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Hi guys! This is Olivier. We are here [br]standing at a kickstart weekend

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in Port Hope, Canada, and God has been [br]doing amazing things today.

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He came and met us in unexpected ways.[br]In particular, we just came back from the beach

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where some baptism just happened, [br]and our sister Michelle today

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got an encounter with God in a way [br]that wasn't expected at all.

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Michelle, would you like to share [br]a little bit of what happened?

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Yeah. I came to the kickstart to learn[br]about how to pray for people.

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It was my main goal of being here -[br]to learn how to pray for people.

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I was totally surprised by actually God[br]wanted to minister to me

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and impact my life and change my life.[br]

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Early on, when Oliver was preaching about[br]baptism, I realized that my understanding

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of baptism wasn't exactly correct because[br]I got baptized when I was 16

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or around 14 and 16, and I was more...[br]because there was a baptism service

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in my church, and that was just what we did,[br]so it wasn't a baptism because

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I was truly wanting to repent and wanted[br]to change. It was more because

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that was what was happening. [br]So I went to Olivier, to ask him some

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questions, and he started to pray for me.[br]He started to pray, God came,

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Holy Spirit came and I was suddenly set free[br]from all this stuff in my life that has been

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holding me captive for many, many years,[br]I never realized.

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Some girls prayed with me and ministered[br]to me, and God set me free of stuff

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that has really held me back, just held me[br]captive for a long time,

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and a lot of that was connected to...[br]also just certain way of behaving

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that have become so accustomed to.[br]Anyway, just to stop, to give you the right

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kind of order of events, we then went to...[br]kind of put pause on what God is doing,

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And we went down to the beach and[br]I was baptized, which was

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completely different for me, because[br]I thought that my baptism earlier,

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when I was younger, was good.[br]I thought that was authentic,

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but this time it was so different because[br]this time it was me,

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just really repenting and asking God[br]to forgive me and come into

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a much more intimate and deeper understanding[br]of my relationship with Him

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and I realized that this baptism was very[br]different to a previous one,

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because it was authentic one.[br]So I was baptized.

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But we felt we needed to pray some more.[br]We came back and we prayed some more.

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And I think the biggest thing that happened[br]in my life with all of this is a...

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me realizing that... the biggest thing that[br]I was set free from was...

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For all these years, last 20 or 25 years[br]or so, of walking, I've been involved in church,

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I prayed for people, I've ministered,[br]I've seen God using me in many amazing ways,

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but this way has been the sense of me feeling[br]like I have to perform,

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that the Holy Spirit is here now and lots of[br]shaking and lots of manifestations.

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And I always thought, this is the Holy Spirit.[br]But I just discovered now that actually

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it's not, it's not even that, that I don't[br]need to be doing,

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I didn't need to be having any image of[br]shaking or any image of manifestations,

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I don't need to look like I'm more spiritual.[br]Simply, just to enjoy God's presence

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and He would be able to use me, [br]to pray for people,

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to enjoy His presence without any physical, [br]strange signs and strange happenings,

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and I realized that over the years [br]and all my involvement in church,

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we've been in meetings, we've prayed[br]and we've expected to see

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all this signs and wonders, but that would[br]be more than seeing people healed,

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and I realized that it was almost like [br]a deception, that I've been deceived

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in a way that I've been doing things.[br]What I'm loving now, it's just the difference

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because all the years I would ask myself[br]a question and say: How come

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we have all the presence of what we[br]thought it was the Holy Spirit moving

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in meetings, and yet, we weren't see[br]people saved.

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We weren't see lives impacted,[br]we weren't seeing people going out

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and praying for people to get saved,[br]and then spreading the gospel even further.

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I was always wondered why we never saw that.[br]And yet, it seemed like we were busy [br]

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doing what God has called us to do.[br]And now I realized that lot of it

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it was just doing what we've been doing[br]for years, so-called enjoying the presence

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of the Holy Spirit, but a lot of it was not[br]even God. It was just a way of behaving,

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a way of doing things, an old patterned, [br]that we've got used to do it, and yet,

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not impacting people's lives.[br]So, the biggest thing for me this weekend

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it's to just have a healthy understanding[br]of what being baptized in water is,

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that it's accompanied with true repentance [br]and how that's impacted my life,

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and being set free of different things [br]that were holding me back

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and behave in old sins. That's been[br]a huge thing and just realizing that

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I want to go out and actually make[br]an impact and tell people about Jesus

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and see them baptized, and then see[br]them going and making a difference

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in other people's lives.[br]So, that's been the biggest thing.

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Glory to God. We've seen in the last years[br]that there was some movement,

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especially in some churches, where [br]the focus became so overemphasized

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on those kinds of manifestations,[br]in the way we interact with God,

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we feel like there is something more to go[br]and get, to be more spiritual... - Yes.

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to have more anointing, that we should[br]interact with Him and feel more

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of His presence with the shaking,[br]with laying down on the floor

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and having all those, sometimes convulsions,[br]as well, and what we see is the focus,

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the focus have just been overtaken on those[br]things, to make us feel more and more

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spiritual, when actually, the fruit of the Spirit[br]in our life contains the peace, the self-control,

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as an outcome of the presence of the Holy Spirit,[br]and us surrendering to Him.

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So, for Michelle it's been really something,[br]God came today and met her with freedom, actually.

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Yes, that's been a huge mindset shift for me,[br]because I always connected

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this outward manifestations, the shaking[br]and lots of strange movements,

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I connected that as being the power of [br]the Holy Spirit, the presence of the Holy Spirit,

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the manifestation of the Holy Spirit.[br]I have walked that way for so many years,

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and yet, I always questioned, but come[br]if we have that, how come I'm not seeing

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people saved and see people come to Christ,[br]and seeing disciples,

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and people telling other people about Jesus,[br]how can we have all this stuff,

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but none of that. And I realized that lot[br]of it it's just a deception,

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that you think that you have to have that[br]to enjoy the presence of the Holy Spirit.

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But in fact - you don't. I am able to enjoy[br]His presence just by being prayed for,

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or come and pray, coming into God's presence,[br]and just experiencing His peace

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and His calmness and His joy,[br]without all the outward manifestations.

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That has been the biggest mindset shift[br]for me - has been that.

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I was actually set free from [br]a lot of deception

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and an old way of behaving.[br]That I connected that old way of behaving

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with this incredible power, but all this[br]amazing power didn't come with me,

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impacting people's lives.

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The gospel, as I was sharing it today,[br]is really about repenting before God first,

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of the sins we have committed. [br]And being baptized to Christ,

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to wash away our sins and being united[br]with Him and being clothed with

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His righteousness. [br]And then we will receive the Holy Spirit.

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And the Holy Spirit produces this fruit[br]in our life.

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And yes, the Holy Spirit brings some[br]gifts also. He gives us the power

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to go and be witnesses of Jesus.[br]But the outcome of true surrendered life

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to the presence of the Holy Spirit in us[br]is to live a holy life, to go, to make disciples,

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to share Christ with us, and not live[br]by the flesh anymore, not live by sight

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anymore, but by faith.

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Yes. You should not be living by actions,[br]and how we, so-called perform,

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but just by rather how we go daily [br]and live our lives. Yeah.

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God is amazing. It is beautiful what[br]He has done today.

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We have other video testimonies[br]of people also who have been set free

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from deception, from this kind of spirits[br]also that has crept in some churches

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and movements. We encourage you[br]to watch some of them.

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If you have questions, if you wonder,[br]if you are experiencing really the Holy Spirit

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if this is normal, what is going around you,[br]watch these videos,

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we'll share links in the text. I hope and we[br]pray that God is going to speak to you

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through those testimonies.

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So, be blessed! [br]We thank you for that in Jesus name.