Michigan Conference Campmeeting 2021: How Much More?

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Michigan Conference of Seventh-day Adventists

Hungering for More of HIM

Gem Castor

01 Give Him Praise

02 Powerless

03 Our Part to Play

04 Lessons in the Storm

05 Give Him Back the Throne

06 That They All May Be One

07 Let Not Your Heart Be Troubled

08 No Regrets

You are about to enjoy a presentation recorded at the 2021 Michigan Conference Camp Meeting held at Cedar Lake, Michigan.

We pray that the Lord will bless you as you listen.

Our great God, our dear, loving Heavenly Father, Lord, we praise you and we thank you.

Lord, as we come before you this morning, I could not even put into words the joy that I feel in my heart of how it is such a huge privilege to bow before your presence and to call you our Father.

Lord, we know that we are not alone in here, that your presence is here and your holy angels are surrounding us.

And dear Father, I pray in a very special way that as your words will be spoken this morning, that you please hide me behind your cross, that I may not be seen nor be heard, but Jesus and Jesus alone be seen, be heard, be lifted up and exalted.

Father, I ask that you please prepare our hearts, all of our hearts, especially mine, to receive whatever it is that you want to give us today.

Thank you so much, Lord, for hearing our prayers.

We pray all this In the loving and precious name of your Son, Jesus, all your children say, Amen.

The moment I saw the theme, the theme title of this camp meeting, I was so excited.

And I always let my audience guess, what is this thing that I'll be talking about, but Somehow it's given already, it's plastered all over here in this camp meeting.

Because most of the camp meeting, most of the conferences that I somehow attended, this is not the main focus.

Listen to this, from Science of the Times, May 9, 1892, paragraph 6, it says, throughout all churches there is 1 subject of vital importance that has been neglected.

1 subject of vital importance that has been neglected.

And listen, we have failed to make the Holy Spirit the theme of our thought and instruction.

I remember in Jakarta when I attended as a prayer room coordinator, while we were there praying because before we open it to the public, all the prayer leaders come together and we were praying and friends, it is such a beautiful way to start your day in the presence of God.

Look at you right now, before you do anything else, you are here.

And we were just having a wonderful time of prayer.

It was still not open to the public, but somebody came in and we were wondering who that was.

And after we had we have finished praying, we prayed for like 40 minutes and we opened our eyes.

It was 1 of the general conference vice president.

I pray that we will come to the day that we will have conference, that we will have meetings only focused on the Holy Spirit, only focused on prayer and I could not imagine what would be the result.

Friends, that is already a fulfillment of his prayer, of what's happening right now.

And I pray, my dear friends, that this will also be the focus on the meetings of our church.

It says here, Testimonies on Sabbath school work, page 73 and 74.

How greatly do the workers need a baptism of the Holy Spirit that they may become true missionaries for God?

More than training, we need a baptism of the Holy Spirit.

This is what we need right now and it was emphasized here.

I'll just I'll just mention to you 3 emphasis here from evangelism page 66 paragraph 3.

God's work is to be carried forward with power.

With the Holy Spirit's power, not just horsepower.

Friends, we need more than horsepower right now.

We need more than any power than the Holy Spirit's power, supernatural power.

This is what we need right now, especially in the times that we're living in right now.

And it says here, we need the baptism of the Holy Spirit.

And the third 1, there needs to be a waking up among God's people.

Praise God a lot of people are being awakened right now.

There needs to be a waking up among God's people that His work may be carried forward with power." Can you hear the desire, the longing of God for His church to go forward with power?

God is seeing, is looking down on his church and his heart is yearning.

Because this is not the theme of our thought in our instruction.

We talk about a lot of things but not the power that He desires to give us.

And a Christian author said this, If God were to take the Holy Spirit out of our midst today, about 95% of what we are doing in our church would go on and we would not even know the difference.

95% of what we're doing in our church would go on and we would not even know the difference.

We have been so used to working without the power of the Holy Spirit.

We have been so used to doing things on our own strength, on our own ideas, but without power.

But it says here, Yet if God would have taken the Holy Spirit out of the midst of the first Christian community, about 95% of what they were doing would have ceased immediately.

About 95% of what they were doing would have ceased immediately.

About 95% of what they were doing during that time would have ceased immediately.

For now, Friends, just imagine the comparison.

And that is why we have been so powerless.

No wonder, 120 people after Pentecost changed the world.

And sometimes we are seeing the baptism rates like whoa look at this almost 3, 000 per day friends shame on us we're 20 million There should be 30 million per day.

My dear friends, we need the power of the Holy Spirit.

I was attending an OCI conference in Cambodia And I was hearing like reports from country to country and I was inspired.

Lawrence Burns from AFM gave this report, gave the statistics, and I'd like to show to you this photo.

And he shared this, so AB team I'll be showing this slides.

He said, he gave this little graph, this blue and green graph that says the total population of the world is in blue and the year and church membership is in green.

Series

Hungering for More of HIM

02 Powerless

Transcript

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