Returning to the River

I'm honored to be here with tonight once again and do feel like I have something to say. And if you wanna turn with me to the book of Ezekiel, chapter 47, we'll begin reading verse number one. Ezekiel 47 and verse number one. I do apologize, media team. I did not get you my scriptures tonight. So I pray that you can work with me as I go through this. But as Brother Easter told us, we should have our Bibles, right? Amen. Ezekiel chapter 47, verse number one, what an honor it is to always stand behind this pulpit. I honor the wonderful leadership of this great church, our pastor and our pastor's wife, and of course the Richie family and Bishop and Dr. Myers, aren't we thankful for our leadership? Amen. Amen. Ezekiel 47, verse number one afterward. He brought me again into the door of the house

and behold, water is issued out from under the threshold of the house eastward. For the forefront of the house stood toward the east and the waters came down from under the right side of the house at the south side of the altar. Then brought he me out of the way of the gate northward and led me out of the way without the outer gate by the way that look at the eastward and behold, there ran out waters on the right side. When the man that had the line in his hand went forth eastward, he measured a thousand cubits and brought me through the waters. And then he measured again, brought me through the waters and they were to the knees measured again, brought me through the waters and they were to the loins. And afterward he measured and it was a river, someone say a river, could not be passed over.

For the waters were risen, waters to swim in a river that could not be passed over. And he said unto me, son of man, hast thou seen this? Then he brought me and caused me to return to the brink of the river. Now when I had returned, behold at the bank of the river were very many trees on one side and on the other. Then said he unto me, these waters issue out toward the east country, go down into the desert into the sea, which being brought forth into the sea, the waters shall be healed and it shall come to pass at everything that liveth, which moveth, wheresoever the river shall come shall live. And there shall be a very great multitude of fish because these waters shall come thither, for they shall be healed and everything shall live rather the river cometh. Know that was a lot in our opening text tonight.

And Ezekiel 47 is one of those that I speak out of a lot. It's one of those that has so many beautiful, hidden meanings and it's like every time you read it, something else just jumps out. And today in studying this thought came to me, I'm gonna try to talk to you tonight on returning to the river. The Bible makes it very clear when you begin to look throughout scripture that rivers are important. It's something that most of all of historical cities were built around rivers, oceans, making sure that they had that life-giving source of water. You find in the beginning of the Bible, Genesis chapter two, verse number 20, we read that there was a river and it went out of Eden to water the garden and from fence it was parted and became into foreheads. When you go all the way to the very last chapter

of the Bible and you begin to read, you find in Revelation 22 and one, and he showed me a pure river of water, of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb. I believe that this is what the psalmist mentioned when he writes to us in Psalms 46 and four. There is a river whose streams shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacle of the Most High. This river finds itself woven all through scripture. I believe undoubtedly that this river is what Jesus was referring to in John chapter four and verse number 10 when he's having a conversation with the woman at the well and he says, if thou knewest the gift of God and who it is that sayeth to thee, give me to drink, thou wouldest ask of him, and he would have given you living water.

This hurting lady was not interested in another trip to quench her natural thirst, but she was ready to tap into an internal flow that had been there from the very beginning. This is what I believe Jesus was referencing in John chapter seven when he said, he that believeth on me as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. However, we understand in verse number 39, this spakey of the spirit. Jesus taught that this river was spirit. I believe even in the revelation that the river that it was speaking of, the characteristics and qualities of this river are not necessarily speaking of literal water, but they are speaking of the spirit of God and how it operates and how it flows. The spirit of God being categorized as a river in the very last chapter of the book of this Bible

would be taught to us as life giving, sustaining, pure, healing, fruit bearing. If that's not a description of the wonderful nature and spirit of God, I don't know what is. I see that this river that opens the pages of our Bible found in the book of Genesis. It says it was parted into four heads. Pison, Gihan, Heidekel, and Euphrates. It's no coincidence that when Daniel was taken into captivity and elevated as the mighty man that he was. The Bible talks to us about how he went on a 21 day fast. While he was on this fast, he prayed trying to get an answer, trying to get clarity on a vision that troubled him. It's no coincidence that in Daniel 10 and four that when the answer comes from heaven, that it comes at no other place but by a river. We read in the four and 20th day of the first month

and I was by the side of the great river, which is Heidekel, a river that began in Eden. Then I lifted up my eyes and looked and behold a certain man clothed in linen whose loins were girded with fine gold of yo-faz and we see he visited Daniel by where no other than a river. I know sometimes our prayers feel that they're in vain. Sometimes our fasting feels like it is unproductive. Sometimes it appears that when we read our word that we are not getting the daily bread that we seek. However, when you keep reading, you keep praying and you keep fasting, it just seems like God always has a way of sending the river. We read in Daniel 10 and 12, then He said unto me, do not fear Daniel from the first day that you set your heart to understand and to humble yourself before God.

Your words were heard and I have come because of your words. There's something about the faithfulness of a child of God that the river cannot ignore. That spirit of God cannot help but begin to flow when you're faithful to the disciplines of prayer, fasting, and the word. God always shows up, it seems like, in a way that only can be described like a river. It was Ezekiel who was by the river Chebar, which there is an opinion that this was a royal canal of Nebuchadnezzar connecting Heidekel and the Euphrates. Both of these are original rivers from the Garden of Eden. I do not think that that's coincidental as I'm talking about the river is the spirit. That this channel that connected two of the original rivers that began in the Garden of Eden, it was there that Ezekiel found himself. It was there as a captive.

It was there among the slaves and the exiles. He's standing there, but there's something about the river that can elevate your point of view, that can change the way you're seeing your circumstances and your surroundings. I can't help but think about this as describing almost a prodigal who has been taken captive by the world. However, there's still a river even running by the captives that are held in the world right now. I wanna preach to somebody today, talk to somebody tonight to tell you that even though our sons and our daughters that are not living for the Lord right now and they're held captive by the world, there's a river flowing. There's a river flowing. I believe that one day they're gonna wake up and they're gonna realize I've been by the river all along. It never left me. It was always flowing. It's still my source.

It's still my hope, my help. It's still my joy. I love when I read about the prodigal son, the one, the one that spent all of his money, the one that required of his father what was his and he lefts and he spends it all, the Bible says, on a riotous living. I can't help but read in Luke 15 and 14. And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land and he began to be in want, the Bible says, and he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country and he sent him into his fields to feed swine. And this next verse is so interesting and I believe it is the catalyst of everything that takes place. I've often read this and passed over the fact, thinking that he was in the pig slop with the pigs, eating what the pigs were eating because he was hungry,

but the Bible makes it clear and he would have filled his belly. He didn't get all the way to the point of eating what pigs eat. You have to understand that this young man was brought up under Jewish custom. He knew you weren't supposed to have pigs. He knew you weren't supposed to be around pigs, somewhere a mama and a daddy put it into that boy. This is what we believe and this is why we believe it. And while he was among the pigs, already crossing the religious lines that he had been taught and the laws that God had instilled into him, he's standing amongst the swine, he would have eaten. And you can only see this in the next verse, verse number 17, and when he came to himself, he said, how many hired servants of my fathers have bred enough to spare and why am I sitting here perishing with hunger?

I see it as though he's standing there and he would have eaten and out of nowhere, it was like a river that comes over him. It was like the spirit of God began to reach right where he was at and say, but you don't have to stay here. You know that there's a life giving source where you're from. I see that river is what carries him all the way to his father's house. I see that river is what carries him back to the ring and the robe. I see that river is what carries him back to the fatted calf and the joy of the father's house. Friend, can I tell you that there's a river that's flowing even to those that are lost, every prodigal, every son and daughter that has left this house, the river still reaching. My, my, I do believe that there will be a moment

where they come to themselves because the river will continue to reach. Moses was thrown into the Nile, the Bible teaches us, which if you read that, it is literally Paeson, which is one of those, again, original rivers from the garden. You have to understand what is being written here. The king of the world wanted the sons of God's people and that mama had enough wisdom to understand that even though the kingdom of the world wants my baby, there's only one thing I can trust him in and that's the river. Sometimes when we don't understand, you just gotta put it in the hands of the river and trust that God's gonna work everything out for our good. Something about that mama, it's like she knew the river was gonna take care of my baby. You've got to trust that prayer is still steering the ship. You've got to trust that fasting still gets the river moving.

You've got to trust that your disciplines are allowing the spirit of God to do what it's always done. I see her reaching down into that river, laying that baby down in that ark and trusting everything's gonna be all right. Because there's always been a river for God's people to lean upon. I read in Isaiah 48 and 18, oh, that you had heeded my commandments, then your peace would be like a river and your righteousness like the waves of the sea. He is sending a rebuke here saying, if you had kept my commandments, then peace would have been like a river. Can I preach to somebody that's struggling with some things and you don't feel like you have peace right now? As long as you've kept the commandments of the Lord, it is in his word that peace is coming and it's not coming like a trickle,

it's not coming like a droplet, but peace comes like a river. There's something about the river. It finds its way all through scripture, through the beginning and through the end. I think often about the fact that that prophet in the book of Kings, one of his students there in the school of the prophets, as they were trying to build a bigger building, he had borrowed an ax. And while the Bible says he is felling a tree that that ax head comes off and it goes flying into a river. You can't miss that it lands in a river. Had it have landed in a pond, maybe it would have been a lost cause. Had it have landed in something without a flow, maybe there would have never been any hope for it. But the way I see it is, is that was a gift that was given to him.

Sometimes it seems like the gifts that God has given us, we mess up and something breaks and something happens and it's like we don't have the gift that we used to have. But friend, it landed in a river. As long as it's still connected to the river, there's hope for restoration. My God. I feel like preaching to somebody that feels like you've fallen and you've made a mistake. I feel like preaching to somebody that messed up and you wished you wouldn't have messed up. Can I tell you, the river's still flowing and there's still hope. There's something about the river. Name it. He wanted to go to Abana and Parfar. We read this in 2 Kings as well. He comes to the prophet Elisha. Elisha sends his servant out and says, tell him to go to Jordan. Why Jordan? Why not Abana and Parfar? We learn when you begin to study about Abana and Parfar

that these rivers were spring-fed sources. They come from the earth. They were clear as crystal. They were beautiful, beautiful rivers. But when the prophet wanted this man to experience a healing, he said, you can't go to an earth-fed source. You gotta go to a river. That sources do not come from the earth. They've gotta start somewhere in the heavenly. When I begin to read about the source of the river, Jordan, quickly commentaries point me to Psalms 133. Behold how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity. It is like precious ointment upon the head that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron's beard that went down to the skirts of his garments. As the dew of Hermon and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion, for there the Lord commended blessing, even life forevermore. When you read about the dew of Hermon,

you understand that Jordan gets its source from the mountains of Lebanon and from the Mount Hermon. When you read about that dew, that dew is where Jordan gets its source from. So when the psalmist wanted to liken that life-giving river, that healing river, he said it's like the oil that runs down Aaron's beard. It's like the anointing. The river will always be likened to the anointing. That's why Naaman had to get in Jordan because every other river around got its source from the earth, but that river found its source in the heavenly. I read in Jeremiah 181, the second place that I was taken on the study about Jordan, that wonderful river. In the new King James it says, will a man leave the snow water of Lebanon, which comes from the rock of the field? Which cold flowing waters be forsaken for strange waters?

It's no coincidence that he says, will a man leave the snow water of Lebanon? That too is referencing the source of Jordan as that snow capped mountain begins to melt. It is that snowy water that comes down and begins to weave its way through the valley and it becomes the river of Jordan. It was that snow capped mountain that produced up that river that would water the plains, that river that so many miraculous encounters would happen in. It was that river that the children of Israel crossed over. It was that river that Elijah smote the water and he walked across and Elijah receiving the double portion and his mantle smites the water and it parts again. It would be that river that John would baptize Jesus in. It's something about the river Jordan. What was it? It's that its source was not earthly. It was heavenly sourced and he makes this statement.

It says that water comes from the rock of the field. I can't help but hear in the books of the apostle Paul. That rock was Christ. I can't help but hear that that heavenly sourced flow. It began up in the heavenlies, but it came down just like God manifested in the flesh comes down and it says, will you leave that rock for strange waters? My goodness, strange waters. That's why in Psalms 105 and 41, we are taught that he opened the rock and the waters gushed out. They ran in the dry places like a river. He's now referring to the children of Israel when Moses smites the rock and it turns into a river that's flowing and it's giving the source that these people need to survive in the wilderness. He said that rock was Christ and Jeremiah warns us. He says, don't leave that river for strange waters.

Don't leave that river for strange waters. I love that it calls it cold flowing water. The type of water that makes you feel good on a hot day. The type of water that'll make you feel like you're getting your source of life back after you spend a hard day in the field of labor and you come back in your house. Anybody know what I'm talking about? And you take a cold drink of water. That's what that rock is like. Don't leave that rock for strange waters. When I think about strange waters, I think about the book of Colossians teaching us, beware that men don't spoil you with philosophy and vain deceit. I think about the strange waters of false religion. I think about the strange waters of everything that's being pumped out into our society right now. And if you're not careful, the strange waters will produce fear

and anxiety and depression. But this water, when he saw it in Revelation, it had fruit that was all along the bank of this water. I believe that's the fruit of the spirit, friend. I believe that when you get a drink of this water, it comes with peace when you get a drink of this water. It comes with joy when you get a drink of this water. It comes, my, my, my. I'm reminded that Jacob crosses a river by the name of Jaybock. Don't miss that. Jaybock is a Transjordian river. It is a branch off of the river that starts in the heavenly. Jaybock literally means empty yourself out. He crosses the river of emptying. And on the other side of that river, he has the encounter where he says, you're no longer Jacob the deceiver. You are the prince that has power with God. You're no longer who you used to be.

Now, you're what I've always intended for you to be. That's what the river does, friend. It takes you from who you used to be and it changes every vice into a virtue. It takes you as Jacob and it makes you Israel. It takes you as a deceiver and it makes you a prince. It takes you, my, my, my. Something about the river. Let me remind you that this river does not operate alone in the physical. Jesus referenced it in John chapter four, it's living water. Again, in John seven, he said, it's rivers but this spakey of the spirit. I was reminded in Acts 836. And as they went on their way, they came into a certain water. And the eunuch said, see, here is water. What doth hinder me to be baptized? He saw this certain water. It wasn't just any water. It wasn't just another water.

It was certain water. This certain water he gets in and he's baptized. And something happens in that very moment. The Bible says in verse number 39, and when they were come up out of the water, the spirit of the Lord caught away Philip. That the eunuch saw him no more and went on his way rejoicing. Now remember that in the natural there is real rivers, but there are supernatural rivers as well. It's all really a metaphor. It's all really imagery of a spiritual river. Something happened that when Philip left the natural water, that God caught him up in the supernatural flow. He took him out of the natural current and put him in the supernatural current. And it caught him up and it took him away. I believe that this is what John was caught up in when he said, and I was in the spirit on the Lord's day.

And he heard a voice that said, come up. He was taken out of the natural and into the supernatural river. John, come up here where the river's flowing from the throne, where the river's flowing from the lamb, where the river's flowing, come up out of the natural and into the supernatural river. I see it this because the Bible teaches us in Romans 8 and 26, likewise, the spirit also helpeth our infirmities. For we know not what we should pray for as we ought, but the spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. When you know not what to pray, when you've prayed as far as your flesh can let you pray, there is a river. You ever got to the end of your words? Am I talking to anybody right now? You know, I'm telling you, you find yourself in prayer

and you're praying and you've prayed everything, you know to pray in English, but you know there's something more. You know there's another level and it's out of nowhere, something begins to stir from within you and it's a welling. Come on, we call it groaning, but another word for it is welling. You let out a well of living water. Oh, I remember, you know, that's when you start hearing in these church services, oh, what is that? That's the river, friend. That's groanings which cannot be uttered. That's when you begin to tap into a flow of the spirit that's beyond your flesh, that's beyond the natural. That's when you get caught up in a heavenly current that says I'm taking you out of the here and now. I believe it was that spiritual river that took the priest from one side of the veil to the other.

I believe it was the spiritual river after he left the altar, after he left the laver, after he stepped into the holy place, after he went to the table of shoe bread, after he went to the golden candlesticks, after, after he went to the altar of incense and he stood before that veil with that swinging censor going left and right. He stood there waiting. What was he waiting for? The river to catch him up and take him from one side of the veil to the other. Take him from one side of prayer to the other side of prayer. Take him from the natural into the supernatural. Take him out of my mind. I believe that there are currents. There are currents that try to catch us up every day of our life. Currents of stress, currents of strange waters. We wake up and we feel the current of life catch us.

We wake up and we feel the current of responsibility sweep us away. We wake up and we feel the current of bills that have to be paid. We wake up and we feel the current of our employee and or employers, but there's another current. My, my, sometimes you've got to learn how to step out of the current of the world and into the current that comes from the rock. Because if you're not careful, strange waters will carry you away. This is why we read in our texts in Ezekiel 47 and 6. And he said to me, son of man, hast thou seen this? Then he brought me and caused me to return to the brink of the river. Look at what he said, hast thou seen? I find it interesting that the prophet is going through the process of the stretching. It's almost as though he's distracted.

His eyes aren't on the river anymore. Oh, help me, Jesus. His eyes are caught up maybe at the temple. His eyes are caught up maybe at the trees that are growing. But some way, somehow, his eyes got off of really what was important, the river. Son of man, hast thou seen? Whatever the reason was, he got out of balance. Whatever the cause was, I don't know what his cause was. Maybe it was just life. Maybe he was tired. I don't know what it was. But we read the language of scripture and it says, then he brought me. One translation says, he went and fetched me and brought me back. Hear it? He said, you're focusing on the wrong things right now, Ezekiel. He grabbed him, threw him over his shoulder. Come on, like a dog fetches a ball that you throw. Goes out, runs, grabs it and brings it back.

You've got to see God. Grabbing the prophet and saying, you've got to come back to the river. You've got to return from since you came. I know you've gotten caught up with life and circumstances and situations. I know you're worried about the woes of everything that's going on in the world. But can I bring you back to what's important? Can you return to the brink of the river? My, my, I don't know what your day has consisted of. I don't know what your life has brought to you. I don't know what struggles have come against you. I don't know what dilemmas have diverted you. I don't know what issues have come. I don't know, but let me tell you what I do know. If you'll just take a trip with me to the river for a few moments. If you'll take a trip with me back to that life-giving source

to the flow that can take you out of the woes, to the flow that can take you out of the issues, to the flow that can take you out of the dilemmas, to the flow that can heal your body, to the flow that can touch your mind. I know when we ask for prayer, and I thank God that we do it. The Bible teaches us to take prayer requests and call for the elders of the church. I believe in that, but sometimes we do it out of mechanics. We just do it because it's what we're supposed to do. Any unspoken request. Friend, there's something more than just somebody petitioning your request here tonight. There's something more than a brother Richie standing here saying, do you have a need here tonight? There is a current that's flowing. There is a river moving through this house. And the Bible says that there was healing

everywhere that the river went, it brought life, it brought healing, those places that were dead when the river begins to weave its way through it. My, my, my. I recently saw a picture of one of the driest deserts in the world that's gotten record breaking rainfall lately. And they took a picture of this desert from space. And I had, I thought about it. I would have taken this picture and brought it up tonight. And from space, they seen that a place that was just tan from space, the geographical picture showed it was just tan. But now that that life giving water has begun to be reintroduced to this place, this, this climate of dryness out of nowhere, the picture just shows life. Because when you begin to get back to the source from which your life came, I don't know if I'm coming for somebody tonight

that has drifted. I don't know if I'm preaching to somebody tonight that it's been too long since you've entered into your prayer closet and prayed until the spirit began to flow. I don't know if I'm reaching for a good saint here tonight that has just been bogged down with the woes of life, but I've come tonight to tell you, get back to the river. There's life along the bank. Places you never thought you would see life again. There's life there. Ezekiel 47 and 12. And by the river upon the bank thereof on this side and on that side shall grow all trees for me whose leaf shall not fade and the fruit thereon be consumed and it shall bring forth new fruit according to his months because the waters issued out of the sanctuary. I don't have time to really preach just that one line right there.

All of this happened because the waters left the sanctuary. I could have taken a whole hour just all that tonight. If the waters never leave the temple, life never gets to the land. If the only place the water flows is when we're here, the land is never gonna get healed. You wanna know why we're pushing for people to come and pray 24 hours a day for this conference because we're believing that it's gonna do more than just people gathering for good preaching and good singing, but that something can happen. And if we can get here and pray and get back and expand the current of the river that when they get here it won't just stay here. It'll change. Come on. I read Joel 3 18. And it shall come to pass in that day that the mountains shall drop down new wine and the hills shall flow with milk

and all the rivers of Judah shall flow with waters. And a fountain shall come forth out of the house of the Lord and shall water the valley. When you begin to look at that valley, it was a place in the plains of Moab on the borders of Israel toward the Southeast, not far from the Dead Sea. These spiritual waters shall flow down to the dry and the thirsty and the barren and the fruitless and it's gonna make them fruitful. That's what Joel was prophesying about that if you'll loose the river it'll go down to every dry location. It'll go down to every place where there's no fruit. It'll go down to every place that needs healing and the water will bring it with them. My, my, my. I close with this text here tonight. Jeremiah 17 and five. Thus sayeth the Lord, curse be the man

that trusteth in man and maketh flesh his arm and whose heart departeth from the Lord. For he shall be like the health in the desert and shall not see when good cometh but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness and in a salt land and not inhabited. But blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord and whose hope the Lord is. For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters that spreadeth out her roots by the river and shall not see when he cometh. You have to think about that. You won't even feel the elements of the world but her leaf shall be green and shall not be careful in the year of drought even when the rest of the world is in a drought. My Lord have mercy. Can I just talk to you for just a moment? You need to quit worrying about the drought of the world.

If you're planted by the river, now if your trust is in flesh and your trust is in the world and your counsel is in the things of the flesh, guess what? When the world's in a drought, you're gonna be thirsty too. But if your trust has been in the Lord and if your help is the Lord, when the world fills the drought friend, you're planted by her. That river is not talking about the physical water that flows like the St. John's. It's not talking about that river. It's talking about that heavenly source that we read about in Revelation. And when you are the tree planted by that river, I'm not worried about inflation. I fell about right there. I'm not worried about who is or it's not our president. You wanna know where my faith is in? It's not in democracy. It's not in Republican or Democrat.

It's not in the banking system. It's not in the economy of the world. My trust is in a river. And there is a fount that's flowing through the Holy Ghost. Neither shall cease from yielding fruit. When everybody else is wondering where their peace is at, I love what Jesus says in John chapter 15. The peace that I give you is not like the world's peace because this peace is not attached to the world's river. This peace is attached to the river that sources itself in Revelation chapter 20. My, my, my. This is sourced in the heavenly river. This peace comes like a river. This peace is attached to the spirit of the living God. And while everything else in the earth is passing away, while everything that can be shaken shall be shaken, this kingdom and this river, it's just gonna still be flowing and there's still gonna be hope

and there's still gonna be peace and there's still gonna be rest and there's still gonna be joy and you're still gonna have fruit. Come on, the leaves on your tree are not gonna turn brown with the autumn sky. The leaves on your tree friend, they're gonna stay green because your season is not the earth season. When you read that final, final tree, how you see it in the book of Revelation, it says that it will give fruit every month. There is not a moment that when you're connected to the river of Revelation 22 and Genesis 2, there is not a moment that you're not producing fruit and there is not a moment that there is not leaves on your tree. Because your source is not in the earth. I challenge us tonight now more than ever if there's ever been a time for us to get back to the river.

Whoever's hearing this tonight, whoever I have been burdened for today, I charge you in the name of the Lord, wake up tomorrow and pray until the river flows. I admonish every person that's here that's been praying. You've prayed faithfully, you fasted faithfully and you're like Daniel saying, where in the world is God? And then one day you find yourself by hide to kill and the next thing you know, you look up and there's a man coming from heaven who's girded up with fire and he's descending down to you saying, I heard your prayer from the very first time I was fighting the principality of this area for you. Oh, praise the Lord. Amen, would you lift your hands all over this house? Charge you tonight. Don't get caught up in the woes of this world. Don't get caught up in the carnality of this moment.

Don't get caught up in the things that are happening. If there's ever been a time for us to be a spirit people, it's now, if there's ever been a time for us to be connected to the source, it's now. If there's ever been a time for us to flow with the river, it's now. Lord, let it be in this hour that we would be a people that is more spiritual, that we would be a people that is more determined and more dependent on you than we have ever been, Lord. Blessed be the name of the Lord. Blessed be the name of the Lord. Come on, everybody's hands lifted. Let's pray for just a few moments. Lord, I pray right now that those that have not hit the vein of intercessory prayer, I release intercessors once again. I pray, God, that those that have not allowed

the spirit of the living God to flow in too long, they would begin to let it flow again. I pray that every prodigal God that finds himself in captivity, he would be reminded that there is a river that's flowing, God. Let there be a return and a restoration to the things of the spirit, God, and to the river of the living God in the last days. In the name of Jesus, we pray. Why don't you clap your hands, stand to your feet and we give God praise and closing. Come on, praise him just for a few moments. I'm done. When you're done praising, you can be dismissed. Thank you for the river. Thank you for the current of the spirit. Oh, God, we worship you. Don't forget to come to the river. Don't forget this week, we're praying for Wynn's conference. We need the river of God to flow through this place.

We need it to flow to every region in this country. We need it to flow to every nation, every tribe and every tongue. Lord, let it be God that this would be the most spiritually impacting conference we have ever had. Let it be God that this church would have the river so stirred up and the current of the spirit in such intensity and such depths that the moment they get here, God, they would be swept away in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Let everybody say in Jesus' name. Turn to your neighbor, greet them and love on them just a moment, you are dismissed in Jesus' name.