Presbytery 2021 (Saturday) - Pastor Eric Butler (May 15, 2021) | Life Bible Church

Jesus and the Holy Spirit are here and has sent

a great man of God to speak the word to us tonight.

I've had the privilege of knowing Pastor Eric

Butler in MFI. And he's been, him and I have

sang some duets back in the day during prophetic

meetings, just passing it off and prophesying

at different levels. And I have always been impressed

with, The caliber of the man that he is is integrity.

In fact, as we've sat in many apostolic meetings,

as we listen to different guys talk, look at

each other and start laughing. Anyways, I really

appreciate him. He's the real deal. He pastors

in New Jersey. He has a wife and three children

and they are a lovely family. I want you to give

a big Life Bible welcome to Pastor Eric Butler

as he brings the Word of the Lord tonight. Wow.

You know, it's a lot of fun being here. I like

to go places where I feel like I'm home and this

feels like our church. You guys are a great congregation.

You're a blessing. And I wanted to thank you

for all your kind words, your hospitality, your

attentiveness to the things of the Lord, especially

to Pastor Brad and Jen. Just give them a hand

today. You have tremendous pastors today. Wonderful

leadership team here. I'll give you more than

a song for a song with yourself. Amen. But I

just wanted to tell you today, it's really been

a lot of fun and I feel really good. I mean,

just atmosphere is beautiful. Just to give you

a little bit of background on myself, because

it's my first time here, I've been following

the Lord for a pretty good while now. I got saved.

I was telling my story today to Mark and his

wife today. I got saved at college many years

ago, and my wife actually led me to the Lord.

I had an encounter on the first day I ever met

Jesus. I had an encounter with God, and I was

baptized in the Holy Spirit. I got saved. I'm

not from the West Coast, but God always sends

me to the West Coast to preach. I've been preaching

on the West Coast for years and years. I don't

know why. I said, God, why you have me taking

all these long flights? But it's always somebody

in California, Oregon, and all up and down, and

Arizona. I've preached at a lot of places over

the years. And I am the father of three wonderful

daughters. They're in their late 20s and 30s

now. And I got married when I was 10. I've been

married for 36 years. And I got married when

I was 10, so now you know how old I am. Just

in case you were trying to figure that out. But

we've had a good time, and I've been pastoring

for 30 years this June. So I've been around.

I've been around. I've seen a lot of things,

and God has been really blessing me. And it's

just, you know, it's like a renaissance, a whole

other level of fun that takes place. You know,

when you find in the body of Christ, when you're

serving God, when it no longer becomes fun, it's

boring. But right now, it's a lot of fun. And

it's exciting. So if you see us laughing a lot,

that's because it's fun. God is good. God is

life. God is joyful. And I wasn't a churchgoer

as a kid. We didn't go to church. I don't come

from one of those families that grew up in church.

I was the first one saved in my family. There

were no prophets, no apostles in my family. I'm

the only one even to this day. And I had six

other brothers and sisters besides myself. And

yet God handpicked me. I'm one of those people,

I always say, I'm probably a chosen vessel. And

I just love the Lord and I'm glad to serve him

wherever. And it is a ball to serve him. You

know, I wanted to talk to you about two things

tonight. I'll talk fast tonight. John John gave

me a time frame. Bishop John John told me how

long I have here tonight. But I do want to talk

to you about two things. Number one, I came from

a town in New Jersey that no one ever did anything

big. You either got in trouble, most people where

I lived, they got in trouble, they did bad things

a lot of times, or they were just sluggards.

They were people that never accomplished anything

great. It was just one of those places that you

lived, and I lived there until I was 18, and

then I moved up to the northern part of the state,

New Jersey. right next to Manhattan. I went to

college at a college that was two miles from

the George Washington Bridge. And I was always

in New York and in Manhattan and all that stuff

and, you know, everything that everybody always

wants. But I found that a lot of times when I

travel in the body of Christ, I look at people

and many believers, many believers are people

like we're going to talk about tonight. They

want something, they desire something, but they

don't finish. They start things, but they don't

finish. Now, I want to read something to you

out of 1 Kings, the 17th chapter, and I have

an old -fashioned Bible with paper still, and

it's going to just help me tonight. Just for

a second, in 1 Kings chapter 17, it says, in

1 Kings 17 · chapter mention

Elijah the Tishbite, was of the inhabitants of

Gilead and said unto Ahab, as the Lord lives,

Lord God of Israel lives, before whom I stand,

there shall not be dew nor rain for these years,

but according to my word. And the word of the

Lord came unto him saying, and I'll stop right

there. I want to go back. It says, Elisha the

Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gilead.

And so I stopped there and I looked at that and

I said, well, why does it say that? No one had

ever heard of Elijah. No one had heard any lineage

about Elijah. But it says all of a sudden this

man pops up in the Bible. Elijah, the Tishbite,

tells you where he's from, what kind of person

he is, the nature of the people. And then he

tells you the town and the location, Gilead.

Well, one of the things about people that were

Tishbites, Tishbites were people. And this is

a trait and a characteristic of the Tishbite

people. They were people that would start things

and they would get going on them and they would

work and they would become diligent and they'd

have vision and dreams and hopes and they'd get

right to the point where they would begin to

break through into a new dimension. But before

that, they would stop, become afraid, and go

back. Kind of like the picture of... the great

classic, The Wizard of Oz, when you see the cowardly

lion, when he goes in the hallway, when he's

in Oz, in the Emerald City, and he's there, and

they're finding out who the wizard is, and he's

standing there behind the curtain with this big

head appearing, and he's working the knobs, and

they're trembling, and the music is heavy, and

they're shaking, and all of a sudden, you know,

he said, I am the great and powerful Oz, and

the lion is standing there, and he says, what

do you want, lion? And the lion starts to change,

and he just runs away. He gets right to the point

where he's about to have a breakthrough, and

he runs back. You know the scene. He runs down

the hallway, and he jumps through the window

and breaks the glass. That's a tishbite person,

starting things and never finishing them. It

says he was of the inhabitants of Gilead, and

the Gileadian people were people that were born.

That word means the dunghill. It means the rocky

place, the hard place. So this man grew up in

a place that was tough. It was rugged. It was,

for lack of better terms, it was the dung hill.

Amen. I'll just use that phrase tonight. No one

ever accomplished anything. The place was full

of dung, and he was there. He had a bad start,

I would say. And when he would try things, nothing

would work. But when we finally catch up with

him, God is about to do something in his life

that's bigger than where he's been. So it says

Elijah the Tishbite, he said of the inhabitants

of Gilead, he said, starts to speak. Now he's

already a prophet. And he speaks to a king at

this point. And he says, as the Lord God lives,

okay, for whom I stand, there shall not be rain

or dew until I say so. So he had a confidence

that was unique. The prophetic word was on him,

it was heavy, and he was a serious guy. But God

knew he needed more. Sometimes we can come into

this thing and we have the word of the Lord and

we're confident, and we've been living off of

that stale word for a long time. And I look around,

I've been all over preaching the gospel for years,

and I've seen all kinds of denominational groups,

all kinds of ethnic groups. I've seen all kinds

of folks over the years. And one of the things

I always see is people become underachievers.

All right, let me hurry up because I'm explaining

this too much. And so God says, that's nice.

Listen to what Elijah says. He said, but according

to my word. So God's looking at him like, oh,

all right. Your word, huh? Every word that you

and I speak will be tested. How many ever made

deals with God and say, God, if you get me out

of this, I'll do this. That's the big one. We

always make the old deal. Or God, if you help

me to get this, I'll do this. I promise if you

give me that promotion and that raise, I promise

you I'll tithe 59%. God listens to your words.

But one thing he knows about words, words have

to be proven. Words have to be qualified. Words.

have to have character behind them. The force

behind a word of the Lord or a word that we speak

prophetically is the character and the nature

and the faith of God that pushes it into manifestation.

And God knows when we're just flapping our gums,

as people say, and then he knows when we're talking

for real and he says, good, now I have to bring

you somewhere. So after this, it just simply

changes. And then he says this out of nowhere.

This is a weird chapter. He says, arise. And

turn, verse two, verse three. He says, and turn

eastward and hide yourself by a brook called

Cherith. He said, hide yourself by the brook

Cherith. Now that's strange. Hide yourself? Why?

Because whenever God is about to operate, God

is the master at working on things in the dark.

He doesn't let everybody see him when he's doing

what he's doing, but he works in the dark before

he brings it to light. That's why he takes the

negatives and he works on them in the dark to

bring forth a beautiful picture many times. He

said, hide yourself in a brook chair. You know,

what we're talking about tonight is launching

a beginning. A lot of times when things are in

their new stage, it's a joyful thing. Like when

people first have a baby or when somebody gets

a new car, you get a new house or a new job or

something like that. It's a new beginning. And

it should be a lot of joy when you have a new

beginning. And see, beginnings are a psychological

phenomenon more than anything else. Like I remember

when I got a car. Well, now it's five years ago.

But when I first brought my car home, it was,

you know, a used car. But I brought it home.

That night I brought it. It was the first night

there. I looked out the window about 11 o 'clock.

You still there, ain't you? You look good. Oh,

I like that black color. You shining. Then I

went out there and just, just to talk to you.

Now, if somebody would have really seen me doing

this, they would have said, he's crazy. There's

something wrong with this guy. But anytime we

have new beginnings, there's this thing. You

see, new beginnings involve new understandings.

They involve new values. They involve new attitudes.

They involve new dispositions. They involve all

these things that take place. They involve new

identities. They involve all these things. And

so we see Elijah. Elijah's about to step into

a new beginning. But before he can step into

it, he has to go to Cheris. And the word charis

means this. It means to cut away from. It means

to divorce yourself from. It means to unmarry.

It means to cut down as though you would cut

down a tree. It means to go to the executioner.

It means to, actually the word tabach means to

go to the butcher. So when he says, I want you

to go to church, he said, I want you to go to

a place where I'm going to cut everything off

of you that needs to be cut off of you so that

you can be prepared to stand in the new day.

Now, I'm from the East Coast, folks. We get a

little emotional. We walk around. We, you know,

I know West Coast preaching. When I get quick,

or we used to say back in the old days, get happy,

I start boxing like this. That's my move. I'm

just letting you check it out now. When the message

gets good to me, I'll start, watch out. He says,

go to Cherith, because there I'm going to take

you to the executioner. I'm going to take you

to the butcher shop. You're going to be the item

that's going to be cut. To go to Cherith, it

means you have to be cut and that you are going

to cut away from your life anything that is hanging

on you, hindering you, stopping you from going

forward. It has to be cut off. Mindsets, mentalities,

fears, phobias, anxieties, they've got to go

if you want to go with me. The church is in a

place right now, in this country especially,

where she needs to go to Cherith. She needs to

go to the place of the cutting away of old habits,

old styles, old mentalities, old theologies,

all the stuff that's no good. She needs to go

to the butcher and let the sword of the spirit

shave her down. Is this too violent of a message

for you? Okay. The Bible speaks very clearly

of a lady in the scriptures. We all know, and

I'll just get to this real quick. Abraham was

a great man. And you know, Abraham is the man.

Father of the faithful, the father of faith,

we call him. But he had a family member named

Lot. And that was his buddy. And he wanted to

bless them. And you know the story that they

had land together. They had shared land and property.

And Lot had this attitude that he wanted his

own thing. And, you know, he could do it better

than Abraham. A little competition between his

herdsmen and Abraham's herdsmen. And they wanted

to separate and have their own thing. So Abraham

said, listen, son, I'll tell you what. You pick

where you want to go. And the Bible says that

Lot pitched his tent towards Sodom. He went to

a place that looked good, looked green, looked

moist, looked opportunistic. He said, and he

went there. And they left. They left the security,

the foundation. They left the land of faith.

They left the man of faith. And they went there.

And you know the story. The Bible says that God

told Abraham, let him go because he doesn't know

who he is. He doesn't identify with who you are.

and what I'm doing in your life right now. And

so he has to go away from you. And he took his

wife and his children, and he goes there, and

he's there for a little while. And the Bible

says later on that righteous Lot, they called

him, his spirit was vexed while he was in that

particular place. See, you can have the word

of the Lord and the word of faith, but you can

be in a place where you could be vexed because

you're not supposed to be where you are. vexing

speaks of a conviction and sometimes we are in

a place where we misinterpret a word that is

given and we find ourselves in the wrong place

wrong time with the wrong people in the wrong

season of our lives and there's wasted time but

God had to let him go through this So he could

actually bring deliverance to them. Thank God

that Abraham was an interceding man. And God

shows up at Abraham's house in Genesis chapter

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18. When Abraham stood in the doorway, the scripture

says, in the plains of Mamre. And he was there

looking. And the theophany that God had came

to Abraham's house to fellowship with him. God

came to his house to tell him he was going to

have a son. And he's there and he says, go clean

the calf for me. And go get the animals and let's

prepare a meal. Our guests are here. And he knew

it was God. And as they sat down and they began

to talk, God was there, and he was looking at

them, and he said, everything's cool, huh? He

said, yeah, everything's cool. He said, where's

your wife? He said, well, she's over here. And

he called Sarah, and he said, around this time

next year, I'm going to be back, and you're going

to have a child. And Sarah laughed. You know

the story. And she laughed at him. And he said,

why are you laughing? Now, listen to this. She's

laughing in God's face. When God gives her the

word of the Lord. And so what happened? He said,

why'd you laugh? She said, I did not. She's not

only laughing, but she's lying. And so he said,

this time next year I'll be back. He said, and

you'll have a son. You're going to have a son.

So while he's leaving, I get the picture. He's

walking with Abraham and they're leaving. And

he said, it says he turned his face towards Sodom

because God never forgets your lineage and your

family members. He still cares about unsaved

family members that have been left behind. They

might not be in church tonight, but God's eye

is still on them wherever they are in this planet

because he's been covenant with you. And he loves

you, so he loves everything that's connected

with you. And so he doesn't forget because he

is the ultimate intercessor. So he walks with

Abraham, and he says, listen, Abraham, I want

to do something. I hear this cry, everything's

bad. I'm going to have to cut this place off.

I'm going to have to tear it down. And you know

the whole story. And Abraham said, if there's

50 righteous lords, he said, don't destroy it.

He said, I won't. He said, if there's 40, I won't

destroy it. He said, if there's 30, I won't destroy

it. 20. No, 10. If I find 10 righteous, I won't

destroy it. He couldn't find 10. So he goes there.

He sends the angels there. He said, go and get

my nephew out of there. Go get Lot out of there

because I'm going to destroy the city. Cherith

is coming and I'm going to lay the ax to this

place. But I have to separate him from this.

And so you know the story. As they go there,

and I'm not going to go into details about the

sons and the son -in -laws and all that. But

the angel comes and the angel says this, and

I want you to catch this. The angel says to Lot,

he says, get to the high place. They start to

leave and they're running. And he says, get to

the high place, to the high mountain. Come on.

He says, time to come on. As they're running,

you know the story. The kids are there. The daughters

are there. But Lot's wife is running and she's

a type of the church. And she stops like a tish

bite. And turns back. She was turned to stone.

She stayed at that level and never moved from

that last move of God. And then Lot has this

phrase to say, he says, well, the angel says,

let's get to the high place. And he says, no,

there's a little place over there. Maybe we can

go to the small place. You see, what believers

sometimes will do, and this is going to turn

out good, so don't worry about it. It's going

to be all right. Look at somebody and say, it's

going to be all right. But what we do, we minimize

the call of God on our lives. God might say,

I have a big call. I have a big dream for you.

And we might say, let me just go over there.

That'd be nice to just stay at that place. He

goes to this place called Zoan. The angel said,

all right, this is where you want to go. And

you know what happens to him. But his wife turns

back. Many times believers will get words and

they turn back. They turn back because of frustrations,

because of past things. And they start to look

at their past. And God says, no, no, don't do

that. And they stop. And God says, I got more

for you. But you get stuck. That's why I like

being here. I know one thing about this church.

Y 'all crazy. And y 'all ain't turning back.

You ain't turning back. And so what happens?

messes up, and that's him. The third dimension

of the story with Elijah, he's fed in Cherith

by a brook, by ravens. Ravens bring him bread,

water every day. And sometimes when God is working

on you, he uses unlikely characters to be instruments

of blessing in your life. That's why you can't

prejudge anything. You can't prejudge anything

because you never know who God's going to use

to be that instrument of blessing for you. And

what happened? He's there and this killer, vulturous

bird, that's a killer bird, is used by God to

bring him bread every day. And he has to humble

himself in Cherith as God is working on him and

feeding him for his next move. He brings them

bread, fresh word. Yeah, I hope you called it

bread, word. He brings them bread, brings them

bread, brings them bread. God has fresh word

for you for the next move. This is very simple

tonight, very simple. And so you know what happened.

He drinks from it and then God says, now turn

and go to Zarephath. And I believe that the church

is headed towards Zarephath right now. I believe

you're headed to the third dimension. I believe

you're headed to this place. And he says, watch

this. He says, rise and get you over to Zarephath.

I have a widow woman there that's going to take

care of you. Another unlikely character. But

the word Zarephath means the dawning of a new

day. And I believe, I believe. that God is causing

us to come. Some of you tonight are coming out

of Cherith. You've been in that place where God's

been cutting and slicing and shaving and molding

and shaping. And he says, now turn yourself to

Zarephath because it's going to be a new day

for you. Oh, it's going to be a new day. When

you see prophetic words like we've seen here

in the last two days, there is a new day coming

for the region. There's a new day coming for

the region. And that's why we cannot limit anything

because the new day speaks of a lot of wonderful

things. Do you know that when you talk about

the dawning of a new day, that in Luke 1, 78

and 79, what a long chapter Luke is, okay? It

says a new day. will dawn upon us from above

because our God is loving and merciful and he'll

give light to those who live in the dark and

in death's shadow and he will guide us into the

way of peace. How many of you know Jesus is the

new day? He's getting ready to take you and take

this church into a brand new day. A new season,

a new understanding, a new revelation. He's getting

ready to take you to places you never dreamed

of. Now, if I told you my testimony, all of it,

I'm standing here. I'm nothing less than a miracle.

Nothing less. Nothing less. I can tell you the

bad side. I can tell you the glorious side. I've

preached to politicians, prophesied to them.

My kids used to sing in the White House in Washington,

D .C. I got kids that, you know, went to the

best colleges in the country. I mean, and God

paid for it all. I mean, I'm a ridiculously blessed

man. Ridiculously blessed. And ain't a shame

to tell you. And I know it. Bad side, in street

life, I had guns pointed at me as a kid. Three

times. I almost drowned in a river, got bitten

by dogs. All kinds of stuff happened to me. All

kinds of bad stuff. Hood life, y 'all know what

I'm talking about. But I've preached with the

best. I've seen it all over this country. I've

been around the world several times. In different

continents. You know why? Because I refuse to

be a tishbite. And when he says, let's go, I

just say, yes. I don't try to figure it out.

I don't question him. When he says, let's go,

I want to use you. I was at a meeting in Dallas,

Texas one day, and I was just in the back row,

and I never push myself forward. and some heavy

hitters were there. That's all I'll say. Some

heavy prophetic, some heavy hitters in the prophetic.

And one of them got up and said, said my name

out of nowhere. I didn't introduce myself, didn't

have a tag or anything. And they said, you don't

belong in the back row. You belong here. Stuff

like that happens to me. Why? Because I'm willing

to do whatever he says. Stay with me because

this is coming around the bend for you tonight.

I'm telling you. God is getting ready to do something

big. I've been a part of moves of God in our

area. In New Jersey, back in the mid -90s, we

had a move of God that affected the entire state.

It rolled out of Toronto, but it affected the

entire state. We had preachers from Brownsville

and from Toronto in the midst of Jersey ministering,

and these moves of God were powerful. I've been

in another revival in Pittsburgh that went on

for over a year and a half, and we had everybody

you could think of. John Kilpatrick, Graham Cook

prophesied. Oh, God. Dutch seats. All these guys

were in there. And the move of God kept going.

And I was a steward. One of the stewards every

day when we would get up, they would allow me

just to steward the meetings. Now, how did I

get there? I've never been to Bible college.

I never have any degrees. I got a degree in film

and television. But it's the call of God on a

person's life that makes all the difference in

the world. Watch what God does in this day. You

get ready to see people that were listed as nobodies

become significant vessels in the hand of the

Lord in this next move. Can I get an amen? I'm

going to ask for one. I'm going to ask for one.

And this is so true. Because we want God. And

I'll prophesy, I've seen legs grow. I used to

do background singing. This is way back. You're

going to laugh at this one. I don't know if you

ever heard of R .W. Schambach. I was a background

singer for him when he would come to New York

and do his meetings in the Bronx. I'd be right

behind him, standing there, doing the old Pentecostal

shuffle songs with the old organ. Yeah. And at

the end, he would have us help him to pray for

people. Impartation. And he would have us praying

for people. And I remember one night we were

praying for people and he told us, he said, listen,

he said, when I get started, he said, just move

the people across this platform. He said, just

keep moving them. Don't let them stop. Don't

let them stop. This is a word for you because

you're going to be doing that. He said, don't

let them stop. And we're sitting there. We said,

okay. So they would come up and we would move

them along. He would sit in this chair with a

big paint bucket that was filled with anointing

oil. And he would put his hand down and go like

this, bang, bang. He did it all night. I watched

him. As the people were coming across, they were

coming across with crutches and canes and immediately

instant miracles, bang. And they throw the canes

away and run off the stage. But the one that

got me, the one that got me, there was a lady

that came across the stage. And he did the same

thing. It seemed like on this one, he just went

slower. Put his hand on her forehead. That's

my cue. Okay. All right. Okay. Oh, okay. Yeah,

we're landing. We're landing. I'm bringing it

around the bend. I've been in all kinds of circles.

It's fine with me. And so he took his hand and

he put it on this lady and she was with her daughter

and they were walking across. And the lady screamed

when she got a little bit past us and she grabbed

one of the guys that was an usher and grabbed

his face and she said, you're beautiful. You're

so beautiful. And her daughter screamed. The

lady was blind. And got healed instantly. Right

in front of our eyes. She had never seen before.

That messed me up for life. I've seen legs grow.

I've prayed for people with kids that have been

in wheelchairs. 15, 16 year olds. They come into

meetings and they walk out pushing the wheelchairs.

Let me just tell you something. A new day is

about to come. And in the new day, the power

of God is going to show up like never before.

The church that's coming is not going to be based

on intellectualism, but it's going to be based

on revelation and the power of almighty God.

You better get ready for that. Listen to me.

Listen to me. This is truth. It's going to be

so packed in here, Pastor Brad. You're not going

to know what to do. When the miracles start to

happen, it's going to be like raindrops falling

everywhere. Alcoholics delivered instantly. They

don't need AA. Bam! With a hand. This person

has crippled. Bam! They're going to walk out

of here running. Bam! Blind eyes will start to

open. Boom! Deaf ears are going to open up. You

better get ready for this. Well, if you're going

to praise God, give him a praise real quick.

Because it's getting ready to come. Almost. Oh,

Lord. Okay. I've been around revivals over and

over. I've been in that atmosphere many, many

times. My prayer is I've seen everything else.

I've heard the great preachers, great revelations.

That's nice. But I want to see people healed.

I want to see Isaiah 61. I want to see the lame

walk, the blind see, the dead have the gospel,

the blind have hands they can see. He said, and

the poor have the gospel preached to them. That's

what's getting ready to come. That's what's getting

ready to come in this country. Because this is

the only thing that's going to save the United

States of America. It's a powerful, national,

Holy Ghost revival. Nothing else is going to

save this country. All right, let me just give

this to you, and I'll sit down. You can hit a

notice if you want. Okay, okay. So the new day

is revival. Everybody say, the new day is the

revival that's coming. Revival means to do this.

It means to recover, to repair, to revive, to

restore. Recover, repair, revive, restore. It

means to fan into flame and bring back into an

original order. The original order. The original

order that Jesus said in Matthew 28. He said

what? Preach the gospel to every creature. He

said, go into the highways and the byways and

declare my word. Preach the kingdom of God. He

said, lay hands on the sick and they shall recover.

That's the mandate he's given to the ecclesia

or the ecclesia, whichever word you want to use.

The body of Christ has turned this word church

almost into a club, a religious club. That's

why Jesus said to his disciples, he said, beware

of the leaven of the Pharisees and of Herod.

He said, don't get involved in a religious system

that's formal and fashioned and traditionalized.

He says, stay away from that. And then he said,

the leaven of Herod, which is a murderer spirit,

but it's also political. He said, don't get involved.

that he said because it's gonna knock you off

the course he said but you preach the kingdom

of god It means to experience God coming down.

Acts 2 .17 says, Acts 2 .17 says, I'll pour out

my spirit upon all flesh. Sons and daughters

will prophesy. Young men see visions. Old men

dream dreams. It means to encourage, to reform,

the purifying of doctrine, of the structures

of the church. It means to engage in a renewal

of the updating of the church. Revival, definitions.

It means the sovereign act of God in which he

restores his own. backsliding people to repentance,

faith, and obedience. Supernatural times of refreshing

that come from the presence of the Lord. It means

an extraordinary movement of the Holy Spirit

producing extraordinary results. It means the

outpouring of God's Spirit resulting in people

being saturated with God. It means the raising

of esteem of Jesus that results in Satan's kingdom

suffering with new miracles and healings saturating

God's people. It means the sovereign work of

God in which the whole region of many churches

has been lifted out of spiritual... indifference

into a fresh, brand new hunger of God. Is anybody

here hungry tonight? Is anybody hungry for the

Lord tonight? Charles Finney said this. He said,

if the presence of God is in the church, the

church will draw the world in. If the presence

of God is not in the church, the world will draw

the church out. Revival is a time when God visits

his people and by the power of the Holy Spirit

imports new life to them through the means of

impartation. Revivals are not religious excitements

stirred by cunning methods, slick methods, and

hypnotic influence of professionalism. It's a

move of the power of God. So what is revival?

What is this new day? Help me. I get so full

of the Holy Ghost, folks, because I was born

in the Holy Ghost. I got to stop preaching. This

is when I do this. What is it? Listen to this

definition. You'll remember this. It could be

brought to a full summation of these two words.

God came. That's it. What happened? God came.

What happened in that region over there in Oregon?

God came. What happened in Brownsville? God came.

What happened with the Arnauts in Toronto? God

came. What happened in Baltimore, Maryland? God

came. What happened when the God Chasers were

there with Tommy Tenney? God came. And I'm telling

you this prophetically, God's about to come again

to his people. Look at somebody and say, your

new day is about to arrive. Get ready. God bless

you. Oh, I feel it's going to happen here. There's

going to be a lot of meetings where you're going

to have to change some structural things eventually.

And I know you're a man of order, but it's going

to be fun because you like the Holy Ghost too.

There's going to be meetings where people are

going to be laying out all over this carpet.

Crying out in desperation to God. I see it. I've

been in it. I've experienced it. And it's coming

here. I'll give you the billboard revelation.

Coming to a theater near you. Revival. It's coming

here. It's coming here. Why? Because you've left

the Gileadian mindset. You're not functioning

as Tishbite people where you walk up to it and

you run back. You know why I say that? We were

talking today. We see meetings all the time where

if they're too long, folks get up and leave.

Ain't nobody left from these meetings. That's

called Ebonics. But anyway, let me leave that

alone. But usually people leave. You stayed and

watched everyone being prayed for. Because you're

hungry. You're desperate. You're starving. And

you want more. And God says, if you're hungry

and you're desperate and you're crying out for

me, he said, I will pour water upon him who is

thirsty. And this place is not only a well, but

it's a thirsty well. It's a well springing up

into life everlasting. And the thirsty are going

to find their way to this place. Stay thirsty,

my friends. And that wasn't just something that

was just canned, that was fresh for us tonight

and fresh for where we're at. And thank you.

Thank you, Pastor Eric. Listen, the prayer room

is going to be open right now for those that

need a touch in your body. Our healing team is

moving right now as I'm saying this. If you need

a touch in your body, your soul, you like people

to lay hands on you, we're going to go ahead

and do that right now. They're just moving there.

Fact is, in just a little bit, if I could have

some of my staff and elders come to the altar,

we're going to begin to pray for those that will

bring their first fruits cards. But I want to

pray for us as they're moving now. Hallelujah.

Awesome. Thank you. I want to pray for... You're

going to come and do that after I dismiss, but

I want to pray just that we would receive the

word that was given to us. You know, I've never

heard a message about a Tishbite or the Gilead

thing. I've heard the Zarephath, but that's incredible.

Sweet revelation in the scriptures. So Father,

we just lift our hands tonight. Lord, we say,

let us catch what we receive. Help us to embrace

it. We receive what you're saying. Lord, finish

cutting off everything that needs to be cut off

and move us into the new day. Move us into the

new day that we will not back down. We will not

come up and just flirt with it or Lord, just

touch it from afar. but we will embrace it, Lord,

by the principles of Scripture and by the fire

hunger of the Holy Spirit. We will grab onto

it, and we will be godly stewards of what you

want to do in this region, in these states, the

western half that begins to burn, not with flame

of fire on the mountains and burning trees, but

living, planted. trees of righteousness carrying

the fire of God. Lord, let it happen here. We

receive it. We embrace it. We say, yes, Lord.

And everybody said, amen. Amen. Those of you

that brought children, go get them quickly. In

Jesus' name, the rest of you, you're welcome.

If you brought your first fruits commitment card,

please come. We want to pray for you. Hallelujah.

Have a great night. We'll see you tomorrow morning.

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