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Rekindling Your Inner Fire
This message encourages believers to rekindle their spiritual passion and maintain the “fire of God” within them. Drawing from scriptures in Matthew and 2 Timothy, it emphasizes that every believer already has the Holy Spirit and spiritual fire, but it’s their responsibility to stir it up through remembrance, prayer, and renewing the mind. Using vivid metaphors like barbecue fire tending and personal stories, it highlights how persecution, discouragement, and passivity can dim spiritual zeal. The message urges consistent effort—through scripture, confession, and prayer in tongues—to keep the inner fire burning brightly and step into new seasons of purpose and breakthrough.
Lift our Bibles up. If you don't have one, just lift your hand up. Let's wave those Bibles around. Make Jesus glad. The devil mad Father. We thank you. Let's say this together Heavenly Father, we are hungry and thirsty for more tonight. That's why I'm here. I'm here to accelerate into position for what you have for me. I know this is a year of milestones, lord, I'm expecting you to move in my life, but I'm moving toward you. The Bible says if I draw near to you, then you'll draw near to me. So it's my move tonight. I'm moving on with you, toward you. More of you in Jesus' name. Amen, Praise God, thank you, worship team. That was great. Brother Joseph was pressed into service. He can sing, he can do a lot of things. Let's turn in our Bibles to Matthew 3 and 2, timothy 1. And we'll start with Matthew 3. This is great to be with y'all tonight. I love this group. It's a good group, praise God.
Speaker 1:Matthew 3, verse 11, john the Baptist is speaking to the Jews, to the Pharisees, the Sadducees, the wooden seas, the couldn't seas, and he first. He led off with generation of vipers. Aren't you glad I didn't call you that? Praise God. No, you're not generation of vipers. But he said who warned you to flee from the wrath to come? But let's on down here to verse 11, because they're out there to change. You know they're out there to get baptized and to change. In verse 11, he says I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance, but he that cometh after me is a mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear. He shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and fire. Everybody say the Holy Ghost and fire. They're not just the Holy Ghost, holy Ghost and fire.
Speaker 1:And then in 2 Timothy, chapter 1, paul is writing to his son in the faith, and he's kind and he's patient and merciful. But he's bringing correction and I'll pick it up in verse three. I thank God, whom I serve from my forefathers with pure conscience, that without ceasing I have remembrance of thee in my prayers, night and day, greatly desiring to see thee being mindful of thy tears. That I may be filled with joy when I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother, lois, and in thy mother, eunice, and I am persuaded that in thee also, wherefore I put thee in remembrance, everybody shout remembrance. Put you in remembrance that thou stir up the gift of God which is in thee by the putting on of my hands, for God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and love and a sound mind. And I want to read verse 6 in the Amplified I remind you to stir up, rekindle the embers, fan the flame and keep burning the gracious gift of God, the inner fire that is in you by means of the laying on of my hands. And so tonight I just wanted to share a message entitled stirring up the fire.
Speaker 1:You know we've got some mighty good pit masters here. Tonight we tasted some of their cooking and their pit mastery. They had to pay attention to that fire. You know there's a lot of kind of fire for barbecue sometimes. You know, they got build a fire and you got post oak and pecan and mesquite and hickory and apple and all kinds of wood that you, that you catch on fire and you got to tend that fire. It's got to be the right heat and it's got to be the right smoke and and so but. But some people, some have gas. Don't, don't, don't hold it against them. They've got a gas grill, some have pellets, but no matter what they got, they got to mind the fire to come out with the kind of food we tasted tonight. I mean it takes, takes attention out with the kind of food we tasted tonight. I mean it takes attention.
Speaker 1:And Paul is writing to his son in the faith and he had to remind him that he needed to stir something up. He needed to stir up that fire, that inner fire that was in him. It's in him. You know we were singing that song. I want to correct the words because we're asking God to do something he's already done. There's fires in there. You don't have to send nothing, it's already been sent. If you're saved, you've got a fire. If you're saved. I said if you're saved, you've got a fire. It's in there.
Speaker 1:Now, whether it's been tended to is another matter. I mean you know it's not up to God to tend the fire. I mean we sing these songs and I love the song and I get a lot out of it, but I'm always you know Jay said it I mean we're on offense, we're not on defense, and so much of our music is not quite what I really know to be true. I mean you know we're not asking him to send anything. He already sent it. But it to be true, I mean, you know we're not asking him to send anything. He already sent it, but it's up to us to tend it, it's up to us to stir it up. And uh.
Speaker 1:And so he had to remind him because evidently he'd been crying and having a pity party. Got to read between the lines. I mean, he, he's mindful of his tears. Now see how sweet he is to his son. He didn't rebuke him, boy, grow up, straighten up. No, he just, he gave him the truth with wrapped in love, and he spoke. The truth in love is what he did. And so, uh, but he'd been crying and fainting and having a pity party.
Speaker 1:Why? Well, a couple of reasons. Number one his mentor, his father in the faith, is locked up in prison, unable to really do what he's called to do. He writes letters, but that's all. He can't go preaching, he can't go anywhere. He's receiving persecution from people. I knew it all along. That guy is no good. Look at him, he's in jail. So he's getting persecution.
Speaker 1:You know, persecution is a temptation for all of us to let our fire go out. The persecution is trying to throw water on your fire. What are you going to do when you've got a big old brisket and somebody comes along and dumps a 10-gallon bucket of water inside the pit. I mean you're in trouble, man. I mean, and that's the way we are. I mean, if we allow outside forces I said, if we allow outside forces to determine our joy and determine our fire, we're in trouble. It is self-generated. If we don't stir it, it ain't stirred. God ain't going to do it, god's not going to send Jesus down here again. Amen, amen.
Speaker 1:And so he had to remind him. He said now look, I know where you come from, son. And he had to remind him of his heritage. I want you to remember your grandma. I knew her. That woman was on fire, lois. How about Eunice, your mama? Your mama was even on bigger fire. I mean, I knew her. He had to remind him of his heritage. I'm persuaded it's in there. I know it didn't leave you. It just needs to be stirred, it needs to be fanned. Glory to God. He said.
Speaker 1:God didn't give us no spirit of fear. Let me read it to you in the Amplified. It's a little bit more pointed. God did not give us a spirit of timidity. See, that's what happens to people when they're under persecution. They tend to go when their fire starts getting attacked. Instead of stirring the fire up, they get timid, they start backing up and they start trying to become, you know, invisible kind of hide, duck your head, go the other way down the stairway, go the other way down the office to the different part of the office building, different part of the lunch hall to the lunch hall.
Speaker 1:God did not give us a spirit of timidity, of cowardice, of craven, cringing, fawning, fear Boy, that kind of says it right there. God didn't give you that, but he gave you the spirit of power and love and of a calm and well-balanced mind, and discipline and self-control is what God gave us. See, he's talking to him about his mind. Yeah, our spirit. That's where the fire is. But your mind can cooperate with the quenching of the fire, your mind, if it's not properly well balanced and disciplined, if you don't have proper amounts of self-control. Talking about your mind, your thought life, you can cooperate with the naysayers, the persecutors, the people who want to throw water on your fire. And you know, really, in 1 Timothy 4.14, paul warned Timothy back then he said neglect not the gift that's in you by the laying on of my hand. Don't neglect the gift or don't neglect the fire. See our pit masters. They, they paid attention to the fire.
Speaker 1:The fire was and I mean, yeah, cooking is, but the fire, the fire is the main thing. I mean the cooking, cooking happens, I mean it's automatic, the cooking is on there, but the fire, that's the thing. If the fire is too hot, it's. I mean it's automatic, the cooking is on there, but the fire, that's the thing. If the fire is too hot, it's going to burn up. It's going to dry out. It's not going to be worth eating. You can't stick a fork in the juice. It's got to be slow and slow for brisket and different things, everything's different. All barbecue chicken's different Ribs are different, sausage is different, everything's different. And it all matters about the fire.
Speaker 1:The fire's got to be attended. Your fire has to be managed. God's not going to do the managing. You've got to do it. Come on, lift your hands right now. Thank God for the fire of God. It's in me. Everybody say the fire of God is in me. No, that's his job. Everybody say the fire of God is in me. No, that's his job. He gave you the fire to start with. You got that fire, that's right. And so he said you know you really. In a way he's just saying you know, you've let my circumstances adversely affect you. Guilt by association.
Speaker 1:Also, timothy was persecuted for his age. He's a young man, believe it or not. I was persecuted for his age. He's a young man, believe it or not. I was persecuted for my age at one time. You're too young to know anything. Shut up, and my kids had to live through that.
Speaker 1:Jay and Claire, when we first started the church, nobody paid any attention to them. They didn't have any respect. Nobody cared what they thought. I knew what was in them. I raised them, their mother and I put it into them and I knew they were equal to the task and no one had beyond their age. And so I had to encourage them. I said don't pay a bit of attention. This is our church, we're in charge of it, we don't care. If they don't like it, they can hit the door. I wouldn't let naysayers throw water on their fire. And so they had to learn that themselves. And so Timothy had to learn that. He said look, now you think about your heritage. Now You've got to remember.
Speaker 1:So when I look at the word stir up, stir up there, stir up in the Thayer's Bible dictionary it means to rekindle, to inflame one's mind, strength and or zeal, to inflame one's mind. See again, the mind. Your spirit has a fire in it but your mind can cooperate with outward forces to drown that fire out and put it out, make it of low temperature. Temperature to rekindle, to inflame one's mind, to strength and or zeal. You know, in Psalm 78, 38, it says God did not stir up all his wrath. You know he got mad at Israel Many times. He was angry In the wilderness, wilderness especially. I mean he'd come out in that Shekinah glory. He didn't show his glory to pat them on the back. When they saw the Shekinah glory they knew he was mad and they scattered. They were talking big as long as it was just a cloud, but when it became the Shekinah boy they were looking for a place to get out of the way. But God did not stir up all his wrath.
Speaker 1:Proverbs 15.1 says Grievous words stir up anger. So if you can stir up negativity, if you can stir up anger and sadness, I mean you know you start listening to too much country music, you get sad. I mean I still like country music, I just take it in small doses. But you know, one day. I don't know. I was listening. You know George Jones. He stopped loving her today.
Speaker 1:They placed his wreath upon the stone. How about the next song? Past that, go rest high on that mountain, son. Your work on earth is done, man. You listen to a few of those and you'll be crying. You can stir up sadness. You can stir up anger. It's done, man. You listen to a few of those and you'll be crying. You can stir up sadness. You can stir up anger.
Speaker 1:Why not stir up the Holy Ghost? Why not stir up the fire of God? We need the Holy Ghost on one side and the fire on the other. We need both, or he wouldn't have given us both. On the day of Pentecost, they had both Cloven tongues, like as a fire sat on each of them, and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost. See, fire and the Holy Ghost. Oil is a type of the Spirit, water is a type of the Spirit, fire is a type of the Spirit. It's all a type of the same Holy Spirit. And the fire is the zeal, the fire is the spal, the fire is the spunk, the fire is the flash that this world needs from the church. We've got to be men of fire. Everybody say I'm a man of fire. Glory to God.
Speaker 1:So your mind is the battleground. You know you're in charge of your mind. Romans 12 too. Paul told the Roman church. He said you know, be not conformed to this world or this world's way of thinking, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. If your mind, if you want your mind renewed, god's not going to do one thing about your mind. He's not. Your mind is your responsibility.
Speaker 1:What you do with your mind is you have to manage your thought life. You have to pull down thoughts that are not lined up with the word. You pull down imaginations, strongholds. None of that is demons. That's thoughts. That's things in your brain that people try to speak into your life.
Speaker 1:I mean, have you ever had a boss that just depreciated you? I've prayed with so many people, both men and women, who've been abused in the marketplace. I mean they go to work and their bosses just talk down to them and tell them all kinds. I mean the management is. I mean I don't know where these people went to school for management, but they don't know squat, based on what I hear people having to endure. Well, you know, we did your evaluation. You're just not measuring up. You know we're thinking about downsizing this time next year. Boy, I can't wait, I'm so motivated. Boy, I can't wait, I'm so motivated. No, I tell you what you've got to come up in the level of stirring yourself up.
Speaker 1:Amen, you're in charge of your mind. In fact, romans 8, 6 says to be carnally minded is death. To mind things of the flesh, to pay attention to it, to give it too much weight, is death. What is death? It's not dying, it's separation. To be carnally minded is separation from God. You're not going to please God in the flesh, thinking in the flesh. But to be spiritually minded is life in peace. So, even when you get something bad reports from superiors or anybody, you can hang on to what God says about you. You can say what God says about you, hallelujah. Ephesians 4.23 says you know to be renewed in the spirit of your mind. Renewed, see refreshed, in the spirit of your mind. It's all about your mind. Your mind is the battleground about the fire of God.
Speaker 1:So, getting back to Tim's, timothy's mother and grandmother, his heritage, if we think about it, we all have a rich spiritual heritage. I mean, you might not see it that way, but you're at this church and because you plugged in here, most of you are. Some of you may not be members, maybe you're visiting, but to our men that have planted themselves here and they're in this ministry by virtue of the fact that you're plugged in here and I'm your pastor, you have a rich spiritual heritage. It doesn't matter if you grew up an atheist, it doesn't matter if your parents were in the occult. Now you have a rich spiritual heritage.
Speaker 1:In 1990, god had begun to promote me at Lakewood, ordained me. Brother Osteen ordained me in 1988. I was doing weddings and funerals, mc in the services had just begun traveling with Brother Osteen. Some had a couple of trips. I mean I'm in a position that is pretty rare. I mean there's not a lot of people like that around in his history. I know his history pretty well and you'm I'm an outlier. I mean God did it, I didn't do it and uh, I had a prophet stand in my home and we were. He was teaching me on uh prophetic ministry one day, just one-on-one in my house and my living room, and talking about some spiritual dreams that he had had and gave a couple of examples. And so that night I had a dream, first time I'd ever had a dream from the Lord, but in the dream I call it my ship channel dream.
Speaker 1:I'm on the ship channel in a boat. I'm standing all the way at the very back of the boat with the engine underneath my feet. The hatch is right in front of my feet, my heels are almost at the back of the boat, you know, and it's about 40 here to the back wall long. There's no superstructure, there's no cabin, it's just flat and it's got hatches that I know in the dream is holding oil, because I'm on the ship channel and there's storage, batteries and refineries and I know that this is a kind of a miniature little tanker but it's got a powerful diesel engine. I knew it's diesel, I could feel the vibration in my feet. We're cutting through the water and and I'm looking at the refineries and the oil storage and I'm the breeze in my face and I'm just kind of amazed.
Speaker 1:In the dream you know this big, nice vessel and I know it's full of oil and I'm thinking well, I wonder what kind of engine is under me. I want to know what engine is in here, because I'm a mechanical engineer by education and I like motors and engines and stuff. So I opened the hatch and boy, the heat from that big diesel hit me in the face. Big old diesel, and it's vibrating, man, it is powerful, it's impressive. And then I raised up and instead of looking down to the front of the boat, now suddenly I'm in the cab of an 18 wheeler, like maybe a freight liner or something. No, no, a freight liner is flat, but anyway had a hood. You know what was? A Peterbilt maybe, maybe a Peterbilt had a hood on it and I'm going down a highway. Now I'm it and I'm going down a highway. Now I'm on a two-lane road going down a highway, same engine, same engine sound. The sound didn't change, but I'm in a truck instead of a boat. I'm going faster and I'm on a higher place. I'm sea level before and now I'm above sea level. So I'm in a different place and a different thing, different part of of my life, and I'm in a and.
Speaker 1:So when you start interpreting dreams, you know that a vessel like a boat or a or a, or a truck or a car, that's a picture of ministry. So I knew God was talking to me about my ministry and as I was hurtling along this road, I'm driving, you know, 60, 70 miles an hour on a two-lane road and I come up on another 18-wheeler and I'm disappointed, I've got to put the brakes on, I can't pass him and I've got to slow down. And the dream ends. And here I am. How do I interpret the dream?
Speaker 1:So my prophet friend helped me. He said well, he's talking about your ministry. I said so when I looked at that engine I'm discovering the power. Yeah, I'm discovering the power of my ministry, I'm discovering the power that's in there. And he said yeah, and the other thing is, is you've got a blend of oils, all those oil tankers and all those refineries, you've got a blend of oils of all of the ministries.
Speaker 1:And I began to think at that moment. I mean not only Brother Osteen, but you know, every morning when I first got saved, the first year I was saved, I'd tune into KJOJ 107.5 in Conroe and for one hour I would listen to-minute broadcasts of RW Schombach, derrick Prince, kenneth E Hagan and Charles Capps every day Four men of God that later on got. I got to know. They laid their hands on me, I got to talk to them. I mean it's amazing, talking about spiritual heritage. Now I'm talking about a blend of oils. I'm talking about a fire that's multifaceted. I'm talking about an anointing that can accomplish many different things at once, things at once.
Speaker 1:And then all he said about the second part. He said the second part of the dream in the 18-wheeler is futuristic and he wouldn't touch it. And I didn't have an interpretation of that part of the dream for five years. Five years later I got it and I'll share it in a minute.
Speaker 1:But I wanted to show you that I had a discovery by the Holy Ghost, supernaturally, of my spiritual heritage. Of course, brother Osteen, he's the major one, but not the only one. So you plug into this ministry, you're plugged into all of that right there, all of that oil that I'm carrying, that my kids have received, that my staff has received, that you're receiving. Come on, lift your hands right now. Thank God for the oil and the fire. Lift your hands right now. Thank God for the oil and the fire, brother. You know, brother Hagen laid hands on me. Oral Roberts how would I ever know Oral Roberts? And I got to meet him. He prayed over me. He laid his hands on my whole family. Tl Osborne how would I ever know TL Osborne? But I got to know him, I got to interview him, he laid hands on me. I'm talking about a rich spiritual heritage by virtue of the fact, when you plant yourself at Glorious Way Church, you automatically qualify. Come on, let's thank him for our spiritual heritage.
Speaker 1:This part of stirring yourself up is recognizing what you've got. It's there. I'm here to tell you it's there. It's not vacant, it's not going to come. He doesn't have to send it. He's already sent it. Everything you need to accomplish what God's called you to accomplish, it's there. So stir up the fire. And I got four things here, and 2 Peter says it a couple of times.
Speaker 1:And so this, really one of the ways to stir up is to remember. See, this is what happened to the children of Israel. They were continually forgetting. It's easy to forget when you're under pressure. It's easy to forget important things when people have attacked your fire and put it into us. You know there are a lot of people who used to burn for Jesus and now they're just smoking. A lot of people just used to be really a heavenly fragrance to God, but now they stink. And so let's recognize when we're smoking instead of burning, and let's recognize when we're stinking instead of having a sweet odor to the Lord. I mean, let's make some adjustments, let's stir up the fire.
Speaker 1:I tell you, you know, flies can't light on a hot stove. When you get on fire, people will make fun of you, people will be jealous of you, people will disinvite you to their reunion. Oh, we don't want him. All he wants to do is talk about Jesus and witness. All he wants to do is lay hands on the sick. We don't need to be around him. No, we need laborers that are on fire. Can you get any more on fire than Stephen man? He was so on fire he went out there and he preached to the Jews and all the Jews had heard it before and he told them again. He didn't care. He told the same people that said crucify him. He told them just how the cow ate the cabbage and they stoned him. He was a fire that couldn't be put out. They had to kill him to put that fire out. Praise God, all right.
Speaker 1:So stir up for our second Peter, verse one, verse 13. Yay, I think it made as long as I'm in this tabernacle to stir you up by putting you in remembrance. And he said it again in chapter 3, verse 1, this second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you. In both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance, so stirring up by remembering. You've got to remember and don't forget God's power. See, that's the first thing God showed me was how great the power was that I had on the inside of me, how impressed I was in the dream. His love and His power, they're not mutually exclusive. I remember Brother Osteen used to say this all the time I'd rather be who he is than have what he has. Well, you can have both. You don't have to have either, or you can have his love and his power. They're not mutually exclusive. You can have both. In fact, you should have both the fire of love and the fire of power. Praise God or the power of fire. Psalm 78,.
Speaker 1:Israel forgot his miracles and limited God. They forgot what he did in the field of Zoan. They got over there and they completely forgot what he did in Egypt. They completely forgot. You mean they just forgot what he did in Egypt. They completely forgot. You mean they just had amnesia. No, they remembered after a fact, but they weren't persuaded by the memory, the fire of the memory.
Speaker 1:God is the one. He's the one that sent the lice. He sent the frogs, he turned the water into blood. I mean, he's the one who sent that death angel. I mean man, we got out of there by the blood of the lamb. On our doorposts and our threshold oh God, is the one that parted the red? Say, oh God, god did that. God, it's no big deal about that water, he can give us water out of that rock. No see, they kept forgetting. Over and over 10 times they forgot 10. No, let's remember. Let's remember that power and that love. Glory to God. He so loved you. He loves you. He gave you power. Stir up, slash. Remember the name of Jesus.
Speaker 1:Bible says in Ephesians you've been named with his name. That's your family name. Now, it's not your earthly name, your given name. You have the family name of Jesus. You have that name. It's your right to use it. You're in the family. You've been named with his name. What is his name? Well, he's got so many names. Who is Jesus? Well, he's wonderful. He's counselor, he's mighty God, he's Prince of Peace, he's everlasting father. He's the King of glory, he's the Lord of the armies of heaven. He's the soon coming King. He's the apostle and high priest of our profession. I mean, you've got so many facets of Jesus' name that is yours. It's not just like a magic word, it's because when you have a revelation and you remember and you stir up that name, that fire is going to be bold to use that name against sickness, disease and every other thing in the world that comes against you, this disease and every other thing in the world that comes against you. And of course, he's the Word of God. He's the Word of God.
Speaker 1:In the beginning was the Word. The Word was with God, the Word was God and the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us. I mean man, I mean you know. So the third thing is to stir up the word of God, stir it up, stir up that word. Second, timothy, one 13,.
Speaker 1:Paul told Timothy you know, this is the one that's having a pity for it, this is the one that's crying, this is the one that's intimidated, this is the one that's got reflected. Shame about Paul's chain. He said I, like this other guy over here, he's not ashamed of my chain. So that was kind of that was a little bit of a dig towards Timothy, because it sounded like he was ashamed of his chain. He said hold fast to the sound words that you've heard of me. Hold fast. Every morning I get up've heard of me Hold fast.
Speaker 1:Every morning I get up and I've got a bold confession of who I am and what the Word says. I am Every morning, every morning, every morning. I don't ever go without a morning of getting up and saying well, praise God, I'm the righteousness of God in Christ. I have my heart sprinkled from the guilty conscience, my body washed with pure water. Thank God, I'm a righteousness of God in Christ. I have my heart sprinkled from the guilty conscience, my body washed with pure water. Thank God, I'm a new creature. Old things are passed away. Yesterday is gone, today is brand new. Thank God, I can do all things through Christ, who strengtheneth me. I'm not moved by what I see. I'm not moved by how I feel. I'm only moved by what I believe, and I believe the Word of God.
Speaker 1:I can't tell you how many times I've had to say that, sitting on the parking lot in front of Gladys' assisted living, going out to see her for eight months and having to leave her there, go home alone, go back the next day. Eight months, every day, eight months, eight months. I don't know how many thousand times I said it, but I said it and that's how we got it ended. You know she's home now. Well, I'm going to keep saying the same thing until she's up, walking by herself without any help, making her own decisions, driving herself to her own hair appointments, driving herself to her own hair appointments, driving herself to her own physical therapy appointments, so I don't have to sit there and watch her work out. I would rather do anything than sit there in a PT, but you know what? I'd do it, because that's my wife. I'm going to help her. That's my job right now. That's my job. But if I don't say something, I'm going to get fed up. If I don't say something, I'm going to get under the gun. I'm going to get weaker, I'm going to get oh, this is no. I'm going to say something.
Speaker 1:Let's stir the word up. Let's remember it. Are you stirring up faith or fear? Are you stirring up anger or peace? You've got to have a systematic discourse. You've got to have a consistent confession. Call the thing that be, not as though it were. And then, finally, stir up.
Speaker 1:Remember to build yourself up by praying in other tongues. 1 Corinthians 14,. For he that prays in an unknown tongue edifies himself, builds himself up. Who's yourself? Your spirit. You're a spirit, you live in a body and you have a mind, will and intellect. Well, you know. But the Bible says my understanding is unfruitful. Well, that's good.
Speaker 1:Sometimes you need to get your mind in neutral. Sometimes you need to shut the thoughts off and just pray in other tongues, because your spirit is active, your spirit is praying. Your mind, your squirrely mind, you know, your squirrely mind, just needs to shut up. You've got all these voices. Oh, you better work. That's a message on your, that's a voicemail on your cell phone. You better find out who that is. Somebody just texted you. Who is that? Oh no, the doorbell just rang. Who is it? It's not the fuller brush man, he went broke.
Speaker 1:But anyway, jude 20, building up yourself on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost. It makes you more God inside minded. It makes you more aware of the indwelling presence of the Holy Ghost. It strengthens you. It strengthens you so that your spirit can take and rise, and take ascendancy over the mind's temptation to allow the fire to go out. You don't want to agree with the water being thrown at your fire. You want to go against it by praying much in other tongues men, hallelujah, hallelujah. So let's stir up the fire tonight. Let's let this be a jumping off point for our year of milestones, because I'm getting you prepped. I want to build your faith to finish this second half of the year. We're just coming into the second half of 2025.
Speaker 1:Let's remind you what he said. He said, you know that, in Psalm I believe it was 92, god gave me this when I went to Galveston and then when I prophesied, he finished all of it on a Sunday morning. But the first part of it I got is but verse 92, verse 10,. But my horn shall you exhort like the horn of a unicorn. My horn shall you exalt like the horn of a unicorn. My horn shall you exalt like the horn of a unicorn. I shall be anointed with fresh oil, new oil, new fire. See, something that's unfamiliar, something that's breakthrough, something that you haven't experienced before. Wouldn't that be a milestone if God allowed you to do something you've never done before, that God spoke to your heart and says I want you to do this, I want you to do that, I want you to plug in here, I want you to accomplish this over here, and you've got an anointing, a fresh anointing.
Speaker 1:I look back on my life, I go back and I remember those times when God did that for me. He gave me new things that I'd never done. I'll never forget the first time I ever opened a service in prayer, a service in prayer at Lakewood, you know, on a Sunday morning and there's 3,000 people. It's the first service. It's 3,000 people sitting out there and then when I did it at the second service, it's 5,000 people sitting out there. You know, that was new, that was something I had never done, that was something I didn't even know I could do. And then I then I remember well, I'm going to start doing weddings and I then I think about the first time I ever I ever got to preach at Lakewood. I ever got to preach at Lakewood. That never happens. People like Schambach preach at Lakewood. People like Copeland preach at Lakewood. People like Oral Roberts preach Not John Griner. John Griner don't preach at Lakewood, but John Griner preached at Lakewood.
Speaker 1:See, god can do things. God can open doors for you that have never been opened. Come on, lift your hands right now. New things, he said. There's new things. That's a milestone. New prosperity. New things, he said this is going to be the year of milestones. This is the year of grace heaped upon grace. This is the year of exceeding abundantly above. Is it going to just happen? It's going to happen as we stir up the fire. Come on, lift your hands right now, lord. We're stirring up the fire for our milestone. We're burning brightly, hallelujah.