Prophets, Pentecost, and the Holy Spirit Q&A

Brother Ernie joins Simple Discipleship Unfiltered to unpack the rich foundations of the early church through the Book of Acts, offering profound insights that bridge ancient Scripture with modern Christian living.

The conversation begins with Brother Ernie sharing his unique prophetic ministry, explaining how true prophetic gifting differs from manufactured words: "A prophet doesn't have anything to say until God gives him something to say." This authentic approach sets the tone for a discussion that values substance over performance in our spiritual walks.

As the group explores Acts, Brother Ernie highlights Luke's extraordinary role as "the first Holy Ghost journalist and historian," whose meticulous documentation provides our window into how the early church embodied Christ's teachings. The discussion reveals how Pentecost represented not just a historical event but the fulfillment of Old Testament prophecies where God's law moved from stone tablets to human hearts.

Perhaps most striking is the examination of Jesus' commissioning in John 20:21: "As the Father has sent me, so send I you." This simple statement carries profound implications for every believer's purpose and empowerment. Brother Ernie challenges listeners to shift their focus: "We always want more of God, but He wants more of us," encouraging a relationship with God that prioritizes His desires rather than our own agenda.

The episode concludes with a heartfelt prayer for those feeling spiritually isolated, reminding listeners that authentic connection with God often begins with simple steps. Whether you're seeking deeper biblical understanding or practical wisdom for your faith journey, this conversation offers both theological depth and accessible guidance for walking as Christ's ambassadors in today's world.

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Transcript

Welcome to Simple Discipleship Unfiltered

Speaker 2 0:13

Hey y'all, welcome to Simple Discipleship Unfiltered. I'm your host, Sister Diana. Thank you so much for joining me on this journey today. Can we be real? Being a Christian is not always easy, but you are not alone. So grab you a drink, grab you a snack. Let's open the word and see what Jesus has to say today. Hey, welcome to Simple Discipleship Unfiltered. I'm Sister Diana and I have a whole table full of people with me this afternoon as we're going to talk about the first couple of chapters of the book of Acts that we've been discussing with Brother Ernie. Here we have Sister Patty, here we have Sister Audia, sister Ann and myself, and we're just going to do like a little q a about what we've talked about so far. Um, but I'm really excited. Thank you for being with us today, both of you. Mama, what you say something?

Speaker 3 1:14

well, it's my pleasure to be here and I'm feeling honored to be with these wonderful women and this wonderful man of God.

Speaker 2 1:28

Thank you. Thank you and Brother Ernie, thank you so much for your time, for your wisdom. Been learning so much about the Book of Acts already, why don't you tell us a little bit about your ministry now, what you're doing?

Speaker 4 1:45

and then we'll go into this little Q&A. Well, it's a little different from anything else that I've ever done. Some years ago, god spoke to me about a change in our ministry and from that time I have functioned as a prophet. And from that time I have functioned as a prophet. I want to clarify that, not that I see the future every time I turn around or that I am an expert on what the future is, but more like a 1 Corinthians prophet, I guess, in that it's my job to build up, encourage and speak life into other ministries, and it doesn't mean that I won't bring a word of correction or foresight, but I can't generate that. One of the things I have learned with this change in my ministry is a prophet doesn't have anything to say until God gives him something to say. It doesn't matter how much you think, you know, how much scripture you've memorized. You want to be careful. Thus saith the Lord when the Lord hadn't said could get you in a lot of trouble With him. Yes, yes, and so it's different for me. Me, it's a change for me. Uh, I serve in that capacity for six uh ministries. Uh, that they're all relatively young ministries and, um, I meet with them as a group. A couple of times a year I speak with these pastors about all things pastoral, but we are intercessors on behalf of their ministries and we are encouragers in their ministries. It's different. I have made the statement as a prophet.

Speaker 4 3:42

Someone asked me do you have a word for me? I don't work for you. I don't know that I have a word for you. If God gives me a word for you, I'll sure tell you. But I can't manufacture a word for you, because you're looking for a prophet to tell you the will of God. Well, sometimes they will. I mean you look at Agabus talking to the Apostle Paul. Sometimes that happens. But the prophet is at the beck and call of the Lord, not at the beck and call of the people. It doesn't mean we're not concerned with them. It doesn't mean we won't pray for them. I just cannot manufacture a word for somebody. You could be desperate and you want to hear something from God. I'm not opposed to you telling me what you need is and I'll pray for you, but I will not declare thus saith the Lord, unless I know that's what happened.

Speaker 4 4:41

Nahum and Obadiah didn't write very much at all, but they're prophets. Isaiah and Jeremiah Ezekiel, they wrote much more. Daniel and Hosea, they wrote much more. But Nahum, habakkuk, obadiah, joel, what Joel had three chapters. You know Obadiah has won. So it's not about falling in a category of a lot of people who God uses for futuristic events. Hey, that's okay. They get dreams, they get visions. These things come to pass. Thank the Lord for that anointing. My particular anointing hasn't worked like that so much, but I'm feeling very productive and I would say, diana, you're one of the ministries that we support in this capacity, so you know you could testify to whether or not this is effective.

Speaker 2 5:35

Right? No, I think, because I think I'm glad that you kind of talked about that, because I think sometimes people confuse the prophetic with having the ability to give a word of knowledge, and it's two very different things. And so if a person gives somebody a word of knowledge that the Lord gives them to give to them, sometimes they're oh, that person's prophetic, no, they just have the gift of the word of knowledge and the Lord's given them a word of knowledge for you, and so it's very different. But people confuse it and I appreciate that you don't manufacture. I've known you for many years now, many, many years now.

Speaker 1 6:12

Yeah.

Guidelines for Bible Study

Speaker 2 6:13

And you're not a person who would manufacture anything About 25 years A long time, yeah, a long time and you're not a person who would do that. And that's why I appreciate your wisdom when you do teach, because it doesn't become clouded because you're trying to perform. You're just giving what the Lord gives you when you're speaking, or whether you're being prophetic or not. So I appreciate that and I appreciate your time that you've given us to the study on the simple presentation of the book of Acts. And we've gone through the introduction, we went through chapter one and then we began chapter two. But chapter two has so much meat in it in that you're going back and looking at the prophetic that Joel did and Isaiah said and all of these things to bring it back full circle to when that big book of chapter two is there. You know you're just kind of going down deep in there.

Speaker 2 7:16

So we've had a part one and two that we'll finish up that chapter with a part three. But let's just talk a little bit about what have we, what have you discussed just up until this time, and see if there's any questions around the table or comments about that so far, because it is such a major book that just sets the precedence for the whole church of Jesus Christ. You know, it just becomes born there and, uh, really just becomes ignited, if you will, um, at that moment when, when the holy spirit just falls um and can you kind of go into that well, actually, the first thing I'd say for us to pay attention to is Luke himself and what we learned about him at the introduction, you know.

Speaker 4 8:08

So we talked about the fact that he's a physician and you know, I'm not sure when he started following Jesus, was he redeemed before the book of Acts or afterwards? But we know that he starts writing himself into the book of Acts, acts or afterwards. But we know that he starts writing himself into the book of Acts and he says you know that from the beginning, he had a perfect understanding of the gospel. That is a powerful statement, you know, and we know that both the gospel of St Luke and the book of Luke is addressed to the name Theophilus. So, ann, did you have something about that? What did you discover about Theophilus? What that is pertaining to?

Speaker 1 8:54

Well, theophilus means friend of God, or loved by God. God and or loved by God, and it comes derived from the Greek word of Theos, which means God, and then from Phileos, which is love or friend, and Theophilus was a very common name back in those days. Name back in those days there was a priest that was named Theophilus Ben-Ananus in Jerusalem during the time of Luke.

Speaker 4 9:32

All right. So Theophilus then could have been an individual, or it could have been a pet name for a church that he loved, but it definitely tells us that this was personal.

Speaker 1 9:44

Right.

Speaker 4 9:44

That gospel was personal and that letter to Theophilus. In the letter, the book of Acts, the Acts of the Apostles, was important. Now, in the introduction, some rules that we talked about for study. Do you remember any of those rules? Do you have any of that? Uh, with you audio guidelines, because you don't have to know greek and hebrew to do a third thorough study of the word of god. It does help, it's great, it's glorious, but if you never get that much education, as long as you can hear from God and obey him, so what are the guidelines you have there for studying the word of God?

Speaker 5 10:30

Okay, the guidelines I have are use the principle of the first mention. How was the language the first time? Use the principle or a concept Context, context. Okay, which covenant is it under? So when he talks about that, you want to go back and reference certain covenants that God had made.

Speaker 4 10:57

And those are two great examples. I like that Principle of first mention. When you talk, talk about that. That has to do primarily with symbolisms. In the bible, when you see something is used symbolically, beginning with the book of genesis, and you see that same terminology in other books, you interpret it the same way. You don't make God inconsistent. And when we take the same symbolism and give it four different interpretations, we start giving room for confusion. And the principle of context was great. Tell me, sister Donna, do you have notes? Somebody tell me about the principle of complete mention.

Speaker 1 11:52

Would that be where you verify the meaning or the use using all similar or related scriptures?

Speaker 4 12:00

Amen. And then, of course, always ask God for guidance.

Speaker 2 12:04

You know, there's always a smarty in the class.

Speaker 4 12:12

We always have one knucklehead who takes notes.

Speaker 5 12:17

And so One that always asks questions when when I'm proud of you.

Speaker 2 12:21

I'm proud when we study.

Speaker 4 12:23

We want guidelines, you know. We looked at the end of all the gospels and the wording of those. We looked at the end of luke, matthew, mark and luke, and we looked at matthew 28 and the first verse, or the first lesson. We looked at matthew 28, 16 through 20. You don't have to read all these. You, some of you have notes, so you, we, we read mark 16, 14 through 20. Uh, matthew's memory of what happened, mark's memory of what happened, mark's memory of what happened, and we think Mark was the earliest gospel written and that Matthew and Luke probably took some of what they did from Mark's writings and confirmed them in their own writings.

Speaker 2 13:09

How did Luke get to have one, since he wasn't one of the original 12?

Luke as the Holy Ghost Historian

Speaker 4 13:14

I don't know much about Luke other than he was a physician and he was a gentile. And then we find that he joined paul's missionary troop and it seems that he joined as more than a disciple being mentored by paul, because he became a journalist and a historian, which is how we got the gospel of Luke and the book of Acts. And when you get in Paul's missionary journeys you will find suddenly the words we and us letting you know this is not just the result of research. I was there, I saw it.

Speaker 2 13:56

So did he actually follow Jesus or is he like Paul?

Speaker 4 14:04

I don't know when Luke came to salvation. There'll be different ideas and different commentaries.

Speaker 4 14:10

But if you want, me to tell you how he got it. I would be stretching it to say I knew that much about his conversion. We know about Saul's conversion and we know when the disciples were called the 12, and we know that the 70 were seven out was sent out. We don't know if he was one of the 70. We don't know if he was one of the 500 who saw Jesus after he rose from the dead. We just know that he was impacted so greatly that he attached himself to Paul's ministry, and not just as one being mentored, but also as someone who was chronicling the works of God through the apostles.

Speaker 4 14:52

He was I guess I've referred to him as the first Holy Ghost journalist and historian, because what he gave us, both in his gospel and in the book of Acts everything that's written from Romans to Revelation you can tie it to the fact that it was a church that was founded in the book of Acts during that time frame. And so what a person in history. When we walk on the streets of gold. When we walk on the streets of gold, how much conversation will we get to sit down and have with him, and how interesting would that be.

Speaker 2 15:38

Yeah, I just wondered if he was actually one of the 120, I mean to have that experience. It's very possible To explain it like that.

Speaker 4 15:47

The detail with which he explains Peter's first message. Yeah, you know, and I'm persuaded that it was more than a 10 or a 15 minute sermon. We read it as just a few verses, but I think that's a narrative hitting the main points that Luke said. We must not forget that these are foundational principles.

Speaker 5 16:14

Yeah, yeah, right, something. I don't know where I read this, but somewhere I think I read that one of Luke's parents was Jewish.

Speaker 4 16:32

You may have.

Speaker 5 16:33

And that, therefore, he may have been trained in the Torah and the writings and things like that.

Speaker 4 16:42

That's something I haven't read, but that doesn't mean it isn't true. Yeah.

Speaker 5 16:48

So I think he had a somewhere, he had a concept or an understanding of these scriptures before he joined them. I think.

Speaker 4 17:00

Well, his statement that he had a perfect understanding of the gospel in his first letter, in the Gospel of St Luke, to me really lends credence to the book of Acts. Because he's saying I understood the parabolic teachings of Jesus Christ, I understood the training of the apostles. So I see that the consequences from the death, burial and resurrection are supposed to look like this and that's what we're seeing in the book of Acts. We're seeing that consequence, all the consequences of the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ lived out, of the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ lived out. And I would point out to you, being that the book of Acts is a history of the church, that history is still being written Until Jesus comes. The history of the church is being lived out before us. So, looking at the ending of those gospels, is there a commonality that you see between, let's say, in particular, matthew, mark and Luke at the end of their gospels? What would you think is the most common thing?

Speaker 5 18:16

Repentance and remission of sins and being baptized.

The Meaning of Pentecost

Speaker 4 18:20

Okay, boy, that was fast. Does anybody else have another opinion? I mean, I agree with that, okay, and I was just astounded at how quickly you said that we didn't even give you an offering. I know you just spit that right out, okay. And what about john? What about the, the things that jesus said from john, uh, chapter 20, and john, chapter 21? Were there anything in in those gospels or in that gospel that stood out particular to you, that stood out particular to?

Speaker 5 19:01

you. Well, we do know that John has always said he was the one that Jesus loved best.

Speaker 4 19:15

He could pat himself on the back, couldn't he? He must have had a good reason to be so bold to say me and Jesus was cut buddies. The rest of you guys were. He loves you, however, However, but we also know.

Speaker 5 19:27

I think he even in the baptism of the Holy Spirit, just in all the books that he wrote, that he had his understanding of Jesus went way deeper.

Speaker 4 19:42

It was more personal. It was more about his personal revelation of what he saw in Jesus. That's good. If you look back in Acts, chapter 20, let's say from verse 19. And if you could read for us, mama, if you could read three verses there 19, 20, and 21. Acts, chapter 20.

Speaker 3 20:12

Just read those real loud Microphone, pick it up Good 19, 20, and 21 and 21 yes get over there serving the lord with all humility and tears and trials which fell upon me through the plots of the Jewish leaders.

Speaker 4 20:40

Acts 20, john 20, gospel of St John. I'm sorry, did I say Acts? You did I apologize? I apologize, john 20. It must be that coconut cream pie. Mama made a wonderful coconut cream pie. It disoriented me.

Speaker 3 20:58

It was evening on that day, the first of the week, when the doors were locked where the disciples were for fear of the Judean leaders. Yeshua came and stood in their midst and he said unto them Shalom aleichem. After he said this, he showed them his hands and his side. Then the disciples rejoiced when they saw the Lord Yeshua said to them again Shalom aleichem. As the Father has sent me, I also send you.

Speaker 4 21:30

So he said Peace be unto you. Can you imagine he?

Speaker 1 21:36

just appeared in the room.

Speaker 4 21:38

Through the locked door. I mean mean he didn't come to the back door, the front door, the window. He just appeared in the room like beam me over, scotty. There he, there he was, and the first words he said to them were peace be unto you, peace be unto you.

Speaker 4 22:00

She's reading from the tree of life that's the one we're reading through right now and it's very stimulating, but the the idea that they were living in terror, they were afraid of the Jews, they were in hiding while they're living in fear, huddled up in this room perhaps the upper room? They were afraid of the Jews. They were in hiding While they're living in fear, huddled up in this room. Perhaps the upper room Poof. There he is, see, I think they had a moment.

Speaker 1 22:31

Oh yeah.

Speaker 4 22:33

I ought to have checked my britches, they had a moment. No wonder he said peace be unto you. I don't don't want you all to get, you know, freaked out, here it's me. And and then, uh, he says in verse 21 something that we should really pay attention to. He said peace be unto you, as my father hath sent me. Even so, send I you. And this is what luke starts, the book of acts, with jesus telling them you shall receive power. Don't do anything till you receive the promise of the father, then you'll be my witnesses. After that, the holy ghost has come upon you. He says here as the father has sent me, even so, send I you. So interpret that for us, diana. What does jesus mean by he's sending us out into the world the same way he was sent?

Speaker 2 23:35

well, just a bit ago you were on that last, on the last podcast, you talked about how god and jesus being one and when, when the disciples were were still questioning jesus, jesus said well, if you've seen me, you you've seen the Father, right, right. And so I was sitting here thinking about that while you were reading, and so I think it's something that we don't fully grasp is the fact that, since the Holy Spirit has come, we're sent out the same way that Jesus was sent out, because we carry all of who he is inside of us.

Speaker 4 24:22

Isn't that awesome.

Speaker 2 24:23

Yeah, but do we grasp that?

Speaker 4 24:25

that's true, you know, jesus started to teach this. It's demonstrated in the book of Acts, but he started to teach it when he was. The disciples said teach us how to pray, yeah. And he said when you pray, say this our father start off that way. In other words, your father and my father's same father. When you pray, yeah, you know, as a human being, as the son of god, he declares to the disciples even then, before they were ever filled with the Holy Ghost, you have to believe. You and me have the same Father and so, therefore, as he was sent, he has sent us. So what did he do in his first visit here with us, ann? What did Jesus do? What's recorded in the Gospels? Tell me about his life, tell me how he lived.

Speaker 1 25:28

I can start with how he collected each one of them, but his main gospel was to teach the word of the Father to everyone.

Speaker 4 25:43

To bring the word, to bring the will of God to the world. Right and to have them repent of their sins and he says to us today still, this is for us, as the Father has sent me, so send I you.

Speaker 1 26:09

And we are to go out and continue his work, not start a new one yeah, there's not another gospel, there's not another gospel not another savior, not another gospel.

Speaker 4 26:21

Only the God of Abraham, isaac and Jacob is the only God there is. There's not another one.

Speaker 1 26:27

he is the only God there is. That's correct. There's not another one. No, he is the only one. We continue his work.

Relationship With God as He Desires

Speaker 4 26:33

So John ends his gospel a little bit different than Matthew, mark and Luke talking Audia, like you said, about repentance, remission of sins, water, baptism, talking about making disciples becoming disciples. John phrases it totally different, but it's just as powerful, because it's like he takes the cake and puts icing on it. Jesus said as the Father has sent me, so send I you. You know, it's like you could hear the other three say yeah, that's what I mean. That's exactly you know. Cut to the chase, instead of saying all these other things. I could have said that Because did they lay hands on the sick? In the book of Acts, at the end of Mark, it says God confirmed the word he gave everywhere with signs and wonders following, with signs and wonders following. So we're looking to the book of Acts to see the gospel of Jesus Christ become reflected in the lives of those who serve him, and isn't that what we want today? Okay, so let's talk about what we've dealt with in lesson two, all right, so do you remember what is the meaning of the word Pentecost?

Speaker 1 28:02

50th day 50th day.

Speaker 4 28:14

So, uh, expound for us, uh, back to you, audia, expound for us when you read acts, chapter 2, verse 1, and when the day of pentecost was fully come, what does that do in your spirit? Because there have been pentecost every year, right yeah.

Speaker 5 28:30

Well, I think the disciples were only at that point. They were celebrating what Pentecost meant. They weren't expecting. I mean, they knew something was going to happen, but they didn't know it was going to happen that day. And, um to me, when it started happening, they just had to be like you know, awestruck number one. But then, when the word started flowing out of their mouth, they were kind of like it was a strange experience it was an experience, but they weren't.

Speaker 5 29:11

I would say they were surprised. They were taken, you know, by surprise, but I think they were. When they got that realization they were kind of like yes the light came on.

Speaker 4 29:25

Yeah, you Mama. The term when the day of Pentecost was fully come. What does that mean to you? Pentecost was fully come, Since there was a feast of Pentecost every year.

Speaker 3 29:36

Well, the Lord had told them to go to the upper room and to wait for the power. Wait for the Holy Ghost and he would bring power and be a comforter. So they were all expecting something. They didn't know what it was.

Speaker 4 29:50

Did they know it was going to be on Pentecost? Even no.

Speaker 3 29:54

Because this was. They waited for several days. So when it fully came, when he actually rushed in like a mighty wind and filled everyone and they knew something was going on, there was fire laying on everyone Because Don the Baptist had told him something was going on.

Speaker 3 30:10

There was fire laying on everyone Because Don the Baptist had told him he was going to be baptized with fire. So that was exciting to them. And then they started coming down the stairs and going down, running up and down the streets and I think that fully they realized what the Spirit of God was doing within them.

Speaker 4 30:34

That's really.

Speaker 5 30:34

That's an amazing realization. This is what he's been telling us and you know, right before he went up into heaven, he said, he opened their eyes to understanding, wow, knowledge. But you know, so they were grasping. Yes, he's the son of God, yes, he's the Savior, yes, he died and rose again and saved us. But this was their realization of why this all had to happen and why they had to go out. I mean, obviously they were at this realization. It's like we can't keep this to ourselves. We've got to tell everybody.

Speaker 4 31:18

Say that again. We've got to do what.

Speaker 5 31:21

Tell everybody.

Speaker 4 31:22

As the Father has sent me, so send I you. How much time did Jesus spend ministering to the multitudes, ministering to the multitudes, and he died on the cross. For who, for god, so loved the world? So this, go tell everyone is really important. And in this, this fullness of pentecost, the first pentecost right was 50. Pentecost right was 50 days from the first Passover, when everybody in Egypt was there. All the firstborn died 50 days later. They were at the mountain, and God you know. By the way, pentecost, if you remember correctly, is also called the birthday of the law, because God wrote on the tables of stone the Ten Commandments, but now he's writing it on their hearts. Do you remember any of the prophets who talked about that?

Speaker 3 32:27

Talked about what.

Speaker 4 32:37

About God putting his word inside of his people. How about jeremiah? How about?

Speaker 4 32:41

ezekiel god says I'm going to give you, I'm going to take, get. Get rid of your stony heart and don't give you a heart of flesh. And prophets. Talking about jeremiah, telling the people you've forsaken the living water. When you, when you walk away from god and you turn to idolaters, you were forsaking the living waters. And what did jesus say to the woman at the well? If you knew who it was that was asking you to drink, you'd be asking him and he would give you what.

Speaker 2 33:11

Living water.

Speaker 4 33:13

Isaiah said, therefore, with joy, ye shall draw waters out of the wells of salvation, and in that day shall you say praise the Lord. And, by the way, that word salvation is Yeshua. It could be just as easily translated Yeshua. So here we come, to the fullness of Pentecost. It's no longer the tables of stone. This is a birthday of a new law, the law that's written in our hearts by the spirit of God, not just on tables of stone.

Speaker 4 33:51

That moses got frustrated and threw him off the mountain and they busted and is gone. And he, god, said you're gonna cut the next two yourself, son, I'll ride on them. But you broke those and you gonna make the next two. But here's my, here's my point the fullness of Pentecost, when Pentecost was fully come. That tells us that the first Pentecost was a prophetic shadow of this Pentecost. The Old Testament is filled with so much of what we're learning in the New Testament. If we don't read the Old Testament and see what God had Israel go through, what God had the rest of the world go through, the mistakes Israel made, the things they did right what it cost them, we as the church will repeat the same errors.

Speaker 2 34:51

And we find that right.

Speaker 4 34:53

Yes, that's what we find there's no sense in picking on them and saying, there it is, and I wouldn't have done that. Okay, so we're looking at this. Was there anything today in what we talked about in today's lesson, earlier, the podcast where we talked about the book of Acts we looked at Peter's sermon. Anything jumped out at you all about Peter's sermon? Yes, audia.

Speaker 5 35:20

The thing that jumped out to me is when, obviously, peter knew the Scripture he had been schooled in it as a child and a boy knew the scripture he had been schooled in it as a child and a boy. But my question is he finally came to the realization of what these scriptures meant? What the Pharisees, the rabbis, these people, when they read the scripture, how did they interpret it? They say, oh well, we don't know what this one means, or you know.

Speaker 4 35:56

You know what's so good about that. Remember when Jesus looked at the disciples in the Gospel of St John and he said the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit and they are life. Remember when he said to Petereter satan has desired your heart, but I pray for you when you are converted. Strengthen your brethren. Jesus is telling them something different's coming down the pike for you. We got to have an open heart to hear from god, and the reason we're baptized in the holy Ghost is so that we can build our relationship with God individually.

Speaker 2 36:34

But don't you want relationship with somebody that you carry around with you all the time anyway?

Speaker 4 36:40

You do, but relationship with God will lead you to repentance. Relationship with God will make you second guess yourself, and sometimes people don't want to do that. They don't want to believe that what they've done is wrong, the way they think is wrong, what they say is wrong. They're satisfying their goals in life and that's enough for them. When God is saying no, that's not enough for you. The only time you have enough is when you have me Right, because it's not enough for him.

Speaker 2 37:12

You know that's right, because it's not enough for him. We always want to say we want more of God, but he wants more of us. He wants us yielded to him. That's the goal. Right is less of this flesh and more of who he is every single day.

Speaker 4 37:27

But to acknowledge the person that you carry within you. You know, I think, paul's statement to the Ephesian church that a man's supposed to love his wife the way Christ loves the church.

Speaker 4 37:41

I'm blessed to say, in spite of all my imperfections. I've been married to the same woman for almost 52 years and I can tell you, in those years she has put up with an imperfect man, but he has never stopped wanting to learn how to love her. We must never stop wanting to learn how to love God the way he wants to be loved, Not the way we want to love him. Lord, how do you want to be loved? You know what my wife does. She cooks the way I like her to cook.

Speaker 2 38:16

Yes, she cooks good. You know she cooks the way I like her to cook.

Prayer for Those Feeling Alone

Speaker 4 38:20

As you can see, I'll never be anorexic, but my point is she cooks for me the way I want it. Yeah, Shouldn't the church be living for Christ the way he wants us to live? So we're trying to learn to love God the way he wants to be loved, Not the way we want to love him, the way he wants us to love him. Not long ago, I spoke a word over a couple of churches and it was the same word and I said to them I'm going to pray for you and I'm going to bless you, but not for you to have all the things you're praying for. God will take care of the things you're praying for. I'm praying that you will have the relationship with God that God wants you to have with him.

Speaker 4 39:17

Yes, yes, and I felt that so impressed in my spirit and it stayed with me for a few weeks, and so I spoke that word to a couple of different churches. I was asked to bless the congregation at the end of the congregation and I said I'm going to bless you, but I'm not going to bless you. And don't misunderstand me. There is such a thing as financial blessing, emotional blessing Okay, a blessing for your dwelling, a blessing for your transportation. There's more blessings than we can count. But if you have all those things but you don't know how to love God the way he wants to be loved, will you hear the trumpet sound If you're not seeking to give him joy? See, when I hug my wife, it's not just because I want the joy of being hugged. I want to make sure she's getting joy out of the hug. Yeah, when you go to worship the Lord, you want to make sure that you're putting out there what thrills Him.

Speaker 2 40:33

Funny story. I'm going to tell you this because we were at Brother Myron's church yesterday for their anniversary, and boy, they have a praise and worship band. That was just going off.

Speaker 1 40:45

They were getting it.

Speaker 4 40:46

Oh, and you know they got the drummer going, got that keyboard, and I mean two guitars a bass that that lead guitarist is just as good on the bass as he is on that lead guitar.

Speaker 2 40:56

I mean they were just going hard and and a lot of times when I'm worshiping, I just see jesus on the throne and I can and he's like you know I just love this and I'm like I know you do. But yesterday when they started just kicking it, I could see Jesus there and I was like Jesus, you're a little funky, aren't you? And he was like you know it, Because they were just going.

Speaker 4 41:19

I hope Pastor Myron hears this. Jesus, you go to ALWC, you go to Abundant Life Worship Center. Jesus is funky.

Speaker 2 41:28

Yeah, because he wasn't just like doing a little, he was all in it.

Speaker 5 41:31

You know, I was like all right, he got the soul in his step.

Speaker 2 41:34

That's what I told you, funky Jesus, you know.

Speaker 2 41:38

But it was such a good day, so you know. Again, I just want to thank you for your time, thank you for Mama, thank you for the pies and audio, for your home and for the food, and it just has been a wonderful day in the Lord and I just pray that people are learning something as we're going through this. I just felt so strong in my spirit for quite some time to get your wisdom and I know you quench at that, but I'm saying to get it recorded and to get it put down and get it videoed and people to hear this. And I know that people are going to have questions and I want them to go to the website, wwwm3miorg. You can ask questions, just comment right there.

Speaker 2 42:24

People have been giving to pay for this platform that we have and we appreciate that and we have ways to give and we do that on our closing here. But it's more important to us that you have a desire and that you're growing in your desire for a closer relationship to Jesus, because all of this would be in vain If we don't point people to who he is. Then we're really wasting our time.

Speaker 2 42:53

Amen Worse than that we're wasting his time? Yeah, because he could get funky somewhere else while somebody's going on.

Speaker 4 43:02

I'm sorry. I've never been in church before where they said Jesus get funky, he got funky.

Speaker 2 43:07

Yesterday he did, I'm just telling you. But I'm going to ask Mama if there's a person who right now is you know they're listening to the podcast for the first time, or maybe they've listened before, but they really just have been in such a dark place because we all find our time, that we're there, whether we want to be or not. But but life is hard sometimes and and I just feel maybe you could just give a word of wisdom for that person that's really struggling right now. Maybe their child has just gone away from the Lord, or you know they're just in a dark place. What would be your advice to them and could you just pray for them?

Speaker 3 43:51

You're not alone. There's a lot of us that's been in that place and I can say it myself. I've been in that place where I just thought I was all by myself, even though I was in the middle of a church, in a nice church, and have this wonderful man as my husband. I felt that I couldn't touch God. He couldn't hear me, no matter what I said or anything. But I started with something very simple the Lord's Prayer, and then just say it over and over, reading some of the psalms that would touch your heart. But God is there and he's wanting you to reach out to touch him and he will put his arms around you. He wants you to know that you're loved and cherished and I'm going to pray for you.

Speaker 3 44:52

Lord, just come down in a mighty special way for anyone that's hearing, that feels that they're all alone, and put your arms around them, whisper in their ear that they are loved and they are cherished and they are someone that he loves. Just be with them. Just show them a whisper in their ear. Have somebody come up and give them a word, somebody that they don't even know. Just come up and say you know what God told me? To tell you that you are loved. Jesus has come down in a mighty way and thank you for this church service. That's exactly what we were doing today is having church listening to your word, feeling your promises come true. Just bless this endeavor today, god. Lift us to higher places. We just thank you for all that you do. In Jesus' name, we pray Amen, amen. Thank you, mama, thank you, mama.

Speaker 2 45:48

In Jesus name we pray amen. Thank you, mama, thank you ladies, for being with us today around the table, sister Audia, sister Ann always we enjoy it. But mama says that you're not alone. You're not alone on this journey, and that's one of the things we do in our introduction, and she's never heard the introduction, so she doesn't know that. But we do say that because it's true that we sometimes feel like we're just out on this island by ourselves, even in the midst of everything else. But we're not. God is always with us and he promises to never leave us or forsake us. So as we go today, we always end each segment by saying to go show some love, show some compassion, give mercy and go be Jesus today.

Speaker 4 46:35

Amen.

Speaker 2 46:37

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