WEBVTT 00:00:01.363 --> 00:00:05.103 Hi guys! This is Olivier. We are here standing at a kickstart weekend 00:00:05.103 --> 00:00:09.484 in Port Hope, Canada, and God has been doing amazing things today. 00:00:09.484 --> 00:00:15.452 He came and met us in unexpected ways. In particular, we just came back from the beach 00:00:15.452 --> 00:00:19.675 where some baptism just happened, and our sister Michelle today 00:00:19.675 --> 00:00:23.895 got an encounter with God in a way that wasn't expected at all. 00:00:23.895 --> 00:00:26.025 Michelle, would you like to share a little bit of what happened? 00:00:26.025 --> 00:00:33.205 Yeah. I came to the kickstart to learn about how to pray for people. 00:00:33.205 --> 00:00:37.014 It was my main goal of being here - to learn how to pray for people. 00:00:37.384 --> 00:00:44.935 I was totally surprised by actually God wanted to minister to me 00:00:44.935 --> 00:00:47.894 and impact my life and change my life. 00:00:49.674 --> 00:00:56.055 Early on, when Oliver was preaching about baptism, I realized that my understanding 00:00:56.055 --> 00:01:00.875 of baptism wasn't exactly correct because I got baptized when I was 16 00:01:00.875 --> 00:01:04.165 or around 14 and 16, and I was more... because there was a baptism service 00:01:04.165 --> 00:01:09.404 in my church, and that was just what we did, so it wasn't a baptism because 00:01:09.404 --> 00:01:14.154 I was truly wanting to repent and wanted to change. It was more because 00:01:14.154 --> 00:01:19.185 that was what was happening. So I went to Olivier, to ask him some 00:01:19.185 --> 00:01:25.805 questions, and he started to pray for me. He started to pray, God came, 00:01:25.805 --> 00:01:31.626 Holy Spirit came and I was suddenly set free from all this stuff in my life that has been 00:01:31.626 --> 00:01:35.666 holding me captive for many, many years, I never realized. 00:01:38.386 --> 00:01:41.766 Some girls prayed with me and ministered to me, and God set me free of stuff 00:01:41.766 --> 00:01:45.646 that has really held me back, just held me captive for a long time, 00:01:45.646 --> 00:01:49.876 and a lot of that was connected to... also just certain way of behaving 00:01:49.876 --> 00:01:55.377 that have become so accustomed to. Anyway, just to stop, to give you the right 00:01:55.377 --> 00:01:59.617 kind of order of events, we then went to... kind of put pause on what God is doing, 00:01:59.617 --> 00:02:04.777 And we went down to the beach and I was baptized, which was 00:02:04.777 --> 00:02:08.423 completely different for me, because I thought that my baptism earlier, 00:02:08.423 --> 00:02:12.475 when I was younger, was good. I thought that was authentic, 00:02:12.475 --> 00:02:16.314 but this time it was so different because this time it was me, 00:02:16.314 --> 00:02:21.897 just really repenting and asking God to forgive me and come into 00:02:21.897 --> 00:02:24.736 a much more intimate and deeper understanding of my relationship with Him 00:02:24.736 --> 00:02:28.187 and I realized that this baptism was very different to a previous one, 00:02:28.187 --> 00:02:31.778 because it was authentic one. So I was baptized. 00:02:31.778 --> 00:02:35.498 But we felt we needed to pray some more. We came back and we prayed some more. 00:02:35.498 --> 00:02:40.358 And I think the biggest thing that happened in my life with all of this is a... 00:02:40.358 --> 00:02:45.807 me realizing that... the biggest thing that I was set free from was... 00:02:45.807 --> 00:02:50.677 For all these years, last 20 or 25 years or so, of walking, I've been involved in church, 00:02:50.677 --> 00:02:57.119 I prayed for people, I've ministered, I've seen God using me in many amazing ways, 00:02:57.119 --> 00:03:00.279 but this way has been the sense of me feeling like I have to perform, 00:03:00.279 --> 00:03:04.779 that the Holy Spirit is here now and lots of shaking and lots of manifestations. 00:03:04.779 --> 00:03:10.776 And I always thought, this is the Holy Spirit. But I just discovered now that actually 00:03:10.776 --> 00:03:13.776 it's not, it's not even that, that I don't need to be doing, 00:03:13.776 --> 00:03:17.749 I didn't need to be having any image of shaking or any image of manifestations, 00:03:17.749 --> 00:03:22.588 I don't need to look like I'm more spiritual. Simply, just to enjoy God's presence 00:03:22.588 --> 00:03:26.500 and He would be able to use me, to pray for people, 00:03:26.500 --> 00:03:32.529 to enjoy His presence without any physical, strange signs and strange happenings, 00:03:32.529 --> 00:03:35.499 and I realized that over the years and all my involvement in church, 00:03:35.499 --> 00:03:39.119 we've been in meetings, we've prayed and we've expected to see 00:03:39.119 --> 00:03:43.989 all this signs and wonders, but that would be more than seeing people healed, 00:03:43.989 --> 00:03:48.239 and I realized that it was almost like a deception, that I've been deceived 00:03:48.239 --> 00:03:54.161 in a way that I've been doing things. What I'm loving now, it's just the difference 00:03:54.161 --> 00:03:57.269 because all the years I would ask myself a question and say: How come 00:03:57.269 --> 00:04:00.900 we have all the presence of what we thought it was the Holy Spirit moving 00:04:00.900 --> 00:04:03.080 in meetings, and yet, we weren't see people saved. 00:04:03.080 --> 00:04:07.247 We weren't see lives impacted, we weren't seeing people going out 00:04:07.247 --> 00:04:11.127 and praying for people to get saved, and then spreading the gospel even further. 00:04:11.127 --> 00:04:16.030 I was always wondered why we never saw that. And yet, it seemed like we were busy 00:04:16.030 --> 00:04:19.620 doing what God has called us to do. And now I realized that lot of it 00:04:19.620 --> 00:04:25.019 it was just doing what we've been doing for years, so-called enjoying the presence 00:04:25.019 --> 00:04:30.501 of the Holy Spirit, but a lot of it was not even God. It was just a way of behaving, 00:04:30.501 --> 00:04:35.631 a way of doing things, an old patterned, that we've got used to do it, and yet, 00:04:35.631 --> 00:04:39.561 not impacting people's lives. So, the biggest thing for me this weekend 00:04:40.621 --> 00:04:45.131 it's to just have a healthy understanding of what being baptized in water is, 00:04:45.131 --> 00:04:49.560 that it's accompanied with true repentance and how that's impacted my life, 00:04:49.560 --> 00:04:53.310 and being set free of different things that were holding me back 00:04:53.310 --> 00:04:58.590 and behave in old sins. That's been a huge thing and just realizing that 00:04:58.590 --> 00:05:03.372 I want to go out and actually make an impact and tell people about Jesus 00:05:03.372 --> 00:05:07.066 and see them baptized, and then see them going and making a difference 00:05:07.066 --> 00:05:09.879 in other people's lives. So, that's been the biggest thing. 00:05:10.219 --> 00:05:16.930 Glory to God. We've seen in the last years that there was some movement, 00:05:16.930 --> 00:05:21.810 especially in some churches, where the focus became so overemphasized 00:05:21.810 --> 00:05:25.441 on those kinds of manifestations, in the way we interact with God, 00:05:25.441 --> 00:05:30.562 we feel like there is something more to go and get, to be more spiritual... - Yes. 00:05:30.562 --> 00:05:34.651 to have more anointing, that we should interact with Him and feel more 00:05:34.651 --> 00:05:38.691 of His presence with the shaking, with laying down on the floor 00:05:38.691 --> 00:05:45.720 and having all those, sometimes convulsions, as well, and what we see is the focus, 00:05:45.720 --> 00:05:50.872 the focus have just been overtaken on those things, to make us feel more and more 00:05:50.872 --> 00:05:57.902 spiritual, when actually, the fruit of the Spirit in our life contains the peace, the self-control, 00:05:57.902 --> 00:06:01.912 as an outcome of the presence of the Holy Spirit, and us surrendering to Him. 00:06:01.912 --> 00:06:08.870 So, for Michelle it's been really something, God came today and met her with freedom, actually. 00:06:08.870 --> 00:06:15.530 Yes, that's been a huge mindset shift for me, because I always connected 00:06:15.530 --> 00:06:21.193 this outward manifestations, the shaking and lots of strange movements, 00:06:21.193 --> 00:06:25.653 I connected that as being the power of the Holy Spirit, the presence of the Holy Spirit, 00:06:25.653 --> 00:06:30.374 the manifestation of the Holy Spirit. I have walked that way for so many years, 00:06:30.374 --> 00:06:34.654 and yet, I always questioned, but come if we have that, how come I'm not seeing 00:06:34.654 --> 00:06:37.814 people saved and see people come to Christ, and seeing disciples, 00:06:37.814 --> 00:06:41.785 and people telling other people about Jesus, how can we have all this stuff, 00:06:41.785 --> 00:06:46.153 but none of that. And I realized that lot of it it's just a deception, 00:06:46.153 --> 00:06:50.674 that you think that you have to have that to enjoy the presence of the Holy Spirit. 00:06:50.674 --> 00:06:55.715 But in fact - you don't. I am able to enjoy His presence just by being prayed for, 00:06:55.715 --> 00:06:59.764 or come and pray, coming into God's presence, and just experiencing His peace 00:06:59.764 --> 00:07:04.255 and His calmness and His joy, without all the outward manifestations. 00:07:04.255 --> 00:07:09.182 That has been the biggest mindset shift for me - has been that. 00:07:09.722 --> 00:07:12.722 I was actually set free from a lot of deception 00:07:12.722 --> 00:07:16.875 and an old way of behaving. That I connected that old way of behaving 00:07:16.875 --> 00:07:22.404 with this incredible power, but all this amazing power didn't come with me, 00:07:22.404 --> 00:07:24.404 impacting people's lives. 00:07:24.914 --> 00:07:30.495 The gospel, as I was sharing it today, is really about repenting before God first, 00:07:30.495 --> 00:07:33.865 of the sins we have committed. And being baptized to Christ, 00:07:33.865 --> 00:07:37.895 to wash away our sins and being united with Him and being clothed with 00:07:37.895 --> 00:07:41.216 His righteousness. And then we will receive the Holy Spirit. 00:07:41.216 --> 00:07:44.085 And the Holy Spirit produces this fruit in our life. 00:07:44.085 --> 00:07:48.035 And yes, the Holy Spirit brings some gifts also. He gives us the power 00:07:48.035 --> 00:07:54.365 to go and be witnesses of Jesus. But the outcome of true surrendered life 00:07:54.365 --> 00:07:59.316 to the presence of the Holy Spirit in us is to live a holy life, to go, to make disciples, 00:07:59.316 --> 00:08:03.750 to share Christ with us, and not live by the flesh anymore, not live by sight 00:08:03.750 --> 00:08:05.386 anymore, but by faith. 00:08:05.386 --> 00:08:10.784 Yes. You should not be living by actions, and how we, so-called perform, 00:08:10.784 --> 00:08:14.813 but just by rather how we go daily and live our lives. Yeah. 00:08:15.803 --> 00:08:18.985 God is amazing. It is beautiful what He has done today. 00:08:19.735 --> 00:08:25.626 We have other video testimonies of people also who have been set free 00:08:25.626 --> 00:08:30.507 from deception, from this kind of spirits also that has crept in some churches 00:08:30.507 --> 00:08:33.957 and movements. We encourage you to watch some of them. 00:08:33.957 --> 00:08:38.446 If you have questions, if you wonder, if you are experiencing really the Holy Spirit 00:08:38.446 --> 00:08:42.826 if this is normal, what is going around you, watch these videos, 00:08:42.826 --> 00:08:49.346 we'll share links in the text. I hope and we pray that God is going to speak to you 00:08:49.346 --> 00:08:50.846 through those testimonies. 00:08:50.846 --> 00:08:54.528 So, be blessed! We thank you for that in Jesus name.