Speaker 1: 0:00

I'm reading a verse from Acts, chapter 2, verses 1 through 4. On the day that Pentecost was being fulfilled, all the disciples were gathered in one place. Then, all of a sudden, they heard the sound of a blast of violent wind rushing into the house from the heavenly realm. The roar of the wind was so overpowering that it was all that they could bear. Then, all at once, a pillar of fire appeared before their eyes and engulfed each of them. It separated itself into tongues of flame, and it separated itself into tongues of flame and and engulfed each one of them. They were filled and equipped with the Holy Spirit and were inspired to speak speaking tongues.

Speaker 2: 0:53

Hear me now. Yeah, oh, whoa dude, what an awesome job. Well, I am so glad you guys are here with us today. I have a question for you. Have you ever had a God moment Like you're, like this? There is no other way to explain it, there's no other way to say it. You might even say to yourself you might have tried to chalk it up to chance. You might have said, well, that was just a good decision at the right time at the right moment. Or you might even say, man, it was just plain dumb luck at the right time at the right moment. Or you might even say, man, it was just plain dumb luck.

Speaker 2: 1:31

But when you sit back and you think on it, you're like there is no way that that wasn't God. Maybe for you, you experienced a miraculous healing. Maybe you were injured, you were hurt, and someone prayed for you and the next thing you know, you were healed. Maybe you were a part of that. Maybe you prayed for someone and they experienced healing. Maybe it was protection. Maybe you were a part of that. Maybe you prayed for someone and they experienced healing. Maybe it was protection. Maybe you are a part of a situation where you should have been hurt. You could have been, something could have happened to a loved one, but it was a miraculous protection, like there is no way we should have made it out of that not being hurt. Maybe there is something that happened that there is no other way to explain it except that the Spirit of God broke in and intervened and it felt like a God moment.

Speaker 2: 2:11

Now, one of my first real God moments that I experienced was when I was 15 years old. I was at a normal youth service and while the youth pastor was talking, he was talking about giving your life to Jesus, and I remember sitting there feeling this like thing inside of my gut and I wasn't sure if I was nervous about something or if it was the food I ate before youth group. But I knew I felt something inside of me and later I figured out it was the Holy Spirit nudging me to respond to the altar call to give my life to Jesus. And that day I listened to the nudge of the Holy Spirit nudging me to respond to the altar call to give my life to Jesus. And that day I listened to the nudge of the Holy Spirit and I gave my life to Jesus and it changed the entire trajectory of my life. It was a God moment. The Holy Spirit was speaking to me and I joined it. I jumped right in, right when I gave my life to Jesus. I jumped in and I joined a youth discipleship program that our church offered. I started to learn how to read the Bible, how to pray, how to serve, and I felt brand new. I felt like my life had purpose.

Speaker 2: 3:12

Then, a few months later, at a youth retreat, at another God moment that I'll never forget, we were sitting around a campfire. There's a lot of youth, there's over 50 youth. We're sitting around a campfire roasting some mellows singing some worship song classic youth group vibes. If you ever grew up in youth group, this is what it's like. And so we were singing, we were having a good time and there's no lights, no hype, just teenagers praying and seeking God.

Speaker 2: 3:40

And I remember I stood up with my hands open. Again, I'm kind of new to all this stuff. I'm not really sure this whole God thing. I'm kind of trying to figure it out. And I stand up and I start worshiping and praying, and then one of the youth leaders comes up to me and he says pray out loud what you feel like God is doing in your heart. And so I'm just standing there and in my heart I just felt like saying I'm sorry. I kept saying, god, I'm sorry. I didn't even know what I was sorry for, but I just kept saying God, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. And then, all of a sudden I get this warm sensation. It wasn't the fire in front of me, but from head to toe I feel this warm sensation and it was the Holy Spirit. And next thing I know I'm crying, I'm praying in tongues, I'm like what is happening to me right now? I couldn't explain it and the only way I could explain it was that the Holy Spirit revealed to me God's power and presence in my life and that God loves me and is for me. And since then I've had so many God moments. I've had so many moments in my life where I can point back and say God was with me there. And these moments, these God moments, they remind us that he's real, that he's here and that he's moving and that he is active.

Speaker 2: 4:50

And today is Pentecost Sunday, it's 50 days after the Passover, and this is the day that the Holy Spirit invaded the disciples. This is the day that most scholars would say, this is the day the church started. It was the day the church started, the church was born. So here's my goal for us today. I got two of them. If you once had a passion for the Holy Spirit, I want to help relight the flame. I want to help relight the flame and I want to remind you of the joy and the adventure of following the leading of the Holy Spirit. And if you're in here today and you never really experienced the Holy Spirit, you're not sure what it's all about. I want to invite you to get curious. I want to invite you to get curious about the Holy Spirit, to open your heart to Him today. Because let's be real, in this fact-checking, internet discipleship world, we're kind of good with the concept of God the Father. We can kind of wrap our heads around that, we understand, okay, jesus died for us. We can make sense of those concepts, but the Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit is often the forgotten God. He's left to the side.

Speaker 2: 5:55

Francis Chan said it best. He says this there is a big gap between what we read in Scripture about the Holy Spirit and how most believers and churches operate today. Tyler Staton put it this way in his book the Familiar Stranger, which I recommend everyone to read. I know I'm always recommending books for you guys, but this one's a good one. The Holy Spirit is the agent of the Trinitarian God, narrowing the gap between biblical promise and everyday experience. What he's saying is it's the Holy Spirit, it's through the Holy Spirit that we can do the stuff that Jesus did in the Bible. It's the Holy Spirit moving us and prompting us and nudging us to do this. So here's the good news.

Speaker 2: 6:37

In Acts 2, we see the Spirit's power for everyday people just like you and me. And the best part is this the Spirit's work is in us now, and the Spirit's work is what our church is all about. How the Spirit works is how we even got our mission statement as a church. See, our mission as a church is to help everyday people learn how to become Jesus followers, and the way we accomplish our mission is through our vision, and our vision is to help people be with Jesus, become like Jesus and do the stuff that Jesus did. See, even at Local Basic, step 2. Today we'll talk about what our vision looks like in action. But here you go. Here's a little sneak peek In action to be with Jesus. That's our Sunday services.

Speaker 2: 7:20

We want to provide a platform on Sundays that you can come in, no matter what you got going on in your life, and worship Jesus. Be with Jesus for your kids, for your youth, to really experience Him. And then we want people to become like Jesus, and we see that through small groups. Small groups who you hang out with is who you imitate, and so that's what our small groups are all about. And then we want people to do the stuff that Jesus did, and that's about joining a team, that's about serving.

Speaker 2: 7:44

That's when you say, man, I'm going to use my gifts to make a difference and I got to say something. You got to forgive me, my voice is hurting today, but I got to say something. God put this on my heart today. There's people in here today that have a passion for our youth, and I feel like the Holy Spirit wants to stir you up and use your gifts to impact the next generation. We have a lot of youth in our church. It's pretty cool, and I believe there's people in this room today that have a passion for young people that you may have been sitting on.

Speaker 2: 8:12

You may say, ah, maybe another time, maybe another season, and I feel the Holy Spirit saying now is the season. Now is the season in response to that nudge. But that's what we want to do and this is what the Holy Spirit helps us does. The Holy Spirit empowers us to live as everyday Jesus followers, filling us, forming us and sending us. And we are going to look at those three today, okay, so the Holy Spirit fills us to be with Jesus. I'm going to talk slower today, okay, here you go. In Acts 2, yeah, right, we'll see. We'll see if I do it.

Speaker 2: 8:47

In Acts 2, we find the disciples together in a room. Church history teaches that they were in an upper room, maybe a house of one of the disciples, I'm not exactly sure, but this has been a crazy season for them. They have spent 40 days with the resurrected Jesus, on and off. So I mean, that's kind of weird altogether right there. So they got a lot going on. And then, before Jesus' ascension, he tells them this. He says do not leave Jerusalem, but wait for the gift my Father promised, which you have heard me speak about For John baptized with water, but in a few days you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit. Remember that word baptism means a full immersion, fully full immersion. This is what Jesus is saying to them. So Jesus gives them this command, this order to wait, to wait. He said in a few days, no specific time. A few days meaning tomorrow, a few days meaning at the end of the week, a few days meaning the next month, like when is it? But he gives them this command to wait, he leaves and they are to wait.

Speaker 2: 9:55

And I don't know about you guys, but I don't like to wait, I don't like to wait. See, the only time I can like be okay with waiting a little bit is I'm a theme park guy. I love theme parks, I love roller coasters and I actually don't mind waiting in lines because I know at the end of my waiting I'm going to have fun on the ride. Right, waiting with expectation can be exciting. It can cause buildup, the anticipation, like when you know you have a vacation coming. You've been saving money for it and you've been getting, you've been planning for it, getting it already, and then when you finally come, it's exciting. You've been waiting for it, but then, so that's fun waiting.

Speaker 2: 10:34

But then there's other waiting that isn't like that. There's waiting without expectation, there's waiting and you don't know what the results are going to be. There's waiting for a doctor's report and you're hoping it's going to be good. There's waiting, and you're hoping it's going to be good. There's waiting, and you don't know how your kid is going to make it out of this situation. There's waiting, too, that can leave you feeling hopeless. There's waiting that can make you second guess yourself. Did I really hear that? Did he really say that?

Speaker 2: 10:56

And this is where we find the disciples. They are waiting in a room together. Jesus gave them no specific time. He didn't say after you do this, then this gift. They don't even know what the gift is. Is it going to be wrapped up with a boat? They had no idea. He's so vague about it so they don't even know what they're waiting for. There's no specific details, there's no business plan, there's no Myers-Briggs test. There is nothing but a command to wait, to wait.

Speaker 2: 11:30

And so you can say the disciples found themselves in this tension, this tension of the already and the not yet. They found themselves waiting in the already, where they have experienced the resurrected Jesus, but he ascended to heaven. And now they're in the not yet. This power, this spirit that they haven't experienced. They don't know when it's coming. And there's this tension here and guys, we're still in this tension regularly, where we know God wants to do something and we're still waiting for him to move, and we find ourselves in the middle of the mystery. We find ourselves waiting for God to move, and here you go, and here you go, and this is what they do, though I want you to see this Two things I want you to see when it comes to being filled with the Holy Spirit. They waited in prayer and they waited in community. I want you to get this. They waited in prayer and they waited in community.

Speaker 2: 12:23

See, they were uncertain about their next steps. And what do they do next? When I'm uncertain about my next steps, you know what I do next. I go to the internet, and here you go. I said this a couple weeks ago.

Speaker 2: 12:37

We're all disciples of the internet, and you may say, not me, I'm not. Think about it. Just think about how often you turn to the internet to answer your questions and meet your needs in times of trouble. I need something from the store Target, amazon, walmart. Four-hour delivery, and that's like not fast enough. Four-hour delivery, and that's like not fast enough. I can search something on the internet, and the internet God will give me millions of answers within seconds.

Speaker 2: 13:06

And so, since we are disciples of the internet and the God of the internet is so fast in this response, we hold Jesus to the same expectation and we struggle to pray because we lost the value of waiting. We don't know how to wait. Today, even at church, I said I just wish I could be bored because I always got something I'm doing, and yet we struggle to pray. We struggle because we're so busy filling our lives up our quick fixes, we're so busy trying to get our 30-day abs and trying to do these things and we're so reactionary. Someone does something and we have to react to it. We are so reactionary that we don't even stand on our own values. We're just constantly reacting to someone else's drama and we catch ourselves in this and we have a hard time.

Speaker 2: 14:04

We have a hard time waiting because we have a hard time at being empty. The youth is having a fun time today, but they loud. Can someone get that for me? Thank you. They have a hard time being empty, so I want you to go with me for a second here, okay? Have you ever waited at DMV, thinking you have everything you hope for? You have to go to DMV. Sorry, I got so distracted. My ADD was in full form right then Okay. Form, right then Okay. Have you ever waited at DMV, thinking you had everything? Just hoping when you get to the front they don't ask for two forms of ID.

Speaker 2: 14:49

That kind of waiting can leave you helpless, out of control, and if you're like me, you don't like that feeling. The internet makes us feel like we're in control Quick answers, instant solutions. But sometimes God makes us wait, not to frustrate us but to remind us that he's the one in control. Have you ever noticed how God always seems to start his work by filling something that is empty? God always seems to start his work by filling something that is empty. Genesis 1, the Spirit of God was what, hovering over an empty and formless void.

Speaker 2: 15:27

In Acts 2, the disciples are waiting in the upper room and it was empty of power until the Spirit of God filled them. Because God is in the business of filling things up that are empty. And I don't know who I'm preaching to today, but maybe you came in here today feeling a little empty. You're feeling empty on hope. You're feeling empty on passion. You're feeling empty on living your life the way you know you want to live your life. You're feeling a little empty on the inside. You're feeling a little empty on the inside. You're feeling a little empty on your dreams. You're feeling empty. And here's the good thing about us being empty when we're empty, we can either go to the quick fixes or we can wait on the Lord and our God is good at filling things that are empty and he will fill us up and we can meet with Him. Acts 2, 1.

Speaker 2: 16:17

On the day Pentecost was being fulfilled, all the disciples were gathered in one place. They were gathered together. They were there together, but they weren't filled yet. They were together and they were still waiting. And maybe that's where you are today. You're waiting for God to fill you. You're waiting for your breakthrough. And can I tell you something? Don't go to the quick fix to get something that only God can fill. Don't go, don't keep going to the thing that's going to temporarily make you feel better and miss out on waiting for what God has for you. And I know I'm being a little abstract in my talking, but you know the thing that you need God to come through for you on, and you know the thing that you need God to come through for you on, and you know the thing that you keep going back to that promises you something big and leaves you dry every single time. And so this is what we see they're waiting, they're together and they don't have all the answers. This is what I love. This is what I love, because being filled with the Holy Spirit is sometimes just showing up. It's just showing up saying God, here I am. I don't have all the answers, I don't have it all together, but I'm here, and when you make yourself available, god fills empty spaces.

Speaker 2: 17:25

The Holy Spirit is not just a doctrine we believe in. The Holy Spirit is a person of the Trinity, and the Holy Spirit wants to fill you with His presence, not just once, not just on a Sunday, but every single day as you learn how to become a Jesus follower, because you can't be with Jesus without the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is the breath of God in our lungs. He's the one who turns our prayers from routine into relationship. He's the one that takes your Bible reading and makes it come alive. I was talking to my mom the other day and she was telling me that she's got into this spiritual habit. She sits on the porch and she takes one or two Bible verses, and before and after she reads, she says Holy Spirit, give me wisdom and understanding. It's that simple, friends. It's that simple. It's that simple. You want to know what's crazy.

Speaker 2: 18:14

The Holy Spirit didn't fill that room because they all had it together. He didn't wait for them to be perfect. He didn't wait for them to have a degree in theology or have all their doubts sorted out. He filled them because they were there, because they were there, because they were hungry and they were open. And that's what it means to be with Jesus. It's not about being perfect, it's about being present. And that's why coming to church is so important. It's not just because, oh, I got to check this on my to-do list to come to church.

Speaker 2: 18:45

But when you have the routine of coming to church together, you're saying God, I'm putting you first, I'm prioritizing your presence, I'm prioritizing you. Some of you are here today and you've been living on empty and you've been trying to pour out for your family, you've been trying to pour out for your job, your ministry, but you're running on fumes and you're wondering why am I so tired? Why do I feel so dry? It's because you can't pour out what you haven't first allowed God to pour in, it's because you can't pour out what you haven't first allowed God to pour in. And you got to allow God to pour in before you pour out. And they waited and they were empty. But then they came with prayer and they came with community.

Speaker 2: 19:28

And I see I want you to see this how important our vertical relationship is us to God, but how equally important our horizontal relationships are us to others. And that's why this summer, that's why we're doing the meetups. We're doing meetups and we want people to hang out and have fun and we're going to pray at those meetups, and some of them are Bible studies, but the whole purpose of those meetups are so we can get good at doing this, because when you get good at doing this, doing this gets a lot easier. When you have people that can encourage you, man, it makes it a lot easier to keep going another day, and so that's what we want to do, and so this is what we see. This is how we see the Holy Spirit fills people, they pray and they're in good community, because when the Holy Spirit fills you, it doesn't just change what's happening out there, it changes what's happening in here, and so the Holy Spirit forms us to become like Jesus. To become like Jesus. The Holy Spirit fills us, but he doesn't stop there. He wants to form you. He wants to form you into the image of the Son. Check this out Acts 2.

Speaker 2: 20:32

Then, all at once, the pillar of fire appeared before their eyes and separated into tongues of fire that engulfed each one of them. Now that's one of those Bible verses that you read it and you're like that's really weird. Like what does that mean? Tongues and fire and fire tongues. Like what is going on here? It's weird. Okay, sometimes it's okay to read your Bible and say that was weird and say that was weird.

Speaker 2: 20:57

But throughout the Hebrew Bible, our Old Testament, fire was a sign of the presence of God. Most notably was the pillar of fire by night that guided Israel through the wilderness. And that same fire we see comes into the upper room and separates onto the 120 disciples that were in that room. And so the Holy Spirit in that moment falls on men, falls on women, falls on the old, falls on the young. And we see this symbolism that the Spirit of God now rests on His people, that the Spirit of God falls on His people and the Spirit of God lives within His people and we see that the presence of God that once guided Israel, this presence of God that throughout Old Testament we see His fire, we see his power, we see him move. That same spirit that raised Christ from the dead lives in us, that the Holy Spirit lives in us, that the Bible says that we are a temple of the Holy Spirit.

Speaker 2: 22:11

You want to know where church is Like really. Church is us, me and together. But you want to know where God resides. Like really is church is us being together, but you want to know where god resides. It's not in a fancy building, it's not in the middle school where there's a bunch of cockroaches, but in here, in here, and that's why we can be in here and worship Jesus. Or when the power cuts off 15 minutes before service, we can be out there and worship Jesus Because he's in here, he's in here.

Speaker 2: 22:44

We're temples of the Holy Spirit, and the Holy Spirit is what draws us to the heart of God, informs us into the likeness of Christ, and often our prayer to God is change this situation. And often God's response is well, this situation is what I can use to change your character. We want God. We say God, can you change the outside, but God says I want to change the inside first. Most people, they want God's fire for their situation, but they don't want God's fire for their spiritual formation. Most people want fire to fix the problem, but not fire to change the person. We say God, burn it down, talking about our enemies, but God says, let me burn it off of you first, talking about your pride.

Speaker 2: 23:31

That's what the Spirit does. He forms us in the secret place, in the quiet moments, in the places where no one sees, and that's why spending daily time with God is so important. It's in the daily time with God that the Holy Spirit loves on us, corrects us, teaches us, reveals to us, reminds us, shows us the ways of Jesus. It's through the Holy Spirit that I can become a little bit more like Jesus. When my kids are driving me crazy, it's through the Holy Spirit that I can walk into a work meeting when I'm ready to tell them what's up, and I can say come Holy Spirit, and he gives me direction. It's the Holy Spirit in me that forms me into my Savior, into my King. It's the Holy Spirit. There you go, guys. Your Christian walk will always feel a little bit empty until you prioritize daily, consistent time with God.

Speaker 2: 24:23

And this is the question I want to ask you have you ever taken something out of the oven before it was all the way cooked? Taking some brownies out, they still mushy in the inside, even though that's kind of good. A couple years ago I got an air fryer. I was air frying everything Dude. I love fried chicken, but I hate the smell of my house smelling like fried chicken because it's residual. And so I got this air fryer. I said, y'all, I'm going to make me some fried chicken. And guess what I did? I turned to the internet, found a recipe and I made it. I got the ingredients, the flour to make it extra crispy, all that good stuff. Man, I put them chicken wings in my air fryer, pushed it in, you know, hit all the buttons. You know I'm waiting for it. It's starting to smell good. It's a boop boop.

Speaker 2: 25:15

The time went up, took it out. I was like, oh, these are some golden brown chicken wings, these things look good. So I grabbed my. I had some spicy garlic. Buffalo sauce is my favorite. I put those chicken wings in there. I tossed it like I was one of those chefs in the bowl. I tossed that joint and I got. I got them all up. I grabbed my blue cheese because that's the only way to eat chicken wings. I got my chicken wing thing looking crispy, looking good. I dipped that thing in the blue cheese and I went bit that thing. Then I went wait a second, that thing was completely raw on the inside. I ate that thing. I was so sick that night. It was horrible. It looked good on the outside but on the inside it wasn't good.

Speaker 2: 26:03

Here's the moral of the story the outside may look good, but the inside needs a little bit more fire. God still wants to do something on the inside, and I'm going to tell you this you might look good on the inside and I'm going to tell you this you might look good on the outside, you may have the materialistic, melodian thing down pat, but on the inside God wants to work in your life. On the inside, god wants to do something with your character, because and there's a reason there's a reason why. There's a reason why Because the calling that God has on your life, if your character doesn't match it, you will always fall on the weight of it. Your character has to get up to the level on which God is calling you to do.

Speaker 2: 26:47

Because the third thing that the Holy Spirit wants to do, the Holy Spirit wants to send you. He wants to send you out to do the stuff that Jesus did. He wants to send you. Holy Spirit wants to fill you. Holy Spirit wants to form you, but Holy Spirit wants to send you. Holy Spirit wants to fill you. Holy Spirit wants to form you, but Holy Spirit wants to send you out.

Speaker 2: 26:57

God didn't fill the disciples so they can feel good in the upper room. He didn't fill them up with their spirit so they can say, oh it's great, up in here, upper room, baby, I'm in the upper room. They didn't do that. He filled them up in the upper room. They didn't do that. He filled them up in the upper room to send them out. God filled them up so they can get out of that room. God wants to fill you up to get you out. God wants to fill you up to empower you to know that your life matters, that you can make a difference with your life, that you don't have to hold down to yesterday's traumas but there's freedom for your tomorrow. Holy Spirit fills you. Holy Spirit fills you to send you to do the stuff, because the Spirit's power is not just for your quiet time, it's not just for Sunday mornings, it's for your Monday morning at work, it's for your Tuesday night phone call with a friend in need, it's for every moment where God wants to invite you to move.

Speaker 2: 28:04

The Bible says Peter, good old Peter, stood up. The same Peter who denied Jesus three times, the same Peter who went to hide Him, the same Peter who felt disqualified. But now Peter filled with the Spirit. Peter just didn't just sit there, he stood up and he spoke up. And on that day Scripture says 3,000 people come to know Jesus. When the Spirit fills you, he doesn't just comfort you, he doesn't just comfort you. The Christian walk was never made to be a comfortable solution to life. Oh, this is a comfortable thing. I'm a Jesus follower. I'm so comfortable now. It's just wonderful. I go to LVC. I'm so comfortable now. I just LVC. I'm so comfortable now I just go to church.

Speaker 3: 29:19

I'm so comfortable I'm comfortable with my sin now, because I know that God gives me grace. I'm just comfortable.

Speaker 2: 29:26

God doesn't fill you. To comfort you, he brings comfort. He is a comforter. He loves you, but he fills you to give you boldness, to give you boldness to speak up, speak up for yourself, to speak up for others. He gives you boldness. The problem is, I don't think we're as bold as we need to be. God doesn't need your perfection, he just needs your yes. He's not looking for perfect people, people, he's looking for the available ones.

Speaker 2: 30:01

The Holy Spirit fills us, holy Spirit forms us, holy Spirit sends us. And maybe today you're here and you're feeling empty, you're feeling dry, you're feeling like you're just going through the motions, and maybe today God wants to encounter you. He wants to meet you, right where you are, that he wants you to know. The same way he met me when I was a 15-year-old kid, and His Spirit met me because he wanted me to know that my life mattered. Today, I want you to know today the Holy Spirit wants to meet you because your life matters. It matters. So what we're going to do, we're going to pray, we're just going to ask for the Holy Spirit. So, right with you, I just pray. We say God, jesus, holy Spirit, fill us up, fill us up with your presence, lord. I just feel the Holy Spirit right now, wanting to fill people up who have just so many insecurities that drown out their decision making. I mean, it is just insecurity of feeling not lovable, an insecurity of feeling not worthy, the insecurity of someone that someone said over you. You play it in your head on repeat like a bad song. Holy Spirit wants to fill you up and say you're not those things, that you're bold, that you are courageous. Come on, holy Spirit. We wait for you. We are not in a rush. That's like Holy Spirit is saying that he's better than quick fixes, is saying that he's better than quick fixes. He's better than just a temporary fix. He wants to fill your identity. There's people in your image. You don't like who you see when you look in the mirror. The Holy Spirit says you don't have to go to a quick fix, but he loves you, he's for you, he loves the way you look. He said while you were in your mother's womb he designed you. Come, holy Spirit, fill this place. Come, holy Spirit. We don't want to play church anymore. We don't want to play church anymore. We want your power and your presence in our lives. Come, holy Spirit. That's what the Holy Spirit is saying there's someone in this room. I hear the word evangelist. God wants to use you to reach people. Come, holy Spirit. We're not in a rush. Maybe you're feeling empty today. Heck, you felt empty for a while now, not just today. We say Holy Spirit, fresh wind of living water, just right where you are. If you want to be bold, you can start praying out loud, but God is speaking in your heart. Come, holy Spirit. We say more of you. We say more of you.

Speaker 2: 34:13

I feel I hear the word forgiveness. Holy Spirit wants you to forgive someone because it's keeping you down, it's keeping you back from the freedom that you want to experience. I specifically have a college roommate or college friend, something like that. Someone in college hurt you really bad, betrayed your trust. Like, the Holy Spirit says forgive. Forgiveness does not mean forgetfulness, doesn't mean you just got. Oh, that didn't happen. No, no, no. Forgiveness means I let that person go. I'm letting them go. Come, holy Spirit.

Speaker 2: 35:10

I hear the word children's pastor. Yep, come, holy Spirit, children's pastor. God wants to tie your heart to this next generation. Come, holy Spirit. We are not in a rush. We thank you, lord. And if you're in here today and you're like Jacob, this sounds good, but I don't know this Jesus you're talking about. But you feel the nudge of the Holy Spirit wanting you to respond, to have a personal relationship with Jesus or to commit your life back to Jesus. And that's you If you want to make a personal relationship with Jesus or to commit your life back to Jesus. And that's you If you want to make a decision to trust Jesus for the first time or trust Jesus again with your life. I'm just going to count to three On three. Can you just toss your hand up in the air so I can see who I'm praying for? I'm not going to call you out or nothing like that. I just want to see who I'm praying for. One, two, three.

Speaker 2: 36:15

Amen, amen so you can say it out loud or you can say it in your heart Say Jesus, forgive me for my sins, make me new Today. I trust you with my life today. I trust you in my life today. I follow you in Jesus name, amen, amen. Let's give God some praise in here today.