This video is long, but if you have the time, definitely
worth listening to! I can't help but get fired up and encouraged!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvGg2KP_btg
If you REALLY don't have time to listen, here's
probably one of my favorite part of his sermon. It was about when we
continuously pray for something and our prayers go unanswered (something
all of us can relate to) and how each of us should be literally begging God to
constantly fill us with more and more of His Spirit while surrendering ours to
make room for His.
“I think God gets a different kind of glory when His servants pray and nothing happens. And pray again and nothing happens. And believe and nothing happens. And trust and look foolish. And step out in faith and are not rewarded. And their spirit persists. And they pray and pray and pray and pray, and nothing happens. And their spirit endures, and their spirit remains, and their spirit believes, and their spirit trusts. And they pray again and nothing happens. And the heavens are as brass, and the answer does not come.
When the spirit of man is subject to God under such duress and disappointment, God elbows the devil in the ribs and says, “Got anyone like that, devil? Got anyone like that? Got anyone so surrendered, devil? Got anyone whose spirit is so yielded and soft? Got anyone that trusts you unshakably? Do you have anyone with a surrendered spirit like that?”
Nothing strikes fear into the heart of that old serpent like the spirit of one completely surrendered to Jesus. For a surrendered spirit doesn’t have to know why. A surrendered spirit doesn’t have to be known. A surrendered spirit doesn’t have to be able. A surrendered spirit doesn’t have to be the center. A surrendered spirit doesn’t have to succeed. Yet, a surrendered spirit can be trusted with power from on high for a surrendered spirit is unlimited, and a surrendered spirit is unstoppable.
We must surrender the idea that this gospel will be preached to every nation in our own strength. For it is to the desperate that Jesus sends more of His Spirit."
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