Saturday Message - Dutch Sheets (September 24, 2016) | Life Bible Church

It's an honor for I, for Jenny and I, and Life

Bible Church, our leadership team, to have tonight.

Not only has it been a privilege to have Rick

and the band, we've, as I said last night, we've

known each other for about four years. And by

invitation, Dutch, we want to thank you for accepting

our invitation and being with us tonight. Would

you just, would you welcome Dutch Sheets to the

platform as we hear the word of the Lord tonight?

Thank you. That was nice. It's good to be back

in Oregon. I flew all the way around the world

today. It felt like it anyway. I was thinking

today, I'm going to do this again tomorrow. Not

this. Fly around the world. Anyway, you know,

I feel a little, well, my daughter married an

Oregonian. So I have firsthand experience of

what an amazing, awesome, above and beyond people

there are in Oregon. It's good to be here and

I love to be with my friend Rick, who he and

I have run together for, I don't know how long,

over 10 years. And it's just been a great journey.

We've been many, many, many places together.

And it's always just a joy to be with him. I

started running with him when... I was more well

known than Rick. Now he draws the crowd and I

come and speak. Anyway, I love those guys. They're

amazing. Looking forward to sharing with you

tonight and in the morning. Don't say much about

the product, but I do want to mention an app

that I have. How many of you have... heard of

or have the Give Him 15 app. Good. Some of you

do. Well, the rest of you, you'll probably never

fully be all God wants you to be if you don't

get this app. And it's free. You can't beat that.

It's just a tool that the Lord gave us to help

shift the nation. And I was in Kansas City. Well,

not Kansas City, but I was in Kansas, near Kansas

City, about three years ago. And a lady, many

of you, some of you probably heard of Julie Meyer.

She's a prophetic worship leader from Kansas

City. Julie really was the matriarch of the worship

leaders at IHOP. I've run with Mike Bickle for

over 30 years. She lives in California now. But

we were doing a conference together. She was

doing the worship. And at the end, we were worshiping

and praying. And we were just about to leave.

I mean, the service was essentially over. And

I had turned around. I was getting ready to load

my briefcase. And people were stirring a little,

just about to go. And she started singing again.

I think she thought she was finished, actually.

But then a prophetic song came over her, and

she started singing, 15 minutes, can you give

me 15 minutes? And she started singing this song

from the Father that basically said, if you give

me 15 minutes, we'll change a nation. Can you

give me 15 minutes a day? Can you give me 15

minutes on your drive? Can you give me 15 minutes

on your lunch break? Can you just get up 15 minutes

earlier and ask and cry out for the nation? And

it was so powerful, people started jumping up

all over the room. Literally, just shouting.

I'll give him 15. I'll give him 15. So it kind

of took us back into this prophetic place with

the Lord. And after the service, some of the...

leaders said, you know, you're supposed to do

something with that. I said, I don't know. I

don't know what I'm supposed to do with it. So

prayed for a while, didn't really get any direction.

About six months later, I was with Julie again

in the same place, another conference. I spoke,

she was doing the worship. Same scenario, service

is over basically. We're turning around to get

our things together and she starts singing again.

And this time she started singing my name. And

she's playing. And three times she sang my name.

She said, God, you're going to change a nation

through another number. She knew that God had

used the number 22 in my life. From Isaiah 22,

22. She's saying, you're going to change a nation

through another number, 15. And she sang over

me for about five minutes. So I prayed over it

for a year. And I just thought, Lord, what are

you saying to me? And the result of that was

this app. It's just called Give Him 15. It's

a free download. And I don't usually do this,

but this is what, you know, of course, the principle

is. If we really believe what we teach, which

we do, that God multiplies power when we agree

in prayer, what would happen if millions of people

were praying and decreeing the same thing over

America every day? That's the simple premise

that we built this on. It only takes two or three

minutes, so here's today's. This is just to guide

you through and help you do 15. Don't get legalistic

about it. If you only do five minutes one day,

I think God probably still hears the five, don't

you? So this one today says, what a season. What

a season we are in. What a challenging season,

but what a great season of opportunity. Amazing

opportunities, amazing spiritual warfare, amazing

anger of the enemy to try to stop the purposes

of God. Which we know is not going to happen.

We have to press through opposition to get the

opportunity. Amazing season. 1 Corinthians 16,

9. There's a real opportunity here for a great

and worthwhile work. Even though there are many

opponents. Give him 15 minutes in prayer and

then the bullets are. If we could only see what

was on the other side of the enemies ranting.

Rejoice, therefore, knowing that there is something

really good coming. Knowing that God has a plan,

tell the enemy to back off and get out of your

way. Remind him that God's plans will come to

pass. Thank the Lord for increasing your faith.

Intercede now with that increased faith for all

of those situations you feel are opposing you,

your family, and our nation from moving forward.

And here's a prayer you can pray. Father, You're

up to something wonderful. You see the enemy's

attacks against me and against this nation, and

you know why. You know that he is really opposing

you and your plans. Satan, back off because God's

plans will come to pass, and I'm going to be

here watching when they do. Thank you, Lord,

for increasing my faith through these trials.

I'm looking forward with expectancy. To seeing

how you resolve all of these situations in my

life, in the life of my family, and in my nation.

And it says, name out loud the things that are

troubling you. In Jesus' name, amen. And the

decree for today is, God, this season is amazing

because you're about to show yourself strong

against your enemies and cause your purposes

to come to pass. Amen. And we've actually put

on there now a daily Bible reading. You read

through the scriptures in a year. There's also

an audio version. You can listen to it on your

way to work. And it's all free. I told the Lord

when my staff said, we have this app now. And

I said, well, maybe a few thousand people download

it. And they said, what do you want to charge?

I said, we need to do it free. And within the

first month, we had 100 ,000 people. And I started

doing the math, 99 cents times 100 ,000 people.

It's one of those times you really wonder if

you heard from God. Because now it's up to half

a million. Get the app. Simple. Give him 15.

Well, Lord, help us tonight to bring this to

the focus you want. and accomplish what you want

to accomplish thank you for allowing me to be

in oregon with this message you're doing wonderful

things lord you're doing good things and it is

a season of amazing intensity and warfare but

we have aligned ourselves with you and your strength

and your authority and we believe you're going

to do wonderful things in this season. Do good

things in this place. Do good things in these

hearts and in this region and in this state and

in this part of the nation. Lord, you know that

I am careful about what I say yes to. And I know

that my times and where I go are in your hand.

So I'm here by divine purpose. I am sent. I am

not just here by chance. So thank you for that

confidence and for that assurance. And thank

you for using us as a corporate group, as a united

part of your body tonight, Lord. You could do

wonderful things here tonight. If we'll just

stay in agreement. So we thank you. We bless

you. Amen. I'm going to preach a message to you

tonight that you probably expected since we advertised

it. Appeal to heaven. I'm really just telling

you a story. Because back in 2000, the Lord started

me down a path. And it ended up being a 12 -year

prophetic journey. I really didn't know when

it started that that was happening. You go through

seasons of your life, God just births certain

messages, revelation in you. Especially for me,

it happens for the nation. You do it and you

think maybe the timing moves on and he's giving

you something else and you just move into the

next season. But for me, I went through several

phases, and when I'd get the next one two or

three years later, I'd think, that's related,

connected to what he said to me in 2000. And

in 2006, 2007, I thought, wait a minute, that's

connected to this. And it wasn't until 2013 that

I realized I'd come to the end of a... I don't

know what you... My life had been a picture.

I was living a prophetic word, which was for

the nation. And now I'm trumpeting that word.

It started, as I said, in 2000 when I was at

Christ for the Nations Bible School in Dallas,

where I attended as a young man and have taught

there off and on over the years. But I'd gone

back there to teach the students for a week.

And while I was there, I just was a little burdened.

For the school. Because I felt like. Some of

the things that God put in the school. Through

the founder. Were not happening. It wasn't that

they were apostate. Or backslidden. It wasn't

sin. It was just you know one of those seasons.

Where you just kind of. You've lost some of the

punch. The wells are a little clogged up. And

you're trying to get them open. And I was praying.

I was saying Lord open these wells. And let everything

that. You put in this place through the founder,

Gordon Lindsay. Let it happen. Bring it back.

Open these wells. And he said to me, would you

give me your session this morning? Instead of

teaching, would you just lead in an hour of prayer?

And I said, of course I will. So we kept the

worship team up, and we were just harping bull

back and forth, praying and worshiping. And at

one point I said, Lord, just reopen these wells.

And he said something to me that really at first

I didn't think it was the Lord. I thought it

was demonic. That's how spiritual I am. I just

thought this is heresy. I can't because what

I heard was I need for you to agree in prayer

with Gordon Lindsay. And the reason I thought

it couldn't be God was because. He'd been dead

for 30 years. And I told the Lord, I'm having

this conversation. Well, I'm supposed to be leading

this, but it's just in my mind. And I said, well,

that can't be you, Lord, because we're not supposed

to communicate with the dead. And I'm not going

to try to do that. And I can't agree in prayer

with him. He's been dead for 30 years. So I'm

processing this quickly. And it was one of these

duh moments for me. And I don't know why I've

never, I'd never connected these dots before,

but I heard the Lord so clearly say to me, well,

his prayers aren't dead. I mean, it was just,

and I was just like, well, I knew that. His prayers

aren't dead. And he said, you know, this place

where you've read all of his books, you've taught

here, you've traveled with the family. You know

this history as well as anybody. You know exactly

what I promised him. You know exactly what he

asked me to do. His prayers are on record in

heaven and the bowls of prayer in heaven agree

in prayer with him. And then he said, the next

thing he said to me was also somewhat challenging

for me just because I was trying to understand

this so quickly. He said, because until this

generation comes into agreement with what he

asked me to do and I promised him I would do,

I can't do for him what I told him I would do.

And that messed with me because the Lord didn't

say I won't as in. You know, I just have some

requirements here. Until you do it, I won't do

this. Until you do that, I won't. He didn't say

I won't. He said until this generation comes

into agreement with him, I can't do what I promised

him. So I'm telling the worship team to keep

going. People think I'm into the worship, but

I'm stalling trying to figure out what God's

saying to me. And he took me to Hebrews 11, the

chapter on all the heroes of faith. And the great

cloud of witnesses as it moves into chapter 12

of Hebrews. And it talks about all the great

accomplishments they did through their faith.

But when you get to the end of the chapter, he

says something that's pretty surprising to me.

He says that these people, even though they did

believe, even though I gave them promises, and

even though they did believe me and they stood

and they fought that good fight of faith, they

didn't receive all that I promised them. And

then he gives us the reason. And the reason is,

I wouldn't let them be complete without you.

And if you study the word complete there, it's

a fascinating and powerful word. It means to

finish something. I refused to finish what I

started with them without the next generation.

It means to reach an intended goal. The Lord

says in this passage, what I started here cannot

reach its intended goal until the next generation

grabs the baton. And I started understanding

something that I think I had a vague concept

of, but I really didn't have a full revelation

of. And this revelation worked in me for four

or five years. And God basically said to me,

you know, when I make a promise to this generation

or somebody here, I may have in my mind, and

I don't always say it to them, but I may have

in mind when I say, I'm going to do this through

you, this, this, this through you. I know I'm

going to really finish it 200 years later. They're

just going to start it and they're not going

to see the fulfillment or the finish it. But

as far as I'm concerned, you see, God's saying,

I don't see the generations disconnected like

you do. I see the bloodline as continuous. And

when I do it through this one, as far as I'm

concerned, I did it through that one. And I started

wondering, you know, thinking, I wonder what

I'm doing right now and what mantle or what anointing

or what book or what am I involved in that God

really birthed 100 years ago? And the great cloud

of witnesses is saying, come on, y 'all. And

I started realizing it's not, it's not. A whole

bunch of seasons and ages that are disconnected.

We're in a movement that started in Genesis.

And it's all connected in God. And every generation

runs another lap in this relay race. God started

then applying this. With me, it wasn't long before

I realized this revelation is not really primarily

for Christ for the nations. It's for this nation.

And he started talking to me about what he started

way back. And now he's waiting for this generation

to lay hold of his purposes and come into agreement.

So you can agree in prayer with John Wesley or

Jonathan Edwards or Finney. You can take the

decrees of the founding fathers when Robert Hunt

in 1607 stood at Cape Henry and planted a cross

on the beach and prophesied that this nation,

the gospel will go forth from this nation, not

only to this land, but to all the nations of

the earth. Did you know that was prophesied when

they landed? Somebody needs to grab that decree

and start agreeing with it. Because there's power

in that prophetic decree. There's power when

you speak his words. And there's amazing power

that is released when we agree. And so I walked

through a season where God literally made me

just go back. I became a lover of history. You

know, I was one of these guys that slept through

history class and civics class. And then I found

myself, I couldn't get enough reading about our

founders and government. How our government was

established because it came alive to me. And

it wasn't just coming alive here. It was coming

alive in the spirit. And then he started sending

me to the nation and I've been everywhere. I

feel like Johnny Cash. I've been everywhere,

man. I've been everywhere. I've been to every

state multiple times. But it wasn't just to preach

because a lot of those were just prayer trips.

When he would teach me something and send me

to a certain place where this was stated or this

was put into the fabric of our nation because

he wanted me to do more than just study it. He

wanted me to tap into it. He wanted me to understand

it. He wanted me to step into the storyline,

get in the timeline and say, I'll agree with

that. And he sent me to not only the places where

good things happen, he sent me to places where

bad things happen. All of history is connected,

not just the good, but the bad. He said, you

know, the iniquities also, not just the blessing

of covenant, but iniquities are passed on to

the third and fourth generation, the sins of

the father. So sometimes we're going back to

connect with the good and build bridges and agree.

Sometimes you got to go back and heal the ancient

ruins. And break the curses. So he sent me to

places, all the slave ports, places where slavery

entered into America, places where the covenants

were broken with Native Americans and bad laws

were written. I just found myself on this probably

a five -year journey where he was literally slamming

me into the fabric of this nation's history.

So that I could agree. And. Cut off. And then

at Christ for the nations, back to that day.

After he said to me, I need you to agree and

pray with me. And then he said, until you do,

I can't. Then he said this to me. I need. Listen

very closely when God says he needs something.

He said, I need the synergy. Of the ages. And

at this point. I'm really telling the worship

team to go. Because I have no idea what this

means. Well I knew that synergy. I was trying

to figure this out. On the fly. Get this to where

I could at least pray it. I knew that synergy.

Was and is. The multiplying of power. that occurs

when two or more work together. So if you can

lift 100 pounds and I can lift 100 pounds and

we're working on separate loads, we'll lift a

total of 200 pounds. But if we'll work together

on the same load, we'll lift 300 pounds. Now

isn't it fascinating that God is so into unity

He's so into agreement, body, covenant, working

together, that he literally created, to me what

is an unexplainable law, that you could do this,

you can do this, but if you work together, I

will multiply power. Now this is not my message,

but it's a good... It's a good time to insert

it. If this church can do this and this church

can do that, that's wonderful. It adds up to

this. But if they would work together, you could

do this. Because when you get in one accord.

I mean, if this family will do this and this

family will do that. If this elder, if this teacher,

if this ministry. But if we work together. He'll

multiply power. He's into agreement and unity.

He'll do more through us than he will through

you and me. So I I knew that principle and I

knew that God would multiply power if we agreed

in prayer because I'd taught it and written about

it. And I knew I could agree in prayer with person

next to me but I had no idea I could agree in

prayer with the generation behind me and if I

would do that God would do something he called

the synergy of the ages that we could go beyond

this generation to this and then we could add

a little more if we would come together And really

grab the baton and honor what they did and step

into a heart of connecting generationally. Synergy

would kick in. And I walked out that word for

five, six years. It's been a powerful word for

me. And I knew the Lord was trying to get me

to understand. What I could do for this nation.

To get him to multiply power. Then in 2007. I

kind of moved on from the message. I preached

on the synergy of the ages many times. But I

just kind of moved on. Didn't say much about

it anymore. Just kind of felt like it's a part

of who I am now. I just do it. I don't talk about

it a lot. But I'm doing it. And in 2007, I was

ministering with my friend Lou Engle somewhere.

Lou's a prayer leader. Most of you probably have

heard of the call. You know who Lou is. And Lou

was there with his assistant. And his assistant,

I knew, was a dreamer. So when we were about

to go to our rooms to retire for the night, I

jokingly said to this assistant of Lou's, Hey,

Thomas. Yeah. Young kid, yeah. Yeah. Ask God

to give you a dream for me tonight. And I was

joking, and he knew I was joking. And he said,

okay. But he was joking. Okay. And off we went,

and the first thing he said to me the next morning

was, God gave me a dream for you last night.

And my first thought was, I wish it was always

this easy. I need a word from the Lord. Go have

a dream for me. Let me know in the morning what

he says. He said, I dreamed about you last night.

And in the dream, you were a boxer. And you boxed

five giants. And you knocked out all five giants.

And you knocked out one giant per round for five

rounds. And you knocked each one out with one

punch, and you alternated fists. So round one,

a giant stepped into the ring, you took him out.

Round two, another giant steps in the ring, other

hand, one punch, you took him out. Round three,

four, five, five rounds, five giants, five punches,

alternating fists. And then he said, you walked

out of the ring in the dream. Walked up to him

in the dream. Held up my two fists and said to

him, if you're going to take out the giants in

this season, you're going to have to wear these

two gloves. And one glove said, Everlast. And

one said, Evergreen. End of dream. Well, I knew

it was about the nation. I knew God was saying,

there's coming a point when you're going to take

out some giants. I also know he was saying to

me, if you're wearing the right gloves, this

is not going to be hard. But you're going to

have to wear these two gloves. And I prayed about

it and I told the Lord and I knew I was right

and I was right. I knew what the Everlast represented.

Because I had been studying the life of Abraham.

I'd been fascinated with Genesis 21, 33, where

for the first time, Abraham called on God as

the everlasting God. And the reason that fascinated

me is because I had known from previous teachings

and training in my life that, number one, the

names of God are very significant to give us

revelation about him. But I also knew the law

of first mention was significant. Something significant

is mentioned in Scripture, especially God or

one of His names. It's just like if you introduce

somebody, you don't just say, this is Joe. You

introduce Joe. This is my friend. He does this.

There will be things given to us in that passage

that introduce that subject. And will be consistent

throughout Scripture. And so I found myself thinking

as I was studying the life of Abraham. What was

it that was going on in this man's mind? And

what was happening in his life that caused him

when he wanted to call on God. To feel like calling

on him as Elohim wasn't enough. Or wasn't right.

Or didn't fit what he needed to say. Why didn't

he call on Jehovah or Yahweh or El Shaddai or

El or Adonai? What was happening in this guide

where he's saying, you are... And then he finds

it. You're El Olam. Olam El, you're the everlasting

God. Well, Olam means eternal. It's so hard for

us to get our arms around this word because we

don't really have an English word that'll do

it. But if you study the word, it'll say the

most, olam means the most distant times both

ways. That's pretty good because it's not just

the... The future, it embodies the past as well.

But when you say the most distant times both

ways, you just violated the meaning of olam because

you used the word time. Because it's not the

most distant times both ways, it's the most distant.

It's just. It's the timeless God who is outside

of time. He's yesterday, today, and forever,

all at the same time. He's the eternal now. He's

the I am. And he's calling on him, and El is

the strong and mighty, all -powerful one. What

is it that's happened in this guy's life to where

he says, you're Olam. I call on you as Olam.

Well, he's just come through 25 hard years. He

received a great promise in Genesis 12, and God

sent him to do this, this, this, this, and this

through you. He told him later, yeah, I'm going

to give you this land. I'm going to do all these

wonderful things. He didn't tell him right then,

but later he said, by the way, it'll be 400 years

before we get this done. How'd you like God to

do that with you? It's this generational God.

But he starts the journey, and I'm sure Abraham

was expecting Sarah to be pregnant with Isaac

next month. But 25 years go by, and these were

not easy years. Abraham came to a place of unwavering

faith, but he did not start with unwavering faith.

In fact, he doubted to the point. And so did

Sarah that they connived a plan because they

gave up on having this child because she was

barren. They're getting old now. This is not

going to happen. So they hatched a plan to have

a baby through her maid. We just gloss over that

like no big deal. We're still dealing with the

effects of it. Unbelief. You know, the last three

months is when I don't have time to teach them.

The last three months is when God really moved

them. Finally, they broke through into unwavering

faith. But for the first, they doubted along

the way. And a year before Isaac was born, they

were still struggling in their faith. So much

so that when God appeared to them and said, okay,

now's the time. Next year, this time, Isaac will

be born. And they both laughed at God. And it

wasn't a laugh of joy. It was a laugh of cynicism.

And why not? She was 90 and he was 99. You'd

have laughed too. But God brought them through,

and the New Testament says, because they didn't

waver. So we know something happened at that

point, a year from his birth, which means three

months from conception. A revelation began to

grow in them. And the New Testament says they

came to unwavering faith. And I'll encourage

you, it doesn't take 25 years to get in unwavering

faith. You can be wavering now, three months

from now, you can be moving in amazing faith.

But not only that, Abraham did some other pretty,

pretty bad things. Over that season, did you

know that twice he told kings and their nomadic

lifestyle when they moved to a different region?

He said, now, Sarah, just in case this is probably,

you know, earlier when she's still obviously

good looking. Because he said, when we get there,

you're beautiful and this king may want you for

his harem. So just tell him you're my sister

and they can have you that way. They won't hurt

me to get you. How'd that make you feel, ladies?

Better that I live and give you away than die

protecting your honor. And we gloss over that.

I don't like to talk about it. But I'm telling

you, let me just insert this. This is not my

message, but you need to let these people be

human. And you need to understand that he didn't

start as this unwavering, covenant -keeping,

you know, friend of God that never blew it. He

became that. And he's looking back on all that

and God interrupted. By the way, when the king

did take her before they consummated things,

God intervened supernaturally and stopped it

from happening. Now, Abraham is in the other

end of this and he's looking back and he said,

how did you do this? How did you work through

my humanness? Back when you called me. When you

said, I'm going to do this, you were able to

look ahead and you knew this was in me and you

knew this was in me and you knew this was in

me. But outside of time, the God who declares

the end from the beginning, you didn't just look

at my weaknesses. You saw past that and you said,

yes, but I know what I can make him. And I know

that he won't always be a covenant breaker. I

know that he won't always lie. And I know that

he won't always waver. And before I'm finished

with him, he will be my friend. And he will be

an unwavering father of faith. And Abraham is

looking back on this and he says, you know, you

looked ahead and you saw past. Olam, you can

look ahead. And you saw past my frailties and

my weaknesses. And you said, yeah, I know he's

got those things, but this is what. I will do.

And I'm not calling him based on his gifts and

who he is. I'm calling him based on who I am

in him. And Abraham says, you know, when I came

to the point where Sarah and I both, our bodies

are dead, we can't reproduce. It's laughable.

Release some of your olam, ageless nature into

us and transformed our bodies. And he calls on

him and worships him as olam. And the Lord said

this to me. If you're going to take out the giants

in this nation, you're going to have to believe

that I'm bigger. than the sins of this nation.

You're going to have to believe that when I called

this nation, I knew slavery would take place.

I knew the shedding of innocent blood would happen.

I knew the idolatry would. I knew the war that

would be taking place for the soul of a nation

in 2016. I understood these things. I didn't

call you based upon your own goodness and your

merits. I called you based on my eternal purposes

and what I know I can do. And I know how to cleanse

all of that. And get you back into covenant just

like I did over and over with Israel. I have

people come to me all the time and, you know,

they used to do it. They don't do it much anymore

because they know I'm just, I get so mad. One

of these times I'm going to follow through on

what's in my heart. Because they'll say to me,

you're not going to get awakening because there's

too much of this, there's too much of that. We

did this, we've done that. can't do that in America.

And I just like him to say, I am not asking for

God to do these things in America based upon

our merits or whether or not we deserve it. I

am asking based on the blood of Jesus who cleanses

us from all sin and unrighteousness. I'm asking

based on the eternal purposes of Olam. And if

you can believe that, If you can believe that,

you can take out giants. Because he's bigger

than the giants and he's bigger than our weak

human nature. And he is not finished with this

nation. But I couldn't get evergreen. Ever last,

ever green. You've got to wear these gloves.

I'm so bright, I figured it might have something

to do with a tree. But, you know, no matter how

much I thought about it, I just couldn't get

it. You know, I just thought, well, I'm just

not getting it. I'm not putting it together.

It's just not there. Finally, I just... Set it

on the shelf and moved on. One of these days,

maybe the Lord will pull it off the shelf. Give

me the revelation of evergreen. And it happened

six years later. 2013. I'm back at Christ for

the Nations now. 2016. I'm not now, but I was

then. Directing the school for a couple years.

So I'm full circle. I'm back at the synergy of

the ages place where this journey started. And

as the director, you know, my responsibility

to bring in the commencement speaker, the graduation

speaker. So Cece and I talked about this particular,

the second year. Who do we want to do that? I

decided I don't want a preacher to do it. I don't

want anybody that's what we would call full -time

ministry. Even though I'm not sure I like that

phrase because we're all ministers. But I thought,

you know, I want them to know that they don't

have to do what I do to be used by God. That

no matter where he puts you, you're called to

minister for him there. And so I thought, you

know, I want a soldier. I want somebody that

exemplifies honor and integrity and sacrifice

and loves this nation but loves God and is out

there and knows he's called to be doing what

he's doing, serving God in the military. And

so we brought in one of our spiritual sons. He's

a JAG attorney. He serves in the special forces.

But he's a real warrior, and he didn't want to

just go with them as an attorney, so he went

through all the training so that in his mind

he earned the right to be out there on the battlefield

with these rangers. He told me at one point,

he was through all this training, he called me

Papa Dutch. He said, I love you, Papa Dutch,

but I could kill you in six seconds. And that's

when I stopped calling him son and started calling

him sir. I said, I know you could, sir. So he

gave a wonderful message. It was powerful and

impacted the students. He's a dynamic man, young

man. And at the end of his message, he threw

me a bit of a curve. He said, I believe that

God put in my heart to give a gift. this morning

to, he called me Papa Dutch. And I didn't know

that I liked that because I felt like it was

taking the emphasis off of the graduates and

putting it on me. And I thought, well, I'm not

supposed to be getting gifts here today. This

is their day to be honored. But I didn't know

what to do. I didn't want to stop him because

I knew he could kill me in six seconds. But,

you know, I trusted him. And I thought, well,

you know, he's up there. What am I going to do?

And I trust him. And let's just see what happens.

And he said, I have a flag to give you. And he

said, hardly anyone has ever seen this flag in

our day. So I need to tell you about it. And

he was right. I hadn't seen it. Probably at that

point, if you go back to that point in time,

you hadn't seen it. He said, so I need to explain

it. He said, this flag goes back beyond. the

point of the Stars and Tribes. This is when we

were being formed as a nation. And he said, this

is really the flag we were born under as a nation.

And he said, it was commissioned by George Washington.

And he had it flown over all the naval vessels,

but it caught on, gained momentum, and then...

Before they knew it, this flag was flying all

over the colonies. Probably every battlefield,

one of these flags was there. And he said it

had across the top, appeal to heaven or an appeal

to heaven, different versions. And he said they

put appeal to heaven on the flag because of the

writings of a man named John Locke, who was one

of the biggest influencers of our founding fathers.

If you study the 15 ,000, which scholars have

done, study the 15 ,000 documents written by

our founding fathers. Whether it's a letter or

a pamphlet or a book. If you study those 15 ,000,

the most quoted person, the greatest influencer

is God. The Bible is quoted. The second most

quoted is a guy named Montesquieu. That's where

we got our three forms. branches of government,

legislative, judicial, and executive from Isaiah

33, 22, which says God is our lawgiver, legislative.

He's our judge, judicial, and he's our king,

executive. And so, Montesquieu taught if this

is the way God operates, any government on earth,

if you're smart, you ought to pattern it after

God and do it this way. And so, our founders

took that and formed our three branches of government.

Were you taught in your civics class in high

school that our government was formed based on

Isaiah 33, 22? Well, Montesquieu was the second

most, but John Locke was the third guy, the most

quoted guy. And he wrote a series of papers.

And one of the things he said in one of these

chapters of a book he wrote years before this

was, when you've done all you know to do in life

to get victory or breakthrough, when all the

odds are stacked against you and there's nothing

you can do, humanly speaking, there's still something

you can do. You appeal to heaven. And our founders

grabbed this. They even put the phrase in the

Declaration of Independence. Whereas this, whereas

the king does this, whereas this, whereas this,

whereas this. Therefore, we appeal to the divine

judge of the universe. So they took that phrase

and they said, just like Locke said, there's

no way that we can defeat the British Empire.

There's no way we could. overthrow their yoke

and gain our freedom. It's laughable. The greatest

army in the world, the most wealth in the world,

the greatest resources and weaponry and navy.

It was ludicrous, laughable to them and everybody

else around the world to think that these bunch

of upstart, poor, no army, no money, no weapons,

colonists could overthrow the greatest empire

in the world, maybe ever. It was laughable, impossible,

unless. Unless God was in this. Unless he was

watching when they planted the cross and said,

from these shores will go the gospel to all the

nations of the earth. If he's really in this

and he will help us, we could win. And they put

their faith on a flag and flew it over the battles.

We are not fighting in our own strength. We appeal

to heaven. And then he said, they put an evergreen

tree on this. And he turned around and he unfolded

it. I hadn't seen it until this point. He said,

they put an evergreen tree on this flag. And

he turned around to me and showed it to me and

I almost fell out of my chair. Not from shock,

but from anointing. I looked at my wife and I

said, I think I'm about to get the other glove.

He said, the evergreen tree is a symbol of eternal

covenant. The Iroquois were great influencers

of our nation. This is all documented, by the

way, with footnotes. I wrote this small book.

The story is in this book, 40, 50 pages, Appeal

to Heaven. I wrote it small and easy read enough

that even men would read it, maybe. Talking to

you. Talking to you. And you. And this has nothing

to do with me, but I'll tell you right now, this

message is going viral. This flag is just taken

off like heaven has breathed on it. And he said,

and that's all about the Iroquois, even that

Congress has passed resolutions of thanks and

credits to the Iroquois and all this. It's all

footnoted in the book. But, you know, they taught

that the evergreen was a symbol of covenant.

And so when they formed the Iroquois Confederation

with six other tribes, they actually went to

an evergreen tree and took weapons from each

tribe. And they dug a hole at the base of the

tree and they buried the weapons there as an

act of covenant saying we will never fight one

another. We will always fight for one another

and walk in peace together. And that's where

we get the phrase bury the hatchet. And he said,

it's all about covenant. I didn't realize at

the time, I started studying this over the next

few weeks, it just about again knocked me out

of my chair when I realized that it didn't just

go back to the Iroquois and the founders, that

it's a symbol of covenant. It goes all the way

back to Abraham. Because in Genesis 21, 33, when

he called on Everlast, he said, that's how I

prevailed. Not through my abilities, but through

him. Everlasting God did this. Before he called

on Everlast, he planted a tree. I knew he planted

a tree. I'd read it dozens of times. I just didn't

know that a tamarisk tree was an evergreen tree.

He planted an evergreen as a symbol of covenant

with everlasting God. You have been faithful.

I pledge to you, I want the generations to come

to know when I'm planting this tree because the

tamarisk tree grows very slowly but lives for

centuries. And the scholars, when I studied it,

said no one, no one would plant a tamarisk tree

for his or herself. Because they would know I

will never reap the benefit of this tree. Only

the future generations will reap the benefit

of this tree. And he said when Abraham planted

the tamarisk tree, he was saying to his children

and his children's children and his children's

children's children, you will sit under the shade

of my covenant with God. And he was staking himself

to covenant. And God started saying to me, if

you're going to take out the giants and see me

move in this nation, you cannot ask me just based

upon what you want. You cannot ask me to heal

the economy just so you can prosper and be the

richest country in the world. You cannot ask

me. To heal the nation just so that the ISIS

won't overtake you. You cannot do these things

just for you and your children and your children's

children. You must go back to my purposes for

this nation and tap into covenant. Because if

you go back to covenant, what did he want? What

did he have in mind? And begin to pray, Lord,

heal this nation so that the gospel can once

again go forth from these shores to every nation

on earth. That we can once again be a city on

a hill, a light to the nations. And we're not

asking for ourselves. We're asking for your eternal

purposes. Now we're tapping into covenant. And

God says, when you're ready to do that, I'm ready

to heal the land. And this, I wondered at first

why when I was given this flag and all of a sudden

I started talking about it and other people started

talking about it. I wondered why it was going

viral. Not only in America, but around the world.

I couldn't figure it out until I saw the Abraham

revelation. Because I realized this is not an

American flag. This is a kingdom flag. Abraham

wore both gloves. Everlasting, evergreen. Because

I said to him, Lord, why is it turning up in

China? Why are people waving this flag and praying

in China? Why are they doing it in Europe? Why

did somebody send me a picture of a lady in Cambodia

leading the prayer meeting against human trafficking,

holding up the appeal to heaven flag? I can understand

why Americans are inspired by this because of

our history. But I can't figure out why all over

the world. Why is this picture on the front?

And we disguised it and we covered his face because

we didn't want him to get in trouble. But a young

man sent me a picture of he's at the highest

point he could get to in the Himalayas. And you

can see little flags in the background because

these Buddhists make their pilgrimages up there.

And they hang these little flags. They pray their

prayers. They leave the flags so the gods will

remember their prayers. And there's a young man.

He's about 24, 25 years old at the highest point

on the planet Earth he could get to holding it.

appeal to heaven flag above all the other flags.

And that's what this picture is. I said, Lord,

what is this all about? He says, it's not just

your flag. It's heaven's flag. It's a covenant

flag. It's a prayer flag. One more quick dream.

And I know your body clock shuts down at four

minutes. You summon your power, and I'm going

to take 10, okay? I appeal to you for strength

to these weary pilgrims to last for 10 more minutes.

Because there's one more dream I need to tell

you, and I'll give you the short version, even

though it takes the man who had the dream 45

minutes. In the last chapter of the book, I give

you the full dream. But one month after I was

given the flag, I hadn't been talking about it

yet. I didn't say the thing about it. The only

people that knew it was given to me were the

people in that graduation ceremony. I was saying,

Lord, what do I do with this? A man in Florida

had a dream about the flag. He'd never seen it

before. He had to Google it when he woke up and

say, what is this? Does it even exist? But in

the dream, he was in a large... auditorium like

an old tabernacle he said with concrete floor

wooden chairs like maybe the 50s the campgrounds

and tabernacles and he's in he could tell it

was a big room but he couldn't see well because

the lights were off and the windows were closed

and he's wandering around trying to find lights

and a man walks up to him and says let me show

you around he starts flipping on lights and he

starts opening these They were just pieces of

plywood on hinges, swing them out, prop them

open. And the more lights that came on, the more

windows they opened all around this building.

He came to realize this is not, I thought it

was a big seat, maybe 1 ,500 people. He said,

this thing was so big, it probably seated 25

,000 people, maybe 30 ,000. It just went forever.

And when they got all the lights on, all the

windows open, the man brought him to the platform

and said, sit down here, I want to show you a

few things. He said, look out these two windows.

So as he looked out the windows, he saw ships

approaching. And he said to himself, those look

like pilgrim ships. And sure enough, they were.

And they docked and about 4 ,000 or 5 ,000 pilgrims

disembarked and made a procession into the building

worshiping. And he's just watching all this.

And when they're all in and that phase was over,

the man says, now look out these windows. And

he looked out those windows and he saw in the

distance some people coming and he said, those

look like pioneers. Sure enough, they were. Ladies

in their bonnets and long dresses, the men, the

covered wagons and the oxen. He watches them,

four or five thousand pioneers come and they

do a procession into the... And the previous

generation of pilgrims is cheering. And saying

things like, thank you for keeping the dream

alive. For the price you paid. And then they

got in, they all began to worship together. And

then a third generation. The old man said, these

are the planters. And they built the cities and

the railroads. And they came in, same thing.

Praise, thanks, worship. Three more generations.

Now they said there's probably 20 ,000 to 25

,000 people worshiping in this room representing

six generations of Americans. And then the man

walked up to him and said, look out these windows.

And he saw the automobiles coming and the trucks.

And it was our generation. And we came in and

took our seat. And now there are about 25 ,000,

30 ,000 people worshiping. And he said the worship

was so intense and so loud, I thought at one

point the building would not survive. I could

feel it shaking from the sound. And then the

man came to him and said, now watch these two

doors right here. And as he looked at the doors,

a delegate from the first generation from the

pilgrims came out, went up on a bridge that spanned

the platform, got up to the center of the bridge

and stopped, and the worship got quiet. And he

said for about 10 minutes, this man prophesied

the destiny over this nation, God's planned purpose

for America. And then he went off the side, sat

down. The people began to worship again. And

sure enough, the doors opened. Here comes a pioneer.

He comes up. And for about 10 minutes, he just

decrees and prophesies the purposes of God for

this nation. Six generations interspersed with

praise. And then it's time for our generation.

And the man walked over to him. And said, please

don't miss this. In the dream, he looked at the

man on the stool and he said, are you ready to

take your place in the synergy of the ages? And

he was telling me this dream. I stopped him because

I just felt the hair again on the back of my

neck stand up. And I said, what did he say? I

said, have you ever heard that phrase before?

Have you ever heard me speak on it? Back when

I used to preach on the synergy, he said, never

heard it before in my life. He said, are you

ready? Are you ready to take your place in the

synergy of the ages? He said, I looked at him

in the dream and I said, yes, sir, I am. And

he said, okay, you go out those two doors and

get in line because for our generation, it was

an entourage of leaders, not just one. He said,

all the way back 40, 50 years, Billy Graham walked

in. And he said, others that you would recognize

came in this procession into the room. And then

he said, the last person in line came in and

started up on the bridge. And he said, Dutch,

you were the last one in line. And I didn't know

what to think at this point. I didn't know whether

to fall down. Crawl under a chair. I was just

overwhelmed listening to this. Felt such a presence

and such awe about the whole thing. And he said,

you walked up to the bridge and he said, I noticed

you were carrying something nobody else had been

carrying anything. And I kept wondering in the

dream, what does he have? And he said, you were

carrying something white and you started unfolding

this white flag. And I stopped him again. I couldn't

believe what I was hearing and I didn't know

whether to even ask. And I stopped him and I

said, did it by any chance say appeal to heaven?

And he said, how did you know that? See, I haven't

told anybody this dream. How did you know that?

I said, did it by any chance have an evergreen

tree on it? He said, how did you know that? And

he unfolds, grabs his briefcase and grabs a flag.

He says, I brought you one. And I went to my

briefcase. I got this one. And I said, you're

too late. I already have one. He said, how'd

you know about that? I've never seen one. How'd

you know? I said, I told him my story. He said,

well, in the dream, you unfolded this flag. You

went to the center of the... And instead of prophesying

immediately as the others had, you just began

to wave the flag. And he said, the roar and the

worship became so intense that, again, I thought

the building would fall. And he said, for about

10 minutes, all you did was wave this flag, appeal

to heaven, and appeal to covenant. And he said,

you actually waved it in a figure eight, which

is the symbol of infinity. When they cut covenant

in Old Testament days, they would walk among

the sacrifice in a figure eight to symbolize

this covenant is eternal. He said, you started

waving this flag. And the place was just roaring

with praise. And finally you stopped and the

place grew quiet. And he said, you prophesied.

And he said, all I remember was the last phrase.

You said, America is returning to the ancient

path to reap the harvest of the ages. Where are

you, Rick? I need you up here. Rick Pino, wherever

you and the team are, I need you up here. And

I need you up here now. I hear them. Ricky, Ricky.

And the rest, as they say, is history. Because

this thing just has a life of its own. I went

to Minnesota and a pastor held this flag up and

told the story of how God was leading him to

take it to the North Pole. And I knew. I just

knew. I just knew because, number one, I knew

the guy. But also, I mean, I knew of the guy.

I could tell by his story. I knew he hadn't heard

me talk about this. So I asked him later, I said,

have you read my book or did you hear my story

about the flag? He said, nope, never before,

never heard. I said, what motivated you to do

this? He said, I just saw this flag and I heard

God say, take it to the North Pole. It's just

God's breathing on this because he knows that

what we needed to birth this nation is what we're

going to need to rebirth this nation. Against

overwhelming odds. When there's no human way,

barren, 99, 90 -year -old Abraham and Sarah,

weak, powerless colonists, when there's no way,

you appeal to heaven. He just went, he just sent

me a picture a couple months ago of him standing

at the North Pole holding his flag. There are

only two ships you can go. There are two trips

to the North Pole every year in June. $25 ,000

a ticket. God told this guy to take it to the

North Pole. He researched and said, God, this

is $25 ,000. I need some confirmation. He told

a story. People would just walk up to him and

give him $1 ,000, $5 ,000, $6 ,000. God told

me to give you this $5 ,000. He said, almost

overnight, I had the $25 ,000. He got the last

seat on the second boat. He said, Lord, why do

you want me to take this to the North Pole? He

said, because I'm getting ready to visit the

earth again, and I want it decreed from the North

Pole. I'm just here to tell you tonight, God's

not finished with America. And he's going to

restore what the enemy has stolen. And there's

a third great awakening in the heavenly vault,

in the vault of heaven, ready, that has even

now begun, ready to be poured out into the earth.

And he's just waiting for a people that will

rise up in faith like Abraham did. Say, thank

you, Jesus. It's not about my worthiness. It's

not about a sinless nation. It's all about you.

And we're going to return to the ancient path

to reap the harvest of the ages. And I'm going

to do what I did in that dream. I'm going to

wave this and pray. And we're going to agree

in prayer for this nation. Come on, would you

do that with me? I want you to stand. I want

you to get in faith. Just so we can prosper or

be the biggest or greatest nation. We're asking

because of the eternal purposes of heaven. The

covenant you made with your son. And down through

the ages you've brought us into that. To this

nation. Just like this flag is. That God is about

to raise up. What has been torn down. And he's

not finished with us. Father we just say. We

are returning to the ancient path. To reap the

harvest of the ages. The harvest of the ages.

The greatest harvest. The world has ever seen.

15 years. And you're going to raise up this nation.

You're going to turn things around. And a generation

that doesn't know you that has had stolen from

them through humanism, atheism, liberalism, anti

-Christ forces. They've had stolen from them

the gospel. The revelation of who you are. Coming

to them. And you're going to show yourself to

them. You're going to work wonders. Signs and

wonders. You're going to bring a powerful gospel.

You're going to bring a demonstration. Who you

are. Ancient of days. You are the ancient of

days. You are Ola. Who looked ahead. And saw

our weaknesses. But said I can get them past.

covenant but you keep covenant and mercy covenant

and mercy covenant and mercy and Lord we say

to you we are ready to take our place in the

synergy of the ages we're ready and we're asking

you even though the powers of darkness are working

overtime through sin and through government people

and through humanism and through education and

through godless judges and even through violence

and discord you are coming to rescue us and we

appeal to you person but we know just like in

Israel when you said I must get rid of Saul I

need somebody in there that I can use Lord we're

not putting our faith in anybody but we know

the right judges have to be appointed we know

there has to be somebody that you can sovereignly

use to make We're just going to pray this way.

Your kingdom come, your will be done in these

elections. Your kingdom come, your will be done.

Your kingdom come, your will be done. Your kingdom

come, your will be done. And Lord, we pray Isaiah

22, 22. And Revelation 3, 7. That we have authority

through Christ to open doors. can close and closed

doors nobody can open and the ecclesia the church

the governing company that you left on planet

earth to bind and loose is making a decree tonight

from what for all State elections, judicial elections,

Congress, legislators. And we ask you to begin

the process of turning this nation back to our

purposes. We speak confusion into the camp of

the enemy. We speak chaos into the camp of the

enemy. We say, come forth. the great schools,

the colleges and universities, that the greatest

revival to ever hit the campuses of America is

coming. And we're going to return to the ancient

path to reap the harvest of the ages. We just

declare, Lord, that the synergy of the ages is

coming. And that there will be such an awakening

over the youth of America. campuses, universities,

schools. You're going to present them with signs

and wonders. You're going to bring deliverance.

You're going to bring a revelation of who you

are. You're going to pour your spirit out and

nobody's going to be able to stop what you're

doing. And you're coming with such intensity

and passion that another student missions movement

will be born out of this revival. Thousands of

them will go to the nations of the earth with

the greatest sweeping harvest the earth has ever

seen until entire nations bow the knee. You're

coming to the Muslim world. You're coming to

the Buddhist and Hindu world. You're coming to

every continent. You're going to sweep through

the Middle East. You're coming, Lord, to transform

nations and nothing is going to stop you. Because

you made a promise to your son. And you're the

God who keeps covenant. And you promised him

he'd add every nation, every tribe, every tongue.

And that means the 7 ,000 still unreached people,

groups on this nation, are about to hear a sound

that they have never heard before. to the church

and awaken the church awaken the pulpits the

pastors for your spirit No, no Keep pressing

onward beyond your fears. Only the Father goes

before you. Lord, we ask now for that seed word,

that impartation of faith to be released now

and made sure. Lord, even what was said tonight.

Lord, that even if we don't have faith, let this

seed word begin to take faith now. Lord, change

us, transform us. Lord, that you are the one.

that you're the one that we appeal to. The just

judge. The righteous one. The one who holds all

things in the power of your hand and by your

word you have decreed a thing. Let it come to

pass. We agree with you tonight Lord. We agree

with you over this station. We agree with you

over what has been prophesied and decreed. And

Lord let the seeds of the truth And the ways

of God be manifest this year as we're looking

to November for who you choose. Give this nation

mercy. Give this nation the help that it needs

even right now. In Jesus' name, we appeal to

you and you alone. In the name of the Lord Jesus

Christ. And everybody said, Amen. Give the Lord

a clap offering tonight. Tell him you love him.

Amen. Amen. God bless you tonight. Drive safe.

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