Angels, Men, and Divine Intersections | Annette Capps | World Outreach Church

Yeah. And you know, someone said said of

me said, "Annette doesn't just throw

words out, you know, just to say them,

and I don't, but you have something

here. You have been taught the word, but

you also have the moving of the Holy

Spirit." And that doesn't happen

everywhere.

And you also have such a presence of God

in this place because you have Pastor

Mark and Janet

>> who know how to open that door

>> for the spirit of God to move who know

how not to grieve the Holy Spirit

>> and how to allow him to move in when

they come together.

>> Anyway, I just it's a blessing and I

want you to to just remember that what a

blessing it is. Now, every time I speak,

the Lord gives me a message

>> and it's for it's for the church. It is

for the whole body of Christ, but

specifically for this church. And so

today, he gave me a message and I'm

going to

begin and we'll see where the spirit of

God leads us. But the name of the

message is angels,

men, and divine intersections.

>> Does everybody know what an intersection

is?

>> If I say the intersection of 71st and

Memorial, do you know what I'm talking

about in Tulsa, Oklahoma?

>> There are intersections all over this

town. And what happens when you come to

an intersection? You've got to go right

or left or straight.

Probably shouldn't go backwards,

but you come to an intersection and

something happens. Well, recently I was

studying on the word intercession

uh in Timothy there and it actually

means intersection.

Now, isn't that interesting? It means an

intersection. So if you're interceding

for somebody, you're coming to an

intersection and you're either going to

open it to bring them through or you're

going to block something. Right? So

let's start with we're going to just

kind of breeze through a little bit of

the first part of the book of Acts and

we're going to talk about the things

that happened after Jesus ascended to

the father.

So, in Acts chapter 1 verse 8, I don't

Acts 1:8

know if we tried to get all of these

scriptures. Yes, there we go. Acts 18,

Jesus said, "You shall receive power."

Everybody say, "Power."

>> Power.

>> I've got the power.

>> Oh, that was weaker. How many of you

receive the Holy Spirit?

>> Okay. He said, "You shall receive

power."

>> Say, "Power."

>> Power. and say, "I have the power."

>> I have the power

>> because I have the Holy Spirit.

>> Because I have the Holy Spirit.

>> Now, sometimes we can come and we can

hear those words and we can mouth them

and not think about that. What what that

means. But the Holy Spirit, if he's on

the inside of you, the source of all

power is on the inside of you.

>> Right?

>> I know you know that. Okay. So, we're

going to move around and find out what

that means. says, "And you shall receive

power when the Holy Spirit has come upon

you, and you shall

be my witnesses."

Now, what what is a witness?

>> Have any of you ever been to court?

Hopefully not because you were being

prosecuted, but have any of you ever

been to court and they called the

witnesses?

>> Yeah. and they call them up there and

they asked them, "What did you see?

>> What did you hear? What happened?"

And so at this point in time, this is

right when Jesus is getting ready to

ascend into heaven. These are the final

words he had with his disciples.

And he said, "I want you to go to

Jerusalem and wait because the Holy

Spirit's going to come, the promise of

the Father, and then

you're going to be endued with power or

clothed with power from on high." That

word means clothed. It's like you're

putting on a different set of clothes.

You're going to be clothed with power.

And then you will be my witnesses.

>> Now, think about going to court. You get

up and you testify what? what you have

seen and heard.

>> Amen.

>> I would like to ask you today,

have any of you ever seen Jesus do

anything in your life?

>> Has the Holy Spirit ever spoken any

words of comfort to you through the word

of God or just in your heart? Anybody?

Amen.

>> So if Jesus has done something for you,

if you have made him your Lord and

Savior, if he has baptized you in the

Holy Spirit, if you have power from on

high, if you've seen a change in your

life, a difference in your life, then

you have something you can witness

about, right?

>> I'm able to testify of these things. I'm

able to be a witness because he's done

something for me. And you know what? You

can go stand and and preach at people

all day long and quote scriptures to

them.

But something happens with their ear

when you say, "Yeah, I've been there.

I've been in that situation. I had that

happen in my life. I got divorced. My

husband left me. My wife left me. I lost

a child. This happened. my son is in

jail. Whatever. When you testify what's

happened in your life, then their ear

>> is turned.

>> Their ear is turned.

>> And you know what?

Then when you tell them how you got

through that situation, when you tell

them about the peace of God that passes

all understanding, how God intervened in

your life, how God brought you through a

dark place that you thought you'd never

get through because that's where they

are

>> and they find out that they're going to

be brought out that they it's there's

hope.

>> There's hope. Then something happens in

them, right? All right. So this is where

we start what Jesus said. Now at this

same time as Jesus is getting ready to

ascend to the father and go into heaven.

It said the angels said.

>> Everybody say angels.

>> Angels.

>> How many of you believe in angels?

>> Yeah. They're in the Bible. Well guess

what? They're not just stuck in the

pages of the Bible.

[laughter]

They're not just stuck in this book.

They're here with us in the service

today. We may not see them, but they're

here. They're here when you drive home.

>> There have been times that I've been

glad that the angels were with me.

>> Really glad.

>> I'm going to I'm going to just give you

a little time to think about this with

the angels and everything because

angels from the very beginning of Jesus

birth had a big part because who came

and told Mary what was going to happen?

Yeah.

>> The first coming of Jesus.

The first coming of Jesus.

The angel announced and said, "You will

call his name Jesus.

>> The angel announced it. The angels

angels were involved in the very

beginning

at the first coming."

Well, my my my

if they were so involved at the first

coming,

>> what makes us think they're not going to

really be involved in the second coming?

>> Now, a lot of people have got the wrong

idea about the second coming. They only

look at at at what happens at the end,

the wrath. But what they don't realize

is that Paul himself says we have this

hope.

>> It is a hope. The second coming of Jesus

is something to look forward to just

like the first coming of Jesus was

something to look forward to.

And so what makes us think that if the

angels who had such a big part in the

first coming of Christ that they're not

going to be really involved in the

second coming. And what I mean is not

just the fact that he comes but getting

everything

ready.

Hm.

>> Glory.

>> Just as at the first coming, there were

people that were praying and there were

things that had to be happen. John the

Baptist had to come and prepare the way.

Well, guess what? There has to be a

preparing of the way for the second

coming

>> as well.

>> And so the angels have a part in that.

So these two angels

said, "Men of Galilee, why do you stand

looking into heaven? This same Jesus who

was taken up from you into heaven will

come in just the same way as you have

seen him departing into heaven.

>> Angels bring good news.

>> Said he's coming back.

>> He's not gone forever. He's coming back.

>> And so these angels announced this. Now

angels are messengers of God. You know

Hebrews 1, you know, tells us that the

angels are ministering spirits sent

forth to minister for those who are

heirs of salvation. Are you an heir of

salvation?

>> Well, you see, there are a lot of people

out there in the world that aren't born

again by the spirit that are heirs of

salvation. They just don't know it.

>> So, the angels are sent to minister in

those situations.

Angels also

talk, always point back to Jesus. Angels

don't come and preach your own gospel.

They point back to Jesus. Angels are

also in charge of getting people in the

right place at the right time.

>> Have you ever been in the right place at

the right time?

>> All right, let's let's take a a deacon,

not the apostle, but the deacon,

Philillip. Let's take a quick look at

him.

In Acts chapter 8,

Acts 8 · chapter mention

he had an appointment at a divine

intercession directed by angels and the

Holy Spirit. Now, who was Philillip?

There was Philip the apostle, but there

was also Philillip who was a deacon.

Okay. So, in Acts chapter 8 and let's

Acts 8 · chapter mention

see where do we want to start with that?

I'm going to start I'm going to read

from here. So

let me give you a little background.

Philip was having a magnificent revival.

People being born again, healed,

delivered.

He was in a wonderful revival. And it

says, "An angel of the Lord said to

Philillip,

rise and proceed south to the road that

runs from Jerusalem to Gaza, crossing

the desert.

Well, that doesn't make sense to me.

Does it make sense to you?

He's in the middle of the best revival

he's ever had and an angel says, I want

you to go out in the desert.

And you know, the first thing I would

have said was, "Why?" [laughter]

That's what a lot of us say. It doesn't

say it. It doesn't say what Philip said,

but it just says this. He just got up

and he rose and he went.

>> Now, as it happened, I love that word,

as it happened. It just so happened. It

just so happened an angel appeared to

him. It just so happened that when he

got in the desert,

an Ethiopian unic who was in a position

of high authority with Candace, Queen of

the Ethiopians, as her treasurer, this

was the treasurer of the queen.

He had visited Jerusalem to worship

worship there and was now on his way

home. And as he sat in his chariot, he

was reading the prophet Isaiah.

Then the spirit said to Philillip, "Go

and join that chariot."

So here he is, Philip standing in the

desert going,

"What am I doing in the desert? I was

having a great revival where I was."

However,

this man in this chariot, it must have

been some chariot, folks. This wasn't

like a log wagon.

He was a treasurer for the queen.

And it said he heard him. He was reading

the prophet Isaiah. He must have been

reading out loud like Robert does.

Robert, you all know Robert Martino.

Robert said that in order to keep his

mind focused, he reads aloud as he reads

the Bible. So, he must have been reading

aloud. But anyway, notice that an angel

appeared to him. But then the spirit

said to him,

"Go and join the chariot." So, Philip

ran up and heard the unic reading the

prophet Isaiah.

Well, isn't that interesting?

Here was a man reading the prophet

Isaiah. Philip said, "Do you understand

what you're reading?" Well, how can I

unless some

everybody say someone?

>> How can I unless someone explains it to

me?

This man was hungry for the things of

God.

>> He was hungry.

>> And so he invited Philillip to come up

and sit with him. And the passage he

happened

to be reading,

I said he happened to be reading was in

Isaiah 53:7 and 8. Like a sheep he was

Isaiah 53:7

led to the slaughter. And just as a lamb

before its sheer is dumb, so he opened

not his mouth. In his humiliation, it

justice was denied him. Who will make

known his posterity? for he is destroyed

from among men.

And this

[laughter]

this this guy's sitting reading about

the Messiah Jesus. And so Philillip is

what just coming from a great revival

telling people about the Messiah. And

yet here is a man

way miles away who is hungry.

And he says, "Can you tell me, pray, of

whom is the prophet speaking?" inquired

the unic of himself or some else.

Then Philillip began to speak.

Philillip began to speak and starting

from that same portion of scripture told

him the good news or the gospel about

Jesus. Here is somebody,

somebody looking, somebody searching,

somebody wanting to know,

>> an important somebody nonetheless.

>> Somebody wanting to know.

And he's begins to explain to him and

tell him the good news of Jesus that

this scripture pertains to Jesus who was

crucified for our sins and was

resurrected. Now, it's one thing for

somebody to die.

>> We read obituaries every day. It's one

thing for somebody to die. Oh, yes, I

knew them. They were a good person and

they died. Yes, I knew him. He was a

prophet. He died. Yes, I knew them. they

were so and so and they died. But no,

this man Jesus, this same Jesus that the

angel said, this same Jesus,

>> this same Jesus, he was resurrected.

>> Not only did he come back from the dead,

a lot of people die and then come back,

have, you know, experiences where

they've died and come back. But you know

what? Unless Jesus comes, they're going

to die again. Amen.

>> This man,

Jesus,

the Messiah, the son of God, was

resurrected and raised from the dead.

>> And this is the fulfillment of all the

law and the prophets that he

accomplished what God had given him to

do. And so the unic

said, they proceeded on their way, I'm

sure, with a great conversation

until they came to some water. And the

unic exclaimed.

Everybody say exclaimed.

>> He didn't say, "Oh, well, hey, by the

way, there's some water." I Oh,

[clears throat] there's a farm pond.

Yeah. He exclaimed,

"There's some water.

There's some water right there. What is

there to prevent me from being baptized

right now?

So he stopped the chariot and both of

them Philip and Unic went into the down

into the water and Philip baptized him.

>> Somebody was hungry. Somebody was

seeking.

>> But look at what happened. an angel of

God

appears and and tells somebody to leave

what looks like the best thing that

could be happening

and go into the desert

and then speaks to him about who to talk

to.

Now, we look at this and we think about

this treasurer of the queen being the

important part of this message.

But what if

Philillip had said, [clears throat]

>> "Oh, well that doesn't make sense to me.

God wouldn't possibly pull me out of a

great revival and send me in the middle

of the desert."

>> Oops.

[laughter]

>> That's one of my favorite sayings.

And And when I say that, it's because it

zings somebody.

Well, that doesn't make sense to me. God

wouldn't do that.

>> Yeah, but it said Philillip arose and

went.

>> And we know

>> that the message of the gospel of Jesus

Christ was spread through Ethiopia

>> and there are Christians there today.

>> Why was it so why was why was this so

important? Because

this message of the gospel of Jesus

Christ had to be preached

>> to keep it alive for all these 2,000

years

>> to get ready for the great harvest and

the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ.

>> There was a supernatural thing that

happened. Okay, so remember this. The

intersection in the desert.

>> Yeah. Oh, it wasn't a paved concrete

intersection, but there was an

intersection, a divine intersection.

There was a an intersection of the

spirit of God, of the plan and purpose

of God, knowing that the word of the

living God and of Jesus Christ needed to

be spread through Ethiopia. And an

intersection took place and somebody was

some

>> was at that intersection. Yes.

>> So good.

>> Someone was at that intersection.

>> So then we move on to the next chapter

and I'm going to just breeze through

this because I just realized as I was

sitting in the green room and I saw the

schedule of the service that I'm have 30

minutes

and never have I spoken here for 30

minutes.

I'm going to move it along.

So the next chapter, Acts nine, Saul is

on the road to Damascus and he was on a

road.

He was on the road and he had an

intersection.

And this intersection was a block

because

we see that as he is going, if we go

into the first the first part of Acts

chapter nine, it says now this is right

after Philillip. Now Saul, whose every

breath was a threat of destruction for

the disciples of the Lord,

what a [clears throat] testimony.

His every breath was a threat of

destruction. He went to the high priest

and begged from him letters addressed to

the synagogues in Damascus in order that

he he found any who were of the way,

either men or women, he might bring them

in chains to Jerusalem.

He had every intent and purpose of

bringing these people who followed Jesus

Christ

in to have them I mean you know nothing

please him better than to have them

stoned.

And yet he came to an intersection on

the road to Damascus.

And at this intersection,

it says a light shone from heaven.

And the power of it, which we know is

the shikina power, the shikina of God,

the presence of God shone on him. And it

says it knocked him off.

>> And as he lay in the dirt, they heard a

voice saying,

"Saul, why are you persecuting me?" And

he's like, "Who are you? What are you

talking about?" And he said, "I am Jesus

who you're persecuting."

And it said he became blind and he

couldn't see anything.

So what happened next? I just love this

next part. It's just I mean it makes a

lot of sense to me.

Uh Jesus said, "I am Jesus who you are

persecuting. Rise and go to the city and

you will be told what you are to do."

Now he goes in the city three days,

three nights. He doesn't eat or drink.

And look at what happens

here. We have in verse 10. Now in

Damascus there was a disciple. Everybody

say disciple.

>> Previously we have Philip the deacon.

Now we have a disciple.

A disciple whose name was Ananas.

The Lord spoke to him in a vision. How

many of you look believe in visions?

>> They happen. And the Lord said to him,

Ananas. And he said, 'I'm here, Lord.

And he said, rise, said the Lord, and go

to Straight Street, and inquire at the

house of Judas for a man called Saul

from Tarsus, for he is praying. He had

seen a man called Ananas come and lay

his hands upon him so that he may

recover his sight. Well, that was pretty

specific.

>> True.

>> I mean, go to the desert.

Well, that, you know, on the way to

Gaza, that's pretty specific. But listen

to this. Listen to how specific this is.

Saul, the house of Judas. So, we've got

the where he's staying. A man called

Saul from Tarsus. He is praying. And he

has seen a man called Ananas come and

lay his hands upon him so he may recover

his sight. Well, man, most of us if we

got a message like that, wow, the gifts

of the spirit are operating.

>> Had a vision.

But wait a minute.

Lord, [laughter]

this way I hear him saying it. Lord

said answered Ananas, I have heard about

that man from many and about the great

mischief he has done to thy saints in

Jerusalem. And here in this place he is

authorized by the high priest to arrest

and call all who call upon thy name. Are

you kidding God?

>> He has the papers. [snorts]

He's got the papers to have me put in

prison and killed

>> and you want me to go You want me to go

to his house?

>> It would make my voice go up. Really?

Are you sure?

Go,

replied the Lord. He [snorts] is a

chosen instrument of mine to carry my

name to the Gentiles, to the kings, and

to the sons of Israel.

So here we know what happened. Ananas

went laid his hands on him said,

"Brother Saul, the Lord sent me and the

scales fell off of his eyes." Now here

is another intersection between a divine

appointment with Ananas

and Saul.

Have you ever wondered how how many

other people God spoke to to go pray for

Saul and they said, "Oh no, that's not

God.

Just asking

>> a divine intersection. And here we we

put Paul at foremost in the scriptures.

But what about Ananas?

>> Ananas was the one that God used. What

if what if we did not have

the writings of Paul in the New

Testament?

Do you see how important this is?

>> Do we hear about anything else that's

really big about Ananas and his ministry

and all that? No. It said he was a

disciple and at one time God spoke to

him and sent him someplace.

the intersection.

This was

a man that defied

all the reasonings and said, "I'll obey

the Lord." And he went and spoke to

Saul. All right, let's move on to Acts

Acts 10 · chapter mention

chapter 10. I told you we're going to go

fast through this. Acts chapter 10, we

Acts 10 · chapter mention

have a Roman soldier

named Cornelius.

And here again, you notice these are

these are like chapter after chapter.

Are you seeing that?

>> It's like 8, nine, 10. Okay. It says,

"Now a captain of the Italian regiment

named Cornelius. He was a Roman soldier

who knew about authority. He was

religious and God-fearing and so was

every member of his household. He was

also liberal in his charities of to the

people. In other words, he was a giver.

Everybody say giver.

>> Giver.

>> And continually offered prayer to God.

About 3:00 one afternoon, he had a

vision.

There's another vision. And distinctly

saw an angel of God enter his house who

called him by name, saying, "Cornelius."

Looking steadily at him and being much

alarmed, he said, "What is it, Lord?"

Lord. Now that word Lord is like master.

And this is what this is what he said.

Your prayers and some places it's um

called alms but it says charities or

giving have gone up as a memorial before

God. And now send to Japa. And now

listen to this. Send to where? Japa.

There's the location. Fetch who? Simon

whose surname is Peter. He is lodging

with Simon. There's another name, a

tanner whose house who has a house close

to the sea.

So when the angel who had been speaking

to him was gone, Cornelius called two of

his servants and a god-fearing soldier

who was in constant attendance. And

after telling them everything, he sent

them to Japa. And we know the end result

of that. Why did it take a vision and an

angel to get Peter? Peter followed

Jesus. Why did it take? Did you know

that even religious people, even

Christians

can be a little nervous about stepping

out some places?

>> I mean, Peter, he was a Jew. He had

never violated those laws of impurity to

stay away from Gentiles.

And yet God had to give him a vision. So

he knew to go talk to Coronelius who was

a Roman.

And you know what?

They were hungry.

>> They were waiting.

>> And so when Peter got there, he started

talking about Jesus of Nazareth, the one

who died. We was ro who rose again,

resurrected.

And as he's talking about that, he said,

'I know you've heard about all this

stuff going on in Jerusalem about how

they killed him and all that, but God

anointed, this is where this comes from,

but God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with

the Holy Ghost and with power, who went

about doing

>> good and healing all that were oppressed

of the devil. And as he's getting ready

and saying his next sentences, the Holy

Ghost fell, it says on those

Romans.

>> And it said that fell on his and all of

them were in shock. How could the Holy

Spirit fall on this bunch of heathen?

>> But they were seeking God and the Holy

Spirit fell. And how did they know? And

they were all filled with the Holy

Spirit. It says, "How did they know they

were filled with the Holy Spirit?" Well,

right there it tells us

because they heard them speak with

tongues. Verse 46, they heard them

speaking in tongues and extolling the

majesty of God. That's how they knew

they were filled with the Holy Spirit.

So here we have a man, a divine

intercession.

[laughter]

Thank you, Lord. I am so glad that we

weren't left out.

>> Now, maybe maybe you're Jewish. I don't

know,

>> but most of you aren't Jewish. And as

far as as as everybody was concerned, we

were left out. But we were not left out.

>> The sacrifice of Jesus covered every

man, woman, and child ever to be born on

the face of the earth.

Everyone was covered. And thank God that

day when Peter, who became the first

pope, so to speak, when Peter saw what

happened, he could not deny.

>> He didn't understand what Jesus had

said.

But he could not deny once the Holy

Spirit had fallen them on them and

baptized them in the Holy Spirit and

they spoke with tongues and glorified

God. he could no longer deny.

Don't let your thoughts and your

religious tradition and your religious

ideas. You say, "Oh, we're not

religious. Woo, we're word of faith.

>> We're filled with the Holy Ghost. We're

not religious.

>> Yeah.

>> Really?

>> Oh, we are.

>> We've got ideas about what we do and

what we don't do. This is what we do.

>> But I want to take us back to Acts 18

where Jesus said, "You will receive

power after the Holy Ghost has come upon

you and you will witness what you know."

>> We are to prepare the coming for the

second coming of the Lord. How How does

that work? We just get all goosebumps.

Talk about it. Get excited. Yeah. Glory

to God. I'm so excited. Jesus is coming

again.

>> Well, yeah, let's do that, too.

>> But the way we get ready, Jesus said

there will become a great separation in

the end days.

>> There'll be a great harvest that comes

and then the reapers, which are the

angels, will be sent.

>> Whoa. Talk about an intersection.

>> Talk about an intersection. And the

angels of God, the reapers come to help

with the harvest and the separation. I

got news for you. They're already here

and it's already started. All this stuff

you see. Oh, isn't it terrible? All the

stuff, all the things that are going on,

it's the it's the same attitude, the

same spirit that was in operation when

Jesus came first. When all of those all

of those good religious people

When Pilate said, "I can release

somebody to you. Don't you want this

man? I find no fault in him." And they

said, "No,

crucify this innocent man and give us a

murderer." Yeah,

>> we're at that same place with that same

spirit, that same ideology where the

enemy is just stirring up people

>> against

God,

>> against the good, against the holy,

against the pure and innocent. Amen.

>> It's a spirit

>> and it's not the spirit of God.

>> And yet at the same time, the spirit of

God is calling people, ministering to

them, bringing them out. The Lord

there's there's testimony

>> after testimony of the Lord Jesus Christ

himself appearing to Muslims. Yeah.

>> I'll never forget the one that I read

and I won't get this exactly straight

because it's been a while, but this man

had a dream and in the dream this man, a

man in white came to him and said, "I

have forgiven you your sins."

And he said, "Who are you?"

He said, "I am I am Jesus." And he said,

"Well, I don't know anything about you."

And he said, 'I want you to go so and so

and you'll meet a man named so and so

and he will tell you about me. And here

he met a man who ministers in Iran

who preaches the the good news of Jesus

Christ in Iran. And he met the man. He

said, "Oh,"

the guy said, "Oh, you're the one I'm

supposed to talk to.

I had a strange dream. I saw a man in

white." And he said his name was Jesus.

And he said, "If I came to you, you

would tell me who who he was. Do you

know anything about this man?" That's

good.

>> Now, yes, that's unusual

to us, but it's happening all over the

Muslim world, particularly Iran

and other places, Arab speak, Arab

countries where the Lord Jesus is

appearing to people. You said, well,

isn't that scary? Well, not to them.

They don't even know who he is. They

have to be directed to find out who he

is. But what's really amazing is that

here in the United States of America,

there are people that are just as

ignorant,

>> who don't know,

>> who don't know.

>> And this brings me

to where I want to go. And that is I

want to ask you, are you willing to be a

Phillip,

an Ananas, or a Peter?

Are you willing to be the one that is at

a divine intersection in someone's life?

>> Are you willing to be there?

>> We try to make this hard. You know, it's

like how how to witness to people how

how to do this and how to do that and

and okay, so we're going to witness. We

got to form a committee and um have some

meetings and

and yet in the beginning it was a

grassroots thing. Whoop. I was supposed

to go to the desert.

The It was spiritled, spirit guided,

spirit directed. Are you led of the Holy

Spirit?

>> So, I'm asking you, would you be an

Ananas? Would you be the one who would

be in an at an intersection for

somebody?

>> That's all I'm asking. And I'm asking a

second question. Are you willing for the

compassion of God to fill your heart?

>> Are you willing to open your eyes and

ears? You know, not long ago,

I was at a restaurant

and as I sat there, I saw a woman who

was working in there and um

I felt

the pull of compassion. I'm coming down.

Don't let me freak you guys out. I run

stairs. I'm not going to hurt myself.

And I sat there and and I was with some

other people and as I saw her, my heart

my heart went out to her. And I was with

other people that are filled with the

Holy Spirit. I was with other people who

know God. And you know what? We were so

involved in our own conversation. They

didn't even see. They didn't even see.

And that's why I pray, God, open our

eyes.

>> Open our eyes. Let us see.

>> Let us see those people. That doesn't

mean we have to go and slap everybody in

the face and knock them over the head

with the Bible. Everybody we see,

but there are people that are out there

starving. There are people out there

that are hungry.

They're seeking. They're open.

And so about a year ago, the Lord gave

me a vision. I'm just going to tell it

to you. I'm just I'm just going to tell

you, okay? And you say, "Well, did you

fall out the floor? Were you in a

truck?" No, I wasn't. It's the strangest

thing, but I have visions a lot of times

when I'm driving my car. I don't know

how that works.

But I arrived safely.

And in this vision, the Lord showed me

drive-thru healing prayers where people

will be invited. If you need healing,

whether it's whether it's healing in

your heart or healing in your body, just

drive through. And I saw I saw people,

not apostles, prophets, evangelists.

You know, this is what a lot of times

the church we're looking for is the

pastor to go win souls.

>> Pastor's job is not to Well, I mean, he

can win souls and he will be used in

that way, but that's not his job.

>> His job is to shepherd the sheep.

>> And our job

as the church is to reach out with

people

>> and reach out and touch their lives. let

Jesus touch them through us.

>> Amen.

>> So anyway, I had this vision and I saw

people driving through and the Lord

began to talk to me and just explain

things to me and I have don't forgive me

if this offends you, okay? But I just

have never been a cross type person

where I wear crosses de, you know, have

crosses everywhere cuz to me Jesus, he

was on a cross. [snorts]

There were three really bad days there.

Jesus was on the cross, but he

ministered a lot before and ever since

for the 2,000 years, he's alive and

resurrected. So, I'm an alive and

resurrected and he lives in me person.

Okay?

>> So, I'm not opposed to it. But God began

to deal with me with my religious ideas.

>> And he said, "The people that you're

dealing with out here are sense ruled

people, and you're going to have to

touch them that way."

And I saw them drive through and I saw

their hearts heavy. And I saw, you know,

the pain inside them. I saw them with

little kids that had deformities. And I

saw them asking for prayer. And I saw a

disciple of the Lord reach through and

say, "May I anoint you with oil and take

some oil? May I touch your head and

anoint you with oil and may I pray for

you?"

And the Lord said to me, "See, they need

to be touched if they if they will allow

you to do this. They need to be touched

because their sins ruled and they'll

remember that touch." And then I saw

giving them a track and a cross, a

little wooden cross. You know those

round ones that you can do like this.

They call them prayers. So while you're

praying, you can rub them. I don't do

that, but I'm not against it.

But the Lord said, "See." And when they

leave and they take that cross, most

[snorts] people won't throw a cross

away.

Did you hear me? It's true. What do I do

with this cross? It keeps popping up. It

keeps popping up. Keeps popping up. But

anyway, this is what God said to me. He

said, and he was explaining this to me.

When they drive away,

>> when they drive away, that cross will

keep popping up. And then there is a

connection.

They will remember feeling the touch on

their forehead of the oil of the hand.

And it will anchor them.

>> It will anchor them to Jesus and to

thoughts of Jesus whether they accept

Jesus right then or not.

>> And so he took me through this whole

thing and I saw it and I saw great I saw

salvation. I saw great healings. I saw

all kinds of things. And so

I was so excited

>> and then it's like how is this going to

happen? What's going to happen? And

after about a year, almost a year, I

said, God, this hasn't happened. I mean,

I I I don't know what I'm supposed to do

about this. And I just felt grieved in

my spirit. And I began to just pray in

the spirit, pray in the spirit. And one

morning at 5:00 in the morning, I went

wide awake.

And I woke up because I was having a

what I call a spiritual download. You

know what I'm talking about?

>> God downloaded a tract, a witnessing

tract in my spirit. And it was the

father God speaking

>> to people.

>> Amen.

>> It was the father calling people to

himself.

And I I tell my staff and they all laugh

about this. It's a humorous thing. I

said, 'You know it was God because I

jumped out of bed and I began to write

before I had coffee.

[laughter]

I just began to write and it began to

pour out of me. And just as he gave me

instructions about about the people, he

he poured this through me. Have you ever

wondered why am I here? You got this

this little track. Why am I here? What

is my purpose?

Does my life even have any purpose? Or

maybe am I here by accident? Do I have

any value?

Everybody asks that question, you know.

Everybody asks that question. Nobody

wants to think they're here by accident.

So then it answers the question, if God

knows me and has a purpose for my life,

why are things so bad?

Then why hasn't my life turned out

differently?

And then it comes to this is what God

was this is what the spirit was I mean

this just was pouring through me here.

He said you have a purpose.

Everything else you have been told is a

lie.

that you are nothing when you are

everything to God. That you are

worthless and yet God created you with a

plan and purpose for good.

>> Amen.

>> Will you believe the lie or the truth?

God loves you so much that he sent his

special messenger to tell you about his

love for you.

And then the question for them is, will

you believe the lie or the truth?

Will you turn to him? Will you accept

him into your life? And then it's

explained there's how to get born again

by the spirit.

Now

after God gave this to me, then we put

it in this little format

and started going. Now this is just the

first part. I I still believe the other

things going to happen. the drive-thru

prayer, drive-thru healing. You know,

people feel safe in their car if they

look at you and go, "I don't like them."

They can floor it and go, "Oh,

yeah. Well, they can't grab a hold of me

and drag me in the church. If I'm in my

car, I'm safe." Oh, you're safe.

Not from Jesus and not from the Holy

Spirit. So, anyway, I took these little

I'm going to wind it up here. I see I've

definitely gone my 30 minutes.

Okay. So, we took these little things

and I the stories I could tell you

the stories I could tell you about the

things that have happened. You know, I'm

not asking you to go out this afternoon

and stand on the street and wave a flag

or something like that. But I am asking

you to do one thing. One. If I told you

ask you to do one thing and it's easy,

would you do it?

>> Yes.

>> I'm just I'm asking you. I'm just asking

you. Would you do one thing? How many of

you got these?

>> We're going to pray and I'm We've prayed

over these things and we claim at least

one salvation for every tract.

>> Yeah.

>> You are people of faith. We've used our

faith to get out of problems. We've used

our faith to receive answers to prayer

for needs in our finances. We've we've

prayed and received healing in our body.

Can we use our faith for the salvation

of souls?

>> I read that the Salvation Army when they

first started, they would get together

and they'd pray and they'd claim at

least 50 souls that day.

and they always got it plus plus some.

>> So I believe that we as people of faith

can pray over these. And if you've got

that in your hand, I want you right now

just put your hand over it. Pull it out.

Put your hand over it.

Hallelujah.

Father God, right now I want you to

agree with me. The Bible says, "If any

two on earth shall agree as touching

anything they shall ask, it will be

done."

>> Father God, right now in the name of

Jesus, we loose the anointing of God

into this tract. And we thank you that

it touches the lives of anyone that it

touches, their life will be touched by

the Holy Spirit. And Lord, I just ask

you right now in Jesus' name for at

least one salvation per tract, minimum

of one salvation per tract. And I ask

that these your people will be guided

and directed to that exact person who is

hungry. God, you know who's hungry and

you know who isn't. Send us to the right

people.

give us a divine intersection with

someone

supernaturally

by the spirit of God.

>> And we thank you for it. We claim we

claim the salvation.

>> I think there were 500, 700, I don't

remember how many of these there are,

but we claim a minimum of 500 souls one

to Jesus today.

>> Today we claim it. We receive it by

faith.

>> Yes. Yes.

>> And we thank you that it is done in the

name of Jesus name. If you agree, say

amen.

>> Amen.

>> Amen. Glory to God. Now, let me tell you

how to do this, okay? Real quickly

>> real quickly. It's it's amazing.

So, I started taking these tracks and

you know, I know you've all been through

the drive-thru,

>> okay? Well, you know the first part of

the drive-thru where they say 8:15 and

they stick their arm out the window.

Those are the most ignored people.

They are so ignored. They're just there

all day. 8:15

all day long. And so

I took this track and I heard how many

of you here when Mary Francis Varela

spoke? Yeah. You remember her $100

bills? She get a stack of $100 bills. I

know most of us don't have stacks of

$100 bills.

>> You know,

it makes an impression for sure when you

hand it to somebody.

>> Yeah.

>> But you know what I found out? I take

two $1 bills and wrap it in this just

wrap this inside. and I drive through

>> and when they hand me my change, I look

at them and I smile and I say, "Thank

you. And here's something for you."

>> And I found out that if you're honest

and sincere in your gratitude, those

people don't ever get any gratitude.

Yeah. Here's my credit card while you're

talking on the phone. Yeah.

They don't get any gratitude. And you

know what? I

They're it's they're taken aback.

>> Oh,

>> and then they smile.

>> Thank you.

Just $2.

>> When you have no gratitude, a dollar

>> is something.

>> When nobody shows you gratitude, $2 is

really something.

>> Yeah.

>> The other day I went and I have I just

love I love it. I used to, you know, how

many of you I don't don't raise your

hand. Have you ever felt guilty about

not witnessing, you know, and so,

[laughter]

you know, a lot of times pastors won't

have you come speak on evangelism

because they feel guilty because they

haven't won anybody Jesus. Well, they're

that's not their job. Number one,

you know, and so the other day I drove

through McDonald's and as I was driving,

I Okay, Lord, I've got I've got my

tracks out here. I carry them right

there.

>> Yeah. I've got dollar bills, a whole $51

bills so that I can just

I'm willing to invest $50 a month into a

soul.

>> And so I got them right there. So I

pulled my track out and I'm praying and

I ordered my stuff and

Okay, Lord. And he said, "Make it a

five."

Oh, okay. I grabbed a five. And I pulled

up and this little girl said, "That'll

be so and so." And I handed it to her

and she came gave me my credit card

back.

I said, "Thank you so much. Here's

something for you today." And she picked

it up and looked at it and she said,

"You would have thought I gave her a

million dollars

>> because somebody showed they cared.

Somebody looked her in the face. Have

you ever looked the people in the face

that take your money or you just stick

your arm out?

>> Look them in the face.

>> When I first started doing this, I went

through another drive-thru and and I

just pulled my because $2 is standard. I

can just, you know, and I pulled it out

and I rolled down the window and there's

a man there probably 60 years old taking

money

and he gave it and I looked at him and I

and when I opened my mouth, the Holy

Spirit

and I said, "Sir, thank you so much for

what you do.

You know, I really appreciate the fact

that you're here to help us get some

lunch." And I said, "I want you to have

this."

And he looked at me and tears started

streaming down his face.

>> It so touched him for me to thank him.

And to give him a little tip,

I know you're I know you're here. I see

you.

>> You're important.

>> Can we be Jesus to the world? Can we let

Jesus reach out through us?

>> You know,

I'm trying to hurry up and finish, but

there's just so much.

>> There's just so much.

>> I see Cindy sitting over there. She gave

one of these and the mother read it and

got born again. The daughter got born

again. And the daughter took this to

high school to the school and said, "I

want to can I take it because I have a

friend and she's she's she's bad off and

she gave it to her and she asked for

Jesus coming to her heart and she said,

"We got to go talk to so and so. She's

into cutting and all that stuff and

we've got there was something bad going

on anyway." And so they pass it on.

three three I think it was 13 year olds

>> one track

>> this

is the seed of the word of God and it

never returns void when somebody opens

it and see I I walked into the bronze

and I started to just and the Lord went

no

>> and so I check when I checked out to get

my mom's ice cream

>> I handed it in a little tip to the guy

and he went oh thank you. And you know

what? When I walked over to pick up

something else and was on the way back,

he was leaned back against the counter.

And I could tell by the look on his

face, he was reading it very carefully.

This is just one thing. It's just a

kindergarten step. Can we do that?

>> Can we just do that

>> and get souls brought into the kingdom

of God?

>> Hallelujah. Well, Father God, we thank

you today.

Thank you for this time together. Thank

you for this church.

Thank you so much for Mark and Janet.

Lord, we thank you for what they've

established here. And we know that

they're reaching the world

for Jesus through all these flags, all

these countries. We're reaching the

world, but there are people in the

United States that also need to be

touched.

And so we're just thank you, Lord, that

today we agree

that as we go forth that our lives will

touch other people

and that we will see

great harvest and salvation. With

everyone's head bowed, I'd like to ask,

is there anyone here that you don't know

Jesus in that way? You haven't

experienced him in your life,

but you want to know the same Jesus,

anyone at all.

All right. I want to ask a second

question there. I talked about you shall

receive power after the Holy Spirit has

come upon you. Is there anyone here that

you've not received the baptism of the

Holy Spirit and that power and you would

like to today? Would you raise your

hand?

All right, we have a hand back there.

[music] Sir, would you come up?

We're going to have someone pray with

you. Anyone else?

Either you want a deeper relationship

with Jesus. Things aren't just right.

Hallelujah.

or you want to receive the baptism of

the Holy Spirit.

All right.

Hallelujah.

Glory to God. Let's all stand up.

Praise God. Yes, sir. Thank you, Lord.

Hallelujah.

>> Thank you, Jesus. I'm just going to pray

for you right now. And I'm sure we have

someone that can minister to him,

[music] right? Okay. Hallelujah. Father,

I thank you. The Holy Spirit we know

>> is here.

>> Amen.

>> I would like for you to say this aloud

with me.

>> Jesus, you are my Lord.

>> You have full control of my life.

>> I submit myself to you.

>> And I now receive your gift.

>> The gift of the Holy Spirit.

>> Hallelujah. In the name [music] of

Jesus. In the name of Jesus. Oh, thank

you Lord. [music] Hallelujah. Thank you

Jesus. Thank you Lord. Thank you Lord.

And let's just begin to praise him and

speak in other tongues.

Hallelujah. Thank you Lord. Hallelujah.

Thank you Jesus. Thank you Jesus. Thank

you Jesus. [music] Thank you Jesus. All

right, everybody quit.

>> Stop.

Okay, now I'm I'm doing this for a

reason. The Holy Spirit doesn't just

take over you and make you do something

you don't want to do. It's all under

your control. So now, let's just begin

to speak in the spirit again.

Hallelujah.

Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. All

right.

Hallelujah. Bless you. The Lord's all

over you. Go with this man. The Lord's

all over him, too. He'll help you out.

>> Oh, glory to God. Well, hallelujah.

Let's praise the Lord. Glory to God.

[music]

Hallelujah.

>> Thank you, Lord.

>> Would you take a seat, please?

Hallelujah.

How many got something today?

We heard straight from the word. We were

taught good [music] stuff today. Amen.

We just want to sew into Miss Reverend

Annette Caps today. [music]

Take a moment to see what the Lord would

have you do. Amen.

As we sew into her, into this ministry.

[snorts]

The Bible says, "He who wins souls is

wise."

There's no greater call on any of our

lives, amen, than to win souls. And so

I'm so thankful number one to be part of

a ministry that the number one thing is

life, souls. Amen. The Bible says in

Galatians 6:6, it says, "Let him who

Galatians 6:6

receives instruction in the word of God

share all good things with his teacher,

contributing to his or her support. It's

such a privilege and an honor to give

back." Amen.

Father, right now in the name of Jesus,

we thank you so much for this ministry.

We thank you, Father, for the word that

we got today.

We thank you for the commission we were

given today to go forth and to do the

will of God. We thank you for that. And

now we ask that you will bless and

increase the influence and the ministry

of Reverend Annette Caps in the world.

And we thank you for her voice. And we

thank you for in these days what it

means to the world. And father we give

you thanks that we can be a part of that

in Jesus name.

Amen. [music] Amen. Amen.

So as you give just a couple of quick

announcements and then we'll be ready to

go. If you were a first-time guest,

thank you so much for being with us.

Don't forget to text welcome to

918-2157066.

Also, if you would step stop by the

connect center out in the foyer, uh we

would sure love to get to meet you

there. Also, there are music auditions

that will be held Sunday, March 1st.

Those of you that are musically inclined

um and you can email this email

musicculsa.org,

that's music.org

for more information on that. Uh we will

have pastoral care assistance at the

front here. If anyone needs prayer

concerning anything, we would love to

pray with you this morning. Don't forget

to stop by the table. There are plenty

more tracks out there. Grab five, take

some with you. Amen.

>> Amen. Let's say our vision statement as

we leave. We live by the word. We're led

by the spirit. And we love the world.

God bless you. We'll see you Wednesday.