Sharing in the Anointing Pt 2

we've seen together in recent weeks that
the same anointing of the Holy Spirit
that enabled David to accomplish the
purposes of God in his generation
through faith in Jesus Christ also comes
upon us to accomplish the purposes of
God in our generation and that of course
is what the Lord Jesus means in acts 1
verse 8 when he says to his disciples
after telling them to wait in Jerusalem
for the promise from on high he said you
will receive power when the Holy Spirit
comes on you he will be my witnesses in
Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria
and to the ends of the earth that word
power as you know is the Greek word
Dunamis we got the word dynamite from it
and Jesus says you stick around for the
anointing of God's Holy Spirit and he
will empower you to be effective agents
for me all over the world beginning at
home and then fanning out until every
tribe tongue a nation eventually we'll
have heard the gospel this promise you
know was fulfilled a couple of days
later on the day of Pentecost when God
poured out his holy spirit in great
abundance and power on the early church
and today you and I when by faith we are
joined to Jesus were eligible for the
same spirit the same spirit who comes
within us to transform our lives to be
more like Jesus and who comes upon us to
empower us to be about the business of
the kingdom and in the time that we have
this morning or to look with you at some
of the things not all but some of the
things that we can reasonably expect to
happen
and in our lives as we experience the
power of that anointing the list is not
exhaustive doesn't cover all the bases
your experience will differ from my
experience from somebody else's
experience but there are general
principles that run through scripture as
to what it is that the Holy Spirit has
come to do and the first of these that I
want to look at with you is the fact
that through the Holy Spirit when the
Spirit comes the spiritual world the
spiritual world becomes much more real
Paul writing to the Corinthians chapter
2 9 and 10 quoting from Isaiah as it is
written no eye has seen no ear has heard
no mind has conceived what God has
prepared for those who love him but God
has revealed it to us by his Spirit the
spirit pulls back the veil scripture
teaches us that in addition to this
physical world that we all inhabit and
that we can see and feel and hear and
experience with our five senses there is
an other whole world that we cannot
normally feel see your experience it's
the spiritual world there is a God given
boundary between the spiritual world and
the natural world I think there's two
reasons for that number one God has
pulled himself back not just because he
is angry at our seein but because we
cannot stand the splendor of his
presence it would consume us imagine
looking at the brightness of the Sun
without eye protection and you'll get a
tiny little glimpse of what happens when
God shows up in his glory so God hides
himself so that we will not be consumed
by his majesty but more than that
Satan of course has a vested interest in
keeping us in the dark one of his
primary strategies for leading us away
from God is to lead us astray and to
deceive us and so the more he can do
that behind the scenes the more
successful he will be so there's a
physical world there's a spiritual world
normally there is a barrier between
those though that barrier sometimes can
be broken illegitimate ly we won't talk
about that now but one thing is for sure
the one by faith we are joined to Jesus
one of the first things that happens is
that the Holy Spirit begins to make real
to us that spiritual dimension of life
listen to how Jesus puts it in John
chapter 16 the verses 13 14 and 15
speaking to his disciples getting them
ready for the time when he is leaving
them but when he that is the spirit of
truth comes he will guide you into all
the truth he will not speak on his own
he will only speak what he hears and he
will tell you what has yet to come he
will bring glory to me by taking from
what his mind and making it known to you
all that belongs to the father is mine
that is why I said the Spirit will take
from what his mind and make it known to
year what are you saying there I believe
is that it's the job of the Holy Spirit
to open her eyes not just to the whole
spiritual dimension but especially to
who Jesus is and what their riches are
that we have in Jesus Christ and when by
faith we join to Jesus and the Holy
Spirit comes into our lives this whole
spiritual dimension that most people are
quite ignorant of all of a sudden
becomes real in ways that previously we
I know so clearly when that first
happened in my own life had experienced
as many of you know I was at college
studying for the ministry when some
friends of mine encouraged me to make
sure that I had personally giving my
life to the Lord Jesus and I remember so
clearly kneeling by the side of my bed
and saying lord I think I've done this
before but just in case I haven't I
really want to give you my heart and I
want to give you my life and bells
didn't ring no physical experience or
encounters of any kind but almost
immediately the spiritual world became
real in ways it had not become real
before God became real Jesus became real
the Bible came to life in ways that it
had never come to life before and I
remember singing you know old hymns of
the faith that I had sung for years and
years and years all of a sudden the
words came alive on the page and I
understood not only what the words meant
but the reality behind the words odd as
it sounds I remember that even nature
seemed brighter that I remember driving
my car back and forth to classes along
the roads of Grand Rapids looking at
cars next to me saying to myself I
wonder if he or she knows Jesus that's
the revelation of the Holy Spirit and
I've had a lot of opportunity over the
years to ponder the question why does
this happen in the way that it happens
and why don't more people experience it
remember I am pretty sure that I was a
Christian at that point I had been
brought up in a Christian home had gone
to church all my life knew the Lord and
yet after that surrender something
happened that was beyond anything that I
have experienced before and I raised
that question because in my experience
in ministry there are varying degrees of
comprehension of the spiritual dimension
ah some people are just really in tune
with it and for other people it's a bit
of a mystery and some people are
spiritual experiences that other people
don't have that's very easy then to say
what's the matter with me is there
something wrong with me is my faith
inferior to the faith of others as I've
pondered that over the last little while
what's come to me is that I think the
Old Testament model of the tabernacle
provides a little bit of insight let me
take just a few moments and talk about
that I've never taught on this before I
don't want to be categorical about this
but I think it helps us to understand
why some have more revelation than
others not only that it will help us to
understand what our part can be in
stepping into the things of God more
deeply if you're familiar with the Old
Testament then you will know that when
God entered into covenant with Israel at
Mount Sinai what was the first thing
that he did he ordered them to build the
tabernacle the tabernacle was a tent
that looks like you see it in the
picture it was portable they carried it
with them and it served as the dwelling
place of the glory of god and it was
arranged in such a way that God's
presence could abide among a sinful
people without the sinful people being
destroyed it's a picture of the temple
of God in heaven the Bible spends 50
chapters on
Tabernacle in the Old Testament that
ought to tell you how important it is
and it finds its fulfillment in the
person of Jesus who paves the way for us
to enter into the presence of God let me
show you the floor plan and talk about
that for just a few moments because that
will help us to understand I think some
really important things notice first of
all that there are three divisions to
the tabernacle there is the outer
courtyard there is what is known as the
holy place that's in that tent that you
saw and then there is the Holy of Holies
here each of these has furniture in it
that is part of Israel's worship this
has the altar of sacrifice or the altar
of burnt offerings this is a big wash
basin often called the bronze Laver it
is made of the mirrors of the women then
you have a veil here and then into the
holy place there's the table of
showbread there is the lampstand known
as the menorah and then there is the
altar of incense another big veil that's
the veil that torn torn was torn in two
when Jesus died on the cross and then in
the holy place the ark of the covenant
with the Shekinah glory of God now
here's what I want us to understand the
whole idea was to progress from outside
the tabernacle into the Holy of Holies
where is the presence of God the number
of people that were allowed to enter
diminished with each step of the way in
other words all these relights were
allowed to come here and make a
sacrifice on the altar only the priests
were allowed in the Holy of Holies to
minister and only the high priest and
his sons were allowed to minister in the
Holy of Holies and
only once a year but here's the point
that I want us to get to this morning
there are three levels of illumination
in the tabernacle this was the outdoors
if I go back for a moment to the
previous slide this is the courtyard it
is lit up by the sunlight this finds its
light by the golden lampstand other than
that it is dark in here and the Holy of
Holies has no light except the glory of
God whose presence abides between the
cherub iam in the Ark of the Covenant I
don't want to read too much into that
but I think there is an insight here
that can help us about the illumination
of the Holy Spirit I think if we can go
back to that slide there is a place
there is a place in the world where all
we know is our natural understanding and
you can read the Bible with your natural
understanding you can come to church
with your natural understanding and you
can sing your songs of praise with your
natural understanding and there will be
a certain degree of understanding that
comes your way you won't understand that
all you won't understand the deeper
things but there is a natural revelation
that everybody in the world is entitled
to because by nature we know that God is
holy and we know our own sinfulness
that's what the book of Romans teaches
us but beyond that there is the
revelation of God's Holy Spirit and when
I talked about my eyes being opened the
Bible coming alive sermons starting to
make sense in ways they had never made
sense before I'm talking about what
happens when by faith in Jesus I
experience the present
and the power of God's Holy Spirit
because he is the spirit of illumination
he lightens he bears witness and
testimony to the power and the presence
of God now beyond that there is the Holy
of Holies Jesus entered into that Holy
of Holies the veil got tore it into the
New Testament the holy city the New
Jerusalem is built in the shape of the
Holy of Holies this is the place where
there is direct communication with God
in a way that we can't even begin to
imagine we have a foretaste of it
through the Holy Spirit it's a place
where where words are not even needed
because God and us are fully restored to
each other and I believe biblically what
God wants his people to do is move from
out here where there is just the light
of nature into the presence of His Holy
Spirit we're through the Holy Spirit we
begin to understand spiritual reality in
a way that we are never experienced it
before and then I believe there are
places in Christ in the Holy Spirit
where we are face to face with God in a
way that words cannot even begin to
describe because Jesus has entered into
that place well you say how do I get
there what has to happen in my life well
remember the key is Jesus Jesus has gone
through sacrificed himself he is the
bread of life he is the light of the
world he knows how to pray and intercede
which is what this particular altar
represents he's gone through the veil
into the very presence of God there to
intercede for you and me and if we're
joined to Jesus that is our right on our
privilege this isn't for the spiritual
elite this isn't just for anybody this
isn't just for certain people no no this
is for all
of God's people to experience and enjoy
to the degree that we need it in order
to know what it is that he's calling us
to do and to help us to do it how do you
get there well remember the big
transition is from out here where there
is natural revelation to in here how do
I get there it begins with the altar of
sacrifice the altar of sacrifice
represents the surrender of my life to
Jesus as best as I know how to do it I
put it on the altar I say Lord I'm yours
do with me whatever you want the next
furniture piece is the Laver or the
washbasin that's the place where you
wash your hands and you wash your feet
this is the place where you deal with
the present scenes that would keep you
away from the presence of God a lot of
you have heard a budding story how years
back we went to Willow Creek and like
myself he had been raised in church all
his life knew the Bible and was a leader
in the church but then knew that the
Holy Spirit was putting his finger on
certain areas of his life we gathered
around him that day prayed over him and
I daresay the Dave's life has never been
the same sense why because he passed
from here through here and once you're
here you experience Jesus as the bread
of life you experience Jesus as the
light of the world you experience Jesus
as the intercessor there is something
that comes in you that wants to pray
that wants to worship as you worship put
that back up again for a moment please
as you worship here's an interesting
thing the fragrance of this altar of
incense went through the veil into the
holy place it was so closely identified
with the Holy
I stood in the book of Romans are the
book of Hebrews the altar of incense is
actually said to be in the holy place
which we know it wasn't a lot but what
that signifies is that there's a place
in prayer there is a place in worship
there is a place in praise where we draw
near to God and he draws near to us and
in that place I hasn't seen ear hasn't
heard a harder man hasn't imagined what
God has prepared for those who love him
so if you're here this morning and you
know as we all do x times my heart is
dull I want more of God I want to be
more stirred by his presence and by his
power then go back to the beginning ask
yourself first of all have I come to
faith in Jesus have I surrendered my
life to Him is there anything that
stands in the way is there an issue in
my life that I know he puts his finger
on that does not have his approval then
embrace that confess it get yourself
prayed over if need be but lay hold of
God's Spirit because the promise is that
he will give his Holy Spirit to those
who seek Him Jesus Luke chapter 11 if
you who are evil know how to give good
gifts to your children how much more
will your Father in Heaven give the Holy
Spirit to those who ask him never be
afraid to ask him because he will meet
you with his power and with his presence
and what your experience looks like will
vary from one personality to another
from one person to another but this much
is real your eyes will be
opened to see things that you have never
seen before that's the promise of the
gospel and we need to lay hold of that
because it is the driving force that
made the early church turn the world
upside down in their generation now we
can move on here's the thing you gotta
know though when your eyes get opened to
the spiritual world it not only gets
opened to the good side of things it
also gets opened to the bedside because
you need to understand that not only is
there a physical world in a spiritual
world but this spiritual world is
divided into two factions good and bad
the good side is inhabited by God and
His Holy Angels the bad side is
inhabited by Satan and his unholy angels
and when your eyes could open to the
reality of God you will also experience
Satan's power and presence probably in
ways that previously you have not
noticed and I say that because what's
the first thing in the Gospel story that
happened to Jesus after he had been
baptized by the Holy Spirit remember
what happens in off in Matthew Mark and
Luke he's driven into the wilderness to
be tempted by Satan now my experience is
that while a lot of people pay lip
service to the fact that there is a
devil and some even act like they are he
most many people including many
Christian folks live without a practical
knowledge of encountering him but I can
promise you that changes to the degree
to which you become
threat to his kingdom and he will not
know what spiritual warfare is until
through the Holy Spirit you begin to see
things from God's perspective and you
give yourself wholeheartedly to the
cause of God let me read you an email
that I received from one of our members
here just this past week this is an
extreme example of what spiritual
warfare looks like and there are reasons
for that that I don't have time to go
into this morning but here's the email
that i received earlier this week and
and this is written by lady she said I
need the last 10 hours of my life erased
from my memory they have been horrible i
went to bed at 10 45 in my dream i was
awake lying in bed beside my husband we
sleep with her door open at my bedroom
door there was a demon spirit in a black
hooded robe with a white face and black
around it sighs floating kind of like a
scream mask it floated towards me I'll
lay behind me in bed put its arms around
me and both hands on my faith and the
suffocating me I was rolling all over
trying to get its hands off my face and
screaming for my husband it seemed to go
on for at least two long minutes finally
my husband woke up put his arms around
me and said it's okay I'm here I awoke
and we have mirrored closet doors I saw
it fly up into the air over our bed and
fly backwards into the wall and
disappear the time was 1250 a.m that's
the dark side I said it's extreme and
its extreme I suspect because there is a
history of the occult of air but Jesus
after he was baptized by the Holy Spirit
was driven
in into the wilderness to be tempted by
Satan and the answer of course to all of
this is the armor of god I don't share
this story with you to scare you or me
or to cause us to live in fear but to
point us to Jesus Ephesians 6 10 and 11
be strong in the Lord and in his mighty
power put on the full armor of God so
that you can take your stand against the
devil's schemes the devil is active in
an unprecedented fashion in the world in
in our culture today and you and I need
clearly to understand all the riches
that we have in Christ to even be able
to identify what he's doing and where he
is going I I saw on the news just this
morning before I came to church remember
that couple in is it Oregon with a cake
and I could find one hundred and thirty
thousand dollars and they refused to pay
the fine the authorities are now moving
in to take their home because they will
not bow to the spirit of the age what's
troubling about it to me is how many
Christians across North America I think
they're not for standing up for what
they believe is the right thing to do
and that shows you how much we need the
illuminating power of God's Holy Spirit
so what happens when we say yes to the
Holy Spirit the spiritual world both
good and bad becomes increase
increasingly real in our lives and the
Bible says that we can ask the Lord for
what the Bible calls a spirit of wisdom
and revelation in the knowledge of Jesus
so that we may know him
better so that's one thing that happens
second thing that happens is that our
passions to serve the Lord will be
profoundly stirred our passions will be
stirred the Bible says and the reference
there is wrong it should be Romans 12 11
never be lacking in zeal but keep your
spiritual fervor serving the Lord God
has created us you know to love the Lord
our God with all our heart and with all
your soul and with all our mind other
passages add the word and all your
strength we are created to love our
neighbor as we love ourselves the fall
has missed that out poor alienated from
God we're deceived by Satan by nature we
hate God and we hate our neighbor in
Christ we are restored to God then God
gives us the Holy Spirit and the Holy
Spirit is at work within us and upon us
both to will and to work for God's good
pleasure so what happens when I see how
great God is what happens when I see
that the kingdom of God has been
realized in Jesus what happens when I've
repented of my sin and I see how much
Jesus loves me and what a glorious
future it is that he promises to those
who serve him there is something that
happens on the inside I turn from coal
to lukewarm too hot because the passion
of God's Holy Spirit remember the Spirit
of the Lord that came upon Jesus was
created in him a zeal for God I've know
about you but all too often I find my
heart too cold to look war and the
antidote is the anointing of God's Holy
Spirit working deep inside changing us
from the inside out and quickening us
to step into the good works that God has
prepared for us from before the
foundation of the world now what he
stirs in you or me is dependent on two
things I believe the first is what God's
will for our lives is and the second is
what your gifting is let me talk just
briefly about each of those because we
know from Scripture that in Christ there
is a particular calling that rests upon
each of us with that calling comes a
particular gifting of the Holy Spirit so
that we can step into it and obey Him so
if he calls me to be a businessman then
he will give me business insights so
that I can do business for go on if he
calls me to be a family man man or a mom
or you know he will give me a love and a
passion for my spouse and he will give
me the desire and the ability to raise
my kids in the ways of God if he calls
me to be an evangelist he will give me a
passion for lost people in fact that's
what original Easter Dave when we were
at Willow Creek and he saw how
passionate they were for lost people and
he looked at his own life and he said I
don't share that passion what's the
matter with me that started him on that
journey that led to the outpouring of
the Holy Spirit in his life today you
can't get him to shut up about the loss
than the last in the least because
that's what the Holy Spirit does and if
the Holy Spirit calls you forth to speak
the Word of God with power and authority
you will be disturbed by situations that
you see you will see things that other
people don't see and he will give you
the words to speak into that situation
and as we'll see in a few moments it can
change
change people's lives to the core and
you can multiply it that way if you're
calling is to care for the sick then
when you see somebody who is evil you
will have a compassion that many other
people won't have and that compassion
will step into that situation and will
make a difference if god equips you with
the gift of serving then when nobody
else sees the things that need to be
done behind the scenes you see them you
will step into those situations and you
will make a difference that's the
difference between calling and gifting
in the body of Christ and what Paul is
talking about in these verses that we
read in 1 Corinthians chapter 12 is that
there is an intense for an immense
variety among the callings in the
giftings that God places in community
Paul's analogy later on in that chapter
is that we are the body of Christ some
of us are a hand some of us are are the
feet and some of us are eyes and ears
and mouths and I believe just as the
body is composed of cells that create
issue that create organs that create
systems so in the body of Christ you
will have a certain gift set that is
complementary to the gift set of other
people around you and when you been
together you have a common vision you
beat with a common heartbeat and as you
step into that you make a difference for
the glory of God in the life of that
community that's what the Holy Spirit
does he breaks down dividing walls and
he enables us to experience the joy of
knowing that we're all different we all
have different gifts in fact as Paul
goes on in the passage the less we have
to commend ourselves naturally the
greater is the anointing of God's Holy
Spirit to make up for it so that there
is no discomfort or
whatever the word is there's no
imbalance in the body of Christ and you
and I by faith need to soberly reflect
on what it is that He pours out into our
lives and as we'll see in a moment we
need to step into that at the same time
we need to set other people free to be
who they are because the same Lord gives
many different gifts many different
varieties many different manifestations
how the holy spirit manifests himself in
your life will be very different from
somebody else's life and a lot will
depend on your personality some of it
will depend on your culture some of it
will depend on what you're comfortable
with at the end of the day what counts
is are we yielded to the Holy Spirit so
that collectively as well as
individually we can be so led by the
spirit that we could be the hands and
feet of Jesus and make a difference in a
world that so desperately needs us
that's what Scripture teaches so what
happens when the Holy Spirit comes upon
you he's going to stir here he's going
to create in your hunger along in and
you're going to see things but maybe
other people don't say and he will give
you joy in using your gift and that's
the third thing I want to talk about
just briefly before we wait up this
morning and that is as the Holy Spirit
does his work in your life as he stirs
up your passions and he loosens the
gifting in you then and this is the
tough part folks he's going to call you
to step out in faith the purpose of the
gift is never just to sit on it feel
good about it hold it with Ian no it's
too invested
take a risk with it use it so that God
can use it for his purposes and multiply
its effect we all know the parable of
the three people that Jesus gave talents
to the one talent and the two talent and
the five talent the guy with the 52
talents he invested it double did the
guy with the five talents he invested it
he doubled it the first guy what did he
do buried it why did he bury it because
he was afraid to lose it and that is so
typical the less we have the more afraid
we are of taking a risk and I have
learned over the years that God would
rather have us take a chance of messing
up knowing that he can fix it and
corrected than to be more concerned
about our own selves and we are about
the body of Christ and the purposes of
God in this generation and what that
means is whatever anointing he gives you
whatever place in you that stirs and
that's how you can tell what your
gifting is it'll stir within you you
know if you have the gift of giving and
you hear challenges towards giving
something inside you says what can I do
that's the stirring of God's Holy Spirit
it's better to make a mistake that the
bury it in the ground because when you
bury it in the ground it interest rates
that you're more concerned about your
own hide than you are about the purposes
of God so God equips you as he equips
you he stirs things in you and he says
all right now for you to do something
with this you've got to step out in
faith and start using it see it would be
wonderful if all our gifts emerged
full-blown and mature and we would never
make a mistake and we'd never make a
mess of things good luck doesn't happen
anywhere else in life now it's our job
to step into it trusting that God in
context of community will shape me if
I'm willing to submit the community and
he will call me forth and make me a
blessing Romans 12 verses six seven and
eight one of the passages in the Bible
that talks about spiritual gifts pulses
we have different gifts according to the
grace given us if a man's gift is
prophesying that is speaking for the
word of God let him use it in proportion
to his faith if it is serving let him
serve if it is teaching let him teach of
his encouraging with him encouraged if
it is contributing to the needs of
others let him give generously if it is
leadership let him govern diligently if
it is showing mercy let him do it
cheerfully and the emphasis there is
twofold let it happen but make it happen
in your own wife on the day of judgment
God's going to hold us all accountable
with what we have done with our calling
and with our anointing and the higher
you call and the greater your anointing
the more trouble you'll get into in the
course of life I can promise you that
now but the greater a threat you will be
to the kingdom of darkness now as you
step into it whatever that looks like
whether it's you know wiping snotty
noses in kids ministry or whether that
is stepping into a business deal that
you're not one hundred percent sure
about or whether that's stepping into a
relationship that has all the potential
in the world of going wrong and making
life difficult for you as you step into
you're going to discover two things and
the first is this you will discover
where your anointing lies because it is
in doing what you're doing it is in
availing yourself of opportunities that
God's Holy Spirit comes along and he
stirs life in places where
you have not added and you discover I
can do this I never thought I could do
this there are people in this church
that are doing things but never in a
hundred years they thought they ever
could do because their tendencies to say
well not me I'm too young or I'm too old
or I'm too immature or too busy well God
calls you however he does that with the
calling comes the amoeba leg with the
calling comes the grace to step into it
not only that but the second thing that
happens is that it will confirm your
place in community because that's the
picture that emerges here in 1
Corinthians chapter 12 the body has many
parts some of us are eyes some of those
our hands as we said earlier so is their
feet some of us are pinky some of us are
you know toenail of our little tall and
the temptation is to say well if I can
be the important part I don't want to be
any part of the body that's not for you
to decide that's for God to decide he's
already decided that he's calling you to
it he's equipping you for it and as you
learn to walk it out in faithfulness and
god backs you up guess what happens
people around you begin to see what your
gifting is they will acknowledge your
gifting and they will receive your
gifting and that way the body of Christ
begins to grow to maturity so here's
what we're going to do this morning as
we draw this to a close and ask you to
stand again if you would please if
you're comfortable with it again put out
your hands we're going to pray now but
the Holy Spirit will just identify for
us how the places that he wants us to
step into and to identify the places of
our fear or hesitation
now that he wants us to acknowledge
before him and that we can trust him to
transform and change in her life the
father here we stand before you
immensely odd but God is holy in his
righteous and a self-sufficient as you
are she would have any desire at all to
use us in your service often we feel
that you're taking advantage of us maybe
and we wonder you know why me but lord
help us to understand that your heart is
that you're raising a family of children
and let you want to share the grandeur
of your eternal purposes with each one
of us so that we can have the joy of
sharing in what it is that you're doing
in the universe so that one day we can
celebrate forever with you that
incredible program of redemption that
will culminate one day in a new evidence
in a new earth so come Lord be at work
in us too willing to work according to
your pleasure if there are places that
we have not surrendered to you then put
your finger on those places and make us
wrestle with you or get the help that we
need so that we can be wrestled to the
ground in these spots and really
surrender the deepest parts of our
hearts to here and then Lord when you
call us to step out on the water or when
you call us to to do this or to do that
or do the other thing help us not to
have a false modesty help us with sober
judgment to think according to the gifts
that you have given us help us to
embrace them know that we're responsible
before you for them help us to not worry
about what other people think or other
people want but let your pleasure
fall upon us in those spots and may we
know what it is to have your wind in our
sails and your breeze under our wings
and then father so pour out your spirit
of this community that you've on this
together in the body of Christ each part
working the way that it ought to be
working so that your redemptive purposes
can be realized in US and through us for
a generation that is lost we confess
there were often more concerned about
our comfort than we are about your
purposes we care more about our
immediate convenience that it is about a
hurting world or even a hurting neighbor
but Lord change us we just give you the
right to change its burn out of our
lives those things that are not wholly
and honest and good and true and give us
joy unspeakable so that like Jesus for
the joy that was set before him we can
run with perseverance the race knowing
that there's coming a day when there
will indeed be a Great Awakening and
when every knee will bow and every
tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is
Lord for the glory of God the Father
even so Maranatha come lord jesus come
quickly we pray it together in your name
God's people said
amen
you