This is the greatest hour to follow Jesus.

Jesus is so wonderful and so real.

His reality is really our treasure. His presence is our everything. So I'm so grateful to him, the Holy Spirit, for revealing his precious, precious presence to me.

But I do need to say I'm so grateful for this ministry. I mean, you mentioned me getting saved at 12 years old.

I remember I really felt led to touch on that today as I was seeking the Lord this morning.

You know, when I was a boy, I remember I was seven years old and my uncle had just passed away of cancer and you know in our culture the family

gets together the night of the memorial they were black they sit on in the living room and just talk

about the person's life and so the women were mourning the men were we were all eating, and I was sitting on the couch.

And there was a knock on the door.

And I'll never forget this Greek priest walking through the door.

And pastor, when he walked through the door to console the family, Jesus walked in that living room with him.

The very atmosphere of the room changed.

There was a heaviness. It was hot. You could feel electricity in the room. I remember sitting there,

thinking to myself, there's something different about this house now, that this man has walked in the room. And so he sat down very meekly on a chair.

None of us had been around the presence of the Lord or his power up to this point.

We didn't know anything about the baptism of the Holy Spirit,

but this man had just recently received the baptism.

And he sat on a chair just across from my father, and I was just like a deer in headlights,

wondering what was happening. This man looked my father in the eye, and he said,

Have you ever seen Jesus? That got everybody's attention.

That's usually not what you'd say at a memorial, especially in our culture.

My father said, no, Father, I have not seen Jesus.

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