Pastor Ray shared…
I printed out the lyrics for “Holy Spirit, Thou Art Welcome” from Dottie Rambo. She wrote so many songs. We sing this song so many times. It’s one of my favorite songs. “Holy Spirit, Thou are welcome in this place.”
Holy Spirit Thou art welcome in this place
Holy Spirit Thou art welcome in this place
Omnipotent Father of Mercy and Grace
Thou art welcome in this place
Lord in Thy presence there’s healing divine
No other power can save, Lord, but Thine
Holy Spirit Thou art welcome in this place
Thou art welcome in this place
Holy Spirit Thou art welcome in this place
Holy Spirit Thou art welcome in this place
Omnipotent Father of Mercy and Grace
Thou art welcome in this place
Fill all the hungry and empty within
Restore us, oh Father revive us again
Holy Spirit Thou art welcome in this place
Holy Spirit Thou art welcome in this place
Prayed…
Lord, we welcome You in this place. We yield to you… our spirits to be refreshed and filled… filled to overflowing… that You would keep us growing and flowing and moving… we want to move with You… so we can move out into the new… plans, ways and steps… words from within given by You, Holy Spirit… You’re welcome…
Pastor Ray…
I was listening to a CD. I was driving my son’s vehicle and I started it up and this message came. At first I thought it was Pastor Lynne but then I realized it was Lucy McKee [Lynne’s identical twin sister, now in heaven]. We had the opportunity to do so many meetings with her. She’s like Pastor Lynne. But, yet, they’re different. Lucy had such a desire for the move of God, the presence of God. On the CD, she was talking about the Spirit and said, “When Lucy McKee went up to the front in a service to be born again, I answered a call. I received the Spirit. I was born again, but when I turned and went back to my seat, I still looked like Lucy McKee.” She was talking to a smaller church in Montgomery at the time. She had Vicky Jamison’s Bible because Vicky had already gone home to be with the Lord. She gave Lucy her Bible and she wanted her Bible to keep being used for ministry. So Lucy was ministering out of Vicki’s Bible. They were close. Have you ever been in a service that Vicky did? Wow! She would come with many different books and things but she’d never use them. She would start ministering by the Spirit. One thing she would do a lot would be she would sing healing, but she’d sing through all of the different parts of the body. It was so anointed. Anyway, Lucy in this message said her soul was not changed. She was still the same. Her mind, thoughts, intellect, will were all the same. But her spirit was born again. So she was ministering to a group of ladies the difference between the soul and the spirit. Like she said, when she was born again, she wasn’t changed in those areas. When she was filled with the Holy Spirit, obviously, that’s an increase, the fullness of the Spirit.
When we say “25 souls came in last night,” it’s not really the soul that is saved. It’s their spirit that is saved. Her message was “yes, our minds will be changed, our intellect will be changed, the parts of our soul will be changed but they’ll be changed when we keep putting the Word inside of us.” And the Word of God will begin to change all those parts of our soul. But we’re led by our spirit. And the Holy Spirit working within us. So that’s one reason why I love this song. Just think about it… welcome, Holy Spirit.
This morning I want to read from 1st Corinthians 2:5: “For God intended that your faith not be established on man’s wisdom but by trusting in his almighty power. 6 However, there is a wisdom that we continually speak of when we are among the spiritually mature. It’s wisdom that didn’t originate in this present age, nor did it come from the rulers of this age who are in the process of being dethroned. 7 Instead, we continually speak of this wonderful wisdom that comes from God, hidden before now in a mystery. It is his secret plan, destined before the ages, to bring us into glory. 8 None of the rulers of this present world order understood it, for if they had, they never would have crucified the Lord of shining glory. 9 This is why the Scriptures say: Things never discovered or heard of before, things beyond our ability to imagine— these are the many things God has in store for all his lovers.”
This is the Passion translation, so “lovers” simply means all those who love Him.
10 “But God now unveils these profound realities to us by the Spirit. Yes, he has revealed to us his inmost heart and deepest mysteries through the Holy Spirit, who constantly explores all things. 11 After all, who can really see into a person’s heart and know his hidden impulses except for that person’s spirit? So it is with God. His thoughts and secrets are only fully understood by his Spirit, the Spirit of God. 12 For we did not receive the spirit of this world system but the Spirit of God, so that we might come to understand and experience all that grace has lavished upon us. 13 And we articulate these realities with the words imparted to us by the Spirit and not with the words taught by human wisdom. We join together Spirit-revealed truths with Spirit-revealed words. 14 Someone living on an entirely human level rejects the revelations of God’s Spirit, for they make no sense to him. He can’t understand the revelations of the Spirit because they are only discovered by the illumination of the Spirit. 15 Those who live in the Spirit are able to carefully evaluate all things, and they are subject to the scrutiny of no one but God. 16 For Who has ever intimately known the mind of the Lord Yahweh well enough to become his counselor? Christ has, and we possess Christ’s perceptions.”
Wow! Holy Spirit within… moving from within… the Holy Spirit moving through us… continually, always brings change wherever we go when we allow Him to flow… when we give free reign to the Spirit of the Living God, words spoken by the spirit will come up from within… could be one word… could be two… a sentence… could be a paragraph… but these are the words that bring about change on this earth… here … now… and in the days to come, the future… moving by the power of the Holy Spirit, continually, rearranges systems that have never been able to be cracked so to speak… but by the Spirit of the living God, these things that needed to be uncovered or revealed shall be and we will know because He is within us… Thank You… Jesus, be Jesus in us and through us… Holy Spirit, thank you for filling us this morning… we drink and receive and expect…
In this hour, it is so important… a necessity that we enter in. Let’s give up and let those other things go away and enter into His presence today… ♪ we receive in Jesus’ name… no weapon formed against us will prosper… rain on us…holy spirit ♪
I started to see some people that have gone home to be with the Lord and how the Bible makes it clear they are looking over the balcony. There’s encouragement in that.
Barb…
As soon as you mentioned Vicki Jamison this morning, I think the flow to sing things out is here. So just sing. Yield yourself to the Holy Spirit and sing out those things the Lord has. [Group begins singing in the spirit]
♪ changes… voices, voices… in the wilderness… voices rising up in this land… voices, speaking the truth… turning things around… voices proclaiming the gospel… bringing things into harmony… into peace… into the way they should be… in this land… Lord, You have us in your hand… the anointing destroys that yoke and removes the darkness… You make a way… wide open… opening every door by Your grace… there’s a place… walking fully in Your grace… Your body coming forward… moving forward… mighty force… everything You paid for, Lord… everything in the atonement… more and more we see it clear… into the deep… bring us out of the shallows… the shallow places and into the deep… there is so much more… so much greater… help us yield ourselves to Your Spirit… a complete cooperation for Your divine operations… ♪
We need to go a little further. There is something more. Come on, let’s get this thing…
♪ [singing in the spirit] ♪
Can we just stop the music for a minute. I feel like there’s a note we can’t hit. There’s something we’re not hitting. Sometimes when the music is going, it kind of leads you and it pulls you a certain way. So let’s see if we can get there without the music. [music stops]
♪ [continues singing in spirit] Thank You, Holy Ghost… for helping us today…♪ angels… more, more, more, more, more, more… hallelujah… the glory, the glory… My chosen ones… the chosen ones… full of the anointing… full of the power… My chosen ones… coming together as one… glory to God… the anointing destroying every yoke of bondage… removing every burden… bringing them together as one… glory to God… one voice… one heart… one mind working together by the power of the Holy Ghost… flowing in the anointing… stepping out and moving out in the power of God… the life and the light of God flowing through men… the body, the body, the body… glory to God… unity, peace… total communion… ho, ho, ho… no more, no more separation… everyone working together… coming together… a divine flow of the Spirit… yes, it’s the key… the key to true revival… hallelujah… coming together… into oneness… hallelujah… thank You, Jesus… harmony… perfect harmony… yes, Lord… ha, ha… so You can bring forth the song the way You want to bring forth the song… that You can do what You want to do… adjustments now in Jesus’ name… coming into place now… everyone coming into place… take up your assignment in Jesus’ name… be joined together now in Jesus’ name… light now… You illuminate, Father… You illuminate… Thank You, Father… Passover… it’s time to pass over every obstacle… every distraction… it’s time to pass over those insufficiencies … by the Holy Ghost, You will cause us to pass over those things… empower to do it by the Spirit… thank You, Lord… thank You, Father, that You’ve assigned Your ministering spirits to each one of us… thank You for assistance… they are working on our behalf… right now… even in this place… they are delivering… special gifts today… special… special… in the name of Jesus… opening our eyes to see… open up, open up… opening us up… thank You for bringing us up and out of the shallow places and into the deep… no turning back… no paddling for the shore… but swimming way out, so far out, Father, that we can’t see the shore anymore… yes, no more time for the B plan… it’s time for the A plan… it’s You and him together… walking on the water… together with Him in that place of grace of the anointing of supernatural faith… the gift of faith… the word of wisdom… in that place, glory to God… no more, no more being drawn away by your soul… but letting Him have complete control… it’s time for the turnover… it’s time to turn over yourself… turn over your life… in Jesus’ name… changes, changes… that’s right… mass cooperation… ha, ha… every pastor… not just in this church but every pastor… we lift them up in Jesus’ name… today… they enter into a greater place… they step into the fullness… of Your plan… no more resistance… but total submission… a total pouring out of themselves, Father, and a total filling in up of Your Spirit… yes, there is only one way… and that’s Your way… every pastor walks in the way… Your way… and they begin to experience so many amazing things… they begin to experience You in so many wonderful ways… thank You, Father…
Pastor Ray…
I got two words coming up: stress and distress. The Devil wants to use stress and some kind of distress. Mainly, it’s for someone in this room. It came with you but it’s leaving you. Any kind or touch of distress or stress that the enemy wants to use to come against the body of Christ and bring sickness that will take members of the body out too early. So today the anointing, the power of the Holy Spirit is in this room and stress and distress have to leave. Now! In Jesus’ name. Freedom, complete freedom from it. Let it go! Now! Don’t think about it. You’ll not even remember it. For the joy, the infusion of the Spirit will bring that joy and it’ll strengthen you… all of us … to stay above and not below.
Barb…
I heard “rapid release.” You know how there is medication where it’s a rapid release? So for whatever that need that you had, the Holy Ghost is going to bring rapid release to you.
Woman…
The Lord said this is the time that we’re to go forward. We’re not to pull back. The world would say what you think is politically incorrect. And we’re not to bow down to that culture, but we’re to go forward. We’re the army of God. If we don’t go forward, who is going to? He said we have the power and the anointing. It’s always inside us. “I will never leave you nor forsake you.” When you were born again and baptized in the Holy Ghost, you are anointed. So He has something for every one of us to do. And today He said the doors of opportunity are opening for each of us. So the song we’re all going to sing is “Onward Christian Soldiers.”
Groups sings “Onward Christian Soldiers”…
Onward Christian soldiers
Marching as to war
With the cross of Jesus
Going on before
[That’s all the words they could remember… ] 🙂
