(223) “An Average Supernatural Life” with Mathew Reames

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You know the world might tell you you have to have it all figured out

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No, you don't have to have it all figured out. You have to have one thing figured out. Mm-hmm

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I will fix my eyes on Christ and go wherever he leads. Amen

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Because you can be just as supernatural in your everyday life

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Mm-hmm as somebody else can in their ministry

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God promises in Joel 2 28 to pour out his spirit on all humanity

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Welcome to global outpouring where we contend for that promise outpouring

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We equip for that outpouring so that we may engage in that very outpouring

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I'm Philip bus and I'm Sharon bus. Welcome to the podcast today

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We have with us our very good friend Matt

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He's a great friend and he's a great friend and he's a great friend and he's a great friend

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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

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Generation awakening summer camp youth retreat and it has been a marvelous

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marvelous event that young people and young adults have walked away from this with a

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Changed life and he shared with us a message that wasn't recorded

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So we're gonna kind of give you an overview of the thing that Matthew brought

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about an average

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supernatural life

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So Matthew, thank you so much for joining us today

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We're really really glad that you're with us. Amen. It's good to be here. Yeah, okay. Yes, so

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you were

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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

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Generation awakening event is like I mean, it's hard to describe since every event is

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Different right and yet at the same time every event builds on the one before true

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But if you are in youth or you're young adult and you come down for one of the events they have down here

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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

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Yeah, my cell phone has not worked in about five days. Oh

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and

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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

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You're here and all of your meals are taken care of

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All of your day is planned out. You don't really have to think through

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What am I gonna do? Mm-hmm and in the mornings and the evenings

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we're gonna have a time with worship and we're gonna have different people who are gonna come and bring the word and

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You know, one of the things that I really appreciate is that there is never an assignment list where you're told

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Okay. Now you're gonna speak on Wednesday night and your topic needs to be about

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Whatever

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Whenever they invite you if you're gonna teach a breakout workshop, they're gonna ask you

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Hey, is there something that you want to teach on a few occasions?

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They might suggest I was asked to teach on worship, which is your thing, which is a thing

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Mm-hmm. One of your things. Yeah

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But when I was asked to preach in the evening service, I was told go hear from God

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Mm-hmm and tell everyone what they need to hear. Yeah, so there was no there was no parameter on it

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So you never know what thing the Lord's gonna bring?

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Unfortunately, that's not always true at every other youth event

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Mm-hmm. A lot of them are very formulaic because there's five things that youth need to know they need to know

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So behave don't do drugs. Don't engage in sexual immorality

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love Jesus more and

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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

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But when you come down here you're gonna get the same kind of expectation that you would get at a normal adult

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Pentecostal service. Mm-hmm. We're gonna believe for miracles

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We're gonna talk about the gifts of the Holy Spirit. We're gonna have Bible teaching

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We're gonna have opportunities for everything that you need in life. Yeah, but we're gonna do it in an atmosphere where

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Okay, it's a little more entertaining than

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some of the adult conferences

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But we didn't even have pizza

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We had other great foods like every meal taken care of

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eat pretty much all you can eat and

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Then try to stay awake and don't go into that afternoon food coma

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While you then you've had your fill of natural food come get your fill of spiritual food. Yeah. Yeah, and I

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Workshops to choose from yeah

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I mean I was actually a little disappointed because

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There was workshops that I wanted to sit in on that I couldn't because I was teaching a workshop at the same time

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Yeah in an ideal world. I would you know

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translocate and I would be sitting in the other room while I'm

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Teaching in this room. There you go. That didn't happen to me this time

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So I just have to trust that when the kids came and told me about it later. Those classes were great

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They were yeah, they were I sat in on some of them

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One of the gals that brought a group from her youth group from her church as she was commenting about this event

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she said, you know, I've been to lots of youth things and

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most of them are a whole lot of fun and a little bit of Jesus and

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Then she said but this one is all about Jesus and it's lots of fun or something like that

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I'm not quoting her exactly but something along those lines. Mm-hmm

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I've been to a number of different youth young adult things and some are smaller and they have really great

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camaraderie and

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it's like, you know, just any other summer camp with a little bit of Jesus likes he said or

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Some of them are huge and have you know

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The biggest fanciest speakers and worship leaders and they're packing out an arena

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Mm-hmm, but there's almost no

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personability, right

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It's hard to have an intimate conversation

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With the guy who preached and just brought you to conviction under the Holy Spirit, right if there's also another

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15,000 people in the room, right right down here in the valley. You're locked in the whole time you're here

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The whole time you're here with all of these different people so you can sit and meet them at lunch

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You can say hey after the service tonight, could you spend five minutes with me?

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Yeah, I might meet them as you're walking back to the dorm

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Mm-hmm. Every person who's teaching you is a person who's doing life for the whole week with you. Exactly

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Yeah, I remember hearing

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One of the you saying before, you know that had been to the big conferences and says, you know

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You get more personal ministry here and that's really what you need. Sure, you know, that's what it's all about

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You know, absolutely and I love those big conferences. I've been to many of them. I've heard some amazing speakers, you know

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I've seen Francis Chan

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Absolutely destroy me and leave me in a puddle of tears on the floor in an arena filled with 30,000 people

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Yeah, but after that he didn't come over and console me in my tears

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So I had to I had to rely on the Holy Ghost and the people that were sitting next to me to help

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Me get back up and get moving, right? I mean you still can get up and get moving

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But there is something there is something wonderful about the personal touch of being close together

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And being able to reach out. I don't think there was anybody who

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Wanted ministry personally that didn't get it. Yeah from from somebody who was very well

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Capable and most likely the speaker that that brought the message and then on top of that, you know

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You're in a small environment. Mm-hmm

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Because we only have space for a limited number of people

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But you get to know them well, right? Yeah, and some of these kids that are here. They were here last year, right?

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And back before we took the kovat break that the world put us on

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We had some folks that were coming

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Five ten fifteen years that they're now lifelong friendships exactly that when they're going through something

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They can lean on. Yeah, because of the intimacy of the valley. Yeah

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I mean some we're hearing 20 25 years later are still friends. Yeah

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It's just amazing

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Absolutely amazing

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So tell us Matthew how the Lord brought this message to you and just start sharing some of the things that you've been

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Sharing some of the things that the Lord gave you sure the title of my message as you said earlier

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it was an average supernatural life and

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We are supernatural people we believe that I mean

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Just five minutes ago if you were listening to the start of the podcast Philip

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Shared about this outpouring that we are contending for that

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We are equipping for that we fully intend to engage in

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You know you can't be around global outpouring without believing for a supernatural outpouring

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Absolutely of the Lord

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Yeah, but that concept

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has

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somewhat been hijacked mm-hmm to

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Automatically mean it has to be the most over-the-top

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extraordinary things right and

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A lot of people kind of create a mental divide

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Okay, there's my supernatural life, and then there's my average life. Oh there you go my average life is where I

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Get up I go to work. I go to the grocery store. I go to the gym. I come home

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I'm tired. I put my feet up my supernatural life is

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You know maybe when I go to church although sadly so many of these people who have been

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Taught that they're supposed to be so supernatural have zero rooting and grounding in an actual

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Expression of the body in their local region hmm

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Then there's a spiritual life it might be in their church

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It might be when they get to go to that conference or that youth camp or that whatever

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And there's this there's this divide

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You know and for some people it's well. It's not really supernatural until it looks like this

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You know for some for some people young or old it doesn't really matter

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They have a vision in their mind. It has to look like

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Toronto did it has to look like Azusa Street did it has to look like the book of Acts and

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All those were wonderful things, but we are never going to have a church that looks like the book of Acts

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Because we don't ride around on donkeys, and we don't have to wait

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I have to wait four weeks for a boat to take us from the shores of Israel up to Crete to

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Preach the gospel yeah, we live in a world where I can get on my phone right now open up Instagram

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Go live and start preaching the gospel and people could listen instantly mm-hmm

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The fact that the world changes means

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The way we engage with the world as we pour out is going to change

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Mm-hmm, but because we get in this mindset

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It has to look like Toronto or it has to look like Azusa Street, or it has to look like the Welsh revival

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Anything that doesn't begin to look like that well. That's not really a supernatural life. It might be a good meeting

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It might be whatever or we undervalue our local church where God is moving people are being saved healed delivered and

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Discipled because well I remember reading about the story of the revival in this city

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Where within three weeks suddenly they had four or five thousand people coming to their church because God was moving mm-hmm

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Wow, you know do you remember just a year ago?

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God was moving in a beautiful way mm-hmm at Asbury University

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Yeah, we got to go there. Yeah, you guys got to go there. I heard your podcast from there mm-hmm

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Yeah, I didn't go there

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I thought it was cool, and I got invited some people were gonna take a road trip

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And I said you guys can road trip if you want

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But I don't want to chase revival mm-hmm. I want to build revival there you go

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Yeah, it's good, and and it was zero shame and so if you heard me say that just now and you thought like

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Well, he thinks if we go to the next revival or just chase. No it's not that it's

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Someone else labored and got God in that moment in that place mm-hmm

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Yeah, I want that same thing to happen here right mm-hmm. You know when when Steve Hill preached in

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Brownsville mm-hmm everybody wanted what happened in Brownsville right, but you know John Kilpatrick

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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.

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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

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Come on. I want to load the wagon. Yeah

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Now now I'm from Lawrence, Kansas, and that's a Lawrence, Kansas slogan, okay

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You know our our college basketball team the Jayhawks

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They're perennial favorites to win college basketball doesn't happen every year

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Nobody wins every year

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but every year when we do well when we

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Struggle whatever the coach looks at the guys say just load the wagon and push

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There you go, and if we had that mentality in the church. There'd be a lot more revivals happening

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Yes, come on, but we're you know we're content to make this divide mm-hmm

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I can go and have this experience over here, but the rest of my week is just

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natural

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Mm-hmm. You know what a drag. I gotta I gotta go to work

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You know you had the episode just a few months ago with James Stone about being a

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Praying and prophesying plumber right come on. I have never heard a

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revival sermon with a

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consecration call

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at the altar saying

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If you want to shake the world

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Come down to the altar and commit to being a plumber

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Come on

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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

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X ministry Y ministry Z ministry move across the country commit yourself to going on a missions trip

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Sell everything you have and do this grandiose thing

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And there are people who have done that successfully yeah and lived their life that way

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Because they were called because they were called mm-hmm

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But there are people who are called

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To be a plumber exactly and shake the world around them yeah

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by plumbing well and

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Giving God room to move in the midst of their plumbing exactly yeah

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That was if anybody would like to hear that part of the story

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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

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Yeah story where he goes to this house and it's a bunch of Satanist

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So you have to listen to the story

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You want to listen to it it was interesting yeah, but now you tell us what happened when you

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Were cleaning a toilet. Yeah, so oh wow. Yeah, let me preface this by saying

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most of my

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significantly profound encounters with the Lord

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Most not all most of them have happened outside of church services

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And this one was important. I had been at a conference event

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And it was being held actually at a golf course clubhouse

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Someone let us rent it and at the end of the evening we had to

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Get it all cleaned up because they were probably going to have a wedding the next day

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It's one of those kind of places. Yeah

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and I

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was ministering

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I spoke I played worship. I was the guy

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And then everybody went home and I was handed a mop and a toilet brush

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Side note if your favorite minister or pastor or leader

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Is only anointed when they have a microphone and not when they have a mop?

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They might need to check their priorities

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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

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Minister to the body. That's not a healthy

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lifestyle, but I digress I went into the toilet room and

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It was unpleasant. It was a mess

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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

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And I'm down and I'm scrubbing and when I was looking into the waters and the porcelain

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Had an encounter where I saw Jesus

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And he began to minister to me and the next thing I know I'm laying on the floor of a bathroom weeping

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and crying and praying in tongues and

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That is not where I would plan my encounter

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When you least expect it

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Other people that were there heard me and they heard me crying and making weird noises

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Because when I do get deep into the spirit, I'm not like some of those pretty ministers that

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Are anointed and sound nice and I sound like I'm a mess

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I'm just I'm all out. It is what it is

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Well, they started to come in to check on me and they would walk into the bathroom and suddenly they're on the floor

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and they're having an encounter with the presence of the Lord because

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Despite how great the meetings were that night

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The Holy Ghost chose to meet us on the floor of a dirty bathroom

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Again, not where I would schedule it right but i'll never forget it, right?

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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

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I was in a little town in North Carolina

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And I had been ministering at a conference there and if you know, North Carolina, there's lots of anointed people

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I don't know why they needed my help, but they did

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and I went to this particular restaurant because it was the only one in this little town where I was staying in a cabin

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Your options are limited you go

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And they it's one of those ones where they have the wooden benches that are curved and the menu has the plastic

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That they can change the letters out depending on the day's special

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Every small town has this diner

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And the girl who was working hands me a menu

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And I just look and said i'm assuming you have fried pickles and she says yeah, how'd you know?

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I said every diner like this has fried pickles and they're usually the best fried pickles

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I said i'm gonna need an order of fried pickles

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And then you know like a double cheeseburger meal if you have it

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She goes cool. You would just order a double cheeseburger meal if you have it

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She goes cool. What do you want to drink? I said, you know what? Let's go die a dr. Pepper

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and she scuttles off to the back and

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I'm sure if i'd looked in the kitchen the person in the back was probably smoking a cigarette and

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You know talking with a gruff voice because it was that kind of just greasy spoon diner

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Best fried pickles i've ever eaten but greasy spoon diner

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But as i'm sitting there munching on my fried pickles

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I feel

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pickles I feel a wind

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And I look thinking the door opened

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But it didn't

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There was a man that was sitting at the counter because you know all of those diners they have the counter area. Yeah

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He was an angry looking man and he was grumbling and mumbling everything

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And you could tell he just wasn't having a great day

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But when the when I felt the wind and I turned

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I saw the lord

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Lord walks into the diner

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And just stands behind him and lays his hands on his shoulder

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And starts ministering to him

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I'm like

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Okay

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And so I just start praying

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And after a minute or two, Jesus is done ministering to this man

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And he starts to walk

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And he looks at me and he smiles

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And he smiles

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And then he walks out the door

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Wow

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Oh, can I tell you I was offended?

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You were this close to me and you couldn't come over to me

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Oh my and the reality was

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The lord needed to minister to that man in that way. Yeah

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And he was gracious enough to let me see him do it

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Yeah

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Yeah, he didn't need to minister to me in that way my flesh rose up and wanted it

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Because when we hear that someone else has a supernatural encounter, we often get envious and we want what they had

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Yeah, and the reality is

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I just got to witness something beautiful. Yeah. Wow and the lord smiled on me

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Well, that's that's more than a lot of people have gotten right? Sure

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Like I should be on cloud nine, but no i'm really good about letting my flesh rise up at the wrong moment

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And aren't we all?

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So most of my encounters that have profoundly impacted the way I think about the lord

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Didn't happen

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In a surface, right? Most of them have happened in the minutiae

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Of day-to-day life, right the average the average

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Supernatural life. Yeah

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You know

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You are called to be supernatural

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And you're called to be supernatural. Absolutely. Yeah, and I shared with the students about steven

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Steven in acts chapter seven

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Was martyred for his faith, right? Yeah, the first person since jesus to be martyred

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For the cause of the gospel, right?

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Well in the chapter previous we're introduced to him

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And we're basically told

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The apostles are so busy with the work of the ministry

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they don't have time to handle cleaning the dishes and

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Making sure that the widows are being checked on and you know

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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

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Mm-hmm. These guys couldn't handle all the different jobs, right? And so they said can you guys look for?

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seven men who

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Are full of the holy ghost have a good reputation and are ready to serve to do these jobs that we can't do

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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

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Steven wasn't an apostle

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Nope, he he did not have that encounter in the upper room

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Where jesus said here touch?

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My side he wasn't there when jesus stepped through a wall

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You know, he wasn't commissioned and said you're you're my apostles

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He was just a guy who believed

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And was in the meeting but he was found to be faithful and full of the holy ghost. Yeah

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And his job assignment is

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Clean the tables do the dishes go about your way

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most of us

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Don't want that assignment

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Mm-hmm

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We want the apostleship

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Mm-hmm. Trust me

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If you haven't yet, you're gonna meet in least 20 people that have it on their business card apostle

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I wish it was just as easy as getting office depot to print me up business cards that said apostle

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I don't know if i'd choose that. I think i'd I think i'd want to be like

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The archduke or archbishop. I don't know. It just sounds fancier

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but

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You know, we all aspire to this title

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Because we see oh, well, you know the apostles they were doing great things

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Peter and john are going up to the temple and they heal a guy on the way and in axe 19

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God's doing unusual miracles through the hands of paul, right?

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I want to do unusual miracles. Absolutely. Yes, i'm unusual

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So pretty much any miracle that god does to me is going to be unusual

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But still I want to see and do that

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Do I want to serve and wait the tables?

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Not as much

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however

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And you know, you guys have known me long enough to know

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I have trained myself regardless of how my flesh feels about it

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I'm going to be a guy that offers to serve as much as I can

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And you have served beautifully and

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And the little stuff yeah in power washing the buildings and

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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

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Why I wouldn't want to do that

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and yet

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Stephen did that

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I'm willing to do that. Other people are willing to do that. You know, I think of billy krigger. Oh, yeah

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Yeah, billy krigger. Most of you have never met you may never met. He probably will never have a podcast

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Because he's just billy

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But when we were getting ready to have convention he committed to come and spend a whole month here

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Convention was only for five days

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He spent the rest of the month going around the valley

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And helping to fix things paint things take care of landscaping

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Just because he wanted to be a blessing to the ministry

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Yeah, you know

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Some people they can bless the ministry with finances and if that's you great. Thank god. You are a wonderful person

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You are a blessing but to the person that says I don't have the money

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But I can give you time and come and serve

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Be a billy. Yeah, yeah be willing and you know, it doesn't have to be coming to serve here. Although

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I can tell you it would be a blessing if you could serve

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Philip and Sharon and they would be a blessing for you in the meantime, but you have a church

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You have a community you have a local place that needs you to serve just like stephen exactly

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And so the very next verse after we read about stephen getting chosen

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It says and stephen being full of faith and the holy spirit

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Began doing many signs and wonders among the people amen

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We think oftentimes that signs and wonders

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And miracles are reserved for the super saints the power apostles

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And unfortunately our church culture has propped that up

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Because we've had god's man of power for the hour

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And you know you you get excited because well brother so and so

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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

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God's going to use him to do a miracle for me. Yeah, and when you're desperate for a touch

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You know, that's great

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But what if we believed that stephen?

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In our church

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Was full of faith in the holy spirit and could do great signs and wonders and miracles

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What if instead of thinking I just have to get to

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Brother so and so's meeting

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We believe james it says if any is sick among you let him come to the elders

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Anoint with oil and pray the prayer of faith that he may be well, right? Yeah

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we tend to

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create this divide

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There's average saints and then there's super saints. Yeah

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And most of the super saints that you meet

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Aren't all that super when you get to know them

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And i'm not even saying they're bad people

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I'm just saying the longer you know someone the more you realize

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They're really just a person. Yeah average

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They're average

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They're just called to something so they're doing what they're called to. Yeah

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But you might be called to be a plumber like brother james and

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The episode that will be linked below and you might be called to be a mechanic

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You know a mechanic can do supernatural things for people

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And he can fix cars. Yeah, i'm gonna tell you

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Your favorite superhero

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apostle

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Probably doesn't know how to change transmission

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So

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Who's really the hero the one?

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That can only pray for you or the one that can pray for you and change your transmission. Come on. Yeah

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Let's go. Yeah, you know and and one of the brothers that was here this week

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We call him porch

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That's what all the youth call him

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No one really knows why we just go with it, but his real name is jordan

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He runs a ministry at his church where he is

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teaching

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the young men how to become godly men

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And the ministry through which they do it is they fix people's cars for free

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Or at the cost of parts, you know

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And so he is helping

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people in need who need car repairs

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And he's being a blessing while he's doing it. He's teaching these young men how to fix cars beautiful

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So they can take care of their own stuff

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For the rest of their life or at least until cars become too complicated for us to fix

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And that way now at the same time he's also training them what a godly life looks like

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And in the midst of that

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He's praying for them. He's ministering to them

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Porch is a great dude. Yeah

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Porch will probably never headline a conference with 30 000 people

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You probably won't one day get to read the biography of porch

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Until you get to heaven and yet in heaven

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He's going to be celebrated. Oh, yeah

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For doing the ordinary average thing and using his ordinary life as an opportunity to do supernatural things

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In the world. Amen

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That's that's how steven was

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Amen. That's that's how steven was. Yeah

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You know steven didn't just settle for

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Well, i'm gonna wait these tables. He was full of the holy ghost. Come on

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It was a prerequisite if if you're gonna serve you need to be full of the holy ghost. Amen

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So another side note for pastors

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Don't just look for people that have skills

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Look for people that have holy ghost and skills. Amen when david set up the tabernacle. He didn't just find

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anyone who wanted to sing

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He found the skilled musicians who are willing to pour out their heart

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I'm blessed in our church

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We have skilled people

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We have a brother who is a painter

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Who is so good that he is certified to do hospital clean rooms

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That he runs a business does really well

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But he's able to bless and help the church

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We have a journeyman electrician

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Who is in demand and constantly working and is able to come and bless the church

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We have a construction superintendent who works on

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big

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large apartment complexes

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Who is available sometimes to come and help us with projects around the church. We have

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A gc who flips homes who will come

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Don't overlook

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The tradesmen in your church and think well, they're just laborers. Come on. No the

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guy who

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Runs the painting company has become one of the co-directors of our men's ministry

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beautiful the

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gc

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Helps me run the prophetic ministry out of our church

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The electrician is the new music director over our worship department and runs all the tech stuff

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That's great

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They have gifts they're doing supernatural things. They're transforming the world

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Everywhere that our painter terry goes he's preaching the gospel to some people

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beautiful people that work with him often find him almost like

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Uncomfortably comfortable with sharing the gospel

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He doesn't go anywhere that he's not going to be

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Preaching to somebody

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Wow, yeah

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And he doesn't start a single workday without gathering all the workers together and having a bible study

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Wow, that's great. You know

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He's a hero of faith. Amen, but he's not

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preaching in front of

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Hundreds and thousands

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And he's not traveling the world and he's not doing all these big things that we have made benchmarks for anointing

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True. Wow, you know, I I love the word christian

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Because it comes from the word christ obviously and christ means anointed one

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And if you look in acts

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I think it's 1038 that says jesus went about which means he just kind of wandered around

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Doing good

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And healing all that were oppressed of the devil

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Why because god was with him because god was with him. He was anointed

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With the holy spirit. That's what happened on the day of his baptism

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The holy spirit came on him and remained on him

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Mm-hmm, and that is the picture of what we are to be because

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Paul tells us that we were predestined to be conformed

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To the image of christ

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So this this word christian has to do with us becoming

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Anointed letting the holy spirit work in us to work

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We talked about the g5 the galatians five fruit of the spirit

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Working those fruit of the spirit into us

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By the spirit is the spirit making it happen to make us look like jesus

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Because that's what the world needs

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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

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Who know how to preach a sermon amen? Yeah, and you know in the great commission passages

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And I say that plural because

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There's multiple you know most most of us think of matthew 28 go into all the nations make disciples

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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

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Hey, you 12 guys you do this right was given to all of us right mark 16

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He says and these signs will follow all who believe amen and he says things like they'll speak in new tongues

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They will pray for the sick and they will recover. They'll cleanse lepers. They'll pick up

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Deadly snakes and not be harmed. They'll drink poison and be safe

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Now he wasn't telling you to go around and dance with snakes and drink poison

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No, he was telling you that if you're doing the work of the kingdom, even the serpents can't

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Stop you. That's right. Even those who try and poison you can't stop you. That's right

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Even leprosy can't stop you

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And then we get to acts chapter one jesus's final message for he's about to ascend and he says hey

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Stay here for a few more days

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When the holy spirit comes on you you will receive power

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And you will be my witnesses to jerusalem judaea samaria and even to the ends of the earth

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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

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Gone, right

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He said it to all who were gathered in the upper room. Mm-hmm. There were a lot of people there

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And they waited they did what he asked

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And then in acts chapter two boom the holy ghost is poured out right and some people mistake this

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They think the holy spirit was poured out. They all got tongues

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And therefore tongues was the key

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Now tongues was a blessing

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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

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Hallelujah. Yeah, we have a lot of people that they want to get spiritual gifts so they can look more spiritual

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These guys got the spiritual gifts so they could be a witness. Yeah, man put them in operation

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You need you shall be spiritual gifts so that you will be a witness the evidence that the holy spirit

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Is going to be a witness

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You need you shall be spiritual gifts so that you will be a witness the evidence that the holy spirit has come upon you

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Is that you were using every gift he's given you to witness to christ and bring people to his feet

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amen really good and

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That wasn't reserved for just the apostles the whole of the upper room. There's 120 of them

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Ran out into the streets and everywhere they went they made disciples and they advanced the kingdom

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The problem for a lot of us is

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We aren't advancing the kingdom

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True, we're advancing our kingdom many times

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And and you'll see a lot of big ministries

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where

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it's all about this ministry and

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Building its mandate and if you're around here, everything is focused on this thing

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rather than

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the global kingdom of god, and so if my

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Mandate is that i'm supposed to do xyz and you're around me. Well, then you need to be doing this too

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But you need to do what you're called to do right you can you can be a part of my church

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And if you live in the area of lawrence, kansas, you are welcome any sunday at freedom church

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That that's where I am one of the pastors on staff

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It's a great place you can come you can be a part of our church

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You are not required to do everything that we do the way we do to be loved and to be used by god

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All that's required of you is to be faithful to what god's calling you to do right?

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but so many ministries

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it's

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You have to devote yourself to this thing and if you're not doing this thing, well, then you're a lesser saint

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You even hear a lot of pastors go. Well, there's some that are you know, the they're just the pew sitters

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And I understand what we mean by that like ideally we'd like to see everyone

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actively engaged involved in what's going on and there's just some people who they're at the place in their life where

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Simply getting to the church and being fed is all they can do right now

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Yeah, but anytime we start looking at ourselves as better

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Than another group of believers we're causing problems because you can be just as supernatural

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in your everyday life

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As somebody else can in their ministry very true

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And for this group of young people that were here at this retreat

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And for whoever's listening right now, you may not know what you're going to do with the rest of your life

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And you don't have to decide at 13 years old

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And you don't have to decide at 13 14 15

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You know the world might tell you you have to have it all figured out

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No, you don't have to have it all figured out. You have to have one thing figured out

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I will fix my eyes on christ and go wherever he leads. Amen. Amen

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And he may not lead you to sell everything and move

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to the wilds of the middle east to preach to

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People that have never heard the gospel if he calls you to that let's go. We need more people there

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He may call you to become a plumber. He may call you to become a mechanic

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He may call you to become a husband a wife a mother a father

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He may call you to be the person that starts adopting the orphans in your community

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All of these things can be supernatural

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Because the reality of the supernatural is you have a place of influence

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Use your influence to point people to christ. Amen. If your influence is a stage with twenty-four

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People listening use it to point to christ if your influence is a podcast use it to point to christ

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If your influence is a doctor's office use it to point to christ

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It doesn't matter what your sphere of influence is

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Use it to point to christ. Amen

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It's beautiful. Amen. Would you pray for our listeners? Sure father god. I give you glory and honor and praise

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everything

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Everything revolves around you. Yes

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And if we get one thing right in this life

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Let it be

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That we know you and love you. Well

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Yes

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Father I pray for the people that are listening right now

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That you would meet them where they are

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and fill them

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With the holy spirit and with power

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Yes

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and that in every day of their life

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They would be a walking demonstration

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Of your kingdom your gospel and your power

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Your word said these signs will follow them that believe

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Lord all of those things

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Can be incorporated into daily life. Yes

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So I pray for the people right now that are struggling feeling like they're not doing enough because they haven't given enough

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or because they haven't traveled

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Traveled far enough or because they don't have the same platform that somebody else is

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Lord I pray that you would so fill them with your presence

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Yes, your father that they would just rejoice to know you

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And I pray that they would be so full of your presence and so full of your nature that everywhere they go

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They would leak out your glory. Yes

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That whether it's

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Going to someone's home as a plumber to fix their sink

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Or whether it's being a doctor and treating their physical ailments

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That just by being around them

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People would begin to encounter you. Yes

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Lord, let every area of our life

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Be supernatural. Yes

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Not because we're doing wild and crazy things

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But because we have made you and your kingdom the center focus of everything that we do. Yes

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Yes, father

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Lord, I pray that in those areas where we feel inadequate

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You would remind us that you are more than enough. Amen and in those areas where we

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Are unsure or where we we have trepidation

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Lord, let us find our confidence in you

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To know that if we hear and obey

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You will do everything that you've promised for us. Yes

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Lord, I thank you for these people that are listening right now and for all those that are under the sound of my voice

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And I just pray

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That you would show them the areas of their life

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Where you want to pour out supernaturally. Yes

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That it would not be

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That it would not be a divide between my average life and my supernatural life

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But it would be one life

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lived

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Supernaturally for all of your glory

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In the name of jesus

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