High Frequency Living Part 3
High Voltage Life: Matthew 4:8-9
Family, we are almost through the week.
By now, the fire of Sunday morning can sometimes feel like a distant memory. You've been dealing with the demands of your job, the weight of your calling, and the emotional baggage of the people you serve. If you are a worship leader, a musician, or just someone pouring out your life for the kingdom, you know exactly what I mean. You know what it means to be tired. You know what it is to smile through burnout.
This past Sunday, we talked about the great Northeast Blackout of 2003. Fifty-five million people were suddenly plunged into total darkness. It wasn't a bomb. It wasn't a storm. It was a compromised connection. The power plants were still generating electricity, but the transmission lines were broken. The power was there, but the people couldn't receive it.
I want to ask you a question today: Are you living in a spiritual blackout?
The Peril of the 1% Spirit
It is completely possible to have all the right equipment, the right credentials, and the correct theology, yet have absolutely no power. Power does not come from what you possess. It flows directly from who you are connected to.
Think about how we treat our phones. When a device hits 1% battery, people lose their minds. We will dive across a room to plug a thousand-dollar phone into a dirty wall outlet just to keep it alive. Yet, we will let our own spirits sit on 1% for six months and wonder why we feel like we are dying inside.
You cannot lead worship on low battery. You cannot serve on power-saving mode.
When you get exhausted, the temptation is to plug into false power sources. You look for the applause of the crowd. You plug into the approval of people. But you cannot plug a 220-volt calling into a 110-volt person. It will blow a fuse every single time. People were not designed to sustain your soul.
The Pathology of the Plug
Some of you pulled your own plug on purpose.
Somebody talked about you. Leadership mishandled you. You experienced real, painful church hurt. As a defense mechanism, you put your walls up. You decided to just sing your song, keep your head down, do your job, and go home. You were trying to protect yourself from another shock.
But self-sufficiency is draining you. You don't need more ability right now; you need more time with the Holy Ghost. If your ministry can function without prayer, you are officially unplugged. God dwells in the high and holy place, but Isaiah 57:15 reminds us He also dwells with the humble. Humility is the actual outlet that divine power flows through. Pride disconnects you. Prayer plugs you back in.
The Current is Coming
The enemy is a master electrician of your demise. He attacks your psychology to short-circuit your theology.
He didn't send the rumor or the betrayal to fight where you currently are. He sent those things to make you drop the cord before you connect to where God is taking you. Hell knows it cannot un-anoint your head. It cannot take back the oil God poured over your life. So the enemy goes after your connection.
God did not wire you for a 12-volt blessing. You have a high-capacity, high-frequency anointing on your life. When heaven prepares to run a 10,000-volt glory through your spirit, hell will throw everything it has to get you to unplug before the surge hits.
Look at your life today and remind the enemy that you are still holding the cord.
You might be bruised, but you have the cord. They might have walked away from you, but you have the cord. I don't care if you had to cry yourself to sleep last night - stay plugged in. Plug into worship. Plug into the Word. Plug into obedience. Jesus bypassed the grave, and the Holy Ghost surged into that borrowed tomb so you would never have to run on empty again.
The power is available.
Plug in.
And don't you dare let go.
To watch this sermon, click the play button below.
To watch this entire service, which includes Praise & Worship, Prayer, and the Word, follow the link here: https://www.youtube.com/live/c7bLBJILo6o?si=e0ltE8DcmE7N1Ptd
By now, the fire of Sunday morning can sometimes feel like a distant memory. You've been dealing with the demands of your job, the weight of your calling, and the emotional baggage of the people you serve. If you are a worship leader, a musician, or just someone pouring out your life for the kingdom, you know exactly what I mean. You know what it means to be tired. You know what it is to smile through burnout.
This past Sunday, we talked about the great Northeast Blackout of 2003. Fifty-five million people were suddenly plunged into total darkness. It wasn't a bomb. It wasn't a storm. It was a compromised connection. The power plants were still generating electricity, but the transmission lines were broken. The power was there, but the people couldn't receive it.
I want to ask you a question today: Are you living in a spiritual blackout?
The Peril of the 1% Spirit
It is completely possible to have all the right equipment, the right credentials, and the correct theology, yet have absolutely no power. Power does not come from what you possess. It flows directly from who you are connected to.
Think about how we treat our phones. When a device hits 1% battery, people lose their minds. We will dive across a room to plug a thousand-dollar phone into a dirty wall outlet just to keep it alive. Yet, we will let our own spirits sit on 1% for six months and wonder why we feel like we are dying inside.
You cannot lead worship on low battery. You cannot serve on power-saving mode.
When you get exhausted, the temptation is to plug into false power sources. You look for the applause of the crowd. You plug into the approval of people. But you cannot plug a 220-volt calling into a 110-volt person. It will blow a fuse every single time. People were not designed to sustain your soul.
The Pathology of the Plug
Some of you pulled your own plug on purpose.
Somebody talked about you. Leadership mishandled you. You experienced real, painful church hurt. As a defense mechanism, you put your walls up. You decided to just sing your song, keep your head down, do your job, and go home. You were trying to protect yourself from another shock.
But self-sufficiency is draining you. You don't need more ability right now; you need more time with the Holy Ghost. If your ministry can function without prayer, you are officially unplugged. God dwells in the high and holy place, but Isaiah 57:15 reminds us He also dwells with the humble. Humility is the actual outlet that divine power flows through. Pride disconnects you. Prayer plugs you back in.
The Current is Coming
The enemy is a master electrician of your demise. He attacks your psychology to short-circuit your theology.
He didn't send the rumor or the betrayal to fight where you currently are. He sent those things to make you drop the cord before you connect to where God is taking you. Hell knows it cannot un-anoint your head. It cannot take back the oil God poured over your life. So the enemy goes after your connection.
God did not wire you for a 12-volt blessing. You have a high-capacity, high-frequency anointing on your life. When heaven prepares to run a 10,000-volt glory through your spirit, hell will throw everything it has to get you to unplug before the surge hits.
Look at your life today and remind the enemy that you are still holding the cord.
You might be bruised, but you have the cord. They might have walked away from you, but you have the cord. I don't care if you had to cry yourself to sleep last night - stay plugged in. Plug into worship. Plug into the Word. Plug into obedience. Jesus bypassed the grave, and the Holy Ghost surged into that borrowed tomb so you would never have to run on empty again.
The power is available.
Plug in.
And don't you dare let go.
To watch this sermon, click the play button below.
To watch this entire service, which includes Praise & Worship, Prayer, and the Word, follow the link here: https://www.youtube.com/live/c7bLBJILo6o?si=e0ltE8DcmE7N1Ptd
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