Special Guest | Gabriel Modesto | Gateway Christian Centre

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SPEAKER_00 0:04

Welcome to Gateway's Weekly Service. We are so glad that you are here. We pray that this message inspires you, it encourages you, and that God speaks to you in new ways. Now, on with the message.

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Can you just say that?

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You want to be kidding, you want to kick it, you know. You want the kid who is coming.

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Come on now, just praise it. Where would you be if it wasn't for Jesus? The fact that you've made the kid this morning is because Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. Come on, you've got 30 seconds to praise. Even if I think I'm preaching, you just praise that name, it's enough. You burp it.

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There is no Mike Jesus. There is no Mike Kitch. We give you all the on and all the glory. Thank you, Jesus.

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I just want you to cast away your thoughts now. We are in the front room, we are in the presence of Jesus. This whole thing is about him. And we've invited the King of Kings into a room. And we have to be aware of what we've just done.

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The Bible says he walks among the churches, he's walking here today.

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He's looking into the heart, he's looking into your mind, he's looking into your posture. And my question to you is how do you come before a king?

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I thank you, Jesus. I thank you for life. I thank you for grace. I thank you for your power, for your sacrifice, but most of all, I thank you for your presence. Your presence is sufficient for us, Jesus.

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That's what we desire the most is your presence. Above all things, your presence. Give a big hand of praise for Jesus. Amen.

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Thank you. Stay with me. Um, you can sit down.

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Uh, I'm so honored to be here this morning with you, and we've been back to back preaching non-stop. I was in Nigeria, and then we were in France, and then we're back here in London, and then we're off to Canada on Tuesday, so we have only tomorrow to just pack our bags and go again.

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But it's always an honor to be able to speak in your own house, and Gateway is a house to my life.

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Pastor John and Pastor Andrew are amazing leaders. I've been preaching for 18 years now, and I've never met pastors like them. And I don't say this just because I stand here, I stand in many platforms, but generally they are tremendous pastors, and I thank God that me and Hannah uh we have a safe place where we can come back from ministry and and just be friends and spend time and draw from them. And so I don't know if you can help me just honor Pastor John and Angela. The Bible says we should honor those that deserve honor, amen.

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And so I thank God uh for their lives and and and for asking me to be here today with you.

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I have a word that's burning in my heart, and I want to share with you if you open your Bibles in John, the gospel of John, chapter 7. And um, I want us to really dive into this prophetic word. I believe that there is a revival stirring in the UK, and I don't just believe it, I'm seeing it as we go around traveling and preaching. We're seeing a generation literally flooding the churches again, and there is a sense of a real awakening, and England has been home to many revivals. When we talk about revival, it is fundamental to understand that we are saying that something is dead. I know a lot of us see revival as the objective end, but it's actually the beginning for something greater, and the risk that we run sometimes when we are asking God to revive a country or a nation, or asking God to revive our lives, is that we almost think, or we might not do, but some of us do, that revival is the end goal. So when revival comes, then God's done something. Actually, revive is the beginning. When God says to Ezekiel, can these dry bones live again? He was calling for a revival, and so Ezekiel prophesied to them, and the Bible says, as the spirit gave him utterance. So you see, we can't actually call or prophesy out of ourselves. So when we when we're asking God to do things, we have to ask ourselves, why is it that God is asking this? And Ezekiel, although he was a prophet, had an ability in him to understand how the spirit was moving, and so he knew that although he could prophesy, he could only do it from the spirit, and so the spirit was the one that was leading this thing. So when we're saying about revival, when we say that God is doing something to a nation, we are talking about the full manifestation of God's will in the place, and that means breaking my will, that means changing my plans, that means shifting my life around. Because now God's will has to invade my will, and I'm very careful when people say, I want revival. I say to them, Do you do you know what you're asking? Young people come to me all the time and say, You know, I want to preach like it. I say, Do you? Because I do nothing of me, it's the spirit of God without a spirit, we're just dust. And so I sense that there is something moving in the atmosphere in this nation where God is bringing this nation back to its original mandate of God's will for it. England is home to one of the most pioneering theologians and revivalists that the earth has ever seen. But I'm not here to talk about the history of what England has lived, rather that you are the generation that's here now for a reason. And I could talk about John Wesley, but forgive me, he's dead. And I could talk about Spurgeons, but he's dead. I want to understand why you're here. And Esther struggled with this because when Mother Kai said to her, Come and save your people, she thought the palace could hide her from what was coming, not realizing that there was a mandate of God in her life that pre-existed the palace. And Mother Kai says this to her, Look, Esther, even if you don't help, help will come from above. It's not about your talent and your gift, it's about God giving you an opportunity to join something He's about to do. But who knows, Esther, for such a time as this, you were born, and and and that is the question of humanity. The question of humanity is why am I here? Why was I born? You you you cannot travel the world, you cannot meet cultures, you cannot go to different countries and not realize that there is a sense of question of belonging in humanity that's asking the question, why am I here? And even if they don't directly ask the question, they are living that question in their everyday choices. Why am I here? Who is my father? Who is my mother? My household, what I've lived in, the environment I'm in, what I've learned, what I haven't learned. Everything is cultivating an identity of sense of belonging in humanity, and so we draw from our environment, and that environment because to shape us, psychology says from the age of three to seven, a child's psychology is literally formed in its roots. Whatever they learn in those years, it will be with them for the rest of their lives. It is an attachment of identity, and Jesus is stepping into John chapter 7 from verse 37 into an environment that has been cultivated by man tradition, by culture, and by man-made principles, like the Pharisees and so on. And he's in the middle of the festivity of Israel, and they are all doing their festivals and their brief, and we're gonna read it now. And on the last day of this festival, verse 37, Jesus stood and said in a loud voice, Let anyone who is thirsty come to me and drink. Verse 38 says, Whoever believes in me, as scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them. In the Greek here, the word is belly, and and and and the expression in the Greek of the belly is the core of the human being. It is they believe that everything that was you, everything that made you, everything that became you was hidden in the center of your being. Jesus saying, in the center of your being, rivers of will flow out of you. Whoever believes in me, as scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within him. Verse 49 by this he meant the spirit, who those who believed in me were later to receive. Up to that time, the spirit had not been given. Watch this, because Jesus had not yet been glorified. Are you following this? Jesus had not yet. I want to bring this to you because this is such a profound verse and chapter. Jesus is here talking about the spirit of God, and you cannot talk about reviving what God does in the land without talking about the spirit of God. He is promising the Spirit of God that whoever believes in him, whoever draws to him, the spirit was going to come into their lives, and this would activate, in other words, would open a fountain inside of their belly where rivers of living water will begin to flow out of them. Jesus is pointing out here that the key thing here is the thirsty ones, the ones who are thirsty, and and that first, that expression of Jesus, he's talking about people that although they have a job, although they have money, although they have a car, although they have family, children, they've got marriage, they've got everything okay, but they're thirsting something in their lives. There's something that doesn't fulfill in their lives. I travel the world and I've seen millionaires, billionaires, and I've seen the poorest of people. I myself used to live in the streets in Brazil with my mother. And it doesn't matter where you are in society, when you are being drawn by the Spirit of God into the presence of God, there is a place of emptiness that God will draw inside of you out. There's a first inside of you that God's going to search for, and when he finds that first, he makes it so first of all, you're so thirsty that he begins to draw you into his spirit. And every human being has a thirsty place in their life. Every human being has something in their life that they have to fulfill, let it be with a schedule, with time, with gym, let it be with work, let it be with friendships. We we we build ourselves schedules. Now, this drinking cannot be just coming to Sunday on a service like this and sitting on that chair. You don't drink by coming to a building, you drink by coming to Jesus. Because some people came for a version of Jesus. I mean, even the Mormons has a version of Jesus, the Catholics have a version of Jesus, the Muslims believe in Jesus. So everyone has a version and a perception of Jesus that he's talking about him, his anointing, he's specifying his person. He said, Whoever comes to me, not to a man, not to an event, not to a building, not just to a routine, to a schedule, whoever comes to my presence, whoever drinks from who I am, there that first will be satisfied. You see, the Samaritan woman, she knew a lot about theology. I mean, she knew theology so much that she could have an argument with the Son of God. She knew her history, she knew what the world represented, she knew exactly what Jacob did, she knew how things function and how they work. But one thing that was empty in her life was that every day she had to hide and come at midday when it was heartest to draw water because she had done things that rejected her from society, that separated her, so that she would remain hidden in her own sin, and Jesus mitts her at her first. Isn't amazing she's drawing water to drink, but she's first. She is drawing water to satisfy her human thirst, but she's first, and until she partakes in who Jesus is, notice that she goes from a teacher to recognizing him as a Jew teacher to recognize him as a prophet to recognizing him as a messiah. When she reaches in the point of her conversation that he is the messiah, something changes in her life. She goes from being an adulterous woman to being an evangelist to her city. You see, the shift happens in a conversation, it doesn't take 10 years, 20 years for her to get to that place. What it takes is a genuine encounter with this person of Jesus. I said, I don't understand how people can be 20 years in church coming here singing, Kumbaya, my Lord, and nothing in your life flows from the spirit. I don't understand. You open your Bible, you leave in Psalms on your room like that, there's something for your room. You you do all these petty things, and nothing is drawn out of your belly. There, there is no rivers that I can see flowing from you. Because you're drawn to something that is everything apart from who Jesus is. That we cannot become a people of church museums. England for a long time became a place of church museums. This is where John Resie preached, this is where Spurgis did that, and and they did this, and they did that. Now I'm wondering where is the living church in the land? Where we no longer say what was done, but we begin to say what is happening now. That God is calling these people from a place of sleepiness and routine and systematical patterns to a place of living rivers of waters that flow out of you. Notice it doesn't flow into you, it flows out of you. We come here and say, God, give me everything comes to you, everything wants to enter you. But Jesus is saying that what I have for you is gonna flow out of you. That means that when I come here, I don't come to get, I come to release. You see, you didn't have to wait for the worship team to become to get to the highest point of the song for you to lift up your hands and feel this emotionalism as if God only comes at the highest point of the keyboard. You could have been worshiping your car before you even got to this place, so that by the time you enter those doors, the worship wouldn't even get to worship. Because what if the spirit was so full inside of you that by the time you greeted someone at the door, miracles began to break out, things began to change in the parking lot, cancer began to be healed. That's what he's talking about. He's not saying I'm bringing you to a place where you will forever draw to yourself, he's saying I'm bringing you to a place where suffering will come out of you. That means that when people encounter you, there will be a flow that they will receive from your life. But the Bible says that Jesus makes it very clear that the first is anticipation, it is a pre-existent thing to the fulfillment of the flow of what the spirit wants to do in your life. You cannot be in the spirit if you don't have first for the spirit, you cannot be in the spirit if you don't have first for Jesus, you cannot be in the spirit if you don't have first for the things concerning the work of God over a nation, over a people, over community, over your household. We are very good at knowing what we need and what we are concerned with. My question is, what is Jesus concerned with right now? What is bothering his heart? What is in his mind? He's looking for someone. Who should I send? And the question is, who will say, Here I am? You see, there is a point here in this message that becomes for me a paradox, it becomes for me a complicated thing. I was reading this because while he's talking about the spirit, the Bible says that John now is going to explain the reason why the spirit hadn't come in that moment, and he says the spirit had not yet been released because Jesus had not been glorified. And this got me because when we talk about the Holy Spirit, we run a risk of resuming him in just in tongues. When we talk about the Holy Spirit, we run the risk of resuming him in just prophetic acts. When we talk about the Holy Spirit, we have a risk of resuming him in flowing to the floor. My question is when you get up from the floor, what do you do with your life? And so we run the risk of boxing the spirit of God in a place where he only functions in the outerward appearances of how your body's reacting to the present. All those things are great and they do happen. Everyone expresses the spirit in different ways in their bodies, but but but he Jesus had not been glorified. The glorification of Christ is connected to the sending of the Holy Spirit. And I don't think we realize the price that Jesus had to pay in order for the Spirit of God to dwell inside of you. He had to be glorified. Now, what is this glorification? And I don't have time to go into all this, so you're gonna have to follow me quick. Are you here? Can I keep preaching? For Jesus' glorification, is that He is the second Adam. He comes to the earth to restore, not just to save you, salvation is the beginning point, not the ending point. He comes to save you, yes, but he comes to restore the dominion and the reflection of the original mandate of God's creation for men. So that's why God has to become man because he has to be Emmanuel, he has to dwell among us, because through a man, sin came into the earth. So now through another man, sin has to exit in order for the legality of the spiritual realm to function how it has to function. God is so just that he respects his own laws. So, in order for him to bring back the authority that was handed over, he has to come in a bodily form. That means that he has to leave his glorified state and become into a natural state in order to restore himself back to a glorified state. The risk is that once you come to this natural state, you are now allowed or opened up to the influences of Satan on the earth, and this is why Jesus has to be tested. He has to be tested because unless you are proven in that body that you are what God meant to be in the beginning, then you are just another Adam that was filled in society. In other words, all of us are Adams that have fallen. David said, In sin, I was conceived. You already born condemned because of our father Adam. So Jesus is now accessing the spiritual realm in the human form by performing in the body in a godly divine way. And what that does is that while he's tested, the Bible says he is just in everything. So everything that the devil throws at him, he doesn't sin. Every plan that the devil tried throughout all his years of life, every area, the Bible says, in every area, Jesus was tempted, he tried everything, and Jesus stayed holy, pure. So he did for us more than salvation. What he did was he mirrored, someone say mirrored the reflection of what Adam looked like when he walked with God. Oh, you're not here this morning. So what Jesus was uh what this is what Jesus did. I want to show you what Adam looked like before he fell. What Adam looked like before he fell was that he could speak to nature, nature had to respond. That's why Jesus said, if you have faith, you speak to this mountain, uh, the size of a muscle, and the mountain will move out of the way, it will throw itself. Jesus was talking about the authority, the dominion that Adam had. Adam didn't just name animals. This is the way we read the Bible. In the Hebrew, Adam gave essence to beings. That's why when you look at a lion, no matter what language the lion's in there, you know it's a lion. Because Adam didn't just say you are a lion, he gave the essence to the characteristics of the lion. In other words, he had the minion to bring identity to situations. He could look at something and say, You are a giraffe. That's an identity. It wasn't just a name thing. That's why, no matter what word you use for a giraffe, it is a giraffe everywhere in the world. Because it's the essence of the identity. Adam had a stewardship authority inside of him that he would mirror God's creative ability in pursuing nature and revealing God's presence in it. He wasn't just, you know, a man walking around eating fruits, he was a man walking around in dominion. Oh, I wish I had somebody that understood that when you walk into an environment, the environment is waiting for your revelation. We say God sent someone, and the Bible says that the earth is waiting for you to be revealed, and we're here waiting for something to happen. You are the thing that happened, and I don't know how many years it's gonna take for you to get out from that chair and do something about your life and walk in the anointing and the identity that God established for your life. I don't care what comes over your life, I don't care where you came from, I don't care the skin color of your of your of your skin, I don't care how rich you are, how poor you are, you were born for this time. And God does not make a mistake, he saw the timeline and he said, I look into your generation and I see fit that now is the time for you to come out, now is the time for you to be burned. So I cannot dwell with what happened in my life and what didn't happen, and how I'm a victim, and how I'm not a victim. I have to step into the dominion of who Jesus is and realize for such a time as this, I have been born. It says, out of you will flow rivers of living water. Someone says, Inside of me, there are rivers that flow so deep that currents cannot hold it. It's not just a normal flow, he says, of everlasting flow, it is a continuous fountain. Uh oh, uh you know, one day I feel good, the next day I don't feel good. One day I want Jesus, the next day I don't want Jesus. One day I feel the present, next day. No, no, he's saying you will fill the rivers every day. There's something inside of you that will flow 24-7. There's something inside of you that will outrun the nature that's inside of you. He's saying there's something inside of you that will shadow the things concerning the natural of men. There's something inside of you that's so supernatural that when it begins to flow out of you, life will begin to invade the environment. He says, These rivers are of life. That means when I step into a dead place, that place has to become alive. That means that when I step into a dead situation, that situation is to live again. That's what he's saying. He's saying, Life walks with you. Jesus had not yet been glorified, that's why the Spirit had not come. Jesus had to restore the original image. I want you to pay attention to this because this is a very serious scenario. In Genesis chapter 1, from verse 27, when God says, Let us create man, he says, in our and after our likeness, after our likeness, it's a continuous pursuit of likeness. He says, In our image and after our likeness. Now we confuse Genesis chapter 1, verse 27 with Genesis chapter 2, verse 7, where God forms the man. There is a difference between creating and formating and forming something. I'll give an example. I can say that this microphone was created by man, amen. Well, it wasn't. Man formed from nature something that he manipulated to create to form a microphone. Are you understanding this? Why? Because man can't create metal, only God creates metal. See, we say man created this, no, man manipulated what God had already created. Even when man forms a wardrobe, he's manipulating the wood, the word which God created. So only God actually has the ability to create from something nothing. When he says let us create, he's speaking to the image of your spirit. He's saying, you know, God doesn't have five fingers and a face and legs. The Bible says that God is God is so you are the likeness and the image of God. That means that your spirit looks exactly like God's spirit. Oh, you're gonna get this in a minute. When we talk about the Holy Spirit, we are talking about the image and likeness of God. The Holy Spirit already dwelled with Adam in the beginning, it was sin that separated him because Adam was already the image and likeness of God, but sin separated him from him. So where the spirit is to dwell in, now it had to come upon. So that's why in the prophets of the old testament, the spirit will come upon, but then he will leave. He will never remain, he would only come to fulfill what God wanted to do, and then he will leave. You see with Samson, the spirit came upon him and he became strong, he did what he had to do, and then the spirit would leave him, and then it will come upon him again. The spirit never actually dwell in man because man lost the image. This image is what we're talking about, Jesus being glorified. The glorification of God is the restoration of the image and likeness of God in humanity. What Jesus was doing is I am restoring you what you looked like in the beginning. Oh, I feel the Holy Spirit. You're focusing your fingers and you're focusing your legs, but inside of you there is the image and likeness of God. That's why Paul says, constantly being your spirit in prayerful thoughts, focusing your mind in heavenly things above. He's talking about there is a place in the man that is so spiritual. Uh, you're not here. Watch this. Jesus says to the disciples while he's talking to the Samaritan woman, Go and get me food, for I am hungry. He's hungry, he's human. He says to Samaritan woman, I want water because I'm thirsty. And then he begins to talk to her from his divine place. When the apostles come back with food, he says, I'm not hungry anymore. They say, What do you mean you're not hungry anymore? He says, I have food that you do not know of. You see, there's a place in your spirit that will even outrun the needs of your life. Oh, I wish I had somebody. The greatest problem with the church is need. I need this and I need that, and I want that, and I need that. You don't need anything if not the image and likeness of God. When you get to a place that your spirit begins to live in the intensity that God intended it for, the things that you thought you need, do you no longer need? And that's why Jesus says, Seek my kingdom and all its righteousness, and all things shall be added on. There's a place in the spirit where instead of you chasing things, things begin to chase you. So the Bible says, Your gift will make way before you before great man. When you begin to live in the place of God, when you begin to live in the gifts of the spirit, when you begin to live in the place of the presence, the presence begins to open doors, it begins to move way for the will of God to come and be accomplished in an environment. You didn't get there because you look cute, you got there because He has a will. You're not preaching because you have a gift, you're preaching because the Spirit said, I must do something in this date at this hour, and I've looked at you, and you are capable of doing exactly what I need you to do. It requires surrender, it requires submission, it requires killing the flesh, it requires killing your dreams and changing friendships. You may not marry that person you thought you were gonna marry, you may not buy the house that you wanted to buy. It doesn't matter, it is what God wills in your life, and when you get to the place of God's will, you will realize that nothing can satisfy the emptiness in you unless you live in the presence of the Almighty. Take away the car, take away everything, but I can't lose your presence. David said, Take away the kingdom, take away, take away the crown, take everything, but do not depart your spirit from me. You cannot live a life without the spirit of God, you cannot live a life with purpose without the spirit of God. It's good that we have all these things, but we need the spirit of God. This is the season, this is the hour where England is asking for the spirit of God. People are tired of information. Jesus loves you. No, show them how he loves them, heal their cancer, heal their diseases, bring them the supernatural. We are tired of information, we need the power of God in our places. You know, we were in Nigeria, 30,000 people in the stadium in the crusade. You know why we see so many people miracles? Even this girl had never walked in her life, she was born without walking. Her legs were so skinny, she began to walk. You know why you see miracles? Because in environments where need is beyond the capability of man's provision, God becomes the objective. Do you know what the problem is with England? We have everything too easy. You need health, you go, you're complaining about your free health because you waited eight hours. They are country, they wait ten days, and even then they will die and not get health. See, we're so comfortable with things that we don't even realize the measurement of the goodness that we have in this place, and because we're so comfortable, we've denied God of his power and relied in our resource. So God allows for Jezebel's spirits to come in government, he allows for the nation to be turned to evil, he allows because the Bible says, when God allows that, is to bring the people back to his presence. So when I look at all the confusion in the UK and I see all these division things, what I see is God saying the time is now because when God allows these things to happen, it's because he wants the prophets to rise up, he wants Elijah to come out of caves, he wants the nation, the place to be revived again. Whenever you see persecution in the Bible, it was the church expanding. The Bible says in Acts, and great persecution broke out, and they were scattered. But Philip went into Samaria preaching to Jesus Christ, preaching the gospel, and even Simon the sorcerer believed in him. In the place of persecution comes revival, in the place where they create laws that come against the church comes the growth of the church. It is in Exodus, the Pharaoh said, Let's make it harder for them, let's put more bricks on them, let's let's make them work harder. The Bible says, and the more that he mistreated them, the more they multiplied. It is in this place of first, it is in this place of cry out, it is in this place of desperation that you will meet the first of Jesus and you will meet the cry out of the Holy Spirit in your life. Until you cry for the nation, you will never be the agent that changes it. Until you feel the burden of your family, your family will always stay the same. You see, some of you talk about preaching to nations, your cousins are not even saved. Preach to your cousins, preach to your mother, preach to your father. You should be so concerned that they will not burn in hell for not knowing Jesus. There should be such a burden inside of you that you don't rest until you see the will of God fulfilled in your life. What's happened to the church? We're becoming more like the world and the world less changed by what we should be. He says, Out of your belly shall flow rivers of living water. But watch this when God tells the sea to create fishes, he doesn't directly create the fish, he gives a command to the waters, bring forth your fish. Are you here? When God says to the ground, bring forth your fruit, he doesn't directly create a tree, he just commands the ground to bring forth the tree. That's why earthquake can come, floods can come, the ground will produce again. Because it carries a word of God. But when God created me and you, he didn't command anything, he stepped down. Are you here? Everything comes back to something. If the fish is out of the water, what happens to him? Why? Because he comes from water. If you plug a tree out of the ground, what happens to it? And the fruit eventually rotten. But when God creates you, he creates you from within him. You see, you can eat and have a good house and everything, but your spirit will always be drawn to where it came from. And your soul came from God. You are literally rooted in God's essence. That's why humanity will always be searching for something. Because what they're searching for is where they came from, and where they came from was the image of God. When God forms Adam, this is where people get confused. He creates man and woman, and then he forms them from the ground and takes Eve out of him. When he forms, the Bible says he breathes. What does he breathe? The ruach into the nostrils. See, before you could live, you were spirit. The breath of life came upon you. You literally carry the breath of Yahweh. Do you understand what I'm saying to you? And that's why in John chapter 20, after Jesus resurrected and he's going to ascend to be glorified, the Bible says, before he ascends, he looks upon the apostle and he breathes on him. Oh, you're not here. He goes, receive the Holy Spirit, he said to them. And remain in Jerusalem until he comes upon you and dwells within you. So the same God that breathed in the garden is also the same Christ that breathed upon you. Are you seeing this? As God did it in the beginning, Jesus restored it for me in you now. So we're so but Adam was different. No, we are exactly like him in the original state again. That's why Paul says, From glory to glory, we are shaped into the image of Jesus Christ. That's why Paul says, I no longer live like it's Christ that lives in me. He's talking about the image of God now exists beyond his identity. It is when you leave that human state into a supernatural state. And I don't care what people say, oh Pastor, you're too much. You're always over the top, and you always talk about Bible. I would rather do that than be a drunk. I'll rather be obsessed with the spirit than be obsessed with pornography. I'd rather be obsessed with the spirit than be obsessed with my lies and my manipulations and all the evil things that come out of the nature of man. I would rather die speaking about the cross and the spirit of God. I would rather talk in tongues until it anoints you than you see me in the world, broken, lost without hope. I would rather that heaven was seen inside of my life than the world looking at me, and I looked exactly like everyone else. God is looking for somebody that can go from the place of the spirit upon to the spirit moving within. A lot of us here have experienced the spirit upon. We feel it, we shake, and then you go home, you look exactly the same as you were before you shook. But when the spirit dwells inside of you, whoo, like in Pentecost, he came upon them and he dwelt in them. The Bible says that Peter got up and began to preach kingdom outside of 3,000 people gave their life to Jesus. We got a microphone on the screens, and we can't even get two people to accept Jesus. And I'm not saying that we are doing everything wrong. That's I'm a prophet. I tell you what God tells me to tell you. What I am saying is that the evidence of power has to be present if we talk about a God who's not muted and speaks. The question is, why are we not seeing it the way we should be seeing it? And I'm finished here. It's because we need to flow from within and not just outside. I feel the spirit, so I'm gonna do this. No, no, the spirit was even our terminologies. We say, Spirit, come, he already came. Look how we pray in church. We say, Spirit, come now, he already came. We should be praying, Spirit, move within me. But we're so focused on receiving that we don't even realize how we're talking to him when we have already received everything in the pound in the foundation of the universe. Ephesians chapter 1 and 2 talks about the predestination of God, he already foresaw you before you even came on this earth. He said to Jeremiah, before you were knitted and formed in your mother's room, I knew who you were, and we're here searching for identities everywhere. I came to tell you, you already had an identity in heaven, you are the image and likeness of Yahweh. Get up from the natural state and walk into the supernatural of the Holy Spirit. Your families are going to change, your children are gonna be full of God, your workplace is gonna be turned upside down. I'm telling somebody, you're about to step into a season that whenever you walk into the spirit, walk with you, whenever you touch, the presence of God will touch with you. Stand to your feet. Out of your belly, out of your belly. That means that when God blesses you, it's to bless someone else. That means that when God opens the door for you, He's thinking about ten other people, it's flowing out of you, not for you. Stop blocking the river. Your traumas, your identity, your culture is blocking the river from flowing. We do this in our culture. We do we are not from where we came from, we are from heaven. I'm not looking at Indians and Africans and Brazilians, I'm not looking at Englishmen, I'm looking at kingdom citizens. You have a passport that man cannot touch, you are an ambassador of a kingdom that cannot be broken, you are children of Yahweh. He wants to draw you out of that place, he wants to draw you out of that sleep, he wants to draw you out of that stagnation, he wants to bring you into fulfillment. When you walk into a place, the rivers begin to flow, flow, flow, flow, flow, flow, flow. I prophesy in the name of Jesus that before this year ends, your house will flow under the rivers of the Holy Spirit. Your children will have encounters with the Spirit of God in the middle of the night. You will unite to pray. Something's coming to invade your sleep, and awakening you into the revival that's coming over this nation. Let me tell you something. This place is too small for what God will do. Oh no, no, we will fill as some villas, stadiums with souls. You don't realize what God is planning to do, you're still thinking about your good old routine, and God is thinking about the stadiums that He's about to flood. I'm looking for somebody here this morning that's saying, I want to flow in the rivers of the Spirit. Jesus has already been glorified, He has already restored your image. Now you need to step into the anointing of the Messiah. And you walk into a place, demons will begin to run. When you walk into an environment, strongholds will break. We won't have to, yeah, just you know, it's gonna happen. So no, no, it happens when you go there. When someone says to you, pray for me. Oh, yeah, my pastors can pray. No, you will pray for them. Are you here? I want to quickly do something. I have six minutes. I need you to help me and be fast at this. I want to pray for whoever's saying, I need rivers to flow out of me. Maybe your current is already going, but it's not there yet. I'm talking about a burst of rivers that you yourself can't control, only the spirit controls. Jesus said, Those that are born of the spirit are like the wind. You do not know where it comes from, you do not know where it's going. Your life should be completely governed and directed by the spirit of God. You can make all plans. The Bible says, Many are the plans of the heart of men, but God, He's the one that ordains it, He's the one that fulfills it, He's the one that does it. We need to get to a place where we are flowing so deeply that the Spirit literally moves you left and right. Are you here? If you are that person, come to the altar. I want to pray and release this over your life. Come quickly. There are ministries here that are saying, I want to go to a higher level. Worship team. Come, come. I've got five minutes, so just come quickly. I I know it's hard, I know things have happened in your life, and I know that the enemy has tried everything to shake your identity. And some of the things you're feeling, and the pain that you're going through, it's just an opportunity for a first of the Spirit of God upon your life. Come come forward closer, closer. There's a lot of people behind you, guys. Come closer. Bible says that Jesus breathed on them and they to receive the Holy Spirit. He breathed. He breathed on them. He breathed on them. The breath of God, of Yahweh, is inside. You are of the Holy Spirit. One gift is not the lack of the Spirit. Oh, because I don't have that one gift, I don't have this, I don't have that gift. That doesn't mean you don't have the Holy Spirit, you have the Holy Spirit. Because the Bible says that whoever believes in Jesus receives his spirit. In fact, it is the Holy Spirit, according to Ephesians, that seals you into this promise. In first Corinthians, it says that the Holy Spirit seals you into the body of Jesus Christ. See, you're not sealed because of a church name, logo, or a man, you're sealed because of the spirit. It is the spirit that made you the body of Jesus. Close your eyes and just begin to talk to him. Say, Holy Spirit, I need to flow. Come on, talk to him, talk to him. I want to flow in the rivers. Maybe some of you need a revival. There are areas of your life that was dying. Things in your life was beginning to just dry out. You went through some tough things. And you don't even know how you're still standing. That was grace. But God says, Now I'm gonna take you from grace to grace, from glory to glory. I'm gonna restore in you the brokenness, I'm gonna restore in you the emptiness. Maybe you're smiling to everyone, but you know the first that's inside your soul. When my mother was a Satanist and the Holy Spirit began to speak to her through dreams, it wasn't man that preached to her, it was Jesus Christ Himself that began to show up in dreams and say, I love you. I love you. My mother walked into a church without a preacher ever having to preach because the Spirit of God is everlasting present. He's searching for the hearts, he's convicting the hearts, and he's drawing you back to the image of Jesus Christ. The number one thing that the Holy Spirit wants is for you to look like Jesus. That is the strongest desire that He has. He's He's saying, I I know you've been through things, I know they've labeled you in certain identities, but I want you to look like Jesus. So just lift up your hands and pray. Only you can pray this. Come and tell him, I need you. Use your own words, express yourself. Right now, the Spirit of God is reviving dead things now. Now, now touch in Jesus' name, Holy Spirit. Touch in Jesus' name. I command by the name of Jesus every dead thing to resurrect here this afternoon. I command every false identity, I command every false idol that has blocked the wells and the rivers inside of you to be broken this afternoon in the name of this morning, in the name of Jesus. I release you now from the identity of men, and I call forth by the power of the name of Yeshua right now, why now the Spirit of God draw the river, draw the river, draw the river. I command every demonic force that has tormented your identity, that has blocked your destiny, to be broken in the name of Yeshua now. In the name of Jesus, in the name of Jesus, I call forth the baptism of fire. Now, now now you have been baptized in water. But Paul says there is a baptism of fire. He's here, he's here, he's flowing. Rivers are flowing, rivers are flowing, touch in the name of Jesus.

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I need the ushers to walk around.

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I feel the Holy Spirit, He's flowing out of you. He's flowing out of you. Touch this young man, may he be full of the Spirit of God. Look at this young boy full of the Spirit, crying. That is the presence of the Holy Spirit. May you be baptized with fire. May you be baptized with fire in the name of Jesus.

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In the name of Jesus, fire the Holy Ghost. Your name.

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Come on, if you speak in tongues, speak in tongues now. Rivers are flowing, rivers are flowing, touch by the power of the Holy Spirit. Touch, touch.

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Touch Rebaba Kutuko the Namaha.

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Touch in the name of Jesus. By the power of the Holy Spirit. In the name of Jesus. Every generation limitation. Break it, break it, break it, break a room by the high of the Holy Spirit.

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Break everyone. Shall I see the shells?

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Grab the hands of the person next to you. Grab the hands of the person next to you. Grab the hands of the person. I don't have time to pray for everyone. So I'm gonna do this in one chain. One chain. Grab the hands of the person next to you. I'm gonna counter free. You that on the floor, you can stay on the floor. Do not ever leave the presence of the spirit. Grab the hands of the person, I'm gonna counter free. And this prophetic word will meet you where you are. Everything in your life that was limited and blocked is unblocked from today. This river is gonna flow so fast, it's gonna be like a flood. Some of you are gonna touch a disease and they'll be healed. Some of you will prophesy things and they will come to manifestation. One from today you walk in the image and likeness of God. Two, whatever God is about to do in this nation, He's gonna use you to do it. Three, receive it now in the name of Jesus.

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Touch, touch, touch. Wells flow, wells flow like fire in the chain from hand to hand, flow now by the power of the Holy Spirit, flow, flow, flow, live, up, live it, water, flow, people, people, be pull up the holy spirit.

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There you go. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. Even while you're in this river, healing is happening here right now. Restorations are happening here right now.

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Yes, Jesus.

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We still have second service. I would challenge you to even stay for that. I want to do something now. If anyone here this morning heard this message, you're saying, I've never confessed Jesus publicly as my Savior. Maybe you know about Jesus, but you haven't given your life to him. Stay in the spirit, stay in the spirit, don't worry from him. And you're saying the Bible says, Whoever believes in him, that's all you need to do. Believe in him. What do we believe? We believe he came down, he died on a cross, he resurrected, and he ascended to heaven, and he sat at the right hand of God. Whoever believes that he is the Messiah will not perish but have eternal life. Jesus wants your life, he wants to write your name in the book of life. Is there somebody here that wants to give their life to Jesus? Just raise your hands. I do this everywhere. Go raise your hands. You want to give your life to Jesus, raise your hands. There's a young man here. Amen. I see you. Is there anyone else you're saying? I want to give my life to Jesus. Just raise your hands high. High. Amen. Amen. I'm glad they're doing this because parents bringing you to church doesn't make you saved. There's another young lady there. That's four, five, six. Is there more? All these young people, their hands up, come forward, come forward, come forward, come forward, come forward. Look at the Holy Spirit all over this young man. I began to preach when I was 15 years old. I'm only 32. There's no limitation what the Spirit of God can do. All these young people that lifted up their hands to accept Jesus, just come. Jesus said, if you've confessed me publicly, I will confess you before my Father. Amen. Just put your hands in your heart and say with me, I accept you, Jesus Christ, as Lord of my life. Thank you for saving me. Write my name in the book of life. Teach me, mold me for your kingdom, and use me for your glory. In Jesus' name. Amen. Welcome to the kingdom of heaven. Amen. Can we praise God? Give Jesus a big shout of praise.

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Thank you so much for joining us for this week's message at Gateway. We were so glad to be able to share it with you. If you would like to find out more about what is going on at Gateway or when our weekly services are, you can visit our website at www.igateway.org.uk. Thank you so much for joining us.