Let the Church Arise

[SPEAKER_01]: And the Lord told me early on this week, Melissa said, on Monday or Tuesday, she said, what are you going to do on Sunday?

[SPEAKER_01]: I said, we're having a spirit-led service.

[SPEAKER_01]: And nothing else.

[SPEAKER_01]: So none of this was planned.

[SPEAKER_01]: So far, I mean, it's like, none of this is just how God has led.

[SPEAKER_01]: And I said, Lord, if you're going to lead us to do that,

[SPEAKER_01]: Even last week with extended worship, I still preached them a message, you know.

[SPEAKER_01]: So Lord, if that's what you're going to do, I'm going to be obedient to your voice.

[SPEAKER_01]: Well, little did I know, little did anybody know, that we would have an absolute

[SPEAKER_01]: Not nation-shaking, but global shakening happened this week.

[SPEAKER_01]: Where we had a disgusting, brutal assassination of a man who did not deserve to die.

[SPEAKER_01]: It was the first modern day.

[SPEAKER_01]: martyr of our time.

[SPEAKER_01]: Someone who stood up for Jesus, who preached the Word of God, who shared the love of Jesus with with everyone, who would go onto college campuses, a place that a lot of people don't want to go, preachers don't want to go, and other people don't want to

[SPEAKER_01]: and the generation that we're dealing with and a lot of people like to stay away from that, but Charlie Kirk was a voice that was raised up by God to reach those people.

[SPEAKER_01]: And I don't know, I don't care about your political view points, or kind of your, you know, whatever it may be as far as all of that was concerned.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's not a democratic thing or a Republican thing or it's not anything like that as a matter of fact, I've been sure to say and I believe this with all my heart that it has nothing to do with politics, but it's 100% spiritual.

[SPEAKER_01]: to eliminate a voice that is leading thousands upon thousands of people to Jesus.

[SPEAKER_01]: Take the politics out of it.

[SPEAKER_01]: The voice that God raised up to lead people under Him.

[SPEAKER_01]: But what I love about

[SPEAKER_01]: If I love anything about any of this, which crazy it's shaking and everything, everybody has felt some sort of something, whether you are political or not, or whether you are, you know, want to be involved or intertwined with the things that are happening in the world or not, you know, whatever it may be.

[SPEAKER_01]: This actually every single person was impacted by this, somehow, somehow.

[SPEAKER_01]: But the voice that God gave him and that God raised up was taken out.

[SPEAKER_01]: And if there's anything good that comes from any of this, that is that one person's death,

[SPEAKER_01]: has now led to millions of people coming to the light.

[SPEAKER_01]: Celebrities, political figures, world leaders, everybody spoke about it.

[SPEAKER_01]: And not everybody was speaking about his political views.

[SPEAKER_01]: His conservative approach, his grassroots movement, but what they were speaking about was his love for Jesus.

[SPEAKER_01]: His heart for the Lord, for a movement, an awakening, a revival in this nation.

[SPEAKER_01]: That's what everybody's talking about.

[SPEAKER_01]: And I saw something and maybe if you're on social media, you may have seen it too.

[SPEAKER_01]: I saw something that said, his death has awakened millions of voices, millions of voices.

[SPEAKER_01]: People that won't hold back that won't stand down any longer that will speak up with the voice of truth.

[SPEAKER_01]: That will speak up, not just for this country's values and what we believe in, but we'll speak up for the name of Jesus.

[SPEAKER_01]: The name that's above every name.

[SPEAKER_01]: The name that has enough power to change a soul and see the prisoner set free.

[SPEAKER_01]: And I believe in this hour what God is doing is he is raising up the voice of the church again.

[SPEAKER_01]: That we will no longer be silent.

[SPEAKER_01]: Come on, I said, we will no longer be silent.

[SPEAKER_01]: But our voices shall be heard.

[SPEAKER_01]: Our voices shall be heard.

[SPEAKER_01]: And I cannot speak for any of you in this room for those that watch online, for people that aren't here today.

[SPEAKER_01]: I can't speak for nobody but myself.

[SPEAKER_01]: I can only speak for me, not even for Melissa.

[SPEAKER_01]: But I'm just going to let you know right now that this voice right here is rising up and will be heard.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not backing down from the truth of the gospel of Jesus.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not stopping.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not holding back.

[SPEAKER_01]: You know, I have preached

[SPEAKER_01]: Some what what people would say some some borderline messages.

[SPEAKER_01]: I've I've touched some subjects that have kind of crossed Maybe you might think some boundary lines that might have offended some people in the past or whatever And I kind of steer it away from that and I said okay if that's the way you all feel I won't do that anymore But I am sorry.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm here to tell you this morning

[SPEAKER_01]: You cannot tell me what to preach, you cannot tell me to stop speaking the truth.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to speak whatever God tells me to speak, hallelujah.

[SPEAKER_01]: Because if not, who will?

[SPEAKER_01]: If not, who will?

[SPEAKER_01]: That doesn't mean that that God's going to raise me up to go to college campuses like Charlie Kirk and in Minnesota people and all that kind of stuff that's not when I'm talking about here.

[SPEAKER_01]: The Lord will rise up the right people to take those positions.

[SPEAKER_01]: But cannot tell you in the city of Bedford there has to be a voice.

[SPEAKER_01]: Can I tell you that in the H.E.B.

[SPEAKER_01]: area there has to be a voice.

[SPEAKER_01]: But I take my rightful place, I take my authority, I take my position, and if that affends you, if that hurts you, if that robs you the wrong way, I'm sorry, there are plenty of other churches in the area that are great, but that's for me in this house.

[SPEAKER_01]: We will preach the gospel.

[SPEAKER_01]: We will proclaim the good news.

[SPEAKER_01]: We will see prisoners set free.

[SPEAKER_01]: We will heal the sick.

[SPEAKER_01]: We will cast out devils.

[SPEAKER_01]: We will stand for truth.

[SPEAKER_01]: We will stand upon the Word of God.

[SPEAKER_01]: Whatever the Word of God says, we believe it.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm more serious now than I've ever been.

[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm okay.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm cool.

[SPEAKER_01]: You ain't going to offend me.

[SPEAKER_01]: There is an offense freeze zone that literally hovers around me at all times.

[SPEAKER_01]: I am not offended by your personal beliefs.

[SPEAKER_01]: I am not offended by your opinions.

[SPEAKER_01]: I am not offended when you come up to me and say, I don't think you should have preached that word.

[SPEAKER_01]: I am not offended because guess what?

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to preach it again, whether you want to hear it or not.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not a prosperity gospel preacher.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not a this or I'm not of that.

[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know what I am.

[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know, and that's okay, but all I know is that I love Jesus.

[SPEAKER_01]: All I know is that I wanna see Jesus touch people.

[SPEAKER_01]: That's all I care about.

[SPEAKER_01]: All I care about is a gentleman that I've never met before that comes in here for the first time and walks down here to be healed and his jaw gets healed today.

[SPEAKER_01]: That's when I care about church.

[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you.

[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you.

[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you.

[SPEAKER_01]: And so if nobody else will rise up, who will?

[SPEAKER_01]: You know how many times I've typed stuff out on Facebook this week and hit the backspace?

[SPEAKER_01]: You know how many sick comments that I've had to delete this week from people that said he deserved to be killed, that he was doing this, he was saying this, that he was, you know, he crossed the lines and all this kind of stuff, sick people, let me tell you, wicked people, wicked.

[SPEAKER_01]: to say that somebody deserved to die a death for preaching the name of Jesus.

[SPEAKER_01]: And I'll just say this, whether you like it or not.

[SPEAKER_01]: But we would not be where we are right now as a nation with the leadership in the president that we have right now if it wasn't for Charlie Kirk.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'll tell you that right now.

[SPEAKER_01]: because he went and he went into college campuses and he had, he had large events and he basically led a whole entire movement to come against the woke agenda.

[SPEAKER_01]: to come against the disgusting policies and the evil and the wicked things that this world is trying to allow and trying to accept.

[SPEAKER_01]: He spoke against issues like transgender and woke ideologies.

[SPEAKER_01]: He spoke against those things, not because he did it out of opinion, but he did because it says it right here.

[SPEAKER_01]: People say, oh, don't talk about that kind of subjects.

[SPEAKER_01]: Don't touch those kind of things.

[SPEAKER_01]: We got to love everybody, yeah.

[SPEAKER_01]: But there are people that need to be set free.

[SPEAKER_01]: And I will love them like crazy, baby.

[SPEAKER_01]: But I'm going to believe that they're going to get set free.

[SPEAKER_01]: And the last thing that I want my children to grow up in is a country that was going in the direction that it was going.

[SPEAKER_01]: So I thank God for people like Charlie Kirk.

[SPEAKER_01]: I thank God for him and for other voices in this nation.

[SPEAKER_01]: Benny Johnson and other people that are spiritual people that touch the political realm.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm grateful for those voices because it sparked something in the minds of young people all over the nation.

[SPEAKER_01]: And they realize that if I'm going to be successful in this life, if I'm going to want to raise up a family, if I'm going to want to do these things, and I've got to get away from all of this stuff, the amount of things that we are allowing in our universities is disgusting.

[SPEAKER_01]: We raise up our children to tell them that they need to go to college.

[SPEAKER_01]: And then they go to college and they get all twisted and messed up because we openly allow all different kinds of evil and wicked things that should never be allowed.

[SPEAKER_01]: So if nobody else is going to put a stop to it, then who is?

[SPEAKER_01]: I believe that the days of silent Christians are over.

[SPEAKER_01]: something happened in the world this week if you don't recognize that you need to look harder something happened in the world this week and I'm telling you Christians are rising up to a level that they've never been raised up before and I'm telling you God is literally literally forming his army right now.

[SPEAKER_01]: And we will go into the market places, we will go into the high schools, into the colleges, into the grocery stores, you name it.

[SPEAKER_01]: Hallelujah, but God is rising us up as believers in this hour for such a time as this.

[SPEAKER_01]: And he says, if my people who are called upon my name will just humble themselves and pray and turn from their wicked ways and seek my face, then I will look upon them.

[SPEAKER_01]: Then I will look upon them.

[SPEAKER_01]: Ooh, I'm fired up, I'm fired up, I laid my hands on 400, 500, something people last night, right?

[SPEAKER_01]: And, you know, in tongues the whole time, I'm fired up, I've lost my voice last night.

[SPEAKER_01]: But beyond that, just everything that occurred this week, and I posted on my social media, I said, if you don't agree with me, if you don't believe the same way as me, just do yourself a favor and just remove me as your friend.

[SPEAKER_01]: As I'm not going to change what I say to make you happy, I don't need your hateful, hurtful negative comments.

[SPEAKER_01]: I don't need, I don't need the stuff that says that someone deserved to die.

[SPEAKER_01]: Listen, I don't care if he didn't know Jesus.

[SPEAKER_01]: Nobody deserves to die.

[SPEAKER_01]: Not like that.

[SPEAKER_01]: Not within assassins bullet.

[SPEAKER_01]: Not within assassins bullet.

[SPEAKER_01]: And right now, you know what we really need to be doing?

[SPEAKER_01]: We need to be praying for that young man who took the shot.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I see man, we were here.

[SPEAKER_01]: You know, at first, when I heard it and all that, I literally, and don't be mad when I say this, please, don't be hurt, ever offended when I say this.

[SPEAKER_01]: Here are my heart, because the Lord got a hold of me.

[SPEAKER_01]: When that first happened, I said, whoever that was, let's shoot them in the neck and see if they survive.

[SPEAKER_01]: That's how angry, right, just the angry I was.

[SPEAKER_01]: And then the Lord got a hold of me, and that's not how we handle this situation.

[SPEAKER_01]: That's right, Lord.

[SPEAKER_01]: And the Lord reminded me that you pray for your enemies.

[SPEAKER_01]: You pray for those that do wrong against you, that's what the Bible says.

[SPEAKER_01]: those that curse you, you don't curse them back.

[SPEAKER_01]: You pray for them.

[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm believing that that young man who will receive the death sentence, we know that.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm believing that before he takes his last breath that there is some point of time where he comes to the revelation of Jesus.

[SPEAKER_01]: and he looks to Jesus, and he repents, not just for the act of murder, but that he repents and falls upon his knees and cries out to Jesus.

[SPEAKER_01]: He said, well, he don't deserve that.

[SPEAKER_01]: Well, neither do you.

[SPEAKER_01]: Neither did the thief on the cross when Jesus was hanging there.

[SPEAKER_01]: And Jesus looked over him and he says, today, you will be with me in paradise.

[SPEAKER_01]: Can you imagine what the thief was thinking when Jesus told him that?

[SPEAKER_01]: Me, seriously?

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm up here because I committed crimes.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not worthy of your kingdom, God.

[SPEAKER_01]: And Jesus said today, he will be with me.

[SPEAKER_01]: Listen, I believe that there is grace for everybody.

[SPEAKER_01]: But there is a mercy of God that's supernatural, that's for anybody.

[SPEAKER_01]: And I believe that the Lord can redeem and restore this whole situation.

[SPEAKER_01]: And that young man can come to the knowledge of Jesus Christ.

[SPEAKER_01]: I got homeless and I almost want to am.

[SPEAKER_01]: I had heard about, maybe some of you have had watched it already, but I had heard about the viral video, if you will, the video that Erica Kirk, Charlie Kirk's wife put out 16 minutes long.

[SPEAKER_01]: She addresses the world about what took place, and if you haven't watched that, you need to watch it.

[SPEAKER_01]: And if you see it, you know, exactly what I'm talking about.

[SPEAKER_01]: But that young lady has a look on her face.

[SPEAKER_01]: Not of revenge, not of anger, not of madness, and brokenness, and saw her, I know she's feeling a lot of emotions right now.

[SPEAKER_01]: But the look on her face is a determination.

[SPEAKER_01]: to keep on going.

[SPEAKER_01]: To keep on preaching the gospel the way that Charlie did.

[SPEAKER_01]: And she made it very clear that we're not stopping, we're not holding back.

[SPEAKER_01]: And even if I have to take an assassins bullet as well, I will keep on going.

[SPEAKER_01]: I will keep on going.

[SPEAKER_01]: That's what we need right now.

[SPEAKER_01]: That's what we need right now.

[SPEAKER_01]: I am wild, it's right.

[SPEAKER_01]: Well, too wild for some people, that's OK.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to say something that may be wild to you.

[SPEAKER_01]: We were talking about this yesterday.

[SPEAKER_01]: My team that works for me in somebody raised the question of who will take the mantle of Charlie Kurtz.

[SPEAKER_01]: And they named these different people, these different voices, you know, great, wonderful, powerful, awesome people.

[SPEAKER_01]: People that are doing very similar people that have worked side by side with him, you know, all these kind of things.

[SPEAKER_01]: And all of them are kind of given their opinions and sharing their viewpoints of who they think that should take the direction of turning point USA.

[SPEAKER_01]: And TPUSA as a whole and action and all that kind of stuff that they do and all these people on the team and all these different opinions.

[SPEAKER_01]: And I said, you want to know who I think is going to be

[SPEAKER_01]: And they said, who I said, his wife, because the same way that the Lord raised up Esther, I believe is the same way that the Lord's going to raise up another Esther voice right now in this nation.

[SPEAKER_01]: For far too long, listen to me, you got to understand me here.

[SPEAKER_01]: the left, the woke, the this, the that they've been trying to suppress the voice of the woman.

[SPEAKER_01]: They've been trying to say it's okay if you cut off your parts of your body and if you want to become a man and and all this kind of stuff And I know it goes the same way for for men as well, but there has been an all-out war and has been an assignment against the right The raising up of the women of God in this nation and in this world and at one point of time God raised up Esther And Esther became a voice

[SPEAKER_01]: And I believe that now, for Erica Kirk, mark my words.

[SPEAKER_01]: I said it's wild, because it may be, but I don't know.

[SPEAKER_01]: But mark my words that there is an extra movement that's about to take place, that there is an army of women that are rising, come on, that are not going to be held back because of some man, because they're not like men or they don't have a voice like men, no, forget all that.

[SPEAKER_01]: The Lord didn't care about all that.

[SPEAKER_01]: He raised her up for that season, for that appointed time.

[SPEAKER_01]: If we're so long, women have held back and they said, oh, we'll let the men take charge in certain areas and all that.

[SPEAKER_01]: Listen, there are certain places in certain realms that there are women that are called to be raised up in.

[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you, Lord, I will do it.

[SPEAKER_03]: As the beginning of the restoration,

[SPEAKER_03]: As it begins, they shall be a woman that shall rise up.

[SPEAKER_03]: A woman that shall be strong in faith, virtuous, beautiful inines, and I shall be so beautiful.

[SPEAKER_03]: I shall be round and big.

[SPEAKER_03]: I have crowned her, says the Lord, as I crowned Esther.

[SPEAKER_03]: The people shall receive her.

[SPEAKER_03]: She shall have the oil of gladness for the pain in the morning in the second place and she shall pour out the oil.

[SPEAKER_03]: Is there some oil you have, please?

[SPEAKER_03]: Why did someone?

[SPEAKER_03]: She shall pour out the oil on this nation.

[SPEAKER_03]: And God says healing shall begin and then it shall flow rapidly.

[SPEAKER_03]: Schools will be free from potential damage and danger.

[SPEAKER_03]: Shooting is a murder, drug addiction, can't tell shall be afraid of anyone in them.

[SPEAKER_03]: A woman, a woman, a woman, set aside and God says they will say we hated her.

[SPEAKER_03]: But now he now for, for she shall take the oil of healing and she shall pour it upon the scars.

[SPEAKER_03]: of those left and those right and of the new party that has come forth and emerged.

[SPEAKER_03]: When they shall say Christ will reign and we shall not implement and all socialism, where we will, where they have said we will make history without God, no you will not.

[SPEAKER_03]: I know you will not says the Lord, but I chose this nation before it was founded.

[SPEAKER_03]: Before anybody can, I chose this entire nation, all fifty states, every one of them, to send my gospel to the entire earth, do you think I have changed my mind?

[SPEAKER_03]: Therefore the healing that is necessary for this nation shall come and a time in the middle of the of the Presidency, they shall be a woman that shall come and God said they shall be oil that shall be poured upon the nation and they shall suddenly

[SPEAKER_03]: You'll be healing and they shall say it as well with my soul.

[SPEAKER_03]: It is well with our soul, for the soul of America has been corrupted.

[SPEAKER_03]: The soul of the nation has been corrupted with bitterness and anger.

[SPEAKER_02]: And God said she shall say, no more bitterness, no more anger, no more division.

[SPEAKER_02]: And so all the oil that's what comes from the spill of oil himself.

[SPEAKER_02]: If you are nation believe it, if you want this little choice, and shout him on time, time to say yes.

[SPEAKER_01]: You all want to come play afully pay a field jump on the keys.

[SPEAKER_01]: That was a prophetic word that was spoken in 2011 by Kim Komlin.

[SPEAKER_01]: And what we're seeing right now is these prophetic utterances that have been spoken coming to pass.

[SPEAKER_01]: The beauty about prophecy is that the Bible says is for the edification of the church.

[SPEAKER_01]: Prophecy doesn't harm us, prophecy helps us.

[SPEAKER_01]: It takes us to another place, it helps pushes God's agenda and his plan.

[SPEAKER_01]: So I don't know about you, but

[SPEAKER_01]: I will stand on the truth of not just the Word of God, but the prophetic utterances that have been spoken over this nation.

[SPEAKER_01]: The prophetic voices that have been raised up and have spoken certain things that I believe shall come to pass.

[SPEAKER_01]: This is the time church.

[SPEAKER_01]: Some of you may say, well, this is too much for me, and I just want to come to my sweet family church and lift my hands and hear an encouraging message and go home and have a good week.

[SPEAKER_01]: I really believe those days are over.

[SPEAKER_01]: We're not satisfied with just a simple service.

[SPEAKER_01]: where we're not satisfied with just a good message that makes me smile that we're not satisfied with the way things have been in the direction what things are going.

[SPEAKER_01]: But I believe that the Lord is taking us into a time of true repentance, in time of true

[SPEAKER_01]: For far too long, we have said, I am the church, but yet we have not been the church.

[SPEAKER_01]: For far too long, we have said, God I will be your hands and feet, yes Lord, send me whatever it is.

[SPEAKER_01]: Show me God, lead me there, all that kind of thing, but yet we have been disobedient.

[SPEAKER_01]: We have refrained from the leading of God Himself.

[SPEAKER_01]: We have refrained from allowing ourselves to walk in the fullness and in the purpose if you will, that God has created us for.

[SPEAKER_01]: And we have come to the conclusion that I can be satisfied with a little bit of Jesus one day a week.

[SPEAKER_01]: I can be satisfied with coming just one day a week and giving all my problems to him.

[SPEAKER_01]: I can be satisfied with allowing my life to look like hell.

[SPEAKER_01]: And now is the time for repentance.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not going to force you.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not even going to push you.

[SPEAKER_01]: But if you believe what I am saying right now, not because other people are saying it, not even because I'm saying it.

[SPEAKER_01]: But if you believe this to be true, I want you to find a space somewhere.

[SPEAKER_01]: It doesn't have to be up here, but I want you to fall on your knees.

[SPEAKER_01]: And repent.

[SPEAKER_01]: Repent.

[SPEAKER_01]: Repent on your behalf first and foremost.

[SPEAKER_01]: And then take the time to repent on behalf of the church for being quiet.

[SPEAKER_01]: because you are the church.

[SPEAKER_01]: Repent on behalf of this nation for not being the voice that God called us to be.

[SPEAKER_01]: Repent for being a weak Christian.

[SPEAKER_01]: Repent for staying at a surface level and not ever going up to the next height.

[SPEAKER_01]: Repent, repent for being okay with with just showing up to church, but not live in your life like you even know Jesus Monday through Friday Repent for for go into church and I don't even say it that way, but just being in the presence of the Lord only when you feel like it

[SPEAKER_01]: You repent, you repent, you can God trust you in this hour, you can God say, you can

[SPEAKER_01]: that he approves of you in this hour.

[SPEAKER_01]: We were pan-Lord of our wickedness.

[SPEAKER_01]: We repent God of just being satisfied with anything less than what you want.

[SPEAKER_01]: We repent for not live and for you.

[SPEAKER_01]: We repent for saying that we know you, but yet we don't live for you.

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