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Go Preach - Kingdom Witness

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  1. Thanks for checking out the Anchor Faith Message podcast

  2. from St. Augustine, FL.

  3. Now enjoy this message. It is good to be home.

  4. I kind of feel like I've been on a whirlwind.

  5. It's been fun. I feel like I I know for sure.

  6. It was convenient. In the last three weeks I have

  7. slept less in my own bed then I have in the bed of a hotel in

  8. Kissimmee and Tulsa and then in Nicaragua.

  9. My wife informed me the hotel we stay at is no longer.

  10. But we're going to have to upgrade.

  11. So we will do just that. You know, it's important.

  12. Hey, unless you're going to some country where that all you can

  13. do is get what you can get. But you know, when you when

  14. you're ministering as much as we were, you definitely want a good

  15. night's sleep and not something poking in your back.

  16. Amen. And so anyway, we had a great

  17. time. I'm going to talk to you about

  18. missions tonight, but I want to kind of get in the word and kind

  19. of bring it in. All right.

  20. So in March, Chapter 16, again, it was Pastor Marcia and I as we

  21. were conversing. She said, you know, I really

  22. think you need to do Wednesday night.

  23. You know, she's been doing a series on the Holy Spirit and

  24. she's been doing most of our Wednesday nights and will

  25. continue to do so starting next week.

  26. But obviously, you know, I know the church gets excited about

  27. what we're doing because we love our vision.

  28. The vision, God's given us to ignite the city, impact the

  29. nation and influence the world. And you know, you don't want to

  30. wait till Sunday to find out what happened.

  31. Although we'll talk a little bit about it, probably have a video

  32. by then and you know you'll be able to see it.

  33. But we want to be able to minister along these lines

  34. because ignite the city, impact the nation, influence world is

  35. really important to us because that's what God gave us to do.

  36. All right, So mark Chapter 16. Verse 15 and 18 I'm going to

    Mark 16 chapter mention

  37. read two passes of Scripture. Then I'm going to break them

  38. down a little bit. But in Mark chapter 16, verse 15

    Mark 16:15

  39. and 18. And Jesus said to them, go into

  40. all the world and priest the gospel of all creation, And he

  41. who has believed and has been baptized shall be saved.

  42. But he who has disbelief shall be condemned.

  43. These signs will accompany those who believe in my name.

  44. They will cast out demons, they will speak with new tongues,

  45. they will pick up serpents, and if they drink any daily poison,

  46. it will not hurt them. They will lay hands on the sick

  47. and they will. Recover.

  48. Now go over to Matthew chapter 28, verses 18 and 20.

    Matthew 28:18

  49. Matthew chapter 28, verses 18 and 20.

    Matthew 28:18

  50. It says in Jesus came up and spoke to them, saying all

  51. authority, how much authority, all authority has been given to

  52. me in heaven and on earth. Go there for and make disciples

  53. of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father

  54. and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all

  55. that I commanded you. And low I'm with you always.

  56. Even to the end of the age. Amen.

  57. So most of the time we call these the Great Commission, but

  58. what we need to understand is these are two different areas to

  59. go. They are not the same.

  60. I want to go back over to Mark chapter 16.

    Mark 16 chapter mention

  61. If you put that back up most of the time we and we've learned

  62. this at aggravate Church and I'm going to key in on it.

  63. We understand that you have to go back to the Greek to

  64. determine what are we talking about.

  65. And you know, when you start getting into other nations,

  66. language is really important and understanding what's going on

  67. becomes pretty important. Because, you know, you could say

  68. something and they could receive it differently and act on

  69. something in a way that wasn't the intent.

  70. Right now we have this problem in our own nation.

  71. In fact, when we were in Poland, one of the minister says When we

  72. all are in heaven, one day before the Lord, we know that

  73. for all eternity the language will be the Polish language.

  74. And I was like, why is that? He says.

  75. Because it takes an eternity to learn Poland Polish language,

  76. that even the Polish people can't speak our own language.

  77. All right, so I I doubt that's true, but it does make for a

  78. good joke. Amen.

  79. But it says it's going to all the world.

  80. This word world is the same word used in John 316.

  81. And this word is not the planet. It's not Earth.

  82. It is worldly order. In essence, it's sectors of

  83. society. So the market count is telling

  84. us as believers, we are to go in our realm of influence.

  85. We are to go into the sectors of society, the world order, in

  86. order to preach. There's a local application of

  87. witnessing. And what's really awesome about

  88. this particular one is that it tells you what you get to do at

  89. work because it says going to all the world again.

  90. This is the world's order. It's the system by which the

  91. world function again. Remember, according to John 316,

  92. for God so love the world, not the earth, but the world.

  93. It's the way that the world function.

  94. He loved. He loved the system he had.

  95. That Adam lost, that he gave to the devil, that he wants to

  96. recoup. That because Adam had the

  97. ability to function in the earth under a system that would be

  98. like God. That's why he said let us make

  99. men in our image according to our likeness and let them have

  100. what dominion. Now dominion is rulership, it's

  101. function. It's how we rule within a realm.

  102. Are you hearing me? So if you are a king with

  103. dominion, then it's how you function in the realm that you

  104. have authority. And so we as humans, God gave

  105. man dominion over the earth. Not the planet as ownership, but

  106. how we manage the Earth, how its systems would function.

  107. Cause in heaven, there's a system that functions, and if

  108. you break that system, well, you'll get kicked out, right?

  109. Jesus said I saw Satan fall. Like what?

  110. Lightning from heaven. You can get kicked out.

  111. You do the wrong system. God never lost his.

  112. System in the earth, in in heaven he has.

  113. Heaven this is. But the system by which He

  114. functions and governs that realm, He has never lost that.

  115. So again, he said in Psalms 115 the highest heavens are the

  116. Lord, but the earth he has given to the sons of man, meaning the

  117. way it is to function or operate.

  118. If you go to the Luke's account of the temptation of Christ, the

  119. devil took Jesus up to a high pinnacle or a high place, a

  120. mountain, one translation says, and showed him all the kingdoms

  121. or domains in a moment of time. He said, I'll give these to you

  122. if you'll do one thing, bow down and worship me.

  123. Notice he didn't say. I'll give you the earth.

  124. He said, I'll give you how if things function in this planet,

  125. you can have this authority, this rule, you can rule over

  126. these, but let me be a ruler. And obviously the Lord said It

  127. is written that we are only going to worship God and God

  128. alone. And besides, I'm going to take

  129. it back anyway. Amen.

  130. The point is, is that here in Mark's Gospel.

  131. He is saying that we are to go into the systems of the world

  132. that the the devil is operating in and how he operates in them.

  133. Again, in the Luke account of the temptation, he said.

  134. I'll give you all this domain, for it has been handed over to

  135. me and I can give it to whomever I want, so I administrate this

  136. now. And his administration is

  137. horrible. He comes only to kill, steal and

  138. destroy. He only wants to destroy God's,

  139. you know, way of doing things. He wants to be completely

  140. different than God, although he can present himself like an

  141. Angel of light or like it is godly, although it is not.

  142. And so man's dominion that Adam had he he abdicated, he gave up

  143. his rulership, gave it to the devil, and the devil became the

  144. God of this. World.

  145. He doesn't own planet earth, but he is the God of its systems.

  146. Now again 2nd Corinthians 4 four.

  147. Paul says he's the God of this world, but yet he also writes in

  148. Colossians that Jesus has full principalities and powers and

  149. has stripped the devil of his authority.

  150. So how can he beat in the Colossian, the Corinthian

  151. church, the God of this world, when Jesus has full

  152. principalities and power and defeated the devil?

  153. Well, because there is still a system functioning within the

  154. planet that was never God's design.

  155. And this is where God says I want you to go into all the

  156. world, into those systems and preach.

  157. I want you to be an example of a different system, a different

  158. Kingdom. That's why Jesus said repent,

  159. for the Kingdom of heaven is at hand.

  160. There's a different way to function on planet earth.

  161. We're not limited to do it this way.

  162. This is why I caution you with secular teachings that are

  163. devoid of the Holy Spirit, because this system under the

  164. rule of the devil. Can cause you to prosper.

  165. Jesus himself says what good is it a man if he gains the world

  166. he it becomes all powerful in the world's systems before fits

  167. his soul. Do you understand?

  168. You can make money without God and say God's giving it to you

  169. because you can do it the world's way and say God's

  170. blessing you. Well, God's not giving you it

  171. the world's way. He's not doing it.

  172. You're not going to be a great leader through the world's way,

  173. but yet there are ways to navigate in a world system that

  174. is contrary to the Kingdom. In fact, the Kingdom is almost

  175. completely opposite. Now when I say that the devil

  176. has stolen some ways that the Kingdom functions, cause again

  177. he was an anointed chair. He knows how the Kingdom works.

  178. So he has stolen some ideas from him and does it his way.

  179. But ultimately, in the end lies death.

  180. So we always have to say, OK, how do I actually handle

  181. finance? I'm going to step over a line

  182. here and say this. Just because they're Christian

  183. doesn't mean they're preaching Kingdom economics.

  184. That mean it? In fact, one of the buzzwords in

  185. Christianity is called stewardship.

  186. But the secular world does stewardship.

  187. In fact, Pastor Mark and I were having this conversation.

  188. He says it's in the world. We are always trying to see how

  189. much we can get out of a little bit.

  190. I mean we always saving. We're always like, you know, I

  191. want to hold on and give very little in order to get

  192. something. But in the Kingdom, the

  193. kingdom's like, look what I can do with nothing, look what I can

  194. give away and get. It's a totally different system.

  195. All right, Same thing in healthcare.

  196. Healthcare has a different system in the Kingdom of God

  197. compared to the world. Because the world system right

  198. now is to diagnose you, give you a prescription and keep you.

  199. In fact, Ernie was just telling me, is Ernie in here tonight?

  200. Ernesto, Is he serving? He's in Miami still.

  201. Ernesto grabbed this supplement. It's something with Rice.

  202. What was that that he's taken that lowers cholesterol?

  203. Red what? Red yeast rice.

  204. OK, so he's taking this. Went to his doctor and his

  205. doctor says. Your cholesterol is normal.

  206. What are you taking? He said.

  207. This is what I'm taking, he says.

  208. Well, it's a good. Thing not too many people know.

  209. About that or I'd go out of business.

  210. Now that was the response. So you understand what the

  211. doctor's not doing with his next patient.

  212. You don't want to hear this. The doctor's not saying, I just

  213. had a patient that has taken this and it has absolutely

  214. lowered their cholesterol. You need to take this.

  215. But they're not doing that because the world system is to

  216. keep you a repeat customer. Because the reality is you are

  217. money. Your money.

  218. And if everybody's healed, but in God's Kingdom, he wants us

  219. all healed. I mean, at my age, 53, most

  220. people are already on two or three prescriptions at my age

  221. and younger. So, you know, when we're talking

  222. well, we're not on anything. They're like blown away.

  223. How is that possible? Well, because I'm in a different

  224. system. Amen.

  225. But if you don't learn about that system, exercise that

  226. system. But yet the Lord wants us to be

  227. able to go into those systems and preach the gospel.

  228. But notice what it says that we would do in that arena in the

  229. world. OK, we're just talking.

  230. You leave home and you get out of your house.

  231. This is Ignite the City stuff. What are you going to do at

  232. work? What are you going to do at

  233. Target or Publix? What are you going to do?

  234. You know, when you're at a movie theater, what are you going to

  235. be able to do? Well, you'll be able to cast out

  236. devils. You'll be able to speak with new

  237. tongues. You'll be able to pick up

  238. serpents. And if you drink any deadly

  239. poison, you think that's for the nations?

  240. That's home. This is stuff in the house.

  241. Right. It won't harm you.

  242. You'll lay hands on the sick and they'll recover.

  243. In fact, God is telling us here on March 16th that these signs

  244. are following the believer every day of your life.

  245. These are your witnessing tools. Because according to Acts

  246. chapter One, we have been we received the power of God so we

  247. could be His witness. He said don't leave until you've

  248. been in due with power on high to be my witnesses and the

  249. witnessing that we are cuz we are baptized in the Spirit of

  250. God. We have the Holy Ghost living in

  251. us, but he's come upon us and given us power.

  252. He's given us access to supernatural thing that is just

  253. a part of our life. Anytime the Lord needs us to

  254. move in that way, we can. You should expect that during

  255. flu season you can lay hands on people and get people healed at

  256. work. In fact you should be like, what

  257. happened? Well, you know I'm feeling

  258. symptoms going what can I pray for you right.

  259. But what do we do. Well, you know to y'all should

  260. take a shot. We we don't talk because we

  261. don't think this is where we're to witness.

  262. Yet the world this is exactly where we are supposed to be the

  263. most active in our witnessing. And he's like here's the power

  264. of stuff that you have day in and day out.

  265. This is day in and day out stuff.

  266. Then we jump over into Matthew, obviously 28 and he says going

  267. he said I have all authority go there for and make the Sibels of

  268. all nation. Now this word nation means

  269. ethnic groups. So this is where you're going to

  270. nations, all right. This is every tongue tribe,

  271. these are ethnic groups, OK and that.

  272. So it's very important for us to understand when it comes to

  273. witnessing or or missions in general, there is a home

  274. mission. As well as a national missions

  275. as well as a international missions.

  276. And all of them are important. We should not be more excited

  277. about 1:00 than the other. We should be sensitive for them

  278. all. We'll be the most active in our

  279. local mission because this is where we live, this is where we

  280. live and if we can reproduce. What he says we would do in

  281. March 16, what would that do to our city?

  282. Well, that would definitely ignite it.

  283. No doubt about it. Well, you know anybody for Bank

  284. of a church, If they lay hands on you, you'll get healed.

  285. You'll get healed. Now, that doesn't mean they want

  286. to walk in the light of all of it, but they can't deny the fact

  287. that it is now. They could deny the.

  288. Fact that it is. But we know that the Lord knows.

  289. That they had it. Right, the way you walk, the way

  290. you talk, the way you behave, but then the demonstrations you

  291. get to do in igniting your own city and then obviously that

  292. will filter over into our nation as a whole.

  293. But then we get into international and we see that

  294. this is a priority of God as well, he said, Look, it's not

  295. just being local. We want you to get out and hit

  296. the nations because there are comforts in some places that

  297. aren't in others, Pastor Mark said.

  298. I don't want to hear another word.

  299. From my congregation about it being too loud when you get some

  300. sound panels. In Managua, I mean, everything's

  301. concrete and it's just like bouncing everywhere.

  302. I mean, it's loud. It is loud, but not just that,

  303. it is hot because our current church there does not have a C

  304. in it and it had to be 115. Easy, easy.

  305. They had back doors open. They had a side door open.

  306. Then they had another side door that they eventually opened

  307. upstairs. We went and they had like a

  308. green room. It was awesome.

  309. And they had three windows closed and they're sweating and

  310. serving us with a smile. And we're thinking, why is the

  311. windows not open, right? Because we come from an A/C

  312. environment. We come from the A/C, the land

  313. of the A C's. The land of the air condition,

  314. right? I get it.

  315. If you don't have it, that's one thing.

  316. But if you do, you want it right?

  317. And you're like, I'm gonna bless somebody.

  318. Somebody's gonna get a blessing. So we rented a van from

  319. Enterprise, but Pastor Roman could get me one cheaper.

  320. We went with the cheaper van. Never gonna do that again.

  321. Yeah. Forget about saving $200.

  322. Now I was fine, I said. Up front in the air, condition

  323. was cold. But those in the back, they were

  324. hot there, didn't work back there.

  325. They were opening the windows. Any air is good air when it's

  326. hot. And there they were, Amen.

  327. And we had three seats. There was me, Raphael and Pastor

  328. Ramon. And the air was the air.

  329. And my wife was like, quit hogging on the air.

  330. Condition up there. Hallelujah.

  331. Yeah. Our sweat was sweating.

  332. That's not an exaggeration. I mean, I thought I was going to

  333. have to rescue Eloise on multiple occasions, being seven

  334. month pregnant. I'm like she looks like she took

  335. a shower. Right cuz the further you were

  336. in the building and on the platform cuz hot air what rises

  337. so we're past the little tornado tornado fans that are in the

  338. ceiling. Thank God for those tornado fans

  339. though, but they were running and they would hit me every once

  340. in a while. Boy, it was like the blessing of

  341. God. That thing would hit you.

  342. Now at the end of the day, I didn't complain.

  343. We just preached and I was like, thank God I've been working out.

  344. Thank God I'm in shape. Thank God I'm not passing out.

  345. Thank God I've conditioned myself to be able to handle this

  346. because when I preached, I preached 2 hour clips.

  347. I preached twice on Sunday, they were two hours apiece.

  348. They didn't get them leave. Didn't even go to the bathroom,

  349. so does that mean air conditioned makes you need to go

  350. to the bathroom? Because if that's the problem,

  351. I'll turn these things off on Sunday if that's the problem.

  352. If cold air is what caused the bladder to go, let's shut this

  353. thing down so you don't have to leave.

  354. These guys are in there for two hours before we gave him a

  355. break. Hallelujah.

  356. Now again, thank God that God has blessed us right in a nation

  357. that has all kind of inventions and make things very

  358. comfortable. But is the comfort, comfort

  359. taken away from our hunger? Because you want to be hungry,

  360. right? You want to be hungry?

  361. And man, I have to applaud. I mean, they were all sweating,

  362. all sweating, and yet hooked up, listening, taking notes, period.

  363. Well, praise the Lord. Amen.

  364. So we're to go into all the nations and notice here it says

  365. baptizing them, the name of the Father, Son, The Holy Spirit

  366. teaching them deserve all that I command you.

  367. Now obviously the signs are going to follow even in the

  368. nations, but I find it interesting that those are

  369. actually in the world side more so than in the nation side.

  370. Because the reality is, when you go to the nations, you don't

  371. live there, so you're limited in what you can do anyway.

  372. Now what? What do I mean by that?

  373. I mean, sure, I can have a service and we can lay hands on

  374. people. I mean, people got baptized in

  375. the Holy Ghost and they spoke in new tongues while we were there.

  376. That happened. OK.

  377. Could we didn't have any healings that took place at that

  378. particular juncture. Although we weren't led to lay

  379. hands on people for healing and there was no obvious signs of

  380. someone who was in need of healing.

  381. So at the end of the day, that unction didn't come up and we

  382. didn't go there. Didn't know nobody was there

  383. that was demon possessed. So we didn't have to cast out

  384. any devils. Had no issues with that.

  385. There's available. But what we did do is we talked.

  386. We taught the word Pastor Mark taught on authority.

  387. Pastor Marcy ministered on prayer.

  388. And then I ministered on Kingdom economics.

  389. Talk to them about being a dominionaire.

  390. And then I ministered a message. I've never ministered here

  391. before. Yeah, it was awesome.

  392. I wanted to do it tonight, but we'll do it later.

  393. Amen. Well, you know, when you get

  394. something new, you just want to share.

  395. But with that being said, we did teaching.

  396. And it ministers to people because ultimately we're

  397. leaving. And you need to leave them with

  398. the word. You need to leave them with

  399. hunger for the Word and enough scripture that they can go and

  400. study it out for themselves. Hallelujah.

  401. Amen. So with that being said, I want

  402. to give you 4 ways you can witness.

  403. These are practical ways when it comes to ignite the city, impact

  404. the nation and influence the world because we have some

  405. phenomenal opportunities that are going to be able to that are

  406. taking place right now. And with that being said, let me

  407. pull that up. Thank you Lord.

  408. He just reminded me of something and I'm going to pull this up.

  409. A prophecy that was given to us back in 2008 actually was in

  410. 2008. And Kevin and Annie Durant had

  411. come to our church and did a series of meetings.

  412. And when they came and did these series of meetings, a particular

  413. prophetic word came up. And so let me pull it up and see

  414. where it's at. I got it saved.

  415. Hallelujah, I'll have to find it.

  416. But in that there were some things that were to come.

  417. Are you hearing me? And as a result of that, I

  418. believe that we are starting to step into those right now

  419. because again true prophecies, here it is, True Prophecies, it

  420. was on actually it was on our four year anniversary, yeah,

  421. April 11th, 2008. It's actually before we started

  422. ministering on the Kingdom like we do.

  423. But it said this even as it's been said before.

  424. You don't have 20 years to build, but it is going to come

  425. quicker and quicker and quicker. My confession of faith say that

  426. again. Yeah, next year is 20 years.

  427. Did you hear what I said? Next year will be 20 years?

  428. I mean, we were driving so hard, you know, and just so purposeful

  429. in all aspects of the vision. Pastor Mars, like, what are

  430. Y'all doing next year? I'm like, what do you mean?

  431. What are we doing next year? Well, it'll be 20 years since

  432. we've just started Anchor Bay Church.

  433. I'm like, well, you're right. I guess it is.

  434. We should probably do something, but back then it says that we

  435. were going to do some things that we needed to get done prior

  436. to 20 years. And man, look at man, what what

  437. a milestone so far and we're not done yet.

  438. So I'm just telling you there's some more that can happen here

  439. between now and next April. That's pretty amazing.

  440. Says even. So look what it says here.

  441. Celebrating 5th year five year anniversary in four years is

  442. pretty exciting. Now, when they said that

  443. initially I was like what? But she was prophesied by the

  444. Spirit. We were a year ahead in things

  445. of the Spirit than the natural years of our planting.

  446. Amen. And you understand you can if

  447. there was a confession of faith I had picked up from a minister.

  448. That he would confess what took other ministries years to, you

  449. know, decades. We would do in a few short

  450. years. Well, I'm like, well, praise

  451. God, I want that. So that became a confession of

  452. mine. What took other ministries

  453. decades to do, we'll do in a few short years.

  454. And then I jumped on the next one.

  455. What took them years we'll do in a few short months.

  456. Now, what I didn't realize is that in order for you to

  457. accomplish that, you got to take the trials that come with that

  458. cause. You don't accomplish anything

  459. without the trial and tribulation that accompanies

  460. before the victory. It comes before the victory.

  461. But at the end of the day, that just kind of meant we had some

  462. things, you know, that just seem like you get out of 1, you get

  463. into another, another little opposition, something else.

  464. But the good news is I had faith.

  465. I knew faith. I can speak to mountains.

  466. I got pretty proficient at mountain speaking.

  467. And so we were able to just drive on, drive on, drive on.

  468. I overcame emotions pretty quick.

  469. That I would not allow the emotional trauma of situations

  470. to overcome the purpose and vision.

  471. And the sooner you learn that, the quicker you accelerate your

  472. purpose. All right, but it says so get

  473. ready. Get ready for exponential

  474. growth, not only in numbers. So we knew numbers were going to

  475. come exponentially, but also in manifestations of the Holy

  476. Ghost. Hallelujah.

  477. And then it went on to say, get ready for exponential growth and

  478. power. Exponential growth and

  479. utterance. Exponential growth and impact

  480. and in manifestation of people responding to the move of the

  481. Holy Ghost. Hallelujah.

  482. So there's a small emphasis on numbers.

  483. The majority of the emphasis was how much of an increase and

  484. exponentially it would be in the things of the Spirit and the

  485. moves of the spirit and the power of the spirit that would

  486. take place. Says I'm doing a new work, says

  487. the Lord. I'm doing a new thing, and you

  488. shall see it spring forth. Hallelujah.

  489. Not just here, not just here a little bit and there a little

  490. bit. But you're going to see some

  491. things begin to spring up. Spring up.

  492. All of a sudden there it will be.

  493. All of a sudden there's a blade. All of a sudden there's the ear.

  494. All of a sudden you'll have the full manifestation of some fruit

  495. that's been planted. Not because of what you did, not

  496. because of what you did, but because seeds have been planted

  497. in the earth. Hallelujah.

  498. And we know according to God's parable concerning being a

  499. fruitful servant, he gave 151211.

  500. And again, if you listen to our service at camp meeting on

  501. capacity, you know, I went further than we did in our own

  502. service here this past April, where you have things written in

  503. a book. And if you're not going to do

  504. them, God has no problem, although it's not his will, but

  505. he has no problem taking something that was assigned to

  506. you and giving it to somebody who's going to do the work.

  507. And we can have expanded editions of our life.

  508. And so I realized that there's been a lot of seed planted in

  509. the earth. Somebody's just got to come

  510. along faithful enough to say I'll keep working because

  511. there's many people who started stuff but aren't finishing.

  512. But the Lord's going to finish what he started.

  513. He'll just find somebody that'll go ahead and pick it up and run

  514. with it. And it may not initially been

  515. assigned to Anchor Faith Church, but Anchor Faith Church will

  516. take it. So again, if you want an easy,

  517. you know, self perceived easy without responsibility,

  518. Christianity, that doesn't actually exist, there are plenty

  519. of churches that accommodate that.

  520. But if you want to do the purpose of God, you've you've

  521. landed in the right place. You've landed in the right place

  522. because we are going to be doers till the end.

  523. We're going to be doers till the end.

  524. We're going to finish what we started, he said.

  525. In the reign of the Holy Ghost is falling on sea that you have

  526. and you have positioned yourself as a body to be a part of that

  527. rain. So get ready for it to spring up

  528. in you. And she ended up saying that

  529. spring up in me that we were to repeat it and said Hallelujah

  530. and then end up making this statement double at the end.

  531. Well, double, that's interesting because when I was at Global

  532. Leadership Conference this year, Apostle Astrada pulled me up

  533. after I ministered on capacity the first night that he's like

  534. or in the afternoon and he's like, no, I guess it was that

  535. night. Yeah, it was Thursday night, the

  536. second time. Then he ended up having, he

  537. said, I saw in the spirit you and you were split right down

  538. the middle this way, he said. On one side you were fully

  539. dressed in the arm of God. But the other side, angels were

  540. bringing the rest of it, he said.

  541. I saw in the spirit that you're halfway through your assignment

  542. now if that's years, that gives me 106.

  543. That's kind of cool. I don't believe it's years.

  544. I think it's work, a labor of body of work to be done and I do

  545. believe that you there is an acceleration towards the end.

  546. Because all ministers that are purposeful about the will of God

  547. accomplish more in their latter years than they do in their

  548. former years. Brother Hagen himself did all

  549. kinds of ministers, was a part of the healing revivals.

  550. Then he got into the teaching. In fact, he was there trying to

  551. help the guys in the healing revival transition into what the

  552. spirit of God was doing at that point, which was trying to teach

  553. people and they weren't transitioning to that.

  554. And they said, look if you don't get all get with what God's

  555. doing then and you keep functioning like you are, you're

  556. gonna. To find your ministries gone and

  557. they are gone. And he outlasted them all.

  558. I said he outlasted them all. But he was 57.

  559. That's four years for me that he went and had a camp meeting the

  560. first time. The Lord said we're going to do

  561. a particular camp meeting and he ended up have that 1st 1973 camp

  562. meeting. And out of one of those meetings

  563. he began to prophesy under the answer of the Lord.

  564. This time next year, we're going to have a Bible school.

  565. Now he was so under the anointing he didn't realize he

  566. had said that, that his son said we're starting a Bible school

  567. and he said, I don't know if we're starting a Bible school.

  568. He said you said so he goes, I didn't say it.

  569. He said yes you did. So they pulled the tape of the

  570. service and he heard himself and he says, well, I guess we are.

  571. Amen. And their thought was at the

  572. beginning of this school that will celebrate its in in

  573. February. It will be its first fifty year

  574. reunion for the first graduates, he said.

  575. If we could just graduate fifty, well, we got Raymond has over

  576. 118,000 graduates globally. Hallelujah.

  577. This is amazing. So at 57, between 57 to 86, his

  578. ministry grew exponentially exponentially in the latter 30

  579. years of life. He did more in the last 30 years

  580. of life than he ever did in the 1st 57.

  581. Now Pastor Hagen is doing basically the same thing.

  582. Because in 2000 when my wife and I graduated they were in the

  583. worst of having their second Rayma Bible training college and

  584. and I believe it was Gary Crow had went and was starting it in

  585. Singapore. Well, now it's 2023 and we have

  586. as far as a Rayma Bible Training college.

  587. They are in 54 nations. There's 288 approved campuses

  588. and I think they have about 260 functioning, of which one of

  589. them will go online in January at Anchor Faith Church, Managua,

  590. Hallelujah. So in the last 20, almost 25

  591. years, Rama has done more globally than any other

  592. organization on the planet then the planet.

  593. No organization has grown grown at that capacity.

  594. None. And yet the Lord had a word for

  595. anchor, faith, church for this exponential.

  596. Well, you understand exponential if you understand mathematics is

  597. that you know you're going to kind of go along and it seems

  598. like it's steady, and then when exponential kicks it goes like

  599. this and it will seem like out of nowhere, but it's not out of

  600. nowhere. It was planned.

  601. It was perseverance. It was endurance.

  602. It was overcoming. It was staying true to the

  603. vision. It was pressing on.

  604. It was never wavering. It was doing a mandate that we

  605. were given to do our part in this thing, our partnership with

  606. Rama, but then also what God's called us to do to priest the

  607. gospel of the Kingdom. Hallelujah.

  608. Are you hearing me? And so we are going to go into

  609. all the world, every sector, society.

  610. We know that we are doing that and we're we're passionate about

  611. that. Just like W Augustine, the North

  612. Florida Wildcats first home game is August 26th.

  613. We need to be there, make this thing happen.

  614. Are you hearing me? Now here's the thing.

  615. I won't be there because I'm going to Alabama and preach at

  616. another church that has requested me to come and

  617. minister. Well, y'all should get more

  618. excited than this. The reason you should get

  619. excited is because, listen, God's not saying, well nothing

  620. can happen in Saint Augustine. Let's Pastor Earl's there.

  621. Come on, don't sell yourself short.

  622. Know that God's called you to witness into a whole community

  623. within our city and he's calling you out to go.

  624. I said to go, to go. And you can go and help set us

  625. sell tickets, you can be at the concessions, you can work, you

  626. know, in the the sound press box, thank you press box.

  627. You can work the the, the sideline.

  628. But all the while you're conversing with people, you're

  629. having conversation and the opportunity to pray can be

  630. there. And the things I'm fixing a

  631. highlight you can do in that community because it's part of

  632. our outreach. Amen.

  633. And that's not to mention all the things we're already doing.

  634. We're dining with dignity the first Monday of every month and

  635. then we just got the opportunity next weekend to go into Putnam

  636. Correction Institute that we've been there for 15 years.

  637. I think it is now 15 years that they are allowing us to come in.

  638. No other organization that they've done this Friday.

  639. We're going to go on Friday afternoon, We're going to go on

  640. Saturday afternoon and Sunday afternoon.

  641. We're talking like 4 hour blocks because they want us to come to

  642. a Kingdom rise. Yeah.

  643. Amen. Because what we're carrying, God

  644. wants us to minister. So here's four things that you

  645. can do four ways that you can witness.

  646. The first one is pray and sin. Okay in Matthew Chapter 9, verse

    Matthew 9:37–38

  647. 37 to 38, it says it this way. Then he said to the disciples,

  648. the harvest truly is plentiful, but the laborers are what?

  649. Now listen, that doesn't give you an excuse not to witness.

  650. Well, somebody else at ankravate church will do it.

  651. I mean, did you not just pray over the schools?

  652. Right? You prayed over the schools.

  653. How important is that? It's extremely important.

  654. We were at Osceola, we were at Gamble Rogers, we were at Pedro

  655. and we were at Flagler. Amen.

  656. Now, I don't know how many of you went, but the reality is if

  657. all of you had gone, it would still be few compared to all the

  658. churches that are in this community.

  659. So you can say, well, somebody in aggravate churches going, you

  660. need to say we all should go because in the context of

  661. Christian churches in our community.

  662. If all of us went, it would still be a fraction of real

  663. believers, supposedly believers. Look, I'm not here to make

  664. anyone feel bad, but I'll be honest with you, we should be

  665. out in droves. Because if we're not out in

  666. droves, we're really not discipled, and we're not really

  667. passionate about witnessing. We should be out in droves and

  668. other churches should be like. Wow, faith.

  669. It's like the whole church shows up and it would inspire them to

  670. be more hungry. I mean the.

  671. But if we're casual, guess what? We're no different than they

  672. are. But yet, I know we preach

  673. different. Our preaching is to inspire us

  674. as doers. We know that it seems as if God

  675. can do nothing, Let someone pray.

  676. You think the schools are going to stay protected just because

  677. we're in the community? We're in covenant with God?

  678. God overturned his own nation that he was in covenant with

  679. because they weren't doing anything.

  680. In fact, they were living like the world.

  681. So we have to live different. We have to show up.

  682. We have to be passionate. I understand there's other

  683. things that are going on. I get it.

  684. But at the end of the day, you should.

  685. You need to. Hear us say don't come, we've

  686. got enough. We should have that kind of

  687. passion about this vision God's given us because, again, the

  688. harvest truly is plentiful. But the laborers are what few,

  689. he says. Therefore, pray, the Lord of the

  690. harvest is send out laborers into his harvest to send out

  691. laborers. If you do not get a laborer, the

  692. harvest will not come in. They do not.

  693. You do not get a harvest without a laborer, period.

  694. We have Agricultural Society in our county.

  695. And if you go out there where they're, you know, Hastings was

  696. the potato capital of the world at one point.

  697. If you went out there, those potatoes aren't coming in

  698. without a laborer. I mean, I don't care that

  699. there's a big field and wow, look at all the what?

  700. You can't see them. They're, you know, obviously

  701. buried. But the point is is that, you

  702. know, wow, you pull up once and wow, all these potatoes last.

  703. We got to get them out of the field.

  704. If you don't, they'll rot even though they were ready to go.

  705. And yet how many Christians in their witnessing we're not

  706. staying connected in prayer. We're not really saying, OK,

  707. when God tells me to go, I'm going again.

  708. At the end of the day there there are few.

  709. So guess what that means? If there are few laborers, guess

  710. what that means. You going to get called on a

  711. lot. But I consider that an honor.

  712. I said I consider that an honor that Lord say you're up to bat.

  713. Again, we'll praise God. Come on, let's go.

  714. Right. I mean, I don't know why you're

  715. riding the pond, but I'm ready to get in the game, you know.

  716. And if everybody else you do it put me in coach.

  717. I'm ready to play cause there's a whole world out there.

  718. Amen. Second Thessalonian Chapter 3,

  719. verse one says finally brother. And pray for us that the word of

  720. the Lord will spread rapidly and be glorified just as it did.

  721. Also with you. So again, how can we witness?

  722. Well, prayer is the first thing every any listen, any great

  723. revival first started in the church.

  724. It does not start outside it. It always started in the church

  725. where the church itself had a hunger and began to pray.

  726. Lord, we need laborers. And send me then.

  727. Lord, Lord, I pray that your word spreads rapidly, that it

  728. makes an impact. To the hear that it draws them.

  729. Amen again, Romans 1014 and 15 wants to say, How then will they

  730. call on him and whom they have not believed?

  731. And how will they believe in him whom they've not heard?

  732. And how will they hear? Without a what, without a

  733. preacher? How will they preach unless they

  734. are sent? How will they preach unless they

  735. are sit just as it is written, how beautiful are the feet of

  736. those who bring good news of good things?

  737. So we are to pray and we're also to sin in our prayer.

  738. We're going to recognize there's going to be opportunities.

  739. And then it's like, who are we sending?

  740. I said who are we sending? Because sometimes sending

  741. locally, it can be pretty easy for us to send, but then

  742. internationally that's a little bit different.

  743. And again, you get, you become a part of the process.

  744. If you can't personally go to that distance to be able to be a

  745. laborer, you can say, I know the work, I'm connected in prayer, I

  746. know there's a harvest there and I can definitely financially

  747. support getting those people to where they need to be.

  748. And then you're a part of the harvest.

  749. I said you're part of the harvest.

  750. I mean, think about it. If a farmer only has his hands

  751. to pick it up, but you say, you know what, I'm going to buy you

  752. a tractor. The minute they use a tractor,

  753. you're a part of that harvest because you gave them the

  754. necessary equipment to be able to bring something in.

  755. So every time we're like, hey, we're going to go on this trip,

  756. hey, we're going to do this, hey, we're supporting this in

  757. this particular country. Guess what you do?

  758. You're sending our prayers. Then we put things to action

  759. because at the end of the day, prayer without action is

  760. religion and we are not a church that prays.

  761. We are a church that has answered prayers because we pray

  762. in line with the Lord. Amen.

  763. So that's the 1st way that we witness is we pray and sin.

  764. The second thing is this, We preach the gospel of the

  765. Kingdom. That's what we do.

  766. We don't just preach the gospel because people are making up

  767. gospel. They're making their own good

  768. news. We're preaching the gospel of

  769. the Kingdom, Matthew 417 Jesus said.

  770. From that time Jesus began to preach and say repent for the

  771. Kingdom of. Heaven is at hand.

  772. Hallelujah. In Matthew 2414.

  773. Look what he says. This gospel, which gospel of the

  774. Kingdom shall be preached in the whole world as a testimony to

  775. all the nations. Here we go again.

  776. Where are we going to preach it in the whole world as a

  777. testimony to all the nations. So we're going into our world

  778. order, the systems of the world. That also has an effect within

  779. nations. Both areas are we to preach the

  780. gospel of the Kingdom And then the inn will come.

  781. Paul rebuke hit one of his own church plants and says why are

  782. you listening to a different gospel?

  783. Which means they were listening to something that sounded like

  784. good news, but it wasn't the good news he preached.

  785. You know what sounds like good news?

  786. Ask Jesus into your heart so that when you die, you go to

  787. heaven and you're eternally secure and there's nothing you

  788. have to do at all from that point on.

  789. Sounds good, but that's not what Jesus preached.

  790. Jesus didn't preach that gospel. Jesus did not preach that

  791. gospel. Jesus did tell Nicodemus unless

  792. a man's born again, he shall not see the Kingdom.

  793. So born again is a part of a Kingdom gospel, but it's not the

  794. only part. It's not the only good news.

  795. Born again is not the only thing he talked about.

  796. In fact, he never publicly preached that.

  797. You cannot read the four gospels and see where Jesus publicly

  798. preached. Be born again.

  799. He didn't do it. Do you need to be born again?

  800. Yes, because unless you're born again, you cannot see the

  801. Kingdom nor enter the Kingdom. But the Kingdom is bigger than a

  802. one time experience. The Kingdom is sonship, so there

  803. are gospels that are being preached called destination

  804. gospel. Where are you going to go when

  805. you die? That's what all religion is

  806. asking. The gospel Jesus preached was

  807. destiny. Gospel.

  808. And that is. I'm gonna get heaven into you

  809. while you on the earth. I'm gonna make you like me while

  810. you're on the earth. I'm gonna empower you with my

  811. spirit. While you're on the earth.

  812. I'm gonna turn you into a sun. Now I'm gonna give you authority

  813. Now I'm gonna give you power. Now I'm gonna cause you to walk

  814. in power. Now I'm gonna allow the Kingdom

  815. to show up Now. You don't have to wait for his

  816. existence. It's here in you, and that's a

  817. different gospel. Because that brings

  818. responsibility. Amen.

  819. Praise the Lord. So this cost with the Kingdom.

  820. That's what we preach here. Look at Acts.

    Acts 8 chapter mention

  821. Chapter 8 versus 4 and five says this.

  822. Therefore those who have been scattered went about preaching

  823. the word. Phillip went down to the city of

  824. Samaria and began proclaiming Christ to them.

  825. That Christ is a title. It's not last name.

  826. That's the Greek equivalent to the he Hebrew word Messiah, and

  827. that's the anointed one in his anointing, which is always in

  828. reference to the king. So basically it's Jesus the King

  829. and it goes on verse 12. But when they believe Philip

  830. preaching the good news about the what Kingdom of God and the

  831. name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized men and women alike,

  832. apparently somewhere around. At the end of World War 2.

  833. The United States evangelicals got together and they had a made

  834. a decision. What is the least way we can

  835. present the easiest way to present the Bible?

  836. And they pulled out a lot of elements just to get you down to

  837. I'm a Sinner, I need salvation. Jesus was the answer.

  838. Ask him to come into your heart. They decided we could tear this

  839. down to where everyone can say that the problem was Jesus

  840. didn't break it down like that. Now again, I'm not saying that's

  841. not true. Are we sinners?

  842. Yes. Did Jesus pay the price?

  843. Absolutely. He's the only one who could.

  844. Do we have to confess him as Lord?

  845. Yes, it's not of any works lest any man should boast right.

  846. It is by faith through it is through by grace through faith.

  847. Grace don't even show up if faith's not there.

  848. All right. But most people stop any

  849. Ephesians to not instead of going to 10 because 10 gives you

  850. the purpose of salvation and the purpose of salvation is for good

  851. works that you are predestined that God had for you already.

  852. In essence I got I made you a child of God so you can do

  853. something as I speak to you and together we are Co laborers with

  854. Christ. You can't have the gospel of

  855. Jesus and do nothing. You can't do it, not the one

  856. Jesus preached. Jesus's gospel of the Kingdom

  857. was an action gospel, and it gave authority and authorization

  858. from the King himself. Hallelujah, Acts chapter 20,

    Acts 20:25

  859. verse 25. Paul, who wrote over half of the

  860. New Testament, what did he preach in order to establish all

  861. of his churches? And now, behold, I know that all

  862. that all of you among whom I went about preaching what the

  863. Kingdom, will no longer see me see my face.

  864. So again, Paul in his Gospels, although he don't directly

  865. reference the Kingdom, in every one of them he is referencing

  866. the culture. Of the Kingdom again, if I go to

  867. New York, there's a place called Chinatown.

  868. And why is it Chinatown? Because the culture there.

  869. I mean the the, the, the, the advertisement on their store

  870. windows, the conversations in the street, the food, the dress.

  871. You think you're in China, but you're in the US, you're in New

  872. York. They have another section called

  873. Little Italy. It's where the Italians live.

  874. And again, this the language, even though they're in the

  875. United States. Well, you know what?

  876. There's a behavior and culture called the Kingdom, Paul said.

  877. You formerly used to live this way, but now you're in the

  878. Kingdom. We live this way.

  879. And that's what his letters to the churches were.

  880. You're in a different Kingdom. It's a different culture.

  881. We don't behave that way, don't act that way, don't respond that

  882. way. Well, you understand, God

  883. doesn't make you behave that way.

  884. You have to willfully. Yield to the Spirit and let the

  885. fruits of the Spirit come up. Hallelujah.

  886. Are you hearing me? Amen.

  887. So one way is that you're going to pray and sin.

  888. The 2nd way is you're going to preach the gospel of the

  889. Kingdom. Now, how many of you have spoken

  890. to some coworkers or some other people locally?

  891. I've never heard that. And when you started talking

  892. about things you learn at the church, they're like, I've never

  893. heard that before. Yeah, never heard it.

  894. They're like I've never heard. I've never heard that.

  895. Yet it's true. I remember I was at the AM E

  896. Church, St. Paul AM E Church on Good Friday

  897. and then I was preaching. They beat me up.

  898. But I was preaching anyway. You only have 7 minutes.

  899. It's the seven last sayings of Jesus and you get 7 minutes to

  900. minister. And so I picked on one because

  901. he went low. I said I'm going to take your

  902. minutes anyway. But I was preaching well.

  903. There was a particular minister there.

  904. I won't say who. And and when I was there in the

  905. backroom, that minister did not look at me, talk to me, make eye

  906. contact with me. Nothing, nor acknowledge me.

  907. That's fine because I know who I am anyway.

  908. I don't. So anyway, they did their stuff

  909. and I came to do mine. And after I was done and I

  910. preached the Kingdom. Come on, who was there?

  911. I got some witnesses. Yeah, I preached the Kingdom

  912. when that the one who would not acknowledge me in the back came

  913. up and said. I've never heard such a powerful

  914. message before in my life. And they're a minister because

  915. the Kingdom changes everything. I said the Kingdom changes

  916. everything. The Kingdom changes everything.

  917. If you're sitting here today as a first time guest or you've

  918. only been here a few times and you're like, man, what's this

  919. Kingdom? Well, the best way you can learn

  920. it before we totally preach it is you go by my book at guest

  921. relations called The Forest. Of which we took Spanish copies

  922. to Nicaragua and I gave them to pastors while I was there.

  923. That one pastor sent me a video I need someone to translate for

  924. me and was like basically just saying pastor, I'm going to

  925. minister entirely out of this book and teach our congregation

  926. their dominion. Hallelujah.

  927. I said Hallelujah. So we're touching nations with

  928. the Kingdom of God. Amen.

  929. Are you doing all right? Okay?

  930. Before I get into the last two, I say this because that prophecy

  931. said exponential and we'll be 20 years here.

  932. Now, currently, to your knowledge, we have Anchor Fay

  933. Church St. Augustine, Anchor Fay Church,

  934. Valdosta. Anchor Fay Church Managua.

  935. And you're aware that we're wanting to plant one in Lyon?

  936. Correct. So Pastor Roman, Y'all put up

  937. Pastor Ramon and his family, y'all know them.

  938. They are over Anchor, Faith Church and Managua.

  939. Amen. And he basically will be our

  940. Bishop in the land. Okay.

  941. He's our Bishop. He'll make, he'll oversee the

  942. churches on my behalf because I'm the apostle and he'll

  943. basically be the Bishop within the that area.

  944. Now you're aware that we're going to plant Lyon and here is

  945. Pastor Luis and his wife Yamalet.

  946. They are, we went to Lyon, here they are here.

  947. Pastor Luis is from Mexico originally.

  948. He's he's from Mexico. His wife was actually born in

  949. Lyon. And so they moved back.

  950. Moved to, She moved back to Nicaragua, OK And they're going

  951. to be planning a church in Lyon. We were looking at property.

  952. So we flew in and we went, We need to go to Lyon because I

  953. thought we were minister. Next day some plans change.

  954. Anyway, Long story short, we it was 3:00 AM Wednesday, we're

  955. leaving and we didn't go to bed till like 10:00 PM their time,

  956. which was actually midnight our time.

  957. But we went to Lyon. We need to go look at some

  958. property we need to see, get an idea where we can plant this

  959. church. I needed to be at a connect with

  960. them. And so, you know, here within

  961. between now and the 1st of this year, they're going to be

  962. starting the campus. Amen, Hallelujah.

  963. Now you know that Pastor Rick and his wife, Pastor Carla, they

  964. graduated from Rayma and they actually were over in Rayma,

  965. Mexico. There's Pastor Rick and his wife

  966. Carla. And our goal is to start

  967. sometime next year, although Pastor Rick is biting that the

  968. bit. I mean, he's ready.

  969. I'm like, man, you just you're married.

  970. You're newlyweds. Still, it's OK, you know, But

  971. anyway, they aren't going to be in the Dominican Republic in

  972. Puerto Plata, OK, both of them will be attending Rayma this

  973. fall because they're going to be doing the same training that

  974. Pastor Roman did in Rayma. And they're going to get on the

  975. leadership track so that in two years they will be able to have

  976. a REM of Bible training College in that church as well.

  977. Hallelujah. I mean, this is who would have

  978. thought this? When we first started in 2004,

  979. this was not our thinking. But here, within the last two

  980. years, God is starting to exponentially give us influence

  981. beyond just where we're at. Now in November, I don't have a

  982. picture of them, but in November, we're going to India

  983. and Pastor Jay and his wife that we're going to be moving their

  984. church to be an Anchor Bay Church.

  985. And so we've got some people that are doing construction

  986. going to go. I'll get those tickets here in a

  987. little bit and next thing you know, we're going to go paint,

  988. flip that place, do a Kingdom Institute graduation, do a

  989. Kingdom Rise conference as well, send the team home.

  990. And then Pastor Marsh and I will go on to Albania because she was

  991. invited to come to a women's conference.

  992. And since we're already over there, we might as well swing

  993. through that country on the way back, right?

  994. OK, so they're doing the Dominican Republic.

  995. Well, Pastor Ramon had some gentlemen prior to him becoming

  996. an Anchor Faith Church that considered him their pastor.

  997. There are denominational churches in Nicaragua, but there

  998. are also independent churches and independent churches.

  999. Then they kind of get hungry for fellowship and Pastor Ramon had

  1000. a who he is as a leader can attract.

  1001. Those. Independent pastors, and he had

  1002. a network with about seven of them.

  1003. Out of that, we were always talking because he had a desire

  1004. to plant churches. Obviously I didn't realize that

  1005. God was having us planting churches until we did Valdosta.

  1006. And now that we are, I could connect with him pretty easy.

  1007. And I said, now again, I'm not here to plant anchor faith

  1008. churches. I'm here to plant a culture.

  1009. They might can do a perceived church, call it church, all

  1010. right, but we're here to plant a very specific culture that is in

  1011. line with the Kingdom of God. And if you're going to be an

  1012. anchor Faith church, then no matter where you go on the

  1013. planet you feel like you walked into.

  1014. Heaven, are you hearing me? We want that kind of atmosphere.

  1015. Now, there's a lot of work to get that atmosphere because

  1016. we're having to deal with you on the earth.

  1017. Gotta deal with your flesh. It ain't gonna be no flesh in

  1018. heaven, you understand? So but we having to deal with

  1019. your flesh here. We're trying to get heaven to

  1020. ascend down and it's got to get your flesh out the way.

  1021. That's why we're not a flesh friendly church.

  1022. We crucify our flesh. We want to live by the Spirit

  1023. and that's work that requires all of us to come together to

  1024. have that kind of culture, that kind of atmosphere.

  1025. All right. And so I'm very adamant about

  1026. that. So I said you know these

  1027. individual, we got to know who. So he let me know out of the

  1028. seven, he said I got three, we got 3/3 that I think can be with

  1029. us. Well then once we got the Rama,

  1030. my plan at that point or my thinking is we will run them

  1031. through Rama. Let him do 2 years of Rama, get

  1032. the foundation of faith in them. According to the prophecy of

  1033. Brother Hagan, they will have understood faith.

  1034. Then they'll understand the Kingdom, because that's what we

  1035. preach and nothing will be withheld from those who do that.

  1036. And so then then you can watch these individuals, they finish

  1037. that course, man. We can turn them and recommend

  1038. them to be an Anchor Bay church. That's what you're doing.

  1039. And we can move now. He's had prior relationships.

  1040. And so when we're talking about this exciting opportunities and

  1041. things, he said, well, I got one pastor even passed for 10 years.

  1042. And you know, I said, well, again, if he wants to be an

  1043. anchor of a church, you got to ask him, is he willing to change

  1044. the name? So he asked, and he asked

  1045. another one who hadn't started a church, but, you know, since he

  1046. hadn't started, why have a different name You're going to

  1047. change in two years. So he's having a conversation.

  1048. Then we had one guy years ago that he was so excited about

  1049. what Pastor Ramon was doing, being with an aggravate church,

  1050. and he turned his church into that, that he automatically

  1051. changed his with a whole different logo.

  1052. And I showed up and I'm like, what is this?

  1053. This is not us, right? And so we had to kind of, you

  1054. know, redirect a little bit. Long story short, we have three

  1055. other churches now now today. So first I'm going to introduce

  1056. you to Pastor Marlin. He's been passing for 10 years.

  1057. Here's him and his wife and they have Anchor Faith Church in

  1058. Managua. Managua is 900.

  1059. Listen, how many people are in Managua?

  1060. Managua has 973,000 and 87 people.

  1061. To get a little bit further out there, over a million we could

  1062. plant. Multiple for faith churches in

  1063. Managua? No problem.

  1064. But he was so passionate about what we were doing and what

  1065. Pastor Ramon's doing. I got a video of his church with

  1066. our logo. His greeters already have our

  1067. patch on there. This.

  1068. Amen. Now, I laid it out at our

  1069. meeting. This is what it looks like to be

  1070. us. And Pastor Ramon's like you.

  1071. Let him know how it's going to be, because at the end of the

  1072. day, we're here to have culture, not just have another church.

  1073. But we have this church, then we have Pastor Narciso.

  1074. He's by himself. He's now he honestly, I think

  1075. he's 70 years old. Seriously, this guy right here

  1076. used to be a cowboy. This guy's super fit, man.

  1077. It's amazing. And so he has a church.

  1078. And every time Pastor Marsh and I come to the country, he gives

  1079. me gifts. He honors me with gifts.

  1080. Amazing guy. And so he's the one who sent me

  1081. a video about I'm going to preach out of this book.

  1082. I'm only going to teach, you know what we've learned in from

  1083. this book? Amen.

  1084. So he has an Anchor Bay Church now Pastor Alberto and his wife,

  1085. they've they are just starting a Home group.

  1086. But he has a 3D model of the church.

  1087. He wants to build 188 capacity with a balcony.

  1088. I'm like, you need to send me that.

  1089. He did. It's pretty awesome.

  1090. I'll show. It to you later, but they're

  1091. going to be planting a church ultimately.

  1092. They're starting with a small group right now.

  1093. All three. All, you know, all five of

  1094. those. Plus he has a son that's going

  1095. to attend Rayma. They'll all be attending Rayma

  1096. in January. Hallelujah.

  1097. So currently we have 4 Anchor Faith churches in Managua and

  1098. one's coming online in Lyon. Now, this is what we call

  1099. exponential. And I just want you to know

  1100. there's going to be plenty of opportunities because I remember

  1101. the Lord told me, he said your greatest influence in missions

  1102. will be the Caribbean. Any nation that touches a

  1103. Caribbean, and I know it's because of proximity, it's easy

  1104. to get there and get back, don't take a long time.

  1105. And you know what? We're going to be able to get

  1106. there. We're going to be able to paint,

  1107. we're going to help build, we're going to be able to do.

  1108. So it doesn't matter whether you preach or teach.

  1109. You can put your hand to something because we are

  1110. expanding. Hallelujah.

  1111. These are exciting times that we're in.

  1112. And the Lord said I didn't have 20 years to build something, so

  1113. we are building whatever that was.

  1114. That wasn't going to take 20 years, but then we going to keep

  1115. on going. Hallelujah.

  1116. So the next two ways that you can witness first one, prayer

  1117. and sin. Second one is you're going to

  1118. preach the gospel of the Kingdom.

  1119. The third one is you're going to encounter physical changes of

  1120. the lost when you're witnessing. There should become physical

  1121. changes of the Lost. Now what do I mean by that?

  1122. Look at Matthew chapter 4, verse 23 and 24.

    Matthew 4:23

  1123. Because remember, March 16 was that you were going to all the

  1124. world that's already that's your back door.

  1125. And you're going to be able to raise the dead, heal the sick,

  1126. cast out devils, the speak with Newtons, the power for those

  1127. things to happen, he says. This Jesus was going throughout

  1128. all Galilee, teaching in their synagogue and proclaiming what

  1129. the gospel of the Kingdom and healing every kind of disease

  1130. and every kind of sickness among the people.

  1131. The news about him spread throughout all Syria, and they

  1132. brought to him all who were ill, those.

  1133. Suffering from various diseases and pain, the Montiacs,

  1134. epileptics, paralytics. And He healed them.

  1135. What? And He healed them.

  1136. He healed them. He healed them.

  1137. So when we encounter the loss in our witnessing, we should see

  1138. physical changes happen with them.

  1139. Our witnessing should bring about physical changes in their

  1140. life. Look what it says in Matthew

  1141. 10/1. And it says.

  1142. And when He called unto Him His 12 disciples, He gave them power

  1143. against unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner

  1144. of sickness and all manner of disease.

  1145. Are you a disciple? I said, Are you a disciple?

  1146. Again? March 16, says those who believe

  1147. these signs will follow, So you're witnessing you.

  1148. It should be common that physical changes will take place

  1149. with those that are outside the Kingdom, because you can witness

  1150. to them. The people that Jesus was

  1151. healing did not get born again because they had not yet died.

  1152. He had not yet died and rose. So he's healing people who are

  1153. out of covenant. I mean, are, you know, not born

  1154. again, born of God. Now he healed some, quite a few

  1155. that were in covenant with God through the covenant with

  1156. really, Abraham, but they were under the law of Moses, right?

  1157. But he did not limit healing there for those who came after

  1158. it. The sire Phoenician woman, she

  1159. got it. There were others that were

  1160. outside the House of Israel that received healing because they

  1161. were persistent salt. The centurion was a Roman and

  1162. though he didn't get healed himself, he had the power to

  1163. believe God and God said concerning him.

  1164. I've not seen such great faith. No, not in all of Israel.

  1165. I got a heathen that has better faith in my own nation cause he

  1166. just believes me at it, at my word.

  1167. Wow, so physical changes should happen.

  1168. These are four ways that we witness.

  1169. We pray and sin. We priest the gospel of the

  1170. Kingdom, then we demonstrate that gospel because we can cast

  1171. out devils, we can lay hands on the sick.

  1172. I mean we can do things because of the power in us that comes

  1173. through us when we yield to God. I said when we yield to God,

  1174. Amen. I'm remember one time we were

  1175. over across from Publix right here.

  1176. That's on 3/12. You know where the Babcock is.

  1177. We were over in a storefront over there and we some guy come

  1178. in and. Preached and preached about

  1179. faith and healing, all this stuff.

  1180. We were actually outside because we're having some county issues.

  1181. And so he left with some people came that were followers of his

  1182. ministry. They weren't here.

  1183. They were not in our community. This lady has some challenges

  1184. with her children physically. And so with that being said, the

  1185. gifts of the spirit were not in operations to to do anything for

  1186. her family. But when she put her son in the

  1187. wheelchair in the van and went to put their, you know, infant

  1188. in, they quit breathing. And died in the vehicle.

  1189. And she got pretty hysterical, obviously, no movement, no

  1190. breath, no nothing, no pulse, nothing.

  1191. And so we have some people who are nurses, You know, they were

  1192. crying around the van. Obviously they called 911.

  1193. And so, you know, I'm like, Lord, I just had a minister here

  1194. talking about the power of God. We can't have this happen.

  1195. Cannot have an infant die, cannot do this.

  1196. The church is too young, too young.

  1197. Live. So I knew that God wanted to do

  1198. something. So I didn't even get.

  1199. I didn't move them out of the way.

  1200. I mean, I got up to the van. I mean, I was kind of pushing up

  1201. against this one particular nurse, you know, and I stuck my

  1202. hand in around the van. She knew I was there.

  1203. I touched the child. I said in Jesus.

  1204. Pull my hand back out. Don't.

  1205. I don't know what happened. Nothing.

  1206. I just. And then I went off and began to

  1207. pray in the Spirit. Because at the end of the day,

  1208. now I'm 11, started up, you can hear them coming around.

  1209. They happen to be across the street actually.

  1210. So they got there real quick, praise God, you know, But within

  1211. that time frame. And I'm praying.

  1212. Well, later on, afterwards, you know, the baby is alive, the

  1213. nurse told me when I laid hand. Now I didn't do it.

  1214. It's power of God, you know, so-called.

  1215. We can raise the dead only by the power of the Holy Ghost.

  1216. And I laid. So God began to witness to the

  1217. congregation this thing I've been preaching, he preached, and

  1218. it was in demonstration. And that child was raised up

  1219. that day. Hallelujah.

  1220. Amen. Because there can be.

  1221. Physical changes that occur when we are operating as witnesses.

  1222. The last one is this. Number four, we are to invade

  1223. their lives through their minds. Invade their lives through their

  1224. minds and this is directly the the gifts of the Spirit, not the

  1225. power gifts of faith healings and work in a miracle, but a

  1226. word of knowledge. I said a word of knowledge.

  1227. Look what it says in John chapter 4, verse 16 and 19.

    John 4:16

  1228. Jesus said to her go call your husband and come here.

  1229. And the woman answered and said, I have no husband.

  1230. And he said to her, You have said, you have well said, I have

  1231. no husband. 4 You have had five husbands.

  1232. And the one whom you you now have is not your husband in that

  1233. you spoke truly, the woman said to him.

  1234. Sir, I perceive that you are prophet.

  1235. He invaded her mind. He was able to say things about

  1236. her that he could have not known because she didn't know him and

  1237. she knew he must be tapped to God.

  1238. Are you hearing me? And this is one of the most

  1239. untapped things that again, This is why we earnestly desire

  1240. spirit. It's not to bring attention to

  1241. you, it's to bring attention to the one that's outside the

  1242. Kingdom that God's aware of them.

  1243. Look what it says in John chapter one, verse 47 to 50.

  1244. Jesus saw Nathaniel coming to him and said to him, Behold and

  1245. Israelite indeed, in whom there is no deceit, Nathaniel said to

  1246. him, How do you know me? Jesus answer said to him before

  1247. Philip called you. When you were under the fig tree

  1248. I saw you, Nathaniel answer said Rabbi, you are the son of God,

  1249. you are the king of Israel. Jesus answer said to him,

  1250. Because I said to you, I saw you under the fig tree.

  1251. Do you believe you will see greater things than these?

  1252. So he was able to identify with him, open him up, because he was

  1253. able to speak something that was either his present or his past,

  1254. that only God would know He had not ran into him, and it allowed

  1255. those individuals know that God was aware of them.

  1256. That is a witnessing tool. And let me say this if you're

  1257. not baptizing. The Holy Ghost, whatever is the

  1258. Speaking of tongues, you can't operate in that.

  1259. Through the baptism the Holy Spirit with evidence, speaking

  1260. in tongues, do the gifts of the Spirit get in operation, And

  1261. again? Jesus.

  1262. Never, ever wanted his covenant children to witness only from a

  1263. born again. Perspective, you say, pastor.

  1264. How can you say that? Read your Bible.

  1265. Jesus walks into the room, you understand?

  1266. Walks through the walls after his death bearing resurrection,

  1267. right Sees this disciple, John chapter 20.

    John 20 chapter mention

  1268. And read it yourself. He sees this disciple and it

  1269. says he breathed on them to what receive the Holy Spirit.

  1270. He breathed on them so there is an inward feeling of the Holy

  1271. Spirit. Pastor Marcy ministered on this

  1272. on a Wednesday night. If you weren't here, go back on

  1273. our podcast. You ain't done that spirit with

  1274. that spirit. Oh.

  1275. I'm setting you up, girl. It's great you want to be here

  1276. next Wednesday, so there's the spirit within.

  1277. And then there's a spirit upon same Holy Spirit.

  1278. And it's not half and half, It's all within and then it all upon.

  1279. Are you hearing me OK? With that being said, he

  1280. breathed on them and anything Jesus did always happened.

  1281. So if he breathe on them to receive the Holy Spirit, they

  1282. receive the Holy Spirit, which means Jesus, all those disciples

  1283. be born again because you cannot put new wine in old wine skin.

  1284. So when? People say, well, the worst that

  1285. we do, greater than Jesus is we see people born again.

  1286. Jesus didn't. That's a lot.

  1287. Jesus all the new covenant come to pass.

  1288. What Jesus didn't witness when he was on the earth was they

  1289. indubit of power? Because he said now it's to your

  1290. advantage that I go that he may come because if I don't go he

  1291. can't come. Now here he is breathes on the

  1292. disciples. They received the Holy Spirit

  1293. and you know what he says to them?

  1294. Don't say anything. I don't want you talking on my

  1295. behalf. I know you just came alive and

  1296. all the guilt and shame is gone. You know, you're a new person

  1297. now. It's pretty amazing.

  1298. Isn't that pretty amazing? The Holy Spirit's living in.

  1299. You bearing witness with your spirit, your child to God is

  1300. amazing, he said. Don't talk about it, he said.

  1301. Don't say anything. Yet, he said.

  1302. But you. Wait until the promise comes,

  1303. until you are endued with power from on high.

  1304. So these group of people hold a private prayer meeting waiting.

  1305. For the power to come so. They can witness what they've.

  1306. And they're not even authorized to be a witness by the head of

  1307. the church. By the head of the church.

  1308. Until they're endured with power from.

  1309. On high and on the day of Pentecost, the Holy Ghost came

  1310. in like a mighty Russian wind, and they all began to speak in

  1311. other tones as he gave them others.

  1312. It were unknown tones, but they were also languages of other

  1313. nations as well, because again, if you've never studied certain

  1314. languages, God has no problem releasing it out of you so that

  1315. it can testify to them. So we had two different things

  1316. going unknown tongues and. Languages happening in the same

  1317. moment that it called the attention.

  1318. Of people and they thought they were drunk and he said they.

  1319. Are not drunk as you suppose. Sometimes we just need to

  1320. explain what's going on. What is going on in that church?

  1321. Well, that means explain it, because that's what happened in

  1322. the first one. Had to explain it.

  1323. But it was after that that they could be a witness, and it was

  1324. after that that the the gifts of the Spirit could start to flow.

  1325. And again, if anybody's got a problem with speaking in.

  1326. Other tongues. Then you got a problem with half

  1327. of the Bible because Paul wrote and he said I pray in tongues

  1328. more than you all. So why are you preaching out of

  1329. the text of a tongue talker? Doesn't make sense.

  1330. Does. It, I said.

  1331. It doesn't make sense. It doesn't make sense, he.

  1332. Said man. When I pray in an unknown

  1333. tongue, he called it unknown. Unknown tongue my spirit praise

  1334. my mind's unfruitful. Have no.

  1335. Idea what I'm saying, but it's the spirit praying through my

  1336. spirit. And he wrote over half of the

  1337. New Testament. A Pentecostal tongue talking,

  1338. devil casting out, raising the dead individual.

  1339. And why couldn't he? Why could he?

  1340. Cause he was baptizing the Spirit.

  1341. Praise the Lord so again. It opens up the word of.

  1342. Knowledge so that you can. Communicate things that are

  1343. going on in people's lives at work, all of this.

  1344. Is available to the one who would witness.

  1345. Not only do they need to operate locally, they need to operate

  1346. nationally. And then they can operate

  1347. internationally, but the ones that operate the most.

  1348. And This is why I love that God put it in March 16.

  1349. This way. He just wants you to know a lot

  1350. of power is going to be happening when you get out in

  1351. the sectors of. Society through you.

  1352. This isn't reserved for the nations because you know when

  1353. you go to. Some really.

  1354. Supernatural things happen. You know why?

  1355. It's called hunger. It's called hunger.

  1356. Now here's the thing. A word of knowledge is not

  1357. dependent on the hunger of the hearer.

  1358. It's dependent on the hunger. Of the one given the word,

  1359. laying hands on the sick. Isn't dependent.

  1360. On the hunger of the people you're working with, it's

  1361. dependent on the hunger of the one who can lay hands on the

  1362. sick. So if you stay hungry and full

  1363. of the power of God and the word of God and sensitive to a

  1364. spirit, he can say, hey, so and so at work today had this issue

  1365. last night. Would you take him to lunch once

  1366. you talk to them about it and let them know I got it taken

  1367. care of well? They're lost.

  1368. Lord, I know, I know that. But.

  1369. I'm sending you. Thank you so much for listening

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