talking about the power of god i'm receiving god's power
how can we receive his power you talked about how jesus followed him
into the wilderness you know a lot of times we think we're not following the spirit if
it's suffering right that's why it's so important that you follow the spirit and not what you want
or what you think or how it was done before but really understanding who he is and following him
but my question to you ladies is how do you explain that to someone who's watching right
now how can you receive god's power yeah for what you need to do right yeah this is real simplistic
but i think of it god always gives me visuals because i need the cookies on the lower shelf
and we have this pool float that if i put the the air thing in it to blow it up right it will not
blow up because the way the nozzle is when it's standing it has to lay down and so it's just this
flat piece of rubber but it has to lay down and i put that air in and it just goes
yeah and then it stands up as huge thing and every time i do it every summer i'm like assess
in the holy spirit if you are not on your face at least figuratively before the lord go in yeah
i got nothing yeah apart from you i have no hope i have no power i have no life yeah but christ in
you i'm a co-heir i'm a royal priest too awesome so to me it it you have to lie down with humility
i love you before he raises you up before he raised it up i love that i love that again
yeah yeah yeah desperation too you know realizing that he's attracted to the desperation yeah he's
not repelled by it yeah and so i think the times i've sensed the power of the spirit i mean he's
he's always with us but really yeah indwelling that overflowing really for anybody watching
it's when i'm terrified yeah and i'm walking in and i say fill me and you do it kill me again
and i'm heartbroken with grief fill me and so i think right laying down and being flat oh yeah
but also that sense of again i'm not going to take my desperation and hide it right i'm going
to bring it out and go yeah right here i love this yeah i think as believers we've become
really cool really cool i agree you know or trying to try when we look through the scriptures you
always hear i cried out yes right i cried out in here right a couple of years ago alex very
generously and graciously invited me to come and speak at their church to preach at their church
and you know how when you're going i mean i always want god's words to fill my mouth and i
always want the gospel to be clear and if i have to be moronic for him to reveal himself that's
okay but you don't want to be moronic in your friend's church like with a bunch of
people you know in love you're just like okay lord if it's okay with you i'd like to be cool
be cool don't sweat it i'm concerned with how i looked and i got up and the first night
by the grace of god they gave me two nights but the first night there was no life in it
it was horrible god can move with donkeys and rocks yeah i'm not saying god's hands were dead
yes but it just there was no power in it and i thought goodness gracious god the one place
i really didn't want to fail miserably was with my dear friend and i think it took me going oh
yikers i forgot that he's the weak and the foolish forgive me for bringing my reputation to the table
whatever you want to do and then i didn't do great i just was surrendered
the second night and then god's power came and you got saved and i think it was spurgeon who says
we don't have to even exegete the scriptures you just open the bible and the lion of judah races
out of his cage and so that i think part of it is power part of is that's just going i don't start
the power i don't control the power but sometimes he lets me ride the rifle yeah you know ah yeah
yeah but it's been connected isn't it to the source it yielded if you put my power plug in
right the power comes out i could have my you know my leaf blower that is really capable but
without it being connected to the power source it doesn't work no power moves through it and
i think sometimes we try and do it void of being connected that's right to the thought that's good
we don't know him and we've got to know him and i know holy spirit as a friend he's my best friend
so i'm just connected right so i can hear him like i hear jesus and so many people get confused well
with the father is it jesus the holy spirit's all of them right yeah i'm connected to the source
and when you're connected to the source the power moves through you because
well how do you get connected ah his presence his word spending time with him
seeking him listening to him yeah worshiping and allowing him to speak he speaks more than we
realize he's great speaking we're just not listening and if you just silence yourself
sometimes like you even said when i'm fearful when i'm devastated i can feel me what do you
do you don't feel me and then run you feel and you wait and you listen and you lean in and honestly
the times that i've watched god move over and over in my life has just been i've got out of the way
at church we get out of the way i'm about to preach and i feel holy spirit because worship is
going great and then i feel holy spirit so i don't want that word i just want you to stand still
and sometimes we don't want to stand still because we think there's nothing i have to feel like right
are you willing to look foolish so like that's right yeah and i've just stood still
and i tell you the presence god is right just get out of the way just act on that obedience
right yeah sometimes even if nothing happened he's just wanting to see if you can wear it
yeah so the power will come because he's wanting to move he wants you yeah
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