Sermon
The Nuclear Option | Pastor Dwain Wolfe
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Father, we thank you for the word today and we just thank you for
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helping us and just the quickening of Holy Spirit on our hearts, in our
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hearts, moving us into all that you're calling us to do. I gave
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you the praise for it in Jesus' name. Everybody said, Amen. I've
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entitled this the nuclear option. I feel like that what the Lord is calling
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us to do is something like super crazy, super desperate, and I think
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that's what the United States and the global community was facing in nineteen forty five.
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So in nineteen thirty one, especially Japan. I don't know if you
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know, but Japan was real provoker in World War two, and so they
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started taking over a lot of territory. By the time we get to nineteen
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thirty seven, you know, Japan was expanding into China, taking over China
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into China as well, so that would have been some of the other Asian
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nations, and so there was a great provoking of war coming out of Japan.
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And World War Two, though, involved almost every nation on the globe
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and millions of people were killed. So it was it was quite a crazy
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in a war that was going on, and the nations of the world were
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trying to figure out, you know, how to how to solve this.
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No doubt the United States was at the forefront of helping solve it. And
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the treaty that the Japanese pulled out of in coming into nineteen forty one,
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and then due to the warnings and the request of the United States and other
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nations for them to withdraw from occupied territory, they became more aggressive instead,
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and they had convinced their emperor had convinced their people to give up their lives
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for their cause, so they were willing to lay down their lives completely for
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their cause. We know the pilots, kama kanzi pilots, we've heard of
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that. But the common Japanese people were trained in war, and women and
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children were trained in war and trained to kill. So in nineteen forty five,
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in nineteen what was it, I'm going to get my I want to
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get my notes right, because my goodness, if you challenge me on this,
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I'll be in big trouble. But oh yeah, okay, good,
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okay. So December seventh, nineteen forty one, how many of you been
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to Pearl Harbor? Some of you been there? Eh? Okay? Good?
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So December seventh, nineteen forty one, they bombed Pearl Harbor, so
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thousands of people lost their lives. And you know, the idea was to
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destroy our fleet and to destroy the major antagonist, the United States, that
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was standing against their advancement and their plan of takeover and occupation of these other
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nations. So and shortly after that, I mean there was no there was
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no solution. But shortly after that, actually a little further after that,
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nineteen forty five, our president was Roosevelt. Roosevelt wasn't coming up with a
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solution. He passed away. Truman took over, and Truman's main objective was
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to end the war. He wanted to end the war. And not long
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after he became president, he heard of this project. It was called the
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Manhattan Project, and there were experiments going on with nuclear warfare, with atomic
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bombs, and he felt like that was the answer. And so I think
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even today, we know, you know, we're hearing about Russia all the
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time, maybe you know, pushing the nuclear button and putin you know,
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might do something with you know, nuclear warfare. And if we go into
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you know, World War three, what's going to happen? And so,
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I mean there's a sensitivity to all this. We know it's the last ditch
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thing. We know it's the last thing we want to happen, right,
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But in that case, they felt at that time, and I don't know
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what you would have done, but they felt at that time it was the
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only option to win the war. So even though it was the last option
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on the table, it was the only option to win the war. And
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so from a little island north of the Guam, a bomber took off and
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went over to first Hibroshima and dropped that bomb. Eighty thousand people died instantly,
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so terribly powerful, wiped out the entire region. And then a second
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bomb bomber took off and went to Nagasaki and dropped a bomb there. Thirty
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nine thousand died immediately. You know, many died afterwards, and it was
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just this crazy thing, but they prevailed and that was the end of the
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war. And in our current situation, you know, I don't know how
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the conversation to go at your house, but in my house, conversations are
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kind of like this. They're kind of like, you know, things are
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bad. Anybody have any of those conversations at their house? And then the
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conversation kind of goes like, you know, even if the good guys were
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to win the election in every state, in every legislative district, every congressional
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district, in the national election, even if the good guys were to win,
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what we've seen is we've seen voter fraud and we've seen issues with the
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ballots. Right, So then what we're at our house, we're like,
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you know, even if the good guys were to win all across the nation,
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it could still keep getting bad. It could get worse. And if
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I could do something about it. I don't know about you, but if
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I could do something about it, I would do something about it. Right.
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So, in the process of just submitting some of those prayers and thoughts
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to the Lord, then I felt the Lord spoke to me, and the
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Lord said, you can do something about it. You have the most powerful
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weapon there is, and that's prayer with fasting. And I'm like, oh,
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And he reminded me of the breakthroughs that have happened in my life.
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Multiple times. He reminded me of the breakthroughs that have happened with us as
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a church. For us as a church, we were under tremendous warfare in
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this city for ten years, and it's only through prayer and fasting. So
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we just rallied together. We looked at the scripture, we believed God.
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We begin to hear what God would do, and we began to rally together
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as a people, and we fasted and prayed three days every month for months
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upon months upon months until we got the breakthroughs in city government and with the
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building, the property, with every aspect, with every aspect. But it
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was spiritual first. It was spiritual warfare. It was the air war.
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It was the air war. And so really this this appeal is to those
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who understand the air battle, who understand that things shift in the spirit realm
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before they shift in the natural realm, and that we can shift things quickly
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actually in the natural realm if we shift things in the spirit realm. And
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so I'm you know, meditating on some of the steffon, you know,
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just in the process of this is you know, months of you know,
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months of you know, conversation. But in a moment, the Lord spoke
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to me and said, you do have a strong weapon. You have an
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arsenal, You have a powerful weapon. You do have something at your disposal,
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and I want you to deploy it and so that birth to what we're
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calling Fasting to Save America. So you're going to be given one of these
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on the way out. If you get one on the way in, it's
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got a QR code on the back that takes you to the website. And
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this is a brand new thing. It's like, okay, well, just
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sure, what would you have me to do? And so we started put
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together the plan for this, and we were just getting some of it synthesized
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and put together and organized, and we were just kind of hearing from the
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Lord on what it would be. And it's going to be three days of
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fasting and prayer every month, and it's going to be seven months starting this
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month, all the way to the election. And then I thought, oh
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my goodness, we're going to the Global Prophetic Summit at h Rock Church.
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So I reached out to chey On and because the Lord really spoke to me,
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and I felt what he was saying is that this isn't just for your
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church. I want you to release this across the US and I want others
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to join in on this. So I'm like, all right, So I
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reached out to to this is this is this is a four day summit in
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Pasadena where the who's who of the charismatic community come together. So we had
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thirty guest speakers there and these are all like the Lancewollnows and James gall and
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it's you know, just all of these, you know, And so I
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felt like I was supposed to reach out and ask if we could bring it
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there. So that meant getting everything ready really super fast, right banners,
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posters, Rena even made me a shirt. I even had two shirts.
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We sold them the last day because people you know, falling in we're falling
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in love with this stuff. So but I had a you know, a
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shirt with fasting to Save America on it, and so they said, yeah
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you can, you can do that. And then the day before were to
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leave, they said, bring your books, bring your stuff, bring your
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books. So, uh, we were in the four year at H Trock
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Church. They gave us this super prominent spot with a table, and we
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got to share this with you know, lots of pastors, lots of leaders,
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lots of prophetic leaders. We went to the prophetic lunch and got to
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distribute it to all the prophetic you know people at the prophetic lunch, and
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then we got to share it of course with Jenny Donnelly, with Mark Gonzalez
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who was here with and and he shared it with lou Ingele who was there,
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and so you know, we don't know what's going to happen with it,
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but we're just believing that God's going to do something that we will place
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some little part, that we will place some little part in turning things around.
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And the focus of this I really felt from Holy Spirit. The focus
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is not on a candidate. We're not praying for candidates, So our focus
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is not on candidates. Our focus is on election integrity at the county level,
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the state level, at the national level. Our focus is going to
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be at the air battle, the spiritual battle to overthrow darkness as it pertains
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to election integrity, so that whoever the people are voting for, that's exactly
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who gets voted in. It's not somebody else. It's not the influence of
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a machine or a computer or a bunch of ballots dropped in the middle of
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the night. It's nothing like that. We We are going to be praying
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and believing that every single vote counts and those are the only votes that count.
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So our first event is we're joining with We're joining with the Jenny Donnley
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team, which is that don't Mess with Our Kids team, and the million
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Woman March on the Mall team. So we're joining with that team to go
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to the Capitol this Saturday. So you're going to get one of these on
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the way out too, because we're going to be fasting Thursday, Friday,
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and Saturday of this week, and we want you to join us on Saturday
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at the Mall because we're expecting a few thousand believers to come and we're going
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to come in warfare, we're going to come in expression of faith. We're
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going to come in prayer, we're going to take communion together. It's meant
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to be a gathering again of spiritual impact. It's not so much the show
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of the quantity of people. It's not a song we sing, it's not
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we're there to present petitions. We're there to come together as the body of
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Christ across Washington State and make a noise in the sphere room and declare the
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Kingdom of Heaven over Washington State in the sphere realm. So that's how we're
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going to end this week's fast, and we're inviting you to be a part
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of that. We want you to be a part of that. But we
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know that fasting is you know, fasting is it's the last weapon that we
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deploy. It's the last weapon you deploy because it's costly and it's not fun,
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and you know, it's it's not convenient, and it's sacrificial. But
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the power of it is neutralear. The power of fasting is neutralear and its
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demonstration. So and really, you know, back into the Old Testament,
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every you know, pretty much every crazy thing that happened in victory. You
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know, often we don't realize it, but it's because the people fasted.
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It wasn't just because they prayed. It's because they combined prayer with fasting.
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And we don't really practice this today. We're you know, we're way too
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hip for that. We're way too cool. We got merch, we got
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expresso beans that we grind up. We don't even have hymns anymore. We
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don't have pews those were stinky anyway, We have padded chairs. I mean,
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we are too hip for fasting and we're too plump for fasting as well.
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Fact is there, I mean a little joke. It was not good,
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but I mean, you know, we had the big banter up and
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everything. We're in the fourier. I mean, we got, you know,
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a thousand people walking by our stuff every day. And I was convinced,
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if it was feasting to save America, thousands would have stopped at my
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table. But it was fasting. And I'm telling you a lot of us
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we need a raimer from God. We need a visitation from heaven for that
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one, because we're I mean, feasting to save America is much more exciting.
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But here's the thing. I think that we're on the cusp of losing
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our nation. And I believe this is a critical year, and maybe the
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most critical year we've ever faced as a nation for a couple hundred years.
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I mean, this is a super super critical year because the agenda of darkness
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and that is being thrust into our nation right now is unrelenting, powerful,
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destructive, and it's set out to really destroy our nation. So I think
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it's this year is kind of all hands on deck year. This is a
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pedal to the metal. This is we can take naps in twenty twenty five.
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We really need to be boots on the ground with whatever power we can
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deploy. And if you're not working in a caucus, if you're not knocking
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on doors, if you're not donating to a campaign, if you're not showing
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up at the Capitol building, if you're not getting to the Daniel House of
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prayer. There's a house of prayer in Olympia. If you're not engaged in
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some crazy expression in twenty twenty four, then you're missing it. This is
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your opportunity to get engaged in a crazy expression. And here's one that every
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one of us can be involved in. And I'm telling you, this is
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a critical time for our nation, super critical time for our nation. And
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we don't want to lose our nation. We don't want to lose our nation.
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God doesn't want to lose our nation. And so I'm inviting you to
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do something extremely unconventional. So, going back to the Bible, Nehemiah is
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involved in a period when the temple's getting rebuilt, right, and so that's
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good because the period of captivity is over. Jeremiah prophesies seventy years. Daniel
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goes to God praying that now that the seventy years are over, here's another
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here's another fasting prayer, warrior, now that the seventy years are over,
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that the people can go back and so the people begin to go back and
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Nehemiah Ezra, they're a part of this is the rubbable. He's one that's
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prophesying over the rebuilding of the Second Temple. Zachariah, he's there as a
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part of the rebuilding of the Second Temple. So a lot of this prophetic
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stuff that we see in the Bible, it's all engaged in stuff that's happening
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after the Babylonian captivity, which was due to their sin. And now they're
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going back to Jerusalem, right, and the temple is going to be rebuilt.
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But Nehemiah notices, and he's one who's serving over here in captivity,
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right. But he notices and hears that even though they're building rebuilding the temple,
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the wall is broken down, so enemies are coming through. They're penetrating
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a broken down wall, and they are besieging and harming the builders. So
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he's like touched in his heart over the thing him like Esther and so many
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others for him to get a breakthrough to see the king, to be released
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by the king. He's going to pray, yes, but he's also going
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to fast. That's the first thing that Niemiah does. Meamiah Chapter one,
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you seeing the Amiyah crying out to God for his people in a fast,
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and this is this is like super common. Jehosaphat after the kingdom splits.
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And I don't know if you're you know, I'm just going to jump around
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a little bit this morning, because we're out of time already. After the
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kingdom splits, and so we have Judah, and we have Jerusalem and Samaria.
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We have the Northern Kingdom and the Southern Kingdom. This is after Solomon.
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Solomon, you know, after Solomon the kingdom divided, right, and
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so we have Jeroboam and Reebauam, and so we have a Northern Kingdom and
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a Southern kingdom. And so Israel is no ten tribes and two tribes.
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So it's still twelve, but it's a divided kingdom now. And so Jehosephat
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is a good king over Judah. So Second Chronicles, chapter twenty, Jehosephat
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is suddenly surrounded by this massive army. What's he do? Calls the people
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to not just to pray. See what they did to get crazy breakthroughs in
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the Bible. Is they combined fasting with prayer. It wasn't just prayer,
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it was combining fasting with prayer, and we've lost the we've lost and you
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know, the familiarity with this, and so to a degree, we've also
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lost the familiarity with the power that it releases, the breakthroughs that transpire and
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the crazy things that can happen when we fast and pray. So they get
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they get this crazy breakthrough right. This is Second Chronicles, chapter twenty.
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I'll read that one Second Chronicles, chapter twenty. God does crazy breakthroughs.
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A vast army is coming against you from Edom, from the other side of
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the sea. So Jehosephat has all the people ju to come to get her,
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to seek help from the Lord. Indeed, they came from every town
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in Judah to seek him, and he calls them to fast and to pray.
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And some of you remember the story going down further, there's a the
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spear of the Lord came upon Jeheseel, the son of Zachariah, the son
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of Ben and Ayah. So the spear of the Lord. After they do
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this fast, the spear of the Lord comes on this prophetic guy and he
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begins to prophesy. He says, listen, King and all who live in
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Judah, and Jerusalem. This is what the Lord says. Do not be
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afraid or discouraged because of the vast army. For the battle is not yours,
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but it is the lords. Tomorrow. March down against them. They'll
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be climbing up by this pass, and you will find them at the end
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of the gorge and the desert, and you'll not have to fight this battle.
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Take up position, stand firm. See the deliverance. The Lord will
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give you Judah and Jerusalem. Do not be afraid. Go out and face
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them, and the Lord will be with you. And then he tells them,
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put Judah out there first, remember this one. Put Judah out there
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first, and just have them sing and worship, and they're going to declare
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the Lord is good and his mercy and do earth forever. And so the
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Lord wins this crazy battle for him, right. And this is the kind
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of thing we need right now. I'm convinced of it. I'm convinced we
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need the nuclear option. It's not convenient, it's not fun, but it's
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the most powerful weapon that we have. It's the most powerful weapon that we
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possess. We possess the power to tap into something in the spirit realm through
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prayer, and fasting that will break things open and that will destroy the power
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of the enemy. Tommy Hicks is an evangelist that was just a young guy
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in the fifties. This is in the fifties. It's a worthwhile story,
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and I want to just tell you a couple of stories about fasting and prayer.
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Tommy Hicks was in the Midwest, and what had happened is in the
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forties, this guy named Franklin Hall started a fasting revival. Now, you
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obviously can't start a fasting and revival and somebody unless somebody starts fasting. So
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this guy named Franklin Graham starts fasting, and miracles start breaking out. And
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the miracles are so powerful and convincing and demonstrative with regard to victories and salvations
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and quenching the power of the enemy. They're so demonstrative that others get involved
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in the fasting. They're like, oh, so now you have a fastering
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revival because you have all this power and you have all this grace that others
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are witnessing and people are getting healed like crazy. So Franklin Hole starts this.
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T. L Osbourne is one of the you know, eventually Eventually it's
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William Brandham's part of that AA Allen. Eventually it's Kenneth Hagen, Eventually it's
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Oral Roberts. So this thing, it starts with what is launched as the
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latter they reign move and it's just literally hundreds of thousands and then millions of
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people across America, and they have publications that are you know, and they
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have books and publications and stuff going crazy. The fact is you can buy
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a book still today on Amazon or just look it up called The Atomic Power
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of Fasting in Prayer, The Atomic Power of Fasting and Prayer by Franklin Home.
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So eventually this catches on over in Argentina and there's a group of folks
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that are praying over there for revival. And Argentina is a complete nightmare of
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ungodliness, and so they're praying for revival over there. They start fasting,
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you know, for revival. And then God meets this small group and they
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feel like that the Lord's telling them to invite T. L Osborne anybody ever
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heard of he l Osborne? A couple of you. The Lord is telling
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to invite tl Osbourne to Argentina. So the sent an invitation to tl Osbourne,
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and he's too busy. He's got so many crusades going on in tip
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meetings, he's traveling the world. He's one of these guys that his world
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had been rocked through prayer and fasting, and so he's too busy. He
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suggests that they invite a young evangelist named Tommy Hicks. Tommy Hicks had been
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seeking the Lord in prayer and fasting, and the story is that he had
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had three forty day fasts and he felt like he was just digging a dry
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well, like nothing had happened, nothing had happened. They invite him to
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Argentina. Holy Spirit ministers to him and he's seeking the Lord in a fast,
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and the Holy Spirit shows him a vision of stadiums filled in Argentina and
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hundreds of thousands of people getting saved, healed and delivered. So he's like,
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okay, I gotta go. So he shares that vision with you know,
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some folks. They pay his way. He flies to Argentina. On
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his way there, again, this is all born out of parent fasting.
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He's asking the Holy Spirit, how will he ever get stadiums? He can't
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speak in Spanish, how will he ever get stadiums filled in Argentina. He's
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flying there and the Lord says, Parone, ask for Parone. So he
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stops the stewardess in the on the airplane and says, do you know anything
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about the name Paron? Does that mean anything to you? She's like,
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oh, yeah, that's the president of Argentina, that's the president of our
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nation. So oh okay, great. He gets there. He meets with
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this little council of revivalists who are fasting and praying for a breakout in Argentina,
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and he says, I've had this vision. We're gonna fill stadium and
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we're gonna have this crazy stuff that happens, and like that's impossible, it
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could never happen. And he said, well, I'm supposed to talk to
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your president, President prone and they're like that's impossible, that will never happen.
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So they said, he said, just give me a translator and just
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take me to the capitol building. So he goes right and so a guard
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is there. He's talking to the guard and he's telling the guard what he's
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come to do, and the guards well, you can't see the president.
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I can't let you in. So he's telling him about the Lord. He's
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telling him about healing, telling him about signs and wonders and miracles, and
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he says, would would this Jesus heal me? And he said yes,
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of course. And so he says, well, I have hepatitis and I'm
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in pain right now. I can barely stand up. It's just unbelievably bad.
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And would you pray for me? So he prays for him. He's
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instantly healed of hepatitis. Yeah, the pain goes away. He says,
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I'll get you in to see President per On tomorrow. So he comes back
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the next day. The doors are open. Uh. He goes in to
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see the president and the president is covered with like ezema and what is it?
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Huh, psoriasis? Is I'm gonna take it right? So and his
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like and he's been refusing public, uh you know, he think public for
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two years and he hasn't been on the no photos or nothing, and he's
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got this terrible, terrible, you know, situation going on. And so
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he tells him the whole vision. He tells him about the Lord, he
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tells him about the stadiums and whatever, and uh and then he you know,
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he stops him and he says, well, I can't help you with
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all that. But he says, does this Jesus heal today still? And
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he says yes. He says, would you pray for me? He prays
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for him. He's instantly healed all of the scabs and the flakiness falls off
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of his face in front of Tommy Hicks, in front of all of his
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aids. They're in the office, and he goes and looks in the mirror
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and his face the skin is like brand new skin. And he says,
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anything you want in the country is yours. This is nineteen fifty three.
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He opens up the entire country to him. It begins this massive outbreak of
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revival. They fill stadiums of thirty three thousand and then they fill stadiums to
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the largest one, three hundred and thirty three thousand stadium. So a move
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of God. And that's what started this crazy move of God in Argentina that
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spread into other nations. It's just a crazy thing. So fasting in prayer,
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quenching of darkness through fasting and prayer. And I know it's not what
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you want to do, but you heard Pastor Joel this morning. You are
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a unique people. And if you're watching this morning, You're a unique person.
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God's clothing us. This is like an Elijah moment with a showdown with
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Jezebel. This is like, this is like a Jayhu moment as he was
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sent by Elisha to have Jezebel thrown down. I mean, this is our
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God and Bael. This is a show down season, and God's asking us
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to rise up to it with the most powerful weapon that He's given us.
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And that's fascinating. Prayer. I want to tell you about one more person,
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and I'll let you stand as we do. That isn't that nice of
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me? What a nice guy? You know? Years ago, there was
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a guy on TBN, and I, honestly I didn't pay much attention to
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him because I was young. But there was a guy on TBN that would
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pop in now and then, and he was friends of Paul and Jan Crouch
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and so I knew he was out there and I knew he was around,
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but I didn't pay much attention to him. But his whole life was centered
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around fasting, prayer and breakthroughs for the nation. This guy's name was Arthur
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bless It. Anybody remember Arthur bless It? And so he felt like the
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Lord gave him this assignment to carry or to pack or to drag across clear
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across the nation, and to fast and pray for the nation. So he
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did this from nineteen sixty nine to nineteen seventy one. He would carry this
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cross or drag this cross, or pack this cross from city to city,
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capital capital, kind of like Sean Foyd is doing right now with worship where
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he's going into every capital right now. Arthur Blessed was doing this with the
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cross and fasting and praying for the nation, and you know, just seeing
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breakthroughs in every state, in every city. Well, what happened is in
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nineteen seventy I want to get this to you. In nineteen seventy one.
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In nineteen seventy one, him and his team ended that cross walk in Washington,
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d C. And he propped up his cross against a tree at the
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corner of fifteenth and Constitution Avenue and announced that him and his wife were going
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on a forty day fast. And so every day they were there fifteenth in
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Constitution Avenue and he went on a forty day fast right there in front of
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the Capitol building. He was praying for three things. That's beautiful. Yeah,
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I give it to him and give it to me. I do better
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with that thing on Thank you Lord. Notice just the tone changes everything.
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Just feel that sweetness in the atmosphere right there. He had three things he
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was praying for in that forty day fast. That God would remove corruption from
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the White House that America. Now, how did he know there was a
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corruption in the White House. I don't know how he knew there was a
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corruption in the White House. He was praying for God to remove corruption from
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the White House. Number two, this is nineteen seventy one, that America
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would elect a president that would openly profess to be born again, a born
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again Christian president. And number three, that a wave of revival would sweep
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across the young people of America. Within just a few weeks, the Watergate
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discovery broke out with President Nixon and all of this uncleanness in the White House
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was exposed. And within just a short time, Jimmy Carter was elected to
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be president who professed openly to be a born again Christian and humbly followed the
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Lord Jesus Christ as his personal savior. And in nineteen seventy three, a
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great revival and an awakening broke out and began to sweep through the young people
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of our nation. Another story after story after story after story like that,
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we just don't know about him. And a lot of times it's like you
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don't know how many people have Honda accords to you buy until you pay attention
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to fasting, you don't even recognize how many times fasting was the catalyst of
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the prayer that brought the powerful shift. It wasn't just the prayer, It
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was the catalyst of fasting with the prayer that subdued the enemy, that toppled
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the darkness, that brought the powerful shift, that caused the prayer to have
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an effect on the spirit realm that wouldn't have taken place. And so a
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lot of times this stuff just goes right past our filter because we aren't looking
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for fasting. So many times we're looking for feasting. We love our potlucks.
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Come on now, it's not a slam, it's not terrible. Bring
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it on, we love. I've got one coming up right away. But
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the power of fasting, Church, the power of fasting. I made a
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couple of notes, So I want you to join us this Thursday night,
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uh, this Thursday, Friday, Saturday. We're going into a fast and
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do it to the degree you can. If you can do a Daniel fast
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Thursday, Friday, Saturday, do it. If you can do a water
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only fast. The fast of Esther was nothing. When all the Jews of
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Persia modern day Iraq, Iran Iraq, when all of the Jews were about
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to be destroyed, Her and Mordecai called them all to a fast, it
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was it was nothing. I think I'm gonna try this. I'm not excited
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about it. Pray for me, Zach. This is a nothing fast like
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no water, no food, nothing, Help us Jesus. But the next
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day, at the at the end of that three day fast, the king
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who was going to have mal killed, suddenly has a revelation, like a
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visitation comes upon that king, and he's like, hang on, wasn't there
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a guy that saved my life a few years ago? A Jewish guy?
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Wow? I don't think we ever rewarded him with anything. Hayman, come
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here. What would we do for somebody who saved the king? Oh?
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You should trade him around town, make him special, get him on a
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chariot, get him a feast, do something special with him, get him
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some wine, make him special. Oh well, there's a guy named Mordecaia
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Mary Kay. This Jewish guy Hayman had just built the gallows for him,
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for Mordechai. They're a bar ready to kill every Jew. But suddenly the
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king has this revelation. Right when did this suddenly happen? After three days
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of fasting? So do it to whatever level you can. I know on
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fast time, I know you need to go home and feast, but and
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then join us Saturday. I'll be here Thursday night for prayer. I'll be
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here Friday night for prayer because I want to meet with you that are fasting,
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fasting something and praying for the nation. Go on the QR code,
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use that register to be a part of this sign out register and then download
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the prayer guides and then prepare to join me Thursday, Friday, Saturday.
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It's a three day fast. Here's my final thoughts. So much to the
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spirit reap much from the sphere Galatian six and eight. So much to the
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spirit reap much from the spirit. It's the law of reciprocity. The reward
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of the spirit realm is always related to the sacrifice. Fasting. It's a
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mystery, but fasting is entering into death, exiting the natural realm, entering
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the spirit realm, death to self, death to flesh, death, and
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entering into the broken body and the shed blood of Jesus, and therefore his
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victory over the demonic realm in a way that nothing else positions you for.
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To Lord, we just shout a grace over your people. We shout a
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grace over this campaign. We shout a grace over the visitation that will come
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upon us. With prayers, with proclamations, with decrees, with prophetic utterance,
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with insight, with understanding, we shall grace over the body of Christ
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to enter into a partnership of dominion. It's not a voting software that has
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dominion. It's the people of God that have dominion. The people of God
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have dominion, and they exercise it in prayer and fasting. And we loose
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that grace on them in Jesus' name, and everybody said, God, bless
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you. Let's worship as we go this morning, church,