Desire the Gifts of the Holy Spirit
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In “Desire the Gifts of the Holy Spirit,” Pastor Dean Odle presents a Scripture-centered message about faith, prayer, gifts of the Holy Spirit. Drawing especially from 2 Timothy 3, 1 Corinthians 12, 1 Corinthians 14:1, 1 Corinthians 13, the teaching emphasizes that biblical faith trusts God’s character and acts upon His promises. Odle connects that foundation with the conviction that prayer expresses dependence on God and prepares believers to hear and obey Him.
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Odle focuses on the condition of the church. The message argues that the church is called to recover biblical faithfulness instead of accommodating compromise. It connects this with the conviction that believers are warned to test persuasive claims and religious appearances by Scripture. The practical emphasis is to remain watchful, grounded in Scripture, and ready to obey Christ.
Odle focuses on Bible prophecy while working through 2 Timothy 3. The message argues that prophecy should produce discernment, readiness, and faithfulness rather than speculation alone. It connects this with the conviction that biblical faith trusts God’s character and acts upon His promises. The practical emphasis is to remain watchful, grounded in Scripture, and ready to obey Christ.
Odle focuses on demons and deliverance. The message argues that demonic influence must be answered through Christ’s authority and the freedom He provides. It connects this with the conviction that biblical faith trusts God’s character and acts upon His promises. The practical emphasis is to seek God in prayer and act on what Scripture requires.
Odle focuses on gifts of the Holy Spirit while working through 2 Timothy 3, 1 Corinthians 12, 1 Corinthians 14:1. The message argues that spiritual gifts are given by the Holy Spirit to build up the church and serve God’s purposes. It connects this with the conviction that Scripture is presented as the standard for doctrine, discernment, and daily obedience. The practical emphasis is to test the teaching by Scripture and apply it through faithful obedience.
Odle focuses on gifts of the Holy Spirit while working through 1 Corinthians 12, 1 Corinthians 13, 1 Corinthians 13:1. The message argues that spiritual gifts are given by the Holy Spirit to build up the church and serve God’s purposes. It connects this with the conviction that prayer expresses dependence on God and prepares believers to hear and obey Him. The practical emphasis is to seek God in prayer and act on what Scripture requires.
Odle focuses on Satanic opposition while working through 2 Timothy 4, John 16. The message argues that Satan’s work is described through deception, accusation, temptation, and opposition to God’s purposes. It connects this with the conviction that prayer expresses dependence on God and prepares believers to hear and obey Him. The practical emphasis is to seek God in prayer and act on what Scripture requires.
Odle focuses on Bible prophecy while working through Acts 16, Acts 16:16, Mark 16. The message argues that prophecy should produce discernment, readiness, and faithfulness rather than speculation alone. It connects this with the conviction that the message connects prayer for healing with faith in Christ, pastoral care, and submission to God. The practical emphasis is to seek God in prayer and act on what Scripture requires.
Odle focuses on faith. The message argues that biblical faith trusts God’s character and acts upon His promises. It connects this with the conviction that the message connects prayer for healing with faith in Christ, pastoral care, and submission to God. The practical emphasis is to seek God in prayer and act on what Scripture requires.
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God we thank you that you still speak to us God you can still communicate with your people God even when we're being hard-headed and stubborn and or you can still break through and speak to us or let us all learn to listen to hear your voice and follow you or I thank you for your word I thank you for the truth but I thank you most of all that you didn't leave us alone you sent your your Holy Spirit to live and dwell in us to lead us and guide us into all truth to speak to us and show us things to come we worship you today and we praise you today it's in Jesus name we pray amen hallelujah you may be seated this morning we welcome everyone fire and Grace Church those watching listening by blog talk or radio YouTube Facebook our website whoever else uh we welcome everyone um you know maybe the Lord I was just thinking maybe the Lord sometimes you know he just doesn't tell me even though I pray all through the week he just won't tell me what he wants me to do sometimes until the very last minute I've had people say I don't know how in the world you do that especially when you got to stand in front of people and preach and teach and literally we have thousands of people now that watch and listen and that's it's not an exaggeration it blows my mind you know we'll have 20 30 people here sometimes we'll have hundreds and hundreds watching live and then thousands watch later it just it really blows my mind but uh the Lord just simply will not let me get away from this subject even though I've talked about it a lot over the last really over the last year and that is the gifts of the Holy Spirit and hearing God's voice and Walking with God in a real relationship where it's a two-way conversation it's not just a one-way conversation um there's a lot of lot of hating going on out there about uh Pentecostals and charismatics and the idea that you know there's a segment of the church out here that still believes that the gifts of the Spirit are for today and that we should hunger and thirst for those things we should desire those things and uh and and you know a lot of people are just been out of shape because because we do have a lot of the counterfeit within the church world I don't deny that I wrote an entire book about it called the polluted Church from Rome to Kansas City so I'm a Pentecostal charismatic that believes in the gifts of the holy spirit I have operated in the in the gifts of the holy spirit for 31 years I have seen just about everything I've seen both sides of the fence I've seen the true and I've seen the counterfeit I've seen the Holy Spirit
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move and I've seen the Demonic try to mimic and counterfeit and interfere and invade I mean think about it folks I mean I listen I know there's problems within the charismatic church all right the charismatic Pentecostal Church world I know I you know again I have said it a minute ago but I have written extensively about it because the Lord told me to write about it um look I I'll be be straight up honest I had somebody yesterday upset with me on Facebook simply because of the cover of my book The polluted church because I have Mike Bickle of IHOP in Kansas City on it well as much as I love Mike ble and I appreciate his stand for Jesus he has allowed deception into his life and into his ministry and it's affecting thousands of young people across the world because he's allowed Eastern mysticism techniques into his so-called prayer and prophetic movement now that's a fact you say well Pastor Dean you shouldn't say that but no I will say it it's a fact the counterfeit supernatural has moved into uh the International House of Prayer Mike bickle's Ministry and I take it simply from his own writings and his own sermons and his own books when he starts talking about guided visualization visualizing things and using repetitive words and phrases in prayer over and over again he's incorporating New Age Hindu Buddhist Meditation techniques into Christianity and it's nothing new the the Roman Catholic church has been doing that for centuries that's what ignacius lyola did in the 1500s when he started the Jesuits in The Counter Reformation one of the things he brought into it was a thing they now call lecto deina which is basically the counterfeit Supernatural and the counterfeit Supernatural using meditation and when I say satanic I mean there's there's Godly meditation there's biblical meditation and there's satanic meditation satanic meditation is when you blank out your mind you try to get you you try to get everything quiet and you use either your breathing as taught in yoga or you use some sound or sacred word you repeat over and over again until you can quiet yourself and and really move yourself into a translight state a lot of people use guided visualization where they begin to visualize them being in a peaceful place or whatever all of that is satanic demonic New Age deception and it has crept into the Roman Catholic Church it has crept into much of the Pentecostal and charismatic churches I'm just going to say it it's it crept into bethl in in Reading California and I know even though we we use some of their
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music uh I I happen to know listen I'm going to say this to some people I know someone I cannot give their name because I promised I wouldn't but I know someone who knows Bill Johnson personally and knows him very well and I'm going to say this real strong because there's a lot of there's a lot of Pentecostal and charismatic haters out there I can tell you this for a fact I know that Bill Johnson of bethl church in read Cali loves Jesus Christ there's no doubt in my mind that that man is a born again Christian he loves Jesus he and he he loves he loves God and and in his mind I believe he desires the truth has he allowed a lot of deception to come into his church and Ministry yes he has and it started with the false prophet Bob Jones who also is the one who infiltrated the uh Mike Ministry uh the Kansas City Church and the Kansas City prophets thing back in the 80s matter of fact there was one it really you can trace a lot of this deception and this counterfeit and the and the Demonic uh false prophetic and the false gifts and and the Demonic healing and all of that stuff you can trace it pretty much back to this guy Bob Jones not Bob Jones University not that Bob Jones he was a he was a prophet and I can tell you right now he was the one of the most powerful false prophets that I've ever encountered and I met him on more than one occasion and I felt the Demonic power coming out of him yet he was the right-hand man of Mike ble for many years in fact Mike Bickle calls him the father of their movement he was the right-hand man with Rick jiner Morning Star Ministries in South Carolina oh yes I will name names I don't mind the doorways were open the floodgates were opened and and listen if you were the devil anyway if you were the devil and there was a segment of the church you really wanted to invade and try to pollute and stop wouldn't it be the segment of the church that still believes Jesus heals Jesus delivers from demons the gifts of the holy spirit are still for today wouldn't that be the the segment of the church you'd want to pollute contaminate discredit and try to destroy I mean if I was the devil I'd want I want to deal with the Christians who believe in casting out demons I'd want to stop them I'd want to I want to to move on the the Christians who believe that speaking in tongues is for today and helps you in prayer I I would I would want to stop that church so the devil has focused greatly in that area and he infiltrated many Ministries I could go down the list the vineyard he you know John wimber's churches he infiltrated that with the false prophet profet again Bob Jones
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Paul Kaine oh yeah and I know some of you people you you may not know anything about what I'm talking about but there are people out there that know and I'm telling you I know I'm not I'm not I I had to tell this person yesterday I said you know what you better be careful cuz he was a little upset that I had you know I was exposing Mike ble I said well first of all I said you better be careful judging something before you judging a matter before you hear it I said number one I don't think you've read my book you just saw the cover number two is that I used to rub shoulders with these people I've been in their meetings I've hung out with them so this is not just here say I've experienced this stuff I've been around the block a few times in this whole Pentecostal and charismatic world all right so I'm not speaking from just my opinion I made the mistake when I was a younger pastor of letting that false prophet Bob Jones lay hands on me in a meeting and the demons that came upon me and into my life nearly destroyed me and I had to bind them and cast them out and break the power of that false prophet off me so I experienced the counterfeit and the Demonic and the satanic from a a so-called Prophet that many within the Pentecostal charismatic world had accepted as a true true Prophet what's Wild is is that Mike Beckle was warned by another Prophet before he started his ministry that a false prophet was coming to infiltrate it and then Bob Jones shows up now I don't mind saying all this because you know what we still no matter how messed up you know there's there's people uh uh Bill Johnson's wife and some of the other lunatics out there with him are laying on Graves and trying to soak up a anointing from dead uh healing Ministries all that kind of stuff is insanity okay it's demonic insanity and deception but do we throw out the baby with the bath water no sir do we say because so many Ministries out there have been infiltrated contaminated polluted by the false and the Demonic and the new age counterfeit of Satan do we throw about what the scriptures say about the gifts of the Spirit no but that's what a lot of people are doing a lot of people we throw everybody under the bus oh and and and let me just go on ahead and say listen uh there there are people out there that that because Kenneth Hagen got involved in some of that uh of what we call what was called The Laughing Revival right before he passed away a lot of
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