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All right, we're going live in Clearwater, here at Flowing River Church. All right, now, thank you, Father, for another awesome day, another day in Your presence, another day towards eternity. You know, this, we don't really get older. You know, really, we aren't. We don't. Our flesh may seem like it's getting older, but you know what? Our spirit man never ages and never dies. And we get to spend eternity with the King of Kings. And He, and just, just because He is who He is, He's going to give us an eternal body also. I mean, come on, wouldn't it be enough to be in heaven in spirit? But He's like, "Nah, I'm going to give you a body like Mine, too. And I'm going to put My a new name on you, and you're going to be holy unto Me." As you are now, you're holy unto the Lord because He did it. Thank You, Father. Thank You for all Your benefits. Thank You for everything You've done for us. We're here to give You glory and honor and praise. Amen. Amen.
Yes, we're just asking also today, "Spirit, to move in here, to move in this place." Let's pray that You would just move upon every single soul in here today. We would feel the effects of Your presence, that it would just be so wonderful and divine.
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Just ask that we stand today and that we worship the Lord.
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Come on, get on your feet. Let's worship the Lord. Sing this with me. I feel it in my bones. I feel it in my bones. You're about to move.
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I feel it in the wind. Your bowels are riding.
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You said that You would pour Your Spirit out. You said that You would fall asleep.
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Sing a feeling.
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Oh, yes. You said that.
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Like a.
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To know Your goodness, to see Your glory is.
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Oh, just to see Your beauty.
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Oh, yes. So we.
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And let Your glory rush.
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See Your glory, to see Your beauty, 'cause we are a big on this one day to know Your goodness, to see Your glory. And we're chances.
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We are transformed by the renewing of our. To see Your glory. There's nothing like it, Lord.
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To come and blow.
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Oh.
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On through.
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It again.
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We're ready for You to come.
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Is.
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Just to know Your goodness.
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Oh, yes. We're fixed on this one thing. So know Your goodness. So be alive in Your presence. There's nothing like it, Lord. There's nothing like being transformed. Since.
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Coming to.
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We're.
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Oh, we're ready for You to come and blow on through. We invite You here to come into, Lord. Oh, we're ready for You to come and blow.
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We love You, Jesus.
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We're fully satisfied.
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Oh, Spirit, move, 'cause we're.
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What only You can do. We're ready for You to come and blow our.
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One thing.
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To know Your.
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See Your glory, and we're transformed by this one day to know Your presence.
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Like the sun shining so bright, like the morning.
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Oh, yes. We're transformed by such a joyous feeling. It gives me no beauty. Oh, yes. We're fixed on Your beauty, God. What a wonderful sight to be all. Oh, Your presence of Your Spirit is so intoxicated.
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You are my love, my greatest desire. Oh, Your lips speak the truth, the words are like fire. Oh, Spirit of God, how You set me free. Oh, yes, You have. 'Cause You are my love, afraid, my desire sinks with me, my joy.
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My hope in my life is.
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Yes, You did.
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Oh.
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Oh.
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Jesus. Yes, it is. Is.
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Jesus. I'm hoping my life is now satisfied with Your sacrifice.
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Is.
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Foreign.
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So.
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Now.
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Oh, yes.
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Jesus.
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Oh, yeah.
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So.
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So.
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It's.
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Your name.
Foreign.
No strength flows.
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Is.
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H.
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Jesus is.
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Jesus.
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Is.
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Is.
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Foreign.
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Forever.
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Yes. Is. Is.
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My joy is in You, oh Jesus. My worth isn't.
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Is now satisfied with Your sacrifice. My heart is forever Yours, Jesus.
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So.
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With harmonious stars.
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Jesus.
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Is.
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Oh.
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Is.
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Of Jesus. Oh.
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Oh.
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You, Jesus.
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Is.
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Jesus.
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Oh, yes. You've captured my heart forever.
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Take it all. Take it all. Take it all. Take it all.
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It's all in the name of Jesus. Oh, Jesus. Yes, it's in Your.
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My hope, name, my life.
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Yes, we.
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To the only righteous.
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Jesus.
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It's Jesus. You. It's only in You, the righteous King, the Lord.
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I dedicate my life to You.
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Jesus.
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Jesus.
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Seeing You.
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Jesus. Only You. It's.
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Only Yourself.
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Jesus. Seeing You, Jesus. My hope and my love is now satisfied with Your sacrifice. My heart is forever Yours, Jesus. This only You can satisfy my every need, my everything. This only You can satisfy my everything, my every need, Lord. Only You are the one who can meet my every need. You're my everything, my everything. My one and greatest desire is my righteous King, Jesus. Only You can satisfy, Lord. Three, four, one, two, three, two. Spirit of Jesus, living within us.
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Heaven inside us. Whispers, "Holy is the Lord."
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Faith.
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Filled with Your wonder here. I surrender, calling me closer.
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Holy.
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Is.
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My.
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Worthy to be praised.
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Oh.
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Oh.
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Is.
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Is the one who lives.
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Is.
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Is.
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Worthy to be praised.
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Oh.
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Oh, the Great I AM.
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Oh.
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How great I AM.
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Oh.
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Jesus.
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Are You worthy to be praised?
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Oh.
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Sing it again.
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Fire, fire.
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Let it rise.
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Oh, oh, yes. 'Cause You are young.
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Oh, yes.
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The is I AM. Yes, You are.
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Oh, yes. You are.
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Is.
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See this is.
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Rising in my soul. All comes.
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Who You are.
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It's all because. Let's just keep us going just for a few more minutes, but just seeing leaders is singing Yahweh. Nothing else that's same too, but just Yahweh. You know, just sing His name. Let those, let Yahweh come off here from the fire.
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You just sang that same tune.
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God.
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Go away.
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Me.
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Yes.
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Wow.
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We are.
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Teach us, Lord. Teach us and lead us into the life that's in Your name. A name that is so holy and so sacred that the Hebrews, they don't even, they don't even like to say the name because they don't think they're saying it correctly. That's how holy and sanctified His name is. And Lord, we need to have this, this understanding, this respect, and this sense of holiness of who You are because You are the name. It is You. It is who You are. It's Your breath. It's Your life. It's everything. Your essence, Lord. And when we sing that, Lord, I ask, Lord, that You would begin to revelate in our hearts and in our minds what it means to breathe Your name. What it means to breathe Your name, that it's not some simple magical incantation that we say in our prayers, but it's something that moves heaven because it's, it's like when someone says my name and I can tell when they say it with affection and it just moves my heart. Lord, we say Your name with affection. We say Your name with honor. We say Your name with adoration. We're not requesting or begging anything of Yahweh. We just want to say Your name because we love You with our whole mind, our whole soul, our whole body, and we give everything to You, Lord. You joy our soul. You peace our soul. And we love You so much. Yahweh, Yahweh, Yahweh, Yahweh, Yahweh, Yahweh, Yahweh. That's how we say we've translated those four letters into Yahweh. It's a close approximation, but God knows our heart because our heart does not approximate the word of God. Our heart sings and knows the word, the name of God, even if we don't pronounce it right with our lips, our heart is pronouncing it right. Our heart sings it right. Yod, Hey, Vave, Yod is the letter of the spark of life. Hey is breath. Vav is to connect to Hey again. A breath, the spark of life, our breath, His breath connects to His breath. It's, it's a divine union, and it's all wrapped up in You, Yahweh. And so, He's, so we, so worship You this morning. We might have come in here one way, but we're not the same. We're not the same in this moment that we're navigating this moment right now. You are all we have. You're the all that is in our hearts. You're the all that's in our thoughts right now. And that's why when we sing Yahweh to You, Lord, it's a sweet-smelling incense sacrifice up to Your throne room, and You are well pleased. Oh, thank You, Jesus. Yahweh, Yahweh, Yahweh, Yahweh, Yahweh. Thank You, Jesus. Thank You, Lord. Thank You for this morning, Lord. Thank You for the sun rising. Thank You for the air that we're breathing. Thank You for the sounds. Thank You for instruments that we can beat on, that we can play, that we can, that we can strum, that will honor You in some way. Thank You. Thank You, Lord. You know what? My ancient roots, Hebrew Bible says, "Stick your hands together." Stick your hands together. It means clap. I told you to do it three times. We want to welcome you to Flowing River Church this morning. And if you're online, welcome you. And we're excited to have Michonne Albania minister this morning.
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Yeah, praise God. Um, was there anybody that had a prophetic word from the worship this morning? Did you? David, come on.
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I think about everybody's familiar with this verse. "My tongue is a pen of a ready writer." I address my verse. I trip my verses to the King. Well, I've got my own translation for that. I'm emanated and animated to talk to God, my Creator. Yeah. See, I'm, we're animated to talk to God. And you know, when I hear Yeshua, I think Yeshua, salvation, righteousness, the life, the way, the truth. These are words that just the Holy Spirit animates out of you because you're, it's in your head, it's in your spirit, it's in your soul. And when we, when we're speaking God, we're really mirroring. We're a mirror here because, you know, it says the word of God is like a mirror. If we speak the word of God, we're mirroring what's in heaven and bringing it down to earth. So God doesn't want us to be quiet. No, He doesn't want us to be quiet. Praise God. All right. All right. Two more.
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I'm so, when we were worshiping, I saw Veronica going across the front with the lion with the crown on his head. Um, I was just reminded of how in ancient Israel, whenever a new king would ascend to the throne, that people would, would, uh, begin to worship and they would say the name, worship the name of the king that was going to ascend to the throne. And so it's like I felt like we were crowning Jesus, you know, as our King here today. And then it's like a command was given that, "Kiss the King, lest you perish." In the way, each subject would come one by one and bow before the King, and they would swear their allegiance to him. You know, address their, their theme, be the ready writer to the King, like David said. And they would come and they would like swear their allegiance by saying yes to him, which is what we do, you know, when we marry. And then there's the kiss, you know, that you're swearing allegiance to your lover. And it's like I just felt like Jesus kissed us here today. And in, um, in Song of Solomon, where it says, "He kisses me with the kisses of His mouth," it literally means to catch the fire of His mouth. You know, so the effect of His kiss on us is that we should be a burning fire with passion for Him. Amen. Thank You, Jesus.
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Yeah, mine was pretty simple. We were worshiping and, uh, so I started interacting with, with the Holy Spirit and I said, "You know, and You're all, You're inspired me, You're all those things." And it's, I stopped in my tracks. I mean, things. And He said, gently, "Those aren't things. Those are Me." And I just couldn't say anymore. And I just began to think of how much more He was than I thought. So, but there were things, I wasn't reprimanded, but it was like, "Thanks, no. God's alive. He's, you know, He's not what we call properties or the fruits or whatever. He just, He is on those things." Amen. Huh. Good one. Amen.
Um, yeah, and one up, Frank, and give you a, give us a little testimony. But so before Frank comes and gives a testimony, because I don't want to forget this, remember I told you Armando and Rosanna are going to get married, right there.
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We have a date change. So I remember I told you the 29th, Friday, next Friday. Well, we changed that. Erase that from your memories. Plug in September 2nd. It's a Friday at 2 p.m. Friday at 2 p.m. Okay. So come and join in the celebration in September. Yes. So you've got a while to plan. Okay.
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That's okay. So, uh, the bottom line is on Thursday, my wife asked me to, um, go to Tampa to pick up my daughter's, uh, bridal veil. So immediately I thought, bridal veil, Bride of Christ. This is a great opportunity to mess with Pastor Kathleen. So what I did was, I started driving there, and I went to this bridal shop, and then I got there. So I don't know if you can see that. Oh, yeah. So anyway, so you can pass that around. Anyways, so the bottom line is, uh, so I go to the bridal shop and I said, "This is also a good opportunity to witness." So I said to, uh, the gal, I said, "Yeah, I'm picking up a veil for my daughter, Kendall." She was, "Oh, Kendall was so nice. And your wife, oh my God, you know, Miss Elaine was spectacular." I said, "Yeah." I said, "So she's going to get the veil." And I said, "This is a perfect opportunity to ask her a favor." Because now I have some credibility because I have a good daughter and a good, uh, wife. So, she comes back, and I said, "Well, you take a photo of me." And she says, "Well, yeah." I said, "And will you do me a favor? Open up the veil." And says, "Okay." I said, "Will you put that on me and make it look nice?" And she looks at me in a very perplexed manner, and I knew I had her where I wanted her. So I said, "Did you ever hear of the Bride of Christ?" She says, "I don't know. I maybe." And there's three of them there, and they're all looking at me like I'm the weirdest guy in the world, which I might be. Yeah. So, um, anyway, so I said, "Well, the Bride of Christ, I mean, think, what is it?" And she goes, "I should know this, shouldn't I?" I said, "Yes, you should." I said, "The Bride of Christ is the Church. I said, we're the Bride of Christ. I said, at some point in time, the Bridegroom's going to swoop us up and take us away." And I said, "Now, you prepare these women all the time, you make them look beautiful, they put on that beautiful gown without spot or wrinkle. I said, and they're preparing for the big wedding feast. I said, we're going to have a wedding feast like you wouldn't imagine, seven years up in heaven with the Lord our Savior, Jesus Christ." So the conversation went fantastic, and it was really, really good. So I'm walking out, said, "Thanks for coming in. You really made our day." So I knew that was relatively successful. But what I also wanted to share, but see, they weren't there. You know, certain people are different, uh, steps in their Christian walk. They wouldn't understand. I said, "You know, when I talked about swoop away, I could have talked about the Rapture. We'll meet Him in the air and just be with Him forever." I said, "And, you know, it's just going to be this glorious event." But that wouldn't work because she wouldn't understand it. And then I also could have said, "Well, you know, you've heard of birth pangs? You get married, you're going to have, you're going to have a baby." I said, "Well, birth pangs, I said, we're kind of here. I mean, just look around. I mean, the wars, the rumors of wars, the famine, the pestilence. It's not really a bad thing. It means He's coming soon." I mean, so my one of my favorite verses is, um, 2 Timothy chapter 2, verse 13. It says, "Looking for the blessed hope, the glorious God, the Lord Jesus Christ." And so I feel like it's getting closer, and I'm so anxious about it. It's wonderful. And I used to do a TV show for years. It was called God's News Behind the News. And they always closed out with this verse, "Be ye ready, therefore, for in an hour as you think not, the Son of Man comes." So I ask you, are you ready? Are you ready? So anyway, so I just close with this, "Be you ready, therefore." And I hope it comes sooner rather than later. God bless. Ready? Ready.
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Okay, hot tamale. Where are we? Thank you, guys. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. Appreciate everything. All righty. Um.
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So, just a few announcements. The men's meeting will be held here tomorrow, uh, seven o'clock, right here. Women's meetings at Deborah Weaver's house tomorrow. And then Wednesday, um, we're just chilling with the Lord, you know, seeking His presence. He's showing up every week. He's here. You want to say anything on Bob Wednesday? Anything extra? Let me encourage Wednesday. Um, encourage you to come Wednesday. Wednesday is kind of like, um, we're going through the door, you know, come up here. The door is open. It's a place of intimacy and deep worship and a corporate time. And there's been a lot of people have had visions, and we've smelled fragrances, and there's people, we're hearing voices singing that are not in this room. They're, well, they're in this room, but they're multi-dimensional. They're not of this dimension. And, um, it's been, it's been touching. I mean, those of you have been coming, you've been getting really, we're getting really pulled up into the heavenlies and experiencing the, the, the throne room realities. Which, if you understand the throne and realities, then this three-dimensional reality is insignificant to what He has for you. And you can walk through anything if you have that mindset. So it's really important. People get healed when they're in that place. And we've had some healings and some changes and transformation. There's a metamorphosis going. So we're very excited how Wednesday's going. And each Wednesday is very different. So just, just saying. And there, how's that song go? "I did it, y'all." Way in that song, y'all? Oh, I know Vincent could sing it better. Um, where were we? Uh, let's see. Well, in a couple weeks, yeah, August the 5th, we're gonna have the Friday night cafe again. And it's different every time. You know, you bring a snack, something to share, have some coffee, whatever. And and music. And, you know, we're just, uh, fellowshipping with each other. And the Lord's there too. It's amazing, isn't it? "Two or three are gathered, and Jesus is in their midst." Yeah, yeah. Next week is First Fruits. So, you know, if you want to prepare First Fruits offering. And who's teaching next week? Is it your usual triumph for it? Not sure. Okay. But it's always good. So next week will be First Fruits. And I think the week after that, uh, when, uh, Tim Kaine will be here. And, um, let's see. Am I missing? Oh, anybody want, who wants to take a meal to Laverne this week? Anybody want to take a meal? Anybody? Anybody? Going once, twice? Okay. Chuck and Bell. All right. And that doesn't mean you, anybody else can't go. By what days you guys like to do on Saturday? Okay. And, uh, I know Laverne appreciates it. Don't you all them good yummies she gives us a report about how good it was? Oh, so good. So, uh, I think that's it. So without further ado, offering. And we want to take up our morning tithe and an offering for Mikko and Albana today. Uh, and I think most of you have heard Mikko speak. Um, if you hadn't, you're in for a real treat. Um, he goes really deep. Like he jumps off the high board and he goes way up, and then when he comes back down, it's like a cliff diver, and he goes way down into the water, come back up, and he brings something fresh every time. Putting the pressure on him now, but he's always ready, in season and out. I could tell you that. So, Lord, we just thank You, uh, for the abundance that You've put in our hands and that we can return to You and so back into Your kingdom. We just are grateful for, you know, it's like, who was saying that's, I don't know, somebody was talking the aspects of God. Was that you, Dave? They don't, I don't know. But like love, right? Well, love isn't God. God is love. He is love. Well, He is also a giver. Everything He loves to give, but He is giving. He is the embodiment of that. He can't, He can't help himself. He can't escape that. Everything, all those good things that we think of God, they aren't about him. Who was saying that? They are Steve, because him was you. Okay. They are him. Isn't that amazing? That he, ah, this is exciting. All right. So when we give, we're just giving what He's already given us, and He gives back, right? Amen. All right. Thank You, Father. Go ahead, guys. So I'm gonna grab a, you want a podium, don't you? Our mobile podium. So without further ado, Mikko Dimitrov.
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Wow. Good morning, blessed family. Thank You, Jesus. Uh, I just want to start with prophesying over us, just tearing up the atmosphere a little bit, uh, preparing, warming up our ability to hear from the Lord. Amen. And also our sensitivity to the Holy Spirit. Although I, I greatly appreciate the praise and worship we had this morning. So awesome. They did a great job. Usually, they always do a great job. But, you know, the different aspects of manifesting something of God's character and and majesty and glory and power and the different things. And it was so awesome this morning. We, we could have go with it, you know, if it wasn't of me, okay? I really appreciate it. Praise God. But I mean, we had a wonderful time. But now it's a different format of, uh, connecting with the Lord. Amen. With the word and, uh, listening and depositing in our hearts the power of His words. I just want to prophesy a little bit about the table of the Lord, okay? Because the word we receive, it comes from God, and He is the Bread of Life. Amen. And the, the table, uh, I, I honestly, table is very exciting. Amen. If, if you go for a party, if you go to the restaurant, you know what I'm talking about. You, you're partaking in the table and in the food and in the meal. And praise God, God, God made us in this amazing way to enjoy food. We are not like, uh, you wonder, you look some animals, you know, and they can eat stuff which doesn't have any taste and they, they just enjoy it. But you see, God made us in a unique way so we may partake in the food and also enjoy it. Amen. And that can be applied in the spiritual also. God really wants us to enjoy what we are partaking in His kingdom, in His table. And He is the Bread of Life. Actually, He's giving us everything. He is by Himself. And I just remember what happened the day, oh, thank You, Lord, the day Israel, the nation of Israel left Egypt to the promised land. Thank You, Father. And you remember that they, they were enslaved, they were in bondage, they were under the dominion of Pharaoh. There was no power, there was no ability for them to leave, to escape. How, how could they do it? You know, Pharaoh possesses all the chariots, all the horses, all the arm. And these are just vulnerable regular people. They don't have any skills how to fight and anything like that. Totally dependent on the Lord. Or praise God. Oh, now listen to this, folks. It's an amazing. Oh, thank You, Lord. I know what is coming. Bear with me. You know, it's just so heavy on me. Oh, thank You, Lord. Uh, it's beyond words, okay? But, but, but listen, listen. God didn't make anything violent. Yeah, it was violent because He brought death. But they didn't fight the usual way. They just partook in a table and in a meal. Isn't that amazing how God delivers us from the, the, the, the dominion, the power of darkness and everything this world and the devil, the enemy is trying to put on people? You know how God delivers them and take, take, takes them out of that former state of miserable life by partaking in a meal? Isn't that wonderful? They had to eat, not to flee, not to fight, not to struggle. They had to eat, consume, and partake into a lamb, which, which is good, actually. Praise God. It's a clean animal. It's wonderful. It's very biblical from the very beginning. It's God's chosen meal. Amen. And, and they had to partake into that meal, uh, and, and to eat it with, uh, roasted and on fire. It was not boiled and nothing like that. You know why? Why God would command them to eat that lamb roasted on fire? Because it represents Jesus, and it represents that Jesus will be put in your place. Jesus will suffer. Jesus will go through that fire, which was the, the, the wrath of God. And don't take me wrong. God is love. And when we speak about wrath, usually we, we think about road rage, okay? Something said, no, not at all. No, it's talking. The Bible, when the Bible points and refers to the wrath of God, it is the righteous indignation of the Judge of the whole universe, which is actually righteous and holy. There is nothing emotional so much in it as, uh, it is, it is righteous. It is, uh, exercising, uh, what is due, okay? So this universe may continue to be in order. Amen. So when we speak about the wrath of God, it means there was something in our atmosphere, in our life, there was something in our nature which was infused by the enemy. And one word, maybe, can describe it in the best way: rebellion. Rebellion against God, which is, which cannot be allowed. And, and that struggle, that confrontation, that, uh, you know, opposition in us actually kindles the, the wrath of God. But Jesus, praise God, as the Lamb of God, took that place, to that position, in order we may obtain mercy, we may obtain grace, forgiveness, we may obtain even to be justified and to become righteous by His righteousness being inputted into our account. And they partook into that. You see, Christianity is not something intellectual. Christianity is not something like manners and culture, outwardly, uh, presented. Although we, we are involved in those, but it most of all, it is something working on the inside and transformation, a new life, which takes part on the inside. And Jesus became that vital part of our lives. Oh, thank You, Jesus. And they, they, they ate that night, if you remember, that roasted lamb. And that's what we celebrate. That's what we partake. That's what we consume, you know, constantly, day after day after day. We declare, "He paid the price. He, He got me covered. Okay? He paid the price. He took my place in order to provide access to His glory, to His position, to His privileges, so I may partake into them." But that came, you know, as a result of the price He suffered and He paid for us. It is free for us, but it was not free on God's side. Praise be His name. That's why our lives are mostly marked by gratitude and thankfulness because we know, and we know day after day, again and again. And listen, the enemy tries to blame God and to use your crooked old mind, you know, which we inherited from the world and the culture of the world, that if God is good, if God is this, if God is that, why there is so much this and that in the world? Why this and that? Die. Let me tell you something. God is not just righteous. God is holy, holy, holy. And in Him, the Bible says, there is no unrighteousness. In Him, there is no injustice. We may have some wrong ideas and misunderstandings because it's not still not functioning. Paul says, "Then when He comes, we will see, you know, clear and we will understand." Now, it is always kind of a deemed. It is always kind of obscured, you know? And sometimes we have these wrong impressions and understanding. But let me remind you, God is holy. God, it's nothing on His side. He always wants, and His full desire is always everything to be, you know, uh, good, everything to be, uh, profitable. The Bible says, "When God finished His creation," the Bible gave us this awesome statement, "and everything was exceedingly good, perfect functioning." That's our Creator. That's what He creates. He doesn't create chaos. He is not the author of of misery and, and, you know, lack of order and all, all these things. Oh, thank You, Jesus. And they, they, they eat and they partake that lamb, which is freshly roasted on fire. And how they ate? How, how they ate? The Bible says, they had, there was a requirement for them. There was a requirement. "You shall eat it prepared with readiness to live, to to forsake, to abandon your former, whatever you were involved, whatever it was part of your nature, of your life, you are supposed to turn your back to eat when you, uh, to to eat when you eat the lamb." And when we, when we consume Christ, oh, praise God, I want you to get that. When we partake into Christ, we cannot continue in the old way. There is no, no, no. If you partake in religion, if you partake into something, you know, a cultural social gospel, whatever you may, but in Christ, the person of Christ, you cannot remain the same. You cannot continue living the old way and being the same person you, you used to be. It is impossible. That's the way you shall consume the lamb with your sandals girded up, with your mantels, and also with your staff in your hand. Imagine these little children, you know, it was dark, it was late at night, and children won't want to go sleep. Amen. And they're kind of a drowsy.
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And they go there, "Wake up, wake up. Where are we going? It's night. I want to sleep." No, no, we're living. We're living. You see the confidence you have to express? You see the boldness you have to gird up with? You see, when we come to church, when we praise, when we pray, when we read the Bible, when we go to our closet to pray and and commune, commune with our God, we, we are supposed to have that boldness and confidence that whatever it was, we're gonna live. We, we're just escaping. We're just no more. We'll be no more into that. Praise God. You cannot remain in that. I've been, you know, more than 35 years in in Christianity, not, not like some of you, blessed to to be born into this nation, to know Christ, to have the Bible, date grandma's. No, I was born in total atheism, unfortunately. Still catching up. Amen. But, you know, for this short time of experience with the Lord, I had, let me tell you something. Not even once, not even once when I had an encounter with Him, with the Bible, with the living word, I mean, not with the, uh, paper pages, okay? And, and, and, uh, with the Holy Spirit and just fellowshipping, I, I've never, never ever remained weak, fragile, disappointed, discouraged, or what? No matter what is showing on the outside, I will go out of my closet equipped and clothed with a crown of victory because, and John says, "This is our victory, even our faith." You say faith works in a different way from what the world is expecting. Going only with the, with the sin. Oh, take that, take that, because I'm telling you, every time you're invited to partake in the table of the Lord, expect something to take place. Transformation, change of the atmosphere of your life, of your perspectives, of your privileges, of your destiny, of your faith, whatever it is. I'm taking you. You're going into a new place. You're going in a new direction. You're going actually into to enter into the sphere of new life which you've never seen before, never experienced. And if you, if you think that you know everything about Christ and about Christian life, let me disappoint you. You don't. Okay? Listen, yesterday with my wife, we found out. Have you seen about this, uh, museum of art? It's a palace in Paris called the, the Louvre. And the Louvre, okay? Filled with all kind of artifacts, with paintings of famous artists and statues and Michelangelo, you name it, you know? So if, if you spend only 10 seconds, a short glimpse on all of these, uh, uh, you know, uh, yeah, works of art in the museum, on every each and every one of them, 10 seconds only, you, you will spend like a year and four months to pay attention to each and every one, only for 10 seconds. Now, let me tell you something. Paul is telling us about the unsearchable, phantomless, uh, uh, unable to calculate, to to, uh, uh, yeah, answer to, yeah, riches of Christ, which we are actually not able to consume and, and to feast on. Can you imagine, uh, that even eternity? He created eternity. Nothing can exist like a form of matter, dimension, you name it, without first the Creator to be first to release it and to form it and to create it. And if eternity is so big, think about the cosmos. It blows your mind because this question always bothers you, okay? But, uh, how far is that? And there is no end. Okay? There is no end. But what is after, uh, behind, uh, uh, if there is no end? And then they go like, "Oh, it's endless." Yes, but yeah, why go further with my? And you collapse, you know, you collapse. God created that with a wink of His eye. Just, just like that. Boom. He created eternity, which we will be positioned into eternity by giving us eternal life and nature. And we will spend that blessed time consuming knowledge and revelation of God Himself. But think, if the Creator can create such a fathomless, uh, dimensions and things, think about Him. And you are invited to know Him, to consume Him, and to, to, uh, have a revelation. And, and actually, you're invited to, to grow in the knowledge. Thank you, Albino. To grow in the knowledge of Him. Wow. Think about these poor wretched people. Did they know what will follow? But they got obedient and prepared. I'm telling you, faith is not your own version. Faith is obedience to the God's version. And every time you will exercise faith, you are invited to exercise faith in something God, God's perspective, God's idea of how things will work. And sometimes we cannot connect the dots and figure it out. But, but I'm telling you, faith is about God. Jesus said, "Oh, Peter says, look, look, the fig tree has dried up." How is this possible? Jesus turns and, and says to Peter, "Have faith in God." Some translations say, "Have the faith of God." The way He maintains things spiritually. Jesus never used, I'm not against that, okay? But Jesus never used any kind of herb, any kind of treatment, any kind of ointment. And He, He never advised people, you know, for extra, whatever, to take. No, His word was, "Listen to me, all sufficient." And I'm still going there, okay? I told you, I'm still going. I'm, I'm not there yet. But that's the bar. Jesus is the bar. There is no other bar. Thank You, Jesus. You see the power of the world? You see the power of the Spirit? He, He never went to the gym. He never had a tattoo. He didn't need that to present himself mighty, powerful, you know, "Hey, don't mess with me." Okay? He will go just, oh, okay, with the world, with the world, with the world. And, and one word, a legion. I don't know how many thousand, uh, used to know like five thousand or something like that, uh, Roman legion would be one word, one word, one word. Five thousands of demons, you know, demonic, uh, uh, influence, just left, uh, in a second. And they knew they have to obey. Otherwise, otherwise, what? I'll tell you what. Otherwise, there might be the possibility for you to go into eternal damnation in the pit. And they knew it, and they begged for it because they knew Jesus had authority, authority, authority, authority. Oh, how wonderful is that? How wonderful is to partake into this Lamb of God, roasted in fire, and prepared for what? Prepared to to forsake and to live that wretched, that miserable life of slavery and to enter in the covenant given and promised to them today for Father Abraham, 400 years. People, do you know how much, how old is America? 246. And you see how far we've gone from our forefathers' foundation? You see that these are 400 years of slavery, of all kind of Egyptian idolatry over them, you know? And still the covenant is in power. God has not forgotten. Thank You, Jesus. The Lamb has the power to take him out of every political, of, yeah, of every political, uh, rulership of Pharaoh, dominion, whatever doesn't mirror that night you're living, you're going out. Can they even imagine how this will happen? Listen to me, listen to me. When they left, the Bible says, "Even the dogs was silent." That's impossible. You know, the dogs will go, no, they went, they went in dead silence because even the dogs that night, they got shut up, you know, and, and not able to to exercise their nature. These dogs, according to the Bible, they represent something. They, they represent, you know, something which is strange to to the nature, to the plan of God. It's always an opposition, you know? Paul is talking even using that term in the book of Galatians and some, some other places. Something unclean. It was silent. Praise God. You know, dear toads, sometimes like dogs, like barking at your dare to think and to decide to live a different life. And those thoughts will rise up from your past and they will start opposing, you know, the, the mind of the flesh, that the carnal mind of the flesh is in opposition of the mind of the Spirit. And the spiritual minded tries to, to oppose it. No, no, it's not gonna happen. You, you, we've been together like that so long. I don't think this will work. And blah, blah, blah. But when you eat, listen to me, when you eat and consume the Lamb and you partake in the table of the Lord, God will silence those thoughts and those, uh, dogs of opposition, you know, barking against you and panicking and doing things like, uh, like, uh, "I am against you." And then you are not supposed to move in that, that time of the night and all kind of stuff like that. Oh, praise God. You will be dead silent, and only the word of God will prevail. Thank You, Jesus. Are you ready? I mean, I, I already, I'm talking about your spiritual readiness. And it's never too far. Are you with me? Do you agree with me? Never too far. Never too late. Never, ever, never ever. One, one thing makes the difference. The one who eats me, the one who consumes me, the one who, and, and, and sustains his life with me will live through me, will receive life by me. Thank You, Jesus. Thank You. And they, they, they garb that, they eat, and, and this preparedness, ready to live. Oh, praise God. Do you know how many disabled people they had? This was not a life of bed of roses. This was a harsh life. We today we have the benefits of so many privileges and, and, and we are surrounded, uh, by all kind of tools, and still we get injured, still we get, you know, troubles in our bodies. These people, most of their life will be like spent like slaves, working on the field, you know, beaten, harsh life, uh, scourged by the sun and, and whatever, you know, food they had, definitely was not the best to to support. So many of them when they get old, it aches in your joints, this ache in your, uh, back, uh, you know, low back. There is something, uh, injured. You drop a stone on your, on your feet. It is kind of disabled. And yet, and yet, even not even one excluded and disqualified to leave Egypt. Not even one left behind. And not only them, listen to me, but all they had, their possessions, with all their gold and, and sheep and everything was released and given to them as they, they belonging. Listen, you have dreams, you have, uh, uh, you've been appointed for something, uh, you have possessions. We are all different, but every one of us possesses something which God has appointed to be His. And I'm telling you, when you enter into that new life, God will send those things with you as your own property. He will not leave you, uh, be behind to, uh, to, in the world and your former, whatever you struggle with. No, He's going to give it to you. Praise God. And they didn't even rob Egypt. The Bible says they even robbed Egypt. They took gold and they went out because the gold and the silver, believe it or not, the gold and the silver is used by the devil, is used by the world and the system of the world. But originally, it belonged to God. Belonged to God. And to the Garden of Eden, not to the land of Nimrod, Babylon, and, and, uh, who was, uh, Cain or whoever left, you know, God's presence. It was God's property. It was God's blessing. The enemy stole it from us. Now we are bringing it back. Thank You, Jesus. All this beauty, all this glory, we are appointed. The enemy tries to steal from the United States the gold and the silver and to use it for wicked purposes. I'm telling you, when we eat, when we consume, God is preparing you to rob the world of whatever they're taking, uh, unrightfully from the Lord, using from for their wicked purposes. That gold was used for idolatry. That gold and silver was used for the wicked activities in Egypt. They took it and put it in the tabernacle. They took it and put it in the, all the objects of the tabernacle, and they made with that system, with that gold, with these possessions, they made a worship place for the Lord. Who? Thank You, Lord. Thank You, Lord. Thank You, Lord. Not even one was left stumbling in the on the way. That's mind-blowing. Let me tell you, still don't get it. I still don't get it because what I see around me is a lot of stumbling and a lot of fragility and all kinds of things. But that doesn't disqualify the truth of the power, the glory of the word of God. And that's the bar. It's not someone says else's accomplishments, life, or whatever is taking place around us. That's the power of God manifested in these people who knew nothing at that time about God, you know, full of later on of rebellion, confusion, all kinds of things like that. But somehow, because only because they obeyed God, there was no one in the way to stumble and to drag his feet and to be left behind. Actually, they, they would have made it pretty well, pretty well to the pro. As Katy said last service, last Sunday, you know, talking about the journey and how short could have been and how long it it took in the desert. That they could have make it. And, you know what? No one of them actually got his sickness back later on. Whoa. Jesus bore our sins. Jesus didn't help us to bear them. Are you with me? Jesus bore our sins, like the, the scapegoat would bear the sins of Israel in an uninhabited land, you know, taking away, though these loathe away from them, this burden. Oh, thank You, Jesus. That's our Lord. He took.
bore our sins but not only sins but our sicknesses. And I'm telling you guys, I'm telling you, I know what it is because we have a fight with the, the, that what we inherited from the first Adam. Because many people, they, they get confused. If I am a child of God, if I, uh, obey Him, follow Him, why is this happening in, in my body?
Let me tell you something. Your spirit, you, the spirit you received is from the Lord. Amen. You got born again, revived in your spirit. But God has not given you a new body yet. He will give you a new body. That body you inherited from whom? You inherited from the first Adam. Amen. And Paul says there is death working in that body still because of the, for the fall of the first Adam.
But the good news, the good news is that Jesus knew that. And Jesus knew what will follow, knew the consequences. And, and He took care of that by yielding and giving up His own body before the cross to be scorched, to be, uh, uh, go through the pain, through the suffering of everything. If you read the Bible, it will tell you His, His members went out of the joints, uh, uh, His mouth was filled with, uh, sand and, and stones, and His eyes suffered, and, uh, He, it was total havoc and, and, and breakdown released on, on His physical body in order He may get you covered.
Why? Because He knew that you will need that help because you will continue out of born again Christian, you will continue to live in a physical body inherited from the first Adam. But the last Adam took good care of that. And He said, I will bear the consequences. I will, I will take these sicknesses as they suffering on me. And if He took it, let me tell you, let me tell you, you don't have, you don't have, there is no need, there is no need of that. There is no double. What He took it single-handed by Himself.
And I'm telling you, I'm not rebuking. I'm not, no. I'm trying just, uh, this generation to continue in the right path so we may transfer the burden to the next generation with the standard which is found in the Bible. Although we are still not there fully, we need, we need time to advance in those things because they come, they come as a result of understanding and revelation. And we grow up into that on a daily basis. But our spirit, our bodies, our how to outward life may suffer, may, may go through things. But you know, precious people, our spirits are rejoicing. We love you, precious one. Look at this color. How wonderful you are for the Lord. Precious possession. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. Is she taken care for the week, for food, or something? Okay, great. We love you, Laverne. Thank you, Father.
The same Spirit, are you with me? The same Spirit which raised Christ from death will quicken, give life to your mortal bodies. And my mind doesn't always agree with that. Do you understand? My natural mind, I have a spiritual mind, and I have a monkey mind. And the monkey mind plays games, monkey business. He goes like, have you ever seen anything like that? Yes. A.A. Alec, Kathryn Kuhlman, Smith Wigglesworth. I can go on and on. I hate those. Yes, you hate them. Spirit of lie on this soil, in this nation, revival tabernacles, the greatest manifestations ever exercised on earth, biblical proportions, even greater maybe than the book of Acts, exercised and performed on the soil of the United States. Isaac read the wealth of his father because the Philistines stuck them with dirt, which is the serpent's food. Dirt is serpent's food. Okay, stuck him with dirt. But Isaac decided, you know, to reduce the wells of his father. And listen to this, and name them with the same names. Have you seen that recently? Terminology is changing, becoming more relative to this, relative to that. And things are changing, names are changing, and things are going different in many ways. I don't care. Let me tell you, I will remain old-fashioned. I will remain biblical. I will remain with those names. I don't need new names because those were pretty good already. And God is the same yesterday, today, today, and forever. I was stuck with those names and name them again and reopen these, these, these sources, these cisterns of life and blessing and everything. And name them with the name which are given in the Bible. Praise God. Praise God. Praise God.
Let me finish with something which is, uh, I just, you know, want to stop here and just still, guys, when you partake in the table of the Lord, let me tell you, it's nothing like it. It will change. It will transform. It will give life. It will sustain. It will give you power. And that's why you, you see, we are dependent. We can, if you live independent of food, I will tell you, you will have a very short expiration date. Do you agree with me? Actually, naturally, we tend to go in the opposite way. You see, some of us, I envy them because they have cushions. And when I travel, you know, my butt aches, you know, and stuff like that. And I end with those people when I see them, say, oh, blessed are you on your travels, you know, because you don't have pain like my bones penetrating through my skin. But, but listen, listen, we tend to go to that dependence. And we know, and it's good. I'm telling you, we need to start to culture, to, to, uh, to steward that that spiritual dependence. And today, uh, to, to constantly feed our minds and our spirits, you know, with the table of the Lord, to partake. And I'm telling you, every time, every time He comes and He feeds you, and you, you feed and feast on Him, He gives you perspectives which are different, journeys, directions, understandings which are totally different from the current state you are and the current atmosphere which is surrounding you. Who? Praise God. Praise God.
It was dark. Why? I wonder. Isn't that? Have you ever asked yourself this question? Why in the world God would decide, forgive me for my expression, you know, I don't want to put anything on Him, but, but that's English expression I can use now. Uh, He, He would call His nation in the middle of the, don't you think that's kind of inconvenient? You know, why not, you know, early in the morning? There is light. People are just ready to, to go and to exercise their activities. And they, in that time, which is actually the opposite of what we're, we're doing in the world. But I think this is an opposition. When, when the Lord comes, uh, it's in the opposite of what the world feels convenient of and goes with. We, we receive something which goes totally, uh, in a position, totally different from what you see the world usually is giving us. Yeah, but, yeah, that was my thought too. I have a good advisor, you know, the great cardinal, but just kidding.
Listen, Jesus actually, when Jesus came, He came like the light of the world. We don't need the light of the world. We don't need the help of the world. He's our help. He's our light. He came into the darkness of our world to take us out and to make us possible to live. And, and, and, and there will be light. There will be everything required for life and godliness. We don't need the help. There is no window in the holy place. Amen. There is not even a candle in the holy of holies. Are you with me? We don't need a candle. We don't need the help of the soul, of the mind. The Spirit takes care, has the full potential to give you light, glory, understanding, revelation. That's our source. There's no, no sun in heaven. Why? Because there is no need of sun. We have the Lamb of God. We have Jesus. And He covers everything which is required for life and godliness. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord.
I just want to pray a prayer. Amen. Jesus, Father, we, we appreciate, uh, this church, this ministry for something specific that they love to host the presence of God. Just like Martha, Mary, and Lazarus in Bethany, they, they love to host the Lord. And I've been with this church more than 20, 25 maybe years, you know, since Georgian first time brought me here for these parties of the Holy Spirit. And, and He chose that place on a purpose because these people, they knew and still know how and still still, uh, crave, you know, and go after the presence of God and to host the presence of God. And my prayer is, let that attitude of Father Abraham be continued with us all. When he saw the three men approaching, listen, the Bible says he ran toward them. He didn't send a servant. He ran towards them. He met them. He invited them to rest, to refresh, to eat, to be fed, to feel honored. He stood by them. He didn't sit on the table. You, you don't get it. Father Abraham was a very prominent, rich man with many possessions and servants. He was a great man. He had an army. And yet, when, when God came with the angels, he stood beside Him as a servant. He didn't sit on the, set on the table. Today, we have the privilege to sit and eat, not from a cow for something, but with Him. But don't forget that attitude, that that readiness to host the presence, to invite the presence, to, to make the Lord feel free and comfortable in our midst and be lifted up as our Master. Thank you, Jesus. Amen. Amen.
Robert, thank you, Lord. All right, now, um, uh, Mikko, you're ready to minister, right? If anybody, so if anybody, uh, would like, uh, you know, some prayer from Mikko, come on up here. If you're not receiving prayer, please, uh, be respectful of those getting prayed for and hold your conversations down or take them outside. And be dismissed to go to lunch. [Music] We'll see you again. Shalom. Shalom. You.