Michael Koulianos emphasizes the significance of dedicating time to Jesus, asserting that true healing and transformation come from a deep, intentional relationship with Him. He critiques the modern church's tendency to prioritize convenience over genuine worship and connection with God, urging congregants to approach the Lord with reverence and expectation. Koulianos encourages believers to create an environment where the Holy Spirit can move freely, highlighting the importance of unity and focus during worship. He shares testimonies of miraculous healings and life changes that occur when individuals prioritize God's presence over distractions. Ultimately, he calls for a return to a childlike faith that is open to experiencing the fullness of God's glory.

In life, there are few things more valuable than your time, and one of the first things Jesus will ask for is your time. Time with him is time well spent, and you actually do have to spend it. If you want to purchase gold that is pure and holy, and store oil and wine, it's going to take you time. Unfortunately, what we've done in America is be afraid to ask the church for their time. We've given them TV dinners and created a culture that serves us rather than the Lord. So we build these empires called churches and use the excuse of ministering to people, yet we don't minister to the Lord and allow him to minister to people. So on a night like tonight, I would imagine how many of you have seen one of our services on YouTube? At some point, whether it was a worship moment or... Okay, how many of you have never been in or seen one of our services? Okay, beautiful. Welcome. Welcome. Church, let's let them know we love them, would you? Welcome. Well, the majority of you... It's an honor to have you here. The majority of you know that we've kind of thrown in the towel and what brought you here is a desire for more. We have no desire to be a sanitized environment that doesn't give the Lord time. So that being said, I just want to say off the bat that we're going to go until about 9 o'clock tonight and that's wonderful. We make no apologies. What I am going to ask is that when we receive communion or at any moment tonight, number one, that you treat the Lord's presence as it truly is. It is holy. I just met a lady in the lobby during worship. I had to step out for a moment. I met a lady in the lobby who said, we came all the way in from Houston. My husband needs a miracle. So when you're desperate, you don't mind staying and waiting for Jesus to give the best wine. Many people do not receive from the Lord because of the way they approach the Lord. They receive a limited measure of His voice because of the way they approach Him. You come casually, you will not be entrusted with the depths of His glory. And so Jesus talks about this in Mark 4. I've actually taught on that here on a Sunday night where Jesus says this regarding hearing Him. Take heed what you hear for in the measure you use to hear, it will be given to you. In other words, we all hear and come to Him with a different measure. It's not about His measure initially. The measure He gives is in line with the way we approach Him, the way we come to Him. So what I'm going to ask is, unless it's an emergency tonight, that you do not get up and walk out after people get born again. And they will, in Jesus' name. They will. That you do not get up and walk out right after we receive communion. I'm going to humbly ask you tonight to be a child in the presence of God and learn how to be in His glory so that He can be who He wants tonight in our lives. He has great plans. I said He has great plans. So, we're getting better. We're much better than we were a few months ago. But typically on a communion night, people start leaving. And I'm not… This isn't a spanking. It's a request. And I just want to let you into the process of why that becomes an issue. Because the Bible says, As a man thinketh in his heart, so he is. And so, our thoughts, our thoughts are more powerful than you think. And if an entire room begins thinking about Jesus, amazing things happen. Now, I'm not saying if you have to get home to your kids and the babysitter is leaving, you can't get up and go. I'm just going to ask you to choose the right moment. I'm not saying if you feel like your bladder is going to explode that you can't go to the bathroom. What I am saying is, don't treat His glory casually and just get up and roll when you feel like it. I've said this a million times. This is not a Christian concert. This is the house of the Living God. And part of being a church family is learning to die to self so that other people get a breakthrough. That's part of preferring one above the other. People say, well, Jesus had crying kids. Jesus did… Yeah, of course He did, but He also had incredible order. This is not an outdoor crusade. This is the house of the Lord. And if you watch Jesus, for instance, multiply bread and fish, what was the first thing He did? He broke them up into fifties and hundreds. Why? To establish order. And what I've learned in environments like this is either you're going to either yield to God's order or the devil will institute his. He will. He'll sneak in and distraction is one of His greatest weapons. So I want us to be like children of the wind, as I said a few weeks ago, who can feel and know what the Lord is doing in the room. The prophet Ezekiel, speaking of the presence of God, talked about this river that flows from the throne and the closer it gets to the Dead Sea, everything it touches comes to life. Now that river, the person of the Spirit, He has this plan, this agenda. He has a plan for every one of you individually tonight, every one of you. But He also has this corporate plan for the night. And I can't tell you growing up and even in the last decade how many people I've seen become radically transformed or healed because they forgot about themselves for a moment. I don't know why, but the Lord sees our need, but something happens when even our need disappears because we become so aware of Him. So aware of Him. And the reason you came tonight is because many of you, I should say many of you came and said, You know what? If I could just get in a room where the Holy Spirit was in control, I would be like a kid in a candy store. How many of you are... Well, don't do show of hands. But how many of you have been in church over the years? Maybe you're in one now, where you've been praying, Lord, move. I'm tired of the system and the intense schedule. I just want you to be king of the moment. Do you know what I mean? Well, here you are. And so now I bet Jesus is going like this, going, here's your shot. So let's be children of the presence tonight, children of the Spirit and allow the Lord to move. Amazing. Oh, my Lord, help me. Anyways, are you ready for a good night? Are you ready for a good night? If you're wondering what I just did, it was the cross I used to do in church as a little boy. Sometimes it was a cross of desperation. You know, you say things and people literally can't hear it in the moment, so you short circuit inside and do your cross. That's all you know to do. Dion, where are you, buddy? Come up here. Let Dion know you love him. Do you have some people sharing testimonies? Yeah. We've had our students out on outreach and God is moving. Call them up here. I'd like to hear a few of these amazing testimonies. All right. You guys have to know how proud I am of this moment. Let him know you love him, guys. Come on. For all the years past, it's always been the women going after getting the healings, getting the testimonies. Women were the first evangelists. I was like, yes. All right. All right, guys. Way to go. You made the lineup. Tell them your name and your year and then you can move into this. Yeah, my name is Joel. I'm a second year student at Jesus School. Thursdays are our organized outreach day, but as many of you know, we live a life of outreach. On this past Thursday at school, we had a group of about 15 of us out at Lake Eola in Orlando. Many of us combined, we saw lots of people saved. We saw lots of people healed. We saw people set free of real bondages. But then that evening, me and two other guys had gone to dinner and the waitress came to us and she shared. She said, I want to show you guys something. I want to show you. She said, I have a clothing brand and she showed us these clothes that she had made. And, you know, her eyes lit up. She really came alive and we said, man, you know, God sees you as his creation the same way that you're showing us these things. And she said, you know, for so long I've been depressed and I've had anxiety and I'm just afraid of so many things. She said, I've been in and out of jail for years and we said, you can be free right now. Right now you can be free of those things because all three of us sitting at that table had all got set free of all of that. Wow. We preached a clear gospel to her. She gave her life to Jesus right there and got filled with the Holy Spirit right there in the restaurant. She got filled with the Holy Spirit? Right there, yeah. She got filled with the Spirit right out there at Lake Eola. Wow. Amazing. Hey guys, I'm Clinton, second year student. So this happened actually over fall break we had and I was at work. It was a Thursday. Long story short, I'm about to finish up and this kid comes over and he asks me this question and I can't repeat it but I told him. I was like, no man, I don't do that. I'm a Christian. I just love Jesus. And he looks at me and he's like, are you serious? I'm like, yeah. He's like, really? I'm like, yeah. And then he goes, oh, that's cool and he walks away. And then he comes back. He's like, I have a question for you. I was like, go for it. And then that opened the door for me to preach the gospel to him and every question he had, it was very difficult but scripture just started popping up and just answering that question. For you? For you. I was at work. I work at Publix, yeah. So just like on aisle 13, like in the deodorant section, I'm preaching the gospel. And I'm just going in. I mean, the door's open. I don't care. This has to happen right there. So he asks me another question and then the walls start to come down and he starts confessing things that he's never told his parents. And to me, I'm just like, what an honor. I don't even know what to say at this moment. And the Holy Spirit actually told me, don't say anything, just listen. Because no one's listened to him for a long time. And he just pours his heart out and I asked him if I could pray for him. So I prayed for him after work. I got to pray for him and I just felt the presence of the Lord so strong. And in that moment, I was like, I feel this loving invitation from the Father to rededicate your life to Jesus. Because he was a Christian but he was hurt by religion, hurt by his parents and everything. So I start to lead him in prayer. Well, before that, he's like, yeah, sure. I was like, no, like, listen. Jesus said to deny yourself, pick up your cross and follow me. And I was like, I know that sounds intense, but it's you turning from the world, from everything, giving your life to Jesus. He was like, are you willing to do that? He's like, yes. Like he was like right there. And I start leading him in this prayer. And then the Lord said he needs to forgive people. And I was like, do you need to forgive anyone? I feel like the Lord's telling me. He's like, yeah. And he starts forgiving his parents. He's forgiving the mother of his child. And then he starts naming all these people out loud. And then he's like, I forgive myself. And you just felt like, and so gave his life to Jesus and he got filled with the Holy Spirit. And after that, I just gave him a hug and I was like, I love you, man. And he didn't know how to receive that at first. And then we got to talk more. And towards the end, he gave me a hug. He's like, can I hug you? And his whole face changed. Like he was like in this dark and when the light shined and everything was changed. So my name's Eric. I'm a first year student. I'm from New Hampshire, New Hampshire. My wife and I are here together. And so we went out on outreach on Thursday afternoon and we went over to Winter Garden. We're just asking the Lord, you know, to point somebody out to us. And we felt we wanted to go in and bless the police department. So we went to the local coffee shop, picked up a gift card, went in and delivered it to the lady at the, behind the glass there. Just started a conversation with her and turns out she's a believer. So we just said, hey, is there anything that we can pray for you for? She just says, give me a moment. She comes out from behind the glass, comes over and takes us over into the corner in the atrium area. And she's like, I just had open heart surgery several weeks ago. This is the first time I've been back to work in weeks. And so we just wanted to bless her and pray for her. And she said she'd been having pain in her chest, obviously just the healing and stuff like that. And after we prayed for her, she had no pain. So we went back the next day just because we were in the area. So we went in to check in on her and she had not been sleeping through the night. She'd wake up multiple times in pain just from the surgery. And she said that was the first night that she slept through the night with no pain. So did you go back specifically to check on her? We were just in the area. But we figured we wanted to go check on her. God, that's beautiful. It's not hard to love people, is it?