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02/11/26 Dr. Roberts Liardon

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  1. (MUSIC)

  2. GOOD EVENING, LORD OF HOSTS CHURCH. ARE WE

  3. READY TO WORSHIP THE LORD TONIGHT? WE GOT THE WEDNESDAY

  4. NIGHT FAITHFUL, AND IF YOU'RE ONLINE, WE LOVE YOU

  5. JOINING US AS WELL. IT'S BETTER BEING IN THE ROOM,

  6. THOUGH. COME ON, LET'S LIFT UP HIS NAME TONIGHT.

  7. (WORSHIP MUSIC)

  8. YEAH, COME ON

  9. (WORSHIP MUSIC)

  10. OH, OH, OH, OH OUR PRAISE GOES UP, HEAVEN COMES DOWN OUR

  11. PRAISE GOES UP, HEAVEN COMES DOWN OUR PRAISE GOES UP,

  12. HEAVEN COMES DOWN OUR PRAISE GOES UP, HEAVEN COMES DOWN

  13. OUR PRAISE GOES UP, HEAVEN COMES DOWN

  14. (WORSHIP MUSIC)

  15. HEAVEN COMES DOWN. HEAVEN COMES DOWN

  16. HEAVEN'S COMING DOWN HEAVEN'S COMING DOWN

  17. (WORSHIP MUSIC)

  18. (PRAYING IN TONGUES)

  19. (WORSHIP MUSIC)

  20. COME ON, SAY HEAVEN'S COMING. WE SERVE THE LORD

  21. OF THE BREAKTHROUGH. WE SERVE THE LORD.

  22. (WORSHIP MUSIC)

  23. SEE THE KING, LIFTED UP, CLOTHED WITH STRENGTH AND

  24. POWER. SEE THE KING, LIFTED UP, LORD OF HEAVEN'S ARMY.

  25. SEE THE KING, LIFTED UP, ALL THE NATIONS BOWING.

  26. ADONAI. ADONAI. SEE THE LORD OF GLORY.

  27. (WORSHIP MUSIC)

  28. COME ON, LIFT UP YOUR PRAYER LANGUAGE RIGHT NOW.

  29. (WORSHIP MUSIC)

  30. WE ARE PROPHESYING TO THE ATMOSPHERE.

  31. WE'RE PROPHESYING TO THE ATMOSPHERE.

  32. (WORSHIP MUSIC)

  33. YOUR KINGDOM COME YOUR WILL BE DONE ON EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN

  34. (WORSHIP MUSIC)

  35. YOUR KINGDOM COME YOUR WILL BE DONE ON EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN

  36. (WORSHIP MUSIC)

  37. COME ON, OUR GOD IS MOVING IN THE EARTH.

  38. (WORSHIP MUSIC)

  39. KEEP PROPHESYING. THOSE OF YOU THAT ARE WATCHING AROUND THE

  40. WORLD, I WANT YOU TO BEGIN TO DECLARE THAT IN YOUR HOMES. COME

  41. ON, OVER YOUR LIFE. YOUR KINGDOM COME, GOD. YOUR WILL BE DONE ON

  42. EARTH. ON EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN AS IT IS IN HEAVEN, WE

  43. SUMMON YOU, THE ALMIGHTY GOD. YOUR KINGDOM COME, YOUR WILL BE

  44. DONE TO BRING DIVINE ALIGNMENTS AND SHIFTINGS THAT COME BY THE

  45. POWER OF YOUR HAND. THANK YOU, LORD, WE WORSHIP YOU AND

  46. HONOR YOU. I WANT YOU JUST TO BEGIN TO PROPHESY ON THE

  47. INSTRUMENTS NOW. COME ON, AS YOU DO, I WANT YOU TO LIFT UP YOUR

  48. VOICE AND BEGIN TO PRAY IN THE HOLY GHOST AS

  49. YOU RELEASE DIVINE MYSTERIES. COME ON.

  50. (SPEAKING IN TONGUES)

  51. FATHER, IN THE NAME OF YESHUA, WE DECLARE THAT THY KINGDOM HAS

  52. COME AND THY WILL HAS BEEN DONE. AND WE THANK YOU, GOD, FOR A

  53. DIVINE SHIFT THAT IS TAKING PLACE OVER OUR LIVES, A

  54. NEW SEASON. AND WE ARE BEING DIVINELY ALIGNED BY

  55. THE POWER OF YOUR HAND THAT IS NOT SO SHORT AT THIS

  56. TIME. COME ON, BEGIN TO PRAY IN THE SPIRIT.

  57. (SPEAKING IN TONGUES)

  58. (WORSHIP MUSIC)

  59. LISTEN, I JUST HEARD THE HOLY SPIRIT SAY SOMETHING TO ME. AND

  60. I NEED YOU THAT ARE AT HOME TO PRAY. PRAY RIGHT NOW. THE SPIRIT

  61. OF GOD SAYS, LISTEN, HE SAID, "I NEED MY PEOPLE TO PRAY NOW

  62. CONCERNING IRAN. FOR THE SPIRIT OF GOD WILL SPEAK NOW, BUT THEN

  63. HE WANTS US TO PRAY IN WHAT HE REVEALS. FOR I HAVE DECLARED IN

  64. MY WORD, AND IT HAS BEEN SAID OF ME, THAT I SHALL ARISE WITH

  65. HEALING IN MY WINGS. AND SO I SPEAK AT THIS TIME THAT I AM

  66. ARISING. AND I AM ARISING TO BRING HEALING NOT ONLY OVER YOU,

  67. UNITED STATES, FOR IT SHALL BE MARKED AS YOU GATHER TO PRAY, AS

  68. YOU GATHER TO REDEDICATE AND EVEN YOUR LEADER WITH THE PEOPLE

  69. OF THIS LAND. IT SHALL RELEASE A HEALING THAT I SHALL RIDE IN.

  70. AND I SHALL USHER IN NOT JUST A NATURAL HEALING, BUT I WILL

  71. BEGIN AT THIS TIME TO BEGIN TO DEAL WITH THE DIVISIVE NATURE OF

  72. THOSE WHO ARE TRYING TO PUSH ME OUT OF YOUR COUNTRY AND IS

  73. TRYING TO HINDER THE THINGS THAT I HAVE DECLARED. BUT LISTEN TO

  74. ME NOW, FOR YOU WILL HEAR IN THE DAYS TO COME CONCERNING IRAN,

  75. THAT THE EAGLE HAS LANDED UPON IRAN. I SPEAK THIS AT THIS TIME,

  76. SAYS THE SPIRIT OF GOD, BECAUSE DO NOT THINK THAT IT IS THE

  77. MIGHT, THE MILITARY, THE MANEUVERS, AND THE STRATEGIES OF

  78. YOUR ARMORY. FOR YOU WILL SEE THAT THE EAGLE SHALL ARISE. I

  79. SPEAK OF THIS NATION, CONCERNING EVEN IRAN. DO NOT BE ALARMED, AS

  80. THINGS WILL FILL THE SKY, AND THERE WILL BE STRIKE, STRIKE,

  81. STRIKE, AND THERE WILL BE, LISTEN TO ME NOW, SAYS THE LORD,

  82. I NEED YOU TO PRAY. FOR THE EAGLE SHALL LAND, AND I SHALL

  83. RIDE UPON THE EXPRESSION OF THIS NATION CONCERNING IRAN. AND I

  84. WILL PLACE MY FEET, BUT I WILL USE THE EAGLE TO DIG ITS CLAW

  85. AND REMOVE THE ANCIENT REGIME THAT HAS BEEN IN IRAN. WHY IS

  86. THIS AS THE SPIRIT OF GOD? BECAUSE I HAVE COME AT THIS TIME

  87. TO LISTEN TO THE CRY OF THE OPPRESSED, THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN

  88. PERSECUTED, MY PEOPLE. AND I HAVE COME NOW, SAYS THE LORD, TO

  89. RESPOND. THE EAGLE SHALL LAND AND HIS CLAWS, THE CLAWS OF THIS

  90. NATION, SHALL LOOSE YOU, IRAN, FROM THE LION AND HIS SWORD OF

  91. IRAN, SAYS THE GOD. COME ON, LIFT UP YOUR VOICE AND BEGIN TO

  92. PRAY NOW. PRAY FOR IRAN. YOU ARE GOING TO HEAR IT IN THE NEXT

  93. COMING. I'M SERIOUS. SOMETHING, A MANEUVER IS BEING PLANNED. A

  94. RESPONSE IS BEING PLANNED AND IT NEEDS TO BE CARRIED OUT FOR THE

  95. SAKE OF THE PEOPLE. COME ON. PRAISE.

  96. (PRAYING IN TONGUES)

  97. WE PRAY, WE PRAY, WE PRAY FOR IRAN. WE PRAY FOR THE OPERATION

  98. AND THE MANEUVERING OF YOUR SPIRIT OVER THIS LAND TO LIFT

  99. THE TYRANNY OFF OF IRAN AND TO BRING FREEDOM, LIBERTY, AND A

  100. RESTRAINT AGAINST BARBARIC ACTS AGAINST THE INNOCENT.

  101. (SPEAKING IN TONGUES)

  102. COME ON, COME ON, COME ON, COME ON. DEEP, DEEP, DEEP, DEEP,

  103. DEEP. LET ME HEAR THE SOUND OF YOUR INTERCESSION.

  104. (PRAYING IN TONGUES)

  105. WE SPEAK FREEDOM, A LIFTING, A LIFTING OF

  106. THE TYRANNY, THE OPPRESSION.

  107. (PRAYING IN TONGUES)

  108. "IRAN, I SEND THE WIND UNTO YOU, IRAN. BE FREE."

  109. (PRAYING IN TONGUES)

  110. COME ON ON THE DRUMS. COME ON, HIT IT, HIT IT, HIT IT, HIT IT,

  111. HIT IT. COME ON ON THE BASS. COME ON, THE BANDS OF WICKEDNESS

  112. ARE BEING BROKEN. THE SUPPRESSION IS BEING LIFTED AS

  113. THE EAGLE SHALL LAND. AND THE CLAWS OF THE LAND OF THE EAGLE

  114. SHALL LIFT THE TYRANNY OFF OF YOU, IRAN.

  115. (WORSHIP MUSIC)

  116. (PRAYING IN TONGUES)

  117. THANK YOU GOD. I WANT YOU, SHH, TO COUNT TO 3 . I WANT YOU TO

  118. SHOUT THE NAME OF YESHUA. BE STILL. 1, 2 , 3 . YESHUA! OVER

  119. IRAN, OVER THE PEOPLE OF YESHUA! BE FREE! BE FREE! COME ON,

  120. SHOUT! HALLELUJAH! I WANT YOU TO SAY, "LORD, WE COME INTO

  121. AGREEMENT, NOT OF OUR MIGHT, NOT OF OUR POWER, BUT BY YOUR

  122. SPIRIT, RIGHT INTO IRAN, AND LIFT THE TYRANNY OFF OF THE

  123. PEOPLE, OFF OF THE NATION, AND RESET IRAN TO A PLACE OF

  124. FREEDOM, AND THE CHRIST SHALL ARISE IN THE MIDDLE OF IRAN, AND

  125. THE PEOPLE SHALL SAY, YESHUA, YESHUA, YESHUA IS LORD. COME ON,

  126. GIVE HIM ONE MORE SHOUT OF PRAISE. HALLELUJAH! AMEN. DON'T

  127. YOU LIKE WHEN GOD GIVES YOU AN ASSIGNMENT AND THEN THE BEAUTY

  128. OF IT IS YOU GET TO WATCH IT HAPPEN? AND WHEN IT DOES, LOOK

  129. TO NO MAN. YOU HONOR GOD, AMEN. WELL, WHY DON'T YOU DO THIS? WHY

  130. DON'T YOU GREET SOMEBODY AROUND YOU AND SAY THIS, I BET I KNOW,

  131. I BET I KNOW WHEN ROBERT SLIARDON'S BIRTHDAY IS. ALL

  132. RIGHT, SEE IF YOU CAN GUESS. IT'S NOT HARD. SEE IF YOU CAN

  133. GUESS. ALL RIGHT, SEE ONLINE, WRITE ONLINE IF YOU

  134. KNOW ONLINE WHEN PASTOR ROBERT SLIARDON'S BIRTHDAY

  135. IS. WRITE IT ONLINE AND GREET ONE ANOTHER.

  136. (MUSIC)

  137. AMEN. WOO! WOW, THAT WAS LIKE A FIRE HOSE. I LIKE THAT. I DON'T

  138. KNOW. YOU KNOW, ROBERT SLIARDON, YOU IMPARTED THAT KIND OF CRAZY

  139. PRAYING IN US MANY YEARS AGO. SO, AND WE'VE NEVER STOPPED. I

  140. MEAN, 40 YEARS LATER, HERE WE GO. SO, WELL, ANYWAY, WE'RE

  141. VERY, VERY EXCITED AND WE WANNA GET ROBERT'S UP VERY SOON, BUT

  142. WE'RE GONNA RECEIVE OUR REGULAR WEDNESDAY NIGHT OFFERING AND SO

  143. YOU GUYS KNOW WHAT TO DO. I DON'T HAVE TO PREACH A WORD TO

  144. YOU, DO I? YOU KNOW WHAT TO, YOU KNOW WHAT, RIGHT? SO WHY DON'T

  145. WE PUT THE GIVING INFORMATION UP ON THE SCREEN. WE ARE GONNA

  146. RECEIVE AN OFFERING FOR BROTHER ROBERT LIARDON AT THE END OF THE

  147. SERVICE. SO ALL OF YOU THAT ARE JOINING ONLINE, REMEMBER THAT

  148. AND WE'LL BE ABLE TO SOW INTO HIS IMPACTFUL MINISTRY. AND I'M

  149. VERY EXCITED BECAUSE HE HAS SOME NEW MATERIAL OUT AND THOSE OF

  150. YOU THAT READ GOD'S GENERALS, HE HAS ADDED TO GOD'S GENERALS. SO

  151. THERE'S SOME INFO OUT THERE. BUT THERE'S THE GIVING INFORMATION,

  152. TEXT TO GIVE, MOBILE APP, WEBSITE, ENVELOPE, ALL THE

  153. DIFFERENT WAYS TO GIVE. THANK YOU FOR ALL OF YOU FOR BEING SO

  154. FAITHFUL TO SOW INTO KINGDOM PURPOSES. YOU KNOW, I'LL SAY

  155. THIS WHILE YOU'RE PREPARING IS I BELIEVE WITH ALL MY HEART THAT

  156. THE CHURCH NEEDS TO BE UNDERGIRDED, NOT JUST THIS

  157. CHURCH, BUT THE CHURCH GLOBALLY, NEEDS TO BE UNDERGIRDED AND

  158. VALUED LIKE NEVER BEFORE. AND ONE OF THE WAYS WE DO THAT IS

  159. THROUGH OUR GIVING. AND I FEEL LIKE IF CHURCHES WERE

  160. WELL-FUNDED, RIGHT, THE LIBERAL LUNATICS MIGHT NOT STAND A

  161. CHANCE. WE NEED TO STAND, PART OF THE WAY WE TAKE A STAND IS WE

  162. DO IT THROUGH OUR GIVING, ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU ATTEND A

  163. CHURCH THAT'S NOT AFRAID TO GET INTO THE FRAY. AND I JUST HAVE

  164. AN ANNOUNCEMENT. WE'RE NOT AFRAID AT LORD OF HOSTS TO JUMP

  165. IN AND MAKE OUR SEAT, NOT BE INVITED NECESSARILY, BUT MAKE A

  166. SEAT AT THE TABLE OF THE CULTURAL CONVERSATION. AND SO

  167. WHEN YOU SOW INTO THE MINISTRY, YOU ARE HELPING FURTHER KINGDOM

  168. ADVANCEMENT ALL OVER THE WORLD, AND WE ARE VALUING THE CHURCH.

  169. WE WERE JUST TALKING IN THE BACK ABOUT CHURCHES GOING AWAY FROM

  170. MIDWEEK SERVICES, SUNDAY NIGHT KIND OF WENT OUT, A LOT OF

  171. CHURCHES QUIT THAT, THAT'S KIND OF OUT OF FASHION. AND THEN

  172. BROTHER SLIARDON WAS TELLING ME IN THE BACK, THERE ARE CERTAIN

  173. DENOMINATIONS NOW THAT ARE GOING TO A TWICE A MONTH SUNDAY. LIKE

  174. THEY'RE NOT EVEN DOING SUNDAYS CONSISTENTLY. NOW THAT IS, HOW

  175. MANY OF YOU WOULD SAY THAT IS NOT VALUING THE KINGDOM OF GOD?

  176. AND SO WE NEED TO VALUE IT BY SOWING INTO IT, BEING DILIGENT

  177. TO ATTEND AS MUCH AS WE POSSIBLY CAN DO, AND JUST BE PART OF WHAT

  178. GOD'S DOING. SO THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE ON A MIDWEEK SERVICE,

  179. AND THANK YOU FOR ALL OF US THAT HAVE JOINED, ALL OF YOU, I

  180. SHOULD SAY, HAVE JOINED ONLINE. SO WHEN YOU HAVE YOUR GIVING

  181. READY, LET'S STAND UP, HOLD YOUR OFFERING, EVERYBODY STAND. TAKE

  182. YOUR PHONE, YOUR DEVICE, YOUR ENVELOPE, HOLD IT UP. YOU KNOW,

  183. COME ON, YOU KNOW HOW WE DO IT. WE HOLD IT UP LIKE A SWORD IN

  184. THE FACE OF THE DEVIL. WHAT'S OUR SCRIPTURE FOR THE YEAR?

  185. PROVERBS 11:8, YOU'RE COMING OUT OF TROUBLE, RIGHT? SO

    Proverbs 11:8

  186. THINK ABOUT THAT. WHEN YOU HOLD THAT UP, YOU ARE COMING OUT OF A

  187. PLACE. IF YOU'VE BEEN IN A PLACE OF HARDSHIP, YOU JUST REMEMBER,

  188. NO, YOU'RE COMING OUT OF IT. AND THE DEVIL'S GONNA GET WHAT'S DUE

  189. HIM, BUT YOU'RE GONNA COME OUT TO A PLACE OF DELIVERANCE. SO,

  190. FATHER, WE JUST THANK YOU FOR EVERY GIVER THAT'S IN THE ROOM

  191. TONIGHT AND THOSE THAT ARE JOINING ON THE INTERNET, WE

  192. THANK YOU. FATHER, THAT EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM IS GOING TO

  193. EXPERIENCE THE RESULTS OF THEIR GIVING. WE THANK YOU, FATHER.

  194. YOU SAID, THIS IS NOT OUR WORDS, BUT YOU SAID YOU WOULD OPEN THE

  195. WINDOWS OF HEAVEN AND THAT YOU WOULD REBUKE THE DEVOURER FOR

  196. OUR SAKE. FATHER, THAT'S A PRETTY POWERFUL SCRIPTURE, BUT

  197. WE BELIEVE IT, WE BELIEVE IT, WE HAVE FAITH IN IT. SO AS WE PUT

  198. OUR SEEDS UP IN THE AIR, WE PUT OUR TIES UP, WE HOLD THEM UP, WE

  199. THANK YOU. THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT'S COMING TO PASS IN OUR

  200. LIFE IN MULTIPLE WAYS, AND WE JUST WANNA TELL YOU FROM THE

  201. BOTTOM OF OUR HEARTS, THANK YOU FOR IT, FATHER, IN JESUS' MIGHTY

  202. NAME. COME ON, GIVE GOD A BIG SHOUT OF AMEN AS THE USHERS

  203. BEGIN TO SERVE YOU. AND LET'S WELCOME PASTOR HANK. AMEN, THANK

  204. YOU. SO PASTOR BRENDA MENTIONED THAT IT'S ROBERT'S, IT'S HIS

  205. FAULT THAT WE'RE LIKE THIS. SO ANYWAY, YOU CAN GO AHEAD AND BE

  206. SEATED AS THE USHERS SERVE YOU. HOW MANY OF YOU FIGURED OUT WHEN

  207. PASTOR ROBERT'S BIRTHDAY IS? IT'S SATURDAY, IT'S VALENTINE'S

  208. DAY. SO I HOPE HE REMEMBERED WHEN HIS BIRTHDAY IS. SO, BUT

  209. I'M SO EXCITED THAT YOU JOINED US TONIGHT. I'M GONNA INTRODUCE

  210. OUR GUEST. YOU KNOW, PEOPLE, PASTOR ROBERTS, DO YOU REMEMBER

  211. WHEN YOUR BIRTHDAY IS? IT IS SATURDAY, VALENTINE'S DAY. I

  212. MEAN, TALK ABOUT A KISS FROM GOD. I MEAN, COME ON, YOU KNOW,

  213. SO. ANYWAY, BUT HEY, THIS YEAR MY BIRTHDAY'S ON MOTHER'S DAY.

  214. SO THERE YOU GO. I'M GONNA HAVE TO TELL THAT TO MY MOM. I WAS

  215. HER GIFT. THERE YOU GO, OKAY. I'LL BE THE BIG 60.

  216. ROBERTS, HAVE YOU HIT 60? HE'LL BE 60 SATURDAY. ALL RIGHT, THERE

  217. YOU GO. BUT I WANNA JUST HONOR THIS MAN OF GOD. PEOPLE AROUND

  218. THE NATION AND THE WORLD HAVE OFTEN ASKED ME THROUGH THE

  219. YEARS, PASTOR HANK, WHERE DO YOU FEEL LIKE THE DEFINING MOMENT IN

  220. YOUR LIFE WAS IN THE AREA OF THE OFFICE THAT GOD HAS CALLED YOU

  221. TO, THE EXPRESSION, THE ANOINTING? AND I ALWAYS SAY IT

  222. WAS ROBERTS SLIARDON. AND SOMETHING HAPPENED TO US IN

  223. 1989. BRENDA AND I HAVE BEEN ALMOST MARRIED, AND THOSE OF YOU

  224. THAT ARE WATCHING, FOR 37 YEARS IN JULY. AND SO IT WAS RIGHT IN

  225. '89 THAT WE WENT TO A MEETING IN SIOUX CITY, IOWA. ROBERTS DIDN'T

  226. KNOW WHO WE WERE, CALLED US OUT, AND GOT INTO SOME VERY HEAVY

  227. TRAVAIL OF PRAYER. AND I STILL HAVE THE TAPE. AND HE PRAYED AND

  228. BEGAN TO BIRTH OVER PASTOR BRENDA AND I AND I WAS THERE TO

  229. GUIDE THE PROPHETIC MINISTRY MANTLE. HE SAID THERE'D BE

  230. CHANGES IN THE OPERATION OF THE ANOINTING, THE GRACE, THE WAY IT

  231. OPERATED. AND FOR A LONG TIME, I COULDN'T FIGURE IT OUT. IT TOOK

  232. ME A WHILE. SO, IT'S ONE THING TO PROCESS THAT, ROBERTS, BUT

  233. ANOTHER THING, I SHOULD HAVE CALLED YOU AND SAID, "NOW, HOW

  234. DO I WALK THIS OUT?" BUT ANYWAY, BUT THERE WAS ANOTHER TIME I

  235. WANNA SAY THIS. I REMEMBER ALEXANDRIA, MINNESOTA. WE WERE

  236. THERE AND THERE WAS A TORNADO. YOU REMEMBER THAT? THAT WAS

  237. CRAZY. AND THAT'S WHEN HE LAID HANDS ON ME. AND BOB, YOU WERE

  238. THERE. AND BOB AND I GO WAY BACK AND WE CAME BACK PRAYING IN

  239. TONGUES. WE HAD NEVER PRAYED IN TONGUES THAT WILD IN OUR WHOLE

  240. TIME. AND WE PRACTICED THE WHOLE WAY. WE HAD LIKE 4 STRONG WORDS,

  241. ROBERTS. IT WAS LIKE, YOU REMEMBER THAT? I DON'T REMEMBER

  242. WHAT IT WAS. I THINK WE TOOK A COUPLE OF YOUR WORDS AND THEN

  243. PRACTICED, YOU KNOW. AND THEN, BUT THEN THERE WAS ANOTHER THING

  244. AND I'LL MAKE IT QUICK. WE DROVE, HOW MANY HAVE BEEN TO

  245. TULSA? FROM OMAHA, IT'S 6 AND A HALF TO 7 HOURS. IF BRENDA'S

  246. DRIVING, IT'S LIKE, I DON'T KNOW, 2 DAYS. BUT I'M JUST

  247. TEASING, BUT ANYWAY. SO WE GOT CAUGHT IN A SNOWSTORM. PASTOR

  248. CHRISTY WAS WITH US. MATTHEW WAS ONE YEARS OF AGE AND WE WERE SO

  249. HUNGRY. AND WE WENT DOWN TO A CONFERENCE THAT HE WAS AT IN

  250. TULSA AND GOT CAUGHT IN A SNOWSTORM. WE JUST KEPT DRIVING

  251. WITH A ONE-YEAR-OLD. PASTOR CHRISTY, YOU REMEMBER WHERE

  252. SHE'S AT, WE PRAYED IN THOSE TONGUES THAT WE WERE TAUGHT ON

  253. HOW TO PRAY STRONG AND WE GOT THERE. THE NEXT DAY, ROBERTS

  254. CALLED BRENDA AND I OUT. AGAIN, HE DIDN'T REALLY KNOW US AND HE

  255. SAID, I DON'T KNOW IF YOU REMEMBER THIS, ROBERTS, YOU

  256. SAID, "THIS YOUNG COUPLE HERE, GOD SAYS, "YOUR MINISTRY, YOU'RE

  257. GONNA LINK ARMS "WITH THE GENERALS OF THE EARTH "AND

  258. YOU'RE GONNA RUN HAND IN HAND, ARM IN ARM "AS PART OF THE MOVE

  259. OF GOD IN THIS TIME." HE DIDN'T KNOW US, NOTHING WAS WORKING OUT

  260. AT THE TIME. BUT THEN HE CALLED FOR A PRAYER LINE. WE CAME UP AT

  261. THAT AND WE WERE HOLDING MATTHEW BECAUSE HE WAS ONE YEARS OLD.

  262. AND HE SAYS, "HERE, GIVE ME YOUR SON." AND HE TAKES MATTHEW AND

  263. HE GOES DOWN THE PRAYER LINE AND MATTHEW STARTED LAYING HANDS ON

  264. PEOPLE. IT WAS THE GREATEST THING. SO ROBERTS, THANK YOU FOR

  265. WHO YOU ARE. THANK YOU FOR OBEYING GOD IN OUR LIFE. AND

  266. IT'S WITH THAT I WANT YOU TO STAND AND HONOR AND WELCOME

  267. GOD'S SERVANT, ROBERTS SLIARDON, WHO I LOVE AND I HONOR AND I

  268. THANK GOD FOR YOU. WE ON? PRAISE THE LORD. AM

  269. I ON? ONE, 2 . CAN YOU HEAR ME? THERE, GOOD. HEY,

  270. HEY, I LIKED YOUR BUILDING. WHEN I WAS HERE THE

  271. LAST TIME, YOU WERE STILL POUNDING STUFF. SO

  272. CONGRATULATIONS ON AN AMAZING LOOKING BUILDING. SO GREAT. AND

  273. IT'S IN OMAHA. IN OMAHA. AMEN. YOU MAY BE SEATED. GO AHEAD AND

  274. BE SEATED IT'S GOOD TO BE BACK WITH YOU AND IT'S ALWAYS GREAT

  275. TO COME AND BE WITH YOUR PASTORS AND THE FAMILY AND I

  276. WATCH YOU GUYS ON MY PHONE A LOT AS I TRAVEL AROUND THE WORLD

  277. SO I DO KEEP UP A LITTLE BIT WITH YOU AND IT'S ALWAYS

  278. EXCITING TO BE HERE AND IT'S AN HONOR TO HEAR THOSE STORIES

  279. SO SOMETIMES YOU DO THINGS BY THE SPIRIT AND YOU HAVE NO IDEA

  280. THE FUTURE OUTCOME, YOU JUST STEP INTO THE PRESENT

  281. COMMAND AND YOU DO IT WITH YOUR FULL FORCE OF

  282. YOUR FAITH AND HEART AND YOU NEVER KNOW WHERE IT ENDS UP.

  283. AND SO I'M SO GLAD I WAS A PART OF THE EARLY HOURS OF THEIR

  284. LIFE AND THE MINISTRY AND HOPEFULLY WE'LL BE DOING A LOT

  285. MORE TOGETHER IN THE LATTER DAYS. I THINK WE'RE BOTH LEAVING

  286. THE 50S CLUB. I JUST GOT USED TO BEING 50 AND I'M BEING KICKED

  287. OUT. AND I'M NOT SURE WHAT TO DO WITH THE WORD 60. IT SEEMS LIKE

  288. A WORD THAT SHOULD NOT BE ATTACHING ITSELF TO ME IN ANY

  289. WAY. AND IT GOES, I'VE BEEN PREACHING OVER 40 YEARS. I

  290. PREACHED MY FIRST SERMON WHEN I WAS 12 YEARS OLD. AND I PLANNED

  291. A CAREER PREACHERS RETIRE, CALL ONES RE-ADMINISTRATE. WRITE THAT

  292. DOWN. SO YOU HAVE TO KNOW THAT. SO YOU THAT ARE YOUNG AND YOU

  293. THAT ARE CERTAIN AGES, CAREER PREACHERS, AND THEY DO EXIST,

  294. BUT THEY DO, THEY'VE CHOSEN AS A CAREER, AND THEY RETIRE. GOD

  295. BLESS THEM. BUT CALLED PEOPLE, THEY RE-ADMINISTRATE AND THEY GO

  296. ALL THE WAY TO THE END OF THEIR DAYS. WHEN THEIR DAYS ARE FULL,

  297. THEY TAKE OFF. AND YOU DON'T GET FULL DAYS BY RESTING FOR 20

  298. YEARS. YOU GET FULL DAYS BY WORKING THE WHOLE TIME YOU'RE

  299. HERE WITH A FEW HOURS OFF HERE AND THERE, AMEN? I'VE BEEN TO

  300. 130 COUNTRIES SO FAR. THAT'S OVER HALF THE WORLD I'VE

  301. PREACHED IN MYSELF. AND I JUST DECIDED I MIGHT AS WELL GO SEE

  302. THE REST OF IT AND GET ALL OF THEM DONE BEFORE I LEAVE. SO, AS

  303. I GO INTO MY 60S, I'M PLANNING FOR IT TO BE MY WILDEST AND

  304. FASTEST AND GREATEST DECADE I'VE EVER HAD AND GO TO A LOT OF NEW

  305. NATIONS. I FLEW 195,000 AIR MILES LAST YEAR. AND SO I DID

  306. ABOUT 10 FOREIGN COUNTRIES AND 16 STATES. YOU SAY, “DO YOU

  307. GET TIRED?” IF I THINK ABOUT IT I GET TIRED IF I JUST DO IT I’M

  308. OKAY. I DON’T KNOW HOW THAT WORKS BUT IT WORKS FOR ME. BUT

  309. WHEN I LOOK AT MY SCHEDULE TOO DEEPLY I’M LIKE “OH MY”. I JUST

  310. GLANCE AT IT, PRAISE THE LORD AND KEEP GOING, AMEN? OPEN YOUR

  311. BIBLES IF YOU HAVE THEM WE ARE GOING TO START IN JUST A MOMENT

  312. IN THE BOOK OF ACTS THE 3RD CHAPTER. A MESSAGE IVE BEEN

  313. CARRYING FOR JUST A LITTLE BIT OF TIME I WILL START WITH AND

  314. SEE WHERE WE END UP I'VE WRITTEN 101 BOOKS SO FAR. HAVE YOU READ

  315. ALL OF THEM YET? WELL, ONE DAY I'M GONNA MEET A GUY OR A LADY

  316. THAT'S READ ALL OF THEM. AND THIS IS MY 7TH VOLUME IN THE

  317. GOD'S GENERAL SERIES. THERE'S GONNA BE 12 VOLUMES WHEN I'M

  318. DONE. THIS ONE IS CALLED "MOVEMENTS OF THE SPIRIT." WE

  319. TALK ABOUT GORDON AND FREDA LINDSAY, THAT LED THE VOICE OF

  320. HEALING AND REVIVAL AND BUILT CHRIST FOR THE NATIONS. WE TALK

  321. ABOUT DEMAS SHEKARION, THE FULL GOSPEL BUSINESSMAN AND HIS WIFE,

  322. ROSE. YOU KNOW, HE IS DESCENDANT OF THOSE CRAZY KARDASHIANS. DO

  323. YOU ALL KNOW THAT? THEY HAVE PENTECOSTAL GOOD ROOTS AND THEY

  324. NEED TO RETAP INTO. BUT THEY ALL CAME FROM ARMENIA. GOD GAVE

  325. DEMAS' GRANDFATHER, I BELIEVE IT WAS, A PROPHETIC WORD BACK IN

  326. THE LATE 1800S. TO LEAVE ARMENIA, THERE WAS COMING A

  327. GREAT PROBLEM BEFORE THE GREAT GENOCIDE. AND THEY CAME TO

  328. CALIFORNIA. AND ONE DAY THEY WERE WALKING DOWN THE STREETS OF

  329. LA AND THEY HEARD PEOPLE PRAYING LIKE THEY DID IN ARMENIA. AND IT

  330. WAS AZUSA STREET. AND THEY WALKED INSIDE OF AZUSA STREET.

  331. HEY, WE DO THIS. AND THEY HAD THE HOLY SPIRIT LIKE THAT OVER

  332. IN ARMENIA. THEY CAME HERE. AND THAT'S HOW THE SHECHARIAN FAMILY

  333. CAME INTO THE FAITH OF THE STATES. AND WE TELL YOU HIS

  334. STORY. HE WAS A DAIRYMAN. HE HAD DAIRY COWS. HIM AND HIS WIFE

  335. WOULD GO OUT TO BUY COWS. I GUESS YOU GO AND LOOK AT A HERD

  336. OR SOMETHING. AND THEY'D PRAY IN TONGUES UNTIL A COW GLOWED AT

  337. THEM. AND THE COW THAT GLOWED IS THE ONE THEY BOUGHT. AND THEY

  338. BUILT THIS SHECHARIAN HERD THAT EVEN TODAY IN CALIFORNIA, THE

  339. SHECHARIAN COWS MAKE BETTER QUALITY AND BETTER QUANTITY OF

  340. MILK THAN ANY OTHER HERD IN CALIFORNIA TO THIS DAY. AND IT'S

  341. CALLED, "THEY PRAYED TO THE HOLY GHOST "AND LOOKED FOR GLOWING

  342. COWS." AND THAT'S HOW YOU GET THOSE KIND OF THINGS. SO ISN'T

  343. IT GREAT THAT WE HAVE ALL THESE GREAT STORIES? AND CALVIN

  344. KUHLMAN AND DEMAS SHEKARIAN LED REALLY THE CHARISMATIC RENEWAL,

  345. THE CHARISMATIC REVIVAL. AND HE WAS CALLED TO HELP BUSINESSMEN

  346. AND WOMEN FIND JESUS. HE WANTED TO RENT CHURCHES' FELLOWSHIP

  347. HALLS, BUT THE PASTORS WOULDN'T RENT IT TO HIM. SO HE'D GO INTO

  348. RESTAURANTS AND HOTEL BALLROOMS, AND IT GREW SO BIG THAT NO

  349. FELLOWSHIP HALL WAS BIG ENOUGH. HE'D HAVE SOMETIMES 3,000 OR

  350. 4,000 AT A LUNCHEON OR AT A DINNER AND HAVE REAL NICE FOOD

  351. IN A REAL NICE PLACE AND HAVE A SPEAKER THAT WAS A BUSINESSMAN

  352. OR WOMAN THAT HAD GOTTEN SAVED OR HEALED OR WHATEVER AND TELL

  353. THE STORY AND THEN GET TONS OF THEM SAVED AND HEALED THAT WAY.

  354. AND IT BECAME A GREAT MOVE OF THE CHARISMATICS. YOU'LL LEARN

  355. ABOUT HIM. WE TALK ABOUT MR. PENTECOST. YOU EVER HEARD OF

  356. DAVID DU PLESSIS? OH, DAVID DU PLESSIS, MR. PENTECOST. I'LL

  357. TELL YOU THIS AND I'LL PREACH LATER. HE'S A SOUTH AFRICAN AND

  358. HE HELPED RUN THIS, ARE YOU A SOUTH AFRICAN? ONE HOLY SOUTH

  359. AFRICAN OUT THERE, GOD BLESS YOU. ALL RIGHT, HE WAS A SOUTH

  360. AFRICAN AND IN THE EARLY 30S, HE WAS HELPING THE ASSEMBLIES OF

  361. GOD FORM IN SOUTH AFRICA AND WAS ONE OF THEIR LEADERS. AND A

  362. FAMOUS MAN NAMED WIGGLESWORTH CAME TO TOUR AFRICA AND PREACH

  363. IN SOUTH AFRICA. HE GOT UP EARLY ONE MORNING, WIGGLESWORTH DID.

  364. HE ALWAYS WAS, WHEN YOU SAW HIM, HE WAS ALWAYS HAIR COMBED AND

  365. FULLY DRESSED AND LOOKED GOOD. YOU NEVER SAW HIM, UGH, IT WAS

  366. PERFECT. THAT'S THE WAY HE CAME OUT OF EVERY ROOM OR EVERY

  367. HOTEL. THAT'S THE WAY HE WAS. HE GOT UP EARLY THAT MORNING AND

  368. WENT DOWNSTAIRS. HE WAS STAYING IN THE DUPLICITY HOME. AND HE

  369. SCARED MRS. DUPLICITY ALMOST TO DEATH BECAUSE SHE DIDN'T HEAR

  370. ANYBODY COMING AND HE HAD THAT BOOMING VOICE, "WHERE'S DAVID?"

  371. WELL, HE'S AT THE OFFICE. HE WENT EARLY TO GET ALL OF HIS

  372. WORK DONE. "TAKE ME TO HIM." WIGGLESWORTH, WHEN HE HAD A

  373. WORD, HE DIDN'T BELIEVE IN TALKING MUCH. HE JUST GAVE

  374. ORDERS. UNTIL HE WAS DONE, THEN HE WAS NICE. AND HE WALKED INTO

  375. THE BUILDING AND DAVID SAID, "I DIDN'T HEAR THE DOOR OPEN. I

  376. DIDN'T HEAR ANY OTHER DOORS. AND ALL OF A SUDDEN MY OFFICE DOOR

  377. FLEW OPEN AND THERE STOOD FULLY DRESSED WIGGLESWORTH SAYING,

  378. "GET UP, STAND UP." HE SAID, "I WAS SO FRIGHTENED. I STOOD UP

  379. AND WIGGLESWORTH PUSHED HIM AGAINST THE WALL AND ALMOST

  380. TOUCHED HIS NOSE, NOSE TO NOSE AND BEGAN TO PROPHESY ABOUT 3

  381. GREAT MOVES OF GOD THAT WERE COMING. AND HE SAID TO DAVID

  382. THAT THE HOLY GHOST IN ONE OF THOSE MOVES WAS GONNA GO INTO

  383. THE HISTORICAL CHURCHES, EVEN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH, AND THAT HE

  384. WOULD HAVE A MAJOR PART IN THE LORD'S WORK INSIDE THE CATHOLIC

  385. CHURCH. WELL, BACK THEN, THE PENTECOSTALS DIDN'T BELIEVE THAT

  386. THE HOLY GHOST WOULD GO TO ANY CATHOLIC CHURCH BECAUSE THEY

  387. WORSHIPED MARY AND IDOLS AND ALL THESE THINGS. BUT

  388. SOMETIMES YOU'RE GONNA REALIZE THE HOLY GHOST

  389. GOES WHERE YOUR TRADITION SAYS NOT TO GO.

  390. (CONGREGATION APPLAUDING)

  391. AND YOU HAVE TO DECIDE WHO YOU'RE GONNA OBEY, YOUR DEAD,

  392. DUMB TRADITION, OR THE GOD OF HEAVEN, IT'S UP TO YOU. AND SO

  393. IT TOOK ALMOST 30 YEARS FOR THAT PROPHECY TO COME TO PASS. THE

  394. POPE HAD SENT 2 MEN TO AMERICA TO INVESTIGATE THE CHARISMATIC

  395. RENEWALS, WE CALL IT, 'CAUSE THEY HEARD ABOUT IT, BUT DIDN'T

  396. KNOW IF IT WAS OF GOD OR NOT. HE SENT 2 OF HIS GUYS, AND THEY

  397. CAME BACK TO THE POPE AND SAID, "IT'S REAL, WE DON'T KNOW

  398. EVERYTHING ABOUT IT, "BUT FROM WHAT WE CAN TELL, IT'S A GOD

  399. THING." HE SAID, "WELL, GO BACK TO AMERICA "AND FIND SOMEBODY

  400. THAT CAN TELL US ABOUT IT "AND TEACH US ALL IT." WELL, DAVID

  401. WENT TO THIS TERRIBLE CONVENTION CALLED THE WORLD COUNCIL OF

  402. CHURCHES. I THINK ONLY DEVILS GO THERE. NOT SURE, BUT POSSIBLY.

  403. IT'S JUST ONE OF THOSE PLACES THAT YOU WON'T FIND MUCH OF THE

  404. WORD, IT'S MORE INTELLECT AND ALL THAT KIND OF STUFF. AND

  405. DAVID WENT THERE FOR SOME REASON. HE SAID, "I DIDN'T FIT.

  406. "I DIDN'T KNOW WHY I WAS THERE. "AND I WAS UNCOMFORTABLE KIND

  407. OF, YOU KNOW. "TWO ROWS BEHIND HIM SAT THOSE 2 MEN FROM THE

  408. VATICAN "AND THEY MET AND THEY SAID, "'YOU'RE THE MAN WE'VE

  409. BEEN LOOKING FOR. "'COME WITH US.' "THEY TOOK HIM BACK TO THE

  410. VATICAN "AND THE CATHOLIC CHARISMATIC RENEWAL EXPLODED

  411. "AND THE PROPHECY BEGAN TO COME TO PASS." SO YOU'LL ENJOY THAT,

  412. BUT YEAH, YOU SHOULD CLAP ON THAT. THAT'S A GOOD STORY. SEE,

  413. WELL, I DON'T LIKE CATHOLICS, GOD DOES. WELL, CATHOLICS DO

  414. STRANGE THINGS, SO DON'T YOU. GOD LIKES YOU. GOD OVERLOOKS

  415. SOME OF THE STUFF THAT WE DO WHILE WE'RE LEARNING AND GROWING

  416. AND DOING THINGS, AND SO CAN'T YOU WITH OUR BROTHERS AND

  417. SISTERS, AND NOT BE SO MEAN. PLEASE CHOOSE TO BE KIND.

  418. KINDNESS IS A GOD CHARACTER, MEANNESS IS A

  419. DEMON CHARACTER. WRITE THAT DOWN. THAT’S SO DEEP,

  420. YOU GOTTA WRITE THAT DOWN. ALRIGHT, AND THEN WE TALK ABOUT

  421. LONNIE FRISBEE, THE JESUS PEOPLE REVIVALIST. 1960, THIS COUNTRY

  422. WAS GOING THROUGH, HERE I AM GOING TO GIVE THIS TO YOU, CAN

  423. YOU CATCH? OH. FLYING PAPER. AND UM, 1960 AMERICA WAS LIBERATING

  424. SEX AND DRUGS AND ALL KINDS OF THINGS AND GOD NEEDED SOMEONE

  425. TO TALK TO AMERICA AND GET THE YOUNG PEOPLES ATTENTION. AND OF

  426. ALL THE PEOPLE IN AMERICA, ALL OF THEM, THINK OF ALL THE PEOPLE

  427. IN AMERICA, HE CHOSE A HIPPIE. A HIPPIE. AND HE GOT SAVED, THEY

  428. MADE A MOVIE CALLED THE JESUS REVOLUTION MOVIE, IT'S A GOOD

  429. MOVIE. BUT THEY DIDN'T TELL YOU EVERYTHING BECAUSE SOME THINGS

  430. THEY CAN'T PUT IN MOVIES LIKE THIS STORY. LONNIE FRISBEE AND 2

  431. FRIENDS WENT AND BOUGHT SOME LSD. WELCOME TO CALIFORNIA. NOW

  432. IT'S CRACK OR METH OR WHATEVER THEY CALL IT. AND WENT UP ON A

  433. SMALL HILL SOMEWHERE IN CALIFORNIA, TOOK ALL THEIR

  434. CLOTHES OFF AND TOOK THE LSD AND DANCED NAKED AND TRIPPED IN THE

  435. SUN THAT AFTERNOON. AND JESUS CAME WALKING ACROSS THE SKY TO

  436. LONNIE FRISBEE WHEN HE'S TRIPPING AND BUTT NAKED. I KNOW,

  437. I KNOW, IT SOUNDS CRAZY. THAT'S WHY HE DIDN'T PICK YOU. HE

  438. DIDN'T PICK ME EITHER. 'CAUSE I DON'T DANCE NAKED ON A

  439. CALIFORNIA HILL. I DON'T DO LSD AND TAKE 2 FRIENDS WITH ME

  440. AND... BUT OUT OF ALL THE PEOPLE, HE CAME WALKING ACROSS

  441. THE SKY TO THIS NAKED HIPPIE NAMED LONNIE, AND HE ACCEPTS THE

  442. LORD, AND THE LORD CALLS HIM IN THE MIDDLE. I'M PARAPHRASING,

  443. BUT I HAVE SOMETHING FOR YOU TO DO. AND HE GOES, "OKAY." AND HE

  444. COMES BACK IN HIS RIGHT MIND THAT FAST. AND THE FIRST THING

  445. HE DID WAS HE PUT HIS CLOTHES ON. IT'S REAL GOOD THAT YOU PUT

  446. YOUR CLOTHES BACK ON. I'M GONNA WRITE A BOOK ONE DAY, "THE NAKED

  447. PEOPLE OF THE BIBLE." 'CAUSE THERE'S A LOT OF NAKED PEOPLE IN

  448. THE BIBLE, AND YOU'VE GOTTA FIND OUT WHY THEY GOT NAKED AND WHY

  449. THEY GOT DRESSED. THERE'S A STORY THERE. AND HE SAT DOWN

  450. THERE WHILE HIS OTHER 2 FRIENDS WERE STILL TRIPPING ON THEIR

  451. LSD. THEY ALL CAME BACK DOWN AND PUT THEIR CLOTHES BACK ON AND

  452. THEY SAT DOWN AND LONNIE SAYS, "THIS JESUS DUDE APPEARED TO ME

  453. "AND HE WANTS ME TO HELP HIM. "AND I'M GONNA HELP HIM." AND

  454. THEY SAID, "WELL, DO YOU THINK HE NEEDS OUR HELP TOO?" HE GOES,

  455. "IF HE'S ASKING FOR MY HELP, "HE NEEDS A LOT OF HELP." SO HIS 2

  456. FRIENDS KIND OF JUMPED IN TO HELP JESUS TOO. AND THEY SAT

  457. THERE AND TALKED FOR A LITTLE BIT. THEY SAID, "YOU KNOW,

  458. CHRISTIANS DO STUFF WITH WATER. "WHAT DO THEY DO WITH WATER?"

  459. NOW, THEY COULDN'T FIGURE OUT BAPTISMS. THEY DROVE DOWN TO THE

  460. OCEAN. THEY GOT IN THE OCEAN AND STANDING THERE IN THE WAVES, YOU

  461. KNOW, THEY COULDN'T FIGURE OUT WHAT THEY'RE DOING IN THE WATER.

  462. SO ONE OF THE GUYS SAID, "WELL, SINCE THE JESUS DUDE TALKED TO

  463. YOU, WHEN THE NEXT WAVE COMES IN, SHOVE ME IN IT.

  464. AND AFTER THAT, SHOVE HIM IN IT." AND SO LONNIE

  465. STARTED SHOVING HIS 2 FRIENDS IN THE WAVES AND THE

  466. HIPPIES ON THE BEACH STARTED WATCHING THIS.

  467. (CONGREGATION LAUGHING)

  468. AND THEY BEGIN TO SAY, "WHAT ARE YOU DOING?" AND HE TURNS

  469. AROUND AND PREACHES THE FIRST SERMON OF THE JESUS PEOPLE

  470. REVIVAL. AND THAT'S HOW THAT GREAT REVIVAL STARTED.

  471. CAN YOU SAY AMEN? HALLELUJAH. YOU GUYS CLAPPING

  472. LIKE NEBRASKA PEOPLE, GOTTA CLAP LIKE HEAVEN PEOPLE.

  473. (CONGREGATION APPLAUDING)

  474. I KNOW IT'S WEDNESDAY NIGHT, BUT ACT LIKE IT'S SUNDAY, OKAY? ALL

  475. RIGHT, I GOT OTHER BOOKS BACK THERE, AND YOU GO BACK THERE AND

  476. GET AHOLD OF, OH, WE'VE GOT OUR CONFERENCE COMING UP. WE'VE GOT

  477. YOUR PASTOR COMING TO OUR CONFERENCE IN SEPTEMBER. WE CALL

  478. IT THE NOW CONFERENCE, WHAT GOD IS SAYING AND DOING NOW. JOSEPH

  479. ZEE, HANK KUNNEMAN, FLASHPOINT'S COMING, AND MY GOOD FRIEND COLIN

  480. DYE FROM LONDON THAT BUILT A 25,000 MEMBER APOSTOLIC CHURCH

  481. IN THE 80S AND 90S BEFORE ANY OF THIS WAS EVEN TALKED ABOUT WOULD

  482. BE WITH US. SO WE'D LOVE TO HAVE YOU ABOUT THAT. IN ACTS CHAPTER

    Acts 3:19

  483. 3 , VERSE 19, LET ME TALK FAST. THE LATTER PART OF THE VERSE

  484. SAYS THIS. WHEN TIMES OF REFRESHING SHALL COME FROM THE

  485. PRESENCE OF THE LORD. NOTICE THAT THE WORDS TIMES IS PLURAL,

  486. MORE THAN ONE. NOTICE THAT IT COMES FROM HEAVEN. IT DOESN'T

  487. COME FROM HEADQUARTERS OF A DENOMINATION, OR A BOARD, OR THE

  488. POPE. GOD DECIDES WHO, WHAT, WHEN, AND HOW HIS TIMES COME

  489. INTO THE EARTH. THERE ARE 3 WAYS TO TALK ABOUT THE TIMES OF GOD.

  490. I CALL THE 3 R'S. REFRESHING, REVIVAL, AND REFORMATION. WRITE

  491. THOSE WORDS DOWN. REFRESHING, REVIVAL, AND REFORMATION.

  492. REFRESHING IS MORE A PERSONAL HAPPENING. YOU'VE SERVED JESUS

  493. FOR A WHILE. I'VE SERVED THE LORD. I JOKINGLY SAY, I WAS BORN

  494. BORN AGAIN. I WAS BORN IN A CHRISTIAN FAMILY. SO I DON'T

  495. REMEMBER A DAY WITHOUT JESUS, PRAYER, BIBLE, CHURCH, GOD. I

  496. JUST GREW UP LIKE THAT. NOW I KNOW THE DAY I GOT SAVED AND

  497. ACCEPTED CHRIST, BUT I NEVER KNEW THAT HE DIDN'T EXIST. HE

  498. ALWAYS EXISTED FOR ME. AND WHEN YOU WORK FOR CHRIST AND WORK IN

  499. THE CHURCH, SOMETIMES YOU DON'T BACKSLIDE AND YOU JUST GET

  500. TIRED. LIKE, I LOVE YOU, LORD, BUT I DON'T WANNA GO TO CHURCH

  501. RIGHT NOW. I LOVE PASTOR HANK AND BRENDA, BUT I DON'T WANNA BE

  502. THEIR CHILDREN'S WORKER ANYMORE. I WANNA STAY HOME. I DON'T WANNA

  503. PRAY. I JUST WANNA MOAN. NOW, IF YOU'VE SERVED THE LORD ANY

  504. LENGTH OF TIME, YOU FACE THAT. AND YOU'RE NOT IN SIN, YOU JUST

  505. NEED GOD TO REFRESH YOU. MAKE EVERYTHING NEW AGAIN LIKE YOU

  506. JUST STARTED AGAIN. AND THAT'S WHAT A REFRESHING IS. SO IF

  507. YOU'RE LIKE THAT TONIGHT, DON'T GET MAD AT YOURSELF OR BEAT

  508. YOURSELF UP, JUST ASK THE LORD, I LOVE YOU, BUT I NEED YOU TO

  509. HELP ME. HELP MY FAMILY. MAKE EVERYTHING NEW FOR ME AGAIN. THE

  510. EXCITEMENT FOR THE WORD, EXCITEMENT FOR THE CHURCH. AND

  511. HE'LL DO THAT FOR YOU. SOME OF YOU ARE LIKE “WELL I JUST NEED A

  512. BREAK” NO YOU NEED THE HOLY GHOST TO COME BAPTIZE YOU

  513. AGAIN. BLOW ON YOU AND RAIN ON YOU AND DO ALL THOSE GOOD

  514. THINGS TO YOU AND MAKE EVERYTHING NEW. AMEN. NOW

  515. REVIVAL IS SOMETHING THAT WE ARE ALL FAMILIAR WITH. WE HAVE

  516. REVIVAL CULTURE. WE HAVE REVIVAL PRAYER MEETINGS, REVIVAL

  517. BOOKS, REVIVAL CONFERENCES, REVIVAL, REVIVAL, REVIVAL.

  518. REVIVAL IS WHEN GOD COMES TO HIS PEOPLE AND REVIVES THEM TO THEIR

  519. PURPOSES OR TO TRUTHS THAT ARE FORGOTTEN OR OUT OF ORDER.

  520. REVIVAL. AMERICA IS A LAND OF REVIVALS. SHE HAS NEVER HAD THE

  521. THIRD R, REFORMATION, UNTIL NOW. WE ARE IN AMERICA'S FIRST GREAT

  522. REFORMATION. AND THAT IS WHAT WE ARE FACING RIGHT NOW. THAT IS

  523. WHY SOME OF YOU HERE, SOME OF YOU THAT ARE WATCHING, YOU'RE

  524. USED TO THE REFRESHING, YOU'RE USED TO THE REVIVAL, BUT THIS

  525. OTHER THING IS, YOU KNOW IT'S THE LORD, BUT IT DOESN'T QUITE

  526. FEEL RIGHT BECAUSE YOU'RE NOT FAMILIAR BECAUSE ITS A

  527. REFORMATION MANTEL A REFORMATION SPIRIT THAT HAS COME TO OUR

  528. COUNTRY. NOW I’VE READ, MY LIBRARIAN TELLS ME, 14,000

  529. BOOKS. SO THAT’S WHY I WEAR GLASSES, MY EYES ARE STILL

  530. TIRED. NOW NOT EVERY BOOK WAS BIG, SOME OF THEM WERE LITTLE SO

  531. DON’T THINK THEY WERE ALL LIKE THIS BIG, BUT THERE WERE SOME.

  532. THOSE WERE WRITTEN BY PEOPLE SO SMART THEY WERE STUPID.

  533. (CONGREGATION LAUGHING)

  534. DOES THAT MAKE SENSE? THEY ARE SO SMART THEY CAN’T REALLY DO

  535. NOTHIN BUT TRY TO TELL YOU HOW SMART THEY ARE. A SMART MAN

  536. KNOWN HE IS AND SIMPLIFIES HIS MESSAGE SO EVERYONE CAN GET IT.

  537. NOT TRYING TO MAKE SURE “IM SMART”. NO YOU’RE NOT. IF YOU’RE

  538. THAT SMART YOU WOULD SIMPLIFY SO THE LITTLE UNEDUCATED PERSON CAN

  539. GET AS WELL AS THE GREAT EDUCATED PERSON. THAT’S A SMART

  540. PERSON. SO THEY BRING ME INTO THESE SEMINARIES NOW. I'M AN

  541. AUTHORITY. ALL THESE THINGS THEY SAY, LIKE IF YOU KNEW WHERE I

  542. CAME FROM, YOU WOULDN'T BE SAYING THAT. I CAME FROM TULSA,

  543. FROM TULSA, NOT DALLAS, JUST TULSA. AND I WAS RAISED BY

  544. SOUTHERN NORTH CAROLINA COUNTRY PREACHERS. SO I LIKE ALL OF

  545. THAT, BUT NOW I'M AN AUTHORITY BECAUSE I READ BOOKS AND TALK TO

  546. OLD PEOPLE. THAT'S REALLY WHAT IT BOILS DOWN TO. I JUST TALK TO

  547. THE RIGHT PEOPLE AND LEARN STUFF THAT YOU NEED TO LEARN. WHEN

  548. YOU'RE YOUNG, ENJOY PLAYING GOLF WITH YOUR YOUNG BUDDIES.

  549. IF YOU WANT SMARTS, FIND OLD PEOPLE AND SHUT UP AND

  550. LET THEM TALK. SEE, NOTICE, NOT ONE AMEN ON THAT.

  551. (CONGREGATION LAUGHING)

  552. I'LL SAY THAT AGAIN. FIND OLD PEOPLE THAT KNOW MORE ABOUT GOD

  553. AND LIFE THAN YOU AND HANG OUT WITH THEM. AMEN. THANK YOU. AND

  554. IF YOU WANNA GO WATCH A BASKETBALL GAME OR DO SOME,

  555. THAT'S FINE. YOU CAN DO THAT WITH YOUR FRIENDS, BUT DON'T

  556. BELIEVE THEM, JUST ENJOY THEM. YOUNG PEOPLE LEARN THROUGH

  557. SUFFERING. OLD PEOPLE HAVE ALREADY GONE THROUGH THAT. AND

  558. IF YOU LISTEN TO THEM, YOU DON'T HAVE TO SUFFER SO MUCH.

  559. SUFFERING NORMALLY IS ALL YOUR STUPID FAULT.

  560. (CONGREGATION LAUGHING)

  561. MOST OF IT IS. AND WHEN I'D READ THESE REVIVAL BOOKS AND TALK TO

  562. THESE OLD PEOPLE, I NOTICED IN THE WRITINGS OF SOME OF THE

  563. HISTORICAL WRITERS AND THE THEOLOGICAL WRITERS THAT THERE'S

  564. THIS THING CALLED REFORMATION. AND I THOUGHT, WOULDN'T IT BE

  565. GREAT? SO I READ ABOUT LUTHER AND CALVIN AND ALL THE REFORMERS

  566. AND THE TIME PERIOD AND WHAT IT WAS LIKE. I THOUGHT, WOW,

  567. WOULDN'T THAT BE GREAT TO BE IN A REFORMATION? 'CAUSE

  568. REFORMATION IS MORE FUN THAN REVIVAL. THAT NEVER GOES OVER IN

  569. AMERICA. OH, REALLY? BECAUSE YOU'VE NEVER BEEN TOLD ABOUT IT

  570. AND HOW IT WORKS AND HOW IT FEELS. THAT'S WHY A STATEMENT

  571. LIKE THAT KIND OF MAKE YOU, REALLY? YES, REALLY. YES,

  572. REALLY. REFORMATION IS STRONGER THAN REVIVAL. REFORMATION

  573. LASTS LONGER THAN REVIVAL, AND IT HAS A DIFFERENT KIND

  574. OF WARFARE THAN REVIVAL. AND WHEN IT'S DONE, IT

  575. STAYS FUNCTIONING LONGER IN CULTURE THAN REVIVAL DOES.

  576. (CONGREGATION APPLAUDING)

  577. ALL RIGHT, SO THERE'S A DIFFERENCE. WHAT IS REFORMATION?

  578. REFORMATION IS WHEN GOD FINDS A LIVING PEOPLE THAT HE HOOKS UP

  579. WITH, OR THEY HOOK UP WITH HIM, TO GO INTO SOCIETY, TO BRING

  580. BACK SOCIETY BACK TO ITS ORIGINAL INTENT FOR ALL THE

  581. DIFFERENT POSTURES AND THINGS HAPPENING IN SOCIETY AND

  582. CULTURE. IN THIS CHURCH, 7 MOUNTAINS WOULD NOT BE AN

  583. UNUSUAL STATEMENT TO YOU, BUT FOR MOST CHURCHES, IT'S STILL A

  584. CONTROVERSIAL STATEMENT BECAUSE THEY'RE PASTORED BY DEAD, DIPPY

  585. PEOPLE, AND THEIR HISTORIANS SHOULD BE FIRED BECAUSE THEY

  586. DON'T TELL THE STORY THAT MOVES THE HEART FOR IT TO HAPPEN AGAIN

  587. TODAY. YOU LEARN FROM THE PAST, YOU LIVE IN THE PRESENT, AND YOU

  588. REACH FOR TOMORROW THAT'S ALWAYS BIGGER AND BETTER THAN THE PAST

  589. AND THE PRESENT. GOD FINDS A LIVING PERSON, A LIVING CHURCH,

  590. AND GOES INTO SOCIETY TO BRING THINGS BACK TO HIS ORIGINAL

  591. INTENT. ALL RIGHT? LET'S JUST TAKE ONE EXAMPLE. FAMILY IS ONE

  592. OF OUR GREAT PILLARS THAT HAS BEEN UNDER ATTACK FOR A LONG

  593. TIME IN THIS NATION. THE ORIGINAL FAMILY, THE ORIGINAL

  594. INTENT AND CONSTRUCTION IS THIS. A MASCULINE MAN MARRIES A

  595. FEMININE WOMAN AND BRINGS BABIES INTO IT THAT LOOK LIKE THEM AND

  596. RAISE THEM TO BE A SUCCESS WITH GOD AND MAN AND SOCIETY. AND TO

  597. DO IT AT A HOME WHERE THEY ALL LIVE TOGETHER, FIGHT TOGETHER,

  598. JOY TOGETHER, AND THEY'RE A FAMILY. NOW, I LIVED IN PASADENA

  599. FOR 20 YEARS IN CALIFORNIA. IT'S WORSE NOW THAN IT WAS BACK THEN.

  600. BUT EVERYTHING THAT IS TRADITIONAL IS CALLED BAD ON THE

  601. WEST COAST. AND EVERYTHING GOOFY AND DEMONIC AND STUPID IS CALLED

  602. NORMAL. GOD WANTS TO INVADE EVERY PART OF OUR SOCIETY AND

  603. SAY, "HERE IS HOW MAN SHOULD BE IN LIFE AND SOCIETY." THAT'S

  604. REFORMATION, OKAY? THAT'S WHAT REFORMATION IS. NOW,

  605. REFORMATION, USUALLY 10, 15 YEAR, HISTORICALLY SPEAKING, A

  606. RUN. A REVIVAL, 5 TO 7 YEARS, AND THESE ARE JUST NUMBERS THAT

  607. I PULL FROM MY STUDIES, AND THEY VARY, BUT THAT'LL GIVE YOU A

  608. FEEL. A REVIVAL MAINLY AFFECTS THE CHURCH AND THE HEART OF THE

  609. PEOPLE IN IT WITH A LITTLE BIT OF A CULTURAL BLEED INTO

  610. SOCIETY. AS SOON AS REVIVAL IS OVER, IT STARTS TO WANE. THE

  611. FIRST THING TO DISAPPEAR IS THE SOCIETAL INFLUENCE. THEN IT

  612. LEAVES THE ATMOSPHERE OF THE CHURCH, AND IF THE PERSON WILL

  613. KEEP THEMSELVES ALIVE SPIRITUALLY, IT'LL REMAIN IN

  614. THEM. TULSA TODAY, WHERE I WAS BORN, SO I CAN TALK ABOUT 'EM.

  615. THE REVIVAL I GREW UP IN IS NOT IN THE ATMOSPHERE OF TULSA NOW.

  616. IT'S NOT REALLY IN MOST OF THE CHURCHES. IT IS FOUND IN THE

  617. HEART OF SOME OF THE PEOPLE THAT YOU CAN MEET AND TALK TO AND TAP

  618. INTO IT, AND THEY COME ALIVE WITH IT. NOW I'M NOT SAYING THAT

  619. TO BE MEAN, I'M JUST SAYING THAT'S A FACT. NOW, REVIVALS ARE

  620. FUN. I'M TOLD THAT I'M THE TOP REVIVAL HISTORIAN, SO I'M GONNA

  621. MAKE AN ARROGANT STATEMENT. IF THE TOP GUY THAT STUDIES REVIVAL

  622. HISTORY AND TAUGHT MOST OF THE CHARISMATICS REVIVAL HISTORY IS

  623. TELLING YOU THERE IS SOMETHING BIGGER THAN REVIVAL, YOU MIGHT

  624. WANT TO LISTEN TO HIM. IF I'M TELLING YOU THAT IT'S HERE, YOU

  625. MIGHT WANT TO INVESTIGATE THE STATEMENT. THE AMERICAN

  626. REFORMATION HAS NOT FOUND ITS WAY HERE AND JUST WROTE, IT IS

  627. HERE. IT IS WORKING AND IT'S BEEN HERE FOR A WHILE, BUT NOW

  628. IT'S GETTING BIGGER AND LOUDER WHERE EVERYBODY IS GOING TO HAVE

  629. TO UNDERSTAND REFORMATIONAL ACTIVITY VERSUS JUST REVIVAL

  630. CULTURE. NOW, IN REFORMATION, THERE IS REVIVAL, BUT IN

  631. REVIVAL, THERE IS NOT REFORMATION. ALL RIGHT, SO

  632. THAT'S WHY AZUSA STREET, ALL THESE GREAT REVIVALS I'VE LOVED

  633. AND TAUGHT ABOUT AND LOVE TELLING THE STORY. I LOVE THEM,

  634. BUT I'M MORE EXCITED NOW ABOUT THIS REFORMATION THING THAT I

  635. HAVE ALL THOSE THINGS I'VE TAUGHT FOR YEARS BECAUSE I GET

  636. TO LIVE IN A REFORMATION. I NEVER THOUGHT I WOULD BE ABLE TO

  637. BE ALIVE IN A REFORMATIONAL MOMENT. AND WE ARE HERE IN OUR

  638. COUNTRY WITH OUR FIRST ONE. IT'S A BIG DEAL. IT IS A HUGE MOMENT

  639. FOR ALL OF US. IT'S EXCITING. SAY, BROTHER ROBERTS, I JUST

  640. WANNA BE IN REVIVAL. WELL, SHAME ON YOU. IF THERE'S ANOTHER

  641. DIMENSION OF GOD'S SPIRITUAL VISITATIONS, WHY DON'T YOU JOIN

  642. IT? IT'S LIKE THE RAILROAD TRACK. YOU GOT 2 RAILS. YOU'VE

  643. GOT A REVIVAL RAIL AND A REFORMATION RAIL, AND WE'RE THE

  644. TRAIN COMING DOWN ON THOSE 2 TRACKS. THAT'S WHAT WE HAVE.

  645. WARFARE, YOU HAVE BOTH IN REVIVAL AND IN REFORMATION, BUT

  646. ONE'S MORE INTENSE THAN THE OTHER. OKAY? REVIVAL SEEMS TO

  647. START FROM THE BOTTOM UP. REFORMATION SEEMED TO START FROM

  648. THE TOP DOWN BECAUSE WE'RE DEALING WITH POWERPOINTS AND

  649. CULTURAL PRINCIPLES, SO WE SEEM TO HAVE THE MORE OF A

  650. STRAIGHTFORWARD INTO THE TOP ECHELON AND WE START THE BATTLE

  651. IN THE TOP OF THE THING AND IT COMES DOWN THE WAY IT SEEMS.

  652. I'LL SUBMIT THAT TO YOU TO OBSERVE AND LEARN. SO SOME OF

  653. THIS I'M STILL LEARNING. REFORMATION IS A, EVERYBODY IS

  654. INVOLVED. REVIVAL, NOT EVERYBODY. REFORMATION,

  655. EVERYBODY HAS AN OPINION BECAUSE IT IS A BATTLE BETWEEN LUCIFER

  656. AND JEHOVAH, LIGHT AND DARKNESS, GOD AND GOOD AND EVIL, COMMON

  657. SENSE AND STUPIDITY. AND RIGHT NOW, WHAT WE HAVE GOING ON IN

  658. AMERICA IS NOT A REVIVAL. THERE ARE REVIVAL ASPECTS, AND MAY

  659. THEY KEEP GOING AND MAY THEY MULTIPLY. BUT THE BIGGER THING

  660. THAT'S CAUSING ALL THE UNCOMFORTABLENESS IS THE

  661. REFORMATIONAL ASPECT THAT THEY DON'T UNDERSTAND. ALL RIGHT?

  662. REFORMATION DEMANDS THAT YOU STATE WHAT YOU BELIEVE, NOT

  663. QUIETLY KEEP IT IN YOUR HEART. IF YOU'RE QUIET IN REFORMATION,

  664. YOU AGREE WITH THE WRONG SIDE, THE DARK SIDE. SO THAT IS WHY

  665. IT'S A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT THAN REVIVAL. OKAY,

  666. THAT IS WHY EVERYBODY HAS AN OPINION ABOUT TRUMP,

  667. EDUCATION, MONEY, RELIGION, IT'S GONNA FLY FOR THE NEXT 10, 15

  668. YEARS. SO THIS THING IS JUST STARTED, BABY. SO IF YOU

  669. THINK WHEN MR. TRUMP IS DONE IN 3 YEARS, IT'S OVER,

  670. (LAUGHS)

  671. REFORMATION CONTINUES AFTER THE TRUMP PRESIDENCY COMES TO A

  672. NATURAL END. SO IF YOU'RE WAITING FOR THAT TO BE OVER,

  673. FOR THIS MOMENT TO GO AWAY, IT'S HERE FOR AT LEAST 10

  674. TO 15 YEARS. SO SOME OF YOUR SOUL, YOU'LL DIE IN IT.

  675. SO DON'T BE QUIET IN YOUR LATTER YEARS, JUMP UP

  676. AND HAVE A GOOD TIME AND ACT LIKE CALEB.

  677. (CONGREGATION APPLAUDING)

  678. ALL RIGHT, LET ME ILLUSTRATE IT LIKE THIS. I WAS BORN IN TULSA

  679. AND WE WENT TO A CHURCH THAT WE WERE NOT CRUISEOMATICS, WE WERE

  680. PROPER CHURCH PEOPLE. I'M GONNA BE 60 ON SATURDAY. ME AND MY

  681. SISTER AND MY FAMILY WERE ONLY MEMBERS OF 4 CHURCHES IN ALL

  682. THESE YEARS. SO WE DIDN'T CRUISE AROUND BECAUSE WE DIDN'T LIKE

  683. THE PREACHER OR THE MUSIC OR THE GUEST SPEAKER OR SOMEBODY TOOK

  684. OUR SEAT. YOU KNOW HOW STUFF IS. IT'S AMAZING HOW EASY IT IS TO

  685. GET PEOPLE OUT OF THE WILL OF GOD. THEY SIT IN MY SEAT. WE'LL

  686. SIT IN ANOTHER ONE AND SHUT UP. IT'S JUST RIDICULOUS. AND THEN

  687. WE GO, "WELL, I DON'T LIKE THIS CHURCH NO MORE." STUPID, STUPID.

  688. WHEN YOU CAME TO THIS CHURCH, YOUR WIFE DIDN'T LIKE YOU, YOUR

  689. KIDS WERE STRAIGHT ON DRUGS, AND YOUR DOG RAN AWAY WHEN YOU CAME

  690. HOME. NOW YOUR WIFE LOVES YOU, YOUR KIDS ARE RIGHT, MARRIED,

  691. GOOD, AND NOW YOU'RE GONNA LEAVE THE CHURCH WHERE THE BLESSING

  692. CAME FROM? STUPID. JUST STUPID. I MEAN, SOME OF THIS STUFF

  693. SHOULD BE SETTLED BY NOW SO YOU CAN DO A REFORMATIONAL WORK.

  694. GOOD MORNING, EVERYBODY. I'VE BEEN OUT THERE SO LONG AND I'M

  695. TURNING 60 WHERE I DON'T CARE IS GETTING BIGGER. I MAY BE REAL

  696. DANGEROUS BY THE TIME I GET 75. I LOOK AT PEOPLE LIKE, BEFORE

  697. YOU CAME TO HANK AND BRENDA'S CHURCH, WHATEVER CHURCH YOU'RE

  698. FROM, AND YOUR LIFE WAS ALL MESSED UP, AND THE PEOPLE TOOK

  699. YOU IN AND PRAYED FOR YOU AND LOVED YOU AND BELIEVED YOU AND

  700. WALKED THROUGH ALL YOUR MESSES THAT DIDN'T LOOK AT YOU WEIRD,

  701. THEY KEPT BELIEVING TO WHAT YOU BECAME TODAY. AND YOU GET, "NAH,

  702. YOU AIN'T GET IT. "YOU NEED YOUR BUTT SPANKED, YOUR HEAD PRAYED

  703. FOR IT." THAT'S A GRANDMA QUOTE. GRANDMA USED TO SAY, "A GOOD OLD

  704. SPANKING "AND SOME PRAYER WILL FIX ANY OF THIS STUFF. "MAY THE

  705. OLD LADIES COME BACK WITH THEIR PRAYER SHAWLS "AND THEIR

  706. BOARDS." I HOPE I GET INVITED BACK AFTER THIS SERMON.

  707. (CONGREGATION LAUGHING)

  708. BUT IN OUR LITTLE CHURCH, WE WENT TO A PENTECOSTAL HOLINESS

  709. CHURCH. THEY ORDAINED ME WHEN I WAS 15 YEARS OLD, THE

  710. PENTECOSTALS DID. IN OUR CHURCH IN THOSE DAYS, WE ONLY HAD 2

  711. PEOPLE GIVE MESSAGES IN TONGUES AND INTERPRETATION OF PROPHECY.

  712. WE DIDN'T HAVE A LOT OF IT. YOU PROBABLY HAD 3 MESSAGES ON THE

  713. WAY TO CHURCH, 4 INSIDE THE CHURCH, AND 6 ON WHEN YOU GO

  714. HOME. BUT THAT WAS LIKE A WHOLE 2 YEAR PERIOD FOR OUR CHURCH. WE

  715. DIDN'T HAVE IT. WE HAD TONGUES AND ONLY 2 PEOPLE GAVE IT. ONE

  716. LADY AND ONE OLD GUY. AND THE LADY SAID THE SAME STUPID THING

  717. EVERY TIME SHE PROPHESIED. YAY YAY MY LITTLE LAMBS. I THOUGHT,

  718. CAN I BECOME A SHEEP? CAN WE GROW OUT OF LAMB-HOOD INTO

  719. SHEEP-HOOD? BECAUSE FOR 40 YEARS WE'VE BEEN YAY YAY MY LITTLE

  720. LAMBS. I'M LIKE, PLEASE GET A NEW NAME. NOW SHE WAS NICE, BUT

  721. I DON'T KNOW HOW MUCH OF HER YAY YAY STUFFS WERE REAL, BUT WE

  722. ENJOYED IT BECAUSE IT WAS SOMETHING DIFFERENT.

  723. (CONGREGATION LAUGHING)

  724. BUT HE WAS MORE, WELL, WHEN HE SPOKE, WE GAVE BOTH EARS. SHE

  725. ONLY GOT ONE EAR WHEN WE LISTENED. ONE EAR FOR HER, 2

  726. EARS FOR HIM. AND HE GOT UP, AND I REMEMBER THIS PROPHECY. HE GOT

  727. UP AND HE HAD A VISION. HE WAS DESCRIBING THE VISION. I SEE THE

  728. PRESIDENT IN THE OVAL OFFICE. IT'S 1970. AND HE'S BEHIND THE

  729. RESOLUTE DESK, AND THERE ARE PEOPLE IN THAT OFFICE LAYING

  730. HANDS ON HIM AND PRAYING LIKE WE DO HERE IN THIS CHURCH, WHICH

  731. MEANT TONGUES AND HANDS. AND THEN HE STOPPED AND HE GOES,

  732. "AND HE LIKES IT." AND HE STOOD FOR A FEW MOMENTS OF SILENCE,

  733. AND WE WERE ALL KIND OF SHOCKED AT WHAT WE WERE HEARING, HAPPY

  734. BUT SHOCKED AND HE SAID, "I HEAR SONGS THAT WE SING IN THE CHURCH

  735. "COMING OUT OF GOVERNMENT OFFICES ALL OVER WASHINGTON "AND

  736. ACROSS THE COUNTRY." HE SAID, "I HEAR THE SONGS OF THE CHURCH IN

  737. THE OFFICES." IN, NOT IN THE CHURCH, IN THE OFFICES. AND THE

  738. PROPHECY CAME TO A CLOSE AND SINCE WE DIDN'T GET TOO MANY

  739. PROPHECIES, WE'VE TALKED ABOUT THAT ONE FOR A LONG TIME. AND

  740. HERE'S HOW WE THOUGHT ABOUT IT. THEY FELT IT WAS THE LORD, BUT

  741. THEY FELT THAT IT'D BE MY GRANDCHILDREN THAT WOULD SEE

  742. IT. THAT'S HOW THEY THOUGHT IT WOULD BE IN A TIMETABLE,

  743. THAT FAR AWAY. WHEN HE FIRST, THE ORANGE MAN FIRST BECAME

  744. PRESIDENT, I SAW A PICTURE WITH SOME OF OUR FRIENDS IN

  745. THE OVAL OFFICE LAYING THEIR HANDS ON MR.

  746. TRUMP, PRAYING BEHIND THE RESOLUTE DESK.

  747. (SCREAMS)

  748. SO I CALLED HIM, I SAID, "ALL RIGHT, HOW DID YOU PRAY?" I

  749. WANNA KNOW EVERY DETAIL OF THAT PRAYER. WAS THEIR TONGUES OUT

  750. LOUD? YES. GOOD, BECAUSE THAT'S HOW WE PRAY IN OUR CHURCH. AND

  751. DID HE LIKE IT? YES, HE LIKES IT. I SAID, GOOD, IT'S

  752. HAPPENING. BUT NONE OF US WOULD HAVE EVER THOUGHT THE ORANGE MAN

  753. WOULD BE THE ONE THAT WOULD BE THE ONE USED BY THE LORD TO DO

  754. SOME OF THESE FULFILLMENTS OF WHAT HE'S DOING BECAUSE IT

  755. WASN'T OUR PREFERENCE. YOU HAVE TO KNOW THE DIFFERENCE IN

  756. REVIVAL AND IN REFORMATION BETWEEN THE LORD AND YOU. WHEN

  757. YOU PRAY, YOUR MIND GETS A PICTURE OR A FEELING. LORD, SAVE

  758. OMAHA, LORD, SAVE MY COUSIN, LORD, HELP ME. WHEN YOU PRAY

  759. LIKE THAT, NOTHING WRONG WITH IT, BUT YOU GET A PICTURE

  760. NORMALLY OF HOW THAT'S GONNA COME TO PASS. NOW, IN THE

  761. PROPHETIC WORLD, WE'VE KIND OF GOT A LITTLE BIT LOOPY, WHERE

  762. EVERYTHING WE DREAM, THINK, OR SEE IS PROPHETIC. NO, IT'S NOT.

  763. SOME OF IT'S YOU. AND THERE'S MORE OF YOU THAN THAT. NOW, WALK

  764. WITH ME. NOW, WHAT IS THAT? THAT'S YOUR PREFERENCE TALKING.

  765. THAT'S YOUR PREFERENCE. NOW, THERE'S NOTHING WRONG WITH

  766. HAVING, WHEN YOU PRAY THAT YOUR MIND IS SUPPORTING YOUR PRAYERS

  767. WITH GIVING YOU PICTURES, BUT YOU HAVE TO KNOW WHEN IT'S YOUR

  768. PICTURES OR A PICTURE FROM THE LORD. BECAUSE MANY PEOPLE MISS

  769. WHAT THEY PRAY IN BECAUSE IT DIDN'T HAPPEN ACCORDING TO THEIR

  770. PICTURE. AND THEY DISASSOCIATE AND DON'T COOPERATE AND FIGHT

  771. THE ANSWER TO THEIR PRAYERS. ALL RIGHT, YOU STILL WITH ME? LET ME

  772. GIVE YOU ANOTHER ILLUSTRATION 'CAUSE IT'S A BIG POINT. THIS

  773. SERMON NORMALLY TAKES A WEEK TO PREACH. SO YOU'RE JUST GETTING

  774. THE INTRODUCTION. ABOUT 30 MILES NORTH OF HELSINKI, FINLAND, BACK

  775. IN THE EARLY 80S, THERE WAS A GROUP OF PEOPLE THAT MET ON A

  776. WEEKLY BASIS IN A HOUSE THAT WAS PAINTED WHITE. AND THEY HAD

  777. PRAYED FOR GOD TO COME AND VISIT FINLAND AND SCANDINAVIA. ONE DAY

  778. GOD CAME AND TOLD HIM WHAT TO DO. CAME WITH A PROPHETIC

  779. INSTRUCTION, GO TO AMERICA AND GET WORD OF FAITH AND BRING IT

  780. BACK. NOW THOSE WORDS MADE NO SENSE TO PEOPLE, BUT THEY KNEW

  781. IT WAS THE LORD, SO THEY WEREN'T WEALTHY PEOPLE. SO THEY SAVED

  782. MONEY AND SOLD THINGS TO BUY 2 TICKETS FOR THE YOUNG COUPLE WHO

  783. COULD SPEAK THE BEST ENGLISH AND SENT THEM TO AMERICA TO GET WHAT

  784. THAT PROPHET SAID, GET AND BRING BACK. THEY FLY FROM HELSINKI TO

  785. NEW YORK, GET OFF THE PLANE, GO THROUGH CUSTOMS, GET THEIR BAGS,

  786. AND DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO, SO THEY ASK A NEW YORKER, WHICH IS

  787. KIND OF INTERESTING. I DON'T KNOW IF IT WAS AN ANGEL OR A

  788. DRUNK NEW YORKER THAT GOD COULD USE, I DON'T KNOW.

  789. (CONGREGATION LAUGHING)

  790. BUT THIS COUPLE WALKED UP TO A PERSON AT BAGGAGE CLAIM AND

  791. SAID, "WE'RE HERE," AND THEY COULD TELL THEY WERE FOREIGNERS

  792. BY THE WAY THEY TALKED, WITH THEIR ACCENTS AND SO FORTH, AND

  793. "WE'RE HERE FOR A WORD OF FAITH, "WHERE IS IT AT?" KIND OF

  794. QUESTION. AND THE GUY GOES, "I THINK IT'S IN TULSA." JUST HOW

  795. IN THE WORLD DO YOU FIND A NEW YORKER THAT KNOWS THAT,

  796. ESPECIALLY BACK THEN? SO I LIVED IN TULSA AT THAT TIME, AND IN

  797. THOSE YEARS, THERE WAS ONLY ONE DIRECT FLIGHT ONCE A WEEK FROM

  798. NEW YORK TO TULSA. IT WAS THAT DAY. AND THEY WALK UP TO THE

  799. RIGHT AIRLINE, WHICH WAS AMERICAN AIRLINES THAT DID IT,

  800. AND FLEW THEIR NICE LITTLE FINNISH PEOPLE THAT HAD NO IDEA

  801. WHERE THEY WERE GOING, TO TULSA. GOT OFF THE PLANE, SO LET'S GO

  802. TO BAGGAGE CLAIM, AND SINCE IT WORKED LAST TIME, LET'S ASK

  803. SOMEBODY ELSE AT BAGGAGE CLAIM WHAT WE'RE SUPPOSED TO DO NOW.

  804. SO THEY ASK, WE'RE HERE FOR A WORD OF FAITH, WHAT ARE WE

  805. SUPPOSED TO DO? OH, IT'S DOWNTOWN AT THE CIVIC CENTER.

  806. THAT WAS THE WEEK, IT WAS MONDAY MORNING OF KENNETH HAGIN'S CAMP

  807. MEETING. GOD HAD ORCHESTRATED ALL OF THAT. SO THERE WAS NO

  808. UBERS IN THOSE DAYS, YOU HAD YALA CABS, THEY'VE DISAPPEARED

  809. NOW. THEY GOT IN A YALA CAB AND WENT DOWN TO THE CIVIC CENTER

  810. WITH THEIR BAGS, WALKED IN AND SAW THE MAGAZINE LINE THERE, IT

  811. WAS CALLED WORD OF FAITH. THEY HIT IT. WELL, CRAZIER THAN THAT,

  812. THEY GOT TO MEET BROTHER HAGIN DURING CAMP MEETING. OF COURSE,

  813. YOU DON'T TALK ABOUT HAGIN DURING CAMP MEETING 'CAUSE HE

  814. STAYS FOCUSED ON THAT MEETING, BUT SOMEHOW THEY DID AND

  815. ARRANGEMENTS WERE MADE THAT 2 OF THE FIRST YEAR RAYMOND GRADS

  816. WOULD GO ON A CERTAIN MONTH IN A FEW MONTHS TO FINLAND AND HOLD A

  817. MEETING AT THE LITTLE PRAYER HOUSE. SO THE 2 GUYS

  818. AND I KNOW THEM, THEY WENT OFF TO FINLAND, CAME

  819. IN, AND WHAT IF FAITH PEOPLE DIDN'T? THEY DON'T DRESS

  820. LIKE HIM, WITH BOOTS THAT GLOW IN THE DARK.

  821. (CONGREGATION LAUGHING)

  822. THEY DRESS MORE LIKE ME. ONE OF MY GOALS IS WHEN I TURN 60,

  823. CHANGE HOW I LOOK, SO YOU MIGHT HAVE TO HELP ME. I NEED SOME

  824. BOOTS THAT GLOW IN THE DARK, ALL RIGHT? SO I STILL DRESS A LITTLE

  825. BIT OLD, SO PLEASE FORGIVE ME, BUT I'VE DECIDED THAT'S ONE OF

  826. MY CHANGES, ALL RIGHT? SO BACK IN THOSE DAYS, WE'RE THE FAITH

  827. PEOPLE, WORE SUITS AND TIES, SHINY SHOES, AND THAT NUGGET

  828. WATCH AND RING THAT WAS GOD AWFUL UGLY, BUT THEY WORE IT.

  829. AND THEY WALKED INTO THE HOUSE TO HAVE THEIR FIRST MEETING AND

  830. 80% OF THE PEOPLE AT THAT MEETING DID NOT LIKE THEM, YOU

  831. WON'T BELIEVE THIS, BECAUSE THEY HAD SHINY SHOES. AH! SHINY

  832. SHOES. AND THEY ACTUALLY REJECTED THEM. AND AFTER ABOUT 2

  833. DAYS, THEY DECIDED IT'S NOT WORTH IT. ALL THEY DID WAS FUSS.

  834. SO THEY LEFT FINLAND AND WENT TO SWEDEN TO A LITTLE SYNAGOGUE

  835. CHURCH. AND THERE SAT IN THE CROWD A YOUNG VIKING NAMED ULF

  836. EKMAN THAT HEARD THE WORD OF FAITH AND CAME ALL THE WAY TO

  837. RHEMA AND WENT BACK AND EXPLODED WITH A GREAT REVIVAL

  838. OVER THERE. BUT IT WAS SUPPOSED TO START IN FINLAND, BUT THE

  839. FINNISH PEOPLE THERE DIDN'T LIKE IT BECAUSE THE PREACHERS HAD

  840. SHINY SHOES. HOW STUPID. AND THAT'S THE WAY SOME OF YOU ARE

  841. WITH WHAT GOD IS DOING TODAY. ESPECIALLY YOU THAT ARE WATCHING

  842. ME. NOW, BECAUSE YOU HAVE NOT SORTED PREFERENCE FROM THE WORD

  843. OF THE LORD AND THE SCRIPTURES. NOW, SHINY SHOES STOPPED FINLAND

  844. FROM HAVING THE REVIVAL. SWEDEN, NORWAY, DENMARK, THE BALTIC

  845. EXPLODED ALL OVER. RIGHT NOW, WITH REFORMATION, THERE ARE

  846. THINGS THAT ARE GOING ON IN THIS COUNTRY THAT IS NOT HOW YOU

  847. THOUGHT THIS WAS GONNA BE. 'CAUSE MOST OF YOU, AND YOU THAT

  848. ARE WATCHING ME, PICTURED A REVIVAL HAPPENING MORE THAN A

  849. REFORMATION HAPPENING. 'CAUSE YOU NEVER WERE TOLD ABOUT

  850. REFORMATION. MOST PASTORS DON'T UNDERSTAND IT. THEY THINK IT'S

  851. LONG AGO WITH LUTHER AND THESE GUYS, AND THAT WAS ONE BACK

  852. THEN, BUT THERE'S ONE TODAY THAT IS HAPPENING IN AMERICA AND

  853. COMING TO THE WESTERN WORLD. IT IS HAPPENING NOW.

  854. (CONGREGATION APPLAUDING)

  855. AND YOU NEED TO BE CAREFUL THAT YOU DON'T LET YOUR PREFERENCE

  856. KEEP YOU FROM ENJOYING WHAT YOU'VE BEEN PRAYING AND

  857. PROPHESYING AS IT COMES TO PASS IN THIS COUNTRY. AMEN. CAN YOU

  858. SAY AMEN? AMEN. NOW I KNOW I'M KIND OF PREACHING TO THE CHOIR A

  859. LITTLE BIT, BUT I JUST WANT TO REAFFIRM, WE'RE NOT IN A

  860. REVIVAL. ALL THESE FLASHPOINT GUYS, THEY DON'T ADD ANOTHER

  861. WORD TO THEIR LIT UP, REFORMATION, BUT THEY DON'T DO

  862. IT BECAUSE THEY DON'T KNOW WHAT IT IS. THEY'RE SLOWLY COMING

  863. INTO IT. AND THEY'RE, YEAH, IT'S DIFFERENT, BABY. IT'S A LOT MORE

  864. INTENSE. ALL RIGHT, LET ME DO 2 MORE THINGS. HEBREWS 11:33, LET

    Hebrews 11:33

  865. ME GIVE YOU AN EXAMPLE. GO OVER THERE REAL FAST. HEBREWS 11:33,

    Hebrews 11:33

  866. WE ARE OUT OF A FAITH CAMP AND I LOVE MY WORD OF FAITH ROOTS AND

  867. NOT ASHAMED OF BEING A HAGANITE. IF YOU HAVEN'T READ BROTHER

  868. HAGIN'S BOOKS, THEN PLEASE DO SO, YOU'LL BE HAPPIER ON THE

  869. OTHER SIDE OF IT. IF YOU LISTEN TO THE IDIOTS ON YOUTUBE, YOU'LL

  870. BE LIKE THEM. YOU BETTER BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU LISTEN TO.

  871. HEBREWS 11:33, 11:33. WHO THROUGH FAITH SUBDUED KINGDOMS,

    Hebrews 11:33

  872. WROUGHT RIGHTEOUSNESS, OBTAINED PROMISES, AND STOPPED THE MOUTHS

  873. OF LIONS. THE ONLY PART OF THAT VERSE THAT'S REAL STRONG TODAY

  874. IN MOST OF OUR CHURCHES IS OBTAINING PROMISE FAITH. THEY

  875. HAVE NO SUBDUING CONQUERING FAITH, NO ROT OR CHANGING FAITH

  876. OR STOPPING FAITH. REFORMATION IS CONQUERING, ROTTING AND

  877. STOPPING, NOT JUST OBTAINING. AND SO THE FAITH THAT YOU'VE GOT

  878. HAS BEEN DEVELOPED REAL STRONG IN CLAIMING VERSES THAT BLESS

  879. YOU. PLEASE KEEP THAT, BUT ADD TO IT THE OTHER DIMENSIONS OF

  880. WHAT FAITH LIKES TO DO. AND THAT LIKES TO CONQUER, CONQUEST,

  881. TAKE, TAKE BACK, ESTABLISH, BUILD, RULE, GOVERN. NOW NOTICE

  882. THE CLAP FACTOR IN THIS ROOM. WHO CLAPS AND WHO DOESN'T?

  883. BECAUSE SOME OF YOU ARE PARASITICAL CHRISTIANS IN THIS

  884. CHURCH. YOU'RE RIDING WHAT OTHERS HAVE LABORED AND YOU ARE

  885. NOT A PART, A PARTICIPATING PART AS YOU SHOULD.

  886. (CONGREGATION MURMURS)

  887. SOME OF YOU LIKE THE NICE BUILDING NOW. SEE, LOOK HOW GOOD

  888. I LOOK UP THERE. I LOOK 30, PRAISE THE LORD.

  889. (CONGREGATION LAUGHS)

  890. NOW, HEAR ME. I'M YOUR FRIEND MORE THAN YOU KNOW. I TALK

  891. HOSTILE BECAUSE I'M ANGRY ALL THE TIME IN MY HEART AGAINST

  892. WHAT'S ROBBING US AND ROBBING YOU. IF WE COULD JUST MAKE

  893. SMALL, NOT HUGE, SMALL ADJUSTMENTS IN THINGS, WHAT

  894. COULD HAPPEN? AND SOME OF THE HINDRANCES IS NOT OUT THERE,

  895. IT'S IN HERE. BROTHER ROBERTS, I JUST WANNA BE A NICE CHRISTIAN

  896. WHERE I BELIEVE I RECEIVE MY MONEY, MY HEALING, AND NICE

  897. LITTLE THINGS. OKAY, THAT'S NICE, BUT YOU'RE NOT A SOLDIER.

  898. HE MAY BE ONE OF THOSE THAT ACTUALLY COMES AGAINST THE

  899. REFORMATION BECAUSE IT DOESN'T FIT THAT KIND OF FAITH ONLY.

  900. FAITH THAT CONQUERS, CONQUEST IS REFORMATIONAL. TO WROUGHT

  901. RIGHTEOUS OR BRING ABOUT RIGHTNESS IN HEART, LIFE,

  902. SOCIETY, AND SO FORTH. THEN STOPPING STUFF. STOPPING THE

  903. DEVIL, STOPPING THE WORK, NOT JUST TO SAVE THE PRESIDENT'S

  904. LIFE, BUT TO KEEP THE IDIOTS OUT OF YOUR SCHOOL SYSTEMS.

  905. (CONGREGATION APPLAUDING)

  906. TO KEEP RAGING MURDEROUS SPIRITS FROM COMING

  907. INTO YOUR TOWN AND SHOOTING PEOPLE UP.

  908. (CONGREGATION LAUGHING)

  909. BROTHER ROBERT, WE DON'T DO THAT. WE WAIT FOR THE RAPTURE

  910. AND YOU ARE GOOFY. GOOFY. WHY WE'RE HERE, WE'RE TO OCCUPY TILL

  911. HE COMES. WHY WE'RE HERE, WE'RE TO MAKE DEVILS EAT DIRT AND

  912. SUFFER. BUT MOST OF THE TIME, DEVILS ENJOY BEATING YOU UP. I

  913. HAVE A SERMON I'VE BEEN TRYING TO PREACH AND I GET SCARED TO

  914. PREACH IT. THE DAY OF THE PRINCIPALITY WAR HAS BEGUN. MOST

  915. OF US FIGHT LITTLE MONKEY DEVILS.

  916. (IMITATES MONKEY)

  917. THEY JUMP ON ONE SIDE, BITE YOUR EAR OVER HERE, THEY YELL AT IT.

  918. YOU THINK YOU'RE FIGHTING A BIG OLD DEVIL. I'VE BEEN OUT

  919. FIGHTING PRINCIPALITIES, REALLY. IT'S WHAT YOU'RE DESCRIBING, THE

  920. LITTLE MONKEY DEVILS. PRINCIPALITIES DON'T ACT LIKE

  921. THAT. YOU INVITED ME. I GOT ABOUT 6 TO 8 MINUTES, BUT I

  922. GOTTA CLOSE, SO HANG ON. I'VE SAT AND WATCHED, I'LL TELL YOU

  923. THIS, I'VE BEEN IN 130 COUNTRIES. THAT MEANS THOUSANDS

  924. OF CITIES, LARGE AND SMALL, ALL OVER THE WORLD. BIG PLACES AND

  925. SMALL PLACES. HARD PLACES TO GET TO AND EASY PLACES TO GET TO.

  926. THAT'S WHAT I'VE DONE. AND I'VE DEALT NOT WITH LITTLE MONKEY

  927. DEVILS, I'VE DEALT WITH PRINCIPALITIES. AND REFORMATION

  928. DEALS WITH PRINCIPALITIES AND POWERS, HARD PLACE OPERATIONS.

  929. AND WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO LEARN HOW TO DEAL WITH THESE THINGS IN

  930. PRAYER, IN FAITH, AND IN CORRESPONDING ACTION IN THE

  931. EARTH THAT GOES WITH THAT. BUT SOME CHURCHES DON'T KNOW THEY'RE

  932. CONTROLLED BY THE PRINCIPALITY. BECAUSE THE PRINCIPALITY DOESN'T

  933. WANT TO DESTROY THE CHURCH, HE WANTS TO CONTROL THE CHURCH. AND

  934. HE REGULATES ITS AUTHORITY AND THE DEGREE OF ANOINTING THAT IS

  935. ALLOWED TO OPERATE UNHINDERED. AND WHEN YOU GO ACROSS THAT

  936. LINE, WAR COMES SO BAD THAT GUYS PULL BACK TO WHERE IT'S NOT

  937. THERE. AND THEN THEY DEFEND THE RIGHT OF THE PRINCE TO RULE BY

  938. HOW THEY TALK. THEY'LL SAY, WELL, WE'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO

  939. FIGHT THOSE POWERS. THEY HAVE THE RIGHT TO BE IN THE AIR, THE

  940. RIGHT TO BE OVER US. WHAT BIBLE ARE YOU READING, YOU BLIND BAT?

  941. (CONGREGATION APPLAUDS)

  942. JUST ONE VERSE, LUKE 9:1 SAYS, "HE GAVE YOU, JESUS GAVE

    Luke 9:1

  943. THEM POWER AND AUTHORITY OVER ALL DEVILS." ALL DEVILS, ALL

  944. DEVILS, ALL DEVILS, ALL DEVILS. LITTLE ONES, BIG ONES, UGLY

  945. ONES, PRETTY ONES, ALL DEVILS. OH, WE DON'T WANNA DEAL WITH

  946. THAT KIND OF DEVIL 'CAUSE YOU HAVE HIM OR HE HAS YOU. HOW DO

  947. YOU WANNA SAY THAT? MOST OF OUR BIG CITIES HAS FALLEN TO THE

  948. RULE OF PRINCIPALITIES. THE HOPE OF THIS COUNTRY AT THIS MOMENT

  949. IS IN YOUR MEDIUM, SMALL TOWNS WITH THEIR CHURCHES AND THEIR

  950. PEOPLE. AND WE HAVE TO DO MISSIONARY TRIPS TO THE BIG

  951. CITIES IN THIS COUNTRY. LIKE WE GO TO AFRICA, WE GO TO ASIA, WE

  952. HAVE TO START PLANNING TO GO TO BIG CITIES AND DO MISSION TRIPS.

  953. PRAY, PLAN, PAY, AND DON'T DO IT BECAUSE AMERICA HAS BECOME A

  954. MISSION FIELD AND YOU DON'T KNOW IT YET. I WISH THAT WASN'T TRUE.

  955. PRINCIPALITIES AND POWERS. YOU SAY, WELL, AND THEY GO OVER TO

  956. DANIEL 10 AND THEY USE THE DANIEL STORY OF FIGHTING WITH

  957. THE KINGS OF PERSIA AND GREECE AND SAY THAT THE ANGELS HAD TO

  958. FIGHT IT AND DANIEL DIDN'T. HAVE YOU READ THE WORD, THE NEW

  959. TESTAMENT? HAVE YOU READ WHAT CHRIST DID AT CALVARY? THE DEATH

  960. AND THE RESURRECTION AND HE DESTROYED AND TOOK BACK ALL

  961. POWER FROM THE DEVIL AND ALL DEMONS, NO MATTER WHAT THEY

  962. WERE. AND THEY ARE POWERLESS IN THAT SENSE. AND JESUS DID

  963. SOMETHING CRAZY. HE GAVE US POWER AFTER WE SCREWED IT UP IN

  964. THE GARDEN. TALK ABOUT TRUST. WE MESSED IT UP SO BAD, HE CAME

  965. BACK AND FIXED IT. AND BEFORE WE WENT AND SAT DOWN, HE GAVE TO US

  966. THAT VICTORY, THAT AUTHORITY, AND THAT POWER, BECAUSE HE STILL

  967. TRUSTS US AND USES US. WARFARE IS NOT GAINING A VICTORY, IT'S

  968. ENFORCING CALVARY'S VICTORY ON A REBEL WHO DON'T OBEY THE

  969. VICTORY. AND MOST CHRISTIANS DON'T KNOW HOW THEY'VE BEEN SET

  970. UP IN VICTORY THROUGH CALVARY. AND THAT'S WHY THEY DON'T WANNA

  971. FIGHT THE DEVIL OR WE DON'T WANNA GET IN THAT PRINCIPALITY

  972. THING, YOU'RE ALREADY IN IT. YOU'RE ALREADY IN IT WHETHER YOU

  973. LIKE IT OR NOT, YOU'RE ALREADY IN IT. YOUR FAITH HAS TO LEARN

  974. TO CONQUER. BUT I'M TELLING YOU, WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO RISE UP

  975. QUICKLY BECAUSE THE DEVILS ARE LOSING AND THEY'RE GETTING MAD.

  976. AND WHEN THEY GET REAL MAD, THEY COME INTO THE EARTH IN A RAGING

  977. VIOLENCE AGAINST THE CREATION. AND YOU'RE SEEING THAT WITH THE

  978. SHOOTINGS, YOU'RE SEEING THAT WITH THE RIOTS THAT MAKE NO

  979. SENSE EVEN ON THE OTHER SIDE. SOME OF THIS, WE'RE GONNA HAVE

  980. TO LABOR IN THE SPIRIT WITH THE RIGHT KIND OF PRAYER. THE KIND

  981. OF PRAYER THAT I BIRTHED YOUR PASTORS IN MANY YEARS AGO.

  982. THAT'S THE KIND OF PRAYER, NOT THIS LITTLE OOKABOOKABOO

  983. TONGUES. AND THESE LITTLE NICE, OOKADOOKABOO. NO. NO. AND IT'S

  984. NOT JUST FOR THE 3 OLD LADIES THAT ARE KIND OF WEIRD THAT

  985. PRAYS THAT, IT'S FOR EVERYBODY IN THE CHURCH TO DO THAT.

  986. EVERYBODY IN THE CHURCH TO DO THAT. WE'RE IN A REFORMATION AND

  987. WE'RE GOING INTO WAR AND IT IS A BATTLE TO TAKE. I'LL END IT WITH

  988. THIS BIBLICAL EXAMPLE. MOSES CAME AS GOD CAME DOWN IN EXODUS

    Exodus 2 chapter mention

  989. CHAPTER 2 AND HE HEARD THE GROANING AND THE TRAVAILING OF

  990. THE ISRAELIS UNDER THE EGYPTIAN BONDAGE. THE BIBLE SAYS THAT HE

  991. CAME DOWN TO SEE IF THE GROAN AND THE TRAVAIL WAS WHAT HE'D

  992. HEARD TO SEE IT. AND HE FOUND THAT IT WAS TRUE. AND HE SAID,

  993. MOSES, A STUTTERING GUY THAT SMELLED LIKE A BUNCH OF SHEEP,

  994. DOES SET HIS PEOPLE FREE. MOSES GOT THEM OUT OF EGYPT, BUT

  995. COULDN'T GET THEM INTO THE PROMISED LAND. MOST OF OUR

  996. CHURCHES, SPIRIT-FILLED CHURCHES, CAN GET YOU SAVED AND

  997. GET YOU BLESSED, BUT CANNOT GET YOU INTO YOUR ETERNAL PURPOSE,

  998. PERSONALLY OR CORPORATELY, AS A NATION OF PEOPLE. THEY LIVE WITH

  999. THE WEAKNESS OF MOSES, SCARED OF YOUR REACTION WHEN HE DEALS WITH

  1000. YOUR CARNALITIES. AND FOR 40 YEARS, 40 LONG YEARS, THEY

  1001. WANDERED IN THE WILDERNESS OUTSIDE OF GOD'S PLAN OF

  1002. GOVERNANCE IN THE PROMISED LAND, THE LAND OF DWELLING THAT FLOWED

  1003. WITH MILK AND HONEY. THEY HAD MIRACLES OF MAINTENANCE. HE

  1004. MAINTAINED THEM WITH MANNA, MAINTAINED THEM WITH A CLOUD FOR

  1005. AIR CONDITIONING AND HEAT, MAINTAINED THEIR CLOTHES,

  1006. DEUTERONOMY 29:5 , THAT NEVER WORE OLD FOR 40 YEARS. THEY HAD

    Deuteronomy 29:5

  1007. MIRACLES, THEY NEVER GOT ANYWHERE, BUT THEY HAD MIRACLES.

  1008. THE AMERICAN CHURCH HAS MIRACLES OF THE SAME KIND AND HAS NOT

  1009. TAKEN MUCH TERRITORY BECAUSE THEY'RE LIVING OUTSIDE OF THE

  1010. CONQUERING. BUT THE DAY OF CONQUERING AND REFORMATION HAS

  1011. COME AND WE HAVE TO CHANGE LEADERSHIP STYLES IN THE SPIRIT.

  1012. THE NEXT LEADER WAS JOSHUA, A YOUNG MAN THAT HAD SERVED WELL

  1013. UNDER THE OLD ANOINTING, THAT HAD KEPT HIS UNDERWEAR ON, KEPT

  1014. HIS MOUTH RIGHT, HIS HEART RIGHT, EVEN THOUGH HE SAW THINGS

  1015. THAT SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN, HEARD CONVERSATIONS THAT SHOULD HAVE

  1016. BEEN DIFFERENT, BUT HE AND AN OLD MAN NAMED CALEB KEPT A GOOD

  1017. REPORT, KEPT THE REPORT, "I KNOW WHAT I SAW. "I KNOW THIS HERE'S

  1018. NOT THE HEIGHT OR THE BEST." AND MOSES FINISHED HIS LIFE AS A

  1019. GREAT MAN, BUT HIS WEAKNESS WAS HE COULD NEVER GET THE PEOPLE

  1020. INTO THE LAND OF PROMISE. 'CAUSE HE WOULD NEVER DEAL WITH THE

  1021. FLESH, EVEN HIS WIFE. WHEN GOD TOLD MOSES, "CIRCUMCISE YOUR

  1022. SON," HE WOULDN'T DO IT. AND HIS WIFE ROSE UP AND CURSED HIM AND

  1023. SLAPPED HIM IN OTHER WORDS WITH HER WORDS AND CIRCUMCISED HER

  1024. SON AND SAID, "THIS IS WHAT YOU SHOULD HAVE DONE YOURSELF." BAH!

  1025. JOSHUA COMES. IT'S 2 THINGS FIRST, BE STRONG AND BE

  1026. COURAGEOUS. AND THEN HE SAYS, "PACK YOUR BAGS, BOYS, WE'RE

  1027. LEAVING. "THERE'S NO VOTING. "THERE'S NO TIME FOR IT ANYMORE.

  1028. "THIS 40 YEARS OF MAINTENANCE IS OVER. "LET THERE BE A COMMAND.

  1029. "PACK YOUR BAGS, 3 DAYS WE'RE GOING." THEY WENT INTO THE LAND

  1030. OF PROMISE. THEY WERE 40 YEARS LATE. THEY FOUND SQUATTERS WHO

  1031. NOW THOUGHT THEY WERE OWNERS. THE AMORITES, CANAANITES, ALL

  1032. THE ITES, ITES, ITES, ITES, AND MORE ITES. AND THEY SHOW UP AND

  1033. SAY, "THIS IS MY LAND." NO, WE BUILT THE WALL, WE BUILT OUR

  1034. HOMES, WE MARRIED OUR WOMEN, WE HAVE OUR BABIES, WE HAVE OUR

  1035. GRAND-BABIES, AND THIS IS WHERE WE BELONG. WHO DO YOU THINK YOU

  1036. ARE? I KNOW WE'RE LATE, BUT IT'S STILL OURS. AND THAT'S WHAT'S

  1037. HAPPENING WITH REFORMATION. WE'VE BEEN ABSENT FROM SOCIETY

  1038. SO LONG THAT WHEN WE FINALLY SHOW UP AND GO, WE'RE TIRED OF

  1039. SEXUALIZING OUR CHILDREN WITH MOVIES, WE WANT SOME DECENT

  1040. MOVIES. WE'RE TIRED OF YOU ABUSING OUR CHILDREN BY TELLING

  1041. OUR LITTLE BOYS THEY'RE GIRLS AND THEN GIVING THEM PILLS

  1042. BEHIND OUR BACK. AND WE SHOULD GO, NO, THEY GO, WELL, WHO DO

  1043. YOU THINK YOU ARE? WE'VE BEEN HERE FOR YEARS AND YOU'VE NOT

  1044. BEEN HERE. I KNOW WE'RE LATE, BUT WE'RE HERE NOW. AND THIS IS

  1045. WHAT IT IS. AND THE REFORMATION IS THE CONFRONTATION. AND WHY

  1046. IT'S SO DRAMATIC IS BECAUSE WE'VE BEEN GONE SO LONG AND

  1047. WE'RE FINALLY SHOWING UP AND THEY'RE LIKE, "WHO DO YOU THINK

  1048. YOU ARE?" AND YOU'RE GONNA HAVE TO TELL THEM AND MAKE THEM A

  1049. BELIEVER BY NOT BEING PUSHED OUT, SCARED, DRIVEN OFF, BUT

  1050. TAKE YOUR FAITH THAT CONQUERS AND ROTS AND STOPS AND TAKE IT

  1051. TO WORK. TAKE YOUR PRAYERS OF ENGLISH AND TONGUES AND GO TO

  1052. THE HEAVENS AND THE HEART AND MANEUVER THINGS THROUGH PRAYER

  1053. AND DO THE RIGHT CORRESPONDING ACTIONS. IT'S NOT GONNA GET

  1054. QUIETER. IT'S GONNA GET CRAZY. AND IT'S YOUR FAULT. MY LAST

  1055. POINT. MY GRANDPARENTS PRAYED FOR GOD TO SAVE AMERICA. MY

  1056. PARENTS, LIKE YOURS, PRAYED FOR GOD TO HELP AMERICA. I, AND YOU

  1057. HAVE COME ALONG AND SAW THE WORST DECLINE IN THIS GREAT

  1058. COUNTRY OF OURS. AND OUR CRY BECAME MORE INTENSE. HELP! HE

  1059. CAME DOWN TO SEE IF IT WAS SO. AND HE SAW THAT IT WAS. AND HE

  1060. IS ANSWERING IT NOT WITH REVIVAL OR KUMBAYA REVIVAL SERVICES. HE

  1061. HAS DECIDED TO GO AS A REFORMATIONAL SPIRIT INTO THE

  1062. EARTH, INTO EVERY MOUNTAIN, EVERY DARK CORNER OF OUR

  1063. SOCIETY, FROM THE BIGGEST CITIES TO THE SMALLEST VILLAGES, EVERY

  1064. PLACE, HE HAS DECIDED TO GO IN AND REMOVE THE POWERS THAT HAVE

  1065. RULED AND DICTATED AND BRING BACK HIS PURPOSE, HIS KNOWLEDGE,

  1066. AND SAY, "CHOOSE THIS ONE AND DON'T CHOOSE THAT ONE." AND HE'S

  1067. GONNA DO THAT THROUGH YOU AND I. THE REFORMATION IS AFOOT, IT'S

  1068. HAPPENING. JUST DON'T GET MAD THAT IT DOESN'T COME ABOUT HOW

  1069. YOU PICTURED IT IN YOUR PRAYERFUL TIME AND YOUR

  1070. PREFERENCE PICTURES. NOBODY WOULD HAVE PICKED THE ORANGE

  1071. MAN. WE LIKE HIM NOW, BUT IT TOOK US A WHILE. NOW IT GOES

  1072. BACK UP EVERY 6 WEEKS. DO WE LIKE HIM OR NOT? WE KEEP DOING

  1073. ALL THIS. ALL OF THIS IS HAPPENING BECAUSE HE'S ANSWERING

  1074. YOUR PRAYERS, BUT NOT IN THE WAY THAT YOU PREFERRED, BUT IN THE

  1075. WAY THAT YOU THOUGHT. DIANE, I WANT YOU TO TAKE ALL THOSE

  1076. PICTURES OF HOW YOU THOUGHT GOD SHOWED YOU THINGS WOULD BE DONE.

  1077. NOW, IT'S REALLY THE LORD HOLD ON TO THAT, BUT SORT THROUGH

  1078. SOME OF THOSE PICTURES FOR YOUR FAMILY, FOR YOUR CITY, FOR OUR

  1079. NATION, 'CAUSE YOU MAY BE CAUGHT OFF, A LITTLE OFFENDED, OR

  1080. BOTHERED, OR IT COULD QUIRK YOU IN A WAY, AND YOU WITHDRAW IN

  1081. SOME WAY, OR MAYBE THAT'S NOT YOU, BUT ONE OF THE BIGGEST

  1082. PROBLEMS IN THE EARLY HOURS OF THE REFORMATION IS KNOWING THE

  1083. DIFFERENCE BETWEEN WHAT GOD IS DOING AND WHAT YOU PREFERRED HIM

  1084. DOING IT OR HOW YOU WOULD PREFER HIM TO DO IT. I WOULD NOT HAVE

  1085. PICKED A NAKED LSD GUY IN CALIFORNIA LADY REVIVAL.

  1086. (CONGREGATION LAUGHING)

  1087. I WOULD HAVE DONE IT. NO. AT LEAST

  1088. HAVE YOUR UNDERWEAR ON, AT LEAST.

  1089. (CONGREGATION LAUGHING)

  1090. FRIENDS, HE WAS BUTT NAKED WITH 2 OF HIS FRIENDS OUT THERE

  1091. TRIPPING AND DANCING, AND JESUS CHOSE HIM. NOT OUR PREFERENCE,

  1092. BUT REMEMBER 1 CORINTHIANS 12:18, GOD PUTS EVERYBODY IN THE

    1 Corinthians 12:18

  1093. BODY AS IT PLEASES HIM, NOT YOU. I HAVE PREFERENCES. I'M NOT

  1094. WEARING THE COLOR I LIKE. BROWN IS NOT MY FAVORITE COLOR, BUT I

  1095. WORE IT TONIGHT. BLUE IS MY FAVORITE COLOR. SO I COULD SAY,

  1096. "BLUE IS OF GOD AND BROWN IS OF THE DEVIL." NOW Y'ALL KNOW

  1097. THAT'S WRONG, 'CAUSE IT'S MY PREFERENCE. APPLY THAT SAME

  1098. DISCERNMENT OVER WHAT YOU SEE WHEN YOU PRAY AND WHAT YOU SAY,

  1099. BECAUSE IT MAY BE A GOOD PREFERENCE, BUT IT MIGHT NOT BE

  1100. WHAT GOD'S DOING. I WANTED ANOTHER REAGAN, NOT DONALD

  1101. TRUMP. A REAGANESQUE GUY WHOSE HAIR FITS PERFECTLY, WHO WEARS

  1102. SUITS WITHOUT THE LONG TIE. REAGAN, A LITTLE MORE GRITTY,

  1103. BUT NOT TOO MUCH, BUT REAGANESQUE. WE'RE NOT EVEN

  1104. CLOSE TO REAGAN. IF THEY'RE IN THERE, THEY'RE DISTANT COUSINS.

  1105. FROM A LONG WAYS OFF. I'M TRYING TO CLOSE, BUT THIS KEEPS COMING

  1106. BACK AT ME. OKAY, YOU'RE PROPHETIC PEOPLE, NOW HEAR ME,

  1107. AND YOU ARE A PROPHETIC LEADING MINISTRY. YOU'RE NOT JUST A

  1108. PROPHETIC MINISTRY, YOU'RE A LEADING PROPHETIC MINISTRY HERE

  1109. AND IN THE WORLD. YOUR WORLD DOMINION IS GROWING. NOT JUST

  1110. BECAUSE OF THESE CAMERAS, BECAUSE OF YOUR SPIRIT. IT'S THE

  1111. DIFFERENCE BETWEEN BEING POPULAR AND FAMOUS AND HAVING DOMINION

  1112. AND TERRITORIAL AUTHORITY. IT'S 2 DIFFERENT WORLDS. SO I BEHOLD

  1113. YOU, NOT JUST BECAUSE YOU HAVE A NICE, BEAUTIFUL NEW BUILDING AND

  1114. GREAT TV MINISTRY. I UNDERSTAND WHAT THAT IS AND I APPRECIATE

  1115. THAT VERY MUCH. THAT'S NOT WHAT I'M TALKING TO. I'M TALKING TO

  1116. WHAT WAS OVER THERE IN THAT LITTLE STOREFRONT SHACK YOU GUYS

  1117. WERE IN A LONG TIME AGO THAT WAS DEVELOPING AND GROWING AND

  1118. MANEUVERING AND DIDN'T GIVE UP. WHEN EVERYBODY SAID, "GIVE UP,"

  1119. 'CAUSE THIS DAY WAS COMING AND HE WANTED IT IN OMAHA. OF ALL

  1120. PLACES, OMAHA. YOU ALL BETTER BE GLAD HE CHOSE OMAHA. HE COULD BE

  1121. STUCK IN A DEAD LITTLE DIPPY SIMMONS OF GOD CHURCH. HE COULD

  1122. BE STUCK IN A WORD OF FAITH CHURCH THAT DOESN'T WANNA GO ON,

  1123. JUST SIT THERE AND CONFESS FOR 50 YEARS. YOU'RE GONNA BE GLAD

  1124. THIS THING SHOWED UP AND UNDERSTAND IT MORE THAN JUST THE

  1125. BIGNESS AND THE NICE LIGHTS OUTSIDE. BUT I LIKE THEM TOO,

  1126. THE FLAG'S REAL NICE. I DROVE IN THERE, I WAS LIKE, WOW, GOOD

  1127. JOB. HE'S GIVEN YOU A DOMINION TO HELP DEFINE TO THE NEXT

  1128. GENERATION THE AUTHENTICITY OF PROPHETIC MINISTRY. TO TRAIN THE

  1129. NEXT GROUP OF PROPHETS TO BE HEALTHIER THAN THE LAST GROUP

  1130. THAT WE'RE SURVIVING RIGHT NOW. THAT'S PART OF YOUR JOB, NOT ALL

  1131. OF IT, THAT'S PART OF IT. BE GLAD THAT IT'S HERE. BE THANKFUL

  1132. THAT HE CHOSE THIS CITY TO PLACE THIS MINISTRY IN, SO THAT YOU

  1133. AND YOUR FAMILY CAN CALL IT YOUR CHURCH, BUT ALSO BE A PART OF A

  1134. DOMINION THAT IS TAKING POSTURE IN THE NATION, IN THE WORLD.

  1135. DON'T LET YOUR PREFERENCE GROW ANGRY, MAKE YOU GROW ANGRY AT

  1136. THINGS. DON'T LET YOUR PREFERENCE CAUSE YOU TO MISS

  1137. SOMETHING. OLD PEOPLE, DON'T DIE YET. WE NEED YOUR STABILITY AND

  1138. YOUR WISDOM OF YEARS WITH GOD TO BE A PART OF THE STABILIZING

  1139. FORCE OF THIS HOUSE AND OF THIS NATION. YOU'RE LIKE CALEB, WHO

  1140. IS 80 SOME YEARS OLD, 85 PLUS YEARS OLD, AND GOD SAID, "I'VE

  1141. KEPT YOU ALIVE FOR THIS DAY. SOME OF YOU, YOUR SPOUSES HAS

  1142. GONE ON AHEAD OF YOU. YOU'LL SEE THEM AGAIN, THEY'RE HAPPY,

  1143. THEY'RE NOT COMING BACK. WHEN PEOPLE GET A GLIMPSE OF HEAVEN,

  1144. SOME TAKE OFF. THEY LOVE YOU, BUT NOT THAT MUCH.

  1145. (CONGREGATION LAUGHING)

  1146. IF THEY GET TO SEE HEAVEN, THEY JUST LEAVE. I MEAN, I WOULD, AND

  1147. YOU WOULD TOO. DON'T GET MAD. I FEEL THIS IN MY SPIRIT. WHY AM I

  1148. HERE? MY HUSBAND'S GONE. MY KIDS ARE ALL BUSY. HEY, THAT'S WHY

  1149. YOU'RE HERE. WHITE HAIR AND ALL. SO GET IN HERE AND LIVE.

  1150. GET IN HERE AND PUSH. GO FIND YOUR YOUNG TONGUES AND

  1151. BRING THEM ALIVE AGAIN. THOSE TONGUES YOU HAD IN THAT

  1152. PENTECOSTAL CHURCH WHEN YOU WERE 16, 18 AND RESURRECT

  1153. THEM AND SHOW THESE LITTLE WHIPPER-STEPPERS HOW TO PRAY.

  1154. BECAUSE ALL THEY DO IS DO BABBLING. THEY DON'T DO

  1155. UTTERANCES. I NEED TO QUIT. I CAN'T FIND THE DOOR.

  1156. (CONGREGATION CHATTERING)

  1157. GOD HAS GOT A SIGNIFICANT RESPONSIBILITY UPON THEM AND

  1158. YOU. IT'S NOT JUST BECAUSE YOU'RE BECOMING KNOWN. THAT'S A

  1159. SIDE PRODUCT OF OBEDIENCE OF THE HIGH CALL. WHEN YOU OBEY THE

  1160. HIGH CALL, FAME COMES. WHEN YOU OBEY THE HIGH CALL, FINANCES

  1161. COME. BUT YOU CAN'T LET THAT BE THE SIGN THAT MAKES YOU WHAT YOU

  1162. ARE. THAT'S A BYPRODUCT. IT'S A BYPRODUCT. OBEY THE LORD. DON'T

  1163. LET YOUR PREFERENCES CAUSE YOU TO GET MAD AND LEAVE YOUR PLACE

  1164. WHERE GOD PUTS YOU IN THIS CHURCH AND IN THIS GREAT

  1165. REFORMATION. SOME OF YOU YOUNG MEN, YOU WANNA OBEY GOD, BUT YOU

  1166. ARE NEGOTIATING YOUR CALLING. THE CALL OF GOD IS NEVER

  1167. NEGOTIATED, IT'S RECEIVED OR REJECTED. YOU DON'T NEGOTIATE

  1168. WITH GOD, YOU ACCEPT IT OR YOU REJECT IT. YOU CAN'T TELL HIM,

  1169. I'LL ONLY PASS YOU IF YOU LET ME BE IN DALLAS OR BE IN NEW YORK

  1170. OR WHEREVER YOU WANNA BE. HA, WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE? TO

  1171. TALK TO THE CREATOR ABOUT HIS PLAN THROUGHOUT THE AGES THAT

  1172. HE'S KNOWN BEFORE YOU WERE BORN AND NOW YOU WANNA REWORK IT?

  1173. SHEESH. NO WONDER SOME THINGS ARE HAVING TROUBLE GETTING

  1174. BIRTHED IN THE EARTH WITH THESE ATTITUDES. IN AMERICA, YOU CAN

  1175. HAVE ENOUGH MONEY TO BUY YOUR FAME AND HAVE NOTHING TO SAY.

  1176. BUT THAT'S NOT THIS CHURCH, THAT'S NOT YOU. YOUR PASTORS,

  1177. THEIR FAMILY AND THE TEAM, SOMEONE'S BEEN HERE FOR A LONG

  1178. TIME, HAVE PAID A PRICE, OTHERS HAVE BEEN ADDED OVER THE YEARS.

  1179. NOW, GREAT RESPONSIBILITY HAS COME TO YOU. YOUR PROPHETIC

  1180. VOICE MUST BE SHARP. IT MUST NOT WAVER WITH THE FORCES OF

  1181. OPPOSITION, CONCERN OR WORRY. YOU CAN'T ALLOW MIXTURE IN IT.

  1182. FOR THE ONES THAT HAVE GONE BEFORE US AND JUST THE DECADES

  1183. BEHIND US, WE'RE TODAY REAPING THEM ALLOWING THE MIXTURES

  1184. INSIDE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT MOVE. ANYTIME YOU MIX THINGS, BRASS

  1185. AND GOLD, FIRE AND STRANGE FIRE, THOSE THAT MIX IT AND PERMIT IT

  1186. ALWAYS LOSE, MY FRIEND. THEY LOSE. AND SOMETIMES THEY LOSE

  1187. FAMILY MEMBERS. THEY LOSE BECAUSE ALL THE WORK OF THE

  1188. DEVIL KILLS, STEALS, DESTROYS. THE FIGHT TO KEEP THE STRAINS

  1189. FAR OUT WILL BE A FIGHT THAT WE MUST FIGHT UNTIL THE TIME HE

  1190. COMES OR WE GO. THE DEVIL DOESN'T WANT TO DESTROY THE

  1191. CHURCH. HE WANTS TO MIX IT AND CONTROL IT AND FOOL THE PEOPLE

  1192. THAT GOD IS BLESSING WHEN THERE IS SO MUCH MORE. HALLELUJAH.

  1193. (SPEAKING IN TONGUES)

  1194. LET'S JUST ALL STAND UP FOR A MOMENT AND

  1195. JUST PRAY IN TONGUES JUST FOR A MOMENT.

  1196. (SPEAKING IN TONGUES)

  1197. YOU THERE AT HOME, PRAY WITH US AS WELL. RIGHT THERE IN

  1198. YOUR HOME. OR ON YOUR PHONE, PRAY WITH US. JUST

  1199. PRAY IN TONGUES OUT LOUD. IF YOU HAVE THAT

  1200. LANGUAGE, IF NOT, JUST PRAY THE WORD AS YOU KNOW IT.

  1201. (SPEAKING IN TONGUES)

  1202. HALLELUJAH. GLORY BE TO GOD FOREVER.

  1203. (SPEAKING IN TONGUES)

  1204. PRAY A LITTLE BIT STRONGER. PRAY A LITTLE BIT STRONGER.

  1205. COME ON, JUST A LITTLE BIT STRONGER.

  1206. (PRAYING IN TONGUES)

  1207. HALLELUJAH. GLORY BE TO GOD FOREVER. HALLELUJAH. I HAVE TO

  1208. CLOSE. I HAVE TO COME BACK SOMETIME AND FINISH. FINISH WITH

  1209. YOU. I BELIEVE IN YOU. I BELIEVE IN YOUR PASTORS. AND THERE'S A

  1210. NEW SOUND COMING TO YOUR MUSIC DEPARTMENT, FOLKS. IT'S

  1211. APOSTOLIC MUSIC, NOT JUST PROPHETIC MUSIC. THEY'LL WORK

  1212. TOGETHER. YOU'RE USED TO THE PROPHETIC, BUT THE APOSTOLIC

  1213. WILL BE KIND OF NEW. IT'S A LITTLE BIT OF A DIFFERENT KIND

  1214. OF SOUND, BUT IT WORKS TOGETHER. 'CAUSE AFTER THAT, THE APOSTLES

  1215. HAVE BEEN RESTORED PROPERLY. THEY'LL BECOME THE GREAT

  1216. MARRIAGE OF THE 2 . AND THE MUSIC WILL DO PART OF THAT,

  1217. AMEN? I LOVE YOU. GOD BLESS YOU. PASTOR. ROBERTS, I WANT YOU TO

  1218. STAND OUT HERE WITH US. WE WANT TO HONOR YOU FOR JUST A MOMENT.

  1219. THAT WAS A TREMENDOUS WORD FROM GOD. THOSE OF YOU THAT ARE

  1220. WATCHING, I DON'T EVEN WANT TO FOLLOW UP ON THAT. WHAT I WANT

  1221. TO DO IS I WANT THAT TO SINK DEEP INTO MY SPIRIT BECAUSE GOD

  1222. HAS GIVEN US CLARITY FOR THE HOUR AND THE TIME THAT WE'RE IN.

  1223. YOU KNOW, YOU THINK ABOUT THAT. I MEAN, ROBERTS, I WAS THINKING

  1224. ABOUT WHEN I'VE SHARED THIS PUBLICLY ON MARCH 15TH OF 2020,

  1225. I WAS CAUGHT UP OVER THE EARTH AND I WAS LOOKING AT THE EARTH

  1226. AND HOW DARK IT WAS. AND THE AUTHORITATIVE VOICE DECLARED

  1227. DIVINE RESETS, DIVINE REVERSALS, AND THEN BEGAN TO DECLARE THAT

  1228. THE TIME AND THE HOUR OF THE GREATS OF GOD HAD COME TO THE

  1229. EARTH. AND I SAW LIKE A SHAFT OF LIGHT AND IT HIT, IT WENT BAM!

  1230. AND IT BEGAN TO HIT OVER AMERICA AND THIS DARKNESS BEGAN TO

  1231. DISPERSE. AND I NEVER REALIZED FULLY THAT WHAT GOD WAS SAYING

  1232. ABOUT DIVINE RESETS AND REVERSALS, HE WAS SPEAKING

  1233. REFORMATION. BUT I REMEMBER BACK IN SOME OF THOSE MCPHERSON,

  1234. KANSAS, WICHITA, SALINA, KANSAS DAYS WHEN WE WOULD GO DOWN

  1235. THERE. YOU WERE PREACHING ON REFORMATION THAT IT WAS COMING.

  1236. AND I REMEMBER SITTING THERE GOING, I'M NOT HEARING ANYBODY

  1237. SAY THIS. YOU WERE FORERUNNING IT AT THE TIME. THOSE SERMONS

  1238. FIT TODAY. THOSE SERMONS, OH, YES, RIGHT, YOU GOT MY, NO, THEY

  1239. FIT, NO, MAKE SURE YOUR MICROPHONE'S ON. THERE YOU GO.

  1240. NO, SAY IT BECAUSE THE SERMONS FIT TODAY. AND I THINK, AND I

  1241. JUST FEEL AS I'M STANDING NEXT TO YOU, SOME OF THOSE SERMONS

  1242. YOU GOTTA BRING BACK OUT AGAIN. I KNOW PEOPLE KEEP TELLING ME

  1243. THAT. YEAH, NO, REALLY, I DIDN'T KNOW THAT, BUT I'M TELLING YOU,

  1244. I FEEL AS I'M STANDING NEXT TO YOU, BECAUSE THEY WERE SEEDS IN

  1245. ITS DAY TO UNLOCK WHAT WE'RE WALKING INTO. AND THAT'S WHY

  1246. PEOPLE, YOU KNOW, THAT'S WHY THE, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE WANNA GET

  1247. ON TRUMP. WHY IS HE ONE OF THE MOST ATTACKED INDIVIDUALS?

  1248. BECAUSE THINK ABOUT IT, HE CAME OUT WITH A MESSAGE, MAKE AMERICA

  1249. GREAT AGAIN. DO YOU KNOW THAT MESSAGE IN ITSELF IS

  1250. REFORMATION? IT'S TO BRING CHANGE, GOOD CHANGE. BUT HERE'S

  1251. WHAT THEY DON'T LIKE. THEY DON'T LIKE WHAT REFORMATION CARRIES,

  1252. AND IT'S WHAT I'VE BEEN PREACHING TO YOU, THE GOD

  1253. FACTOR. BUT YOU KNOW, SOMETHING THAT CAME TO ME AS I WAS SITTING

  1254. THERE, AND I WAS HEARING YOU AT THE END, YOU WERE BEGINNING TO

  1255. APOSTOLICALLY REALLY SET THINGS IN ORDER, EVEN IN THIS CHURCH,

  1256. AND I APPRECIATE THAT. THANK YOU FOR OBEYING THAT. BUT EVEN TO

  1257. THE EARTH AND TO THE NATION. BUT I WAS SITTING THERE AND I WAS

  1258. THINKING TO MYSELF, THE DAYS OF LIKE ORAL ROBERTS UNIVERSITY,

  1259. RHEMA, SOME OF THESE MINISTRY SCHOOLS, WHERE'S THE NEW WAVE OF

  1260. THAT? IT'S REGIONAL. IT'S REGIONAL. IT'S GOING TO COME OUT

  1261. OF CHURCHES LIKE THIS. REGIONAL GOVERNING CHURCHES ARE GOING TO

  1262. HAVE THE TRAINING SCHOOLS TO LAUNCH THE MINISTRIES IN THE

  1263. FUTURE. I LOVE ORU. I LOVE REMA. I'M PART OF ALL THAT. BUT THIS

  1264. IS WHAT'S HAPPENING ALL OVER THE WORLD. IT'S COMING TO THIS

  1265. LEVEL, IT'S COMING. SO YOU'RE SEEING THIS, 'CAUSE I WAS

  1266. FEELING LIKE PART OF WHAT YOU WERE RELEASING IN THIS HOUSE IS

  1267. WHAT WE'RE SUPPOSED TO RAISE UP IS THAT MINISTRY EXPRESSION. I

  1268. WANT YOU TO HELP ME TO DO THAT. BUT I WANTED TO, ARE YOU SENSING

  1269. THE SAME THING THAT GOD IS GONNA BEGIN TO DO THIS? YOU'RE GONNA

  1270. BE A FORERUNNER OF THAT KIND OF, MANY THINGS YOU'LL HELP FORERUN,

  1271. BUT THAT SCHOOL, WHEN I WAS THERE THE LAST TIME I SAW IT, I

  1272. SAW IT AGAIN TONIGHT. THERE'S A REGIONAL SCHOOL THAT AFFECT THE

  1273. WORLD, BUT THERE'LL COME A DAY WHEN FOLKS WILL HAVE TO TRAVEL

  1274. ACROSS THE NATION. THEY'LL HAVE TO GO TO THE CHURCH THAT'S IN

  1275. THEIR TERRITORY AND GET THE SAME QUALITY OF NATURAL AND SPIRIT

  1276. AND BE LAUNCHED, THAT'S WHAT'S HAPPENING. YOU KNOW, AND I TELL

  1277. YOU WHAT HE SAID, THE MISSION FIELD IS GOING INTO SOME OF

  1278. THESE CITIES, THAT'S INCREDIBLE. I CAN'T WAIT TO TALK TO YOU FOR

  1279. THE NEXT COUPLE DAYS. WE'RE GONNA DO SOME FILMING TOMORROW.

  1280. BUT WE WANNA HONOR YOU TODAY BECAUSE YOUR BIRTHDAY IS

  1281. SATURDAY. AND ROBERTS, I WANNA SAY ONE THING THAT BRENDA AND I

  1282. THANK GOD FOR YOU. NOT ONLY DID YOU OBEY GOD, NOT EVEN KNOWING

  1283. TO HELP BRING THAT MANTLE AND DIFFERENT THINGS THAT WE'RE

  1284. OPERATING IN AND WALKING IN TODAY, YOU HELPED BIRTH IT IN US

  1285. THAT PEOPLE ARE PARTAKING OF. AND WE THANK GOD FOR YOU, BUT WE

  1286. THANK GOD FOR THE LORD. BUT ONE OF THE THINGS THAT ALWAYS

  1287. INSPIRED US IS THAT YOU WERE A YOUNG MAN, YOU ARE ABOUT OUR

  1288. SAME AGE, YOU'RE A LITTLE OLDER, BUT I WOULD LOOK AT YOU AND I

  1289. WOULD SAY, "BRENDA, THERE'S SOMETHING IN HIS CALLING "THAT I

  1290. FEEL LIKE WE'RE CALLED TO." SO I WANNA JUST THANK YOU FOR PAVING

  1291. THE WAY FOR US. IT HELPED US GET THROUGH A LOT OF DIFFICULT

  1292. TIMES, BUT IT ALSO YOU'RE NOT CRAZY. NO, WE'RE NOT CRAZY, NO.

  1293. BUT IT HELPED WHEN YOU DO WHAT THEY DO, YOU GO THROUGH THAT

  1294. THING, ARE WE NUTS? NO, NO, AND I WOULD HAVE PEOPLE IN THE

  1295. CHURCH, THAT'S WHY SOMETIMES I DON'T LIKE THAT OSCAR STATUE,

  1296. YOU EVER SEE IT? YEAH, YEAH. WHERE PEOPLE, YOU KNOW, BECAUSE

  1297. PEOPLE WOULD DO THAT WHEN I WOULD PREACH IN THE EARLY YEARS

  1298. AND THEY WOULD JUST STARE ME DOWN AND BE LIKE, WHAT IS WRONG

  1299. WITH ME? BUT, YOU KNOW, BRENDA KEPT SAYING, IGNORE IT, AND I

  1300. DID AND SO FORTH. BUT WE WANNA HONOR YOU, IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY ON

  1301. SATURDAY, AND WE WANNA SING TO YOU, AND WE ALSO I WANNA PRAY

  1302. SOMETHING. CAN WE PRAY SOMETHING BEFORE WE SING? YOU'RE CARRYING

  1303. SOMETHING, GO FOR IT. I FEEL THERE'S SOMETHING GO FOR IT,

  1304. BRENDA. WE NEED, STRETCH YOUR HANDS STRETCH YOUR HANDS. FOR

  1305. THIS MAN OF GOD. THANK YOU, GOD. AND I DON'T KNOW, THERE'S

  1306. SOMETHING THAT THE LORD IS SAYING ABOUT 60. AND THIS 60,

  1307. IT'S THE COMPLETION OF 6 DECADES. AND I SEE IT AS IF IT

  1308. WERE LIKE THE CREATION OF THE EARTH. AND IN THE 6 DAYS, GOD

  1309. CREATED, AND HE CREATED, AND HE CREATED. AND THE LORD SAID,

  1310. YOU'VE BEEN CREATING, YOU'VE BEEN MAKING, YOU'VE BEEN

  1311. PUSHING, YOU'VE BEEN FORMULATING, AND YOU'VE BEEN A

  1312. FORERUNNER. BUT THE LORD SAYS, YOU ARE ABOUT TO COME IN NOW TO

  1313. THE SEASON OF THE RESULTS, THE 7TH DAY. YOU ARE ENTERING THE

  1314. SEVENTH, AND THE LORD SAYS THAT YOU WILL SEE THE RESULTS OF

  1315. THINGS THAT YOU HAVE WAITED FOR, YOU'VE ASKED GOD FOR, BUT THE

  1316. LORD SAYS, AND THERE'S THINGS THAT YOU'VE THOUGHT, WELL, MAYBE

  1317. I MISSED THAT AREA, BUT THE LORD IS SAYING THIS 7TH DAY, YOU WILL

  1318. COME INTO THE RESULTS OF WHAT YOU HAVE BIRTHED AND PUSHED AND

  1319. PRESSED, AND THAT WHICH YOU HAVE SPOKEN BY WAY OF THE PROPHETIC

  1320. AND THE APOSTOLIC WORDS. SO THE LORD SAYS, GET READY FOR AS YOU

  1321. ENTER THE SEVENTH, IT'LL BE RESTFUL, NOT THAT YOU'LL SLOW

  1322. DOWN OR STOP, BUT THE LORD SAYS THERE WILL BE A DIVINE REST IN

  1323. IT, AND YOU WILL SEE THE RESULTS OF 6 DECADES, AND IT'LL BEGIN TO

  1324. COME TO PASS, AND YOU WILL SAY, SAYS THE LORD, THIS GOD IS WHAT

  1325. I WAS WAITING FOR, AND THAT IS WHAT I BELIEVE THE LORD IS

  1326. SAYING OVER YOUR LIFE. I ALSO BELIEVE THIS TOO, ROBYN, 'CAUSE

  1327. I'M SEEING SOMETHING. AS MY HAND WAS ON YOUR SHOULDER, I WAS

  1328. FEELING SOMETHING IN THE SPIRIT, AND IT FEELS LIKE YOU'RE GETTING

  1329. SOMETHING ADDED TO THE SHOULDER OF THE GOVERNMENTAL APOSTOLIC

  1330. AUTHORITY THAT YOU'VE BEEN DELEGATED BY JESUS. AND IT HAS

  1331. TO DO WITH, BROTHER HAGEN WOULD OFTEN SAY, YOU'RE ENTERING INTO

  1332. ANOTHER PHASE OF YOUR MINISTRY. AND THIS REALLY IS WHAT'S

  1333. UNLOCKING, IS YOU'RE COMING INTO ANOTHER PHASE. AND EVEN YOU

  1334. SAID, GOD, YOU KNOW, I'VE DONE THIS AND I'VE DONE THAT. WHAT

  1335. ELSE DO YOU WANT ME TO DO? AND ONE OF THE THINGS THE LORD IS

  1336. WANTING TO REMIND YOU OF IS THE SCRIPTURE THAT PAUL SAID

  1337. CONCERNING TIMOTHY, THE FAITH THAT WAS IN HIS MOTHER AND

  1338. GRANDMOTHER, THAT FAITH IS IN YOU. BUT GOD SAYS, NOW THAT

  1339. THERE HAS BEEN THE MOTHERING SPIRIT, REALLY WHAT IT WAS IS TO

  1340. RAISE UP A MAN, THE MAN, ROBERT LIARDON, WHO SHALL STAND NOW AS

  1341. YOU SHIFT INTO YOUR 60S INTO THE FATHERING, ANOINTING AND SPIRIT

  1342. THAT HAS BEEN ON YOU, BUT YOU'RE GOING TO SEE IT BREAK FORTH LIKE

  1343. YOU'VE NEVER SEEN BEFORE. IT'S ALMOST LIKE AN ALABASTER BOX IS

  1344. BEING BROKEN. ALL THE THINGS YOU'VE DONE, ALL THE THINGS

  1345. YOU'VE STUDIED, ALL THAT YOU'VE SPOKEN AND EVEN RESEARCHED IS

  1346. NOW GOING TO BE BROKEN OPEN. AND YOU'RE GOING TO COME INTO A

  1347. FATHERING DIMENSION AND AN AUTHORITY THAT COMES FROM

  1348. HEAVEN. AND HERE'S WHAT THE LORD IS SAYING. THERE'S A DIVINE

  1349. ALIGNMENT AND STRATEGIC ORDER THAT IS COMING TO YOU. AND WHAT

  1350. IT WILL BE IS THIS, THAT GOD IS GOING TO ALIGN YOU WITH SOME OF

  1351. WHAT YOU PROPHESIED TO BRENDA AND I, THAT YOU WOULD RUN WITH

  1352. THE GENERALS OF THE EARTH. YOU HAVE, YOU'VE DONE IT, BUT GOD

  1353. SAYS, "THERE ARE THOSE WHO ARE REFORMERS "THAT HAVE BEEN RAISED

  1354. UP, THE GENERALS OF THE EARTH." YOU'RE GONNA LINK ARMS. AND SO

  1355. THE LORD SAYS, "BE WISE ABOUT YOUR TRAVEL, "BE WISE ABOUT YOUR

  1356. CONNECTIONS, "BECAUSE I'M NOT CONNECTING YOU TO EVERYONE."

  1357. THERE IS A NEW DIMENSION OF THOSE THAT ARE GONNA STAND NEXT

  1358. TO YOU, VERY POWERFUL MEN, VERY POWERFUL WOMEN, STRATEGIC

  1359. PEOPLE. AND THE LORD SAID, "THEY'RE GONNA BE OLDER.

  1360. "THEY'RE GONNA BE OUR AGE. "THEY'RE GONNA BE PART OF THE

  1361. DECADES "OF WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT, "THE '50S AND THE '60S

  1362. AND THE '70S." AND GOD SAYS IT'S TO HELP TO MENTOR THE YOUNGER

  1363. GENERATION THAT IS COMING. AND THE LORD SAYS, "YOU'RE GONNA

  1364. WATCH "HOW YOUR SCHEDULE'S GONNA SHIFT." AND IT'S GONNA ALMOST BE

  1365. LIKE WHAT WAS WITH SAMUEL, WHERE HE WAS GIVEN LIKE THE CIRCUIT

  1366. CITIES, THERE WERE STRATEGIC REGIONS AND CITIES AND THINGS

  1367. AND ALIGNMENTS AND ASSIGNMENTS THAT GOD'S GONNA SEND YOU TO,

  1368. THAT YOUR WHOLE SCHEDULE'S GONNA BE SHIFTED, IT'S GONNA CHANGE.

  1369. YOU WATCH HOW THIS HAPPENS. AND THE LAST THING THAT I SEE THE

  1370. LORD SAYING, "SON, IT'S TIME FOR ME TO BLESS YOU WITH

  1371. STATE-OF-THE-ART TELEVISION AND STUDIO EQUIPMENT, BECAUSE I WANT

  1372. YOU TO HAVE OTHERS, EVEN A STAFF THAT I'LL SEND, I'LL PAY FOR IT,

  1373. I'LL PROVIDE IT, BECAUSE I WANT TO CAPTURE NOW, NOT JUST IN

  1374. WRITTEN FORM, WHAT I SPOKE TO YOU YEARS AGO, REGARDING

  1375. GENERALS, REGARDING RAISING UP AND MENTORING AND TRAINING, I

  1376. WANT THE SIGHT AND THE SOUND NOW. AND SO I'M GOING TO DO WHAT

  1377. I DID WHEN ELIJAH DECLARED AN ANOINTING IN A ROOM. I WANT TO

  1378. CREATE A ROOM, A PLACE, A RAISING UP AND A PASSING NOW

  1379. FORWARD OF A RESPONSIBILITY, OF A TRANSITION THAT YOU WILL DO

  1380. MORE IN A STUDIO SETTING TO CAPTURE WHAT I'VE PLACED IN YOU.

  1381. THANK YOU, LORD. AMEN. HALLELUJAH. COME ON, GIVE GOD A

  1382. PRAISE. ALL RIGHT, DON'T GO AWAY. LET'S ALL SING. CAN WE

  1383. SING? OKAY, YOU READY? HERE WE GO. ALL RIGHT, LET'S SING TO

  1384. HIM. LET'S GO. HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU THIS IS FOR YOU, ROBERT.

  1385. HERE, I'LL COME OVER BY BRENDA. I GET MY BALLOON. HAPPY BIRTHDAY

  1386. TO YOU, ROBERT COME ON, ONLINE, SING TO HIM. ROBERTS, HAPPY

  1387. BIRTHDAY TO YOU. AMEN. THANK YOU. THANK YOU GUYS, APPRECIATE

  1388. IT. WELL, WE'RE GONNA BE TAPING TOMORROW WITH HIM. ROBERTS, ARE

  1389. YOU DOING BOOKS OR WHAT ARE YOU DOING TONIGHT? ARE YOU? I DON'T,

  1390. WHATEVER, I CAN FIND BOOKS OR WHATEVER.

  1391. OKAY. I HAVE A BIRTHDAY BALLOON, PRAISE THE LORD. YOU GOT IT ALL,

  1392. WHATEVER YOU WANNA DO. BE SEATED VERY, VERY QUICKLY. I JUST WANNA

  1393. RECEIVE AN OFFERING FOR THIS MAN OF GOD. THANK YOU FOR COMING

  1394. TONIGHT AS WELL. ONLINE, IF YOU'RE THERE, JOIN US. USHERS

  1395. ARE GONNA SERVE YOU QUICKLY AND GO OUT TO THE BOOK TABLE, WIPE

  1396. OUT ALL OF THE MATERIAL. AND YOU KNOW, IT'S FUNNY, I TOLD PASTOR

  1397. MATT WHILE WE'RE SITTING ON THE FRONT ROW, I SAID, WHEN HE

  1398. MENTIONED KENNETH HAGIN'S BOOKS, I SAID, I THINK I READ 'EM ALL.

  1399. HE GOES, ALL OF 'EM? I GO, WELL, HE HAD A LOT, BUT I DID WRITE,

  1400. AND I STILL HAVE THE WHOLE, PRETTY MUCH THE WHOLE LIBRARY. I

  1401. MIGHT BE MISSING ONE, I DON'T KNOW. BUT I SAID, BUT THAT'S HOW

  1402. I GOT TO KNOW THE WORD, IS I'D READ BOOKS OF SOMEBODY AND I'D

  1403. LEARN THE WORD. SO I ENCOURAGE YOU, GO OUT AND GET ALL THE

  1404. MATERIAL. GUEST SPEAKER IS THE WAY TO GIVE. YOU'LL SEE UNDER

  1405. THERE, GUEST SPEAKER, THERE'S A FUND FOR THAT, OR WRITE IT ON

  1406. YOUR ENVELOPE, AND GO OUT AND GET ALL THE MATERIAL. WASN'T

  1407. THIS AMAZING TONIGHT? WOW. SOMETIMES WE NEED THESE, I CALL

  1408. IT LIKE THIS, LIKE ASSIGNMENT-DRIVEN MESSAGES. THEY

  1409. DRIVE US TO AN ASSIGNMENT, NOT JUST AN EXISTENCE. AND THAT'S

  1410. WHAT I DON'T WANT. I DON'T WANT TO JUST BE ONLY THE

  1411. PROMISE-DRIVEN CHRISTIAN. I WANT TO BE DRIVEN TO WHAT IS MY

  1412. ASSIGNMENT IN THE KINGDOM OF GOD. AND FOR MANY OF US, IT

  1413. REALLY IS PRAYER. I MEAN, IT'S SERVING, IT'S BEING INVOLVED,

  1414. IT'S DISCIPLING, IT'S ALL THE THINGS THAT WE DO, AND IT'S

  1415. BEING INVOLVED IN THE CULTURE. BUT DID YOU NOTICE TONIGHT THE

  1416. EMPHASIS ON THE PRAYER PART OF IT? WOW, WE GOT TO STEP IT UP,

  1417. DON'T WE? AND IT'S ONE THING ABOUT US HERE AND ALL OF OUR

  1418. E-MEMBERS, YOU GUYS KNOW HOW TO PRAY AND GET RESULTS. AND BOY,

  1419. AMERICA NEEDS IT RIGHT NOW. AND THAT'S WHY I THINK THERE IS SUCH

  1420. AN EMPHASIS ON THE NATION, 'CAUSE OUR ASSIGNMENT HAS

  1421. SHIFTED. IT'S SHIFTED TO SAVE A COUNTRY SO THAT THE GOSPEL CAN

  1422. BE PREACHED AND GO ALL OVER THE WORLD. SO, ALL RIGHT, WELL, WHEN

  1423. YOU HAVE YOUR GIVING READY, USHERS, START WORKING YOUR WAY

  1424. DOWN THE AISLES. AND I'M NOT EVEN GONNA PRAY OVER IT. WE'RE

  1425. JUST GONNA FINISH UP FOR TONIGHT SO YOU CAN GET HOME AND GET YOUR

  1426. KITTIES AND SEE IF THE YOUTH HAVE GONE CRAZY DOWN THERE. I

  1427. DON'T KNOW, BUT AMEN. OKAY, WELL, LOVE ON SOMEBODY ONCE

  1428. YOU'VE GIVEN, MAKE YOUR WAY OUT, GO TO THE BOOK TABLE, GRAB ALL

  1429. THE THINGS, AND WE WILL SEE YOU GUYS ON SUNDAY. ENJOY THE GOOD

  1430. WEATHER, AMEN, GET OUTSIDE, AMEN. ALL RIGHT, WE LOVE YOU,

  1431. GOD BLESS YOU, INTERNET. WE'LL SEE YOU SUNDAY, BYE-BYE.