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Reclaiming Authentic Christianity
Brian Guerin

Brian Guerin (birth year unknown–present). Brian Guerin is an American pastor, author, and founder of Bridal Glory International and Ascend Church in Atlanta, Georgia. Raised in a non-religious home, he became a Christian in college after a profound spiritual experience he described as a divine encounter with a falcon, which ignited his pursuit of intimacy with God. Guerin serves as the senior leader of Ascend Church, where his preaching emphasizes a deep relationship with Jesus, the power of God’s presence, and preparing believers for Christ’s return. He founded Ascend Academy, a ministry school, and travels globally, speaking at conferences and on platforms like TBN and GOD-TV, often highlighting signs, wonders, and prophetic insights. His books, including God of Wonders: Experiencing God’s Voice Through Signs, Wonders, and Miracles, To Know Him: Discovering Experiential Intimacy with God, The Altar: Preparing for the Return of Jesus Christ, and Divine Encounter, focus on spiritual growth and encountering God. Known for sermons like “Mary’s at His Feet” and “The Secret Place,” he encourages distraction-free prayer and devotion, drawing from Scriptures like Luke 10:41–42 and Matthew 6:6. Guerin’s ministry seeks to draw the Church into closeness with Christ, which he calls the “highest prize in life.” He said, “Your heart can burn, and you still not know Him.”
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Brian Guerin emphasizes the need for authentic Christianity, urging believers to embrace the fullness of Jesus and the power of the Holy Spirit. He shares personal experiences of divine encounters and miracles, encouraging the congregation to seek intimacy with God and to be open to the Holy Spirit's movement. Guerin highlights the importance of character in the manifestation of spiritual gifts and the necessity of being a light in a world filled with fear. He calls for a fresh outpouring of the Holy Spirit, believing that God desires to heal and liberate His people from oppression and despair.
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Thank you, Jesus. Wow, how are you guys doing this morning? How many of you were not here the earlier session? Okay, man, a 20-foot angel stood right here. You totally missed it. Gave out gifts from heaven. No, but yeah, honored. I'm excited as it's building and just want to honor this house. Pastor Jacob, he's incredible. And Drew and Josh, man, you guys don't want to miss the sessions and the master classes. They're going to be epic. Just love Josh, bro, what you carry. So you're with Time to Revive as well. You haven't known those guys for a while, man. Rock cities. Yeah, you guys rock cities, bro. Need you to lay hands on me. And then I've got to tell you all, update you, the first group heard it, but Drew, man, I'll tell you, the fear of the Lord hit me last night. So we get to the hotel late. I came from another city. And the way River of Life does things is just what, with such a spirit of excellence. I want to honor the leadership. You don't always see that. And so appreciate that you can tell it right away and hospitality. And so we come into the hotel and I was greeted. So the hotel switched up the gift baskets. I didn't know this. They just gave me, I went about it backwards. I said, man, this is epic. I'm hungry. We've been on the road from another city and there's like Wisconsin cheese and all this great stuff. I'm like, no way. So I'm from Louisiana, by the way, you can hear the Southern. Yeah. We eat crawfish. Like they put them on our baby bottles. We don't, we don't know any different. Um, yeah, I was up in Maine recently preaching and the lobsters, the big thing there. And I love them. I was like, we eat those too. They're just smaller. They're called crawfish, you know? Uh, but we're in Atlanta now. So I get to my room, I'm tearing into this gift basket, like cheese hanging out of my mouth. And I read the card and it's like, Drew, we're so happy you visited us here. It was Drew's gift basket. Fear of the Lord hit me. I'm like, oh, I'm eating Drew's gift basket. And, uh, thank goodness they were gracious and merciful. I messaged my assistant right away. I was like, look, you gotta email the leaders. I ate Drew's gift basket. Heaven's gonna, you know, uh, be on me. So anyway, I'm excited this morning. Um, not going to keep much time. Cause I really feel if it's okay that, uh, the spirit of God just wants to move through this place. If that's okay with you guys. I mean, you know, the Bible is pretty clear. It says the letter alone kills, but the spirit brings life and we serve a God who's alive and well and full of power. And he's not shaken by what you might see. Um, that seems prevalent in this hour. He's moving really, really powerful. Uh, Acts chapter 10 verse 38 says, Jesus went about doing good healing all that were oppressed of the devil. And, um, I'm just really into the fullness of who Jesus is. And I really sense that in worship. He wants to move through encounter miracles, healings, if that's okay. And that's, it was awesome. I was getting to catch up with pastor Jacob, um, after the first session and just to hear his heart, man, um, you guys at locally follow this house. I want to encourage you to get full on board and on live stream as well behind this house, man, he's an authentic man of God. It's refreshing to hear Jesus and so forth. And so when I went to Brownsville revival, uh, school of ministry, there were a G, you know, and, uh, it was just awesome time, but want to build faith for a little bit. May talk to you briefly about, about intimacy, like I did last session, but I want to leave a lot of room if that's okay to let the Holy spirit move through this place. How many of you know that Jesus loves to touch his people? Yeah. And I I'm going to pray on mass at first, because God can still touch you in your seats through live stream. We've seen crazy things happen, but also if you want prayer, like the laying on of hands, if that's okay, um, want to invite you to come as well. And just so you know, the Holy ghost is way more contagious than COVID when I, when I lay hands on you, I'm just telling you. Yeah, man. Um, so if I breathe on you, you're going to get the Holy ghost. I'm just warning you that if you look at, in the, in the end of the book of John, it says that Jesus, he breathed upon the disciples, the Ruach breath of the spirit, man, the Holy ghost came on them. And listen, when the Holy spirit comes on you, everything changes. It says that the Bible says wherever the Holy spirit is, there's complete liberty, meaning sickness in your body doesn't stand a chance. Uh, mental breakdown, um, Josh picked up on that prophetically and earlier in worship, um, depression, oppression, uh, rejection. I saw that actually in this worship, I'm reminded that there was words spoken against people that are really hooked and put a barb in your soul. The Holy spirit plucks those out instantly in his presence. And, um, and also before I forget, I believe there's a, by word of knowledge, there's somebody's son here. You don't need to raise your hand if you want to, you can, but I definitely want to pray for you. Somebody's son that either recently got locked up, uh, in jail, or there's a legal something going on with your son and the Lord really cares for them. I want to pray for you. We've seen this things reversed legally because God sees after the fact the call on people's lives and he loves them. We saw this happen in Houston, Texas last year. Um, but anyway, I want to build your faith for a little bit and then make room. Sometimes it's as simple as just making room for Jesus to move, you know, and so he can touch his people, but he still works and operates in miracles. We were just in a different city, um, yesterday, Milwaukee. And, uh, yeah, yesterday in the last two days, Jesus was moving through it. How many of you know, God doesn't care what setting you're in, what city, what denominational, uh, umbrella you're under a week before that I was in a Baptist church, same thing. It's good. All Jesus is flowing, touching his people. Young lady's leg grew out. It was shorter than the other. Uh, we're seeing deaf ears, blind. It doesn't matter what your problem is. There's no mountain too big enough. Yeah. That the blood of Jesus can't just pull thump out of the way. You know, so I want to build faith because as many of you have known, the enemy's working overtime and in this hour to really press fear into the earth. And I get it. And I get the statistics and things, but just to me, I'm very simple. If it doesn't line up here, I just don't adhere to it fully. You guys talking with me in this word stands to the covenant. Uh, we've been given and live under. And so I'm really believing here in a second, we'll make room. If you want prayer that the Holy spirit's wanted to move through this place, touch people in bodies, heal the sick. I don't care how long you've had it, what it is. Um, but also there's something to do with like fresh encounter, fresh and filling of the Holy spirit that empowers us to follow Jesus in a precious way. And we see often in these type instances that people begin to be taking into a powerful dreams from God. How many of you believe that God speaks through dreams in here? Okay. Not a lot of people raise their hand. All right. Or they're just lazy or no coffee, but I'll give a little scriptural background for that. So Joel chapter two, uh, verse 28, um, the Bible says that in the last days, how many of you believe we're in the last days? Yeah, that's pretty obvious. That kicked off actually when Jesus hit the globe and it's only escalated since. But, uh, Joel two prophesied in the last days, he'll pour out his spirit upon all flesh. How many of you are flesh in here? Okay. Yeah. We just got some lazy folks. That's fine. I got you. I got you. But anyway, uh, if you are flesh, the Holy spirit can come upon you. If you're hungry, that's another thing. All you have to do is be hungry. And I would encourage you. You want to be because the Holy spirit looks for the hungry shall be fed. And, uh, in those days though, the Holy spirit will come upon all flesh. And some of the by-product of that that's produced is dreams amongst old men. I take them both because I've got gray hairs. Now I go, I take dreams from the old men. Young men will see visions. I still say, I'm, you know, you can just, you can go old Testament. You can trick the Bible and look at and like all the years that they lived and be like, man, I'm young still, or you can say you're old, but sons and daughters will prophesy. And this is really a profound way that God's beginning to has an ever, ever increasingly spoken through his people. And so you saw this kickoff and acts chapter two, you all remember, uh, on the day of Pentecost sound of a rushing mighty wind hit the place, tongues of fire. This really happened in our Bible, man. I mean, we need to get back to like full out the God of the Bible encounter fasting prayer miracles, man. I don't know if you're not into it. Cool. But I just love this. And I want to go back to repentance, water baptism, man, you know, just doing the Bible in this hour. I don't encourage you guys like, don't care what people think right now. Now's not the time I was talking to pastor. It's awesome. They've seen just a fresh charge of folks, even after the shaken, uh, the shaking you're seeing going worldwide with the pandemic and all this stuff with the body and the increasing of the hunger of people that just want authentic faith right now. I can tell you our generation and younger. How old are you, Josh? You mind me asking because you're younger than me though. I can tell you look great. Oh yeah. See, you look amazing, bro. So I'm 42. Yeah, I knew you were younger. Um, but he'll, you'll tell you, man, at least I can tell from our generation and younger, they just want the authentic thing. Look, you don't even have to be a great orator and just, you know, polished. They just want Jesus. I'm telling you. And they can tell the fake real, real quick. Um, I remember a prophet that went, went home to be with the Lord. Uh, sometime ago, Bob Jones, man, this guy was from Arkansas. His grammar was horrible. He brought you up. I got born again back in like, and he'd sit on a chair, like his delivery was not some polished. And again, I love the honed in gift too. I say, go for it. The Bible says, study to show yourself approved. But one thing he did care was the presence of God, the accurate voice of God. You know, Acts chapter four, verse 13 says that, uh, the scholars of the day were kind of assessing Peter and John. They were like, man, but the Bible says that Peter and John spoke with power. Listen to me. We need substance backing what we're saying. We need it, man. I'm telling you, if you don't have it, just go for it. Anyway, Jesus keep crying out. We need heaven touching the earth. The letter alone kills, but the spirit brings like we need the presence and power of God. Moses says, look, if your glory, the manifest presence of who you are does not go with us. I'm good. I'm checking out right now because he realized we're helpless. Peter says, you are the ones with the eternal words of life. Jesus, if you don't go with us, I mean, we have nowhere else to go. And it, how many of you know, this is the only thing that sets us apart in the earth is our God is alive and the manifest presence of the kingdom lives in and through us. We're totally a peculiar people. Every, every other religion can't say that, you know, many of you weren't here, um, this morning to hear this, but I was in planet fitness right across. I had no idea. It was right across the street from the church. And, uh, I totally forgot. I just forgot to wear the mask, man. I don't like wearing those when I'm working out. I don't like wearing them anytime, but I don't mind if you do. I think they're great. They got some cool designs. I don't care, but when I'm doing cardio, bro, I'm not trying to, you know, stay and breathe. And so this, this older man comes up to me and precious man. He said, bro, love the camo in the back. I like that, bro. What's your name? I don't mean to put you on the spot. What's your name? Saga Simon. Ah, nice man. I love that camo though. That's sure you're from the area. He said, yeah. Why are you asking? No, that's awesome. I'd love to pray for you later if we can. So I'm in the gym in this, uh, this, uh, older man's like, Hey, mask, and you got to wear your mask. He was in fear. And I get it, man. I don't, they explain their story later, but also there's something we have of the kingdom of God within us, this real and alive and dot the most dominant power and source in the globe called the kingdom of heaven, the power of the Holy spirit, Jesus Christ. And we need to figure that out pretty quickly. You guys realizing that? And, uh, I'm just convinced by this thing more and more. I read this and I see the noise and statistics and things, and they don't line up and I'm okay with them. I hear them, but they roll off like water on a duck's back. And I read this, listen, man, listen to me, Simon. And these young men and Paul powerhouse of the gospel that wrote two thirds of this new Testament in here, the Bible says in the book of acts, um, you're just going to see authentic people that aren't into just high-fiving, you know, church and God on the way to work, but this are falling madly in love with Jesus, walking authentic power through signs, wonders, and miracles in love and humility and character and consideration. So Paul, they ship wreck this happened in the Bible. They were about to, uh, wreck, um, oh, in a storm and an angel came to him in the night. So he predicted, he says, look, we're going to lose the ship boys. Angel came to him. He's like, grab your floaties. We're going for a swim, but none of us will lose our lives to sure enough. It happened just as he prophesied because an angel came to him in the night. How many know angels are real? Yeah. Um, oh yeah. Uh, cause when I grabbed my books, if you don't mind, uh, they were somewhere. Sorry about that. I'll hand those out quick if you want more teachings. Thanks buddy. And, uh, man, I want to give all of these to my boy, Simon, if that's cool, man. Uh, but, uh, now some quick, so angels, um, mentioned over 270 times in scripture, Hebrews one 14 says, aren't angels ministering spirits. Sent to assist those who are to inherit salvation. Uh, Jesus Christ, flawless lamb of God only recorded it. He even needed angels to assist him twice in his earthly ministry. It says, um, all throughout scripture, Peter in acts 12 was freed from jail by an angel. Listen, Peter got locked up in jail. It says an angel came into the jail and a light shown. If you read closely, we've had this happen in meetings. Sorry if it freaks some of you out, the spirit world is way more real than this one. That realm is forever. What you're seeing here is very temporal. And so lights, we've seen things like this when the angelic realm get heavy, uh, a light shown in the cell. And so the angel just touched Peter. He's bound in chain century guards all around. Angels just touches Peter. He don't even mess with the chains. Heaven doesn't mess with lower realms of bondage. I love that pastor that was like, man, there's these little twines around your ankle as an elephant. If an elephant sneeze, he'd break it. They're so strong and big, you know? And that's how it is often in the spirit. They don't, he didn't even play on that frequency. He's a higher realm. And that's where I want to go here in a second. Maybe we get the worship team back up and just let the spirit move. Um, so he touches Peter and he says, that's all I had to do is touch Peter. This isn't even the Holy spirit. Isn't an angel. They're kind of the UPS men of heaven. They're messengers. You understand what they come from the glory of God touch. Peter in the change just fell off of him instantly. This happened in your and I Bible. Then he says, come on, we're going. Peter thought he was in a vision, but this really happened. They're leaving. It says, if you read close, it says they walked by the century guard standing, meaning they were awake. The guards that were there to, to, to keep Peter in jail, meaning they were blinded. They probably went blind or just, they went invisible, walked up to the gate to leave the city. The gate opens on its own. It's like, Ooh, get a little bit, you know, mystical here, but this is the Bible. Um, Paul, like I mentioned, uh, the book of revelation was, was written from an angel sent by Jesus to John. If you read closely. So anyway, um, if you want to kind of tap more into that, godly character is big. How many of you know, we need character. If the gifts of the spirit are in operation, which I love that, uh, uh, Josh is going there, man, that's what I'm really where I'm really going with this session. We've got to, like you said, the secret place has to come out public and touch this earth and it's done through the gifts. And I love how he's going to demystify that, uh, practically, but how powerful it can be. But if the character of the spirit is not matching up with the gifts, something's, you know, really not right. And we've got to walk in the character of God, purity, uh, integrity, faithfulness, loyalty, humility, honor, and things like this. So that's a big one. Um, God of wonders. How many of you know, God speaks through signs and wonders supernatural. We're going to believe for that here in a second. Amen. And, uh, divine encounter. That's also what I just really want to pray for here in a second, divine encounter. So Simon, man, you mind grabbing these quicker. Uh, you want me to come to you? I'll come to you, buddy. It don't matter. How old are you, man? 17. No wonders. My son's 17. Good to meet you, buddy. Love that. I hope those bless you. I feel drawn to my man, Simon back there. So look, I'm just going to talk to you for a second, build faith. And, um, I want to encourage you guys though, that Jesus is alive and well, and, uh, he's wanting to touch people and I believe, oh yeah. So planet fitness, I'll tell you that story quick. All these periods keep me on track. So he was awesome. And, uh, and, and he was saying that about the mass, but I'm like, man, I'm good. Cause I I'm used to the planet fitness boss. And I've traveled all over the nation to lately that you just have to wear them to get in the door and then you're fine. So I was like, nah, I think we're good. So he went right. Tattletailed on the, on the head lady working on me. And, uh, and I was like, man, somebody's going to get the gospel. Now they just went too far. Somebody's got it in love. Okay. In love. We're not trying to come back. We're trying to win people. And, uh, so she comes up and I'm like, I'm like, yeah, you don't cross that line. Uh, cause I don't mind. We'll do what we can, but if you're coming in port thing, I don't think she wanted to, but he, you know, she had to comply, but she was a sweetheart. So first I told her, I said, yeah, so sorry about that. We're from Georgia travel all over and it's different. She goes, yeah, state orders here though, or that we have to, and sorry about that. No worries. I said, let me ask you something though. Are you a believer? Uh, in, in what would, you know, what we would say Jesus Christ or the Bible? And she was like, right there, right at that plant fitness. Um, not, not, you know, I don't know. You could tell she was on the fence about it. Hair dyed jet black, sweetheart. I said, okay, let me tell you real quick. Uh, you know where I come from. Um, you know, but sorry about that. I totally understand, but there's God is alive and very, very real. I was lost, uh, hooked on drugs at the age of 20 addict, um, alcohol. One of the funniest stories I love to tell is when I first got born again at 20, um, we then begin to go evangelize and I was bro. All I knew was like John three 16 and I'm like, let's go win the world. You know what I'm saying? I don't know anything, no scriptures. And I'm just zealous, not a lot of wisdom. So I somehow coerced the, the, the college group to come with me down into the streets that I just came out of to win people to the Lord. And which I think still the Lord honored. It didn't see a lot of fruit, but you know, we went for it, but it was funny. There was a four way block like buffet for evangelism. One, one street, you'd hop over. It's a drug dealers, kind of the hood. That was my, my area. I love them. You hop another block. It's down by LSU college batteries, Louisiana. You'd have the fraternity boys coming all out with their button up shirts and the, you know, come out of the bars or whatever, hop another block, grunge, punk Mohawks and all this stuff. So whatever you wanted, the evangelism harvest was there. So I made a bad mistake. I pulled up to the circle K before we're about to just get out and minister. And my old middleman that would run into the hood and get drugs for me. Alvin was, he saw my car. He recognized my car. So he pulls up on his bike. I have the like car, my car full of the youth group. And most of them had never been on the streets. They're all church their whole life. Yeah. So I was rolls up and I kid you not. This happens like Brian, what you need, what you need. I'm like, no Alvin, I got born again, man. I'm trying to tell him about Jesus. He was like, oh, you just want some weed. Then I'm not kidding. That literally happened. I'm like, Alvin, no, no, no. You don't understand the youth groups. Like what are we doing? Oh yeah. It was a train wreck. So I'm in planet fitness this morning. I'm telling her, I'm like, look, I was hooked on, on drugs, alcohol, and Jesus. I really like met him. He's alive. He's very, very real. So much. Listen to me that two days ago, I just came from another city. I'm not even from here. We saw a lady's deaf ear pop open by the power of God. A lady. Yeah. Come on, Jesus. Lady could not walk. We didn't share this on the live stream, but she, the doctor had messed up her surgery. And for four months, she was in excruciating pain, had one of those fancy carts. You have to roll. And she couldn't walk on that foot. Totally healed walking up the stairs. We had, um, shoulder instantly healed. And, uh, and the lady's like, wow, you could tell it was sitting in and she's at planet fitness. Like, I didn't, I wasn't trying to get into all this this morning. Yeah. I just wanted you to swipe your swab card and come in. And, uh, but she was sweet. I was like, I got to get the old man. He's the one that ratted me out. You know? I mean, listen, we're going to be again in love, but you want to be filled with heaven. We're the dominant source in the earth. You understand in love, joy, humility, pliability. We don't care. I don't care what the laws are, but I am light in darkness. You guys tracking with me. I feel this presence now light in darkness. You, you can turn on this little slightest little match, little iPhone light in this full pitch black place. And, uh, man, I just feel it over here. I don't know what's going on. And you'll see it. It'll light up the whole section of the placement. And, uh, so I sneak over to the guy, um, on my way out and, uh, yeah, you can feel some shift right there. Yeah. Yeah. So I sneak up on him and, uh, Hey, Hey, how you doing? He was like, uh, he said, man, sorry about that. I, uh, you know, just, you know, just the mask it's amended yet. No worries. I, um, man, I'm getting kind of hammered up here. I don't know if y'all know, but there's some verses in the Bible that, uh, where Paul and Ephesians five, he says, he says, don't be drunk on wine, but be filled with the Holy spirit. He knew this correlation of what, what, uh, often is referred to as the new wine of heaven. Psalm 1611. There we go. Yeah. Psalm 1611. Read it when you get a chance, but it says in the presence of God, this is good, man. Uh, in the presence of God, uh, at his right hand, which the Bible says, Jesus ascended to meaning where Jesus is. Jesus ascended to the right hand of God. And there's the fullness of joy. So if you ever thought something brought you some sort of joy here in this, in the, by natural means the fullness of that joy ever in its fullest capacity is right there in his presence and pleasures forevermore in the presence of God. Listen, Acts chapter two, Peter, the most profound window ever Joel twos prophecies being fulfilled sound of a rushing mighty wind tongues of fire. And Peter had to make a disclaimer and say, they're not drunk as you suppose it's it's in there. It's in there. He says, this is that, which Joel talked about. So you'll see that sometimes there's this fresh joy poured out by heaven upon people. That's really liberating and it can be intoxicating. And so, um, if you begin to feel the Holy spirit touch you, I would just encourage you to receive and let them touch you. Uh, so I'm talking to him and he, uh, super kind, super kind, but I said, man, same thing. You know, he, he, he crossed the line and his wife came up and began to tell me how she, uh, I'm so sorry. We, uh, okay. Yeah. And I'll end it here. I just feel the Holy spirit. I want to make room for him to come and touch us. Listen, man, when the Holy spirit comes on you, the Bible literally says wherever the Holy spirit is, there's complete Liberty. Instantly. He doesn't do progression. It says suddenly the sound of a rushing mighty. When he doesn't do slow introductions, I'm telling you, he comes in and he comes in quick and fast. I don't know what's going on over here. So anyway, um, I, I, uh, anyway, I preached the gospel to him and his wife. I'm not going to keep going there. It was awesome. And, uh, and yeah, she received, he thought I was like a nut and I don't really care what he thought because we need to be light in the earth and let Jesus be glorified, whether, whether you like it or not. So, um, but when I encourage you guys, we've seen just countless miracles, barren wounds, deaf ears. I don't care what your problem is, lower backs, shoulders, that heaven wants to move and touch you this morning. But also I believe a fresh infilling of the Holy spirit that will take you into a transition. I spoke of this door last session that the Lord's trying to take us through into a new chapter of life. Um, a new page being turned into destiny. And often the anointing is what does that of the presence of God through intimacy, of course, but also in these corporate type settings, we were just in, um, Maine and, uh, uh, military guy. Are you from the military then or going into the military? Okay. It's just straight swag. Okay. I got you. Um, he couldn't sleep, had voices. It was PTS to whatever from, from war, uh, PSD, whatever you call it. What is it? PTSD. Yeah. Had his dog with him to comfort him the whole bit dogs in the meeting, beautiful Husky. And, but he was being tormented with voices. Couldn't sleep at night. Me and the pastor go to lay hands on him. That is beautiful. Pastor says, listen to me. He spilled his whole story of all this torment this years. And so the pastor said, listen to me, the anointing breaks the yoke, no profound prayer at all. And all we did lay hands, bam, instantly he set free. He's been sleeping like a baby voices left. Listen, the Holy spirit can liberate things. Those barbs that have been hooked into your soul from whatever people spoke, wherever the news and the fears sweeping through the earth, which I get it. Uh, it has substance, but it doesn't match up with the substance of the presence of the Holy spirit. Uh, also what will happen is dreams will start to come in the night from God. He'll speak to you really awaken your nightlife by dreams from God. The Holy spirit will speak. I remember one couple, we laid hands on the wife, went into prophetic dreams for 90 days, straight three months straight nightly bang, bang, bang, bang. Um, God was really trying to come on and move through his people in profound ways, visions. You'll be in prayer. And, uh, it just, the, the life of loving Jesus and walking, walking out what he calls you to do just comes alive. It turns like a flat book into a pop-up book. This book turns into a pop-up book because the Holy spirit penned it. It's it's God breathe. You begin to read it. Like I never saw that before. You become addicted to his presence and voice. And so, um, I want to invite you to stand maybe with the worship team could come please. And, uh, we'd love to just minister at the river of life for flow through this place. Some of you will be filled with joy. Listen to me. Just all you do is receive too. That's what's amazing. Um, uh, the easiest thing to do is on your end, you don't need to work anything up, do anything. Um, sometimes there's manifestations, sometimes there's, there's not, it's not about that. It's about Jesus, but literally how you receive is you imagine yourself as a sponge. And once you just set in the water, you sit there, the sponge takes it in. You don't need to work it. You just focus on Jesus. And, and, uh, we're going to pray for a fresh, just residue of glory hit this house. God, thank you. Many of you that have been fighting, um, depression, it'll be obliterated. Awesome. And yeah, just don't forget to want to pray for Simon, man. Um, there is no depression in heaven. It's not there. The fullness of joy. I just told you Psalm 16, his presence will come and totally liberate you healing in bodies. Also, whoever it was with the sun and the legal trouble, please, please come get me. But yeah, just begin to focus on Jesus. We're going to let the Holy spirit come now.
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Brian Guerin (birth year unknown–present). Brian Guerin is an American pastor, author, and founder of Bridal Glory International and Ascend Church in Atlanta, Georgia. Raised in a non-religious home, he became a Christian in college after a profound spiritual experience he described as a divine encounter with a falcon, which ignited his pursuit of intimacy with God. Guerin serves as the senior leader of Ascend Church, where his preaching emphasizes a deep relationship with Jesus, the power of God’s presence, and preparing believers for Christ’s return. He founded Ascend Academy, a ministry school, and travels globally, speaking at conferences and on platforms like TBN and GOD-TV, often highlighting signs, wonders, and prophetic insights. His books, including God of Wonders: Experiencing God’s Voice Through Signs, Wonders, and Miracles, To Know Him: Discovering Experiential Intimacy with God, The Altar: Preparing for the Return of Jesus Christ, and Divine Encounter, focus on spiritual growth and encountering God. Known for sermons like “Mary’s at His Feet” and “The Secret Place,” he encourages distraction-free prayer and devotion, drawing from Scriptures like Luke 10:41–42 and Matthew 6:6. Guerin’s ministry seeks to draw the Church into closeness with Christ, which he calls the “highest prize in life.” He said, “Your heart can burn, and you still not know Him.”