THE POWER OF THE SPIRIT

good morning church how's everybody doing it's time for some announcements you ready all right hello okay just making sure the microphone's on good morning everybody are you guys excited to be in the house of the lord all righty with my sidekick here pastor danny being on the scene i am on the scene it's gonna get us started off with some announcements okay you ready okay we'll start with iron man men's ministry guys if you want to chase the lord come to iron men but we're changing locations we were at courtney's restaurant but we outgrew the restaurant what a cool problem to have so we're bringing it back here to church but don't worry we're still going to have food if you feed them they will come so meet up here at the church campus i don't know exactly what room we're going to use i'll figure that out tomorrow but the campus is only so big find me tomorrow at 6 30 up here for iron men our young adult is having a big event for the month of november we are going to have a friend's giving it's going to be on november 20th so if you are ages 18 to 25 and want to join our young adults group please come see me or my husband on the front row we also do bible studies every saturday night so really get involved in that also my mom i'm sorry miss ty she has her bible study that she just started it's called the secret place and it's every tuesday night at 7 pm in the chapel if you are a lady and want to get involved with the bible study please go to that it's so much fun and tomorrow night's event that she's doing it's really cool and you're not going to want to miss it okay youth ministry if you're involved with the youth ministry there will be no more youth meetings for november because brittany is about to pop she's prego so there should be a baby jones rolling in any second so they're going to be a little bit busy for the month of november so no more youth meetings for november i'm sure they'll pick it up back in december we need volunteers really bad real bad we really need everybody to just get plugged in with that if you are looking to volunteer in the church in any aspect like production team we always need people to help with production our parking ministries always need help with people like that and our kids ministry who doesn't love kids we need help in the kids in the nursery the preschool the school the whole deal the whole the whole deal the whole day the whole deal so if you guys want to volunteer then please go to the back booth my left your right and see miss cali and mr scott and get plugged in one thing we hear about volunteers but we don't want to miss service well volunteer once a month if we have a bunch of people when you volunteer once a month you can catch all the services the rest of the month so you can rotate so there you go that's no more excuse right and i know your favorite part of the service is the announcements right so even if you are helping with the kids you can always watch online that's my favorite part of the service i know all right november 13th which is this coming saturday man we're gonna have a gv fall family festival hosted by the gv kids we're gonna have food trucks inflatables fun and games for the whole family i even heard there's going to be a taco truck are you kidding me a taco truck all right so you don't want to miss it it's this saturday from 1 to 4 p.m all right see you there i'll be there for the tacos yeah i love tacos i'll be first in line last but not least we hope to see every single one of you here on our wednesday night services they start at 7 p.m and they're right here in the tent so you guys definitely need to be there they're my favorite time of the week is wednesday services that's good stuff well god bless we love you guys enjoy service ((applause)) now oh good morning church how y'all doing today it's good to be in the house and alone come on ((music playing)) me ((music playing)) you came along and put me back together ((music playing)) and every desire is oh ((music playing)) ((applause)) ((music playing)) nothing nothing ((applause)) ((music playing)) is true cause i'm not afraid ((music playing)) to show you my weaknesses ((music playing)) ((music playing)) ((applause)) come on ((music playing)) oh there's nothing better than you there's nothing better ((music playing)) ((applause)) ((music playing)) is nothing i'm better than you nothing is ((music playing)) ((music playing)) ((applause)) ((music playing)) ((applause)) ((music playing)) foreign ((music playing)) you turned into ((music playing)) oh there's nothing better than you there's nothing better ((music playing)) is ((music playing)) ((applause)) ((music playing)) ((applause)) oh ((music playing)) ((applause)) ((music playing)) oh ((music playing)) you're the only body ((music playing)) ((music playing)) ((applause)) ((music playing)) ((applause)) ((music playing)) you're the only one ((music playing)) ((applause)) ((music playing)) he's the only one who can we're just gonna worship him today ((music playing)) he's such a good guy all over this place we're gonna lift our hands come on because all of our words fall short all my words fall short i've got nothing new how could i express ((music playing)) i could see ((music playing)) and you ((music playing)) again and again ((music playing)) me ((music playing)) i've got one response i've got just one room with my arms ((music playing)) again ((music playing)) is ((music playing)) except for a heart ((music playing)) come on let's just encourage our soul today let's just encourage our soul oh we sing to you jesus ((music playing)) come on my soul don't you get shy on me picked up your song ((music playing)) ((applause)) ((music playing)) ((applause)) ((music playing)) cause ((music playing)) get on is face ((music playing)) ((music playing)) come on my soul come on church ((music playing)) praise you again and again ((music playing)) ((music playing)) don't you get shy ((music playing)) ((music playing)) is ((music playing)) don't you is style me sing it home ((music playing)) ((music playing)) ((applause)) ((music playing)) people we have this this moment in time when we join with one another with creation with the heavens and we don't let ourselves get distracted or defeated or brought down but we encourage ourselves and we encourage one another in the lord and sometimes when things aren't going our way we have to say come on my soul because he is reason that we're here today because he is good and he is worthy to be praised ((music playing)) he is worthy to be praised so all over this place we're gonna throw up our hands come on lift up your hands so i full of my head praise you again cause all that i have is ((music playing)) except for a heart ((music playing)) all right ((music playing)) ((music playing)) ((music playing)) ((music playing)) is ((music playing)) i ((music playing)) ((music playing)) oh ((music playing)) it's your voice ((music playing)) hello ((music playing)) ((applause)) ((music playing)) come on ((music playing)) oh ((music playing)) ((music playing)) is ((music playing)) except for a heart singing oh ((music playing)) yes hallelujah y'all take about 15 seconds and lift up jesus in this tent we're here for the king of kings and lord of lords shout for the victory is ours church shout for the victory is ours god is in this house we got a lot to worship and adore him for no need for sickness and sadness under this canvas cathedral i tell you god's in the house god's doing the work in this place hallelujah hallelujah you may be seated all over the house if you're glad to be here shout amen well honored to have you wow what a what a great spirit what a good crowd amen i think we might run out of chairs and that's a blessing we'll get some more and figure it out somebody i think this was in the women's bathroom i didn't find it somebody else did but uh this ain't target amen but nonetheless somebody left a purple phone and so it'll be right here on the platform if you need that and so whoever left the iphone in the restroom uh make sure that you grab that well i'm excited to have you here there it is right there happy 15-year anniversary global vision bible church amen to god be the glory 15 years strong we're watching the lord move in this place hallelujah 15 years i love it ((music playing)) i promise you it's all god we have been able to defy all the odds survive all the fall down the steps moments they say most church plants these days make it they don't make it between year three and five so about year four they just fall apart now we've had some fall apart moments i get it we've had people leave good people move away and all that the average tenure of a pastor today in the united states is three years flat three years burns them out especially in a church plant it's one thing to inherit problems it's another thing to create your own for 15 years amen we've created a few amen but god's been faithful for 15 years and he's going to be faithful for 15 more there is no doubt about it i think sometimes in the ministry we have these little cliche things that we hear said or on a t-shirt or a coffee mug but we don't believe it but i'm here to tell you i'm declaring unto you right now that the best is yet to come there is no doubt about that this is just the beginning of what god is doing he's just now scratching the surface amongst his children we're just now learning about real power and real presence and real anointing and real ministry and real miracles we're just now getting started with where god's taken us and what a beautiful beautiful thing that is to watch i love to watch you guys grow i love to watch myself grow i love to watch us grow as a church and i don't mean numerically the numbers will come if the power and the presence of the lord is there but at the end of the day where two or more gathered together in his name in the purpose of unity there he is in our midst and god is doing a great work in this place and he's working in a lot of places around the nation he really is and i know sometimes we feel like we're an island unto ourselves but we're not in competition with other gospel preaching churches we're in cooperation with them even some in this community there's a lot of them that will never reopen and there's some of them that should never reopen i get it but god stand out the ranks and raise up an army and there are good churches all over america big small black white rich poor you name it that are rising up there's this remnant that is rising in these last days i'm telling you that is the gospel truth if it's ever been told people often criticize us and say well in the last days it's supposed to get worse and worse and so y'all keep saying there's going to be a revival the revival is going to come because it gets worse and worse it's got to get a lot worse before it can get a lot better and i believe god's going to show up show out and continue to do unbelievable things in our midst and so i'm just i'm super super excited about it you know we're in a good spot not just as a church but you know as your leadership team and staff and really volunteers and everything coming together so beautifully i told you a while back that my wife and i were going to be taking a couple of days off and we weren't going to do any kind of vacation or we weren't going to be doing any kind of ministering we've had people ask us to preach but we're going to the mountains we're leaving after the meet and greet today and and we're going to but we'll get there tonight you know we'll be available throughout the day riding and all of that but once we get there i told her i said god said phones are off done ain't no facebook you know i almost said ain't no twitter i got no twitter now so we'll be back wednesday night and time for for preaching and uh man this whole place might be floating by then i don't know what's gonna happen but my wife and i gonna get away to the mountains and and uh and we're gonna just pray just gonna spend some time praying and fasting and and seeking god and reading the bible and just trying to figure out where the holy spirit wants to take us from here right because it don't matter where greg wants to take us from here it matters where god wants to take us from here and so we're going to be out of pocket for a couple of days two and a half days or so we'll be back wednesday and so uh i'm not real sure what to do with men's bible study in the morning i i'm conflicted obviously i'm not going to be here and i'll be an hour ahead in the mountains and so i suppose i could i could call back and and you could just just put it on the phone and i could you know re read the bible but uh at the end of the day if you guys want to show up and pray show up and pray all right if y'all want to have breakfast it'll be open right somebody read the bible somebody can you know buffer can read the bible greg can read the bible micah can read the bible notice y'all just take a few chapters and read the bible be all right you're good huh if you've got to have my voice to read the bible you're a mess right so i really don't want to cancel it so if if everybody still wants to show up then they can show up in the morning all right 6 a.m men's bible study so if y'all want to go for it go for it and then if it goes 10 minutes then just eat breakfast early i don't care he can go three hours i ain't gonna be there i'm gonna be praying and spending time with the lord and my wife and so so that's gonna be good so you all figure that out in the morning whatever you wanna do if you show up you show up if you don't you don't one more thing i wanna say uh where is uh where is duane evangelist duane my north carolina friend where's dwayne at where's he at stand up right there you see this gentleman right here he's a dear friend of mine he today if somebody wants to help him and and be a blessing to him and his wife today at three o'clock he's going to be preaching under the jefferson street bridge at tent city amen and so if you want to go and help him and just let that whole thing turn into a mini homeless revival amen so three o'clock he'll be there at the jefferson street bridge and you're going to be a blessing to god's man and his wife and they're going to go down there and help some folks feed some folks close some folks and give them the gospel of jesus christ and that'll be at three o'clock today and so i just thought about that and uh so i want you to be a part of that that's gonna be good well i am super amped up and excited about the offering today i'm always excited about the offering because i just love to give right our family loves to give i teach our kids i do not want you to be the most generous person in the room i want people to believe you're the most generous person on the planet when you leave the room right and so we love to give and we give a lot we've been able to purchase a lot pay cash for all of it because you can't out give the lord luke 6 38 it is an undeniable irreversible law right it is it is greater than gravity you just cannot out give god you give god your first fruits and i promise you he always abundantly abundantly blesses his children but there are times we go above and beyond in our giving not so that we can take the expense and use it for us there are those times and we're always up front we're always very humble and very honest to let you know we need this we need this we need this that's not today today we need to bless as we've said for our 15th anniversary the nation of israel amen that's what we need to do some time ago i was at the tree and i was praying about this offering and what the lord wanted to release to us and us to others on this day and i just knew the holy spirit wanted us to take the whole offering on our 15-year anniversary in-house online the whole deal the whole thing and i text gillard and i said i believe the lord wants us to sow the whole thing into radiant israel to bless you guys to bless your family to bless the nation of israel to bless all the people that you work with and god's doing a great stirring in their nest in their ministry and their home and i tell you he's doing the work israel israel's in a mess right now i'm telling you i mean prophetically in every way it's in an absolute mess there's a lot of dangerous things happening in the nation of israel and we want to we want to sow into this kingdom work we want to sow into this ministry people can say anything they want to i've heard all of the the arguments about why we shouldn't be you know supporting the nation of israel and are not the real jews of the old don't even believe that bunch of nonsense okay i know what the bible says in genesis chapter 12 if you bless god's people he will bless you if you curse god's people he will curse you there's no way around that principle that's a law right there that works for a nation that works for a church and that works for an individual you want your individual life blessed hey you honor god by honoring israel you want a church blessed honor god by honoring israel you want a nation blessed and we've seen that in america then you let that nation honor the nation of israel and god will bless them i'm telling you god will so today i i want you to dig deep i want you to sacrifice i trust many of you have already been praying and fasted about what the lord would have you to do i've told you three or four times in tears every time that i say it i'm not asking god to give us just a normal sized offering and it's not that i just want to give away the largest offering we've ever given away we're going to i want to take up the largest offering that we've ever taken up in 15 years and give the whole thing to the nation of israel that's what we're going to do today the whole thing now i've already got a number in my head amen so we'll we'll we'll see what the lord does with that but i'm telling you it's going to be good so i want you to give today just make it out to global vision and we'll make sure that they get one check one deposit one transfer however they want to do that but we want to honor them and i knew this is exactly what god wanted us to do for our 15-year anniversary i knew it i knew it sure as i know my name i told him i told my wife i said coming up on that 15 year anniversary let's make sure that we honor god's people and god's going to honor us that's where we're at we're in a whole new level i don't even want to use the word ball game but you understand that terminal we're the whole new ball game folks we've shifted gears halfway around the track as a ministry in a good way and there's no tapping the brakes around the corners i'm telling you god's taking us somewhere the trajectory of what he's doing in this church is unstoppable by the power of the holy spirit he is doing a work in this place and i'm not just talking about filling up a tent and having to get another one and another one i'm not talking about that i'm telling you god's filling up his people god's filling up his preachers god's filling up his leaders god's filling people up he's drawing people here for no spectacular show he's drawing people here literally from all over the planet not because we've got the coolest thing going we're in a tent on a hill in a gravel parking lot it's cold right we got these little whiny restaurant heaters trying to keep people warm and yet god keeps bringing people here god keeps growing the livestream in the midst of the biggest conservative censorship movement on the planet god has allowed us to have one of the largest church live streams on the planet to reach hundreds of thousands of people with the gospel of jesus every single week and those people feel apart and they're watching right now and they can go to globalvisionbc.com g-i-v-e-give and they can give to this offering you've got to bless them right in their kitchen right in their living room right in their office right wherever they are did you know that right now tens of thousands of people all over this nation are in various places gathered around with big screens ((music playing)) and sheets over a garage door and holding phones in their hand watching us right now at work watching us in their garages people in california country church watching us in their backyard by a swimming pool right now people all over the place y'all saw that sign in kentucky jesus party every sunday pastor greg locke preaching i'm not even there but they're in a big old room just glorifying god i'm telling you he's given us such a platform ((music playing)) i can prove to you god's drawing folks here if you are not from the state of tennessee i want you to stand up just for a minute you drove here flew here you came here today for this service you're not from tennessee look at that are you kidding me are you kidding me that's every week if all these visitors every week showed up at the same time there wouldn't be a tent big enough on the planet to hold what god's trying to do and i don't want to be able to contain what god's doing i don't even want to be able to explain it people ask me all the time what's the magic song i don't even want to be able to explain what god's doing it's undeniable it's unavoidable but i want it to be unexplainable i want god to show up and say son i'm just going to do it because i want to it's not going to have anything to do with greg locke anything to do with global vision visions gonna have anything to do with the glory of god the power and the presence of god and so as we as we go into prayer i want you to really seek the lord on what he would have you give both in-house and online and a lot of folks this week you know mailed checks in and specifically donated hey this is for israel this is and that's what it's going to go to and we want to bless them you want to honor them and over and above that you have to understand yeah there's still responsibilities but god will take care of our needs and there's still other people this week that we're going to bless and we're going to help and that we have a responsibility to help other pastors church planters missionaries evangelists other single moms homeless folk other people that we're not going to stop giving to just because we give away the biggest check that we've ever given away and so just in case somebody is you know accidentally be bopped into the door and you didn't know what you was getting into or maybe you've been coming here while you're like yeah you know that's just not the way things were run in the church look we're not the church we grew up in we give stuff away we don't ask man's opinion we ask the holy spirit's opinion he tells us who to give he tells us how much to give and he brings us in and we give it out you can see the books anytime you want to we got nothing to hide we give it all away that's why we meet the ten i don't care nothing about building no building this this place has the glory of god in it there is no doubt i like when the people walk away and they say even when it's empty it's full i mean even when it's empty it's full there's something baked into the presence of this place and so we don't care enough about no fancy buildings but we care about making sure other people are blessed and taken care of and so let's have an anointed god size offering today let's pray father i pray right now in this house and online in homes all over america and around the world that you would release us in a magnificent miraculous spirit of generosity lord that we would give above and beyond anything that we could ever pray ask seek think or imagine you can do exceedingly abundantly above all of that and you'll take care of our family needs our marital needs our collective church needs you'll take care of the community you'll take care of all that you always do you always have you'll take care of the needs we know about you'll take care of a hundred needs that we haven't even heard of yet and so father we thank you for that we honor you for that we worship you for being faithful above and beyond any faithfulness that we could ever have you are so faithful great is your faithfulness your mercies are renewed every morning we thank you for that when our heart is overwhelmed within us lead us to the rock that is higher than i lord we we worship you today lord jesus to release us in a spirit of sacrifice and a spirit of giving and a spirit of generosity unity in the gospel we pray for radiant israel we pray for what they're doing in the nation of israel and what they're doing in america and what they're doing around the world and lord you know that all of this debacle that we've gone through the last couple of years lord it hurt the ministry it hurt all the things that they were doing financially and today lord i pray that you would use us to relieve that debt that they've incurred with all of these problems that have come against them in the nation of israel strengthen them protect them fortify them build them up and use this offering to encourage them and like a mighty flood may wash away any of the problems that the enemy meant for evil but god meant for good use us today to partner with this ministry in a powerful way to bless the nation of israel to bless the jewish people to bless your children and we know that you're going to set our church on fire because of it lord i think our finances will be greater than they've ever been because we're sowing into the nation of israel i think our crowds will be better and bigger than they've ever been because we're giving to the people of god because you said if we would stand with you you would stand with us release us today as we give and i pray lord as we get to worship and continuation of our singing as we get into the word of god the lord bondage would fall off you would loosen us today you would give us freedom where the spirit of the lord is there is liberty people would be saved healed set free baptized lord you would work in this place as only you can ((music playing)) and lord i believe you're just now letting us get started if jesus terry give us 15 more years stronger than the first 15 years anoint us equip us move us have your will and way in everything that's said and done may this service be one that we will never forget because of the power and the influence of the glory of god bless this offering as only you can we give you our loaves and fish break it bless it and use it to distribute it to the multitudes in the mighty name of jesus and all of god's people said god bless you as you give in-house and online ((music playing)) his spirit is so sweet in this place as we get ready to worship some more worship is a battle tool and when the israelites would go into battle do you know what would go ahead of the soldiers were the musicians and the worshipers ((music playing)) so i don't know what kind of battle that you're facing today whether it's a battle of in your body in your mind in your spirit but jesus knows and we're about to head into a worship battle right now we're about to speak jesus over whatever circumstance you find yourself in and everybody sitting here is in a battle because we battle not against flesh and blood but against principalities ((music playing)) and i know for me personally this week has been a battle and so as we stand and we worship together and we go and we battle in the heavenlies we're going to speak jesus over our families we're going to speak jesus over our lives we're going to speak the name of jesus the precious name of jesus the only name they can heal the lame they can see the dead rise they can bring life where the spirit of the lord is where there is peace we're gonna speak jesus today are you guys ready come on ((music playing)) father we worship you in this place would you inhabit the praise of your people ((music playing)) i just want to speak the name of jesus over every heart and every mind cause i know there is peace within your presence i speak jesus ((music playing)) and i just won't speak the name of jesus till every dark addiction starts to break ((music playing)) declaring there is hope and there is freedom i speak jesus cause your name is power your name is here your name is ((music playing)) oh i just want to speak the name of jesus ((music playing)) i speak jesus ((music playing)) cause your name is ((music playing)) make every stronghold ((music playing)) your name is make every stronghold shine through the shadows ((music playing)) shout jesus from the mountains jesus in the streets jesus in the darkness jesus for my family i speak the holy name jesus ((applause)) ((music playing)) jesus ((music playing)) cause your name is ((music playing)) your name is ((music playing)) ((applause)) ((music playing)) ((applause)) ((applause)) ((music playing)) and i just won't speak the name of jesus over every heart and every mind cause i know there is ((music playing)) oh i speak jesus come on if you need jesus oh i speak jesus ((music playing)) oh i speak jesus ((music playing)) shall jesus from the mountains jesus in the streets jesus in the darkness ((music playing)) ((music playing)) ((music playing)) every day ((music playing)) ((music playing)) is ((applause))