Positioned for Revival - Revival Pt 2

I am never at a loss for words, right? It's very rare that I'm at a loss for words, but I always, you know, when given the opportunity, I try to be really thoughtful to ask the Lord what it is that he wants to say, because I could come up here and talk for days about lots of things.

I'm gonna I'm gonna keep it just in case I need to switch. Thank you. I could be up here, talk for days, but that doesn't matter. The only thing that matters is what the Lord wants to share with you today. So we are in a series right now called Revival. And not just a series, but that has been the word of the Lord for this House, for this year is something that the Lord gave Pastor Ryan last year in preparation for this year coming.

And it seems like every time the Lord has given him a word for the year, there has been some shift throughout the course of the year that really manifests what that word means. So how many of you all when you first heard Ryan mention the word revival, raise your hand. How many of y'all thought immediately of a of a tent meeting in the parking lot?

Raise your hand. I see a couple of hands or a week long series with lots of guest speakers and loud music and and shouting and screaming and all of that. Who all heard that or thought that when you heard the work? I said, I see a couple of hands in the back. I want to share what revival is not and what I just described is not a revival.

Revival is not an event. It is not a church service, it is not a series of church services. It is not planned by man. And just because you decide you're going to put an agenda together and slap a word on it and call it revival doesn't make it so. And I'll give you a kind of a natural example.

The Lord gave me this. He gives me a little funny anecdote sometimes. So growing up, there was a family that lived across the street from me, and I will let them remain nameless. But in our adult years we've all had kids and had families, and one little boy of my neighbor across the street, since he was itty bitty, said he was a lion.

He loved lions. He would, you know, when he meet you, he would come to the door and he would roar at you. He would he would he asked to wear a tail. So they made him a tail and some ears. And he would go, I mean, up until he was probably nine or ten years old, he thought he was a lion.

Now, so hands, was he? It was. Let me hear your voice. Was he a lion or not a lion? No. So he was a little boy who was pretending to be a lion. And a lot of times we are pretending to be something that it's not. And only God can authenticate with something really is. And so let me talk a little bit about what revival actually is.

Revival is an outpouring of the Holy Spirit. When you think about things scripturally, it is a move of the presence and the spirit of God in a mighty way. And it is orchestrated. It is designed, it is planned by God himself and people just to get to be participants. They just get to experience what God has said he is going to do.

When you look up the word revive in the word, both in Old Testament and New Testament, the word is used in a lot of different varieties. Sometimes it's the word live, sometimes it's the words save, sometimes it's alive or recover or preserve or quicken. But ultimately, in all of those examples, it's when something that has been dead or has no life.

Life has been brought to it. And that is what revival is. That is what the outpouring of the spirit of God really does. It brings life to things that previously had no life. And so in thinking about this, my first thought when Ryan mentioned this to me, I was like, okay, well, Lord, what do you how do I how do I go about this?

And the first thing I that well, let's let me think about all of the past revivals, right? Because success leaves clues. We have the Welsh revival that started in 1904. We have the Jesus People movement that some of you may have heard about or been a part of in the sixties and seventies. Here in the US, you had the Moravian who had a 100 year revival.

We also had just in our backyard in Murphy, North Carolina, and in 1896 there was a revival that broke out there. And I wanted to figure out, okay, what's the common theme? Right? How do I draw all these things together? And as I was sitting with the Lord, he was like, Go back to the first one. I was like, Well, what's that?

And so he took me to the Book of Acts. And before I jump in to a lot of that, what this message is about is being positioned for revival. And as I mentioned earlier, that we get to be a participant of what the Holy Spirit wants to do in the Earth. But there are some pre requisites to be in position to receive that outpouring of the Holy Spirit.

So that's one I want to talk today. I have a lot of Scripture, so I love to see people with no books. You will never catch me without a notebook somewhere. And the Word of God is so important that we need to be diligent to record it. So if it's your cell phone or you're taking notes on your phone or an actual notebook, we forget more than we remember.

And it's so important to capture what the Lord is saying. And so I'm going to have a bunch of scriptures on this screen. I'll read through some. I'll have a bunch for you to write down, but I encourage you to go back and read it for yourself. Never trust what somebody says up here, right? Go home and search it out for yourself so that you know what the Lord really is saying.

Because sometimes we get it wrong and the Lord can reveal to you, He can speak to you just as plainly as He speaks to anybody that's up here on the platform. So it's your responsibility to get the word for yourself. So we're going to go to the Book of Acts. And a couple of things just to point out, prior to this moment in the Book of Acts, Jesus was back on the scene and gone through the crucifixion, and he had come back and he was in the Earth for another 40 days, showing himself to his followers over the course of time.

And in Acts chapter one, this is the moment where Jesus is speaking before his ascension. So there's two things that I found were really interesting about this particular passage. There is something that if you've ever if you've been in church for a while, you may have heard this topic called the Law of First Mention, and it typically means the first time something is mentioned in the word, that's something for you to pay attention to.

It's setting the precedent. It is sending the example of things to come. It is, you know, when you think about your when you have a child write their first step, It's something that's celebrated. Everybody pays attention to their first word. You know, the first their first day of school. Firsts are important. And so the first time that we see a major outpouring of the Holy Spirit is in this passage.

So it's something to take note of. Secondly, this is the time where Jesus is about to ascend. So if you think about the last conversation you have with someone, the last time you see them, you know, if if someone has passed away, you were trying to grasp what did they say to me last? If you think about it, in the Old Testament, when a father is about to pass away, he blesses his children.

So the last things that he says as children is very impactful and very powerful. And so Jesus had already died and come back, but he was leaving to go back to the father. And so these were his absolute last words to anybody in the earth. So it's pretty important what he has to say. So we're going to start with chapter one, and I'm going to read a lot to you.

So just bear with me. And I am reading in the new King James version, chapter one, verse four through eight, gathering them together. He commanded them that, and then he's talking about the disciples, gathering them together. He commanded them not to leave Jerusalem, but to wait for what the father had promised, which he said, You heard of from me for John, baptize with water, but you will now be baptized with Holy Spirit not many days from now.

So when they had come together, they began asking him, saying, Lord, is it the time you are restoring the kingdom to Israel? But he said to them, It is not for you to know the periods of time or point at times which the father has set on his own by his own authority. But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you and you shall be my witnesses, both in Jerusalem and in Judea and Samaria and as far as the remotest parts of the earth.

So when I read that section, there's a couple of things that really jumped out to me in that particular passage. The first part was the gathering together. He brought all the disciples together to give them an instruction and give them direction for what was to come. After he left. He didn't want them to leave, so they were to stay in Jerusalem.

He was they were then told to wait for for what the promise of the father was, which was the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. You're not going to know when it's going to happen, but when He Holy Spirit comes, you will receive power and be my witnesses. That is what Jesus, his final words were to his disciples, and therefore those were His last words to us.

In a word, I want to skip over to verse 14 and 15. So after so excuse me, right after he says this, a cloud comes and he ascends to heaven and they don't see him any more than two angels come to them. Men say, Why are you looking for him? He's gone. They'll do what he says. And so the disciples then go, and verse 14, it says, These all continued on one accord and prayer and supplication with the women and Mary, the mother of Jesus and with his brothers.

And in those days, Peter stood up in the midst of the disciples all together. The number of the names was about 120 and said, Men and brethren, this scripture had to be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit spoke before the Mountain, spoke before by the mouth of David concerning Judas. And now I won't go on book. But my point is they got together and they prayed.

And it wasn't just the, you know, the 11 disciples at that point in time. It was now 120. There were more people that were coming in waiting for what what had been promise to to to his people. So when I go to two acts, chapter two, and this is the part that I'm going to read quite a bit of, so bear with me here.

And this is ten days later. So when Jesus says you're going to wait a little while, there was ten days between the day that he said that, and when Holy Spirit actually showed up. Now the disciples didn't know how much time they would have to wait. He just said, You're not going to know the time, but be ready so you don't have to get ready.

Basically. And in chapter two, verse one, when the day of Pentecost had fully come, they were all on one accord again. All on one accord in one place. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind. For those who were in Sunday school this morning, you hear that? The sound shout out the key as a rushing mighty went and it filled the whole house where they were sitting.

Then there appeared to them divided taps, You mean divided tongues as a fire and one set upon each of them and they were all filled with Holy with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other tongues as a spirit gave them utterance. And there was then there were a dwelling in Jerusalem, Jews, devout men from every nation under heaven.

And when this sound occurred, the multitude came together and they were confused because everyone had heard them, heard them speak in his own language. Then they were all amazed and marveled, saying to what to look. Are not those all those who speak Galilean? And how is it that we hear in our own language in which we were born Parthians and the Medes and the Elamite, those dwelling in Mesopotamia, Judea, Cappadocia, Pontus in Asia, Fire Aguila and Pamphylia, Egypt and parts of Libya adjoining Cyrene.

Visitors from Rome, both Jews and proselytize. Cretans, Cretans and Arabs. We hear them speaking in our own languages. The wonderful works of God. Make a note of that. What were they saying? They were speaking of the wonderful works of God. So they were all amazed and perplexing to one another. Whatever could this mean? Others mocking said they were full of new wine.

But Peter, standing up with the 11, raised his voice and said to them, Men of Judea and all who dwell in Jerusalem, Let this be known to you and heed my words, for these are not drunk as you suppose, since it was only the third hour of the day. But this is what was spoken by by the Prophet Joel, and it shall come to pass in the last days, says God, I will pour out my spirit on all flesh.

Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy. Your young men shall see visions, your old men of dream dreams and on and on. My men, servants and my maids servants. I will pour out my spirit in those days and they shall prophesy. I will show wonders and heaven above and signs in the earth beneath blood and fire and vapor of smoke.

The sun shall be, shall be turned into darkness in the moon, into blood before the coming of the great and awesome day of the Lord. And it shall come to pass that whoever calls in the name of the Lord shall be saved. Men of Israel hear these words Jesus of Nazareth, a man attested by God to you. Miracles, wonders and signs which God did through Him in your midst, as you yourselves also know Him being delivered by the determined purpose and foreknowledge of God you have taken by you have been taken by lawless hands, have crucified and put to death whom God raised up, having loosed the pains of death, because it was not possible

that he would be held by it. That's a powerful scripture. I'm going to flip over to verse 32 and kind of wrap it up, and then I'll go into some detail there. So in verse 32, this Jesus God raised up of which we are all witnesses, therefore being exalted to the right hand of God and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit.

He poured out this which you now see in here. So again, that's talking about the promise of Holy Spirit, which God was doing right there in that moment for David did not ascend into heaven. But says himself, the Lord said to my Lord, sit at my right hand till I make your enemies your footstool. Therefore, let all the house of Israel know assuredly that God has made this Jesus whom you crucified, both Lord and Christ.

Jesus is not just the Savior, He is the Lord. He is both. And this is what Peter was preaching to all those people from all those different nations, as they were paying attention to what was going on. Now, when they heard this, they were cut to the heart and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, men and brethren, what shall we do?

Then Peter said to them, Repent and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit, for the promise is to you and to your children and to all who are a far as many as the Lord. Our God will call, and with many other words, He testified and exhorted them, saying, Be saved from this perverse generation.

Then those who gladly receive his word were baptized, baptized. And that day, about 3000 souls were added to them, and they continued steadfastly in the Apostles Doctrine of fellowship and the breaking of bread and in prayers. So I bring that up because if you think about what instructions Jesus gave, he said, Stay here. Wait for the promise the Father gave you will receive power and you will be my witnesses.

Now, I believe at Pentecost in that upper room, that's exactly what happened. Peter Right after he was filled with Holy Spirit and tongues of fire and wind and all of this was going on, What is the next thing he did? So he received the power of the Holy Spirit. And then he became a witness of Jesus. So might I propose to you that that is the purpose of revival?

It is not for you, it is not for me. But it is for all people for us to become filled with the power of God so that we can be witnesses of who Jesus is. And that is exactly what Peter did. He said, Jesus did this and he did this and he did this. And 3000 were saved. And so that is why revival is so very critical.

But it wasn't something that the men did on their own. Jesus had already promised that He said the father promised to bring the Holy Spirit. So it wasn't something they did. They just agreed with the word Jesus gave them and they had faith and received the promise. The father said, If you think about that word witness, I looked it up.

The original definition means martyr or record witness. So those original disciples were all martyred at some point in their journey. And that's something for us to take into consideration. It's a serious proposition that we have to die to ourselves in order to live for Jesus. It doesn't necessarily mean that we're going to physically die, right? I'm not going to necessarily be tarred and feathered like some of our our earlier forefathers.

But the things that I might want, the things that I might desire have to die to, what God's intention is for your purpose here in the earth. And that's a hard thing. But it's it's it's remarkable. Look at what these men did, because they were obedient to Jesus, but they did a couple of things. These disciples that were were present here.

They'd had three years to walk with Jesus. They got to know him intimately. They ate with him. They watched him ministered. They saw him turn water to wine. They saw him do all of these great exploits. And don't you think that by being up close and personal with Jesus, that kind of rubs off on you? We haven't had the luxury of walking next to Jesus, but there's the next best thing, and that is this word.

So how do you prepare? How do you position yourself for a revival? The first thing is to posture your heart. To receive wine, you have to know that without him you are nothing and you need him. And a couple of scriptures to back that up. Genesis two seven and the Lord God for man of the dust of the ground breathed into His nationals a breath of life and man became a living soul.

So if it wasn't for God's plan, we would just be a puddle and not a puddle. We would be a pile of dirt. Still, we would have no life at all if it wasn't for him and his plans. So we owe our dust to him. John 1135. In the beginning was the word, and the word was God. And the word to me, the word was with God and the word was God.

The same was in the in the beginning with God. All things were made by him. And without him, nothing was made that was made in him was a life. And the life was the light of man and the light shining in the darkness and the darkness comprehended it. Not again. Without him, we wouldn't be here. So we owe him everything.

David even talks about this in Psalm 119. My soul clings to the dust, revive me, according to your word. And so I had to kind of figure out what that meant. You know, our souls, our our man, our person clings to the dust. The dust is where we came from. It's the dead part of us. We we purposely are trying to get back to the dust for whatever reason.

But the Lord wants us to have life. And David is saying we need to be revived according to the word of God, that that that cling when he says my soul clings to the dust. Cling means to hold fast. Leave it here. And again, dust is where we began. Romans 12 nine. Let love be without hypocrisy a bore.

What is evil? Cling to what is good. So, Cleave, hold fast to what is good and what is good. You find what is good. And James 117 Every good thing given and every perfect gift is from above. It comes down from the father of lights, the creator and sustainer of the heavens, in whom there is no variation, no rising or setting or shadow cast by his turning four.

He is perfect and never changes. And that is from the amplified version. I like looking at different versions to get a little bit of a deeper meaning. So when it comes to the next thing we need to do, we've got to feed our spirit, man. In other words, eat the scroll. And when I first wrote that down, the first thing that came to mind was Eat Cake Enemy.

So if I know if you know that right? So for those of you who do not know that reference, it is from what's love got to do with it and it that's not really how the Lord is saying it but that's that was just a funny but we must feed our spirits because and I've heard Laurie say this a couple of times in the past few months, two heads make a monster.

So we have a spirit man and we have a fleshly man. The spirit man has to be bigger and stronger than our flesh. How do we do that? Even Jesus said this. He says this in Matthew four four man shall not live by bread alone by but every word that preceded it out of the mouth of God, and even Jesus was quoting Old Testament because that was in Deuteronomy eight three, and that was when he was being tempted by the enemy in the wilderness.

When he was hungry, he hadn't eat. He was fasting for 40 days. I'm sure some of you feel like that right about now. We're like halfway through our fast. Y'all want some meat and some sugar. But but even Jesus said, we need more than just what our body needs. We need the word Ezekiel three one through three more over.

He said to me, Son of man, eat what you find. Eat this scroll and go speak to the House of Israel. So I opened my mouth and it caused me to eat that scroll. And Ezekiel was a prophet. And I think that this message, even though it is speaking to a someone who was in the office of the prophet, that's for all of us, too, because as we eat the scroll, it's something that we digest.

And then comes out of our mouth to those that the Lord is sending us to, to minister to or to share our testimony. That's a really important thing. Psalm one Show me Psalm 1970 ten. The law of the Lord is perfect. Converting the soul. The testimony of the Lord is pure, making wise the simple, the statutes of the Lord are right rejoicing the heart.

The commandment is of the Lord is pure, enlightening. The eyes, the fear of the Lord is clean. And during forever the judgments of the Lord, our true and righteous all together, more to be desired. Are they than gold? Yay! Then much fine gold sweeter also than honey. And the honeycomb and the law that he's talking about was the Scripture and saw him.

They just had the Torah, you know, they just had the first first few books. But it was important is meaningful. These are the words of the Lord. If God took the time to put the packages together for us, is this not something that we should be understanding and knowing what it says? Psalm 119 I word. Have I hidden in my heart that I might not sin against the then in 90 731040 how I love your law.

It is my meditation. All the day you through your commandments make me wiser than my enemies, for they are ever with me. I have more understanding than all my teachers for your testimonies are my meditation. I understand more than the ancients because I keep your precepts. I've restrained my feet from every evil way that I may keep your word.

I have not departed from your judgments, for you yourself have taught me how sweet are your words to my taste Sweeter than any honey to my mouth. Through your precepts I get understanding. Therefore I hate every false way. Jeremiah 1516 Thou words were found and I did eat them. And I. Word was unto me the joy and the rejoicing of my heart.

For I am called by thy name. O Lord, God of hopes. Matthew 724 Therefore, everyone who hears these words of mine and acts on them will be like a wise man who built his house on a rock. And I'll give you two more for good measure that are on the screen. Joshua one seven through eight. God tells Joshua that as he meditates on the book of the law and does not depart from it and does what it says, he will have success.

John 539 That Scripture Jesus is talking to the Pharisees and he's saying that the entire Scripture testifies of him. So every word that's in them, in the Word of God is testifying of Jesus. It's how we get to know Him. It's how we get to understand the heart of the father. It's how we get to understand how to live, how to be here in the earth.

And that is how we become strengthened and how our spirit gets muscles, so to speak. You know, we have to operate. We have to work those muscles. When you are working out, when you are conditioning yourself for a marathon, or if you are, you know, wanting to get stronger, there's things that you have to do. You have to have good fuel in order to have the results that you desire to have.

And then lastly, you have to crucify your flesh and deny yourself the things that are not profitable. So Jesus was asked once, Why did John surpass John's disciples? Why did they have to fast? Why did the Pharisees fast? But your followers do not? And his response was, Well, I'm still here. They don't need to fast because I'm here.

But we are in a season where Jesus is not physically here on the earth. And so fasting is needs to be a part of our regimen. It's a part of who we are denying ourselves as part of that martyr ship, killing portions of yourself for the purposes of God. And I don't think that it is any coincidence that Pastor Ryan has gotten this message about revival.

And then we go into a 40 day fasts that was the Lord that orchestrated that. And there's a reason that the Lord is asking that of us right now. And so in your quiet time, as you are replacing certain things that you've decided to put aside for the purposes of doing this as a corporate body, as as you are spending more time in the world and replacing that recreation with something that spiritual the Lord is doing something and you may not even recognize what's changing, but something is shifting.

The Lord is preparing our ground for a revival. First Corinthians 1023. All things are lawful for me, but not all things are expedient. All things are lawful for me. But not all things edify, but all things edified. Not. Excuse me. So that could be your vices. It could be a TV show that could be, you know, you like to go to this particular coffee shop or maybe it's like for me, there was a season where I used to listen to a lot of sermons or prophetic words that other people were doing, and the Lord is like, No, I need you to steal away because I need you to hear what I'm saying to you and

not what I'm saying to other people. And so not everything that the Lord asks you to lay down is a bad thing, but we have to be receptive to how the spirit is moving because there's a purpose in everything He asks us to do. Galatians 516 But I say walk by the spirit and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.

So as you're working the spirit muscles, your flesh becomes weaker. Romans 12 two Don't do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind that by testing you may discern what is the will of God. What is good and acceptable and perfect. James 122 But prove yourselves doer of the word and not just hearers who deceive themselves.

So not just reading what the word says and having knowledge of what it says, but actually having the practical application of what it's saying. That is what brings transformation. It's not enough just to know something. You have to put it into practice. Hebrews 412 for the Word of God is living and active, sharper than any two edged sword piercing to the division of soul and of spirit of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intention of the heart.

So we go back to the the the idea of revival. Remember that revival is the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. And that was a promise from the Father spoken out to the disciples by Jesus. It's for a purpose. The purpose of the outpouring of the Spirit is so that we will receive power and that we will become witnesses of Jesus.

So revival starts with faith. We have to have faith together, just like the disciples did. They came together, they fellowship together. We have to be faithful to pray. We have to have faith to pray and believe what God has said. And that's what the disciples did. They got together and they prayed for days, waiting for the promise that the Lord gave them.

We have to have faith to wait. We don't always know the time, but we need to be ready. We need to have oil in our lamp. We have to have faith to receive the power that the Lord wants to pour out on us. And we have to have faith to be His witnesses. That means we can't just hoard Holy Spirit to ourselves.

That is not the purpose. When we get it, we give it. When you get it, you give it each one, teach one. So as you are learning, you are supposed to share it. You're supposed to let your light shine and not hide it under a bushel. So are you doing those things? Are you sharing what the Lord is doing in you?

Are you praying for people? Are you partnering with them? Are you an encouragement to people? Are you professing who Jesus is and what He has done for you, but also for those that you're around? Romans 1017 used to stumble me a little bit. I've heard it now. I'll read it. Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God.

So when I used to hear that scripture, I was always like, okay, Sammy's, I need to read it twice. I mean, I need to hear it twice, right? And the Lord has given me some revelation about what that Scripture really is saying. And I and He had me kind of work it backwards, right? So faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God.

But if you do that in the reverse, the word of God brings forth hearing and hearing, brings forth faith. And that really wrecked me. I was like, Oh my God, that makes so much sense. That makes more sense than me having to hear it twice. So until you have the word of God planted on the inside of you, it's hard to hear what God is saying because this is the litmus test.

He's never going to say anything different than what's in his word. But if you don't know what his word is, you can be swayed by anything that sounds good. And there's a lot of stuff that we hear in the church that is not the word of the Lord, and it is binding people up and keeping them captive to things that the Lord never intended.

But because we don't know that word, we don't know when the thief is portraying himself as an angel of light, and we can be easily cast astray. And so in closing, I wanted to read to you a couple of things. I had asked the largest in the beginning and asking what it is that he wanted me to share.

So this first message I asked him on the sixth was a couple of days ago. So open up your hearts to hear what he's saying. I want my people to know that they will only experience my spirit breaking out to revive if their hearts are postured towards me. So many times people desire what is in my hands to release, but they aren't really after my heart and my plans.

Much too often. You are self-centered and not God centered even in your prayers. Too often they are focused on your outcomes and desires, even though you believe it's for me, it is really for yourself. I want my people to be so consumed with who I am and where I am that there is no time or thought about self.

I am the creator of the universe and time. Anything you do for me is but for a moment. But what I can do for you is everlasting. I am not talking about ministries, houses, cars and land. I am talking about real communion with me. I'm talking about connection to that. I'm talking about the connection to the you I placed inside of you for the world to see.

My people are operating so far beneath their actual abilities. I want to break them out of the limitations in their minds that the enemy has helped to construct. I want my people to see themselves as the miraculous beings that I created you to be. People are walking through life like zombies, seduced or entranced by the societal norms that your enemy has created.

You are spirit beings housed in a body. And I want your spirit to roll here in the earth, not your bodies. You must arise or be taken over, arise or be taken under a rise or be overthrown. My word is full of precious gems of truth, but it is hidden in plain sight for all to see. It is for the glory of me to conceal, but the glory of men to seek it out.

Go and seek the truth. It is right there under the surface. If you seek, you will find. This is the revival of what I speak. The truth shall set your captives free. Let your spirits be revived through my truth. In my word. And then a few days later, he says, I want people to know who I really am, not who or what they think I am.

I am real, not a figment of their imagination or something made up by religious people. I am the true and living God. I am Jehovah, I am Yahweh. I am Elisha, I, I am Elohim. I am Jehovah Shalom. I am Jehovah Nishi, I am Jehovah Toscana. I am that I am. That is what they need to know. I am.

I came before and will be here after. Nothing surprises me. Nothing takes me off guard. I know all things this. There is none like me other than you. You are made in my image and likeness. Certain attributes that I have you have inherited. You can't begin to tap into what? Until you cannot begin to tap into that. Until you first believe that I am who I say I am.

Once that is really settle in your heart and your spirit is awakened and strengthened, then I can begin revealing the secret things to you. So last night I was driving back from a visit to a friend who is celebrating seven years in her nonprofit, and I decided to pop in past sunrise message from last week. So in all transparency, as soon as I heard, I was like, Oh no, it's the same message to him.

I was like, Oh my God, I could I didn't even remember anything. And he said, I hadn't read my notes, I hadn't watched it. This was totally new from the Lord. And my first thought was, Do I need to take that part out? Do I need to rearrange it? But I feel like the Lord wanted to highlight this.

We have to crucify our first. We have to get in the word. We have to know that he is who he says he is. And until we get that stuff right, Holy Spirit can't come. So we have to be positioned and ready to receive the power and be obedient to be witnesses of who Jesus is so that is the call to you today.

Crucify your flesh, eat the cake Anna mae and know that God is. So that song this morning was so powerful. Fill me up till I overflow. And that is revival fill us up Holy Spirit so that we can overflow to touch those that you're calling us to to minister to those that are broken hearted at Lord. Fill us up till we overflow God that we are examples of who you are in the earth.

Lord, it is your prayer and your desire that all may be saved, but that can only happen if your people will do what is necessary. More. We commit to dying to ourselves today and what we want, what we desire. Lord. And we say yes to you. We say yes to your will. We say yes to your way. We say yes to the power of the Holy Spirit, one that wants to rest on us.

But we don't want to sprint with you, Lord. We want a marathon. We want to be able to go and go and go and live and share who you are. You did it for us. How dare we keep it to ourselves? So, Father, be with us. Teach us those things that you want us to lay down. Show us the things that you want us to pick up.

So we can be positioned for revival. All right. We thank you. Thank you, Lord. So we just ask the worship team to come back up. And I just pray that this is something that you received, that you meditate on, that you go back. There was a lot of scripture, but that's what we need. We need to know the word so that we can hear.

And faith would grow, and then we can be in position to experience revival that the Lord intends to pour out.