Return to Your First Love — Brian Guerin

So honored to be here, and I'm really expecting for Jesus to touch us. Is that okay? That's what we're mainly after. And Pastor Lester said we can lay hands and do the whole bit, so I'm stoked about that.

And I think Sweet Baby D will be running with me, so you're safe. If the power of God hits you, it will catch you. And we'll just see, man, most importantly, that Jesus will brand our hearts again with infatuation for Him and intimacy.

But then in that, we see a lot of things happen, too, just the fullness of God hit people through giftings, impartation, commissionings, acceleration of destiny, and we just want the fullness. I'm only here for today with you all, so I say we go for it.

So I had a dream. How many of you know that God speaks through dreams? Okay, awesome. How many of you that, can I walk around down here? I'll definitely be back. You know why? Starbucks is right there.

But how many of you God's, or am I going to mess up camera shots or anything? I'll totally stay out there. You sure? Okay. How many of you God speaks to you through dreams, you would say? Okay, a good bit.

Visions? Yeah, normally the number gets a little less. Well, anyways, all throughout scripture, Joel chapter 2 says, in the last days, how many of you believe that we're somewhere in the span of the last days?

Okay, good. That does not take a spiritual rocket scientist to figure that out. Well, in the last days, the part of spirit upon all flesh, how many of you are flesh? All right, got a few robots up in here.

Well, from that, it says, you'll dream dreams, sons and daughters. It doesn't say just the five fold ministry, big super saying prophets and none of that. And it just says that, you know, sons and daughters will prophesy.

Old men dream dreams, young men see visions. And then it goes on into signs and wonders. But all that being said is, if you're a son and daughter in here, the prophetic dreams and visions is for you. And then you see in Acts chapter two, the beginning of that began to unfold as the Holy Spirit got poured out.

Peter stands up. Everybody's hammered, by the way. They appear to be drunk in his first theological showdown. I mean, Peter's coming with a profound sermon just commissioned by tongues of fire. He's like, hey, everybody, we're not drunk.

I mean, this is his first sermon. He said, this is what Joel talked about in Joel chapter two. You remember that? And then it's a real world. You start to dissect scripture. You see this thread of the spirit through dreams and visions and connecting about voice to his people.

So, all being said, I had a dream last night that showed me the progression of today. And we'll do our best to align with it and just believe Jesus to touch us. And in the dream, very short, but but to the point, I saw these this dialogue between these two men of God.

And one of them said to the other that I basically knew represented the Lord to the bride and the body. Begin to tell them how they had fallen from their first love, from Revelation two. And it wasn't a reprimanding hearse.

It was very lovely. You know, I mean, you know, Jesus is very lovely, kind, merciful, slow to anger, compassionate. Even in the Old Testament, Jonah knew this. It's like sometimes we put the lens of the Old Testament as this harsh God.

But he really wasn't. He's always been so loving. He's the same yesterday, today and forever. And it's just a dispensation of grace from the blood of Jesus. It was different. But Jonah, even he gets called to bring a word of judgment to Nineveh.

You remember the story ran for he was like the prophet of the day runs from it forever. Gets to Nineveh, releases the word finally after the whale and this whole bit. And they they repent. Basically, they turn.

This is the even had their animals fast. Have you ever read that? It's a wild passage. And God spared their animals. This is a very mysterious verse. So if you ever really want to pray and you want your animals spared to feed your pets, don't feed it.

But it's in Scripture. So they fast, pray, God relents, he pulls back. And Jonah, this is very beautiful dialogue that shows the nature of God. Jonah says, he says he was frustrated. You remember that?

Because now it looks like a false prophet. I mean, I get it. Like he gave this hard word with all he did to deliver it. Now it didn't even happen. He's like, bro, now I'm like, look like I lied. I'm a false prophet.

Plus, he's just frustrated. And but his his dialogue to God is he said, see, God, I knew you were God of the slow to anger, merciful, compassionate that you would turn your heart. And so that's what it felt like and what we're going to do this morning, because he's so quick to like he doesn't care about your past issues or shortcomings up to this point.

OK, a lot of times he's just not into that. You know, now does it mean we compromise and sustain in these areas? No, he also won't change as far as the highway of holiness. But he just now wants your heart fully.

Does that make sense? And he's all in. He's so loving and compassionate, merciful and wanting hearts fully back to him. And so that's how this dream felt. It was not so harsh. He's just not that way. And so it basically I could see the dialogue in the dream was, you know, in a correction of just our hearts fully falling in love back with Jesus.

His first love from Revelation two. And then I could see the which is pretty wild because it then went into the roof portion of that. I'm going to go into the next honestly, before last night, I was going to do the roof this morning and then jump into the second session, just let the Holy Spirit go and do what we do.

But I can see the progression of the dream returning the first love in Jesus. And I'm excited because when it comes by revelation, the atmosphere of the grace for it comes and it's potent. I'm telling you, if you want to stay where you're at, you may want to find an exit door now.

Because when he I'm telling you in a beautiful way, because his presence comes in such a potent way and just brands people forever. I've seen it like mantles of intimacy hit people and they're forever changed.

They they just they leave. There's something different on that. They can't get it off. They just love him to a whole new level.

You crack up. Tell me I'm feeling worse than that.

I was like, don't do it. I was trying to like naturally, you know, stay in the natural. But you there's just intimacy here. And yes, but you open the word and it's like it's alive again. You know, just any movement or anything that has to do with him, you know, just there's that pull again.

You guys know what I'm talking about? And all of us get it. We've been at places and stages where we follow from our first love. I could be the first to tell you and you get busy and you don't intend to do anything, but it just happens.

But it's so beautiful when he lovingly says, hey, no, no, no. Just look back to me. Give me heart again. And then he breathes on it by ocean and substance. I'll probably use a Kleenex if we've got any.

Oh, thanks. He's like he's on it. Thank you so much, man. Appreciate it. And you guys want to blow my nose real quick. Yeah, yeah. But it's like, you know, his presence again. And then you find yourself like going to the grocery store and just like he's near.

It's like, man, I love you, Jesus. You just want to go be with him. People start to think you're a little bit off because you just you want him. And you just the cares of this world, the attractions and other directions start to kind of become viewed.

And he becomes loud again. And it's like, man, you're everything, you know, and when you come back, he's not like, see, where have you been? No, he's like, yeah, he's just like, I've been away. I love you.

And he was, man, he just begins to develop your world. And then you start to skate back again on this love journey. And whether it looks like staying single, I'm 40. I've been in this thing a minute, actually divorced 13, 14 years ago.

It seems like it was forever ago. And he'll take your story that wherever you're at, you know, it just leads you into him. And or it may be running into your mate as well. You fall more in love together.

It doesn't matter what it looks like. It's just stabilizing again that intimacy with him. And it's very beautiful. So, yeah. So in the dream during this dialogue, very loving, just recalibration. That's all it is.

What is huge, man? Some of the smallest shifts here seemingly are massive up there. Massive. Just the slightest. You can be in your car and be in a straight dialogue with somebody down here and just shift internally.

I'll do it. People are still talking. You're not trying to ignore me like, Jesus, I need you. Bam. And then all of a sudden, you can feel his presence. His voice. All of a sudden, signs start popping and making sense.

Because you're listening now, right? And what we're going to do this morning is like have a kid really breathe upon it. His eyes run to and fro looking for hearts that are fully after him. And when he finds it, it's a full out landing pad.

And when he hits it, you're never the same. It's not possible.

And so if your heart say 80 towards him, he's not upset at you. He loves you.

It just hinders the fullness of his being landing upon you. That's all. That's why he's looking. Eyes to and fro. And this morning, we're going to give that last 10, 5%, whatever. Some of you could say, man, I'm 90 away from God.

That's okay. He's not upset at you. He loves you. Just give it back. And then it's like a helicopter. Full landing pad. Bam. Man, we're going to have to do a lot of editing. I'm sorry. Big sappy mess up here.

Ooh, that was a cool sound effect. Did you hear the mic rolling? Sounded like some glory wave coming in. So anyway, the dream, they had this dialogue, real short but potent of a returning to first love.

And then I saw the first man that represented the Lord speaking to the bride go to lay down and cover up. And the man came at the feet to then be covered up as well. Just like the Ruth and Boyle story.

Really wild. Which then leads to the unity of one in marriage. You guys know the story. I'll go over it clearly in the last session. But I knew it helped me know the progression of today as well. And how many of you know, whether you like it or not, men, we're the bride of Christ.

The women are like, yeah, shakalaka. And the men were like, no, he's Lord and body in battle. You know what I'm saying? Like, bride, what? That is soft. But it's just how he made it, man. So kind of get used to it.

But no, in heaven, it's not a masculine, feminine thing. It doesn't really correlate like we think up there. I remember the first time I started encountering the Lord as the bridegroom. It totally caught me off guard, honestly.

I was about as manly as it gets. I love just sports, fishing, whatever. So I don't get a lot of that other stuff. And I did do my daughter's ponytails when she was little, though. You'd be proud of that.

And we'd do the part down the middle of the dual ponytail. But that line would be all crooked. I never could line it up in the back for any way. But we made it. We made it work. But when I first started seeing him come like that, I was just blown away, man.

And to date, personally, just my journey, I don't know of anything more profound. This whole thing, if you look at it. And that's what's so beautiful, honestly, of being single. You kind of have the upper hand in the moment.

Granted, whatever grace is upon you, you agree. It's really a profound season. I'd say enjoy it, man. I mean, Paul wrote two-thirds of the New Testament totally solo. Even in 1 Corinthians 7, he says, look, this is doctrine.

I wouldn't claim it to be hard-written theology, but I am a man of the Spirit. It's more or less what he says. He says, look, I advise you, remain as you are in this season for the greatest capacity of the Lord.

And what comes about it, praise God. But in the moment, it's like he said, look, if you're single, stay single because you can be fully devoted to the Lord. Isn't that incredible? How many of you have ever been married before?

Okay, so you get it. Me, too. Okay, man, we have some dual experience stuff going on here, some bifold stuff. So you get it. Your devotion is divided, right? And that's scriptural. It's not a—nothing's right or wrong.

It just is what it is. So in this moment, though, you can really lock away and capitalize upon the season of becoming infatuated with the Lord, becoming one with him. And then whatever the Lord steps you into, you know, so be it.

And so I'll never forget the—are we all kind of like signs and wonders, all that kind of? Okay, we're good. Thumbs up. You see how I did that? I did it publicly first. So if he says—you can't say no. I'm teasing.

No, I normally don't do that. But I'll keep it light. It's just beautiful, though. I just—I've seen this where the Lord will move in profound ways back and returning to first love. And especially this one I remember in Los Angeles, actually.

Los Angeles. We have nothing to do with it, right? So this is what's amazing. But sometimes you just—how many of you know when the kingdom of heaven comes, things can get a little wild sometimes? Jesus prayed, your kingdom come on earth as it is in heaven.

So sometimes that literally applies. The substance of his world overlaps. That's why all of a sudden you have angelic encounters. Jesus even overlapped with a cloud of witnesses. Moses and Elijah. That's Hebrews 12, where we're not surrounded by such a great flood of witnesses.

Well, we've seen wonders, too, when the glory comes in. We don't have anything to do with it. A lot of times it's accidental or just, you know, the Lord. But I'll never forget—oh, so sorry, but real quick.

When I woke up—so I was awakened out of this dream last night. And this is how the Lord will do this. Ooh, that's a high jump. I'll go this way. The Lord will do this. And I'll teach on it a little bit, too, with the prophetic.

And it'll help. I know a lot of you know this, but it's how to speak with dreams, number correlations tied into Scripture. And it's amazing because he's doing several things there. The psalm says, God spoke one thing, but I heard two.

So he's so full, sometimes he can speak through one means of communication, but there will be multiple revelations in it. Does that make sense? Also, his ways of connecting them and confirming them, he'll do the same.

So I was awakened out of the dream at 2 .16, really right around probably 2 .15, but by the time I grabbed my phone and checked it. And this is the exact passage of first love. It's Revelation chapter 2, verses 1 through 6.

And this is what he'll do to confirm things. So if you're ever awakened out of a dream that's not your normal time of waking up, you want to mark the time. First Corinthians 4 says we're to be stewards of the mysteries of God.

And you saw all throughout Scripture where the prophets, when God would speak and move, they would get very specific on logging it. They would steward God's voice. I mean, I remember there's many stories I can give you, but he'll basically, what he does is he'll give you a backdrop of a dream where he's speaking and then wake you up at the exact time of the chapter and verse he's talking to you about.

Does that make sense? A lot of you are like, I don't know, where's that in the Bible? Where were iPhones in the Bible? They were watching the sun. You know what I'm saying? They're trying to track the time.

It was about noon day, oh, King Agrippa. That's what Paul said. The blinding light came, totally, you know, encountered the Lord. But in his recollection, in the end of the book of Acts, he sees before King Agrippa, he says it was about noon that day.

He knew when it was, but, I mean, they didn't have satellites and iPhones working with iPads and stuff. So God will work with every generation according to how we can receive and speak. So anyway, all that being said, he woke me up out of this exact dream last night with the exact chapter and verse passage of returning to our first love.

I'll read it to you quickly. It says, America's standard of virtue, it says, to the angel of the church in Ephesus, write these things, sayeth. Nah, we don't do sayeth. I don't do all that. I love it if you do, but I do English.

Write this letter to the angel of the church in Ephesus. This is the message from the one who holds the seven stars in his right hand, the one who walks among the seven golden lampstands. I know the things you do, and I've seen your hard work and your patient endurance.

This is Revelation 2, 1 through 6. I know you don't tolerate evil people. You have examined the claims of those who say they are apostles but are not. You have discovered they are liars. You have patiently suffered for me without quitting.

But I have this complaint against you. You don't love me like you did at first, or you've abandoned your first love, right? If you read further, it's actually some very affirming things that they are just un-upright people that are against sin, not for the ways of this world, but have abandoned their first love.

You follow me? Jesus, although Revelation does what's called the sandwich effect. Any of you in business know what I'm talking about?

It's like when you're bringing a correction. You know it? Yeah. It's like you're amazing. You're doing all this great.

You suck at this. Not really, but you bring the correction in the middle. It's the meat. And then it's like you close it out with bread again.

But you're really handsome. You have a great attitude.

Have a good day. Yeah, that's kind of what Jesus is doing here. It's pretty funny, but he basically sets them up affirming, brings the loving correction, but also closes it out. And that's what he does here.

So it shows the people that are living pure, doing their best to discern the wicked ways of this world and not getting caught up in all of this. But the core issue is he's wanting our heart back in love with him.

Does that make sense? And this, especially when you speak about a revelation like this, I've seen it time and time again. You can take the narrow word of God and his principles always apply. But then there comes a time when he speaks specifically to a people for a specific time and a reason.

And that's, it's potent to a whole new level. And I've just seen it. And so it's funny. I was in Los Angeles, and I was in the hotel room. Oh, I'll land it pretty quick. I just want to open up the altars, lay hands on you guys, just go for it.

If we can all day, that's cool with you. And if you're not into laying on your hands, no sweat. I totally get it. I'll just come track you down in your seat. I wouldn't do that. But I was in Los Angeles, night before I'm in a hotel room.

I'm at a Korean house of prayer. I'm going to be ministering the next day. And this is a little wild, but it's, you know, this is all throughout the Bible. You see just with the angelic signs. I mean, if you really start skipping through Scripture from the beginning, we've got Abraham going into encounters where like a burning torch and a smoking pot comes down and goes between the sacrifices.

You've got Moses, a burning bush with a voice coming out of it. If you really think about that, that's pretty good. If somebody told you that today, you'd like put them in the psyche ward. You're telling me a burning bush told you to take your shoes off.

Yeah. You know what I mean? You lost a few marbles. Gideon, angel of the Lord of hosts. Jesus walking on water, food multiplications, face lighting up like a light bulb. I mean, this is the God we serve is supernatural.

So when his kingdom comes around, things get a bit interesting. So one wonder I've seen for quite a number of years now is when the angelic come around. This is Hebrews 1. It says angels are ministering spirits.

This is New Testament sent to assist those who are to inherit salvation. Hey, Kathy. And so they're very prevalent throughout scripture for the protocol of heaven, just messengers, but they do get involved.

You see, that's what freed Peter from jail. The boat wreck going to the Isle of Malta. Paul in the book of Acts, he says, fear not, boys, grab your floaties. We're going to have to swim a little bit. But ship's gone, toast.

Any of you that loved your ship, don't even count on it. He goes, you know how I know why? An angel came to me in the night messenger. He could take it to the bank. So I'm in this hotel and all of a sudden, the middle of the night, I feel a wind blow up my forehead.

And usually it'll startle me. But angels will do this. Hebrews 1, 7, very mysterious verses says, aren't my angels regarding angels, winds and flames of fire. Sometimes people are like, where'd that wind come from and worship?

Have you ever experienced that? Or like heat coming on you and stuff? A lot of times angelic is around, again, just ministering spirits. We don't worship them. They always just bring greater adoration for Jesus.

But I check the time. They'll do this. It's the forehead. It's foreknowing. And when they do this, it's a word of knowledge. I'm foreknowing what's to come. And it was 2 .34 in the morning. So they just gave me the return of their first love again for this group the next day.

And I'm thinking, God, that's way off. This is the Koreans. I mean, they like created prayer. This is a Korean house of prayer. You know what I mean? I was thinking, thank goodness you backed it by a wonder because I was hesitant.

You know, sometimes you feel like you bear witness with something you want to share. And it's a little uncertain. Often when God sends the angelic or wakes you up at a specific time, that is the actual verse you saw in the dream.

That's why he's doing that. He's greater confirming to you. Does that make sense? He's kind of putting a heavenly stamp upon what you're pretty sure he's talking about anyway. It just helps. It really helps, especially in ministry.

So thank goodness he did that, because I know kind of like when the angelic call messengers, you can take it to the bank. Angels came to Joseph in a dream to tell him, baby, Jesus, you know, to protect him all the way through.

And so I get in there, jam-packed, literal house of prayer. This wasn't a title. It's a house of prayer. I mean, they're everywhere. Oh, they're up the aisles. It's packed in there. We just stay in a room only.

And I go up the hallway and preach to them this way. They come down this other hallway. I mean, they're literally everywhere. Worship went probably two, three hours long. I mean, I'm thinking, I'm juggling with this.

I'm like, there's no way. Return to their first love. I mean, they created first love. You know what I'm saying? That's what my mind's thinking. So I preach on it. Their head leader comes towards the end and totally concurs.

And they all bore witness with the word. And so they've been busy and just doing a lot of the work. Some of you know you can get busy doing things for the kingdom and fall out of that first love again.

I've been there plenty of times. It can happen. If you're not careful. And again, God's not upset at you. He's stoked about you doing things for the kingdom. We just always got to recalibrate and reassess back to him being number one and first priority.

He didn't reprimand Martha. He just said, Mary is doing the better part. He didn't say, Martha, what are you doing? Waste of time. You know what I'm saying? He didn't do that at all. It's just incredible what she was doing.

He just said, Mary, you're doing the better part. And if we always keep that aligned, man, you'll be okay. And so preach, the leader concurs. And a young woman comes up from out the front row with her husband or whatever.

I saw him the whole time. And covered in gold dust. Again, sorry if this is a little offensive to some of you guys. We've just seen it where it's undeniable a wonder that happens when heaven comes in.

But I mean, we have this on video. Undeniable. Every square inch. And she was sitting down in the chair the whole time I'm preaching. Somehow had all of the back of her legs covered. And they had never seen it before.

I've been in the back sticks and huts of India where they don't even know what makeup is. And I've seen gold cover people. And you're like, how could what? They were playing with the Christmas glitter balls.

Yeah, in India. And the huts and this dirt. And they didn't even know what makeup was. And there'd never be chunks manifesting. When the glory of God came in. This one girl got caught up, man, in glory.

Heaven painted her. And if you're not into it, don't worry about it. You just will never see it. That's OK. Signs of wonder follow them that believe. And but what was so beautiful about this is I said, man, what happened to you?

She goes, you're never going to believe. Comes up to me looking like a Christmas decoration. I mean, everywhere. And I didn't really touch her. You can tell I don't have anything to do with it. I don't like glittery stuff, man.

My daughter, when I borrow her chapstick, I'm like, it doesn't have the glitter stuff in it, does it? She's like, no, sir. I don't get down with that. Lotions with it. So anyway, she said, what happened to you?

She goes, you're never going to believe this. About a month ago, I had a dream where a man came to me in a blue shirt and began to tell me to return to my first love and love and God. And then he progressed and began to tell me details about my life that only God would know.

And she came out of the dream. And I feel really good all of a sudden.

And she. Sorry.

Sorry about that. I know that makes it uncomfortable to you guys sometimes, but it was really good. Yeah. So she. She. Yeah. So she. So anyway, she's covered in gold. She says, you know, this holds these details.

But what happened was I didn't know from the hotel. I thought I was just grabbing whatever shirt was first from traveling in the bag or whatever. And I grabbed a blue shirt. And so a month prior, she has this dream.

I come in several weeks later, pop into their houses, wear a blue shirt, preaching on first love. But basically what happened was the juncture from the prophetic and the literal meeting. And when it stepped in, having pasted glory to confirm what he was doing with the house.

Does that make sense? And really beautiful. Another time I was in either Brazil or Colombia. And. And went into a dream the night before. Similar. I'm just setting up because similar to what we're going to do this morning.

And again, I love it when God speaks by revelation. He backs it by presence. He backs it by counter experience and branded hearts. And when he brands you, man, it is not coming off. And it's beautiful.

People change quickly. And they just walk around like something different about you. They can. People can tell. Did you get around? Like same outfit, the same hairdo. But something really different about you.

They can sense it. When having pasted people and brands them. It's a beautiful thing. And there's no more powerful people that I know of than lovers of Jesus. There's gifted folks. Thank God for impulses.

Honestly, cover the gifts. But the bride deep, deep lovers of Jesus. So I love about Pastor Lester. He's going for me. And to see if I'm aligning with God first and then let everything else fall out where it does.

And. So I was in Columbia, Brazil, somewhere, South America. Went into a dream similar to last night. But this one was different in that. I could see a bed. And I went to the corner of the bed, which was also, I believe, a connection at the end of the dream last night.

It shifted to a bed. The whole Ruth Boas story of intimacy with the Lord first and foremost. But then I don't doubt or overlap to, you know, natural mates and so forth, which is awesome as well. But I come to the corner of the bed and I see myself throwing all these mantles on the corner of the bed.

Male, female jackets, you could tell coats of just female mantle, male, you know, stacking them on this bed. And I came out of the dream. And I was like, what is that? Holy Spirit. He said, those are mantles of intimacy.

And I had never heard that lingo before. How many of you know, at least I was like this.

The Bible calls it. Give me the mantle of Smith Wigglesworth.

You're just, you know, you want a mantle of Elijah and all this stuff. And but I've come to find out if you have a mantle. Of course, it all comes from heaven. There is a great biblical precedent on the laying on of hands and impartation.

But ultimately, it all comes from Jesus. But if a mantle of intimacy clothes you. Everything else is accessible. I heard a story once where this king said to this young woman that came, he says, look, I'll give you whatever you want.

And, you know, up to half of the kingdom or something like this story. And she ends up, you know, he goes, anything in here, you can have anything in the kingdom. She goes, anything. Oh, yeah, anything.

I'll give you up to even half the kingdom. Just pick whatever you want. So she steps near. She grabs him, pulls him in because then she, you know, she says, I'll show you you're in here. And so now she has the king, which makes the full kingdom accessible.

Does that make sense? And the same thing. The same thing applies with intimacy. You have him. Power comes, prophetic comes, the gifts come. That just that's the nature of the kingdom. But but intimacy first and foremost.

And so I was like, you know, I'll never forget, because in Scripture, if you read closely, it says Elisha was by the 12th oxen. And Elijah walks by him and just kind of slips his mantle on him by the 12th oxen.

Scripture goes out of the way to mention that it's an apostolic number. It's a commissioning sending number. And I remember it was the 12th day of the month that I had to release it because we were there all week like like we do on our crusades.

So I knew the exact meeting to do it in. Sure enough, we opened it up and everyone got to preach intimacy at the house. So laying hands on people, just powerful intimacy and just transform lives. And that's kind of what we want to do.

Do this morning. So I got this new iPhone without the button. You guys got that. It's taking a little time to get used to. OK. Love and 12. The one without the button. Do you guys know what I'm talking about?

OK. I got super quiet. But so, yes, the worship team wants to come. I just want to set it up and leave enough time before lunch to pray with you guys. I believe for having to just return our hearts fully to him in a deep, intimate way.

Let him breathe.