, "Taste and see that He is good," because it just whet my appetite for the deep things of God. There's more. I wonder if somebody in this room tonight would get hungry to reach for the more of God.

I wonder if we could just do this. It's fitting tonight. If you just join with me. Edna was praying this a moment ago. As we leave this building, I want us to pray blessings on this church that meets here and lets us rent this place. I want you to pray blessing.

I also want you to pray for the spirit of wisdom and revelation to reside here. You pray with me right now? Come on, let's pray. Blessings and the spirit of wisdom and revelation.

Pray for Cameron and Alex, Pastor Matthew, Pastor Robert. Pray for these great people of God who love you. Pray you would bless them. Pray that you would bless them. Pray that you would bless them. Pray that you would bless them.

And let the spirit of wisdom and revelation and increased anointing visit them, Lord. Let the angel of Cornelius—the angel that visited Cornelius—bring revelation. Let it be here for what they have given to us and the kindness that they have shown to us.

And let the spirit of wisdom and revelation come in even greater measure. And I know we've celebrated him, but I want to pray for Kenny right now. You just turn around and just put your hand back to the back. Kenny's back there in the sound booth. You just pray for Kenny right now.

He's such a good man, and he's been such a blessing to us. Pray a blessing upon him right now. Come on, church. Let's pray for Kenny and his family, his wife. We send angels now to his house. We send angels to his house to bless, to keep, to strengthen.

Oh, that you would continue to bless and increase the work of his hands, God. You open doors.

We have someone that's with us for the next number of weeks. Her name is Sarah. Can you come here? We're going to pray for you. We're so happy to have Sarah with us. Sarah is with us from Indiana Bible College. You can just stand right here on the steps right here.

And she is assisting Micah as assistant music director for the next couple of weeks. We just love her; we think she's amazing. But we're going to pray for her and that God would put a blessing on her and increase her during her time here.

If you're a lady and you want to come up and pray for her, you can come up, and we're going to pray together for her right now. Let's pray.

Father, thank you for this great lady of God. We receive her as a daughter of the Lord. We bless her right now. We pray a blessing upon her and upon her family.

Oh, let the anointing, the anointing increase in her life. Increase wisdom. Let the purity that is within her make way for the increase of the anointing, the pure flow of the Holy Ghost in her life in new measures, God.

In new measures, God. Hallelujah! Pour out a special blessing on her of increase, of increase. Her parents, God, upon her siblings, Lord, increase upon her family, Lord Jesus.

Oh, hallelujah! Hallelujah! I'll start missing people, but Nikki, can we pray for you? Ladies, y'all can come on back. Nikki is amazing, and she's been gone for a couple of months, but she's back. We're just so happy that she's here, and we want to just pray for her as we welcome her back into the fold.

Order her footsteps. I feel the Holy Ghost order her footsteps. I declare that this season will be full of new things in the spirit of God. I pray a sense of adventure and lightness would fall upon her and her spirit—a sense of hope and anticipation of what God is going to do.

Just lift your hands and just say, "God, let your will be done tonight. Let your will be done tonight. Let your will be done tonight."

Hallelujah! Hallelujah! It's time for the word of God. Y'all love the word of God, huh? We love the word of God. We love the word of God.

Worship—the expression in response to worship is a response to a truth. Isaiah sees the Lord high and lifted up, sees himself in light of that, and he responds, falls on his face. "Woe is me! I'm a man of unclean lips."

Our response is not to songs, to music, or to rhythm. It is to truth. And so we're not moving from worship into the preaching of the word; we're moving in worship to the preaching of the word.

So if you clap your hands during worship, you ought to clap your hands during the preaching of the word as we worship the Lord. If you shouted during the worship, you ought to shout as well as we worship the Lord.

As the word of God is going forth, we love the word of God. It also signals that I'm hungry for God, that God's word is not boring to me. I'm excited tonight.

My brother-in-law, Dalen, how many of you love Dalen? Dalen's an amazing man. He is going to preach the word of the Lord to us today in our last service here at this facility.

You all are aware, I hope, that next Sunday we are moving half a mile down Cole at 11 a.m. Come on, somebody! We're moving to the morning.

If you rolled up today, it was the heat of the day, and it was blacktop pavement. And I stood out for a minute waiting on some people to come in and say hi, and it was hot. But you know where it's less hot? At 11 a.m.

Somebody give God praise! Hallelujah! Just in time, because we're headed into the summer, so we give God praise for that. Amen.

Why don't you lean over to somebody, welcome them to the house of God, meet a couple of people really quick. Let's just welcome some people to the Lord's house. God is good.

Yeah. Hey, God is good. God is good. Notify your face. Like the Wilbanks would say, give your smile away. Hallelujah! Amen.

All right, Dalen, why don't you come and preach the word of the Lord? Can we welcome Dalen as he comes to preach?

I wonder if all in this room right now, we just lift our voices together in prayer right now. Old timers used to say it like this: They would say, "Well, you just need to pray through."

What they meant by that was you need to pray through the dimension of your flesh, which is where all the inhibitions and all of the roadblocks and all that stuff is. And you pray through that. You pray through any spiritual opposition and pray into the Spirit of God.

There's freedom. There's liberty. There's hope. There's joy. You pray through that, okay? So if you ever hear somebody say you need to go pray through, what they mean is you need to get past yourself and get into the Spirit of God.

Because when you pray through into the Spirit of God, you tap into the limitless possibilities of what God has for you. But the things in the flesh can't obtain the things of the Spirit, so we've got to get beyond one dimension into the next.

In that process, there is a thing called praying in the Spirit, praying in the Holy Ghost. The Bible equates the Spirit of God in you to a river. To a river.

Do you know how a river is formed? It's through erosion. Rivers are essential to bring life. But in order for a river to be formed, it has to carry things out. And the more it allows for the current of the river to rip away from its surface, the deeper and the wider and the stronger that the river can become.

So what I want us to do right now is begin to pray in the Spirit. There are some of you, you prayed up into a spot. You're familiar with praying up to a point. And you're wondering, and there's a term people can use, a term called breakthrough, where you're trying to break through into something.

And you prayed, but you haven't got through the thing that you're going through. You haven't got to the other side of where you're trying to go. Sometimes what you need is the force of the river of God in your life to flow strong enough and long enough that it carries anything in you that needs to get out of you.

Some people talk about deliverance ministry. You really, if you just want deliverance, you got something in your life, just go ahead and get full of the Holy Ghost. And let the Spirit of God begin to rush through you.

I tell you that if there's something that doesn't need to be in your life, it cannot stay in your life when the river of God is flowing through you. So what we're going to do right now is we're just going to pray in the Holy Ghost.

I want you to set your eyes on God and just begin to pray in the Spirit right now. There are some of you, you have set your mind to apprehend God. But you have felt like you have not apprehended what you're after.

Come on, begin to pray in the Holy Ghost. Pray in the Holy Ghost. Let the river of God have free flow in your life right now. You've got to be willing to get into the Spirit, to let the Spirit of God lead some things out of your life.

If you want the flow of the Holy Ghost in your life, you've got to let the current of God flow freely and carry some things out of you. Carry some things out of your home. Carry some things out of your spirit that you've had in your spirit for a long time.

I'm talking to somebody right now. You've tried it in your flesh and you couldn't do it. The Spirit of God is the only thing that can do it. So let the Spirit of God do it.

Oh, hallelujah! If you haven't prayed in the Spirit and spoken in tongues in a while, why don't you just lift your hands and stretch your hands up to heaven and say, "God, fill or refill me with the baptism of the Holy Ghost tonight. I give you free flow. I give you free flow."

Come on, some of you are about to tap into something. I know we feel like it's the end of service, but God is not done with you. God is about to pray something into you and bring something out of you right now.

There's a deliverance that's coming to some people in this room right now. But you've got to turn off the mind of the flesh and tap into the flow of the Holy Ghost and the Spirit.

And if you will, God will begin to have a river that will flow out of you, and purity will be restored to your spirit. Purity will be restored to your heart. Purity will be restored to your mind.

But that's what happens when the river is flowing in you. Come on, are you hungry for it? Are you thirsty for it? You can't think your way out. You can't think your way into freedom. You can't think your way into joy. You can't think your way into peace. You can't think your way into deliverance.

It only comes from one place, with the Holy Ghost. Pray through the anxiousness. Let Him do it in you right now.

And I've seen what that can do. I want to try it your way. Now I want to try it your way. I want to try it your way. I relinquish control. I relinquish control. I relinquish control. I relinquish control. Have your way.

I wonder if there's a mom or a dad, a husband or a wife, somebody in this room. And there have been some things that have been allowed in your home. They're just boulders in the river.

But if you will allow the Spirit of God to move those things out of your life, I'm telling you that there is a blessing of life, of vitality, of hope that is coming to your home. If you will let the Spirit of the living God have total preeminence, total centrality, total control and supremacy in your home, in your mind, in what you consume, in what you allow.

Hallelujah! That's it right there. Come on. Let that move. Let that move. Let that move here. Let that move right here.

Sometimes the reason why we resist the river is because we like what we've put in the way. And it's a paradox that at times we have placed boulders in the river through the works of the flesh that inhibit and restrict the flow of the Spirit, all the while praying for the blessing that the river brings.

Ezekiel 47 talks about a river. This river is the river flowing from the altar of God. Bethel was the place where the altar was built. You cannot have the flow of the river if you do not have the altar first.

Why? The altar is the place where flesh goes to die. What is the river? It is a type of the Spirit. There can be no flow of the Spirit if there is activity in the flesh. The Bible says that the flesh is against God. And if you walk in the Spirit, you can't please God.

So if you will get on the altar and build an altar in your life, what you will begin to do is restore the flow and function of the river of God, which is the Holy Ghost in your life. But you've got to first decide, "I'm going to build an altar."

And we don't build altars because they look nice. We build altars because we intend to crucify flesh on it. We intend to burn flesh on it. All of the things in my life that are contrary to the desires of God, I don't build an altar so that I can worship myself.

The Bible says this: "And wherever the river flows, wherever the river goes, every living creature will live." Because the river is a river of life.

We pray for our life. We pray for the blessing of the Spirit. We can't pray for the blessing of the Spirit until first we have prayed for the sacrifice of the altar.

And once we have prayed for the sacrifice of the altar, then you can pray for the blessing of the Spirit. And when you do that, you have to be willing to say, "God, I relinquish control."

This same passage talks about the same river. An angel leads Ezekiel in a vision out into the river. He goes from ankle deep, knee deep, waist deep. Now he's over his head. And that's the place that God desired to take him.

If he said the desire to take a life, Ezekiel was to his waist, he would have stopped. But he did not. And the promise of what the river would bring, which was life, did not come until after Ezekiel was over his head.

There is a place in the Spirit that brings life that we all have prayed for. But you cannot get to that place in the river with the water at your waist. Because when the water is at your waist—ever been in a river?—I can still withstand the blessing of the river.

And the life that comes through the Spirit does not come until you are at the place where your feet no longer touch. What does that mean? It is now the place where you don't have control any longer.

This is similar to the moment in which Jesus was in the garden of Gethsemane. And He was having a moment as fully divine God, fully man. He was warring within Himself. He prays a prayer: "Not my will."

And as He prays that prayer, that's the transition from waist deep to over my head. And you know what came after that prayer? Waist deep water doesn't bring life. And an unsacrificed will does not bring life.

Take you and stop resisting what you are praying. You will receive what you seek after. That is life.

Praise God! Would you just lift your hands with me right now and say, "God, I relinquish control."

Know what it is in your life that if your life was a plot of land, that there might be a little plotted territory on it that's got a gate up and a lock on it. And you're saying, "God, you can have access to everything but this right here."

I want you to go over and walk over to that parcel of land and unlock the gate right now. And say to the Lord, "God, this place, you can have access to it too."

Come on, you know where that place is right now. Get it in your mind. Walk yourself over to it and say, "God, you can have access to this too."

I don't know what it is in your mind that you want control over. But I'm telling you, the God of the universe would prefer to have control over your life. And if you give Him control over your life, this is the same God who holds the planets in orbit.

He can hold your life together far better than you can. Come on, say, "I give you access to all of the territory in my life." If it's my finances, so be it. If it's my marriage, so be it. If it's what I'm entertained by, so be it. I give you access to it.

And now I want you to pray this prayer with me: "God, I lay my will upon the altar right now." Come on, let's lay our will upon the altar. My desires, my plans, my intentions, my everything that I seek after. What Justin wants, what I want, what you want.

I lay it down on the altar right now. And I say, "God, you can burn it up and consume it. You can have it all. You can burn it up. You can consume it. I lay my will down."

Because I'm going to embrace life beyond death and the flesh. I'm going to embrace the life and the spirit. Once I have crucified the flesh in my life, I'm going to embrace God.

Micah's playing a chord progression from a song we wrote way back in the day out of this Ezekiel 47 called "Rivers." Was that last night that you sent it to me?

Yeah. One of the very first services that we had, God gave me a word about Ezekiel 47. And God has confirmed that over and over again. There is a river of life that is flowing and going to flow from this place.

But I want you to know that the altar of God is not just a place. If it were, then we would be leaving an altar here when we move half a mile down the road. In the vision in Ezekiel, it's flowing from the throne of God, which is the altar of God.

God wants to be enthroned in your heart. God wants you to build an altar. And then Jesus says this: "Out of your belly, or innermost being, will flow that same river." Because God has been enthroned in you.

Praise God! Hallelujah! Bless you. God keep you. I am very excited about next Sunday. We are entering into a new season. And the grace of God is with us. God's presence is with us. He's already gone before us.

Do you want to share what God showed you last Sunday? Dad, you can share what God showed you too.

Yeah, you can share. When we were praying during the preaching about Jesus, we were praying for the high school.

Hallelujah! Can we just receive the word of the Lord right now? Come on, just receive it with gladness right now. Receive it with gladness.

Let God put a vision branded into your mind. Not my vision, not man's vision, but God's vision. Let Him brand His vision into your mind right now. Let Him brand His vision into your heart, His vision into the DNA of this church.

Now the prophetic comes to confirm and encourage just as much as sometimes it comes to correct and redirect. And today it's come to confirm and encourage.

And so what we need to do in response to that is let ourselves be encouraged in the Lord and clap your hands unto God and say, "Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus, for speaking to us. Thank you, Jesus, for showing us what is beyond the glass darkly that we peer through. Thank you, Jesus."

Come on, begin to thank Him with me for all of the people that have yet to receive the Holy Ghost, all of the people that will be healed in this next chapter, all of the people that will be baptized.

And I know we say there are 950 chairs, but Dallas has millions of people. I'm telling you that North Dallas High School is not a big enough venue for all the people who just within a five-mile radius are crying out to God.

All the people within a five— I want you to hear me. There are not enough chairs in that room for all of the people within a radius of that high school who are crying out alone in a secret place with God saying, "I'm hungry. I don't know you, but if you're real, I want to know you."

There's not enough chairs for that. So here's what we're going to do. And you've heard me say this a few times. I'm sorry. You know, if you need to go, you're free.

We're going to pray for the angel that visited Cornelius, that type of angelic visitation to begin to happen in homes all across this city. The Bible says that Cornelius was a devout man in his prayer and his alms.

He was not just saying he wanted more of God, giving and evidencing that he wanted to do his best to follow. But there are people all over the Metroplex who maybe know a portion of God, a portion of the truth, or maybe they don't know Him at all, but they're doing their best.

And we're going to pray right now, just like the Lord who prayed and the Lord sent angels to North Dallas High School. We are going to pray that the Lord is with every person in this Metroplex who has been crying out to God over the past six months within whatever radius in this Metroplex.

And we're going to pray that God visits them in a dream, that an angel shows up and says, "Here is the address of where you need to go. Send for the apostolic people down at North Dallas High School."

And if what I'm saying right now, you're saying, "Oh man, that sounds fairytale," I encourage you to lift your faith. And I challenge you in the name of Jesus to believe the God of the Bible. It can happen. God can do it. God can do more than what we think He can do.

So let's pray it right now. Father, in the name of Jesus, I pray that you would send angels of revelation. God, your ear is not heavy that it cannot hear. You have heard the prayer of every one of your creation on this earth.

And God, you have heard them here in Dallas. You have heard those that have prayed and said, "I want more of you." You have heard those that have prayed and said, "I've tried dry, dead religion, but it didn't work for me. God, if there's more of you, I want it."

You heard those that have prayed. They're atheists, but in their secret place, away from everybody else, they've said, "I, God, if you really are real, I need to know."

God, you've heard all of those that are terminally ill in the hospitals that have been praying. Father, I pray you would visit them right now. That you would send angels to visit them.

God, I pray that you would send angels to those that are in Green Oaks having trouble in their mind right now. I, God, I pray that you would send angels, Lord Jesus, to the home of every struggling marriage.

And Lord, every father, every husband, every wife, every mother that has been crying out for more of you. God, every child that has been interceding on behalf of their parents. I pray that you would send an angel to them right now in the name of Jesus.

That in the next little while, in the coming time, they would have a supernatural visitation and they would be instructed to come, God, and come to the place. Come to the place where the truth is being preached. Come to the place where the well is full. Come to the place where the river is flowing with purity.

Father, I pray that you would do it now. I pray that you would intervene. And I pray that you would raise up intercessors. I pray that you would raise up intercessors. Intercessors that we would not be distracted and lulled to sleep by the cadence of the world, but rather our ear would be inclined to the cadence of heaven and hear the voice of God that says, "Incline your ear to me."

Just like you spoke to John when you said, "Come up higher, and I will show you things that are to come hereafter." Would you ignite a hunger and a passion in the people of this church and in this congregation to say, "I'm tired of existing down here, but God, I'm ready to go to the higher places. I'm ready to go to the deeper places. I'm ready to experience all that you have and see all that you have in store."

This week in neighborhoods, we are doing prayer walks. If your neighborhood, wherever your neighborhood meets, I would encourage you this week to pray.

Let's meet our neighborhoods at North Dallas High School. And I want you to pick an area around that place. I want you to begin to put your feet to the ground. And there's a time for the evangelism part, but right now I want you to claim things for the Lord Jesus Christ.

When you walk past the apartment complex, I want you to feel in your spirit what are the things, what are the strongholds. Here, is it abuse? Is it perversion? Bind it and loose the opposite.

Let's go ahead and march around that neighborhood this week and declare it for Jesus. And I want you to watch what principalities and powers and strongholds are going to come down when we set in our mind not at war with the devil as much as you're at war with yourself.

If you are in Christ, the Bible says Jesus already disarmed principalities and made a mockery of them openly. So take this to our team. But I want to say this to everybody in this room.

For a group of people to have dominion in a region, there are a number of things that must happen. But let me tell you one of the most important: You cannot have in common anything with the strongholds of the region.

There are some strongholds in Dallas. Vanity is one of them. Perversion is another. There are plenty of strongholds in Dallas. But if we are going to have dominion in this city, it's not a question of whether or not God has dominion.

But you can't rebuke devils you play with, and you can't uproot what you entertain behind closed doors. So I'm calling you, calling myself to deeper consecration and holiness.

It's a beautiful word—holiness. The Bible says, "For without which no one will see the Lord." You want to see the Lord? I want to see the Lord. Holiness is not a cuss word.

We've got to have holiness and embody the opposite of what has had dominion in this city. And when we do, it's all coming down. I believe that the Lord didn't just send us to Dallas to have a church.

It's bigger than that. You've heard me say this. We didn't come to plant a church; we came to establish the kingdom. And when we establish the kingdom, well, we're going to have a church.

But in the process, it won't just be a church. It'll be an epicenter of authority. This house will be an epicenter of authority because Jesus will have the power of fact. The Lord Jesus Himself, as we pursue Him and walk in holiness, He will push them on down the road. Amen.

### Quotes for Outreach

1. "I know there's more of God than I've ever tasted. The Bible says taste and see that he is good because it just whet my appetite. For the deep things of God. There's more. I wonder if somebody in this room tonight would get hungry to reach for the more of God." [52:39](Download raw clip | Download cropped clip | Download vertical captioned clip)



2. "You got to be willing to get into the Spirit. To let the Spirit of God lead some things out of your life. If you want the flow of the Holy Ghost in your life, you've got to let the current of God flow freely and carry some things out of you. Carry some things out of your home. Carry some things out of your spirit that you've had in your spirit for a long time." [01:45:25](Download raw clip | Download cropped clip | Download vertical captioned clip)



3. "The God of the universe would prefer to have control over your life. And if you give him control over your life. This is the same God who holds the planets in orbit. He can hold your life together far better than you can. Come on say I give you access to all of the territory in my life. If it's my finances so be it. If it's my marriage so be it. If it's what I'm entertained by so be it. I give you access to it." [02:00:08](Download raw clip | Download cropped clip | Download vertical captioned clip)



4. "If you ever hear somebody say you need to go pray through, what they mean is you need to get past yourself and get into the Spirit of God. Because when you pray through into the Spirit of God, you tap into the limitless possibilities of what God has for you. But the things in the flesh can't obtain the things of the Spirit, so we've got to get beyond one dimension into the next." [01:42:38](Download raw clip | Download cropped clip | Download vertical captioned clip)



### Quotes for Members

1. "Holiness. The Bible says. For without which. No one will see. The Lord. You want to see. The Lord. I want to see. The Lord. Holiness. Is not a cuss word. We've got. To have holiness. And embody. The opposite. Of what has. Had dominion. In this city. And when we do. It's all. Coming. Down." [02:15:43](Download raw clip | Download cropped clip | Download vertical captioned clip)



2. "Let God. Put a vision. Branded into your mind. Not my vision. Not man's vision. But God's vision. Let him brand his vision. Into your mind right now. Let him brand his vision. Into your heart. His vision. Into the DNA. Of this church. Now the prophetic. Comes to confirm. And encourage. Just as much. As sometimes. It comes to. Correct. And redirect. And today. It's come to confirm. And encourage." [02:07:47](Download raw clip | Download cropped clip | Download vertical captioned clip)



3. "There are people. All over. The Metroplex. Who maybe know. A portion. Of God. A portion. Of the truth. Or maybe. They don't know. Him at all. But they're doing. Their best. And we're going. To pray. Right now. Just like the Lord. Who prayed. And the Lord. Sent angels. To North Dallas. High School. We are going. To pray. That the Lord. Is with. Every person. In this Metroplex. Who has been. Crying out. To God." [02:10:00](Download raw clip | Download cropped clip | Download vertical captioned clip)



4. "We didn't come. To plant. A church. We came. To establish. The kingdom. And when. We establish. The kingdom. Well. We're going. To have. A church. But in the process. It won't. Just. Be. A church. It'll. Be. An epicenter. Of authority. This house. Will be. An epicenter. Of authority." [02:16:10](Download raw clip | Download cropped clip | Download vertical captioned clip)



5. "You cannot have. In common. Anything. With the strongholds. Of the region. There are some strongholds. In Dallas. Vanity. Is one of them. Perversion. Is another. Is another. Perversion. There are plenty. Of strongholds. In Dallas. But if we are going. To have dominion. In this city. It's. The dominion. Is not a question. Of whether or not. God has dominion. But you can't. Rebuke devils. You play with." [02:15:07](Download raw clip | Download cropped clip | Download vertical captioned clip)