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How to increase the gifts of the Spirit in your life and church.
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The speaker shares that the Lord has been dealing with them through dreams, visions, and desires, stirring up a longing for the gifts and manifestations of the Holy Spirit. They emphasize the importance of operating in these gifts for the edification and building up of the church. The speaker highlights that the gifts of the Spirit give believers an advantage over the kingdom of darkness and various worldly systems. They encourage pursuing love and desiring spiritual gifts, especially the gift of prophecy. The speaker challenges the notion that only certain individuals can operate in these gifts, stating that it is for the whole body of Christ. They emphasize that the gifts are a manifestation of divine love and can help believers go beyond their natural limitations to help others. The speaker calls on listeners to change their mindset about the gifts, seeing them as a demonstration of love rather than a display of power. They urge believers to pursue love, desire the gifts, and be ope The Lord has, about oh a month ago, began to deal with me deeply, both awake and asleep. Both awake and asleep. I had dreams. I had night visions. Some I didn't recognize until the Lord brought it back to my remembrance, to my memory. And then also dealing with my heart by desires, placing certain, stirring up certain longings and desirings in my spirit. And so I've learned, it doesn't take me as long to recognize it now as it did then, that the Spirit of God was dealing with me prophetically, all right. Where deep calls unto deep, where spirit and spirit contact, God's spirit, my spirit contact, about the gifts and manifestations of the Holy Spirit. And even not just the nine manifestations in 1 Corinthians chapter 12, verse 1-11, but specifically in the area of the gifts of prophecy, to kind of stir that up and remind me that we need to be a spirit-filled body of believers operating fluently in the gifts of the Spirit. And so 1 Corinthians 14-12 says, even so you, since you are zealous for spiritual gifts, let it be for the edification of the church that you seek to excel. Let it be for the building up of the church. The church, you and me, and believers need to be edified. We need to be built up, all right. And so the Holy Spirit makes it really clear here that you cannot build up the church, build up other believers without spiritual giftings, without spiritual gifts. Spiritual gifts are required to build up the church. Now you know Jesus said this in Matthew 16, he said, I will build my church and the gates of Hades, the gates of Hades will not prevail against it. So if Jesus' main function and main goal and his main objective is to build up the church, that should be our priority, right? And so we see here in 1 Corinthians 14-12, even so you, since you're zealous for spiritual gifts, let it be for the building up of the church that you seek to excel. So we should be, for the sake of building up the church and doing what Jesus is doing, building the church, we should be seeking to excel in the gifts of the Holy Spirit. These nine manifestations that are listed in 1 Corinthians chapter 12 are nine graces. There are nine, what I call gracelets, there are nine manifestations of grace, all right. And if you'll notice in 1 Corinthians chapter 12, verse 7, before he lists all nine of these manifestations, he said, but the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the profit of all. The manifestation of the Spirit is given for the benefit of all, for the advantage of all. The gifts of the Spirit, these nine manifestations of the Holy Spirit give you, the Spirit-filled believer, an advantage, an advantage over the kingdom of darkness, an advantage over the world system, an advantage over the health care system, which is destined to keep you sick so they can keep making money. I'm not talking about individual doctors, I'm talking about the overall system. It gives you the benefit, the advantage over the world financial system, which is designed to keep you broke. These nine manifestations of the Spirit give you an advantage over the spirits that want to destroy marriages and put them into divorce and get your kids on drugs, get your kids worshiping demons, to get your kids and grandkids to fall away from the faith. These gifts of the Spirit, these nine gifts of the Spirit are your power tools that give you the advantage, that give you the benefit that's above anything that's in this world. We overcome the world through faith, and faith, it takes faith and confidence to operate in these nine manifestations. The Lord has stirred me up, and this is what I'm picking up, is that these nine gifts of the Spirit should not be just once in a while, they should be the daily food, the daily practice, the daily expectation of the body of Christ, of you as an individual, as well as of local assemblies. So there's been a stirring up about this. And then in 1 Corinthians 12.1, the Holy Spirit says, through Paul, now concerning spiritual gifts or spirituals, I don't want you to be ignorant. And this word ignorant means not stupid, but ignoring them, just not aware of them, not knowing anything about them. It's not ignorant in the sense of you're stupid, but it's ignorant in the sense that they're being ignored. And he said, Corinthians, I don't want you to have lack of knowledge about these nine manifestations of the Holy Spirit, and I don't want you, even though you may have been taught them, to ignore them and put them on the back burner. Let me tell you something, it's easy to fall back into the natural way of living and not expect any supernatural manifestations Monday through Saturday. You may expect some on Sunday, and rarely Spirit-filled churches are even that. And it takes effort to swim upstream. It takes effort to be a church, a gathering that is expecting the gifts of the Spirit to operate. But even on your Monday through Saturday, are we truly, excitedly expecting or open to and listening to the nine gifts of the Spirit? And this is kind of what the Lord's been dealing with me about. And so what would be our attitude? First Corinthians 14.1, this is the directive given to us from the throne of God, given to us by the Holy Spirit through the pen of the Apostle Paul. Here's what God says, pursue love. Pursue love. Love is the motive. The love of God is the motive for anything we do. So pursue it. Notice that if you don't pursue love, and this is the Greek word dioko, it's the same word as persecute. To pursue a victim, to pursue someone until you capture them and you take them captive. To pursue a criminal until you have taken them captive. So you must pursue love until you have taken possession of it. You have it. You pursue it. All right? This is an active thing, to pursue love. Now, but it doesn't stop there, and many, many, many, many preachers will preach sermons on love, but listen, pursue love and desire spiritual gifts. Pursue love and desire spiritual gifts. So the word desire here is ziloo, we get the word zealous and jealous. This word ziloo means to boil over, to boil over with jealousy, to boil over with envy, to boil over with the desire to have something. It's to boil over with intense desire, to be boiling with intense desire. So he says pursue love like a persecutor pursues a criminal, and then boil over with desire for spiritual gifts. This is not an option, all right? But then he even takes it a step further and says, but especially that you may prophesy. Wow, wait a minute, pursue love, yeah, yes, be intently pursuing, walking in the love of God, God's love for you, God's love for you, pursue that. Pursue that in your thoughts, meditate on the love of God for you, then meditate on the love of God in you. That same love God has for me and for you, that same love is what you have in your spirit for others, even your enemies, even the people that annoy you at church, that kind of love is in you, pursue that. There's a reason why, and it relates to, the context here is gifts of the Spirit. I'll just say it now, love is the motive of operating in these nine manifested graces. Love is the motive, but love is also the trigger. Love is the trigger. Listen, have you ever seen something really bad happen to somebody? Something horrible happen, and this passion, compassion, rose up in your heart, and you're like, oh, I wish I could do something, but humanly, there's nothing I can do. That is the trigger point where the love of God will trigger, yeah, there's nothing you can do, but there's a lot that the Holy Spirit can do through you, all right? So love is the triggering of all these gifts of the Spirit, whether it's prophecy or tongues or interpretation, it is the manifestation of the love of God. Oh, my goodness, oh, if you begin to see these nine gifts, not as a display of power, and sometimes people get into a power trip, like, look at me, I can do this and that, look at these gifts, but if you start seeing these as manifestations of divine love, you will begin to lean into these nine gifts when you're dealing with people, because it takes you beyond your natural limitations to help people and over into God's ability. Man, if you can begin to change your thinking that the gifts of the Spirit is not a demonstration of spirituality, it's not a demonstration of power, it's a demonstration of love, and you want to see love manifested in people's lives, I'm telling you this will trigger prophecy, the gift of prophecy, it'll trigger tongues and interpretation, your heart will yearn to give them something beyond the natural. It'll give you the boldness to step into the gifts of the Spirit because you're stepping into manifested love. Say this out loud, I am pursuing love. I am boiling over with desire for the gifts of the Spirit. And I'm especially boiling over with intense desire to prophesy. Now I can hear some of you now, like, you know, Byron, you're a good speaker, you've done this all your life, you get in front of people, you prophesy, I'm just never going to be a prophesier. Well, first of all, I'm going to correct that lovingly. That's doubt, that's unbelief, and that's stubbornness. That's you staying in your comfort zone. That's you saying no to 1 Corinthians 14 once. See, you're not disagreeing with Byron here, Jumpstart Nation, you're disagreeing with what God wants for you. You're cutting short your own destiny. This is not written to an apostle. 1 Corinthians 14 is not written to a prophet. It's not written to an evangelist, a pastor, or a teacher, or a good speaker. It's written to the body of Christ. He wrote this to the whole church at Corinth, right? And to the individual believers. Now, because he wrote this letter to the whole church at Corinth, then he's encouraging this whole church to pursue the love of God flowing in his love, to boil over with jealousy for the gifts of the Spirit, and especially to prophesy. When a local church begins to do this, you're going to see a supernatural tone, a supernatural element begin to increase in that church. Oh, we don't just want the doctrine of grace. Oh, man, no, we don't just want to know the doctrine of grace. We want to experience grace and be conduits and channels of grace. We want manifested grace. And grace manifests these nine ways that you see in 1 Corinthians chapter 12. Man, we must, must, must get beyond doctrine only. Just the doctrine of grace. I'm not against doctrine. That's the foundation. But, man, many of us are camping on, we've got our grace doctrine, right? And I know how to judge you if you don't have the grace teaching, right? I can see you are a legalist, a Pharisee from a mile away. Well, good for you. Now you've built another barrier around another doctrine. But the doctrine of grace simply gives you the freedom and the foundation to release and operate in the gifts of the Spirit. We need the gifts of the Spirit. I heard a minister recently say that, and they traveled the country, they're very experienced, they traveled the country, they are good at flowing in the gifts of the Spirit. And I heard them say to me, both publicly and in a private dinner setting, he said, all these churches that used to be Spirit-filled, charismatic churches, a lot of churches from Rhema graduates, a lot of the Spirit-filled grace churches, he said, I'm traveling the country. And he said, I am not seeing any manifestations of the Holy Spirit in any of the so-called Spirit-filled tongue-talking churches. He said, maybe 1% of the churches, 2% maybe. He said, I'm not seeing it. And I got to looking at our own church, and we do have a healthy flow, but it's not where the Lord wants it to be. He's been stirring me up for over a month, disturbing my sleep, actually, about this. And so I'm going to show you how to stir this up and how to pursue it. All right? Amen. So pursue love, boil over with jealousy, zola o for spiritual gifts, spiritual manifestations, and especially that you may prophesy. He said, especially the gifts of prophecy, to prophesy. And just before we can get to it today, the gift of prophecy in its simplest form is not foretelling the future. It's simply speaking by the inspiration of the Spirit in a way that it's God, you're yielding to that gift, and it's God speaking through your mouth by your choice. It's God speaking to others through you that builds up and encourages and it edifies. First Corinthians 14.4 says, He who speaks in a tongue edifies himself. And we need to be doing that, right, Jump Start Nation? But he who prophesies to others edifies the church. Wow. Edifies the church. The church needs to be edified, and the gift of prophecy is one of the supernatural ways to flow in the grace of God that brings the empowerment to edify and build up the church. Wow. Now, how is it, notice this, 2 Timothy chapter 1. Let's talk about how to stir up the gifts of the Spirit in your own life. How to stir up the grace of God, the gifts of the Spirit in your own life. 2 Timothy chapter 1, the Apostle Paul writing to his spiritual apprentice, Apostle Timothy. Timothy was never a pastor. He was an apostle. And I know that many of you who have been in Christian circles that you have learned to call 1 and 2 Timothy pastoral epistles and Titus pastoral epistles. Timothy nor Titus were ever pastors. They were apostles. They were never pastors. They were apostles. They were junior apostles, so to speak, under the Apostle Paul and on Paul's apostolic team. Now, watch this. Here is 1 Timothy. I'm going to prove to you that Timothy was never a pastor. He was an apostle. Now, listen, 1 Timothy chapter 1, verse 3, the Apostle Paul is going to write a letter to the Apostle Timothy who has taken over the oversight of the church in Ephesus, which is made up of hundreds, if not thousands, of home churches who have pastors. The church was a church of churches. All right. Now, here's what Paul said to Timothy. Verse 3, as I urged you when I went into Macedonia, remain in Ephesus that you may charge some that they teach no other doctrine. Notice what Paul said to Apostle Timothy. He said, make sure that the pastors over these small assemblies, small house churches, make sure these pastors are not teaching weird stuff, strange doctrine. The Apostle Timothy was to give direction to the pastors and teachers over the assemblies in the area of Ephesus. Now, watch this. He said, tell them, nor give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which cause disputes rather than godly edification, which is in faith. He said, make sure these guys are not just arguing legalistic stuff and trying to bring the law back in. Don't let these pastors that you're over as an apostle start bringing people back into legalism, which doesn't produce godly edification. Again, building up is the key. He said, nor give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which cause disputes rather than godly edification, which is in faith. He said, don't let them get into genealogies and Jewish stuff, all this Jewish that's been done away with or fulfilled. Don't get into this mixture of Jewish stuff. He said, now, the purpose of the commandment, and the commandment here is his commandment to Timothy to take care, to watch over these teachers. The purpose of the commandment, the commandment I just gave you, not the Ten Commandments. He didn't say the purpose of the commandments. He said, the purpose of this commandment, where I'm commanding you to correct the teaching of these pastors, he said, the purpose is love from a pure heart, from a good conscience, and from sincere faith. He said, the purpose of you correcting these teachers so that they don't get into false teaching and legalism and condemnation and all that stuff, he said, I want these members of all these churches in Ephesus to have a pure heart, not a condemned heart, not a dirty heart that's been made dirty by guilt. Putting people under the law gives them a guilty and unclean conscience. When you preach the law, you're going to put people under a dirty mind and an unclean conscience. I said it, all right? It's the root of it, all right? Now, from a pure heart is love from a good conscience. If you have an evil conscience, a guilty conscience, you don't know how to walk in love towards others. You don't because you don't even love yourself because you're under this legalism and you're under this guilty conscience. He said, but love flows from a pure heart that's built on the grace of God. Love flows from a good conscience, a clean conscience, which doesn't come by just having perfect behavior. It comes from a perfect redemption. You'll never live sinlessly ever. There will always be areas where you're not measuring up. And if you're not careful, that will soil your conscience. The only way to have a clean conscience is through understanding the perfect redemption, the perfect righteousness that you are through the blood of Jesus. And he said love also flows from sincere faith. The word sincere here, sincere faith, the Latin is sin without seer, without wax, sin without seer, wax, without wax. What does it mean to have a faith that's without wax? Back in the day when this Latin word was being used, the tradesmen and guildsmen would make statues and things of that nature and out of clay and all of that and would sell those statues and sell those different bowls and cups and dishes that sometimes they would get a crack in them. They would get a crack in them. And so what they would do, it was dishonest, they would take wax and fill in the cracks and paint over it to make it look like the plate, the bowl or the dish or whatever pottery looked like it had no cracks. All right. But so it was a false plate, a fake plate, a plate with flaws. All right. Sincere faith is a faith that doesn't have a wax filling in the flaws. When you finally can come to the place where you're not trying to pretend to have faith, you're not trying to cover up your lack of whatever, and you have a sincere faith, it's because you understand that the faith you have is not because you're awesome. The faith you have is because of the righteousness that you have in Christ. And you don't have to be concerned about trying to do a fake faith, a pretend faith. Now, the one way that they would detect a piece of pottery or a bowl is they would set it out in the sun and the sun would melt the wax and they would find the flaws. All right. In the same way, when you have an insincere faith, you have a faith that is pretend and pretentious and you're trying to sort of put your best foot forward and look better than you are and you've got this pretend faith, you know, well, you'll find out that your faith is genuine when it comes under the sun of affliction and persecution. Praise God. And then you'll find it's not your faith that's sincere, it's the faith of Christ that's in you that's sincere so that when you come under the sun of tribulation, under the heat of persecution, when you're no longer under law and performance and pretending to have this massive awesome faith and your faith is purely the faith of Jesus, it will stand under the heat of tests. Praise God. Say this out loud. The love of God that's in me is flowing from a pure heart that is not condemned. The love of God in me is flowing from a good, clean conscience because of the blood of Jesus and the faith of God in me is a sincere faith. The love of God in me is flowing through a sincere faith. The faith of Jesus in me is without wax and it will stand the heat of affliction. Amen. Now, he said, from which some, having strayed, have turned aside to idle talk. He's still talking about these pastors desiring to be teachers of the law. Uh-oh, understanding neither what they say nor the things which they affirm. So some of these pastors, the church of Ephesus had 60 to 100,000 members that met in home churches and then the leaders of those home churches would gather with Apostle Timothy and he would instruct those pastors. They would go back then to their home churches and minister to their home churches, all right? Now, the Apostle Timothy, Paul said, some of these pastors are beginning to teach the law. They're beginning to allow the law to creep back into the message. He said, you've got to stop this. Praise God. Now, notice this in 2 Timothy, what he says to Timothy. This is back to the gifts of the Spirit. That was a side journey, but it's all good. Praise God. Amen. Now, 2 Timothy 1, verse 6. Here's how you and I can stir up the gifts of the Spirit. Here's how we can get them activated even more. He said, therefore, I remind you to stir up the gift of God, which is in you through the laying on of my hands. Stir up the gift of God. So the gifts of the Spirit and your particular gifting has to be stirred up. I used to eat a lot of natural peanut butter and you remember if you bought natural peanut butter, the top half was the oil, the bottom half was the peanut butter, and you'd have to stir it and stir it and stir it and stir it and stir it until it blended. And the gifts of the Spirit also can settle down to the bottom of life, right? But you've got to stir it back up. Now, no one ever explained to me how to stir up the gifts of the Spirit. I was told to pray more in tongues. I think that is one good way to stir up the gifts of the Spirit. I think that's one good way to stir them, pray more in tongues. But I think there are even better ways or additional ways to stir up the gifts of the Spirit. And it was by the power of the Holy Spirit where God showed me this in 2 Peter. I'm going to give you a real nugget here on how to stir up anything spiritual, anything spiritual, all right? Stir up the revelation of grace. You can stir up the revelation of any area of spiritual life. Now, we're talking about the gifts of the Spirit. How do you stir up the gifts of the Spirit in your life or in your Bible study or in your local church? Well, if you're not the pastor, you're not the sole responsibility. You would not be the one that would do it. It would be your lead pastor. But here's the secret. Paul or Peter said in 2 Peter 1, verse 12, he said, for this reason, I will not be negligent to remind you always of these things, the things you just said. I will not be negligent to remind you always of these things, though you know and are established in the present truth. He said, even though you know these things that I just got through talking about, he said, I'm going to be, I'm going to always remind you of the stuff you already know. I'm going to keep reminding you. Now, why, Peter? Why are you going to remind them of things they already know? Why don't you give them some new heavy revy? Here's why. He said, yes, I think it is right as long as I am in this tent, here's the nugget, to stir you up by reminding you. To stir you up by reminding you. How do you stir up the gifts of the spirit? By going back over what you've been taught before, by going over, by feeding along those lines, pick up some of your books on gifts of the spirit, the different books you've read by Kenneth Hagan, by whoever, whomever you learned them, pick up some books, some CDs, some, some YouTubes of credible teaching, not incredible, but credible teaching on the gifts of the spirit and let the Holy Spirit stir you up by reminding you. So the Lord said to me a couple of weeks ago, he said, Byron, you know how to do this. You know how to stir this up? I said, yeah, yeah, Lord. He said, go back and feed along those lines. He said it was so simple, so simple. Go back and feed along those lines. Smith Wigglesworth, man, tremendous revelation on the gifts of the spirit. Ever-increasing faith. Kenneth Hagan, there's different men that have taught on the gifts of, Stephen Brooks has a tremendous book on the gifts of the spirit. There's several. Go back and let the spirit of God remind you, all right? And then prayerfully pray, pray that your pastor from time to time will come back and just cover this territory and stir up the gifts of the Holy Spirit. Praise God. And this will then, whether it's faith, love, grace, humility, wherever the Holy Spirit wants you to stir something up, he'll want you to go back and feed on that again. Go back and be reminded of stuff that you already know. Man, praise God. That is awesome to be stirred up. This is so good. All right, let's take a break. Thank you, Jesus. What's going on in the chat world? Yeah, Don Gossett, EW Kenyon, absolutely a good way to stir things up. That is so cool. Angie, I love it. I praise God for being a part of this Jumpstart family. Y'all bless me beyond measure. Well, you bless us, Angie, beyond measure by being on here. You so bless us, and we appreciate it. So right now, we're stirring up the gifts of the Spirit. We stirred up brain rewire for a while, and we will go back to that again, codependency. We need to go back and stir that up again because things can settle to the bottom. But here's what happens. Do you notice with peanut butter, the oil goes to the top, the substance goes to the bottom, and it's not consumable. Oil is a type or a figure of the anointing and the power of God. If we don't stir up the truth, peanut butter represents the truth of a thing, grace, faith, the subject of faith, the subject of love. Any subject in the Bible, that peanut butter on the bottom represents it, gifts of the Spirit, the doctrine of the gifts of the Spirit, the doctrine of grace, the doctrine of faith, the doctrine of the end times. If it doesn't get stirred up, it gets separated from the anointing that quickens it. So the oil's on top, the doctrine's on the bottom, but we don't need doctrine here, unanointed, just plain unanointed teaching with the anointing up here. We need to stir it up by remembering and reminding and thinking about it and be teaching it and then also mixing and praying in tongues and things like that, but we want the oil, the anointing, and the doctrine mixed together. That's when it makes it edible. Praise God. So we're just kind of stirring up the peanut butter of the gifts of the Spirit. That's what we're doing. Glory be to God. That's awesome. Amen. You know, oil and water never mix, but you can stir it up. You can stir it up so that you have oil bubbling through the water. You have the fullness of the Spirit bubbling through the new birth of the Spirit. Glory to God. Man, and we need to constantly be doing that. That is so good. Hallelujah. Now, one more thing about the gifts of the Spirit that I wanted to bring up is 1 Timothy 4, verse 14. 1 Timothy 4, verse 14. The Apostle Paul again said to Timothy, Apostle Timothy, Do not neglect the gift that is in you, which was given you by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the eldership. Do not neglect the gift that is in you. And I looked this word up. I don't have my notes in front of me, but the word neglect means don't treat it lightly. Don't treat it as unimportant. Don't put it on the back burner. Don't ignore it. Right? Don't put it like out of sight, out of mind. He said, Timothy, don't neglect the gift, the ministry and the anointing, the gifting that is in you. It's possible to have spiritual giftings and ignore them. And sometimes it just happens. It's insidious. It's just you get busy with life and you get busy with stuff. And the intervention of the Holy Spirit kind of sort of gets left off just by sheer distraction. Amen. Praise God. Wow. God is so good. What else? Let's see here in the chat round. This is so good. Thank you, Charlie. That's Mrs. Rhea. Thank you, Tom, celebrity. Leadership. Oh, I lost it. Somebody jumped it. Is a great weakness for the church. Good word, Pastor Byron. We are all called to be used of God as members of his body. Yes, every person is called to do so. I agree. Our family has been told by God to concentrate on the fruit of the spirit so that we will operate in the gifts from the character of Jesus and not our flesh. We are not there, but eager to be taught. Amen. Praise God. Nancy says, wow, I love how Holy Spirit has come opening up the scriptures in such clarity and depth. Me too. Me too. Honestly, some of the stuff I'm just seeing it as I'm saying it, which is part of the gift of prophecy. Angie, I truly believe God is hovering over us and there are going to be holy fire starting worldwide. Yes, if we will stir that up, Nancy or Angie, we must stir it up. Praise God. Amen. Joel, again, thank you for all the scriptures that you're putting up here. I love that. Nancy, wax buildup in ears makes it hard to hear. Good point. Good analogy. Amen. God is good. OK, for our final segment. First Peter chapter two. First Peter chapter two. Check this out. I just want you to see this verse four coming to him as to a living stone, coming to Jesus as to a living stone rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God and precious. Don't let men's rejection tell you that you're not precious. All right. Now, you also as living stones, just as he's the living stone, you are living stones are being built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. You are being built up. What's he what's Peter saying here? He's saying you are actively involved in the gifts of the spirit. You are actively involved in the gift of prophecy. You're prophesying to one another. You're flowing in the utterance gifts together. You are being built up. Peter himself is saying you must be built up. There must be gifts of the spirit. We are a spiritual house, a built up spiritual house, which cannot happen without the gifts of the spirit, a holy priesthood right to offer up spiritual sacrifices, not animal, but spiritual sacrifices which are acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. What are spiritual sacrifices? They are the things coming out of your born again spirit. Tongues, interpretation, prophecy, love like the fruit of the spirit are coming out of your you are a holy priest. Praise God, offering up spiritual sacrifices. Love you guys. We will see you tomorrow morning, nine o'clock.
