Barb shared…
On Wednesday, in pre-service prayer with the youth, the Holy Spirit had given me a word for them during the day. And normally I just come to prayer and I help Pastor Dustin with the group. I didn’t know he wasn’t going to be there. So as I’m sitting there, he comes in and says, “I’m not going to be here at prayer so can you lead?” I said, “Sure, cuz I already got something.” The Holy Ghost was already prepared for me to take over.
Since last fall, I’ve been helping out and every single time I go to the youth, it seems like the Holy Ghost manifests Himself in a different way. And so on Wednesday before service, I was just getting ready and was talking to the Lord about the prayer service and the youth. Then He dropped this in my heart to tell them about yielding to the Holy Spirit and how there are rivers that come out of your belly. There are rivers in the Holy Ghost. Different rivers. And every time that I’m there, there seems to be a different demonstration of the Holy Ghost. And what He was trying to get over to them was most of the people in pre-service prayer are the praise and worship team. So the river they’re familiar with is praise and worship. So right off from the beginning, they go right to that river. They start singing in the Spirit. That’s not a bad thing. That’s the river that they’re familiar with so they move in that river.
Over the past several weeks, it’s been different. The Holy Ghost has allowed me to demonstrate and not because it’s in my mind when I come to the group. It’s just that He moves in that way. We’ve had joy, laughter in the group. People getting drunk in the Spirit. We’ve had prophesying in the group. We had one night where the Holy Ghost was teaching them to step out and sing new songs in the spirit. So all these different rivers that are all in Him and how if we just stay in this one river, we’re never actually going to experience the fullness that is in Him.
And then after being in this … on Wednesday, I thought that’s really interesting cuz when you get something by the Holy Ghost, an hour before service, you don’t really get to study anything out. So I thought I’d really like to kind of dig into that a little bit. So over the past few days, I was digging that out and this morning I was like, “Lord, what are we going to pray about today? What shall we do?” And He’s like, “Okay, you go back to this. I gave you this. So He was reminding me of the different rivers He’s taken me through.
And it’s so awesome in this place because you guys have experienced so many different rivers of the Holy Ghost here in prayer. We get burdens and we weep. There are so many different things that we see. The power of the Holy Ghost comes on people and they begin to declare things. That’s a river. People taking laps and having joy and rolling on the floor. All these are different rivers. And He reminded me of years ago I had never danced in the Holy Ghost. I mean really danced. I did this kind of thing. [demonstrating] You’re into the music and song but I’ve seen people dance in the Holy Ghost and what I was doing looked nothing like what they were doing. Because it was really the presence of God that came on them, the power of God, and it was like something that they weren’t doing. It was the Holy Ghost together with them.
So back when this building wasn’t yet finished. They had meetings with Ray McCauley. I had asked the Lord, “I really want to dance in the Holy Ghost. I mean, for real. Knowing that it’s not just me, that it’s You.” I would see people get in that river and it looked so amazing, so fun. And I wanted to experience that river. So the Holy Ghost was moving in the service and the presence of God was so strong in that place. All of a sudden, I just stepped out in the aisle and I started dancing. Then the Holy Ghost hit me, like the power came on me and I danced. I don’t even remember how long I danced or whatever. But all I know is I fell out. I know I fell out because I woke up on the ground. I don’t remember falling out. But apparently my friend said, “I danced so hard my shoes flew off.” I fell out and rolled up under the chairs!
When I got up I looked around. The usher had gotten my shoes. He put them on my chair. I said, “What happened?” That was amazing! Just asking Him to experience this river. Asking Him and Him just giving you that opportunity to go for it and from that time, once you experience the river, it’s so easy to get back in there. I could dance in the Holy Ghost right now and knowing I’m in the river with Him and not doing my own thing. You take that step and then He comes and takes hold together with you and you’re in the river. It’s amazing.
I told the kids on Wednesday, once you ask Him, if you saw somebody prophesy or declare or dance in the Holy Ghost or get drunk in the Spirit, ask Him to give you that river. You want to step into that river, because they come from here, right? He’s on the inside of you. Out of your belly, John 7:38, out of your belly shall flow rivers. So we have access to all these different rivers.
Several years ago, I had a dream. My husband has “God dreams” all the time. It has, as Sid Roth says, “provoked me into jealously in the spirit.” I’m like, “How come you get dreams all the time?” Anyway, I had this dream. We were standing in a river and there were big wall like stone like it had been cut out of a mountain. This stream cut its way through a mountain. We were standing in this river and I’m with my family. I’m holding my younger daughter’s hand and we were all in the water. Waves would come down the river and I’d do this because I didn’t want to get wet. We’re all enjoying the water. All of a sudden, there’s this big wave I see coming. You think, “There’s no waves in a river.” Well, it depends on what happens at the top. Something big happens at the top of the river and it makes a big wave. In California, we had a dam near us that broke. We saw a lot of water come out until we had to flee our house because this huge wave was headed our way.
So this wave is coming. You all know my husband who is kind of the “go for it” let’s just jump in head first. That’s what he did. He dove into the wave. I’m the toe tipper. How does the water feel? I don’t want to get all wet. The wave is coming and I’m trying not to get all wet. But the wave was so huge, that it completely overcame us and we were drenched. The Holy Ghost was saying, “I’m going to be so big in these days that even if you try to get out of the way, I’m going to get you.” If you just open your heart a little with the toe dip, He’s able to come in, in such a big way and take you in these different streams. Once you experience Him in that way, you can experience Him again and again.
When you experience Him in one river, it’s easier to access all the other rivers. It’s like, “I know God in prayer. Sure I can enter this river, get drunk in the Holy Ghost… take a lap in the Spirit… dance in the Holy Ghost… sure I can prophesy… I can walk up to that person and tell them what’s going on in their life and how God is going to deliver them…”
I wanted to share a couple things from commentaries on John 7:38, 39: “So on the last day that great day of the feast Jesus stood out and cried saying, If anyone thirst, let him come to me and drink. He who believes in me as the scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.”
This one is my favorite.
“If we are thirsty, we can come to the Lord Jesus and drink of Him. But if we encounter others in need, we can’t just pour out a cupful of Jesus and hand it to them. We must minister to their needs out of the powerful, refreshing, renewing spring of Christ within us. Therefore, we must keep on drinking from Him if He is going to meet the needs of others through us.”
So He says come to Me and drink. So that’s what we do first. We come and drink so we can move in those rivers. When those rivers begin to flow, they flow out of us to help people, those around us.
“The Word flows though us not on the basis of how many Scriptures we know, but from our dwelling or living in Christ, the source of all life. Thus we must ever be opening-the connection and drinking from Christ by abiding in His Word. Otherwise, we will not quench our own inner thirst, nor the thirst of others.”
I was talking to someone this past week and she said, “I had to go to the doctor because I had a fever” and blah, blah, blah. She said, “I got there and they said you’re dehydrated.” I said, “You’re dehydrated! How can you not know you’re dehydrated.” But apparently, you cannot know you’re dehydrated. So for us, you may not even recognize that you’re dehydrated, that you need to rehydrate in the Holy Ghost. All of us are ministers. Make sure you are not thirsty. Make sure that you are drinking and getting filled. Because then that power is able to flow out of you.
I was reading this from this pastor. I thought it was funny. It’s a good thing to remember. His name was Roger D. Willmore.
“Over thirty years ago, when I was a very young pastor still adjusting to all the demands that fall upon one in pastoral ministry, I found myself neglecting my study in order to meet other needs. One Sunday evening following the worship service a dear lady—a person who loved and cared for her pastor—said to me, “Pastor, I can hear the dipper banging against the bottom of the bucket.” I have never in all these years gotten over that remark. It was her way of admonishing me to not neglect my time in the Word and with the Lord. My pitcher was empty … and she knew it. What about your life, pastor? Do you have supernatural power in your life and ministry? What is your power source? Are you weary and worn-out—can people hear the dipper banging against the bottom of your bucket? Or are you vibrant and victorious?”
That’s where I wanted to start with the body because I know a lot of believers come to church. Maybe they get fed and then they go out and never allow the rivers to flow. “I’m filled. I’m good. Praise the Lord!” And they never let the rivers flow out to anyone else. And that’s what the rivers are for. It’s for you to get drenched and filled. If the river is flowing through you, you’re going to be wet, soaked! But all those rivers you’re experiencing are meant to flow out to everyone else. And for the body of Christ to actually do that, to not just be filled but to step out and let those rivers flow. Hallelujah!
Prayed…
We thank You for Your presence… filling us with Your Spirit… we are grateful that You are in us… we can access those rivers in You… out of our bellies flow those rivers… You strengthen the weary… all the pastors… supernatural strength for them… their buckets would always be full… they water themselves to they can water others… Thank You for a refreshing today… come up them… Your anointing upon them… for Your grace is sufficient… as we run You renew our strength… so we rise up… on the wings of the eagle… we rise up in Jesus’ name… our youth is renewed… peace is in our hearts and minds by the Holy Ghost… this body filled up … so full… it’s time to let loose… time to release… all that goodness that’s been dammed up… time to break loose… time to allow the anointing to flow… rivers to flow… yes, because our redeemer lives… we declare His goodness and faithfulness to others… and everywhere the water goes, brings life… yes, we’ve been ordained by the Holy Ghost to carry forth the Word with power… allowing signs and wonders to flow… not just for the pastors… but every member of the body of Christ… moving and flowing by Your Spirit… with assistance, Lord… from the heavenly realm… from your ministering spirits…
Prayed for Church to yield to the Holy Ghost…
Eyes to see and ears to hear what You’re speaking to us… that Your people would respond to Your voice and yield themselves to the unction of the Holy Ghost… that boldness would be with them… they would speak with confidence… declare and move with confidence in the Holy Ghost… they are being led… more and more and more… more of You released through us in to the earth… more of You displayed through us… into the earth… eyes to see, eyes to see… every place You open up to us… Father, in the name of Jesus, each one that You’ve called us to reach… I thank You that You’ve assigned each one of us to reach…that none would be lost because of resistance to Your Spirit… now, Father… aid and assistance… everywhere we go, everywhere our feet take us, Father… open our eyes to begin to see those that are around us… to begin to see those opportunities of ministry and not to miss the unction of the Spirit… not to deny His voice… not to deny His unction… let it be clear in our hearts of Your people… that they recognize Your voice… it’s not the voice of a stranger, it’s the voice of the Holy Ghost…
Prayer for to drink and be filled to minister to the oppressed…
Yes, Father, it’s time to stop thinking and it’s time to start drinking… because when You’re drinking, ha, ha, ha, you will yield to the Holy Ghost… all those inhibitions are gone… all the fear is gone… yes, it is… it’s like a different person… almost like a change in personality… because you’re drinking in the Holy Ghost… He’s able to use you to the maximum… and your voice will penetrate that darkness… your voice will bring deliverance… and your hands will release and deliver… oh yes, delivering healing… all those oppressed of the enemy… it’s time to deliver those that have been oppressed of the devil… it’s time to go forth in power and might and dominion and deliver those … every oppressing spirit, in the name of Jesus, we have power over them all…
Prayer for those that aren’t filled to be filled…
Yes, Father, out of the belly flow those rivers… and we go about doing good things… just like You did… now in Jesus’ name… and those that haven’t been filled, Father… those that stand in the church that haven’t been filled … we ask You to fill them… with Your Spirit… with the evidence of speaking in tongues… all those in every denomination, Father… even in the Baptist church… Catholic church… in the Lutheran church… the Anglican church… in the Presbyterian church… let the Holy Ghost, the anointing come upon them… let them begin to speak in that amazing language of the Spirit… that the power of God could flow through them… that they can access that place… that Spirit of fire… the fire of the Holy Ghost burning on the inside… changing them to a new man… changing them… turning them around… propelling them into the plan of God… shine, Jesus…
Prayer for the Church to walk in power against enemy…
Thank You, in Jesus’ name… You bring correction, Father, where correction is needed… you bring direction where direction is needed… we are led by Your Spirit… You have planned out our steps… more and more and more… every single day… change… change now in Jesus’ name… more and more… You elevate the church… You lift them up… Yes, Father, not just an organization… but people filled with the power of God… people moving in the power of God… people with the answers… with wisdom beyond their years… people with great ideas… people that make demands on You… on Your Spirit… people that will not let loose of You… a people that will stand strong… in the face of the enemy and tell him “NO!”… you will not have our families… our homes… our pastors… our ministers… our evangelists… our churches… a body that will stand together unified, declaring the works of Jesus Christ … declaring His amazing salvation… it’s His resurrection power… that brings life to the body… I thank You, that the blood still speaks today… it declares that we are righteous… we stand righteous before You… not one spot or blemish… thank You, Jesus… the blood of Jesus over the church… over Your body… that blood brings for the purpose and plan…
Prayer for all to flow in the river…
Changes… eyes, eyes, eyes… yes, Father, today, we thank You … by Your Spirit… yes, we receive a refreshing… a filling up… in the name… thank You, Father… as we are releasing those rivers into the earth, I thank You that we are watered… right now, Father… we will never give up… never let go… always press through by Your grace… with ease and peace… there’s a place of ease in You… ease and peace where we can rest… as we flow in that river… thank You, Lord, it’s You… it’s all You… it’s You that carries us… that takes us down the river… that directs our path… all You… we are just here to be Your vessels, to be used by You… I thank You, Father… You help the church to see that it’s not about them… it’s not about what they know and what they can do… but it’s about listening and yielding to the Holy Ghost… it’s not about the power they have but it’s the power that’s in them by the Spirit of God… there are no age restrictions… you can be two-years-old or 200 years old… and access the power of the Holy Ghost… remove the limitations and the boundaries from the minds of Your people… you don’t have to sit in church for 20 years to flow in the Holy Ghost… don’t have to know every scripture in the Bible to flow in the Holy Ghost… begin to reveal to Your people, Father… that they are ready… from the day they were born again, they were ready to go out… to deliver the good news… ready to heal the sick… we don’t need to wait… He said to go… and we will go in Jesus’ name… it’s time to wake up and see who you are… and know who you are… you’re the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus… rise up into that… take your place… stop resisting the Holy Ghost… you are ready to be used… allow Him to use your body…
Prayer to flow in every river available…
Father, we come against that resistance… in the name of Jesus, we come against that mindset of disqualification… there is nothing that disqualifies you… you are qualified… by the blood of Jesus… take it up… take up that mantel… that calling in the name of Jesus… pick it up and run… we ask in this place, this church, that we would experience every river of the Holy Ghost… we thank You for the river of joy… in this church… river of prophecy… we thank You for the river of miracles… flowing in this church… thank You for the river of signs… of wonders… this body at Living Word… we thank You for the river of utterance… river of flowing with the angelic host… allowing them to move and to work in our congregation in the name of Jesus… that they come and worship with us… that they deliver things to the people… that they come and do amazing things in their bodies and minds… in their lives… businesses… that river working together… with the ministering spirits… oh, yeah, thank You for that river of authority, Lord… calling those things that be not as though they are… speaking those things forth… by the Holy Ghost, causing those things to change… thank You for the river of life… the river of revelation, Lord… wisdom and revelation in Jesus’ name… You said in the last days there would be an increase there… we thank You for that river… river of music… river of songs… new songs… river of singing in the Holy Ghost… all the rivers here, Lord… even rivers we haven’t known… higher, higher… joy… rolling on down in the river… in the anointing… getting soaked in the river… getting delivered in the river… set free… loose in the river… coming up in the river… raging rivers… peaceful rivers… arranging everything in the river… everything that is to come is arranged in the river… treasures coming out in the river… blessings flowing … provision in the river… open up your hearts to the river… hallelujah…
