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Our Unshakable Bridegroom
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 importance of knowing Jesus as our unshakable Bridegroom, encouraging the congregation to deepen their relationship with Him amidst life's pressures. He shares personal experiences of miraculous healings and the necessity of being filled with the Holy Spirit, urging believers to raise their expectancy for divine encounters. Guerin highlights the parable of the ten bridesmaids, illustrating that true intimacy with Christ is essential, especially in challenging times. He calls for a return to first love, where knowing Jesus becomes the priority above all else, and invites those seeking a deeper connection to step forward for prayer.
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Come on, give it up for Pastor Randy. It pretty much goes the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit, then Pastor Randy. That's kind of how it works. Man, I feel God out here. I don't know about you guys. I was getting hammered in worship, so I don't know how far we will get, but I don't know what it is, man. I was getting smashed, which is a good thing for some of you newcomers. But first, I want to just really honor the Dwelling Place Church and the whole team. If we can give it up for Pastor Randy, Pastor Lucy, Jeff, Elizabeth, yeah, the whole crew. One of my favorite houses to ever join and do anything with, you know, in the globe, so it's such an honor to be here. All right, so let's just jump in, shall we? Um, you guys can hear me in the back, huh? I feel like we need to do like a big glory wave or something, man. It feels awesome out here. That would be great. Oh, y'all want to? Oh, okay, man. Somebody get some iPhones out. This will be epic. Let's start on the drunk section. On the left, ready? I'm going to count. We're going to go this way. This is going to be epic. You may want to get your iPhones out. Okay, you want to wait? Get your iPhones out. Heaven may smash this thing. We don't know. Pastor Randy said I could have fun, so. Do you know what a wave is? You get out of your seats and you got to really go for it. So we're going to go left, and when I say one, two, three, I'm going to say glory, and then we're going to go this way. All right, everybody ready? Videoing. Drunken section over here. We're going to go left, all the way to the back, left to the right. One, two, three, glory. That was completely epic. Oh, my goodness, man. I got what I came for, man. I had the best view. I saw the whole thing. Oh, my goodness, man. That's awesome. Well, let me get situated. Sweet Jesus. Okay, I'm going to just jump straight in with you all. I wish I could get closer, but we got to be mindful of everybody online, and this is just an incredible setup, and we'll just let the Holy Spirit move here in a second. Is that okay? Just see what he wants to do, and I'm really excited. Listen, I sensed in worship that, and I honestly, I was trying to think back when I sensed this real, that for the miraculous, I've sensed the miraculous, like a real supernatural breakthrough thing. I don't know. I can't really put my words on it, but just want to raise your expectancy tonight. I love that Pastor Randy said, you know, why not the first night? We just let the Holy Ghost hit this joint, shall we? But I really, faith felt really, really high. I was getting smashed in the presence, which means filled with the Holy Spirit for the technical, you know, but really experiencing the presence of God, and I'm telling you, I could feel faith for the impossible, and I saw, you've got to deal with some of this with us prophetic people, but I saw Humpty Dumpty. I know that's a funny kid rhyme or whatever, but I've seen this before, and I forget the lyrics, but when I see this, listen, this, I love this. I love Jesus because there's something, all I recall that I remember when I see this prophetically is in the lyrics is something to do with Humpty Dumpty fell, broke to pieces, you know. This is the important part, though. It says something about the kings, the horses, whatever. He could not put him back together again. Do you remember that? But when I see that, I know it's the Lord wanting to, because God can put anything back together, but there's somebody really in a dire situation. You feel like everything broke to pieces, and it can't be put back together, and I feel by the spirit of God, he's going to sweep through here as well and really set some people up in a miraculous way. He puts Humpty, he loves Humpty Dumpty's, man. He's like, bring them to me. Wherever the spirit is, there's liberty, and he fixes the most impossible situations. I'm telling you, healing in bodies. I just want to raise your expectancy right out of the gate. We're going to pray and just let God be God, shall we? I mean, you know, whenever we're outside, there's planes flying over. This is just the most epic situation anyway, and I think I heard Pastor Jeff say he saw a shooting star. Did he? Is Pastor Jeff around here? Oh, Pastor Chris. Okay, I was in there. I couldn't tell. So, we'll just let the Holy Spirit move and want to raise your expectancy, honestly, financially. I really don't care what it is. Healing in your bodies. How many of you need healings? Raise your hands. Miracles, full out, awesome. Not that you need a healing, but awesome because Jesus wants to touch you, and whatever it is. Could be family, you know, situations. I want to talk to you briefly out of something I feel is just really on the Lord's heart as of late, and then we'll close it and let the Holy Spirit move. However that looks, maybe the worship team could come back up, but I want to raise your faith. Listen, we've been kind of all over the place lately, and I'm seeing a hungry people right now, and how many of you know if you're coming on a Friday night where it's chilly out in a concrete parking lot, you're hungry? Yeah, so you could be doing, you know, whatever else, and God sees that. It says his eyes run to and fro throughout the earth looking for hearts fully after him, and I've been seeing this company like you all as we travel all over, and heaven's meeting people in powerful ways. Deaf ears. We've been seeing miracles, man, healings in bodies. So, I don't care what your problem is. Heaven wants to really touch you tonight. I'm believing for fresh baptism of the Holy Spirit. How many of you want a fresh baptism of the Holy Spirit? Some of you may become intoxicated. That's a beautiful thing. Psalm 16 says, in the presence of God, actually at his right hand is the fullness of joy. How many of you need joy? Yeah, there is no depression in heaven. It's not there, so that that world doesn't even know what it is. That was another thing, too. Real quick, a dream I had actually earlier today. Took a quick power nap and had a beautiful dream where, amen, power naps. Jesus loves those. He takes them on the boat, and while people are freaking out about storms, how many of you are sometimes gonna just take a nap in the glory and let the world do whatever it's gonna do? Man, I really am excited. Like, I get it. I'm not a caveman. I know what's going on in the world, but like there's something about his voice, his presence, his kingdom that's so unshakable. It's like I'm not trying to not care, but I almost don't because he's everything. I love that, you know, Pastor Randy, just that we see Jesus glorified. I want to encourage you in this hour, and I'm going to touch on it more, that we grip a hold of Jesus like never before. He's unshakable. The storms that, when you look at the storms, that's when you begin to sink, but those that gaze upon Jesus, they walk on water. So anyway, we were in, man, city after city. We've been just seeing healing, deaf ears pop open, deafness in the ears, legs shorter than the other, growing back. One lady, we were just in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and she, a doctor messed up her surgery on her foot. She was in excruciating pain for like four months straight. Had one of those fancy wheels and carts you walk around on. Power of God hit her in the back. Bam. She was totally healed. Coming up on the stage, walking around, weeping, crying. She was like, this is impossible. Another lady, just healings and miracles. I want to encourage you guys that when we pray here in a second, wherever you're at, it could be the last lawn chair at the back. It doesn't matter. The Bible says, while Peter yet spoke, the Holy Spirit fell on the people. So I want to raise your expectancy. How many of you want the Holy Spirit to fall on you? Yeah, me too. So we're going to believe for him to touch you powerfully, sweep through this beautiful parking lot and you online, of course. But listen, I want to read a few verses to you. Talk to you from my heart briefly. Won't keep you long. And then we'll just see how the Lord would move. Listen to this. You don't have to turn there, but Philippians chapter three, I want to talk to you briefly about knowing Jesus. Listen, man, in this hour that I just touched on, gripping ahold of Jesus right now is so vital and nothing else. There's plenty of other secondaries, husbands, wives, things like this, but I mean, first and foremost, the priority and loving Jesus and making him the most climatic, paramount thing you fix your eyes on every day is Jesus in this hour. Some of you may be here and not be born again, meaning you don't really know Jesus at the end of this. If come grab any of us, come grab me. We'll lead you to Jesus Christ. And to me, I was addicted to drugs, alcohol, 20 years felonies. I know none of you would think so. I just seem so perfect. I'm teasing, but I was really out there and, uh, got born again at the age of 20. It was on all the heaviest stuff you could think of. And I said, oh my goodness, where has this Jesus been my whole life? I was, it was the treasure chest. He's everything. I'm going to weep in his presence and just sing songs over and over. I found life, the one who I was looking for. And, uh, I'll never forget. There's a funny story I like to tell. I was, uh, born again, a believer, like maybe two weeks. I mean, I knew John three 16 barely. And that was it. And I'm like, um, man, we got to tell other people about Jesus, which we still do today. I was just not a lot of wisdom there. And so I got the college group that I got born again in. And we all went to this rough area where I knew drug dealers and stuff like this. And, and I, uh, I thought it would be fine, but they had never been, they were raised in church their whole life. Just wasn't a lot of wisdom here. I looked back later and I was like that. I don't know if I heard God on that one, but, but we pile in my car. This is going to be great. You know, we'll tell them about Jesus, right? When we pulled up, we didn't get to witness to anybody who pulled up to the circle K parking lot, Alvin. He was my middle man. He would get the drugs. He sees my car. He's like, Brian, what you need? What she rolls up on my car. I just got born again. He's like, Brian, what you need? You got a car full of Christians their whole lives. I'm like, no Lord, this is not how it's supposed to go. We were going to sling mats, fish. It was going to be Epic, but Alvin, he doesn't know any different. So I was like, Brian, what you need? I'm like, Alvin, I kid you not. This happened. I'm like, Alvin, I got born again, man. I met, I met Jesus. He said, oh, you just want some weed then. I'm not kidding. All these church Christians in my car are like, what are we doing? Get me out of here. Horrible experience. Welcome to evangelism, Brian. But anyway, I want to talk to you briefly about knowing Jesus. Listen in this hour, do you realize we have the most unshakable bridegroom King that there'll ever be in any season? Listen, I love seasons of peace, but seasons of war, they start to just blur together when you're so in love with him. They really don't matter. I'm telling you, he's everything. And I really want that to hopefully hit home tonight that we'd fall so madly in love with Jesus again, that first love pastor Randy talked about. And so listen, lately I've been on this thing like man to know him. Sounds simple in elementary, but everything I'm finding out goes through this door. You want all of your life going through this door right here to know him. Then, then all the other doors will happen. Like I said, your kingdom first, then things will be added. But watch this. Paul writes in Philippians chapter three, verses eight through 11. Listen to this. Yes. Everything else is worthless when compared with the infinite value of knowing Christ Jesus, my Lord, this is the apostle Paul. Okay. Somebody ticked him off one day. He cursed them blind on the spot there. I mean, this guy walked in crazy anointing gifts, handkerchiefs would touch him. Acts 19 says God did extraordinary miracles by the hands of Paul. Handkerchiefs would touch people. Demons would fly out, went to heaven, all this stuff. He counts literally everything. He just throws it all in the trash. If I can know him, are you guys hearing this? Listen in this hour, men may we recalibrate back to Jesus, back to stepping through the door of Jesus that I may really know you. And I'm not talking to Christian cliche. We've all been there. We get it. But I mean, really, really do you, when you go home, shut the door, you're not preaching or being polished or whatever gift you think, you know, that people see you in, but you look him in the eyes. Do you know him deeply, intimately? Is his voice clear to you? Do you weep when he looks your way? You know what I'm saying? That may our heart just burn again with him. So he's literally calling everything trash. It's worthless to me that I may know him for his sake. I had discarded everything else, counted it all as garbage so that I could gain Christ. Here he goes again and become one with him. This is the apostle Paul. He wrote two thirds of this new covenant. You and I adhere our life to, and I'm, I'm finding it out more and more. I've known it over the years. It's just getting more vibrant, more clear, more real. And man, listen to me, this is it in this hour. This is what I'm telling you. It's the Lord is, is blasting this from, from heaven down into the earth. He's calling his people back into knowing him very, very deeply in real cutting off the fat of life, the busyness, whatever it may be, the Martha, this, and look, we're very busy, you know, work while the day is at hand. I know that, but I'm just meaning the highest prize of what we pursue to know him. Watch this. He says, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ. I'm just going to read some word over you. Is that okay? I love the Bible. How many of you know, we got to get back into being infatuated with this book. This thing is supernatural. This is a gateway into Jesus Christ. I'm telling you, man, listen, Ephesians five says out of this flows the water of the word of the word that washes you and makes you clean. How does a young man stay pure? Psalm 119, by the word it hit, listen, devour this thing. But some of us need to blow the dust off and just dive into the same, like the deep end of a pool. I mean, really go on and get your floaties, but just deep into the Bible, devour it, fall madly in love with Jesus. So anyway, not having a righteousness of my own, just be washed in the water of the word. Let faith come, let his spirit touch you. Of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith. Again, three times in one passage, he says that I may know him and the power of his resurrection that I may share in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, that by any means possible, I may attain the resurrection from the dead. You hear Paul hitting all of these things that I may share in his sufferings, know him and the power of his resurrection, attain the resurrection from the dead, have his righteousness, not my own. But as you can see, it all goes back through this doorway of knowing him. Are you guys tracking with me out there? Like in a deep, deep way, knowing Jesus. Another one, second Peter chapter one verses three through four, Peter writes, by his divine power, God has given us everything we need for our living a godly life. We have received all of this by coming to know him. There it is again that you see him always go back to this doorway. Everything's through this doorway of knowing him intimately. The one who called us to himself by means of his marvelous glory and excellence. And because of his glory and excellence, he has given us great and precious promises. These are the promises that enable you to share his divine nature and escape the world's corruption. Again, Peter hits all these main his precious promises, avoid the world's corruption, but it's all back through this doorway of knowing him. I want to get off this for a little bit. There's another in Ephesians, plenty of verses, but I just want to talk to you from the heart for a second. Um, but real quick before I forget that Jeremiah one 11 thing is what I was seeing though for tonight. It's, it's the abrupt breaking in of heaven on promises. Okay. For the supernatural, I want to, we're going to go there in a second, just that breakthrough. I could feel it like high, high faith. So whatever that is to you, but listen, you see in Matthew 25, Jesus, I touched on this. I've been hitting this for a while now and I see more and more why I could just feel it. This parable of the bridesmaids, but you see it again in Matthew seven, Jesus calls everybody back. His assessment on us at the end of end of this whole thing is that we know him or not. Listen, Jesus's assessment on what value you carry just, just talking to you straight is whether you know him or not, what you've not, what you've done, how well you've done it. We do, we are rewarded to what we've done, but knowing him intimately. So you see in Matthew 25, the 10 bridesmaids, you guys have heard me share this before you back up to Matthew 24 and it's the infrastructure for pressured times. Matthew 24 is basically an outline of famine, plagues, wars, rumors of wars, not our favorite chapter, but it's, it's nevertheless in there. Well, if we're honest, this year has been a bit trying, aren't we honest that there's been a quite a bit of pressure like we've not yet seen. And it's something clicked with me. This is the only parable. So Matthew 24, Jesus is laying out the outline of this is how things are going to start to look when the end is near. Basically that's all he's saying. And then this parable of the Matthew 25, like no other, listen, I love them all the prodigal son, the sheep, the goats, the wheat, the tear, whatever. But this one, he, we all know the Bible reads straight, straight through the chapters. You all know that it wasn't like chapter 24 stops. And then Jesus was like launch break. You know what I mean? They go off. Like, so when you're reading your Bible, he was still talking and it's really crazy. If you read, he gives an infrastructure for the end times pressure. Listen, you're here of wars, rumors of wars, plagues, famine, things like this, which by the way, I want to raise your faith and expectancy. We have the blood of Jesus, a higher covenant. Isn't that awesome. Psalm 91 says those that dwell in his presence arrows fly by day. You just, you kind of heard them, but you don't know anything about them. They just fly by you. They're sticking in others. And you're like, sorry, I'll pray for you. But they just, they always miss me. I don't know why. I just know I'm in love with Jesus. Psalm 23, though. I walked through the Valley of the shadow of death. I'm like, I don't even know fear evil. Were you even here? I just see a big table before me, my cups overflowing. This is the Bible. The God we serve is awesome. And I'm telling you, get lost in the doorway of loving him. And you're just, you're different breed. We're a peculiar people. The Bible says not to be naive, look, use your germ X. I love it all, but you know what I'm saying? I'm just saying we have a high covenant of power in the blood of Jesus. So anyway, listen to this. Matthew 24, he goes through, says, this is how it will be in the end. Quite interesting times of pressure. He shifts a gear into Matthew 25, this crazy. And he says at that time, it's the only pair of block and find where he connects a time to it. Listen, some versions say, then it, this, the kingdom will be like this. So let's call this table, Matthew 24, the times of pressure. Jesus describes the whole end time pressures. And he goes, listen to me closely. Now at that time, when you see pressures increase, how many of you know where we're in the last days? Doesn't take a rocket scientist. Okay. I'm not saying Jesus is returning tomorrow, but you can sense it, man. Everywhere I travel, I ask this question, all the hands go up. Listen to me deep or not. Everybody can sense it. Jesus says, look, when you see things start to culminate pressures, increase at that time, the kingdom of heaven will be like this. He goes, listen, then at that time, this is how the kingdom will be. And I'm telling you, this is why he's possessing people with infatuation in a broader way with Jesus Christ. He goes that it's the craziest shift. Listen, if you're sitting there eating popcorn with Jesus, he's talking about pressures and famines and plagues. And he's like, oh yeah, by the way, at that time, kingdom of heaven will be like 10 bridesmaids, 10. I mean, is that the strangest transition ever? Do you, are you guys tracking with me? It's like, where did he just go with the conversation? But there's a real key here. Listen, the Lord is looking for deep, intimate lovers that are fully rooted in him, fully rooted in knowing him and men as well. This is not a feminine masculine thing. It's just deep infatuation hooked into, to loving Jesus. He says at that time, the kingdom of heaven will be like 10 bridesmaids, five foolish, five wise. I won't go through the whole thing again, but listen, as you fast forward through it, it basically says the only ones that were wise in that hour were those that had extra oil, meaning they were devoted to Jesus wholeheartedly. Oil is produced in the secret place. Oil is produced like pastor Randy said, when he's enthroned and we're gazed upon Jesus, when that's all we come for. And if you read further towards the end, it says that the ones that didn't have enough oil in that hour, Jesus came as the bridegroom and he opened a doorway, which is a transition to come in deeper with him. How many of you will go deeper with Jesus right now in this hour? This is what he's calling us into. He's opening a doorway to transition us out of one season into another. And so he opens it and the Bible says those with extra oil right now at that time, this, this is why I feel like a lot of the shutdown happened. Jesus is like, okay, now what are you going to do? I'm telling you, and a lot of people wasted it and that's okay. He still loves you, but he's still like, now what are you going to do? I'm telling you, a lot of people capitalized on it. He's still like, now what are you going to do? I'm listening. I'm infatuated with you. Lock away and be with me. Matthew six, go into your closet, shut the door and be with me. Listen, I was watching a cartoon the other night with my kids. How many of you got to keep it clean? What's in your eye gates? Come on. Don't watch trash. Anyway, it's a different sermon, but we're watching some innocent little cartoon. And so they, they, uh, they had to ground the sun for something. And, and, and she was like the mom and the cartoon is like, you got to go spend time in your room all day. You're grounded. And, and I was like, secret place. I was like, that is glorious. That's the best punishment ever. My mind immediately went there or I will come out shining. I got a light bulb. This is glory time. Listen, that we're gotta have this filter on life, man. You give me free. You're giving me free time right now. Listen, I look at planes like that now, especially COVID hit. They don't let you sit by anybody. So the non-evangelistic side of me is like, praise God, nobody's near me. I'm just being honest with you. I'm like, sweet. I don't have to witness anybody. Jesus. And I just get lost in glory. Listen, man, we've got to have this filter like Jesus. You're everything love your neighbor, but being put possessed by him. So anyway, at the end, and I'll start to land it. Um, he, he welcomes those in with extra oil. Listen to me in this hour, whatever that means to you, you want extra oil right now. Big time. You want to be blowing through these doorways of, of a new phase and chapter with Jesus and oil is the thing that does it. So anyway, he, he shuts the door though. The, the five wise with extra oil come in to the actual wedding feast, the whole thing set in the backdrop of a bridal paradigm. Okay. I'm all about servants and ambassadors of Christ and all this, and we do it all. Listen to me, but you're going to see a shift start as the King starts to return of these, this bridegroom company that are so, so bridal company. They're so infatuated with the bridegroom returning the spirit and the bride say, come, I don't even know the Bible ends with that. Pretty much the spirit and the brothers are going to be this cry rooted in deep intimacy. And he shuts the door. Well, the five foolish with no oil come back and they're trying to get in. And he looks down and he says, listen, I, I, uh, I do not know you. Do you all remember that his assessment, his, his final calculation on the situation towards humanity is going to be, do I know you are not Matthew seven. You know, what's interesting about that one is though, he says, I do not know you meaning I don't currently know you. Meaning because these were bridesmaids. If you read closely virgins, some versions say very pure in pursuit of Jesus Christ, meaning they weren't of this world. They were trying to find Jesus. He still didn't know them very deep, intimately. And that's where you want to go into the fifth year in this hour, deep, listen, crank it up, man, go into the word, cut out whoever you've got to. I mean, voices in the noise, listen, go deep into this, his presence get infatuated with him and, and let, let the chips fall out where they do. You guys know what I'm saying? And so anyway, you go over to Matthew seven and I'll start to close here. I know already said that already, but I'm going to this time. I'm just seeing it where Jesus is like at the end, when this thing's all said and done, he checks you and it's whether you know him or not. Listen to me. It's all right. They're not in a condemning way at all as an exciting love journey that we can walk down almost like this path right here. It's outlined in cones. Can you walk this and see him at the end and really know him intimately? Matthew seven preachers. He says many on that day will come to me and say, Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name? You all remember that cast out devils in your name. They didn't say they were trying to, they were functioning in all prophesy. Listen to prophesy. You need the Holy spirit. They were functioning in full out gifts from God, casting out devils. The devil doesn't cast out devils. Jesus does. This was Holy spirit functioning here. Many mighty exploits. And he looks at him. He said, he assessed them. He says, sorry, I never knew you. Listen, I know it's heavy, but I really, in an exciting way, want to recalibrate our hearts like man, Jesus. Listen to him. I've been seeing it in a fresh new way. Like I just want to know him really, really intimately. Not so I can woo crowds. Not so I can know a new verse in a polished way and preach it. So it just, Ooh, wow. You know what I mean? No, we really got to know Jesus right now, man. I'm telling you. And he's wooing us like, like I've not yet seen, you know, it is beautiful. It's so addictive. He, his gaze is, is deeper now. Listen, stuff counts more now in a relational way. That's why he's calling for purity to all of you. Feelings that come up here, bride, come look at me, look at me. And, uh, so, but it's really interesting. Matthew seven, he says, I never knew you. Matthew 25. He says, I do not know you. Meaning there's, there's a walk you can click into by spiritual principles and operating kingdom things and never know the Lord in a deep intimate way. And then Matthew 25, you can know him, but you can fall off and start to lose oil. Are you guys tracking with me? And him say him say, currently, I don't know. I did, but I do not know you now intimately. And I don't know. It's a little heavy. I'm not trying to do that. I'm trying to woo us again, back into complete infatuation with him. Do we know him? Listen, Ephesians one six, Paul, again, may give you, may he give you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him. It's all in knowing him and he goes on and on. I won't waste the time on these verses, but listen, there's this doorway of knowing him that unlocks everything. And it's all for that purpose. So why don't we go ahead? Could the worship team possibly come and we'll pray corporately. You can stand, maybe do some jumping jacks if you're chilly. And I just want to welcome him first and foremost, that he grip our hearts. Eric, what's up, dude? How you been man? And he just possessed us. Did that resonate with some of you guys out there that we may know him deeply. And again, if some of you, you feel like, man, I don't think I know the Lord. You know, you want to get born again tonight, man, come grab any of us, any of us leaders. We'll find a pond around here, baptize you. It'll be great. I used to catch, you know, I lived north of here, north of Houston years ago. I was remembering it earlier when I was in prayer in my hotel room. I caught some bass that were great. And one time I almost beat up a dog. He, he bit me anyway. I was working on a job site. He was demonic. So I had some fun times up here. Awesome. So just begin to look at Jesus. You guys can kind of go wherever you want. Yeah, right out of the gate here, God, thank you for these precious ones and just pray for intimacy above all things. I'm going to pray corporately first and foremost, that we know him online as well. God, I just thank you so much that this doorway of knowing you, we say it's open tonight. All of you, I want you to just step through it. You may want to take a prophetic step forward. If you can, we've got plenty of room. Just step through that doorway, a new stepping through the doorway of knowing him tonight. And with that, just that step forward of faith. I pray right now for a fresh grace to come upon you by the spirit of God, all over this place, like a blanket of intimacy of first love to pull you back into that deep place with him, that the word of God would come alive again. That intimately knowing him would be first and foremost above all things. There's been many of you, a lot of noise and voices and just other frequencies have been really blurring things. And I silenced that right now to fix your gaze back on him. Yeah, just see water walkers, man, because you're getting your eyes back off of the storm and onto him. You're walking on water, water walkers do the supernatural, the impossible intimacy in Jesus name. I pray that you'd brand everyone tonight to do live streaming here, corporately, that there'd be a tangible presence even now upon you, a residue of glory, a residue of him. Did you just find this new addiction come upon you to be with him? This new pull and draw and desire to just hear his voice, sense his glory, his manifest presence. I just want to at least make this opportunity, it keeps kind of coming up and just in case if not, that's okay. But is there somebody here, you would say, I don't really know Jesus quite like you're talking about, or it may not even make a whole lot of sense as you just feel this pull, like I want my life to change. I need this Jesus you're talking about. Or maybe I used to walk with him and I don't have that oil before. Could you be one or two of your several, but, but if you're here, do you mind coming forward? We want to pray with you. Or you could bring them if they're, if they're with you, you could ask them. You may know that just come forward. I want to pray with you. You said, just want to know Jesus. You don't have to be nervous. We're not going to do anything, but come join us up front. There's, I really feel that I heard it several times. Yeah. Beautiful lady. Welcome. Come on, Jesus. Yeah. Praise God. You sure are beautiful, but your life gets rocked. Another one. Yeah. Y'all come forward. Thank you. Yeah. We're going to pray. You're never the same. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. Anybody else want to come? We're going to pray the life be forever transformed. Listen, it was a September 23rd, 1998. I was 20 years old. And I did what you did right there. My life was forever changed. Yep. You can come forward. Thank you, Lord Jesus.
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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.”