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Spiritual Fullness: Psalms, Hymns & Spiritual Songs | Joel & Amy Siegel | Mississauga, Canada | JTH Crusades 2024 | Thursday AM
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Hi, I'm Nancy Dufresne. Welcome to our podcast channel. We know you'll be blessed by today's message.
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Praise God. Well, if you have your scriptures this morning, may I invite you please to turn in them to Acts, the fourth chapter. And if you can remember all the way back till to Monday, oh my goodness. I mean, a lot's happened since Monday, right? If you can remember all the way back to Monday, we began ministering on the subject of prayer as we do in these morning meetings. And we looked here at the early church in prayer. And with God's help and with your engagement and your receptivity, which I know you have, we're going to take another step further in this, in this and bring out some more things and even demonstrate some things that God would have us do as believers. Are you ready? You remember the context. Acts, chapter four. Peter and John had raised up by the power of God by the anointing, they raised up that crippled man, amazing, over 40 years old, sat there daily. Everybody that went to the temple would have known him. And now he's walking for the first time. Now, anything you see in the Bible relative to an account of a miracle, if it's in the Bible, let me just give you just a broad law or precept or whatever you want to call it. Jesus. Well, John in the 20 or 21st chapter of John said that Jesus did many other things in addition to that which is written. But he said, but these are written that you might believe. And that doesn't just hold true for John's gospel. You understand, don't you believe that of all the things God saw, everything that happened and he hand selected and inspired. The Bible says all scripture is given by inspiration. That means it's God breathed and that means God's spirit moved on. The writers of the gospel and what is that like? They were prompted. Don't share this one, Share this one. Write this one in your narrative or write this one in your letter, whatever the case was, write about this. And so these examples are in here strategically, and they're in here for the purpose that we might believe. Believe what? That. That they happened back then. Not just that they happened back then. If he's the same yesterday, today and forever, we understand that what he has done, he'll always do. All of Christ's works were a reflection of Christ's character. Not only that, he was the exact representation of his Father. Hebrews says he was the image of God in flesh. He was God in the flesh. And, and so anything that Christ did on earth was a representation of God's will for all people, for all time. Now, if you don't know it, that's good preaching. But even better than that, that's exciting. That's exciting. So anything God has done, he will do. But as we heard about last night and all the different, I loved how God weaved some things together through the ministers ministered last night. On the subject of faith, we understand that God wanting to do something is not the same as him being able to do it. Amen. What God gives, Pastor Jay taught us what God gives, how does he give it? By his grace. What God gives by his grace must be received by faith. Faith. Faith comes by hearing. So that's why you're hearing it this morning. And as you're hearing it, faith can come, faith can rise. And so as you feed on these different accounts, understand that it wasn't just something that happened then. So Acts chapter three, that man being raised up by the movement of God's spirit within Peter and John. Peter and John were just the vessels, but God, it was God's power that flowed through the vessels of Peter and John. Whichever one grabbed him, I forget which one it says, but whichever one grabbed hold of him, that power flowed through his hands into them, and they were raised. Contend for that today as you pray, as you read. And really we separate prayer, but you don't separate prayer really from the word. Because we talked about that. My wife talked about that yesterday morning. They go together. It's all interaction with God. It's all connection with God. And it needs to be as real to you as any connection with any individual in your life. Amen. Your connection with God, your time with God should be very real. You understand? He is not a figment of our imagination. He's not make believe. He's not imaginary. He's real and he's tangible. And the great thing about you being in these meetings, you've gotten to experience some of the tangibility. How many here can you just honestly say God has got in the chair with me at some point this week. He sat on me, or I just. I sensed him. If you want to say I felt Him. I won't smack you for that. You know what I'm saying? I won't rebuke you for that. That's okay. It's okay. Amen. God desires to make himself real, his people. Amen. And you can have real, tangible interaction with him daily, daily, every day, throughout the day. Yes, that's what he wants. And so some of what we're saying is maybe today, especially maybe, showing you, like a benchmark and getting in your mind. Okay, here's what we should be experiencing anyhow, back to the word, which we haven't gotten to read yet, really. So Peter and John got that man raised up, well, all is good when the miracles start to happen until the authorities decide they don't like it. And so that's okay. That's okay. What is the absolute worst that could happen? They kill you. And what happens then? To be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord, which if you're not. If you're not clear about that. That's an upgrade. That's an upgrade. That's better than Economy Plus. Come on, now. That's an upgrade. That's first class right there. We want that. We want that, but not before it's supposed to happen. You understand? But that is the worst that can. So just stay with the miracle flow. Stay with miracle flow. If Mama and Daddy get mad at you and say, well, you're not welcome here anymore, you know, somebody else will cook you your turkey. Somebody else will cook you your dinner. Don't you worry about it. There'll be somebody that'll take you in. Amen. If my father and my mother forsake me. Hey, God, what's the rest of that say? The Lord will take me up. Glory, God. And he's taken us all up. I said, he's taking us all up. Glory to God. Up to higher levels. And then up to higher levels yet. And up to higher levels. Those waters will keep rising. Rising, rising, rising. And then we'll go up in a different way. I said. Oh, you're too quiet about that. I said, we'll go up in a different way, then we'll go up. We'll go up. Yeah. Our gathering together unto him. Amen. Well, thank you anyhow. So they. They got persecuted and they got persecuted harshly and were commanded. Listen, you know, we just read what it says. They commanded him that they should speak and teach no more in the name of Jesus. You don't. You don't know what being in that room would have been like. You don't know how in their face they were. You don't know if they had them by the ear or had them by the thing. These folk were brutal Roman authorities. You talk to me. You just don't mess. You just don't mess. The reason they had such unity in the Roman Empire is because things were not optional. You understand? Compliance was not optional. Amen. And so they get released and they go right to their own people. They go right to their own people. We can't overemphasize that. The necessity of having your own company. The place where God has joined you and where you become planted. Planted. You know, the Bible says over Psalm 1. Psalm chapter 1 says that the one who meditates on God's word will be like a tree planted by the streams of water that bears fruit in its season. Well, you have to submit to your planting to be planted. You have to submit to the plant. God's the one that plants you. God's the gardener. I say God's the gardener. Jesus said, I'm the true vine. My father, he's the husbandman. He's the gardener. He chooses where you get planted. He chooses where you get planted. I had an individual. Maybe they're here, maybe they're not. If so, I'm not calling your name. I don't know your name. Didn't get your name. Love you, love you, love you, love you, love you. But they came and asked me to pray for them about something. And I just was prompted to say, where do you go to church? And they said, well, well, well, well, here. And I think it was because they were here when they asked me to. And I said, no, you took too long to answer. You took too long to answer. What does it say in the Psalms talking about God? It said, what's his name? And what's his son's name? There's a verse like that. You familiar with it? Something that says, what's his son's. The son's name. How many know what I'm talking about? Who is the king? Who is the king of. Who is the king of glory? Who is your pastor if you don't know your pastor's name? Because listen, when I pastored. When I pastored in Buffalo Orchard park, home of the bills, you all know them. Okay. When I pastored in Orchard Park, New York, I would meet people all the time. And they. In fact, we'd have people call all the time, and they say, well, we need help in this area, and they need help in that area. And I would ask them the golden question, where do you go to church? Because they'd say, we're believers. Someone would say, we're strong Christians. Some we've had people say, we're wonderful Christians. The last service that dad Hagin preached here in Mississauga, every person in the line at the end, he asked them, where do you go to church? Before he prayed for them. Wow, okay. So the last I'll repeat that if you didn't hear the last service that Brother Hagin had here in Mississauga, which I think I would have been at, Every person in the line, he asked them, where do you go to church? Before he ministered to them. That's interesting. So thank you. Yeah. So people would call and I'd say, where do you go to church? And they'd start to describe the church. And I'd say, you mean Hamburg Wesleyan? They said, yeah, that's it. If that's the level of connection. If that's the level of connection you have, don't consider yourself planted yet. Planted, planted, planted. Anyhow. Anyhow. Anyhow, that was all free. Doesn't really pertain to my message. Doesn't come off of my time. Doesn't count against my time. Hallelujah. Amen. You might have gone over one or two. No, I'm just kidding. I'm just playing. I'm just playing. It was so good. Didn't matter. Okay. Anyhow, so they come to their own people, and the first thing they do is they say, let's go to God. Let's go to God about this. Great decision. Great decision. So in Acts, chapter 4, verse 23. Again, we're just reviewing this, and then we're going to bring some other points in. It says, and being let go, they went to their own company and reported all that the chief priests and elders had said unto them. And when they heard that, they. They. Do you see it? You should have that underlined. They lifted up their voice to God with one accord. They all put some volume to this prayer together. You see it. There is a necessity besides your individual time of prayer. There's the necessity of corporate united prayer. That's necessary. That's necessary. At least not that's necessary. Which word did you not understand? Important. Important. Come on. So they. They went to their own company, they reported all that the chief priests and elders had said to them. And when they heard that, they lifted up their voice. They lifted up their voice. Their collective voice. They lifted them up. Some folks say, well, I just don't like getting loud. But at home. But at home, we just need to get you in the realm your flesh is comfortable in, and then you can do it. Right? Actually, I'm just looking straight ahead, not talking to anybody in particular here. Right. Amen. No, you need to listen if you're uncomfortable lifting your voice. It's like when you go and try to get into a swimming pool and the water's just not to your. To your liking. Right? It's too cold. Too cold. And I'll just tell you, I am not committed to swimming. So if it's too cold. No, no, I absolutely am not going in. I'll go sit with long sleeves on, on a chair somewhere. I'm a Goldilocks. I'm a Goldilocks person. When it comes to swimming. It has to be just right. You know who Goldilocks is. You know the story. I won't go over that. It has to be just right. Praise the Lord. And so there's a lot of Goldilocks Christians, you know, it's like, oh, this isn't my thing. Listen, if you are not comfortable lifting your voice, it's just because you're not used to that realm, right? Because the thing is, when you put your foot in, or when I put my foot in and walk away, there's other people who are being refreshed in the pool. What have they done? They've acclimated. They've acclimated. See, I live in Colorado. There's people that have difficulty sometimes acclimating to altitude and they have trouble just catching their breath. And some things like that. Well, see, it doesn't bother us. We can go to 10,000ft. We're used to it. We're used to it. And so you want to get, just don't withdraw from the water. Just keep getting in. And one of the things you can do is sit next to somebody that will splash you. Come on. Because you know, you've been in the pool and then some wimp comes up and says, oh, oh, that's. And you just go like this. You just go like this. Come on, get in. Come on. Don't be a. Just get in. Just get in. Amen. But you want to, you want to override and overcome your flesh to be able to get into the atmosphere of God. Jump in the pool. Amen. Jump in the pool. Jump into the rivers of God when it's appropriate, you know. And what do you mean by that? When opportunities are given to engage. When opportunities are given to participate. Participate in an all in fashion. Get in all the way. All the way. And so you learn to be, you know, one of the ways you learn this is just learning to respond to God. You know, if the word's being preached and something good's being said, well, you know, a nod is a response, but it's the lowest level. It's the lowest level response. So really, really, it's when things start to come out of your mouth that your response starts to accomplish something for You. And so if you're going to say an amen, say good amen. Say good amen. Amen. Amen. And still some folk think, well, I'm just not comfortable. All that means is you're not comfortable. I've said it before. Probably said it here already this week. Nobody cares about your comfort. We don't care. God don't care. That's an Ed Dufresne song right there. That's how he would sing We Don't Care and God don't care about your comfort. You remember his song? He used to sing, we've been here thousands of years and we're going to be here thousands of more years talking about his building. Anyhow. We don't care about your comfort. You got good seats. You got air conditioning. That's all. We're giving you lights to read.
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Come on, come on.
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Make yourself do something that's uncomfortable. I don't mean inappropriately. I don't mean when. No, I don't mean when nobody else is happening. I don't mean. I don't mean. You know. I mean, people do it at other places. Man, you go those bills games in January. Listen to me. Listen to me. Don't act like you don't know what I'm talking about. Those. Those bills games in January when people have enough substance in them. The shirt comes off when the snow falls and you'll see, one writes a B on their chest and one writes an I on their chest and one writes an L on their chest and another one writes an L on their chest and another one writes an S on their chest. And they all hug naked from the chest up. All hugging, drinking and singing. Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow, let it snow. I've been there on those days. They'll do that. They'll do that. But you get folk in church and they're like, oh, why are they lifting their hands? Why do you do it.
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Huh?
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You go out.
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You go out last.
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You go out on a Saturday night and tell me what you want, what you really, really want. You do that. You do that on a Saturday night. And then Sunday morning, you're. Why are they lifting their hands? That's so weird. Why are they saying amen out loud? That's so strange. I'm not comfortable here. Listen. I'm not comfortable in the world that a lot of people live in with strife. Every day, shouting, I hear that. I'm like, oh, oh, no, I won't listen. I don't know what it is about strife. Well, I do know what it is? Strife. Just like peace is the manifestation of God's presence, strife is the manifestation of the devil's presence. I won't watch a movie. You know, people say, well, if somebody, you know, if somebody undresses in a movie, we leave. And that's fine. You should. But, but, but I, if some, if people get into strife in a movie, I'm like, oh, no. Oh no. I just don't want to see it. I don't like that it bothers me. I'm not comfortable in other people's worlds. Why? I've acclimated. I've acclimated. I've acclimated to the realm of God, to the realm of spirit. I'm most comfortable. I am most comfortable in the presence of God. And the good thing is, if you're not, you're invited, you're invited, you're invited. And just keep getting in, keep taking another step, keep taking another step. Next thing you know, you'll be splashing with the rest of us. You'll be all in. You'll be all in. And so they lifted up their voice to God. Aren't we making wonderful progress through this review? And they prayed. Okay, so they prayed. And verse 29, we're going to skip, because you know what I do, I preach every phrase. Verse 29, they skip down. Now, Lord, behold their threatenings. See, they didn't get to the problem until after they had magnified God. Now, Lord, behold their threatenings. And grant unto thy servants that with all boldness they may speak thy word by stretching forth your hand to heal, and that signs and wonders may be done by the name of thy holy child, Jesus. And when they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were assembled together and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost. And they spoke. Notice this. They were filled. And they spoke. Notice that they were filled. And they spoke the word of God with boldness. There is a major connection between fullness and boldness. Folks say, well, I want to be bold, then you want to be full. And we were talking the other day about the necessity of, or the connection between prayer and a place of fullness. And noted that you can pray yourself into fullness, and you can pray from a place of fullness. You can pray yourself into fullness, and you can pray from a place of fullness. And you want to. And I believe with God's help, I want to go a little further along these lines of fullness here, because when you're spiritually empty, you accomplish less your connection. And, you know, if You've experienced fullness, and everybody's experienced emptiness, spiritually speaking. But if you've experienced a place where you're spiritually full, you know that you can sense God easier. And if you sense God easier, you know you can work with him better. When we're praying, we're to be. We're to follow God's spirit in prayer. The spiritually empty individual doesn't even really sense God's movement. Ask me how I know. I've been there. You've been there. Anybody who's living as a Christian in this world has probably gotten to a place where you've been depleted. And you wake up in Mississauga, you feel like God's in Miami, right? You're like, oh, am I even saved today? Right. Which is why we don't walk by feelings, why we walk by faith. But you've all sensed that. And so what do you have to do? You have to fill back up. You have to fill back up. Well, how do you fill back up in God? Well, one way you can get full is through prayer. But really, if you want to be filled with the spirit, the way you get filled with the spirit is you drink of the spirit. And the way you drink of the spirit is you engage in spiritual expressions. We talked about that the other day. Spiritual expressions of which prayer and prayer in other tongues is one of them. What are the spiritual expressions that the Bible speaks of? There's praise, there's worship, there's thanksgiving, there's other tongues, there's speaking, there's singing. All of these expressions, so many of which involve your mouth. And so those expressions, you can start doing what we did. And Pastor Nancy talked about the necessity of praise. Remember the other night? And you can just praise the Lord. And you can really. It can be as simple as praise, Praise you. Praise. Praise. Praise. Praise. Praise. Praise. Praise. Praise. Praise. Praise. Praise. Praise. Praise. Oh, praise. Praise, praise. Now, any of these expressions, they are only spiritual to the degree that you engage your spirit, meaning they're from the heart by faith. Jesus said, the hour is coming, and now is when the true. The true worshipers will worship in spirit and in truth. Meaning there's no put on, there's no pretense. You're not doing something that you learned. Remember the Syrophoenician woman came to Jesus and said, oh, thou, son of David. She wasn't even a Jew. The son of David meant absolutely nothing to her. She heard somebody else say it and get results. She borrowed it, came to the Lord, and what did the Lord do? Oh, I love that phrase. No, he ignored her. He ignored her. Best way to get ignored by heaven is to have this false, pretentious, borrowed stuff where it's not even real to you, where you're just mocking and mimicking things. No, no, no, no. So in spirit and in truth means in spirit. From your spirit, from the heart, from your heart, by faith needs to be real. But when you do that and you're saying, praise, praise, praise, praise, praise, praise, you are filling up your tank. And you can do that. Something as simple as that or thanksgiving. Thanks. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Father. Thank you, Lord. Psalm 34 says, I will bless the Lord at all times. His praise. Now, if you read it like most Christians practice it, it would be his praise shall occasionally be in my mouth. Doesn't say occasionally. Doesn't say occasionally. What's it say? Continually, continually. I'll bless the Lord at special times. His praise shall occasionally. No, I'll bless the Lord at all times. At all times. At all times. At all times, I say. I don't think I like this Christianity stuff. Oh, the alternative is wonderful, I promise you. Too demanding, too demanding. Too demanding. No. This will deliver you from the prison of your own mind. This will deliver you from the prison of the world system and will take the limiters off of your life and help you live a whole different life. So you can. All the time, just all the time. Some folk are looking at it like. No, you mean all the time. No. Yes, I mean all the time. I mean all the time. What are you doing if you're not praising. Cnn, NBC. Oh, I'm sorry, you're christians, fox. What are you doing? What are you doing with all your time, huh? What's coming out of your mouth if it's not praise, I say? Well, it just sounds like you're just doing it out of habit. That's the goal. That's the goal. Beats my previous habits. My previous habit was complaining about this, complaining about that, and just entertaining any thought that the enemy would bring me. Amen. Praise just beats all the alternatives, I'm telling you. So you can just. Thank you, Lord. Thank you. And you can thank God. I'm going to grab me a tissue. You can thank God until you arrive at a place of spiritual fullness. And then if you keep going, you go from spiritual full fullness to spiritual overflow. That's a good place. That's a good place. And so. Oh, thank you. Thank you. How nice. You want to get. If you live full, then can you see how it would make Your prayer time so much more efficient. Because entering in and getting into that place of God's presence and God's spirit and full following him in prayer is such a quicker endeavor as opposed to. If you're spiritually empty, it can take you 40, 45 minutes just to get to where you're sensing God, you know what we're saying? So we want to live full enough to always be able to just draw out from the overflow of what God would have us pray, what God would have us say. Amen. And if in these times where we've had a couple of days this week where we've actually spent time praying, in those times, if it feels like, well, I didn't really feel like I got into it until maybe the very end, well, that's okay. That's okay. But that can change for you. And I'm endeavoring today to give you some keys to change that. You want to develop the habit of God's praise continually in your mouth. We're talking about spiritual expressions. Praise, worship, thanksgiving, and then other tongues. Yeah. Praying in other tongues, speaking in other tongues. Now you can do any of these things when you feel dry as toast and practically lost again. We've all woken up this way. I woke up this way. When's the last time I ministered? Tuesday. I said to my wife, what did I do overnight while I was sleeping to get myself in such a place spiritually? I said, because I feel like I need to repent of something. You know what I'm saying? I said, and I'm supposed to minister. I'm supposed to minister this morning. And that was the day the joy of the Lord just hit me up. And so I said, well, just forget about how I feel then and start reminding myself who God is, who I am, what he's made me, what we have, and just praise to him. And I just drowned out those feelings, just drowned those feelings with praise and worship and thanksgiving. Thank you, Father. Thank you, Father. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. Thank you. You can do this. Thank you, Lord. You can do it now. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. And you know, friends, as you continue doing that and you're engaged in it, and listen, you can do this while you're driving. You can do this while you're doing other stuff. You can do it under your breath, even while you're working for somebody else. You know, not really out loud so much when. When you're supposed to be doing Their work, but it can just be in you. If you can't even vocalize it, you can still have that posture. And I'll tell you, the more you do it, you start thinking about all you're thanking him for, thinking about all he's done. And you'll get happy. You'll get happy about it. You'll be glad about it. Amen. Amen. Turn with me, if you would, this morning to the fifth chapter of the book of Ephesians. And really, I'm going to read some of this. I'll read it first in the King James and then I'll read it in the Amplified Bible as well. But I want to share just a little bit out of here further on. Living full. And really, what is the benchmark? Meaning what? What really does this look like when I'm doing it right? You ever wondered how full is full? How full is acceptable? Now, again, for different people, this is a growth process. The level of fullness I lived in in my 30s wouldn't get me out the door today. It was insufficient. But compared to where I was in my 20s, it was good.
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But so much of that was my own thinking. So much of that was. I didn't. I had heard. Oh, my gosh. I only traveled for seven years with Brother Hagin to every meeting he was at, and I only heard it over and over and over and over again. But how many are just like me? You didn't get it the first time, you didn't get it the second time, huh? It took multiple hearings and sometimes took years. Doesn't have to. It doesn't have to. You can get it quick. You might ought to say, I get it quick, but for me, it just took me. It just took me a while, and I didn't get the importance of it and didn't see just how critical this is. So there's some more thoughts about fullness here. Can I share them with you? You Good. Hallelujah. It's the last day. We'll get you out of here before 2 or 3. Plenty of time to go get changed. Glory to God. Ephesians 5, verse 15. It says, See then that you walk circumspectly. Don't worry about what that means. We'll get to it in the Amplified. Not as fools. Don't be a fool, but be wise, redeeming the time because the days are evil. Wherefore be not unwise. Aren't these instructions interesting? Huh? Keep saying some of these same things over and over again. Don't be unwise. But understanding what the will of the Lord is. Okay, what is the will of the Lord? The next verse tells us, the will of the Lord. Do not be drunk with wine, wherein is excess. Or we could say alcohol, right? Or we could say, just don't let your senses be altered by any worldly substance wherein is excess. But be filled with the spirit. This is the will of God. This is the will of God. Don't be unwise. Understand the will of God. See, I didn't understand the will of God as I should have, even though it was being preached to me. There are many verses in the Bible that exhort us to do the will of God. Not many that tell us exactly what the will of God is. This says what the will of God is. Be filled the will of God for your life. Is to be filled the will of God for your life. Now, you may have heard messages on God's plan for your life. And you may have heard people just like me, because I preach this. I say this, say God has a plan for your life that's unique to you, different from anybody else's life. And I believe that. And that's true. But that would be his specific will for your life. But he also has a general will for your life. Are you with me today? And here's the thing. The specific will doesn't come into clarity like it should until you're doing the general will. Everybody wants to know, well, what's God want me to do? What's God wanting me to do? He wants you to live full. He wants you to live full. Marsha. He wants you to live full. Huck. He wants you to live full. Hello, Sheila. Come on, whatever your name is. He wants you to live full. That's what he wants you to do. That's what he wants you to do. And when you do that, you'll be able to pick up all the specifics. It'll be clear to you. Yeah, it will. When's he going to shut up? I'm not going to shut up. Not today. Not today. Not going to happen today. Be filled with the spirit. Say it with me. Be filled with the spirit. The next verse is speaking to yourselves in psalms, hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord, giving thanks always, always, always. Giving thanks always for all things. Always. What's always mean? It means always for all things. What's all mean? All means all. I don't care what language you put it in. I don't care what Greek tense. It is all is always all. This is A lifestyle. This is a lifestyle of fullness. And this will elevate your prayer life as much as anything I can think of because you'll be able to almost on demand, get in just easy thing in the world to move into the realm of the spirit. Can happen quick. Can happen quick. This is where we want to live. This is necessary. Can I read this to you in the amplified translation? Maybe if you have it, you can look along. If you don't, just listen real good, okay? Praise, praise the Lord. Verse 15 says this in the Amplified. Now listen, if you got to know me, I think you'd like me. I'm a decent dude, you know what I'm saying? Not going to rip you off, not going to take advantage of you. Pretty nice guy most of the time. But don't make me angry, right? Because you wouldn't like me when I'm angry. So what I'm going to read to you. These are not my words to insult you. I just want you to understand that I'm not here to insult anybody this morning. I understand you probably came to this crusade maybe because of the individual who's preaching at night. And I'm so thankful I was able to get her to do the evening services in my crusade. I'm just playing. Where's the camera? I'm just playing, you know, I'm just playing. So this. So if this smacks you a little bit, it's not me. I didn't write Ephesians. You'll understand what I mean very shortly. Look carefully then how you walk. Live purposefully and worthily and accurately. Not as the unwise and witless, but as wise, sensible, intelligent people making the very most of the time buying up each opportunity because the days are evil. Therefore do not be vague and thoughtless and foolish, but understanding and firmly grasping what the will of the Lord is. And do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery. But ever be filled and, and stimulated by the Holy Spirit. These verses all go together. Now if I may. The great majority of the Christian community thinks that spirit filled, tongue talking, holy Spirit flow flowing, Christians have lost their marbles. You know what I mean by that? They think that is foolish, ignorant, senseless. Anybody have any experience with people who believe that unintelligent? And they say y' all need to get your brains back in the game. But can I just ask you who the Bible calls sensible? Verse 15 says sensible, intelligent people are spirit filled people. That means those who don't, those who opt out, those who say I don't Want that? I don't like those manifestations. I don't like those manifestations. You don't have no sense. You're not intelligent. And if you're not intelligent, what are you? What's the opposite of intelligent? Unintelligent. We have easier words than unintelligent. Help us out. Sister Rubber meets the road. You stupid, stupid, stupid. You're stupid. I don't believe in that. Baptism in the Holy Spirit. Stupid, stupid, stupid. Sense. You make no sense. You make no sense. That's not stupid. All those tongues, all that babbling you do. Doesn't make any sense. No, it's you that don't make sense. I told you, I'm not insulting you. The word said it. The word said it. Don't be vague and thoughtless and foolish. If you're not a spirit filled Christian, you a fool. You a fool. You meet a Christian and they say, I don't do that tongue stuff. You say, what's wrong with you? Fool. Come on, let me get you filled. Let me get you filled. You need to be filled. Are we clear? Are we clear? Stop interrupting me. Stop interrupting me. Stop interrupting me. Fool. Do not get drunk with wine. Didn't say don't get drunk. Didn't say don't get drunk. Using the world substance. But ever be filled. Ever be filled. This is a continual thing. Ever be filled and stimulated. That's how to pray effectively. Ever be filled and stimulated. Now, there is an indicator right here in this passage that helps us know how full is. Full enough for daily living because we understand there's times of refreshing, seasons of revival, season. We talked about it, man. And I'll be going back and listening to that Tuesday's message kind of over and over just for my help. But we talked about the outpouring of joy. Those times are seasons you can't live and you can't function in a place of over saturation. But you need to visit that place. Meaning you can't just how many know. If you're drunk enough in the world with alcohol, you can't function. You stop functioning. We do still need to function. It doesn't mean we go from time of outpouring to empty. No, actually we want to just back it off enough to where can we function? But there's a benchmark. There's a benchmark of how full is full enough. And it's right here. And can we read it? Be filled with the spirit speaking. Speaking. You know you're full when what you've been taking in begins to come out. And you know, you're living full when what you've been taking in just keeps coming out, whether it's other tongues, right? Or whether it's this kind of speech that's talking. And of course, this doesn't discount full of the word what's going to be coming out. Word should be coming out. Words should be coming out. We want that, too. But this says, be filled with the spirit. Speaking to yourselves in something called psalms, hymns and spiritual songs. Singing, making melody in your heart to the Lord. Can I talk to you for just a few moments? Remember we started late? Remember I got off on other stuff? Remember I didn't start my message till just a little bit ago? And so you're giving me a little bit of time. And plus we don't have tomorrow, right? Because y' all going home tomorrow. So you give me just a little bit here. You give me a little. I'll take a little, and then we'll be good filled. Speaking. When you have psalms and hymns, spiritual songs coming out of you, that's an indicator that you're walking in fullness. You might say, well, I'm not a singer. What's that mean? Which verse is that? Which verse is the I'm not a singer verse? Well, I don't sing. So you're vague, thoughtless, foolish, witless. No, I just. I just. We're not asking anybody to record and release. You don't. This is not something you have to stream. Everybody. If you can speak, you can sing. The difference is. I know this because I watched Elf. You just move your voice up and down, right? You just move your voice up and down and I can sing. I can sing. I'm in a church and I'm singing. Don't you. Right. You can. Sure. You can do it. Just move. Just move the pitch of your voice. If Dr. Ed Dufresne could do it, we all can do it. We all can do it. Yes. So these psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, these are utterances from the spirit. This is not something you turn on in your head. This is the. This is the flow of fullness coming back out of you. And you should have a melody going on. I am so preaching to myself, because when I get dry, I get quiet. And when I get quiet, that's not good. You don't want me quiet. You wouldn't like me when I'm quiet. I mean, when things are dry on the inside. No. And so there needs to be this song, but then there's this melody going on. And if you're full enough you'll have it, you'll have it, you'll have it because you have gotten past worry. You'll have gotten past so many other things. And you get to where you're just singing. And then you can sing a song that you know. It talks about psalms and hymns and spiritual songs and folk. Always want to know, well, what's the difference? Well, if you just do it, you get big points for just doing it, not worrying about it. Not worrying about, was that a psalm or was that a hymn? But, you know, just really quickly, I just looked them up in the Greek, and I studied and this is a Greek scholar, his name was Spyro Zodiades, who wrote a work called the Complete Word Study Bible years ago. And I just looked it up. I'll just read it to you. Psalms reflect what he's done for us. Hymns speak of his greatness. And so really, the hymns that speak of his greatness name above all names. He is worthy of our praise. My heart will sing right. How great is our God. Him. Vertical psalms, more horizontal. What he's done for us. What he's done for us. Either one. Doesn't matter what you're doing, any of it. When you have it going, it can keep you in a place of fullness and bring you to a place of fullness. That's why after praise and worship like we've had here this week, you're in a better spot than before. You've experienced the fullness of God. And then there's spiritual songs. What's that? Songs by the spirit. Songs by the spirit. Songs given by the spirit. And they can. Any of these can be songs, you know, but really, these songs by the spirit just come out fresh. It's like you're listening to heaven's radio station and just singing along. And these things can. These things are amazing. So they sang that last song, which I didn't know they were going to do, that was, we are his laborers. Right? No, we are your laborers. Whatever it was, we are your laborers. We hear your word, we speak your word. And then the rest of all that. All that. Well, if you were here yesterday morning, my wife sang that at the end of the service. That was a spiritual song. She had never heard that before. She had never sung that before. It just. I mean, it just blah. She didn't try. She didn't think, you know what I'm going to do now? I'm going to sing a spiritual song. No, she just was. It was the overflow of the fact that she was in the spirit. And filled with the Spirit and she sang that spiritual song and I mean it was from heaven and there's a presence on it. Well, you hardly could take credit for it. All she did was speak what the Spirit was prompting. Right. I mean, it's not like you had to take a composition class, music composition class to do that. But she did that. But it doesn't have to be at that level. I mean that came out ready to go, just good and ready to go. It doesn't have to be at that level. It can be anything. And really, if you're not given to singing, you don't even have to put melody to it or, or rhythm to it. Brother Hagin used to talk about speaking in psalms. Are you okay? He used to speak in psalms and he'd do it all the time and he could just get up and really, if you live full enough, some of these things, you can demonstrate them on demand. There's times yesterday that came by the Spirit, prompted by the Spirit, led by the Spirit, came out by the Spirit. But I mean some of these things, yeah, if you just live full, you can speak in psalms. You can speak in psalms. I enjoy victory. I enjoy it every day. I enjoy it in every circumstance. I enjoy it in every way. When circumstances come and try to change, try to cloud, try to defeat, I just take my victory and I won't retreat. I'll keep going further into the plan of God. I'll keep going further with his word, with His Spirit. And victory will be mine at every turn. Because I worship and I praise. And that's what I've learned. See, that's just a psalm. Didn't rehearse it, didn't plan it. It's just I really took a dip. Just dip down to demonstrate. Dip down to demonstrate. And you can do the same things with songs you can sing. And if you're not preaching to me, if I'm not flowing in some measure in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, just even in my own personal life, I don't mean on the stage, then I know this. I'm not living full enough. The Bible gives this as a benchmark for fullness. A benchmark for fullness. Is there a psalm? Is there a hymn? Is there something there, some God filled utterance proceeding from you? Psalms, hymns, songs. Amen. Has this been alright? Gonna have my wife just come.
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These, these psalms, hymns, spiritual songs, these, these are all avenues to enter into his realm, to, to be a part of his realm.
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Right?
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These are streams. And if we could say it this way, it's practice time. Many people will admire someone else's prayer life, perhaps your pastor's prayer life. And you think, wow, they really hear from heaven.
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And we. We.
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We enjoy when somebody gets up the pulpit, says, you know, the Lord dealt with me, or the Lord spoke with me. And he said such and such, you know, and we think, man, I want to hear God like that. If you want to hear God like that, you need to.
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Yeah.
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Why? Because every time you hook your. Your mouth, your mouth, your mouth up to your spirit and draw out, you are practicing his presence. You're practicing his presence. And when you need to hear his voice for the direction of which way do I turn? Where do I go? What do I do? It's the same voice. It's the same connection. Hallelujah. So don't think this is just for people that are musicians, that are just people that are our pastors. This is for all of us. Hallelujah. So that we're not witless and vague. I don't want to be vague. I want to live with purpose. And so I must learn how to engage my life with the spirit. Hallelujah. Praise the Lord.
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Glory to God. That's good. I'm gonna switch over to this, y'.
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All.
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Praise the Lord. Let's. I want to demonstrate this. I want to demonstrate this. Psalms, hymns, spiritual songs, especially spiritual songs. And the way we're going to do it, because we're going to have. We're going to have more than just. I was inspired last night when Pastor Nancy had other people do things. And so we're just going to give the opportunity to just sing within a framework, which makes it even easier. And if you'll enter into this little song with me goes. Thank God for the Holy Ghost. Ghost. Thank God for the Holy Ghost Thank God for the Holy Ghost Thank God for the Holy. And then we go. This his power and his might it makes everything right thank God for the Holy Ghost Help me, everybody. Thank God for the Holy Ghost Holy Ghost Thank God for the Holy Ghost oh, thank God for the Holy Ghost I want to say thank God Thank God for the Holy Ghost now his power and his might it makes everything right thank God for the Holy Ghost One more time. Singing again. Thank God for the Holy Ghost I gotta say thank you thank God for the Holy Ghost thank you, thank you, Jesus Thank God for the Holy Ghost I thank God Thank God for the Holy Ghost for his power and his might it makes everything right thank God for the Holy Ghost now listen, I got the greater one who's Living in me he provides, he supplies Takes care of all of my needs. I'm never without, never in lack, Never in doubt Because I know that he is in me. Makes me want to shout. So I'm filled and I'm thrilled and I'm loving my life Because I'm walking in the spirit of grace. Hey. So we sing thank God for the.
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Holy Ghost I thank God, thank God for the Holy Ghost I thank God, thank God for the Holy Ghost I thank God, thank God for the Holy Ghost. Cause his power and his might it makes every everything right. Thank God for the Holy Ghost.
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Now what we're going to do is we're going to have some others give these verses and maybe even you, I don't know. And you just get this one course. You just. We're not. We're not going to leave this framework. So what happens. What happens here stays here. You might think. I don't want to sing in front of the all these people. It's much worse. We're being streamed across the world. So after, right after this chorus, we're gonna start. I don't know who's first. We'll see. But so sing it now. Thank God for the Holy Ghost. Thank God for the Holy Ghost I.
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Thank God, thank God for the Holy Ghost I thank God, thank God for the Holy Ghost.
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Holy Ghost. Cuz his power it makes everything right.
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Thank God for the Holy Ghost. Oh there's a song in the night, There's a song in the day There's a song for you and it comes this way it comes by dipping with the Holy Ghost into the Holy Ghost. Thank God for the Holy Ghost. Thank God for the Holy Ghost Holy Ghost Thank God for the Holy Ghost. His power and his might he makes everything right. Thank God for the Holy Ghost. I'm so thankful for the Holy One on the inside he speaks and he guides me both day and night I can trust when he leads by faith I'll step out now I'll join my voice with his and I'll live out the plan of God. Thank God, thank God for the Holy Ghost. Thank God for the Holy Ghost. Thank God, Thank God for the Holy Ghost. Thank God, thank God, thank God for the Holy Ghost I thank God, thank God for the Holy Ghost. Power and his might he makes everything right. Thank God for the Holy Ghost. My God, he's never late Delivering his.
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Power oh he's always great, great I won't worry and I'll never fear the.
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Presence of the Lord is here.
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So lift your voice and begin to.
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Shout, have faith and never doubt thank God, thank God for the Holy Ghost Thank God, Thank God for the Holy Ghost Thank God for the Holy Ghost Thank God for the Holy Ghost his power and his might it makes everything right thank God for the Holy Ghost I draw up from deep within don't look up around Just listen to him he's in there to encourage me he's in there to set me free so I look to him don't look around and bless the Lord with a joyful sound thank God for the Holy God Thank God, Thank God for the Holy Ghost Thank God for the Holy Ghost Thank God for the Holy Ghost his power and his might he makes everything right thank God for the Holy Ghost.
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I'm so grateful I don't have to.
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Wonder Should I go this way or.
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Should I go another?
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Why? Because the greater one's inside I have the victory when I listen all the time I just gotta step out of faith and rely on the greater one because he's inside of me that's why I thank God Thank God for the Holy Ghost Thank God, Thank God for the Holy Ghost Thank God, Thank God for the Holy Ghost Thank God for the Holy Ghost his power and his might he makes everything right thank God for the Holy Ghost.
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I've got an auction from the Holy One and I know just what I'm to do I look to heaven and I sing his song My voice is strong in the Lord power in his might Everything's all.
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Right thank God for the Holy Ghost Pray yeah, yeah. Thank God for the Holy Ghost I thank God, thank God for the Holy Ghost I thank God, thank God for the Holy Ghost I thank God, thank God for the Holy Ghost Cuz his power and his might it makes everything right thank God. Well, come on and enter in.
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The water's not cold, you can swim.
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I know. It's all right. Oh yeah, I see.
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I'm going to dip in and take a swim.
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Hey, do you see what the Lord is saying to you? Speak it out and say I'm blessed. Yes, I. Thank God, thank God for the Holy Ghost I thank God, thank God for the Holy Ghost it makes every everything right thank God for the Holy Ghost if you've been living in an empty place if you've been in a place without all of his grace it's time to step in not just toe deep it's time to step in all the way up to your feet Past your feet it's time to rejoice and say Hallelujah I've got the Holy Ghost to overflow with yeah, Come on. Sing it now.
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Sing it.
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Thank God for the Holy Ghost Thank God for the Holy Ghost and it's mine it makes everything right thank God for the Holy Ghost I sing praises to his name he lifts me up he put my feet on solid ground he turned me around Placed my feet on solid ground. Thank God for the holy ghost thank God for the holy ghost. I'm thankful for my inner man.
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Oh.
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He'S such greater in me I'm gonna give him praise and lift my voice and say thank God for the Holy Ghost Thank God for the Holy Ghost Thank God Thank God for the Holy Ghost Thank God Thank God for the Holy Ghost his power and his might it makes everything right. Thank God for the Holy Ghost.
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I.
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Thank God he's so sin to me I think. Cause he set me free the Holy Ghost is my friend he stays with me me from beginning to end he's coming again oh, what joy. He's my man he's my. He's my. Thank God. Thank God for the holy ghost thank God for the holy God he. Thank you thank God for the holy ghost his power and his might. He makes everything right. His power and his might he makes everything his power and his might oh, he makes everything One more. With his power and his mind he makes everything right God. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Oh, glory, glory, glory, glory, glory. Thank God. Thank God. Thank God. Thank God. Thank God Thank God. Thank God. Thank God. Thank God. Thank God. Oh, thank God. Oh, thank God.
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Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
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