A Spiritual Assessment of Heartland

Hi. This is Dave Olson.

I'm the senior leader of Heartland church, located in

Ankeny Iowa. I hope the following message,

challenges and courage's and ultimately changes you.

Thanks for joining us. God has been good.

I you know what? I'm just going to I'm going to

take you down a little journey here, looking back at 20 years

Kathy and I have attended this church hard to believe for 27

years. Well yeah 27 years.

Will it be 27 years later this year?

I believe and almost half my life.

Well, it's almost half my life and I was going to say it's Out,

you know, two times or whatever. But anyway, I'm not good at

math. Half my life.

I can't believe it but we became the pastor's 20 years ago.

My predecessor some of you will remember.

Few of you will remember Pastor J Albert Calloway and he became

the pastor of this church. At the time, it was an Assembly

of God church and they were going to close it down.

It was known as a preacher kill and church, I from what I

understand. No, no pastor at ever left.

His own accord. It was either was either voted

out, or there was some, some controversy people had to be,

you know, a moral failures and stuff like that.

And so they were going to close it down.

And instead they called J, Albert Calloway and he took the

church now. Pastor Callaway was not a

Revival guy, okay? Because I tried he asked Kathy

and I to come back in 1995 we had just lost our son, a few you

about six to eight months earlier.

And so we were, we were in a situation where our hearts were

still broken. But right after we lost our son,

I heard about this move of God down in Florida, Pensacola

Florida. We called Brownsville and there

was not too far from our in-laws.

So Kathy and I loaded up, the babies went and saw her mom and

dad and then We snuck down to Brownsville and we got rocked

And I saw what my heart was longing for.

And so I was ruined forever. Now, some people experience

survival and they check it off their list and say been there,

done that, and then there's others like you and me.

So I could never go back. And so the pastor Callaway

wasn't sent here for that, he was sent here to clean up the

church, and he was a stubborn guy.

He had, he had rhino skin. I mean, he, he almost enjoyed

conflict. If you knew him, I'm serious.

He could tell someone off in the lobby and he'd say, I'm more

anointed when I get in the pulpit and he was just that way.

But what he gave us was a All in church and he was a colorful

fella. So in late December of that year

before we became the passage been 2001.

He got up and he said, this is how he announced his retirement.

You gotta know when to hold them.

You got to know when to fold them.

And as of such and such date, I'm no longer the pastor and he

came to me privately and he said, Dave, you're the one to

follow me now, Kathy and I had been 14 years at Teen Challenge

and I it was a huge step for us because we We loved our little

trailer home and I loved working for Teen Challenge.

Rodger McKim is a product of those times.

Rogers, one of the joys of my life to run with you.

So I committed to a three day fast.

I went to my mom and dad's and I said I'm going to fast for three

days. You get the mind of the Lord and

wouldn't, you know, after the first day I knew but I was still

committed for two more man. I was like bummed I should have

committed till I heard, you know.

But I knew I was supposed to throw my name in the Hat and I'm

Kathy and I'll never we've talked about it many times.

Those you are still here. Those who still around that

night we were in voted in our little church on the other side

of town and it was surreal and our lives changed.

What God's done, nobody can take credit for because, really, what

happened? We got pulled into a Vortex of

God to desire. God, longed to establish

something and this region. When Pastor Callaway was still

here, I was. He had asked us.

He said, Dave and Kathy, would you come and Lead prayer on

Sunday mornings and we said, sure.

So, we'd load up our babies. All our kids were tiny little

babies, and all five of them, and we drive over on Sunday

morning, we were meeting in the high school for a short amount

of time. And we would pray behind the

curtain at the high school and cry out to God for him to bless

the service. And again and again I would find

myself praying this, we'd be crying out.

It was my Ellen, K Marlowe. And a faithful intercessor in

this house. And he just say, there's,

there's a group of people that kept this place.

Open some really faithful people.

All those years Bill. Culver who's probably the oldest

member here? Billet Jerry and K and Marge.

Cox Jack has gone on to be with the Lord.

Many of them have gone on to be with the Lord, but they were

faithful and kept this place open.

And then, but we'd be praying behind that, curtain, and I

would find myself my heart. Kept getting pulled in this

direction. Is he God?

For example, Church in this region, send a man or woman that

will allow you to move. And then I catch myself and I

thought that could be kind of offensive to our pastor.

And again, that's not a criticism of him.

I believe he did. What he was called to do here.

But there was something in my heart and so when Pastor

Calloway said he's leaving, he came to me.

I felt like the Lord was challenging me.

Say, will you become that, man? And really we pull we stepped

into a Vortex of God's desire. God longed to establish

something here. Where people can come in and

experience God. And so, as soon as I got here,

we started praying. And then we started fasting, and

God just took over. It was, it was an amazing,

those, those of you that were here, sometimes I still Long to

go lay out that ratty carpet up in that little building.

Hopefully they've replaced it by now.

But man, God is Cho up in that building.

I'll never forget the night that that Glory Cloud came in on a

Saturday night and this church has never been the same

something happened. I remember John Lennox calling

me from his office here. He is at Principal Financial in

his suit and tie. He's under his desk weeping and

he's saying pastor, I don't what to do, he's just aching for he

was so gripped with intercession and just weeping under his desk.

It's hard to get away with that in Corporate America.

But there was this, this holy gripping, we caught the heart of

God and God began to move. A year after we became the

pastor God provided the money. We bought 22 Acres up here and

then built this building. And when we moved in and 2005,

It was it was like we hit this pocket of healing, it was

amazing, you know the first time we ever hit 400 and attendance

the very next week, we hit 500. It was insane and all the

systems broke, but it was sure fun.

And there were healings happening every service for

about 9 months, it was amazing. We've seen wave after wave of

God, come through here. We've seen battle after battle

but we've seen wave after wave. And God just coming and visiting

and I don't know where they got the picture of Renee.

Did you see that picture of her running around?

Oh, my goodness. Why don't you?

I want to, I want that. Amazing.

That crazy picture of me being carried around the sanctuary.

You want to talk about a wild service, that will clear out

anybody that has any reservations about the spirit

I'm telling you. When they finally let me down

and I'm just, I'm, I'm snot and bawling and up the aisle.

Came this young Baptist kid. This young Baptist.

I say kid, he was about 30 years old and I grabbed him.

And I said, are you okay? He said this is what we've

looked for our whole life. You know, it's interesting.

It's usually It's usually not those who have not experienced.

It's usually not the unbeliever who rejects the spirit of God.

It's those of us who have and then God shows up a new way.

And that's a cautionary word for the rest of us, man, we need to

be flexible. Say God.

Anyway, you want to show up, you are Lord and we're ready to go

with it. And so God visited it again.

And again and again, as I was thinking this week Look with me

at Genesis 28. Well let me let me just comment

on Genesis 28. Let's do that because we've got

some limited time here this morning.

Well, let's turn to it. When is that ever kept me from

it, right? Genesis 28.

Very early on the Lord dealt with me that he was looking to

establish a Genesis 28 Church. We won't get into all of it.

Let's look at verse 10 proceeding that Isaac tells

Jacob. Listen, you need to you need to

hit the road and get yourself a wife and I don't want you

marrying a Canaanite, girl, want you to go, get a bride from

among our family, your mother's family, and so he sends him.

And it's a good thing you did because Esau who was a skilled

Hunter was hunting for him and he was going to drop him like a

deer in the woods. He was very bitter with his

brother and so look at verse 10. Jacob left Beersheba and went

toward haran and he came to a certain place and stayed there

that night because the sun had set taking one of the stones of

that place, he put it under his head and laid down.

In that place to sleep and he dreamed and behold, there was a

ladder set upon the Earth and on the top of it reached into

heaven, what he was seeing is a place that was a connecting

place of Heaven and Earth. He found a place where Heaven

Was had an opening an access to Earth and that's what God looks

to establish in any region. He needs a place where there's

access. We know from the New Testament,

there are principalities and Power That reside in the

Heavenly Realms and they try to establish their presence and

disrupt God's purposes. And God doesn't just sovereignly

deal with them. He deals with them through his

church. He's given you and I have the

authority and it's through prayer.

And through worship that God clears the heavens.

I so appreciated, what Dean Briggs said, a couple of weeks

ago when he got up his first comments were on Psalm 149.

It's I love that. Passage, he talks about that

the, the children of God, he said, it's this is the glory of

all the saints and what he's referring to is the High.

Praise of God, being our mouth and a double-edged sword in our

hands. In other words, worship and the

word. And he said, they will bind the

Kings with Fetters. They will bind the rulers and

then, he says, to carry out the sentence written against them.

We do that with worship and the word And Dean was talking about

something he sensed in the air. And after the service, he told

me, he said, he said Pastor Dave, you need to understand.

There are things I talked about in this church.

I don't talk about and every church.

I don't feel like they're going to be received.

He said, but there's something about this church that can

receive those things. He was talking about.

High Praise being away that we we bind the enemy and we can

release declarations the word of the Lord in those moments and in

private he began to share some other things.

And I was I was really Amazed by how many prophetic words over

this house he began to touch upon So, I took him out to

Outback. Everybody say, amen, and took

him out to out back after service and we were sitting

there eating and I started to talk about.

I said, I need to share some things with you and I talked and

I'd stop because I thought I'm talking too much and he would

lean his head back and just close.

I say, keep talking this. So, ministers to me and I told

him the prophetic history of Heartland what God is

establishing here and what the Lord is looking to, establish is

a place of Open heaven. A place where there's Air

Supremacy in the enemy's been crippled.

He told me right after service, we are counting came down here

and he said, he said this church can receive resources for the

region that other churches can't touch.

Now let me safeguard that comment that is not an that's

not some arrogant. Statement, every church has its

purpose. We're all important, every

church but we're firm. Believers around here, not just

in individual callings, but in corporate callings not, every

church is created equal. That every church is is called

to the same things, but that is our role.

That's our special sauce Heartland Family.

Performed to Bethel that God can drop resources into a region.

And I told him about the prophetic word, probably to me,

the primary, probably the definitive prophetic word that

we've ever received as a church. Was from Bob Phillips.

The first time he came, he was still pastoring in Houston and

we were sitting at what was it? Another great restaurant was

going to say and you could say, Amen again.

But anyway, we were, we were sitting over a meal and I

started telling him what the Lord was speaking to me about.

And he said, Dave, he said stop. He said, I don't mean to be

rude, but he said, I don't, I can see where you're going, and

I don't want you to say any more until I share with you, what the

Lord has shown me about this church.

It's because I don't want you to think when I release it on

Sunday that I did. So because of what you told me

and he began to unpack some things about this church and

then that Saturday night, he released this word and what he

said, the Lord showed him very clearly is that Heartland is a

DZ, it's a military term for Drop Zone.

It's a place where Air Supremacy has been secured, where the the

land below it has been secured. There's been created a perimeter

so that what's dropped in in the form of resources and the, the

wounded that are flown out will always be protected.

And he said, this is a drop zone in the spirit and he said this,

he said, many of you have been through individual battles and

you've wondered, why am I going through this?

I don't understand the battle. I don't understand what's going

on. There was confusion, but you

held the line, you kept pressing into the Lord, you didn't blame

God for your circumstances, you kept your praise on.

He didn't say it that way, but he kept your praise on.

And he said, then as a church, he said, you've been through

many battles, there's been many skirmishes, he said, but you

need to realize your far beyond where you started.

There's been a lot of ground taken.

He said there's going to be more battles and I thought, oh no.

Who said there's going to be more?

He said, but you need to understand the church is far

beyond where it was. And God and His Grace has been

leading us on what we just did for 45 minutes and worship is

crucial. This is not just, we're not

priming the pump for the preaching of the word.

This is our calling, this is one of the primary things that were

called to Because in the midst of that, we can catch the word

of the lord and there becomes an opening.

And we can release the word of the Lord.

And we go from petition to Proclamation were legislating

from the throne, the word of the Lord, and we're shaping history

during worship. And so Dean was alluding to

these prophetic words. There's a number of things.

He was picking up on in the air that the Lord has spoken to us.

Now listen what it says here in Genesis 28 The middle of.

Well, let's, let's read verse 12 again and he dreamed and behold,

there was a ladder set up on the earth and the top of it reached

to heaven. And behold the angels of God

were ascending and descending upon it and behold the Lord

stood above it and said, I am the Lord, the god of Abraham,

your father, and the god of Isaac, the land on which you

lie, I will give to you and to your Offspring.

Your Offspring shall be like the dust of the earth and you shall

spread abroad to the west and to the east.

The North and to the South and in you and your Offspring shall

all the families of the earth. Be blessed.

I am with you and will keep you wherever you go and we'll bring

you back to this land for. I will not leave you until I

have done. What I promised you then Jacob

awoke from this his sleep and he said surely the Lord is in this

place that term is used for X this place.

And it means a very specific location of great significance.

It was the place assigned by God.

Jacob didn't know just like us. Jacob stepped into some onto

some ground that had already been sanctified.

You see Jacob and his journey of running from his brother and

carrying out his father's wishes stumbled onto a place and became

Weary at a point. In the journey, laid down put a

rock under his head and took a nap.

What he didn't realize his grandfather had come through

there and twice built altars to the Lord.

He stepped into an environment prepared by his forefathers.

It goes to what ho L was saying this morning.

We paved the way for the Next Generation.

We want to prepare something that they can stumble into I've

been overwhelmed lately in our morning prayer meetings and I'll

walk the aisles and I'm just so struck by all the gray heads

bowed over in prayer. I'm the gray head walking

around. But it's so blesses.

My heart that all these intercessors have stepped into

the Gap because it's up to us to pave the way for the others.

We're at a season of life, where often our schedule more affords

that But we also have perspective on life, the wisdom

of a life somewhat lived and we realize what really matters,

we're not in the business of raising little babies in heaven

and bite her ankles. You know where we were at that

time where we can give our self more to these things, and it's

incumbent upon us. And Jacob stumbled into an

environment that was prepared by his forefathers.

And he didn't even realize it until he had an encounter with

God. God stood at the top of that

ladder and begin to speak his destiny.

That is one of the primary purposes of this place.

If you look at our mission statement says we are a

multi-generational family pulling as many people as

possible into an encounter with God, that they can understand

who they are and be launched into his purposes.

You see Anna Bethel under an open Heaven.

People begin to understand who they are because God begins to

speak to them, either through the people that live there.

Through prophetic words, through the word, the word comes open.

In an open Heaven. People tell me all the time, how

easy it is to preach in this church and I know that I sound

better here. I've gone to some hard places.

I'd rather be here makes a preacher look good. because

you're pulling from an open Heaven, there's Revelation,

there's Angelic activities, the Angels, Ascend, and descend And

so Jacob awoke from his sleep and he said, surely the Lord is

in this place. I did not know it and he was

afraid and he said how awesome is this place a fifth time?

There is none of this is none other and I love how he frames

this. He gives it to titles one from

the perspective of Earth. And other from the perspective

of Heaven, this is none other than the house of God, and the

Gate of Heaven. It's the house of God.

It's a place where God can dwell unhindered.

Where God can reside in the Hunger of the people

entertained? The presence God will not remain

in a place where he is not the guest of honor.

He's to worthy. It would be a lack of Integrity

for God to remain, where he is not the Supreme guest.

He would be untrue to himself. If he was willing to take the

back seat and be left in the corner and still stay.

His glory is other than we can understand one of the meanings

of the word Holiness is not just that.

It's pure. It means that it's holy other.

It's so completely different than us.

We don't have a grid work to understand and the closer we get

to him. It strikes us again and again

how different he is. And so having been pulled into

that Vortex of God's desire and God imparting his hunger to us

and we release it back to him. Deep calls unto deep, the water

spouts begin to rise. I don't know if you've ever seen

waterspouts but there's like a cyclone or a tornado of water,

comes out of the water and then it comes out of the clouds and

it's like it's reaching up and it's reaching down its deep

calling unto deep. Crates that vortex.

God has graced us with Hunger for him and we can never take

credit for that, but it is our role.

No, make no mistakes about it. We do have a responsibility for

this nation and for this region. I want to read something.

The Lord spoke to me back in 2014.

Christopher and I my little bald-headed brother.

We used to come up on on Monday nights.

We both had the day off that day, and we'd come up and wait

on the Lord, and sometimes people would join us.

We'd be in Laura's office, and then sometimes, we make it in

here. Sometimes the glory would fall.

Sometimes Andre would come up, that was always fun.

And the, and other times it was just a boring prayer meeting,

but we would show up and just wait on the Lord.

And Bob hayslett had been here a few months earlier when

Christopher spoke something to me.

Bob was equipping people, you know, activating the prophetic

Bob's, a profit, and very strong equipping profit.

And so one of the exercises he did in one of the day sessions

was said, okay, he taught on the prophetic and he said, okay, now

we're going to activate it, I want you to ask the Lord who

some but you know, how does he see somebody in the room and

later on, you're going to share that with them.

So people did that was really neat and people were really

blessed Was until a few days later.

Christopher called me and he said, hey you know, when Bob

said that it's the eye and he said, I asked the Lord about

you. And he said, I want to share

with you what he said and when he told me, it broke me because

there were intimate, things about my heart between me and

the Lord that he had dressed, and the Lord highlighted him,

and it meant something to him. Then I was really stunned that

those little week Expressions, meant something to the Lord.

What take? I'm not unique.

That's true for all of us. But it's so ministered to my

heart and I still rehearse that what Christopher said, because

those things shape our identity and bring us into the pleasure

of God. It's not that God isn't pleased

as we need to get our head in the game so we can receive his

pleasure and that was a help for me to do so.

And so one night we were meeting in the back, how the office back

there. And we were just having a good

old time and we came out here. We thought let's go on the

sanctuary. So we're all praying for each

other and I believe Andre was here that night.

We just had a holy ghost time and Christopher late handsome.

He said, hey Remember how I told you what the Lord says said

about you. I said yeah.

He said the Lord just told me he's going to show you what he

looks how he sees Heartland and my heart left it awakened.

I thought yes, I want to see that and so I began to pray into

that for several weeks. Several weeks, several weeks, I

don't remember how long but want another night.

We're back in that office there on a Monday night and the spirit

of God fell and Andre was there that night.

I remember. And man, we just we had Church

and all of a sudden I went into this vision and I was

overwhelmed and I began to type at what the Lord was showing me

immediately and I want to read it to you.

It was on August 9th of 2014. This is what he told me.

There is a dome, a large, expansive opening over

Heartland. It is a clear place in the

spirit. The enemy is not able to operate

in that airspace like he usually is.

It is a no-fly zone, enforced by Heavens host.

But like Jacob at Bethel, this is a cautionary word.

But, like Jacob at Bethel. We are in danger of not being

aware of it. If we aren't aware, we will miss

the benefit failed to Leverage The Liberty to declare and Rule

with him. When we are aware, we act

differently, we confidently and boldly declare and demand call

and rebuke. When we perceive we cooperate

and it is on Earth through our response, like it is on Heaven

through his initiation And then he told me this, The Secret of

this house called Heartland has been the desperate hunger

resulting in extravagant worship and intense intercession in

fasting. It is our special sauce

breakthrough establishing bethel's, through hunger,

worship, intercession and fasting, and prophetic

intercessory worship. The resolve he placed within us

by grace. That hunger and commitment that

is willing to lose all reputation.

Land finance, let relationships is the key.

It is our special sauce. Our special Grace to export to

the nation's. This is breakthrough to the

nation's. There was more to it, but I'll

just stop there this morning. But we need to understand what

the Lord is establishing here. It just may be.

That God established this church 57 years ago because it was

stablished the year. I was born 56 years ago.

I'm still 56 for another month. It just may be that the Lord

established this church for this hour in human history.

All the rest is gravy all. The rest was just side benefits

and hors d'oeuvres, but I really believe the purpose of this

house were entering into it right now.

We are in an unprecedented hour. There's two books that have

rocked my life more than any other when it comes to buy a

biographies. One is the secrets of the

Argentine Revival, which hold the keys for National

breakthrough. The other is res Hall

intercessor, which holds the keys for international

breakthrough and Ruiz Howl in his prayer group, literally

shifted, the war effort of the Allied Forces.

There were seven times that actress either six or seven, a

tremendous travailing burden came over that group of people

and they would weep and cry and travail for hours and hours

sometimes days and suddenly it would lift.

And then over the next few days, it would find out that get word,

that some mysterious circumstances turned Hitler in

his forces back. More analysts, evaluated,

Hitler's strategy after the war. And they determined that he made

six key mistakes. And wouldn't, you know, it those

six key mistakes, coincided with those seasons of intercession.

The church really is called to rule the world through fasting

and prayer. We're called to write history in

advance through the prophetic and then enforce it through

prayer. And I believe that in the coming

days, God's going to release a greater anointing for prophetic

intercessory worship, where he's going to shape history through

what he does here. When Bob Phillips gave us that

word, I remember on a Sunday morning so it must have been

Sunday mornings. I remember afterwards, we were

standing right here talking and I remember feeling like I was

just in a tornado. Like, my hair is all messed up

my shirts, half ripped because of the activity in the room and

he said Dave he's to get ready. He said you're going to make

declarations out of this house. There's going to be declarations

during worship that you'll read about the Fulfillment of them.

And in the newspapers, Soon afterwards and then he told me

this, he said it's going to be too wild for some, it's going to

be too much for some people to endure.

God is looking to harvest a group of people who will stay

the course. And the fact is, that's why some

of you have gone through the things in secret battles and

struggles. That no one else knew about and

you were so puzzled. And you question, Lord, I'm

living for you. Why am I going through this?

But the Lord needed, somebody's somebody who had been tested and

tried and would stand their ground, because in the coming

days, what's coming to planet Earth, he has to have those

outposts Where people will stand and pray this thing through.

I don't know what the future holds but I do know this.

It's going to be the best of times, and it's going to be the

worst of times. At least for a season, I really

believe that now I know that's a bummer place to land.

I won't land there but God's given us Grace to press this

thing through. One other thing that there was a

number of things we go through in the Heartland culture class

different, the prophetic history of Heartland, the different

initiatives we've lost launched. Some may think we're imbalanced,

who knows? I just don't know how to pass

through without the prophetic. I don't want an Ishmael.

I only want to launch something. If God makes it abundantly,

clear. He's in it.

Amen. So that means we wait on the

word of the Lord. Well, we were still an assembly

affiliated with the Assemblies of God.

I had been oppressed bitter and I step down, I just didn't feel

like I was the best fit for that for the work.

We were in a middle of a building program and all that.

So I stepped down and Bob. Bob Hazel came not soon after

that or not. Yeah, not not long after that

and he was preaching. And you know how Bob does and it

just start prophesying and he walked he's preaching got down

on the floor and he looked at me he said, Dave, I see them

looking for a covering Said there's churches that are

looking for a covenant covering. He said I see Kansas City, I see

the Chicago area and he names some different places.

And those two are remember and he said, He said they're looking

for a covering. And as soon as he said it, I

went into a vision and I hit the floor, boom.

And when I was on the floor, I saw these letters suspended in

air. They were liquid gold, and they

were on fire and there were alive.

They were moving. And it said this, the Heartland

Alliance and I knew in my spirit, I knew immediately, it

was a play on words, it was an alliance of Ministries,

Heartland would start, But it was also an alliance for the

heartland of America. And we had heard from the Lord

about launching just a relational Network contending

for Revival. There was a lot of stories

around that I won't get into it, but when it all culminated in

the move of God and 08 I felt like okay it served its purpose.

I don't want to have an organization around longer than

it needs to be. So we just kind of shot in the

head and it died. It was we called it mern

Midwest. Revival Network we had some some

wonderful moves of God with that but we just put it to rest and

the Lord is very clear to me that we needed Resurrect that.

And so it's so. So when we withdrew our

affiliation from the assemblies, then we needed a credentialing

for your pastor. I don't want to Bootleg the

gospel, you know, I wanted to wanted to be legit.

And so, we were able to credential number of our

pastors. We've credentialed a number of

ministers around the minute that bound the region some in

Illinois and Kansas most in Iowa.

And there's Traveling Ministries, some Churches.

And so we have Regional Gatherings bringing and whenever

we bring in a speaker, we try to have a gathering so that these

churches, that maybe wouldn't have an ability to be availed

themselves to these Ministries, like, poly it out and lay

Petland and Bob hayslett. And you know, all the others, we

have these gatherings, and just let them get blasted by the

spirit of God and we have a good time and it's been a real

blessing, but we also are able to credential those who need a

credential and give them a covering.

And so this morning, we're going to be credentialing some people.

Laura, how many, how many credentialed ministers do we

have now? Do you have any idea ballpark?

30. Okay.

So I guess about 30 and so, the director of the Heartland

Alliance is John Lennox. So, I'm going to invite him to

come up this morning and I want to tell you something.

This church would not be where it is without this couple and

Yeah. That story of John Lennox

underneath his desk in a suit and tie is just one little

snapshot of the nature of this man.

I want on or someone else to Larry and Laura would you guys

stand up? Some of you don't know Larry and

Laura that is Drew and Gatti's mom and pop and his wonderful

sister Amy and her husband sitting next to him.

She they grew up in this Amy grew up learning Lord and grew

up here but Larry was on the board when I became the pastor,

he and Laura were key members of this church.

I will tell you, God, used Larry at some key junctures in this

church. You know, it's never, it's never

failed to amaze me Larry how at Key moments.

It's like you were a pivot. You are like a hinge for this

church and it's because of who you are, if you said it, people

would believe it because they know you weren't going to do

those things Loosely and I love you and I appreciate all you

guys did and let me brag on them.

One, one other thing. We would have never been able to

purchase this original, build this original Building without

Larry. Larry leveraged, his reputation

in business and kind of bent the arm of the bank and said, hey

you want to do business of our company which had well over a

hundred million dollars out with that bank.

He said we can find another bank, they said you know, it's

suddenly we feel led to work with your church and So

Hallelujah. So God bless you guys and

there's there's many others, I don't want to overlook anybody

but it's sweet. We have a very rare opportunity

to honor them. So we love you guys, all right.

We're going to, I'm going to go ahead and call up the credential

candidates and I'm going to invite their spouses if they're

not. Being credentialed with them to

come up with them and stand behind them and we want to pray

over them, you're going to join us.

Pastor Drew and gaudy. Is your wife serving upstairs?

Yeah, his wife's on duty, so that's it.

That's a good wife. Hallelujah, Mark and Melissa

doll. Hallelujah.

Amen. I love this couple.

Larry and Cheryl Schroeder. Then let me state that Mark and

Melissa have a traveling minister.

They there's a lot they do many of you know that but they run

honeybee Ministries and Larry and Cheryl do Pulpit fill-ins.

And they're also School teachers at a Christian school and just,

yeah, and I've made a big impact on a lot of people in this

congregation. Send a Scott.

Hallelujah. Marvin Cinda do Pulpit fill in,

as well as have a Ministry in nursing.

Homes Marvis, stepped in as an interim pastor Marv's already

credentialed with us so we're not going to give them another

piece of paper but he's going to stand with his wife as she

receives on this morning and isn't it wonderful to see more

fear? Yeah.

Yeah. Could have been a different

story. DJ Steam.

Yeah, Hallelujah. DJ and Nicole.

Pastor a church. What what town are you in actly

it? I've been telling people about

you and I keep forgetting to town so actually and DJ and

Nicole. And I have a long history, many

of, you know, Derek Steen. This is his big brother so he

and I both can say our little bald-headed brother.

So, and they're a wonderful couple.

Yeah. And that awesome.

It, I hang that over him off. And so, I'm going to ask you to

stand Morning, what's that? Oh I'm sorry.

Jennifer, I'm somehow I ran right over you.

Thank God. Jennifer Jennifer Roush.

Hallelujah. You are supposed to be up here

long before this. I'm sorry.

Yeah, and Troy and Jennifer. We're a part of our church for

many years and of course Jennifer runs.

The help me out here. The name spare Evita, and it's a

very unique pro-life Ministry that it's not a life clinic, but

they equip clinics to up their effectiveness and its really

taken on, you know, just like why Fire.

And it's an amazing thing. So, and for many years, Jennifer

was our women's director twice for many, many years.

So, Hallelujah, one is. I want you to extend your right

hand right now. Father Lord, we thank you for

these couples Lord, these individuals.

Lord, we thank you. For calling them.

Scripture says, how can they believe less they hear and how

can they hear? Less?

Someone is sent. Lord, I Thank you for laying

your hand upon these. And Lord right now, we ask for

fresh impartation in Jesus name. Fresh impartation.

Lord, we ask God that everything we've broke into in this house.

Would come upon them. Lord.

Lord like Jacob. They could step into something.

Abraham opened up in Jesus name. I ask for wisdom and anointing

Lord. In Jesus name Lord I Thank you

for Drew Lord. Fresh oil.

Fresh oil, pressure oil, Drew. I just really feel like I saw

like a reservoir of oil and it's about it's like you're your wine

skin and I saw like a wineskin in your belly and the Lord is

going to increase your capacity to carry oil.

There's an increased coming and you're going to be able to carry

it. Well and and the Lord wants you

to know the faithfulness of your life has brought you to the

point where you've been faithful with little God's going to give

you more and so Lord, we thank you God for fresh anointing.

Freshening Lord, I ask for signs wonders and miracles.

Of course signs wonders and miracles Lord I Thank you for

opening his ears in Jesus name, quote show.

Oh thank you. Lord father, I thank you for

fresh oil. Fresh oil.

Lord, I Thank you for this. Holy Ghost, couple, Hallelujah.

I just as soon as I grabbed your hands, it's like You guys are a

perfect picture. That Jacob thing.

There's there's a Heritage Melissa.

I Met Your Mama this morning and I know a little bit about your

family and there's a Heritage that they created that you've

been able to step into and you've started it.

Well, you weren't content to just receive and sit you're

taking, you're going from glory to glory and you've passed that

on to your children. I love your kids.

So you guys have done so well. Lord, I thank you for that

inheritance. Now Lord, It's time for the

bread to come back on the waters more.

More Lord, more more Killian to the horse show, social claw co,

co co coco father, I thank you for Larry and Cheryl.

Lord, God for their faithfulness Lord, I Thank You for their

pastors heart there. A tentative their attentiveness

to others needs. Lord their care for others.

Lord. I Thank You for their surrender.

Hallelujah. And I just even as I grab your

hand, I could feel your heart cry.

There's been a cry in your heart to be used at a greater degree,

and there's like a hunger for the supernatural.

There's like this hunger. Roger, McKim, come up here.

There's a, there's a hunger for the Supernatural.

That's come and I'm telling you you keep pulling on Heaven

because it's just a matter of time.

It's not that the Lord has said, no, your hunger is creating an

ability to Steward what you belong.

Forget Behind These Guys. Roger, sure.

Oh so, oh shoot, thank you Lord. Thank you Kelly on the dabashi.

Soaked, Loco, Coco shoot more Lord, more more more, more more,

more, more, more, more, more, more more more, more more

receive. So thank you.

Lord. Father.

I thank you for Larry father. I thank you that for the

Pastoral anointing. Lord, I'm asking God feel like

the Lord wants to open the word to you, a fresh Lord.

I ask God that an increase in that teaching anointing Lord,

that that natural ability and that Supernatural ability of put

on him. Lord, it would increase in Jesus

name. Hallelujah, amen.

Hallelujah father. Thank you for sending.

I met Cinda and Marv back in 1988 and if you guys remember

that and a little Room down in Mitchellville.

Father, I thank you for this couple.

Yes, Lord, I Thank you for sending send.

I just felt like the Lord said, you're bigger than you, think

you are bigger than you think you're bigger on the outside,

then you were on the inside. Oh yeah, I saw you walking and

you left big Footprints deep impressions in the earth.

That's true of your history, but it's even more true of your

destiny. Lord.

I Thank you. Fresh, anointing, fresh

anointing more. Lord, more more, hallelujah.

Hallelujah. Hallelujah, thank you.

Hallelujah. Father.

I thank you for Jennifer. Come over here, Roger.

Thank you. Lord.

Jennifer, I've often I've often described you to two people.

There's a there's a nobility and elegance about you and the

spirit, the way you carry yourself and it is assist Godly

anointing. It's like this ambassadorial

anointing that you can go into different places.

And represent him. Well, there's a Grace on your

life. Lord, I thank you for that.

I just saw the lord, it's like this big knife and he cut

something in front of you is cutting away for you.

It's like, there's been resistance that's going to give

way in this hour, more more more Lord.

I thank you, Father, we thank you for Troy Lord, from Marv,

Lord, fresh anointing, Lord. We thank you, God, we know that

these couples are That there. One there.

One, hallelujah. Oh God, hallelujah.

I want to pray for you once more.

The pump gets primed. Hallelujah.

Thank you Lord. Just just pray for these guys

right now. Father, I'm asking for great

wisdom, Lord, discernment, Lord of decisiveness Lord.

When I say that DJ it's not a decisiveness in the sense that

you've been in, Decisive and wavering.

I mean, there's a surety of the spirit that will come in that,

you know, that, you know, and Lord, I'm asking for a fresh

release of the prophetic Lord, I'm asking for relationship.

With prophetic people. Lord, that you would raise one

up within his own midst. Lord, a CO her cohort.

John Kilpatrick to said one time, he said, if you can find

just one to stand with you, It's a done deal.

It's a done deal. And so Lord, I'm asking Granite

to them. Lord in Jesus name.

Amen. Hallelujah, hallelujah.

Put your hands up. Father, I thank you for this

people. Lord, we thank you for the house

called Heartland this open Heaven.

Just keep your eyes closed and keep your hands raised when a

share very quickly, when the Lord spoke, what I read to you.

What I saw was this huge cylindrical.

Cool carving that was bigger than our Sanctuary on which it

was like, we lived in a Granite Mountain embedded, but there had

been this huge cylindrical Chasm, this tunnel that went

straight up into heaven. As far as the eye, could see

something's been drilled and Heartland realize who you are

receive, who you are and use it the way God intended.

Realize have an awareness when you come in here.

Don't be like Jacob. Who said, this is the Gate of

Heaven. This is the house of God, but I

knew it not from this day forth, know it own it step in here and

leverage it. God's granted to us for his

purposes. It's for this hour that God has

established. What he's done in this church?

And so Lord, I kept seeing this picture of this morning and so

when Drew came up and said what he said, I just I was

overwhelmed once again. I kept feeling like okay Lord,

we can climb on the altar but it's insufficient are weak

little surrender. We can climb up on the Altar and

lay ourselves out but without your fire, it means nothing.

So, Lord were asking. Send your fire on the altar of

our sacrifice Lord, the blood of goats and Bulls tithes and

offerings. Other things are insufficient.

You aren't us? You want us Lord.

So Lord. I'm asking you give us Grace to

climb on the Altar and send your fire.

And Lord, we promise. We will Steward it.

According to your desire, this next move will be stewarded to

send them to the nation's in Jesus name.

Amen. Amen.

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