(223) “An Average Supernatural Life” with Mathew Reames

0:00 You know the world might tell you you have to have it all figured out No, you don't have to have it all figured out. You have to have one thing figured out. Mm-hmm I will fix my eyes on Christ and go wherever he leads. Amen Because you can be just as supernatural in your everyday life Mm-hmm as somebody else can in their ministry God promises in Joel 2 28 to pour out his spirit on all humanity Welcome to global outpouring where we contend for that promise outpouring We equip for that outpouring so that we may engage in that very outpouring I'm Philip bus and I'm Sharon bus. Welcome to the podcast today We have with us our very good friend Matt He's a great friend and he's a great friend and he's a great friend and he's a great friend I'm Sharon bus. Welcome to the podcast today. We have with us our very good friend Matthew Reams and he's been with us for our Generation awakening summer camp youth retreat and it has been a marvelous marvelous event that young people and young adults have walked away from this with a Changed life and he shared with us a message that wasn't recorded So we're gonna kind of give you an overview of the thing that Matthew brought about an average supernatural life Thanks so much for joining us today and before we get started we want to encourage you if you haven't already done so to go to our website global outpouring net and

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3:09 First off you're gonna get to enjoy just getting away from life for a couple days. Yeah your cell phone probably won't work Yeah, my cell phone has not worked in about five days. Oh and That's a good thing for me, you know being a pastor my phone's kind of going off a lot. So it's relaxing You're here and all of your meals are taken care of All of your day is planned out. You don't really have to think through What am I gonna do? Mm-hmm and in the mornings and the evenings we're gonna have a time with worship and we're gonna have different people who are gonna come and bring the word and You know, one of the things that I really appreciate is that there is never an assignment list where you're told Okay. Now you're gonna speak on Wednesday night and your topic needs to be about Whatever Whenever they invite you if you're gonna teach a breakout workshop, they're gonna ask you Hey, is there something that you want to teach on a few occasions?

4:15 They might suggest I was asked to teach on worship, which is your thing, which is a thing Mm-hmm. One of your things. Yeah But when I was asked to preach in the evening service, I was told go hear from God Mm-hmm and tell everyone what they need to hear. Yeah, so there was no there was no parameter on it So you never know what thing the Lord's gonna bring? Unfortunately, that's not always true at every other youth event Mm-hmm. A lot of them are very formulaic because there's five things that youth need to know they need to know So behave don't do drugs. Don't engage in sexual immorality love Jesus more and Then we're gonna have like a pizza party or something because you know, we got to keep them interested after we did all this heavy stuff But when you come down here you're gonna get the same kind of expectation that you would get at a normal adult Pentecostal service. Mm-hmm. We're gonna believe for miracles We're gonna talk about the gifts of the Holy Spirit. We're gonna have Bible teaching We're gonna have opportunities for everything that you need in life. Yeah, but we're gonna do it in an atmosphere where Okay, it's a little more entertaining than some of the adult conferences But we didn't even have pizza We had other great foods like every meal taken care of

5:46 eat pretty much all you can eat and Then try to stay awake and don't go into that afternoon food coma While you then you've had your fill of natural food come get your fill of spiritual food. Yeah. Yeah, and I Workshops to choose from yeah I mean I was actually a little disappointed because There was workshops that I wanted to sit in on that I couldn't because I was teaching a workshop at the same time Yeah in an ideal world. I would you know translocate and I would be sitting in the other room while I'm Teaching in this room. There you go. That didn't happen to me this time So I just have to trust that when the kids came and told me about it later. Those classes were great They were yeah, they were I sat in on some of them One of the gals that brought a group from her youth group from her church as she was commenting about this event she said, you know, I've been to lots of youth things and most of them are a whole lot of fun and a little bit of Jesus and Then she said but this one is all about Jesus and it's lots of fun or something like that I'm not quoting her exactly but something along those lines. Mm-hmm I've been to a number of different youth young adult things and some are smaller and they have really great camaraderie and it's like, you know, just any other summer camp with a little bit of Jesus likes he said or Some of them are huge and have you know The biggest fanciest speakers and worship leaders and they're packing out an arena Mm-hmm, but there's almost no

7:18 personability, right It's hard to have an intimate conversation With the guy who preached and just brought you to conviction under the Holy Spirit, right if there's also another 15,000 people in the room, right right down here in the valley. You're locked in the whole time you're here The whole time you're here with all of these different people so you can sit and meet them at lunch You can say hey after the service tonight, could you spend five minutes with me? Yeah, I might meet them as you're walking back to the dorm Mm-hmm. Every person who's teaching you is a person who's doing life for the whole week with you. Exactly Yeah, I remember hearing One of the you saying before, you know that had been to the big conferences and says, you know You get more personal ministry here and that's really what you need. Sure, you know, that's what it's all about You know, absolutely and I love those big conferences. I've been to many of them. I've heard some amazing speakers, you know I've seen Francis Chan Absolutely destroy me and leave me in a puddle of tears on the floor in an arena filled with 30,000 people Yeah, but after that he didn't come over and console me in my tears So I had to I had to rely on the Holy Ghost and the people that were sitting next to me to help Me get back up and get moving, right? I mean you still can get up and get moving But there is something there is something wonderful about the personal touch of being close together And being able to reach out. I don't think there was anybody who

8:53 Wanted ministry personally that didn't get it. Yeah from from somebody who was very well Capable and most likely the speaker that that brought the message and then on top of that, you know You're in a small environment. Mm-hmm Because we only have space for a limited number of people But you get to know them well, right? Yeah, and some of these kids that are here. They were here last year, right? And back before we took the kovat break that the world put us on We had some folks that were coming Five ten fifteen years that they're now lifelong friendships exactly that when they're going through something They can lean on. Yeah, because of the intimacy of the valley. Yeah I mean some we're hearing 20 25 years later are still friends. Yeah It's just amazing Absolutely amazing So tell us Matthew how the Lord brought this message to you and just start sharing some of the things that you've been Sharing some of the things that the Lord gave you sure the title of my message as you said earlier it was an average supernatural life and We are supernatural people we believe that I mean Just five minutes ago if you were listening to the start of the podcast Philip Shared about this outpouring that we are contending for that We are equipping for that we fully intend to engage in You know you can't be around global outpouring without believing for a supernatural outpouring

10:28 Absolutely of the Lord Yeah, but that concept has somewhat been hijacked mm-hmm to Automatically mean it has to be the most over-the-top extraordinary things right and A lot of people kind of create a mental divide Okay, there's my supernatural life, and then there's my average life. Oh there you go my average life is where I Get up I go to work. I go to the grocery store. I go to the gym. I come home I'm tired. I put my feet up my supernatural life is You know maybe when I go to church although sadly so many of these people who have been Taught that they're supposed to be so supernatural have zero rooting and grounding in an actual Expression of the body in their local region hmm Then there's a spiritual life it might be in their church It might be when they get to go to that conference or that youth camp or that whatever And there's this there's this divide You know and for some people it's well. It's not really supernatural until it looks like this You know for some for some people young or old it doesn't really matter They have a vision in their mind. It has to look like Toronto did it has to look like Azusa Street did it has to look like the book of Acts and All those were wonderful things, but we are never going to have a church that looks like the book of Acts

12:04 Because we don't ride around on donkeys, and we don't have to wait I have to wait four weeks for a boat to take us from the shores of Israel up to Crete to Preach the gospel yeah, we live in a world where I can get on my phone right now open up Instagram Go live and start preaching the gospel and people could listen instantly mm-hmm The fact that the world changes means The way we engage with the world as we pour out is going to change Mm-hmm, but because we get in this mindset It has to look like Toronto or it has to look like Azusa Street, or it has to look like the Welsh revival Anything that doesn't begin to look like that well. That's not really a supernatural life. It might be a good meeting It might be whatever or we undervalue our local church where God is moving people are being saved healed delivered and Discipled because well I remember reading about the story of the revival in this city Where within three weeks suddenly they had four or five thousand people coming to their church because God was moving mm-hmm Wow, you know do you remember just a year ago?

13:16 God was moving in a beautiful way mm-hmm at Asbury University Yeah, we got to go there. Yeah, you guys got to go there. I heard your podcast from there mm-hmm Yeah, I didn't go there I thought it was cool, and I got invited some people were gonna take a road trip And I said you guys can road trip if you want But I don't want to chase revival mm-hmm. I want to build revival there you go Yeah, it's good, and and it was zero shame and so if you heard me say that just now and you thought like Well, he thinks if we go to the next revival or just chase. No it's not that it's Someone else labored and got God in that moment in that place mm-hmm Yeah, I want that same thing to happen here right mm-hmm. You know when when Steve Hill preached in Brownsville mm-hmm everybody wanted what happened in Brownsville right, but you know John Kilpatrick Every day for at least two years before that would be in the sanctuary of the church at 6 a.m. To 8 a.m.

14:16 Praying and crying out for God to move mm-hmm. Yeah, it's really easy to jump on the wagon when it's already moving Come on. I want to load the wagon. Yeah Now now I'm from Lawrence, Kansas, and that's a Lawrence, Kansas slogan, okay You know our our college basketball team the Jayhawks They're perennial favorites to win college basketball doesn't happen every year Nobody wins every year but every year when we do well when we Struggle whatever the coach looks at the guys say just load the wagon and push There you go, and if we had that mentality in the church. There'd be a lot more revivals happening Yes, come on, but we're you know we're content to make this divide mm-hmm I can go and have this experience over here, but the rest of my week is just natural Mm-hmm. You know what a drag. I gotta I gotta go to work You know you had the episode just a few months ago with James Stone about being a Praying and prophesying plumber right come on. I have never heard a revival sermon with a consecration call at the altar saying If you want to shake the world Come down to the altar and commit to being a plumber Come on

15:47 No, they're gonna call you come down to the altar devote your heart to Jesus give the next ten years of your life to X ministry Y ministry Z ministry move across the country commit yourself to going on a missions trip Sell everything you have and do this grandiose thing And there are people who have done that successfully yeah and lived their life that way Because they were called because they were called mm-hmm But there are people who are called To be a plumber exactly and shake the world around them yeah by plumbing well and Giving God room to move in the midst of their plumbing exactly yeah That was if anybody would like to hear that part of the story I would like to hear that podcast yeah, we'll put that in the we'll put it in the notes and it's even amazing Yeah story where he goes to this house and it's a bunch of Satanist So you have to listen to the story You want to listen to it it was interesting yeah, but now you tell us what happened when you Were cleaning a toilet. Yeah, so oh wow. Yeah, let me preface this by saying most of my significantly profound encounters with the Lord Most not all most of them have happened outside of church services And this one was important. I had been at a conference event

17:19 And it was being held actually at a golf course clubhouse Someone let us rent it and at the end of the evening we had to Get it all cleaned up because they were probably going to have a wedding the next day It's one of those kind of places. Yeah and I was ministering I spoke I played worship. I was the guy And then everybody went home and I was handed a mop and a toilet brush Side note if your favorite minister or pastor or leader Is only anointed when they have a microphone and not when they have a mop?

18:01 They might need to check their priorities Because if you can't move in the supernatural when you're called to serve the body and not just when you're called to Minister to the body. That's not a healthy lifestyle, but I digress I went into the toilet room and It was unpleasant. It was a mess I'm not going to tell you which gender but I'm going to tell you the one that you think was worse was actually better And I'm down and I'm scrubbing and when I was looking into the waters and the porcelain I Had an encounter where I saw Jesus And he began to minister to me and the next thing I know I'm laying on the floor of a bathroom weeping and crying and praying in tongues and That is not where I would plan my encounter When you least expect it Other people that were there heard me and they heard me crying and making weird noises Because when I do get deep into the spirit, I'm not like some of those pretty ministers that Are anointed and sound nice and I sound like I'm a mess I'm just I'm all out. It is what it is Well, they started to come in to check on me and they would walk into the bathroom and suddenly they're on the floor and they're having an encounter with the presence of the Lord because

19:33 Despite how great the meetings were that night The Holy Ghost chose to meet us on the floor of a dirty bathroom Again, not where I would schedule it right but i'll never forget it, right? You want to know the second most interesting encounter i've ever had with the Lord? Of course, of course. It's not in a church I was in a little town in North Carolina And I had been ministering at a conference there and if you know, North Carolina, there's lots of anointed people I don't know why they needed my help, but they did and I went to this particular restaurant because it was the only one in this little town where I was staying in a cabin Your options are limited you go And they it's one of those ones where they have the wooden benches that are curved and the menu has the plastic That they can change the letters out depending on the day's special Every small town has this diner And the girl who was working hands me a menu And I just look and said i'm assuming you have fried pickles and she says yeah, how'd you know?

20:41 I said every diner like this has fried pickles and they're usually the best fried pickles I said i'm gonna need an order of fried pickles And then you know like a double cheeseburger meal if you have it She goes cool. You would just order a double cheeseburger meal if you have it She goes cool. What do you want to drink? I said, you know what? Let's go die a dr. Pepper and she scuttles off to the back and I'm sure if i'd looked in the kitchen the person in the back was probably smoking a cigarette and You know talking with a gruff voice because it was that kind of just greasy spoon diner Best fried pickles i've ever eaten but greasy spoon diner But as i'm sitting there munching on my fried pickles I feel pickles I feel a wind And I look thinking the door opened But it didn't There was a man that was sitting at the counter because you know all of those diners they have the counter area. Yeah He was an angry looking man and he was grumbling and mumbling everything And you could tell he just wasn't having a great day But when the when I felt the wind and I turned I saw the lord Lord walks into the diner And just stands behind him and lays his hands on his shoulder And starts ministering to him and I'm like Wow Okay And so I just start praying

22:11 And after a minute or two, Jesus is done ministering to this man And he starts to walk And he looks at me and he smiles And he smiles And then he walks out the door Wow Oh, can I tell you I was offended? You were this close to me and you couldn't come over to me Oh my and the reality was The lord needed to minister to that man in that way. Yeah And he was gracious enough to let me see him do it Yeah Yeah, he didn't need to minister to me in that way my flesh rose up and wanted it Because when we hear that someone else has a supernatural encounter, we often get envious and we want what they had Yeah, and the reality is I just got to witness something beautiful. Yeah. Wow and the lord smiled on me Well, that's that's more than a lot of people have gotten right? Sure Like I should be on cloud nine, but no i'm really good about letting my flesh rise up at the wrong moment And aren't we all?

23:17 So most of my encounters that have profoundly impacted the way I think about the lord Didn't happen In a surface, right? Most of them have happened in the minutiae Of day-to-day life, right the average the average Supernatural life. Yeah You know You are called to be supernatural And you're called to be supernatural. Absolutely. Yeah, and I shared with the students about steven Steven in acts chapter seven Was martyred for his faith, right? Yeah, the first person since jesus to be martyred For the cause of the gospel, right?

23:58 Well in the chapter previous we're introduced to him And we're basically told The apostles are so busy with the work of the ministry they don't have time to handle cleaning the dishes and Making sure that the widows are being checked on and you know You could almost look down on that because like what do you mean? You don't have time for that, but they they were the church was so busy Mm-hmm. These guys couldn't handle all the different jobs, right? And so they said can you guys look for? seven men who Are full of the holy ghost have a good reputation and are ready to serve to do these jobs that we can't do Waiting on tables. Yeah. Yeah, and steven was chosen and of course they give us a list of other ones, but i'm focused on steven Steven wasn't an apostle Nope, he he did not have that encounter in the upper room Where jesus said here touch?

24:59 My side he wasn't there when jesus stepped through a wall You know, he wasn't commissioned and said you're you're my apostles He was just a guy who believed And was in the meeting but he was found to be faithful and full of the holy ghost. Yeah And his job assignment is Clean the tables do the dishes go about your way most of us Don't want that assignment Mm-hmm We want the apostleship Mm-hmm. Trust me If you haven't yet, you're gonna meet in least 20 people that have it on their business card apostle I wish it was just as easy as getting office depot to print me up business cards that said apostle I don't know if i'd choose that. I think i'd I think i'd want to be like The archduke or archbishop. I don't know. It just sounds fancier but You know, we all aspire to this title Because we see oh, well, you know the apostles they were doing great things Peter and john are going up to the temple and they heal a guy on the way and in axe 19 God's doing unusual miracles through the hands of paul, right?

26:16 I want to do unusual miracles. Absolutely. Yes, i'm unusual So pretty much any miracle that god does to me is going to be unusual But still I want to see and do that Do I want to serve and wait the tables? Not as much however And you know, you guys have known me long enough to know I have trained myself regardless of how my flesh feels about it I'm going to be a guy that offers to serve as much as I can And you have served beautifully and And the little stuff yeah in power washing the buildings and Getting lots of poison ivy and bug bites and you know, yeah in all the in all the ways you can make it sound like Why I wouldn't want to do that and yet Stephen did that I'm willing to do that. Other people are willing to do that. You know, I think of billy krigger. Oh, yeah Yeah, billy krigger. Most of you have never met you may never met. He probably will never have a podcast Because he's just billy But when we were getting ready to have convention he committed to come and spend a whole month here Convention was only for five days He spent the rest of the month going around the valley And helping to fix things paint things take care of landscaping Just because he wanted to be a blessing to the ministry Yeah, you know Some people they can bless the ministry with finances and if that's you great. Thank god. You are a wonderful person

27:49 You are a blessing but to the person that says I don't have the money But I can give you time and come and serve Be a billy. Yeah, yeah be willing and you know, it doesn't have to be coming to serve here. Although I can tell you it would be a blessing if you could serve Philip and Sharon and they would be a blessing for you in the meantime, but you have a church You have a community you have a local place that needs you to serve just like stephen exactly And so the very next verse after we read about stephen getting chosen It says and stephen being full of faith and the holy spirit Began doing many signs and wonders among the people amen We think oftentimes that signs and wonders And miracles are reserved for the super saints the power apostles And unfortunately our church culture has propped that up Because we've had god's man of power for the hour And you know you you get excited because well brother so and so Is going to be in such and such city. It's only like 20 minutes away and I know that if I can just get to there God's going to use him to do a miracle for me. Yeah, and when you're desperate for a touch You know, that's great But what if we believed that stephen?

29:16 In our church Was full of faith in the holy spirit and could do great signs and wonders and miracles What if instead of thinking I just have to get to Brother so and so's meeting We believe james it says if any is sick among you let him come to the elders Anoint with oil and pray the prayer of faith that he may be well, right? Yeah we tend to create this divide There's average saints and then there's super saints. Yeah And most of the super saints that you meet Aren't all that super when you get to know them And i'm not even saying they're bad people I'm just saying the longer you know someone the more you realize They're really just a person. Yeah average They're average They're just called to something so they're doing what they're called to. Yeah But you might be called to be a plumber like brother james and The episode that will be linked below and you might be called to be a mechanic You know a mechanic can do supernatural things for people And he can fix cars. Yeah, i'm gonna tell you Your favorite superhero apostle Probably doesn't know how to change transmission So Who's really the hero the one?

30:45 That can only pray for you or the one that can pray for you and change your transmission. Come on. Yeah Let's go. Yeah, you know and and one of the brothers that was here this week We call him porch That's what all the youth call him No one really knows why we just go with it, but his real name is jordan He runs a ministry at his church where he is teaching the young men how to become godly men And the ministry through which they do it is they fix people's cars for free Or at the cost of parts, you know And so he is helping people in need who need car repairs And he's being a blessing while he's doing it. He's teaching these young men how to fix cars beautiful So they can take care of their own stuff For the rest of their life or at least until cars become too complicated for us to fix And that way now at the same time he's also training them what a godly life looks like And in the midst of that He's praying for them. He's ministering to them Porch is a great dude. Yeah Porch will probably never headline a conference with 30 000 people You probably won't one day get to read the biography of porch Until you get to heaven and yet in heaven

32:15 He's going to be celebrated. Oh, yeah For doing the ordinary average thing and using his ordinary life as an opportunity to do supernatural things In the world. Amen That's that's how steven was Amen. That's that's how steven was. Yeah You know steven didn't just settle for Well, i'm gonna wait these tables. He was full of the holy ghost. Come on It was a prerequisite if if you're gonna serve you need to be full of the holy ghost. Amen So another side note for pastors Don't just look for people that have skills Look for people that have holy ghost and skills. Amen when david set up the tabernacle. He didn't just find anyone who wanted to sing He found the skilled musicians who are willing to pour out their heart I'm blessed in our church We have skilled people We have a brother who is a painter Who is so good that he is certified to do hospital clean rooms That he runs a business does really well But he's able to bless and help the church We have a journeyman electrician Who is in demand and constantly working and is able to come and bless the church We have a construction superintendent who works on big large apartment complexes Who is available sometimes to come and help us with projects around the church. We have

33:49 A gc who flips homes who will come Don't overlook The tradesmen in your church and think well, they're just laborers. Come on. No the guy who Runs the painting company has become one of the co-directors of our men's ministry beautiful the gc Helps me run the prophetic ministry out of our church The electrician is the new music director over our worship department and runs all the tech stuff That's great They have gifts they're doing supernatural things. They're transforming the world Everywhere that our painter terry goes he's preaching the gospel to some people beautiful people that work with him often find him almost like Uncomfortably comfortable with sharing the gospel He doesn't go anywhere that he's not going to be Preaching to somebody Wow, yeah And he doesn't start a single workday without gathering all the workers together and having a bible study Wow, that's great. You know He's a hero of faith. Amen, but he's not preaching in front of Hundreds and thousands And he's not traveling the world and he's not doing all these big things that we have made benchmarks for anointing True. Wow, you know, I I love the word christian Because it comes from the word christ obviously and christ means anointed one And if you look in acts

35:21 I think it's 1038 that says jesus went about which means he just kind of wandered around Doing good And healing all that were oppressed of the devil Why because god was with him because god was with him. He was anointed With the holy spirit. That's what happened on the day of his baptism The holy spirit came on him and remained on him Mm-hmm, and that is the picture of what we are to be because Paul tells us that we were predestined to be conformed To the image of christ So this this word christian has to do with us becoming Anointed letting the holy spirit work in us to work We talked about the g5 the galatians five fruit of the spirit Working those fruit of the spirit into us By the spirit is the spirit making it happen to make us look like jesus Because that's what the world needs That's the kind of laborers that that need to be going into the harvest fields the one that ones that look like jesus not necessarily the ones Who know how to preach a sermon amen? Yeah, and you know in the great commission passages And I say that plural because There's multiple you know most most of us think of matthew 28 go into all the nations make disciples Training them to obey all that i've commanded you baptizing them in the name of the father son the holy spirit right that wasn't just given to

36:53 Hey, you 12 guys you do this right was given to all of us right mark 16 He says and these signs will follow all who believe amen and he says things like they'll speak in new tongues They will pray for the sick and they will recover. They'll cleanse lepers. They'll pick up Deadly snakes and not be harmed. They'll drink poison and be safe Now he wasn't telling you to go around and dance with snakes and drink poison No, he was telling you that if you're doing the work of the kingdom, even the serpents can't Stop you. That's right. Even those who try and poison you can't stop you. That's right Even leprosy can't stop you And then we get to acts chapter one jesus's final message for he's about to ascend and he says hey Stay here for a few more days When the holy spirit comes on you you will receive power And you will be my witnesses to jerusalem judaea samaria and even to the ends of the earth And again, he didn't just say it to the 12 right or I guess at that point the 11 because you know judas had Gone, right He said it to all who were gathered in the upper room. Mm-hmm. There were a lot of people there And they waited they did what he asked And then in acts chapter two boom the holy ghost is poured out right and some people mistake this They think the holy spirit was poured out. They all got tongues And therefore tongues was the key Now tongues was a blessing But the key was as soon as they got those tongues the very first thing they did was go out in the street and preach the gospel

38:29 Hallelujah. Yeah, we have a lot of people that they want to get spiritual gifts so they can look more spiritual These guys got the spiritual gifts so they could be a witness. Yeah, man put them in operation You need you shall be spiritual gifts so that you will be a witness the evidence that the holy spirit Is going to be a witness You need you shall be spiritual gifts so that you will be a witness the evidence that the holy spirit has come upon you Is that you were using every gift he's given you to witness to christ and bring people to his feet amen really good and That wasn't reserved for just the apostles the whole of the upper room. There's 120 of them Ran out into the streets and everywhere they went they made disciples and they advanced the kingdom The problem for a lot of us is We aren't advancing the kingdom True, we're advancing our kingdom many times And and you'll see a lot of big ministries where it's all about this ministry and Building its mandate and if you're around here, everything is focused on this thing rather than the global kingdom of god, and so if my Mandate is that i'm supposed to do xyz and you're around me. Well, then you need to be doing this too But you need to do what you're called to do right you can you can be a part of my church

40:01 And if you live in the area of lawrence, kansas, you are welcome any sunday at freedom church That that's where I am one of the pastors on staff It's a great place you can come you can be a part of our church You are not required to do everything that we do the way we do to be loved and to be used by god All that's required of you is to be faithful to what god's calling you to do right? but so many ministries it's You have to devote yourself to this thing and if you're not doing this thing, well, then you're a lesser saint You even hear a lot of pastors go. Well, there's some that are you know, the they're just the pew sitters And I understand what we mean by that like ideally we'd like to see everyone actively engaged involved in what's going on and there's just some people who they're at the place in their life where Simply getting to the church and being fed is all they can do right now Yeah, but anytime we start looking at ourselves as better Than another group of believers we're causing problems because you can be just as supernatural in your everyday life As somebody else can in their ministry very true And for this group of young people that were here at this retreat And for whoever's listening right now, you may not know what you're going to do with the rest of your life And you don't have to decide at 13 years old

41:32 And you don't have to decide at 13 14 15 You know the world might tell you you have to have it all figured out No, you don't have to have it all figured out. You have to have one thing figured out I will fix my eyes on christ and go wherever he leads. Amen. Amen And he may not lead you to sell everything and move to the wilds of the middle east to preach to People that have never heard the gospel if he calls you to that let's go. We need more people there He may call you to become a plumber. He may call you to become a mechanic He may call you to become a husband a wife a mother a father He may call you to be the person that starts adopting the orphans in your community All of these things can be supernatural Because the reality of the supernatural is you have a place of influence Use your influence to point people to christ. Amen. If your influence is a stage with twenty-four People listening use it to point to christ if your influence is a podcast use it to point to christ If your influence is a doctor's office use it to point to christ It doesn't matter what your sphere of influence is Use it to point to christ. Amen It's beautiful. Amen. Would you pray for our listeners? Sure father god. I give you glory and honor and praise everything Everything revolves around you. Yes And if we get one thing right in this life

43:04 Let it be That we know you and love you. Well Yes Father I pray for the people that are listening right now That you would meet them where they are and fill them With the holy spirit and with power Yes and that in every day of their life They would be a walking demonstration Of your kingdom your gospel and your power Your word said these signs will follow them that believe Lord all of those things Can be incorporated into daily life. Yes So I pray for the people right now that are struggling feeling like they're not doing enough because they haven't given enough or because they haven't traveled Traveled far enough or because they don't have the same platform that somebody else is Lord I pray that you would so fill them with your presence Yes, your father that they would just rejoice to know you And I pray that they would be so full of your presence and so full of your nature that everywhere they go They would leak out your glory. Yes That whether it's Going to someone's home as a plumber to fix their sink Or whether it's being a doctor and treating their physical ailments That just by being around them

44:36 People would begin to encounter you. Yes Lord, let every area of our life Be supernatural. Yes Not because we're doing wild and crazy things But because we have made you and your kingdom the center focus of everything that we do. Yes Yes, father Lord, I pray that in those areas where we feel inadequate You would remind us that you are more than enough. Amen and in those areas where we Are unsure or where we we have trepidation Lord, let us find our confidence in you To know that if we hear and obey You will do everything that you've promised for us. Yes Lord, I thank you for these people that are listening right now and for all those that are under the sound of my voice And I just pray That you would show them the areas of their life Where you want to pour out supernaturally. Yes That it would not be That it would not be a divide between my average life and my supernatural life But it would be one life lived Supernaturally for all of your glory In the name of jesus If you enjoyed today's podcast

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