You've Got to Move! | Pastor Jason McKinnies | Purpose House Church

I'm Jason McInnis, the pastor here at Purpose House Church. I wanna thank you for joining our broadcast on the Pando app. We love you and we're praying for you. All right, if you have a Bible, you're gonna need a bunch of them scriptures to just try to keep up with me. I'm gonna move as quickly as I can. I'll try to sign books afterwards, but if God's moving in this place, I'm not gonna leave a move of God to go out and sign books. So we'll just pick it up at some other time. So all right, the whole series so far, this move series has been about you. The stirring the gift in you, the gift that God uses you to speak through, the gift that God uses to heal people is through you. There's dreams and visions, all of it involves you. Today, I just wanna turn the series around and not make it about you, but make it more about God. Because every gift we talk about is really a response to a prior move of God. It's always about his presence in our lives. And so I wanted to build this sermon around two songs because between them, they say almost everything that I want to say, and I want you to walk away with. The first one is older than all of us except for Sherry. And that's the one song they just taught you, you've got to move. And that's the whole message really in one sentence

is you've got to move. And notice it doesn't say you get to, it doesn't say you're invited to, it doesn't say if it's convenient for you, it says you've got to move when the Lord gets ready, you got to move. Doesn't matter who you are, how much you got, how comfortable you've become, when God decides to move, everybody in the room moves with him when God begins to move. The second song is a little newer. It's called Rest on Us. The picture it paints is about fire and about wind. It talks about the same spirit that moved throughout scripture being asked to move again, right here, right now. So one song is about the sovereignty of God over timing. The other is a prayer for his presence to show up the way that it always has. And I don't think that those two ideas are fighting against each other. I think they're the same truth from two different angles. You don't get to control when God moves, but you can ask him and then position yourself for him to move again. Let me read you the words of the song of Rest on Us. As the spirit was moving over the waters, that's where we ended last week. Spirit, come move over us. Come rest on us, come rest on us.

As the spirit was moving over the waters, spirit, come move over us. So come down, spirit. When you move, you make my heart pound. When you fill the room, you're here and I know you are moving. I am here and I know you will fill me. So spirit, when you move, you make my heart pound. When you fill the room, you're here and I know you're moving. And as the spirit was moving over the waters, spirit, come move over us. Fire and wind, come and do it again. Open up the gates and let heaven on in. Come rest on us, come rest on us. Fire and wind, come and do it again. Open up the gates and let heaven on in. Come rest on us, come rest on us. Those are the two songs. One talking about the sovereignty of God and then the other is a prayer for God to move as he has in the past. And so we can read through the scripture and see how God has moved. And then we can say, God, if you did it then, can you do it now? And if he is the same yesterday, today and forever, then it would stand to reason then if he did it then, he can do it again. Whatever he has done, he can do again.

So let's first start with the sovereignty of God because it comes first and Solomon put it plainly in Ecclesiastes chapter three and verse one. He said to everything, there is a season and a time for every purpose under heaven. Not your season, not a season you scheduled, a time that was set by heaven, not by us. Daniel says almost the same exact thing to a room full of Babylonian royalty who thought that they controlled everything on the calendar in their empire. Daniel says it at Daniel chapter two in verse 21 and he says to them, and he, meaning God, changes the times and the seasons. He removes kings and he raises up kings. He says, kings, you don't get to vote on that. Neither do we. When the disciples asked the risen Christ practically the last question they would ever ask him face to face, they said, when are you going to restore the kingdom? His answer was. to redirect their thoughts, not really an answer. He says in Acts 1 and verse 7, it is not for you to know the times or the seasons which the Father has put in his own authority. Now, most of us would think that Jesus is being like a normal politician, he's being evasive. He's not being evasive. It's a description of how this actually works.

It's not up to us on the timing of it. It's up to God on the timing. And God has never once submitted his calendar to us for approval. How many of you have ever gotten impatient with God? I did one time and I still asked him to hurry up. See, Habakkuk ran into that same wall that we can run into. He's crying out to God about the injustices that he's seeing with his eye. He's waiting on God to act. And God tells him very plainly, Habakkuk chapter two and verse three, for the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it will speak and it will not lie. Though it tarries, wait for it, because it will surely come, it will not tarry. Let me read that verse again, because it can sound like it's being very contradictory. For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it will speak and it will not lie. Though it tarries, wait for it, because it will surely come, it will not tarry. Doesn't that sound like he's saying it's not gonna wait, but you need to wait and you need to tarry for it because it will not tarry for it. Tarry means to wait, to wait in expectancy. It says, but it will surely come, it will not tarry. Now, that would seem contradictory until you realize that both statements are true from two different vantage points.

It won't tarry from where God's standing. It sure feels like it's tearing from where you're standing. You think it's been a long time from your vantage point, but from God's vantage point, it's no time. So they're true just from two different vantage points. And both of them are an honest statement. That's what it means to live under a God who moves when he gets ready and not a moment before. I think Lazarus' sisters got a good idea of this. You're late. I am? Yes, we asked you to come four days ago. And had you been here when we thought you should have been here, our brother would not have died. And Jesus is like, that's on your timetable. But when I get ready to move, it doesn't matter when I show up. Because when I show up, four days late is actually on time. Everybody good? See, some of us are saying to God, if you would have done this when I told you to do it, and when I asked you to do it, everything would be fine. And God's like, why don't you just let me do what I do, and you do what you're supposed to do? You're not supposed to be sitting in fear and in doubt and anxious for anything. But in everything, by prayer and supplication, make your requests known unto God, make it known unto God,

and then sit back and wait on God. You remember this? When you don't know what else to do, you just stand, just stand there, and you wait on God. And so many of us get so impatient with God, and we get ahead of God, and then we wanna put our hands into the things that God is already doing. Because from our vantage point, it looks like God's not doing anything, and God's just waiting for his time. So Isaiah says something very similar, and it's worth just kind of sitting with it, because I think it explains why God's timing often feels so late to us, when he isn't late at all. It's found in Isaiah 55, verses 89. "'For my thoughts are not your thoughts, "'nor are your ways my ways,' says the Lord. "'For as the heavens are higher than the earth, "'so are my ways higher than your ways, "'and my thoughts than your thoughts.'" So when we start talking to God, and we're like, well, this is what you should do. You don't even know how much capability God actually has. This is what I would do if I was God. This is what I would do. Anybody ever said that? If you've never said that, come pastor for a week. If I was God, this is what I would do. And then God does something completely different,

and you're like, I never saw that one coming. I just never saw that one coming. Right, because his thoughts are not our thoughts, and his ways are not our ways. They're so much higher than ours. And Peter even gets to the same point about patience very specifically. In 2 Peter 3, verse nine, he says, "'The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, "'as some kind of promise.'" slackness but as long-suffering toward us and the end of that verse is not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance so what looks like slackness from our impatience is actually long-suffering from where God sits and he sits somewhere we don't he sits on the throne and so the old song mattered so much to the people who first sang it see sometimes we sing a song and it doesn't mean that much to us anymore but if you think about what the people that wrote that song that Melissa just saying it wasn't written by people who had the luxury of controlling much of anything in their own lives it was written by people who had almost nothing left to hold on to except the certainty that God's timing was still God's and that when he decided to move in judgment in deliverance in whatever form that move took no rich man's money or no more no poor man's poverty could stop what God was doing it nor could it hurry it up so many people would say that song sounds like it's defeated song it's actually not a defeated song at all it's actually one of the most confidence songs ever written that when the Lord gets ready you've got to move and you want to move on your timetable and instead of waiting on God sometimes we move and get out ahead of God and so the confidence isn't in controlling the timing the confidence comes in trusting the one who does control the timing so if God moves on his own timing how do we recognize when God is actually moving and so I want to take you to a mountaintop in first Kings chapter 19

and Elijah's asking the same question that many of us ask and the answer surprised him because Elijah had just had his greatest public victory of his life on top of Mount Carmel there was fire falling from heaven in front of an entire nation 40 days later now Elijah is no longer on top of Mount Carmel he's now hiding in a cave on Mount Oreb he's exhausted he is afraid he's half convinced that God is finished with him and God tells him to go stand on the mountain in verse 11 of chapter 19 he says the Lord is about to pass by go go stand there I'm about to pass by now many of us we think man if I had a victory like Elijah had a victory I would never be in a cave most of you can't even make it 40 days most of you by the time you get to the parking lot the enemy's already robbed you of the victory you got at the altar and so this is a good sermon for us when the Lord moves we need to make sure we hang on to the move because the Lord's about to pass by and he says behold the Lord passed by and a great and a strong wind tore into the mountains and broke the rocks in pieces before the Lord but the Lord was not in the wind and after the wind there was an earthquake and the Lord was not in the earthquake and after the earthquake there was a fire this is a meteorologist nightmare you know what next job is going to be right I'm going to be a meteorologist so that I can lie for a living and people will still tune in I told that joke one time at a golf course and the guy I was playing with said I'm the meteorologist for Detroit and I said it's true anyhow so he says there was a there was a wind the mountain broke there was but he wasn't in the wind there's an earthquake the Lord went in earthquake now there's a fire but the Lord was not in the fire and then after the fire something unexpected happens and what we often do is we get caught up in the earthquake we get caught up in the wind we had caught up in the fire and we miss the still small voice because many of us especially as Pentecostals we like it when God moves in the wind and the fire and the earthquake but let it get quiet in church and we got to fill the silence play something somebody got about to get crazy in here but sometimes we need to stand still and listen for a still small voice the wind the earthquake the fire

enormous displays of power one right after another and Scripture tells us three times but the Lord was not in any of those then after all the spectacle there was a still small voice some render translations render it it was a sound of a low whisper and that's where Elijah actually meets God is in a whisper now just think about how strange that is because God is fully capable of wind he's fully capable of earthquakes he's fully capable of fire he is the God that answers by fire he is all three before and he'll use all three again but on this particular day with Elijah on that particular mountain with this particular exhausted prophet his presence didn't show up in the show It showed up in a whisper. So don't let anybody convince you that when God begins to move differently for you than he has moved for them, that somehow you are right or they're wrong or you're wrong and they're right. God will move for you how God intends to move for you. God will move in you and on you how God wants to move in and on you. And it is not a formula or a methodology. And we Pentecostals sometimes can get all caught up in the show and we forget that God still answers in a whisper. That there are times when it's just we're in our car and we're by ourselves and we don't know where else to turn and we've lost all of our hope and we've lost everything and we just got to take a pause and God just whispers something into our mind. And all of a sudden you can live the rest of your life on a whisper. You can live the rest of your life on just God speaking to you the way that God desires to speak to you. So something happens right before the moment where he actually is going to speak to him. There's all this commotion going on. All this stuff is going on and Elijah being exhausted doesn't feel like seeing a show. He don't feel like seeing rocks. He's at his wits end. He thinks he's the only guy left and God's like I can't speak to him all these other

ways but I need to make sure that he's still listening for me. Some of us we get so impatient with God that we stop listening for him and one of the best ways for you to stop listening for him is to stop reading his word. I have found that the whisper from the scriptures is one of the best ways that God ever speaks to me and when we start closing this up and we no longer read it, we no longer study it, we no longer desire it, all of a sudden what we're doing is we're saying God I'm not interested in a whisper. I'm only interested in a show. Notice too what God says to Elijah once he does speak. What are you doing here Elijah? Verse 9 and verse 13 the same exact question he says it twice. What are you doing here? Before and after the wind and the fire and the whisper God wasn't confused about where Elijah was hiding. He was giving a burned out terrified prophet room to say a whole truth out loud. Tell me what's really going on Elijah and here's what Elijah says, I alone am left and they seek to take my life and God says okay I'm going to give you a new assignment. Now often we preach this as a defeat to Elijah but really Elijah just got a new assignment. The whisper changed the trajectory of his mission and of his ministry and sometimes the whisper isn't just God's presence it's a space for God that makes for you that you can finally say to God what you've been carrying all along and Elijah now has an audience with God and he's like I'm here because I think I'm the only one left. I'm here because I'm tired and I'm exhausted and old Jesse is trying to kill me and Ahab's trying to kill me and everybody and I'm the only guy that's left and I thought that when you moved on Mount Carmel that this whole nation was going to return to a revival. Anybody else been there? I thought when a certain election went the way that I thought it was going to go that this nation was going to go this way and it was going to go this way. See you got caught up in the show and you started trusting politicians more than you've trusted God.

You trust the show instead of the whisper and listen the revival is not dependent upon a four-year cycle of a president it's not dependent upon how many D's or R's are in whichever office you think that they should be in. Revival is only upon God and when the church starts putting its trust back into God instead of the show it's tied in here now. See I started rubbing up against y'all's voting. Vote go vote. I vote all the time. There are people that I want to see in office but that does not dictate my walk with God nor does it dictate how I think God's going to move or it does not dictate when I think God is going to move. Listen we can have revival in Illinois no matter who the governor is. We can have revival in Illinois no matter who the president is because they are not more powerful than God. Sometimes we just need to be listening for God. Now Elijah didn't get to retire on the mountain instead he got a commission. His commission was anoint a new king, anoint a new prophet and take heart because 7,000 had not yet bowed their knee to Baal. That's verses 15 through 18. So the whisper was not the end of Elijah's usefulness as a man of God. It was a reset before the next assignment. Some of us need a reset before our next assignment. We've thought all along many of us We think this is what I'm going to do in ministry This is what God called me to do and you think you're gonna die doing that my friend the kingdom of God Needs you to take whatever assignment that God desires for you to have when God desires for you to have it And so you can tell me I've never worked in kids. Yeah, you may not have yet Worked in kids, but God may just be putting a calling of Mordecai on you to raise up the next Esther And if we ignore the whisper of God to become the Mordecai We are negating Esther's out of the kingdom of God. You know, I never wanted to be a pastor I mean, I never had any desire to be a pastor

I was a corporate guy doing corporate things and God not only makes me a pastor. He sends me to Southern, Illinois Now I'm not gonna tell you I'm gonna die living in here and I'm gonna die being a pastor I but I'm going to accept the assignment as long as God is Assigning the task to go along with the assignment and some of you are burned out and you are wore out Because you're trying to do an assignment that God that God has already reassigned you to something else But you keep doing what the old mold is, but God is whispering to you telling you it's time to do it But you keep doing what the old mold is but God is whispering to you telling you it's time for you to accept a new Assignment and the kingdom of God is waiting on you to hear the whisper of God because you're caught up in the show And there's a whole lot of people who want the show up here and you're missing the whisper The show doesn't bring the presence of God It's the whisper of God that happens to us throughout the week and says this is how I'm gonna move It's the people that God wakes up in the middle of the night and says pray for people with urinary tract infections It's the people out there taking care of the people and not the show stop desiring the show and go after the whisper Does that mean that God doesn't do the show anymore sure Absolutely, the wind and fire still happen. God is not retired the wind and the fire, but I'm tired of a church that chases that chases Listen you got it backwards my friend You're you're you're chasing signs and the Bible says that these signs shall follow Them that believe you should be producing the signs instead of chasing them That's the move of the Spirit I've I've just run over to that next church You notice how every time you get to that place that revival dies Because you're chasing it and God desires revival in every church in this land He wants to move in every area So don't walk away to think God's retired the wind of the fire because in Acts chapter 2 God shows up in exactly the same form in wind and fire on Purpose in front of an entire church at once Acts chapter 2 verses 2 through 4 and suddenly So they were there expecting it now listen They were there expecting it been waiting there for 120 days and it still caught him by surprise pastor Pete Suddenly it just came We've been there. We've been waiting. There were a lot more people at the beginning, but they wanted to show and

Didn't have long suffering Suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind and it filled the whole house where they were sitting Then there appeared to them divided tongues as a fire and one set upon each of them and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit so wind and fire together Unmistakably marking the single most Important outpouring in the church's history This is the moment that makes everything else that we've talked about in this series and we'll talk about for the next two weeks possible The gifts were stirred the words were spoken healings were released dreams and visions Opened up and all of it traces back to that one room and this wind and the fire and it didn't stop Being a pattern on that first morning, by the way, see there's a lot of people say it all ended It didn't stop a few chapters later the believers were praying together They're being placed under pressure Acts chapter 4 verse 31 and the place where they were assembled together was shaken That's the second time the wind of the fire from chapter 2 shows up again in chapter 40 because to shake the place because this is the wind and the fire was never meant to be a single unrepeatable muse in peace miracle It was a pattern for how God's presence marks people who are gathered They're praying and they are in expectancy and in desperation for him to move there the second song Lord do it again You didn't ask chapter 2 do it in Acts chapter 4 you didn't ask chapter 4 do it in Acts chapter 18 You didn't ask chapter 18 do it on August the 2nd of 2026 You see the pattern if people get desperate and they get in the same room. God will answer So it's not nostalgia for something that happened once a long time ago to people who aren't us. It was a real prayer prayed by people who read Acts chapter 2, Acts chapter 4, and then we want to know the same wind, the same fire, and we're asking God to do it again right here. It happened again a third time. This one might be the most important repeat of all of what happened in the book of Acts. It happened in Acts chapter 10. Peter is preaching to Cornelius' household. Gentiles, people who had no claim on the covenant God made Let me put that into more modern terms. It came to a people in southern Illinois who people thought were behind the tracks, who were depressed, oppressed, and poor, and in poverty, and impoverished in their mind and their heart, and God said

I'll do it again, and he began to pour out his Spirit all across southern Illinois. There are many of you that were a part of the Jesus Movement all those years ago. Listen, we need another outpouring of his presence again so that there's a new generation that rises up and say, listen, the same God that answered old Elijah on Mount Carmel is the same God that answered in the book of Acts, and he answers in August too. Everybody good? Before Peter even finishes his sentence in Acts chapter 10, it says the Holy Spirit fell upon all those who heard the Word. Wouldn't that be amazing? Let me get a little churchy with you. I love that chapter. You know why? It means we got to hold on to people and scream in their ear, hold on and let go. If you've never seen that, you ain't been to a Pentecostal church. Hold on, let go. Hold on. What do you want me to do? Let go of what and hold on to what? And say hallelujah. Say I love you Jesus. Why don't we just preach the Word and let the Spirit fall on them? And when the Spirit of God falls on them and they receive it, then they'll know. And Peter's own explanation, when the Jewish believers, they're saying I heard that the Holy Spirit fell on them when the Word was preached. The same way it had fallen on the Jewish believers. I mean, if it's happening in Africa, why can't it happen in America? Peter's own explanation for us is, can anyone forbid water that these should not be baptized who have received the Holy Spirit just as we have? Just as we have? The wind and the fire started in one room in Jerusalem. It didn't stay in that room. It didn't stay with people who looked to worship like the first believers. It kept doing it again and again and again, getting further and further and outside of the original circle until eventually it reached a room where you were in, right here in southern Illinois. That's when God begins to move. And see, Roy said, well he moved exactly that way. Here's what people say. If we could just go up to the upper room in Jerusalem and we could all sit there and sing kumbaya around a fire, then God's going to answer. Now that's what the early church thought too, that they stayed in Jerusalem until there became enough pressure that they had to move outside of Jerusalem. And then it began the church at Antioch. And what happens to many of us, we think, well I

have my little formula here. And if I do my little formula, that's how God's going to answer. If Pastor Melissa sings the right song, and see we threw some of you today because Pastor Melissa wasn't out front. We had kids out front and people like, well that's not our normal formula. I just don't know if God can move with kids up there in t-shirts. You mean us adults are going to get led by children? That isn't our normal formula. It just starts throwing people because, you mean God can move when kids are down front? Yeah, yeah, God can move. Actually I wish some of you would get baptized in your kidneys again. So when the formula is not the same, well if pastor is not going to be there, see I announced I wasn't going to be here in like three weeks, and if pastor's not going to be here, I'm not sure I'm going to go to church. Careful with that ideology. Careful with that because what you're saying is that God can only speak to you through me. And I'm not more important than anybody else. God wants to speak to you, and God will speak to you however He wants to speak to you. And we got some well-qualified guys that can come up here, and ladies that can fill this pulpit. Oh here's another one. He just said ladies in the pulpit. See you got your little formula. Well Paul said they should remain silent in the church. If that were actually true we wouldn't even have a church. No, I don't just mean Purpose House. I mean women have carried a load in the church for years. When I grew up we didn't have a whole lot of men in the church. We had a whole lot of ladies that showed up and did everything. They put the tables away, put the chairs up, then set it back out and did it, and they were the ones in the prayer room. Meanwhile the men were all there saying, that church stuff, that ain't for me, being macho men. The best macho man you ever see in your life is Jesus Christ. They crucified Him, and He uttered not a word. Tell me somebody that's machoer than that. That dancing stuff, it's just for the 78, 900 year old women down front dancing. Whatever happened to men... Dancing before the Lord you remember it was David who was a rugged man who danced a rugged dance before his king and when his wife began to Criticize him. He didn't say well, I don't think I'm gonna go back to church anymore because Michael won't have relationship with me

He said you think I was bad today. You wait till I get out there tomorrow. I Hope some of y'all caught the breadcrumb that I just gave out there if you're using Relationship in the bedroom to dictate what your husband does you are in violation of the Word of God No, the wives should be encouraging the husbands and the husband should be encouraging the wives He may not move on me like he moves on Melissa He may move with Melissa and in earthquakes and wind and fire, but often for me He is a whisper on a golf course. I have 18 appointments with God. I pray so much on the tee box I pray on the fairway and I really pray on the green and God begins to speak to me all these sermons and all where You think they come from they come from just enjoying God's nature and I'm in the middle of a Holy Ghost Hold down hoping I hit the ball straight so I don't veer off and find one of God's great Creations like a snake or something when I'm looking for my title is my friend Whatever however God moves on you let God move on you the way God moves on you and stop judging yourself Among yourselves about how God speaks to you and how God moves on you I just wish I could dance like Gigi Let Gigi be Gigi and you be you God just continues to move Then there's the phrase in that song We're asking God to do it again. I'll rest on us and That phrase do it again isn't a modern invention. It's actually all over through the Bible I read it a little bit to you in Psalms 77. He said I will remember the works of the Lord Surely, I will remember your wonders of old. I will also meditate on all your work and I will talk of your deeds Your way Oh God is in the sanctuary who is so great a God is our God You are the God who does wonders you have declared your strength among the peoples now notice the order If you don't write anything else down, you don't remember anything else. I say I Want you to remember this notice the order Remember first I need to remember remember what I need to remember what God has done Then I need to meditate on that Now see many people in the church think that meditation is this newfangled thing called yoga No meditation was to murmur

mutter the Word of God over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and Over and over and over and over and over and over and over I'm gonna try to give enough overs that I get to share your house age over and over and over and over and over And over never mind will be here all day It's to memorize it and to mutter it to meditate on it over and over and over and over and over and over Remember it them meditate on it over and over and over and then to talk about it out loud Pastor Pete I Remember when God did this and then we start meditating on it together and now iron start sharpening iron and Pastor Pete begins to tell me some stories about what God has done and it's some stories that pastor Pete can tell you about what? God has done and Then we begin to communicate with each other and pretty soon we get so excited talking to each other that pastor Michael shows up He's even clean-shaven He shows up and he's in the room with us and he starts listening to everything that we're talking about and he says, oh, yeah Well, listen, let me tell you what God did Warner Roberts, Georgia And then me that the three of us get together and we're talking about it And we're saying all the good things that God's done and Don Wilburn shows up and I was like listen Let me tell you what God has done over in West Frankfort and God begins to move on Don and then Shelly He shows up. It's just let me tell you the time the Ernie Laquat laid hands on me and I went out like a light bulb but a rose in Christ a new creature in Christ Jesus and Then the Shelly says hey, come over here. Come over here Let me show you Tracy and Kerry Taylor and Tracy kids as a listen. We're from Viana I mean if God can move anywhere he can move in Viana I mean, let me tell you that the day that my husband on his motorcycle hit a deer and broke every bone in his body But here he stands today a gold man. We're just serving the Lord and worshiping God Let me tell you what God can do and there's somebody else shows up. Listen. My husband is laying in the hospital He said let me tell you. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on Let me bring Tracy and carry over here. If your husband has every bone broken in his body Let me show you a God that can heal every bone in the body and you begin to meditate and remember and testify That what God has done God can't do it again

And then we show up at Purpose House Church on Sunday morning, and we start to, Gigi says, let me tell you about all the baptisms that happened at camp. And then Pastor Lindsey shows up, says, that's nothing. Let me tell you what happened at our camp. And all of a sudden, we begin to bring glory and honor to God by remembering and meditating and talking about it out loud. And they overcame him by the blood of the lamb and by the word of their testimony. What is the testimony? It's what the blood has done in my life. You know why we sang that song? I have not heard that song in my entire life. Then in my entire life, that's the first time I've heard that song sung in church. But I've heard about that song when the Lord gets ready, you got to move, you got to move. Because there's a story that has been rehearsed to me. I'm going to be 50 years old in May, Pastor Pete, pray for me. For 47 years of my life, that story about that song has been rehearsed and remembered and meditated and talked about out loud all the time. You know why? Because 47 years ago, March the 18th of 1979, I know that date. I know that date like the back of my hand, March the 18th of 1979, my father was drunk. That's not the important part of the story. He was drunk. He's out back on a house on Brookfield Avenue, just about a few blocks away from the church that he grew up in. Church is going on on that Sunday. And he is drinking because on March the 18th of 1961, his dad had died. He was 10 years old and didn't realize how serious it was until they started throwing dirt on the grave over here in Blairsville. So he's drinking, he's trying to get away from all of the trouble that has been in his life and all the times that he felt like God didn't show up because his dad had died when he was 10 years old. And he's out there on the wood pile, chopping wood, drinking, and he's got his dirty hairy pistol, a .44 Magnum on his side. My dad was a bad dude. That's why I still don't want to talk about him even though he's dead. He had his .44 Magnum there and he's out there, he's drinking, and he sets his beer down on the wood pile. He walks into the house, grabs the car keys, tells my mom with four kids, I'm going to church. He's drunk. God can't reach a drunk person. God can't reach a backslider. God can't reach a guy whose dad died when he was 10 years old. But when my dad walked into the building, the church was singing that song that we just sang just a few minutes ago about when the Lord gets ready, you got to move, you got to move. Now whether he was ready or not, God was moving on him and he's trying to drink God away, trying to drink his pain away. And God said, it don't matter. Alcohol has never stopped me. Drugs have never stopped me. Graves have never stopped me. Stink has never

stopped me. Your issue has never stopped me. Your addiction has never stopped me. Your children's addiction has never stopped me. Your habit, your hurt, your hang up has never stopped me. If I'm ready to move, I'm going to move. And when the Lord gets ready, you have got to move. And the Lord said, I'm ready. And my dad walks into that church. Now listen, my dad is a very composed person until the Lord gets ready. Now some of y'all never heard this term in church. My dad was a holy roller. He's rolling on the floor. When my mother finally got to church, my father's rolling in the floor. He was just drunk at a woodpile. And now my father's rolling in the floor with a 44 Magnum still on his side on his, his holster here. And he's rolling in the floor. And my Aunt Evelyn, who's as old as Sherry Yow, she's trying to straddle over the top of him and waiting for the pistol to come up top so she can grab a hold of the pistol and get it away. And that's dangerous. Leave it alone. And what happens when the Lord got ready, he moved on my dad. And then my grandfather went down and got my mom, a little backslider, trunk slammer, got her, brought her down to the church, and she gave her life back to Christ. And so I was two years old. I was about 18 months old. I've never known anything but when the Lord moves. I've never heard that song again, but on Tuesday, I was sitting out at my little place where I'm writing my sermons now. And I was writing my sermon and I wrote an entire sermon about dreams and visions, dreams and visions. And I got all that done. I go, I don't like that one bit. And I'll just send that off to Shelly. We'll publish that in a book. All my bad sermons go into books and we're just going to do that. Like this one's probably going to go in a book. And so when I got done with it, I thought that is not what I want. And the Lord began to rehearse this song into my mind. I'm ready to move. I want to move. And the people think that they can stop me. And I'm telling you right now, there is nothing that's getting ready to stop me. What I'm getting ready to do, man cannot stop it. There is no generational. curse that can stop it. There is no locational curse that can stop it. There is no Prince of Persia that can stop it. There is nothing that can stop what I'm getting ready to do. And when I get ready to pour out my Spirit, I'm going to pour out my Spirit upon all flesh. And your sons and your daughters shall dream dreams and they shall prophesy. What does that mean? That means that the Spirit of God is getting ready to come on them and they're going to operate and move in their gifts as God gives them the utterance to do so. You can't stop what God's getting ready to do. So Lord, we've heard your speech. This is

Habakkuk. We've heard your speech and was afraid. Oh Lord, revive your work in the midst of the years. In the midst of the years, make it known in wrath. Lord, remember your mercy. Habakkuk was saying, revive your work, which is really, Lord, do it again. He's not asking for something brand new. He's just asking God, what you have done, would you do it again? How many of you, God has done something amazing in your life? So when you ask Him, He's not, you're not asking to do something new. You've already done this. And now God, I'm asking you to do it again. He said, Lord, just revive your work. Psalm 44, the sons of Korah prayed the same prayer generations earlier, and they opened up the exact thing. They said, we have heard with our ears, oh God, our fathers have told us the deeds you did in their days in the days of old. For they did not gain possession of the land by their own sword, nor did their arms save them, but your right hand, your arm and the light of your countenance because you favored them. Notice he said, your right hand. It was on the right side. Unless they didn't see it themselves, they heard it. They heard it from their fathers. They heard it secondhand, passed down. And that secondhand memory was still enough to build a whole prayer for God to move again in their own generation. And some of what fuels a do it again prayer won't even be from our own memories. It'll be what you were told about what God has done for somebody else. Because if God did it for somebody else, He wouldn't do it for you. It's still fuel. So let me just bring both songs and just stack them back together. Some of you may be in a wind and a fire season right now. Maybe something dramatic is happening. A door is flying open. A prayer just got answered louder and faster than you expected. And it feels like it is unmistakably God. My friend, ride that wave until you can't ride it any longer. Don't apologize for the fire just because somebody else thinks that being quiet is more spiritual. Some of you may find yourself in a still small voice season. Nothing dramatic. No wind tearing rocks apart. Just quiet. Just maybe quiet enough that you've started to wonder if God stepped out of the room. He hasn't. Elijah's cave came right after Carmel's fire. And it came right before the next assignment that God had for him. The whisper wasn't the absence of God. It was the next place that God was standing. And some of you may move out of a whisper season and into an earthquake and a fire season. Some of you may move from a fire and an earthquake and a wind into a whisper season. Just keep moving where God is moving. Some of you need to hear the old

song plainly when the Lord gets ready. You've got to move. Don't hold a grudge. Don't hold fear. Don't hold on to your comfortableness. Don't hold on to a version of your life you've built specifically so that nothing can change. God's timing doesn't wait for your readiness. But the Scripture encourages us to be instant in season and out of season. In fact, I found myself in the last month being Gigi Soundman. Whatever the Lord wills and whatever it takes to have revival, you must be ready to do what God has called you to do. So God's timing doesn't wait for your readiness. The rich man in that old song doesn't get an exemption because of what he built. Neither do we. And I pray that when God begins to move, you listen. In week one, we talked about a gift that had gone to embers and it needed to be stirred. In week two, we talked about a gift that speaks needing a voice willing to use it. Week three, we talked about a gift that heals needing hands willing to be used. And every one of those is just a response to a prior move of God. It's a response to what God did in Acts chapter 2, Acts chapter 4, Acts chapter 10. What God does from generation to generation and room after room still requires people who when the Lord gets ready, they move. So I would ask a Purpose House. you ready to move? I'm asking you of every individual in this room are you ready to move? Because I believe the Lord is ready and when the Lord gets ready you've got to move. You may be high or you may be low. You may be rich or you may be poor but when the Lord gets ready it's time to move. It's time to pack up the tents and say Lord I'll go where you go. I'll be where you are because wherever you are is where I need to be and whatever you're doing is what I need to be doing. I would pray that the same spirit that hovered over the waters would rest on us and as the spirit was moving come rest on us. My prayer is the same as that psalm writer fire and wind come and do it again. Open up the gates of heaven and come on in. Rest on us. Rest on us and move within us. So with every head bowed and with every eye closed I ask you Lord that you move on us. Lord we're not on your timeline we're just grateful to be here. Our ways have failed us so many times but Lord your ways have never failed. Lord whether you come to us in wind or you come to us in fire or whisper just come and Lord we remember what you've done. I remember what you've

done in this place. I remember what you've done in this church. I remember what you've done in my life and I'm asking in faith you would do it again. Move on us Lord and whatever it costs we'll move with you. Give us courage to go. Courage to stand. Courage to walk so we can see you do it again. In the matchless name of Jesus Christ I pray and all of God's people would say amen. Would you stand with me across the room. I would encourage you to get a hold of your testimony and begin to overcome him the enemy of your soul with the word of your testimony. So I want to end this just kind of how we always end our services. Our prayer teams are going to come and if you need prayer over any aspect of your life that's what this moment is for for you to call on the elders of the church. When we're done here we'll start tearing down Vacation Bible School. We'll do all the other business of the church if you will but for this moment right here this is a prayer for God to do it again. For God to move on to each life into every heart and his spirit to rest on us right now. So as Pastor Melissa sings if you need prayer for any aspect of your life please step out of where you are come and our prayer team members will pray with you and for you and believe that God will do it again in your life. In Jesus name.