Sunday Message - Pastor Tony and Janet Alward (October 05, 2008) | Life Bible Church

Tony and Janet come and she's gonna say a few

words their son is Randy Alward who is the CEO

of Maranatha music and so they're doing some

very innovative things and would you just welcome

Tony and Janet as they come and bring a few words

Thank you Thank you so much These are the greatest

days to be alive. Yes it is. We serve a risen

King and the master of our souls. What a great

God we have. We're so privileged. Tony wanted

me to particularly mention one thing. I just

wanted to share that I have CDs over there for

Maranatha music. Two for $15. I beat Walmart.

And then the innovative CDs that he mentioned

the invitation series come on over there, and

I'll share that with you But Tony wanted me to

particularly mentioned my book this morning.

I wrote a book on how to forgive And there's

life after pain Emotional pain and you have to

learn how to forgive if you think you've forgiven

you haven't forgiven You know it's an experience

that you have I have forgiven and let go of the

past so if you I just wanted to share that with

you. It's $10. It's over here at my table. And

we just love you folks so much. Thank you for

your reception. You've been so gracious in receiving

the Word of God. And we just, we love you all.

Thank you again. And I give you the man of God.

Thank you, Jesus. Oh, what a great day we're

living in. I'm excited in God. Just thrilled

with the presence of the Lord and being with

you. Man, I can't believe it's been so long.

2003, it's a long time ago. That's about five

years ago I was here. And I am just excited with

such a vibrant life giving. And that's a great

name. That's why it's called Life Bible. There's

life here. And it's exciting to have the new

people coming. We invite you here. We would love

you to come and attend Make This Your Church.

This is a great family church. I'm excited about

the pastor and his wife. I have known Brad and

his wife for, I don't know, 15 years or so, and

he's just a great man of God. Let's give him

a big hand. We just appreciate them. We love

these guys. They're great. We appreciate them.

He hasn't told me about the staff. I've ended

up ministering against several of them prophetically,

and it's good to be ignorant. I like to walk

on water. I love to know nothing. And I do well

that way. It's when your natural knowledge gets

mixed up that you begin to have a problem with

the fresh air. And sometimes I say, this I know,

and then this is the God mind. But I really separate

that. And I appreciate being with you. Thank

you so much. First slide, I'd like you to see

your Bibles. How many got your Bibles? Lift them

up now. If you didn't bring your Bible, this

is a Bible church. Come on, life, Bible. Come

on. Come on. It's a Bible church because we believe

that and we believe we should be carrying it

You can look at the slide and open to Romans

Romans 1:11

chapter 1 verse 11 I want to take a salutation

as given by Paul to open up a thought pattern

with you we've been sharing on this particular

thought and this is the third time with you and

It seems to come off a little different each

time because of the need that's there but first

Romans 1 verse 11 said, For I long to see you

Romans 1:11

that I may impart some spiritual gift to the

end you may be established. There are basically

three principles that we'll see in a moment in

this particular verse about revival. Principles

of revival. I want to say without any hesitation

I'm not looking for revival. Revival is here.

Would you say with me revival is here? It's an

exciting thing for you to grab a hold of what

I'm saying. Some people just let day in and day

out go by and pretty soon a week and then a month

and a year and their life begins to become old

because they keep waiting for God to do something.

When all the time He's waiting for you to respond

to what He's doing. And I'm here to stir you

up to respond to what He's doing. A wise man

said to me, if you want to really know a visitation

of God, find out what God is doing and start

doing it. And you start finding yourself engulfed,

and we are in a present dynamic revival. Man,

it's exciting. Next slide. These are characteristics

of it. First of all, we're watching people get

saved, saved by the grace of the Lord. Man, it's

thrilling. We're seeing more souls saved now

than we've ever seen before. I've never seen

this many people getting saved that we're seeing.

When I was pastoring, we'd get all shouting for

glory if one person got saved a month. Now I'm

really concerned if I don't lead one to the Lord

a week. I basically set my goal for one and a

half souls a week. No, you can't get a half saved.

But I couldn't reach out this year for two. It

was just you know Come on. You set a goal. You

want to reach it? Everybody clear on that You're

not half safe either in or out But God wants

to get us involved in the harvest that he's doing

right now The saving there's no greater miracle

than somebody getting saved All this other stuff

is additional but man when they jump from the

kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of light

Hey, that's transformation and it's powerful

Come on, the grace of God. People are getting

saved. The grace of God is just so poured out.

There's people all around you right now that

are waiting for your contact. Come on. Where

is God right now? What is He doing? I'll tell

you where He is. He's in the marketplace. Oh,

He's here. He's in our presence. Man, there's

a great anointing here. But this anointing follows

us 24 -7. All where we go, every place we go.

And that's what he wants to release in your present

location. The grace of his savership. The baptizing,

deliverance, and water. What a joy it is to walk

in newness of life. Man, that's... Wow, the old

man's dead. Come on. Come on, how many... Man,

it's great to be walking in this new life. Come

on, we're walking in a new life. We're in revival.

We're walking in this stuff. We're not waiting

for it to happen. It's happened! Each one of

these principles are so exciting to watch yourself

experience them. Man, I'm speaking in tongues

all the time. I don't have any problems speaking

in tongues. I speak continually. Aren't you afraid

of offending somebody? Absolutely not! There

must be at least four dialects in this meeting.

I'm looking at Spanish people and I'm looking

at other people that can speak German. I'm looking

at probably some French people here that can

speak French. You don't have any problem using

your natural language around me, and I stand

there dumbfounded. Well, I just started using

the spiritual language in the restaurant. When

I pray over food, you'll hear me, I lift my voice

a little higher. Reconsider 1 Corinthians 12

through 14 about what it meant to be silent.

It had nothing to do with the releasing of your

spiritual gift. Every single one of us should

be allowing the Spirit of God to pour through

us with great freedom because we're in revival.

Come on, say, we're in revival. I'm excited about

the gifts and the flowing of God. I've been stirring

up several of you since I've been here. Get prophesying.

Stir yourself in the gifts of God. And now Pastor's

gonna preach a whole series on that. I didn't

know that. I'm excited. He has the gifts of the

Spirit. Is Jesus just flowing through you? God,

it's fun. I have fun during the week. I recently

was in a nice hotel. It had a really nice sauna.

It was outside, big pool. And I went there and

I climbed into the chacuzzi. And I just didn't

want to see any more of you. If you don't know

what it means to be people, then you don't understand.

But I've had enough talk. I didn't want to do

anymore. I'm tired. I want to lay back in that

chacuzzi and just suck up some rays, man. Oh,

I just got in there, boy, and the water's hitting

my small of my back, and I begin to feel, oh,

God, oh, this is close to heaven. I just really

enjoy it. Big place, really beautiful. In comes

a guy in his 50s, man. Oh, no. Jumps in, and

he looks at me, he says, what do you do? Inside

the Holy Spirit says, tell him. I wanted to say,

man, I'm just an electrician by trade, shut up.

Well, I said, no, I'm a pastor. You are? I said,

yeah. He said, well, I was one, too. And boy,

he started. I ended up praying for his knee.

God healed his knee and his leg. I ended up laying

my hands and praying for him. You have to really

watch it. It's shakuzi, because if he goes under,

it's not too good. He said, you've got to come

to my room, meet my wife and my whole family.

He's a Spanish man, they got big families. I

said, look, let me get kind of, it was four,

I came out of there, I was a boiled lobster,

45 minutes, man, I lost all my water. I mean,

I was just a mess. I go back to the room, I can

just stagger, I drink some water. I made my way

to his room, I knocks on the door. Here's a great

big sucker looking at me, you know, huge tattoos,

great big beefy arms. Oh, it was a Samoan. That's

his son. He had just come off drugs and he's

vibrant for God. I ended up ministering to each

one of his family and his wife. We had a hotel

revival. Then I went back and said, well, thank

you for the rest, Jesus. Come on, sing with me.

We're in revival. Man restored to the ministries

of the ministries of the Apostle, Prophet, Evangelist,

Pastor and Teacher. What a joy to watch this

happen. But we're moving on. I believe that God

in this year has moved us into the last real

doctrine to be removed and to be literally put

into our lives, which is resurrection of the

dead. And that's why you're hearing and seeing

right now signs and wonders and miracles and

healings. It's becoming very commonplace because

we're moving in that area. That's what he's doing

right now. We're in revival next slide Listen

to Steve fries explanation because I really sense

in this area is where the church is at right

now For years messages promising genuine revival

had been sounded a revival cannot be explained

in terms of a man's talents or strategies or

administrative acumen, but can only be seen in

a measure of an explained terms that God's sovereign

power. We saw that this morning. We saw it last

night. How many know God's sovereign power is

here? Man, it is here. It's unbelievably here.

I want to tell you, I believe people are going

to flood this place in need physically and emotionally.

And God has laid His hands on many of you. They're

gonna stir yourself in God, and they're gonna

come in one way and leave another. Right now,

you're gonna have parking troubles. Come on,

you're expanding quickly. Can you imagine another

thousand people in the next few months flowing

into this place? Don't look at me like that.

We're in revival. Listen to this statement. Whoops,

we lost it. Revive the camera. No, yeah, and

Steve Frey makes this statement We have come

on say we have Revival now, we're not looking

for something out of heaven right now. I'm not

waiting for angels to start appearing here I'm

not looking for some great event to start flowing

in Once we grasp what I'm saying to you. You'll

flow into that. Are you ready? Because we have

revival Look at somebody and tell them that and

say, I have revival. Go on, tell them that. And

certainly there are hopeful signs that the clouds

of a greater outpouring may be gathering on the

horizon. One can only hear the rumblings of awakenings

in the distance, but yet at times it seems like

it's at a far distance. I've been prophesying

over the great Northwest for five years. There's

a wave of His presence that's sweeping this area.

It's absolutely incredible. I picked up a book

yesterday in a very interesting subject and right

in there I underlined it in their house of the

same prophecy that God is going to move in the

great Northwest. How many have heard that stuff?

Well, I don't want you to sit back and fold your

hands and sit in a chair in some kind of a slump

position thinking, well, God, when you start,

I'll start. I want to tell you, He's moving now.

Get running. Some of you are behind. You need

to pick up your pace. Come on, if you've run

with a horseman and they weary thee, what are

you gonna do with the raising of Jordan? God

wants you to start moving in his kingdom right

now. And you recognize that, that you're involved

in what he's doing. What a thrill that is. Look

at the next slide. This is another quotation

from Dutch Sheets. Dutch Sheets makes this quotation

and I really appreciate it. The coming awakening

will not be known as a prayer movement or an

apostolic movement or a prophetic movement or

the teaching movement or a miracle movement,

gifts movement, glory movement. It's going to

include all of these. But the dominant emphasis

and the characteristics will be, say it with

me, His presence. How many can feel a fresh anticipation

for His presence? I don't know how to... describe

what I'm sensing to you, and I'm going to do

the best I can in just a few moments, but inside

of me is a desperation cry for His presence.

Now, He said, I'll never leave you nor forsake

you. He's always there. But being an electrician

by trade really helps to understand what He's

doing. When you put a bulb in and you got a rheostat

on the wall and you start it, that's what it's

called, when you turn it, the light gets brighter

and brighter. and brighter. I want to tell you

the presence of the Lord is getting brighter

because He's turning up the source. Come on,

it's turning up the source. How many can feel

the source being turned up? Same spirit. It's

just being turned up and it's getting brighter

and it's filling us and filling us. Revival and

this tremendous surge is just going to turn it

up a few more notches. That's all. How many want

it to be turned up a little bit? Well, then start

using what you've got Come on, it's got to be

activated Now if the lights dead man, hey, you

can throw all you want to until that switches

turn You can have all the voltage you want. Nothing's

gonna happen till you click the switch I want

to click the switch in several of you this morning.

I want to activate you I've been sitting here

for a purpose. I'm gonna lay my hands on you

and you're gonna be activated Come on get activated

Get turned on Start burning for Jesus Next slide

is by Bob Jones. I love this. He said the body

of Christ has entered a new place of kingdom

authority Like no other time in church history

the Lord has marked this generation with powerful

signs and wonders and Miracles that will escalate

beyond the early church as we approach the cleansing

of this age. I believe that Now, I don't believe

greater works that Jesus promised us is something

we're going to do greater than Jesus. I don't

believe that. You're never going to do anything

greater than Jesus did. It has nothing to do

with quality, but it has to do with quantity.

It's just going to be a lot more of the same

things He did. Come on now. Come on now. How

many got that? And right now, the possibility

of more quantity is here. How many want to see

more people miracleized? Come on, how many want

to miracleize? Now, we had several miracleized

here in this meetings. We had another couple

of them this morning. I brought a couple guys,

asthma just disappeared. Others are progressively

being healed when I prayed you and he said well

I Like yeah, I feel that it's still there a little

bit. I said that's fine You're just walking right

out of this now, and they went and they were

healed That's a progress come on progress But

I want to be miracle eyes, but for you God chose

a progress My baby here come sweetie my baby

here. She doesn't know what I'm gonna do neither

do I sometimes but here's my baby Doesn't she

look beautiful if you say you know you're dead

Five and a half years ago. She was Had x -rays

and she has a terminal tumor in her brain. It's

three point two centimeters large She cannot

be operated on she is now a guinea pig at USC

Medical Center Look at her and she looked great

The last MRI this sucker has shrunk and they're

still shaking their heads Glory to Jesus! Well,

why don't you just let her go on to heaven? Is

that much better? I don't have enough time to

break another one in. 48 years! I'm in trouble.

I'm trying, in my way, to say to you, the day

of impossibility is upon us. I love terminal

problems. I took a terminal one here. I want

to tell you, who is that lady that came up here

and I prayed for you, and you had a, I couldn't

even pronounce it, but you stand up to your feet.

I want you to look at her face. She is glowing

under the presence of God right now. Look at

that. I'll tell you, God released in you. Look

at it. Let me see your face. It's glowing. What's

the matter with you? Nothing is just, I love

this stuff. We used to shrink back. Well, you

take Miracle Hour, not me. God, I'm gonna do

that. You take it, Pat. Let somebody can, no

way. Step up to the plate. It's time. Come on,

look at this. It's time for the impossible. Now,

he didn't send angels down here to do that. He

sent us down here to do that. And God... I am

so excited that He's teaching on Wednesday these

gifts because God wants to literally gift and

dow you, not so you can sit on your duff and

wait for His coming, but literally to kick you

in the rear and get you going. Come on, we're

in revival. Say, I'm in revival. I don't even

like we because it's like we're, you know, that

was good for them and for them. No, it's me.

I hear the Lord saying, whom shall I send? And

who will go for me? Isaiah said, then he said,

here I am, Lord. He's waiting for you to say

here I am. Put off everything else. You are ready.

I could take any one of you with me to a third

world country and you know three times more Bible

than the best pastor down there. How long is

it going to be before you get really moving with

God. Boy, now that's quiet again. It was good

until we got personal. Come on. I want it coming

out of you. Here I am, Lord. Send me. God, I'm

in the morning. Here I am, Lord. What do you

want me to do, man? Wow. We talk about divine

appointments, so they should be on a very basic,

it should be happening continuously because he's

looking for people that'll say, okay, do it.

I'm gonna lay my hands on you and activate you

in a few minutes, and we're gonna have more doers

of the Word of God than hearers. Next slide.

Phase three principles, the principle of anticipation.

I long to see you. That means man inside of you

is an expectation. I expect God to do things.

I pace back and forth before me. I can hardly

wait for these meetings. Why? Because they surprise

me. I had no idea God was going to do what He's

done, and even before the meeting. Several people

with broken hearts were healed this morning.

It was an amazing thing that went on down here.

Man, it takes psychologists years and they can

take you apart. They just don't know how to put

you together again. Man, in a matter of moments

in God's presence, He just does the job. Whew!

I'm really full of this stuff. The principle

of embarkation. We're not being filled up so

we can just... Be like a sponge on a sink all

full of water. He wants to squeeze you out. Become

imparters. Come on, become imparters. Principle

of establishment that we can be people solid.

I don't want weird people. I'm not interested

in weird stuff. Just be yourself. You're weird

enough Next slide When we anticipate we long

for we look with expectancy we earnestly desire

we crave for one of that's thirsty in a desert

for water There's a that's what's in me right

now That's in several of you right now lift your

right hand if you have a fresh hunger from God

lift your right hand Where does that come from

you know it's not 12 steps and the last one's

hunger You don't read a book and then you're

hungry The next slide I'll tell you where it

comes from. I believe hunger comes from God It

comes as the spirit of the Lord moves on us and

then it comes because of what we hear and what

we see Axis field we can only do those things

which we have seen and heard I'm telling you

I'm only doing things I see and hear So all we

do What God speaks to you is what you see and

what you hear and you let that flow through you

And you're doing exactly what he wants you to

do. I wish I had five talents like pastor Brad

has God did you hear him sing this morning? I

didn't know he could do that Not until he services

I ever hear him lift up his voice like that Wow,

this guy could probably really do it Come on.

How do we like that? I can lift up my voice,

empty the church. Next slide. I want to take

that one statement. I want you to say with me,

we are the book of Acts. What it is that the

acts of God are working through us. God wants

you to be the book of Acts. You're a person that

can be written about that the acts of God are...

Come here, young man. You I can go to you, but

come up here for a moment I Want to tell you

God wants to use you Now you quit doubting that

you hear me You've been doubting that it's been

bothering you hasn't it well I'm gonna destroy

that doubt this morning the God of heaven wants

to use you young man now I'm gonna tell you exactly

how he uses you you're like a Barnabas man. It's

one -on -one You're gonna see people saved one

-on -one And that's the cry of your heart. God,

I want to get them saved, but I don't know how

to do this. Well, I'm going to tell you there's

an anointing on you, and I am going to activate

you now. You feel that? Take that! You are activated

in the kingdom of God. And you're going to be

one, and God is going to bring you into contact.

And one after one, you're going to be picking

them off like ripe cherries off a tree. Hallelujah.

I'm going to need him. I just leave him. He's

going to stay there. Stay down there. Amen. Would

you come and just sit with him? Just put your

hand. I'm going to need him in a few minutes

more. You can sit down for a moment or two. I

believe God that he wants the acts of God flowing

through us. Put your hand on your head. Say,

no, right here. Say, Jesus, forgive me. I think

I'm worse than Thomas I keep questioning you

and endowing you Help me Jesus to rid me of all

these plagues To believe you Amen We all need

that to believe God Trust God and jump out there

and do it Come on jump out there and get the

job done next slide I Don't go back one Go back

one slide. May I ask you a question is my past

more powerful than my present? I'm not going

to deal with that this service because I don't

sense that here I'm since a little bit different

direction But there's a time in your life when

you need to really ask that question Then you

need to be revived God wants to bring you up

so that your past is not more powerful than your

present Come on he can do it in a moment of time

We dealt with that question last service you

can get that tape next question Is my desperation

level higher than my embarrassment level now?

This is where we are right here God, I'd obey

you, but God is stupid pride. That's what it

is Your pride is keeping you from the obedience

of God. What will they think of you? Why do you

care? God I'd really do this right now. I'd really

go over there, but I have to live in this neighborhood

Take the fence down and go over there You know

you got to knock on the door and talk to them.

You know they're going through struggles. You

know Just take a bunch of cookies with you Everybody

likes chocolate chip cookies, huh Brad? Excuse

me pastor Now, listen, I'm talking to you seriously.

Many of us, evangelism needs to begin right where

we live. If somebody on your job has been sick,

well, why don't you just find out who that is

and you know who they are. Clean your plate off

a little bit from things and just go by that

night and just say, you know, I missed you on

the job. I'd like to pray with you. Is that too

hard? No, but it may take a little humility on

your part. God wants to activate you to get over

that your embarrassment level is not high enough

yet. Oh It'll get there Listen to this Bartimaeus,

I think it's unbelievable story about blind Bartimaeus

I call it the Bartimaeus breakthrough and that's

what he's gonna do here right now You need a

breakthrough First of all, he hears Jesus coming

Well, I want your ears to be open Jesus has come

He's here right now He is here right now that

I I can plug you into it. I'm an electrician.

I why do you lift their hands all the time? It's

simply because God showed me all I got to do

is take your hands and plug you in and the power

will flow Come on you plug a toaster in you plug

an iron in you just plug in I just plug you in

What do you do sometimes you watch me that much

I got my hands going like what no? What are you

doing over there plugging in? That's all I'm

plugging in I kind of do that privately because

in the market it looks funny I Want the power

to flow now. I'm fine with 110 it comes through

me quite now But when it's me with a 220 like

over in the corner there. I'd buckle to man I

Think it's about a 440 charge there one time.

It almost took me out Now blind Bartimaeus, he

hears Jesus is coming. Then so this guy says,

Jesus, thou son of David, have mercy upon me.

Now he's blind. Now the good Christians around

him said, shut up, blind Bartimaeus. God's not

interested in you. Just shut up. Read it. You're

too loud. You're creating a fuss. Just be quiet.

Stay home. Don't come to my house You're in the

market, you know, you need to open the door and

help this person. Oh, I'm in too much of a hurry.

Let somebody else do it That's religion That's

religion people just would you just calm down

and be like the rest of us no, I Remember an

old lady in the church man. I still see her as

a teenager in my church I won't tell you what

denomination she is. Man, she's all gnarled up,

looked like a prune. Sunny, you serve the Lord.

You can look just like me. I don't want to ever

look like you. Full of life and vigor and energy.

Some dried up old prune that had a vision or

something of God 40 years ago and still talking

about it. I want something that's less than four

hours old. But to get there you have got to get

through this test. Am I desperate? You can sing

you're desperate You can sing these songs, but

they're just songs until there's a cry that comes

out of your heart I call an anticipation and

you begin to cry out to God Oh God, I can't stand

it anymore. I've got to have your presence It's

not something you're mentally ascending to it's

something I that grips you and you feel it crying

out to the presence of God and it comes on me

at Various times during the day and night and

I can feel it it cries day and night. I want

your presence And I don't care who I offend He

means more to me than anything in life. I don't

want to be an offense I haven't been one. But

this, I'm not worried about being embarrassed.

I embarrass my wife horribly sometimes, but well,

she's learned to live with it. She does pretty

good with it. Shut up, blind man. You know what

that guy did? I love this. He just kicked it

up a gear and said he yelled the louder. Isn't

that neat? Listen when the Lord put something

on your heart to do just shut up the flesh shut

up you dumb flesh I am going to do it this time

shut up. Oh Yeah, get louder man. You watch this

can I pray for you? I Was gonna do it quietly,

but my embarrassment level needed to be dealt

with Because my desperation level is higher right

now. Do you know that he stopped Jesus in his

tracks? Jesus went right to him. I can see all

those comforters, all those that totally shut

up. Hey man, he's gone to Jesus. It's like Rudolph

the red -nosed reindeer, man. Suddenly he is

the main man. If you want to become the main

person, start shouting. get loose from your prison

house of embarrassment. Come on, let's kick that

old nasty pride and let's get rid of it. Let's

get rid of that stuff. Let's get involved with

Jesus. I'll tell you why I like the young people,

man. I just love kids. I mean, give me a bunch

of teenagers, man. Next week I'm going to the

National Youth Convention in Mexico. Can you

believe that? Sixty -nine years old. Why? Because

there's no age limit in Jesus. Man these kids

are motivated you get around them man. They haven't

been told by thousands of wonderful Christians

be calm Don't get so wild up. Don't give yourself.

What do you mean sell out for God? You've got

to always hold a reserve. I hate that language

They haven't learned that stuff don't implant

them with all of your tormenting fears Just go

on in the glory of God and see God do signs and

wonders and miracles You go on to heaven Don't

you like us older people? Oh, yeah, I love you

But I'll tell you they don't have the hang -ups

Fear to God comes on them. They just go for it

visions, dreams, directions, take the prophecies.

Many of you got so many prophecies over your

life, you're gonna have to live five more lifetimes

to fulfill them. You don't need any more prophecy,

you just need to get up and obey what God said

to you. I'm prophesying to the people, God, this

lady comes up right before I laid my hands, I

felt the word of God and the Lord said, tell

her ditto. She was so angry I said ditto Ditto,

what do you mean? I said well do what God has

told you several times He's telling me the same

thing ditto ditto ditto She got really upset

People don't want to hear so much what God wants

them to do they just want to hear it. They don't

want to do it And God is more interested right

now that you dig down and say here. I am God

here. I am God Send me Come on here. I am God

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