Thank you for coming tonight.
Is Jesus down there where you are?
Yes, he is.
Just say his name with me, will you?
And oh, just just say it to him
and let him know how happy we are
to have him.
With all these people, wouldn't it be lonesome
in here without Jesus?
Well, I can't stand it until he gets
here.
Well, where do you think I'm going to
find the text tonight?
That's the pastor?
Did you say that?
Believe me.
Well, it includes Philippians 3.10, but it's
Philippians 3, but it includes 3
.10. Did you find it?
All right.
Just now, I'm going to read the first
three verses.
I, I, I'm in my spirit am amused
every time I begin reading this chapter.
And I told you why the other night,
because the way it starts out, you're just
sure Paul's going to say, in the name
of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, Amen.
You're just sure, because when he says, finally,
my brethren, that does not sound like a
preacher winding up things.
But oh, what comes out of this man's
heart after he says this, finally, my brethren.
You know, sometimes a preacher says his best
things after he says, now, finally.
And it's just as though Paul hasn't delivered
all that's in his heart.
And he just lets go.
And the, the fire, and the life, and
the vision, the conviction, the anointing, the
declaration, all of this Paul pours out in
the rest of this chapter.
And the whole church of Jesus Christ comes
back to this chapter time and time and
time and time again, because we want Paul's
fire.
We want Paul's vision.
We want Paul's Christ.
We want the revelation of Christ that Paul
has.
I hope, I pray, we want the possession
of Christ that Paul has.
He's accused of being beside himself.
He's not only beside himself, he's outside himself.
We want that.
And I mean that.
He is beside himself, but he's outside of
himself.
He said, I live, yet not I.
Paul has moved out, reckons himself dead, crucified,
and his body given a living sacrifice for
the indwelling of this wonderful Christ.
He's sold out, he's, he's given his all,
and this is what Jesus wants of us.
I beseech you, therefore, brethren, finish it, present
your bodies a living sacrifice.
And that's what he's asking us for, to
move out and, and let Jesus come into
our bodies and take over and live in
us and live out his life again through
us, just like he lived in that body
that Mary gave him.
It's, it's a projection of the incarnation.
This is where these people who believe in
reincarnation, this is where they got off.
It isn't reincarnation, it's a projection of the
incarnation, Christ coming in and living in us.
This is what he wants, but he can't
do that as long as we want to
live.
We have desires, we have plans, we have
ambitions.
There's still something that we're after, that we
want, that we're not willing to give up
ourselves, give over our lives, surrender our bodies,
and let these bodies of truth be the
very temple of the living God.
Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord.
To write the same thing to you, to
me, indeed, he says, it's not an irksome
thing for me at all, or a grievous
thing, but a precaution for you to keep
warning us, keep warning us, keep after us.
And I tell the Lord all the time,
please don't leave me alone.
I don't want you, Lord, don't ever leave
me alone.
Don't leave me alone.
Keep on me, keep after me, keep dealing
with me, keep prodding me, keep drawing me,
keep calling me, whatever is necessary, keep after
me, but don't leave me alone.
Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware
of the concision.
That's the crowd that's constantly trying to draw
you back from where you are in God.
These old Judaizers that wanted to draw these
Philippians back under the law and steal their
bondages, steal their liberty from them, rather, and
draw them back into bondage.
You know, the world, the flesh, and the
devil is constantly trying to do this to
us, to get us out of God, to
steal our liberty, to draw us back.
How many of you grateful for as far
as the Lord has brought you?
How many of you are shouting the praises
of God because you're not what you used
to be?
Thank God we're not what we used to
be, but we're not yet what we want
to be.
Eh?
And if that's so, there's still hope for
us.
There's still hope for us.
Self-satisfaction is the end of all progress,
but as long as we're hungry, God can
feed us.
If we're thirsty, he can give us drink.
If we're sick, he can reveal himself to
us and heal us.
If we're calling, he said he'd answer.
If we're asking, he said we'd receive.
If you're seeking, he said we'd find.
If you're knocking, keep it up until the
doors open.
I'd like to just, I hadn't thought previously
of saying this, but the last time I
was here, I gave you the privilege of
sending up questions, and then each night I
answered a question that had been sent up,
and somebody evidently remembers that because I got
a question sent up to me, and right
here is as good a place as any
to answer that question.
It's from evidently a group of folks.
If there's prayer groups coming into the meeting,
we welcome you.
Anybody who's here, we believe you're here because
Jesus put it on your heart to come,
and I believe this is the crowd that
Jesus wants to meet tonight, and he brought
you here.
Praise the Lord.
So these folks tell us how to pray
through.
We don't really know.
Well, I'm so grateful to God today for
anybody who wants to know how to pray
through, and honey, here it is in this
little word from the Lord.
Ask, and ye shall receive.
And if you don't get it by asking,
seek, and you shall what?
Fine, and if you don't get it by
seeking, what does he say?
All right, you knock, and you keep on
knocking, and keep on knocking, and keep in
there, and stay before God, and keep on
knocking, and keep on praying, and keep on
calling, and don't give up until you have
gotten through to God, and have gotten your
answer, and you'll know when you're through, and
you will know when you get your answer,
you will know when you have prayed through.
Now, to really pray through, you don't, you
don't get through to God in a five
-minute excursion trip to the altar.
You don't get really through in, in just,
well, I have, I've said everything that I
know to say, and I haven't heard a
voice, and nothing has happened, and I don't
know what else to do.
Honey, stay there.
Stay there.
Pray it all over again.
Say everything that you said before, and say
it over again.
If that's what you want, and that's what
you're praying about, make known what you want.
If you go to the store for bread,
you ask for bread till you get bread,
and if you're hungry enough, you won't leave
till you get bread, and you'll keep on
asking for bread.
There's no bread on that shelf.
Why isn't there bread on that shelf?
And you'll keep calling, and asking, and inquiring
until you get bread, and that's the way
to get to God, and I say again,
you don't always get an answer in five
minutes, or ten, or fifteen, or twenty-five,
or a hundred and fifty, and sometimes it's
all day, and sometimes it's all night, and
sometimes it's a week, and sometimes it's two
weeks, but stay there.
Daniel prayed three weeks.
Moses went up in the mountain and stayed
forty days until he received from God what
God wanted him to have.
That's it.
Get in there and stay there until God
meets you.
Before I left home, there was something I
had to know from God.
I had to know it, and there are
things that only God can answer, and if
you want to know the will of God,
only God can tell you His will.
Don't run around the people.
The more you talk to people, the more
confused you'll get, and please stay away from
these people that say, yeah, yeah, yeah, thus
saith the Lord.
Start running, and get to God, and hear
from God.
No matter what people say, I still have
to hear from God, and then there's no
doubt.
There's no question, and further down the road,
you can say, God, you said, you said,
and you can hold him to it.
Amen, and, and he, he'll take care of
you.
He'll see that thing through.
He'll, I promise you, God will keep His
promises.
Amen.
I had to know, and I started praying
eight o'clock in the morning.
You pray for a while on your knees,
and well, after a while, your knees get
tired, get up and walk.
Get up and walk, and I walked and
prayed, and went back, and got down, and
got tired in that position, got up and
walked again, and prayed, and kept on praying,
and it took me from eight o'clock
in the morning, all through that day, until
two o'clock the next morning, but I
stayed right there, but the two o'clock
the next morning, He came, and I knew
that I knew that I knew that I
know, and devils, or people, or anybody else,
can't take that away from me.
God said it, and I know God said
it, and I know that I know that
I know that I know.
You can, there is a such a thing
as praying through.
You pray through, and you, you will know,
and you will know when you've prayed through.
You'll know when you've prayed through for people.
You'll know when you have prayed through for
your children.
You will know when you've prayed through for
your husband, or your wife.
You will know when you have prayed through
for revival, and I pray God that He
will put such a burden on the prayer
warriors, and the senior citizens, amen, and the
prayer groups, and, and in the church, the
men, the women, the boys, the girls, real,
true, Holy Ghost prayer, praying in the Spirit,
until God pours out the revival in this
church that He wants to send.
Until God, until this money is released for
God to do what He wants to do.
Why, the world has all the money to
do what they want to do today.
Every city I go into all over the
world, the banks are building banks, skyscrapers.
What are they going to do with all
these banks they're building?
Every city that you go into.
So there, there's plenty of money in the
world.
God can release money.
Somebody prays that thing through.
Who will assume the burden?
Well, God, God puts a burden on your
heart.
Give yourself to God, to prayer, for this,
this church is packed out.
How many of you people come to church
sometimes and can't get in?
You do need a church, don't you?
Do you think you need a church?
Well, God can get into this situation, and
get His will accomplished, and get this thing
through that you can accommodate the people that
He wants to send, and the revival that
God wants to give, and it won't be
a burden on anybody.
The Lord promised to take the burden.
The government is on His shoulders.
If we try to carry it, we get
a golden neck.
But the government's on His shoulders, and when
He's allowed to carry it, He gets things
through.
I think Pastor Trulene just prepared the way
a little while ago.
I was glad, I was glad he didn't
stand up here and say that we are
the church, and you are the people, and
bless God, we've got it.
Oh, he didn't say that, did he?
But he exhorted you to come on, and
go on, that there is more, there's more.
Well, there is more, there is more.
I, he told you that I have just
been in Korea.
I wish I could pick up everyone that's
here tonight.
I that is on in that country, and
see what God is doing there.
I wish you could see it.
I wish you could feel it.
I wish you could be in it.
It, it is so genuine, and so real,
and so of God.
You, I suppose, well, most of you have
heard of Dr. Cho, the pastor of this
church in Korea.
He, they have 50,000 members, 50,000
members, and by 1980, he says he knows
he'll have 100,000 members.
They're in they've built three churches already, and
they're in their third church now that seats
10,000 people, and, and they have to
use both churches.
The one, the last one they built is
just beside the, the second one, and they
have four services every Sunday, and 10,000
people four times in the big church, and
the overflow of 2,000 in the other
church, and they have this go four times
a day, and no person is allowed to
attend church twice on Sunday to give everybody
a chance to get in once on Sunday.
So 50,000 people can get to church
at least once on Sunday.
The aisles are packed and jammed, and the
Koreans, they sit on the floor right up,
and, and somebody comes in the door, can
we move a little closer, which means putting
your knees further in somebody's back, and, and
the service goes on.
Oh, I wish you could hear 10,000
people worshiping the Lord.
10,000, like the sound of many waters,
not no one voice trying to project itself,
but 10,000 people, just like the waves,
the sound of many waters, worshiping and adoring
the Lord.
And when the 10,000 people praying, all
praying at the same time, and you don't
hear one voice above the rest of the
voices, and those little Koreans when they pray,
their bodies just going like this, they're really
agonizing and praying.
They're not saying beautiful words to God, believe
me, it's an agony, it's a cry, it's
a prayer, it's a groan, it's a groan
continually for God's Spirit to continue His operation
in their land.
Everybody has a Bible.
I watch those people when they get within
sight of the church, I watch them run
from the time they can see the church,
they start running and running to the house
of God, and run in there and find
their place and get down and start worshiping
and adoring the Lord.
It is a beautiful thing, all over that
congregation.
On Sunday morning, I saw people healed by
the Spirit of God, the fruits of the
presence of the Holy Ghost, people healed all
over that place.
What is the secret of it all?
Alright, they own these churches and they're getting
ready to build another church.
They have to, to accommodate all these people.
But listen to this, they went out and
bought a mountain, and up in that mountain
they have, they have a chapel up there
that seats about 500 people, and it isn't
anything for 500 to be up there at
a time, praying and fasting and seeking the
Lord.
They have, listen, they have 170 caves in
the mountains up there, and these caves are
just equipped with an electric light that hangs
down the ceiling, and an electric blanket, that's
all that's in there.
And you go in and wrap yourself up
in this electric blanket, and stay there to
fast and pray.
And they fast three days, ten days, some
of them fast thirty days.
And is it any wonder God is moving
like that?
And when I was up there in the
mountain, here they were, up there on the
floor in that place, agonizing before God, that
the revival would continue, that the Spirit of
God would continue among them.
Fifth church, 50,000 members at a revival
like that.
And it's, it's all over the place, everywhere.
When I went through customs going into the
country, coming out of the country, in the
business houses, they say, you, you from America?
And I said, yes, I came here to
Dr. Cho's church.
You know Dr. Cho?
Ah, I know, I go to Dr. Cho's
church everywhere.
I know Dr. Cho's church.
Yes, well it isn't his church, it's the
church of Jesus Christ.
But a man who's sold out to God,
that God can move like this.
Oh honey, what do you say, let's give
ourselves to God.
God, God is moving.
I could take you to right around the
world, where God is moving in revival power
and pouring out His Spirit.
What is happening?
The precious Holy Spirit is in the earth,
getting the bride of Jesus Christ ready.
Calling out every whosoever will.
Making us one in this glorious church without
spot or wrinkle.
Making us one.
Getting us ready for the coming of the
Lord.
Getting us ready, I believe, to give a
last hour testimony and witness to the supernatural
power of God.
Through our lives and living in this old
world in this last hour.
You know honey, we're saved, but we're not
out of here yet.
We're not out of here yet.
We're not.
And God wants, God wants a people that
through whom He can manifest Himself in this
last hour.
He gives them all kinds of names in
the scripture.
They're His.
That remnant, that, the overcomers.
He calls them called, chosen, faithful.
All kinds of names.
These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever
He goeth.
They that wait upon the Lord.
They have all these names, but it's the
same group.
It's the same company, the same crowd that
He's calling, that He's dealing with all the
time.
Alright, the next verse in the third chapter
of Philippians gives them another name.
I just love this verse.
Ephesians 3, 3.
Here He gives them another verse.
For we are the circumcision which worship God
in the spirit and rejoice in Christ Jesus
and have no confidence in the flesh.
What a crowd to belong to.
What a company to belong to.
We are the circumcision.
What does that mean?
Well, you know that circumcision was an act
of cutting away the flesh.
Cutting away the flesh.
Paul tells us in Romans that that was
alright.
That was for Israel and circumcision was their
mark of separation.
Oh, but here's this dear Paul again.
Listen to him as he says, I bear
branded on my body the ownership stamp of
Jesus Christ.
That wasn't circumcision of the flesh, but it
was circumcision of the heart.
Paul says that that's the circumcision that we
believe in.
Israel was a people that was separated unto
God.
God had called them.
God had chosen them.
We call them God's chosen people.
They were God's chosen people.
They are God's chosen people.
God chose them through that nation to give
to us the Messiah.
The Messiah.
Alright.
God has a people in the New Testament
that He's not asking us to take circumcision
of the flesh, but circumcision of the heart.
When we are willing to put off the
old man, put on the new man.
Colossians, this is beautiful in Colossians, put on
the new man which is renewed in knowledge
after the image of Him that created him.
Colossians 3.10, where there's neither Greek nor
Jew, circumcision or uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bond or
free, but Christ is all and in all.
Hallelujah.
That's the crowd the Holy Ghost is looking
for today.
A crowd, a group, a company, listen dear,
a company of people to whom Christ is
everything.
Christ is everything.
Christ is our life.
Christ is our meat and our drink.
Christ is our conversation.
Christ fills our thoughts.
Christ fills our love life.
We're of Him.
We're from Him.
We're for Him.
We're dedicated to Him.
We're given to Him.
He can have His way with us.
He can have His way in us.
A company to whom Christ is all and
in all.
Oh my dear, He wants to take us
into such a dedication to the Lord Jesus
Christ that we'll give Him every fiber of
our being.
We'll give Him every nerve that's in our
body.
We'll give to Christ every brain cell that
we possess.
We'll ask Him to fill every hair of
our head, to fill every member of our
body, every power of our soul, every part
of our spirit, that our old man and
old life can be crucified, put to death,
but that Jesus Christ might be free to
live in us in the power of His
wonderful Holy Spirit.
Paul could say, we are that crowd called
the circumcision which worship the Lord in spirit
and rejoice in Christ Jesus and have no
confidence in the flesh.
What a crowd.
What a company.
Where are those Bible school students?
Where are they?
Oh, young people, give yourself to Jesus Christ.
Don't miss what God has for you in
this last hour.
This is a time when He said He'd
pour out His Spirit on all flesh.
Young men, didn't He say, they're going to
prophesy, the young ladies are going to prophesy?
What a time.
You give yourself to God and let that
Holy Spirit of prophecy so possess you.
Amen.
He can make a Jeremiah, an Isaiah out
of you, a Joel, He can use you,
a Daniel, whoever He wants and whatever He
wants to make known Jesus Christ in this
last hour.
Be that man, be that woman, give yourself
to God for Christ's sake and let Him
have His way with you and through you.
He will.
He will through the power, through the power
of the supernatural and this is what He
wants.
We are the circumcision.
Put off, put off the old man and
put on the new man which is renewed
in knowledge after the image of Him that
created him.
That's what sin took away from us, the
knowledge of God.
Sin took away from us the knowledge of
Christ.
But in this glorious new birth, He says,
that knowledge is renewed in us and that
knowledge of Jesus Christ, part of it is
Job, I think it is, who says, before
Jesus will be old enough to eat butter,
He will know to refuse the evil and
to choose the good.
And the precious Holy Spirit in this glorious
new man within us puts this in us,
to know to refuse the evil and to
choose the good and puts the power of
the Holy Ghost in us in such a
way that we can stand up before that.
Aren't the checks of the Spirit wonderful?
Aren't they?
Are you acquainted with the Holy Spirit that
you know His checks?
Two people.
Oh my brother, I want you to know
a life in God and in the Holy
Spirit where you know the checks of the
Spirit.
Obey the checks of the Holy Ghost.
Obey them.
He's promised to lead us.
Obey His stops.
Listen to His voice.
And you know, before we learn this in
daily life, we have to know that in
our services too.
Oh thank you for every amen.
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Because we get so noisy sometimes and we
get so full of activity sometimes that I
think we miss an awful lot that we
could have in God.
We could have in God.
Say amen.
He's come to teach us.
He's come to lead us.
Don't you like to be in meetings that
are led by the Spirit?
And where we're being taught by the Spirit?
Well this is what He means when He
said, we are the circumcision which worship God
in the Spirit.
That doesn't mean, that doesn't mean just what
we call let's worship the Lord when we
all together praise and adore and give expressions
of worship to the Lord.
He's not talking only about that.
That's part of it.
But He's talking about our whole life of
worship being in the Spirit.
We are the circumcision.
That's 24 hours of the day, isn't it?
Cut off.
We're done with the world.
The devil.
The devil know it.
We have to let the world know it.
And not follow it's thought pattern, it's power,
it's thinking, the ways, the attitude of the
world today.
That is another life.
You and I are seated with Christ in
heavenly places.
Our life is in Him and with Him.
Let the world go their way and do
what they will.
Let Christ be led of the Spirit, walk
with God and know life in the Holy
Ghost.
We're the circumcision.
Cut off.
Don't be afraid to be different.
Don't be ashamed to be different.
The prophets were, weren't they?
Oh, we're the circumcision.
We're the circumcision.
And they who were circumcised were owned of
God.
These were God's peculiar people.
What is our peculiar mark?
That we have no confidence in the flesh,
but we worship God in the Spirit.
Now this is to be 24 hours of
the day, but then when we live like
that 24 hours of the day, then when
we come together in our services, we're going
to have such a meeting.
Such a meeting owned of the Spirit, led
by the Spirit, taught by the Spirit in
our worship.
Oh, and let's begin with what we call
worship.
Don't ever stop worshiping Jesus.
Don't ever stop.
Just pour out and pour back.
Let your heart, your spirit, your love flow
back to Him in adoration.
Heaven is full of worship and adoration.
All the time they just love and worship
and adore Jesus.
But you know, that creates a marvelous atmosphere
into which God comes.
He inhabiteth, say it.
What?
All right then.
Now God, God has come down.
Well, if God has come down, let's let
God take over.
And honey, don't, don't be afraid that God
can't handle the meeting when it gets a
little quiet.
But you know, how many times when there's
a little quietness, when God inhabiteth the praises
of His people, and He, and you feel
God is here, then right away the babies
think we've got to have a message in
tongues.
And it's usually the babes in Christ.
Now maybe they don't think so, because you
see, they think they've got the gifts.
So they think they're quite mature.
Don't you tell them that I said they
were babies, often.
But the babes think then that we have
to have a message in tongues.
How many of you think the Lord can
do something more for us than just give
a message in tongues, interpretation?
How many of you think He can do
two or three more things?
He can, and He wants to, He wants
to, if we, if we're not afraid to
be quiet and to be still.
Now I'm not saying anything about tongues and
interpretation, but I'm saying don't, don't rush in
there until you're positively sure that this is
exactly what He wants.
Because maybe, if we wait a little while,
maybe the message could be a deeper one.
And the revelation could be a deeper one.
Eh?
Rather than just a yay-yay one.
Eh?
A yay-yay.
I don't know why we have to always
start with yay-yay or something.
I don't, I don't know that chapter and
verse.
But, but oh, I, I, I'm afraid we
miss, we miss some beautiful things that God
would give us and do for us, because
we haven't learned to wait.
On the Lord as part of our worship.
You agree with me that waiting on the
Lord is part of worship?
Yes, they that wait upon the Lord.
I tell you, when the Lord was teaching
me a few things along this line, He
told me this night that He wanted me
to keep quiet.
Just keep quiet until He told me to
speak.
So I was sitting, and when I went
in that night, and He said the same
thing to the song leader.
He said the same thing to the pastor.
And when we got on the platform, song
leader came to me and he said, Sister
Hammond, I, I just, I don't, I don't
want to lead singing tonight.
He said, I just feel like I'd be
a tin soldier up there performing, and I
just don't want to perform tonight.
I said, okay then, if I were you,
I wouldn't perform.
I'd sit down.
So he sat down.
And the pastor says, would you mind if
I didn't take part in the service tonight?
I just want to be quiet.
And I said, I want to be quiet
too, so we'll all be quiet.
And so we just, we sat down.
We sat down.
The service was supposed to start at 7
.30. Well, quarter to 8 came, there hadn't
been a word.
8 o'clock came, and there hadn't been
a word.
There hadn't been a prayer or a song
or a word.
A quarter after 8, not a word.
8.30, not a word.
Not a word.
But I want to tell you, there was
no death in that place, because we were
all in obedience.
And it was, there was no death but
the, oh, the presence of God.
The presence of God in that place was
marvelous, marvelous.
Well, when it got, I saw that clock
getting past 8.30, and I said, said,
I, now there's unsaved people in here tonight,
and they don't, they know we're not Quakers,
and they won't understand what's going on, so
maybe I had better say something.
And I put my hands on the arms
of the chair, and started to get up
from the chair.
And there was a deacon sitting way in
the back.
That deacon didn't know I was getting up
from that chair.
He did not, because he had his eyes
closed.
And the Lord just let me look at
him and know that he had his eyes
closed.
And when I began to get up from
the chair, he, in a loud voice, said,
Be still and know that I am God.
I sat
down, and I said, Thank you, Jesus.
I thank you for this.
And I'm not gonna move off of this
chair until you move and do what you've
brought us together to do.
My dear, it wasn't, everybody got quieted again
in God, and this wonderful life presence of
the Lord that was, it wasn't death at
all.
The Holy Spirit came on a young girl,
and that young girl stood up and began
speaking in the Spirit.
And she started out by saying, Be not
unequally yoked together.
And, well, you don't know what the Spirit's
going to say after that.
But the Holy Ghost through her gave to
us the most marvelous revelation of the Bridegroom
I have ever heard.
And after she described the Bridegroom, and his
beauty, and his glory, and oh, oh, then
she says, He's not going to be unequally
yoked with a bride.
And then she began to describe the Bride,
the Bride of Christ, the Lamb's wife.
Her nature, her beauty, her beauty, her glory,
her eyes, she has dove's eyes, which are
the eyes of the Holy Spirit, that sees
with the Spirit.
Her vision is born of the Spirit.
And on she went, describing her lips that
pour forth, pour forth the revelation of her
Bridegroom, and her love and devotion to Him.
Her purity, the purity, talk about circumcision, how
she is so separated unto her Beloved that
nothing could mind her away from Him.
And on, oh, when that word from the
Lord was over, everybody in that place was
on their face before God.
Before God.
What a visitation of, I'll never forget, what
a visitation of God.
And ministry.
We worship God in the Spirit.
Here we can have the ministry of the
Spirit, the ministry of the precious Holy Ghost,
in however way He wants to minister to
His body, minister to the needs of everybody
that's present.
And we are the circumcision which worship God
in the Spirit.
And in worshiping in the Spirit like this,
then we're going, then we're going to sing.
How?
Uh-uh, you're not scriptural.
Then we're going to sing.
How?
Somebody tell me, what does scripture say?
We're going to sing.
How?
No, you turn, you just turn with me
and get scriptural.
You turn with me to the 14th chapter
of 1 Corinthians.
What did you say?
The 14th chapter of 1 Corinthians and the
15th verse.
What is it then?
I will pray.
How?
Uh-huh.
And I will pray with the understanding also.
And I will sing.
What dear?
Oh, there's a difference.
There's a difference.
It's the same, but it's different.
If I sing with the Spirit, I'm going
to sing His tune.
If I sing with the Spirit, I'm going
to sing His words.
If I sing with the Spirit, I'm going
to sing His words.
If I sing with the Spirit, I'm going
to sing His melody.
Can I be naughty?
You're the only one up here, Dan.
Can I be naughty?
Do you think I can sing in the
Spirit and the tune be my own?
Be careful.
But if
I'm singing with the Spirit, oh,
the quality, the quality, the
words, the worship, the adoration, what He says,
the way He says it, I'm going to
sing with the Spirit while He's leading the
choir.
While He's leading that worship, you're
thinking hard.
That's all right.
Have you ever, have you ever heard real
laughter in the Spirit?
Huh?
Have you ever really, real, real laughter in
the Spirit?
I was in, the last time I was
in Germany, a group of Germans, I think
of the German people, they're not easily moved.
But God sent us an outpouring of the
Spirit.
And here was a group of German men
and women down here at this end of
the altar.
And the Holy Ghost began to move on
them in prayer.
And those German men were down there with
their faces in the carpet and they were
with their fists on the floor praying through.
Well, they prayed through.
And that whole group began to laugh in
the Spirit.
And they laughed in harmony in the Spirit.
I haven't heard anything like this any place
else in the world.
But oh, there are, God wants to break
through with us in the supernatural.
But people have to say this is God.
I'm going to tell you something else.
I saw a young man without a violin
playing, going through all the motions of playing
a violin in the Spirit.
And the music of the violin was coming
through his lips and sounded just exactly like
it.
And the Spirit of God fell and hit
that place.
What conviction!
In the presence of God.
You know, when God is present, we're in
His presence waiting on the Lord.
Waiting on the Lord.
I loved our tarrying meetings.
That's an old-fashioned word.
How many of you know what it means?
That's an old-timer, isn't it, brother?
But oh, I loved our tarrying meetings, waiting
before God till the wee hours of the
morning.
God had a chance to get at us.
Give God time, dear.
Not just five minutes in His presence.
I just take it all by faith.
Well, if you pray through and get it,
take it.
Take it.
But don't come up short.
Wait on the Lord.
And give God a chance to get at
us.
We don't like to be convicted.
But do you welcome conviction?
Aren't you glad when God puts a real
good dose of Holy Ghost conviction on you?
Please say yes.
I'm glad when He convicts me.
I'm glad when He deals with me.
When we have Holy Ghost conviction on us,
then we're able to pray.
And if He puts Holy Ghost conviction on
us, He'll put Holy Ghost enablement on us
to pray and to make the decision that
He wants us to make.
God wants to bring us to decision.
God, we say that Jacob wrestled with the
angel.
That angel kept after Jacob and wouldn't let
him go.
And he kept dealing with him and dealing
with him and wrestling with him and dealing
with him.
And he wouldn't let him go.
We want God to come and lay hold
of us and deal with us and bring
us to decisions.
We'll be able by the power of God
to make decisions.
To say yes.
And we'll have the power of God in
our lives to follow through with it.
This is revival, isn't it?
This is revival.
When the power of God is present and
over here God is dealing with somebody.
And I love it!
I was in a meeting a little while
ago in Alexander, Virginia.
And in the middle of the message a
woman came out of her seat and came
right down and looked up and she says,
Will somebody pray for me?
Good.
The cry of the soul.
You know what else I like?
We're having revival.
Don't tell them, but when the pastor calls
on the deacons to pray and they break
down in the middle and start bawling and
can't finish their prayer.
That's what the word of God talks about.
The groan of the spirit.
And they break down in the middle into
a sob.
A sob and can't finish the prayer.
Things begin to happen and
the Holy Ghost falls and somebody else has
strength enough to give up and let go
and lay down and say, I'm done with
it.
That issue is settled.
Oh God, help me never to pick it
up again.
And they can have strength to go on.
They that wait upon the Lord shall renew
their strength.
Strength to say yes!
Strength to do His will, whatever it
is.
Oh God, come among us.
Oh Father, come among us.
With Thy holiness and Thy power.
Oh Holy Ghost, come upon us, I pray
Thee.
You came to convict of sin and of
righteousness and of judgment.
Precious Holy Ghost, come upon us.
Oh come among us.
Oh God, enable men that you've been dealing
with them for years to do.
Oh God, enable men to pay the price
that you've been asking them for years to
pay.
Oh God, help the procrastinator to stop their
procrastinations.
Oh God, let men know how late the
hour, how short the time.
Oh God, give strength to give up.
Give strength to lay down.
Give strength to let go.
Give strength to quit sinning, I pray Thee.
Oh God, cleanse your church.
Oh God, cleanse your people.
Separate unto thyself until you have a holy
people, a redeemed people, a blood-washed people,
a victorious people that's done with sin and
done with the world and done with self,
who will yield their bodies a living sacrifice.
Oh God, get a remnant, I pray Thee.
Oh God, get the remnant that you want.
Oh God, I pray Thee, call us, keep
after us, convict us, deal with us.
Don't let us go.
Save us from lightness and shallowness and worldliness.
Oh God, save us from lukewarmness and indifference,
I pray Thee.
Please, please let us know how close is
your coming, how few are the hours for
our decision.
I pray thou will send such an outpouring
of the Holy Spirit, a manifestation of your
holiness and righteousness upon us and among us.
Do whatever needs to be done, only glorify
thy Son and make us your circumcision of
people who truly worship God in the Spirit.
We want to sing with the Spirit the
songs that He's singing.
Oh, we want to sing the song that
the Holy Ghost is singing to Jesus.
Oh, we want to sing the songs that
He wants to hear from His Church, from
His Holy Bride.
Put on us the burden that's on your
heart and help us to pray as we've
never prayed before.
Let us carry the travail of your soul
with you to fill up that which is
left behind.
Oh my Father, that the cup might be
filled that you can pour out what you
want to give us in this last hour.
I pray for every man in the Church.
I pray for every woman in the Church.
I pray for pastors.
I pray for young people.
I pray thou will visit us with a
holy visitation from God that will take us
from glory to glory and change us into
thy holy likeness.
In Jesus' sacred name and for His glory
we ask it.
Praise the Lord.
Amen.