The Spirit Of Revelation By: Dr. Pete Norris

Today on Power in the Word You got it on the inside of you. It's wrapped up and tied up in it And it's on the inside of you. You're full of revelation. You're full of power. You're full of anointing You're full of spirit. You're full of the wisdom. You're just like God walking around. You're full of truth. You're full of understanding I'm the way the truth in the life. There's no other way to the Father except through us You said pastor are you being saying this through you absolutely is through us because we're the righteous of God on the earth We're one revealing the Son Portraying the Son and we're full of the spirit of wisdom and revelation and it's hidden on the inside of us The Bible said that he's hidden these things not from us but for us Welcome to power in the word as a believer in Jesus Christ. Do you know who you are in him? Do you realize the privileges and authority that you have in Christ? Well today, dr Shows us in the word how special we are to Jesus Christ. How often we dismiss our heritage in Christ Stay tuned and be encouraged You may know what the spirit of Revelation is How many of you know that you're walking in Revelation? How many of you know that you know what you don't think you know and you already know it? But you just don't know you know 90% of what you pray for us what you already got And I believe that God's about to do some supernatural things in our life and it's time to live outside of the natural We're never intended to live the natural life We were intended to live a supernatural life But if we don't follow the spirit and the voice on the inside of us Then we're gonna live like everybody else and I'm telling you God's tired of you living like everybody else He wants you to live above everybody else and beyond everybody else and he can do exceedingly abundantly above all you can ask or think According to the power that's on the inside of you, but you got to learn to use that so go meet Ephesians chapter 1 Ephesians chapter 1 verse 15 Therefore also after I heard of your faith that this is Paul talking to the church at Ephesus How many of you know that Paul wrote this letter to the church at Ephesus when he was in prison? He was in prison in Rome and he wrote this letter to the church at Ephesus And he said I want you to know something I've heard about you How many of you ever wrote if anybody wrote you a notice that I've heard about you?

I've heard about you turn to somebody say have you heard about me? Seriously now I'm being real just a minute Is anybody heard about you? Therefore I also after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the Saints He said I've heard about your faith How can you hear about faith? And he said I've heard about you love for the sight for all the Saints not just a part of them But not for just your denomination, but all the Saints. He said I've heard about you guys turn to somebody say have you heard of me? Verse 16 Do not cease to give thanks for you. In other words Paul said I don't ever stop praying for you because it's my prayer Listen to me. It's my prayer. That's making you love the Saints It's my prayer that's that that's building your faith for you to love the Saints how many of you if you notice Loving and faith is always connected Because faith don't work without love He said in Galatians chapter 6 verse 5 that the thing that's keeping our faith from working is love Think about it now love's a powerful thing. It's the first fruit of the Spirit and loves the most important thing in your life How many of you love? Who you like? Here's what people tell you sometimes you ever heard of people Christians say this. I love you with the love of Jesus. What's that mean? Listen to me love don't ever see wrong in anybody's life That's how you can tell love read 1st Corinthians 13 love does not keep a record or wrong that's been done to it Do you keep a record? You remember everybody's never wronged you? ever shafted you Stuck you Seriously, let's be real a minute now If you keep a record of those things is because you ain't walking in love Now I'm telling you God is ready for the church to walk in another level of love So he said I don't keep a record. I don't love's not puffed up I don't want my own way. Do you want your own way? So Paul said I've seen your love for the Saints, and I'm making mention of you in my prayers in other words Paul said

I'm praying for you all the time now. Don't ask you something Outside of yourself who've you prayed for today? We need to continuously pray to the Father of glory for the Saints Listen guys there's people that are going through Obstacles and big decisions in their life and circumstances in their life your problem ain't that bad Really, I don't mean that ugly But Paul was in prison in Rome when he wrote this letter and he's talking about he's heard about their love Now who come to prison and said Paul let me tell you about them guys in Ephesus They must have really stood out for them to waste their time to go all the way to Rome to tell Paul in prison about the Saints Think about it Ain't nobody walk from here to Benson to talk about you They went all the way to prison to tell Paul about them Saints in Ephesus so them Saints in Ephesus must have really stuck out. You know we read about Paul but what let's read about them. That God revealed. He said I've heard of your faith and your love and I was encouraged. See people get encouraged by your love and your faith. People grow from you. Guys you got to understand that. People watching you. God will reveal the Spirit of Revelation to us in the degree that we ask Him. What are you asking God for? Do you want to know greater revelation? What do you want to know? Do you want to just get the stuff from God? Or do you want to know Him? I want to intimately know Him. So to intimately know Him I got to do what? I got to spend some time with Him. Go to Matthew chapter 7 verse 7 and here's what he said. Matthew chapter 7 verse 7. Ask and it'll be given to you. Seek and you'll find and knock and the door will be opened. Now look at that. A-S-K. Ask, seek, and knock. So he said ask and it'll be given to you. Seek and you'll find and knock and it shall be opened unto you. Now I'm going to stop right here because the first thing is ask. How many of you know that word means make a demand? Now what's yours? Are you making a demand or are you just praying? Lord, Lord help me. Lord touch me. Lord give me. Lord bless me. Lord anoint me. Lord send me. Lord use me. Let

people know me. Really that's our prayers a lot of times. Lord bless my family. Bless my children. You know I'm on the go God. I got to go but I want you to bless them. And so we take a little bit of time with God and we ride into work. You'll be on the music, on the love radio or whatever you may be listening to. 92.3 or whatever it is. 107.3 or whatever it is. Or you may be listening to a tape. But what about you and him? Look at verse 8. For everyone who asks. Now guys is that true or not? That's red. That's in red. And he who seeks finds. Are you seeking him? Listen to me. Don't take this wrong. I'm not enough for you. Wednesday nights and Sunday mornings is not enough. You got to spend time with him. I'm not talking about condemnation. I'm not talking about putting a guilt trip on anybody. I'm just telling you. I'm just telling you. If you listen to me and listen to me good. If you think the world's dark. It's gonna get darker. You better be a light in the middle of the darkness. And to him that knocks it will be opened. He said if you ask you'll receive. If you'll seek you'll find. And if you'll knock it'll be open. Are you knocking? Or you spend a lot of time sleeping? Spend a lot of time doing nothing? Or you knocking? Think about it. Verse 9. What man is there among you who if his son asked for bread he'd give him a stone? Now think about this brother. We got to read this text. The translation of the Greek word here. If his son asked for bread. Who's the bread? Would you give him the law? Think about it. What are you asking him for? What's the last thing you ask God for? Look at 10. If he asked for a fish would you give him a serpent? Look at 11. If you then being evil know how to give good gifts to your children. How much more? How many of you ever give your children something they didn't ask for it? How many of you when you were growing up you had you fix the Christmas list? And they you'd go through the Sears and Roebuck. You remember that? And you circled some things you wanted for Christmas. You remember? You made me do that. And so you what did you do? That's what you was asking for. Now you probably didn't get all of it. But you probably got one or two things out of that Sears and Roebuck before it went to you to be used for something else. Right? But think about it. Know how to give good gifts to your children. How much more will your father

who is in heaven give good things to those to them that ask him? Are you asking God for stuff? What are you asking him for? The Word of the Lord came to Solomon. He said Solomon ask whatever you will. What did Solomon ask for? Why didn't he ask for stuff? Why didn't he ask for money? Why didn't he ask for health? Why did he ask for wisdom? Because he knew if he got wisdom he'd got all the other stuff. And that's what you and I. The spirit of revelation will reveal all things to us. There's things you know that you don't know you know and you're sitting around wanting God to do it or trying to find it in the book somewhere when it's really inside of us. We need to ask him for wisdom. He said if you lack wisdom ask me. What kind of wisdom do you want? What do you want the wisdom for? Is it going to make you better or make the world a better place? Go to James chapter 4 verse 2. I want you to grip hold of this. spirit of revelation. You lust and you do not have. You murder and covet and you cannot obtain. You fight and you war, yet you do not have because you don't ask. How many of you asking for something? Really, how many of you are making a demand? You find a scripture and you stand on that scripture until it activates and manifests in your life. Guys, we gotta start trusting. Listen, the world is an open book. Live it. You design your destiny. You speak your existence. You have what you believe is gonna show up in your life. If you ain't looking for it and asking for it and expecting it, it ain't gonna show up. We're living just like the world and you can't tell us apart. You know, I came downtown last night for the lighting thing. And so I'm walking around, but I'm walking around and I can feel stuff. And I'm walking around and it's coming to my mind, in the end time, people gonna be going to and fro with no direction. So here we were, walking that way, turn around and walking that way, walking that way, turn around and walking that way, going nowhere. And I'm thinking, what are we doing? And I said, God, why am I even here? He said, I want you to see what you don't want to be. What are you seeing? What are you asking God to do? What are you expecting to happen? Are you looking for it? Are you talking to it? Listen, create whatever you want to create in your life, in yourself. If you can't see it inside, it'll never live

outside. Because nothing can live without you giving life to it. You give life to your dreams. You give life to your pain. You give life to everything in your life. You're the one that gives life to it. God ain't gonna do anything else. I was laying in bed last night and God said, Pete, listen, create your world, man, live in it. Create your world, live in it. Don't take the world, you're not from here, you're not of this world. Create your own world. Guys, you gotta create your world. You gotta ask, you gotta believe, you gotta receive, you gotta expect it to show up. Paul did not cease to make mention of the church deficits in his prayers. He continuously prayed for him. Why was he praying for him? Because he knew the world was a difficult place. Paul went through so many obstacles and so many tribulations and so many struggles in his life. He was shipwrecked, he was left for dead, he was beaten. Most of you don't even know who beat him. How many of you know most of Paul's beatings come from his father-in-law? Read. Paul was married at one time. You couldn't be a Sanhedrin and not be married. So we don't understand why Paul went through what he went through. Paul lost everything for the cause of Christ. Paul let everything go for the purpose. Paul didn't preach day one after he got born to get on the road to a mass. What happened? He went off for 17 years before he ever preached his first message and he went to Arabia for three and then 14 years ago he knew a man. He had a revelation. He got a revelation. It took him 14 years to comprehend that revelation. We want a revelation next day. We know everything about you. I'm ready to preach. I'm ready to preach. We need to know him. We need to know him, man. Go to Ephesians chapter 1 verse 8. Look what he said here. Which he made to abound toward us in all wisdom and puritance. Now the word puritance means understanding. He said which he made him to abound toward us in all wisdom and understanding. Do we understand? See we're trying to figure it out. You need to show up and then it happens. Because we, that's what happened with Jesus. Jesus just showed up and it happened. He went to the whale to meet that woman he weren't even supposed to talk to. He showed up and she had an encounter. We ought to be showing up and people have an encounter. I'm telling you man, I'm seeing this thing every day in my life now. And I'm telling you God's doing

some wonderful stuff. And we need to be encouraged and uplifted. And I don't mean this disrespectful. Don't get upset with me. Get out of your pity party man. And see the goodness of the Lord. Taste and see that he's good. Taste and experience the goodness of the Lord that he's bestowing upon your life. Listen to me. This world ain't fixing to crumble and fall apart. You're fixing to create your own and walk out of this one. Gosh man it's a good time to be alive. Turn to somebody and say it's a good time to be alive. Listen, this scripture here, this understanding, describes the grace and the glory that God has lavished upon us man. God loves us. He's crazy about us. He's absolutely, listen, he created the garden just for us to exist. in it. He didn't need a garden. He just needed us. He needed us. He needs you. He needs you. People need you. People need you. Listen, create your world. I heard a professional athlete say something last week. I was listening to him talking. Here's what he said. He said, I'm a preaching football coach. He said, but I'm not your normal preacher. I blame a lot of flamboyance with mine. He said, but that's who I am. He said, Jesus, I'm not a lot like him. He was a lot like me. And I thought about it for a moment. He said, and I'm the only Jesus some of these football players are going to see. Think about it a minute. You're the only Jesus some people's ever going to see. But what are they seeing in you? Are they hearing about your faith? Are they hearing about your...who's talking about you? Seriously. Isn't it amazing how fast bad news travels? And how long it takes for good news to get anywhere. Go to Ephesians chapter 1, verse 4. Just as he chose us. Now watch this. Just as he chose us in him. He chose us in him before the foundation of the world that we should be. Now watch this. He chose you to be holy without blame before him in love. In love before the foundation of the world. Before you were ever created you were in love and you were blameless and you were holy. Now what changed it? The world. Because the world says we're not blameless. The world says we're not holy. And the world says you get the hate. Because you got to do people before they do you. And the church has got the same attitude. Because if you're harboring stuff. Think about it a minute now. If you

remember everything that's been done bad to you. You're not walking in love. Because Jesus don't remember anything me and you've done. Glory! He don't remember anything me and you've done. So he's walking in perfect love. And perfect love casts out fear. See, listen to me. Somebody walking in perfect love can't have fear. You can't hurt a man walking in perfect love. They couldn't hurt Jesus. They tried to kill him. Couldn't even kill him. You can't kill love. Jesus said I'm love. That ain't a characteristic. I mean that's what, that's who I am. Are you love? Are you love? You can't even remember anything anybody's ever done to you. Can you? That's not easy is it? But you know I believe God's trying to take us there. And I believe some of the things that we're holding on the inside of us is keeping us from creating our own world. Because if you could create a world with evil on the inside and darkness on the inside and pain on the inside you'd create a world. What you think the world's created? What's created all this animosity and all this struggles and all the heartache and all pain, pain, pain, pain will carry around. You'll wear it like a glove until you get to a point in your life that you're gonna say you know what God I want to be like you. I want to be so full of love it's oozing out of me. Now does that mean you're gonna be that way 24-7, 365? No. But I'll tell you what you can do. You can let that animosity go. You can let that pain go. You can let that resistance go. You can walk in love and I'll tell you when you walk in love joy will follow you around. You'll be so happy you can't get you can't help it. You just can't help it. Look at verse 5. Having predestined us. He had, listen to me, before you were ever created he had you holy, he had you blameless, and he had you in love. He had you in love. You ever been in love? Seriously I'm asking you. You ever been in love? Remember what it felt like? It's different than being in heat and being in love. Right? Seriously what does love look like? Perfect example Jesus. They tried to kill him. He didn't run from them. He said you can't kill me. I'm not afraid of you. He said I got to give it up. See we're afraid because we're not walking in perfect love. We're afraid the world's gonna come to end and it may not be like Pastor Pete said. And we may not be like the world said. And I may have to struggle before I get out of

here. I may have to suffer. I may be made a hospice. See the enemy tells you all these kind of stuff and we have a tendency to believe and to get that mindset and walk in such a dimension of deep fear and doubt and unbelief to the point that we can't even enjoy where we are right now because we're worried about what's gonna happen tomorrow. Listen God is only give you grace for today. He ain't give you the grace for tomorrow yet. You have grace for tomorrow, tomorrow, so don't worry about tomorrow. That's what he was trying to tell the disciples. Listen guys, don't worry about tomorrow. Don't take no thought of what you're gonna wear, what you're gonna put on, or what you're gonna eat. Just, just take, take thought of me. Put thought of me. Just trust in me. Believe in me. Trust in me. Love me. Hold on to me. Just trust in me. Every breath of your breath, let, let, let you breathe out and let me breathe in. I got you guys. He said, I got you. Having predestined us to the adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to himself according to the good pleasure of his will. Think about it guys. God's got a perfect will for you. Before you were ever created, he made you holy, he made you blameless, and he had, he had you in love. You were in love and didn't even know it. You had to be taught pain. You had to be taught fear. You had to be, listen, I was telling somebody the other day, Jacob, my little grandson, we went down to see the bulls, and he wanted to go under the fence. It's a lectern fence, and he wanted to go under the fence to the bulls. He wasn't scared of the bulls. You got to teach people fear. Somebody had to teach you your fear. Listen, I hear people say, well pastor, there's some good fears. No, there is no good fears. Fear is of the enemy, and fear is captivating and paralyzing people, so that they can't have their destiny because they are afraid of what everybody's going to think. See, there's a whole lot of people that have fear of getting rich. What's people going to say about it? Money's not good or bad, it's the person that gets it. All that money does is bring out who you really want to start with. If you're a giver before, you're going to be a giver after. Think about it. The things you give to him and let him control, those are the things that prosper in your life. Watch this. Paul continued in prayer that the saints would experience more of this predetermined plan, which reveals God's longing and commitment to lavish his

grace on us. Guys, do you really believe he's got you? Do you believe he really wants you to prosper? Do you really believe he wants you to have good success? And I'm going to go a step further. He don't want you to have to labor and toil to make it happen all the time. He don't want you working 25 hours a day when it ain't but 24. Some of you have increased your days and you're working longer than the day is. He said, I'm going to lengthen your days. I'm going to make your day longer than you have to work. Guys, you say, Pastor, do you believe God's that good? I do. I believe God wants to bless you beyond anything you can imagine. I believe God wants you to have great success and see the blessings of God and see the favor of God and listen, live on after you're gone. See the favor and the blessing. That's why he said, leave an inheritance to your children and grandchildren. He won't talk about just money there, guys. He was talking about revelation. I believe with all my heart. My kids, I don't care. I'm going to go there. My kids ain't going to have to study for what I know. They're going to get it because I knew it. Because I'm breaking new ground for my family and my generation. There weren't no preachers in my family on my daddy's side. Ain't nobody saved till I came along. So what happened? It was a shift in the spirit that God had a plan. He's got a plan for your life. And see the enemy tried to take me out young, but I'm telling you, God's got a plan. God had a word in me before. I'm going to go there. Before I knew there was a word that had me, I was had. And the enemy said, you know, I'm going to take that boy out. God said, no, I got something for him. I got something. He's mine. I got him. I got the hedge around him and you ain't going to take him out. I got him. He's coming back to where he never left. He thinks he has, but he ain't left because he's a word that I spoke from heaven and he's down here with a purpose. You were sent with a purpose. Go to Ephesians chapter 1 verse 15. And you say, pastor, y'all ready? I know I have. Therefore, I also, after I heard of your faith. Think about it a minute. He said, I've heard of your faith. I've heard of your faith. Now, if you'll notice all the other scriptures I've read was before this one. He said, you were chosen. You were blameless. You had no heartache. You were in love before the foundation of the world. I predestined you to be sons of Jesus Christ. I chose you before and now I see your faith. Now, I'm going to make you say, because if you read the scripture, you've missed my whole purpose and message up to this point. Paul didn't see their faith. He didn't see their love. He was speaking their faith and he was speaking their love because that's what he was praying over them. Now, watch this. Let's go to verse 17. That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory may give to you.

Now, watch this, guys. If they were full of faith and full of love, why would he tell them this? that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ the father of glory may give to you the spirit of wisdom and the spirit of revelation in the knowledge of him in other words what was he saying he said it's on the inside of you boys you got it on the inside of you it's wrapped up and tied up in it and it's on the inside of you you're full of revelation you're full of power you're full of anointing you're full of spirit you're full of the wisdom you're just like God walking around you're full of truth you're full of understanding I'm the way the truth in the life there's no other way to the father except through us you said pastor are you being saying it's through you absolutely is through us because we're the righteous of God on the earth we're one revealing the son portraying the son and we're full of the spirit of wisdom and revelation and it's hidden on the inside of us the Bible said that he's hid these things not from us but for us turn to somebody say he's hid it for me turn to somebody say I'm full of revelation turn to somebody say I'm full of revelation I'm full of wisdom I'm full of wisdom I'm full of wisdom what's the principal thing and all you get and get understanding but the principal thing is wisdom turn to somebody say I'm full of wisdom I'm not about worldly wisdom I'm talking about supernatural wisdom let's go back to Ephesians chapter 4 and 5 now watch this now it's all gonna make sense and come together just as he chose us in him before the foundation of world he chose me and get put his wisdom inside of me he put his revelation on the inside of me you came here with it you ain't didn't find it one day if you listen to me I hear people say well you know God was lost and I was lost neither one of us were lost God ain't never been lost and I didn't need to be found I just need to discover who I was turn to somebody say I'm discovering who I am and the Bible said he chose us in him before the foundation of the world that he we should be holy and blameless and before him in love so we're full of God turn to somebody say I'm full of God I'm just absolutely full of it absolutely full of you need to get a hold of this guys the devil don't want you to know who you are he wants you to keep you discouraged frustrated

downtrodden broke humble sick tore up from the floor up he wants you to be discouraged and just walk around like a gloomy sad thing all the time in the church most churches but it's time for us to get happy get righteous stand up and say I'm the righteous of God I'm blessed highly favored deeply loved and I tell you what I'm heading somewhere and if you don't we don't you don't want to happen don't show up where I'm at because where I'm at something's gonna happen turn to somebody say something's gonna happen where I am look at verse 5 having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to himself according that what's his what's his will for you it tells you right here his will for you to be born again he predestined you in other words that pre-planned your steps the steps of a righteous man is ordered of the Lord so he's pre-planned everything in your life he's pre-planned everything in your life what are you concerned about see our struggle it is not who we are struggles where we have some of you not sure before yet you're just kind of interesting where you're going if you understood you're already there you wouldn't have to worry about where you're going you to understand who you are because if you ever understand who you are you're gonna know where you're at because you didn't get it on your own he put you there you're seated in heavenly places features 2 and 6 and heavenly places in Christ Jesus turn to somebody say I'm some kind of something thank you for joining us today at power in the word all of us here at harvest fellowship church want you to know that God is not mad with you but he loves you so very much and he has a plan for your life please feel free to contact us here at harvest fellowship church at our website harvest fellowship church net so until next week please remember there's power in the word