Living in the Overflow
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· 128 viewsCan the power be stored up? Learn how to pray until you are living in the overflow and you will do the things Jesus did.
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37 On the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink.
38 He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.”
Not just preachers, but church members can reach a place in prayer where these signs follow them.
Saints can become great soul winners. People will be healed and set free and demons will flee whenever a person becomes supercharged with the overflow of the Holy Ghost.
We don’t have to be stagnant Christians; we can be overflowing Christians.
1 Ask the Lord for rain In the time of the latter rain. The Lord will make flashing clouds; He will give them showers of rain, Grass in the field for everyone.
Prayer is the secret to the great power released from those men.
We can lay hold of the horns of the alter. God is calling us into a deeper more powerful prayer life to bring revival.
Jesus talked about flowing wells...
artesian wells.
We receive the baptism of the HG to be saved. A log of people leave it there, but the Apostle Paul taught us to pray until filled with the fullness of God.
The apostles chose men full of the Holy Ghost to minister in the church — not just people who received the Holy Ghost, but those filled with all the fullness of the Holy Ghost… Overflowing Christians.
8 Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out demons. Freely you have received, freely give.
How can we get this power? How can we help others? Only one way! Pray! Pray! Pray!
24 And Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him.
In Gen 32 an all night prayer meeting changed a man’s name!
The Bible said he received power from God.
An all night prayer meeting:
Brought an Angel
Changed his name
gave him power from God
and turned his enemy into a loving, hugging brother.
A lot of enemies could be turned into friends through an all night prayer meeting.
Much prayer stores up power ready to be released.
Faith pulls it out.
Some have it stored in them, but faith must pull it out.
They pray for themselves all day and then have the church pray for them.
We need to learn to pray for other people.
19 And the whole multitude sought to touch Him, for power went out from Him and healed them all.
No one ever prayed like Jesus.
21 For she said to herself, “If only I may touch His garment, I shall be made well.”
Moses spent 40 days in prayer on Mt. Sinai......
29 Now it was so, when Moses came down from Mount Sinai (and the two tablets of the Testimony were in Moses’ hand when he came down from the mountain), that Moses did not know that the skin of his face shone while he talked with Him.
30 So when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone, and they were afraid to come near him.
31 Then Moses called to them, and Aaron and all the rulers of the congregation returned to him; and Moses talked with them.
32 Afterward all the children of Israel came near, and he gave them as commandments all that the Lord had spoken with him on Mount Sinai.
33 And when Moses had finished speaking with them, he put a veil on his face.
Jesus prayed alone all night before He walked on the water and calmed the raging storm:
23 And when He had sent the multitudes away, He went up on the mountain by Himself to pray. Now when evening came, He was alone there.
Peter and John were going to the Temple at the hour of prayer. This wasn’t the first day they had prayed!
4 but we will give ourselves continually to prayer and to the ministry of the word.”
Peter gave himself continually to prayer....
15 so that they brought the sick out into the streets and laid them on beds and couches, that at least the shadow of Peter passing by might fall on some of them.
CAn the power of the Lord be stored up in us?
Elisha had been dead a long time. ....
11 Now God worked unusual miracles by the hands of Paul,
12 so that even handkerchiefs or aprons were brought from his body to the sick, and the diseases left them and the evil spirits went out of them.
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7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God and not of us.
19 Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own?
20 For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.
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Glorify God with your mouth, with your actions, with your flesh, with your clothes, with your hair, with your eyes.
Somebody said the Lord looks on the heart. He looks on the flesh, too.
He put coats on Adam and Eve. He notices clothes. He notices hair. We are His temple.
We belong to Him.
When we learn that, we can start a prayer life the apostles had.
We can pray like the early church prayed--- until the HG fills the whole place.
Daniel said, “I set my face...” When he set his face, it was set.
They told Daniel, “If you don’t eat the kings meat and drink the king’s wine, we may have you put to death.” But Daniel and the Hebrew boys just set their faces in prayer.
Then they said, “You can’t pray any more; we have a decree and it is signed by the king and the lions are hungry— wev’e seen to that, Your praying is over.”
But to Daniel, praying was the most important thing in his life.
Though a great ruler, he could not stop his prayer life.
He set his face and opened the window and prayed.
They threw him in the den of lions.
When the old lions faced Daniel, they just lay down.
They couldn’t do a thing when the met a man that knew how to set his face and pray.
Beginning in Daniel 9:3 we read one of Daniels prayers;
3 Then I set my face toward the Lord God to make request by prayer and supplications, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes.
4 And I prayed to the Lord my God, and made confession, and said, “O Lord, great and awesome God, who keeps His covenant and mercy with those who love Him, and with those who keep His commandments,
5 we have sinned and committed iniquity, we have done wickedly and rebelled, even by departing from Your precepts and Your judgments.
Daniel talked for his nation Babylon.
He confessed we have sinned.
Sin stops us from having:
A genuine old-fashioned prayer life and
From being an overflow Christian who can help others.
Daniel prayed on:
6 Neither have we heeded Your servants the prophets, who spoke in Your name to our kings and our princes, to our fathers and all the people of the land.
We just didn’t listen to the preachers. When they talked to us we just went our own way.
15 And now, O Lord our God, who brought Your people out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and made Yourself a name, as it is this day—we have sinned, we have done wickedly!
And on and on he prayed until the 20th verse:
20 Now while I was speaking, praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before the Lord my God for the holy mountain of my God,
21 yes, while I was speaking in prayer, the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, reached me about the time of the evening offering.
22 And he informed me, and talked with me, and said, “O Daniel, I have now come forth to give you skill to understand.
23 At the beginning of your supplications the command went out, and I have come to tell you, for you are greatly beloved; therefore consider the matter, and understand the vision:
This could have been an all night prayer meeting....
...Daniel did a lot of confessing of his and the nation’s sins and weaknesses and faults and failures.
“While I was praying” - a man with his face set to pray through - while he was still talking about his failures before a holy God, he looked and saw Gabriel being sent swiftly to answer his prayer.
Oh, God help us to pray until we can repent of our sins, faults and failures —
So angels can come and
our whole being will be charged with Holy Ghost fire.
It will then emanate from us, reaching people in trouble.
WE don’t have to be in the church praying all of the time....
We pray when we get up......
Trails run to a spring in the wilderness.
Trails run to a spring in the wilderness.
The animals of the forest find it somehow.
The birds of the air find it,
The little dear find it,
Everything finds the overflowing well, the spring!
If we become overflowing Christians, people will find us.
Their spirit will tell them, “That person can say something that will save my life; that will turn me around.”
Humility
Humility
The person who prays enough to be an overflowing Christian:
Does not get lifted up in themselves....
Will not brag.....
He will treat people with kindness and love, not with roughness and hardness.
An overflowing Christian will not condemn or find fault.
He will pray for people with faults and sins in their life.
An overflowing Christian becomes a soul-winner.
An overflowing Church with love and faith and hope will have revival.
Pray, pray, pray until you become an overflowing Christian.
Closing:
Closing:
It is time for movement on a massive scale into the kind of prayer life that soaks us in His glory.
A. God is calling us to be doers of the Word...
A. God is calling us to be doers of the Word...
22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
Are you a swimmer if you don’t swim?
Are you a runner if you don’t run?
Are you a fisherman if you don’t fish?
4 but we will give ourselves continually to prayer and to the ministry of the word.”
Prayer
Ministry of the Word
Letters and communication were written, but actions.
God’s true people have always been people of action....