Speaker 1: Yep, those are your kids. Those are your children. Some
Speaker 1: of them knew the answers, some of them didn't.
Speaker 2: So but by the end of this month they will
Speaker 2: know that answer really well. Because right now, even as
Speaker 2: we speak, they're doing lessons, being on missions and being
Speaker 2: missionaries back there, and the different ones are gonna go.
Speaker 1: Into each week.
Speaker 2: And so we got good things going on both on
Speaker 2: the Kingdom kid's side and on the Nitro side of things.
Speaker 2: Also going on in the Nitro side. Give me that
Speaker 2: little bottle. We're that bottle. It's right on the chair.
Speaker 2: The nitrous side of things. They always do a little
Speaker 2: fundraiser back there, and what they are doing is today
Speaker 2: they're getting bottles from Carnet. Anybody know Carnet so Karenet
Speaker 2: is a crisis pregnancy organization that helps women in difficult
Speaker 2: situations to choose life. And so they're gonna take these
Speaker 2: bottles today, parents, and so you're gonna get a bottle,
Speaker 2: and they're gonna go around. They're gonna fill their bottle up,
Speaker 2: hopefully not from you, per suddenly. Hopefully the goal is
Speaker 2: that they can go to other people and articulate what
Speaker 2: they're doing. And then on May twenty fifth the end
Speaker 2: of missions a month, they're going to bring it back
Speaker 2: and we will get a total for how many the
Speaker 2: how much the kids raised, Damen.
Speaker 1: So there's that.
Speaker 2: And then also the youth are going on their missions
Speaker 2: trip to Mexico and we're going to be sending them there.
Speaker 2: You can help them by eating polled pork. Sorry, La, yeah,
Speaker 2: last week last year was Mexico. Sorry about that. But
Speaker 2: you can help them by buying a pulled pork sandwich today.
Speaker 2: So we all love missions, right, especially if it includes
Speaker 2: a pulled pork sandwich. Okay, So that's kind of what's
Speaker 2: going on. I hope to ignite your heart for missions.
Speaker 2: If it's already burning, we're going to just fan those flames.
Speaker 2: And I need you to know how effective New Horizon
Speaker 2: is with missions. Many people, many people who are involved
Speaker 2: in missions, many people who are on the mission field,
Speaker 2: say that it is getting more and more difficult to
Speaker 2: connect with churches in America. And I would love to
Speaker 2: not make that the story of New Horizon.
Speaker 1: Amen.
Speaker 2: We want missions to be something that flows from here
Speaker 2: all the time. And if you'll go to the next slide,
Speaker 2: I want you to see that. Over the last twelve
Speaker 2: months because I run the missions month June to June.
Speaker 2: The total missions given is ninety five thousand dollars plus.
Speaker 1: Can you believe that?
Speaker 2: So that is your giving, that is your generosity above
Speaker 2: and beyond your ties, and it is just an amazing
Speaker 2: thing what we have been able to do. This little
Speaker 2: church here in Fife is changing lives around the world.
Speaker 2: I want you to see that the missions income, just general,
Speaker 2: so this would be our pledge income is a whopping
Speaker 2: fifty three thousand and forty four four hundred and forty
Speaker 2: four one hundred. That's a monthly average of forty four
Speaker 2: hundred a month. Our goal last year was forty five
Speaker 2: and our pledges were about that and then the actual
Speaker 2: amount that came in was very close. So I am so,
Speaker 2: so so grateful that forty four hundred a month kept
Speaker 2: missionaries functioning on the mission field. It paid for their gas,
Speaker 2: it paid for their food, it paid for their housing
Speaker 2: and that kind of thing so they can stay there.
Speaker 2: You know, those kinds of things aren't real sexy. It's
Speaker 2: not the thing that I could just throw out there
Speaker 2: and say move your heart with. But I'm hoping that
Speaker 2: I can move your heart towards pledging again. This coming year,
Speaker 2: because it is so vital. If we don't have missions
Speaker 2: missionaries on the field, if they have to come home
Speaker 2: because they can't afford it, if they can't do it,
Speaker 2: then we have lost the fight.
Speaker 1: Amen.
Speaker 2: And so you have kept missionaries afloat out there and
Speaker 2: I'm so proud of that. Projects Forty four thousand dollars
Speaker 2: given in the last twelve months for projects go to
Speaker 2: the next slide. So what you've did as far as projects,
Speaker 2: A water project in Uganda, a vehicle, a car, an
Speaker 2: actual big vehicle of a four wheel drive for Patty
Speaker 2: and Spencer Jeffries Kids Camp scholarships we give into that
Speaker 2: every year. Divine Hope Maternity Clinic we have purchased. We've
Speaker 2: paid for fourteen sea sections in the last about three months.
Speaker 1: They've had kind of a rash of them.
Speaker 2: This is out in the bush, this is out in
Speaker 2: the boondocks of Uganda.
Speaker 1: We have our maternity clinic.
Speaker 2: And when a lady comes in and she is in distress,
Speaker 2: the options used to be death. It was an option
Speaker 2: prayer and death. You know that was That's a rough
Speaker 2: rough go, wouldn't you say. But he Justice has been
Speaker 2: able to text me and I've been able to wire
Speaker 2: him three hundred.
Speaker 1: And thirty five dollars.
Speaker 2: That's all it costs to have a sea section in Uganda.
Speaker 2: Three hundred and thirty five dollars saves the life of
Speaker 2: that mother and that child. And yes, and it's more,
Speaker 2: it's saved her other children from becoming orphans.
Speaker 1: And so to me, that is a win, win, win,
Speaker 1: win win all the.
Speaker 2: Way around three hundred and thirty five dollars. Do you
Speaker 2: know why I have three hundred and thirty five dollars
Speaker 2: to give it a drop of a hat because you
Speaker 2: are so generous and so faithful.
Speaker 1: Praise God. Amen. What else? School fees?
Speaker 2: We're putting five teen mothers in at that same clinic
Speaker 2: through school to get them graduated out of high school.
Speaker 2: Sean and Lindsay Mahawan were highly affected by that flood
Speaker 2: a couple of months ago, if you remember news about
Speaker 2: that in Chang Mai.
Speaker 1: So we sent them money to help them dig out.
Speaker 2: La fire relief and audio Bibles for the blind in Ethiopia.
Speaker 2: Hailu and Seblee over here helped us make that connection,
Speaker 2: and that was just a wonderful thing that you folks did.
Speaker 1: So that's a little look back on just the last
Speaker 1: twelve months. I think we're doing great. We're gonna keep
Speaker 1: it up.
Speaker 2: My little throat can't give out on me now, right, Okay, So,
Speaker 2: did everybody get their Missions magazine? If you did not,
Speaker 2: we have ushers ready to get you on. Raise your
Speaker 2: hand and they'll get you on. If you did not
Speaker 2: get a missions magazine, there's a few here and there.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 2: So we've been working really hard on this mission Missions Magazine,
Speaker 2: And what it does is it gives you an update
Speaker 2: of the last twelve months with our missionaries, gives you
Speaker 2: new pictures and new stories, and maybe an introduction if
Speaker 2: you don't know them already. So you want to take
Speaker 2: some time to look through that. Also, you're gonna see
Speaker 2: that stapled inside of it. The first page, you're gonna
Speaker 2: see a very cute little magnet. Take that magnet off,
Speaker 2: and you know they're becoming collector's items. They're gonna be
Speaker 2: worth money someday. I have a bunch of them, right,
Speaker 2: So you're gonna want to take that off and put
Speaker 2: on your refrigerator. Now, mine doesn't hold magnets anymore, so
Speaker 2: I have to tape it on practice. You know, if
Speaker 2: it's going to work on those stainless steel refrigerators, but
Speaker 2: save those that they're meant to remind you to pray
Speaker 2: for the missions, pray for the children around the world
Speaker 2: and those that we are reaching. And then on that
Speaker 2: same piece of paper at the very back, if you'll
Speaker 2: flip to the back, you're going to see a little
Speaker 2: card in there. That card is your pledge card. That's
Speaker 2: a very important little item. And what I'm really hoping
Speaker 2: is that we have one hundred percent participation across this body,
Speaker 2: that we are all giving into missions, some of you
Speaker 2: can give five ten twenty one hundred, two hundred dollars
Speaker 2: a month above your ties and offerings into missions, and
Speaker 2: that we can continue to be an incredibly supportive church.
Speaker 1: So I want you to take that card. I want
Speaker 1: you to take that card home. I want you to
Speaker 1: pray over it.
Speaker 2: I want you to be asking the Lord what you
Speaker 2: would have, what he would have you to do, and
Speaker 2: how you could join with us. On the last Sunday
Speaker 2: of the month, May twenty fifth, we're gonna have our
Speaker 2: big International Sunday and that's the day we're going to
Speaker 2: put in our cards. Now, listen, everybody, it always works
Speaker 2: out that it's Memorial Day weekend. So we're not gonna
Speaker 2: let Memorial Day weekend interrupt, right, So if you know
Speaker 2: you're going to be gone, feel free to fill that
Speaker 2: puppy out and put it in the offering bucket and
Speaker 2: I'll get it, and we'll get you on the pledge
Speaker 2: or the mission's pledger list, and we will be able
Speaker 2: to budget out our next year.
Speaker 1: Amen. So that card is a very important card. So
Speaker 1: now I want.
Speaker 2: To put a QR code up and there you go,
Speaker 2: And I want to know where are you all from?
Speaker 2: Cause you know most of us are not. I mean,
Speaker 2: I consider myself pretty much American. I think I've got
Speaker 2: Swedish blood and Germanish and blood and all that Germish.
Speaker 1: Did you hear that Germish?
Speaker 2: But some of you are kind of fresh from other countries,
Speaker 2: are still kind of closer to your original culture. I
Speaker 2: want you to queue our code it right now, get
Speaker 2: your phones out. I want you to go up there
Speaker 2: and take a picture of that, and then fill out
Speaker 2: the quick little survey because next month or next week
Speaker 2: I want to be able to say where you're from
Speaker 2: kind of all the different nationalities that we have here
Speaker 2: in our church body, amen, because we are diverse. We
Speaker 2: are not homogeneous here. We are very, very diverse, and
Speaker 2: I would love to see that. Would you do that
Speaker 2: for me? So if you know how to do QR codes,
Speaker 2: now is the moment. All right, you gotta do it
Speaker 2: quick because I'm gonna go to another slide. I didn't
Speaker 2: plan that well, did I? Okay, So here we go.
Speaker 2: The next slide tells us what our schedule is going
Speaker 2: to be over the next couple of weeks.
Speaker 1: So there you go. Perfect. So today is the kickoff.
Speaker 2: Next week is Mother's Day on the eleventh, and we're
Speaker 2: gonna focus on some more local missions, so we're gonna
Speaker 2: hear from care Net. I've got a guest coming from
Speaker 2: care Net and some different local missions, so you don't
Speaker 2: want to miss next week. It's going to be amazing.
Speaker 2: And then the next week after that, on the eighteenth,
Speaker 2: we have a gentleman by the name of Cameron Ice
Speaker 2: Icy Icy your I your I. I had to he's
Speaker 2: friends with Michael Proctor, and I was like, how do
Speaker 2: you say that last name?
Speaker 1: Ah yr I your I.
Speaker 2: So now every time you go up to him, say hello,
Speaker 2: mister your I, you're gonna know him before he's here,
Speaker 2: but he is a ex Muslim who's become a Christian,
Speaker 2: a Muslim converted a Christian in Iran. He knows what's
Speaker 2: going on in the Iranian church. He knows what's happening
Speaker 2: over there. I cannot wait to hear his stories.
Speaker 1: I don't know about you, but I just love missionary stories.
Speaker 1: I love them. I love them.
Speaker 2: Okay, And then the last Sunday is gonna be International Sunday.
Speaker 1: And that's the Sunday that we lean.
Speaker 2: Lineup tables all the way around the room, and if
Speaker 2: you are from another country, I want you to step
Speaker 2: right up and let us know that you might be
Speaker 2: able to host a table. That would mean that you
Speaker 2: would come. We will give you a flag and the
Speaker 2: name of your country and a table, and you can
Speaker 2: bring things from your country that we can take a
Speaker 2: look at and kind of see, touch, feel, and if
Speaker 2: you would be so kind of maybe make us a
Speaker 2: treat from that country, it would be so yummy and
Speaker 2: we would love it. And it's one of everybody's favorite.
Speaker 2: How many of you love International Sunday?
Speaker 1: That's right. So the ushers are going to come right.
Speaker 2: Now with a clipboard and they're going.
Speaker 1: To pass that around and if.
Speaker 2: You would be willing willing, willing, willing to be a
Speaker 2: table host for International Sunday, I would absolutely love it.
Speaker 2: Those clipboards did they already go around? Oh well, there
Speaker 2: you go. You didn't know what you were signing up for,
Speaker 2: but now you do. Did you all write your name down?
Speaker 2: Oh good, Maybe we should send it around again just
Speaker 2: in case now that you know what it was for.
Speaker 2: Then also, did you see this piece of paper in
Speaker 2: your Missions magazine? So this is our project. Every year
Speaker 2: I like to do a project at during our Missions month,
Speaker 2: and this is an incredible project and so I want
Speaker 2: to just kind of pitch it to you right now
Speaker 2: to let you know kind of what we're after. So
Speaker 2: that Green Lush Land is a tract of land about
Speaker 2: three acres in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the DRC,
Speaker 2: and they have been in the news here lately because
Speaker 2: of their incredible persecution and civil war, but persecution between
Speaker 2: Isis and Christians. I don't know if you heard in
Speaker 2: February where seventy Christians were beheaded in a church, how
Speaker 2: many of you heard that news? Seventy And that was
Speaker 2: not the only time things like that have been happening
Speaker 2: in the DRC. It's been absolutely horrible. So the DRC
Speaker 2: is just west of Uganda. They share a border, and
Speaker 2: we do so much work in Uganda. So the health
Speaker 2: and the political situation in the DRC affects Uganda and
Speaker 2: all the things that we do in there as well.
Speaker 1: So there's terrible displacement.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of refugees, a lot of Christians are
Speaker 2: fleeing out of fear and out of persecution and pressure,
Speaker 2: and so WOMP World Outreach Ministries Foundation has sent a
Speaker 2: new pastor into the area. It's about two hours north
Speaker 2: of Goma, which is where the last, you know, the
Speaker 2: latest kind of unrest has been. He's a young man
Speaker 2: who's about ready to get married and they he started
Speaker 2: a church. They have about two hundred at their church
Speaker 2: right now, and those two hundred people are hosting hundreds
Speaker 2: of refugees. They have no land, they have no real building,
Speaker 2: they have nothing. The people actually are taking the refugees
Speaker 2: into their own homes and feeding them, divide the little
Speaker 2: bit of food that they have with the refugees. So
Speaker 2: this young man's vision is to buy this three acres
Speaker 2: that you're looking at right here. It's very fruitful it's
Speaker 2: very lush, as you can tell. And what they want
Speaker 2: to do is put up a temporary structure for the church.
Speaker 2: Right now, they're not nobody is building anything permanent because
Speaker 2: these rebels come through and strip off even the metal
Speaker 2: off the roofs, so it's going to be a thatch
Speaker 2: roof that kind of thing. But their hope is that
Speaker 2: then they would clear it and plant it for food,
Speaker 2: for their sustenance and for their survival. They're going to
Speaker 2: do they have plans for quite a few different agricultural projects,
Speaker 2: a rabbit farm, different things, ways to produce food, and
Speaker 2: they can't do that without land. So that three acres
Speaker 2: cost twelve five hundred dollars. The temporary structure is another
Speaker 2: two to three thousand.
Speaker 1: So for around fifteen.
Speaker 2: Thousand dollars, we can get this people, this church, a
Speaker 2: base camp for them to care for these refugees, a
Speaker 2: place for them to produce food, and to have a church.
Speaker 2: Will you partner with me and let's make this happen.
Speaker 1: I would you know.
Speaker 2: These people are facing death daily to just be a church,
Speaker 2: to just be a believer, and so this chunk of
Speaker 2: land is going to be a game changer for this church.
Speaker 2: And I'm just I'm excited. I don't know about you,
Speaker 2: but I am excited. So we're gonna take a big
Speaker 2: offering for that on International Sunday. But once again, I
Speaker 2: am never going to say no to anything that you
Speaker 2: might want to give. And if you start feeling, okay, Lord,
Speaker 2: you're telling me to give give five hundred dollars to that,
Speaker 2: you're telling me to give a thousand to that.
Speaker 1: Maybe you're telling me to give fifty to that. Go
Speaker 1: ahead and do it.
Speaker 2: If you go online, there's a drop down for missions project.
Speaker 2: Go right on ahead and do it. If you're going
Speaker 2: to miss out on a Memorial Day weekend, you can
Speaker 2: do it anytime.
Speaker 1: I'm just I'm just taking care of us.
Speaker 2: Hey for you to miss out, right, So let's plant
Speaker 2: Let's have New Horizon plant a church in the DRC
Speaker 2: behind enemy lines right smack dab in the middle of Isis.
Speaker 2: You know, we hear about it all the time and
Speaker 2: we just are so sad. But now's an opportunity to
Speaker 2: do something to counteract the terror and the evil. Amen
Speaker 2: Praise the Lord. Okay, So today we have a wonderful
Speaker 2: guest here from teen Challenge. Has anybody ever heard of
Speaker 2: teen Challenge.
Speaker 1: Good Well.
Speaker 2: Teen Challenge is an amazing local mission that we support
Speaker 2: here at New Horizon, and my hope is that as
Speaker 2: we raise I don't know if I told you, my
Speaker 2: goal for our monthly pledges is five thousand dollars. I
Speaker 2: would love to do that and with that raising of
Speaker 2: our monthly pledge, I will be able to double their
Speaker 2: monthly support. And so I would like to introduce to
Speaker 2: you Miss Sierra Port as she is here. She is
Speaker 2: on staff at the GRAM Teen Challenge and I am
Speaker 2: just so grateful to have you. So, Sierra, would you
Speaker 2: just start off by introducing yourself and letting us know
Speaker 2: a little bit about you.
Speaker 3: Hi, my name is Sierra and I'm from the GRAM
Speaker 3: Women's Campus and I came through the program two years ago.
Speaker 3: I was actually core ordered to the program. I spent
Speaker 3: five years of my life in prison, and God really
Speaker 3: had to do a work in my heart. Yes, I
Speaker 3: had an encounter with God that completely changed my life.
Speaker 3: I didn't even believe in God before I came here,
Speaker 3: but He touched my heart in a way that nobody
Speaker 3: can take from you. I cried out to God one
Speaker 3: night when I was in a jail cell and I said, God,
Speaker 3: if you're real, please send me somewhere that'll help me.
Speaker 3: And a week later I was core ordered to Teen
Speaker 3: Challenge and my life has never been the same.
Speaker 1: Hallelujah.
Speaker 2: Okay, so Sierra share with the body here. How did
Speaker 2: you land? You know what happened prior to your incarceration?
Speaker 1: What were you dealing with? What do you mean your addiction? Oh?
Speaker 1: So the judia stop right right here.
Speaker 3: So I was addicted to fetanyl and I have been
Speaker 3: battling a thirteen year heroin addiction and I almost lost
Speaker 3: my life to it a couple of years ago. I
Speaker 3: tried to take my life, like I said three times,
Speaker 3: but God had better plans for me. And I stand
Speaker 3: on the verse Jeremiah twenty nine to eleven, for I
Speaker 3: know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord
Speaker 3: plans to prosper you, not to harm you, and to
Speaker 3: give you hope in a future.
Speaker 2: Amn. Hallelujah. Isn't that incredible?
Speaker 1: This is what your missions money is supporting.
Speaker 2: So tell us a little bit more about the Adult
Speaker 2: and Teen Challenge homes.
Speaker 3: So we have a group home over in Graham. We
Speaker 3: house the women. We have twenty eight beds available and
Speaker 3: we disciple them, we teach them about Jesus. We have
Speaker 3: a vocational part of the program where it offsets the
Speaker 3: cost of the program, so we have them work, we
Speaker 3: teach them, you know, how to be productive members of society,
Speaker 3: and we partner and do outreach with the Tacoma Mission,
Speaker 3: So we go out and serve and we teach them
Speaker 3: how to be the hands and feet of Jesus.
Speaker 1: Hallelujah. So the people in this body help team.
Speaker 2: Challenge through our gifts, through our giving. So when you
Speaker 2: give into missions, it goes there. You can also give
Speaker 2: money directly to them if you go online. But what
Speaker 2: are ways that this body can help from more of
Speaker 2: a volunteer standpoint.
Speaker 3: So we always need volunteers. Like I said, we are
Speaker 3: a women's campus, so we need men to come out
Speaker 3: and you know, fix things like we don't always know
Speaker 3: how to do those kind of things.
Speaker 1: So it would be nice.
Speaker 3: To have some men and also just women that want
Speaker 3: to volunteer, that want to lead a Bible study, that
Speaker 3: want to pray with these women, speak life over them,
Speaker 3: encourage them, and we would just love to partner with
Speaker 3: you guys. And we're so grateful for this church you
Speaker 3: guys have really supported us, and we love you guys.
Speaker 1: Sae men hallelujah. So God is good.
Speaker 2: He's doing it even in Graham. Can you believe it.
Speaker 2: He is changing lives, even in Graham. Would you put
Speaker 2: your hands towards Sierra. And this is going to represent
Speaker 2: adult and teen Challenge. Father God, I thank you right now,
Speaker 2: right now, Lord God, all the women that are in
Speaker 2: the program as it is. Right now, Lord God, I
Speaker 2: pray that there is supernatural breaking of addiction, supernatural rewriting
Speaker 2: of purpose and history.
Speaker 1: God, I thank you right now for every woman.
Speaker 2: That's on the streets even now they don't even know
Speaker 2: about Teen Challenge, but they're coming. God, I thank you
Speaker 2: right now that this program would have everything that it needs,
Speaker 2: every dollar it needs, every set of hands that it needs.
Speaker 2: Lord God, thank you that these workers, these ladies who
Speaker 2: are on staff, would have more than enough, more wisdom,
Speaker 2: Lord God, more strength, more ideas, Lord God, witty inventions,
Speaker 2: Lord Jesus for these this whole staff in Jesus' name. Amen, Amen, hallelujah,
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 1: Sierra.
Speaker 2: So one thing she mentioned first service, and I think
Speaker 2: this is a great idea. She said that when some
Speaker 2: of the women graduate, they go into internships, an intern
Speaker 2: for teen Challenge. And one way that we can help
Speaker 2: with that is that if you have an extra room available,
Speaker 2: they need housing so they can afford to go on
Speaker 2: to that next step of interning in ministry there. So
Speaker 2: that's another thing to kind of keep in mind as
Speaker 2: an option.
Speaker 1: And then I failed to introduce they have.
Speaker 2: She brought three gals from the from teen Challenge.
Speaker 1: They're wave at us.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so these girls are are doing their thing. They're
Speaker 2: winning in Jesus' name. Jesus' name. We absolutely love it.
Speaker 1: We love it. Okay. I got some stuff to give away.
Speaker 1: We got merch. Who wants a shirt? Do I give
Speaker 1: it away? I got two books? Who wants it? Who
Speaker 1: wants it? I don't know. I don't know. They might
Speaker 1: not want it.
Speaker 2: I got some I got some books to give away.
Speaker 2: A family treasure, A treasury of true stories from the
Speaker 2: lives of Christian heroes, missionaries. Who wants this to read
Speaker 2: to your kids? Do it quick, Craig, Come on up here.
Speaker 2: Here is a great book for you to have with
Speaker 2: your kids. A Window on the World Operation, World Prayer Resource.
Speaker 2: Each page is a different nation and what's going on
Speaker 2: in that nation and how you can support that nation.
Speaker 2: I know you want this, but especially if you have children,
Speaker 2: because I want you to read it at dinner. So
Speaker 2: if you have kids, raise your hand. He gets to pick.
Speaker 2: Oh boy, I'll give more out next week. Okay, I
Speaker 2: want to get into the word. Thank you for being
Speaker 2: patient during my introduction. That was the introduction. How many
Speaker 2: of you love missions? Hallelujah, hallelujah?
Speaker 1: Well.
Speaker 2: William Carey, who lived in the seventeen hundreds, was a
Speaker 2: missionary to India, and he is quoted as saying that
Speaker 2: if you ever wonder what the will of God is,
Speaker 2: how many of you have ever wondered what the will
Speaker 2: of God is for your life?
Speaker 1: Raise your hand. Well.
Speaker 2: His instruction is to open the Bible and open the map,
Speaker 2: because the will of God always will include some kind
Speaker 2: of sharing the Gospel with somebody. If you came here
Speaker 2: today to get closer to God, then I would say
Speaker 2: to you that when you are close enough to hear
Speaker 2: his heartbeat, you will hear it beating for souls, for nations,
Speaker 2: and for missions. The heartbeat of God is the lost
Speaker 2: and if we lose sight of that, we have lost
Speaker 2: sight of where God is looking and if you want
Speaker 2: God to see you, then you might want to be
Speaker 2: right in the way of His sight, which would be
Speaker 2: reaching the lost. Then he will see you.
Speaker 1: Amen, I'm teasing with you. He always sees you.
Speaker 2: But I'm just saying, if there's any hint to keep
Speaker 2: yourself in the sight of God, keep yourself close to
Speaker 2: the lost. Wow, it's hard to do in America. We
Speaker 2: got so much to do, We got so much to think,
Speaker 2: so much to scroll through, so much to listen. But
Speaker 2: I would say, people of God, even in the midst
Speaker 2: of living our life here in America, which is a
Speaker 2: good place to live and it's good stuff, never gets
Speaker 2: your ear too far from the heart of God, never
Speaker 2: gets yourself too far from the call and the draw
Speaker 2: of the lost.
Speaker 1: New Horizon yearns for revival.
Speaker 2: But I will tell you, and we must know, that
Speaker 2: revival is good. I desperately want it. How many of
Speaker 2: you desperately want the presence of God, the signs and wonders,
Speaker 2: the wonders of God.
Speaker 1: Oh, I'm so hungry and thirsty for it.
Speaker 2: But I will tell you that revival never stands alone.
Speaker 1: It's always the product of something.
Speaker 2: And revival never stands as an end to itself. It
Speaker 2: is not something to experience and then walk away say, Wow,
Speaker 2: wasn't that fabulous? No, revival, Revival is not only the
Speaker 2: fruit of things, and we're gonna talk about that, but
Speaker 2: it produces something. There is a divine pattern to revival,
Speaker 2: and I want our church, as we seek after revival,
Speaker 2: to understand it even a little bit better. And I
Speaker 2: want to do that today. You know I mentioned fruit.
Speaker 2: How many in this room love fruit? I love fruit.
Speaker 2: What is your favorite fruit?
Speaker 1: Mango?
Speaker 2: They call me mango Mimi at the house. I'm Mim
Speaker 2: for Grandma, and I love mangoes. And it's mango season. Listen, look, people,
Speaker 2: you don't want just any mango. You want the honey mango.
Speaker 2: And I had to watch a bunch of videos to
Speaker 2: figure out how in the world you're supposed to cut
Speaker 2: a mango with that huge pesky seed in the middle.
Speaker 2: Why did God take up so much space mango for a.
Speaker 1: Seed that's hard? You can't eat it. It's not quite
Speaker 1: as juicy as the flesh.
Speaker 2: Right, how about that watermelon?
Speaker 1: It's fabulous.
Speaker 2: Best thing that they ever came up with was seedless watermelon.
Speaker 2: It ain't right, people, it ain't natural.
Speaker 1: I opened a papaya the other day.
Speaker 2: There were thousands of seeds in the middle of that thing.
Speaker 2: Have you ever counted how many seeds are in a papaya?
Speaker 1: No, me, neither.
Speaker 2: There was a lot, way too many, way too many.
Speaker 2: If you ask me, I love fruit. It's juicy, it's sweet,
Speaker 2: and it's fun. But every fruit carries seeds. It's a
Speaker 2: God ordained concept. Fruit is not just for my enjoyment.
Speaker 2: It is meant for reproduction. It's meant to reproduce. Revive
Speaker 2: is the fruit of something, and it carries inside of
Speaker 2: it the.
Speaker 1: Seeds to reproduce.
Speaker 2: And if alls we're seeking is the revival, the sweet
Speaker 2: and the juicy of it. And don't get me wrong,
Speaker 2: it is sweet and it is juicy.
Speaker 1: But if we aren't willing.
Speaker 2: To embrace the seeds that come with it, we might
Speaker 2: not be entrusted with it.
Speaker 1: So let's look at the divine pattern for revival. I
Speaker 1: want you to open your.
Speaker 2: Bibles to Acts Acts chapter one. Be careful what you
Speaker 2: ask for when you ask for revival. In my former
Speaker 2: book Theophilus, I wrote about all that Jesus began to
Speaker 2: do and teach until the day he was taken up
Speaker 2: to heaven after giving instructions through the Holy Spirit to
Speaker 2: the apostles he had chosen after his So he showed
Speaker 2: himself to these men and gave many convincing proofs.
Speaker 1: That he was alive.
Speaker 2: He appeared to them over a period of forty days
Speaker 2: and spoke about the Kingdom of God. On one occasion,
Speaker 2: while he was eating with them, he gave them this command,
Speaker 2: do not leave Jerusalem, but wait. Everybody say wait? Who
Speaker 2: loves to wait? I hate to wait.
Speaker 1: I'm just throwing it out there.
Speaker 2: But that was This was like one of his last commands,
Speaker 2: and it was a command.
Speaker 1: People. Did you see the word command. It's not a suggestion.
Speaker 2: We gotta wait, we.
Speaker 1: Gotta what.
Speaker 2: Wait for the gift my father promised, which you have
Speaker 2: heard me speak about, for John the baptist. For John
Speaker 2: baptized with water, but in the few days, in a
Speaker 2: few days, you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.
Speaker 2: So when they met together, they asked him, Lord, are
Speaker 2: you going to at this time restore the kingdom of Israel?
Speaker 2: He said to them, it is not for you to
Speaker 2: know the times or dates the Father has selected by
Speaker 2: his own authority. But you will receive power when the
Speaker 2: Holy spirit comes on you, and you will become what.
Speaker 2: So the power comes for what. Yeah, in Jerusalem, and
Speaker 2: I'll Judea and Samaria and the ends of the earth
Speaker 2: after this. After he said this, he was taken up
Speaker 2: before their very eyes, and a cloud hid him from
Speaker 2: their sight. So Jesus commands them to wait. And as
Speaker 2: I said, I hate to wait. How many in this
Speaker 2: room love to wait? It's crickets out there. I'm glad
Speaker 2: to see I'm not alone. When I have to wait,
Speaker 2: I do not become my best self. In fact, I
Speaker 2: become pretty much my worst self. I get annoyed, I
Speaker 2: get antsy. Everybody around me starts bugging me. Don't make
Speaker 2: me wait. When we're gonna make a do a product,
Speaker 2: Dwayne says, Wait. I'm like, I'm not gonna wait. I'm
Speaker 2: gonna get out there, ham wait. I hate to wait.
Speaker 2: But these disciples were told to go into Jerusalem, and
Speaker 2: they probably thought it that and it was gonna be and.
Speaker 1: You know, go in and heal everybody, and some grace gonna.
Speaker 2: Have they said, He said wait, So they went to
Speaker 2: Jerusalem and they waited. They didn't know how long they
Speaker 2: were gonna wait. And listen to me, people. These guys
Speaker 2: had been through it one day three years prior. They
Speaker 2: had been outlining their own business, fishing and bringing in,
Speaker 2: you know, a catch for their own house.
Speaker 1: And this man walks by and says, come follow me,
Speaker 1: and they.
Speaker 2: Were inextrip inextricably drawn to him, and they dropped their
Speaker 2: nets and followed him. They had no idea why they
Speaker 2: were following him necessarily, but their life was changed forever.
Speaker 2: They were being drug all over Israel, are all over
Speaker 2: that whole area, and by this man who is like
Speaker 2: opening the eyes of the blind and what in the
Speaker 2: world and saying crazy things and breaking Sabbath and doing
Speaker 2: all sorts of things.
Speaker 1: And they're like, oh, yeah, I'm with him, you know.
Speaker 2: And they're beginning to fall in love with him, and
Speaker 2: they're beginning their eyes were beginning to be open to
Speaker 2: what was happening. And then the man dies on across
Speaker 2: all their hopes were dashed. These guys have been through it.
Speaker 2: They went home.
Speaker 1: Not knowing what in the world, and then a dead
Speaker 1: man appears to them, just walks through the wall. Who
Speaker 1: was that? And their hopes are are lit up again.
Speaker 1: And then they're chatting with him.
Speaker 2: They're just having a chat with a dead guy in
Speaker 2: front of them, and he says, go to Jerusalem and wait,
Speaker 2: and then he starts going up. These guys have been
Speaker 2: through it, Now what again?
Speaker 1: He leaves them again. So they go to Jerusalem and
Speaker 1: they wait.
Speaker 2: They don't know how long they're gonna wait. They find
Speaker 2: the upper room. Wherever the upper room is, I don't know.
Speaker 2: But they go to Jerusalem and they wait. What would
Speaker 2: you do if you had to be in a room
Speaker 2: for days on end with people and wait for what.
Speaker 1: The promise?
Speaker 2: They could have been there for their whole lifetime. They
Speaker 2: didn't know, but they waited during their weight What was happening.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you what was happening. They were getting prepared.
Speaker 2: They're learning how to love each other. They're learning how
Speaker 2: to get along. They're learning how to to not hate
Speaker 2: each other. They're learning how to.
Speaker 1: Wait. How many of you are learning how to wait?
Speaker 2: Right now?
Speaker 1: Now, listen, I got a promise for you.
Speaker 2: God's word is filled with promises, but I can't promise
Speaker 2: you when the waiting will be done. But your job
Speaker 2: right now is to wait, because he's preparing you for revival.
Speaker 1: He's preparing this body for revival.
Speaker 4: Are you willing to come and Terry, are you willing
Speaker 4: to come and wait with me? Are you willing to
Speaker 4: unify with me when I'm not my best self? Are
Speaker 4: you willing to come and be with me when you're
Speaker 4: not your best self and don't feel like it?
Speaker 2: Are you willing to wait with me? So then let's
Speaker 2: flip over to chapter two, and I better hurry up.
Speaker 2: It's the story of my life. When the day of
Speaker 2: Pentecost came, they were all together in one place. Wow,
Speaker 2: they were all together in one place. They were They
Speaker 2: were all with one accord, in one place, one accord,
Speaker 2: and in one place. They were where they needed to be.
Speaker 2: They showed up. They didn't run. James didn't run away
Speaker 2: when Peter was annoying him.
Speaker 1: They didn't get offended.
Speaker 2: They were together in the same place, in one accord.
Speaker 2: That means that their hearts were aligned, their minds were aligned.
Speaker 2: Everything was aligned. They were in one accord. They were
Speaker 2: now prepared for what was about to hit them. Now
Speaker 2: this is a word for us.
Speaker 1: I want to get hit. Therefore, I better be in
Speaker 1: one accord with you. We better be.
Speaker 2: Found in the right place at the right time. We
Speaker 2: better be.
Speaker 1: Found with each other.
Speaker 2: We better be found loving one another. We better be
Speaker 2: found not offended. We better be found not criticizing. We
Speaker 2: better be found doing what we're supposed to be doing.
Speaker 2: Every Sunday is our time to be together. Suddenly the
Speaker 2: sound of the blowing of the violent wind came, and
Speaker 2: the heaven filled the whole house, and where they were sitting,
Speaker 2: go ahead, the next one.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna use this one.
Speaker 2: And there appeared unto them cloven tongues at like as fire,
Speaker 2: and it sat.
Speaker 1: Upon each of them, talk about revival.
Speaker 2: And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, who
Speaker 2: began speaking with other tongues as the spirit gave them utterance.
Speaker 2: And there were dwelling in Jerusalem, the Jews, devout men,
Speaker 2: men of every nation under heaven. And now when this
Speaker 2: was noised abroad, the multitude came together. They all came
Speaker 2: running in and were confounded because every man heard them
Speaker 2: speaking in their own language. Did you hear what they said?
Speaker 2: Every nation of an under heaven was there, and every
Speaker 2: nation heard.
Speaker 1: His own language. Go down to verse eleven, heard them
Speaker 1: speaking in our tongue. The wonderful works of God.
Speaker 2: Revival produced missions, the saving of souls, the spreading of
Speaker 2: the word of God.
Speaker 1: Are you ready for that?
Speaker 2: Because if you get your little revival that you're wanting,
Speaker 2: that juicy, wonderful, wonderful presence of God, you will be
Speaker 2: then uh impregnated with the seed of God to spread
Speaker 2: the Word of God. Missions will happen inside of every
Speaker 2: single one of us in the midst of revival.
Speaker 1: See, this is the divine pattern. This is the divine pattern.
Speaker 2: The divine pattern is still happening today, and he wants.
Speaker 1: To do it again and again and again and again.
Speaker 1: This is his heart.
Speaker 2: There are many other stories of revivals that follow the
Speaker 2: divine pattern. I want to fast forward to China today.
Speaker 1: Can I do that?
Speaker 2: Cause you might be thinking, yeah, that's great for two
Speaker 2: thousand years ago, that you have no idea what life
Speaker 2: is like in twenty twenty five. Can I tell you
Speaker 2: what life is like in twenty twenty five. In reality,
Speaker 2: there's a place called China. Anybody hear about China and
Speaker 2: the news. So we know China and the political front,
Speaker 2: and we hear about it all the time from the
Speaker 2: political front. But I am here to tell you that
Speaker 2: God's ways are higher than man's ways, and his thoughts
Speaker 2: are higher than man's thoughts, and his plans are higher
Speaker 2: than any plans of any government. And I would say
Speaker 2: to you that there's a grander scheme to be known
Speaker 2: than what we hear about on TV and on fog
Speaker 2: news and everything else that we listened to. So let
Speaker 2: me just open your eyes to what is going on. Okay,
Speaker 2: divine pattern of revival. Let me just tell you so
Speaker 2: a little quick reminder. In nineteen forty nine, China fell
Speaker 2: to the Communists and Mao raised up as a dictator,
Speaker 2: and he killed up to one hundred and forty eight
Speaker 2: million people during his reign of terror. It was a
Speaker 2: horrible time and the things it was either direct killing
Speaker 2: by him through his agencies or the way he set
Speaker 2: things up. The famines that came because of the economic
Speaker 2: distress killed another huge pile.
Speaker 1: So there's they're estimating.
Speaker 2: There's estimates, really wide estimates, but the high end estimate
Speaker 2: is one hundred and forty eight million people dead.
Speaker 1: Before this happened.
Speaker 2: So in the early, you know, thirties and forties, of
Speaker 2: the nineteen hundreds, there was three million estimated three million Christians,
Speaker 2: everybody say three million. That cracked down of Maos was
Speaker 2: a political crackdown, but it was also a religious crackdown,
Speaker 2: and the vast majority of those three million Christians were
Speaker 2: wiped out gone. What was left went underground. How many
Speaker 2: of you heard about the underground church of China. Those
Speaker 2: Christians were enduring some of the greatest suffering they could imagine,
Speaker 2: But who knows? And how many of you know that
Speaker 2: great suffering is a great unifier. And that church went underground,
Speaker 2: and they had nobody else but each other, and they
Speaker 2: had to be ever so careful and ever so trusting,
Speaker 2: and they began to pray, and they began to pray,
Speaker 2: and they began to meet together, and they began to pray.
Speaker 2: And I'm sure they annoyed each other sometimes too, And
Speaker 2: I'm sure there was a lot of fear in those
Speaker 2: little prayer circles at times, and I'm sure that it
Speaker 2: was a stress, and I'm sure it was difficult. And
Speaker 2: a lot of writings will tell us about how the
Speaker 2: people in these underground churches used to give of their
Speaker 2: own things to the others when they were in need,
Speaker 2: and that church began to grow.
Speaker 1: That church began to grow.
Speaker 2: We don't have a whole lot of understanding, because you know,
Speaker 2: China's kind of closed, but they tell us that in
Speaker 2: nineteen eighty eight, So that from nineteen forty nine to
Speaker 2: nineteen eighty eight they did a lot of waiting and praying,
Speaker 2: a lot of surviving. But in nineteen eighty eight, something
Speaker 2: happened across the entire nation, in every single little tiny
Speaker 2: home church hiding underground. They call it the first Great Infilling.
Speaker 2: Holy Spirit fell in the year nineteen eighty eight. Now,
Speaker 2: those people had never been to Holy Spirit conferences, they
Speaker 2: hadn't been to classes, active prophetic autovation classes, they'd never
Speaker 2: done any of that. But suddenly the Holy Spirit fell.
Speaker 2: They were baptizing the Holy spe signs, wonders, visions, interpretations.
Speaker 1: The thing got lit on fire.
Speaker 2: Then again in twenty ten, they call it the second
Speaker 2: Great Infilling. In twenty ten, fire swept the underground church
Speaker 2: in China, and it swept it to such an extent
Speaker 2: that their witness became so strong that in a nation
Speaker 2: where you risk losing everything, including the breath in your lungs,
Speaker 2: Christianity began to grow.
Speaker 1: And would you believe people of God?
Speaker 2: Would you believe that today in twenty twenty five, there
Speaker 2: are one hundred and thirty million Christians. Would you believe
Speaker 2: me if I were to tell you that that is
Speaker 2: more Christian. One hundred and thirty million is more than
Speaker 2: the Communist Party membership. There are more Christians in China
Speaker 2: than there are in the Communist Party. And they want
Speaker 2: you to think that that Communist Party is all that
Speaker 2: in a bagga chips. I am telling you what Holy
Speaker 2: Spirit is on the inside of that machine work in
Speaker 2: its way out. They are on such a high growth
Speaker 2: curve that it is projected by twenty thirty that they
Speaker 2: will have two hundred and forty seven million Christians. It
Speaker 2: will be the largest group of Christians in a nation
Speaker 2: in the whole world. China and Iran have the fastest
Speaker 2: growing church right now under such great dress. Let me
Speaker 2: just tell you people, God's got another whole storyline.
Speaker 1: Do not lose heart. So here's the other part about it.
Speaker 2: In all their prayer meetings, God kept shifting their prayers
Speaker 2: for themselves.
Speaker 1: God protect me, God, I need food.
Speaker 2: God help me, help my brother, you know, to help us,
Speaker 2: help us, help us, shifted it to souls. And if
Speaker 2: I had been able to, I would have played a
Speaker 2: video right now. But I watched a video of an
Speaker 2: underground church worshiping and the songs they were singing, were
Speaker 2: for you, for souls around the world, Send us, they said,
Speaker 2: send us, They were singing, send us, send us. These
Speaker 2: are some of the most pure, tough ombres in the
Speaker 2: kingdom because they put up with such persecution. So guess
Speaker 2: what they started a missions movement, sending missionaries. The Chinese
Speaker 2: are sending missionaries. Do you know that they are on
Speaker 2: track to fulfill their goal of sending twenty thousand missionaries
Speaker 2: in the next five years. It is an automatic outflow
Speaker 2: of revival.
Speaker 1: The cool thing is is right below China.
Speaker 2: You go north, you're gonna go to the Antarctica or
Speaker 2: whatever it is up there North Pole. If you go south,
Speaker 2: you're gonna run into the ten forty window.
Speaker 1: Isis Muslim, Buddhist, all of it.
Speaker 2: Those Chinese Christians are being unleashed into the ten forty
Speaker 2: window like never before, places that the West don't ever
Speaker 2: want to set foot in because they're scared because it's hard,
Speaker 2: because it's you know, it's very, very challenging. But the
Speaker 2: Chinese are like, what's that. I got this, We got this,
Speaker 2: we got holy spirit. There's a divine pattern to revival
Speaker 2: and church. We're gonna get us a revival it's gonna
Speaker 2: be sweet, it's going to be juicy. It's going to
Speaker 2: be gorgeous and glorious, and we will feel it, and
Speaker 2: well we'll hear it. But it will be because you
Speaker 2: and I and every person.
Speaker 1: Has forged a unity. No more criticizing, no more division.
Speaker 2: There's no time for it. No more hate, no more judging,
Speaker 2: no more there's no time for it. And let me
Speaker 2: just tell you, New Horizon's going to be ready to go,
Speaker 2: because when that revival hits, it's going to be about souls.
Speaker 2: It's going to be about souls. Let's all stand. Thank
Speaker 2: you for listening to me, Thank you for hearing my heart.
Speaker 2: This divine pattern is at work even now he is
Speaker 2: on the precipice. Oh that the church would gather in
Speaker 2: one accord, run an offence, and criticize and isolate. Oh
Speaker 2: that revival would overtake us with wind, fire and signs
Speaker 2: and wonders, weeping and rejoicing.
Speaker 1: Oh that revival would turn.
Speaker 2: Our hearts to souls, the lost, and the bondage that
Speaker 2: they will operate in away.
Speaker 1: Can I, oh, Father, from.
Speaker 2: Distraction, self absorption and entertainment, Father God, rise up New
Speaker 2: Horizon as a missions church. And rise up, oh Christian,
Speaker 2: for you are a missionary. You are a missionary. You
Speaker 2: carry the seeds of the Kingdom inside of you.
Speaker 1: Hallelujah. We are unified, but more Lord.
Speaker 2: We are in revival, but more Lord, and we are
Speaker 2: a missionizing church.
Speaker 1: More Lord God.
Speaker 2: I pray that even in this room, there will be
Speaker 2: those even now, hearing the call, feeling the tug to
Speaker 2: not only uh witness in your Jerusalem.
Speaker 1: But maybe to go.
Speaker 2: Father, God, raise your hand right now with me and
Speaker 2: just total surrender, Holy Spirit. Come, Oh Jesus, May we
Speaker 2: not live for ourselves. May we not live for ourselves
Speaker 2: or God? I pray right now, I can't even go
Speaker 2: into prayer without praying for our community, praying for the addicted,
Speaker 2: praying for those homeless communities to be emptied.
Speaker 1: I can't.
Speaker 2: I can't even hardly pray for myself. I want to
Speaker 2: pray for myself. I have needs for Heaven's sake, I
Speaker 2: have dreams and desires, but I can't even hardly. And
Speaker 2: this is not necessarily putting it up against praying for
Speaker 2: those things, since that's those are good things. But I
Speaker 2: can't hardly pray for them because I have to hurry
Speaker 2: up and pray for the loss. I have to hurry
Speaker 2: up and pray, Holy Spirit, God right now around us.
Speaker 1: Lord God, I pray right now that we would have
Speaker 1: the words to share, that.
Speaker 2: We would have the witness to bear, Lord God, that
Speaker 2: we would have the courage to speak.
Speaker 1: Oh, Father, God.
Speaker 2: In Jesus' name, anoint us. We are missionaries, every one
Speaker 2: of us. Hallelujah, Holy Spirit, Thank you, Praise you Jesus.