Baptism of the Holy Spirit // Corey Russell

My name is Corey Russell and I got radically saved in 1997. Come on. Strung out drug addict hit by the power of God. I had a praying mother and my best friend had a praying mother and they stormed the gates of heaven and hell for us. And uh I got hit by the power of God February 18,97. It's a radical testimony. And uh uh immediately set free from everything, born again in a moment, baptized in the spirit, and then we saw a move of God hit our small town. Over the next 6 months, we would see half the high school come to Jesus. Five meetings a week till 3:00 in the morning. And I got a holy addiction to the presence of God. Anybody love the presence of God? I had just gotten my second DWI right before I got saved. So, I couldn't drive anywhere for my first year and a half of being saved. So, I would just read my Bible for eight hours a day. And this is way back in the old days where we just had like horse and buggy and all kinds of stuff back then. It's craziness. But I was saying I was going to read the Bible and especially I wanted to memorize Psalm 119. cuz I'm like, "God, I got to get rid of all these Tupac lyrics in my head. I'm still working on a couple, but that's beside the point." And I just read the Bible and I began to connect to these older women intercessors. Couple of And I spent the majority of my first two years with the Lord hanging out with two 50 year olds and one 80year-old woman. I'm a 20-year-old freak out of the world and all I wanted to be was in prayer. >> And and when these women prayed, I could feel God. >> I believe the greatest disciplehip that you can give is what happens when you close your eyes or what happens when you lift your eyes. Do atmospheres change? Do atmospheres change when you talk to God? >> Because you can't fake that. I can fake you out today with the gifting on a stage. >> But Leonard Ravenhill said, "No man is greater than his prayer life. Who you are alone with God is your reality." >> We can fake everybody out in public spaces, but who you are alone with God is your reality. And I connected to these older women and they taught me how to pray. They taught me about early morning prayer and late night prayer and praying through burdens and praying the Bible and praying in the spirit and fasting. And I just got addicted to it. >> I loved it. I didn't have any other plans. I didn't know about ministry. I just wanted to minister to him. >> I didn't know about ministering to people. I just knew about ministering to him and got married to my beautiful wife. We just celebrated 28 years here a couple weeks ago. Had our first daughter in 99. And then we moved into ministry to to give ourselves to prayer. And that's where I spent the better part of 18 to 19 years, 30 hours a week of prayer and fasting and reading of the word and not really having any other plans. But when you know this that when you get connected to God, you start getting filled with the things of God. Everybody uses God as a step ladder to their destiny. >> But when God becomes the source, he unlocks everything that he wants to do through you. And so we did that and we've been on journey. We're currently in Denver and I have I feel like I'm on earth to awaken prayer in this generation. >> We've written nine books on prayer. We've done seven prayer albums and then we're going after it with Corey Russell online. We've got over 300 hours of content to strengthen you in your life of prayer. Thousands across the earth doing this. I'd encourage you if you want to jump into that. That's at Road to Emmas. We're walking through the Bible. But go ahead and turn with me to Acts. Turn with me to the book of Acts. Are y'all ready? I want to talk to you about the baptism of the Holy Spirit. Come on. >> Want to talk to you about the baptism of the Holy Spirit. You're like, I got that. >> I'm like, you ain't got nothing. >> I'm grateful for tongues. But friends, if we relegated baptism of the spirit to some dribblings at an altar call 5 years ago, then you have sorely missed the full purpose of the baptism of the Holy Spirit. The baptism of the Holy Spirit, it's tongues, but it's a lot more than tongues. It's power. It's conviction. It's holiness. It's glory. >> And it's not a one-time experience at youth camp 10 years ago. >> It is an ongoing everinccreasing >> outpouring and baptism immersion into God. >> And the baptism you got at 20, friends, you need another one at 30. And you need another one at 40. And you need another one at 50. AND YOU NEED ANOTHER ONE AT 60. YOU NEED ANOTHER ONE AT 70. YOU NEVER GRADUATE. YOU never arrive. IT'S NOT A BADGE THAT YOU WALK AROUND SAYING, "I GOT IT." Do you? >> My question is, DOES IT GOT YOU? THE SAME SPIRIT OF RELIGION THAT WILL REST IN SOME denominations will rest in the Pentecostal denomination BECAUSE WE GET A ONE-TIME EXPERIENCE AND THEN WE WALK AROUND LOOKING DOWN OUR NOSES AT OTHER PEOPLE WHO HAVEN'T ARRIVED AT THE LEVELS THAT WE'RE AT. And I would submit TO YOU THAT IF THAT IS YOUR AIM, YOU HAVEN'T BEEN BAPTIZED in the Holy Spirit yet. CUZ IT DOESN'T PRODUCE SELF-RIGHTEOUSNESS or arrogance or pride, but it works the soul of Christ into you. Good to meet you, too. Everybody smile. I'm really funny. I've got some good jokes, but I don't know if I'm going to come out today with them. >> All right. Acts one. Let's read this. I love it. Acts one. It says this. And being assembled together with them, he commanded them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait. Everybody say, "Wait." Wait for the promise of the Father, which he said, "You've heard from me." John truly baptized with water, but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now. Therefore, when they came together, they asked him, "Lord, will you at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?" I think that's a pretty interesting question. After 40 days of Jesus teaching in a resurrected body, note how Jesus answers their question. He doesn't tell them, "No, all that Old Testament stuff doesn't matter anymore." >> He didn't correct them and say, "No, it's not about that anymore." He redirected the timing of the restoration of the kingdom of Israel. And he said to them, "It's not for you to know the times or the seasons which the Father's put in his own authority, but you shall receive power." >> Everybody say, "Power." >> Power. >> See this? When you don't have power, all you got is manipulation. >> When you don't have power, you know how to manipulate algorithms. >> We've become professionals at the art of persuasion. manipulation, witchcraft. >> When you get WHEN YOU DON'T HAVE POWER, YOU GOT TO COME UP WITH A PSEUDO reality to manipulate you of thinking it's power when it's not. But the true baptism of the spirit is a baptism into power. Paul didn't come with a nice little TED talk, but he came in power. When the Holy Spirit come upon you. Everybody say on you. >> See, Holy Spirit in me is for me. Holy Spirit on me is for you. >> You shall receive power when the Holy Spirit's come upon you, and you're going to be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, to the ends of the earth. All right. The baptism of the Holy Spirit is the greatest event in human history. >> Why, Corey? Because it crowns the ascension of Jesus. >> That crowns the resurrection of Jesus. >> That crowns the death of Jesus. >> That crowns the life of Jesus. And it will only be surpassed by the second coming of Jesus. >> The baptism of the Holy Spirit is when Jesus goes viral. We're used to reals and shorts and everything else going viral. But the baptism of the spirit is when Jesus goes viral. >> When Jesus's name disrupts industries and cities. WHEN IT BEGINS TO UNNERVE unrighteousness and wickedness, WHEN IT BEGINS TO SHAKE THE CHURCH OUT OF apathy and lethargy and begins to release glory upon the church. That's the baptism of the spirit, friend. And it's the greatest event in human history. Who would have loved to have BEEN AT THE 40-DAY conference of Jesus in a resurrected body? Let's talk about that Holy Spirit conference. THREE OF YOU. WHO WOULD HAVE LOVED DO YOU KNOW THAT AFTER THE RESURRECTION, hear me? AFTER THE RESURRECTION, JESUS SPENT 40 days walking around translating, walking through walls, eating, and teaching on the kingdom of God for 40 days. WHO WOULD HAVE LOVED THAT NOTEBOOK? I don't know how those disciples did it. I'd have just lived on 20-minute naps for 40 days. I wouldn't miss one second cuz Jesus ain't sleeping. >> He's hanging OUT IN A RESURRECTED BODY. >> AND THIS IS WHAT BLOWS MY MIND. I would have loved that. And you would think that that notebook would be enough to start Christianity. I want to submit to you that the information alone was not going to change the world. The information concerning his death and resurrection was not going to change the world. That's why he said, "TAKE YOUR NOTEBOOK, GO BACK TO JERUSALEM, go up into a little room, and begin to wait because I want to send fire to this information. I WANT TO BAPTIZE YOU WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT AND FIRE. IT'S NOT GOING TO BE TED TALKS AND GOOD information that's going to change the world. It's going TO BE WHEN THE INFORMATION has become one with the vessel and they are baptized in the Holy Spirit. >> See, I've got to crack through Pentecostal language in here cuz we all know it. >> We're so familiar with the word Holy SPIRIT. HOLY SPIRIT, HOLY SPIRIT. so used to saying it, we get inoculated to him. >> We get inoculated to fresh baptisms, >> fresh feelings of God. If I were to ask you, what was John the Baptist favorite title of Jesus recorded in all four gospels? What would you say? >> Lamb of God. >> Lamb of God. Some might say, "Lamb of God." >> God. Some might say Messiah. Some might say bridegroom, son of God. In all four gospels, Jesus quotes it in Acts and Paul quotes it later. It's I baptize you with water. But him, I can only clean the outside of the cup. >> I can ONLY GET YOU READY for repentance AND GET YOU READY TO COME IN. HE'S MIGHTIER THAN I. >> He's mightier than I. >> WHEN HE COMES, >> HE'S GOING TO BAPTIZE YOU WITH THE HOLY GHOST AND FIRE. Hear me? Which means this, it's not an outward reality. He's going to burn up ALL THE CHAFF OF DEAD religion on the inside of you. He's going to rearrange something on the inside of you. Come on. >> The baptism of the Holy Ghost and fire. The Holy Ghost synchronizes you from within. Burns up the chaff of dead religion. Burns up the secret sins you run to in rejection. Consumes and confronts the areas of lust and pride and envy and jealousy. and it begins to get up in your business. I love Luke 12. Can y'all run with me this morning? >> Pull on the word. Luke 12. I got a question for you. Why did Jesus come to the earth? To seek and save the lost? Yes. To lay down his life and give it as a ransom for many? Yes. To die on a cross? Yes. But in Luke 12:49, Jesus said, "I came to send fire on the earth." >> AND HOW I WISH THIS party was already started. Can you feel this is about 6 months before Calvary. >> Can you feel Jesus's longing TO BREAK OUT OF HIS BODY AND GO VIRAL? He couldn't stand the LIMITATIONS of being localized IN ONE BODY. HE WANTED TO TAKE HIS SPIRIT AND MULTIPLY IT. >> I came to send fire >> and how I wish it were already kindled. >> He said, "I have a baptism to be baptized with." Keep going. I have a baptism to be baptized with. I have a baptism to and how distressed I am until it is accomplished. He's in pain. HE'S IN GROANING. HE'S IN AGONY. JESUS WASN'T RUNNING FROM THE cross or running around the cross. Friends, he was running through the cross. Do you suppose, keep going, that I came to bring peace? Yes, Jesus. That's what the the angels sang to the shepherds. Peace on earth, goodwill towards men. Not at all. But I came for division. And from now on, I'm going to mess up family Christmas. DID ANYBODY GET ON fire in here and things get weird at home? Come on. I'm serious. >> I want to make something very clear to you. Have you heard a message on divisive Jesus? The Jesus who brings division because I want you to understand something. I feel like this that the Pentecostal church, we're we're working so hard to fit in. >> We're working so hard to be accepted by the masses. We want to lay down the the the awkward parts. And the thing about Jesus is he will first divide and lay hold of you with his fire. And his fire will begin to consume you. And he will pull you and deliver you from the fear of man. He will deliver you from the manpleasing spirit. He will deliver you from putting Pentecostal reality under a bushel. and he will claim you for himself. AND JESUS IS OKAY WITH THE AWKWARDNESS. >> And when the FIRE BEGINS TO LAY hold of you, because this is the thing about Jesus, he hates kumbaya unity. He hates fake unity. >> He hates fake. He hates plastic. He hates INSTAGRAM PICTURES AND POTLUCK dinners and we're all getting along. And he GOES, "NO, THE FIRE WILL PULL YOU TO HIMSELF, ABSOLUTELY obliterate you AND SAYS YOU'RE NOT GOING TO THEM. They're going to come to you." I want you to know that he is restoring a hunger for the fire of God. He is restoring a serious baptism of fire. And friends, I'm seeing the denominational walls breaking down. I'm seeing denominational walls breaking down. I've got Baptist friends. I got Baptist friends that are calling me and spending days with me saying, "I need the baptism of the spirit." See, I think this next generation, WE'RE GOING TO SEE ALL THE WALLS AND ALL THE STUFF BECAUSE AT THE END OF THE DAY, I WANT THE FULLNESS OF THE WORD AND I WANT THE FULLNESS OF THE SPIRIT. I WANT THE BAPTISM OF GOD AND I WANT THE WORD OF GOD. I WANT THE WORD OF GOD CLEAR. I WANT DOCTRINE. I WANT THEOLOGY. I WANT CHRISTOLOGOLOGY, NEMATOLOGY, ECCLESIOLOGY. I WANT ESQUETOLOGY. I WANT THE WORD AND I WANT THE FIRE. AND WE'RE NOT GONNA HAVE TO. YOU DON'T HAVE TO CHOOSE. TIRED OF PENTECOSTALS WALKING AROUND WITH A COUPLE OF EXPERIENCES, BUT THEY DON'T KNOW BIBLE. >> THEY DON'T KNOW WHAT TO SAY. WELL, GOD, I DID RUSSIAN ROULETTE. I DID I DID A BIBLE ROULETTE. GOD, TALK TO ME >> AND I GOT A WORD. HE'S SO KIND. HE'LL TALK THROUGH ANYTHING, BUT HE WANTS TO TAKE YOU DEEPER THAN A NICE LITTLE BIBLE ROULETTE ONE DAY. HE WANTS TO FEED YOU ON HIS WORD. This is why I'm doing Bible studies. I'm tired of your opinions. I'm tired of your cool phrases. I'M TIRED OF YOUR ONELINERS that can get a lot of likes. WE'VE JUST GOTTEN ADDICTED TO A BUNCH OF PATHY oneliners that says nothing. >> We don't EVEN KNOW WHAT IT SAYS, BUT IT FEELS COOL. >> It feels cool. But who IN HERE KNOWS THE BIBLE? I WANT YOU TO BE BLASTED IN THE HOLY GHOST AND THEN I WANT YOU MEMORIZING WHOLE CHAPTERS OF THE BIBLE. I came to send fire. Is not my word a fire? Is not my word a hammer? >> Oh friends, do you love the Bible? Has your heart began to burn yet? Put your hand on your heart. That's the goal of the Bible is to set your heart on fire and open your understanding. I came to send fire. It's the longing of Jesus. I want you to know that it's the promise of the father. Luke 24:49. I'm going to send the promise of my father upon you. But tar in the city. Luke 24:49. Hallelujah. Promise of the father. Father told us in Isaiah 44, and I want everybody to begin to pray in the spirit right now. I want you to begin to open up your spirit. I'm going to send the promise of my father. He said, Terry in the father told us in Isaiah 44, I'm going to pour out my spirit like water on the dry ground. Isaiah 59, he said, "The spirit that's on you is going to be on your descendants and descendants descendants. JOEL CHAPTER 2, I'M going to pour out my spirit in the last days, says God. And your sons and daughters are going to prophesy. >> I'm going to release signs and wonders. I'm going to release signs in the heavens and wonders in the earth. >> And everyone who calls on the name of THE LORD WILL BE SAVED. WELL, THOSE DISCIPLES GOT absolutely destroyed by the death of Jesus. I want you to know when those 120 GOT TO THE UPPER room and you know over 500 saw him go up in the cloud, over 500 saw him go up in the cloud and 380 of them thought that was enough to start Christianity. 120 got to the upper room and they were absolutely destroyed. They weren't struting into the upper room. They were crawling. Every idea of Jesus got obliterated. Peter had just denied Jesus and just gotten shame broken off of him and he was starting to lean in again. You've got brothers who didn't even BELIEVE IN JESUS 40 DAYS EARLIER ARE NOW in the room. Come on. >> The thing, Vlad, that I love about the 120, we only know 15 of their names. A bunch of no-namers got the baptism. >> Guess who else was in there? Mary. >> How many mamas we got in here? >> You need the baptism of the Holy Ghost to be a mom. Come on. >> The other thing I love about Jesus is he got family in the room. >> How many here we've got family members that are away from the Lord? >> Yeah. Jesus is into getting the whole family in the room. They crawled to the upper room and look at Acts 2:1. You know this verse, but you don't. And when the day of Pentecost had fully come, everybody say fully. >> Fully. >> There's something about the fullness of time. There's something when God has done his full work of breaking you and making you and shaking you. See, I got mighty baptisms in my 20s and 30s and early 40s, but this is the temptation. You'll get a breakthrough in God, ride the wave of that, and then begin to live in the residuals of last season's breakthrough, >> and then because America tells you how anointed and awesome you are, you'll ride that for 20 years with no gas in the tank. And then I'll preach from books I wrote 15 years ago and nobody will know the difference. >> But there's a fullness of time. There's a fresh outpouring. >> There's a fresh outpouring. >> The full the day of Pentecost had fully come. They were all with one accord in one place. God's into anointing addresses. There are addresses when God gathers people to the same room at the same time in the same place with the same vision. I want to be filled with God. Isuza 3:16. We've got >> we got Isuza Street Mission. >> You've got Alders Gate where John Wesley's heart was strangely warmed. the Heb's islands addresses in history when God comes down. There's something about God taking you to a place of complete sitting in the presence of God, of resting, and of giving away all self-righteousness, all human energy. >> And that's what opens the heart to be filled with God. >> God's got to get you sitting. So, he might take a decade wearing you out. You know, God doesn't have a problem wasting a decade on you just getting you delivered from your energy. >> He'll take your 20s and wear you out till you're finally sitting, sitting on the inside at rest in Christ, completely dependent on him, desperate to the core of your being. And they heard AND THEN THEY SAW DIVIDED TONGUES OF FIRE. Matt people had divided fire over their heads. Tongues. And they were all filled WITH THE SPIRIT AND THEY BEGAN TO TALK IN OTHER tongues of the nations. All the Jews had come for feast of Shabaw or weeks. THEY HAD GATHERED TO JERUSALEM AND GOD'S GOING TO BIRTH HIS CHURCH WITH 120 GALILEAN FISHERMEN STUMBLING OUT A ROOM WHEN EVERYBODY'S THERE talking in the languages of the nations looking drunk at 9 in the morning. Jesus chose and I want you to know there's a misunderstanding over the fanaticism. There's a drunkenness that's coming back to the church. There's a holy inebriation that is going to fill the church. There's a holy inebriation that's going to flood the church again. Because when you're wholly inebriated, you're delivered from the opinions of men. >> You're delivered from selfrespect. You're delivered from looking having it all together. And >> God's got to wear you out from your weirdness so he can fill you with his weirdness. Uh, all right. Well, Corey, they got it on on THE DAY OF PENTECOST. PRAISE GOD. GUESS WHAT THEY WERE DOING TWO years later in Acts 4? They were seeking a fresh baptism. >> Put Acts four. AND WHEN THEY PRAYED, THE PLACE WHERE THEY WERE ASSEMBLED TOGETHER WAS SHAKEN. >> AND THEY WERE ALL FILLED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT AND THEY SPOKE THE WORD OF GOD WITH BOLDNESS. I thought it was a one-time experience. No, friends, it is crossing a threshold into a new world that there's fresh outpourings, fresh fillings, fresh baptisms. Many of you don't even know what I'm talking about because you saying, "I got tongues. I got it." Acts 8, Samaria got filled with the spirit. Acts nine, Paul got filled with the spirit. Acts 10, Cornelius got filled with the spirit. Acts 19, Ephesus got filled with the spirit. Acts 13, Antioch, the Holy Spirit said, "What kind of prayer, because this is what I've got to crack through, is a desperate, deep prayer that attracts the fullness of God. >> Can y'all lean in with me for 15 more minutes? >> I want you to pray in the spirit again." Yeah. Yeah. You pray in tongues at conference. If you don't pray when you're alone in your room and all you can go is two minutes. Then you're done. Yeah. Sounds like a library in here. I didn't know we were in a library. >> Have you ever wanted anything so bad? The older I get, Vlad, and I don't know if this is inner healing. I might need you to pray for me later, but the older I get, the more it takes to move me. We I've been in a lot of services. I've seen a lot of stuff. Not a lot. You know, you just know. And it takes a lot like, oh my good, God's on this. I can feel it. It's different. It's different. Think about how much it takes to move God. HEAVEN'S HIS THRONE. HE'S SURROUNDED WITH CREATURES FILLED WITH EYES WHO ARE ALWAYS BRAGGING ABOUT HIM. >> HE'S BEEN HEARING THE SAME SONG ABOUT HOW AWESOME HE IS FROM BURNING CREATURES FOREVER. >> AND THEN HE RESTS HIS FEET ON THE EARTH. Everything is upheld by the word of his power. Everything, the galaxies are upheld by him resting his feet on the earth, heavens and throne. Then he goes this, where's the house you're going to build me? THERE'S SOMETHING I REFUSE TO make that you must make for me. Where is the PLACE OF MY REST? ALL THOSE things my hands have made, says the Lord. I love this. But on this one will I look. Who would love to catch the gaze of God? Three of you. Good. I've been married 28 years. We got married before dating apps. But apparently in dating apps, you can say I want her 5'9, 510, blonde hair, loves long walks on the beach. There's a type. You know, God has a type cuz he's we there's 7 billion people in the world. There's burning creatures around the throne. And he goes, "Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's all cool, but I'll tell you what my type is. Poverty of spirit, contrition of heart, tremblers. This is what they look like in the spirit. >> At the core of their their being, they are completely in need of me. THEY ARE IN TOUCH THAT APART from me, they can do nothing. >> NO. NO. THERE IS A GROAN IN THE CORE OF THEIR BEING for the depths OF ME THAT NO AMOUNT OF SMOKE can create, NO AMOUNT OF ENERGY OR SOUL CAN CREATE. BUT WHEN OUR DEEP CALLS OUT TO HIS DEEP, GOD, THAT'S WHAT MOVES ME. IT'S PSALM 42. DAVID'S LOOKING AT A PANTING DEER AT A RUSHING WATERFALL AND GOES, "THAT'S HOW I FEEL." DEEP CALLS OUT TO DEEP AT THE NOISE OF YOUR WATERFALLS. WHEN I HEAR THE WATERFALLS, WHEN I hear the waterfalls, ALL YOUR WAVES AND BILLOWS ARE CRASHING OVER ME. AND ALL IT'S PRODUCING IS A GROAN FOR GOD. SEE, WE GO THROUGH SOME WAVES AND BILLOWS AND WE START COMPLAINING, "HOW COULD you let this happen, God?" IT'S BECAUSE IT'S A GOD YOU MADE IN YOUR OWN IMAGE AND HE AIN'T SERVING you the way you want him to. IT'S AN IDOL YOU CAME UP WITH. IT'S AN IDOL YOU MADE. YOU HAD A HARD WEEK. GET OVER IT. Get changed. >> GET OFF YOUR HIGH HORSE. >> WE HAD THREE THINGS GO WRONG AND THEN GOD GETS ON TRIAL. Who do you think you are? >> Guys, I want to tell you there's two places in the Bible to where SOMEONE WAS MISTAKEN FOR BEING DRUNK. And in both times they weren't. >> The first the first one I'M GOING TO TALK TO YOU ABOUT NOW. THE SECOND ONE IS the day of Pentecost. >> MISTAKEN DRUNKENNESS ON THE OUTPOURING. Which means this WHEN THE HOLY GHOST COMES ON YOU, you you become another man. >> You're out of your mind. >> Paul told the Corinthians, "IF I'M OUT OF MY MIND, it's for God." We need to get out of our minds. >> We need We need God. I don't need weird for weird's sake, but I'm like, God, would you do something that would deliver us? The first one in the Bible was IN A VERY DARK hour of Israel's history. The priesthood was in shambles. THE LEADERSHIP WAS GIVEN OVER TO IMMORALITY. The priests were taking more than they were supposed to. And their father Eli would not do anything about it. When you've GOT LEADERS NOT DISCIPLINING SONS. >> WHEN YOU GOT LEADERS LIVING IN APATHY. AND HE WAS A HEAVY MAN. SO HE WAS GIVEN OVER TO EATING ALL OF THIS STUFF. And in THE MIDDLE OF A BARREN HOUR, GUESS WHAT ELI'S grandson was name was? Icabad. And in THE MIDDLE OF THAT HOUR, God brought forth a woman. And the and the woman came with a painful issue. Put your hand on your belly. Her womb was barren. And in 1 Samuel 1, IT SAYS, "GOD closed the womb." I don't know if I believe in that. Well, deal with Samuel then. God closed the womb. And on top of it, the other wife was talking trash all the time. Look at me. Look at you. Blessed, cursed, blessed, cursed. And for a season, Hannah goes, "I don't want to focus on that. I'm loved by my husband. I've got a good life. Life's good. There's just one painful elephant in the room. I'm barren. But I don't want to look at barrenness. I'll just come up with bigger Instagram reels. See, we have mistaken popularity on the social media algorithm as true power and true glory and true impact. >> We don't know impact anymore. We know influence. We don't know impact. >> This woman went through it for years. And then all of a sudden, the damn began to break on the inside of her. Put 1st Samuel 1:10 up here. And I want you to open up your hands. I believe God wants to birth this on the inside of you. I think 1st Samuel 1:10 may be one of the most important verses in the Bible. And she was in bitterness of soul. She was in bitterness of soul and she prayed to the Lord and she wept in anguish. Have you ever experienced bitterness in your soul? Have you ever prayed with weeping and has anguish ever touched your heart? When one thing becomes the predominant primordial cry of your life? When one thing begins, one cry, all of your energies is given and a cry COMES FROM THE DEPTHS OF your soul and you've run out of words and all YOU HAVE ARE TEARS and groans for that. Has God ever blessed you with that? Cuz religion won't. Religion will let you live in your little cathedrals of I got it, I got it, I got it. But there ARE SEASONS WHEN GOD wants to blow open wombs. WHEN GOD WANTS TO OPEN WOUNDS AND BEGIN TO BIRTH SOMETHING APOSTOLIC, that's this season, Vlad. It's Galatians 4:19. My little children for whom I labor in travail until Christ is formed in you. See, men can travail. Men can travail. Here's the problem. Nobody's getting pregnant with anything. You can't give birth to wind. That's when I start questioning everybody's intimacy. I don't see nobody getting pregnant. >> There's something about biology. >> Intimacy produces pregnancy. Come on. >> Come on. >> And God is shifting the prayer movement cuz there's a big difference between the newlywed intimacy room and I set my four bursts and it's not nice little violins and little sheep in the grass. WE DON'T HAVE AN APPETITE FOR THAT kind of praying. BUT THAT PRAYING IS COMING BACK TO THE CHURCH. That kind of praying BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT BIRTHS APOSTOLIC MOVEMENTS. THAT'S WHAT BIRTHS THE GROWTH OF CHRIST. >> Put this up here. Y'all ain't ready for these next couple of verses. You ain't ready. Verse 11. Keep going. Keep going. Verse 11. She was in bitterness. Verse 11. Verse. Yeah. And she made a vow. This is what this kind of praying does. LOOK. EVERYBODY SAY LOOK. >> And then the second phrase I want you to see say is I will give him to the Lord. >> I will give him to the Lord. So look and I'll give him back to you. The kind of praying that is coming is not for your ministry influence to grow. It's not hiding, but it's opening up the most vulnerable areas and vulnerable painful areas of your soul to God. And what God's going to release in this last season will be given back to God. IT'S NOT GOING TO BE used so that you can look cool online. It's not so that you can walk around talking ABOUT HOW BIG AND great and awesome you are, but it'll be given back to the Lord. Hear me. Look at verse 12. And it happened as she continued praying before. Keep this up here. Eli watched her mouth. SO ELI IS ENGAGED WATCHING THIS. He's not dealing with his sons, but he's watching this woman. And let's hear what one of the greatest prayers and see what one of the greatest prayers in history look like. Hannah spoke in her heart. Her lips moved, but her voice was not heard. Eli thought she was drunk. Can I tell you? Because you know what's going to happen. Samuel, David, Jesus. BUT IT ALL STARTED WITH a woman. >> Hear me. CAN I SHOW YOU WHAT ONE OF THE GREATEST PRAYERS IN history looked like and sounded like? It was so loud it wasn't even audible. So loud it wasn't even audible. So deep. In Genesis 6, the ground broke underneath before it opened up above. God's got to break open something here to open here. Will you speak in tongues when you're baptized in the Holy Ghost? Yes, you will. But you'll do an awful lot more than that. >> Come on. >> You will speak with the soul of Jesus Christ. You will fill with the heart of the son of God. Your heart will beat with a heavenly desire to bless the world. Because it's the pulse of Jesus that is throbbing in your soul. And you will not walk around looking down on others because they don't have it. John G. LEG MOVED IN HEALING FOR 10 YEARS AND STILL KNEW HE WASN'T BAPTIZED IN the Holy Ghost yet. HE OPERATED IN HEALING AND EVERYBODY AROUND HIM SAYING, "JOHN, YOU GOT A BEAUTIFUL BAPTISM." THIS IS WHAT HE SAID. I KNEW THAT MY SOUL WAS ON THE BORDERLAND OF A GREAT EXPANSE AND I WAS NOT SATISFIED UNTIL I'D FULLY crossed over. Him and a friend go to pray. Him and a friend go to pray for a woman with rheumatoid arthritis. The guy's over here interviewing the woman. John's over here sitting down. HE HAD BEEN CRYING OUT FOR A YEAR. GOD, I WANT THE BAPTISM OF THE HOLY GHOST. SEE, WE'VE WATERED THIS THING DOWN TO A COUPLE OF DRIBBLINGS. GUYS, there is a realm of power. There is a realm of intimacy. There is a realm of holiness. There is a realm OF CONVICTION. THERE IS A REALM THAT WE HAVEN'T EVEN GOTTEN CLOSE TO. AND RELIGION TELLS YOU YOU ALREADY GOT IT. I'm grateful for what I have. I've been praying in tongues for 30 years and I've written books on it. And God's GOING TO FILL SOME OF YOU TODAY. THAT'S BEAUTIFUL. BUT FRIENDS, the even greater BURDEN THAT I HAVE TODAY IS THE OTHER 80 TO 90% WHO got it. There is so much more. There is so much more in God. There is so much more in God. Charles Finny calls it liquid love. John G. Lake sitting over here in this corner and the Lord says, "I've seen your tears. I've heard your cries. You're now to be baptized in the Holy Ghost." A warm tropical rain started coming through him. It turned into volts of electricity. God wants to There is a realm of electricity. There is a realm of electricity. The power volts of God touching your life. There is a place to where all you care about are lost souls where you weep over men and you weep over women. I'm a candidate with you. I haven't gotten there, but I refuse to buy into THE LIE THAT I GOT IT. I want more in God. I want more in God. HE'S AN ENDLESS OCEAN. HE'S AN EVERLASTING supply according TO THE RICHES OF HIS GLORY that you would be strengthened WITH MIGHT AND THAT CHRIST WOULD DWELL in your heart. If you want to say that's what you want this morning. And some of you like, man, I've never prayed in tongues. cuz I want to pray in tongues. If that's you across this room, raise your hand. Wave at me. Come on, wave at me. Y'all come up here. I saw your hand, too. No, no, no. That's religion. You ain't clapping for them. We're about to clap for you when you come up. We're about to clap FOR YOU WHEN YOU COME UP. Is that okay? Can we clap for you? Can we clap FOR YOU WHEN YOU'RE LIKE SAYING, "WHAT USED TO BE A RIVER IS NOW A DAM. WHAT USED TO BE AN OCEAN ON THE INSIDE OF ME. It's now a little trickle. I'm addicted to Netflix. I'm addicted to food. I'm addicted to everything BECAUSE MY SOUL IS LONGING FOR GOD. BUT RELIGION SAYS, "I GOT IT ALL." Push in here. Come in. Push in. Yeah. Just let him in. >> Yeah. Yes. Son of David, have mercy. Son of David, have mercy. Now, who in here saying what used to be a river, it's now a trickle and you need a fresh baptism of the Holy Spirit. If that's you, raise your hand. Can we clap for you? Can we clap for you? CAN WE CLAP FOR YOU? Let's all open our hands. I'm going to pray for us. Ah, hallelujah. He's going to open up some of your wombs today. He's going to open some wombs today. He's going to open up the depths of your heart today. Come on. Come on. BEGIN TO PRAY. Put Psalm 130 verse one. Everybody begin to pray in the spirit. Louder. I want the room leading us. Hannah. Hannah, IT'S TIME FOR A GENERATIONAL SHIFT. It's time for a generational prayer.