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The Nuclear Option | Pastor Dwain Wolfe

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  1. Father, we thank you for the word today and we just thank you for

  2. helping us and just the quickening of Holy Spirit on our hearts, in our

  3. hearts, moving us into all that you're calling us to do. I gave

  4. you the praise for it in Jesus' name. Everybody said, Amen. I've

  5. entitled this the nuclear option. I feel like that what the Lord is calling

  6. us to do is something like super crazy, super desperate, and I think

  7. that's what the United States and the global community was facing in nineteen forty five.

  8. So in nineteen thirty one, especially Japan. I don't know if you

  9. know, but Japan was real provoker in World War two, and so they

  10. started taking over a lot of territory. By the time we get to nineteen

  11. thirty seven, you know, Japan was expanding into China, taking over China

  12. into China as well, so that would have been some of the other Asian

  13. nations, and so there was a great provoking of war coming out of Japan.

  14. And World War Two, though, involved almost every nation on the globe

  15. and millions of people were killed. So it was it was quite a crazy

  16. in a war that was going on, and the nations of the world were

  17. trying to figure out, you know, how to how to solve this.

  18. No doubt the United States was at the forefront of helping solve it. And

  19. the treaty that the Japanese pulled out of in coming into nineteen forty one,

  20. and then due to the warnings and the request of the United States and other

  21. nations for them to withdraw from occupied territory, they became more aggressive instead,

  22. and they had convinced their emperor had convinced their people to give up their lives

  23. for their cause, so they were willing to lay down their lives completely for

  24. their cause. We know the pilots, kama kanzi pilots, we've heard of

  25. that. But the common Japanese people were trained in war, and women and

  26. children were trained in war and trained to kill. So in nineteen forty five,

  27. in nineteen what was it, I'm going to get my I want to

  28. get my notes right, because my goodness, if you challenge me on this,

  29. I'll be in big trouble. But oh yeah, okay, good,

  30. okay. So December seventh, nineteen forty one, how many of you been

  31. to Pearl Harbor? Some of you been there? Eh? Okay? Good?

  32. So December seventh, nineteen forty one, they bombed Pearl Harbor, so

  33. thousands of people lost their lives. And you know, the idea was to

  34. destroy our fleet and to destroy the major antagonist, the United States, that

  35. was standing against their advancement and their plan of takeover and occupation of these other

  36. nations. So and shortly after that, I mean there was no there was

  37. no solution. But shortly after that, actually a little further after that,

  38. nineteen forty five, our president was Roosevelt. Roosevelt wasn't coming up with a

  39. solution. He passed away. Truman took over, and Truman's main objective was

  40. to end the war. He wanted to end the war. And not long

  41. after he became president, he heard of this project. It was called the

  42. Manhattan Project, and there were experiments going on with nuclear warfare, with atomic

  43. bombs, and he felt like that was the answer. And so I think

  44. even today, we know, you know, we're hearing about Russia all the

  45. time, maybe you know, pushing the nuclear button and putin you know,

  46. might do something with you know, nuclear warfare. And if we go into

  47. you know, World War three, what's going to happen? And so,

  48. I mean there's a sensitivity to all this. We know it's the last ditch

  49. thing. We know it's the last thing we want to happen, right,

  50. But in that case, they felt at that time, and I don't know

  51. what you would have done, but they felt at that time it was the

  52. only option to win the war. So even though it was the last option

  53. on the table, it was the only option to win the war. And

  54. so from a little island north of the Guam, a bomber took off and

  55. went over to first Hibroshima and dropped that bomb. Eighty thousand people died instantly,

  56. so terribly powerful, wiped out the entire region. And then a second

  57. bomb bomber took off and went to Nagasaki and dropped a bomb there. Thirty

  58. nine thousand died immediately. You know, many died afterwards, and it was

  59. just this crazy thing, but they prevailed and that was the end of the

  60. war. And in our current situation, you know, I don't know how

  61. the conversation to go at your house, but in my house, conversations are

  62. kind of like this. They're kind of like, you know, things are

  63. bad. Anybody have any of those conversations at their house? And then the

  64. conversation kind of goes like, you know, even if the good guys were

  65. to win the election in every state, in every legislative district, every congressional

  66. district, in the national election, even if the good guys were to win,

  67. what we've seen is we've seen voter fraud and we've seen issues with the

  68. ballots. Right, So then what we're at our house, we're like,

  69. you know, even if the good guys were to win all across the nation,

  70. it could still keep getting bad. It could get worse. And if

  71. I could do something about it. I don't know about you, but if

  72. I could do something about it, I would do something about it. Right.

  73. So, in the process of just submitting some of those prayers and thoughts

  74. to the Lord, then I felt the Lord spoke to me, and the

  75. Lord said, you can do something about it. You have the most powerful

  76. weapon there is, and that's prayer with fasting. And I'm like, oh,

  77. And he reminded me of the breakthroughs that have happened in my life.

  78. Multiple times. He reminded me of the breakthroughs that have happened with us as

  79. a church. For us as a church, we were under tremendous warfare in

  80. this city for ten years, and it's only through prayer and fasting. So

  81. we just rallied together. We looked at the scripture, we believed God.

  82. We begin to hear what God would do, and we began to rally together

  83. as a people, and we fasted and prayed three days every month for months

  84. upon months upon months until we got the breakthroughs in city government and with the

  85. building, the property, with every aspect, with every aspect. But it

  86. was spiritual first. It was spiritual warfare. It was the air war.

  87. It was the air war. And so really this this appeal is to those

  88. who understand the air battle, who understand that things shift in the spirit realm

  89. before they shift in the natural realm, and that we can shift things quickly

  90. actually in the natural realm if we shift things in the spirit realm. And

  91. so I'm you know, meditating on some of the steffon, you know,

  92. just in the process of this is you know, months of you know,

  93. months of you know, conversation. But in a moment, the Lord spoke

  94. to me and said, you do have a strong weapon. You have an

  95. arsenal, You have a powerful weapon. You do have something at your disposal,

  96. and I want you to deploy it and so that birth to what we're

  97. calling Fasting to Save America. So you're going to be given one of these

  98. on the way out. If you get one on the way in, it's

  99. got a QR code on the back that takes you to the website. And

  100. this is a brand new thing. It's like, okay, well, just

  101. sure, what would you have me to do? And so we started put

  102. together the plan for this, and we were just getting some of it synthesized

  103. and put together and organized, and we were just kind of hearing from the

  104. Lord on what it would be. And it's going to be three days of

  105. fasting and prayer every month, and it's going to be seven months starting this

  106. month, all the way to the election. And then I thought, oh

  107. my goodness, we're going to the Global Prophetic Summit at h Rock Church.

  108. So I reached out to chey On and because the Lord really spoke to me,

  109. and I felt what he was saying is that this isn't just for your

  110. church. I want you to release this across the US and I want others

  111. to join in on this. So I'm like, all right, So I

  112. reached out to to this is this is this is a four day summit in

  113. Pasadena where the who's who of the charismatic community come together. So we had

  114. thirty guest speakers there and these are all like the Lancewollnows and James gall and

  115. it's you know, just all of these, you know, And so I

  116. felt like I was supposed to reach out and ask if we could bring it

  117. there. So that meant getting everything ready really super fast, right banners,

  118. posters, Rena even made me a shirt. I even had two shirts.

  119. We sold them the last day because people you know, falling in we're falling

  120. in love with this stuff. So but I had a you know, a

  121. shirt with fasting to Save America on it, and so they said, yeah

  122. you can, you can do that. And then the day before were to

  123. leave, they said, bring your books, bring your stuff, bring your

  124. books. So, uh, we were in the four year at H Trock

  125. Church. They gave us this super prominent spot with a table, and we

  126. got to share this with you know, lots of pastors, lots of leaders,

  127. lots of prophetic leaders. We went to the prophetic lunch and got to

  128. distribute it to all the prophetic you know people at the prophetic lunch, and

  129. then we got to share it of course with Jenny Donnelly, with Mark Gonzalez

  130. who was here with and and he shared it with lou Ingele who was there,

  131. and so you know, we don't know what's going to happen with it,

  132. but we're just believing that God's going to do something that we will place

  133. some little part, that we will place some little part in turning things around.

  134. And the focus of this I really felt from Holy Spirit. The focus

  135. is not on a candidate. We're not praying for candidates, So our focus

  136. is not on candidates. Our focus is on election integrity at the county level,

  137. the state level, at the national level. Our focus is going to

  138. be at the air battle, the spiritual battle to overthrow darkness as it pertains

  139. to election integrity, so that whoever the people are voting for, that's exactly

  140. who gets voted in. It's not somebody else. It's not the influence of

  141. a machine or a computer or a bunch of ballots dropped in the middle of

  142. the night. It's nothing like that. We We are going to be praying

  143. and believing that every single vote counts and those are the only votes that count.

  144. So our first event is we're joining with We're joining with the Jenny Donnley

  145. team, which is that don't Mess with Our Kids team, and the million

  146. Woman March on the Mall team. So we're joining with that team to go

  147. to the Capitol this Saturday. So you're going to get one of these on

  148. the way out too, because we're going to be fasting Thursday, Friday,

  149. and Saturday of this week, and we want you to join us on Saturday

  150. at the Mall because we're expecting a few thousand believers to come and we're going

  151. to come in warfare, we're going to come in expression of faith. We're

  152. going to come in prayer, we're going to take communion together. It's meant

  153. to be a gathering again of spiritual impact. It's not so much the show

  154. of the quantity of people. It's not a song we sing, it's not

  155. we're there to present petitions. We're there to come together as the body of

  156. Christ across Washington State and make a noise in the sphere room and declare the

  157. Kingdom of Heaven over Washington State in the sphere realm. So that's how we're

  158. going to end this week's fast, and we're inviting you to be a part

  159. of that. We want you to be a part of that. But we

  160. know that fasting is you know, fasting is it's the last weapon that we

  161. deploy. It's the last weapon you deploy because it's costly and it's not fun,

  162. and you know, it's it's not convenient, and it's sacrificial. But

  163. the power of it is neutralear. The power of fasting is neutralear and its

  164. demonstration. So and really, you know, back into the Old Testament,

  165. every you know, pretty much every crazy thing that happened in victory. You

  166. know, often we don't realize it, but it's because the people fasted.

  167. It wasn't just because they prayed. It's because they combined prayer with fasting.

  168. And we don't really practice this today. We're you know, we're way too

  169. hip for that. We're way too cool. We got merch, we got

  170. expresso beans that we grind up. We don't even have hymns anymore. We

  171. don't have pews those were stinky anyway, We have padded chairs. I mean,

  172. we are too hip for fasting and we're too plump for fasting as well.

  173. Fact is there, I mean a little joke. It was not good,

  174. but I mean, you know, we had the big banter up and

  175. everything. We're in the fourier. I mean, we got, you know,

  176. a thousand people walking by our stuff every day. And I was convinced,

  177. if it was feasting to save America, thousands would have stopped at my

  178. table. But it was fasting. And I'm telling you a lot of us

  179. we need a raimer from God. We need a visitation from heaven for that

  180. one, because we're I mean, feasting to save America is much more exciting.

  181. But here's the thing. I think that we're on the cusp of losing

  182. our nation. And I believe this is a critical year, and maybe the

  183. most critical year we've ever faced as a nation for a couple hundred years.

  184. I mean, this is a super super critical year because the agenda of darkness

  185. and that is being thrust into our nation right now is unrelenting, powerful,

  186. destructive, and it's set out to really destroy our nation. So I think

  187. it's this year is kind of all hands on deck year. This is a

  188. pedal to the metal. This is we can take naps in twenty twenty five.

  189. We really need to be boots on the ground with whatever power we can

  190. deploy. And if you're not working in a caucus, if you're not knocking

  191. on doors, if you're not donating to a campaign, if you're not showing

  192. up at the Capitol building, if you're not getting to the Daniel House of

  193. prayer. There's a house of prayer in Olympia. If you're not engaged in

  194. some crazy expression in twenty twenty four, then you're missing it. This is

  195. your opportunity to get engaged in a crazy expression. And here's one that every

  196. one of us can be involved in. And I'm telling you, this is

  197. a critical time for our nation, super critical time for our nation. And

  198. we don't want to lose our nation. We don't want to lose our nation.

  199. God doesn't want to lose our nation. And so I'm inviting you to

  200. do something extremely unconventional. So, going back to the Bible, Nehemiah is

  201. involved in a period when the temple's getting rebuilt, right, and so that's

  202. good because the period of captivity is over. Jeremiah prophesies seventy years. Daniel

  203. goes to God praying that now that the seventy years are over, here's another

  204. here's another fasting prayer, warrior, now that the seventy years are over,

  205. that the people can go back and so the people begin to go back and

  206. Nehemiah Ezra, they're a part of this is the rubbable. He's one that's

  207. prophesying over the rebuilding of the Second Temple. Zachariah, he's there as a

  208. part of the rebuilding of the Second Temple. So a lot of this prophetic

  209. stuff that we see in the Bible, it's all engaged in stuff that's happening

  210. after the Babylonian captivity, which was due to their sin. And now they're

  211. going back to Jerusalem, right, and the temple is going to be rebuilt.

  212. But Nehemiah notices, and he's one who's serving over here in captivity,

  213. right. But he notices and hears that even though they're building rebuilding the temple,

  214. the wall is broken down, so enemies are coming through. They're penetrating

  215. a broken down wall, and they are besieging and harming the builders. So

  216. he's like touched in his heart over the thing him like Esther and so many

  217. others for him to get a breakthrough to see the king, to be released

  218. by the king. He's going to pray, yes, but he's also going

  219. to fast. That's the first thing that Niemiah does. Meamiah Chapter one,

  220. you seeing the Amiyah crying out to God for his people in a fast,

  221. and this is this is like super common. Jehosaphat after the kingdom splits.

  222. And I don't know if you're you know, I'm just going to jump around

  223. a little bit this morning, because we're out of time already. After the

  224. kingdom splits, and so we have Judah, and we have Jerusalem and Samaria.

  225. We have the Northern Kingdom and the Southern Kingdom. This is after Solomon.

  226. Solomon, you know, after Solomon the kingdom divided, right, and

  227. so we have Jeroboam and Reebauam, and so we have a Northern Kingdom and

  228. a Southern kingdom. And so Israel is no ten tribes and two tribes.

  229. So it's still twelve, but it's a divided kingdom now. And so Jehosephat

  230. is a good king over Judah. So Second Chronicles, chapter twenty, Jehosephat

  231. is suddenly surrounded by this massive army. What's he do? Calls the people

  232. to not just to pray. See what they did to get crazy breakthroughs in

  233. the Bible. Is they combined fasting with prayer. It wasn't just prayer,

  234. it was combining fasting with prayer, and we've lost the we've lost and you

  235. know, the familiarity with this, and so to a degree, we've also

  236. lost the familiarity with the power that it releases, the breakthroughs that transpire and

  237. the crazy things that can happen when we fast and pray. So they get

  238. they get this crazy breakthrough right. This is Second Chronicles, chapter twenty.

  239. I'll read that one Second Chronicles, chapter twenty. God does crazy breakthroughs.

  240. A vast army is coming against you from Edom, from the other side of

  241. the sea. So Jehosephat has all the people ju to come to get her,

  242. to seek help from the Lord. Indeed, they came from every town

  243. in Judah to seek him, and he calls them to fast and to pray.

  244. And some of you remember the story going down further, there's a the

  245. spear of the Lord came upon Jeheseel, the son of Zachariah, the son

  246. of Ben and Ayah. So the spear of the Lord. After they do

  247. this fast, the spear of the Lord comes on this prophetic guy and he

  248. begins to prophesy. He says, listen, King and all who live in

  249. Judah, and Jerusalem. This is what the Lord says. Do not be

  250. afraid or discouraged because of the vast army. For the battle is not yours,

  251. but it is the lords. Tomorrow. March down against them. They'll

  252. be climbing up by this pass, and you will find them at the end

  253. of the gorge and the desert, and you'll not have to fight this battle.

  254. Take up position, stand firm. See the deliverance. The Lord will

  255. give you Judah and Jerusalem. Do not be afraid. Go out and face

  256. them, and the Lord will be with you. And then he tells them,

  257. put Judah out there first, remember this one. Put Judah out there

  258. first, and just have them sing and worship, and they're going to declare

  259. the Lord is good and his mercy and do earth forever. And so the

  260. Lord wins this crazy battle for him, right. And this is the kind

  261. of thing we need right now. I'm convinced of it. I'm convinced we

  262. need the nuclear option. It's not convenient, it's not fun, but it's

  263. the most powerful weapon that we have. It's the most powerful weapon that we

  264. possess. We possess the power to tap into something in the spirit realm through

  265. prayer, and fasting that will break things open and that will destroy the power

  266. of the enemy. Tommy Hicks is an evangelist that was just a young guy

  267. in the fifties. This is in the fifties. It's a worthwhile story,

  268. and I want to just tell you a couple of stories about fasting and prayer.

  269. Tommy Hicks was in the Midwest, and what had happened is in the

  270. forties, this guy named Franklin Hall started a fasting revival. Now, you

  271. obviously can't start a fasting and revival and somebody unless somebody starts fasting. So

  272. this guy named Franklin Graham starts fasting, and miracles start breaking out. And

  273. the miracles are so powerful and convincing and demonstrative with regard to victories and salvations

  274. and quenching the power of the enemy. They're so demonstrative that others get involved

  275. in the fasting. They're like, oh, so now you have a fastering

  276. revival because you have all this power and you have all this grace that others

  277. are witnessing and people are getting healed like crazy. So Franklin Hole starts this.

  278. T. L Osbourne is one of the you know, eventually Eventually it's

  279. William Brandham's part of that AA Allen. Eventually it's Kenneth Hagen, Eventually it's

  280. Oral Roberts. So this thing, it starts with what is launched as the

  281. latter they reign move and it's just literally hundreds of thousands and then millions of

  282. people across America, and they have publications that are you know, and they

  283. have books and publications and stuff going crazy. The fact is you can buy

  284. a book still today on Amazon or just look it up called The Atomic Power

  285. of Fasting in Prayer, The Atomic Power of Fasting and Prayer by Franklin Home.

  286. So eventually this catches on over in Argentina and there's a group of folks

  287. that are praying over there for revival. And Argentina is a complete nightmare of

  288. ungodliness, and so they're praying for revival over there. They start fasting,

  289. you know, for revival. And then God meets this small group and they

  290. feel like that the Lord's telling them to invite T. L Osborne anybody ever

  291. heard of he l Osborne? A couple of you. The Lord is telling

  292. to invite tl Osbourne to Argentina. So the sent an invitation to tl Osbourne,

  293. and he's too busy. He's got so many crusades going on in tip

  294. meetings, he's traveling the world. He's one of these guys that his world

  295. had been rocked through prayer and fasting, and so he's too busy. He

  296. suggests that they invite a young evangelist named Tommy Hicks. Tommy Hicks had been

  297. seeking the Lord in prayer and fasting, and the story is that he had

  298. had three forty day fasts and he felt like he was just digging a dry

  299. well, like nothing had happened, nothing had happened. They invite him to

  300. Argentina. Holy Spirit ministers to him and he's seeking the Lord in a fast,

  301. and the Holy Spirit shows him a vision of stadiums filled in Argentina and

  302. hundreds of thousands of people getting saved, healed and delivered. So he's like,

  303. okay, I gotta go. So he shares that vision with you know,

  304. some folks. They pay his way. He flies to Argentina. On

  305. his way there, again, this is all born out of parent fasting.

  306. He's asking the Holy Spirit, how will he ever get stadiums? He can't

  307. speak in Spanish, how will he ever get stadiums filled in Argentina. He's

  308. flying there and the Lord says, Parone, ask for Parone. So he

  309. stops the stewardess in the on the airplane and says, do you know anything

  310. about the name Paron? Does that mean anything to you? She's like,

  311. oh, yeah, that's the president of Argentina, that's the president of our

  312. nation. So oh okay, great. He gets there. He meets with

  313. this little council of revivalists who are fasting and praying for a breakout in Argentina,

  314. and he says, I've had this vision. We're gonna fill stadium and

  315. we're gonna have this crazy stuff that happens, and like that's impossible, it

  316. could never happen. And he said, well, I'm supposed to talk to

  317. your president, President prone and they're like that's impossible, that will never happen.

  318. So they said, he said, just give me a translator and just

  319. take me to the capitol building. So he goes right and so a guard

  320. is there. He's talking to the guard and he's telling the guard what he's

  321. come to do, and the guards well, you can't see the president.

  322. I can't let you in. So he's telling him about the Lord. He's

  323. telling him about healing, telling him about signs and wonders and miracles, and

  324. he says, would would this Jesus heal me? And he said yes,

  325. of course. And so he says, well, I have hepatitis and I'm

  326. in pain right now. I can barely stand up. It's just unbelievably bad.

  327. And would you pray for me? So he prays for him. He's

  328. instantly healed of hepatitis. Yeah, the pain goes away. He says,

  329. I'll get you in to see President per On tomorrow. So he comes back

  330. the next day. The doors are open. Uh. He goes in to

  331. see the president and the president is covered with like ezema and what is it?

  332. Huh, psoriasis? Is I'm gonna take it right? So and his

  333. like and he's been refusing public, uh you know, he think public for

  334. two years and he hasn't been on the no photos or nothing, and he's

  335. got this terrible, terrible, you know, situation going on. And so

  336. he tells him the whole vision. He tells him about the Lord, he

  337. tells him about the stadiums and whatever, and uh and then he you know,

  338. he stops him and he says, well, I can't help you with

  339. all that. But he says, does this Jesus heal today still? And

  340. he says yes. He says, would you pray for me? He prays

  341. for him. He's instantly healed all of the scabs and the flakiness falls off

  342. of his face in front of Tommy Hicks, in front of all of his

  343. aids. They're in the office, and he goes and looks in the mirror

  344. and his face the skin is like brand new skin. And he says,

  345. anything you want in the country is yours. This is nineteen fifty three.

  346. He opens up the entire country to him. It begins this massive outbreak of

  347. revival. They fill stadiums of thirty three thousand and then they fill stadiums to

  348. the largest one, three hundred and thirty three thousand stadium. So a move

  349. of God. And that's what started this crazy move of God in Argentina that

  350. spread into other nations. It's just a crazy thing. So fasting in prayer,

  351. quenching of darkness through fasting and prayer. And I know it's not what

  352. you want to do, but you heard Pastor Joel this morning. You are

  353. a unique people. And if you're watching this morning, You're a unique person.

  354. God's clothing us. This is like an Elijah moment with a showdown with

  355. Jezebel. This is like, this is like a Jayhu moment as he was

  356. sent by Elisha to have Jezebel thrown down. I mean, this is our

  357. God and Bael. This is a show down season, and God's asking us

  358. to rise up to it with the most powerful weapon that He's given us.

  359. And that's fascinating. Prayer. I want to tell you about one more person,

  360. and I'll let you stand as we do. That isn't that nice of

  361. me? What a nice guy? You know? Years ago, there was

  362. a guy on TBN, and I, honestly I didn't pay much attention to

  363. him because I was young. But there was a guy on TBN that would

  364. pop in now and then, and he was friends of Paul and Jan Crouch

  365. and so I knew he was out there and I knew he was around,

  366. but I didn't pay much attention to him. But his whole life was centered

  367. around fasting, prayer and breakthroughs for the nation. This guy's name was Arthur

  368. bless It. Anybody remember Arthur bless It? And so he felt like the

  369. Lord gave him this assignment to carry or to pack or to drag across clear

  370. across the nation, and to fast and pray for the nation. So he

  371. did this from nineteen sixty nine to nineteen seventy one. He would carry this

  372. cross or drag this cross, or pack this cross from city to city,

  373. capital capital, kind of like Sean Foyd is doing right now with worship where

  374. he's going into every capital right now. Arthur Blessed was doing this with the

  375. cross and fasting and praying for the nation, and you know, just seeing

  376. breakthroughs in every state, in every city. Well, what happened is in

  377. nineteen seventy I want to get this to you. In nineteen seventy one.

  378. In nineteen seventy one, him and his team ended that cross walk in Washington,

  379. d C. And he propped up his cross against a tree at the

  380. corner of fifteenth and Constitution Avenue and announced that him and his wife were going

  381. on a forty day fast. And so every day they were there fifteenth in

  382. Constitution Avenue and he went on a forty day fast right there in front of

  383. the Capitol building. He was praying for three things. That's beautiful. Yeah,

  384. I give it to him and give it to me. I do better

  385. with that thing on Thank you Lord. Notice just the tone changes everything.

  386. Just feel that sweetness in the atmosphere right there. He had three things he

  387. was praying for in that forty day fast. That God would remove corruption from

  388. the White House that America. Now, how did he know there was a

  389. corruption in the White House. I don't know how he knew there was a

  390. corruption in the White House. He was praying for God to remove corruption from

  391. the White House. Number two, this is nineteen seventy one, that America

  392. would elect a president that would openly profess to be born again, a born

  393. again Christian president. And number three, that a wave of revival would sweep

  394. across the young people of America. Within just a few weeks, the Watergate

  395. discovery broke out with President Nixon and all of this uncleanness in the White House

  396. was exposed. And within just a short time, Jimmy Carter was elected to

  397. be president who professed openly to be a born again Christian and humbly followed the

  398. Lord Jesus Christ as his personal savior. And in nineteen seventy three, a

  399. great revival and an awakening broke out and began to sweep through the young people

  400. of our nation. Another story after story after story after story like that,

  401. we just don't know about him. And a lot of times it's like you

  402. don't know how many people have Honda accords to you buy until you pay attention

  403. to fasting, you don't even recognize how many times fasting was the catalyst of

  404. the prayer that brought the powerful shift. It wasn't just the prayer, It

  405. was the catalyst of fasting with the prayer that subdued the enemy, that toppled

  406. the darkness, that brought the powerful shift, that caused the prayer to have

  407. an effect on the spirit realm that wouldn't have taken place. And so a

  408. lot of times this stuff just goes right past our filter because we aren't looking

  409. for fasting. So many times we're looking for feasting. We love our potlucks.

  410. Come on now, it's not a slam, it's not terrible. Bring

  411. it on, we love. I've got one coming up right away. But

  412. the power of fasting, Church, the power of fasting. I made a

  413. couple of notes, So I want you to join us this Thursday night,

  414. uh, this Thursday, Friday, Saturday. We're going into a fast and

  415. do it to the degree you can. If you can do a Daniel fast

  416. Thursday, Friday, Saturday, do it. If you can do a water

  417. only fast. The fast of Esther was nothing. When all the Jews of

  418. Persia modern day Iraq, Iran Iraq, when all of the Jews were about

  419. to be destroyed, Her and Mordecai called them all to a fast, it

  420. was it was nothing. I think I'm gonna try this. I'm not excited

  421. about it. Pray for me, Zach. This is a nothing fast like

  422. no water, no food, nothing, Help us Jesus. But the next

  423. day, at the at the end of that three day fast, the king

  424. who was going to have mal killed, suddenly has a revelation, like a

  425. visitation comes upon that king, and he's like, hang on, wasn't there

  426. a guy that saved my life a few years ago? A Jewish guy?

  427. Wow? I don't think we ever rewarded him with anything. Hayman, come

  428. here. What would we do for somebody who saved the king? Oh?

  429. You should trade him around town, make him special, get him on a

  430. chariot, get him a feast, do something special with him, get him

  431. some wine, make him special. Oh well, there's a guy named Mordecaia

  432. Mary Kay. This Jewish guy Hayman had just built the gallows for him,

  433. for Mordechai. They're a bar ready to kill every Jew. But suddenly the

  434. king has this revelation. Right when did this suddenly happen? After three days

  435. of fasting? So do it to whatever level you can. I know on

  436. fast time, I know you need to go home and feast, but and

  437. then join us Saturday. I'll be here Thursday night for prayer. I'll be

  438. here Friday night for prayer because I want to meet with you that are fasting,

  439. fasting something and praying for the nation. Go on the QR code,

  440. use that register to be a part of this sign out register and then download

  441. the prayer guides and then prepare to join me Thursday, Friday, Saturday.

  442. It's a three day fast. Here's my final thoughts. So much to the

  443. spirit reap much from the sphere Galatian six and eight. So much to the

  444. spirit reap much from the spirit. It's the law of reciprocity. The reward

  445. of the spirit realm is always related to the sacrifice. Fasting. It's a

  446. mystery, but fasting is entering into death, exiting the natural realm, entering

  447. the spirit realm, death to self, death to flesh, death, and

  448. entering into the broken body and the shed blood of Jesus, and therefore his

  449. victory over the demonic realm in a way that nothing else positions you for.

  450. To Lord, we just shout a grace over your people. We shout a

  451. grace over this campaign. We shout a grace over the visitation that will come

  452. upon us. With prayers, with proclamations, with decrees, with prophetic utterance,

  453. with insight, with understanding, we shall grace over the body of Christ

  454. to enter into a partnership of dominion. It's not a voting software that has

  455. dominion. It's the people of God that have dominion. The people of God

  456. have dominion, and they exercise it in prayer and fasting. And we loose

  457. that grace on them in Jesus' name, and everybody said, God, bless

  458. you. Let's worship as we go this morning, church,