Pastor Darius' Summer Break and Unreleased Content

hey family well Pastor Darius here and as always I hope you are thriving doing the best you can in the season you're in with the resources you have available man so so incredibly grateful for all that God is doing in and through um this ministry and in your life um I am on my summer break and it's a time of refreshing and refueling replenishing even reconnecting in reconnecting with God reconnecting with my family um I've been outside y'all I've been outside and I'm I'm I'm having a good time amen I'm I'm holy I'm outside I might be outside right now but I know life is lightly and I want to make sure that you guys get the spiritual nourishment that you need so what you're going to be watching today is unreleased content again to message that I taught at our New Jersey location during something that we do call fire night I want you to open your heart receive what God's getting ready to say to you I'll see you at the end of the [Music] [Music] teaching so father today we are we are gathered in this place asking you for the best thing that you could give us and that's your presence and we offer you more than a song we offer you a prayer request and lyrics dwell here move whatever is in your way so we pray now in the name of Jesus for every burden to be lifted Every Chain to be broken broken hearts to be mended let your fire fall on fire night consume what is consuming us if worry is consuming us consume it if doubt is confu consuming us consume it would you have your way in this place this is our prayer in Jesus name amen and amen come on New Jersey clap your hands come on let's give God a a better hand clap of Praise than [Music] that all right well I got something I want to teach tonight I want a continuation I want to kind of pick up where I left off on Sunday and so um I want to read a little bit more scripture than I would normally and I want to read a couple of verses well several verses starting at Luke chapter number two Luke chapter number 22 beginning at verse number 54 uh I want to tell all parents of high school graduating teenagers I mean High School graduating seniors all parents I'm tell and the parents cuz the seniors might not know how expensive life is at this point life is expensive air expensive just life expensive all right so we we've got our rewrite and run scholarship that's available and we did on Pentecost this year we shifted some things around in terms of our special giving and so on Pentecost Sunday we did first fruit offering and because of your generosity we're going to be able to be the most generous we have ever been able to be as it relates to scholarships so this not the year to skip somebody say Amen to that and so um application period is between now and June 26 so we want you to make sure that if you got a a graduating high school senior if they're going to a traditional Pathway to college if they're doing some sort of special training if they're learning a trade if it's Tech if it's production College was my path that's not everybody's path and so we want to support people on the path that they're going to be journeying on so this is not the year to miss it keep that in mind and let me just say one more thing cuz just in case y'all forget in a couple of weeks is Father's day I don't hear I don't hear nobody in this in this Pentecostal Church in a I'm just saying just in case you need some time to pray about how you're going to bless us couple of weeks Father's day and this is going to be the most creative Father's Day we've ever done we're going to be intentional about honoring fathers and um and we want to we really want to not Shine the Light on those who may need some help doing the right thing we want to Shine the Light Father's Day on those that are doing the right thing [Applause] [Music] amen so so so let's keep that in mind all right let's go together to the Book of Luke chapter number 2 22: 54 it says then seizing him they led him away and took him to the house of the high priest Peter followed at a distance and when some had there had kindled a fire in the middle of the courtyard and sat down Peter sat down with him and a servant girl saw him seated there in Fire Light and she looked closely at him and said this man was with him he denied it woman I don't know him a little later someone else saw him and said you are also one of them man I'm not Peter replied about an hour later another asserted certainly this fellow was with him for he's a galileon Peter replied man I don't know what you're talking about and just as he was speaking the rooster crow the Lord turned and looked straight at Peter and Peter remembered the word that the Lord had spoken to him before the rooster crows today you will disown me three times this is Luke this is pre Pentecost now let's go to the book of Acts which is written by Luke and let's see this same Peter it says then Peter in Acts chap 2:14 then Peter stood up with the 11 raised his voice and addressed the crowd fellow Jews and all you who live in Jerusalem let me explain this to you listen carefully to what I say these people are not drunk as you suppose it's only 9 in the morning maybe 9 at night it might be possible no this is what was spoken of by the prophet Joel I want to talk from this subject looking at these two texts tonight Look at me now clap your hands everybody in the building drop some fire in the chat online look at me look at me now I I want to LEAP into this lesson by reiterating and repeating something that I shared in Sunday's sermon and here it is for our notet takers our elevation is often tied to our transformation somebody say yes in other words that there there are some things that don't go up until you and I grow up that there are some levels we can't get to listen to me crawling like a caterpillar there are some places and spaces we can only occupy when we fly like a butterfly and I want to say this very proudly maybe even prophetically this is some of our Seasons to get some wings come on that we that this current iteration of us this current version of us has taken us as far as it can take us we have moved as far as we are able to move with simple modification yeah what what what is required for many of us to continue to progress to advance and to evolve is not just modification what we need is some transformation and because modification can be the result of self-effort but transformation requires some divine intervention and if we will submit to God's process of transformation that transformation will become transportation that will take you to places that your eyes haven't seen and your ears hadn't heard and your heart has not conceived I want to know am I talking to anybody on a Wednesday night that refuses to settle for less than God's best for you I want to know am I talking to anybody that is willing to become a butterfly even if it means leaving other [Applause] [Laughter] caterpillars if I'm making sense say yes yeah this is important family because the scriptures don't necessarily encourage modification what the scriptures announce and encourage is transformation we see it right here in Romans 12 verse number two where Paul sayso not conform to this world but [Applause] be come on he says don't don't be conformed to this for I see see this this particular statement not only reveals to us the possibility of transformation but it reveals the path to transformation did you hear what I just said see many people try to change what's going on with their hands but Paul says you need to start with what's going on with your head did you hear me Paul said do not conform to the pattern of this world but then he tells us how to experience transformation he says but be transformed by the renewing of our mind did you not know that after salvation the spirit of God God watch this focuses its attention not on your spirit but on your soul did you hear what I just said that that that do you not know that the Bible says that he that is joined to the Lord is one spirit that when I become born again or Surrender my life to Jesus God in spirit form the Holy Spirit comes and takes up residence in my spirit and makes a new creature with new capabilities come on and new impulses he helps me become he or he makes me what Jesus calls born again so so I want you to catch this so the purpose of the holy spirit in my spirit is simply regeneration and after regeneration is just communication did you he he he just he he wants to to talk to me but but but after regeneration and there's communication there is nothing else for his Spirit to do with my spirit so where does his Spirit Focus his attention he focuses his attention on my mind my soul my mind my will my emotions my imagination and my affection because the only way he can get to my body is to get to what's controlling my body that's my mind so I cannot have new methods until I have a new mind I can't have new actions until I have a new attitude so the sanctifying work of the spirit is to make a old mind new God Almighty new ways of thinking come on new ways of seeing new ways of perceiving he wants to renew my mind watch this the renewing of my mind suggesting that it is is a continual process and I just came to tell somebody on this Wednesday night please don't fight the process God's trying to give you a new mind and he's trying to use that renewed mind to bring about a new you don't don't don't conform to the pattern of this world but be transformed by the renewing of the mind now does it make sense when you begin to assess the place and the space where Satan sets up Warfare he's did you hear what I said he want what God want and he knows that transformation happens because of the mind and therefore stagnation will happen because of the mind so he's fighting the father over influence over our mind so Paul says don't be conformed to the pattern of this world but be transformed by the renewing of my mind but he didn't stop there the next word is then when my mind is renewed then then what Pastor then you'll be able to test and NIV says approve KJV says prove what God's will is he says when your mind is renewed then your life becomes proof of the promises of God you don't have to gear proof when your mind becomes renewed and your life becomes changed you are proof let me say it one more time when your mind becomes renewed and your life becomes transformed you don't have to give proof of God's goodness you don't have to give proof of God's power you become proof of God's power you become a living epistle it's one thing to say no weapon formed against me shall prosper it's another thing to [Applause] prove no weapon formed against me shall prosper it's one thing to say I'm more than a conqueror it's another thing to prove you're more than a conqueror and I believe I got some people in the room today that will say more than I got proof I believe I got some people in the room today that'll say I am proof the reason I'm saying in the membrane is because I am proof he'll make a way out of nowhere I am proof he'll do exceedingly and abundantly above all you ask or think I am proof that your enemy will come before you one way and flee seven ways I am proof that he'll redeem your life from destruction I am proof that when the enemy comes in like a flood the spirit of God will lift up a standard against it and if you are proof give him a unpro kind of Praise I'm praising because I'm proof I'm clapping because I'm proof I'm re rejoicing because I'm proof and when I think of the goodness of Jesus and all he's done for [Applause] [Laughter] [Applause] me what if I told you God's trying to make us [Applause] proof God will take your marriage to the next level where's the proof yes sir God will give you peace that passes all understanding where's the proof God will give you joy unspeakable full of Glory where's the proof did you hear what I just said so when the enemy can't stop us from experiencing salvation his next intention is to stop us from being proof once you're saved he can't stop us from being saved but once we're saved he wants to stop us from being proof because when we become proof we become the Bible some people read we become living Epistles come on here we become living they start reading us and when they're reading us it makes them want to read the Bible they say the Bible gave you a life like that I need to read the Bible the Bible gave you Joy like that I need to read the Bible [Applause] maybe the Warfare we experience is Warfare intended to prohibit us from being proof I'm going to heaven but am I proof on Earth The credibility of the message of the Gospel is tied to God's people willingness and ability to be proof and the text we read is a powerful picture of what I'm talking about yeah this this this this this particular these particular passages reveal to us listen to this reveal and expose us to one version of a man in Luke Peter and a different version of the same man in Acts did you hear what I just said we we we read it we we we read it together we read what Peter did in Luke we we we read Peter denying Jesus not accidentally because it didn't happen [Applause] once he denied him three times so this wasn't accidentally this was intentionally if I'm teaching the truth say yes yes so you see you see him denying Jesus not accidentally but intentionally he's denying him are y'all ready for this he's denying him because oh my because he loves him but he doesn't love him enough to be inconvenience for him did you hear what I said it it is a revelation that Peter's love has not evolved to what the Bible call loyal [Applause] love did you hear what I just said yeah watch this loyalty is only revealed when you have an opportunity to not [Applause] be and this is some of our issue we're calling we're labeling people loyal too [Applause] soon they loyal you don't know yet you don't know until they have an opportunity to not be and one of the ways loyalty is revealed is not by what they do and say in your presence one of the ways loyalty is revealed is by what they do and say in your absence so don't just come tell me what they said I want to know what you said when they said what they said to you I also want to know how many times did they say it to you and why would they so comfortable keep coming back to you to say [Applause] it his love had not evolved to a loyal love a love that was willing to be inconvenienced for the one that you love greater love has no one than this then they lay down their life for a friend a loyal love did you hear what I just said I'm talking about a lawyer he his love had not evolved to the point that he was willing to be associated with Jesus when it was inconvenient so he's timid he's fearful he's denying Jesus in Luke but he's declaring Jesus in Acts same man but his life in Acts is proof of the transformative power of the spirit listen to me the man that denied Jesus was a man that had walked with him for three years did you hear what I just said he he had been under his tutelage for three years he had listened to his teaching for three years but he had educated he couldn't Implement because he didn't have empowerment you got it so for three years he had teaching from Jesus but when it came to moments of stress and strain he could not implement the teaching because he had education but he didn't have empowerment he had principles but he didn't have power so his knowledge exceeded his ability to execute he could talk stuff he couldn't live he could teach stuff he couldn't live he could explain stuff to other people that he couldn't Implement he understood it cognitively but he could not implement it practically it was only after Pentecost that he had the ability the dunamus come on that he had the ability to actually Implement what he's executing and this is what many people miss about the power of Pentecost and the person of the holy spirit because many of us have notes in notes apps and notes in notebooks that we cannot use because we've got [Applause] principles without [Applause] power see it's easy it's easy to understand the princi principle watch this of loving your enemies it's easy to understand that right it's it's easy to wrap your head around the idea that bitterness only Burns you that ISO it's am I making sense it's it's the equivalent of holding toxicity in your soul that we are upset with people about things watch this sometimes that they got about right cuz some of them are so consistently [Applause] shyy they don't even remember what they did to you let me go to this side or maybe online it is a character trait it's not an isolated incident it's a character so they're so they have the list of shyy is so long some of them don't even remember you can't forget because it was done to you they forgot because they did [Applause] it so some people have forgot then there's another group they hadn't forgot listen to this they're so deceived they don't even think they wrong let me go are y'all going to tell who's going to talk back to me like they don't even think they're wrong some people think you're wrong for being upset that they're wrong how are you mad at me for being mad for what you did to [Applause] me so here's the point my bitterness doesn't make them better it makes me worse so I can understand that cognitively but practically what them prayers for that enemy sound like it's quiet in New Jersey tonight no no no pray pray for those that despise what what what what what them prayers sound like Lord um bless everybody just bless everybody I can understand it cognitively but not implement it practically Peter had three years of teaching that he understood cognitively that he couldn't Implement practically until after Pentecost and what I'm trying to get us to see and what I'm teaching through this series called ghosted is really simple family it is that the the person of the Holy Spirit actually is the help that you and I need watch this to do what the father created and predestined us to do and what Jesus saved us to do we need the contribution of every person in the Trinity you needed the father to set your destiny and create you to wire you for what you've been created for Jeremiah Lord don't get me started here now I'm trying to behave tonight uh uh before I form you your parents made you but I form you so after your parents engaged in the ACT to conceive you they had no more control they could not control whether you were a boy or girl they could not control whether you were tall or short they could not control your gifts your talents your quirks your all of that was [Applause] me so he says I set your destiny and then I form you I wired you for what I created you for that's the father's role and the son says I save you and redeem youall and the holy spirit's like it's my [Applause] turn come on Holy Spirit like it's my turn now it's my turn to empower you to do what the father created you to do cuz you have awareness without ability and the Holy Spirit is like I'm your helper and we got to understand him cuz whatever area you're ignorant in you suffer in we got to embrace him because some people reject what they need cuz it doesn't look like what they [Applause] expect and what many people resist and reject about the Holy Spirit is not the Holy Spirit himself what they reject is people's presentation of him so I got to understand him I got to embrace him and then I got to unleash him I can't quench him right I have to intentionally allow him to do his job are y'all hearing me and I'm telling you that's some of our issue you won't let him do his job he's like I'm trying to tell you when to turn left and turn right but you're fighting me and you won't let me do my job the difference between Luke and acts for Peter was Pentecost it wasn't more teaching it was more power and he shall receive power wind after the Holy Ghost has come upon on you and when he comes up on you you shall be my Witnesses sir you'll be my Martyrs you'll be my proof you'll be my living Epistles in Jerusalem in Juda in Samaria even to the uttermost parts of the Earth and Peter is proof of this he's proof of the transformative power of the Holy Spirit let's make a loop back to my initial axom here he is proof that your elevation is on the other side of your transformation we see it right here with Peter I'll share these and then I uh uh we'll create some space for some Ministry time don't miss this the text says I mean the text shows us that Peter's life was evidence of elevation in a few areas we see elevation in some areas in the whole book of Acts that we don't see in Luke here's one of them uh number one we see elevation in his character listen to this family and he brought him to Jesus and Jesus looked at him and said you are Simon son of John you will be called sephus which when translated is Peter he went from Simon to sephus he went from Simon to sephus he went from Simon to sephus sephus Peter means Rock am I making sense so he goes from he goes from unreliable unpredictable temperamental to Jesus saying you a rock y'all missed it but contextually I Ira contextually in John 1 don't miss this y'all this is pre Pentecost so Jesus is Calling y'all miss it in practicality okay could we say that in some sense this is almost like a prophetic word yes sir that Jesus speaks because he calls him something he's not on because that version of Peter was not a rock but God speaking over his are y'all hearing Jesus is is changing his name so that this man who was not a rock this man who was more like clay every time his name was called he would hear come here Rock take out the garbage Rock pick up the kids rock he kept hearing who he was called to be y'all aren't talking to me God kept speak he changed his name so that every time his name was called he was here he he would hear who he had been called and created to be he calls those things that be not as though they were y'all miss it here's what Isaiah says about the word it says his word will not return to him [Applause] vo but it will accomplish all he sends it out to do and it will prosper the thing wherein he sent it we call it the effectual working of the word that when that word starts working it starts working things in you that aligns with what the word says about [Applause] you he calls a unpredictable temperamental man a rock but his life couldn't align with the prophetic word until after Pentecost cuz Pentecost gives him the power sir to actually become who Jesus knew he could always be wow there is no Peter with there is no Peter as we know him in Acts without Pentecost so we see this transformation in Peter's character and what's interesting is we don't know much about Peter's moral life so the transformation wasn't necessarily ethics the transformation was traits and what's holding some of us back is not your ethics it's your traits it's not that you're sinful you're [Applause] sluggish it it's not that you're ratchet you're not [Applause] resourceful it's not that you're not immoral you're not Innovative and so transformation doesn't just mean God changes my ethics it also means god exposes the insufficiency of traits and says there are some traits that I need to develop in you that may not be an issue of Ethics but I need you to experience an evolution in this area because what I'm calling you to requires you to become the kind of person that walks with these traits so maybe you're not Unfaithful but you're not focused and God says in this season I got to get your focus and I got to get you Innovative and I I got to get you resilient and I've got to get you [Applause] resourceful is traits we see a transformation of Peter's traits all right y'all tired or y'all good number two we see transformation of Peter's communication here it is now they were staying in Jerusalem God-fearing Jews from every nation under heaven when they heard a sound a crowd came together in bewilderment because each one heard their own language being spoken utterly amazed they asked aren't all these men who are speaking galileans then how is it that each of us hears them in our native language parthians medes El residents of Mesopotamia and Judea and capadia and pontis and Asia Egypt all the parts here's what it says look at verse 12 amaz um at verse 11 it says we hear them declaring the wonders of God in our own what come on Church said in our own what so on the day of Pentecost the tongues they spoke in were other languages did y'all did we read it together did I manipulate that in any way okay so they literally spoke in other languages because prior to Jesus's Ascension he gives them what's called the Great Commission and that Great Commission was to disciple Nations there was no Rosetta Stone so on the day of Pentecost the Holy Spirit upgraded their communication and gave come on church I know some of you maybe you're in shock about that but he gave them the ability he actually empowered them to carry out the Great Commission because you can't disciple Nations if you can't speak their languages so the Holy Spirit Will Empower you to speak the language of those you call to reach I'm going say it one more time the Holy Spirit Will Empower you to speak the language of those you called to reach and some of us don't understand this reality and this is why you can't get why they won't [Applause] listen but the Jesus says my sheep know my voice and another one they will not [Applause] follow he upgraded their communication cuz the holy spirit will help you speak the language of those you called to reach the Holy Spirit Will prompt you to say don't say that that way that Holy Spirit Will prompt you to say don't you respond [Applause] yet you hear what I said I remember one time I was going through some one of my kids and I was in this service and uh I had got this text and so we're in the middle of praise and worship and one of my uh mentors was standing next to me and I'm typing it's demon time I'm upset I'm typing fast and we in worship he looked down at me because he had been mentoring me and culturing me through this and he said uh don't you send that he said put the phone down we'll talk after church I put the phone in I'm not going to bother that that's some of our problem you don't have anybody tell you put your phone down so you woo woo you need people in your life that you can pick up the phone and say hey I'm getting ready to go off and they tell you put your phone down come on here you need people you need people in your circle that love you enough to say hey don't take that down don't post that take it down right now get that out your [Applause] story he said you want to win this argument or win your son that's what I say you want to win your argument win this argument win the Sun Holy Spirit Will upgrade transform our communication number three I'm done brother he he will he will transform our capability Watch What Happens in Acts 5:15 as a result people brought the sick into the streets laid them on their beds and mats so that at least so that at least Peter's Shadow might fall on them crowds gathered also from the towns around Jerusalem bringing their sick and those tormented by impure spirits and all of them were healed you mean this dude we talking about the same guy that was tried to step out of the boat and walk on water and was sinking Jesus had to carry him romance style back to the boat this same man people don't mess with me don't you start talking about upgrade now don't you do y'all get this literally guys he's literally walking and people said we just we just hope we can get them in his shadow he goes from denying Jesus to Healing people with a shadow come on because the person of the Holy Spirit not only wants to transform my character not only wants to transform my communication he transforms my capability are you hearing what I'm saying I don't have time to deal with this but he does it by Distributing to me and distributing to you something that is different and distinct from your natural ability and your acquired skill he gives you something called spiritual gifts and when those gifts are discovered developed and deployed you become capable of that which you were incapable of prior to receiving that gift prophetic gifting where you know what's unteachable where you're able to see things before you see things capability teaching gifts when I teach this Bible what I see in the text is what the holy spirit in many cases is showing me it's not me right right it's capability that I wouldn't have if he hadn't distributed to me a teaching gift here's what I teach preachers with this when he gives you a teaching gift he gives you eagle eyes that's right and an eagle's eyes weigh more than its brain it can see things it could see a rabbit hiding under a bushel from the sky so eagle eyes help you see hidden things stuff other people Miss they'll be looking at their Bible say what how did where did he see how did he see that yeah that's not him that's not her that's the Holy Spirit and they are deploying a gift next week I'm getting ready to spend two days um we got people all around the world registered for something I'm doing it's Marketplace stuff it's not church this thing I'm doing called Marketplace mandate and I'm getting ready to spend two days talking about this with people um cuz what I'm discovering is that most people are doing God's work using natural ability and acquired skill because they don't know how to deploy a spiritual gift you have to put it to use so if you got prophetic gifting you can have a prophetic impulse but you have to deploy the gift you got to speak what you see yes am I making sense and here's the issue many of you are trying to figure out how to use that gift in a Ministry at your church and we need people in Ministry at church I'm a pastor saying this yes but if you got 168 hours in a week how many of those hours you at church so God Gave You spiritual gifts let's say you at church 5 hours that's a Pentecostal service right there my God today I'm getting ready to pray but I want you to think about this so you mean God gave you that gift to only use 5 hours so 163 other hours God wants you doing nothing with that gift so if you have a help's gift what do you do with that outside of [Music] church even people with prophetic gifting many of them have not been discipled to deploy that gift outside of church so they don't know how to prophesy without saying thus says the Lord all they know is prophetic declarations and generally speaking you can't make prophetic declarations in the marketplace you can ask prophetic questions instead of saying the Lord told me about your mom you say how's your mom y'all okay [Applause] they you capable of so much more but many of you have not deployed and you've not discovered you've not discovered and you've not deployed these gifts the gift of wisdom and Peter had a transformation in character traits Holy Spirit gave him traits he didn't have before he went from unpredictable to steady that's a trait Dependable reliable that's a trait he upgraded his communication he was able to speak the language of those that he was able to reach that he was called to reach he upgraded his capability and then number four he upgraded his courage in Acts chapter 4 the apostles are faced with a predicament that's problematic they just performed a miracle at a gate called Beautiful in Acts chapter 3 it says Silver and Gold Have I None but such as I have I give unto you it caused such a disruption in town that they were brought up before the council and they were instructed to never speak the name of Jesus again under the threat of arrest under the threat yet of even death they were told not to speak the name of Jesus so in Acts chapter 4 the Bible ible says they prayed and they said now Lord consider their threats and enable your servants to speak your word with great boldness stretch out your hand to heal and perform signs and wonders through the name of your holy servant Jesus and after they prayed the place where they were meeting was shaken sir and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and begin to speak the word of God boldly so in this instance they were filled with the spirit do you see that yes does the text say they were all filled with the spirit which is why Paul says in Ephesians I think 5:18 be filled with the spirit that word there is ongoing so they just got it in Acts chapter 2 didn't they now it happens again in Acts chapter 4 they didn't speak in glasa in Acts chapter 4 they spoke the word with boldness the Holy Spirit gave them courage cuz if you have capability and you don't have courage you'll still have gifts you won't deploy you will have intuitive hunches to say things that you will not release words of wisdom that God will give you it you got the capability but without courage you won't release them and I believe this is one of the reasons God gave instruction to a man named Joshua after he succeeds Moses and says these words I need you to be strong and be very courageous courage is not the absence of fear courage is the willingness to act in spite of [Applause] it so I I want to pray for you um I told some of our team I've been thinking about this and one of the things that I want to do I I'll make a final decision I do want to let you know this though part of me feels very strongly that I'm going to have to move the day we do this because I need more there's a vision I have for it and because it's a weak night I don't have the time and I know some of you will give me the time I know you will but we I need a little more time than I feel comfortable taking on a Wednesday night some of these I need about two hours wait a minute not me teaching two hours now not me teaching two [Applause] hours but part of the vision for fire night was to make room for the Holy Spirit and here cuz some of you think I'm changing stuff I'm really not because initially this was not on Wednesdays it was on Sunday evenings right listen it was in Sunday evenings when we were doing four services West ampton at 8 here at 10 something uh at 99 back at West ampton at 10 something then back here we it so we had so many times I don't know it's just we and then we will come back on a Sunday night once a month packed packed so we need so the vision for it what God gave me for it was not just a a service it was an experience to create and curate an experience where people have spiritual encounters that aren't spooky and weird cuz some stuff isn't going to change until we create an environment where you have a act to experience so I'm talking to you about it and you got faith for it but we need to create space so that you can experience it does that make sense so typically I wait to cast stuff like this but I want you to I want you to hear my heart um so we're going to prepare to go but there's something I just got to do cuz I didn't come just to teach you tonight in the back I want y'all to give me one scripture it's Romans 1:1 I didn't get a chance to unpack this queue the way I want to but I talked to y'all about capability and Paul writes to Believers in Rome I think it's Roman 111 I think he says I long to see you that I might impart into you a spiritual gift is that what he says he says I want to see you because I want to impart and I remember back in the day we used to have to train our people here CU they would say stuff we want you to come it's going to be you're going to get an impartation from our pastor and it's like know y'all y'all that's not what that means I long to see that I may impart to you some spiritual gift to make you strong so the spiritual gifts come from God is that right so what does Paul mean here when he says I will impart to you a spiritual gift the gifts don't come from Paul does that make sense but the laying on of hands is something called a means of Grace what is that Pastor it is a means of Grace is something that God has chosen to use to get something to his people that they need so spiritual disciplines are means of so God has chosen to grow you and I through spiritual disciplines God chooses what God uses to do his will yes sir so if he says I'mma grow you through prayer then we got to submit to that and we got to pray make sense so the laying on of hands is a means of Grace so does any person have the ability to heal anybody with their hand no only God heals but the laying on of hands is a means of Grace it is what God can use if he chooses to get something to people that they need and in Romans 111 he says I long to see you that I may impart to you some spiritual gift to make you strong so we're going to do something today and I want you to trust your pastor it work just the same cuz my hand's not more special than yours you hear me so I want you to put your hand on your heart symbolically cuz I don't know what you need in this season but he gives us the gifts we need for the season we in I'll never forget I was at the Marcus was it the Sharon Sheron hotel where we saw darinda Clark what he took us is it was it the Sheron it was it was on 55 we were in college I went to this service darinda Clark Cole from The Clark Sisters was preaching and it's the first time I experienced this I didn't have the theology for it but I experienced it I'll never forget she's preaching and she's going through the crowd laying hands and she laid hands on me I'll never forget she laid hands and walked right past me and she said prophecy literally and I don't know it it was years but maybe a couple of years later I started noticing I'm not a prophet but I started noticing that I that I knew things that there's no way I could know unless God told me does that make sense what happened to you then Romans 1:1 God used that as a means of Grace to give me that Ministry and my prophetic Ministry shows up in preaching I know that that that is where it's not necessarily through prophetic declarations it shows up in the timeliness of the messages he gives me for the people I'm called to speak to I know he speaks to me about that not just what to teach when to teach it and if you feel like man that time in that was so spooky it's because your pastor's teachings can be prophetic in nature so your hand on your heart we're GNA dismiss this way tonight I don't know what you need but God cannot impartations don't just apply to spiritual gifts they apply they can apply to gifts that you need healing strength any gift from God that's needed for the season you're in we can receive so father you know what we need before we ask some of us need strength some of us need healing some of us need the gift of faith yes some of us don't even know what we need but you know so we pray according to Romans 1:1 that As We Lay hands hands on ourselves that you would impart to us what we need for the season that we're in we thank you that you supply every one of our needs and we receive these needs being met tonight in the name of Jesus we pray now blessing Keepers cause your face of favor to shine upon us be gracious to us protect us provide for us and grant us peace this is my prayer for your life in Jesus name amen God bless your [Music] family consider yourself dismissed well listen family I hope that helped you I hope it blessed you I hope it inspired you and encourag me and I'm excited about all that God is doing and all that he's getting ready to do man and uh as always we want to create some space for generosity to Worship the Lord through giving we believe everything the Bible says about everything there's something I think you guys have heard me talk about this before um called that I'm calling reactionary theology it is this it is people taking theological stances in reaction to somebody who took an extreme stance as opposed to objectively looking at what the Bible says about a and teaching that does that make sense so it's like if some people teach everybody's supposed to be rich and if you're not rich something's wrong we some people react to that and teach like money doesn't matter it's like whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa you just went from one extreme to another that's you develop theology in reaction to what somebody else taught not to what the Bible teaches and here's what we know we know that the Bible is very clear God honors and rewards generosity indisputable if you're intellectually honest we know that to be true so we create space man to sew into the field that we're Harvest them from the ways to give are on the screen thank you so much for sewing and supporting what God is doing through this Teaching Ministry that we want to expand literally we want to expand we want to reach people all over not maybe not the whole world but different parts of the world I'm telling you we can see it see look I'm not I I believe guys's going to do something significant I was about to go to Casting Vision God's going to do something significant and um I'm excited about thank you for being a part man we love you we'll see you next week well listen thank you for watching Thrive I want you to make sure you subscribe to this channel so that you don't miss any of our teachings and remember you can watch me live at Thrive every Wednesday at 7 p.m. Eastern Standard time take care I'll see

hey family well Pastor Darius here and as always I hope you are thriving doing the best you can in the season you&#39;re in with the resources you have available man so so incredibly grateful for all that God is doing in and through um this ministry and in your life um I am on my summer break and it&#39;s a time of refreshing and refueling replenishing even reconnecting in reconnecting with God reconnecting with my family um I&#39;ve been outside y&#39;all I&#39;ve been outside and I&#39;m I&#39;m I&#39;m having a good time amen I&#39;m I&#39;m holy I&#39;m outside I might be outside right now but I know life is lightly and I want to make sure that you guys get the spiritual nourishment that you need so what you&#39;re going to be watching today is unreleased content again to message that I taught at our New Jersey location during something that we do call fire night I want you to open your heart receive what God&#39;s getting ready to say to you I&#39;ll see you at the end of the [Music] [Music] teaching so father today we are we are gathered in this place asking you for the best thing that you could give us and that&#39;s your presence and we offer you more than a song we offer you a prayer request and lyrics dwell here move whatever is in your way so we pray now in the name of Jesus for every burden to be lifted Every Chain to be broken broken hearts to be mended let your fire fall on fire night consume what is consuming us if worry is consuming us consume it if doubt is confu consuming us consume it would you have your way in this place this is our prayer in Jesus name amen and amen come on New Jersey clap your hands come on let&#39;s give God a a better hand clap of Praise than [Music] that all right well I got something I want to teach tonight I want a continuation I want to kind of pick up where I left off on Sunday and so um I want to read a little bit more scripture than I would normally and I want to read a couple of verses well several verses starting at Luke chapter number two Luke chapter number 22 beginning at verse number 54 uh I want to tell all parents of high school graduating teenagers I mean High School graduating seniors all parents I&#39;m tell and the parents cuz the seniors might not know how expensive life is at this point life is expensive air expensive just life expensive all right so we we&#39;ve got our rewrite and run scholarship that&#39;s available and we did on Pentecost this year we shifted some things around in terms of our special giving and so on Pentecost Sunday we did first fruit offering and because of your generosity we&#39;re going to be able to be the most generous we have ever been able to be as it relates to scholarships so this not the year to skip somebody say Amen to that and so um application period is between now and June 26 so we want you to make sure that if you got a a graduating high school senior if they&#39;re going to a traditional Pathway to college if they&#39;re doing some sort of special training if they&#39;re learning a trade if it&#39;s Tech if it&#39;s production College was my path that&#39;s not everybody&#39;s path and so we want to support people on the path that they&#39;re going to be journeying on so this is not the year to miss it keep that in mind and let me just say one more thing cuz just in case y&#39;all forget in a couple of weeks is Father&#39;s day I don&#39;t hear I don&#39;t hear nobody in this in this Pentecostal Church in a I&#39;m just saying just in case you need some time to pray about how you&#39;re going to bless us couple of weeks Father&#39;s day and this is going to be the most creative Father&#39;s Day we&#39;ve ever done we&#39;re going to be intentional about honoring fathers and um and we want to we really want to not Shine the Light on those who may need some help doing the right thing we want to Shine the Light Father&#39;s Day on those that are doing the right thing [Applause] [Music] amen so so so let&#39;s keep that in mind all right let&#39;s go together to the Book of Luke chapter number 2 22: 54 it says then seizing him they led him away and took him to the house of the high priest Peter followed at a distance and when some had there had kindled a fire in the middle of the courtyard and sat down Peter sat down with him and a servant girl saw him seated there in Fire Light and she looked closely at him and said this man was with him he denied it woman I don&#39;t know him a little later someone else saw him and said you are also one of them man I&#39;m not Peter replied about an hour later another asserted certainly this fellow was with him for he&#39;s a galileon Peter replied man I don&#39;t know what you&#39;re talking about and just as he was speaking the rooster crow the Lord turned and looked straight at Peter and Peter remembered the word that the Lord had spoken to him before the rooster crows today you will disown me three times this is Luke this is pre Pentecost now let&#39;s go to the book of Acts which is written by Luke and let&#39;s see this same Peter it says then Peter in Acts chap 2:14 then Peter stood up with the 11 raised his voice and addressed the crowd fellow Jews and all you who live in Jerusalem let me explain this to you listen carefully to what I say these people are not drunk as you suppose it&#39;s only 9 in the morning maybe 9 at night it might be possible no this is what was spoken of by the prophet Joel I want to talk from this subject looking at these two texts tonight Look at me now clap your hands everybody in the building drop some fire in the chat online look at me look at me now I I want to LEAP into this lesson by reiterating and repeating something that I shared in Sunday&#39;s sermon and here it is for our notet takers our elevation is often tied to our transformation somebody say yes in other words that there there are some things that don&#39;t go up until you and I grow up that there are some levels we can&#39;t get to listen to me crawling like a caterpillar there are some places and spaces we can only occupy when we fly like a butterfly and I want to say this very proudly maybe even prophetically this is some of our Seasons to get some wings come on that we that this current iteration of us this current version of us has taken us as far as it can take us we have moved as far as we are able to move with simple modification yeah what what what is required for many of us to continue to progress to advance and to evolve is not just modification what we need is some transformation and because modification can be the result of self-effort but transformation requires some divine intervention and if we will submit to God&#39;s process of transformation that transformation will become transportation that will take you to places that your eyes haven&#39;t seen and your ears hadn&#39;t heard and your heart has not conceived I want to know am I talking to anybody on a Wednesday night that refuses to settle for less than God&#39;s best for you I want to know am I talking to anybody that is willing to become a butterfly even if it means leaving other [Applause] [Laughter] caterpillars if I&#39;m making sense say yes yeah this is important family because the scriptures don&#39;t necessarily encourage modification what the scriptures announce and encourage is transformation we see it right here in Romans 12 verse number two where Paul sayso not conform to this world but [Applause] be come on he says don&#39;t don&#39;t be conformed to this for I see see this this particular statement not only reveals to us the possibility of transformation but it reveals the path to transformation did you hear what I just said see many people try to change what&#39;s going on with their hands but Paul says you need to start with what&#39;s going on with your head did you hear me Paul said do not conform to the pattern of this world but then he tells us how to experience transformation he says but be transformed by the renewing of our mind did you not know that after salvation the spirit of God God watch this focuses its attention not on your spirit but on your soul did you hear what I just said that that that do you not know that the Bible says that he that is joined to the Lord is one spirit that when I become born again or Surrender my life to Jesus God in spirit form the Holy Spirit comes and takes up residence in my spirit and makes a new creature with new capabilities come on and new impulses he helps me become he or he makes me what Jesus calls born again so so I want you to catch this so the purpose of the holy spirit in my spirit is simply regeneration and after regeneration is just communication did you he he he just he he wants to to talk to me but but but after regeneration and there&#39;s communication there is nothing else for his Spirit to do with my spirit so where does his Spirit Focus his attention he focuses his attention on my mind my soul my mind my will my emotions my imagination and my affection because the only way he can get to my body is to get to what&#39;s controlling my body that&#39;s my mind so I cannot have new methods until I have a new mind I can&#39;t have new actions until I have a new attitude so the sanctifying work of the spirit is to make a old mind new God Almighty new ways of thinking come on new ways of seeing new ways of perceiving he wants to renew my mind watch this the renewing of my mind suggesting that it is is a continual process and I just came to tell somebody on this Wednesday night please don&#39;t fight the process God&#39;s trying to give you a new mind and he&#39;s trying to use that renewed mind to bring about a new you don&#39;t don&#39;t don&#39;t conform to the pattern of this world but be transformed by the renewing of the mind now does it make sense when you begin to assess the place and the space where Satan sets up Warfare he&#39;s did you hear what I said he want what God want and he knows that transformation happens because of the mind and therefore stagnation will happen because of the mind so he&#39;s fighting the father over influence over our mind so Paul says don&#39;t be conformed to the pattern of this world but be transformed by the renewing of my mind but he didn&#39;t stop there the next word is then when my mind is renewed then then what Pastor then you&#39;ll be able to test and NIV says approve KJV says prove what God&#39;s will is he says when your mind is renewed then your life becomes proof of the promises of God you don&#39;t have to gear proof when your mind becomes renewed and your life becomes changed you are proof let me say it one more time when your mind becomes renewed and your life becomes transformed you don&#39;t have to give proof of God&#39;s goodness you don&#39;t have to give proof of God&#39;s power you become proof of God&#39;s power you become a living epistle it&#39;s one thing to say no weapon formed against me shall prosper it&#39;s another thing to [Applause] prove no weapon formed against me shall prosper it&#39;s one thing to say I&#39;m more than a conqueror it&#39;s another thing to prove you&#39;re more than a conqueror and I believe I got some people in the room today that will say more than I got proof I believe I got some people in the room today that&#39;ll say I am proof the reason I&#39;m saying in the membrane is because I am proof he&#39;ll make a way out of nowhere I am proof he&#39;ll do exceedingly and abundantly above all you ask or think I am proof that your enemy will come before you one way and flee seven ways I am proof that he&#39;ll redeem your life from destruction I am proof that when the enemy comes in like a flood the spirit of God will lift up a standard against it and if you are proof give him a unpro kind of Praise I&#39;m praising because I&#39;m proof I&#39;m clapping because I&#39;m proof I&#39;m re rejoicing because I&#39;m proof and when I think of the goodness of Jesus and all he&#39;s done for [Applause] [Laughter] [Applause] me what if I told you God&#39;s trying to make us [Applause] proof God will take your marriage to the next level where&#39;s the proof yes sir God will give you peace that passes all understanding where&#39;s the proof God will give you joy unspeakable full of Glory where&#39;s the proof did you hear what I just said so when the enemy can&#39;t stop us from experiencing salvation his next intention is to stop us from being proof once you&#39;re saved he can&#39;t stop us from being saved but once we&#39;re saved he wants to stop us from being proof because when we become proof we become the Bible some people read we become living Epistles come on here we become living they start reading us and when they&#39;re reading us it makes them want to read the Bible they say the Bible gave you a life like that I need to read the Bible the Bible gave you Joy like that I need to read the Bible [Applause] maybe the Warfare we experience is Warfare intended to prohibit us from being proof I&#39;m going to heaven but am I proof on Earth The credibility of the message of the Gospel is tied to God&#39;s people willingness and ability to be proof and the text we read is a powerful picture of what I&#39;m talking about yeah this this this this this particular these particular passages reveal to us listen to this reveal and expose us to one version of a man in Luke Peter and a different version of the same man in Acts did you hear what I just said we we we read it we we we read it together we read what Peter did in Luke we we we read Peter denying Jesus not accidentally because it didn&#39;t happen [Applause] once he denied him three times so this wasn&#39;t accidentally this was intentionally if I&#39;m teaching the truth say yes yes so you see you see him denying Jesus not accidentally but intentionally he&#39;s denying him are y&#39;all ready for this he&#39;s denying him because oh my because he loves him but he doesn&#39;t love him enough to be inconvenience for him did you hear what I said it it is a revelation that Peter&#39;s love has not evolved to what the Bible call loyal [Applause] love did you hear what I just said yeah watch this loyalty is only revealed when you have an opportunity to not [Applause] be and this is some of our issue we&#39;re calling we&#39;re labeling people loyal too [Applause] soon they loyal you don&#39;t know yet you don&#39;t know until they have an opportunity to not be and one of the ways loyalty is revealed is not by what they do and say in your presence one of the ways loyalty is revealed is by what they do and say in your absence so don&#39;t just come tell me what they said I want to know what you said when they said what they said to you I also want to know how many times did they say it to you and why would they so comfortable keep coming back to you to say [Applause] it his love had not evolved to a loyal love a love that was willing to be inconvenienced for the one that you love greater love has no one than this then they lay down their life for a friend a loyal love did you hear what I just said I&#39;m talking about a lawyer he his love had not evolved to the point that he was willing to be associated with Jesus when it was inconvenient so he&#39;s timid he&#39;s fearful he&#39;s denying Jesus in Luke but he&#39;s declaring Jesus in Acts same man but his life in Acts is proof of the transformative power of the spirit listen to me the man that denied Jesus was a man that had walked with him for three years did you hear what I just said he he had been under his tutelage for three years he had listened to his teaching for three years but he had educated he couldn&#39;t Implement because he didn&#39;t have empowerment you got it so for three years he had teaching from Jesus but when it came to moments of stress and strain he could not implement the teaching because he had education but he didn&#39;t have empowerment he had principles but he didn&#39;t have power so his knowledge exceeded his ability to execute he could talk stuff he couldn&#39;t live he could teach stuff he couldn&#39;t live he could explain stuff to other people that he couldn&#39;t Implement he understood it cognitively but he could not implement it practically it was only after Pentecost that he had the ability the dunamus come on that he had the ability to actually Implement what he&#39;s executing and this is what many people miss about the power of Pentecost and the person of the holy spirit because many of us have notes in notes apps and notes in notebooks that we cannot use because we&#39;ve got [Applause] principles without [Applause] power see it&#39;s easy it&#39;s easy to understand the princi principle watch this of loving your enemies it&#39;s easy to understand that right it&#39;s it&#39;s easy to wrap your head around the idea that bitterness only Burns you that ISO it&#39;s am I making sense it&#39;s it&#39;s the equivalent of holding toxicity in your soul that we are upset with people about things watch this sometimes that they got about right cuz some of them are so consistently [Applause] shyy they don&#39;t even remember what they did to you let me go to this side or maybe online it is a character trait it&#39;s not an isolated incident it&#39;s a character so they&#39;re so they have the list of shyy is so long some of them don&#39;t even remember you can&#39;t forget because it was done to you they forgot because they did [Applause] it so some people have forgot then there&#39;s another group they hadn&#39;t forgot listen to this they&#39;re so deceived they don&#39;t even think they wrong let me go are y&#39;all going to tell who&#39;s going to talk back to me like they don&#39;t even think they&#39;re wrong some people think you&#39;re wrong for being upset that they&#39;re wrong how are you mad at me for being mad for what you did to [Applause] me so here&#39;s the point my bitterness doesn&#39;t make them better it makes me worse so I can understand that cognitively but practically what them prayers for that enemy sound like it&#39;s quiet in New Jersey tonight no no no pray pray for those that despise what what what what what them prayers sound like Lord um bless everybody just bless everybody I can understand it cognitively but not implement it practically Peter had three years of teaching that he understood cognitively that he couldn&#39;t Implement practically until after Pentecost and what I&#39;m trying to get us to see and what I&#39;m teaching through this series called ghosted is really simple family it is that the the person of the Holy Spirit actually is the help that you and I need watch this to do what the father created and predestined us to do and what Jesus saved us to do we need the contribution of every person in the Trinity you needed the father to set your destiny and create you to wire you for what you&#39;ve been created for Jeremiah Lord don&#39;t get me started here now I&#39;m trying to behave tonight uh uh before I form you your parents made you but I form you so after your parents engaged in the ACT to conceive you they had no more control they could not control whether you were a boy or girl they could not control whether you were tall or short they could not control your gifts your talents your quirks your all of that was [Applause] me so he says I set your destiny and then I form you I wired you for what I created you for that&#39;s the father&#39;s role and the son says I save you and redeem youall and the holy spirit&#39;s like it&#39;s my [Applause] turn come on Holy Spirit like it&#39;s my turn now it&#39;s my turn to empower you to do what the father created you to do cuz you have awareness without ability and the Holy Spirit is like I&#39;m your helper and we got to understand him cuz whatever area you&#39;re ignorant in you suffer in we got to embrace him because some people reject what they need cuz it doesn&#39;t look like what they [Applause] expect and what many people resist and reject about the Holy Spirit is not the Holy Spirit himself what they reject is people&#39;s presentation of him so I got to understand him I got to embrace him and then I got to unleash him I can&#39;t quench him right I have to intentionally allow him to do his job are y&#39;all hearing me and I&#39;m telling you that&#39;s some of our issue you won&#39;t let him do his job he&#39;s like I&#39;m trying to tell you when to turn left and turn right but you&#39;re fighting me and you won&#39;t let me do my job the difference between Luke and acts for Peter was Pentecost it wasn&#39;t more teaching it was more power and he shall receive power wind after the Holy Ghost has come upon on you and when he comes up on you you shall be my Witnesses sir you&#39;ll be my Martyrs you&#39;ll be my proof you&#39;ll be my living Epistles in Jerusalem in Juda in Samaria even to the uttermost parts of the Earth and Peter is proof of this he&#39;s proof of the transformative power of the Holy Spirit let&#39;s make a loop back to my initial axom here he is proof that your elevation is on the other side of your transformation we see it right here with Peter I&#39;ll share these and then I uh uh we&#39;ll create some space for some Ministry time don&#39;t miss this the text says I mean the text shows us that Peter&#39;s life was evidence of elevation in a few areas we see elevation in some areas in the whole book of Acts that we don&#39;t see in Luke here&#39;s one of them uh number one we see elevation in his character listen to this family and he brought him to Jesus and Jesus looked at him and said you are Simon son of John you will be called sephus which when translated is Peter he went from Simon to sephus he went from Simon to sephus he went from Simon to sephus sephus Peter means Rock am I making sense so he goes from he goes from unreliable unpredictable temperamental to Jesus saying you a rock y&#39;all missed it but contextually I Ira contextually in John 1 don&#39;t miss this y&#39;all this is pre Pentecost so Jesus is Calling y&#39;all miss it in practicality okay could we say that in some sense this is almost like a prophetic word yes sir that Jesus speaks because he calls him something he&#39;s not on because that version of Peter was not a rock but God speaking over his are y&#39;all hearing Jesus is is changing his name so that this man who was not a rock this man who was more like clay every time his name was called he would hear come here Rock take out the garbage Rock pick up the kids rock he kept hearing who he was called to be y&#39;all aren&#39;t talking to me God kept speak he changed his name so that every time his name was called he was here he he would hear who he had been called and created to be he calls those things that be not as though they were y&#39;all miss it here&#39;s what Isaiah says about the word it says his word will not return to him [Applause] vo but it will accomplish all he sends it out to do and it will prosper the thing wherein he sent it we call it the effectual working of the word that when that word starts working it starts working things in you that aligns with what the word says about [Applause] you he calls a unpredictable temperamental man a rock but his life couldn&#39;t align with the prophetic word until after Pentecost cuz Pentecost gives him the power sir to actually become who Jesus knew he could always be wow there is no Peter with there is no Peter as we know him in Acts without Pentecost so we see this transformation in Peter&#39;s character and what&#39;s interesting is we don&#39;t know much about Peter&#39;s moral life so the transformation wasn&#39;t necessarily ethics the transformation was traits and what&#39;s holding some of us back is not your ethics it&#39;s your traits it&#39;s not that you&#39;re sinful you&#39;re [Applause] sluggish it it&#39;s not that you&#39;re ratchet you&#39;re not [Applause] resourceful it&#39;s not that you&#39;re not immoral you&#39;re not Innovative and so transformation doesn&#39;t just mean God changes my ethics it also means god exposes the insufficiency of traits and says there are some traits that I need to develop in you that may not be an issue of Ethics but I need you to experience an evolution in this area because what I&#39;m calling you to requires you to become the kind of person that walks with these traits so maybe you&#39;re not Unfaithful but you&#39;re not focused and God says in this season I got to get your focus and I got to get you Innovative and I I got to get you resilient and I&#39;ve got to get you [Applause] resourceful is traits we see a transformation of Peter&#39;s traits all right y&#39;all tired or y&#39;all good number two we see transformation of Peter&#39;s communication here it is now they were staying in Jerusalem God-fearing Jews from every nation under heaven when they heard a sound a crowd came together in bewilderment because each one heard their own language being spoken utterly amazed they asked aren&#39;t all these men who are speaking galileans then how is it that each of us hears them in our native language parthians medes El residents of Mesopotamia and Judea and capadia and pontis and Asia Egypt all the parts here&#39;s what it says look at verse 12 amaz um at verse 11 it says we hear them declaring the wonders of God in our own what come on Church said in our own what so on the day of Pentecost the tongues they spoke in were other languages did y&#39;all did we read it together did I manipulate that in any way okay so they literally spoke in other languages because prior to Jesus&#39;s Ascension he gives them what&#39;s called the Great Commission and that Great Commission was to disciple Nations there was no Rosetta Stone so on the day of Pentecost the Holy Spirit upgraded their communication and gave come on church I know some of you maybe you&#39;re in shock about that but he gave them the ability he actually empowered them to carry out the Great Commission because you can&#39;t disciple Nations if you can&#39;t speak their languages so the Holy Spirit Will Empower you to speak the language of those you call to reach I&#39;m going say it one more time the Holy Spirit Will Empower you to speak the language of those you called to reach and some of us don&#39;t understand this reality and this is why you can&#39;t get why they won&#39;t [Applause] listen but the Jesus says my sheep know my voice and another one they will not [Applause] follow he upgraded their communication cuz the holy spirit will help you speak the language of those you called to reach the Holy Spirit Will prompt you to say don&#39;t say that that way that Holy Spirit Will prompt you to say don&#39;t you respond [Applause] yet you hear what I said I remember one time I was going through some one of my kids and I was in this service and uh I had got this text and so we&#39;re in the middle of praise and worship and one of my uh mentors was standing next to me and I&#39;m typing it&#39;s demon time I&#39;m upset I&#39;m typing fast and we in worship he looked down at me because he had been mentoring me and culturing me through this and he said uh don&#39;t you send that he said put the phone down we&#39;ll talk after church I put the phone in I&#39;m not going to bother that that&#39;s some of our problem you don&#39;t have anybody tell you put your phone down so you woo woo you need people in your life that you can pick up the phone and say hey I&#39;m getting ready to go off and they tell you put your phone down come on here you need people you need people in your circle that love you enough to say hey don&#39;t take that down don&#39;t post that take it down right now get that out your [Applause] story he said you want to win this argument or win your son that&#39;s what I say you want to win your argument win this argument win the Sun Holy Spirit Will upgrade transform our communication number three I&#39;m done brother he he will he will transform our capability Watch What Happens in Acts 5:15 as a result people brought the sick into the streets laid them on their beds and mats so that at least so that at least Peter&#39;s Shadow might fall on them crowds gathered also from the towns around Jerusalem bringing their sick and those tormented by impure spirits and all of them were healed you mean this dude we talking about the same guy that was tried to step out of the boat and walk on water and was sinking Jesus had to carry him romance style back to the boat this same man people don&#39;t mess with me don&#39;t you start talking about upgrade now don&#39;t you do y&#39;all get this literally guys he&#39;s literally walking and people said we just we just hope we can get them in his shadow he goes from denying Jesus to Healing people with a shadow come on because the person of the Holy Spirit not only wants to transform my character not only wants to transform my communication he transforms my capability are you hearing what I&#39;m saying I don&#39;t have time to deal with this but he does it by Distributing to me and distributing to you something that is different and distinct from your natural ability and your acquired skill he gives you something called spiritual gifts and when those gifts are discovered developed and deployed you become capable of that which you were incapable of prior to receiving that gift prophetic gifting where you know what&#39;s unteachable where you&#39;re able to see things before you see things capability teaching gifts when I teach this Bible what I see in the text is what the holy spirit in many cases is showing me it&#39;s not me right right it&#39;s capability that I wouldn&#39;t have if he hadn&#39;t distributed to me a teaching gift here&#39;s what I teach preachers with this when he gives you a teaching gift he gives you eagle eyes that&#39;s right and an eagle&#39;s eyes weigh more than its brain it can see things it could see a rabbit hiding under a bushel from the sky so eagle eyes help you see hidden things stuff other people Miss they&#39;ll be looking at their Bible say what how did where did he see how did he see that yeah that&#39;s not him that&#39;s not her that&#39;s the Holy Spirit and they are deploying a gift next week I&#39;m getting ready to spend two days um we got people all around the world registered for something I&#39;m doing it&#39;s Marketplace stuff it&#39;s not church this thing I&#39;m doing called Marketplace mandate and I&#39;m getting ready to spend two days talking about this with people um cuz what I&#39;m discovering is that most people are doing God&#39;s work using natural ability and acquired skill because they don&#39;t know how to deploy a spiritual gift you have to put it to use so if you got prophetic gifting you can have a prophetic impulse but you have to deploy the gift you got to speak what you see yes am I making sense and here&#39;s the issue many of you are trying to figure out how to use that gift in a Ministry at your church and we need people in Ministry at church I&#39;m a pastor saying this yes but if you got 168 hours in a week how many of those hours you at church so God Gave You spiritual gifts let&#39;s say you at church 5 hours that&#39;s a Pentecostal service right there my God today I&#39;m getting ready to pray but I want you to think about this so you mean God gave you that gift to only use 5 hours so 163 other hours God wants you doing nothing with that gift so if you have a help&#39;s gift what do you do with that outside of [Music] church even people with prophetic gifting many of them have not been discipled to deploy that gift outside of church so they don&#39;t know how to prophesy without saying thus says the Lord all they know is prophetic declarations and generally speaking you can&#39;t make prophetic declarations in the marketplace you can ask prophetic questions instead of saying the Lord told me about your mom you say how&#39;s your mom y&#39;all okay [Applause] they you capable of so much more but many of you have not deployed and you&#39;ve not discovered you&#39;ve not discovered and you&#39;ve not deployed these gifts the gift of wisdom and Peter had a transformation in character traits Holy Spirit gave him traits he didn&#39;t have before he went from unpredictable to steady that&#39;s a trait Dependable reliable that&#39;s a trait he upgraded his communication he was able to speak the language of those that he was able to reach that he was called to reach he upgraded his capability and then number four he upgraded his courage in Acts chapter 4 the apostles are faced with a predicament that&#39;s problematic they just performed a miracle at a gate called Beautiful in Acts chapter 3 it says Silver and Gold Have I None but such as I have I give unto you it caused such a disruption in town that they were brought up before the council and they were instructed to never speak the name of Jesus again under the threat of arrest under the threat yet of even death they were told not to speak the name of Jesus so in Acts chapter 4 the Bible ible says they prayed and they said now Lord consider their threats and enable your servants to speak your word with great boldness stretch out your hand to heal and perform signs and wonders through the name of your holy servant Jesus and after they prayed the place where they were meeting was shaken sir and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and begin to speak the word of God boldly so in this instance they were filled with the spirit do you see that yes does the text say they were all filled with the spirit which is why Paul says in Ephesians I think 5:18 be filled with the spirit that word there is ongoing so they just got it in Acts chapter 2 didn&#39;t they now it happens again in Acts chapter 4 they didn&#39;t speak in glasa in Acts chapter 4 they spoke the word with boldness the Holy Spirit gave them courage cuz if you have capability and you don&#39;t have courage you&#39;ll still have gifts you won&#39;t deploy you will have intuitive hunches to say things that you will not release words of wisdom that God will give you it you got the capability but without courage you won&#39;t release them and I believe this is one of the reasons God gave instruction to a man named Joshua after he succeeds Moses and says these words I need you to be strong and be very courageous courage is not the absence of fear courage is the willingness to act in spite of [Applause] it so I I want to pray for you um I told some of our team I&#39;ve been thinking about this and one of the things that I want to do I I&#39;ll make a final decision I do want to let you know this though part of me feels very strongly that I&#39;m going to have to move the day we do this because I need more there&#39;s a vision I have for it and because it&#39;s a weak night I don&#39;t have the time and I know some of you will give me the time I know you will but we I need a little more time than I feel comfortable taking on a Wednesday night some of these I need about two hours wait a minute not me teaching two hours now not me teaching two [Applause] hours but part of the vision for fire night was to make room for the Holy Spirit and here cuz some of you think I&#39;m changing stuff I&#39;m really not because initially this was not on Wednesdays it was on Sunday evenings right listen it was in Sunday evenings when we were doing four services West ampton at 8 here at 10 something uh at 99 back at West ampton at 10 something then back here we it so we had so many times I don&#39;t know it&#39;s just we and then we will come back on a Sunday night once a month packed packed so we need so the vision for it what God gave me for it was not just a a service it was an experience to create and curate an experience where people have spiritual encounters that aren&#39;t spooky and weird cuz some stuff isn&#39;t going to change until we create an environment where you have a act to experience so I&#39;m talking to you about it and you got faith for it but we need to create space so that you can experience it does that make sense so typically I wait to cast stuff like this but I want you to I want you to hear my heart um so we&#39;re going to prepare to go but there&#39;s something I just got to do cuz I didn&#39;t come just to teach you tonight in the back I want y&#39;all to give me one scripture it&#39;s Romans 1:1 I didn&#39;t get a chance to unpack this queue the way I want to but I talked to y&#39;all about capability and Paul writes to Believers in Rome I think it&#39;s Roman 111 I think he says I long to see you that I might impart into you a spiritual gift is that what he says he says I want to see you because I want to impart and I remember back in the day we used to have to train our people here CU they would say stuff we want you to come it&#39;s going to be you&#39;re going to get an impartation from our pastor and it&#39;s like know y&#39;all y&#39;all that&#39;s not what that means I long to see that I may impart to you some spiritual gift to make you strong so the spiritual gifts come from God is that right so what does Paul mean here when he says I will impart to you a spiritual gift the gifts don&#39;t come from Paul does that make sense but the laying on of hands is something called a means of Grace what is that Pastor it is a means of Grace is something that God has chosen to use to get something to his people that they need so spiritual disciplines are means of so God has chosen to grow you and I through spiritual disciplines God chooses what God uses to do his will yes sir so if he says I&#39;mma grow you through prayer then we got to submit to that and we got to pray make sense so the laying on of hands is a means of Grace so does any person have the ability to heal anybody with their hand no only God heals but the laying on of hands is a means of Grace it is what God can use if he chooses to get something to people that they need and in Romans 111 he says I long to see you that I may impart to you some spiritual gift to make you strong so we&#39;re going to do something today and I want you to trust your pastor it work just the same cuz my hand&#39;s not more special than yours you hear me so I want you to put your hand on your heart symbolically cuz I don&#39;t know what you need in this season but he gives us the gifts we need for the season we in I&#39;ll never forget I was at the Marcus was it the Sharon Sheron hotel where we saw darinda Clark what he took us is it was it the Sheron it was it was on 55 we were in college I went to this service darinda Clark Cole from The Clark Sisters was preaching and it&#39;s the first time I experienced this I didn&#39;t have the theology for it but I experienced it I&#39;ll never forget she&#39;s preaching and she&#39;s going through the crowd laying hands and she laid hands on me I&#39;ll never forget she laid hands and walked right past me and she said prophecy literally and I don&#39;t know it it was years but maybe a couple of years later I started noticing I&#39;m not a prophet but I started noticing that I that I knew things that there&#39;s no way I could know unless God told me does that make sense what happened to you then Romans 1:1 God used that as a means of Grace to give me that Ministry and my prophetic Ministry shows up in preaching I know that that that is where it&#39;s not necessarily through prophetic declarations it shows up in the timeliness of the messages he gives me for the people I&#39;m called to speak to I know he speaks to me about that not just what to teach when to teach it and if you feel like man that time in that was so spooky it&#39;s because your pastor&#39;s teachings can be prophetic in nature so your hand on your heart we&#39;re GNA dismiss this way tonight I don&#39;t know what you need but God cannot impartations don&#39;t just apply to spiritual gifts they apply they can apply to gifts that you need healing strength any gift from God that&#39;s needed for the season you&#39;re in we can receive so father you know what we need before we ask some of us need strength some of us need healing some of us need the gift of faith yes some of us don&#39;t even know what we need but you know so we pray according to Romans 1:1 that As We Lay hands hands on ourselves that you would impart to us what we need for the season that we&#39;re in we thank you that you supply every one of our needs and we receive these needs being met tonight in the name of Jesus we pray now blessing Keepers cause your face of favor to shine upon us be gracious to us protect us provide for us and grant us peace this is my prayer for your life in Jesus name amen God bless your [Music] family consider yourself dismissed well listen family I hope that helped you I hope it blessed you I hope it inspired you and encourag me and I&#39;m excited about all that God is doing and all that he&#39;s getting ready to do man and uh as always we want to create some space for generosity to Worship the Lord through giving we believe everything the Bible says about everything there&#39;s something I think you guys have heard me talk about this before um called that I&#39;m calling reactionary theology it is this it is people taking theological stances in reaction to somebody who took an extreme stance as opposed to objectively looking at what the Bible says about a and teaching that does that make sense so it&#39;s like if some people teach everybody&#39;s supposed to be rich and if you&#39;re not rich something&#39;s wrong we some people react to that and teach like money doesn&#39;t matter it&#39;s like whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa you just went from one extreme to another that&#39;s you develop theology in reaction to what somebody else taught not to what the Bible teaches and here&#39;s what we know we know that the Bible is very clear God honors and rewards generosity indisputable if you&#39;re intellectually honest we know that to be true so we create space man to sew into the field that we&#39;re Harvest them from the ways to give are on the screen thank you so much for sewing and supporting what God is doing through this Teaching Ministry that we want to expand literally we want to expand we want to reach people all over not maybe not the whole world but different parts of the world I&#39;m telling you we can see it see look I&#39;m not I I believe guys&#39;s going to do something significant I was about to go to Casting Vision God&#39;s going to do something significant and um I&#39;m excited about thank you for being a part man we love you we&#39;ll see you next week well listen thank you for watching Thrive I want you to make sure you subscribe to this channel so that you don&#39;t miss any of our teachings and remember you can watch me live at Thrive every Wednesday at 7 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Transcript for:Pastor Darius' Summer Break and Unreleased Content

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Pastor Darius' Summer Break and Unreleased Content