This is What I Stand For (Special Milestone Message)

I wanted to jump on here and share with you that our ministry has just reached a major milestone. And this milestone represents the truth that the harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few. Indeed, we are in an outpouring of the Holy Spirit, and our movement is gaining momentum. Our channel on YouTube reached 2 million subscribers. Now let me tell you why this number is important. This number is important because it represents lives, testimonies, stories, people being saved, healed, delivered, empowered, encouraged. They're receiving truth. The power of the enemy is being broken. The gospel is advancing. And as lives are transformed, the world is transformed. The kingdom of God is expanding. Jesus is victorious. Now, at this crucial time, I wanna take a moment to share with you something that I've been wanting to share for a while, and I thought that this milestone is the opportune moment. So this is a special impromptu milestone message. Now that our channel has reached this milestone, and it's significant for spiritual reasons, I wanna share with you something that's been stirring in my heart. And I really want you to allow the Holy Spirit to take what's being said here and then water the seeds that are planted in your heart. I wanna encourage you to know this, church. I know there's a lot going on in our world right now. And a lot of things are causing people in the body of Christ to be afraid, to be confused, to be filled with doubt, to wonder about their future and the future of their children. Well, I wanted to jump on here and remind you of this: Jesus is victorious. All authority, all dominion, all power in heaven and on earth belongs to Jesus. All glory belongs to Jesus, and he is the victorious one. Amen. So you don't need to worry about the future. You don't need to worry about what's going to happen to you and to your family, because no matter what's happening in this world, we know that in heavenly places, Christ is still seated at the right hand of the Father. The harvest is plentiful. Now, I know there's a lot of doomsday saying, and there's a lot of naysayers, a lot of cynics, a lot of doubters, but I believe that the gospel still has power. I believe that Jesus is victorious. I believe that the Great Commission will succeed. Listen, the Great Commission will not fail. The harvest is indeed plentiful. Let me tell you this: you're a part of what God is doing through this ministry. You are part of this movement, Spirit Family. Listen, this is more than a social media platform. This is more than just content being released. This is more than just an organization. We have the joy, the privilege, the honor of stewarding a movement that belongs to the Holy Spirit. And indeed, as I mentioned just a few moments ago, this movement is gaining momentum. And so remember that this movement is Jesus-centered. Jesus is the answer. Jesus is God. The gospel is about Jesus. This movement is Bible-based. While we believe in the power of God being demonstrated, We also recognize that we must be grounded upon the word. This movement is Spirit-filled. We are not ashamed of the working of the power of the precious Holy Spirit. We are not ashamed of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. We are not ashamed of demonstrations of his divine power. We believe in being Jesus-centered, Bible-based, and Spirit-filled. And let me emphasize something here. This is what I stand for, and I wanna make this clear. I am unapologetically Spirit-filled. I'm not ashamed of the power of the Holy Ghost. I'm not ashamed of the working of his miracles. I'm not ashamed of being labeled as strange to the world. And by the way, think about how strange things are in the world already. Are we really to believe that the world has any right to call strange anything that the Holy Spirit does? Think about the things that the world believes and embraces and even pushes. Yet we in the church are shy sometimes about what God is doing through us. And sadly, hear me now, please. Sadly, there are religious elites who are ashamed of the power of the Holy Spirit because in their minds they think that demonstrations of the power of the Holy Spirit are what are what is turning people off to the gospel. Here's what Jesus said: Light has come into the world, and people have rejected the light, not because the power of the Holy Ghost is being displayed, not because Christians are exercising their spiritual gifts, not because they heard someone speak in tongues. The world rejects the light because they love the darkness. And really what's happening is when you hear these individuals saying that we have to tone it down with the power of the Holy Spirit because we might turn people off to the gospel. Really, what they're doing is demonstrating their need to be embraced and liked and accepted by the world. They want to be esteemed in the world's eyes, and therefore they betray the church. They betray moves of the Holy Spirit. They betray God's power so that they can tell the world, "I'm not as weird as them." Well, I don't know about you, church, but I am not ashamed of the power of the Holy Ghost. I say, welcome, Holy Spirit. Welcome, Holy Spirit, in our lives and in our ministries. I believe that speaking in tongues is for today. I believe not just in the gift that's manifested in the ability to speak languages that are unknown to the individual, that are earthly in nature, but I believe in the personal prayer language that God has given to his church. I believe in divine healing. I believe in miracles. I believe in sharing healing testimonies. I believe that there is power in worship, and then when the people of God worship, the presence of the Holy Ghost is manifested. I believe in demonstrations of his power. I believe in spiritual phenomenon, things that cannot be explained with the natural mind, like people reacting to the power of God. You know, you hear a lot of criticisms, for example, about manifestations like people being slain in the spirit. Well, let me tell you this. I believe that when we come into contact with the presence and power of God in a manifested form, that what we are reacts to who he is. Everything about us was designed to respond to God— emotional, mental, physical, spiritual. And so there is this earthly response to heavenly manifestation. This is what the world needs. Do we really believe that A world that embraces strange ideas as they do is going to reject the gospel because someone was weeping when the power of God came on them, or because someone spoke in a language that they'd never heard before. No, let me tell you the truth: the world is hungry for the supernatural. The world is crying out for demonstrations of true power. And I'm here to remind you, church, that you ought not to be ashamed of the power of the Holy Ghost. There is, as I said, a biblical base for this. We have the framework in place. So don't let anyone ever convince you to hesitate when it comes to the power of the Holy Ghost. It's not logical. It's not reason. In fact, a lot of the rejection of the power of the Holy Ghost is based on hysteria and pseudo-intellectualism that really is a religious spirit trying to disguise itself as reverence. And we as the church have to get back to the place where we are not relying upon human ability, where we're not relying upon the talents of man, where we're not relying solely upon intellect, but where we are relying upon the power of the precious Holy Spirit. Nobody knows how to build the church like the Holy Spirit. He's been doing it since the day of Pentecost, and we are truly in that day. So I'm jumping on here to tell you that the movement is gaining steam. You may look at what's happening in the world and you're saying, well, I don't know, it seems like everything is going to result in a loss for the church, or it seems like nothing is going to work out for the kingdom of light. Let me tell you, God is still on the throne. We are gaining momentum. This movement cannot be stopped because it's not man-made. It's not hype. It's not based on emotion. It's not based on systems. It is based upon the Spirit of God. And Spirit family, let me tell you, it's only the beginning. And you are part of something that's bigger than all of us. And you are a part of something that's going to change the world. And you are a part of something that's pushing back on the darkness, advancing the light. It's time to snatch souls. From hellfire. It's time to declare to a generation that Jesus is Lord, and it's time to declare the gospel message in the power of the Holy Ghost. If you believe that, I want you to type it in the comments right now. I am not ashamed of the power of the Holy Spirit. Or you can write something simpler like, welcome, Holy Spirit. So I encourage you, believer, as we have reached this milestone Remember that it's not about the number; it's about the people being impacted. Remember that those numbers represent lives being transformed, and remember that you are a part of something that God is doing in the earth. I want to encourage you to never be ashamed of the power of the Holy Spirit. I want to encourage you to know that we can trust the precious Holy Spirit. I don't know who said that we have to. shy away from things like this. And I'm not even saying that you, the Spirit family, do. But what I am saying is that there is this idea in the body of Christ right now that I want to push back on. And that idea is that we have to be— that we have to put the Holy Spirit in a box, that we have to make sure that we're in control of him. I don't want to control the Holy Spirit. I want the Holy Spirit to control me. And so I know that's what you want. And so I encourage you, let that be so, not just in the ministry. Let that be so in your life. Let that be so in your thoughts. Let that be so in the words that you speak. We say welcome, Holy Spirit, and it's a joy and an honor to be a part of this movement. Now I want to pray with you, and I want to pray that a fresh touch of the Holy Spirit's power would come upon your life and that you would be empowered to step into the call that God has placed on you. So Lord, I lift These wonderful people to you, your children, who you love with an everlasting love. And I ask you, precious Lord, to empower them and help us to be united as we say, welcome, Holy Spirit, and help us to remember to give Jesus all the glory. Let them sense your presence and your power even now in this moment. And all of God's people typed in the comment section, amen. Amen.