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It's Time to Go All In
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 urgency of fully committing to God, urging believers to go 'all in' for the Lord during these challenging times. He shares prophetic insights about the need for spiritual awakening and the importance of intimacy with God, highlighting that many have dropped their callings during the pandemic. Guerin encourages the congregation to seek truth and remain steadfast in their faith, warning against distractions and the noise of the world. He draws parallels between biblical stories and the current state of the church, calling for a return to the foundational truths of the Word of God. Ultimately, he invites everyone to open their hearts to the Holy Spirit and experience His transformative power.
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Wow, praise Jesus. You may be seated. What's up, Peter? How are you, man? How are you guys doing? You're doing all right? Wow, I feel closer than last time. Is that right? Okay, no, it's nice. I guess just my memory was correct or what, but wow, it feels really good in here. That's all I know. It feels a bit saucy already, so yeah, so we'll just see where we end up, and I'm super excited. Yeah, I have not, well, I'll just get going and forget. I just want to honor you guys first. Can we give it up for John and Linda, Pastor John and Linda? Yeah, I just want to thank you guys so much for letting me come back, honor and love you dearly, and you know, it's rare to find a house that's so deeply rooted in the Word of God, but wide open to the Holy Spirit, but walks in purity and character, and you know, they're like all of the above and everything beyond, and it's super refreshing. Just honor and love you guys big time, and thank you so much for the hospitality always. It's just over the top. I got these little butter cups in my gift basket, man. Those are epic. They said like butter, better, butter, and all kind of, yeah. Oh, that's so funny. The last time we had lobster, but so it didn't, the light bulb didn't, yeah, I'm kind of, I'm kind of, I'm kind of remembering those already, but the right when I saw them, I said, man, this is so, I instantly always go to Job 29 6, you know. It's like one of my favorite verses that Job says, oh, as if it were in the days of old when my feet were bathed in butter. So, I was like, how would they know? That's amazing. A little gullible me, and then the light bulb went off. Holy Spirit's like, genius, that's for lobsters, you know, and, but they're sweet little cups, but how many want your feet bathed in butter? They're like, I guess, I guess, I don't know, but what it speaks of is favor, acceleration, ease, and the anointing of God. Job knew it, the blessing of God, and he was through a rough window that I know some of you have been in, and, but he hit that butter lane, man, he started sliding, and he just, he remembered it. So, yeah, so we pray that happens tonight, and I'm kind of already hammered, so it's a night meeting, and we'll just see where it goes, and oh, before I forget too, I want to honor my son Judah. You want to stand? He's a grown man now, yeah. Yeah, he was able to come with me, and my daughter Zoe, that many of you know, she's, she's holding the fort down with this, we have this English bulldog, he's like all fat and just rolls, and so she's holding the fort down with him, and Judah's killing my grocery bill. You guys got to pray for me or something. He hit that 17 mark, and it's like, he's never, never full, so, but no, I'm really excited. I feel the Holy Spirit, just got borderline hammered in the hotel room, and normally what it, you know, how many of you know, typically what you tap into in the secret pours out in public, and I just want to encourage you guys, like Pastor John said, just really receive and let the Holy Spirit touch you, and can we do the whole laying on of hands and stuff, or, okay, I just didn't want to be sure and honor whatever the setting was. I don't see mask or anything, so I didn't know, but to each his own. I don't really care what you do. Holy Ghost will blow right through a mask, man. It'll hit you though. I'm just telling you right now, and I was, we were in the airport this morning, crack of dawn, me and Judah, and I just messed up. I didn't mean to get too close to this older lady. She was really sweet, dressed real nice, but I think I got past the six-foot mark. I just wasn't, I was being careless, and you could tell she was, had her mask and a bit worried, and looked back, and I'm thinking, ma'am, if I breathed on you, you ain't gonna get COVID-19, I'm telling you right now. You're gonna get full of the Holy Ghost. I'm teasing, but you want us near you. I'm trying to let this precious lady know, like you don't, you know, but I'm teasing, but me and Judah were messing around, but no, yeah, this is the first meeting since it all hit, and it's just amazing that I'm even with you all, you know. I just, and I really feel like heaven's gonna hit this place. I want to jump into it with you all, share some things prophetically that we saw, and excited about as well, definitely jump in the Word, and, but I'm excited too, because I feel like heaven's gonna touch people powerfully. You want to raise your expectancy, healing in bodies, you know, complete liberation, freedom, that's what the Holy Ghost does, and you know one thing I've learned about him is where there's a higher level of hunger, he's more explosive. He's super potent when there's hunger, and when I see people gather like this in these times, you know, it shows me that you kind of went past fear, and a lot of the status quo, which I understand fully, and don't blame anybody, but I just know there's a hunger group in here, and it's probably going to get a little dangerous, that's all, in a good way. So, but yeah, I, first off, I heard Corey lied to y'all, man. He lied. He said something about the, it did, or did he just tell the ushers? Did he tell y'all publicly something about like the greater ones coming after him, or something like that? Yeah, no, man. No, man, that guy is, you can't lie in the house of God. No way, man. He was texting me. I was like, bro, don't you tell him that. I'm just kind of the little dessert, man. He's the, he's the steak, for sure, but love and honor him to no end. He's, oh my gosh, you guys already know, but just love Corey, and even though he's not here, I just want to honor him big time. What a legend, a general. We were just together. It's pretty wild. We have an academy coming out, and we're in that thing together, and it's, he was just in town shooting a bunch of content for the curriculum, and boy, it's potent. It's going to get out of hand. He was just rolling through hours, three days straight, and no, he's, he's, he's funny, but that's not the truth at all. So, but anyway, yeah, I actually, it was March. How many of you don't know? I have a clue who I am. Sorry about that. Anybody? Oh, we're good. Yeah, I'm from Louisiana originally. Hey, how are you in the back? What's your name? Carla? Car. Nice. Cara. Oh, that's a beautiful name. So, my name is Brian. I'm from Louisiana. I live in Georgia now. Got born again last month, and I'm teasing with you. Totally teasing. No, but I'm just messing around. Just keep people on their toes. No, but yeah, just love Jesus, and we'll just see where we end up, but love this house, and appreciate you letting me be with you all these next, next couple of days, but I was in, we were on a cruise that we do. A lot of you all know we do this big, big cruise, and we just missed the whole COVID thing, and God was good enough. I was in prayer and saw the, they were probably like the doctor, you know, level of what COVID would look like. I just don't know a lot of that, the virus, but I went into a vision, and I saw them moving, and I saw them freeze and pause, and the Holy Spirit spoke to me. That was during our cruise, and then when our cruise ended, I saw them pick up and move again, and I was like, hey, and sorry, I'm seeing familiar faces, and so at least I was comfortable about this. It's a big event we do on this cruise ship. You think, how can God meet folks on a cruise ship, you know, but it's pretty epic. A bunch of good folks who get together and just really encounter God, so I was comforted to know we'd be fine, although it's like thousands of people in this vessel out at sea. It just wouldn't look like natural wisdom to do something like that, you know, in a pandemic or whatever, but we were good. I didn't know a whole lot about it. I don't really watch the news anyway much. It's okay if you do. I just don't get into it, so I wasn't tracking with it, and we get off the ship, and I found out actually Daniel Kalinda mentioned later. He said, bro, we just got off the ship in time. I don't know if you know, but a lot of people got stuck on ships for like weeks, you know, so we step off like March 12th. That's what it was, and go into the airport. I'm like, what happened? Man, I was just here. Same airport. There's masks and people. You could feel it, you know, the fear in the air. You could cut it with a knife. I was like, what happened, and so praise the Lord, but since then, not traveled since. Isn't that wild? Yeah, and but boy, it's been good, man. How many of you know heaven doesn't give a rip? He does, but he's still rich. The oil of heaven pours out daily. The devil messes up, you know. He'll give you more time with Jesus. I'm like, dude, that's amazing. Now I got more family time, time with the Lord. We're going to get oil right now from Matthew 25, and I'm sensing that in the season. I want to encourage you guys that I feel like so much is happening. Don't get me wrong. I know there's a lot of twisted lies around the whole thing that's happening. I wouldn't encourage you to buy into a whole lot, but nevertheless, Jesus is slapping the middle of all of it, and he's raising up his bride. He's got the spade card in his hand. He always wins, and so I'm excited about that, but I want to share a few prophetic things before I forget, and then we'll just follow the Spirit and see where we end up. A few things I saw, and then at the end, we'll make room for just prayer and ministry to hopefully bless you guys, but I went into a dream. Oh, yeah. It's so funny you mentioned this, Christine, because it's totally what it was. In this dream, I saw somebody had dropped their calling, their assignment in this specific season we've been in. You can call it quarantine, pandemic, whatever. I knew it was this last few-month window, and this is a good thing. This isn't a condemning correction thing. I love that Linda said that. God's so loving, kind, gracious, full of mercy. I was just reading Jonah again the other day, one of my favorite books of all times. In Jonah, you know, I was blown away at the discernment of the lost on the ship. I hadn't seen this in quite some time from this angle. Jumps on the ship. He's running. You know, we all know the story. He's running from God. Well, it says a storm came obviously from God. He's trying to get the prophet of the hour to release his word. Immediately, the other sailors, everybody on the ship connects it to the spirit. They're not even believers. It says they got their other idols, started crying out, figuring out what the storm was connected to. During the storm, they cast lots. They basically spent a bottle, and it lands on Jonah. They're like, you're the one. You know what I'm saying? They're like, who are you? Where are you from? He's like, I'm a Hebrew. I worship with the Lord our God. You know what I mean? They're like, oh, and he said, I'm the problem. Trust me, throw me overboard. And I was blown away at the discernment of those who worship idols. They connected the storm. They knew something spiritually wasn't right. And to me, that's far past sometimes the body of Christ in this current day. I'm not trying to be, you know, I'm just being honest and truthful and even call myself higher. But the discernment we need, the spirit of truth in the hour, the word of God like never before, people of the spirit that aren't swayed by the voices and the hoorah of everything that's going on. We're just razor sharp with the word of God, crystal clear, see through the storefront window by the Holy Spirit and stay on course. And I've been sensing that. So anyway, finally, they were gracious. They tried to spare Jonah. It says they rode harder. They didn't want to throw him overboard. Storm got worse. Then they said, nah, ditch him. We're all going. We're all going down. So they chunk Jonah storm stops immediately. Well, swallows him the whole bit. Well, he finally goes to Nineveh, releases the word of the Lord. Remember, it's a very unique book. John would know it even better. But it's just the details here. But like from a theological stance, but it's just crazy because it says he released the rebuke of the Lord and it says they heeded it. Nineveh so much. So this is the only time I found a scripture where they said, even our animals don't feed our animals. Really strange. He made their cows and cats and English bulldogs fast. I'm like, don't ever try that with my dog, man. He's got judo. Tell you his idol is food. He won't. He didn't understand anything else, but eating it like the whole day. That's like a highlight of the day. I'm teasing, but he loves to eat. So, um, animals fast to says the Lord recognized and relented, pulled back and God in his argument with Jonas, you know, he spares the animals and the people. He highlights the people were spared to because they fasted. Isn't that crazy? It's a very unique connection in the word. But Jonah to God says, see, this is why I didn't want to come. He didn't say he was scared of the place. A lot of us think it was just such a rough place. He didn't want to go. The cost to go there, whatever it was, he says, I knew you were God of mercy, slow to judgment, full of compassion. And I knew as soon as I released that, they really did. You'd pull back your word in that wild Jonah. So new God's heart. And that's how he is. So hear this, that he's, he's just after somebody picking back up their calling, but I've seen this one time before in the meeting, you just mentioned it's so wild, but in this dream, crystal clear during this window, which I totally get it. It's through, through a lot of people off. Somebody got off of their assignment and dropped their calling and their destiny and got skewed a little bit and that's okay. But I'm here to tell you that the grace of God, the Holy spirit, that revelation again, to pick it back up, to pick back up your calling assault in a dream is here this weekend. I want to pray for you guys. The anointing of God is going to come upon you. His, his, uh, compassion and mercy. Um, I was in Arizona and, and we do see some wonders. Sometimes they just get interesting. I don't have anything to do with them. I just love Jesus preached the word and he does interesting things, but this is what Christine was talking about. It was around the same word. It's so funny. You mentioned that because it had to do with people dropping their calls. It was the only other time years ago, I'm actually in a conference with Ryan Lestrange. I don't know if you know him. He's, he's awesome. He preaches over in like a lot of the African American community. He's got the sweat rag and the, yeah, it's awesome. I love it. Love any race, but he's a, he's a white dude, but he's got that soul-ish, you know, so he's a lot in their camp and great guy. So we're preaching a conference in Arizona and the night before in the hotel, my phone rang in the hotel room. It was so real. I thought it, somebody really called. It was alert. Woke up out of sleep, uh, grabbed the phone. It's just busy. Nobody was there. Nobody called. I was like, it was so strange. It really rang. So I picked it up and, and, and nothing happened. And I journaled it. I just forgot that it may be something to do with somebody picking up their calling. I didn't understand. And, uh, but the Holy Spirit showed me it was people later that people needed to pick up their calling. He was calling people and they weren't picking back up their call. They weren't answering the call of God. So we get in the meeting, like Christine mentioned, I'm just ministering, doing what I do and cell phones start going off. First, it was a lady up the aisle and it went off in her purse and she got embarrassed and started, she couldn't get to it in her purse in time. So she starts running up the aisle to leave the meeting and it answered in her purse and the person's leaving a voicemail. Somehow it even answered. It picked up in her purse and like, Hey Tina, how are you girl? You know, or whatever. It's like, you can hear the person talking and the lady's embarrassed and she's like walking out. And we're like, that's strange. As I kept on preaching for, you know, at one of the elders on staff, her phone rings. And then I've been in conferences long enough. The church leaders and staff know in meetings, turn your phone on silence. So then I was like, that's strange. I know she wouldn't have left it on phones. Phones are ringing meeting ends. And those people come up, they didn't even talk to each other. They didn't know. But the one lady, she said, I'm so sorry. My phone was on silent. I don't know what happened. It just rang elder. Then comes up to me a little bit later, two minutes later. I'm so sorry. My phone was on silent. I don't know how it rang. And it was a sign that phones that were ringing. They needed to pick them up. There was callings. And it's just so funny. You mentioned that because, um, it's, it was crystal clear. I saw it in a dream that, uh, somebody's calling or assignment destiny has gotten dropped and it's not a heavy condemning thing at all. It's just God's goodness getting us back on track and we'll pray and get back in alignment. And a lot of times the spirit of wisdom and revelation will hit real strong. And it's like, you can see again, does that make sense? And get back on path. Um, another one, I was on a, uh, the plane this morning, the first flight and, uh, just spending time in prayer and went into a vision where, and don't, you don't need to raise your hand, but there was a female that's been having, uh, suicidal thoughts and want to pray for you. Heaven's going to set you free. It's going to be amazing. I saw, just so you know, I saw they're coming from the dark realm. They seem real. These thoughts that are coming, but they're totally demonic, not from God, from anybody else. They're lies from hell, but they're so real. I saw it was forming a darkness of your eyes to see clearly anymore. You know, it's coming in the ways of suicidal thoughts and the spirit of the Lord's going to set you free instantly. The Bible says wherever the Holy spirit is, there's liberty in that awesome. So if he just is given one corner of this building, that's the freest corner in the whole house. You just want to go get in it. You know what I'm saying? But he's going to possess this place and you're going to be free. Those voices will leave and, and, um, it'll be awesome. And then Judah during worship tonight, um, saw a, um, a bird's nest from, he was like, no pun intended. She's sitting there telling me to worship out, but I saw it from birds eye view and, uh, and there was a hole in the bottom of the nest with green forming all around the nest. And I think what this is is somebody had a, uh, possibly, and again, you don't need to raise your hand or you can, I just don't ever want to put people on the spot, but as we, and I'll hopefully remind you later when we lay hands, I just want to minister to people because he loves you. But I think there was somebody that maybe had a miscarriage and the hole in the nest, but there's a new birth and a new growth coming. That green speaks of a new beginning around the housing of such. Does that make sense to you guys? And, um, want to pray into that. And Jesus loves you. Um, and my kids will see some really accurate stuff lately. He just saw a presidential thing coming up and just want to tell you guys, man, to, um, you can feel the times we're in there. They're legit, you know, it's real and, uh, you don't want to be naive, but you can tell to, to love Jesus like never before is just, uh, I feel before us in a, in a fresh way. We've been hammering this, but it's like, you can feel we really need to grip that now. Does that make sense that going all in for, uh, for the Lord? And, uh, I want to share this too, and just hopefully it'll land. And again, wherever this needs to go, but recently, not too long ago, four or five days ago, maybe I went into a vision where I saw the hand of the Lord reaching deep within mankind and pull out these two acorns. And right when I saw them, I heard the verse, Psalm 51, six, I desire truth in the innermost parts. And I'm telling you he's on this right now. And I feel these two acorns are definitely much more, but also connected to the two main topics right now we're seeing in society with the COVID deal and the racial hoorah. And I just want to, that being said, when I know the Lord's looking for truth, that shows me there's a lot of mistruth that's present. You understand when he's desiring and looking for it, it's not readily available. Does that make sense to you guys? So I just want to tell you that don't, um, and other things I've seen that, you know, I know it's a bit touchy, but one, I'll just say it. I mean, why not? Um, this was a while ago, maybe a month, uh, but on a major movement to around all this, it just started. I went into a crystal clear dream that there's a, there's things starting right now. I want to encourage you guys to stay in the Holy spirit. I know you know this, but sometimes we need to hear it, man. Cause I don't know how people start getting swayed by voices that aren't Jesus. And we just all the more need to hold tight to the Holy spirit, the word of God, never before. And don't move. Don't budge. But, um, I saw a dream where a major movement that can seem like justice. Uh, the Lord spoke to me crystal clear that it was connected to first Samuel 15 verse 23. And it's at its root and core. It's the rebellion as the sin of witchcraft. I mean, it's a heavy verse. I said, Whoa, Lord, I came out of it. It was just at its early beginnings and it seemed right. And this and other, but I just wasn't feeling released to, to really, you know, with much, I couldn't find a piece. I didn't know what was going on. And then the Lord showed me in a dream, you know, and I'm not biased with any of it. I don't care. I just love Jesus and love people. You know what I mean? It would advise you to do the same, but I just want to tell you, there's certain things, if you're not careful at a rapid race that are moving and they're contrary to the spirit of truth. That's what the Lord is looking at for it right now on all kinds of topics. And, um, it's so anyway, I know I'm speaking generally, but hopefully the spirit will make sense of it, you know, but want to encourage you guys like, uh, now more than ever to really dive deep into the presence of God, um, intimacy like never before truth where freedom is, you shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free. Um, I was teaching on this recently, the, you know, if you had a 90% full, let's say this bottle is 90% full of truth and 10% of it has, let's just say you put gasoline, a little 10% on top and the rest of the 90 was water. It'd be ruined. You guys know what I mean? We need full truth in this hour. And the only way is Holy ghost, old school Bible, Jesus, you know what I mean? I'm just being honest with you guys. You know, um, now more than ever, we've got to stay on the word. I'm seeing people. I'm like, how that's so unbiblical. Like how it's so obvious right now. And so, um, you know, again, I know it sounds elementary, but I'm just like now more than ever, we've got to stay full of the word of God. We'll see where tomorrow morning goes, but I even may open it up for some Q and a or something like this, but just prayer intimacy, the secret place, the word of God, like never before. And stay on this thing, man. Um, uh, a recent dream I had, I could see where the Lord's trying to build, uh, the body of Christ, this fresh new temple. And it had an apostolic connection to it, which is a building in a, in a set ones, of course, but building a fresh new temple. But it was all back on the word of God, the solid foundation of the word. And, um, just want to encourage you guys be, you know, to be deep, deep lovers of the Bible again. I mean, you say, well, it's kind of boring sometimes, you know, um, just do whatever you got to do, begin to devour lately. I just been falling madly in love with the word again. There's a fresh wind on it. And I would encourage you to just find a version you like. Um, I actually enjoy the new living translation to read. And then when I want to stop and camp out, I'll go deep into Greek and all the ESV and the KJ in, in breakdown versions. But for reading sake, you know, how many of you read the passion, uh, translation? Yeah. I've been seeing that's amazing. Just want to encourage you guys, whatever you got to do to fall in love with the word again, shut off the other voices and get possessed by God in this hour, man. How many of you are, um, working again still? Oh, that's amazing. You never stopped. Okay. Wow. Everybody's like we amped up actually. I know the quarantine actually forced some people to, um, to, to crank up. How, so how long did y'all get to start meeting again? Or did things shut down here or, Oh, outdoors. Nice. That's fun. Yeah. And then, so when are we able to start meeting back in here? This. Oh, nice. Mm hmm. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Oh, that's awesome. Yeah. Cause I just was curious. I know it's different all over the place. You know, I've been talking to close friends and a lot of stuff's changing, but no matter where you're at though, just want to encourage you guys like, uh, man to, you know, I know I'm just like beating a dead horse here, but I just don't see anything else, you know, in falling madly in love with Jesus, uh, more than ever before. Like to me, those are the people that are really standing out in this hour, you know, and, uh, he's raising up warriors and so many other things, but there's a bridal company that are so infatuated with him. That's leading to the Lord's return that culminates to the end of the book that says the spirit and the bride say, come, you know, some of you men are like, I don't know about that, man. I want the Lord mighty in battle, you know, and I get it, but I just want to encourage you guys to, uh, now more than ever, just really dive in to deeply to the presence of God intimately. And, um, uh, like recently I remembered Christmas day, which I should have known, uh, there was things looking back now that I was seeing leading up to a lot of this stuff and didn't realize, but I began, I'll just be honest with you guys. I began to see as of late, probably over the last six months to a year that the tone of the Lord's voice changed a little, like crank it up a notch, still in complete love, major mercy. You can't change that side of him, but the other side of the Bible also says, behold, the kindness and severity of God. And I've been seeing this tone. We, uh, my, myself and my kids, we did a Daniel fast not too long ago. And at the end of it, uh, Judah went into this dream that I believe that the fast kind of triggered where he goes before the Lord as judge 16, he's 17 now, but he was 16. He just turned 17. We're on our way to the gym and he starts tearing up. It was loving, but we need to know this God's too in the word and this thing's amping up. I just, I can see his tone. That's all. And you can tell games are kind of over. You guys hearing me and please hear this in love. He's so loving. I mean, uh, uh, just weeping the other day in his presence and in his intimacy, all that's still there. But also I just want to encourage you guys. Now's not the time to keep just tiptoeing through, like go all in. I just want to start hunger. You said, well, I'm kind of busy. Who cares? Change your schedule, switch jobs. Really now's not the time. Make sure everything needs to pivot around him. Everything right now, I'm telling you, rearrange whatever you got to do to put him as a central point and just get consumed by the word, his presence, his voice, highway of holiness, integrity, character. Let the fat be cut off right now in this hour. People are going to start catapulting. I'm telling you the kingdom of light and darkness are really starting to separate that that gray area is being removed. And, um, so he goes, we're going to the and he's like, Papa, he's like, man, he was telling me about how he saw the Lord. You know, the Bible actually says it speaks of the wrath of the lamb and that Jesus will truly judge. Sorry. This is the Bible. You know what I mean? I'm kind of loving all of it. Matthew 24, whatever, just fall in love with it. It's all Jesus, the good, the bad, the heavy, the hard, the fun. And you guys know, I love the fun. We're going to do that here in a second. I mean, I'm all about Jesus, the same Jesus I'm talking about. The Bible says was anointed with the oil of gladness beyond his peers or companions, which if you look that word up in the depths, Greek and this, that, and the other, or, you know, you can go to the Psalms or Hebrews, wherever it's at. It means utter like laughter and hilarity, hilarious, like laughter. You know, it's not like some giddy inward joy. He was full of joy. Um, but I want to say that John five, anyway, where Jesus says the father judges, no one he's given all authority to the son to judge. And so Judah, my 16 year old son, I don't even talk to my kids like this. I talked to him about the cost and we preach the raw word of God and blessed to those that are persecuted and don't come off with no compromise. We don't play around, but also I don't like hang out on Jesus as judge. You follow me? Like we, but he goes straight up. He's taken before the Lord as judge and he could see what represented heaven behind him. He said, Jesus meant business. Listen to me. He says, I don't ever want to see him like that again. He says in tears, very loving, but also he meant business. And we will all stand before him. He says, I saw you, Papa and Zoe, and I didn't know what y'all's results were. And that's the goodness of God. He's not trying to expose or, you know, I love, he went to, um, the woman at the well. And remember the word of knowledge kicks in about her married five times before. If you read closely, he starts telling her her baggage in such a loving way to only heal her and reveal her heart. Set her on fire. But he goes, he, he picks up on it. He's at first, he's just thirsty from the journey. The Bible says he goes up to Jacob's well, ask her for something to drink. And he starts picking up supernatural. I believe by a word of knowledge, he says, where's your, where's your husband or whatever? She's like, I'm not married. He said, you're right. You've been married five times before. Remember that? Well, that's not the most like highlighted, you know, emphasis you want to bring on somebody who's passed up, you know, but he did it in love. And if you read further, it says, then the disciples came up. He did that one-on-one. He's so loving and caring. He's not trying to shame. And he's not that way, but he does have a standard. And he, he, the Bible says be perfect as he's perfect. He's calling people up to a higher place and he wants us a bride without spot or wrinkle. This is Ephesians 5, 27. Am I going too heavy for y'all? Okay. Sorry, but I can just, I'm just telling you, I've been feeling his heart lately and I'm, I'm wooed by it and I love it, but it's like, he's like, come higher, come higher. Listen, I, and you all finished Judah's dream. So he's like, don't want to see him like that again. I'm like, yep, me either. I'm saying, but thank the Lord. And, um, but he was super is Jesus, but also we will stand before him, all of us. And, uh, but back rewind Christmas morning, my parents in town, nothing shaka super spirits. And my parents are in town, you know, just whatever, hanging out. We're going to do presents, which I don't know why we do that. It's awesome. I think it's great. You give and, but like, we never get into the whole Santa Claus thing. Sorry. If some of y'all, we just, we don't do fake stuff. So, but we do that. We got a tree and love all that stuff. Sorry. My kids are just never, you know, we, we don't anyway. No, no, I don't, I don't, I just haven't felt a real peace about that, but that one. It's funny. I'll let you into our backend world a little bit. So Todd White, you guys know him with dreadlocks. He abhors anything like that, like despises it. I get it. I'm going to be a little more gracious with you, although we don't do it, but you talk Santa Claus with him. He don't play. So it's funny. We'll be in a group text. Mike wouldn't care. And all of a sudden, like you say, it'll be around the holidays. So Michael Cooley, I don't know. He's a clown. He's always cutting up. He'll tell you a group text, a bunch of Santa Claus is the Todd or something like that behind the devil or whatever, you know? And, uh, it's funny, but, um, but Christmas morning, which we know prophetically speaks of, and God's good like this. We, we, you know, nobody knows the scripture is not clear on when Jesus first came was born, which is interesting. You know, there's like no birthdays in the Bible that I can find. It's really interesting that there's the mentioned of them, but a date, like it's really hard to find that I can see, but either way he was born, we know the wonder around it and all this. And so what we treat as his birth December 25th, I'm awakened at three 24 in the morning from a full out encounter. And it was that, that, that wake up realm. I know of the Lord. I love the butter. We're but also I've just been seeing his tone and it's his goodness doing this, you know, really, we don't, how many of you want to get caught behind the current of God? Yeah, no me either. And, or in front or anything, we want to be caught right where he's at and moving. And that's why I want to reiterate and remind you guys the, the hoorah and the noise right now that you're hearing, don't even waste your time with it. I get some of it legitimacy and knowledge. You need to know for certain things, but you want to get really caught up in the noise of heaven right now, really caught up in his glory, his manifest presence, oil poured out. We want to be the wise versions, bridesmaids from Matthew 25. You just feel it right there. Full extra oil, Matthew 25. Oh, no wonders. Okay. I could feel a shift right there. It was really good. I just love the phrase. I know it gets slower. I don't know why, but man, let us be found on the five wise ones full of oil right now. Some of you say, I don't know that parable too. Well, super simple. Were any of you not here this morning? Oh, everybody was here. Oh, you weren't here. Yeah. There's 10 bridesmaids. I'll sum it up real fast. Jesus said my favorite parable out of all that Jesus ever gave. You know why it speaks within the house to you and I, unless somebody is not born again here, you don't know the Lord. You don't know tomorrow where you spend eternity. If so you can today is the day of salvation. Come pray with us at the end, but he's hammering the church. He says, there's 10 bridesmaids, all virgins, all dressed, ready to see the bride groom ready for marriage. That's what this whole thing's about. You know, this whole book sums up with the spirit and the bride say, come love that pastor John talked about the Holy spirit. He's the signet ring. If you will. He's the seal of the whole thing, man. I love that. Cause sometimes if we're not careful, we get off of how real and valid the Holy spirit is like, what would we do? Jesus says, it's better that I go that I may send the Holy spirit, but there's 10, five on each side. Jesus splits them down the middle says five were foolish. Five were wise. And he said, the wise ones had extra oil. It's one of the fewest times in scripture. Jesus condones having extra or too much. Fewest times you even see when he multiplies food, there's extra leftover. And he says, pick it up. Like save it. Baskets leftover. He says, grab the extras, but this it's like oil right here. I'm telling you, be this, be this, trust me. I don't care if it lands right now. Let it land. When you leave here something, be this in life, a wise virgin and bridesmaid from Matthew chapter 25 and everything will be okay. You don't need to learn more, but do you know what I'm saying? But this is the fix. People completely full of oil from heaven. So they had these lamps. Some people would say it eliminates ministry. I look at it more importantly as intimacy with the Lord and, and that are full of oil from, they can only be produced in the secret place of loving him really well. And that's right now what I'm sensing. He's, he's a pawn more than ever before it's producing the butter that people are sliding through doorways and, and things like this. And so Christmas day, um, I I'm awakened by the side of my bed. Um, were those there last time? That's cool. It's just a different, the chairs. That's a sweet spot. I didn't know that. Oh, that's why. Yeah. I'm just, I like to look at stuff. And so, uh, yeah, Christmas morning, you know, families in town, uh, you know, nothing seems seemingly more spiritual than any other day, but literally the hand of the Lord, my spiritual eyes were opened, uh, to see the hand of the Lord knocking on a membrane of heaven. I could see it right out over my bed, abruptly awakened, like a quick awaken, not a subtle, sweet, romantic, nothing. It was a boom, the hand of the Lord. I could see the knuckles, the whole bit on like this membrane of heaven, hovering out over the bed, awakened instantly at three 24, you know, sum it up real fast and won't keep you guys too long. Um, but the Lord showed me, this was revelation chapter three, anytime again, recently the knock of the Lord revelation three 20, which is I stand at the door and knock he's doing this right now. He says, if you hear my voice, open the door, I'll come in and dine with you and you with me. Basically the remedy right now in this hour is hearing the knock and letting him come in, in deep, in a deep, intimate way. If there's anything you want to invest into life right now. Oh yeah, there it is. Oh, wow. Nice. But right now, so basically, but, uh, I was like, why three, three 24 Lord? This is my little journey on it. Uh, cause I always know that to be three 20 over the years, but he showed me this correlation that I believe prophetically applies and hopefully it will land with you guys how it may, but it was, it was a overlapping of the church of Sardis and the church of Laodicea. Okay. Revelation chapter three verses two through four was the three 24. Well, two through four. So he basically says to the church of Sardis, wake up, exclamation mark, NIV, NLT. The one he knows I read. Other ones say be on watch, but basically wake up. And it started, it awakened me abruptly at three 24, wake up. You have a rep reputation of being alive, but you're dead. This is Jesus. You know what I mean? You guys know what I'm saying? Have you ever had Jesus do that and kind of talk to you a little sternly? He, he disciplines those he loves. Even Jesus obeyed, uh, sorry, learned obedience through what he suffered. But, um, it's kind of a, it was, it's a bit of a rebuke and I never saw the correlation, but I knew the knocking was the wonder from Laodicea. So he did it in the form of over overlapping both. So being the study, both churches and revelation, first off, you need to look at it happening on Christmas day. Cause I watch all this in the prophetic, like, why did you do it on this day? And the Holy spirit began to speak to me that he was speaking on the day of his signifying first coming in context of his next final coming. Right. And, and obviously we know from revelation, that's the final book leading onto his return. And he's knocking wake up like his, his return is soon, which we know could still be, you know, a ways, but not according to all of humanity. If you guys know what I mean, it's, it's, it's getting close. So the knocking church of Sardis and Laodicea, I began to look at in church of Sardis. It says, you have a reputation of being alive, but you're dead. And Laodicea is the only one similar. It says, you think you have it going on. Basically you think you need nothing, you're rich, you know, this, that, and the other. But basically my assessment of you is you're blind, naked and wretched and so forth. You guys remember that? And I'm just being honest with you. I think at large, the church, the assessment, again, I know it's a bit heavy, but it's good. If we'll yield, it's a good thing. He disciplines those he loves, but his overall assessment of the body I feel right now in this hour is wake up. You think you have it going on, but you don't go back to the beginning. I love it. And it's called first love or something. Even first love church of Ephesus. He says, go back and do the works you did at first returned to me. He says a very similar in Sardis and Laodicea, but I love how he sums it up in revelation. Basically how I see it, every church, he comes in with a beautiful affirmation correction, ends it on a remedy, how to fix the correction. And at the end, this will be the reward. It's beautiful how he does it. My dad used to call it the sandwich effect. Okay. We built custom homes for years and, uh, we deal with some pretty high profile, profile people, big high-end customs, lawyers, attorney, you know, architects, all this stuff. So he would call it the sandwich effect, basically butter them up with the affirmation. It's all truth. Bring in the correction that ended again on a good note. You guys ever heard that? And it's a pretty good tactful thing. Well, Jesus sort of does it in revelation, but Laodicea, which by the way, is the seventh and final church, which I think prophetically or figuratively speaks of, you know, it's, it's coming close to the end, but he basically the remedy for all of it, which I'm thankful. He set this as the standard in the bar is intimacy. He says, look, all that to be being said, how do you fix it? How do you wake up? How do you, you know, get back that, which strengthened that, which is, uh, remains here. The knock of his, uh, voice open the door and dine with him intimately. You guys tracking with me. And so I want to encourage you like never before, um, that we'd be a people that are hearing that knock. And I really feel like he was showing me it's also from revelation three 20, but from 2020, it was a waking up that happened. And then soon as the year turned, it was, it was December 25th, the year turned, and then it's been, you know, on ever since. But I believe we even, there's a, there's a four-year window. You're going to watch under 24, three, 24, 20 to 24. There's going to be a grace pocket, not that it'll just close when 24 is done, but I think now more than ever, what I'm saying is the time to lean in. You don't want to find yourself behind the current because it's all the harder to catch up. And so, um, so yeah, let's, let's land on that to leave enough time for ministry. If that's okay, if you guys want to stand, maybe the worship team come, but yeah, we'll see where we're going in the morning, but just want to encourage you guys, the word man, um, lately, just to practically bring you into my world. Um, lately I've been spending my morning time intimacy, waiting upon the Lord, praying in tongues, soaking, whatever it may be. And then I'll drop back in the afternoon and, uh, jump back into the word and just solely lock in and just go deep and chew it up. And, um, it's kind of a cheat sheet. I get a second window to go back in and be with the Lord, you know, but want to encourage you guys, whatever works for you, but deep, deep, no days off, man. It's in legalism. It's just infatuation and hunger go deep into the word.
It's Time to Go All In
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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.”