← Dufresne Ministries Podcast
Dufresne Ministries Podcast
The Flow Of Fullness | Joel Siegel | Paducah, KY | Wednesday AM | Miracle Crusade 2022
01:13:49
Loading summary
Transcript83 lines
- [00:01]
A
Hi, I'm Nancy Dufresne. Welcome to our podcast channel. We know you'll be blessed by today's message.
- [00:10]
B
Hallelujah. We welcome you to the morning edition of Dufresne Ministries Miracle Crusades. Miracles in the morning. Amen. Or I guess here in this location, we could say miracles in McCracken because we love the fact that we're in McCracken County. It's just fun to say hallelujah. You know, to say God is good sounds like such a. Sounds like what you say when you don't know what else to say. And maybe that's true, but there is such revelation in there. And a number of years ago, the Lord brought something to me. You know, the Bible says he'll fill your mouth with good things over in Psalm 103. And one of the things he'll fill your mouth with, satisfy your mouth with good things to say, the right things to say. God filled confessions. And I don't remember if I was. What we were doing, but I just. This phrase came up. He's that good. And the reason the Spirit said that to me is because the enemy will constantly tell you, well, yeah, he's good, but he's not. He's not that good. Because what you're believing for, how many know if you're believing for 30. The devil will tell you, well, he's 20 good. Whatever. $20. He'll tell you he's $20 good, but he's not 30. I don't know. He's not that good. He's $3,000. But if you need $10,000. No. Well, yeah, maybe he's. Maybe he's good at five. But no, he's not 10,000. And that came up in me. He's that good. That good. That good. That good. He's that good. Praise him. It matters what's in your mouth. Amen. It matters that we use our mouths. You know, we're assigned by the Lord and by Pastor Nancy, who heard this from God. We're going to. We're ministering on the subject of prayer. How many know your mouth's involved in that. But, you know, for many individuals, and it's. It's just natural. Do you hear what I said? It's just natural. Which is wrong for the believer because we're not just natural, but it's just natural to just come and sit and listen and doze and. And just, you know, some people took that scripture, occupy till I come very literally. Weren't supposed to. It's not just a matter of Occupying space, huh? You might say, well, you know, if I praise too much, there might not be enough oxygen left for the next. Well, you know what God's, you know how good God is. He's good enough to get oxygen to everybody in the room. Amen. And so it matters that some things are in your mouth. And forgive me if. Well, I'm not asking for you to really, but excuse me if I just can't get past maybe what we started with a little bit on Monday, and I just haven't really long term, years in the making, ongoing assignment to just be a craw in the lives of empty Christians. You know what I mean? Just to annoy and irritate. As somebody once said, we're here to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable. And so praise the Lord. I just can't emphasize enough because your prayer life, if you want it to be effective, will be most effective if it flows from a place of spiritual fullness. Amen. So, yeah, we could go down the list, talk about different principles of prayer, talk about different types of prayer and whatever, and you could take your notes and you could go home and put them on the shelf and not look at them anyhow. And what good did it do really? Can we just be honest? But you know, we want to, we want to get people just wall to wall full of God, hello. And you just help yourself. If, if, when we're singing and when we're praising, which by the way, if you want to categorize praising anywhere in scripture, it's going to fall under the category of prayer. Did you know that? Did you know that's going to be under the category of prayer? And there's folk who are been saved for years and you can't get them to open their mouths. And they might say, well, I'm not much of a singer. Well, I'm not much of a singer. What does that have to do with anything, huh? It's what's coming out. And like Pastor Nancy preached the other night, the heart from which it proceeds, from the abundance of the heart, the mouth leaks, the mouth speaks, the mouth things come out from the. What's in your mouth comes from your heart, proceeds from your heart. And if nothing's coming out of your mouth, we know, we don't have to wonder. We know that the level of spiritual fullness in your heart is extraordinarily low because it can be on the low side and you still open your mouth for praise and worship. I'm a smile when I say it makes hello spoonful of sugar Makes the medicine go down. Amen. When you just can't muster. Well, I'm just not feeling 100% today. You can move yourself to. You can move yourself past 100% if you'll open your mouth. Amen. Give God. Give God. When it's time to do any of these things, we do these things 100%. Are you hearing me prayer? We don't do it halfway. We don't do it half hearted. You know, I'm reminded of an Old Testament story. If I can share with you the prophet Elisha, when he was near the end of his life, a king came to him. And the king wanted some instructions because there was a neighboring king that was coming against him. And he said, take arrows and shoot the arrows on the ground. I think is what it was to start with. And the king, you know, it says that the king took a couple and did it. Was it three arrows shot him on the ground. And Elisha got perturbed. Perturbed. Is that okay word to use in church? Perturbed. Elisha got perturbed. He said, well, if you had shot them all, all your enemies would have been taken care of. But since you shot just a few, you'll just have a few victories. And one of the things that speaks of is half heartedness. Because honestly, think about it, friends, according to the natural, what does shooting arrows on the ground accomplish? First of all, it's dangerous because if it ricochets, somebody could get hurt. I have a friend, actually, the guy who led me to the Lord. And I think this was after he led me to the Lord, were still hanging out and he decided one day to chase me with a bow and arrow. Bow and arrows. And he wasn't mad at me. This was his idea of funny. He thought it was funny. I'm running around, he's shooting arrows. He had, he didn't aim well, so he missed me. But I'm like, dude, did you stop and think about what if you had hit me? But listen, the fact that I'm alive is proof that angels exist and angels are real. But so, you know, I mean, you think, what does shooting arrows, It's a waste of arrows. It's a waste of ammunition. We got to make new arrows if they break. And so half hearted. But if the word of the Lord is to shoot your arrows, You gonna make me come back there today? If the word of the Lord is to shoot the arrows, empty your quiver. Just empty your quiver. Do it all the way. You want full victory? You want part victory? No, half hearted, you Know, there's another word for half hearted. You know what it is? Luke warm. Lukewarm. Room temperature. Not too hot, not too cold. Just blending, just fitting, just occupying, just taking up space. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Come on, slap the person next to you real hard. No, I'm just kidding. Don't do. I didn't want to do it because I'd get in trouble, you know, but no lukewarm. Praise him. And no cold for that matter. No cold Christians. Amen. Hot, hot, hot, hot, hot. Say it with me. Come on. Hot, hot, hot. We are so hot. Hot, hot. You had to be from a certain era. Give me some glasses so I can read the Bible. And get me out of Praise the Lord. Go with me, if you would, to Ephesians, chapter six. Hot, hot, Hot. Filled with the Holy Ghost. Hot, hot, hot. So hot. I'm hot. She's. I'm perfectly serious. You understand? Perfectly serious. We're to be glowing and burning, You might think. Do you not have nothing to preach today? You just have to preach what you preach Monday. No, because what I preached Monday hasn't said sunk in yet. Just preaching to me. Just preaching to me. Letting you hear it. Amen. One hearing doesn't do it all the time, right? In. In Ephesians. Did I tell you where to go? Ephesians, the sixth chapter. Praise the Lord. You know, we're not satisfied with the first two rows just being good responders, y'. All. What we've heard in the evening services, it doesn't get any more what we call top shelf, where mama hides the cookies. It doesn't get any more top shelf than that. But are we doing it? We heard last night about being responders. Huh? You know, if you're going to respond to God, you have to first recognize God. You have to recognize his movement to respond to his movement. And one of the ways to recognize his movement and recognize him is to just fill your life with him and give constant expression to his spirit. Meaning praise, meaning worship, meaning thanksgiving. Meaning always speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and. And spiritual songs. Making melody in your. Oh, come on. Come on. Some folk could be helping me better than you helping me. Making melody in your heart to the Lord. Giving thanks, always giving thanks. Always, always giving thanks always, always for all things. Yes, brother. Amen. And just be in a glow. When you're full of God, you're full of joy. When you're full of God, you're full of peace. And you recognize God quicker when you live full. You recognize his movement. Amen and you can respond to what you recognize. I don't know about you. One of, you know, some of the first times where I was in a service where God was moving, I will never forget it. And I'm talking about, he was moving strong. We had gone to, we had gone to Rhema Bible College they call it now. And we went, the weekend we went there, they had this, they had these meetings, these Holy Spirit meetings that were kind of, kind of the popular thing at the time. We had never been in anything like that. And this, this particular minister, very, very well known, was getting very well known, still is. And I mean, people were laughing and dancing, run really, and just falling out, couldn't talk. And all these manifestations, all these things were happening and we weren't participating in any of it because it was the, it was just so new to us. I was such a mental Christian, meaning everything was head, everything was think, everything was analyzed, everything was, you know, just mental. And, and so I would, I would, we would sit there, but we, we got to where we could sense God in it. And we didn't know enough about faith and stuff to know that you're supposed to be yield and you're supposed to respond to what you sense. But we got to where we were sensing God. And I remember telling my wife said, I don't understand any of this, but I know that it's God. And so because I knew it was God, I didn't just spit it out, I stayed, I stayed in that kind of environment and eventually got to where we got a clue that when the spirit's moving corporately, when somebody else senses something and starts, well, you can just jump into that. You can just jump into that. And then when I did, I realized that what I was sensing got stronger. I was sensing God. What was that? Well, you can have a quick fill experience in services like these where the spirit is moving, you see now you can get full of God, the slow and steady route. And that's good too. Meaning that you just, just praising him, just worshiping him and just moving towards taking steps toward fullness. But there's also the quick. How many? Like the quick chargers, not the trickle charges for your phone. Right. My, my pickup truck that I own has a little thing in it where it's supposed to wirelessly charge your phone if I had to. On that wireless, you have one, what, what are they afraid that we're going to all get radiation and all get charged up or something? I don't know. But they don't give you enough to do anything. But you can get, you can get a charger, you can get a quick charger that'll charge that thing up fast. Well, see, that's what's, that's what, when you come together in services.
- [17:06]
A
So moving and moving and flow in the spirit requires time in the spirit. But coming together corporately will allow you to slip in, jump in, move in, flow into the things of God in a quicker pace and learn the race you're to run.
- [17:25]
B
Amen. Amen. So what we just said, so when you come to these meetings, there's a purpose. God wants to accelerate some things in you and help you get in. And he'll quick charge you, he'll quick charge you. So we've had, we've had, even in this series of meetings here, we've had situations where just like a spirit of praise fell and everybody was praising God. Well, see, if you jump into that, you might say, well, I don't sense. It doesn't matter, doesn't matter. All that means is you haven't developed that sensitivity yet. But you can't. These things are not sovereign gifts, you understand? Everybody can learn to live full. And so just jump in and actually participate, Participate, participate, participate. You know, just saying amen. Do you know that it might be a low level response, but it's a response. And a response indicates a reception and a reception demands a response. It's not that we just like a lot of noise. I mean, I will admit I am most comfortable when bodies are lying around and people are screaming. But that's just me. That's not normal. That's me. It's not that we just want noise. We want recept, we want people to receive. Because the miracle, the miracle flow that we're endeavoring to present is not just something you watch. We want you to carry it. We want you to carry it. We want you to know that flow. And so in services, when we come together, God gives us the opportunity to learn all together by doing things in a measure stronger than you would sense necessarily on your own. See what I'm saying? When, when we come together corporately, he's able to move in stronger ways because you have many spirits connected to him all gathered together. And really what we're seeking is a unified flow because you understand that a corporate flow of the spirit is stronger than the sum of the parts. You know, for example, if, how many know if you had a twig, you could break it real easy, just a little twig off a tree, just snap it and break it. But you get enough Twigs all bound together in the size of a huge log. You're not just going to take that thing and break it, right? You get all. Maybe there's a million twigs in that bundle. You put all million separate. You break them all. You get them all together. That thing is strong. It's as strong as a full log in some respects, right? Hallelujah. So your response matters. Amen. Did you find the. Did you find the verse we asked you to look at? If it seems like I'm bouncing around or swimming around today, it's just because I am. But it's going to be, listen, these services progress. Today is. I'm just telling you, today is the best morning service yet. Amen. And you jump in when. When you have something to jump. Praise the Lord. Ephesians 6. If I could read this, this great passage here about what we call the armor of God, right? Most people are familiar with that. Putting on the armor of God. Well, one of the last things that we're told to do in there is in verse 18, where it says, praying always, praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints. This verse just. Oh, my Lord. You know, to unpack this whole verse, there's so much in it. It's so big. But we notice how it starts. Praying always, praying always. You know, that's easier to do when you're full rather than empty. We want you to. We want you to be praying from a place of fullness. But as you're praying, you're contributing to spiritual fullness. Do you hear me? As you pray, you contribute. You become more full as you pray. Praying always, Praying always. Say it with me. Praying always, always, always with all prayer. All prayer. Now, if you. That lets us know that you could not be praying with all prayer, you could be incomplete, right? We're to pray with all prayer. All prayer. What's that mean? Prayer in all of its forms and all its variety. Prayer in all of its forms and all its variety is to be flowing in our life. And it goes on to say something real interesting right after that. Praying always with all prayer. And then what's the next one? And supplication? Well, that's interesting. That word supplication is actually one of the forms of prayer. But that's really the form of prayer that involves what we would call asking. And that's what most individuals, you know, lost as well as saved. Most individuals, when you talk about prayer, they. They Think first before anything else. Asking God and asking God what, What do we, what are we asking? Asking God in most cases to do something for something, change something. Asking God. Well, okay, if that's separate, if that's off by itself, asking God, then what's that first one? All prayer. Because I don't know about you, I do know about. No, I don't know. I'll tell you this. The longer I go in the things of God, the more I grow in the things of God, the less asking I find myself doing. Now, I know some folk might take issue with that, but I'm just telling you, that's just my experience. The longer, the more I grow and the longer I go, I find myself doing less asking. Especially asking God to do things and asking God for things. So how are you going to do that always? When it says praying always, it can't be talking primarily about asking, right? And it says praying always. With all prayer, there's a full variety of prayer. Do you know that the, like I said, the word supplication is. Would be the. If you look up the Greek, it means, means to petition. Like you ever get a petition together, huh, Pastor makes you mad. Church members get a petition together. Let's get a petition together. Get enough signatures to throw out the pastor. The only problem is pastor will throw out the petition. Amen. What are you doing? What are you doing when you get that petition? It's a demand. I said it's a demand. It's a request and lets us know enough of us have issues that we need to make a change. Well, that's not included in this. All prayer. The word translated prayer, not just here, but in most cases in the New Testament where the word prayer is used, is really the Greek word that means praise and worship. And thanksgiving could include asking, but really praise, worship, thanksgiving. Now that you can do always pray. You could say it this way. Praising always or praying always with all praise, worship, thanksgiving. And if you need to ask for something, you can do that too. Is it just me? Am I thinking about it wrong or have we gotten this backwards in the body of Christ, in our thinking? I'm talking about. Because when we think, you know, we might need to pray about something, about this. Well, you're not praying always. If you think, oh, we might need to pray, Huh? Always. How often is always? It's always. I heard a minister years ago say we did a. Somebody did a word study on always and then the word all. And they, they went to this language. They went to this language and they Studied the commentaries and they found out, you know what they found out. It meant all. Always. It means, always means just what you think it means. We're supposed to be doing this all the time. All the time. Well, we're not asking 24 7, but we should be worshiping all the time. We should be praising all the time. We should be giving thanks always for all things, huh? Doesn't 1 Thessalonians 5 say, in everything, give thanks? In everything, give thanks. Do you understand why this is important? This is really kind of maybe part B to what Pastor Nancy was preaching some of last night, talking about responding to God. This is one way you do that. Hey, hold your place here. If you would go to 1 Thessalonians 5, Bless the Lord giving you a chance to find it first. Thessalonians 5. You know, some of the simplest things in Scripture are some of the most profound, some of the strongest, some of the. Some of the things that actually affect things the most. And I think maybe some of these verses here, we, we just, we read over them real quick. But let's not do that. Verse, verse 16. What's it say? Rejoice how often? Evermore. What's evermore mean? They call you Dr. Wade, so that means you're distinguished, you're educated. What's evermore. From the time you read this on and don't stop evermore. What you supposed to do? Evermore. Rejoice evermore. I met a guy the other day who, I guess I might have told him I was a preacher or whatever. And the first thing he said to me when I met him in person was, so what about the 147 Lost Books of the Bible that the Vatican is keeping? I said, excuse me, you know, the Internet's not a safe place for everybody. He asked me again, what about the. I think it was 147. And if, you know, if you know, shame on you for knowing. What are all these lost books? I said, what about the 66 that we have, right? Huh? What about the 66 you got. Forget about the 147 lost books. But I think, I think some folk have been reading some of the lost books of the Bible because they, they add, they add things to. Because they read this. Rejoice evermore as long as we feel like it. And things are going really well, huh? You need to lose that book of the. You need to lose that verse that's not in there. What's it say, friends? What's it say? Rejoice evermore. And what's Right after that. Evermore. I have a period. Anybody else? You have a period? Rejoice evermore. No ifs, no excepts. Just. Just what? Just rejoice. Just joy. I mean, somebody should. Some someday. Anyhow. Rejoice evermore. And then the next verse, the next verse is. You don't need to know Greek. Huh? The next verse, what's it say? Pray. You know what word that word, pray is? The one I talked to you about. The main word in the New Testament for prayer. The main word. I think it's pro. Such a. I'm not sure exactly how to pronounce it, but the main word, praise, worship and thanksgiving. You could read it this way. Praise without ceasing. Because if. Listen, if this word prayer was talking about asking. You can't ask without ceasing. I mean, forgive me for stepping out of my place, but I think even God would get annoyed at that. Who is it? Naturally speaking? What kind of person is it that does nothing but ask and ask and ask and ask and ask? A toddler who just learned how to talk. That's the one who just asks and asks and asks. And you say, what do you say? I told you. I told you. But they just keep asking and keep asking and keep asking. How many? Remember the commercial Calgon? Take me away. I don't even know what calgon is, but a bubble bath. Yeah, you can see why folks say that. No, but you can praise without ceasing. I said you can praise with praise. So you're rejoicing evermore. We are on the non stop rejoicing train. Just, just don't stop. We just doesn't stop. We just, we just don't ever stop. Just keep, just keep, just keep rejoicing and just. We just don't ever stop rejoicing. Things happen that are good. We rejoice. Things happen that are bad. What does that matter? We just rejoice. Huh? Things happen that are neutral. We rejoice. We just rejoice. We just rejoice. Rejoice evermore. Praise without ceasing. Well, what happens if you have a time of difficult circumstances? Certainly you could put it on pause, huh? You're not allowed to pause your praise. You're not allowed to pause your praise. You can't put it on pause because I got to deal with something difficult. Huh? You guys are legalistic. You're hard. I mean, We are legal. You know what legalistic has to do with legal means? Law. You know what we're talking about? Spiritual law. And spiritual law is what governs the Flow of God's power. If we learn to comply with spiritual law, we can be. We can be a recipient and a carrier of miracle power. And that's actually what we're talking about. You'll see it in a second. I know I've taken. I've taken an interesting route to get here today. No question about it. Rejoice evermore. Praise, worship without ceasing. And we already quoted this one, but look at it in every. Oh, here we go. Another absolute. Another absolute, with no exceptions, no allowances, no outs. This is bondage to your flesh, I said to your flesh, which needs to be put down, which needs to be in submit, which needs to be locked up in everything. Give thanks for this. For this what? Rejoice. Praise. Give thanks. This rejoicing, praising and giving thanks, this is the will of God in Christ concerning you. Concerning what? Concerning you. Well, everybody wants to know, what's God's will for me? What's God's will for my life? We're just praying, oh, God, show me your will for me. He just told you. His will for you. His will for you is not just to think. A happy thought, huh? Once in a while. Not to just do these. All of these things. Did you notice? Rejoicing, praising and thanksgiving. They are all actions. They're all actions. They're not. They're not something you telegraph mentally. Right, Right. They're not feelings. They're not feelings. You don't have to feel it to do it. These are actions. Rejoicing is an action. Do you know, do you know? Do you know how to rejoice? What's the. Okay, that's. Okay, that's one. That's a variety. When your tie flips up, you in the flow. That's one way to rejoice. There are several actions. We'll just put it. We'll just leave it that way. There's several actions that would be considered rejoicing. And you know them all. You know them all because in the natural, people rejoice, don't they. They get. They rejoice. Now, their rejoicing is based not on this verse. Their rejoicing is based on something good happening. You know, we pastored for 11 years in the Buffalo, New York area. And just outside Buffalo, in the town of Orchard Park, New York. Well, in Orchard Park, New York, there's a. The. The biggest structure in town is the stadium where the Buffalo Bills football team plays. Well, for a number of years, I lived next door to one of the offensive linemen for the Buffalo Bills. He Was a believer, sweet family. And they would, they would get tickets and they would leave us tickets. Now we would be, of course, pastor in our church on Sunday morning and the game starts about 1 o' clock in the afternoon there. And we come home and under her flower pot that sat on the front step of that house, we'd see two tickets. And, oh, they would be good tickets. Why he never was organized enough to give them to us ahead of time, we don't know, but he just, he just leave tickets for us. And so if it was a nice day, we get home from church like at 12:30, game starts at 1:00'. Clock. But the other provision from heaven that we had was a church member who lived across the street from the stadium. And she, she said she used park, park at our place anytime you want. So we would go, we would go to this. We'd, we'd say, oh, yeah, we got a half hour before the game starts. And you missed the, the, all the, you know, the crowd going in. We called it the Buffalo shuffle. All the people getting going in there and you know, because they've been tailgating, juicing, carrot juice, celery juice, whatever. What was that green stuff you was. Stop texting. What was that green stuff you. What was that green stuff you were drinking this morning? Matcha powder. Matcha powder. And so we go, we go to the game, get there right when it starts, but I'll tell you when something good. Now the team was bad the whole time we lived there, poor. But, you know, it's fun to go still. But when some, in the rare case, when something good happened, a big touchdown pass was going, you would, you would. After the event, you would find yourself in the arms of somebody you did not know. You would. You would. How many, how many know what I'm talking about? Because this is probably college football area, whatever in the South. No, you find yourself and you're like, that's a good fight. What are you doing? You're rejoicing. You're rejoicing. But see, the world's rejoicing is based on good things that happen. But it's those same expressions is what I was saying. Those same expressions translate over into the spirit realm. Not that you just go up and hug people randomly. I'm not suggesting that. But, but what were we doing? We were jumping up and down, we were shouting, we were, we were everything that goes along with, you know, dancing, boogieing. Because then when they'd score, you know, the music would come over the Bills, make me want to shout, lift Yours up and shout. And everybody. Everybody. You didn't have to. If somebody was sitting there unexpressive, not singing, you knew they were for the other team. And that's. And that's my message for today. I don't need to take that any further, do I? Every. Everybody would sing this. Everybody would sing. The Bills make me want to shout. Lift your voice. Yeah. And everybody would go bump, bump, bump, bump. The Bills make me want to shout. And then we woo. Then you'd high five. And we still lost the game. We still lost the game. But they were so committed. You know why? You know why it was so easy to get them to respond to the one good thing? Because they came early and they. They participated in the. In the matcha Drinking contest. Yeah. Anyhow, Didn't mean for, you know, to. Didn't praise the Lord. Yeah. Everybody. Everybody who was on the. You didn't have to say. Would you please explain? Would you please be happy that something could. That's why they paid their ticket price. So because they wanted something good to happen. They were living on hope. But you know, our battle's already been won. Our. No, our game. Our game has already been won.
- [45:15]
C
Yeah.
- [45:17]
B
And we are the champion. Okay, that's all I'm gonna do. Now. What's the will of God? I wonder if the will of God is for my life. If you'll do the revealed will of God for you. For you. This is. This. Rejoicing, praise, praying, always rejoicing, praising, giving thanks. That's God's will for your life. And as you do his will for your life, you will discover other aspects of his will for your life. It's like, I want to find out some other way. I don't want to. Huh? I'll just ex. I'll just find out the hard way. I'll just. Instead of doing this. Come on now. This. You know, you know, not you, not here in Paducah, but. But yeah, the people in the other towns. Not West Paducah, regular Paducah. Those people, you know, they. They're not going to live full and participate in these expressions to find out God's will for their life. They're going to do it the hard way by trial and error, which you understand if you do that. It's more error than trial. You'll go through trials and you'll have error after error. Folk do it with relationships. We could just stay in the flow of God and intersect the right person and you know where you're going to intersect them. When you're both Running. You're both running in the same service. You bump into each other and you realize something is in your hand. And they put their phone number on a piece of paper. When you're all dancing in church, That's what. That's where you're going to find. You're going to find God's will. You know how much of God's will for your life can be found on the carpet? Yes. Yes. So there's a verse I really do want to get to, and it's the next verse, because we'll maybe read these couple verses. Yeah. Rejoice evermore, Pray without ceasing in everything. Give thanks for this is the will of God. Okay. Beautiful. Beautiful, beautiful. No, no, no, friends. The next verse summarizes these three verses. And the next verse, notice what it says? Quench, quench not the spirit. Quench not the spirit. To quench means to suppress, to hold down, to keep from moving and keep from flowing. When you fail to participate in this aspect of prayer, which is actually most of prayer, You might say. I thought tongues was the biggest part of prayer. Read your Bible. When you fail to participate in the praise, in the rejoicing, in the thanks, in the other. And, yes, tongues and the other expressions of the spirit, you're preventing the flow of the spirit in your life. You're quenching, you're suppressing. You're suppressing what God desires to flow. But when you rejoice, not just in your heart, but you give action, when you praise out loud, moving your lips, when you give thanks like it's going out of style, you release the flow of the spirit in your life. The flow of the spirit. Did you hear me? What's that word? Flow? How many know electricity flows when the. When switches are turned on, circuits are, I believe, closed. Is that how it works? A little different than my mind would think. And instantly there's a delivery, There's an instant delivery, and all of a sudden you see all kinds of things. Come on, we're doing better now. But when the service started, I kind of wish the lights were out, you know, having to look. Having to look out here and. Oh, no, I'm just. Come on. You release the flow of God. Just like electricity flows, there's a delivery to your life. God's flow quench not. Don't quench the flow by keeping your mouth quiet. Don't quench the flow by just living in your mental prison. Don't quench the flow by griping and complaining. Huh? And saying, I just don't know how long God's going to take? God's already got it for you. It's already yours. But you've got to activate the flow by participating in the things of God. Praying always, praying always. Praising, always. Rejoicing, always giving thanks, always. Hallelujah.
- [52:04]
D
Oh, glory to God. Glory to God. Glory to God.
- [52:08]
B
Glory to God. That's the reason. It's not that I don't know what to do all the time when I. When I get up here, but that's the reason. Sometimes we'll just sit there and say, thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. What are we doing? We're trying to prime the pump. What is prime the pump? Getting the air out, Getting the flow going in you. It's not for me. Is to get a flow going so that things can be delivered to you. But things being delivered to you is just one part of the flow of God. God also wants some things going through you. Hallelujah. Praise the Lord forever. So, anyhow, the word's good, isn't it? Rejoice evermore. Praise without ceasing in everything. Give thanks for this is the will of God. You know, one more thought about the will of God, people. Again, because the Bible says, encourages us to do the will of God, you know, but there's not a whole lot of places in the New Testament where it says, this is the will of God. And one of the other places is over in Ephesians 5, and I won't have you turn there. But you know what it says? Be not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is. And what is that? Don't be drunk with wine, but be filled, crammed, saturated with the spirit. How do we know if we are speaking? Speaking, speaking. Amen. Spiritual expressions are coming back out. Those are the two places I can think of that tell you what the will of God is. And both have to do with the subject of prayer, but particularly living full by giving expression to the things of the Spirit. Amen. What do you have to say about that?
- [54:36]
A
Well, just this, that we stress. We stress. Others have stressed. Brother Hagin used to stress the importance of praying in other tongues. But if you only do that and don't do this, the praising, the rejoicing, the flow of tongues alone will be less effective.
- [55:08]
B
Could be an empty flow.
- [55:11]
A
There have been times in my life where I. I would be praying in tongues. And it was almost. Well, it was empty. It was just by rote. I was just doing it to do it.
- [55:25]
B
Yeah.
- [55:26]
A
My spirit was not attached. Engaged.
- [55:31]
B
Yes.
- [55:33]
A
And this Flow, the praising, the rejoicing, the giving thanks. This flow teaches you how to attach your spirit to this other flow, praying in other tongues. And when you do that, when your spirit is engaged in this, this is when we get in the Spirit. This is when we can go places in spiritual realms. This is where we accomplish things by the Spirit. And this is how we know what we're doing in the Spirit.
- [56:09]
B
Indeed, indeed.
- [56:11]
A
Because we've created this spiritual sensitivity, as he's saying, to know and see.
- [56:20]
B
That's all. Hallelujah. So let's, let's practice, practice some of this today. Again, you might think, well, you're, you know, you're supposed. You're departing from prayer. Not at all. Not at all. This is the main part of our prayer life. But would you agree with me, friends, that for so many people, it's the most neglected part of their prayer life? It's the part that gets left off, huh? So just getting these things aligned and getting these things in order in our own lives and making the main thing, the main thing, as they say, I'm telling you, that makes a huge difference. You know, these things are important to us because we're always in some kind of faith thing. And if you're actually serving God, so are you. Anybody here, you're not in any kind of faith, transact faith, venture, faith thing right now at all. I know you're not going to raise your hand because. What's that mean? Yeah, I mean, if you're serving God, you're always faith. Because the just shall occasionally visit the life of faith, right? No, the just shall live, but we walk by faith. Yeah. So you're all the time dealing with voices that are talking to you saying, this isn't coming to pass. This isn't happening. He's not that good, huh? So, you know, we're always in something. I mean, right now we're in a thing where God dealt with us to, to. To put our home on the market. Oh, Jesus. And we just did it like two days before we got here. And voices are called, Voices are already talking. It's not going to happen. It's not gonna. It's not gonna. It's not going to. You know how to drown that out. Now. Now I'll say this. From the time the Lord dealt with us to the time and we worked hard. We worked hard. We spent a lot to get this thing ready. And during the time that we were working on it, interest rates doubled. You know what that means? Nothing. Not the way we're doing it. We're not. We're not selling stuff because interest rates are good. We're not selling stuff because prices are high or prices are low. We're doing stuff because God dealt with us, too. And because God dealt with us, too, we can have faith. Amen. And because we have faith, we understand that there's a spiritual flow through which angels are working. Buyers are converging. Huh? Like a flock of vultures, they're circling our house. You know what I'm saying? Now, from the natural, doesn't look like much is happening. Doesn't look like it. Looks like we missed our window. You just got to see it. You just got to see it the way God sees it. So you'll forgive us if, when we go to practice some of these things here with everybody, if we just shoot all our arrows, as it were, Because I ain't interested in no low ball coming because I only shot three arrows. Hello. No, I ain't interested in that. Huh? Glory to God. So let's. Particularly today as we go to prayer, start off with his praising and worshiping and giving thanks and rejoicing. And we'll see if we go anywhere other than that, we just follow God. Is that all right? Hallelujah. And you know, if you. If you're not happy, faith could put a smile on. Just force yourself to do it. You won't crack anything or hurt anything. Praise the Lord. Say again? Yeah, yeah, yeah. We're not going to have music to start with anyhow. We're going to praise all by ourselves. Altogether, though. You want to start standing up, is that okay? If you need to sit after a while, you do that. So. Father, we worship you. We praise, praise, praise, praise, praise, praise, praise. Yeah. Yeah. We bless. We bless. We bless. We bless you. We praise you. We magnify. We worship you. We worship you. We worship you. We worship you. We worship you. We worship you. We praise, praise, praise, praise, praise. We bless you. We bless you. We bless you. We thank you. We thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you.
- [61:21]
E
Glory to your name.
- [61:23]
B
Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. We bless you, Praise you. Magnify you. You're worthy.
- [61:40]
D
You're good. You're good.
- [61:43]
B
You're good. We give you. Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you.
- [61:50]
C
Glory.
- [61:51]
D
Glory.
- [61:52]
E
Glory.
- [61:53]
D
Glory to God. Glory to God.
- [61:57]
B
Thank you that we have it. Thank you that it's done.
- [62:00]
E
You're so big.
- [62:01]
D
Glory, Glory. Glory, glory, glory.
- [62:03]
E
So Big.
- [62:04]
A
You're so.
- [62:08]
B
Big.
- [62:08]
D
Glory, glory, glory, Glory, Glory. Glory, Glory, Glory, Glory, Glory, Glory, Glory, Glory, Glory, Glory, Glory, Glory.
- [62:15]
B
Ha. You're that good. You're that good.
- [62:23]
D
Glory to God.
- [62:24]
A
Thank you.
- [62:25]
D
Glory to God. Glory to God. Glory to God. Glory to God. Glory to God. Glory to God. Glory to God. Glory to God. Glory to God. Glory, glory, glory, Glory, Glory, Glory, Glory, Glory, glory, glory.
- [62:47]
E
We rejoice.
- [62:48]
D
Glory, glory, glory, Glory, Glory, Glory, Glory, Glory, Glory, Glory, Glory, Glory, Glory, Glory.
- [62:56]
B
Glory.
- [63:06]
D
Glory, glory, glory, glory, glory, glory, glory, glory, glory, glory, glory, glory, glory, glory. We glorify you. Glory to God. Glory to God. Glory to God. Glory to God. Glory, glory, glory.
- [63:25]
E
We praise.
- [63:25]
D
Glory, glory, glory, glory. Glory, glory, glory, glory, glory, glory. Glory.
- [63:34]
B
Glory. Glory.
- [63:37]
D
Glory. Glory.
- [63:38]
B
Glory. Hallelujah. Now, now listen. Listen up here. Listen up here a moment. There is no spiritual gift of ventriloquism whereby with your mouth closed and your lips tight, you're able to project praise that is not in the Bible. That is not in the Bible. We're going to give you another chance. But I'm telling you, like Pastor Nancy was saying last night, your victory can't be won by my praise. My rejoicing doesn't get your victory doesn't get your answer. Now, we've been leading in praise for a little bit. Doing a real good job, I think. I mean, you know, top shelf praise, but we're gonna have some other folk help. Help us. Pastor Amber, come up here and just help lead us. Come up here quick. Like, how many arrows you got? Shoot them all. Just shoot them all. Praise you.
- [64:50]
E
Thank you that you are so good. We thank you. You are so good. And your mercy endures forever. Hallelujah. You are a good God and we worship you. Glory to your name.
- [65:04]
B
Praise him.
- [65:04]
E
We give you glory.
- [65:05]
B
Praise him. Praise the Lord.
- [65:08]
E
Hallelujah.
- [65:10]
C
Hallelujah.
- [65:11]
E
Hallelujah. We worship you, Father. We lift up your.
- [65:14]
B
We give you all glory. Hallelujah.
- [65:25]
E
You are so good.
- [65:32]
B
Praise. Praise. Praise. Praise. Praise. Praise. Praise. Praise. Praise. Praise. Praise. Praise him.
- [65:43]
E
Praise the lord.
- [65:44]
B
Praise him. Praise him. Oh, bless you.
- [65:50]
E
Praise the lord. Praise the lord. Hallelujah. Praise the lord.
- [65:57]
C
Hallelujah.
- [65:58]
E
Glory to God. Hallelujah.
- [66:00]
D
Glory.
- [66:01]
C
Glory.
- [66:01]
B
Glory.
- [66:02]
D
Glory. Glory. Glory.
- [66:03]
B
Glory.
- [66:04]
D
Glory.
- [66:05]
B
Glory. Glory. Glory.
- [66:06]
D
Glory the lord. Glory. Glory. Glory.
- [66:11]
B
Glory. Glory. All out of arrows. No more arrows. Praise him. Praise him. Praise him. Praise him. Praise him. Praise him. Pastor Noel, come help us. Come lead us in praise. See how many arrows you got.
- [66:38]
C
Well, I've been hearing this in my spirit since last night. All have sinned and come short of the glory. See, the thing is, we're not sinners anymore. We're not short of the glory. We're in the kingdom of God. And the kingdom of God, Lord Jesus Christ said is righteousness. We're righteous, right? What else do we have? Peace. Right. And joy. See, if you're not joyful, you have a long face. Then you short yourself with the glory. That's a sinner thing. Rejoicing. See, there's two sides of the glory. We know that. The presence of God. Of course. Pastor Nancy was ministering. We're not short of that anymore. We're not sinners anymore. Right? See, if you're not joyful, you don't know what you have. And the other side of the glory are stuff. We're gonna be full of stuff. My God shall supply what all. We rejoice evermore.
- [68:05]
B
All. All.
- [68:07]
C
That's what he said, right? That's God's detergent. All right. All your what needs needs. That's if you're according to what. According to what? His riches in what. So you better rich in joy because you're no longer a sinner. You're not short anymore. Are we all sinners here? We're not. So we're supposed to be full of joy because we're not short of the glory. All right. In his presence is what? Fullness of joy. We're no longer short. Are you short, brother? Are you Brother Grant? Are you short of the glory? You better. The stuff is coming and it's gonna come to you. But you gotta have the joy because that's where the stuff will come. When you're full of the glory of God. It's not hard. It's not hard. Hallelujah. It's not hard now.
- [69:37]
B
Hallelujah.
- [69:38]
C
Can you pray in the spirit? Right? It's gonna mashkita. It looks like dry, Right? The same way you let allow joy to flow when you're praying in the spirit. You're praying in the spirit will be Woohoo. That river began to flow. It came from the same place. This is what they're gonna teach them.
- [70:15]
B
Thank you. F.
- [70:45]
C
Arise, arise, Shine. For thy light has come. And the glory of the Lord is risen. Risen. Yeah. Let it rise up. I shoot on my arrow, bro.
- [71:14]
B
You shot your arrows. Yeah.
- [71:16]
C
I no longer short of the the glory.
- [71:20]
B
Thank you. Thank you. Praise. Praise. Praise. Praise. Praise. Praise him. Praise him. Praise him. Praise him. Praise him. Praise him. Praise him. Well, glory. Praise him. Praise Him. Praise him. That's what I mean when I talk about quick fill, quick charge when you participate, you go from your needle, pops up real quick. Amen. Hallelujah. Well, just one more time. Let's just praise him. Thank him for today. Thank you, Father. Bless you, Father. We thank you. Magnify you. Bless you. Bless you. Bless you. Bless you. Bless you. Bless you. Bless you. Bless you. Bless you. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Praise him. Praise him. Praise him. Praise him. Praise him. Praise him. Praise him. Praise him.
- [73:28]
A
Praise.
- [73:28]
B
Praise him.
- [73:32]
A
We trust you've enjoyed this message. Visit us@DefrainMinistries.org to learn of our upcoming meetings, share your testimony, become a partner, or visit our online store. This program has been made possible by the friends and partners of dufresne Ministries.