THE GHOST; WEEK 2

Craig Groeschel

Today we are talking about God in Spirit form. He’s often called the Holy Ghost, or
the Holy Spirit. The word from the Old Testament translated as ‘Spirit’ is the word
‘ruwach’ which means a wind, a breath, a violent exhalation.

In the New Testament, the Greek word translated as ‘Spirit’ is the word ‘pneuma’
which means a current of air, a blast of breathe, and a strong breeze.

The Holy Spirit is like the wind of God. Sometimes he comes as a gentle breeze,
other times he is a mighty, rushing wind of power.

Today, I want to talk to you about the power of the Holy Spirit. In the Old
Testament, we see the power of the Spirit working in countless different ways. The
Holy Spirit one time gave Joseph skill to rule over Egypt. The Spirit gave Joshua
military power. One time the Spirit gave two unknown men the power to work in their
crafts. The Holy Spirit gave words to prophets to speak prophetically over God’s
people. One time, the Spirit of the Lord came upon Gideon and gave him power to
lead the Abiezrites into battle. In Judges Chapter 14:6, as hard as it is to
believe, the Spirit of the Lord came upon Samson in power, so that he tore the lion
apart with his bare hands, as he might have torn a young goat. 1 Samuel 10:6 shows
the words of Samuel to Saul; “The Spirit of the Lord will come upon you in power
and you will prophesy with them and you will be changed into a different person.”
The New Testament sees the power of the Holy Spirit everywhere; in fact, Jesus was
conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit. Luke Chapter 1, when Mary wondered how
this would be, she asked a question; “How will this be,” Mary asked the angel,
“since I am a virgin?” And the Angel answered, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you
and the power of the most high will overshadow you.” When Jesus gave his life for
our sins on the cross, the Bible says the Son of God was raised from the dead,
again, by the power of the Holy Spirit; he is Jesus Christ our Lord. Before Jesus
ascended to Heaven, he promised his followers that he would send them a gift; the
gift of the Holy Spirit. He said, “And now, I will send the Holy Spirit just as my
Father promised, but stay here in the city until the Holy Spirit comes and fills
you with power from Heaven. That same powerful Spirit is available to all who
believe in Jesus today; the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

If you have your Bibles with you today, let’s open them up to the Book of Acts.
Acts, Chapter 1, we are in a series called, ‘The Ghost’; as we are looking at the
power of the Holy Ghost or the Holy Spirit. As you are getting your Bibles out; all
of our locations, I’m curious, how many of you that are Christians, those of you
who are Christians, how many of you would say; “I know someone who is a Christian
that seems to have more Spiritual power than I do?” How many of you would say, “I
know someone like that?” Yeah, a lot of us do. Sometimes you will see other people
and they seem to have just a little bit more of something than you do spiritually.
Like when they pray, their prayers sound so powerful, you are thinking maybe if I
were God, I would answer their prayers, they just sound powerful! Others, you may
be in a conversation with them and they can just kind of quote Bible verses and
they seem to know a Bible verse for everything; you’re like, “How do they do that?”
Or, when something happens and something goes wrong, they are not shaken; they seem
to have this real, deep Spiritual assurance. You are wondering, how is it that they
seem to have more power than I do? The answer could be that they have more ‘power’
than you do. In reality, I believe there are many people who are more surrendered
to the ‘power’ that is available by God, through the Holy Spirit than others. I
will explain it this way: When we moved into our house several years ago, it was an
older home that had tons that needed to be remodeled and redone. One thing they had
railroad ties all over the outside of the house, they were about 30 years old, they
were falling apart. I decided to get rid of them, so I called my buddy, Mark
Dawson, I call him ‘Mad dog’. He came over, we put on our work gloves, we got our
shovels and we attacked these old railroad ties. We did totally fine, until we got
to the retaining wall made of railroad ties, that were buried about 4 feet into the
ground, with just the top portion even visible. So, we took our shovels and went
after this as hard as we could. Three hours later, with our hands bleeding, and our
little arms shaking, we had not even gotten 1 railroad tie out from the long wall.
We were frustrated, my cell phone rang; I picked it up. It was another buddy, he
said; “Hey Groesh, what are you doing?” I said, “We are trying to dig these stupid
railroad ties out!” And he said, “Don’t you remember, I have got a Bobcat?” I
paused to thank God in Heaven, for my good friend! He said, “I will be over there
in no time at all!” And then, in no time at all, and sure enough, within 45
minutes, he unloaded this tractor on steroids that had these forks at the
beginning. He pulled right up to these railroad ties and drove the forks in there
and lifted them out of the ground! It was beautiful! I mean, it was just gorgeous!
He threw them violently on the side and I just paused to worship God in Heaven!
Within moments, they were all out of the ground! I’m still thankful today, because
in he had not come along, Mad Dog and I would still probably be there with our
gloves on and our shovel, fighting this impossible task!

Christians today all over the world put on their little work gloves, and they take
out their shovels, and they say; “We are going to live the Christian life!” And in
their own strength, they strive and fight and battle and don’t get very far. Why?
Because they are trying to live the Christian life in their own strength, when
there is a far greater power available. The Bible says this, and this is amazing;
“To those of you who believe in Christ, you have access to the very same Holy
Spirit that raised Christ from the grave.” You can be filled with the powerful
Spirit of God and you have the ability to live a supernatural life in a very
natural world; and yet, so many put their gloves on and grab their shovels and
struggle without the power available through the Holy Spirit. Acts Chapter 1; the
context: Jesus had already died on the cross, he rose from the grave, he was with
his disciples having a conversation with them, before he would ascend into Heaven.
Here’s how the conversation went; Acts 1:4: On one occasion, while Jesus was
eating with the disciples, he gave them this command; “Do not leave Jerusalem, but
wait for the gift my Father has promised, which you heard me speak about.” What do
you think that gift was? It was the what? It was the Holy Spirit. We studied last
weekend, in John 14, when Jesus said; “I am going to go away and send a gift to you
and this is going to be better than if I were with you, this is going to be the
Holy Spirit.” He goes on to say in verse 5; “For John,” and he is referring to John
the Baptist, “For John, baptize with water, but in a few days you will be baptized
with the Holy Spirit.” Now, what does this mean? Well, the Greek word translated as
‘baptized’ is the word ‘baptizo’ and this word means to immerse. That is why, when
we baptize you, we immerse you, we dunk you in water. For those of you who were
really, really bad and really sinful, we dunk you and we leave you in the water for
longer! We want to see some bubbles come up, baby! We want to wash those sins away
and then you explode up! This is what Jesus said, he didn’t just say, you are going
to be filled with the Holy Spirit; but no, “You are going to be baptizo.” You are
going to be filled, overwhelm, overcome. You are going to be immersed in this
powerful Holy Spirit. What’s going to happen to you when this takes place? Verse 8,
he says; “But you will receive power.” Everybody say power, say it again...power!
He said, “You will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you.” Now, what will
you be able to do? He said, “You will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in Judea,
and in Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.” When the Holy Spirit comes and
baptizes you, you will receive ‘power’. This word, ‘power’ comes from the Greek
word, ‘dunamis’. We get our word dynamite, from the word dunamis. It means a force,
it means a miraculous power. If you are taking notes, it means the explosive power
of God. When the Holy Spirit comes upon you, it will baptize you; you will have
dunamis, the explosive power of God. Then he says to his disciples, “You are going
to be empowered by the Spirit to take my message into all the world.” You may say,
“Well, what’s the big deal about that?” You have to remember exactly who Jesus was
talking to. He was talking to his disciples, who for the last 3 years, couldn’t get
much right. Never 1 time did Jesus say to his disciples, “Man you guys have such
great faith, I can’t even believe I am here with you!” Over and over again, he
said, “Don’t you guys get it? You are with me and yet you still have such little
faith!” Peter, the kind of ring leader; he said, “Jesus, I am with you all the
time, I will never leave you!” And then, right before the cross, 3 times, Peter
denies Jesus! At the cross, after Jesus had already said, “I am going to give my
life,” only 1 of the 12 showed up, John; the others were hiding, cowering in fear!
Jesus died, rose from the grave and where were his fearless disciples when he
returned? Locked in a little room, scared to death of the Jewish authorities! Jesus
comes in, says “I am here!” They don’t believe it, the women had told us, but we
still didn’t believe! Thomas, who heard from the other 10 that he was back, and
still saw him, said; “I still don’t believe!” Until he touched the scars, and Jesus
looked at these very ordinary men and said, “You will have power to take this
message all over the world. And here we are at this moment, declaring the Lordship
of Christ in churches around the world. Why? Because the Holy Spirit came upon very
ordinary people and gave them the power to take this message all over the world.
That same powerful Spirit is available today to all who believe! Take off your
little gloves, put down your little shovel, stop doing the Christian life in your
own limited strength and surrender to the unlimited power of the Holy Spirit. Next
week, we are going to talk about the power of the Spirit in Spiritual gifts, or the
gifts of the Spirit. We are going to spend the whole week talking about that.

This week, though, I want to show you 4 distinct qualities that the power of the
Holy Spirit wants to give to all believers. The first one, if you are taking notes,
write this down. The Holy Spirit gives you the power to share Christ boldly. The
Holy Spirit wants to give you the power to share Christ boldly. Look at the words
of Paul, 1 Corinthians 2, verses 4 and 5; he said this, “My message and my
preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, (I am not the best speaker
around) but, my message came with the demonstration of the Spirit’s power, so that
your faith might not rest on men’s wisdom, but instead on God’s power.” He said, I
am not the most eloquent speaker around, but when you saw me show up, the power of
the Holy Spirit was there. And quite honestly, that is what I rely on every single
week. I believe with everything in me, that I am not the best, the smartest by far,
but God can take my words and by the power of the Holy Spirit customize them in a
way that would speak directly into your life. That is the power of the Holy Spirit
that enables us to communicate the message of Christ in a life-transforming way. In
fact, when I was a young preacher, I was scared to death, 22-23 years-of-age,
trying to preach. Afterwards, this older lady came up to me one time and she said,
“Young man, that sermon wasn’t half bad!” I said, “Thank you!” I tried to be
humble, I said, “It was actually all the Holy Spirit.” She said, “Young man, if it
was all the Holy Spirit it would have been really good! I said it wasn’t half bad!”
Probably a lot of truth to that! If you have ever felt maybe uncomfortable, under
qualified, not good enough to share your faith; there is nobody that understands
better than I do! I was terrified to talk about who Jesus was. In fact, this is
crazy, but as a young preacher, in the church world, we call what happens at the
end, there is different names, they call it the ‘alter call’; it’s kind of the old
phrase, or, ‘the invitation’, at the end of the time. I used to preach, and I was
so bad at that part, I would always hand it off and have someone else do it! All
the time! I was scared to death to invite people to follow Christ! I tried; no one
ever did, ever! So, I just assumed, I am horrible at this! So, one day, a church
member came up, named Jeri ___, and he said, “Craig, why don’t you ever do the
invitation at the end?” I said, “Well, I’ve done it like about 10 times, and I’m
over 10 and I am horrible at it and I am just not any good.” He said, “I believe
that the Spirit brought me here to pray for you and ask the Holy Spirit to give you
power to do that well.” He said, “Do you mind if I pray for you?” I said, “Sure,
you can pray for me, but ain’t nothing gonna happen!” Okay, how’s that faith for a
preacher? Okay, so Jeri, regular church member guy, put his hands on me and prayed.
Now, I don’t know why, I can’t explain this, I don’t understand it; but, you can
read in the Bible, there is something that happens with the laying on of hands. You
see, over and over again in the Bible, when a godly person lays hands on someone
else and prays. There is something that takes place in the Spirit world that I just
can’t explain. He laid hands on me and he prayed. Now, sometimes when people pray,
you’ll feel something, other times, you won’t feel anything. Bottom line is that it
doesn’t matter what you feel, it matters what God does. But, on that particular
moment, I did very much feel the presence of the Holy Spirit; and Jeri prayed,
“God, give Craig the ability to do this well, to reach thousands of people!”
Thousands, well I would like one! And so, the very next time I taught, I stood up
before 40 people there, and I knew almost all of them. Most of them had been a
Christian longer than I have been alive! I mean, this is stupid, I am going to do
this and there are 40 people who are already Christians, and I just closed my eyes
and I just said, “Okay, give me the words” and I just started. And then, in front
of 40 people, everybody looking, if you are not following Jesus, and you know it,
and I went through the deal, I said, just turn from your sins and stand up
publicly. There were 8 people out of 40 that stood up in this group to follow
Christ, and I’ve never backed down since; because, the Holy Spirit gives me power
to share Christ and he will give you that same power if you will trust him. You
watch, this week, you will be in a conversation, those of you that are believers,
and you will feel prompted. This person needs God and you’ve got an opening, and
you might hesitate. Follow the prompting of the Spirit. You may say, “But I don’t
know what to say.” You just do it and you watch what happens. You will be in the
middle of a place and you will get this missile from Heaven, that boom, lands in
your head, and you’ll be quoting this Bible verse that you didn’t even know that
you knew! You’ll go look it up later just to make sure it’s in there! And it will
be, because the Holy Spirit will give you the words to say! You may come to a point
where you are just like, “Do you mind if I pray for you?” And you are like going,
“Oh no! I’m no good at prayers! Every time I pray, I’m like, “Dear 6 pound 8 ounce
baby Jesus!” Don’t pray like that! Don’t pray like that! And you think, “I’m just
not a good prayer!” And the next thing you know, you are praying and all of a
sudden this prayer comes out of nowhere and you’ve got faith for it and what is
that? That is the Holy Spirit coming upon you, a regular person, in power to give
you the power to share Christ boldly! You can access that very same Spirit that
raised Christ from the dead, he is available to you, and he will come upon you in
power when you trust him. Number one: he will give you power to share Christ
boldly.

Number 2: He will give you power when you are weak. This is gonna speak to some of
you. He will give you power when you are weak. Romans 8:26 says, “In the same way,
the Holy Spirit helps us in our weakness.” Now, how does he help us? Too many ways
to count; one of the ways is, he prays for us. Watch this, the Bible says, “We
don’t know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with
groans that words cannot express.” The Holy Spirit prays for us when we are weak.
Here is the deal. Many of you have got your gloves on, got your shovel, where you
are weak is where God’s Spirit is made perfect. I will give you an example. I’ve
got a work-out buddy, John; we’ve worked out together for about 17 years. We
haven’t gotten any more muscular, I don’t know what we are doing wrong! We still go
to the gym, and one time, we were doing chest exercises and we decided to do a
burn-out set. That is where you put on light weight at the end of the work out and
you just exhaust your muscles until they are totally fatigued. We put on some light
weight and I got on the bench press underneath and decided to do 20 reps, and so, I
did 10 easily and then I hit this wall. Boom, it got hard all of a sudden, and he
was like, “Come on, 10 more, come on!” I’m doing it, and my arms are shaken and my
little boobies are on fire baby, fire, booby fire! And he’s going, “Come on,
there’s more in you!” And I’m like 14, 15, and he’s positioned kind of helping me,
kind of doing this, and at 15, I just let go! He didn’t even notice and he kind of
kept doing this, 16, 17! I did the last 5 without even touching the bar! It was
awesome! In a real sense, that is a picture of what the Holy Spirit does! When we
get to the end of our strength, the Holy Spirit is strong where we can not be
strong and he can do that for you! He helps us and gives us power in our weakness.
I will give you a random example. When I grew up, I did well in school; but, only
because I studied like crazy. I tested really high in math, science, all these
things. When it came to reading comprehension, I was like as low as I could get.
Reading was so difficult, I promise you, I did not read an entire book all the way
through high school! You can ask my mom! I couldn’t do it, I would read, my mind, I
would read and my mind, boring! I just couldn’t do it! It created a real problem. I
faked my way through college. When I went to seminary in my mid twenties, I was
working as a full time pastor, working 50 hours a week or more and commuting an
hour-and-a half one way to go to school, and was studying 90 hours of graduate-
level work in a 3 year period, while working full time. Here’s the challenge, in
this seminary, honest to goodness in most classes, we had to read a book per week,
per class. I was dead! Okay, I couldn’t do this! I read the verse; the Holy Spirit
will help you in your weakness, and I said okay, I don’t know if this is going to
work or not, but I am a weak reader. Holy Spirit, help me! My wife will tell you,
my mom will tell you, who used to buy me tutoring to help me to be a better reader;
it never worked. At that moment, something changed and all of a sudden, I went from
being able to being unable to read, to having almost a photographic memory. I
studied a little bit about speed reading, and all of a sudden, God as my witness, I
can read a whole book in 30-45 minutes, and I can remember almost all of it.
Sometimes people say, “Well, why don’t you use more notes when you are preaching?”
Baby, I’ve got notes on top of notes! I’ve just read them, and I’m preaching
through them, I can see them in my mind and just preach right through them; because
I can remember it is a supernatural gift that was not there for 25 years, and now
it’s one of the most valuable tools I have in ministry. I can write fast, read fast
and make the kill and move on and absorb this information. That was something the
Holy Spirit did for me in my weakness and I believe with everything in me that
wherever you are weak today, the Holy Spirit can be strong. You may be a parent and
you are going, “I don’t know what to do with these kids, they are too much!” The
Holy Spirit can give you wisdom; ask him, ask him! You may have a presentation
coming up at work and you are like, “I am the worst in front of people, I panic, I
freeze, my voice will shake, my heart! Ask the Holy Spirit, and where you are weak,
he can be strong. You may have a sin in your life that you just cannot overcome and
you have been taking the little shovel and you have been working, I just can’t, I
just, ahhh! The Holy Spirit of God can give you power where you are weak. Call on
him!

Look at what the Bible says, I love this; 2 Corinthians 12:9-10, this was Paul and
he was complaining about this thorn, “God, take it away, take it away, take it
away!” And here is what God says; “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is
made perfect in weakness, therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my
weakness, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. For where I am weak, then I am
strong.” It is the power of the Holy Spirit that will give you power to share
Christ boldly. He will give you power where you are weak.

Number 3: He will give you power to have hope in a hopeless world. This thought,
and this scripture for many of you, it will be life today. Let the Spirit speak
directly to you. Romans 15:13; Paul said, “May the God of hope fill you with all
joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power
of the Holy Spirit.” Let’s look at that again, “....so that you may overflow with
hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.”

So many people today have very limited hope. If this water represented hope, this
is about all the hope that a lot of people have. They are not overflowing with
hope, they have very limited hope. For example, if we put our hope in anything
besides God, our hope is going to be limited. If we put our hope in ourselves, we
have limited hope. If we put our hope in other people, again, our hope is limited.
If we put our hope in our circumstances, our circumstances will only take us so
far. Our hope is limited, because it is not put in an unlimited God. The good news
is though, if you put your hope in God, he can cause you to overflow with hope by t
he power of the Holy Spirit. If you are hurting today, if you are afraid, put your
hope in God, and let him overflow in your life with joy and hope by the spirit.
Let’s say that you lose your job, continue to put your hope in God, and he will be
your provider. If you find out that someone you love is sick, continue to put your
hope in God and let the Holy Spirit be your healer. If you find yourself worried
about tomorrow, put your hope in God and let the Holy Spirit be your comforter. If
you lose someone you love, as much as it hurts, we don’t have to grieve like those
who have no hope. We can put our hope in God and the promise of the resurrection
and glory eternally in Heaven. If you are hurting today, put your hope in God.
Those who hope in anything else have a limited hope. But, Scripture says this; “May
the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace, as you trust in him, so that you
may overflow with hope, by the power of the Holy Spirit.”

If you are hurting today, I pray that that verse becomes so real to you, that even
though you don’t see anything that you can have hope in, that you can overflow in
hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. Put your hope in God.

The fourth thing that I want to show you today is unquestionably the most
important. And that is, if you are taking notes, the Holy Spirit will give you the
power to experience all the fullness of God. Some of you may be saying, “What does
that mean?” Here is what I have noticed; in our church and in our country, I
believe so many people have reduced Christianity down to the lowest common
denominators. Basically, Christianity for so many people today is, “Yeah, I believe
in God, yeah, I did the Jesus pray thing, check the box there, maybe got baptized,
I joined a church, I read the Bible every now and then, and then maybe kind of a
lot, sort of and I try to be a good person.” When you look at the lives of so many
Christians, what you see is something that really doesn’t look much different than
the rest of the world. Still hurting, still addicted, still filled with worries,
still broke, still struggling, still struggling in marriages, no real faith, no
real victory. Why? Why? No power, no power. So many people today don’t really
understand who God is and what he has for you. “The Holy Spirit will give you power
to experience all the fullness of God.”

Paul prayed for the believers in Ephesus, and I pray this prayer for our church
family. He prayed this: “I pray that out of his glorious riches, God may strengthen
you with power...” (Now, where does this power come from? Power through the
Spirit.) “..in your inner being so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through
faith.” I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power. Why?
Because you need this power; “That you may have power together with all the saints
to grasp how wide and how long and how high and how deep is the love of Christ, and
to know that this love surpasses the knowledge that you may be filled to the
measure of all the fullness of God.” If you have ever wondered, “Is there more to
Christianity? There has got to be more than doing the big-bad stuff and trying to
do some good stuff.” The answer is yes, there is! So much more! There is the
reality of the constant presence of God through the Holy Spirit that you can have
with you, this peace that surpasses all human ability to understand that you can
manifest the fruits of the Spirit; love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness,
gentleness, faithfulness and self control; that you can be led by the Spirit and
walk by faith and not by sight, that you can have a joy unspeakable, that you can
have a supernatural strength. That you can be rooted and established in the very
secure love of Christ and you can live a supernatural life in this very natural
world. You can never do it by your own strength, but there is another power that is
available to you. Call on him and watch the Holy Spirit fill you, strengthen you,
comfort you, guide you, counsel you and be your intercessor, as he empowers you to
live the life that you are incapable of living on your own; one that will bring
glory and honor to God in Heaven.

Holy Spirit, would you fill us, would you touch us, would you move freely in this
place; would you empower ordinary Christians to live an extraordinary Spirit-filled
life. Would you rule and reign. Help us to overcome our flesh and surrender fully
to your power, that we may please you and live for you in every way. All of our
locations, as you are praying, those of you that would say, “I am a believer
unquestionably, but I am not living with this power; I believe it’s real, and I
want it. If there is more of God and he has more for me, I want it. Fill me,
baptize me, and reveal to me everything. I am weak, I need your strength, I am not
good at sharing my faith, I need your power. I am hurting, I need your hope. I know
God, but not completely. Holy Spirit, give me everything that God wants me to
have.” If that is you, would you lift your hands high right now, just lift them up.
God, I thank you for so many people who are hungry for more of you. Holy Spirit do
what only you can do. I pray God that you would fill us, baptize us, and change us.
May we be immersed in the power of your Spirit, Lord help us to be weak, so that
your strength would be made perfect. I pray for those who have people they love and
they don’t know how to share their faith; come upon them God boldly. Come upon them
boldly by the power of your Spirit. God, for those who are hurting; give them a
supernatural hope that is overflowing by the power of your Spirit. At this moment,
Holy Spirit, comfort them. At this moment may they experience you; at this moment
may they experience you. Holy Spirit, I pray that you would break strongholds and
addictions. God, even those who have very practical struggles, I pray that you
would be strong where they are weak. We ask that your Holy Spirit would reveal to
us just who you are, how much you love us and what really matters; that we may
enjoy the fullness of God through your love empowered by your Spirit. Now, Holy
Spirit I ask that you would draw people to yourself today.

As you are praying at all of our locations, there are those of you today;
supernaturally something is happening at this moment. You are feeling drawn to God.
Some of you, you are church folks, you are church people, you’ve grown up around
the church, but you are recognizing, you know what, I kind of know the right
answers, but I am not really sure I know the one who really knows the answers. I
may have trusted in churchianity and religion, but I don’t know that I really know
God. That was me, that was me, that was me! And God drew me by the power of the
Spirit and revealed who he really was through Christ. Some of you, that’s you; you
recognize today you don’t truly know him. Others of you, you are not church people,
but something is happening. You are being drawn to God today. Your friends may
think that is weird. You don’t truly understand it, but that is the power of the
Holy Spirit revealing your need for God. Today, you may recognize, you are apart
from God and you want to be with God. Today, you are simply going to call on his
name through the name of Jesus, the One who lived, shed His blood, died and rose
again so you could be forgiven, so you could be transformed. That is why you are
here. It is no accident, it is by the divine purpose of God, and the Holy Spirit is
drawing you and you have got a choice; you can accept him or you can reject him
today, the choice is yours. The Holy Spirit is calling you, there are those of you
who are going to say, “Yes, all of my life, every bit of it, God I surrender to you
through your Son Jesus, forgive me of my sins and change me and he will. You will
be transformed and you will be filled with the Holy Spirit and you will never be
the same.

All of our locations, that’s you today; call on the name of Jesus to save you and
make you new. If that is you, would you lift your hands high right now, would you
lift them high? All over the place, just lift them up and I just want to
acknowledge you; both of you here and both hands there. Others of you, right over
here as well, back here. Leave your hands up for a minute; I want to look you in
the eyes. Those of you at church on line, right below me, click right now; I am
surrendering my life to Christ. Right there as well, all three of you back here in
this section. Over here in this section, right over here and right here as well.
Others of you, right back over there, I am calling on him, right there as well. I
need him, take over Jesus, forgive me, and transform me, right here, and right over
here in the middle section. Holy Spirit, continue to draw people, step across the
line of faith right now, others of you who would say, “Me too!” In the presence of
God, as he is drawing you. Right here, right back over there; others of you, right
back over here, praise God for you. Pray with those around you, everybody aloud,
right back over here, right back over there, everybody together praying. “Heavenly
Father, take all of my life, save me from my sins. I believe Jesus died for me and
he rose again, so I could live for him. Fill me with your Spirit, make me brand
new, and empower me to live a life only for you. Thank you for new life, now take
all of mine, in Jesus name I pray.” All of our campuses, would you thank Him, would
you welcome those today who were born into the family of God!